This paper focuses on the opportunity to use multiple star trackers to help space situational awareness and space surveillance. Catalogs of space debris around Earth are usually based on ground-based measurements, which rely on data provided by ground-based radar observations and ground-based optical observations. However, space-based observations offer new opportunities because they are independent of the weather and the circadian rhythms to which the ground system is subjected. Consequently, space-based optical observations improve the possibility of space debris detection and cataloging. This work deals with a feasibility study of an innovative strategy, which consists of the use of a star sensor with a dedicated algorithm to run directly on board. This approach minimizes the impact on the original mission of the satellite, and on this basis, it has also the function of space debris monitoring. Therefore, theoretically, every satellite with a star tracker can be used as a space surveillance observer. In this paper, we propose a multi-star space debris detecting and positioning method with constant geocentric observation. Using the multi-star tracker joint positioning method, the angle measurement data of the star tracker is converted into the spatial coordinates of the target. In addition, the Gaussian MMSE difference correction algorithm is used to realize the target positioning of multiple optical observations, and the spatial target position information of the multi-frame images is fused, thus completing the solution of the orbit equation. The simulation results show that the proposed method is sufficient to detect and position space debris. It also demonstrates the necessity and feasibility of cooperative network observation by multiple star trackers.


A series of mesoporous ZSM-5-x (x = Si/Al molar ratio) supports, possessing various Si/Al ratios, were prepared without using the secondary templates, and the influences of acidity of ZSM-5-x on ca...


Large-scale achievement testing is pervasive in Canada today. At the provincial level, 9 of the 10 provinces have large-scale achievement testing programs. At the national level, the Council of Ministers of Education conduct national assessments in language arts, mathematics, and science assessments, differential item functioning (DIF) is a constant concern. DIF is present when examinees from different groups have a different probability or likelihood of answering an item correctly, after controlling for overall ability (Shepard, Camilli, & Averill, 1981). Once identified, DIF may be attributed to item impact or to item bias. Item impact can be described as any group disparity in item performance that reflects actual knowledge and experience differences on the construct of interest (Clauser & Mazor, 1998). Alternatively, item bias is defined as invalidity or systematic error in how a test item measures a construct for the members of a particular group (Camilli & Shepard, 1994, p.8). Item bias is of particular concern on tests of mathematics achievement where differences between females and males are commonly found (Kimball, 1989; Scheuneman & Grima, 1997). The failure to understand and account for gender differences on any test may lead to interpretations and, consequently, actions that are invalid (Principles for Fair Student Assessment Practices for Education in Canada, 1993). To ensure that tests are fair for all examinees, most large testing programs have a formal review, which is part of the test development process, where items are screened by content specialists for text that might be inappropriate or unfair to relevant subgroups in the test-taking population including female examinees, minority group examinees such as aboriginal students, or disabled examinees. These reviews are conducted before the tests are administered. Statistical measures of DIF can also help test developers identify items that are biased against examinees since the ultimate criterion of item equivalence must come from an analysis of the examinee responses. Typically, DIF analyses are conducted after the tests are administered using large samples of examinee data. The purpose of this study is threefold. First, the test review used by one large testing program in Canada—the Student Evaluation Branch at Alberta Education—will be described. This review is conducted prior to test administration. Second, three DIF statistical procedures will be presented and the gender DIF rates for achievement tests administered in Mathematics and Science will be reported. Third, policy implications will be discussed. The results from this study will shed light on …


The data projection method can be used in tracking the signal subspace. However, when the signal is interfered by impulse noise, the data projection method will lose its tracking ability during the period impulse noise appears. In this paper, two stable and low complexity subspace tracking algorithms are proposed to solve this problem. The basic idea is to multiply a weight coefficient before the step size of the fast and stable data projection method. When the impulse noise occurs, the weight coefficient will reduce significantly. As a result, the step size will shrink and the adverse effect of subspace tracking caused by the outlier data will be reduced. In addition, both algorithms are verified through numerical simulations, and the effect caused by signal-to-noise ratio is discussed in the simulations.


Duration of orthodontic treatment becomes major concern. The present study compared shear bond strength (SBS) and adhesive remnant index (ARI) values of different adhesive systems with different application methods on rebonding process of retrieved orthodontic brackets. Eighty premolar teeth were equally divided into five groups. Transbond XT (TXT) which belongs to total-etch system was used in Group 1 as the control group. Nova Compo-SF (NC) and Vertise Flow (VF) (Kerr Dental, Italy) which are self-adhering flowable composites were used in Group 2 (NC+etch) and Group 3 (VF+etch) respectively with additional etching before application. Group 4 (NC) and Group 5 (VF) were used by following instructions of each brand. The brackets were debonded with a bracket removing plier and rebonded with the same procedures after sandblasting of the bracket and surface cleaning of the enamel. SBS and ARI were measured for each sample. Comparison between all groups was performed by Kruskal-Wallis test and chisquare test. The highest SBS was observed in NC+etch (median = 11.44, mean = 13.49±9.42), followed by NC (median = 10.17, mean = 11.35±6.55), TXT (median = 6.36, mean = 8.06±6.33), VF+etch (median = 5.68, mean = 6.75±4.58), and VF (median = 2.62, mean = 2.92±2.57), respectively. ARI 1 was observed in 81.3% of TXT whereas 62.5% of NC+etch. ARI 1, 2, and 3 were equally distributed in VF+etch group (31.3%). ARI 5 was observed in 37.5% of NC and 62.5% of VF. Analyses referred to statistically significant differences between five groups regarding both SBS and ARI (p < 0.001). As NC showed the highest SBS on rebonding process, it can be a promising alternative to TXT which is the gold standard.


The invention provides a smart door lock. The smart door lock comprises a signal receiving circuit for receiving an unlocking or locking cipher transmitted by smart unlocking equipment in a near field communication way, a central processor for outputting an unlocking instruction upon determining that the unlocking cipher received by the signal receiving circuit satisfies a predetermined unlocking condition, and an execution part for receiving the unlocking instruction output by the central processor and executing unlocking according to the unlocking instruction. Furthermore, the predetermined unlocking condition comprises left unlocking times and an unlocking time period; and by introducing in the left unlocking times and the unlocking time period, the door opening times and the unlocking time can be limited under some special use circumstances. The invention also discloses an unlocking system and an unlocking method. With the unlocking system and the unlocking method provided by the invention, the smart door lock can be opened in a simple and feasible way.


The P5 (GA3, 300 ppm) has shown maximum values for germination per cent and seedling parameters. Minimum values for germination per cent, plant height and vigour index has been seen when seeds are treated with NAA 400 ppm (P15). Minimum values for collar diameter, fresh and dry shoot weight, fresh and dry root weight, total biomass and SQI are recorded when seeds are not treated P0 (Control) at all.


The Indian telecommunication industry,mainly mobile phone services is is undergoing a high growth not only in India but worldwide.This industry has contributed substantially towards the nation's Gross Domestic Product. Telecom operators due to tight completion hadto concentrate more on customer satisfaction and customer loyalty to remain competitive in the market This study in conducted in Ernakulam district of Kochi, a global city known as the trading capital of Kerala where the tight completion is among Vodafone-Idea , Airtel, Jio, BSNL . Business development actions by leveraging the loyalty of customers are cost effective rather than running around a new customer.. The customer satisfaction model was adopted to understand customer's opinion regarding the telecommunication service providers.50 respondents were contacted by the researcher by way of convenient random sampling as descriptive research design was adopted.There is a tight competition among the telecom operators nowadays and maintaining customer satisfaction ,Loyalty is a must to boost their number of customers and retain their customers. Hence,the researcher made an attempt to study impact of Customer Satisfaction on Customer Loyalty.


The increasing number of smart systems provides more and more independently developed services. Though the services are intended to work autonomously, their participation within a collaboration will result in a synergy more than only the sum of the individual parts. The challenge to demarcate the individual services and their collaboration and to avoid mutual dependencies has been recently approached by utilizing the Concept of Roles, providing roles, which interact with other roles within a collaboration, and are performed by players. Roles can intermesh with their player and thereby change their behavior solely for the collaboration they are participating in. The collaborative nature of roles, i.e., inherently describing complex interactions, is highly beneficial to dynamic, autonomous composition of collaborative systems. This paper contributes a protocol for coordinated composition of role-based continuous service collaborations in decentralized smart computing environments. An experimental evaluation underlines the feasibility of a decentralized approach since discovery and composition of services can be performed in reasonably short time even in setups up to 150 services involved in a single collaboration.


OBJECTIVE To investigate the treatment of juvenile colonic polyps under endoscopy.METHODS The records of colonoscopy of 74 children between July 2000 and December 2008 were reviewed retrospectively and 70 cases of colonc polyps were recruited to this study for analysis of their manifestations, endoscopic features, pathological classification and procedures of endoscopy.RESULTS 90.2 percent of juvenile colonic polyps were identified within rectum and sigmoid and 77.8 percent of them represented pedicled polyps.In all children there were juvenile polyps(74.29% ), P-J polyps(11.4%) , inflammatory polyps(7.14% )and adenoid polyps(2.86%) respectively.All of 68 polyps in 55 cases were removed by radiofrequency resection(49 cases), radiofrequency coagulator(1 case) and clamping off(5 cases) without complications.Being followed up for 2 years, there were only 5.3 percent of recurrence.CONCLUSIONS The digital exam and early endoscopy can not be ignored in children with blood stool.The remove of juvenile colonic polyps under colonoscopy was a simple and safety remedy and postoperative follow up was recommended.


Studies on boll weevil ( Anthonomus grandis Boheman) resistance to the chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides were conducted in the laboratory on weevils collected from 16 counties in Georgia. It was found that resistance to endrin was widespread in the State; only those weevils from the extreme northern counties were highly susceptible. Resistance to BHC and toxaphene was established. There was some indication of reversion to susceptibility to endrin from 1959 to 1960; however, little or no difference was found in the susceptibility of weevils following a change from field applications of chlorinated hydrocarbon to organic phosphate insecticides during 1961. Two years' results showed field-collected weevils of unknown age to be 50 to 210 times harder to kill than 2-day-old square-reared weevils.


Objectives: To observe the frequency, precipitating factors and outcome ofdiabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) in adults with established and newly diagnosed type 1 diabetesat a tertiary care hospital. Study Design: Retrospective study. Setting: Lahore GeneralHospital, Lahore. Period: From January 2013 through December 2015. Methods: Patients whowere admitted with a diagnosis of DKA. The clinical presentations, laboratory investigations,management, time of recovery and outcome were compared. Data were collected viaretrospective chart review. Results: A total of 202 patients were included who fulfilled the criteriaof DKA, of which 160 (79.2%) were less than 26 years of age with a male predominance of 156(97.5%). Out of all cases 72 (35.6%) had established Type 1 diabetes and 130 (64.4%) werenewly diagnosed. The most common presenting complaints in both groups were sepsis 105(52%). The comparison of clinical improvement and laboratory investigations between the twogroups showed that newly diagnosed Type 1 diabetes patients had lower pH, low bicarbonateand high BSR at presentation as compared to those with established type 1 diabetes. Thepatients with established diabetes improved earlier, required lesser duration of intravenousfluids and IV insulin was changed to subcutaneous in less time. Hospital stay of more than 7days was observed in patients with new diagnosis. Conclusion: It can be concluded from theabove data that earlier diagnosis of type 1 diabetes mellitus, appropriate treatment, regularscreening for complications and infections will result in less hospital admissions and betteroutcome.


Seven mutanits of Chlorella pyrenoidosa (Emerson strain 3) impaired for sulfate utilization have been isolated after treatment of the wild-type organism with nitrosoguanidine by replica plating on media containing thiosulfate and Lmethionine. These mutants fall into three classes based on their ability to grow on sulfate, accumulate compouinds labeled from sulfate-3S, and reduce adenosine 3'-phosphate 5'-phosphosulfate-3;S (PAPS-35S) to thiosulfate-35S. Mutant Sat2cannot grow on sulfate, but it accumulates thiosulfate-35S and liomocysteic acid-35S from sulfate-35S in vivo. In addition, extracts of mutant Sat2reduce PAPS35S to thiosulfate-35S, indicating the possession of enzyme fractions S and A, both of which are required for thiosulfate formation. Mllutants Satf-, Sat3-, Sat4-, Sat5-, and Sat6cannot grow on sulfate, and their extracts lack the ability to reduce PAPS-35S to thiosulfate-5S. Mutant Sat7-R,, a probable revertant, can grow on sulfate but still lacks the ability to reduce PAPS-35S to thiosulfate-35S in vitro. Complementation experiments in vitro show that the block in formation of acid-volatile radioactivity in every case is due to the absence of activity associated with fraction S. All mutanits can grow on thiosulfate anid all possess the activating enzymes which convert sulfate to PAPS. Throuigh a comparison of nutritional and enzymatic characteristics, the first outlines of a branched and complicated pathway for sulfate redtuction in Chlorella are beginning to enmerge. We have previously shown that a cell-free system from Chliorella will reduce sulfate via PAPS3 to thiosulfate (17, 22, 30) which yields acid-volatile radioactivity. The conversion of PAPS to acid-volatile radioactivity requires two enzyme fractions, S and A (14). Although both sulfur atoms of thiosulfate can be utilized efficiently as sulfur sources for growth by Chlorella (16), and small amounts of thiosulfate can be detected in the free pools of cells grown on radioactive sulfate (22), the position of thiosulfate in the reduction pathway is still undetermined. With this problem in mind, we set out to isolate mutants of Chlorella which 1 Supported by Grant GB 4231 from the National Science Foundation. 2 Postdoctoral Trainee, United States Public Health Service. Present address: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Del. 19711. 3Abbreviation: PAPS: adenosine 3'-phosphate 5'-phosphosulfate. are blocked for sulfate utilization, since these might be expected to accumulate intermediates in reduction and to lack certain enzymatic steps, as has been found with similar mutants in other species (7, 18, 23, 33). In this paper we report the isolation and characterization of seven mutants of Chlorella, one of which accumulates thiosulfate. Several of the mutants lack enzyme fraction S, and through a comparison of nutritional and enzymatic characteristics the first outlines of a branched and complicated pathway are beginning to emerge. A preliminary account of this work has already appeared (12). MATERIALS AND METHODS All pertinent materials and methods not described here can be found in one of the accompanying papers (13, 14) or previous reports in this series (11, 16, 17, 22, 30). These include: the growth of Chlorella in photoautotrophic shake cultures (16, 30); preparation of crude extracts on a small scale (14); preparation of components S and A from wild-type (14); methods for feeding radioactive substrates to cell suspensions (16, 28); determination of protein in whole cells (16) and cell-free extracts (14); determination of radioactivity incorporated into the alcohol-insoluble fraction and into methionine and cystine of protein (16); incubation of enzyme extracts with 35SO42 and PAPS-35S (14, 17); determination of PAPS-35S (14, 17) and acid-volatile radioactivity (17) formed in enzyme incubations; the analysis of cell-free incubation mixtures by Dowex 1-NO3chromatography (22) and paper electrophoresis (13, 22); and the preparation of PAPS-35S with activating enzymes from Chlorella (11.) The experimental organism was Chlorella pyrenoidosa Chick (Emerson strain 3). Media. The composition of the basal (B) medium is given in Table I. Other media are as follows: BMT medium is B medium containing 2 mM sodium thiosulfate and 2mM L-methionine sterilized separately by filtration; BG medium is B medium containing 0.1% c(w/v) glucose and 2%ho (w/v) agar, both added before autoclaving; BGMT medium is BMT with 0.1%0 glucose and 2% agar added before autoclaving; and sulfur-free or SF medium is B medium with sodium sulfate omitted. Induction and Selection of Mutants. Wild-type Chlorella was grown with shaking in 50 ml of B medium with 2% CO2 in air and 500 ft-c of white fluorescent illumination. The cultures were used when they reached the stationary phase of growth, at which time there were 5 to 10 x 108 cells per ml. All organisms appeared to be at the single cell stage, and, judging from the absence of a shoulder in an untraviolet killing curve, they probably were also haploid. Chlorella was treated with nitrosoguanidine, with the use of aseptic procedures essentially by Adelberg's method (1). Onemilliliter aliquots of stationary phase culture were placed into each of several 125-ml Erlenmeyer flasks with 9 ml of B medium containing 1 mg of nitrosoguanidine (freshly prepared and


A single feed broadband circularly polarized (CP) antenna is proposed. The antenna is composed of single feeding loop structure which provides sequential phase, four driven patches, and one parasitic patches. The driven patches, which are capacitively coupled by the feeding structure, generate one CP mode due to the sequentially rotated structure. One parasitic patch produces additional CP mode. By combining single feeding loop structure with four driven patches and one parasitic patch, the axial ratio (AR) bandwidth is greatly broadened. The results of the simulation show that the antenna achieves a broad impedance bandwidth of 20.7% (4.38–5.39 GHz) and a 3-dB AR bandwidth of 14.2% (4.65–5.36 GHz). In addition, the proposed antenna has a flat gain within the operating frequency band and a size of $\boldsymbol{\Phi} 0.97\boldsymbol{\lambda}_{0}\times 0.15\boldsymbol{\lambda}_{0}$ at 5.0 GHz.


A comparison has been made of the induced radioactivities in the first wall and structural materials of the breeder blanket in the high flux region for two different fusion reactor types. One system is the STARFIRE, a tokamak reactor with PCA, a modified stainless steel, as a first wall and a LiA10/sub 2/ breeder blanket; the other is a reactor based on the STARFIRE design with a vanadium alloy as the first wall and structural material, and circulating molten lithium as the breeder/ coolant. The recycling or disposal of these structural materials is evaluated.


When graphite furnace atomization is employed in atomic absorption spectroscopy, background absorption and scattering effects are often encountered. The back-ground absorption is often due to broad band absorption by molecules formed or vaporized by the atomizer. Scattering might be caused by the ejection of carbon particles from the atomizer surface during the atomization stage. Because of these problems, virtually all manufacturers of atomic absorption instrumentation supply simultaneous background-correction systems. These systems are based on the continuum lamp system described by Koirtyohann and Pickett, the Zeeman effect described by Hadeishi and McLaughlin, or the self-absorption broadening of the hollow cathode lamp described by Smith and Hieftje. All of these systems have merit and all can provide adequate background correction for a variety of sample types.


Development of modern cars focuses currently on comfort and safety. The parking pilot is one of the recent innovations for piloted or autonomous driving. Future systems such as highway pilot or traffic jam pilot are current topics of research and will be equipped to new cars within the next years. Cost savings in the commercial vehicle branch is an at least as important driving force. High potential lies in the enhancement of allowed service time for the drivers by assistant systems or even fully automated driving without any driver. These autonomous vehicles are firstly used as airport shuttles, production halls or harbors in restricted areas.

We present a concept, which allows an autonomous driving on cordoned off depots, which are protected against unauthorized access. The concept will include the vehicle washing, the driving to the parking hall and the parking itself. All of this parts needs to be done manually at modern depots. Introducing autonomous driving in these steps can shorten the working time of employees and therefore save money.

To ensure an operation on 24 hours and 7 days a week the automated depot should work without communication from the infrastructure or centralized control towards the vehicles. To identify the requirements for such an autonomous depot system we evaluated the depot infrastructure, working processes and vehicles at various public transportation company including city busses and trams. With these requirements a concept for an autonomous depot was developed. The concepts address measures on the vehicles, the infrastructure of the depot, the safety of persons and vehicles, the legal situation, and the road map of the automated driving.

We present a concept that relies only on sensors, calculation and actuators on board the vehicle without a demand for additional communication, and systems in the infrastructure. Therefore, the depot does not need to be equipped with special hardware. In addition, we are focusing on the depots of public transportation, because the conditions are compatible with European law. In contrast to production halls or harbors, the automated driving inside the depot works with road traffic act compatible signs and markings only. This allows us to use the vehicles on public roads later on. The concept is compatible with all OEMs and implications and requirements for next generation buses of automation level 4 will be addressed in order to build a piloted driving system on the depot.

The proposed measures were chosen such that a variety of existing depots can be retrofitted for autonomous driving. Further, requirements and optimizations for future depots can be derived.

Finally, this paper identifies economic impact and chances of the system to the public transportation company through the implementation of the proposed concept and the savings by shortening the number of employees.


The purpose of this chapter is to provide insight into the needs for faculty members across faculty lines at HBCUs; provide implications for not engaging in mentorship for junior and senior level faculty; identify the impact that lack of mentorship has on the institution as an entity and to a degree, the community; and provide solutions and recommendations for those interested in the implications for lack of mentorship across faculty lines at HBCUs. The conclusion is that while both HBCU literature and culture have been reviewed, additional research is required to provide an effective solution. Mentorship Across Faculty Lines: Implications for Lack of Mentorship at Historically Black Colleges and Universities


Introduction: Diabetes is the most common metabolic disease, which can cause different effects on oral mucosa. Oral candidiasis is one of the most common lesions, particularly in un-controlled diabetic patients. The purpose of this study was evaluation of relationship between Candida colony counts of whole saliva and fasting blood sugar level and determination of candida species in un-controlled and controlled diabetic patients.
Methods: This analytical case-control study was conducted on ninety diabetic patients, consisted of 45 patients with uncontrolled diabetes (HBA1C>7) and 45 patients with controlled diabetes (HBA1C<7). Demographic data and history of systemic disease were evaluated. The whole saliva samples were collected by spitting method and cultured on Sabouraud dextrose agar (SDA) and chromogenic agar for determining oral candida spices and colonization. Data were analyzed using SPSS17 and statistical T-test, chi-square and Pearson correlation tests.
Results: Data analysis showed statistically significant higher positive candidal growth in uncontrolled group when compared to controlled group. C. albicans was the most common isolated Candida species in both groups. Significant positive correlation of CFU/ml with fasting blood sugar level in both groups was not seen.
Conclusion: In spite of higher rate of candida colonization in uncontrolled diabetic patients, there is no significant relation with fasting blood sugar level.


This biographical dictionary separates myth from history by differentiating and defining figures associated with the Arthurian legend. Entries cover more than 400 legendary and historic figures, and include extensive cross-referencing, maps, illustrations and photographs. An appendix provides a comprehensive character index of Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte D'Arthur".


The high incidence of pain in animals is often overlooked by the feeders and veterinarians,however,the adverse effects caused by the pain are widely existed,which are not only reflected in intense stress response to the animal's body,but also seriously affect the quality of animals' life and even fatal.And then,this will affect human social life.On the other hand,the pain to experimental animal would cause deviation of scientific data and low accuracy.Therefore,how scientific evaluate pain to animals and develop individualized interventions are key factors to achieve effective pain management,which is very important to not only animals but also human society.By literature searches,we reviewing the status of animal pain research,analyzes future trends,and this project intends to provide a foundation to minimize the pain in animals,eliminate pain adverse effects,develop animal pain interventions and improve animal welfare.The project also provides a theoretical basis to better fulfill the rights and obligations of OIE,for eliminating barriers to international trade,improve human life and even improve study of human pain medicine.


A finite element method (FEM) approach using COMSOL Multiphysics software was presented to solve unsteady-state moisture diffusion differential equations and predict the shelf life of crackers based on critical moisture content obtained by sensory evaluation. The crackers' moisture contents were given as a function of storage time, environment conditions (temperature and relative humidity) and the package materials. Classical Oswin model was used to fit the moisture sorption data at four different temperatures. Effective moisture diffusivity of crackers as a function of moisture content and temperature were investigated. In addition, the relationship of moisture permeability coefficient and temperature of two selected packaging films, low-density polyethylene (LDPE) and cast polypropylene (CPP) film, was determined based on Arrhenius equation. The crackers were packaged in LDPE and CPP packaging pouches, and stored at four different conditions to simulate actual storage conditions and determine the shelf life experimentally. There was a good agreement between experimental results and finite element predictions for moisture-sensitive crackers subjected to different storage and packaging conditions.

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This paper describes the shelf life prediction of crackers using a simulation model based on unsteady-state Fickian diffusion of moisture through the food. The temperature effect on the moisture sorption, moisture diffusivity of foods and the moisture permeability coefficient of packaging films are considered. The food product's moisture content was simulated using COMSOL Multiphysics as a function of storage time under different storage conditions and packaging film. The finite element simulation provides a powerful support tool for shelf life estimation and packaging development.


The objective of present work is to estimated peripheral blood serum concentrations of pregnancy hormones, oestradiol , progesterone and testosterone , in cows . For this purpose 24 FrezainHolstein cows at different stages of pregnancy the blood samples were taken from jugular veins. The serum were separated and frozen at – 20 c until analysis. The serum hormones were measured by a specific ELISA technique (ELISA Linear Multi Reader). The data were represented Mean + S.D. Progesterone was high during pregnancy reaching a maximum of 91.94 + 26.09 ng/ml during last thirds (6-8 months) of pregnancy , but was below 9.12 + 2.41 ng/ml for several months during the pregnancy. Oestradiol levels varied from 9.0+ 2.89 pg/ml in the first thirds of pregnancy to 282.6 + 48 .514 pg/ml during the last month of gestation. While testosterone hormone level was low 0.32 + 0.12 ng /ml during pregnancy. The result indicated that the major sources of hormones appeared to be the 0vary (corpus luteum ) and the uterus (placenta). The ovarian contribution was greater during the first – thirds of pregnancy than later, whereas that made by the placenta was higher during the last thirds of pregnancy.


Two coryneform bacteria Arthrobacter sp. PI/1–95 (Arth1) and Arthrobacter sp. PI/3‐95 (Arth3) were isolated from forest soil characterized and investigated with respect to their reaction towards aluminium (Al). Sigmoid functions were used to describe dose‐response relationships between Al concentration and microbial growth and to calculate EC‐values. EC100 – indicating a complete inhibition of microbial growth – varied between 185 μM Al for Arth1 and 11 mM Al for Arth3. A pure pH effect seems probable in connection with the sensitive Arth1 but not with the tolerant species Arth3. Temperature was shown to distinctly increase the toxic effects of Al towards Arth3 whereas only a moderate modification in Al‐toxicity was observed with Arth1. (© 2004 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)


The attacks of 11 September 2001 were the catalyst for a reexamination of the conceptualisation and classifica t on of several aspects of international law. Rather than being just a jarg onistic term to denote some form of extra-national dimension, in much the same way the term "globalisation" has come to be used, the term "transnational law" has gradually taken on a specific legal meaning in rece nt y ars. Not only does transnational law have a technical significance but a growing number of scholars argue that transnational law is gradually emerging as a sub-branch of international law in its own right. This paper e xamines several questions related to the classification of international law. To answer the question whether "suppression crimes" are being correctly la be led as "transnational", we must first ask: what is transna tional law? Is the term simply a convenient label denoting some form of leg a lobalisation, or does it have a legitimate jurisprudential foundatio n and function as an emerging sub-branch of international law? Assuming that it does have legitimate significance, a second question is: as a specific sub-branch of international criminal law having its own unique su b tantive character and administrative processes, does "transnational crimi nal law" qualify as a specialised system of law having the characteristic s of a transnational regulatory regime?


An Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system with QPSK (Quadrature Phase Shift Keying) mapper is considered. Selected Mapping (SLM) technique with new method of generating pseudo-random sequence is proposed for PAPR reduction. The conventional random sequence lacks systematic structure, which results in increased system complexity. In addition, it is known that SLM requires sending the side information to the receiver in order to recover the original signal. The proposed scheme is generated simply. Thus, the side information is reduced to a single index value of the used column. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme has nearly the same PAPR performance as the conventional random sequence.


There were investigated polyps of the nasal mucous membrane with the histological diagnosis: allergic-hyperergic, lympho-plasma cellular, and angioma-like. Using the phenol oxidase reaction, it was possible to integrate the allergic-hyperergic and the lympho-plasma cellular polyps into the pathologic course of cell mediated immunological defence reactions in which the eosinophilic granulocytes have an essential role. The eosinophils are typical for the immunological character of the defense reaction.


The proposed non-contact ECG scheme presented in this article is based on sensing the variations in the electric potential close to the patient's relevant body surface. In order to measure the potential, suitable capacitive electrodes are designed and developed. The signal coupled from the active electrodes are amplified, filtered, digitized using NI myDAQ and displayed in a Virtual Instrument developed in a LabVIEW environment. A prototype has been built, tested and non-contact ECG signals have been obtained from the body of many volunteers and verified with their conventional ECG. It has been noticed that the developed noncontact scheme provides reliable and very good signal quality without losing any important morphological information compared to a conventional ECG. In order to improve the signal quality, an operational amplifier with very good CMRR, active shielding provision for electrodes and a right leg driver circuit for reference electrode are used.


Management Information Base (MIB) for use with network management
protocols in the Internet community. In particular, it describes
managed objects for the Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP) as defined
in RFC 2332. The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL",
"SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
"OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC
2119. This memo does not specify a standard for the Internet
community.


In this study, the current state of affairs with respect to archiving interactive media has been mapped out. It describes the requirements such material presents to cultural heritage institutions. The specific mediality of interactive productions and the analytical concepts necessary to describe these will be discussed. Also, the Dutch institutional context with regard to the production of interactive audio-visual productions is described. Finally, various archiving methods are examined and attention is given to the legal and financial factors that play a role in archiving interactive content.


A prefabricated tooth crown used for inserting ceramic tooth is made up of high-molecular polymer through making tooth model, heating the high-molecular polymer membrane, attaching it to tooth model,demoulding and trimming. Its advantages are no deformation and cracking, smooth surface, high rate of finished products and low cost.


THE TREMENDOUS DEVELOPMENT of shipboard electrical applications in the 25 years from 1934 to 1959 can best be shown by a brief review of that state of the art in 1934, contrasted with present-day installations.


We report a glomus jugulare tumor in a 60 yrs old female; non diabetic, non hypertensive who presented with continuous pulsatile hissing tinnitus in right ear with progressive hearing impairment and fullness in the ear. Detailed history and examination with aid of investigations it turned out to be glomus jugulare, treated by surgical excision by post auricular hypotympanotomy approach.


Objective To investigate imaging manifestations of blunt chest pulmonary parenchyma injury.Methods Imaging data of 68 patients with blunt chest pulmonary parenchyma injury were retrospectively analyzed.Results The imaging manifestations of such a type injury were embodied in the followings.① Pulmonary contusion(n=36): images showed increased lung markings and thickening,accompanied by patchy and high density shadow,large sheet density shadow,and ground-glass like change;② Pulmonary laceration(n=22): image showed smooth-edged hole-like clump shadow and the sheet density shadow group with blurred edges,in which thereduced density areas and gas-liquid surface can be seen in cysts;③ Pulmonary hematoma(n=10): image showed round or oval mass shadows with clear edge,some of which had lobes,and surrounding area was slightly higher than the center.With respect to the extrapulmonary manifestations,there were 28 cases of hemopneumothorax,15 cases of subcutaneous emphysema or mediastinal emphysema,and 6 cases of simple pneumothorax.Conclusion Medical imaging is the best way for the detection,diagnosis and dynamic observation of this disorder.While the typical pulmonary parenchyma injury can be diagnosed by X-ray,CT and injury history,CT is superior to X-ray film.


In agricultural systems, significant amount of energy is consumed during irrigation periods. Therefore operating irrigation systems with electrical energy produced by solar energy is very important. It is be possible to operate irrigation systems which have small-pump power like dripirrigation with electrical energy produced by solar energy. Electrical energy produced by photovoltaic panels can vary from the estimated value due to environmental factors. Consequently analysis of a real system's performance is important. Thus, more correct projections can be made for the systems which will be designed. In this study, induction motor-pump mechanism for drip-irrigation system is operated with photovoltaic generator. Solar energy capacity of the established system is evaluated by measurements in irrigation periods. By means of simulations, power values produced by system and gained from the actual system are compared. Additionally the performance of induction motor is analyzed with the help of the driver system that increases the efficiency and controls the motor. As regards of results, design values of the drip-irrigation systems fed with solar energy in Southeastern Anatolian Regions of Turkey are obtained. Performance results of induction motor controlled with driver are also provided.


Abstract : A wide variety of materials have been included, corresponding to the wide range of vehicle speeds being considered. For subsonic airframe structures, candidate materials considered range from polyester- impregnated paper and wood to titanium and the high-performance, filament-reinforced composites. The airframe of five representative subsonic cruise vehicle configurations and three supersonic vehicles are analyzed in detail. Fuselage, wing, tail, and engine nacelle structural components are individually considered. Nine different material combinations are evaluated for the subsonic vehicle components, and eight for the supersonic vehicle components. For the subsonic vehicles, airframe total weights ranging from a decrease of 36% compared to a conventional aluminum alloy structure are indicated. Cost factors of the materials are discussed.


An active capsule endoscope (ACE) will consume much more energy than can be power by batteries. Its orientation and position are always undetermined when it continues the natural way down the gastrointestinal track.


Infrared and Raman spectra were obtained for 2-bromopentane, 3-bromopentane, 2-bromohexane, and 3-bromohexane. Vibrational assignments were made for several conformers of each compound with the aid of normal coordinate calculations. A 48 parameter modified valence force field was obtained that fit 221 frequencies of three conformers of 2-bromopentane, 4 conformers of 3-bromopentane, and 1 conformer of 2-bromobutane with an average error of 4.1 cm−1. This force field was transferred to the bromohexanes, with good results.


WITH very few exceptions, all authorities in otology are agreed that under certain circumstances the malleus, incus, and membrana tympani, whether whole or incomplete, cease to be of use for the transmission of sonorous vibrations to the stapes, and even offer an obstruction to that transmission. Under such circumstances the question of their removal may be usefully considered, quite apart from the major operations required for the saving of life, and, indeed, the performance of ossiculectomy becomes a duty. Do such circumstances arise? Undoubtedly, as the result of adhesions arising from inflammatory changes either of purulent or non-purulent nature. In the former it is unusual for the malleus and incus to be rendered immobile without the stapes being rendered even more so, if we leave out of account the ankylosis of the malleus to the outer wall of the attic as the result of exhausted attic inflammation. The removal of the outer ossicles is not likely, then, to offer hope of much improvement in chronic non-suppurative inflammation, especially in view of the fact that, in addition to fixation of the stapes, there is in the worst.cases an involvement of the contiguous parts of the internal ear. The conditions following suppuration of the middle ear are more favourable, and we may have absolute immobility of the outer ossicles—or, at least, of the malleus—while the stapes is mobile in the highest degree, and even to an inconvenient extent. ior instance, in a case under my care in which a radical mastoid operation has been performed without removal of the ossicles, the malleus is quite fixed and the incus has probably disappeared, but the stapes is perfectly accessible to sight and touch, so that its mobility can be affirmed. An artificial drum applied over it mcreases the distance for hearing the whispered voice from i} inches to 5 feet. In this instance, were the malleus to interfere th hearing either by favouring the heaping up of debris or by Preventing the application of an artificial drum, I should feel called pon to remove it. If the outer ossicles are fixed, and hamper the movements of a presumably or possibly mobile stapes, their removal is indicated on


Method of manufacturing a circuit board built in an electronic device according to the present invention is the liquid with the element bonding step for bonding the electronic component to the first substrate preparing step, a first substrate to form a first pattern on the first substrate, the insulating material a second substrate preparing step of forming a receiving portion for receiving the first through hole and the electronic element on the second substrate and forms a first connection portion of the conductive to the first through hole, a second through-hole in the third substrate of the insulating material the third and the substrate preparation step, the first pattern portion and the first connection portion and the order of the first, second and third substrate so that the position alignment of each of the second connecting portion is formed to form a second connection for conducting a second through hole arranged and includes a bonding step and a curing step of curing the conductive adhesive to bond the first, second, and third substrate with a conductive adhesive.


9574 Background: Soft tissue sarcomas (STS) exhibit heterogeneity in their clinical behavior, even within histological subtypes. Histological appearance is determined by gene expression. However, metastatic propensity, tumor growth, and response to chemotherapy may be determined by gene expression patterns that do not correlate well with morphology. One approach to identify heterogeneity is to search for markers that correlate with differences in tumor behavior. Alternatively, subsets may be identified based on gene expression patterns independent of knowledge of clinical outcome. We have reported gene expression patterns that distinguish two broad classes of clear cell renal carcinoma (ccRCC) independent of histological appearance, and other patterns that can distinguish heterogeneity of serous ovarian carcinoma (OVCA).

METHODS
In this study, gene expression in 41 samples of STS (including malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH), leiomyosarcoma, liposarcoma, and synovial sarcoma), 12 samples of fibromatosis, and 17 normal tissues was determined at Gene Logic Inc. (Gaithersburg, MD) using Affymetrix GeneChip U_133 arrays containing approximately 40,000 genes/ESTs. Gene expression analysis was performed with the Gene Logic Genesis Enterprise System Software.

RESULTS
Hierarchical clustering using two gene sets, one that distinguished two subsets of ccRCC, and a second set that distinguished two subsets of OVCA, both generated subgroups within the STS that for some, but not all, subtypes correlated with histology, and also suggested the existence of subsets of MFH. Both gene sets also identified the same two subsets of the fibromatosis samples. In addition, genes expressed uniquely in MFH, leiomyosarcomas, and liposarcomas among these and 512 samples from 17 other normal tissue types were identified.

CONCLUSIONS
The ability to sub-classify histological subtypes of STS, including identifying possible subsets of MFH, using gene sets derived from studies of two different carcinomas suggests that these subgroups may have biological significance. Some of the genes identified as over-expressed in particular subsets of STS compared with a variety of normal tissues may reflect possible targets to which anti-tumor therapy could be directed, and may also be useful for sub-classification of STS. No significant financial relationships to disclose.


We propose new types of density dependent contact pairing interaction which reproduce pairing gaps in a wide range of nuclear mass table. We discuss also the relation between the proposed paring interactions and the pairing gaps in symmetric and neutron matters obtained by a microscopic treatment based on a bare nucleon-nucleon interaction. It is shown that the isovector type pairing interaction is necessary on top of the isoscalar term to reproduce systematically nuclear empirical pairing gaps. The BCS-BEC crossover of neutrons pairs in symmetric and asymmetric nuclear matters is studied by using these contact interactions. It is shown that the bare and screened pairing interactions lead to different features of the BCS-BEC crossover in symmetric nuclear matter.


In this paper, an image gray level statistics and region properties based iris localization method has been proposed. The proposed method starts by finding the coarse pupil region, reducing the effect of the eyelashes connected to pupil region, and tracing the boundary of pupil. Once the pupil is localized, we use a modified Intergrodifferential operator to localize the iris coarsely and finally use a small range Hough transform to get an accurate iris localization result. Experimental results show the superiority of the proposed method in comparison with some of the existing methods.


DOI: 10.21276/sjbr.2018.3.4.3 Abstract: Heavy metals are generally toxic to microorganisms, especially if they exist at high concentrations. Environmental pollution particularly in soil with heavy metals can stem from industrial activities or sewage discharges. In this study, Five different bacterial species Bacillus megaterium EMCC 1013, Rhizobium rhizogenes EMCC1743, Rhizobium leguminosarum EMCC1130, Azotobacter vinelandii and Nocardiopsis Dassenvillei were evaluated their potential activity in bioremediation of Zn (II). Our results showed that five bacterial species have great variation potential for zinc bioremediation. Bacillus megaterium EMCC has the highest capacity for bioremediation of Zn (II) 650 ppm with 99 % removal after 24 h with inoculum size 0.1 x 10 29 cfu and incubation temperature 30 0 C at PH 7 and energy source glucose and ammonium oxalate as carbon and nitrogen source. The aim of our study was to evaluation the bioremediation capacity of zinc as heavy metals by five different bacterial species to use them in further study in removal of Zn (II) from plating waste water. In addition Bacillus megaterium EMCC as the most potent Zn (II) resistant microorganisms will very useful in biotechnology for the remediation of metal contaminated environments with Zn (II) and can also be used in the construction of biomarkers for the detection of zinc ions.


In recent years, the interest in balneological, relaxation and beauty treatments has increased. Peloid is the most expensive SPA product, just after manual massage, and Osieczna has natural deposits of this porous, unpolluted peat, which has an overheating, bactericidal, anti-inflammatory and anti-nociceptive effect. Therefore, study on development possibilities of aforementioned area, are especially important for national economy and business, taking local truism into account (pandemic problematics). According to mentioned highlights, this work was divided into four parts: Osieczna (location, historical context, natural values and cultural heritage resources), existing tourist accommodation, possible directions for the development of the tourist base and conclusions – guidelines for the design of new resorts (explains why Osieczna has a great potential to become a health and SPA resort).


The purpose of this article is to discuss recent advances in the treatment of diarrhea, both acute and chronic. Acute and chronic diarrhea generally have quite different causes and different treatments; therefore, they will be discussed separately. ACUTE DIARRHEA The major advances in this area in the last decade have been an understanding of some of the mechanisms that are involved in the pathogenesis of acute diarrhea and the development of improved classifications. Treatment has not changed greatly. Most individuals in the United States who have diarrhea improve spontaneously in one or two days and do not seek medical attention. Often treatment is not indicated. Therefore, if a patient consults a physician because of recent onset of diarrhea, the first decision to be made is whether or not to treat it at all. Minimal or no treatment is needed in instances of mild acute diarrhea in which the volume of


Two kinds of mathematical model to calculate the rolling pressure of medium plate were established. A comparison of the calculated values with measured ones for the rolling pressure showed that the relative deviation of calculated value with Eckerlond's rolling force model is around 10?%~20?%,while the deviation of calculated values with Sims' rolling force model is less than 10?%.Therefore, Sims' model is better for use to predict the rolling pressure.


We propose a virtual network topology (VNT) control method that is adaptive to environmental changes in a network. It is based on attractor selection, which models the biological systems that behave adaptively against changes in their surrounding environments. The simulation results indicate that our VNT control method adaptively responds to changes in network environments caused by node failure and constructs operational VNTs in more than 95% of simulation trials when 20% of nodes in the physical network fail simultaneously.


"Culture" contained in cultural poetics does not merely mean cultural achievements but the human constant cultivating process of "culture".Taking "culture" itself as the basis of argumentation is the main characteristic of cultural poetics.Thus,human and poetry,literature and reality,and various cultural forms construct each other.Therefore,"mutual construction" is the main sub-ject of cultural poetics.Constructing human as artistic works is not only the ultimate goal but also the verve of cultural poetics


A Journal of Cerebral Circulation publishes reports of clinical and basic investigation of any aspect of the cerebral circulation and its diseases from many disciplines, including anesthesiology, critical care medicine, epidemiology, internal medicine, neurology, neuro-ophthalmology, neuropathology, neuropsychology, neurosurgery, nuclear medicine, nursing, radiology, rehabilitation, speech pathology, vascular physiology, and vascular surgery.


A new approach for manufacturing ultrathin free-standing polyimide film was proposed. This approach involves casting polyamic acid solution to a Al-doped zinc oxide film coated substrate sputtered at room temperature and to form polyamic acid film. The polyamic acid film was released from substrate in 0.5% diluted hydrochloric acid. Then polyamic acid was reattached to glass substrate and was transformed into polyimide film by thermal imidization with gradient heat treatment process. After that, thickness of the1000 nm polyimide film was reduced by KrF excimer laser ablation with 100 pulses at 45 mJ/cm2 and 30 pulses at 75 mJ/cm2, and 200 nm free-standing polyimide film was obtained. By this method, free-standing polyimide films of 1000 nm and 200 nm thickness were fabricated without and with excimer laser ablation reduction, respectively.


Introduction Critical Thinking and Interdisciplinary Perspectives Public Relations Defining the Discipline and the Practice Reputation, Image and Impression Management Risk, Issues and Ethics Public Affairs and the Public Sphere Media Perspectives Critique, Effects and Evaluation Health Communication and Social Marketing Public Relations and Management Organizational Communication Understanding and Researching Organizations Public Relations in 'Promotional Culture' and 'in Everyday Life' Public Relations in a Globalized World Key Thinkers and Thought in Public Relations


The superstructure is the main load-bearing construction on the bus body, which introduces a concept of spaceframe structure with the assembly of thin columns structures to achieve lightweight constructions. The lightweight superstructures are designed for electric-based vehicles. The concept of crashworthiness is introduced to maintain the safety of the lightweight superstructures. The criteria for crashworthiness are developed by using international safety regulation. The multi-cell platform is proposed for designing a crash box system to improve the crashworthiness and energy absorption performance of electric vehicles. The multi-cell platform can increase the energy absorption of the crash box. There are several multi-cell configurations being studied, such as cruciform shape, H-shaped, T-shaped, and Y-shaped. The multi-cell columns are subjected to quasi-static and low-speed axial loading. The simulation results show that the multi-cell configurations have different effects on energy absorption capability. Increasing the number of cells and intersection can result in higher energy absorption but detrimental due to peak force. It is found that the optimum crash box system is the H configuration cross-section.


Power quality (PQ) has become a major concern to both electric utilities and customers in recent years and more functions for power quality monitoring system (PQMS) is required. This paper presents a distributed power quality monitoring system that is based on ARM9 and SOPC. ARM9 with the embedded operating system Linux deals with data display and storage. SOPC designed as terminals do data sampling and processing. With the use of Qt/Embedded, the system has a friendly man-machine interface. This system can monitor a number of power-quality indices on every load connected to the same point of common coupling and transmit the measured values to a master device. The master device processes the values to locate the sources of unbalance and harmonic distortion and to quantify the effects of such disturbances on power quality.


In 2012, ULICES/CEAUL organized a conference entitled "Changing Times: Performances and Identities on Screen". The paper I presented then --"'Captain Hood' or 'The Forest Hawk': Robin Hood (dis)played by Errol Flynn (1938)" --focused on Michael Curtiz's and William Keighley's film, produced on the eve of the Second World War. I shall ramble now around "Sherwood", a poem originally published in 1904 and reissued in 1914 by Alfred Noyes (1880-1958), an almost forgotten author, though a prolific writer in his own day and age.


Schistosomiasis, onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis (LF) are co-endemic 'neglected tropical diseases' in the Plateau and Nasarawa states of central Nigeria, with each infection reaching levels of endemicity that justify a preventive strategy of annual mass drug administrations (Hopkins et al., 2002; Richards et al., 2006; WHO, 2006). In these areas, community-based distributors (CBD), working with the support of the national Ministry of Health and staff from The Carter Center in Nigeria, have safely provided over 900,000 praziquantel treatments for schistosomiasis, and over 15,000,000 ivermectin–albendazole treatments for LF and onchocerciasis since 1999. Although there have been no serious adverse events associated with any of these activities, there have been concerns about interactions between the praziquantel and the ivermectin–albendazole combination, and these have led to each praziquantel distribution being temporally separated from the mass drug administrations against LF and onchocerciasis, by at least 1 week. If safe, a triple drug administration, with praziquantel, ivermectin and albendazole given concurrently, could save money and reduce the workloads of the distributors and programme staff. In a recent study, NaBangchang et al. (2006) found no evidence of any clinically relevant pharmacokinetic interactions in uninfected volunteers given ivermectin, praziquantel and albendazole concurrently, and the adverse reactions observed were no more common or more severe than those observed when each drug was given individually. These encouraging results paved the way to the implementation of 'triple drug administrations' (TDA) in co-endemic areas and the further integration of preventive chemotherapy. A 'roll-out' monitoring of such a TDA strategy in central Nigeria was encouraged in early 2006, by the Nigerian Minister of Health and the World Health Organization's Regional Office for Africa, in consultation with the World Health Organization in Geneva, Merck and Co., Inc. (the donators of ivermectin) and GlaxoSmithKline (the donators of albendazole). The protocol for the pilot study described below received national ethical clearance from the Federal Ministry of Health of Nigeria, and was approved by the Plateau State Ministry of Health. One aim of the study was to provide each eligible individual living in five villages in the Mikang local government area of Plateau state with albendazole (400 mg), ivermectin (150 mg/kg) and praziquantel (40 mg/kg) at the same time. The praziquantel tablets used (DistocideH; Shin Poong, Seoul) each contained 600 mg of the drug and were triple-scored. The albendazole tablets were fruit-flavoured, to assist with compliance. To be eligible for treatment, a person had to be resident in an endemic area, not seriously ill, not pregnant or nursing a child under 1 week of age, and to be at least 94 cm tall (WHO, 2006). Each of the study villages had received two annual rounds of ivermectin–albendazole (in 2004 and 2005) and one of praziquantel (in 2005). Since the risk of adverse events is usually greatest after the first round of mass drug Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology, Vol. 102, No. 2, 177–179 (2008)


Vascular endothelium forms a restrictive barrier to defend the underlying tissue against uncontrolled influx of circulating protein and immune cells. Mechanisms that mediate the transition from restrictive to leaky endothelium, a hallmark of tissue injury exemplified by acute lung injury (ALI), remain elusive. Using endothelial cell (EC)-Fak-/-mice, we show that FAK sensing and transmission of mechanical tension to the EC nucleus governs cell fate. In FAK- deleted EC, increased EC tension induced by Rho kinase caused tyrosine phosphorylation of nuclear envelope protein, emerin at Y74/Y95, and its localization in a nuclear cap. Activated emerin stimulated DNMT3a activity and methylation of the KLF2 promoter, impairing the restrictive EC transcriptome, including S1PR1. Inhibiting emerin phosphorylation or DNMT3a activity enabled KLF2 transcription of S1PR1, rescuing the restrictive EC phenotype in EC-Fak-/- lungs. Thus, FAK sensing of tension transmission to the nucleus is crucial for maintaining a restrictive EC fate and lung homeostasis.


The distribution of putative liver estrogen receptors (ER) between redissolved 30% ammonium sulfate-precipitated liver cytosol (AS cytosol) and dense sucrose-Triton-X-100- purified liver nuclei (purified nuclei) has been examined in female and male rats. The total and occupied ER of AS cytosol and purified nuclei were determined by exchange assays using 17β-[3H]estradiol. After administration of 100 μg nonradioactive ethinyl estradiol to either adult females or adult males, the total ER of AS cytosol decreased. Concomitant with the decrease in ER of AS cytosol, the total and occupied ER of purified nuclei increased. The binding specificity of the total ER of purified nuclei from ethinyl estradiol-treated males resembled that of the total ER of AS cytosol from vehicle-treated (control) males. In females, a maximal level of ER was observed in purified nuclei 0.5 h after ethinyl estradiol administration. The levels of ER were lower at 1, 2, and 4 h. Unlike the female, high levels of ER in the male were maint...


An experimental setup was developed for the measurement of the thermoelectric power (TEP, Seebeck coefficient) in the temperature range from 2 to 350 K and magnetic fields up to 140 kOe. The system was built to fit in a commercial cryostat and is versatile, accurate and automated; using two heaters and two thermometers increases the accuracy of the TEP measurement. High density data of temperature sweeps from 2 to 350 K can be acquired within 16 h and high density data of isothermal field sweeps from 0 to 140 kOe can be obtained within 2 h. Calibrations for the system have been performed on a platinum wire and Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 + δ high-Tc superconductors. The measured TEP of phosphor bronze (voltage lead wire) turns out to be very small; the absolute TEP value of the phosphor bronze wire is much less than 0.5 µV K−1 below 80 K. For copper and platinum wires measured against the phosphor bronze wire, the agreement between measured results and the literature data is good. To demonstrate the applied magnetic field response of the system, we report measurements of the TEP on single crystal samples of LaAgSb2 and CeAgSb2 in fields up to 140 kOe.


Discourse Representation Theory,called DRT for short,is one of those series of formal sementic theories that appeared after Montague Grammar in 80th last century.It is a kind of formal semantic theory which describe the semantic of natural language dynamically.Kamp Hans,Uwe Reyle(1993) pointed that one of main goals of DRT is to try to process "donkey sentence" Peter Geach(1962) put forward.We here try to process Chinese donkey sentence raised already taking example by the thoughts and theory frame DRT giving to the processing of English donkey sentences.


MIC as well as MBC of the hot methanolic extracts of T. populnea were found to be between 0.1-2.5 mg/ml against S. aureus, E. coli and P. multocida whereas those of the cold extract against the same organisms was between 0.005-1.0 mg/ml. Conclusion: The methanolic extract of Thespesia populnea fruit showed excellent antimicrobial activity against some dreaded pathogens besides being an antioxidant in nature. These properties of the fruit can help protect injured and/or infected tissues and hence be used to develop a novel medicinal agent.


Federal regulations require the use of methane monitors on all mining machines. All machinemounted methane monitors currently used in underground coal mines rely on catalytic heat of combustion sensors. As a comparison, although not currently approved for use on underground mining equipment, instruments with infrared sensors are evaluated in this study. Potential advantages of using infrared sensors include faster response time, long-term stability, and reduced maintenance needs. Tests conducted in the laboratory and at a full-scale model mine compare the performance of catalytic heat of combustion and infrared sensors operating under test conditions designed to simulate airflow conditions underground.


A new species of Anthophila Haworth, 1811 (Choreutidae) is described from East Africa which shows remarkable similarity to the Palaearctic Anthophila fabriciana (Linnaeus, 1767). The life history is described and comparisons are drawn between the species.


With the improving of living standards,the incidence of angiocardiopathy and cerebrovascular show a rising trendency in the army year by year.The data of health examination during the six years from 2002 to 2007 and the analysis of the health status of the people who are followed up were analyzed,and the results showed that the health management can reduce the incidence of angiocardiopathy and cerebrovascular.The hypertension,hyperlipemia,hyperglycaemia(so called"three high")has been yearly increasing,but the treatment compliances of the patients were poor which will result in the degression of combat effectiveness.The key of military healthcare is to guide the living style scientifically and help the soldiers to master methods of self healthcare and strengthen the consciousness of disease's precaution.


We report the discovery of the merging cluster, RXCJ2359.3-6042, from the REFLEX II cluster survey and present our results from all three detectors combined in the imaging and spectral analysis of the XMM-Newton data. Also known as Abell 4067, this is a unique system, where a compact bullet penetrates an extended, low density cluster at redshift z = 0.0992 clearly seen from our follow-up XMM-Newton observation. The bullet goes right through the central region of the cluster without being disrupted and we can clearly see how the bullet component is stripped of its layers outside the core. There is an indication of a shock heated region in the east of the cluster with a higher temperature. The bulk temperature of the cluster is about 3.12(±0.13) keV implying a lower mass system. Spearheading the bullet is a cool core centred by a massive early type galaxy. The temperatures and metallicities of a few regions in the cluster derived from the spectral analysis supports our conjecture based on the surface brightness image that a much colder compact component at 1.55(±0.10) keV with large metallicity (0.75 Z� ) penetrates the main cluster, where the core of the infalling component survived the merger and left stripped gas behind at the centre of the main cluster. We also give an estimate of the total


RFoG is a third type of PON, after EPON and GPON. It is specific for cable TV, and is designed to facilitate an orderly transition from HFC to PON architectures while maintaining existing systems.


. In this paper, we propose a methodology based on reinforcement learning to automate video game testing. In particular, we discuss how the use of game playing agents with hybrid policies that incorporate reinforcement learning nodes alongside manually implemented flows in the context of behavior trees could lead to potentially more generalizable, understandable, and easier to fine-tune testing agents than those implemented via pure reinforcement learning techniques. In addition, we explore different strategies and configurations for training these agents, and describe a simple procedure for detecting significant modifications in selected gameplay metrics of a game level after introducing design changes. This is intended as a road map for future work in the development of automatic game testing and balancing tools.


This study investigates the qualitative and quantitative composition of proteins precipitated in 25% saturated ammonium sulphate and subsequently analyzed by selective immunonephelometry. A total of 190 serum samples were studied: 1) 37 sera from women who had never been on oral contraception (OC); 2) 130 sera from women on OC among whom 83 were nonreactive and 48 reactive; and 3) 23 sera from women who had experienced vascular thrombosis during OC. The study seemed to confirm that the test of precipitation detects the presence of circulating immune complexes (CIC) in the serum of OC users. The protein precipitates contained almost exclusively immunoglobulins and complement fractions. The detection of such CIC in the serum of women on OC confirmed that synthetic hormones can induce antihormone antibodies in some women. The test however did not demonstrate the associatoin between the CIC and vascular thrombosis. (Summary in FRE)


Esterification of camphene with acetic acid catalyzed by home-made MoO_3/ZrO_2 solid superacid was studied.Main factors affecting the reaction were investigated.The effect of temperature,calcinations temperature of catalyst,amount of catalyst,reaction time and the amount of acetic acid on the products was examined.The suitable experiment conditions for the esterification reaction were as follows: acetic acid dosage was 150%(mol percent of camphene),catalyst dosage was 4%(weight percent of camphene),the calcination temperature of catalyst was 700 ℃,the reaction temperature was 80℃,the reaction time was 8 hours.The yield of the main product isobornyl acetate reached 74.7%.


Objective: To find out prevalence of iron deficiency anemia among hospitalized children aged 6-months to 5 years at a tertiary care hospital of Poonch, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan. Study Design: A cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of the Study: Department of Pediatrics, Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Hospital, Rawlakot from July 2020 to December 2020. Material and Methods: A total of 189 admitted children of both genders aged between 6 to 60 months were included. At the time of enrollment, age, gender, area of residence and socioeconomic status of all children were noted. To label IDA, a World Health Organization (WHO) criterion was adopted as hemoglobin below 11 g/dL. Chi square test was used to compare data between IDA and non-IDA children considering p-value < 0.05 as significant. Results: Out of a total of 189 cases, there were 103 (54.5%) male. Overall, mean age was 29.3±6.8 months while 106 (56.1%) children were aged between 6 to 24 months. There were 130 (68.8%) children who belonged to rural areas of residence. Socio-economic status was low in 110 (58.2%) children. Malnourishment was identified in 38 (20.1%) children. Gastrointestinal disorders were the commonest reasons of admission found in 82 (43.4%) children. The prevalence of IDA was noted in 103 (54.5%) children. Table-2 is showing association of anemia with respect to various variables studied. Younger age (p=0.0091), rural area of residence (p=0.0039), low socio-economic status (p=0.0036) and malnourishment (p=0.0001) were observed to have significant association with the prevalence of IDA. Conclusion: The prevalence of IDA was high (54.5%) in admitted children aged between 6 to 60 months. Younger age, rural area of residence, low socio-economic status and malnourishment were observed to have significant association with the prevalence of IDA. Keywords: Iron deficiency anemia, hemoglobin, malnourishment, gastrointestinal disorders.


The cubic set, introduced as a combination of a fuzzy set and an interval-valued fuzzy set, provided researchers with more flexibility than the previous two sets in dealing with complex and uncertain problems. Fuzzy graphs, based on this type of set, are among the emerging fuzzy graphs that have a great potential to model the surrounding phenomena. Consistent with the special role that cubic graphs play in decision-making and selecting superior options, dominating these graphs is of great importance and value. In this paper, we introduce the domination of the cubic graphs in terms of strong edges and examine their properties. In addition, we examine domination in terms of independent sets and since many of the phenomena surrounding us are hybrid, we also discuss the domination concept on its fuzzy operations. Finally, we present an application of this graph on the subject of domination.


Matching the images of a pedestrian captured from different cameras is called person re-identification problem. The problem is challenging due to the low resolution of images, differences in illumination, the positional variance and possible appearance of carried objects, such as a bag, at different viewpoints. In this study, we investigate the discriminative ability of different features extracted from an image in a binary classification framework. We finally propose a learning based method to combine HSV histogram, Maximally Stable Colour Regions (MSCR) and Speeded-Up Robust Features (SURF) distances in a single framework. In the literature, the body of a pedestrian is divided into 3 parts (head, torso and legs). We argue that sub division of these parts in the horizontal axis has the potential to increase the reidentification performance. The experiments on widely used benchmark sets show that the final integrative framework outperforms the existing state-of-the-art models in terms of prediction accuracy.


Using nearly spine-free diploid and induced autotetraploid lines developed in our laboratory in two trials, berry and solasodine yields of Solanum viarum were evaluated over a wide range of planting densities (6900-49 000 plants ha −1 ) under square and rectangular spacings. Under square spacing, a linear relationship existed between planting density (up to 49 000 plants ha −1 ) and berry yield. Solasodine content was not affected by planting density, but within the range 6900-28 000 plants ha −1 , rectangular spacing (E to W) proved superior to square spacing in both berry and solasodine yields(.)


1. The Politics of Systematic Racism 2. Framing Racist America: Puritan Inheritances and Political Framing 3. Faking Democracy: Race, Class, and Our Undemocratic Political System 4. Race, Class, and Early Political Parties - to the 1930s 5. Race, Class, and Political Parties: 1930s to 1960s 6. Race, Class, and Political Parties: 1970s to 1990s 7. The George W. Bush Era: Racial and Class Dimensions 8. The Barack Obama Presidential Campaign 9. Barack Obama's Presidency: Racial and Class Dimensions 10. Demographic Change and Political Futures


In this work-in-progress paper, we examine how the campaign to end the guardianship law in Saudi Arabia is being discussed and debated on social media. Through a content analysis of tweets, we first identify those with either a positive or negative sentiment towards ending the law and then we identify topical themes across these sentiment categories. We found polarizing responses with individuals either calling for the end of the law or those opposing its end on religious or moral grounds. This analysis provides a basis for building a model to automatically code tweets to increase the accuracy of Arabic text prediction. This will allow us to answer new questions about the dataset and inform the design of ICTs


This work portrays the political circumstances in Dubrovnik at the end of the 19th century. Firstly, the general political conditions in the city in the second half of the 19th century, that is to say the period when the People's Party was in power in the Dubrovnik Municipality, are presented. The work portrays both the Autonomist Party and the Serbian Party, which together won the elections in 1890. The next chapter explains the Serb-Catholic phenomenon, which contributed to the popularity and influence of the Serbian Party. The evolution of the Dubrovnik Serb-Catholic Movement is also described, from its roots until the conquest of the Dubrovnik Municipality. Furthermore, the paper deals with Frano Supilo and, through his childhood and youth, follows his ideological development, which takes place parallel to the rise of young Party of Right movement. The paper analyses how Supilo stood out as a leader of the Party of Rights and describes their political activity in the magazine Red Croatia. Finally, the paper concludes with an overview of the struggle for municipal power between the Serbian Party and the Autonomous Party on the one hand, and the Party of Rights and the People's Party on the other, which ends with the return of the municipality to Croatian rule.


Abstract : In my first year training that was supported by the DOD, I have been working on the identification of genes involved in the androgen independence progression of prostate cancer at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), with Dr. Charles L Sawyers. This training not only guides me to a better understanding of prostate cancer progression and scientific research as a whole, but also reassures that I want to devote my career to the prostate cancer research. During the course of this training period, I organized a joint meeting among four laboratories at UCLA who are studying the progression of prostate cancer. I regularly presented my experimental data in the laboratory meeting and the joint meeting. I attended seminar series such JCCC seminar, pharmacology department seminar. I reviewed papers that were submitted for publication in journals such as Molecular and Cellular Biology, Oncogene, Cancer Research, Cell Growth and Differentiation, and the Journal of Clinical Investigation. I became a reviewer for Cancer Research.


This paper explores the operational performance of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Red Line, a conventional heavy rail line, using a simple computer simulation model developed specifically for this purpose. The model incorporates most of the important variables that affect performance, including the signal system, passenger flow, the train station dwell time, and realistic train and operator behavior. The model was used to analyze the minimum achievable headway on the line and to examine whether a reduction in the scheduled number of trains operating in the peak period could be made without negatively affecting service quality. Experiments with the simulation model demonstrated that MBTA could indeed reduce the number of trains operating in the evening peak period without degrading service quality. Based on these results, MBTA implemented a new timetable that reduced operational costs at the same time as reducing train delays on the line, without any significant negative effects on passenger service.


Objective To evaluate the distribution characteristics of homocysteine(Hcy)in healthy people.Methods The serum samples of various ages of physical examination people were collected from our hospital.The level of Hcy was measured by using the FPIA method of Abbort automatic immunity analyzer AXSYM.Data were analyzed by SPSS11.0.Results The serum level of Hcy in male was higher than that of female,and the difference was significant(P0.05).With the increase of age,the levels of Hcy in every age groups increased.Conclusion There is a significant difference of Hcy level between different genders and different ages in the healthy population.


John Lee's "Dictionary of Industrial Administration" was the crowning achievement of one of Britain's finest writers on management. Lee, a former Post Office administrator, developed an interest in the problems of management following the World War I. By the late 1920s he was one of the leading management theorists in Britain, and was rapidly gaining a reputation in the USA. The 1920s was something of a golden period for British management writing, with figures such as Benjamin Rowntree, Oliver Sheldon and Lyndall Urwick emerging on the scene. Lee's idea was to harness all these ideas and talents and combine them in a single work of reference which could be a touchstone of management thought. Today, those scholars aware of the Dictionary's existence regard it as one of the best management books of all time. This three-volume set contains articles by almost 100 management experts, men and women. There are entries on industrial unrest, accident prevention, statistical methods, ethics in the workplace and a great many other topics. Produced in larger-than-average format, this new edition gives libraries a chance to fill a gap in specialist management collections at the same time as acquiring a reference work with more general appeal.


611 Hematopoietic stem cells transplantation is a well established method and offers a treatment option for malignant and non-malignant diseases. Hematopoietic stem cells are routinely isolated from the bone marrow, umbilical cord blood and the peripheral blood based on the expression of the CD34 antigen: In recent years an increasing number of publications show that it is possible to achieve hematopoietic reconstitution with CD34negative cells. It is the current gold-standard, to prove the pluripotency of a hematopoietic stem cell, to reconstitute SCID-mice or at least to show a possible hematopoietic chimerism. Continuous work has shown that CD34negative stem cells have the potential to differentiate into mesenchymal tissue. This therapeutic potential of CD34negative precursor cells was used by others to treat children with Osteogenesis imperfecta, a disease of the mesenchymal cell system. Other authors have shown that CD34-negative cells from the bone marrow contain precursor cells of hepatic tissue ("hepatic oval cells") and that potential stem cells can be defined by the expression of angiogenic receptor proteins. It was further shown that hematopoietic stem cells can also differentiate in vitro into neural and myogenic tissue progenitorS and that dystrophin expression can be restored by a hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. All these experiments led to discussion on the plasticity of stem cells suggesting that even adult stem cells of different origin and almost any tissue phenotype can "transdifferentiate" into other tissue progenitors under the appropriate conditions. Unfortunately, those "adult stem cells" have no definitive markers for their characterization. They do not express most of the tissue specific antigens, but they Session 5


The classical methods of solid mechanics assume that the homeomorphism of deformation sometimes does not provide an adequate description of the theological behaviour and fracture of real materials, while irreversible macro deformation and the fracture of solids are predetermined by material behaviour in nanoscale. When we talk about crack propagation, we must talk at least about four phenomena, namely about crack incubation, initiation, and crack propagation must be sleeted in two parts, to growth of short crack and to growth of linear elastic or long crack.


The article contains data on the use of heterologous serum products in the treatment of some infectious diseases and snake bites. Despite achievements of preventive vaccination there are still cases of diphtheria and tetanus registered annually all over the world. Cases of botulism and gas gangrene are not uncommon either. There is also an important problem of snake bites treatment. Heterologous serum is mainly derived from the blood of horses immunized with bacterial anatoxins or toxins (snake venoms). They are included into the Russian List of Vital and Essential Medicines and in the WHO Essential Medicines List. Antivenoms are the only effective antidotes for the bites of venomous snakes, spiders, and scorpions. However, despite a self-evident demand in such products, there is a lack of antitoxic serum caused by the phasing out of its production in some countries, its low economic efficiency and stringent regulatory requirements for the safe production of blood products.


Abstract : In lay terms we assessed whether there is a clinical impact of inheriting a variant form (allele) of the HSD3B1 gene, previously shown to enable prostate cancer cells to make their own derivative of testosterone that can drive tumor progression, despite castration. We have demonstrated in three independent groups of men treated with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) that the number of inherited copies of the variant allele corresponds to clinical outcomes (i.e. likelihood of disease progression, risk of spread to the bones and other distant sites, and death). Men possessing the variant HSD3B1allele have worse clinical outcomes than men who have not inherited that allele.


We give a new proof for the decidability of the D0L ultimate periodicity problem based on the decidability of p-periodicity of morphic words adapted to the approach of Harju and Linna.


The aim of this study is to determine the differences in criminal thinking styles measured by Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles, PICTS (Walters, 1995; 2005), on the one hand, and criminal behavioural styles measured by Lifestyle Criminality Screening Form score, LCSF (Walters, White & Denney, 1991) on the other hand, given the age, type of crime and recidivism. The sample of this research consisted of 126 inmates of Banja Luka Correctional Facility. The results show that younger convicts violate social rules more than the older ones. The convicts who commit violent crimes have higher scores in interpersonal intrusiveness, while convicts who are prone to non-violent crimes have more present discontinuity as a criminal thinking style. Recidivists, unlike un-recidivists, have higher scores in self-indulgence and social rule break, and also have significantly more pronounced criminal thinking styles of mollification, entitlement, super-optimism and discontinuity. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.


The semiconductor nanowire segments are produced by material removal from a structure formed of two or more layers of semiconductor material in the absence of template conditions. Allow the removal remains are nanowires having a portion generating at the positions, and to preferably progress along the direction of the crystal axis as a result of removal or rare segments to position did not occur at all structures on the surface of the layer formed structure do. The interface between the different segments can be achieved or the number or given angle to the orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the nanowire.


The challenges the software engineering are facing, because the global development, have became more complex. Crescent globalization in business environments has affected the software development market. Aiming competitive advantages as low costs, high productivity and quality in systems development, several organizations decided to distribute their internal development process outside their countries to reduce their cost, countries like India, China and Brazil are some examples. However, team dispersion, even in those environments, introduces several challenges to the process development. It is even more necessary to organize process used by the organization's units to identify when the units are mature enough to work with the global development software to attend the internal demand (offshore insourcing). In this context, the environment characteristics map is a must task in the process of understanding the needs of the offshore insourcing as well to compound the structure for the maturity model. The composition needs to consider social, techniques and organizational factors, showing how they are connected. In this approach, this research has the objective to identify and describe a structure for a maturity model in a global software development offshore insourcing environment context. As well, creating the criteria used to differentiate the organizational units. The research method used was the case study, conducted in four offshore insourcing global software development units located in Brazil (2), China (1) and Singapore (1). This research aims to contribute by proposing a maturity model structure as well identifying characteristics of offshore insourcing global software development environments.


Photogalvanic cell is a type of solar cell in which solar energy convert into electrical energy via formation of energy rich species that exhibit the photogalvanic effect. Photogalvanic effect was studies in a photogalvanic cell containing Rhodamine 6G-EDTA-NaLS system. The observed cell performance in terms of maximum potential, maximum photocurrent, short-circuit current, power at power point, conversion efficiency and storage capacity in terms of half change time are -1162 mV, 510 μA, 450 μA, 131.60 μW, 1.26 % and 2.8 h, respectively . The mechanism was proposed for the generation of photocurrent in photogalvanic cell. It is also viewed that the Rhodamine 6G-EDTA-NaLS based photogalvanic cell, with additional advantage of low cost and storage capacity, can give electrical output comparable to that for commercially used power property lacking photogalvanic cells.


Exogenous application of acetaldehyde (AA) vapor (5000 ppm for 18h) to peeled avocado fruits prior to storage caused inhibition of fruit ripening. This inhibition was characterized by delay in fruit softening and reduction in ethylene production. Moreover, addition of 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC), the precursor of ethylene, to avocado disks (in situ) or to avocado extract (in vitro) showed that AA reduced ethylene production by inhibiting ACC oxidase activity. The levels of total free sulfhydryl group compounds increased in the treated avocado, although the total amino acids level reduced during ripening.


The light output from Argon-bombs was investigated by means of ultra high speed photography (Cordin Model 550-32 camera) and locally developed photodiode sen- sors. Tubes of various sizes were inflated with Argon gas, and were detonated on one side of the tube with PE4 charges of mass between 0.1 kg and 1 kg. The evolution of emitted light was captured with the Cordin ultra high speed camera (side-on position with re- spect to detonation direction) and simultaneously monitored by two wideband photodiode sensors in the 0.4 µm to 1.1 µm optical spectrum. The photodiode sensors were placed in the side-on and face-on positions with respect to the detonation direction. Interesting phenomena were identified and is reported. In the course of implementing Argon bombs for target illumination during the photography of high speed events, the Cordin Model 550-32 ultra high speed camera, in conjunction with photodiode sensors were used to capture snapshots and relative illumination levels of the Argon bomb detonation in progress. Although the concept of an Argon bomb is not new Held (1993), it was thought that the characterisation of the Argon bomb's emitted light with the camera and photodiode sensors might render more information on the optimum application of such a light source as target illuminator. During this experiment various Argon bomb configurations were used, with varying PE4 charge masses, to investigate the effect thereof. The ultra high speed camera was used to capture snapshots of the Argon bomb and the photodiode sensors to capture the relative emitted light in synchronisation with the camera. Of interest were some of the captured snapshots and the measured light output from the Argon bomb, which are discussed in this report. 2. Experimental Setup The Cordin camera, housed in a shelter and fitted with a Nikon AF70-300 (F4-5.6) lens, viewed the detonation event at a distance of about 12 meters through armoured glass (ResistoGlas), and was positioned side-on to the detonation direction of the Argon bomb. The identical photodiode sensors, comprising Si detectors in a photo-conductive mode, were placed at 20 meters from the Argon bomb in-line with the detonation direction and side-on (90 ◦ upon). The data signals from the photodiode sensors were captured and stored in Tektronix TPS2024 digital oscilloscopes. Various lengths and widths of plastic sleeving (100 µm thick) were sealed to form a tubular bag, and inflated with Argon gas. The PE4 charge (varying in mass between 0.1 kg and 1 kg) of length to diameter ratio of about 0.5 was affixed onto the one end of the bag, and detonated with M2A2 electric detonators. A fast light pulse detector, placed at about 5 meters from the blast, supplied


This artefact contains a dataset of open-source programs obtained from the Maven Central Repository and scripts that first extract contracts from these programs and then perform several analyses on the contracts extracted. The extraction and analysis is fully automated and directly produces the tables presented in the accompanying paper.
The results show how contracts are used in real-world program, and how their usage changes between versions and within inheritance hierarchies.


less than seriously? What are the challenges of reading Lady Blessington's texts today, and how can the acknowledgement of those challenges help us to overcome them? Perhaps most importantly, why should we want to? By telling readers the story of Lady Blessington's life and her many impressive accomplishments, Matoff creates an opportunity not only to revisit a specific individual, but also to unpack notions of authorship, celebrity and gender, and how those notions have both shifted and remained constant over time. A more explicit engagement with these themes would enrich and broaden the context of appreciation for this meticulous and well-written study.


This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as: Isma SJ, Omar HR, Sweiss N, et al. Serum Albumin is a Biomarker of Chronicity of Pulmonary Sarcoidosis. Turk Thorac J 2018; DOI: 10.5152/TurkThoracJ.2018.094 ©Copyright 2018 by Turkish Thoracic Society Available online at www.turkthoracj.org Manuscript type: Original Article DOI: 10.5152/TurkThoracJ.2018.094 Title: Serum Albumin is a Biomarker of Chronicity of Pulmonary Sarcoidosis Authors: Safayeth Jabeen Isma, Hesham R. Omar, Nadera Sweiss, Mehdi Mirsaeidi Instutions: Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy, University of Miami, FL, USA Internal Medicine Department, Mercy Medical Center, Clinton, Iowa, USA Division of Rheumatology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA Address for correspondence: Mehdi Mirsaeidi, Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy, University of Miami, FL, USA E-mail: email@example.com


The phenomenon of military cooperation in the 21st century has moved into the next stage. Today, the military cooperation is not only about seeking balance of power among the countries. In the military cooperation between Indonesia and Russia, both countries have different interests. Russia's interest is to recover economic power since they are suffering from currency depreciation in the post-cold war era, by selling their armaments to Indonesia. In the other hand, Indonesia's interest in this cooperation is to seek source for obtaining new high quality and high technology military armaments and equipments since they are suffering from U.S embargo which hampered supplies and part for old armaments. The purpose of this thesis is to describe and analyze the interests and the problems within Indonesia and Russia's military cooperation. Furthermore, it is also explaining the attempt to resolve the military cooperation obstacles through examining the indicators that generates problems. The data were gained through interviews with Gen. (ret) Ryamizard Ryacudu, Indonesian Army Chief of Staff 2002-2005 and literature review. As the result of the analysis of the data, it is concluded that the factors which created obstacles within military cooperation between Indonesia and Russia are the lack of budget allocation for military sub-sector and the lack of technology advancement or high gap of technology between Indonesia and Russia. Thus, it is important to emphasize solutions that will reduce these problems. In addition, it is necessary for both countries to advance their military cooperation to the next level, which is establishing the joint-investment through their military companies.