Background: Cordyceps militaris fraction (CMF) has been shown to possess in vitro antitumor activity against human chronic myeloid leukemia K562 cells in our previous research. Materials and Methods: The in vitro inhibitory activities of CMF on the growth of KB cells were evaluated by viability assay. The apoptotic and cell cycle influences of CMF were detected by 4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole staining and flow cytometry assay. The expression of different apoptosis-associated proteins and cell cycle regulatory proteins was examined by Western blot assay. The nuclear localization of c-Jun was observed by fluorescence staining. Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate the antiproliferative effect of CMF as well as the mechanism underlying the apoptosis and cell cycle arrest it induces in KB cells. Results: CMF suppressed KB cells' proliferation in a dose- and time-dependent manner. Flow cytometric analysis indicated that CMF induced G2/M cell cycle arrest and apoptosis. Western blot analysis revealed that CMF induced caspase-3, caspase-9, and PARP cleavages, and increased the Bax/Bcl-2 ratio. CMF also led to increased expression of p21, decreased expression of cyclin B1, mitotic phosphatase cdc25c, and mitotic kinase cdc2, as well as unchanged expression of p53. In addition, CMF stimulated c-Jun N-terminal kinases (JNK) protein phosphorylations, resulting in upregulated expression of c-Jun and nuclear localization of c-Jun. Pretreatment with JNK inhibitor SP600125 suppressed CMF-induced apoptosis and G2/M arrest. Conclusions: CMF is capable of modulating c-Jun caspase and Bcl-2 family proteins through JNK-dependent apoptosis, which results in G2/M phase arrest in KB cells. CMF could be developed as a promising candidate for the new antitumor agents. Abbreviations used: CMF: Cordyceps militaris fraction; OSCC: Oral squamous cell carcinoma; JNK: c-Jun N-terminal kinase.


Solder joint inspection (SJI) is a critical process in the production of printed circuit boards (PCBs). Detection of solder errors during SJI is quite challenging as the solder joints have very small sizes and can take various shapes. In this study, we first show that solders have low feature diversity and that the SJI can be carried out as a fine-grained image classification (FGIC) task that focuses on hard-to-distinguish object classes. To improve the fine-grained classification accuracy, penalizing confident model predictions by maximizing entropy was found useful in the literature. In line with this information, we propose using the <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\alpha $ </tex-math></inline-formula>-skew Jensen–Shannon divergence (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\alpha $ </tex-math></inline-formula>-JS) for penalizing the confidence in model predictions. We compare the <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\alpha $ </tex-math></inline-formula>-JS regularization with both existing entropy-regularization-based methods and the methods based on the attention mechanism, segmentation techniques, transformer models, and specific loss functions for FGIC tasks. We show that the proposed approach achieves the highest F1-score and competitive accuracy for different models in the fine-grained solder joint classification task. Finally, we visualize the activation maps and show that with entropy regularization, more precise class-discriminative regions are localized, which are also more resilient to noise. The code is available at <uri>https://github.com/furkanulger/SJI-entropy-reg</uri>.


Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the range of benchmark applications associated with the historical event of Barack Obama being elected as the 44th US president.Design/methodology/approach – Collection and critical analysis of secondary data from relevant publications analyzing the results of the 2008 presidential elections. Analysis of organizational behavior theories have been utilized in order to benchmark leadership attributes.Findings – The paper concludes that Obama's presidential victory is influenced by several factors which included leadership traits, leader‐follower identification, and postmodernism.Research limitations/implications – The paper examines benchmarking applications that are exclusively relevant in a public sector environment.Practical implications – There are several implications for researchers and practitioners related to how future political strategies for US presidential elections might be planned.Originality/value – This paper is significant because it present...


Accurate recognition of human pose and prediction of human motion intention are essential for exoskeleton robots to provide effective assistance. In recent years, inertial measurement units (IMUs) have been widely used to estimate human pose due to their stability and economy. However, physical sensors are inherently subject to time delay relative to human movement, which makes it challenging to meet the demand for real-time control of power-assisted exoskeletons. To address this issue, we propose a data-driven approach called motion forecasting network (MoFCNet) that leverages historical IMU readings to forecast the 3D pose of human in future frames. Our approach consists of two stages, state variables forecasting and pose regression. In stage I, we forecast the IMU data, joint positions and velocities. In stage II, we regress the future human poses from the forecasting results of stage I. Besides, we design a basic stack that can be applied to both stages. The mean joint rotation error on DIP-IMU and TotalCapture datasets are $\bm {10.34}$ and $\bm {16.11}$ degrees, respectively. When focusing solely on the first frame of the prediction results, these errors decrease to 9.13 and 14.50 degrees. Experimental results indicate that our method not only outperforms the forecasting baseline methods but also achieves comparable performance to the sparse IMU-based human pose estimation algorithm.


Synthesized a series of copolyether-ester coming of different adding amount of PEG and containing sulfonate group.Studied the basic synthesizing law of copolyether-ester and the changing regularities of its common performance,thermal and hydroscopic properties.The results indicated that the polycondensation reaction time was cut down by adding PEG and the carboxyl group content in copolyether-ester was very low;the DEG content in copolyether-esther decreased with the increase of PEG adding;the increase of the PEG adding amount caused the decrease of copolyether-ester's glass temperature.When the PEG adding amount was less than 40%,the crystallization of polyether-ester was better,but an excessive adding would hinder its crystallization.The melt temperature of copolyether-ester decreased as the adding of PEG increased,especially decreased significantly at the adding of 50%,and the water saturation of copolyether-ester increased regularly by PEG adding amount.


Limiting this analysis to the challenging issue of identity, this work intends to account for how hybridity implies a great sense of trepidation, "cultural anxiety", othering and shadowy multiculturalism. Running against the contention that hybridity opens up horizons and fertile grounds of cultural negotiation, the author argues that hybridity does not resolve identitary questionings and enigmas inasmuch as it obfuscates the quest for a gravitational center from which to launch a civilizational project. There is, therefore, a demanding need for retrieving the specificities of national culture as Frantz Fanon posits, which is only guaranteed through solidifying a sense of belonging to a well-defined cultural context. With this in mind, the author proposes to build his arguments on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Of Love and Other Demons and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darknessas two case studies. Both novels tackle the issue of hybridity in Latin American and African contexts. The figures of Sierva Maria and Kurtz are, in fact, emblematic of false catalysts of cultural mobility. This can be inferred from their conducts and responses to their surroundings. Their madness and irrationality allude to the pathological drawbacks of an identity fraught with cultural duality. To this point, it is obvious that the scope of this study is to account for the fallacy of multiculturalism once associated with hybridity. The corollary pursuit of this hypothesis is both characters do inhabit two cultural realms without being able to fully situate themselves into one of them either.

 Key words: Identity, hybridity, irrationality, colonial culture and postcolonialism.


ABSTRACT The filler network percolation behavior, filler–filler contact, and filler–polymer interaction of carbon black (CB)–filled hydrogenated acrylonitrile–butadiene rubber were investigated with the combination of dielectric and mechanical properties, by means of changing CB concentration, CB-specific surface area, cycling deformation for vulcanizates, and rotation speed of rotors in the internal mixer during the mixing process. A dielectric relaxation spectrometer was used to determine the percolation threshold of the CB network, which was made up of filler–filler contact, combined with the percolation theory. Dynamic mechanical analysis and a universal testing machine were employed to observe the filler–filler contact and filler–polymer interaction. The filler–filler bonds were determined by analysis of the Arrhenius plot on the basis of temperature sweep. The filler–polymer interaction and filler–filler contact were determined by hysteresis loss dependence and analysis of the reinforcement factor o...


Objective It aimed to explore the diagnostic efficacy of multimodal ultrasound images based on mask region with convolutional neural network (M-RCNN) segmentation algorithm for small liver cancer and analyze the expression of zeste gene enhancer homolog 2 (EZH2) and p57 (P57 Kip2) genes in cancer cells. Methods A total of 100 patients suspected of small liver cancer were randomly divided into Doppler group (color Doppler ultrasound examination), contrast group (contrast ultrasound examination), elastic group (ultrasound elastography examination), and multimodal group (combined examination of the three methods), with 25 patients in each group. Images were processed by the M-RCNN segmentation algorithm. The results of the pathological biopsy were used to evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of the four methods. The liver tissues were then extracted and divided into observation group 1 (lesion tissue specimen), observation group 2 (liver tissue around cancer lesion), and control group (normal liver tissue), and the expression activities of EZH2 and p57 genes in the three groups were analyzed. Results The accuracy of M-RCNN (97.23%) and average precision (AP) (71.90%) were higher than other methods (P < 0.05). Sensitivity (88.87%), specific degree of consistency (90.91%), accuracy (89.47%), and consistence (0.68) of the multimodal group were better than the other three groups (P < 0.05). Low and medium differentiated cancer tissues had an irregular shape, unclear boundary, uneven internal echo, unchanged/enhanced posterior echo, blood flow level 1∼2, elastic score 4∼5, and enhancement mode fast in and fast out. The positive expression rate of EZH2 in observation group 1 (75.95%) was higher than that in the other two groups, the positive expression rate of p57 in observation group 1 (80.79%) was lower than that in the other two groups, and the positive expression rate of p57 in the highly differentiated cancer foci (80.79%) was significantly lower than that in the middle and low differentiated cancer foci (P < 0.05). Conclusions M-RCNN segmentation algorithm had a better segmentation effect. Multimodal ultrasound had a good effect on the benign and malignant diagnosis of small liver cancer and had a high clinical application value. The high expression of EZH2 and the decreased expression of p57 can promote the occurrence of small hepatocellular carcinoma, and the deficiency of the P57 gene was related to the low differentiation of cancer cells.


Abstract : The following topics have been studied during this three year period: Transition to instability for unstable one-dimensional detonations. Development of the first asymptotic model to incorporate the self-stretching of vortex filaments in high Reynolds number fluid flows. Development of the first rigorous model with exact renormalization for turbulent transport.


This is the first of a two part series, and provides a contextual history of major trends in sex therapy, notably the psychoanalytic, behavioural and medical models, as well as detailing the family therapy contribution to the field. Part 2 will present the outline of a first interview, and use it to demonstrate a systemic model which explores the interrelationship between the symptom, the presenting person(s), the 'sexual' as part of the relationship, the biological, the broader cultural view of sexuality - and the therapist's framework and thinking. Case studies are used as illustration. (author abstract)


The paper provides a unifying framework for conducting Bayesian inference on the presence of seasonal and zero frequency unit roots in quarterly data. The main technique used is the analysis of posterior odds ratios. A new parameterization is provided for the model and the prior distributions implemented are discussed and justified. The analysis relies heavily on the application of a Gibbs sampling algorithm. Such techniques render the Bayesian approach more flexible and implementable, giving the applied researcher the possibility of specifying a vast range of prior distributions. The methods are applied to a set of UK quarterly series. Compared to previous studies, less evidence is found to support seasonal integration hypotheses.


Research on the causes of homicide has focused on two competing theoretical models, socioeconomic and subcultural. After a review of these two theoretical perspectives and a number of recent empirical studies of homicide derived from these perspectives, several theoretically derived hypotheses relating types of homicides as classified by the victim/offender relationship and these perspectives are presented and discussed. The analysis is designed to evaluate these hypotheses, and to address some of the discrepant findings in previous studies. The results indicate the importance of specification issues such as measurement and aggregation in understanding previous research, the primacy of the socioeconomic approach for understanding the causes of homicide, and the importance of further classification of homicide for disentangling potential subcultural effects from socioeconomic effects. Finally, a recommendation for further research on the subcultural approach is discussed. VioLit summary: OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study by Parker was to examine two important issues in the study of homicide: methodological problems such as measurement and aggregation and the competing theoretical models of subculture and socioeconomic explanations of homicide rate. Using Messner's (1983) study, the author tested subcultural and socioeconomic explanations for total and disaggregated homicide rates by victim/offender relationship. METHODOLOGY: A quasi-experimental, cross-sectional design was employed using secondary data from official sources for 299 cities. Messner's results for 204 SMSAs were also reported for purposes of comparison. Data for homicide rate were obtained from the Supplemental Homicide Report for 1973-1975 which were averaged for the comparison equation and totaled for the others. The total homicide rate was disaggregated by victim/offender relationship. These categories were as follows: 1) homicide committed during commission of robbery, 2) during commission of other felony, 3) between persons who were acquainted but not sexually intimate, and 4) between spouses. Independent variables examined were structural poverty, racial composition, and the city's "southness" in the year 1973. Structural poverty was a composite measure including the following: l) percentage of families with $3,000 or less in income, 2) percentage of children living with only one parent, 3) percentage in the state where a city is located who failed the armed forces mental test for recruits, 4) percentage of those over 25 years of age with less than five years of education, and 5) infant mortality rate. Racial composition was measured by percent black. Southernness was measured using Confederacy as a guideline. Control variables were l) percentage aged 20-34, 2) the natural log of population size, 3) the natural log of density per square mile, and 4) Gini index of income inequality. All data for independent and control variables were taken from U.S. Census Bureau sources. The data were analyzed using l) OLS regression to replicate Messner's analysis with 1973-1975 data, 2) LISREL analysis of the total homicide rate, and 3) LISREL analysis of the four disaggregated homicide rates. FINDINGS/DISCUSSION: Significance was determined by whether the coefficient was at least l.6 times its standard error for a one-tailed test. Structural poverty, percent black (indicator for racial subculture of violence), and population (log) were significantly and positively related in the OLS regression for average homicide rate showing that aggregation to city rather than SMSA changed the significance of Southernness (regional subculture of violence) and Gini inequality. The LISREL model (using appropriate controls for measurement error and correlated measurement error in homicide and structural poverty) for total homicide revealed only structural poverty and population (log) and density (log) as significant predictors (in expected positive direction). When homicide rate was disaggregated into victim/offender relationship types, the overall pattern changed. Poverty was significantly and positively related to three of the four types of homicide (other felony, primary nonintimate, and family intimate) and in two of the three, family intimate and other felony, it was the dominant predictor. Percent black was significantly related to robbery and primary nonintimate homicide. Southernness was significantly related to robbery and other felony but in a negative direction. Population size was significantly and positively related to every equation except family intimate. Population density was negatively related to family intimate homicide. AUTHOR'S RECOMMENDATIONS: The author concluded by saying that homicide should be broadened in both theoretical and logical terms, particularly in the area of victim/offender typology. He also argued that current examination of subculture of violence theory in homicide research is misguided in both theoretical terms and operationalization in empirical measures. Measurement issues of aggregation and indications of homicide and other independent variables also need further research attention. EVALUATION: The central theme in this work is as important as it is difficult. The study of homicide has traditionally met with measurement and theoretical difficulties. The error inherent in the data we use is compounded by the effects of different levels of aggregation of these data. The author reveals, to the benefit of this kind of research, that reliance upon a singular indicator of homicide masks several differences that exist between different types of homicide. Also, the difference between a city and a SMSA is great and reveals theoretical differences between them. The exploration of more precise tools for statistical analysis is also a great step forward. There is continued neglect, however, of gender in this work. Homicide rates are assumed to be affected by the same factors whether the rates are for total homicide or for gender-specific homicide. The author ultimately questions the usefulness of subcultural theory and the use of demographic indicators such as percent black to proxy for subculture of violence in statistical models, but he uses percent black in his equations and does not make the argument forcefully enough. Theoretically these practices are not sound, and ethically, use of percent black as an indicator of violent subculture is questionable at best and racist at worst. (CSPV Abstract - Copyright © 1992-2007 by the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, Institute of Behavioral Science, Regents of the University of Colorado) N1 - Call Number: F-228, AB-228 KW - Violence Causes KW - Adult Violence KW - Adult Offender KW - Homicide Causes KW - Homicide Offender KW - Subculture Theory KW - Subculture of Violence KW - Socioeconomic Factors KW - Socioeconomic Status KW - Poverty KW - Homicide Rates KW - Comparative Analysis KW - Racial Differences KW - Sociocultural Factors KW - Domestic Homicide KW - Victim Offender Relations


Copyright © 2015 by ASME. In this study we investigate the heat release response to forced harmonic velocity fluctuations of a bluff body dump combustor. We use the kinematic G-equation as a low-order model for the flame and heat release dynamics. The geometry considered is based on an experimental setup developed by R. Balachandran and widely investigated in the literature, and we look for a qualitative comparison with experimental and numerical results. We model the flow field dynamics adapting the wellknown travelling wave model, which was originally developed for conical flames, to the case of a bluff-body stabilized flame in a non-uniform mean flow field. We impose velocity fluctuations at the dump plane at various frequencies and amplitudes and we integrate the nonlinear flame and heat release dynamics. Results show that the model qualitatively reproduces the kinematic behaviour observed in the experiments, although some major quantitative differences are found. We conclude by discussing our results, and adjustments that could be introduced in future in the low-order model in order to improve it.


3521 Background: LiverMetSurvey is an international, internet-based registry designed to assess the efficacy of multimodality treatment options for colorectal liver metastases (CLM) by analyzing outcomes following hepatic resection (HR) in a large number of patients.

METHODS
Data were analyzed for the 2,122 patients entered into LiverMetSurvey by six hepatobiliary centers from inception to August 2004 (HR: 1974 to 2004; 1,306 men: 816 women; mean age: 61 years). The distributions of potential prognostic factors including age, sex, primary tumor site, timing of metastasis diagnosis, tumor number, diameter of the largest metastasis, bilaterality, and treatment with chemotherapy were compared to survivals using univariate and multivariate statistics.

RESULTS
Metastases originated in the colon in 69% of patients and were synchronous (diagnosed within 3 mo of primary tumor treatment) in 49% of patients. 34% of patients had ≥ 3 metastases and tumors were distributed bilaterally in 43% of cases. The mean size of the largest metastasis was 41.8 mm. 55% of patients were treated with preoperative systemic chemotherapy. Following resection, 60-day mortality was 1.2% and median, 5-year, and 10-year overall survivals (OS) were 46 mo, 42%, and 26%, respectively. Variables independently associated with poor prognosis included number of metastases > 3 (p<0.0001), bilateral metastases (p=0.0002), and size of the largest metastasis > 5 cm (p=0.03). Preoperative chemotherapy (PC) did not appear to benefit patients with solitary CLM (5-yr OS: PC 45% vs. no PC 58%), but was associated with improved survival in patients with > 5 metastases (5-yr OS: PC 22% vs. no PC 12%).

CONCLUSIONS
Assessment of outcomes for the first 2,122 registrants to LiverMetSurvey not only confirms the prognostic importance of intrahepatic tumor burden, but also indicates that the ability of preoperative systemic chemotherapy to improve survivals is limited to patients with multiple (> 5) metastases. In addition, this analysis demonstrates the potential for LiverMetSurvey, which is now prospectively enrolling patients from over 40 centers, to determine the therapeutic value of current and future treatment strategies. No significant financial relationships to disclose.


ABSTRACT Quality control charts are extensively used to monitor processes. The EWMA chart is a good alternative to the Shewhart chart to quickly detect small and moderate shifts in the process mean. The DEWMA charting procedure is an enhanced approach for the EWMA chart and performs much better, especially for small and moderate shifts. In this article, we propose the triple EWMA (TEWMA) chart in an effort to improve much more the detection ability of the classical EWMA chart. Monte Carlo simulations are used to evaluate the run-length characteristics of the proposed chart. A comparison study versus the DEWMA, EWMA and GWMA charts indicates that the TEWMA chart with time-varying control limits is more effective in detecting small shifts while it is comparable with the other charts in moderate and large shifts. Moreover, the proposed chart has better inertia properties than the competing charts and is also shown to be in-control robust for small values of the smoothing parameter. Finally, two examples are given to display the application of the TEWMA chart.


and on the lower extremities in 12 [8 (67% developed skin cancer]. Men had a greater risk of developing skin cancer than women, with an odds ratio (OR) of 6.27 (P 1⁄4 0.0010, logistic regression), significantly different Kaplan–Meier survival curves at a1⁄4 0.05 (P 1⁄4 0.001, Wilcoxon test; Fig. 1), and a greater estimated adjusted risk (Cox proportional hazard ratio 3.5, P 1⁄4 0.001). Patients with SK biopsied on the head, neck and upper extremities were less likely to develop cancer than patients with lesions on the trunk and lower extremities (OR 0.11, P 1⁄4 0.0255) and were estimated to have a lower adjusted risk (hazard ratio 0.30, P 1⁄4 0.005). Sun-exposure history is an important confounding variable that was not available in this cohort, and is a limitation of this study. Although limited by its small size and its focus on the patients at highest risk (those who had SK that were sufficiently suspicious as to justify a biopsy procedure), the results of this retrospective study provide insight into predictors of skin-cancer risk. Male patients and patients with SK on the trunk and lower extremities are at highest risk and perhaps should be followed closely for the development of skin malignancies.


This paper presents an efficient algorithm to solve a mapping problem of the Network on Chip(NoC) regular architecture under low power constraints.According to symmetry of the regular topological structure,the algorithm only keeps one equivalent optimal solution for the first core mapping result.Then combining with the pruning principle of branch and bound algorithm,the algorithm mappings the rest cores.Thus the algorithm reduces the search space,speeds up the convergence rate and reduces the operating time.Experimental results show that the algorithm has lower communication cost and short run time.


Author's Note: A number of major organizations have recently addressed the question of insanity defense reform. I have played a part in two such efforts (ABA and NCID) and believe that those organizations have commendably reviewed and synthesized the best of the current thinking. But I am struck by the fact that sug gestions for reform seem invariably to fall on either side of the standard philosophical, legal, and psychiatric arguments. This essay reflects my concern that, for genuine and long-term gains to be achieved in this area, completely new analytical approaches need to be developed. For ex ample, current reform proposals, like prior ones, often discuss possible limitations on the operation of the in sanity defense that typically relate to qualifying mental disease and to the impact of the impairment on cognitive or volitional functions. Limitations of a very different sort may, however, ad dress more directly the areas of public and professional dissatisfaction with the insanity defense. One such limiting approach ? focusing on the nature of the of fense and the offender-victim relationship ? is ad vanced here. This essay offers the offense-victim perspective as illustrative of a fresh framework, as a means of re-orienting the debate, and for provoking the development of different approaches to this area of the law.


Customer satisfaction programmes are an increasingly costly part of most business budgets, yet proof that they produce loyal customers is elusive. As a result, leading companies are turning to 'relationship marketing' to ensure that their clients steer clear of the competition.


As a province of ecology,Guizhou has no special legislation for the protection of wetlands.There are some local regulations related to this issue,but they are quite insufficient.This paper studies the present situation and proposes some suggestions for the protection of Guizhou Province's wetlands.


This study examines whether brand image, price, and customer-oriented services significantly impact customer buying decisions, with brand trust as a mediating variable in Prudential insurance companies in several areas in Indonesia. Questionnaires were distributed to 282 respondents prudential customers with an active policy. The data analysis technique using the SPSS 26 and the relationship between variables was measured using SEM AMOS 26. This study indicates that brand image has a positive and significant impact on brand trust with a Critical ratio value of 2.644 and a significance of P of 0.008, the price has an impact. In the findings, there are positive and significant towards brand trust with a Critical ratio with a value of 4.888 and a significance of P of 0.000; customer-oriented services have no significant impact on brand trust with a Critical ratio value of o, 556 with a significance of P of 0.578. Brand image is the dominant variable affecting customer buying decisions with a critical ratio value of 7.333 and a significance of P of 0.000. Meanwhile, brand trust does not significantly affect customer buying decisions, with a critical ratio value of 1.658 and a significance of 0.097.


School Counselors' Professional Development Needs for Preparing Diverse Learners for College by Natalie White MS, Texas A&M University-Commerce, 2008 BS, Texas A&M University-Commerce, 2002 Project Study Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Education Walden University October 2019 Abstract Prevalent literature about school counselors' professional development (PD) needs to prepare diverse learners for college is in short supply. Simultaneously, school counselors oftentimes encounter role confusion due to misperceptions of their job responsibilities by educational leaders. This discrepancy has led to the completion of noncounseling assignments, thus prohibiting counselors in this study from appropriate training and adhering to college readiness mandates for all students. This study explored high school counselors' attitudes about their PD needs to prepare diverse students for college in an urban populated school district located in southern Texas. The conceptual framework that guided this study defines school counselors' motivation to improve college access for diverse students when counselors learn information that is practical to their job activities. A qualitative case study was used to answer the question of how counselors perceive their PD needs to prepare diverse learners for college. Data were collected from 8 high school counselors through semistructured interviews and documents of counselors' PD profiles that were analyzed and coded to develop themes. Results established that participants had not received PD about college readiness, and they had not taken the initiative to advocate this need for themselves. Notably, counselors in the study indicated that developing a professional learning community with local colleges would be an effective approach to their professional growth. Although this study immediately benefits counselors in the participating school district, this study also provides information that may expand college enrollment for diverse students. Findings from this study not only will help close the gap between diverse students and their counterparts, but findings from this study may also help enhance PD for school counselors in surrounding school districts.Prevalent literature about school counselors' professional development (PD) needs to prepare diverse learners for college is in short supply. Simultaneously, school counselors oftentimes encounter role confusion due to misperceptions of their job responsibilities by educational leaders. This discrepancy has led to the completion of noncounseling assignments, thus prohibiting counselors in this study from appropriate training and adhering to college readiness mandates for all students. This study explored high school counselors' attitudes about their PD needs to prepare diverse students for college in an urban populated school district located in southern Texas. The conceptual framework that guided this study defines school counselors' motivation to improve college access for diverse students when counselors learn information that is practical to their job activities. A qualitative case study was used to answer the question of how counselors perceive their PD needs to prepare diverse learners for college. Data were collected from 8 high school counselors through semistructured interviews and documents of counselors' PD profiles that were analyzed and coded to develop themes. Results established that participants had not received PD about college readiness, and they had not taken the initiative to advocate this need for themselves. Notably, counselors in the study indicated that developing a professional learning community with local colleges would be an effective approach to their professional growth. Although this study immediately benefits counselors in the participating school district, this study also provides information that may expand college enrollment for diverse students. Findings from this study not only will help close the gap between diverse students and their counterparts, but findings from this study may also help enhance PD for school counselors in surrounding school districts. School Counselors' Professional Development Needs for Preparing Diverse Learners for College by Natalie White MS, Texas A&M University-Commerce, 2008 BS, Texas A&M University-Commerce, 2002 Project Study Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Education Walden University October 2019 Dedication This project study is dedicated to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ; you are the one who gave me the strength and courage to keep going. Without you Lord, this study would not have been possible. This study is also dedicated to the memory of my father, the late Reverend James C. White, a prayer warrior who exemplified the word "fighter". My father fought a good fight, finished his course, and he kept the faith (2 Timothy 4:7). By my father's example, I was empowered to fight through long hours of research and finish this study. It is my desire to stay driven and strive for excellence through continuous learning. Acknowledgements I would like to thank my closest friend, Sabrina Jordan, for believing in me and sending me encouraging words throughout my day. Your warm felt words and calls to tell me to "break away" for a minute, gave me the extra push I needed to recharge and continue writing. I would also like to thank my mother, Mae Lois White, for instilling in me the importance of education. You have modeled what it means to love education through 48 years of teaching. I cannot believe you are still in the classroom shining your light. You are a true example of what it means to be an educator, one who has no fear of learning or teaching because you set high expectations for yourself and your students. I am grateful to work with supportive school counselors, and to have a supervisor, Valerie Mayad, who understood the importance of this study. I knew all of you were rooting for me. Thank you for your wiliness to contribute to this study with enthusiasm. Finally, I would like to thank my committee chair, committee member, and URR, Dr. Joanna Karet, Dr. Earl Thomas, and Dr. Dimitrios Vlachopoulos, for listening to my concerns and giving me suggestions on how to enhance my study.


Thermodynamic analysis is performed on a conceptual oxygen permeation membrane reactor driven by concentrated solar energy (heat) for isothermal H2O splitting for the purpose of solar fuel derivation. By way of a plug‐flow reactor model, kinetic and thermodynamic factors responsible for conversion rate, reactor dimension, and solar‐to‐fuel efficiency are analyzed for the case of pump‐assisted and methane‐assisted scenarios. The pump‐assisted case achieves the same solar‐to‐fuel efficiency (2.9% at 1500 °C) as isothermal solar thermochemical cycling, while the methane‐assisted case attains much higher efficiencies at much lower temperatures, whose net solar‐to‐fuel efficiency reaches 63% at around 900 °C. The theoretical framework developed in this study can be applied to the solar thermochemical splitting of other gases such as CO2 and can be further extended to the co‐splitting of H2O and CO2 for syngas production driven by solar energy only (i.e., without the participation of hydrocarbon fuels). Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


In nutmeg, fruit weight, mace volume and pericarp thickness have direct and kernel volume, mace dry weight and fruit set have indirect effects on yield. Selection for higher yield should be based on most contributing principal component fruits/tree, followed by plant girth, canopy spread, flowers/10cm2, fruit set and fruit weight.


Using the Tree of Life as an example, this paper presents folk psychology as a decolonising practice that elevates the experience, history and wisdom of individuals and collectives, rather than privileging the theories and standards of professional practice. It also demonstrates the possibilities that can emerge when we invite people's own folk psychology metaphors to guide our practice.


According to a combination navigation system of optical fiber IMU and GPS,because of the expansion of the scale system,the system complexity increased,the probability of system error inevitably increased on the dynamic system fault diagnosis,including the general approach,dynamic studies including fault diagnosis system in general,then two χ 2 methods were set up.They were used to SINS/GPS system on the basis of fault simulation analysis;Finally,based on a model of missile which used the fiber optic inertial measurement system and GPS navigation system for the composition of the background,data was obtained in the environmental testing algorithm for the simulation.The method is proved the feasibility of the algorithm and the correctness,and the research results have important reference value to design of navigation system reliability.


The article discusses the transformation laws of love phenomenon in the historical and cultural development, and the reflection of these processes in art. Two main sociocultural model of love are determined. The changes in the embodiment of love relationships in contemporary art culture are analyzed. The relationship between overall ideological paradigm, social conditions (mainly marital life) of epoch and its models of love are considered.


The multiple user challenge is one of the issues that need to be addressed in order to facilitate the adoption of intelligent environments in everyday activities. The development of multi-user capabilities in smart homes is closely related to the creation of effective indoor positioning systems. This research work reports on the development and evaluation of an indoor positioning system that allows multi-user management in a smart home environment. The design of the BLE based system is presented, as well as its implementation and evaluation in the Smart Spaces Lab at Middlesex University. The validation of the system is shown as a case study in which it is used to develop multi-user capabilities in two context-aware systems of the laboratory. Video demonstrations are provided to illustrate the multi-user capabilities that were developed in the validation.


Abstract: • We survey the current practice of analyzing spatial extreme data, which lies at the intersection of extreme value theory and geostatistics. Characterizations of multivariate max-stable distributions typically assume specific univariate marginal distributions, and their statistical applications generally require capturing the tail behavior of the margins and describing the tail dependence among the components. We review current methodology for spatial extremes analysis, discuss the extension of the finite-dimensional extremes framework to spatial processes, review spatial dependence metrics for extremes, survey current modeling practice for the task of modeling marginal distributions, and then examine max-stable process models and copula approaches for modeling residual spatial dependence after accounting for marginal effects.


An archaeological watching brief was carried out by Oxford Archaeology North (OA North) on behalf of United Utilities during topsoil stripping activities, relating to the
laying of a pipeline between Rainow Wastewater Treatment Works (WwTW) to Bollington Transfer Pipeline, Cheshire (SJ 9446 7663 to SJ 9409 7777). The work was undertaken in April 2006, and following advice from Cheshire County Council
(CCC). The watching brief was carried out in order to ascertain the presence or absence of any remains within the easement of the pipeline the area.
Pottery dating to the late eighteenth to twentieth centuries was recovered from the topsoil. A small post-medieval ditch (Field 2) and complex of stone built land drains (Field 5) were located and recorded. Otherwise, no features of archaeological significance were encountered.


This paper is focused in the actual data and possibilities that the archaeological study of the urban periphery of Florentia Iliberritana, a civitas of southern Hispania offers. We know increasingly more data that reflects its economical importance based on the agricultural richness of its territorium. This paper proposes a specific methodology for this case study taking into account spatiotemporal variables.


Dr. A. Leema Rose and F. Janeeta Priya* 1,2 Department of Chemistry, Holy Cross College, Tiruchirappalli – 620002,Tamilnadu ,india. *Corresponding Author: Email email@example.com Abstract There is an increasing commercial demand for nanoparticles due to their wide applicability in various areas such as electronics, catalysis, chemistry, energy, and medicine. Metallic nanoparticles are traditionally synthesized by wet chemical techniques, where the chemicals used are quite often toxic and flammable. The phytochemical screening of stem bark of catharanthus roseus revealed the presence of bioactive compounds. In this work, we describe a cost effective and environment friendly technique for green synthesis of silver nanoparticles from 1mM AgNO3 solution through the extract of catharanthus roseus stem bark extract as reducing agent as well as capping agent. A change in color from yellowish brown to reddish brown and a strong peak at 440 nm under UV spectral analysis confirmed the formation of silver nanoparticles. Nanoparticles were characterized using UV–Vis absorption spectroscopy, EDAX and SEM. SEM analysis showed the average particle size as well as revealed their structure. The antibacterial activities of the formed silver nanoparticles have also been discussed.


Peripheral T cell lymphomas (PTCL) as an uncommon disorder constitute an estimated 10% of non Hodgkin's lymphoma. Current immune phenotypes and molecular signatures connote an estimated one third to one half (30% to 50%) instances of PTCL as "not further classifiable". Peripheral T cell lymphoma arises in elderly individuals with a median at 60 years of age and a male predominance. Peripheral T cell lymphoma (PTCL) is predominantly categorized into nodal or extra-nodal configurations with cutaneous involvement or peripheral blood leukaemia. Medium or enlarged lymphoid cells with a clear cytoplasm are demonstrated with a T cell characterization of immune reactive CD3+, CD45RO+, CD2+, CD5+ and CD7+ and a germinal centre immune phenotype (CD10+, BCL6+, MUM1-). Genetic evaluation of PTCL NOS discerns recurrent genetic abnormalities of TET2, DNMT3A, IDH2 and RHOA genes. Bone marrow biopsy is a critical investigation for staging of lymphomas and assessment of abnormal haematological parameters. The therapeutic management of peripheral T cell lymphoma (PTCL) is identical to diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and utilizes combinations such as cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, etoposide, prednisone (CHOEP) in individual's ≤ 65 years of age and a combination of cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisone (CHOP) in patients ≥ 65 years of ages. Anubha Bajaj, Consultant Histopathologist, A.B.Diagnostics, New Delhi, India *Corresponding author: Anubha Bajaj, Consultant Histopathologist, A.B.Diagnostics, A-1 Ring Road, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi 110027 India; E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Citation: Anubha Bajaj. The T cell Predominance: Peripheral T cell Lymphoma-not Otherwise Specified (2018) Int J Hemat Ther 5(1): 017. Received date: November 26, 2018 Accepted date: January 28, 2019 Published date: February 4, 2019 Preface Peripheral T cell lymphomas (PTCL) as an uncommon disorder may constitute an estimated 10% of non Hodgkin's lymphoma and 6% of combined lymphomas[1]. A peripheral T cell lymphomanot otherwise specified (PTCL-NOS) as a frequent subset depicts an estimated 25% instances of peripheral T cell non Hodgkin's lymphoma. The International T cell Lymphoma Project exemplifies a comparable emergence of the disorder within Europe (34.3%) and United States (34.4%) with a lesser incidence in Asia (22.4)[1,2]. An initial lymph node enlargement is accompanied by incrimination of hepatic, dermal or splenic viscera and the bone marrow in 22% instances. An advanced, progressive stage of preliminary disease(70%) appearance is common with at least two thirds of the individuals elucidating an intermediate to high international prognostic index (IPI)[1,3]. As per the contemporary world health organization (WHO) classification, a peripheral T cell lymphomanot otherwise specified (PTCL-NOS) is a disease which is discordant with alternative forms of PTCL[4,5]. The current immune phenotypes and molecular signatures connote an estimated one third to one half (30% to 50%) instances of PTCL as "not further classifiable"[1,2]. Short Communication DOI: 10.15436/2381-1404.19.2034 page no:1 Copyright: © 2019 Bajaj, A. This is an Open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Disease Characteristics Peripheral T cell lymphoma usually arises in elderly individuals with a median at 60 years of age. A male predominance is elucidated with a male to female proportion of 2.25:1 (M: F: 9:4)[1,3]. Peripheral T cell lymphoma (PTCL) is predominantly categorized into nodal or extra-nodal configurations with cutaneous involvement or peripheral blood leukaemia, contingent to clinical representation and the implicated viscera[3,4]. Disease detection in peripheral T cell lymphoma is commonly delayed till the lymphoma disseminates to associated organs, particularly the bone marrow which generally indicates an advanced stage of disease. The disorder modifies normal haematopoietic mechanisms of the bone marrow. The therapeutic management of the lymphoma may be intricate. The infrequent disorder of peripheral T cell lymphoma is predominantly evaluated on clin-


The effective sphere approximation for modeling electrophoretic transport of macromolecules in highly porous gels (the "Ogston model") is examined, and contrasted with similar mobility models for stiff and flexible solutes. Calculation of segmental depletion near gel obstacles of various shapes demonstrates the limited applicability of the effective sphere approach. For highly flexible chains, both theory and experiment reveal a nonunique mapping between mobility and molecular size when the molecular radius is comparable to that of gel fibers. Turning to mobility behavior in more concentrated gels, neither flexible or stiff macromolecules behave as spheres; for the particular case of flexible chains, the presence of entropic barriers in concentrated gels can be understood in terms of a simple random planes model for the gel structure.


As the 21st century is in its first decade, it appears that the "centre cannot hold" and "things are falling apart". The world is full of inequities. The notion of sovereignty of state is becoming untenable. The world is dominated by one super power with overwhelming political, economic, military and cultural superiority. About forty transnational industrial and media conglomerates dominate the economies and resources of the global with impunity, being answerable, generally to no one. Eight or nine well developed economies are getting more than a fair deal from
the world economy. About 25 middle level, well-developed states are quite capable of drawing policies for a comfortable future. The rest of the states of the world, about 160 or so are not in a position to plan for a better future. In fact some of the states' future itself are in jeopardy. "Most of the poor one billion people are in 50
countries, 70% of them in Africa and most of the rest in central Asia. Some developing states are growing. Most of the developing states are confronted with wars, and misuse of natural resources. Some are land locked with no access to the outside world. A few are under the rule of
kleptocracy and pluctocracy.


Nursing: A voice to lead – Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals". We nurses has huge role to transform our world in a better way by achieving fourth goal SDGthrough quality education or by reducing school dropout rate. Objectives of this descriptive survey was to identify (i) the prevalence of school dropouts (ii) factors of school dropout and (iii)its association with selected factors. After getting ethical permission non probability sampling technique was used to select setting and random sampling technique was used to select sample. Children of 6-19 years were 147 and their 95 parents, who met inclusion criteria were interviewed. Result shows among 14.28% school dropouts majority are 12-13 years of age. Main reason for school dropouts are "distance of school from residence". Chi-square test of association of school dropout with socio economic conditions of the family, school accessibility, child's interest in education and parents' views on equal education was found to be highly significant at 0.05 level of significance.


Metallic alloys with convex curved surfaces have large scale applications in several industries such as in the automotive, marine and aerospace industries. These curved surfaces are used in the applications where surface integrity is extremely important. A large amount of research has been conducted related to the finishing processes, such as surface milling, that improve the finish quality of the manufactured part. However, there is a lack of knowledge of on how the curvature of the parts affect machining performance. Drilling of non-flat surfaces are not easier to conduct due to slippage and less accuracy. The cutting mechanism on the conventional drilling process is well studied in the conventional metal cutting literature, but on curved non-flat surfaces it is not studied. The thrust force signature in convex curved surface drilling is different from the conventional drilling because of the difference in engagement of chisel edge and cutting lips. It is also observed in the conventional drilling process that cutting parameters such as feed rate and cutting speed have controlling influence on the drilling performance. There is a need to investigate the influence of these cutting parameters on convex curved surfaces as well. Similarly chip clogging and evacuation are very important and decisive factors in the conventional drilling. It would be interesting to visualize and discuss these factors in convex surface drilling. In the case of convex surface drilling, curvature of surface being drilled is also an important factor that can limit the drilling process. The curvature of surface also defines the tool – workpiece engagement and cutting action of chisel edge and cutting lips. Due to convex curved surface, variation in chip load is expected due to variation in the cutting area.
 Titanium alloy Ti6Al4Vis a commonly used alloy used in the aerospace industry. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of curvature of a titanium alloy, Ti6Al4V, on the cutting forces experienced during the drilling process. The effects of the curvature of the surface were compared to the effects of the cutting speed and feed rate, in order to establish the significance of the effect of the curvature compared to other factors that affect the drill machining process. The effects of these parameters on the power and temperature during the drilling process were also analyzed and compared. The study is beneficial for the metal cutting academia and industry as it can provide the basic understanding and open up new areas of application.


Food habits of bobcats (Lynx rufus) in eastern Tennessee were determined from analyzing 176 cat samples collected on the Oak Ridge National Environmental Research Park. Remains of cottontail rabbits (Sylvilagus floridanus) were the most frequently occurring food item. White-tail deer (Odocoileus virginianus) and pine vole (Microtus pinetorum) remains also were found frequently in samples. Data obtained from this study indicated that food preferences for bobcats in eastern Tennessee are similar to those in other southeastern states where the habitat is similar to the Oak Ridge area and somewhat different from those with significantly different habitat.


Studies on the planning and policy of children's literature are still rarely found in scientific papers. This is because the process of forming a literary policy is a process that is not easy. After all, it is associated with various matters and layers of needs. On the other hand, literary planning and policy are usually included in the language education policy, not having its land. Today, children's literature has become a means of education and communication to children throughout the world. Children's literature is also an essential part of the delivery of language (mother, national, and foreign) and ideology to children. The love of children's literature has only use as a business area for the book industry without a full review of content. Thus, the policy and planning on children's literature become vital, given the children of the next generation of language, culture, and nation.


The purpose of this article is twofold: firstly, to examine party formation as an option for social movements; secondly, to explore in more detail the reasons and conditions as to why a party with an explicit ethnic agenda and with an aim to represent various migrant communities emerged in the Swedish but not in the Dutch context. The article argues that this type of mobilization should be viewed as a strategy adopted by social movements rather than as a traditional party and as such should be related to the prevailing political opportunity structures. The Swedish context offers more favourable conditions for this type of mobilization than the Dutch, although structural arrangements and dominating cleavage lines influence the type of success this type of option has in the long run.


This study is concerned with the process of teaching and learning pronunciation. It aims to determine to what extent pronunciation is taught at a lower secondary school level in Slovakia. 15 lessons were observed with the focus on how much time and what ways are devoted to teaching pronunciation. Afterwards, a questionnaire was distributed to both the students and the teachers in order to find out what importance they attach to pronunciation teaching. Ultimately, relevant conclusions are drawn and constructive suggestions are provided.


Retirement should be a time to look forward by employees because they can take a break from the duties and responsibilities of his job after such a long time to serve. But some studies show that not all employees turned out to be ready to face the coming pension. This study aims to determine the effect of individual factors and organizational factors as well as social support towards the readiness of pre-retirement employees towards retirement. The research was conducted on civil servants who will retire in North Sulawesi province, Indonesia. By using purposive sampling techniques, this research obtained 106 respondents, but only 100 respondents who complete answer were used in the data analysis. The process of the data analysis done by using a software of SPSS for Window version 20.0. The results of this study indicate that individual factors such as retirement preparation and preparation of substitute activities significantly influence the retirement readiness. While organizational factors such as the retirement preparation programs do not affect the retirement readiness. Social support was found play a role as a moderating variable between individual factors with retirement readiness. But on the other hand, Social support as a moderating variable between organizational factors with retirement readiness in this study was not supported. Keywords: retirement readiness, financial preparation, preparation of substitute activities, retirement benefits, social support.


The effects of inhaling 5 per cent carbon dioxide in air on the pulmonary arterial blood pressure and flow were studied in 5 subjects with normal pulmonary circulations and in 10 patients with chronic pulmonary emphysema. In the 5 control subjects, with an average increase in arterial PCO2 of 6 mm. Hg (37 to 43) and a 3-fold increase in minute ventilation, both pulmonary arterial blood pressure and flow remained unchanged. In the 10 patients with chronic pulmonary emphysema with a similar increase in arterial PCO2 (45 to 52) and a 2-fold increase in minute ventilation, there was a 14 per cent increase in cardiac output and a rise in pulmonary arterial mean pressure of 4 mm. Hg. In these patients an increment in pulmonary arterial pressure was invariably associated with an appreciable increment in blood flow. The present study affords no support for the view that the breathing of air enriched with carbon dioxide elicits pulmonary vasoconstriction in either normal subjects or in patients with chronic pulmonary disease.


Over the past three years, the Center for Acoustical Studies developed and implemented over ten different types of seminars in the hearing conservation and noise control areas. To date, 500 industrial personnel types have attended these seminars. They have utilized these training experiences in solving local industrial noise problems. The results of this type of approach to solving industrial noise problems in North Carolina industry is presented.


The article reviews an exhibition of artwork by Won Ju Lim at the Patrick Painter Gallery in Los Angeles, California.


Animal agriculture sustainability is being challenged by a rapidly increasing global human population, environmental pressures such as climate change, and a push toward reducing or eliminating antibiotic use. As a result, livestock producers are tasked with producing more animal products with less inputs and technologies while ensuring that appropriate animal welfare standards are maintained. The belief that distress should be limited for livestock to improve welfare is widely accepted by producers, scientists, and the public, and as such, farm animal welfare is an important societal issue. However, the correct way to assess the welfare state of livestock is often debated and using sound science to define what constitutes "good" animal welfare is a key component of developing animal husbandry practices and mitigation strategies to improve animal welfare while maintaining economic sustainability. The study of animal welfare is unique in that it often incorporates multiple scientific disciplines (i.e., stress physiology, behavior, immunology, nutrition) to evaluate the impact of various stressors on animal welfare and understand the interactions between differing biological systems under stressful conditions. Therefore, a multidisciplinary assessment of livestock welfare allows scientists to determine the relationships between animal behavior and physiology that can affect welfare states and ultimately influence animal performance and production efficiency.


Should monetary policy respond to asset prices? This paper analyzes a general equilibrium model with imperfect capital markets and rigid nominal wages. Within the context of this model, there is a natural role for the benevolent central bank to dampen the real effects of asset price movements.


Using self-designed questionnaires,1050 university students were surveyed on classroom teaching behavior.Based on the factor extraction method,the results show that students' main concerns on teaching behavior are mainly concentrated on the three aspects,i.e.,teachers' individuality,teaching style,and teaching method.It concludes that teaching behavior should have a three-dimensional structure.There is no noticeable difference in students' need for teachers' individuality,whereas significant differences exist for teaching manner and teaching method.Thus,improving the effectiveness of classroom teaching behavior should proceed with the above three dimensions.


This paper introduces data communication method between PC and SIMENTIC S7\|300 PLC(Programmable Logic Controller) based on Visual Basic platform in detail. Practice testifies that the method features great convenience,high efficiency of data transmission and much veracity.


The paper reflects on the coordination between sectorial and general regulation. In particular, the focus will be on the dichotomy between speciality and congruence within norms, as well as on system complexity and the need for a global hermeneutic approach.


We discuss the notion of reduction of a special type of explicit solutions which generalize the solutions appearing in the classical Laplace cascade method of integration of hyperbolic equations of the second order in the plane. We give algorithms of reduction and prove that different natural precise definitions of reduction are equivalent.
Keywords: cascade integration method, integrable systems, Euler integrals.


We introduce Delegation Logic (DL), a logic-based knowledge representation (i.e., language) that deals with authorization in large-scale, open distributed systems. Of central importance in any system for deciding whether requests should be authorized in such a system are delegation of authority, negation of authority, and conflicts between authorities. DL's approach to these issues and to the interplay among them borrows from previous work on delegation and trust management in the computer security literature and previous work on negation and conflict handling in the logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning literature, but it departs from previous work in some crucial ways. We present the syntax and semantics of DL and explain our novel design choices. We focus on delegation, including explicit treatment of delegation depth and delegation to complex principles. Compared to previous logic-based approaches to authorization, DL provides a novel combination of features: it is based on logic programs, expresses delegation depth explicitly, and supports a wide variety of complex principles (including but not limited to k-out-of-n thresholds). Compared to previous approaches to trust management, DL provides another novel feature: a concept of proof-of-compliance that is not entirely ad-hoc and that is based on model theoretic semantics (just as usual logic programs have a model-theoretic semantics).


We disagree with the comment of Forbes regarding our misinterpretation of data from the study of Catassi et al.1 and our statement that a safe daily limit is probably in the region of 10 mg/day.

First, in the Catassi et al. study the authors reported that 'some Celiac Disease patients showed a clear-cut worsening of the small-intestinal architecture after ingesting only 10 mg gluten/day' and 1/13 patients challenged with 10 mg gluten/day developed a clinical relapse p.164.

Therefore, with the limit of the small number of patients challenged with 10 mg gluten in this study (n = 13) some effects have been reported also for the quantity of 10 mg/day.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) safety analysis2 concluded that <1 ppm of gluten in foods is required to protect the greatest number of patients. In the FDA report it is clearly specified that, in the gluten exposure studies examined, the results are not presented or interpreted within a toxicological risk assessment framework.

Therefore, for the FDA hazard/safety analysis, the results were reinterpreted within the frame of reference of 1 ppm.

The average no observable adverse effect level and the lowest observable adverse effect level associated with morphological effects were calculated utilising the appropriate uncertainty factor (that takes into account the variability among studies and data) and indicated as tolerable the acute intake level for gluten of 12.5 mg/day, and for the subchronic exposure 0.4 mg gluten/day and for chronic exposure 7.0 mg gluten/day.

The FDA report, with the limitation of the available data, indicates as tolerable a quantity of gluten close to the one reported in our review. At the moment we do not have any reliable data for toxicity of gluten quantities in the range from 10–50 mg/day. Therefore, on the basis of the scanty data we have, according to the FDA safety assessment analysis and with the limit of personal sensitivity, the only conclusion is that 50 mg could be unsafe for most CD patients and 10 mg should be safe for most of the patients.

Our final recommendation that the CD patients should be vigilant with their diet and avoid all sources of known gluten or contamination is the only reasonable conclusion.


AIMS
The aim of this study is to evaluate efficacy and safety of transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) with N-butyl 2-cyanoacrylate (NBCA) for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with arterioportal shunts (APS).

SUBJECTS AND METHODS
From January 2008 to June 2014, 36 cases of HCC with APS were treated by TACE with NBCA. NBCA-lipiodol mixture was superselective delivered before routine TACE in HCC patients with APS. Recanalization of shunt, objective response, clinical adverse events, and survival rates was retrospectively studied.

RESULTS
All interventional procedures were successful without any procedure relevant complications. The immediate APS improvement rate was 83.3% (30/36), and the APS improvement rate at first-time follow-up was 66.6% (20/30). Radiologically confirmed complete response (CR), partial response, stable disease, and progressive disease at 1 month after first chemoembolization were observed in 1 (2.7%), 19 (52.8%), 6 (16.7%), and 10 (27.8%) patients, respectively. Survival rates were 91.7% at 6 months, 47.2% at 1 year, and 13.9% at 2 years. The median survival time was 11 months. No severe adverse effects were noted.

CONCLUSIONS
The preliminary experience indicates TACE with NBCA can be safely performed and may improve prognosis of HCC with arterioportal shunt.


FIELD: construction. SUBSTANCE: heat-insulation material based on magnesite-carnallite binder, including magnesite-carnallite binder, haydite sand of fraction of 0-1.25 mm, water and foaming agent, differs by the fact that it contains not a magnesia, but a magnesite-carnallite binder locked by water, and not a solution of magnesium chloride. EFFECT: increased strength, water resistance, reduced heat conductivity. 2 tbl


The sodium alginate pyrolysis products were obtained through H2O2 oxidation. The effect of the main component(HDX-A,molecular weight over 6 kDa) on the quality of cryo-preserved peeled white leg shrimp Penaeus vannamei was studied. It was found that HDX-A effectively prevented water and nutrition losses of the frozen white leg shrimp after being marinated in 1% alginate pyrolysis solution. The effect improved with the increase of HDX-A concentration and the marinating time. The cooking loss of the frozen white leg shrimp could be obviously declined by lower than 20% by HDX-A. The cooking loss of the sample that marinated in the 1.5% HDX-A solution was about 15.6% after being frozen for 120 days,which was significantly less than the control(P0.05) . The rheological parameters such as break strength and viscoelasticity of the frozen white leg shrimp were improved by HDX-A through increasing the water holding capacity. HDX-A would be used as a replacement for phosphate compound in frozen white leg shrimp for improving quality.


One simple and important technique is presented to confirm that the back surface of the SOI/MOSFET is operating in the fully depleted mode, before starting the parameter extraction. This technique is necessary for the overall accuracy of the measurement. Additionally, the methods to extract all parameters of a small geometry SOI/MOSFET automatically are studied in this paper.


At the fall 2019, I will be lecturing the first edition of Machine Learning for Bioinformatics Applications. Its emphasis will primarily be on the analysis of complex biological data using modern machine learning methods. At this point, it is difficult to say what the prerequisite for the course will be since the course is still under devel‐ opment. Given that I want the course to be self‐contained, I will not assume prior machine learning knowledge. However, a basic understanding of probability and statistics is needed, as well as, calculus and linear algebra. Likewise, I will not assume prior knowledge of bioinformatics. For several years now, I have been lecturing a course entitled Algorithms in Bioinformatics (CSI 5126) focusing on the data structures and algorithms behind the main bioinformatics applications. Here, rather than using the traditional algorithmic approaches, we will be using machine learning, so no knowledge of bioinformatics is assumed. Nevertheless, I am expecting that you can write programs in a high‐level programming language, specifically Python. Now, what about biology? Biology is important as bioinformatics strives to solve "real‐world" problems. There will be at least two lectures introducing essential concepts of themolecular biology of the cell. Inevitably, we will revisit these concepts each time that a new problemwill be introduced. At the very least, I am expecting a desire to learnmore about biology. Finally, I would like to stress that the breadth and depth of the course will most likely not be what I would like it to be in this first edition. Continue reading for further information and resources.


who attended, or is due to attend, the meeting of Meeting of Cabinet on Thursday 11th June 2020, 5.00 p.m.


In 1996, the Future arrives in Orange County, Florida. It is the ribbon cutting ceremony for the high-tech, high-speed ground transportation magnetic levitation train, connecting the Orlando International Airport and North America's number one tourist destination area. The train's arrival will be the advent of development in Orange County's International Drive Activity Center. This Activity Center will be a well planned, physically and functionally integrated land use and transportation development focused around the Maglev Grand Terminal. The International Drive Activity Center Plan provided the insight needed to successfully integrate high speed ground transportation into the overall development strategy.


We have found that an addition of SnO in a bismuth-borate glass, CaO–B2O3–Bi2O3–Al2O3–TiO2, decreases the optical absorption coefficient in the visible region, in which selective crystallization of TiO2 was observed after heat treatment. Since selective crystallization of TiO2 was also attained in the SnO-containing glass, the transparency of TiO2 crystallized glass can be improved independently of selective crystallization of TiO2. We have also demonstrated that the rutile-nanocrystallized glass with SnO addition shows a higher photocatalytic activity than the glass without SnO, indicating that this crystallized glass has a large potential for application as transparent photocatalytic materials.


This paper describes a search system which includes topic model visualization to improve the user search experience. The system graphically renders the topics in a retrieved set of documents, enables a user to selectively refine search results and allows easy navigation through information on selective topics within documents.


At the beginning of the twentieth century Britain led the world in its efforts to control infectious diseases. Large isolation hospitals, recently constructed, provided accommodation for patients suffering from statutorily notifiable infections, while enlightened city councils grappled with the problems of poor sanitation, inadequate housing and unhygienic water supplies. Florence Nightingale's experiences in the Crimean War had already awakened interest in the problems of infection in hospital patients, and Lister working in Edinburgh, Glasgow and London had pointed the way towards its control by chemical methods.


Introduction: Pyridone derivatives played important roles
in the last decade to approach many and different functionalities, especially
as antitumor, antibacterial, anti-fungal, and many of pharmacological activities. Methodology: Novel compounds of 5-Arylazo-2-[(substituted)-3, 4,
5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl) tetrahydro-2H-pyran-2-yloxy]-4, 6-dimethylnicotinonitrile, (3a-e),
generally called (fluroarylazopyridine glucosides) were synthesised via
green protocol, microwave. Results: The compounds were investigated by
(IR, 1HNMR, 13CNMR and mass spectrometry). Where some of
pharmacological activities like antibacterial and antifungal studies had been
investigated and characterized. It was found that 3a-d had characterized by
high activities as antibacterial and antifungal. Where microwave synthetic
methods were more efficient, gave higher products quantity, and more saving for
time requirement and for using of much more solvents.


D uctal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) in men is a rare disease, representing 5 to 7% of male breast cancers. The majority of cases are papillary subtype without comedo necrosis, and the majority of mammary DCIS in males reported in the literature have been associated with invasive carcinomas, with relatively few cases of pure DCIS described. A 40-year-old Middle Eastern man presented in January 2002 with an 8-month history of a right breast mass. A mammogram in July 2001 showed increased tissue in the subareolar region of the right breast thought to be associated with gynecomastia. Ultrasound performed at the same time was normal. Another mammogram in January 2002 also showed a subareolar density thought to be associated with gynecomastia (Fig. 1). There was no nipple discharge, no family history of breast cancer, and no history consistent with hyperestrogenism. Physical examination revealed a firm 1.5 cm × 1.0 cm mass under the right areola with no skin changes. No axillary adenopathy was palpated. The patient underwent excision of the right breast tissue through a circumareolar incision in February 2002. Pathology revealed ductal intraepithelial neoplasia, grade 1c (DIN1c; low-grade DCIS) and gynecomastia (Fig. 2). There was an unusual amount of lobulation for a male breast. The tumor size was 1.5 cm × 1.1 cm × 1.0 cm with tumor lying within 2–3 mm of the margins of resection. The tumor was ER positive, PR positive, and HER-2/ neu positive. The patient underwent wide local excision with removal of the nipple/areolar complex without axillary dissection in April 2002. Pathology revealed focal areas of atypical ductal hyperplasia. There was no residual DCIS. No chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or hormonal therapy was given.


Transmission of data between a rotating and a stationary device is a task solved by slip rings. Increasing requirements lead to the physical limits of classical mechanical rotary joints. In this article, a new contactless transmission system is presented, making use of inherent properties of fluorescent optical fibers. Thus the new fiber optic slip ring has all benefits of optical communication techniques such as higher data rates and electromagnetic immunity


The negative tendencies in the development of the financial market of Ukraine are stated, including the limitedness of the applied financial instruments. Despite the extensive list of types of securities and derivatives already available to market participants, investors' interest is concentrated almost exclusively on government securities, while transactions with corporate financial instruments are sporadic. In the course of the study of the updated Ukrainian legislation in the field of capital markets it is substantiated that the declared purpose of introduction of new financial instruments does not correspond to the real content of legislative changes. It is, first of all, a cosmetic change of classification features or names and regulation at the legislative level of requirements for certain types of securities, which already existed before at the level of bylaws. Formally, the number of groups and types of securities available for circulation will even decrease after the legislation is updated. Perhaps the only noticeable expansion of the list of tools concerns the legislative design of certain categories of debt securities, the issue and circulation of which, however, did not contradict previous legislation. It was found that a significant expansion of the classification features of derivatives is provided by atypical instruments, the use of which has not previously been prohibited by law, but it is not accompanied by changes in tax legislation; restricts the current freedom of contract for the parties to derivative contracts, even if they are concluded outside the regulated market, and leads to significant legal uncertainty due to the inclusion of a wide range of issues regarding the specifics of the use of derivatives in the scope of the regulator's powers to regulate them at the level of its own regulations, which obviously will not be developed in time, until the amendments come into force. It is substantiated that sporadic changes in the legislation related to the contradictory implementation of the European legal framework are insufficient to solve the real problems of financial market infrastructure development and expansion of its tools.


This article responds to Wayne Wiegand's argument that the library and information science field has failed in the past to extend its research and inquiry by exploring theoretical perspectives from disciplines outside the LIS field. It provides a brief introduction to the cultural studies approach using an application of the work of Stuart Hall to a popular and ever present cultural icon: the media stereotype of the female librarian. The film Party Girl is analyzed which contrasts two stereotypical images: the party girl and the female librarian. We argue that adopting a cultural studies approach to an analysis of a longstanding problematic image for LIS does allow a new vantage point for interpretation of media images of the profession. This wider focus allows a rethinking of the basic assumptions that have been made by the profession and acknowledges that there are potentially many different ways to see the same phenomenon, or perhaps to see phenomena for the first time, which were previously in our blind spots.


Describes a system whereby one can input key frames of movement by Labanotation (the choreographer's notation for body movement), modify the movement by field direction symbol and continuous quantities, transform it into body movement data, and show the movement by computer graphic animation.


The focus of thesis is on (i) designing of bidentate chalcogenoether ligands (ii) exploring their coordination chemistry with Pd(II), (η-benzene)Ru(II) and (ηpentamethylcyclopentadiene) Rh(III) / Ir(III) and (iii) investigating the designed metal complexes for C−C coupling reactions, NMO based oxidation of alcohols, Oppenauer-type oxidation of alcohols and transfer hydrogenation of carbonyl compounds. The bidentate 2,3-di[(phenylthio/-seleno)methyl]quinoxaline (L1 / L2) synthesized by the reaction PhS / PhSe with 2,3-bis(bromomethyl)quinoxaline, on reaction with Na2PdCl4, results in complexes [Pd2(L1−H)2Cl2] (1) / [PdL2Cl2] (2) respectively. Structures of Single crystals by X-ray diffraction of ligands and complexes have been determined. The 1 is a palladacycle, formed by external base free activation of benzyl group's C(sp)−H of L1 whereas L2 behaves in 2 as a bidentate. Complexes 1 and 2 were explored to catalyzed Suzuki−Miyaura coupling reactions of several aryl bromides (including deactivated ones). The palladacycle1 shows better catalytic efficiency than complex 2. The catalysis with 1 / 2 has been found to proceed via in situ generated nanoparticles (size < 2 nm) composed of palladium and sulfur or selenium and protected by L1 or L2. The bidentate 1-benzyl-4-((phenylthio)-/(phenylseleno)methyl)-1H-1,2,3triazole (L3 / L4) and 4-phenyl-1-((phenylthio)-/(phenylseleno)-methyl)-1H-1,2,3triazole (L5 / L6) were synthesized by the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of azides to terminal alkynes (click reaction). Their metal complexes (3−8) are formed by direct reaction with [Pd(CH3CN)Cl2] and [{(η-benzene)RuCl(μ-Cl)}2].The coordination There is a "pseudo-octahedral" half sandwich "Piano-Stool" geometry around the Ru center in 7−8. The Pd(II) complexes were explored for C−C coupling reactions (Suzuki-Miyaura and Heck), whereas Ru(II) complexes were investigated to catalyze oxidation of alcohols and transfer hydrogenation of ketones. Complexes efficient for Suzuki than Heck coupling are pre-catalysts and dispense catalytically active Pd NPs in the course of reaction. NPs (size 3−11 nm) appear to havea role in the catalysis, as they show catalytic activity after isolation also. Catalytic oxidation of alcohols appears to involve the formation of Ru(IV)=O species, whereas catalytic transfer


The article discusses the state of the art of what is known about the effects of trucks on urban traffic. It appears that congestion due to trucks loading and unloading at curbside in central business districts has the most severe impact. Several areas of research to be investigated under the Metropolitan Multimodal Traffic Management project are outlined.


Aiming to analyze the practicality of distilling water on Mars, this research article studied vacuum membrane distillation and its ability to be utilized on Mars. Areas of study includes estimating water needs on Mars, analyzing existing water bodies on Mars, examination of vacuum membrane distillation technology, and more. It was concluded that vacuum membrane distillation is a technology possible to be utilized on Mars and could potentially distill enough water to support a Martian mission.


The aim of this paper is to discuss the influence of ethnic and racial factors in the profile of Brazilian entrepreneurs. Considering the complexity of the subject, the study is limited to the aspects focused on the issues of ethnic relations of the black Brazilian entrepeneurs. For this purpose, data were collected on the participation of blacks in the entrepreneurial activities in the country from 1990 to 2008. The results highlight aspects of Brazilian ethnic relations which are an obstacle to black entrepreneurs to establish and maintain these enterprises influencing relations with suppliers, customers, competitors and employees. Thus, the formation of networks of black entrepreneurs can be an alternative to strengthen the role of this population in the economy, which in addition to supporting the activities of trade in the domestic market in Brazil can also promote international trade from its associated enterprises.


Objective To understand the status of smoking behavior and knowledge of tobacco control among doctors,and to provide evidence for intervening among doctors in future.Methods 1272 doctors form 165 hospitals in Hangzhou City,Taizhou City and Yunhe County were selected with stratified sampling to undergo a survey.Results 52.25% of the hospitals had the ban on smoking.The general smoking rate and the current smoking rate of doctors were 23.05% and 19.27%,respectively,in both of which the proportion of male was higher compared with female.The awareness rate of the participants about 8 kinds of smoking related diseases and 6 kinds of passive smoking related diseases were 63.88% and 75.04%,respectively.82.55% of the doctors asked their patients about their smoking initiatively,and 2.25% had helped patients to give up tobacco with drugs.22.56% of the participants had obtained training on smoking prevention.The influncing factors of doctors' smoking behavior were gender(OR=26.98),surgeon(OR=1.58),doctors with over 10 years of work experience(OR=1.99),a correct understanding of addictive smoking(OR=0.62).Conclusion Doctors are lack of smoking control related knowledge.Health education and training on smoking control for doctors should be strengthened in the future.


This paper was presented for a Master's Thesis at Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary by Pastor Christopher S. Doerr while serving in Waupun, WI.


This paper provides a brief description of the key points an engineer or scientist must consider when preparing for a technical presentation. Planning, organization, construction, and presentation methodology are all explored in a manner to allow a speaker to review his or her presentation mate style and to improve any areas which appear to be weak.


Recently, RF MEMS devices are fabricated and used in wireless and telecommunication applications. Small size, low power consumption, better figure of merit for high RF frequencies and compatibility with semiconductor device fabrication technology are some advantages of this technology. One of the first emerged RF MEMS devices is RF switches. During past two decades several structures and actuation mechanisms have been introduced by researchers and companies. In this paper a new switch design is proposed which consists of two separate bridges with different areas and actuation electrodes. The simulation results show that the proposed switch has wider band width in comparison with conventional switches while isolation and return loss is almost at the same level.


After the beginning of the third empire of Nazis, Karl Kraus contains his experiences and the fragmentary thoughts about the political accidents happened during the several months in Dritte Walpurgisnacht. In this work, information contents are excerpted from the domestic and foreign newspapers, and the witnesses of some immigrants and the paragraphs of abundant classical works are being cited. In particular, Goethe is by far the best of all in the frequency of citation, showing that the 101 sources out of 106 quotations is from Faust.¹? To begin with, selected quotations are concentrated on revealing political, economical, moral hazard and the aspect of corruption. The description of decayed empire (ActⅠ), allegory of civil war, the world of Seismos (Act Ⅱ) and the quotation excerpted from the decisive combat of civil war (Act Ⅳ) is satirized, giving a hint of the real world. However, the suggestion in the quotation of Faust becomes ultimately magical and prophetic message in the Nazi world (mostly in ActⅡ), coming to an end like the false reality. The matter of Faust is historically and variably adopted by many writers. But Karl Kraus' attempt is not only adopting and metamorphosing the Faust material, but also quoting and compounding of Faust paragraphs. As a result, unlike the other writers, he is showing the literary achievements by newly creating the meaning of the entire text.


Apocalypse (Revelation of St. John the Devine) has always attracted Russian poets, but the detailed philological analysis of the texts in comparison with the original can be seldom found. The article shows the symbol of a shooting star (comet) in Russian poetry (poems of A. Fet, N. Gumilev, M. Voloshin, S. Esenin, A. Blok, our contemporary priestmonk Roman, etc.) in the context of Apocalypse and on the basis of patristic Christian tradition.


Two problems in test development relate to the use of illustrations: (1) Do illustrated items perform better than written items, and (2) Does item performance vary as a function of the type and size of the illustration? A sample of 63 tests was drawn from all the Air Force Specialty Knowledge Tests containing illustrations. These 63 tests had been administered to approximately 28,261 airmen under operational conditions. Item statistics between illustrated and written items drawn from the same content areas were compared using F ratios. The results indicated: (1) That illustrated items in general performed slightly better than matched written items; (2) That the best-performing category of illustrated items was tables. The opinion has long been held in achievement testing that some job situations which are based upon equipment configurations or visual materials can best be presented through a pictorial rather than a written description. Although illustrated items have been used for the past 30 years in achievement testing (Barnes, 1942), little has been done to validate their use other than correlating illustrated tests with standard written achievement tests (Ammons & Rachiele, 1950; Throne, Kasper, & Schulman, 1965). While this procedure provides a measure of congruent validity for illustrated tests, it does not suffice for measuring the comparative validity of illustrated test items vs. written test items. Due to this lack of comparative validity studies, the functionality and utility of illustrated items per se cannot be determined from the above literature. Schwartz (1955) compared a limited sample of illustrated items to written items using only discrimination values for the index of measurement, and found that foldout illustrations were decremental. He also found, as might be expected, that illustrations perform better in lower-grade tests than in the uppergrade tests. This study also will attempt to provide some comparative performance data for illustrated items versus written items, so that some standardization for illustrated items can be established. METHOD The U.S. Air Force Specialty Knowledge Tests used in this study are multiplechoice achievement-type tests developed to measure an airman's knowledge of his specialty. For each specialty ladder there are four levels of tests, one for each noncommissioned officer grade (Sgt., SSgt., TSgt., and MSgt.). The population consisted of all tests that contained illustrated items as of October, 1972. In this study an illustrated item is an item in which any pictorial, symbolic, or graphic representation portrays an object or data. These tests were administered to airmen throughout the Air Force under operational testing conditions. The number of airmen taking each test ranged from 27 to 2,050, with a mean of 444 airmen. This produced a subject number of 28,261 airmen.


Multistep processes involving excited atomic states are found to produce a substantial increase in the stopping cross section for a neutral hydrogen beam injected into a plasma, and thus to reduce the beam penetration. For typical plasma and beam parameters of current large tokamak experiments, the stopping cross-sectional enhancement is found to vary from 25% to 50% depending on the beam energy, plasma density, and impurity level. For neutral hydrogen beams with energies greater than or equal to 500 keV, envisioned in tokamak amd mirror reactor designs, the enhancement can be as large as 80 to 90%.


A general approach to the optimal control of large space antennas based on their RF/structural characteristics is described. The approach consists of defining a cost functional based on the degradation of the RF performance of the antenna and using the structural model as the dynamic system. The method is applied to the design of an optimal controller for a 55-m, wraprib offset-fed antenna. Simulation results show that control energy consumption is reduced to approximately one third of the energy used to achieve the same RF performance with traditional control strategies.


A pathologic finding about one or more characteristics of duodenum/ampulla/jejunum/ileum neuroendocrine tumor, following the rules of the TNM AJCC v7 classification system as they pertain to distant metastases. There is no pathologic M0 for duodenum/ampulla/jejunum/ileum neuroendocrine tumor. (from AJCC 7th Ed.)


Situs ambiguous is a very rare disease with one or less per 10,000 newborns whose organs are not in normal position. It usually has spleen and heart malformations, and if it is accompanied by cardiac malformations, mortality is high. Intestinal malrotation is also seen in 70% of the newborn with situs ambiguous and active treatment is needed when intestinal malrotation are found. We report one case of situs ambiguous with polysplenia in macrosomia in a diabetic mother.


This research is motivated by the high school students' mathematics learning results are still not satisfactory. The low learning outcomes as a result of saturation of the students towards mathematics teaching methods as well as less active students in participating in learning. The purpose of this study is to determine whether the findings of a review study mathematics of Students group were given a quiz teams Better From the findings of Students learn math following the conventional learning in class X SMA PGRI 1 Padang. This type of research is experimental research is research by giving treatment to the experimental group and the control group did not. The treatment given in this research was the method quiz team. The study population was all class X SMA PGRI 1 Padang sample is class X 7 as an experimental class and the class X 6 as the control class. The data analysis technique used is the t test of the party at = 0.05 with the help of Minitab software. The average score of the experimental class achievement test is 73.18 with a standard deviation of 11.60 and an average score of control classroom achievement test is 57.40 with a standard deviation of 12.90. Based on the analysis of mathematics achievement test scores of students using the t test with Minitab software obtained P-value = 0.001 less than = 0.05. The research results obtained are the result of students' mathematics learning with quiz team giving better mathematics learning outcomes of students who take conventional learning in class X SMA PGRI 1 Padang on the real level of 95%.


The scattering‐type scanning near‐field optical microscope (SNOM) has a probe with a sharp tip for use in high resolution imaging. As sharp a tip as possible is generally considered ideal for the observations, but actually, a sharp tip does not always provide a high resolution SNOM image. We numerically examined the scattering property of the SNOM probe by the three dimensional finite difference time domain method. In this paper, we show the criterion for the ideal scattering probe which satisfies the simple relation between radius and taper angle of the tip.


The gene expression of insect is very sophasticated,which is controlled by various regulators.With the application of advanced molecular techniques on entomology,progresses on the gene expression of insect were made quickly.This paper mainly discuss the advances of the gene expression of some charcteristed insect systems and draw from certain experiences for others.


Introduction 1. Playing before the council: civic patronage in southern France 2. In honor of nobility: civic patronage in central France 3. For the honor and pleasure of the city: civic patronage in northern France 4. From confraternal processions to weddings to bathhouses: freelancing in the urban environment 5. Playing En Couble: professional relationships among minstrels 6. 'A minister of Satan' and 'An honor to the city': conflicting images of the medieval minstrel Appendix: musical instruments in the archival records of the study Bibliography.


Overview This module will give a brief overview of typical and atypical antipsychotic drugs and their modes of action. The pharmacological management of extrapyramidal side-effects will be discussed in detail. Nursing considerations when administering antipsychotic drugs will also be outlined. The module will conclude by summarizing the key points.


A 2300-g pre-term neonate with severe hyaline membrane disease experienced right forearm and hand ischemia following a brachial arterial line insertion. Limb salvage was achieved through combined microsurgical exploration and thrombectomy of the brachial and radial arteries, with postoperative regional infusion of tissue plasminogen activator (TPA) through the distal radial artery for 48 hr, to dissolve a thrombus within the small vessels of the hand. This report advocates combined surgical and regional thrombolytic therapy with tissue plasminogen activator as management for neonatal arterial thrombosis and limb ischemia.


OBJECTIVE
In the event of a cervical shortening < 25 mm before the 34th week of gestation, a cervical pessary can be inserted in accordance with the German AMWF guidelines. However, data concerning the benefit of this intervention in order to avoid premature birth are controversial.

METHODS
Between the 20th and 32nd week of gestation, we inserted a cervical pessary in 83 patients and evaluated our data with regard to the extension of gestational age due to this intervention. We also reviewed the literature on this topic. We retrospectively analysed the data in a high-risk group (cervical length<15 mm) and a low-risk group (15-25 mm).

RESULTS
Our data show a preterm birth in just 20% of all cases in both subgroups. 79% of the patients gave birth after 34 weeks and 59% after 37 weeks.

CONCLUSIONS
Our approach using an cervical pessary supported by local application of progesterone seems to be a well-tolerated intervention with few side effects and acceptable adherence. In addition, our data demonstrate a reduction in hospitalization, even though the evidence is divergent in this respect.