Background
Child abuse is a public health problem characterized by a significant impact on the physical, psychological and social health of the victims, and on society in general.
Objective
The aim of this study is to understand if there are any preconditions for the risk of ill-treatment and, through the analysis of the protection measures implemented by the social services, what is the effectiveness of the child protection program and rehabilitation of families and understand how social workers act and what they know.

Methods

Thirty patients with Shaken Baby Syndrome and another 40 with Diagnosis of Chemical Abuse related to the Regional Center for the Diagnosis of Child Maltreated of the Padua Hospital (Veneto region-Italy), their families and the characteristics of the protection program were studied. To understand how the Child Protective Services act, a questionnaire was administered to 25 social workers from Padua.

Results
From the study there are overwhelming risk factors of Child Syndrome such as the prematurity of the child and the young mother's age. Even in the cases of Chemical Abuse, it is possible to identify the groups at risk considering the children's age. The greatest number of cases is of an age included in the year of life and in general, 50% of cases lower than the age of three years. Compared to the protection program of the victims and their families it was possible to find that almost all the families were known by Social Services with very long care paths. The long duration of the taking in charge, with probably interventions subsist, is confirmed by the answers by the social workers interviewed but above all their still lacking capacity to perceive the abuse as a diagnosis of illness.

Conclusions
The study finds the need for better planning of targeted interventions and strategies to prevent maltreatment in Italy because there is the possibility of distinguishing the families most at risk. The effectiveness of taking care of abused children and their families is questioned by the very long duration of their interventions due to the inability for services and professionals dedicated to the care and protection of children to act in a more conscious and integrated way.


The extracellular domain of human platelet GPIbα contains the binding site for von Willebrand factor (vWF) within the amino-terminal 45 kDa region comprising approximately 300 amino acids. In the present studies, we have used CHO cells to synthesize a longer fragment of His 1 -Phe 483 , representing nearly the complete extracellular domain of GPIbα, with an additional 8 histidine residues added at the carboxyl end to provide recognition by his-tag reagents. Both wild-type and the increase-of-function mutants Gly 233 →Val 233 and/or Met 239 →Val 239 were employed. For studies of antibody binding, modulator-induced vWF binding, or antibody inhibition of this vWF binding, capture of the recombinant GPIbα could be accomplished by nickel chelate binding of the his-tag. Both botrocetin and ristocetin induced saturable binding of vWF by ELISA, as demonstrated by HRP-conjugated anti-vWF polyclonal antibody. In the case of the different increase-of-function mutants, significant vWF binding was seen even in the absence of added modulator. Inhibition of botrocetin-induced vWF binding was greater for wild-type than for the Met 239 →Val 239 GPIbα mutant with some mabs (e.g., AS-2), whereas the degree of inhibition was essentially equivalent with other mabs (e.g., C-34). When a rabbit polyclonal anti-his antibody was used to immobilize the recombinant proteins instead of the nickel chelate system, binding of vWF and of conformation-dependent mabs was impaired. However, when this same antibody was biotinylated and then captured on a streptavidin plate, excellent capture and subsequent binding characteristics of the recombinant GPIbα were restored. With both this latter system and with the nickel chelate system, a highly sensitive functional vWF activity assay could be established, using botrocetin-induced binding of vWF from human plasma. Linearity of binding was observed between 0.1–0.6% normal plasma, with saturation occurring around 2%. Whereas higher concentrations of plasma actually appeared to displace bound GPIbα to the nickel chelate, the streptavidin-biotin-anti-his attachment method appeared more resistant to such effects. The ELISA-based assay systems developed in this study accordingly provide an and effective approach to study functional interactions of both wild-type and mutant forms of GPIbα with its ligand vWF and also with antibodies directed against different epitopes within the entire extracellular domain of this receptor molecule. The high sensitivity, reproducibility, and rapidity of the assay system also offer the possibility of a useful test for functional assay of plasma vWF.


The authors report progress towards achieving a high efficiency monolithic dual-junction solar cell consisting of a 1.62 eV InGaP top cell and a 1.1 eV InGaAs bottom cell grown on a lattice-mismatched GaAs substrate using a proprietary buffer layer scheme. They have achieved air mass zero (AMO), one-Sun efficiencies of 17.5% for the 1.1 eV InGaAs and 15.7% for the 1.6 eV InGaP standalone cells on lattice-mismatched GaAs. The predicted AMO, one-Sun efficiency of a 1.62 eV/1.1 eV n/p dual-junction cell is 27%. To date, they have achieved an efficiency of 19% in their dual-junction cells. Further process optimization experiments are currently underway, aimed at achieving the 27% efficiency goal.


With more and more pressure on the RMB inflation,the question about currency exchange regime choice of China became an academe focus once again.According to the!characteristics of China economic development and the status quo of the international economic development,this paper analyzes theoretically that managed floating currency regime is the best choice of China.


One object of the present invention is to provide a metal salt of L- ascorbic acid 2-phosphate, even when it is mixed with the organic acid added thereto, and the like cosmetic does not cause precipitation or cloudiness and hardly deposited. It discloses a metal salt of L- ascorbic acid 2-phosphate of low calcium content and preparation method herein, wherein the content of the calcium compound is 500ppm or less, in accordance with the calcium ion meter.


To determine the diagnostic performance and clinical utility of the Rotterdam Early Arthritis Cohort (REACH) and the Clinical Arthritis Rule (CARE) referral rules in an independent population of unselected patients from primary care.


Background: Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease in children and adults that is caused by many factors. The most common respiratory symptoms associated with asthma are wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and coughing, which alter with the duration and severity of the disease. Furthermore, other comorbidities are associated with severe asthmatics patients, such as allergic rhinitis, hay fever, and non-allergic rhinitis. Asthma is increasingly prevalent and affects around 300 million people worldwide. Approximately 5-10% of the asthma population suffers from a more severe form of the disease and has frequent exacerbations. There is a need for better understanding of how asthma presents in different patients, which will allow for stratified medicine approaches.

Objective: To define the relationship between the clinical and immunological features of asthma, I establish and perform a quality control (QC) on a well-characterized asthma cohort from multiple centres. In this cohort, I examine the relationship between blood eosinophils and clinical features of asthma, the impact of smoking on asthma presentation, and clinical and immunological features of asthma subjects that are prone to exacerbation.

Method: In this thesis, the Genetics of Asthma Severity and Phenotypes (GASP) recruited 8534 subjects. The GASP has four different cohorts, which are classified as control (n=1913), asthma (n=5713), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (n=678), and asthma-COPD overlap (n=230). Statistical analysis was performed on the GASP using the software package SPSS and graphs presented with the use of GraphPad Prism software.

Findings: This study included 3804 non-related asthma subjects, Majority are females (66%) with mean age of 40.48 years old. I identified a relationship between blood eosinophils and IgE utilizing data from 635 patients presented with r= 0.232 and p=value of <0.0001. Moderate-severe asthma population identified a relationship between blood eosinophil counts and atopy with p-value of 0.004. On the other hand, a total of 307 subjects reported with current smoking, and they are significantly associated with a lower lung function. I identified a relationship between lung function and ever vs never smoking groups, it has been showed that FEV1 % predicted presented with median value of 76.56% in ever group. While a reduction in median (72.72%) among never group has been showed. Females were over-represented in those patients that were prone to exacerbation, and a higher symptoms score in subjects experienced exacerbation as reported with p value 0.007

Conclusion: I developed a comprehensive database of clinical and immunological features of asthma. Using this database identified that blood eosinophil counts associated with atopic subjects. Also, it has been identified that smoking were more likely associated with reduction of lung function. In addition, females were more associated with recurrent exacerbation and presented with higher asthma symptoms. Future work will include examined the role of genetics in driving these phenotypes/characteristics.


Modification of the visible spectrum of the catechol violet-tin(IV) complex by the addition of surfactants and basic dyes has been studied in an attempt to improve the catechol violet procedure for determining tin. On adding cetyltrimethylammonium bromide, the cetyltrimethylammonium salt of the catechol violet-tin(IV) complex anion is probably formed in colloidal solution and dispersed by the excess of the surfactant. The Brilliant green cation reacts with the complex anion in a similar manner and the salt formed can be dispersed with poly(vinyl alcohol). In the latter instance, however, the bathochromic shift in the main absorption band of the complex is not associated with increased sensitivity.The spectrophotometric method of determining tin with catechol violet and cetyltrimethylammonium bromide has been modified and applied to the determination of tin in steel. Preliminary separation of tin is achieved by extracting tin(IV) iodide into toluene. Results obtained with a wide range of British Chemical Standard steels indicate a high precision for the recommended procedure. Lactic acid is used to mask molybdenum, chromium, vanadium, nickel and cobalt, which interfere at the levels that are commonly found in steels. The recommended procedure is not applicable to steels with copper to tin ratios greater than 20 : 1 owing to precipitation of copper(I) iodide at the extraction stage.


In this work, pyrolytically stripped carbon nanofiber (CNF) polypropylene (PP) composites were synthesized following a scalable melt-mixing method, and the effects of CNF weight concentrations on the electrical conductivity, dielectric permittivity, electrical modulus and electrical impedance of PP/CNF composites were studied. Quite unexpectedly, the electrical conductivity of PP/CNF composites improved only slightly as the incorporation of CNFs was raised, yielding a maximum of ~10−10 S m−1 for PP/CNF 5 wt. % composites. The increase corresponded to a gradual improvement of the dielectric constant up to a maximum of ~9 for PP/CNF 5 wt. % composites at 1 MHz, which was attributed to the raise of interface polarization effect. Moreover, the Cole–Cole model was used to analyze the effects of CNF concentrations on the dielectric relaxation of PP/CNF composites, from which was deduced that the incorporation of CNFs increases their dielectric strength and relaxation times. The analysis gathered here aims to provide a better insight into the enhanced dielectric properties observed in low-conducting polymer composites filled with CNFs.


Since 2000, the vegetation restoration has been significant in the Loess Plateau. Almost concurrently, the measured sediment discharge of the main stem of the Yellow River has been significantly reduced. Based on the vegetation information from remote sensing images from end of 1970s to 2013, this paper introduced the concepts of erodible area, forest and grassland proportion, vegetation coverage and the percentage of effective vegetation, and analyzed the vegetation change of scale, coverage and type. By introducing the concepts of percentage of effective vegetation, sediment yield coefficient and runoff yield coefficient, the sediment and flood yield for different vegetation conditions were discussed at the watershed scale, revealed the reasons for dramatically runoff and sediment yield reduction in the study area. The results showed that compared with the late 1970s, the vegetation just changed a little before 1998. While the vegetation coverage increased from 11%-25% to 35%-55% during 1998 to 2013, this vegetation improvement process is also the sensitive stage of vegetation change and sediment yield. High sediment concentration floods would still be the common flood of tributaries in the Loess plateau in future, while the sediment concentration would be reduced.


Erma Bombeck recently wrote a column on introduction that epitomizes exactly how I just felt when I heard Jim Work's kind words: WHO ME? Bombeck suggested that speakers make a clean breast o f it and be truthful about their flaws. So here goes: I'm a lousy birder. I never have ten fingernails that match. I have never written a book in which I didn't find an error. I haven't had a biology course since the ninth grade when Miss Kelly mumbled something about the buzzards and the bees. I have had only one nonfiction writing course at college level. I got a C. But then Ms. Bombeck continues, "Why are we up here if we make such a mess o f things?" and she concludes it is because we have survived and lived to tell the tale. Perhaps that's why I'm here. I've survived a dozen books, managed not to drive four editors to drink, survived at least fifty river trips without becom ing water-logged, and still love what ever it is that I do, and I'm ju st learning what it is I do do. And it may be practicing the world's third oldest profession. You know what Molière said, "Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for the love o f it, then you do it for a few friends, and finally you do it for money." I know it sounds corny but I'm really thrilled to be here and to be so honored and, if I may, I accept this award as recognition o f the craft o f natural history writing more than one person's individual contribu tion. Writing natural history is a peculiar discipline. In the July 21st New York Times Book Review, Michael Pollen in an article on gardening ac-


Summary form only given. In the future, robotic platforms will be integrated in social environment to actively cooperate with humans during their daily-life. A feasible human-robot co-working requires close and safe interaction, in which the partners can understand and quickly adapt their mutual behaviors. In this work, we present a real-time approach to generate safe (velocity scaling) and feasible (collision avoidance, goal adaptation) motions in a human-robot interaction scenario. The basic assumption is that robot's motion is generated using a first-order, asymptotically stable Dynamical System (DS): x = f(x), (1) where x and x represent the robot end-effector position and velocity respectively. Driving robots with DS has several advantages in terms of robustness to external perturbations, such as unexpected contacts or changes in the goal/initial position. The DS structure allows us to easily implement a human-based velocity scaling algorithm, by modifying Eq. (1) as: x = αhf(x), (2) where 0 <; αmin ≤ αh ≤ 1 is a scalar function inversely proportional to the human-robot distance. When the human, tracked using an RGB-D camera, enters in the robot's workspace αh = αmin, while the human goes away, αh linearly goes to 1. Being αh strictly positive, this scaling will not affect the equilibrium of the DS, in other words, the task will always be correctly executed. During tasks execution, unforeseen obstacle can appear in the robot workspace. To avoid possible collisions, saving the convergence properties of the DS, authors propose to modulate a generic first-order DS as [1]: x = M(x)(f(x)-o) + o, (3) where o is the obstacle velocity and M(x) is the so-called modulation matrix, used to reduce the end-effector velocity in the obstacle normal direction [2]. To avoid collisions with the robot's links, we calculate the closest point on the robot to the obstacle and use the approach in Eq. (3) to drive away that point. This task is projected in the manipulator Jacobian null-space to not affect the end-effector motion. The described approaches for velocity scaling and obstacle avoidance are integrated, together with an online reshaping method used to modify the robot's goal position, in a two levels hierarchical architecture (see Fig. 1). The higher level of the architecture is used to recognize human activities and to select/reshape the robot motion according with the current activity. The Human Activities Interpreter determines the user status (far/interaction) and the goals status (free/occluded). Rough depth data from a RGB-D sensor are first filtered to remove the points belonging to the robot surface and then used to track human and obstacles. Using this information, the Robot Behaviour Selection/Reshaping module to select the right behavior from a database of Motion Primitives, scaling down the velocity and changing the goal position when needed. The selected motion primitive is passed to the Collision Avoidance level, that implements the real-time, reactive collision avoidance algorithm in Eq. (3). The related video shows an application of the proposed approach in a human-robot interaction scenario. The robot moves counterclockwise towards four goal positions, while it avoids possible collisions. When the user enters in the workspace, the velocity of the robot is scaled down. If the user hides with his hands the goal, the next free goal position becomes the equilibrium point of the DS.


Dosing of dry concentrated feed to dairy cows is one of the most important tasks in the field of livestock mechanization. Devices that carry out volume dosing are more reliable and easier to be manufactured. Volumetric dispensers also include a spiral-screw dispenser – a special case of a screw dispenser. It is proposed to study the working process of the spiral-screw dispenser, namely the influence of a stopping angle of the last turn of the transporting spiral at the end of the discharge hole of the cylindrical casing. The paper indicates the method of determining and the value of the physical and mechanical properties of granulated feed. A laboratory installation on which it is possible to change the angle of installation of the spiral on the drive shaft is described. To study the effect of the stopping angle of the last turn of the transporting spiral on the accuracy of the formation of the feed portion, spirals with a diameter of 49, 73, 97 mm with different steps of 0.75, 1 and 1.25 of the diameter values were used. As a result of the experiments, it was revealed that the lowest coefficient of variation is 0.56 – 17.50%. And, accordingly, the greatest dosing accuracy is obtained when the last turn of the spiral stops at the position of 0°. That is, when the turn stops at the edge of the discharge neck in its lower part and this is typical for all sizes of spirals that were used.


In 2014, the EU adopted a bill limiting the non-audit services of auditors, reflecting societal concern that non-audit services provided by auditors can compromise auditor independence. But different from the expectation that the provision of non-audit services by external auditors affects auditor independence, previous studies have shown inconsistent results. What could be the reason? Contracts for non-audit services start from the purchase motive of the company with a need for non-audit services (Firth, 1997; Parkash and Venable, 1993). Simunic (1984) argued that only abnormal companies with special problems purchase non-audit services. However, not all non-audit services sales compromise auditor independence. This study analyzed and illustrated whether the purchase of non-audit services affects auditor independence by the examining the interaction between the performance of audit clients with earnings management incentives and the quasi-rents of the auditor. The results show that the discretionary accruals of corporations with poor management performance increased with statistical significance when they purchased non-audit services from an external auditor. However, among companies with excellent management results, no statistical significance between the purchase of non-audit services and discretionary accruals was identified. Thus, to analyze the effects of non-audit services on auditor independence, researchers should consider the purchase motives of audit clients asking for non-audit services.


Quality of Service (QoS) acts as an important role in the providing services procedure of pragmatic Web. It is becoming a hot direction to find out the favorite service for users. This paper proposes a model for evaluating the quality of pragmatic Web service. In the model, not only functional requirements but also QoS constraints of composition service can be satisfied. And based on the detail QoS model definition, the QoS evaluation tree is used to reveal the relation between QoS attributes. The weightiness of QoS attribute is introduced in order to handle the varied importance of attributes. An algorithm through samples statistic based on information entropy for getting weight value is presented also.


Metastasis to axillary lymph node occurs in adenocarcinoma or poorly differentiated carcinoma, and is a rare clinical entity that needs to be understood for management and its clinical outcome. The present case is of 72-year-old female patient who had a metastatic nodule in the axilla. No breast mass was palpable. Histology identified as metastatic adenocarcinoma, however mammography and Ultrasound Sonography test (USg) failed to detect the primary tumour. Immunohistochemistry showed that the excised lymph node was positive for Estrogen Receptor (ER) and negative for Progesterone Receptor (PR), suggesting the breast as the site for the primary tumour. Since the patient refused surgery, she was under follow-up for eight months. Now, she presented with recurrence of similar axillary swelling for two months.


The pressure dependent thermal rate constant of the reaction of CH(2Π) and N2 has been studied from 200 to 715 K at total pressures between 1 and 150 bar of helium. The CH radicals have been generated using multiphoton laser flash photolysis of CHClBr2 or CHBr3 at 248 nm and detected by saturated laser induced fluorescence (SLIF). At 200, 250, 300, 400, and 500 K falloff curves have been constructed and the high pressure limit rate constant has been determined to be k1,∞=(4.1±0.8)10−11 (T/300 K)−0.15 cm3 molecule−1 s−1. At higher temperatures thermal decomposition of the CHN2 adduct has been observed and the equilibrium constant derived by analyzing the concentration decays. By third law analysis the equilibrium constant has been evaluated with a reaction enthalpy ΔH°R (0 K)=−(97±10) kJ mol−1. Our results are compared with recent calculations of the potential energy surface (PES) and other experimental data at low pressures as well as shock tube studies. The high‐pressure limiting rate constants are treated in terms of statistical reaction rate theory. A simple kinetic model has been developed to describe the measured rate constants in an extended pressure (10−3–150 bar) and temperature range (200–3500 K).The pressure dependent thermal rate constant of the reaction of CH(2Π) and N2 has been studied from 200 to 715 K at total pressures between 1 and 150 bar of helium. The CH radicals have been generated using multiphoton laser flash photolysis of CHClBr2 or CHBr3 at 248 nm and detected by saturated laser induced fluorescence (SLIF). At 200, 250, 300, 400, and 500 K falloff curves have been constructed and the high pressure limit rate constant has been determined to be k1,∞=(4.1±0.8)10−11 (T/300 K)−0.15 cm3 molecule−1 s−1. At higher temperatures thermal decomposition of the CHN2 adduct has been observed and the equilibrium constant derived by analyzing the concentration decays. By third law analysis the equilibrium constant has been evaluated with a reaction enthalpy ΔH°R (0 K)=−(97±10) kJ mol−1. Our results are compared with recent calculations of the potential energy surface (PES) and other experimental data at low pressures as well as shock tube studies. The high‐pressure limiting rate constants are treat...


It will repay careful study: for a review one is able only to take soundings, which has been done in the sections on Anaximander (1.6), the Naasenes (5.6-11), Valentinus (6.29-36 and 37.7-9) and the Essenes (9.18.1-2 and 30). From this it can be stated that in this reviewer's experience, the longer M.'s emendations are studied, as a general rule, the more convincing they are, especially in matters of substance and in terminology. On the other hand, he is very prone to emend the grammar, adding articles and connective particles on many occasions. Here there may be matter for future debate; firstly on the palaeographical side (did scribes so frequently omit these as the editorial practice suggests ?) and on the side of the history of the language (we have no study of Hippolytus' usage and cannot be certain that his practice would be identical with that of his sources or dominated precisely by the canons of classical style). To the edition is prefaced a short introduction of some fifty-one pages. Here M. undertakes not only a description of the problems of transmission with which an editor must contend, but also sections on the authorship of the work and the trustworthiness of its contents at descriptions of heresies contemporary with the author. In respect of the first, he must enter into the debate begun by Nautin and countered by Richard, Nautin claiming that two authors are to be discerned behind the Hippolytan corpus, Richard in detailed argument seeking to prove this view false. It is a complex matter, and scholars are now divided over the issue, since a modified form of Nautin's thesis appears to convince many. In respect of the second, the discussion demands far more detailed comparisons of the descriptions in the Refutatio with the material now available to scholarship in the Nag Hammadi documents and other relevant sources. While M. makes many interesting and valuable points in both sections, he does not have the space at his disposal to do these themes full justice. Nevertheless this is a monument to vast scholarship and devoted application, which every student of Hippolytus, or of the sources upon which he draws or the authors whom he has influenced, will need to use constantly.


Objective: To analyze the status quo of assanation and ethics courses and their social requirement, thus to explore a scientific mode for the course setting; Method: The course setting status quo of assanation and ethics is analyzed among 18 colleges in which the nursing speciality is set up. A questionnaire was also conducted to investigate students' inclination towards politics-sorted courses, and relevant data were analyzed. Results: The establishing rate of assanation courses in the higher professional colleges is higher than that in the comprehensive universities. The most favorable subjects among freshmen are the Chinese national political theories, and assanation ethics, while the counterparts among seniors are assanation ethics, law basis, and philosophy. Seniors have an obvious higher desire for the course of assanation ethics compared with freshmen (P0.01). The top three courses that hospitals most wanted to be enhanced are assanation ethics, law basis, and morality education. Conclusions: The course of assanation ethics should be further promoted among nursing specialists in order to improve the nursing work and avoid nursing-related medical disputes. The former subjects such as nursing introduction, nursing basis, nursing ethics, and law basis should be integrated into a novel course of assanation ethics with a whole course duration around 40 to 50 lectures.


Agricultural pollution is widely found and difficult to be controlled. Based on the analysis of water utilization, water table fluctuation,farmland drainage in the representative area of Yanqi basin, it is concluded that over irrigation will not only waste water, leach fertilizer and decrease crop production, but also pollute surface and groundwater and lead to soil salinization and water logging. Therefore,the authors have put forward effective measures to control agricultural pollution and synthetically remedy and improve the environment by water saving irrigation and rational water development.


DOA estimation of signal sources in multipath environments is a computationally complex problem. In this paper, authors present a computationally efficient DOA estimation algorithm effective against highly correlated or fully coherent sources in pairs. The proposed method is novel in that it applies forward/backward averaging to the signal subspace to de-correlate the signals unlike existing methods which apply spatial smoothing techniques to the correlation matrix. This significantly reduces the computational complexity and computation time of the algorithm and improves the estimation accuracy making the proposed method amenable to practical hardware implementation. Simulation results are presented to validate the efficacy of the proposed method and a performance comparison is made with Root-MUSIC method.


Yuan Sabila, NIM : 142.111.029, "The Overview Of Sadd az|-z|ari>ꞌah In
The Using Whitening Cosmetics Skin Care (Case Study Of Student In IAIN Surakarta)".
Cosmetic ingredient or mixture of ingredients is used in a manner rubbed, attached, poured with the intent of cleaning up keep or add to the appeal. Fashion trends that occur in teenagers now have the facial skin is white. It can be seen from the rise of one of the teens Coed looking for facilities and infrastructure to be able to whiten the skin of their faces. Using whitening cosmetics is a reasonable thing, actually use this whitening cosmetics have some mafsadat and maslahah perceived by users. This research was conducted to find out how the impact of the use of whitening cosmetics on the health of facial skin, to know the impact of the use of whitening cosmetics on the health of facial skin according to the concept of sadd az|-z|ari>ꞌah, and to know the use of whitening cosmetics according to the concepts of Islamic law.
This research using the method of field research, the purpose of the research field (field research) which is a troubleshooting procedures are investigated by describing or depicting the State of a subject or object Research (individual, institution and other) at the present moment based on the fact that looked or the like. This research was conducted at the Faculty of Sharia IAIN Surakarta.
The results of this study show that when users are experiencing Whitening Cosmetic negative effects such as 18 (eighteen) Sorority, then the law is prohibited should or shouldn't use. Whereas, when users experienced no Whitening Cosmetic negative effects such as 18 (eighteen) Sorority, then the law
is mubah (permissible).
Keywords : Cosmetics, Whitening Cosmetics, Sadd az|-z|ari>ꞌah


Lambs given diets containing concentrate mixture without roughages were better in daily weight gain, economical and feed efficiencies, carcass weight, dressing percentage and lying time than those fed on diets containing roughages. However, , contrary trends were found in. case of filled gut, eating time, rumination time, frequencies of drinking water, micturition, defecation, mounting and licking block minerals, rectal temperature and respir3tion rate, with the same treatment. Lambs given diets containing natural clay surpassed those not given natural clay in final weight, daily gain weight, economical efficiency, feed efficiency, water intake, eating time, rumination time, lying time and frequencies of drinking water and mounting. While, contrary trends were shown in defecation frequency, licking block minerals frequency, rectal temperature and respiration rate. The full concentrate mixture diet (without roughages) plus natural clay surpassed the other diets in final weight, daily weight gain, economical and feed efficiencies, dressing percentage and lying time. On the other hand, lower values were recorded in case of empty gut weight, eating time, rumination time, frequencies of drinking water, defecation, mounting and licking block minerals, rectal temperature and respiration rate, with the same treatment. T3 was significantly lower in lambs fed concentrate mixture alone than in the other diets. At the same time, T4 was significantly higher in lambs fed the diets containing concentrate + roughages than in those fed the other. diets.


The study was a cross-sectional design to investigate psychological ownership and organisational trust as predictors of organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) among bank workers to increase the understanding of the ability of psychological ownership and organisational trust to predict citizenship behaviours in organizations. The following hypotheses were stated: that psychological ownership will not significantly predict organisational citizenship behaviour of Bank workers and that organisational trust will not significantly predict organisational citizenship behaviour of Bank workers. Two hundred and three (203) Bank workers from five Nigeria financial Banks located in Nsukka in Enugu state were sampled. Those Banks include: Access Bank, Diamond Bank, Eco Bank, U B A, and Fidelity Bank. All the participants were adults, with the age range of 19-47 years and mean age of 33. The participants volunteered to take part in the study. Three instruments (Organisational Citizenship Behaviour Scale (OCBS), Psychological Ownership Questionnaire (POQ), and Organizational Trust Index (OTI) were used in the study. Multiple regression analysis was used for data analysis and the results indicated that psychological ownership and organisational trust significantly predicted organisational citizenship behaviour of Bank workers (β = 0.173, p< 0.05; & β = 0.372, p< 0.001) respectively. Limitations of the study and recommendations for further research were also included in the study.


Lonza has opened a 28,000-m2 facility for cell and gene therapy manufacturing in Pearland, Texas, south of Houston. Cell and gene therapies often use viruses to shuttle DNA into cells, with some therapies requiring trillions of viruses in a single treatment. The field is undergoing significant growth, buoyed by the U.S. FDA's approval of the first cell and gene therapies last year. That growth has stymied supplies of the viruses needed to make the therapies. Lonza's new facility, which it claims is the largest of its kind, will help close the gap.


Abstract The purpose of this investigation was to study the effect of playing basketball and swimming on three tests of explosive power (start and run, standing broad jump, and shot put). The experimental design accommodated 18 subjects tested on five different nonactivity days alternated with days of playing basketball and swimming. The three tests were performed one hour following the activity. The standing broad jump and the shot put were significantly affected by the activity, whereas the start and run test was unaffected. The standing broad jump was best on nonactivity days and the shot put was best on basketball days. The order of performing the tests was significantly different for the standing broad jump and for the start and run. Since jumping seems to be negatively affected by different land and water activity one should give more consideration to rest prior to any performance where jumping is considered an important part of the activity.


Fine-grained named entity classication or FG-NEC refers to the process of classifying a set of named entities from naturally occurring texts to the maximum granularity. It is essentially dierent from the traditional coarse-grained NEC (PER, LOC, ORG) in that it requires deep semantic analysis and the FG semantic classes are highly ambiguous. While research has been conducted in an application-oriented manner, few works have addressed this problem per se. This thesis addressed this problem, with a special focus on the person category. Our methodology is to extract the key property of each candidate instance rst and automatically classify them according to a reference taxonomy. The classication takes into account the non-uniformity and insuciency of context clues and uses a cascade framework such that named entities with dierent kinds of context clues are resolved at dierent stages. The cascade framework is highly ecient since the simple instances can be ltered out at early stages thereby the system can focus on the more dicult ones. We also developed a joint-inference based property extraction algorithm for entities whose target properties are explicitly specied in the texts. Evaluated on the Wall Street Journal corpus, the extractor achieves an F 1 score of 91.91, which is quite competitive. Trained on newswire texts, this framework can be easily tuned to apply to texts in other styles. Acknowledgment I would like to express my deep sense of gratitude to my supervisor Prof. Stepen Pulman for his invaluable help and guidance during the course of project. Thanks are also due to members of the Oxford computational linguistic group, in particular Mr Edward Thomas Grefenstette, who has introduced to me a variety of useful natural language processing tools. Finally, I would like to thank all in the wider eld of computational linguistics, who have provided inspiration and suggestions. I have to change the world, for it has changed me too much.


Early Housing First literature, which draws almost entirely upon evaluations in the model's country of origin, the United States (US), provides a very positive account of its effectiveness for chronically homeless people with severe mental illness. It is widely agreed that the housing retention outcomes documented are highly impressive. Such outcomes, combined with the apparent cost-effectiveness of Housing First in the US, have inspired its rapid replication across Europe. In some contexts the championing of Housing First as a service response has arguably been quite 'evangelical' in tone (Johnsen and Texieria, 2012).


Abstract: Purpose: To analyze the factors that influence a company's decision to carry out transfer pricing aggressiveness. The factors used in this research are profitability, capital intensity ratio, executive risk preference, transfer pricing aggressiveness, and tax burden. Method: The method used in this study is a quantitative research method. The research data uses secondary data, which is obtained from financial reports. The analytical method used in this study is path analysis using Warp Partial Least Squares. Result: All factors used in this study have no effect on transfer pricing aggressiveness, including those mediated by the tax burden. Except for executive risk preferences which directly affect the aggressiveness of transfer pricing. Executives who have a risk taker preference have more courage in determining a policy even though the risk is high. However, risk takers with their courage are also required to generate higher cash flows. This is done to balance the risks arising from the courage to take an action or decision. Among the various executive decisions is the decision to carry out aggressive transfer pricing. One of the ways that executives do this is by placing trusted people who have the expertise to observe and create tax avoidance schemes according to the wishes of the executive (Dyreng et al., 2010). Limitations: This study only uses secondary data from manufacturing companies whose answers do not yet show the overall condition of companies in Indonesia Contribution: Companies should consider carefully if they want to carry out aggressive transfer pricing legally and in accordance with applicable tax regulations Keywords: 1. Profitability 2. Capital Intensity Ratio 3. Executive Risk Preference 4. Tax 5. Transfer Pricing 6. Aggressiveness


The effects of water retaining agent and water supplement on potato yield and water use efficiency(WUE)in semi-arid area was conducted.The results showed that water consumption of potato during the growing season concentrated in the 80 cm soil depth mainly.The change of water content below 80 cm layer was not significant and was almost not absorbed by potato basically.Under the condition of water retaining agent treatment,water use efficiency(WUE) at population and yield level of potato were the highest,42.73 and 94.21 kg(mm·hm2),respectively,and the yield were also the highest,however,WUE at leaf level was the lowest.


Saving the souls. Gender discourses and religion in the Spanish Catholic Action's magazines This article presents, through the categorical binomial gender and religion, an analysis of three women's magazines published by the Spanish Catholic Action (ACE) in the 1940s and 1950s: Volad. Revista de las Muchachas Inteligentes, for young women; Para Nosotras. Revista para Obreras, for women workers; and Ecclesia, oriented to a wider audience, to Catholic women and men. The purpose of this paper is to establish a connection between the discourses spread from Catholicism, especially from its most prominent organization, the ACE, and the consolidation of a gender model that assumed the Franco regime as its own. On the other hand, we intend to point out the role of Catholics in the dissemination of these gender discourses, and in questioning of the alleged separation between the public and the private sphere. This investigation was carried out through the analysis of documents from the Spanish Catholic Action and the Spanish National Library.


A growing number of companies rely on machine learning as a key element for gaining a competitive edge from their collected Big Data. An in-database machine learning system can provide many advantages in this scenario, e.g., eliminating the overhead of data transfer, avoiding the maintenance costs of a separate analytical system, and addressing data security and provenance concerns. In this paper, we present our distributed machine learning subsystem within the Vertica database. This subsystem, Vertica-ML, includes machine learning functionalities with SQL API which cover a complete data science workflow as well as model management. We treat machine learning models in Vertica as first-class database objects like tables and views; therefore, they enjoy a similar mechanism for archiving and managing. We explain the architecture of the subsystem, and present a set of experiments to evaluate the performance of the machine learning algorithms implemented on top of it.


The phenomenon of self-trapping has been extensively studied in the past for both cubic and saturable nonlinearity.1 In this paper, by using a modified nonlinear Schrodinger equation, we analyze the possibility of a self-trapped beam propagating in a weakly saturated amplifying/absorb- ing medium. We consider the case of only one transverse dimension (for example, a semiconductor laser medium or a nonlinear planar waveguide structure such as the one used by Maneuf and Reynaud2 for their recent observation of spatial solitary waves). A simple exact analytical solution is obtained with a sechlike amplitude profile and a nonuniform phase front. Near this axis, this wavefront is parabolic but becomes progressively linear off-axis. Selftrapping is also predicted for a defocusing nonlinearity. The stability of the solution is investigated by using the adiabatic approximation as well as by solving the equation of propagation numerically.


The problem of state aid to elementary and secondary schools which will afford major replacement of local property taxes almost certainly will be one of major importance in this session, as will the consideration of effecting coordinated planning for all institutions of higher education in the state. Other major areas of concern are expected to include a pitched battle on public power in this, the only entirely public power state in the nation. This is expected to develop in a proposal for strengthening the hand of the Nebraska Power Review Board, and in the consolidation of major public power districts for the generation and transmission of power


For the purpose of promoting the academic cooperation in Asia, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) offers the Core University Program in fisheries science. This program was initiated by Indonesia in 1995, and followed by Philippines in 1998, Thailand in 2000, and Korea in 2001. Each Core University designated in Japan and its counter-part country provide the program for scientist exchange, cooperative research and international seminars, by organizing the member universities in each side. The number of exchanges can be 10-25 every year for hosting and visiting respectively in each Core University Program. Seminars were held periodically on specific topics such as Food Processing (1995), Aquaculture(1997), Fishing Technology(1999) and Joint Seminar(2000) with Indonesia, and Social Science(1998) and Capture Fisheries(2001) with Philippines, and Shrimp Farming (2001) with Thailand to identify the seeds and needs of the cooperative research activities, as well as to distribute its fruits of cooperative research activities. The Multi-lateral approach will be the next phase through establishing the strong linkage among bilaterals. Here in this paper, the past achievement of this program and our future tasks will be described, for each Core University Program with Indonesia, Thailand and Philippines.


This chapter outlines the chain of evacuation along the line of communication which formed the remit of the work of the Royal Army Medical Corps throughout the war. Using official publications and personal narratives, both contemporaneous and retrospective, it explores the diverse spaces in which men from the ranks of the Corps undertook their caring roles. In doing so, it identifies these roles as centring on the work of carrying, cleaning, and caring. By focusing on the work of these men, it nuances understandings of gendered relationships within these spaces, between nurses and medical rankers, doctors and medical rankers, and carers of both sexes and their patients. By examining the work of medical rankers in terms of both physical and emotional labour, it further expands readings of the range of labour associated with appropriate masculine service in wartime.


Compressors are the critical underground air pressure equipments in pit.The mormal operation of compressors is very important for coal mine.This papor mainly introduces the installation and debugging of compressors in coal mine.


Abstract The effect of nitrogen, which is one of the most important elements in duplex stainless steels (SSs), was investigated for resistance to pitting corrosion and stress corrosion cracking (SCC) in various environments. The increase in nitrogen content increases the resistance of the base metal, which results from the improvement in the resistance of the γ-phase, which has lower chromium and molybdenum contents compared to α-phase. Nitrogen is an important element in sustaining the corrosion resistance of the heat affected zone (HAZ), which is heated to 1350 C or higher, because nitrogen promotes the formation of γ-phase during the cooling process after welding and avoids the precipitation of chromium carbides or nitrides at grain boundaries. When the nitrogen content is less than 0.08% in 22%Cr, 5.5%Ni, and 3%Mo base composition, the HAZ has little -γ-phase to lead to the high susceptibility to intergranular corrosion and intergranular stress corrosion cracking (IGSCC) occurs even in a pure CO2-Cl− ...


We estimate a structural dynamic factor model on large panel quarterly data to analyse the spillovers of U.S. monetary policy to the advanced economies and emerging and frontier market economies. The estimated model suggests that monetary contraction in U.S. leads to a significant decrease in real GDP with typical inverted hump-shape almost for all countries. It reduces permanently aggregate price level, increases interest rate and leads appreciation of U.S. dollar. However, contagion of U.S. monetary policy to the individual countries shows heterogeneity. For instance, its impact is larger in developing countries. We also find that global financial crisis has amplified the impact of U.S monetary policy on the rest of world in particular on developing countries. Lastly, the empirical results suggest that the cross-country heterogeneity in responses may be consequence of difference in country-specific characteristics such as exchange rate regimes, currency of price settings of firms, central bank independence and geographical distance from Unites States.


To check t he cardiac and perceptual responses an incremental protocol on the wheelchair dynamometer , eight volunteers were intentionally selected and evaluated in an experimental session using a compact dynamometer for wheelchairs. A standard wheelchair was used by all participants. After familiarization period, there was a progressive protocol, increas ing rate of 5% per minute. Heart rate (HR) and rating of perceived exertion (RPE, 6-20) were measured at the end of every minute. HR on stage 8 was higher compared to the stages 1 and 2. The RP E differed in the first 5 stages. There was a high correlation between FP and FC (r = 0.93; p = 0.0006), and between HR and RP E (r = 0.98; p <0.0001). It was concluded that the equipment has specificity for evaluation of kinetic and kinematic variables of the movement in wheelchairs at the expense of cardiac variables .


Objectives To evaluate and confirm the histological inflammatory changes that occur in bone and in the overlying mucosa in experimentally induced chronic rhinosinusitis and to evaluate differences in the inflammatory patterns that may occur with different organisms.


STUDY OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic value of low voltage with PR-segment and ST-T wave changes in determining the amount of clinically silent pericardial effusion detected in a routine echocardiography.

DESIGN
Consecutive case series analysis.

SETTING
Noninvasive cardiology department of a university hospital.

PATIENTS
Among 8,041 consecutive patients referred to our echocardiography laboratory, 121 asymptomatic patients with pericardial effusion free of heart disease were studied.

INTERVENTIONS
Echocardiography and ECG.

MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS
The amount (small or moderate/large) of pericardial effusion was correlated with ECG. Among 121 patients with pericardial effusion, low voltage was detected in 32 patients (26%), while widespread PR-segment depression was observed in 32 patients (26%) and widespread ST-segment elevation in 8 patients (7%). Although there was a significantly higher incidence of low voltage in patients with moderate/large pericardial effusion compared to that of small pericardial effusion, 13 of 32 patients (41%) with low voltage had a small pericardial effusion. In patients with a small pericardial effusion, 7 of 13 patients (54%) with low voltage had PR-segment depression, while 15 of 85 patients (18%) without low voltage had PR-segment depression; the difference was significant (p = 0.011). In patients with moderate/large pericardial effusions, there was no significant difference in the incidence of PR-segment depression between patients with and without low voltage (47% vs 25%, respectively; p = 0.791).

CONCLUSIONS
In the presence of PR-segment depression, even a small pericardial effusion may cause low voltage in the surface ECG.


False smut has recently emerged as an important disease of rice in Arkansas. In 2011, 2012 and 2013, spore balls of a white smut similar to the spore balls of false smut were observed in rice fields in eastern Arkansas. As a white false smut was previously reported in China and Japan, we examined the morphology of chlamydospores and spore balls from some of the infected heads and used selected regions of the rDNA to determine the identity of the causal agent of the disease. We also tested the virulence of an isolate of the white smut to two rice cultivars commonly grown in Arkansas. Our results indicate that the morphology of the spore balls, chlamydospores and conidia is similar to those reported for Ustilaginoidea albicans. However, sequences of ribosomal DNA amplicons indicate a high degree of similarity with both U. virens and U. albicans. The isolate of the white smut was virulent to two rice cultivars, producing spore balls similar to those observed in the field and to those previously described for U. albicans.


The ORBSIM program was developed for the accurate extraction of geophysical model parameters from Doppler radio tracking data acquired from orbiting planetary spacecraft. The model of the proposed planetary structure is used in a numerical integration of the spacecraft along simulated trajectories around the primary body. Using line of sight (LOS) Doppler residuals, ORBSIM applies fast and efficient modelling and optimization procedures which avoid the traditional complex dynamic reduction of data. ORBSIM produces quantitative geophysical results such as size, depth, and mass. ORBSIM has been used extensively to investigate topographic features on the Moon, Mars, and Venus. The program has proven particulary suitable for modelling gravitational anomalies and mascons. The basic observable for spacecraft-based gravity data is the Doppler frequency shift of a transponded radio signal. The time derivative of this signal carries information regarding the gravity field acting on the spacecraft in the LOS direction (the LOS direction being the path between the spacecraft and the receiving station, either Earth or another satellite). There are many dynamic factors taken into account: earth rotation, solar radiation, acceleration from planetary bodies, tracking station time and location adjustments, etc. The actual trajectories of the spacecraft are simulated using least squares fitted to conic motion. The theoretical Doppler readings from the simulated orbits are compared to actual Doppler observations and another least squares adjustment is made. ORBSIM has three modes of operation: trajectory simulation, optimization, and gravity modelling. In all cases, an initial gravity model of curved and/or flat disks, harmonics, and/or a force table are required input. ORBSIM is written in FORTRAN 77 for batch execution and has been implemented on a DEC VAX 11/780 computer operating under VMS. This program was released in 1985.


This paper introduces the development and application of a new device--the rod horizontal displacement gauge formeasuring and monitoring deformation inside the earth-rockfill dam. This device has successfully solved the problem of observation of longitudinal deformation inside earth-rockf ill dams at home. The new device has the following advantages: (1) improving the working conditions of the displacement transfer rod and increasing the observation accuracy because the guide bearing that decreases the friction resistance of the displacement transfer rod is installed in the protective tube; (2) enlarging the effective measuring range by regulating the intervals of the guide bearing; (3) changing the installation of the displacement sensor. The displacement sensor is placed in the observation station outside of the dam, hence, it is easy to be maintained and replaced when it is damaged. The device has broad prospects of application to geotechnical engineering.


In this study, the thermoeconomic approximation is applied to the optimization of a case study a geothermal hydrogen
production and liquefaction system. Objective of this application is aimed at minimizing its overall products unit energies
and costs (electricity, hydrogen production and hydrogen liquefaction). The approximation is based on the energy and cost
optimal efficiency that is obtained for a component isolated from the remaining of the system components. Objective
function that expresses the optimization methodology for each subcomponent of the system is developed. In the optimization
methodology, the variables, relative cost differences, and exergy efficiency with the corresponding optimal values are
obtained. Thermoeconomic optimal values for total product cost flow rate, total cost fuel flow rate, cost of electricity, cost of
hydrogen production and liquefaction are calculated to be 1820 $/h, 274.2 $/h, 0.01908 $/kWh, 1.967 $/kg and 1.095 $/kg
respectively, whereas the corresponding actual base case values are 3031 $/h, 290 $/h, 34.34 $/h, 0.02076 $/kWh, 2.091
$/kg and 1.725 $/kg respectively.


Early in prostate cancer at least 1 subpopulation disseminates to the neurovascular structures and then on to circulation. The majority of these cells will not survive and a few implant in distant tissues in the premetastatic niches. The interaction between the tumor cell and the microenvironment will determine whether these cells will enter a quiescent or a dormant state and when they will enter a more proliferative state. The phenotypic and genomic characteristics of the disseminated tumor cells will determine in part the outcome of the tumor cell-microenvironment interaction, which may differ from that of the average tumor cell in the primary cancer and will ultimately determine the outcome in the patient. Primary CTCs, which are those detected prior to definitive treatment, are more frequently found in patients with a higher Gleason score and higher stage prostate cancer but they are not associated with prognosis. Micrometastasis and secondary CTCs (those detected after definitive treatment) are also more frequently found in patients with a higher Gleason score and higher stage cancer, and they are associated with patient prognosis. In patients with the same Gleason score phenotypic and genomic heterogeneity is seen in the clinical pattern and the time to treatment failure. Clonal evolution of tumor cells and clonal selection of tumor cells by treatment such as ADT or chemotherapy change the tumor cell-microenvironment interaction through direct interactions and paracrine mechanisms. Thus, CTC detection and characterization may aid in monitoring and in selecting treatment before the appearance of metastasis.


Lung cancer, with the majority of cases being non‐small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), is one of the leading causes of death among cancers. NSCLC has exhibited high rate of glutamine dependency during its growth and development. It has also been shown that glutamine uptake plays a mandatory role in the uptake of essential amino acid and in activation of mTOR kinase. SLC1A5 and SLC7A5, glutamine transporters, exhibit an important role in the development of NSCLC by transporting glutamine and essential amino acid into the proliferating tumors. Therefore, SLC1A5 and SLC7A5 are key drug targets with potential pharmacological importance. The aim of this study was to probe dysregulated glutamine and essential amino acids (EAA) metabolism in NSCLC, while investigating the effect of T3 on glutamine transporter and mTOR pathways. H1299 and A549 cells were cultured with/without T3 (30μM) followed by extraction of the intra‐cellular metabolites. The endometabolome of the cells was determined by 1H‐NMR spectroscopy. Changes in specific metabolite concentrations upon intervention with δT were quantified with the Chenomx‐NMR Suite. MTS assay and FITC Annexin V stained flow cytometry analysis were performed to determine the anti‐proliferative effects and induction of apoptosis by T3. The expression of glutamine transporters and mTOR pathway proteins were assessed using western blot analysis. The data shows that T3 significantly inhibited glutamine uptake in H1299 cells. The inhibition of glutamine uptake into proliferating cells resulted in dose dependent inhibition of cell proliferation and induction of apoptosis in both cell lines. Further validation using western blot data exhibits inhibition of SLC7A5 glutamine transporter and mTOR pathway proteins (P‐mTOR, mTOR, P‐AKT, AKT, S6K, c‐MYC. MMP‐9, and Bcl‐XL) by T3 in a dose dependent manner. Our findings suggest that the anticancer effects of T3 may occur via downregulation of mTOR1 pathway induced by inhibition of glutamine transporters.


As national old industry base,China's northeast district is characterized by industry and basis industry and when this district has made a great contribution to the devetopmarct of China`s economy,it occurs some problems on ecological environment,natural resource,industry structure,population and employment,and district and town-country developmant which prevent the procgress of its revitalizing.This paper,acconding to these problems,proposes and amalyses the specific contents of scientific development view.


The vitelline envelopes of European sea bass and gilthead sea bream are both composed of mainly four proteins with the molecular masses of 90, 52, 48, 45 kDa and 75, 50, 48, 44 kDa, respectively. Each protein has an amino acid composition that is characterized by a high content of proline and glutamic acid and a low content of cysteine, similar to the whole vitelline envelope of both species. The amino acid composition suggests that each protein is distinct but related to the other vitelline envelope proteins. The use of homologous antisera shows that both species have vitelline envelope proteins that are induced by estradiol‐17β. As males of both species synthesize these proteins after treatment with estradiol‐17β, the origin is not restricted to the ovaries. Vitellogenin of both Eurpoean sea bass and gilthead sea bream has the apparent molecular mass of 170 kDa. © 1995 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


X-ray Active Matrix Pixel Sensors (XAMPS) were designed and fabricated as part of a detection system for the X-ray Pump Probe (XPP) instrument at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). XAMPS based on J-FET technology were produced on 100 mm high-resistivity silicon, typically 400 μm-thick. The prototypes are square matrices with n rows and n columns with n=16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512. Each pixel of the matrix is 90 × 90 μm2 and contains a JFET switch to control the charge readout. The small features of the design presented some technological challenges fully addressed during this production. The first prototypes were tested at the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) with a monochromatic beam of 8 keV and millisecond readout and exhibit good performances at room temperature.


To determine the amount of computational resources such as CPU power, memory, and network bandwidth to be assigned to web servers, it is useful to capture daily access data. These can be captured in advance from access logs. Moreover, to determine thresholds for detecting attacks such as distributed denial of service, where the rate of access varies significantly, it is important to know usual access trends for a given server.
 In this paper, we propose a method for capturing patterns of access to web servers by analyzing access logs. Instead of directly analyzing the periodicity of access using Fourier transforms, we analyze access trends based on an abstract model where only changes to access frequency are captured. This abstract model, constructed by determining whether access frequency follows a Poisson distribution, is simpler than the original access log and is specialized as it only contains information about access frequency changes. Therefore, it is easy to capture access trends based on this model. We analyzed two access logs using our method, the logs of the web servers at Saskatchewan University and those of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. We confirmed that our method can be used to capture several characteristic access trends.


Migration scholars have frequently emphasized the tremendous increase in international migration in recent years. But several advanced industrial countries — Japan in particular — have relatively small numbers of foreign workers. Most of the literature on labor migration relates only to "positive cases," i.e., countries that have actually experienced significant inflows of foreign workers. This article proposes considering Japan as a "negative case" of labor migration in the post-World War II period. There has been much recent interest in the growing numbers of foreign workers in Japan, but what is most interesting about Japan is the fact that the numbers are relatively small (as a percentage of the labor force) and that they began to increase so late, in comparison to other countries. The main goal of the paper is to advocate consideration of negative cases in migration research; a proper theory of labor migration would distinguish between positive and negative cases.


Selective excitation of coherent high-amplitude vibrations of atoms in a solid can induce exotic nonequilibrium states, in which the character of interactions between electronic, magnetic and lattice degrees of freedom is considerably altered and the underlying symmetries are broken. Here we use intense single-cycle terahertz pulses to drive coherently the dipole-active $E_u^1$ phonon mode of a Bi$_2$Se$_3$ crystal. As a result, several Raman-active modes are simultaneously excited in a nonlinear process, while one of them, having the $E_g^2$ symmetry, experiences dynamical splitting during the first two picoseconds after excitation. The corresponding angular scattering pattern is modified indicating coexistence of two phonon modes characteristic of a nonequilibrium state with a lower crystal symmetry. We observe also a short-lived frequency splitting of the original $E_g^2$ mode that immediately after excitation amounts to $\sim 25\%$ of the unperturbed value. This transient state relaxes with a characteristic time of $\sim$ 1 ps, that is close to the decay time of the squared amplitude of the resonantly excited infrared-active $E_u^1$ mode. We discuss possible mechanisms of the dynamical splitting: nonlinear lattice deformation caused by the intense $E_u^1$ vibrations and excitation of anisotropic electronic distribution due to nonlinear electron-phonon interaction. Our data also contain an evidence in favor of the sum-frequency Raman mechanism of generation of the coherent $E_g^2$ phonons in Bi$_2$Se$_3$ excited by terahertz pulses.


The invention relates to a folding means (30, 50, 60) and a method for thermoforming packaging machine (1) to fold in front of the sealing station (3) automatically in the production direction (P) leg (26) of L-boards (25).


The aim of the article is to indicate the contribution of prof. Leon Halban and the importance of his involvement in the functioning of this scientific community. The research problem is contained in the question of what determined the professor to courageously enter and actively participate in various aspects of scientific life in the post-war years. The text has been divided into three parts. The first concerns the scholar's pedigree along with the period of university work in Lviv. The second part presents the professor's contribution to the activities of three Lublin juridical departments and related teaching and the performance of administrative functions at KUL and UMCS. The third part relates to other forms of scientific activity and popularizing science. The reasoning was carried out on the basis of the historical and legal method and the analysis of archival materials. Obtaining materials from the archives of the Catholic University of Lublin, UMCS, DALO in Lviv and the Manuscript Department of the University of Lublin, their analysis and recalling the relevant literature on the subject allowed us to draw the following conclusions: prof. Leon Halban belongs to the group of people who helped to resume research and teaching activities at the Catholic University of Lublin after the Second World War. He applied to the juridical departments of this university on the basis of working methods learned from the Jagiellonian University in Lviv. He was a pioneer when it comes to teaching historical and legal disciplines at UMCS. His interests also exceeded the strict limits of science. It can certainly be said that such a style of action and commitment was determined by the work ethic of a scientist, the sources of which should be sought in the studies and work at the Jagiellonian University in Lviv.


1\. Introduction 1.1 The study of mental content representations 1.2 Models
and controversies of the representation of mental content 1.3 Mental content
representations in the somatosensory system 1.4 Overall aim of this thesis 2\.
Summary and discussion of experiments Study 1: Somatotopic recruitment of SI
subregions during simple tactile imagery Study 2: Recruitment of primary
somatosensory cortex during fine-grained tactile imagery Study 3: The
'tactospatial sketchpad': Tactile working memory of spatial stimulus
properties Study 4: Parametric vibrotactile working memory codes investigated
with EEG Study 5: Parametric vibrotactile working memory codes investigated
with fMRI MVPA Study 6: Overlap of parametric vibrotactile working memory with
visual working memory Study 7: Overlap of parametric vibrotactile working
memory with auditory working memory 3\. General discussion 3.1 Empirical
findings on tactile mental representations 3.2 Predictive coding as a
framework for content representations 3.3 Methodological and interpretative
limitations 3.4 Outlook


The interaction of an unseparated supersonic turbulent boundary layer with a compression corner produces an extremely rapid rise in pressure at the corner, followed by a more gradual increase to the final pressure. In this paper, the flow in the corner region is analyzed by an integral method with the objective of predicting the initial pressure rise. Comparisons with experimental pressure rise data are presented for cases covering supersonic and hypersonic flows of practical interest. Also presented are some calculations and comparisons of downstream pressure distributions obtained by using the predicted corner rise as the first point in an existing inviscid method.


This article deals with the qualitative and quantitative content analysis of comments submitted by German-speaking users on the site StudiVZ within the framework of gender linguistic. The study revealed some specific features of language used by male and female users on the Internet: the usage of acronyms, emoticons, inflektivs.


This paper analyses the influence of informational society on the conten t and form of translation teaching.T he purpose is to see what new directions in translation teaching can be provided by a perspective of informational society.


Purpose: Our study aimed to compare the clinical outcomes between endo-button and hook plate fixations for the treatment of acute unstable acromioclavicular (AC) joint dislocation. Materials: A retrospective evaluation of patients with acute AC joint dislocation who were treated between February 2009 and December 2019 was performed. The study was conducted with 39 patients who met the inclusion criteria. Patients were divided into group 1, operated with a hook plate, and group 2, operated with an endo-button. The demographic features and postoperative complications were analyzed. The disability of arm, shoulder, and hand (DASH) scoring system, modified University of California at Los Angeles shoulder score (UCLA) scale, and the visual analog scale (VAS) scores were used to evaluate shoulder functions in these patients. Shoulder functions were evaluated one, three, six, and twelve months after surgery. Results: There were 21 patients in group 1 and 18 patients in group 2. Gender distribution was 28 male and 11 female, and the average age was 30.9 years (18-50). There were no significant differences in age, sex, side of injury, or follow-up time from injury to surgery between the two groups. The UCLA scores of group 1 and group 2 one month after surgery were 17.2 and 27.2, respectively. DASH scores of group 1 and group 2 one month after surgery were 82 and 52, respectively. The VAS scores of group 1 and group 2 one month after surgery were 70 and 14, respectively. For all scores at first month post-surgery, there were statistically significant differences between groups, but scores became similar 12 months after surgery. Conclusion: Postoperative shoulder scores of patients with endo-button showed superiority in the early stages. However, after a year of follow-up, the results of the surgery performed with an endo-button or a hook plate were similar.


American Engineering Council has announced that it would start a nationwide campaign for the establishment of a National Department of Public Works.


This publication brings together four recommendations for open education or parts thereof published in 2021: Quality criteria for open education. Part 1.The quality criteria for open educational resources, Guidelines on accessibility of open educational resources, The recommendation on gaining merit in open education and open educational resources and Competence requirements for open education. Recommendations specify the details of the National policy on open education and educational resources.


Abstract Secretions of the endometrium are vital for peri-implantation growth and development of the sheep conceptus. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are present in the uterine lumen, emanate from both the endometrial epithelia of the uterus and trophectoderm of the conceptus, and hypothesized to mediate communication between those cell types during pregnancy establishment in sheep. Size-exclusion chromatography and nanoparticle tracking analysis determined that total EV number in the uterine lumen increased from days 10 to 14 of the cycle but was lower on days 12 and 14 of pregnancy in sheep. Intrauterine infusions of interferon tau (IFNT) did not affect total EV number in the uterine lumen. Quantitative mass spectrometric analyses defined proteins and lipids in EVs isolated from the uterine lumen of day 14 cyclic and pregnant sheep. In vitro analyses found that EVs decreased ovine trophectoderm cell proliferation and increased IFNT production without effects on gene expression as determined by RNA-seq. Collective results support the idea EVs impact conceptus growth during pregnancy establishment via effects on trophectoderm cell growth. Summary Sentence EVs in the lumen of the ovine uterus decrease during early pregnancy, contain lipid and protein cargo, and modulate trophectoderm cell growth.


ABSTRACT College and university libraries invest a significant amount of funding and staff time in institutional repository projects with the goal of collecting, preserving, and disseminating the intellectual output of their communities. Institutional repositories are often built without an expressed need for such a service; for this reason, libraries must actively promote them, educate users, and liaise with faculty to ensure success. Technical services and public services librarians have equally important roles in instituting and ensuring the success of institutional repositories in their communities.


The authors have performed neutron diffraction experiments on CeMg3, NdMg3 and CeInAg2 intermetallic compounds. The crystallographic structure of CeInAg2 is shown to be of the Heusler (L21) type. CeMg3 and CeInAg2 order antiferromagnetically at 4 and 2.5K respectively; the magnetic ordering of the face-centred cubic cerium array is the first antiferromagnetic type. NdMg3 orders at 6K, the antiferromagnetic structure is the second type like TbMg3. The ordered moments for CeMg3 (0.59 mu B at 2K) and NdMg3 (1.30 mu B at 2K) are smaller than those calculated from a simple Hamiltonian including crystal field and isotropic exchange. This reduction may arise from a contribution of the conduction band, which in the cases of CeMg3 and CeInAg2 leads to the appearance of a Kondo effect revealed by the behaviour of electrical resistivities.


Some colour will be brought back to the sky this month for the first time in a decade, as competitive ballooning gets underway again in Mildura.


Residential treatment centers for a variety of psychological problems have proliferated in the United States and in several countries throughout the world. Cross-cultural comparisons of such therapeutic communities afford the opportunity to examine theoretical systems and methods employed by agencies functioning within societies with a variety of sociopolitical histories and attitudes. The purpose of this study is to compare and contrast selected drug rehabilitation methodologies currently employed in Sweden with an American methodology that is exemplified by Synanon. The type of institutions reviewed is restricted to residential therapeutic communities.


Abstract : A laser radiation protection special study was performed on the Model 914-1 Laser Level. The laser was a Class IIIb system when the beam was stationary and such lasers present a momentary viewing hazard to the direct or specularly reflected beam. This laser did not present a hazard when operated in the scanning mode. (Author)


Rectal route is an effective alternative for oral administration of drugs in pediatric and geriatric patient. Rectal suppository may have influence on bioavailability and may produce sustained release of drugs. Suppository avoids the complications associated with oral delivery of drugs such as first pass effect, degradation of drugs by gastric enzymes, etc. Previous studies implicated that suppositories produced local effects but recently most interesting publications claimed that these are also producing systemic effects. Since last two decades research is focused to improve bioavailability of drugs from suppositories. The conventional solid suppositories have suffered from disadvantages such as feeling of alien, pain and discomfort. Therefore, liquid suppositories were developed which overcame the disadvantages associated with solid suppositories such as leakage from anus, avoidance of first pass effect and irritation. The selection of appropriate mucoadhesive polymer, surfactant and suppository base may influence the bioavailability and sustained release of drugs. The current review concern the physiological, biopharmaceutical characteristics of rectum and pharmaceutical related factors affecting bioavailability, suppository bases, bioadhesive polymers, and surfactant. It also covers evaluation parameters for solid and liquid suppositories.


Pass to collect the examination of the soil sample,counteract the straight line returns to return a method to carry on statisticsing analysis to the soil organic quality and the arsenic mercury lead content relativity,the result express:The soil organic quality content and the arsenic content present negative 5% to show a related relation of the straight line,didn't show a related relation of the straight line with the mercury content,present with the lead content to take of 1% shows a related relation of the straight line very much.Explain,with soil the exaltation of the organic quality content,can ease the heavy metals pollution of some categories in the soil.


3-D Prestack Depth Migration has greatly improved our ability to image reservoirs in complex areas, such as below salt and carbonates in the North Sea or beneath salt bodies in the Gulf of Mexico. But what effect does the overlying structures and abrupt velocity variations have on seismic attributes such as amplitude anomalies or amplitude variation with offset (AVO)?


The research training that technical communication undergraduates receive remains an under examined but never more timely topic of discussion. The skills a practicing technical communicator must possess is quickly expanding. In particular, technical communicators require data collection, curation, and analysis competences. In our paper, we offer three case histories that illustrate how to increase the data information literacies of technical communication undergraduates. Our observations were recorded in three classroom settings: a content analysis course, a SEO and website analytics course, and a UX app development and design course. We conclude with suggestions for improving data information literacy in technical communication undergraduates well as a call to action for further research on this topic.


NF-kB regulates the expression of several key genes that are overexpressed in asthmatic airways. Mesalamine is a potent NF-kB inhibitor and is proven to be effective against allergic asthma in an animal model. The established range for optimal aerodynamic particle diameter to achieve efficient deep lung deposition is between 0.5 and 5μm. Particles with aerodynamic diameters less than 0.5μm are prone to fail deposition in the deep lung and are exhaled, whereas particles greater than 5μm deposit in the mouth and throat. However, this optimum aerodynamic diameter range is prone to clearance by alveolar macrophages once they deposit in the deep lung. Geometric diameter comes into play at this stage and particles must typically be more than 6μm to avoid this rapid clearance and have hydrophilic, rather than hydrophobic, surface chemistry. For overcoming these challenges we have developed drug loaded liposome which were in a size range of 200nm and encapsulated them with microgels which were in a size range of 3µm initially and 5µm following invitro swelling studies. The microgels were prepared by conjugating PEG-4-Acrylate and Trypsin sensitive peptide sequence for enzyme triggered disease responsive drug delivery. The liposomes and microgels were screened for expression of key proteins in Raw 264.7 cell line for expression of NFκB, JNK and P38 map kinase. The in vitro studies revealed a 2 fold decrease in the expression of NFκB in formulation treated group compared to negative control (TNF-α induced NFκB expression). Similar findings were observed in the expression of JNK and P38 map kinase.


The invention discloses an infrared power-saving remote control socket, which comprises an infrared receiving and decoding circuit, a microcontroller processing circuit, a control circuit and an execution circuit, wherein the input end of the microcontroller processing circuit is connected with the infrared receiving and decoding circuit, and the output end is connected with the control circuit, the output end of the control circuit is connected with the execution circuit, and the execution circuit is connected on a power supply in series. The microcontroller processing circuit comprises a microcontroller chip, a data memory chip, a push button and an indicating lamp, wherein the data memory chip, the push button and the indicating lamp are respectively connected on the end foot of the microcontroller chip, the push button controls the microcontroller chip to learn the coding information of an infrared remote control, and the coding information is stored on the data memory chip by the microcontroller chip. The infrared power saving remote control socket is not needed to adopt a special-purpose remote control, which simplifies circuits, lowers production cost, greatly saves the electricity consumption of domestic appliances, and prolongs the service span of domestic appliances.


Social media are becoming progressively more important in the role they play in any organisation's marketing and client-base development platform, performing a strategic function in providing information sources for everyone. Recently, for instance, microblogging services such as Twitter, along with social networking sites like Facebook, are reputed to have the potential for increasing political participation nationally and internationally. In times of crisis, social media offer a different approach to stimulate citizen engagement in political life, reshaping creative structures and methods of contemporary political communication in the way that politicians and citizens can interact with one another. The goal of this study is to investigate the current role of the social media used by Members of Parliament and politicians to reach, communicate and network with their audiences (citizens), or groups of people, in times of political change and crisis in Cyprus. A qualitative study is adopted using face-to-face interviews in order to explore the views, experiences, beliefs and motivations of individual participants in Cyprus


Objective To investigate the clinical efficacy,operative essentials and indications of hybrid spinal fusion surgery for cervical spondylotic myelopathy.Methods From August 2008 to December 2011,thirty-eight patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy underwent hybrid spinal fusion surgery in our hospital.There were 27 males and 11 females,aged from 33 to 70 years (average,51 years).A total of 86 segments were treated (fusion 48 vs.non-fusion 38).Twenty-eight patients underwent a two-level surgery,and ten patients received a three-level surgery.The Japanese Orthopaedic Association (JOA) score and Visual analogue scale (VAS) were used to evaluate pre-and post-operative neurological function and pain,respectively.The pre-and post-operative range of motion of the cervical spine was measured according to Xrays.Moreover,the surgical complications were recorded and analyzed.Results Thirty-seven patients were followed up for 15 to 55 months (average,29.1 months).The improvement of neurological function was obtained in 36 patients.The JOA score was improved from preoperative 10.5±1.57 to 14.3±1.97 at final follow-up,with an improvement rate of 58.46%,and the results were excellent in 16 cases,fair in 20 cases and poor in 1 case.The VAS was improved from preoperative 7.3±1.04 to 3.2±1.41 at final follow-up.The Cobb angle changed from preoperative 25°±3.21°to 20°±2.56°at final follow-up.After operation,the neurological function was not restored in 1 case; hoarseness and bucking occurred in 2 cases; sore throat occurred in 22 cases; anterior displacement of prosthesis (PCM) occurred in 3 cases.Other patients had no complications,such as displacement,loosening and heterotopic ossification.Conclusion In hybrid spinal fusion surgery,the lesions segments are decompressed fully,the severely degenerative segments are fused,and the motion of the non-fusion segments is reserved.As a result,not only the stability of the cervical spine is achieved,but also an obvious improvement of symptoms and a satisfactory short-term efficacy can be obtained.Therefore,this method is an alternative procedure for cervical spondylosis myelopathy.

Key words:
Cervical vertebrae;  Spinal cord compression;  Spinal fusion;  Intervertebral disk


: Since ancient times, education and training have been placed in an important position. Especially, in the context of the current knowledge-based economy development, when human resources are increasingly occupying a central and leading position in development, education and training are increasingly becoming theoretical issues and practice. Education and training are activities of transmitting and perceiving a system of knowledge and social experiences to improve production efficiency and quality of social life. Along with the development of society, education and training have become a self-conscious, organized activity with their purposes, contents, and methods with their programs and plans. Education and training is also conscious and purposeful human activity, a system of influences to make learners perceive and absorb the human cultural value system and create new values on the knowledge base of the previous generation. The article researches the theory of education and training for social development. Within the framework of the article, the author outlines the views on education and training and their role in social development.


Dissolved nutrients, especially inorganic nitrogen (N) and inorganic phosphorus (P), are typically deficient in the coastal surface waters of temperate regions during warm seasons. Even under the conditions of inorganic N and P deficiencies, the planktonic diatom Chaetoceros tenuissimus sometimes forms blooms. The present study characterized, at the mRNA transcript level, the gene expression patterns in N- or P-limited cultures of C. tenuissimus to propose the molecular markers of N- and P-deficient states of C . tenuissimus . Gene transcriptions of nitrate transporter and glutamine synthetase appeared to be upregulated in N-limited cultures. Phosphate transporter and alkaline phosphatase transcriptions appeared to be induced under P-limited conditions. These results suggest that C. tenuissimus under the N-deficient state expresses a transmembrane nitrate transporter, uptakes nitrate effectively, and assimilates the N source rapidly via glutamine synthesis; P-deficient C. tenuissimus possibly supplements P sources from organic P compounds via hydrolysis actions of phosphatases and uptakes phosphate effectively through phosphate transporters.


Absolute total electron scattering cross sections for N/sub 2/ from 0.5 to 50 eV have been measured with an estimated uncertainty of +- 3% using a transmission time-of-flight method previously described. The results are compared to previous experimental results and to recent calculations. The positions of the /sup 2/Pi/sub g/ resonance peaks were determined with much greater accuracy ( +- 15 meV) than in previous transmission measurements. The structure reported by Golden (1966) below the /sup 2/Pi/sub g/ resonance was clearly not present, indicating that, if real, these features are not a property of the N/sub 2/ ground vibronic state. The shape resonance predicted at 11 eV by Dill and Dehmer (1977) was not seen, perhaps because it was too weakly manifested in the total cross section. A weak broad band centered at 25 eV may be interpreted as being due to a sigma/sub u/ shape resonance as predicted by Dehmer, Siegel, Welch, and Dill.


1. Introduct ion The object of t h i s paper i s to extend some r e s u l t s concerning the theory of Jacobi f i e l d s on Biemannian manifolds to Weyl manifolds. Let M be an ¿-dimensional smooth^ manifold. Two Riemann metrics g and g' on M are said to be equivalent i f and only i f g ' = e ^ g , where A i s a smooth funct ion on M. A conformai s t ruc ture on M i s an equivalence c lass G of Riemann metrics on M. A Weyl s t ruc tu re on Li i s a map:


It is proposed that the style and format of the questions used by lecturers and tutors profoundly influence students' conceptions of what mathematics is about and how it is conducted. By looking at reasons for asking questions, and becoming aware of different types of questions which mathematicians typically ask themselves, we can enrich students' experience of mathematics. Drawing on recent work by Watson and Mason stimulated by the ideas of Zygfryd Dyrszlag, the paper proposes that mathematical themes, powers, heuristics and activities generate a mathematical discourse which is not always represented in the questions students are asked, and that the real purpose of questions is to provoke students into construal, into constructing their own stories which constitute meaning and understanding, and which equip them for the future. The use of questions of whatever type depends on both scaffolding and fading their use with and in front of students, so that students internalize the questions into their own learning and doing of mathematics. The framework directed—prompted—spontaneous is proposed as an alternative to scaffolding—fading for informing interactions with students.


Spiking Neuron Models can accurately predict the spike trains produced by cortical neurons in response to somatically injected electric currents. Since the specific model characteristics depend on the neuron; a computational method is required to fit models to electrophysiological recordings. However, models only work within defined limits and it is possible that they could only be applied to the example presented. Moreover, there is not a methodology to fit the models; in fact, the fitting procedure can be very time consuming both in terms of computer simulations and code writing. In this paper a first effort is presented not to fit models, but to create a methodology to generate neuron models automatically. We propose to use Gene Expression Programming to create mathematical expressions that replicate the behavior of a state of the art neuron model. We will present how this strategy is feasible to solve more complex problems and provide the basis to find new models which could be applied in a wide range of areas from the field of computational neurosciences as pyramidal neurons spike train prediction, or in artificial intelligence as pattern recognition problems.


SETTING
Two southern provinces of Rwanda, Butare and Gikongoro.

OBJECTIVES
To identify beliefs and popular perceptions on cough and tuberculosis (TB) in rural Rwanda and determine how they shape health-seeking behaviour.

METHODS
Eight focus group discussions, 21 key informant interviews and 12 illness narratives were conducted between May and June 2004.

STUDY POPULATION
TB patients, community members, traditional healers and health workers.

RESULTS
There is wide use of herbal treatment for chronic cough in Rwanda. Patients seek conventional care when alternative treatment options fail or when severe symptoms such as shortness of breath, bloody sputum and weight loss appear. There are several local illnesses associated with chronic cough, with different alternative treatments. TB symptoms are often mistaken for the acquired immune-deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Identified causes for cough-related illnesses can be classified as biomedical (germs, internal body dysfunction and worms), environmental (seasonal changes and dust), cultural (inheritance), socio-economic (hard work, malnutrition and tobacco), and supernatural (witchcraft). Three health-seeking end points emerge for chronic cough: home care, health facility and the traditional healer. Healers in some areas, however, believe TB due to witchcraft can only be treated traditionally.

CONCLUSION
This study unveils beliefs and treatment options for chronic cough in Rwanda, with important implications for TB control that should be addressed.


This paper presents the application of the unsteady surface-element (USE) method to the heat condition problem in a semi-infinite body with mixed boundary conditions of a step change of the surface temperature over an infinite strip and insulated elsewhere. The accuracy of the method is studied by comparing the results with those obtained from the approximate analytical solution (using the Laplace transform technique), and also by considering different sizes of elements and the time steps used in the numerical computations. The results show that a very high accuracy is attainable with a relatively small number of surface elements. It is also found that the accuracy of results varies linearly with the sizes of element and time step.


Intravenous infusion of crystalloid and colloid fluids is a therapeutic action intrinsic to surgical and intensive care. The volume of fluid is a controversial issue. Guidance has often come from studies wherein exogenous tracers show that plasma volume expansion in response to crystalloid fluid ('f


An Iris Recognition is a commonly used technique to authenticate a person among all other available Biometric Techniques. The Iris Recognition System was developed and continuously improved by Daughman in 1993, which motivated many researchers to develop different techniques. In this paper, different fusion techniques at matching level were employed, which resulted in Robust Iris Recognition. Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) and Local Binary Pattern (LBP) feature extracting methods are applied on normalized iris templates to extract features. Further these different features are fused at matching level using LRFusion, RL-Fusion, DU-Fusion and UD-Fusion fusion techniques. The verification and identification performance of the proposed model is validated on CASIA dataset. Keywords— Iris Recognition, LBP, DWT, DU-Fusion, Robust, UD-Fusion, LR-Fusion, RL-Fusion.


Fertility trend within blocks and local variations are the major obstacles to estimate cultivar contrasts in agricultural field trials. This paper examines methods of smoothing fertility trends in field trials using the P-spline. We begin by smoothing trend within block and for each block, and proceeds to demonstrate how it can be extended to smooth trends in trials with two-dimensional setting. We propose simultaneous modelling of trends and local variation. We use Papadakis [J.S. Papadakis, Comparison de differentes methds d'expermentation phytotechnique, Rev. Argen. Agronom. 7 (1940), pp. 297–362.] and kriged covariate to model local variation. We emphasize on the benefit of using P-spline to compromise between parametric and non-parametric approaches. Data sets from wheat and barley trials, designed as randomized complete block design and row-column, are analyzed. We set out a simple strategy of choosing between additive model and two-dimensional setting. We explore different estimation methods and offer some generalizations. The results show importance of the P-spline in modelling trend and the need to choose between additive and two-dimensional settings.