Clean and renewable energy is developing to realize the sustainable utilization of energy and the harmonious development of the economy and society. Microgrids are a key technique for applying clean and renewable energy. The operation optimization of microgrids has become an important research field. This paper reviews the developments in the operation optimization of microgrids. We first summarize the system structure and provide a typical system structure, which includes an energy generation system, an energy distribution system, an energy storage system and energy end users. Then, we summarize the optimization framework for microgrid operation, which contains the optimization objective, decision variables and constraints. Next, we systematically review the optimization algorithms for microgrid operations, of which genetic algorithms and simulated annealing algorithms are the most commonly used. Lastly, a literature bibliometric analysis is provided; the results show that the operation optimization of microgrids has received increasing attention in recent years, and developing countries have shown more interest in this field than developed countries have. Finally, we highlight future research challenges for the optimization of the operation of microgrids.


Objective:We investigated the thrombotic microenvironment at the very early stages of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) by measuring Platelet-derived Microvesicles (PMVs) and Erythrocyte-derived Microvesicles (ErMVs) in newly-diagnosed patients. Microvesicles (MVs) are small, membrane vesicles (0.1 to


Plants are utilised in many forms within indoor environments, from simple houseplants to complex and species-rich green walls. Plants offer multi-faceted services indoors including pollutant removal and reductions in building energy consumption. This review firstly identifies – by critical assessment of the literature – pollutants which are currently measured at harmful concentrations indoors – classifying them as '2019's priority pollutants' and providing thorough health assessments of each. Secondly, the authors present which indoor plants have been shown to effectively remove '2019's priority pollutants' and direct future research onto any that have not been investigated. Thirdly, the authors consolidate the current research presenting why plants should be considered a building service. Practical application : Plants are commonly used inside indoor environments. However, the benefits they bring are often overstated. This review paper looks to consolidate the current academic research on the various services plants can provide indoors including pollutant removal and relative humidity regulation. The authors hope that the paper can be used to inform and educate building service engineers and alike on the current state of play concerning indoor plants.


The incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) is becoming as a serious public health concern worldwide. DM, particularly type 2 diabetes is now recognized as a major chronic public health problem. Globally, the prevalence of diabetes is ≈8%, and nearly 80% of patients with diabetes live in lowand middle-income countries [1]. According to the International Diabetes Federation, the prevalence will be 13% by 2030 [2]. ROS are a byproduct in type 2 DM, generated during protein glycation and as a consequence of advanced glycation end products-receptor binding; they impair insulin signaling pathways and induce cytotoxicity in pancreatic β (beta) cells [3]. Oxidative stress is now thought to be an important marker in the pathogenesis of type 2 DM and its complications through the impairment of pancreatic β-cells function [4]. The generation of reactive metabolites plays a central role in cell's life. These metabolites are continuously controlled by endogenous antioxidant enzyme systems and the balance is created between pro-oxidants and antioxidants. The impairment of antioxidant status, either by exogenous or endogenous sources, may disturb the cellular redox balance and the pathological conditions


A 40 nm CMOS transceiver supports 10 bands of HSPA+ and quad-band GSM/EDGE occupying 6.2 mm2 of a Modem SoC. The TX supports up to 11 Mb/s HSUPA with minimal analog filtering and <;35 mA battery current DG-09 weighted. Receive diversity with dual cell HSDPA supports up to 42 Mb/s downlink. The RX path is inductorless and achieves -111 dBm sensitivity using a low power synthesizer with <;0.35 deg-rms noise. This together with modem based impairment correction achieves >42dB SNR for receive levels >-60 dBm.


Recently, a passive technique has been developed to image seabed layering. The method exploits naturally occurring acoustic noise generated on the sea‐surface, primarily from breaking waves. The processing exploits the noise coherence through cross‐correlations between sensors to recover travel times to significant seabed reflectors. To make this a practical tool, beamforming is used with a vertical array of hydrophones and this greatly reduces the required averaging times. Several data sets using moored arrays have shown stable returns from the seabed. Imaging seabed layering over extended areas requires the array to move which has been accomplished by allowing the array to drift. This, however, introduces a number of complications. If the array moves too rapidly, there is potential for the ensonified seabed (in the beam) to change within the averaging time. Another potential problem could be caused by vertical motion of the array (e.g. by surface coupling). In this case, Doppler shifts may cause degrada...


We herein present FactorsR, an RWizard application which provides tools for the identification of the most likely causal factors significantly correlated with species richness, and for depicting on a map the species richness predicted by a Support Vector Machine (SVM) model. As a demonstration of FactorsR, we used an assessment using a database incorporating all species of terrestrial carnivores, a total of 249 species, distributed across 12 families. The model performed with SVM explained 91.9% of the variance observed in the species richness of terrestrial carnivores. Species richness was higher in areas with both higher vegetation index and patch index, i.e., containing higher numbers of species whose range distribution is less fragmented. Lower species richness than expected was observed in Chile, Madagascar, Sumatra, Taiwan, and Sulawesi.


In this paper, we describe high accurate non-contact measuring equipment together with its principle, hardware structure and idea for software design. Its principle is using optical modulation to modulate and amplify the figure of fibers' width, then convert the optical signa into electrical signal. The electrical signal is processed by an automatic processor which comprises MCS-51 single-chip microprocessor and other interface circuits. Finally the processed data is displayed or printed. This equipment can exclude the system error with calibration. Multivariate linear regression algorithm is used in calibration software design. It can discriminate the overlapping and across of fibers and eliminate the system errors. All proceeding is automatically completed without the interference of people. It excludes the personal influence and ensures the reliability of measurement.


The radiation performance of a modified single feed circularly polarized elliptical patch microstrip antenna is simulated on glass epoxy FR-4 substrate by applying IE3D simulation software and its performance is compared with that of a conventional elliptical patch antenna. Both edges of geometry parallel to its major axis are truncated and antenna is fed at a point lying on the line making an angle of 45° from the minor axis. The location of feed point on this line and width of truncated parts are optimized to obtain improved circular polarization performance with this structure. The simulated return loss, input impedance, axial ratio variations with frequency for the proposed antenna are reported in this communication. The E and H plane LHCP and RHCP radiation patterns are also presented. It is realized that the impedance bandwidth and axial ratio bandwidth of modified antenna are improved on proposed truncations in the edge.


One aspect of the invention provides an organic light emitting diode device comprising a light emitting layer between a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, is inserted into the first electrode and the second electrode, and inserting the said auxiliary layer between the first electrode and the second electrode and the one of the light emitting layer, wherein said auxiliary layer comprises a substituted or unsubstituted pyrene-based compound containing at least one additional phenyl.


Many research works have proved that it is viable to predict the radio interference (RI) of high-voltage alternating current transmission lines by corona cage test. However, it is uncertain whether the same method can be adopted for RI prediction of high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission lines, since the corona performance of HVDC lines is obviously affected by the widely distributed space charge. In this study, the detailed corona current characteristics, such as the current pulse amplitude, rise time, half-wave time, and repetition frequency are systematically studied by the reduced-scale experiment and the relationship between the average corona current and the RI excitation current is confirmed. Furthermore, based on the experimental study, a method for predicting the RI level of HVDC transmission lines by the corona cage test is proposed. The RI level of a ±800 kV bipolar HVDC transmission line is predicted and compared with the measured result, which verifies the validity of the proposed method.


Amrit Krishna Mitra is Assistant Professor and Head, Department of Chemistry at Government General Degree College, Singur, Hooghly under West Bengal Education Service. He has publications in several international journals of high repute and has authored a book on practical organic chemistry. He also serves in the editorial board of an international journal. This article forays into the history of fluorescence and discusses its occurrences along with the applications that have evolved over the years.


Seed germination is one of the most important developmental steps in the life cycle of a higher plant. Because of this, seed producing plants have evolved mechanisms, such as dormancy, that time germination based on environmental cues. The present study uses Arabidopsis thaliana as a model to address questions about seed dormancy and germination. Three different lines of investigation were followed. The first involved an investigation of how light quality regulates phytohormones in order to control germination. This identified a light-dependent mechanism that differentially regulates expression of the ALLENE OXIDE SYNTHASE and OXOPHYTODIENOATE-REDUCTASE 3 genes resulting in accumulation of cis-12-oxo-phytodienoic acid (cis-OPDA) and repression of seed germination under FR conditions. The second line of investigation involved a re- examination of the role of the ABSCISIC ACID INSENSITIVE (ABI) 5 and ABI4 transcription factors in regulating seed germination and oil mobilization respectively. The study found that abscisic acid (ABA) is able to block testa rupture in nicked seeds and this involves the ABI5, but not the ABI4, transcription factor. Furthermore, it was found that ABI4 is involved in the repression of ABA and cis-OPDA biosynthesis in a light- dependent manner, but has only a minor role in regulating oil mobilization in seeds. The third line of investigation focused on the regulation of dormancy during after-ripening and found that changes in phytohormone levels over an extended period can account for changes in dormancy state.


We propose a new concept for a metrological atomic force microscope integrated with a modified two-point diffraction interferometer that can determine the xyz-coordinates in an absolute manner. The interferometer consists of two single-mode optical fibers; one fiber is fixed to be stationary and the other is attached on an xyz-stage that moves with the measuring sample. The two fibers generate two separate spherical wavefronts that interfere with each other. Phase information can be obtained from this interference fringe pattern by applying well-known phase shifting techniques. This phase information is very sensitive to the relative coordinates between the two fiber ends, and thus the xyz-coordinates of the stage can be measured with respect to the fixed machine structure. A 100 µm × 100 µm × 20 µm working volume is available in the proposed system.


Purpose – This paper aims to present an application of the technology roadmapping approach for exploring the implications of technologies converging for a service sector.Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses the fundamental concepts behind creating a technology roadmap. These include market and business analysis, product analysis, technology analysis and resource allocation.Findings – The study demonstrates the use and modification of technology roadmaps for technology driven service business segments.Originality/value – The process of developing a roadmap for services over broadband presented in this paper can be used as a standard process of developing a technology roadmap for any organization in a similar business.


I. Acid Base Disorders 1. Regulation of whole body acid-base balance 2. Urinary acidification 3. Diagnosis of simple and mixed disorders 4. Metabolic acidosis 5. Ketoacidosis 6. Lactic acidosis 7. Metabolic alkalosis 8. Respiratory acidosis 9. Respiratory alkalosis 10. Acid-base disorders in the critical care setting 11. Renal tubular acidosis 12. The acidosis of CRF II. Water 1. Cell biology of vasopressin and the aquaporins 2. Hyponatremia 3. Hypernatremia and the polyuric disorders III. Electrolytes: Sodium 1. Sodium transport in the kidney 2. The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system 3. The edematous disorders 4. Salt washing 5. Genetic disorders of renal electrolyte transport 6. Electrolyte abnormalities in the ICU IV. Electrolytes: Potassium 1. Regulation of renal potassium transport 2. Hypokalemia 3. Hyperkalemia 4. Aldosterone deficiency and resistance V. Electrolytes: Divalent Ions 1. Renal regulation of calcium, magnesium, and phosphorus 2. Abnormal calcium and magnesium metabolism 3. Hypophosphatemia and hyperphosphatemia 4. Idiopathic hypercalciuria and renal stone diseas


It was analyzed for pneumonia in 24 patients in the epidemic season of influenza A/H1N1 in October 2009 April 2010 in Primorsky Krai. They required urgent hospitalization in the intensive care unit and required in massive antiviral, wide spectrum antibacterial combined therapy, interferons, immunoglobulins, anticoagulants management. Women have been involved mostly. The pregnant women had the most severe pneumonia. The experience of treatment such pneumonia has been demonstrated.


Passenger waiting time in a lobby and ride time in a car give a good indication of the service capability of an elevator group. If several cars are in the same group, these parameters are too complicated to model in a closed form. In this paper, procedures for modelling elevator performance and passenger traffic in a generic building are described. Elevator dynamics and control, call allocation and passenger traffic modelling are described. Simulated interval and load values are compared with theoretical results, and variances in simulation results are investigated. According to typical simulation results, there is no direct connection between interval and passenger waiting times, as is often assumed. The interval depends on the elevator bank configuration and elevator performance capabilities. Performance indicators, such as the number of starts and cycle times, become saturated even at low traffic intensities. The waiting times, in addition to elevator performance, depend on the passenger traffic patterns and, during heavy traffic, service level is greatly affected by the call allocation algorithm.


This conference was divided into the following sessions: electronic and transport properties; photoemission spectroscopy; Raman spectroscopy; tunneling spectroscopy; photoinduced phenomena; thin-film structures; novel devices; and poster session. Separate abstracts were prepared for 27 papers in this conference.


SUMMARY Although the effect of saponins or saponin-containing plants on rumen microorganisms and rumen fermentation has been intensively investigated, this issue still requires special attention. Many of the phenomena occurring in the rumen related to dietary saponin supplementation are still not fully understood. Saponaria officinalis is a triterpenoid saponin-containing plant; thus, the aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of S. officinalis L. powdered root, methanolic extract of the S. officinalis root (SOR) and the effect of the separated fractions (polysaccharides, saponins and phenolics) of S. officinalis on rumen methanogenesis, microbial population and rumen fermentation characteristics in an in vitro batch culture fermentation system. The powdered root (raw plant material) and S. officinalis extract (SOE) decreased in vitro methane production and consequently reduced the microbial population in a dose-dependent manner. The inhibition of methanogenesis was accompanied by changes in the volatile fatty acids profile. In vitro dry matter digestibility was not affected by any of the secondary compounds applied. The highest applied doses of SOE caused a higher reduction in methanogenesis (33·5 v. 14·4%) than the highest doses of powdered root form. Such results suggest that the basic components of the SOR could interact with phytochemicals or that the phytochemicals became physically less available for microbiota, resulting in a decreased antimethanogenic activity of the powdered root v. the extract. Among all the fractions selected, the saponin fraction exerted the greatest impact on ruminal fermentation. In conclusion, saponins decreased methane production by 29% in comparison with the control. This decrease was related to the reduction in protozoa and methanogen counts. It is proposed that S. officinalis has the potential to inhibit rumen methanogenesis without affecting rumen fermentation adversely.


The method of robust design has long been used for the design of systems that are insensitive to noises. In this paper it is demonstrated how this approach can be used to obtain a robust eco-design (ecological design). In a case study, robust design principles are applied to the design of a factory smokestack, using the Gaussian Plume Model (GPM). The GPM is a well-known model for describing pollutant dispersal from a point source, subject to various atmospheric conditions. In this research, the mean-square-error (MSE) of the accumulated and the maximum pollution values around a given target are defined as the performance measures and used to adjust the design parameters. Both analytical and numerical approaches are used to evaluate the MSE measures over the design space. It is demonstrated how to use the non-linearity in the GPM to reach a low MSE value that produces a cheaper design configuration. The differences between the manufacturer viewpoint and the environmentalist viewpoint with respect to the considered eco-design problem are discussed and analyzed.


We introduce a method that allows the disclosure of correlations between particle positions in an arbitrary many‐body system. The method is based on a well‐known simulated annealing algorithm and the proposed artificial distribution technique. Additionally, we investigate correlations in quantum Hall liquids (we consider many‐body wave functions that have been recently determined via the cyclotron subgroup model) and present three‐dimensional plots of configuration probability distributions that have been established from numerical simulations. We demonstrate that the preferred simultaneous positions of particles (configurations of positions, which correspond to large values of a system's probability distribution, |ΨN|2 ) tend to form complicated geometric structures, which are equivalent to classical Wigner crystals only for Laughlin states. Furthermore, we claim that quantum Hall liquids attributed to non‐Laughlin fillings are correlated on subdomains rather than on a whole particle domain (due to a quantizing magnetic field, which modifies the topology of a system's dynamics). Finally, we characterize Hall‐like internal orders in terms of statistical correlations (one‐dimensional unitary representations of cyclotron subgroups). Our conclusions concerning the stability of many‐body states agree with transport measurements and various numerical studies.


A phytosociological survey of a woodland located in the central part of Umbria (Central Italy) was carried out using the Braun-Blanquet method: 80 releves were classified through cluster analysis. Nine forest syntaxa were reported and three subassociations (Erico arboreae-Quercetum cerridis lathyretosum veneti, Aceri obtusati-Quercetum cerridis arbutetosum unedonis and Cyclamino hederifolii-Quercetum ilicis quercetosum cerridis) were typified. Topographic data (altitude, aspect, slope, morphology) and pedological data (soil pH, texture and depth) were collected and a synecological analysis of syntaxa was performed. In order to understand the relation between environmental factors and plant communities, a Canonical Correspondence Analysis was run. The results showed soil parameters (pH, texture and depth) and altitude as the main ecological factors explaining the distribution of plant communities in the study area. The combination of topographic factors (aspect, morphology and slope angle) influences, by contrast revealed the distribution of forest syntaxa within homogeneous geo-pedological and bioclimatic conditions.


Based on underwater concrete construction of bored pile of No.6 Pier in South tower of Eastern Long River Highway Bridge in Hubei,the paper introduces laiding ultrasonic testing tube,descending pipe,clearing hole up in second time,mixing concrete,and pouring concrete,and proposes prevention and treatment measures of underwater concrete pouring pile accidents such as blocked pipe,cut pile and long pile.As long as strictly comply with the relevant regulatory requirements,and strengthen the management and control of construction quality,the passing rate of bored piles could be 100%.


Objective To investigate the process of Stark cesarean section (CS) and analyze its key procedures and patients outcomes in order to understand its advantages and promote its standardization. Methods Elective Stark CS cases were divided into two groups according to time sequence and procedure difference. Group A refered to cases underwent modified approaches before standardization (n=362), and group B refered to cases afterward (n= 302). Duration of operation, time interval from incision to delivery, intraoperative hemorrhage, postoperative flatus time, postoperative morbidity, duration of retained urinary catheter, urinary tract irritation, wound infection, and abdominopelvie adhesion in the second operation were compared between the two groups. Results The average duration of the operations and time interval from incision to delivery in group B, which were (27.7± 10. 8) min and (4.92±1.21) min, respectively, were significantly shorter than those in group A, which were (35.6±15.2) min and (7.81±2. 79) min, respectively (P 0.05]. Postoperative flatus time in group B was significantly shorter than that in group A [(16.85±11.8) h vs (25.9±12. 7) h, P<0. 05]. Postoperative morbidity in group B was significantly lower than that in group A [1.3%(4/302) vs 4.7%(17/362), P<0.05]. The average duration of retained urinary catheter in group B was significantly shorter than that in group A [(15.6±5.3)h vs (26. 2±6.1)h, P<0. 05], and the urinary tract irritation rate in group B was also lower than that in group A [2. 5%(9/362) vs 0(0/302), P < 0. 05)], No incisional infection or delayed healing was found in either group. Rectus muscles, fascia and peritoneum adhesions were found in three cases with second surgery in group A and none in group B. No omentum, peritoneum and visceral peritoneum adhesion was found in either group. Conclusions Compared to the modified Stark operation, standardized procedure decreases operation associated complications and improves maternal outcomes. Therefore, standardized Stark CS should be promoted for better operative outcomes.

Key words:
Cesarean section;  Methods;  Peritoneum;  Adhesions


This paper analyses the application of remote sensing technology on digital city planning of Harbin,including analysis of spatial distribution,monitoring of changing and examination of planning implementation for a city.The extents,methods and effects of application are also summarized and discussed.The analysis indicates that remote sensing technology can provide much basic data for city planning.


To investigate the experimental conditions of preparation of reducing sugar by hydrolysis of biomass cellulose,in super /subcritical water the decomposition of glucose was studied by the method of DNS.In order to obtain the better reaction conditions of higher yield of remaining glucose.Meanwhile two new methods of cellulose hydrolysis were suggested.The results show that formic acid can boost the decomposition of glucose in the supercritical water.However in the conditions of subcritical water formic acid has inhibitory effect on decomposition of glucose.We conclude that the better reaction conditions of higher yield of remaining glucose in supercritical /subcritical water from the experiment,in supercritical water:the reaction temperature is 400 ℃,solid-to-liquid ratio is 1.5:70,and the reaction time is 3 min,in subcritical water:the reaction temperature is 280 ℃,solid-to-liquid ratio is 1.5:70,the reaction time is 3 min,and formic acid concentration is 3%.


An aerodynamic optimization design for turbine airfoil was developed using adaptive Kriging surrogate model,during which the airfoil geometry parameterization was realized with Bezier function and CFD method.Searching process of the surrogate model was improved,and the airfoil geometry was modified through controlling via Bezier control points,so as to automatically achieve optimization design of the leading edge of turbine blade.Results show that that higher pressure recovery coefficient and better aerodynamic performance are obtained after aerodynamic optimization of the airfoil,which proves the optimization model to be reliable and effective.


This report documents research conducted by Federation University Australia in relation to the City of Ballarat Intercultural Ambassador Program (IAP) from 2019 – 2021.


Abstract A systematic review of studies completed in the last 11 years for the treatment of acute epididymitis identified 1534 records, of which 29 were assessed for eligibility, and only 1 study met the criteria for inclusion. This highlights the need for more prospective studies evaluating treatment regimens for acute epididymitis.


Excerpt Ten patients having scleroderma of the small intestine were observed to assess the main clinical findings, pathogenesis, and management of this uncommon but serious disorder. The patients w...


A new method for suppression of noise FM jamming is presented. In the method, a logarithm transform is first designed to estimate the instantaneous amplitude and phase of the noise FM jamming precisely, and then the noise FM jamming is suppressed efficiently by subtracting the component reconstituted with the estimated instantaneous amplitude and phase parameters. Performance analysis and simulation results verified the validity of the presented method.


1 Institute of Food Science, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Post-Harvest Handling of Fruits, Ministry of Agriculture, Hangzhou 310021, China 2 Key Laboratory of Fruits and Vegetables Postharvest and Processing Technology Research of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou 310021, China 3 Key laboratory of postharvest preservation and processing of fruits and vegetables, China National Light Industry, Hangzhou 310021, China 4 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Eastern Regional Research Center, 600 E. Mermaid Lane, Wyndmoor, PA 19038, USA


We describe the development of a simple, rugged, low‐noise SQUID magnetometer, biased in the uhf range, and constructed around the extensively used two‐hole SQUID ring. This design is novel, both in the manner in which rf is coupled to the SQUID ring, and in the ability of the magnetometer system to couple strongly to an external signal or a flux transformer cell.


Mid-infrared spectrophotometric observations have revealed a small subclass of circumstellar disks with spectral energy distributions (SEDs) suggestive of large inner gaps with low dust content. However, such data provide only an indirect and model-dependent method of finding central holes. We present here the direct characterization of a 40 AU radius inner gap in the disk around LkHα 330 through 340 GHz (880 μm) dust continuum imaging with the Submillimeter Array (SMA). This large gap is fully resolved by the SMA observations and mostly empty of dust with less than 1.3 × 10−6 M☉ of solid particles inside of 40 AU. Gas (as traced by accretion markers and CO M-band emission) is still present in the inner disk and the outer edge of the gap rises steeply—features in better agreement with the underlying cause being gravitational perturbation than a more gradual process such as grain growth. Importantly, the good agreement of the spatially resolved data and spectrophotometry-based model lends confidence to current interpretations of SEDs with significant dust emission deficits as arising from disks with inner gaps or holes. Further SED-based searches can therefore be expected to yield numerous additional candidates that can be examined at high spatial resolution.


Pharmacognosy is a multidisciplinary subject involving the organoleptic (sensory characters), botanical, physical, chemical, and biological (pharmacological) characters of crude drugs. Of the above-mentioned five parameters, [Figure 1] except for the term organoleptic, the remaining four parameters/terms represent the four different branches of Science such as botany, physics, chemistry, and pharmacology, respectively.


An easily constructed calorimeter is described which can determine specific heats on an absolute basis with an estimated accuracy of 2%, with a sample temperature rise of less than 2°F. Sheets of sample material are rolled with a metal foil heating element into a cylinder resembling a jelly roll. A thin foil thermocouple is inserted at least 0.25 in. from the roll surface. It is established that there is a brief period after heating is begun when the material near the thermocouple is heated adiabatically; from the recorded temperature rise rate and other readily available data, the sample specific heat is computed. The sample assembly is readily placed in a bath or an oven to obtain values at temperatures other than room temperatures. Measurements are reported for polyethylene terephthalate, polyvinyl chloride, and polyethylene, the latter two from liquid nitrogen temperature to decomposition temperatures. It is suggested that the same principles can be used with modified techniques to measure specific heats of conductors, rigid sheets, or liquids.


Energy consumption for Cloud providers and data centers is a major problem. Dynamic Power Management is a common solution to this problem, switching off and on idle servers as needed. However, failing to predict the impact of switching costs may adversely affect energy and/or SLA violations. This paper contributes a policy that adaptively decides when to switch servers on and off under a workload of parallel jobs. Its objective is to minimize both the energy consumption and the number of SLA violations. Experimental results using Cloud Sim show that our proactive policy strikes a good balance between consumed energy and the number of SLA violations and compares favorably with other policies from the literature.


In this paper, we introduce a new way of detecting semantic similarities between learning objects by analysing their usage in web portals. Our approach relies on the usage-based relations between the objects themselves rather then on the content of the learning objects or on the relations between users and learning objects. We then take this new similarity measure to enhance existing recommendation approaches for the use in technology enhanced learning.


Objective: To investigate the changes of the MHC-Ⅱand Col-Ⅰ,Col-Ⅲ in healing process of acute skeletal muscle strain of rats,to analyze the two processes of the fibrosis and the regeneration in acute skeletal muscle injury healing process.Methods:56 SD rats are selected and divided randomly into 7 groups:blank control group,immediate group,the first week group,the second week group,the third week group,the forth week group and the fifth week group.Different groups have different drawing materials time after modeling.Results:The level of MHC-Ⅱdecreases to the lowest point in first week,but increases from the second week and basically recovers to normal level in the third week;The level of Col-Ⅰdecreases to the lowest point in first week and increases gradually until exceeding the normal level in the third week;Col-Ⅲ level increases in the first week,reaches the highest point in the third week,and then maintains this high level in the following two weeks.Conclusion: In the healing process of skeletal muscle acute injury,the process of the regeneration which is represented by the level of MHC-Ⅱ begins after the first week of injury.This process may continue for more than five weeks after the level of MHC-Ⅱ reaches the top point in the third week;The process of the regeneration which is represented by the level of Col-Ⅰand Col-Ⅲ begins in the first week,and may continue for more than five weeks.Col-Ⅲ level recovers earlier than Col-I,but Col-I maintains at a high level for a longer time.


Summary A model for negatively correlated variables. A mathematical model is described with which a bivariate distribution of two negatively correlated binomially distributed variables can be constructed. Let be given a vase with W white, Z black and R red balls; N = W + Z + R; P1= W: N;P2 = Z: N. Let be drawn a random sample with replacement of n balls. Let be w = number of white en z = number of black balls; w + z


This study examines a large collection of artifacts, Northwest Coast kerfed containers. A terminology is developed with which to describe the physical traits of these artifacts. These data are analysed using numerical taxonomy, and clustered according to their a f f i n i t i e s . The typology thereby produced strongly reflects pre-existing intuitive typologies. As well, the newly discovered a b i l i t y formally to describe construction traits opens new poss i b i l i t i e s for determining the provenance of


FIELD: agriculture. SUBSTANCE: sowing device comprises a hopper, a metering device, made in the form of an assembly disk with a horizontal axis of rotation. At the periphery of the disc a seed-capturing groove is made. The disc is fixed to the drive shaft, and a seed reflector is set above it in the top quarter. The direction of rotation of the reflector is opposite to the direction of rotation of the assembly disc. The seed-capturing groove is made in the form of half an ellipse which major semi-axis is equal to the maximum width of the seed of the sown culture, and the minor semi-axis is equal to the maximum thickness of the seed of the sown culture. The assembly disc is fixed from turning with a flattened surface and is braced with the lateral sides of the hopper having a slope to its lateral surface. The reflector is made brush, it is equipped from above with a protective shield and is installed in the left quarter. The seeding window is connected to the seed tube. EFFECT: use of the invention enables to provide the optimum area of plant nutrition and increase yield. 2 dwg


Activity-Based Costing (ABC) is intended to assist managers to make better pricing decisions than those taken using traditional volume-based cost methods. The added value of ABC should be assessed against that of signals emanating from the competitive environment in which the firm operates. Prior research has often shown market-based information to be overwhelming, thereby calling into question the wisdom of investing in cost systems to better approximate actual costs. We compare experimentally the pricing decisions of decision makers in a price-competitive duopoly market, characterized by considerable heterogeneity in customer-serving costs. Our results show that the incremental value of ABC depends on the quality of market signals. Decision makers receiving uninformative feedback revert to costing data and ABC outperforms volume-based costing. The presence of a well-informed competitor attenuates but does not completely eliminate the value of ABC.


The cleaning of the pipe scale rich in carbonate in Pingbei Oil Field, was investigated withhydrochloric acid, acetic acid and the mixed acid of both the above. The influerence of acidconcentration, temperature and inhibitor on the solubility of scale was discussed. The results showedthat hydrochloric acid had a strong solubility for scale, vigorous reactivity and serious corrosion formetal, it must be used with some inhibitors; acetic acid had a weak solubility for scale at normaltemperature, and a stronger solubility for scale only at a elivated temperature with lower concentration.


Hydatid disease is a zoonosis caused by the larval stage of Echinococcus granulosus which is endemic to regions where stockbreeding and agriculture are a common occupation (Akbulut et al., 2014). These include the Mediterranean region, Africa, South America, Australia, Middle East and India (Sharma et al., 2015). For Echinococcus granulosus the definitive host whereas sheep and goats are the intermediate host. Man is an accidental dead end host who is infected after consuming vegetables contaminated with dog feces containing Echinococcal eggs (Eckert and Deplazes, 2004 can be found in almost any organ of the body but the most common sites are liver (50%–77%), lung (15% (0.5%–8%), and kidney (2%–4%) (Akbulut describe a case which presented with epigastric pain and cystic pancreatic mass.


Cardiac leads are often designed and manufactured in the form of helical coils. This paper presents a complete nonlinear theory and a systematic analysis approach so that various large deformation lead problems can be solved with ease and accuracy. The nonlinear force-strain relationships are first derived through two strain parameters. In the case of small deformation, the nonlinear theory is linearized, direct force-strain relationships are obtained in terms of four spring stiffness constants, and the engineering spring theory is proven to be a special case of the linear theory. Examples are given to illustrate various responses of the cardiac lead, and a series of tests is performed to verify the theory developed. The investigation shows that the nonlinear theory agrees very well with the experiments, and the comparison suggests that the engineering spring theory should be limited in the design of critical elements such as cardiac leads.


The polyparadigmatic approach to the social projection of the municipal educational environment is a conjunction of the various methodologies' combined elements that require for their analysis different paradigmatic grounds. The polyparadigmatics of the municipal educational environment's projection is in the need to be used for: the projection of the central sphere in the municipal educational environment; for the projection in the mesosphere of the educational environment; for solving problems of social projection in the external (peripheral) sphere of the municipal educational environment. The author of the article solves the problems of social projection in the studied sphere of the educational environment in the context of a polyparadigmatic approach that ensures a stable, pre-determined result. The article substantiates the polyparadigmatics of the grounds for the social projection in the municipal educational environment. The program-target and problem-target methods, as well as methods of linear and emergency control are used. As a result, it was recognized, for example, that the polyparadigmatic approach to the projection in the educational environment is a consequence of the educational environment's complexity itself as an objective social phenomenon; the conjunction of different projection paradigms is determined by the essential features of the designed project; there are three main objects in the structure of the educational environment that require a paradigmatically different approach to their projection these are the spheres of the educational environment, distinguishing by the degree of institutionalization and characterized by qualitative distinctness: the central, external and mesosphere.


[Challenge] connector assembly that connects the earpiece of the connector assembly A hearing aid that connects the earpiece of the hearing aid to the glasses temple (27) to the glasses temple (13). Glasses temple (13) has a hearing aid parts. Connector assembly (31) includes a first connector housing (34) a second connector housing (37). The first connector housing (34) is designed to be via an intermediate unit (29) attached to the earpiece (27), is the other second connector housing (37) is attached to glasses temple (13) It is designed to. The first and second connector housing (34, 37) are designed to engage each other by detachable connection (10). .FIELD 6a


This paper designed a personalized learning system based on student interests,according to individual interests,the system can recommend students the learning contents,and fully embody the idea of the personalized learning.In this paper,it mainly introduced how to construct the initial interest model of the student,and how to update it in terms of the implicit feedback information in the learning process.This system can meet the learning demands for different students in any time.


'What a comfort a dictionary is!' writes Lewis Caroll in Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893). As any academic will testify, when everything else fails, consult a dictionary. This is however a privilege that the dedicated Nietzsche reader has hitherto been denied. While it is relatively easy to find a dictionary elucidating the terminology employed by Rousseau, Husserl, Kant and even Heidegger, one until now had to search in vain for a dictionary on Nietzsche. This is perhaps because Nietzsche, even in his most prosaic musings on epistemology, for instance, remained so much a poet, and poetry is the anti-lexicographical act par excellence.


We consider positivity, monotonicity, and convexity results for discrete fractional operators with exponential kernels. Our results cover both the sequential and nonsequential cases, and we demonstrate both similarities and dissimilarities between the exponential kernel case and fractional differences with other types of kernels. This shows that the qualitative information gleaned in the exponential kernel case is not precisely the same as in other cases.


Abstract High-angle double-crystal X-ray diffractometry (HADOX) has been applied to measure the intensity around three reciprocal lattice points: 400, 040 and 004 of SrTiO3. Each point splits into two in the tetragonal phase according to the appearance of three kinds of domains; the temperature dependence of the intensity of component peaks at these points was measured under identical conditions. The results show that the domain population varies with temperature in a range of about 20 K below the transition. It is found, however, that the total intensities of 400 and 004 of the tetragonal phase are constant; this is observed by summing up the relevant intensity at the three reciprocal lattice points.


Notes accompanying a presentation for the 2012 Texas Music Library Association (TMLA) Annual Meeting. The notes and presentation discuss the Simon Bucharoff collection at the University of North Texas (UNT) music library.


Abstract : Wide-bandwidth surface heat transfer instrumentation has been used to track the generation, convection and growth of turbulent spots in a laminar boundary layer undergoing transition to turbulence. The model was a flat plate subjected to a range of free stream conditions in a piston-driven isentropic compression heated transient wind tunnel at Oxford University. Freestream Mach number (subsonic to 2.0), freestream turbulence and streamwise pressure gradient (favorable to adverse) were varied. Preliminary analysis of the time-resolved heat transfer data allowed estimates of spot convection rates, generation rates and spreading angles to be estimated. Convection rates were little affected by Mach number whereas spreading angles were narrowed by favorable pressure gradients and expanded by adverse gradients, boundary layers, transition, turbulent spots, compressibility effects


The prototype of piezoelectric vibration acceleration sensor was fabricated which sensitive element consists of piezoelectric ceramic disk sandwiched with truncated conical metal end caps. The acceleration forces on the sensor were analyzed, the output voltage sensitivity, SU, of the sensor as a function of the acceleration force, F, was studied and the mathematics model was established. Radial disturbance effective on the output voltage sensitivity of piezoelectric vibration acceleration sensor was investigated. The results showed that the radial acceleration force contributes a minus output voltage sensitivity to the sensor because the radial effective piezoelectric coefficient, d31e and d32e, of the piezoelectric sensitive element are minus. Consequently the output voltage sensitivity of the sensor reduces with the angle, thetas, between the longitudinal axes of the sensor and the acceleration force direction increasing, and obtained the maximum output voltage value and minimum output voltage value when the thetas equals 0deg and 90deg separately. The experimental results showed that the test vales agree with the theoretical values basically.


The goal of this note is to prove what is now known as the Jouanolou-Thomason homotopy lemma or simply "Jouanolou's trick." Our main reason for discussing this here is that i) most statements (that I have seen) assume unncessary quasi-projectivity hypotheses, and ii) most applications of the result that I know (e.g., in homotopy K-theory) appeal to the result as merely a "black box," while the proof indicates that the construction is quite geometric and relatively explicit. For simplicity, throughout the word scheme means separated Noetherian scheme.


From the perspective of concept and practice, this paper proposes to update the concept of funding work and improve economic funding through policy review, investigation and analysis of relevant units. Measures to enhance personal ability, including fund from government, banks, schools and society, should be valued to promote comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable development of students with financial difficulties. Such idea has been applied in certain province's funding work and achieved


Abstract : In recent years, the five-year survival rate of patients diagnosed with localized lung cancer (had not spread) is almost 50%. Although prognostic tests have been developed to evaluate the metastatic recurrence risk in lung cancer, they have shown limited success in reducing patient mortality. Clearly, there is an urgent need for tests that identify lung cancer patients at high risk of recurrence. Biomarker screens performed at the protein level hold promise in the development of such tests. In particular, it is well established that many of the differences in tumor behavior are related to protein post-translational modifications (PTMs). In this investigation, we seek to identify a small set of PTM- related, highly predictive protein biomarkers and develop test for predicting lung cancer metastatic recurrence with an emphasis on identifying high-risk patients with higher accuracy than current prognostic tests. Our technology is based on rapid separation of whole proteins from tumor biopsy samples using automated two-dimensional ultra-high pressure liquid chromatography and microfractionation to generate large protein arrays. The arrays are used as a platform to quantify the levels of specific PTMs. In this study we generated PTMprotein arrays from biopsy samples of a clinically annotated lung tumor cohort consisting of 20 patients each (recurrence 3 years and no recurrence at 5 years of follow-up) and measured ubiquitylation levels in each array fraction (spot). Nineteen potential markers of which 10 showed increased ubiquitination in tumors and 2 had reduced protein modification. Mass spectrometry techniques identified one of the markers with increased ubiquitination as DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1). These preliminary results suggest that DNMT1 may play a role in lung cancer progression and could serve as a potential biomarker for lung cancer recurrence. Further analysis of the protein arrays will likely yield additional markers.


The aim of this paper is to investigate the procompetitive effects of foreign trade on domestic firms' performance by considering the determinants of markup size using a dynamic panel of Slovenian manufacturing firms from 1995 to 2004. We examine how domestic and foreign firms' encounters affect the domestic firms' pricing decisions and the size of their markups within a single framework by including export orientation of firms and industries and import penetration of foreign firms in an empirical markup model specification. This model is chosen for two reasons. First, markup size measures the changes in competitive pressure, and second, it captures the evolution of price and costs, both of which are affected by effects induced by foreign competition. One of the important advantages of this paper is that it employs a data set covering the whole population of manufacturing firms registered in Slovenia. This is particularly important for studying the impact of foreign trade on industry performance. Second, the analysis is conducted at both the industry and firm levels, which enables us to make a clear distinction between industry-specific and firm-specific factors.


The Gordon-Ng models are tools that have been used to estimate and evaluate the performance of various types of chillers for several years. A 550 TR centrifugal chiller plant facility was available to collect data from July and September 2018. The authors propose rearranging variables of the traditional (GNU) model based on average electric consumption and through a thermodynamic analysis comparable to the original model. Furthermore, assumptions are validated. Then, by estimation of the parameters of the new model using least square fitting with field training data and comparing to the GNU model and Braun model (based on consumption), it was shown that the proposed model provides a better prediction in order to evaluate consumption of a centrifugal chiller in regular operation, by improving the coefficient of variation (CV), CV = 3.24% and R2 = 92.52% for a filtered sub-data. Through an algorithm built from steady-state cycle analysis, physical parameters (Sgen, Qleak,eq, R) were estimated to compare with the same parameters obtained by regression to check the influence of the interception term in the model. It was found that without an interception term, the estimated parameters achieve relative errors (ER) below 20%. Additional comparison between external and internal power prediction is shown, with CV = 3.57 % and mean relative error (MRE) of 2.7%, achieving better accuracy than GNU and Braun model.


A Chinese medicine in the form of powder for treating hydatid disease, cerebral cysticercosis and enteric parasitosis is prepared from 18 Chinese-medicinal materials such as northern astragalus root,pilose asiabell root, tangerine peel, coix seed, patrinia herb, etc. and features high curative effect and no toxic by-effect.


The early monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) to p53 are considered reliable only on frozen sections. We examined the immunohistochemical expression of p53 in 40 paraffin-embedded samples obtained from colon carcinomas using the two new MAbs DO-1 and DO-7. Thirty-one frozen samples were obtained from the same surgical specimens and were stained using MAb PAb 1801 which has a high specificity to p53. Fifty-five percent of 40 paraffin-embedded samples was positively stained with both MAbs DO series and showed a 100% concordance rate while 52% of 31 frozen samples was positively stained with MAb PAb 1801. The concordance rate between the reactivity of MAbs DO series and that of MAb PAb 1801 was 98%. Therefore, the reactivity of MAbs DO Series in paraffin-embedded material is similar and reflects accurately the overexpression of p53 when compared with the reactivity of MAb PAb 1801. Further investigations, moreover, can be performed using the MAbs DO series on archival material for a full understanding of the p53 involvement in human cancer.


Background: Thyroid neoplasm includes both benign and malignant tumors arising in the thyroid gland. Although thyroid cancer accounts for less than 1% of all cancers, the challenge to clinicians is to identify the minority of thyroid nodules that harbor malignancy. There are a number of well-established predictors of malignancy in thyroid nodules. More recently a few studies have suggested that higher concentration of thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), even within the normal range are associated with subsequent diagnosis of thyroid cancer in patients with thyroid nodules and even higher serum TSH levels have been found associated with advanced stages of thyroid cancer. Methods: A prospective study was conducted on 220 cases without overt thyroid dysfunction attending Department of general surgery, Pushpagiri institute of medical science, Thiruvalla.  Results: In our study incidence of malignancy of thyroid carcinoma was highest in patients with serum TSH concentrations, in range of 3.5 mIU/l-5.25 mIU/l, 55 patients out of 220 patients. Individually, incidence of papillary carcinoma (PC) (36/55 patients), follicular carcinoma (FC) (17/55 patients) and Hurthle cell carcinoma (HCC) (2/55 patients) were more in patients with higher TSH. So, from the study it can be clearly state that elevated TSH can be used as an independent predictor of thyroid malignancy. Higher TSH values are associated with papillary thyroid carcinoma.Conclusions: An elevated TSH can be used as an independent predictor of thyroid malignancy, especially for anticipating a probability of papillary carcinoma of thyroid.


This guide to integrating the different elements of a successful garden includes sections on plant selection, construction of garden features such as walls, hedges, fountains and pergolas, and choice of sympathetic garden materials. It combines practical know-how with ideas.


In this research, a glassy carbon electrode modified with single-wall carbon nanotubes for electrochemical determination of dopamine was studied by cyclicvoltammetry (CV) and differential pulse voltammetry (DPV). The oxidation and reduction potentials of dopamine using voltammetric technique were measured. The SWCNTs/GC 10 µL was used to test the linearity of anodic oxidation of dopamine by DPV. The peak current increased linearly with concentration of dopamine in the range of 2.5–25 ppm (R2 =0.9766). For the life time of the SWCNTs/GC, the cut-off criterion of the DPV was detected in the reduction of current by 50 %. The lifetime of the SWCNTs-modified depended on the oxidation of dopamine because of fouling of the electrode surface due to the adsorption of oxidation products. 34 repetition cycles was obtained. The detection limit of the dopamine as obtained from the oxidation current in DPV was 0.021 ppm (S/N=3) with minimum current for the detection of dopamine of 0.033 µA. The reproducibility of electrocatalytical studies was better within 90% (10% RSD). The relative standard deviation (RSD) of 8.42% for 100 ppm dopamine (n=20) showed excellent reproducibility. Drug samples obtained from Radvitee hospital were tested as the mentioned procedure. The percentage recovery of dopamine in drug samples was 120.


A probabilistic model based on an initial distribution of sites is proposed to describe different aspects of the formation, propagation and coalescence of crack networks in thermomechanical fatigue. The interaction between cracks is modeled by considering shielding effects. ,


In outlining a model of sovereignty, this article makes constructive reference to the ideas of Machiavelli and Hobbes concerning the fundamental structures of modern statehood, and ultimately argues for a sovereignty with- out morality - but not without restraints. A central element is the idea that in terms of legal theory, limitations on sovereignty should not come from some other context, but should instead be developed solely in reference to itself and its inherent contradictions: this could be the future of sovereignty.


The number of antiarrhythmic drugs currently used to treat atrial fibrillation reflects the inadequacy of the available drugs-no agent approaches the ideal in terms of efficacy, tolerability, and safety. Whether the goal of treatment is the maintenance of sinus rhythm or control of the ventricular rate, in many it cannot be achieved with drugs alone. This group is proportionately small but numerically important-every cardiologist sees such patientsand it is not surprising that increasing attention is being paid to possible alternatives to drug treatment.


An F + strain of E. coli K 12, W-2241 has a genetic constitution lac– (i+ z+ y–), str-r. The inability of this strain to utilize lactose is due to a deletion at the y locus controlling formation of an enzyme permease and therefore, a true lac+ revertant can not be expected. The strain, however, produces many colonies on minimal lactose agar medium, when it is plated after infection with RNA phage Qβ, while much fewer colonies are observed on the same medium seeded with uninfected cells. In analyzing this phenomenon, we discovered that these LAC+ colonies were not the result of a mechanism similar to transduction but produced by a mechanism related to phage liberation, and that the colonies originated from Qβ+, const cells. The data suggest the following working hypothesis for the mechanism by which LAC+ colonies are produced in a population of W-2241 cells infected with phage Qβ. Constitutive cells carrying Qβ produce intracellular β-galactosidase and at the stage of phage liberation, the enzyme is liberated into the medium, hydrolyzing lactose to form glucose. Since glucose could be utilized by all of the cells on the medium, the Qβ+, const cell acts as a colony forming center. The phenomenon described in this paper shows a new type of virus-host relationship which may have some bearing on the influence of animal or plant viruses on host tissues.


Background: The extent and the distribution of end stage kidney disease (ESKD) in Libya have not been reported despite provision of dialysis over 4 decades. The aim of this thesis is to develop the first comprehensive description of the epidemiology of dialysis-treated ESKD in adults in Libya as well as to assess the outcomes of this treatment.

Methods: A structured interview regarding dialysis provision and infection control measures was conducted with the medical directors of all 40 dialysis centres and 28 centres were visited. In the same time demographic and clinical data were obtained regarding all adult patients treated at all maintenance dialysis facilities in Libya from May to August 2009. Additional information about the patterns of vascular access used for haemodialysis (HD) as well as prevalence and incidence of hepatitis Band/or C infection was collected and analysed. Subsequently data were collected prospectively from September 2009 to August 2010.

Results: There were 40 functioning maintenance dialysis centres in Libya (one of them was serving children only). The total number of adult patients was 2417. The prevalence rate of ESKD treated by dialysis was 624 per million population. Most dialysis units were located in the northern part of the country and only 12.5% were free standing units. Only three centres offered peritoneal dialysis. There were 192 HD rooms. They hosted 713 functioning HD stations, giving a ratio of one machine to 3.4 patients. Nephrologist/internist to patient ratio was 1:40 and nurse to patient ratio was 1:3.7. There was wide variation in monitoring of dialysis patients with dialysis adequacy assessed only in a minority. 85% of prevalent patients were aged <65 years and 58% were male. The prevalence of ESKD varied considerably with age with a peak at 55-64 years (2475 pmp for males; 2197 pmp for females). The annual incidence rate was 282 pmp with some regional variation and a substantially higher rate in the South (617 pmp). The most common cause of ESKD among prevalent and incident patients was diabetes. Other important causes were glomerulonephritis, hypertensive nephropathy and congenital or hereditary diseases. During one year follow- up, 458 deaths occurred, (crude annual mortality rate of 21.2%). Of these, 3 1 % were due to ischaemic heart disease, 16% cerebrovascular accidents and 16% due to infection. Annual mortality rate was 0-70% in different dialysis centres. Best survival was in age group 25-34 years. Binary logistic regression analysis identified age at onset of dialysis, physical dependency, diabetes and predialysis urea as independent determinants of increased mortality. Of all dialysis- treated patients, 34.9% were sero-positive for HBV and/or HCV (anti-HCV positive 31.1%; HBsAg positive 2.6%; both positive \.2%). The prevalence of HBV±HCV infection varied widely between HD centres from 0% to 75.9%. Sero-positive patients were younger, had longer time on dialysis and more previous blood transfusions. Prospective follow-up revealed an incidence ofsero-conversion of7.7% during 1 year (7.1% HCV; 0.6% HBV). Wide variation in rates of newly acquired infections was observed between dialysis centres. Duration of dialysis, history of previous renal transplant and history of receiving HD in another centre in Libya were significantly associated with sero-conversion. The majority of HD- treated patients (91.9%; n=1573) were using permanent vascular access in the form of arteriovenous fistula or arteriovenous graft. Patients with permanent vascular access were more likely to be male and less likely to be diabetic. Most patients had commenced HD using a temporary central venous catheter (91.8%). Vascular access- related complications were: thrombosis (46.7%), aneurysm (22.6%), infection (11.5%) and haemorrhage (10.2%). Hospitalisation for VA related complications was reported by 31.4%.

Conclusion: ESKD in Libya is a major health problem where the incidence rate is among the highest in the world. Despite rapid expansion of dialysis services throughout the country, this thesis has identified that many aspects of dialysis provision are suboptimal and that outcomes are relatively poor. We have identified several major challenges to improving the quality of dialysis provision including lack of dialysis practice guidelines, absence of auditing and quality control and limited access to kidney transplantation. As Libya reorganises its health services in the post-conflict period it is hoped that this study will be the first step in establishing a renal registry and that the areas of concern highlighted will prompt the implementation of national clinical practice guidelines for dialysis.


The survey was conducted under watershed area for 200 dairy farmers rearing Marathwadi, Pandharpuri and Surti buffaloes by personal interviews and judging the udder, teat and milk vein characteristics of buffaloes. The results indicated that most of the farmers are young and hard working (38.50 per cent). Marathwadi (44.04 per cent) and Pandharpuri (43.24 per cent) breed has predominantly bowl and Surti pendulous (41.18 per cent) shape of udder, respectively. Medium size fore udder (66.00 per cent) and large size rear udder (56.50 per cent) was recorded maximum in all buffaloes. The cylindrical teat shape (53.50 per cent), wide placement of teat at back (52.50 per cent) and medium size milk veins (61.50 per cent) were mostly recorded in all breeds of bufiloes. In the surveyed area Marathwai buffaloes (54.50 per cent) population was higher as compared to Pimdluirpuri (37.00 per cent) and Surti (8.50 per cent).


We present an extension of the simple-cubic lattice model developed by Jorge et al. [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 14388] of nanoparticle growth in the clear solution synthesis of silicalite-1 (MFI). We have implemented the model on a body-center cubic (bcc) lattice with second-neighbor repulsions, to generate a four-coordinate network that mimics the tetrahedral structure of silica. With this low-coordination lattice model we observe that the nanoparticles are metastable, possessing a core-shell structure with mostly silica in the core and templates forming a shell. Nanoparticle size is found to increase with temperature and decrease with solution pH, in qualitative agreement with results from experiment and the previous lattice model study. The low-coordination model makes it possible to model porosity in the silica core of nanoparticles. We use this feature to investigate the extent of template penetration into the silica core, a level of nuance missing in experimental data on the core-shell model. We find that template penetration is rare for bulky templates. We discuss the implications of this result for understanding the role of these nanoparticles in the growth of MFI, especially in light of recent experiments on the long-time behavior of nanoparticle suspensions.


Based on the Explanation of connotation and theory about appreciation education,the analysis focuses on the internal relation between appreciation education and ideological and political work.Then the illustration is carried out about the effect of appreciation in the ideological and political work and the principles that should be followed in the appreciation education.Finally,the emphasis is placed on two problems that need paying attention in the appreciation education.


Critical treatments of race in VH1's landmark television series Flavor of Love (2006–2008) have focused exclusively on the cultural politics in the text and have ignored the industrial logic that led VH1 to create a dating program featuring the iconic rap star Flavor Flav. This has resulted in scholars focusing on key terms that come more from media studies than from the television industry itself. For example, Rachel Dubrofsky argues that Flavor of Love is based on ABC's reality dating show The Bachelor (2002–present), a program that privileges whiteness by having a white man choose a potential wife from a group of white women. Flavor of Love copied The Bachelor's format but introduced black cultural sensibilities by casting Flavor Flav and African American women (373–392). Valerie Palmer-Mehta and Alina Haliliuc maintain that Flavor of Love offers a form of neo-minstrelsy. Flavor of Love's popularity coupled with mainstream culture's rejection of Public Enemy in the late 1980s and early 1990s suggest that America is more comfortable mocking black masculinity than with endorsing black militant politics (85–105). In her online column about Flavor of Love in Flow, Jennifer Fuller avoids condemning or celebrating the show, since both stances use outdated notions of positive and negative representations, and examines the program's complex portraits of blackness. These essays offer important insights into the politics of race in Flavor of Love but overlook why the program mattered to VH1. At the time of Flavor of Love's premiere, VH1 was in the process of a major rebrand that successfully drew in viewers between the ages of 18–49. This industrial process shaped the parameters of Flavor of Love, and the program played a significant role in VH1's rebrand. The season finale of season one was VH1's most highly rated show ever at that point, and season one was the number-one rated cable show for viewers between the ages of 18–49 at the time (Palmer-Mehta and Haliliuc, 86). These ratings are not the result of Flavor of Love being just a compelling series. Rather, they suggest that VH1 had figured out a way to distinguish itself on television and in the digital entertainment world, and Flavor of Love was central to VH1's brand identity. In this essay, I examine how this larger industrial context at VH1 played an important role in framing the way race operated on the series. In doing this, I am drawing from a history of television studies scholarship that examines the institutional production of media culture. From classic texts in our field such as Christopher Anderson's Hollywood TV: The Studio


Bennett Roth's reflection on the role of gender in fairy tales and its influence on social aspects (both conscious and unconscious) may remind us of the multiple voices speaking and the importance of applying contextual methodology in the study and interpretation of fairy tales. While questioning the universal applicability of psychoanalysis and acknowledging the role of folklore in revealing unconscious phantasies and meanings, Dundes (1989) raised the need to study particular versions of a folktale common to a specific ethnic community in order to touch upon the ways in which folklore is modified to fit local ideological or world view tendencies. Other scholars also related to the role fairy tales play in gender socialization as they were influenced and shaped by social, cultural and political agendas. A review of feminist fairy tales scholarship may be found, for example, in Haase's (2000) comprehensive article in which he presents the works of the main contributors in the field, such as Bacchilega, Zipes, Gilbert and Gubar, Bottigheimer, Seifert, Stone, Tatar, Warner and many others. One useful way to trace the female voice, in an attempt to differentiate it from the various ideological mechanisms operating in society, is to search for narratives orally told by women, and to compare them to those appearing in the well-known printed collections often published by males. When relating to the adaptation process that fairy tales have undergone in patriarchal society, Zipes 577343 GAQ0010.1177/0533316415577343Group AnalysisRaufman and Weinberg research-article2015


Aqueous extract of johar leaf contains metabolite compounds such as flavonoids, sponins, tannins, phenols, anthraquinones, anthocyanins, and cardiac glycosides which can be used to substitute commercial antibiotics. The use of aqueous extract of johar leaf has been known to have antibacterial activity in vitro. This study aims to determine the effect of aqueous extract of johar leaves (Senna siamea) injection on survival and blood profile of snakehead fish (Channa striata) in vivo. This research was a laboratory study using a completely randomized design (CRD) with 5 treatments and 3 replications with a total sample of 75 snakehead fish. The fish in KA, KB, KC and KD groups were injected with aqueous extract of johar leaves with concentrations of 10%, 20%, 40%, and 60% respectively, while in KE group the fish was injected with distilled water (control). The parameters of this study were the survival rate and blood profile of snakehead fish. Blood hematology examination included calculation of erythrocyte count, hemoglobin level, and hematocrit percentage, leukocyte count, and thrombocyte count. The research data obtained were analyzed using one-way analysis of variance and followed by Duncan's Multiple Distance test. Injection of aqueous extract of johar leaf did not affect the survival rate of snakehead fish. However, hemoglobin and platelet levels significant decrease in the group given 60% concentration of aqueous extract of johar leaf. It can be concluded that aqueous extract of johar leaf at a concentration of 10%, 20%, 40% is safe to use in snakehead fish.Keywords:Johar leaves extractSnakehead fishBlood profileSurvival rate


PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To ensure the reduction of a load and safety when it is impossible to maintain an actual traveling speed as a target speed. SOLUTION: A high speed mark instructing a vehicle to travel at a higher speed than a normal traveling speed or a low speed mark instructing a vehicle to travel at a lower speed than the normal traveling speed are arranged in the middle of a cart route R being the traveling route of a golf cart 1, and when the traveling speed does not reach the instructed speed of the traveling mark, the lowest speed is set as the instructed speed. For example, when the high traveling speed is instructed, the vehicle is allowed to travel at the normal speed, and when the vehicle is traveling at the normal speed, the vehicle is allowed to travel at the low speed.


We introduce new hole-selective contacts for next-generation perovskite photovoltaics and point to design paths for molecular engineering of perfect interfaces.


Hyperspectral video with spatial and spectral information has great potential to improve object tracking performance. However, the limited hyperspectral training samples hinder the development of hyperspectral object tracking. Since hyperspectral data has multiple bands, from which any three bands can be extracted to form pseudocolor images, we propose a Transformer-based multimodality information transfer network (TMTNet), aiming to improve the tracking performance by efficiently transferring the information of multimodality data composed of RGB and hyperspectral in the hyperspectral tracking process. The multimodality information needed to be transferred mainly includes the RGB and hyperspectral multimodality fusion information and the RGB modality information. Specifically, we construct two subnetworks to transfer the multimodality fusion information and the robust RGB visual information, respectively. Among them, the multimodality fusion information transfer subnetwork is designed based on the dual Siamese branch structure. The subnetwork employs the pretrained RGB tracking model as the RGB branch to guide the training of the hyperspectral branch with little training samples. The RGB modality information transfer subnetwork is designed based on a pretrained RGB tracking model with good performance to improve the tracking network's generalization and accuracy in unknown complex scenes. In addition, we design an information interaction module based on Transformer in the multimodality fusion information transfer subnetwork. The module can fuse multimodality information by capturing the potential interaction between different modalities. We also add a spatial optimization module to TMTNet, which further optimizes the object position predicted by the subject network by fully retaining and utilizing detailed spatial information. Experimental results on the only available hyperspectral tracking benchmark dataset show that the proposed TMTNet tracker outperforms the advanced trackers, demonstrating the effectiveness of this method.


In recent years, retailers can obtain consumers' demand information from rich market data, such as their browsing history and sales data. This gives retailers access to more demand information about consumers than manufacturers. Furthermore, many retailers have begun to share demand information with their upstream manufacturers who provide goods of a certain quality. Because an increasing number of consumers are concerned about product prices and product quality levels and are even willing to pay a higher price for high‐quality products, manufacturers consider two production modes to adapt to the market: the Q‐before‐IS mode or the Q‐after‐IS mode. To capture substantial consumer markets, retailers have also begun to provide their goods to compete with the manufacturers. Motivated by these practices, this study analyzes the retailer's information‐sharing strategy and the manufacturer's production mode selection under price and quality competition. We find that under the Q‐before‐IS mode, the retailer has no incentive to voluntarily share information with the manufacturer. However, under the Q‐after‐IS mode, the retailer would share two products' information with the manufacturer when the quality investment cost factor is relatively low. Our findings confirm that the retailer is induced to share information because the retailer and manufacturer participate in the quality and price competition after observing the demand. Moreover, the manufacturer prefers the Q‐after‐IS (Q‐before‐IS) mode under the equilibrium information‐sharing strategy when the demand fluctuation is large (otherwise). This indicates that the retailer's information‐sharing strategy plays a key role in the manufacturer's preferred production mode.


xi Chapter 1: Introduction 1 Problem Statement 3 Research Questions 4 Operational Definitions 5 Significance of the Study 7 Delimitations of the Study 8 Organization of the Study 8 Chapter 2: Review of the Literature 9 English Language Arts Common Core State Standards 11 Mathematics Common Core State Standards 13 P-12 Integration 15 Higher Education Integration 19 Teacher Preparation Program Admission Standards 20 Teacher Preparation Program Coursework Requirements 20 Teacher Preparation Program Teacher Candidate Assessments 24 Teacher Preparation Program Field Experiences 26 Teacher Preparation Program Technology Needs 27


The Malaysia Green Technology Master Plan (GTMP) is a systematic framework and planning initiative to mitigate national CO2 footprints by targeting several sectors which include power generation (energy sector). Thus, the objective of this study is to analyze economic and environmental sustainability (via techno‐economic analysis) of CO2 mitigation technology (i.e. postcombustion CO2 capture system, PCC) that can be employed by the energy sector as a way forward for low‐carbon power generation. The analysis was performed by using a previously developed hybrid mixed integer nonlinear programming and model predictive control (MINLP‐MPC) algorithm. Based on the simulation results, operation of coal‐fired power plant associated with PCC plant under fixed forecast conditions (year 2020) would be capable of delivering substantial net operating revenue, subject to carbon taxes at US$7, 10 and 14 t–1 CO2 (scenarios 1–3), with the highest revenue gained from Scenario 1 (US$7 t–1 CO2) of US$601 million yr–1. Contrariwise, PCC plant operated at minimum efficiency by only capturing c.24% from the total CO2 emissions (under three carbon tax prices), illustrating the ineffectiveness of this plant for promoting national environmental sustainability. The big trade‐off between economic and environmental sustainability found in this study demonstrates the impracticality of PCC technology as a mitigation measure in pursuing low‐carbon power generation as part of Malaysia's GTMP.


In this prospective study 197 serum and 152 urine samples were collected from 40 bone marrow and solid organ transplant recipients with clinically suspected invasive fungal infection before, during and after empirical treatment with lipid formulation of amphotericin B or fluconazole. Serum was analysed by Candida polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and urine by measurement of d/l‐arabinitol ratio. One serum from each patient was also tested for concentration of (1→3)‐β‐glucan and two commercial Candida antigens. Invasive fungal infection was diagnosed in four candidosis and one aspergillosis patients (13%). Positive PCR, elevated d/l‐arabinitol ratio, (1→3)‐β‐glucan concentration and antigens were detected in nine, 15, 17, and seven patients, respectively. The agreement between PCR and d/l‐arabinitol assays was poor. However, 56% agreement was observed between positive PCR and β‐glucan and/or antigen assays, and 60% agreement between positive d/l‐arabinitol and β‐glucan and/or antigen assays. Combination of several non‐culture assays is needed to diagnose invasive fungal infection in high‐risk transplant recipients. No single test was sufficient for diagnosis.


ABSTRACT Wood is among the most widely used construction materials in Anatolian traditional rural architecture and many different timber construction techniques can be seen in the vernacular structures of today's Anatolia. One example of Anatolian rural architecture is a type of granary, or what is known as serender in the Eastern Black Sea Region. This structure occupies a significant place in the cultural heritage of Anatolia. Reflecting the richness of Anatolian culture and architecture, each of these buildings is an important part of the culture of Anatolian timber construction. The layout of the wooden granary structure that is referred to as serender in this article and its construction technique, design, structural particularities and decorative features will be described here in an effort to provide documentation for these buildings, which represent the legacy of timber rural architecture that should be passed on to posterity.


This paper explores the changing contexts for micro‐political activities in schools which have followed the implementation of LMS. The extent of such negotiations and the new contexts are examined using the accounts of a small group of headteachers from two Midlands education authorities, interviewed in respect of their career histories. Their early experiences of LMS indicated an increase both in the extent of and the contexts for micro‐political activity. The paper argues that such changes have altered the orientation of the headteacher's role thereby affecting the culture of headteaching as work.


Highly lipophilic amines [trityloxyethylamine (TEAm) and N-trityloxyethylaniline (TEAn)] were introduced onto a 5'-phosphoryl group and the stability of the phosphoramidate linkage to acid was studied at the diester level. It was found that the phosphoramidate linkage using TEAn was cleaved by 80% aqueous acetic acid within 1 h at room temperature. However, it required 2 h to remove TEAm from the phosphate. By using the TEAn group, 5'-phosphorylated pentadecadeoxyribonucleotide pTCCAGGGTCTGGTAC was synthesized on a polystyrene support by the phosphotriester method. After partial deblocking, the pentadecamer with the TEAn group could be easily isolated on a reversed-phase column due to the high lipophilicity of the TEAn group. The chemically synthesized 5 '-phosphorylated pentadecamer was successfully joined by using deoxyribonucleic acid ligase in the presence of a template.


Cu2(C9N5H9)2(C6H5CO2)4 (1) and Zn2(C9N5H9)2(C10H7CH2CO2)4 (2) have been synthesized by hydrothermal methods with 2,4-diamine-6-phenyl-1,3,5-triazine (phdat) and aromatic carboxylic acid (benzoic acid (ba) or naphthylacetic acid (naa)) as ligands and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffractions, elemental analyses, infrared spectra, magnetism, fluorescence spectra, and thermogravimetric analyses. In 1 and 2, the two metals are bridged by four carboxylates in paddle-wheel-shaped binuclear [M2(CO2)4] units (M=Cu (1) and Zn (2)) and coordinated by one nitrogen from phdat, forming five-coordinate centers. The temperature-dependent magnetic susceptibility of 1 was obtained from 300 to 2 K, showing an anti-ferromagnetic interaction between Cu(II)'s. Compound 2 exhibits solid state fluorescence at 404 nm upon excitation at 304 nm.


A previously developed analytic theory for the unsteady aerodynamics of moderately blunt slender cones has been extended to include the effects of large nose bluntness, nonzero angles of attack, and finite oscillation amplitudes. It is shown that the developed theory agrees well with available experimental data and correctly predicts the opposite effects of nose bluntness on static and dynamic stability including the highly nonlinear characteristics at angles of attack and oscillation amplitudes up to cone half-angle magnitudes. A universal scaling law has been derived that gives the nose-bluntness effects on static and dynamic characteristics for the above angle-of-attack and amplitude ranges with sufficient accuracy for preliminary design of conical re-entry vehicles flying ballistic or lifting re-entry trajectories.


The present paper aims to analyse the status of gender gap among the BPL households of Panitola Block of Dibrugarh District of Assam. The target households are divided into two groups --village and tea gardens and then compared the gender gap status of the two groups using indicators like education, employment, political participation, household decision making and attitude towards unequal gender role. The study reveals that gender gap exists in areas like education and employment. However gaps in educational attainment and employment are more in village households as compared to tea garden households. In household decision making also gender gap exists and it is more prominent in tea garden. However in regard of political empowerment, not a single person of the study area is a member of even the Gaon Panchayat. So their political empowerment is analyzed through their participation in political process merely by casting vote. All the respondents from the study area show negative attitude towards unequal gender role and reported that they do not support wife beating and treat both male and female child equally. From the study we have found that tea garden women are more empowered than village women as less gender gap prevails in tea garden as compared to village.


Describes the mechanical design characteristics of an artificial arm. Design objectives to meet are: (a) maximum simplicity and practicality in design; (b) minimum total weight; (c) adequate shape and dimensions; (d) minimum energy consumption from a light external energy resource; (e) adequate dynamic capability compatible with other prosthetic arms. To obtain optimal design parameters for such a system, a software program was written to simulate the behavior of the arm so that design variables could be tested. These parameters strongly influence the choice of mechanisms and components used in the authors' design.<<ETX>>


The fishery resources were investigated and evaluated in artificial reefs in deep- water marine ranching area for three years by hand line fishing and cage net survey. The results showed that 6 fish species were captured, including the economically important species fat greenling Hexagrammos otakii,Schlegel's rockfish Sebastes schlegeli,with the maximal CPUE of 97. 8 g /( human·hook·h) in fat greenling and the maximal CPUE of 281. 8 g /( human·hook·h) in Schlegel's rockfish by hand- line fishing,and with the maximal CPUE of 2039. 2 g /(cage·h) in fat greenling and the maximal CPUE of 163. 4 g /(cage·h) in Schlegel's rockfish by a trap net. The fat greenling in spring had body weight gain 0. 12 times higher in 2012 than in 2011 and the Schlegel's rockfish in spring showed body weight gain 0. 23 times higher in 2012 than in 2011,indicating that the resources were significantly increased. There was higher catch by hand line fishing than by a trap which was more suitable for operation in artificial reef area,particularly in spring. The fish in the artificial reefs grew constantly by the analysis of Von- Bertalanffy growth equation,and there were significant differences in condition factors in fat greenling,Schlegel's rockfish,and Fang's blenny Enedrias fangi Wang et Wang. In 2013,the fat greenling captured in the artificial reefs by a trap had average body weight as 9. 36 times as the fish captured in the reefs- free area,indicating that the artificial reefs play an effective role in conservation,and proliferation of fish resources.


Soil displacements due to unsupported deep excavation may cause severe damages to the nearby structures and foundations systems. Such excavations affect the state of stresses and displacements field of the surrounding soil. In this study, the soil displacements at five observation points were continuously monitored for23 days, which was the time period of excavation of about 7 m deep open tunnel. The reference points were installed on the ground surface at horizontal distance ranging from 1.25 to 3.25 m from tunnel excavation edge. The construction work was related to the project of developing the Army Channel/ Zeyouna section in the Eastern part of Baghdad City. The field observations indicate upward vertical displacement and outward lateral displacements during the first 10 days when the excavation depth was within 4 m. After that, the displacement trend was generally reversed. The displacement values were within 12 mm and vary from one observation point to another depending on the lateral distance of each point from excavation edge. The finite element package PLAXIS 3D was used to simulate the problem after obtaining the required soil parameters by an extensive site investigation. The analysis results in general, compare well with the field observations in terms of soil displacements at the reference points, especially during the first 10 days. This finding may reveal the reliability of the analysis results at other locations in the surrounding soil.


Bocieties grant widow's pension M.220, and orphans' pension M.44 to M.66, and M.IOO to M.300 for funeral expenses. The best medical sickness societies in Germany are in the Kingdom of Saxony, where, except for two small relief clubs and one funeral club in Leipzig, there is one sickness relief society for the whole kingdom for medical men, who all are bound to join, and one relief society for widows and orphans. Both are obligatory State clubs. The yearly subscription for the first society is M. IO, and for the second M. 20. They grant M. 50 to M. IoO a month to members unable to work on account of illness and unable to provide sufficient means of support. Widows in need of relief are granted from M. 26 to M. 50 a month, and orphans from M. 5 to M. 25 a month. In the other German States there are various other medical relief societies, differing from the above in details.


This work presents an efficient soft-input soft-out (SISO) decoding algorithm for turbo product codes (TPCs). The proposed algorithm can estimate the extrinsic information of a row/column sequence without performing 2PiV1 hard decision decodings (HDDs). Based on the new algorithm, a modified version of the hybrid TPC decoder of Al-Dweik et al. [6], is also introduced. Compared with the hybrid TPC decoder of Al-Dweik et al. [6], the modified hybrid TPC decoder can greatly reduce the number of HDDs without noticeable bit-error rate performance loss.


With the development of deep neural network, dynamic inference techniques have attracted extensive attention. When the traditional static neural network is faced with complex samples, it will generate a lot of computational redundancy, resulting in a waste of computing resources. In order to solve this problem, on the basis of static network, experts use dynamic reasoning technology to improve the network, so that the network can calculate the samples. Therefore, the network structure has been fundamentally improved by performing operations such as layer skipping and leaving early. Compared with the traditional static networks, the improved model has greatly improved the speed and scale. At the same time, the accuracy of operation has also been greatly improved.


Deep Purifcation processes were developed,involving rough cobalt hydroxide stirring and washing with hot water, cobalt hydroxide reduction and dissolution;demanganese by using sodium hydrochlorite;precipitation copper by adding sodium sulphide;and dezinc wiht phosphorus acid the processes have been put into small-scale operation.Purified cobalt sulphate soultion has been yielded,and from it Grade T-2 cobalt oxid has been made,


Background: It was previously reported that the prevalence of oral thrush among Maasai women of reproductive age was disproportionately high in the absence of established predisposing factors, such as HIV/AIDS, syphilis, diabetes and anaemia. This study investigated whether incidence of oral thrush was due to low serum micronutrients levels. Results showed that all study participants were deficient in Vitamins A and C; some had insufficient levels of Vitamin D. We set out to understand the normal dietary intake of Maasai women of reproductive age and their traditions associated with food intake. Our aim was to review the types of foods and amounts consumed in relation to potentials for oral thrush occurrence. Methods: Interviews were conducted using a structured questionnaire; the information collected included data on age, parity, pregnancy status, weight, height, frequently eaten foods, number of meals, and food restrictions. Clinicians also examined participants for presence/absence of oral thrush lesions. A twenty four hour dietary recall was conducted, focusing on macro and micro nutrient content of the food consumed using the Tanzania Food Composition Table and computed with Excel™ 2007 software. Results: The twenty four hour dietary recall assessment revealed that the most frequently eaten food (71%) was thin porridge made from maize flour. Carbohydrates contributed the most energy (approximately 80%), followed by fats (12%), and protein (8%). Student's t-test showed no significant difference in dietary intake of carbohydrates and protein between women with and without oral thrush (with p>0.05). However, all groups showed low intake of protein, carbohydrates, fats and micronutrients such as vitamins A, C, B12, folate, and iron.


Works of a contemporary writer,Su Tong,is stemming from the culture of the south of Yangtze.Taking a broad view of his novels from the themes,the styles to the features of his language,all with the flavor of the cultural influence are the contemporary deduction and reproducing of the culture of the south of Yangtze.The original links of Su Tong's novels with the culture are from three aspects: 1) Themes of women aestheticism,Su Tong has molded a group of beautiful women accurately in his novels,which can be traced back to the period of Yongjia in the Eastern Jin Dynasty;2) Styles of the dreamlike fantasy,i.e.the space-time order is confusing and the plots are developed fuzzily and the images are miscellaneous in his novels,which are mainly affected by the culture of the south of Yangtze;3) The sentimental and decadent language,this is the result of the accumulated precipitate of humanity and geography of this specific region.


There has been no general agreement about the cytological origin of the tumour. If we exclude the muscular degeneration theory, which can no longer be sustained in the light of the modern findings, the theories of its pathogenesis are based either on a myoblastic or a neural origin of the tumour cells. To our knowledge the only paper based on an extensive electron-microscope study of this tumour was published by Fisher and Wechsler (1962), who concluded that the tumour was derived from Schwann cells; they renamed it a schwannoma, a name that assumes an origin that, as we hope to show herewith, is untenable. Sobel and Churg (1964) included 2 descriptive electron micrographs in their paper on the light microscopy of granular cell lesions, but their proposed paper on the electron microscopy does not appear to have been published.


The Liquid Effluent Retention Facility (LERF) consists of three retention basins, each with a nominal storage capacity of 6.5 million gallons. LERF serves as interim storage of 242-A Evaporator process condensate for treatment in the Effluent Treatment Facility. This document provides the technical basis for the LERF Operating Specifications, OSD-T-151-00029.


Objective To investigate the fever-relieving and anti-inflammatory effects of Qing-re mixture(QR) for oral use.Methods Animal models of ear edema induced by xylene in mice,paw edema induced by egg white and fever induced by 2,4-dinitrophenol in rats and endotoxin-induced fever in rabbits were made;the fever-relieving and anti-inflammatory effects of the different extractions of Qing-re mixture were studied.Results Extractions of Qing-re mixture extracted by 20%,40%,and 60% ethanol showed a marked suppressive effects on ear edema induced by xylene in mice,paw edema induced by egg white and fever induced by 2,4-dinitrophenol in rats and endotoxin-induced fever in rabbits,the extraction of Qing-re mixture extracted by 40% ethanol was the most effective.Conclusion Extraction of Qing-re mixture extracted by 40% ethanol had fever-relieving and anti-inflammatory effects,which were equivalent to the effects of Qing-re mixture.


Two new bufadienolide glycosides (1 and 2) with an A/B trans ring fusion together with nine known compounds (3–11) were isolated from the rhizomes of Helleborus thibetanus. The structures of new compounds were elucidated by extensive spectroscopic analyses in combination with single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The bufadienolides 1 and 3–6 exhibited potent cytotoxic activities against the prostate cancer cells.


A communications system for use in distributed computer control schemes is described. The requirements of such a system include data integrity, computer and data highway fault tolerance and the ability to insert or remove computers on-line. The performance of other communications systems in these respects is considered. The present scheme employs a broadcast serial double ring structure with equal access for all computers. Data are transmitted asynchronously in blocks with cyclic redundancy checking. Automatic reconfiguration takes place in the event of link failures, and the system recovers to the full double ring structure when links are repaired. The ring may be deliberately broken and computers inserted or removed on-line. The system has been developed and tested using S100-Bus microcomputers and the software has been written mainly in Fortran


Examining the hypothesis of jobless growth in the organised manufacturing sector (OMS) in the State of Tamil Nadu (T.N.), the paper finds that there is some evidence of jobless growth in the post-reform years (1994-2006). However, in both the pre-reform period (1983-93) and the combined period of 1983-2006 there is growth with employment generation. The results of the test for structural change reveal that there is evidence of structural stability in respect of employment generation in the state. This means that the net effect of employment generation over a longer time frame has not been adverse for the state.