Wireless sensor network applications are becoming the main concern of several studies. Not only they allow to maintain more varied measures in several fields notably that of real time hydraulic systems control and surveillance. But their dense deployment decreases granularity which can lead to the comprehension of some unexplainable phenomena. However, the effectiveness of a sensor network not only depends on the quality of the sensors individually, but also on their collaboration. The latter is only possible with reliable routing protocols which have to adjust to fit the constraints imposed by the application. With this aim in mind, we suggest in the current work a new extension of SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) that we call SCTP-WSN (wireless sensor network). This extension will have as a main function to improve the communicative performances of sparse wireless sensor networks with dynamic topologies. In order to do this, this extension will have to improve the availability of the links in sparse sensor networks by a better integration of the Multihoming concept, representing therefore a more reliable data collection subsystem for a real time detection of possible disorders affecting drinking water supply systems.


Plant breeding aims to provide plants with improved traits or novel features that could help to overcome sustainability goals. To this end, plant biotechnology needs to incorporate new genetic engineering tools that combine increased precision with higher breeding power. The recently discovered genome editing tools based on CRISPR/Cas9 technology have opened the way to modify plant?s genomes with unprecedented precision. On the other hand, new synthetic biology approaches based on modularity and standardization of genetic elements have enabled the construction of increasingly complex and refined genetic devices applied to plant breeding. With the ultimate goal of expanding the toolbox of plant breeding techniques, this thesis describes the development and adaptation to plant systems of two new breeding tools: a site-specific nuclease (SSNs), and a modular gene switch for the regulation of transgene expression. In a first part, this thesis describes the adoption of the SSN CRISPR/Cas12a for plant expression and compares the efficiency of Acidaminococcus (As) and Lachnospiraceae (Lb) Cas12a variants with the previously described Streptococcus pyogens Cas9 (SpCas9) in eight Nicotiana benthamiana loci using transient expression experiments. LbCas12a showed highest average mutagenesis activity in the loci assayed. This activity was also confirmed in stable genome editing experiments performed in three different model plants, namely N. benthamiana, Solanum lycopersicum and Arabidopsis thaliana. For the latter, off-target effects in Cas12a-free segregating lines were discarded at genomic level by deep sequencing. Collectively, the results show that LbCas12a is a viable alternative to SpCas9 for plant genome engineering. In a second part, this work describes the engineering of a new reversible genetic switch aimed at controlling gene expression in plants with higher precision than traditional inducible systems. This switch, based on the bacteriophage PhiC31 recombination system, was built as a modular device made of standard DNA parts and designed to control the transcriptional state (on or off) of two genes of interest by alternative inversion of a central DNA regulatory element. The state of the switch can be externally and reversibly operated by the action of the recombination actuators and its kinetics, memory, and reversibility were extensively characterized in N. benthamiana using both transient expression and stable transgenics. Altogether, this thesis shows the design and functional characterization of refined tools for genome engineering and synthetic biology in plants that now has been expanded with the CRISPR/Cas12a gene editing system and the phage PhiC31-based toggle switch.


In this paper, various changes of the substituents on imidazole cation were explored, Including location, size and nature. Not only Investigated the impact of these factors on melting point of ionic liquids separately, but also comprehensive analyzed the impact of several factors common on the melting point. Based on thoroughly exploration of the affecting principles of various factors, the essential rule of the substituents and melting point was gained.


Using Delaunay simplex theory,parameters and their statistic of Delaunay simplex in molecular dynamics simulation configurations of molten salts represented by LiCl were achieved.The paper emphasizes on the analysis of the volume,area,tetrahedron coefficient,Kirie simplex in the melting process and their trend with time changing.By percolation theory and coloring method,it is shown that the molting process is the appearance and bunchiness of the simplex with large area,which in turn results in the percolation,while the root of fluidity is the appearance and increase of the simplex with large volume.At the same time,the trend of Kirie simplex is also confirmed by the distribution of tetrahedron coefficient.


By using a process-oriented ocean model forced with data from a gridded synoptic database, net precipitation values (precipitation minus evaporation) over the Baltic Sea are obtained. For a range o ...


This dissertation represents method concerning high performance prism LGP design in 17 inch TFT-LCD. By means of developing LGP with total size of 8mm that has prism on both upper side and bottom side, it is superior to previous printing way in gaining high brightness. It can realize actual material simulation on prism LGP production using 17inch injection process and about 20% luminance enhancement is achieved based on such method.. 1. Objectives and Background With time going on, cost down consciousness seems to have been a tendency in the main field of the TFT-LCD industry due to the advanced manufacturing equipments of various generations. LGP occupies 10~15% in manufacturing cost of the TFT-LCD but the technical development for cost down is laggard. However cost curtailment on fundamental materials has already arrived at a limit in the present BLU market and the market demand of efficiency on its main parts surpasses the level of the technical development progress. That's why former way does not use the functional characteristic optical sheets of high price like prism or the polarized prism but adopts only diffusion sheet as the main parts for high luminance. It provides probability through optical simulation on prism LGP. Here we can make prediction of efficiency by setting up the prism LGP structure and performing optical simulation on such main part of BLU. The basic LGP prism figure is shown in Fig. 2 Fig. 1 LCD Backlight unit Structure Fig.2 LGP Structure of Upper prism and Lower prism According to Fig.1 and Fig.2, prism LGP increases light concentration efficiency as a result of setting prism of same pitch on upper surface and controls overall light density in intaglio direction of lamp and horizontal prism on lower surface. Also we use injection molding according to engineering method to form the entity and achieve cost reduction by shortening the length of the process compared with the existing process taking printing way after the PMMA base sheet has been made . The optical Pitch1 Pitch2 Angle° Prism sheet Protector Lamp Housing Light Guide plate Diffuser sheet


I and opinions. When functioning properly the social shock absorbers of liberalism will finally stabilize society and open the road to sustainable and dynamic development for Islam. Islamism knows no bounds in its criticism of democracy: it seeks complete monopoly over everything and control over all spheres of human life—something that liberalism does not allow it to accomplish. No wonder, Islamism treats liberalism as a contagious and dynamically developing disease. Hizb ut-Tahrir is out to discredit liberalism and show itself as the true defender of Islam; it has likened our times to the distant past when Islam was first formed as a religion and has proclaimed itself a Messiah of our epoch. This organization has learned well that "rules should be studied in detail so as to discover how to violate them in the best way possible." By establishing its very restrictive standards of piety, the party has contracted the field of legitimacy; by the same token it has made its ideology highly intolerant and radical and has intensified the Islamic side of individual and collective thinking and conduct by presenting freedom, liberalism, the West, and all those who share these values and support these institutions as enemies. In this way Hizb ut-Tahrir is compromising Islam and its followers; it is a source of concern and fear; it tries to adjust its ideas to Islam and sow doubt in the hearts and minds of the faithful about the future of Islam's social and political potential. In other words, by "reviving" Islam Hizb ut-Tahrir has achieved the opposite: it is compromising the key Islamic values. The party's social ideas are generating many questions: how can totalitarianism, censorship, and systemic control raise the standard of living? How can they help develop intellectual potential, creativity, and production in Muslim societies? Is the party socially naive or is it plotting against Islam and the Muslims? Islam in Central Asia is an eternal factor. It has been there and will stay in the region. We can say that it is a cultural matrix of the local nations. Students of religion, analysts, experts, and politicians should carefully study the phenomenon of religious extremism in Central Asia in order to find a way to combine Islam with a secular state, and Islam with democracy.


Precision agriculture techniques were employed to study the impact of the spatiotemporal variations of soil compaction on the performance of potato crop during its various growth stages. The study has been conducted on a 30 ha centre pivot irrigated potato field, located in Wadi Al‐Dawasir area in Saudi Arabia. In situ soil compaction measurements were collected, in conjunction with Sentinel‐2A satellite data, and correlated spatiotemporally against potato crop growth and yield parameters. The univariate and bivariate Moran's function (Moran's I), the linear regression and the analysis of variance (ANOVA) techniques were used to analyse the data and examine the interrelationships. The spatial correlations between the measured variables revealed high clustering, producing Moran's I of 0.87, 0.79 and 0.57 for soil compaction, yield and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), respectively. Compaction‐yield relationship revealed a relatively high significant negative spatial correlation (Moran's I = 0.68). While, the spatial correlation between the average values of compaction and NDVI has negatively produced a Moran's I value of 0.45 (at 0.001 significance level), when 999 permutations were tested for all relationships. A significant positive correlation was observed between high compaction and high proportion of small size tubers, with R2 and P > F values of 0.65 and .0001, respectively. In contrast, a significant negative correlation has been obtained between high compaction and high proportion of large size tubers, with R2 and P > F values of 0.57 and .0001, respectively. Understanding the causes of disparity in the productivity of agricultural fields will help decision‐makers and farmers to take proactive actions towards better agricultural practices.


The aim of this experiment was to study the pattern of long bone development on broiler chickens belonging to different genetic groups under different rearing densities. Evaluations of performance, carcass yield, bone growth, bone mineral content, bone breaking strength and optical radiographic density of tibia, femur and humerus were performed. The experimental design was a split-splot where the main plots were a combination of three genetic groups and 2 rearing densities in a factorial arrangement, and age was considered a secondary plot, so there were 6 treatments with 5 replications per each one. The three genetic groups evaluated were Ross 308, Hybro PG and Isa Label JA57, which were reared in 2 densities: 10 and 16 birds/m. All broilers fed the same diets: initial – 1-21 days; growing – 22-35 days and final – 36-42 days of age. For the evaluation of bone growth, two broilers per replication were slaughtered at 1, 7, 14, 21, 28, 35 and 42 days of age. The long bones (tibia, femur and humerus) were collected and frozen for later analyses. There were no significant interactions between genetic groups and rearing densities for the evaluated parameters. These results did not show differences between genetic groups reared at different densities, being humerus width of Ross 308 and Hybro PG and bone breaking strength of Isa Label JA57 the exceptions. This genetic group also presented a lower performance and bone development when compared to Ross 308 and Hybro PG. Therefore, it was concluded that the three genetic groups presented the same standard bone growth curve, which is genetically defined and expressed no matter the genetic improvement program or rearing density adopted.


Facial recognition systems often struggle with detecting faces in poses that deviate from the frontal view. Therefore, this paper investigates the impact of variations in yaw poses on the accuracy of facial recognition systems and presents a robust approach optimized to detect faces with pose variations ranging from 0◦ to ±90◦ . The proposed system integrates MTCNN, FaceNet, and SVC, and is trained and evaluated on the Taiwan dataset, which includes face images with diverse yaw poses. The training dataset consists of 89 subjects, with approximately 70 images per subject, and the testing dataset consists of 49 subjects, each with approximately 5 images. Our system achieved a training accuracy of 99.174% and a test accuracy of 96.970%, demonstrating its efficiency in detecting faces with pose variations. These findings suggest that the proposed approach can be a valuable tool in improving facial recognition accuracy in real-world scenarios.


Readers have long recognised the importance of Joyce and Proust on Beckett's artistic theory and practise.Yet despite the impressive body of criticism document-ing such in£uences, Beckett's signi¢cant debts to one of his greatest early masters, Andre¤ Gide, have gone virtually unnoticed.The ¢rst part of this essay uses archival materials to reconstruct Beckett's theory of the modern novel at a crucial point in 1930, immediately following his Proust monograph and preceding his ¢rst novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women , by only months. It is shown that Beckett's novelistic theory at this time shifted away from his thinking in Proust toward an emphasis on divided subjectivity (as articulated in Gide's Dostoievsky ), fragmented form, and a 'new structure' of the novel in Les Faux-Monnayeurs . An examination of Dream 's debts to Gide follows, and a new reading of the novel emerges. It is argued that in Dream Beckett deployed a counter-novelistic theory inspired by Gide and his Dostoevsky to parody and subvert what Beckett termed the 'European' tradition.


In this paper, we present an elegant solution to the 2D LIDAR-camera extrinsic calibration problem. Specifically, we develop a simple method for establishing correspondences between a line-scan (2D) LIDAR and a camera using a small calibration target that only contains a straight line. Moreover, we formulate the nonlinear least-squares problem for finding the unknown 6 degree-of-freedom (dof) transformation between the two sensors, and solve it analytically to determine its global minimum. Additionally, we examine the conditions under which the unknown transformation becomes unobservable, which can be used for avoiding ill-conditioned configurations. Finally, we present extensive simulation and experimental results for assessing the performance of the proposed algorithm as compared to alternative analytical approaches.


Abstract : Compartment syndrome (CS) as a result of blast or traumatic injury is a devastating problem in the battlefield. The ultimate goal of this study is to develop an integrated toolkit of novel, biodegradable wound dressing composites for early stage treatment of CS. Composites made from the tyrosine-based block copolymers and silica based sol-gels were designed as an absorbent to remove fluid from injured muscle compartments and as wound dressings to deliver therapeutic agents to the compartment. This in vitro study reports the controlled release of protein analog and antibiotics from the room temperature processed sol-gel particles. Furthermore, this study reports the fabrication of the composite wound dressings with mechanical properties for the clinical application.


The article considers the features of the assessment of material and production stocks extracted from retired items of fixed assets, which, in accordance with FSB 5/2019, which entered into force on January 1, 2021, and PBU 16/02, updated in 2019, are evaluated in different ways, depending on the purpose — to use them in the reporting organization or to sell them to the side. The article presents examples of the assessment and accounting of the material values extracted from the objects of fixed assets, depending on the ratio and value of the residual value of the disposed objects of fixed assets, the cost of dismantling the object of fixed assets, the cost of preparing the extracted material values for sale and evaluating them at the net sale value.


Aim: The aim of this study is to correlate specific finger print pattern (Dermatoglyphics) and periodontal status of individuals. Methodology: The study included 60 subjects, aged between 17 to 65years, diagnosed with periodontitis in the study group and 30 periodontally healthy individuals in the control group. Finger print patterns were recorded and analyzed according to the Swedish classification of patterns. Results: It was observed that Ulnar loops was the commonest finger print pattern across both groups irrespective of their periodontal status, however it was not statistically significant. Conclusion: Ulnar loops were found to be the commonest finger print type in both periodontally healthy and diseased groups, however it had no statistically significant coherence with either.


Aim: Due to the lack of proper training, female-headed households are suddenly faced with a lot of responsibilities without prior training, as a result of which they suffer stressful conditions and psychological pressure, and finally, the self-efficacy of these females is affected. The purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based compassion therapy and positive cognitive-behavioral therapy on female-headed households' self-efficacy. Methods: The design of this research was quasi-experimental with pre-test, post-test and three-month follow-up with a control group. The statistical population of research included female-headed households in Shahrekord in the year 2022. In this research, 60 women whose self-efficacy questionnaire score were between 17 and 34 were selected through purposive sampling and were randomly assigned to 2 experimental groups and one control group (20 persons in each group). Then, the experimental groups were treated with eight 120-minute mindfulness-based compassion therapy and positive cognitive-behavioral therapy. The data were collected from the GSE-17 self-efficacy questionnaire, and finally, were analyzed through repeated measure analysis of variance. Findings: The findings showed that in the two stages of post-test and follow-up, the average score of self-efficacy in the two experimental groups was significantly different from the control group. Also, the results of the findings indicated the greater effectiveness of positive cognitive-behavioral therapy. Conclusion: Based on the results of this research, it is suggested to use positive cognitive-behavioral therapy along with other treatment methods to increase the self-efficacy of female-headed households.


The mechanical behaviour of the RFX machine is monitored during the pulses and the baking operations, both to verify the agreement between the actual and the design values of strains and displacements and to assess the effects of possible faults or anomalous operations of the machine. A specific measurement system was designed to provide quasistatic and dynamic measurements of strains and displacements. The paper describes the criteria which guided the design of the system, pointing out the specific requirements which had to be met to obtain a complete and correct mechanical information of the machine, as confirmed by the first results obtained during the RFX operations.


Compared to minimization problems, the min-max landscape in machine learning applications is considerably more convoluted because of the existence of cycles and similar phenomena. Such oscillatory behaviors are well-understood in the convex-concave regime, and many algorithms are known to overcome them. In this paper, we go beyond the convex-concave setting and we characterize the convergence properties of a wide class of zeroth-, first-, and (scalable) second-order methods in non-convex/non-concave problems. In particular, we show that these state-of-the-art min-max optimization algorithms may converge with arbitrarily high probability to attractors that are in no way min-max optimal or even stationary. Spurious convergence phenomena of this type can arise even in two-dimensional problems, a fact which corroborates the empirical evidence surrounding the formidable difficulty of training GANs.


During recent years, the evaluation of collections has been very important for libraries, because it has allowed to improve the quality of their materials from the goals sought by organizations, ensuring existing resources and budgets allocated for new materials. This paper designs a methodology from existing currently to assess the specialized library collection of St. John of the Cross and is proposed to be based guideline for use by other peer organizations. The purpose of the study was to identify the existing assessment models collections and bibliographic material characteristics in Library Mario Valenzuela the Javeriana University and the Library St. John of the Cross the religious community of Discalced Carmelites to propose methodologies for data collection and analyzing bibliographic resources. Finally, as a result of the evaluation of the collection, basic suggestions for improving the bibliography the library St. John of the Cross and reuse model to collect data in libraries theology that want to start a collection development were given.


The current research is done as a part of the project "Urban retrospective of middle-sized and smallsized populated localities of Ob-Yenisei waterway", which is directed on research of the transformation of residential areas of one of the most important water communications of Siberia, with the a starting point in Tyumen city and ending point in Kyakhta. With this retrospective it's possible to differentiate typology of populated localities, located in the coastal zone of the waterway in the 18 and 19 centuries. It's managed to record the summary and quantitative data of every type of settlement, to classify their connection with transit ways. In the 18 century land routes rarely crossed localities, and the main part of them was located nearby the rivers, lakes, etc. In 19 century local residential areas (farms, small land plot areas, etc.) located by land routes started to grow and transform into villages. Comparative analysis of settlement system revealed that high proportion of historical locations, toponymy, and historical planning structures, that take a part of modern settlement system in 21 century has remained. To sum up, it's managed to record chronological periods of urbanization from the second half of 18 century until the early 19 century.


Lanthanon doped Mn-Zn ferrites(Mn0.5Zn0.5RExFe2-xO4) were prepared by using oxide coprecipitation method with FeSO4·7H2O,MnSO4·H2O,ZnSO4·7H2O and RE2O3(RE=Y、Nd、Gd、Dy),HCl as the raw materials,sodium hydroxide solution as the precipitating agent and hydrogen peroxide as the oxidizing reagent.The samples of Mn0.5Zn0.5RExFe2-xO4 were characterized by FT-IR,XRD and VSM.The effect of lanthanon doping category and amount were discussed on structure and magnetic properties of Mn-Zn ferrites.The experiment results indicate that lanthanon doping amount should not exceed 0.02 to maintain Mn-Zn ferrites' regular cubic spinal crystal structure and their good magnetic properties.The average crystalline size of Mn-Zn ferrites' particles decrease monotonously with the increasing of the content(x) and the saturation magnetization intensity of doped lanthanon Y or Nd of Mn-Zn ferrites is weakening,while the saturation magnetization intensity of a few amount of doped lanthanon Gd or Dy of Mn-Zn ferrites is greater than that of pure Mn-Zn ferrites.At x=0.02,the saturation magnetization intensity of doped lanthanon Gd or Dy of Mn-Zn ferrites reached the maximum of 26.5 emu/g and 29.3 emu/g respectively.


In 2016, FilzFelt and sister company Spinneybeck made a great impression on the design industry with their acoustical wall systems. Spinneybeck was awarded the Industrial Design Best of Year award in the category of Wall Application: Acoustical for its Beller Collection, which is an acoustically absorptive composite cork wall system. The product is made of waste material left over during the production of wine stops and provides an aesthetic means of improving the acoustic properties of any living space. FilzFelt also made headlines in the design industry with their product line ARO Block. They were awarded the Industrial Design Best of Year Honoree in the same category. Their product is made of felt, which is available in many shapes and colors, providing an interesting means of covering a wall with an acoustically absorbing material while also providing texture to the wall. The company has many products for a home or business environment. These two award winning companies are not the only ones who are putting out beautiful products that can be of interest to the acoustics community. A wide assortment of products can be found on the market. From bookshelves to office dividers, meeting and phone booths, and various types of wall mounted sound absorbers, companies such as Framery, Caruso Acoustic, and Kirei are continuously putting out innovative products which can help us mitigate acoustic annoyances surrounding us in our busy lives, whether we are at the office, or in the comfort of our homes. More information regarding these products can be found on the company websites (Figures 1 and 2).


Purpose – The paper summarises the scope, methodology and main findings of a PhD thesis about how the use of metaphor can be used to constructively influence project team behaviours. The purpose of this paper is to inform other candidates on the experience of the research journey using action research in a project environment and highlight how creative metaphor can stimulate relationship building in team environments. Design/methodology/approach – The research approach that was used in the thesis is described in this paper. Candidate and supervisor reflections are shared on how the thesis journey process was experienced, including some of the challenges of doing academic research in a practitioner environment. Findings – This research provides a simple and pragmatic reflective model that enables leaders and team members to increase the awareness of opportunities for collaborative behaviours. Facilitating creative metaphor conversations around model engages team members and leads them towards understanding...


In this paper,mathematicalformula are suggested to determine inductance and capacitance values and analysis of step input response of RLC coupled high speed distributed interconnects assuming the length of the line as finite and semi finite lines as well. The values of distributed resistance, capacitance, and inductance are calculated at different technology node 32nm, 45nm, 65nm, 90nm, 130nm, and 180nm. .In addition, the effect of technology and design parameters on the resistance, capacitance, and inductance of the distributed interconnects.


Experimental models of pain include tests of response thesholds to high intensity stimuli (acute pain tests) and changes in spontaneous or evoked behavioral responses in animals with peripheral injury or inflammation (persistent pain models). Acute thermal pain is modeled by the hot‐plate and tail‐flick test, while persistent pain can be modeled by the formalin test. This unit presents protocols for all three of these tests, including preparation of animals (rats or mice), administration of a compound being tested for its analgesic properties and data collection. Curr. Protoc. Neurosci. 41:8.9.1‐8.9.16. © 2007 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.


Today one can observe the unique process of forming a new generation, the generation of social networks. Rapidly evolving Internet technologies and social networks have already become for modern young people not just an additional convenient tool, but also a vital necessity. However, social networks nowadays are not only new opportunities, but also new threats. They are the space, where such concepts as communication and interaction change their ordinary meanings. Internet addiction, criminal and extremist organizations that use social networks have caused the development of new global problems of modern society. Because of that, the main research task of the article is to understand how all these processes influenced the life of modern Russian youth.


Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) complicated by multiple myeloma (MM) is a relatively rare clinical presentation, and is easily ignored due to their similar or even identical manifestation, which may lead to misdiagnosis and mistreatment.


Serum calcium was found to be an independent, prospective risk factor for myocardial infarction. We have previously shown that altered arterial reactivity in the course of primary hyperparathyroidism, a disease characterized by hypercalcaemia, may predominantly involve the arterial media and not the endothelium as observed in patients with various stages of atherosclerosis. The present study was performed to test whether successful parathyroidectomy can improve vascular reactivity in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism.


Adam Smith had a vision of capitalism that was much more elevated than that of most neoclassical economists. His ideal society would satisfy the ends of human nature as he identified them, and it is from this standard that Smith criticized defective societies, praised good ones, and propounded a detailed agenda of reform. His views on human flourishing were also much richer than is often thought to be the case. Smith said that there are five explicit ends of nature (self-preservation, procreation of the species, order, happiness, and perfection of the species) [Smith 1976a, 77, 166, 16811 and an implicit goal of freedom. According to Smith, the satisfaction of the ends of nature could only occur in a particular type of prosperous, modem, free-trade commercial society. But I will argue that Smith's six ends together constitute a "thick"2 notion of the human good, one that is not bourgeois. What role does government play in the achievement of the ends of nature? In the Wealth of Nations (WN), Smith said that "according to the system of natural liberty, the sovereign has only three duties to attend to," namely, external security, internal security (law and law enforcement), and "certain public works and certain public institutions" [Smith 1976b, 687-8]. Apart from these three duties, there is also a littlenoticed fourth duty:


As the important source for discovering new competitive technological intelligence involved in enterprises,patents can be analyzed to identify the technological strategy and the prospect of competitors.In this paper,based on the patent citation information,an enterprise citation network is established.Accordingly based on the modified PageRank algorithm,a novel algorithm is provided to evaluate the technological influence power of enterprises.Experiments with such method have been done by using the patent dataset in the field of fluid-pressure and analogous brake systems during the 25-year period from 1975 to 1999 from United States Patent and Trademark Office.Compared with the traditional assessment indicator based on number of citations,the proposed method has been found to be more reasonable to identify the technological influential enterprises,which gives a comprehensive consideration of the account of citing enterprises,the influence of citing enterprises and the citation strength between them.This study is helpful for the enterprise to discover the potential technological competitors which take the lead in the industry.


PURPOSE: A simple and inexpensive repeater using a power switch module in a TDD(Time Division Duplexing) repeater is provided to change input/output terminals of an LNA(Low Noise Amplifier) and an HPA(High Power Amplifier) into a transmit-antenna or a receive-antenna in uplink and downlink by using power switch modules, thereby reducing the size of an external housing while decreasing power consumption. CONSTITUTION: Filters(61,62) pass occupied frequency bandwidths only. Power switch modules(11,12) change input/output terminals of an LNA(20) and an HPA(40) into a transmit-antenna or a receive-antenna. The LNA(20) amplifies a weak signal received in an antenna(71) while minimizing a noise. An up/down convert module(30) converts the amplified signal into an IF(Intermediate Frequency) signal to improve an SNR(Signal to Noise Ratio) by passing an occupied frequency bandwidth only of the converted signal, and controls a necessary gain. The HPA(40) amplifies the signal with high power. A control module(50) is used for controlling a gain, analyzing/responding to an external control signal, and controlling a repeater(90).


This study presents a wavelet-based multifractal approach to describe qualitatively and quantitatively the complex temporal patterns of atmospheric data. Monthly time series of geopotential height provided by the National Center for Environmental Protection (NCEP) and daily Northern Annual Modes (NAM) times series provided by Baldwin are used in this study. The results obtained for the stratosphere and the troposphere show that the series display two different multifractal behaviors. For large time scales (several years) the main Hölder exponent for the stratosphere and the troposphere data are negative indicating the absence of correlations. The negative Hölder exponents imply the presence of strong singularities in the time series. For short time scales (from few days to one year), the stratosphere series present long-range correlations with Hölder exponents larger than 0.5, whereas the troposphere data are still uncorrelated. Obviously, in both cases stratosphere and troposphere, the main Hölder exponents increases when the time range decreases.


The pivotal Jamaican agricultural programme of the 1980s, AGRO 21, has so far been analyzed solely in terms of its failures, and its inability to advance agriculture. Such an approach obscures important transformations instituted withinJamaica 's body politic. AGRO 21 represented a sea-change which shifted the target of agricultural production away from land-based working people to agrarian entrepreneurs. It effected this partly by reduc ing the Ministry of Agriculture into a secondary status, and limiting the roles of land-based working people. Thus, beyond its failures, AGRO 21 concerns the successful repositioning and transitioning of theJamaican state to a different accumulation process, suited to the current neoliberal globalization agenda. The project also signalled a new state identity ? the basis for a transformed state/nonstate relationship. "If the widespread consensus of the 1950s and 1960s was that the future belonged to a capitalism without losers, securely managed by national government acting in concert, then the late 1980s and 1990s have been dominated by a consensus based on the opposite set of assumptions: namely that global markets are basically uncontrollable and that 'the only way to avoid becoming a loser ? whether as a nation, or organization, or an individual ? is to be as competitive as possible" (Paul du Gay, 2000: 349). In this paper, I examine the state's role under an emerging neoliberal globalization project. I would like to shift the discussion of the 1980s, par ticularly the role of AGRO 21, away from the typical focus on failure and inappropriateness of technology, to which it has been subjected and instead to recast the 1980s as the start of a sea-change in the policy orien tation of the Jamaican state. Following the creditors' guidelines, the Jamaican state attempted to ensure capital a leading role in the agricul tural sector. It did so in many ways, reminiscent of the 1960s, but with


[1] We present a Monte Carlo study of the atomic hot oxygen corona of Venus. In this model we consider elastic, inelastic, and quenching collisions between the traced hot particle and the ambient neutral atmosphere as well as differential cross sections to determine the scattering angle in the collisions. We also include rotational and vibrational excitation energies for the calculation of the initial energy of the produced hot oxygen atoms. Our results indicate that the differential cross sections and the fraction between elastic, inelastic, and quenching collisions are the most sensitive parameters which effect the corona density. We found that the hot O densities inferred from PVO observations can only be reproduced during high solar activity based on a forward scattering model but without inelastic and quenching collisions. The corona densities for low solar activity (VEX solar conditions) are about a factor of 2–3 smaller than for high solar activity.


As an effective fast simulation technique in Monte Carlo simulation,Importance Sampling algorithm aims to reduce the variance of a given simulation estimator,so as to reduce the number of simulation samples and the simulation time.In this paper,a short overview of Importance Sampling research is presented,the purpose of research on Importance Sampling and the corresponding basic theory are introduced briefly.Then the Importance Density function is summarized,and some typical application results of Importance Sampling are given.Finally,some crucial issues are proposed for future study.


This article responds to a puzzling gap in the otherwise extensive literature on constitutional rights and judicial review: a lack of attention to the authority of constitutional rights. Defenders and critics of judicially enforceable constitutional rights typically argue on grounds of political morality, contending that democratic legal systems should (or should not) adopt constitutional rights as a matter of policy. That issue becomes irrelevant if the subjects of constitutional rights – government officials, legislators, judges, citizens – have little or no good reason to obey those rights. This is a question of legal authority; but most treatments of constitutional rights ignore it.The article begins to fill that gap by assessing the two dominant strains of rights-justification, Substantive and Procedural justifications, as accounts of legal authority. Substantive justifications defend constitutional rights as means of promoting morally good results; prominent theories from Alexander Hamilton's to Alexander Bickel's to Randy Barnett's are types of Substantive account. The author argues that Substantive justifications, while intuitively appealing and therefore common in public and political discourse, fail to persuasively explain the necessary authority of constitutional rights. In contrast, Procedural justifications defend constitutional rights as means of settling disputes about good results; the "representation-reinforcement" approach of John Hart Ely and Carolene Products Footnote Four is the best-known Procedural account. The article contends that Procedural justifications fare considerably better than their Substantive rivals as accounts of constitutional authority. In short, people have better reasons to obey constitutional rights on the Procedural approach – a considerable point in its favor, to say the least.


For a Hilbert space H, the (orthogonal) projections on H are those bounded operators given by orthogonal projection onto a closed subspace of H. Two such projections are equal modulo compact if they differ by a compact operator, that is, they have the same image in the Calkin algebra, the quotient of the bounded operators by the compact operators. Using Hjorth's theory of turbulence, we show that this equivalence relation is not classifiable by countable structures, and thus there are no (countable) algebraic complete invariants for the projections in the Calkin algebra. We also analyze the complexity of equivalence modulo finite rank operators, and show that this does not admit complete invariants given by the orbits of any Polish group action. These notes were prepared for a talk given in the Logic Seminar at Cornell University, and based on the material in [1]. 1 Operators and classification Throughout, we fix an infinite dimensional separable (complex) Hilbert space H (e.g., H = `2), with inner product 〈·, ·〉. Let B(H) denote the set of all bounded linear operators on H, with the operator norm ‖T‖ = inf{M > 0 : ‖Tx‖ ≤M‖x‖ for all x ∈ H}. B(H) is a C*-algebra under the usual operations of scalar multiplication, addition and multiplication (i.e., composition), with identity I, and adjoint operation T 7→ T ∗ satisfying 〈Tx, y〉 = 〈x, T ∗y〉 for all x, y ∈ H. Some important classes of operators in B(H) include: (a) Self-adjoint operators: those T ∈ B(H) such that T ∗ = T ; (b) Unitary operators: those U ∈ B(H) such that UU∗ = U∗U = I; (c) Projection operators: those P ∈ B(H) such that P 2 = P ∗ = P , equivalently, those P given by orthogonal projection onto a closed subspace of H (namely ran(P )). Denote the family of all projection operators by P(H); (d) Finite-rank operators: those T ∈ B(H) such that ran(T ) is finite dimensional. Denote the family of all finite-rank operators by Bf (H); (e) Compact operators: those K ∈ B(H) which are (operator norm) limits of finite rank operators, equivalently, those K such that the image of the close unit ball of H under K is compact. Denote the family of all compact operators by K(H).


The theoretical desirability of stochastic dominance (SD) as a decision rule is well established [1, 3, 4, 7, and 11]. However, implementation of SD as a decision rule has been hindered seriously by the lack of an optimal search algorithm [8]. An optimal search algorithm is desirable since it takes the distribution of returns for a group of assets and determines the optimal proportion of each asset which should be combined to provide efficient combinations. For example, for a given expected value (variance) the mean-variance (EV) algorithm builds the portfolio with the smallest (largest) variance (expected value). The EV algorithm determines which assets should be combined and the proportion of the total investment that should be invested in each asset. An analogous algorithm does not exist for SD.


The proliferation of the video surveillance cameras, which accounts for the vast majority of cameras worldwide, has resulted in the need to nd methods and algorithms for dealing with the huge amount of information that is gathered every second. This encompasses processing tasks, such as raising an alarm or detouring moving objects, as well as some semantic tasks like event monitoring, trajectory or ow analysis, counting people, etc.


Objective To observe the outcomes of two different means of gastric lavage for rescuing patients with organophosphate poisoning.Methods The effects of single gastric lavage with water or repeated gastric lavage with saline on mortality of patients with organophosphate poisoning were retrospectively compared.Results Mortality of patients using repeated gastric lavage with saline was significantly lower than that of single gastric lavage with water (4.8% vs 13.0%;P0.05).Conclusions A modified method of using repeated gastric lavage with 37~41℃ saline is more effective than single gastric lavage with water for decreasing mortality of patients with organophosphate poisoning.


Tall fescue pastures have an increasing potential to be used worldwide. The purpose of this study was to test the ability and flexibility of the model DairyMod to represent herbage mass accumulation (HMA) of tall fescue pastures from Argentina under several environmental conditions, including different seasons, fertilizer nitrogen levels and irrigation. Species-specific responses were obtained by customizing particular parameters (i.e. number of living leaves per tiller, leaf appearance interval, optimum plant N concentration and the response of leaf gross photosynthesis to temperature). Additionally, a simulation experiment to compare the model assumption that optimum N concentration stays constant through HMA with the application of a reference critical N dilution curve verified for temperate forage grasses (N% = 4·8 HMA−0·32) was conducted. Application of DairyMod simulated with reasonable accuracy the HMA of tall fescue pastures under a wide range of climatic and management conditions; however, the model tended to underestimate HMA where pastures grew under high N availability. The use of a reference critical N curve substantially improved this bias, indicating that a further analysis on the N issue of the model is necessary. Results from this study provide support for further evaluations of the model under other scenarios and conditions. An upgrade of the model to improve simulation of N nutrition is suggested to enhance its performance to predict growth dynamics at high N availabilities as well as its value to address the effectiveness of N-management practices.


The backscatter ultraviolet spectrometer (BUV) aboard the NIMBUS 4 satellite provided global ozone data until mid-1977. The Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) and Solar Backscattered Ultraviolet (SBUV) instrument aboard the NIMBUS 7 satellite began providing global ozone in November 1978. The only satellite derived global total ozone data available between the termination of the BUV data and the startup of the SBUV/TOMS data is that from the Multichannel Filter Radiometer (MFR) instrument aboard the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) series of satellites. The MFR and the SBUV/TOMS data are compared during the data overlap period in order to determine how well the MFR data might be used to represent the SBUV/TOMS and BUV data during the data gap period. 5 refs., 3 figs., 3 tabs.


Numerical measures of social welfare have become an important issue within contemporary welfare economics. Welfare measures are only valuable however, if they offer practical analysis for policy makers seeking to improve human welfare. Is it possible that welfare measures designed for developed countries can also be used for developing countries? This paper argues that it is possible and highlights how one measure, an Index for Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW), can be adapted using normative social choice theory. Normative social choice theory reflects the views, opinions and perspectives of societies of differing economic and social circumstances so that measures of human welfare retain their relevance for public policy makers in those countries. Normative social choice refers to the processes of ordering alternative social states on the basis of the preferences, choices and value judgements of members of that society and incorporates the various "social concerns around welfare" that are specific to individual countries. To illustrate the possibility of adapting "developed countries" measures of human welfare to non-developed countries through social cholee theory, an ISEW is presented for Thailand for a twenty-five year period, 1975-1999. All previous ISEW studies, with one exception, have been for developed countries, yet this adapted measure for Thailand provides important implications for Thailand's traditional development process and policy perspectives in future development paths. The results of this adapted ISEW for Thailand indicate that even low-middle income countries can approach the point in which economic growth produces both diminishing and, at times, negative welfare returns as the costs of achieving growth begin to outweigh the associated benefits. This conclusion is important for policy makers and highlights the importance of implementing alternative human welfare enhancing interventions that must be considered in place of simply achieving economic growth. This result supports the use of pre-existing measures of human


Objectives: To identify the predictors of cytomegalovirus reactivation in AIDS patients on highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). Design: This prospective study enrolled cytomegalovirus-seropositive AIDS patients on or about to start HAART, who were not receiving anti-cytomegalovirus prophylaxis. Clinical and laboratory data were collected over 3.5 years at clinic visits, which coincided with the study visits. Methods: Blood was obtained at every study visit and was used for measurements of cytomegalovirus cell-mediated immunity (lymphocyte proliferation, IFN-γ, IL-2, and IL-10 production), cytomegalovirus viral load, CD4 cell count, and HIV viral load. A logistic-normal model was used to analyse outcome data with repeated observations. Results: Twenty-six patients had 40 episodes of cytomegalovirus reactivation (positive cytomegalovirus viral load) during the study. Their immunological and virological parameters were compared with 26 randomly selected control individuals from the same cohort. The risk of cytomegalovirus reactivation significantly decreased with every 6-month increase in HAART duration [odds ratio (OR) 0.5; P = 0.02] and marginally increased with every log10 RNA copies/ml HIV viral load (OR 2; P = 0.07). CD4 cell counts, cytomegalovirus lymphocyte proliferation, IL-2, and IL-10 did not reach significance as predictors of cytomegalovirus reactivation. However, cytomegalovirus IFN-γ production significantly decreased the risk of cytomegalovirus reactivation (OR 0.03; P = 0.04). Conclusion: Cytomegalovirus-specific IFN-γ has a unique value as an immunological predictor of cytomegalovirus reactivation, demonstrating the importance of cellular immune responses in the control of cytomegalovirus replication in HAART recipients.


Asthma is a chronic disease with both inflammatory and blocked or narrowed airways. It is a common disease in children. We conducted a study to assess the management and knowledge of asthma symptoms, attack and medication, compliance to treatment, emergency department visits and causes of asthma. Data were collected from 210 pediatric patients who had asthma. This study was done in different hospitals of Dhaka city. A questionnaire was given them to test their baseline knowledge and beliefs on asthma, medications and their compliance to treatment. The result showed that among 210 children, most of the children (38%) had asthma in the age range of 6-10 years. Most of the patients (42.85%) had mild intermittent asthma. Moreover, most asthma symptoms occurred in winter season (53.80%) and summer season (32.87%). About 51% patients had difficulty to sleep due to asthma. Approximately 37.14% patients took professional routine check-ups, and 36.19% patients took emergency treatment by doctor in the last 12 month. About 61.43% respondents had knowledge about sign identification given by professional. According to the respondents, the symptoms responsible for causing asthma were allergy (77.62%), air pollution (65.72%), common cold (88.09%) and certain food (72.85%). Only 21.43% patients had exhaust fan in their home and used regularly when cooking, about 45.71% patients had wood burning stove used in home. About 52.86% patients used a prescription inhaler, 71.9% long-acting β2 agonist, 55.7% leukotriene modifier, 36.6% corticosteroids, 31.43% mast cell stabilizer, 41.9% expectorant, 75% antitussives, 33% mucolytics were prescribed. Asthma education strategies need to be modified to engage patients with low asthma knowledge to achieve improved patient outcomes. Further, strategies need to motivate patients to use preventer medication during times when they feel well.


The heat capacity of iodine pentafluoride has been measured by an adiabatic method between 5 and 350°K. The triple point of the compound is 282.553 ± 0.01°K and the enthalpy of fusion is ΔHfusion = 11222 ± 11 J mole−1. The vapor pressure measured between 283 and 378°K is represented by the equation: log10PmmHg = − 3090.14 / T − 6.96834 log10T + 29.02167. A determination of the vapor density at 330 and 372°K resulted in the values − 2813 and − 1232 cm3 mole−1, respectively, for the second virial coefficient B to be used with the equation of state PV = RT + BP. The enthalpy of vaporization at 330°K was calculated to be ΔHvap(330°K) = 39320 ± 200 J mole−1. At 298.15°K the standard state values of the thermodynamic functions obtained from the heat capacity data are: CP° = 174.7 ± 0.17 J °K−1·mole−1, S° = 224.85 ± 0.22 J °K−1·mole−1, (H° − H°0) = 37086 ± 37 J mole−1, and (G° − H°0) / T = − 100.47 ± 0.1 J °K−1·mole−1. The standard entropy of iodine pentafluoride vapor at 330°K calculated from calorimetric data ...


Continuum robots are often used as wrist joints in medical robots because of their high dexterity and flexibility. Especially, the notched continuum robot (NCR) is used in the miniaturized wristed surgical robot. The Piecewise Constant Curvature (PCC) assumption is often used in the design of NCR. However, due to the friction effect, ideal PCC is difficult to achieve. Static analysis is a necessary means to correct the curvature of NCR. The static modeling of NCR is often based on the theory of small deformation. However, this cannot obtain accurate solutions at large bending angles. In this paper, a static model of a triangular-notched continuum robot is proposed. It presents a curvature correction method of NCR, considering large deformation. In addition, the friction effect is considered in the correction of PCC. The static model is derived from the end notch. Based on the Coulomb friction model, the recurrence relationship of the force on the cable is obtained. Then the elliptic integral solution corresponding to the large deformation assumption is calculated. The deformation parameters of the NCR are obtained by numerical iteration. Finally, the capability and validity of the static model proposed in this paper are verified in the experiment. This paper is of great significance for establishing an accurate static model for curvature correction and design of the notched continuum robot.


With the continuous expansion of the number of international students coming to study in China, the psychological problems of international students studying in China are increasingly apparent. Fully understanding and analyzing the mental health problems of international students and the causes, taking targeted prevention and intervention measures, are of great significance to the education, management and development of international students. Therefore, it is very important to explore the psychological depression of international students in China.


While many textbooks on medicine and clinical pathology contain the statement that "amyloid" or "waxy" casts are commonly found in the urine of patients with or without amyloid disease of the kidneys, the existence of such casts has been questioned. It is true that casts of a peculiar "waxy" appearance are sometimes encountered in microscopic urinalysis, and it is likewise true that the diagnosis of amyloid infiltration of the kidneys has later been confirmed by postmortem examinations. Since it is difficult for any one observer to collect a series of such data, it seemed a matter of some practical interest to study this problem by means of histologic sections of amyloid kidneys. It may be recalled that, in the kidney, amyloid is usually present around the coats of the glomeruli, in the walls of the vessels in general, and in the lining of the basement membrane of some parts of


Foundational reasons for performance change after run-in experiment of injector assembly were analyzed in this paper. Factors such as structure,material,processing of limit core and packing cylinder were proposed,which cause tiny deformation of solenoid assembly and result in performance deformation. It was showed that improved processing was feasible through normal temperature and high temperature run-in experiments.


The aim of this paper is to study the current and crucial issue of public debt in Greece over the period from 1974 to 2015. Especially, from 1981 onwards there is a continuous and rapid increase in the public debt of Greece, but from 2010 to the present Greece faces particularly fiscal and other problems. The method is used, is based on the budget constraint and the test which was proposed by Hakkio and Rush in 1991. For public debt as a percentage of the gross domestic product to be sustained, it should be stabilized, which means that the fiscal deficit should be sustainable. This in turn implies that government expenditure should be able to be financed by government revenues. Thus, a short-term and a long-term relationship between government spending and government revenue will be examined, using cointegration tests. The empirical results confirm the existence of cointegration between these variables which present almost an inversely proportional relationship between them, due to the fact that an increase in general government expenditure by one is causes a decrease in general government revenue of 0,8985, a fact, which leads us to conclude that the Greek public debt may not be sustainable after all.


The brain-computer interface technology enables the disabled to control external devices through the motor imagery EEG. Due to the complex changes of EEG in the time domain and frequency domain, classifiers play an important role in EEG recognition. Convolutional neural network is an excellent deep learning method, but most papers usually use one-dimensional convolution to identify EEG, and rarely consider comprehensive feature extraction and classification of time-frequency map through two-dimensional convolutional network. In this article, the time-frequency graphs of different EEG channels are superimposed by referring to the color dimension of the picture. A weighted shared two-dimensional convolutional CNN-LSTM network is proposed, which shares convolution kernels for feature maps of different channels. Compared with CNN and CNN-LSTM, the weight-sharing CNN-LSTM reduces the amount of calculation, speeds up the network training and improves the classification performance, the highest accuracy rate is 82.3%.


Methods: Sixty hirsute women were taken to the study. The Group I (n=20) received flutamide 250 mg daily, the Group II (n=20) received 500 mg/day flutamide (250 mg twice a day), and 20 healthy women were served as controls. Both treatments were administered oraly for 12 months. Serum total cholesterol triglycerides, HDL-cholesterol (LDL-C) were calculated by Friedewald formula, Total serum testosterone (T), free testostereno (fT) FSH, LH, E2, DHEAS, Androstenedione (A), 17-Hydroxyprogesterone (17-OHP), Sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG), and PRL were determined.


Today in the United States, national health expenditures total more than $700 billion and make up over 13 percent of the gross domestic product (GOP). By 1995, they are projected to rise above $1 trillion and to comprise 15.6 percent of the GOP (Burner, Waldo, and McKusick, 1992). In spite of this level of expenditure, 15 percent of Americans are still without any form of health insurance and an additional 10 percent are inadequately insured. The President's proposed approach to health care reform and virtually all other national health care reform proposals under consideration rely on health maintenance organizations (H MOs) and other forms of managed care to reduce the rate of health care cost increases while expanding coverage. The focus of this issue of the Health Care Financing Review is on recent empirical evidence from studies of Medicare and Medicaid managed care programs, including an examination of some new methods for setting payment rates to maximize the impact of managed care. As an introduction to these articles, it may be useful to briefly review the history of managed care, with an emphasis on programs financed by the Federal Government. Health care plans incorporating both a limited provider panel and prepayment, the two primary features of a managed care plan, have been in existence in the United States for over 150 years. While


This paper briefly describes the outfitting countermeasures for the PSPC including the requirements for the manufacture of outfits shown in the drawings for 82 000 DWT Panamax bulk carrier in order to standardize the design of outfitting for ballast tank.


Minimisation of the repulsive energy around five-co-ordinate molecules containing one tridentate and two unidentate ligands shows that neither the symmetrical trigonal bipyramid nor the square pyramid are the expected stereochemistries. For normal tridentate ligands, the predicted stereochemistry (I), contains a mirror plane through the central atom of the tridentate and both unidentate ligands, but the unidentate ligands are not symmetrically arranged on each side of the plane containing the three donor atoms of the tridentate ligand, and this tridentate plane does not contain the metal atom. A second stereochemistry, (II), is possible if the three donor atoms of the tridentate ligand form an equilateral triangle. These predictions agree with the crystal structures of molecules of this type.


Letter from Banfield Black & Banfield Ltd. to Quene Yip concerning an automobile accident involving Chung Chuck, who was assisted by Quene Yip.


The young unmarried women employed in Mauritiuss export processing zone comprise a group at high risk of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) given their low educational status demanding workload and isolation from family guidance. To further define the factors that place this group at risk quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection were administered to 620 young workers in 6 factories. Female factory workers tended to come from female-headed families with an average of 5.3 children and were endeavoring to supplement the family income. The average age at entry into the labor force was 16.7 years and monthly income averaged US$100. Most study participants were ambivalent about the effect of work on their lives. Positive aspects cited included freedom and independence increased power within their families the opportunity to be more comfortable around men and higher self-esteem; negative aspects included lack of time friction with parents exposure to sexually promiscuous men and the potential for gaining a bad reputation by association. 32% indicated they had boyfriends but had to keep their relationships secret because of a lack of family sanction; another 30% were engaged. Most women were reluctant to discuss sex-related issues with a male partner. There was virtually no use of condoms among the 15% of respondents who reported being sexually active; the main barriers to condom use were the perception that condoms are only for married women the belief they cannot prevent pregnancy and concerns about reduced sexual pleasure. The majority considered themselves at low risk of AIDS but also demonstrated a lack of accurate knowledge about the AIDS virus and its transmission. Peers were found to facilitate positive attitudes about premarital sex but to lack knowledge of risk assessment and AIDS prevention. On the basis of these findings an AIDS prevention program was implemented in 2 factories in the export processing zone.


ABSTRACT Using a synergistic combination of experimental and computational methods, we shed light on the unusual solubility of (Cr,Ti)3AlC2 MAX phase, showing that it may accommodate Cr only at very low concentrations (<2 at%) or at the exact Cr/(Cr + Ti) ratio of 2/3, even when the ratio of reactants is far from this stoichiometry (1/2 ≤ Cr/(Cr + Ti) ≤ 5/6). In both phases, Cr exclusively occupies the 4f sites, bridging carbide layers with the Al layer. Despite this, the peculiar stability of (Cr2/3Ti1/3)3AlC2 is attributed to the formation of strong, spin-polarized Cr–C bonds, which result in volume reduction and a marked increase in c/a ratio. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT IMPACT STATEMENT Solubility of Cr and Ti in (Cr,Ti)3AlC2 was investigated using experimental and DFT techniques. It was also determined that (Cr2/3Ti1/3)3AlC2 owe its remarkable stability to the formation strong Cr–C bonds.


A mutant strain X103 had characteristics of nonhemolytic and hyaluronidase negative was obtained from starting strain Streptococcuse qui SHO with mutation with 5-bromouracil and X-ray.Strain SH0201,with stable heritability,nonhemolytic and high molecular hyaluronic acid production, was obtained by further mutation with N-methyl-N-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine mutation and selective cultivation.The molecular weight of hyaluronic acid produced by Strain SH0201 was 2.06×10~6 Da in shake flask,which was much higher than that of original strain.


The use of composite components in aerospace industries has become more and more important since the 1980s. Especially structures made of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic are well suited for aircrafts where highly stressable but lightweight constructions are required. However, the efficient use of this technology is still limited by a largely manual production process. To increase automation, the paper presents a completely new approach which allows the automated cutting and handling of carbon fiber textiles. This includes a detailed analysis of the current industrial process and its automation potential, the construction of a special handling tool and the development of a suitable automation software. Experimental results show the flexibility and feasibility of the approach.


Introduction: Blunt cardiac injury secondary to chest trauma is an important cause of emergency department admissions. It can range from asymptomatic myocardial contusion to significant dysrhythmia, acute heart failure, valvular injury, or cardiac rupture. Case Report: A 38-years-old patient was admitted to the emergency department with atrial fibrillation (AF) that occurred after a car accident. The patient had chest trauma caused by striking the steering wheel during the accident. The AF rhythm of the patient reverted to the normal sinus rhythm at the 3rd hour after trauma.Conclusion: Emergency medicine professionals should keep in mind arrhythmias due to blunt chest trauma and take electrocardiograms of patients to be able to provide treatment in time


Photocopy of a letter from Warren B. Newman, Director of Arts in Education, National Endowment for the Arts, to Jack Davis, Vice Provost and Professor of Art at North Texas State University. In regards to a letter Davis has sent to Newman prior indicating NTSU's intention to apply for the Speical Project grant from the Arts in Education program. Newman reminds Davis that all applications must be postmarked no later than March 1, as no late applications will be accepted.


Bone marrow is a complex of cells, which give rise to the blood cells during animal's life. The bone marrow cells (BMC) have high therapeutic potential potential, it gives an opportunity to use them for treatment of different destructions of hematopoiesis. Thus, a clinical requirement in marrow constantly increases and requires creation of reserve of biomaterial.


Larifuga avus sp. n. is descriptionbed from the Langeberg mountains in the Cape Province of South Africa. New distribution records for other species within the genus are also provided.


This paper focuses on experiential learning of student teachers and the perceived capacity of mentoring schools. Experiential learning in initial teacher education requires mentoring schools to provide a learning environment in order to equip student teachers with both subject content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge. However, the crisis in the South African education system lies in a lack of the development of professional skills of teachers, in addition to insecure classroom competence. The prevailing low quality of education has to dramatically change through a well-equipped initial teacher training programme that produces an adequate number of competent teachers. To understand and curb challenges emanating from practice teaching, large scale research is needed to explore the relationship between experiential learning and mentoring schools. The question raised is how to engender in schools a sense of caring and responsibility towards student teachers. In order to respond to this question, I critically analyse the literature on experiential learning in initial teacher training. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n27p537


Suggestions for models and techniques to illustrate the structure of polymers, copolymers, molecular mass, osmotic pressure, light scattering, and dilute solution viscosity.


• Paper • [Kor.] A Proposal on the Korean Translations of the Presence of the Spirit of Yahweh in the Book of Judges --------------------------------------------------------Il-Seung Chung / 7 [Kor.] Noetic Analysis of Classical Hebrew and His Application to Job 1:1-5 --------------------------------------------------------Minsu Oh / 30 [Kor.] Deciding 'Ketib' or 'Qere' for Job 30:22b on the Basis of Literary-Rhetorical Translation --------------------------------------------------------Keun Jo Ahn / 52 [Kor.] Application of the Precative Qatal for Korean Bible Translation --------------------------------------------------------Cheol-Woo Park / 71 [Kor.] A Study on the Comparison of Terms Referring to People with Disabilities(PWD) and Their Alternatives: Centering on Hebrew Bible, LXX, and Recently Revised and Newly Translated Korean Bible Versions -------------------------------------Unha Chai / 95 [Kor.] Reading the Text of Matthew 2:9 in the Context of Ancient Astronomical Languages ---------------------------------------------------------Woosik Hyun / 117 [Kor.] A Suggestion on the Use of 'ma-eum' in Korean Translations of the Pauline Letters: A Semantic and Theological Consideration Focused on Romans ---------------------------------------------------------Jae Hyun Lee / 137 [Kor.] She will be saved through childbearing?: Reflection on 1 Timothy 2:15 --------------------------------------------------------Sung-Ho Park / 162 [Eng.] A Model for Translators: An Exegesis of Genesis 32:22-32 ----------------------------------------------------Natarajan Subramani / 187 [Eng.] Two Spheres of Life: Rereading Galatians 3:10-14 --------------------------------------------------------Youngju Kwon / 202 [Eng.] Ephesians 5:5 Revisited: A Study of h̀ basilei,a tou/ Cristou/ kai. qeou/ ---------------------------------------------------------Ho Hyung Cho / 225


Abstract The essential oil obtained by hydrodistillation of the fresh leaves of Thottea ponmudiana was analyzed by gas chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Twenty-seven components comprising 87.4% of the leaf oil were identified. Among the identified constituents 14.8% were monoterpene hydrocarbons, 32.6% were sesquiterpene hydrocarbons and 40.0% oxygenated sesquiterpenes. The major component, pregeijerene B (E,E,E-1,7-dimethylcylododeca-1,4,7-triene) (25.8%) was isolated and identified by IR, GC/EIMS and 1H-NMR analyses. The other major components in the leaf oil were 8α-acetoxyelemol (21.6%) followed by terpinolene (10.1%), elemol (8.2%) and bulnesol (4.9%). The antibacterial activity of the oil was tested against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. The oil showed significant activity against the Gram-positive bacteria Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis, in comparison with the standard, streptomycin.


Annotating a large set of images, especially with bounding boxes, is a tedious task. In this paper, we propose an intuitive image annotation tool. This tool not only allows (non-expert) users to annotate images with novel concepts, but is also able to achieve acceptable performance with a smaller number of annotated images. The tool can also propose detections on unannotated images, to provide faster annotation and insight in the performance of the system. The tool is based on a Single Shot Multi-box Detector (SSD) neural network with active learning, based on showing the images with high-confidence detections first, to have a fast verification and re-training. An experiment on simulated data shows that this active learning method can achieve higher performance in a shorter expected annotation time with a small number of images (less than 500). A small experiment on user annotated data shows that the annotation tool allows faster annotation compared to without the annotation tool


Abstract A greenhouse study was conducted to investigate the effect of mycorrhiza on wheat (Triticum durum) boron (B) uptake under excessive B concentrations. Three levels of B (0, 3, and 6 mg B litre−1) were added to pots with or without mycorrhiza. Plant nutrients were added as Hoagland nutrient solution. In general, additions of B with or without mycorrhiza decreased wheat relative yield and increased shoot and root B concentrations. B concentrations in shoots ranged from 30.8 to 589 mg kg−1. The highest shoot B concentrations were with the highest B treatments (6 mg B litre−1), whereas the lowest concentrations were in the control (0 mg B litre−1). Mycorrhiza inoculation significantly improved relative yield of unstressed (control) plants, but those increases in relative yield of B‐stressed plants were not significant. In general, mycorrhiza inoculation decreased shoot and root B concentrations and uptake. Wheat growing at high B concentrations (6 and 3 mg B litre−1) with or without mycorrhiza showed leaf edge burning and necrosis compared with control treatments. The data suggested that mycorrhiza infection can prevent plants from an excessive concentration and uptake of B although that did not improve plant yield. Further evaluation is needed for the effects of mychorriza inoculation on B toxicity.


Midfacial defects developed due to partial or total maxillectomy surgeries performed to remove tumors in the oral or nasal cavity. Large midfacial defects usually restored with a facial prosthesis to restore esthetics, form and function. Retention of a large facial prosthesis is a major concern to the prosthodontist because of its size and weight. This clinical report describes magnet retained intraoral-extraoral combination prosthesis for a large midfacial defect. This article also describes a technique to fabricate a hollow light-weight acrylic resin framework supporting an overlying silicone layer for the facial prosthesis.


In this work, leaching processes of thin-film-transistor (TFT) displays using nitric and sulfuric acid, respectively, for the purpose of indium recovery are studied. The substrates are extracted from end-of-life In-Cell Touch smartphone displays. Using EDS-SEM chemical mapping we have found that both acids can lead to the extraction of indium from the TFT matrixes. However, it is observed that sulfuric acid can remove almost 4% more indium than nitric acid under the same lixiviation conditions.


The intensity and speed with which the effects of monetary and fiscal policy are transmitted from one financial market to another is of paramount importance to accurately calibrate the decisions of the responsible authorities. Similarly, the effects caused by unexpected shocks in a given market on the behavior of financial asset prices in other markets requires a better understanding of the nature of the response. However, the bulk of published studies on this subject have employed methodologies that assume a normal distribution of the yields and, for that reason, its results are questionable. Although in recent years robust non-normality methodologies have been used, there is still much work to be done. This article contributes to the study of the dependency between the indices of four Latin American stock exchanges (the CPI for Mexico, the IPSA for Chile, the IBOVESPA for Brazil, and the MERVAL for Argentina) through a Copula Analysis methodology. The main contribution of this study with respect to previous work is to obtain the level of dependence on the queues for the pairs of indices formed by the CPI of Mexico and each of the other three Latin American indices of the sample.


Enhanced burn rates of solid propellants through plasma erosion has been studied showing evidence of increased burn rate with injection of electrothermal plasmas into the propellant. These experiments are designed to evaluate the effectiveness of maximizing energy versus momentum transport, and the influence of geometry on the burn rates of the JA-2 solid granular propellant. A series of experiments has shown evidence of enhanced burn rate at pressures between 55 and 90 MPa (8,000 and 12,000 psi, respectively) over 400 ps pulse length. A 20 to 40% enhancement in the burn rates has been observed when plasma is injected parallel to the surface of the propellant. When plasma is injected normal to the surface, the burn rate increases by about a factor of three. A set of experiments has been designed to measure the burn rates when the electrothermal plasma is injected at various angles, from 0/spl deg/ to 90/spl deg/, to the surface of the propellant. Experiments were conducted at a constant input energy of 5 kJ/spl plusmn/2% to the electrothermal plasma source and constant base pressure of 15 Torr, which provides a 12,300 psi plasma pressure at the source exit close to the surface of the propellant. Results indicate increased burn rates with increased angle of injection. Optical emission spectroscopy measurements revealed a decrease in plasma temperature, at the plasma-propellant interface, with increased angle of injection.


In this paper,a method of data compression storage is proposed.It can manage history data in a measurement and control system efficiently.Even with a large number of data to monitor,a compression ratio up to 1∶30 can be obtained.Moreover,it has the advantage of more effective data retrieval.The details of its implementation are provided here.This method can be used in many other applications.


Steady evaporation from a spherical and heterogeneous condensed body into vacuum is considered. Inert solid particles, initially embedded in the condensed phase, are liberated and collisionally accelerated by the evaporating gas molecules. A simple mathematical model for the flow is proposed and executed by the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method. For small Knudsen numbers, the results are compared with a continuum solution including Knudsen layer corrections obtained by a moment method, demonstrating that these corrections are leading order effects in the treatment.


Using data collected from specially-designed questionnaires, the duration of search by a house buyer is estimated. Duration is measured in two ways: in terms of time and in terms of the number of houses seen. To explain this data, several features must be added to a simple model when search models are applied to a housing market. Many of the statistically significant variables, such as prior information and the quality of information provided by a newspaper or a real estate agent, deal with the provision of information. The type of agency that employs the agent and the characteristics of the buyer have little effect.


This study evaluated the impact of dietary ginger and liquorice supplementation on growth performance, physiological and histopathological profiles and heavy metal accumulation in Nile tilapia fingerlings. Fish (n = 1,800, 17.5 ± 0.11 g BW) were randomly distributed into four treatment groups in triplicates and received no supplementation (control group), 5 ml aqueous ginger extract/kg feed (ginger group), 4 ml aqueous liquorice extract/kg feed (liquorice group) or 2.5 ml ginger plus 2 ml liquorice aqueous extracts/kg feed (mix group). The ginger‐liquorice mix supply improved the growth performance and feed efficiency (p < .05), increased the haematocrit and haemoglobin (p < .05), leucocytes (p = .108), neutrophils (p = .054), serum total protein (p < .05), albumin (p = .011) and globulin (p = .094) but decreased (p < .05) the blood urea nitrogen and creatinine than feeding liquorice or ginger lonely compared to the control. Heavy metal loads in pond water induced lamellar telangiectasis of gills and necrosis with sloughing of intestinal villi tips. These detrimental effects were alleviated, and the intestinal villus length (p = .041) and crypt depth (p = .069) were increased with liquorice supply. In all treatment groups, heavy metal contents in fish flesh were lower compared to the control. Thus, using ginger and/or liquorice aqueous extracts can decrease heavy metal accumulation in the fish flesh and exert positive effects on growth performance, metabolic profile and the intestinal and gill morphology of Nile tilapia.


A housewife was first admitted to the Radcliffe Infirmary in October 1949 at the age of 34. She gave a history of eight months' diarrhoea and loss of weight, and two weeks' history of lower abdominal pain. She was emaciated and a mass was palpable in the right iliac fossa. Investigations.-Haemoglobin 7.2 g./100 ml. Blood filmmarked iron-deficiency changes. Stools-repeatedly positive for occult blood, negative for pathogens, no acid-fast bacilli on culture. Barium enema showed an irregular filling defect of the caecum, together with narrowing of a short segment of the pelvic colon. At operation in November 1949 the appearances were those of a malignant lesion of the caecum, to which the sigmoid colon and coils of terminal ileum were adherent. A right hemicolectomy, ileal resection, and sigmoid resection was carried out, with end-toend anastomosis of the left colon, and end-to-side ileotransverse colostomy. The caecum contained a large soft carcinoma which had partially infiltrated the caecal wall. There were adhesions between caecum and overlying loops of ileum. Histologically the tumour was a moderately differentiated papillary adenocarcinoma. Microscopically, some adhesions were inflammatory in nature and others were neoplastic. A mixed inflammatory infiltrate within the caecum extended well beyond the limits of the tumour, and within this infiltrate were granulomatous foci containing giant cells. There were marked submucosal fibrous thickening and fibrous infiltration of pericolic fat, and fissures were present. Within the ileum there was again pronounced subserosal and submucosal fibrous thickening, and the submucosa contained patchy mixed inflammatory infiltrate, including moderate numbers of giant cells. Enlarged mesenteric lymph nodes showed marked reactive hyperplasia but no evidence of malignancy. In summary the changes were typical of Crohn's disease involving the caecum and ileum. After the operation the patient developed a faecal fistula from the sigmoid resection site, but this eventually closed and she was discharged home three months after admission. She was readmitted four months later because the fistula had recurred. This was excised and the defect in the colon closed. She remained well for seven


We present a theoretical study of radiative transfer in strongly magnetized electron-ion plasmas, focusing on the effect of vacuum polarization due to quantum electrodynamics. This study is directly relevant to thermal radiation from the surfaces of highly magnetized neutron stars, which have been detected in recent years. Strong-field vacuum polarization modifies the photon propagation modes in the plasma and induces a "vacuum resonance" at which a polarized X-ray photon propagating outward in the neutron star atmosphere can convert from a low-opacity mode to a high-opacity mode and vice versa. The effectiveness of this mode conversion depends on the photon energy and the atmosphere density gradient. For a wide range of field strengths, B ≳ 7 × 1013 G, the vacuum resonance lies between the photospheres of the two photon modes, and the emergent radiation spectrum from the neutron star is significantly modified by the vacuum resonance. (For lower field strengths, only the polarization spectrum is affected.) Under certain conditions, which depend on the field strength, photon energy, and propagation direction, the vacuum resonance is accompanied by the phenomenon of mode collapse (at which the two photon modes become degenerate) and the breakdown of Faraday depolarization. Thus, the widely used description of radiative transfer based on photon modes is not adequate to treat the vacuum polarization effect rigorously. We study the evolution of polarized X-rays across the vacuum resonance and derive the transfer equation for the photon intensity matrix (Stokes parameters), taking into account the effect of birefringence of the plasma-vacuum medium, free-free absorption, and scatterings by electrons and ions.


Qi's Great Wall was gradually constructed by stages over several hundred years from the period of Qi' s King Jiang Linggong in the late Spring and Autumn Period to that of Qi' s King Tian Xuanwang in the middle of the Warring States Period.Roughly speaking,the western part of it came into being earlier than the eastern one and the earth part in the valleys and lowlands earlier than the stone one.In the Spring and Autumn Period it was constructed as a defence against Lu state with its allies Jin and Wu and Ju States with its allies Jin and Yue.While in the Warring States Period, it was built mainly against three states in Jin and Chu State.Pioneering as Mr.Zhang Weihua s and Mr.Wang Xiantang' s studies of Qi' s Great Wall,some of their views on the building time of each part of Qi s Great Wall and the states it was built against are still open to question.


Before responding to the challenging points raised by Professor Daniels' paper, let me correct a couple of misinterpretations. Daniels argues that whether a practice is Jn, "is of very little interest." In support of this judgment he claims that "all sorts of practices we deem superstitious are free of ineradicable inconsistencies and so qualify as Jn" (p. 488). However his example of such a superstitious practice is putting "my right shoe on first odd days and my left on first even days in the belief that by doing so I'm liable to make less mistakes in my day-to-day life" (p. 488). But my discussion was confined to doxastic practices (belief-forming practices), and this practice is not one of those. More importantly, the discussion shows that Daniels is thinking of internal inconsistencies, inconsistences in the output of the practice; and in "Religious Experience and Religious Belief" (hereinafter RERB) my list of reasons for taking a practice to be unreliable, which in any event did not purport to be complete, also included yielding "results that come into ineradicable conflict with the results of other pratices to which we are more firmly committed" (p. 8). We deem certain doxastic practices, like those based on the reading of tea leaves, superstitious because we take their outputs to frequently contradict what is established by ordinary empirical procedures. Second, Daniels' statement that "for Alston, it's practices that are justified" (p. 487) is misleading. In RERB I did say that "practices . . . of belief formation are the primary subject of justification" (something I have thought better of since), but I went on immediately to say "particular beliefs are justified only by issuing from a practice . . . that is justified" (p. 4). Hence it is misleading to suggest that, on my view, it is only practices that are justified. Turning to Daniel's "direct" criticisms, I am puzzled by the way he takes himself to know that PP is Jns "I can know that PP is Jn, even though whether it is isn't verifiable . . . What makes me know? How else am I to put it? the facts of the matter do" (p. 489). But how do "the facts of the matter" enable me to know that they obtain. (Of course when I


The study of innovation processes in Russia has identified the need to develop mechanisms for transfer and commercialization of technologies. This makes it possible to realize innovative potential of Russia by improving the efficiency of innovation and implementation of research results into production. Based on these results, the main directions of improving the efficiency of transfer and technology commercialization have been suggested.


The aim of this communication is to present our protocol of management and treatment and to discuss our experience in the management of MRONJ patient at the Division of Maxillofacial Surgery at Novara Hospital in the last twelve years. A revision of all patients affected by MRONJ that were diagnosed between January 2009 and December 2020 was performed. On the whole, 109 patients with a mean age of 70 years were included: 75 patients had mandibular ONJ, whereas 27 maxillary ONJ and the remaining 7 patients mandibular and maxillary ONJ. 54% of patients was classified as Stage 1, 30% as Stage 2, and 16% as Stage 3. In 87 cases, patients underwent, in addition to medical therapy, surgical interventions of curettage, sequestrectomy, or bone resection; the remaining 22 patients were just administered medical therapy. Advanced Stage MRONJ can be efficiently managed by surgery combined with medical therapy.


With the rising adoption of building information modelling (BIM) for asset management within the architecture, engineering and construction sectors, BIM-enabled asset management during the operatio...


In this paper, we recall the famous Monge's theorem of three circles. There are several proofs for the theorem. One of the proofs is that of using three similar right cones. Inspired by the proof, we propose a threedimensional problem of the same angles of elevation: For three similar right cones on the ground, find the places from where three angles of elevation are equal to each other. There are at most two places. With dynamic geometry software, we can simply construct the solutions. In addition, the relation between two solutions is cleared.


Traumatic stress causes post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD is associated with cardiovascular diseases and risk of sudden cardiac death in some subjects. We compared effects of predator stress (PS, cat urine scent, 10 days) on mechanisms of cardiac injury and protection in experimental PTSD-vulnerable (PTSD) and -resistant (PTSDr) rats. 14-days post-stress, rats were evaluated with an elevated plus-maze test, and assigned to PTSD and PTSDr groups according to an anxiety index calculated from the test results. Cardiac injury was evaluated by: 1) Exercise tolerance; 2) ECG; 3) Myocardial histomorphology; 4) Oxidative stress; 5) Pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines. Myocardial heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) was also measured. Experimental PTSD developed in 40% of rats exposed to PS. Exercise tolerance of PTSD rats was 25% less than control rats and 21% less than PTSDr rats. ECG QRS, QT, and OTc intervals were longer in PTSD rats than in control and PTSDr rats. Only cardiomyocytes of PTSD rats had histomorphological signs of metabolic and hypoxic injury and impaired contractility. Oxidative stress markers were higher in PTSD than PTSDr rats. Pro-inflammatory IL-6 was higher in PTSD rats than in control and PTSDr rats, and anti-inflammatory IL-4 was lower in PTSD than in control and PTSDr rats. Myocardial HSP70 was lower in PTSD rats than PTSDr and control rats. Conclusion: Rats with PTSD developed multiple signs of cardiac injury. PTSDr rats were resistant also to cardiac injury. Factors that limit cardiac damage in PS rats include reduced inflammation and oxidative stress and increased protective HSP70.


Despite the good reasons in which poor health could impede parenting, relatively little research considers this possibility. This study uses data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 3,376) and propensity score matching to examine the relationship between maternal and paternal health limitations—health conditions that limit the amount or type of work one can do—and mother- and father-reported parenting stress, cooperation in parenting, and engagement with children. First, the authors find that mothers' and fathers' health limitations are associated with greater parenting stress. Second, they find evidence of spillover associations; when compared with their counterparts, parents with health limitations report that their child's other parent exhibits less cooperation. Third, they find that the associations between health and parenting are not moderated by parents' coresidential status. Taken together, these findings inform the stress process perspective and its implications for family life.


This article analyzes how foreign policymakers legitimize their enactment of role conceptions to play a more active role at the global level toward a potentially reluctant domestic audience. In order to reduce the likelihood of domestic role contestation while at the same time subscribe toward ego and alter expectations, it is necessary for policymakers to legitimize role conceptions and their enactments toward domestic audiences. This article develops the notion of role legitimation to capture this process and puts forward two mechanisms through which role legitimation is performed. The first mechanism is the revival of roles from a specific period in time that is deeply entrenched as an inalienable historical feature of the state. The second one is the reproduction of the international expectations into the domestic political discourse. To illustrate the argument, this article utilizes the case of Indonesia's foreign policy during Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Presidency (2004–2014), particularly its engagement at G20, its objective to make the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) a global player, and its agenda to promote democracy and moderate Islam at the global level.


Any mutual solubility or phase equilibrium calculations require iterations in order to attain desired convergence in fugacity measurements from which equilibrium compositions are obtained. In this monograph a fully non-iterative technique is approached for calculating phase equilibrium compositions of CO2 in brine water and that of H2O in CO2 rich phase. As an essential part of this computations process, an empirical volume explicit Equation of State (EoS) for CO2 with having only 8 parameters is presented. The volumetric data and calculated results of phase compositions using this EoS are compared with the literature values. They exhibit good agreement with less than 2% deviation. A modified scheme of CO2+brine density calculation is also shown. More so, the manner in which this EoS can improve computational efficiency following the non-iterative technique with respect to other EoS's used in petroleum reservoir simulation is illustrated. This shows that the proposed technique can be even more than 1000 times faster than conventional phase equilibrium computations after integrating with numerical simulation of CO2 flows in reservoir.


The utility model discloses a rain gear with a caller identification display function, comprising a rain gear, and the rain gear is characterized by further comprising a cellphone caller identification display device, the caller identification display device is arranged in the rain gear, the cellphone caller identification display device comprises a power supply, a signal receiving module, a driving module and an indicating module; the power supply provides working voltage to the signal receiving module, the driving module and the indicating module; the signal receiving module is connected to the driving module, the driving module is connected to the indicating module, and the rain gear disclosed by the utility model solves the problem that calls are generally missed when the rain gear is used in the prior art.


For further study of 2F5 and 4E10 antibody,2F5-scFv and 4E10-scFv were expressed and purified from E.colicells.The 2F5scFv and 4E10-scFv genes were amplified by overlapping PCR.Recombinant vectors pET28a/2F5-scFv and pET28a/4E1-scFv were constructed and transformed intoE.coliBL21(DE3)and Rosetta-gami2(DE3)pLysS,and protein expression was induced with IPTG.2F5-scFv and 4E10-scFv were expressed,with the molecular weight of 27 kD and 29 kD,respectively.The formed inclusion bodies in E.coli.Denatured single chain antibody proteins,which were purified by nickel chelating chromatography and refolded by dialysis,showed specific reactivates to both MPER antigens prepared from prokaryotic and eukaryotic expression systems.


Inguinal hernia repair is the most common procedure in pediatric surgery. Suture techniques for laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair in children are easy to perform and popular with a low recurrence rate. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of laparoscopic preperitoneal injection of 3-dimensional gel on closing of the inguinal hernia sac (IHS) in laboratory animals. We performed peritoneoscopy by 12 male Chinchilla rabbits weighing 1200 to 1400 g. Endo‐ scope was introduced in abdominal cavity and bilateral deep inguinal rings were identified. The needle Tuohy with the injectable polymeric bulking agent DAM+ (3-Dimensional Polya‐ crylamide gel with Ions of Silver "Argiform", Bioform®) was introduced preperitoneally. The implant was then injected across the entire orifice of the deep inguinal rings and draped over the cord structures. After completion of bilateral repairs, the rabbits were extubated and observed in animal laboratory. Then the second laparoscopy was performed 6 months after and the deep inguinal rings were inspected. At second laparoscopy no reopening to the entire orifice of the deep inguinal rings were noted. Accurate placement the polymeric agent and adequate coverage of the vas deferens was accomplished in all animals. This scientific report demonstrates that the biopolymeric implant gives good postoperative results and a stable trend of closing IHS in long-term follow-up. We hope that the injectable polymeric bulking agents can be used for treatment of inguinal hernias at pediatric patients after additional animal and human researches.