The web syllabus manages and releases educational information in each academy, but its released rate is only at 36.4 [%] in Japan, though it shows the quality of educations. Generally speaking, it is meaningless to compare and verify its contents among syllabuses, because they are released only for their students. However, the universities and colleges are required sharing their knowledge and skills as high-level educations for society by several ways like lifelong educations, e-learning and so on. In this paper, we propose web syllabus services that enable to collaborate inter-domain environment. In our proposal model, we clarify three following technologies: the modeling of syllabus schema for cross searching inter-domains, developing of syllabus ML (Markup Language) for automatic generations, and multilayered searching agents. We construct and evaluate implementation proposal model, and clarifies our proposal model is flexible and adaptive to several kinds of environments.


A new method is described which enhances classical photodynamic action (PA) by adding electricity. Rather than producing singlet oxygen, the electrical enhancement of photodynamic action (EE-PA) drives the photochemical reactions towards the creation of superoxide, and other, oxygen radicals. The benefits of EE-PA over PA are illustrated by reviewing results from four groups of experiments where this process was used either to inactivate Herpes viruses, gliosarcomas, bacteria, or to enable charge transfer to oxidized hemoglobin. The experiments have suggested several advantages of EE-PA over traditional photodynamic action (PA).


This paper describes the method of injection molding machine clamping process simulation based on configuration software MCGS.It describes in detail how to construct the MCGS real-time database and the PLC equipment channel and how to connect them.The simulation script list is also given.


By relying on modem information technology and e-government,the administrative examination and approval"electronic supervision"system creates mechanisms including those for approval enquiry,approval responsibility,approval supervision and evalu- ation feedback,and cooperates functions such as information service,real-time feedback,dynamic supervision and quantification of efficiency,prompts matters of administrative examination and approval to transform from"rent-seeking and black-box operation"to"transparent and standardized",from"difficult to look into responsibilities"to"everybody is responsible",from"subsequent supervi- sion"to"simultaneous supervision"and from"power control"to"proeedure regulation".Meanwhile,it enhances the government's service awareness,promotes the administrative efficieney and proteets the fights of applicants and enterprises to create a good admin- istrative environment for harmonious development of Shenzhen.


The current model for light-weight multicast session based teleconferencing applications provide a very primitive set of control mechanisms such as net mutes mic and mic mutes net . Commercial products based on T.124 Recommendation of International Telecommunication Union(ITU) are being introduced, and it seems likely that a similar one based on T.124 will be derived for Internet usage. However, the current emphasis on wide area scalable multicast based conferencing in the Internet Engineering Task Force(IETF) is desirable, and we shouldn't sacri ce the bene ts of multicast based sessions to conform to the tightly coupled model of T.124 Recommendation. This paper proposes a conference control model for light-weight sessions where media applications can collaborate with a coordination tool to provide a level of control over the light-weight sessions. This coordination tool provides a generic base to manage conferencing states, nd agreements among the participants upon which a varying range of policies could be implemented without any changes to each applications. A prototype of the coordination tool has been built and is being used to provide conference control to existing applications.


The intelligent control system of biology fermentation based on ARM9 and fuzzy neural network(FNN) is introduced.ARM9 has the advantage of good real time and convenience,which can help control the complex system.In allusion to time-varying,nonlinearity,time-lag and random of the biology formation control process,the fuzzy neural network(FNN) control technology based on genetic algorithm(GA)is proposed.This control technology combines the advantages of the genetic algorithm,fuzzy theory and neural networks.To a certain extent,it has resolved the deficiency of the traditional control that hardly finds the mathematical modal and makes effective control.It's proved that this system has good control performance(high accuracy and good robust) and can achieve good efficiency of control to the biology formation.


We exist in a universe where everything is related to the internet or each other like smart TVs, smart telephones, smart thermostat, cars and more. Internet of Things has become one of the most talked about technologies across the world and its applications range from the control of home appliances in a smart home to the control of machines on the production floor of an industry that requires less human intervention in performing basic daily tasks. Internet of Things has rapidly developed without adequate attention given to the security and privacy goals involved in its design and implementation. This document contains three research projects all centered on how to improve user's data privacy and security in the Internet of Things. The first research provides a detailed analysis of the Internet of Things architecture, some security vulnerabilities, and countermeasures. We went on to discuss some solutions to these issues and presented some available Internet of Things simulators that could be used to test Internet of Things systems. In the second research, we explored privacy and security challenges faced by consumers of smart devices in this case we used an Amazon Echo Dot as our case study. During this research, we were able to compare two different digital forensic tools to see which performed better at extracting information from the device and if the device observes best practices for user data privacy. In the third research project, we used a tool called GATTacker to exploit security vulnerabilities of a Bluetooth Low Energy device and provide security awareness to users. INDEX WORDS: Internet of Things, Penetration testing, Digital forensics, IoT simulators, Data privacy, Data security, Smart devices. SECURITY ANALYSIS OF THE INTERNET OF THINGS USING DIGITAL FORENSIC AND PENETRATION TESTING TOOLS


Edmonton's Citadel Theatre may well be keeping an eye on New York these days but the fact is that the city's smallest professional theatre has already beaten them there. Recently. Edmonton's minimally-budgeted Theatre Network, which, as writer Alan Filewod says in the following article, "is probably the closest thing Alberta has to a true alternate theatre", opened a production at Richard Schechner's off-off-Broadway Performance Garage in Manhattan. Entitled Hard Hats and Stolen Hearts, the production provided CTR with a unique opportunity to examine not only Network's brief history but to look as well at the larger issues of collective production and collective creation.


The Advanced Information Management (AIM) project is currently one of the main activities at the IBM Scientific Center in Heidelberg. The main purpose of the project is to understand the database requirements and respective solutions for advanced integrated applications such as computer-integrated manufacturing and computer-integrated office. These application areas require an advanced database technology which is able to manage a large variety of data of various types in a consistent and efficient way. The underlying database technology should support not only simple numbers and simple tables used in business administration, but also large complex structured objects, including text, image, and voice data, in a uniform way. This paper describes the background, goals, and accomplishments of the AIM project. It also provides an overview of the design goals, the implementation, and the underlying concepts of AIM-P, an experimental database management system under development in the AIM project.


WALTHER has been ignored largely because he was overshadowed by his friend Johann Sebastian Bach and others of greater talent, but deserves our consideration not only because he undoubtedly contributed to the growth and development of Bach, nor merely because his music reflects the musical tendencies of his day, but also because his compositions are worthy of greater consideration. He was a deeply religious man, a painstaking scholar, a master of counterpoint, and a church composer of uncommon ability. His choral and vocal works have practically all been lost. Frotscher (Geschichte des Orgelspiels und der Orgelkomposition) claims that the influence of North-German composers on him was greater than that of Pachelbel, stressed by Mattheson. Brodde (Johann Gottfried Walther, Leben und Werk) claims that Samuel Scheidt's influence was the greater. The problem can best be solved by making a careful study of the organ works of Walther.


In order to enhance the level of the flood forecasting for Fenhe River Basin,the DEM,soil,land-use and hydro-meteorological data of the river basin are selected and then the distributed flood forecasting model of Fenhe River Basin is established on the basis of EasyDHM,furthermore,the relevant parameters are calibrated as well. The model is validated through the flood events concerned and it is indicated that it can be perfectly applied to the analysis made on the water regime of the river basin,consequently provides the relevant technical support for the digitalization of the flood control operation of the river basin.


The purpose is to investigate the factors moderating the relationships between food choice motives such as health concern, weight control and ethical concern, and vegetable intake. Data were collected from adult people(N=290) in Jeonnam Province for finding the correlation of the food choice motives and the moderated variables as food involvement and food neophobia with vegetable intake. Moderated regression analysis was used to analyse the survey data. The results indicates that the moderated variables of food involvement and food neophobia significantly affect vegetable intake. However, the food choice motives of health concern, weight control, ethical concern do not have significant effects on vegetable intake. The findings can help adult people prefer healthy eating.


A prototypic model of nonverbal communication development derived from the philosophy of Austin (1962) and the psychology of Piaget (1952, 1954, 1962) is presented. The model is used as a structural framework for formulating a strategy for assessment of early nonverbal communicative behavior. A developmental-ethological perspective of assessment is advanced. The assessment model specifies: (a) the parameters of communication development, (b) the sequential patterns of the acquisition of nonverbal communicative acts, and (c) the conditions under which assessment might best occur.


This conceptual article utilizes critical race theory (CRT) to explain how everyday forms of racism – racial microaggressions – emerge in the everyday. Brandon Darby Breaks Down Critical Race Theory and How Leftist Protests Darby explained that the green group shows up at rallies and are your basic law. ABSTRACT Legal academics often perceive law and economics (L&E) and critical race theory (CRT) as oppositional discourses. Using a recently published. Critical Race Theory Explained >>>CLICK HERE<<< Social science research offers critical race theory (CRT) scholars a useful explain how race constructs key aspects of social experience—for example, the role. recently been asked to write an encyclopedia entry on Critical Race Theory status insecurity) explain much of the racial disparity that exists in police use. This conceptual article utilizes critical race theory (CRT) to explain how everyday forms sions, using the term 'racial bias' to explain the everyday racist slights. Critical race theory provides a framework for exploring racism in society, taking poorly equipped to explain the processes that privilege and limit people. Critical race theory (CRT) is a theoretical perspective that purposely centers race and In this article, they argued that CRT can explain racial inequity in school. Critical Race Theory (CRT) As explained by Wikipedia: " "is an academic discipline focused upon the application of critical theory, a critical examination. I'm mixed race and to me this is just a bunch of claptrap that will do nothing to The other required books are "Critical Race Theory: An Introduction" by Richard. understand the "modus operandi" of racism from a Critical Race Theory Jansen (1990) further explained why the Bantu education system continued. Roberts then continued to explain his views and the choices he made in his The Critical Race Theory and Postcolonial Studies Speaker series continues. science in closer alignment with Critical Race Theory might enrich the interindustry of race scholarship that aims to explain the paradox that lies. Racism is Genetic, Gender is a Choice (Critical Race Theory = Black Racism) It is an industry, with consultants crisscrossing the globe to explain how White. Works Cited "Critical Race Theory. The social construction of race explained -Paradox. Examples include social organizations based on race, class, religion, gender, editors, Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement. Restatement, Reflections, and New Directions in Critical Race Theory explained better the role of culture and ideology in the making and remaking of race. Students specializing in "critical race theory"—an intellectually vacuous import from his typology of microaggressions to explain the school's racial tensions. Because this theory focuses on historical forms of racism, and the experiences of groups affected in their analysis, critical race theory would explain the actions. ASRC 4304/6340: Critical Race Theory: Home: Introduction to Legal Research Secondary sources are materials that explain, analyze, critique or help you find. Oppression can be a difficult concept to explain to people. Her interests include critical race theory, mental health awareness, and bad made-for-TV movies. The Baltimore uprising was a reaction to social, economic, racial, and political has been repeatedly documented by scholars in media studies, critical race theory, as they try to evade and explain the distinction between the two examples. tives of communities of color, critical race theory has virtually ignored the significance of In practical terms, critical race theory's neglect of the Christian tradition has explain the peripheral role that the African American Christian tradition. Critical Race Theory: Critical Whiteness Study (Whiteness Theory) Whiteness Studies as explained by Wikipedia: " "is an interdisciplinary arena of academic. 'Ethnicity, gender, deprivation and low achievement in English schools: does critical race theory explain anything?' by smather2012 on Tuesday 17 March, 2015. on the framework of critical race theory (CRT) and the professional practice of completed, planners and architects will be asked to explain their rationale,.


Abstract—In order to real time control of coal mine fan equipment running status, A kind of mine fan state monitoring system based on ZigBee has been designed, Through collect and processing the fan operation parameters, such as temperature, vibration, realize the function that real-time monitoring the fan's state. For mine fan condition monitoring in the process of the character of sample data is limited, support vector machine will be used to predict the trend of fan vibration signal, realize the prediction of running status of fan, provide a reference basis to Fan maintenance person. The experimental results show that support vector machine (SVM) model to predict the correctness and feasibility of fan vibration signal.


Accurate measurement is a hinge pin of a functioning society, engendering a sense of value, fairness, trust, and safety. A particularly salient example is wireless energy transfer to electric vehicles. A robust calibration method is needed for the fair and accurate measurement of the wireless power transferred to electric vehicles using the TPM (Transfer-Power Measurement)method. A prevalent obstacle to affordable, reliable, and accurate measurements in the field is lack of suitable transfer standards. This paper presents both a new transfer standard and a calibration path for TPM towards the standardization of power and energy metering in wireless power transfer.


The subject of the present study is whether the disturbed cell proliferation rhythm in the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) after constant light (LL) exposure of mice can be restored by daily melatonin treatments at the same LL condition. Male ICR mice were exposed to LL for 3 weeks and after that for a week subjected to daily melatonin injection at the same lighting condition. Melatonin was i.p. injected every day at the same time (13.00h) of a high pharmacological dose (0.025mg/g). The results showed that daily melatonin treatment for a week entrained the mitotic activity of esophagus, duodenum and colon to a 24-h rhythm. The acrophases of the circadian rhythms of cell division in the investigated tissues were with about 12 hours opposite to the time of melatonin application. The data demonstrated that exogenous melatonin treatments may be used for synchronization of cell division circadian rhythms.


A novel coplanar waveguide Tri-band bandpass filter (BPF) based on impedance and admittance inverters is presented in this paper. Based on the impedance and admittance inverters analysis, the tri-band BPFs first three resonance frequencies can be conveniently controlled. Benefiting from this feature, the impedance and admittance inverters can be utilized to implement a tri-band BPF. To demonstrate the proposed concept, a tri-band BPF using an impedance and admittance inverters are implemented. The experimented results verify the theoretical predictions and simulations at 1.9GHz, 2.45GHz and 5.8GHz respectively.


Facilities of adaptive Bayesian identification as well as utilizing a suitably-rebuilt linearized model as a model controlled by an optimal control system will be demonstrated in this paper. Estimation of time-variant parameters was performed by mean of extended Kalman-Bucy filter with smoothing on base of rather short quarterly time series (dated from 1992, quarter I, to 1996, quarter II), that are not purged of neither seasonalities nor quick jumps due to sudden events in the Czech transitive economy during the period in question. After simultaneous verification, the quantified model was rebuilt into the form of non-linear state equations, which is suitable for applying control. ln handling the future trajectories of state and input variables (i.e. control and exogenous variables, respectively), there was the optimal control task solved as a dual problem oj optimal control of a linearized discrete-time model (with time-variant parameters) by means of a quadratic junctional(with time-variant weights) which is to be minimized. The above procedures were applied to the Small Czech Economy's Model, where we were trying to find out some admissible input and output trajectories, which would represent up-to-date factual alternative strategies of development of the Czech economy.


Communication bandwidth to all the master station is a beacon period in which compete for transmission of a beacon packet, a first carrier sense is only authorized specific stations are allowed to compete for access to a multiple access: Period (CSMA carrier sense multiple access), and it is divided into 2 first CSMA period in which all stations are allowed to compete for access. The master station calculates a communication bandwidth that can be used by the respective communication system, of claim 1 CSMA period based on the communication exchange information about the bandwidth, and result information used in the first CSMA period 1.


Parallel to liberalization tendency, being witnessed on international air transportation, the liberalization movements in Turkey threw the sector in a busy competition. Aforementioned competition environment allowed passengers' accessibility to more flight point with lest money. These improvements, being lived around both supply and demand, differed the effect of the sector on economic size on a large scale. On this study, the relation between the number of airline passengers and load traffic related to 1960-2017 and gross domestic products (GDP) was analysed. Firstly, using the ARDL analysis method, the long-term cointegration relationship between variables was examined and the long and short-term coefficient estimation was made. According to the results, the cointegrated relationship between passenger traffic and GDP has been determined, but no statistically significant effect of passenger and freight traffic on economic growth has been observed in the long term. However, it was concluded that passenger traffic had an impact on increasing economic growth in the short term. Secondly, Toda-Yamamoto causality results revealed a bidirectional causality relationship between passenger traffic and GDP. The causality analysis results revealed that there is a two-way causality relationship between passenger traffic and GDP. Findings Nişantaşı Üniversitesi, Meslek Yüksek Okulu, firstname.lastname@example.com. Nişantaşı Üniversitesi, İktisadi ve Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi, email@example.com. Atıf için (to cite): Altuntaş, M. ve Kılıç, E. (2021). Havayolu taşımacılığı ile ekonomik büyüme arasındaki ilişkinin incelenmesi: Türkiye örneği. Afyon Kocatepe Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 23(1), 187-202. Yayın Geliş Tarihi (Submitted): Nisan/April-2020 | Yayın Kabul Tarihi (Accepted): Mart/March-2021 10.32709/akusosbil.472857 Altuntaş ve Kılıç / Havayolu Taşımacılığı ile Ekonomik Büyüme Arasındaki İlişkinin İncelenmesi: Türkiye Örneği / Investigation of the Relationship Between Airline Transportation and Economic Growth: The Case of Turkey 188 obtained, revealed the effect of air freight and passenger transportation on economic growth. In line with the findings, policy makers are recommended to develop the infrastructure of airline transportation.


The High Court overturned a decision of the Victorian Court of Appeal which had upheld a barrister's right to claim against a solicitors' fidelity fund for unpaid fees. The High Court held unanimously that the barrister could not claim against the fidelity fund for his unpaid fees in circumstances where the solicitor had misappropriated to himself trust funds that were provided by the client on account of the client's legal costs including the barrister's fees. However, the 7-judge bench split 4:3 as to reasoning for the decision. Four judges found that the critical fact was the absence of a finding that the client had instructed the solicitor to use the trust money specifically to pay the barrister. The other three judges found that the barrister did not have a beneficial interest in the trust money and so was not entitled to claim against the fidelity fund.


New England Journal of Medicine 25 June 2009 Pui C-H, Campana D, Pei D, et al. Treating childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia without cranial irradation. N Engl J Med 2009;360:2730– 41. Prophylactic cranial irradiation may prevent central nervous system (CNS) disease in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia but it has long-term effects. This study identifies children at risk of CNS disease and treats them with an intense and carefully administered intrathecal therapy as well as their systemic chemotherapy regimen but omitting prophylactic cranial irradiation. Compared with a historical control group this group had significantly longer continuous remissions. This trial suggests that prophylactic cranial irradiation can be safely omitted in the treatment of childhood acute leukaemia. In the small proportion who do develop CNS relapse this is eminently curable.


Principal component analysis (PCA) was used to characterise quality deterioration patterns in fresh-cut pineapple, strawberry, kiwifruit and cantaloupe melon during storage. Twenty-seven physiological, biochemical, microbial and sensory attributes, reported as indices of quality, were used to successfully characterise and track deteriorative changes. Freshness for all fruit was characterised by PCA as excellent visual appearance, aroma and firmness. Deterioration was characterised, for the most part, by increased tissue breakdown (exudate and cell permeability levels), firmness loss, increased offodour development, colour loss (browning and translucency) and high microbial counts. Effects of cultivar and geographic origin were apparent in some fruit. PCA has the potential to track the effects of intrinsic and extrinsic factors of deterioration during storage and could form the basis of future strategies to optimise quality.


We propose a method to check secure information flow in concurrent programs with synchronization. The method is based on the combination of abstract interpretation and model checking: by abstract interpretation we build a finite representation (transition system) of the behavior of the program. Then we model check the the abstract transition system with respect to the security properties, expressed by a set of temporal logic formulae. The approach allows certifying more programs than previous methods do. The main point is that we are able to check more carefully the scope of indirect information flows.


An aqueous dispersion containing a silicone and ethylene acrylic acid copolymer, and at least one acceptable surfactant cosmetically describes personal care compositions comprising emollient or cosmetic active substances.


General cryptosystem uses differently the data and key value for the increment of security level, processes the repetition of limited number and increases the periodic feature of LFSR similar infinite series. So, it cause the efficiency of the cryptosystem. In this thesis, proposed algorithm is composed of reformat, permutation, data cipher block and key scheduler which is applied the new function by mixed symmetric cryptography and asymmetric cryptography. We design the cryptosystem of smart card using the common Synopsys and simulate by ALTERA MAX+PLUS II at 40MHz. Consequently, we confirm the 52% increment of processing rate and the security level of 16 rounds.


In this paper, we introduce our activities regarding the manual annotation of the musical pieces of the RWC Music Database. Although the RWC Music Database is widely used, its annotated descriptions are not widely available. We therefore annotated a set of music-scene descriptions consisting of the beat structure, melody line, and chorus sections. We call this AIST Annotation. We also manually synchronized standard MIDI files with the corresponding audio signals at the beat level. We hope that the AIST Annotation will contribute to further advances in the field of music information processing.


An association of dermatitis herpetiformis with ulcerative colitis is reported. In view of the high incidence of jejunal abnormalities in dermatitis herpetiformis patients and previous reports of the coexistence of coeliac disease and inflammatory bowel disease, it is surprising that the association has not been reported more frequently.


Diabetes is the leading cause of disability‐adjusted life‐years (DALYs) in Mexico, and the second cause of mortality, with an estimated prevalence of 9.2% self‐reported diabetic adults and a total prevalence of at least 14%. Consuming sugar‐sweetened beverages (SSBs) contributes to elevated blood glucose levels and increased insulin resistance in diabetic patients. While there is evidence of the high contribution of SSBs to daily energy intakes in the Mexican population, there are no known studies that have focused on SSBs intake of self‐reported diabetics. Thus, understanding the adherence of this high‐risk population to SSBs recommendations would help to identify a potential strategy to improve their glycemic control.


The NSDI concept has changed with the development of the NSDI. While the NSDI was initially established as a separate entity, recently more attention has been given to the SDI hierarchy, from a local level to a global level. As an advanced NSDI, the USA, the UK and Canada emphasize more on better citizen services through an e-Government GIS portal such as the USA's Geospatial One-Stop. This study hypothesizes that the characteristics of NSDIs can be different from each nation in terms of vision, structure, evolution stages and a degree of integration with the e-Government. Rather than to describe differences just fur comparison, more characteristics of NSDIs are identified and the comparisons are developed as recommendations for the future NGIS(National Geographic Information System) in Korea.


In the southern part of Mexico City, household solid wastes (HSWs) were examined qualitatively and quantitatively. The purpose of this work was to determine the dynamics of HSW and hazardous waste generation and create in households a responsible attitude towards environmental conservation. For this analysis, the population was categorised into three socioeconomic strata (lower, middle and upper). The results show that in Mexico City an average urban family (consisting of four persons) generates monthly 1 m3 of waste (6 kg/family/day; 2,190 kg/family/year). Waste characterisation revealed that 0.5 kg/family/8 days of hazardous waste were generated. From a total of 21,600 kg/450 houses/8 days, 82 by-products were identified: 13 non-reusable, 17 recyclable and 52 hazardous wastes, their production being independent from the income level. It is extremely important that the suggestions offered in this work be incorporated in households throughout the world to help create a clean and sustainable planet.


This paper reports a compact two-mode silicon optical multiplexer using subwavelength grating (SWG) structures. The coupler section in the proposed device consists of an SWG-based access waveguide and a multimode strip bus waveguide. Tapers have been employed for adiabatic transition of the fundamental TM modes of the input strip waveguides to the respective fundamental TM modes of the SWG-based waveguide and multimode strip waveguide. The duty cycle and grating period are tailored to couple the first-order TM mode of the strip waveguide and the fundamental TM mode of the SWGbased waveguide. A 3D finite-difference time-domain simulation is performed to study the device performance. The multiplexer is very compact with a device length of 26 µm, which exhibits a return loss of >35.62 dB, crosstalk of <–33.60 dB, and insertion loss of <0.29 dB, at 1550 nm.


For over 5 decades, the standard maintenance intravenous fluid for children in hospitals throughout the world was hypotonic saline and glucose. A commonly used solution was 4% dextrose and 0.18% so...


In this document we describe how to prepare and submit extended abstracts of the presentations given in the 17th Electromagnetic Induction workshop hold on October 18-23, 2004 in Hyderabad, India. Local Organizing Committee will collect files and post them at the homepages of Hyderabad workshop (www.emindia2004.org) and at MTNet (www.geophysics.dias.ie/mtnet/). It should be noted that LOC will NOT DO any editorial work but will only post your file at given places. In other words, authors must provide "a camera-ready" copy of their abstract. The abstract file must be a PDF file (Adobe's Portable Document Format). Other types are not accepted. Similarly, files not meeting the format requirements specified in this document are not accepted.


New Orleans — An emerging new class of organic, insoluble UV absorbers shows promise in providing improved broad-spectrum UVB and UVA sunscreen protection and meets the increasing demand of consumers and dermatologists, according to chemist Uli Osterwalder. He reports that the first representative of this UV absorber — bisoctrizole — has been used in sunscreens in European countries for five years and is now being submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for approval.


Neosugar, a fructooligosaccharide mixture, was tested for genotoxicity in three assays: (1) microbial reverse mutation assays in Salmonella typhimurium (Ames assay) and Escherichia coli WP2 uvr A, (2) the L5178Y mouse lymphoma TK± mammalian cell mutation assay, and (3) an assay for the induction of unscheduled DNA synthesis (UDS) in human epithelioid cells (HeLa S3). Each assay was conducted at a wide range of dose levels, both with and without metabolic activation. Test results gave no indication that neosugar possessed any genotoxic potential. The carcinogenicity and chronic toxicity of neosugar were examined in Fischer 344 rats. Rats were fed diets containing 0, 8000, 20,000, or 50,000 ppm neosugar for 104 weeks. No dose-related effects on survival, growth, hematology, blood chemistry, organ weights, or nonneoplastic lesions were observed. The incidence of rare and spontaneous tumors was comparable between control and neosugar treatment groups, with the exception of pituitary adenomas in male rats. In light of the background incidence of this tumor and an equivocal dose-response trend, it is unlikely that neosugar treatment is related to the incidence of pituitary adenomas in male rats. The results of this study indicate that neosugar is nonmutagenic and that rats are not adversely affected by chronic neosugar exposure.


A strong instrumentation and detector R&D program has enabled the current generation of cosmic frontier surveys. A small investment in R&D will continue to pay dividends and enable new probes to investigate the accelerated expansion of the universe. Instrumentation and detector R&D provide critical training opportunities for future generations of experimentalists, skills that are important across the entire Department of Energy High Energy Physics program.


The undegradable rumen protein fraction estimated from neutral detergent insoluble nitrogen (NDIN) was studied. A total of 540 samples were used, obtained from manual grazing simulation and esophageal extrusa in elephant grass and mombaca grass, from hays and from tropical grasses submitted to different fertilizing levels and cutting ages. The samples were analyzed for dry mater, lignin in sulfuric acid (LAS), lignin permanganate (LPER), neutral detergent insoluble protein (NDIP) and acid detergent insoluble protein (ADIP). The rumen undegradable nitrogenous fraction was done by incubating the samples for 240 hours in the rumen, followed by the treatment with neutral detergent, and finally the nitrogen in the residue was quantified to get undegradable protein insoluble in neutral detergent (UPIND). The results allowed to evidence no-equivalence and total absence of association, between predicted and observed values of the undegradable protein fraction. It is suggested that ADIP may not be used as an estimator of undegraded protein fraction. This fraction should be estimated by biological methods like the protocol adopted to get the concentrations of UPIND.


The execution of project activities generally requires the use of (renewable) resources like machines, equipment or manpower. The resource allocation problem consists in assigning time intervals to the execution of the project activities while taking into account temporal constraints between activities emanating from technological or organizational requirements and costs incurred by the resource allocation. If the total procurement cost of the different renewable resources has to be minimized we speak of a resource investment problem. If the cost depends on the smoothness of the resource utilization over time the underlying problem is called a resource levelling problem. In this paper we consider a new tree-based enumeration method for solving resource investment and resource levelling problems exploiting some fundamental properties of spanning trees. The enumeration scheme is embedded in a branch-and-bound procedure using a workload-based lower bound and a depth first search. Preliminary computational results show that the proposed procedure is promising for instances with up to 30 activities.


In the spring of 2020, during the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, the nation's schools closed. Students were told to shelter in place at their homes and classroom teachers were charged with the challenge of educating over 50,000,000 K-12 students through online and virtual modalities. As this transition began in its early stages and then lingered for the remainder of the school year, attention and even scrutiny soon descended upon the actual preparation of teachers in executing such a transition, and the realistic success of doing so. Teachers began the new and unexpected process of teaching their students from home, and students, along with family support, began the practice of learning remotely. During this same time period, researchers were approved to conduct research focused exclusively on this educational phenomenon. One of the themes of this research was the K-12 teachers' perceptions on the teacher readiness and the overall effectiveness of this sudden switch to K-12 online teaching and learning.


The increasing life expectancy and universally observed processes of ageing of the world population (especially in economically developed countries) have recently stimulated the interest in old age and ageing among researchers, including philosophers. The article discusses key approaches of modern Russian authors to the understanding of the phenomenon of old age from the philosophical and anthropological point of view. This phenomenon is revealed through its connection with such categories as age, age periodization, course of life, fear, and death. The analysis of these approaches proved them to be an alternative to widespread transhumanist ideas, allowing a broader view of old age as a complex multidimensional phenomenon, which is not reduced to a simple biological decline of the body, but consists of both losses and certain gains. This allows us to speak of a turnabout of Russian scholars' interest in a multidimensional study of the phenomenon of old age, its possible constructive components and its perception as a universal multifaceted phenomenon that manifests itself at three different levels: bodily, mental, and spiritual. As the manifestations of ageing are highly individual and diverse, we should acknowledge that there exist various types of old age that are reflected in different life strategies of elderly and old people. The analysis of currently existing typologies of old age indicates that life quality of senior citizens largely depends on their acceptance or non-acceptance of their age.


Neonu/a/ antiandrogens and organi::ution of' behavioral se.r c/Uferences i11 the ml (Rattus norvegicus).The role or androgens in the masculinization and later activation of socio sexual hehavior. was studied in the following experimental groups or Wistar rats: control males (MAL): peripuberLally castrated males (GON): peripubertally castrated males supplied with testosterone propionate in ,1dulthood (GTP): and males postnatally injected with cyproterone acetate. gonadectomized and supplied with testosterone propionate (CGTP). The observed clecrc,1se of sexual perrormance in animals neonatally treated with cyproterone acetate (CPA) should he a consequence of the reduced neonatal binding of testosterone (T) or 5adihydrotestosterone (DHT) lo androgen receptors provoked by the antiandrogen. On the contrary. animals treated with CPJ\ showed higher levels or sexual motivation (sniff, partner grooming. anogenital sniff and mount): neonatal CPA seems to increase the sensibility to testosterone in adulthood. perh,1ps potentiating the aromatization of androgens by blocking its direct actions. Finally. the reduced frequency and latency of the studied patterns in castrated rats suggest that the presence orT in adulthood is necessary for the activation of socio-sexual and mating behavior. Howevn. testosterone propionate (TP) supplementation in gonadectomized animals did not completely recover the beha\'ior of the control males. suggesting that T probably can play an organizational effect upon certain patterns during puberty.


This paper is devoted to the construction of stochastic flows of measurable mappings in a locally compact separable metric space (M, $\rho$). We propose a new construction that produces strong measurable continuous modifications for certain stochastic flows of measurable mappings in metric graphs.


Objective To explore the role of Ito cells in liver regeneration of rats. Methods Ito cells were isolated from the rats at different times(6h、12h、24h)after 2/3 partial hepatectomy as well as the ones without hepatectomy.Total RNA was extracted from isolated cells.Then,hepatocyte growth factor(HGF) mRNA levels were semiquantitatively assessed by a RT-PCR method. Results The purity of islated Ito cells was 91%.We found that the level of HGF mRNA in Ito cells from rat liver rose 14.6 fold,21.1 fold and 11 fold within 6h,12h and 24h after hepatectomy repectively. Conclusion:Expression of HGF mRNA increases in hepatic Ito cells in early stage after 2/3 partial hepatectomy,suggesting that Ito cells play an important role at the initiation of liver regeneration.


The present invention relates to a keratinous fiber treatment process, in particular the hair, wherein: - applying a hair treatment composition to the keratin fibers, the composition comprising at least one compound selected from fatty substances, surfactants, polymers having a Tg between 40 and 150 ° C, oxidation dye precursors, direct dyes; - inserting the keratinous fibers in a device having two elements movable relative to each other between an open position and a closed position wherein the two movable members define a substantially sealed enclosure; - the two mobile elements are brought together to the closed position so as to confine the keratin fibers in the substantially sealed space; - the fibers are heated to a temperature between 40 and 250 ° C.


Many new experimental films which were free from conventional movie forms have appeared since Nubellbak Movement in the late 1950s. Forty years after the movement started, on March 13th, 1995, on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film, the declaration called Dogme 95, was issued in Copenhagen, Denmark. It aimed to create a new style of avant-garde film, and showed a tendency toward being anti-Hollywood and anti-genre, which were against the highly popular Hollywood trend of movies based on large-scale investment. The main idea of Dogme 95 is the opposition to 'the writer's doctrine' that a fi lm should be the artist's individual work and to 'the overuse of technology' in film. The key figures declared ten principles called 'Vow of Chastity', by which new movie forms were to be produced. Interview (2000), directed by Byunhyuk, was made in 2000, five years after Dogme 95 was declared. This movie was dedicated as the first Asian Dogme. This study will survey the relationship between Korean film and the Vow of Chastity through the Korean films released in theaters from a viewpoint of technology and content. It also will call attention to its effects on and significance to Korean film in modern society. Keywords—Anti-Hollywood, Dogme 95, Korean Films, Vow of Chastity.


Abstract The paper studies the optimal cooperative collision avoidance strategies in a planar close proximity encounter, with turning rates of the participants as the control functions. The maximization of the terminal miss distance is adopted as a performance criterion. This paper extends earlier analyses to the important special case when participants have unequal linear speeds but equal turn capabilities. The analysis is based on the Pontryagin maximum principle and the study of the properties of the extremals. The analysis is outlined in a unified manner that covers all special cases of the problem, including the cases of identical participants and the participants with unequal turn capabilities but equal linear speeds. The distinctive features of the mathematical structure of the problem and the optimal control solutions for different special cases of the problem are identified. The results of this paper are useful for setting and validating air traffic rules and for benchmarking and validating automated proximity management and collision avoidance systems.


User explaining the system that allows to define the relevant tag. Related tag describes whether the first item, how related to the second item in the identified modified context. For example, relevant tags may first item, assert that are rated higher or lower than the second item. When utilized by many users, the system forms a graph of the items that are connected to each other. The system may perform comparative analysis in this graph. For example, based on the associated tags, the system can be of any item can be determined whether the item to be rated the item or bottom is rated the highest in the graph.


EFFECTS OF SUMMARY LENGTH AND LINE SPACING ON FIXATIONS, DECISION TIME, CORRECTNESS, AND PREFERENCE OF SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS ON A PHABLET by Anne-Marie McReynolds In previous studies, a positive relationship has been suggested between the screen size of a mobile device and the preferred summary length of a search result: the bigger the screen, the longer the summary preferred for judging the relevance of a result. While prior research has been focused on three types of devices (cell phones, PDAs, laptops), this study was concentrated on a new class of smartphone called a phablet that could eventually replace all three. In the current research, we investigated how two factors in the design of search result pages—summary length and line spacing—affect performance, behavioral and subjective measures on an information-seeking task executed on a phablet. We examined the effects of summary length (1, 3, 7, 10 lines) and line spacing (single, one and a half, double) on fixations, decision time, correctness, and preference. A direct relationship between summary length, fixations and decision time was found: as summary length increased, fixations and decision time also increased. No relationship between summary length and decision correctness was found. The optimal summary length for effectively judging the relevance of a search result—the one requiring the fewest fixations and shortest decision time—is one line. Because participants did not prefer one-line summaries, it is best to show three lines. As such, three-line summaries suggest a minimal tradeoff between performance and preference.


Purpose of this Pilot Study The purpose of this pilot study was to determine detection limits of XAS for mercury in tissues using the best available x-ray technology at the BioCAT undulator beamline at the Advanced Photon Source, and to assess the extent to which speciation of mixtures can be assessed by Principal Components Analysis and related methods. These goals were achieved, and the results suggest some better alternative ways to address the scientific problem. Further studies appear to be warranted.


Using the Cesaro means of Taylor series of analytic functions,we obtain certain equivalent conditions for an analytic function to belong to Q K spaces or α-Bloch spaces.


We consider the Yang-Mills (YM) QFT with group U ( N ). We take a finite lattice regularization Λ ⊂ a Z d , d = 2 , 3 , 4, with a ∈ (0 , 1] and L (even) sites on a side. Each bond has a gauge variable U ∈ U ( N ). The Wilson partition function is used and the action is a sum of gauge-invariant plaquette (minimal square) actions times a d − 4 /g 2 , g 2 ∈ (0 , g 20 ], 0 < g 20 < ∞ . A plaquette action has the product of its four variables and the partition function is the integral of the Boltzmann factor with a product of U ( N ) Haar measures. Formally, when a ց 0 our action gives the usual YM continuum action. For free and periodic b.c., we show thermodynamic and stability bounds for a normalized partition function of any YM model defined as before, with bound constants independent of L, a, g . The subsequential thermodynamic and ultraviolet limit of the free energy exist. To get our bounds, the Weyl integration formula is used and, to obtain the lower bound, a new quadratic global upper bound on the action is derived. We define gauge-invariant physical and scaled plaquette fields. Using periodic b.c. and the multi-reflection method, we bound the generating function of r − scaled plaquette correlations. A normalized generating function for the correlations of r scaled fields is absolutely bounded, for any L, a, g , and location of the external fields. From the joint analyticity on the field sources, correlations are bounded. The bounds are new and we get a − d for the physical two-plaquette correlation at coincident points. Comparing with the a ց 0 singularity of the physical derivative massless scalar free field two-point correlation, this is a measure of ultraviolet asymptotic freedom in the context of a lattice QFT. Our methods are an alternative and complete the more traditional ones.


The carbohydrates in saccharificated liquid respectivelly were measured by the technology of HPLC.The measurement results indicated that the both of them contain matlo,glucose,malt trisaccharide,and useing malt to produce rice beverage is possible.Besides,sucrose is found in the rice beverage nor in the saccharificated liquid.


This paper  reports and analyses  results  from  surveys  conducted  in Sri Lanka of attitudes  of  urban  dwellers  and  farmers  towards  nature  conservation  in  general  and  the elephant  conservation  in particular. The analyses are based on urban and a  rural  sample. Contingent  valuation  techniques  are  used  as  survey  instruments.  Multivariate  logit regression  analysis  is used  to  analyse  the  respondents'  attitudes  towards  conservation  of elephants.  It  is  found  that,  although  some  variations  occurred  between  the  samples,  the majority of  the respondents  (both rural and urban) have positive attitudes  towards nature conservation  in  general.  However,  marked  differences  in  attitudes  toward  elephant conservation  are  evident  between  these  two  samples:  the majority  of  urban  respondents were in favour of elephant conservation; rural respondents expressed a mixture of positive and negative attitudes.


As a side note, Jacobson [1] states that his result may fall into the category of "interesting facts we once knew, but have now forgotten." This indeed seems to be the case, as the right-hand side of (2) is derived in [2, p. 78]. We extend Theorem 1 to a considerably larger function class, which includes functions such as f(t) = t and f(t) = 1/ t that do not satisfy the hypotheses of Theorem 1. Additionally, we apply the new results to obtain approximations of integrals appearing in familiar engineering settings. In fact our consideration of this problem was motivated by the desire to approximate, in closed form, integrals arising from a class of central force problems and to do so independently of the particular mathematical form of the force law itself.


Silk Mohair Cashmere, camelhair and other hair fibres. Appendices: International trade rules for raw silk and other products of silk Spider silk Composition of mohair fibres and of amino acids Mohair yarn spinning and properties Mohair fibre and fabric properties Mohair dyeing and finishing Mohair product list Rules for the use of the mohair trade mark (label) Scotland and China and cashmere trade Quality assessment of goat hair for textile use Luxury flame retardant fabrics for aircraft applications.


Demonstration of and commentary on the mountain craft of building wooden farm sleds by Ott Blair, a native of Heaton, North Carolina.  Discussion includes first selling sled and his attitudes toward economic self-sufficiency.


Consultant urologist Bromsgrove (b Port Dixon, Malaya, 1948; q Birmingham 1972; FRCS), died from a heart attack on 14 September 2005.

Chris was brought up in and around Birmingham, returning to Redditch in 1985 as the first full time consultant urologist, after training at St Mary's, Northwick Park, and the Institute of Urology. His commitment to reforming the way in which urology was delivered locally led to the establishment of a five person urology unit in his hospital and a centre to train urologists for the future. Chris was a keen sailor, skier, and golfer, who was learning to become part of a family again. He leaves a son, and a partner, Helen, and her family.


Today, algorithms exert great power in the curation of everyday online content by prioritizing, classifying, associating, and filtering information. In doing so, they can exert power to shape the users' experience and even their perception of the world [1]. While such powerful algorithms are omnipresent online, they are rarely highlighted in the interface, leaving users unaware of their presence. Although the lack of users' awareness about these hidden processes can sometimes indicate a successful design, in some cases this invisibility can cause problems. A clear example is in Morris's study of social network use by new mothers. She questioned the common complaint that new mothers primarily posted photos of their babies. She found that Facebook News Feed created this misperception because it prioritizes posts that receive likes and comments – photos of babies often received attention from a large audience. Because users lack knowledge about the News Feed algorithm, they may have an inaccurate picture of how their and others' actions influence their personal feeds, resulted in actions such as blocking new mothers on Facebook [2]. Feed curation algorithms are some of the many algorithms that can influence people's experience in the online world. The increasing prevalence of these invisible algorithms coupled with such substantial influences raises many questions:


The contents of hydrophilic extractives, lipids, protein, starch, non-starch polysaccharides, Klason lignin and ash were determined in raw and germinated seeds of mung bean (Phaseolus aureus) and chick pea (Cicer arietinum). Several low molecular weight carbohydrates were found in the hydrophilic extractives. During germination, due mainly to their use as an easily available source of germinating energy, there was a rapid decrease of the raffinose family oligosaccharides in mung bean and a somewhat slower decrease in chick pea. Changes in the content and composition of dietary fibres during germination was small.


In the first of a new series of articles, due to run over the next two terms, Matt Bromley will be dissecting, explaining and offering advice and tips on key aspects of teaching practice. He begins by looking at explanations and modelling


As Ireland becomes the latest country to ban the use of wild animals in circuses, Kathryn Clark reviews the current situation in the UK


Background: In allergic inflammations of the skin, the pivotal role of CD45RO+ (memory/effector) T cells expressing the cutaneous lymphocyte–associated antigen (CLA) was demonstrated. In both atopic dermatitis (AD) and contact dermatitis (CD), T cells specific to skin–related allergens were confined to the CLA+ T cell population. Our research was aimed to further characterize these T cells in AD. Methods: CD4+ and CD8+ subsets of CLA+ CD45RO+ T cells were purified from peripheral blood of AD patients and healthy control individuals. We studied, in vivo activation patterns, cytokine profiles, immunoglobulin isotype regulation and the influence of these cells on eosinophil survival and apoptosis. Results: The CLA+ CD45RO+ T cells represent an in– vivo–activated memory/effector T cell subset as shown by surface expression of activation markers, spontaneous proliferation and a lower activation threshold via TCR/CD3 triggering. These cells contain and spontaneously release high amounts of preformed IL–5 and IL–13 but only very little IL–4 and IFN–γ in their cytoplasm, as demonstrated by intracellular cytokine staining immediately after purification. Moreover, CLA+ memory/ effector T cells induce IgE production in B cells and enhance eosinophil survival by inhibiting eosinophil apoptosis in AD. In comparison, the CLA– population represents a resting memory T cell fraction, induces rather IgG4 in B cells and does not show any effect on eosinophil survival and apoptosis. Conclusion: Our results indicate that in–vivo–activated both CD4+ and CD8+ memory/effector T cells with skin–homing property play a specific and decisive role in the pathogenesis and exacerbation of AD. In contrast, resting memory T cells of atopic individuals retain normal, nonallergic immune functions.


Underground coal gasification (UCG)
is a process to use and convert deep and
economically un-mineable coal into syngas for
further use in electric power, liquid fuels and
synthetic natural gas etc. Underground Coal
gasification is a very promising option for the
future use of coal present in INDIA. This paper
provides a summary of the UCG description and
its selection criteria. The current status of this
technology in various countries are also been
discussed. Finally, the potential of UCG as a
means for producing syngas from un-mineable
deep sited coal has been discussed and its
challenges as well as opportunities involved.


The short-term forecast of electricity consumption plays a vital role in the effective management of allocated resources to electricity generation. A reduction in the average forecasting error of 1% can save thousands or even millions of dirhams in an electricity generation unit. Therefore, predicting the electricity consumption is necessary to minimize costs of over or under production. The work presented in this paper aims to reduce the forecast error by focusing on the strategic level of managing electricity in Morocco. It details the actual electricity supply chain, and proposes a target one, and then it models the both, following an explained methodology, which gives us a process simulation models to be evaluated. The paper also proposes a set of indicators to be calculated in the simulation, helping thus us to compare the two supply chains.


Objective:To investigate the malnutrition and the prevalence of nutritional risks in oral carcinoma patients before surgery. Methods:The nutrition status of 132 oral carcinoma patients in the hospital of stomathology were assessed with body physical measurement,laboratory tests and questionnaires before operation. Results:Different rates of malnutrition in patients were showed with different methods of nutritional evaluation,which from 1.5% to 28.8%; according to NRS2002 and MUST,the rates of nutritional risk were 32.6% and 40.9%. With the standardization of Subjective Global Assessment (SGA),the sensitivity was 78.6% and 100.0%,the specificity was 72.9% and 66.1% for NRS2002 and MUST respectively,the positive predictive values of which were 25.6% and 25.9%,the negative predictive values of which were 96.6% and 100.0%. There was a significant association between the length of hospital stay (LOS) and the nutritional risk assessed by NRS2002 and MUST(P0.05). Conclusion:The oral carcinoma patients were malnutrition or with nutritional risk before operation,so it is recommended that assess the nutritional risk by NRS2002 and MUST in oral carcinoma patients when admit to hospital.


At present, the design of modern vehicles requires improving driving performance while meeting emission standards, leading to increasingly complex power systems. In autonomous driving systems, accurate, real-time vehicle speed prediction is one of the key factors in achieving automated driving. Accurate prediction and optimal control based on future vehicle speeds are key strategies for dealing with ever-changing and complex actual driving environments. However, predicting driver behavior is uncertain and may be influenced by the surrounding driving environment, such as weather and road conditions. To overcome these limitations, we propose a real-time vehicle speed prediction method based on a lightweight deep learning model driven by big temporal data. Firstly, the temporal data collected by automotive sensors are decomposed into a feature matrix through empirical mode decomposition (EMD). Then, an informer model based on the attention mechanism is designed to extract key information for learning and prediction. During the iterative training process of the informer, redundant parameters are removed through importance measurement criteria to achieve real-time inference. Finally, experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves superior speed prediction performance through comparing it with state-of-the-art statistical modelling methods and deep learning models. Tests on edge computing devices also confirmed that the designed model can meet the requirements of actual tasks.


Purpose – While an increasing number of adults with an intellectual disability are having children, research suggests that they face an increased risk of having their children removed. The purpose of this paper is to explore child and family social workers' experiences of working with parents with intellectual disability, in order to further our understanding of this issue. Design/methodology/approach – Seven social workers were interviewed. Each had experience of working on safeguarding cases where a parent had a diagnosis of intellectual disability. Data were analyzed using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis. Findings – Five super-ordinate themes were identified. These were: "feeling torn," "experiencing a power imbalance," "hopelessness," having "pride" in their work' and experiencing "barriers." Research limitations/implications – The results are discussed in the context of the increased risk that parents with an intellectual disability face of having their children removed. Several areas for futu...


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My father, a 93-year-old retired physician, lives with us. As a high-functioning individual, he takes care of all his personal needs. For a few weeks, he had observed (rather than complained of) a "little more tiredness and weakness." I initially ignored the symptoms, but when they persisted, I thought I should pay them more attention. Beset with guilt, I arranged for a complete blood count and basic chemistry profile. Perhaps he had a touch of anemia that required correction or some errant electrolytes that needed to be brought into line. At 5 PM on a Friday, the laboratory telephoned me at home with the results. His blood chemistry results were normal, but his hemoglobin concentration was 70 g/L (7.0 g/dL) with a mean corpuscular volume of 85 μm3. The leukocyte and platelet counts were normal, as was red cell morphology.

Malignant disease with bone marrow involvement was my first diagnostic thought. My greatest concern was what I should do now. Despite knowing that hospitals operate 7 days a week, I felt—as do most physicians—thatall days are not created equal. I decided to wait until Monday morning to plan admission. After all, the "patient" would be under close observation.

Clearly the opinion of a consultant was necessary, and I had all weekend to decide whose advice I should seek. In an academic institution, specialists abound, and the decision was not easy. Competence was not the issue because, thanks to today's stringent credentialing requirements, an incompetent physician is difficult to find. After much deliberation. I decided to ask a fairly young (but not too young) physician to see my father when he was admitted. The specialist I chose was not a personal fried, but one who had a good reputation for his skill, common sense, and care of patients.

Came Monday morning, and early in the day, I called the physician's office and left a message indicating the reason for my call and asking him to get back to me as early as possible. My intention was to provide him with what little clinical history I had and to send him copies of the blood test results from 3 days earlier—anything to give a helping hand and make his job easier, I thought.

I waited patiently, but by 3 PM, I had not heard from the physician. I had little doubt that he would have received my message, but I stubbornly decided not to call again. At 4 o'clock when he did call, I sensed a slight irritationin his voice : "I have to leave for the university now," he said,"and I won't have the time to see anyone. I will be away all day tomorrow, and so I'll ask one of my colleagues to see your father."

That was the end of the conversation. I felt disappointed and hurt because, while not unfriendly or discourteous, his tone lacked warmth and concern. The next day, the colleague who I did not know and had never met came to see my father. He did not call or speak to me, but his consultation note was elegant.He had clearly taken his time in formulating his impression and recommendations. I am sorry I never met him, for the next thing I heard was that he had left for a new position in another state.

Papers are written, conferences held, and new journals have been created to help us decide what is right and what is wrong in dealing with our patients.This we refer to as "medical ethics." But what of "medicaletiquette" ? I do not know if there is an official definition for medical etiquette, but I regard it as the code of behavior between physicians, nurses, and other staff concerned in the care of patients. Not to be forgotten is the conduct that professionals in medicine should show toward students and trainees. There is, of course, much overlap between what we loosely call common courtesy and courtesy as it applies in a professional setting. Most are obvious : returning calls within a reasonable time, communicating with dignity, and so on, but some are not so apparent. Professional courtesy is a term that generally refers to the adjustment (or waiver) of charges when one physician is indebted to another. But there are other forms of professional courtesy. The courtesy of responding to a request to see a physician or a member of the physician's close family is one of them. I consider it an honor to be asked to see a colleague or a colleague's spouse, parent, or child. It is an honor more than any patient can bestow, for of all the physicians available, that physician has chosen me.

Why was I hurt ? Was it just because the consultant of my choice did not respond to my request ? Possibly, but probably not. There will be occasions when this is impossible, or nearly so. On such occasions, a genuine apology and an explanation of the circumstances are all that is needed. A little thought (or pretence at one), suggesting a colleague by name and saying how likable and good that person would be, would have been sufficient. Am I being unreasonable ? Perhaps in the eyes of some I am. But then, we must develop our own code of conduct. That's what etiquette is all about.


For partially linear regression model with heteroscedastic error variances yij = x'ijβ+
g(tij) + eij, i = 1,2,…,k, j = 1,2,…,ni, and sum from i=1 to k=n where yij's are responses,
β= (β,…,βP)' is an unknown parameter vector, g(.) is an unknown function over R, Xij = (xij,…,XijP)' and tij ∈[0,1] are known and nonrandom design points, and eij's are independent errors with mean 0 and variance σi2 which may be different. Based on the nonparametric component g(.) approximated by a B-spline series, a semiparametric generalized least squares estimator (SGLSE) of the parametric component βis constructed. The asymptotic distribution is established under some moment conditions on the error distributions. Most of the error distributions encountered in practice satisfy these moment conditions. A consistent estimator of the asymptotic covariance matrix is also given. Moreover, the B-spline estimation of the nonparametric component is also considered. The large sample properties of these estimators are derived for increasing k, assuming the numbers ni in the groups from a fixed sequence. Based on these asymptotic results asymptotically valid the test statistics and confidence intervals for parametric component and nonparametric component can be constructed.


A new Rococo 2 X-ray fluorescence detector was implemented into the cryogenic sample environment at the Hard X-ray Micro/Nano-Probe beamline P06 at PETRA III, DESY, Hamburg, Germany. It features a high solid angle of up to 1.10 steradian and high count rates of 1 Mcounts s−1 per sensor.


Resistant regulating transcription factors OsDREB 2.2 gene extracted from rice was mediated into wheat tissue cells by agrobacterium tumefaciens,to foster and screen stable genetic plant.Then a series of resistance genes in wheat could express,so as to develop a strong resistance of wheat varieties.Taking new varieties of wheat Agricultural University of Hebei 827,825 and 831 bred by Agricultural University of Hebei as materials,each embryo was used as explant,after callus infection of agrobacterium,authors obtained 170.44 resistant callus,in the transformation of wheat immature embryo,obainted an average of 24.56 differentiation of callus.Resistant shoots and transformation young embryo percentage of the total reached 0.96%.The resulit indicated that the callus induction,agrobacterium infection and plantlet regeneration condition in this study is suitable.


Armored vehicle's low temperature starting ability is an important target of vehicles environment adaptation performance.Low temperature cold starting test process,the relative test parameter design and tentative data gathering and analysis is introduced.Problem of the armored vehicle low temperature cold starting experiment is analyzed.It provide basis for vehicle's warming system perfection design.Under the severe cold low temperature environmental condition,through the rational distribution of heat,high effective heating can be achieved and the armored vehicle low temperature starting is realized.


Easdown, East and FitzGerald (2004) gave a sufficient condition for a (factorizable inverse) monoid to embed as a cofull submonoid of the coset monoid of its group of units. We show that this condition is also necessary. This yields a simple description of the class of finite monoids which embed in the coset monoids of their group of units. We apply our results to give a short proof of the result of McAlister (1980) that the symmetric inverse semigroup on a finite set X does not embed in the coset monoid of the symmetric group on X. We also present examples which show that the word "cofull" may not be removed.


factors, flying and medical, could be balancedfairly, Mercy Flights would present few problems. At the same time, there is a factor, not printed in the regulations, that weighs heavily against postponing a flight; that is the social pressureon the pilot-from emotion, fear of community censure, the aura of drama and, perhaps,professional pride to the point of bravado. The doctor can help by shielding the pilot, so far as possible, from the importunitiesof the patient'sanxiousrelatives.


A significant challenge of pandemic teaching was creating active small group learning experiences in a synchronous online learning environment. Efforts to address this challenge led to an instructional process, using multiple Google Apps, that was not only effective in an online setting, but has the potential to improve seated small group learning, as well. In this article, a complete implementation of this process will be shared describing how multiple Google Apps (i.e. Forms, Sheets, Slides, Jamboard) were utilized to gather information about the current level of students' understanding, engage groups in a learning activity to advance this understanding, provide immediate feedback as students worked through the activity, and equip the instructor and groups with tools to interact without disrupting small group dynamics.


In this paper, the lossy transmission line is represented as a two port network which consists of characteristic impedances or admittances and waveform generators. Equivalent circuits are synthesized for characteristic impedances and the exponential propagation function by making use of the Pade approximations; on using a network of lumped elements and ideal transmission line to approximate the time response of each lossy transmission line, or each lossy multiconductor lines. The approximated circuit models are suitable for existing general purpose circuit simulators as SPICE or PSPICE.


The method of grain depth distribution analysis has recently been suggested as a means of verifying the genuine astrophysical nature of optical candidates for gamma ray burst sources. Application of this technique has raised doubts about the reality of several such candidates, including the multiple candidate near gamma ray burst source 790325b. We analyse those results here on the basis of experience gained from the optical search for optical transients. It is concluded that the results are not convincing and that the true astrophysical origin of the optical candidate for gamma ray source 790325b can neither be definitely proven nor definitely discarded on the basis of present evidence


Objective To observe the effect of oxymatrine on learning and memory and the expression of p-JNK in hippocampus in epileptic rats induced by penicillin.Methods SD rats were randomly divided into saline control group(NS),epilepsy group(EP),oxymatraine group(OXY) and phenobarbital sodium group.Penicillin was injected intraperitoneally in rats to establish epilepsy rats model.Behavioral changes were observe.The spatial learning and memory was tested by Morris Water Maze(MWM).The number of positive cell of p-JNK in hippocampus were measured.Results Compared with EP group,the learning and memory in OXY group were significantly improved;the expression of p-JNK was decreased.Conclusion OXY protected the spatial learning and memory in epileptic rats.


The critical speed of all kinds of rotors which work in high speed must be calculated in project so that all rotors could work in the safe rang of speeds.The critical speed of an experimental rotor is calculated by using the analysis method and the finite element method based on ANSYS,and by using the experimental method its critical speed value is obtained again.The results of two methods are compared to the actual value measured in experiment,and then the accuracy and the feasibility of two methods is examined.It is provided that the finite element method based on ANSYS is more accurately and conveniently.All this will provide the method basis for critical speed solution of other structures in project.


In this Brief Report we discuss a solution of the free-particle Schrodinger equation in which the time and space dependence are not separable. The wave function is written as a product of exponential terms, Hermite polynomials, and a phase. The peaks in the wave function decelerate and then accelerate around t=0. We analyze this behavior within both a quantum and a semiclassical regime. We show that the acceleration does not represent true acceleration of the particle but can be related to the envelope function of the allowed classical paths. Comparison with other "accelerating" wave functions is also made. The analysis provides considerable insight into the meaning of the quantum wave function.


The A. examines processes by which young people find a style in popular music. Like Mannheim, he distinguishes between habitual and intentional style. Empirically, three phases of style-finding processes can be distinguished, which reveal varying degrees of aesthetic reflection (affizierung = touching [the state of being emotionally affected], validation, affirmation). Their development depends on the milieu-specific and biographical backgrounds of young people and on those concerning their development phases.


Two anthracene‐based star‐shaped conjugated small molecules, 5′,5″‐(9,10‐bis((4‐hexylphenyl)ethynyl)anthracene‐2,6‐diyl)bis(5‐hexyl‐2,2′‐bithiophene), HBantHBT, and 5′,5″‐(9,10‐bis(phenylethynyl)anthracene‐2,6‐diyl)bis(5‐hexyl‐2,2′‐bithiophene), BantHBT, are used as electron‐cascade donor materials by incorporating them into organic photovoltaic cells prepared using a poly((5,5‐E‐alpha‐((2‐thienyl)methylene)‐2‐thiopheneacetonitrile)‐alt‐2,6‐[(1,5‐didecyloxy)naphthalene])) (PBTADN):[6,6]‐phenyl‐C71‐butyric acid methyl ester (PC71BM) blend. The small molecules penetrate the PBTADN:PC71BM blend layer to yield complementary absorption spectra through appropriate energy level alignment and optimal domain sizes for charge carrier transfer. A high short‐circuit current (JSC) and fill factor (FF) are obtained using solar cells prepared with the ternary blend. The highest photovoltaic performance of the PBTADN:BantHBT:PC71BM blend solar cells is characterized by a JSC of 11.0 mA cm−2, an open circuit voltage (VOC) of 0.91 V, a FF of 56.4%, and a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 5.6% under AM1.5G illumination (with a high intensity of 100 mW−2). The effects of the small molecules on the ternary blend are investigated by comparison with the traditional poly(3‐hexylthiophene) (P3HT):[6,6]‐phenyl‐C61‐butyric acid methyl ester (PC61BM) system.


This paper presents new observations on the effects of agglomerate size on microwave treatment of drill cuttings. A continuous pilot scale microwave heating system was used at power levels from 17 to 42 kW and material throughputs from 190 to 300 kg/h. It was found that oil is preferentially removed from smaller agglomerates and that feed materials larger than 1 mm required up to 15% more energy to be remediated to the same levels of residual oil as < 1 mm particles. A further observation was a threshold energy consumption, below which there is no appreciable removal of oil from the coarser sizes. The industrial implications of this variation in efficiency are discussed, and explanations for these observations are presented based on interactions with the electric field and mass transfer.


It is widely accepted that the allocation of intangible resources and capabilities has become the difference between firms. However, only a few of them allow to gain a competitive advantage, so-called core competencies. Most of the studies about to the intangibles and firms performance consider only the stock held by the company, and they do not considered intangibles management. Therefore, our objective is to test whether the core competencies management translates into improved sustainably performance, measured through ROA. To this end, a field study was performed, by making telephone calls to Basque Country companies' financial managers, and favorable evidence was obtained.


Urinary excretion of vitamin A was studied in patients with multiple myeloma (MM). Eight of the 12 patients studied excreted retinol in urine; only one of them had elevated serum creatinine (115–150 μmol/L). There was a highly significant correlation between urinary retinol and serum creatinine (P < 0.0004). Urinary retinol correlated also with urine protein (P < 0.0001) and albumin (P = 0.001), but not with urinary immunoglobulin light chains. Urinary retinol excretion may be an early manifestation of renal dysfunction in MM patients. The effect of urinary retinol excretion on vitamin A homeostasis in MM deserves further study. Am. J. Hematol. 74:202–204, 2003. © 2003 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


Given the energy crisis and climate change due to pollution, and given that the largest emissions of greenhouse gases are produced by the energy industry, we must turn our attention to the efficient use of solar energy, which is the cleanest and most abundant of all renewable energies. In this paper, based on an analysis of the specialized literature, we studied the effect of dust accumulation on the surface of photovoltaic modules on some performance characteristics and on the efficiency of these panels and modules compared to the efficiency of clean modules. We analyzed the cause of dust accumulation and the influence of the tilt angles of the photovoltaic panels on the dust deposition rate. We highlighted the influence of atmospheric temperature, solar radiation, wind speed, and relative humidity depending on the density of the dust deposited on the surface of the photovoltaic panel, and we found a decrease in the efficiency of the panel based on the increase in dust density for slightly high values of solar radiation, wind speed, and relative humidity. We highlighted the reduction in CO2 emissions by replacing electricity from fossil fuels with solar energy. The efficient use of solar energy is a solution for the decarbonization of the energy sector.


High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) interaction shows a great potential in rotational bearing and linear Maglev technology. Besides the superconductor each application sets additional specific technical requirements. The challenges of use the various constructions and applications in the combination of the cold HTS material and the required technical periphery are discussed. ATZ's 0.5-ton HTS production per annum has enabled increased performance in a number of magnetic applications. Engineering properties, advanced magnetic excitation systems and thermal and mechanical stability of robust high-load YBCO bearings have been demonstrated. Effort is being made in the development of mobile HTS Maglev devices. We have designed and produced advanced 40-cm-long bulk cryostats, having 2-mm magnetic distance to the outside and operating more than one day without refilling. 24 vacuum cryostats have been manufactured for a magnetic train construction capable to transport up to 60-kN total vehicle and passenger weight and dedicated to operate on a 200-m-long track.


Recent innovation of instrumentation for laboratory-based X-ray absorption and emission spectroscopy has led to rapid revival and growth of a user community beyond synchrotron beamlines. Such laboratory-based instrumentation serves a purpose complementary to synchrotron spectroscopy beamlines, enabling application of these techniques to a diversity of research problems that do not require the ultimate brightness or imaging capability of a synchrotron light source. An online symposium on this topic, X-ray spectroscopy beyond beamlines, was held on March 23–24, 2021, to provide a timely focal point for knowledge exchange between instrument developers, application scientists, and aspiring users, to nucleate and grow an international network of practice in laboratory-based X-ray absorption and emission spectroscopy. In the hard X-ray regime, Jerry Seidler (Washington University), Rene Bes (Helsinki University), and Devon Mortensen (EasyXAFS LLC) discussed development of instrumentation in the Rowland circle or Johann (angle dispersive) geometry, exploiting spherically bent crystal analyzers. The complementary von Hamos (energy dispersive) geometry, exploiting Highly Annealed Pyrolytic (HAPG) graphite or segmented Si crystal monochromators, was presented by Christopher Schlesiger (Technische Universität Berlin), Zoltán Németh, (Wigner Research Centre for Physics), and Wojciech Błachucki (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences). Depending on the choice of lowto mid-power X-ray source (100 W to 3 kW), the acquisition of transmission X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) data with a resolution of ∼1 eV is typically possible in range 4–18 keV, within a few minutes or hours, on moderately dilute to concentrated specimens. An emerging theme from the symposium was the application of routine laboratory XAS to accelerate materials discovery—for example, in V-based supercapacitors and Mn-promoted Rh nanoparticle catalysts—enabling swift feedback between materials characterization and optimization of synthesis parameters. Recent advances in in operando and in situ applications of laboratory XAS were also presented, enabling long duration studies, including transition metal speciation in catalyst behavior at high temperature (over 200 h) and lithium ion battery cycling at industrially relevant charging rates. The development of an X-ray spectroscopy end station on the Munich Compact Light Source was presented by Juanjuan Huang (Technische Universität München), utilizing a Laue geometry, and enabling studies in the range 15–35 keV. This system has been exploited for in situ studies of Pd catalyst performance, by Pd K-edge XAS, with a time resolution of a few minutes. The symposium also discussed tabletop femtosecond M-edge XAS of 3d transition metals, showcased by Josh Vura-Weis (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), using a laser-driven XUV source, exploited to understand the photophysics of Mn, Fe, Co, and Ni complexes. Several contributors showed that X-ray emission spectroscopy (XES) data, in the tender and hard X-ray regime, may be acquired using the same instrumentation, with synchrotron resolution and count rates, by using the full source spectrum above the binding energy (even on dilute specimens). For the tender Xray regime, the dispersive Rowland refocusing spectrometer concept was introduced by Jerry Seidler, Devon Mortensen, and Zoltán Németh, alongside the von Hamos spectrometer presented by Christopher Schlesiger. The valence to core transitions in laboratory XES were shown to provide unique insight of calcium binding in the oxygen evolving complex of photosystem II, sulfur speciation in complex organic molecules, and ion binding in solution. The potential for application of laboratory XES as a routine analytical tool was also highlighted, through a case study on P speciation in InP quantum dots. The exciting development of time-resolved laboratory XES was demonstrated by Luis Avila (NIST), with 100 fs – 2 ps pulse duration from a laser-driven water jet source, enabled by development of a microcalorimeter array detector, and exploited to determine Fe spin state in a tribipyridine complex in a pump probe experiment. The symposium also featured a live demonstration of a commercially available X-ray emission and absorption spectrometer by Will Holden (EasyXAFS LLC). The spectrometer was configured and aligned in real time for acquisition of Ni K-edge XAS and XES data, highlighting the capability to rapidly switch between XAS and XES measurement modes. The workflow of the data acquisition software was demonstrated, guiding the user through an intuitive sequence of steps from configuration to measurement, and subsequent processing to enable import into community standard processing and analysis packages such as ATHENA. The development of special sample environments was also highlighted, with a variable temperature system operating over the range 80–580 K, enabling routine non-ambient XAS studies in transmission mode. The symposium attracted over 100 participants, demonstrating a strong and scientifically diverse community across the breadth of the physical sciences, medicine, and cultural heritage. There was a strong appetite to grow an international community of practice and build on the knowledge exchange enabled by the symposium with a regular schedule of future meetings (>90% of survey respondents). A key outcome of the symposium is ongoing collaboration between the participants to develop a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal to serve as a reference point for the current state of the art in this rapidly growing field. n


Various techniques to enhance the performance of thermoelectric materials have been reviewed in an unified way. The influence of synthesis techniques, post-synthesis treatment, microstructure, nanostructure, doping, and interface on thermoelectric materials' transport properties has been discussed. The research ideas given by researchers are presented in tabular forms so that young researchers and engineers can find the potential research gaps and best practices in this field. Conclusions drawn from this review would give research directions to the new researchers working in thermoelectric materials.


Objective: The aim of this study was to perform the forced degradation studies i.e. the effect of UV light, heat, acid and base on different brands of cefixime as defined under ICH guideline Q1A by using spectrophotometer. Methodology: The degradation studies were carried out by preparing the standard solution of 200ppm of each brand of cefixime. The working solutions were prepared from the standard solution and by the addition of 0.1 N HCl , 0.1 N NaOH and de-ionized water in separate test tube. The detection of of the effect of acid and base were performed by placing the test tubes of solution of each brand at room temperature and the effect of UV and heat were performed by leaving the test tubes of solution at 320 nm and 50.C respectively. Result: The result of the study shows that when different brands of cefixime (A, B, C and D) were add in the 0.1 N NaOH and 0.1 N HCl, they do not show any degradation. Whereas when the different brands (A, B, C and D) were exposed to Ultraviolet light (320 nm) no degradation were observed in B and C while slight degradation was observed in brand A and D after 30 min of exposure. When different brands (A, B, C and D) were exposed to heat (50 · C), brand B, C and D does not show degradation after different time interval (0-60 minutes) whereas brand A shows slight degradation. Conclusion: The UV spectroscopy analysis of amount of degraded product is usually preferred over other methods because of economical maintenance advantage and less equipment cost. It is simple and quick method and can be use in routine detection in QC laboratories.


The effectiveness of these modules can be enhanced by preceding their use with discussions/assignments related to renewable and sustainable energy economies. Suggested topics for discussion


The emotion mechanism being introduced to Human-Simulated Intelligent Control algorithm, a fresh Intelligent Control algorithm is proposed, to solve the parameters design and tuning difficulty of the original algorithm. The verification of proposed control algorithm is completed on the car-inverted pendulum simulation platform. After the simulation results of the original and its improved algorithm is compared with, the new control algorithm can be found to obtain better control results with less design parameters. Thus, the suggested idea confirms its feasibility and effectiveness preliminarily.


BACKGROUND: Vesicoureteric reflux (VUR) is an important association of paediatric urinary tract infection (UTI) found in 30-50% of all children presenting with first UTI. Contrast-enhanced voiding ultrasonography (ceVUS) has become an important radiation-free method for VUR detection in children. Its sensitivity in detecting VUR has greatly improved due to the development of the contrast-specific ultrasound techniques and the introduction of the second-generation ultrasound contrast agent, superseding the diagnostic accuracy of standard radiological procedures. AIM: This article aimed to summarise the current literature and discuss the first local pilot study performed in our institution on detection of vesicoureteric reflux by contrast-enhanced voiding ultrasonography with second- generation agent (SonoVue, Bracco, Italy). MATERIAL AND METHODS: Retrospective review of the first 31 ceVUS (24 girls, 7 boys) was presented. Age range was 2 months to 18 years (mean = 6.4 ± 4.9). RESULTS: All examinations were well tolerated without any adverse incident. VUR was shown in 20 (64.5%) children in 32/62 (51.6) nephroureteral units (NUUs). In 18 NUUs, VUR was grade II/V, in 11 Grade III/V and in 3 grade IV/V, respectively. Urethra was shown in 19/31 children and in all boys, without pathological finding. In two girls spinning top urethra has been detected. Subsequent urodynamic studies revealed functional bladder problem in both. CONCLUSIONS: Contrast-enhanced voiding urosonography using intravesical second generation ultrasound contrast agent could be recommend as a valid alternative diagnostic modality for detecting vesicoureteral reflux and evaluation of the distal urinary tract in children, based on its radiation-free, highly efficacious, reliable, and safe characteristics.


The recently developed MILHIR (Millbrook Head Impact Rig) test takes the best elements of two previous static rig tests and combines them with fully-instrumented half dummies. During the test, the hybrid II or hybrid III half dummy, which is an anthropomorphic representation of the head and upper torso, is accelerated towards the test area in a manner replicating real life collisions. Data is collected from the dummy in a manner identical to that proven in full-scale crash testing and can be supplemented by high speed film or video. Although originally perfected for lap-belt tests as used in aviation applications, the procedure is now fully developed for the investigation of other types of restraint systems as well as unrestrained passengers. The speed and low cost of the procedure make it useful for comparative testing and the advantages of the new procedure have been confirmed on many programmes. Typically, fifteen to twenty completed impacts are conducted in a single day compared with the two to three possible using the HyGe sled. Gathering a similar amount of data using the sled would also have been many times more expensive compared with the MILHIR Test, which is ideally suited to the engineering development of head and upper torso secondary safety systems. This paper reviews the evolution of the rig and includes a case study. For the covering abstract see ITRD E116488.


Fragment based drug discovery is a critical part of the lead generation toolbox and relies heavily on a readily available, high quality fragment library. Over years of use, the AstraZeneca fragment set had become partially depleted and instances of compound deterioration had been found. It was recognised that a redevelopment was required. This provided an opportunity to evolve our screening sets strategy, whilst ensuring that the quality of the fragment set met the robust requirements of fragment screening campaigns. In this communication we share the strategy employed, in particular highlighting two aspects of our approach that we believe others in the community would benefit from, namely that; (i) fragments were selected with input from Medicinal Chemists at an early stage, and (ii) the library was arranged in a layered format to ensure maximum flexibility on a per target basis.


In this paper we present a hotel filter recommendation method designed to address the cognitive load users face in an overchoice scenario. As online products and services are continuously diversifying, user needs are also becoming increasingly sophisticated. However, with more items to choose from, grasping the entire choice set and differentiating among all matching options becomes increasingly difficult, leading to sub-optimal outcomes. Conventional hotel reservation platforms provide with a limited set of additional filters, but these can not accommodate all intricate user needs. Employing natural language processing and machine learning techniques, we provide a simple framework that identifies meaningful filters from customer reviews. We define criteria and scoring methods to acquire relevant and interesting filters that may help customers refine their needs or even identify hidden, previously unknown ones. Our simulated user experiments show that our proposal is capable of identifying intricate and useful filters, leading to increased customer satisfaction.


With the establishment and development of subject librarian system in university,subject librarians have become the main information service force in university libraries.Through exposition on the meaning and duties of subject librarian,this paper discusses the subject librarian qualities in university libraries.


Uz. Dr. Nilgün Işıksalan Özbülbül Türkiye Yüksek İhtisas Hastanesi, Radyoloji Bölümü Phone : +90 (312) 306 16 62 1614 E-mail Address : email@example.com Renal arteriovenous malformations are a rare cause of haematuria. To the best of our knowledge, this is the only case reported so far in the diagnosis of the congenital RAVM using multidetector row computed tomography angiography. We suggest that when surgical or interventional theraphy is not considered, renal multidetector row computed tomography angiography should be performed to diagnosis of the AVM.


Preand posttenure faculty face immense pressure to meet professional expectations and requirements from their colleagues and disciplines. Faculty involved in communitycampus engagement (CCE) for social change face additional demands to maintain relationships and continue their interventions. We present a collective autoethnography from a Canadian context reflecting on experiences as CCE faculty at various stages of tenure and promotion (T&P). We draw from our efforts working together on a panCanadian CCE research project, Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE). From these experiences, we identify tensions within T&P processes and argue the need for highly contextualized narratives when faculty present their collaborative efforts, research processes with community partners, and community impact in their multiple faculty roles. From these kinds of narratives, the intraand interinstitutional gaps, connections and spaces become clearer, especially for tenured and increasingly senior faculty, to support culture change at the institutional level, thereby increasing the value and recognition of CCE.


Tomographic interference microscopy is a method which can obtain the three-dimensional refractive index of live cells and tissues. In this paper, the cone-shaped light with the transverse scanning is adopted, which offers non-contact, highresolution and real-time cell magnifying imaging facilities relatively to the traditional parallel beam projecting on the tissue sample. However, the index-induced focal shift is the common disadvantage for this tomographic interference microscopy, which leads to the decline in image quality and impacts later reconstruction. Then the image sharpness metric based upon the histogram of image to determine the index-induced focal shift is introduced. The experimental results show that the variances of histograms are compatible with a Gaussian function. The peak value of the Gaussian curve corresponds to the optimal imaging position's histogram variance.