The increase in the demand for digital skills has attracted attention in job postings published in the communication sector in recent years. The aim of this study is to reveal the frequently demanded skills and qualifications for the position of social media specialist, which is directly related to digital skills, in the context of Türkiye. For this purpose, descriptive content analysis was employed on 244 job postings published on Bigumigu.com and Mediacat.com, which publish the job postings of agencies in Türkiye. As a result of the analysis, it is possible to say that the most dominant demand of the job postings is experience in terms of years. Having agency experience, being fluent in English, being able to work in a team and having high communication skills are among the most demanded qualifications. Digital content management, digital advertising management, data analytics, design, reporting, and presentation skills are also among the most frequently requested skills. The most surprising result of the research is that agencies do not require a university education. It is important for universities to revise their curricula on the basis of these demands to respond to the needs of the sector and to train qualified graduates.


When robot creates a map, dynamic objects can change the space and render the map unusable for navigation. Additionally, the vertical resolution of a VLP-16 LiDAR may be insufficient, making dynamic point removal challenging. To address these challenges, we propose a novel method for dynamic point detection and removal consisting of four components. Firstly, we introduce a multi-resolution heightmap to enhance the efficiency and precision of dynamic point recognition by segmenting ground points. Secondly, we address the issue of limited vertical resolution by fusing multiple scans to simulate additional scan lines and leveraging a multi-resolution range image for precise dynamic point elimination. Thirdly, we apply clustering and principal component analysis-based techniques to compute eigenvectors, facilitating the correction of misclassified static points. Lastly, we propose the utilization of a three-dimensional bounding box strategy to reinforce the monitoring of small static clusters with elevated probabilities of misclassification. These four components complement each other and are executed sequentially. We evaluated our method for both dynamic point removal and ground segmentation on the KITTI dataset and real-world environments. The results demonstrate that our method outperforms baseline methods and generates clean maps.


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 F n.m.r. data are presented for 2-methyl-,3-methyl-, and 4-methyl-piperidylfluorophosphoranes in which the magnetic equivalence or non-equivalence of the axial or equatorial fluorine atoms is dependent on the position of the methyl group on the piperidyl ring and position of the ring with reference to the trigonal bipyramidal structure.


Gas insulation switchgear (GIS) has been widely used in electrical power systems for decades due to its good compactness and tightness, slight impact on the environment, and long maintenance cycle. However, it has been noticed that the failures of GIS insulation due to very fast transient overvoltages (VFTOs) increases with the increase of voltage levels. In this paper, a generating system of VFTO and standard lightning impulse (SLI) was established. Using the system, the breakdown characteristics of SF6 gas gaps under VFTO and SLI were studied. The results show that SF6 gap has polarity effect in both quasi-uniform field and highly inhomogenous electric field. Under quasi-uniform field, the 50% breakdown voltages under VFTO and SLI with positive polarity are higher than those with negative polarity. But for the highly inhomogenous electric field, the polarity effect is remarkable and polarity reversion phenomenon is observed. When the pressure of SF6 is lower, the 50% breakdown voltages under SLI with negative polarity are higher than those with positive polarity. Nevertheless, the 50% breakdown voltages under SLI with positive polarity are higher than those with negative polarity when the pressure of SF6 exceeds a critical pressure. The critical pressure decreases with the increase of the electric field non-uniform factor. Based on the analysis, it is concluded that the reasons for polarity effect can be explained by the migration and proliferation of space charge.


We develop a theoretical model to compare the relative merits of a system that requires auditor rotation to one that does not. We show that auditor independence is improved with mandatory rotation, but that the net benefit is sensitive to the rotation period, startup cost, the cost associated with biased reports, auditors' learning, and the time span of managers' incentives. Mandatory auditor rotation is preferable if the rotation period is long, startup costs are high, the cost of biased reports is high, auditor learning is dramatic in terms of improving audit efficiencies over time, and the manager is myopic (focused on short-term payoffs).


With the advent of the post industrial era and the information society, the ideological trend of postmodernism rises. This trend of thought is not only a criticism of traditional philosophy, but also a new world outlook and methodology, and deeply affects our modern people's life attitude and way. At this time, digital technology is developing rapidly. Combined with this postmodern trend of thought, it not only brings technological progress and changes in creative form, but also a new thinking mode around visual experience. The digitization and scientization of art not only lies in the change of surface form, but also has evolved into a super medium, connecting the real world and the virtual world, and has become a new way and means for us to transform our world. However, while the way of artistic creation has been expanded unprecedentedly, there are also many problems, especially the transformation problem that must be faced in creation, which needs our further study.


The focus of this study was to characterize the effect of clinically relevant stress‐inducing conditions on the production and composition of proinflammatory outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) produced from ST131 extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) clinical isolates.


The increasing diversity of interpretation of the Jurassic Record is proving very troublesome to teachers and students alike. "To-day, hardly a subdivision of the Jurassic is free of controversy as to its exact scope and nomenclature," wrote S. W. Muller in a recent laudable attempt to reconcile the differing opinions. More is involved, however, than a mere reconciliation of conflicting views. Our knowledge of the Jurassic Record is as yet far less complete than many geologists realize. For while some of the subdivisions of Jurassic time are in general use by all stratigraphers and have stood the test of time, others are in dispute because they are still based on too local and often defective material, or on too incomplete information; a number remain as much surmises as when they were originally introduced. Any scheme put forward at the present day cannot thus be regarded as the final word in the subdivision of the Jurassic, but merely as a contribution towards an ultimate, ideal, "Standard."


Results of investigation of the spin waves propagation in micro- and nanostructures based on ferrites and ferromagnetic films are discussed. Methods of excitation and detection of the spin waves of nanometers scale are considered. The physical phenomena arising under spin waves propagation in magnetic micro- and nanostructures and promising for microwave signal processing are discussed.


India, as well as providing 'valuable evidence on the way in which the economy of the region was affected by the commercial relationship with Great Britain' (p. 4). Although two important administrative acts define her period and principal concerns--Mackenzie's 1819 revenue minute and the final codification of the assessment and collection system in Regulation IX of 1833Dr Siddiqi concentrates on the application and effects of policy rather than its evolution. After a brief background chapter on the region's political and military .history, Chapter 2 establishes a baseline for the study of change through a careful reconstruction of pre-British agrarian structure based on early British records and indigenous administrative manuals. The next three chapters examine the impact of settlement procedures and mechanisms employed to realize the revenue, and involvement in the world market through the expansion of indigo and cotton production for shipment down the Ganges to Calcutta. Each chapter contains new and provocative insights. The baseline chapter provides a better picture of the relationship between rights in land in terms of potential claims, and actual land use than exists in the literature to date. In the period's land-rich circumstances, appropriate shares of the tax burden


The renormalization-group method has been used to give the asymptotic behavior of the physical fixed-angle scattering amplitude in phi/sup 4/ field theory. This method when coupled with a rigorous inequality and additional assumptions leads to a new lower bound on the slope parameter. A new lower bound on the total cross section is also obtained.


Ordinal regression predicts the objects' labels that exhibit a natural ordering, which is vital to decision-making problems such as credit scoring and clinical diagnosis. In these problems, the ability to explain how the individual features and their interactions affect the decisions is as critical as model performance. Unfortunately, the existing ordinal regression models in the machine learning community aim at improving prediction accuracy rather than explore explainability. To achieve high accuracy while explaining the relationships between the features and the predictions, we propose a new method for ordinal regression problems, namely the Explainable Ordinal Factorization Model (XOFM). XOFM uses piecewise linear functions to approximate the shape functions of individual features, and renders the pairwise features interaction effects as heat-maps. The proposed XOFM captures the nonlinearity in the main effects and ensures the interaction effects' same flexibility. Therefore, the underlying model yields comparable performance while remaining explainable by explicitly describing the main and interaction effects. To address the potential sparsity problem caused by discretizing the whole feature scale into several sub-intervals, XOFM integrates the Factorization Machines (FMs) to factorize the model parameters. Comprehensive experiments with benchmark real-world and synthetic datasets demonstrate that the proposed XOFM leads to state-of-the-art prediction performance while preserving an easy-to-understand explainability.


Abstract: Field electron emission measurements were carried out on copper of 99.95% purity emitters, with apex radii in the nano and micrometer range. Samples have been prepared by electrochemical etching using phosphoric acid (H3PO4) solution. Measurements have been carried out under high vacuum environments with a base pressure of 10-7 mbar. Samples were installed in a field electron microscope (FEM) with an anode (tip)-to-cathode (screen) distance of 10 mm. Scanning electron microscope images, electrons spatial distribution behavior, and the current-voltage characteristics (I-V) have been studied and analyzed. Copper emitters have been prepared as electron sources and tested. The results showed a typical current-voltage characteristic from a coat emitter. The scanning electron microscope showed the sample geometry and cleanness. These copper electron emitters have been found to have significant aspects (high voltage breakdown mechanism) affecting the performance of advanced systems such as the electronic accelerator of The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN. This work aims to study this type of material to understand the high voltage breakdown phenomena in copper and the reasons behind it to provide a solution to such phenomena.
Keywords: Field electron emission, Current-voltage characteristics, Copper tips, High vacuum.


The Archives of Pediatrics, established in 1884, was the first American journal devoted exclusively to diseases of children. Each issue for a span of many years usually contained an editorial or two. The one below is a good example of an editorial published toward the end of the 19th century.
 The amusement of young children is largely derived from toys and playthings. The character, therefore, of their toys becomes of importance even in the case of healthy children.
 One of the most noticeable peculiarities of childhood is a tendency to become attached to certain things and to cling to them most persistently. The young child loves certain nursery songs, and never tires of hearing the mother sing them over and over. He loves certain stories, and listens with minute attention to their hundredth repetition. He becomes attached to certain toys and persistently goes back to them in preference to the new and more handsome ones, and clings to the old dilapidated doll in preference to the most gorgeous new one. All this is common knowledge to every observer of children.
 An explanation, or a partial explanation at least, is not difficult to reach. A child's mental capacity is yet undeveloped and his comprehension is very small. He knows and appreciates the old familiar doll and its few clothes. The new one, with its closing eyes and jointed limbs and its colnplex and elaborate dress, is beyond his small comprehension. It tires him as much to investigate and unravel all its mysteries as it does his lawyer father to master an intricate case.


This opinion article reviews the current debate on the issue of medical education in the context of social needs for training human resources for the organization of the Unified National Health System in Brazil. Based on the current scenario and the history from the latter half of the 20th century, when technological innovations led to a revolution in medical practice, the author approaches the distortions introduced by the biotechnology market in undergraduate and graduate medical education and the principal characteristics of graduating physicians, as well as of health care and research services. The article also discusses the changes in medical training and some alternatives and proposals for reform in the curriculum and the Brazilian hospital system from the perspective of a public manager in the health field.


Doctors, managers and politicians have tended to underestimate the importance of nursing. Greater recognition is crucial for the success of modern hospitals


The will of John Carpenter, Common Clerk of London from 1417 to 1438, describes an extensive and unusual book collection. His books provided the intellectual framework for his sponsorship of the Dance of Death, his development of the Guildhall Library, and his preservation of London's historical record. Reading Carpenter's career through the prism of his books also demonstrates how lay clerks appropriated a Latinate intellectual inheritance that formerly belonged to elite ecclesiastical administrators and monks. As they assumed priestly roles in the service of secular institutions, lay clerks buttressed their work with the books of their ecclesiastical predecessors.


Recent developments in computing, communication and improvements in optimization techniques have piqued interest in improving the current operational practices and in addressing the challenges of future power grids. This dissertation leverages these new developments for improved quasi-static analysis of power systems for applications in power system planning, operation and control. The premise of much of the work presented in this dissertation centers around development of better mathematical modeling for optimization problems which are then used to solve current and future challenges of power grid. To this end, the models developed in this research work contributes to the area of renewable integration, demand response, power grid resilience and constrained contiguous and non-contiguous partitioning of power networks. The emphasis of this dissertation is on finding solutions to system operator level problems in real-time. For instance, multi-period mixed integer linear programming problem for applications in demand response schemes involving more than million variables are solved to optimality in less than 20 seconds of computation time through tighter formulation. A balanced, constrained, contiguous partitioning scheme capable of partitioning 20,000 bus power system in under one minute is developed for use in time sensitive application area such as controlled islanding.


FIELD: heating. SUBSTANCE: evaporation burner for mobile heating device (2) having combustion chamber (8), receiving element (10) of evaporator and evaporating element (12) to evaporate the liquid fuel. The evaporating element (12) is located in the receiving element (10) of the evaporator at side looking the combustion chamber (8). The evaporating burner (4) at side of receiving element (10) opposite to the combustion chamber has element (16; 48) to heat the burner air located such that between the element (16; 48) for burner air directing and bottom (26) of the receiving element (10) of evaporator the through channel for burner air is made passing along one sections of bottom (26) of receiving element (10) of evaporator. Element (16; 48) for burner air directing and receiving element (10) of evaporator are made such that through channel for the burner air passes from the inlet (24, 56) provided, substantially, in middle above bottom (26) of receiving element (10) of evaporator, the inlet is provided for burner air radially outside along the bottom (26), at that the through channel for the burner air goes to ring pre-chamber (20) for burner air, that is made ring-like around the combustion chamber (8). EFFECT: invention creates easy evaporating burner for the mobile heating device, that can be operated in wide range of heating power. 11 cl, 4 dwg


ABSTRACT Background Older people with intellectual disability (ID) are at high risk of incidents leading to hospital visits. Method Through national registers, 7936 people with ID, aged 55+ years in 2012, and a same-aged referent cohort from the general population were identified. Information on diagnoses made in inpatient and outpatient specialist health care during 2002–2012 was collected. Results Compared to their age-peers in the general population, people with ID were 41% more likely to seek care for effects of foreign body entering through natural orifice, and 92% more for poisoning by drugs, medicaments and biological substances. Conclusions There is a need to develop and evaluate evidence-based interventions to prevent unnecessary suffering and early death related to poisoning or respiratory diseases among older people with ID. To do this, implementation of risk assessments and increased knowledge of the consequences of poisoning and incidents of foreign bodies entering the respiratory organs are necessary.


This paper reports the primary results of a centrifuge model study into the possible effects of the lattice leg on the penetration resistance and vertical bearing capacity of spudcan foundations in normally consolidated clay. Up to now, the possible effects of the lattice leg has been largely ignored in both research and design of spudcan foundation. Centrifuge experimental results show that there is an increase in penetration resistance for spudcan footing equipped with lattice leg, in comparison with spudcan footing connected to slender circular column leg as widely used by current research. Larger excess pore water pressure was generated by the spudcan penetration with lattice leg in compare with that without. Moreover, the presence of the lattice leg is shown to affect the cavity depth formed around the penetrated spudcan footing, which is simply assumed completely back flow for spudcan penetration in soft clay by SNAME (2008). It was found that the bearing capacity of spudcan foundation has been further underestimated by SNAME (2008) due to the neglecting of lattice leg effect. Taken altogether, this implies that changes in penetration resistance arising from the lattice leg may be due to the effect of the latter on the backflow pattern. Apart from highlighting the effect of the sleeve with big openings, the results also highlight the possible future use of sleeves to enhance the bearing capacity and possibly reduce the penetration of spudcan foundations in various soil deposits.Copyright © 2012 by ASME


One kind of online stock trading technique application executed between a server and a large number of clients connected through a communication network system and method to evaluate a plurality of brands, wherein the system comprises a communications network, associated with the client is connected to the communication network and client terminal, wherein the client via a communication network stock trading trademark, further comprising a connection to a communication network and performs a stock trading process requested the client terminal based on the stock price so that the mark generated by the stock trading process evaluation server mark.


In the second part of this article, I focused on the Christianity legalization process in the Roman Empire in the early 4th century. I studied in the details the causes and factors of the adoption of Christianity as well as its effect on the change of political and legal model of Rome. As the object of study, I examined legal institutions that have undergone a change due to the legalization of Christianity in the early 4th century. In the article, I also focused on examining the process of adoption and the content of the Milan Constitution of 313 AD, which initiated the formation of a previously unknown by ancient world politico-legal model. As conclusion, I have formulated the position that the reforms of the Emperor Constantine the Great transformed the political and legal model of Rome into a political and legal model of the Byzantine Empire, and the key role in this transformation belongs to the influence of Christianity. I also argue that the new Christian legal discourse of Byzantine Empire was fundamentally different from the Roman legal tradition, mainly by the priority of the moral and Christian principles on the principle of regular juridism.
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This study compares the changes in funding of universities and prisons in Maryland during the 1990s. Data from the Department of Public Safety, Division of Corrections, and the Maryland Higher Education Commission were analyzed for trends in correctional and college populations. The study notes that funding for Maryland's prisons increased by 50 percent while funding for the state's universities declined by 5 percent during the same period; this trend was not dictated by demand: 52 percent of the increase in the inmate population was accounted for by nonviolent offenders, and the state crime rate dropped 6.8 percent between 1993 and 1996. Policy decisions have also resulted in a disparate racial impact, with more African Americans added to the state's prisons than to public colleges; tuition and fees have risen over 100 percent over this period. The report urges the state to enact a Community Corrections Act to counter the present bloated state prison system and the lack of local treatment and punishment options. It suggests that many current inmates can be paroled or put into alternative programs, with the saved money used to fully fund the Educational Excellence Award program, the state's scholarship program for low and moderate income students. (DB) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. The Justice Policy Institute 2208 Martin Luther King, Jr: Ave., SE Washington, DC 20020 (202) 678-9282 (202) 678-9321 fax http://wvvw. cjej.org March 1998


The general tenets of balance theory are applied to a study of two dramatic genres, the well-made play and the theatre of the absurd. The theory is used in an attempt to discuss the means by which these different forms achieve their characteristic effects and to place the evolution of dramatic forms within the general context of social change in the last century.


A simple and sensitive competitive protein-binding radioassay suitable for the analysis of large numbers of samples for nonsteroidal phytoestrogens in the blood was developed. The technique with a useful range of .5-40 ng coumestrol and 2.5-200 ng genistein makes use of the uterine cytosol receptor although prior chromatographic separation is needed to discriminate between plant-derived and endogenous steroidal estrogens. The binding affinity of these plant compounds to the cytosol was related to their reported estrogenic potency.


With the rapid increase of the volume of digital image collections, efiective concept-based im- age retrieval has been became an important research issue. The efiectiveness of image retrieval depends on meaningful indexing. In this paper, we propose an extension of image indexing models which utilizes a knowledge framework with adaptive segmentation of HSV color space. Experiments have been performed to evaluate the performance of this approach, and the results show that a good degree of retrieval efiective- ness may be attained.


1. This account presents information on all aspects of the biology of Orchis anthropophora (L.) All. (Man Orchid) that are relevant to understanding its ecological characteristics and behaviour. The following topics are presented within the framework of the Biological Flora of the British Isles: distribution, habitat, communities, responses to biotic factors, responses to environment, structure and physiology, phenology, floral and seed characteristics, herbivores and disease, history, and conservation.


Abstract This paper assesses socio-economic variables that impact on smallholder irrigation farmers in Vhembe District, South Africa. Although irrigation farmers were selected as units of study, the focus was on all smallholder farmers. Inferential statistical analysis detected a negative impact of educational achievement, investment in production costs, access to market information and membership of cooperative on access to credit.


This paper proposes the use of a Deterministic Annealing Expectation-Maximization (DAEM) algorithm to estimate the wordalignments involved in the statistical translation process. This approach is aimed to overcome the problem of the local maxima in complex alignment models, thus making unnecessary to iterate with previous and simpler ones. Using the DAEM algorithm allows us to explore the power of highly expressive statistical alignment models without the experimental limitations of working with non-convex models, while, at the same time, observing consistent improvements in translation quality. Experimental results show that, by using an appropriate temperature scheduling, equal or better estimations are obtained independently of the initial parameter estimates.


Abstract : In light of the continued investment in information technology by businesses in hopes of achieving a measurable benefit in terms of process efficiency and effectiveness, business process reengineering (BPR) is becoming increasingly important. BPR suggests that by radically redesigning underlying business processes, companies can achieve breakthrough improvements in productivity. BPR, however, is a knowledge intensive endeavor. A decision support tool called KOPeR-lite was developed with the intent of encoding the knowledge held by BPR experts and documented in BPR literature. This tool promises to assist BPR novices who are tasked with reengineering inefficient or ineffective processes. The purpose of this thesis is to determine the viability of using KOPeR-lite when BPR novices undertake process reengineering projects. It also proposes reengineering solutions for the permanent change of station orders process for USMC officers, which will be presented to the leadership in the Headquarter, U.S. Marine Corps (HQMC) Manpower and Reserve Affairs (M&RA) branch. If adopted, one of the proposed solutions promises to dramatically improve process performance.


The stereochemical outcome of the azide displacement of triflates derived from a piperidin-3-ol depends on the protecting group on the ring nitrogen and allows the synthesis of 2-acetamido-1,5-imino-1,2,5-trideoxy-D-glucitol (a potent and specific inhibitor of a number of β-N-acetylglucosaminidases) and of 2-acetamido-1,5-imino-1,2,5-trideoxy-D-mannitol.


Pharmacists are ideally suited to help educate patients with diabetes and to raise their awareness of how risk factors for CV disease can be controlled.


In this paper the use of a stratospheric platform as a novel technology for the development of telecommunication applications has been investigated, showing that it can be successfully used as a valid alternative to satellites. More in detail, we employ an unmanned aeronautical vehicle high altitude long endurance (UAV-HALE) platform as a base station for mobile communication systems and we focus the study on the topic of the adaptive antenna array required to provide a higher quality of service all over the cell and to increase the capacity of the system, while keeping at the same time the computational complexity as low as possible, because this is a basic requirement for systems placed on a UAV-HALE platform. In the first part of the paper we show the coverage achievable by the platform, considering constraints related to the geometry of the problem, the propagation environment and the communication system. Then, the architecture of the smart antenna system is considered, by analyzing the direction of arrival (DOA) estimator and the dynamic adaptive beamformer (DAB). The final part of the paper shows experimental results based upon computer simulations. The average error in both azimuth and the elevation angles estimation has been evaluated and the analysis of the results yield to the conclusion that a frequency reuse factor of 3 can be achieved by employing the proposed smart antenna based system as fundamental component of the base station mounted on the stratospheric platform.


Wisenburn's feedback highlights an important aspect of measuring speech recognition accuracy. The use of the additional metric, precision, provides valuable information for both clinical and research purposes, especially for those with speech difficulties. In our study, participants had excellent speech and were experienced in using speech recognition. Although precision is important, erroneous addition of a word, such as ''a'' in Wisenburn's example, was not observed for our participants.


We present exact mixed integer programming approaches including branch-and-cut and branch-and-cut-and-price for the minimum label spanning tree problem as well as a variant of it having multiple labels assigned to each edge. We compare formulations based on network flows and directed connectivity cuts. Further, we show how to use odd-hole inequalities and additional inequalities to strengthen the formulation. Label variables can be added dynamically to the model in the pricing step. Primal heuristics are incorporated into the framework to speed up the overall solution process. After a polyhedral comparison of the involved formulations, comprehensive computational experiments are presented in order to compare and evaluate the underlying formulations and the particular algorithmic building blocks of the overall branch-and-cut- (and-price) framework.


This study considers the potential relationship between maximal strength training and positive body image by exploring the lived experiences of female powerlifters. Semistructured interviews were conducted with eight female powerlifters from Australia, and data were analyzed thematically. The study identified five themes related to positive body image and participation in maximal strength training: (a) appreciation of the functionality of the body, (b) embodiment, (c) rejection of societal body ideals and self-objectification, (d) self-compassion and body image flexibility, and (e) being surrounded by a body-positive community. These findings are consistent with existing literature on positive body image and participation in activities that promote embodiment. There is value in further investigation of maximal strength training as an intervention to develop positive body image in women.


The article proposes a universal methodology of business reengineering in solving the problems of designing, creating and operating electrotechnological systems using modern energy-saving lighting equipment. This methodology has been tested on the example of redesigning the processes of creating and operating irradiation plants for new generation greenhouses with an intelligent re-illumination system that allows growing vegetables year-round.


Despite the fact that more than $200 billion of capital investment was financed through project companies in 2001, an amount that grew at a compound annual rate of almost 20% during the 1990s, there has been very little academic research on project finance. The purpose of this article is to explain why project finance in general and why large projects in particular merit separate academic research and instruction. In short, there are significant opportunities to study the relationship among structural attributes (i.e., high leverage, contractual details, and concentrated equity ownership), managerial incentives, and asset values, as well as improve current practice in this rapidly growing field of finance.


By using the fixed point theorem, positive solutions of nonlinear eigenvalue problems for a nonlocal fractional differential equation are considered, where is a real number, is a positive parameter, is the standard Riemann-Liouville differentiation, and with , .


Many word spotting strategies for the modern documents are not directly applicable to historical handwritten documents due to writing styles variety and intense degradation. In this paper, a new method that permits effective word spotting in handwritten documents is presented that relies upon document-specific local features which take into account texture information around representative key points. Experimental work on two historical handwritten datasets using standard evaluation measures shows the improved performance achieved by the proposed methodology.


The invention discloses a control method for a display panel. The control method comprises the following steps of: conducting a first switch group so that a first voltage drive unit provides a first positive drive voltage to a first data line and a second voltage drive unit provides a first negative drive voltage to a second data line; conducting a second switch group so that a first charge storage unit has a positive-polarity common voltage and a second charge storage unit has a negative-polarity common voltage; conducting a third switch group so that the first data line and the second data line are grounded; and after the polarity conversion, charging the second data line according to a first voltage comparison result, and charging the first data line according to a second voltage comparison result.


The utility model discloses a residual water draining structure of a roller washing machine. The residual water draining structure of the roller washing machine comprises a water draining pump, a residual water draining pipe and a main water draining pipe, wherein the water draining pump comprises a water draining pump shell and a filter arranged inside the water draining pump shell, a cleaning opening which is used for opening the water draining pump shell to clean soft flocks is formed in the water draining pump shell, a plugging cap which is used for plugging the cleaning opening is arranged on the cleaning opening, the plugging cap is fixedly connected with the water draining pump shell in a detachable mode, the residual water draining pipe manually carries out water draining, the main water draining pipe drains water through the water draining pump, one end of the residual water draining pipe is fixedly connected with the water draining pump shell, a plugging head which is connected with the residual water draining pipe in a separable mode is arranged at the other end of the residual water draining pipe, and the plugging head is fixedly arranged on the roller washing machine. According to the residual water draining structure of the roller washing machine, the problem that in the prior art, due to the fact that a user loses a residual water pipe of a small size in a residual water draining process, the roller washing machine cannot work normally is solved.


The re-excavation of the Early Iron Age stronghold of Starosiedle (western Poland) has recently provided an important pottery ensemble, which can be associated to the transitional Goritz/Gorzyca phase between the more general Lusatian/Late Hallstatt cultural tradition and the new influences of the La Tene Period. These associations contradicted past interpretations derived from the excavation undertaken in early twentieth century. The results of an archaeometrical study carried out with the aim of approaching the production technology of the main pottery types are reported in this paper. Selected pottery samples and two samples of raw clay from the surroundings of the site were characterized by different analytical techniques, such as thin-section petrography, X-ray diffraction (XRD), thermo-gravimetric and differential thermal analyses (TG-DTA), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry. Resulting data determined the existence of a single technological tradition in the manufacture of all the pottery types, which is characterized by the use of local illitic-kaolinitic raw clay materials predominantly fired under reducing conditions at temperatures between approximately 700 and 750°C. Mechanical properties of such raw clay materials were improved by adding crushed rock fragments of granite, thereby creating a sort of ancient ceramic composite.


Capsule endoscopy (CE), first described in 20001, may be one of the most important advances in gastrointestinal (GI) diagnostics since the introduction of endoscopy. A swallowed pill camera acquires images (subsequently converted to video format on a computer) as peristalsis propagates it through the GI tract. The first model, designed to examine the small bowel and overcome the technical difficulty of flexible enteroscopy, has been adopted widely by many Western gastroenterologists, and in some countries is seen as the first-choice modality for small-bowel imaging2. The wider application of this technology, however, and its role in disorders of interest to surgeons seem unappreciated. The commonest indication for small-bowel CE is GI bleeding (occult or overt), conventionally after nondiagnostic upper and lower GI endoscopic and radiological investigation3. CE identifies pathology in 46–60 per cent of these patients3, and is more sensitive than small-bowel barium contrast radiology, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), push enteroscopy and angiography4. Flat vascular lesions (angioectasias) and inflammatory disease are the commonest diagnoses, and may be apparent on direct mucosal visualization before becoming evident on radiological imaging. Thermal ablation of angioectasia or a need for biopsy requires flexible enteroscopy, which has therefore become the interventional counterpart of CE in much the same way that endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography is now the therapeutic counterpart of magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography. The double-balloon enteroscope5 has inflatable balloons both on the tip of the enteroscope and on a fine overtube that glides over the scope. Passage of the enteroscope (through oral or anal routes) deep into the small bowel is achieved by sequential inflation and deflation of balloons to provide anchorage while incrementally advancing the enteroscope tip. Examinations take up to an hour, and usually require more sedation than other modes of endoscopy or general anaesthesia. Small-bowel tumours are reported in up to 9.6 per cent of CE examinations performed to investigate obscure GI bleeding3. These include malignant or potentially malignant (GI stromal tumours, adenocarcinoma, carcinoid, lymphoma), benign (haemangioma, adenoma, lipoma) and metastatic (particularly from melanoma, lung, renal or breast primaries) lesions. CE is more accurate than small-bowel barium radiology at detecting small-bowel tumours, and can also detect smaller lesions than MRI4. CE is not without limitations in the small bowel. It can miss some lesions that are largely submucosal. If there is a high index of suspicion, crosssectional imaging such as contrastenhanced CT is recommended. The sensitivity of CE in identifying inflammation has also presented some challenges: suspected Crohn's disease may be difficult to confirm histologically; the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (including low-dose aspirin) is widespread and these drugs cause erosions in up to two-thirds of patients. Minor mucosal breaks occur in 10–15 per cent of healthy volunteers6. The main risk of CE is capsule retention, occurring in 1 per cent of patients with suspected bleeding, but in as many as 5–13 per cent of those known to have Crohn's disease4. Radiological investigation, particularly small-bowel MRI, is seen as the mainstay of investigation for those with established penetrating or stenosing disease as transmural involvement can be defined in crosssection, but CE may still be used to assess mucosal activity. To confirm functional patency of the GI tract, a dissolving patency capsule (the same size and shape as the capsule endoscope) containing a radiofrequency tag has been developed (Agile patency capsule; Given Imaging, Yoqneam, Israel). Absence of the radiofrequency signal 30 h postingestion predicts safe GI transit of the capsule endoscope4. Further advances led to oesophageal CE. PillCam ESO (Given Imaging) has cameras at both ends, acquiring simultaneous bidirectional images at a higher rate (14 versus 2 per second) than the small-bowel capsule, and has sensitivities of 80, 100 and 83 per cent in diagnosing reflux oesophagitis, Barrett's oesophagus and varices respectively, compared with upper GI endoscopy4. Although better tolerated by patients than conventional endoscopy, uptake in clinical practice has been limited. The development of the doubleheaded capsule overcame one of the obstacles to the use of a colon capsule:


We have determined the dengue-2 antigen ELISA titer for the positive case detection of dengue virus infection by IgM ELISA using 33 paired serum samples of dengue patients admitted to the North Okkalapa General Hospital, Yangon, Union of Myanmar, in June and July, 1994. The antigen ELISA titer was found to be over 32 units in order to find out sufficient number of positive cases. This finding can be used as a reference for further experiments and the development of tetravalent dengue antigen for routine serodiagnosis of dengue virus infection.


Despite the large size of the family and its considerable economic and botanical importance, the Leguminosae continue to be poorly known cytologically. In 1974 Bandel indicated that less than 20% of the species had been studied cytologically, and it is doubtful that the current figure would attain 30%. Further, many of the taxa investi gated are known from a single or few reports. Confirmation of these reports is clearly desirable, as are additional reports from different areas of geographical distribution. Although the Leguminosae are well represented in the Brazilian flora, the only significant investiga tions devoted exclusively to the cytology of Brazilian Legumes are those of Turner and Irwin (1961) who reported chromosome counts for 18 species in 10 genera and of Bandel (1974) who presented counts for 42 species in 25 genera and discussed the evolutionary significance of chromosome numbers in the family. The present paper has the objective of advancing the knowledge of the cytology of the Brazilian Leguminosae and reports chromosome counts for 53 species in 17 genera. Apparent first reports are presented for 19 species.


PURPOSE: To provide a double pole biopsy device for collection of tissue samples which can be used for biopsy or other purposes. CONSTITUTION: This device has a long and narrow flexible tube member 10, a cutting head 30 attached at the top of the tube member 10, a core wire 28 extending inside the tube member 10, and a handle 35 attached at the base end of the tube member 10 to operate the core wire 28. The cutting head 30 has a fixing member 65 at the top of the tube member 10, and a movable member 70 which can be pivotally rotated as against the fixing member 65. Electrode planes 90 and 95 are attached on both members 65 and 70 respectively. These electrode planes 90, 95 are insulated from each other and connected to an outside power source. When the electrode planes are put together and voltage is applied, an electric arc is generated to cut a tissue sample. The cut tissue sample can be kept inside an inner cavity 80 formed by closing the movable member 70 together with the fixing member 65 and can be collected. COPYRIGHT: (C)1993,JPO


CROSS THE GLOBE, the disease known as malaria affects roughly 250 million people annually, at least 800,000 of whom die as a result. Most malaria victims are children, living in Africa. By any calculation malaria is a global killer. Bill Gates calls it 'the worst thing on the planet'. This global disease defies and frustrates the plans of scientists, governments, aid agencies and philanthropists. We do not have a vaccine (yet) and the parasite that causes it not infrequently mutates, boosting its drug-resistant profile. Malaria is a disease of the poor; it remains endemic to nations of the South, which, on their own, cannot muster the requisite resources to combat the epidemic. But, to my knowledge, topics such as 'Malaria and God' or 'The Church and Malaria' do not feature as urgent theological or ethical issues at conferences of theologians and agencies such as the United Nations. Ordinarily, malaria does not provoke social stigmatization or discrimination. The disease known as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) tells a completely different story. More than any other disease known to us, AIDS has captured our theological imagination in a quite interesting way. We do not say 'The Church has malaria', but we say 'The Church has AIDS', 'The body of Christ has AIDS', 'Our Church is HIV-positive', and then proceed to conduct theological disquisitions on 'God and AIDS', 'The Church and AIDS', 'AIDS and Stigma', and so on. The reason why AIDS has acquired the status of a global theological and moral issue remains open to debate. Simply to reduce its exceptional status to the influence of frightening statistics would be missing the point. There are several other deadly diseases endemic to many countries in the world—river blindness, guinea worms, jiggers, and so


. Recent observational data of short time-scale fluctuations in the radio emission of pulsars offer the opportunity for new tests of pro posed emission models. For this purpose, the existing models must be developed to make predictions regarding the temporal characteristics of the emission. A computer solution of the time evolution of plasma wave turbulence details the properties of the nonlinear plasma emission mech anism. As a consequence of ponderomotive nonlinearity in the plasma medium, two-stream growing modes develop modulational instability, leading to the onset of strong, two-dimensional plasma turbulence. The turbulence exhibits explosive spatial collapse of regions of high electric field, and the escape of bursts of radiation.


This paper considers the existing problems in the teaching of organic chemistry at the Harbin Institute of Technology and suggests the introduction of contemporary teaching strategies to improve the student learning experience. Modern theories of
teaching and learning are considered, e.g., constructivism, and the introduction of teaching strategies for organic chemistry such as problem based learning (PBL), concept mapping and case studies is described.


, 2013). While the concept of narrative identity is most often associated with personal psychology (Hammack, 2011; Nussbaum, 1990), the authors of this paper find analogies between the function of narrative in personal psychology, and in pilgrimage. These analogies are applied to pilgrimage to illustrate how narratives function at pilgrimage sites to unite events with historical, religious, personal, cultural and political contexts. A pilgrimage narrative forms the framework for how people and institutions understand their roles and motivations, and thus how they will act, respond, and experience things. The authors identify five features that make some narratives more successful than others, claiming that 'winning narratives' are so powerful that a sacred site or shrine's establishment and development could not have done without it, or at least, would not have enjoyed the rate of success in visitor numbers in comparison to similar sites that lacked a winning narrative and enjoyed therefore less popularity and visitors. The five features of a winning narrative are here illustrated with examples.


The plasma wakefield accelerator (PWFA) is an advanced accelerator concept that uses the large electric fields that can be generated in a plasma to accelerate charged particles. We present the results of a self-consistent two-dimensional simulation of the first experiment designed to test this concept. Linear theory predicts for this experiment an accelerating gradient of approximately 95 MV/m. However, the simulations indicate that a much larger accelerating field is achieved in the plasma. This enhancement is due to strong beam pinching, which is not treated self-consistently by a linear theory. Wave steepening due to a nonlinear modulation of the background plasma is also observed. This steepening results in a phase shift that degrades the acceleration.


Silva, RC. Association of RANK, RANKL and OPG polymorphisms in peri-implant diseases. [thesis]. Ribeirão Preto School of Dentistry, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, 2019. Rehabilitation through osseointegrated implants has become a growing activity in dentistry. Nowadays, a success rate due to new techniques and technologies, however, the loss of dental implants due to peri-implant diseases has become a frequent problem in clinical practice. There is no direct connection with the risk factors, until now reported. The present work makes an evaluation of the RANK, RANKL and OPG genes in the development of the periimplant clinics at the Implantology Specialization Clinic at the Faculty of Amazonas IAES. One hundred and fourteen patients with an implant installation were included in the study. The clinical evaluation included the analysis of the peri-implant patient and non-tissue health conditions by measuring the clinical depth of survey, presence of spontaneous bleeding, periimplant phenotype, suppuration, plaque and gingival staining. Standardized radiographs assessed the height of the peri-implant bone. A sample (n = 114) was divided into 3 groups: A (peri-implant health), B (mucositis) and C (peri-implantite). Saliva samples were collected for the presence of polymorphism in the promoter regions of the osteoprotegerin (OPG) genes, the Kappa nuclear factor activator receptor (RANKL) and the nuclear kappa factor activator receptor (RANK) by the PCR technique in real time.The results showed that of the 114 individuals in the study, 71 had a healthy peri-implant condition and 43 a diseased condition (30 with mucosites and 13 with peri implantite). Age, peri-implant biotype, diabetes and presence of peri-implant plaques were associated with mucositis, while age, peri-implant biotype, smoking and alcoholism, periodontal and peri-implant plaques were associated with the presence of peri-implantitis (P ≤ 0.05). There was no association between the perimplant condition and any polymorphism evaluated in the genes: RANK, RANKL or OPG (P> 0.05). It is concluded that the RANK, RANKL and OPG genes are not related to the development of peri-implant diseases.


Objective To evaluate the value of Two-dimensional speckle tracking imaging technology(STI) assessment of cardiac function changes in different Intervention surgical timing by STI.Methods Choose 100 patients who have coronary severe stenosis interventional treatment and cardiac physiology and structure were normal patients 100 cases as a control group,and then in different time periods respectively record the cardiac function and Ventricular structural changes(onset to interventional operation time30min,30~60min,60min),such as heart function indexes of left ventricular end diastolic diameter(LVEDd),left ventricular end-diastolic volume(LVEDV) and end systolic volume(LVESV),left ventricular ejection fraction(LVEF) and moreover record non-heart attack patients heart function as the ROT,the RS,the CS.Results The index of heart function and ultrasonic parameters in observation group was lower than that of the control group;there were significant differences between intervention operation time less than 30min patients of all indexes and parameters under interventional operation time30min patients,and interventional operation time60min patients of indexes and parameters under interventional operation time 30~60min patients(P0.05).Conclusion Speckle tracking imaging technology can be a good assessment of coronary intervention treatment at different times of cardiac function changes.


The article presents social and economic methods of college graduates employment control in the conditions of the socially focused economy. Business community's participation in the employment assistance is feasible on the basis of the private-public partnership, which involves additional resources. The author introduces a method of the business collaboration based on the competitive activities.


Standardized concepts of a world neatly divided into independent states, each clearly differentiated by precisely drawn lines on a map, each presumed to possess absolute power within the designated area, presents a shallow, and ultimately false, picture of modern social and political reality. An earlier idea of sovereignty, which sanctioned total authority for the governing bodies to rule over the inhabitants of the territory under their control, has only limited value in a world of both increasing concern for the universal nature of human rights sparked by international and regional bodies and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and of increasing activity and intervention in the economic area, spearheaded and symbolized by the proliferation of multi-national companies.


Abstract : "In Latin America, authoritarian regimes of the right and the left have yielded to open, market economies What was a somewhat defensive nationalism being overcome by a new kind of nationalism which stresses possibility over dependency, one that welcomes relations with the United States". This passage, written by Vice President Al Gore, is consistent with the philosophy that there is "a new moment in the Americas". The question which seems to follow almost Immediately, is, "Where do we go from here?" The focus of United States' foreign policy has hardly been centered on Latin America What are our national interests in the region? Where are our neighbors to the south headed? Is it our policy to help them chart their course? Do we have the means to do it? All of these questions deserve serious consideration, and this paper is devoted to them. The United States has clearly stated its interests in the region to be the continued economic growth of our trading partners, the further development and stabilization of democratic governments, the peaceful resolution of inter-state conflicts, and the cooperative confrontation of growing transnational threats (ie drug trafficking, terrorism, arms control, the environment, etc).


Abstract This two-part paper details an analysis of high-resolution wind and reflectivity data collected by a mobile, W-band Doppler radar: The dataset captures the near-surface life history of a tornado in a supercell in north-central Nebraska on 5 June 1999. The formation of the tornado vortex near the ground is described from a sequence of sector scans ranging from 30-s intervals prior to tornadogenesis to 10–15-s intervals during much of the lifetime of the tornado. Cyclonic vortices of 100–200 m width were found along a bow-shaped line of enhanced radar reflectivity, at what appears to have been the leading edge of a rear-flank gust front. At the time of tornadogenesis, one of these vortices was located just ahead of the nose of the bow-shaped radar echo and a jet, which were embedded within a larger-scale cyclone. At other times, small-scale cyclonic vortices coexisted with the tornado along an arc-shaped line extending to its north and northeast but did not appear to interact with the tornado. The ...


Bangladesh is one of the most governance deficit countries of the world. In this reality, Upazila system, as an intermediate tier local government unit, is reestablished under the Upazila Parishad Act 2009. This Act is the basis of the formation and function of the Upazila Parishad. In this study, survey method has been applied to primary data collection from two upazila (Sylhet Sadar Upazila and Kanaighat Upazila) in Sylhet district. The study finds that the existing upazila parishad activities do not meet the demand of the people. Citizen's trust on the Upazila Parishad is very low. The study also finds some other challenges, including unskilled manpower, proper planning and a lack of financial resouces. Moreover, the officials are not professional and their behaviors are not good while performing their duties. Most of the service receiver did not get best service from upazila officials. However this study suggests some recommendation for improving the service of upazila parishad. Officials should be highly trained and professional on their service delivery. By ensuring the best services, they can achieve the trust of general people.And the Government should take additional steps with regards to improving the upazila parishad service.


2010 is the mid-point of the National Service Framework for Long-term Conditions, and Sue Thomas discusses the work of Quality Neurology in assisting the implementation of the NSF


We review the approach to modeling soft hadron physics observables based on the Dyson-Schwinger equations of QCD. The focus is on light quark mesons and in particular the pseudoscalar and vector ground states, their decays and electromagnetic couplings. We detail the wide variety of observables that can be correlated by a ladder-rainbow kernel with one infrared parameter fixed to the chiral quark condensate. A recently proposed novel perspective in which the quark condensate is contained within hadrons and not the vacuum is mentioned. The valence quark parton distributions, in the pion and kaon, as measured in the Drell Yan process, are investigated with the same ladder-rainbow truncation of the Dyson-Schwinger and Bethe-Salpeter equations.


Waste plastics include chlorine-containing types, which can cause corrosion problems in the equipment used to recycle the plastics into chemical products such as coke, tar and coke oven gas. This paper discusses chlorine behavior and pre-treatment of waste plastics.


This study examined the correlation between religiosity and decision choosing the religion-based university. This research was conducted in Faculty of Shariah and Law State Islamic University of Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta using quantitative research methods. There are 95 university students as respondents, selected using convenience sampling. The data collection method is done through questionnaire. Technical analysis of the main data used in this study is the Part Least Square-Path Modelling (PLS-PM). The result shows that there is a positive and significant correlation between religiosity and decision making of selecting religion-based university (4.2179 with p-value 00001 < 0.05 or critical ratio (CR) 3.4171).


Radiologic data are increasingly important in clinical care guidelines for neurologic disorders and in the conduct of clinical trials assessing novel therapies. The infrastructure and expertise for neuroradiologic evaluations remain scarce in resource-limited settings, but where available, MRI and CT capacity can offer new insights into common, globally devastating diseases. In vivo data for frequently fatal tropical conditions such as cerebral malaria have been largely limited to autopsy studies, which only provide information on nonsurvivors at a single point in time. New imaging facilities in sub-Saharan Africa offer opportunities for expanded research on tropical neurologic disorders.1 However, data management challenges hamper the research utility of radiologic evaluations.


Method In a comparative experimental cross-sectional study, RNA was extracted from oral swabs and blood samples from 25 healthy individuals at the Department of Molecular Medicine, KNUST. RNA was extracted by the manual AGPC extraction method and commercial RNA extraction kits. The quantity (ng/μl) and purities (260/280 nm) of the extracted RNA were measured spectrophotometrically using the IMPLEN NanoPhotometer® N60. The presence of RNA in the extracts was confirmed using 2% agarose gel electrophoresis. Statistical analyses were conducted using R language. Results The yield of RNA extracted from blood and oral swab samples using modified AGPC was significantly higher compared to the commercial methods (p < 0.0001). However, the purity of RNA extracted by the manual AGPC method from blood was significantly lower than the commercial methods (p < 0.0001). Moreover, the purity from oral swabs using the manual AGPC method was significantly lower compared to QIAamp (p < 0.0001) and the OxGEn kits method (p < 0.001). Conclusion The modified manual AGPC method has a very high yield of RNA extracts using blood samples, which could serve as an alternate cost-effective method for RNA extraction in resource-limited laboratories; however, its purity may not be suitable for downstream processes. Moreover, the manual AGPC method may not be suitable for extracting RNA from oral swab samples. Future investigation is needed to improve the purity of the manual AGPC RNA extraction method and also confirmation of the obtained results by PCR amplification and RNA purity verification by sequencing.


The major objective of this report was to conduct a thorough strategic analysis of 'Can't-Tear-Em', a private company in the industrial clothing industry, and implement a corporate plan identifying: problems within the company, external events likely to have a major impact upon the company, and provide solutions to the major problems identified. As part of the strategic planning process an industry study was conducted to identify forces driving industry competition, including the bargaining power of suppliers, competitor characteristics and activity, and major technological advances in Australia and overseas with the production of clothing and textiles. In addition, the ramifications to the industry of Senator John Button's proposed industry restructure and effective reduction of tariffs by 1996 were analysed. The strategic audit information was obtained through extensive qualitative questioning of Can' t-Tear-Em management and staff, and observations of their work practices and managerial style. After the strategic audit was completed, a team building intervention was conducted with a vertical slab of the staff from management to machinists. The major objectives of the session were to introduce employee involvement into the decision making process, formally introduce the corporate planning process to all staff, and provide an opportunity for the company's new leader to ascertain staff problems and attitudes towards the recent changes in the company. Although Can't-Tear-Em has expanded rapidly in the last two years and vertically integrated backwards and forwards, many problems still exist with management information systems for production, marketing, accounting, warehousing and inventory control. If the company is to be a leader in the industry, a totally integrated approach must be adopted to new technology and information systems. The adoption of the corporate and strategic planning process is a major advance towards achieving this goal.


The purpose of this study was to compare personal investment levels among nonmusic major piano students in the contexts of portfolio and teacher-directed assessment. Three problems were addressed: 1) identifying students' perceptions of direction, persistence, continuing motivation, intensity, and performance in the context of teacher-directed goal setting, choice of instructional activities, and evaluation of performance; 2) identifying students' perceptions of the five personal investment behaviors in the context of portfolio assessment; and 3) comparing student perceptions as
identified in problems one and two.


To the Editor: —I am enclosing a copy of a letter received from Flora Miller, director in charge, Military Hospital, Endell Street, London, in reply to a request for exact information regarding the standing of the English medical women in the war work. As it is the first definite news that we have been able to obtain on this subject, we think it would be of interest to the public, and so ask you to reproduce it inThe Journal. In reply to your letter to Dr. Garrett Anderson, I have pleasure in giving you the following facts about the employment of women doctors by the War Office. The medical staff of this hospital is appointed by the War Office, and has entire charge and control of the hospital. The staff is graded and paid according to rank, namely, as Major, Captain or Lieutenant. None of us are commissioned, as


By means of such research methods as literature,comparative analysis,based on the theories of history and culture,the study directed on the conflicts between Chinese and West sport culture and their fusion in the past50years,which purposes were to find out the reasons of conflicts and fusion between them and to indicate the historical origins so as to provide a new vision for the sport culture research between China and the Western and some foundations for the healthy development of China sport culture in the future.The findings indicate that the conflicts between Chinese and Western sport culture and their fuse consist of three developmental stages.The Chinese sport culture has been conflicting and fusing with that in the West,the main tendency is fusion in spite of certain conflicts.During the process of the conflicts and fusion,Chinese sport culture has not taken up the main position.The characteristics shown in the conflicts and fusion between them are in accordance with those of the social cultures at that time.


Depression is a mental disorder affecting more than 300 million people in the world. Abnormalities in white matter are associated with the development of depression. Here, the authors show that mice with oligodendrocyte‐specific deletion of Nerve injury‐induced protein 2 (Ninj2) exhibit depressive‐like behaviors. Loss of Ninj2 in oligodendrocytes inhibits oligodendrocyte development and myelination, and impairs neuronal structure and activities. Ninj2 competitively inhibits TNFα/TNFR1 signaling pathway by directly binding to TNFR1 in oligodendrocytes. Loss of Ninj2 activates TNFα‐induced necroptosis, and increases C‐C Motif Chemokine Ligand 2 (Ccl2) production, which might mediate the signal transduction from oligodendrocyte to neurons. Inhibition of necroptosis by Nec‐1s administration synchronously restores oligodendrocyte development, improves neuronal excitability, and alleviates depressive‐like behaviors. This study thus illustrates the role of Ninj2 in the development of depression and myelination, reveals the relationship between oligodendrocytes and neurons, and provides a potential therapeutic target for depression.


Objective To observe the clinical therapeutic effect of Buzhong Yiqi pills combined with biofeedback on constipation of qi-deficiency type.Methods 160 patients were randomized into four groups with 40 cases in each.The treatment group received Buzhong Yiqi pills combined with biofeedback therapy,and the control groups received Buzhong Yiqi pills,biofeedback,mosapride pills respectively.The Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM) symptoms,the daily actions and the maximum surface electromyography(SEMG) of pelvic floor muscles were observed.Results Scores on TCM symptoms,daily actions and the SEMG of pelvic floor muscles of the four groups were different before and after the treatments(P0.05).The imforovement rates of the treatment group were higher than those of the control groups(P0.05).Conclusions Buzhong Yiqi pills combined with biofeedback therapy is effective in improving the TCM symptoms,daily actions and SEMG of pelvic floor muscles on constipation patients of qi-deficiency type.


Is it feasible to implement and evaluate an online self-guided psychosocial intervention for people with unmet parenthood goals (UPG), aimed to improve wellbeing, in an online randomized controlled trial (RCT)?

 The evaluation of an online bilingual self-guided psychosocial intervention for people with a UPG is feasible but minor adjustments should be made to enhance practicality.

 Self-identifying as having a UPG, defined as being unable to have children or as many as desired, is associated with impaired wellbeing and mental health. Practice guidelines and regulatory bodies have highlighted the need to address the lack of evidence-based support for this population. It is unknown if MyJourney (www.myjourney.pt), the first online self-guided intervention for people with UPGs, can be implemented and evaluated in an RCT.

 We conducted a pre-registered, two-arm, parallel group, non-blinded feasibility RCT, with a 1:1 computer-generated randomised allocation and embedded qualitative process evaluation. Recruitment run from November 2020 to March 2021. Assessments were made before randomisation (T1), 10-weeks (T2) and 6-months after (T3, intervention group only). Participants allocated to the intervention group received an email to access MyJourney immediately after randomization. Participants in the control group were given access to MyJourney after filling the 10-weeks assessment (T2).

 Participants were recruited via social media advertising of MyJourney and its feasibility study. People who self-identified as having a UPG could click on a link to participate and of these 235 were randomised. Outcome measures related to demand, acceptability, implementation, practicality, adaptation, and limited efficacy were assessed via online surveys. The primary outcome in limited efficacy testing was hedonic wellbeing, measured with the World Health Organisation Wellbeing Index (WHO-5).

 Participation and retention rates were 58.3%, 31.7% (T2) and 45.2% (T3, intervention group only). Of participants invited to register with MyJourney, 91 (76.5%) set up account, 51 (47.2%) completed the first Step of MyJourney, 12 (11.1%) completed six Steps (sufficient dose) and six (5.6%) completed all Steps within the 10-week recommended period. Acceptability ranged from 2.79 (successful at supporting) to 4.42 (easy to understand) on a 1(not at all) to 5(extremely acceptable). Average time to complete sufficient dose was 5.6 hours (SD = 18.15) and all Steps was 12.4 hours (SD = 18.15), with no differences found for participants using MyJourney in Portuguese and English. Modified intention to treat analysis showed a moderate increase in wellbeing from T1 to T2 in the intervention group (ηp2 = .156, MD = 9.300 [2.285, 16.315]) and no changes in the control group (ηp2 = .000, MD = .047 [-3.265, 3.358]). Participants in the process evaluation reported that MyJourney was needed and answered their needs for support (reflecting high demand and acceptability). Participants thought the recommended period to engage with MyJourney was short and that their engagement was influenced by multiple factors, including personal (e.g., lack of time) and MyJourney related factors (e.g., reminders).

 Participants were mostly white, well-educated, employed, childless women. Non-blinded allocation, use of self-reported questionnaire assessments and high attrition in the intervention group could have triggered bias favourable to positive evaluations MyJourney.

 MyJourney can proceed to efficacy testing, but future work should eliminate barriers for engagement (e.g., enabling users to add MyJourney icon to device and remain logged in) and explore strategies to maximise adherence (e.g., reminders with personalised content, guidance and scheduling options for routine use).

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Some chiral 1,2,4-triazole derivatives were prepared and evaluated against phytopathogenic fungi and bacteria. (R)-configuration (compound 5b) has shown better fungicidal activity against the tested fungi than (S)-configuration (compound 5a). The presence of chlorine atom as in compound 5c and 5e improved their fungicidal activity. Lengthen the carbon chain (n = 1 and/ or 2) reduced the fungicidal activity as in compound 5d and 5f. The bactericidal activity of the new chiral 1,2,4-triazoles was moderate against all the tested bacteria. Compound 5b showed reasonable effect where the ED50 values were 250, 370 and 380 against E. caratovera sub caratovera, E. amylovora and E. caratovera sub atroseptica, respectively.


Objective To investigate the influence of salmeterol fluticasone and tiotropium to lung function of patients with COPD.Methods 118 patients with COPD were randomly and evenly divided into two groups.The experimental group was inhaled 18 μg of tiotropium once everyday and 50 /250 μg of salmeterol fluticasone twice a day,and the control group was treated with the inhalation of 50 /250μg of salmeterol fluticasone twice a day.The treatment course was 6 months.Clinical efficacy,FEV1,and dyspnea score were observed and compared between the two groups before and after the treatment.Results The total effective rate was 89.8%(53 /59) in the experimental group and 76.3%(45 /59) in the control group respectively with significant significance(P 0.05).The improvement of lung function was more pronounced in the experimental group than in the control group with statistical significance(P 0.05).Conclusion Salmeterol fluticasone and tiotropium have a favorable clinical efficacy in the treatment of COPD patients,which can significantly improve patients' lung function and quality of life.It's worthy of widely clinical application.


Language schema can predicate and complement the implicit cohesion in text;Context schema can construct the pre-existing knowledge and new knowledge together and integrate the fragment text into a complete text;cultural schema can infer the background information and play a communicative role.They work together to achieve the coherence of text with implicit cohesion.


The main pathogenetic link in congenital hip dislocation is dysplasia of all elements of the hip joint [1, 2]. Many methods of surgical treatment of patients with this pathology have been proposed. The development and implementation of gentle operations in the clinic with the preservation of acetabulum cartilage, the elimination of compression in the joint significantly improved the results of treatment. However, the percentage of aseptic necrosis of the femoral head remains high [3, 4].


Purchasing has become an essential element of integrated business processes. Optimising the purchasing process can improve business efficiency as well as achieving direct cost savings. Practical methods of dealing with obstacles to change, data processing capabilities and external relationships are described, with an illustration taken from the US coatings industry.


The property of dual defect modes,induced by one-dimension photonic crystals containing absorbing defect layer with zero average refractivity,was studied based on the eigen matrix.The results show the transmissivity of dual defect modes varied with the extinction coefficient,and the transmissivity at high or low frequency defect mode became maximum as the extinction coefficient reached a certain value.However,the transmissivity at high or low defect frequency mode could not reached maximum value at the same time.In addition,the position of absorbing material might affect the response curve of dual defect modes.The conclusion will play an important impact on the application of photonic crystals.


To assess the insecticidal activity of eucalyptus oil and α-pinene against dried fish pest Dermestes maculates. Mortalities of its larvae and adults under different doses or treatment time were investigated by bioassay method. The results showed that the tested oil and its active ingredient (α-pinene) affected significantly (P<0.001) on the mortality of both the larvae and adults of D. maculatus. Responses varied with compound, dose and exposure time. Over 90% mortality at 72 h after treatment was achieved with the eucalyptus oil against larvae at a dose of 32 μL/cm^3. Eucalyptus oil at 32 μL/cm^3, were highly toxic to adults of D. maculatus 72 h after treatment. α-Pinene also showed highly toxic effects on both larvae and adults of the beetles at the same exposure time and doses. It is also interesting to mention that the adults of D. maculates were found to be more tolerant than larvae. In probit test eucalyptus oil was much more effective than α-pinene. These naturally occurring materials could be useful for managing populations of D. maculatus.


Saber Chatti et al. "Cyclic and Noncyclic Polycarbonates of Isosorbide (1,4:3,6-dianhydro-D-glucitol)', in Macromolecules, 2006, 9061-9070, Received Mar. 17, 2006; Revised Manuscript Received Oct. 30.2006. Okada, Masahiko et al: "Biodegradable polymers based on renew able resources. VI. Synthesis and biodegradability of poly(ester car bonate)S containing 1.4:3,6-dianhydro-D-glucitol and sebacic acid units', 2002, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 86(4), 872-880 CODEN: JAPNAB; ISSN: 0021-8995, XP002582390, p. 878. International Search Report, dated Dec. 15, 2010, from correspond ing PCT application.


Hasty, Will, ed. A Companion to Wolfram's Parzival. Rochester, NY. Camden House, 1999. 318 pp. $75.00 hardcover. A number of "Companion to" volumes relating to Middle High German literature have been, or are about to be, published under this imprint, including the Nibelungenlied and Gottfried's Tristan. The intended audience of the present volume is not made absolutely clear (see xix), but the impression gained is that it is directed more at students and medievalists in other fields than at the "cutting edge" of Parzival scholarship. It is likely to find its way onto all undergraduate reading lists on Parzival in the English-speaking world, as it gathers together contributions on a number of important themes and topics, and offers help to the nonexpert reader, by providing English translations of quotations from primary sources. As such, its appearance is to be welcomed, but with a number of caveats. Given the boast for this volume that the "essays provide a definitive treatment in English of significant aspects of Parzival" (xix), we are bound to ask "how definitive" and "how significant"? Answering the second of these first, we now examine the scope of the volume, which is divided into four unequal sections, preceded by an introduction by the editor, dealing with some aspects of previous scholarship, mainly at the level of literary history. The sections are: People, Places, and Things in Parzival (1-96), with four contributions; Wolfram's Art of Narration (97-140), with two; Cultural Contexts (141-242) with five. and The Modern Reception of Wolfram's Parzival (243-58), with only one; a consolidated bibliography of 19 pp. completes the volume. Clearly, a work such as this cannot hope to do justice to the vast array of secondary literature on Parzival, but it is indicative of the level and scope of the volume that there are no footnotes and only minimal references to secondary literature in brackets in the text of the articles. One must therefore ask: are the topics treated those which one would most like to see included in an introductory work on Parzival? The answer can be only a qualified "yes," since, although many seminal topics are ostensibly treated, the treatment of some is wayward, so that actual mainstream coverage of important aspects is often wanting. The first section contains a short and somewhat superficial treatment of Gahmuret and Herzeloyde by Francis Gentry, in which much more could have been made of the heritage of Parzival's parents later in the work. This is followed by Women Characters, discussed profitably by Marion Gibbs, who, while taking issue with more recent scholarship, especially relating to negative aspects of Herzeloyde in Book III, does not see fit to modify her conclusions, which are essentially those of her earlier monograph. Martin Jones offers a long, carefully argued, well-structured essay on the Gawan Story, which is a model of clarity and brings out cogently both the significance of the Gawan action and its relationship to that of Parzival. In his investigation of Wolfram's Grail (curiously always spelt with a lower case initial letter in the volume), Sidney Johnson gives a convenient survey of the nature, characteristics, and possible origins of that mystical object of Parzival's quest, although some parts of the argumentation, especially references to the Old Testament, based on Horgan, fail to convince. Introducing the second section, Adrian Stevens's essay on Narrative Sources argues with considerable acuity, comparing Wolfram's mode of composition with that of Chretien de Troyes (in his Erec et Enide) and evaluating in Parzival Wolfram's dependence on, and independence of, the Contes del Graal of Chretien (generally agreed to be his principal source), alongside Wolfram's references to his alleged source, the fictitious Kyot. This essay contains many insights, including how, working "within the generic form of Arthurian romance," Wolfram consciously wrote fiction, enjoying "the freedom to alter, to recast and to invent" (113). …


A compact mm-wave bandpass filter (BPF) based on the transversal signal interference concept in integrated passive-device (IPD) technology is proposed and designed in this paper. The proposed structure transmits signals through two paths. In Path 1, a $\pi$-shaped structure consisting of coupled lines, shorted stubs, and a transmission line is achieved. Path 2 is composed of a cascade of coupled lines and transmission lines. By using the IPD technology, the center frequency of the designed BPF is set to 28 GHz. A wideband BPF with multiple transmission poles and transmission zeros is implemented. In the final electromagnetic (EM) simulated results, good performances with the fractional bandwidth of 83.07% of the designed BPF are implemented.


In this paper the authors study vortex method for 2-dimensionsal Euler equations of incompressible flow in bounded domains. To approximate the initial vortex field by a sum of vortex blobs with arbitrary high accuracy, this field is extended smoothly to a small neighborhood of the boundary. And the computation is carried out in the extended domain. To construct the velocity field from vorticity, a second-order isoparametric finite element method is applied, and to solve the characteristic equations, the explicit Euler's scheme is considered. Optimal error bounds for this fully discrete scheme are obtained.


Forty years ago, climate scientists predicted the Arctic to be one of Earth's most sensitive climate regions and thus extremely vulnerable to increased CO2. The rapid and unprecedented changes observed in the Arctic confirm this prediction. Especially significant, observed sea ice loss is altering the exchange of mass, energy, and momentum between the Arctic Ocean and atmosphere. As an important component of air–sea exchange, surface turbulent fluxes are controlled by vertical gradients of temperature and humidity between the surface and atmosphere, wind speed, and surface roughness, indicating that they respond to other forcing mechanisms such as atmospheric advection, ocean mixing, and radiative flux changes. The exchange of energy between the atmosphere and surface via surface turbulent fluxes in turn feeds back on the Arctic surface energy budget, sea ice, clouds, boundary layer temperature and humidity, and atmospheric and oceanic circulations. Understanding and attributing variability and trends in surface turbulent fluxes is important because they influence the magnitude of Arctic climate change, sea ice cover variability, and the atmospheric circulation response to increased CO2. This paper reviews current knowledge of Arctic Ocean surface turbulent fluxes and their effects on climate. We conclude that Arctic Ocean surface turbulent fluxes are having an increasingly consequential influence on Arctic climate variability in response to strong regional trends in the air-surface temperature contrast related to the changing character of the Arctic sea ice cover. Arctic Ocean surface turbulent energy exchanges are not smooth and steady but rather irregular and episodic, and consideration of the episodic nature of surface turbulent fluxes is essential for improving Arctic climate projections.


Separation of enantiomers in two sets of 1,3-dipolar
cycloadditions products was carried out. Structure of products
was solved by NMR.HPLC on nonracemic sorbents of 1,3-dipolar
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| african arts WINTER 2017 VOL. 50, NO. 4 Fatimah Tuggar is a multidisciplinary artist who uses technology as both medium and subject in her work to serve as metaphors for power dynamics. She combines, objects, images, and sounds from a variety of cultures, geographies, and histories to comment on how media and technology diversely impact local and global realities. Tuggar's work has been widely exhibited at international venues in over twentyve countries and has been the subject of various panels and articles. Her art education covers three continents and a broader range of disciplines, traditions, processes, and materials. She is currently an Associate Professor of Foundations Studies at the Kansas City Art Institute. firstname.lastname@example.com Methods, Making, and West African Influences in the Work of Fatimah Tuggar


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 What did Indonesia's independence struggle look like at the "outskirts" of the nation? Mary Margaret Steedly's Rifle Reports: A Story of Indonesian Independence considers this question through an ethnographic history documenting the war experience of residents in the Karo highlands of Sumatra. Based on over 100 interviews with Karo residents—mostly of women—conducted between 1993 and 1995, Steedly attempts to de-center the male-centric and Java-centric history of Indonesian independence. While women are left out of most of the war's heroic narratives, Steedly finds a rich history of women contributing to the struggle. While Indonesia's periphery is often described as only tangentially effected by revolutionary events, Steedly finds the Karo highlands were a point of intense fighting and that the Karo people took up the nationalist cause with zeal. Through a synthesis of interview data with diverse secondary sources, including the song "Erkata Bedil" which inspired the book's title, Steedly effectively brings women's unrecognized war experiences into the nationalist narrative.


We consider smooth families of planar polynomial vector fields $\{X_\mu\}_{\mu\in\Lambda}$, where $\Lambda$ is an open subset of $\mathbb{R}^N$, for which there is a hyperbolic polycycle $\Gamma$ that is persistent (i.e., such that none of the separatrix connections is broken along the family). It is well known that in this case the cyclicity of $\Gamma$ at $\mu_0$ is zero unless its graphic number $r(\mu_0)$ is equal to one. It is also well known that if $r(\mu_0)=1$ (and some generic conditions on the return map are verified) then the cyclicity of $\Gamma$ at $\mu_0$ is one, i.e., exactly one limit cycle bifurcates from $\Gamma$. In this paper we prove that this limit cycle approaches $\Gamma$ exponentially fast and that its period goes to infinity as $1/|r(\mu)-1|$ when $\mu\to\mu_0.$ Moreover, we prove that if those generic conditions are not satisfied, although the cyclicity may be exactly 1, the behavior of the period of the limit cycle is not determined.


For the self-affine IFS [Formula: see text] satisfying the weak separation condition (WSC), let [Formula: see text] be the corresponding self-affine set. It is proven in this paper that [Formula: see text] has positive Lebesgue measure only if the interior of [Formula: see text] is non-empty.


The pteridophytic flora of the Fengyangshan Nature Reserve of Zhejiang Province is composed of 196 species and 7 varieties, 74 genera and 37 families. The representative families are Dryopteridaceae, Polypodiaceae, Thelypteridaceae, Athyriaceae, Aspleniaceae, Selaginellaceae and Hymenophyllaceae. The main genera are Dryopteris, Asplenium, Selaginella, Arachniodes, Plagiogyria, Pteris and Lepisorus. The top families' distribution types are cosmopolitan and pantropic ones; the main genera's are pantropical ones, while the species distribution type is belong to the East Asia one and represented to the feature of subtropics transition to warm temperated area type. In the 6 reservations, the genetic relationship of Fengyangshan Nature Reserve's ferns is intimate to Jiulongshan Nature Reserve's . There are 57 species endemic to China in Fengyangshan Nature Reserve.


The research on vegetable sources and the screening of raw materials for identifying new antioxidants has recently intensified. Among the natural antioxidants, phenolic compounds, chlorophylls and carotenoids, are reported to play a key role in preventing oxidation and have been already correlated to the stability of virgin olive oils (VOO). Among emergent new technologies, ultrasonic enrichment is very promising. The present work is carried out to optimize the enrichment of virgin olive oil with myrtle (Myrtus comminus L.) by using ultrasound apparatus. 5g powder pericarp of myrtle fruit with 50 ml of virgin olive oil was subjected to the ultrasonic waves on a water bath at a different condition temperature /time. The studied kinetics showed that the highest level of TPCs is about 144.44 mg GAE/kg of enriched olive oil at 45°C/45min. The highest level of carotenoids is about 5.82mg/kg of enriched olive oil at 30.38°C/45min. Finally, the highest level of chlorophylls is about 10.75mg/kg of enriched olive oil at 25.28°C/45min.


The present invention relates to a method for purifying a bacterial cytolysin. The present invention relates to, for example, for the purification of pneumolysin to a bacterial cytolysin method. In the presence of detergent and high salt produced excellent cytolysin purified by a single chromatographic step soluble aggregated cytolysin to bind to hydrophobic interaction chromatography material.


A W-band 2.5 GHz bandwidth pulse generator comprising a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) and a novel pulse former in a 65 nm CMOS technology is presented. The proposed sub-harmonic pumped pulse former, which plays roles as both a frequency doubler and a pulse former, is designed to obtain high efficiency using a transformer-based current reuse circuit. The VCO is implemented with a parallel combining transformer, which makes it insensitive to load variations due to pulse formation. Measurements show that the pulse generator achieves −1 dBm peak output power at 79 GHz. It can generate 800 ps pulse signals with an RF carrier of 76.1–79.6 GHz, achieving the energy cost rate of 50 pJ/pulse with a 1.25 GHz pulse repetition period.


Copyright: © 2013 Yang Z. 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 Oral drug absorption is usually dependent on drug's physicochemical properties, formulation design and physiological conditions of gastrointestinal tract [1]. It is well known that physicochemical properties of drugs, like molecular weight, crystal structure, lipophilicity, pKa could generally determine the absorption mechanism [2]. Physiological conditions of gastrointestinal tract, i.e., expression level of drug metabolizing enzymes (polymorphism), empty/transit of GI tract, food effect, and drug-drug interaction caused by induction or inhibition of metabolism all contributed to the rate and extent of oral drug absorption [3,4]. In the last decade, progress on transporter studies showed increasingly significance of carriermediated absorption in drug development and clinical applications [5,6]. With more understanding of drug transporters, many previous puzzles on clinical pharmacokinetics and drug-drug interaction could be well explained. Furthermore, targeting on transporters also provided unique strategy to improve drug absorption or overcome unfavorable absorption barrier. This editorial aimed to briefly outline the major transporters and their roles on oral drug absorption, especially to efflux transporters.


The focus of this work is a systematic study of the passive gait of a compass-like, planar, biped robot on inclined slopes. The robot is kinematically equivalent to a double pendulum, possessing two kneeless legs with point masses and a third point mass at the "hip" joint. Three parameters, namely, the ground-slope angle and the normalized mass and length of the robot describe its gait. We show that in response to a continuous change in any one of its parame ters, the symmetric and steady stable gait of the unpowered robot gradually evolves through a regime of bifurcations characterized by progressively complicated asymmetric gaits, eventually arriving at an apparently chaotic gait where no two steps are identical. The robot can maintain this gait indefinitely. A necessary (but not sufficient) condition for the stability of such gaits is the contraction of the "phase-fluid" volume. For this frictionless robot, the volume contraction, which we compute, is caused by the dissipative effects of the ground-impact model. In the chaotic regime, the fractal dimension of the robot's strange attractor We present a novel graphical technique based on the first return map that compactly captures the entire evolution of the gait, from symmetry to chaos. Additional passive dissipative elements in the robot joint result in a significant improvement in the stability and the versatility of the gait, and provide a rich repertoire for simple control laws.