SiO2 materials containing different magnetic fillers Ме Fe12O19 are obtained by the sol-gel method. It is studied the weakening of electromagnetic radiati on in the frequency range 8–11.5 GHz by the materia ls obtained with the use of panoramic attenuation meas urer and panoramic standing wave voltage coefficient measurers. It is also estimated the attenuati on contribution of the radiation reflection from th e material surface. The materials obtained can be used as a first layer of electromagnetic radiation absorbi ng materials which reduce the level of reflected energ y.


Some translation and joining of realms may turn to much good, and the wealth and tranquillity of many. As if we had a King for your Queen, or you [Scotland] a King for ours, it had been a goodly translation: to have united both realms in dominion, regiment and law, as they be in nature, language, and manners…. If you and we had joined together: it had made no great matter, on which side the King had been, so he had been religious…. It is religion and likeness of manners, that join men together … Where there is one faith, one baptism, and one Christ: there is narrower fraternity then, if they came out of one womb. (John Aylmer, An Harborowe for Faithful and Trew Subjectes, 1559) Me-thinketh it were to be wished of all wise men and her Majesty's good subjects, that the one of those two Queens of the isle of Britain were transformed into the shape of a man, to make so happy a marriage, as thereby there might be an unity of the whole isle. (Henry Killigrew to Robert Dudley, 31 December 1560) In 1559, John Aylmer responded to John Knox's First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women in order to win support for Elizabeth I's accession to the English throne. According to Aylmer, Knox identified as the "greatest inconvenience" of female rule the fact that the realm would be transferred to "strangers" when the queen married, ceding to her husband, as her superior, the power that had been invested in her.


"Light cannabis" is a product legally sold in Europe with Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) concentration lower than 0.2% and variable cannabidiol (CBD) content. In this study, we aimed to assess the time-courses of THC and metabolites (11-nor-9-carboxy-THC and 11-hydroxy-THC) and CBD and metabolites (CBD-7-oic acid, 7-hydroxy-CBD, 6α-hydroxy-CBD, and 6β-hydroxy-CBD) in whole blood of 10 healthy participants after smoking one or four light cannabis cigarettes (0.16% THC and 5.8% CBD). Blood samples were collected 0.5 to 4 h after administration. Blood analysis was performed by reversed-phase ultra-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS-MS) in multiple reaction monitoring mode, after glucuronide hydrolysis and liquid-liquid extraction in basic and acidic conditions. The method was validated following the most recent guidelines in toxicology: the method was linear, accurate, precise, and sensitive (lower limits of quantification ranged from 0.005 to 0.01 ng/mL); carryover, matrix effect, recovery, process efficiency, and dilution integrity were also assessed. As previously reported, the main metabolites of THC were THC-COOH, then 11-OH-THC, and the main metabolites of CBD were 7-OH-CBD, then 7-COOH-CBD. The time of first collection, which likely occurred after the maximal concentration of most of the analytes, and the short monitoring time, up to 4 h after smoking, limited the evaluation of the pharmacokinetic parameters.


Overall, this book has dealt more with descriptive information about trade and investment in South Asia. It is well structured and all the chapters follow the same format. The discussion on the investment perspective of the SAARC countries is an important subject, about which limited research has been undertaken in South Asia, and thereby this is a timely publication. Although the book deals with the four major SAARC members, it has not discussed anything on Maldives and Bhutan. Though the title of the book is 'India and Economic Cooperation in South Asia', it hardly deals with this topic in-depth. The individual chapters do not directly relate to the main topic of the book. It would have been quite appropriate to have a section on the Indian policy reforms in order to gain a clear picture on Indian developments. Also, none of the chapters focus on the effects of bilateral trade on the Indian economy Though the book was published in 2001, none of the chapters deal with 2000 data, and in most chapters data runs only up to 1997 or 1998. Also, most of the chapters repeat the general SAARC/ SAPTA details which the first chapter should have handled. There is no concluding chapter that brings everything together at the end of the book. The book


Purpose – This paper sets out to explore the place of the repository library in today's information world.Design/methodology/approach – This paper argues that it is important to view repository libraries anew and to re‐invigorate the debate as to their value and their place in the digital world. The paper is also set in the context of the Caval Archival Records Management Centre (CARM), located in Melbourne, Australia.Findings – There seem to be three basic roles for the repository in the emerging digital world. First, there is a role managing the low‐use legacy collections that will never be digitised, providing access to them in some defined service and pricing model. Second, there is a role to manage the vast array of learning objects that are being developed institutionally for online learning programs on behalf of existing institutional libraries and their learning and teaching units. Third, it can be argued that the peer review process is under severe pressure in the emerging digital world.Originali...


This research is intended to test the effect of training on the performance of civil servants in BPKAD Karawang Regency. This research sample covered 52 civil servants in BPKAD Karawanng Regency. The results of multiple linear regression analysis found that training and motivation variables had a positive effect on employee performance. This study shows that job training has an influence on employee performance. Agency policies on improving good job training in a sustainable basis need to be done in order to maintain quality and improve employee performance.
Keywords: training, motivation, performance.


Basing on excess money-issuing,which results from national financing,shows Chinese finance is non-security,with the sources of financial support for economic reform,financial reform,and globalization.In order to ensure the financial security,we should adhere to general development strategy,maintain the long-run net wealth accumulation,and stabilize the market confidence.


Objective:Studing theoretical basisagents ch aracteristics clini cal trials cont raind-ication and complications of in-traperitoneal chemothera py for ova rian cancer.Methods:Reading references of intraperiton ean chemothe rapy of ovarian can-cer.Results:Intraeritoneal chemotherapy is a me thod peri toneal therapy became a ben eficiary treatment in ovarican.


In an era when 'information overload' is a cliché, and the verb 'to google' is in common use, data becomes cultural material. Networked information is woven ever more tightly into the fabric of contemporary society; data is the medium of our collective present as well as, increasingly, our history. As such it is vital that data also becomes a material for design. This means not only designing its surface or appearance, but working with its deep structures and attributes, designing its flows, interactions and representation to create new forms.


What accounts for the oft-remarked dynamism of American society and its attendart flexibility of social structures, including accommodation of protest movements? I approach this question by considering the applicability of the perspectives on modern society of Marx, Durkheim, and Weber to the United States. Arguing that it is perhaps Weber who is of greatest heuristic worth in interpreting American society because of his sensitivity to the Protestant ethos, I illustrate this line of analysis by drawing attention to two major Puritan cultural themes: "wilderness" and "voluntarism."


Electronic health record (EHR) vendors claim their products improve the quality of care delivered, minimize errors, enhance documentation, and as a result, reduce malpractice risk. Is this true, or is it just another sales pitch? The authors of a 2008 study surveyed a random sample of officebased physicians in Massachusetts and compared their responses to a survey on EHR use against 10 years of data on paid malpractice claims (Virapongse A, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2008;168: 23622367, http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/ full/168/21/2362). The good news is that 6.1% of EHR users had paid malpractice claims vs. 10.8% of non-users. The bad news: The difference in paid malpractice claims between EHR users and non-users was no longer statistically significant after controlling for gender, year of medical school graduation, specialty, race and practice size. Although the results are inconclusive, the authors state that physicians with EHRs appear less likely to have malpractice payouts and that more research is needed.


Based on the principle of acousto-optic tunable filter and aperture division, the new method that can obtain a high spectral full polarization and image information was proposed. It was improved the accuracy of target detection and object recognition by this method. The Optical system of polarization imaging spectrometer based on aperture divisionandacousto-optic tunable filter was designed in this paper, which was used in the 2.16-meter telescope and spectral range is 450-900 nm .First,the working principle of polarization imaging spectrometer based on aperture division was introduced.Then, the design scheme of optical system and the principle of information acquisition were studied.Finally, the design parameters were assigned and theoptical systems were designed.The whole system MTF reach 0.6 in 32lp/mm.The olarization imaging spectrometer based on aperture division can improve the observation capacity.


We report the development of a hybrid optical sensor for temperature measurement based on the alignment response time of liquid crystals to an applied electric field. The probe head is energized and addressed optically, and operates well on a very limited power budget. The information output of the system is primarily in the frequency domain, although the possibility of extracting information based on the shape of the signal has been explored, and found to be an inferior method.


The length at which 50% of the individuals were mature was calculated for some Northwest Atlantic groundfish species. Median length at maturity for halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) on the Scotian Shelf declined from 84 cm for males during 1959–1964 to 66 cm during 1970–1979. Median lengths at maturity for females declined from 98 to 70 cm. Ranges of median lengths (centimetres) at maturity for other species were as follows: cusk (Brosme brosme), male 48–56, female 47–56; longhorn sculpin (Myoxocephalus octodecemspinosus), male 24–29, female 23–25; ocean pout (Macrozoarces americanus), male 45, female 28; and sea raven (Hemitripterus americanus), male 36, female 28.


Surface-enhanced resonance Raman spectra (SERRS) are reported for copper chlorophyllin a (CuChl) adsorbed on silver and gold colloids. The surface species are shown to be monomeric, by comparison with solution resonance Raman (RR) spectra, although lowering the pH of the gold colloid to 2.0 induces spectral changes suggestive of surface aggregation. The similarity of CuChl monomer RR and SERRS spectra is consistent with electromagnetic enhancement of the RR spectra via the metal particles, with no indication of a chemical interaction that would perturb the electronic states. The SERRS spectra change markedly with excitation wavelength in ways that can be explained on the basis of the different Raman enhancement pattern expected for resonance with the different chlorin excited states. The SERRS spectra are highly resolved and are useful in suggesting new assignments for chlorin vibrational modes.


An ideal-figurative fulfillment of poem's gerne of Belorussian write A. Ryazana is analyzed in the article. Originality of the author's poetic mentality in the coutext of world literature is reveiled.


The Senate has just about eliminated any possibility that the Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA) will be reauthorized this year. Instead, Senators took care of what they perceived as the immediate problem by passing a separate bill that would allow states to limit imports of wastes from other states. The bill, S. 2877, was introduced June 18 by Sen. Dan Coats (R.-Ind.) and Sen. Max S. Baucus (D.-Mont.), chairman of the Committee on Environment & Public Works' Subcommittee on Environmental Protection. The bill, which would become effective in 1995, would allow written, existing municipal waste contracts executed by local governments to remain in force, in addition to giving local governments and state governors much greater authority to limit future imports of trash. It also calls for General Accounting Office investigations of interstate waste transportation and of the generation of solid waste by the industries springing up on the Mexico-U.S. border. But, in divorcing itself ...


This paper presents poly(3,4‐ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate polymer microchannel (diameter ≈175 µm) based stretchable strain sensor developed inside polydimethylsiloxane substrate. The microchannel diameter changes when subjected to various strains, leading to change in the resistance of strain sensor. The sensor exhibits about three order (ΔR/R0 ≈ 1200) increase in the resistance (R) for 10% applied strain (ΔL/L, L = length of the sensor). This leads to a gauge factor (GF Δ (ΔR/R0)/(ΔL/L) of ≈12 000, which is about ≈400 times higher than most of the reported polymer‐based strain sensors. The sensor is evaluated up to a maximum strain of 30%, which is the standard strain limit associated with human body parts such as fingers and wrists. The sensor exhibits a considerably good average degree of hysteresis (<9%). Further, the sensor is also studied for bending and twisting experiments. A response of (ΔR/R0 ≈ 250) and (ΔR/R0 ≈ 300) is recorded for 90° bending and 150° twisting, respectively. The sensor shows an electrical resolution of ≈150% per degree of free bending and ≈12k% per percentage of stretching. Finally, the potential application of presented sensor in robotics and wearable systems is demonstrated by using sensor feedback from human hand to remotely control the robotic hand movements.


book, the instructor who insists on completeness of coverage will not be disappointed. Flexibility for course adoption is an especially important trait for texts in the history of economic thought. In this connection, Ekelund and Hebert note that "no two history of thought courses are alike" (doubtless a correct observation of a situation perhaps accounted for by the field's failure to become professionalized), and I would guess that the format of their book will appeal to instructors of divergent or eclectic approaches. Colorful, though condensed, detail on the lives or personalities of economists is ably blended with the presentation of ideas to enliven without detracting. In sum, A History of Economic Theory and Method is a sound text in the traditional format that should be seriously considered by instructors reviewing the available texts for the undergraduate course in the history of economic thought.


The proposed removal of both the Boardman and Sabin Dams located on the Boardman River has sparked the concern and subsequent investigation of the possible implications to downstream flooding and fluvial geomorphology. Historical documentation indicates that these dams were operated as "run of the river" under Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Project License No. 2978 and minimal dam manipulation was conducted to intentionally attenuate flood flows (STS, 2008). To thoroughly evaluate the attenuation capabilities of the dams, two operational scenarios (static gates and moving gates) were simulated with the hydraulic modeling program, HEC-RAS, and hydrographs were developed to test a range of storm discharges and durations. Through this analysis it became necessary to also include the Brown Bridge Dam in our investigation as this particular dam could have impacted the USGS gage readings that were used to develop the flood frequency curves.


This work investigates the possibility of obtaining Br isotopic information by generating a gaseous diatomic molecule in a graphite furnace and monitoring its absorption spectrum using a high-resolution continuum source device (HR CS GFMAS). Different metals (Al, Ba, and Ca) were investigated to produce this diatomic molecule and the most promising results, both in terms of isotopic shift and sensitivity, were obtained with Ca, thus leaving CaBr as the target species. The results demonstrate that, unlike what occurs when monitoring atomic spectra, which are characterized by very small isotopic shifts that can hardly be detected, using HR CS GFMAS it is feasible to observe several molecular transitions corresponding to Ca79Br and Ca81Br that are spectrally resolved (i.e. they act like two different molecules absorbing at different wavelengths), and can be simultaneously quantified. The method developed relies on the addition of both Pd and Ca (as a chemical modifier and molecule forming agent, respectively), the selection of peak height values and the use of IBC-m (iterative baseline correction for the monitoring of molecules) for setting the baseline. This method enables accurate Br isotopic analysis in 10 mg L−1 solutions with precision values around 2.5% RSD, without requiring any method for mass bias correction. Moreover, it is also demonstrated how the use of isotope dilution for calibration can help in circumventing severe chemical interferences (e.g., deriving from the presence of high amounts of Cl) when aiming at the direct determination of Br in solid samples by HR CS GFMAS. The accuracy of the method was evaluated via analysis of two different reference materials, poly(vinyl chloride) and tomato leaves.


Studies on the cultivation of the Chekanovsky larch (Larix czekanowskii Szaf.) outside of its natural distribution (Chita forestry). Studies on cultivation of crops cover the period from the collection of seeds and seedlings to 40 years of age cultures of the Chekanovsky larch and Gmelin. The technology of cultivation of the Chekanovsky larch. Found that larch Chekanovsky outside of its area increases faster than Larix gmelinii.


Most of the Oil Pumping Units (OPU) are manually monitored. This existing oil-pumping systems use a high power-consuming process, is incapable of OPU's structural health monitoring. In this paper, a sensor network based intelligent control is proposed for power economy and efficient oil well health monitoring. The condition of the oil storage tanks can be monitored using sensors like level sensor, temperature sensor and gas sensor. These sensors are fixed inside the oil storage tanks. The sensor output is given to a microcontroller located in each oil well. Based on the condition of the oil storage tanks, the oil pumping motor is controlled. The monitored information about each oil well is wirelessly transmitted to an administrator located in a remote location. By this method, multiple oil wells within the transmission range of the wireless sensor network used can be monitored and controlled.


Cyanophycin is a bacterial polymer that consists of the two amino acids aspartate and arginine, forming a poly-L-aspartic acid backbone with each carboxyl group linked to an arginine residue (multi-L-arginyl-poly-L-aspartic acid) (Simon, 1971). Cyanophycin was identified as a constituent of granular inclusions in cyanobacteria (Allen et al., 1980) and was therefore referred to as cyanophycin granule polypeptide (CGP). CGP is synthetized by a single enzyme, cyanophycin synthetase, CphA1, in a two-step reaction from L-aspartate and L-arginine, with one ATP used per step. The first step in cyanophycin formation is an aspartate ligase reaction, where the C terminus of the growing chain is phosphorylated and then an aspartate residue is attached via peptide bond formation. Second, the b-carboxyl group of the newly added aspartate residue is phosphorylated and then ligated to the a-amino group of an L-arginine residue (Berg, 2003; Ziegler et al., 1998). By these consecutive reactions, an Asp–Arg co-polymer is formed with a chain length of 100–500 Asp–Arg building units. With a C/N ratio of 2 : 1, this polymer is extremely rich in nitrogen and an excellent nitrogen storage compound (Carr, 1988; Obst & Steinbüchel, 2006). In agreement, CGP accumulates in many cyanobacteria under conditions of unbalanced growth (Allen et al., 1980), when nitrogen is still available in abundance. The ability to form CGP is widespread among cyanobacteria and is found in both non-diazotrophic and diazotrophic strains. Meanwhile, CphA homologues were also identified in some heterotrophic bacteria (Krehenbrink et al., 2002; Ziegler et al., 2002).


The invention relates to an optical modifier in which signals of individual wavelength channels or a plurality of wavelength channels are coupled into or out of transmitter and/or receiver elements including for example waveguides. The aim of the invention is to provide an optical modifier that is adapted to specifically influence one or more wavelength channels, that is inexpensive to produce and that allows for a highly loss-free coupling in and/or out of light, requiring a minimum of space and at the same time being easy to adjust. To this end, at least one coupling device (20) that has a curved reflecting surface (8) and one wave-modifying element (19) are provided. The invention further relates to a method for producing an optical modifier, wherein the reflecting surface (8) is produced as a part of a surface of revolution that has a conic section as the generating envelope.


SUMMARY The Out of the Box Festival of Early Childhood is a unique public event in Australia designed to enrich the creative and cultural lives of children aged 3–8 years and their communities. The research linked to this festival is based on the premise that parents' participation in, and value of the arts, impacts engagements with, and value placed on the arts by their children. This study investigates the ways that a large cultural institution creates engaging relationships with parents of young children. We outline a program involving perception development, knowledge building, critical friends and outcome measurement and we identify attributes of the festival that enable a family-friendly arts environment. Early findings on the impact of activities on parent and child pursuit of the arts as an area of social and cultural enrichment enabled us to propose strategies for enhancing arts participation by parents and young children.


In the design of in-situ retaining walls in overconsolidated clays problems can arise over the estimation of bending moments and deformations under working conditions. This paper compares the observed behaviour of a section of secant pile retaining wall during the construction of a cut-and-cover tunnel with that obtained from a prediction based on an elasto-plastic finite element analysis. For the covering abstract of the conference see IRRD 287689. (Author/TRRL)


I t is known tha t a factor ( o r factors) capable of reacting in various ways with gamma globulins may be found not only in the serum of persons affected by rheumatoid arthrit is , but also in patients with other diseases (particularly the so-called "collagen" diseases' ) and even in apparently healthy individuals, with an increased frequency in older age.' I t is also known that these factors may differ in molecular size:' or specificity, that is in their ability of reacting with rabbit o r human gamma globulins and even with human gamma globulins carrying different genetic markers.' I t appears, therefore, that the so-called "rheumatoid factors" or "rheumatoid-factor-like" substances may include a large family of reactors that a re induced by different conditions; the fact, however, that the rheumatoid factors always belong to the immunoglobulins ( IgG or, more often, IgM) and tha t they show a specificity of reactions comparable to those of antibodies, strengthens the concept that they arise as the consequence of an immunological stimulation. Various observations and experiments,-'.G support the possibility tha t the rheumatoid factors and related substances may be isoo r autoantibodies to gamma globulins; in the second instance the antigenic stimulation would be provided by autologous gamma globulins altered so to become autoantigens either by gross denaturation induced by some physical o r chemical agent or by more subtile changes in shape such a s those tha t accompany the formation of antigen-antibody complexe~.~ The latter possibility is very interesting because, if the modified gamma globulins of antigen-antibody complexes a re the stimulus for the production of rheumatoid-factor-like substances, we would have a good explanation for finding these substances in the course of many different diseases, which might have this in common: a prolonged period of immunological stimulation with sustained formation of antigen-antibody complexes "in vivo." Chronic pulmonary diseases of various kind seem to be among those in which the presence of a rheumatoid factor in the serum a t good ti ters is B frequent finding. A positive reaction of the serologic tests for rheumatoid


Self‐assembled InAs quantum dots (QDs) embedded in an InAlGaAs matrix were grown on an InP (001) using a solid‐source molecular beam epitaxy and investigated using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy. TEM images indicated that the QD formation was strongly dependent on the growth behaviors of group III elements during the deposition of InAlGaAs barriers. We achieved a lasing operation of around 1.5 µm at room temperature from uncoated QD lasers based on the InAlGaAs‐InAlAs material system on the InP (001). The lasing wavelengths of the ridge‐waveguide QD lasers were also dependent upon the cavity lengths due mainly to the gain required for the lasing operation.


The invention belongs to the technical field of amino acid production and relates to a technology for whole membrane extraction of an L-glutamine fermentation broth. The technology adopts multiple membranes to realize successive filtration purification of a fermentation broth. The technology utilizes membrane filtration equipment which has a high automation degree and strong operability and can be processed easily so that the influence produced by manual operation on material liquid quality is reduced. A material liquid obtained by the technology has stable quality. The technology solves the problem that the material liquid produces negative influence on L-glutamine extraction and an extraction waste liquid is treated difficultly. The technology realizes environmentally-friendly extraction of L-glutamine, does not discharge waste water, realizes recycle of process water and full utilization of a material liquid component, realizes primary L-glutamine end product purity more than 98%, is convenient for industrialization, and has environmentally-friendly processes, strong controllability and high economic benefits.


This paper reports on the optical phase and gain control of a GaAs MMIC phase shifter and amplifier with applications for active phased array antennas. Phase shifts of 40 degrees were obtained with 50¿w of optical power and amplifier gain was controlled 15 dB with 250¿w of light intensity.


Due to the recent coronavirus pandemic, there is a steep rise in the use of alcohol-based hand sanitizers (ABHSs) over the past few months. For them to be effective against microorganisms, the minimum recommended concentration of alcohol is 60%. This high alcohol content makes the sanitizers easily flammable. Although, they are extremely convenient to use, they can also prove to be a hazard if used in an improper manner. Guidelines have been published for safe manufacturing and distribution of these sanitizers. There are recommendations for storage and use, which should be adhered to in a strict manner. Their use by children should always be supervised. We report four cases of burn injuries caused by injudicious use of alcohol-based sanitizers. The flammable nature of ABHSs can also be exploited as witnessed in one of our cases. With this report, we wish to emphasize that judicious and correct use of these seemingly benign products is essential.


In implementing mathematics learning in schools, educators must pay attention to five main competencies, namely problem solving, communication, connection, reasoning, and representation. Mathematical representation is a tool to convey students' algebraic thinking as an aid to construct their ideas about patterns and functions. This study aims to examine the mathematical representation of students in terms of introvert and extrovert personality types. To see the characteristics of mathematical representations in solving mathematical problems when viewed from the personality type of each student. This research method is descriptive qualitative. The number of schools and students who were sampled from this study was taken using a multistage sampling technique. The data collection instruments in this study were personality questionnaires, problem-solving tests, interviews, observations, and documents obtained from research subjects. The problem-solving analysis used is based on the Krulik and Rudnik steps. The personality types of extroverted students and introverted students do have different mindsets so that even though in some steps they use the same representation, their tendencies or habits represent problem-solving using different forms of representation. The personality types of extroverted students represent them more symbolically and almost all answers from extroverted students are closer to true when compared to introverted students.


Kenaf is one of the most promising fibers for composite conversion. In this work, kenaf is being combined with and combing waste or sheared polyester waste and polyester resin as matrix. The comparison of properties are based on tensile strength and flexural strength of 100% resin, 100% kenaf and 50/50 kenaf/cotton combing waste 50/50 kenaf/sheared polyester waste in three types of lay-ups of longitudinal, cross-laid and transverse. The highest results of tensile strength are from 100% longitudinal kenaf and 100% cotton combing waste but the highest results of flexural strength are 50/50 cross-laid lay-ups of composites. The tensile and flexural strength properties are also compared with similar properties on glass composites.


The invention discloses a short message center, comprising: storage unit stored with a corresponding relationship of differentiated service marks of various user groups of differentiated services of the same service provider to different message scheduling policies; scheduling processing unit, for inquiring the corrsponding relationship to obtain a corrseponding message scheduling policy according to the differentiated service mark of a user in the communicatin short message between the service provider and the user in the user group, and then scheduling the short message according to the obtained message scheduling policy. In addition, the invention correspondingly discloses a short message transmitting method. On the condition of not influencing the brand of the service provider, it can implement differentiated service provision for final users by the service provider.


In this paper, the impacts of strategic bidding of a wind power producer on electricity markets are studied. To this end, the strategic bidding of a wind power producer is investigated under the following three schemes: 1) the wind power producer sets its generation power while other producers set their supply functions, 2) the wind power producer sets its supply function and so do other producers, and 3) the wind power producer teams up with a non-wind generating firm and the aggregated firm sets its supply function and so do other producers. Supply function equilibrium models are used to determine the strategic behavior of generating firms at market equilibrium. Illustrative numerical results are provided.


In this last European public health news of 2016, we see a change in EUPHA presidency. Muscat introduces herself by highlighting the importance of a united public health workforce in Europe. Zeegers adds to this by announcing the 25th anniversary of EUPHA next year. In our EUPHA section column, Kumar and Krasnik reflect on the successful satellite conference organised in June 2016 in Oslo, Norway, where solutions on the migrant and refugee problems were discussed. Again, a unified and strong public health workforce is necessary. Jakab emphasizes that working towards health (leaving no one behind) also includes an intersectoral approach to health. Andriukaitis specifically looks at the challenges of the migrants and refugees problem and reminds us that ensuring integration and protecting against stigma and health inequalities remain our long-term priorities. Zeegers showcases the strong voice of public health by reflecting on the Vienna Declaration, signed by many of our partners and members.

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Sitting to write the first of my contributions as the President of EUPHA has provided an opportunity for me to reflect upon my relationship with EUPHA and public health over a couple of decades. I first came into contact with EUPHA in 1999, when as a young and an inexperienced public health doctor I sought out membership for the newly established Malta Association of Public Health Medicine. I arrived in Prague not knowing anyone other than my former professor Martin McKee who had encouraged me to write up a paper for presentation. It was then I met Dineke Zeegers Paget. Dineke has been a constant, unassuming, but ever present motor behind this organisation. Emboldened by the fact that I could speak Italian, I plucked up courage and introduced myself to Walter Ricciardi. I relate this starting point in my journey with EUPHA since it may resonate …

Correspondence : Allan Krasnik, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Oster Farimagsgade 5, 1014 Copenhagen, Denmark, Tel: p4523321145, e-mail: alk{at}sund.ku.dk


The present invention relates to a method for manganese dioxide adsorption of heavy metal ions electrical / carbon composite electrodes and electrical adsorption process. Manganese dioxide / carbon composite electrode material is a carbon matrix, manganese dioxide supported thereon. Heavy metal ions on the voltage is applied to the manganese dioxide / carbon composite electrodes, so that the positively charged in water migrate to the cathode under the action of the electric force, so that the water removed by the adsorption of heavy metal ions electrically. The present invention is a manganese dioxide / carbon composite electrode preparation method is simple, large capacity, high electrochemical stability, large surface area electrode, is very suitable as an electric material adsorbing electrode; by the action of the applied electric field, reinforced load manganese dioxide adsorption of heavy metal ions, can be achieved quickly and efficiently remove heavy metal ions in water, may be fast and easy regeneration electrode material; it is difficult to overcome the disadvantages of the conventional techniques for heavy metal ions are effective in removing low concentrations in water, in water for several to several tens of removal of heavy metal ions in a concentration in ppm.


Objective: To probe the diagnosis and treating methods for traumatic diaphragmatic hernia. Methods: To retrospectively analyse 26 cases with traumatic diaphragmatic hernia from 1995 to 2004, made a summary and evaluation to its treating methods as well as complications. Results: In whole group, open injury in 17 cases, closed injury in 9cases. 18 cases combined with other organs injuries. 14 cases endured exploratory thoracotomy, 8 casesunderwent exploratory laparotomy, 3 patients both in exploratory thoracotomy and laparotomy, 1 cases be neoplasted in the course of thoracoscope examination. A patient died after operation, 6 cases occurred complications(23.1%). Conclusion: Early diagnosis as soon as operating treatment is the rational measure to reduce complications.


The development of an efficient computational methodology for transient heat and mass transfer applications is challenging. When a solution is localized on the fraction of a computational domain, an appropriate adaptive mesh method could minimize computational work. In this article, we propose a novel adaptive-mesh multiresolution algorithm for the transient momentum and energy equations. The nonlinear dynamics between the velocity and temperature fields are modeled by solving the coupled system of equations simultaneously, where the rate of convergence has been optimized so that computational cost remains proportional to the number of grid points. Numerical experiments have exhibited good agreements with benchmark simulation data.


Starting with a theoretical QUAIDS model at the micro level, an approximate aggregation is developed that allows the model to be applied to time series at the macro level (The approximated aggregation holds for a "representative" consumer with utility equal to the harmonic mean of the individual consumers' utility.)


D. Vorländer was the leading scientist in liquid crystal chemistry in the first half of the 20th century who discovered many of the building principles for liquid crystalline compounds. It was known that Vorländer also synthesized some compounds with a bent molecular shape. In this paper we show that one of these compounds indeed forms a mesophase (B6) which is characteristic for the banana-shaped molecular structure.


Abstract The nonclassical method of reduction was devised originally by Bluman and Cole in 1969, to find new exact solutions of the heat equation. Much success has been had by many authors using the method to find new exact solutions of nonlinear equations of mathematical and physical significance. However, the defining equations for the nonclassical reductions of the heat equation itself have remained unsolved, although particular solutions have been given. Recently, Arrigo, Goard, and Broadbridge showed that there are no nonclassical reduction solutions of constant coefficient linear equations that are not already classical Lie symmetry reduction solutions. Their arguments leave open the problem of what is the general nonclassical group action, and its effect on the relevant solution of the heat equation. In this article, both these problems are solved. In the final section we use the methods developed to solve the remaining outstanding case of nonclassical reductions of Burgers' equation.


. A brief d-iscussion of the formation, deposition and character of soft limes'tone is presented with emphasis on the problem in the State of Pennsyl. vania. A case study of a six-story building using H-piles in this limestone region is illustrated~ Cautions and advantages for using the H-pile in limestone regions are discussed. INTRODUCTION In recent years, land development in the U.S.A. has expanded significantly. Problematic Ifmestone.regions are frequently used for the,construction of tall buildings. Because of the possibility of uncertain subsurface conditions in limestone areas, it is necessary that a foundation engineer pay considerable attention to these environmental conditions. Limestone is a relatively young geological formation which comprises about 10% of exposed rock on the earth's surface and it covers a large part of the U.S.A. Limestone regions are frequently blanketed with ~ layer of residual soil. Residual soils are often sof~· and loose, therefore, the designer of a tall building generally requires that foundations be supported directly on the rock surface. ·However, the rock pro-~ .parties'in a limes·tone region can vary considerably from poor to good within a short distance. Commonly in these areas, the caisson (bored pile) is used because it is suitable for the relatively uncertain subsurface cond'itions. Pile foundations are muc4 less expensive 'in comparison w-ith caissons, ,however, certain .precautions and th,orqugh planning are nee:ded in orde~ to ob.ta~n.satisfactory results. The purpose of this paper is to discuss and identify the characteristics, formation, deposition of limestone, with emphasis on the problems in the State of Pertnsylvania. A case study of a six-story parking garage will be used to illustrate the situation. It includes'site investigation, pil~ loading, inspectio,n of extracted piles, and a :method for protecting the pile tip in rock formations. CHARACTER OF LIMESTONE The essentials of the solution processes involved can be exemplified by . the chemistry of limestone solution. This rock consists of' calcium carbonate in varying per,centages. It is poorly soluble in 'tvater alone, but. when carbon dioxide is added to the water, forming carbonic acid, the. acid reacts with the rock to form the compound calcium bicarbonate. Carbon dioxide is taken by water from the atmosphere and'from the soil air where it is concentrated due to the decay of organic material~.' As the rock is removed, poorly soluble impurities, such as silica, alumina, iron oxides and carbonates and sulphur, are left behind forming the familiar red~ dis'h or yellowish soil of these areas. Dolomite is a limestone in which some of the calcium has been replaced by infiltrating magnesium. It is less soluble than pure ~imestone but can also yield karst forms. The "karst" is the world's best exhibit of erosion by solution. The ~and has been shaped by the removal of calcium and magnesium fro~ rock deposits varying in composition from pure limestone to dolomite. by water charged w~th carbon dioxide. Solutional features are developed here so extensively and variously as to become geologic models, and the term "karst topography1t is -,applied to any terrain in which such features occur. These manifestations also appear where ot~er soluble minerals, particulariy rock salt and gypsum, form bedrocks at or near the surface, hmvever, the term karst refers to the geologic consequences of solution as bicarbona'tes of pure or mixed carbonates 'of the alkaline earths especial11y of calcium and magnesium•. Since the prime condition for limestone solution is abundantrainfall to. stimulate plant and carbon dioxide production, arid regions exhibit little karst development. Such development is favored if the strata are well jointed, when water will not stagnate but can pass readily through. On most bedrock, drainage tends to be two-dimensional; in limestone it is three-dimensional. Channels are often ungraded because downcutting depends entirely upon solution. Streams flo'tving through these terrains become integrated by long established mutual surface .features with a considerable influence of ,relative gradients and therefore, generally meet underground in the three-dimensional patterns represented by the joint systems. ' Areas of erosion in limestone are defined by belts of solution-resistant -~ock. Limestone strata often grade into shale and vice-versa. Since shale typically is poorly jointed and its particles are small and well compacted, it tends to block circulation. Therefore, downward percolating wate'r spreads ,out over the shale stratum or follows the dip until it.reaches joints through whi.ch downward movement can be res-umed. Most common among karst features are the sinkholes which may occurin such number as to make the countryside appear quite pockmarked. Central Florida is one well-known example; another prominent' area is southern Indiana whe~e the sinkhole total is es~irnated at 300,000. Large numbers of sinkholes are also in Pennsylvania and Illinois. All suspected sinkhole areas shou~d be investigated in the field and cores drilled to a depth consistent with the characteristics of ,the proposed structure. If sinkholes are discovered, they should be avoided if possible, as correction is often difficult, costly and uncertain. If a sinkhole cannot be avoided, it must be fi~led with suitable material and the eye sealed or bridged, thereby creating a firm foundation. --I


Abstract:  We use short selling data from Data Explorers from 2004 to 2012 to investigate the extent to which UK short sellers are informed investors, in accordance with Diamond and Verrecchia's (1987) hypothesis. Our results suggest that heavily-shorted stocks fail to consistently underperform their lightly-shorted counterparts. Short sellers' ability to predict firm performance is limited to firms that struggle for survival, such as firms about to enter bankruptcy or financial firms during the financial crisis. These results provide new evidence regarding the source of short-sellers' information and should be of interest to academics, financial regulators and market participants.


Combining with an engineering example,the principle of reverse drawing out soil,construction method and process control of bidirectional rectification,the feasibility of the rectification method in soft area is presented.Research result has a certain guiding function for further construction of similar projects.


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: The aim of this article is to examine some of the emerging challenges associated with digital youth inclusion and the asymmetric power dynamics between those who collect data and those who are the targets of the data collection process - commonly referred to as the 'big data divide'. Digital inclusion is understood here as a strategy to ensure that all people have equal opportunities and appropriate skills to access and benefit from digital technologies. Digital inclusion practice encompasses a range of methods and approaches used to help individuals and communities to access and understand digital technologies. While the literature analysis is framed within a wider, international context, the discussion is primarily situated within Scotland's studies. The analysis presented here reveals that many existing youth digital inclusion programmes are corporate-led and primarily focus on functional digital literacy (e.g., how to access information online), and not critical digital literacy (e.g., how to critically analyse the information online). I argue here that digital inclusion should not solely be viewed as a strategy for employment and education, but as a set of larger, systematic, continually evolving, and critical youth engagement practice. In the era of the 'big data divide', digital inclusion programmes should aim to enable young people's critical digital abilities to continually review and respond to their positions within the power structures of the data society. To achieve this, I propose three areas for consideration for youth digital inclusion practice.


The development of the synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH) technique relies on the evolution of ASICs. This paper introduces the characteristics of the SDH pointer leakage ASIC MXTULPx8-5, which has been designed independently by the E&E Department of Tsinghua University. This chip can compensate for plesiochronous relationships between incoming and outgoing higher level (AU4) synchronous payload envelope frame rates through processing of the lower level (TU11, TU12, or TU3) tributary pointers, so that the aligned tributaries can be easily column switched by the SDH tributary unit cross-connect chip. The time-sliced multiplexing design method is introduced as the key technique, and the tributary elastic buffer size is calculated. The application example of MXTULPx8-5 is also described.


The invention discloses a wafer bearing device and a method for overturning wafers. Due to the facts that a trolley lifting module and a location hole identification module in the wafer bearing device are of a movably detachable structure, a clamping groove formed in the upper surface of a loading box body and a clamping groove formed in the lower surface of the loading box body are the same, and a clamping joint of the trolley lifting module and a clamping joint of the location hole identification module are also the same, the trolley lifting module and the location hole identification module can be conveniently exchanged. In addition, due to the fact that a plurality of sets of elastic bearing clamping grooves which can fix the wafers are formed in a cover plate of a loading box, the wafers can be prevented from sliding when the wafer bearing device is turned over. Therefore, on one hand, the time for overturning the wafers can be saved, the technology process can be effectively shortened, expenditure for purchasing a wafer overturning device is saved, production cost of devices is reduced, and on the other hand, technological waiting time of products can be shortened, and the yield of the products is improved.


Bis salicylaldehyde ethylenediamine Schiff base (Salen) and its complexes with three metal ions (Co2+, Ni2+, Zn2+) were prepared, and characterized by infrared spectroscopy(IR). Using air as oxygen source, the optimum reaction conditions for the catalytic oxidation of 0.05 mol benzoin by Co (Salen) were obtained by orthogonal test as follows: base KOH 2 g, catalyst 1.5 g, N, N-dimethylformamide(DMF) as solvent, reaction temperature 40 °C, reaction time 1 h. Under these conditions, the catalytic performances of different metal complexes were investigated. The catalytic activity of Co(Salen) was the best one, the yield of benzil was up to 93.6%, the number of Ni(Salen) and Zn(Salen) was 86.3% and 82.1%, respectively. The reused catalytic performance of M(Salen) complex was also studied. The catalytic activity of Co(Salen), Ni(Salen) and Zn(Salen) was stable after 4 times recycle, the yield of benzil was 71.4%, 63.3% and 57.4%, respectively, and it was easy for catalyst recycling. The oxidation product was certainly benzil with high purity according to the characterization results of melting point(MP), IR, high performance liquid chromatography(HPLC) and 1H nuclear magnetic resonance(1H NMR). Compared with the common synthetic method of benzil, this one has the advantages of friendly environment, low cost and easy operation. It is a simple and green way to synthesize benzoyl efficiently.


Zinc oxide nanoparticles were obtained by chemical precipitation method using zinc nitrate and aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide as precursors. The ZnO nanoparticles exhibited excellent photocatalytic activity for Orange-II dye degradation under visible light irradiation. ZnO nanoparticles are easy to recover and can be used upto three times without loss of degradation activity. We observed that Fenton reagent showed good activity for Orange II dye decolourization and degradation. Photocatalytic degradation of Orange II dye using H2O2/Fe3+ has also been studied and optimum conditions for the decolourization and degradation of dye has been established.


A simple FGM object with one gradient direction is easily fabricated by the current technique; However, how to fabricate multiple gradients FGM objects is rarely mentioned by some related papers. This paper proposed a representation and fabrication approach to deal with this problem. This approach, termed as minimum fabrication cell (MFC) or allowance fabrication cell (AFC), focus on fabrication of multiple gradients FGM object. In MFC, an arbitrary 3-D model is adaptively sliced into a series of 2-D layers, and each layer is subdivided into a series of MFC or AFC along toolpath. The three linear interpolation is applied to calculate the material for each MFC or AFC, and gradient contribution ratio (GCR) is applied to calculate the material for each vertex on the MFC or AFC.


Adequate use of antihypertensive drugs is one of the key elements to guarantee the achievement of blood pressure goals and the adherence of patients to treatment, in order to diminish the absolute cardiovascular risk. This article is a narrative review based on a systematic literature search in which randomized, controlled studies of initial antihypertensive therapy were selected and treatments with drugs of two or more groups were compared having as outcome the reduction of cardiovascular events.


The paper describes that the maturity of invironment and condition in the revolution of the science and technology. The world in front of the new-revolution in science and technology,the new-compition has started the words-height in the future.


We discuss the OpenMP parallelization of linear algebra algorithms that are coded using the Formal Linear Algebra Methods Environment (FLAME) API. This API expresses algorithms at a higher level of abstraction, avoids the use loop and array indices, and represents these algorithms as they are formally derived and presented. We report on two implementations of the workqueuing model, neither of which requires the use of explicit indices to specify parallelism. The first implementation uses the experimental taskq pragma, which may influence the adoption of a similar construct into OpenMP 3.0. The second workqueuing implementation is domain-specific to FLAME but allows us to illustrate the benefits of sorting tasks according to their computational cost prior to parallel execution. In addition, we discuss how scalable parallelization of dense linear algebra algorithms via OpenMP will require a two-dimensional partitioning of operands much like a 2D data distribution is needed on distributed memory architectures. We illustrate the issues and solutions by discussing the parallelization of the symmetric rank-k update and report impressive performance on an SGI system with 14 Itanium2 processors.


Catalogue of exhibition Imaginary Urban Gardens at Rodman Hall Art Centre, Brock University (2020).
Curators Catherine Parayre and Shawn Serfas
With an essay by Carina Magazzeni


The ''standard of care'' for clients with complex dissociative disorders and other complex trauma-related disorders is phase-oriented treatment. Within this frame, therapeutic progress can be enhanced by the use of imagery-based therapeutic techniques. In this article, the emphasis is on their application in phase 1 treatment, stabilization, symptom reduction, and skills training, but attention is also paid to applications in phase 2 and phase 3 treatment. Many of the existing imagery techniques are geared toward clients becoming more able to function in a more adaptive way in daily life, which, however, requires the involvement of various dissociative parts of the personality. Such collaborative involvement is also essential in the later treatment phases. Therefore, understanding the dissociative nature of these disorders is helpful in the judicious application of these techniques. Keywords: dissociation of the personality; phase-oriented treatment; phase 1 treatment; guided imagery (Published: 22 May 2012) Citation: European Journal of Psychotraumatology 2012, 3 : 8458 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/ejpt.v3i0.8458 For the abstract or full text in other languages, please see Supplementary files in the column to the right (under Article Tools).


A lot has been written about the barriers faced by foreign firms in doing business in the Japanese market. Books, articles in the popular press and academic journals, and political rhetoric abound regarding Japan's external tariff and non-tariff trade barriers, the nexus that exists between the business sector and the government to systematically exclude foreign companies from entering the Japanese market, and the prevalent keiretsu corporate groups that reduce competition. These characteristics are generally identified as the reasons behind the huge trade imbalance between the U.S. and Japan. Additionally, they are blamed for the inability of U.S. companies to enter the Japanese market, and the structural and social barriers that inhibit the ability of foreign firms to effectively compete with local firms.


The exact space-time propagation for a general reflectionless potential is obtained in closed form involving error functions. It is indicated how bound states and transmission coefficients may be recovered from asymptotic behaviour of the propagator. A sum rule is derived that shows how the leading terms of the short-time form of the propagator can be used rigorously in a Feynman path integral formalism.


China's multilateral diplomacy in Africa is not well developed in comparison with its participation in the international arena and its multilateral relations in the Asia-Pacific region and Europe.China needs to define Africa's position within its overall diplomatic strategy,and the importance of Chinese African multilateral diplomacy needs to be understood.The strategic basis and focus of this multilateral diplomacy should be reassessed and broadened.In practice,China should refine the operation of the Forum on China-Africa Co-operation,cooperate with the African Union and other African sub-regional organizations,and work together with African countries in the international arena.


The study proposes the inter-enterprise optimal dynamic decisions: retail price and replenishment scheduling/quantity under the retailer-managed inventory with price-only contract and the vendor-managed inventory (VMI) with consignment contract in electronic markets (EMs) respectively for deteriorating items. The numerical analysis shows that the proposed policy under the VMI with consignment can significantly increase the system efficiency and simultaneously achieve the Pareto improvements using slotting allowances for the decentralized channel in the EMs.


The problems in processing the acid ferrous-containing rinsing water and spent pickling solutions are considered. The first-ever in metallurgy zero liquid discharge (ZLD) industrial wastewater treatment systems of a transformer cold rolling plant at the Verkh-Isetsky steelworks in Sverdlovsk (now — LLC VIZ Steel is a part of Novolipetsk Steel Group of Companies) is described. The experience of the VIZ Steel, particularly in relation to industrial wastewater treatment and sludge processing, is useful for designing ZLD industrial wastewater treatment systems of metallurgical, machine-building and metalworking enterprises. The recommendations for organizing the ZLD industrial wastewater treatment systems in the pickling plants with the repeated use of the treated rinsing water and processing the spent pickling solutions and the sludges are presented. For practical calculations of clarifiers the empirical formulas are offered. Process flow diagram of acid ferrous-containing rinsing water treatment is suggested. Acid ferrous-containing rinsing water treatment includes the following processes: rinsing water neutralization to pH 9-10,5 by 5 % calcium hydroxide and partial ferrous oxidation by air; addition of anionic flocculant and active gypsum priming to the neutralized rinsing water; settling of rinsing water conditioned by reagents in clarifiers; treatment of clarified water on deep bed sand filters; reclaimed water treatment.


Abstract  Effects of sublethal piperonyl butoxide (PB) on parasitization of Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) by Encarsia bimaculata Heraty et Polaszek (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) were evaluated both in cage and greenhouse experiments. When first, second and third instar B. tabaci nymphs were treated with PB, all but the first instar were significantly prolonged. Data indicated that sublethal PB could improve E. bimaculata parasitism rates without influencing parasitoid eclosion rates. Prolonged development increased rates of parasitism by E. bimaculata, from 17.6% to 24.7% in cages, presumably by increasing the duration of host exposure. Sublethal PB combined with E. bimaculata as an integrated approach to control B. tabaci was evaluated using life table parameters under greenhouse conditions. Indices of population trend (I) calculated from life tables were estimated at 4.6 for B. tabaci exposed to PB and parasitoids compared to 14.1 with parasitoids alone and 23.5 in untreated controls. The results showed that after PB was sprayed and parasitoids introduced, development of B. tabaci was delayed and the peak of each stage was postponed. The older nymphal stage had highest mortality, primarily due to mortality caused by parasitism by E. bimaculata.


The drive for high average gradient particle accelerators is on two fronts: the first is in the high energy physics and the second in medical and industrial applications.


—With the popularity of the internet and extensive application of modern educational technology, mobile study and online study become a learning fashion. In this study, the blended learning mode based on the micro-course is constructed to widely promote the teaching reform of fine arts skill course represented by the fine arts elementary courses and manual training. In the specific teaching, the author attempts the "micro-case" teaching, makes innovations on the classroom teaching mode, and improves teaching quality.


There are several methods available for EMG(Electromyography) based user intent detection, wherein muscle activation has been recognized by different approaches.Even thoughEMG detection and processing has been done by many other researchers, need of improved model is still rising. The notion of this study is to propound a novel approach whereby quantification of EMG signal for foot flexion can be done. Signal processing and data analysis, played substantial role in that, thus present study had used contemporary frequency analysis methodology. The Biopac's software tool, Acqknowledge, was explored for the purpose and the results obtained were quite precise. Further to increase its reliability, analysis was performed over data samples of more than 10 subjects.


The sputtering rate for silicon dioxide by argon ion bombardment at energies appropriate for ion beam deposition (<100 eV) has been measured. It has been found that the energy dependence of the oxide sputtering rate at these low energies is easily predicted by assuming the yield is limited by the metallic component of the binary target. This assumption is shown to predict also the sputtering rate of other metallic oxides.


The expansion of Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) networks creates high costs due to expensive excavation procedures. Optimizing the planning process and minimizing the cost of the earth excavation work therefore lead to large savings. Mathematically, the FTTH network problem can be described as a minimum Steiner Tree problem. Even though the Steiner Tree problem has already been investigated intensively in the last decades, it might be further optimized with the help of new computing paradigms and emerging approaches. This work studies upcoming technologies, such as Quantum Annealing, Simulated Annealing and nature-inspired methods like Evolutionary Algorithms or slime-mold-based optimization. Additionally, we investigate partitioning and simplifying methods. Evaluated on several real-life problem instances, we could outperform a traditional, widely-used baseline (NetworkX Approximate Solver) on most of the domains. Prior partitioning of the initial graph and the presented slime-mold-based approach were especially valuable for a cost-efficient approximation. Quantum Annealing seems promising, but was limited by the number of available qubits.


The statistical theory basis of the formation of the patterns of the condensed phases of indirect excitons in quantum wells is presented. It is assumed that a condensed phase of excitons arises due to some exciton-exciton attractive interaction and can be described by several parameters: exciton condensation energy, surface energy, and exciton density. The creation of different structures (islands or rings of the condensed phase and so on) occurs due to the nonequilibrium state of the system connected with the finite value of the exciton lifetime and the presence of pumping; therefore, the appearence of the patterns is the result of self-organization processes in a nonequilibrium system. The theory is applied to the description of different structures which were observed in luminescence spectra from quantum wells with a round window in an electrode. The evolution of the patterns with the changing temperature, pumping, and size of the window is studied. The explanation does not rely on an assumption of the Bose-Einstein condensation of the excitons.


This paper deals simulation study to investigation for the exploring of environmentally friendly alternative refrigerants for the R-12,R-22 and R134a for low Global Warming Potential (GWP), negligible Ozone Depletion Potential (ODP) and a better Coefficient of Performance (COP).The performance characteristics of household refrigerators were predicted using steady-state model under refrigeration capacity (200 W), constant evaporation temperature (-10 °C) and condensation temperature (46 °C) for various working fluids such as R-12,R-22 and R-134a this study was carried out by comparing parameters such as coefficient of performance, compressor power, volumetric cooling capacity, discharge temperature and mass flow rate of refrigerant


Triplex is a newly conceived high information density code compatible with present day digital recording systems. It conveys data on position (phase), polarity (transition direction) and amplitude (breakwidth) and offers efficient overwrite, self-clocking and a generous window margin. For a two amplitude level encoding scheme, n cells can be mapped into 5n-1 symbols in triplex as opposed to 2nin MFM code. This corresponds to 130% increase in information density over MFM. Triplex offers one of the highest density ratios practically realizable in the domain of saturated digital magnetic recording.


MyLibrary is the most successful customized digital library design.The article gives the definition,functions and characteristics of MyLibrary.It explains the significance and foundation of the theory of users analysis in aspects of psychology,education and economics.


Premise: The response of animal pollinators to the spatial distribution of plants is crucial to understanding how plant-pollinator interactions contribute to plant reproductive processes. For plant species that aggregate in patches, population attributessuch as the size and distribution of patches and the density of plantsmay affect pollinator visitation to a greater degree than characteristics of individual flowers. We examine how patch characteristics of the self-incompatible, vernal pool species Lasthenia californica (California goldfields) impact pollinator visitation using pollen load size and pollen germination rates to infer visitation patterns. Methods: Plant density and the size and distribution of patches were estimated from aerial images captured during drone surveys of an upland prairie ecosystem in Southern Oregon. Pollen load sizes and number of compatible grains were quantified after staining with Alexander's Stain. Key Results: We found that denser patches receive the highest deposition of compatible pollen on stigmas. Large patches have an accumulation of low quality pollen and reduced pollen germination success, most likely due to pollinators moving genetically-related pollen within patches. Conclusions: Patterns of pollinator behavior inferred from the quantity and quality of pollen deposited on stigmas are consistent with optimal foraging theory. Pollinators optimize foraging by preferentially moving within patches that are larger or are in close proximity to larger patches. Our results suggest that individual patch characteristics do not significantly affect overall pollinator visitation rates, but the distribution of patches contributes to pollinator behavior.


Dryland stream channels adjusting to urbanization are difficult to study without some indication of the extent and frequency of specific hydrological events. Investigations of changing channels in Fountain Hills, Arizona, urbanized since 1970, can benefit from knowledge gained from a storm event of over 55 mm rainfall in January 2016, equivalent to ~25% of annual precipitation. Morphological flow capacity was reached with this rainfall event, which had a recurrence interval of 1.4 years for a 24‐h period and 3.6 years for a 3‐day duration. This storm is typical of events that occur in less than half the years of record, occurring between zero and three times each year in the 26 years of record available. Analysis of this event assists in the calibration of measured cross‐sections, providing a useful benchmark for space‐time substitution in dryland environments where flow is ephemeral. Correspondence of the recurrence interval of the storm to somewhat frequent 'bankfull' channel‐forming events, despite signs of flashiness, suggests a tight coupling between rainfall and runoff and a tempered response to urbanization effects in Fountain Hills—achievable through decades of proactive planning and adaptive wash management in a master‐planned community.


Droplet-based microfluidics is increasingly used for biological applications, where the recovery of cells or particles after an experiment or assay is desirable. Here, we present an electro-demulsification chip which circumvents the use of harsh chemicals and multiple washing/centrifugation steps and offers a mild way for extracting cells and polymer particles into an aqueous phase from microfluidic water-in-oil emulsions.


Circuits wear out (age) over time, especially with shrinking feature sizes. This article focuses on an aging mechanism called bias-temperature instability. The authors investigate how far related performance degradation can be contained.


A survey was performed to present a scheme for building a healing forest park inside a city in consideration of the fact that healing forests are located in non-urban areas because of their nature, and are therefore not conveniently accessible to urban population (n=196). As a result, among 196 resp...


The s pelling mistakes look s simple but they affect the quality of writing . The accuracy of spelling measure s a person's language understanding. Making a mistake is a natural thing , but it does not mean t hat a writer ignores the rules in writing, especially in the use of capital letters . This study aim ed to determine the use of capital letters in the thesis introduction of PGSD students a t  Universitas  Riau. The method in this study was a quantitative descriptive method. The researcher selected 7 out of 13 rules of using capital letters stated in PUEBI (General Guidelines for Indonesian Spelling). The result showed that the overall average use of capital letters was 86.67 with a very good category.


According to the importance of the command post,a novel model(Weapon-Target Assignment with Vulnerable Command and Control Nodes,WTAVC2N Model) is built on analyzing the conventional Weapon-Target Assignment Model,which has been taken into account the true operational principles in Network Centric Warfare and vulnerable command and control nodes.Then an improved stochastic PSO algorithm(SPSO) is used to simulate the WTA problem.The result of simulation illustrates that SPSO can solve the WTA problem based on the destroyed probability of command posts effectively and efficiently.


For overcoming the difficulty of mathematical modeling and the complexity of parameters tuning of IGBT-based quick charging inverter for mine use,simulink-based elements simulation technology was employed to establish a nonlinear closed-loop model of PWM controlling.Dynamic responses were simulated under different conditions,such as constant load,periodic load,aperiodic load,and sudden load change.The results showed that this model could rightly demonstrate the relations between the inverter's parameters and the system's output,and it provided an effective analysis tool for optimization design of electric parameters,intelligent control strategy design and verification.


The importance of reading comprehension as one of the key language learning skills is known to anybody engaged in language learning and teaching. However, an inclusive comprehension of a text requires mastery of different reading sub-skills including not only the explicit meaning of the text but also its implicit meaning.  Whether the students who receive implicit questions after reading a text have better reading comprehension or those who receive explicit questions has been the main question to get verified across Iranian University students. As such, a general proficiency test made by Oxford University Press and the University of Cambridge Local Examination Syndicate was administered to 90 General English students of both genders majoring in various courses of study in Tafresh Azad University, and a homogenised selection of 60 were put randomly into two classes to serve as participants. Then, ten reading passages from the book Select Readings Intermediate were selected and two sets of items were developed; explicit items were practiced in one class and implicit ones in another. Finally, a post-test of reading comprehension including forty multiple-choice items of both types was used to verify any impact from the instruction. It was concluded that practice with either type of items results in similar levels of comprehension.


This subsea module for generating electrical energy of the type comprising means of elongated cylindrical casing (12) wherein are integrated means unit for producing electric power (25a, 25b) having means NSSS (28, 29) associated with means for producing electrical energy (30, 31) connected to a dispensing station of external electrical energy by electrical cable is characterized in that it comprises two production units electric power (25a, 25b) disposed symmetrically on either side of a central transverse plane of the box-shaped means (12), along the longitudinal axis thereof.


Estimates of the economic costs of a random sample of 123 community residential facilities for people with a mental handicap in England are presented. Total resource costs, including capital, average £38 per resident day and range from £16 per day to over £90 per day. Costs vary across the four types of provider. Voluntary and private sector facilities are the least expensive, health authority facilities are the most expensive and local authority facilities lie somewhere in between.

A more systematic evaluation of the reasons why costs vary in this manner is being carried out but preliminary analysis presented here suggests high costs are associated with higher dependency of residents particularly those accommodated in small domestic scale accommodation.


Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software and hardware components are widely used in the design of train control system. In order to satisfy the application requirements of the safety computer in train control system, it is necessary to analyze its safety properties. In this paper, a method of safety analysis for the safety computer is proposed. The safety properties of the safety computer in train control system are verified by establishing the system model of safety mechanism, and establishing a safety base in safety computer management units (SCMU), and measuring the safety of each part of the system step by step, and then establishing a safety chain. Finally, tests are carried out through a designed software fault injection tool to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.


Wind energy is a kind of clean renewable energy resource,but its disadvantage is that wind power generation is intermittent,depending on the weather conditions.The use of energy storage device is an effective way to smooth the output power as the wind speed varies.This paper introduces a super-capacitor storage system paralleling to the AC bus through a bi-directional BUCK-BOOST converter in series with a three-phase PWM inverter.A control strategy combining maximum power tracking control,unit power factor control and super-capacitor energy storage control is analyzed and designed.A simulation model under Matlab/Simulink is also constructed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the control strategy and the power fluctuations smoothing by regulating the super-capacitor storage device.


The middle region in Gansu Province is arid and most poverty in China. For solution this problem the China government has been dedicated to plan the Taohe River Water Diversion for Irrigation Project since 1950s. The upper reach of Taohe River is the water\|taking region of the Project. But analysis on the past 50 years hydrological and meteorological data in Taohe River basin showed a slowly temperature\|rising and precipitation\|or runoff\|decreasing trend. In the past 50 years the precipitation has decreased 43~67 mm and the temperature has increased 0.8 ℃. Especially, the precipitation has been decreased by 10.2% and the runoff by 35% from 1980s to 1990s. In the past 50 years the multi\|annual average total surface and underground water resources quantity was 47.16×10 8 m 3 \5a\+\{-1\} in Taohe River basin. And in 1950s the quantity was 46.25×10 8 m 3 \5a\+\{-1\}, but in 1990s the quantity was 33.2×10 8 m 3 \5a\+\{-1\}. The decrease of precipitation, runoff and the increase of temperature had resulted in the climate drought and land desertification. Many wetlands or lakes disappeared in Gannan Grassland of Gansu province. All these will influence the Taohe River Water Diversion for Irrigation Project. It has significance to enhance the study on water resources influenced by climate change and present scientific references to this project design and governmental decision\|making.


Business analysts and human resource executives consider MicroLearning and Gamification as two of the currently hottest topics in corporate learning and workplace learning. MicroLearning is seen as a solution for the limitations in dedicated learning time of employees, already stressed in their daily work routines. Gamification fosters users engagement and creates higher intrinsic motivation to learn. In this case study, we report and analyze the learning behavior of 175 employees using gamified MicroLearning over the course of seven months. The study setup allows observing behavior with and without the extrinsic motivation of an employee competition. While we observe a large increase in activity compared to groups studied in previous work, we did not see an increase in the amount of average daily learning sessions. However, we could identify a shift in learning times from working hours towards high attention periods in evenings and weekends. Consequently, we regard gamification as a means to raise user engagement, which yet bears challenges for the deployment in corporate environments to shape learning behavior as intended.


The invention relates to a process and arrangement for exchanging cellular members which are provided with container receiving openings and form part of a filling machine. The cellular members are successively removed from the filling machine and cellular members with an alternate format for receiving containers are essentially simultaneously inserted into the filling machine. This operation is carried out in that an exchange arrangement receives the first formatted cellular members at a first receiving station of a magazine and dispenses alternately formatted cellular members at a second working station of the machine is disposed at a distance from the afore-mentioned receiving station. In this manner it is possible to carry out a cellular member exchange in a very rapid manner and by a very simple process and arrangement.


Conceptualizing the relationship between self-monitoring and leader emergence as a process suggests that high self-monitors are able to evaluate cognitively their situations to determine the behaviors necessary to emerge as leaders Having identified these behaviors, the individuals may act in a way that could lead others to perceive them as leaders. To test this, two studies were conducted. The first study used self-report data on self-monitoring and leader emergence obtained from 120 undergraduate business students. Analyses indicated that high self-monitors were more likely to report a propensity to emerge in leadership roles when in group situations. The second study extended the investigation by evaluating the perceptions of all group members concerning who emerged as the leader in group activities. Data on self-monitoring and both self and other perceptions of leader emergence were gathered from 116 undergraduate business students. Results of this study support the findings of Study 1 on self-perceptions but suggest that self-monitoring may not be directly related to actual perceptions of leadership by others. These findings provide additional understanding of the previously established relationship between self-monitoring and leader emergence as perceived by others.


A geological hazard warning system with four modules of early warning and forecast analysis,and forecast results releasing,information feedback,monitoring and prevention management has been built.It was designed basing on modular thinking with WebGIS,embedded mobile communication intelligent terminal applications,and image dynamic integration of technology.The system has three-tier architecture that makes it flexible and easily expanded.Geological disaster information management,analysis,publishing,and feedback on one platform was implemented.


The state of the microclimate in the light-frame, reconstructed cowshed and milking parlor with a loose-box method of keeping a dairy herd in the spring was studied; the influence of different conditions and parameters of the microclimate on milk quality was investigated. It was found that the temperature in the reconstructed cowshed with forced milking in the hall by the milking machine «Yalynka» averaged 14.27 ± 2.105 ° C, while in the milking parlor the temperature was slightly higher than 16.38 ± 1.335 ° C. In the light frame cowshed the temperature was 12.24 ± 1.380 ° С, and in the milking zone of cows with the robotic installation almost without deviation 12.14 ± 1.715 ° С. Humidity and speed of air movement in the compared rooms was within the hygienic norms. Microbiological indicators of bacterial air pollution in both rooms correspond to hygienic norms, but in the reconstructed cowshed the number of colony-forming units in 1 m3 was higher. The largest number of colony-forming units in 1 m3 was recorded in the air of the milking parlor where the UDE-8 "Yalynka" unit is located due to insufficient ventilation, high humidity and temperature. Dispersion of the tiny drops from the cows udder in the air and other body limbs, equipment and fences when washing the milking parlor with water under pressure. In a light frame cowshed with free milking with a robotic unit at the ALC "Terezyne", the acidity of milk was 16.4 ± 0.64 ° T; the purity degree was according to the standard of the first group, the temperature 30 minutes after milking was 4.2 ± 0.57 ° C; microbial contamination of milk was on average 233.4 ± 8.64 thousand CFU / cm3; the titre of colon bacillus group was about one; the number of somatic cells was 376.9 ± 29 thousand / cm3, which ultimately corresponded to the highest grade according to DSTU 3662: 2018. When milking by the UDE-8 "Yalynka", the acidity of the obtained milk was 18.6 ± 0.42 ° T; the degree of purity according to the standard corresponded to the first group, the temperature 30 minutes after milking was 5.8 ± 0.71 ° C; microbial contamination of milk averaged 292.3 ± 12.3 thousand CFU / cm3; the titre of colon bacillus group was about one; the number of somatic cells was 465.7 ± 19 thousand / cm3, which ultimately corresponded to the first grade according to DSTU 3662: 2018. Therefore, the maintenance of the dairy herd in both light-frame and reconstructed premises allows to form a sufficiently comfortable sanitary and hygienic conditions. The increase in microbial contamination of milk obtained from cows in the milking parlor by UDE- 8 "Yalynka" is the result of insufficient operation of the ventilation system of the milking parlor and improper implementation of certain elements of preparation of animals for milking.
Key words: light-frame cowshed, microclimate, milking parlor, milk quality.


Accompanying the development in the multi-media network teaching, the athletics network teaching also develops gradually. This paper analyses the evaluation contents and premise of the athletics network teaching, points out the problems that should be paid attention to and resolved in the process of the athletics network teaching evaluation. This will guarantee the healthy development of the athletics network teaching.


During 2013–2017 years biotic and abiotic of environmental conditions affecting to the extensiveness of invasion by causative agents of carp and trout parasitosis in fish farms in the territory of Azerbaijan Republic were studied. In addition, we studied the seasonal and age dynamics of diseases of the farm fishes. The prevalence of fish parasites infection in hot season (May-July) in comparison with cold month (October) was recorded. Twenty species of parasites from various systematical groups were found: protozoans (4 species); monogenean worms (3 species); cestodes (4 species); trematodes (3 species); nematodes (2 species); acanthocephalans (2 species); crustaceans (2 species). All investigations were conducted by considering of various factors affecting on production of fish. 386 specimens of carp and 415 specimens of trout were examined by the method of full parasitological dissection. We analyzed the physical and chemical conditions of water from the fish pools and other artificial basins in fish farms. In conclusion of our investigation the list of most pathogenic species of cultivated parasites were composed: Metechinorhyncnus truttae, Acanthocephalus clavulae, Paradilepis scolecina, Proteocephalus torulosus, Rhabdochon agnedini.


Several experiments were conducted to determine the digestibility of dehydrated citrus pulp (DCP) and evaluate its effect on rabbit feed. Digestibility assay comprised 30 rabbits fed on two diets: a reference diet and a diet in which 20% consisted of DCP. The digestibility assay comprised 10 days for adaptation and four days for feces collection. The digestibility coefficient and digestible nutrient rates for DM, CP, NDF, ADF, and CE of DCP were respectively 83.75 and 76.04%; 70.12 and 5.03%; 40.14 and 9.52%; 68.98 and 15.09%; and 81.48% and 3394 kcalDE kg DM. Performance assay consisted of 120 growing rabbits receiving diets with six DCP levels (0, 20, 40, 60, 80 and 100%) to replace corn. Linear decrease (p < 0.01) in daily feed intake and weight gain, live weight after 50 and 70 days and carcass yield with gradual DCP increase, were reported. Quadratic effect (p < 0.01) on the feed conversion from 32 to 50 and from 32 to 70 days old produced better DCP rates, respectively 42.74% and 44.40%. DCP 20% failed to affect (p > 0.05) any performance characteristic when compared to that in control. Results show that DCP in the rabbit's diet may replace up to 20% of corn.


(57) Abstract: magnification between how video fields to stabilize and position the video image in the plurality of video fields that form a video sequence (70), rotation (80), and, the image change in the transition (90) providing precise decision, as a result, these video fields for changes in a video sequence in an image can be accurately corrected. In an illustrated embodiment, the key area of the key video field containing the desirable image to be stabilized in the video sequence is selected. Key area is subdivided into nested pixel block (30), the image magnification of the transition of the pixel blocks from the key video field to a new video field (60) from the key video field to a new video field, rotation, and migration It is determined as precursor event to determine changes.


The Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filter is a digital filter widely used in Digital Signal Processing applications in various fields like imaging, instrumentation, communications, etc. Programmable Digital Processors Signal (PDSPs) can be used in implementing the FIR filter. However, in realizing a large-order filter many complex computations are needed which affects the performance of the common digital signal processors in terms of speed, cost, flexibility, area etc. Optimizing the speed and area of the multiplier is a major design issue. However, area and speed are usually conflicting constraints so that improving speed results mostly in larger areas. Direct form fixed point FIR filter realization consists of different modules such as multiplier, adder, ram. The low power consumption quality of booth multiplier makes it a preferred choice in designing different circuits . So a power efficient Booth multiplier is used. A multiplier has two stage. In the first stage, the partial products are generated by the booth encoder and the Partial Product Generator (PPG), and are summed by compressors. In the second stage, the two final products are added to form the final product through a final adder.Currently most circuits adopts Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) plus some control/addressing logic to implement delay buffers. Previously, a simplified and thus lower power sequential addressing scheme for SRAM application in delay buffer is used. In this a ring counter is used to point to the target words to be written in and read out. Here, a double edge triggered flip flop is used instead of traditional DFFs in ring counter to halve the operating frequency.The delay buffer using double edge triggered flip flops and modified booth multiplier is used for realization of FIR filter for power optimization and is implemented using VHDL.


This article considers the differences between good and poor spellers. The article is organized into four basic sections that consider the factors involved in learning to spell and the relationship between reading and spelling, spelling ability in good and poor readers, the good reader-poor speller


I t is shown that, contrary to widely accepted opinions: (a) The addition of heat to a subsonic flow in a pipe modifies the flow conditions both downstream and upstream of the region of heat addition. (b) The Mach Number of the heated flow does not necessarily increase, approaching the sonic state, when heat is added; instead, it will increase or decrease, depending on the boundary conditions. (c) The static temperature of the gas does not decrease when heat is added within the range of initial Mach Numbers from ' v T to 1.0; instead, it increases continuously. (d) The attainment of sonic velocity in the heated region does not limit the amount of heat that can be added. (e) The mass flow may decrease as a result of the addition of heat but this decrease is in no way related to the attainment of sonic velocity in the heated region. A quantitative treatment of the problem is presented for the cases of greatest practical interest, and numerical examples are given to illustrate the procedures and conclusions.


It is shown that in a tower of coverings the regularized determinant of a generalized Laplacian converges to the $L^2$-determinant. This shows generic nontriviality of analytic torsion or regularized determinants since the $L^2$-counterparts are easier to compute. We further have an "Euler product expansion" for regularized determinants in terms of equivariant $L^2$-determinants.


Calloselasma rhodostoma (CR) and Ophiophagus hannah (OH) are two medically important snakes found in Malaysia. While some studies have described the biological properties of these venoms, feeding and environmental conditions also influence the concentration and distribution of snake venom toxins, resulting in variations in venom composition. Therefore, a combined proteomic approach using shotgun and gel filtration chromatography, analyzed by tandem mass spectrometry, was used to examine the composition of venoms from these Malaysian snakes. The analysis revealed 114 proteins (15 toxin families) and 176 proteins (20 toxin families) in Malaysian Calloselasma rhodostoma and Ophiophagus hannah species, respectively. Flavin monoamine oxidase, phospholipase A2, phosphodiesterase, snake venom metalloproteinase, and serine protease toxin families were identified in both venoms. Aminopeptidase, glutaminyl-peptide cyclotransferase along with ankyrin repeats were identified for the first time in CR venom, and insulin, c-type lectins/snaclecs, hepatocyte growth factor, and macrophage colony-stimulating factor together with tumor necrosis factor were identified in OH venom for the first time. Our combined proteomic approach has identified a comprehensive arsenal of toxins in CR and OH venoms. These data may be utilized for improved antivenom production, understanding pathological effects of envenoming, and the discovery of biologically active peptides with medical and/or biotechnological value.


Different experiments have confirmed that the $D_{s0}^{\ast}(2317)$ and $D_{s1}(2460)$ mesons are very narrow states located, respectively, below the $DK$ and $D^{\ast}K$ thresholds. This is markedly in contrast with the expectations of naive quark models and heavy quark symmetry. We address the mass shifts of the $c\bar{s}$ ground states with quantum numbers $J^{P}=0^{+}$ ($D_{s0}^{\ast}(2317)$) and $J^{P}=1^{+}$ ($D_{s1}(2460)$) using a nonrelativistic constituent quark model in which quark-antiquark and meson-meson degrees of freedom are incorporated. The quark model has been applied to a wide range of hadronic observables and thus the model parameters are completely constrained. We observe that the coupling of the $0^{+}$ $(1^{+})$ meson sector to the $DK$ $(D^{\ast}K)$ threshold is a key feature in lowering the masses of the corresponding $D_{s0}^{\ast}(2317)$ and $D_{s1}(2460)$ states predicted by the naive quark model, but also in describing the $D_{s1}(2536)$ meson as the $1^{+}$ state of the $j_{q}^{P}=3/2^{+}$ doublet predicted by heavy quark symmetry and thus reproducing its strong decay properties. Two features of our formalism cannot be address nowadays by other approaches: the coupling of the $D$-wave $D^{\ast}K$ threshold in the $J^{P}=1^{+}$ $c\bar{s}$ channel and the computation of the probabilities associated with different Fock components in the physical state.


Objective To describe the most suggestive imaging feature of Castleman's disease,to improve the acknowledgement of it. Methods CT imaging materials of 5 patients with Castleman's disease were retrospectively reviewed,diagnosis of Castleman disease was done by surgery and pathology. Results In our series,the lesions were located 3 at the mesentery and 2 in the mediastinum. At dynamic contrast CT scan,all lesions show marked enhancement after contrast administration at arterial phase and delay scan and the attenuation similar to aorta,calcification was seen in one patient. Conclusion Using proper CT technique,understanding the CT findings that the lesions at the mediastinum and mesentery showed marked contrastment at the arterial phase and delay scan,combining with clinical data,the suggestive diagnosis could be made.


Mrs Atkins, 78 years old, lives at home with her 80-year-old husband. She was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (AD) about fi ve years ago, and has progressed to moderate stage disease. She is dependent on her husband for most activities of daily living. Her extensive medical history includes hypertension, heart failure, hypercholesterolaemia, depression, osteoporosis, urge incontinence and constipation. Over the past few months Mrs Atkins has become increasingly agitated, has wandered outside the home twice, and has fallen repeatedly. She has been referred to you for a medication review.