Background:  Myxoinflammatory fibroblastic sarcoma (MIFS), also named inflammatory myxohyaline tumor of distal extremities with virocyte or Reed‐Sternberg cells, is a rare tumor typically presenting as a painless mass in the extremities.


This paper seeks to destabilize the silent privilege given to the secured juridical‐political position of the citizen as the stable site of enunciation of the problem/solution framework under which the stranger (foreigner, immigrant, refugee) is theoretically located. By means of textual, intertextual, and extratextual readings of Antigone, the paper argues that it is politically and literarily possible to (re)invent her for strangers in the twenty‐first century, that is, for those symbolically produced as not‐legally locatable and who resignify their ambivalent ontological status between life and death as an alternative sociopolitical location of speech and action in equality with "others."


PurposeSupplier–supplier coopetition is vital to buyer innovation in reality. However, it has not received enough attention in prior research. Integrating the ability-motivation-opportunity framework of organizational learning perspective and the awareness-motivation-capability framework of competitive dynamics theory, this paper investigates the effect of supplier–supplier coopetition within supplier network on buyer innovation, as well as the contingent role of the relational attributes -- duration and tie strength dispersion of buyer–suppliers relationship at the supplier network level.Design/methodology/approachTesting this model on the secondary data of supply networks formed by 204 US listed buyer firms in SIC code 28, 35, 36 during 2008–2019, the authors utilize a fixed-effect regression model to investigate the relationship between supplier–supplier coopetition and the focal buyer's innovation.FindingsThe authors provide support for the positive influence of supplier–supplier cooperation on buyer innovation and an inverted U-shaped relationship between supplier–supplier competition and the focal buyer's innovation. The buyer–suppliers tie strength dispersion amplified the above two effects, and supplier–supplier cooperation mitigates the effect of supplier–supplier competition on the focal buyer's innovation.Originality/valueExtending the traditional dyadic view to a network-level view via linking the supplier–supplier dyad and the buyer–suppliers dyad, this paper contributes to a better understanding of supplier–supplier coopetition and its impact on buyer innovation with learning and competitive tension as the underlying explanations, and validates the contingent role of buyer–suppliers relational attributes.


Recent theoretical and ●xperimental vork on the properties of carbon ●t very high pressures indicates that the diamond phase may dominate the carbon phase diagram. The vork of Yin and Cohen indicates that diamond may b. thg stable carbon phase to pressures as high as 20 Hbar. Recent work by Shan@r et al. is compatible vith solid diamond on the Eugoniot at pressurm up to 1.4 Hbar. Using previously developed techniques, ve have carried out conductivity ■easurements on shock-compressed graphite to pressures in excess of 600 kbar and t-mparatuzas up to 5000 K. No diamond liquid transition vas observed under the experimental conditions achieved. Keyvords: carbon, diamond, shock vave, phase diagram, electrical conductivity. ● Work supported by the US Department of Energy. + Visiting Staff Hember from Lavrence Livermore Nationnl Laboratory


The need for change has arisen due to two main factors. Firstly, the increased demand on our Service, and secondly, the unsatisfactory situation under the previous system, whereby patients waited at the Health Service door for what was seen as a "walk in" appointment.


The synthesis, characterization, and emission properties of a series of Pt(L{sub 2})(S-S) complexes are reported. The (L{sub 2}) ligands include 4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline (Ph{sub 2}phen), 4,4{prime}-dimethyl-2,2{prime}-bipyridine (Me{sub 2}bpy), 1,5-cyclo-octadiene (COD), trimethyl phosphite (P(OMe){sub 3}), and the {alpha}-C-deprotonated form of 2-phenylpyridine (2-phpy). The (S-S) ligands include 1-(tert-butoxycarbonyl)-1-cyanoethylene-2,2-dithiolate (tbcda), 1-(diethoxyphosphinyl)-1-cyanoethylene-2,2-dithiolate (cpdt), cis-1,2-dicarbomethoxyethylene-1,2-dithiolate (met), and N,N-diethyldithio-carbamate (Et{sub 2}dtc). The complexes are readily synthesized by the addition of the dithiolate or thiolate ligand to Pt(L{sub 2})Cl{sub 2} except for Pt(P(OMe){sub 3}){sub 2}(met), which is prepared by the addition of 2 equiv of trimethyl phosphite to Pt(COD)(met).


In this work, Magnesium-Lanthanum alloy was synthesized by an electrodeposition technique using an aqueous solution, based on Magnesium chloride hexahydrate and Lanthanum(III) Nitrate at a voltage of 4 Volts. A copper cathode plate is used for the deposition of the Mg-La alloy. The as-prepared powder was characterized by scanning electron microscope (SEM) to describe the morphology, energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) to determine the chemical composition, X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectra in order to define the chemical structure. Morphological description reveals the formation of heterogeneous chemical structures of very small size on the surface of the sample. EDS analysis indicates the presence of Mg, La and O as major elements and Cl as minor element in terms of weight percentages. X-ray results showed the existence of two distinct phases, Magnesium Hydroxide (Mg(OH)2) and Lanthanum hydroxide (La(OH)3), from the obtained deposit. FTIR analysis confirms the presence of the two phases identified in XRD diffractogram and it can be exhibited by clear peaks.


Cheese juice is the aqueous phase of cheese expressed by hydraulic pressure and contains a range of proteolytic enzymes and the end products of proteolytic activity. During ripening of cheeses made with three different strains the levels of total N, peptide profiles and released free amino acids were monitored periodically in cheese juice. Differences in the levels of nitrogen, peptides and free amino acids in the aqueous phase of cheese throughout ripening were observed. These differences may reflect differences in cell envelope proteinase (CEP) specificity of each of the lactococcal starters (i.e. CEP I or CEP III) and the levels of intracellular peptidases released on autolysis and permeabilization. Differences in proteolytic indices found in juice over ripening appeared to be starter strain related. Overall, the usefulness of cheese juice as an index of proteolysis during ripening of Cheddar cheese was demonstrated.


The subject of psychosis: A Lacanian perspective, by Stijn Vanheule, London & New York, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011, 208 pp., (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-230276642


Written by Mohamed Salleh, insects as one of the largest and most readily available animal groups, are frequently used objects in biological learning. The living specimens' specimens are observed to know the history of life and development, physiology, behavior and ecology. The specimens that have been switched off and preserved are the materials used for the identification and diversification of the species. The ways in which the specimen can be collected, cured and well preserved is the purpose of writing this book. Collection of preserved insects is readily available at universities and research institutions in our country. The existence of a collection of haggs at school can provide exposure to students to impress and admire the existence and diversity of the species. There will be a sense of inferiority to the great Creator. It is a very interesting animal group. The diversity that exists in the form, type, way of life and the beauty of colors and colors that embellish the body creates an attraction or interest in us to recognize, study and admire the creation of these animals. Surely there will be a sense of admiration and low selfesteem towards the great Creator who creates the beings and the other beings in this.


Windows are an integral part of our life. They help to reduce stress if they show nature scenes. Yet there are many places without windows or only urban structures. Virtual windows can be used to offer a window-like experience where there is none. This thesis explores the difference between full (real window behaviour) and simple (visible part of world moves but objects don't move relative to each other) motion parallax as well as the impact of steroscopic 3D on the window experience. The results indicate that for the most part stereoscopic 3D doesn't offer a significant improvement and therefore shouldn't be used as it is more difficult to set up. Full motion parallax delivers the better results in all tested situations but the difference is not significant enough to make it worthwile to switch to complete full motion parallax immediately as that is still very expensive.


To study the influence of boron on the texture of low carbon batch-annealed steel with given chemistry elements produced by Compact Strip Production(CSP),the texture of B-contained and B-free low-carbon annealed steel were tested by X-ray diffraction(ODF analyses),and the hot-rolled and annealed sheets were analyzed by electrolysis chemical phase analysis.The results showed that γ-fiber texture in B-contained annealed steel was lower than that of B-free steel with almost equal AlN contents.Samples of hot-rolled and annealed steel with B or without B after electrolyzing contain some powders such as carbon,AlN and so on.Besides,the steel with B also contains boron compounds.It′s the coactions of the small AlN,BN,and Fe3(B,C) that affect the formation and development of texture,and B affects the development of texture mainly through the second phase particles such as BN affecting the deformation and growth of grain.It′s concluded that AlN is not the only determinant that affects the development of texture.


Statistics of mergers and acquisitions is a traditional direction of international statistics and a new direction of Russian statistical science. In accordance with recommendations of Eurostat and Organization of economic cooperation and development (OECD) for improving Russian business statistics as regards to methodological approaches to measuring integration activity of economic entities, the authors examined key directions of processing and analyzing information about integration transactions which contribute to the development of statistics on mergers and acquisitions in the Russian Federation. The paper presents statistical analysis of integration processes and primary development trends in the Russian market of mergers and acquisitions amid economic sanctions and import substitution, along with the econometric approach to measuring integration activity of Russian business entities. The article covers main directions of the statistics accounting and analyses different aspects of integration activities of the economic entities. The authors formulated suggestions for improving collection and processing of the data on integration transactions and suggested new approaches to collecting and processing data on merges and acquisitions for a more comprehensive and timely reflection of economic integration at the national and international levels in the global transformation processes. To classify sectors (branches) of the Russian economy by the level of their integration activity the authors developed a toolkit that is based on splitting the mixture model for probability distribution that allows identifying integrative branches of the national economy before and after economic sanctions against the Russian Federation were imposed.


Cooperative plan of first-aid training and intensive campaign conducted by Bureau of Mines in cooperation with coal-mining companies of Logan and Mingo Counties, State Department of Mines of West Virginia, and district officials of United Mine Workers of America is described. Companies trained in first aid and some advantages that may be expected from first-aid training are listed. The record of accidents of several companies is given, each showing immediate reduction in accident frequency or severity, or both, as result of campaign. Examples of application of first aid are cited.


article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the article's original URL. Abstract Background We suggest that surgical extirpation of primary breast cancer among other effects accelerates relapse for some premenopausal node-positive patients. These accelerated relapses occur within 10 months of surgery for untreated patients. The mechanism proposed is a stimulation of angiogenesis for distant dormant micrometastases. This has been suggested as one of the mechanisms to explain the mammography paradox for women aged 40–49 years. We could imagine that it also plays a role in adjuvant chemotherapy effectiveness since, perhaps not coincidentally, this is most beneficial for premenopausal node-positive patients.


The electric strength of mum-polymer-films has been analyzed for thicknesses s = 5 ... 85 mum by different authors. The maximum of the electric strength is found in the range of 10 ... 20 mum by all authors. In the experiments presented in this paper the thickness range is expanded down to 1 mum and partial discharges before breakdown are avoided. This is achieved with special test items, produced with diamond micro milling, a precision high voltage source and a voltage metering with very high accuracy. The experimental results in this paper verify the former works. The values of the electric strength though, are found to be significantly higher, which may have been caused by the missing of partial discharges. For film thicknesses below the range that has been analyzed, the electric strength does not decrease towards zero, as expected. At approximately s = 4 mum a local minimum of the electric strength occurs. For decreasing film thickness the electric strength increases again. This anomaly can possibly be understood as the loss of the macroscopic properties of the polymer.


The requirement of reduced RC delay and cross-talk for multilevel interconnect ULSI applications has enthusiastically driven process development for seeking suitable low dielectric constant materials with sufficient k value. The replacement of HDP FSG(k-3.5-3.6) with conventional SiO2 as a manufacturable intermetal dielectric layer (IMD) has achieved 0.18μm ULSI interconnect technology. The electrical test result, via resislance as well as multilevel CMOS transistor characteristics (such as plasma damage, device degradation, hot carrier, etc.) are basically compatible to those conventional oxide as IMD. Assessment of metal line-to-line capacitance reduction using comb capacitors yields values of reduction range 10%-14% comparing FSG to convention oxide. The effectiveness of low-k FSG in circuit performance is also demonstrated. Comparisons of ring-oscillator speed performance for metal runners with various width and space show speed improvement approximately 10% for the FSG. Impact of FSG on reliability is evaluated and results show manufacturing compatibility to conventional SiO2.


In this work, the solubilities of adipic acid and succinic acid in glutaric acid + cyclohexanone and glutaric acid + acetic acid mixtures were measured respectively by using the laser dynamic method under atmospheric pressure, in which the temperature ranged from 296.15 to 340.85 K and the mass fraction of glutaric acid in the binary solvent mixtures ranged from 0.00 to 0.30. The effects of glutaric acid on solubility of adipic acid and succinic acid have been discussed. It is found that the effects of glutaric acid on the solubility of adipic acid and succinic acid were negative and that with the increasing mass fraction of glutaric acid in the mixtures the solubilities of adipic acid and succinic acid would decrease. With the gradual increase of temperature, the measured solubility of adipic acid and succinic acid in glutaric acid + cyclohexanone and glutaric acid + acetic acid mixtures would increase at the constant proportion of solvent mixtures. Then the experimental data were well-correlated by the ...


Remote N2 plasma functionalization of single-layer MoS2 with low damage is explored to deposit ultrathin high-k dielectric on the dangling-bond free single-layer MoS2. The thin dielectric is used as a tunneling contact layer in source/drain as well as an interfacial layer under the gate to fabricate top-gate MoS2 MOSFET. The device exhibits mobility as high as 14 cm/(Vs). The contact resistance significantly drops from 51 km to 11 km, which can be attributed to the alleviated metal-MoS2 interface reaction and the preserved conductivity of MoS2 under the source/drain metal contact.


The author is Associate Professor of Industrial Health and Director of the Division of Industrial Hygiene Technology in the Institute of Industrial Health, University of Cincinnati. He received a degree of chemical engineering from the University of Cincinnati and later pursued graduate work in physiological chemistry at this same institution. He has been associated with the Institute of Industrial Health since 1926 and since 1947 has supervised all technological investigations for the Coroner's Office of Hamilton County. His present article is based upon a paper presented at the 1955 Seminar for Homicide Investigation sponsored by the Hamilton County Coroner's Laboratory and the University of Cincinnati.-EDITOR.


Integrating multiple learned classication models (classiers) computed over large and (physically) distributed data sets has been demonstrated as an eective approach to scaling inductive learning techniques, while also boosting the accuracy of individual classiers. These gains, however, come at the expense of an increased demand for run-time system resources. The nal ensemble meta-classier may consist of a large collection of base classiers that require increased memory resources while also slowing down classication throughput. To classify unlabeled instances, predictions need to be generated from all base-classiers before the meta-classier can produce its nal classication. The throughput (prediction rate) of a metaclassier is of signicant importance in real-time systems, such as in e-commerce or intrusion detection. This extended abstract describes a pruning algorithm that is independent of the combining scheme and is used for discarding redundant classiers without degrading the overall predictive performance of the pruned metaclassier. To determine the most eective base classiers, the algorithm takes advantage of the minimal costcomplexity pruning method of the CART learning algorithm (Breiman et al. 1984) which guarantees to nd the best (with respect to misclassication cost) pruned tree of a specic size (number of terminal nodes) of an initial unpruned decision tree. An alternative pruning method using Rissanen's minimum description length is described in (Quinlan & Rivest 1989).


The stability analysis for the solution of the forward-backward problem of the parabolic equation is discussed in the paper. As for countparting forward problem, the stability analysis solution of the forward problem is illuminated. Simultaneity, using the method of the logarithm of the protruding character testify the exponential stability of the inverse problem and get the stability of the estimation.Then numerical simulation experiments are provided,and the results manifests that the numerical solution and the theoretical are well consistent.


The current building code for fire-resistance construction provides for a uniform standard of max. 3 hours fire resistance performance considering only structure type in building. Therefor it leads to unreasonable design fire resistant design regardless of the recent variety and complexities in building. In addition, substantial amount of time has passed since the enactment of this code, which is unable to adequately reflect the revisions to the KS fire resistance testing methods made in 2000. As a result, there is a need to confirm the performance of the current building code for fire-resistance construction. Accordingly, in this study, fire test with loading was performed for reinforced concrete and steel framed reinforced concrete columns, the results of which were compared with current domestic and overseas fire resistance standards to propose a system of more narrowly segmented fire resistance ratings.


OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: Using a novel biomechanical-based motor speech assessment alongside commonly used clinically-based motor speech assessments, the goal of this study was to describe longitudinal recovery in speech movements and functional speech in a cohort of 5 patients following facial transplantation. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: Five participants who had received either full or partial face transplantation were included in this study. Each participant received a unique facial graft from their donor, which included varied amounts of soft tissue, facial musculature, nerve, and bone. Two participants were early in the recovery period and were assessed from zero to 24 months post-transplantation. Three participants were late in the recovery period and were assessed from 36 to 60 months post-transplantation. Each participant completed two data collection sessions and the average time between sessions was 20.4 months. At each session, orofacial movements were recorded using a 3D motion capture system. A 4-sensor head marker was used to subtract head movement (translation and rotation) from the facial markers. The analyses in this study were restricted to two markers: midline lower lip and a virtually calculated midline jaw marker. A marker at the top of the nose bridge was used as the origin point. The following kinematic variables were obtained from each lip-jaw movement time-series: peak movement speed (mm/s), and displacement (mm). Each patient was instructed to perform 10 repetitions of the phrase "buy bobby a puppy" at his or her typical speaking rate and volume. Sentence-level intelligibility was obtained using the Sentence Intelligibility Test (SIT) and word-level intelligibility was obtained using the Word Intelligibility Test, using standard procedures. Intelligibility, measured in percentage of words correctly transcribed, and speaking rate, measured in words per minute (wpm), was derived from the SIT sentences for each patient. Intelligibility, measured in percentage of words correctly chosen via multiple choice was derived from the Word Intelligibility Test. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: Effect sizes (Cohen's d) across the 10 trials of "buy bobby a puppy" were computed to assess the effects of recovery time on range of motion and speed of the lower lip alone, the jaw alone, and the lower lip and jaw together for both range of motion and for speed. The largest effect sizes were observed for increased range of motion and increased speed of the articulators for participants within 24 months of surgery. Smaller effect sizes were observed for these parameters for the participants in the later stages of recovery, with some participants showing declines in range of motion and speed of some but not all articulators. Descriptive statistics indicate that both speech and word intelligibility improvements are most notable in the first two years following transplantation and appear to plateau during the later stages of recovery. Only two out of five of our participants achieved "normal" speech intelligibility (i.e., >97%) at five years post-transplantation. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: Biomechanical assessment revealed that kinematic recovery of articulator range of motion and speed appears most significant in the first two years following surgery, but that improvement continues to some degree as far as five-years post-transplant. Clinically-based assessments suggest that gains in intelligibility appear to plateau by 3-years post-surgery.


Detection of intrusion plays an important part in data protection. Intruders will carry out attacks from a compromised user account without being identified. The key technology is the effective detection of sundry threats inside the network. However, process automation is experiencing expanded use of information communication systems, due to high versatility of interoperability and ease off 34 administration. Traditional knowledge technology intrusion detection systems are not completely tailored to process automation. The combined use of fuzziness-based and RNN-IDS is therefore highly suited to high-precision classification, and its efficiency is better compared to that of conventional machine learning approaches. This model increases the accuracy of intrusion detection using Machine Learning Methodologies and fuzziness has been used to identify various categories of hazards, and a machine learning approach has been used to prevent intrusions. As a result, the hypothesis of security breaches is often observed by tracking system audit reports for suspicious trends of system use, and access controls for granting or limiting the degree of access to the network are often established as the result of an improvement in the detection accuracy of intrusions which is extremely effective.


This review contains recommended values of the thermodynamic and transport properties of the five and six membered ring carbohydrates and their phosphates in both the condensed and aqueous phases. Equilibrium data, enthalpies, heat capacities, and entropies have been collected from the literature. The accuracy of these data have been assessed, adjusted to 298.15 K and to a common standard state, and entered into a catalog of thermochemical reactions. The solution of this reaction catalog yields a set of recommended values for the formation properties of these substances. The volumetric data have also been critically evaluated. Recommended values are presented for standard state molar volumes and the temperature and pressure derivatives of the molar volume, i. e., the expansivity and the compressibility. The excess property data of aqueous solutions of these substances have been correlated to yield recommended values of the parameters of the virial expansion model used to represent the data. The transport ...


As part of The Uppsala project, The development of astronomy and its significance for society in ancient Greece, we have studied the orientations of a number of major monuments in Crete from the Mi ...


This work clears up the question of how to achieve high quality of audit process through describing basic conceptions, principles and preliminary conditions on which we should base the efficient access for ensuring high quality work and audit reports through use of international experience for description the example of "good practice" that should be adopted and used by each audit. General message of this work is for institutions of external audit to make more and more efforts in the insurance of high quality audit process but also to pay much more attention to this process. The work simultaneously recommends certain possibilities of how to work for a while on the promotion of management quality of the audit increasing at the same time the control degree of audit process quality.


The explanations in current Chinese dictionaries are lack of the awareness of wild animal protection.Modern Chinese Dictionary,New Chinese Words Dictionary and New Chinese Dictionary are studied here with different versions available.It is proposed to add the awareness of animal protect.


Nuclear factor κB (NF-κB) is a eukaryotic member of the Rel family of transcription factors whose biological activity is post-translationally regulated by its assembly with various ankyrin-rich cytoplasmic inhibitors, including IκBα. Expression of NF-κB in the nucleus occurs after signal-induced phosphorylation, ubiquitination, and proteasome-mediated degradation of IκBα. The induced proteolysis of IκBα unmasks the nuclear localization signal within NF-κB, allowing its rapid migration into the nucleus, where it activates the transcription of many target genes. At present, the identity of the IκBα kinase(s) that triggers the first step in IκBα degradation remains unknown. We have investigated the potential function of the 90-kDa ribosomal S6 kinase, or pp90rsk, as a signal-inducible IκBα kinase. pp90rsk lies downstream of mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase in the well characterized Ras-Raf-MEK-MAP kinase pathway that is induced by various growth factors and phorbol ester. We now show that pp90rsk, but not pp70S6K or MAP kinase, phosphorylates the regulatory N terminus of IκBα principally on serine 32 and triggers effective IκBα degradation in vitro. When co-expressed in vivo in COS cells, IκBα and pp90rsk readily assemble into a complex that is immunoprecipitated with antibodies specific for either partner. While phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate produced rapid activation of pp90rsk, in vivo, other potent NF-κB inducers, including tumor necrosis factor α and the Tax transactivator of human T-cell lymphotrophic virus, type I, failed to activate pp90rsk. These data suggest that more than a single IκBα kinase exists within the cell and that these IκBα kinases are differentially activated by different NF-κB inducers.


The application of technology in the world of education can affect the quality of students in understanding learning material because technology is one of the important elements to assist in the teaching and learning process. One educational application that can be developed is Augmented Reality (AR) technology. AR is one of the learning media that can be used to combine virtual objects or objects into a real environment with the virtual world to be able to interact in realtime. English is a foreign language that must be mastered. In learning English, students need to be given adequate vocabulary learning that can be provided through reading or listening activities. The importance of adequate vocabulary in English to support the smoothness of oral communication, where there are 2 things that inhibit the ineffectiveness of oral communication namely students do not have adequate vocabulary mastery and do not know how to use vocabulary in their spoken language. Effective and interactive learning media will facilitate students in learning vocabulary. This research an instructional media based on augmented reality vocabulary cards will be made for learning English vocabulary. Learning English vocabulary developed is a basic vocabulary consisting of object recognition and greeting. The learning media will display real objects and sounds, so that the object looks real and the ease of pronunciation of English consonants correctly.


This book identifies the main areas of cognitive science and for each area, how different system designs benefit from the findings made in that area"--Provided by publisher.


A wideband substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) filtering power divider (FPD) is presented in this paper. It works in the C band. The FPD used two SIW rectangular cavities and one half-mode substrate integrated waveguide (HMSIW) triangular cavity cascade and centered at 7.5GHz with fractional bandwidth (FBW) of 10.6%. The design parameters of the presented FPD are given and the simulated results are proposed with good expectations. This FPD meets the requirements for miniaturization and integration with other microwave circuits.


Abstract Renal ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury is frequently observed in several clinical cases. In this study, we want to investigate that SCM-198 attenuates renal injury in the renal I/R model and find out the possible mechanisms. Wistar albino 40 male rats were classified into four groups (n=10): control, DMSO, I/R, and SCM-198 30 mg/kg. In the group 4, SCM-198 was administered intraperitoneally once at the doses of 30 mg/kg following the reperfusion. Glomerular associated proteins (PCX), tubular damage factors (NGAL, KIM-1), blood urea nitrogen (BUN), serum creatinine, inflammatory cytokines (IL-1β, IL-18, and TNF-α), Bax/Bcl-2, TLR4, LC3B, and Beclin-1 were evaluated. SCM-198 played an essential role in mitigating kidney damage. SCM-198 alleviated tubular damage and decreased IL-1β, IL-18, and TNF-α levels. SCM-198 reduced the apoptosis marker Bax/Bcl-2 ratio, immune system protein TLR4, and autophagy proteins LC3B and Beclin-1. In brief, our results support the notion that SCM-198 has protective effects on I/R-induced renal injury. SCM-198 therapy may be a new alternative for the prevention and treatment of renal I/R injury.


The response to zilpaterol hydrochloride supplementation by two breeds of beef steers under controlled heat stress conditions were evaluated for impacts on growth, carcass merit, and physiological stress indicators. In two separate studies, Brahman and Angus steers were placed in environmental chambers and housed for 21 d under 1 of 2 environmental conditions 1) heat stress (THI = 73 to 85) or thermoneutral (THI = 68). In a 2 x 2 factorial, steers also received 8.38 mg· kg-1· d-1 on 88% DM of zilpaterol hydrochloride (ZH) or soybean meal carrier only for the 21-d period. Feed intake, respiratory rate, and rectal temperatures were evaluated daily. Total weight gain was recorded and used to calculate average daily gain (ADG) and gain-to-feed ratio (G:F). Brahman steers were harvested at the market weight (489.31 ± 97.7 kg) and Angus steers on d ~22 after treatment (307.26 ± 6.23 kg). In both studies, body weight gain and ADG did not differ between environments or supplements. Brahman steers exposed to heat stress exhibited greater (P < 0.05) respiratory rate than thermoneutral steers, regardless of supplement. An environment x day interactions (P < 0.04) was observed for rectal temperature. On d 8, unsupplemented heat-stressed Brahman steers had higher (P < 0.05) rectal temperatures than ZH-supplemented thermoneutral steers. On d 11, ZH-supplemented heat-stressed Brahman steers had higher (P < 0.05) rectal temperatures than unsupplemented thermoneutral steers. Angus steers exposed to heat stress exhibited greater (P < 0.05) respiration rates throughout the experiment than thermoneutral steers. On d 8, unsupplemented heat-stressed Angus steers exhibited greater (P < 0.05) respiration rates than ZH-supplemented heat-stressed steers. On d 8 and 19, heat-stressed Angus steers exhibited greater (P < 0.05) rectal temperatures than thermoneutral steers. Angus steers exhibited an environment x supplement x day interaction (P < 0.05) for rectal temperature, with a decrease (P < 0.05) rectal temperature in ZH-supplemented steers. Carcass merit traits did not differ between environments in Brahman steers. Cold carcass weights were lighter (P < 0.05) in heat-stressed Angus steers compared with thermoneutral steers. ZH-supplemented Angus (but not Brahman) steers exhibited decreased (P < 0.05) respiration rates and rectal temperatures. Together these findings indicate that Brahman steers were more resistant to heat stress than Angus steers but were less efficient, with ~10% less G:F. Based upon the data collected, supplementation with zilpaterol hydrochloride did not negatively impact production in either breed.


The utility model discloses a manipulator handling system. The manipulator handling system comprises a machine frame, a Y-axial rail, a lifting device, a mechanical arm and a control system, wherein the Y-axial rail is arranged on the machine frame, a moving plate conducting linear movement in the direction of the Y-axial rail is arranged on the Y-axial rail, the lifting device is arranged on the moving plate, the mechanical arm is arranged on the lifting device, a suction cup assembly is arranged on the mechanical arm, and the lifting device drives the mechanical arm to move in the vertical direction. A driving device is arranged on the machine frame, the driving device provides power for the moving plate to move in the Y-axial direction, and the Y-axial rail, the lifting device and the mechanical arm are respectively connected with the control system. By means of the method, the manipulator handling system can be suitable for conveying products on large equipment such as a large oil press and replace manpower, is stable and convenient to operate and high in working efficiency, is not prone to damaging the products in the conveying process, and improves the yield of the products.


The ocellated lizards in the Timon lepidus/tangitanus/pater complex include the largest lacertids living in continental Europe and North Africa. Long considered a single species (T. pater), the division of the North African ocellated lizards into two species, T. pater in Tunisia and Algeria, and T. tangitanus in Morocco, is now accepted. In this study we investigated the patterns of genetic diversity in T. tangitanus and T. pater across North Africa. We analysed 12s rRNA and 16s r RNA mtDNA fragments of 26 new samples plus 19 sequences from previous studies, using parsimony, likelihood and Bayesian approaches. Our results confirm the two North African species as well-defined entities. Within T. tangitanus from Morocco, three genetically divergent lineages with geographic congruence were uncovered; one in the north, another widely spread across Central Morocco and one in the High Atlas and farther south. A high level of divergence among the Moroccan lineages suggests the split occurred just after the divergence between T. tangitanus and T. pater. Similar patterns have been found in other species, although more studies are needed to understand the biogeographical events shaping the complex diversity in this region.


On 28 September 2017 voters in North Runcton/West Winch and Walpole Cross Keys parishes will go to the polls to vote in Neighbourhood Planning referendums.


Objective To investigate the relationship between the oral mucosa epithelial apoptosis rate and the nutritional status of the patients.Methods One set of gastrointestinal surgery patients were continuously observed.The patient's oral mucosa apoptosis rate before and after operation was continu- ously detected.Simultaneously,before and 3,7 days after the operation the pre-albumin,lymphocyte count,retinoid-binding protein,transferrin and albumin were measured.Results The oral mucosa epithe- lial apoptosis rate was significanly decreased(P<0.01)after the operation,but it was gradually increased (P<0.01)7 days after the operation.These changes were consistent with those of the nutritional assess- ment indexes.The oral mucosa epithelial apoptosis rate was significantly correlated the pre-albumin,lym- phocyte count and transferrin(P<0.05).Conclusion The change of the oral mucosa epithelial apopto- sis rate was followed with the change in the nutritional status.Oral mucosa apoptosis rate was likely to be a new assessment index to evaluate,monitor,and even predict the nutritional status.


--- The majority data are now kept in the cloud. There are many Cloud storage applications used to exchange data that range from normal to highly sensitive. Among the most essential security measures in cloud is Cloud auditing. It is the process of validating the reliability of data stored in the cloud. As of the inevitability of hardware problems, system failures and errors by people these data may be corrupted or lost. An efficient auditing system to determine whether or not the data is corrupted is a challenging task among the recent research. This paper proposes a third-party enabled auditing methodology to ensure data integrity, privacy data sharing and protect against outside attackers in the public cloud. In this proposed method, the record / identical signature. Then a third-party auditor is implemented to confirm the cloud's storage accuracy by validating the reliability of the cloud records on the person's behalf.


Habitat fragmentation caused by transportation infrastructure is an issue of growing concern worldwide. We show how secondary roads may affect landscape permeability for brown bears (Ursus arctos Linnaeus, 1758). We focused on identifying environmental variables that govern the selection of road-crossing zones by bears (crossing model). We also investigated whether variables that characterize road-crossing zones differ from those that are typical for bear–vehicle collision sites (collision model). The study area was located in north-central Slovakia. To identify road-crossing sites, we used the GPS fixes of 27 bears and identified 35 bear–vehicle collision sites from a different data set. We used mixed-effects logistic regression to model resource selection at road-crossing sites and to compare bear-crossing sites with bear-kill sites. The crossing model showed that the traffic volume with distance to forest and grassland were the most influential factors in bear selection of road-crossing sites. Results of the collision model indicated that successful road crossings by bears were located at different road sections from vehicle collisions, which differed by a traffic volume of 5000 vehicles/24 h. The outcomes of this study can facilitate improved mitigation measures on secondary roads.


Nanocrystalline SnO2 powder has been synthesized via direct precipitation method starting from Sn, HNO3, HCl, and NH4OH. Thermal properties, crystal structural and morphological properties of the precursor and SnO2 powder were investigated using simultaneous thermogravimetry-differential thermal analysis, X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy. The results indicated that the precursor was SnO2 rather than Sn(OH)2 or Sn(OH)4. On the basis of the precursor, well crystallized SnO2 powder with 4-5 nm in diameter was obtained, after calcined at 350 °C for 2 h.


Conditions necessary for the formation of La(III)-containing polyoxotungstates in solutions of the system Na2WO4 – HNO3 – La(NO3)3 – H2O/Solvent (Solvent = acetone, acetonitrile, ethanol; 50/50 vol.% Н2О: Solvent ratio) acidified to acidity Z = ν(H+)/ν(WO42–) = 0.80 were elaborated. It was established that during salting out, the addition of an organic solvent leads to the crystallization of normal salts, Na9[La(W5O18)2]·nH2O (n = 32–35). Using FT-IR spectroscopy, it was shown that the anion [La(W5O18)2]9– in the composition of the isolated salts belongs to the Peacock–Weakley type of structure and the absence of solvent molecules in the composition of the crystalline product was established. Using the method of scanning electron microscopy, the single-phase nature of the synthesized salts was established (according to the uniform contrast of the surface of the samples during scanning in the backscattered electron mode and according to the results of energy dispersive X-ray microanalysis), and the grain sizes were determined (from 140–300 nm for the salt isolated from the H2O: acetone medium, to 300–450 nm for the salt isolated from the H2O: ethanol system). Microphotographs of powders of Na9[La(W5O18)2]·nH2O salts powders in characteristic X-ray emission do not show zones with different surface morphology, and demonstrate uniform distributions of Na, La, W, and O without segregation, which confirms the single–phase nature of the samples isolated from aqueous-organic solutions. The conducted research made it possible to expand the list of organic solvents that can be used for the synthesis of normal salts with a heteropoly anion with a Peacock–Weakley type of structure from aqueous-organic solutions. The use of acetonitrile and ethanol for Na9[La(W5O18)2 ]·nH2O isolating can be extended to the synthesis of salts with other lanthanide heteroatoms.


The purpose of our work is to develop a system that can detect and alarm the individual's sitting position of inactive period. Non-wearable sensor system based on FSR includes a H/W device for interfacing between a computer S/W that process sensing data and FSR module as a Sitting Mat. Pressure intensity of each sensing point on computer S/ W can be showned by color change and area expansion and we observe changes in the quantitative and qualitative. Our system has an edge in price competitiveness compared to the existing foreign system by reducing the number of FSR sensor array and improve the sensitivity of Load Measurements with computer S/W algorithm. In the future, it will continue to be developed smartphone apps to check real-time alerts with transmitting data over the bluetooth interface. and we will be expected to develope FSR sensors with durability and ductility by performing clinical trials with Office workers who sit for a long time.


This study aims to measure the Impact of knowledge management in developing a culture of excellence in commercial banks Operate in the city of Tabuk in. The researcher applied descriptive and analytical methods to display the concepts related to the subject of the study. The study examined all of the 12 banks operating in the city of Tabuk with their 28 branches(census), and all senior and middle managers working in these branches (119 observation).
To carry out the study, a questionnaire consisting of (28) items was designed to collect data from the study's population. Accordingly, data were collected and analyzed and hypotheses were tested using the Statistical Package for social sciences (SPSS). The study found that the level of the employees' evaluation of the dimensions of the knowledge management was significantly high. The findings also showed the existence of a statistically significant effect to the dimensions of knowledge management in the culture of excellence. According to the Beta coefficients, the indicator of knowledge apply occupied first rank, followed by the indicators of knowledge generation, distribution of knowledge, and knowledge storage.
Finally, the study presented a group of recommendations to the banks and the researchers in order to use knowledge management in the development of the culture of excellence, and conducting new studies on the role of knowledge management in developing the culture of excellence in the commercial banks working in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and in other fields using the indicators of this study and other indicators, especially in areas not covered by this research, in order to examine the results that have been found.


The water-coordinated Zn atom in the title monoaqua zinc nitrate adduct of 2-aminopyrimidine, [Zn(NO3)(2)(C4H5N3)(2)-(H2O)], is bonded to a monodentate nitrate ion and is chelated by the other nitrate ion. The heterocyclic ligands coordinate through ring N-donor sites. The coordination geometry about the Zn(II) atom is a distorted octahedron. Intramolecular N-H center dot center dot center dot O hydrogen bonds occur. In the crystal, adjacent adduct molecules are linked by O- H center dot center dot center dot O, O-H center dot center dot center dot N and N-H center dot center dot center dot O hydrogen bonds into a layer motif parallel to ( 001).


The use of group consultations is expanding in general practice. Emma Hodgson discusses how they have been used to deliver cancer care reviews More people than ever are living with and beyond cance...


The theory of Senescence Resulted from Deficicncy in Shen has a leading status in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).It purposed the Shen(kidney and other undefined function in Traditional Chinese Medicine) is the root of life in which stored the essence of life,and body growth,development and senescence all related to the Shen.On the other hand,as showed in modern life science,the basis of body growth, development and senescence are cell proliferation, cell differentiation and cell senescence,and the body senescence are mainly associated with cell senescence and other undefined mechanism. So we purposed there must have some association between cell senescence and Senescence Resulted from Deficiency in Shen. Based upon the achievements of the life science in cell senescence including related research methods, it could be expect combining it to traditional senescence in TCM will provide a novle approach to explore the theory of Senescence Resulted from Deficiency in Shen in TCM and to elucidate the hided mechanism in related TCM practice. Moreover, it also could provide a new approach to discover the basis of the Shen theory in TCM.


We study coherent photoproduction of $\psi'$ and the subsequent suppression in high energy nuclear collisions. The hot medium effect on charmonium photoproduction is controlled by the competition between the fireball size and nuclear size. When the former is smaller than the later, the photoproduction is only slightly affected by the hot medium. We calculate the yield ratio of $\psi'$ to $J/\psi$ in semi-central Pb-Pb collisions at LHC energy, while the high $p_T$ limit is characterized by the fireball, its value in low $p_T$ limit can still reach the significant enhancement by photoproduction.


We herein report the effect of microwave dielectric heating in the Ru-catalysed cycloisomerisation of 1,6-dienes. Substantially improved reaction rates are attained for a series of 1,6-diene substrates, with equivalent or higher isomeric purity than conventional thermal heating.


The establishment of deaf education in the United States has traditionally been seen as the heroic act of one inspired hearing man, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet. As Paddy Ladd writes in Understanding Deaf Culture, this is the "'Grand Narrative,' where Deaf communities are constructed solely as the individual end product of a lineage of distinguished hearing educators" (2003, 88). More recently, with the establishment of Deaf studies as an academic discipline, credit is increasingly given to Laurent Clerc, the deaf Frenchman from whom T. H. Gallaudet learned to sign and who came to America with Clerc to help establish the nation's first school for deaf children in Hartford, Connecticut. This article argues that these two men would never have been called on to play the roles they did without the earlier and necessary contributions of Lydia Huntley Sigourney. Before Gallaudet and Clerc enrolled their first pupil, Alice Cogswell, in 1817, Lydia Huntley, under the patronage of the wealthy Daniel Wadsworth and with the support of both of Alice's parents, had taught the little deaf girl to read and write English. The Cogswells, the Wadsworths, and the Wadsworths' protégée, Lydia Huntley, formed a group of what Ladd terms "laypeople," people related by blood, friendship, and community who, though they lacked any sort of professional training, nevertheless came together and rolled up their sleeves to enable Alice's education. This article investigates Lydia Huntley Sigourney's role in the founding of American deaf education, her lifelong contacts with the deaf school and its pupils after her own retirement from teaching, and her later erasure from Deaf history.


Initially this work was inspired by a desire to recast the "logic-free" system 9 of GOODSTEIN [3] in a more contemporary style of formalism. Inasmuch as the system developed here has additionally postulated the propositional calculus, however, it winds up being truer in form to the system originally developed by SEOLEM [12]. The main results are that d (i) represents all and only the primitive recursive functions, (ii) possesses a constructive consistency proof, (iii) is incomplete, and (iv) is undecidable. I n this regard it should be mentioned that GOODSTEIN 131 has already shown that 9 is consistent and incomplete, and ROSE [lo] has stated some general conditions under which these same properties may be attributed to a large class of systems of arithmetic. The analogous results for d are different to the extent that we here employ a "logic-bearing " formalism.


Abstract In most OECD countries the policy instrument of choice to prevent people from working in the shadows has been deterrence. While deterrence is well founded from a theoretical point of view, the empirical evidence on its success is weak: tax policies and state deregulation appear to work much better. The discussion of the recent literature underlines that in addition to economic opportunities, the overall situation in the labor market and unemployment are crucial for an understanding of the dynamics of the shadow economy.


Completed in 2016, Chaoyang Bridge in China is the world's first double-deck composite girder cable-stayed bridge with corrugated steel webs. It provides a dual four-lane highway above with cantile...


Subjects were asked to evaluate either a similar personality (n = 36) or a dissimilar personality (n = 36) other on measures of interpersonal attraction and characteristics of an altruistic person. Specifically, Ss were found to rate similar others more positively than dissimilar others and, additionally, to perceive similar others as more helpful and sympathetic than dissimilar others. These results are discussed in terms of the Byrne-Clore reinforcement-affect model and Lott-Lott's secondary reinforcement model of interpersonal attraction.


The quest for higher energy densities of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) and emerging sodium-ion analogues (SIBs) has motivated an intense research effort toward novel electrode materials. We report a simple and inexpensive colloidal synthesis of SnSb nanocrystals (NCs) and demonstrate their utility as lithiumand sodium-ion anode materials. In particular, SnSb NC Li-ion anodes deliver capacities of 890 mA h g 1 for 100 cycles at a current density of 200 mA g 1 and show excellent rate capability, reaching 90% and 80% of the theoretical capacity at current densities of 1000 and 5000 mA g , respectively. Similarly, SnSb NCs show also outstanding Na-ion storage properties with only 5% capacity loss over 100 cycles at a rate of 5000 mA g . Full-cells can be constructed with SnSb anodes and state-of-the-art cathodes, achieving anodic capacities of 600 and 400 mA h g 1 with an average discharge voltage of 3.0 and 2.7 V for lithiumand sodium-ions, respectively.


By combining its own Party construction practice, Zhejiang Textile and Fashion College has car-ried out "Eight Ones" activities among Party members and got encouraging achievements, which shows thecharm of Party members, stimulates developing potential, strengthen organizational vigor and improvesschool-running ability. Practice shows that this is a good approach to keep Communist Party members' ad-vancement.


The reaction of UI3 and KCpRR' (CpRR' = pentamethylcyclopentadienyl, trimethylsilylcyclopentadienyl or tetramethylcyclopentadienyl) in diethyl ether results in the two-electron reduction of the solvent to form trimetallic, mixed valence uranium oxo species.


The invention discloses a method capable of avoiding network congestion in an SDN network. An SDN controller receives an end port congestion informing message sent by an SDN switching device. The end port congestion informing message carries the end port information of a congestion end port of the SDN switching device. The flow which needs switching of the congestion end port is defined as the switching flow. An upstream SDN switching device of the forwarding switching flow is defined according to the network topology. An updating output port of the upstream SDN switching device is defined. The updating output port is not the original output end port of the upstream SDN switching device, can forward the switching flow to an end port of a link of a destination port, and creates an updating flow table which is matched with the switching flow for the upstream SDN switching device. The output end port of the updating flow table is the updating output end and sends the updating flow to the upstream SDN switching device. After the upstream SDN switching device updates its own flow table, the switching flow is forwarded from the updating output port.


Abstract The article summarizes data on the association of Klinefelter syndrome (KS) with autoimmune rheumatic diseases, that is rheumatoid arthritis (RA), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), polymyositis/dermatomyositis, systemic sclerosis (SSc), mixed connective tissue diseases (MCTD), Sjogren's syndrome and antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). Recently, a higher risk for RA, SLE and Sjogren's syndrome in patients with KS has been clearly demonstrated. However, the association of other autoimmune rheumatic disorders such as dermatomyositis/polymyositis, SSc, MCTD and APS is reported only casually. Based on the hormonal changes in KS, there are suggestions that low androgen and higher estrogen levels might be a predisposing factor for the development of autoimmune diseases, but evidence for the association is poor. Epidemiologic studies on larger cohorts of patients are required.


The purpose of this study was to find out how effect does the second-stage which is the intensive course program for sexual offenders of three-stage(basic, intensive and advanced remedial) on impulsivity, anger expression, rape myth and self-esteem of sexual offenders. To this end, 10 people waiting for the second-stage intensive education among sexual violence offenders serving at M prison located in J province were selected as subjects for the study. To verify the effectiveness of the program, repeated measurement design(pre, post and one month post test) was conducted, and a total of 200 hours of 'Intensive Course Program on the Sexual Violence' was conducted to the subjects. The results of this study are as follows. It was confirmed that the intensive course program on the sexual violence for the re-crime risky group in the sex offender is effective in reducing impulsivity and anger expression, which are risk factors of sexual crime, bringing positive changes to rape myths, which are distorted sexual perceptions of sexual violence criminals, and improving self-esteem. Finally, it suggested the necessity of continuous development and improvement of sexual violence preventive programs targeting sexual offenders, and construction of systematic supervision and related system to ensure the effectiveness of remedial after release of sexual offenders. ■ keyword :∣Sexual Violence∣Intensive Course Program on the Sexual Violence∣Impulsivity∣Anger Expression∣Rape Myth∣Self Esteem∣ 접수일자 : 2020년 10월 30일 수정일자 : 2020년 12월 21일 심사완료일 : 2020년 12월 21일 교신저자 : 권재환, e-mail : email@example.com 한국콘텐츠학회논문지 '21 Vol. 21 No. 3 708


Mahabba Network is a national network of Christians committed to praying for Muslim neighbours and friends and equipping people to share Jesus with Muslims.


Calcaneal unicameral bone cyst (UBC) is uncommon benign tumor that can be managed either conservatively or with different surgical interventions described in the literature. However, surgical intervention is usually preferred when the lesion is an active UBC significant in size, as there is the risk of pathological fracture due to thin bone, especially in load-bearing bones like the calcaneus. We report a case of calcaneal UBC considerable in size managed by open curettage and graft reconstruction using a combination of autograft and allograft in a 30-year-old male at two-years follow-up. Level of Evidence IV; Therapeutic Studies; Case Report.


Afforestation trends were compared between two continentally-distinct, yet similar ecoregions to characterize similarities or differences in forest advancement due to natural and anthropogenic forcings. Temporal changes in forest cover were analyzed using high resolution aerial and satellite photographs for Southeast Iowa, USA, and satellite photographs for the western Belgorod Oblast, Russia. An increase in forested area was shown to occur over a 44-year period from 1970–2014 in Iowa where afforestation was reflected by the aggregation of smaller forest units. In the Belgorod region the opposite occurred in that there was an increase in the number of smaller forested units. The rate of forest expansion into open grassland areas, previously used as haying lands and pastures, was 14 m decade−1 and 8 m decade−1 in Iowa and the Belgorod Oblast, respectively. Based on current trends, predicted times for complete forest coverage in the study areas was estimated to be 80 years in Iowa and 300 years in the Belgorod Oblast. In both the Iowa and Belgorod Oblast, there was an increase in annual precipitation at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries, thus providing a contributing mechanism to forest advancement in the study regions and implications for future management practices.


Good morning, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen. It's a great honor to attend this forum. My discussions on this topic will be divided into four parts. In the first part, I'll address the impacts of global financial storm on Taiwan's economy and related unemployment problem. Secondly, I will discuss Taiwan's policy measures to solve the unemployment problem. Thirdly, I will point out some directions of improvement for these employment promotion programs. Finally, I will provide some policy recommendations regarding education and manpower training to speed up economic recovery.


In the follow-up study to Ref. [1], we investigate a benchmark case of a robust nonlinear control of gustinduced limit-cycle oscillations (LCO) of an elastically-mounted transitional airfoil using synthetic-jet actuators (SJA) embedded in the airfoil design of a small-size unmanned air vehicle (UAV). The robust controller is particularly advantageous for high levels of uncertainty and nonlinearity present both in the UAV unsteady flight-path environment and the actuator's response. In the adopted numerical procedure, the actuator is modeled through imposing a fluctuating-velocity boundary condition directly on the airfoil surface for conducting high-accuracy viscous analysis of SJA-based airfoil LCO control governed by the developed robust regulation law. The numerical studies conducted for selected SJA excitation parameters examine the thresholds of the actuator's control authority to produce the desirable impact.


Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are emitted as vapors escape from aboveground organic liquid storage tanks. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that in the petroleum industry along, in the absence of additional regulation, storage tank VOC emissions would reach 231,000 t/yr from the gasoline distribution industry and 122,000 t/yr from the petroleum refining industry by 1998. Proposed storage tank emission controls for the refining industry are estimated to reduce VOC emissions by 23,000 t/yr, with a cost-effectiveness of $309 per ton of VOC eliminated. This article discusses VOC emission estimates and storage tank design and retrofit techniques for controlling emissions from fixed-roof tanks (FRTs), external-floating-roof tanks (EFRTs), and internal-floating-roof tanks (IFRTs). It does not address VOC control systems for treating collected vapors, which were covered in a previous article.


$\text{La}B{\text{O}}_{3}$ ($B=\text{Mn}$, Fe, Co, and Ni) perovskites form a family of materials of significant interest for cathodes of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). In this paper ab initio methods are used to study both bulk and surface properties of relevance for SOFCs, including vacancy formation and oxygen binding energies. A thermodynamic approach and the density functional theory plus $U$ method are combined to obtain energies relevant for SOFC conditions ($T\ensuremath{\approx}800\text{ }\ifmmode^\circ\else\textdegree\fi{}\text{C}$, $P{\text{O}}_{2}\ensuremath{\approx}0.2\text{ }\text{atm}$). The impact of varying ${U}_{\text{eff}}$ $({U}_{\text{eff}}=U\ensuremath{-}J)$ on energy and electronic structure is explored in detail and it is shown that optimal ${U}_{\text{eff}}$ values yield significantly better agreement with experimental energies than ${U}_{\text{eff}}=0$ (which corresponds to the standard generalized gradient approximation). $\text{La}B{\text{O}}_{3}$ oxygen vacancy formation energies are predicted to be in the order $\text{Fe}g\text{Mn}g\text{Co}g\text{Ni}$ (where the largest implies most difficult to form a vacancy). It is shown that (001) $B{\text{O}}_{2}$ terminated surfaces have 1--2 eV lower vacancy formation energies and therefore far higher vacancy concentrations than the bulk. The stable surface species at low temperature are predicted to be the superoxide $\text{O}_{2}{}^{\ensuremath{-}}$ for $B=\text{Mn}$, Fe, Co and a peroxide $\text{O}_{2}{}^{2\ensuremath{-}}$ with a surface oxygen for $B=\text{Ni}$. Entropy effects are predicted to stabilize the monomer oxygen surface state for all $B$ cations at higher temperatures. Overall oxygen coverage of the (001) $B{\text{O}}_{2}$ surface is predicted to be quite low at SOFC operating conditions. These results will aid in understanding the oxygen reduction reaction on perovskite SOFC cathodes.


We study periodic billiard trajectories on a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary, by applying Morse theory to Lagrangian action functionals on the loop space of the manifold. Based on the approximation method due to Benci-Giannoni, we prove that nonvanishing of relative homology of a certain pair of loop spaces implies the existence of a periodic billiard trajectory. We also prove a parallel result for path spaces. We apply those results to show the existence of short billiard trajectories and short geodesic loops. We also recover two known results on the length of a shortest periodic billiard trajectory on a convex body: Ghomi's inequality, and Brunn-Minkowski type inequality due to Artstein-Ostrover.


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Objective To study the changes of serum IL-7 and percentage of regulatory T cells of the chronic hepatitis B patients before and after interferon. Methods The content of IL-7 and the percentage of CD4+CD25+regulatory T cells were detected in the peripheral blood of chronic hepatitis B( CHB) patients(67 cases),chronic hepatitis B virus( HBV) carriers(18 cases),and healthy controls(14 cases) at the 0thweek and 24 thweek. CHB patients treated with Pegasys( Peg-interferon α-2a 180 μg per week for 24 weeks) were divided into the complete response group(16cases) and partial response group(15 cases) and non response group(36 cases) at the end of the treatment,based on the quantitation of HBV-DNA. HBV carriers and healthy group were not treated. Results There were no significant differences on the content of the IL-7 and the percentage of CD4+CD25+regulatory T cells at the 0thweek among the complete response group,partial response group and non response group( P 0. 05),while there were significantly different between the complete response and partial response group,or non response group( P 0. 05) at the 24 thweek. In addition,there were significant differences in the complete response group before and after the treatment( P 0. 05).Conclusion The serum IL-7 was decreased and the regulatory T cells were increased in chronic hepatitis B patients treated with interferon,and may be related to viral response.


We analyze the existence of community structures in the social networks obtained from the similarity and collaboration between musical artists. The comparison between both networks, from the point of view of their corresponding community structures, reveals some characteristic patterns of organization that allow us to extract conclusions about the driving forces of both networks. Furthermore, we identify the role of the main hubs within, and between, communities and analyze their importance in the traffic of information around the network.


This study aims to find out whether there is an influence between human capital practices and productivity on company performance. The theoretical approach raised in this study is about human capital, productivity, and company performance. The research method approach carried out in this study is quantitative, namely by regression testing, and previously testing the quality of the instrument through validity and reliability tests. The results obtained are that the practice of human capital and productivity does affect the performance of the company. So it is recommended that companies that are the samples of this study can consider policies that can support company performance through the practice of human capital and support for employee productivity, although there are still many other factors that affect company performance.


Introduction: The emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) infections has been extensively observed worldwide and has become a priority issue over past decade. Tigecycline, a broad spectrum antibiotic covering against many MDR organisms, has been widely used. However, recent meta-analysis studies have raised a concern for its efficacy and safety. Reviewing tigecycline safety data would enhance the appropriate use of this medication. Areas covered: This article reviews the safety profile of tigecycline, including its side effects and drug interactions. Expert opinion: The increased mortality associated with tigecycline is not yet well understood. Based on current evidence, alternative options must be prioritized over tigecycline if available. When tigecycline use is warranted, vigilant observation to identify any breakthrough infections and careful monitoring of progression of the original infection are highly recommended. Considering a second agent (either for synergism or enhancing coverage) may be required.


Hans-Georg Gadamer's important work, Truth and Method, ushered in a new trend in hermeneutic thought that combined understanding, interpretation, and application into a dynamic process that all individuals experience in actions producing meaning. The individual was portrayed as situated in a specific tradition that influences the cognitions and meanings that texts and language use in general can contain. The central point of Gadamer's hermeneutic thought is that the human being is historically situated, and that understanding is consequently historically conditioned. It was this intrinsic situatedness of humans and their prejudices that led him to conclude, "all understanding is interpretation." Richard Shusterman, in his work "Beneath Interpretation," has recently taken issue with this stance that equates interpretation with understanding, arguing for a conception of "understanding" that resides "beneath" interpretation. Gadamer and others are said to collapse interpretation into understanding, thus depriving unders tood bodily exper iences of their p lace in the conceptualization of "understanding." According to Shusterman, all understanding does not involve interpretation. This essay will argue that this position advanced by Shusterman rests ultimately on a misconception of Gadamer's notion of interpretation, and as such, is not a strong challenge to Gadamer's insights concerning the process of human understanding. Shusterman's emphasis on understanding being pre-reflective and interpretation being conscious disavows Gadamer's analysis that they are identical in so far as they both refer to an individual's situatedness in tradition and its concurrent impacts on the production of meaning. In order to demonstrate how this is so, this essay will first examine some of


The space astrometry mission Gaia will construct a dense optical QSO-based celestial reference frame. For consistency between optical and radio positions, it will be important to align the Gaia and VLBI frames (International Celestial Reference Frame) with the highest accuracy. In this respect, it is found that only 10% of the ICRF sources are suitable to establish this link (70 sources), either because most of the ICRF sources are not bright enough at optical wavelengths or because they show extended radio emission which precludes reaching the highest astrometric accuracy. In order to improve the situation, we initiated a multi-step VLBI observational project, dedicated to finding additional suitable radio sources for aligning the two frames. The sample consists of about 450 opticallybright radio sources, typically 20 times weaker than the ICRF sources, which have been selected by cross-correlating optical and radio catalogs. The initial observations, aimed at checking whether these sources are detectable with VLBI, and conducted with the European VLBI Network (EVN) in 2007, showed an excellent 90% detection rate. This paper reports on global VLBI observations carried out in March 2008 to image 105 from the 398 previously detected sources. All sources were successfully imaged, revealing compact VLBI structure for about half of them, which is very promising for the future.


Our model can also be used to predict the effects of various policy actions on fundamental values. For example, if our general conclusion--that there may be some frothy local markets, but there is no national bubble in single-family home prices--is correct, then monetary policy is a blunt instrument for letting the air out of local bubblers. Should the Federal Reserve increase interest rates and lower fundamental values in Atlanta, Dallas, and Indianapolis in order to deflate San Marco? Table 9 showed the predicted effects on housing premiums of changes in mortgage rates and required returns, due perhaps to changes in inflation or monetary policy. Another way to look at these data is by examining the predicted changes in fundamental values shown in table 11. Changes in mortgage rates and required rates of return clearly have substantial effects on fundamental values. In November 2005 the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform proposed changing the tax treatment of mortgage interest, noting that many countries, including Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, do not allow a home mortgage interest deduction in calculating taxable income as the United States does. (27) To make their proposal somewhat more politically palatable, the panel recommended replacing the federal mortgage interest deduction with a tax credit equal to 15 percent of the mortgage interest paid that year, subject to some maximum. Because the details of this proposal are unclear, we analyze the effects on fundamental values of two policies: complete elimination of the interest deduction, and its replacement with a 15 percent tax credit without a cap. Table 12 shows the implied median fundamental values for each market for a ten-year horizon and an infinite horizon. Relative to the current deductibility of mortgage interest, the 15 percent credit would reduce our median estimates of fundamental value across cities by 11 to 17 percent for a ten-year horizon and by 4 to 6 percent for an infinite horizon, and the elimination of the tax benefit would reduce our median estimates of fundamental values by 20 to 30 percent for a ten-year horizon and by 9 to 13 percent for an infinite horizon. Looked at the other way around, and using a ten-year horizon, the current deductibility of mortgage interest increases our median estimates of fundamental values across cities by 12 to 20 percent relative to a 15 percent tax credit (assuming a 28 percent marginal federal income tax rate) and by 26 to 44 percent relative to the absence of tax benefits. So Why Have Housing Prices Increased? If our conclusion--that homes in the urban housing markets we studied are not wildly out of line with fundamentals--is correct, how do we explain the recent run-up in housing prices? There are two possible explanations: fundamentals have increased rapidly, or prices were substantially below fundamental values in the past and this discount has been shrinking as prices have moved closer to fundamental values. We cannot say how much of the increase in housing prices is due to each factor without expanding our present study to include historical estimates of the valuation premium in each of these ten markets. That task is far beyond the scope of this paper. But our anecdotal evidence is that, at least in that part of Los Angeles County where we live, home prices three to five years ago were much further below fundamental values than they are today. One of the authors of this paper is not only an economics professor but also a certified financial planner and has been advising prospective homebuyers for several years. Until very recently it was clear that buying a home was more financially advantageous than renting one; the decision now is much less obvious. For a modest test of this anecdotal evidence, we collected matched rental and sale data for Los Angeles County for 2001 through 2004, to supplement our 2005 data. This is a particularly interesting time period, since the OFHEO index of housing prices for the Los Angeles metropolitan area doubled during these five years. …


This paper investigates optical transmission impairments in a metropolitan WDM ring network using simulation. We find that these networks can lead to paths long enough where nonlinear effects can become noticeable and should be properly engineered to balance the effects of both receiver electrical noise as well as fiber nonlinearities. This becomes increasingly important for the design of WDM networks in the emerging metro market.


Introduction: It is well known that ionizing radiation (IR) exposure increases the risk of thyroid cancer; however less is known about its role in development of autoimmune thyroiditis. Aim of work: to investigate the thyroid gland functions,level of anti TPO among interventional cardiology team members searching for an association between the level of their occupational exposure to ionizing radiation and the thyroid gland integrity. Materials and methods: This work was carried out in Cardiac Catheterization Unit in National Heart Institute Center. The study comprised two groups, an exposed group of 47 cardiac catheterization workers (19 physicians, 15 nurses and 13 technicians) and a control group of 47 workers matched with the exposed group as regards age and sex. The studied groups were subjected to a detailed questionnaire, full clinical examinations. laboratory investigations in the form of serum thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), Triiodothyronine (T3), Thyroxine (T4) and antithyroxiperoxidase antibodies (anti-TPO). Radiation exposure was monitored by digital dosimeter. Results: Dosimeter readings were higher among physicians followed by nurses and technicians. Statistically significant higher level of serum TSH, anti-TPO along with statistically significant lower levels of T3, were found among the exposed compared to control groups (P<0.05). Significant positive correlation was detectedbetween the level of anti-TPO and TSH (r= 0.876 P<0.001). Moreover, a significant negative correlation was found between anti-TPO and each of T3 (r= -0.814 P<0.001) and T4 (r= -0.324 P<0.05). ANOVA and Post Hoc tests showed significantly higher level of anti-TPO with significantly lower levels of T3 among the physicians compared to control group. Conclusion: Autoimmune thyroiditis may be considered as one of the adverse health hazards of occupational exposure to ionizing radiation in cardiac catheterization units. Recommendations: We recommend the regular measurement of thyroid hormone especially TSH and anti-TPO to detect early affection of thyroid glandamong radiation exposed workers.


Reduced sexual activity and dysfunctional problems are highly prevalent during pregnancy [1] and many women experience sexual dysfunction following childbirth [2]. Sexual function after childbirth is an important component of life [3, 4]. There are many changes in the genital or other body organs of women due to birth which can cause sexual dysfunctions [3]. Perineal trauma, especially obstetric anal sphincter injury, is an independent predictor of dyspareunia one year after the delivery [3]. Women experience many changes during pregnancy and the postpartum period such as physical and physiological problems, changes in the body due to hormonal reasons, adaptation to motherhood and new roles in the family all of which can affect women's sexual life [5-9]. In the postpartum period, women may have to deal with psychological and physical problems such as breast problems, fatigue, pain in the perineal area, infection, constipation, hemorrhoids, urinary or fecal incontinence, postpartum depression and discomfort during sex [10, 11]. As expected, the problems may affect the women's sexual life negatively and can cause sexual dysfunction or dyspareunia [8, 12].


Objective To explore the protective effect of ligustrazine on the apoptosis of PC12 cells induced by dopamine(DA) and its mechanisms. Methods Apoptosis of PC12 cell was induced by dopamine at the concentrations of 0, 0.30, 0.60 mM. Ligustrazine at the concentrations of 0, 30, 60, 90 μg/ml was added to defect the effect of ligustrazine on apotosis. The subdiploid peaks showing cell apoptosis rate were detected by flow cytometry. The cell activity was determined by MTT. Concentration of nitric oxide(NO) was determined by the Griess reaction. Results Compared with those of the control, the apoptosis rate and the level of NO induced by 0.30 or 0.60 mmol/L DA were higher, but the activity of PC12 cells was lower. Compared with those of the groups without ligustrazine, the apoptosis rate and the level of NO increased, but the cell activity decreased in a dose dependent manner. Conclusion Ligustrazine can inhibit the apoptosis induced by DA, which might be correlated with the decrease of NO production.


A 14-channel analog optical processor is introduced as a basic module to perform operations in signal processing and optical computing. To avoid the disadvantage of optical analog processors as well as high specialisation and low accuracy it is proposed to utilize an acousto-optical systolic array processor (AOSAP's) using binary coded data. Applying this processor the multiplication of two numbers with high accuracy by convolving their digital representations is demonstrated. The modular structure of the systolic architecture allows an expansion to a systolic array and permits the solution of complex mathematical operations


This paper designs and implements a system of detecting the air leakage cigarettes based on TMS320F2812. The ideas of the hardware architecture, the developing flow of software are expounded. The system is implemented on the hardware platform using TMS320F2812 processor. By capturing cigarette air leakage signals, and after signal pre-processing and A/D converting, processor determines the quality of cigarette, and ultimately sends the results to an industrial control computer on Ethernet network.


snow condition ski friction Everyone who skis knows that waxing at temperatures around the freezing point is a challenging task. It seems to exist no standard remedy to make the ski sliding on all types of snow. Waxing is much easier for conditions of low temperature or high humidity of the snow. Using a portable friction measuring device, a large variety of snow conditions was tested. The results prove that for either high snow humidities around the freezing point or dry snow at low snow temperatures the friction coefficient converges to a constant value. In the vicinity of the freezing point at low snow humidities, however, friction shows large scatter which is mainly influenced by the grain size of snow. © Team Snowstorm


Fine-fraction (<63 μm) grain-size analyses of 530 samples from Holes 1095A, 1095B, and 1095D allow assessment of the downhole grain-size distribution at Drift 7. A variety of data processing methods, statistical treatment, and display techniques were used to describe this data set. The downhole fine-fraction grain-size distribution documents significant variations in the average grain-size composition and its cyclic pattern, revealed in five prominent intervals: (1) between 0 and 40 meters composite depth (mcd) (0 and 1.3 Ma), (2) between 40 and 80 mcd (1.3 and 2.4 Ma), (3) between 80 and 220 mcd (2.4 and 6 Ma), (4) between 220 and 360 mcd, and (5) below 360 mcd (prior to 8.1 Ma). In an approach designed to characterize depositional processes at Drift 7, we used statistical parameters determined by the method of moments for the sortable silt fraction to distinguish groups in the grainsize data set. We found three distinct grain-size populations and used these for a tentative environmental interpretation. Population 1 is related to a process in which glacially eroded shelf material was redeposited by turbidites with an ice-rafted debris influence. Population 2 is composed of interglacial turbidites. Population 3 is connected to depositional sequence tops linked to bioturbated sections that, in turn, are 1Moerz, T., and Wolf-Welling, T.C.W., 2001. Data report: Fine-fraction grainsize distribution data and their statistical treatment and relation to processes, Site 1095 (ODP Leg 178, western Antarctic Peninsula). In Barker, P.F., Camerlenghi, A., Acton, G.D., and Ramsay, A.T.S. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 178, 1–27 [Online]. Available from World Wide Web: <http://www-odp.tamu.edu/ publications/178_SR/VOLUME/ CHAPTERS/SR178_24.PDF>. [Cited YYYY-MM-DD] 2GEOMAR Research Center for Marine Geoscience, Wischhofstrasse 1-3, C4, 24148 Kiel, Federal Republic of Germany. email@example.com 3Institute for Geosciences, ChristianAlbrechts University Kiel, Olshausenstrasse 40, 24118 Kiel, Federal Republic of Germany. Initial receipt: 16 April 2001 Acceptance: 8 August 2001 Web publication: 29 November 2001 Ms 178SR-234 T. MOERZ AND T.C.W. WOLF-WELLING DATA REPORT: GRAIN-SIZE DISTRIBUTION 2 influenced by contourite currents and pelagic background sedimentation.


1. Knowledge Transfer and National Development 2. Stages of National Development 3. National Strategies of Knowledge Transfer 4. Educational Reform and National Development 5. Conclusions


Thispaper presents the designing and implementation of 16 bit Processor using VHDL (very high speed integrated circuit hardware description language) on FPGA (Spartan-6 kit). The CPU, shifter, comparator, control unit and memory are integrated in proposed processor. The processor has 16 bit arithmetic and logical instruction set analogous to 8085 and also includes multiplication and division instruction. The control unit generates all the control signals needed to control the coordination among the entire component of the processor. All the modules in the design are coded in VHDL (very high speed integrated circuit hardware description language) to ease the description, verification, simulation and hardware implementation. The design entry, synthesis, and simulation of processor are done by using Xilinx ISE 13.2 software and implemented on XC6SLX16-2CGS324 Spartan-6 FPGA device. Keywords— Register transfer level (RTL), Veryhigh speed integrated circuit hardware description language (VHDL),Arithmetic logic unit (ALU), Central processing unit (CPU), Field programmable gate array (FPGA).


Non co-operative target identification using laser vibrometry is typically based upon characterization of the frequency spectra obtained after demodulating the vibrometer's output signal. The characterization uses information gleaned from certain identifiable features, such as tonals, which can be extracted from the vibration spectra. The success of this classification is dependent upon the performance of the demodulation scheme adopted. This paper investigates a number of different digital demodulation strategies that can be used on down-shifted and digitized vibrometer output in which the gross Doppler term has been removed. This paper presents an assessment of the likely impact of demodulation schemes upon several critical classification cues, for example signal-to-noise ratio, frequency and bandwidth. These cues help to parameterize the vibration spectrum and may in themselves be used to classify targets. Only digital schemes are considered here, in contrast to conventional vibrometer technology which uses analogue demodulation schemes. The investigations take the form of a general review, followed by a detailed description of each demodulation method. Each method is applied to a representative modulated signal, and its performance assessed qualitatively. Of key importance in this analysis are the different time-frequency representations (TFRs) of the digitized vibrometer signal, in addition to phase- differencing methods, which are used to derive the instantaneous frequency. TFRs which have been examined are the short-time Fourier Transform, Wigner and Choi-Williams distributions.


This paper demonstrates the scaling of bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonator to create micro-acoustic RF filtering solutions in the 8 – 12 GHz range for X band applications using periodically polarized piezoelectric films (P3F). P3F BAW technology overcomes the traditional thickness frequency trade-off of single layer BAW technology. P3F BAW resonators fabricated using XBAW process in the frequency range of 8-10 GHz with FoM (${{\text{k}}_{\text{t}}}^2 \times {{\text{Q}}_{\text{p}}}$ product) of 80-120 are reported in this work.


The present investigation was conducted to examine the antioxidant and antimicrobial activities of different solvent extracts of the rhizome of Curcuma leucorrhiza Roxb. against four human pathogenic bacterial strains and four plant pathogenic fungal strains. The chloroform extract showed the highest scavenging property while the petroleum ether extract showed the highest antibacterial and antifungal activities. For all extracts, the minimum bactericidal concentrations (MBCs) were higher than the minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs).


The paper examines conditions for the ignition of high fire point combustible liquids on extended surface materials (e.g. textiles or insulating materials) prone to the so-called «wick effect». It is demonstrated that such liquids may ignite at lower temperatures than their standard fire points. The «wick effect» has to be taken into account when determining the nature of the liquid used to set fire to a person and/or property. The implications of this effect for the spontaneous combustion of liquids and meltable solid organic substances on porous materials is also discussed.


We studied the influence of a 10 nm AlxOy passivation on the stress‐temperature behavior of 100 nm and 1 μm thick Cu films. At low temperatures, the passivation induces a large tensile stress increase in the 100 nm film; however, its effect on the 1 μm film is negligible. At high temperatures, the opposite behavior is observed; while the passivation does not change the 100 nm film behavior, it strengthens the 1 μm film by driving it deeper into compression. These observations are explained in light of a combination of constrained diffusional creep and dislocation dynamics unique to ultra‐thin films.