This paper explores the lived experiences of a diverse student cohort enrolled in a master's degree educational-leadership program. The program's global focus was on the quality of teacher education, prospective teachers' workplace preparedness and leaders in the workforce in higher education. Internationalization, real-life experiences and student voice served as an enacted intervention curriculum for an educational leadership course designed to reveal the gap between theory and practice. An epistemological diversity lens stimulated critical reflection on students' participation in the course design and its connection to realities in the field. Diverse higher-education classrooms pose specific challenges for educational leadership programs in including effective internationalization, workplace relevance and improving the generalizability and content validity of the educational leadership course. This small qualitative exploratory investigation provides an in-depth understanding of the value of student voice in informing course and program design. Interviews, observations, two surveys and a document analysis triangulated the data and provided information on the complexities in higher-education classrooms. The findings focus on teacher-educators and higher-education classroom management as well as on the value of critical inquiry, reflection and intervention for existing course designs and transformation.


Many companies are developing manuals documenting their various systems, but few have taken that next important step, the development of a Manuals Maintenance Control System.


The high cost of air travel and accommodation together with the increasing capacity and speed of internet networks has resulted in large multinational companies considering virtual meetings as an alternative to face-to-face meetings. The hardware and software to support virtual meetings is becoming more sophisticated and more accessible, as some Hotel Chains are offering the facility to businesses as part of their portfolio of services. With the rise in popularity of this type of meeting environment the need for a facilitator to co-ordinate this type of activity has become more acute but the technology to support this has lagged behind. With the emergence of the Virtual Design Office as a response to multi-cultural design teams working on global projects the need for virtual meetings becomes more important in time critical situations. This paper presents work that has been completed in developing the requirements for an agent based virtual meeting support system, with particular emphasis on the role of the facilitator.


ZrB2 has wide application prospects because of its high chemical stability,high electrical conductivity and thermal conductivity,good flame resistance and high corrosion resistance. This paper chiefly introduced the synthesis technology of ZrB2 powders and the advantages and disadvantages of every method,and the main application and prospect are introduced.


An analytical study has shown that, with proper selection of feedback gains, an automatic control system can reduce excursions in altitude of a jet transport flying in turbulence without increasing structural loads. The control system uses feedback of attitude-angle and pitch-rate signals to the elevator and uses feedback of altitude and altitude-rate signals to the throttle.


Abstract : This report includes: CROSS-STRESSES IN THE FLOW OF RAREFIED AIR, by A. Foux and M. Reiner. 1 Mar 61, 1v. incl. illus. tables. SECOND-ORDER EFFECTS IN THE TORSIONAL FLOW OF A GAS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE KINETIC THEORY, by M. Bentwich and M. Reiner. Mar 61, 8p. CROSS-STRESSES IN THE LAMINAR FLOW OF GASES IN ACCORDANCE WITH MAXWELL'S DYNAMICAL THEORY, by M. Reiner. Mar 61, 15p. illus. THE STRESS-STRAIN-RELATION OF ELASTICITY AND THE MEASURE OF STRAIN, by M. Reiner. 11 Feb 59, 6p. (Reprint from Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik 40:415-420, Sep 60) MEASURES OF DEFORMATION IN THE STRAINED AND IN THE UNSTRAINED STATE, by Z. Karni and M. Reiner. 1960, 4p. (Reprint from Bull. of the Research Council of Israel 8C:89-92, Oct 60) The cross stresses effect discovered by Reiner in the laminar flow of air at atmospheric pressure was investigated at 2/3 and 1/3 ambient air pressure. It was found that the effect decreases with decreasing ambient pressure. At higher rates of flow an instability sets in and a Taylor-Saffman effect (J. Aeronaut. Sci. 24:553, 1957) is developed which increases with decreasing ambient pressure. (Author)


The invention discloses an apparatus and method for measuring the line source flow of the soil soaking-in function. The apparatus comprises a constant water-providing tank, a water-distributing device, a soil groove, a rule and an image device. The method comprises the following steps: 1) sieving the air-dry soil and measuring the initial water ratio of the soil sample; 2) putting the soil sample in the soil groove; 3) adjusting the soil groove to the given height altitude; 4) putting the water distributing device on the soil surface of the soil groove to distribute the water; 5) recording the earth advancing area at different times by the image device; 6) recording the providing water and the soil dewing area image every section of time; 7) obtaining the corresponding dewing area by computing the image sheet; 8) obtaining the soil soaking-in ratio in different times by the computing formula.


In recent years there has been a surge in corporate governance reform around the world. On the African continent this phenomenon is evident in the number of national corporate governance reports that have been produced. This article analyzes these national codes of corporate governance in Africa to determine how the relationship between corporate governance and business ethics is being perceived. The article commences by providing a background to the corporate governance reform process that still is in the making in Africa. It then explores the relation between corporate governance and business ethics by looking at various aspects of corporate governance that might have an impact on how business ethics is being perceived and practiced. Finally new corporate governance developments that potentially might have an impact on the prominence and practice of business ethics are reviewed.


The consumption structure of oil cities is identical in most aspects for the resources that the oil cities relies on and the characteristic which the city forms, according to the investigation, the typical oil city-Daqing which consumption structure level is situated fourth in the nation, ranks first in the oils cities. So analyzes the Daqing consumption structure, the characteristic and the change tendency have important significance to understand comprehensively the Daqing consumption structure, the characteristic and other oils city's consumption structure. This article using the data of Daqing's consumption structure, analysizes the course, characteristic and the regular on the development of structure consumption, making prediction to its development trend and giving the advice to optimization and upgrade the consumes of Daqing and other oil cities.


been reiterating the point of the vitality of the state's role in industrialisation in a broader context of growth and transformation, and now Lall's evidence makes the point with regard to the development of technological competencies. It would have been very useful if China had been included in the study, since the country is growing very fast, exploding the myth that high-speed growth is not possible in very large economies. It would have made it easier for those who have shied away from change to accept the fact that India has fallen too far back and is in need of a policy overhaul. The plea made by the author to the Fund/Bank to recognise the vast differences between Korea and Taiwan at one end of the spectrum of competence and Kenya at the other end (Kenya itself is much more advanced than many countries in Africa today), is indeed pertinent.


In order to fuse camera and odometer measurements, we first need to estimate their relative transformation through the so-called odometer-camera extrinsic calibration. In this paper, we present a two-step analytical least-squares solution for the extrinsic odometer-camera calibration that (i) is not iterative and finds the least-squares optimal solution without any initialization, and (ii) does not require any special hardware or the presence of known landmarks in the scene. Specifically, in the first step, we estimate a subset of the 3D relative rotation parameters by analytically minimizing a least-squares cost function. We then back-substitute these estimates in the measurement constraints, and determine the rest of the 3D transformation parameters by analytically minimizing a second least-squares cost function. Simulation and experimental results are presented that validate the efficiency and accuracy of the proposed algorithm.


This paper examined the development role of community banks in rural Nigeria by using the deposit mobilization capability and funding capacity in key sectors of the rural economy as yardsticks. By using a cluster sampling technique, it looks at the achievements of the community banking scheme initiative in terms of economic development. The scheme, established in 1991, has sustained itself and promoted rural development in the country. It is noted that communities have, for the first time, realized that they can advance their own economic fortunes. However, the scheme's performance as supporter of the agricultural sector has not been as well as expected, despite the fact that agriculture dominates Nigeria's rural economy. In view of this, non-banking activities are a welcome development since some of their approaches are proven to be knowledge enhancing and empowering for the rural population. Overall, community banks should attempt to strengthen non-banking approaches by collaborating more with self-help groups or nongovernmental organizations to be more empowering, results-oriented, and sustainable. Moreover, regulatory authorities should ensure that guidelines relate to credit application in terms of volume and sector allocation.


Aim To study local toxicity on dog-subcutaneous tissue injection of slow-released 5-FU.Methods Slow-released 5-FU were injected by special instrument.Results High and middle dosages result in local inflammation reaction,but low dosage does not.Conclusion Slow-released 5-FU injected without a second time for 500mg is secure dosage.


Based on the materials of sacred images in the "art" of the Eurasian nomads of the Scythian time, using the sum of modern research methods, it is possible to reconstruct the foundations of the world view, art, astronomy, mathematics and other branches of knowledge laid down in ancient objects. Such a reconstruction is possible on the basis of a new semantics of sacred images on objects from Siberia (from the barrow Arzhan-1, Siberian collection of Peter I, Novopyatnitsky treasure and other objects).


In this paper, an exploratory research was conducted, based on literature research, documentary research and case study of a wired phone service provider in ...


Pineapple fruit is included in the type of tropical fruit, which is quite popular because it contains a lot of Vitamin C, which is quite high. Pineapple is a local fruit in the Kampar area, this fruit can be consumed directly and become other local processed products. Therefore, the quality of pineapple ripeness must be maintained. The problem that occurs at this time is that the pineapple fruit selection process is still done manually, by looking at it visually, so mistakes can occur in the process of clarifying pineapple fruit identification according to standards. Therefore, it is necessary to research the ripeness of pineapples using the Color Space Algorithm Hue Saturation Intensity (HIS). The variables to be input are based on photos of ripe, half ripe, and raw pineapples using a smartphone camera or DSLR camera with a minimum resolution of 8 MP. Clarifying the results with image processing and Hue Saturation Intensity (HIS) transformation has an accuracy rate of 80% for the 20 image test data. So that the expected results can help pineapple farmers in detecting the level of maturity of pineapple fruit, which is difficult, can minimize errors in determining the ripeness of pineapple fruit


In this article, using analytical, numerical and experimental methods, the range of the ballistic limit thickness (BLT) of the metal target in the impact with the combined kinematic energy (KE) projectile is investigated. The design of these types of projectiles is to achieve effective damage behind the target and they consist of two components that are coaxial and back to back. The first KE projectile (FKEP) is a filled cylinder and acts as a leading projectile, while the second KE projectile (SKEP) is a hollow cylinder carrying a fuse and explosive materials and causing damage (behind the target) is obtained by the complete passage of this projectile from the target. There is little research available in the field of penetration analysis of these projectiles, and only a semi-analytical model based on shock theory has been presented for the analysis of hollow cylindrical projectile penetration. In this research, using the shock theory, a new analytical model is presented to predict the performance of the combined KE projectile in the metal target. In parallel, experimental tests of combined KE projectile hitting a metal target (using a Gas Gun weapon) and also a 2D axisymmetric simulation (LS Dyna software) were performed in the range of 200–850 m s−1 impact velocity. The average difference between the results of experimental tests and numerical simulation with the results of the analytical model is 7 and 5% respectively.


This paper describes spoken term detection (STD) and inexistent STD (iSTD) methods using term detection entropy based on a phoneme transition network (PTN)-formed index. Our previously reported STD method uses a PTN derived from multiple automatic speech recognizers (ASRs) as an index. A PTN is almost the same as a sub-word-based confusion network, which is derived from the output of an ASR. In the previous study, our PTN was very effective in detecting query terms. However, the PTN generated many false detection errors. In this study, we focus on entropy of the PTN-formed index. Entropy is used to filter out false detection candidates in the second pass of the STD process. Our proposed method was evaluated using the Japanese standard test-set for the STD and iSTD tasks. The experimental results of the STD task showed that entropy-based filtering is effective for improving STD at a high-recall range. In addition, entropy-based filtering was also demonstrated to work well for the iSTD task.


Summary form only given. We have designed, modeled, and fabricated a polymeric in-line fiber modulator capable of high-speed, low-distortion operation. This device is based an evanescent coupling from a fiber half-coupler to a nonlinear polymer waveguide and the low-distortion characteristics are a direct result of the nonperiodic optical transfer function.


Sea‐breeze front (SBF) can cause dramatic changes in weather and air quality near the coast. However, the observation and forecast of its three‐dimensional (3‐D) fine‐scale structures have been challenging. Using mesoscale‐to‐large eddy simulations (LES) models and high‐resolution lidar measurement over Sendai Airport, here we perform a successful simulation of the observed 3‐D structures of an SBF for the first time. We show that frontal structures are characterized by a series of lobes (spaced ~500 m apart) aligned along the raised sea‐breeze head, where the shear between sea breeze and alongshore ambient flow aloft is evident. Local strong updrafts occur both in the frontal lobes of marine cold air and in the prefrontal warm air ascending the wedge of windward lobes. Downdrafts form behind the lifted marine cold air and trap air pollutants. These fine‐scale structures and vertical motions are repeatedly strengthened by the short‐term disturbances of gravity currents that move onshore and collide with the SBF. They are also affected by buildings and determine the detailed variations of surface winds. We conclude that advanced observation and modeling systems can potentially improve the prediction of coastal weather and environment.


I consider the two venerated arguments about the existence of God: the Ontological Argument and the Argument from Evil. The Ontological Argument purports to show that God's nature guarantees that God exists. The Argument from Evil purports to show that God's nature, combined with some plausible facts about the way the world is, guarantees (or is very compelling grounds for thinking) that God does not exist. Both presume that it is coherent to predicate goodness (or greatness) of God. But if Peter Geach's claim that goodness is logically attributive is cogent, then both arguments fall to the ground.


Objective:To design a novel method to detect the immune escape mutant HBsAg in serum on the basis of available experimental technique and reagents.Methods:Using the market ELISA to screen the patients' sera that were infected by HBV and the ELISA signals were in grey area.Applying two ELISA kits capable of screening the immune escape mutant HBsAg,the selected sera were detected.The positive number of the immune escape mutant HBsAg was comfirmed by the ELISA differential analysis.The specificity of the assay was checked through both neutralising experiment and Abbott chemiluminescence kits.Then a part of the positive sera of the immune escape mutant HBsAg were detected by PCR and direct sequencing to analyze viral DNA.Results:There were 244 samples in gray area when screened for 10,231 samples using market ELISA.The results showed that sensibility of the two kinds of ELISA (G6-ELISA,market ELISA) was 0.125 ng/ml and 0.25 ng/ml,respectively.The detected positive rate was 16.80%(G6 ELISA) and 5.73%(ELISA),respectively.The positive number of the immune escape mutant HBsAg,which were detected by the ELISA differential analysis was 27.The positive rate was 11.07%.Partial positive serum samples of the immune escape mutant HBsAg were detected further.The neutralising intensity of anti-HBs was 84.07%±6.32%,and neutralising rate reached 100%(13/13).The positive rate of Abbott chemiluminescence kits was 94.4%(17/18),including two samples with the lowest signals in G6-ELISA.The positive rate of HBV DNA was 36.9%(7/19),which was slightly lower than the synchronization lower signal positive of HBsAg.The direct sequence showed that 3 mutants were found in 'a' determinant (P142L,T126A and M133T/K160T) and 1 mutant in the hydrophilic area of S protein but not in 'a'determinant (L109Q).Conclusion:ELISA differential analysis can be applied to diagnose partial immune escape mutant HBsAg effectually.The diagnosis capability of this method depends on the detecting capability of the regents to the immune escape mutant HBsAg.


This paper reviews and discusses the current status and future prospect of analog and RF VLSI design, focusing on the millimeter wave RF circuits and ADCs. With the scaling of CMOS technology, fT and fmax are increased. Using an advanced CMOS process and techniques such as the negative capacitance, the gain flattening, the accurate impedance matching using transmission lines, and the injection locking, a 60 GHz CMOS transceiver is realized. It attains 16 Gbps data transmission with the 16 QAM modulation. A dynamic comparator using a dynamic pre-amplifier with capacitive digital offset voltage compensation realizes a small mismatch voltage, low noise, low power, and low voltage operation without any static current. Flash ADCs and SAR ADCs using dynamic comparators have progressed. The SAR ADC can realize a very low energy conversion, however it has an essential issue caused by a CDAC for the high resolution ADC design. The interpolation method can ease the gain requirement for OpAmp in pipelined ADCs. The interconnection structure should be considered to realize low loss transmission lines and high density and large capacitance ratio MOM capacitors. RF circuit design A continuous channel length reduction by the technology scaling has increased the fT and fmax of a MOS transistor (Fig. 1). The current available fmax of a MOS transistor reaches 300 GHz, and the high frequency operation of millimeter wave, e.g. 60 GHz [1] and THz range [2], have been attained. We have realized a CMOS 60 GHz direct-conversion transceiver using 65 nm and 40 nm CMOS devices (Fig. 2) and attained an all-channel 7 Gbps data transmission using the 16 QAM modulation with a small power consumption [1]. The highest data rate of 16 Gbps has been achieved (Fig. 3). The maximum gain, Gmax, and the minimum noise figure, NF, can be expressed as, (1) (2) where fc is the carrier frequency, gm is the transconductance, and Rg and Rs are the gate resistance and the source resistance, respectively. An essential RF circuit design method is therefore to draw the ultimate potential from the transistors by accurate and low loss impedance matching. Capacitance compensation by using negative capacitance in a differential circuit is an effective method to increase the amplifier's gain at high frequency operation (Fig. 4). In addition, an accurate device modeling, such as the de-embedding method, and a good decoupling circuit are vital. The 16 QAM modulation can increase the data rate twice compared with a conventional QPSK modulation for the same signal bandwidth. However, any gain fluctuation over the wide frequency range causes interference between the signals and degrades the constellation. This ultimately increases the bit error rate for the QAM signal (Fig. 5). Therefore, the center frequency of each resonator in the cascaded amplifiers should be well controlled by matching the impedance accurately. We use transmission lines for impedance matching due to its accurate parameters and high scalability over the distance. The other important design point to realize the 16 QAM modulation is to reduce the phase noise of the I/Q VCOs. The QPSK modulation doesn't require low phase noise so much; however, lower phase noise, e.g. less than -90 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz, is required for 16 QAM modulation (Fig. 6). It is quite difficult to realize a low phase noise 60 GHz I/Q VCO due to the low quality factor. Furthermore a wide frequency range of 9 GHz should be realized to address the 4 channel selections. We used 60 GHz I/Q VCOs with an injection locking technique from a 20 GHz PLL [3]. A CMOS VCO exhibits the minimum phase noise at around 20 GHz and it is not so c f f G max max    s g m T c R R g f f NF          3 . 1 1 min


The microstructural characteristics and properties of in-situ formed 20%TiC/Fe and two kinds of in-situ synthesized 20%(TiW)C/Fe composites in which part of Ti in TiC was substituted by W were investigated.The results show that in the TiC/Fe and(Ti_(0.8)W_(0.2))C/Fe composites,TiC and(TiW)C,as the only second phase respectively,assume many kinds of morphology,such as block,dendritic,rod-like and so on.And in the 20%TiC/Fe composite,there appears an inhomogeneous distribution of TiC in iron matrix due to the great difference in density between TiC and iron melt.In the 20%(Ti_(0.7)W_(0.3))C/Fe composite,in-situ formed(TiW)C reinforcements are homogeneously distributed in iron matrix and mainly in two kinds of morphology,i.e.finer spherulic and rod-like.Comparied with the 20%TiC/Fe and(Ti_(0.8)W_(0.2))C/Fe composites,the hardness and wear resistance of 20%(Ti_(0.7)W_(0.3))C/Fe composite are markedly increased.


The present study and investigation of synthesis of pyrimidobenzimidazole derivatives were in appreciable yield. The structures of newly synthesized compounds were characterized by 1 HNMR, and Mass spectral data. All of the these derivatives were evaluated for their anti bacterial activity against Klebsielia pneumonia, Micrococcus luteus, E.coli Salmonella typhi were showed good to moderate antifungal activity as compared to standard drug Tetracycline.


In this paper, we propose a method to analyze the scattering parameters for coupled microstrip lines with bend discontinuities. The key idea of the proposed method is to analyze the coupled bends and parallel coupled lines individually. Specifically, the equivalent π circuit model is built to approximate coupled bends and the corresponding scattering matrix is obtained by converting Z-matrix; the scattering matrix of parallel coupled lines is acquired by the odd-even mode theory. Then, we can compute the scattering parameters of the coupled microstrip lines with bend discontinuities based on the cascade property of transmission matrix, which is transformed from the scattering matrix. The agreement between theoretical results and simulation results shows the effectiveness of the proposed method. Moreover, the method avoids complex mixed integral operations and provides guidance for designing bent coupled microstrip lines.


The JASMIN Speech Corpus contains about 115 hours of speech from children, non-natives and senior people. Approx. 50% of the material is read speech and 50% comes from human-machine interaction. The entire corpus was orthographically transcribed and all words in the corpus were automatically provided with a lemma, a POS-tag and a phonetic transcription.
Organisations involved in the building of the JASMIN Speech Corpus: CLST, Radboud University; ESAT, KU Leuven and TalkingHome.


We describe the application of the molecular dynamics (MD) and molecular mechanics–generalized Born/surface area (MM-GB/SA) approaches to the simulation of the different biological activity of diethylstilbestrol (DES) on two highly homologous nuclear receptors—estrogen receptor α (ER-α) and estrogen-related receptor γ (ERR-γ). DES exerts an agonistic effect against ER-α and an antagonistic effect against ERR-γ. Using the x-ray crystal structures of ER-α in the canonical agonist bound form (PDB code: 3ERD) and antagonist bound form (PDB code: 3ERT), ERR-γ homology models have been constructed for the receptor in two different conformations. MM-GB/SA binding free energy calculations of DES in the ER-α and ERR-γ structures suggest that DES exhibits a greater free energy of binding in the agonist bound conformation of ER-α, while the antagonist bound conformation is preferred for ERR-γ. Further dissection of the free energy contributions coupled with calculation of the ligand binding pocket volume suggests that the van der Waals interactions for DES within the smaller binding pocket volume of ERR-γ are less favorable and this is the main factor for DES antagonism in ERR-γ. This approach has potential general applicability to the prediction of the biological activity of nuclear receptor ligands. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Biopolymers 68: 130–138, 2003


This article describes an educational research teaching experience, which is part of a doctoral thesis funded by CONICET. The objective is to develop Critical Thinking (CT) and teach Nature of Science and Technology (NOST) topics to secondary and university level students, based on the topic of Foodborne Diseases in context. To do this, we worked with colleagues in charge of the Food D. Lampert, M. Salica, S. Porro, "La enseñanza de temas de Naturaleza de la Ciencia y la Tecnología y el desarrollo del Pensamiento Crítico en una clase de Ingeniería en Alimentos a partir del trabajo colaborativo en b-learning (Bimodalidad)," pp. 51-58 52 TE&ET N°30 | Julio-Diciembre 2021 | ISSN 1850-9959 | UNLP Facultad de InformáticaSecretaría de Postgrado Preservation subject, which is part of the Food Engineering degree course at the National University of Quilmes (UNQ). A Didactic Unit (DU) was developed in order to promote various engineering skills, teach NOST topics and develop CT, based on collaborative work in bimodality (b-learning). The DU was deployed by means of a platform and a variety of built-in tools such as forums and wikis. Such deployment generated positive results with the use of different validated NOST and CT tools presented to the students as Pre and Post Tests. Likewise, in an interview with some of the participants, all of them positively assessed the intervention and the use of bimodality for its development.


This paper presents a narrative of the operation of the European Citizens' Panel that reported in 2007 on the future roles of rural areas. This dialogue was located within a wider and recent engagement by the European Union (EU) with its citizens following rejection of the EU Constitutional Treaty. The paper draws attention to the contemporary rural development challenges in Europe that were debated by eight regional panels as a prelude to a wider European deliberation. The working method of the European Citizens' Panel is outlined and critical commentary is provided on the interaction between planning through dialogue, EU citizenship renewal, and the shaping of bottom-up development trajectories. On 2 April 2007 the European Citizens' Panel presented the results of its deliberations on the roles for rural areas in tomorrow's Europe to the EU Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Ms Mariann Fisher Boel, to the President of the EU Committee of the Regions Mr Michel Delebarre, and to senior officials from the European Parliament and the European Commission. This high-profile and unprecedented rural development event marked the culmination of 3 previous days of intensive discussion by 88 citizens drawn to Belgium from 10 regions across Europe, and, in turn, had built on the work of eight regional citizens' panels with some 360 participants over the period from May 2006. The overall initiative can be located within a contemporary but contested search for EU citizenship renewal and the strengthening of dialogue-based planning practice so that informed citizens can genuinely contribute to the shaping of new development trajectories. Comments by Commissioner Fisher Boel to the European Citizens' Panel resonate with these two key concerns: Abstract This paper presents a narrative of the operation of the European Citizens' Panel that reported in 2007 on the future roles of rural areas. This dialogue was located within a wider and recent engagement by the EU with its citizens following rejection of the EU Constitutional Treaty. The paper draws attention to the contemporary rural development challenges in Europe that were debated by eight regional panels as a prelude to a wider European deliberation. The working method of the European Citizens' Panel is outlined and critical commentary is provided on the interaction between planning through dialogue, EU citizenship renewal, and the shaping of bottom-up development trajectories.


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Electroluminescence of GaInN/GaN multiple-quantum-well (QW) light-emitting diodes emitting in the green spectral region is analyzed at variable low temperature. Spectra are dominated by QW emission at RT throughout 7.7 K. Below 150 K, donor-acceptor pair recombination appears that must be assigned to residual impurities in either the barriers or the p-layers. The current-voltage behavior reveals shunt paths that carry up to several mA at low bias voltages. Below 20 K those paths are frozen out, but the device still emits predominantly from the QW. The peak energy exhibits a blue shift from RT to 158 K followed by a red shift from 158 K to 7.7 K. The deeper binding energy at low temperatures can hardly be affect by the injection current indicating that saturation of low-density states cannot be responsible for the transition between red and blue shifts.


【Objective】To construct Alzheimer's disease'APP-expressing vector.【Methods】APP was PCRamplified,digested by HindIII and XbaI,and ligated into purified pcDNA3.1 vector.This recombinant plasmid was transfected into E.coli SH5α by means of heat shock.The recombinant plasmid was identified by PCR,and the positive cloning was identified by DNA sequence analysis.【Results】The positive cloning gene sequence was aligned to the complete gene sequence of APP by DNAStar software.The result confirmed that the accidental mutation(C→G) had been mutated back(G→C).【Conclusion】The recombinant pcDNA3.1/APP595/596 plasmid was constructed successfully,which lays the foundation for further study on the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease.


A better understanding of the composition of rumen microbial communities and the association between host genetic and microbial activities has important applications and implication in bioscience. Being capable of revealing the full extent of microbial gene diversity, metagenomics-based approaches hold great promises in this endeavor. This study investigates the rumen microbial community in cattle through the integration of metagenomic and network-based approaches. Based on the relative abundance of 1570 microbial genes identified in a metagenomics analysis, the co-abundance network was constructed and functional modules of microbial genes were identified. One of the main contributions of this study is to develop a random matrix theory-based approach to automatically determine the correlation threshold used to construct the co-abundance network. It has been shown that the network exhibits a highly modular structure with each of the three main modules well separated. The involvement of KEGG pathways in each module was analysed. A close look at the abundance profiles highlights that Module B is strongly associated with methane emissions while Module C is highly enriched with microbial genes associated with feed conversion efficiency.


To the traditional elements of structure, expanded views of organization add means of coordination, location of decision-making, and requirements for positions. This paper describes these expanded views of organization, illustrates significant diversity in organization structure with data from eight industrial projects, and develops a method for practical application of expanded views in the systematic design of project organization structures. The conclusions highlight the benefits of designing an organization rather than letting it evolve.


Since last 15 years the number of 505(b)(2) filings with new dosage forms for existing drug molecules at United states Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) has been increased tremendously. This is because of the tremendous increase in the developmental cost of new chemical entities (NCE) and increased concerns about patient preferences and market demands for the novel unconventional dosage forms. These new dosage forms are being developed with improved safety and efficacy together with patient compliance using novel drug delivery technologies [1]. Oral transmucosal drug delivery is rapidly growing as a viable alternative for conventional oral dosage forms such as tablets, capsules, syrups and suspensions due to their obvious advantage like delivering drugs directly into the systemic circulation, avoiding first pass drug metabolism, improved bioavailability, low dose related side effects, non-invasiveness, and lack of discomfort [2]. This editorial addressed briefly on current trend of marketed oral transmucosal drug delivery technologies such as sublingual sprays, sublingual tablets, rapid disintegrating tablets, rapid dissolving films/ wafers, medicated chewing gums, and medicated lollipops. These technologies offer better patient compliance over conventional oral dosage forms especially in patients with difficulties in swallowing as they readily dissolve and/or readily deliver drug in mouth cavity. These technologies are best choice for the systemic delivery of drug molecules sensitive to gastrointestinal pH.


Anxiety is the most important factor that can influence the quality of patients\' sleep disruption among pre operation patient. However the things factors such as threated due to surgical procedure, anesthesia, foreign procedures and hospitalization, therefor the quality of patient sleep will be worsen, then it was significanced in body thermoregulation such as increased blood pressure and tachicardy. According to pre limenary research in District General Hospital in Cimahi (RSUD Cibabat) has been managing with variety cases in surgery procedure, there has found data that 50 % from 380 patient have been taken operation, wich was got result five patent who has anxiety during pre operation. The data has been taken on May till June 2012. The objectve is to identify relationship between anxiety level toward quality of sleep among patient pre operation in RSUD Cibabat by 2012. The method was used by descriptive correlation and designed by cross sectional, the sample are 45 patient by accidental sampling. Data were obtained by quesionaires, then analyzed in univariate; mean and standard deviation, analyzed by Rank Spearmen. The results of this study indicate there is a significance relationship between anxiety with sleep quality of pre operation patients in district general hospital Cibabat Cimahi in 2012, (p 0.004). Based on study suggested that the nurse have to conduct intervention for the patient with sleep disorder to get quality of care and quality of life the patient. Keywords: anxiety, quality of sleep


A semiconductor integrated circuit device is provided to optimizing the capabilities of an N-type transistor and a P-type transistor by selectively forming an ohmic layer only in an N-type transistor whereas the ohmic layer is not formed in a P-type transistor. An N-type transistor region and a P-type transistor region are defined in a substrate(105). An N-type transistor(100) is formed in the N-type transistor region wherein a source/drain region(160), polysilicon and a metal layer(136) are stacked in the N-type transistor, including a gate electrode having an ohmic layer(132) and a barrier layer(134) between the polysilicon and the metal layer. A P-type transistor(101) is formed in the P-type transistor region wherein polysilicon and a metal layer are stacked in the P-type transistor, including a gate electrode having a barrier layer between the polysilicon and the metal layer. The polysilicon of the N-type transistor is N-type polysilicon(120N), and the polysilicon of the P-type transistor is P-type polysilicon(120P).


Molecular layer deposition (MLD) of TiCl4 and ethylene-glycol (Ti-EG) was recently demonstrated as a vapor phase synthetic route for preparation of photocatalytic thin films via hybrid organic–inorganic thin films. The organic moieties of the hybrid material function as sacrificial components that undergo controlled decomposition during thermal annealing. Anneal temperature was shown to be an important factor determining the overall photocatalytic performances of the treated films with 650 °C optimal for photodegradation of dye molecules and anneal at 520 °C showing optimal performance for the direct photocatalytic production of H2O2. Both systems exhibit activities that are not typically attainable by titania, yet a fundamental understanding of the underlying details leading to these improved reactivities for the specific cases is still lacking. Here we demonstrate that thermal anneal of hybrid organic–inorganic thin films prepared by MLD yield oxygen-deficient titania with controllable levels of oxygen ...


The dependences of unit cell parameter, x-ray diffraction line width B, and microhardness H on the composition of PbTe-Bi_2Te_3 (0–10 mol% Bi_2Te_3) semiconductor alloys, subjected to different types of heat treatment, were obtained. In the concentration ranges ∼0.5–1.5 and 3–4 mol% Bi_2Te_3 within the homogeneity region of PbTe (0–6 mol% Bi_2Te_3), anomalous constancy or decrease in B and H was observed. A long room temperature aging leads to a more distinct manifestation of these effects. It is suggested that the observed peculiarities in the concentration dependences of the properties are connected with percolation effects and self-organization processes in the solid solution.


Latent Class Analysis (LCA) was used to identify distinct groups of Community college students based on their self-ratings of satisfaction with student service programs. The programs were counseling, financial aid, health center, student programs and sudent government. The best fitting model to describe the data was a two DiscreteFactor model among 2 through 5 class solutions that were examined. The model provided insight into the structure of students' feelings about their college services. The following four classes of D-Factor #1 were observed: Class 1, students who were very satisfied with all the programs (19%). Class 2, a relatively satisfied group of students (16%). Class 3, a large majority (57%) of students who felt ambiguous about the programs and class 4, a small group of very dissatisfied students (8%). The first class of D-Factor #2 students was satisfied with counseling and financial aid services but was ambiguous about health services. The second-class students (D-Factor #2) on the other hand, were dissatisfied with financial aid services. Their feelings about student government, student programs and health services were ambiguous. The two DFactor model provided a clear differentiation of the students in terms of their satisfaction, or dissatisfaction with the student services provided by the college.


The WILMER Passive Hand Prosthesis is developed for children aged 1–5 years. This harnessless hand prosthesis aims primarily at giving the child two arms of equal length. The hand features an easy to control passive prehension function. The movements of the fingers are mechanically coupled to the movements of the thumb. By pressing an object against the fingertips, the hand opens. By slightly tilting the object, it can be grasped. The hand prosthesis can be mounted in a passive friction wrist rotation prosthesis, available in different outer diameters. The hand features a low-mass construction, which proved to be very robust and reliable in clinical tests. For the age group mentioned, the WILMER Passive Hand Prosthesis is one of the very few available with a prehensile function. It stands out in functionality and in cosmetics when compared with other passive hand prostheses on the market.


A current-mode universal biquadratic filter with five inputs and one output employing three inverting secondgeneration current conveyors (ICCIIs), two grounded capacitors and two resistors is presented. The new circuit offers the following advantage features: very low active and passive sensitivities, using of grounded capacitors that is ideal for integrated circuit implementation, the versatility to synthesize any type of active filter transfer functions without requirements for critical component matching conditions, very high output impedance and needs not another current follower to duplicate the input current signal for the realization of notch or allpass responses.


ABSTRACT As rapid urbanization becomes a key topic within urban studies and planning particularly in the Global South, it needs to be considered what radical implications to urban environment mean. Reviewing literature on urbanization and its implications on urban environment from within the Global South and on sustainable development research and environmental studies, this article discusses eight implications of urbanization-environmental conundrum: pollution, water resource degradation, urban heat island effect, sea level rise and urban flooding, urban sprawl and slum growth, urban agriculture decline, public health deterioration, and urban wetland destruction that question the ontology of urbanization in Global South cities. Drawing on cases from Saudi Arabian cities, findings indicate that sustainable development agenda is skewed towards socio-economic development with limited focus on environmental issues. This situation is threatening the sustainability of rapidly urbanizing cities. The paper proposes a rhizomatic understanding of environmental importance as a roadmap for sustainable and transformative urbanization in Global South. This ontology changes understandings of what sustainable urbanization should be in rapidly growing Global South cities.


Higher vocational educa tion has many problems,such as study weariness of students,the students in poor quality of knowledge,lack of characteristics,the jobs the graduates get don't fit in their speciality,which need urgently reform on the traditional higher vicational education curriculum,However,it is hard to carry on curriculun erform and finally it can't cause substantive changes.It has greatpractical significance to analyze the difficulty of the curriculum erform of higher vocational education from the aspects of the system and the environment,the input and the teachers etc.


We present a new algorithm to co-optimize test scheduling and wrapper design under power constraints for core-based SoCs (System on Chip). Core testing solutions are generated as a set of wrapper designs, each represented by a rectangle with width equal to the test time and height equal to the number of TAM (Test Access Mechanism) wires used. The test-scheduling problem with power constraints is formulated as the distributed rectangle bin-packing problem, which allows wrapper pins to be assigned to non-consecutive SoC pins. The generalized problem for multiple-TAMs is solved by global optimization using evolutionary strategy and the sequence-pair representation. Experiments on ITC'02 benchmarks are very encouraging.


Let A be a hyperplane arrangement in an arbitrary finite dimensional vector space V and let G ≤ GL(V) be an automorphism group of A. If λ is a complex representation of G such that (λ,1)GH=0 for all pointwise isotropy groups GH (H ∈ A), then we prove the "local-global" result that λ does not appear in the representation of G on the Orlik-Solomon algebra of A. The result is applied to complex reflection groups and to finite orthogonal groups. It may also be viewed as a combinatorial result concerning the homology of the lattice of intersections of A. A more general version of the main result is also discussed.


The Starsense Wireless system consists of luminaire-based Outdoor Luminaire Controllers (OLCs) which all control a single outdoor lighting node, and a Segment Controller (SC) that controls the OLCs. The SC and OLCs are situated in a mesh network, where messages are routed through the network in a hopping fashion. Communication over this network is unreliable and can cause packets to be lost. Certain components of the SC software are in charge of configuring the OLCs, two of these components are Software Upgrade (SWU) and Commissioning. In this report, abstract models of these two components and their counterparts in the OLC software are specified in the formal specification language mCRL2. Using the mCRL2 Toolset, these components and the interaction between the SC and the OLCs of these components is analysed and certain properties are verified. During the analysis of the interacting SWU components, rare situations have been found where a single dropped message can cause OLCs not to be upgraded without external interference and rare situations have been found where unnecessary traffic is generated on the network. The interacting SC and OLC Commissioning components proved not to behave entirely as designed, rare situations have been found where an instruction to commission or decommission an OLC could not always be fulfilled. Further analysis revealed the cause of the problems and the solutions appeared to be straightforward.


Objective: We investigated the effects of xanthine oxidase inhibitors on blood pressure, baPWV,carotid arterial IMT and elastic modulus in hypertensive patients with hyperuricemia. Design and method: The fifty-two patients with hypertension and hyperuricemia (average age: 59 years old, BMI26 kg/m2) were treated with xanthine oxidase inhibitors (febuxostat or topiroxostat) for 12 months. Serum markers, office and central blood pressures and brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV) were examined. The intima-media thickness (IMT) and elastic modulus in the circumferential direction (E &thgr;) were simultaneously measured by the high-resolution Doppler technique, "Phased Tracking Method". Results: The basal values of uric acid (UA), eGFR, office blood pressure (BP), pulse pressure, baPWV, central SBP (cSBP), IMT, E &thgr; were the followings:7.9 ± 1.0 mg/dL, 65.7 ± 18.3 ml/min./1.73 m2, 131.7 ± 14.4/80.7 ± 10.1 mmHg, 51.0 ± 9.4 mmHg, 1528.0 ± 255.0 cm/sec, 133.4 ± 20.9 mmHg, 1.41 ± 0.57 mm, 419.6 ± 125.0 kPa. After 12 months of administration of xanthine oxidase inhibitors, UA (−28%), systolic BP (−2%), baPWV (−6%) and cSBP (−2%) decreased significantly (p < 0.05). No changes were seen in eGFR (−1%) and pulse pressure (−3%). The drugs also decreased IMT (−14%) and E &thgr; (−14%) significantly. The histogram analysis of the E &thgr; data revealed both of the drugs decreased harder components of the elasticity distribution, suggesting improvement of endothelial dysfunction. Conclusions: Our results indicate that xanthine oxidase inhibitors may have effects on UA, blood pressure, IMT and E &thgr; and baPWV to inhibit excessive activation of xanthine oxidase in hypertensive patients with hyperuricemia. The measurement of the carotid elastic modulus may be useful to evaluate the efficacy of drugs for improving regional atherosclerotic changes.


Objective To prepare the thermosensitive in situ gel of baicalin and investigate the in vitro drug release behavior of baicalin.Methods The thermosensitive in situ gel was prepared with baicalin as main component,Poloxamer 407 and Poloxamer 188 as the gel matrixes,together with methyl cellulose as thickening agent.The effects of baicalin dosages,gel matrix ratios,and viscosity regulator on gelatinization temperature were investigated and the in vitro drug release was determined by UV.Results The gelatination temperature for thermosensitive in situ gel of baicalin was 35.3 ℃.Thein vitro accumulate release ratio of baicalin in the thermosensitive gels was 78.06% after 120 min.Conclusion The preparation of baicalin into thermosensitive in situ gel could accelerate drug dissolution rate.Thermosensitive gel of baicalin with qualified characteristics could be preparaed through regulating the baicalin dosage,gel matrix ratios,and viscosity regulator.


Nonrecurring congestion poses a significant concern for drivers on urban freeways. Effective incident management relies on many tools to prevent the delays caused by crashes, road debris, and stalled or disabled vehicles. Many urban areas have adopted freeway service patrol (FSP) programs that search the freeway network for incidents, provide aid to motorists, and assist with incident management and clearance. FSP management must consider the patrols' beat structure and the fleet allocation. Both deterministic and probabilistic response time estimates for each beat are used to assess fleet allocations. The goal is to consider whether the urban network should be segmented into as many beats as possible, with individual trucks assigned to each beat, or whether additional trucks should be allocated to fewer beats. The Tarrant County, Texas, Courtesy Patrol (CP) is used as a case study to explore the truck allocation problem with field data. The Tarrant County CP typically uses a one-beat, two-beat, or three-beat configuration with a single truck allocated to each beat. The merits of a two-beat configuration are examined. The study indicates that the incident distribution must be considered during both beat and tour design.


Department of Flow Cytometry-Research & Regenerative Medicine, IASO Maternity & Research Hospital *Corresponding author: V. E. Kalodimou, IASO Maternity & Research Hospital – Dep't of Flow Cytometry-Research & Regenerative Medicine, Athens-Greece, Tel: 0030-210-618-5203; E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Copyright: © 2014 Kalodimou VE, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.


Provide a means for preventing information leakage occurs from the data distribution destination. Data distribution server (20) comprising: a database (130), and the environment of the client is stored in correspondence to implement access the access control mechanism and deployment unit control implementation module (132 to 138) on the client side, the access control means according to the allocation of policy-based access control program to a resource, the expansion section to expand the distribution data included in the distribution data packet in the storage area to be protected; database (120) storing distribution data (124), on the distribution data (124) specified security policy ( 122); environment detection unit (144), detecting a request of distribution data to the client (30B) of the receiving environment; transmitting unit (150), transmits a distribution data (162), the security policy (164), the client (30B ) environment control embodiment corresponding access module (166) of the distribution data packet (160).


To some extent,the social law's reverse generation is a kind of progress through flowers of evil to good fruit. It is rooted in the social ills closely connected to the dynamics of modern western society,in particular,the unfair allocations,inadequate livelihood and distorted social system. The social law is the virtuous outcome as good fruit returned by social injustice in context. It is livelihood where the necessities of life unsecured claimed law to promote social security whilst allocation in the absence of fairness requested rectification and distorted social system appealed to amelioration. Accordingly,its generation is established by virtue of the upshot of collective compromise to goodness at the level of moral,relies on peculiar institutional advantage besides being as a prompt response to livelihood issues in the field of economic infrastructure. Furthermore,this mechanism of generation is in line of reason by bringing to completion of the inclination of transfer to goodness inherent in humanity,the classic dialectic model of change,the inherent rules of social progress,along with the norm of legal development.


Rock damage due to microcrack propagation leads to changes in seepage characteristics. Therefore, the coupled mechanism of rock damage and permeability plays a significant role in some underground engineering projects, such as mining, excavation, and hydraulic activity. In this study, a rock micro-unit is divided into damaged and undamaged parts. The damaged part only consists of cracks, and the undamaged part includes pores and matrices. A damage evolution function was proposed on the basis of statistical damage theory considering water pore pressure to demonstrate the mechanical behavior under triaxial compression conditions. The damage variable could be obtained with the Weibull distribution function. Then, a novel sandstone permeability model was developed by introducing the damage evolution function. The proposed coupled damage and permeability model covered the matrix and fracture permeabilities. A series of triaxial seepage experimental data of sandstone under different pore water pressures was cited to validate the coupled model. Results showed that the coupled damage and permeability model was remarkably consistent with experimental findings.


For pts with HM undergoing HSCT, oral mucositis (OM) is a frequent and debilitating complication that negatively impacts treatment outcomes, patient quality of life, and healthcare resources. Palifermin reduces the incidence and duration of severe OM in the HSCT setting. This phase 1 open-label study assessed the PK of 2 palifermin dosing regimens. Methods: Pts were 18 to 76 years old with HM and a Karnofsky performance score ≥70%. Palifermin was administered intravenously once daily as follows: 60 mcg/kg/day [d] for 3 consecutive days on d -11, -10, and -9 before conditioning (total body irradiation [TBI] + etoposide + cyclophosphamide) and following HSCT on d 0, 1 and 2 (part A) and a single dose of 180 mcg/kg (part B) before conditioning on d -11 and after HSCT on d 0. In part A (6 total doses), PK parameters were assessed after the 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 6th doses. In part B (2 total doses), assessments were made after each dose administration (d -11 and d 0). Results: In part A, 13 pts received palifermin; in part B, 12 pts received the single dose on d -11 and 11 pts received the single dose on d 0. For both dosing regimens, palifermin concentrations declined rapidly (≥98% decrease) in the first 30 minutes postdose, followed by a slight increase in mean concentrations between 1 and 4 hours and then a terminal decay phase. Respective mean (SD) PK parameter values for the 2 dosing regimens are shown in Table 1. In part A, mean AUC0-t values were comparable between doses 1 and 3 (within 15%) and 1 and 4 (within 1%). In part B, mean PK parameter values were similar (within 10% of each other) between doses 1 and 2. The mean AUC after the first 180 mcg/kg dose in part B was approximately 4-fold higher than that after the first 60 mcg/kg dose in part A. Mean half-life values ranged between 3.3 to 5.7 hours in part A and the value was 5.4 hours in part B. Conclusion: The PK data in pts receiving HSCT were consistent with approximately dose-linear PK in the dose range of 60 and 180 mcg/kg, with no observed accumulation, based on AUC, after 3 daily doses of 60 mcg/kg in this pt population in the HSCT setting.


Over the past two decades, the relationship between China's civilian and military industrial sectors has been undergoing a major realignment brought on by the transformation of the country's economic and technological landscape. Whereas the defense sector had been the undisputed leader of Chinese industrial technology for most of the PRC's history, the predominantly non-state civilian economy has begun to catch up with and even surpass comparable military capabilities in many key areas since the 1990s. The Chinese leadership recognizes the enormous potential of the civilian sector for China's military modernization program, especially in light of the often disappointing results of various technology initiatives spearheaded by the state sector, despite massive investments. Serious efforts are now under way to facilitate the entry of non-state sector firms into the military market. However, many obstacles remain, of which the entrenched interests of the defense industry stands out.


This research examines prosecutorial decision making at the initial charging stage in Chicago homicide cases during the late 1990s. The objectives of this investigation are to determine whether African Americans were prosecuted more severely than similarly situated White and Latino defendants in Chicago homicide cases prior to the abolition of the death penalty in Illinois and to identify the factors that affected how severely prosecutors prosecuted defendants during that time. The study participants are adults who were identified by the Chicago Police Department as suspects in homicide incidents during the years of 1994 and 1995 and whose cases were selected for prosecution. Other relevant factors that may have influenced charging decisions include the defendant–victim relationship, the homicide circumstances, and the number of victims in a particular homicide incident. General linear regression modeling is used to determine the factors that affected how severely prosecutors prosecuted Chicago homicide defendants. Charge severity is measured by the number of charges of Class M felony murder that were filed against a defendant. The results indicate that prior to the moratorium on the death penalty in Chicago, all defendants studied (regardless of the race/ethnicity of their victims) were charged with fewer counts of murder (prosecuted less severely) than African American defendants who were charged with killing White victims. This direct and significant relationship persists even after adding defendant–victim relationship and homicide circumstance interaction terms to the analysis.


Acidification of urine has been recommended before testing for calcium, phosphate, and magnesium concentration to acquire an accurate measurement. We investigated the necessity of preanalytic acidification in crystallized and noncrystallized urine. We obtained 60 urine samples from routine urine analysis. The basal pH was measured in 30 mL of each sample using Orion 2-star benchtop pH meter (Thermo Scientific, …


Objectives To evaluate the outcome of a cohort of infants born at 23-weeks' gestation age after introducing a new resuscitation selection score (The Score of Seven). Design Retrospective Cohort study. Methods A population-based, retrospective cohort study using data from Pearl-Peristat Maternal and new born registry, Vermont Oxford database related to WWRC -NICU and patient's chart for infants born since 2016 till mid2018 of Extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants born at 23 weeks gestation age. On February 2018, we introduced a new protocol to streamline the delivery room resuscitation decision making regarding ELBW infants born in 22–24 weeks gestation. Seven elements were chosen, four antenatal and three immediate postnatal. Each component will receive zero, one or 2 according to its presence or absence. Baby will not be resuscitated if the score below 7 and will receive active resuscitation and admitted to THE NICU if score ≥ 7. A short satisfaction survey was conducted after 6 months from application to identify the comprehension, practicality and ethical comfort of the medical staff. Results Sixty baby infants delivered during the period of assessment. The do not resuscitate (DR) death rate was 23/ 60 (38.3%), The NICU admission was 37 infants (61.7%). Half of the admitted infants died before 2 weeks of age. The Survival rate until discharge was 35% (13/37). Infants died in the DR with a score < 7 was 13/20 (65%) versus zero/17 when the score was ≥ 7. Amongst those infants admitted to the NICU (37), seven infants admitted with a score less than 7; 2 of them survived till discharge ( 29%) while among 17 infants admitted with a score ≥ 7, seven infants survived till discharge (41.5%). Satisfaction survey included full time 33 neonatal physicians, 32 voted for easy to comprehend, 26 voted for easy to implement, and 30 physicians voted for ethical relief and comfort. Conclusions While managing 23 weeks' gestational age, delivery, decision making resuscitation score (The score of seven) was associated with an improved survival rate till discharge. The score was described by the physicians as functional and convenient. It offers ethical reassurance to the dedicated medical staff and provides a practical platform for delivery room resuscitation decision making. Applying the score was not associated with an increase in the number of delivery room deaths.


Country effects on outcomes for individuals are often analysed using multilevel (hierarchical) models applied to harmonized multi-country data sets such as ESS, EU-SILC, EVS, ISSP, and SHARE. We point out problems with the assessment of country effects that appear not to be widely appreciated, and develop our arguments using Monte Carlo simulation analysis of multilevel linear and logit models. With large sample sizes of individuals within each country but only a small number of countries, analysts can reliably estimate individual-level effects but estimates of parameters summarizing country effects are likely to be unreliable. Multilevel modelling methods are no panacea.


Issues such as surveillance, privacy, and copyright are fraught with framing problems. Each concept is multi-dimensional and each is mutating at an ever accelerating rate – important items appear daily in the press and popular media, 'revelations' about state and corporate surveillance, scandals about the security of personal and commercial information, and worries about the 'loss of privacy.' How do we frame these issues, when the definitions are so fluid and the advent of new, tough issues so frequent? Julie Cohen's Configuring the Networked Self offers some welcome relief by considering the big picture within which the more specific problems arise. Her book is an intelligent critique of the ways that privacy and copyright are frequently perceived, a consideration of the peculiar characteristics of networked information, and an invitation to reconsider who are the selves that inhabit this contemporary world. It's a no-stoneunturned sort of book that requires constant pauses for reflection. In the end, she also asks us to raise our eyes above the – albeit significant – question of reducing harms to the more expansive frame of 'human flourishing.' In a disarming move, Cohen observes that two cognate problems – questions of copyright and creativity and questions of perceived threats to personal data – have been considered separately for too long. Much, she argues, can be learned from opening a dialogue between these two, in this way avoiding a clash between the camps of information-as-freedom and information-as-control. The paradox, writ large in the United States but clearly visible elsewhere as well, is that 'the emerging regime of rights and privileges is publicly justified in terms of economic and political liberty, but as a practical matter, it allows individuals less and less control over information flows to, from and about themselves' (3). How, then, has the self primarily been configured, until now? As autonomous, abstract, and disembodied, says Cohen, while at the same time, legal and policy treatments of this self have been committed to a belief in rational, value neutral analysis. Such simplistic models, so far from fostering relevant debate and policy, impede it. Over against them, Cohen reminds us that human beings are in fact embodied and relational, inhabiting cultural and material webs of connection. Laws, technologies, and institutions cannot be judged from some neutral position; nor can they be assessed only with respect to their contributions to free


Due to the introduction of the feed-in tariff policy mechanism in many countries, the grid-connected Photovoltaic (PV) generation system becomes new attractions as it encourages the energy producers to generate and supplies electricity to the grid. The characteristic of the inverter's voltage waveform, its amplitude, phase-angle and phase sequence are vital parameters for effective PV-grid synchronization. This paper presents a double stage converter, DC-DC boost conversion included to maximum power point tracking (MPPT) is achieved. Second stage DC-AC conversion is achieved using voltage source inverter (VSI). Grid connected synchronization is achieved by using synchronous reference (SRF) base phase locked loop (PLL). A details design and model for each section of the proposed system are also presented. The result shows that the implementation of synchronous reference frame (SRF) with PLL able to good achieved.


We present polarimetric observations of the Keyhole Nebula in the Carina Nebula Complex carried out using the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy. The Keyhole Nebula, located to the west of η Carinae, is believed to be disturbed by the stellar winds from the massive star. We observed the Keyhole Nebula at 89 μm wavelength with the HAWC+ instrument. The observations cover the entire Keyhole Nebula spanning 8′ by 5′ with central position R.A. = 10:44:43 and decl. = −59:38:04. The typical uncertainty of polarization measurement is less than 0.5% in the region with intensity above 5500 MJy sr−1. The polarization fraction has a mean value of 2.4% with a standard deviation of 1.6% in the region above this intensity, similar to values in other high-mass star-forming regions. The magnetic field orientation in the bar-shaped structure is similar to the large-scale magnetic field orientation. On the other hand, the magnetic field direction in the loop is not aligned with the large-scale magnetic fields but is tightly aligned with the loop itself. Analysis of the magnetic field angles and the gas turbulence suggests that the field strength is ∼70 μG in the loop. A simple comparison of the magnetic field tension to the ram pressure of η Carinae's stellar wind suggests that the magnetic fields in the Keyhole Nebula are not strong enough to maintain the current structure against the impact of the stellar wind and that the role of the magnetic field in resisting stellar feedback in this region is limited.


As a diabetes care and education specialist, you may have come across numerous people with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) in your practice. This is because people living with type 2 diabetes and most people with PCOS have something in common: insulin resistance. Recent research by Tosi shows that as many as 75% of people with PCOS also have insulin resistance, even with a BMI in a normal range. Yet the most common recommendation given to people with PCOS is to lose weight, according to the 2018 international evidence-based guideline for the assessment and management of PCOS. So, what do you tell people with PCOS with a normal BMI? As you know, weight is not a behavior, and an emphasis on weight loss and only weight loss can result in individuals developing disordered eating and an unhealthy relationship with food and their bodies, as suggested by evidence in American Psychologist and Fertility and Sterility. Shifting the focus from weight loss to sustainable behavior changes that help better manage hormones will result in improved management of PCOS symptoms, a healthier relationship with food and the body, decreasing the risk of disordered eating.


The highly hepatotoxic natural compound, alpha-amanitin, is noteworthy for its uncommon properties: high and specific affinity for the enzyme RNA polymerase type II, and, furthermore, high potency, severity and irreversibility of the poisoning. Considering the structural uniqueness of the tryptathionine bridge bearing a sulphoxide function, a few mechanistic and biochemical observations suggest that an enzyme-induced process may underlie the characteristics of the poisoning evolution which leads to the cytolysis of the hepatocytes.


Two problems attributed to the features of application of simulation modeling to the study of complex engineeting systems are considered. One of them is related to the goal of improving the efficiency of the Monte Carlo method in modeling of rare events: combination of stratified sampling with equally weighted simulations can significantly speed up the analysis of algorithmic models of stochastic systems by simulation. Solution of the other highlighted the problem related to the inadequacy of using the same generator of pseudorandom numbers upon comparison of sample queue values obtained in the simulation models and fractal classical queuing system.


The nonlinearity of monthly rainfall time series in Yunnan province is investigated by using the theory of complex system.The Cao method is applied to exclude the possibility that the rainfall time series are random.The nonlinear dynamical features of rainfall time series are verified by using two discriminating statistics of the surrogate data method.The power spectrum of monthly rainfall time series is analyzed.The evolutional properties of the rainfall system are explored according to the inherent law of the rainfall time series.All the results indicate that there is an obvious nonlinear chaotic characteristic in the monthly rainfall time series.The research provides the theory basis for further studying the complexity and evolutionary law of monthly rainfall time series.


Currently a large number of books, videocassettes and computer programs are available to teach people how to gamble. This article is an examination of this wealth of information. The paper begins by describing the number and types of materials on how to gamble available in an online catalogue and in libraries and bookstores (Study One). The paper then turns the discussion to an examination of the accurate and inaccurate information found in a sample of these materials (Study Two). The studies found that the majority of the material available was on skilled games, but a sizeable number of materials on non-skilled games were also found. The quality of these materials ranged from pure nonsense to accurate. The best materials found were in books on gambling in general and in materials on how to play poker. This paper includes a catalogue of the accurate and inaccurate information found in the books as well as a series of reviews on a number of books, Web sites and other gambling-related material.


Research results regarding synthesis techniques for Petri nets are reviewed. These methods can be adopted for modeling parallel and distributed application environments such as automated manufacturing systems to provide a solution for handling complex and concurrent interactions. Significant synthesis techniques, which are basically classified into bottom-up and top-down methods, are discussed. Bottom-up techniques, consisting of merging of places and sharing of simple elementary paths, have the advantage of ease of system description since the modeled subsystems usually have real-life correspondences. Nevertheless, with existing techniques the synthesized system may not exhibit the same control properties as the subsystems. Top-down methods, including refinement of transitions and refinement of places, have the advantage of viewing the system globally, which may generate more structured designs. However, it is difficult to apply these methods to environments with highly shared resources. Automated manufacturing system examples are given to demonstrate the applications of the methods.<<ETX>>


Nowadays, successful and innovative product development is highly correlated with the company's success and reason for existence. A development process is a major factor influencing cost, timing and quality of product development. It requires additional attention to decisions made about programme, budget, technical and market risks. In this paper a product development process model is proposed in an innovation context and strategy framework of design process and project management. The process modelling is complex network theory based, to improve characterization analysis for product development process modelling. Required concepts for complex process are established to build product development mathematical model, and provide an overview of key definitions and complex networks advanced tools. Finally, a case study for an Algerian electric generator company is carried out to prove the practicality of the proposed model.


HE NARRATIVE perspective of a novel is the fulcrum, the pivot point between two zones. What is at issue here is the range of givens, the location of unquestioned acceptance of value as rooted in the social world, in relation to that which is questioned, to that which is not (yet) locatable or given. It is a question of inside and outside, reality and illusion, mind and surface, a matter of where the novelist begins and what he explores. The life-world of any novel is generated out of the particular formulation of this general tension of intersection, as the narrator (and the novelist) explores and articulates the specificities of their interactions and transactions. In its simplest form these zones emerge as different lexical groupingsthe situational speech of the characters of Tom Jones over and against the witty learned vocabulary of Fielding's narrator-more complexly as differing grammars and rhetorics. Moving between them, the narrator occupies a pivot point, a dialectical node. The narrator's fulcrum, the still point in the crossover of these two realms of the given and the not-given, where the spectrum is generated, is the location and the moment of metaphor. In the "real" world the status of fiction, then, is like that of metaphor; novels are in this sense poems; and metaphors, poems, and novels count because they constitute our everyday "real" world by defining, articulating, and selfconsciously enacting our mundane speaking, the shifting taken-forgrantedness of the natural attitude. Making believe that they are the world, novels, poems, and metaphors help to create our experience in and of the universe. As that brilliant Spanish novelist, Ram6n Perez de Ayala phrased it, "The novelist aspires to nothing less than the creation of a small universe, which is what a novel attempts to be." 1


Objective: To study the preparation and quality control of levoamlodipine besylate tablets. Methods: In pharmaceutical formulations, microcrystalline cellulose, lactose and calcium sulfate were added as a filler, hydroxypropyl cellulose as a binder and disintegrant and magnesium stearate as a lubricant. An HPLC was used for the determination of contents. Results: The calibration curve of levoamlodipine besylate tablets was linear over the range of 13.6~20.4 μg/ml (r=0.999 0). The average recovery rate and RSD value were 99.0% and 0.42% and the contents in three batches of samples were 99.3%, 99.2% and 99.3%. Conclusion: The method for preparation is simple and easy to operate and the method for the determination of contents is accurate and simple with high recovery rate, which can be used for the quality control of levoamlodipine besylate tablets.


You do not have to buy expensive cleaning supplies. You can clean your home with common household ingredients. This document is FCS5232-03, one of a series of the Family Youth and Community Sciences Department, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date June 2002. Revised December 2005.


The IV Symposium on plant peroxidase (PO) was excellently organized by R. Ebermann, C. Obinger and coll. from the Institute of Chemistry in the Agricultural University, Vienna. It took its sources from an 11-year-old tradition, namely the I Symposium organized by H. in all these events the support of the Geneva University is to be underlined. Some 150 communications (oral presentations and posters) were presented by about 170 researchers from 34 countries; two representatives from Bulgaria (N. Bakardjieva and A. Edreva) were invited. It was fascinating that most of the contributions resulted from the joint efforts of international research groups. University of Geneva, 1996) involve a selection of 70 contributions. The main topics were: structure; enzymology; ascorbate peroxidase; genetics; plant development ; stress and disease; applications. The opening session accentuated on enzyme structure as the most fundamental aspect of PO research. Previously (in 1993) plant POs were defined as a superfamily divided into three classes which show less than 20% similarity: the class I appears to be of prokaryotic origin; class II comprises extracellular fungal PO, and class III – the plant secretory PO (Welinder and coll., Denmark). As stated by Veitch, Smith and coll. (England), " the recent publication of the first three-dimensional structure of a plant peroxidase heralds something of a turning point in the study of these enzymes ". Since the last PO meeting a large number of new per-oxidase crystal structures have been solved including peanut PO (Schuller and coll., USA, Canada, England), horseradish peroxidase C (HRPC) (Gajhede and coll., Denmark, USA, England), and barley PO (Henriksen and coll., Denmark). It was established that the peanut PO is a trimetal glyco protein containing 1 mole Fe, 2 moles Ca and 1 mole Mn per 1 mole protein, and 3 glycan chains, Ca being essential for the enzyme activity; its loss causes con-formational changes at and around the active site and the heme. Mn was not expected to occur in higher plant PO (Van Huystee and coll., Canada). The solution of the crystal structure of cytochrome C PO (class I) from the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa reveals the existence of a new class, di-heme PO. The single BULG.


Objectives: Low albumin is associated with poor outcomes in critically ill patients, whilst malnutrition leads to impaired wound healing. As low albumin has been used as a marker of malnutrition and stress response, we hypothesised that low albumin may be a risk factor for pharyngo-cutaneous fistula after surgery involving a pharyngotomy. The objective therefore was to compare mean lowest albumin levels after surgery involving a pharyngotomy between patients who did or did not develop a post-operative fistula. Methods: Prospective collection of lowest in-patient albumin level after any surgery, by single surgeon (JS), involving a pharyngotomy. Statistical analysis by t-test using SPSS. Setting was an NHS secondary care ENT/Head & Neck Unit. Participants were all patients having procedures involving a pharyngotomy under care of a single consultant (JS) between Sept 94 and Feb 07. The main outcome measures was fistula rate. Results: 75 patients had 81 procedures: 31 total laryngectomy, 18 total laryngectomy/partial pharyngectomy, 15 total pharyngo-laryngectomy, 9 partial pharyngectomy or partial laryngectomy or both, and 4 pharyngeal pouch excision, and 4 other p r o c e d u r e s . 7 p a t i e n t s d e v e l o p e d a pharyngo-cutaneous fistula. Lowest post-op albumin levels ranged from 7-42 g/L, mean 22.96 g/L. Mean albumin in group developing a fistula was 20.43 g/L, and in group with no fistula 23.20 g/L; the difference was not statistically significant (p=0.24) (93% power to detect 3g/L difference, α=0.05). Conclusions: No significant difference was observed in albumin levels in pat ients with or without post-operative fistula, suggesting that low albumin may be neither associated with nor a contributing cause of pharyngo-cutaneous fistula.


Malaria vector-anopheles mosquitoes thrive well and transmit the parasite in moisture-laden landscapes in warmer climates. Congested cohabitation of animals and humans, like in agroforestry, near residential areas is ideal malaria ecology. Its afflictions account for high infant mortality and reports of yellow fever; generally in sub-Sahara Africa, and Owerri in particular. Unmanaged land use creates malaria habitats in places with flooding, improper drainage/drainage discharge or flow, poor housing and congested living conditions. The objective of this study is to identify the ecology and transmission of malaria for the purpose of mitigation; evaluate the vector's machine space and its relativity to residential land use; create the temporal and spatial resolutions of the habitats to identify associated health risks, and classify the changing land use with prevalence of malaria in Owerri urban. ERDAS IMAGINE software was used for land use classification, and a GIS was use to disseminate the results.


Many school administrators who still have the computer jitters can overcome them by following the advice of this educator. He urges principals to start with projects that will have "almost immediate" benefits. The step-by-step approach also prevents being overwhelmed.


Introduction. Analysis of uterine leiomyoma incidence indicates not only its growth but also the increase in the number of women of early reproductive age. However, the problem of trigger mechanisms for its development is still uncertain and actual. The objective of the research was to assess the characteristic features of hyperplastic processes in uterus on the background of dishormonal and metabolic disorders. Materials and methods. 60 women of reproductive age with uterine leiomyoma participated in the clinical trial. They gave their informed written consent. The control group consisted of 20 healthy women of reproductive age. Statistical analysis was conducted using material package "STATISTICA for Windows®-6.0" and methods of odds ratio (OR) calculating and its 95% Confidential Interval (95% CI). Results and their discussion. According to the results of the research the main factors contributing to uterine fibroid development in women with obesity were determined. They included: the age of 30-45 years, instrumental intervention in the womb (abortion, diagnostic curettage, etc. (OR = 8.2; 95% CI: 5.1-13.5)); chronic inflammatory diseases of genitalia (OR = 7.9; 2.9-21.9); hormonal imbalances (fibro-cystic breast disease, thyroid disorders (OR = 8.61; 3.1-23.8), liver and gastrointestinal tract disorders (OR = 5.8; 2.1-15.9) sexual disorders and stress inductive factors (OR = 2.6; 1.4-7.1) (usually fibroids occur in 1-2 years after severe stress). There is a significant percentage of adenomyosis and endometrial hyperplastic processes. Growth of tumors in women with obesity increases to 35-40 years of age, and is associated not only with a progressive decrease in the functional activity of the ovaries, their sensitivity to gonadotrophic stimulation, but also with chronic functional exertion of regulation systems on the background of metabolic disorders of hemostasis and homeostasis in this category of women. Conclusions. One of the most significant risk factors for hyperplastic processes of the reproductive organs is obesity and associated metabolic disorders. In case of metabolic disorders activity and hepatocytes on the background of obesity the number of combined forms of hyperplastic processes in the uterus increases by 1.9 times. The main risk factor for fibroids in obese women is hepatocytes dysfunction on the background of a high percentage of hepatobiliary pathology, endocrine pathology – 68.3% (thyroid dysfunction, fibro-cystic breast changes). Morphological and histological structure of endometrium in obese women leads to the growth of endometrial polyps (36.66%).


We obtain the exact wave functions for an electron in a certain class of time-dependent electromagnetic fields. When the time variation of the electromagnetic field is far from the adiabaticity condition, i.e., the situation is nonadiabatic, the geometric phase appears, which is a noncyclic one in general


Glioblastoma is a fatal infiltrative primary brain tumor, and standard care includes maximal safe surgical resection followed by radiation and Temozolomide (TMZ). Therapy-resistant residual cells persist in a latent state a long time before inevitable recurrence. Conventional radiation and Temozolomide (TMZ) treatment cause oxidative stress and DNA damage resulting senescent-like state of cell-cycle arrest. However, increasing evidence demonstrates escaping senescence leads to tumor recurrence. Thus, the ablation of senescent tumor cells after chemoradiation may be an avenue to limit tumor recurrence.

 100uM TMZ for 7days or 10-20Gy radiation (cesium gamma radiator) was used for senescence induction in human glioblastoma in vitro and confirmed by SA-Beta gal staining and PCR. Replication arrest assessed by automated quantification of cellular confluence (Thermo Scientific Series 8000 WJ Incubator). We evaluated the IC50 for several senolytics targeting multiple SCAPs, including Dasatinib, Quercetin, AMG-232, Fisetin, Onalespib, Navitoclax, and A1331852, and in senescent vs. proliferating cells.

 Among the senolytic tested, the Bcl-XL inhibitors A1331852 and Navitoclax both shown senolytic effect by selectively killing radiated, senescent tumor cells at lower concentrations as compared to 0Gy treated non-senescent cells. Across 12 GBM cell lines, IC50 for senescent cells was 6–500 times lower than non-senescent GBM(p< 0.005). Such differential sensitivity to Bcl-XL inhibition after radiation has also observed by BCL-XL knockdown in radiated glioma.

 These findings suggest the potential to harness radiation-induced biology to ablate surviving quiescent cells and demonstrate Bcl-XL dependency as a potential vulnerability of surviving tumor cells after exposure to chemoradiation.


Biodiesel is a renewable liquid biofuel produced from renewable lipid sources such as vegetable oils or animal fats. It results from the transesterification reaction of triglycerides with an alcohol in the presence of a catalyst; see Figure 1 (Marchetti et al., 2007, Srivastava & Prasad, 2000, Ma & Hanna, 1999). The transesterification reaction is a series of reactions where from triglycerides diglycerides are produced, from these ones monoglycerides are produced and finally, from these monoglycerides glycerol is produced. In all these steps, fatty acid alkyl ester (biodiesel) is formed.


Group Events which are more and more serious in the village has become an important element that has influenced the social stability directly nowadays.Group Events in the village is the embody of social conflict during the social transformation.The original reasons of its existence are the unbalance benefits during struggle,the lack of social security,the poor ways of demands and the incomplete early warning mechanism.Ways to solve it are optimize the distribution pattern,set village organization,consummate social security,strengthen legal system,perfect prevention mechanism and so on.


Canalyzing functions are a special type of Boolean functions. For a canalyzing function, there is at least one argument, in which taking a certain value can determine the value of the function. Identification of variables can also shrink the resulting function into constant or function depending on one variable. In this paper, we discuss a particular disjunctive normal form for representation of Boolean function with its identification minors. Then an upper bound of the number of canalyzing minors is obtained. Finally, the number of canalyzing minors for Boolean functions with five essential variables is discussed.


Objective To explore the effect of basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) gene transferred by adeno-associated virus (AAV) 2 vectors on tendon healing and to observe tissue reactions of adenovirus, AAV and liposome-plasmid vectors in tendons, Methods Twenty-six flexor digitorum profundus (FDP) tendons from bilateral long toes of 13 chickens were randomly divided into equal 2 groups. Tendons in the experimental group were cut completely and treated with AAV2-bFGF before repair by the modified Kessler method. Tendons as controls were not treated with AAV2-bFGF. Immunohistochemical staining was carried out at 4 weeks and digital tlexion was tested 8 weeks alter surgery. In addition, 36 FDP tendons from 6 rabbits were divided into 3 even groups and injected respectively with adenoviral vector, AAV-luciferase vector, and pCMV-β with liposome vector. At 3, 7, and 14 days, the tendons were harvested and stained with hematoxylin and eosin. Results The AAV2-bFGF treatment remarkably increased the expression of bFGF 4 weeks after surgery, but did not increase resistance to digital flexion. The liposome-plasmid vector resulted in the most prominent tissue reactions in tendons among the 3 vectors tested. The adenoviral vector elicited a moderate degree of tissue reactions. The AAV2 vector caused remarkable reactions in epitenon but almost no reactions in endotenon. Conclusions AAV2-bFGF treatment increases the amount of bFGF in the healing tendons. Adenoviral and AAV vectors elicit less severe tissue reactions than liposome-plasmid. Since the AAV2 vector causes almost no reactions in endotenon, it may be a suitable gene delivery system for future gene transfer to the tendon in vivo.

Key words:
Tendons;  Gene therapy;  Fibroblast growth factor 2;  Adenovirus;  Vectors


Control of the magnetic anisotropy under different strain states is important for the manipulation of magnetization in flexible spintronic devices. Here, the electric field control of magnetic anisotropy was investigated in flexible Fe81Ga19(FeGa)/polyvinylidene fluoride multiferroic heterostructures under different compressive strains. The initial uniaxial magnetic anisotropy is enhanced with increasing the compressive strain. When the strain is larger than 0.06%, the electric field can only change the strength of the magnetic anisotropy but cannot change its direction. When the strain is smaller than 0.06%, the electric field of 267 kV/cm can reorientate the easy axis by 90°. The present results may be helpful for designing flexible multiferroic devices with a suitable initial strain in order to realize the 90° reorientation of the magnetization.


Significance Exposure to air pollution within one's residential neighborhood has detrimental consequences on health and well-being. Yet, this effect may be mitigated or exacerbated because individuals spend much of their time outside of their residential neighborhood to travel to neighborhoods across a city for work, errands, and leisure. Using mobile phone data to track neighborhood mobility in large US cities, I find that residents from minority and poor neighborhoods travel to neighborhoods that have greater air pollution levels than the neighborhoods that residents from White and nonpoor neighborhoods visit. These results reveal that minority and poor residents face environmental inequalities at three geographic scales: the neighborhoods they live in, their bordering neighborhoods, and the neighborhoods they visit.


Objective To observe the effectiveness of appling Trapezius Myocutaneous Flap to repair the region defect injured by highvoltage electricity. Methods Sixteen cases of patients with region defect highvoltage electricity injury were repaired by trapeezius myocutaneous flaps from Apr.2005 to June.2007 Results Fifteen cases achieved complete take(93.75%) and one case partly metabolic effected. Conclusion The trapezius myocutaneous flap can be widely used in highvoltage electricity injury of cephal-cerv baenosome.


With the development of computer intelligent technology and application area of robots,the industrial robot is becoming one of the high and new technology industries.It plays a significant role in industrial automation and will be more and more important for social development,the living and working environments of the future,etc..This paper outlines the application trend and development context at home and abroad of industrail robots,and economic effects from it.


SIP protocol, with the advantages of been simple and efficient, had become more popular to integrate with context-awareness computing technologies. This paper proposed a SIP based research framework which integrate automatic speech generation to provide more convenient communication between users. Based on the proposed approach, a SIP context server and several SIP agents hosted on PC or PDA were built and tested. If the call party is absent or busy to answer a call, the context-awarded message is automatically replied to the caller via natural speech. The experimental showed an encouraging result of the proposed system, especially on the satisfaction of message transferring rate and service waiting time.


Study Design. Normal rats and paraplegic rats with and injured spinal cord were used to study bacterial translocation from gut. Objective. To investigate whether bacterial translocation from gut occurs after spinal cord injury. Summary of Background Data. It has been demonstrated that trauma and operation can lead to gastrointestinal paralysis; disturbance of gastrointestinal motility following trauma may cause bacterial overgrowth in gastrointestinal tract and increase the incidence of bacterial translocation. However, bacterial translocation from gut after spinal cord injury has not been studied. Methods. Under aseptic manipulation, samples of blood were collected for bacterial cultures and endotoxin determination. In the meantime, samples of mesenteric lymph node, spleen, and liver were collected for bacterial culture. The jejunum and ileum were observed by light and electron microscope. Results. Endotoxemia and bacterial translocation appeared 24 hours and 48 hours correspondingly after spinal cord injury complicated with paraplegia. Conclusion. Bacterial translocation from gut would occur after spinal cord injury in rats, which indicated that antibiotics should be administered to paraplegic patients with spinal cord injury as soon as possible to prevent potential bacterial translocation.


The estimation of the saturation flow is the utmost component for performance evaluation of a signalized intersection. The flow rate estimation procedure includes the analysis of the vehicles headway, vehicles discharge rate, passenger car unit, effective green time and cycle length of the signalling system. This study attempts to exhaustively review the existing literature and its suitability along with the multiple factors affecting the performance of signalized intersection. Different methodological approaches and soft computing techniques used worldwide by the researchers both in developed and developing countries are emphasized. This study also highlights the several influencing factors that have a significant impact on saturation flow value and several methodological approaches to determine the flow value through normalizing the influencing factors, which lead to a better way for planning and designing of a signalized intersection.


Prostate cancer (PCa) is generally detected by prostate‐specific antigen (PSA) as one of the most widely applied tumor markers over decades for its high sensitivity. Nevertheless, it causes overtreatment or an unnecessary biopsy because of its limited specificity. PCa‐associated ncRNA transcript 1 (PCAT1), the newly identified long non‐coding RNA (lncRNA) has been reported to associate with the progress of PCa. In vitro studies proposed that PCAT‐1 may be an appealing candidate for diagnostic accuracy improvement with regard to its notable overexpression in PCa cells. The present study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic potential of the plasma PCAT1 expression levels in PCa patients in comparison to benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) patients and healthy controls.


Article 4(16) (Definition of 'main establishment'); Article 4(22) (Definition of 'supervisory authority concerned'); Article 4(23) (Definition of 'cross-border processing'); Article 57 (Tasks of supervisory authorities) (see too recitals 122–123 and 132–133); Article 58 (Powers of supervisory authorities) (see too recital 129); Article 59 (Activity reports); Articles 60–67 (Cooperation and Consistency) (see also recitals 126 and 130–138).


Su Qi printed cloth for the Indian civil coarse material,to cut out of cardboard as the main tool for the production of printing a variety of arts and crafts people.It emerged from the agricultural era of the Chinese print art developed during the main printed cotton-padded mattress home,curtain,bed sheets,pillows and other accessories.Well its rich color,flower patterns and the coordination of the deformation contrast,the art form revealing the rich culture,its mix patterns,colors fresh elegance with a distinctive artistic characteristics.