We introduce a novel representation of structured polynomial ideals, which we refer to as chordal networks. The sparsity structure of a polynomial system is often described by a graph that captures the interactions among the variables. Chordal networks provide a computationally convenient decomposition into simpler (triangular) polynomial sets, while preserving the underlying graphical structure. We show that many interesting families of polynomial ideals admit compact chordal network representations (of size linear in the number of variables), even though the number of components is exponentially large. Chordal networks can be computed for arbitrary polynomial systems using a refinement of the chordal elimination algorithm from [Cifuentes-Parrilo-2016]. Furthermore, they can be effectively used to obtain several properties of the variety, such as its dimension, cardinality, and equidimensional components, as well as an efficient probabilistic test for radical ideal membership. We apply our methods to examples from algebraic statistics and vector addition systems; for these instances, algorithms based on chordal networks outperform existing techniques by orders of magnitude.


The talk reviews the history of development of Open Government Data with particular reference to the UK effort and data.gov.uk - it discusses the motivations and reasons why Governments, communities and individuals support Open Data initiatives. It presents a range of challenges that this throws up from cultural to organisational, information assurance to revenue models.


In our recent paper (Tóthová et al 2011 Eur. J. Phys. 32 645), we extensively used a rule allowing us to convert linear stochastic equations of motion for the position of a Brownian particle to deterministic equations for its mean square displacement. This rule was established in a little known and hardly accessible work (Vladimirsky 1942 Z. Eksp. Teor. Phys. 12 199, in Russian), and so far it has not been used in solving the generalized Langevin equations with memory. To make our paper more self-contained and readable for students, we present a very simple substantiation of our approach, which is suitable for the description of both normal and anomalous Brownian motion.


DURING the Second World War the high incidence of diseases of the skin among British troops in S.E. Asia caused such anxiety that a small R.A.M.C. research unit was sent to investigate this problem from 1947 to 1949. Most of the work was done in Singapore, b\it military posts in the rest of Malaya and in Hong Kong were visited. In this and the following two papersf an account is given of the more important results of the unit's investigations. Except where it is stated to the contrary, the subjects studied were British private soldiers and N.C.Os. Most of the observations were made before the activities of Communist guerillas necessitated the present scale of military operations in Malaya ; many of the men studied were therefore livhig and working under peace-time conditions. In Malaya and Hong Kong three conditions predominated, namely rhigworm, tropical bullous impetigo and prickly heat ; in Great Britahi the last two do not occur, while ringworm, although not uncommon, is seldom as florid or as widespread as in the tropics. Since the causative agents of these diseases have nothing in common, en^aronmental factors must play a large part in determining their frequency. The object of the present paper is to describe in detail the findings of our survey, to outline the main factors of the environment, and to discuss the relationship between them.


This study aims to analyze the movement for the application of Islamic law by the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) in Mojokerto. Mojokerto is a city with strong NU tradition roots as NU Mojokerto is one of the largest Islamic organizations in this city. So far, NU Mojokerto has never carried out acts of violence in the name of religion. However, the strong tradition of NU does not guarantee the development of radical issues in Mojokerto. This study tries to analyze the strategy of mass networking as well as its efforts in implementing Islamic law in Mojokerto. This research is a field study that uses political opportunity theory to analyze the movement. Based on the research, the author found that there were two strategies undertaken by FPI to implement Islamic law in Mojokerto. First, FPI uses democracy to support candidate leaders who are on the same mission as them. In addition, FPI also encourages society to choose a leader who supports the implementation of Islamic law.  Secondly, FPI takes an action in doing the raid in particular places around the city. The political opportunities that have opened since the reformation era have made it easier for FPI to mobilize the masses, FPI has the freedom to express its opinion in various actions.


Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a major global health problem and a neglected disease in many developing countries. Health care spending is low in these countries and RA services compete with other important life-saving and effective interventions. Effective therapies for RA are now available which improve overall outcomes and prevent disability especially when initiated early and managed aggressively [1]. All these interventions are available in high-income countries but are sparse in developing countries. There are several health economic evaluations of RA treatment from high-income settings, but few are available or relevant for developing countries. More evidence is therefore needed on the benefits and costs of scaling-up RA services in resource constrained settings.To conduct a cost effectiveness analysis of multiple interventions in the management of RA in Zanzibar.A cost-effectiveness analysis for a ten-year duration was conducted from a health provider perspective using a Markov model. Interventions were based on a treat to target strategy with add on therapy or switch to biologic therapy when patients did not reach target (remission or low disease activity). The model compares the efficiency of 'methotrexate monotherapy'(option1), 'methotrexate + sulfasalazine + hydroxychloroquine (triple therapy)' (option 2), methotrexate then biologic 1' (option 2b), 'option 2 then biologic 1' (option 3), 'option 3 then biologic 2' (option 4) and 'option 2b then biologic 2' (option 4b).Data on effectiveness of interventions was obtained from literature. Incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERS) were calculated per quality adjusted life year (QALY) gained from treatment. Staff, building, and utility costs were obtained from the hospital administration records. Drug costs were obtained from the government supplier price list, retail pharmacies and pharmaceutical companies. Mean utility values were calculated from a Zanzibar RA- cohort based on the EuroQol-5D questionnaire responses. Willingness to pay threshold (WTP) was set at 568 USD which is two-thirds of GDP/capita for Tanzania for 2021. We conducted a base case analysis with deterministic sensitivity analysis to explore outcomes with changes in key parameters.Total costs for the treatment options were largely driven by drugs, predominantly the biologics. The lowest cost was for methotrexate therapy (option 1) at USD 1984/patient/10 years and the highest utilities were gained from treatment with methotrexate therapy + two consecutive bDMARDs (option 4b) (Table 1). Changes in drug costs resulted in significant changes in the ICERs.With variations in the WTP threshold, option 1 remained the most CE to just above USD 2500 where option 2b became the more CE option up to USD 3100 and option 3 became the more CE option. All other options were not considered CE up to 3500 USD.Methotrexate was found to be the only cost-effective treatment option in our population. Other options although available may be too costly to consider feasible for clinical use unless prices drop. This may be possible via wider availability of biosimilars or via government drug price negotiation to acquire drugs at cheaper costs.[1]Smolen JS, Breedveld FC, Burmester GR, Bykerk V, Dougados M, Emery P, et al. Treating rheumatoid arthritis to target: 2014 update of the recommendations of an international task force. Ann Rheum Dis. 2016 Jan;75(1):3–15.Table 1.Ten-year costs (mean USD per treated patient), effects (mean QALY gained per patient) cost effectiveness and net-monetary benefit of six treatment scenarios for rheumatoid arthritis.StrategyCost (USD)QALYs gainedICER (USD/QALY)Net Monetary benefit (USD)Methotrexate alone (option 1)19845.73971273Triple therapy (option 2)30516.1Dominated763Methotrexate then 1 biologic (option 2b)264762460406Triple therapy then 1 biologic (option 3)36966.42995-88Triple therapy then 2 consecutive biologics (option 4)192436.661378-15490Methotrexate then 2 consecutive biologics (option 4b)345096.863175-30619NIL.None Declared.


The broadening of novel therapeutic options for chronic inflammatory skin diseases such as atopic dermatitis (AD) and psoriasis (PSO), known to be associated with dysregulation of the immune response, systemic comorbidities and a reduced quality of life for patients and caretakers, offers better chances for longlasting disease control.1,2 Recent advances in clarifying the mechanisms that lead to the immune imbalance in both diseases indicate a predominant IL23/ IL17A/IL36 pathway in psoriasis, and a predominant Th2 IL4/IL13, with the participation of IL17 and IL22 axis in atopic dermatitis.1,2 The development of targetedoriented therapies such as biologics and small molecule inhibitors (SMIs) changed the traditional management of such inflammatory conditions, therefore optimizing the standard of care in both diseases.1,2 One of the new foci of targeted therapies for inflammatory skin diseases is the arylhydrocarbon receptor (AhR)/AhRnuclear translocator (ARNT) system, which works as a sensor for exogenous and endogenous molecules. It is expressed in the skin and has a relevant role in the skin barrier maintenance, upregulating filaggrin and loricrin and enhancing epidermal differentiation. Furthermore, the AhR complex modulates the Thelper 17/22 and T regulatory axis, and some AHR ligands also exert a role in the neutralization of oxidative stress through the activation of the nuclear factorerythroid 2related factor2 (NRF2) transcription factor and a ROSscavenging structure.3 Bissonnette et al.4 present a review article on tapinarof (3,5dihydroxy4isopropylstilbene), an AhR agonist from a historical perspective. His group has been working with this component since 2007, and the initial studies focused on psoriasis.5 Tapinarof 1% cream is a topical medication applied once daily, and the review shows the main outcomes of its use in clinical trials in patients with psoriasis and AD. The key point of this review indicates the profile of tapinarof in psoriasis and AD, as follows4: Psoriasis: A phase 2, singlecentre clinical trial, showed a rapid start of action in topically applied bid tapinarof 1% group than vehicle. There was a 67.5% of improvement in PGA (physician global assessment) score to clear or almost clear against 4.8% in vehicle group at week 12 in psoriasis patients. In phase 2b (multicentre trial), tapinarof 0.5% and 1%, once or twice a day compared to vehicle was tested and reached the primary endpoints (PGA0/1) with 1%. The relevant finding of phase 2b was the sustained improvement during the 4week followup. Subsequentially, the studies with tapinarof 1% once a day versus placebo including 1366 psoriasis patients, demonstrated an improvement of 35.4% and 40.2% for tapinarof group, versus 6% and 6.3% for vehicle in PGA score, and a PASI (Psoriasis Area Index Severity) 75 achievement in 36.1% in tapinarof group versus 10.2% for vehicle (at week 12). In the 1year openlabel extension study, the mean duration of effect remission (PGA0/1) offtherapy was 130.1 days. Atopic dermatitis: In one singlecentre study, 34 AD patients randomized (1:1:1) to tapinarof 0.5%, 1% or vehicle were treated bid for 4 weeks, showing that 50% of AD patients in both treatment groups achieved an IGA of clear or almost clear compared to 8.3% for the vehicle group (at week 5). These findings were confirmed in a phase 2 study with AD patients. A randomized phase 2b study with 247 AD patients under bid or once daily application of tapinarof 0.5%, 1% or vehicle (12 weeks), assessing safety and efficacy in adolescents 12 years and older, indicated that at week 12, 53% of the AD patients with tapinarof 1% BID and 46% with once daily application achieved the primary endpoint (IGA of clear/almost clear with a 2point decrease proportion) versus 24% and 28% for vehicle respectively. Tapinarof is currently undergoing phase 3 trials for AD patients in >2 years of age. Received: 27 March 2023 | Accepted: 27 March 2023


Using NCEP‐NCAR reanalysis data from 1958 to 1998, two interannual oscillations in the eddy forcing due to planetary waves (wavenumbers 1–3) are found in the Northern Hemisphere winter, called as the stratospheric interannual oscillation (SIO) and the tropospheric interannual oscillation (TIO). The temporal evolutions are different between the SIO and the TIO, suggesting different dynamic mechanisms. The planetary waves tend to be bent equatorward in the troposphere during a positive TIO phase, and in the mid‐ and upper stratosphere during a positive SIO phase. The result also suggests that upward propagation of planetary waves into the polar waveguide across the tropopause is closely associated with the TIO. Further regression and correlation analyses suggest that the TIO is closely linked to the Northern Annular Mode (NAM), whereas the SIO is closely associated with the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO).


Some men see things as they are and say, Why? I dream things that never were, and say, Why not? George Bernard Shaw Submitted by: Neil L. Kao, MD Beavercreek, OH 45440 Submissions from readers are welcomed. If the quotation is published, the sender's name will be acknowledged. Please include a complete citation, as done for any reference. The Editor.


breadth of applications. This continuing stream of applications serves as proof of the vitality and innovation in the field of AI. Deployed application areas included load layout for military rapid deployment ships, land management, assistance for online sales, synthetic agents for military training, and automation of space mission operations. Emerging applications included an even broader range of applications, including protein crystal analysis, text correction, web search, analysis of interoperability, taskable software agents, aircraft flight path planning, and information extraction. In addition, the conference included several invited talks. Maurice Hurley gave an intriguing talk on AI in science fiction entitled "Imagining the Sentient Machine." Harold Cohen presented an enlightening perspective in his talk "Decoupling Art and Affluence." Rodney Brooks entertained us all with a talk entitled "Mass Market Intelligent Robots." Finally, John Riedl led a panel on personalization, an area where quite a few companies are developing the next generation in marketing and sales. In this special issue, we selected six papers: one emerging application and five deployed applications. We asked the authors to expand on their conference papers to provide deeper The Thirteenth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI-2001) was held on 7 to 9 August 2001 in Seattle, Washington, in conjunction with the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. As in past years, papers were solicited in two categories: (1) deployed applications and (2) emerging applications and technologies. Deployed applications are systems that have been in use for at least several months by individuals or organizations other than their developers, have measurable benefits, and incorporate AI technologies. Emerging applications are technologies and systems that are close to deployment and clearly show an innovative implementation of AI technologies. All these case studies are of value not only to other application developers looking for guidance in applying various techniques to their own applications but also to researchers who need to understand the myriad of technical challenges provided by real-world problems. At IAAI-2001, five deployed applications and seven emerging application papers were presented. In addition, IAAI hosted three invited talks and one panel discussion. The papers from IAAI-2001 display a remarkable insight into the problems being solved. These articles provide an excellent snapshot into the innovative applications being deployed that leverage AI technologies. The first paper, ELECTRIC ELVES: Agent Technology for Supporting Human Organizations by Hans Chalupsky, Yolanda Gil, Craig Knoblock, Kristina Lerman, Jean Oh, David Pynadath, Thomas Russ, and Milind Tambe, describes an emerging application. The authors explain how software agents can be used to facilitate meetings, track individuals, gather and disseminate information, and assist other organizational efforts. The ELECTRIC ELVES Project uses workstations, fax machines, cell phones, and palm pilots to integrate information to support human operations.1 The ELECTRIC ELVES use several AI technologies, including multiagent and teamwork technologies to coordinate the many assets, information integration agents to find and assimilate many information sources, and knowledge representation and reasoning techniques to describe the agents and the knowledge they use. This article provides an excellent view into how AI technologies and ubiquitous computing will revolutionize everyday lives of high-tech workers and organizations. The RADARSAT-MAMM Automated Mission Planner by Benjamin Smith, Barbara Engelhardt, and Darren Mutz2 describes the deployment of the Automated Scheduling and Planning Environment at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to automate mission planning for the Modified Antarctic Mapping Mission (MAMM)3 in fall 2000. This deployment had a number of significant impacts. First, automating mission planning for this mission enabled a reduction in effort to generate mission plans from 52 work weeks for the first Antarctic Mapping Mission in 1997 to 8 work weeks for MAMM, which was a more complex mission. Automation also enabled generation of many contingency plans that could not be generated for the first mission because of work force limitations. Generation of these contingencies reduced the mission replanning team by fourfold. Editorial Introduction


Learning Objectives: The objective of this study was to characterize the medical malpractice environment of the ICU. Analysis of patterns of injury may provide opportunities for risk reduction. Methods: Data were obtained from CRICO's Comparative Benchmarking System a robust repository of approximately 30 percent of U.S. malpractice cases. All cases between 2010 and 2014, where an event in an ICU was alleged to have caused patient injury were retrospectively reviewed. Study outcomes included the frequency of claims associated with provider type, allegation, contributing factors as identified by the malpractice insurer and cost. Results: There were 871 claims arising from an event originating in an ICU, which represented 2.69% of cases in the database, and over $133 million in total indemnity over the 5-year study period. Seventy-five percent of these were classified as high injury severity which accounted for 95% of total indemnity. Average indemnity per ICU claim was $153,627 compared to $117,426 for all claims in the database. The majority of allegations involved the medical (46%), surgical (23%) and nursing (18%) services. Failure in medical treatment was the most common allegation (40%) followed by claims related to diagnosis (21%), surgical treatment (15%), monitoring (10%) and medications (7%). Major factors contributing to the allegations as identified by the malpractice insurer were related to failures in clinical judgment (68%), communication (32%), technical skill (26%), administration/policy and procedure (21%), documentation (21%), clinical environment and systems factors (27%), behavior related (10%) and supervision of trainee (6%). Conclusions:While malpractice claims occurring in the ICU consist of a small percentage of claims overall, the majority are associated with high injury severity and indemnity. Major factors contributing to the allegations are identifiable and should serve as focus points for quality improvement.


things are what can be called the formal intellectual objects of language, namely concepts, ideas, notions, and principles or the more sophisticated forms of beliefs, theories, outlooks (points of view) and communities of enquiry (tradition). These are conveyed from one individual to another through the intellectual subject matter of language in words, sentences, paragraphs, and compositions or later with propositions, paragraphs, compositions (formulated positions) and debates. By as accurately as possible conveying the meanings or the truth values that are attached by agreement to the intellectual subject matter of language parties to the communicative process acknowledge that each has an understanding in the intellect capable of decoding this subject matter. 17 See Part III.iii.i of this chapter for the distinction to be made between these.


A normotensive 49-year-old man being treated for tubercu losis of the right upper lobe was admitted for evaluation of an enlarging mass in the right inferior hilar region. Thoracotomy revealed tumor involving the right middle and lower (and possibly upper) lobe bronchi and right pericardium. Right radical pneu monectomy with partial right pericardiectomy was performed, and the right pulmonary artery was ligated intrapericardially. The pathological diagnosis was well-differentiated bronchogenic carcinoma, pulmonary emphysema, and caseating granulomata of the right upper lobe. Postoperatively the patient had a brief hypotensive episode but recovered spontaneously. His condition remained stable, permitting reduction of cardiac volvulus.


The paper presents economical and statistical analyses of private healthcare in Krasnoyarsk city (on the example of typical organization). Authors considered the current aspects of economical and organizational efficiency of private medical company that is organized on the family medicine principle. We discuss in details tax load of the consumers of medical services in the voluntary health insurance.


A new type of LaB6 cathode has been developed. It consists of a 〈001〉 oriented LaB6 single‐crystal tip and a glassy carbon filament. The influence of gas pressure on the thermionic emission properties are investigated for O2, H2O, CH4, and H2. Evaporation rates and surface composition of the LaB6 cathode are also examined. Thermionic emission current decreased in all gases examined here, depending on cathode temperature and gas pressure. In O2 and H2O gas atmosphere, the cathode surface composition appears to change to La2O3 as gas pressure is increased. The evaporation rate of the LaB6 single crystals is represented by equation V=4×1014 exp [−(570×103/RT)] μm/h, for the temperature range between 1800 and 2200 K.


Abstract. Gaze tracking systems are widely used in human–computer interfaces, interfaces for the disabled, game interfaces, and for controlling home appliances. Most studies on gaze detection have focused on enhancing its accuracy, whereas few have considered the discrimination of intentional gaze fixation (looking at a target to activate or select it) from unintentional fixation while using gaze detection systems. Previous research methods based on the use of a keyboard or mouse button, eye blinking, and the dwell time of gaze position have various limitations. Therefore, we propose a method for discriminating between intentional and unintentional gaze fixation using a multimodal fuzzy logic algorithm applied to a gaze tracking system with a near-infrared camera sensor. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms the conventional method for determining gaze fixation.


In a bilingual dictionary provided with a dictionary grammar referred to by means of morphological codes in the entries, it is desirable that the codes should be "transparent". That is to say, after some training the user should be ab le to interpret the information contained in the codes he sees, without having to consult the particular part of the grammar referred to. The first complete dictionary grammar of Icelandic in a bilingual dictionary appeared in the Swedish-Icelandic dictionary of 1982. However, the morphological codes used in that dictionary can hardly be assessed as transparent. In this paper, the author descabes the system of codes he has devised for the Icelandic equivalents (nouns, adjectives, verbs) in his Russian-Icelandic dictionary which is expected to be published at the end of 1995 or beginning of 1996. This system has partly been inspired by the system of codes devised by A. Zaliznyak, which the author applied to the Russian entries in his above-mentioned dictionary. This system is known from e.g. the Russian-Swedish dictionary of 1976 and the Russian-Norwegian dictionary of 1987 (rev.ed. 1994). (NB: Russiske ord i denne artikkelen transkriberes ifolge Nordisk slavistforbunds regler, se Scando-Slavica (1980:201).


A chemical mechanical polishing Slurry comprising a film forming agent, an oxidizer, a complexing agent and an abrasive, and a method for using the chemical mechanical polishing slurry to remove copper alloy, titanium, and tita nium nitride containing layers from a Substrate. Patent Application Publication Mar. 21, 2002 Sheet 1 of 3 US 2002/0033382 A1


[89524-98-1] C10H20NO7P (MW 294.24)

InChI = 1S/C10H20NO7P/c1-10(2,3)18-9(13)11-7(8(12)15-4)19(14,16-5)17-6/h7H,1-6H3,(H,11,13)

InChIKey = LJHAPRKTPAREGO-UHFFFAOYSA-N

[synthon for α,β-dehydroamino acids (DAA) and amino acids]

Alternate Name: methyl 2-(t-butoxycarbonylamino)-2-(dimethoxyphosphinyl)acetate.

Physical Data: white solid, mp 47–48 °C.

Solubility: alcohol and most organic solvents.

Form Supplied in: Form Supplied in: available in six steps from crude glyoxylic acid.1 The first four steps2 can be carried out on a kilogram scale. Deprotection of the N-benzyloxycarbonyl-2-(dimethoxylphosphinyl)glycine methyl ester and reaction with Boc2O affords the title compound (eq 1).

(1)

Purification: recrystallization from diethyl ether/pentane (1:1) at 0 °C.

Handling, Storage, and Precautions: reagent should be used in a fume hood.


Abstract In recent decades, the role and power of local authorities in their relations with citizens has changed. Today, new competences and resources, not usually owned by local authorities, are being embedded into the decision-making process, which necessitates the involvement of local stakeholders. A set of different tools (public-private partnership, project financing, etc.) and purposes (urban renewal, territorial marketing, etc.) has been developed to improve this relationship. This paper presents the experience of Parma, an Italian municipality, where a project called 'MasterTown' has been developed with the aim of involving different stakeholders in identifying and planning urban renewal. Analysis shows four key factors for the success of MasterTown project: sharing competences and resources, involving citizens, finding alternative financial resources, and assessing social outcomes. The results could be useful to policy-makers in developing renewal processes meeting the needs of all local stakeholders.


Horticulture are now seeded Jember government is durian, orange, mangosteen, corn, watermelon, etc. This commodity is technically feasible to be developed, in terms of economic benefit and socially acceptable to the local community. But in fact in the field of commodity value in the form of price and productivity are still low. This is due to the marketing of these commodities is still traditional, the lack of touch technology infrastructure both on farm and off farm causing farmers to become weak bargaining position. people is likely to deceive the people. In the future development of the agricultural sector is still encountered some obstacles, particularly in the development of farming systems based agribusiness and agro-industries. Location of the study determined (purposive) in Jember is the region / district that has the potential to be developed as a superior horticultural commodities. The form to be used in this study is a descriptive case study strategy. Results indicate that the fulfillment of the financing needs of farmers farming done creatively by combining source - a source of financing that can be reached like banks, cooperatives, traders or the relatives/friends. SWOT analysis results show the value of IFAS and EFAS 2,65 to 2,40, which means having a prospective opportunity to develop and possess the competence to do it. Keywords: agribusiness, horticulture, development strategy


Introduction :
Poor sleep quality is often experienced by patients with chronic kidney failure (CKD) undergoing hemodialysis (HD) therapy, this can affect their quality of life. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between sleep quality and quality of life in chronic kidney failure patients undergoing hemodialysis during the COVID-19 pandemic at Panti Waluya Sawahan Hospital, Malang City.
Method :
This research design is cross sectional. The population in this study were patients with chronic kidney failure who underwent hemodialysis, namely 126 respondents at Panti Waluya Sawahan Hospital, Malang City during January, obtained a sample of 36 respondents using purposive sampling technique. Data collection techniques used the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) questionnaire and The World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL – BREF) questionnaire. Data analysis used Chi Square test (p value < 0.05).
Result :
The results of the study, most of the respondents had poor sleep quality and most of the respondents had poor quality of life. The results of the chi square test showed that there was a relationship between sleep quality and quality of life in chronic kidney failure patients undergoing hemodialysis during the COVID-19 pandemic at Panti Waluya Sawahan Hospital, Malang City with a p-value of 0.000.
Conclusions :
The conclusion of this study is that there is a relationship between sleep quality and quality of life in chronic kidney failure patients undergoing hemodialysis during the COVID-19 pandemic at Panti Waluya Sawahan Hospital, Malang City


Within the framework of the present paper an attempt has been made to develop a methodology for the calculation of a Passenger Car Equivalent (PCE) factor in order to express the number of commercial vehicles in the equivalent number of passenger cars. The methodology is based on the Highway Capacity Manual, the examination of the international literature and an extended field survey. The research area is the Municipality of Thessaloniki, Greece and specifically 27 at-grade, signalized intersections which were examined. The field survey was performed during two time-periods in order a comparison to be possible.


ALC was fabricated using cement, lime and quartzite by hydrothermal reaction. ALC has low strength and brittleness on account of inner pores. The studies for resolving these problems were driven by many researchers. Among these researches, the controls of quartzite fineness have been studied for unsuitable properties of ALC. This study experimented with variation of 90 ㎛ residue for obtain good physical properties. It was found that 90 ㎛ residue influenced on physical properties of ALC. The lower amount of 90 ㎛ residue, the higher compressive and bending strength. But the continuing decrease of 90 ㎛ residue did not cause the increase of strength. In order to application of these results in process, the states of process and hydrothermal products will be considered.


In spontaneous speech stock phrases like idioms and clichés are very frequent. It is a reasonable assumption that uttering such stock phrases is more routine than uttering new expressions. The main assumption tested here is that, due to this routine-like character, the production of stock phrases is less closely monitored for speech errors than the production of new expressions. This assumption was tested against a collection of Dutch speech errors. For each error the intended word string was reconstructed and its stockphrasiness subjectively estimated by two linguist observers on a scale from 1 10. Statistical analysis convincingly showed among other things that speech errors have a greater chance to remain uncorrected in stock phrases than in new expressions. It is concluded that stock phrases are monitored less closely than new expressions.


By analyzing the variations of 500 hPa height field and monthly mean surface air temperature of 160 stations in China, the reasons that winter surface air temperature appearing interdecadal change in North China are discussed. The results are as following: a) It is shown that the temperature in North China had positive trend and interdecadal change in winter. b) The positive trend of height of China and Mongolia was corresponding to the strong zonal circulation, weak meridional circulation and weak cold air activities; c) It is shown that the winter temperature in North China during the period of the past 51 years were closely related to the positive trend of 500 hPa height field in China and Mongolia.


technique that drew strident criticism from peers who thought that the absence of triangulation defied the established teaching fundamentals in laparoscopy, and the procedure would never advance. LESS surgery has since developed as an evolutionary advance in laparoscopy with the goal of improving cosmetic outcomes and minimising convalescence. Cosmesis is an undeniable advantage of LESS, and several studies have already suggested improvements in pain scores and earlier recovery [5].


In this paper we introduce the twisted tangent numbers Tn,w and polynomials Tn,w(x). Some interesting results and relationships are obtained.


Zinc oxide (ZnO) codoped with Cu and M ions (M = Mn, Fe, Ni, Ga, Y) powders were synthesised by simultaneous thermal co-decomposition of a mixture of zinc and metal complexes. The synthesised chemical formula for the prepared solid solution is Zn 0.97 Cu 0.01 M 0.02 O. X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis confirms the formation of single nanocrystalline structure of the as-prepared powders, thus, both Cu and M ions were incorporated into ZnO lattice forming solid solutions. Magnetic measurements reveal that all the as-synthesised doped ZnO powders gained partial (RT-FM) properties but with different strength and BH-behaviour depends on the nature of the doping (M). Furthermore, H 2 post-treatment was subsequently carried out and it was found that the observed RT-FM is enhanced. Very interestingly, in case of Ni dopant, the whole powder becomes completely ferromagnetic with coercivity (H c ), remanence (M r ) and saturation magnetisation (M s ) of 133.6 Oe, 1.086 memu/g and 4.959 memu/g, respectively. The value of Ms was increased by ~ 95% in comparison with as-prepared.


In this paper we consider the problem of designing distributed static state, static output and dynamic output feedback controllers for discrete time systems. The proposed approach is based on iteratively minimizing a finite horizon quadratic cost function, where the descent directions are determined using simulated system trajectories. When the system matrices are sparse, the computational complexity of the proposed algorithm scales linearly with the size of the system.


343 Racism continues to be a significant problem in Europe. A Special Eurobarometer survey conducted in June-July 2006 showed that 64% of the citizens of the EU-25 believed there was widespread discrimination on the basis of ethnic origin in Europe.1 More specifically, 77% felt that being a Roma was a disadvantage, and 62% felt the same about being of a different ethnic origin than the majority of the population.


Christopher Tietze has examined the problem of cardiovascular disease mortality related to the use of the pill in the United States and the applicability of some British findings to the U.S. These findings concern women over 35 and the risk estimates were based on a small number. Tietzes extrapolation to younger age groups is not justified. Data for women aged 35-39 and 40-44 show an increase in cardiovascular disease mortality at ages 35 to 39 and a flattening of the downward curve at ages 40-44 in the early 60s. It appears that the relative increase in pill-associated mortality in women over 35 of age is comparable in the U.S. and in Britain. As a result the recommendations for women over 35 to consider using a different method for contraception should apply in the U.S. as well as in Britain.


Today, intellectual property is one of the most important types of investment and has been considered in many investment agreements. The Republic of Korea (ROK) and the Russian Federation (RF) have paid attention to intellectual property in their investment agreements. However, the current languages to the intellectual property remain ambiguous. Purpose: In this paper, we intend to examine the current languages to the intellectual property rights in the bilateral investment treaties of the ROK and the RF. Hence, the paper focuses on the fundamental question, namely, what are the languages to the intellectual property rights in the BITs? Methods: general scientific methods of theoretical knowledge, as well as general logical methods and research techniques are used in analyzing the Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) of the mentioned states. Results: Finally, we concluded that both states have adopted two absolute and conditional languages to the intellectual property rights, and the comprehensive language is the conditional one.


Stereo image is frequently used as preprocessing of stereo vision techniques. Although stereo image rectification is performed using look-up tables which are computed in advance, it takes a long time to do rectification transformation on mobile platforms. Thus stereo image rectification process can be burdensome in stereo vision applications on mobile platforms. This paper presents an approach to rectify images from stereo camera fast using GPU on mobile platforms. 1


Copyright: © Author, This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial No Derives License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. Bats have evolved an incredibly rich diversity of behavioral, roosting and feeding habits. Different feeding habits of bats i.e. insectivorous, frugivorous, nectarivorous, omnivorous and carnivorous contribute its specific role towards the ecosystem. Out of all the bats around the World, approximately seventy percent are insectivorous, nearly thirty percent nectar or fruit eater, ten species are carnivorous, two species are fish-eater and only three species are the common vampire. Bats are all nature's most beneficial animal and flora and fauna are affected by their absence, threatening the entire ecosystem from rainforests to deserts. Today, these valuable mammals often go unnoticed because of their minimum roost sites. So it is very necessary to provide for their habitat protection, conservation and monitoring of roosts amidst providing all the relative information to local localities about their role in the maintenance of ecosystem stability.


Accumulation of heavy metals - Cadmium (Cd), Lead (Pb), Zinc (Zn), Copper (Cu) and Manganese (Mn) in root, stem and leaves of Indian mustard ( Brassica juncea L.) grown on loamy coastal soil amended with different doses (100, 75, 50, 20, and 10 tha -1 ) of municipal solid waste compost was assessed during a period of 45 days. Heavy metal ac cumulation in root, stem and leaves of the plants w ere significantly different across different amendments and sole soil (P Zn > Cu > Cd > Mn in the roots, which changed to Mn > Pb > Zn > Cd > Cu in the stem and to Mn > Pb > Cd > Zn > Cu in the leaves of the plants. The ranking order of heavy me tal accumulation in different parts of the plant wa s root>stem>leaves for Pb, Zn, Cu and Cd; however, it was stem>leaves>root for Mn across all the treatments. The accumulation of the metals increase d gradually and significantly with the passage of t ime in days from 15 to 45 days (p < 0.05).


"Big Data" has become a major source of innovation across enterprises of all sizes .Data is being produced at an ever increasing rate. This growth in data production is driven by increased use of media, fast developing organizations, proliferation of web and systems connected to it. Having a lot of data is one thing, being able to store it, analyze it and visualize it in real time environment is a whole different ball game. New technologies are accumulating more data than ever; therefore many organizations are looking forward to optimal ways to make better use of their data. In a broader sense, organizations analyzing big data need to view data management, analysis, and decision-making in terms of "industrialized" flows and processes rather than discrete stocks of data or events. To handle these aspects of large quantities of data various open platforms had been developed.


Mast cells play a critical role in the initiation and propagation of several inflammatory diseases and are well known for their function in the allergic response. Fullerenes are a class of novel carbon allotropes with a wide variety of applications in biotechnology and medicine. Here we use a fullerene-based chemistry platform to develop and test several different fullerene derivatives to evaluate on cellular viability, anti-IgE receptor-mediated degranulation, and cytokine release from human skin mast cells (MC). The biological response depended on the properties of the addition group; some fullerene structures were effective inhibitors of degranulation and also blocked cytokine release, while others were ineffective. None were toxic to the cells using concentrations up to 100 µg/ml. Further, we demonstrate that mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP) closely paralleled IgE-mediated SMC degranulatory responses and this response was greatly inhibited by fullerene pre-incubation. Additionally, the fullerene inhibition was due to the inhibition of FcεRI-mediated MAP kinase activation. These findings suggest the biological properties of fullerene derivatives depends on the derivatization of the carbon cage which can be manipulated to compounds which may control those diseases associated with MC activation.


Acute adenovirus ocular infections are the most common ocular viral infections worldwide and are associated with community and medical facility epidemics. While not permanently blinding, ocular adenoviral infections are associated with significant patient morbidity, including symptomatic distress with visual disturbances which can last years, and loss of time from school or work. Currently, the treatment of these acute infections is symptomatic due to the lack of an approved antiviral. This symptomatic treatment presents a controversy of whether to treat these viral infections with immunomodulating agents (e.g. topical corticosteroids, NSAIDs, cyclosporine A), which are contraindicated for use in the treatment of the other major external ocular viral infection, HSV‐1 epithelial keratitis. The adenovirus type 5 (Ad5)/New Zealand White (NZW) rabbit ocular model has provided data for potential clinical guidelines for the use of immunomodulating agents in the treatment of adenovirus ocular infections. Moreover, this model has been used extensively to evaluate promising candidate antivirals for adenovirus. Multiple candidate antivirals have been evaluated in vivo using this model, and several have proceeded to human clinical trials. The current presentation will discuss the potential clinical guidelines for the use of immunomodulating agents, present data on potential new topical antiviral agents, discuss the potential combination therapy of an antiviral and immunomodulatory agent in the treatment of adenovirus ocular infections as well as the limitations of the model.


This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License Arterial hypertension (AH) is the most prevalent chronic disease worldwide and the main risk factor for most cardiocerebrovascular diseases.1 The true prevalence in Brazil is still unknown, and the available data are from the Vigitel Study, where the information is obtained by telephone contact. The prevalence of hypertension in Brazil is estimated at around 31% in adult individuals.2 In recent data from the Vigitel Study, the prevalence was 25.7% of the adult Brazilian population.3 Knowledge of the real prevalence and geographic distribution is not only important for prevention and treatment measures, but also contribute to the knowledge of the genesis of the disease.


Objective:To evaluate the efficacy and safety of trocar-style pleural biopsy forceps for visceral pleural biopsy when chest water separation, encystment and pleural thickening, adhesion happening in exudativ pleurisy. Methods:A total of 80 cases with pleural effusion who had unclear cause of disease and various degrees of pleural thickening, pleural adhesion and separation encystment have had visceral pleural biopsy with trocar-style pleural biopsy forceps. Results:The biopsy success rate was 96.2% (77/80), the bite success rate 93.3% (224/240), the forceps bite empty rate 1.3% (3/240) and the bite material fibrin rate 5.4% (13/240). The pathological positive rate was 81.2% (65/80), among them the pleural secondary carcinoma accounting for 31.2 (25/80), the tuberculous pleurisy 22.5% (18/80), the malignent mesothelioma 13.7% (11/80), the suppurative pleurisy 10% (10/80), the malignent lymphoma 3.7%(3/80) and pathologically without myoideum and adipose tissue. The size of biopsy material was 2.5~27mm3, with an average of (8.1+1.2) mm3. Eight cases had pneumothorax, 4 cases had hemorrhage, 2 cases had fever. Chest pain, short breath or hemoptysis was observerd. Conclusion:The method of the viseral pleural biopsy with trocar-style pleural biopsy forceps is simple, safe and effective for patients with chest fluid separation, encystment and pleural thickening or adhesion in exudative pleurisy.


The Ministry of Information (MoI) had a robust morale-research apparatus which, more often than not, failed to successfully appeal to the public in high-profile information campaigns. Cecil Day-Lewis, who worked in the Publications division of the MoI during the war, allegorized such failures through his detective fiction; in both Malice in Wonderland and Minute for Murder, he alludes to Ministry campaigns like the "Silent Column Campaign," which failed to appropriately respond to public criticism elicited from Home Intelligence morale reports. Day-Lewis's subtle critiques of MoI morale assessment are also mirrored in the wartime work of Elizabeth Bowen, who used her information work in Ireland to encourage the MoI to take on more sympathetic public stances towards the neutral nation during the war. While Bowen attempted to read and translate the desires of the Irish public to English officials, The Heat of the Day likewise emphasizes characters' struggles in interpreting and mastering the desires of others. In both The Heat of the Day and in her wartime short stories, Bowen returns to early psychographic symbols of ghosts and apparitions to elucidate the precarious position of the public opinion worker during wartime. In this chapter, both Bowen and Day-Lewis remind readers that the desire to manifest interiority as material produces fear and anxiety amongst citizens who feel themselves spied upon and who see psychographics as just another means of control for governments and institutions against its citizens.


Self-tuning, self-aware, or adaptive computing has been proposed as one method to help application programmers confront the growing complexity of multicore software development. Such systems have been proposed for architectures, compilers, and operating systems to ease the application programmer's burden by providing services that automatically customize to meet the needs of the application. However, these systems often rely on ad hoc methods for understanding and monitoring an application and thus struggle to incorporate the true performance goals of the applications they are designed to support. This paper presents the Application Heartbeats API which addresses the need to provide a standardized interface for applications to communicate with supportive adaptive systems. The Application Heartbeats framework provides a simple, standard programming interface that applications can use to indicate their performance and which system software can use to query that performance. Several experiments demonstrate the simplicity and efficacy of the Application Heartbeat approach.


In order to refine the basic model of traffic assignment to capture supplementary flow relationships, the traditional modelling strategy is to modify the travel cost mapping. This strategy is well suited for capturing relationships such as interactions among vehicles on different road links and turning priorities in junctions, and it usually results in nonseparable and asymmetric travel cost functions. It is, however, not the proper approach for incorporating traffic flow restrictions such as those imposed by joint capacities on two-way streets or in junctions, or the presence of a traffic control policy. We consider the introduction of side constraints to describe those flow relationships that have more natural interpretations as flow restrictions than as additional travel costs. Such a refinement should be easier to construct and calibrate as well as lead to more reliable traffic models than that using the traditional refinement strategy only. The utilization of the appropriate combination of these two modelling strategies results, in general, in a variational inequality model of the traffic assignment problem augmented with a set of side constraints. We establish characterizations of its solutions as Wardrop and queueing delay equilibria in terms of well-defined and natural generalized travel costs, and derive stability results for the model. The results obtained may, for example, be applied to derive link tolls for achieving traffic management goals without using centralized traffic control.


Objective: To investigate the correlation between Hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway and multidrug resistance of human colon adenocarcinoma cells. Methods: Human colon adenocarcinoma cell line HCT-8 and its vincristine (VCR)-resistant variant HCT-8/VCR cells were treated by agonist SAG or antagonist GANT61 of Hh signaling pathway, respectively. Four groups were designed for the purpose of this study: HCT-8 group, HCT-8/VCR group, HCT-8+SAG group (treated with 3 nmol/L SAG for 48 h), and HCT-8/VCR+GANT61 group (treated with 5 μmol/L GANT61 for 48 h). Then CCK-8 (cell counting kit-8) assay was used to detect the multidrug resistance and the survival rate of the cells. The expression levels of Hh signaling members Smo (Smoothened protein) and Gli1 (Gloma-associated oncoprotein-1) and P-gp (P-glycoprotein) mRNAs and proteins were determined by real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR and Western blotting, respectively. Results: The expressions of Smo, Gli1 and P-gp mRNAs and proteins in HCT-8/VCR group were higher than those in HCT-8 group (P < 0.05). Compared with HCT-8 group, the survival rate and the mRNA and protein expression levels of Smo, Gli1 and P-gp in HCT-8+SAG group were significantly up-regulated (P < 0.05). Compared with HCT-8/VCR group, the survival rate and the mRNA and protein expression levels of Smo, Gli1 and P-gp in HCT-8/VCR+GANT61 group were significantly down-regulated (P < 0.05). Conclusion: The multidrug resistance of human colon adenocacinoma cells may be correlated with abnormal activation of Hh signaling pathway. DOI:10.3781/j.issn.1000-7431.2012.11.006


Corrosion behavior of Ni-20Cr-1Si alloys coated by reactive element oxides was studied for 3.6ks at 1073K in Br2-O2-Ar atmosphere. Corrosion resistance of Y2O3- and SiO2-coated Ni-20Cr-1Si alloys was improved.


An investigation was conducted in the static test facility of the Langley 16-Foot Transonic Tunnel to determine the internal performance of a two-dimensional convergent-divergent nozzle. The nozzle design was tested with dry and afterburning throat areas, which represent different power settings and three expansion ratios. For each of these configurations, three trailing-edge geometries were tested. The baseline geometry had a straight trailing edge. Two different shaping techniques were applied to the baseline nozzle design to reduce radar observables: the scarfed design and the sawtooth design. A flat plate extended downstream of the lower divergent flap trailing edge parallel to the model centerline to form a shelf-like expansion surface. This shelf was designed to shield the plume from ground observation (infrared radiation (IR) signature suppression). The shelf represents the part of the aircraft structure that might be present in an installed configuration. These configurations were tested at nozzle pressure ratios from 2.0 to 12.0.


The utility model discloses an air-cooling diesel generating set used in all weather, which can meet requirements of ventilation and heat dissipation of the generating set and can effectively reduce leakage of noise and invasion of external rainwater and wind sand. The air-cooling diesel generating set comprises a machine box, a fuel tank, a control box, a generator and an air-cooled engine and further comprises an air inlet chamber, a flexible connection drum body, an air exhaust drum, a pair of auxiliary air inlet windows, an axial flow fan and a tower-shaped air exhaust cover plate, wherein the air inlet chamber is arranged at the inner rear end of the machine box; an air inlet window is formed in the rear side wall of the air inlet chamber; the two ends of the flexible connection drum body are respectively communicated with the air inlet chamber and a cooling fan; the air exhaust drum is connected between the exhaust outlet of the oil radiator of the engine and the top end of the machine box; the auxiliary air inlet windows correspond to the cylinder body of the generator and are oppositely formed in the two side walls of the machine box; the axial flow fan corresponds to the cylinder body of the generator and is mounted at the inner top of the machine box; the tower-shaped air exhaust cover plate comprises a circle of baffles fixed at the top end of the machine box and a cover plate fixed above the baffles.


The pressure swing adsorption (PSA) units are widely used as oxygen sources where oxygen is produced in a gaseous form. The start-up time of minutes is an undeniable advantage of PSA technology compared to cryogenic air separation having start-up time taking hours or days. The purity of oxygen produced by PSA using nitrogen selective zeolites (type A and type X zeolites) is limited to 95 % oxygen. The pilot-plant adsorption unit utilizes two-bed pressure swing adsorption technology. The nominal capacity of this unit is 1.4 kg h -1 of gaseous oxygen with a purity of 95 % oxygen. The paper deals to analyze process characteristics of oxygen separation from the air in the pilot-plant adsorption unit for the adsorption pressure of 5.5 bar and the defined adsorption cycle. The effect of the number of cycles needed to obtain relevant results was also investigated.


The issue of tight security for identity-based encryption schemes (IBE) in bilinear groups has been widely investigated and a lot of optimal properties have been achieved. Recently, a tightly secure IBE scheme in bilinear groups under the multi-challenge setting has been achieved by Chen et al. (to appear in PKC 2017), and their scheme even achieves constant-size public parameters and is adaptively secure. However, we note that the issue of tight security for broadcast encryption schemes (BE) in bilinear groups has received less attention so far. Actually current broadcast encryption systems of bilinear groups are either not tightly secure or based on non-static assumptions. In this work we mainly focus on the issue of tight security for standard broadcast encryption schemes . We construct the first tightly secure broadcast encryption scheme from static assumptions (i.e., decisional subgroup assumptions) in the selective security model by utilizing improved techniques derived from the Déjà Q framework (Eurocrypt 2014, TCC-A 2016). The proof of our construction will lead to only O(logn) or O(log λ) security loss, where n is the number of users in the system and λ is the security parameter. Following this result, we present a tightly secure non-zero inner product encryption scheme (NIPE) from decisional subgroup assumptions in the selective security model. This NIPE scheme has the same parameter sizes as our BE scheme and there is only O(logn) or O(log λ) security loss as well, where n is the dimension of the inner product space and λ is the security parameter. Finally, we further present a tightly secure functional commitment scheme (FC) for linear functions, which was introduced by Libert et al. (ICALP 16). In contrast with their scheme, which also suffers O(n) security loss during the reduction, there is only O(logn) or O(log λ) security loss in our FC scheme.


Safe School Zone (ZoSS) is a government program that began in 2006 as
one of the program to reduce the number of traffic accidents, especially the school
children by regulating the speed of vehicles around the school. Vehicles that are
in the ZoSS should reduce the speed to provide a longer reaction time on the
movement of school children who often unexpected hazards that can lead to
accidents. Currently, the use of ZoSS is still not optimal because there are many
road users who pass ZoSS with high speed, school children who have not used
ZoSS facilities and surrounding communities including teachers and parents who
do not understand the existence ZoSS.
The approachment or the way done is by doing an observations directly on
the location that will be surveyed, it is conducted several sueveys such as survey
of pedestrian behavior, chauffeurs behavior, survey of driver behavior, survey of
speed vehicles, survey of volume vehicles which were then analyzed with reference
to guide the implementation of ZoSS issued by the Director General of Land
Transportation Number 403 3236/AJ SK / DRJD/2006, MKJI 1997, research of
GRSP 2008 and SPSS ver 16.0.
The existence of ZoSS in Kanisius elementary school Kalasan, Yogyakarta
has not effectively reviewed its use of pedestrian behavior, the behavior of the
introduction of school children, driver behavior, vehicle speed and road service
levels which mostly shows the condition of the unsaved. Ineffectiveness can be
seen the number of vehicles parked along the ZoSS, pedestrian crossing by
running, the driver who does not stop in the ZoSS and the average speed of
passing on ZoSS exceeds the maximum allowed speed. The minimum speed eastwest
direction at 45 km/h which gives a ratio of 60% of pedestrian deaths in the
event of a collision while the minimum speed east-west direction at 44 km/h which
gives the ratio of 55% of deaths. While the maximum speed in either direction for
63 km/h which will provide 98% of deaths. Efforts to improve the effectiveness of
the use ZoSS are improving the understanding of road users towards ZoSS, efforts
to speed restrictions and efforts ZoSS layout.


In this paper we construct a new class of algebraic surfaces in three- dimensional Euclidean space that are generated by roses. We derive their para- metric and implicit equations, investigate their singularities and visualize them with the program Mathematica.


The paper introduces teaching content of Newton iteration algorithm in C language programming, and analysis its teaching difficulties. The paper explains programming principle of Newton iteration algorithm by iteration-formula's derivation, and gains good teaching effect.


A total of 96 pigs (PIC TR4 × 1050; initially 77.4 lb) were used in 2 14-d studies to determine the effect of standardized ileal digestible (SID) tryptophan to large neutral amino acids (LNAA) ratio on growth performance of finishing pigs. Pens of pigs were balanced by initial weight and randomly allotted to 1 of 4 dietary treatments in a completely randomized design with 4 pigs per pen and 6 replications per treatment. The treatment diets were fed in 2 phases: early finishing phase (77 to 106 lb BW) and late finishing phase (183 to 217 lb BW), with a common diet fed in between. Dietary treatments included: (1) a corn-soybean meal-based diet without DDGS, (2) a cornsoybean meal-based diet with 45% dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS), (3) a corn-soybean meal-based diet without DDGS but supplemented with similar amounts of LNAA as the diet containing 45% DDGS, and (4) the LNAA-supplemented diet with added crystalline tryptophan to increase the SID tryptophan:LNAA ratio. The diets were formulated in a similar manner for the late finishing phase with the exception that DDGS were lowered to 30% of the diet. In the early finishing period (77 to 106 lb), pigs fed 45% DDGS diet had poorer F/G (P = 0.01) compared with pigs fed the other diets; however, no differences were found in other response criteria. During the late finishing period (183 to 217 lb), pig growth performance was not affected by dietary treatment. These results suggest that the high level of LNAA relative to tryptophan in diets containing 30% DDGS or greater may not be responsible for the apparent increase in the tryptophan requirement of finishing pigs seen in previous studies.


Agriculture is the main contributor to nitrous oxide (N2O) emission, but the emission intensity can be controlled by various factors, in particular, the activity of earthworms, one of the most common groups of soil invertebrates. We conducted an incubation experiment to evaluate N2O emission in earthworm soil samples compared to non-earthworm ones with applications of high (200 kg ha−1) and low (50 kg ha−1) mineral N fertilizer doses. We assessed the cumulative N2O emission, the dynamics of the soil dissolved organic carbon, and the soil microbial carbon and nitrogen content, as well as the number of nirK and nirS gene copies in bulk soil samples and in isolates from the earthworms' gut. Our study showed a significant role of the earthworm activity in changing the intensity of N2O emission after the application of mineral N fertilizers. The main factor leading to an increase in nitrous oxide emission in the presence of earthworms is the stimulation of free-living soil denitrifiers by the organic matter of the earthworms' excretions, as well as the thorough mixing of plant residues and soil. Contrary to our expectations, earthworms did not increase the representation of nitrite reductase genes in soil, although the earthworm's gut can be considered as a refugium for denitrifiers. Our results indicate a possible risk of increased N2O emission from arable temperate soils with an increase in earthworm populations as the climate warms, even if application rates of mineral fertilizers are reduced.


IoT (Internet of Things) streaming data has increased dramatically over the recent years and continues to grow rapidly due to the exponential growth of connected IoT devices. For many IoT applications, fast stream query processing is crucial for correct operations. To achieve better query performance and quality, researchers and practitioners have developed various types of query execution models—purely cloud-based, geo-distributed, edge-based, and edge-cloud-based models. Each execution model presents unique challenges and limitations of query processing optimizations. In this work, we provide a comprehensive review and analysis of query execution models within the context of the query execution latency optimization. We also present a detailed overview of various query execution styles regarding different query execution models and highlight their contributions. Finally, the paper concludes by proposing promising future directions towards advancing the query executions in the edge and cloud environment.


Previous studies of dupilumab treatment in adults, adolescents and children aged 6–11 years with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis (AD) showed no clinically meaningful changes in laboratory parameters. Here, we evaluate laboratory safety data for dupilumab-treated children aged 6 months–5 years with moderate-to-severe AD. In LIBERTY AD PRESCHOOL (NCT03346434 part B), a placebo-controlled phase III trial, 162 children aged 6 months–5 years with moderate-to-severe AD were randomized to receive dupilumab 200 mg or 300 mg every 4 weeks (n = 83) based on baseline weight (200 mg: ≥ 5 to < 15 kg; 300 mg: ≥ 15 to < 30 kg), or placebo (n = 79) for 16 weeks. Low-potency topical corticosteroids were initiated from day −14. At baseline, mean (SD) haematology parameters were similar in both treatment groups: eosinophils [dupilumab: 1.1 × 109 cells L−1 (0.7); placebo: 1.1 × 109 cells L−1 (0.7)], platelets [dupilumab: 397.7 × 109 cells L−1 (103.2), placebo: 385.6 × 109 cells L−1 (112.9)] and neutrophils [dupilumab: 3.54 × 109 cells L−1 (1.56); placebo: 3.85 × 109 cells L−1 (1.73)]. Mean (SD) counts of neutrophils [dupilumab: 3.18 × 109 cells L−1 (1.94); placebo: 3.79 × 109 cells L−1 (1.91)] remained within the normal reference interval (RI) at week 16. Mean (SD) change in platelet count at week 16 was −16.3 × 109 cells L−1 (78.5) in the dupilumab group and 17.4 × 109 cells L−1 (106.6) in the placebo group. In the dupilumab group, the mean (SD) change in eosinophil count increased at week 4 [0.48 × 109 cells L−1 (1.8)] and trended downward by week 16 [0.31 × 109 cells L−1 (1.4)], while minimal changes were noted in the placebo group at week 4 [0.1 × 109 cells L−1 (0.7)] and week 16 [−0.2 × 109 cells L−1 (0.7)]. The mean (SD) values for creatine kinase [dupilumab: 144.2 U L−1 (84.8); placebo: 130.7 U L−1 (46.39)], alkaline phosphatase [dupilumab: 273.4 U L−1 (80.01); placebo: 233.2 U L−1 (65.98)] and lactate dehydrogenase [dupilumab: 283.8 U L−1 (44.74); placebo: 317.4 U L−1 (67.58)] at week 16 remained within the normal RI in all treatment groups. Two patients treated with dupilumab reported cases of severe and moderate eosinophilia. Neither event was associated with clinical symptoms nor led to the discontinuation of study treatment. No clinically meaningful changes in haematology or chemistry laboratory safety parameters in children aged 6 months–5 years with moderate-to-severe AD were seen with 16 weeks of dupilumab treatment. These data demonstrate that, as with adults, adolescents and older children, routine laboratory monitoring is unnecessary in this population.
 Funding sources: research sponsored by Sanofi and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc.


Transformative experiences are experiences that change the way you understand the world, and in the process, they change who you are. As such, they are experiences that are both epistemically and personally transformative. The epistemic transformation involves a discovery: until you undergo the experience, you don't know what it will be like to be your future, transformed self. The personal transformation involves the way the experience changes the kind of person you are (or more colloquially, "changes who you are"). Who you'll become is different, in some important and salient way, from who you are now. In my (Paul 2014), I develop an account of the conceptual and psychological structure of transformative experience. Using this account, I argue that the self-changes such experiences involve, combined with the epistemic limitations we face with regard to what we can first-personally know before the transformation, raises distinctive problems for decisionmaking in transformative contexts. On my approach, a persisting person is taken to be a temporally extended entity composed of a series of continuous, appropriately related selves. A person who persists through a transformative experience is realized by one kind of self before the transformation and by a different kind of self after the transformation: the new, replacement self, is created in response to the transformative experience. Examples of transformative experiences include fighting in a war, having one's first child, becoming sighted after a life of blindness, getting a cochlear implant, losing a loved one, getting divorced, and having a religious conversion. There are two especially important features to note about the structure of these types of experiences. First, because it is unlike other kinds of experiences they have had, in an important and distinctive sense, a person cannot imagine what the transformative experience will be like for them before they undergo it. Second, because it will change the kind of person they are, some central and important elements of what they care about will change. As Walsh (2020) argues, cases of dementia can be instances of cognitively transformative experiences: they can be cases where a person has an epistemic transformation that creates a personal transformation. In dementia, the epistemic transformation involves a radical change in an individual's cognitive capacities, changing, in a deep and salient way, the nature of their lived experience of their relationships, their cognitive abilities, and their sense of the world around them. These changes lead to personal transformation: changes in some of their core preferences, for example, their preferences regarding lifeprolonging treatment in medical contexts. This type of cognitively transformative experience exhibits the classic structure of transformation, where the self that exists before the transformation (the "ex ante" self) is psychologically incommensurable with the self that is created by the transformation (the "ex post" self). The incommensurability stems, in the first instance, from a radical change in the nature and character of the individual's lived experience, which results in one or more core preference changes. Importantly, there is no higher-order preference structure that is consistent across the changes in self: there is no way to make the preferences of the ex ante self consistent with the ex post self. (For discussion, see Paul 2015a, 2015b; Pettigrew 2015; Paul and Quiggin 2018, and Pettigrew 2019.) For example, Mrs. Black (ex ante) prefers not to receive life-prolonging medical treatment if she can longer recognize friends and family, while Mrs. Black (ex post) prefers the medical treatment, as she is happy and content with her current state, despite her inability to recognize friends and family members. In the case as described, there is no higher-order preference that can resolve this conflict. Before the transformation, she prefers not to receive the treatment. Afterwards, she does. This raises the pressing question: which temporal stage (which self) of Mrs. Black should decide the question of whether she is to receive treatment? In my (Paul 2014), I discussed these issues in the context of concerns about disability, and suggested that cases


Source-specific routing, also known as Source Address Dependent Routing (SADR), is an extension to traditional next-hop routing where packets are forwarded according to both their destination address and their source address. This document describes an extension for sourcespecific routing to the Babel routing protocol. Stream: Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) RFC: 9079 Category: Standards Track Published: August 2021 ISSN: 2070-1721 Authors: M. Boutier IRIF, University of Paris J. Chroboczek IRIF, University of Paris Status of This Memo This is an Internet Standards Track document. This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has received public review and has been approved for publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 7841. Information about the current status of this document, any errata, and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at . https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9079 Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2021 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents ( ) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. https://trustee.ietf.org/license-info Boutier & Chroboczek Standards Track Page 1 Table of


Given the success of diffusion in synthesizing realistic speech, we investigate how diffusion can be included in adaptive text-to-speech systems. Inspired by the adaptable layer norm modules for Transformer, we adapt a new backbone of diffusion models, Diffusion Transformer, for acoustic modeling. Specifically, the adaptive layer norm in the architecture is used to condition the diffusion network on text representations, which further enables parameter-efficient adaptation. We show the new architecture to be a faster alternative to its convolutional counterpart for general text-to-speech, while demonstrating a clear advantage on naturalness and similarity over the Transformer for few-shot and few-parameter adaptation. In the zero-shot scenario, while the new backbone is a decent alternative, the main benefit of such an architecture is to enable high-quality parameter-efficient adaptation when finetuning is performed.


Abstract : The coefficient of thermal expansion from 1997 to 2297 degrees centigrade was determined experimentally for aluminum and magnesium oxides and Al2O3 solid solution in MgAl2O4. The nature and characteristics of thermal expansion were established for a series of ZrO2 samples stabilized by varied amounts of MgO, CaO, or Y2O3 and with monoclinic ZrO2 additions in varied amounts. (Author)


To study the interface structure and loading conditions of fiber reinforced woodceramics composite, a laminated woodceramics were prepared by using liquification wood, carbon power and carbon fiber. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) and a high-revolution transmission electron microscope (HRTEM) were employed to observe the basic structure and interface, and a micro-raman spectrometer (MRS) was used to detect the G' band shifts of stretch sample to judge the situation of interface bond. Meanwhile, the function and way of interface layer in the process of stress transfer were numerical analyzed by using Abaqus based on bilinear softening constitutive mode. The observation of SEM and HRTEM indicates the carbon fiber reinforced woodceramics presents a clear laminated structure, of which has a strong interface bonding between amorphous carbon and glassy carbon. The test of MRS show that the G' band of pressure sintering specimen shifts to low wavenumber at high extent, which proves that pressure sintering can improve the interface bonding strength between glassy carbon and carbon fiber. The numerical analysis shows that the interface layer plays an important role in the stress transfer between carbon fiber and matrix material in the loading process. As the intension and thickness of interface layer increase, the loading and the equivalent stress transfer to matrix material increases.


As the popularity of photo taking devices leads to more and more pictures being stored by everyone, various ways of describing pictures, especially in terms of aesthetic quality evaluation, have attracted great attention in the past decade or so. The purpose of the research on image aesthetic quality is to enable the computer to simulate human thinking and aesthetics to judge the aesthetic value of a picture, so as to output score or text description. From the level of art, image aesthetics is a subject that shows natural aesthetics through the integration of various photographic skills such as color collocation, depth of field processing and composition design. The research involves computer vision, psychology, text description, cognitive science and other aspects, there is a phenomenon of interdisciplinary research, has important research significance. Therefore, we will systematically analyze and summarize the research status of image aesthetic quality, and give Suggestions on the development of image aesthetic quality research.


Three boys were presented as acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis (AGEP) at Sampran Hospital, Nakhon Pathom Province. They were 4, 5 and 9 years old. The cause of AGEP was drug allergy in all cases (2 cases from amoxicillin and ceftriaxone and 1 case from cetirizine). The rashes had characteristic abrupted onset, generalized exanthematous rashes with nonfollicular sterile pustules. All patients had the leukocytosis with eosinophilia and two patients had hepatitis. After discontinuing the drugs that caused AGEP, the rashes were disappeared in all patients without treatment by steroid.


The plasma density distribution in the equatorial and low latitude ionosphere can often be severely disturbed during active space weather events that can have paramount impacts on the long‐distance high frequency (HF) radio wave (Skywave) communications through the ionosphere. On the St. Patrick's Day storm of 17 March 2015, a deep depletion of plasma with more than two orders of magnitude was observed over a narrow longitudinal sector near the sunset terminator. The controlled SAMI2 (Sami2 is Another Model of the Ionosphere) simulations indicate that a large equatorial vertical drift around sunset terminator can produce such a deep electron density depletion and strong reinforcement of equatorial ionization anomaly. The impacts of these ionospheric density disturbances on the Skywave communication systems have been investigated using an HF propagation simulator that solves the propagation path of radio waves under given background ionospheric conditions. The results clearly demonstrate that the usable HF spectrum for Skywave communications is reduced by more than 50% over the region of depletion. Further, large areas of skip zones, where the Skywave signals are not receivable, are produced due to low ionospheric densities over this region. This study can have important applications in the planning and operation of Skywave systems during the active space weather periods.


Let \(\sigma =\{\sigma_{i} \mid i\in I\}\) be a partition of the set of all primes \(\mathbb{P}\) and \(G\) a finite group. \(G\) is said to be \emph{\(\sigma\)-soluble} if every chief factor \(H/K\) of \(G\) is a \(\sigma_{i}\)-group for some \(i=i(H/K)\). A set \({\mathcal H}\) of subgroups of \(G\) is said to be a complete Hall \(\sigma \)-set of \(G\) if every member \(\ne 1\) of \({\mathcal H}\) is a Hall \(\sigma_{i}\)-subgroup of \(G\) for some \(\sigma_{i}\in \sigma \) and \({\mathcal H}\) contains exactly one Hall \(\sigma_{i}\)-subgroup of \(G\) for every \(i\) such that \(\sigma_{i}\cap \pi (G)\ne \varnothing\). A subgroup \(A\) of \(G\) is said to be \({\sigma}\)-quasinormal or \({\sigma}\)-permutable in \(G\) if \(G\) has a complete Hall \(\sigma\)-set \(\mathcal H\) such that \(AH^{x}=H^{x}A\) for all \(x\in G\) and all \(H\in \mathcal H\). We obtain a new characterization of finite \(\sigma\)-soluble groups \(G\) in which \(\sigma\)-permutability is a transitive relation in \(G\).


Objective To investigate the clinical characteristics of hospital acquired infection by acinetobacter baumannii so as to provide proof for infection prevention. Methods A total of sixty-two cases of nosocomial infection (NI) by Acinetobacter baumannii were retrospectively studied on the basis of nosocomial infection surveillance data. Results The common primary diseases were respiratory diseases, common infective site was respiratory tract, and the risk area was intensive care unit. The risk factors included the long duration of hospitalization, use of immunosuppressive agent and antibiotics, ventilator use, tracheotomy placement, Foley catheterization, central venous catheterization and so on. A. Baumannii were multiresistant to commonly used antibiotics, especially aztreonam (89.20 %), but sensitive to imipenem (1.33 %). Conclusion We must focus on the clinical characteristics of hospital acquired infection by Acinetobacter baumannii, take preventive measures, improve asepsis skills, reduce invasive procedures, and use antibiotics according to the antibiotic sensitive test. Thus the nosocomial infection of A. baumannii could be controlled and prevented.


A kinetic model was developed for copolymerization of (meth)acrylate formulations to optimize both kinetic parameters and predict the kinetics of unknown formulations. This model incorporates free volume theory and reaction diffusion changes in the kinetic constants as a function of conversion and reactivity ratios for the copolymerization events. High-throughput analysis data were collected for two systems as a function of composition and exposure time. Hexyl acrylate (HA) and hexanediol diacrylate (HDDA) show a nonlinear dependence on composition, with the maximum overall conversion occurring at 60 wt % HDDA. In addition, faster photopolymerization is observed as HDDA is added to a pure monoacrylate system but eventually limits the overall conversion in the system. Similar results were found with HDDA and tetrahydrofurfuryl acrylate (THFFA) with the highest conversion observed at 20 wt % HDDA. A model optimization was performed on both systems using a particle swarm optimization protocol to find the kin...


The Regulatory Roles of the National Universities Commission (NUC) and the quality of Nigerian University Education was investigated in this study. The study employed a descriptive survey design research. The population consisted of public Nigerian universities. Samples were made up of 1,500 subjects, consisting of 200 students each, randomly selected from six public universities in South-West Nigeria and 50 staff members (teaching and non-teaching) from each of the six universities selected. The findings of the study established a moderate level of NUC performance of its regulatory roles, a corresponding moderate level of quality of Nigerian university education, and a significant relationship between NUC performance of its regulatory roles and the quality of Nigerian university education. Based on the findings of the study, conclusions were drawn and it was recommended that the government should encourage the National Universities Commission to put up optimal performance and an acceptable credibility to demand compliance from Nigerian universities.


The free response of packaging system was modeled as the sum of free response of multi-modal system taking the complexity of packaging system into account.The number of the orders was determined using the method based on singular value decomposition;the effect of the noise in the signal on parameters identification was eliminated.The signal zeros were clustered using Prony method with higher order;the signal zeros caused by noise and zeros caused by system medal can be separated using both forward and backward prediction.The method can be used to identify the modal parameters of packaging system,and provides detailed information of the packaging system.


Recently, David Albury, who is a Board Director for the UK's Innovation Unit, came to New Zealand to discuss radical innovation in the public sector. We were able to talk with him about the importance of working across levels of government and if he had any insights into how New Zealand is faring in this area.


In order to ravel distributive characteristic of stress field of Daanshan colliery,considering faultage and fold,with ANSYS software,two-dimensional geo-stress field has been simulated.The results show:(1)Shear-stress is deeply affected by faultage and fold;(2)Tendency of major principal stress distribution is increasing with the depth and per unit of depth;(3)Simulation results are well coincide with observation results and it has a reference value to engineering,especially to deeply coal seam unmined geo-stress forecast


Trying to be an engineer of sorts and souls and suggest ways of understanding the recent shifts in why not call it the Romanian cultural imaginary? I need to take a moment to define my two main concepts. The concept of production is to be opposed to that of creation. The production of something (an object, a process) has, as its chief function that is not always visible even to the producer that of reproducing itself. The ongoings of technics dealt with by thinkers such as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Deleuze, and a few others, are perverse processes of the repetition of the same. Spinoza's subject, the general theory of systems, or explanatory models of history based on myth are sites of production whose main telos is the survival of either Spinoza's subject, or of the general theory of systems, or of a country, village, or social order. The essence of production is reproduction, the narcissistic colonization of the future. Unlike production, creation is separated from its reproduction by an abyss: nothing can be recreated. Secondly, the production of lack is a mechanism analyzed by Nietzsche, placed by Deleuze in contemporary context, and characteristic of what Kenneth Galbraith called "affluent societies" in which lack is not originary, in that it does not precede the reparatory mechanisms of reproductive ongoings. On the contrary, affluent economies are not necessarily producing something because of its perceived lack. Rather, they rush to experiment: to produce expectations that will retrospectively appear to be the "natural" desire to fill a lack. In a naturalized way, the lack will be filled by its 'fillers': we need soap operas and Hollywood, we need Coke and McDonald's burgers, we need jeans. This is to say, we have been conditioned to need them, and to fulfill our needs. In this respect, the satisfaction of such needs renders consumerism as the main social bond in a world where "to be" is, essentially, "to buy." As long as capital remains the only limit of capital, the transcendence of capital is unforeseeable from within it. Capital itself is the new, faceless face of Ananké. Thus, every lack produced by an affluent economy in tum produces objects that will further produce "lacks" and "needs," and so on. And thus, production ensures its conditions of reproduction, in fact, it continuously stays in touch with its reproductive essence, with its ongoings that Heidegger considered to be the very essence of technology. As Deleuze repeatedly said at times coopting Guattari to do so the social field of reproduction can not be separated off from the fields of desire; on the contrary, desire is at the very center of the social machine. The desire to produce the desirable, the ludicrous yet unavoidable desire of self-perpetuation to the point of a post-mortem mimesis, animates this colonization of the future that only at times of ecstasy gets out of time, into the nowhere. Characteristic of the Romanian culture of the last three decades or so is a more and more obvious split between, on the one hand, the seventies and eighties, and, on the other,


Background: Background: Congenital Dyserythropoietic Anemia Type I (CDA-I) is a rare disorder of erythropoiesis. All CDA-I patients are expected to suffer from iron overload and chronic hemolysis. Some patients with severe anemia may undergo splenectomy. Hemochromatosis, chronic hemolysis and splenectomy are all found to increase the risk for thromboembolism in thalassemic patients. Studies on thalassemic patients report an increased risk of thromboembolism, with an incidence ranging between 1.7 and 9.2% in thalassemic patients, compared to an annual incidence of 0.75-2.69 per 1000 in the general population. As a disease of ineffective erythropoiesis, CDA-I shares few pathophysiologic characteristics with thalassemia. Yet, there are no reports on the prevalence of thromboembolism in CDA-I patients, with only one case of pulmonary embolism reported in an adult patient This study sought to evaluate prevalence of thromboembolic events in a group of CDA-I patients, and try to ascertain if this group of patients is at an increased risk of thromboembolism requiring a special follow-up. Methods: Methods: a retrospective case-control study including 110 CDA-I patients (study group) and 326 age and sex-matched patients of the same ethnicity diagnosed with iron deficiency anemia (control group). . Medical charts of all patients in both groups were retrieved from the hospital's main archive and reviewed for the presence of venous and/or arterial thrombosis. Charts were screened to determine risk factors for thromboembolic events. Patients were risk-stratified using the 2010 Caprini Risk Assessment Model for thromboembolism. Continuous variables were expressed as means and standard deviations (SD). The Student's t-test was used to compare the distribution of continuous variables. Correlation between continuous variables were assessed using Pearson correlations, where r>0.5 and p value < 0.05 indicated significant correlation.To analyze the association between exposure variables and thromboembolic events, logistic regression models were used to estimate unadjusted and adjusted odds ratios (ORs) with their 95% confidence intervals (CI 95%). The chi-square test of independence was used to determine if there is a significant relationship between categorical variables. cases thromboembolic in the CDA group and one case in the control group. All of them female Caprini risk venous thromboembolism low for the three CDA patients and high for the IDA patient. When compared to the control group, patients CDA-I were nine times more likely develop a thromboembolic event 9.11, 95% CI=1.15-185.27, p=0.057). All three CDA patients had a history of remarkable hemolysis and iron overload. Two of them splenectomy. Gender was strongly associated with increased risk of thromboembolism, as all cases with thromboembolism in study were female patients. Caprini scores ranged from mild to moderate risk =2-4) for CDA patients high (score Mean values of ferritin, iron, LDH and bilirubin CDA These findings show that CDA patients appear to be at increased risk for thromboembolic


This paper investigates how different on-board energy management system (EMS) algorithms can affect the total energy consumption considering propulsion, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) operation and thermal comfort requirements. Firstly, an integrated plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) powertrain and HVAC model including vehicle cabin has been developed as a demonstrator. Two different EMS algorithms - namely a rule-based and an equivalent consumption minimization strategy (ECMS) one - are applied to the integrated PHEV model and evaluated under different environmental conditions. The results showed that the HVAC system operation affects the total energy consumption benefits when ECMS algorithm is used over the rule-based. ECMS reduces the total energy consumption by 2.5% compared to rule-based without HVAC operation, while the total energy consumption reduction changes to 5.3% and 6.3% when HVAC provides heating and cooling power respectively. Furthermore, the ECMS algorithm can reach the target of sufficient thermal comfort 1 minute earlier than rule-based in WLTC cycle. Based on the above findings we recommend evaluating the EMS algorithms with integrated propulsion and the HVAC system modeling. By applying it to real EMS unit energy consumption reduction of new vehicles under real-world operating conditions can be expected.


Allergic granulomatosis and angiitis is very rare in pregnancy. To the best of our knowledge, no such case has been reported in the English literature up to now. We describe a patient who developed multisystem disease with mononeuritis multiplex, dermal vasculitis, and pleuritis during gestation with an excellent response to therapy and a good pregnancy outcome.


A test platform of digital servo valves based on MATLAB/Simulink is given. The principle of the test platform and composition module are introduced.The signal sampling modeling is established and parameters are set up under the MATLAB/Simulink environment.The experiment and simulation results are provided in the end,which show the test platform based on BNC2090 data collecting system can measure the movement characteristic of the valve spool fast and conveniently.


Chest computed tomography showed a 63 x 59mm tumour that invaded middle lobe vein in the hilum of right middle lobe to lower lobe. We dissected interatrial septum and performed right middle and lower lobectomy by intrapericardial superior pulmonary vein plasty. Conclusions: When a tumour invades the left atrium or the intrapericardial pulmonary vein, we can make negative margin distance from tumour by cutting the serous pericardium and dissection of interatrial septum. In addition, the pulmonary vein elongation technique can preserve the lung in order to avoid bilobectomy or pneumonectomy. Disclosure: No significant relationships.


ABSTRACT While research on teacher motivation has proliferated in the past decades, little attention has been paid to kindergarten teachers' motivation for teaching, male kindergarten teachers' motivation in particular. This case study examines five male kindergarten teachers' motivation to teach in Chinese kindergartens in the light of possible selves theory. The data analysis reveals that the 'ideal self' (i.e. of professional kindergarten teachers) plays a pivotal role in maintaining the five male kindergarten teachers' motivation for teaching. Specifically, this study indicates that the male teachers' 'ideal self' motivated them to join the profession and to retain their teaching motivation when there were discrepancies among their 'actual', 'ought' and 'ideal' selves. The findings of this study have several implications for early childhood teacher education.


A pattern synthesis technique for real and coupled antenna arrays by using digital phase-only excitation weights is introduced here. The method is formulated as an integer linear programming problem incorporating a fast full-wave analysis of the array, based on the finite element method and spherical mode expansions. The method achieves radiation patterns with specified pointing directions, main lobe widths, minimum sidelobe level, and prescribed nulls, controlled by digital phase shifters.


In a multi-wire proportional chamber,the delay time of signal generated by an incident particle in the anode wire is relative to the initial position of ionization.In this paper,we report a multi-wire proportional chamber readout electronics system based on delay-line method,with detailed descriptions of the delay-line structure and calculation of delay cell parameters.The delay circuit simulation and actual measurement results are shown to verify the feasibility and superiority of this method.


Objective: Comparison of insulin resistance and that of early rehabilitation were respectively made between laparoscopic(LCR) and open(OCR) resection for colorectal cancer in order to explore the clinical significance.Methods: 60 patients with colorectal cancer were divided into 2 groups: LCR Group and OCR Group.Each group has 30 patients.We compared the HOMA and early rehabilitation before and after operation.Results: Comparison within each group: before and after operation,insulin resistance index and insulin sensitive index were significantly different(P0.05).There was no significant difference in insulin secretion index(P0.05).Comparison between groups: before operation,there were no significant differences in insulin resistance index,insulin secretion index and insulin sensitive index(P0.05).After operation,insulin resistance index and insulin sensitive index were significantly different(P0.05).There was no significant difference in insulin secretion index(P0.05).Anal exhaust,time of activities and average length of stay after operation were significantly different(P0.01).Conclusion: Degree of Insulin resistance after laparoscopic resection for colorectal cancer is smaller than that of open(OCR) resection,and it is more conductive to early rehabilitation of patients.


The synthesis and characterization by single-crystal X-ray diffraction (XRD) studies of two new zinc(II) hexaborate(2−) complexes, [Zn(en){B6O7(OH)6}]·2H2O (en = 1,2-diaminoethane) (1) and [Zn(pn){B6O7(OH)6}]·1.5H2O (pn = 1,2-diaminopropane) (2), are reported. These complexes crystallize from aqueous solutions containing 10:1 ratios of B(OH)3 and the appropriate Zn(II) amine complexes ([Zn(en)3][OH]2 or [Zn(pn)3][OH]2) through self-assembly processes. The hexaborate(2−) anions in 1 and 2 are coordinated to two Zn(II) centers and form one-dimensional (1-D) polymeric coordination chains. R22(8) and R22(6) inter-chain H-bond interactions play an important role in these self-assembly processes and are discussed.


A percolative insulator-metal transition triggered by strong electric field is observed in epitaxial thin films of (Pr 0 . 6 5 La 0 . 3 5 ) 0 . 7 Ca 0 . 3 MnO 3 . The field-driven metallic state is achieved in a regime of temperatures where the material is weakly ferromagnetic. Our experiments suggest that the metallic fraction reaches percolation threshold p c at a field-dependent temperature T p c . A strong frequency dependence of complex ac resistance in the vicinity of T p c is consistent with the picture of percolative transport in a phase-separated medium.


The present study has been undertaken with the objective of accessing the coverage of research news cum science communication in Indian print media. A content analysis of five English newspapers revealed that newspapers published research news (r.n.) items relating to medical sciences, physical sciences, social sciences, business & management & IT. Frequency of r.n. is negligible, 1.2 per day per newspaper, A strong positive relationship emerged between the newspapers' readership and frequency of research news appearance. Findings indicate that newspapers reported Indian r.n. in a big way followed by US and UK. Newspapers' own correspondents and news networks wrote maximum stories rather than news agencies. The news agencies reported r.n. from different countries without any preference for their native country. The study coined two hypotheses out of which one was rejected and alternative hypothesis was accepted.