Collective potential energy surfaces are calculated in both the adiabatic and sudden approximations by using the asymmetric two-center shell model in the Strutinsky method. It is shown that fusion of two colliding heavy ions occurs by their crossing over of the adiabatic interaction barrier. The adiabatic scattering potentials present two barriers, whereas no barrier is shown to occur in sudden scattering potentials. The first barrier is obtained just past the saddle shape but is too low, such that a deep inelastic process is expected. The other, inner, barrier is high enough to let the system fall into the fusion well, whose excitation energy then determines whether a cool compound nucleus is produced or the fusion-fission process occurs. For a given compound nucleus, the excitation energy is found to be small for only a few target-projectile combinations, which increase as their mass asymmetry increases. Such target-projectile combinations which refer to a cool compound nucleus can be identified by a simple calculation of the fragmentation potential based on the ground state binding energies with Coulomb and proximity effects calculated at a constant relative separation of the two nuclei. Our calculations are made for the composite systems with 102 < or =Z


Quinine is widely used for the treatment of nocturnal leg cramps and is also commonly present in small quantities in 'bitter' soft drinks. Recognised haematological problems associated with the ingestion of quinine include thrombocytopenia, haemolytic anaemia, neutropenia and disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). Five cases of quinine-associated DIC have been reported to date.1-3 We would like to report a further case which occurred after only two doses of quinine sulphate separated by an interval of 3 months.

A 79-year-old woman, who was previously fit and healthy, was admitted via Accident and Emergency with a recent onset of multiple bruises, melaena, and hypotension. She was taking bendrofluazide 2.5 mg daily for hypertension. Three months earlier she had complained of leg cramps and had been prescribed quinine sulphate 300 mg as necessary. One dose had been used with good effect at that time.

Two days before admission she had suffered dysuria and frequency of micturition but had received no antibiotic therapy. Leg cramps again became a problem and she took a second dose of quinine sulphate 300 mg. Within 12 hours she had developed spontaneous bruising, haematuria, haemoptysis, melaena, and lightheadedness.

On examination she was fully …


Over the past two decades, Data-Intensive Analysis has emerged not only as a basis for the Fourth Paradigm of engineering and scientific discovery but as a basis for discovery in most human endeavors for which data is available. Originating in the 1960s, its recent emergence due to Big Data and massive computing power is leading to widespread deployment, yet it is in its infancy in its application and our understanding of it; hence in its development. Given the potential risks and rewards of Data-Intensive Analysis and its breadth of application, it is imperative that we get this right. The objective of this emerging Fourth Paradigm is more than acquiring data and extracting knowledge. Like its predecessor the scientific method, the objective of the Fourth Paradigm is to investigate phenomena by acquiring new knowledge, and correct and integrate it with previous knowledge. In addition, data science is a body of principles and techniques with which to measure and improve the correctness, completeness, and efficiency of Data-Intensive Analysis. It is now time to identify and understand the fundamentals. In my research, I have analyzed more than 30 very large-scale use cases to understand current practical aspects, to gain insight into the fundamentals, and to address the fourth "V" of Big Data – veracity -the accuracy of the data and the resulting analytics This development may take


In this paper,an example shows that there exists a continuous distribution function which the corresponding random variable is not continuous. This knowledge can help student master the characteristics of distribution function which the random variable is continuous and apply to the actual better.


In 2019, the domains of astrophysics, nuclear physics, and particle physics joined efforts to create an open scientific analysis infrastructure to support the principles of data FAIRness (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) through the EU H2020 project "ESCAPE—European Science Cluster of Astronomy & Particle Physics ESFRI Research Infrastructures" [1]. The ESCAPE international consortium brings together European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) projects [Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) (https://www.cta-observatory. org/), Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) (https://elt.eso.org/), European Solar Telescope (EST) (https://www. est-east.eu/), Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR)-Society for Heavy Ion Research (GSI) (https:// www.gsi.de/en/researchaccelerators/ fair), High Luminosity-Large Hadron Collider (HC-LHC) (https://hilumilhc. web.cern.ch/), Cubic Kilometer Neutrino Telescope (KM3NeT) (https:// www.km3net.org/), and Square Kilometer Array (SKA) (https://www. skatelescope.org/)] and other panEuropean RI and organizations [European Council for Nuclear Research (https://home.cern/), European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO) (https://www.eso.org), Joint Institute for Very Long Baseline Interferometry European Reseach Infrastructure Consortium (JIVE) (https://www.jive. eu/), and European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) (https://www.egogw.it/)], linking them to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), which is an initiative launched by the European Union (EU) to improve the access of researchers to data, tools, and resources, leading to new insights and innovation for data-driven and open science. ESCAPE is one of the five thematic science clusters (SCLs) supported by the EU. The others are: ENVRI-Fair (https://envri.eu/home-envri-fair/) for environmental science, EOSC-Life (https://www.eosc-life.eu/) for life science, The Photon and Neutron Open Science Cloud (PANOSC) (https:// www.panosc.eu/) for neutron and light source facilities, and SSHOC (https:// sshopencloud.eu/) for social science and humanities [2]. The ESCAPE project is at the midpoint of its work program. It has currently implemented the first functioning pilot "Data Lake" infrastructure that is a new model for federated computing and storage to address the Exabyte scale of data volumes of the next generation RIs [3]. The Data Lake is an evolution of the current Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) computing model for the advent of HLLHC and for the first time, thanks to ESCAPE, it is the product of a crossdomain and cross-project collaboration, where scientists from HL-LHC, SKA, CTA, FAIR-GSI, and others codevelop and cooperate from the beginning. ESCAPE is also setting up a sustainable open-access repository for deployment, exposure, preservation, and sharing of scientific software and services. It will house software and services for data processing and analysis, as well as test data sets of the partner ESFRI projects, user-support documentation, tutorials, presentations, innovation contexts, and training activities. High-performance programming methods and deep learning approaches have been developed, benchmarked, and in some cases adopted by the concerned ESFRI RIs. From the user-access point of view, ESCAPE aims to build a prototype "science analysis platform" that supports data discovery and integration, provides access to the repository, enables user-customized processing and workflows, interfaces with the underlying distributed Data Lake, and links to existing infrastructures, such as the Virtual Observatory, and also enables researchers' participation in large citizen-powered research projects, such as Zooniverse (https://www.zooniverse.org/). First prototypes are under evaluation for SKA, CTA, FAIR-GSI, and for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. In summary, ESCAPE aims to deploy an integrated open "Virtual Research Environment" (VRE) through its services for data research, guaranteeing and boosting scientific results. ESCAPE has created synergies through frequent interactions among the SCLs, with the European Commission, as well as with consortia such as the AstroParticle Physics European Consortium (APPEC), European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA), and Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee (NuPECC). All these synergies enable precise evaluation of progress and evo-


Laboratory testing of digital beamforming processor is required to test and optimize the beamformer algorithm, code and hardware before integrating with antenna and testing the beamformer in an anechoic chamber. Development of a stimulus generator, for carrying out such an exercise, itself can be quite an involved task for a digital beamformer employing a large phased array antenna. This paper proposes an innovative design of a stimulus generator for the receive beamformer system. A reconfigurable hardware prototype, with a Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA based architecture, is developed to generate IF stimulus for an 8-elements receive beamformer. It can provide a stimulus for upto four transmitting sources, each with programmable frequency, bandwidth, direction of arrival, S/N and interference. The beamformer performance testing for selective element failure can also be facilitated. Testing of a beamformer with larger phased array antenna can be achieved using multiple cards. The hardware test results are reported General Terms Digital Beam Former Stimulus Generator


According to the mining depth of No.4 seam in Huafeng Mine was over 1 150 m and the seam with the high bumping tendency and the immediate roof with medium pressure bumping tendency,the coal mining face would face a serious rock burst danger and other problems during the mining process.In order to prevent the rock burst occurred in the mining period,a regional pressure releasing,mining in the upper and lower liberated seams,constructed large diameter pressure releasing borehole with diameter of 108 mm,depth of 30 m and space of 2.5 m between boreholes and other measures conducted for the standby coal mining face.When the stress of the standby coal mining area was reduced by 30%~50%,the micro seismic monitoring and measuring,mine seismic monitoring and measuring,ground sound monitoring and measuring,stress monitoring and measuring,drilling cuttings monitoring and measuring and other technology were applied to monitor and measuring the coal mining face during the mining process.The practices showed that the regional pressure releasing and the rock burst monitoring and measuring technology conducted in the standby coal mining face could effectively prevent the destructive rock burst occurred.


An important survey of the dental health of Ancient Egyptians, investigating the effects of diet and living conditions. Miller uses as evidence a selection of skulls from the Duckwoth collection in Cambridge and from the Department of Palaeopathology at the British Museum, ranging in date from the Neolithic (c.4000 BC) to the Greek period (c.300 BC). The study aims to trace trends in dental health through this period and relate findings to documentary and archaeological evidence for changes in diet.


Abstract Background Schistosomiasis is to a degree a disease of contact with fecally contaminated surface waters, rather than ingestion. Repeated treatments with praziquantel reduce schistosomiasis prevalence and morbidity; however, transmission persists and prevalence of infection often recover within a few years. Methods In a community in rural Bahia, Brazil that straddles a shallow river, we surveyed and treated all individuals that tested positive for schistosomiasis by Kato Katz in stools in 2009, 2012, 2013, 2015, and 2017. Upstream and downstream, as well as common water contact sites along the river were sampled and analyzed by microbial source tracking for human fecal indicator markers. The location of each home and water contact site was registered with a handheld GPS unit. Spatial analyses were performed by using QGIS software, version 2.14. Results The population in the village was 460 in 2009, with minimal fluctuation over the study period. In 2009, schistosomiasis prevalence was 45%. After successive rounds of community-wide treatment with praziquantel, in the years 2012, 2013, 2015, and 2017, prevalence decreased to 24%, 16%, 13%, and 1.6%, respectively. Among the river water samples, human fecal indicator markers were detectable in minimal quantities upstream of the village. The highest concentrations were found in the downstream sections of the village. Hotspot analysis, raster calculator, and nearest neighbor analysis were used to display and analyze the prevalence of schistosomiasis. Distribution of infection was widespread initially and clustered in the downstream sections of the village after successive treatments. Conclusion In this rural community in Brazil, sustained decrease in schistosomiasis prevalence was seen after multiple community-wide treatments over 5 years. Reinfection was not distributed randomly but concentrated in the downstream portion of the village, where human fecal water contamination is increased. Targeting sanitation in key areas may decrease sources of transmission persistence after cessation of community-wide treatment efforts. Disclosures All authors: No reported disclosures.


It is possible to encounter the chronic radiation esophagitis even if it is uncommon. The occurrence of stricture in whole esophagus during therapeutic radiation to neck carcinomas such as larinx carcinomas is extremely rare . Only localized strictures were encountered in the literatures. On the barium meal esophagus graphics; osephagus had an robe appearances in its extent, narrowed and showed mucosal irregularities. Because the complications such as primary carcinoma and stricture in esophagus present after years of irradiation, the relation of esophagitis with radiation can be missed. As the stricture extents whole esophagus and the radiation osephagitis is not known well among other esophagitises, chronic radiation osephagitis were described and literatures were researched to come attention to this case. Radiation esophagitis is a common but frequently unrecognized whole-esophagus including radiation esophagilis as a complication of therapeutic radiation to neck lor the neck area carsinom.


In this article, the author argues that educational policymaking, teaching, and assessment are most effective and ethical when they are carried out with attention to local contexts. He explores this concept through a consideration of Nebraska's unique School-based, Teacher-led Assessment and Reporting System (STARS), which created a statewide policy framework that honored local teaching and assessments, including classroom assessments. The conceptual linchpin of STARS was a rethinking of the traditional distinction between formative and summative assessments and fostering of adaptive leadership at all levels of the system, most important, the classroom level. Using the concept of kairos to describe appropriateness for the occasion at hand, the author discusses the ways in which STARS offered an alternative to high-stakes standardized testing. Moreover, he argues that this approach holds important lessons for those who wish to understand the power of informative assessment, even in an educational world that tends toward standardization.


Commercially available conductive inks are typically made up of precious metal nanoparticles, such as gold (Au) and silver (Ag). Thus, cheaper metals like copper (Cu) are currently being explored as alternative material. Though Cu has a comparable conductivity to that of Ag, they tend to oxidize easily when exposed to air and water, which could limit their application. In this work, oxidation-stable Cu nanoparticles with mean diameter as small as 57 nm were prepared by simple electroless deposition in water. Food-grade gelatin was used as stabilizer, which makes the process more economical and environment-friendly. In situ monitoring of mixed potential was carried out during synthesis to understand the kinetics of the reaction. The mixed potential of the solution shifted negatively as the amount of gelatin was increased. This suggests faster reduction rate.


The primary circuit activity in a high temperature gascooled reactor (HTGR) depends mainly on the failure fraction of the coaled fuel particles (CP) in manufacture and during irradiation. The oddshaped UO2 kernels (ellipsoids, kernels with tails, twins etc.) are one of main reasons of CP failure in fuel element fabrication. The design requirement of the rate of oddshaped UO2 kernels is less than 1×10-4. According to this requirement, a random sample containing about 30000 UO2 shouldn't have any oddshaped kernels. This paper briefly introduces sampling plan and determination method to examine the rate of oddshaped kernels. This determination is a vibrational separation method. The separation is performed by passing the UO2 kernels over slightly inclined vibrating plate with prescribed frequency and amplitude. This vibrational separation method with fast inspection speed and reliable results will be applied to quality control the production of 10MW HTGR fuel elements.


This study was conducted to determine the effects of neem leaf and ginger extracts as a growth promoter of broiler. A total of forty day-old broiler chicks were divided into four groups viz. I0, I1, I2 and I3 which were supplemented with a mixture of extracts from neem leaf and ginger @ 0 ml, 1 ml, 2 ml and 3 ml/liter of drinking water, respectively. Weekly observations were recorded for live body weight, weight gain, feed consumption, feed efficiency and blood parameters of broilers for up to six weeks. The initial mean body weight of group I0, I1, I2 and I3 on first week chicks were 165 ± 5.00, 166 ± 3.00, 163 ± 3.00 and 164 ± 4.00 gm, respectively. At the end of the experiment (42 nd day) final mean body weight were 1550 ±10.00, 1720 ±10.00, 1651 ± 1.00 and 1782 ± 2.00 gm, respectively. The net body weight gains were 1385 ± 5.00, 1554 ± 7.00, 1488 ± 2.00 and 1618 ± 2.00 gm, respectively. Cost benefit analysis revealed that net profit per broiler was 24.04, 51.05, 35.12 and 56.64 taka, respectively. It is, therefore, concluded that the broiler production by using mixture of nee leaf and ginger extracts may be profitable with a safety health issue for human consumption.


This chapter focuses on the e¤ects of skilled migration on developing countries. We ...rst present new evidence on the magnitude of the "brain drain" at the international level. Using a stylized model of education investment in a context of migration, we then survey the theoretical and empirical brain drain literature in a uni...ed framework. Finally we use a particular speci...cation of the model to discuss a number of policy issues from the perspective of developing


The 2,6-di(thiomethyl)pyridine sub-unit has been incorporated into pyridine-based dendritic structures providing a series of dendritic wedges, which readily form PdII complexes.


The paper covers aspects of car and van pooling in Australia and the United States. The relative values of publicity, both dynamic and passive, are discussed, and its consequent impact on the success of these paratransit modes. An examination of motivations and attitudes to car and van pooling in New South Wales is made, based on recent surveys (a).


Circuits and methods for suppressing integrated circuit leakage currents are described. Many of these circuits and methods are particularly well-suited for use in dynamic memory circuits. Examples describe the use of power, ground, or both and power and ground source transistors used for generating virtual voltages. An aspect of the invention describes lowering refresh current. An aspect describes reducing the standby current. An aspect of the invention describes lowering leakage resulting from duplicated circuits, such as row decoders and word line drivers. An aspect describes methods of performing early wake-up of source transistors. A number of source transistor control mechanisms are taught. Circuit layouts methods are taught for optimizing integrated circuit layouts using the source transistors.


Many SNSs are based on access control that selectively discloses privacy information to the public, which causes numerous privacy issues, while, sharing information is the purpose of using social media. Our aim is to analyze privacy setting tendencies through measuring distributions of different user categories and by evaluating their privacy scores in Facebook. We also investigate how a user's privacy setting is affected by his/her neighbors, and observe the relationship between privacy settings and social activity. These findings can be used for guiding SNSs users in designing their privacy settings. Keyword Social Network,Privacy,Facebook


Epoxyketone proteasome inhibitors have attracted much interest due to their potential as anticancer drugs. Although the biosynthetic gene clusters for several peptidyl epoxyketone natural products have recently been identified, the enzymatic logic involved in the formation of the terminal epoxyketone pharmacophore has been relatively unexplored. Here, we report the identification of the minimal set of enzymes from the eponemycin gene cluster necessary for the biosynthesis of novel metabolites containing a terminal epoxyketone pharmacophore in Escherichia coli, a versatile and fast‐growing heterologous host. This set of enzymes includes a non‐ribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS), a polyketide synthase (PKS), and an acyl‐CoA dehydrogenase (ACAD) homologue. In addition to the in vivo functional reconstitution of these enzymes in E. coli, in vitro studies of the eponemycin NRPS and 13C‐labeled precursor feeding experiments were performed to advance the mechanistic understanding of terminal epoxyketone formation.


Neural interfaces for motor control read out motor planning activity in the brain and use it to control a computer or physical device in order to restore or replace motor functions of the brain. Applications involving the readout of intended eye movements however remain comparatively undeveloped. In this study, we aim to develop decoding algorithms that can predict eye movement signals from neural responses during the planning period, before the animal makes an eye movement. The single-trial local field potentials of neurons in Frontal Eye Field (FEF), a cortical area that contributes to the control of eye movements, as well as, in area V4 of nonhuman primates are used to train the eye movement decoders. The algorithms identified and optimized in this study can facilitate the development of brain machine interface systems for eye movements, with an ultimate goal of providing assistive technologies to correct for the impaired gaze control in patients with eye movement disorders.


Around the world AIDS organizations have launched partnerships with varying degrees of pomp and ceremony but many of these collaborations have had short life-spans--not because of a lack of commitment rather because of a lack of clear direction and support. The cries of "what should we do how should we proceed and who can help us" are all too familiar to National AIDS Control Programmes. And when they find themselves unable to respond adequately to the multitude of requests they are frequently criticized by their own bosses and those whose needs they were unable to fulfill. (authors)


BACKGROUND
 Patients use online communities to give and receive emotional support and health information. Little is known about the response of online patient communities to dissemination of major research results.

 OBJECTIVE
 We aimed to characterize and understand the attitudes of an online kidney cancer community, Smart Patients (https://www.smartpatients.com), before and after the presentation of results of the CARMENA trial (June 3, 2018), a trial examining the role of nephrectomy in metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

 METHODS
 We analyzed de-identified posts from the Smart Patients kidney cancer online community between May 1, 2018 and July 1, 2018 that related to nephrectomy and/or CARMENA. Smart Patients staff administered two polls (May 29 and June 11) to ask members if and why they would recommend nephrectomy as a treatment for metastatic kidney cancer. Narrative content was independently coded by all investigators for thematic analysis.

 RESULTS
 Most members were supportive of nephrectomy both prior to (140 members, 77%) and following (131 members, 68%) the CARMENA presentation. The majority (76%) of the 102 individuals who completed both polls did not change their opinion about nephrectomy after presentation of the results. Qualitative analysis identified several recurring themes in support of nephrectomy including the emotional benefit of feeling the primary tumor was 'gone,' perceived favorable biological impact of tumor debulking, positive personal experience with surgery, and reduced potential for additional metastases.

 CONCLUSIONS
 In an online kidney cancer community, there was brisk activity following high-profile research reflecting a high level of patient engagement and familiarity with the trial. Most members continued to support nephrectomy and reported both biological and psychological benefits to surgery despite the trial results suggesting that forgoing surgery leads to noninferior outcomes.

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Summary 1. Observations of the blood viscosity, hematocrit, blood counts and circulation time were made in a group of patients suffering from chronic myelogenous leucemia. 2. The relation between viscosity of the blood and the total number and volume of the white blood cells was determined. 3. The high leucocyte counts observed in chronic myelogenous leucemia are frequently responsible for marked increase in blood viscosity and prolongation of the circulation time. The probable relation of these changes to the symptomatology of the disease is briefly discussed.


To assess the use and acceptability to older participants and general practitioners (GPs) of telephone support postdischarge to reduce readmissions.


14016 Background: Definitive chemoradiation therapy is the standard of care for squamous or cloacogenic cell ACC. The chemotherapy regimen comprising 5-FU and MMC is the most commonly used among patients with ACC, nearly 70% of patients can get complete response (CR), with the benefit of sphincter preservation, but patients with a large tumors (T3/T4) or nodal metastases have a response of 50%.

METHODS
To improve outcome, we conducted a phase II, study of 5-FU and CDDP followed by combined XRT plus 5-FU and MMC. Eligibility included patients withT3/T4 ACC with limited locoregional nodal involvement (N0/N1).

TREATMENT
5-FU 1000 mg/m2/days 1 to 5 in continuous i.v. infusion plus CDDP 100 mg/m2 i.v. day 1 q21d was administered for 2 cycles (weeks 1 and 4) followed by XRT (4.5 Gy) during 6 weeks (weeks 7 to12) with concurrent 5-FU 1000 mg/m2/days 1 to 4 in continuous i.v. infusion plus MMC 10 mg/m2 i.v. day 1 (weeks 9 and 17). RECIST criteria were used to assess tumor response Results: 59 patients were entered on this study from 8/2000 to 2/2005. Median age: 57 yrs (37-83), 49 F/10 M, median ECOG PS 0 (0-1), T3/T4 44/15, N0/N1 20/39. 54 patients were evaluable for clinical response: Induction chemotherapy led to 13 (24%) CR, 38 (70%) partial responses (PR) and 2 (6%) stable disease. After combined modality treatment, there were a total of 36 (67%) CR, 13 (24%) PR, 5 (9%) SD. Median follow up was 21.6 months (5-52).The median time to progression is 20.5 months (3-52). Toxicity grade 3/4: Neutropenia 20% (10/54), thrombocytopenia 13% (7/54), radiodermatitis 13% (7/54), nausea/vomiting 7% (4/54). Our previous experience with concurrent treatment without induction (n=27) resulted in a CR 59%, PR 37%, and 4% progressive disease Conclusions: We concluded that induction chemotherapy followed by combined XRT and chemotherapy could be an option in treatment of locally advanced ACC. No significant financial relationships to disclose.


The liver is one of the most stable organs of the body and rarely shows any marked gross abnormalities in spite of its complex development. The commoner anomalies are concerned with irregularities in form, number of lobes, and presence of cysts. Ectopic liver nodules are less commonly seen and are sufficiently rare to warrant a brief review because of their interest to the anatomist, surgeon, and pathologist. In the past two years we have observed four cases in which the ectopic liver was found attached by a broad mesenteric stalk to the serosa of the gall bladder, completely detached from the liver. Three were found in surgical specimens, the fourth at autopsy. All were incidental findings. The gall bladder in each of the three surgical specimens was resected because of chronic cholecystitis with associated calculi. In each instance the ectopic liver was located on the serosal surface of the posterior


We investigated why the blocking voltages of a power device are lowered during a durability test through a device simulation called Technology Computer Aided Design (TCAD) and measurements using the optical beam induced current (OBIC) method. We found that the spread of the depletion layer caused by the bonding wire is what decreased the blocking voltage.


Recently, formate of possible abiogenic origin has been reported from uncatalyzed transfer hydrogenation of CO2 with glycerine under alkaline hydrothermal conditions. However, little is known about the mechanism for production of abiogenic formate from CO2 and lactate from glycerine during such processes. Herein, we investigated the formation of abiogenic formate from CO2, D2O solvent effect, reactor materials effect and H2O molecule catalysis for uncatalyzed transfer hydrogenation of CO2 with glycerine under alkaline hydrothermal conditions, and then have proposed and proved the potential reaction mechanism. The present work should help facilitate studies on industrial applications of CO2 reduction using abundant alcohol compounds as reducing materials rather than hydrogen, and the development of renewable high-valued chemicals from alternative biomass derivatives and the primary greenhouse gas to fossil fuel.


Primary malignant sarcomas of the spine are rare, and they account for only 3.5%-14.9% of all primary bone sarcomas. Ewing's sarcoma is the second most common primary bone tumor in pediatric patients accounting for approximately 4% of pediatric malignancies. Its incidence is highest in the second decade of life and most commonly involves the long bones of the extremities and the pelvis, presenting primarily as swelling with pain. Primary vertebral Ewing's sarcoma has been divided into sacral and nonsacral types based on the differences in the treatment responses and survival rates. Primary involvement of the nonsacral spine represents approximately 0.9% of all cases. Low back pain is the most common symptom followed by a palpable swelling. Spinal cord compression can produce neurological deficits depending on the tumor location but is often a delayed presentation. Rapidly progressing paraplegia is uncommon and a high index of suspicion is essential for diagnosis, especially in a young patient. We report a rare case of dorsal spine Ewing's sarcoma that presented with acute onset paraplegia and improved with radical tumor decompression. Ewing's sarcoma in the sacral spine is common but in the nonsacral spine is very rare accounts to 0.9%.


A complete electromagnetic model for an antenna array describes both the amplitude and phase of the embedded element patterns. The predicted phase response can usually be validated with an experimental setup in which the transmitting source is phase-locked with the receiving system. This is unpractical or even unfeasible in certain situations, such as in the case of a test source mounted on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) used for in-situ validation of lowfrequency radio astronomical arrays. In this paper, we exploit the phase difference between the received signals to further validate the array EM models. We applied this method on a subarray of the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR).


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Influence of the purity,structure,porosity of calcined petroleum coke on its reactivity is respectively discussed in this paper.Interdependence between each factor and the coke reactivity is analyzed.The result shows that air reactivity and carboxy reactivity of the coke are built-up with the increasing of sodium,calcium,vanadium in coke and coke porosity.But the carboxy reactivity decreases with the increasing of the coke's LC.The result provides base data for studying on the reactivity of pre-baked carbon anode.


If you like a contentious book, ranging across wide swathes of history, you will enjoy this one. Although Richard Lachmann kicks a few fairly dead horses along the way, he takes on enough lively speculations and conventional wisdom to make the trip worthwhile. His subject is the changes that occurred in Europe from the end of feudalism down to the dawn of the Enlightenment. Lachmann undertakes to explain how feudalism gave way to centralized states with landlord elites; why the autonomous urban centers of the Renaissance were eclipsed by national territorial states as the foci of wealth and power; why England and France surpassed Spain and the Netherlands as commercial and imperial powers; and why none of these changes can be attributed simply to a Weberian process of greater "rationalization" of social and political life.


Objective: To observe clinical effects of SanDi YiXueTang and western medicine in treating idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura(ITP).Method: All 70 patients with ITP were randomized into control group and treatment group.Both groups received 80mg of thymic peptide and 250mL of 5% glucose through intravenous drip,once per day;50 mL of ShenMai injection and 250 mL of 5% glucose through intravenous drip,once per day;prednisone,1 mg/(kg·d),oral;ampeptide elemente,five pills once,three times per day;ciclosporin A was given to the patient whose blood platelets were less than 30×109/L,30 mg per day,oral.Treatment group took self-design SanDi YiXueTang.For both groups one session was 14 days and curative effects were observed after two sessions.Result: Total effective rate of treatment group was 94.44%,higher than 85.29% of control group with statistical meaning(P0.05). No adverse reaction occurred in both groups.Conclusion: SanDi YiXueTang combined with western medicine can improve clinical effects and reduce side effects of western medicine.


Since the formation of Kazakhstan's armed forces in the early 1990s, western countries have taken an increasingly active interest in providing military cooperation aimed at enhancing Kazakhstan's defence capabilities. This process was intensified in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the United States on 11 September 2001 with Kazakhstan emerging as an important partner within Central Asia in the Global War on Terrorism. The United States, Turkey, U.K. and France have developed security assistance programmes with Kazakhstan, while the latter is also seeking to further diversify its bilateral military cooperation with other western countries as well as deepening its partnership with the NATO alliance. 1 1Foreign Military Training In Fiscal Years 2003 and 2004, Volume I, U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Department of State Joint Report to Congress, Released June 2004; FY 2002 U.S. Assistance to Eurasia, U.S. Government Assistance to and Cooperative Activities with Eurasia, January 2003. A key feature of western security assistance has been to help Kazakhstan strengthen its defence capabilities in the Caspian region in order to provide adequate independent protection for its burgeoning energy interests in the Caspian Sea. These cooperation programmes present significant challenges for Kazakhstan as it seeks to maximise its rewards from western assistance. Similarly, there have been hurdles to overcome by western planning staffs in tailoring this aid to meet Kazakhstan's needs. Western security assistance to Kazakhstan has often neglected or underestimated the close nature of Kazakhstan's security relationship with Russia. Consequently, fears in Moscow that the Caspian is becoming 'militarised' are a natural result of western policymakers failing to engage adequately with Russia. Kazakhstan is currently gaining invaluable dividends from western cooperation, but it has not capitalised fully upon these opportunities.


Does getting patients to target or using higher doses of heart failure (HF) medications improve outcomes?

In HF, higher-dose angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs), β-blockers (BBs), and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) result in non-significant improvements in mortality,


Introduction : Surgical site infection (SSI) is an infection which occurs after invasive surgical procedure. According to the US center for disease control definition, only infections occurring within 30 days of surgery (or within a year in the case of implants) are classified as SSIs. SSI is a common public health problem in both developing and developed countries. Purpose : The objective of this study was to assess the incidence and associated risk factors of SSI in Felege Hiwot Comprehensive Specialized Hospital. Method : An institution-based prospective cohort study design was conducted from October 2019 to December 2019. All patients with major operations (elective and emergency) during the study period were included in the study. Result : The overall incidence rate of surgical site infection was 14.4%. Based on the ASA scoring 228 (53.8%) of the wounds was class I. The majority 72.2 % (306) of wounds were clean followed by 22.6% (96) clean contaminated. Alcohol consumption, class of wound and BMI were found to be statistically significant risk factors associated with the development of surgical site infection. Conclusion : Even though there are different preventive measures are being implemented in the hospital, the incidence of surgical site infection is found to be higher in our hospital.


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The importance of the pigmented retinal epithelium (PRE) for photoreceptor maturation during retinal development was evaluated in Rana pipiens. Retinal rudiments with or without an enveloping PRE were isolated from stage 18 embryos and allowed to develop in a non-nutrient culture medium for up to 19 days. A set of morphological features with which to evaluate the degree of differentiation occurring in cultured material was obtained through examination of eyes of normal embryos, stages 18–25.

Some photoreceptor outer segment material first appeared after 7 days in culture. The number of well-ordered outer segment discs per receptor increased progressively with age in PRE-covered retinas. However, photoreceptors of retinas lacking PRE contained little disc membrane material and this quickly lost proper orientation. Electroretinograms could first be elicited from PRE-containing cultures after 7 days, but none were produced by retinas lacking a PRE. In PRE-covered retinas a progressive differentiation of photoreceptor synaptic complexes was seen between 7–19 days; in retinas lacking a PRE, synaptic ribbons appeared after 7 days in culture, but no further maturation of the synapse was observed.

The PRE itself underwent sequential differentiation and achieved the tadpole appearance after 17 days in culture. Both PRE and retina developed at the same rate in cultured material, and this rate was about one-third that observed in eyes of embryos raised at the same temperature. These findings indicate that the PRE plays a critical role in photoreceptor development.


Excerpt Erythropoietic protoporphyria, a new medical syndrome first described in 1961, is a familial, photocutaneous disorder, inherited as a Mendelian dominant. The hallmark of the disease is a ma...


It is concluded that He-3 blankets offers considerable promise for tritium breeding in fusion reactors: good breeding potential, low operational risk, and attractive safety features. The availability of He-3 resources is the key issue for this concept. There is sufficient He-3 from decay of military stockpiles to meet the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor needs. Extraterrestrial sources of He-3 would be required for a fusion power economy.


CCAAT/enhancer-binding proteins (C/EBPs) upregulate transcription of various inflammatory cytokines and acute phase proteins, such as interleukin (IL)-1β, IL-6, tumor necrosis factor-α, and cyclooxygenase-2. Recent studies have demonstrated that peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR)-γ is present in atherosclerotic lesions, and negatively regulates expression of these genes. Interestingly, PPAR-γ gene promoter has tandem repeats of C/EBP-binding motif, and C/EBP-δ plays a pivotal role in transactivation of PPAR-γ gene. It has been well known that the interaction between C/EBPs and PPAR-γ plays a central role in maintaining adipocyte differentiation and glucometabolism; however, the relationship between PPAR-γ and C/EBPs in the vessel wall remains unclear. In the present study, we showed that a high level of C/EBP-δ expression induced by inflammation positively regulated transcription and protein expression of PPAR-γ in vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs). On the other hand, PPAR-γ ligands trog...


A versatile algorithm that uses a combination of easy-to-solve analytical solutions to permit analysis of internal and external structural impedances of circuit connections is presented. The algorithm makes computation and optimization of stray and parasitic impedances of high-frequency circuits affordable for many power electronic laboratories that for reasons of cost and convenience do not use numerical CAD (computer-aided-design) programs. The algorithm is accurate at DC and very high frequencies since it uses proven solutions to determine asymptotic values. Reasonable accuracy is obtained between the asymptotes by using a one-dimensional solution and approximating round conductors with equivalent square conductors.<<ETX>>


This article sheds light on a little known chapter in the history of parrhesia. After a historiographical premise, the second and the third sections recall that parrhesia is conceived as a form of friendly admonition and is held to be the distinctive feature of good counsellors in Plutarch's How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend. The next three sections show how Erasmus, Elyot and Castiglione reworked Plutarch's ideas in their mirrors for princes. The final references to Foucault's analysis of autocratic parrhesia make it clear that for these humanists, but not for Plutarch, parrhesia is also a process of moral conditioning by which counsellors advocate a system of values to be followed.


This article provides a summary of the proposed Treasury regulations under section 263(a) relating to the tax treatment of amounts incurred to acquire, create, or enhance certain intangible assets. The article also discusses examples from the proposed regulations and provides other forms of commentary and useful analysis. Mr. Bambino presented an earlier version of this article to the Tax Club in New York City on February 24, 2003.


Acknowledgements Introduction: Locating Postcolonial London 1. Making a Song and Dance Sam Selvon and Colin MacInnes 2. London, England 3. Living Room 4. Babylon's Burning 5. Millennial Currents 'No Fenky-Fenky Road' Bibliography


We studied the development of soil layers of different pH (strata) within the surface 10 cm of soil. Substrates which affect nitrogen transformations (ammonium sulfate, sucrose, and lucerne hay) were added to the soil to determine the effect of amendment on the development of pH stratification. A glasshouse experiment used soils of 3 different initial pH(0·01 CaCl2; pHCa) values: 4, 5, and 6. At the end of the experiment, soil was sampled in depth intervals of 0·5 cm between 0 and 2 cm depth and then 1-cm intervals between 2 and 10 cm depth. Soil pHCa decreased over time and pHCa changes could be explained by variations in the concentration of ammonium and nitrate, which were brought about by changes in the rate of mineralisation, nitrification, and plant uptake of nitrogen. Little stratification in soil pHCa was found within the 0–10 cm layer. This minimal stratification was considered to be due to the soil in the pots being a closed system where nitrate was not lost through leaching. A field trial was rotary hoed to a depth of approximately 10 cm to achieve adequate mixing of soil and amendments. Soil pHCa decreased over the 6 months of the growing season, ranging from 0·1 pHCa units in the control to 0·4 pHCa units in the hay amendment. Between the initial and final sampling times there was little change in soil pHCa in the surface 0–2 cm. The pHCa decreased in the layers between 2 and 10 cm, thus producing the stratification of soil pHCa. The growth of oats had little effect on the development of pHCa stratification. Decreases in the soil pHCa from the 0–2 cm to the 8–10 cm layer in the absence of plants were 0·22, 0·27, 0·30, and 0·51 for the control, added sucrose, added ammonium sulfate, and added hay amendments, respectively. The processes of mineralisation and nitrification were considered to be the major causes of change in soil pHCa. Stratification of pHCa in the field trial was attributed to nitrification followed by nitrate leaching in the open system.


When a car goes through a wet road surface, it would lose its orientation, and the result is very serious. Through analysis, we can make a judgement on the phenomenon of the vehicle running on a wet road surface. Related factors and measures are brought forward in the paper.


The study is to make objective appraisals on present land management performance,to discover the problems and corresponding methods of resolution in order to improve land management.First,the problems that arise in land management on the base of urban operation was analyzed.Then the measure of AHP was used to establish a structural evaluating indicator model and processes all levels of index by Fuzzy Clustering Method.Finally,Pudong Area was set as an example to demonstrate the application of AHP in evaluating land administration.Through the analyses in theory and demonstration,the paper puts forward an operable indicator system to evaluate the land management performance.The governments can apply it into diagnosing the problems in land management and bring forward corresponding reform.It is meaningful for land management and further urban operation.


By generalizing constructions in Kosaki (1994) and Kosaki and Longo, we will construct an AFD type III0 factor with uncountably many non-conjugate subfactors such that (i) each subfactor has the same flow of weights as the ambient factor, and (ii) the principal and the dual principal graphs are of a specic form. We will deal with two cases: (a) the graphs are described by the Dynkin diagram A4m 3, and (b) the graphs are the ones given by a pair of a group and its subgroup (see Kosaki and Yamagami) which are simultaneous semi-direct products. Subfactors are distinguished by looking at the dual action on the type II graphs. It is also possible to distinguish subfactors by investigating automorphisms appearing in the irreducible decomposition of the relevant sector (or bimodule).


Post-stroke rehabilitation monitoring provides key insights which can be used for development of customized treatment plans for patients. Rehabilitation monitoring systems available today are limited to observational measurements performed over a short period of time. Long term monitoring of stroke patients is necessary to keep track of stroke recovery and assess the patient's response to the therapist's treatment technique. This work is a case study that focuses on investigating the effects on muscle recruitment in bicep and calf muscles with and without orthotic intervention. A wireless surface Electromyography (sEMG) device is developed for monitoring muscle recruitment. Monitoring is done on a hemiplegic subject, before and after the physiotherapy treatment sessions, over duration of four months. An increase in sEMG peak frequency was observed after therapy in the absence of orthotic intervention while there was reduction in the peak frequency post therapy with orthotic intervention. Functional Independence Measurement scale, used to assess a patient's level of disability as well as change in patient status in response to medical intervention is used as a reference measure to validate the sEMG device. The substantial changes in muscle recruitment due to regular therapy and orthotic intervention found in the study supports the use of the developed sEMG device as a surrogate to existing devices


Objective To study on the effect of the viable organism liquid of Bifidobacterium on the intestinal micraflora.Methods The intestinal micraflora was examined by the experiments on mice and people.Results The viable organism liquid of Bifidobacterium could significantly increase the quantity of Bifidobacterium in the intestine of mice and people.The viable organism liquid of Bifidobacterium could increase the proliferation of Bacterium lacticum in the intern of animal and human at a high dosage, also it could increase the proliferation of internal Bacillus bifidus.When analyzing the data by B / E ration(the ratio of Bif idobacterium to Enterobacillus), we found that the microecologics can improve the colonization resistance of intestinal microbe of people(P﹤0.01).Conclusion The viable organism liquid of Bifidobacterium can better adjust the intestinal microflora.


Extensive research has been conducted on the relationship between capital structure and financial performance of firms, with the literature documenting the impact of this relationship. In Nigeria, there has been a growing trend of firms consolidating their equity capital as opposed to debt, leading to a need for further investigation into this relationship. This study aims to address this gap by exploring the impact of equity and debt, two capital structure variables, on net profit margin, a measure of financial performance. The study focuses on ten Nigerian listed firms over a decade-long period (2010-2020) and uses published annual reports as the primary data source to ensure the findings are valid and reliable. The selected firms are representative of Nigerian listed firms on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE). Regression analysis using ordinary least square methodology of secondary data indicates that capital structure has a significant positive relationship with the financial performance of Nigeria listed firms, suggesting that these firms have consistently used both debt and equity capital to improve their earnings. The study's results have several implications for managers and investors in Nigeria, including the importance of finding the optimal balance between debt and equity capital to enhance financial performance, the need for proper management of debt levels to avoid excessive leverage and financial distress, and providing insight into the factors that drive the performance of Nigerian listed firms, which can guide investment decisions and strategies. This study adds to the growing body of literature on capital structure and financial performance by analyzing the relationship between capital structure and net profit margin in Nigerian listed firms. The findings suggest that well-managed capital structure positively impacts financial performance and provides valuable insights for managers and investors in Nigeria.

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The mafic layered Bushveld Complex, South Africa, contains numerous examples of monomineralic layers within its succession. The Upper Zone (UZ) contains approximately 24 magnetitite layers, the genesis of which have been extensively debated. The Main Magnetitite Layer (MML) is approximately 2 m thick and is traceable around its edge across >60,000 km2. Its basal contact with underlying anorthosite is planar and sharp, but the top contact grades upward with increasing plagioclase content. Sampling at a vertical spacing of a very few cm from seven profiles in the east over many tens of km, and one other 300 km to the west reveals concentrations of Cr in magnetite that decrease extremely rapidly upward (typically from >8,000 to 1,000 ppm within 30-60 cm from the base), punctuated by sharp concentration reversals and rare decreases. Here, we describe an outcrop where the MML splits into three sub-layers, separated by magnetite-plagioclase rocks. Twelve profiles across this zone of splitting have been similarly analysed. Lateral variations in Cr profiles across a few metres are observed at this locality. We offer the suggestion that magnetite formation may have been induced by shock-wave nucleation on the bottom of the chamber accounting for the abrupt appearance of magnetitite over such a wide area. Bottom growth of magnetite lowered the density and Cr content of the evolving magma, causing turbulence and convective overturn near the base of the chamber that created inhomogeneities in Cr on various scales, preserved in the ensuing magnetite compositions both vertically and laterally. Intermittent and abrupt (on a scale of 1-2 cm) upward increases in the Cr contents of up to 3,000 ppm in magnetite profiles resulted from convective overturn impinging on the floor. The tops of the magnetitite sub-layers grade into magnetite-plagioclase rocks and continue the upward decrease in Cr content in magnetite, typically at 900 ppm Cr, demonstrating upward continuity of fractionation. In contrast, there are reversals in Cr content between the magnetite-plagioclase rocks and the overlying magnetitite sub-layers that we attribute to convective overturn, with an increase in the Cr content. Two profiles through the MML show abrupt upward discontinuities to lower Cr contents that we attribute to physical erosional events. Anorthosite fragments in magnetitite, and magnetitite fragments in anorthosite layers further attest to such processes. The anorthite contents of plagioclase do not change across the MML, suggesting that magma addition was not responsible for the formation of magnetitite layers. Primary topographic variations at the base of the chamber also preclude addition of dense magma for the formation of magnetitite layers. Upward infiltration metasomatism, slightly resetting Cr contents, is limited to <3 cm.


The ergative characters manifested in nominalization can be regarded as the effect from non time character of the action process.The semantic relation of "Agent-Action-Patient" and its corresponding grammatical pattern "Subject-Predicate-Object" is the expression of an event based on energy transmission.The nominalization structures,with the effect from non time character,turn to the ergative pattern for the expression of matter process,as they are no more adapted to the typical type of energy transmission.


Nowadays, Community-Based Organisation (CBO) has been admitted as a more successful activity to empower the community than other organisations, such as Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO). This article aims to emphasise how activism of the Forum of Indonesian Migrant Workers or the Forum Warga Buruh Migran (FWBM), as a CBO initiated by Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) at the grassroots level, works to empower ex-Indonesian migrant workers and their families in their areas of origin. This article used the qualitative methodology of the CBO framework and the perspective of community empowerment with a case study in Cilacap Regency, Central Java. Primary data was collected by in-depth interviews and focus group discussions, while secondary data was collected by literature review. The data was processed using content analysis techniques. This research found that the activism of  FWBM has been manifested in four holistic community empowerment programmes. Through these programmes, ex Indonesian Migrant Workers and their families can improve their quality of life. They can be more empowered, economically independent, and wealthier. However, the FWBM still has limitations in terms of volunteers and financial resources to support sustainable activities.


We examine the finite-temperature deconfinement phase transition of (2+1)-dimensional SU(5) Yang-Mills theory via non-perturbative lattice simulations. Unsurprisingly, we find that the transition is of first order, however it appears to be weak. This fits naturally into the general picture of ``large'' gauge groups having a first order deconfinement transition, even when the center symmetry associated with the transition might suggest otherwise.


In earlier papers of this series`~5 we have shown that cultures of Staphylococcus aureus when injected intravenously into rabbits produce fever by two different mechanisms. The cell bodies of this organism, in common with those of other Gram-positive bacteria, caused fevers that appeared after a characteristic latency of 45 to 60 minutes. The febrile responses were roughly proportional to the number of organisms injected, above a minimal pyrogenic dose of 1 x 107. Since autoclaved bacteria were equally pyrogenic, fever was clearly independent of infection and appeared to be caused by phagocytosis of the injected bacteria by circulating leukocytes. A second pyrogenic factor was found to be present in culture filtrates of staphylococci belonging to certain phage types. Although the responses to this agent were indistinguishable from those induced by the cell bodies, several lines of evidence indicated that the soluble agent was an antigenic protein that produced fever by means of a naturally acquired or experimentally induced hypersensitivity of the delayed type.2` The present studies were carried out with several partially purified fractions of staphylococci of two strains (Giorgio and 80-81) in an attempt to determine further the relation between these pyrogenic factors and the mechanisms by which they produce fever.


Sustainable development is a long-term solution for urban development and a guideline for urban development. Only by better coordination around the population, resources, and environment can the city achieve sustained and steady development. In order to evaluate the efficiency of sustainable urban development under environmental constraints, this paper takes 13 prefecture-level cities in Jiangsu Province as an example. To address the infeasibility problem in the Malmquist-Luenberger (M-L) index, a modified M-L index analysis method based on the new directional distance function (DDF) is adopted. Combined with the consideration of desirable and undesirable outputs, a linear programming model for sustainable urban development evaluation is constructed to provide a scientific decision-making basis for sustainable development of the city. The results show that the growth of sustainable urban development efficiency is not only related to desirable outputs but also affected by undesirable outputs. Technical change is the main driver of most sustainable urban development efficiency growth. However, efficiency changes also affect the sustainable development potential of cities to a certain extent. Through the modified M-L index analysis, we analyze the characteristics of different regions of Jiangsu Province, the changes in efficiency and the impact of technological innovation on sustainable urban development, and give policy recommendations to promote sustainable urban development.


In order to maximize the efficiency of Traffic Management Center (TMC) operators and minimize human error rates, the TMC must be designed to mesh with the important human factors of the operators. To help meet this need, a broad, interdisciplinary research program is exploring the role of computers and humans in ITS-class traffic management systems. This program, entitled "Human Factors in ATMS Design Evolution", is sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration and is being conducted by the Georgia Institute of Technology. This paper describes the components of this research program and summarizes the results obtained thus far.


The neurons of the adult brain are able to remodel their synaptic connections in response to various stimuli. Modifications of the peridendritic environment, including the extracellular matrix, are likely to play a role during synapse remodeling. Proteolytic disassembly of the extracellular matrix is a complex process utilizing the regulated actions of specific extracellular proteinases. One of best-characterized families of matrix modifying enzymes are matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs). We recently described changes in the expression and function of two well-known MMPs, MMP-9 and MMP-2, as well as their endogenous inhibitor, TIMP-1, in adult rat brain tissue before and after systemic administration of the glutamate receptor agonist kainate. Kainate application results in enhanced synaptic transmission and seizures followed by selective tissue remodeling, primarily in the hippocampal dentate gyrus. MMP-9, but not MMP-2, was highly expressed by neurons in the normal adult rat brain. MMP-9 protein was localized in neuronal cell bodies and dendrites. Kainate upregulated the level of MMP-9 mRNA and protein within hours of drug administration. This was followed several hours later by MMP-9 enzymatic activation. Within the hippocampus, MMP-9 mRNA and activity were increased selectively in the dentate gyrus, including its dendritic layer. Additionally, MMP-9 mRNA levels decreased in areas undergoing neuronal cell loss. This unique spatio-temporal pattern of MMP-9 expression suggests its involvement in activity-dependent remodeling of dendritic architecture with possible effects on synaptic physiology.


We study a class of perfect graphs which, because they generalize interval graphs, we call pseudo-interval graphs. Like interval graphs, their vertices correspond to intervals of a linearly ordered set, but a modified definition of intersection is used in order to determine edges. The complements of pseudo-interval graphs are comparability graphs but unlike interval graphs, pseudo-interval graphs are only weakly triangulated. We characterize trees and complements of trees which are pseudo-interval graphs. Finally we determine all minimal non-pseudointerval graphs on eight or fewer vertices whose complements are comparability graphs and which are weakly triangulated. © 1995 John Wiley & Sons; Inc.


Virginia Commonwealth University is into the fourth year of implementation of Faculty Roles and Rewards Policy. The policy is deceptively simple. It is producing, however, a change in the institutional understanding of the roles of faculty, department chairs, and departments. The authors discuss the implementation of the policy from the perspectives of a college, a department, and three individual faculty members


This text analyzes the way in which Pettit has developed the theory of freedom as non-domination and highlights its presuppositions, its theoretical and practical stakes and also its main implications.


A hydroponics experiment was carried out to study the role of hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ) through changes of oxidative stress and antioxidation activity in Salvinia natans Linn. H 2 O 2 is an active oxygen species, widely generated in many biological systems, and mediates various physiological and biochemical processes in plants. In this study, we demonstrated that exogenous H 2 O 2 causes the degradation of pigments and induces the oxidative stress and the antioxidation activity. These effects enhanced with increments of applied H 2 O 2 concentration. Application of polyamine reduced the generation and the accumulation of H 2 O 2 and modulated the enzyme activities.


The article examines the scientific and creative activity of A.A. Bodalev, the creator of a unique scientific school aimed at studying the patterns, mechanisms and phenomena that determine people's perception, cognition and understanding of each other, communication, interaction, relationships in different socio-cultural conditions, contexts and situationP. The article emphasizes that the ideas presented in the works of A.A. Bodalev significantly influenced the formation of the subject field of the domestic psychology. It attempts to create a collective portrait of the personality of an outstanding scientist and organizer of Russian science and psychological practice.


Ab initio calculations at the MP2/6-31+G(d,p) level of theory have been carried out to determine the equilibrium structures and vibrational spectra of three series of complexes involving the hydrogen halides HF, HCl, and HBr, and a set of 4-substituted pyridines. The hydrogen bonds in these complexes span the range of hydrogen bonding possibilities, including traditional Y-H...N, proton-shared Y...H...N, and ionic Y-...H+-N hydrogen bonds. The type of hydrogen bond in a complex is related to the proton affinity of the substituted pyridine and the nature of the hydrogen halide. Plots of normalized distance and force constant changes versus the proton affinity of the substituted pyridines exhibit breaks which correlate with the three types of hydrogen bond. The infrared spectra of all complexes exhibit very intense bands associated with motion of the hydrogen-bonded proton along the Y-N axis. The shift to lower frequency of this band in complexes with traditional hydrogen bonds increases as the proton affin...


A novel Ku-band pattern-reconfigurable array antenna is designed and experimentally tested, which is able to electronically form various radiation patterns, including a single pencil beam, dual beams, quad beams, and a single fan beam. It consists of 4 × 4 probe-fed O-slot patch elements. Two p-i-n diodes are integrated on the O-slot of each element, and by alternatively activating one of the p-i-n diodes, the direction of the excitation current is reversed. Hence, the element is able to generate two-phase states with 180° phase difference. In order to properly excite the elements, a stripline power dividing network with a waveguide feeding port is designed. Furthermore, an antenna prototype is fabricated and measured. The measured gain of the single pencil beam is 15.0 dBi at 12.5 GHz, and the measured 1 dB gain bandwidth is 9.6% (11.8–13.0 GHz). The simulations and measurements of various beam patterns agree very well, which successfully verify the dynamic pattern-reconfigurable capability of the proposed array design.


Sillanpää et al. have demonstrated that the active galactic nucleus OJ 287 has intensity peaks that recur within a period of about 12 yr. I suggest that this is the result of the sweeping of a precessing relativistic beam across our line of sight. In analogy to Hercules X-1 and SS 433, precession is attributed to the torque exerted by a companion mass on an accretion disk. Secondary maxima observed 1.2 yr after two of these peaks may be evidence of nodding motion.


A distortion measurement system,which is composed of high-precision goniometer,microscope measurement system,mini doublegrating interferometer,collimator and star point,is used to measure the distortion of the NFOV long-focus lens precisely.Using third order polynomial fitting in center area of FOV,the theory focal length also can be computed.The measured deviation angle was corrected with the weighted mean of the high order of image height and the sine of the view angle at the edge field to acquire the relative and absolute distortion of each FOV.The results of the actual measurement and calculation show that the measurement accuracy of full FOV distortion can reach 0.02%.


Myrothecium verrucaria NF-05 is a deuteromycete fungus capable of producing a white laccase. The optimal concentration of Cu2+ for laccase production by this strain is 0.2 mM (43.23 ± 1.16 U mL− 1). A comprehensive investigation of the induction demonstrated that NF-05 laccase production could be synergistically enhanced by various inducers, including aromatic phenols, amines and recalcitrant dyes, in the presence of 0.2 mM Cu2+. Sixteen phenols, fourteen amines and four dyes exhibited significant inductive effects on laccase production. The best inducer was 3, 3'-dimethylbenzidine, which increased laccase production to 258.1 ± 11.1 U mL− 1. These results suggest that M. verrucaria NF-05 is a promising industrial laccase producer. Based on the increased production, purified NF-05 laccase was used to decolorize dyes of various structural types in the presence of six redox mediators. Among the 26 tested dyes, the decolorization rate of six azo dyes, chromotrope 2R, orange G6, Congo red, Ponceau S, amaranth and reactive yellow 135 and two arylmethane dyes, fast green 3 and neutral red, were significantly increased by each of the six mediators. These results demonstrate the potential use of the NF-05 laccase for the decolorization of recalcitrant dyes in dye bleaching and effluent detoxification.


This text is detailed introduction that basic principle,calculate method and apply technical of RSA arithmetic,through a few of applied example,go deep into explain the bus of RSA arithmetic,and put forward to effective solve method.


Ferrite nanoparticles synthesized by coprecipitation method depend mostly on parameters synthesis such as reaction temperature, pH of the suspension, and initial molar concentration. Here, we reported the physical properties of nanoparticles magnetite (Fe3O4) synthesized by coprecipitation method with variation of pH in the range between 8 and 11, in order to investigated the effect of pH treatment to its optical properties, particles size, and phase changes after sintering treatment. The band gap parameters of magnetite nanoparticles and crystal structure of magnetite powder are determined. From UV-Vis measurement, it is found that the band gap of magnetite nanoparticles was in the range of 1.3 eV to 1.5 eV with the smallest size of nanoparticles was 9.69 nm obtained at condition of pH = 10. From XRD characterization, it was found that all samples sintered at 100°C for 4h have magnetite phase of Fe3O4 with cubic structure, while all samples sintered at 1100°C for 4 h have hematite phase of a-Fe2O3 with hexagonal structure.


This paper describes the basic concept of the mining algorithm of association rules in data mining techniques as well as the way of turbine operation modelling based on the algorithm.Taking the data mining of the shafting vibration on a steam turbine for example,it elaborates on the process of using the algorithm to determine the shafting vibration scope from a mass of turbine vibration monitoring data.It is indicated at last that the setting of support degree and confidence threshold has great influence on the mining results.


A series of novel triphenylamine-based polymers were synthesized from benzaldehyde and triphenylamine derivatives. All the polymers having high molecu- lar weight are readily soluble in many organic solvents and could be solution-cast into amorphous films. They had glass transition temperatures (Tgs) in the range of 193-217 � C, and 10% weight loss temperatures in excess of 475 � C. Cyclic voltammo- grams of all polymers showed reversible oxidation redox peaks and Eonset around 0.42-0.90 V, indicating that the polymers are electrochemically active and stable. In addition, all these polymers revealed photochemical characteristics in conformity with their electrochromic characteristics. V C 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 47: 2118-2131, 2009


An accurate determination of soil hardpan location is important for maximum precision tillage performance. Cone penetrometers are often used to locate hardpans in soils. This determination in layered soils is more complex due to the complexity of soil reaction to cone penetration. An axisymmetric finite element (FE) model was developed to simulate cone penetration for the prediction of the hardpan location in a layered Norfolk sandy loam soil. The soil was considered as a non-linear elastic-plastic material, and it was modeled using a Drucker-Prager model with the Hardening option in ABAQUS, a commercially available FE package. ABAQUS/Explicit was used to simulate soil-cone contact pair interaction. The results showed that the FE model captured the penetration resistance trend with two deflection points indicating the start of the hardpan and the peak cone penetration resistance. The FE-predicted results showed the hardpan at a depth of 7.29 cm compared to 11.08 cm from cone penetration tests. Soil moisture, bulk density, and cone surface conditions significantly affected the predicted and experimental results. The simulation also showed soil deformation zones about 3 times the diameter of the cone that developed around the advancing cone.


Abstract This study examined the milk quality of the autochthonous cattle breed Modenese (MO) in comparison with Italian Friesian (IF), at peak and mid lactation, with the aim to support the interest in sustainability of the local cattle breeds in Europe. Forty-eight individual milk samples were collected from 11 MO and 14 IF pluriparous cows, housed in a free stall barn under similar conditions of feeding and management, at 8 and 21 weeks post-calving; daily milk yield (MY) and body condition score (BCS) were individually recorded. Breed differences were observed, being MY lower in MO cows, but BCS, titratable acidity, freezing point, casein (MC), total calcium (Ca), total phosphorus (P) and colloidal P contents were higher compared to IF cows. Time affected BCS, MY, milk protein (MP), MC, urea, casein P and the micellar content of colloidal Ca and colloidal inorganic P. A factorial analysis was performed and four common factors were obtained with a cumulative explained variance of 77.7% of the total original. MO milk showed a nutritionally interesting mineral profile and processing properties suitable for the production of typical cheese that could be interesting for improving the interest in the conservation of animal genetic resources.


Traffic flow prediction is a fundamental component in intelligent transportation systems. However, many existing prediction models endure several shortages. Most of the methods are constructed as a shallow model, which is difficult to reveal the intrinsic spatio-temporal relations embedded in traffic raw data. Moreover, the separation of feature learning and predictor learning brings a sacrifice of model performance. Then the hand designed features are difficult to be tuned appropriately. Finally, few existing methods consider the incomplete data problem which is in fact very severe for practical application. In this work, we develop a deep learning model to predict traffic flows. The main contribution is development of an architecture that integrates random subspace learning and ensemble learning on deep convolutional neural networks. The proposed model takes the traffic flow data as an image, and considers both exploring spatio-temporal correlations in the unified architecture and the incomplete data problem. The experimental results, using traffic data originated from the California Freeway Performance Measurement System (PeMS), corroborate the effectiveness of the proposed approach compared with the state of the art.


Since the 1960s, Africana scholarship has canonized 19th century activists and intellectuals like Martin Delany, Alexander Crummell, and James Holly as early proponents of Black Nationalism and thus constructed a narrative that leads in a straight line from these early writers to Malcolm X. We suspect that the mode of thought of this discourse is less unproblematically 'nationalist' than their contemporary labeling as such has made them to be. In other words: We might have here a case of reading the history of ideas backwards. Some interpretations, for example, of Martin Delany's work insist on his African cultural nationalism. We disagree. Paul Gilroy, e.g., suggests instead that 'Delany's concern was not with Africa as such but rather with the forms of citizenship and belonging that arose from the regeneration of modern nationality in the form of an autonomous black nation state.' But where Gilroy seeks 'arguments against ethnic nationalism [and an] affirmation of the intercultural and transnational,' we examine the types of national imagination pervading the texts of Delany, Crummel and Holly by situating them in the upsurge of American nationalism in the 19th century.


OBJECTIVE
To investigate the myeloid differentiation factor 88 (MyD88) expression in laryngeal carcinoma and its clinical significance.

METHOD
Fifty-one patients with laryngeal carcinoma were collected, and all patients were confirmed by pathological diagnosis results. The expression of MyD88 protein was detected by immunohistochemical method in laryngeal cancer and its adjacent tissues to investigate the correlation among MyD88 expression, clinicopathological characteristics and prognosis of patients.

RESULT
The positive expression rate of MyD88 in laryngeal cancer tissues was 68.6%, significantly higher than that in normal tissues adjacent to carcinoma of which positive expression rate was 11.8%; MyD88 positive rate had nothing to do with laryngeal cancer patients age, sex, differentiation and tumour location (all P > 0.05), but correlated with clinical stage (P < 0.01) and lymph node metastasis (P < 0.05). In addition, the study also found that the expression of MyD88 quantity was inversely proportional with the five-year survival rate. The survival rate of patients with higher expression of MyD88 was significantly lower than that of patients with lower expression (P < 0.05).

CONCLUSION
MyD88 may be an important participant in the pathogenesis of laryngeal carcinoma, MyD88 targeted therapy may improve the prognosis of patients with laryngeal cancer.


Abstract : The problem of in-service or long-term strain monitoring in engineering structures is examined. The laboratory trials are based upon a number of steel and aluminium tensile specimens designed with stress cancentrations or joints which are welded, bolted or rivetted. For the field trials an accessable quasi-static structure was sought. With help from the Scottish Development Department, two bridge structures have been selected for strain monitoring from welding through on-site erection to final operation under maximal traffic load.


The Department of Health's 'High Impact Intervention (HII) – Peripheral intravenous cannula care bundle' lists six actions to be performed at the time of peripheral intravenous cannulation. Audit of compliance to these requires documentation. We assessed documentation on the anaesthetic charts of 50 surgical patients. Purpose-made stickers were then placed on all anaesthetic charts. Re-assessment of a further 50 patients' charts demonstrated a significant improvement in documentation of the bundle post intervention (Fisher's exact test P < 0.0001). This is an example of how a low-tech intervention can produce a high impact improvement in documentation.


We propose a supervised approach to the classification and segmentation of material regions in hyperspectral imagery. Our algorithm is a two-stage process, combining a pixelwise classification step with a segmentation step aiming to minimise the total perimeters of the resulting regions. Our algorithm is distinctive in its ability to ensure label consistency within local homogeneous areas and to generate material segments with smooth boundaries. Furthermore, we establish a new hyperspectral benchmark dataset to demonstrate the advantages of the proposed approach over several state-of-the-art methods.


There is a general lack of knowledge about kidneys among the general population, making a diagnosis of kidney disease particularly stressful. Nicola Thomas and Helen Rainey discuss how a patient self-management programme was developed within the East London Community Kidney Service, and evaluate the early findings from the feedback that has been gathered.


A pilot plant for continuous flow microwave-assisted chemical reaction combined with microreactors was developed and water heating tests were conducted for evaluation of the developed plant. We first designed a continuous-flow microwave-assisted chemical reactor in which a reaction solution absorbs microwave energy efficiently and can be used in chemical processes using microreactors. We designed the reactor using electromagnetic simulation and found that the energy absorption rate by the water was more than 80% by conducting water heating tests. Next, we developed a microwave apparatus having a single microwave generator that can heat reaction solutions in four reaction fields simultaneously in order to increase throughput. We also designed a four-branch waveguide using electromagnetic simulation, and found that the transmission efficiency at 99%. Finally, we developed the pilot plant using the developed microwave apparatus and conducted water heating tests. The temperatures in the respective reaction fields were controlled within ±1.1 K at 353.2 K. Moreover, the energy absorption rates by the water were about 90% in the respective reaction fields, whereas the energy absorption rate was about 40% when 100 cm3 of water was heated by a commercially available multimode microwave chemical reactor.


Balance is a complex process involving the coordinated activities of multiple sensory, motor and biomechanical components. Balance function may be disturbed in subjects suffering from hearing loss but the impairment has been attributed to the pathology underlying the hearing loss.


In this issue we publish two different aspects of the laser beam clipping problem. To those ofus who perform a modest amount of laser work the irritation of periodic apparent failure of the laser to act is soon explained by some kind and more experienced colleague as beam clipping. For those who find the phrase obscure it may be expressed in more familiar terms as something getting in the light. Beam clipping occurs in circumstances other than lasering. It happens, for example, when we look into another person's eyes and see their pupils black. This is because our own head has beam clipped, not to say beam blocked, the rays of light entering the pupil which are needed to enable us to view the retina. This state ofaffairs is avoided by the device of a mirror with a hole in it in the direct ophthalmoscope or by the subtler approach ofthrowing a real image ofthe pupil into space in front ofour own eyes, as in the various indirect systems. As explained in the papers from Woon et al and the letter from Moseley et al in the present issue, several forms of beam clipping are possible during the use of therapeutic lasers. Iris clipping, which is dealt with in the paper by Woon et al, is not something which would be immediately obvious, and thus we are grateful to the authors for bringing it to our attention. The essence of it is a disproportion between the cross-sectional area of the beam as it traverses the pupil and the size of the pupil itself. It would seem obvious that if the area of the beam is greater than that of the pupil some of the incident light will fall on the iris and only part of the beam will enter the eye. Where the beam has a markedly convergent form, as in the Microlase infrared diode laser, and is aimed at the retina, the beam's cross sectional area at the level of the pupil is likely to be large, hence beam clipping may occur. The same will not be true if the laser is aimed at a point on a plane near the pupil such as the lens capsule. Woon etalmake a further point. When an ophthalmoscopic lens of considerable power is being used, say the 90 dioptre lens, the viewing aperture in the pupil is limited (a detailed explanation is given in the paper), so that the laser beam may be suffering iris clipping without the observer being aware of it. It has to be remembered that in addition to possible beam clipping due to the cross sectional area of the beam being bigger than the pupil, clipping will also occur if the beam is not aimed accurately through the pupillary centre, an error which, according to the authors, is easy to make and difficult to avoid. The practical consequence ofthese observations is that less power arrives at the retina than predicted by the power settings (and this may be further complicated by inadvertent alterations in spot size, due to a combination of steep vergence and unintentional defocusing, altering the power density at the retina). As the authors point out, the practical remedy is to work with the widest possible pupil but even with this precaution unnoticed beam clipping can still occur owing to the beam not being directed accurately through the pupillary centre. Apart from this optical form of beam clipping a purely mechanical form is produced by inadvertent interruption of the incident laser beam by the slit-lamp lighting system. The clipping may not appear to affect the aiming beam, so that the observer may be unaware of what is happening and may therefore increase power settings because of the clipping of the main laser beam, thus subjecting the eye to an overdose of laser ifthe illuminating system is moved slightly and the laser beam unclipped. (It has to be admitted that somewhat the same type of problem can arise from tilting of a tall contact lens or even the interposition of the observer's thumb.) Moseley et al describe an ingenious safety device they have developed for the Nanolas laser to inactivate the laser if clipping by the slit-lamp illuminating system occurs, though their device cannot cope with the observer who puts his or her thumb in the way. REDMOND SMITH 385


ABSTRACT
The clinical spectrum of electrical injury ranges from the absence of any external physical signs to severe and life-threatening trauma. This article discusses the fundamental concepts and misunderstandings surrounding electrical injuries and the best practices for evaluation and treatment.


An agro-based country, Pakistan is largely dependent on one of the world's largest contagious Indus Basin Irrigation System (IBIS) for the agriculture (Azmat, 2015). Therefore, in order to meet with the needs of food, fiber and for other purposes due to increase of population and immense pressure on the water resources system every country is trying to do its best for water resources storage, regulation and management. The variations in climate and catchment characteristics largely effecting the inflows of the rivers (Azmat et al., 2016; Shakoor et al., 2015). However, water resources are largely affected by several natural hazards due change in climate conditions such as sedimentation, earthquakes and floods etc. It has been documented that world's 13 large rivers carrying 5.8 billion tons of sediments to the reservoirs every year (Nasir et al., 2006). Poor management of erosion prone areas has resulted in flooding and rapid filling of water reservoirs (Nasir et al., 2006). Kahlown et al. (2002) stated that the Indus and its tributaries carries about 0.35 MAF of sediment load annually, almost 60% (0.2 MAF) of which deposits in the reservoirs, canals and irrigation fields. Islamabad and Rawalpindi are two very important and twin cities of Pakistan. Rawalpindi city is one of the largest populated cities of province Punjab having population of about more than 1.41 million, according to 1998 census. Catchment area of the Rawal Lake is reducing very rapidly due to urbanization during last few decades which leads to poor quality and quantity of inflows to the lake. Indeed, an increase in sediment load caused by the urbanization into the reservoir due to the exposure of bare lands which further approaches to the destruction of natural land cover. Rawal Dam is a major source of drinking water to Rawalpindi, however, the dam capacity and water quality is diminishing with time therefore, water is getting polluted and also caused sedimentation. The rate of urban growth can seriously challenge the integrity of rivers and streams. Number of studies (Moehansyah et al., 2002; Thothong et al., 2011; Huang et al., 2015; Bashir et al., 2013) have carried out to analyze the impact of land use change on inflows and sedimentation of the basin prevailing to the urbanization. These studies suggest that hydrological changes in urban watersheds can most often be attributed to the modification of stream characteristics which govern discharge, stream chemistry, stream/ floodplain interactions and channel morphology. As a result, urbanization is thought to cause reduced base inflows, increased frequency and magnitude of peak discharges, increased sediment loads, reduction in channel and floodplain complexity and impaired water quality (Dunne and Leopold, 1978). Therefore, the aim of this study was to analyze the inflow variations due to urbanization and its implications on sedimentation of the Rawal Dam.


By allowing the overlap execution of computation and communication, a multi-round algorithm with inter-node scheduling and intra-node scheduling for divisible loads is presented on the heterogeneous cluster systems of multi-core computers, which have different number of processing cores and distinct computation, communication and memory abilities. The presented inter-node scheduling can accommodate dynamicaly the surplus of the remaining available memory of nodes in each round scheduling, and the intra-node scheduling can efficiently make use of the characterictics of multi-core machines and the shared L2 cache to reduce the required time to access memory. The experiment results with different tests and several parameters on a heterogeneous cluster system with multi-core computers show that the presented algorithm can obtain better scheduling performance and reduce significantly the total scheduling length, and it can schedule more large-scale applications than the existing scheduling scheme.


Men who want to avoid having a stroke should learn to manage1 their anger to prevent it reaching explosive levels, according to researchers.


The electron density about Wu plasma is calculated by SHML model with temperatures in the range of 0.3 keV to 10 keV and density in the range of 0.001 g/cm3 to 0.1 g/cm3 to investigate the variation of Wu electron density in different temperature and density.The results show that electron density of Wu plasma increases as the raise at temperature and the density,involving three plateau steps in graph.The reason for the formation of these plateau steps is analyzed,especially for the plateau in the temperature range from 6.5 keV to 10.0 keV,Wu electrons almost totally are ionized due to the high temperature of plasma.Therefore,if tungsten is selected as the first wall materials of fusion reactor,it is important to avoid the fusion reaction being destroyed by preventing high Z tungsten into deuterium and tritium plasma.


This research proposes a novel predictive model to improve the gas prediction accuracy in transformer oil and provide guarantees for accident prevention. First, this study constructs a cross-entropy loss function with variable thresholds and dynamic weights to reduce error transmission in the deep residual shrinkage network, enhancing the sensitivity of the normal and abnormal transformer states by the network. Second, the multiobjective particle swarm algorithm and random walk strategy are adopted to optimize the long short-term memory (LSTM) network to ensure the prediction model's objectivity. Finally, the improved subchannel threshold depth residual shrinkage network is integrated with the optimized LSTM network. The new model can identify potential abnormal conditions in advance and preproduce an approximate fault model using a feature gas vector (similar to image recognition). Experiments verify the effectiveness of the method. Compared with the existing prediction methods, the new method can avoid blind prediction and significantly improve the prediction accuracy and efficiency, which provides essential value for transformer fault prevention.


AIM:To establish and evaluate the diagnostic criteria of severe pneumonia in a rat model.METHODS:Twenty-five SD rats were randomly divided into control group(n=5),observation group(n=5) and model group(n=15).The rats in model group and observation group were intratracheally inoculated with different concentrations of Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria suspension,and the rats in control group were inoculated with saline.Dynamic observations of behavior,body temperature,body weight,oxygen saturation(SaO2),peripheral blood changes and arterial blood gas were conducted.The pathological changes of the lung tissue were observed,and the chest X-ray examination was performed.The rats in control group and observation group were sacrificed 72 h after operation,and the rats in model group were sacrificed if they met the diagnostic criteria.RESULTS:SaO2 detected by the noninvasive oximeter was almost the same as that detected by invasive arterial blood gas analysis.Compared with observation group,the behavior,body weight,the changes of lung pathology and chest X-ray in model group changed obviously.The peripheral blood,SaO2,and arterial blood gas also changed significantly.No significant difference of the indexes above was observed in control group before and after operation.CONCLUSION:Injection of high concentration of bacteria successfully induces severe pneumonia in the rats.The diagnostic criteria can be used for evaluating the animal model with severe pneumonia.With a noninvasive oximeter,we can generally monitor the changes of SaO2 in the rats.


In plasmon energy expansion thermometry (PEET), electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) is used to determine the plasmon energy in a suitable thermometric material [1]. Since the plasmon energy scales with the material's density, temperature changes can be determined using knowledge of the material's thermal expansion coefficient. Many in situ transmission electron microscopy experiments could benefit from having thermometric fiducials, i.e. localized thermometers within the field of view. Nanoparticles of aluminum, with their narrow bulk plasmon resonance and large thermal expansion coefficient [2, 3], are particularly well suited to act as such fiducial thermometers.


The formation causes of imperfections of carbon fiber cloth on shuttle loom were analyzed from the states of stop, on-off and run. And the solutions to reduce the imperfections of carbon fiber cloth were put forth from the points of equipment, weaving technique, operation and management.


The construction industry has a crucial role in the overall development of any economy; however it has its own drawbacks and difficulties that should be well studied in order to improve the efficiency of this industry. Delays, which are an inseparable part of any project, are an important issue in construction projects that are responsible for huge losses in capital investments and slow-moving progress of this industry. This study tries to investigate delay-based reliability of building construction projects. In order to achieve this goal the related literature is studied and the most common problems in this filed are found. Then, the questionnaire based on the literature and expert's recommendation is designed to analyze operations risk and industry reliability based on the delay sources. A multi-expert approach group decision making analysis of this research ranks the dominance of controllable factor on the project delays. Finally, based on risk value of delay factors, this research verifies the industry reliability.