Pulmonary venous developmental anomalies encompass a wide spectrum of congenital diseases, including partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection. We present two cases of uncommon partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection depicted well by magnetic resonance (MR) and computed tomography (CT) which could play an important role as noninvasive imaging techniques, providing high-quality and wide field of view imaging.


Fandom is often stigmatized as abnormal, dangerous, or silly (Lewis 1992). At the same time, fanaticism and fandom in its various incarnations are becoming the story of the times and of central importance to marketing theory and practice. How to develop and utilize fanatical consumers is counterbalanced by the dilemma often encountered where the most committed fans resist the attempts by marketers to grow market share via the inclusion of less involved consumers. Examining so‐called fanaticism in an in‐depth manner provides new and unique insights into the processes and complexities that lead to deeply involved commitment to lifestyles and consumer products or brands. This research involved the interviewing of individuals who have experienced the "fanatic" label to attempt to understand the motivations that drive their consumption and to examine the way in which these stigmatizations are used, accepted, modified, or refuted in the definition and construction of identity. The use of videography was uniquely able to capture this experience from a first‐person perspective. This is particularly important where the label and designation of "fanatic" is highly contested and controversial.


Multinational engineering design projects have been implemented at various academic institutions in order to offer their students exposure to the issues present when work needs to be carried out globally. Such implementation tries to emulate the environment that actually exists in many engineering projects being done nowadays in practice. These experiences is something that academic institutions needs to include and emphasize in their programs, and is gaining acceptance at a variety of colleges and universities worldwide. The importance of such activities is something that students need to be aware because of its benefit, and students should be motivated to participate. The main goal of this study is to determine the level of interest by engineering students participating in a multinational collaborative design project, and to make a comparison of such indicator at the start and at the end of their participation. Such comparison is as a group of students, and as well based on class standing and gender. For this purpose, a survey based on the Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (IMI) was administered to the students, and data collected provides information on the level of interest or enjoyment that they declare. This interest construct provide an indication of the students' interests, beliefs, and feelings about the international project that reflect their level of motivation to undertake such task. The results of the comparison indicate the need to define intervention that result in more uniform level of interest by students.


Transit New Zealand (Transit) has been successfully managing SCRIM and texture data collection through external suppliers for a number of years now. A fairly prescriptive procurement model has been used to manage both the technical complexity of the contracts and the risk carried by Transit in the event usable data is not delivered. Within the procurement model the contractor, consultant and client have distinct roles that work together to make the project a success. Transit's asset managers are able to rely on the annual availability of accurate road surface data with which they can make critical investment decisions.


This paper deals with three issues: firstly, it shortly presents the tradi tional social system of Jaffna in so far as it differs from those both in South India and the rest of Sri Lanka, secondly, discusses the role spe cifically of the Karaiyars in the past and present contexts and thirdly shows how this social system is being maintained, albeit in modified form, under conditions of extreme stress and change. In other words, I want to illustrate how the frame or structure of the system remains in place while the content changes.1 2 This entails the retention of myths, ideals and symbols while their meaning and also the groups that ap propriate these change dramatically. I hope to show at the end of the paper that within the caste-oriented and -dominated social system of Jaffna there lie already the seeds for the development of a wider group identity and consciousness which over time develops into nationalism under which caste is subsumed. This happens precisely when the domi nant or hegemonic groups change, i.e. when, in our case, instead of the leading group of Vellalars the Karaiyars appropriate the symbols and ideas of 'Tamilness1 and Tamil tradition and modify and extend them horizontally and vertically. A much wider conception of who is a 'Tamil1 results. This change worked itself out over a considerable time span, from the beginning of the 19th to the end of our century, and the Karaiyars took the leading role fairly late in the process. More speci fically I then want to explore the connections between the 'caste1 system


Soil aluminum(Al)availability is critical to tea growth.A study was carried out to examine adsorption and desorption kinetics of aluminum by bulk soil and different soil particles collected from Mengshan tea garden using intermittent method.Relationship of adsorption-desorption kinetics characteristics of Al with soil organic matter,free iron oxide content,and CEC was explored.In purple soil,maximum adsorption of Al was clay(1 009.26 mg·kg-1) silt(510.17 mg·kg-1)fine sand(269.13 mg·kg-1) raw soil(144.91 mg·kg-1)coarse sand(217.94 mg·kg-1),while it was clay(477.56 mg·kg-1)silt(327.62 mg·kg-1)raw soil(152.54 mg·kg-1)fine sand(136.90 mg·kg-1)coarse sand(174.61 mg·kg-1)in yellow soil.Electrostatic and specific adsorption contributed to Al adsorption by two soils.Adsorption of Al by soils increased with time,reaching an equilibrium in 240 min.Fast adsorption was complete at 60 min.Double constant equation and Elovich equation could fit the process of Al kinetics(P0.01).Soil organic matter,free iron oxide,and CEC were significantly or extremely significantly positively correlated with Al adsorption rates,but not with Al desorption rates.


This paper draws from multiple publications in the Literacy Studies, Game Studies and Multimodal fields to foreground the affordances of using modern video game aesthetics - particularly their user interfaces or screens - as learning scaffolds in the under-resourced English classroom context. Though this may be seen as a well-worn terrain for research today (nearly 30 years after the advent of Game Studies), it is argued that video games remain somewhat underrepresented in literacy education, with the Covid-19 pandemic and recurrent lockdowns even further cementing games technologies from learners' home domains as the new frontier in teaching and learning. The benefits of importing such technologies into the classroom is nothing new to the field. Yet, this study innovates by optimising the most accessible of graphological media (pencils, pens, paints and paper) during participants' transmodalisations of prescribed English literature - particularly Shakespeare's plays - into a range of video game screenshots, including character menus, maps, and heads-up-displays. The research site is a public high school in Johannesburg, South Africa, with five Grade 10-12 learners drawing the screenshots in response to an extracurricular, multimodal enrichment programme. The author contends that this programme (or similar pedagogies) may encourage future groups to delve further into the complexities of their school setworks, which may then be connected meaningfully to their own, increasingly digital life-worlds. Recognising game-making as an extraordinarily complex undertaking, the researcher then offers a fine-grained analysis of each participant's text-to-game re-genrefication. In this way, the powerful representational properties of the video game medium can come to light, reaffirming its importance as a semiotic resource and pedagogic tool.


A method and system for automated decision support for treatment planning of arterial stenoses is disclosed. A set of stenotic lesions is identified in a patient's coronary arteries from medical image data of the patient. A plurality of treatment options are generated for the set of stenotic lesions, wherein each of the plurality of treatment options corresponds to a stenting configuration in which one or more of the stenotic lesions are stented. For each of the plurality of treatment options, predicted hemodynamic metrics for the set of stenotic lesions resulting from the stenting configuration corresponding to that treatment option are calculated.


Abstract In the present study, we report the first record of Peropteryx pallidoptera for Brazil, based on a female captured in the municipality of Curuá, northern margin of the Amazonas River, state of Pará, in the Guiana Shield. The studied specimen has all the diagnostic characters that distinguish P. pallidoptera from other species of the genus; its measurements are within the range reported for females collected in Peru, and similar to the measurements of the holotype. Our record increases the number of bat species known for Brazil and extends the geographic distribution of this species to over 2300 km to the east of the type locality in Ecuador.


In order to analyze the mechanical properties of UHVDC transmission tower joint accurately, a multi-scale finite element model of the transmission tower is established with the interface between solid element model and beam element model. The model is applied to the nonlinear analysis of a key joint in a test condition .The results show that the tower destruction is caused by buckling behavior of the cross bracing member and the multi-scale model can simulate the force state of gusset-plate and the connected members realistically, which is superior to traditional large scale models. The analysis coincides with the experiment well and provides references for the transmission tower design.


Despite being one of the most influential writers of his era, Edgar Allan Poe led a mostly tragic life of impoverishment and personal failures and tragedies. This essay explores to what extent this ...


fluorescence is one of the essential steps in local ization microscopy to obtain resolutions below the diffract ion limit [1]. Recently, MINFLUX introduced doughnut shaped illumination and triangulation as an alternative ch annel of information on the molecule's positions [2]. Breakt hrough precisions have been realized compared to widefiel illumination, but the technique suffers from a limi ted, nanometer sized, field-of-view and long acquisition times. Here, we introduce SIMFLUX, in which we combine centroid estimation and illumination pattern induce d photon count variations in conventional widefield localiza tion microscopy to extract position information of all m olecules in parallel in a typical micron sized field-of-view . We introduce a sinusoidal illumination pattern that ca n be shifted and rotated on the millisecond scale, enabl ed y a novel polarization optics based architecture for th e illumination branch. In this way three modulated in tensities of a single molecule per dimension during a typical on-time of the stochastically switching fluorophores are re co ded. The localization precision of SIMFLUX is :


INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES: While 68Ga-prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) positron emission tomography (PET) is being used for restaging patients with suspected biochemical recurrence (BCR) of prostate cancer, the use of 18F-labeled PSMA ligands is increasing owing to their longer half-life, ease of larger batch production and lower positron range compared with 68Ga-labelled counterparts. Radiohybrid PSMA (rhPSMA) ligands are a new class of theranostic PSMA-targeting agents featuring fast 18F synthesis with utility for labeling with radiometals. This retrospective analysis evaluated the efficacy of 18F-rhPSMA7 PET/CT for imaging BCR of prostate cancer. METHODS: Datasets from 261 consecutive patients with non-castrate BCR after radical prostatectomy who underwent 18F-rhPSMA7 PET/CT between June 2017 and March 2018 were retrospectively reviewed by a nuclear medicine physician. All suspicious lesions were documented and detection rates were correlated with patients′ PSA level, primary Gleason score, and prior therapy (androgen deprivation therapy [ADT] and external beam radiation therapy [EBRT]). RESULTS: The 261 patients had a median PSA level of 0.96 (range, 0.01 - 400) ng/mL. The median injected activity of 18F-rhPSMA7 was 336 MBq, with a median uptake time of 76 (range, 50 - 220) min. 18F-rhPSMA7-avid lesions were found in 211/261 (80.8%) patients. Among those with PSA < 0.2 ng/mL, 7/22 (31.8%) had suspicious lesions. The detection rate was broadly proportional to PSA; 71.2% (42/59), 86.3% (44/51), 85.7% (42/49) and 95.0% (76/80) at PSA levels of 0.2 -< 0.5, 0.5 -< 1 , 1 -< 2 and ≥ 2 ng/mL, respectively. 18F-rhPSMA7 revealed local recurrence in 113 (43.3%) patients. Pelvic lymph node metastases were present in 110 (42.2%), while lymph node metastases were found in retroperitoneal and supradiaphragmatic regions in 45 (17.2%) and 21 (8.0%) patients, respectively. Bone and visceral metastases were detected in 54 (20.7%) and 10 (3.8%) patients, respectively. Detection rates were not influenced by patients′ prior therapy (79.1% among those with prior EBRT vs. 82.1% without prior EBRT, p = 0.55); by ADT in the 6 months preceding imaging (80.6% among patients receiving ADT vs. 80.9% in those not prescribed ADT, p = 0.54); or by primary Gleason score (77.9% among patients with Gleason score ⩽7 vs. 82.6% for scores ≥8, p = 0.38). CONCLUSIONS: 18F-rhPSMA7 PET/CT offers good detection of BCR in men who have undergone radical prostatectomy; detection rates appear favorable compared with those previously reported for 68Ga-PSMA11. Source of Funding: none


The use of active control to augment whirl flutter stability of tiltrotor aircraft is studied by means of a multibody simulation. The numerical model is based on a 1/5 scale semi-span aeroelastic wind tunnel model of a generic tiltrotor concept and possesses a gimballed, stiff-in-plane rotor that is windmilling. A single-input single-output controller and two types of multi-input multi-output algorithms, Linear Quadratic Gaussian Control and Generalized Predictive Control, are studied. They are using measured wing deflections in order to calculate appropriate swashplate input. Results on the closed-loop behavior of three wing and two gimbal natural modes are given. Robustness analyses with respect to major parameters like wing natural frequencies or structural damping are also briefly discussed. The rotor shear force is shown in the uncontrolled condition and in presence of a controller in order to illustrate the whirl flutter mechanism. The single-input single-output controller yielded substantial gain in stability and turned out to be most suitable for industrial application, whereas the Linear Quadratic Gaussian Regulator yielded even higher damping and still had good robustness characteristics.


The distribution of alkali metal picrates between water and benzene was investigated in the presence of 18-crown-6. The overall equilibrium constants, Kex, and some constituent equilibrium constants were determined. The Kex value increases, passes through a maximum (at potassium), and falls off as the size of the alkali metal cation increases.


Information has become an essential part of any decision making process in a company and also of competitive intelligence. Economic Globalization and free market circulation have increased the number of international competitors. This situation leads to a broaden access to other markets in the world. This work describes the informational private and public resources that a company may need in order to access to any international market.


Batch Kd screening tests on Hanford sediments indicated that anionic radionuclide mobility is dependent upon specie and concentration. Technetium, as TcO/sub 4//sup -/, is not sorbed to any extent and will move as rapidly as water. Iodine, as I/sup -/, will also move at high concentrations (>5 ppB) but is retarded at very low concentrations (<1 ppB). Neutral species such as tritium and complexed nuclides such as cobalt-60 (EDTA) are only slightly retarded while uncomplexed cobalt-60 is strongly bound to the sediments under the conditions studied. Strontium sorption is controlled by ion exchange-like reactions and sorption is predictable from a knowledge of soil and solution characteristics. Cesium is strongly bound to the Hanford sediments under typical conditions and appears to be sorbed independent of salt concentration for the synthetic ground waters tested. The sorption of relatively mobile nuclides such as tritium, cobalt-EDTA, and technetium could be measured with greater precision using the unsaturated column tests than with batch methods. Little or no difference in sorption was observed when the flow rates were changed by more than an order of magnitude (2 to 50 cm/day). Changes in saturation percentage of the soil, from 56 to 31%, also had only a minormore » effect on nuclide sorption. For layered sediments, the effective sorption of a layered sequence is controlled by the sorption characteristics of the most sorbing layer.« less


Abstract Disclaimer In an effort to expedite the publication of articles related to the COVID-19 pandemic, AJHP is posting these manuscripts online as soon as possible after acceptance. Accepted manuscripts have been peer-reviewed and copyedited, but are posted online before technical formatting and author proofing. These manuscripts are not the final version of record and will be replaced with the final article (formatted per AJHP style and proofed by the authors) at a later time. Purpose Letters of recommendation (LORs) are highly regarded components of pharmacy residency applications, as they provide insight into an applicant's character and capabilities. In other medical fields, differences in language have been reported for letters written for female and male applicants; however, data on gender differences in LORs for pharmacy residency applications are currently lacking. Methods LORs for applicants to our institution's postgraduate year 1 pharmacy residency program for the 2019-2020 academic year were extracted and processed by a natural language processing service. Words within 18 categories were identified and counted for each LOR. Total was also compared. Results Of the 473 LORs included for analysis, 320 (67.7%) were written for female applicants and 153 (32.3%) were written for male applicants. Approximately two-thirds of all writers were women for both female and male applicants. In comparing letters for women and men, there was a statistically significant difference in the percentage of LORs that contained terms in categories described as gendered, solitary/reserved, and desire. There was no statistically significant difference in total or in the presence of words in other categories such as grindstone, standout, agentic, or communal. When controlling for grade point average, writer gender, duration that the writer knew the applicant, and the writer's professional position, there were no changes to the statistical findings. Conclusion Letters written for female and male applicants were largely similar with regard to length and word categories utilized. While no clear gender bias was found when evaluating pharmacy residency LORs, writers must continue to assess their implicit biases and how those biases might affect a candidate's application.


The present invention shows a fuel reformer 107 is movable in a fuel cell fuel reforming technology for system acquisition of the reformed gas composition in even significantly change the steam temperature can be used in the fuel cell 200 is supplied to the evaporator 102. The The system includes a fuel reformer 107 means that detects the flow rate of fuel vapor and oxygen are supplied to the 601 and 602 and, the temperature of the fuel vapor to be supplied to the fuel reformer, the oxygen temperature, the temperature of the fuel vapor and oxygen gas mixture of the comprises at least one means 600 for detecting the temperature in water and the flow rate and the fuel vapor flow rate and the oxygen ratio is corrected on the basis of the signal value of the temperature detection means, the oxygen is supplied in accordance with the corrected ratio.


Pixel cell includes a photoelectric conversion element that generates electric charges, and a gate control charge accumulation region for accumulating photo-generated charge under the control of the control gate. The charge storage region may be a single CCD stage having a buried channel, it is possible to obtain a good charge transfer and low charge loss thereof for efficiency. The charge storage region is adjacent to the gate of the transistor. Transistor gate is adjacent to the photoelectric conversion element, with the control gates, to transfer the photo-generated charge from the photoelectric conversion element to the charge accumulation region.


Background: α‐Calcitonin gene‐related peptide (αCGRP) is a 37‐amino acid pleiotropic peptide that we previously showed to exert a hepatoprotective effect during concanavalin A (Con A)‐induced acute hepatitis. In the present study, we used αCGRP−/− mice to further investigate the antifibrogenic and hepatoprotective effects of endogenous αCGRP in Con A‐induced chronic hepatitis.


kklWe prove Strichartz estimates with fractional loss of derivatives for the Schrodinger equation on any Riemannian compact manifold. As a consequence we infer low regularity local well-posedness results in any dimension, as well as global existence results for the Cauchy problem of nonlinear Schrodinger equations on surfaces in the case of defocusing polynomial nonlinearities, and on three-manifolds in the case of cubic defocusing nonlinearities. We also discuss the optimality of these Strichartz estimates on spheres.


Maximal exact matches (MEMs) are widely used in bioinformatics, originally for genome-to-genome comparison but especially for DNA alignment ever since Li (2013) presented BWA-MEM. Building on work by Bannai, Gagie and I (2018) and again targeting alignment, Rossi et al. (2022) recently built an index called MONI that is based on the run-length compressed Burrows-Wheeler Transform and can find MEMs efficiently with respect to pangenomes. In this paper we define k-MEMs to be maximal substrings of a pattern that each occur exactly at least k times in a text (so a MEM is a 1-MEM) and briefly explain why computing k-MEMs could be useful for pangenome-to-pangenome comparison. We then show that, when k is given at construction time, MONI can easily be extended to find k-MEMs efficiently as well.


Purpose: The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of riboflavin supplementation on the incidence of clinically diagnosed malaria in pregnant women in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Materials and Methods: Dataset analysis of a randomized, double blind, placebo controlled trial. A 15 mg vitamin B 2 (riboflavin) food supplement was given daily to pregnant women. The parameter of outcome was the incidence of clinically diagnosed malaria. Results: We did not find any statistically significant differences in the incidence of malaria between the group receiving riboflavin and the placebo group. 9.3 % of women in the riboflavin group and 10.5% of women in the placebo group suffered from malaria during the treatment period. Conclusion: Riboflavin in a daily dose of 15 mg does not have any significant effect on the incidence of malaria. Its prophylactic use in pregnant women of countries where malaria is endemic cannot yet be recommended.


Non-enzymatic browning easily takes place during thermal treatment of peach juice. Browning degree and the colour parameter L* are usually used as indexes to evaluate non-enzymatic browning. The indexes during thermal processing at different temperatures 80, 90 ℃ and 100 ℃ for peach juice were investigated. The results showed that with increasing temperature, the browning degree was increased by 0.185, 0.221 and 0.276, whereas the L* value was decreased by 4.22, 5.74 and 7.53, respectively. Both the chroma value and Hue angle were gradually decreased. The browning index(BI) was increased as the temperature increased. Various kinetic models including zero-order kinetic, first-order kinetic and combined kinetic models were employed to fit the experimental data. The results showed that the combined kinetic model was a better one for describing the dynamic changes in browning degree and colour value, as compared to the other two models(R2 0.823). Furthermore, the declined vitamin C content during thermal processing could be accurately described by the zeroorder kinetic model(R20.894). Meanwhile, the combined kinetic model(R20.905) could properly express the gain of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural contents. The relationship between 5-hydroxymethylfurfural and browning degree was satisfactorily fitted by means of quadratic model(R20.940) at three different temperatures.


Welcome to another edition of E-Resource Round Up! This issue covers a wide range of e-resource topics, including: How to use Microsoft Teams in working with colleagues who are socially distanced. ...


available at http://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31293036 Editorial Comment: This study assesses adherence to the European Association of Urology guideline on surgical management, impact of hospital volume (HV) on type of surgery and complication risk in patients with T1 tumors from the British Association of Urological Surgeons nephrectomy audit up to 2016. The audit became mandatory in 2012 and since 2015 has included the PADUA (Preoperative Aspects and Dimensions Used for an Anatomical) score among its variables. Overall, 13,045 surgically treated T1 tumors were included in the analyses. Use of partial nephrectomy (PN) increased over time from 39.7% in 2012 to 44.9% in 2016. HV was arbitrarily categorized in terms of lower (fewer than 25 cases yearly), low (25 to 49), medium (50 to 99) and high (100 or more). There was association between annual HV and proportion of tumors treated with PN rather than radical nephrectomy, varying from 18.1% in the lowest HV to 61.8% at centers performing 100 or more cases yearly. This association persisted in the subset of patients (1,621) with PADUA score available after adjustment for tumor complexity. Overall and Clavien-Dindo grade III or higher complication rates decreased significantly with increasing HV for all patients, including those treated with PN, from 12.2% and 2.9% at low volume centers to 10.7% and 2.2% at high volume centers, respectively. Clearly the greater guideline adherence and inverse association of HV centers with complication rates support the centralization of kidney cancer treatment to improve patient outcomes at least in the presence of T1 tumors. Moreover, the authors acknowledge that referral confounders cannot be ruled out when reporting some outcomes. For example data on HV and robot-assisted PN rates may be biased by sample and technical availability and supported by the higher rate of cT1b tumors treated in the lowest volume hospitals. Maybe the most salient characteristic of the registry is the self-reporting and self-auditing. This is a feature that requires a regular audit of the self-auditing. Only in this way is minimization of missing data warranted. M. Pilar Laguna, MD, PhD Suggested Reading Cacciamani GE, Medina LG, Gill T et al: Impact of surgical factors on robotic partial nephrectomy outcomes: comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis. J Urol 2018; 200: 258. Cooperberg MR, Modak S and Konety BR: Trends in regionalization of inpatient care for urological malignancies, 1988 to 2002. J Urol 2007; 178: 2103. ADRENAL, RENAL, URETERAL AND RETROPERITONEAL TUMORS 615 Copyright © 2020 American Urological Association Education and Research, Inc. Unauthorized reproduction of this article is prohibited. Sun M, Bianchi M, Trinh QD et al: Hospital volume is a determinant of postoperative complications, blood transfusion and length of stay after radical or partial nephrectomy. J Urol 2012; 187: 405. Patel HD, Mullins JK, Pierorazio PM et al: Trends in renal surgery: robotic technology is associated with increased use of partial nephrectomy. J Urol 2013; 189: 1229. Abouassaly R, Finelli A, Tomlinson GA et al: Volume-outcome relationships in the treatment of renal tumors. J Urol 2012; 187: 1984. Patel SG, Penson DF, Pabla B et al: National trends in the use of partial nephrectomy: a rising tide that has not lifted all boats. J Urol 2012; 187: 816. Joudi FN and Konety BR: The impact of provider volume on outcomes from urological cancer therapy. J Urol 2005; 174: 432. Lane BR, Golan S, Eggener S et al: Differential use of partial nephrectomy for intermediate and high complexity tumors may explain variability in reported utilization rates. J Urol 2013; 189: 2047. Kim SP, Shah ND, Weight CJ et al: Contemporary trends in nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma in the United States: results from a population based cohort. J Urol 2011; 186: 1779. Lane BR, Chen H, Morrow M et al: Increasing use of kidney sparing approaches for localized renal tumors in a community based health system: impact on renal functional outcomes. J Urol 2011; 186: 1229. Kara € O, Maurice MJ, Mouracade P et al: When partial nephrectomy is unsuccessful: understanding the reasons for conversion from robotic partial to radical nephrectomy at a tertiary referral center. J Urol 2017; 198: 30. Wang HHS, Tejwani R, Zhang H et al: Hospital surgical volume and associated postoperative complications of pediatric urological surgery in the United States. J Urol 2015; 194: 506. Urological Oncology: Bladder, Penis and Urethral Cancer, and Basic Principles of Oncology Re: National Cancer Database Comparison of Radical Cystectomy vs Chemoradiotherapy for Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer: Implications of Using Clinical vs Pathologic Staging H.-Y. Lin, H. Ye, K. M. Kernen, J. M. Hafron and D. J. Krauss Department of Radiation Oncology, Beaumont Health, Royal Oak and Michigan Institute of Urology, Troy, Michigan Cancer Med 2018; 7: 5370e5381. doi: 10.1002/cam4.1684 Abstract available at http://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30306728available at http://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30306728 Editorial Comment: This analysis examined a total of 7,322 patients from the National Cancer Database with stage II to IV M0 bladder cancer who were treated with cystectomy/chemotherapy (5,664) or definitive chemotherapy and radiation therapy (chemoRT, 1,658). To attempt to assess comparable patients, propensity score matched pair analyses were performed and overall survival (OS) was evaluated. Not surprisingly, with historical and current practices in the United States patients who underwent cystectomy/chemotherapy were significantly younger than those treated with definitive chemoRT (mean age 63.7 vs 75.2 years, p <0.001). Age, race, comorbidity score, clinical stage, insurance status and type of facility also all significantly correlated with OS (p <0.05 for all covariates). As a group, patients treated with cystectomy/ chemotherapy were younger, healthier and more likely to be treated at an academic facility. Before any attempt to match patients OS was significantly better in those who were treated with cystectomy/chemotherapy (56.4% at 3 years and 45.9% at 5 years) compared to patients undergoing chemoRT (47.3% and 33.2%, p <0.001, respectively). After matched pair analyses matching age, race, gender, Charlson-Deyo comorbidity score, clinical (presurgical) stage, insurance and facility type (1,750) OS was no longer significantly different between patients undergoing cystectomy/chemotherapy (52.1% at 3 years and 41.0% at 5 years) and chemoRT (53.3% and 40.1%, p[0.5, respectively). A randomized comparison between chemoRT and cystectomy/chemotherapy will never be accomplished, at least in the United States, and I do not believe such a trial would accrue, nor should resources be wasted on this effort. The authors' attempt to compare apples to apples demonstrates comparable outcomes between therapies after propensity score matching (with the 616 BLADDER, PENIS AND URETHRAL CANCER, AND BASIC PRINCIPLES OF ONCOLOGY Copyright © 2020 American Urological Association Education and Research, Inc. Unauthorized reproduction of this article is prohibited.


We used an enclosure technique to monitor soil NO and N2O emissions during early summer regrowth of Bermuda grass (Cynodon dactylon) on sandy loam in a humid, subtropical region of southern Texas. The evolution of both gases was substantially higher from plots harvested at the beginning of the experiment and fertilized 5 days later with 52 kg N ha−1 as (NH4)2SO4 than from plots not harvested or fertilized. Emission of NO, but not N2O, was stimulated by clipping and removing the grass, probably because eliminating the shading provided by the dense grass canopy changed these plots from cooler to warmer than unharvested plots, thereby stimulating the activity of soil microorganisms responsible for NO production. Neither gas flux was significantly affected by application of N until the next rainfall dissolved and moved the surface-applied fertilizer into the soil. Immediately thereafter, emissions of NO and N2O increased dramatically to peaks of 160 and 12 g N ha−1 d−1, respectively, and then declined at rates that closely paralleled the nitrification rate of added NH4+, indicating that the gases resulted from the activity of nitrifying microorganisms, rather than denitrifiers. Nitric oxide emissions during the 9-week measurement period averaged 7.2 times greater than N2O emissions and accounted for 3.2% of the added N. The data indicate that humid, subtropical grasslands, which not only have large geographical extent but also have been subject to intense anthropogenic disturbance, contribute significantly to the global atmospheric NOx budget.


The urban Rational Formula has been included in each edition of Australian Rainfall and Runoff (ARR) since the release of the first edition in 1958. The method has been recommended for smaller urban drainage design projects with an emphasis of providing a simple method that can be carried out generally using hand calculations. However, as identified by Goyen et al (2014) significant limitations exist in the calibration and verification of the method for Australian urban catchments. The 2016 update of Australian Rainfall and Runoff (ARR) included a Regional Flood Frequency Estimation (RFFE) method, as detailed in Rahman et al (2015) to estimate peak flows in rural catchments. Goyen et al (2014) investigated if it was possible to develop a simple method to adjust the peak flows given by the Rural Flood Frequency Estimation (RFFE) model to match peak flows in small to medium sized urban catchments. This assessment could not identify a simple relationship between the RFFE peak flows and peak flows in urban catchments. As a part of a major ARR research project on urban runoff, data from a limited number of gauged urban catchments across Australia has been collated by Phillips et al (2014), Hill and Thomson (2015) and Goyen et al (2014). This data has been reviewed and analysed to formulate a preliminary regional urban flood frequency estimation (RUFFE) method for urban catchments throughout Australia in order to provide a rapid assessment method to estimate peak flows in urban areas. Testing of the preliminary RUFFE method achieves a good agreement with peak flows from flood frequency analysis (FFA) of the urban catchment data that is available. While still at a preliminary stage, the predictive capabilities of the RUFFE method are promising and warrant further refinement and testing in other urban catchments.


Though the Budget 2022 has included provisions to tackle the country's economic vulnerabilities, its successful outcome will be essential to its performance. The Budget Speech 2022-23, labelled as 'growth-oriented', pumped optimism into 'Dalal Street', and share market operations concluded on a hopeful note after the proposal was delivered. This article aims to go further into the government's budget complexities to grasp the details of whatever is being pledged, how those commitments are supposed to be achieved, and whether they satisfy the country's present economic expectations. This article also highlights that consumption demand is still an issue as the budget speech plots the route to prosperity for the next three decades and the budget 2022-23 has prioritized long-term advantages over short-term solutions.


This document provides general guidelines for work on specifying audio
codecs within the IETF. These guidelines cover the development
process, evaluation and requirements conformance, and intellectual
property issues.


This chapter talks about a story titled " The Man Who Cried Wolf ", gathered from an informant, Dawið (Dure), who was born in the Barwar villages of ʾen-Nune. Folktales and fables such as the story discussed in the chapter were told in the Barwar villages.Keywords: ʾen-Nune; Barwar villages; Dawið


Noninvasive procedures that utilize high-intensity-focused ultrasound (HIFU) for the percutaneous ablation of targeted tissues is increasingly being used for the management of an array of oncological and nononcological conditions and has been investigated for new uses such as noninvasive subcutaneous adipose tissue ablation. Once adipocytes have been ablated with HIFU, macrophages are attracted to the area to engulf and transport the lipids and cellular debris. This removal results in an overall reduction in local adipose tissue volume. The HIFU is an attractive alternative to more invasive procedures for body contouring that may appeal to patients resistant to surgical options. It does not require general anesthesia and can be performed as an outpatient procedure thus substantially cutting treatment cost, recovery time, and decreasing the risk of side effects, complications, and patient discomfort. This procedure allows the surgeon to manipulate the device placed remotely on the body surface to precisely target tissues to be ablated beneath the dermis. A single session of HIFU treatment on abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue has been demonstrated to achieve mean reduction in waist circumference of up to 4.7 cm. The procedure has been found to be safe and well tolerated. The commonly reported adverse events such as prolonged tenderness, ecchymosis, hard lumps, edema, and pain are all nonserious in nature and resolve spontaneously over time. In addition, the majority of patients surveyed have expressed their satisfaction with the outcome of the procedure. Conclusion: HIFU is a powerful means for selective tissue destruction.


Tuberculosis is a major global health problem. It causes health problems among millions of people every year and is the main cause of morbidity in many regions, so the understanding of its effect on quality of life and health status is important for patient care. Objective: Identify the association between quality of life and degree of radiological sequelae of pulmonary tuberculosis in patients treated by the neumology department of the National Hospital Hipolito Unanue in 2016. The Quality of Life test SF36 was applied, the test was validated by Salazar and Bernabe in 2012; in addition the degree of radiological sequelae is classified according to Willcox. Methods: CObservational, quantitative, analytical and transverse study. We surveyed 162 patients treated by
the neumology department with the clinical antecedent of pulmonary tuberculosis in the National Hospital Hipolito Unanue in 2016. Results: Pearson's correlation was -0.157, which means that there is a negative relation between quality of life and degree of pulmonary sequelae of pulmonary tuberculosis. Statistical significance
was also found since P = 0.046 (P <0.05). Conclusions: There is an association between quality of life and radiological sequelae of pulmonary tuberculosis, but this is a weak negative correlation.


The article discusses three principal parts of the musical heritage of Lithuania's Karaimes both in a parochial, as well as in a broader liturgical and social context. The author analyses the specificity of their locale features and compares them with analogous manifestations in other Karaime communities (emigres from Egypt and the Crimea), as well as in Judaic and Eastern Christian traditions. The comparisons confirm the authenticity of Lithuanian Karaime liturgical melodies with their original structure and the principles of sound and text harmony preserved. All Karairne communities follow the Karaime faith, but each of them is also special and distinctive in its own way: the ethnic origins of every specific group, their cultural and historical experiences, and their way of thinking completely differ. Only the Karaime communities in Lithuania, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine comprise a kindred group, linked not only by religion, but also by their common Turkic origins, language, culture, and history. Various historical and political factors determined that the cultural distinctions of the Karaime communities in each of these countries did not emerge onto the international arena until very recently. Therefore it is not surprising that the musical traditions of Lithuania's Karaimes have not been mentioned either in specific world publications on Karaime music in general or in reference/encyclopaedic works. The Lithuania's Karaimes is exclusively vocal and monodic; its repertoire handed down orally, and to this day continues not inscribed by musical notation. Today's 75-year-olds learned sing learned etc. would indicate presently


Children and adults with language disorders may be receiving therapy services in a variety of locations, some of which arc not traditionally or frequently involved in research. This manuscript examines the issues that language researchers may face when planning and executing research in such facilities with individuals who have language disorders. Informed consent procedures, administrative approvals, staff education, and enlisting the help of staff speech-language pathologists are addressed. Research can be successfully conducted in facilities that do not traditionally participate in research if the investigator takes time to build the needed relationships, anticipates any problems, and follows the institution's procedures.


High performance thermoplastic blends based on Poly(ethylene naphthalate)/Poly(ether sulfone) polymers were prepared by melt compounding to study the correlations between composition, morphologies and cellular structure after foaming. Blends were employed to develop high performance foams with controlled cellular morphology by using CO2 as foaming agent. The role of composition, morphology and processing conditions on the dynamic-mechanical properties of solid blends and on the micro- and nano-cellular structures of their foams was analized. Dispersed PES both extended the service temperature and acted as gas reservoir in PEN based blends, lowering the foam density with respect to neat PEN. The dispersion of PEN drops in PES extended towards lower temperatures the PES foamability, allowing the nucleation and growth of bubbles and reducing the foam density.


The construct of enabling school structure is empirically analyzed in this qualitative study of high schools. First, the theoretical underpinning of enabling school structure is developed. Then, six high schools, which were determined to have enabling structures in a large quantitative study of Ohio schools, were analyzed in depth using semi‐structured interviewing techniques. The inquiry fleshes out the specifics of the performance of principals and teachers in such organizations and describes the dynamics of enabling school structures in terms of their formalization, centralization, and functioning. Finally, the research demonstrates a natural and symbiotic relation between quantitative and qualitative approaches to the study of schools.


This article describes the concept of the group-as-a-whole as used by Foulkes and by Bion. The differences are noted and their different applications to group therapy and to larger working institutions. The relation of Foulkes's ideas to the work at the wartime military hospital in Northfield dominated by Bion's work is highlighted in a short letter from Ronald Hargreaves, discovered in the Foulkes's archives.


The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend universal human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) screening starting at 13 years, which has been implemented in many general U.S. emergency departments (EDs) but infrequently in pediatric EDs. We aimed to 1) implement a pilot of routine adolescent HIV screening in a pediatric ED and 2) determine the unique barriers to CDC‐recommended screening in this region of high HIV prevalence.


For traditional vehicle-mounted communication equipment control systems, there have always been problems such as susceptibility to complex environmental interference and poor control accuracy. Propose and design a PLC-based automation control system for vehicle-mounted communication equipment. The system mainly includes automation modules, control modules, and communication modules. The automation module is constructed through PLC technology, and the data attributes are optimized to complete the interaction of data information; the communication signal carrier is debugged according to the information feedback technology, and the multichannel transmission mode is adopted to improve Signal exchange performance up to 9.7%.


Background: The objective of this study was to examine the association between the use of statins and the risk for new onset dementia (excluding vascular dementia) in an elderly population.

Methods: The analysis included a random sample of 1,000,000 individuals covered by the National Health Insurance. Patients >65 years of age without a history of dementia in 1997 and 1998 were identified. New diagnoses of dementia including pre-senile and senile dementia were determined for elderly subjects. Cox regression analysis was used to evaluate the adjusted hazard ratio (HR) for all patients and subgroups. The study subjects were divided into tertiles according to mean daily dosage and total dosage of each statin and mean equivalent and total equivalent doses.

Results: A total of 5516 new diagnoses of dementia occurred among 57669 patients during approximately 4.5 years of follow-up. The adjusted HRs for dementia were significantly inversely associated with increased total or daily equivalent statin dosage (total equivalent statin exposure: HRs = 0.773, 0.632, 0.332 from Q1 to Q3 vs. control, p < 0.001 for trend; mean equivalent daily dosage: HRs = 0.622, 0.697, 0.419 from Q1 to Q3 vs. control, p < 0.001 for trend). The protective effect of statins remained robust in different age, gender, cardiovascular risk subgroups with strong statistical trends. High potency statins such as atorvastatin and rosuvastatin showed a significant inverse association with developing dementia in a dose-response manner, whereas high mean daily dosage of lovastain was positively associated with the development of dementia.

Conclusions: Independent of traditional risk factors, newly diagnosed cases of dementia decreased in elderly patients who had received statins in either higher daily or total dosage. Highly potent statins seemed to have an even stronger advantage in the prevention of dementia.


Dementia caregivers are known to be distressed and may be helped by psychoeducational interventions. We investigated the effectiveness of one model of intervention comprising a structured package of six sessions of training, focusing on education, stress management and problem behaviour management in a group setting. Three groups of caregivers were compared‐those who had completed (N= 33) or partially completed (N= 22) training and a control group (N= 26)‐on measures of psychological stress, burden, satisfaction with life, well‐being and knowledge. There were no significant differences in outcome between the three groups. We conclude that, with methodological qualifications, this quasi‐experimental study of one model of training was not empirically effective. Interventions for caregivers should be tailored to individual needs from a range of techniques encompassing psychological and practical strategies.


Pulse radiolysis studies with aqueous benzophenone solutions were performed over the range 25–400 °C, including conditions beyond the critical point of water. The addition of eaq− to benzophenone forms either ketyl anion in alkaline solutions or neutral ketyl radical in acidic/neutral solutions. Although both have an intense and sharp absorption band in the UV region and a weak but broad band in the visible region, their spectra are clearly different. The peak of the visible band is at 545 nm for the neutral ketyl radical and 610 nm for the anion at room temperature. With increasing temperature, the absorption peak of the ketyl radical shifts to a shorter wavelength while that of the anion shifts to a substantially longer wavelength. The decay of the ketyl radical is not monotonically temperature-dependent: its rate constant (2k/e) increases with temperature up to 100 °C and then
decreases at higher temperatures. The rate constant for the addition of eaq− to benzophenone can be considered to be diffusion controlled and the Arrhenius plot can be fitted with a curved line. The temperature dependence of the rate constant for the reaction of eaq− with proton was determined up to 400 °C by the competition method using benzophenone as the reference solute. It was also found that the addition of OH˙ radical to benzophenone forms a transient species with a strong absorption band centered at 380 nm and the peak seems to be slightly blue-shifted with temperature. The decay of this species increases rapidly with temperature, indicating the enhanced conversion to stable products at high temperatures.


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Subtitle: Ship repair is an unpredictable business. Francisco Arderius tells Barnaby Eales why what worked in Barcelona was not successful in Marseilles.


Total anthocyanins of spices (Syzygium aromaticum L., Coriadrum sativum L., Cuminum cyminum L., Zingiber officinale Rosc., Elettaria cardamomum, Curcuma longa, Rhus coriaria L., Cinnamomum zeylanicum Blume, Foeniculum vulgare Mill and Laurus nobilis L.) were determined using acidified (1% HCl) solvents (methanol, ethanol and acetone) at three temperatures (20℃, 40℃ and 60℃). Also phenolic acids were separated and identified by RP-HPLC. Results showed that sumac and cinnamon had the highest levels of anthocyanins, while for the acetone the cinnamon indicated the highest amount of anthocyanins when methanol and ethanol were used as extracting solvents at 20℃. At 40℃ using ethanol, sumac showed the highest level of anthocyanins whereas acetone solvent yielded the highest anthocyanin contents for cinnamon. At 60℃, cinnamon showed the highest level of anthocyanins when methanol and acetone were the solvents, while sumac had the highest anthocyanins level using ethanol as solvent. HPLC results showed ten phenolic acids found in those spices and varied in their concentrations. Gallic acid had the highest level (1642.3 mg/100g) (cloves). Gentisic acid had the lowest level (1.2 mg/100g) in ginger. Also sumac showed the highest level of chlorogenic acid (1528.7 mg/100g). Some acids were not found in some spices, for instance, benzoic acid was not found in coriander, cumin, ginger, green cardamom, cinnamon and sweet laurel.


Tobacco taxation policy is not only a tool for discouraging smokers but also an important source of budgetary income. Given that many entities are interested in tobacco policy ranging from the fiscal authority to health authority, from firms to economic policy authority the design of the appropriate tax scheme is of utmost importance. The current tobacco taxation scheme in Turkey is very complex and contains incentives both for firms and consumers to deviate from a certain equilibrium. Therefore, appropriate tax policy should take into account firm pricing strategy, consumer behavior, health and industry related issues as well as fiscal concerns. With this perspective, using the current framework in Turkey, this paper proposes a strategy for appropriate tobacco taxation through a simulation analysis. The strategy can be formulized as the tax combination yielding minimum average price change, for a given tax revenue and the desired sectoral composition. Such a tax scheme will not only reduce price volatility but will also improve welfare of the entire society through lowering inflation given the high share of tobacco products in consumption basket.


THIS WAS Ayear of change for the Adverse Drug Reactions Advisory Committee(ADRAC) which saw theappointmentof a newChairman (Dr M. L. Mashford) and a new Secretary (Dr H. G. Dickson). Each of the1870reports received in1976,an average of156 reports per month,was examined individually, in keeping with past practice. Nine meetings were held during the year. A review of the reportscontributedin 1976by Australianmedical practitioners,pharmacists, dentists, hospital authorities, and others shows that898 (half) came from hospitals, and 784were provided by general or specialist medical practitioners. The remaining 10%came from dentists, pharmacistsand other sources. The most often reporteddrugs were, in order, trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole (123 cases), ampicillin(106 cases), amoxycillin(91 cases), and sodium diatrizoate(56 cases). Most often reported were the minor allergic problems such as rash (498episodes), pruritus(173episodes), urticaria (163 episodes), and nausea (146 episodes). More serious reactions such asbronchospasmand various blood dyscrasias were reported with the following frequencies: Hypotension.. 45 Bronchospasm 40 Tachycardia .. 28 Purpura 23 Anaphylactic shock 21 Thrombocytopenia 20 Hypertension. 17 Arthralgia 15 Erythema multiforme 15 Neutropenia .. 15 Anaemia 14 Agranulocytosis 12 Leucopenia II Pseudomembranous colitis 8 Eleven fatalitiesthoughtto be the result of an adverse drug reaction were recorded during the year.


In this paper, two cases of Device-to-Device (D2D) communication over a recently introduced extended η-μ fading channel are analyzed. Case A considers a direct D2D communication. While in case B, amplify-and-forward relay-assisted D2D communication is discussed. The effects of cochannel interference at the relay and D2D destination are also included. To combat fading, selection combining- and maximal ratio combining-based diversity schemes are also incorporated at the receiver. Power harvesting based on power splitting technique is also engulfed. Expressions of success and outage probabilities are derived with the help of characteristic function approach. Success and outage probability expressions are functions of path loss, distance between various devices and channel parameters. Based on these expressions, numerical results are presented and discussed.


To improve the performance of the ontology matching process, a more efficient ontology matching algorithm, which can effectively eliminate unnecessary operations of matching entities, is proposed. By the theoretical analysis and proof, a set of matching rules are summarized for depicting inherent relations among matching results of entities. Based on these rules, the proposed algorithm can reuse the matching results of two entities to directly determine the matching results of their adjacent entities. Thereby, redundant operations of matching adjacent entities can he avoided, which can improve the performance of the whole matching process. The experimental results show that, compared with related algorithms, the proposed algorithm has high matching accuracy and can remarkably reduce the consuming time of the whole matching process. So, the proposed algorithm is more competent for the large-scale ontology matching which often occurs in the practical heterogeneous web resources integration project.


The
damage of coronavirus to our Earth is unprecedented that is going to kill the
entire human beings. Facing this kind of situation, there are two completely
different kinds of viewpoints. According to the philosophy of "Atheists" Karl
Max and Friedrich Engels, "there is a Bigging, there must be an End", meaning
our Earth will eventually collide with the other planet and be destroyed
completely. According to Holly Bible, however, Jesus, will come down again to
bring Godly people to the Heaven and leave the remaining in the
coronavirus-hell. During this waiting period, the "Internet Institutes" can
provide the most useful knowledge for the other planets.


A comparison of the interferometric imaging performance of two different cameras during a vibration study is presented. One of the cameras has a high speed CMOS sensor and the second one uses a high resolution (scientific) sCMOS sensor. This comparison is based on the interferometric response as a merit parameter of these sensors which is not a conventional procedure. Even when the current standard for image quality is on the signal to noise ratio calculations, an interferometric test to evaluate the fringe pattern visibility is equivalent to the contrast to noise ratio value. An out of plane digital holographic interferometer is used to test each camera once at the time with the same experimental conditions. The object under study is a metallically framed table with a Formica cover with an observable area of 1.1 m2. The sample is deformed by means of a controlled vibration induced by a tip ended linear step motor. Results from each camera are presented as the retrieved optical phase during the vibration....


Blooms of the harmful alga, Karenia brevis on the west Florida continental shelf are thought to initiate offshore before manifesting as a nuisance along the coastline. Contributing to such blooms are a complex sequence of events occurring within oligotrophic waters, which in any given year may or may not be facilitated by the ocean circulation. Once initiation occurs, the delivery from the region of offshore origination to the region of coastline manifestation requires an upwelling circulation, whereby K. brevis cells are advected shoreward along the bottom. The 2018 K. brevis bloom was particularly intense owing to cells from the preceding 2017 bloom being reinforced by a newly formed bloom in 2018, a year when the offshore conditions in spring through early summer were again favorable for bloom development. As an event response to determine the potential for new cells to be delivered to the shore, a glider was deployed from 24 August 2018 to 17 September 2018 with a track line designed to map water properties over the hypothesized initiation region. The coastal ocean circulation during the deployment interval was generally upwelling favorable, but the passage of Tropical Storm Gordon temporarily disrupted this flow, after which K. brevis appeared along the Florida Panhandle coast. Strong upwelling then reestablished and K. brevis was subsequently observed along Florida's east coast. We describe the glider deployment, the K. brevis observations, and we use a numerical circulation model to account for the K. brevis manifestation as occurred along Florida's west, Panhandle, and east coasts. Plain Language Summary We account for the intensity and location of the 2018 Karenia brevis red tide outbreak on the west Florida continental shelf by a combination of water property observations and numerical circulation model simulations. These confirm the initiation region being offshore, the manifestation region being along the shoreline and the delivery mechanism (from initiation to manifestation) being an upwelling favorable coastal ocean circulation. The intensity is attributed to the cells remaining in the manifestation region from the prior 2017 bloom being reinforced by cells newly formed offshore in 2018.


The invention relates to a wireless network-based nuclear power station real-time personal nuclear radiation dose control system, and belongs to the technical field of nuclear reactor nuclear radiation protection. The control system comprises a wireless electronic dose meter, a wireless communication terminal, a wireless network base station, a voice terminal, a wireless voice server, a wireless network server, a wireless network controller, a wireless dose meter system server and a touch display screen terminal. The control systems provided by the invention are respectively arranged in a wireless network computer room, a monitoring area of a control area and a dose monitoring duty room and are worn on monitored personnel bodies. By the control system, not only the personal nuclear radiation dose information of monitored personnel can be monitored, but also the alarm information and the positioning information of the personal dose meter of the monitored personnel can be acquired in real time; and when an emergency happens, the personnel is controlled and the monitored personnel is remind of taking corresponding measures conveniently, so that the damage to nuclear power station working personnel caused by nuclear radiation is avoided, and the personnel safety of the nuclear power station working personnel is ensured.


The article analyzes the main trends of transformation in the national-state structure of Chechnya. The chronological scope of study covers the Soviet era and the early years of the political crisis of 1989-1991. The development of national statehood of the Chechen people in this period took place according to the Stalin project of the early 20s of XXcentury. In the USSR, the research in the field of Soviet national politics had been the focus of political parties. At the same time, their given aim at demonstrating and popularizing any achievements in this vital area as undisputed triumphal victories was rigorous. Soviet social scientists, including historians, were constantly in demand as "court" theorists of the national policy of the CPSU and its propagandists. The reconstruction of the true history of the USSR peoples was not a part of the task of the ruling party of ideological circles of the USSR. Apologetics prevailed over academic interest. Therefore, when the processes of renewal of public and state foundations began, the essence of Soviet myths was uncovered; the real problems accumulated during the era of socialist modernization (begun in 1917 by the Bolsheviks and buried by them in 1991) emerged acutely. The revolutionary restructuring of Soviet society inflicted a serious blow not only to the ideology, but also to the national-state structure of the USSR, its constituent parts(unions and autonomous republics, autonomous regions and districts) created according to Stalin's templates.


Circular angle wrinkles in the bottom,wrinkles in the mouth,vertical wrinkles in the side wall,U-shaped and wrinkles in some area of bottom during deep drawing of a stainless thin wall part.Causes of the problems were analyzed and the solutions were found.By modifying die adjusting clearance and choosing forming coefficient,problems were solved.


Appreciative inquiry can get you much better results than seeking out and solving problems. That's an interesting concept for me—and I image for most of you—because telephone companies are among the best problem solvers in the world. We trouble shoot everything. We concentrate enormous resources on correcting problems that have relatively minor impact on our overall service performance. When used continually and over a long period of time, this approach can lead to a negative culture. If you combine a negative culture with all the challenges we face today, it could be easy to convince ourselves that we have too many problems to overcome and to slip into a paralyzing sense of hopelessness. And yet if we flip the coin, we have so much to be excited about. We are in the most dynamic and the most influential business of our times. We ought to be excited, motivated, and energized. We can be if we turn ourselves around and start looking at our jobs and ourselves differently. If we kill negative selftalk and celebrate our successes. If we dissect what we do right and apply the lessons to what we do wrong, we can solve our problems and re-energize the organization at the same time. In the long run what is likely to be more useful? Demoralizing a successful workforce by concentrating on their failures or helping them over their last few hurdles by building a bridge with their successes? Don't get me wrong. I'm not advocating mindless happy talk. Appreciative Inquiry is a complex science designed to make things better. We can't ignore problems, we just need to approach them from the other side. (Mohr & Watkins, 2001a, p. 7).


peanut agglutinin, a lectin with specific affinity for galactose beta-(1----3)-N-acetyl-galactosamine disaccharides, showed binding to the slender cones in the rod-free fovea as well as to the conical cones in the periphery of the monkey (Macaca fuscata) retina, but not to the rods, as revealed by light-microscopic cytochemistry with horseradish-peroxidase-conjugated lectin.


Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are highly effective in treating gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). However, persistent, troublesome reflux symptoms despite PPI use are common, and a proportion of individuals with these persistent symptoms is considered to have refractory GERD (rGERD). There are limited data on patients' experience with persistent reflux-like symptoms to guide healthcare professionals in managing this troublesome condition. An international, population-based, online survey was conducted among adults who reported persistent reflux-like symptoms; 24 questions were posed regarding the participants' symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and comorbid conditions. Descriptive analyses were performed to characterize participants' experience with diagnosis and their satisfaction with treatment. All data were self-reported. Of 565 initial respondents, 283 (51%) answered the question regarding being formally diagnosed by a healthcare professional with GERD and/or rGERD. The 197 (70%) participants who answered "yes" made up the survey population. Heartburn (65%) and acid regurgitation (62%) were the most common troublesome symptoms. PPI use was reported by 145 (74%) respondents, but only 30% were satisfied with PPI therapy. The most common alternative therapies included antacid/alginates (63%), histamine H2-receptor antagonists (33%), mucosal protectants (25%), and lifestyle modifications (84%). In this population-based survey, nearly one-third of participants with persistent reflux-like symptoms had not received a formal diagnosis of GERD or rGERD. Although most participants diagnosed with GERD/rGERD had received PPI therapy, persistent symptoms, dissatisfaction with PPI therapy, and concerns about long-term PPI use were common. These data emphasize the need for patient input when developing management strategies for GERD and persistent reflux-like symptoms or rGERD.


The article is aimed at researching the specifics and features of the concept of «creative industries» and defining the criteria that would identify activities as belonging to the creative sector precisely; studying the concept of «creative industries» and their relationship with «cultural industries»; disclosing the essence of various classifications of cultural and creative industries; generalization of theoretical approaches to the studies on this sector. As result of the research, the main approaches of scholars, practitioners and organizations on the definition of the concepts of «cultural industries» and «creative industries» and the peculiarities of the development of this sector of the economy are analyzed and disclosed. The genesis of these concepts in various literary sources is highlighted and the formation of the creative industry as an integral part in the transition from industrial society to intellectual is shown. The relationship and the proportion of cultural and creative industries are examined. The role of creative industries in innovative processes is considered, which allows to identify their impact on both economic and social development of society. Both the personal and the organizational models of classification of creative industries in historical retrospective of periods of creative industries development are provided. The peculiarities and characterizations of the models of classification of creative industries and the basic conditions for the inclusion of industries in the creative sector are determined. Based on the analysis and generalization, the main criteria are allocated that will allow identifying activities as belonging to the creative sector. Prospects for further research in this direction are the use of creative industry criteria to develop a universal system of classification of creative industries and a comprehensive idea of development of the creative sector in general.


In order to make the use of industrial waste as filler in polymeric composites feasible, composites containing marble and granite waste in the proportions of 10 % and 20 % in the 200 and 400 Meshs granulometries of the Tyler series have been manufactured using the hand lay up method associated with closed mould pressing. The polymeric matrix used was the isophthalic polyester resin together with the cobalt accelerator (1,5 % v/v) and the catalyst (1 % v/v). In which the morphological survey on the residue was performed by means of the scanning electron microscope and the tensile strength test (ASTM D3039) on composites. Based on the mechanical performance of composites, the proportion of 10 % RMG in the 400 Mesh grain size obtained an increase of approximately 73 % and the proportion of 10 % RMG in the 200 Mesh grain size showed the best traction performance with an increase of approximately 100 %, both in relation to the full matrix, which proves the Brazilian Journal of Development Braz. J. of Develop., Curitiba, v. 6, n. 9, p. 71944-71955, sep. 2020. ISSN 2525-8761 71946 performance of the composite as an effective reinforcement in the matrix/load system, making it a viable alternative for use as load in composites for internal coating in general.


Compound two‐phase particles were found in thin slab direct rolled Ti‐added Nb high strength low alloy (HSLA) steel after the rough rolling stage of an in‐line strip processing line. The compound two‐phase particles are composed of a cuboid Ti‐rich (TixNb1−x)N (0.73≥x > 0.60) core and an Nb‐rich cap‐shaped epitaxial deposit of (TixNb1−x)C (0.35≥x > 0.06) or NbC formed on the {100}‐type faces of the cuboid (TixNb1−x)N (0.73≥x > 0.60) core. At the interface between the cuboid core and the cap‐shaped deposit, the Ti/(Nb + Ti) atomic ratio was found to increase gradually from a low value of Ti/(Nb + Ti) ≈ 0, on the cap‐side of the particles, to a high value of Ti/(Nb + Ti) ≈ 0.7, on the cuboid core side of the precipitate. The fact that compound TiN/NbC two‐phase particles are present in the matrix indicates that NbC has a greater thermodynamic stability, i.e. a lower solubility, in the presence of TiN precipitates. A kinetic precipitation model is proposed to explain this effect. The model is based on the formation of geometrically necessary dislocation (GND) around TiN precipitates. A high TiN volume fraction leads to a high density of GND and a high density of heterogeneous nucleation sites for NbC. Consequently, the solute Nb content is lowered and the strain accumulation due to the suppression of the inter‐pass recrystallization is limited. This results in the high softening ratio observed in multi‐hit compression test.


The paper analyzes the changing INR trends over the reform period, in the context of fundamental determinants of exchange rates. In the early reform years the chief concern was to limit appreciation from inflows, and from higher domestic inflation, given the trade deficit. So short-term nominal depreciation maintained a long-term real fix. But with two-way nominal variation, more objectives can be accommodated. We ask how the exchange rate contributed to three possible policy objectives-maintaining a real competitive exchange rate, neutralizing inflationary oil shocks, deepening foreign exchange markets and encouraging hedging. Depreciation allowed just before oil prices crashed compromised the second objective. Inadequate commitment to two-way movement, prior to the crisis, induced firms to take large currency exposures based on expected appreciation. After the crisis, capital flows were allowed to drive the exchange rate, aggravating inflation and acting against macro stabilization. Markets need some guidance to achieve policy objectives.


IN THI, latter half of the eighteenth century the early mycologists, influenced by their knowledge of higher plants, searched for sexual organs in the fungi analogous to those with which they were familiar among the phanerogams. Micheli (1729) had declared that the cystidia in the hymenium of a mushroom are apetalous flowers. Bulliard (1791) believed the cystidia to be male organs and described the manner in which their seminal fluid poured out over the basidia to fertilize the basidiospores. It has long been known that the mycelium of many fungi breaks up into short segments generally called oidia. Such commonly occurring structures as oidia did not pass unnoticed in the search for sexual organs and the questions of the significance and probable funietion of oidia engaged the attention of a number of workers. Tulasne (1851) discovered in the lichens and in many of the Ascomycetes structures in which were borne small spores usually incapable of germination. These spores he called spermatia and he considered that they are male cells. Later he discovered similar structures in the Tremellales and concluded that the pycniospores of the Uredinales are also true male cells (Tulasne, 1859). Hofmeister (1852) showed that in ferns the sex organs are developed not on the spore-bearing generation but on the prothallium which is independent of the sporophyte. This discovery provided mycologists with, a new clue and they began to search for sexual organs in the higher fungi not on the pileus but on the vegetative mycelium. Karsten (1860) described finding on the mycelium of Psalliota carmpestris reniform " female " cells which were fertilized by " male " elements. At the same time Oersted (1865) thought he saw female cells fertilized by ordinary hyphae. The suggestion that the commonly occurring oidia might be male cells was made again by Rees (1875), who germinated basidiospores of Coprinus stercorarius 2 and observed that, on the young mycelia, there were developed short branches bearing small cells which became detached from the parent filament. These cells failed to germinate and Rees believed that they must be spermatia. Seeing large vesicular cells on the same mycelium, he thought he had also found the female organs. Van Tieghem (1875a, b) reported similar spermatia and female organs in Coprinus ephemeroides and C.


In term of value and volume of production, mango is the third most important fruit product next to pineapple and banana. Accurate size assessment of mango fruits during harvesting is vital to ensure that they are classified to the grade accordingly. However, the current practice in mango industry is grading the mango fruit manually using human graders. This method is inconsistent, inefficient and labor intensive. In this project, a new method of automated mango size and grade assessment is developed using RGB fiber optic sensor and fuzzy logic approach. The calculation of maximum, minimum and mean values based on RGB fiber optic sensor and the decision making development using minimum entropy formulation to analyse the data and make the classification for the mango fruit. This proposed method is capable to differentiate three different grades of mango fruit automatically with 77.78% of overall accuracy compared to human graders sorting. This method was found to be helpful for the application in the current agricultural industry.


Three groups of specified density concrete were prepared by incorporating ceramsite with different water absorption and crushed stone,and the strength and anti-chloride diffusivity of concrete as well as the microstructure of cement paste surrounding ceramsite were investigated.The results show that,the ceramsite with higher particle strength is advantageous to concrete strength.And the ceramsite with higher water absorption has obvious effect on the densification of interracial paste which would develop a structure with lower porosity and finer aperture,that is account for the stronger effect of water absorption and release by ceramsite,furthermore the splitting strength and impermeability of concrete can be improved,and the dominance becomes apparently with increasing the curing age.


DOI: 10.1002/adbi.202300015 include bias based on total number of publications, based on the assumption that publishing volume equates to value, i.e., more volume = more value. Indeed, publishers and their journals tend to bias their content acquisition strategies towards this value archetype, placing less value on early-stage investigators doing phenomenal research, often in nascent fields that are likely to become highly relevant, and possibly disruptive. This trend in disincentivizing disruptive value has large scale effects on research.[3] With the current model, publishers are inclined to go after higher profile authors, with high citations and publications. By recognizing the limitations of popular metrics, research publishing has an opportunity to change its collective thinking and traditional methodologies, and in doing so, open the door to recognizing broader value in authors and papers. We therefore assert that 'value' could be quantitatively linked to what we term as 'performance', considering the author's stage of career, their collective work, and their fields of research. Ideally this would include data from past, past-to-present, and future performance that is captured as an index. This approach to measuring performance might identify disruptive content and value. To properly gauge the value and impact of an author and their works, it is perhaps worth considering the following (among many other) questions:


Stress measurements in microelectronic packaging through the MOSFET devices have attracted great attentions because the measurement is in-situ and nondestructive. In this study, a new assembled methodology was designed and applied so that the calibration procedures on MOSFET stress sensors can be simpler and more accurate. Under mechanical, thermal, and thermo-mechanical coupling effects, parameters of the MOSFET devices were extracted based on linear relationships between drain current variation and the mechanical and/or thermal effects, and the results suggested that the MOSFET devices is a useful in-situ stress sensorsin electronic packaging. It is concluded that the newly experimental design and the extracted parameters are useful for MOSFET stress sensor's design and applications.


Crystals of the title compound are monoclinic, a= 13·017, b= 17·439, c= 23·879 A, β= 93·89°, Z= 2, space group P21/c. The structure was determined from diffractometer data by a combination of direct and Patterson methods, and refined by full-matrix least-squares procedures to R 0·093 for 2695 observed reflexions. The cation is similar to that in a related copper complex, cobalt being bonded to four nitrogen atoms of the phosphazene ring and to one chlorine atom in a configuration between a square pyramid and trigonal bipyramid. The anionic cobalt is present as the hitherto unrecognized centrosymmetrical Co2Cl62– ion, in which two chlorine bridges complete tetrahedral co-ordination about the cobalt atoms.


Public officials usually know what lobbying groups are saying about an issue, but often they do not understand how a particular decision affects you. A well-written letter describing your experiences, observations, and opinions may change an official's mind. The same guidelines are also useful for writing to private officials such as business owners, executives of groups like the chamber of commerce, or presidents of corporate boards of directors. These individuals can also make decisions that affect you or the public. You can write two types of letters — positive or negative. A positive letter explains why a decision is or would be good. You should write positive letters about favorable decisions. A negative letter explains your opposition to a pending decision • Decide whom you will write • Open the letter. • Write something about yourself. • Summarize your understanding of the issue (decision) being considered. • Tell why you think the decision should occur. • Tell what any changes mean to you personally. • Acknowledge past support. • Describe what action you hope the official will take. • If you have written a letter that opposes some action, offer an alternative. • If you have time and you are committed, ask how you can help. • Close your letter. • Sign the letter. Published by the Research and Training Center on Independent Living, University of Kansas, Dole Human Development Center, 1000 Sunnyside Avenue Room 4089, Lawrence, Kansas 66045-7555, Voice: (785) 864-4095, TTY: (785) 864-0706, Fax: (785) 864-5063, email: firstname.lastname@example.com. A Guide to Writing Letters to Public Officials: Contributing to Important Decisions Affecting You and Others Tom Seekins and Stephen B. Fawcett A well-written personal letter may be the most effective way to communicate with public officials. They want to know how their constituents feel about issues, especially when those issues involve decisions by elected officials. Public officials usually know what lobbying groups are saying about an issue, but often they do not understand how a particular decision affects you. A well-written letter describing your experiences, observations, and opinions may change an official's mind. The same guidelines are also useful for writing to private officials such as business owners, executives of groups like the chamber of commerce, or presidents of corporate boards of directors. These individuals can also make decisions that affect you or the public. You can write two types of letters — positive or negative. A positive letter explains why a decision is or would be good. You should write positive letters about favorable decisions. A negative letter explains your opposition to a pending decision. Writing effective letters builds your reputation as a thoughtful person in the eyes of officials and makes your criticisms more influential. This guide is designed to help you prepare effective letters. It includes examples of a positive letter and one that criticizes a pending decision. Specific steps for writing an effective letter are also described. Then, you will write your own letter. The following letter supports a proposed policy change. Honorable Mayor Robert A. Hersch: I am a disabled American veteran who uses a wheelchair. Despite my disability, I drive my own van, as many other disabled citizens do. So, as you may imagine, I was pleased to hear that the City Commission was considering a proposal to strengthen the handicapped parking ordinance. The new ordinance is designed to help keep the designated handicapped parking space on both public and private property open for use by disabled persons. The proposal has already led to publicity about the problems citizens with disabilities have getting a convenient place to park. This has increased the sensitivity of the general public. Further, an occasional $25 ticket ought to keep those important spaces open for those who need them. For me, this new ordinance will mean that I can drive anywhere in town I need to go and have a fair chance of being able to park and go in. The latest census statistics indicate there are over 1,200 people in our community who are similarly affected. Your votes on the architectural accessibility ordinance in the past have demonstrated your support for disability issues. I urge you to vote in favor of the new parking ordinance. If there is any way I might be of assistance, please don't hesitate to call on me. Thank you for your support. Sincerely, Gary Hardage 14 Cottage Avenue The following letter opposes a proposed zoning change. Honorable Mayor Robert A. Hersch: I own a home and live in the west side of town. I am writing to express my concern over the proposed zoning of my neighborhood. It is my understanding that this new zoning ordinance will bring more people into the neighborhood and force property values down. Reducing the zoning level will allow developers to build apartment buildings and stores in among the older family homes already here. This will clearly bring more people into the neighborhood — increasing traffic, noise, and crime. The value of my house is its value as life insurance for my children and my retirement fund. If it declines in value, so does the security of my family. In addition, more crowding, more traffic, more noise, and crime would be extremely upsetting to the many elderly residents in the neighborhood. You have always been sensitive to the preservation of the unique character of our neighborhoods and maintaining the family strengths of our community. I urge you to vote against this zoning issue. Zoning in our neighborhood should remain as it is. Those wishing to build apartments, rather than new homes, have many alternatives more appropriate than this from which to choose. If I can help in any way to defeat this proposal, let me know. Thank you. Sincerely, Mary K. Steiner 1001 Park Walk Road Preparing Your Letter The following guidelines are offered to help you write an effective letter. Keep in mind that you can write a positive letter that explains why a decision is or would be good (a recommended practice after a favorable decision) or a negative letter that explains your opposition to a pending decision. Use the blank spaces to write what you want to say in your letter. Decide whom you will write. Get the name, title, and address of the highest official who has authority and responsibility for a decision. Example: The city's mayor is the highest official with authority over zoning issues or parking ordinances, such as the ones described in the sample letters. A corporation's executive president might have the final say over whether a new business office is accessible to disabled persons. A state human service agency's director might be responsible for the way services are provided.


The Port Royal red mangrove-seagrass complex in a large modified coastal bay known as Kingston harbour, Jamaica was sampled over a 13 month period over 2007 and 2008. The mangrove complex covers >100 ha and has been used for hurricane shelter for smaller vessels and for fishing for many years. Sampling at six stations with a small otter trawl yielded 42 fish and invertebrate species (66% fish). Dominant finfishes were Archosargus rhomboidalis (sea bream) 76%, Diodon holacanthus (balloonfish) 5%, and Eucinostomus gula (silver jenny) 4%. A high percentage of fishes taken were juveniles, and one elasmobranch species (Urolophus jamaicensis) was captured. Fishes from the benthic herbivore and benthic carnivore feeding guilds dominated catches. All of the six stations sampled functioned as nurseries for all of the 21 fish species identified, based on their small (juvenile) size distribution and repeated presence over the two year duration of the study. Slightly higher species diversity was found at the two stations nearest the harbor mouth. Notably, all six stations also functioned as refugia for invertebrates such as crabs, and urchins, suggesting that they are important in sustaining the stability and health of the food chains in the harbor near Port Royal at the very least, and possibly for the entire harbor. Two relatively rare indicator fish species, the lined seahorse (Hippocampus erectus), and the Goliath grouper, (Epinephelus itajara), were found during the study. These could be used as "poster" species for the conservation of these areas. The Port Royal mangroves with their adjacent seagrass beds should be protected from development.


Title Remediation planning of 1,4-dioxane-contaminated groundwater by using numerical simulation [an abstract of dissertation and a summary of dissertation review] Author(s) Hem, Ramrav Issue Date 2013-09-25 Doc URL http://hdl.handle.net/2115/53894 Rights(URL) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.1/jp/ Type theses (doctoral abstract and summary of review) Additional Information There are other files related to this item in HUSCAP. Check the above URL. File Information Ramrav_Hem_abstract.pdf (論文内容の要旨)


Platinum (Pt) nanoassemblies with different morphologies, such as nanospheres self-assembled from nanoparticles, multipolyhedral nanostructures built with octahedral nanocrystals, hollow nanospheres consisting of armed nanoparticles, and two-dimensional arrays arranged by nanocubes, were synthesized by a solvothermal approach. The concentration gradient of Pt monomers plays a key role in the architecture of the self-assembled nanostructures, which is attributed to the weak dissolution of the Pt precursor in high-viscosity solvent. As a consequence, the electrode prepared from hollow Pt nanospheres consisting of armed nanoparticles shows much higher performance in the methanol electro-oxidation process than others. Meanwhile, the electrodes prepared from these novel Pt nanoassemblies exhibited long-term durability for methanol electro-oxidation, compared to the electrode prepared from monodispersed Pt nanoparticles.


BACKGROUND
Femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) is a suggested diagnosis for pain in the hip in the absence of other apparent causes. It is thought to be a cause of progressive arthrosis of the hip. Our objective was to determine the prevalence of radiographic data of FAI in the adult population without hip pathology over a period of six months.

MATERIAL AND METHODS
Analytical, observational, multicentric, ambispective and transverse study based on digital X-rays analysis. Measurements of the lateral center-edge angle of Wiberg, acetabular inclination, Tönnis angle and the neck shaft angle of the proximal femur were made; a pistol grip deformity of the femoral head, the triangular index and the shape of the coxofemoral joint were also evaluated.

RESULTS
From a total of 212 hips evaluated, 104 were in males and 108 in females, with an average age of 42.81 years; 21 had a pistol grip deformity and a positive triangular index for cam type. The pincer type was found in 12 hips.

DISCUSSION
In this multicentric study, the FAI cam type predominated in men on the right side; the pincer type predominated in women on the left side; this is similar to what has been reported in other populations. This study is limited by the wide variation in the femoral rotation; as an advantage, it was randomly carried out and provides some data on the prevalence of deformities of the hip, not previously registered.


The correlative distribution function equation that takes into account screening of the charged particle interaction is solved. The correlative function is found. The collision integral is obtained for a multi-type system of relativistic charged particles. The integral is valid, in particular, in describing states that strongly differ from the thermodynamical equilibrium state. It is shown that the screening of Coulomb interactions can be described by a complex dielectrlc permeability tensor. This circumstance permits an extension of the treatment to the case of relativistic distributions, and the calculation of a relativistic collision integral that takes into account screening of the charged particle field. (auth)


Among the written heritage public or private institutions are likely to receive, the archives of contemporary writers are by their original diversity and length, a challenge for those who are willing to receive and keep them to make them available. The archives and manuscripts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries writers attest of the big technological changes of our times: from the written pages bound by hand to the mass-produced notebooks such as "Moleskin", from quills to biros, from typewriters to computers. Today, all these pieces of evidence from a pre-digital era keep our institutions and research teams quite busy. They toil to convert them into digital data by means of two main processes: digitalising them on the one hand, and typing and broadcasting their metadata on the other hand. The resulting sizeable data bank of these literary archives forces us –researchers- to question how data must be built, used and how we need to organise our research.
Based on our experience on some archives –mainly archives of Hispanic intellectuals- and on early results among other research programs.


Many real-world applications in the social, biological, and physical sciences involve large systems of entities that interact together in some way. The number of components in these systems can be extremely large, so some simplification is typically needed for tractable analysis. A common representation of interacting entities is a network. In its simplest form, a network consists of a set of nodes that represent entities and a set of edges between pairs of nodes that represent interactions between those entities. In this thesis, we investigate clustering techniques for time-dependent networks. An important mesoscale feature in networks is communities. Most community-detection methods are designed for time-independent networks. A recent framework for representing temporal networks is multilayer networks. In this thesis, we focus primarily on community detection in temporal networks represented as multilayer networks. We investigate three main topics: a community-detection method known as multilayer modularity maximization, the development of a benchmark for community detection in temporal networks, and the application of multilayer modularity maximization to temporal financial asset-correlation networks. We first investigate theoretical and computational issues in multilayer modularity maximization. We introduce a diagnostic to measure persistence of community structure in a multilayer network partition and we show how communities one obtains with multilayer modularity maximization reflect a trade-off between time-independent community structure within layers and temporal persistence between layers. We discuss computational issues that can arise when solving this method in practice and we suggest ways to mitigate them. We then propose a benchmark for community detection in temporal networks and carry out various numerical experiments to compare the performance of different methods and computational heuristics on our benchmark. We end with an application of multilayer modularity maximization to temporal financial correlation networks.


Chart Korbjitti is a renowned writer from Thailand. He writes primarily in Thai, but some of his novels are published in English also. This paper discusses the "Non-Verbal Communication Analysis in Chart Korbjitti's (CKT) Fictions". The objective here is to identify the non-verbal communicative strategies, the socio-cultural and the various stylistic features of the language and linguistic intricacies of the author, Chart Korbjitti (CKT).


A quadratic utility function is introduced in this paper to study the dynamic characteristics of Cournot duopoly game. Based on the bounded rationality mechanism, a discrete dynamical map that describes the game's dynamic is obtained. The map possesses only one equilibrium point which is Nash point. The stability conditions for this point are analyzed. These conditions show that the point becomes unstable due to two bifurcation types that are flip and Neimark–Sacker. The synchronization property for that map is studied. Through local and global analysis, some dynamics of attracting sets are investigated. This analysis gives some insights on the basis of those sets and the shape of the critical curves. It also shows some lobes found in those attracting sets which are constructed due to the origin focal point.


Purpose Simultaneous SPECT and MR imaging has numerous advantages and potential applications, including exact spatial and temporal co-registration, improved radiotracer quantification and SPECT spatial resolution, reduced overall scan time, and tracking of multiple biological probes. Until recently, SPECT systems could not be integrated with high-field MRI systems due to the use of photomultiplier tubes which do not function in high magnetic fields. The development of semiconductor-based nuclear radiation detectors now allow for the operation of SPECT components within high magnetic fields. We previously reported on the development of a small-animal SPECT imaging system that can be placed immediately adjacent and co-axial to high-field, small-bore MRI systems for efficient sequential imaging [1]. We have also successfully operated a limited small-animal SPECT system integrated within the bore of a whole-body 4 T MRI system [2]. In this study, we have further developed and tested a modular rotating gamma camera insert that has been designed for straightforward integration into any standard whole-body MRI system.


Thema - »Omaggio a Joyce« is based on the beginning of chapter XI of James Joyce's »Ulysses« (the so-called siren chapter). »Ulysses« is an universal book, integrating all kinds of epic, lyric and dramatic literary genres. Berio did not intend to confront


This article describes the most important tendency of economy development - internationalization according to the higher education. The main forms of the internationalization of higher education were considered. The experience of the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine in sphere of internationalization of higher education was examined.