School of Computing and Information Systems, Athabasca University, Athabasca, AB, Canada Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport, Smart Village, Giza, Egypt University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, USA Instituto Tecnológico de Castilla y León, Polg. Ind. Villalonquejar, López Bravo 70, 09001 Burgos, Spain Computer Science Department, University of Oviedo, EIMEM, c/ Independencia 13, 33004 Oviedo, Spain


In fulfilling the commandment of the Lord to share the Gospel to the entire world, Christianity has encountered other cultures with different comprehension regarding the afterlife belief. Christianity has its own anthropology and eschatology. It has different understanding of the afterlife reality characterized with it: that which occurs to the individual immediately after death and what is concerned with the communitarian consummation in the Parousia of Christ. The author of this paper is examining the Chagga Christians of Rombo who have received Christian faith with its own belief on the afterlife dominated by Christ event while the Chagga people have their belief dominated by the ancestors and the living-dead. Est Ag 56 (2021) 273-326


5 ISSN 2045-1393 10.2217/IJH.12.25 © 2013 Future Medicine Ltd Int. J. Hematol. Oncol. (2013) 2(1), 5–8 The improvement in outcomes for children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is one of the great success stories in cancer history, and a holy grail for many adult oncologists who treat patients with ALL. An estimated 80% of children are now cured as a result of a succession of elegantly designed clinical trials employing multiagent, cytotoxic treatment modules [1]. This pediatric approach has formed the backbone of adult treatment regimens but, by contrast, long-term survival rates in adults range between 20 and 60%. Furthermore, in a provocative study comparing outcomes for adolescents treated on pediatric trials through the Children's Cooperative Group with adult trials through the Cancer and Leukemia Group B, the 7-year event-free survival (EFS) was only 29% for patients aged 18–20 years of age treated through the Cancer and Leukemia Group B, compared with 55% for the same subset of patients treated through the Children's Cooperative Group [2]. These findings spurred a flurry of studies treating adults with intensified, pediatric-inspired regimens. Huguet and colleagues reported outcomes for adult patients treated with pediatric-inspired regimens (GRAALL 2003) containing 16-fold more l-asparaginase, 3.7-fold more vincristine and 8.6-fold more prednisone than the former LALA-94 protocol [3], and noted signif icantly better complete remission (CR), EFS and overall survival (OS) rates compared with historical LALA-94 [4]. However, patients older than 45 years of age had significantly higher chemotherapy-related deaths (23 vs 5%, respectively), worse EFS (46 vs 58%, respectively) and worse OS (47 vs 64%, respectively) than their younger counterparts [4]. Similarly, in a study of 85 adults treated on a pediatricstyled regimen, induction mortality and 3-year OS were 28 and 52%, respectively, for patients older than 35 years of age, compared with 0 and 83%, respectively, for the younger patients [5]. Thus, treatment intensification with traditional cytotoxic agents appears to benefit generally younger adults with ALL. However, the incidence of ALL is bimodal, with peaks in early childhood and late


The subject innovation are possible departure if detached only the molding element by that, fixed a transparent soundproof panel with a removable molding element to the frame of the unit soundproofed windows on the panel fixing structure of the transparent soundproof windows for easy access to Transparent soundproofing panel from a frame of the unit soundproofed windows so that by reducing the replacement time it can be quickly and easily replaced by allowing the transparent soundproofing panel without having to remove the unit from the holding and soundproofed windows as well as also with the effect of to facilitate maintenance by minimizing human consumption. It designed present to achieve this, a transparent soundproof panel with a predetermined size, and the transparent consist of a frame to secure the sound insulation panel is laminated between the holding and holding in the sound barrier to block the noise of the road or the like, to the inside bottom surface of the frame is transparent and forming additional seating for supporting a soundproofing panel is projected, and the transparent soundproofing panel mounted on the top the seating portion, wherein the transparent top surface of the sound insulation panel is detachably the molding element coupled between the inner top of the outer frame transparent soundproof It characterized by configured to support a panel.


Candidate wide-bandwidth (1-Gbit/s) satellite laser communications systems are compared on two different bases. First, a comparison is made with projected component technology to establish relative performance between the various approaches based on the fundamental system parameters. From this comparison it appears that the CO 2 (10.6-μm) system offers a signal-to-noise advantage over the Nd:YAG (1.06-μm) or doubled Nd:YAG (0.53- μm) system for a comparable satellite burden. Second, a comparison is made based upon the concept that launch cost for equivalent systems comprises an optimizing criterion. From this comparison it appears that the launch costs for the CO 2 and doubled Nd:YAG systems can be similar, but the latter is very sensitive to the projected weight of a large lightweight "photon bucket" receiving aperture. In general, the relative deficiency in signal-to-noise ratio for the Nd:YAG system can only be accommodated through adoption of an open-loop pointing system with an accuracy of 1 μrad or less, as compared to a closed-loop pointing system with relaxed accuracy for the CO 2 system. The most critical technology problem for the CO 2 system is that of Doppler compensation. These and other critical technologies for both approaches are listed and discussed.


At a time of rising concern over urban sprawl and its adverse financial, quality-of-life, and environmental consequences, nodes assume growing importance within urban (and especially metropolitan) planning strategies. Nodes are defined as high-density multifunctional developments featuring a pedestrian-conducive environment and good public-transit accessibility. The article draws from the Toronto experience to explore reasons for the popularity of nodes among planning agencies, their limited capacity over recent years to attract new office and retail development, and difficulties in launching new nodes. It also investigates their problems in meeting walking and public-transit-patronage objectives. The article proposes four means of enhancing the smart growth performance of nodes: (1) improved planning coordination; (2) reliance on both incentives and coercion; (3) investment in public transit systems; (4) merging nodal and corridor approaches.


In reactive sputtering of titanium target in the oxide mode, oxygen atoms are selectively sputtered from the target surface, which leads to a signiˆcant reduction of deposition rate of TiO2 ˆlms. Utilizing this phenomenon, we developed a sputtering type oxygen radical source. Combining this oxygen radical source with a titanium sputtering source which is operated in metal mode, we showed that a high rate deposition of TiO2 ˆlms above 40 nm/min was achieved. In addition, it was conˆrmed that the crystal structure of the ˆlm (anatase and/or rutile) was easily controlled by the control of the amount of oxygen radicals and titanium atoms incident on the substrate surface. Low temperature deposition of crystallized TiO2 ˆlms was also attempted by using this sputter-deposition method. As a result, it was found that deposition of a well crystallized TiO2 ˆlms on unheated substrate could be realized by using crystallized TiO2 seed layer and a proper ion bombardment.


e15112Background: It is difficult for clinical oncologists to predict which types of rectal cancer patient would respond to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy. About 30% of rectal cancer patients who co...


Objective To explore the effects of micro-nano-scale SiO2 on male reproductive ability and offsprings in rats.Methods Male Wistar rats were exposed to nano-meter SiO2(20~40 nm) and micro-meter SiO2(1~10 μm)by intratracheal injection once every other day for 5 weeks.The exposed male rats were matched with normal female rats in the ratio of 1∶2 after exposure.On the 20 th day of the pregnancy,half of the female rats were sacrificed and the fetuses were examined.The offsprings of the rest female rats after normal labor were also examined.Results The mating rate and number of fetus in high dose nm-SiO2 group(66.7%,11.8 respectively) were lower than those in control group(100%,14.0),(P0.05),but the development of fetus and offspring,including body weight and height,in exposed groups showed no significant difference from that in control group(P0.05).There were no significant differences in nm-SiO2 and μm-SiO2 at the same concentration(P0.05).Conclusion Nano-meter-silicon dioxide can affect male reproductive ability to some extent but has no significant effects on the fetuses when female rats are pregnant successfully.


The present study is concerned with the flow patterns induced by various impellers in a rectangular tank. Impellers are FBT (Flat blade turbine), PBT (Pitched blade turbine), Shroud turbine, Rushton turbine, and Helical ribbon turbine types. The solutions of flows in moving reference frames require the use of `moving` cell zone. The moving zone approaches are based on MRF (Multiple reference frame), which is a steady-state approximation and sliding method, which is an unsteady-state approximation. Numerical results using two moving zone approaches we compared with experiments by Ranade & Joshi, which have done extensive LDA measurements of the flow generated by a standard six-bladed Rushton turbine in a cylindrical baffled vessel. In this paper, we simulated the flow patterns with above-mentioned moving zone approaches and impellers. Turbulence model used is RNG model. Sliding-mesh method is more effective than MRF for simulating the rectangular tank with inlet and outlet. RNG model strongly underestimates the velocity of experimental data and velocity by Chen & Kim`s model, but it seems to be correctly predicted in overall distribution.


By analyzing 155 rural education nongovernmental organizations' posting behavior on one of China's largest social media platforms, Sina Weibo, we show that organizations with different backgrounds (government, corporate, grassroots, and student) behave differently. While organizational information technology capacity influences update frequency, organizational background influences the preference for informational, dialogic, or promotional posts.


DC microgrid clusters (DCMGCs) that consist of interconnected multiple DC microgrids (DCMGs) point out future evolution of microgrid (MG)-based distributed power systems. Stability is an essential requirement to ensure such complex networks as DCMGCs in safe and reliable operations. However, there are only few works dedicated to stability investigation of DCMGCs. This work proposes an impedance-based small-signal stability analysis for DCMGCs. The small-signal impedance model of the DCMGC is derived, and the stability of the system is investigated through the impedance eigenvalue. The identified unstable conditions by the pole-zero maps are verified by simulation results.


Hosea's reception history shows the existence of two distinct interpretative traditions in relation to the metaphor "God is a husband" employed in the first three chapters of the book. Many commentators, reading with the grain, focus on the unfaithfulness of Israel, the justice of her punishment and the love of God. More recently, feminist scholars have highlighted the problematic nature of this metaphor since it glorifies maleness and normalises gender–based violence against women. At first glance, these two approaches seem contradictory and mutually exclusive. However, Ricoeur's discussion of the "conflict of interpretations" provides a fruitful way forward in dealing with this contradiction. Rather than being incompatible with one another, feminist and androcentric interpretations of Hosea are a particular example of the dialectical tension and integration of the hermeneutics of trust and the hermeneutics of suspicion. Both play a vital role in the reading process. One unmasks the idols produced by the false consciousness of the ego, the other opens oneself to hearing the voice of the Sacred, which comes into the text from beyond the realms of language.


Oxidative stress and Noxs have been implicated in the pathogenesis of experimental and human pulmonary arterial hypertension (PH). Gender differences in PH may be, in part, due to increased formation of NADPH oxidase (Nox) derived reactive oxygen species (ROS). A large body of evidence implicates E2 in the pathogenesis of PAH and an interaction between E2 and Noxs has been suggested. We hypothesised that i) Estrogen (E2) leads to Nox-induced oxidative stress, which promotes PASMC damage, ii) E2-induced Nox activation may account for gender differences in PH.
 Cultured human PASMC were stimulated with E2 (1nM). ROS production was assessed by chemiluminescence (O2-) and proliferation by BrdU assay. E2 increased superoxide (219%; p<0.05) and proliferation in PASMC, effects blocked by GKT137831 (Nox4/1 inhibitor).
 In vivo studies were conducted to assess the role of Nox4 in hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension in male and female mice. Hypobaric hypoxia was used to induce PH in mice, which were divided into 8 groups: normoxic WT (NWT), hypoxic WT (HWT), normoxic Nox4-/- (NKO) and hypoxic Nox4-/- (HKO) for both male and female mice. In male HWT mice, RVSP (20.5 NWT vs. 45.2mmHg HWT, p<0.001) and RVH by Fulton Index (0.20 NWT vs. 0.395 HWT, p<0.01) were increased, an effect that was significantly reduced in male Nox4-/- mice (RVSP: 36.4mmHg HKO; RVH: 0.030 HKO; p<0.05). In female HWT mice, RVSP (21.4 NWT vs. 39.8mmHg HWT, p<0.05) and RVH (0.20 NWT vs. 0.31 HWT, p<0.01) were elevated in hypoxia, yet female Nox4-/- mice were not protected against hypoxia-induced PAH (RVSP: 34.2mmHg HKO; RVH: 0.33 HKO).
 Hypoxia-induced endothelial dysfunction in both male and female WT pulmonary arteries was improved in male HKO, however, endothelial dysfunction remained in HKO females. In female Nox4-/- mice, increased spleen and uterine weight (which has been associated with altered ovarian hormone biogenesis) suggests a role for inflammatory and fibrotic processes.
 In conclusion, genetic ablation of Nox4 in males, but not females, protects against the development of hypoxic PH. The effects of E2 on oxidative stress is present in PASMCs where Nox4-derived ROS may be an important regulator of, and impact on, molecular processes contributing to vascular remodelling in PAH.


A debate has grown throughout the southeastern United States in the 1990s over the use of Confederate symbols. In Georgia, a vociferous fight took place in 1993 regarding a proposal to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag. The flag issue is divisive because there is no one accepted meaning attached to the symbolism embodied in the Confederate battle emblem. This paper examines the flag debate in Georgia and concludes that (1) the Georgia state flag is an example of an icon that acts as a centrifugal force splitting apart the state's population rather than acting as a centripetal force, and (2) support for the current state flag is concentrated in white-majority legislative districts in the rural parts of the state and the suburbs surrounding Georgia's largest cities.


Threat-aware deployment of sensors and systems of robots can work in tandem to detect, assess, isolate and contain threats. In this paper, we introduce a model, design and a tiered-architectural implementation for a threat detection system. Our architecture proposes a group of heterogeneous operationally independent systems consisting of in-situ sensors, sensor robots (mobile sensors) and system of aerial reconnaissance sensors working in synergy. We propose a hierarchical deployment strategy to enhance the coverage of a threat with special emphasis on data integrity and reduction in false alarms.


In the course of some experiments by one of us on the action of fluorides on coagulation of the blood it occurred to us to note the effect of fluorides on other cell structures. The arbacia egg, since it is reliable and convenient to work with, was chosen for study. The eggs were placed in 70 cc. of sea water containing one cc., of an isotonic solution of NaF, KF, K oxalate, and K citrate respectively. An immediate flocculation of the eggs occurred in the sea water to which NaF, or KF were added. No similar phenomenon occurred with K oxalate or K citrate, or when artificial sea water was used in which Ca was absent. The flocculation, therefore, seems to be a direct effect of the fluorine ion and is not due to the removal of the calcium from the sea water. The flocculation was characterized macroscopically by the instantaneous clumping of the cells into large masses. Microscopically the groups of cells seemed to be enmeshed in a bed of gelatinous material. No such gelatinous material was noted except in the cases where NaF or KF were added. This phenomenon occurred both in the unfertilized and the fertilized eggs. No change in the size of the cells was noted for a period of over two hours. The H-ion concentration of the solutions was followed potentiometrically and showed practically no deviation from the normal in all solutions. Further observations were made on the time and rate of division in the fertilized cell. Isotonic solutions of KF, NaF, K oxalate, and K citrate were added within five minutes after fertilization and the time of the first division and the number of cells going through the first division each minute after this, was noted.


"Reading challenges by learners has been a widely researched topic by a lot of researchers. Poor teaching of reading by educators result in learners not being able to read. English is mostly used as a language of teaching and learning and that has influenced the rational for this research project. The purpose of this study was to investigate challenges faced by the English Intermediate Phase educators. learning cannot be successful without mastering reading as it is a basic tool for learning, it is not only in South Africa whereby English educators are not English speakers, yet learners are expected to master to English. Educators seem not to have good instructional practices as learners struggle to understand in English on its own. The study used a qualitative research approach with case study research design. The researcher used purposive samples, and selected 5 primary schools in which the population comprised of English Departmental Heads, and 3 English educators from each of the selected primary schools. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews, documentations and note-taking. The theory of Rosenblatt, who believes in a relationship between the text and the reader, has been followed on the premise that, what the reader already knows will determine how much he interprets or understands in the text. Thematic approach was used to analyse data. The study found that teachers who are not thoroughly trained are unable to produce good performing learners and that has influenced the whole system of education. Overcrowded classes to practice good reading strategies, no proper reading assessment strategies, and no monitoring and moderation of reading by SMT. The study recommended extensive training of and teachers through in-service-training for lengthier periods, clear guidelines of teach reading, monitoring and moderation. Mostly, educators indicated their desire to be trained in technology as learners prefer it rather than books and chalkboard."


Hepatic drug metabolism is decreased during adjuvant arthritis in the rat (Beck & Whitehouse, 1973). We observed increased levels of the stable lipid peroxidation product malondialdehyde (MDA) in plasma and liver of rats with kaolin granuloma pouch inflammation (Bragt, Schenkelaars & Bonta, 1979). We have now investigated both hepatic aminopyrine demethylation and lipid peroxidation during carrageenininduced granuloma in the rat. Wistar rats weighing 200-250 g were used. Lipid peroxidation was estimated by determining MDA in plasma and livers from rats with carrageenin-induced (10 mg) granulomata growing around subcutaneously implanted teflon chambers (Bragt, Bonta & Adolfs, 1979). Drug metabolism was measured in vivo by the expiration of "4CO2 after the i.p. injection (120 mg/kg, 0.4 gCi/kg) of [14C]-aminopyrine (Radiochemical Centre, Amersham), as described by Lauterburg & Bircher (1976), in rats which had either polyether sponge implants, carrageenin-soaked (10 mg/sponge) sponge implants (Bonta, Adolfs & Parnham, 1979), or which were sham-operated. The injection of carrageenin resulted in a significant rise in the MDA concentrations in plasma and liver after 6 h (340% and 64%, respectively, P < 0.01 vs day 0, Mann-Whitney U test) a change which was still present after 7 days (700% and 54% respectively, P < 0.01). The increase in liver MDA was associated with a decrease in hepatic reduced glutathione (GSH) content (.40%) throughout the entire period of investigation (data not shown). The plasma MDA concentration showed a correlation with the severity of inflammation expressed as wet granuloma weight (rs = 0.53, n = 25, P < 0.01 Spearman rank test). Five days after operation (i.e. peak of granuloma formation), the half-life (T1) of aminopyrine was longer in rats with a stronger inflammatory response (Table 1); the T, correlated significantly with the amount of granuloma formed (r, = 0.76, n = 18, P < 0.01). The extended Tj during inflammation might be due to the reduced hepatic levels of GSH, since the binding of demethylated aminopyrine metabolites would also be reduced. Consequently, these metabolites would compete with the aminopyrine for the active site of cytochrome P-450. We, thus, injected GSH (400 mg/kg i.v.) into rats implanted with carrageenin-soaked sponges, 45 min prior to the administration of aminopyrine. The Tl was not altered (Table 1). Therefore, GSH depletion per se may not be responsible for the decreased drug metabolism during inflammation. As the two sets of experiments indicate that increased lipid peroxidation and a reduction in drug metabolism occur in parallel during carrageenininduced granuloma, it is not inconceivable that the two phenomena are interrelated.


This paper presents a comparison of numerical stability of integration methods such as explicit implicit and semi-implicit ones. Experience with digital computation of switching surges shows that both the modified Euler method and the semi-implicit Runge-Kutta (R-K) method require significantly less computer times than other integration methods for nonlinear problems. The non-iterative semi-implicit R-K method is an absolutely stable (A-stable) method whereas the modified Euler method achieves improved stability by iterating its trapezoidal rule corrector. Digital computer results of switching surges calculated by different methods are compared.


The effect of stabilizing polymers such as starch, PVP, and PVA on catalysis of hydrotalcite-supported platinum nanoparticles (Pt–polymer/HT) for the base-free aerobic oxidation of 1,2-propanediol (PG) in aqueous solution using molecular oxygen under atmospheric pressure at room temperature (RT), electronic state, and hydrophilicity was investigated. The particle size of supported Pt naoparticles (NPs) was controlled to be the same (ca. 2.2 nm) by changing polymer amount during the preparation of Pt NPs. The Pt–starch/HT exhibited the higher activity than the Pt–PVP/HT and Pt–PVA/HT for oxidation of the primary hydroxyl group of PG toward lactic acid (LA). Pt 4f XPS and Pt L3-edge XANES analyses suggested that Pt atoms in Pt NPs stabilized by starch and PVA were more negative than that stabilized by PVP. Furthermore, the measurement of water contact angle suggested that Pt–starch/HT and Pt–PVA/HT had less hydrophilic nature than that of Pt–PVP/HT. These results indicate that the polymer plays an important...


MSDP is the most important inter-domain multicast routing protocol.This paper analyses the mechanism of MSDP protocol and provides an implementation which includes the inner module design,outer interface design and inner interface design.The implementation is suitable for core routers.


The influence of crescentic sand bars on mean currents induced by waves is investigated. A depth integrated model is presented to solve horizontally twodimensional problems. Numerical simulations are obtained on a typical bathymetry of the aquitan coast during high and low tide, with a frontal and oblique swel1. Computed swell focalisation and breaking zone are in qualitative agreement with our observations. Moreover, on the one hand our results show the presence of stable rip currents during low tide, on the other hand a strong sensitivity of wave incidence to currents is obtained. Thus, the sea level influence over current pattern is revealed.


Application of 5kr, 10kr and 15kr of gamma rays and/or 0.02% of NMU (Nitroso Methyl Urea) on Khesari (Lathyrus sativus) var. P 24 was reported. Germination, seedling growth, plant height, pollen sterility, maturity, survival percentage and number of seeds per pod adversely affected in all the treatments. But simultaneous treatment of physical and chemical mutagens was more injurious than separate treatments of both mutagens. These mutagens differed with regard to their effect on germination, growth, fertility and number of seeds per pod, however, seed weight was promoted by both the mutagens. Certain morphological aberrations were induced in all the treatments as colour of flower, stunted growth, shortening of internodes etc.


Inspired by recent ray-theoretical developments, the theory of normal-incidence rays is generalized to accommodate P- and S-waves in layered isotropic and anisotropic media. The calculation of the three main factors contributing to the two-way amplitude — i.e., geometric spreading, phase shift from caustics, and accumulated reflection/transmission coefficients — is formulated as a recursive process in the upward direction of the normal-incidence rays. This step-by-step approach makes it possible to implement zero-offset amplitude modeling as an efficient one-way wavefront construction process. For the purpose of upward dynamic ray tracing, the one-way eigensolution matrix is introduced, having as minors the paraxial ray-tracing matrices for the wavefronts of two hypothetical waves, referred to by Hubral as the normal-incidence point (NIP) wave and the normal wave. Dynamic ray tracing expressed in terms of the one-way eigensolution matrix has two advantages: The formulas for geometric spreading, phase shif...


Abstract Nitrogen containing compounds of vetiver oil, Vetiveria zizanioides (L.) Nash, have been investigated and 33 components identified by capillary GC and GC/MS. These include substituted pyridines, pyrazines and indolines; only four of which have previously been reported as occurring in vetiver oil. Two compounds, tentatively identified, are believed to be previously unreported as natural, namely, isomers of trimethylindoline and isocyanato-methylbenzene.


The two muscles are wrapped round the (radius) in opposite directions, of which when one itself, the other wraps itself around the like the ropes which revolve a trephine.


Abstract Advantages of using an isentropic vertical coordinate in atmospheric models are well recognized. In particular, the use of an isentropic coordinate virtually eliminates discretization errors for vertical advection since isentropic surfaces are material surfaces under dry-adiabatic processes. This is also advantageous for predicting moist-adiabatic condensation processes because their occurrence and maintenance largely depend on the converging moisture transport through the surrounding unsaturated regions. In this paper, a basic problem in incorporating condensation heating into an isentropic coordinate model is discussed: that is, the problem of choosing a proper vertical grid for predicting moisture and computing condensation amount and condensation heating. Two different vertical grids are described, one of which predicts moisture for each model layer (M grid) and the other predicts it at each interface separating the model layers (N grid). The models based on these two vertical grids become id...


Differences in expression levels play important roles in phenotypic variation across species, especially those closely related species with limited genomic differences. Therefore, studying gene evolution at expression level is important for illustrating phenotypic differentiation between species, such as the two Asian rice cultivars, Oryza sativa L. ssp. indica and Oryza sativa L. ssp. japonica. In this study, we evaluated the gene expression variation at inter-subspecies and intra-subspecies level using transcriptome data from seedlings of three indica and japonica rice and defined four groups of genes under different natural selections. We found a substantial of genes (about 79%) that are under stabilizing selection at the expression level in both subspecies, while about 16% of genes are under directional selection. Genes under directional selection have higher expression level and lower expression variation than those under stabilizing selection, which suggest a potential explanation to subspecies adaptation to different environments and interspecific phenotypic differences. Subsequent functional enrichment analysis of genes under directional selection shows that indica rice have experienced the adaptation to environmental stresses, and also show differences in biosynthesis and metabolism pathways. Our study provide an avenue of investigating indica-japonica differentiation through gene expression variation, which may guide to rice breeding and yield improvement.


In this paper, we present a study of different parameters characterising polysilicon/oxide/monosilicon structures, after extraction from the capacitance voltage C(V) and conductance voltage G(V) curves, at high frequency (1 MHz). The polysilicon films are elaborated by chemical vapour deposition at low pressure (LPCVD) from silane (SiH4) and boron trichloride (BCl3) gas mixture, at a temperature of 605°C. They have been subjected to thermal annealing in dry oxidising atmosphere at temperatures ranging between 850 and 1,100°C. The extraction of parameters such as the doping level at the oxide substrate interface, the flat band voltage, the oxide thickness and the interface states density has shown that they are strongly influenced by oxidation treatments and doping level. The results show that there are two competing phenomena in the case of boron doped polysilicon gate: the polydesertion and the diffusion. The study has demonstrated the polysilicon's ability to play the gate's material role, while preserv...


If no culture,art design education is no base,art design education and works of art design are cultural artifact.Art design education should be emphasize on culture concept and religious issues in many ways.


The concreteness and abstraction of drawing arts, both of which connect and vary, make up the basic form of drawing works and the tow supporting points for drawing types.


Congestion in Southeast Florida continues to increase every year. The residents of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties spend 141 million hours per year delayed in traffic, at an estimated annual cost (in wasted time and fuel) of $3.3 billion. In Miami-Dade County, variably priced express lanes or "managed lanes" have been added to I-95 and reduced congestion. The authors' plan to increase mobility in Southeast Florida includes: a region-wide network of expressway managed lanes (MLs) like those on I-95, encompassing 302 route-miles and 1,117 lane-miles; upgrades for 14 key arterials (107 route-miles) with underpasses at major signalized intersections, "managed arterials" (MAs); premium bus rapid transit (BRT) as in the current long-range plan, but operating mostly on the "virtually exclusive busways" made possible by the network of MLs and MAs, rather than on bus-only lanes; and a series of system operational improvements, including extensive expressway ramp metering and further expansion of traffic signal coordination. The authors' recommendations for implementation include: add managed lanes and managed arterials to the next (2040) long-range transportation plan; revamp bus rapid transit plans to make full use of the MA and ML network rather than seeking to develop bus-only lanes; ensure that the region's transportation agencies work with Florida DOT on developing the managed lanes network; consider using a regional organization to contract for the management and operation of premium BRT services, both within each county and inter-county; and consider long-term public-private partnerships to finance, develop and maintain major elements of the managed lanes network.


Abstract 논문투고일:2013년 01월 26일 논문수정완료일:2013년 03월 07일 논문게재확정일:2013년 03월 14일* 한국외국어대학교 경영학과 박사과정, SK C&C 역량혁신본부 프로젝트기술지원팀 부장** 동국대학교 아시아연구원 연구교수*** 한국외국어대학교 글로벌경영대학 교수The advent of Web2.0 has believed to be the solution against ma ny barriers in information sharing, especially wiki. Information sharing and collaboration are realized voluntarily and unselfishly with wiki. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the benefits and challenges of using wiki as a proje ct management method in an IT/IS project. Wiki-based project management could provide project managers and members with expert knowledge collaboration for better project results. In the research model, we used TMS(Transactive Memory System) theory to define the relation of collaboration and performance of project members. Based on a su rvey among project members, the interactions between wiki characteristics and performance are examined in an IS project environment. Using Smart PLS 2.0, the data was analyzed to define the interactions by the structural equation modeling. From the empirical data, the mediated effect of expert knowledge collaboration is supported. We also derive the implications of wiki-based method. It is expected to bring new possibilities of Project management performance.


This research has aimed to study commuting distances for people working in Are village. By analyzing individual statistical data over geographical sites this paper seeks to investigate any changes ...


Prior to the U.S. Wilderness Act of 1964, economics as a science was hardly considered applicable to the types of human values set forth in this pathbreaking legislation. Economics was largely confined to the purchasing and labor decisions of households and firms as well the functioning of markets and economies. However, around this time, John Krutilla (1967) in his seminal paper entitled "Conservation Reconsidered" recognized the economic importance of benefits from nature that were not traded or valued by conventional markets. During the next 50 years, economists developed theoretical and methodological tools that allowed economic values, or dollar metrics, to be estimated for wilderness and other protected nature. In this article, we review the conceptual basis for an economic understanding of wilderness benefits and values. This review is followed by a brief summary of empirical studies about economic values of wilderness. We then use this information to derive rudimentary dollar metrics for the National Wilderness Preservation System. Introduction This article describes advancements in understanding wilderness benefits and their economic valuation. We use the current state of the art in nonmarket valuation to demonstrate these advancements by applying them to estimating the economic value of the National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS). Economic value refers to "dollar" values accruing to American society from protection through designation of federal lands as areas in the NWPS. Currently the NWPS consists of 757 distinct land areas totaling 109,511,966 acres (44,317,920 ha), 52% of which are in Alaska (Wilderness.net 2014). When we refer to wilderness, we mean statutory or designated wilderness as defined by the U.S. Wilderness Act of 1964. The classes of benefits we describe are linked with dollar values brought to light through a review of empirical studies. Based on these empirical studies, we apply the current state of the art by estimating a value per acre of the NWPS. The article concludes with comments on the use of economics in the wilderness debate, including limitations and suggestions for further examination. Benefits and values Conceptualization of the multiple values of wilderness has been advanced over the last 50 years through the work of a number of social science disciplines. Scientists have sought to better understand whether the NWPS provides values in addition to those identified in the U.S. Wilderness Act of 1964 (Haas et al. 1986) and how these values compare to less protective designations. Evolution of the science of economic valuation of natural resources, and more specifically, valuation of wilderness, was reviewed through numerous papers presented and published for the Economic Value of Wilderness conference (Payne et al. 1992). The culmination of the thinking and empirical work of these scientists was reviewed and further advanced through a number of published works, including Cordell, Bergstrom, and Bowker (2005) in The Multiple Values of Wilderness. Morton (1999) summarized seven categories of benefits defining the total economic value of wilderness. These benefits include on-site recreation, community, scienSCIENCE & RESEARCH Peer reVIeWeD J. M. Bowker and h. Ken cordell in Alaska. neelam c. Poudyal.


We study the energy level structure of the Tavis-Cumming model applied to an ensemble of independent magnetic spins s=1/2 coupled to a variable number of photons. Rabi splittings are calculated and their distribution is analyzed as a function of photon number nmax and spin system size N. A sharp transition in the distribution of the Rabi frequency is found at nmax N. The width of the Rabi frequency spectrum diverges as N at this point. For increased number of photons nmax N, the Rabi frequencies converge to a value proportional to nmax. This behavior is interpreted as analogous to the classical spin-resonance mechanism where the photon is treated as a classical field and one resonance peak is expected. We also present experimental data demonstrating cooperative, magnetic strong coupling between a spin system and photons, measured at room temperature. This points toward quantum computing implementation with magnetic spins, using cavity quantum-electrodynamics techniques.


How do Muslim countries treat importation of goods that Islamic Law (Shari'a) considers Haram (forbidden), namely, alcoholic beverages and pork products? Why do they do so? What might Muslim countries do, in accordance with the rules of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and World Trade Organization (WTO), to alter their policies?Based on painstaking empirical research of the WTO protocols of accession and schedules of tariff concessions of every Islamic country in the world, this article answers each of these three questions, which may be summarized in aggregate as "diversity within unity." All of the pertinent countries are members of both the WTO and Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), and a majority of their populations profess adherence to one of the world's great faiths – Islam. Therein is their unity.


Handoff management of the users is one of the major issues wi-fi-based wireless LAN. The total handoff process can be divided into three phases, namely scanning, authentication, and re-association. If mobile client frequently changes its position while accessing internet, number of handoffs also increases proportionally. Frequent handoffs affect the quality of service of different wireless applications because of large handoff latency. Many schemes have been developed for reducing handoff delay. In this chapter, handoff management schemes have been classified based on the phase in which the scheme works. Thus, the techniques have been classified as scanning-based schemes, authentication-based schemes, and re-association-based schemes. This chapter also classifies the handoff schemes into two categories based on the number of radios used: single-radio-based handoff schemes and multi-radio-based handoff schemes. The schemes under each of the class have been discussed in detail. A comprehensive comparison of all the schemes has also been presented in this chapter.


Aiming at the problem of low efficiency and poor performance in partial discharge locating for a row of switchgears, this paper proposes a locating method based on wireless synchronization technology. By placing TEV monitoring devices on multi-switchgear data of partial discharge could be get, then wireless network is used to synchronize the data of multiple sensors, after that the partial discharge signals of multi-switchgear at the same time could be get and their amplitude could be used for comparison, finally the purpose of "locating to single switchgear" could be achieved. Through hardware design and synchronization logic locating is realized. Then the locating effect of this method is researched by placing artificial defect on different place in switchgears and verify locating results, so that the accuracy and effectiveness of this method could be proved.


A novel approach to a-amino-δ-valerolactone derivatives 8 by the intramolecular Ugi five-center three-component reaction (U-5C-3CR) using the multifunctional starting material, L-pentahomoserine 5 is described.


The change in the plant community structure with the change in the soil characters from sand dunes to a typical salt marsh is obvious. All the stands along the transect investigated were characterized by a very high calcium carbonate content. With stabilization of the sand dune, more species appear and cultivation of fig trees becomes possible. Increase of the soil organic matter also causes new species to appear. Increase of salinity results in the presence of more and more halophytes.


Background: Profit as final result of financial activities is influenced by different procedures of management in different firms. Managements are trying to boost their profits for fulfilling their goals with use of different methods of accounting. Objective: The purpose of this study is to investigate the relation between quality of audit as a corporate governance tool with profit of registered firms in Tehran Stock Exchange. The sample of this study is 91 registered firms in Tehran Stock Exchange in the period of 2008-2011.Results: Results shows that quality of audit with optional committed tools, informational content of committed tools, future profitability and the ability of committed tools all have direct significant influence on prediction of operational cash flow.Conclusion: We conclude thatfinancial leverage of the firm has a reverse and significant effect on earning management measurement factors and there was no effective relation between systematic risk and earning management factors.


In CDMA systems,the realization of multiple access can be achieved by the special sequences with correlation demand,if the spread spectrum sequences are longer, the ratio between the main peak value and the side peak value of the auto-correlation function is bigger,then the sequences can reach the correlation demand of the spread spectrum code in systems.The multiple phase sequence based on Suehiro's method has the direct ratio characteriste between its length and its phase numbers, its length is finite and the sequences (don't) adapt to application in practice.So,the pseudo-periodic sequences are introduced and the length of on multiphase sequences will be changed by reconstructing,then the feasibility of the multiphase sequences used in practice is improved.


The paper aims to discuss the successful experience of the legislation of sport agent in USA and analyze its present situation with the documentation, so as to obtain revelation of related legislation in China.


This study investigated the usage of Importance Performance Analysis (IPA) to improve service quality among guests of luxury hotels in Kuala Lumpur. Questionnaires were used to obtain the perceptions of importance and performance of service quality from luxury hotel guests. Nine items of service quality were identified as areas need to be improved by luxury hotels in Kuala Lumpur namely furnishings in the room, quality of service of the restaurant, quality of the restaurant foods, receiving confirmation of reservation, helpful and friendly staffs, timely service, the check in and check out process, first impression of the hotel and dealing with complaints. From this study, it provides an opportunity to recognize, in ranking order, features that are considered important by the guests staying in luxury hotels and able to identify the areas of divergence in hotel service quality.


In order to realize the effective utilization of heat in soil,influences of tunnel length,air velocity and depth on heat transfer between underground tunnel and air were analyzed. Taking the Sino-German tunnel air project in Shenyang as a research object,a 3D simulation model was built by the Gambit software. The heat transfer between underground tunnel and air was simulated using the Fluent software. Air temperatures at the exit of tunnel were calculated under different factors.Results showthat if the tunnel length is 100 m,the exit temperature of tunnel is- 10. 564 ℃; but the temperature is- 9. 565 ℃ at the exit of 250 m length tunnel. For a 150 meter length tunnel,when buried depths are 2 m,4 m,6 m and 8 m,the corresponding exit temperatures are- 12. 052 ℃,- 10. 469 ℃,- 10. 286 ℃ and- 10. 093 ℃,respectively. Conclusion is that the longer the tunnel is,the higher the exit temperature will be; For the tunnel with a certain length,the lower the air velocity is,the higher the exit temperature will be. The heat exchange effect between tunnel and air enhances with increase of the tunnel length,but decreases with increase of the air velocity. But if the air speed is greater than 5 m / s,the exit air temperature of tunnel is basically unchanged. The heat exchange effect enhances with increase of the buried depth,however,if the depth reaches to 6m,the heat transfer effect has not clear change.


Through numerical simulation of temperature field and pressure field in synthesis of SiC by carbothermal reduction method, the variation law of temperature and pressure with time in furnace was studied. Research results show that the high temperature isothernal face expands outside gradually with the prolong of the synthesis time, so the temperature field area compatible to the production of SiC increase gradually, but too long synthesis time not only increase energy consumption, but also generate SiC product yield decreased. Compared with single heat furnace, the pressure is comparatively more uniformity in three-heat-source and the pressure is 140~200kPa, which is useful for synthesis of SiC and can prevent furnace spewing. At the bottom of single heat furnace should pay attention to charge ration when charging, adding a little sawdust can increase the porosity and release pressure.


The response of peripheral blood leukocytes to various concentrations of whole cells of Candida albicans (particulate antigen), and of PPD and ultrasonicates of Veillonella parvula, Bacteroides melaninogenicus, Actinomyces viscosus, and Fusobacterium nucleatum (soluble antigens) was studied in vitro by means of two different leukocyte migration tests: The capillary tube technique and the agarose plate technique. Using the capillary tube technique migration inhibition to Candida cells was significant in persons with a delayed hypersensitivity skin reaction to this antigen; however, migration inhibition to PPD or the soluble antigens of dental plaque bacteria was not detected in persons with mild periodontal inflammation. With the agarose plate technique the migration of leukocytes from tuberculin positive persons was inhibited by PPD, while no inhibition of cells from tuberculin negative persons was found. Migration inhibition to soluble V. parvula antigen was significant in persons with mild gingivitis as compared with edentulous persons. Migration inhibition to antigens from the other dental plaque bacteria was not significant. Blocking of protein synthesis by means of puromycin prevented migration inhibition by PPD and V. parvula. The results suggest that the leukocyte migration test in agarose is suitable faor detection of cell-mediated immunity to bacteria involved in periodontal disease.


The author seeks to show how the unreasonable proposals of individual deputies of the Parliament (Jogorku Kenesh) of the Kyrgyz Republic in the form of relevant legislative initiatives to deprive the prosecutor of the authority to initiate and investigate a criminal case actually nullify the active participation of the prosecutor's office in the fight against crime. International documents and the logic of adversarial criminal proceedings in the Kyrgyz Republic unequivocally testify in favor of the prosecutor's independent decision on the issue of criminal prosecution. The author is a consistent supporter of the idea that the official position, the level of professional training, the high degree of responsibility for the assigned case make it possible to see in the prosecutor a representative of the country's law enforcement system, capable of solving the most difficult tasks of ensuring the rule of law, including those related to the implementation of the function of criminal prosecution, especially at such a time of crisis for the Kyrgyz economy, when it is absolutely inexpedient and groundless to create any pseudo analogies of the Financial Police or the Investigative Committee.


The Steel Founders' Society regularly surveys member companies to determine the typical practices used in steel casting production. SFSA has also promoted the participation of member companies in the Performance Benchmarking survey available each year to members of participating manufacturing associations. It is useful to take a look across the results of the past several years and to reflect on some of the trends and issues that face the industry.


We study the large-$N$ limit of the Coqblin-Schrieffer model in a nonzero magnetic field at zero temperature. We show that at $N=\ensuremath{\infty}$ the model exhibits an unphysical singularity in the magnetization curve when the field lifts the degeneracy completely. However, if the spin degeneracy is lifted, leaving a large orbital degeneracy untouched, a smooth Kondo crossover is recovered.


b-Glucans represent the most studied natural immunomodulators. With the well-described structure and function, the use of glucans slowly but steadily progresses from supplements to drug. However, direct comparisons of biological activities of individual glucans are rare. As this study will show, no direct connection between source and immunological activities was found. Based on these results, we can conclude that highly purified and highly active glucans have strong and pleotropic effects, whereas poorly defined glucans have only medium (if any) biological effects.


An erythroid cell‐specific regulatory element, referred to as the +5.8‐kb site, has been identified in the first intron of the human ABO blood group gene. Subsequent studies have revealed involvement of deletion or mutation at the site in phenotypes Am, Bm and ABm. We investigated the molecular mechanisms involved in the A3 and B3 phenotypes.


Indinavir has been used as an anti retro viral drug that has been used for the inhibition of HIV protease. Therefore, modification in the position of carbon chain or in the carbon ring has been done by replacing the functional groups in Indinavir, which have further given rise to eight different derivatives. So, the derivatives of Indinavir have been docked into the wild and mutated type of proteins (protease) along with Indinavir, therefore given rise to comparative analysis of energy, ADMET properties and chemical properties. The main emphasis on the activity of amino acid residues of the protein types interacting with the derivatives and laterally forming bonded and non bonded interaction to inhibit the action of HIV-protease. Indinavir 4 (derivative) has been docked with 1TW7 (wild), resulting to the energy of -213.67 kcal/mol, and simultaneously on docking with 1HPV(mutated), resulted to the energy of -196.36 kcal/mol. Indinavir 4 has been arisen by modifying 6th position in Carbon chain, replacing O atom up stereo bond from methyl group in Indinavir and substituting OHgroup attached up stereo bond with methyl group. Indinavir 4 has followed Lipinski's Rule of Five, along with that imparting electro negativity in the derivative, has built up hydrogen bond with the receptors.


BeiDou satellite navigation system(BDS)has been providing regional positioning service.In order to study the point positioning accuracy of BDS and combined BDS/GPS,the method of smoothing the code-code ionosphere-free combination of GPS、 BDS and combined GPS/BDS based on Hatch-type filtering using the phase-phase ionosphere-free combination is used,and the positio- ning results are analyzed comparatively.The conclusionis that the positioning error is more stable and the range of the error fluctuation is smaller when using the carrier smoothed pseudo-range.Currently the horizontal precision of BDS is 10m,and the height precision is better than 20m.And the ephemeris precision of BDS is less than that of GPS,so when the visible satellites of GPS are sufficient,the positioning precision is not significantly improved by adding BDS observations.


The current stage of Russia's development has compelled its authorities, business community and researchers alike to show interest in Foresight research for solving complex problems. These problems include attempts to evaluate innovation that could have a strong impact on the country's economy in the short and long term and on a macro-, meso- and micro level. This study analyses the use of foresight methods in public administration and the most dynamically developing sector of the economy, technology. It also proposes a foresight approach to researching innovation.


Part I - the flowing tide: causes and characteristics the lure of America. part II - reactions and results: the futile protest (press and pulpit) the visible result (land and labour) the invisible result (cant and custom). Part III - the return tide: alms and agitation men, manners and methods conclusion - the impact of emigration.


The purpose of this research is to study the factors affecting the students achievement and to create the model of the achievement predictive equation on Research Methodology subject, Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon, Chotiwet Campus.


R. E. Wilson and D. Terrell Citation: AIP Conference Proceedings 308, 483 (1994); doi: 10.1063/1.45925 View online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.45925 View Table of Contents:http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/proceeding/aipcp/308?ver=pdfcov Published by the AIP Publishing Articles you may be interested in The periodicities of AQL X‐1 in quiescence AIP Conf. Proc. 308, 127 (1994); 10.1063/1.46030 Hard x‐ray variability of Cygnus X–3 AIP Conf. Proc. 308, 263 (1994); 10.1063/1.46020 Optical observations of the x‐ray nova J0422+32 AIP Conf. Proc. 308, 99 (1994); 10.1063/1.45997 Spin evolution of neutron stars in accretion powered pulsars AIP Conf. Proc. 308, 439 (1994); 10.1063/1.45984 The properties of accreting x‐ray pulsars AIP Conf. Proc. 308, 415 (1994); 10.1063/1.45982


To meet the increasing demand for energy saving and sustainable CO2 reduction, a heat-pipe heat exchanger has been applied in the hot blast generating system to recover the flue gas sensible heat for the purpose of fuel gas preheating. In this paper, the performance evaluation method for the hot blast generating system is proposed and used to investigate the fuel gas preheating effect on the system's thermal efficiency. Experimental observation revealed that 3.1% of the efficiency improvement was achieved by the application of waste heat recovery. Accordingly, the energy consumed to enhance the blast air temperature was diminished by 0.115 kJ/°C-Nm. In addition to energy saving, the fuel gas preheating also led to the reduction of the enrichment gas depletion rate. Based upon the field test results, the records indicated that the implementation of the flue gas heat recovery scheme in the hot blast generating process resulted in a saving of fuel consumption by 822 l/h on an oil equivalent basis. The benefits of energy saving over 1.9 million US dollars and the CO2 reduction 15,000 tons can be achieved annually.


This work demonstrates a simple process to form insoluble poly(3,4-propylenedioxythiophene) (Poly[ProDOT]) films by defunctionalization of a soluble form, which is useful in the fabrication of multilayer polymer devices. Three new ester disubstituted Poly[ProDOTs], soluble in common organic solvents, including chloroform, methylene chloride, toluene, tetrahydrofuran, and ethyl acetate, have been synthesized by oxidative polymerization using iron(III) chloride. These Poly[ProDOT-diesters] have the expected repeat unit stuctures along with GPC determined number-average molecular weights ranging from 9000 to 12 000 g mol-1. Dilute polymer solutions in toluene exhibited red fluorescence with quantum efficiencies from 0.24 to 0.32. Homogeneous thin films were formed by spray casting polymer solutions onto ITO coated glass slides and compared to films prepared by electropolymerization. These Poly[ProDOT-diesters] are electroactive, switching from a dark blue-purple to a transmissive sky blue when potentials are...


situation of guide hit crack of rear-loaded compression garbage truck when using curved rail was introduced. The reason for hit crack was analysed and solution was put forward. The concrete strengthen measure combining with guide structure was put forward.


Imagining new curatorial approaches to revisit Francis Bacon's work offers a challenge in more than one way, maybe all the more so when the exhibition is thought through for a foreign public. Bacon en toutes lettres, on view at The Centre Pompidou in the Autumn of 2019 and early weeks of 2020 was meant to be one of the highlights of Paris' artistic season—a season that will no doubt remain one of the most stimulating ones in recent years. When elaborating the show, Didier Ottinger, deputy dir...


Summary Routine motor nerve conduction studies measure latencies, conduction velocities and amplitudes of compound action potentials. These measurements can be very useful in defining the pathology, while they provide little insight into the underlying disease mechanisms. Increasingly, the technique of 'threshold tracking' is being used in research and clinical studies on large myelinated axons. Nerve excitability testing is a non‐invasive approach in investigating the pathophysiology of peripheral nerve disorders, which determines the electrical properties of the nerve membrane at the site of stimulation. We have found evidence that in patients with critical illness polyneuropathy peripheral nerves are depolarized. The correlations with serum factors suggest that this membrane depolarization is related to endoneurial hyperkalemia and/or hypoxia. While other mechanisms of depolarization may well be involved, the degree to which potential‐sensitive nerve excitability indices are related to serum potassium and bicarbonate suggests that other factors, independent of potassium and acid‐base balance, are likely to be of relatively minor significance.


According to characteristics of the national fundamental geographic information database updating,this paper introduces the 1∶ 50 000 topographic database key elements updating in the process of new quality elements,discusses quality control methods of some incremental result data,so as to meet the project requirements.


The pervasiveness of risk assessment in correctional decision-making necessitates a better understanding of the nature of risk scales and the methods used to assess their accuracy. Risk is a continuous dimension, which means that risk assessment is a prognostic task as opposed to a diagnostic task. Risk scales can also be considered criterion-referenced as opposed to norm-referenced. Predictive accuracy can be divided into discrimination and calibration. Area under the curves (AUCs), Cox regression, Harrell's C, Cohen's d, and logistic regression are appropriate for analyses of discrimination. There is no consensus on calibration statistics, but both chi-square tests and the Expected/Observed (E/O) index have been used and show promise. Statistics intended for dichotomous diagnostic decisions (e.g., positive predictive accuracy and negative predictive accuracy, number needed to detain, number needed to discharge) are inappropriate for risk scales because of the prognostic nature of risk scales. In many circumstances, diagnostic statistics provide more information about the base rate of recidivism than about the risk scale.


The utility model relates to a mold of a cross shearing machine. The mold comprises an upper mold (1) and a lower mold (2), and is characterized in that the upper mold (1) is provided with a plurality of punching head holes (11); fixed holes (12) are arranged in the punching head holes (11); and the lower mold (2) is provided with a plurality of mold holes (21) which correspond to the punching head holes (11) in position. The mold has the advantages that different punching heads can be replaced at any time according to the need, and the operation is simple and convenient; and when the machining specification of silicon steel sheets is changed, the whole mold head does not need to be replaced, so that the time and the labor are saved.


Excerpt The effects of smoking on the heart and circulation have been discussed for many years, often with considerable emotional bias. Although a great deal of work has been done and an extensive ...


This article conveys the Islamic interpretive-evaluative maxims of problem solving to medical ethics, taking the issue of sex assignment surgery (SAS) for infants with disorders of sex development (DSDs) or intersex as a case study. The main objective is not to proffer an Islamic legal rule on the issue examined, but to converse problem-solving maxims within the matrix of Maqasid al-Shariah through which such moral dilemmas in medical field, particularly can be revised and resolved. Indeed, Maqasid al-Shariah reflects the holistic view of Islam and integrated code of life and its goals encompasses the whole life, individual and society; in this world and the hereafter. Alongside with Qur'an and hadith, a number of bioethical questions can be discussed and evaluated on the maqasidic scheme of benefits and harms. Any practice which overweighing benefits is considered permissible, meanwhile those overweighing harm is considered prohibited. The case of SAS for newborns with DSDs for instance, affects the overall future livelihood of those affected infants or individuals and the process of decision making seemed to be very complex since the time of making decision, in some cases, has to be done during the early age of those individuals for some emergency problems so as to avoid future medical problems. The decision making must consider the amount of benefits and harms to the individuals, taking into account, their future wellbeing.


Background: The Get4/Get5 protein complex is a homodimer mediated by the Get5 carboxyl domain. Results: The Get5 homodimerization motif forms a structurally conserved helical domain allowing Get4/Get5 to adopt an extended solution conformation. Conclusion: Get5 homodimerization is mediated by a 35-residue sequence stabilized by a few conserved hydrophobic interactions. Significance: The Get5 carboxyl domain contains a novel example of a stable dimerization motif.


Service friendliness has often been assumed to increase customer satisfaction, but that relationship has seldom been experimentally analyzed due to the difficulty of obtaining high customer satisfaction response rates. Consequently, a customer satisfaction data collection system, designed to yield a high customer response rate, was employed in a branch of Shawmut Bank where the relation between process-bank teller service friendlienss, and outcome-customer satisfaction was examined. Additionally, the effect of feedback on service friendliness was examined. Subjects were three tellers whose rates of greeting and smiling and looking at their customers during the first three seconds of the service interaction were obtained by direct observation. Satisfaction data were gathered by asking customers to rate teller service immediately following the interaction by depositing chips into a survey box located in the bank lobby. A customer satisfaction response rate of 99% was obtained using the chips method. Additio...


A longitudinal study of serial cancellations was conducted by analyzing the cancellation lists between 1987 and 1990 from five midwestern libraries of the Association of Research Libraries. The study was designed to test the primary hypothesis that large academic libraries, faced with the same negative impacts on their budgets, are cancelling the same or similar types of serials. This hypothesis was disproved. Results of the study showed that, of 6,503 cancelled titles, only 281 (4 percent) were cancelled at more than one library, resulting in 6,222 (96 percent) unique title cancellations within this survey


We present a method for locating center vortices ("fluxons") in thermalized lattice gauge field configurations. We find evidence, in lattice Monte Carlo simulations, that the asymptotic string tension of fundamental-representation Wilson loops is due to fluctuations in the number of center vortices linking those loops.


The deepening penetration of renewable energy sources (RESs) into power grids imposes remarkable challenges that merit special attention. In this paper, we work out a distributionally robust chance-constrained (DRCC) day-ahead unit commitment problem while the stochasticity and variability arising from RESs are taken into consideration. The developed framework optimizes the expected objective function and stipulates that the DRCCs will hold within a moment-based ambiguity set, which additionally incorporates the unimodality information and mode skewness. The employed ambiguity set can not only account for the wind power uncertainty but also expressly alleviate the conservatism compared with the single moment metric. By deriving efficient mathematical reformulations to tackle the expected objective function and DRCCs, the proposed model is reduced to an exact mixed-integer second-order cone programming problem that can readily be implemented. Numerical experiments are carried out on two representative test systems to demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the suggested methodology.


In this paper we describe our NLP supported programming-by-demonstration approach to high-level robot programming that allows users to generate skills and robot program primitives for later refinement and re-use. Our ideas incorporate the identification of common user strategies (interaction patterns) in the programming process, which can be exploited to support a human user in establishing common ground with a robotic system. We have evaluated a prototype implementation of this approach in a user study and use observations from this study to define further research efforts, which we discuss in this short paper.


1 Reliability Analysis of Reinforced Slopes Using Monte Carlo Simulation H. Rahmati*, Seyed Morteza Marandi PhD Student of Civil Engineering Department, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran firstname.lastname@example.com Professor of Civil Engineering Department, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran firstname.lastname@example.com *Corresponding author Abstract Reliability analysis has gained special importance in geotechnical engineering in the past decades. One of the most important fields of geotechnical issues is the slopes stability. Slope stability analysis and their reliability analysis against slip and loading are important. Geotechnical engineers are also interested in improving and reinforcing weak slopes and increasing their factor of safety and reliability index. In this study, the uncertainties in soil strength parameters such as cohesion, internal friction angle and unit weight and force created in geogrid layers due to pull-out and bonding between soil and geogrid are considered. Then using Monte Carlo simulation Depending on the height of the slope, the reliability index is obtained in both of unreinforced and reinforced states. The critical slip surface of slope failure is also determined using PSO. The results of this analysis indicate the important role of reinforcements in increasing the reliability of soil slopes..


FIELD: technological processes. SUBSTANCE: present invention is related to method for provision of packing laminate with identification code. Technical result of stated invention is manufacture of package with identification code, which does not require visual perception during reading, is made with lowest costs, which may be changed during production or storage of package, and also manufacturing of package that may be easily traced, having spent relatively low funds. At that packing laminate contains magnetising particles and is exposed to effect of magnetic field, thus magnetising matrix and magnet domains contained in this packing laminate. Every magnet domain is made of multiple magnetising particles. EFFECT: provision of packing laminate with identification code.


THERE is an increasing awareness in the community of the importance of good nutrition to the individual and his long term well-betng. Foods purported to be good for health are popular and books linking nutrition with the image of health and longevity are reaching the "top-seller" lists. This provides medical practitioners, nurses, nutritionists and other members of the health care team with a challenging opportunity to present accurate and relevant information about nutrition, and its relation to health. The selection of an adequate diet is presenting problems. Some confusing information is being disseminated in the community. Foods are said to lack nutritional value because of production methods and processing. Pesticide residues receive much publicity. Advertising in the media is causing children to demand certain foods, and parents may have difficulty reconciling the child's requests with their own knowledge of nutrition. People need to be confident that the foods they choose can meet their nutritional requirements. This is important for those on a normal diet and for those whose diet is an integral part of medical treatment. The choice of foods may also come to the doctor's attention when he feels that the patient's diet is not compatible with good health (for example, when the obese patient is not making a wise selection from the foods available).


The Bender and Beery tests were administered to 98 Indian and 101 non-Indian children from ages 6 through 8 yr. Similar correlations of —.51 and —.58 were obtained between the two tests for the two groups, respectively. Although the Indian children tended to make more errors on both tests, the differences were nonsignificant.


This study provides strong evidence that certain dramatic style behaviors systematically covary with whether one is perceived as an effective teacher. Almost 500 students evaluated target teachers,...


Provided is a flavor improving agent for food and beverages that have a powdered green tea flavor, with which the sweetness inherent to powdered green tea and the richness of high-quality powdered green tea can be imparted by adding a small amount of the agent to powdered green tea flavored food and beverages. The present invention is a flavor improving agent for food and beverages having a powdered green tea flavor, characterized by comprising: an epoxidized aliphatic unsaturated aldehyde represented by formula (1) (in the formula, the dashed bond indicates a single bond or a double bond, and the wavy bonds indicate the cis form or the trans form, or a mixture of the cis form and trans form at any ratio); or an alkyl pyrazine represented by formula (2) (in the formula, R 1 is a methyl group or an ethyl group, and R 2 , R 3 and R 4 each independently indicates a hydrogen atom, a methyl group, or an ethyl group); or the epoxidized aliphatic unsaturated aldehyde and the alkyl pyrazine.


Abstract In this work, the nucleation and growth behavior of Ti2AlC and Ti3AlC nano-precipitates in Ti–44Al–1.2C alloys were systematically studied by observing their distribution, morphology, and interface atomic structure. The experiment results show that the needle-like C atom segregation zones in TiAl alloys are the nucleation site of Ti2AlC, and the long axis direction of segregation zones is parallel to the TiAl(111) plane. The rod-like Ti2AlC nano-precipitates mainly distribute at the TiAl/Ti3Al interface, and the orientation relationship between them is [ 1 ̅ 01 \bar{1}01 ]TiAl//[ 11 2 ̅ 0 11\bar{2}0 ]Ti2AlC//[ 11 2 ̅ 0 11\bar{2}0 ]Ti3Al, (111)TiAl//(0001)Ti2AlC//(0001)Ti3Al. The needle-like Ti3AlC nano-precipitates distribute in TiAl with the orientation relationship of [001]Ti3AlC//[001]TiAl, (100)Ti3AlC//(100)TiAl, (020)Ti3AlC//(020)TiAl, and (110)Ti3AlC//(110)TiAl during the nucleation stage. After growing into the rod-like, the orientation relationship between Ti3AlC precipitates and TiAl is [ 1 1 ̅ 0 1\bar{1}0 ]Ti3AlC//[ 1 1 ̅ 0 1\bar{1}0 ]TiAl, (001)Ti3AlC//(001)TiAl, (220)Ti3AlC//(220)TiAl, and (111)Ti3AlC//(111)TiAl. Both the needle- and rod-like Ti3AlC precipitates preferentially grow along the [001]TiAl direction. The crystal structure and lattice mismatch between Ti2AlC and Ti3AlC nano-precipitates and the TiAl matrix determine their distribution, morphology, and interface atomic structure.


The purpose of the current study was to determine the components of personal anxiety and mental rigidity, the significance of their severity and combination in the structure of alexithymia. Materials and methods. The study was conducted on 377 apparently healthy men and women aged 20-25 years. The assessment of the level of alexithymia in points was carried out using the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale in the Russian version, then all participants were passed the Differential Assessment of Personal Anxiety Test and the Differentiated Mental Rigidity Assessment Test to determine the corresponding characteristics. The study participants were divided by gender, and each group into subgroups depending on the level of alexithymia severity. Results. Analysis of the average values revealed an increase in both the general levels of personal anxiety and mental rigidity with an increase in alexithymic potential, and individual components of these signs. A factor analysis was performed to identify the ratios of personal anxiety and mental rigidity components depending on alexithymia severity. It was revealed a three-factor structure with the greatest loads on the affective and cognitive components. With correlation analysis, the structures of the subscales of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale were investigated, and it was revealed that they are, to a high degree of probability, formed by various combinations of personal anxiety and mental rigidity components. Conclusion. The investigation confirmed the complex heterogeneous and multidimensional structure of the alexithymic potential and the essential role of various ratios of personal anxiety and mental rigidity components in its profile.


The current paradigm of modelling uncertainty in expert systems knowledge bases using Certainty Factors (CF) has been critically evaluated. A way to circumvent the awkwardness, non-intuitiveness and constraints encountered while using CF has been proposed. It is based on introducing Data Marks for askable conditions and Data Marks for conclusions of relational models, followed by choosing the best suited way to propagate those Data Marks into Data Marks of rule conclusions. This is done in a way orthogonal to the inference using Aristotelian Logic. Using Data Marks instead of Certainty Factors removes thus the intellectual discomfort caused by rejecting the notion of truth, falsehood and the Aristotelian law of excluded middle, as is done when using the CF methodology. There is also no need for changing the inference system software (expert system shell): the Data Marks approach can be implemented by simply modifying the knowledge base that should accommodate them. The methodology of using Data Marks to model uncertainty in knowledge bases has been illustrated by an example of SWOT analysis of a small electronic company. A short summary of SWOT analysis has been presented. The basic data used for SWOT analysis of the company are discussed. The rmes_EE SWOT knowledge base consisting of a rule base and model base have been presented and explained. The results of forward chaining for this knowledge base have been presented and critically evaluated.


Abstract This evaluation presents spectroscopic data and level schemes from radioactive decay and nuclear reactions for nuclei with mass number A=191. A salient topic includes the recent experimental results on superdeformed bands observed in 191 Au, 191 Hg, and 191 Tl.


Background:  This study comprises data from 3250 women allocated to transcervical CVS (TC‐CVS), transabdominal CVS (TA‐CVS) and transvaginal CVS (TV‐CVS). We have assessed the efficacy of transabdominal CVS compared with transcervical CVS and transvaginal CVS, and examined factors that have been implicated in causing spontaneous abortion.


A new kind of frequency estimation algorithm of LTE-TDD systems is proposed,correlation of PSS itself is used by the integer frequency estimation,sliding correlation is used to estimate integer frequency offset,and PSS conjugate multiplication is applied to get fractional frequency estimation.


The present invention of the automobile door latch, in particular, to provide the door latch to be used in the driver's seat and the front passenger seat side door latch. A latch includes an actuatable ratchet and pawl to move between a release position where the engagement position with the striker to hold the striker to allow the exit from the latch. Furthermore, the release lever and the lock lever is pivotally mounted on the opposite side of the latch housing. Lock link lever connects the release lever to the lock lever, a first end mounted pivotally to the locking lever, and a second end located slidably in the slot on the release lever. Actuating the release lever while the second end of the lock link lever is in its locked position, by pivoting the lock link lever in a first arc, the release lever while the lock link lever is in its unlocked position of operation, by pivoting the lock link lever in a second arc, placed in its release position by actuating the pawl. .FIELD 1


Does the church freeze in structures? Indications worldwide reveal that no clear and distinct concept of the church prevails today. It is maintained that a dynamic concept of the church and ministerial view on ecclesiastical institutions gave way during the Enlightenment to the concept of the church as a fixed formal institution or a legally defined structure. Even the Reformation wanted to reform papacy and not to establish church structures in opposition to Rome. The structural and denominational view of the church triggered off recurrent church schisms and on the other hand gave birth to an overwhelming urge to unify and form worldwide ecumenical structures, whereby local diversities are even called sin. The question is raised: By retaining the dynamic concept of the church as humans, people of God, wouldn't a new perspective be opened on the problem of diversities?


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This paper presents the first detailed analysis of the lithic industry from El Sidron Cave. Previously we have published other works concerning Anthropology and Palaeogenetics. The lithic assemblage contains 415 artefacts coming from both unofficial and official excavations and is largely flake-based. The raw material derives from the immediate cave environment, and is mostly chert, with quartzite in a lesser proportion. To date, 67 artefacts have been refitted, including some tools and cores. The spatial distribution of the refitted lithic artefacts confirms, on the one hand, the unity of the assemblage and, on the other, its secondary context.


Languages cannot be considered separate from the society in which they are spoken. The customs and traditions, life style, religion of a society and its relationship with other societies affect the vocabulary of the language. When Turkish language is analyzed, it is seen that religious expressions are frequently used. These expressions, which are customary to say in certain situations, are known as "formulaic expressions". In this study, the TV series named "Bir Baskadir", which reaches a wide audience in a short time, is analyzed in terms of formulaic expressions affected by the factor of religion. The words chosen by the characters and their speaking styles are influenced by their lifestyles. Many formulaic utterances in everyday life are included in the series and they serve as a model about the topic of the study. The aim of this study, which carries qualitative research features, is to analyze the formulaic expressions that are affected by religion in Turkish language and to reveal which situations they are used and what they mean in the fiction of a popular TV series. At the beginning, some information about formulaic expressions is given after explaining the relationship between language and culture. Later on the study, the series is examined through observation; the formulaic expressions in the series are analyzed, divided into groups according to their usage and their meanings are tried to be explained. As a result, it is revealed that the formulaic expressions emerge by being influenced by the elements of religion, culture, and tradition and they are inseparable parts of languages.


We propose a supersymmetric composite model with three generations in which supersymmetry and electroweak symmetry are broken dynamically, and masses of quarks and leptons are generated without introducing any mass scales by hand. All the mass scales in the model are expected to be generated dynamically. The mechanism to have mass hierarchy is explicitly described, although the roughly estimated mass spectrum of quarks and leptons does not exactly coincide with the realistic one.


The emotional behavior of animals represents an extensive field of research, and although several aspects of this behavior are of psychopharmacological interest, one aspect in particular the emotional behavior of fear or anxiety is of special importance, for it is concerned with research into a group of very useful drugs: the antianxiety drugs. In consequence, this study will be limited to this particular aspect, itself encompassing a very wide field. If one begins with the pharmacological approach, the difficulties are immediately evident. The drugs with which one is concerned are those that are used for the treatment of human anxiety, itself a target symptom. This anxiety can be manifested in very different aspects, as well in the manner in which it is expressed, as in the manner in which it is conquered by the patient. In man, there are several types of anxiety, which may or may not be a part of different pathological states, and which may be alleviated by different drugs: the anxiety of neurotics or psychosomatic patients is generally alleviated by minor tranquilizers (chlordiazepoxide or meprobamate type), barbiturates, or even alcohol; the anxiety of schizophrenics is eliminated or suppressed by the neuroleptics (or major tranquilizers) ; the anxiety of depressive patients can be removed after treatment by antidepressants alone (iniipramine-like drugs). A major difficulty is therefore apparent: anxiety is not a simple state, and different types of anxiety react differently to different drugs; the resulting and constricting corollary is that there exists no unique reference drug. Also, the problem of definition must be considered. Can one speak of anxiety in animals? In man, one can recognize that fear and anxiety are two states which differ only in the absence of the apparent object in the second state, as discussed by Delay.' Such a criterion (although disputed)2 is difficult to utilize in animals, and it appears more logical to classify fear as acute, subacute or chronic; a chronic state of fear being considered the same as anxiety. However, most authors"-'" agree that, in spite of the imperfection of the definition, one can speak of anxiety in an animal when the animal is expecting an unpleasant sensation either directly (for example, a conditioned stimulus), or not. The animal can be said to experience fear when it is suddenly and unexpectedly disturbed; anxiety, on the contrary, implies the notion of expectancy or anticipation. But a fear (provoked for example by a sudden noise or electric shock) can be followed by anxiety, with the animal waiting, more or less consciously, for a repetition of the disagreeable stimulus. In order to be able to study proposed methods and evaluate their significance, it is necessary to consider two distinct aspects: the creation of anxiety, and its measurement. The principal points, without a detailed critique of each point, will be studied with the aid of data from the literature? and data obtained in our laboratory. In spite of the similarity of the stimuli used, problems concerning chronic stress will not be studied.


A Psychol i DQui sti c Invosti gdtion of tho InfluoncG of Prior Knowledge on the Oral Reading Miscues and Comprehension of Selected High School Seniors (May, 1979) Davida W. Mutter, B.S., Old Dominion University M.A., College of William and Mary Ed.D., University of Massachusetts Directed by: Professor Rudine Sims This study was concerned with the reading proficiency of high school students. Ten high school seniors were selected from high, middle, and low percentile ranks on a standardized subtest of reading comprehension. These students orally read six informational passages taken from a textbook, standardized test, car manual, and consumer magazine. Before the oral reading sessions, each reader's prior knowledge of the content of the passages was assessed by a short-answer survey. In addition to assigned passages, readers chose to read a recreational passage based on their interest and knowledge of the topic. Before and after reading, students rated their interest in each passage. The reading miscues generated during the oral reading sessions were analyzed to determine the proficiency of these readers within a psychol inguistic definition of reading competence. The influence of the reader's depth of prior knowledge and interest on processing strategies and comprehension was examined and described.


Cash issues are various and complicated. The contractor starts with a forecast for the flow of the cash through the lifetime of the project. Cash shortages can lead to project failure and business bankruptcy. Researchers have studied cash flow in the context of project delay, business failure, and forecasting. However, negative cash flow trends and patterns themselves are not closely examined despite the amount, duration and distribution of negative cash flow are critical factors in construction performance. This study investigates cash flow management and profit optimization by reducing the extent and amount of negative cash flow on the construction projects and completes the project as scheduled by rescheduling construction activities based on the minimum cash flow availability. The study utilizes genetic algorithm's technique to devise finance-based schedules that minimize project negative cash flow and profit optimization by identifying the amount and timing of individual inflow or outflow at the end of each period. The study also presents a case study project to illustrate the capability of the proposed model and adopts various constraints, including project profit and due dates, for scenario analysis. The analysis result demonstrates that minimizing negative flow ensures smooth financial pressure by properly shifting activities, and assigning due dates for projects helps planners avoid project duration extension while maximizing overall project profit.


Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, is a gene‐directed mechanism activated as a suicidal event to get rid of excess, damaged, or infected cells. The recent astounding pace of research in this area has expanded our horizon of understanding that this mechanism is regulated largely by pro‐ and anti‐apoptosis factors acting for or against the final death event. The driving force behind these factors, either pro‐apoptosis or pro‐survival, is largely determined by signal transduction pathways, starting with the initiation of a death signal at the plasma membrane, and following through a complex cytoplasmic network before reaching the end point of cell demise. Enmeshed in this intricate cytoplasmic network are many checkpoints, where complexes of pro‐ and anti‐apoptosis factors function to facilitate or deter the death signals. The culmination of the balancing act between these two camps of factors at these signal transduction checkpoints may then result in the final decision to die or to live. Thus, the eventual death of a cell may require successful passage through all the checkpoints, a mechanism Nature has provided as a safeguard to prevent erroneous triggering of death. With the advent of a new biotechnology revolution at the dawn of the new millenium, we look forward to an exciting era when we can gain fuller understanding of the operation of all these checkpoints. Ultimately, this gain will pave the way to control the apoptosis event at the checkpoints, and to support the organism's functionality as long as possible. J. Cell. Biochem. Suppls. 32/33:95–102, 1999. © 1999 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


We find that the deterministic application of choice-chance mechanics, as applied in the Tempt Destiny experiment, is also reflected in the construct of the double-slit experiment and that the complementary results obtained by this treatment mirror that of Niels Bohr's principle of complementarity as well as reveal Einstein's hidden variables. Whereas the double-slit experiment serves to reveal the deterministic and indeterministic behavioral characteristics of our physical world, the Tempt Destiny experiment serves to reveal the deterministic and indeterministic behavioral characteristics of our actions. The unifying factor shared by both experiments is that they are of the same construct yielding similar results from the same energy. Given that, we seek to establish if the fundamental states of energy, i.e, certainty and probability, are indeed predetermined. Over the span of ten years, the Tempt Destiny experimental model of pairing choice and chance events has statistically obtained consistent results of absolute value. The evidence clearly infers that the fundamental mechanics of energy is a complement of two mutually exclusive mechanisms that bring into being – as opposed to revealing – the predetermined state of an event as either certain or probable, although not both simultaneously.


Background Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a primary malignancy of the hepatocyte with high risk of invasion, metastasis and poor prognosis, which leads to a high mortality rate in recent years. This study aims to investigate the independent prognosis factors of DFS(disease free survival) in hepatocellular carcinoma patients after radical hepatectomy.Methods This study retrospectively analyzed 358 patients admitted to the 1st Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical College from December 2009 to December 2014. Categorical variables were analyzed by chi-square test. The survival curve was plotted by kaplan-meier method and tested by log-rank method. Univariate and multivariate Cox regression analyses were performed to determine the prognostic factors.Results Among the 344 patients with liver cancer, 298 cases (86.63%) are young patients (< 70 years), and 46 cases (13.37%) were elderly patients (≥ 70 years). There were no significant difference in gender, smoking history, alcohol consumption history, Body Mass Index (BMI), number of cancer nodules, tumor diameter, differentiation degree and TNM stage between the young and elderly groups (P > 0.05). However, history of hepatitis B and liver cirrhosis were more common in young patients than elderly (P=0.017, P༝0.000). The Kaplan-Meier curves indicated that elderly patients (higher than 70 years), TNM I-II stage and no history of hepatitis B had longer DFS. The univariate and multivariate analyses showed that age, TNM stage, History of hepatitis B were the independent factors for DFS.Conclusions Our findings suggested that age, TNM stage, history of hepatitis B were independent factors for predicting DFS of primary hepatocellular carcinoma patients. Patients older than 70 years had a better prognosis than young patients. Patients with early TNM stage and no history of hepatitis B had longer DFS.


Four different spacecraft configurations were developed for geostationary service as a high power communications satellite. The first configuration is a Thor-Delta launch into a low orbit with a spiral ascent to synchronous altitude by ion engine propulsion. The spacecraft is earth oriented with rotating solar arrays. Configuration 2 is a direct injection Atlas/Centaur/Burner II vehicle which when in orbit is sun-oriented with a rotating transponder tower. Configurations 3 and 4 are Titan IIIC launches, and are therefore larger and heavier than Configuration 2. They are both sun-oriented, with rotating transponder towers and are directly injected into orbit. Technology discussed includes high power (up to 2 kW) transmitters with collectors radiating heat directly into space, and contoured antenna patterns designed to illuminate particular earth regions. There is also a review of potential users of the services which can be performed by this type satellite in such areas as information networking, public broadcasting and educational television.


Abstract This group of videos recognizes and celebrates teachers of every kind. Teachers in kindergarten through high school classrooms display teaching at its best, with energy, creativity and commitment. In one video, gifted speaker and teacher Guy Doud shares his moving and witty teacher lore. Bill Moyers interviews Sara Lawrence Lightfoot and Mike Rose, educators and authors, who reveal thoughtful insights that relate to all teachers. Another video examines television, a powerful teacher of children, through an eye-opening account of the history of children's television programming. The last video recognizes four unique schools as outstanding teachers—schools created by teams of teachers, administrators, students and parents. Narrator Roger Mudd concludes this video by telling his audience, "From sun up to sun down, the schoolteachers on this video work harder than you do no matter what you do. No calling in our society is more demanding than teaching, no calling is more selfless than teaching, no cal...


Effective measures must be taken to reduce the differential settlement between new and existing embankment for expressway widening projects.Step excavation is one of the usual technical measures for the combination of new and existing embankment.Finite element method is employed to analyze the influence of old road slope excavation and widening embankment filling on the deformation characteristics of old road and foundation through five different step excavation modes.The research has referential significance for the design and construction of step excavation in widening expressway.


A 60-year-old man with a 23-year history of untreated type 2 diabetes was referred to our hospital for progressive diabetic gangrene in multiple fingers despite treatment with calcium channel blockers and prostaglandin I2 derivatives (Picture 1). A physical examination and magnetic resonance angiography revealed no apparent obstruction of the arteries of the upper extremities (Picture 2A). Although the patient's glycated hemoglobin level was normal, he had a high plasma glucose levels (417 mg/dL) and massive glucosuria. This discrepancy was considered to be responsible for the patient's hemolytic anemia, rouleau formation (Picture 2B) and positive result for the cold hemagglutination test (× 65,536). This case shows that acronecrosis with cold agglutinin disease can mimic diabetic gangrene (1). It is occasionally difficult to distinguish between ulcers caused by diabetes and those caused by venous occlusion (2). In cases of gangrene, particularly at uncommon sites, the possibility of nondiabetic causes should therefore be considered in patients with diabetes.


The sense of nomology of administrative pennission system lies in ensuring that the society' s public interest is the condition and the value standard for authority's intervention in droit implement; and the final goal of authority's intervention in droit implement is to ensure the opposite's legal droit's effective implement. The basic function and effect in society Me of the legal system of administrative pennission are that it can fixup the function of the benefit's relation's adjust between subject and between subject and the society, and it also possess the basic function of maintaining the economic order and can make the country's economic order to be in the state of harmony and balance.


Written with artless simplicity and quiet humor, The Tosa Diary is the story of a fifty-five day journey by ship from Tosa to Kyoto in AD 935.