The influence of CO2 concentration on corrosion behavior of X80 pipeline steel in a simulated soil solution of Ku'erle area was investigated by potentiodynamic polarization curves, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy(EIS) and weight loss, and then the corroded surface morphology was observed using scanning electron microscopy(SEM). It was found that the corrosion rate of X80 steel increased with increasing the volume proportion of CO2 to N2in the aerated gaseous flow in the simulated solution. It follows that the p H value of the solution could be decreased from9.1 to 4.7 by inducing CO2; therewith the control step of cathodic process of steel corrosion was transferred from the oxygen reduction to hydrogen reduction, which then resulted in the increase of cathodic reaction rate. On the other hand, defects in the corrosion product film also increased due to the presence of CO2, thus exhibited lower protectiveness to X80 steel. The above two factors all promote the corrosion of X80 steel in the simulated solution.


Objective To evaluate the value in judgement of malignancy and invasion of glioma with hydrogen-1 magnetic resonance spectroscopy(H1-MRS) in combination with diffusion tensor imaging(DTI) and provide useful image information for evaluating biologic classification of glioma and regulating reasonable treatment principles.Methods 13 patients with low grade glioma and 12 patients with high grade glioma underwent conventional MR imaging,H1-MRS and DTI.the parameters of MRS and DTI were measured,The values of patients in high grade and low grade glioma groups were compared and the changes of the white fiber tracts were observed.Results Compared with low grade glioma group,the NAA/Cr,Cho/Cr,NAA/Cho,rFA values in high grade glioma group had statistic differences(P0.05).In high grade glioma group,the NAA/Cr,Cho/Cr,NAA/Cho and rFA of edema area(0.98±0.19,2.80±1.20,0.58±0.19,0.56±0.11)and edge of edema(1.46±0.25,1.29±0.28,1.12±0.18,0.78±0.06) were different statistically(P0.05).White matter fiber was illustrated by DTT as deviation and rarefaction in low grade glioma;destruction and discontinuation in high grade glioma.Conclusion H1-MRS combined with DTI contributes to study malignancy and invasion of glioma and provide more useful information for establishing operating program of glioma.


The design of a low-cost and middle accuracy panoramic sight is introduced.It features with one mechanical gyroscope for both stabilization and inertial navigation.The key technology of this method is to quickly converge the sensitive axes of the mechanical gyroscope to the intersection line of the meridional plane and the horizontal plane based on the principle of gyroscope compass,to isolate payload from platform disturbance with the gyroscope and two degrees of freedom gimbals,to obtain the attitude angle of the platform by electro-optical sensor on the gimbals,and to make the sight slaved to the sensitive axes of the gyroscope to realize the indirect stabilization.During the calculation,the moving command for the sight was input in the form of slave correction.The projection of platform disturbance along the stabilized coordinates was acquired by resolving the attitude matrix.The navigation function can be realized by combining the information of the platform attitude and an odometer.


Compute Express Link (CXL) has recently attracted great attention thanks to its excellent hardware heterogeneity management and resource disaggregation capabilities. Even though there is yet no commercially available product or platform integrating CXL into memory pooling, it is expected to make memory resources practically and efficiently disaggregated much better than ever before. In this article, we propose directly accessible memory disaggregation, DirectCXL that straight connects a host processor complex and remote memory resources over CXL's memory protocol (CXL.mem). Our empirical evaluation shows that DirectCXL exhibits around 7× better performance than remote direct memory access (RDMA)-based memory pooling for diverse real-world workloads.


It is well known that the hydrophilic properties of synthetic fibers will be greatly modified if they contain numerous microvoids inside. For acrylic fibers, polymer blend technique has been used to produce porous and water absorbing acrylic fibers in the recent years. We prepared the porous water absorbing acrylic blend fibers by means of wet-spinning method. However, the studies on the mechanism of microvoid formation in blend acrylic fibers are very few. In this paper we wish to report the mechanism of microvoid formation in the acrylic copolymer (PAC)/cellulose acetate (CA) blend fibers by the characteristics of microvoids and phase structure in the blend fibers


Abstract Two new species of Cerapteroceroides Ashmead, i.e., C. latifrons and C angustifrons, and one new species of Cerapterocerus Westwood, i.e., C. brachypterus, are described from North-Eastern region of India. A key to the world species of Cerapteroceroides is included.


Three resistant mutants XY6-1R052,XY6-1R140,XY6-1R202 to procymidone were obtained from the sensitive wild strain XY6-1S of Botrytis cinerea treated with ultraviolet,N-methyl-N-nitroguanidine and procymidone respectively.They had high resistance with EC50 of 100 μg·mL-1 and MIC of 1 000 μg·mL-1.Procymidone at the concentration of 1-4 μg·mL-1 could not only hinder the mycelial growth of the sensitive strain,but also lead to the hyphal distortion and cell wall disruption.But there were no distinct effects on the resistant mutants in the same condition.The mycelial growth of the resistant mutants was significantly worse on the media with sucrose(20 g·L-1) or NaCl(1.25 g·L-1) than that of the sensitive strain,which indicated that the resistant strains were more sensitive to high osmotic stress than the sensitive one.In addition,the relative conductivity of the resistant mutants were obviously higher than that of the sensitive strain,which showed that the membrane permeability of the resistant strains was distinctly changed to leak cell electrolyte out.When grown in the media amended with procymidone,glycerol the hyphae of the sensitive strain sharply increased and abundantly accumulated by 904.63% while that in the resistant mutants only increased by 20.54%-40.00%,which implied that the sensitive strain had better regulation ability to osmotic stress than the resistant mutants.


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were fully characterised by IR and 1
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spectrometry, elemental analysis and X-ray crystallography. The
structures of 1 and 2 are based on vertex-shared
condensed polyhedra with the palladium atoms at the vertex-sharing
sites. The molecular structure of complex 1 consists of a
central palladium atom sandwiched between two triosmium units. Complexes
2 and 3 possess a similar metal disposition in which
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We demonstrate that single photovoltaic (PV) nanorods can be readily fabricated by electrochemical processing in solution-phase under ambient conditions. A porous Au nanorod electrode in the core of the PV nanorod was central to both its structural formation and superior performance. We examined an intrinsically conducting polymer (polypyrrole) and an inorganic semiconductor (cadmium selenide) as precursor materials. Through an extremely simple and cost-effective fashioning process (solution-phase, room temperature), unadorned PV nanorods with up to 1.1% power conversion efficiency were obtained.


In order to attract more customers, transport enterprises strive towards providing transport services that fully meet their marketing criteria for quality. However, transport enterprises are not always capable of fully satisfying customers' needs. Therefore, when choosing their "own" customers, transport enterprises need to develop a program for segmenting the transport market by recognizing its real capabilities for performing marketing events. The segmentation criteria depend on the economic and geographical peculiarities of the region, the development of transport infrastructure, the peculiarities of management and the transport enterprise's capabilities.The report indicates the main stages of conducting effective segmentation of the cargo transport market. The necessity for analyzing the competitive advantages of enterprises working in a specific region has been determined; one instance involves the use of key factors that influence the quality of the transport service whose improvement in turn helps improve the competitiveness of enterprises. The paper's main idea is to showcase the necessity and approaches for analyzing and assessing those target segments of the transport service market that carry out cargo freights. Segmentation is an essential element of the marketing concept that allows transport enterprises to choose those target segments of the market that are the most convenient and effective for them, thus guaranteeing the optimization of their expenses and profits.


Most of the articles that appear in Journal of Management (JOM) are empirical. Generally, these report original data collected from one or more samples and deployed to test a social scientific theory of work behavior. Empirical articles are crucial to JOM's success as they are for most other scholarly journals. But JOM goes further. In addition to our many empirical articles, JOM also published a sizable number of nonempirical ones. These usually, though not necessarily, appear in the two or more special issues that are published each year. To illustrate how important review articles are to JOM, let me consider two indicators— impact and online viewings. Both these indices are available on the JOM Web site (http://jom. sagepub.com/). "Impact," or the number of citations in scholarly articles, is the best known and more widely used measure of success. As of June 2009, the top five most cited (i.e., highest impact) articles in this history of JOM were all review articles. More recently, with the rise of the World Wide Web, we can count online viewings. Three of the top five most frequently viewed articles are from review issues. As can easily be seen from these data, nonempirical articles are important for JOM. When I was serving as editor from 2006 to 2008, our team received literally hundreds of proposals and articles that were submitted for the small number of slots in our review issues. Sifting through these articles was a massive task, but it came with recompense. I was forced to think long and hard about successful and unsuccessful articles, and I learned to do so through two criteria—which submissions survived the editorial review process and which were later cited (or viewed online) by others scholars. (Probably my most unanticipated editorial task was reading old articles to ascertain what made them interesting.) In this short article, my goal is to share what I learned and, if I am successful, to thereby save contributors a lot of their time by helping them focus their efforts. I will discuss three different types of articles that I saw a lot of and discuss problems that are commonly associated with each. I understand that such observations can seem abstract. I learned by seeing concrete examples, and I suspect the same may be true for others. Therefore, I promise to "name names," referring directly to articles that illustrate each point.


Abstract The genus Opuntia Miller includes a number of species which produce nutritious fruits and edible young joints used as vegetables. They are also used as forage crops. The fruits and joints are a popular food in Central/North America. They produce strong and vigorous plants in arid and semi-arid climates in which few other crops can survive. They protect against soil erosion, inhibit desert advancement and protect wild life. Their water-use efficiency make the Opuntia more efficient in converting water into dry matter than most grasses. Some species produce 26 t.ha −1 .year −1 .


We show that in any n -player, m -action normal-form game, we can obtain an approximate equilibrium by sampling any mixed-action equilibrium a small number of times. We study three types of equilibria: Nash, correlated, and coarse-correlated. For each one we obtain upper and lower bounds on the number of samples required for the empirical distribution over the sampled action profiles to form an approximate equilibrium with probability close to 1. These bounds imply that using a small number of samples we can test whether or not players are playing according to an approximate equilibrium, even in games where n and m are large. In addition, our results substantially improve previously known upper bounds on the support size of approximate equilibria in games with many players. In particular, for the three types of equilibria we show the existence of approximate equilibrium with support-size polylogarithmic in n and m , whereas the previously best-known upper bounds were polynomial in n (Hemon et al. [Hemon S, de Rougemont M, Santha M (2008) Approximate nash equilibria for multi-player games. Algorithmic Game Theory (Springer), 267–278], Germano and Lugosi [Germano F, Lugosi G (2007) Existence of sparsely supported correlated equilibria. Econom. Theory 32(3):575–578], Hart et al. [Hart S, Mas-Colell A, Babichenko Y (2013) Simple Adaptive Strategies: From Regret-Matching to Uncoupled Dynamics , Vol. 4 (World Scientific Publishing Company)]).


The economic globalization as tendency of objective existence brings about long and deep impact on the relationship of nations,and has been changing relationship between capitalist countries and socialist countries and developing countries since the World War Ⅱ,and even influences the change of international political structure.


Due to complexity of environment system and impact of climate change and human activity, there are many uncertainties in hydrological modeling and forecasting, which affect the reliability and practicability of the simulation and prediction results to some degree. To solve this problem, a framework of hydrological modeling based on multiple working hypotheses was presented, including developing a hydrological model based on CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture), to provide more alterative model hypotheses and parameter based on characteristics of climate and underlying in study basin, for model hypothesis testing; and establishing a multi-factors diagnostic approach based on Bayesian theory for model evaluation. Multiple working hypotheses for hydrological modeling will benefit the improvement of the hydrological forecasting theory and accuracy, and provide the scientific decision for flood control and operation.


A novel image segmentation algorithm based on fuzzy C-means (FCM) clustering and improved particle swarm optimization (PSO) is proposed. The algorithm takes global search results of improved PSO as the initialized values of the FCM, effectively avoiding easily trapping into local optimum of the traditional FCM and the premature convergence of PSO. Meanwhile, the algorithm takes the clustering centers as the reference to search scope of improved PSO algorithm for global searching that are obtained through hard C-means (HCM) algorithm for improving the velocity of the algorithm. The experimental results show the proposed algorithm can converge more quickly and segment the image more effectively than the traditional FCM algorithm.


In the early stage of growth of a metal film on a substrate by the Volmer–Weber mechanism, a tensile stress in the film is observed to arise at about the point in the process when islands of deposited material begin to coalesce. The mechanism commonly proposed as the origin of this tensile stress is that the coalescing islands deform in order to form a relatively low energy grain boundary, at the expense of some surface energy by surface area reduction, and that this proceeds until a stress is generated that has magnitude sufficient to prevent further area reduction. Several models have been proposed for this process, but the inferred tensile stress estimates have been much larger than observed stress magnitudes in many cases. The purpose here is to introduce a model for the process based on the theory of contact of elastic solids with cohesion. A description of the process is developed on this premise for one-dimensional, two-dimensional, and three-dimensional states of deformation of coalescing islands....


The Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) process is composed of several interrelated sub-systems, and each of these sub-systems requires a control system. In order to optimize the EAF process as a whole, it is required for the control system to monitor and adjust many different parameters in harmony, taking into consideration all the interactions between the different subsystems. Many times this interrelation implies prioritizing the goals, since some adjustments may favor some goals but may negatively affect other goals. The approach here was to build a total control system taking into consideration the interrelated effects between the sub-systems and all the key variables involved.


A true vocation is essential for a good director, as any promotion is usually accompanied by strain and worries. It is not enough for 'him to be able to ensure the smooth working of the technical side of a given department: he must also be constantly concerned with the training of its staff. A man who does not fully understand the importance of the part he is playing should not be a director. Unfortunately, people who lack the gift of leadership are often entrusted with managerial work.


This book attempts to think through things that are impossible to be thought through. It is therefore by defnition a collage, a loop, a space of discussion and reflection. It draws from psychoanalysis in its broadest sense, but it is also a political gesture against the "fxed and the frozen" as Edward Said would have it in his descriptions of patriarchal authority pronouncing on the difference of the exotic Other. That fxedness he thought un-ethical. We too believe in that. We believe that things that are hard to talk about one must talk about in order to bring them to light. The volume therefore aims to do just that and nothing much more.


The concept of "experiential learning" is used in a wide range of connections and situations with a different meaning and content. It is the aim of this article to try to find a common definition or demarcation of the concept. First, some earlier attempts are examined. However, they are not found satisfactory, and it is claimed that to come closer to an appropriate definition, it is necessary to relate to a comprehensive and contemporary general understanding of learning and from this to try and discern which kinds of learning could be termed experiential and which could not. The article then attempts to perform this task and concludes by suggesting a definition or formulation characterizing some important features of experiential learning seen in contrast to nonexperiential learning.


Characteristics of fiber Bragg grating based Fabry -Perot (FBG-FP) structures under transversal loading are investigated. A novel switc hable multi-wavelength fiber laser employing loaded FBG-FP is also demonstrated. OCIS codes: (060.3735) Fiber Bragg gratings; ( 060.3510) La sers, fiber; (050.2230) Fabry-Perot


A long-range remote sensing of severe accidents in nuclear power plants can be obtained by monitoring the online emission of volatile fission products such as xenon, krypton, caesium and iodine. The nuclear accident in Fukushima was ranked at level 7 of the International Nuclear Event Scale by the NISA (Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency) according to the importance of the radionuclide release and the off-site impact. Among volatile fission products, iodine species are of high concern, since they can be released under aerosols as well as gaseous forms. Four years after the Fukushima accident, the aerosol/gaseous partition is still not clear. Since the iodine gaseous forms are less efficiently trapped by the Filtered Containment Venting Systems than aerosol forms, it is of crucial importance to monitor them on-line during a nuclear accident, in order to improve the source term assessment in such a situation. Therefore, we propose to detect and quantify these iodine gaseous forms by the use of highly sensitive optical methods.


Schachter's (1959) initial studies of the determinants of affiliation demonstrate a consistent preference among anxious or fearful firstborns to seek the company of other persons. Schachter also reports that, although firstborns are not more likely to be parhologically anxious than later-borns, firstborns are over-represented in populations seeking social help (psychotherapy) in their efforts to cope with anxiety. Kaplan and Kaplan's (1957) psychosomatic model of obesity views non-nutritive eating behavior as an instrumental response associated with anxiety reduction. When overeating leads to excessive weight and concomitant personal and social difficulties, eating behavior itself may become a basis for increased anxiety. While one would not expect firstborns to be over-represented among the obese,' these considerations do lead cne to expect firstborns to demonstrate a preference for social (as opposed to individual) methods of coping with anxiety-associated eating behavior. As a test of this hypothesis, birth-order information was obtained from the entire membership (n = 29 females) of a Weight Wajchers class.' The class mean family size (M = 3.8) yields an expected frequency of 8 firstborn and 21 later-born members. The obtained frequency of 14 firstborn and I5 later-born differs significantly (X' = 6.21, df = 1, p < .02) from the expected membership values, lending support to the hypothesis. No differences were found between firstborn and later-born members in number of meetings attended, length of membership, and amount of weight lost since joining Weight Watchers, suggesting, contrary to Schachter's findings, that both groups can stay with and benefit from social help. This finding must be interpreted with caution, however, since most of the members had only recently enrolled in the program (61% had been members for less than 6 mo.) .


With the proliferation of the Internet of Things (loT) and cloud based services, it becomes very essential to design and implement efficient mechanisms, to protect the users private information and secure them, taking into account the loT devices limited computational and storage capabilities. In addition, these devices are usually accessed by multiple users, and are connected to a cloud service provider, that have an access of the users data. In this paper, a privacy preserving framework is proposed that utilizes Fog layer, which act as intermediator between the loT devices and the cloud, where users data are anonymized and secured. Further, a case study in the field of healthcare is described that shows the importance of the proposed framework.


The articles in this volume investigate the topic of ethnic, national, and transnational identities. Using a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches, they discuss the impact of cross-national migration, changes in political borders, collective memories, the formation of transnational political entities, and the process of cultural, economic, and institutional globalization. Through these different theories and empirical analyses, this volume offers a multifaceted discussion and new insights concerning the challenging social and political issues of changing collective identities.


lar tachycardia, or sudden cardiac death.3–5 Here we describe a congenital LV aneurysm that caused ventricular tachycardia, and was diagnosed using cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR). A 17-year-old man, without any relatives and who lived in welfare facilities, presented with palpitations. His vital signs ongenital left ventricular (LV) aneurysms are rare cardiac malformations.1 They appear to be developmental anomalies that arise during the fourth embryonic week.2 Clinically, most congenital LV aneurysms are asymptomatic, but some may cause systemic embolization, heart failure, valvular regurgitation, ventricular wall rupture, ventricuC


One of the opportunities that can be used to create new employment opportunities and also have the potential to improve the family economy of former women workers is by providing them with skills based on local wisdom. The purpose of this service is to improve the economy of Indonesian ex-female labor through handicrafts based on local wisdom in Kradenan Village, Purwoharjo District. The strategy undertaken is to provide understanding, knowledge, insight and skills for Indonesian ex-female labor. The results of her dedication show that this former female worker has a new awareness of entrepreneurship. This is shown by their seriousness in following the bamboo handicraft training. The effort to make handicrafts makes the Indonesian ex-female labor more empowered to have skills and the job opportunities are open automatically as a result, the Indonesian ex-female labor are more empowered and do not want to return to being female workers.


The invention discloses a hydrophobic inorganic powder material preparation method, which comprises: mixing and grinding an inorganic powder material and a hydrophobic material, wherein the surface of the inorganic powder material is uniformly coated with the hydrophobic material after the grinding; and separating and removing the excess hydrophobic material so as to obtain the hydrophobic inorganic powder material. The preparation method has advantages of simpleness, low cost, and environmental protection. The invention further discloses the hydrophobic inorganic powder material prepared by using the method, wherein the material has the particle size of 0.01-500 [mu]m, has the excellent hydrophobic property, and has the water contact angle of 150 DEG.


The aim of the study was to describe the scenario of the present condition of production and management system of dairy buffalo at Haor areas of Sylhet in Bangladesh. Data were collected between February 2019 and January 2020. Sixty dairy farmers and thirty indigenous dairy buffaloes were selected for the study purpose. All respondent farmers were male and 65% were in between 40 to 50 years of age. Parity number had a significant relation in response of body weight. Quality analysis of milk showed that buffaloes which were reared at Haor areas have more fat content on an average 7.88% than buffaloes which were reared conventional dairy farm containing 7.34%. Price of buffalo's milk and meat were varied with the seasonal changes, lower in winter season. All farmers fed the buffaloes only with green grass in winter. Four major diseases of buffaloes were found in Haor areas where the percentage of foot and mouth diseases was 15.59% followed by black quarter (11.01%), anthrax (7.34%) and hemorrhagic septicemia (6.42%). The buffaloes were not dewormed so parasitic infestations dramatically increased and easily transferred from one to another. The farmers had not enough knowledge about regular vaccination. But in contrast with profitability, total benefit cost ratio from buffalo rearing was 1:1.56 annually.


The present paper explores the growth of area, production and yield of arhar, gram and total pulses in different districts of Gujarat. The data were collected and analyzed for the period from 1960–61 to 2007–08. The acreage under arhar significantly increased in Gujarat at the rate of 1.38 per cent per annum during 1960–61 to 2007–08. Similarly the area under pulses also significantly increased in Gujarat but at a lower rate during 196061 to 2007–08. The production of arhar significantly increased at the rate of 5.35 per cent per annum while the production of pulses significantly increased at the rate of 2.95 per cent per annum in the state during 1960–61 to 2007–08. The compound growth rates of productivity of arhar and gram were negative and that of total pulses were positive but non-significant in Gujarat during 1990–91 to 2007–08. The study implies needs for development of pulses through technological breakthrough.


Objective To study clinical restoration effects of Magfit magnetic attachment in mandibular complete overdentures.Methods Sixteen eligible subjects were selected who visited Department of Prosthodontics in Wuxi Stomatology Hospital from August,2008 to August,2011.One or two abutments were selected to put magnetic attachment so as to take on complete overdentures.Follow-ups were done one month,three months,six months,one year,two years,three years and four years after restoration.Patients′ satisfaction of restoration was surveyed by questionnaires.The retention and stability of denture,gingival health around the retainers,mobility and secondary caries of abutments were the main observed aspects.Results The patients with magnetic attachment in complete overdentures claimed a highest grade of satisfaction in comfort and masticatory performance,a higher grade of satisfaction in retention,stability and phonetic function and a lowest grade of satisfaction in costs.Three abutment teeth had gingivitis,two abutment teeth were mobile,one magnet retainer dropped,and two fractured.The rest were good.Conclusions The Magfit magnetic attachment prosthesis is very useful to improve the comfort and stability of mandibular complete overdentures,and enhance patients′ satisfaction.


E-commerce is a growing phenomenon in Africa. One area of e-commerce that is growing at a very fast rate is online retailing. This is despite concerns that individuals often have in relation to online shopping being associated with more risk than traditional retailing. This chapter looks at practices of online retailers that help in mitigating online shopping risk and the influence of these on customers' levels of trust as well as on their intentions to re-purchase from specific online stores. The findings show that provision of adequate online product information and online store security has positive influence on customers' level of trust in an online store. The findings also show that trust in an online store has significant influence on customers' intentions to repurchase from a store. The findings have wide implications on successful management of online store outlets and these have been highlighted in the chapter.


We present the sifting approach and its implementation (AnalogSifter) for symbolic analysis and automatic extraction of symbolic pole and zero expressions for analog integrated circuits. Very compact symbolic expressions for the voltage gains of the two-stage CMOS, 741, and even larger operational amplifiers, were obtained in less than 40 CPU seconds on a SUN SPARCstation 2, and the simplified results match well with the exact numerical values up to the unity gain frequencies in both the magnitude and phase versus frequency plots. The symbolic pole and zero expressions are extracted accurately in the frequency range of interest. All pole and zero expressions may be extracted accurately in individual or clustered symbolic forms by scanning through different frequency ranges. The simplified symbolic pole and zero expressions we obtained in the example presented are within 3% of the exact values.


The review summarizes the results of clinical trials that identified galectin-3 as a biomarker of chronic heart failure. The article also describes experimental studies in vitro and in vivo for galectin-3 with respect of heart failure.


The paper discusses issues related to the training of future teachers. Formation of professional responsibility as professional and personal qualities of the future specialist is defined as one of the main challenges for the development of the future teacher. The paper identifies educational opportunities of pedagogical disciplines within the stated problem.


The Lindholm test, a modified whole blood clotting time test designed to permit estimation of the blood compatibility of biomaterials, has been analyzed statistically with regard to sources of variance and desired sample sizes. Of five materials tested for compatibility with blood, only Cuprophane had an among-donor component of variance significantly different from zero. Analysis indicated that, under certain conditions, performance of 11 Lindholm tests upon each of two materials can be expected to furnish sufficient data for an observed average difference of 5 min in clotting time to be significant at the 5% level; performance of 36 pairs of tests gives a 98% probability of detecting a true difference of 5 min when testing at the 5% level of significance.


To date, there are no systematically generated estimates of the global costs, or the profits, from crime nor are there any systematic estimates of the extent of international money laundering. This article develops a framework for studying money laundering and provides preliminary estimates of the volume of money laundering and the extent of its variation around the world.


The SMS applies in education is a new domain,however,the majority of the educational functions of SMS to the education and management development-oriented services,while very little in classroom teaching.Through analyzes the realization of SMS technical principle,as well as to the SMS teaching's feasibility analysis,unified the existing education SMS platform,this article discussed three issues which the SMS teaching's preliminary idea and possibly involved,and hoped that present's researcher can do more work in the motion teaching.


This paper proposes a method designed to fuse a large number of clinical data into one serial pipeline including data collection, data processing, data representation and data visualization. The protocol has been applied here on the ankle and foot joints of three healthy subjects and one patient (Charcot-MarieTooth). Heterogeneous and customizable data such as medical imaging (CT), three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction, palpation analysis (manual and virtual), motion analysis, forces plates, foot pressure plate, muscle analysis (lenght, moment arm, activity) has been implemented into a software interface called « lhpFusionBox » to create subject-specific models. All available data are temporo-spatially aligned. The information obtained from fusion of clinical data permit to improve our understanding of the dynamics of the human foot during stance and to obtain the specific mechanics of each subject. This method is applicable to others joints and/or functional tasks.


During their operation, modern aircraft engine components are subjected to increasingly demanding operating conditions, especially the high pressure turbine (HPT) blades. Such conditions cause these parts to undergo different types of time-dependent degradation, one of which is creep. A model using the finite element method (FEM) was developed, in order to be able to predict the creep behaviour of HPT blades. Flight data records (FDR) for a specific aircraft, provided by a commercial aviation company, were used to obtain thermal and mechanical data for three different flight cycles. In order to create the 3D model needed for the FEM analysis, a HPT blade scrap was scanned, and its chemical composition and material properties were obtained. The data that was gathered was fed into the FEM model and different simulations were run, first with a simplified 3D rectangular block shape, in order to better establish the model, and then with the real 3D mesh obtained from the blade scrap. The overall expected behaviour in terms of displacement was observed, in particular at the trailing edge of the blade. Therefore such a model can be useful in the goal of predicting turbine blade life, given a set of FDR data. Abstract The paper presents an analytic stiffness matrix for curved thin metal wires, derived by the application of the second Castigliano's Theorem. The matrix accounts both bending and axial stiffness contributions in plane. The beam geometry is described by a cubic polynomial function of the curvature radius with a monotonical attitude angle as the independent variable. The solution proposed if fully analytical although a consistent number of adding factors appear. Some test cases are discussed and compared with Finite Element solutions, formed by a plentiful assembly of straight beams. Published by Elsevier B.V. Peer-review under responsibility of the Scientific Committee of AIAS 2017 International Conference on Stress Analysis. Abstract The paper presents an analytic stiffness matrix for curved thin metal wires, derived by the application of the second Castigliano's Theorem. The matrix accounts both bending and axial stiffness contributions in plane. The beam geometry is described by a cubic polynomial function of the curvature radius with a monotonical attitude angle as the independent variable. The solution proposed if fully analytical although a consistent number of adding factors appear. Some test cases are discussed and compared with Finite Element solutions, formed by a plentiful assembly of straight beams.


A working group of central bankers is creating a code of conduct for the industry. The Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor leading the initiative hopes it will provide clarity


There are several points arbitrarily located in space. The problem is — to determine the coordinates of a new point, the sum of all distances to all points from which is to be minimal. Initially Pierre de Fermat, Evangelista Torricelli, and Jacobi Steiner had solved this problem but only for three points on the plane and the distance function of Euclid. For more than four on the plane the exact analytical solution have not been found yet. In this paper the algorithms for numerical determination of coordinates of Fermat-Steiner point both on the plane and in three-dimensional space for arbitrary distance metric have been presented, along with the visualization of testing.


A number of backgrounds to top-quark production at the LHC and Tevatron experiments are characterized as instrumental: beam related-backgrounds, cosmic ray backgrounds, and backgrounds from non-prompt (or fake) leptons. A number of strategies have been deployed in the experiments to minimize these backgrounds and to estimate their rates. The strategies are applied at the level of the accelerator, the detector apparatus, the first few cuts which are common to many physics analyses, and more refined kinematic cuts. Remaining fake lepton background is estimated using sophisticated data-driven techniques. We present here a survey of the state-of-the-art in the reduction of instrumental backgrounds and also their estimation.


Special individually powered superconducting quadrupoles are required for the LHC insertions. These units comprise quadrupole magnets of the MQM and MQY types and range in length from 5.4 m to 11.4 m. In total, 82 insertion quadrupoles will be assembled at CERN. In this paper we present the advance in construction of the magnets and report on the performance of the first series built units, including power tests and alignment of the cold masses.


Significant shifts in the global economy have accelerated the need for organizations to find innovative ways to address new technological, demographic and marketplace realities. These shifts have also forced institutions of higher learning in Kenya to reevaluate costs associated with talent, necessitating a need to maximize productivity with minimal work force. Employees of any institution are expected to be proactive, show initiative, take responsibility for their own professional development and to be committed to high quality performance standards. These expectations place high job demands on the staff and in so doing predispose them to burnout. However, there is no comprehensive staff counseling programs aimed at helping the human resource develop their positive psychological capital that would inoculate them from psychological indisposition and thus boost work engagement for higher output. This paper explores the role of counseling in promoting work engagement and increasing productivity at Kabarak University. The article theorizes that engagement, conceptualized as the investment of an individual's complete self into a role, is a significant factor in job wellness and correlates positively with counseling. Mixed methods research was used to conduct the study. Secondary data was augmented with the participant observation data collection procedure. Qualitative and quantitative data analysis was done using SPSS 22. It was established that at Kabarak University, work engagement is a human resource concern that can be strengthened by staff counseling programs. The job specification for the professional counselors within the university precluded their active involvement with psychological welfare of staff. HRD researchers seeking to conduct original research in universities, and practitioners interested in creating greater levels of engagement in their organizations will find the discussion and implications sections valuable.


An application of cooperative game theory to the synthesis of fair call admission controls for multi-service loss networks is presented. Three arbitration schemes are studied: Nash, Raiffa-Kalai-Smorodinsky and modified Thompson. The proposed model for evaluation of these schemes is based on the value iteration algorithm from Markov decision theory. The arbitration schemes are compared with two traditional call admission objectives, traffic maximization and blocking equalization. The comparison demonstrates that the arbitration solutions provide some attractive fairness features not possessed by traditional objectives, especially in overload conditions. In particular, traffic maximization can result in a total rejection of some services under heavy overload. A dynamic arbitration scheme is proposed, where the solution depends on some agreement point related to nominal conditions. In this approach, the increase of the throughput caused by the overload can be fairly distributed among all network users.<<ETX>>


Objective To evaluate the MR findings and diagnostic value of neurovascular compression in patients with hemifacial spasm (HFS) and trigeminal neuralgia (TN). Methods MR manifestations and operative results of 120 patients with hemifacial spasm and trigeminal neuralgia were reviewed retrospectively. Results (1) 58 sides had vascular compression or contact at MR imaging in 126 sides of the facial nerves of 63 patients with hemifacial spasm, and 17 sides had uncertain vascular contact. 45 sides had vascular compression or contact at MR imaging in 114 sides of the trigeminal nerves of 57 patients with trigeminal neuralgia, and 12 sides had uncertain vascular contact. (2) Statistical results: The difference between the symptomatic sides and asymptomatic sides in HFS patients was statistically significant (χ 2=31.66, P 0.001). The difference between the symptomatic sides and asymptomatic sides in TN patients was statistically significant (χ 2=42.98, P 0.001). (3) The sensitivity, accuracy, and positive likelihood ratio of MR diagnosis of vascular compression or contact was 94%, 83%, and 1.88, respectively. Conclusion MR had higher specificity and sensitivity in diagnosing neurovascular compression or contact, and it played an important role in demonstrating the relationship between the cisternal portion of the seventh and fifth cranial nerve and surrounding vascular structures.


All mechanical systems behave nonlinearly to a certain extent since there are always reasons for nonlinearities, such as friction and slip effects, in the actual structures. It is important to detect and identify the nonlinearity due to friction and contact in order to investigate their effect on the global behavior of the workpiece-fixture system. That is a prerequisite for modeling the dynamic contact behavior at the interface between the workpiece and clamping elements. In this research, the workpiece-fixture system was excited with a shaker using the swept sine signal. The nonlinearities could be detected by comparing and analyzing the frequency responses of the structures in Bode plots. However, the nonlinearities behaved differently at various frequencies within the observation range. Different mechanisms such as nonlinear stiffness and damping, micro-slip friction, are responsible for that. Then the nonlinear contact behavior at the clamping positions was successfully identified by means of the Hilbert transform. In addition, the clamping force directly influenced the nonlinear stiffness of the workpiece-fixture system.


Peace education itself is a contested term; its conceptions, and thus its manifestations, are quite varied. This is why this succinct volume proves to be so timely; it aims to "provide greater nuance to debates around peace education" (p. 2). Despite its daunting title, this volume is not presented as an authoritative stranglehold, but rather, as a way of historicizing the field of peace education, highlighting major conceptual threads and identifying the exciting prospects for the future of the field. [excerpt]


Through collaborations with scientific partners in Taiwan and various Southeast Asian countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, the Seven SouthEast Asian Studies (7 SEAS) is jointly initiated by NASA's Radiation Science, Tropospheric Chemistry, Air Quality and Oceanography programmes as well as the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the Office of Naval Research – Global (ONRG) and the US State Department in an effort to investigate the complex interactions between aerosols (anthropogenic or natural) and meteorological systems, especially with clouds, and their impacts on air quality in the Southeast Asian region. 7 SEAS is a multi-disciplinary regional science programme which operates with the integrative support of in-situ measurements, remote sensing and scientific modeling. Under the cooperative framework of 7 SEAS, an atmospheric supersite has been established in the National University of Singapore to collect baseline data on air quality and the urban atmosphere as well as information on the transboundary haze during periods of severe biomass burning. The station has a comprehensive suite of instruments to measure the radiometric and meteorological properties of the atmosphere, vertical distribution of aerosols and clouds, and the microphysical and chemical properties of aerosols at the surface. Among the instruments, the on-site Cimel Sunphotometer is part of the world-wide AErosol RObotic NETwork (AERONET) while the Micro Pulse Lidar (MPL) is part of the NASA's growing Micro Pulse Lidar Network (MPLNET).


1. Political Obligation, Patriotism and Dissent. 2. Democratic Values and Constitutional Constraints. 3. The Nature and Value of Rights. 4. Freedom and the Limits of Liberty. 5. Problems of Equality. 6. Justice, Community, and Gender.


Nowadays, automation system becomes the best solution to overcome human problem which is always forget to switch off the electrical appliances. As we know, there are a lot of types of the automation system which is too expensive and difficult to use. For that reason, an automation system at low cost is built where; user can also program the automated system by their own. The purpose of this project is to design an automation system that can be used to switch ON, OFF and get know STATUS of the electrical appliances by using personal computer. This project focusing developing an automation system with Zigbee wireless technology which is controlled by programmable interface controller (PIC18F14K50). This overall project is divided into two parts. The first part is concern on the hardware development where all electronic components are connected on a single board. Personal computer is the input component while fluorescent lamp and fan are the output component where it's all controlled by controller circuit. Zigbee is a new technology, which has at its centre the goal of eliminating wired connections between home appliances and personal computer. Instead of connecting with wires, every appliance has small transmitters or receivers. The second part is base on software programming to operate the hardware structure. There two types of programs are used for this project. C language is the program used for PIC18F14K50. C language assembles using CCS C Compiler to get the hex file. The hex file loaded into PIC memory using PIC kit 2 burners. C # is another program that used for create GUI for personal computer .In order to achieve better automation system, the security system can be added to this project where more sensor and load can be connected to the PIC serial port. As the result, the PIC capable to control the whole operation of this automation system.


Poland syndrome is marked by unilateral absence or hypoplasia of pectoralis major muscle (most frequently involving the sternocostal portion) and a varying degree of ipsilateral hand anomalies. It has been estimated that 10% of patient with syndactyly of the hand have the Poland sequence. In 1841, It was first reported by Alfred Poland1. Absence or hypoplasia of the breast and nipple have also been reported in this. Other associations observed are abnormal rib, dextrocardia, only in left sided muscle hypoplasia, oligodactyly, preaxial polydactyly of upper extremity, absent radius/ ulna/ humerus, scapula anomaly, microcephaly, encephalocele, abnormality in GIT and biliary tree, ureteric anomaly and vertebral segmentation anomaly2. The incidence is one in 7000 to one in 100,000 live births3. The vast majority of cases are sporadic4 but familial cases have been reported, compatible with an autosomal dominant mode of inheritance. Males are three times more affected than females and is 75% right sided5,6. We report a case of Poland syndrome in a newborn with the involvement of left side and ipsilateral preaxial polydactyly of foot with bifid hallux and synostosis of 1st metatarsal bone instead of the documented syndactyly/ polydactyly/ symbrachydactyly of phalanges of the hand.


Objective. In the 2019-2020 NBA season, the NBA invited the top teams to compete in a "bubble" that stripped away the traditional home-court advantages of fans, travel, court familiarity, and referee bias. This bubble provided a natural experiment where we could analyze the effects of home-court advantage. In this paper, we were interested in finding the root causes of home-court advantages and their precise impact on wins, free throw shooting percentages, and fouls called. Methods. To investigate the causes of home-court advantage, an analysis of over twenty years of NBA data was used. We ran logistic regressions on wins, and linear regressions on free throw shooting percentages and fouls called. Results. The number of fans, travel distance, and quality of team all had effects on home-court advantage. In the bubble, the away team's win percentage increased by 3 percentage points. The free throw shooting percentages increased by 2.3% and there were 9% fewer fouls for the away team and 5% fewer for the home team. Conclusions. Although fans, travel, and familiarity all affect home-court advantage, the largest factor is the quality of teams. This suggests that teams should focus on their performance and development, worrying less about the location of their games.


An intuitive insight into the radiated power and temperature of black holes is presented by a novel derivation using the uncertainty principle. An entropy argument is made for their large abundance throughout the universe with far-reaching ramifications terrestrially and universally.


A 2012 systematic review of 15 RCTs (N=846) evaluated the effectiveness of a variety of systemic therapies for the treatment of cutaneous warts. Oral cimetidine (25–40 mg/kg per day or 400–800 mg 3 times daily for 2–3 months) in adults and children compared with placebo was included in the review. Complete resolution was not statistically different between the groups, with cures occurring in 36% of patients in the cimetidine group compared with 22% of controls (4 trials, N=230; OR 1.9; 95% CI, 0.9–4.2). Dropout rates were high in all RCTs (20%–68%). Another systematic review of 7 RCTs and 5 openlabeled trials evaluated the effectiveness of H2 blockers for the treatment of cutaneous warts. The 5 openlabeled trials (N=171) conducted over 2 to 4 months documented a 48% response rate for ranitidine and 81% for cimetidine; however, no control groups were used in these trials. The first RCT with 54 patients compared cimetidine (25–40 mg/kg per day) with placebo and found no difference in resolution after 3 months (32% vs 30%; P=.85). The second RCT involving 54 patients compared 400 mg TID cimetidine with placebo over 12 weeks, with no differences in resolution (37% vs 25%; P>.05). The third RCT of 35 patients compared cimetidine (800 mg TID for 3 months) with placebo and also did not show a difference in resolution (26% vs 4.8%; P=.085). The fourth RCT included 40 patients and compared cimetidine (20–40 mg/kg for 4 months) with cimetidine plus topical treatment and showed a significant difference in the combined group (10% vs 35%; P<.001). The fifth RCT of 13 pediatric patients compared standard therapy with cimetidine (30–40 mg/kg); this study was stopped early due to lack of benefit (no data provided). The last 2 RCTs compared cimetidine with levamisole (no longer available) and did not show any difference in benefit (no data provided). A 2005 retrospective analysis of 216 adult and pediatric patients with warts evaluated the effectiveness of cimetidine treatment. Thirty-six adults were treated with cimetidine 20 mg/kg daily and 180 pediatric patients were treated with 25 to 40 mg/kg daily for an average of 6.4 weeks. At a minimum of 15 months after completion of therapy there was an 84% success rate, defined as complete restoration of skin lines coursing throughout the entire lesion's surface area. There was no comparison group and the authors noted that warts have been observed to resolve spontaneously within 2 years of onset.


Electrostatic self-assembly functional films is an emerging research area.Preparation and characteristics of electrostatic self-assembly polyelectrolyte/polyelectrolyte composite thin films,electrostatic self-assembly polyelectrolyte/inorganic nano-particles,electrostatic self-assembly polyelectrolyte/nano-semiconductor particle and electrostatic self-assembly other multilayers are presented and discussed.Application of electrostatic self-assembly in pervaporation separation,gene transfer,sensors,and photovoltaic devices are forecast.


Objective: Evaluate the effectiveness of a care program for elderly persons with hip fractures due to a fall, based on a public network in Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Methods: a prospective cohort study of quantitative character was carried out. A total of 182 elderly person above 60 years diagnosed with hip fractures were included. The sample was divided into two groups, one who underwent their usual treatment (n=91) and another who were included in a care program for elderly persons with hip fractures Palavras-chave: Idoso. Fraturas do quadril. Serviços de Saúde para Idosos. Queda. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1981-22562017020.170008


This paper presents a novel design method of tracking control systems based on H/sub /spl infin// preview control using the known future value of the reference signal. H/sub /spl infin// preview control laws have been derived for two common situations of tracking control. The performance improvements achieved with H/sub /spl infin// preview control have been examined in the frequency and time domains for different types of reference signals. It was found that preview control improves the tracking performance by improving the phase response of the tracking system.


Samples of 21 soil profiles and 165 top soils from an area of approximate 1.5 km2 on red-earthy hill landscape were collected and analysed. The content of Ca, Mg, K, P, Fe, Mn, Zn and Cu in soils relate with the kind of parent material and the position of topography, however, there is great variation due to the local difference of the form of soil utilization. From the difference in spatial distribution of elements content, it is believed that eight kinds of elements are lost by chemical leaching and physical translocation, meanwhile some are added (such as Ca, P, K, Mg) and some mobilized (such as Fe, Mn, Zn, Cu and P) through cultivation, fertilization and irrigation in the soils on the landscape investigated. The sectional differentiation in abundance or deficiency of elements in top soils on the landscape investigated is distinct, which is important for carrying out agricultural management and reasonable fertilization according to local conditions.


The quality of experience of many modern network services depends on the delay performance of the underlying communications network. In DSL networks, crosstalk introduces competition for bandwidth among users. In such a competitive environment, delay performance is largely determined by the manner in which the cross-layer scheduler assigns bandwidth to the different users. Existing cross-layer schedulers optimize a simple metric, and do not consider important information that is contained within a queue's packets. In this paper, we present a new cross-layer scheduler, referred to as the minimal delay violation (MDV) scheduler, which optimizes a more elaborate metric that closely resembles the quality of experience of the users. Through simulations, it is shown that the new scheduler outperforms the state of the art in cross-layer scheduling algorithms.


Adhesion at ceramic/metal (C/M) interfaces often controls the macroscopic behavior of materials containing metallic and ceramic phases, and experimental studies of bonding at C/M interfaces have recently been reported. Electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) offers unique opportunities to examine bonding at interfaces on an atomic scale. The EELS near edge fine structure is sensitive to local atomic arrangements and thus can be used as a coordination fingerprint. Much more can be done, however, by analyzing the connection between the EELS fine structure, the underlying local electronic structure and the cohesive energy of an interface to gain a deeper understanding of the nature of the adhesion at the interface. In this work, we apply high spatial-resolution EELS instrument to study {222} MgO/Cu interfaces produced by internal oxidation. We determine interfacial chemistry of this interface with subnanometer resolution (Fig. 1) and use EELS to directly measure the electronic states pertaining to the interface


The syntheses of [(CH3)3Te]X {X = N3 (1), OCN (2), SCN (3), SeCN (4), [Ag(CN)2] (5)} and [(C6H5)3Te]X {X = N3 (6), SeCN (7), [Ag(CN)2] (8)}, their NMR spectroscopic data, vibrational spectra and single crystal structures are described. Compounds 1−4 are the first trimethyltelluronium pseudohalides, while the known compounds 6 and 7 have been prepared for completion of their analytical and structural properties. The occurrence of intermolecular Te···N, Te···O, Te···S and Te···Se contacts is thoroughly studied. The dicyanoargentates 5 and 8 were obtained in an attempt to prepare telluronium cyanides. Low-temperature 13C NMR spectroscopy of the [Ag(CN)2]− ion in solution has been carried out, with determination of the 13C−107/109Ag coupling. (© Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2002)


Objective To investigate the methods and safety of endovascular embolization for treatment of posterior cerebral artery aneurysms.Methods Eight patients with posterior cerebral artery aneurysms treated by using endovascular embolization were analyzed retrospectively.The clinical features, method of treatment and prognosis of the patients were summarized.Results ①There were eight patients with 8 aneurysms.Of those, one aneurysm was located at the P1 segment, 2 were at the P1-P2 segment, 3 were at the P2 segment, and 2 were at the P3 segment.There were 6 patients with fusiform or dissecting aneurysm and 2 with saccular aneurysm.②One patient was treated by balloon occlusion of parent artery. Five patients were treated by coil packing of the aneurysmal sacs and parent artery occlusion.Two patients were treated by coil packing of the aneurysmal sacs only.③After the procedure, DSA showed that all the aneurysms disappeared completely.There were no ischemic symptoms in the six patients with parent arteries occlusion after the procedure.No neurological deficits and other intervention-related complications were found in all the patients.④No recurrence of the aneurysm was observed under DSA re-examination 3 to 6 months after the procedure.The patients were followed up for 1 to 12 years and all returned to their normal life.Conclusion Endovascular embolization is a safe and effective therapeutic approach for posterior cerebral artery aneurysms.


A substantial amount of research exists and was reviewed on why teachers leave the teaching profession and/or why they leave one school to teach at another school. Significantly less research exists on why teachers remain in an urban school and what they view as being the essential pieces of teacher induction. The purpose of this study was to contribute to the body of knowledge by identifying the key pieces of induction that influence teachers, with three or less years of experience in an urban school, to remain teachers in their school. A case study design was utilized in this research in order to gain an in-depth understanding of what these teachers view as being the essential pieces of induction. In response to the larger problem stated here, I have organized my dissertation around three separate, but related manuscripts: 1. The first manuscript is a literature review on the essential pieces of comprehensive induction focusing on urban settings and the role that administrators play in novice urban teacher retention. The essential pieces of induction were identified through the literature as being effective administration, mentoring, formative evaluation, empowerment, and professional development. 2. The second manuscript is an exploration into the need for schooluniversity partnerships through the results of a questionnaire on a one time professional development held at the university. The questionnaire results demonstrated the novice urban teachers' beliefs that professional development positively impacted their instructional practices, yet did


To improve the mechanistic understanding of spontaneous initiation of ventricular fibrillation (VF), we characterized the patterns of premature ventricular complex (PVC) preceding spontaneous VF in primary and secondary implantable cardioverter‐defibrillator (ICD) recipients.


Chechnya is important in terms of issues related to the nature of the state and minorities in the Russian Federation. When considering the Chechen problem, one notices that it has a dual structure. First, as a minority in Russia, the Chechen people have been affected by changes in the Russian state. Most extant research on this issue has examined the Chechen problem by focusing on the Chechens' relationship with the Russian state. However, there is also another aspect—the form and nature of the "state" sought by the Chechen people has had an impact on both themselves and the Russian side. Existing research has mainly studied the kinds of tensions that "the state" sought by the Chechen people has caused in Russia. Thus, the effects of this "state" on the Chechens themselves have not been adequately studied. This article seeks to consider the Chechen problem by focusing on the nature of the "state" sought by the Chechen people. In particular, it seeks to clarify the kind of influence exerted by the changes in the nature of the "state" advocated by a minority group on that minority group itself. Further, it also considers the current situation and problems in the Chechen Republic. To achieve these aims, this article undertakes two tasks. First, it considers whether the form of the Chechen "state" governed by Ramzan Kadyrov is adequately accepted by its residents. In Chechnya, there have been terrorist activities and revolts by independence-seeking and radical Islamic groups, who do not recognize the legitimacy of the Kadyrov regime. This article analyzes the GTD (Global Terrorism Database) to assess whether the incidents of terror and rebellion have decreased over time to the present.


Why theory, what has theory got to do with architectural technology and why worry about it? One answer suggests that it needs a differentiating design theory to reinforce its position as the primary technical design authority in the modern construction industry. In saying that, however, it also raises a whole host of further questions such as what is technical design, what position is being referred to exactly and why a differentiating design theory? This chapter is placed at the beginning of the book because it poses some of the principal questions that need to be addressed as the subject of architectural technology develops into a mature academic and professional discipline. Considering architectural technology historically in terms of alternative theories, through theories of technology and also by means of complementary design theories, allows the reader to reflect on architectural technology in its many expressions, be they historical, physical or even metaphysical. In addition, simply establishing and documenting its existence, confirming a theoretical and historical foundation to the discipline, permits continuing deliberation and development, providing a focused context for further relevant research.


This paper is the third in a series whose goal is to develop a fundamentally new way of viewing theories of physics. Our basic contention is that constructing a theory of physics is equivalent to finding a representation in a topos of a certain formal language that is attached to the system. In paper II, we studied the topos representations of the propositional language PL(S) for the case of quantum theory, and in the present paper we do the same thing for the, more extensive, local language L(S). One of the main achievements is to find a topos representation for self-adjoint operators. This involves showing that, for any physical quantity A, there is an arrow δ̆o(Â) : Σ → IRo where IRo is the quantity-value object for this theory. The construction of δ̆o(Â) is an extension of the daseinisation of projection operators that was discussed in paper II. The object IRo is only a monoid-object in the topos, τφ = SetsV(H) op , of the theory. To enhance the applicability of the formalism, we apply to IRo a topos analogue of the Grothendieck extension of a monoid to a group. The resulting object, k(IRo), is an abelian group-object in τφ. We also discuss another candidate, IR↔, for the quantity-value object. In this presheaf, both innerand outer-daseinisation are used in a symmetric way. Finally, there is a brief discussion of the role of unitary operators in the quantum topos scheme. email: firstname.lastname@example.com email: firstname.lastname@example.com


Premenopause is a transitional period that occurs due to decreased generative or endocrine function of the ovaries. In premenopausal women, there is a decrease in estrogen hormone levels and an increase in Body Mass Index (BMI) so that it will increase the risk of diabetes mellitus which is one of the four priority non-communicable diseases. The incidence of diabetes mellitus in women is much higher when compared to men.
The research was conducted in the city of Padang, with an observational, cross-sectional design. The sampling technique used was multistage random sampling with a sample of 99 premenopausal women. The estradiol level was assessed by ELISA method, BMI was assessed by weight (kg) divided by height (m) squared, fasting blood glucose level was assessed by the enzymatic photometric method. The correlation between estradiol levels and fasting blood glucose levels was analyzed by using the Pearson Correlation test. The correlation between BMI and fasting blood glucose levels was analyzed by using the Pearson Correlation test.
The mean of estradiol level was (148,689±49,417) pg/ml. Average Body Mass Index (BMI) was included in the Obese category I (26.5 kg/m2). The mean fasting blood glucose level was (98,766±6,549) mg/dL. There is a correlation between estradiol levels and fasting blood glucose levels (p value = 0.007 and r value = 0.270). In addition, there is a correlation between BMI and fasting blood glucose levels (p value = 0.023).
The conclusion of this study is that there is a significant correlation between estradiol levels and fasting blood glucose. There is a significant correlation between BMI and fasting blood glucose

Keywords: Estradiol Levels, Body Mass Index, Fasting Blood Glucose Levels, Premenopause.


Objective To evaluate the effects of mechanical ventilation(MV) on acute pulmonary edema due to acute myocardial infarction.Methods Nine patients with acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema caused by acute myocardial infarction admitted to the coronary care unit(CCU) were investigated retrospectively.All patients received mechanical ventilation based on routine therapies.Changes of symptoms,radiography and arterial blood gas were observed.Results After ventilation for 30 minutes,all patients showed a significant improvement in dyspnea.Heart rate and respiratory rate were decreased significantly after ventialtion(P0.01) with significant improvement of arterial blood gas parameters (P0.01).During ventialtion blood pressure remained(stable),and no adverse effects were observed.Pressor agents could be withdrawn in all patients 72 to 96 hours after ventialtion.Chest films at 72 hours showed remission of pulmonary edema in 6 cases and considerable improvement in 3 cases.Eight patients were successfully weaned from mechanical ventilation within 12 days.One patient died of sudden heart arrest on the seventh day after ventilation.Conclusion Mechanical ventilation can quickly relieve the symptoms of acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema and improve cardiac function.


Background: The multifunctional nanoparticles can be promising antitumor materials. The results of a study of synthesized NdFeCoB oxide nanoparticles (NPs) as a basis for drug transportation systems are presented. In the next step, the NPs can be coated by a multifunctional gel shell. Methods: NPs, the composition of NdFexCo1-xB (where x =0, 0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, and 0.5), were synthesized by a Pechini-type sol-gel method. The synthesis allows tuning of NPs magnet properties by manipulating the microstructure and phase composition. NPs were studied by XRD, SEM, TEM, HRTEM, and VSM. Results: SEM images show that the average size of NPs changed from 280 nm (for x = 0) up to 416 nm (for x = 0.1 – 0.5). At TEM images the NPs of the sample without cobalt (x = 0) have an elongated shape (Fig 1a). Diffraction patterns showed that the NPs consist of single crystal or ordered crystallites. NPs with cobalt mainly consist of crystallites with a size of about 20-50 nm. There are also areas with a complex-grained microstructure. Hysteresis loops and first-order reversal curve analysis indicated that the NPs were ferromagnetic whose coercivity, squareness ratio, and magnetic interactions changed significantly with the cobalt contents.


We report measurement of temperature dependence of phonon spectra in quasi one-dimensional metal cyanides MCN (M=Cu, Ag and Au). Ab initio lattice dynamics calculations have been performed to interpret the phonon-spectra as well as to understand the anamolous thermal expansion behavior in these compounds. We bring out the differences in the phonon mode behavior to explain the differences in the thermal expansion behavior among the three compounds. The chain-sliding modes are found to contribute maximum to the negative thermal expansion along c axis in the Cu and Ag compounds, while the same modes contribute to positive thermal expansion in the Au compound. Several low energy transverse modes lead to positive thermal expansion along a and b axis in all the compounds. The calculated elastic constants and Born effective charges are correlated with the difference in nature of bonding among these metal cyanides.


The Warfarin-Antiplatelet Recurrent Stroke Study is a multicenter, randomized, double-blind study comparing warfarin against aspirin in the prevention of recurrent stroke. No patient takes two active medications or two placebos. Warfarin is used in 2 mg doses sufficient to keep the international normalized ration (INR) at 1.4–2.8 while aspirin is given as 325 mg q.id. All patients are treated as if they were on true warfarin. Blood drawn at the local sites are sent to a single laboratory in the USA where the prothrombin time/INRs are determined. To maintain blinding, the values reaching the local investigator by fax are correct if the patient is truly assigned to warfarin but normal INR values for patients in the true aspirin arm are falsified by a computer program to mimic those values expected for the dose and duration of therapy had the patient actually been on warfarin. The sample size planned is > 1,900 patients, enough to detect a 30% reduction in the frequency of stroke and death in the warfarin group compared with aspirin if differences this large exist.


Objective To investigate the influence of plasma exchange with acupuncture point injection therapy on liver fibrosis indexes in patients with severe hepatitis. Methods Sixty patients with severe hepatitis were randomly divided into group A with 29 cases receiving plasma replacement and group B of 31 cases receiving astragalus injection at Zusanli point in addition to plasma replacement. Changes of liver fibrosis indexes including serum hyaluronic acid(HA), laminin(LN), collagen Ⅳ(Ⅳ- C), type Ⅲ pre-collagen(PC Ⅲ) were observed,which were compared with those from group C with 30 healthy subjects. Results Before treatment, there was no statistical significance in comparison of liver fibrosis index in group A and B(P 0.05), but all the indexes were higher than those in group C(P 0.001). After treatment, the level of each index in group A and B was down with a more significant change in group B and the comparison of both groups indicated statistical significance(P 0.05 or P 0.001); Compared with those in group C, changes of Ⅳ- C, PC Ⅲ in group B showed no significant difference(P 0.05). Conclusion Plasma exchange with astragalus injection at Zusanli point can effectively improve liver fibrosis indexes in patients with severe hepatitis and then improve the prognosis of patients.


In modern, policy-heavy democracies, blame games about policy controversies are commonplace. Despite their ubiquity, blame games are notoriously difficult to study. This book elevates them to the place that they deserve in the study of politics and public policy. Blame games are microcosms of conflictual politics that yield unique insights into democracies under pressure. Based on an original framework and the comparison of fifteen blame games in the UK, Germany, Switzerland, and the USA, it exposes the institutionalized forms of conflict management that democracies have developed tomanage policy controversies. Whether failed infrastructure projects, food scandals, security issues, or flawed policy reforms, democracies manage policy controversies in an idiosyncratic manner. This book is addressed not only to researchers and students interested in political conflict in the fields of political science, public policy, public administration, and political communication but to everyone concerned about the functioning of democracy in more conflictual times. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.


In the early chapters the essay is addressing the characteristics of the Mycobacterium leprae and the history of the incidence of the disease. This is followed by the diagnostics of the cause of the disease; especially the molecular biology tests that are accurate and time effective and that is the main factor of the elimination of leprosy. The following is a description of various forms of the disease from lepromatous to tuberculoid as per the Ridley-Jopling scale. The attention, except for the five basic forms of leprosy, is also given to similar skin diseases. When the particular form of leprosy is diagnosed, the effective pharmacologic cure can begin using a multi-drug therapy. The last chapter of the essay is devoted to the multi-drug therapy.


Surface geostrophic velocity fields derived from satellite-altimetry between January 1993 and April 2014 are used to detect and investigate eddies in the North Atlantic between 40°-55°N and 60°-10°W. Focus is on a zonal section along 47°N, roughly at the boundary between the subpolar and the subtropical gyres. Sea surface temperature data are used to quantify the temperature anomalies associated with eddies and the respective surface temperature fluxes related to these eddies. Identified eddy pathways across 47°N are related to the mean background velocity from full-depth ship observations carried out on 11 cruises between 2003 and 2014. The analysis is repeated in two model simulations with 1/4° and 1/12° horizontal resolution, respectively for the period 2002-2013. The analysis reveals almost 37000 altimeter-derived eddies with a lifetime longer than one week in the area. The highest number of eddies is found along the pathway of the North Atlantic Current, roughly following the 4000 m isobath, and on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Time series of temperature fluxes by eddies crossing 47°N reveal that single isolated eddies with large SST signatures contribute ∼25% to the surface temperature flux. Relating the observed eddies to the observed top-to-bottom velocity distribution at 47°N points to the existence of eddy pathways across 47°. The highest temperature fluxes are linked to the fastest and most pronounced current branches in the western Newfoundland Basin. While there are fewer eddies in both model simulations, the key findings are consistent between the observations and the two model simulations. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.


The objective of the seminar was to discuss current issues involving financial markets and the economy in the fields of corporate governance, banks and stock markets as well as the causes and the consequences of international financial crises. (Published in German.)


Key Points Question Are employees at US health care institutions susceptible to phishing attacks? Findings In this multicenter quality improvement study, more than 2.9 million simulated emails were sent to employees at 6 hospitals, with a median click rate of 16.7%. Repeated phishing campaigns were associated with decreased odds of clicking on a subsequent phishing email. Meaning Employees at US health care institutions may be susceptible to phishing emails, which presents a major cybersecurity risk to hospitals.


Optical transverse-electric-transverse-magnetic (TE-TM) mode conversion by magnetooptic effect induced by magnetostatic surface waves (MSSWs) is analyzed. A typical MSSW waveguide has a thick layer for the convenient excitation of MSSWs. However, the waveguide is not a single-mode waveguide but is multimode for the optical wavelength. Such a waveguide is not suitable for optical devices because the conversion efficiency decreases due to coupling between higher modes. A multilayer waveguide constructed with the double magnetic layers, in which only the optical fundamental mode propagates and which improves the characteristics of optical mode conversion is proposed. An efficiency of 100% is achieved over an interaction length of about 1.0 cm for the applied microwave power density of a few milliwatts per millimeter.<<ETX>>


The course of Feminist cognition of equality traverses from seeking the identical equality from a general point of view to searching equal power in more concrete terms and to pursuing equity out of differences based on fair and just principles.The author reviews this course and identifies issues that remain therein and also reflect on its theoretical values and practical significance.At the level of theoretical values,it is noted that the development of equality embodies the logical inevitability of history,whereby the earlier general pursuit of equality is not only concretized but also diversified so as to reveal dimensions of differences.This process opens up room for realism and idealism of achieving "equality".


war' is not found in the Qumran documents, though a priest in the War of the Children of Light performs the functions prescribed by Deut. xx. Therefore it is not an unlikely guess—though nothing more—that 'the anointed for war' and 'the Anointed of Israel' are two survivals of the same figure—an anointed military official—whose existence the rabbis have tried to justify by discovering for him a Biblical proof text (though the best text they could get referred to a priest and said nothing of unction). Be this as it may (and it may well be otherwise) there is certainly reason to hesitate before assuming that the assemblies discussed in the second paragraph of iQSa are eschatological, or that either of its anointed ones is a 'messianic' figure.


In the task scheduling problem of phased array radar, the objective function is usually based on the time shifting rate (TSR). However, the TSR cannot achieve expected scheduling performance in non-linear filtering systems. To further improve the scheduling performance, a novel index named shifting improve rate (SIR) is proposed by analysing the influence of time shifting and its formula in Kalman filtering and expand Kalman filtering is derived. Based on SIR, a new objective function for scheduling of phased array radar tasks was designed and used the genetic algorithm to solve it. Simulated experiments are done to validate the proposed index and the new objective function. The results demonstrate that the SIR achieves better scheduling performance and tracking accuracy than TSR in non-linear filtering systems while keeping similar performance in linear filtering systems.


Self-discovering network topology is the base of network management.We propose a method to discover network topology through information supported by SNMP MIB.


Phosphorus is one of the most limiting nutrients for animals because most of the phosphorus in the plant seeds including the feeding plants is in the form of phytic acid, most of which cannot be digested by monogastric animals and acts as an antinutritional factor hindering the uptake of a range of minerals. In the current poultry industry, phytase is commonly added to poultry diets to improve P utilization, which leads to a decrease in feed cost and P excretion in the environment (Dersjant et al., 2015). A better understanding of in vivo phytase activity is important so as to use phytase more economically and efficiently. myo-Inositol hexakisphosphate


AbstractThe author examines key developments in the telecommunication industry and discusses the threats and opportunities they present to the travel/tourism industry. These developments are examined in three categories: technical; software/services; and applications. Suggestions of possible or recommended travel/tourism industry and PATA responses conclude the paper.


This article proposes a new translation of lines 8-14 of Amarna letter no. 255. The letter is a diplomatic protest by Mut-Bahlu, the local ruler of Pella, against the pharaoh's command that he relinquish his control over the local traffic of caravans. Mut-Bahlu argues that to control the caravans is his hereditary right. Such an argument is well attested in the Amarna correspondence between the great powers. Its use in a vassal's letter is a crafty attempt to exploit the diplomatic conventions of the Late Bronze Age


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The U.S. Department of Energy Turbines Program has established very stringent NOx emissions goals of less than 3 ppmv for future turbine power generation. These future turbine power plants may operate on hydrogen-rich fuels, such as coal-derived synthesis gas (syngas), or pure hydrogen derived from shifting the syngas. Achieving these goals is expected to require improved combustor concepts which may be dramatically different than current combustor designs. Significant and costly experimental testing is usually required to assess new combustor concepts. Ideally, new concepts could be evaluated with numeric simulations to reduce development time and cost. However, current simulation capabilities are not sufficient to reliably capture the effects of fuel variations on flame extinction, emissions levels, and dynamic stability. Furthermore, very little data with controlled boundary conditions are available to check numeric predictions at actual turbine engine conditions, or simply to assess combustor performance without ambiguous boundary conditions. This paper presents a description of the development and operation of an optically-accessible research combustor, which is designed to provide fundamental combustion data at elevated pressure and inlet air temperature, and with precisely determined thermal, acoustic, and flow boundary conditions. The effects of fuel composition variations are investigated by blending of controlled quantities of hydrogen with natural gas. Recent test results — emissions data, dynamics data, and heat losses for hydrogen addition from 0 to 40% by fuel volume at two combustor pressures — and a description of future testing are also presented. The results show that the addition of hydrogen to natural gas in percentages as low as 5% of total fuel volume can significantly decrease the lean extinction limit, and promote stable operation at lower equivalence ratios while promoting lower NOx emissions. Dynamic pressures were measured, but combustion dynamics were not present due to the combustor configuration. The effect of heat losses on flame temperature and emissions were quantified.© 2005 ASME


In this letter, we first extend the convolution theory of discrete Fourier transform (DFT) and introduce a structure of layered fast Fourier transform (FFT). Based on this framework, we propose novel asymmetric orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems that bridge general OFDM and single carrier systems. Adaptive to the capability of the transceiver, asymmetric OFDM systems provide significant flexibility in system design and operation. We show how effects of noise enhancement and frequency diversity counteract each other in asymmetric OFDM systems. Performance comparison with general OFDM and single carrier systems is also given.


Abstract The reaction of 7‐mercapto‐4‐methylcoumarin (4) with 1‐mono‐ and 1,1‐dimethyl propargyl alcohols in H3PO4 afforded the corresponding β‐(7‐coumarinthio)ketones with a rearrangement of the carbon chain of propargyl. A possible mechanism of this rearrangement was proposed.


[3 + 2] Annulation of ketimines with internal and terminal alkynes proceeded via C-H activation to give aminoindene derivatives in high yields, which is catalyzed by a cationic iridium complex coordinated with 1,5-cyclooctadiene (cod).


Currently there are four major pharmaceutical companies who manufacture a SARS-CoV-2 now called SARS-CoV-19 vaccine. These manufactures and their vaccine are Pfizer--BioNTech mRNA Vaccine, the Moderna-Lonza mRNA-1273 Vaccine, the Serum Institute Oxford Astrazeneca Vaccine and the Janssen COVID -19 Vaccine, manufactured by Janssen Biotech Inc., a Janssen Pharmaceutical Company of Johnson & Johnson, a recombinant, replication-incompetent adenovirus type 26 expressing the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. The intended purpose of these vaccines are to provide immunity from the socalled infectious novel coronavirus or SARS-CoV 2 virus now called the SARS-CoV 19. These four pharmaceutical companies have not provided complete FDA disclosure on their vaccine box, insert fact sheet or label for many of the major and/or minor ingredients contained within these so-called vaccines. The purpose of this research article is to identify those specific major and minor ingredients contained in the Pfizer Vaccine, the Moderna Vaccine, the Astrazeneca Vaccine and the Janssen Vaccine using various scientific anatomical, physiological and functional testing for each SARS-COV-2-19 vaccine. As a human right, governed under World Law by the Nuremberg Code of 1947, the vaccine specific ingredient information is critical, required and necessary to know so that any human from any country in the World can make an informed decision whether or not to consent to the SAR-CoV-219 inoculation. We have conducted the scientific testing on each vaccine and have identified several ingredients or adjuvants that have not been disclosed which are contained in these four SARS-CoV 2 -19 vaccines. Currently, these vaccines are being administered to millions of humans around the World under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) issued by each country without full disclosure of all ingredients and in some cases mandated by governments or employers in violation of individual human rights under the Nuremberg Code of 1947. Methodology and Techniques Four "vaccines" were analyzed which are the Pfizer-BioNtech, Moderna-Lonza mRNA-1273 Vaccine, Vaxzevria by Astrazeneca, Janssen by Johnson & Johnson, using different instrumentation and protocols of preparation according to new nano particulate technological approaches. The different instrumentation includes Optical Microscopy, Bright-Field Microscopy, pHase Contrast Microscopy, Dark-Field Microscopy, UV absorbance and Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Transmission Electron Microscopy, Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy, X-ray Diffractometer, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance instruments were used to verify the "vaccines" morphologies and contents. For the high-technology measurements and the care of the investigation, all the controls were activated and reference measurements adopted in order to obtain validated results. Live Blood Phase Contrast and Dark-Field Microscopy Images of the aqueous fractions of the vaccines were subsequently obtained to visually assess the possible presence of carbon particulates or graphene. The observations under optical microscopy revealed and abundance of transparent 2D laminar objects that show great similarity with images from literature (Xu et al, 2019), and with images obtained from rGO standard (SIGMA)(Figures 1, 2 and 3). Images of big transparent sheets of variable size and shapes were obtained, showing corrugated and flat, irregular. Smaller sheets of polygonal shapes, also similar to flakes described in literature (Xu et al, 2019) can be revealed with pHase Contrast and Dark-Field microscopy (Figure 3). All these laminar objects were widespread in the aqueous fraction of the blood (Figure 1) or vaccine sample (Figures 2 and 3) and no component described by the registered patent can be associated with these sheets. In Figure 1 You Can See What A Cluster Bomb of Reduced Graphene Oxide (rGO) Looks Like in the Live Unstained Human Blood after a CoV-19 Inoculation Causing Pathological Blood Coagulation![1][2][55][56][57] [Figure 1 is a Micrograph of a Carbon Cluster of Reduced Graphene Oxide (rGO) Viewed in the Live Unstained Human Blood with pHase Contrast Microscopy at 1500x. Note that the Red Blood Cells are Clotting in and Around the rGO Crystal in a Condition Known as Rouleau! A French Word Which Means to Chain.] What Are the Non-Disclosed Ingredients Contained in CoV 19 So-Called Pfizer, Moderna, Astrazeneca and Janssen Vaccines? To answer this question an aqueous fraction of the Pfizer, Moderna, Astrazeneca and Janssen vaccines were taken from each vile and then viewed separately under pHase Contrast Microscopy at 100x, 600x up to1500x magnification showing anatomical evidence of reduced Graphene Oxide (rGO) particulates which were compared to micrographs of rGO from Choucair et al, 2009 for identification and verification.[3] Steps of Analysis of Vaccine Aqueous Fractions Refrigerated samples were processed under sterile conditions, using laminar flow chamber and sterilized lab ware. Steps for analyses were: 1. Dilution in 0.9% sterile physiological saline (0.45 ml + 1.2 ml) 2. Polarity fractionation: 1.2 ml hexane + 120 ul of RD1 sample 3. Extraction of hydrophilic aqueous pHase 4. UV absorbance and fluorescence spectroscopy scanning 5. Extraction and quantification of RNA in the sample 6. Electron and optical microscopy of aqueous pHase The Pfizer "Vaccine" Non-disclosed Ingredients The micrographs in Figures 2 and 3 were obtained using 100X, 600X and 1500X pHase Contrast, Dark Field and Bright Field Optical Microscopy.[3] On the left of each micrograph you will view micrographs obtained from the Pfizer vaccine aqueous fraction containing rGO. On the right of each micrograph ou will view a match from known sources containing rGO for anatomical validation. The observations under a pHase Contrast, Dark-Field, BrightField microscopy, Transmission and Scanning Electron microscopy of the vaccine product by Pfizer, including vaccine products of Moderna, Astrazeneca and Janssen revealed some entities that can be graphene strips as seen below in Figure 3. [Figure 2 shows an aqueous fraction image from Pfizer vaccine sample (left) and from reduced graphene oxide (rGO) standard (right) (Sigma-777684). Optical microscopy, 100X] [Figure 3 Aqueous fraction images containing reduced graphene oxide from Pfizer vaccine sample (left) and sonicated reduced graphene oxide (rGO) standard (right) (Sigma-777684). Optical pHase contrast microscopy, 600X. In addition, the Muestra RD1, La Quinta Columna Report, June 28, 2021; Graphene Oxide Detection in Aqueous Suspension; Delgado Martin, Campra Madrid confirmed our findings.][4] For a definitive identification of graphene by TEM, it is necessary to complement the observation with the structural characterization by obtaining a characteristic electron diffraction standard sample (as the figure 'b' shown below).[4] The standard sample corresponding to graphite or graphene has a hexagonal symmetry, and generally has several concentric hexagons. [Figure 4b Reveals X ray Diffraction Pattern of the Graphene Particles.] [4] Using Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) we observed an intricate matrix or mesh of folded translucent flexible rGO sheets with a mixture of darker multilayer agglomerations and lighter colored of unfolded monolayers as seen in Figure 5. [3][4] [Figure 4 shows the liposome Capsid containing rGO that Pfizer uses for its product to vehiculate the graphene oxide by attaching the Liposome capsid to specific mRNA molecules for driving the Liposome contents of fGO to specific organs, glands and tissues, namely the ovaries and testes, bone marrow, heart and brain. The image was obtained by a SEM-Cryo preparation.] Using Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) revealed an intricate matrix or mesh of folded translucent flexible rGO sheets with a mixture of darker multilayer agglomerations and lighter colored of unfolded monolayers as seen in Figure 5. [3] [Figure 5 shows a cluster of graphene nanoparticles in a Pfizer vaccine. They appear to be aggregated.] The darker linear areas in Figure 5 appear to be local overlap of sheets and local arrangement of individual sheets in parallel to the electron beam.[5] After the mesh, a high density of unidentified rounded and elliptical clear shapes appears, possibly corresponding to holes generated by mechanical forcing of the rGO mesh during treatment as seen in Figure 6.[4][5] [Figure 6 shows a TEM microscopy observation where particles of reduced graphene oxide in a Pfizer" vaccine" are present. The X-ray diffractometry reveals their nature of crystalline Carbonbased nanoparticles of rGO.[4][5] Energy-Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy Reveals rGO in Pfizer Vaccine[6][7][8] The Pfizer vaccine liquid fraction was then analyzed for chemical and elemental content using Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) as seen in Figure 6. The EDS spectrum showed the presence of Carbon, Oxygen verifying the rGO elements and Sodium and Chloride since the sample shown in Figures 2, 3, 5, and 6 were diluted in a saline solution. [Figure 7 shows an EDS spectrum of a Pfizer "vaccine" under an ESEM microscopy coupled with an EDS x-ray microprobe (X axis =KeV, Y axis = Counts) identifying Carbon, Oxygen, Sodium and Chloride.] The Quantification of mRNA in the Pfizer Vaccine The quantification of RNA in the Pfizer sample was carried out with conventional protocols (Fisher). According to NanoDropTM 2000 spectrophotometer calibration check specific software (Thermofisher), the UV absorption spectrum of total aqueous fraction was correlated to 747 ng/ul of unknown absorbing substances. However, after RNA extraction with commercial kit (Thermofisher), quantification with RNA specific Qbit fluorescence probe (Thermofisher) showed that only 6t ug/ul could be related to the presence of RNA. The spectrum was compatible with the peak of rGO at 270nm. According to microscopic images presented here, most of this absorbanc


Harriet Taylor Mill is an overlooked figure in the history of political philosophy, ethics, economics and politics, over-shadowed by the fame of her writing partner, and eventual husband, John Stuart Mill. Given that they met at a very early age (when Taylor Mill was twenty-two), and wrote together for over a quarter of a century, it can be hard to distinguish what is 'hers' and what is 'his'. Indeed, maybe we should consider much of Mill's canon as being 'theirs'. Taylor Mill inputted into some extremely famous works, including On Liberty, and her thought, impact and legacy are well worth charting. This Element explores her contribution to political theory; ethics; political economy; and political reform. It draws on close textual analysis of 'her' works and those of Mill (including manuscripts unpublished in her lifetime, and correspondence), as well as interrogating his description of their co-authoring relationship.