In this paper, we propose a novel nonblocking optical packet switch (OPS) architecture, named Input-Concentrator OPS (IC-OPS). In IC-OPS multiple input concentrators are used to aggregate all the incoming traffic into a single arrayed waveguide grating router. Accordingly, the physical size, the number of the needed wavelength converters, and the economic cost of the OPS node are decreased dramatically. Its performance is evaluated by a Markov model and compared with the well-known No-Input-Concentrator OPS structure (NIC-OPS). The closed-form expressions of the packet loss ratio and average packet delay for both architectures are given. In addition, a cost model which includes time analysis in relation to the maturity stage of the optical components has been applied. Both performance and cost comparisons show that the IC-OPS is less expensive than NIC-OPS while providing better performance.


There is a chicken-and-egg problem in classification whereby a good classifier is required to test the efficacy of the features, yet a good feature set is required to generate a good classifier. When the salient features are unknown, an extremely large set of features is used to train the classifier in hopes of obtaining accurate classification results. This research proposes the use of a special class of decision tree called the alternating decision tree or ADTree to answer two questions in knowledge discovery in order to effectively select a salient feature set: When using a particular feature extraction algorithm, which of the features is able to distinguish between the different classes? And how do they work?


The development of ultraviolet radiation is essential for solving scientific and practical problems. A large number of application areas related to the registration of ultraviolet radiation requires the expansion of the list of materials used and the creation of new technologies for the production of ultraviolet radiation detectors. Zink oxide thin films are widely used in recording and measuring devices for the ultraviolet range, due to its wide bandgap (3.37 eV) and unique optical characteristics. The purpose of the work is to create a technology for the manufacture of photodielectric sensing element of the ultraviolet range based on zink oxide thin films. To achieve the goal, the following tasks were set and solved: to obtain an experimental sample of the photodielectric-sensing element of the ultraviolet range, investigate the photoelectric effect in zinc oxide films obtained by reactive magnetron sputtering, determine the optimal voltage and frequency of the measuring signal for the operation of the photodielectric sensing element of the ultraviolet range. The article describes the equipment and the sequence of technological operations for the production of thin films of zinc oxide and conducting electrodes by magnetron sputtering. The optimal voltage and frequency of the measuring signal for the sensing element are investigated. The spectral sensitivity of the element in the ultraviolet range was determined.


Objective:To investigate the preparation of irinotecan hydrochloride lyophilized liposomes and to evaluate their quality preliminarily.Methods:Judging by encapsulation efficiency(EE),four different methods for preparing liposomes were compared,the single-factor test research was applicated to study the formula and the preparation craft,support agents for lyophilization were screened,and the influencing factor test was applicated to study the stability of lyophilized liposomes. Results:High EE of liposomes was achieved by two active loading methods;under the ammonium sulfate gradient method,the EE of irinotecan hydrochloride liposomes was significantly affected by the ratios of drug to lipid,the concentrations of ammonium sulfate,incubation temperature and incubation time,and it was scarcely affected by the ratios of cholesterol to phospholipid or the salts-removing methods;superior lyophilized powder could be obtained by using 5% sucrose and 5% lactose;the lyophilized powder was sensitive to temperature and illumination,and it was also affected by humidity. Conclusion:With the ammonium sulfate gradient method,after the optimization of the formula and the preparation craft we could get irinotecan hydrochloride liposomes with high EE;5% sucrose and 5% lactose were suitable support agents for these liposomes.The preliminary assessment of stability showed that the lyophilized liposomes powder should be stored in low temperature,in sealed condition,and away from light.


The employment of Electronic Medical Records is expected to better enhance health care quality and to relieve increased financial pressure. Electronic Medical Records are, however, potentially vulnerable to security breaches that may result in a rise of patients' privacy concerns. The purpose of our study was to explore the factors that motivate hospital information technology staff's compliance with Electronic Medical Records privacy policy from the theoretical lenses of protection motivation theory and the theory of reasoned action. The study collected data using survey methodology. A total of 310 responses from information technology staff of 7 medical centers in Taiwan was analyzed using the Structural Equation Modeling technique. The results revealed that perceived vulnerability and perceived severity of threats from Electronic Medical Records breaches may be used to predict the information technology staff's fear arousal level. And factors including fear arousal, response efficacy, self-efficacy, and subjective norm, in their turn, significantly predicted IT staff's behavioral intention to comply with privacy policy. Response cost was not found to have any relationship with behavioral intention. Based on the findings, we suggest that hospitals could plan and design effective strategies such as initiating privacy-protection awareness and skills training programs to improve information technology staff member's adherence to privacy policy. Furthermore, enhancing the privacy-protection climate in hospitals is also a viable means to the end. Further practical and research implications are also discussed.


Anthropological literature and oral testimony assert that Inuit gender did not traditionally fit within a binary framework. Men's and women's social roles were not wholly determined by their bodies, there were mediatory roles between masculine and feminine identities, and role-swapping was—and continues to be—widespread. However, archaeologists have largely neglected Inuit gender diversity as an area of research. This thesis has two primary objectives: 1) to explore the potential impacts of presenting queer narratives of the Inuit past through a series of interviews that were conducted with Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer/Questioning and Two-Spirit (LGBTQ2S+) Inuit and 2) to consider ways in which archaeological materials articulate with and convey a multiplicity of gender expressions specific to pre-contact Inuit identity. This work encourages archaeologists to look beyond categories that have been constructed and naturalized within white settler spheres, and to replace them with ontologically appropriate histories that incorporate a range of Inuit voices.


Users sometimes cannot remember the exact words of desktop filenames and meet trouble in re-finding these desktop files. In this condition the existing keyword based desktop search tools cannot work well. In this paper, we first analyze the synonym relationship among the words utilized in naming personal desktop files. Then, we propose a synonym-based desktop search method to solve the problem, and name it SynDS. By comparing it with a popular desktop search tool "MS Desktop Search", SynDS shows better recall and precision, which means it can help users re-find desktop files in some conditions when the traditional methods fail to work.


The polymerase chain reaction(PCR)is a rapid method for amplification of DNA or cDNA sequences.Waterborne rotaviruses are major pathogens responsible for severe diarrhea diseases in infants and young children worldwide,thus could cause severe harm to water quality and human health.Therefore,it is very important to establish a quick and sensitive method for rotaviruses detection in water for prevention and control of waterborne disease outbreaks.PCR and its derivative techniques have been widely applied in detecting waterborne rotaviruses because of their high sensitivity,specificity and accuracy.The principles and applications of PCR and PCR derived techniques are summarized in this review.The research progress in detecting waterborne rotaviruses using PCR-related techniques including reverse transcription PCR(RT-PCR)、RT-seminested PCR and RT-nested PCR、multiplex RT-PCR、immuno polymerase chain reaction、immunomagnetic separation PCR、real-time PCR and integrated cell culture-PCR are discussed.Moreover,emerging questions and perspectives of these PCR-related techniques in detection of waterborne rotaviruses are also analyzed in this review.


Ayurveda is the most ancient Indian medical science of life. The main aim of ayurveda is to maintain healthy state of life to provide measures for the prevention of diseases. To cure the patient of all his aliments is also important but for studying treatment methods it is essential first to gain knowledge about the basic principles of Chikitsa. The chikitsa is the procedure by which Dosha, Dhatu Mala are kept in balanced state. This study is focus on Avasthanurupa Chikitsa of Jwara vyadhi which will provide basic guideline to cure other diseases in clinical practice. Jwara is Lord among the diseases because of its power to afflict the body, senses and mind. Jwara happens since the birth of an individual and at the time of their death. In Jwara there are various stages of doshavastha according to different types, so treatment is not symptomatic. The main stages of samprapti (pathogenesis) of Jwara are vitiation of agni which produce Ama i.e. indigested toxins is thrown out their places and carried by rasa dhatu in the body and produces Jwara. The physician must know not only the vitiated doshas and dhatus but also the different stages of upasthit dosha avastha like samavastha ,niramvastha etc. Application of chikitsa depends on avastha of upasthita dosha, dhatu, malas, bala, kala etc. To understand these all minute things of these entities here an example is taken of Jwara chikitsa.


The State Government of SA funds a scheme testing children's developmental progress in readiness for school. A few years ago now, we were surprised by the results of this readiness assessment for our then four year old. We were informed the tests had identified some hearing loss in his right ear. The issue was further investigated by our GP leading to a referral to an ENT (Ear Nose and Throat) specialist.


1015Background: Selection of resistance mutations may play a major role in the development of endocrine resistance. ESR1 mutations are rare in primary breast cancer but have a high prevalence in patients treated with aromatase inhibitors (AI) for advanced breast cancer. We investigated the evolution of genetic resistance to first line AI therapy using sequential ctDNA sampling in patients with advanced breast cancer. Methods: Seventy-one patients on first line AI therapy for metastatic breast cancer were enrolled in a prospective study to collect plasma samples for ctDNA analysis every three months on therapy, and at disease progression. All plasma samples were analysed with ESR1 multiplex digital PCR assays, and samples at disease progression were analysed by InVision (enhanced tagged-amplicon sequencing). Mutations were tracked back through samples prior to disease progression to study the evolution of mutations on therapy. Results: Of the 34 patients who progressed on first line AI, 53% (18/34) had ESR...


The paper describes certain properties of manganese-zinc ferrite cores used in inductor coils. In particular, the stability characteristics which appear to be substantially different from those of iron or alloy dust cores are examined. It is pointed out that the permeability variations are due to several external causes. Only the principal features of these phenomena may be given because of the large quality dispersion of ferrites.Owing to its very reduced losses the manganese-zinc ferrite is the best material for low-induction coils used in the zero to some hundred kilocycles per second frequency range. However, its use requires very accurate knowledge of the different aspects of the stability phenomenon.Some measurement results illustrate the typical behaviour of essential ferrite characteristics.


A historical review of the use of three independent techniques for measuring the rotational rate is presented. The approaches examined are: (1) using theoretical interior models together with observations of the oblateness and the gravitational moment; (2) studying periodic fluctuations in the brightness; and (3) spectrographically measuring the Doppler shifts (line tilts). Measurements of line tilts obtained using the Kitt Peak National Observation 4 meter telescope with a Cassegrain echelle to high obtain high spectral dispersion and large image are discussed and compared with results obtained by Muench and Hipplelein (1980) and by Hayes and Belton (1977). The possibility of using speckel imaging techniques to detect the motion of features across the disc in the 6091 methane band, and with more suitable image intensifiers, in the 7261 band is considered.


the Framework of the National Campaign "Early Detection and Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus" Shepelkevich A.P., Salko О.B., Kholodova H.A. Lobashova V.L., Bilodid I.K., Pedchenets L.М., Kovshik L.P., Tulupova М.I., Grigorovich А.S., Zalesskaya О.G., Selivanov V.N. Aims: The rapidly increasing epidemic of obesity is one of the most challenging dilemmas facing endocrinologists all over the world today. Obesity increases risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus, and cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death. The aim of our research was within the framework of the National Campaign "Early Detection and Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus" to evaluate the prevalence of obesity and overweight in the Belarusian population. Materials and methods: The National Campaign "Early Detection and Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus" involved opportunistic screening of 15,478 individuals applying to the healthcare institutions of Belarus with the use of the FINDRISK (FINnish Diabetes Risk Score) scale. Distribution by age and sex were taking into account. Gender distribution 70,25%


Realism asserts that the object of cognition is "reality" and scientific theory "mirrors" the objective world. However, Waltz objects to it. Rather, he argues that theory is just a kind of instruments being used to explain "rules". His thought about definition, construction and appraisal of scientific theory manifests anti-realist orientation. The orientation has dual effect on his theory. On the one hand, it makes him successfully construct a delicate scientific theory. On the other hand, it impairs explanation capacity of his theory and puts a huge barrier for his critic.


An Australian Senate committee of inquiry into the infection of over 8000 people with hepatitis C from blood transfusions and blood products has proposed a fund to improve their access to healthcare services but ruled out a compensation scheme.

Canada and Ireland have instituted compensation schemes covering loss of income and medical costs and—along with Great Britain—the provision of lump sum payments. It was a model that the Senate committee baulked at.

Chairwoman of the committee, Senator Jan McLucas, said: "If we had gone down the route of a compensation tribunal, it is the view of the …


The primary aim of this study was to evaluate the long‐term safety/tolerability of atomoxetine in Japanese adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).


Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) provide manifold advantages over ultrasound transducers based on piezo-electric materials. However, a limited output pressure and a high voltage requirement are still drawbacks to address. We present a CMUT design with small geometrical measures for plate thickness, gap and insulation layer, in order to ensure low-voltage operation < 10 V. Three designs allow studying the bare piston effects for identical plate diameter. The piston-like deflection intends to overcome low output pressures. Moreover, we present an acoustic coupling approach to demonstrate through-wall fill level sensing through a conductive material. Displacement measurements in air via vibrometer are utilized to validate FEM simulations for the designs. The pull-in voltage is determined for the operational point for acoustic characterization in immersion as well as fill level sensing application. The piston design reveals an emitted surface sound pressure of 0.5 MPa and a transmit sensitivity of 24.8 kPa/V - an improvement over the bare plate design by a factor of 11.2 in sound pressure as well as 3.35 for transmit sensitivity, for a 100-ns-pulse with 80% of the pull-in voltage. With acoustic impedance matching via a silicone film stacked with epoxy material, we can improve the transmission into aluminum from 20% to 35%. By that, fill level measurements for 2.3 mm of water up to 610 mm through 4-mm-thick aluminum are demonstrated. The capabilities of an advanced CMUT design for applications other than medical imaging are shown, opening the field for diverse industrial and consumer applications of CMUTs.


DESIGN OF NUDGE-BASED INTERVENTIONS FOR INCREASING VEGETABLE INTAKE IN EMERGING ADULTS WITHIN ON-CAMPUS DINING SITES Simone Holligan Advisor: Dr. Paula Brauer University of Guelph, 2017 A sequential exploratory mixed-methods approach was used to explore the eating behaviours of emerging adults in on-campus dining locations. The major aim was the development of nudge interventions to increase vegetable intake within this population group. Nudge interventions are here defined as the design of options that alter people's behaviour in a foreseeable manner without forbidding options or imposing significant economic consequences. This study involved two phases. The first phase was the Your Meals, Your Choice Photovoice study which investigated the factors influencing the selection and purchasing of meals by undergraduate students in the on-campus dining environment. Emergent themes clustered within three major categories related to the university institution, the food service provider, and at the level of the individual. The second phase of this study was the Your Meals, Your Style online survey, designed based on major themes from the Your Meals, Your Choice study. This survey identified the menu choices most selected, as well as the food stations and cafeterias most frequented by undergraduates on campus. Heuristic factors were identified that indicated how students streamline their decision-making processes in terms of selection and purchasing of meals for consumption. Specifically, the majority of students tended to purchase lunch options while on campus and frequented cafeterias that were centrally located. Of the lunch options, customizable and portable 'one-unit' meals such as sandwiches, pitas, wraps, and pizza were most frequently selected. Preferred vegetable additions and substitutions for modifying current menu offerings were mainly of the cruciferous (e.g., broccoli, cauliflower, and kale) and yellow/orange categories (e.g., carrots and tomatoes). Moreover, factors influencing undergraduate meal choices aligned with a worldview of desiring a socially-responsible lifestyle, specifically in wanting to be better informed about the meals they choose to consume. Through consultation with the Department of Hospitality Services, results from this series of studies were used to develop preliminary nudge interventions for increasing vegetable intake in the local undergraduate population.


Review: Restoration and History: The Search for a Usable Environmental Past By Hall, Marcus (Ed.) Reviewed by Vineeth Mathoor Jawaharlal Nehru University, India Hall, Marcus (Ed). Restoration and History: The Search for a Usable Environmental Past. New York, London: Routledge, 2010. 330 Pp ISBN 978-0-415-87176-1. Restoration and History: The Search for a Usable Environmental Past is a brilliant collection of articles edited by Marcus Hall on environment, history, restoration, and its political usages. This collection of twenty seven articles explores how a consideration of time can improve the practice of environmental restoration. To put simply, the book is an application of what generally people say, "You can't touch the same water twice". Based on this premise, these brilliantly argued articles call for the preservation of forests and ecological pasts, and critically look at the consumerist conception of nature and resources. This also means that the ecological destructions carried out by human movements throughout the history constitute an area of enquiry and c concern for the book. Structurally, the book is divided into six parts in chronological and topical order, with each chapter working on the broad premise of considering the pasts of restoration as future possibility. The crisis of and importance for the preservation of original natural conditions is debated at length. The book also explores the devastation brought on to the nature, and seeks possible remedies for bringing back the lost culture of forests, fauna, flora and other ecosystems. These themes and ideas are contextualized in the broad spectrum of Gospel, enlightenment, architecture, sculpture, painting and music for bringing back what the authors think better ways of restoration. Also, many chapters extensively examine case studies from history such as the Rhine River, South China Sea etc and critically look at the role of human interaction in changing the ecological landscapes. The book argues that any efforts to reclaim the lost originality of particular must consider the efforts of our past generation and bring into debate their methodology. This means, the state initiatives based on modern scientific awareness tend to negate traditional knowledge systems of past societies, and bring back the question of originality from commercial viewpoints. Commercial viewpoints are inspired by human desire to dominate over time and space by transforming nature into a commodity, and therefore it makes negative impacts. Overall, the book is critical towards these attempts, and argues for the restoration of time back into our efforts to preserve landscapes. This attitude is important to uphold the traditional systems of knowledge and our histories to bring back pasts of ecological restoration for better future. At the end, Restoration and History is a combined attempt of historians, anthropologists, sociologist, philosophers, geographers, and ecologists to address the questions of ecosystems'


The knowledge involved in tracking a ballistic missile in the boost phase, the first three minutes after its launch, is quite crucial. An intelligent system that would track the missile would use different types of sensors and be able to communicate with the Global Positioning System. The Global Positioning System and radar play a major part in the development of my research because each gives valuable information that must be turned into knowledge. The Global Positioning System gives actual latitude and longitude while the radar provided altitude.


Telephone speech power estimation and related issues in the satellite FDM transmission network are described. The capacity of an FDM transmission system in terms of number of voice channels is closely related to the multichannel loading. Speech is still a major part of the traffic in present day systems. Its characterization is thus an important step, especially in the design of the load-sensitive FDM/SSB/AM satellite transmission system. This paper presents a truncated normal distribution and its application to speech power estimation in the presence of channel and background noise. With the provision of a thresholding mechanism, the new truncated normal distribution is especially suited for the estimation of speech power in the presence of channel noise. It is further suggested that, even in the absence of noise, the truncated normal distribution is in general a more realistic model than the normal distribution.


In this note, we establish the following Second Main Theorem type estimate for every entire non-algebraically degenerate holomorphic curve $f\colon\mathbb{C}\rightarrow\mathbb{P}^n(\mathbb{C})$, in present of a {\sl generic} hypersuface $D\subset\mathbb{P}^n(\mathbb{C})$ of sufficiently high degree $d\geq 15(5n+1)n^n$: \[ T_f(r) \leq \,N_f^{[1]}(r,D) + O\big(\log T_f(r) + \log r \big)\parallel, \] where $T_f(r)$ and $N_f^{[1]}(r,D)$ stand for the order function and the $1$-truncated counting function in Nevanlinna theory. This inequality quantifies recent results on the logarithmic Green--Griffiths conjecture.


In this paper, the investigation of the mechanical behavior of blending system of polyolefine with different chain structure was introduced. The study found that the blend from copolypropylene and LDPE, which has narrow molecular weight distribution and short side chain, resulted in a decrease of tensile and blending strength. The elongation had no break for the blends with the concentration of LDPE lower than 30% and it went down gradually after that. The charpy impact strength shown the trendency that increased with the concentration of LDPE, and then reached its maximum value at the content of 30%, and finally decreased with the increase of LDPE. It expressed the same situation for the tensile and bending stength of the blends of copolyppylene and LDPE with wide molecular weight distribution and long side chain. However, the elongation at break for later increased with the content of LDPE and then decreased after its peak value of the blend with 30% LDPE. The charpy impact strength shown constantly increase for blends studied. It could be due to the fact that long side chain could entangled not only with the ethylene portion of CPP, but also with the amorphous domain of HPP. It was very interested that the add of home polypropylene spoiled the interaction between CPP and LDPE of former blends, and enhanced the interaction of the components of later blends. Therefore later got better mechanical behavior than that of former.


The general scheme of the joint evolution of a stellar galactic nucleus and central massive black hole (BH) is deduced in the homology approximation. Physically distinctive stages of this evolution crucially depend on the distribution and motion of stars near the BH which determined the rate of their penetrating into the loss-cone and successive tidal disruption or swallowing by the hole. Joint evolution leads either to contraction or expansion of the stellar cluster around the BH, depending on the parameters of the total system


Objective The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) blunt head trauma guidelines and implementation of urgent neurology follow-up (UNF) appointments on an observed decline in head computed tomography (CT) use for pediatric emergency department (PED) patients presenting with headache, seizure, and trauma. Methods Patients ages 0 to 18 years presenting to and discharged from an urban tertiary care PED with chief complaint of trauma, headache, and seizure between 2007 and 2013 were retrospectively included. The total number of head CTs obtained in the trauma, headache, and seizure groups was compared before and after the publication of the PECARN guidelines in 2009 and the implementation of urgent UNF within a week from PED discharge in 2011, respectively. Results Between 2007 and 2013, 24,434 encounters were identified with 2762 head CTs performed. Analysis demonstrated a decline in pediatric head CTs for trauma (odds ratio [OR], 2.0; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.8–2.2) after the publication of the PECARN study on blunt head trauma, for headache (OR, 1.4; 95% CI, 1.1–1.8) and seizure (OR, 1.9; 95% CI, 1.4–2.6) with UNF. However, cross comparison (headache and seizure with PECARN and trauma with UNF) also demonstrated similar significant declines. Conclusions The decline in head CTs observed at our institution demonstrated a strong linear relationship, yet cannot be solely attributed to the PECARN blunt head trauma study or the implementation of UNF.


Because the change of system resource will restrict the application of traditional stochastic Petri net,an extended Petri net( RCEPN) method w ith the resource constraint w as proposed based on the research for traditional stochastic Petri net,w here each transition in RCEPN w as associated w ith a kind of resources and the implement rate of transition w as closely related to the quantity of resources. RCEPN can not only narrow the state space and reduce the complexity,but also make the logical relation betw een tasks and resources in the system more clear and convenient for the process description. With both queuing theory and mathematical programming,the mathematical model for process optimization w as given,the 0-1programming to solve the optimization and configuration problem of resource w as established,and the shortest system response time w as realized. With the examples of procurement business process,the effectiveness of modeling and optimization method is verified.


A look at Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur and its recent "translation," John Steinbeck's Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights. and the times in which the works were written, reveals that the two writers achieved remarkably similar feats; for both began their novels as translations of earlier Arthurian stories; and each ended by creating a work of art that touches the universal at the same time it strives to address the unique time and culture of its conception—in Malory's case, England of the 1^-60's, and in Steinbeck's, America of the 1950's. That Malory made his French sources accessible to his contemporaries one can conclude from studying his narrative techniques and theme, which fit into the mainstream of fifteenth-century romance. In adapting the Morte Arthure, Malory made the lengthy, ornate, diffuse, and archaic narrative of the alliterative English poem clearer and more intelligible to his audience. In adapting the French Suite du Merlin, prose Lancelot, and Queste del Saint Graal. he gave the English nobility not only readable prose but also scenes of jousts and tournaments similar to contemporary accounts of knightly pastimes. And, finally, Malory reworked the purely religious theme of the Grail Quest in the French sources to make it more secular. Thus, in preferring to exalt courtesy, generosity, mercy, and stability in knighthood rather.than the French ideals of serving the Creator, defending the Church, and offering to Christ the treasure of one's soul, Malory exhorts his countrymen to espouse ideals that might save England from the chaos of the late-fifteentn century. The letters of Steinbeck reveal that he, too, set out merely to put Malory's book into the language of twentieth-century America. As he proceeded, however, the mores, neuroses, virtues, and sins of his culture found their way into his prose, and his work began to evolve into something very different in idiom and plot from the Morte d'Arthur; fifteenth-century romance was transformed into twentieth-century novel. Nevertheless, like Malory, Steinbeck wrote a book for his time in three respects. First, he portrayed realistically, through minor characters and necromancers, the weakness of heart that he believed to be the spirit of his age. Secondly, in reacting against this weakness, Steinbeck called for aspiration to ideals perhaps long dead. And, thirdly, Steinbeck achieved his call to perfection through what is for him a new genre--the myth fable that was gaining popularity after World War II. In all three respects, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights fits securely into the mainstream of letters and life in America during the 1950's.


In this paper,the erosion resistance of the magnesia-alumina spinel(MAS) in the synthesis process of lithium cobaltoxide and the related mechanism were studied.After ten cycles of the synthesis process,the erosion depth in the MAS ceramic is only about 100 μm.The MAS material shows good properties.Further researches on the erosion mechanism suggest that the Li-containing compound firstly react with the MAS ceramic,with LixMyOz(M=Al/Mg) compound as by-product;then the LixM'yOz(M'=Al/Mg/Co) compound forms due to the further permeation of Co-containing compound and separates out from the LixMyOz(M=Al/Mg) compound.


This paper intends to clarify the rising phenomena of invisibility and violence against lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transvestites and transsexuals individuals in the urban spaces, under the ideological construction of what we call "closet-city" from the standpoint of the Right to the City. This analysis allows the understanding of the intersection between factors such as sexuality and gender identity in the reproduction of the urban spaces. Therefore, when cataloging as causes of the phenomenon, through a qualitative and quantitative research, this study draws attention what, the closet-city consists of the utilization of the public spaces for the mitigation and erasure of the sexualities and/or the deviant gender identities, which encourages the hate speeches against LGBTs.


A differentially-fed dual-polarized antenna based on substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) is proposed. The proposed antenna consists of a pair of crossed slots, two orthogonal microstrip feed lines and a SIW cavity, which is easy for fabrication. Due to the orthogonality between the two microstrip feed lines, a high isolation is obtained. The impedance bandwidth of the proposed antenna is about 24% (13.2–16.8 GHz) for differential reflection coefficient $ \lt-10$ dB with isolation $ \gt 40$ dB.


Extremely low density self-assembled InAs quantum dots are grown by a combination technique of in situ annealing for 2 min and pause of substrate rotation during molecular beam epitaxy. The surface morphology and structural characteristics of the quantum dots are scrutinized by atomic force microscopy and photoluminescence spectra. It is found that the quantum dot size and density increase as the InAs deposition amount rises. Quantum dots with a density between 2.5 x 10(7) cm(-2) and 2.2 x 10(8) cm(-2) are 2-5 nm in height and 18-39 nm in diameter. It is believed that as-grown InAs nanodots may be of important value for future single quantum dot research.


Professor Narinder Mehra is a researcher at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. His research interest lies in all aspects of the human MHC, ranging from its potential role in defining biomarkers of disease associated genes, evaluating genetic diversity of HLA and other immune associated genes. Prof. Mehra recently published a free eBook on the clinical relevance of antibodies in solid organ transplantation. The book has 16 chapters that provide state of the art information under the following themes: (i) HLA sensitisation and matching strategies to improve clinical outcome (ii) technical, functional and clinical impact of HLA and non-HLA antibodies (iii) cellular aspects of antibody responses and others.


Our current interpretation of the composition of the middle
and lower crust comes mainly from seismic observations, yet
it remains a challenge to link seismic observations directly to
composition. This is because isotropic seismic properties are
similar across a range of compositions. Taking anisotropy into
account allows for further refinement of our interpretation of
composition provided that anisotropy is characterized for
candidate rock types. This study uses electron backscatter
diffraction (EBSD) measurements of crystallographic
preferred orientation of minerals to calculate seismic
anisotropy in samples of the Pelona-Orocopia-Rand (POR)
schist from the Mojave region of southern California. The
goals of this work are to characterize the seismic anisotropy of
the POR schist and its relationship to observed lower crustal
anisotropy in the region, and to refine predictions of lower
crustal composition based on seismic anisotropy.


A brief analysis of the existing multi-layer wall enclosing structures: their advantages, the basic requirements for thermal resistance, strength, durability and fire resistance, the corresponding class of capital of the building, the effectiveness of each type of multi-layer structures, describing their advantages and disadvantages, which to date does not lead to a single solution to the problem prevailing in this part. It is noted the need to develop high-quality and inexpensive wall envelope, which would quickly become popular in construction. It sets out the tasks of: removing the existing flaws in multilayer structures of the walls; increasing the insulating properties of the structure; reducing the cost and improving the quality and productivity of construction work. The possibility of developing such a multi-layer team of large-block wall structure, which can quickly gain mass popularity: in the individual construction of houses, in the construction of agricultural and industrial buildings, structures, to fill the walls of multi-storey frame buildings, both in monolithic and prefabricated versions. In addition, it is possible to allocate a fairly low complexity of the construction of walls (industrial method of installation of blocks), which is very important in the current shortage of skilled labor, as well as the possibility of introducing the most unusual architectural and color solutions.


There is growing recognition that the study of the mechanical properties of cells, their 3D surrounding, and multicellular tissues is critical to understanding how cells regulate their molecular structure and self-organize. Cells actively sense and process the mechanical information provided by their extracellular environment. The study of cell mechanics is, therefore, key to understanding many complex biological mechanisms and their involvement in developmental and pathological processes. Nerve cells are also influenced by mechanical forces. Tissue stiffness, for example, plays an important role in how nerves function and develop, and possibly change after injury and differentiation.


In this study soybean cultivar Zhonghuang 18 was used as materials,and the genetic integrity of population with different germination percentage and their descendant population was investigated by 60 core SSR primers.The results showed that there was no significant difference in the allelic frequencies and the effective number of alleles of the aged population and their descendant population compared with the control population.It indicated that the allelic frequencies of the aged population and their descendant population changed slightly.There was no significant difference in the number of alleles,the index of genetic diversity,Shannon's information index and the number of rare alleles between the control population with the germination percentage of 98%and its first and second descendant population,and the value of genetic identity was relatively high.The number of alleles,the index of genetic diversity,Shannon's information index and the number of rare alleles of the aged population(G_0-3 and G_0- 4) with the germination percentage below 85%and their first and second descendant population were significantly reduced compared with the control,and the value of genetic identity was relatively high.Therefore,seed aging maybe had a greater impact on the genetic composition of the soybean population than regeneration times.


Linux has become an important force in the operating system.With the increase demand of Linux application on the market,more and more people are willing to understand and learn the Linux operating system,for how to configure VMware Workstation virtual machine network,this paper introduces the RHEL issued the latest version of CentOS 6.0 operating system and virtual machine network configuration of four kinds of mode.As well as the network configuration of the four modes is suitable for the application occasions;at the same time,it elaborates the methods that is network configuration of CentOS 6.0 and laies a solid foundation for studying of linux in the future.


Ninety‐two per cent of the MMPI codes of 60 alcoholics in the Link Society and institutional groups of the present study were classified according to a mixed typological‐dimensional model. The study applied reciprocal two‐digit high‐point codes and also five different spiked codes and two different codes which include more than two scales in predominant position. Related codes suggesting different diagnostic descriptions were, however, separated from each other. The present study also used new interpretations of some MMPI scales, detailed descriptions of the other scales and applied some critically examined measurements of certain authors. Of special interest is a detailed interpretation of the 4 (Psychopathic deviate) scale as a measurement of hysterical personality.


ABSTRACT Tissue concentrations of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) were measured in water hyssop (Bacopa monnieri) subjected to four progressive levels of flooding: well-drained Control, Intermittently Flooded, Partially Flooded, and Continuously Flooded. Soil redox potential (Eh), measured at two levels in the mesocosms decreased under flooding. Flooding increased biomass and decreased root growth and N and P concentrations in shoots, with the decreases being most pronounced in the Partially Flooded and Continuously Flooded treatments. The decreased uptake of N and P under flooding underscores the need to better understand how wetland plants function in nutrient-rich environments subjected to variable flooding. Additionally, the apparent decreased translocation of N and P from the root to the shoot in flooding conditions may be indicative of an overall decrease in mineral transport, which would have implications for the design and management of remediation systems.


The intent of this project was to provide research experiences for socially and economically disadvantaged students in networking via fiber optics. The objectives of this project were: 1) To provide knowledge and skills needed by students to use the tools and equipment essential to networking NASA's and the university's topologies; 2) To provide the student researchers with needed mathematical skills and concepts to progress in fiber optic technology; 3) To afford the principal investigator an opportunity to become certified in fiber optics; 4) To build a transmitter and receiver circuit that will be linked by fiber-optic cable to demonstrate mastery of concepts; and 5) To conduct research for NASA and the University in the fiber-optic system. The research will attempt to develop applications for THUNDER (Thin-layer Composite Unimorph Ferroelectric Driver and Sensor) and LARC-SI (Langley Research Center- Soluble Polyimide), (inventions at NASA/LaRC) and fiber-optic technology that will be beneficial to NASA, the university and the consumer. This research has the potential of improving the nation's manpower in the area of fiberoptic technology. It will allow students the opportunity to participate in visible research at NASA and in industry.


Abstract: Enzymes are used in a broad range of processes in the textile industry: scouring, bleach clean-up, desizing, denim abrasion and polishing. Enzymes are specific and fast in action and small amounts of enzyme often save large amounts of raw materials, chemicals, energy and/or water. This chapter describes enzyme use in the textile industry in the context of sustainable production and reports life cycle assessments (LCAs) on two enzyme applications: bioscouring and enzymatic bleach clean-up. The results show that resource use and impact on the environment can be reduced considerably when enzymes are implemented in the two processes.


An 8-week feeding trial was carried-out to more clearly establish and compare the order of amino acids (AAs) limitation in Slaughterhouse Poultry by-product (SPB) using AA addition assays in African catfish (Clarias gariepinus) diets. Seven isonitrogenous (40% crude protein) diets were formulated. Control diet (fish meal; FM) without amino acid supplementation contained 40% of FM and 20% of SBM which contribute 28% and 9.40% of crude protein, respectively, and formulated to meet all known nutrient requirements of catfish based on nutrient requirement values proposed by the NRC (2011). Diet 2 (SPB) contained SPB as the sole animal protein without amino acid supplementation. The SPB diet was individually supplemented in the other five diets with 1.2%Lys (SPB), 0.4%Met (SPB), 0.1%Try (SPB), 1.2%Arg (SPB) and a combination of 1.2%Lys+0.4%Met+0.1%Trp+1.2%Arg (SPB). Final weight of the fish fed FM diet increased 5 fold, while the group fed SPB and SPB increased 3 fold, respectively. However, fish weight fed diets SPB, SPB SPB, and SPB were duplicated at the end of the experiment. The least FCR value of 1.20 was obtained for group fed FM which produced the best growth performance followed by group fed SPB and SPB (1.52 and 1.66, respectively). Significant difference was observed for protein efficiency ratio (PER) of all experimental diets. Among the SPB diets used in the present study, the fish fed SPB and SPB had significantly (P<0.05) higher final body weight, WG, FI, FCR, SGR, PER, PR and ER than those of the groups fed diets SPB, SPB, SPB and SPB. In this study, Lysine was found to be the first-limiting AA in SPB and deficiencies in African catfish performance were ameliorated by supplementing a 100% replacement diet with sufficient Lysine to match levels in a hypothetical diet in which all protein (40%) was provided by African catfish.


The article reveals the essence of integrative competent-based approach to construct the content of natural science education in a pedagogical college in terms of contemporary theory of integration. In the author's opinion, the fundamental natural science terms that form the basis for integration process allow to forward the content of the natural science education to the level of a didactic unity.


Theridge-waveguide semiconductor laser andam- (2)wherethis structure isrefereed asLD_1.Sketch ofthe plifier issimulated. Comparison ofsimulation results ofstaticstructure isshowninFig.1.Thisisnominally laser structure. characteristics toexperiment hasshowngoodagreement. SimpleSimulation ofSOAhavebeenmadeonthis structure bysetting physical picture ofSOA recovery isdeveloped anditshows thatanyalternation ofthecarrier lifetimes intheactive regionupthelowfacetreflectivities. ofSOA canbeusedforspeed-up ofdevice response. Various Basictime-domain equations responsible forlight-matter combinations ofactive region doping havebeenconsidered asa interaction inthelaser structure areasfollows wayofrecovery acceleration. Simulation ofSOAresponse shows -I J_+ otal thatusing homogeneous doping ofactive layer, speed-up ofthe Rt (1) SOA response canbeachieved. Dopingofa thinpartofthe At e active layer results insmaller speed-up, ascompared tothecase Op 1 otal ofthewholeactive layer doping. Relative position ofdopedlayer At divJp e Rtp (2) within theactive layer plays noroleinresponse acceleration. e IndexTerms-Semiconductor optical amplifier, SOA,simula- aSm (_c_G c 1_AS m tion, gainrecovery, carrier recovery, SOAspeed-up. at - Te e +- / st Recombination termsareexpressible viaSRH-recombination,


The aim of this paper is to extend the theoretical framework of the horizontal linear complementarity problem over Cartesian product of symmetric cones (Cartesian -SCHLCP). The concepts of column and row sufficiency are defined for a linear operator on a Euclidean Jordan algebra. Some connections between the property of a linear operator on a Euclidean Jordan algebra and its property as well as its column sufficiency are presented. Then these definitions and connections are generalized to a pair of linear operators determining the Cartesian -SCHLCP. It is also demonstrated that the Cartesian -SCHLCP can be equivalent with a linear complementarity problem over Cartesian product of symmetric cones (Cartesian -SCLCP), in a certain sense. Finally, based on some obtained results and using a suitable potential function, the main task of the paper is done, which is to show that the central trajectory of the Cartesian -SCHLCP exists and is unique. Therefore, we open the way for presenting and extending the interior-point methods for the Cartesian -SCHLCP.


The problem of soil—pile—foundation—superstructure interaction is examined, and a simple rational procedure to analyse the response of a structure supported on pile groups is presented. This proced...


This paper encompasses the sensitivity of SNR due to ambient noise sources individually using gradient method. The Gradient method has its own significance in the mathematical modeling and the purpose of using this method is of two fold; First, it gives the sensitivity of selected dependent variable with respect to the small and systematic changes in the independent variables separately or compositely in an equation. Second, it helps to determine a way to search for the optimal region or optimal values of the independent variables. Hence, this paper is intended to highlight the optimal region in order to determine a direction for the improvement of SNR in an underwater acoustic communication channel. In this paper, the gradient vectors of SNR have been modeled in MATLAB keeping in consideration the parameters as turbulence, shipping activities, wind and heat involved in underwater acoustic communication channel. The input model of SNR has been kept devoid of probability theory and uses some statistical approximations of underwater acoustic noise. Due to the absence of randomness in the variables of input model of SNR, the model output offers no uncertainties; hence giving a deterministic simulation model of the gradient vectors.


[Three naupliar stages and the infective copepodid stage of Kroyeria elongata Pillai, 1967 are described based on free-living larvae reared from eggs detached from ovigerous females infecting the branchial lamellae of the white smoothhound, Mustelus griseus Pietschmann, 1908. The nauplii and the infective copepodid of the Kroyeriidae are compared with those of Pennellidae and Caligidae. Among Siphonostomatoida parasitic on fish, K. elongata is the first representative known to have three naupliar stages in its life cycle. Trois stades naupliens et le stade copepoditique infectant de Kroyeria elongata Pillai, 1967 sont decrits a partir des larves libres elevees a partir des oeufs detaches des femelles ovigeres fixees sur les lamelles branchiales de l'emissole Mustelus griseus Pietschmann, 1908. Les nauplies et le copepodite infectant des Kroyeriidae sont compares avec ceux des Pennellidae et des Caligidae. Parmi les Siphonostomatoida parasites de poissons, K. elongata est le premier representant connu a avoir trois stades naupliens dans son cycle de vie., Three naupliar stages and the infective copepodid stage of Kroyeria elongata Pillai, 1967 are described based on free-living larvae reared from eggs detached from ovigerous females infecting the branchial lamellae of the white smoothhound, Mustelus griseus Pietschmann, 1908. The nauplii and the infective copepodid of the Kroyeriidae are compared with those of Pennellidae and Caligidae. Among Siphonostomatoida parasitic on fish, K. elongata is the first representative known to have three naupliar stages in its life cycle. Trois stades naupliens et le stade copepoditique infectant de Kroyeria elongata Pillai, 1967 sont decrits a partir des larves libres elevees a partir des oeufs detaches des femelles ovigeres fixees sur les lamelles branchiales de l'emissole Mustelus griseus Pietschmann, 1908. Les nauplies et le copepodite infectant des Kroyeriidae sont compares avec ceux des Pennellidae et des Caligidae. Parmi les Siphonostomatoida parasites de poissons, K. elongata est le premier representant connu a avoir trois stades naupliens dans son cycle de vie.]


Natural gas is the cleanest burning fossil fuel -- it emits almost no sulfur or particulate matter when burned. However, this environmental advantage of gas has been exploited only to a very limited degree. Environmental protection has now become a major public concern, and the cost of environmental compliance continues to escalate. As a result of this increased environmental awareness, coupled with the increased price competition among fuels, it has become increasingly important for gas marketers and gas users to more fully recognize the inherent cleanliness of gas. The purpose of this paper is to examine the ''select gas use'' concept, which is a low cost method of environmental compliance that fully utilizes the clean-burning characteristics of natural gas.


Objectives Evidence on the safety and long-term efficacy of super selective bronchial artery embolisation (ssBAE) using platinum coils in patients with haemoptysis is insufficient. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the safety and the 3-year postprocedure haemoptysis-free survival rate of de novo elective ssBAE using platinum coils rather than particles for the treatment of haemoptysis. Design A single-centre retrospective observational study. Setting Hemoptysis and Pulmonary Circulation Center in Japan. Participants A total of 489 consecutive patients with massive and non-massive haemoptysis who underwent de novo elective ssBAE without malignancy or haemodialysis. Interventions ssBAE using platinum coils. All patients underwent CT angiography before the procedure for identifying haemoptysis-related arteries (HRAs) and for procedural planning. Primary and secondary outcome measures The composite of the 3-year recurrence of haemoptysis and mortality from the day of the last ssBAE session. Each component of the primary end point and procedural success defined as successful embolisation of all target HRAs were also evaluated. Results The median patient age was 69 years, and 46.4% were men. The total number of target vessels was 4 (quartile 2–7), and the procedural success rate was 93.4%. There were 8 (1.6%) major complications: 1 aortic dissection, 2 symptomatic cerebellar infarctions and 5 mediastinal haematoma cases. The haemoptysis-free survival rates were estimated by the Kaplan-Meier analysis at 86.9% (95% CI 83.7% to 90.2%) at 1 year, 79.4% (74.8% to 84.3%) at 2 years and 57.6% (45.1% to 73.4%) at 3 years. Although not statistically significant by the adjusted analysis of variance with multiple imputation of missing variables, cryptogenic haemoptysis tended to show the most favourable outcome and non-tuberculous mycobacterium showed the worst outcome (adjusted p=0.250). Conclusions We demonstrated the safety and long-term efficacy of elective ssBAE using platinum coils and established that it can be a valuable therapeutic option for treating patients with haemoptysis.


The preservation of relevant mutual information under compression is the fundamental challenge of the information bottleneck method. It has many applications in machine learning and in communications. The recent literature describes successful applications of this concept in quantized detection and channel decoding schemes. The focal idea is to build receiver algorithms intended to preserve the maximum possible amount of relevant information, despite very coarse quantization. The existent literature shows that the resulting quantized receiver algorithms can achieve performance very close to that of conventional high-precision systems. Moreover, all demanding signal processing operations get replaced with lookup operations in the considered system design. In this paper, we develop the idea of maximizing the preserved relevant information in communication receivers further by considering parametrized systems. Such systems can help overcome the need of lookup tables in cases where their huge sizes make them impractical. We propose to apply genetic algorithms which are inspired from the natural evolution of the species for the problem of parameter optimization. We exemplarily investigate receiver-sided channel output quantization and demodulation to illustrate the notable performance and the flexibility of the proposed concept.


Borducchi E. Use and limitations of peripheral tolerance in experimental model of asthma [Thesis, PhD Programme in Imunollogy]. São Paulo: Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas da Universidade de São Paulo; 2009. Asthma is a chronic lung disease associated with eosinphils, broncus hyperactivity, mucus and elevated levels of IgE. It is known that mucosal administration of soluble proteins, before the sensitization with the same protein, leads to a specific state of hyporesponsiveness, a process known as mucosal tolerance. In this work we studied the effect of LPS inhalation during the induction of ovalbumin (OVA) nasal tolerance. The majority of murine models of asthma used OVA as allergen, although its prevalence as a cause of asthma is low. Thus, we also used, in this study, Blomia tropicalis (Bt) allergens that are more common in asthmatic patients. Intrinsic features of the allergens presented in the mite extract block the nasal tolerance establishment. Experimental data indicates that tolerance towards an Ag can promote tolerance to another not related Ag (cross-tolerance). Therefore, we evaluated if OVA or hen-egg white lisozyme (HEL) tolerance could result in crosstolerance to the Bt allergen. Our data showed that administration of LPS during induction of nasal tolerance to OVA prevents the establishment of this tolerance, resulting in neutrophil and mononuclear cells migration to the lungs and IgG2a production, decreased levels of IgE and increased anaphylactic IgG1. Indeed, the LPS administration during the induction of tolerance induces a peculiar allergic state. In relation to cross-tolerance, we verify that nasal tolerance to HEL or OVA is not capable in induce cross-tolerance towards responses against the Bt extract. On the other hand, OVA oral tolerance is absolutely able to induce cross-tolerance to responses against Bt, with inhibition of both IgE and anaphylactic IgG1 Bt-specific antibodies. The cross tolerance occur only if the tolerated antigen (OVA) is presented together with Bt allergen. Finally, we verified that in allergen sensitized mice the induction of oral tolerance with OVA does not lead to cross-tolerance.


It is at once a pleasure and an honor to be invited to his and his contemporaries' work. Rather, I should like to share ideas with the Wordsworth Summer Conference. I was examine some of the processes by which we commit ourselves in Grasmere once before and that was over a quarter century to and make value judgments about a body of writing — ago — in 1958 to be exact — and at precisely this time of whether of Wordsworth in particular, of Romantic poetry in year. In those days there was not yet a Wordsworth confergeneral, indeed, of any form of literature. My central as ence; indeed, given the fact that the critical fortunes of sumption is that our commitments and our evaluative ges Wordsworth — not to speak of the other Romantics — were tures do not come to us from nature, but are mediated to us still running low, it would surely have proved difficult to through the familial, educational, and social networks within gather a group of serious scholars here annually. which we function in the course of our lives. On one level this assumption seems so obvious that it should scarcely need My task, as I saw it at the time, was to argue Wordsvoicing. Yet the reigning theories of poetry since Romanti worth's greatness — and that of The Prelude in particular — cism, however diverse they may otherwise be, have sought to before a generation of readers nurtured on the conventions impress us with the notion that poetic texts somehow man of early modernism and suspicious not only of Romantic age to speak for themselves, that they can exercise their literature, but of long poems in general, indeed of those power, or magic, or some other type of authority without the higher ranges of style that characterize many of the works we need for external mediation, lump together indiscriminately with the phrase "monuments of Western literature." One way I sought to present WordsWe all remember Aldous Huxley's skepticism as to worth to my contemporaries was to stress the earliest versions whether Wordsworth's nature could be appreciated by any of The Prelude — those versions in which his later religious one who knew only the tropics. Huxley's question can be an views and, even more important, his more formal later poetic swered in a fairly simple-minded way: one's ability to style, were not yet evident. Suffice it to say that I never quite understand Wordsworth in the tropics is as dependent on the found in the library what I had come after — namely those particular cultural situation as on the natural setting within early manuscripts quoted in fragmentary form in the footwhich the prospective reader has been raised. As long as the notes to De Selincourt's edition of The Prelude. Whenever I educational system of a tropical land is based on the English asked to see these manuscripts, the impeccably polite libralanguage and on English or American culture, its inhabitants rian informed me they were not available — except for the are likely to be able to read Wordsworth as profitably as my Alfoxden notebook, which gave me a glimpse of the passage own students in sub-tropical California do. By the same to on the discharged soldier as it stood years before the poet ken, educated readers outside the English-speaking domain had determined how or where to incorporate it within his often experience difficulties accepting Wordsworth's great still-to-be-conceived autobiographical long poem. I wholly ness even if the landscape and climate in which they are missed out on those manuscripts that we now call the tworooted are similar to his own. A distinguished German liter part Prelude. Doubtless I lacked both the detective's instinct ary scholar to whom I once showed the Simplon Pass passage and the assertive manner that a successful textual editor asked what the fuss was all about; after all, as he put it despite needs. After a day and a half in the library I decided I could my strong protests, Haller had done this sort of thing many most profitably spend the week I had set aside for the Lake years before in his descriptive poem Die Alpen. Whenever I District by walking up most of the surrounding peaks. If I point out some of the spots of time or The Ruined Cottage to ended up with a more monolithic view of The Prelude than I foreigners unfamiliar with the Anglo-American literary tradi would have through an examination of the earliest manution, they tend to show indifference, complain of prosiness, scripts, I also suspect that the days I spent among the crags, and, to cite a reaction I have heard many times, remark that sheep, and tarns left a strong mark on my book — not only this "can scarcely be called Romantic poetry." that the poetry came to seem rooted in a familiar place, but above all that even the brief familiarity I gained with the What I conclude from comments such as these is that poet s native regions helped seal the commitment to his pothe universality we customarily attribute to the art we revere etry that I had made long before in a distant and quite differis not quite as universal as we like to think. To the extent ent environment. that the universality of literature derives from an author's ability to cross national borders, Byron and Scott, as we know, My concern in talking to you today is not to re-assert can make far more universal claims than any of their British this commitment, which, though it remains as strong as ever, contemporaries; indeed, however much we may believe in hardly needs voicing before a group that has come from the essential untranslatability of great literature, the fact re many directions to the poet's home to find new insights into mains that both these authors exercised a decisive effect


The invention relates to provide a communication service processing method and apparatus for on the basis of the region. A method and apparatus of the present invention, when accessing the network personal network device enters the coverage area of the personal network, service support information for indicating support services of personal network equipment by the network side of the personal network acquires, also can provide a service towards personal network device based on the acquired service support information. The method and apparatus according to the present invention can provide a communication service processing technical assistance for based on the area in a production. .The 13


The Western Ghats of India is well known for its biodiversity. The pteridophytes are important but much ignored group from this region. This paper deals with qualitative analysis of secondary metabolites from some common filicales plants, viz. Dryopterisfilix-mas (L.)Scott, Angiopterisevecta (G.Forst) Hoffm, Adiantumlunulatum Burm.f., Adiantumincisum Forsk. The qualitative analysis of powdered extracts was carried out with reference to saponins, phenols, tannins, phytosterols, triterpens, alkaloids terpenoids., etc.


Slow‐wave sleep is one of the most important restorative components of sleep and central for our health and cognitive functioning. Although the amount of slow‐wave sleep depends on sleep drive, age and other factors, also the pre‐sleep mental state might influence sleep depth. We had shown that a pre‐sleep hypnotic suggestion to sleep more deeply increased slow‐wave sleep duration in hypnotizable subjects. In contrast, low‐hypnotizable participants decreased sleep depth after this intervention. A possible reason might be an aversion to and active resistance against hypnosis. To overcome this potential opposition, we introduced the procedure as 'guided imagery'. We replaced the hypnotic induction by a breathing relaxation. Importantly, the suggestion 'to sleep more deeply' remained identical. We expected that these changes would make it easier for low‐hypnotizable subjects to benefit from the suggestion. In contrast, young healthy low‐hypnotizable participants did not show positive effects. Similar to our previous studies, they exhibited a reduced slow‐wave sleep duration after the intervention. Additionally, the ratio between slow‐wave activity and beta band power decreased. Subjective sleep quality remained unaffected. Our results indicate that suggestions to sleep more deeply result in decreased sleep depth in low‐hypnotizable participants regardless of the mental technique (guided imagery versus hypnosis). Thus, the aversion against hypnosis per se cannot explain the detrimental effect of the intervention on slow‐wave sleep in low‐hypnotizable subjects. The results support the notion that our mental state before sleep can influence subsequent slow‐wave sleep. However, the mechanisms of the contradictory decrease in low‐hypnotizable subjects remain unknown.


Abstract. This study utilizes Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to scrutinize the rampant use of hyperbole in Indonesian political cartoons. The objective is to assess how exaggerated language and visual representations are utilized to communicate political messages within a socio-cultural context. Through analyzing various cartoons from Kompas.id in Indonesia (period of publication: January 2019 up to July 2023), as the main data, this study exposes how hyperbolic elements are practical tools in shaping public opinion and impacting political discourse. The findings of this study offer vital insights into the influence of hyperbole in the cartoonistic medium. The strategic use of exaggerated language and visuals in cartoons influences the reception of political messages and shapes public discourse. It comprehensively comprehends how these visual narratives contribute to the dynamics of Indonesian politics. This study contributes to a broader discourse on political communication and media studies, providing an understanding of the complex interplay between language, imagery, and power within Indonesia's sociopolitical landscape. Keywords: Hyperbole, Political cartoons, Indonesians, Discourse, Linguistic


In this paper, we report the results of heterocyclizations in the pyrido[2,3-b]pyrazine series to give the pyrido[2,3-e] or [3,2-e]pyrrolo[1,2-a]pyrazine. The Clauson-Kaas reaction on 2,3-diaminopyridine is investigated; regioselectivity on the 3-amino group is shown by 1 H- and 13 C-nmr. Synthesis and reactivity of the original pyrazino[2,3-g]indolizine series is also reported


The technique of drip irrigation is a solution of water saving for crops in the scarce region. Water is supplied on the soil surface directly, continuously and regularly by drippers and then it infiltrates into the cultivated soil layer to ensure that plants will grow and develop well. During the experimental process of researching on soil moisture of drip irrigation technique to determine the suitable irrigation schedule for Grape Leaves at the water scarce region, the authors carried out the experiment and observed infiltration spread. Based on calculated and observed results, the authors have proposed correlation of parameters as follows: infiltration depth, average radius of wetting front on horizontal direction, irrigation water amount versus time, velocity of horizontal (vr) and vertical (vz) permeability of drip irrigation technique. The correlation coefficients of parameters are high (R2 from 0.906 to 0.9899) and conformable to research on soil moisture dynamic in order to determine the suitable irrigation schedule for Grape leaves in particular and for terrestrial plants (with short roots) in general at the water scarce region of the South Central region of Vietnam.


Zhengdan 538 was a maize single cross hybrid developed by the Cereal Crop Institute of Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences,which was introduced with inbred line ZhengA88 as the female parent and ZhengT22 as the male parent.The average yield of Zhengdan 538 was 9 882kg/ha in regional tests of two years in Henan province,increased by 9.4% compared with the control variety Zhengdan 958.The average yield in the production test was 9 007.5 kg/ha,increased by 9.5% compared with the control variety Zhengdan 958.This variety was approved by Henan Crop Approval Committee in 2010(2010012).It had outstanding lodging resistance,high-density and stress tolerance,superior quality,and high-yield potential.


The invention relates to a modular steering column mounted switch system for motor vehicles which corresponds to the internal functions of a steering column mounted switch. Said steering column mounted switch system comprises to correspond to the inner functions thereof a plurality of functional modules. If the demands for operation and/or design made on particular modules changes, the modules characteristic of said changes can easily be replaced. All other functional modules are retained unchanged, thereby enabling simple adaptation of the steering column mounted switch to the given operation and design demands. When there is a fault, the modular steering column mounted switch can also be repaired easily and economically by replacing the defective functional module.


T he object discussed here is virtually unknown and disappeared more than sixty years ago, but for two reasons it is worth a Note. First, it was published as an early Christian artefact. As such it would be iconographically unique in that period and of considerable interest. Second, the publication and discussion of the piece was by a distinguished scholar of Byzantine art, Wladimir de Gruineisen.' The extant photographs might therefore lead others-as they nearly led the present author-to erroneous conclusions about the status and significance of the piece. The object in question has the shape of an ara and is decorated with figurative reliefs on four sides (Figs 98-100). It measures 12-3 centimetres in width at the base and 17-7 centimetres in height. Grtineisen considered the piece to be a portable terracotta altar for burning incense and ascribed it to a Syrian or Egyptian workshop of the fifth


Abstract
 The morphology, sizes and abnormality rates of spermatozoa in the night monkey were revealed in the present paper. Motile spermatozoa of three males, 7, 8 and 12–13 years old, were squeezed from the ducts of the cauda epididymis after cutting the ducts in cryopreservation media. The morphology of the spermatozoa and abnormalities in them were observed, and the sizes of the spermatozoa were measured in smear samples. The spermatozoa of the night monkey had heads with rounded and thick shapes. Measurement of the spermatozoa revealed that the average widths and lengths of the heads, average lengths of the middle pieces, and average total lengths from the head to tail tip were 4.7 ± 0.8, µm and 2.8 ± 0.4 µm, 6.6 ± 2.2, µm and 55.1 ± 6.2 µm, respectively (average ± SD). The total rates of abnormal spermatozoa were different among the 7-, 8- and 12–13- year-old night monkeys, 41.8%, 24.0% and 36.5%, respectively. Freezing of semen was also attempted using the procedure contained in a commercial kit for the mouse. Although the motility of the spermatozoa from the night monkeys was poor in fresh samples, the motility of their spermatozoa frozen-thawed with the commercial kit was similar to that before freezing.


The Roman power in the Eastern Mediterranean gained momentum after the victory of Pydna and the Pergamon inheritance. Delos was declared to be a free port in order to undermine the role of Rhodes. Roman expansion reached a new stage at the end of the second century B.C. This started the large-scale immigration of Italian merchants in the Eastern Mediterranean, and Ephesus was one of the obvious targets. Cheap slave labour came to Italy through Delos. The slaves gave an impetus to agriculture, and the surplus was exported to East and West, which needed the support of troops, merchants and businessmen.


T-H lunacy laws of England and of Scotland are in urgent need of a-mendment. The parent Act for Scotland dates back to 1857, silnce when great changes affecting its serviceableness have taken -plae in the social -life of the countt;y as well as in the scientific world. It, however, definitely recogaizes the paramot-unt position of the medical profession in the treatment of mental diseases, for under its provisions nio layman or magistrate is called upon to inter view the patient before he is placed in a mental hospital, and no layman or oommittee is held to be responsible for his removal when recovered. Medical men discharge these and all similar duties, and to this feature must be ascribed the success of the Scottislh system. It has gainied the confidence of the people; and in place of misgivings and suspicion, there is pride in our mental hospitals and in their management. No case of improper detentioni has ever been recorded in the law courts. The 1857 Act has served its day and genelration well, and its priniciple of' nhedical Xesponsibility is in Scotland established for ever. The lprincipal Act for England was passed in 1890, and fromu the legal and administrative points of view it is a complete, logical, aiid accurately drafted instriiment. Its


This chapter examines the 'memory war' between Arminian 'Remonstrants' and Gomarist 'Counter-Remonstrants' in the 1610s, and offers an explanation of why canonical memories were time and again used as a rhetorical battleground on which opposing political factions carried out their disputes. It shows that when historical interpretations are used to support two contradictory agendas, a political disagreement can also become a conflict about the appropriation and correct reading of the past. An analysis of this phenomenon contributes to the understanding of why public memories of the Revolt remained politically relevant in the seventeenth century Low Countries. During the Twelve Years Truce, Remonstrants and Counter-Remonstrants contested the moral ownership of the communal past. They both drew from the inclusive canonical narratives about the Revolt to bolster their arguments and thereby turned the past into a rhetorical battleground.Keywords: 'memory war'; Arminian 'Remonstrants'; canonical memories; Gomarist 'Counter-Remonstrants'; Low Countries; Revolt; rhetorical battleground


This paper presents a simple modified modeling of normalized least mean square (NLMS) algorithm with improved convergence speed and inherent robustness at the expense of less granularity for acoustic noise cancelling applications in Simulink environment. The paper further proposes that with an optimal choice of the crucial step size parameter, one can relatively guarantee faster convergence and conditions for robustness. This modification in the system can significantly be applied to any noise cancellation system. The designed system proved to be indubitably successful and functional in performing the intended application that is eliminating noise from a signal such as speech signal or any other type of audio signal. We stimulate the adaptive filter in MATLAB and analyze the performance of the algorithm in terms of convergence speed, computational complexity and stability. The simulation results are included to demonstrate and support the claims and points raised in the paper.


Land application of dairy manure is a typical method for dairy farmers to recycle manure nutrients. Long-term dairy manure applications can improve soil organic matter and, as a result, potentially increase soil nitrogen availability through mineralization. However, little is known about N mineralization rates in long-term manured soils; therefore, the amount of N available to crops in any given growing season is uncertain. This study conducted a 77-day lab incubation study to estimate N mineralization rates using 102 intact cores collected from the 0 to 30.5 cm surface soils of 24 long-term manured corn-alfalfa-alfalfa-alfalfa fields and 10 nearby uncultivated native sites in Yakama County, Washington. We found that the average N mineralization rate in the long-term manured fields was 55 kg N ha-1 for every 1% SOM during the 77 days incubation period, which was much higher than the commonly used book value of 22 kg N ha-1 annually for every 1% SOM.


Patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) often present with metastatic disease. The diagnosis of metastatic lesions usually is determined by fine‐needle aspiration. Human papillomavirus (HPV) is now being considered as a causative agent in a subset of HNSCC. The objectives of this study were, first; to search for the presence of HPV DNA by in situ hybridization (ISH) in metastatic lesions from HNSCC using alcohol‐fixed, archival, cytopathologic material; second, to characterize the cytologic features of HPV‐positive metastatic lesions of HNSCC; and, third, to determine whether there is a correlation between the presence of HPV DNA and the origin of metastatic lesions.


Wandering Jew (Tradescantia fluminensis Vell.) is a common weed in canopy-depleted indigenous forest remnants in New Zealand. In this study triclopyr was applied to dense stands of wandering Jew at a range of rates in each of two experiments (Diamond Harbour in the South Island and Te Pahu in the North Island) to determine its effects on the weed and subsequent regrowth. The cover of wandering Jew was initially reduced by 80–100% with herbicide application. At about 1 year after application of the herbicide, the wandering Jew had regrown to about 3–50% cover, depending on the rate of triclopyr applied, and some indigenous seedlings had begun to appear. However, the survival of these seedlings was minimal.


The precise prediction of a rotor against instability is needed for avoiding the degradation or failure of the system's performance due to the parametric variabilities of a bearing system. In general, the design of the journal bearing is framed based on the deterministic theoretical analysis. To map the precise prediction of hydrodynamic performance, it is needed to include the uncertain effect of input parameters on the output behavior of the journal bearing. This paper presents the uncertain hydrodynamic analysis of a two-axial-groove journal bearing including randomness in bearing oil viscosity and supply pressure. To simulate the uncertainty in the input parameters, the Monte Carlo simulation is carried out. A support vector machine is employed as a metamodel to increase the computational efficiency. Both individual and compound effects of uncertainties in the input parameters are studied to quantify their effect on the steady-state and dynamic characteristics of the bearing.


The great barrier of the present development in the higher institution lies in high unemployment of college graduates.The main reason is that theoretic teaching doesn't fit in the practical teaching;the teaching content doesn't meet the marketing demand;the central management of colleges and universities results in inactive schooling;conservative,contained mind affects the development of graduates.Thus,the development of high institutes should meet the demands of marketing.All the colleges,universities should change their teaching methods,seeking creative way of managing school.The key to the present problem is to improve practical abilities and personal qualities of college and university students so that they can adjust themselves to the marketing demands.


This article describes findings from a single-case qualitative study of a unique 2-year professional development academy for practicing assistant principals designed and implemented in partnership between school district personnel and university educational leadership faculty members. The study was conducted based on the theoretical framework of instructional leadership developed by Murphy. Academy participants reported an increase in instructional leadership skills, the development of an institutional perspective, key collaborative and networking skills, and growth in confidence in their ability to conceptualize the role and to act as successful principals. District leaders indicated that program goals to develop a cadre of assistant principals who are ready to assume instructional and managerial leadership roles as principals had been met.


【Objective】 To evaluate the clinical effect of autologous bone marrow stell cell mobilization on artery stenosis after percutaneous stent implantation.【Methods】 Accodding to the principle of informed consent,30 cases who accepted percutaneous stent implantation after 3-5days autologous bone marrow stell cell mobilization was the treatment group.The control group only accepted the percutaneous stent implantation.The two groups all received 64-slice spiral CT angiography examination on occlusion sites recently 1month after the treatment Test the artery diameter,and observed the results.【Results】 The artery diameter less than 90% of after operation was regarded as.The patency rate of treatment group at 3 months 6 months 18 months after operation were 100%,100%,96% and 92%,the control group were 100%,81%,75% and 56%.【Conclusion】 Combined the autologous bone marrow stell cell mobilization with percutaneous stent implantation maybe an idal therapy way on artery stenosis,which can improve the patency rate and consolidate operation effects.


A new strategy for the synthesis of particles of cubic magnetite spinel with an anisotropic plate-like shape and of spinel-hexaferrite intergrowth nanocomposite particles is presented. The strategy is based on the hydrothermal decomposition of presynthesized Ba-hexaferrite (BaFe12O19) particles in the presence of NaHCO3 and a hydrazine reducing agent. The Ba from the BaFe12O19 preferentially reacts with CO32− to form witherite (BaCO3), resulting in the decomposition of the original hexaferrite particles into magnetite (Fe3O4) platelets, or into spinel-hexaferrite intergrowth particles, when the reaction is incomplete. The intergrowth particles displayed hysteresis loops combining the soft magnetic properties of the spinel and the hard magnetic properties of the hexaferrite.


Characteristics of currents produced on an infinite linear array of parasitic radiators when one of the radiators is excited are found. Yagi antennas use arrays of electric dipoles; detailed analyses and results are given for a generalized Yagi structure in which the dipoles are inclined at an arbitrary, angle to the array axis. These results suggest a simple mechanical means for broadbanding. Calculations are carried out within a network formulation. The integral solution obtained from this formulation is used to demonstrate the interrelation between the properties of the array of radiators excited parasitically or excited as a phased array. The solution simplifies remarkably when the angle of inclination of the dipoles is 54.74\deg . The surface-wave components and the (feed) correction currents are then explicitly evaluated. Although for conventional Yagi structures surface-wave solutions have been found only for capacitive dipoles, for sufficiently small angles of inclination surface waves can exist on arrays of inductive dipoles.


(G, H) = ! (G∗, H∗); (D, E) = * (D∗, E∗); Z = "2 Z∗; = U*^E FB 2 ∗; C = f−1C∗; (I, h) = (I∗, h∗); (`, _) = f!2 (`∗, _∗); A = (f )A∗; V = V∗; 5 = f 5 ∗. (A.1) The characteristic scales include the length ! of the basin, the tidally and width-averaged wa9 ter depth at the open boundary , the width-averaged water level amplitude at the open bound10 ary "2 and the angular frequency f of the semidiurnal tide. The velocity scale follows from 11 the continuity equation (2.1a) in the main text and reads* = f "2!/ , while the friction scale 12 and Coriolis scale follow from the momentum equation. Assuming an approximate balance be13 tween erosion and deposition, the depth-integrated suspended sediment concentration is scaled 14 with the ratio of the typical scale of the erosion term (U*2) and the proportionality constant of 15 the deposition term (FB/^E ). 16


Spectroscopic observations of standard stars (spectrophotometric) have been carried out at Bosscha Observatory ITB (latitude= 6°49′28″ S, longitude= 107°36′56″ E, altitude=1310 m) using the Celestron C-11 reflector (D=11 inches, F/10.0), equipped with NEO R-1000 spectrograph (Resolution of 1000), and ST-8XME CCD camera to deduce total atmospheric extinction curve. Spectrograms were reduced with the long-slit task in the Image Reduction and Analysis Facility (IRAF). The total extinction curve obtained from observation is decomposed into three main components, i.e. Rayleigh scattering, Ozone and water vapor absorptions, and extinction by aerosol. The extinction profile by Aerosol serves as an important indication on size and distribution of particulates as the main constituent of atmospheric pollutant. This pollutant can be resulted from natural process or anthropogenic activities. The behavior of atmospheric extinction over Bosscha Observatory based on long-term astronomical photometric database (1982-1993) was previously studied by one of us in 1993. In this study we analyze new data and study the dynamics of atmosphere by comparing our recent result with that from long-term photometric observations to indicate variation of degree of atmospheric turbidity, particulate size and its distribution over the atmosphere. We recommend that long-term regular based spectrophotometry at an Observatory is imperative as an effective means to gain our insight on atmospheric dynamic.


Hyperlipidemia is a major contributor to atherosclerosis that results in endothelial dysfunction and is driven by several cell types including macrophages and vascular smooth muscle cells. Among the various cytokines and signaling molecules that contribute to the disease, dysregulated Wnt signaling is known to result in uncontrolled cell division within bulging aortic plaques. Wnt proteins are morphogens that signal through interactions with two membrane bound co-receptors: Frizzled and Low-density lipoprotein receptor related protein 5/6. Wnt binding to these receptors transduces a signal, leading to increased cellular levels of s-catenin that migrates to the nucleus and leads to gene activation. Normally s-catenin is rapidly degraded, a process that attenuates Wnt signaling. However, in many diseases, including atherosclerosis, s-catenin levels remain elevated leading to uncontrolled activation of the Wnt pathway genes. Interestingly, while the intracellular events of the Wnt signaling pathway are well ...


ABSTRACT Past human land-use is increasingly recognized as a driver of ecosystem change in seemingly natural landscapes. Quantification of historical land use is therefore critical for assessing the degree of human impact and requires integration of geography, ecology and history. This paper examines the impact of climate change, land-use and exposure to international markets on the terrestrial ecology in Suðursveit, in southeast Iceland between AD 1700 and 1901. For this we use historical data concerning land-use, livestock and demography, and mapping of glacier advance, glacier outburst floods (jökulhlaups) and agricultural land. Change in land-use or population during the eighteenth century was insignificant. Population declined in the first two decades of the nineteenth century due to the advance of Breiðamerkurjökull glacier. After AD 1820, Suðursveit became part of international market for agricultural products, which facilitated population and livestock increase. This led to overgrazing and severe land degradation in the nineteenth century.


The possibility and rule of liquid structure transition of Sn-Sb15 lead-free solder were studyed by DC four-electrode method within liquidus to 1200℃.The variation of solidification structure and wetting properties of the solder were studied.The results showed that temperature-induced liquid structural of the molten Sn-Sb15 alloy were changed.The refinement of solidification structure and improvement of wettability of Sn-Sb filler metal were produced by these changes.


ABSTRACT: Contamination of the veterinary hospital environment with multiresistant pathogens endangers not only hospitalized animals, but also the workplace safety of veterinarians and nurses, animal guardians and, when in case of a teaching hospital, veterinary students. The objective of this study was to map the main points of bacterial contamination of a veterinary teaching hospital in Brazil to identify multiresistant microorganisms and their antimicrobial resistance genes. Samples were collected from 39 different locations of a veterinary school hospital which comprised a pool according to each hospital environment. In certain environments, more than one pool has been collected. All samples were collected in quadruplicates for the selective isolation of the main multiresistant microorganisms: methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus (MRS), vancomycin resistant Enterococcus (VRE), cephalosporinases and/or extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Gram-negative bacteria (ESBL) and Carbapenemase-producing (CP). After isolation and identification of isolates, multiplex-PCR reactions were performed to detect the main genes for each microorganism and antimicrobial susceptibility tests with the main antibiotics used for each bacterial group according to CLSI. Of the 39 veterinary teaching hospital sites collected, all (100%) had at least one of the microorganisms surveyed, and 17.95% (n=7) of the sites were able to isolate the four pathogens. From the 94 pools collected, it was possible to isolate MRS in 81.91% (n=77), VRE in 12.77% (n=12), cephalosporinases and/or ESBL in 62.77% (n=59) and CP in 24.47%. (n=23). Regarding MRS, the mecA gene was detected in all isolates. All isolated VREs were identified as Enterococcus faecalis and presented the vanA gene. Regarding cephalosporinases and/or ESBL, 89.83% (n=53) of the isolates presented the blaTEM gene, 57.63% (n=34) the blaOXA-1 gene, 37.29% (n=22) blaCTX-M gene from some group (1, 2, 9 ou 8/25) and 20.34% (n=12) the blaSHV gene. It was possible to identify the main microorganisms responsible for causing nosocomial infections in humans (VRE, MRS, ESBL and CP) in the veterinary hospital environment, suggesting a source of infection for professionals and students of veterinary medicine, placing a high risk for public health.


Shiga toxins are delivered via systemic circulation and are considered to be the cause of diarrhoea‐associated haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS), as they injure endothelial cells, particularly in the glomeruli. This study measured Shiga toxin 2 (Stx2) in the serum of children affected in by HUS due to Stx2 producing Escherichia coli.


In addition to protection from pathogenic invaders by systemic innate and adaptive immune defence mechanisms, bodily surfaces enjoy a privileged position by harbouring the so-called local immune system. The local immune system provides a first wall of defence at possible entrance sites of pathogens, such as the skin and surface exposed mucosa, e.g. of the eyes, the gastrointestinal and the respiratory tract. These locations, with dense accumulation of mononuclear cells, which in most instances also contain numerous germinal centers, are designated as the mucosa-associated lymphoid system (MALT) [1, 2]. The most prominent members of the MALT are the gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) and the bronchial-associated lymphoid tissue (BALT). The importance and potency of the local immune system is, e.g., reflected by the fact that its daily production of immunoglobulins, notably secretory IgA (sIgA), by far exceeds that of the systemic immune system. Interestingly, interconnections between sites of local immunity exist that, e.g., lead to production of specific IgA antibodies in the lung after oral application of a given antigen [3]. One explanation of this phenomenon, albeit still hypothetical, is that antigens are transported from one site of the local immunity to another by migrating dendritic cells (DCs) that recognize certain common "addresses" within this system represented by specific adhesion molecules or a combination of these.


In Parak Laweh Pulau Aie Nan XX has activity what is distribution government rice for peoples who depend of in this activity . Purpose of this researches are help out especially Aisyiyah's Hospital in care-in-patient e-data processing with building a information system using PHP programming language and MySQL Databases.


The feed heating furnace is an important devise in many petrochemical processes. Keeping under control the temperature of the feeding improves the performance and quality of the final product. Industrial furnaces usually have multiple burners and parallel tube-passes to handle the throughputs and reduce the furnace pipe pressure. In this paper, a design method based on distributed deviation for load balancing and temperature tracking control in the set of passes is proposed. The control actions on the inlet feed and fuel flow rates are included in the constraint conditions of the controller design algorithm. More practically, the temperature differences among passes are guaranteed in a boundary range over a period of time by relaxing the requirement of asymptotic consensus of temperature control across all passes in steady-state. The control scheme shows to be more cost-effective when there is a large number of passes. The simulation results illustrate that the new controller design method is effective an...


To further understand the flow structure of the liquid-particle two-phase flow both in impeller and radial guide vane of multistage pump, Three-dimensional liquid-particle two-phase turbulent flow at design point with particle volume fraction of 0% and 20%, density ratio between solid and liquid of 1.468 is simulated by using Euler-Euler two-fluid model based on ANSYS CFX software. The simulation results can predict the main flow characteristics of the liquid-particle two-phase flows in multistage pump very well. The addition of particles decrease the pressure at outlet of pump, and it also has an influence on liquid phase flow to some extent. There are some relations between the distribution of particles in flow field and the location in pump. Higher solid volume fraction exist in the inlet of impeller than that of outlet; there are also some differences of the distribution of particles exist in pressure surface and suction surface near the outlet of impeller. In radial guide vane, there is relative higher solid volume fraction exist at the inlet of front guide vanes and the pressure surface of return vanes. Erosion of flow components caused by particles occurs both in leading edge and trailing edge of blade evidently, while it also occurs both at the inlet and outlet of frontage guide vanes. The characteristics of particles' movement regulation can contribute to the design of solid-liquid pump to a degree.


This paper presents a new method for group decision making using incomplete fuzzy preference relations based on the additive consistency and the order consistency. First, we estimate unknown preference values of incomplete fuzzy preference relations based on the additive consistency. Then, we construct modified consistency matrices of experts which satisfy the additive consistency and the order consistency simultaneously. Finally, based on the constructed modified consistency matrices of experts, we present a new method for group decision making. The proposed method provides us with a useful way for group decision making using incomplete fuzzy preference relations.


Objective To investigate the surgical safety and clinical experiences of the scoop-type duodenum-preserving pancreatic head resection.Methods Specific surgical techniques and complications were retrospectively analyzed in 8 cases of scoop-type duodenum-preserving pancreatic head resection for chronic pancreatitis and Type Ⅰ or Ⅲ pancreatic duct calculi.The main procedure of the operation was to resect the pancreatic head into scoop-like shape for anastomosis with a 35cm jejunum loop,and then to complete the Roux-en-Y pancreatic scoop-jejunum anstomosis.Results 8 cases were successfully operated without operative mortality or pancreatic fistula,no ishemia of the duodenum blood supply was observed.During the 2 months to 19 years follow-up,all the cases were free of pancreatitis symptom with normal fasting blood glucose and better life quality.Conclusion With effective perioperative and intraoperative management,scoop-type duodenum-preserving pancreatic head resection is safe,effective and feasible.