To evaluate the effect of pre-spraying growing conditions on herbicide efficacy, two years of experimentation were conducted in which Persicaria maculosa plants were exposed to different light intensities for 1?4 days before metribuzin treatment. Specific leaf area, rather than plant growth rate or plant size, was the only parameter that correlated well with herbicide efficacy in both years of experimentation. The negative relationship between the ED50 and the specific leaf area indicates that leaf characteristics might be an important determinant of herbicide efficacy, for instance through an effect on herbicide uptake. In the third year of experimentation this hypothesis was further investigated by raising six cohorts of weed plants at a 1-week interval and thus exposing them to a range of weather conditions. Clear relationships between uptake and herbicide efficacy were found for a combination of four plant species (Solanum nigrum, Senecio vulgaris, Chenopodium album and Brassica napus) and two herbicides (phenmedipham and bentazone). For phenmedipham, uptake was negatively correlated with global radiation and positively correlated with relative humidity. For the herbicide bentazone the opposite was found. These results were not species-specific. This study shows the importance of the sensitivity of herbicide × species combinations and indicates that pre-spraying weather information is relevant for the development of reduced dose rate recommendations.


Gl-arrested BHK2I cells infected with adenovirus type 2 were studied to determine the effect of infection on host DNA synthesis in a productive cycle of infection. At various intervals following infection, analysis of the intracellular DNA was carried out by zonal sedimentation centrifugation through alkaline sucrose gradients. In addition to material which sedimented to the position of the virus marker (34S), a class of high mol. wt. DNA (4o to IooS) was found to be synthesized beginning approx. I3 h p.i. and continuing up to about 35 h p.i. D N A D N A hybridization studies on this newly synthesized DNA showed it to be cellular DNA. When this material was density labelled with 5-bromodeoxyuridine and centrifuged to equilibrium through alkaline CsC1 gradients, it was found to be the product of semi-conservative replication and not of repair synthesis.


The strategy development of HR is still in the primary stage in the small and medium-sized logistics enterprises in Henan province,which need be improved.Based on the HR feature,Strategy developing HR need scientific principle,and make qualitative and quantitative target system,in order to strategy develop HR and enhance enterprise competitiveness.


The last quarter of 20th century has been marked by the drive to decode genes and later whole genomes, giving rise to the field of genomics (Lander et al. 2001). In order to study the genome it is essential to know the sequential order of nucleotides in the DNA sequence. The process of determining this order is referred to as DNA sequencing. These technologies are not limited to the study of DNA, but can also be used in a wide variety of other applications such as studying the transcriptome (RNA sequencing) and epigenetic modifications of the DNA itself. One of the most widely used technologies for DNA sequencing is the sequencing-by-synthesis solution provided by Illumina Inc (E. R. Mardis 2017). Sequencing is typically carried out at sequencing core facilities that offer sequencing as a service (Spjuth et al. 2016).


Abstract Tensile strength (TS) of soil aggregates is an important indicator of soil quality. However, TS varies with aggregate shape. Thus, the objective of this study was to quantify the influence of aggregate shape on TS and propose a shape standardization protocol to increase accuracy in the measurement of TS. The latter was determined on 7,560 aggregates divided into three shapes, (i) irregular shape (IS), (ii) spherical shape (SS), and (iii) flat surface (FS), while preserving the inherent structure of the aggregate. The aggregates with IS had a larger range in the TS (306 kPa) because of the shape variability when compared with SS (238 kPa) and FS (129 kPa). The TS determined in aggregates with FS had smaller coefficient of variation (46%) in comparison with those of IS (70%) and SS (66%), indicating that the aggregate uniformity reduced the influence of shape on the TS. A smaller force (42.12 kPa) was needed to rupture aggregates with FS than IS (58.43 kPa) and SS (56.89 kPa) because of better force distribution in causing the tensile stress. The use of aggregates with the FS enables an accurate assessment of TS in relation to a wide range of management treatments.


Italy as could be obtained at present, while at the same time calling the reader's attention to the many obscurities that still, shroud so complex a subject. The picture that emerges from his survey is one of considerable change, especially as regards the allocation of land among different crops; it is also one of marked regional differences in economic performance, notably (and ominously) between North and South. As a bibliographical aid the article will be indispensable to the specialist who ventures into this area of research; as a general, if still tentative, account of the vicissitudes of Italian agriculture during two centuries, it should definitely not escape the attention of a larger audience.


For colliding beams of several species of ions we compare thermal to perturbative quantum chromodynamic contributions for inclusive large mass muon pair production by using a hydrodynamic model to estimate the temperatures of the quark-gluon plasma produced by each species. The production of high energy dimuons with M {approx equal}-4 GeV, will be favored energetically by the quark-gluon plasma. 10 refs., 4 figs., 2 tabs.


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This paper describes the results of an analysis of loss of coolant accidents (LOCA`s) for the Soviet designed, light water cooled and moderated reactors referred to as VVERS. The VVER unit selected for this analysis is designated as VVER-440 Model 213. This plant generates 440 MWe and is of current interest since fifteen are now operating and additional units are in various stages of construction within Eastern Europe and the New Independent States. In addition to the analysis of two base case LOCA`S, this paper also presents the results of several sensitivity studies related to single failures in various plant systems that have been included in the design to mitigate the effects of LOCA`s on plant and fuel system performance. Examples of the safety systems selected for these sensitivity studies include the scram system, the accumulators, and the high pressure injection system.


The paper deals with an examination of possible application of biodegradation in the decontamination of soil samples from international airport in Ostrava. The laboratory biodegradation tests were carried out with a pure bacterial culture of Pseudomonas putida, a pure laboratory culture of Rhodococcus sp, their mixture and a mixture prepared combining their media free of bacteria. The results of the paper imply that for biodegradation of airport pollutants is most suitable to apply a mixed bacterial culture of Pseudomonas putida and Rhodococcus sp. The results show that the biodegradation method is applicable for the pollution.


Abstract The paper analyses the main geomorphologic processes in the Stemnic (Buda) river basin, conditioned by the joint action of several factors, among which are the lithological peculiarities and the nature of superficial deposits, morphometric characteristics, climate, vegetation type and structure, properties of the soil cover etc. The Stemnic river basin with an area of 15662.52 ha is characterized by its elongated shape (the maximum length is of 30.5 km, maximum width of 8.5 km), its relative lithological homogeneity, but also by a variety of superficial deposits (eluvium, diluvium, colluvium and proluvium, alluvium) and by a relief energy of significant values between 136 m and 10 m (mean value of 73 m). Under these conditions, study area is characterized by a high degree of susceptibility to the occurrence of geomorphologic risk processes. For the morphometric and morphological analysis, we applied the method of the digital terrain model (DTM) with vectorisation of the contour lines on topographic maps with a scale of 1:5,000. In this paper we used indicators that highlight the particular frequency of landslides, especially in the upper and middle sectors, but the rather reduced frequency of deep erosion. Due to the satisfactory coverage of the ground with vegetation, the erosion reaction is differentiated, as it depends on the use of the land and the concentration of liquid flow on the slopes. Consequently, landslides of different ages, types and forms hold large surfaces in the basin (approx. 8%), while surface erosion affects most areas of the slopes, but with different intensities depending on their use and on agricultural technologies.


Pahlawan streets and Pemuda streets has recently experienced significant improvements in improving the quality of public space in particular pedestrian ways. Significant improvements were addressed by the government of Semarang that all segments of society could use it more comfortable and safe, but  in  reality  both pedestrian  ways in  the  two corridors  is  still  rarely  seen  used by  people  with disabilities. Referring to the problems it is the thought that research is needed to evaluate the use of pedestrian ways on Pahlawan streets and Pemuda streets for people with disabilities. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of pedestrian ways for people with disabilities as well as obtain the factors that cause minimal numbers people with disabilities who access the pedestrian ways. Research targets are to be achieved by identifying the feasibility s tudy of literature and the public perception of disability. The research method uses deductive research methods with qualitative descriptive analysis techniques. This technique is done by commenting on  the feasibility of the elements contained in the pedestrian ways based on the literature and the public perception of disability. Based on a literature review that refers to problems in the field of research obtained variables which are divided into two focus the observation were variables pedestrian ways and variables public perception disabilities. For  people  with disabilities who selected were the physically disabled, visually impaired, hearing impaiired and ederly with perception measurement include comfort, convenience, safety, achievement, usability, sensitivity and independence. Based on the results of the analysis it is known that both the pedestrian ways on Pahlawan streets and Pemuda streets can not be said to be feasible for handicapped due to the lack of quality of both the pedestrian ways. It is also known that there are external and internal factors that dominate cause the minimum  number  of  people  with  disabilities  ranging  from  pedestrian  ways  conditions,  their  own motivation or desire, age and availability of transportation. Under these conditions, the improvements in both the pedestrian ways is necessary to improve the quality of its use for people with disabilities.


The problem of controlling the speed of introduction of raw materials into processing in in-dustrial plants for hydro desulphurization of fuels connected with considerable differences in their sulphur content is discussed. The main production- and logistic problems of appearance of dynamically changing deviations from a number of norms relating to sulphur content in raw materials being fed into cleansing reactor are presented. The problem of selecting such strategy of controlling the current ca-pacity is stated which is optimal both from the points of view of quality indicator of raw material clean-liness and of realizability of the fuel processing volume being planned. The mathematical statement of the problem is given differing from customary problems of positional control by the consideration of quality indicators of raw materials and limitations on maximally admissible output of plants for raw material processing. The principal difference consists in the introduction of stabilizing feedback con-cerning consumption resource dynamics which can be realized by means of inclusion of a certain La-grangian function being optimized. The association of this function with function of perturbing factor distribution, i.e. with changeability of sulphur content in raw material turns a conventional problem of static optimization into the problem of optimal control with integral limitation on the current capacity. For solving the stated problem optimal control, the theory has successive approximation method as well as imitational modeling method. The simplest way of solution from algorithmic point of view is the use of imitational modeling method. The playing out of a random quality in solving similar problems is prescribed through generators of random numbers. This problem is solved in the presented paper by way of imitational modeling method using an empirical mathematical model made on the basis of data of passive observation of process operation of a production plant. With the help of computer simulation means a system of imitating an external perturbing factor is created through which synthesis of stabilizing feedback is made relative to realizability of output volume in the predetermined period. Some realizations of feedback are given permitting to perform analysis and offer recommendations for suc-cessful solution of the stated problem of optimal distribution of loads under conditions of external per-turbances caused by raw material quality. It is demonstrated that for problems with sufficiently pro-longed planning interval. When its statistical parameters are safely protected by an arbitrary realization of a random perturbance, programmed control through feedback circuit proves to be more effective and guarantees higher accuracy of process optimality on the whole.


Unlike benign osteoblastomas so far reported in the literature, our case appears very peculiar in that a possible malignant transformation took place over an eight-year period. The correct diagnosis was in question throughout the course of treatment. Mayer reported a case of osteosarcoma which developed in a benign osteoblastoma which had been originally diagnosed by Jaffe thirteen years previously. Lichtenstein described a case of benign osteoblastoma in the distal part of the tibia which metastasized to the lung seven years postoperatively. More recently Jaffe stated that he has seen a few instances of malignant change in a benign osteoblastoma. Although we believe that the tumor in our patient was finally transformed into osteosarcoma, there still exists some doubt as to the exact nature of its biological behavior. We are not as yet completely certain whether this tumor now is as malignant as the usual primary osteosarcoma.


The discourses of maternity addressed by Julia Kristeva are different from radical feminists;she promoted a positive approach to production and reproducation made by the mother,thinking her as a revelator on the cultivation.Kristeva pointed that maternity is not only an instinct,mother's uterus is a space in which there has to be abjection;the child has to acquire language and enter the symbolic order.Have given examples as Christian Mater and Chinese matriarch,Kristeva suggested that those feminists need to value maternal passion and seek put a more free space to live together.


Some scholars' explanations of a Chinese word YaQia(齖(齒可)) in Dunhuang(敦煌) Transformation Texts Yaqiashu(齖(齒可)书) are not quite fitting,the original meaning of the word is skew teeth.However,when it used in the text,the meaning is converted into "a person is vicious".


Library is a growing organism and librarianship is an expanding multidimensional profession. Librarianship connects people and ideas. Library organisations connect library profession and professionals. These organisations include associations, groups, and forums, whether registered or unregistered. Pakistan was born on 14 August 1947. Punjab is the largest province in Pakistan in terms of population, libraries and library schools. Punjab Library Association is the first library association in Pakistan. At present there are 11 such organisations in the Punjab province of Pakistan. This appraisal, founded upon literature review, personal communications, observation and authors' experiences of dealing with these associations, introduces these organizations and their contribution to the cause of librarianship in the province and the country.


The origins of this thesis lie in the proliferation of various forms of supported hostel accommodation which has accompanied the increase in homelessness, particularly over the last decade. The research has two central aims. The first is to ascertain the extent to which supported hostel accommodation is meeting the needs of the homeless people living in them, and the second is to consider how it might be possible to improve such accommodation in order that it might better meet those needs. The main areas of interest relate to those issues not considered, or afforded only limited attention, by previous research. These include the outcomes of provision; the day-today experiences of hostel life (for example, what it means and how it feels to live in a supported hostel for homeless people); and the relevance and meaning of conceptual issues (such as needs, stigma, rights, power, control, choice, participation, dependence, and independence). Stage one of the fieldwork was based upon the collection of general factual information (quantitative data) about the provision in a case study area. Stage two involved a pluralistic evaluation of four very different case study hostels. The latter comprised qualitative in-depth interviews with a mixture of residents, ex-residents, workers, managers, management committee members, referral agency representatives, volunteers, and others. The thesis concludes that, for some individuals at some times in their lives, and for others more permanently, supported hostels can be an appropriate and very valuable form of housing. Indeed, it would be wholly inappropriate to residualise them in terms of quality or of standards or of their worth in general. Significant improvements to existing provision are, nevertheless, possible and desirable. Moreover, a sociologically and theoretically informed analysis can make an important contribution to highlighting how such changes might be effected.


Canada thistle, Cirsium arvense L., is an aggressive invasive species that is found in the northern United States and not easily controlled by chemical and mechanical methods. Integrating biological control agents with other methods may improve control. This study investigated the effects of Canada thistle gall fly (Urophora cardui Diptera: Tephritidae); Canada thistle stem or crown weevil (Ceutorhynchus litura Coleoptera: Curculionidae); Canada thistle bud weevil (Larinus planus Coleoptera: Curculionidae); and Canada thistle tortoise beetle (Cassida rubiginosa Coleoptera: Chysomelidae) on Canada thistle at three SD sites 1997 and 1998, about three years after initial release. Active stem weevil larvae were found in all release sites early in the season (May, June). Bud weevils were found in a limited number of plants in July. Galls and gall fly larvae were found late in the season. Defoliation from the tortoise beetle was not noted at the one site of release. Total nonstructural carbohydrate (TNC) contents of roots were 50% lower in roots from release sites compared to TNC levels in roots from control sites at two locations in 1998. Since Canada thistle infestations rely on roots for survival, reduction of root TNC may be an important mechanism to reduce patch vigor, and ultimately, Canada thistle's importance in the SD landscape.


Study of electrical and photo-electrical properties of disordered materials has been the subject of extensive investigations for the best part of the century. In spite of large number of applications, fundamentally, the understanding of these materials is yet not complete. The analysis of disordered systems is complicated because of their complex structure and diverse nature of electrical and photo-electrical properties. A systematic study of electrical and photo-electrical properties provides useful information about the band gap, density of states, mechanism of conduction, type of dominant charge carriers, recombination kinetics and defect states etc. of the material. In general, the electrical properties of amorphous semiconductors depend either on the motion of carriers in the extended states beyond the mobility edge or in the localized states near the band edge. In materials with high density of states in the energy gap and at low temperature, conduction takes place due to tunnelling between localized states at the Fermi Level. Hence, the contribution to conductivity, in general is given as [1],


Successful companies are interested in achieving their business policy and goals, ideally, with minimal financial expenses. Process Management approach is an effective way to meet the target. There are two companies that are focused on the field of process standardization: Object Management Group and Workflow Management Coalition, each of them from a different point of view. For solving complex issues it is effective to combine both approaches. That is the reason why this paper shows a novel Workflow reference model for emergency management which has to describe precisely the process deployment in the area of emergency management taking into account its process oriented methodology and complex architecture. The created model is demonstrated from the theoretical and practical point of view on a case study which describes a typical activity called "Finding an object that is suspicious to contain B-agents and toxins".


R<-->A phase transformation in NiTi alloy is associated with a very small recoverable strain of the order of 0.5% compared to that of 6-8% recoverable strain of M<-->A transformation. The stability of R<-->A transformation against large number of thermal cycles is an attractive feature for an application of SMA. A spring of NiTi is designed and fabricated, using 40% prior cold worked nitinol wire of dia 1mm, with appropriate heat-treatment such that martensitic transformation takes place through two stage A-->R-->M. The transformation behaviors of this wire are studied using DSC and electrical resistivity measurements. Further, the spring has been subjected to thermo-mechanical treatment for getting a two-way memory, viz:, while heating the spring gets contracted and while cooling it gets elongated. This spring has been used as an thermal actuator and temperature variation is confined between 50-65 degree(s)C to utilize only R<-->A transformation. Linear stroke of 4cm by the spring is used to rotate a platform carrying a load of 2 kg. The efficiency and reliability of the spring is tested over a million thermal cycles.


The invention provides a bolt hole protective tool. The bolt hole protective tool comprises a protective plug. The upper end of the protective plug is connected with a protective disc, and the diameter of the protective disc is larger than that of the protective plug. A circle of protective protrusion is formed at the edge of the protective part. The outer wall of the lower end of the protective plug is a conical surface gradually decreasing from top to bottom. According to the bolt hole protective tool, the lower end of the protective plug is designed to be an inclined surface, so that operation is convenient, and placement deviation and the like of the protective plug are effectively reduced. The edge protrudes, so that the situation that during spraying, paint and powder are attached to the edge through hardening leveling, then a bolt hole becomes bigger and burrs grow is reduced. Paint and powder entering the bolt hole are reduced, and the spraying quality is improved.


We propose a new algorithm, similar to Hermite's method for the integration of rational functions, for the resolution of Risch differential equations in closed form, or proving that they have no resolution. By requiring more of the presentation of our differential fields (in particular that the exponentials be weakly normalised), we can avoid the introduction of arbitrary constants which have to be solved for later.We also define a class of fields known as exponentially reduced, and show that solutions of Risch differential equations which arise from integrating in these fields satisfy the "natural" degree constraints in their main variables, and we-conjecture (after Risch and Norman) that this is true in all variables.


Disubstituted 2-aminobenzothiazole derivatives (2) have been prepared from disubstituted aniline (1) in presence of potassium thiocynate, bromine, glacial acetic acid and ammonia solution. It has been reacted with various aromatic aldehydes (3a-g) to afford Schiffs base derivatives (4a-g). Further , these schiff's bases are refluxed with thioglycolic acid in presence of DMF to afford 3-(6, 7-substituted-1,3benzothiazol-2-yl)-4-(4-substituted phenyl)-1,3-thiazolidin-2-one derivatives(5a-g, 6a-g, 7a-g, 8a-g, 9ag, 10a-g). The title compounds and their derivatives have been characterized by their spectral data. The synthesized compounds were screened for their antibacterial activity against Staphylococcus aureus, bacillus subtilis, Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.


ABSTRACT Total phenolic and tocopherol contents and free radical scavenging capability of wheat bran extracted using conventional and microwave-assisted solvent extraction methods were studied. Three different solvents (methanol, acetone, and hexane) were used in the conventional solvent extraction. Methanol was the most effective solvent, producing higher extraction yield (4.86%), total phenolic compound content (241.3 μg of catechin equivalent/g of wheat bran), and free radical scavenging capability (0.042 μmol of trolox equivalent/g of wheat bran) than either acetone or hexane. However, there was no significant difference in the total tocopherol contents (13.6–14.8 μg/g of wheat bran) among the three different solvent extraction methods. Microwave-assisted solvent extraction using methanol significantly increased the total phenolic compound content to 467.5 and 489.5 μg of catechin equivalent; total tocopherol content to 18.7 and 19.5 μg; and free radical scavenging capability to 0.064 and 0.072 μmol o...


At the end of the Pleistocene (10,000 years ago), there was a worldwide megafaunal extinction that included both large carnivores and herbivores. Before the extinction event, two kinds of wolf‐like canids lived along side each other for a couple hundred years in North America. This coexistence is well‐documented, based on the multitudes of fossil specimens of Canis dirus and Canis lupus from the Rancho La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles. The larger of the two, C. dirus, died out during the megafauna extinction whereas C. lupus still lives and thrives today as a top predator. It is not known why certain species went extinct during this time while others survived but the diet of C. dirus and C. lupus may have been responsible. According to the literature, C. dirus is more of a hypercarnivore compared to other canids or shows more characteristics of having a diet that is more exclusively meat based. C. lupus is a more generalized carnivore based on its dentition and varied diet. The difference between these carnivores can be seen in the size and shape of the carnassial teeth and the more posterior dentition. My study, analyzes the surface area of the dentition of both C. dirus and C. lupus to determine if they indeed had slightly different diets. If so, then I hypothesize that C. lupus was and is a more adaptable carnivore, allowing it to expand its diet during the megafaunal extinction, giving it advantage over the now extinct C dirus.


Chapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Introduction: An Overview: Disturbing the Dust of History Chapter 3 Eugene Field: Bridge to the Twentieth Century Chapter 4 L. Frank Baum: Creator of an American Metaphor Chapter 5 Ida M. Tarbell: The Greatest Muckraker Chapter 6 Howard Garis: Columnist as Storyteller Chapter 7 Edward R. Bok: Editor for Women Chapter 8 Franklin P. Adams: Literate Columnist Chapter 9 Don Marquis: That Damned Cockroach Chapter 10 George S. Schuyler: Black Press Iconoclast Chapter 11 Ring Lardner: Sportswriting as Literature Chapter 12 Edmund Duffy Tiger on a Rampage Chapter 13 Ernest Hemingway: Mythic Journalist Chapter 14 Heywood Broun: Columnist as Crusader Chapter 15 Dorothy Thompson: Journalism's Most Influential Woman Chapter 16 Henry R. Luce: Time, Life and the American Century Chapter 17 Margaret Bourke-White: Photojournalist: Editorials in Pictures Chapter 18 Walter Winchell: Reporting Gossip, and Rumor Chapter 19 Robert Benchley: Press Criticism with Humor Chapter 20 John Gunther: Journalism Becomes History Chapter 21 H.L. Mencken: Influence on a Whole Generation Chapter 22 Walter Lippmann: The Last Titan Chapter 23 Edward R. Murrow: Broadcast Journalist Nonpareil Chapter 24 Selected Bibliography Chapter 25 Name Index


Small businesses have a great importance for the economy of Brazil and the success of these companies increasingly depends on the proper management of information. But as small Brazilian companies could properly handle the security of your information due to their financial constraints? We believe that a security framework can be adapted to allow the implementation in these companies. This article aims to offer the customization of a framework that meets the essential objectives of information security in organizations and indicate essential factors to assess the feasibility of its implementation in small businesses. We selected parts of a security framework that references to standards and best practices widely accepted in the market and address the main concerns with information security in small businesses according to market research on the subject. The parties selected and best practices associated with them allowed us to create the customization of a security framework. We conclude that the Small Business Profile of NIST Cybersecurity Framework, the framework proposed in this paper, has a great installation feasibility and serves as a portfolio for information technology service providers for this segment.


This research sought to discuss the implementation of some technologies in education. As specific objectives sought to present some educational technologies that were inserted in the classrooms; to relate these educational technologies to their possible intentions and to discuss the insertion of these educational technologies in the daily life of teachers. The methodology used was the bibliographical analysis, which counted on the theoretical framework of Brito and Purificacao (2011); Vinao Frago (2008); Razzini (2008) and Habermas (2014). It was possible to perceive that, linked to the productive processes, the technologies were implanted in education as subsidies for the expansion of elementary education in the XVIII, XIX and XX centuries. However, with the advent of information and communication technologies at the end of the XX century, these tools reached the classrooms more quickly, generating new challenges and possibilities in the teaching and learning processes.


At the beginning of its independence, Russia had anticipated it would resume the status of being a great power with the aid of the west and become a partner of western countries. But out of the Cold War thought, the U.S and other western countries are not willing to see Russia regain prosperity. NATO enlargement makes Russia face compressed strategic space and worsening geopolitical circumstance. This compels Russia to alter its military and nuclear strategy and to form a strategy of resuming its status, which depends mainly on its nuclear force. Protracted political turbulence and the failure in its economic reform, however, have severely weakened Russia since its independence And what's more sharp decline of economic strength inevitably places restrictions on the new strategy.


Minimally invasive cardiac surgery is rapidly gaining popularity. Diminishing surgical trauma by using smaller incisions seems to achieve the goal of a shorter length of hospital stay with reduced cost, better cosmetic results, and overall patient satisfaction. Therefore, a number of advantages can be anticipated, especially in selected patients. However, surgical complications might also be expected. The case of a 54-year-old male suffering intraoperative aortic dissection due to femoral artery cannulation illustrates the fact that we must be very careful when introducing any modification to the usual clinical practice.


In Michigan where chestnut (Castanea spp.) cultivation is a pioneering industry, postharvest molds are responsible for significant economic losses. Molds contaminate chestnut before and at time of harvest and are exacerbated during transportation and storage. Consequently, various chemical sanitizers for fresh produce were evaluated for their effect on management of postharvest chestnut shell mold, kernel decay and weight loss during storage. Treatments were evaluated with chestnuts randomly collected after harvest from seven Michigan growers. Each treatment was repeated four times with 2.3 kg chestnuts per replication. Per replication a sub-group of 10 chestnuts was randomly picked and evaluated for microbiological quality (severity of shell mold and incidence of kernel decay) and weight loss. Overall, 2,700-ppm hydrogen peroxide + 200-ppm peracetic acid (Storox™), and 0.15-ppm trifloxystrobin (Flint ® ) significantly reduced both mold severity on the shell and the incidence of internal kernel decay compared to the other products. Other products and combinations of products may also play an important role in reducing the incidence of decayed kernels, even though they did not strongly reduce mold severity. Among these, were 0.92-ppm ozone solution (Aqua Air Technologies ® ), 7.5-mg chlorine dioxide/g of chestnuts (ICA TriNova ® ), 100-ppm peracetic acid (Lenntech™), 0.2-M sodium metabisulfite, and 1,350-ppm hydrogen peroxide + 100-ppm peracetic (Storox™) acid in combination with 1,980-ppm caprylic acid, 1,333-ppm glycolic acid and 20-ppm capric acid (CAF-06™). No product significantly reduced weight loss during storage. Based on these findings 2,700-ppm hydrogen peroxide + 200-ppm peracetic acid (Storox™) and 0.92-ppm ozone solution (Aqua Air Technologies ) are best suited to protect against postharvest chestnut mold and kernel decay respectively when combined with good agricultural practices and postharvest management.


B-type RAF (BRAF)-V600E mutations in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) have been described in up to 12% of the patients. This mutation confers a bad prognostic and poor response with standard chemotherapy. Unlike the scenario for BRAF mutant melanoma, successful BRAF blockade in mCRC has emerged as a complex path, primarily due to the complex underlying biology of mCRC. The BEACON trial has reshaped the therapeutic landscape of BRAF mCRC demonstrating the benefit of the BRAF inhibitor encorafenib in combination with the anti-epidermal growth factor receptor cetuximab. This paper aims to review the main features of BRAF mCRC as well as to review the development of targeted therapy and biomarkers in this specific population. Finally, a deep insight into the underlying biology and molecular classification of BRAF-V600E mCRC has also been performed. The words 'BRAF-V600E mutation', 'colorectal cancer', 'BRAF inhibitors', 'consensus molecular subtypes', 'encorafenib', and 'cetuximab' were used to identify the clinical trials from phase I to phase III related to the development of BRAF inhibitors in this population. A deep search among international meetings (American Society of Clinical Oncology and European Society of Medical Oncology) has been performed to incorporate the last trials presented. BRAF-V600E mCRC is a challenging disease, mostly because of its molecular biology. The BEACON trial has been the most important therapeutic change in the last decade. Nevertheless, new information regarding biomarkers or novel combinations including BRAF inhibitors plus immune checkpoint inhibitors are also promising.


Background: The microstructure of nacre is controlled by the proteins in them. Results: When PfN23 was knocked down, the shell formation in adults and larvae was suppressed. Conclusion: The basic protein PfN23 is important for the control of crystal growth in nacre. Significance: This might provide a valuable complementary to the classic view that acidic proteins control nacre formation. The fine microstructure of nacre (mother of pearl) illustrates the beauty of nature. Proteins found in nacre were believed to be "natural hands" that control nacre formation. In the classical view of nacre formation, nucleation of the main minerals, calcium carbonate, is induced on and by the acidic proteins in nacre. However, the basic proteins were not expected to be components of nacre. Here, we reported that a novel basic protein, PfN23, was a key accelerator in the control over crystal growth in nacre. The expression profile, in situ immunostaining, and in vitro immunodetection assays showed that PfN23 was localized within calcium carbonate crystals in the nacre. Knocking down the expression of PfN23 in adults via double-stranded RNA injection led to a disordered nacre surface in adults. Blocking the translation of PfN23 in embryos using morpholino oligomers led to the arrest of larval development. The in vitro crystallization assay showed that PfN23 increases the rate of calcium carbonate deposition and induced the formation of aragonite crystals with characteristics close to nacre. In addition, we constructed the peptides and truncations of different regions of this protein and found that the positively charged C-terminal region was a key region for the function of PfN23 Taken together, the basic protein PfN23 may be a key accelerator in the control of crystal growth in nacre. This provides a valuable balance to the classic view that acidic proteins control calcium carbonate deposition in nacre.


The Àbstract. Immobilizational stress , exposure time of which was 24 hour evoked in gastric mucosa of rats formation of ulcers, erosions and hemorrhages with simultaneous drastic increase of cortisol blood level. Melanin defended gastric mucosa against development of injuries evoked by stress and at the same time reduced cortisol blood level by 1,81 times. It was concluded that a decrease in cortisol blood level against a background of melanin action is the result of active influence of melanin on one of the links of mechanism of cortisol liberation.


Carbon (C), based on its high carrier density and low diffusivity, has been applied extensively in GaAs devices, where p‐active layers are required. In this study, we used C as an implant source to form p‐type active layers, rather than using the conventional epitaxial approach. The dopant activation increased dramatically if an additional argon (Ar) implantation was used. p‐channel GaAs metal‐semiconductor field‐effect transistors were fabricated with this C plus Ar co‐implantation technique and demonstrated a promising improvement on device performance.


The article analyzes a traditional idea on the description of Low Level Laser Irradiation (LLLI) resulting from some isolation (gap) of clinic-biological and optic studies in the sphere of Low Level Laser Medicine. The author uses a conventional parameter `Specific Power Density,' Ps (mW/cm3) connected with both power characteristics of laser and optical properties of irradiated biological subject. The attenuation of the LLLI in biotissue is described with a gradient P(x), where x is a distance to the source. If the distributed intensity of LLLI is integrated over the volume V so one can obtain integral intensity SP(mW). Let us divide integral intensity by the volume: SP/V. This very ratio is Specific Power Density P (mW/cm3). The calculation of energetic LLLI parameters of whole blood intravenously is submitted as an example of use of the Specific Power Density.


Texture based features used for content based retrieval of images and videos should be invariant to various distortions such as noise corruption and compression. In this paper we apply statistical steganography techniques to extract robust texture features. Two texture classification methods, directional steganogaphy histogram (DSH) method and texture decision tree (TDT) method, are presented for texture analysis and classification. Experiments show that the proposed methods can achieve high accuracy rate and also work well even when the query textures are distorted by noise corruption or compression.


contained within such an artificial delimitation as the turn of a century is open to debate. It is true, however, that these two periods of time disclose differentiating characteristics as well as a large measure of continuity. The outlook of the eighteenth century had its roots in the seventeenth, and Brehier shows this quite clearly. He sees the seventeenth century as characterized by both empiricism and rationalism. But he shows that both were concerned with an attempt to analyze both nature and mind into organized and orderly structures. Nature was regarded as a vast mechanical assembly of atoms, devoid of secondary qualities which were contributed by the mind, and devoid also of mind itself. This viewpoint was adopted by a rationalist like Descartes, a materialist like Hobbes, and a scientist like Newton. Brehier deals faithfully with the monadology of Leibniz, with its windowless monads, and shows that even this thinker, with his idealistic pluralism, yet regarded nature as a fixed and deterministic system. One could wish that he had given more place to the Cambridge Platonists who did attempt to retain a different quality in nature with their idea of 'plastic nature.' Brehier analyzes the view of mind as also a fixed system, with increasing emphasis on the authority of reason. Both the empiricism, which was finally formulated by Locke, and the rationalism which emphasized innate ideas, alike divorced mind from nature and introduced the false dichotomy of matter and mind which has haunted philosophy ever since. "Nature was abandoned, turned over to its own mechanism, it was forsaken by the mind that had studied it, penetrated it, and found in it no support." There is an excellent chapter on the contribution of Locke, while Pascal receives a far greater measure of treatment than is usually afforded him. Out of this century there emerged an emphasis on natural religion, more and more rationalistic and deistic, and an identification of the specific content of Christianity with what could be rationally demonstrated, that is to say, with natural religion.


Delivery of data-enriched applications has become a top priority on the Internet, and Internet users are demanding faster and higher-quality services. Cater such requirements, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) were introduced. However, the growth rate of information on the Internet requires infrastructural modifications to keep the consistency while maintaining quality of the Internet services. To this end, the Service-oriented Router is introduced to provide content based services by shifting the current Internet infrastructure to information- based open innovation platform. In this study, initially we provide implementation notes of a software-designed SoR. Then we propose a new method of CDN Request Redirection (RR) (SoR-based RR), which is designed to redirect packets based on the content of packets and the status of content servers using an SoR as an edge router of a CDN. Furthermore, we present the design and implementation of a prototype to realize the SoR-based RR in a testing network. By analyzing the result of the prototype implementation, we show that the SoR-based RR can enhance the both client experience and faster adaptations to the server changes in CDN environments.


Legged walking robots are able to not only move on irregular terrain but also change its posture. For example, the robots can pass under above head obstacles with crouching. These advantages are particularly effective in three dimensional complex environment which wheeled robots cannot move on. However, some of the issues of a walking robot include instability and workspace limitation. All of these impact on the realization of applications. We have studied for the improvement of them and deadlock-less gait pattern, called trajectory following gait (TFG), has been proposed. Here, the advantages of walking robots are remarked again. In order to get the most out of these advantages, an environment recognition is absolutely imperative. Applying the vision sensor to the walking robot, however, is difficult because misconception can be occurred easily by the rocking vibration. Although rough surrounding information for global planning should be recognized by the visual sensor, more reliable sensing is desirable by the local one, i.e. steps and above head obstacles. This paper presents the reliable sensing method for a local obstacle recognition using distance sensors. The overcoming locomotion and a posture control method are also proposed. Finally, the local recognition availability is verified by some experiments.


In facing global business competition, it is necessary to improve performance and competitiveness not only through products quality and cost efficiency, but also the use of Intellectual Capital, which includes Human Capital, Structure Capital, and Relational Capital. Similar to companies in general, the implementation of Intellectual Capital will also have an impact on MSMEs. The object of this research is the UMKM owned by the Difabel Community in Klaten. The test results show that all Intellectual Capital variables consisting of Human Capital, Structure Capital, and Relational Capital have a significant effect on the performance of MSMEs.


This work was carried out to evaluate the statistical properties of eight nonlinear models used to predict nitrogen mineralization in soils of the Southern Minas Gerais State, Brazil. The parameter estimations for nonlinear models with and without structure of autoregressive errors was made by the least squares method. First, a structure of second order autoregressive errors, AR(2) was considered for all nonlinear models and then the significance of the autocorrelation parameters was verified. Among the models, the Juma presented an autocorrelation of second order, and the model of Broadbent presented one of first order. In summary, these models presented significant autocorrelation parameters. To estimate the parameters of nonlinear models, the SAS procedure MODEL was used (SAS). The comparison of the models was made by measuring the fitted parameters: adjusted R-square, mean square error and mean predicted error. The Juma model with AR(2) best fitted for nitrogen mineralization without liming, followed by Cabrera, Stanford & Smith without autoregressive errors, for both with and without soil acidity correction.


This article reviews existing Australian petroleum and mining legislation relating to the regulation of unconventional oil and gas; examines some of the recent policy responses in relation to coal seam gas developments in agricultural lands, the use of hydraulic fracturing and their impact on water resources; and identifies some of the reasons why law reform is required.


Grains have been the most important food source constituting approx.60-70%
carbohydrate of total food intake. Different grains form staple diets of people in
different parts of the country. Whole grains are now recognized as an important
source of fiber and other micro-nutrients like trace minerals, vitamins etc. Other
than staple food, grain is processed to yield various food products which has
greater acceptance by consumer as they appear to be more attractive in terms of
colour, texture and flavour. The present dissertation has been focused on current
status of different grains used as food, importance of grains, classification of
grains, processing and products made from them and machineries required for
processing and utilizing them. All these gathered knowledge will help to develop
newer products with enhanced properties in further research work. The
subsequent sections include description of use of different grains to make
varieties of grain products and recent advancement of research on grains as well.


This study takes a knowledge structures approach to explore the concept of pedagogic frailty (Kinchin et al., 2016) in the field of tourism studies. Pedagogic frailty in higher education is a recently established concept, which involves a number of key issues that significantly affect teaching practice, such as stress, change, environment, and adaptation (Kinchin et al., 2016). Being deeply rooted in academic perceptions, pedagogic frailty is, in essence, individual, but also global and cross-disciplinary, as it is a response to contemporary challenges and pressures of academia (Caton, 2012; Teelken, 2012). We view pedagogic frailty as an individual set of perceptions, which are also shared (or not) within departments and institutions, often through academic conventional wisdom passing from senior colleagues to young academics (Klocker & Drozewski, 2012; Kinchin et al., 2016). In order to analyse the micro-dynamics of shared pedagogic frailty within this conventional wisdom, we present auto-ethnographic narratives of two academics (an early career researcher and a senior colleague), who have team taught for three years across all academic levels (undergraduate and postgraduate). We analyse the potential for pedagogic frailty in its most simple and intimate academic sharing form to achieve a deeper understanding of pedagogic frailty and resilience as integrative concepts, and their evolution through formal and informal interactions between a young and an established academic. This is achieved through a concept map-mediated autoethnographic study of two individuals team-teaching in a UK School of Hospitality and Tourism Management. The study shows that elements contributing to the emergence of pedagogic frailty are partially shared, and rooted in conventional wisdom, which is endorsed by senior colleagues attempting to mentor younger academics in the highly complex and changing academic environment. References: Caton, K. (2012). Taking the moral turn in tourism studies. Annals of Tourism Research, 39(4), 1906–1928. Kinchin, I.M., Alpay, E., Curtis, K., Franklin, J., Rivers, C., & Winstone, N.E. (2016). Charting the elements of pedagogic frailty. Educational Research, 58(1), 1–23. Klocker, N., & Drozewski, D. (2012). Survival and subversion in a neoliberal university, available at: http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2202&context=smhpapers (accessed 14 January 2015). Teelken, C. (2012). Compliance or pragmatism: How do academics deal with managerialism in higher education? A comparative study in three countries. Studies in Higher Education, 37(3), 271–290. 1 Morgan et al.: Pedagogic Frailty and Conventional Wisdom in Tourism Education Published by Digital Commons @ TRU Library, 2017


Effective instructional strategies have been highlighted in teaching Quantum physics (QP) since this topic is theoretically complex and different from classical physics. In addressing this issue, a needs analysis (NA) was carried out to identify the anticipated challenges in QP learning and facilitation (L&F) and the integration of STEM education in a physics classroom. This research is a qualitative study where a semi-structured interview was conducted with two experts in physics education and two physics teachers selected under a purposive sampling approach. The interview was one-on-one through online platforms, held during the Covid-19 pandemic's mobility control order (MCO). The data from the semi-structured interview was analysed using thematic analysis, and the findings were presented as thematic maps. Two major themes emerged from the thematic analysis: 1) the expectation in QP L&F based on experts' and teachers' views and 2) the discrepancies in SSQP-STEM L&F gathered from the teachers' opinions and perspectives. The first theme denotes 1.1) teachers' professional development, 1.2) pedagogical content knowledge, 1.3) instructional strategy, and 1.4) QP L&F resources. The second theme describes the discrepancies of SSQP-STEM L&F in terms of 2.1) QP nature, 2.2) insufficiency of resources in QP L&F, and 2.3) teachers' perceptions of students' characteristics in the physics classroom, and 2.4) the teachers' competencies issues in teaching QP. Overall, the finding shows that a practical instructional module needs to be developed to cater to the physics teachers' demands.


This paper is dedicated to the memory of Professor Rudolf E. Kalman. Professor Rudolf Kalman was a friend and mentor to both of us whose profound insights deeply influenced our research. His contributions to Systems Theory are far too numerous to describe in detail in such a short note, so we will be content with outlining some of the key highlights. The field of Mathematical Systems Theory was essentially created by Professor Rudolf Kalman, and has had a huge impact on the way all modern systems and control is being carried out today. Indeed, the contribution to science and technology is so great that we feel it should be put into the context of the history of science. In his book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn made a distinction between normal science, the science where incremental progress is made, and revolutionary science. Part of the distinction is based on comparing puzzle solving (which normal science usually does), and the concept of a paradigm shift. Examples of such paradigm shifts include the Copernican revolution, the Newtonian revolution, general relativity, and quantum mechanics, each of which changed the universe of discourse. Kuhn argues that such revolutions occur when there are "anomalies" (i.e., crises) when explanations based on current science break down. We believe that in the field of systems and control, there was such a crisis in the 1950's. There were several indicators of these anomalies: 1. Internal Stability: Feedback control systems designed from an external (input/output) point of view failed to recognize the presence of internal instabilities. 2. The approach to design of multi-input/multi-output systems was essentially a reduction to a sequence of single-input/single-output systems through a decoupling technique. 3. The attempts to deal with the Wiener filtering problem in the nonstationary situation (ZadehRagazzini) leading to some analogue of the Wiener-Hopf equation was not very successful since no procedure analogous to spectral factorization was available. The resulting scientific revolution, in the way theories of systems and control developed, was almost single-handedly carried out by Rudolf Kalman. There are several key points to be sketched. Firstly, there was the reconciliation of the external and internal point of view of systems; namely, the introduction of the fundamental problem of realization (representation) theory of input/output maps and the concomitant fact that the input/output map captures the reachable and observable Sanjoy Mitter is with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, MIT, MA; email: email@example.com A. Tannenbaum is with the Departments of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics & Statistics, Stony Brook University, NY; email: firstname.lastname@example.com


The article considers the long-term resultant action of complex of existing factors on the morphometric indices of the bream ( Abramis brama L.) in the Kremenchuk reservoir. The breams with the best exterior indices were fished by traditional fishing net during more than 40 years. This fact resulted in the survival of individuals with certain direction of variability and conduces to the change of an average index to particular value. As a result of the research, functional accordance of the morphometric indices with the environmental conditions was ascertained.


Serum testosterone level steadily decreases with ageing [1]. Low testosterone levels in older adults have been associated with increased adverse cardiovascular (CV) events [2-5].


As concern about watermark robustness grows, different approaches based on the introduction of synchronization marks have been presented to survive geometrical attacks. Most of the proposed techniques rely either on the introduction of a dedicated template either on the detection of particular properties in the autocorrelation function (ACF) of the watermark itself in order to resist against scaling and rotation transformations. The use of this side-information at the detector makes an inversion of the transformation possible. However, due to the publicness of this side-information, those techniques turn out to be very vulnerable to a removal attack. We propose an innovative method to hide the synchronization marks and therefore prevent malicious removal attacks (eg. template attack,...). The ability to detect the synchronization marks will be conditioned by the knowledge of a secret key. The technique consists in using an image dependent secret binary mask to modulate the synchronization pattern before it is introduced in the image. The ability to recover this binary mask upon rotation and scaling allows the detection of the synchronization marks even after transformation. Although mask recovering presents a considerable error rate, sufficient detection of the synchronization marks can be achieved. The mask, obtained from a signal-dependent partition, leads to a spectral spreading of the synchronisation mark, making template attacks nearly impossible to perform.


The cavitation's influence on the intensification of the dispersing process at the realization of mechanisms of DPEI are considered. Designed and installed an experimental stand for research of the influence of the hydrodynamic cavitation on dispersion of complex heterogeneous systems. Given results of experimental researches of influence of thermal modes of dispersion systems with phospholipids on the properties of formed particles.


A comparative analysis of the thermodynamic parameters of the atmosphere, obtained by the radiosonde data of the station Novosibirsk and data of thunderstorms and heavy rains of meteorological station Ogurzovo for the summer seasons of 2000-2011 are introduced. The limits of variability and characteristics of some parameters (SHOW, CAPE, TOTL, KINX, LIFT, EQLV, LFCT) during thunderstorms and heavy rains were determined.


In this study, it was found that tannic acid could inhibit the chemiluminescence (CL) intensity of luminol–H2O2–cupric oxide nanoparticles significantly. Based on this inhibition effect, a novel and highly sensitive flow injection method with inhibited chemiluminescence was developed for the determination of tannic acid. Under optimum conditions, the net CL intensity was proportional to the concentration of tannic acid over the range of 10–100 nM and the detection limit was 2.6 nM. The relative standard deviation (RSD) for six repeated determinations of 80 nM tannic acid was 2.8%. Note that this method has been successfully used for the analysis of tannic acid in real Chinese gall samples.


The attempt to record visual experience has been of central importance to many artists throughout the history of art. Vision itself is made up of many processes, both psychological and physiological, and is still only partially understood. This paper presents research into an aspect of visual experience descried as 'close-up double vision', which has been directly informed by the artwork of the Swansea born artist Evan Walters. Close-up double vision occurs when an object is seen extremely close to a viewer whose eyes are not both fused on the object concerned, creating a doubling effect in the visual field. Walters termed this doubling effect caused by lack of binocular fusion 'double vision' and spent much of the latter part of his career trying to record it. This paper briefly introduces Walters' experiments in double vision and outlines current research that attempts to record this aspect of visual experience in artworks.


Wool production traits were measured on Merino hogget ewes in an unselected multiple-bloodline flock over a 7-year period at Trangie Agricultural Research Centre, N.S.W. The traits measured were greasy fleece weight (GFW), skirted fleece weight (SKFW), yield (Y), clean fleece weight (CFW), fibre diameter (FD), body weight (BWT) and staple length (SL). These measurements were used to examine genetic differences between and within flocks of Merino sheep, and to estimate heritability of and genetic and phenotypic correlations among these traits. Significant strain, flock within strain and flock effects were present for all traits. Interactions between these effects and year were non-significant. Within-flock genetic variance was always larger than between-flock within strain genetic variance for each trait. The influence of environmental effects on these traits was also examined. The environmental effects of birth-rearing type, age at observation and age of dam together accounted for about 7-10% of the total within-flock variation in fleece weights and body weight. After adjusting for significant environmental effects, paternal half-sib heritability estimates were 0.29 i. 0.06 for GFW, 0.22 -c 0.05 for SKFW, 0.35 i. 0.05 for Y, 0.30 + 0.06 for CFW, 0.48 i 0.07 for FD, 0.34 i. 0.06 for BWT and 0.44 & 0.07 for SL. Estimates for genetic and phenotypic correlations were in agreement with published estimates except for the genetic correlation between CFW and FD (0.40 i. 0.1 l), and the genetic correlations involving BWT, which were essentially zero. The implications of the results of this study for the genetic improvement of Merino sheep for wool production are discussed.


Data centers are extremely important facilities that contain core business information and applications, but the energy consumption is an inevitable issue, so the thermal distribution monitoring is critical for data centers reliable and stable operation. Thermal information enables monitoring and autonomic thermal management in large data centers. Recent approaches that employed a mobile robot or a thermal camera network can already collect the physical positions of hot spots. However, most of the features extracted from thermal images, such as shape and gradient, may be affected by changes in the position and direction of the thermal camera. In this paper, a thermal distribution monitoring method is proposed to extract the thermal features of a hot spot or a server in a container data center. In the first stage of our method, thermal and visual images are registered based on texture characteristics in images that are obtained in data centers. Then, the thermal distribution of each server is standardized. The features of the hot spot or server extracted from the standard distribution can diminish the impact of camera position and direction. The experimental results verified the efficient and the advantages of this method.


Summary The most important results of this investigation may be summarized as follows:— The high frequency limits of the spectra of helium, hydrogen, and mercury when stimulated by large electron currents under potentials up to about 800 volts have been determined. The measurements are believed to be most accurate for helium and least accurate for mercury. The helium spectrum extends to a limit which is certainly between 470 and 420 and probably near to the latter value. The hydrogen spectrum terminates at a wave-length between 830 and 950 Angstrom units and probably close to 900. The mercury spectrum terminates at a wave-length between 1000 and 1200 Astrom units. So far as we are able to ascertain, the observed terminal frequencies are identical with the frequencies calculated from Bohr's theoretical values of the ionization potentials of the respective gases, and they exhibit no obvious relationship to the ionization potentials which have been determined experimentally by Franck and Hertz and others. Th...


After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact which marked the end of the Cold War the security arrangements in Europe like the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) , the North Atlantic Cooperation Council (NACO) etc, all appeared to be leading to peace and CEEC security. In light of these historic events, there were many who questioned the need for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and called for the creation of new security arrangements with new leadership roles. This thesis argues that NATO will continue to form the cornerstone of stability, security and dialogue in the "New Europe".
The argument will center on the following assertions 1) The collapse of Warsaw Pact which brought about a condition of instability in Central Europe 2) NATO has proven to be more effective than other security organizations in terms of the capability to solve and address the issues that emerged after the Cold War in CEEC. It has also become involved in security tasks beyond its original mission, which was the defense of the member states from outside attack 3) NATO remains available and will continue to be an indispensable forum in the future in order to bring stability to CEEC.The analysis in this thesis shows that NATO's specific long-standing functions have remained remarkably unquestioned and even been reaffirmed by the system-change in Europe 1989-1991.


The paramagnetic mixed sandwich compounds CpTicot and Me-CpTicot (Cp = eta/sup 5/-C/sub 5/H/sub 5/, Me-Cp = eta/sup 5/-CH/sub 3/-C/sub 5/H/sub 4/, cot = eta/sup 8/-C/sub 8/H/sub 8/) were studied by ENDOR. It is shown for the first time that signals due to /sup 47/Ti and /sup 49/Ti nuclei in natural abundance can be resolved in dilute frozen solutions. These data yielded a measure of the quadrupole interaction from which a negative field gradient at the Ti nucleus could be deduced, indicating that the d/sub x/sup 2/-y/sup 2// and d/sub xy/ metal orbitals are significantly occupied. Proton ENDOR below 60 K allowed us to measure the principal values of the hyperfine tensor and to deduce proton coordinates from a simple point dipole model. The onset of fast ring reorientation above 60 K is clearly manifested by a gradual transformation of the low-temperature, powderlike ENDOR spectrum into a single crystallike spectrum. The effect of methyl substitution on Cp rings demonstrates that the ring reorientation is only governed by intermolecular interactions.


This ethnography of communication study details three themes (hard work, family, and religion) as relevant to the lives of Mexican American interlocutors in Biola, CA. The project entailed four summers of participant observations and 43 formal interviews (that is, 1993 1996, June August) with additional informal chats and observations taken at other times of the year. The conclusions of the study demonstrate how the role of family and religion serve as unifying forces despite the economic struggles that so many of the families face in this small, agricultural community.


Single-point incremental sheet forming processes represent today a promising alternative to traditional sheet forming operations for producing low batches or even prototypes without the use of expensive dies. Several investigations have been carried out in recent years to study the fundamental aspects of incremental sheet forming operations, with particular attention to determination of material formability. In this framework, the Authors propose to study the material tendency to be formed by incremental forming, called SPIFability, through different indicators, and to evaluate this tendency as a function of the process parameters, with particular regard to the relative velocity between the tool and the blank. Other reported studies — based on both experimental and numerical studies — have tried to give a comprehensive explanation of the deformation mechanisms that arise during incremental sheet forming, and that possibly affect the material formability. However, none of the proposed theories are today fully accepted by the scientific community. In order to study the relevant deformation mechanisms, the Authors propose to analyze the microstructural characteristics of the formed parts by means of optical microscopy and the fracture surfaces by means of scanning electron microscopy. The investigated case study is an axi-symmetric part characterized by a varying slope with depth, made from blanks of the aluminum alloy AA5182. The parts were formed on a CNC machine until the first crack appeared, and then were measured by means of a Coordinate Measuring Machine to evaluate their thickness profile and geometrical parameters.Copyright © 2010 by ASME


Based on the brief introduction of the CPPI strategy, this paper testifies positively the CPPI strategy by historical data of composite index of shanghai stock exchange at different periods including long position, short position and concussive period, and at different minimum insured values and multipliers. By comparing with BH strategy, we find that CPPI strategy is efficacious in China's security market.


The direct numerical prediction of broadband noise radiating from realistic turbulent flows interacting with solid surfaces is still in infancy. The main drawback is related to the computational efficiency - both in terms of processing time and storage capacity - but equally important is the accuracy of imposing turbulent inflow boundary conditions or the initiation of the solution with a realistic turbulent flow. In this paper, we introduce a divergence-free synthetic turbulent eddy model based on the assumption that turbulence can be considered as a superposition of random eddies convected with the mean flow. The vector potential and the requirement that the individual eddies must satisfy the linearized momentum equations about the mean flow are used to enforce the divergence-free condition. Experimental benchmark data for spatially decaying isotropic turbulence and nonhomogeneous rotor-wake turbulence are used to evaluate the proposed synthetic eddy method.


Ostrich meat has become a global commodity. Ostrich meat is considered to be healthier than beef meat, because of it low intramuscular fat content (Sales, 1996). This has lead to an increased global demand for ostrich meat. Successful ostrich production is crucial to supplying this increased global demand. Chick mortality rates are high and this is a major stumbling block for producers (Cloete et al., 2001; Cloete et al., 2002). Crossbreeding is known as a tool to improve fitness traits in populations and thus enhance the overall performance of an animal.


This paper attempts to explore how American and Chinese college students perceive and are stereotyped towards each other. The data was collected from 150 American college students and 82 Chinese college students. The results are based on the keywords generated from the sentence population produced by the samples. This study finds out that the knowledge of American journalist students of Chinese people and Chinese culture is very shallow, and cultural stereotypes are obvious in their perceptions. The results of the Chinese data show that the knowledge level of Chinese college students about American people and American culture is higher than the knowledge level of American students about Chinese people and Chinese culture. Key words: Cultural stereotypes; Chinese culture; American culture


Abstract : A study is made of the free vibrations of sandwich beams with viscoelastic cores. The study includes formulation of the equations of motion and natural boundary conditions, derivation of expressions for the modal distribution of damping based upon small damping assumptions, numerical examples and a supporting test program. Significant among the numerical results were the high damping rates calculated for beams with steel facings and butyl rubber cores. It was found, however, that the calculated and test values were not in accord. This lack of agreement signifies the necessity for greater refinement in both analytical methods and test procedures. (Author)


Objective: To demonstrate a method of describing and analysing the interactions between people engaged in decision making in health care network meetings.


This article concerns with a new model of the sound envelope p rocessing in the auditory system. The so-called non-negative-impulse-respons e (NNIR) modulation filters concept argues that if any form of the acoustic signal envelope filter ing took place in the auditory pathway, this process should not be described in terms of a band-p ss filtration. This modification of the traditional model of the auditory system temporal res olution, based on the modulation filterbank (MFB) activity, results from the cardinal proper ty of the sound envelope and its neural representation, i.e. neural discharges period hist ogram, which are unavoidably unipolar signals of non-negative values. It has been assumed that if hypothetical modulation filters existed, they should be characterised by a non-negative-im pulse-response and, consequently, the frequency characteristics of such filters might not reve al the band-pass properties. The results of the model investigations are compared with selec ted psychophysical and physiological data.


The use of a therapeutically effective amount of an anticholinergic 1, optionally together with a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient for the manufacture of a medicament for the prevention or treatment of pulmonary edema associated with heart failure or atrial fibrillation as complication of heart failure, wherein the anticholinergic 1 is selected from the salts of tiotropium.


This work aims at studying the role of the spin-phonon coupling in the stabilization of magnetically-induced ferroelectric phases in magnetoelectric materials. To achieve this objective, we have characterize the thermodynamic, dielectric, magnetic, polar and magnetoelectric properties of Gd1−xYxMnO3 system, with 0 ≤ x ≤ 0.4. The overall set of experimental results enable us to draw the (x, T) phase diagram of this system and to elucidate the e ect of an applied electric eld on the magnetic properties of the compounds. An induced electric polarization was observed in GdMnO3, which is not associated with any kind of cooperative phenomena. For x ≥ 0.1, antiferromagnetic phases are stabilized at low temperatures, and some of them simultaneously exhibit polar properties. Although only the lowest temperature magnetic phase is polar, a magnetoelectric coupling was evidenced for higher temperatures. Moreover, the study of lattice dynamics through Raman spectroscopy reveals the existence of a spin-phonon coupling even in the paramagnetic phase. This result points for the existence of precursor e ects of the low temperature magnetic phases. Clear deviations of the Raman modes renormalized frequency as a function of temperature relatively to the anharmonic classical behavior, is interpreted in the framework of spin-phonon coupling model, in which the balance between competitive ferro and antiferromagnetic interactions is considered. An association between the spin-spin correlation function and the renormalized frequency of the Raman modes is presented.


A wear-resistant molybdenum alloy plug and a preparation method belongs to the technical field of wear resistant material. The mass fraction of 62 to 67% of molybdenum powder, 8 to 12% of Al2O3 powder, 10 to 12% of Y2O3 powder, 8-10% of titanium powder, 3-5% zirconium powder, 2 to 2.5% carbon powder, 0.08 to 0.16% boron powder was milled in a ball mill to obtain a homogeneous mixing prealloyed powder, prealloyed powder is molded and pressed into the blank, the blank is then sintered at 1600 ~ 2400 ℃, sintering ~ 10 20h after furnace cooling, to obtain wear-resistant molybdenum alloy head.


The present invention is a vehicle comprising a beam unit which relates to a light weight bumper beam using a composite rod, by connecting the upper flange, a lower flange and an upper flange and a lower flange vehicle front side will be closed to have a 'C' shaped opening towards the vehicle body in the bumper beam; The same or more properties that meet the said top flange and each of the outer surface has also been integrated into a form in which the upper composite rod and the lower composite rod made of a different material as that of the beam body buried, by lowering the thickness of the beam body specifications of the lower flange that one have to provide a light weight bumper beam using a composite rod according to claim. According to the present invention, by improving the structure of the bumper beam, while satisfying all of the rules and regulations can be provided a bumper beam mounted to a vehicle can be obtained an effect for enabling to lower weight on the total weight.


Abstract This article employs the principal-agent model to broaden the understanding of the interrelationship between Lithuanian political parties and the members of parliament (MPs). An analysis of ex ante measures in containing agency losses revealed that Lithuanian political parties (the proximate principals) encounter undisciplined behaviour on the part of their MPs (the agents). Furthermore, the majority of political parties have experienced difficulties in selecting the 'right' candidates and the 'right' MPs. This outcome challenges the principles of delegation and accountability and, most likely, diminishes the representative functions of the Lithuanian political parties at the initial stage of the political delegation chain.


In Montevideo (2013-2018), 8 Campylobacter fetus extraintestinal infections were reported, including 1 woman with meningitis that transmitted the bacteria to her newborn. The polyclonal nature of strains revealed by whole-genome sequencing and the apparent lack of epidemiological links was incompatible with a single contamination source, supporting alternative routes of transmission.


Introduction – Total knee arthroplasty is considered as one of the most painful procedures in field of orthopedic surgery. In this study we intended to evaluate the analgesic efficacy of Local Infiltration Analgesia (LIA) with post-surgical single shot of adductor canal block in terms of good post-operative analgesia and early post- operative mobilization thus allowing faster rehabilitation and recovery and thereby improving the final outcome of TKA in long term.
Material and method- A total of 60 patients were enrolled, 30 in each group. Group A received Standard General anesthesia & postoperative analgesia with a single shot of adductor canal block with 20cc of 0.25% ropivacaine along with intraoperative local infiltration analgesia. Group B also received Standard General anesthesia & postoperative analgesia with a single shot of adductor canal block with 20cc of 0.25% ropivacaine but intraoperative local infiltration analgesia was not administered in group B.
Result- Group B patients required a greater number of rescue analgesic doses in comparison to Group A patients. The majority of the patients in Group A had early postoperative mobilization in comparison to Group B (p=0.003). Mean preoperative and 6-week postoperative WOMAC scores showed that difference was statistically significant (p=0.034), showing a significantly lower 6-week postoperative WOMAC score in Group A in comparison to Group B.
Conclusion – Our study gives us a conclusion that intraoperative Local Infiltration Analgesia along with single shot of adductor canal block provides better post-operative pain relief & allows early mobilization of the patient thus enhancing the rehabilitation thereby improving the final outcome of the Total Knee Arthroplasty.


In a series of crosses between related strains of two alleles of the pdx-1 locus, the rate of production of prototrophs in different crosses is found to vary by at least a factor of two. Variabilit...


"Death of a Salesman"is important not only in its contents, but also in its creative techniques. This paper will focus on Miller's specific methods with which he depicts Willy's inner world. To be exact, he borrowed some techniques from the films to achieve a free exchange of space and time, that is, to make Willy's remembrance and illusion audio-visual, making the play characteristic of the films.


On the basis of the definitions of language vagueness and ambiguousness, and by means of the analysis of the causes of language vagueness and ambiguousness, as well as the exemplification of different forms of language vagueness and ambiguousness, the paper points out that language vagueness and ambiguousness are different in nature.


This study was taken to increase efficiency in reviewing documents of school facilities from the network of ERIV(Educational Resources and Information Center, USA). Outline of the ERIC network, and the structure, role, function of the ERIC thesaurus are introduced. A thesaurus have developed for information retrieval purpose provides the filing labels which permit information to be stored by one person and retrieved by another. As an information system grows, its thesaurus is systematically built and refined to the point where it represents, in a very special sense, the vocabulary of subject field. The Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors represents such a vocabulary for the field education. An understanding of its origins, its function and its limitations, is just as important to the teacher, the student of education or the educational researcher as it is for the indexer or custodian of the information pool it represents. If the Thesaurus is understood and used in an appropriate way, it can give all educators not only insight into the ERIC system but also an increased awareness of the language of their field. A great many terms are necessary to describe the many aspects of education, and the task of relating them in even an approximately consistent way is an enormous one. The undertaking should be managed by people who not only know what they are talking about but who also should be able to predict what people in their field are lilely to be talking about in the near future. It should also enlist people who are willing to pay term to another within the system. To engage a large number of these two kinds of people over a long period of time is very likely to cost a great deal of money. There is very little proprietary value in producing such a list of terms, for it can very easily be copied, adapted, updated, etc. Thus, because of its high cost and low proprietary value, it becomes a task likely to be funded only by a government. A government has many ways of spending its money. However, after the decision has been made to spend money to produce an authority list, one must decide how this authority is to be delegated. The history of the development of the ERIC Thesaurus is the history of how this authority was delegated. Scientific research has thrived on efforts to define terms as precisely as possible. It is difficult to say with certainty, however, that solutions to social problems have thrived on a simple diet of scientific research. Contemporary crises demand new and imaginative ways of conceiving problems and talking about them. If this Thesaurus or any other scheme for normalizing or controlling language inhibits in the slightest measure the creative use of language, it is against it use. Only if the principles and details of the Thesaurus are misunderstood can it be used as a constraint on language in a negative sense. Students of education of every kind should see the The-saurus as an opportunity to become increasingly self-conscious about their language and thus about their assumptions and their approaches to educational problems.


The aim of this general present mammography shows the
established policies by judicial process in favor of effectiveness in response to the
judge's demand. Cause it is useless to have a simple manifestation of the state
mentioning the rights without having an effective legislation to the right of
fundamentals judicial guardianship of the federal constitution, that has as final
reason to speed. More specifically, intends yet to demonstrate anntecipated
guadianship as an diferent mechanism in the Brazilian processualistic, with the
prompt studies applied of the fundamental rights to the effective judicial
guardianship, as shown at the article art. 5 1st and inserted LXXVIII introduced by
the CGNP 45 of the Federal Constitution, that has a final reason to speed. The
used methods comprehends the historic; with reading specifics books, articles and
scaterred publishing functioning, research related to the justice power organs,
concrete cases interview. The studies result in the reflex ion close to several
topics, such as: If the state has forbidden the self-defense, it has acquired the
power and/or the right of judicial guardianship of the judicature. The anticipated
guardianship it is not taking care although making decisions is satisfactory and only
can be granted in incredible pars and the truth is more than "fumus boni iuris".
The guardianship tends to favor the active polo, with the purpose to speed a
judicial guardianship. Besides the pretext and requisites, the guardianship implies
in the principle of the free convincing of the judge, to grant or not, motivating the
decision. An irreversible of the fatidical effects, without compromising the
constitutional principle of the contradictory and wide defense. The decision is
interlocutress, it can be total or partial, proceeding the judgment until the final
process of acknowledgment in the ordinary proceeding. The current problems of
the slowlyness of justice are in searching another ways that may able a faster
judicial guardianship without any harm of its efectiveness. So, the search for a
faster judicial guardianship as a ruled guardianship of the effectiveness of the
process. Concerning the enquired problem if the unmistakable essential requisite
before the free principle of convincing, when the judicial practice doesn't consider.
Concluding, the present research intends to approach without pretension in
drainning the team, the question s related to antecipation of total guardianship or
partial, it's lack and the main proposals presented by those whom work with the
rights as an realization instrument of justice and the social satisfaction.


A general relativistic covariant flux-limited diffusion theory is presented for radiation propagating through inhomogeneous and nonstationary media. Explicit flux-limited expressions are obtained for the radiation energy flux and stress tensor in the case of small shear


The process of accounting normalization can be defined as being the process of regulations of the accounting and to issue the norms which organize the accounting practice of a state. Harmonisation represents an institutional process whose target is assurance of the divergence of the norms and national accounting practices and in which it is showed the facilitation of the comparison of the financial situations produced by the enterprises from different countries. In Romania the state plays the main role – being helped by the Ministry of Public Finance to elaborate and use the norms which organize the accounting practice.


In order to measure homogenisation temperatures of fluid inclusions in stalagmites the samples have to be broken to small pieces to fit on the Linkam THMSG 600 microscope heating/freezing stage that is currently used for microthermometric measurements. However, this makes a reconstruction of the chronological succession of the fluid inclusions difficult and requires extensive documentation. Therefore we have constructed a new microscope heating/cooling stage (Fig. 1) that is suitable for measurements of large sections fixed on a 300 μm thick carrier glasses with 28x48 mm standard dimensions. The stage is designed for a temperature range between 0 and 35 °C.


Nepal - a brief overview energy development in Nepal human rights sector education sector health sector NGOs and development aid general conclusions and remarks.


Research conducted in the context of studies tackling the question of the professionalisation has, for some, used the conceptual framework of social representations. It is therefore a question of referring to the intervention of a representational process or of understanding how representations of professions are constructed, or to grasp the question of social representations as indicators of the emergence or dynamics of a particular professional identity. This question, which falls within the theoretical articulation, appears to be important. However, since theories involve the use of a number of methodologies and because methodologies are never unrelated to theoretical questions, it seems necessary to offer a synthesis of the possibilities offered by the theory of social representations. This will enable studies on professionalisation to access useful and relevant methods in accordance with their objectives. This contribution will therefore address the links between professionalisation and social/professional representations and proposes to draw up a guided inventory of the methods that can be used. This need is all the more important because it impacts the way we can carry out studies in relation to the questions that can be asked in reference to the fields we deal with.


A coordination network comprising 2-vinyltriphenylene was treated with AIBN at a high temperature, but the radical polymerization of the vinyl monomer was completely suppressed by spatial separation and otherwise hidden aerobic oxidation pathways are enhanced.


Abstract Monoterpenes and their derivatives play an important role in the creation of new biologically active compounds including drugs. The review focuses on the data on various types of biological activity exhibited by monoterpenes and their derivatives, including analgesic, anti-inflammatory, anticonvulsant, antidepressant, anti-Alzheimer, anti-Parkinsonian, antiviral, and antibacterial (anti-tuberculosis) effects. Searching for novel potential drugs among monoterpene derivatives shows great promise for treating various pathologies. Special attention is paid to the effect of absolute configuration of monoterpenes and monoterpenoids on their activity.


Disclosed in the present invention is the composition for reducing local fat and body weight, and pharmaceuticals and use thereof. The composition contains resveratrol and curcumin extract at a weight ratio from 1:30 to 10:1. The composition and pharmaceuticals thereof of the invention can inhibit the growth of fat cells, cause planned apoptosis of fat cells, achieve the effects of reducing fat cells, and reducing local fat deposition and body weight without causing inflammations or necrosis of peripheral cells or tissues and inflammations or pain reactions of peripheral tissues, thereby avoiding the problems of tissue damage and inflammatory pains caused by liposuction or low invasion fat-dissolving apparatus used in the prior art and the problems such as peripheral tissue inflammations and necrosis infections triggered by cell disruption and necrosis caused by components of a fat-dissolving injection, phosphatidylcholine or sodium deoxycholate.


We study how to reduce the smoothing problems with obstacles to the solution of smoothing problems with weights. We prove that, for problems with obstacles in Hilbert spaces, and in the classical case, especially, in several variable problems, the associated Lagrangian has a saddle point. This implies the existence of equivalent problems with weights.


A backlight module comprises an inverter circuit board, a backlight frame, a plurality of light tubes and a plurality of light tube clamp elements. Wherein, the inverter circuit board is provided with a plurality of embedded terminals. The backlight frame is arranged on the inverter circuit board. The light tube is arranged on the backlight frame and each light tube is provided with one electrode terminal at least. The light tube clamp element is embedded into the backlight frame and is electrically connected with the backlight frame. The electrode terminal is correspondingly and electrically connected with the light tube clamp element. Based on these details, the backlight module can be easily assembled.


We propose a new flexible photonic sensor based on metal oxide nanowire networks fabricated by a novel eco-friendly focused energy field (FEF) method. This method is based on the localized thermal energy along microscale heater within liquid precursor solutions of nanowire synthesis. FEF method enables selective synthesis and in-situ integration of ZnO nanowires on the metal electrodes of function devices. Further, low-temperature and nontoxic nature of the process allows the compatibility with flexible polymer substrates. High band gap of ZnO (3.37eV) allows the sensitivity of ZnO nanowire networks to the UV illumination (λ=365nm) with a dark current of 60nA and on-off ratio of 50∼70. Due to the robustness and good adhesion of ZnO nanowires fabricated on the polymer substrate, the shape of nanowire and photoconductive characteristic didn't change.


Most products require some form of assembly. Hence assembly operations are a very important part of the manufacturing process. Performing assembly operations requires time and effort and hence it contributes to manufacturing cost. In many applications, it is desirable to reduce the number of assembly operations by consolidating multiple parts into a single part. Processes such as multi-material 3D printing and in-mold assembly can be used to reduce the assembly operations. In many applications assembly operations cannot be eliminated. Designers and process engineers need software tools to manage assembly deign and generate instructions to perform assembly operations. Developing these tools requires developing new geometric reasoning algorithms. Our research is developing algorithmic foundations for realizing assembly design and planning tools. Many assembly operations are performed by humans. Humans require training to perform these assembly operations. We have developed a virtual environment based training tool that enables humans to learn complex assembly operations in the virtual environment. This report presents a summary of work in the assembly area in the Advanced Manufacturing Lab. Computer-Aided Design (CAD) systems have become very popular in the industry. These CAD systems are being used to generate models of parts and assemblies. These models are used as a basis for engineering analysis and generate manufacturing plans. CAD models also allow virtual prototyping. This reduces the need for physical prototyping. Nowadays, organizations routinely set up databases of CAD models to enable all participants in the product development process to have access to 3D data to support their functions. Specifically, manufacturing and service engineers are expected to greatly benefit from these databases. These databases are updated with the latest versions of parts and assemblies. This significantly improves information dissemination. CAD databases for even moderate size companies are expected to be large in size. A product assembly can contain many subassemblies and each subassembly can contain many parts. Therefore, even a small organization that has multiple product lines may add hundreds of assemblies to their database every year. In addition to supporting downstream manufacturing and service operations, assembly databases can be very useful during the design phase as well. There are two main uses of an assembly database during the design stage. The first possible usage is to locate existing assemblies that can be reused in a new product. Such reuse reduces product development time by eliminating the need for modeling, analysis, and process planning for the assembly being reused. …


Objective To assess the effect of vegetables, fruits and soyoods on blood lipid profiles in hyperlipemia Chinese. Method Four hundred and twenty hyperlipemia patients were recruited for study from a community in Shunde, Fushang city. Their serum total cholesterol (TC) and triglycerides (TG) were re-examined over a mean interval of 285 d post the first tests. Habitual dietary intakes and other health-related information during the follow-up period were collected via face-to-face interview. Results After controlling for potential confounders, ANCOVA analysis showed a strong dose-dependent inverse association between vegetable, fruit, soyfood consumption and TC changes (P0.001) with 13.5%, 12.0% and 14.5% of decreases respectively, when mean daily intakes of vegetables, fruits and soyfoods (in protein) increased from 77.9, 5.08, 0 g to 560, 157, 1.12 g respectively (P0.001). The association between soyfoods and TG was similar, about 17.4% decrease (P0.05). No significant association between vegetables or fruits and TG were observed. Similar associations of vegetables, fruits and soyfoods with TC were found in men and women. However, the favorable effect of soyfoods on TG was much more significant in men than in women. Conclusion Increasing intakes of vegetables, fruits or soyfoods may significantly improve serum lipids (especially TC) in hyperlipemia patients