Tourism is an exciting thing to be visited by people in the world. Search for attractive and popular places can be done through social media. Data from social media or websites can be used as a reference to find current travel trends and get information about reviews, stories, likes, forums, blogs, and feedback from a place. However, if the search is done manually one by one, it takes a long time, and it becomes interesting to do research. So, searching based on current trends will be easier and faster. For this reason, this study uses a computer base to search by ranking tourist facilities from social media data or websites using the multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) method. The implementation of the method used in finding the trend is the Fuzzy-AHP method in comparison with the AHP. The data used is data reviews, stories, likes, forums, blogs, and feedback from the web or social media. Because with these components, tourism can be developed according to visitors' wishes. The research aims to rank facilities' tourism attractions (trends) and development priorities. The priority and ranking used the fuzzy-AHP and AHP method to determine weight criteria and the ranking process. The highest ranking is on the Parks/Picnic Spots attraction, and make it a priority to develop. The methods have an average value MSE of all data is ≈ 0.0002, which can be used for this ranking.


At present,there are problems of poor management and production inefficiency in China's coal mining enterprises,so it is practically significant to improve the coal mining enterprises' production and economic benefits with a scientific,standardized,fair and effective model of performance management.The paper discusses the application of performance management,based on objective management of coal mining enterprises,builds up the model of the performance management,and analyses its application in the coal mining enterprises.


The causes and correlates of adolescent weapon carrying have received considerable scholarly attention. One common explanation of adolescent weapon carrying, the "fear and victimization hypothesis," identifies the fear of victimization as a motivating force behind this behavior. Empirical studies of this explanation, however, have produced mixed results. One potential source of this ambiguity is the myriad data and measurement issues that have arisen in prior studies of the topic. The current study addresses many of these limitations through the use of panel data from over 1,100 youth across the United States. Through a typological approach, results support a multiple pathways framework for explaining adolescent weapon carrying, as the perceived risk of victimization is positively associated with weapon carrying for those youth who report both victimization and offending experiences. For those youth who are "pure offenders," fear of victimization is inversely related to weapon carrying, while the perceived risk of victimization is unrelated to carrying weapons. Consistent with prior literature, results indicate that gang members report a disproportionately high level of weapon carrying.


Abstract A series of molecular dynamic (MD), finite element (FE) and ab initio simulations are carried out to establishsuitable modeling schemes for the continuum-based analysis of aluminum matrix nanocomposites reinforced with carbonnanotubes (CNTs). From a comparison of the MD with FE models and inferences based on bond structures and electrondistributions, we propose that the effective thickness of a CNT wall for its continuum representation should be related to thegraphitic inter-planar spacing of 3.4 A. We also show that shell element representation of a CNT structure in the FE modelsproperly simulated the carbon-carbon covalent bonding and long-range interactions in terms of the load-displacement behaviors.Estimation of the effective interfacial elastic properties by ab initio simulations showed that the in-plane interfacial bond strengthis negligibly weaker than the normal counterpart due to the nature of the weak secondary bonding at the CNT-Al interface.Therefore, we suggest that a third-phase solid element representation of the CNT-Al interface in nanocomposites is not physicallymeaningful and that spring or bar element representation of the weak interfacial bonding would be more appropriate as in the casesof polymer matrix counterparts. The possibility of treating the interface as a simply contacted phase boundary is also discussed.Key wordscarbon nanotube, molecular dynamic simulation; ab initio simulation; nanocomposite.


We performed AC calorimetry and magnetoresistance measurements under pressure for H || a-axis (easy-magnetization axis) in the novel heavy-fermion superconductor UTe2. Thanks to the thermodynamic information, multiple superconducting phases have been revealed under pressure and magnetic field. The (H,T) phase diagram of superconductivity under pressure displays an abrupt increase of the upper critical field (Hc2) at low temperature and in the high field region, and a strong convex curvature of Hc2 at high temperature. This behavior of Hc2 and the multiple superconducting phases require a state for the superconducting order parameter more complex than a spin-triplet equal spin pairing. Above the superconducting critical pressure, Pc, we find strong indications that the possible magnetic order is closer to antiferromagnetism than to ferromagnetism.


Those of us who knew Doug Palmer as a practising palaeontologist were rather sad when he gave up the subject and disappeared from the scene. However, he quickly surfaced again and now combines some teaching with his brilliant science writing for the Financial Times, New Scientist and BBC Wildlife magazine amongst others. His latest book carries the symbol of Discovery Channel, which, my colleagues with a modern TV tell me, runs superb natural history programmes. It is not clear whether the book is based on these programmes or vice versa, but it is excellent. The illustrations are beautiful and ideal for lecture slides, as are the time-sliced palaeogeographical maps drawn in both north and south polar projections with a key whole world projection. The maps are richly annotated and identify plates, margins, oceans, sediment type, together with comments specific to the time interval in question. They convey better than most I have seen, the realism of plate tectonics. Each geological time period is richly illustrated with double pages covering particular themes. It is especially welcome to see the Vendian included with two double pages including one on the emergence of multicellular life and five double pages on the Cambrian including the 'explosion', early marine life, the late Cambrian and the Burgess seaworld. This is then followed by a provoking double page on Pikaia with an exciting new reconstruction and a discussion of vertebrate relationships. These and each succeeding period contain new, colourful reconstructions of life at the time, together with the unexpected such as sections on mass extinctions and the opening of the North Atlantic. The colourful reconstructions are all excellent but some are better than others depending on which of the 12 illustrators was involved. My prize goes to the Burgess Shale (I am biased), but the Jurassic marine park shows amazing depth and perspective with all elements present in detail and giving the feeling of speed and action. No doubt the best illustrations were originally painted by hand, but I sense that computer graphics are entering the stage and when fully developed will change our entire view of past organisms as interpreted from the fossils. The coloured part of the book, covering 159 pages, is followed by the remaining 62 in sepia tones. These illustrate various themes in what is called the 'Earth Fact File', covering those such as the geological time scale, earth processes, sedimentation, evolution and molecular clocks, to name a few. Particularly provoking is a chapter on future plate tectonics with scenarios for time periods from +50 to +200 million years ahead. Then follows a section dealing with biographies, places and websites to visit, a valuable glossary, hints for further reading and bibliography and finally a comprehensive index. None of these is totally complete, the choice of names in the biography list must surely be biased with Carolus Linnaeus the only Scandinavian! Likewise, the website list does not include my own institute (http://www.toyen.uio.no/palmus) which, believe it or not, has at least 30 000 net visitors a year! In an excellent introduction, Kevin Padian writes 'One of the things that draws people to work in the field of palaeontology is thinking about the question of how things came to be'. This book is so thought provoking, well written and beautifully illustrated that it must be a huge success. At the price one wonders how such a handsome product can be produced so cheaply. It should appeal to the non-specialist, biology and geography teachers at the high school grade, undergraduates and postgraduates at all levels and university teachers of all trades. David L. Bruton


This paper presents a multi-agent model and simulator for the investigation of inhabitants' behaviour in relation with energy consumption in a household, at a fine-grain level. We present the meta-model that allows non-computer specialists to define the household activities, and the SMACH simulator that helps specialists analyse behaviour and manage and control energy consumption. We illustrate on concrete example scenarios how the system's adaptation mechanisms allow us to outline behavioural patterns.


African studies in the Czech Republic have struggled to date with a lack of specialised literature that deals comprehensively with the history of so-called Spanish Africa and other Spanish possessions in Africa. The one outstanding exception was a collective volume edited by Pavlína Springerová (Springerová, Kudynová and Polcerová 2012) but apart from that Czechs interested in these issues have had to make do with imperfect texts in publications dedicated to the history of Spain, or else use the older, not yet outdated, Dějiny Afriky (History of Africa, 1966) by I. Hrbek et al. Finally, a historical monograph has appeared on the Czech academic stage that in a structured, coherent and highly detailed manner covers the history of the three African regions where the Kingdom of Spain has left and (in the case of Ceuta and Melilla) continues to leave its mark. These are the former Spanish Morocco, Spanish West Africa, and Spanish Guinea.


Burnout among healthcare workers is a challenge for the availability and quality of healthcare services in many countries. Overall, burnout has far-reaching implications on doctors, patients, and the healthcare system. For example, emotionally and physically exhausted workers become less attentive and make mistakes more often. Moreover, contextual features of the healthcare system and the organizational culture of healthcare institutions can contribute to burnout prevention and vice versa. Burnout among healthcare workers also increases the risk of alcohol misuse, sleep disorders, fast food consumption, and the occurrence of obesity.Considering the shortage of standardized tools to measure burnout among medical workers, we aimed to adapt to the Ukrainian context one of the research tools: Maslach Burnout Inventory for Medical Personnel (MBI-HSS (MP)). The MBI-HSS (MP) addresses three scales: emotional exhaustion (EE) measures feelings of being emotionally overextended and exhausted by one's work; depersonalization (DP) measures an unfeeling and impersonal response toward patients; personal accomplishment (PA) measures feelings of competence and achievement in one's work.From November 2020 – April 2021 we conducted semi-structured interviews and questionnaires among HIV care providers (N = 117). The result revealed that 83.7 % of respondents had high emotional exhaustion, and 58.5 % had high depersonalization. But the dimension of personal achievement level was not indicative of burnout in this component: 45.5 % had a high level of personal achievement. Pre-test and piloting of the Ukrainian version of the Maslach Burnout Inventory for Medical Personnel (MBI-HSS (MP)) show the validity of this instrument. In addition, it was found that relationships with colleagues and the management of the healthcare institution were associated with higher rates of burnout among healthcare workers.


Tinea versicolor (TV), is one of the most common infectious skin diseases It is a chronic fungal disease where patients can present with symptoms ranging from hypopigmented to hyperpigmented macules associated with erythema, scaling and itching in characteristic areas of the body, including the chest, back, abdomen, and proximal extremities. Systemic antifungals (oral) e.g. fluconazole, ketoconazole etc are effective in treatment of TV but can be associated with serious adverse events. Topical treatment of Tinea versicolor can be divided into Specific antifungals and Non-specific antifungals. Non-specific antifungals include salicylic acid, selenium sulfide, sodium sulfacetamide, sodium thiosulphate, sulphur/salicylic acid, Whitfield's ointment etc. Specific antifungals include azoles and allylamines. Topical azoles are mostly imidazoles (bifonazole, econazole, flutrimazole, ketoconazole, miconazole, fenticonazole, clotrimazole, sulconazole, tioconazole) or triazoles (fluconazole). The main problem in the treatment of tinea versicolor with topical therapy can be the development of resistance which can lead to treatment failure and relapse. Newer azoles for the treatment of tinea versicolor include eberconazole, sertaconazole, luliconazole, dapaconazole which were found to be more efficacious with less chances of treatment failure and relapse and. Also, some newer formulations of older drugs such as nanoparticles, penetration enhancers are also being developed for better efficacy and less side effects.


This paper presents a platform prototype to monitor alcohol consumption for festival's attendees. The platform also aims to raise awareness about alcohol consumption in order to help people control or even reduce their alcohol consumption. The platform consists of a self-contained smart cup which the attendee uses during the day. This platform allows to easily follow the user's alcohol intake based on a model in order to display alerts if necessary. The smart cup embeds sensors to detect the liquid level and its movements. In addition, activity recognition is performed from the collected data in order to recognize when the user drinks and enhance the alcohol intake assessment. The smart cup also embeds LEDs visual displays that provides information about the alcohol intake estimation. This paper presents the design concept of the smart cup along with the technical implementation. Then, the data processing and analysis is presented for the alcohol intake estimation method using activity recognition with a Support Vector Machine classifier. An experiment have also been carried out and shows a good level of recognition above 90% for the "drinking" activity. Next, the feedback identification for the alcohol intake estimation is detailed in the last section. Finally, perspectives for the detection of abnormal behavior based on the alcohol intake assessment and the movements of the cup are introduced.


Five poly(3-alkylthiophene)s(P3ATs) with different alkyl side chains were synthesized. Pure P3ATs alone are not well suited for manipulation by the Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) technique, but their mixed systems with arachidic acid can be used to prepare high-quality Y-type films with the vertical dipping method, which was proved by UV-visible spectra and small-angle X-ray diffraction patterns. Conductivities of the LB films were measured using a two-probe method at room temperature. The conductivities exhibited obvious anisotropy and could increase by 2-4 orders of magnitude after iodine vapor doping. The influence of alkyl chain length on the conductivity in the LB films was revealed.


Measurements of density, dynamic modulus of elasticity, resonance ratio, and logarithmic decrement of damping of tin-lead alloys were taken. Materials with different composition and thickness used for the construction of organ pipes were studied and the potential influence of the individual alloys on pipe tone was estimated.


Women's reproductive rights in the Inter-American region face relentless attack as conservative movements coupled with longstanding sociocultural norms, challenge women's rights to autonomy, equality and non-discrimination. Cases emerging from human rights treaty monitoring bodies, of which one is the Inter-American System of Human Rights, have progressively noted the relationship that exists between gender, discrimination, violence against women, and women's limited, or even nonexistent, enjoyment of their reproductive health rights. While the Inter-American System has recently begun to emphasize a gender approach in its work, there remains a significant gap between rhetoric and reparation, where gender-based analysis of reproductive rights violations does not necessarily lead to engendered reparations.This paper incorporates empirical research and Ruth Rubio-Marin and Clara Sandoval's work on engendering reparations, in order to explore the gap between rhetoric and reparation in the 2012 Inter-American Court case, Artavia Murillo et al. ("In vitro fertilization") v. Costa Rica. While this case was groundbreaking for several reasons, of particular importance for this research is the Court's analysis of the role of gender as it applies to reproductive rights for men and women. This case has been championed as a victory for women's rights in the Inter-American region and beyond, and has also been the source of much contention. Although this case has much value as a major contributor to the growing body of reproductive rights litigation, there are significant shortcomings in terms of its applicability as a women's rights case, particularly in its failure to engender reparations issued in the Artavia Murillo et al. judgment. This paper highlights the recent advancements in reproductive rights litigation before the Inter-American System, while also providing recommendation for how to better engender reparations in upcoming women's (reproductive) rights cases.


This paper proposes the development of a complete compact model of an IGBT-module, for use in a circuit simulation environment. The model includes all major electro-thermal effects and such features as the self-heating of the silicon dies and package related parasitic effects. An accurate selection of simulation examples, derived from a railway traction application scenario, demonstrates the validity and the versatility of the proposed solution.


This paper focuses on the need to build a solid foundation of skills which the future maritime workforce can build on to provide the innovation and exploitation of new technologies that the Royal Navy requires. This need sits within the wider strategic context of the national engineering skills shortage, reflected recently in the EngineeringUK report: 'The State of Engineering 2018.' The report forecasts as a conservative estimate an average shortfall in engineering graduates (level 4+) of 22,000, with the impact of Brexit upon these figures yet to be determined (the UK relies on attracting talent from the EU and beyond to help meet current shortfalls). The situation regarding Level 3 – A levels, Highers, and Advanced apprenticeships reflects a similar shortfall. This issue is exacerbated by the fact that only 12% of engineering and technology employees in the UK are women; highlighting that access and availability, including gender diversity remains a challenge for this sector. It is against that backdrop, that the MOD, is collaborating across many areas; one specifically being on inspiring the next generation to undertake Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics(STEM) as subjects of choice initially, moving thereafter onto more informed careers awareness and ultimately onto career options. Such foundation building is manifest in Defence's Youth STEM engagement strategy which is whole force by design, with several major developments to date following its launch in 2016, including the establishment of formal strategic partnerships with three national STEM outreach providers; notably: Primary Engineer; Tomorrows Engineer (replicated by Energy Skills Partnership in Scotland) and STEM Learning (replicated by SSERC in Scotland) each with niche capabilities. They sit alongside all four Services within Defence and key other government departments including the devolved administration in Scotland, in the form of an implementation group to take the strategy forward. The purpose is to inspire sufficient young people to study STEM subjects, to ensure that the appropriate national talent exists from which Defence can recruit its future technical people. Several initiatives are expanded upon with illustration of the benefits, ranging from impact in the classroom (both teacher and pupil) to Defence personnel as STEM ambassadors. The paper closes with the social mobility agenda and the potential thereof from Youth STEM outreach.


Background Foods could cause adverse reactions, which manifested with similar symptoms that could complicate the diagnosis, that is, gastrointestinal disease, rashes, edema, eczema, asthma, anaphylaxis, others; these reactions may be mediated or not by immunological processes. In the past years there were many research studies related with different types of immunological reactions, like for example those mediated by IgG, which are characterized with delayed and insidious manifestations. These reactions could appear in hours or days after ingestion of a particular food. The intake of "toxic food" can lead to immunological reactions, which includes the formation of immune complexes, able to increase the development of gastrointestinal, dermatological, neurological, muscular and respiratory disorders. The objective of this study was to evaluate the frequency of significant specific IgG titers against some foods in patients referred to Corpodiagnostica Laboratory, (Caracas, Venezuela, an ISO 9001:2008 certified laboratory) from January to August 2011. Methods There were a total of 148 patients referred for serum specific IgG evaluation against foods. We measured patient's specific IgG titers against 45 foods using a commercial direct ELISA method (Dr. Fooke Labs, Germany), which is designed for the detection and quantification of specific IgG. Results We found detectable levels of specific IgG titers in highest frequency for: milk 69%, cheese 67%, egg 64%, gluten 54%, sugar cane 51%, followed by wheat meal, rye Meal, and other foods in smaller proportions. Moreover, in 46 patients with known clinical history, including gastrointestinal symptoms, respiratory symptoms, pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) and autism, we detected levels of specific IgG to a significant number of foods simultaneously. Conclusions The Specific serum IgG determination against foods could be a interesting tool to help the diagnosis of non type I Allergy reactions, and there are many published studies that have been established that the decrease or even disappearance of specific IgG titers against foods are related to the improvement of the initial clinical manifestations on some patients, but further investigations need to be performed to clearly understand the different mechanisms involved and to rule out false positive results for this test in patients without symptoms.


John?s Apocalypse is perhaps the most fascinating and mystifying of all New Testament texts. In particular, one may ask whether scribes might have engaged in editorial activity beyond the improvement of the work?s grammar and style. Apart from doubts raised over its authorship and apostolic status, critics impugn the Apocalypse for its millennial teaching, its Jewish character, its depiction of angels, and its putative historical inaccuracies. A small step in this direction is to begin with the two earliest, full length manuscripts containing the Apocalypse: the fifth-century Codex Alexandrinus and the fourth-century Sinaiticus. This chapter focuses on Codex Alexandrinus. The evidence from Sinaiticus will serve primarily as a foil. The chapter analyses their singular readings takes its methodological cues from E. C. Colwell?s programmatic essay on the subject, coupled with J. R. Royse?s 1981 dissertation on scribal habits. With Colwell and Royse it considers singular readings to be ?created? readings. Keywords: Codex Alexandrinus; E. C. Colwell; J. R. Royse; John?s Apocalypse; New Testament; scribal habits; Sinaiticus; singular readings


Abstract. A substantial part of Arctic climate predictability at interannual timescales stems from the knowledge of the initial sea ice conditions. Among all sea ice properties, its volume, which is a product of sea ice concentration (SIC) and thickness (SIT), is the most responsive parameter to climate change. However, the majority of climate prediction systems are only assimilating the observed SIC due to lack of long-term reliable global observation of SIT. In this study, the EC-Earth3 Climate Prediction System with anomaly initialization to ocean, SIC and SIT states is developed. In order to evaluate the regional benefits of specific initialized variables, three sets of retrospective ensemble prediction experiments are performed with different initialization strategies: ocean only; ocean plus SIC; and ocean plus SIC and SIT initialization. In the Atlantic Arctic, the Greenland–Iceland–Norway (GIN) and Barents seas are the two most skilful regions in SIC prediction for up to 5–6 lead years with ocean initialization; there are re-emerging skills for SIC in the Barents and Kara seas in lead years 7–9 coinciding with improved skills of sea surface temperature (SST), reflecting the impact of SIC initialization on ocean–atmosphere interactions for interannual-to-decadal timescales. For the year 2–9 average, the region with significant skill for SIT is confined to the central Arctic Ocean, covered by multi-year sea ice (CAO-MYI). Winter preconditioning with SIT initialization increases the skill for September SIC in the eastern Arctic (e.g. Kara, Laptev and East Siberian seas) and in turn improve the skill of air surface temperature locally and further expanded over land. SIT initialization outperforms the other initialization methods in improving SIT prediction in the Pacific Arctic (e.g. East Siberian and Beaufort seas) in the first few lead years. Our results suggest that as the climate warming continues and the central Arctic Ocean might become seasonal ice free in the future, the controlling mechanism for decadal predictability may thus shift from sea ice volume to ocean-driven processes.


The nutritional requirements of phytophagous insects in general were reviewed by Friend (1958). Later, some progress was recorded by Mittler and Dadd (1962) and Auclair and Cartier (1963) on the rearing of aphids on holidic diets, but information on the feeding and rearing of other plant-sucking insects on synthetic diets is very limited. Scheel et al. (1957) reported rearing 2 species of Hemiptera, Oncopeltus fasciatus (Dallas) and Euschistus variolarius (Palisot de Beauvois), on semisolid meridic diets, without the use of a membrane. They concluded that the absence of a membrane relatively impermeable to attractants and feeding stimulants is apparently an important feature toward successful feeding of these insects on synthetic diets. However, Landes and Strong (1965) showed that the hemipteron Lygus hesperus Knight can feed through various membranes and can be maintained alive for 46–113 days on oligidic diets prepared from juice extracted from green beans.


When we found ourselves faced with the task of having to make a poster illustrating the day center (DC) and its activities, the problem arose of how to convey the significance of our work in pictures. We had to choose between a printed graphic image, two-dimensional, rich in words and concepts, but with meager emotional impact, and something, as yet undefined, into which we could directly put our projects, our feelings, and our day-today experience. Indeed, it is from that experience that the title of this article comes: from the notebook located on a bookstand at the entrance to the DC in which our


This paper proposes the utilization of ultracapacitor as additional energy storage device in high power AC mining converters. A critical requirement for these converters is to be able to maintain a robust DC link under all operating conditions. However, due to lower switching frequencies of the IGBT devices, the bandwidth of the controllers is limited. As a result, during regenerative periods, the DC link voltage may have a tendency to increase. Protective devices like choppers and crowbars are added to the system. Integration of the ultracapacitor system to the converter can aid the recovery and storage of the regenerative energy and reutilize that energy for meeting the systems power demand. This will improve the overall performance of the system and reduce the dependence on the chopper and crowbar circuits. Implementation of this system translates to power quality improvement of the main grid.


This paper addresses the gap in the scientific literature regarding construction cost estimates for the construction of underground metro stations. It provides preliminary cost estimation models using linear regression for use by the Greek underground metro public transport authority for planning future extensions to the Athens and Thessaloniki networks. At the same time, it contributes to the body of knowledge by proposing material quantity prediction models and presents a two-stage preliminary cost estimation model for the construction of civil engineering works of underground metro stations. Stage one uses the construction cost budgets of six metro stations in Greece to develop a multilinear regression equation for the prediction of the overall cost for construction of civil engineering works; stage two provides estimates of material quantities using linear regression, key quantity ratios, and artificial neural networks. The data analyzed are from the prior measurements of quantities for the construction of the Chaidari to Piraeus extension of the Athens Metro Line 3. After comparing the actual values of costs and quantities with the corresponding predictions, acceptable discrepancies are observed. All models provide estimates within ±25% discrepancies, which are acceptable at the conceptual planning phase in order to initiate project funding quests.


Various algorithms and models have been proposed to address text classification tasks; however, they rarely consider incorporating the additional knowledge hidden in class labels. We argue that hidden information in class labels leads to better classification accuracy. In this study, instead of encoding the labels into numerical values, we incorporated the knowledge in the labels into the original model without changing the model architecture. We combined the output of an original classification model with the relatedness calculated based on the embeddings of a sequence and a keyword set. A keyword set is a word set to represent knowledge in the labels. Usually, it is generated from the classes while it could also be customized by the users. The experimental results show that our proposed method achieved statistically significant improvements in text classification tasks. The source code and experimental details of this study can be found on Github11https://github.com/HeroadZ/KiL.


This study examines the meaning of metaphors of women in Minangkabau community, which are expressed in the form of praise to the wise and high position of women. The praise for women in the methaporic discourse does not mean the same thing in its reality. Politically, such praise for women can be a trap for women's position and freedom. Politics is closely related to the power of words, and many politicians often manipulated the words through metaphors to create political realities that are many times untrue. It is also used to change the impossibilities to be posible to attract followers. The manipulation of the metaphors are used to marginalize women in public sphere, as well.


For the air-cooled thermal power generating unit, specific climatic conditions exert fast and great impact on the condenser pressure. When equipping turbine driven feed water pumps (TDFWP), as the exhaust steam leaving the boiler feed pump turbine (BFPT) is directly discharged into the air-cooled system, the change of environmental conditions such as air temperature and wind speed will result in the distinct change of BFPT back-pressure both in scope and magnitude. For once-through boilers, such changes will cause disturbance to feed water, and further lead to the change of fuel and air feeding. The back-pressure of main steam turbine is much higher in summer climatic condition. In order to maintain rated or certain power load, steam supplied into the main steam turbine has to be increased. Meanwhile, it is necessary to increase the steam flux in the driving turbine to maintain the needed power for feed water pumps, so there is a conflict that the driving turbine for feed water pumps will compete for steam with the main steam turbine. A dynamical mathematical model of a 600MW direct air-cooled thermal power generating unit is built in this paper. The focus is on the transient analysis of the effect of TDFWP on main equipments when the back-pressure changes in the manners of slope and step mutations. Simulation results show that when the disturbance is smaller, the unit can be quickly adjusted to the operational status at given steam and feed water flow rates. The greater the magnate of back-pressure mutation, the greater the changing range of the parameters, and the longer time is needed for adjusting. Under the condition of the same change magnitude of back-pressure, when the back-pressure rise time is longer, the parameters fluctuation is smaller. When the disturbance is larger, the steam flow of TDFWP is gradually increased to its maximum value. With further increase in the back-pressure, the steam flux in the turbine of TDFWP is gradually decreased, so it is difficult to ensure the feed water flow in this case. The results in this study provide important theoretical significance and engineering reference for the implementation of utilizing direct cooling steam feed pump technology in the actual unit.Copyright © 2011 by ASME


High Velocity Oxygen Fuel thermal spraying has been performed on AZ91D magnesium alloy with different compositions of Stainless Steel 316(ss316) and Silicon Carbide (SiC) to study and improve the surface characteristics of the substrate. The corrosion analysis, M icro Hardness analysis and Surface Roughness analysis were conducted on the coated and non-coated substrates. The experimental results obtained indicates that both corrosion resistance and hardness of the coated substrate were significantly improved on comparison with non-coated substrate also surface roughness value obtained indicates much improved characteristics which contribute to the better and wide application of AZ91D M agnesium Alloy.


According to anti-shake fortifying target in China,it analyzes the calculating method of Wenchuan earthquake crack,introduces destroyed situation of different constructing structure,different component enduring earthquake invalidation,following anti-shake design principle,it summarizes anti-shake design methods of various kinds structure buildings has important significance to later constructing design and construction.


An optimized and low cost linear Fresnel collector, adapted to the West Africa context, is being designed using local mankind and locally available materials. There is an already built collector. The concentrator has 7.5 m2 of mirrors segmented in equal width of 0.1 m. The receiver has a trapezoidal cavity with seven copper absorber tubes. The sun tracking system operates in open loop and the sun position is calculated using an algorithm. The components of the collector were selected purposely to reduce production cost while optimizing its performances. The cost of collector is €275 / m2 of mirrors and €255 / kWth for solar field and receiver respectively. The material and method for the collector characterization are outlined. An organic Rankine cycle will be coupled with the collector for electricity generation. Dynamic modelling, of an organic Rankine cycle, is being investigated using Gibbs equivalents systems method.


In the global ocean, mesoscale eddies are routinely observed from satellite observation. In the Arctic Ocean, however, their observation is impeded by the presence of sea ice, although there is a growing recognition that eddy may be important for the evolution of the sea ice cover. In this talk, we will present a new method of surface ocean eddy detection based on their signature in sea ice vorticity retrieved from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. A combination of Feature Tracking and Pattern Matching algorithm is used to compute the sea ice drift from pairs of SAR images. We will mostly focus on the case of one eddy in October 2017 in the marginal ice zone of the Canadian Basin, which was sampled by mooring observations, allowing a detailed description of its characteristics. Although the eddy could not be identified by visual inspection of the SAR images, its signature is revealed as a dipole anomaly in sea ice vorticity, which suggests that the eddy is a dipole composed of a cyclone and an anticyclone, with a horizontal scale of 80-100 km and persisted over a week. We will also discuss the relative contributions of the wind and the surface current to the sea ice vorticity. We anticipate that the robustness of our method will allow us to detect more eddies as more SAR observations become available in the future.


Particulate emissions from biomass combustion have been experimentally characterized in a laboratory facility, for a variety of fuels and combustion conditions. Two particle modes were found in all the cases; while coarse particles essentially retained the original fuel ash composition, those in the submicron mode were composed only of alkali (mainly potassium) sulphates and chlorides in different proportions. A new probe (AQPS), based on aerodynamic-quenching, and a TEM allowed for the detailed study of the fine particle formation mechanisms. Evidence has been found for the existence of "formation steps": K2SO4 nucleates first in the flue gas cooling process, whereas KCl condenses on these nuclei at lower temperatures. This is in good agreement with simple thermodynamic equilibrium calculations and with theoretical models by other authors. Experimental evidence is shown, also, for the kinetic limitation of SO2 oxidation in the route to sulphate formation. The final chloride/sulphate ratio in fine particles is greatly affected by variations in the SO2 - O2 concentrations in post-combustion gases. Moderate values of extra SO2 gas for usual O2 concentrations, as those attainable in co-firing systems, result in the total disappearance of chlorine from these particles, a fact that has been experimentally confirmed in co-combustion tests in this study. This gives more basic support to field results on deposit characteristics and boiler corrosion previously reported, and opens a way for minimizing the chlorine-associated boiler operating problems in biomass combustion. The effectiveness of three different particle sampling methods was comparatively studied in post-combustion flows containing significant amounts of inorganic condensable vapours. While the use of the AQPS probe resulted in all the cases tested in the formation of ultrafine particles by rapid vapour nucleation, the artifacts caused by the probes based on N2-dilution and thermophoresis presented great vari


We use a combination of analytical and numerical methods to study out-of-time order correlators (OTOCs) in the sparse Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model. We find that at a given order of N , the standard result for the q-local, all-to-all SYK, obtained through the sum over ladder diagrams, is corrected by a series in the sparsity parameter, k. We present an algorithm to sum the diagrams at any given order of 1/(kq)n. We also study OTOCs numerically as a function of the sparsity parameter and determine the Lyapunov exponent. We find that numerical stability when extracting the Lyapunov exponent requires averaging over a massive number of realizations. This trade-off between the efficiency of the sparse model and consistent behavior at finite N becomes more significant for larger values of N .


India has exhibited a remarkable growth in total foodgrain production during the last 40 years. Total foodgrain production has increased by 236% with an annual growth rate of 2.74% during the period 1950/51–1989/90. Average production increased by 72% between periods 1950/51–1965/66 (pregreen revolution) and 1966/67–1989/90 (green revolution). These increases have been accompanied by higher instability and risk in production of certain crops. This study applies variance decomposition procedures to time series data on foodgrains to analyse the sources of instability. Statistical identities have been used to provide an exact decomposition of the components of change in mean and variance of production. The coefficient of variation and variance of total foodgrain production increased by 6.97 and 239.65%, respectively, between the two periods. © 1993 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.


This article problematises the concept of 'Africanisation' as a response to colonial conquest and apartheid rule, bearing both political and knowledge consequences. It aims to rescue 'Africanisation' from essentialist notions, but at the same time to show how paradigms cannot be simply applied where they derive from quite different experiences. The article introduces modes of differentiating concepts that are dynamic, as opposed to static, singular and unmediated meanings that bedevil any emancipatory project. The tendency to see a moment in the life of a concept as having a settled and finalised meaning renders the qualities of democracy, and other similar liberating concepts, as settled though their meaning is never finally realised. While colonialism marginalised and devalued local knowledges, the national liberation project sought unity/homogenisation, which tended to deny distinct identities, as is largely the case today. There remains hostility to pluralism at a social and political level and a failure to recognise autonomous identities unconnected to the state or the ruling organisation, the African National Congress (ANC). The tendency towards static notions of custom and paradigms that do not derive from the experiences of African women, in particular, has tended to erase the voices of women or prejudice the emancipation of women from patriarchal oppression. Africanisation, the article proposes, must be located through an ongoing dialogue between dynamic local knowledges and a range of other explanatory tools.


Objective An understanding of the attitudes to high quality nursing among nursing undergraduates would provide a basis to enhance the quality of nursing undergraduates.Methods 300 nursing undergraduates were questioned by facilitate cluster sampling method.Results Most nursing undergraduates agreed with the importance of high quality nursing but do not quite understand the details of high quality nursing projects carried out by the Ministry of Health.Nursing undergraduates agreed to the crucial role of basic nursing in the rehabilitation of patients and also engaged in basic nursing,but did not want to engage in life nursing.Conclusion When teaching nursing undergraduates by theoretical education,we should strengthen policy education in conjunction with the social realities.


Introduction Over the last three decades, gender equality and empowerment debates are being focused. It has been realized that policies and projects without concerning the female position in the society have adverse impact on development. United NationsInternational Conference on Women in 1995, held in Beijing, stressed on the need to reduce gender inequality and to increase women empowerment. The third target of Millennium Development Goal is regarding gender equality and women empowerment.Numerous countries, regions and International Development Organizationsmade commitments to reduce gender equality as a key for sustainable economic development. The term women empowerment has different connotation which depends on social, economical, and political context in which it is used. World Bank (2001) defines "the expansion of the freedom of choices and action, which could increase women authority and control over resources and decision regarding their life."Similarly, Women empowerment is a process through which women achieve the ability to control, take ownership over resources and make strategies of life choices(Kabeer 2001). However, the process itself depends on women, through education, capacity building, skills and trainings and changes in legal and structural framework. Women empowerment covers many dimensions including social,economic, cultural, political, legal and psychological (Malhotra et al. 2002). This explains a broad variation in the concept of women empowerment.  Although, these definitions are clear but there are some constraints to measure women empowerment due to lack of standardized ways. Moreover, many researchers  tried to construct set of specific questions based on Population Based Primary Survey for measuring empowerment at individual level, (Kishor and Subaiya 2008). Women empowerment is preferred not only for the development of a country but also required to minimize poverty and promotes economic growth. (Chaudryet al.2012). According to United Nations Women Policy Division (2013), women empowerment need to be focused and all the development projects and policies need to be gender sensitize. In most of the developing countries, due to early marriages, high female unemploymentrate along with limited investment in them comply females to depend on men. Early marriage is one of the crucial reasons of lower participation of females in the labor marketcompared as to developed nations [ (World Bank 2007) , (Doepke et al. 2012)]. Plethora of literature demonstrates that women empowerment are directly associated with contraceptive use, lower fertility, and longer birth intervals[( Gwako 1997), (Schuler et al. 1997), (Balk 1994), (Woldemicael 2009), (Upadhyay and Hindin 2005)]. Furthermore, education is one of the determinants of empowerment of women which also lowers the fertility rate and improves the earnings. (Jejeebhoy1995), ( Mason 1987)]. For political empowerment, education plays a crucialrole as  well educated women are better informed about their legal rights and they can actively participatein political decision making process[ (Moghadam 2003), (Rihani et al. 2006)]. In a patriarchal society like Pakistan, women empowerment is also very difficult to achieve as societies and communities are governed by strictly social and cultural norms. In a traditional society like Pakistan, the entire major as well as the minor decisions related to inside and outside the house are taken by the men. The worse situation has been reported for Pakistan in terms of gender equality and women empowerment.  According to MDG Report (2013), Pakistan is still far away from the targets of 2015 MDGs in terms of access to education, gender equality and women empowerment which are reflected by child mortality, maternal health and nutrition (Government of Pakistan 2013). Pakistan ranks 121 st as overall in the Gender Gap Index (GGI) 2014 out of 142 counties, and 146 th out of 187 countries in Human Development Index (HDI) 2014,Furthermore,it stands141 st for economic participation and opportunity for women, ineducation attainmentit ranks 132 nd , in terms of health and survival 119 th and 85 th in terms of political empowerment in 2014 . Pakistan,Inequality Human Development Index(IHDI) value for 2013 is 0.375, Human Inequality coefficient was 28.7%, Inequality in Life Expectancy at Birth is 29.9% ,Inequality in Education was 45.2%  andInequality in income is 11% .Pakistan GII value is 0.562 and rank is 126 th out of 149 countries in the 2013 index. The Maternal Mortality Ratio is 260 per women 100,000 lives birth, Adolescent birth rate is 27.3,and female seats in parliament are 19.7%. Population with at leastSecondary education for male is 46.3% and for female is 19.3%. The impediments of low level of women empowerment in Pakistan is due to regional disparities, social values, cultural norms and traditions, ethnic and political issues (Sustainable Development Policy Institute, 2008). Furthermore, the women's status and position is also different in terms of rural and urban. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (2012), reports female literacy rate is lower and unequal as compared to men in rural and urban areas. However, women in rural areas spend more hours at work as compared to females in urban areas. Mostly in developing countries like Pakistan, women are restricted to domestic activities like doing household chores and raisings children (Mollel and Metenga ,2000) and women have less access to enjoy the opportunities, decision making, and basic resources. There is strong need of women empowerment especially on economics ground. The reason is that women are the majority of the population and represent majority of the poor. Moreover, the economic empowerment has significant impact on the livelihood of women, children at the household, but also at the community and national level(Singh(2006) , Ogato(2013). According to Awan (2012) cultural issues have more or less same impact on women regarding upper or lower classes. She further explained that the upper class women are more educated with strong financial support and available resources. However, in some tribal areas women are the victims of injustice. The status and position of women in marginalized segment or unprivileged segment of population are vulnerable. Because they don't have any chance or resources against unfair treatment, especially domestic violence. Even these women are not aware regarding their basic rights. Pakistani women are bounded in a trap of dependency and subordination due to low economic, political and social position in the society. Moreover, majority of them suffers from all kinds of poverty (Social Policy Development Centre,2009). In rural areas, women are expected to perform household choresas well as agriculture and farming activities, however their contribution is hardly appreciated and mostly taken as for granted because they are the unpaid family workers. Later, when women become old then they are able to control over some domestic decision making, the situation is much better in urban areas due to exposure of education, electronic media. However, it cannot be stated that women are empowered in urban areas as the magnitude of women discrimination is different in urban and rural areas. Although political empowerment condition is better in Pakistan as compared to china , India, and Iran, and its represent 22.2% seats in national assembly and In the Senate, women have 17 per cent of the parliamentary seat ,however its cannot explained overall women empowerment on household and community level. These women are needs to be more active for taking part in laws in order to raise women status in the society in reality they are not as much as active as they should be. This paper comprises of IV sections. Section I is introduction followed by review of literature II. Section III highlights the data sources and methodology. Section IV identifies the different dimensions of women empowerment and the last section is the conclusion and policy options.


This article illuminates the relationship between the increased importance management has gained in public institutions, and political reality in everyday work lives. It attempts to gauge the rationalities behind the managerial and the political system and derives a heuristic structure from them. On the basis of this discussion, an analysis is conducted of the origins of new public management, using Switzerland as an example. It is concluded that NPM reforms started as managerial reforms of public institutions, but that they developed into de facto political reforms. Thus the managerial background of project managers, consultants and public management scholars is a necessary but not sufficient precondition for a successful implementation of NPM in the politico-administrative system. The contribution which public management is able to make to the governance debate must not be underestimated. Not least, it leads to a clarification of the sources of legitimacy of government action. The rationality model introduced in this article is designed to make systemic differences between management and politics visible – and to improve communication between politicians and public managers.


MANET is a wireless medium, with no infrastructure, for nodes to communicate within a network. Movement of nodes is a lot more in this network than other networks due to lack of infrastructure (Wireless nature). In a mobile ad hoc network, each node functions as a router and finds the best path forwarding a packet via origin to destination. This network is important in places where building a framework is impossible, like in a military setting. A mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) is a temporary network created by unrestricted nodes that can move around and communicate without a centralized network. In a black hole attack, several or even more attacker node use a tunnel-like private channel to find a wormhole attack. Wormhole tunnel will then start collecting the data packets and transferring them to another location. The proposed work encouraged secure and effective routing in MANET. At that point, we selected 20 important attributes to create a dataset that was labelled with the aid of a unique node address. Apply two well-known machine learning classifiers that categorise data into two groups, specifically normal and malicious, to test sample data in this manner. For feature selection and SVM (Support Vector Machine) classification, respectively, we employ genetic algorithms. The demonstration of the technology was assessed on many quantifiable characteristics and compared to contemporary techniques.


Yemen is in the midst of an unprecedented crisis. Following the Houthi capture of Sana'a in September 2014 and the gradual takeover of government institutions in the first quarter of 2015, the incumbent government, including President Hadi, fled and took refuge in the southern port city of Aden and later in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The Houthis kept pressing south while a Saudi Arabian-led coalition of nine Arab countries initiated a military campaign to restore the ousted government to power. This plunged the country into a civil war that is still ongoing. This conflict has had wide-ranging effects. In the midst of these events, this note projects the poverty rate in 2016 utilizing the 2014 Yemen Household Budget Survey (HBS). Coming almost a decade after the last similarly comprehensive analysis of living standards was carried out in the country using the 2005 version the data, the survey provides insight in how households might adapt to the conflict, and also provides a useful benchmark of income and non-income dimensions of poverty in 2014 before the conflict escalated in 2015. Additionally, particular attention is paid to food security and social protection given their importance following the escalation of the conflict.


The crystallization of a celsian glass composition was investigated as a possible high-temperature ceramic matrix material. Heat treatments invariably resulted in crystallization of the hexaclesian phase unless a flux, such as lithia, was added or a nucleating agent used (e.g., celsian seeds). TEM analysis revealed complex microstructures. Glasses with Mo additions contained hexacelsian, mullite, and an Mo-rich glass. Li2O additions stabilized celsian but mullite and Mo-rich glass were still present.


FIELD: metallurgy. SUBSTANCE: aluminium-based alloy contains the following in wt %: copper 0.5-2.0; manganese 0.3-1.6; zirconium 0.1-0.5; boron 0.02-0.15; silver 0.01-0.5; scandium 0.02-0.15; iron 0.01-0.3; silicon 0.01-0.35, inevitable admixtures up to 0.1, from them each up to 0.03, aluminium - rest. The alloy has structure containing the aluminium solid solution and nanoparticles of secondary zirconium and scandium aluminides, and boron presents in the alloy structure in form of nanoparticles AlB 2 , AlB 12 with average size 50 nm maximum. The alloy has tensile strength (σ h ) after holding at 250°C for 400 hours is at least 170 MPa, and electrical conductivity is at least 55% IACS. EFFECT: increased heat resistance. 2 cl, 2 tbl


The aim of the paper is to improve drivability of passenger cars under uncertain driving conditions by adding a proper rear steering strategy. This strategy is optimized in the frequency domain where the objectives concern lateral acceleration and yaw velocity. Due to the uncertainties the objectives are random variables. Therefore, mean values are minimized to obtain best mean behavior, and variances are minimized to achieve best robustness against change of car parameters. Comparison with a reference car shows improved results for both criterion values and probability distributions, and analysis of results in time domain validates the eligibility of the objectives.© 2012 ASME


During the last couple of decades a number of offshore concrete structures have been realized, particularly in the North Sea, but also in other locations. These structures support extensive hydrocarbon production activities of considerable economic worth. Four recent and ongoing projects are described in some detail, to highlight the design and construction of such large projects. Design is important for the successful realization of expensive and multidisciplinary offshore projects. This is true for the detail engineering phase as well as the preceding conceptual and pre-engineering phases. The key to successful design of offshore concrete structures in the future lies in the understanding of key elements of the conceptual design, and their mutual dependence.


One of the biggest challenges facing modern Byzantinists is the interpretation of medieval texts. The author explores the evidence of literary sources, resulting in a new interpretation of the term produces «Amalkits». He suggests that neither Bulgarians nor Russian is not so called.


The effect of Detalutin on estrous cycles mating ovulation and implantation estradiol-17beta-induced uterine growth and litter size in albino rats was studied. .5-7.5 mg Delalutin daily for 7 days for 3 cycles did not delay estrous cycles; it decreased the variability of the rat estrous cycle. Progesterone pretreatment delayed mating time while Delalutin pretreatment caused mating to occur in about 1/3 the control time. The number of corpora lutea and implantations was also highest with Delalutin. Delalutin did not significantly inhibit the uterine-growth-inducing action of estradiol-17-beta not did it suppress the number of living young per litter as progesterone did. No females treated with Delalutin aborted.


Marital satisfaction means facilitating growth and excellence and life satisfaction. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between internet dependence and marital satisfaction in employees of the Shahroud University of Medical Sciences. This cross-sectional descriptive-analytical study was performed on the staff of Shahroud University of Medical Sciences، data were collected by completing questionnaires including demographic characteristics and Young's internet dependence (Young, 1998) and Enrich's marital satisfaction (Olson,1987). Using descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation coefficient and regression were analysed. The mean score of marital satisfaction and internet-dependent in the staff of Shahroud University of Medical Sciences was 127.8±32, 65.46±10.37 respectively. The mean of Internet dependence in men staff is higher than women staff and the mean of marital satisfaction is higher in female employees than male employees. Internet dependence has a negative and statistically significant association with marital satisfaction (r = -0.641, p. value <0.01) also regression analysis showed 41% of the marital satisfaction changes were explained and predicted by Internet-dependent. Politicians and planners of the country are suggested to prioritize programs to create a cultural infrastructure, institutionalize and training the authorized and optimal use of this technology, enriching couple relationships training and counseling before and after marriage, due to the increasing marital satisfaction and reduction emotional divorces. Key word: internet dependent, marital satisfaction, married staff, family D ow nl oa de d fr om fp ce j.i r at 1 9: 04 + 03 30 o n T ue sd ay N ov em be r 23 rd 2 02 1 2 The Correlation between Internet Dependence and Marital Satisfaction .... Family Pathology, Counseling & Enrichment


The mechanized harvesting operation of coffee sweep from ground have a great importance, due the value of the coffee that was lost by the harvest process, as well as the breakdown of the cycle of pests that can damage the coffee. To change work settings can influence significantly the capacity of the gathering system. Due, the objective of this study was to evaluate the influence the speed of displacement and rotations of the components of gathering coffee machine in its performance. The experiment was carried out in the municipality of Presidente Olegário-MG on coffee plantations aged 10 to 11 years. The field, presenting an average of 990 kg ha of coffee present in the soil after the machine harvest. The engine rotations of the tractor evaluated were 146.6, 162.3, 178.0, 193.7, and 209.4 rad.s combined with the 1A and 2A gears, resulting in different working speeds. The treatments were distributed in randomized blocks with five replicates. The variables analyzed were the gathering efficiency, cleaning efficiency, coffee losses, and percentage of mineral and vegetal impurities. It was concluded that the gathering efficiency was higher when working with 178.0 rad.s at 1.26 km h, resulting in lower coffee losses in the operation, a preponderant factor in the study. On the other hand, the best cleaning efficiency of the machine was found when using 193.7 rad.s and 1.37 km h.


Aviation fundamentally depends on well structured and rigorous record keeping frameworks. The demand for accurate data is continuously increasing for both operational and security processes, particularly in civil aviation. The principal challenge for civil aviation is protecting and sharing sensitive information, while guarding itself against the identity of illegitimate users. The emergence of blockchain and biometrics has given rise to a new direction of technological innovation, which has potential to solve the challenges fundamentally affecting the aviation sector. The proposed algorithm is designed to extract multimodal physiological biometrics, fusion with cryptographic hash to create 1024-bit (256 hex) hash in blockchain vector subspace. The primary challenge of this research is to incorporate biometrics attributes within blockchain hash function, making data available to all authorized aviation entities, and protecting sensitive PII Information against privacy, security, and unlinkability attacks. Blockchain and biometric systems provide security measures on their own. In conjunction with asymmetric encryption, the data becomes more secure when live human physiological attributes are required to unlock a secret key, as it will be incorporated with every transaction of civil aviation. The stochastic model will provide variabilities in the estimation of unique cipher key. Biometrics is the only part of the process of encrypting data which ensures unique digital identity with the presence of live users. On the other side, the time and difficulty of guessing a secret key along with global accessibility of universal data set in real time, are what makes the proposed model the most robust and cryptographically secure, integrated cybersecurity platform.


1. Thiemann S, Baum LG. Galectins and immune responses—just how do they do those things they do? Annu Rev Immunol 2016;34:243–264. 2. D ıaz-Alvarez L, Ortega E. The many roles of galectin-3, a multifaceted molecule, in innate immune responses against pathogens. Mediators Inflamm 2017;2017:9247574. 3. Mishra BB, Li Q, Steichen AL, Binstock BJ, Metzger DW, Teale JM, et al. Galectin-3 functions as an alarmin: pathogenic role for sepsis development in murine respiratory tularemia. PLoS One 2013;8: e59616. 4. Xu Z, Li X, Huang Y, Mao P, Wu S, Yang B, et al. The predictive value of plasma galectin-3 for ARDS severity and clinical outcome. Shock 2017; 47:331–336. 5. Cervantes-Alvarez E, la Rosa NL, la Mora MS, Valdez-Sandoval P, Palacios-Jimenez M, Rodriguez-Alvarez F, et al. Galectin-3 as a potential prognostic biomarker of severe COVID-19 in SARS-CoV-2 infected patients. Sci Rep 2022;12:1856. 6. Garcia-Revilla J, Deierborg T, Venero JL, Boza-Serrano A. Hyperinflammation and fibrosis in severe COVID-19 patients: galectin-3, a target molecule to consider. Front Immunol 2020;11:2069. 7. REMAP-CAP Investigators; Gordon AC, Mouncey PR, Al-Beidh F, Rowan KM, Nichol AD, Arabi YM, et al. Interleukin-6 receptor antagonists in critically ill patients with COVID-19. N Engl J Med 2021; 384:1491–1502. 8. RECOVERY Collaborative Group. Tocilizumab in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, openlabel, platform trial. Lancet 2021;397:1637–1645. 9. Gaughan EE, Quinn TM, Mills A, Bruce AM, Antonelli J, MacKinnon A, et al. An inhaled galectin-3 inhibitor in COVID-19 pneumonitis: a phase Ib/IIa randomised controlled trial. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2023;207:138–149. 10. Lamers MM, Haagmans BL. SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis. Nat Rev Microbiol 2022;20:270–284. 11. Fogarty H, Townsend L, Ni Cheallaigh C, Bergin C, Martin-Loeches I, Browne P, et al. COVID19 coagulopathy in Caucasian patients. Br J Haematol 2020;189:1044–1049. 12. Schoneveld L, Ladang A, Henket M, Frix A-N, Cavalier E, Guiot J; COVID-19 clinical investigators of the CHU de Li ege. YKL-40 as a new promising prognostic marker of severity in COVID infection. Crit Care 2021;25:66.


Is there a positive link between the use of collaborative technologies and knowledge sharing? The body of empirical evidence compiled so far suggests a negative answer to this question. Many explanations have been proposed, the most common being that current collaborative technologies do not yet have enough sophistication, or do not yet provide enough media richness, to enable knowledge sharing. This paper presents evidence that not only suggests that this explanation is wrong, but also that simple collaborative technologies can have a positive effect on knowledge sharing in organizations. This paper shows that, when combined with appropriate social processes, collaborative technologies may foster knowledge sharing. It does so by focusing on process improvement as a group process, and showing that: 1) process improvement is a catalyst to knowledge sharing and 2) a lean communication medium, namely e-mail conferencing, has a positive impact on knowledge sharing when used to support process improvement initiatives.


Experiments were conducted on the deposition of diamond films from hydrogen and methane mixtures on silicon substrates by a microwave plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition technique. Thin films of diamond were obtained. The crystallinity of the films, as determined by electron diffraction, can be controlled and changed from polycrystalline to amorphous. The chemical vapor deposition method of growing diamonds is discussed in a historical perspective in relationship to the optical properties of natural diamonds and to CVD diamond films.


In this paper, we consider a multiple-access frequency- hopped spread-spectrum communication system with Reed-Solomon codes. The performance measures of interest are an achievable region and the channel throughput. The achievable rate region is the set of all pairs of code rate and number of users for which communication is possible with error probability below a fiied value. The throughput measures the expected number of successful codeword transmissions per unit band- width. Two models of interference are considered. For these two models, we determine the optimal number of users for a given bandwidth and the optimal rate Reed-Solomon code that maximize the throughput. We also determine the achievable region for these models. way of possibly increasing the total throughput is to increase the number of users simultaneously transmitting. However, as the number of users increases, the probability of error increases (because users will be more likely to hop to the same frequency slot). Thus, we expect there to be an optimal number of users that should simultaneously transmit to maximize the throughput of reliable information. If we also normalize the throughput by the code rate being used to account for the greater bandwidth needed by coding, then there is also an optimal rate code that should be used. Another performance measure that one may be interested in is the set of pairs of rate and number of users for which communication is possible with packet error probability below a certain desired value. We call this the achievable region. This performance measure allows one to determine, for any code rate, the maximum number of users that can simultaneously transmit, or for any given number of users, the maximum code rate that can be used for the probability of success to be above a desired value. In this paper, we optimize the normalized throughput over the number of users and the code rate and then jointly optimize over both the number of users and code rate. As an example of the results we obtain, we show that for Reed-Solomon codes with perfect information about "hits" from other users during a given symbol, the code rate that maximizes the throughput is


The essay presents the edition with commentary of a previously unknown short 13th-century poetic composition. It demonstrates its origin from the Brescia area and its pertinence to the most archaic phase of the development of the laudistic genre. Concerning some graphic and phonetic aspects, the linguistic analysis of the text makes use of research into the vernacularisms found in the Latin of the medieval notarial documentation of Brescia.


How can we understand our human world, embedded as it is within the physical universe, in such a way that justice is done to both the richness, meaning and value of human life on the one hand, and what modern science tells us about the physical universe on the other hand? It is argued that a part of the solution is to see that physics seeks to describe only a severely restricted aspect of reality - that aspect which determines how events unfold, the causally efficacious aspect, in other words. Physics must restrict itself to this aspect in order to develop its magnificent explanatory theories. What we see, hear, experience, feel, think, and the human meaning and value of what we do, exists and lies beyond the scope of physics.


PURPOSE: A nozzle block assembly with the capabilities for assembly and the accuracy for printing for an inkjet marking device is provided to mechanically control the ink pressure by including a pressure regulating member inside the nozzle block. CONSTITUTION: A nozzle block assembly comprising of an inkjet marking device comprises a head base plate(110), a nozzle block(120), a nozzle plate(130), and a pressure regulating member(140). The head base plate is joined at the marking on the basic body. The nozzle block comprises an ink flowing chamber, an ink supply pipe, and an ink collecting pipe. The nozzle plate is joined at on one side of the nozzle block and comprises a nozzle hole. The pressure regulating member is arranged perpendicularly to the nozzle hole and the ink collecting pipe, thereby regulating the pressure of the ink by generating resistance to the movement of the ink in the inside of the ink flowing chamber.


PURPOSE: A method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving periodic channel information in a wireless communication system are provided to increase the quantity of transmission by periodically receiving channel information transmitted from a terminal and performing optimal scheduling for serving cells. CONSTITUTION: An apparatus for transmitting and receiving periodic channel information comprises a controller(401), a transmitter(403), and a receiver(404). The controller determines whether to set a PUSCH(Physical Uplink Shared Channel) mode to allow a terminal to periodically transmit a plurality of channel information about at least one serving cell in one frame to a base station. The transmitter transmits PUSCH mode information including a result of the determination to the terminal. The receiver receives a plurality of channel information having coinciding transmission time instants from the terminal using the PUSCH in the one frame according to the determined results. [Reference numerals] (400) Scheduler; (401) Controller; (402) PDCCH generator; (403) Transmitter; (404) Receiver; (405) Inverse multiplexer; (406) UCI decoder; (407) PUSCH decoder


Panchromatic classification algorithm (EO-1 imagery) In the 10 m panchromatic EO-1 imagery acquired for the investigation (Supplementary Table 1), landslide scars appear as bright regions where darker vegetation cover has been removed, exposing soil and rock. The result is an image with sharp contrast between the high pixel (Digital Number or DN) values of landslide-affected areas and much lower values on adjacent hillslopes. By applying an appropriate pixel intensity threshold, based on the best visual classification result for each image, landslide and non-landslide areas were extracted to a binary classification. However, additional regions with high DN values include urban areas, roads and high sediment loaded rivers. In order to remove these regions from the classification, areas with topographic gradients of less than 20 ̊ were eliminated using 90 m SRTM DEM data. This optimal value of the gradient mask was estimated through trial and error by comparing landslide areas derived from mask values ranging from 10-40 ̊ (in 1 ̊ increments) with visually-identifiable landslide areas in the original imagery.


Reading is one of the most important ways of acquiring knowledge. Researchers have pointed out that to promote the effectiveness of reading, it is very important to provide materials of the right level of difficulty. If the reading materials are too easy, readers usually cannot acquire new knowledge in the process of reading; on the other hand, if the materials are too difficult, it will cause excessive cognitive burden to the readers, affecting their learning effectiveness. Therefore, giving readers appropriate reading is an important issue. To address this issue, many scholars have begun to develop readability models and found that feature selection enhances the accuracy of readability models. However, the interaction between various feature algorithms and classifiers has yet to be much explored in past studies. Therefore, in this study, three feature selection algorithms, Chi-squared test, ANOVA, Mutual Information, and 25 classifiers, were applied to compare the accuracy of readability models for grades 1-12 in the textbooks of the Chinese language. The experimental results show the feature selection algorithm and the paired classifiers with the highest accuracy. This study found that using ANOVA as the feature selection algorithm and LGBM as the classifier can have 48% accuracy, 73% adjacent accuracy, and 85% reduction in the number of features.


International law has long held that the use of force between states is illegal. There are only two exceptions to this general rule, being Security Council authorisation for the use of force, and that done in self -defence. The latter exception has been subject to much debate, particularly in the interpretation and application of Article 51 of the United Nations (UN) Charter, which today provides statutory authority for the use of force in self-defence. More recently however, the debate has revolved around the so-called doctrine of pre-emption; that is, whether military force that is employed pre-emptively can be justified under the rubric of self-defence. The United States (US) for example, in its recent National Security Strategy, has instituted a policy of using pre-emptive self-defence to 'forestall and prevent hostile acts' by terrorist groups and rogue states using weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) (The White House 2002: 15). In light of this current policy and the international reaction to it in the wake of the Iraq War, the extent to which the US can employ a doctrine of pre -emption that conforms with, and is permitted by, international law, is an important question for analysis.


The visualized experiment was carried out on the coordination spray impingement of multi-flake orientation sleeve and 4-hole nozzles.The impact of backing pressure and impingement angle on space distribution characteristic was analyzed.The result indicates that comparing to the free spray,the multi-flake spray impingement bears smaller core zone of oil bunch and obviously increases the degree of spread.Comparing with half-impingement,full-impingement has bigger spray diffusion area.Spray penetration decrease with the increase of impinging angle,diffusion angle and area increase with the increase of the impingement angle.


The course of physical evolvement is deeply overlaid with human activities in the Modaomen Estuary.The geomorphological development,hydrodynamic force characteristics,sediment movement and erosion-deposition tendency are dramatically changed.Based on the influence of the two main human activities,including reclamation of tidal flat and construction of embankments,the results suggest that there be some significant transformations.The conditions of the water flowing over the channels and sediment deposition after spreading shoals are improved.After the implementation of the regulation project,the pattern of main stream and branching streams is clear and flow and sediment are more concentrated in the channel.The river channel have the tendency of erosion and prolongation because both runoff and sediment loads are remarkably restrained in the Modaomen channel and the runoff dynamics are synchronously strengthened.Furthermore,the transverse sections are narrowed and deepened in the Bailong River and Longshiku channel.The Modaomen Estuary exhibits the tendency of prolongation toward the sea area.


The present invention discloses a highway construction expansion of road surface drainage system comprising a water retaining ridge temporary, the new temporary embankment surface drainage groove, the new cross slope surface embankment, new embankment ditch. First, the construction of 0.1m high curbs along the outer old temporary Curb stems, connecting the old temporary water retaining ridge jet opening groove, the lower end of the old and new slot jet embankment drainage groove engagement surface of the temporary, the new connection to ditch embankment surface of the temporary new embankment Drainage channels. The present invention can effectively be old road surface water, the old and the new embankment slope water embankment embankment outside the scope of surface water excluded, to avoid the embankment highway expansion project construction period due to poor drainage, erosion, water damage and other diseases, ensure high-speed Highway expansion construction quality, simple to implement, low cost, easy to dismantle.


The work of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz contains many examples of positive representations of the Queens of Spain and the Vicereines of New Spain. These poetic portraits serve to counter the primarily misogynistic portrayals of ruling women of the seventeenth century. Most importantly, Sor Juana increased the visibility of the vicereine in colonial society and described her as a representation of the Queen of Spain's body in colonial Mexico. Sor Juana actively advocated a more participatory role for the Vicereines, and consequently for women in general, in the public sphere of governance.


A sentence is composed by semantics chunks,and therefore ellipsis in sentence means ellipsis of semantics chunks.This dissertation tries to resolve ellipsis from the perspective of the share relationships among sentences on the basis of sentence category analysis.Ellipsis should be divided into two categories: the ellipsis formed by full semantics chunks share and the ellipsis formed by integrant semantics chunks share.An algorithm is presented for ellipsis recovery,which is proved efficient for both kinds of ellipsis in the experiment.


Despite being frequently misrepresented as outdated or old fashioned (IMechE, 2009, p1), engineering is increasingly called upon to deal with some of societies biggest challenges including those associated with climate, infrastructure and security. In order to meet such challenges there needs to be a supply of engineering talent able to turn its collective mind to what is required. Yet at a time when demands for engineers able to provide innovative solutions to contemporary problems is possibly at its highest, the profession is plagued by shortages and an inability to attract young people (DIUS, 2008; RAE 2008; NSF, 2009). Although the current situation appears critical, potential future shortages of engineers means that unless action is taken urgently, matters will get worse during the next 20 to 30 years. For higher education, the challenge is how to change young peoples perceptions of engineering in such a manner that it is seen as a worthwhile and rewarding career. This paper considers this challenge, looking in detail at why young people fail to view engineering positively. A theoretical framework outlining the various real-life barriers and drivers is proposed. A critical analysis of current policy and practice suggests that in order to promote engineering as a profession that young people want to enter, both pedagogic and policy grounded solutions need to be found. By bringing together pedagogy and policy within an engineering framework the paper adds to current debates in engineering education whilst providing a distinctive look at what seems to be a recurring problem.


In this paper, we study the resource allocation problem in a small cell Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) network consisting of multiple access points (APs) and subscribed users. We formulate the subchannel allocation and the user assignment as a joint optimization problem, and solve it utilizing a novel three-sided matching algorithm. In the proposed algorithm, a unified cooperative framework is constructed in which we discuss both the non-overlapping and the overlapping coalitions formed by the APs, as well as the traditional non-cooperative case.


OBJECTIVE To predict the morbidity tendency,and provide scientific evidence for its control told prevention in Chongqing according to the analysis of the epidemic situation of the A H1N1 flu in Chongqing from January to November in 2009.METHODS Using descriptive epidemiology analysis,we monitored the visit ratio,spectra and dominate strains of influenza virus among ILI(influenza-like illness)cases in OPC(out-patient clinic)of sentinel hospitals,and monitor the epidemic traits,spectra and dominate strains of influenza virus in ILI and ARI(acute respiratory infection)cases.RESULTS 3178 A H1N1 cases and 2 death cases were reported accumulatively in 2009.The IR(incidence rate)was 11.16/100 000,the mortality rate was 0.007/100 000 and the case fatality rate was 0.06%.For seasonal influence,11708 cases were reported and the IR was 41.24/100 000.The aH1N1 virus was the dominate strain and the epidemic process of aH1N1 flu in Chongqing experienced 3 stages:imported separate case,imported cluster,multipoint cluster and outbreak with domestic cases.The popular peak was in October.Patients were distributed in 40 districts/counties;IR in metropolitan area was higher than that in suburb.The of male to female was 1.35︰1;Most of the cases were students,and the proportion of 10-20 age group was the highest.The positive rate of H1N1 antibody in blood serum was 15.4% and 10.14% irrespectively in two surveillance.Conclusion There was a pandemic influenza in Chongqing in 2009 and the route of infection changed from importing into domestic.Schools are the key venues with high flu incidence,and students are the key prevalent group.Three to four millions flu infection and two millions flu cases were estimated in Chongqing.


A valve having a valve cap with a plurality of process conduits extending therethrough, each one of the plurality of process conduits ending in a process port at a valve cap interface. The valve also has a valve body defining a valve body interface facing the valve cap interface, a diaphragm positioned between the valve cap interface and the valve body interface, across the process ports, and a purge line provided through one of the valve cap and the valve body. The valve further comprises a sealing assembly located in the valve body. The sealing assembly is configured and positioned to block fluid leaked through the diaphragm such that the fluid leaked through the diaphragm is discharged via and exit of the purge line of the valve. A chromatographic system including the valve and a method of operation thereof are also provided.


The Pomegranate, punica granatum belongs to the family lythraceae is an ancient fruit. The present study has attempted to analyze the work done by different researchers on green synthesis of silver nanoparticles and their characterization by different techniques like UV-Visible spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Tunnling electron microscopy (TEM) and X-ray diffraction method (XRD). The antimicrobial activity were also analyzed in the present paper.


The five papers in this session include the fast advancing non-volatile memory technologies. The 4b/cell of 3D NAND flash technology becomes practical in many applications and the high-speed SLC NAND flash has great potential to improve computing system performance by filling the latency gap between DRAM and flash memories. Embedded MRAMs need higher read speed and lower power operation for practical use in the next generation. low peak current, low dual-mode


In order to take the logarithmic stress singularity into account, this paper presents a new method for analysis of the singular stress field at the vertex of a composite wedge. A condition is derived for stress singularities of a form r~-l(logr) m as r ~ 0, where m is zero or a positive integer. The method is used to analyze the logarithmic singular stress field in a semi-infinite plate consisting of two edge-bonded wedges. The results of analysis show that the logarithmic singularities in the stress field may be of order (log r) 2, (log r) 1 or (log r) °, depending on the combination of materials and the vertex angle of the wedges. It is also found that the surface tractions are necessary for production of the logarithmic singular stress field. For particular tractions, the terms with the highest order of the power of log r may vanish from the expression of the stress field.


Objective To explore the influence of prognosis of different serum High sensitive C reactive protein(HS-CRP) HS-CRP level on patients with acute cerebral infarction(ACI) early. Methods With micronize strengthen immunofixation method,the serum HS-CRP level of 265 cases patients with ACI were measured on the second days after hospitalization.In addition,30 cases healthy volunteers were supposed as control group.Meanwhile,All cases patients with different serum HS-CRP level of complicating Hemorrhagic transformation(HT),incidence rate of Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome(MODS),mortality and the quality of life of survivor prognosis were analyzed.Results The serum HS-CRP level of patients with ACI were higher than control group(P0.01),31 cases patients were diagnosed as HT,and incidence was 11.70%(P0.01).26 cases were death at last,mortality were 9.81%(P0.01),28 cases were diagnosed as MODS,incidence were 10.57%(P0.01).All cases complicating HT,MODS and death at last were relational with serum HS-CRP level after hospitalized(P0.05).The difference of Neurological deficiency score(NDS),activity daily living(ADL) of patients with LCI were not significant on admission,and the difference was significant discharge(P0.05,P0.05).Conclusions The serum HS-CRP level of patients with ACI are higher than normal,the level of patients is higher,the complicating HT,incidence rate of MODS,mortality is higher,The NDS and ADL are lower.


Cloud computing enable companies to cut costs on their network services.However,there are also problems that make the companies worry.clients of cloud computing services currently have no ways of verifying the confidentiality and integrity of their data and computation.To address those problem,a new trusted cloud computer platform design model is proposed,which introduced the public key encryption mechanism for authentication mechanism based on the Trusted Network Connect and Group of Cartesian product of the encryption algorithm.The safety analysis shows that our encryption algorithm is safety to improve the trusted cloud computing.


The dozens of native fruit species from the Brazilian Cerrado occupy a prominent position in the ecosystem, for they constitute a potential source for economical exploration, due to their popular acceptance and important nutritional value (Schiassi et al., 2018). The fruits found in the Cerrado present peculiar characteristics, such as varied shapes, attractive colours and sui generis flavours. Besides the sensory characteristics that make their consumption appealing, the fruits are noteworthy for being potential sources of carotenoids and other vitamins, thus contributing for human health (Schiassi et al., 2018).


The downstream petroleum sub-sector in Nigeria has remained highly competitive since the partial subsidy removal era. Operators now adopt various marketing efforts to attract and retain customers. While several models have been used to examine the drivers of customer loyalty in the petroleum industry, no study is known that applies the 7Ps model. This study, attempts to close this gap. Data was generated from petroleum products customers in the Southeast region of Nigeria, and analyzed with the SPSS 23.0 multiple regression analysis. Findings reveal that all the 7Ps variables – product, price, place, promotion, people, process and physical evidence are significant drivers of customer loyalty. The study recommends appropriate blending of the mix elements for more positive outcomes.


The purpose of the present study is to examine the relationship between listening style preference and EFL listening proficiency for Taiwanese college students. Respondents in the study included six freshman classes of about 300 students at a university in Taiwan. One instrument adopted in the study is a listening test which will designate respondents' EFL listening proficiency. The other is a questionnaire of the Listening Styles Profile (Watson et al., 1995) which identified four distinct listening styles, i.e., people-oriented, action-oriented, content-oriented, and time-oriented. The respondents first took the EFL listening test, and then completed the listening styles profile. Finally, an interview was held with ten of the respondents to probe their perceptions of listening styles. Significant links between each listening style and EFL listening proficiency and listener gender variables was explored using correlational tests and analysis of variance. Results of the study show that Taiwanese college students adopted the people-oriented listening styles most often, and that there is positive relationship between respondents' people-oriented listening styles and their scores of EFL listening test. Based on the results, the most important implication for EFL listening instruction is to teach EFL listeners to employ people-oriented listening styles more frequently to improve their listening comprehension.


Artificial Intelligence (AI) designs computer tools that simulate human intelligence processes, including learning, reasoning, and selfcorrection.
In the educational field, AI facilitates the evaluation of student progress thro ugh neural networks that adjust tests to previously achieved achievements. The purpose of this work was to design an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) that will analyze the performance of students in the subject of Biomedical Informatics I at the Facultad de Medicina of the UNAM in order to estimate the probabilities of passing, failing, and dropping out.
Materials and methods: A neural network was designed in Python, consisting of 3 fully connected layers, using performance information from approximately 2000 students in the Moodle platform for Biomedical Informatics I during 2019, 2020, and 2021 at the Facultad de Medicina of UNAM. The neural network was trained to estimate the probable performance of the students, executing 2500 epochs with a mean absolute error level of 0.0158. A kappa accuracy rate of 0.947 was obtained through a confusión matrix when classifying between passing and failing grades. For visualization, a web system with a traffic light system was designed to allow evaluation and teaching coordinators from the Department of Biomedical Informatics to consult the results obtained from the network.
Discussion: The network must continue to be fed with controlled data, meaning data that is specifically worked for the network's training, since the quality of the data in the input directly determines the quality of the data obtained at the end of the process, affecting the network's objective attainment.
Conclusion: There is still much to learn and work to be done, but the interdisciplinary effort will allow us to improve our system and ultimately support the educational process of future doctors in the best way possible.
Keywords: Neural networks; education; Moodle; dropout; failure; AI; machine learning.


We make the electronic structure calculations of transition-metal oxides with a hollandite-type crystal structure A2M8O16 using the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) in the density functional theory, where the Hubbard-type repulsive interaction is taken into account (GGA+U). We first examine the electronic structure of the 3d series (M=Ti, V, Cr, Mn) as well as the 4d series (M=Mo, Ru, Rh) to discuss their generic features. We then discuss in particular the origins of the metal-insulator transition observed in K2Cr8O16 and quasi-one-dimensional electron conduction observed in K2Ru8O16. We also consider the observed metal-insulator transition in K2V8O16 where the effect of electron correlations may play an essential role.


The distribution of three genera of epibionts on two Daphnia species was examined in two subalpine beaver ponds. Epibiont prevalence and burden were proportional to body length in both species of Daphnia, but varied between the two Daphnia species and among female Daphnia with parthenogenic eggs in different stages of development. The most common epibiont appeared to have a doubling rate of 1 d-l, but this rapid growth rate was insufficient to increase epibiont burdens on Daphnia in a pond where salamanders fed selectively on Daphnia serving as epibiont substrates. There were two indications of significant interactions between epibiont taxa: inverse relationships between prevalence of each epibiont species and the burden of the most common epibiont, and nonrandom distributions of epibiont species combinations among the substrate organisms. There was no effect of two epibiont genera (Carchesium, Chlorungiclla) on Daphnia egg production, but the negative effect of the third, most locally abundant, epibiont genus (Colucium) was proportional to its abundance.


A review of charging order law and developments and recommendations for change. Society expects accountability in many areas. Creditors expect that people who owe them money will be accountable for their debts. A person who is injured by another person's negligence or misconduct expects the other person to be accountable. Persons who seek professional advice — whether medical, legal, accounting, or other — expect to receive competent advice tailored to their particular problem and that the professional advisor will stand behind his or her advice. Often, if not in most cases, the owners, customers, and suppliers of businesses expect the people who are managing the business to be accountable for managing the business well. Despite these understandable expectations, changes in the law in the last several years with respect to a creditor's ability to reach a debtor's interest in a partnership or limited liability company have made accountability ephemeral or non-existent in many cases.


Zone intraosseous injection rods in the iliac bone through its crest at treatment of vertical pelvic ring injuries biomechanically justified. Based on this, general concept of the apparatus external fixation for the treatment of pelvic damage offset proposed.


BACKGROUND
The diagnosis of dental caries is fundamental to the practice of dentistry. Despite the fact that dental caries has declined considerably, it is still a problem of great importance. The reduction in caries prevalence has not occurred uniformly for all the surfaces. The greatest reduction was observed at lesions located on smooth surfaces, so that occlusal caries are most common in children.

AIM
The purpose of this study is to determine the clinical efficacy of DIAGNOdent in detecting occlusal caries.

MATERIALS AND METHODS
A total number of 50 teeth were subjected for visual, radiographic, and DIAGNOdent examinations. All the three methods were compared to histology which is a gold standard.

RESULTS
The result obtained showed that DIAGNOdent is superior to visual and radiographic methods in diagnosing occlusal caries.


With the compression of the construction period,the construction unit has higher requirements for the construction schedule.As the progress control of construction is a dynamic process,the construction unit should adjust the progress of the project according to the dynamic construction schedule.In this paper,combining with the author's many years of experience in construction management,the progress of the installation of electrical equipment on construction are analyzed and discussed.