The consequences of the Bloch theory of the conduction properties of metals can be evaluated only for a band of spherical Fermi surface, isotropic in all respects. Quantitative comparison with observations is thus possible only for the monovalent metals. It appears that even the monovalent metals do not satisfy this requirement, but that their Fermi surface departs significantly from sphericity. The information derived from the various conduction properties and the electronic specific heat is discussed, paying attention to Umklapp processes and phonon drag effects. The thermoelectric power is difficult to interpret. Systematic measurements of the changes of various physical properties on alloying may provide useful information.


An anti-backlash gear relates to an anti-backlash gear which comprises a main gear and further comprises an auxiliary gear, an eccentric shaft and a fastener, wherein the auxiliary gear and the main gear have the same tooth shape size, a plurality of threaded holes which are evenly distributed on the same circumference are arranged on one end surface of the main gear, a kidney slot is further arranged on the circumference, the kidney slot is radially arranged on the end surface, a through hole A and a through hole B are arranged on the auxiliary gear corresponding to the threaded hole and thekidney slot, the eccentric shaft comprises an eccentric head, a shaft body and a square head, the eccentric head is movably arranged in the kidney slot, the shaft body is movably connected with the corresponding through hole B on the auxiliary gear, the square head extends out the corresponding through hole B, and the fastener penetrates through the through hole A on the auxiliary gear and is connected with the threaded holes on the main gear. The anti-backlash gear has excellent anti-backlash effect and convenient operation adjustment.


Magnetic fluids are substances with a complex physicochemical composition. The unique properties of
these substances are based on the possibility of reversible, almost immediate, changes in their rheological
parameters, as well as changes in the flow direction due to the magnetic field. These properties allow the
development of machines and devices with operating parameters that can be changed by the magnetic field.
The range of the fluid property changes depends on its composition, magnetic field parameters, operating
conditions, and the method of fluid deformation.
The paper presents the results of research into the influence of selected parameters on the critical speed of
thrust sliding bearings. These parameters include the magnetic and physical properties of magnetic fluids, the
value of the magnetic induction, the fluid volume in the working gap, and the temperature. The results of the
conducted research indicate a significant effect of the magnetic field gradient on the critical speed value.


Hybrid bio-based composites from blends of petroleum and vegetable oil resins reinforced with natural fibers and nanoclay platelets can lead to synergistic property enhancements from the multi-scale constituents. Twelve material designs with average hemp fiber content of 30 wt%, varying nanoclay, up to 5 wt%, and epoxidized methyl linseedate (EML), up to 30%, in unsaturated polyester (UPE) were processed and their tensile, impact, and moisture properties were experimentally characterized. The resulting biocomposites displayed synergistic behavior with the effects of bio-resin addition being complemented by nanoclay and vice versa. Optimal performance with balanced properties (stiffness, toughness, and resistance to moisture absorption) was observed in material systems with 2.5 wt% nanoclay and up to 20% EML. Overall, hybrid biocomposites show promise in applications that require excellent stiffness-toughness balance.


There are many types of maps on which color may serve a useful function. Color may be used to enhance or clarify information, it may be used to increase the visual appeal of a map, and in some cases it may be an indispensable ingredient in the system of encoding complex information. An example of the use of color to en code complex information is its use on two-variable "cross-maps" such as those currently produced by the U.S. Bureau of the Census. (See Figure 1, page 251.) I/ This technique presents two quantitative variables on the same map, and the symbol system, a fairly complex one when considered in detail, is a set of color combina tions. The construction of a color scheme for two-variable maps must be based on several logical considerations, or restraints, such that the scheme forms a coherent system. It is the development of this set of color combinations and its logic relative to the map message that is discussed in this paper. Such a color system represents a specific employment of color and is presented as a sort of "case study."


This article recounts selected historical events in the computer graphics field in Sweden, ranging from hardware construction to human-computer interaction. Particularly noteworthy are the industrial developments of semigraphical interfaces for improved man-machine communication, and the patented invention of a color graphics system by Hakan Lans, which gave rise to several court cases.


The review presents the book by E. I. Yakushkina about Serbian folk culture and its relationships with the Serbian language. The monograph studies the dominant vocabulary relevant for understanding the traditional Serbian culture with its derivatives: the formation of meaning, semantics and semantic reconstruction of some Serbian lexemes and lexical groups which express Serbian cultural concepts.


Objective:To examine the validity and reliability of Nurses' Global Assessment of Suicide Risk(NGASR) for inpatients with schizophrenia.Methods:Eighty-six schizophrenia(DSM-IV) inpatients were assessed with NGASR by a trained psychiatric nurse and completed Beck Hopelessness Scale(BHS).Forty-one inpatients were re-assessed with NGASR.Three trained nurses assessed 16 inpatients with NGASR independently.Results: The Cronbach α coefficient of NGASR was 0.815,the average item-total correlation was 0.367,the criterion validity between NGASR and BHS was 0.83(P=0.009),one-week re-test reliability was 0.91(P0.001) and the inter-rater reliability was 0.82(P=0.008).Different suicide risk grade group had different BHS score(F=9.73,P0.001),BHS score had the same trend with suicide risk grade.Conclusions: Nurses' Global Assessment of Suicide Risk has good validity and reliability for schizophrenia inpatients.


Worm disease is still a health problem in Indonesia. This disease is caused by intestinal nematodes transmitted through the soil or often called Soil Transmitted Helminth (STH). The high incidence of this disease is influenced by the low level of personal sanitation (clean and healthy living behavior). This study aims to determine the differences in the method of sedimentation and flotation on the results of examination of the eggs of Soil Transmitted Helminth in lettuce vegetables. The examination of Soil Transmitted Helminth eggs is carried out in two methods, namely the Sedimentation and Flotation Method. This type of research is experimental. Samples were taken from Pasar Johar Semarang as many as 1 (one) sample and then repeated 16 times with the Sedimentation and Flotation Method. The results of the examination of the Sedimentation Method were 16 eggs with an average of 1 item, while the Flotation Method obtained 4 eggs with an average of 1 item. Data analysis techniques to determine the differences between the two methods with Mann-Whitney test showed that the results were more than p = 0.05, that is 0.102 so it can be concluded that there are differences in egg yields of Soil Transmitted Helminth in the Sedimentation and Flotation Method.

Keywords: Helminth Soil Transmitted Eggs, Sedimentation Method, Flotation Method


This study analyses religious changes in Sufism in South Asia in the modern period. It sets out the detailed workings of three different sufi traditions in Awadh and charts their responses to the growth of the colonial state, as well as to the emergence of Muslim movements of revival and reform and the spread of western education.


JaSkel is a skeleton-based framework to develop efficient concurrent, parallel and Grid applications. It provides a set of Java abstract classes that implement recurring parallel interaction paradigms. The key feature of JaSkel is to use aspect-oriented external tools to address distributed execution, by injecting code to support communication middleware into JaSkel built-in skeleton implementations. This feature, when combined with the ability to develop nested skeletons, can help to tailor JaSkel applications to efficiently run on a grid of clusters systems, by taking advantage of inter/intra-cluster and/or intra-node communications. This paper describes the JaSkel distributed execution tools and how they interplay with the JaSkel framework to transparently run applications on a wide range of computing platforms, from multi-core to computational grids. Results are presented to show the feasibility and scalability of this approach.


The kidneys are essential regulatory organs whose main function is to regulate the balance of electrolytes in the blood, along with maintaining pH homeostasis. The study of the microscopic structure of the kidney will help identify kidney diseases associated with specific renal histology change. Spectrally encoded microscopy (SEM) is a new reflectance microscopic imaging technique in which a grating is used to illuminate different positions along a line on the sample with different wavelengths, reducing the size of system and imaging time. In this paper, a SEM device is described which is based on a super luminescent diode source and a home-built spectrometer. The lateral resolution was measured by imaging the USAF resolution target. The axial response curve was obtained as a reflect mirror was scanned through the focal plane axially. In order to test the feasibility of using SEM for depth-section imaging of an excised swine kidney tissue, the images of the samples were acquired by scanning the sample at 10 μm per step along the depth direction. Architectural features of the kidney tissue could be clearly visualized in the SEM images, including glomeruli and blood vessels. Results from this study suggest that SEM may be useful for locating regions with probabilities of kidney disease or cancer.


The luminescence decay curves from the 4F9 /2 and 4Ι9 /2 states of the cubic hexachloroelpasohite crystals Cs2NaΕrxY1-xCl6 (χ = 0.001 = 1) have been measured over the temperature range 10-300 K. The 4Ι9 /2 state undergoes an electric dipole vibronic-electric dipole vibronic cross-relaxation process at 300 K, but this mechanism is inefficient below 165 K. Excitation into the 4F9 / 2 state, results in emission in the green, blue and ultra violet regions. The up-conversion processes which could account for the ultraviolet emission are discussed. PACS numbers: 13.40.Hq, 31.70.Ηq, 34.30.+h , 61.72.Ss, 78.55. Hx


Summary Seismic inverse problems are by nature ill-posed, nonlinear and with non-unique solutions. Due to these reasons the best-fit inverse model, retrieved from any seismic inversion methodology, is always contaminated with uncertainty that needs to be taken into account when interpreting the inverse solution (Tarantola, 2005). Conventional iterative geostatistical seismic inversion approaches are able to account the small-scale spatial uncertainty of the property to invert by using stochastic simulation algorithms as part of the model parameter space perturbation technique. However, these stochastic sequential simulation algorithms assume stationarity along the entire inversion grid, and therefore do not account for uncertainty in the large-scale geological parameters, e.g. the spatial continuity pattern and the prior probability distribution of the property to invert as estimated from well-log data. We propose a multi-scale uncertainty assessment for traditional iterative geostatistical seismic methodologies by integrating stochastic adaptive sampling and Bayesian inference to tune large-scale geological parameters as described by variogram ranges and the prior probability distribution of the property to invert within the inverse workflow. We show here the application of the proposed multi-scale methodology to a challenging synthetic highly non-stationary dataset. The results show a good convergence of the inverted seismic towards the recorded one while the local and global uncertainties are jointly assessed.


OBJECTIVE
Infants awaiting paediatric heart transplantation (PHT) experience long waitlist duration and high mortality due to donor shortage. Using the United Network for Organ Sharing database, we explored if increasing donor-recipient weight ratio (DRWR) >2.0 (recommended cutoff) was associated with adverse outcomes.

METHODS
Between 2007-2020, 1392 infants received PHT. We divided cohort to 3 groups: A (DRWR ≤1.0, n = 239,17%), B (DRWR 1.0-2.0, n = 947,68%), C (DRWR >2.0, n = 206,15%). Group characteristics and PHT outcomes were analyzed.

RESULTS
DRWR ranged between 0.5-4.1. Underlying pathology (congenital vs cardiomyopathy), gender, race, renal function, and mechanical circulatory support were comparable between groups. Group C patients were more likely to be ventilated, to receive ABO-incompatible heart, and to have longer donor ischaemic time. Waitlist duration was significantly shorter for Group C (33 vs 50 days, p < 0.1). Early outcomes for groups A, B, C were the following (respectively): operative death (6%,4%,3%,p = 0.29), primary graft dysfunction (5%,3%,3%,p = 0.30), renal failure (10%,7%,7%,p = 0.42), stroke (3%,4%,1%,p = 0.36). DRWR group was not associated with operative death in either congenital (OR = 0.819,95% CI = 0.523-1.282) or cardiomyopathy (OR = 1.221,95% CI = 0.780-1.912) patients and only significant factor was pre-PHT ECMO (OR = 4.400,95% CI = 2.761-7.010). Additionally, survival at 1 year (87%,87%,85%,p = 0.80) and 5 years (76%,78%,77%,p = 0.80) was comparable between the DRWR groups.

CONCLUSIONS
Infants who received PHT with DRWR >2.0, up to 4.1, experienced shorter waitlist duration with no demonstrable increase in peri-transplant complications, operative or late mortality. Historic practice to avoid DRWR > 2.0 due to complications (e.g. hypertension-related stroke, graft dysfunction, death) is not currently supported in infants and stretching DRWR acceptance criteria would decrease PHT waitlist duration and potentially improve waitlist complications and mortality.


In study, we investigate a solitary wave interaction with a submerged permeable structure using three-dimensional numerical model coupled with Large-Eddy-Simulation module. The porous structure considered in this paper is twofold. One is to model an idealized rectangular permeable dike using spatial-averaged concept, and the other one is to simulate real 3D porous structure composed by uniform spheres. The comparisons of the free surface elevation, velocity fields, and vorticity fields are performed between measurements, two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) numerical simulations.


The energy levels of molecular states in light nuclei are classified by irreducible representations of the group U(5). The excited spectra so classified of /sup 18/O and /sup 20/Ne compare very well with the experimental excited spectra.


Despite the possible benefits of implementing healthcare information technologies, successful implementation of effective healthcare information technology is constrained by cultural and regulatory concerns and technical obstacles encountered when establishing or upgrading an organisation's enterprise infrastructure. In this paper, we advance Ross' four‐stage model of enterprise architecture maturity as a valuable IT resource for helping healthcare organisations sustain a competitive advantage. We use partial least squares (PLS) structural equation modelling to analyse survey data from 164 US hospitals at different stages of EA maturity. Our results provide evidence that enterprise architecture maturity directly influences the effectiveness of hospitals' IT resources for achieving strategic goals. Further, enterprise architecture maturity indirectly influences the effectiveness of IT resources when IT alignment is incorporated as a mediating variable. We discuss the implications of our findings for research and practice and suggest opportunities for future research.


The last twelve months have seen the introduction of CCDs into the full facility studio or outside broadcast camera. The BBC decided that only the frame interline or frame transfer CCD would offer high enough overall quality. The author discusses limitations still present on these camera systems, dealing first with the technical and then with the ergonomic aspects.


Warfarin-induced skin necrosis is a rare but serious complication of oral anticoagulant therapy. This review will discuss the clinical presentation, natural history, incidence, and possible etiologies of this condition as well as the limited therapeutic options available to the clinician


High-utility itemset mining (HUIM) in transaction databases is an important data mining task with wide applications. However, most HUIM algorithms assume the unrealistic assumption that databases are static. To address this issue, algorithms have been designed to maintain high-utility itemsets in dynamic databases. However, these incremental algorithms still remain very costly in terms of execution time. In this paper, we address this problem by proposing an algorithm named EIHI (Efficient Incremental High-utility Itemset miner), which introduces several ideas to more efficiently maintain high-utility itemsets in dynamic databases. An experimental study on four datasets shows that EIHI is up to two orders of magnitude faster than the state-of-the-art HUI-LIST-INS algorithm.


The invention discloses a tin-silver-copper ternary alloy electroplating solution, belonging to the field of chemical industry and relating to a tin-silver-copper electroplating solution and electroplating method. The invention aims to provide a tin-silver-copper ternary alloy electroplating solution which does not contain harmful substance phosphorous compounds and is used for electroplating tin-silver-copper ternary alloy, and provide an electroplating method. The electroplating solution provided by the invention is prepared from tin methyl sulfonate, silver methyl sulfonate, copper methyl sulfonate, complexing agents, auxiliary complexing agents and additives. The electroplating solution provided by the invention has a simple formula and is easy to operate and maintain, and chemicals harmful to the environment are not used. A single organic complexing agent system is adopted, thus the electroplating solution has a simple formula and is easy to operate and maintain; phosphorous complexing agents are not used, thus being favorable for environment protection; and in addition, the additive alkyl glycoside used in the invention belongs to environment-friendly non-ionic surfactants, thus the biological degradation is rapid and thorough.


The aim of this presentation is to describe and explain the most common halokinetic structures resulting from heavy, viscous salt reacting to gravity and overburden faults based on seismic observations and simple physical models. These examples are meant to help workshop participants when interpreting their own data.


This book examines an emerging pattern of Islamic globalization as a series of transformations in four interrelated areas – pilgrimage and religious travel, capitalism and Islamic finance, democracy and Islamic modernism, and diplomacy and great power politics. A valuable read for researchers and journalists, writes Elaine Housby, providing new insights into the rapidly growing ties between China and the Islamic world.


In this thesis, we verified if the concept of hetero-conciliation goals is applicable to usersystem interactions in organic searches on Google. For this purpose, we qualitatively explore a case of consultation on the location of a restaurant from a pragmatic-cognitive bias guided by goals conciliation notions (Rauen, 2013, 2014) and relevance (Sperber, Wilson 1986, 1995). The results suggest that user-Google interaction should be regarded as a collaborative activity in which both participants conciliate goals. If the notion of relevance sought by the user in the system, in terms of Yus (2012a), describes and explains how the user heteroconciliates the search results with their communicational, informational and practical goals; .the notion of relevance sought by the system to the user describes and explains how the search engine hetero-conciliates its results with the goals of users. Organic searches of this kind can be modeled in the context of an intentional action plan in which the user formulates a query (communicative intention) to obtain certain information (informative intention) motivated by achieving a practical goal.In this process, the user monitors the search results with his goals and proceeds to make corrective actions according to his preferences and abilities. Triggered by the query, the system provides a set of responses that aims to meet the informational goal and, hypothetically, the practical goal of user. In this process, Google identifies the user and monitors his browsing to collect personalization signals and to individualize their his results; it provides tools that help the user to formulate the query; it shows alternative results, leaving the user free to meet their his search intent; it anticipates possible queries, increasing cognitive effects and decreasing processing efforts of the user; and as the session lasts, it adjusts its results. All these features suggest that the system response to the user is simulating, each time with greater efficiency, the interaction between humans. If, in the current technological stage, it is still not the case that the system may emulate the plasticity as humans map contexts and provide more accurate answers with a relative degree of accuracy, it is possible to check that, by providing a massive range of response options, the system is obtaining success in scale, since, by hypothesis, some of these alternatives help the user to conciliate the goal in question.


Jiangsu Province has made a rapid progress in foreign trade,at the same time,some problems also exist in the transformation period of economics,such as an establishment of propellent system,being short of independent intellectual property rights and too much growing dependence on foreign trade.The author hereby brought forth a basic strategy to solve these problems.


Electronic device according to various embodiments, the first surface facing in a first direction, and a housing including a second surface facing in a second direction opposite the first direction, the housing at least a portion of the first surface the housing including a transparent cover to form a; It is disposed between the first side and a second side of the housing, the display exposed through the transparent cover; A first electrode disposed between the transparent cover and the display; Wherein the second electrode disposed between the first electrode and the display; Wherein a third electrode disposed between the second electrode and the display; A first dielectric layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; A second dielectric layer disposed between the second electrode and the third electrode; And said display, a first electrode, a second electrode, and the at least one, and a control circuit, the at least one control circuit coupled to the third electrode and electrically, using the first and second electrodes, wherein Article may be characterized in that is configured to detect the touch location of the external object on the one side and, using the second electrode and the third electrode, sensing the pressure of the external object relative to the first surface. Electronic device according to various embodiments, the first surface facing in a first direction, and a housing including a second surface facing in a second direction opposite the first direction, the housing at least a portion of the first surface the housing including a transparent cover to form a; It is disposed between the first side and a second side of the housing, the display exposed through the transparent cover; A first electrode disposed between the transparent cover and the display; Wherein the second electrode disposed between the first electrode and the display; The second electrode is substantially the third electrode (a third electrode layer that is substantially coplanar with the second electrode layer) disposed on the same plane; A first dielectric layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; A second dielectric layer disposed between the second electrode and the third electrode; And said display, a first electrode, a second electrode, and the at least one control circuit, said control circuit coupled to the third electrode and electrically, using the first and second electrodes, the first surface detecting a touch position of the external object for, and using the first electrode and the third electrode, the first may be characterized in that the first surface is configured to sense the pressure of the external object.


The present work is related to the content of the program "Cuentamelo Todo" is a space of performances conducted by Mrs. Sofia Franco, in that it has a fundamental problem: a content that turns out to be morbid and sensationalist.
This work aims to analyze the content of the program as well as evaluate how the conduct of the panelists vis-a-vis the guests and viewers also identify what is the verbal language within the program.
For this work the technique that was used was the personal or face to face survey and the instrument was the questionnaire, elaborated by the researcher, closed questions between dichotomics and polytomes. Thecontent of theprogramismorbid, throughoutitseditions, present notes withhighspeculative load, and alsoprovokesaggressivebehaviorbetweenitsguests and thepaneliststhemselves, withoutfulfillingthemainobjective, linkedtohealthyentertainment.
The verbal language used in the program is vulgar, because they make use of high-pitched words, and that do not contribute more information, on the contrary, incite the hairs inside the television set with the only aim of achieving greater tuning and rating, without import the child protection schedule.
Theprogramissensationalist, becauseitmakes use of thescandal, thefeartogettheattention of theviewers. inspite of being a sensationalist, morbid and vulgar languageprogram, people tune itbecauseitpleasestoknowthelife of thepubliccharacters.
Thereis a rule thatregulatesthecontent of entertainmentprogramsonnationaltelevision, butthisisnotrespected. regulatoryentitiessuch as thePeruvianSociety of Radio and Television, onlyapplysanctionsthatwork as a callforattention.
The owners of the media, haveforgottenallprinciples and ethicsthatshould be prioritizedwhenworkingon a televisionprogram. instead, theypreferredinsteadtofocusonthe rating fortheireconomicbenefit


We examined the potential of photosynthetic microalgae to perform anaerobic transformation of an energetic explosive compound, hexahydro‐1,3,5‐trinito‐1,3,5‐triazine (RDX). All species tested, including Microcystis sp., Pediastrum biwae, Nostoc commune, and Scenedesmus obliquus, exhibited the potential for RDX transformation under light and initially anaerobic conditions; 40 µM (∼ 8.9 mg L−1) of RDX decreased to 0∼7 µM within 7 d. The formation and subsequent removal of nitrite and ammonium occurred after RDX transformation in the presence of S. obliquus under light and anaerobic conditions. Significantly more RDX was transformed when incubated with S. obliquus than without microalgae, likely because the cells used RDX and its metabolites as carbon and nitrogen sources. In the absence of microalgae, RDX concentrations decreased by <5%, 40%, and 75% at light intensities of 0, 25, and 50 µmol s−1 m−2, respectively, within 15 d, and nitrite as a byproduct of RDX transformation was detected only under light conditions. This suggested that RDX transformation occurred not only by enzymatic transformation but also through an initial denitration pathway via photodegradation. This study demonstrates that photosynthetic microalgae can transform RDX and its intermediates effectively under light and anaerobic conditions, and suggests that photosynthetic microalgae are a viable option for treating RDX‐contaminated wastewater. © 2017 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Environ Prog, 37: 1677–1683, 2018


Influence of global changes of environment is considered as a complex of the influences reducing the level of planetary conditions of maintenance of life. One of violations of an ecosystem is the usykhaniye of the Aral Sea. It is known that local changes of quality of environment near the Aral Sea assume a global scale that creates need of studying of this problem.


Effects of sonication, survival, and β-galactosidase activity of four lactic cultures were investigated in pH 1.5-3.5 range. Lactobacillus delbruekii subsp. bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus exhibited the highest β-galactosidase activity in skim milk and broth systems, respectively. The β-galactosidases from L. delbruekii subsp. bulgaricus, S. thermophilus, and L. acidophilus showed optimum activity in the neutral pH range and 55°C. Viable count of all four cultures decreased most rapidly at pH 1.5, but L. acidophilus and L. delbruekii subsp. bulgaricus survived better than the other organisms. The decrease of enzyme activity of unsonicated cultures with pH was slight, especially at pH 3.5. However, acidification of sonicated cultures to pH 3.5 or lower resulted in rapid and permanent loss of enzyme activity.


The remarkable and unexpected finding of an abbreviated version of archaeal RNase P RNA reported by Lai et al. in PNAS (1) raises the proverbial question: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? However, given nature's tinkering ability, this finding hints at the possibility of independent evolution of domains in biological catalysts. Lai et al. (1) report that an ancient RNA-processing RNA catalyst, which typically consists of catalytic and specificity domains (Fig. 1), functions without the latter in several hyper-thermophilic crenarchaea.


Ta2O5 is a suitable high-index material for thermal resistive thin film applications, such as a component of reflector mirrors for projectors. Melting of Ta2O5 tablets by electron beam gun shows often the dissociation of starting Ta2O5 materials and gives rise of O2 level during its melting. It is, therefore, necessary to continue a long time premelting process to get sufficient low oxygen level or stable vacuum pressure before starting appropriate deposition of Ta2O5 films. It requires not only disadvantageous long process time, but also it starts again endless oxygen outlet from the insufficiently melt parts of Ta2O5 when electric power applied to electron beam gun increases towards higher level for deposition. This results inevitably unstable deposition process and hence unstable refractive indices of Ta2O5 films obtained up to now.


: This paper examines the idea of an extended unit of action, which is the idea that the reasons for or against an individual action can depend on the qualities of a larger pattern of action of which it is a part. One concept of joint action is that the unit of action can be extended in this sense. But the idea of an extended unit of action is surprisingly minimal in its commitments. The paper argues for this conclusion by examining uses of the idea of an extended unit of action in four theoretical contexts. It also explains why the idea of an extended unit of action need not involve magical thinking, and discusses possible replies to an objection based on a worry about recklessness .


A technique was developed for the selective oxidative destruction of fullerene nuclei of star-shaped fullerene-containing polystyrenes. It was shown that the polyconjugated system of fullerene may break down due to the oxidation of double bonds under conditions inert with respect to polystyrene. The combination of this technique with microcolumn exclusion chromatography methods offers a means of determining the molecular mass of arms and their amount.


Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) consists of a large amount of low powered nodes which perform tasks like processing, radio transmission-reception, sensing and actuating. To minimize the power consumption in wireless sensor network a dedicated wake-up receiver is used within every sensor node. The wake-up receiver is an additional receiver, which continuously monitors the channel and wakes the rest of the circuit blocks within the node when necessary. In this paper, we carried a brief survey on different wake-up receivers.


: Ombitasvir/paritaprevir/ritonavir are the newest medicines approved for use in the treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) and are available in tablet form as an oral combination. Specifically, these agents are indicated in the treatment of HCV in patients with genotype 1 infection. Due to the therapeutic importance and increased use of Viekira Pak, proper methods for its determination in bulk and pharmaceutical formulations must be developed. The purpose of this work is to develop an accurate and precise RP-HPLC method for the determination of ombitasvir, paritaprevir and ritonavir in bulk and pharmaceutical preparations. Drugs were separated using Inertsil ODS-C18; 5 μ m (4.6 X 250mm) column using a mobile phase consisting of 0.02M phosphate buffer (pH-4.5): Acetonitrile: Methanol, (50:30:20) (v/v). The retention time was 2.98, 3.77 and 4.70 min for Ombitasvir, Paritaprevir, Ritonavir respectively and total run time was 10 min. at a flow rate of 1.0 mL/ min and the detection wavelength was 262 nm. The linearity was observed in the range of 15-45µg/ mL for ombitasvir, paritaprevir and ritonavir with a correlation coefficient of 0.9903, 0.9996 and 0.9998 respectively. The proposed method was validated for its linearity, accuracy, precision and robustness. This method can be employed for routine quality control analysis of Ombitasvir, Paritaprevir and Ritonavir in tablets. The LOD and LOQ values were found to be 1.8, 0.29 and 0.69 µg/ mL and 5.7, 0.90 and 2.10 µg/ mL for Ombitasvir, Paritaprevir and Ritonavir, respectively. The proposed method was successfully applied for the determination of ombitasvir/paritaprevir/ritonavir tablets, without interference from the excipient peaks. Hence, the method can be applied for the routine quality control analysis of the studied drugs, either in bulk or dosed forms.


The multi-level source is a new airgun array design that attenuates the effects of ghosting in the low frequency range. This design does not remove the source ghost but shifts energy around to favor low frequencies. It is therefore useful in area with poor seismic penetration due to highly reflective layers such as salt, basalt or carbonates.


We study the phenomenon of linguistic synchrony between clients and therapists in a psychotherapy process. Linguistic Synchrony (LS) can be viewed as any observed interdependence or association between more than one person?s linguistic behavior. Accordingly, we establish LS as a methodological task. We suggest a LS function that applies a linguistic similarity measure based on the Jensen-Shannon distance across the observed part-of-speech tag distributions (JSDuPos) of the speakers in different time frames. We perform a study over a unique corpus of 872 transcribed sessions, covering 68 clients and 59 therapists. After establishing the presence of client-therapist LS, we verify its association with therapeutic alliance and treatment outcome (measured using WAI and ORS), and additionally analyse the behavior of JSDuPos throughout treatment.Results indicate that (1) higher linguistic similarity at the session level associates with higher therapeutic alliance as reported by the client and therapist at the end of the session, (2) higher linguistic similarity at the session level associates with higher level of treatment outcome as reported by the client at the beginnings of the next sessions, (3) there is a significant linear increase in linguistic similarity throughout treatment, (4) surprisingly, higher LS associates with lower treatment outcome. Finally, we demonstrate how the LS function can be used to interpret and explore the mechanism for synchrony.


Being known as the faster growing species compares to sengon (Falcataria
sp.) and jabon (Anthochepalus cadamba), balsa offers an opportunity to be utilized to
help fulfilling human need on wood. In order to determine its right and optimum
usage and realizing that only a few information available about balsa in Indonesia, a
study about physical and mechanical properties and variation along axial and radial
direction is therefore essential to be conducted.
This research used Completely Randomized Design (CRD) with two factors
and three replications which were axial (bottom, middle and top of the tree) and radial
direction (nearby pith, middle, and nearby bark). Sample preparation and test were
conducted in accordance to British Standard 373 year 1957 and the trees were
obtained from plantation forest in Lumajang, East Java where becomes one of the
plantation centers of balsa in Indonesia.
The result showed that moisture content in green and air-dried condition were
107.4% and 15.1% respectively. Specific gravity in green, air-dried and oven-dried
respectively were 0.14, 0.142 and 0.147. Total shrinkage in direction of tangential,
radial, longitudinal were 5.88%


We argue that solar neutrino observations have to be sensitive to the effects of magnetohydrodynamics fluctuations in the Sun if the resonant spin-flavor precession mechanism is the solution to the solar neutrino problem. We find that the required solar magnetic field for this solution presents global and localized magnetic waves with a typical period of the order of 1 to 10 days, which can generate a corresponding periodical time modulation of the solar neutrino observations. These effects can be thought of as a test to the spin-flavor precession solution. Periodicity of this order is not excluded by available experimental data although only with the high statistics of future real time experiments can a precise test be realized. We discuss also that these magnetic fluctuations can be used to obtain information about the structure of the magnetic field in the solar interior.


Abstract : Metastable ions confirm the rearrangement of the (M - H)(+) ion from trimethylphosphine and trimethylamine to give (C3H5)(+). Two-carbon fragments are seen but their origin is indeterminate. Extensive loss of H2 occurs, confirmed by metastable ions, but not of CH2. (Author)


Long-Term Evolution(LTE) is the new standard recently specified by the 3GPP on the way towards fourth-generation mobile.The paper focuses on the key technologies of LTE and 3GPP positioned to meet IMT-Advanced needs with the LTE-Advanced standard including its development courses,evolution objectives,technical specifications and new key technologies.


In this paper, we propose a new efficient superpixel-based feature extraction and fusion method on hyperspectral and LiDAR data. Such important factor that the adjacent pixels belong to the same class with high probability is taken into consideration in our method, which means each superpixel can be regarded as a small region consisting of a number of pixels with similar spectral characteristics. In order to represent each superpixel well, we use our Gabor-wavelet-based feature extraction approach instead of morphological APs. A feature selection and fusion process has also been used to reduce the redundancy among Gabor features and make the fused feature more discriminative. The results on the several real dataset indicate that the proposed method provides state-of-the-art classification results, respectively, even when only few samples, i.e., only three samples per class, are labeled.


PURPOSE
This systematic review seeks to ascertain whether mental health-specific education reduces stigmatizing attitudes in nursing students.

DESIGN AND METHODS
A systematic review of the literature was performed.

FINDINGS
Thirteen studies met the inclusion criteria. Most of the results show an improvement in attitudes toward mental health, both in theory and clinical experience, but a greater improvement toward these stigmatizing attitudes was observed in clinical placements than in theory.

PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS
Mental-health-specific training seems to improve perceptions toward mental health. Clinical placement underpins theory, leading to a decrease in negative attitudes and stigma regarding mental health.


We construct arbitrary-order Darboux transformations for Schr¨odinger equations with energy-dependent potential and position-dependent mass within the Dunkl formalism. Our construction is based on a point transformation that interrelates our equations with the standard Schr¨odinger case. We apply our method to generate several solvable Dunkl-Schr¨odinger equations


It is shown that a transfer function with a high-Q factor and zero sensitivity to temperature variations can be realized by an active RC circuit using a negative-immittance converter. It is assumed that all resistors have the same temperature coefficient, and similarly with the capacitors. Experimental results confirm the theory.


Ideal for courses in American history, this book gathers first-person accounts of the trauma of the Thirties in the Heartland and assesses these accounts from the distance of several decades.


The Engle coefficient of urban residents in China's western region is decreasing, which reflects such characteristics as stable decrease in food and cloth consumption support proportion, continual growth of in housing appliance and merchandises, transportation and communication, housing, medical expense, entertainment and culture, and which also reflects another such consumption topics as that housing, car, education consumption and traveling.


The logic behind parsers for categorial grammars can be formalized in several different ways. Lambek Calculus (LC) constitutes an example for a natural deduction1 style parsing method.In natural language processing, the task of a parser usually consists in finding derivations for all different readings of a sentence. The original Lambek Calculus, when it is used as a parser/theorem prover, has the undesirable property of allowing for the derivation of more than one proof for a reading of a sentence, in the general case.In order to overcome this inconvenience and to turn Lambek Calculus into a reasonable parsing method, we show the existence of "relative" normal form proof trees and make use of their properties to constrain the proof procedure in the desired way.


The NCCN Prostate Cancer Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology are revised at least annually using teleconferences, and every 3 years, they are examined in greater detail in face-to-face panel meetings. The 2006 face-to-face meeting addressed 5 major issues. To give guidelines users an appreciation for the process used to make the fairly substantial changes in the 2007 Guidelines, this issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Network (JNCCN) includes point/counterpoint manuscripts for 3 of those 5 debates.


This paper presents a proposed system in which content (Note: content could be any file, image, video, etc.) can deliver through device-to-device (D2D) communication. For the file delivery, a general outage probability form is derived based on the storage cache unit of the user device, the file popularity, and the signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR). We further reduced this formula to a tractable closed-form expression. Initially, the user equipment (UE) is randomly distributed based on the Poisson point process on the cell. Then the Zipf distribution is used to model the file popularity, where the shape parameter is the most effective on the performance. The main results showed that outage probability decreases substantially with the increase of popularity shape parameter, as well as when increasing the cache storage unit of the UE. For accurate system analysis, a Monte-Carlo simulation has used to validate the theoretical results, and it showed a perfect matching between the simulation and the numerical results.


Hoffmann: There are two principal political lessons of Vietnam. The first one concerns the relation of ends and means, and it is a lesson that can be learned not by the Vietnam experience only. There are some interesting comparisons with China after World War II. If one sets for oneself a very difficult political end, one has to determine very carefully that the means at one's disposal can reach that end. On the other hand, if the means turn out to be insufficient, one must be clear that the means that might be effective in reaching the desired end are politically acceptable to the American people, and that they do not create any external risks that far exceed the importance of the stakes in the area. Lesson number one is that U.S. means, excessive as they were from all kinds of viewpoints, were never sufficient to oblige North Vietnam to cease and desist its involvement; the means that might have theoretically obliged the North Vietnamese to cease and desist, had the United States been willing to commit them, would have created for the United States real external dangers with potential adversaries and in relations with allies. Moreover, to harness those means to that task would have probably been unacceptable to a large fraction of the American public, because those means would have entailed either the annihilation of the North Vietnamese or a full-scale invasion. The second lesson, which is of equal importance, concerns not the North, but the South. That lesson tells us that one's success in reaching one's end depends almost decisively on the solidity of the political base on which one operates. That is the major difference between the American commitment made in South Korea and the situation that the United States faced in Vietnam. To a very large extent, the American effort in South Vietnam was Stanley Hof iann Samuel P . Huntington Ernest R. May Richard N . Neustadt Thomas C . Schelling


We study dynamical properties of N inelastic beads shaken by a vibrating plane. These systems exhibit three kinds of steady states, depending on the inelasticity of the beads: a gas, a partially condensed phase, and a collapsed phase. In the one-dimensional case, we show that these phases are characterized by the parameter \ensuremath{\gamma}=N(1-\ensuremath{\eta}), where \ensuremath{\eta} is the restitution coefficient measuring the energy dissipation during the collisions. For \ensuremath{\gamma}0.1 and 1.53.1, good agreement is found between the one-body distribution function obtained by numerical simulations and analytical solutions.


The report excavates and sorts out the current developmental situation of traditional ethnic sports in the region of southeastern Chongqing through the research methods of literature,interviews,field trips and other methods.Meanwhile,analyzing the likelihood of the ethnic minorities' traditional sports accessing into physical classes in colleges and putting forward a series of countermeasures based on the former analysis.The main purpose of this is to inherit and develop the ethnic culture in these areas,and also to enrich the campus cultural life.


Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are increasingly used in many aspects of our daily life. However, the performance is limited due to the extremely constrained power source in sensor nodes. Therefore, it is very important to find an efficient approach to predict the power consumption of WSNs in an accurate manner. Modular Quantitative Analysis (MOQA) is a new high level language used to obtain the average case timing information of randomness preserving programs. Time in this context refers to a broad notion of cost, which can be used to estimate the actual running time, but also other quantitative information such as power consumption. The aim of this paper is to build and validate a static approach to estimate the average-case power consumption of running suitable sorting algorithms on a single node, as well as in network level, based on MOQA. Experimental analysis on three sorting algorithms is provided supporting the MOQA approach. Our model predictions are validated through


Rapid business globalization, a clear comprehension of the identities, background and psychological well being of expatriates is necessary. Employees with global management skills are becoming a critical competitive resource for international organizations (Olsen & Martins, 2009; Kraimer, et al, 2009). MNC HR managers should enhance effective communication between expatriates and their families to reduce conflict and difference of opinion arising in moving to foreign countries for international assignments. Failure to comprehend expatriates and their stressful situations could lead to poor decision making and prevent certain individuals of a chance to pursue global careers. The current paper is focused on assessing the expatriate environment prevailing, motives of expatriation and the problems associated with the expatriation. The study results reveal that, job safety, work experience and monetary benefits are the key motivators of expatriation. The issues are relating to cross culture environment, work load and interpersonal factors. The efforts in the form of cross culture training, competency development and communication/language training can help the employees to manage stress during expatriation.


The property and feature of PSFL series vertical shaft impact crusher and application in coal water slurry production are introduced in this paper.


This instrument is a laser fiber inducer that attaches two channels that can be used to extract smoke and illumine. The design will resolve following three problems when laser operation is doing in the cavity of human body. (1) Not easy to hold the laser fiber; (2) Illumination in operative field; (3) Can't to exhaust the smoke that resulted from vaporizing or cutting tissue and to extract the secrete of cavity. attached.


A method to create a differentiable complex shapes from simple polygonal models is proposed. It is shown that classical schemes of "smooth" subdivision can be obtained from local self-similarity ratios if "deflection arrows" are scaled as s2, where s is the linear compression coefficient calculated for a flat regular grid of the same structure. The surfaces obtained by a smooth subdivision do not contain sharp features other than the vertices and edges of the original model, so in order to create a surface of more exotic shape one must use more complex model. The article describes an alternative approach, in which a fractal forecast of the position of embedded vertices, calculated using the local geometric self-similarity ratio, is used to obtain a pronounced surface shape. Fractal forecast transfers the properties of the original polygonal model to a smaller scale, thereby generating secondary sharp surface features that compose a large-scale texture. To ensure the differentiability of the surface, the fractal forecast is combined with the "smooth" one, and the proportion of the latter increases with decreasing scale.


The present research analyses how the concept of density was, is or could be applied as a key factor in the urban regeneration of Brussels-Capital. This project has two main purposes: firstly to use the improvement of densities as a criterion in the (re)development of the compact city by analysing the concept of urban density and its relation to forms and urban typologies. Secondly, to quantify densities and their relationship to the intensity of urban life. The study is made within the context of the walking distance city. We understand this concept as a compact city that concentrates facilities and creates human scale public spaces, convenient for the different densities of population served by centres. The research aims to reduce urban sprawl by fostering growth inside areas whose density can be increased (considering the differences between the city centre, urbanization of the 19th century, urbanization of the 20th century, old village centres, and brownfields). It is concerned with the reconciliation of two conflicting intentions: on one hand the creation of accessible centres of different levels of density connected by public transport, but also the facility of access to green spaces and nature. This research aims to produce a catalogue of the characteristic forms of Brussels. This catalogue will constitute a valuable database to be used to improve debates about density, cities and their forms. For example, it would be useful to all actors in charge of planning and of morphological regulation; it could help create guidelines about density levels, heights, facilities and localisation of amenities. Fifty samples of different urban forms across the city were chosen to be explored by three different but complementary methodologies: morphological observation; analysis of social perception about density through interviews; and landscape perception through photography. The morphological observational research only comprises three stages; Firstly, the analysis of the historical urbanization that represents the evolution of the urban form through History; Secondly, a previously unpublished typology and mapping of urban densification through dwelling complexes constructed from 1989, (date on which Brussels-Capital Region was created); The third and last part is represented by the deep analysis of a representative sample of dwelling complexes considering different forms of density produced by them.


Safety-critical Ada programs often contain asynchronous tasks and are, therefore, prone to timing hazards. Neither rigorous testing nor rigorous formal verification is currently feasible for timing hazard detection. We propose an inexpensive static analysis that can assist in the identification of timing hazards. Only a few Ada constructs can generate results that depend on the asynchronous timing of tasks within a program. Using the techniques of data dependency analysis, these timing dependencies can be traced through the program. If an output is timing dependent, manual inspection is required to determine whether the timing dependency is deliberate or is an unintended timing hazard.


In this study, alkaline zinc, zinc-nickel, and zinc-iron alloy coating techniques were reorganized and merged, and a novel process was devised that allows the manufacturing of products with improved corrosion protection performance by combining their excellent qualities. The coatings obtained from the experimental studies and meeting the visual suitability criteria were subjected to dry adhesion, water resistance, moisture resistance, salt mist, cyclic corrosion, and chemical resistance tests. Parts with high corrosion resistance (1000 hours salt fog test and 63 cycles cyclic corrosion test), high-temperature resistance (one hour at 300 °C), chemically resistant and electrically insulating coatings were produced using the novel technology. The results obtained from the tests were compared with the expectations of the automotive industry and superior features were obtained.


With the maturing and wide application of cloud computing technology, there are more and more crimes in the environment of cloud computing, effective investigation of evidence against these crimes are extremely important and urgent. Because it features the characteristics of computing environment of virtual, mass storage, distribution of data, multi-tenant and so on, the cloud calculating sets an extremely hard condition for investigation of evidence. For this purpose, this paper presents a reference evidential model for cloud computing environments, and it also discusses the implement to the four aspects of computer evidence.


In economics we generally use the term artificial intelligence (AI) to describe the process of creating and developing non-human intelligent technological agents. [1] AI can be seen as a traditional technological innovation process in the sense that science and technology are applied to create machines, software and algorithms that act on economic activities, especially production, by either complementing or substituting them. However AI is also a radical, disruptive technological innovation process because these technological agents act intelligently, as they are capable of recognising and responding to their environment. [2]


This report will focus on issues related to the need for transmission incentives, and consumer cost concerns related to these incentives. Given the changes that FERC cites in the electric industry, the question arises as to whether the need for transmission incentives continues. FERC is bound by EPACT to make incentives available, and is not proposing to end the incentives. However, with concerns raised over the effects of transmission incentives on consumer rates, implications of related federal policies on the electric power sector, additional FERC regulatory policies for transmission, and the aging of electricity infrastructure among key issues, the need for continuing transmission incentives may be a matter for Congress to consider.


Four factors have led to the current interest in immune deficiency diseases: (1) The introduction of antibiotics which has prevented early death in these patients and ィ セ ョ 」 ・ allowed the recognition of this group of diseases. (2) The introduction of treatment with concentrated antibody (immunoglobulins) which l:as provided very effective treatment in patients in whom there is an uncomplicated antibody defect. (3) Advances in knowledge of basic immunology which has opened up the prospect of a fundamental understanding of these diseases. Moreover, the finding that immunity is depressed in certain patients with recurrent chest mfections who have normal immunoglobulin levels; the hypothesis that certain putative autoimmune diseases may be due to anomalous responses to microorganisms in patients with minor degrees of immune deficiency; and the theory that the development of tumours sometimes represents a failure of immune defences has focussed attention on immune deficiency diseases. It is likely that understanding of these may throw light on other important diseases. (4) The use of grafts of lymphoid tissue which has offered some hope for the treatment of hitherto fatal forms of immune deficiency disease.


This article presents our solution for SemEval-2023 Task 1: Visual Word Sense Disambiguation. The aim of the task was to select the most suitable from a list of ten images for a given word, extended by a small textual context. Our solution comprises two parts. The first focuses on an attempt to further extend the textual context, based on word definitions contained in WordNet and in Open English WordNet. The second focuses on selecting the most suitable image using the CLIP model with previously developed word context and additional information obtained from the BEiT image classification model. Our solution allowed us to achieve a result of 70.84% on the official test dataset for the English language.


Objective Levofloxacin is effective for eradication of Helicobacter pylori(H. pylori)infecton. Efficacy of traditional triple therapy for eradication of H. pylori is decreasing resently. To assess the efficacy of Levofloxacin-based Quadruple Therapy for H.pylori eradication. Methods A total of 110 H.pylori-infected patients were enrolled and randomly assigned into two groups, Patients in group A were given omeprazole 20mg bid+Colloidal Bismuth Pectin0.2g bid+Levofloxacin 0.2g bid+amoxicillin 1.0g bid for 7 days, Patients in group B were given omeprazole 20mg bid +Colloidal Bismuth Pectin0.2g bid+Levofloxacin 0.2g bid +clarithromycin 0.5g bid for 7 days, at four weeks after a course of treatment, H. pylori eradication was assessed by 14C-urea breath test. Results A total 106 patients completed the study. H.pylori eradication rate by intenton-to-treat(ITT)analysis in group A and B were 92.73% and 89.09%; by per-protocol(PP)analysis were 96.23% and 92.45%. The eradication rate in group A was higher than that in group B by both ITT and PP analysis, but no statistically significant difference were found between the two groups(P0.05).Conclutions Levofloxacin-based Quadruple Therapy is an effective treatment for eradication of H.pylori infection.


Objective-The objectives of the study are to examine the trend and pattern of cost, income and profit from Fish economy in Chilika Lake, to investigate the seasonality and pattern of revenue from tourism in Chilika Lake, to analyze the income and living standards of businessmen and their perception and to assess the developmental activities by Government of Odisha and Chilika Development Authority (CDA) to promote wetland services of Chilika.
Methodology-The study is based on environmental impact on Chilika. Approximately 160 species of birds mostly of intercontinental migrant species and Irrawaddy dolphin, the lake is having immense tourism potential.
Findings-Chilika as a wetland has a complex and fragile ecosystem unlike other water bodies. Chilika Lake has about 132 fishing villages and it is surrounded by around 273 villages. The population of the fishing villages is more than 0.15 million. Though the country earns foreign revenue by exporting spices fish, prawn, crab its cultivation on crop land is exerting negative impact on the nearby villages and therefore aims at conducting a survey on the socio economic conditions of people involved in fishing activity and the environmental impact of fish cultivation.
KEYWORDS: Chilika, Crab, Ecosystem, Fishing, Local businessmen, prawn, Tourism, Wetland


Near-infrared (NIR) sensors has become one of the key components in applications, such as temperature, proximity, and even fingerprint sensing. A novel full-CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor) compatible near-infrared sensor is proposed and demonstrated in this article. This sensing device consists of a gateless transistor, enabling near-infrared photon absorption in the channel region. With a tunable channel barrier, this near-IR sensor also features a dynamic photo-response with an extending sensing range up to 60 dB.


Object:Using two diagnosis standards to compare workers' hearing loss characteristics.It offers data to control and prevent occupational hearing loss.Methods:Testing 200 noise operation places onsite in 8 production centers in one fiber enterprise,and carrying out occupational health check for 1,996 noise operation workers.It analyzes the relationship of their noise intensity,work age and hearing loss.Results:Noise operation workers can be divided into 8 kinds of post according to their exposing noise.The noise scope is 74~99 dB(A).Conclusion:There is occupational noise damage in the fiber enterprise.According to GBZ47-2002,detection rate is different with different post.The hearing loss degree is proportional to the work ages.


The nuclear characteristics of the BR-3 Reactor are discussed with respect to the core and safety consideration. The conventional equipment described are the turbine and its circuit and the alternators. Problems in the operation of the power plant are the loading and unloading of the fuel, reactor startup, and reactor shutdown andd cooling. Each are briefly described. (J.S.R.)


Regional anesthesia has always been considered as a safer alternative to general anesthesia specially in geriatric patients. The interscalene approach to the brachial plexus block is particularly well suited for operations on the shoulder, clavicle, or upper arm. The approach preferentially blocks nerves of the brachial plexus (C5-C7), with variable proximal spread to the cervical plexus (C3-C4), while usually sparing the ulnar nerve (C8-T1). We report a case of 78-year-old lady, who was prepared for close reduction with K-wire fixation of Neer Type-III fracture surgical neck humerus (right). The patient was a known asthmatic, hypertensive, with diagnosed multiple valvular heart disease (severe aortic stenosis, mild aortic regurgitation, mild tricuspid regurgitation, and mild mitral regurgitation). The patient was operated under regional anesthesia using peripheral nerve stimulator guided interscalene brachial plexus block with 30 ml of 0.5% ropivacaine. The operative procedure lasted for 1 h and throughout the procedure patients vitals, and other parameters were well maintained with the added advantage that the patient was fully conscious and oriented during the entire duration of the procedure.


This report describes my Supervised Teaching Practice as a Portuguese teacher at Escola Secundária Padre António Vieira during the academic year of 2016/2017. It proceeds to an analysis of the classroom observation and also includes a reflective description of my teaching practice which favored the configurations of the fictional hero study as a central theme. The exploration of literary procedures of construction of the notoriously positive characters which we can find in the literary books, makes possible the perception of the way(s) how this literary figure is constructed, the importance it has in the construction of the literary books and the functionality it has. The configurations of the fictional hero study it's a theme that allows to create, in all the classes, a relation between literary books and characters, showing that they are not isolated from each other, but they establish relations in the field of literatures in the same language and different languages, establishing relations synchronous and diachronics. The guiding theme contributes to renew the literature study at school because it helps in a better understanding of the texts and contributes to the development of the linguistics, literary and critical skills.


We have recently introduced a new item to our neurology Grand Rounds—the '1-3-5 presentation'. The format comprises a presentation on one topic, using three slides and lasting no more than 5 minutes. This a useful way of covering brief single topics and introducing and sparking discussion on more complex ones. '1-3-5s' have proven popular in our department and we have compiled a library of these presentations that is hosted on a YouTube channel. This article discusses the benefits and prospects for this format and encourages other units to provide similar opportunities for teaching and learning among all clinical grades.


The present invention is a protein-binding inhibitor compounds and their identification and usage. The present invention further Pharmaceutical compositions and cell proliferative disorders, in particular to a method of treating cancer.


One of the primary goals of exoplanet science is to find and characterize habitable planets, and direct imaging will play a key role in this effort. Though imaging a true Earth analog is likely out of reach from the ground, the coming generation of giant telescopes will find and characterize many planets in and near the habitable zones (HZs) of nearby stars. Radial velocity and transit searches indicate that such planets are common, but imaging them will require achieving extreme contrasts at very small angular separations, posing many challenges for adaptive optics (AO) system design. Giant planets in the HZ may even be within reach with the latest generation of high-contrast imagers for a handful of very nearby stars. Here we will review the definition of the HZ, and the characteristics of detectable planets there. We then review some of the ways that direct imaging in the HZ will be different from the typical exoplanet imaging survey today. Finally, we present preliminary results from our observations of the HZ of α Centauri A with the Magellan AO system's VisAO and Clio2 cameras.


Objective: To investigate the distribution of pathogenic microorganisms in bile and to study the sensitivity to antibiotic drugs of the microorganisms. Method: To cultivate the microorganisms in 81 bile samples and study the sensitivity to antibiotic drugs of the microorganisms with BACTEK9120 culturing system and automatic VITEK32 bacterial culturing and antibiotic drug sensitivity studying system. Result: The positive rate of bile bacteria was 88.9%, the major general of bacteria were E.coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Enterococcus. In aerobes, gram negative bacteria was more sensitive to Imipenem , Tazobactam/piperacillin, Ceftazibime. Enterococcus was only sensitive to Levuofloxacin, Ampicillin . Conclusion: The positive rate of bacteria in bile was very high, which was useful for clinic.


The article discusses the problems resulting from the Casa manual of Russia from the liberalization of political life in the country. Approval conservative values were the prelude to the announcement about the last country the most significant value for the unique Russian civilization. The author believes that this path is an evolutionary dead end.


In this paper, an efficient Iterative Companding Transform and Filtering (ICTF) technique is proposed for reducing the Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signal. By means of a specially designed iterative procedure, ICTF is able to obtain both an improved Bit Error Rate (BER) and minimized Out-of-Band Interference (OBI) while reducing the PAPR significantly. A comprehensive theoretical analysis is presented, and some important results such as the achievable PAPR gain, impact of companding distortion, and selection criteria for companding parameters and maximum iteration number are derived. In particular, it is shown that the ICTF without de-companding at the receiver can offer a good BER performance. Simulations show that compared to the classic Iterative Clipping and Filtering (ICF) technique, ICTF can dramatically decrease the number of required iterations to reach the desired PAPR with low complexity. In addition, the companded OFDM symbols by the proposed ICTF technique have less in-band distortion, and lower out-of-band spectral regrowth than traditional companding schemes.


The C1-C8 tetrahydropyran and the C17-C24 dihdropyran segments of ambruticin were prepared from L-arabinose in 11 steps, 7.6% overall yield and from ( S )-ethyl lactate in 8 steps, 22.2% overall yield respectively.


While CVD has been extensively used for the preparation of thin films of inorganic materials, apart from its application to plasma polymerisation, very little has been reported on the formation of organic layers. In this paper we report the first CVD preparation of an organic pigment, quinacridone. A two-step CVD method and the effects of various deposition conditions on the deposition process are described. The characterisation of deposits by FTIR, Raman, XRD and chemical microanalysis analysis shows that they have very similar compositions and structures to commercial samples of the pigment.


SUMMARY Recent GPS surveys indicate that the Zagros kinematics corresponds to an oblique convergence between a rigid central Iranian plateau and the Arabian plate at ∼ 7m m yr −1 at the longitude of the Persian Gulf. Convergence is almost frontal in the SE Zagros and oblique (45 ◦ )i n the NW part of the range. It has been proposed that internal deformation of the NW Zagros occurs in a partitioned mode. In such a view, the Main Recent Fault (MRF) bordering the Iranian plateau accommodates all the tangential motion, while shortening happens by pure thrusting within the fold and thrust belt as suggested by the focal mechanisms within the range. We use a 2.5-D mechanical finite element model of the Zagros to understand the influence on the Zagros deformation of (1) the obliquity of convergence, (2) the rheological layering of the lithosphere (strong upper crust, weak lower crust, strong or weak uppermost mantle) and (3) a possible weakness of the MRF. Surprisingly, a fully partitioned mode occurs only when the collision is very oblique. In the case of the NW Zagros, we find that the MRF can accommodate only ∼25 per cent of the whole tangential motion. As the GPS inferred range parallel motion across the NW Zagros is ∼ 5m m yr −1 , the present day slip rate of this fault could be as low as 1.2 mm yr −1 . In agreement with the observed strain in SE Zagros, our model predicts that no strike-slip activity takes place on a vertical fault when the direction of convergence is more frontal. We discuss the implications of our model on the seismicity and kinematics of oblique collision zones by comparing our results with the available data in the Zagros and other oblique convergence domains.


The use of FarrowWrap™ as an alternative to multilayer lymphoedema bandaging (MLLB) can provide an efficient, cost-effective treatment for patients with all types of chronic and lymphoedema oedema. In addition, used within supervised self-management, it allows for the patient to gain control and confidence of their long-term condition, giving greater independence. This article discusses the theory of MLLB and introduces FarrowWrap, an alternative wrapping system offering flexible compression treatment for a range of oedemas. Case studies are included to illustrate varied uses of FarrowWrap and how it can be implemented into clinical practice.


After the theory of balance price break away from the value,it is also consistent in number with the theory of labour value.So if doesn't negate the theory of labour value,but furtear proves the science of it.And at the same time it also proves its reasonable.


Nosocomial influenza increases morbidity and mortality in hospitalised patients. No multicentre study analysed its impact in Swiss hospitals yet. This study was conducted From November 1st to April 30th in 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 in 27 acute-care public hospitals in South-western Switzerland. It aimed at describing nosocomial cases of seasonal influenza. During these 2 time-periods, every patient hospitalized for >72 hours that was positively screened by RT-PCR or antigen detection for influenza was retrospectively included in the survey. Policies to prevent influenza were collected in each participating hospital. Characteristics of patients included age, sex, and comorbidities. Included patients were followed-up until discharge or death. Complications and administration of anti-neuraminidases and/or antibiotics were registered.
 The mean influenza vaccine coverage of healthcare workers (HCW) was 40%. 836 patients were included (98% with a type A influenza virus in 2016-2017; 77% with a type B virus in 2017-2018). Most patients (81%) had an unknown vaccine status. Overall, the incidence of nosocomial influenza was 0.3/100 admissions (0.35/1000 patient-days). The most frequent comorbidities were diabetes (21%), chronic respiratory diseases (18%), and malnutrition (17%). Fever (77%) and cough (66%) were the most frequent symptoms. 70% of patients received anti-neuraminidases, 28% received antibiotics. Infectious complications such as pneumonia were reported in 8%. Overall, the all-cause mortality was 6%.
 The occurrence of nosocomial influenza underlines the importance of vaccinating patients and HCW, rapidly recognising community or hospital-acquired cases, and applying adequate additional measures to prevent dissemination, including the timely administration of anti-neuraminidases to avoid antibiotic use (and misuse).

 Important to encourage patients to be vaccinated against influenza. Apply additional measures in order to prevent influenza dissemination.


Abstract Many American family caregivers (FCs) manage hospice and palliative patients' pain at home. However, FCs encounter many barriers to pain management due to inadequate training. Although some studies have designed pain management training programs for caregivers, the content and durations vary greatly. Thus, there is a lack of consistent recommendation on how to educate caregivers on pain management. The purpose of this study is to critically evaluate existing training programs to inform clinical practice and future program design. A literature review was conducted to search available articles published before June 2018 in databases including PubMed, CINAHL, PsycINFO, and Scopus. Search strategies used index and keyword methods. The inclusion criteria were peer-reviewed, research studies published in English that evaluated a pain management education or training for family caregivers. Twenty-seven studied were included. All studies improved either patients' outcomes (e.g. pain intensity, hospital visits) or caregivers' outcomes (e.g. knowledge, quality of life). Most studies (85%) had research teams provide caregivers with pain management education via multiple face-to-face training sessions and written booklet, while some studies (15%) had practicing nurses used videophones, web-based platforms, and telehealth to enhance the collaboration of care and pain management with caregivers. Providing adequate pain management training can improve patients' and caregivers' outcomes. However, in-person training programs are not practical for busy and overwhelmed caregivers. Researcher-delivered training sessions are not clinically adoptable. Future studies should develop pain management interventions that allow nurses to coach caregivers during routine visits and enhance their communication and collaboration with caregivers.


Here we show that gold nanocages (AuNCs) can be used as receptor materials for nanomechanical Membrane-type Surface stress Sensor (MSS). The fabricated AuNCs-coated MSS (AuNCs_MSS) was employed suc...


Tomatoes have represented in Romania too one of the most appreciated vegetable crops, which has determined a continuous improvement of cultivation technologies and also an intense concern for the development of cultivars that are highly appreciated in Romania and abroad. The biological material was made up of 8 tomatoes lines (L-432-2, L-596, L563, L-163, L-714, L-786, L-762 and L-601-B) which we compared to two control variants (Roxana and Minerva). Tomato genotypes L 596 and L 432-2 yielded more in early yield than both controls with differences ensured statistically.


This research's goal is to investigate the relation between undeveloped disabled student's attitude in acceptance and the cognition to integrated physical education classes, and development of the sociality. This research is planned to make integrated physical education classes enhance normal management of the school education and play positive role in making a morally developed social students by changing the cognition to disabled students through the attitude in acceptance of undeveloped disabled students to disabled students in the integrated education. For this, current elementary and middle school students in Seoul, Suwon and Bucheon were selected as the pollee and the researcher implemented the analysis of frequency, cause, reliability, correlation and structure by SPSS/WIN 14.0 and AMOS 7.0 statistics programs on collected documents. The researcher triggered suggested conclusions through the investigated results. First, except for the attitude of accpeting classes and disability, the attitude in accpeting disability and the development of sociality, the facility and comprehension and respect, the system and the development of sociality, all variables were correlated in the relation between undeveloped disabled student's attitude in acceptance and cognition to integrated physical education classes, and the development of the sociality Second, it was indicated that the attitude in acceptance of not-developed disabled students toward integrated physical education classes was not meaningfully affecting their cognition. Third, it was indicated that the attitude in acceptance of not-developed disabled students toward integrated physical education classes was not meaningful1y affecting to the development of their sociality.


vi Chapter 1: Introduction 1 1.1 Sea level forcing mechanisms 1 1.2 Late Quaternary Antarctic deglacial reconstructions 3 1.3 The difficulties of 14C dating Antarctic sediments 5 1.4 Recent developments of methods for dating Antarctic sediments 7 1.5 Research Objectives 11 Chapter 2: Sediment chronology in Antarctic deglacial sediments: Reconciling organic carbon 14C ages to carbonate 14C ages using Ramped PyrOx 13 2.1 Note to Reader 13 2.2 Abstract 14 2.3 Introduction 14 2.4 Methods 18 2.4.1 Physical setting and sediments 18 2.4.2 Core collection 18 2.4.3 Chronology 19 2.5 Results 21 2.5.1 Lithology 21 2.5.2 Radiocarbon Chronologies 23 2.6 Discussion 25 2.7 Conclusions 32 2.8 Organic carbon in Lapeyrère Bay 33 2.9 Analysis of δ13C measurements 33 2.10 Carbonate 14C dating 34 Chapter 3: Sub-ice shelf sediment geochronology utilizing novel radiocarbon methodology for highly detrital sediments 36 3.1 Note to Reader 36 3.2 Abstract 37 3.3 Introduction 38 3.4 Methods 42 3.4.1 Site locations 42 3.4.2 Core description 43 3.4.3 Carbonate 14C analysis 46 ii 3.4.4 AIO 14C chronologies 46 22.214.171.124 Conventional Ramped PyrOx 14C analysis 47 22.214.171.124 Composite Ramped PyrOx 14C analysis 51 220.127.116.11 Isotope Dilution Ramped PyrOx 14C analysis 52 3.5 Results 53 3.6 Discussion 56 3.7 Conclusions 63 Chapter 4: Deglacial record from the western Ross Sea: Ross Ice Shelf instability during the LGM 64 4.1 Note to Reader 64 4.2 Abstract 64 4.3 Introduction 65 4.4 Methods 71 4.4.1 Geologic setting 71 4.4.2 Sediment core descriptions 72 4.4.3 Chronology 75 4.4.4 Environmental reconstruction 77 4.5 Results 79 4.6 Discussion 80 4.6.1 Evaluating core chronologies and temperature calibrations 80 4.6.2 Constraints on the timing of ice sheet retreat 83 4.7 Conclusions 90 Chapter 5: Conclusions 92 References 98 Appendix A: Permission to reproduce published works 125 Appendix B: Supplemental information for Chapter 3 127 B1. 14C Blank corrections based on 3-component mixing model of modern blank, dead blank, and sample material 127 B2. Estimation of the fraction of syndepositionally-aged material and its temperature of combustion 129 B3. Isotope Dilution correction 131 B4. A comparison of the propagation of uncertainty for Composite and Isotope Dilution techniques 132 B5. Extended figures and tables 137 Appendix C: Supplemental information for Chapter 4 141 C1. Matlab ® code for the calculation of fSA as defined by Subt et al. (2017) 141 C2. Matlab ® code for the calculation of T1 as defined by Subt et al. (2017) 144 C3. Regional TEX86 calibration study 145 C4. Extended figures and tables 149


The research describes the choice of words used by the composer of world cup's official song lyrics to show the expression of celebration and spirit. The song lyrics selected are the world cup's official song lyrics from 1998-2010. The problems in this research are formulated into two questions: (1) What is more dominant between the expression of celebration and the expression of spirit in World's cup official song lyrics? (2) What are the language styles of expression of celebration and spirit which used in World cup's official song lyrics? The research employs descriptive qualitative method, the researcher categorizes, describes, and analyzes the data systematically, factually, accurately in order to be able to answer the research questions proposed. The researcher uses Saussure's theory about Semiotic (1983), Galperin's (2010) and Qalyubi's Stylistics (2009) to solve the problem presented in the research questions. The finding of this research is the expression of spirit which is more dominant than the expression of celebration. All the expression are evidenced by the two Saussure's theories consisting of Signifier and Signified with Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic distinctions. In relation to the language styles of world cup's official song expression of celebration and spirit, it is found that there are two styles; the first is rhetorical style which consists of Alliteration, Assonance, Asyndenton, Polysyndenton, Chiasmus, Ellipsis, Pleonasm, Tautology, and Hyperbole. Secondly, Simile and Metaphor as figurative style.


Decision directed channel tracking (DDCT) at high fade rates in OFDM based systems is addressed in this paper. Channel estimation in DDCT can be formulated as a linear errors-in-variables regression problem. While most of the errors in the regression matrix (equalization errors) are Gaussian in nature, few of the detected symbols can have high error due to the frequency and time selective fading. These poor symbol decisions behave like outliers in the regression matrix and give rise to contaminated Gaussian noise distributions. Classical estimators like total least squares (TLS) and the expectation-maximization (EM) based estimators exhibit poor performance in the presence of such outliers. We propose the Huber's M (HM) estimator and an extreme value theory (EVT) based M estimator for the DDCT problem. The proposed HM and EVT-HM estimators are robust to outliers and have an efficiency greater than 95% in purely Gaussian noise. The error rate performance of the proposed HM and EVT-HM estimators are compared with that of the TLS estimator, and the EM based estimator proposed in [4].


The present research aims to provide a brief reading on the text of Nahum 1:1-3, investigating the history of interpretation of the book of Nahum, the historical setting and providing a brief exegetical analysis of the first three verses. For this research, primary sources were investigated to provide a text analysis, and secondary sources were accessed to reconstruct the historical setting and the history of the interpretation of the book. First, the history of interpretation of the book will be addressed, starting from the time of the prophet, the new testament times, passing through the Church Fathers, the Reform Era and finally will be described what interpretations the modern interpreters hold. Second, the historical setting of the book of Nahum will be addressed, followed by the audience that the author intended to reach and the literary structure of the book, including key words for the interpretation of the passage. Finally, an application of the passage for the present days and the modern believers is done, followed by the conclusion of the present research.


Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one f the most widely grown and utilize food plants in the world, orginated in Asia. The plants practice of growing rice in wet lands, popularly known as paddy has led to a number of diseases affecting the crop. Suffer from many diseases called by fungi, bacteria, viruses and nematdes. Bipolaris oryzae is a soil borne pathogenic fungus which causes brown spot disease in paddy. Plants are reservoir of biological active compounds to combat various pathogens. Various plants such as Bergia capensis L., Marselia quadrifolia L., Lippia nodiflora L., Eclipta prostrata L., and Commleina clavata C.B Clarke. Totally four solvents were used for the present work. Out of four solvents used (Methanl, Acetone, Petroleum ether and Aqueous) the methanolic extract showed good inhibitory activity.


Several perfluorosulfonyl fluorides 1, 2 and 3 were irradiated by UV, and the reaction products were identified.Under UV irradiation, perfluoro-(4-methyl-3, 6-dioxa-octene) sulfonyl fluoride (1) was mainly polymerized to give a low MW polymer 4. Besides, a small amount of a rearranged product 5 was isolated.The corrasponding methyl ester was prepared in the usual manner.Under UV irradiation, perfluoro(3-oxa-4-fluorocarbonyl pentane) sulfonyl fluoride(2)lost a CFO group to give the coupling product 6.From perfluoro-(4, 6-dimethyl-3-oxa-5-oxo-heptane) sulfonyl fluoride (3) three compounds 6,7 and 8 were obtained.The produot 6 was found to be identical with that derived from 2.Structures of the above mentioned photochemical reaction products were all ascertained by IR, NMR and elemental analyses.These results show that the sulfonyl fluoride group is quite stable under UV irradiation.


Whiskers are pure tin mono-crystal. Electro-deposited tin layer as lead free finish in electrical devices tend to form whiskers. It can be formed soon after plating, several years after plating or even seldom happen. It is one potential danger for device reliability in industry usage. In this paper, whiskers growth on copper and Fe-Ni Alloy42 materials are individually inspected. For Fe-Ni Alloy42 material, thickness effect dominates the whisker growth. For Cu material samples, grain size effect shows major function in the whisker growth. And result show that the plating current density is supposed to be effective in controlling the plating layer grain size. For Cu material, trim/form process may affect the IMC layer growth morphology, which is supposed to be effective to whisker growth. Cross section and top view etch methods are used. The IMC layer morphology is check by SEM. It shows that long period of storage in TCT make the IMC layer flatter. And tins flatness in IMC may explain the cease of whisker growth after long period of time. Cracks are found in the IMC layer for Cu material after long period of TCT condition. Tins may be due to the compressive force generated from the IMC itself.


The relationship between physical and mental fatigue is not well understood or well documented, a lapse that affects understanding of the interaction between loading and unloading activities and safe operation in the trucking industry. This experiment addresses the effects of loading and unloading on driving performance by measuring driving impairment in volunteer truck drivers operating a truck-driving simulator. Ten drivers participated, each for 17 days, including 2 driving weeks of 5 days with 14-h duty cycles separated by two 58-h rest periods. During one of the driving weeks, participants were given a significant hand-loading task, 3 hours of hand-loading pallets of boxes on 3 of 5 days; during the remaining week, only driving tasks were scheduled. Performance measurement focused on driver responses to planned and unplanned crash-likely challenges and vigilance tasks, supported by simulator-mediated driving indicators, such as lane-keeping performance. Measures of subjective drowsiness also were maintained. The effects of the loading and unloading task were mixed. There was an initial improvement in alertness, apparently because of the break in activity and a period of exercise; however, this effect wore off as the day progressed and may have contributed to a decrease in overall performance after 12 to 14 h of duty.


Global analysis method and individual analysis method are proposed in this paper. By analyzing their traits, it is concluded that individual analysis method is more suitable for machine-printed Chinese font recognition. A feature point based individual analysis method is proposed to resolve Chinese font recognition problem. Compared with previous methods, there are mainly three advantages: The recognition reliability is controllable; the processing speed is fast; it is suitable for multi-lingual document image processing. Experimental results show that the proposed method is more effective than previous methods.


In the contemporary battlefield where complexity has increased, the enhancement of the role and ability of missiles has become crucial. Thus, missile guidance systems are required to be further developed in a more intelligent and autonomous way to deal with complicated environments. In this paper, we propose novel missile guidance laws using reinforcement learning, which can autonomously avoid obstacles and terrains in complicated environments with limited prior information and even without the need of off-line trajectory or waypoint generation. The proposed guidance laws are focused on two mission scenarios: the first is with planar obstacles, which is used to cope with maritime operations, and the second is with complex terrain, which is used to cope with land operations. We present the detailed design processes for both scenarios, including a neural network architecture, reward function selection, and training method. Simulation results are provided to show the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed guidance laws and some important aspects are discussed in terms of their advantages and limitations.


The general tendency of contemporary Crime in the 21st century is transnational, intelligent, difficult to prove, related to much illicit money and collaborative among criminals especially in North East Asia. It is difficult to recover criminal assets in North East Asia not only because of the lack of the necessity recognition for the criminal asset recovery but also the limitation of the governance for the efficient mutual legal assistance in criminal matters including the incompletion of the legislation for the Asset Recovery. Non-Conviction Based Confiscation is also based on the completion of the legislation and the willingness for the substantial collaboration among the judicial organizations in Northeast Asian countries. [Keywords] Asset Recovery, Confiscation, Victim Protection, Mutual Legal Assistance, Criminal Proceeds 1. The Lack and Limitation for the Crime Prevention and the Victim Protection through the Criminal Asset Recovery The increase of the International Trade and exchange have also brought us the necessity for the global performance on the crime prevention and the transnational protection of Crime Victims. The International Co-operation in the Criminal Asset Recovery is very important for the crime prevention and the protection of the victims, but it is very much difficult to have successful results because of the difference between venue and jurisdiction including the lack of understanding of the legislation from the each countries[1]. It may be important to increase the understanding of the situation of each countries for the success of the international co-operation of the confiscation of the criminal proceeds and asset recovery. The international co-operation for asset recovery may depend on the agreement, treaties, recommendations, (in)formal information toward the Common goal based on mutual trust and understanding. 2. Mutual Understand and Encouragement for the Asset Recovery 2.1. The difference of the domestic law and crime response system Many Crimes like Economic Crime, Corruption Crime, Cyber Crime, Organized Crime, Narcotic Crime[2] and Terrorism are supernational and based on the criminal proceeds and assets. People, Parliament and Government in each country need to know the crime phenomenon and the characteristics of criminals about the criminal proceeds and assets, it can lead to the proper legislation for the Crime Response. Each Country has the different background about their own domestic law[3], it has the dissimilar Crime Response System including the (im)possible Investigation method and the different ways of Co-operation with other Publication state: Japan


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A system for providing a drug screening service to a Therapeutic Community is. described. It has proved acceptable to both clinical and laboratory staff, being economical in its use of expensive reagents, whilst generating rapid and reliable results.


The paper analyzes the value volumes of China's exports for 2011-2021 by constructing an econometric model of a time series. The polynomial equation of the trend of the third degree is constructed by introducing fictitious variables. The result of the work is a forecast for 2022


We show how the spin-orbit contribution to the two-body Hamiltonian, to order ${c}^{\ensuremath{-}2}$, may be derived classically, in a simple but rigorous manner, from a knowledge of just the corresponding contributions for the one-body problem. As an illustration of the generality of our results, we consider, as particular cases, the electromagnetic and gravitational interactions and demonstrate how the usual results follow directly.


Method and apparatus for determining the Fistelblutflusses a fistula for dialysis treatment of a dialysis fluid through a dialysis machine, wherein the fistula comprises an arterial Fistelabgang and a venous Fistelzugang comprising the steps of: varying the volume flow in the dialysis machine to the occurrence of local recirculation in the fistula ; Determining the value of the volume flow in the dialysis machine at the occurrence of local recirculation in the fistula as the first value Q


The succession of the Tertiary igneous rocks in Greenland and Iceland is parallel to that in the Scoto-Irish region except for minor variations, the rock types in the three regions are petrographically identical, and the facts point to the geological and petrological unity of thé great Thulean igneous region.


The subject of the conference was `accuracy in X-ray analysis', and as this was intended to cover the whole field of the subject it was appropriately divided into three sessions. These were Accuracy of structure factor determination, Accuracy requirements in structure analysis, and Accuracy in parameter measurements and phase analysis.


The thermal cis-trans isomerization of an amphiphilic azo compound in the assembled monolayer film has been investigated kinetically, with an electrochemical approach being employed to follow the reaction process. Isomerization in the rigid monolayer film was found to follow first-order kinetics as in the liquid phase, at least in the earlier stage of reaction. The rate constant can be expressed by k=10 8.5±1.5 exp (-(16.5±1.0 kcal mol -1 )/RT) s -1


In October 1995, members of the DuPont Merck Biometrics and Quality Assurance staffs met to discuss improvements in the audit process for clinical data listings. With the advent of the International Conference on Harmonization (ICH) good clinical practices (GCPs), they were concerned about assuring that the procedures and processes for managing incoming clinical data and reporting to regulatory agencies were appropriately rigorous to ensure complete and accurate processing of clinical trial data. The following article describes a statistically-based audit plan that takes into consideration the phase of the trial, the importance of the trial to regulatory filings, and key study variables. The audit plan also includes a procedure for randomly selecting studies and patients for audit, and establishes statistically-based acceptance and rejection criteria. This audit process has been in use for six months and has resulted in more efficient planning and execution of clinical data audits. Due to the randomness of the process and high standards for acceptable quality levels (AQL), internal quality control (QC) procedures have been strengthened to assure that all data listings meet these standards.