(57) mycophenolic acid derivatives of the Abstract disclosed formula (IE) are advantageous therapeutic agents for the treatment of disease states which require mycophenolic acid and / or mycophenolate mofetil, and other immunosuppressive agents it is. In formula, Z is a side chain selected formula (ZA, ZB, ZC, ZD, ZE, ZF, ZG, and ZH) from.


 Development of DNA sequence comparison technique is an active research activity in computational biology application. Commonly techniques studied are dynamic programming and heuristic algorithms. Exhaustive dynamic programming algorithm produces optimal result but requires longer time and bigger space. Heuristic algorithm gives approximate results with much faster processing. We have developed a new model that improves the speed of large scale DNA sequence similarity search and at the same time the best possible alignment result is retained. The model is known as a guided dynamic programming approach for DNA sequence similarity search (FRA-Search). Two approaches are used to complete the FRA-Search model: an automaton based exact string matching algorithm is employed to skip irrelevant database sequences from being computed for dynamic programming alignment processing and; the rough sets theory has been employed to classify and reduct the dataset. This paper discusses the parallel model for FRA-Search application. The parallel FRA-Search model is implemented on PC-based cluster system. It is developed on a single program multiple data (SPMD) architecture and MPJ Express software is used as a communication interface protocol between processors.


The microsized Co3O4 powder in the form of octahedron crystals was prepared by cobalt salt precipitation and thermal decomposition using CoSO4,NH4HCO3 as raw materials and polyethylene glycol as surface-coated dispersant.The composition,morphology and particle size of Co2(OH)2CO3 precursor and Co3O4 product were analyzed and characterized by thermogravimetry,infrared spectrum,X-ray diffraction,SEM,laser particles analysis.The results show that,the obtained powder is in octahedron crystal structure and the size range is from submicron to micron and the size distribution becomes narrow.The addition of surface-coated dispersant eliminates the phenomenon of powder agglomeration.


For eukaryotic expression of avian influenza virus(AIV) hemagglutinin(HA),the HA gene of A/Goose/ Guangdong/1/96(H5N1) was cloned into the baculovirus transfer vector pFastBacHTa and the resultant recombinant plasmid was transformed into DH10Bac competent cells to generate recombinant bacmid(rBacmid-HA),which was identified by PCR and sequencing.The recombinant baculovirus stock was prepared by transfecting rBacmid-HA into the Sf9 insect cells.The expression of the recombinant HA in Sf9 cells was identified by indirect immunofluorescence assay and western blot,which shown that the recombinant HA were about 64 ku.Further identifications demonstrated that the HA was able to induce high titer of HI antibody and effectively stimulate proliferation of lymph cells in peripheral blood of SPF chicken detected by MTT assay.The preparation of the recombinant protein in Sf9 cells was facilitated the further study of HA functions and preparation of the subunit vaccine against AIV infection.


Introduction: Enhanced recovery after surgery was developed to optimise peri-operative care in an attempt to accelerate recovery, reduce morbidity and shorten hospital stay. The use of epidural analgesia is considered fundamental in Enhanced Recovery Protocols (ERP). However its value in the peri-operative management of laparoscopic colorectal surgical patients is unclear, and current analgesic regimens vary. Previous studies addressing this issue have not been conducted within a full ERP and have not ensured that patients are fluid optimised. The aim of this study was to examine the effects of different analgesic regimes on outcomes following laparoscopic colorectal surgery in fluid optimised patients treated within an ERP. Methods: Two studies were performed. In the first study, ninety-nine patients undergoing laparoscopic colorectal segmental resections that did not involve the formation of a defunctioning stoma were randomised to receive epidural, spinal or patient controlled analgesia (PCA). Intra-operatively, all patients were fluid optimised using an oesophageal Doppler to guide fluid replacement according to the modified Wakeling protocol. All patients were treated within a full ERP. The primary end points were time until medically fit and the length of hospital stay. The secondary end points included the return of bowel function, pain scores and a quality of life assessment using the SF-36 questionnaire. The second study used the analgesic modality with the best results from the study above and assessed the safety and feasibility of patients being discharged within 23 hours from the start of laparoscopic colorectal surgery. Results: Ninety-one patients completed the study with the main exclusions being for open conversion and epidural failure. There were no differences in the patient demographics other than patient weight, which was higher in the PCA group. The use of epidural analgesia resulted in a significantly longer time until medically fit for discharge, a longer hospital stay and a slower return of bowel function than spinal and PCA. Pain scores were higher in the PCA group than the spinal and epidural group although this did not affect the quality of life scores, which were similar for all analgesic modalities. Using spinal analgesia, 10 patients were safely discharged home within 23 hours of their surgery without any complications or re-admissions. Discussion: The ERP has increasingly been used for laparoscopic surgery in its un-modified form with thoracic epidural use being a key feature. Many of the outcomes in the epidural analgesia group were significantly worse than the spinal and PCA groups suggesting that either of these two modalities could replace epidural analgesia. Although the results of the spinal and PCA groups were very similar, the pain scores and the return of bowel function were slightly better in the spinal group thereby lending itself to the analgesic modality of choice for patients treated along 23-hour stay pathway. In order to safely discharge patients home within 23 hours from the commencement of surgery, it is essential to ensure that patients are optimized at every point of their care pathway and fluid therapy appears to play a major factor in patient outcome.


In a bifactorial experience, during March-October 2010, at the Research Station Ezăreni from Iasi, we studied alfalfa in the first year of vegetation, analizing the effect of seed inoculation with symbiotic bacteria Rhizobium meliloti Dangeard and the effect of fertilization on the dry matter (DM) yield, the amount of crude protein per hectare, the leaves/stems ratio and the forage quality indicators (CP - crude protein content, NDF - neutral detergent fiber content, ADF - acid detergent fiber content and RFV - relative feed value). The results showed that under experimental conditions, the interaction of two factors led to DM yields ranging from 5.04 to 7.75 t·ha -1


FIELD: medicine, ophthalmology, pharmacy. SUBSTANCE: invention relates to ophthalmic drops providing an anti-inflammatory effect and containing the following components, weight/volume %: (a) diclofenac sodium 0.05-0.7; (b) γ-cyclodextrin 1-10; (c) polyvinylpyrrolidone 1-20; and (d) benzotonium chloride 0.002-0.01 or benzalkonium chloride 0.002-0.005, pH is at the range from 7.0 to 8.5. Anti-inflammatory drops can contain diclofenac sodium at the broad range of concentrations, they are stable for the long time and show weakly expressed irritating effect only. The composition provides the stability of ophthalmic drops at the storage. EFFECT: improved quality and properties of drops and composition. 6 cl, 4 tbl, 35 ex


The paper will investigate the contemporary relationship between architecture and fashion in considerable depth, by examining the ideas, imagery, techniques and materials used by visionaries such as Martin Margiela, Issey Miyake, Alexander McQueen, Tadao Ando and Daniel Libeskind. Fashion and Architecture examines shared strategies and techniques of the two disciplines, highlighting common ground and suggesting potential for the future development of each, including new design processes, fabrication methods, and aesthetic directions. Much of the work challenges conventional ways of thinking about architecture and fashion, revealing the potential that can be gained from an increasingly fruitful dialogue between these two creative disciplines. New generations of designers in both fields are poised to develop ever more ingenious ways of adapting and adopting each other's forms and strategies to transform the very nature of buildings and clothes. The inspiration for garment silhouettes and details can be found in almost any architectural source. Here interactive media is very important for the fashion designer in getting to know the architecture as well as its different aspects. When the designer investigates the architecture, an unexpected detail of a building may become one of the magnificent features of the garment design.


Blends covering the entire range of compositions of a metallocenic ethylen/1-octene copolymer and two conventional isotactic poly(propylene)s (iPPs) of different molecular weight have been prepared, analyzing (by differential scanning calorimetry and X-ray diffraction) the effect of composition and molecular weight on the crystallization behavior. It was found that those blends rich in the iPP component show a behavior practically coincident with the weighted addition of the two components. On the contrary, significant deviations were found for the blends where the ethylene copolymer is the major component. These deviations are considerably more important in the case of the blends with iPP of higher molecular weight. In such a case, the blend with a 25% by weight of iPP presents a normalized crystallinity degree of only 0.20, in comparison with the value of 0.57 exhibited by the pure iPP. After annealing at 120°C for 10 minutes, and cooling back to room temperature, that blend increases its crystallinity degree up to only 0.40.


In April 2014 the Federal Government released its White Paper on the proposed Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF). This fund represents the centrepiece of the Government's Direct Action Plan to control the emissions of greenhouse gases in Australia. The government intends to implement the ERF from 1 July 2014 and use it to replace many of the strategies implemented by the previous government, including the Clean Energy Futures Package (CEF), commonly known as the carbon tax.


Pressuremeter test constitutes an efficient tool to determine stiffness of the ground, and especially shear modulus of ground, and its reduction with the distortion level. However, the inhomogeneous distortion level around a pressure meter probe, reducing with the radial distance to the probe, and subsequent inhomogeneous value of the shear modulus, have to be taken into account to correctly interpret pressuremeter test results. On a first step, based on currently used shear modulus reduction hyperbolic curves to link distortion and shear modulus, the evolving of these parameters around a pressuremeter probe, is presented for different stress levels in the case of a purely cohesive soil. On a second step, a practical procedure is proposed to derive distortion-shear modulus from a pressuremeter test. On a third and last step, the proposed method is applied to a test performed in purely cohesive soil.


Purpose – One of the most notable enterprises designed to accelerate the successful development of entrepreneurial companies through an array of business support resources and services is the business incubator. There are many key components to developing a successful business incubator. However, when one or two of these components are missing or inadequate, failure can follow. The purpose of this paper is to identify the key components to developing a successful business incubator as an effective tool for economic development, based on the case study of an unsuccessful effort.Design/methodology/approach – The Gateway Innovation Center case study presents an opportunity to examine some possible pitfalls of developing a business incubator. A scant four months after opening, the organizers of the incubator decided to give up on the project. Exploring the various missteps in the formation of the Gateway Innovation Center provides a better understanding of key issues in developing successful incubators.Findin...


The author approaches with a psychosomatic view Totem and Taboo (Freud), about the origins of the civilization and moral, giving special attention to the feeling of guilt in the murder of the father, and the religious absence of this one promoted to a god condition.


This paper proposes and experimentally investigates applying piezoelectric energy harvesting devices driven by flow induced vibrations to create self-powered actuation of aerostructure surfaces such as tabs, flaps, spoilers, or morphing devices. Recently, we have investigated flow-induced vibrations and limit cycle oscillations due to aeroelastic flutter phenomena in piezoelectric structures as a mechanism to harvest energy from an ambient fluid flow. We will describe how our experimental investigations in a wind tunnel have demonstrated that this harvested energy can be stored and used on-demand to actuate a control surface such as a trailing edge flap in the airflow. This actuated control surface could take the form of a separate and discrete actuated flap, or could constitute rotating or deflecting the oscillating energy harvester itself to produce a non-zero mean angle of attack. Such a rotation of the energy harvester and the associated change in aerodynamic force is shown to influence the operating wind speed range of the device, its limit cycle oscillation (LCO) amplitude, and its harvested power output; hence creating a coupling between the device's performance as an energy harvester and as a control surface. Finally, the induced changes in the lift, pitching moment, and drag acting on a wing model are quantified and compared for a control surface equipped with an oscillating energy harvester and a traditional, static control surface of the same geometry. The results show that when operated in small amplitude LCO the energy harvester adds negligible aerodynamic drag.


This paper uses administrative data from Sweden to document trends in the labor market returns to skills. Between 1992 and 2013, the economic return to noncognitive skill—a psychologist-assessed measure of teamwork and leadership skill—roughly doubled. The return to cognitive skill was relatively stable and decreased modestly during the 2000s, however. Among men with similar levels of education, the return to noncognitive skill is higher than the return to cognitive skill. The increasing return to noncognitive skill is driven by changes at the top of the wage distribution and by sorting into higher-paying occupations. (JEL I26, J24, J31)


Studies were conducted to investigate the possibility of partial or total replacement of fish meal with cheaper plant protein sources in the artificial diets for mrigal fingerlings. Second objective of these studies was to find if winter feeding could have an effect on growth of fish. There were four diet formulations. Diet 1 contained 45% fish meal and served as reference diet. Fish meal in the rest of the diets was substituted by sesame oil cake, mustard oil cake and blood meal. All the diets contained approximately 30% protein. In the first week of December mrigal fingerlings were collected from Hatchery ponds and weighed which averaged 3.897±5.516 - 4.267±3.559 g each. They were acclimatized to experimental environment for two weeks. Ten individuals were then randomly stocked in each fiber glass tank. Each dietary group had two replicates. Prepared feeds were offered @1.5% of fish wet biomass from December, 22 to February, 22. After two months of feeding, experiment was terminated. Tank water was completely drained. Fish were harvested and weighed individually. Growth of fish showed no significant differences among treatments. Rather group fed on sesame oil cake based diet grew comparatively better indicating strong possibility of total or major portion of fish meal replacement in mrigal diets. Secondly it was observed that fish did show growth during winter months and this growth increment can compensate its inherited slow growth capability, compared to other Indian major carps, to some extent, if fed properly during colder months.


ABSTRACT Does the United Nations naming and shaming of specific violations of human rights decrease government repression? In this article, we argue that international shaming of specific human rights violations can weaken the target government, bringing new challenges and making the government cessation of repression less feasible. When international naming and shaming campaigns target specific repressive tactics, they increase the costs of some – but not all – means of repression. Using original data on naming and shaming by the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC), we show that the shaming of one physical integrity violation is jointly associated with decreases in that violation and increases in other violations of human rights.


A linguistic module emerged by "symbiogenesis" and adapted for a non-transformational generative grammar In this paper I will defend TELEs, the theory of language evolution by three emergences and natural selection. The aim is to support the first step, wherein language is the resulting module of an associative emergence from two previous modules that are responsible for conceptual and syntactic aspects, respectively. My strategy will consist of showing the consistency between the latest research in various disciplines (philosophy: multimodularity; biology: symbiogenesis, emergence, exaptation, and linguistics: nontransformational generative grammars) as well as my own theory. Key words: Origin of language, TESE theory, module, multimodularity, symbiogenesis, emergence, exaptation, non-transformational generative grammars.


Background Rheumatoid arthritis (RA)is an inflammatory arthritis associated with bone loss and subsequent osteoporosis (OP). Although anti-inflammatory effect of low- dose prednisolone (LP) exert some beneficial effect against bone loss but cumulative doses of LP predisposes RA patients to osteoporosis (OP). Treatment of RA with methotrexate reduces decrease activity and reduces the rate of bone loss. Objectives The present study aimed to compare the risk of OP in RA patients treated with LP alone versus patients received combination of MTX and LP. Methods One-hundred and three RA and 111 age-matched controls entered to study. Freqency of OP in the femoral neck (FN) and lumbar spine (LS) in 42 patients taking LP alone, 39 taking MTX+LP, 20 taking NSAIDs alone were compared with controls.In statistical analysis the risk of FNOP and LS OP was determined by calculation of adjusted odds ratio (OR) with 95% confidence interval (95%CI) after controlling for age and DD.ANOVA chi square and logistic regression analysis were applied using SPSS version 18 software. Results The mean age and mean disease duration (DD) of patients were 52±11.7 and 8.4±6.4 years and the mean age of control was 52±7.5 years. The Mean duration of treatment for three study groups were 46; 48; and 13 months respectively. Prevalence of FNOP in the study groups and controls was 28.9%; 54.8%; 50%,and 13.5% (P=0.001) and the prevalence of LSOP 15.4%; 28.6%; 20; and 12.6% respectively (P=0.12).In patients treated with LP the risk of FNOP compared with controls increased by OR=7.7 (3.4-17.5), versus 2.6 (1.07-6.3) in MTX +LP and 6.4 (2.2-17.9) in NSAD treated group. After controlling for age and DD the adjusted OR values decreased respectively to 4.07 (1.43-11.5); 1.2 (0.36-3.9); and 4.1 (1.2-13.8). The risk of LSOP after adjustment for age and DD decreased to nonsignificant levels in all groups. Conclusions These findings indicated that treatment of RA with LP alone significantly increase the risk of FNOP compared with nontreated patients and treatment with combination of MTX+LP excert a protective effect against corticosteroid-induced bone loss Disclosure of Interest None Declared


Objective To analyse the problems of clinically using casting dentures.Methods 138 casting dentures were examined in every year.Results A two-year follow-up revealed there occurred butment caries,luxated butment,and overlain residual root gingivitis,even on the rise,while the alveolar ridge showed no uneven absorption.Conclusion Overall oral examination,reasonable denture device,teaching patients how to use the denture are necessary.


Process simulations in micro injection moulding aim at the optimization and support of the design of the mould, mould inserts, the plastic product, and the process. Nevertheless, dedicated software packages for micro injection moulding are not available. They are developed for macro plastic parts and are therefore limited in the capability of modelling the polymer flow in micro cavities. Hence, new strategies for comprehensive simulation models which provide more precise results open up new opportunities and will be discussed. Modelling and meshing recommendations are presented, leading to a multi-scale mesh of all relevant units of the injection moulding system. The implementation of boundary conditions, e.g. machine and venting, and results illustrating their importance on the simulation accuracy are presented.


many wider questions that at once suggest themselves to every reader of the treatise. We may point to the treatment of myths, which may be compared with Origen'shandling of difficult stories in the O.T. It grapples with the problem of evil, and asserts the indestructibility of the universe, an important point in a world where Christians still expected its imminent dissolution. It is in advance of its period in minimizing the importance of astrology, behind it in recommending sacrifice of animals, though it gives an interesting reason for this. It concludeswith one of those sturdy proclamations that to the good man his virtue is its own reward, which are so common in antiquity and 80 strange to us-the mood of I nvict'Us is our nearest modern equivalent. H. B. HILLIS.


Objectives: The objective of this study was to compare the antidyslipidemic effects of fenugreek seed extract in comparison to standard drugs used for dyslipidemia in an animal model of dyslipidemia. Methods: It was an experimental study conducted on 42 male, 9 weeks old Wistar albino rats for a period of 7 weeks. Animals were randomly divided into 7 groups, out of which 6 groups were given lipid rich diet to induce dyslipidemia for 28 days while one group served as control given normal diet. After 28 days standard drugs alone as well as in combinations (statins 10 mg/kg and fibrates 100 mg/kg) and fenugreek seed extract in two different doses, 250 mg/kg and 500 mg/kg were administered once a day for 21 days to all the respective groups except positive (lipid rich diet) and negative control groups (on normal diet), both were administered normal saline. Baseline body Original Research Article Zahid et al.; JPRI, 32(22): 143-151, 2020; Article no.JPRI.61183 144 weights of all groups of animals were measured at the start of the study. At the end of the study period, body weights of all groups of animal groups were measured again and their blood was drawn through cardiac puncture for the assessment of TC, LDL-C, HDL, TGs, D/B, I/B and ALT. All the intervention groups were compared on the basis of above mentioned parameters and changes in weight. Results: Amongst all the groups, lipid parameters (TC, LDL, TGs) showed a significant reduction and increase in HDL in the group on FSE in a dose dependent manner. Moreover, FSE also showed significant decrease in the levels of liver enzymes including ALT, D/B and in body weight when compared to other groups. While we did not find any significant change for urea, creatinine and I/B amongst all the groups. Conclusion: It is concluded that the fenugreek seed extract showed superior effects when compared to traditional pharmacological therapy against dyslipidemia.


Globally coherent modes which are observed during formation in the S-1 Spheromak plasma are shown to be important for flux conversion and plasma relaxation toward a minimum-energy state. A significant finding is the temporal progression through the n = 5, 4, 3, 2; m = 1 mode sequence as q rises through rational fractions m/n, where n and m are defined by the functional dependence e/sup i(nphi + mtheta/) of the fluctuations on toroidal angle phi and poloidal angle theta. Resistive MHD analysis predicts the observed modes and the sequence of occurrence.


This article presents the application research of airborne LIDAR (LIght Detection And Ranging) and accuracy analyses in southern part of China. First, the increasing demand of LIDAR and its principles shall be introduced. Second, the main LIDAR data processing flow will be described briefly. Third, the concepts and experiment conclusion of a new filtering method are recommended. And then, the precision evaluations in the test site are presented.


The high-pressure heater system is an important part of the return heat system of thermal power units, which can significantly reduce the boiler fuel consumption and is of great significance to the safe and economic operation of the units. Taking into consideration the issues that the high-pressure heater system data has strong non-linear characteristics and the fault diagnosis accuracy is low, this paper proposes a hybrid model-based fault monitoring and diagnosis method for a high-pressure heater system. Firstly, an improved particle swarm optimization algorithm (IEDPSO) is proposed. A differential evolution operation is introduced to enhance particle diversity, and the inertia weight coefficients and learning factor parameters are improved to optimize the particle position and velocity update process. The problem that PSO tends to fall into local optimum at the late stage of iterative optimization search is solved. Numerical simulation experiments demonstrate that IDEPSO has high convergence speed and accuracy in the optimization process of the test function. Secondly, a fault monitoring and diagnosis method based on a hybrid kernel principal component analysis (KPCA)-IDEPSO-probabilistic neural network (PNN) model is proposed. Non-linear features are extracted using KPCA for fault monitoring. The IDEPSO algorithm is used to iteratively find the best PNN to improve the fault diagnosis accuracy. Simulation experiments prove that compared with the traditional PNN model, the fault diagnosis accuracy of the KPCA-IDEPSO-PNN model is improved by 4.9% and the number of fault misclassifications is reduced by 34, effectively improving the fault diagnosis accuracy of the high-pressure heater system and ensuring the safe and stable operation of thermal power units.


The interaction between atoms was characterized with the embedded atomic potential.The potential function of Ti-Al was given by Zope and Mishin.An out-of-order Ti-Al solid solution was investigated.Molecular dynamic simulations for rapid liquid-solid transition process of Ti-Al alloy were performed in the conditions of two certain descent rates of temperature and different pressures.The variation laws of the average atomic energy,the average atomic volume,the radial distribution function and the percentage of amorphous H-A bonding pairs were analyzed,so that the rapid liquid-solid transition process of Ti-Al alloy into the crystal or noncrystalline was observed from all conceivable angles.And then,the effects of pressure on the liquid-solid transition process and products were evaluated.It is shown that both the average atomic volume and the average atomic energy decrease,but the crystallization temperature or the glass transition temperature increases with the increasing pressure.


A description is given of the preparation in vacuo of pure amorphous manganese. It is found to be paramagnetic, without trace of ferromagnetism, and to obey the Curie-Weiss law, x=2.174 × 10-2/T + 1540, over the range of temperature 90 to 600° K., the experimental value of x at 20° C. being 11.80 × 10-6.


Bathing in Lightness is an interactive light and sound installation that seems to be enlivened by a swarm entity trying to explore its inner world and communicate with the outer one. Consisting of 52 filament light bulbs it visualizes the movement of a particle swarm that is driven by the presence of the viewer and its own inner urge. Visitors can interact with the installation by moving in front of it while their movement is followed by the swarm and thus being translated into light and sound - visible inside the cluster of light bulbs and audible via nearby speakers or headphones.


The freshmen of the post-90s generation have their own characters,while they have problems of adaptation.In the work of education and management,we should help them solve their practical problems in thinking,learning and living,develop specialty education,learning career program education,psychological education and colorful campus cultural activities,and cultivate their positive and healthy state of mind to promote overall development.


Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0 tends to be discussed more frequently over the years and are not new terms. IoT was created in the early 2000s and Industry 4.0 was conceived at the beginning of 2011, addressing concepts of industrial automation together with the evolution of computing, so the present work intends to present to the public the introduction of the MQTT protocol (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) in the industrial branch for control and supervision of


A data output circuit of the semiconductor memory device of the present invention, each is implemented as a digital signal of a plurality of bit timing control signal generating means for generating first and second timing control signals having different logic values; The first data driving means for generating a first driving data with the internal clock, and a first global data line in response to the first timing control signal; First buffer means for generating a first output data to the buffer the first driving data; The second data driving means for generating a second drive data in response to the second timing control signal using the internal clock and a second global data line; And second buffering means for generating a second output data buffers to the second drive data; characterized in that it comprises a. A semiconductor memory device, the data output timing control


The possibility of evaluating the tear resistance of brittle materials by diametral compression test of short cylinders (solid and central with a central hole) has been analyzed. The computational analysis was performed by the finite element method using the ANSYS program. It is shown that the stress distribution in a disk with a hole is similar that without a hole but contains disturbances introduced by a stress concentrator in the form of a hole. The normalized values of the maximum first principal stresses for a disk with a hole exceed the values for a disk without a hole by more than 5 times. The experimental analysis was carried out by testing short cylinders, both solid and with a central hole, made of brittle materials: cast iron and graphite. It is noted that the fracture resistance, determined by the formula recommended by the ASTM D3967 – 95a standard, practically does not differ for solid cast iron samples, and for graphite differs by 1.5 times from the true tear resistance of materials; when testing samples with a central hole, the tear resistance differs from the standard values by a factor of 1.5 and almost 2.5, respectively. The different nature of the sample destruction is also noted: slow controlled rupture of cast iron and dynamic destruction of graphite with the corresponding deformation diagrams. The results of testing fuel pellets of uranium dioxide are given as an example of testing real cylindrical samples with a central hole. It is shown that the test results of ARV-1 graphite samples are in good agreement with the test results of fuel samples. Thus, the possibility of testing small-sized short cylinders according to the diametral compression scheme for indirect assessment of the tensile strength of brittle materials has been confirmed. A calculation formula is proposed for an indirect assessment of the tensile strength of brittle materials based on the results of testing small-sized short cylinders, both with and without a central hole according to the diametral compression scheme.


General populations of black women have a higher risk of developing breast cancer negative for both estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) in comparison with white counterparts. Racial differences remain unknown in the risk of developing aggressive invasive breast cancer (IBC) that is characterized by negativity for both ER and PR (ER–PR–) or higher 21‐gene recurrence scores after ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS).


Photodissociation of jet-cooled HOD via the C state around 124 nm has been studied using the H(D)-atom Rydberg tagging time-of-flight technique. Rotational state resolved action spectrum and the product translational energy distribution spectra have been recorded for both D+OH and H+OD dissociation channels. Product channel OH/OD branching ratios for the individual C-X rotational transition have been determined. A comparison is also given with the B-X and A-X transitions. In addition, the dissociation energy of the OD bond in HOD has been determined accurately to be 41751.3±5 cm−1.


The main channel of the ideological and political education at universities in China and America is the classroom teaching.By contrasting the ideological and political education between China and America,it is found that We should learn a lot from America.


Differences in fish assemblages' structures and their relations with environmental variables (due to the variations in sampled seasons, habitats, and zones) were analyzed in two adjacent estuaries on the north Pacific coast of Mexico. Environmental variables and fish catches were registered monthly between August 2018 and October 2020. Multivariate analyses were conducted to define habitats and zones based on their environmental characteristics, and the effect of this variability on fish assemblages' composition, biomass, and diversity (α and β) was evaluated. A total of 12,008 fish individuals of 143 species were collected using different fishing nets. Multivariate analyses indicated that fish assemblages' structures were different between zones due to the presence, height, and coverage of distinct mangrove species. Additionally, depth and salinity showed effects on fish assemblages' diversity (α and β-nestedness), which presented higher values in the ocean and remained similar in the rest of the analyzed zones and habitats. These results and the differences in species replacement (β-turnover) indicate the singularity of fish assemblages at estuaries (even in areas close to the ocean) and the necessity to establish local management strategies for these ecosystems.


Arabidopsis thaliana plants (ecotype Columbia) were grown in soil for 4 to 8 weeks under continuous light at 22°C. grown on germination-medium (GM)-containing agar plates for 3 to 4 weeks with a cycle of 16-h light/8-h dark at 22°C. For the construction of the libraries (RAFL6, RAFL9, RAFL11, and RAFL21), the plants grown in soil under continuous light at 22°C and the plants grown on GM-containing agar plates were used. After treatment with various stresses and hormones, the following plant materials were frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored at-80°C until RNA preparation for the construction of the cDNA libraries. For the construction of RAFL1 library, leaves and stems of the plants grown for 8 weeks were frozen in liquid nitrogen. For the RAFL2 library, the plants grown for 4 weeks were removed from the agar, desiccated for 2 h in plastic dishes under dim light, and frozen. For the RAFL3 library, the plants grown for 4 weeks were removed from the agar and frozen. For the RAFL4 and RAFL7 libraries, the plants grown for 4 weeks were grown in an incubator for 1, 2, 5, 10 and 24 h at 4°C, and frozen. For the RAFL5 and RAFL8 libraries, plants grown for 4 weeks were removed from the agar, desiccated for 1, 2, 5, 10, and 24 h in plastic dishes under dim light, and frozen. For the RAFL6 and RAFL9 libraries, the plants harvested every 5 days after sowing until 11 weeks after sowing, the 4-week-old plants treated with dehydration (1, 2, 5, 10, and 24 h) and cold (1, 2, 5, 10, and 24 h), tissues of mature seeds, siliques and flowers from the plants grown in soil for 6 to 11 weeks and old, yellow leaves induced by natural senescence were used for the construction of the cDNA libraries. For the RAFL11 library, the plants harvested every 5 days after sowing until 11 weeks after sowing, the 4-week-old plants treated with various stresses, grown for 7 days under dark conditions after sowing, and silique tissues from the plants grown in soil for 6 to 11 weeks were used for the construction of the cDNA library. ABA and high-salinity-stress-treatments were performed as described previously (Yamaguchi-Shinozaki and Shinozaki,


The equation of motion for cracks which are subjected to stress pulses is derived by the Lagrangian method. An asymptotic solution is used to determine terminal crack velocity. The time in which essentially constant velocity will be reached is determined. The equation is further used to formulate a dynamic stability criterion. In addition to a critical stress a critical time of stress duration is of importance. Critical time and critical stress can be combined to a critical action. From this principle, a number of conclusions are derived which are used to explain a number of experimental facts for which a theoretical explanation was lacking hitherto.


In the operation of electrical installations risk assessment evaluates hazards and conflicts. A kinematics analogy for analyzing "collisions" risks offers a new approach for the operational procedures and the geometry and allows to introduce a transitions theory for intersections. The Euclid's fifth postulate can be assumed as criterion of certain collision and as definition of a generalized parallelism for avoiding collisions. For safety in electrical operation, the interactions with electrical equipment have to be promoted as contact and not collisions. The intersections of multiple traffic lanes present an analogy with the operation of nodes of electrical power systems, offering an equivalent experienced way for examining constraints in the transitions and suggesting new approaches and new methodologies for solutions. Euler Venn diagrams EVDs and transitions T-maps have been introduced for assisting the design of operational procedures and the training of operators. A 3D approach for EVDs ant T-maps can help guarantee safety and avoid collisions.


NMR 19F spin‐lattice relaxation times and Raman 435 cm−1 doubly degenerate [ν2(e)] vibrational‐rotation band shapes have been measured in gaseous carbon tetrafluoride at 25 °C and densities of 9 to 120 amagat. NMR spin‐lattice relaxation times have also been measured over the temperature range of −60 to 40 °C for the above densities. The Fourier transform analysis of the Raman band shapes has allowed us to calculate the reorientational correlation time τθ,2. Since spin rotation interactions provide the dominant relaxation mechanism for fluorine in CF4, then the angular momentum correlation time τJ is obtained directly from the 19F T1 relaxation times with the assumption that the anisotropy of the spin‐rotation interaction tensor is small. A comparison of our experimental τθ,2 and τJ relationship agrees well with that predicted by the dilute gas limit of Gordon's J ‐ and M ‐diffusion model as extended to classical spherical molecules by McClung.


Pemetrexed is a new antineoplastic drug which aims at the multi targets in the metabolism of folate. Preclinical and clinical studies have demonstrated significantly antitumor activity in multifold solid tumors,including lung cancer,breast cancer,pancreatic cancer etc,especially in the treatment of malignant pleural mesothelioma. Adverse effects of pemetrexed are myelosuppression and rash. Undes the supplementation of folic acid and vitamin B 12, the adverse effects have been markedly reduced together with well toleration. In this study, the author discussed the recent research advances about this agent.


Recent advances in the field of robotics, sensor technology and artificial intelligence, cause the perception and policy of robots to be more and more efficient, which motivates the process of packing automation in warehouses. Nevertheless, compared with manual operation, current robot packing methods tend to use a minimalistic suction cup as the end effector, which lacks flexibility and always needs subsequent push and pull actions to ensure compactness, resulting in low efficiency. Moreover, current methods mostly lack the ability of external force/torque perception, bringing much uncertainty and danger in such a contact-rich task. In this paper, we design a framework based on force/torque perception and compliance control to improve the performance in robustness and safety. Meanwhile, with the proposed compliance controller, a method of tight placement for dense packing is proposed to place cubes in the bin successfully and tightly, without additional actions as assistance. Specifically, we focus on the situation where the robotic arm has been visually guided near the desired placement position by predefined placement order and the pose of the bin, where the effect of errors caused by vision are considered in our algorithm. Finally, the proposed pipeline is evaluated in abundant contrast experiments and demonstrated to be relatively robust and accurate under errors and uncertainties, compared with prior methods.


For the demand of an experimental device for biological samples positioning system for irradiations on a radial channel at the nuclear research reactor in operation was constructed and started up a device for the place and remove of the biological samples from the irradiation channels without interrupting the operation of the reactor. The economical valuations are effected comparing with another type of device with the same functions. This work formed part of an international project between Cuba and Brazil that undertook the study of the induced damages by various types of ionizing radiation in DNA molecules. Was experimentally tested the proposed solution, which demonstrates the practical validity of the device. As a result of the work, the experimental device for biological samples irradiations are installed and operating in the radial beam hole #3(BH#3) for more than five years at the IEA-R1 Brazilian research reactor according to the solicited requirements the device. The designed device increases considerably the type of studies can be conducted in this reactor. Its practical application in research taking place in that facility, in the field of radiobiology and dosimetry, and so on is immediate.


The teaching of experimental sciences requires continuous updating and needs of tools – laboratories, materials, experimental protocols – that promote the acquisition of the experimental scientific method, through the individual practice of operating procedures that allow personal and direct consolidation and experimental verification of theoretical knowledge.

Now in its 16th edition, the Expo-laboratory is a learning path of several exhibits, proposed annually in Aosta Valley (Italy), involving different schools and dealing each year with a different topic.

The exhibition, created with the collaboration of several teachers, is aimed at students from kindergarten to high school, with the aim of presenting scientific aspects both in a theoretical and practical way, through simple tools, experiments or practical demonstrations that can be easily repeated.

This year the exhibition, entitled "The Science of Wonders", proposes a learning path made by tools and short impressive activities dealing with history and theory of some surprising topics, ranging from chemical sciences to biological, geological and physical ones.

The peculiarity of Expo-Laboratory is that the illustration of each exhibit is carried out by students, who are called to accompany visitors to discover the various activities, by adapting the content in relation to the age and the interest of the public.

The Expo-Laboratory presents itself as a real experience of peer learning and teaching and, over the years, it has shown good educational effects, offering students an opportunity to acquire new knowledge, develop scientific communication skills and increase organizational abilities through cooperation and collaboration.

The experience is generally appreciated by students who, operating with simple materials, but with scientific rigor, have the chance to get really involved. Playing a role they are not used to (the teacher’s one), they have to deal with a heterogeneous audience, sometimes curious and demanding, other times distracted, so they need to test and improve their own engagement abilities, face follow-up questions and provide further explanations. All this, not only enhances their sense of responsibility, but also boosts self confidence and personal skills, definitely stimulating passion and students' interest in sciences.


The aim of this paper is to investigate the finite sample behavior of seven goodness-of-fit tests for left truncated distributions of Chernobai et al. (2015) in terms of size and power. Simulation experiments are based on artificial data generated from the distributions that were used in the past or are used nowadays to describe the tails of asset returns. The study was conducted for different tail thickness and for changing truncation point. Simulation results indicate that the testing procedures do not work equally well under finite samples, and some of them require quite large number of observations to perform satisfactorily.

http://ps.stat.gov.pl/PS/2018/3/Agnieszka LACH Łukasz SMAGA – Comparison of the goodness-of-fittests for truncated distrib.pdf


Due to large planar scale and small lateral scale of plastic drawing board, it was easy to cause warpage problem in injection molding. Optimization of injection molding process was taken to reduce residual stress and improve quality. Combining orthogonal experimental method and software Moldflow, analyzed the effect of mold temperature, melt temperature, hold pressure and injection velocity on warpage deformation. It changed multi-objective optimization to single-objective optimization by weighted method. Through range analysis obtained the influence trend between parameters and comprehensive optimal object. Lastly got the optimal combination of injection molding process parameters.


Afrati is the modern name of a settlement of the ninth to fifth century bce built on a hill in central Crete. Impressive tomb furnishings from its two cemeteries and ceramic vessels indicate the prosperity of the site.

Keywords:

Archaic period;
archaeology;
Carchemish;
Classical period;
Cyrene;
Kato Syme in Crete


As a large distributed information system,Railway Intelligent Transportation Systems(RITS) involves modern control,real-time scheduling,business operation management and such theoretical fields to provide different services for physical distributed customers or designers.To feed these multi-service and multi-task requirments,the methodology for the system structure design plays a most critical role in the development of RITS.An optimal design model for the physical structure of RITS has been presented,which actualizes the physical structure optimization after considering the factors of technology and economy.On the base of characteristics and difficulties of RITS melioration design and structure optimization,multi-objective is used to meet design goals utilizing system resources in an effective way.The pre-optimized function for RITS structure design features with high dimension,multi-peak,non-linearity and computational complexity and there is usually no optimal unique solution in traditional meanings.A MOGA based Pareto optimization approach is put forward with its effectiveness and efficiency approved in the design of the railway emergency system.


The feedback from young stars (i.e. pre-supernova) is thought to play a crucial role in molecular cloud destruction. In this paper, we assess the feedback mechanisms acting within a sample of 5810 H II regions identified from the PHANGS-MUSE survey of 19 nearby (< 20Mpc) star-forming, main sequence spiral galaxies (log(M★/M )= 9.4 – 11). These optical spectroscopic maps are essential to constrain the physical properties of the H II regions, which we use to investigate their internal pressure terms. We estimate the photoionised gas (Ptherm), direct radiation (Prad), and mechanical wind pressure (Pwind), which we compare to the confining pressure of their host environment (Pde). The H II regions remain unresolved within our ∼50−100 pc resolution observations, sowe place upper (Pmax) and lower (Pmin) limits on each of the pressures by using aminimum (i.e. clumpy structure) and maximum (i.e. smooth structure) size, respectively. We find that the Pmax measurements are broadly similar, and for Pmin the Ptherm is mildly dominant. We find that the majority of H II regions are over-pressured, Ptot/Pde = (Ptherm+Pwind+Prad)/Pde > 1, and expanding, yet there is a small sample of compact H II regionswith Ptot,max/Pde < 1 (∼ 1%of the sample). Thesemostly reside in galaxy centres (Rgal < 1 kpc), or, specifically, environments of high gas surface density; log(Σgas/M pc−2)∼2.5 (measured on kpc-scales). Lastly, we compare to a sample of literature measurements for Ptherm and Prad to investigate how dominant pressure term transitions over around 5 dex in spatial dynamic range and 10 dex in pressure.


Bacterivory in eutrophic Lake Oglethorpe, Georgia, was determined by direct observation of tracer particle uptake by all members of the planktonic community. Heterotrophic flagellates dominated grazing at all times, accounting for 49-8 1% of grazing on an areal basis and up to 98% of grazing at some depths. Pigmented (mixotrophic) flagellates were major grazers during winter and spring blooms, when they contributed up to 45% of community grazing on an areal basis and 79% at depths of maximum abundance. In late spring to early summer, rotifers and ciliates were responsible for as much as 25 and 30% of bacterivory at some depths, but averaged 3 and 11% over the year, respectively. Grazing impact of cladoceran crustaceans was generally < 1% of the total. Bacterivory by copepods was not detected. Total bacterial mortality due to grazing ranged from 11 to 162% of bacterial cell production estimated from the incorporation of [3H]thymidine. Use of 0.57-pm microspheres as tracers gave similar estimates ofingestion to fluorescently labeled bacteria in this system. The use of 4% ice-cold glutaraldehyde mixed 1 : 1 with the water sample was found to be equally effective to an acrolein-tannic acid mixture for reducing egestion of particles by protists. We therefore consider our findings to be representative of bacterivory by the planktonic community in this eutrophic system.


It is well known that renal cell carcinoma(RCC) is not sensitive to conventional radiotherapy or chemotherapy.High doses of recombinant human interleukin-2(IL-2) and recombinant human interferon-α(IFN-α) are commonly used as the main treatment.However,the application of these cytokines is limited due to their toxicity and poor overall response rates.Recently,mutation in Von Hippel-Lindau(VHL),Ras and PTEN genes have been observed in RCC.Several new drugs targeting these mutated genes and signal transduction pathways have been developed and have achieved favorable clinical responses.According to 2008 NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology,Sorafenib,Sunitinib and temsirolimus have been administered as first-line therapy.Bevacizumab is approved in Europe for use in combination with interferon-α as the first-line treatment for patients with advanced and/or metastatic RCC.Several other new targeted agents are still undergoing clinical trials.


A research report submitted to the Faculty of Science for the partial fulfillment of the degree Masters of Science (MSc), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
June 2016


This document describes a private key hiding protocol and a joint
private key operation protocol for Transport Layer Security (TLS)
without needing to modify existing TLS.


Objective:To evaluate the effects of Qingyuantiaozhi capsule on alcoholic liver disease.Methods: Sixty patients with alcoholic liver disease were divided at random into two groups.Therapeutic group was treated with two capsules of Qingyuantiaozhi capsule orally three times per day,control group was treated with general medicine to protecting the liver.After the period of treatment,all the patients performed blood test of liver function and cholesterol and triglyceride low density ilpoprotein-C,as well detecting the liver with colour ultrasound.Results: Total effective ratio of therapeutic and control group was 93.3% and 73.3% which were significantly difference in two groups(P0.01).There was also significantly difference in the two groups with the liver functiion and cholesterol and triglycerin,and low density lipoprotein-C(P0.01).Conclusion:Qingyuantiaozhi capsule has a significant effect to improve the patients'clinical syndromes and liver functiions,even it change the patients' liver imagining in ultrasound but to decrease patients' blood-fat.


This report develops the rationale for and explores the feasibility of doing a community mortality study of the shale oil area of Scotland. It is concluded that it is feasible to do a community mortality study of the shale oil area for cancer deaths since 1953 and all deaths since 1971. Only through such a study can we be assured of fully exploiting the health effect information from the Scotish shale oil industry.


Notes on the founding of the IASA Insiders and Outsiders in the domain of knowledge, unite. You have nothing to lose but your claims. You have a world of understanding to win. --Robert K. Merton, "Insiders and Outsiders: A Chapter in the Sociology of Knowledge" (1972) The formal scholarly organization of American Studies is about half a century old. Its beginnings are thus at about the same distance in time from us as is the subject of a good historical novel. So far, there have been two distinct chapters in American Studies--the Cold War and the age of Multiculturalism. A third chapter has been in the making for some time now; for what both chapters one and two had in common was a predominantly national organization of the field, with the American Studies Association of the USA (ASA) at the center. Only in Europe was an international association created, but this European Association for American Studies (EAAS) was limited to European member associations and individuals. There are many scholars--both outside of and within the United States--who have made the case for internationalizing the field. Earlier voices (such as those of Marshall Fishwick, Robert H. Walker, and Bernard Mergen) were joined in the 1990s by a powerful chorus of Americanists who have argued for a "decentering" of the field, both intellectually and organizationally. Richard P. Horwitz, Michael Cowan, Eric Sandeen, Emory Elliott, Rob Kroes, Jane Desmond, Virginia Dominguez, Gonul Pultar, Bruce Robbins, and Andre Kaenel are among the many who have contributed to the debate (see http:/ /www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/interroads). In the past decade, a part of this discussion has been the call for founding an international association for the field of American Studies that would complement the work of the ASA International Committee and of many national associations, follow the example of the Organization of American Historians (OAH), and create a new post-Cold War atmosphere of international cooperation on a global scale. How could such an intellectual agenda and professional organization be imagined? How would it lead to new approaches to its subject? How could it be helped by the many existing efforts at international exchanges? How in turn could it help them? Might even the subject of American Studies--the United States of America--change in hemispheric perspectives on "the Americas" and in transnational approaches to issues of modernity? It was in order to address these issues and to draw institutional consequences from them that Djelal Kadir (Penn State University) convened a working conference at the Rockefeller Foundation's Conference and Study Center in Bellagio (Italy), at which twenty-two participants from twelve countries (and also members of eleven national and multinational American Studies associations) founded the new International American Studies Association, the IASA. The intense, three-day meeting, uninterrupted by any excursions into the temptingly beautiful Lake Como environment, opened with the question posed by IASA Founding President and Charter Member on the Governing Board of the International Foundation for Global Studies Djelal Kadir, "Why has there not been an international association for American Studies?" He criticized the "wedding of ontology and exception" permeating the field and pleaded for the creation of a new association that would become an "agora of ideas." The contribution of the International American Studies Association may reside in its capacity to divert American Studies from the perils of redundancy. Because, the difference between American American Studies and International American Studies amounts to a difference between the circling wagons of tautology, on the one hand, and the truly emancipatory plurality of openness and multivalence on the other. In describing recent trajectories in the practice of American Studies by US-based scholars, ASA President Mary Kelley (Dartmouth College) seconded a call for comparative approaches and critical internationalism. …


The present invention provides a display apparatus comprising a display panel and a backlight module. The display panel has an effective display boundary. The backlight module comprises a frame, a light guide plate, and a quantum dot light blue-reinforced film. A frame having a support portion, a display panel disposed on the support portion, and the boundary of the effective display portion supporting a first predetermined distance. The light guide plate is provided in the frame, and a support portion located below the light guide plate. Blue light source disposed in the frame and located at a side of the light guide plate. Quantum dot enhancement film disposed on the light guide plate, a quantum dot enhancement film beyond the distance from the boundary of the effective display a predetermined length and a predetermined length greater than the first predetermined distance, so that the support portion of the quantum dot-reinforced film partially overlap.


Background and purpose. Loco-regional radiotherapy of left-sided breast cancer represents a treatment planning challenge when the internal mammary chain (IMC) lymph nodes are included in the target volume. This treatment planning study evaluates the reduction in cardiopulmonary doses when radiation is given during deep inspiration breath-hold (DIBH). This was achieved without compromising dose coverage to the planning target volume (PTV). Patients and methods. Seventeen patients with early breast cancer, referred for adjuvant radiotherapy, were included. For each patient two computed tomography (CT)-scans were acquired; the first during free breathing (FB) and the second during DIBH. The scans were monitored by the Varian RPMTM respiratory gating system. Audio-visual guidance was used. The treatment planning of the two CT studies was performed focusing on good coverage (V95% > 98%) of the PTV. Doses to the heart, left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery, lungs and contralateral breast were assessed. Results. With equal PTV coverage, average mean heart dose was reduced from 6.2 Gy to 3.1 Gy in DIBH plans as compared to FB. Average volume receiving 25 Gy or more (V25Gy) was reduced from 6.7% to 1.2%, and the number of patients with V25Gy > 5% was reduced from 8 to 1 utilizing DIBH. The average mean dose to the LAD coronary artery was reduced from 25.0 Gy to 10.9 Gy. The average ipsilateral lung volume receiving 20 Gy or more (V20Gy) was reduced from 44.5% to 32.7% with DIBH. In 11 of the DIBH plans V20Gy was lower than 35%, in accordance with national guidelines, while none of the FB plans fulfilled this recommendation. Conclusion. Respiratory gated radiotherapy during DIBH is a suitable technique for loco-regional breast irradiation even when IMC lymph nodes are included in the PTV. Cardiopulmonary doses are considerably decreased for all dose levels without compromising the dose coverage to PTV.


We investigate whether firm fundamentals can explain the shape of option implied volatility (IV) curve. Extending Geske's (1997) compound option model, we link firm fundamentals to the prices of equity and equity options, and show how the shape of IV curve can vary across firms with leverage, dividend policy, cost of capital, and so on. Using options of S&P 500 constituent companies, we show further empirically that firm fundamentals are important determinants of the IV curve even after controlling for historical volatility, risk-neutral skewness, kurtosis and systematic risk ratio. Fundamentals not only provide statistically and economically explanatory power on the IV curve, but also help reconcile with some stylized facts and puzzles.


Many authors have advocated the use of the precipitation reaction with spinal fluid in the diagnosis of syphilis. In Kahn's technic, 1 1 c.c. and 1.5 c.c., respectively, of spinal fluid are placed in each of two test tubes, and to each is then added 0.1 c.c. of dilute antigen. This antigen consists of one part of the antigen which Kahn advocates for use in the precipitation test for syphilitic serum and three parts of physiologic sodium chlorid. The tubes are then thoroughly shaken, and allowed to stand for several hours or until precipitation occurs. He claims favorable results for this method in comparison with the Wassermann reaction and clinical findings. Many workers, among whom are Detweiler, 2 Moody, 3 Ide and Smith, 4 and Grant, 5 have since reported unfavorable results on trying to repeat this work. On the other hand, Anderson and Fisher 6 have reported favorable reactions


Objective To explore basic configurations of community health service organizations(CHSOs) influence on function realization of community health services.Methods Building area,department layout and medical equipments of CHSOs were analyzed by employed descriptive methods.Results Average area of per CHSOs is about 300 m~2,department layout is rational,and per CHSOs was provided with equipments needed in health services.Conclusion Basic configurations of CHSOs in Shenzhen reach community health services admittance standard,and building,departments and equipments of CHSOs may realize basically function of community health services.


The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for detecting a position of an object to be examined and for locating a target anatomical region in a MR system with the following steps: a.) moving the examination table arranged on a object to be examined in the MR system, b.) performing imaging by irradiating RF pulses and receiving MR resonance signals during the movement of the examination object in the MR system, c.) detecting the at least one target anatomical region in the examination object, d.) positioning at least one of the identified target anatomical region at the desired examination position within the MR system, e.) fitting the MR system to the object under examination, wherein a step e.) temporally after the steps a.) to d.) takes place.


A new species, Leichenum capensis, is described from the Olifants River, southwestern Cape Province, South Africa. The species Leichenum granulatum Penrith and L. endroedyi Penrith, described from the northern Namib, are recorded from East Africa. The distribution of L. canaliculatum variegatum Klug in southern and eastern Africa is mapped.


A method of investigation of the structure, properties and geometrical parameters of highly absorptive polymer multilayered media using short pulse scanning acoustic microscopy is described. The possibility of successful evaluation and visualization of internal layers having 3% of the total thickness of a sample is demonstrated. A time domain digital processing algorithm is developed to provide a precise thickness measurement of each layer in the layered polymer.


After Congress banned most Chinese immigrants and certain classes of other immigrants in the 1880s and 1890s, immigrants who would have been turned away at American seaports began landing in Canada and crossing the land border. Immigrants proved adept at evading American immigration officials assigned to Canadian seaports and certain points along the border, leading the United States to monitor the entire international border by 1908. Between 1905 and 1910, Canada stationed immigration officers at both American seaports and along the border and passed immigration laws that were essentially identical to those in effect in the United States, making it more difficult to use one country as a "back door" to the other. Using Canadian archival sources, this paper shows that even before Frank Oliver overhauled Canada's immigration law and enforcement regime the Canadian government made several key concessions designed to mollify the Americans and protect Canada's transportation industry. During the 1880s and 1890s, United States-bound immigrants who would have been excluded at American seaports landed in Canada, passed Canada's limited inspection, then entered the United States along the largely unmonitored international border. Congress failed to negotiate a treaty calling on Canada to intercept Chinese immigrants attempting to enter the United States as a prelude to an American-style exclusion policy. The Americans were more successful in their efforts to get Canada to allow the United States to inspect American-bound immigrants at Canadian seaports, but soon found that immigrants could easily bypass their inspectors by claiming to be bound for Canada. In 1903, Canada increased its Chinese head tax to $500 and the transportation company that carried most of the Chinese passenger traffic to Canada agreed to inspect immigrants before they left China, but both measures proved ineffective, leading the United States to close its land border to Chinese immigrants in 1910. Canada made limited but important concessions concerning non-Chinese immigrants, including passing legislation explicitly designed to help the United States deport non-quarantinable diseased immigrants, but as of 1903 Canada's list of excludable immigrants still did not match the American list from the 1880s, much less the expanded list included in the Immigration Act of 1903. American policymakers concluded that direct border enforcement was needed to supplement their inspections at Canada's seaports around the same time as Canada began to accept the need for a more selective immigration policy. By 1910, Canada and the United States used similar methods to enforce essentially identical immigration policies at their ports of entry, making it considerably more difficult to avoid one country's immigration inspectors by entering through the other.


A research was carried out to study the inclusion of MOS, inactivated baker yeast or combined baker yeast and Noni leaves extracts into corn-mungbean basal diet on broilers blood biochemical indices and productivity. Lohman MB-202 day old chicks were randomly assigned into four treatment diets i.e. 1) commercial/control diet (Dc), 2) basal diet plus MOS (DM), (3) basal diet plus inactivated baker yeast (DY), (4) basal diet plus inactivated baker yeast and Noni leaves extracts (DY+L). Treatment diets and water were given ad libitum. Whole blood were sampled on day 21 for determination of hemoglobin and haematocrit, Serum Glutamic Pyruvic Transaminases, Glutamic Oxaloacetic Transaminases, creatinine, lipid profile, alkaline phosphatase and lactic acid. Relative organs weight, abdominal fat, productivity were also determined. Feed intake, body weight and feed conversion of broilers fed DM, DY, DY+L were the same but they were lower than control diet (p<0.05). Serum triglyceride, GPT, creatinine, cholesterol, VLDL+LDLchol and HDLchol were significantly affected by the diets (p<0.05). No effect was found for other serum biochemical indices. For relative internal organs weight, a significant effect was found for heart, liver, ileum, duodenum and pancreas. These results were discussed in terms of the possible underlying mechanism. Our results here provide evidence that MOS, inactivated baker yeast alone or its combination with Noni leave extract could produce low serum TG, total cholesterol, VLDL+LDLchol, HDLchol and abdominal fat in broilers fed corn-mungbean basal diet with no negative effect on other serum biochemical indices.


Iowa farmers are using cover crops for erosion control and soil nutrient and pest management in their fields. There are two aspects of cover crops that relate to the biology and management of the soybean cyst nematode (SCN).


Alfalfa was treated in 1956 with heptachlor and aldrin at the rates of ¼lb./acre and ⅛lb./acre, in order to study the disappearance of those insecticides under wisconsin conditions. Samples were collected immediately after treatment and 1, 3, 7, 14, and 21 days thereafter and were analyzed by specific chemical methods and by a direct feeding bioassay, using Drosophila melanogaster Meig. as a test insect. Seven days after treatment, both heptachlor and aldrin were recovered at a rate of 0.1 p.p.m., as tested by chemical analysis. However, when bioassays were conducted, the recoveries were slightly higher. In the case of aldrin, 7 days after treatment, 3.5 to 7.6 times more toxicant was recovered by bioassay as compared with results obtained by a specific chemical analysis. No heptachlor was found 2 weeks after treatment as tested by chemical and biological methods. No aldrin was found 3 weeks after treatment as tested by both methods.


Contact loss between the concrete underlayer and the subgrade caused by the differential settlement or stiffness of subgrade structure is a common distress, which deteriorates the mechanical properties of the track structure and adversely affects the safety and comfort for the operation on high-speed railway. The objective of this paper is to study the damage mechanism of prefabricated slab track subjected to such contact loss and to propose a critical value for the size of contact loss that would not jeopardize the safety of rail traffic and riding comfort of passengers. Thus, a vibration calculation model for the vertically coupled vehicle-J-slab track-subgrade system is established using finite element method, both of the short-wave irregularity and the German long-wave irregularity were taken into account to calculate the dynamic response of vehicle, track structure and subgrade with different contact loss areas and speeds scenarios. Based on the numerical simulation results, a critical value of contact loss area is proposed. When the actual contact loss area is smaller than the critical value, the welded joint irregularity is the dominant factor in the vehicle dynamic response; however, when the actual contact loss area is larger than the critical value, the track irregularity induced by contact loss under the concrete underlayer becomes the dominant factor. It is suggested that the contact loss area should be controlled under the critical value in order to ease or mitigate the dynamic response of the vehicle and track structure. The numerical simulation indicates the critical contact loss area is about 10 m2 for the short-wave irregularity case and 14 m2 for the long-wave irregularity case, thus it is suggested that the contact loss area underneath the concrete underlayer should not exceed 10 m2, which is consistent with the Swedish standard and the German standard on weak areas of subgrade compaction.


Intellectual Property Consultants appointed by the Ministry of Law and Human Rights is an office that has a limited authority to carry out their duties; The appointment of IPR consultant are intended to assist Ministry of Law and Human Rights in resolving the matter on IPR registration. Due to the reason that IPR is the scope of Ministry of Law and Human Rights authority, the one which has the authority to appoint someone as IPR Consultant is also Ministry of Law and Human Right. Appointment of IPR Consultant should be specially granted for Law School Graduate due to the reason that Consultant shall understand and able to execute the procedure of authority and regulation that limits its authority in running Consultant position. In carrying out its duties, IPR Consultant will be closely related to legal action and must strictly comply with the Law and assume responsibility given by the client. The duties and responsibilities attached to IPR Consultant have a legal consequence. In conducting its duties, IPR Consultant shall be able to read and implement the regulation enforced by the government.


At the current state-of-technology there are many joining processes that can be used to make sound welds in TD-NiCr sheet. Some of these that are described in this report are electron beam welding (EBW), gas-tungsten arc welding (GTAW), diffusion welding (DFW), resistance spot welding (RSW), resistance seam welding (RSEW), and brazing. Roll welding (RW) and explosion welding (EXW) have not been developed to the point where they can be used to make sound welds in TD-NiCr. Joining work that has previously been done on TD-NiCr by various organizations, both privately supported and under Air Force and NASA contracts, is described in this summary. Current work is also described that is being done at General Dynamics/Convair (under NASA contract) and at NASA/Lewis to develop and evaluate DFW, RSW, RSEW, and brazing. Preliminary comparisons of joining processes are made for typical applications. A brief description of the manufacture of TD-NiCr sheet by a recently standardized process (under NASA contract) also is given.


Part 1 Apparel: Hartmax Corporation Oxford Industries. Part 2 Automobiles: Chrysler Corporation Ford Motor Company. Part 3 Beverages: Coca-Cola Company PepsiCo Inc. Part 4 Chemicals: The Dow Chemical Company Union Carbide. Part 5 Computers, office automation, software, and telecommunications: Control Data Corporation Xerox Corporation. Part 6 Construction materials and glass: Corning Glass Works Owens Corning Fiberglass Corporation. Part 7 Consumer products: Albert Culver Company Proctor & Gamble Company. Part 8 Electronics: Motorola Inc Westinghouse. Part 9 Food, food services, and tobacco: General Foods Corporation Kraft Inc. Part 10 Insurance and financial services: John Hancock New York Life Insurance Company. Part 1 Industrial and agricultural equipment: Black & Decker Inc General Electric Company. Part 12 Paper and allied products: International Paper Company Mead Corporation. Part 13 Pharmaceuticals and health care: Bristol-Myers Company Pfizer I


A brief introduction of seawater resources (energy resource, chemical resource, biological resource) is given firstly, and then a systematical analysis is put forward about how to make full use of seawater resources to solve some important problems (air\|conditioning , heating, water supply, seawater aquatics breeding) for cities near sea. Lastly, the application and development of seawater resources comprehensive utilization systems in China is discussed.


In the framework of perturbative QCD and nonrelativistic bound state formalism, we calculate the production of {upsilon} mesons associated with open-beauty particles at the Tevatron and LHC conditions. We show that the contribution from the {upsilon}+b+b channel becomes comparable with that of {upsilon} sole production at the LHC at high enough transverse momenta, but is small at the Tevatron. We investigate the {upsilon} polarization effects and kinematic correlations between {upsilon} mesons and the accompanying open-beauty mesons. We show that the correlations are sensitive to the initial k{sub t} of the colliding partons, and so, can be considered as an additional test discriminating the collinear parton model and the k{sub t}-factorization approach.


After an analysis of the urgent need of systematic medical information service in village and township hospitals and doctors and the advantageous conditions for medical academic libraries to provide information service for them,its imple-mentation strategies were proposed and how to promote the construction of libraries and the development of medical cause in villages and townships by providing information service in countryside were pointed out.


rnJ Servicing Missions from Space Station Jerome L. Wright rnJ Program 'IRW Huntsville, AL A. Wayne Deaton Systems Analysis and Integration I.aboratory Mission Analysis Division Marshall Space Flight Center, AL '!he Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle (OMV) will provide a means of bringing large observatories to the Space station for servicing and redeployment to their operating altitudes. However, there are many constraints which must be met in mission planning. '!he missions must be designed so that propellant consumption is within the usable allowance, but contingency operations can still be accomplished. '!he vehicle was designed specifically to accommodate such missions, with emphasis upon servicing the Hubble Space Telescope. '!he OMV has been designed for operations from the Shuttle Orbiter and the Space Station. It will readily accommodate basing at the Space Station and executing observatory retrieval and redeployment missions. Mission profiles have been designed which allow retrieval with contengency hold before descent, and which allow contengency return of the observatory if it fails to reactivate properly. '!his capability will be a major addition to the Space Transportation System and will increase the utility of the Space Station.


In this paper, visual, auditory, and kinesthetic design elements are introduced with regard to their sense-specific narrative qualities or properties. Discussing perceived hierarchies of different sensory stimuli and their reciprocal effects through contrast and agreement, the paper shows how different forms of juxtaposition create meaning, reinforce player emotions, strengthen memory formation and retrieval, and support various dramatic functions within individual beats through incongruity and ambiguity and through clarification and intensification.


The paper presents a series of estimates for the total ice volume of the glaciers in the Himalaya-Karakorum region. The estimates are based on different methods, including volume-area scaling, an empirical relation that makes use of glacier slope, and two methods that allow a spatially distributed estimation of the ice thickness. The paper is well structured and written, and is of good overall quality. However, there are a number of situations, in which I had a hard time following the arguments of the authors. The three most important ones are: (1) The reason for the choice of the region, if the aim is a comparison of the methodologies, (2) the ideas behind several choices in the implementation of GlabTop2, and (3) the claims about volume-area scaling. These and a series of other issues need to be re-thought or better supported before a publication can be considered.


Abstract Currently, there is no broad overarching framework that allows for a holistic approach to education and training in forensic science. There is no agreed mechanism to consolidate, guide and evaluate the development and delivery of education products (i.e. qualifications, standards, curriculum), for use in organizations which deliver forensic services. There is a clear role for academia to improve the quality of forensic science through collaboration in the design and delivery of industry-focussed education and training. In the future, greater integration and partnership are sought between academia and industry, with industry able to identify and articulate its long-term direction, priorities and the skill sets required by future forensic scientists, and academia moving towards a form of quality assurance (accreditation) for their courses. Given the skill set required for forensics in rapidly evolving disciplines such as the digital space, one may need to be careful mandating a degree requirement. However, a greater industry-wide acceptance of the need for ongoing, career-long learning amongst forensic practitioners is required, as is the need to further explore professionalization, across the range of forensic science disciplines, so that we have a united voice and not competing voices from every discipline of forensic science or stakeholder, where the message risks being lost in the noise.


Crossbar switch fabric is one of the most popular architectures for design of high-speed packet switches. Recently, it has been actualized crossbar architecture with buffers only in crosspoints. Such architecture has not problem with implementation of large buffers in crosspoints, any more. Performance analysis of Crosspoint Queued switch for several work conserving scheduling algorithms is presented in this paper. Since there are detailed results of throughput analysis presented in the available literature, in this paper we extended previous research with analysis of average cell latency and loss probability. Maximal buffer occupancy during the simulations is also observed so we can estimate and compare memory requirements of Crosspoint Queued switch for analyzed scheduling algorithms. It is shown that Longest Queue First has lowest memory requirements among simulated algorithms. Also, we proved results from literature that for longer buffers it becomes less important which algorithm is used. Due to easier hardware implementation and absence of starvation, Frame-based Round Robin Matching algorithm becomes most serious candidate among round robin based algorithms.


Network densification is a key technology to achieve the spectral efficiency (SE) expected in 5G wireless networks and beyond. However, the proximity between transmitters and receivers increases the interference levels, becoming a major drawback. To overcome this problem, several interference management techniques have been proposed to increase the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR). Interference alignment (IA) algorithms have been extensively studied due to their capability to achieve optimal degrees of freedom (DoFs) in interference channels (ICs). Nevertheless, most of the works are limited to a purely theoretical analysis based on non-realistic assumptions such as perfect channel state information (CSI) and the synchronization of all nodes in the network. To the best of our knowledge, only a few articles address the IA implementation using reconfigurable hardware. To cover this lack, this paper proposes a practical design of the IA algorithm based on the SINR maximization, known as MAX-SINR, considering a multi-user IC. Each transmitter and receiver is implemented on the National Instruments USRP-2942. A practical solution for the channel estimation and synchronization stages in an IC, that are usually omitted in theoretical works, is developed. The performance of the proposed implementation is shown in terms of the SINR gain, SE, and bit error rate (BER). Unlike previous works, all the results are based on real measurements providing valuable insights into the performance of IA algorithms.


The Total Organic Carbon (TOC) content plays a crucial role in gas hydrate exploration because a higher TOC content signifies a greater potential for buried gas hydrates. The regulatory mechanisms governing organic matter in sediment are intricate and influenced by various predominant factors unique to different regions. Notably, the Shenhu area in the South China Sea stands as a pioneering region for methane hydrate research. Despite its significance, limited research has focused on the burial patterns of TOC, resulting in an insufficient dataset to draw definitive conclusions. Consequently, a comprehensive understanding of the burial patterns and controlling factors of TOC within this area remains elusive. This study examines the pore-water characteristics, mineral composition, geochemistry, and sedimentary factors of four distinct sites within the Shenhu region of the South China Sea. The current depths of the Sulfate-Methane Interface (SMI) for sites CL54, CL56, CL57, and CL60 are identified as 28.6, 8.5, 31.9, and 8.1 m below the seafloor (mbsf), respectively. It's noteworthy that these SMI depths align with locations known to harbor underlying gas hydrates. Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and X-ray Diffraction (XRD) analyses reveal that the primary sediment sources within this region encompass microbial shells (such as foraminifera and diatoms), clay, and terrestrial detritus. In addition, marine productivity exhibits a reverse correlation with TOC content, and both TOC content and Ce/Ce* ratios exhibit synchronous fluctuations with sedimentation rate. Drawing from the sedimentation rate, TOC content, as well as indicators of redox conditions (MoEF, Ce/Ce*, Mo/U) and productivity proxies (Ba/Al, P/Al) within the sampled sites, it becomes apparent that high sedimentation rate coupled with 'anaerobic' conditions foster favorable conditions for TOC accumulation. This comprehensive investigation not only provides valuable datasets but also offers insights into the intricate processes governing TOC accumulation.


Along with the appearance of knowledge economy,the company finance shows it cannot meet with the requirement of the society,and the company finance innovation becomes a must.The article expounds from the change of finance ideal,the orientation of the finance objective and the governing of finance structure,and concludes it is necessary to establish the concept of extensive finance resources to be fundamental and soft finance resources to be first.Make all efforts to bring all others involved in many kinds of interest into the configuring of extensive finance resource and set up the pattern of joint participation and the control power is in the hand of the one with the most human capital.


Oil depot is an important department for loading, unloading, transhipment and storage of petroleum products. The operation process of oil depot is directly related to the company's efficiency and affect the quality. This thesis sorted out the operation of oil depots, analysed the common problems in the operation process of China's oil depots, and gave an optimization plan for the operation process by taking a secondary oil depot of PetroChina as an example.


A workshop held in 1992 resulted in a set of recommendations to define the needs for and the parameters essential for implementation of a soil-structure interaction (SSI) experiment. During the workshop, beneficial and adverse effects of SSI were discussed. The recommendations and the current status of the SSI experiment are presented herein.


The chemistry and toxicity of base flow and urban stormwater were characterized to determine if urban stormwater was degrading the water quality of the Pearson Creek and Wilsons Creek Basins in and near the city of Springfield, Greene County, Missouri. Potentially toxic components of stormwater (nutrients, trace metals, and organic compounds) were identified to help resource managers identify and minimize the sources of toxicants. Nutrient loading to the James River from these two basins (especially the Wilsons Creek Basin) is of some concern because of the potential to degrade downstream water quality. Toxicity related to dissolved trace metal constituents in stormwater does not appear to be a great concern in these two basins. Increased heterotrophic activity, the result of large densities of fecal indicator bacteria introduced into the streams after storm events, could lead to associated dissolved oxygen stress of native biota. Analysis of stormwater samples detected a greater number of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) than were present in baseflow samples. The number and concentrations of pesticides detected in both the base-flow and stormwater samples were similar. Genotoxicity tests were performed to determine the bioavilability of chemical contaminants and determine the potential harmful effects on aquatic biota of Pearson Creek and Wilsons Creek. Genotoxicity was determined from dialysates from both long-term (approximately 30 days) and storm-event (3 to 5 days) semipermeable membrane device (SPMD) samples that were collected in each basin. Toxicity tests of SPMD samples indicated evidence of genotoxins in all SPMD samples. Hepatic activity assessment of one longterm SPMD sample indicated evidence of contaminant uptake in fish. Chemical analyses of the SPMD samples found that relatively few pesticides and pesticide metabolites had been sequestered in the lipid material of the SPMD; however, numerous PAHs and VOCs were detected in both the long-term and the storm-event exposures. It is suspected, based on the compounds detected in the SPMDs and the water samples, that the observed genotoxicity is largely the result of PAHs and VOCs that were probably derived from petroleum inputs or combustion sources. Therefore the water quality and thus the aquatic environments in the Pearson Creek and Wilsons Creek Basins are being degraded by urban derived contaminants.


On allowing cetyltrimethyl ammonium bromide (C19H42NBr) and HgCl2, CuCl2.2H2O, CoCl2.6H2O, ZnCl2, NiCl2.6H2O or NbCl5 in specific ratio in methanol, new mononuclear have been obtained and studied by infrared. The suggested structures are discrete, of infinite chain with octahedral or tetrahedral environments around the metallic centres. The MX2 behaves as discrete chains. For most of the structures, when intermolecular hydrogen bonds are considered, supramolecular architectures may be obtained.


This report suggests a new method for writing a chess-playing program. The general idea is to turn the usual tree search upside down; to begin with a desired goal, say the capture of a queen, and then work backward to the present condition of the board to find a plan, or a path of moves in the tree of possible continuations, that will permit the realization of the goal. This heuristic of working backwards has been used with great success in other types of programs, but, not to my knowledge, in any existing chess program.


One of the main characteristics of medical-pharmaceutical language is its extensive, specific and specialized terminology. In texts of this type, precision and accuracy are key factors, and terminological univocity is sought, even though this is not always feasible. Therefore, it is very common to find phraseological units with term value and even periphrases composed of several words. This phenomenon is common in all fields of expertise and, of course, in colloquial language as well, and it is also relevant in medical-pharmaceutical language and in many cases must be taken into account. The purpose of this publication is to analyse certain situations in which terms from the medical-pharmaceutical field have a different phraseological structure in English or German than in Spanish and some types of cases that we may encounter. We not only study these variations and differences between languages, but also the consequences of a poor translation and the possible strategies to avoid it.


HCV-associated B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHL) show distinctive clinico-pathological features such as older age, liver damage, presence of monoclonal gammopathy, increased incidence of autoimmune disorders, extranodal localizations and restricted histological subtypes. As far as B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is concerned, information dealing with either characteristics or outcome of HCV-associated CLL are limited. With this background we compared clinico-hematological features and outcome of 34 HCV-positive patients diagnosed at our institution as having immunologically typical B-cell CLL (i.e., CD5+/CD23+/CD79b-/SmIg dim) with 161 unselected CLL HCV-negative patients followed-up in the last 10 years. The two groups were alike with respect to main clinico-hematological features such as age (P=0.780), sex (P=0.650), absolute lymphocyte count (P=0.788), platelet count (P=0.362), haemoglobin level (P=0.704), β2-microglobulin (P=0.192), Binet stage distribution (P=0.224) and lymphocyte doubling time (LDT)(P= 0.620). As expected either ALT or AST serum levels at the time of CLL diagnosis were significantly higher in HCV-positive patients in comparison to HCV-negative ones (P In conclusion, HCV-positive patients with B-cell CLL do not differ from other patients both for presentation and clinical outcome. The need to activate specific protocols of antiviral therapy appears less urgent in comparison to NHL, however, younger CLL patients HCV-positive who are eligible for therapies at higher immunosuppressive potential (i.e., chemo-immunotherapy) should be taken in special consideration.


Background. Photography is integral to the practice of dermatology. Digital imaging techniques have only recently been used to assess cutaneous disorders. Previously reported imaging systems have been both expensive and cumbersome. Consequently, they have failed to gain widespread acceptance.


The invention relates to a partial rotating socket with a main body (10a-e) having at least one pivot pin (105a-d); is arranged at least one outlet hole set (18a-e) provided at the main body (10a-e); a rotary bearing (12a-e), which is on the pivot (105a-d) pivotally mounted on the main body (10a-e) and connected to the same, wherein the rotary bearing (12a-e) along the axis of the pivot (105a-e) is rotatable, the angle of rotation of the design of the main body (10a-e) is dependent; and at least one USB port (16a-e) mounted on the rotary bearing (12a-e) is arranged, and thus, by rotating the rotary bearing (12a-e) is brought simultaneously to rotate. The main body (10d-e), a set of connectors (20d-e) can be further arranged in addition, is provided with electrically conductive terminals for connection to the mains. The invention is advantageous in that the USB port (16a-e) is designed to be rotatable and can change their direction so that the restriction of the scope of the USB port (16a-e) is minimized.


Under theAncien Régime France, the collection of taxes was a matter entrusted by the King to businessmen. After several unfruitful attempts to exercise greater control over his revenue streams, the King finally introduced reforms in 1788 to both centralise the Treasury and to use double-entry bookkeeping. TheRévolution confirmed this orientation and, after 1815, a modern public sector accounting system was progressively established in order to service the nascent nation. Soon later, Britain also started to rebuild its public sector accounting system and, as will be shown, a mutual French-British influence existed in the building of the national financial systems. Behind these modern public sector accounting systems lies the influential role played by Count Mollien, both in France and Britain.


Many problems in contemporary times seem challenging to overcome with modern technology. An example of the problem is Covid-19 and its context. The latest technology considered relevant to the times' needs makes people from the newest civilization abandon and forget traditional technology that has even been tested for hundreds of years in overcoming various problems of its time. One of them is Poda Na Lima, philosophical teaching about mental attitude and lifestyle in Batak civilization. Until now, this philosophy is still known in the Batak community. However, the problem is in the implementation. This study tries to explore and translate the values of Poda Na Lima to draw their relevance to the potential for solving the Covid-19 problem, which is still a problem in the global community. This research and study analyze the Poda Na Lima, a philosophy using the Sociosemiotics analysis knife. The sociosemiotics point of view is considered appropriate in describing the problems related to this research and study. It becomes a research method, analysis, and conclusion in research which can ultimately prove that the values and derivatives of the implementation of Poda Na Lima can be used as standards and guidelines in overcoming the Covid-19 problem.


A multifaceted approach to automation of the software fault localization process is proposed. The facets include the development of a conceptual process model derived from empirical studies; the implementation of a blackboard-based fault localization tool built on model underpinnings, and tool integration in a computer-aided software engineering (CASE) environment that will provide long term support for its functionality and expandability. The authors report on the progress in modeling studies and development of the tool architecture.<<ETX>>


The static and quasi-static behaviors of cast-in-place pier and grouted sleeve connected precast pier are simulated by ABAQUS, which are based on the steel hysteretic constitutive model. The accuracy of the finite element simulation is verified by comparing with the existing experimental results. Then the simulation results of the two types of piers are compared and analyzed. The results show that: the seismic performance of precast pier connected with grouting sleeve is similar to that of cast-in-place pier, they both have good plastic deformation capacity. When the displacement is large, grouting sleeve connected pier has higher hysteretic energy dissipation than that of cast-in-place pier, it's suitable in high earthquake region; The steel hysteretic model can better simulate the seismic performance of reinforced concrete structure under cycle load.


Introduced the idea of the PROJECTWISE platform,elaborated the superiority of the PROJECTWISE platform,and explained the key point,the difficulty in the process of actualizing the PROJECTWISE platform.