We investigate the behavior of a tagged particle under the action of an external constant driving force in an infinite system of particles evolving in a one dimensional lattice according to symmetric random walks with hard core interaction.


Bernard Hours, Humanitarian Medical Interventions and Prevention without Borders : Medicin or Ideology ? ; For humanitarian doctors, the object of human rights is the human victim, no longer as the subject of history but as a wounded body with an identity crystallized in a state of dependence. For a generation of doctors, a preventive pulsion on a planetary scale which confuses politics and medicin, and in which lucidity is not a principal virtue, has become an ideological orientation. At a time when democratic transparency is increasingly rare, this ideology is perfectly congruent with global management.


The aim of the research is to prepare a composition of a complex organomineral admixture based on industrial waste for cement saving, to experimentally establish the optimum crushing degree of an ash-and-slag waste composition and to estimate the ratio between mineral and organic components of the complex admixture, ensuring the possibility of reducing cement consumption without loss of concrete strength. As a mineral component of the complex admixture the wastes from thermoelectric power stations were used, representing  by an ash-and-slag waste composition crushed to a fine powder condition. Optimization of the complex admixture is carried out  using mathematical methods of the theory of planning experiments.
As a result of this research a quadratic polynomial model of influence of crushing fineness of ash-and-slag wastes and cement consumption on concrete strength has been obtained. It is established, that depending on the degree of crushing of ash-and-slag waste composition within values of specific surface of received powder from 2400 to 4000 cm2/g it is possible to reduce cement consumption by 8-18 % without loss in strength of concrete. The introduction of complex organomineral admixtures into concrete is very effective as it saves cement. However, special studies are required in each case. The compositions of the new complex admixtures are tested on the basis of traditional raw materials, and economic efficiency in saving cement is established. It is proposed to use the methodology of mathematical modelling of the technological complex system under study, presented in this article.


The experimental study on the uniaxial compressive mechanical properties of glauberite was carried out by high-precision Micro-CT μCT225KVFCB test system and JL computer-controlled electro-hydraulic servo compression test system.The results of studies showed that compaction phase was not obvious and there was a stiffness phase in the test.The average of uniaxial compressive strength was 7.54 MPa.The glauberite is a kind of soft rock.The uniaxial compressive strength of the glauberite increased with the increase of its density,but decreased with the increase of inhomogeneity of its density,and was fitted linear relationship with the attenuation coefficient of the diagnostic X-rays and the variance of the attenuation coefficient.


The vehicle routing problem with multiple trips consists in determining the routing of a fleet of vehicles where each vehicle can perform multiple routes during its workday. This problem is relevant in applications where the duration of each route is limited, for example when perishable goods are transported. In this work, we assume that a fixed-size fleet of vehicles is available and that it might not be possible to serve all customer requests, due to time constraints. Accordingly, the objective is first to maximize the number of served customers and then, to minimize the total distance traveled by the vehicles. An adaptive large neighborhood search, exploiting the ruin-and-recreate principle, is proposed for solving this problem. The various destruction and reconstruction operators take advantage of the hierarchical nature of the problem by working either at the customer, route or workday level. Computational results on Euclidean instances, derived from well-known benchmark instances, demonstrate the benefits of this multi-level approach.


Two novel water-soluble meta-poly(phenylene ethynylene) (mPPE) copolymers were synthesized and characterized, each contained ester and amine functional groups attached to exohelix positions on the phenylene rings and one contained methoxy endohelix functional groups. Secondary structure formation was investigated for these materials in aqueous solutions using ultraviolet and fluorescence spectroscopy. Additionally, the folding behaviors are reported for the mPPEs and their protected amine precursors in other protic and aprotic solvents. Results indicate that both mPPEs are able to form stable helical structures in water, while only the nonmethoxylated polymer exhibited a helical structure in acetonitrile and several alcohols. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem, 2012


The liquid-soild flotation separation behaviour of Pb2+ in sodium nitrate-ammonium thiocyanate-rhodamine 6 G(Rh6G) system and the conditions for the separation of Pb2+ were studied.The results showed that with the amount of 0.5 mL of the solution of 0.1 mol/L NH4SCN and 1.0 mL of the solution of 1.0×10-3 mol/L Rh6G,the ternary association complex of NH4SCN-Rh6G-Pb floated above the salt-water and formed liquid-solid phase with clear interface in presence of 1.0 g NaNO3.In this condition,Zn2+,Mn2+,Co2+,Ni2+,Al3+,Fe2+ could not be floated and Pb2+ could be floated quantitatively.This method has been used for the flotation separation of trace Pb2+ in synthetic water samples,and the flotation yield of lead is 93.6%-108.7%.


Abstract New molecular complexes of fullerenes C60 and C70 with leuco crystal violet (LCV, 1–3); leucomalachite green (LMG, 4–6); crystal violet lactone (CVL, 7); N,N,N′,N′-tetrabenzyl-p-phenylenediamine (TBPDA, 8, and 9); N,N,N′,N′-tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine (TMPDA, 10, and 11); triphenylamine (TPA, 12, and 13); and substituted phenotellurazines (EPTA and TMPTA, 14, and 15) have been synthesized. Crystal structures have been solved for C60 complexes with LMG (5, 6) TBPDA (8), TMPDA (10), and TPA (12). The C60 molecules form closely packed double layers in 5 and 6, hexagonal layers in 10 and quasi-three-dimensional layers in 8 and 12. The substitution of disordered solvent molecules in the complexes with LMG (4, 5) by naphthalene ones results in the ordering of the C60 molecules. According to IR-, UV–visible–NIR and ESR-spectroscopy the complexes have a neutral ground state. The spectra of 1–8, and 10 show intense charge transfer bands in the visible and NIR-range. On photoexcitation by white light (light-induced ESR (LESR) spectroscopy), 1 and 10 were shown to have an excited ionic state. The LESR signals were generated at light energies


4. Nori S, Rius-Diaz F, Cuevas J, et al. Sensitivity and specificity of reflectance-mode confocal microscopy for in vivo diagnosis of basal cell carcinoma: amulticenter study. J AmAcad Dermatol. 2004;51(6):923-930. 5. Guitera P, Menzies SW, Longo C, Cesinaro AM, Scolyer RA, Pellacani G. In vivo confocal microscopy for diagnosis of melanoma and basal cell carcinoma using a two-stepmethod: analysis of 710 consecutive clinically equivocal cases. J Invest Dermatol. 2012;132(10):2386-2394.


American squadron moved about from bases in Port Mahon, Spezia, Lisbon, or Villefranche. The land areas Field is concerned with are, however, the Barbary States and particularly the traditional Levant, with an occasional excursus into Iran or the Black Sea or two thousand miles up the Nile. A partial list of major events or topics he considers includes Algerian piracy, the Morocco treaty of 1787, the Tripoli war, the Smyrna trade, the Greek revolt and Philhellenism, the Ottoman treaty of 1830, the missionary Man from 1820 on, American shipbuilding for the Porte, the 1848 revolutions, the Koszta case (Field seems not to have used Andor Klay's book), the Iran treaty, Italian unification and Garibaldi, Robert College and the Syrian Protestant College, the Cretan revolt of 1866, the genesis of Bulgaria, the American officers in Khedive Ismail's employ, and the British occupation of Egypt in 1882. In all these affairs, and more, Americans were involved. A few errors and oddities creep in. Morocco was not within the Ottoman Empire as implied (p. 27) and Field knows better (p. 32).' Hussein Kutchuk' (p. 116) should be Kuchuk Hussein, the kapdan-i derya. Husrev Pasha was only to a limited extent 'progressive and Westernizing' (p. 118). The battle of Navarino was hardly the 'first step' in the Mediterranean of' the territorial expansion of Europe at the expense of the neighboring Islamic culture'. Stratford de Redcliffe did not secure 'the abolition of the death penalty for Moslem apostasy' (p. 266) but a more limited promise only. The French seizure of Tunis in 1881 and the British of Egypt in 1882 are cited as the initial breach in the Mediterranean frontier between two civilizations (p. 307), but Field himself mentions the earlier French colonization of Algiers (p. 380). I doubt that 'Arab nationalism was beginning to flower' in the 1870s (p. 360) despite the stirrings in Syria. The French foreign minister Gramont appears as ' Grammont' (pp. 384-5). These little matters do not affect the main story. More important are two cautions: the reader must bear in mind that American activity may seem greater than it was since British, French, and other activity is not given equal treatment; he must also bear in mind that British, French, and Ottoman views on American activity in the Mediterranean are represented here only in a secondary way, and not from their own archives. This, however, would demand another volume.


We identify the optimal scaling law for a nonconvex, nonlocal variational problem representing the magnetic energy of a uniaxial ferromagnet. Our analysis is restricted to a certain parameter regime, in which the surface tension is sufficiently small relative to the other parameters of the problem. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.


We have produced ultra-small sized (20–50 nm diameter) calcium phosphate (CaP) nanoparticles encapsulating a reporter gene, pCambia 1301. The material in the nanoparticles is of crystalline nature having a hydroxyapatite structure as revealed from the XRD pattern. The maximum loading of pCambia 1301 in the nanoparticles and the pH-dependent dissolution of CaP nanoparticles were studied using gel electrophoresis. DNA is highly protected in the cell from cellular nucleases when it is encapsulated into the CaP nanoparticles. The transformation efficiency was found to be about 80.7% compared to 54.4% by Agrobacterium tumefaciens and only 8% using naked DNA. Our results indicate that CaP nanoparticles could be used as a better transforming vector in plants as compared to the Agrobacterium tumefaciens mediated genetic transformation technique. In our experiment we presume that the plasmid DNA released from CaP nanoparticles in the cell has, perhaps, been able to enter into the nucleus. Transgenic GUS (β-glucuronidase) integrates into the genomic DNA by non-homologous recombination as in the case of Agrobacterium tumefaciens infection. Because of high transformation frequency, the method seems to be an attractive option for delivering a transgene into plant cells and protoplast.


A polariton condensate transistor switch is realized through optical excitation of a microcavity ridge with two beams. The ballistically ejected polaritons from a condensate formed at the source are gated using the 20 times weaker second beam to switch on and off the flux of polaritons. In the absence of the gate beam the small built-in detuning creates a potential landscape in which ejected polaritons are channelled toward the end of the ridge where they condense. The low-loss photonlike propagation combined with strong nonlinearities associated with their excitonic component makes polariton-based transistors particularly attractive for the implementation of all-optical integrated circuits.


The simultaneous gas-chromatographic separation of a mixture of 14 lower fatty acids, 11 phenols and 7 indoles was performed by using a fused silica glass capillary column of Carbowax 20M (50 m × 0.2 mm i.d., Carbowax 20M deactivated). Complete separation of the mixture was obtained, except for the peaks of phenols and o-cresol, o-ethylphenol and 3,5-xylenol and pelargonic acid, 2,3-xylenol and 1,2-dimethylindole, whose peaks overlapped, and 2- and 3-methylindoles, which were poorly separated. The optimum conditions are as follows: column temperature, held for 1 min at 100 °C; column oven, heated at 4 °C min–1 from 100 to 220 °C, maintained at 220 °C for 9 min for standard compounds or 29 min for sample specimens, then cooled to 100 °C; and carrier gas (nitrogen) flow-rate, 0.97 ml min–1. The method was applied to the analysis of the lower fatty acids, phenols and indoles in cat and human faeces and non-smoker saliva.


This paper,using the method of literature review,questionnaire,interview and mathematical statistics,analyzes the fitness clubs condition in Shanxi province,and finds out the factors influencing the development of fitness clubs.The main purpose is to provide the theoretical basis for further development of fitness clubs in Shanxi province.


This study examines the acoustic coarticulatory effects of tone on VCV sequences of Yoruba, when each vowel of the VCV sequences bears a different tone. The first aim is to understand how the presence of tone affects CV coarticulation in the traditional locus equations parlance as used by Krull (1987). This marks the first application of the locus equation metric to a tonal language in the study of CV coarticulation. The second aim is to determine how the stop consonant in VCV sequences is affected by prosodic overlay, independently of the vowels altered location in articulatory/acoustic space. In order to achieve the second objective, the modified locus equation regression metric that was used by [Lindblom et al. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. (2007)] to dissociate vowel context effects from rate‐induced effects on consonantal F2 onsets are applied. Similar to the findings of Lindblom et al. (2007), the analyses document separate effect for F2 locus relative to F2 nucleus.


she is vigorously biting the arm of one of the three policemen who is forcibly detaining her. Her direct, rather than passive, resistance creates a dynamic motion in the scene effectively amplified by the blurring in the image. While not a 'good' photo by dint of composition or focus, the photo unambiguously documents both the desperation of the white police force and the tenacity of African American women citizens' involvement in the struggle. I was compelled to look at the image over and over and to verbally describe its power to convey this important historical insight to more than one of my unsuspecting colleagues, students, and neighbours.


The mining industry in 19th-early 20th Century Queensland boosted population inland and created infrastructure such as towns, roads and railways. These mining fields declined following the First World War, creating many abandoned towns. This article describes what might be left on these towns and uses the lead-copper mining town of Mungana, near Chillagoe, as a case study.


TCM consultation rely mainly on visualized methods of observation,listening,interrogation,and pulse-taking,there is a certain fuzziness,randomness and nondeterminacy.In order to minimize subjectivity and Intuition,improve the objectivity and accuracy in the process of TCM,This text proposed in the weight distribution,by the weight of Symptom factors quantificational calculation,establish a unified specification of Symptom differentiation,to achieve the objectify of Symptom differentiation.Methodology of this study was to explore the beneficial In TCM terms of quantification and objectivity,for the standardization of TCM,the objective of the study provides a new idea.


Information must be sorted out and fused not only to allow commanders to make situation assessments, but also to support the generation of hypotheses about enemy force disposition and enemy intent. While incredible progress has been made on information fusion in recent years, the sensing capabilities available have advanced even faster. Moreover, the sheer number of platforms available to commanders has dramatically increased. Perhaps more importantly, the context in which information is being fused, shared and used is changing dramatically from carefully defined hierarchical information pathways to a dynamic, open net-centric information sharing and planning. In this work, we focused on issues related to this new reality. Our research has focused on the problems of developing integrated techniques for fusion levels 2 and 4. Our work can be roughly divided into modeling, understanding and improving sensor fusion in a net-centric environment (level 2) and modeling, understanding and improving humans ability to use multiple mobile sensor platforms to collect information required for planning and acting. In this report we present a very brief summary of our work in each of these areas accompanied by reprints of papers presenting the research in detail.


In this book, Ikiugu and Pollard explore the notion of meaningfulness, in the light of Viktor Frankl's (1992) assertions that the will to meaning is the primary motivation for behavior in human existence, and that the frustration of the pursuit for meaning in the modern and Western world constituted what he termed 'existential vacuum', leading in turn to what he called 'noogenic neurosis' or 'the disease of meaninglessness' The authors then show how occupation can be used in meaning-making to counter the 'disease of meaninglessness'. Though the notion of the notion of meaningfulness is central to occupational therapy practice (AOTA, 2008), it has never really been investigated in depth in the profession's literature This book is aimed at occupational therapy and occupational science students, occupational therapy clinicians, and occupational scientists. Each chapter begins with learning objectives, personal growth objectives, and definition of key terms, followed by the content, and finally by self-exploration exercise. This approach makes the book applicable to students who are studying the relationship between occupation and meaningful living. The exercises are experiential making it possible for people to apply these concepts in their own lives. This is a unique, new approach which has not been used much in occupational therapy and occupational science literature before. The approach has been tested by the authors teaching experience on the philosophical and theoretical foundaitons of occupational therapy and the therapeutic use of self. About the authors Moses N. Ikiugu is Professor of Occupational Therapy, University of South Dakota, USA Nick Pollard is Senior Lecturer in Occupational Therapy, Sheffield Hallam University, UK


Background: Ligation of the segmental vessels is routinely used during the anterior approach to the thoracolumbar spine. There is still an ongoing discussion whether the ligation of the segmental arteries can cause damage to the spinal cord. This study aims to evaluate the alterations in the spinal cord after ligation of the segmental vessels, histopathologically. Methods: Eight female merino sheep were used. The segmental arteries of the thoracolumbar aorta were clipped, unilaterally, at three levels via left antero-lateral thoracotomy. Animals were sacrificed after 3 days. Spinal cord obtained from thoracolumbar and control cervical segments was examined histopathologically on the basis of ischemic changes and the number of blood vessels. Results: Slight ischemic changes were observed at the thoracolumbar levels. The number of blood vessels was decreased significantly at the thoracolumbar levels compared to control cervical levels. No animal developed neurological deficit. Conclusion: Unilateral ligation of segmental vessels at three levels leads pathologic changes in the the spinal cord that do not influence the neurologic function.


Coagulopathy in COVID-19 represents a thrombo-inflammatory condition, and it is one of the most important causes of morbidity and mortality in this disease. The occurrence of coagulopathy correlates with the intensity of the inflammatory response to SARS-Cov-2 virus infection, and its presence is characterized by laboratory markers of blood hypercoagulability and clinically pronounced prothrombotic condition. Although the mechanism of coagulopathy is not fully elucidated, dysregulated and overemphasized immune responses mediated by inflammatory cytokines, complement activation, leukocyte activation with release of free nucleic acids and histones into the circulation, hypoxia and endothelial damage play a very important role in its development. Thrombosis can occur in all parts of the circulatory system and is most often localized in the microcirculation and venous part of the vasculature. A number of studies have shown that the presence of thrombotic pulmonary embolism can be demonstrated by objective methods in approximately 15% of COVID-19 patients treated in intensive care units, while the incidence of total venous thromboembolism in this group of patients is over 20% despite antithrombotic prophylaxis. Although much less common than venous thrombosis, arterial thrombosis may also occur in COVID-19 patients, most often in the form of myocardial infarction, ischemic stroke and peripheral artery occlusion. Damage to the endothelium under the influence of virus or inflammatory response, activation of platelets and coagulation system with fibrin deposition leads to extensive thrombosis in the microcirculation of lungs and other tissues and directly contributes to respiratory failure, ARDS or multiorgan failure. Therefore, coagulopathy in COVID-19 is an integral part of the pathophysiological mechanism of the disease and contributes to its clinical manifestation and progression. Main laboratory characteristics of COVID-19 coagulopathy are elevated values of D-dimer in the blood, which occurs in the process of decomposition of precipitated fibrin under the action of fibrinolytic enzymes in the microcirculation of the lungs and other organs. Therefore, D-dimer values reflect the intensity of the inflammation in the lungs and have prognostic significance in recognizing patients at risk of serious complications and unfavorable course of the disease. In contrast to disseminated intravascular coagulation in sepsis, severe thrombocytopenia and hypofibrinogenemia as well as bleeding tendencies are rare in COVID-19 coagulopathy. Due to the high frequency and important role of coagulopathy in morbidity and mortality, the use of anticoagulant therapy is recommended in all hospitalized patients. However, the optimal way of treating coagulopathy and the intensity of antithrombotic prophylaxis are not known, and represent the subject of intensive research.


It's just not an option Sustainability literacy should by now be woven into the fabric of our educational culture. Our present ignorance and lack of engagement is nothing short of shameful, says John Blewitt.


This study aimed to conduct a systematic review to estimate the economic impact of Bovine alphaherpesvirus 1 (BoAHV1) infection in Brazil using epidemiological indicators through a meta-analysis. Specific descriptors were used to retrieve studies from the Scopus, PubMed, Biblioteca Digital Brasileira de Teses e Dissertações, and Catálogo de Teses e Dissertações da Capes databases, selecting those that met the inclusion criteria established between the years 2000 and 2020. The selected studies were subjected to descriptive statistical analysis using prevalence data as the primary outcome with a 95% confidence interval (CI) with a meta-analysis of random effects and measures of heterogeneity, significance, magnitude of the effect, and measurement of publication bias. Abortion costs and estimates were calculated based on the prevalence of BoAHV1 infection in Brazil and the characteristics of the agent as viral subtypes that cause abortion, period of occurrence, average pregnancy rate, and morbidity applied to susceptible animals and animal replacement values. The results were obtained from 49 studies included for meta-analysis where a prevalence of BoAHV1 infection of 54.12% (95% CI: 49.07% - 59.26%) in the bovine population and 88.53% (95% CI: 82.97%–92.43%) was present. From the structured formula, it is estimated that 258,779 bovine abortions occur, which causes a total loss, based only on the occurrence of abortion, of US $ 48,402,244.00 to the country. It is noteworthy that because of the losses caused, strict control and eradication measures need to be implemented based on the elaboration of normative instruction that includes health education measures, vaccination, tests for traffic, and animal trade so that BoAHV1 infections do not continue to negatively impact national producers economically, productively, and socially.


Recording of a memorial service held at the Stanley Burbury Theatre University of Tasmania on the 6th June 1991 to celebrate the life of George Thomas Jamieson Wilson (5 September 1907 - 3 June 1991). Introduction by Dr John Donaldson, Maths Department with contributions by Professor Michael Roe, History, Dr John Brodie, Engineering, Dr Bruce Felmingham, Commerce and Alan Bray TRU Rugby. George Wilson joined the University of Tasmania in 1945 as a lecturer in history and retired in 1974. Mr Wilson was Warden of Hytten Hall, the university's first residential college, for the 14 years before his retirement, and he had a remarkable rapport with students. During the 1950s he was student counsellor and a keen rugby union player. He helped establish the game of rugby in Tasmania.


The objective of this program is the development of experimental methods for the measurement of equilibrium and transport properties of complex, multiphase fluids and fluid mixtures. The properties involved in the apparatus development are: PVT (pressure-volume-temperature), PVTx (pressure-volume-temperature-composition), phase equilibria (liquid-vapor and liquid-liquid equilibria), phase behavior at interfaces, and transport properties (viscosity, thermal conductivity, and diffusion coefficient). The apparatus are designed, where practical, for use in highly corrosive, toxic, and flammable fluids. The design goals for temperature and pressure are 800 K and 30 MPa (in some cases 70 MPa). It is not possible to meet these goals in all cases because of material requirements and limitations; for example, the need for visual cells for phase equilibria, the use of piezoelectric crystals for viscometry, and the temperature limitations of some pressure transducers. 8 refs.


We characterize the minimal isometric dilation of a non‐commutative contractive sequence of operators as a universal object for certain diagrams of completely positive maps. A non‐spatial construction of the minimal isometric dilation is also given, using Hilbert modules over C*‐algebras.


In 2001, 18 journals published about 1270 astronomical papers that reported and/or analyzed data gathered by space‐based observatories and missions. These papers were cited 24,460 times in papers published in 2002–2004, an average of 19.26 citations per paper or 6.42 citations per paper per year (sometimes called impact or impact factor). About 60 satellites, rockets, balloons, and planetary missions were represented, including six ground‐based Cerenkov detectors for ultra‐high energy gamma rays, because we didn't know where else to put them. Of these facilities, 21 provided the data for at least five papers, when credit was divided equally among all contributing facilities. We analyze here distributions of papers, citations, and impact factors among the facilities and among subject areas and compare the results with studies of optical and radio telescopes (Trimble et al. and Trimble & Zaich). Some similarities include the rarity of completely uncited papers (only 41 of 1274, or 3.2%) and the concentrations of the most highly cited papers toward popular topics, high‐profile journals, and the most successful telescopes of the year. Some important differences arise because many space‐based observatories have lifetimes shorter than the typical time required to think of an interesting astronomical observation, propose for it, get the data, write the paper and publish it (including the fight with the referee), and have citations accumulate. The result is superstar status in citation numbers for XMM‐Newton (whose first‐light package appeared in 2001) and in paper numbers for Chandra (launched 5 months earlier), while aging satellites (RXTE, BeppoSAX, ASCA) and the archival‐only ROSAT, ISO, IRAS, etc., were still important contributors, but with fewer papers and less highly cited papers. The impact factor of 6.42 for the totality of these gamma‐ray, X‐ray, ultraviolet, space infrared and optical, and planetary mission papers (6.42) was larger than the corresponding radio (4.52) and optical (5.47) numbers. Notice that HST is included with "optical" but Hipparcos with "space." A contemplated fourth paper will divide credit for papers and citations among every observatory of any sort that contributed to each published paper.


DISCUSSANTS: Thomas R . Klumpp, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Assistant Director, Bone Marrow Transplant Program, Temple University School of Medicine. Jay H . Herman, Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Adjunct Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Director, Transfusion Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine. PRESENTER: Andrew E . Chapman, Postdoctoral Fellow in Hematology-Oncology , A 27-year-old female with acute nonlymphocytic leukemia was referred to our institution for consideration of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT). She had presented 4 months earlier with pancytopenia on a routine blood examination. Examination of the bone marrow revealed replacement of the normal marrow elements by a dense infiltrate of immature myeloid cells, predominantly promyelocytes. Clinical evidence of disseminated intravascular coagulation was present, but cytogenetic analyses were normal. Induction therapy consisted of two cycles of cytosine arabinoside and idarubicin in standard doses. Heparin and platelets were administered prophylactically. A repeat bone marrow biopsy following induction revealed persistence of scattered islands of promyelocytes. The past medical history was unremarkable except that the patient had undergone an elective abortion 4 years earlier. Laboratory workup prior to transplant revealed multispecific lymphocytotoxic antibodies reactive with 98% of panel lymphocytes. The patient received busulfan 16 mg/kg and cyclophosphamide 6,000 mg/M2, followed by an infusion of unmodified allogeneic bone marrow from her HLA-identical brother. Graft-versus-host disease prophylaxis consisted of cyclosporine A and methotrexate in standard doses. As expected, the platelet count fell rapidly, reaching 5,OOO/pl on day +7. Over the next 11 days, sequential infusions of pooled random-donor platelets, random sin-


The microstructures of magnesium AZ31 are examined following hot compression testing and annealing. The grain size, fraction dynamically recrystallized and, in a couple of cases, the crystallographic texture are reported. It was found that the progress of dynamic recrystallization is strongly sensitive to processing conditions but that the dynamically recrystallized grain size was less sensitive to stress than in other metals. It was also found that, for structures containing between 80 and 95 % dynamic recrystallization, abnormal grain growth occurs during annealing. The crystallographic texture produced is also sensitive to the deformation conditions.


PURPOSE: An inner clock generating circuit having an analog pumping structure is provided, which is synchronous to the outer clocks signal to generate an inner clock signal. CONSTITUTION: The inner clock generating circuit having an analog pumping structure comprises: an input buffer (11) for receiving an outer clock signal and buffering the outer clock signal to generate a buffering clock signal; a delay circuit (13) for receiving the buffering clock signal and generating a delay clock signal; a clock dividing unit (15) for dividing the buffering clock signal to provide a delay dividing signal and an outer dividing signal; a pumping signal generating unit (17) for generating a first pumping signal which a voltage level is rose at a first time change responding to a rising portion of the delay dividing signal and a second pumping signal which a voltage level is rose at a second time change responding to a falling portion of the delay dividing signal and which the voltage level is fell at a second time change responding to a falling portion of the delay dividing signal; and a driving unit (19) for receiving the first and second pumping signals and generating an inner clock signal. Thereby, it is possible to minimize the power consumption.


The origin of site selectivity of quinoline N-oxide substrate in Ir(III)-catalyzed amidation with tosyl azide was investigated computationally. The reaction proceeds exclusively at the C8 position, instead of the C2 position, which has been reported previously in many other reactions. C2-Amidation is kinetically impossible under the reaction condition according to our calculations, with high apparent activation energy up to 51.1 kcal/mol. The high energetic span is caused by the deep-lying 5-membered amido insertion intermediate, in which a strong stabilization effect was observed due to nN → π*C═N delocalization. For C8-amidation, however, the 6-membered counterpart is relatively unstable, making the activation energy only about half the value of C2-amidation. Meanwhile, denitrogenation is found to be turnover-limiting in the reaction. The oxidation state changes of the Ir center during the stepwise C–N bond formation were investigated, and a considerably higher effective oxidation state was found in the...


iquid crystal poly[oxy(1,2-butene)oxycarbonyl-1,4-phenyleneoxycarbonyl-1,4-phenylenecarbonyloxy-1,4-phenylenecarbonyl], PTOBEE, has been synthesized in a different way than the previously reported nematic and it has been obtained as cholesteric, although synthesized from a racemic mixture of the 1,2-butanediol involved. Stereoselective solubilization of one enantiomer during its decantation in toluene, at the reaction temperature, explains why this chiral polymer phase appears. Evidence of this could be precisely obtained when a white solid recrystallized within the same toluene after the filtration of the polymer, being identified as (-) PTOBEE with a value of [α] 25 589 = -2.33 [0.0056 mol/l, toluene].


Prominent disturbances in the experience, expression and emotion recognition in patients with schizophrenia have been relatively well documented over the last few years. Furthermore, sex differences in behavior and brain activity associated with emotional processes have been reported in the general population. It is therefore surprising that so little has been done to further our understanding of potential differences between sexes in schizophrenia. In the present study we compared the behavioral and electrophysiological responses related to emotional processes of individuals with schizophrenia and individuals from the general population, while taking into consideration the valence and arousal of presented stimuli, as well as sex of tested participants. These data were measured with the help of event-related potentials (ERP) during passive viewing of emotional pictures. Activation of components P200, N200 and P300 were compared in 18 schizophrenia patients (9 women and 9 men) and 24 controls (13 women and 11 men). The ERP analysis revealed that valence and arousal influences early and late components independently, which demonstrates the importance of investigating these two emotional dimensions. Moreover, several significant differences between groups (i.e. clinical vs. control and men vs. women), attributed to the valence and arousal, were found in the ERP data in the stream of emotional processing. Also, data from gonadal hormones show that progesterone may have a functional impact on emotional processes among women and men. However, further studies are needed to better understand the role of gonadal hormones in neuropsychopathology.


E leana Kim's is a rare book: a remarkable history unfolded before her ethnographic eyes. Namely, the birth and first decade of the global Korean adoptee movement, a movement that she estimates would eventually appeal to some 20 percent of the adult adoptee population in North America and Europe (from 1953-2007 circa 160,000 Koreans were adopted worldwide). While Adopted Territory does include key names, dates, and informants, it is historical developments—transformations of regimes, modes of thinking, and ontologies of self—that taken together, Kim convinces, enabled both a robust social movement and for many adult adoptees a veritable sea of change in their subjectivities and notions of kinship. Kim's ethnography thus answers this question: In a mere decade, how could tens of thousands of adult Korean adoptees (those who came of age from the 1970s to the 1990s) produce a new kinship, namely one among co-Korean adoptees? Importantly, theirs was a kinship that was wrested both from a powerful adoptee paradigm of inte-


In this paper, a dual-band high frequency (HF) and ultra-high frequency (UHF) radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag antenna is presented that operates in the 13.56 MHz band as well as in the 920 MHz band. A spiral coil along the edges of the antenna substrate is designed to handle the HF band, and a novel meander open complementary split ring resonator (MOCSRR) dipole antenna is utilized to generate the UHF band. The dual-band antenna is supported by a single-feeding port for mono-chip RFID applications. The antenna is fabricated using an FR4 substrate to verify theoretical and simulation designs, and it has compact dimensions of 80 mm × 40 mm × 0.8 mm. The proposed antenna also has an omnidirectional characteristic with a gain of approximately 1 dBi.


The olfactory system provides a unique model for developmental neurobiology. Precise targeting of axonal projections from sensory neurons located in the olfactory epithelium to specific neurons in the olfactory bulb establishes a highly refined spatial sensory map. Distinctively, this process is not restricted to embryonic stages, but continues during the entire life of mammals. A number of secreted and membrane molecules have been implicated in guidance and targeting of olfactory sensory neurons. Here we describe olfactorin, the protein product of the mouse Umodl1 gene, as a potential new element in this process. Olfactorin is a secreted modular protein containing several domains typically present in extracellular matrix proteins (EMI, WAP, FNIII, Ca2+‐binding EGF‐like, SEA and ZP domains). By in situ hybridization we find that during embryonic development expression of the Umodl1 gene is detectable only in the olfactory epithelium and vomeronasal organ starting at embryonic day 16.5. At this stage, Umodl1 expression within the olfactory epithelium is punctate, and is restricted to only some of the sensory neurons. At birth and postnatally, expression in these organs continues and involves more neurons. Kallmann syndrome is a genetic disease in which olfactory axons fail to connect to target neurons in the bulb. We tested whether olfactorin might be responsible for an autosomal form of this disease and show that this is not the case. However, based on its domain composition and on the expression in olfactory neurons we suggest that olfactorin may play a role in correct olfactory axon navigation to the brain.


The isotopic exchange reaction between rubidium chloride and chlorine gas was studied in a carefully evacuated vacuum system, and also the self-diffusion of 36Cl in powdery rubidium chloride below 400°C. The exchange reaction proceeded layer by layer with activation energies of 6 and 17, 22 and 28 kcal/mole for the more active and the less active domain of the first, the second and the third layer, respectively. The last value was close to the activation energy of self-diffusion. Therefore, the effect of the surface penetrates only up to the second layer, and this result is in harmony with the Benson theory on surface distortion. The self-diffusion is described by a model of a semi-infinite homogeneous medium, in spite of the probable existence of many dislocation lines.


An optimized modulation technique which is specific for PWM-rectifiers is proposed in this paper. It is based on the imposition of modulation frequencies different for the three rectifier legs, selected according to the power modules commutation losses. A reduction of the current harmonic content and an improvement of the overall system performances are achieved, as shown by means of an experiment implementation.


Brinjal (Solanummelongena L.) is an important vegetable crop which gives very high economic return to the growers. Fruit rot caused by Phomopsisvexans (Sacc. & Syd.) is one of the major constraints in its successful cultivation. During survey, the disease was prevalent in all area surveyed. The incidence of disease ranged from 18.33 to 62.00per cent in different locations. Maximum incidence (62.0 per cent) was recorded in the cultivar Pusa Purple Long at Technology Park of Birsa Agricultural University, Kanke, Ranchi whereas least disease incidence (18.33 per cent) was recorded in cultivar Pratima at Nagri village of Kanke block. It causes damping-off of seedlings in nursery, leaf blight; fruit rot and stem blight at various stages of plant growth and development. It produces two types of conidia such as alpha and beta; alpha conidia are hyaline, biguttulate, oval and infective and beta conidia are the diagnostic feature of the genus Phomopsis. Pathogenicity of the pathogen was proved by seed, soil, leaves and fruit inoculations. Maximum seedling mortality (40 %) was observed in seed and soil inoculation followed by seed inoculated in healthy soil (9 %) and healthy seed sown in inoculated soil (6 %).


Repairable spare parts are crucial material basis for equipment support, and the multi-echelon inventory control of it is an important practical problem. In this paper, an improved genetic algorithm for the multi-inventory problem of repairable spare parts was proposed. In our algorithm, three crossover operators and a mutation operator were implemented, and a local search procedure that includes two heuristics was integrated into the algorithm. The comparison experiments of different genetic operator combinations were performed, and computational results clearly show that the improved genetic algorithm for the multi-inventory problem of repairable spare parts is more efficient than previous genetic algorithm.


Aboriginal peoples and Aboriginal claims The Douglas Treaties and Aboriginal title The "Douglas" system: reserves, pre-emptions and assimilation Segregation and suppression 1864--87 Demands for title, treaties and self-government 1887--99 The politics of survival From intertribal to province-wide political action 1900--16 Cut-offs, claims prohibition and the Allied Tribes 1916--27 Coastal politics: the Native Brotherhood and Tribal Councils 1931--58 Interior politics and attempts at province-wide unity 1958--68 Federal Government initiatives 1960--9 The formation of the new organizations 1969--71 Big money and big organizations 1972--5 Tribalism re-established 1976--9 Forums and funding, protests and unity 1980--9 Aboriginal title in the courts The Province and land claim negotiations 1976--89


Laser excitation is used to create small polyatomic ions with excitation in selected vibrational modes. These are formed into a beam and collided with a neutral target gas. Reactions are studied and product recoil energy distributions are measured as a function of collision energy and vibrational state. A wide variety of dynamical behavior is observed: strong mode-selective vibrational effects, severe steric bottlenecks, mode-dependent barrier crossing, complex lifetimes ranging from 10 microsecond(s) ec to 100 fsec, and impact parameter dependent mechanism switching.


Iron and steel are slowly but surely taking the place of wood in the construction of the ryot's tillage implements. The superiority of metal, from the points of view of strength and durability to say nothing of the great variety of forms of vastly superior efficiency which cannot be obtained in wood, can no longer be denied by the most ardent advocates of indigen- ous wooden implements.


This document analyzes the efforts made to the human femur through a simulation of finite elements in Solidworks, in order to carry out the design of the femur in this study, the average height of the population of Malaysia were used, which is similar to that of the average Colombian population (Table 1.) and for the tests, a material with the same mechanical characteristics was simulated in the program of the human cortical bone, permitting a more approximate visualization of stresses and deformations to which the femur is exposed in the usual state and thus, identify the critical areas in which the probability of fracture or wear is greater, the results of this analysis do not apply For women in a state of pregnancy or people with osteoarthritic diseases. This analysis is important to identify which are the areas that present greater deterioration, considering that the bones lose their property of self-recovery over the years increasing the probability of presenting a fracture, having this information clear the prosthetic studies and medical treatments focused on the femur can be deepened. In this analysis, it can be identified that the male femur has greater resistance to tension and deformation than the female femur and how the femoral head is the most critical area of both the female and male fêmur.


Psychological repercussions and criteria for selecting candidates for vasectomy and tubal ligation are discussed from the viewpoint of the psychiatrist. Vasectomy is usually considered in a less favorable light by psychiatrists than is female sterlization probably because it is an altruistic or in some cases a sacrificial act while sterilization in women is done for medical psychiatric or social reasons. Other reasons for this opinion may be that vasectomy is illegal in France psychiatrists usually see the negative results in their practice they are trained to pick up unconscious symbolism and they resent being consulted in patient selection. Reports in the literature are widely divergent ranging from the 90-99% satisfaction generally in English-speaking countries to more difficulties among people in developing countries recruited by mass media and incentives to high rates of dissatisfaction and psychosomatic sequelae in older studies in Latin countries and among mental patients. 1 French survey (1971) reported after female sterilization secondary gynecological disorders in 25% functional disorders in 54% pain in 33% fear of pregnancy in 16% guilt or religiosity in 20% depression in 25% weight gain in 15% neurosis in 40% and pseudopregnancy in 10%. In depth psychological studies usually find transitory mourning or crisis behavior exhibited as overcompensation for sexual injury. It is difficult to decide who should screen sterilization candidates. The criteria are both members of a couple requesting age 35 or over 3 or more children at least 1 boy 3-years-old or more good marital adjustment the subject to be sterlized should be the dominant member of the couple and persons with uncertain sexual identity hypochondria jealousy paranoia or passivity in motivation should be excluded.


Complex background is a major factor in the performance of the infrared search and tracking system.In this paper,an infrared clutter suppression method based on multi-resolution bilateral filter is proposed to solve the problem.Firstly,nonsubsampled contourlet transfrom is adopted to decompose the input infrared scene images,which extracts multi-scale and directional detail features of the image.Then,according to the difference between target and background clutter signal,bilateral filter is introduced to suppress background details and enhance target information for suppression background.Several groups of experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can detect the infrared target image effectively,compared with classical infrared scene background suppression methods,such as two-dimensional least means square.


The influence of Ti substitution on the specific heat of the CaTixRu1−xO3 system at low concentrations x = 0, 0.005, and 0.03 was studied in the temperature range of 2–300 K at magnetic fields up to 9 T. Small peak was revealed in the C/T vs. T 2 dependence at around 3 K, which are field sensitive (the electronic specific heat coefficient γ linearly decreases with the increase in magnetic field), and might be connected to some kind of magnetic ordering. The coefficient γ is suppressed also by Ti substitution.


This paper describes a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) phase processing system and an automated method for estimating baseline length and its inclination angle from only pair of Single Look Complex (SLC) images to be interfered. The information about the baseline parameters are indispensable to produce accurate Digital Elevation Model (DEM) without geometrical distortion and also accurate displacement from differential Interferometric SAR (InSAR) processing. Only the nominal value of the baseline length is currently provided. The fixed value, however, does not represent nonparallel orbits from which raw interferogram is obtained. The ambiguity causes the geometrical distortion in DEM and the apparent displacement in the result of differential InSAR processing. In order to produce the accurate DEM, we have to know the baseline parameters as the function of the azimuth line. The proposed method derives coefficients of both functions for baseline length and for inclination angle by fitting the local disparities to a geometrical model. The proposed method was successfully applied to an actual InSAR data. The baseline estimated by the proposed method reduced apparent displacement to 1 /10 of that yielded by the nominal baseline. A piecewise co-registration method is also described for obtaining highly accurate interferogram.


The present invention relates to a method of enhancing the engraftment and recovery of islets that are separated from a donor organ for transplantation after. In the preferred embodiment, the islets are isolated from a donor pancreas and transplanted into the liver of a diabetic patient. Protective agent, mixed with the separated solution to produce a protective separating solution, after the donor pancreas is digested with the enzyme, by using a protective separating solution separating islet cells from other cells. Protective agent increases the viscosity of the solution passing through the islets during the separation process results in a cushioning effect of the pancreatic islets, thereby increasing the engraftment and health of the islets, such as film islets Edmonton Protocol to be able to withstand a vigorous isolation procedure. .BACKGROUND


This capstone project ventures to develop a drama therapy method that may increase empathy, social skills, and communication skills in populations with substance use disorders. Particular attention has been paid to the efficacy of performance/talkback methods in increasing these factors. An attempt has been made to streamline the performance/talkback method for greater accessibility to such methods in clinical spaces. The literature shows a particular need in populations with substance use disorders for social skills, communication skills, and empathy training. There have been published drama therapy studies that aim to intervene in these areas, though few with this particular population. This method was tested in a clinical partial hospitalization program that treats adults with substance abuse disorders. The participants were white women between the ages of 21-61. Through this inquiry, I have learned that it may be possible to replicate many of the studied effects of performance/talkback models using prerecorded media instead of live performance. I believe this method can be applied to many populations to spark discourse, encourage perspective-taking, provide social rehearsal, break down communication patterns, and increase topic-related empathy. I also believe this model can increase access to performance-based interventions by eliminating many of the logistics of staging a live performance.


Abstract The present work considers numerical models of large rock inclusions (stringers) are embedded in many salt bodies. The study has been made to investigate the influence of salt tectonic process, such as downbuilding, on the deformation and displacement of stringers. In this research, the focus has been on establishing numerical models of the deformation and displacement of stringer embedded in salt (at rest) after occurrences of salt tectonics. The problem of influence of eventual tectonic processes at larger stage is addressed on the development of stringers. The numerical model is based on finite element method in combination with adaptive remeshing. The results show that the stringers experience minor sinking and the differential stress in salt and the differential stress in the stringer decrease during the period after salt tectonics. The change of stress of reservoir will influence drilling process and oil or gas production.


The thermal decomposition of the 2-methyl-8-quinolinol (8- hydroxyquinaldine) chelates of Sc, Th, U/sup 6+/, Y and the rare earth elements was studied on the thermobalance. It was found that the Sc and U/sup 6+/ chelates can lose the extra molecule of solvation by thermal decomposition. The thorium chelate was found to be the most stable of all the chelates studied. The temperature limits for the chelates and the minimum oxide level temperatures are given. (auth)


Recently, based on a linear stability analysis we demonstrated the existence of a new thermoelastic mode of instability in the viscoelastic Taylor–Couette flow [Al-Mubaiyedh et al., Phys. Fluids 11, 3217 (1999); J. Rheol. 44, 1121 (2000)]. In this work, we use direct time-dependent simulations to examine the nonlinear evolution of finite amplitude disturbances arising as a result of this new mode of instability in the postcritical regime of purely elastic (i.e., Re=0), nonisothermal Taylor–Couette flow. Based on these simulations, it is shown that over a wide range of parameter space that includes the experimental conditions of White and Muller [Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5130 (2000)], the primary bifurcation is supercritical and leads to a stationary and axisymmetric toroidal flow pattern. Moreover, the onset time associated with the evolution of finite amplitude disturbances to the final state is comparable to the thermal diffusion time. These simulations are consistent with the experimental findings.


The primary objective of this work is determined the forms of nitrogen in coal that lead to nitrogen release during devolatilization. Experiments are to be performed in two existing laminar flow reactors available at Brigham Young University, which are both capable of temperatures (up to 2000 K), particle heating rates (10{sup 4} to 10{sup 5} K/s), and residence times (up to 500 ms) relevant to conditions commonly encountered in industrial pulverized coal combustors. the forms of nitrogen in coal, char, and tar samples will be analyzed using state-of-the-art techniques, including nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and high resolution nitrogen-specific chromatography. These sophisticated analysis techniques will be preformed in collaboration with other research at BYU, the University of Utah, and industrial organizations. Coals will be obtained as a function of rank, including eight coals from the University of Utah that are to be used in pilot scale tests in support of the DOE Coal-2000 HiPPS (high Performance Power Systems) and LEBS (Low-Emission Boiler Systems) program. Anticipated results from the proposed research will be (a) nitrogen release parameters during devolatilization for specific coals pertinent to the HiPPS and LEBS projects, (b) better fundamental understanding of the chemistry of nitrogenmore » release, and (c) a nitrogen release submodel based on fundamental chemistry that may be more widely applicable than existing empirical relationships.« less


The role of the leaves of Robinia pseudoacacia L., which is widely distributed in the arid lands, on improving soil physical and chemical properties was analyzed at various incubation periods. The incubated soils added with 0, 25, 50 and 75 g Robinia pseudoacacia leaves were tested after consecutive incubation intervals of 6, 8 and 10 months and the different soil parameters were measured. The results showed the increases in organic matter (OM), extractable K, cation exchange capacity (CEC), aggregate stability and water holding capacity, but the decreases in pH value and bulk density after 6 months' incubation. The gradual decrease in change rates of soil properties indicated less microbial population and organic residual mineralization under acidic conditions, which were resulted from fast decomposition of leaves after the first 6 months incubation. The increases in soil organic matter content, extractable K, CEC, aggregate stability and water holding capacity and the decreases in soil pH and bulk density provide favorable conditions for crop's growth.


Objective:To study the relationship between the serum level of high sensitive C reaction protein(hs-CRP),carotid atherosclerosis and the coronary atherosclerotic plaque stability and the extent of coronary artery disease.Methods:Forty five patients with acute coronary syndrome(ACS)(23 patients with acute myocardial infarction,and 22 patients with unstable angina pectoris),22 patients with stable angina pectoris who underwent coronary angiography were enrolled in the study.Meanwhile 18 healthy persons were selected as control.The serum level of hs-CRP was determined by ELISA,the bilateral carotid intima-media thickness(IMT)and atherosclerotic plaques were measured by means of B mode ultrasounding,and the coronary artery disease were classified one-vessel lesion,two-vessel lesion and three-vessel lesion.The relationship between the serum hs-CRP and unstable plaque and the relationship between the carotid atherosclerosis and the extent of coronary artery disease were analysised.Results:The serum level of hs-CRP in ACS were increased significantly compared with stable coronary heart disease(P0.05).The carotid IMT and rate of detection of plaques was also significantly correlated to the extent of coronary artery disease(P0.05).Conclusion:The serum level of hs-CRP was increased significantly in ACS patients.It could help to detect and diagnose unstable atherosclerotic plaque.The carotid IMT and atherosclerotic plaques might be regarded as a predicative marker for the extent of coronary heart disease.


Objective
To clarify the role of FLT3 signaling-dependent pulmonary conventional dendritic cells (cDCs) in the pathogenesis of lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced acute lung injury (ALI), and as well as the modulation effects of cDCs in vivo on the inflammatory responses to acute lung injury.

Methods
Thirty C57BL/6 male mice were divided into normal control group, LPS group, FLT3L pretreatment group, lestaurtinib, (a high efficient and specific blocker in FLT3 signal pathway) pretreatment group and vehicle (DMSD) control group. FLT3L and lestaurtinib were administrated subcutaneously for 5 days. Murine model of ALI was subsequently established by intra-tracheal application of LPS and lung specimens were harvested 6 h or 24 h later. The accumulation and maturation of pulmonary cDCs were assessed by flow cytometry. IL-6 and TNF-α were quantified to evaluate lung inflammation. Lung injury was estimated by lung wet weight/body weight ratio (LWW/BW) and histopathological assessment. Lung myeloperoxidase (MPO) activity was measured to evaluate neutrophil infiltration. Transcription factors T-bet/GATA-3 mRNA ratio was determined to estimate balance of Th1/Th2 response. IFN-γ and IL-4 were quantified to evaluate Th1-specific and Th2-specific cytokine production respectively.

Results
The accumulation and maturation of pulmonary cDCs peaked at 6h after LPS challenge. FLT3L pretreatment significantly stimulated the accumulation and maturation of pulmonary cDCs (P<0.05), leading to markedly deterioration of LWW/BW and lung histopathological changes. Meanwhile lung MPO activity and T-bet/GATA-3 mRNA ratio were elevated (P<0.05). Furthermore, the production of IL-6, TNF-α and IFN-γ was markedly increased by FLT3L pretreatment (P<0.05). In contrast, lestaurtinib pretreatment markedly inhibited the accumulation and maturation of pulmonary cDCs (P<0.05), leading to significant improvement of LWW/BW and lung histopathological changes. Meanwhile lung MPO activity and T-bet/GATA-3 mRNA ratio were decreased (P<0.05). Furthermore lestaurtinib efficiently suppressed the production of IL-6, TNF-α and IFN-γ(P<0.05).

Conclusion
This study thus demonstrated that FLT3 signaling-dependent pulmonary cDCs could control the initiation of acute lung inflammation response to LPS-induced ALI through the regulation of neutrophil infiltration and balance of Th1/Th2 response.

Key words:
Acute lung injury; Conventional dendritic cells; FLT3 signaling; Inflammation; Neutrophils infiltration; T-helper-cell response; Pathogenesis


A continuous model-free controller with a linear observer based on the classical PID controller was proposed for trajectory tracking of robot manipulators with nonlinear uncertainties.The controller is composed of a PD and nonlinear integral controllers.The PD control term was used to stabilize the closed-loop system trajectories while the nonlinear integrator to improve the convergence.By considering the difficulty in getting the velocity data,the linear observer was proposed to estimate the actual joint velocity.It was proven that the tracking errors and observation errors tend to zero theorytically.The experimental results on the two rotating joints of SCARA robot manipulator show that the presented controller performed well and the average and maximum tracking errors with observer were reduced by more than 30%.The degree of control chattering is only 60% of that without observer under the same feedback gain.


Studies concerning the history of Japanese-Turkish relations that vvill enhance the knovvledge of readers in Japan and Turkey are stili insufficient. From this point of view, this book edited by Esenbel and Chiharo is one of the best vvorks offering a fresh look at a century of Japanese Turkish relations during the modern period. The book portrays Japanese-Turkish relations from the late nineteenth century to the first half of the tvventieth century vvhich saw two vvorld vvars involving also the tumultuous events surrounding the rise of modern Japan as a Great Povver and the establishment of the young Turkish Republic out of the ruins of the age-old Ottoman Empire.


Plant seed lectins are well-characterized proteins and glycoproteins whose natural function remains unknown. We found that eleven purified seed lectins (representing five groups of lectin sugar specificities) bound to the germ tubes of asexual spores of Neurospora crassa, Aspergillus amstelodami, and Botryodiplodia theobromae. The lectins caused several types of quantifiable growth disruption during germination of these seed- or soil-borne fungal spores, including sensitivity to osmotic lysis, adventitious branching of the spore germ tubes, and inhibition of germ tube elongation. These anti-fungal effects of purified lectins, which were reversible with the sugar hapten specific for each lectin, were partially duplicated by lectin-like factors in the homologous crude seed extracts. The seed lectins may disrupt fungal growth by interfering with normal cell wall deposition and assembly.


1. Pandya ST. Labour analgesia: Recent advances. Indian J Anaesth 2010;54:400-8. 2. McNaught AF, Stocks GM. Epidural volume extension and low-dose sequential combined spinal-epidural blockade: Two ways to reduce spinal dose requirement for caesarean section. Int J Obstet Anesth 2007;16:346-53. 3. Bray JK, Fernando R, Patel NP, Columb MO. Suprasternal Doppler estimation of cardiac output: Standard versus sequential combined spinal epidural anesthesia for cesarean delivery. Anesth Analg 2006;103:959-64. 4. Hamlyn EL, Douglass CA, Plaat F, Crowhurst JA, Stocks GM. Low-dose sequential combined spinal-epidural: An anaesthetic technique for caesarean section in patients with significant cardiac disease. Int J Obstet Anesth 2005;14:355-61. 5. Blumgart CH, Ryall D, Dennison B, Thompson-Hill LM. Mechanism of extension of spinal anaesthesia by extradural injection of local anaesthetic. Br J Anaesth 1992;69:457-60. 6. Leeda M, Stienstra R, Arbous MS, Verschure MJ, Dahan A, Veering BT, et al. The epidural "top-up": Predictors of increase of sensory blockade. Anesthesiology 2002;96:1310-4.


The present invention relates to a connection, and an encoder for encoding a plurality of bits in parallel, including a first (outer) encoder, a memory, and the second (inner) encoder connected in cascade. A first encoder encoding receives in parallel the M-bit data in accordance with a first coding scheme to generate MR code bits. The memory stores the received that no perforation of the MR code bits from the first encoder. A second encoder encoding in accordance with a second coding scheme by receiving N-bit code to generate coded data. M and N may be any value (for example, M≥8, N≥4). Each encoder may be a convolutional encoder (e.g., rate 1/2) implementing a particular generator polynomial, at least one look-up table may be implemented in a state machine, or some other design.


The article covers the customer profitability analysis using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing in a case study of the polish enterprise operating on the laboratory diagnostics market. Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing provides the possibility to reveal unused production capacity or the potential of the current involved resources. It provides accurate information concerning involved resources and costs their use as well, allowing their precise allocation to specific services, products, distribution channels or customers. The purpose of the paper is the identification and analysis customer groups in researched enterprise, which allow for the verification of hypotheses posed in the case study. The first part of the article contains the characteristics of the researched company and describes the Time- Driven Activity-Based Costing method used to determine customer profitability. The primary aspect of the paper presents research results and cost analyses conducted in the case study using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing. Authors structurise profiles of the researched enterprise's customers and present the accrued income deriving from the service using a whale curve. The last part of the research contains the analysis of the chosen client from each predetermined in the study profitability group. Authors also provide the interpretation of characteristic costs from each group. Conclusions cover Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing as a measurement of customer profitability. Moreover, the article is the first - a comparative basis for the further research – of the three parts, planned by authors, will be crowned with the results of the research of another modern method of customer profitability analysis using cost accounting - Cost-to-Serve.


Egg density and the egg mass techniques for incubation stage assess ment were developed to predict the hatch dates of Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber roseus eggs laid in captivity at WWT, Slimbridge, UK. The accuracy of each technique was tested on 20 parentally incubat ed eggs by comparing actual hatch date with predicted hatch date. For the egg mass technique a strong positive correlation existed between actual and predicted fresh mass, suggesting that model accuracy was high. Both techniques predicted hatch dates within two days 80% of the time. These techniques were found to be useful for accurate incubation stage assessment of Greater Flamingo eggs and the authors encourage aviculturalists managing captive colonies to use them.


There has been repeated encouragement in the literature for researchers to examine the various mechanisms that make up group experiences in outdoor education contexts. As a result, positive sense of community is often one of the implicit or explicit goals of programs and organizations that utilize outdoor settings to deliver educational and/or therapeutic programs. The purpose of this study was to understand how participants understand and experience sense of community formation during participation on outdoor education curricula (OEC) programs. Qualitative data, in the form of 124 participant trip journals, were analyzed and revealed two core themes illuminating sense of community structure and process. Implications for theory, research, and practice are discussed.


Objective: To investigate the clinical value of QT dispersion (QTd) and the effects of 6-minute walk test (6-MWT) mimicking the patients'daily activities on QTd in patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). Methods: Twenty-eight CHF patients and 22 normal subjects participated these study, who all completed 6-MWT without developing severe arrhythmias. Before and after 6-MWT, standardized 12-lead surface ECGs were obtained to measure QTd and corrected QTd (QTcd). Results: Both before and after 6-MWT, the QTd and QTcd in CHF patients were longer than those in the controls ( P 0. 001) , and QTd and QTcd after 6-MWT were significantly shorter than those before 6-MWT in CHF patients ( P = 0. 007 , and 0. 018). There was no significant difference in the measurement in the control group. Conclusion: QTd and QTcd are longer in CHF patients than in normal subjects. Moderate exercise may improve the inhomogeneity of ventricular repolarization dispersion in CHF patients.


Nanofibrous electrospun chitosan membranes (ESCMs) have shown promise for enhanced guided bone regeneration (GBR) in alveolar defects when insufficient bone volume is present. Following GBR, a strategy that can be implemented to facilitate healing is the promotion of macrophage polarization from a pro-inflammatory phenotype (M1) to an anti-inflam-matory phenotype (M2). Raspberry ketone (RK) is a natural compound that possesses anti-inflammatory properties. ESCMs were used to locally deliver RK to an in-vivo bone defect site using a rat calvarial model. ESCMs were loaded with 0 or 250 µg RK. Membranes from each treatment were implanted into rat calvarial defects (n=8). Membranes and surrounding tissues were extracted in serial sections and immunohistochemically stained at 1, 2, and 4 weeks using individual markers for M1(iNOS), M2 (CD206), and total macrophages (CD68). Percent-stained area was quantified using NIH ImageJ. Results indicated that ESCMs loaded with 250 µg RK facilitated M1 to M2 macrophage polarization.


Curcumin [(1E,6E)-1,7-bis(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)hepta-1,6-diene-3,5di one] is the major yellow pigment extracted from turmeric, a commonly used spice, derived from the rhizome of the plant Curcuma longa. In India and Southeast Asia, turmeric has long been used as a treatment for inflammation, skin wounds and tumors. Curcumin has broad spectrum cancer chemo preventive activity in preclinical animal models. The anticancer potential of curcumin stems from its ability to suppress proliferation of a wide variety of tumor cells, downregulatetranscription factors NF-κB, AP-1 and Egr-1; down-regulate the expression of COX2, LOX, NOS, MMP-9, uPA, TNF, chemokines, cell surface adhesion molecules and cyclin D1; down-regulate growth factor receptors (such as EGFR and HER2); and inhibit the activity of c-Jun N-terminal kinase, protein tyrosine kinases and protein serine/threonine kinases. In several systems, curcumin has been described as a potent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory agent. Evidence has also been presented to suggest that curcumin can suppress tumor initiation, promotion and metastasis. Pharmacologically, curcumin has been found to be safe. Human clinical trials indicated no dose-limiting toxicity when administered at doses up to 10 g/day. All of these studies suggest that curcumin has enormous potential in the prevention and therapy of cancer. The current review describes in detail the data supporting thesestudies.


When a Mossbauer gamma-ray emitting or absorbing nucleus is placed in a crystalline environment, the quadrupole moment of the nucleus interacts with the electric field gradient set up by the ligands around it. In the transition |7/2〉 →|5/2〉 twelve lines are obtained. Applying the multipole radiation field theory and density matrix formalism, the determinant of coherency matrix, intensity and degree of polarization have been calculated for each line.


The complications of unsafe, illegal abortion are a significant cause of maternal mortality in Botswana. The stigma attached to abortion leads some women to seek clandestine procedures, or alternatively, to carry the foetus to term and abandon the infant at birth. I conducted research into perceptions of abortion in urban Botswana in order to understand the social and cultural obstacles to women's reproductive autonomy, focusing particularly on attitudes to terminating a pregnancy. I carried out 21 qualitative, semi-structured interviews with female and male urban adult Batswana. Further research is required to examine perceptions of abortion in rural areas. Restrictive laws must eventually be abolished to allow women access to safe, timely abortions. However, my findings suggested that socio-cultural factors, not punitive laws, present the greatest barriers to women seeking to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. These factors must be addressed so that effective local solutions to unsafe abortion can be generated.


from a variety of perspectives. Correlative studies have dealt with the relationship between auditory discrimination and reading achievement among both advantaged and disadvantaged children. Experimental studies have evaluated attempts to improve auditory-discrimination ability through special training programs. Some investigators have attempted to evaluate results of such programs in terms of reading progress, while others have focused on developing suitable auditory-perception skills of disadvantaged children.


Landscape construction of the resource-saving residence is the urgent demand for constructing a conservation-oriented society. Based on analyzing related concepts of the resource-saving residence,the related factors to resource-saving residence landscape construction are presented. In accordance with requirements on the saving of land,soil,water,energy and materials,the main points of the operational techniques are summarized,proposing countermeasures of achieving landscape construction of resource-saving residence.


Ruellia tuberosa is a wide-ranging tropical, perennial herb that has been designated the type species for the large genus Ruellia. To clarify interspecific relationships, the R. tuberosa species complex, including R. nudiflora, R. malacosperma, and R. lorentziana, and R. tuberosa, has been proposed as the redefined and restricted genus Ruellia. All other Ruellia species would be transferred to segregate genera. Biosystematic investigations that included artificial hybridization experiments, herbarium comparisons, chromatographic analyses, and cytological studies demonstrated that R. tuberosa is genetically related to a number of North American temperate taxa and to certain other tropical species. The narrow definition of Ruellia cannot be supported from the biosystematic evidence at hand. Morphological comparisons suggest that R. tuberosa may be a primitive component in a broadened generic concept. RUELLIA, as generally understood, is a large and variable genus of mostly tropical perennial herbs and shrubs ranging in size from a few centimeters to large, bushy plants. It is the second largest genus of Acanthaceae with about 250 named species widely distributed in both the Old and New World tropics, but with relatively few species occurring in the temperate regions of North America. The broad, inclusive circumscription of Ruellia by Lindau (1895, p. 308-311) has usually been followed by taxonomists although the genus historically has been subjected to numerous attempts to split it up into segregate genera (Long, 1973). Characters that tend to define the genus are the conspicuous tubular or broadly campanulate corollas of chasmogamous flowers and inconspicuous tubular cleistogamous flowers; epipetalous didymous or didynamous stamens with filaments fused at the base; oblong, symmetrical anthers, and cylindrical capsules. The concept of the genus was established by Linnaeus (1754, p. 702) based on an illustration of R. tuberosa by Plumier (1703, p. 12). Later the species was selected as the lectotype for the genus (Britton and Brown, 1913, p. 241). Although many species have been assigned to Ruellia by various authors, Bremekamp and NannengaBremekamp (1948) proposed that Ruellia be restricted to just those species having cylindrical estipitate capsules that contain large numbers of Received for publication 31 July 1975. 'Research supported by N.S.F. grants GB-35231 and BMS 72-02209 A03. Dr. Richard Mansell, Dept. of Biology, University of South Florida, supervised the identification of phenolic compounds. Ms. Suzanne Todd was research assistant in the investigation. Contribution No. 95 from the Botanical Laboratories, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida. seeds. This concept would result in a genus being composed of only five tropical and subtropical American species, namely R. tuberosa (Fig. 1), R. intermedia Leonard, R. nudiflora (Engelm. & Gray) Urban, R. lorentziana Griseb. and R. malacosperma Greenm. The generic definition would be essentially the same species group that Leonard (1927) described as "R. tuberosa and a few of its close relatives." Ruellia sensu stricto is characterized by lax axillary cymes, pedicellate blue or lavender flowers, 5-lobed calyx, subcampanulate or infundibuliform corolla throat, included stamens, and cylindrical, many-seeded capsules. The numerous other species that have been assigned to Ruellia sensu Lindau and other authors would be transferred to segregate genera such as Arrhostoxylum Nees, Stephanophysum Pohl, Dipteracanthus Nees, Leptosiphonium F. v. Muell., Nothoruellia Bremek. & Nannenga-Bremek., Pararuellia Bremek. & Nannenga-Bremek., and Ulleria Bremek. (Bremekamp and Nannenga-Bremekamp, 1948; Bremekamp, 1969). The taxonomic effects of all these changes would be to throw the original generic concept of Linnaeus into doubt, and to reestablish a number of more or less distinguishable taxa as genera strictly on the basis of morphological variance. In order to establish the relative taxonomic position of R. tuberosa with other species of the genus sensu lato, as well as to test the genetic relationships of the species related to R. tuberosa, biosystematic investigations were made that included field studies, chromosomal and cytological analyses of meiosis, hybridization experiments, and chromatographic comparisons of corolla pigments. These studies have enabled us to gain some insight into the complex relationships of tropical and temperate American species that were largely unsuspected from purely morphological


Neurodegenerative disease is a fatal disease of the human nervous system, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and related polyglutamine expansion diseases. The US FDA had approved several drugs to treat neurodegenerative diseases, however, almost none of them could delay progress of these diseases and offer cure. A key molecular pathway implicated in neurodegenerative diseases is the misfolding aggregation and accumulation of proteins in neurons. Chloro-oxime derivatives, such as bimoclomol and arimoclomol, promote the expression of heat shock proteins and improve the abilities of normal protein folding and degrade misfolded proteins. Based on the structure of bimoclomol and arimoclomol, we substituted the pyridine and piperazine by TMP and other amino groups, and synthesised a series of novel chloro-oxime derivatives. Among these chloro-oxime derivatives, compounds 9b and 13b were demonstrated to be neuroprotective against MG-132-induced neurotoxicity in SH-SY5Y cells.


A hybrid segmentation method has been developed integrating two segmentation methods, edge detection and region growing in order overcome weaknesses of either method. The segmentation method involves the following: (i) filtering, (ii) edge detection and following (iii) edge fragment linking, and (iv) region growing. In (ii) edge detection is carried out. The resulting edge magnitude values are thresholded and on the thresholded values a thinning operation is performed in order to create one pixel thick edges. In (iii) the resulting edge fragments are linked together where possible by detecting one pixel wide gaps between edge fragments. By connecting the edge fragments closed polygons are formed, dividing the image into a set of sub-images. Edge fragments not belonging to a closed polygon are pruned. In (iv) region growing is carried out within every polygon. Regions are not allowed to grow outside the polygons. The region growing method used is the best merge, which merges per merging scan over the image the pair with a lowest cost value. For merging remaining isolated pixels context rules are defined. Results of the segmentation method are shown for classification of a non-segmented Landsat-TM scene and its segmented counterpart by an artificial neural network. Moreover the use of the segmentation for filtering SAR imagery is indicated.


A web engine configured for an ITF (IPTV Terminal Function), such as a STB (set-top-box), includes an application framework that enables display of applications. The application framework includes a memory for storing at least two applications, wherein the applications are arranged in a hierarchical tree structure in relation to each other. The application framework further includes an application manager. The application manager includes a receiving unit for receiving the event, e.g. a key press, and a controller for controlling the dispatching. The controller may include an event wrapper for wrapping and unwrapping the event and a dispatcher for transferring the wrapped event down through the application tree. For each application node including the root node, the application manager is configured to determine if an event should be processed by the current application.


A recently developed technique of neutron activation analysis permitted a sensitive analysis of mercury in over 160 samples of fresh brain tissue from 17 randomly selected autopsies. There was a preferential deposition of mercury in various anatomical loci. Many of these loci are those clinically or histologically affected in poisoning by methyl mercury. The greatest concentration of the metal was generally present in the cerebellum with a mean of 0.28 μMg/g (parts per million). Forty per cent of the cerebellums had concentrations greater than 0.2 ppm. The visual cortex, pons and geniculate bodies contained levels averaging 0.17 to 0.20 ppm. The lowest levels were found in the frontal lobe white matter (mean 0.07 ppm). Two brains from patients with no exceptional exposure to environmental mercury had unusually elevated levels of 1 to 2 ppm in many regions.


This article aims to discuss the organization of work teaching in classrooms of Pejao (Program of Education for Youth and Adult - Unesp - Linda) through the Work Projects, which underlie actions from the perspective of interdisciplinary Theory History-Culture. Pointing to the pedagogical implications of this conception of education, considering the formation of educating young adults and forth the use of time and space for education, production of knowledge, the procedure to information given to school subjects, the development / implementation / development / evaluation of projects of interdisciplinary work in the light of the focus vygotiskiano. Therefore, our gaze is theoretical and methodological back-up for a particular context: the classes of its shares in EJA interdisciplinary. Discuss such issues as follows: the first section, we present the general theory, discussing key concepts such as mediation, activity, learning, development, and then inserted the actions of students and educators of EJA. In a second section, we draw some lessons of that theory, to (re) present and (re) thinking projects in the EJA, resignified and resizing them by vygotiskiano bias.


PURPOSE: A branch sleeve of a distribution line is provided to prevent the separation of a power main line by firmly fixing the power main line through upper and lower elastic pieces. CONSTITUTION: A power main line is inserted into a sleeve body. The sleeve body is comprised of a main line support(11) and a main lien cover(12). A primary drop lien connector guides the connection of a COS(Cut Out Switch) primary drop wire. A lead wire fixing block(40) is slidably combined with a rail on the main line cover of the sleeve body. A primary lead wire of a lighting arrester is inserted into a primary lead wire fixing sleeve. The primary lead wire fixing sleeve is comprised of a lead wire support(31) and a lead wire cover(32).


In the article referring to Canada Health Infoway needing a watchdog,[1][1] a few things should be considered. Thirty years ago, I was involved with a grass-roots approach to try to build an electronic medical record (EMR). It soon became clear that to develop a high-performance product was going to


Collaborative problem solving is defined as having cognitive and social dimensions. While network analytic techniques such as epistemic network analysis (ENA) and social network analysis (SNA) have been successfully used to investigate the patterns of cognitive and social connections that describe CPS, few attempts have been made to combine the two approaches. Building on prior work that used ENA and SNA metrics as independent predictors of collaborative learning, we propose and test the integrated social-epistemic network signature (iSENS), an approach that affords the simultaneous investigation of cognitive and social connections. We tested iSENS on data collected from military teams participating in training scenarios. Our results suggest that (1) these teams are defined by specific patterns of cognitive and social connections, (2) iSENS networks are able to capture these patterns, and (3) iSENS is a better predictor of team outcomes compared to ENA alone, SNA alone, and a non-integrated SENS approach.


There are numerous challenges many of us must confront, including COVID-19 and expansive, global anti-Blackness, that often results in far-reaching consequences for Black individuals worldwide (Bledsoe & Wright, 2019). As a parent of two young Black boys, I worry about these issues influencing my children's emotional health and physical safety. I value my role as a parent, and as a Black person, partner, researcher, teacher, and activist, these identities cannot be compartmentalized. I pursue grants, conduct research, and teach amid continued trauma. Yet, how does one concentrate on scholarship and protect their children from the pandemic, racial resentment, and the potential of media's representation of both, which may create concern among young audiences? I offer my narrative as a Black media scholar, adopting the feminist intellectual traditions of standpoint theory (Hartsock, 1983), acknowledging the struggle to be seen, heard, and represented in a society that historically erases the hardships Black folks often face. To offer an illustration of those circumstances, on day two of my six and eight-year-old heading back to elementary school, after seven weeks of at-home virtual learning, my son said, "Daddy, I don't think the Coronavirus is real." Hearing my son say this broke my heart; I believe in science and work alongside multiple organizations to research the virus and its impact on Black Communities. My family has numerous friends and family members, all Black, who have contracted the virus, and some have died. At that moment in the car, I turned off the Frozen soundtrack to discuss his statement. My son shared that he overheard that the Coronavirus was fake while listening to news programs, confusing him. I know my children are tired of isolation, and now they see their friends and teachers in person and question why they had to spend months indoors. At that moment, I realized that the media contributed to my child questioning the existence of COVID-19. Sadly, my children did not know their father recently overcame the virus. To protect them, I mentioned that I was exhausted and needed to rest in solitude. I work extremely hard to safeguard my children from the structural inequalities Black people face due to their racial identity. Currently, COVID-19 highlights those disparities, and we are dying at alarming rates (Center for Disease Control, 2020). It pains me that often news programs encourage a narrative of seemingly impartial storytelling, framing the pandemic and the deniers of its reality as "newsworthy." Likewise, scholars note news media's role in uneven


Electromyography (EMG) is one of the special tool in assessing human muscle performance. The muscle performance can be evaluated when there exist changes on both the amplitude and frequency simultaneously. However, various time-frequency EMG signal features from literature do not provide easy and direct interpretation of the muscle condition specifically for non-researchers in rehabilitation centers. This study investigates EMG behavior of biceps brachii and erector spinae based on new time-frequency EMG features during functional capacity evaluation (FCE)'s core-lifting task in evaluating work level categories of return to work patients. Surface EMG signals are filtered using band pass filter with cut-off frequency at 5-500 Hz and auto-segmented using spectrogram, while S-transform is used for the features extraction. Result shows that the differences of the proposed EMG features values are significant in indexing muscle performance and are good indicators for the determination of work level categories.


This paper is described the systematic activities of RCM to improve the availability for AREX railway system. The purpose of these activities are to maintain and enhance the reliability, availability, maintainability and safety, and to implement the effective maintenance for electrical and mechanical system including rolling stock, signalling, telecommunication, power supply, overhead catenary and platform screen door with impact to train operation.. The main activities consist of systematic failure and repair recording by integral information system, analysis and corresponding countermeasure. As applying these activities in opeartion and maintenance works, the availability of AREX railway system is going on improvement gradually, and maintenacne works are improved with these results.


With the increasing need for high temporal resolution satellite imagery for monitoring land surfaces, this study evaluated the temporal resolution of the NDVI composites from Geostationary Ocean Color Imager (GOCI) data. The GOCI is the first geostationary satellite sensor designed to provide continuous images over a 2,500×2,500 km2 area of the northeast Asian region with relatively high spatial resolution of 500 m. We used total 2,944 hourly images of the GOCI level 1B radiance data obtained during the one-year period from April 2011 to March 2012. A daily NDVI composite was produced by maximum value compositing of eight hourly images captured during day-time. Further NDVI composites were created with different compositing periods ranging from two to five days. The cloud coverage of each composite was estimated by the cloud detection method developed in study and then compared with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Aqua cloud product and 16-day NDVI composite. The GOCI NDVI composites showed much higher temporal resolution with less cloud coverage than the MODIS NDVI products. The average of cloud coverage for the five-day GOCI composites during the one year was only 2.5%, which is a significant improvement compared to the 8.9%~19.3% cloud coverage in the MODIS 16-day NDVI composites.


In 1995 Unison implemented a National Recruitment Plan, and, in 1997, a National Organizing and Recruitment Strategy, with the objective of reversing the decline in union density in the public sector. This article traces the development of these initiatives and assesses their results. The article shows that there is limited involvement of lay representatives in the National Organizing and Recruitment Plan, but that there is a positive relationship between participation in union programmes intended to promote organizing and the performance of individual branches.


The thrust generation by electro-hydrodynamic (EHD) effect has been studied for a wire-cylinder arrangement under high DC voltage. Series of measurements have been conducted in order to determine the relationship between generated thrust and corona discharge current, as well as its dependence on geometrical characteristics of the electrodes, e.g. electrode gap, wire and cylinder radii. The experimental investigation has shown a linear relationship between the generated thrust and the discharge current, while parametric analysis showed that increased electrode gap and emitter radius reduces the thrust. On the other hand, large gaps favor the thrust per unit power ratio.


NURSING DIAGNOSTICS RELATED TO JOINT HOUSING DIAGNÓSTICOS DE ENFERMAGEM RELACIONADOS AO ALOJAMENTO CONJUNTO DIAGNÓSTICOS DE ENFERMERÍA RELACIONADOS CON EL ALOJAMIENTO CONJUNTO Angélica Branquinho Martins , Nycarla de Araújo Bezerra , Polyana Magna Dias Balbino , Raquel Bezerra dos Santos ABSTRACT Objective: to identify the Nursing Diagnostics that are published in the literature related to the joint housing. Method: it is a bibliographic, descriptive, integrative review type study, with search in the databases: LILACS, MEDLINE and SciELO Virtual Library. The descriptors "Puerperium", "Nursing Diagnosis" and "Nursing Process" associated with the Boolean marker AND were used. The following were established as inclusion criteria: original studies, published in full, from 2010 to 2020 and in Portuguese, English and Spanish. The data was analyzed in a descriptive manner. Results: The sample consisted of three articles that presented the following Nursing Diagnostics related to the joint accommodation, using the NANDA-I taxonomy II: effective breastfeeding; ineffective breastfeeding; risk of infection; risk of imbalance in body temperature and impaired comfort. Conclusion: it is pointed out that this study made it possible to identify the most common Nursing Diagnostics in the joint accommodation, contributing to the strengthening of the Nursing Process. Descriptors: Puerperium; Nursing Diagnosis; Nursing Process; Joint Housing; Nursing Assessment; Anamnesis.


The aim of this paper is to explain why such a widespread practice as treasure hunting is related to narratives of cursed and haunted places. The reasons are many: a) the intermingling of official and folk religious elements in Orthodox Christian tradition that also serves the Greek nationalistic idea of continuity from Antiquity, b) the existence of evil spirits gives sufficient justification to despair, failure and ill health, by aligning otherness with misfortune, c) such narratives constitute patterns of behaviour, as they offer the terms for comprehensive oral dialogue between notions of good and evil, religious beliefs and skepticism.


With the economic downturn looming, paper prices soaring, an emissions trading scheme on the way and the threat of parallel importation, the print industry is going through some big changes. Drew Turney asked Australia's biggest operators how they were faring.


This paper introduces the definition of initial colla pse pressure of lo ess soil,discusses the application of initial collapse pressure in loess enginee ring, pointing out that the index of initial collapse pressure applied in loess engineering must be determined strictly .


Abstract In book VII of the Politics, Aristotle requires that the best regime be eusunoptos, "easily taken in at a glance." Throughout the history of political thought, the attendant ideal of the polis as a compact and surveyable society was particularly influential. However, closer scrutiny of the way in which Aristotle uses eusunoptos suggests that it designates a problem rather than a solution, to wit, the problems of defining political unity and of attuning the individual and the common good. Exploring the different contexts in which eusunoptos occurs in Aristotle's works, this paper argues that it has political, rhetorical, and poetical meanings that cannot be entirely distinguished from each other. As such, the notion is shown to be germane to the general design of book VII, which constructs the best regime in order to bring to light the limits of politics.