The invention provides a server resonance weakening method which employs a high-precision dynamic signal analyzer for multi-contact measurement of vibration conditions of each part and rigid joints. Capturing vibration source positions and vibration transmission modes is the key point, and in order to guarantee reliability and precision of measured data, a vibration sensor needs to be attached to a vibration source as far as possible to capture the vibration conditions of parts in real time. Further, vibration of three positions in different directions are measured at the same time to accurately measure from multiple space angles and feed system and part vibration conditions back, so that reliability of measurement data can be guaranteed. The rotation speed of a fan is simulated and adjusted through a fan speed adjusting control panel when a server is in different power consumption, operation conditions of the fan are directly reflected by means of LED real-time display, and a system and part vibration test can be completed without electrifying the server, so that testing workload is reduced, energy conservation and environment protection are realized, and operating cost is reduced.


We present a fully analytical halo model of colour-dependent clustering that incorporates the effects of galactic conformity in a halo occupation distribution (HOD) framework. The model, based on our previous numerical work, describes conformity through a correlation between the colour of a galaxy and the concentration of its parent halo, leading to a correlation between central and satellite galaxy colours at fixed halo mass. The strength of the correlation is set by a tunable `group quenching efficiency', and the model can separately describe group-level correlations between galaxy colour (1-halo conformity) and large scale correlations induced by assembly bias (2-halo conformity). We validate our analytical results using clustering measurements in mock galaxy catalogs, finding that the model is accurate at the 10-20 percent level for a wide range of luminosities and length scales. We apply the formalism to interpret the colour-dependent clustering of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We find good overall agreement between the data and a model that has 1-halo conformity at a level consistent with previous results based on an SDSS group catalog, although the clustering data require satellites to be redder than suggested by the group catalog. Within our modelling uncertainties, however, we do not find strong evidence of 2-halo conformity driven by assembly bias in SDSS clustering.


Ethanol–water, a prototypical 'green' solvent mixture, cannot be considered as inert toward supported Pd nanoparticles. We establish severe size dependencies in Pd redox behavior, persistent gradients in Pd phase in a plug-flow situation, and that Pd nanoparticles are contaminated with hydrogen derived from the solvent.


ABSTRACT A colonisation history for 411 extant genera and 477 lineages of the vascular flora of New Zealand was constructed using the plastid rbcL gene. Molecular clock crown ages suggest that the Eocene-Oligocene transition extinction at 33.9 Ma was critical to the development of the extant flora as few lineages, mostly ferns and conifers, predate this event. Based on crown dates, almost all extant angiosperm lineages have established after the Eocene-Oligocene transition extinction. The Oligocene marine transgression had little discernible impact on the formation of the extant flora, as at the culmination of the inundation (22.0–25.0 Ma) fifty extant lineages of vascular plant were present and another eight lineages originated during this time. The majority of extant species (89%) originated after the end of the Miocene Thermal Optimum at about 15.0 Ma. Nearly 50% of the extant species have evolved during mountain uplift and glaciation of the late Pliocene-Pleistocene (0–4.99 Ma). Therefore, despite a residual contribution from the Eocene, Oligocene and early to mid Miocene periods, the New Zealand vascular flora essentially originated in the late Miocene and after.


This study demonstrates the fabrication of nanostructured FTO by hydrothermal method. It was directly synthesized on FTO glass substrate by using pentahydrated stannic chloride (SnCl4.5H2O) and ammonium fluoride (NH4F) as precursors. Different synthesis time was applied which were 5h, 10h and 24h. The characteristics of nanostructured FTO were investigated via field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), two-point probe current-voltage test and ultraviolet visible spectrometer (UV-Vis). The FESEM images revealed the growth of nanosized particles layer on the FTO substrate. The electrical properties studied have shown a degeneration of conductivity as the thickness of nanostructured layer increased. UV-Vis results showed the decrement of transmittance as the time duration increased. It was revealed through FESEM characterization that the nanostructured FTO can be improved by using dibutyltin diacetate (DBTA) as a precursor.


Tarsius sp is one of endemic primate in Indonesia that is threatened. One of the efforts to preserve Tarsius sp is conservation. Tarsius bancanus and Tarsius sp. from Sulawesi morphologically are difficult to differentiate, so they need genetic study. The objective of this research is to know the genetic diversity in Tarsius bancanus borneanus, Tarsius bancanus bancanus dan Tarsius dianae and their classification based on NADH dehydrogenase 1 (ND1) encoding gene.
Sampling and DNA isolation of T. b. borneanus, T. b. bancanus and Tarsius dianae. Amplification of ND1 gene by PCR technique with forward ND1 primer and reverse ND1 primer. The product of PCR is 1278 bp DNA segments which then were processed by sequencing. The result of ND1 gene sequences (957 bp) were then been multiple aligned with other primates which were taken from Genbank using MEGA version 5.1.
The result of analysis showed that there were 160 sites of different nucleotides and 33 sites of different amino acids. Genetic distances based on nucleotide sequence of ND1 gene were analyzed using Kimura 2-parameter. The genetic distances between T. b. bancanus and T. b. borneanus is 0,4%, between T. b. bancanus and T. dianae is 19,8% and between T. b. borneanus and T. dianae is 19,7%. Neighbor-Joining method was used to construct the phylogenetic trees based on nucleotide sequence and amino acid sequence of ND1 gene with bootstrap 1000 times. Based on the phylogenetic trees there is genetic diversity between T. bancanus and T. dianae (from Sulawesi), but there is no genetic diversity between T. b. bancanus (from Sumatera) and T. b. borneanus (from Kalimantan). NADH dehydrogenase 1 gene sequence could be used to classify Tarsius in subordo Strepsirrhini.


Meteorological information was used to choose more reasonable emergency path.A typical emergency network structure consisting of a single retrieval depot and a single demand point was studied.An attenuation coefficient was used to reflect the real-time effect of weather on the transportation speed.A model for emergency transportation path selection was built,for which satisfying time constraints and demand requirements was a prerequiste.Numerical simulation and parameter analysis were made,the computational results were compared with the traditional Dijkstra algorithm solution.The results demonstrate that some key parameters,e.g.,the attenuation coefficient and link disaster intensity,influence greatly on the optimal path selection for emergency transportation.


OBJECTIVE
To explore the associations between birth outcomes and blood pressure, and study the sex dimorphism of these associations.

METHODS
With a multistage cluster random sampling method, 62 168 children were recruited in seven provinces of China in September of 2013, with 32 064 boys and 30 104 girls, median age of 10.74 years and mean birth weight of 3.3 kg, 49 843 single birth(97%), 1339 twin(2.6%), 180 triplet or more(0.4%). Questionnaire investigation and physical examination were conducted in the present study. Weight, height and blood pressure were measured in the physical examination. Demographic characteristics, birth outcomes(including birth weight and number of births), dietary behavior, physical activities were measured by questionnaire. The widely used age-, gender-and height-specific high blood pressure standard developed by American CDC was used for the present study. Multivariate linear and logistic regression analysis were conducted to study the associations between birth outcomes and blood pressure level or high blood pressure(HBP), and also sex dimorphism of these associations was explored.

RESULTS
A total of 5933 children were categorized as having high blood pressure in the 62 168 participants(9.5%). With stratified analyses by birth weight category, only in the low-birth-weight strata birth weight was significantly inversely associated with systolic blood pressure(SBP) and diastolic blood pressure(DBP) with potential covariates adjusted(SBP: b=-1.628, 95%CI-2.571--0.685, P=0.001; DBP: b=-1.463, 95%CI-2.186--0.740, P<0.001). While compared with the non-low birth weight children, low birth weight was not associated with higher risk of HBP(P>0.05). Compared with those boys born as singleton, boys born as one of the twins have a 36.4% higher risk of HBP(OR=1.364, 95%CI 1.049-1.774), while in girls no such significant association was found. Additionally, compared with a term birth, overdue birth and preterm birth was not associated with higher risk of HBP(P>0.05).

CONCLUSION
Birth weight and singleton or not were associated with childhood blood pressure levels and higher risk of high blood pressure, and some associations were sex specific. Gender differences should be paid attention to in the prevention and control of high blood pressure in children and adolescents in the future, and the prevention and control should be focused on low-birth weight children or twin boys.


SETTING
Clinical trials can provide a high standard of patient care and contribute to scientific knowledge; however, only a fraction of the patients screened participate and receive treatment as part of a trial.

OBJECTIVE
To explore reasons why patients were not enrolled in an international tuberculosis (TB) treatment trial and to compare experiences among study sites.

DESIGN
An analysis of reasons why patients were not enrolled was conducted among patients screened for a TB clinical trial at 26 sites in North and South America, Africa, and Europe.

RESULTS
Staff at study sites screened 1119 potential candidates for the trial: 61% (n = 686) were not enrolled due to 1) failure to meet eligibility criteria (n = 405, 59%), 2) site's decision (n = 168, 24%), or 3) candidate's choice (n = 113, 16%). Study staff recorded a total of 144 reasons for why they believed patients chose not to participate, including concerns over research (28%), conflicts with work or school (21%), and lifestyle and family issues (20%). Socio-demographic and geographic factors also influenced participation.

CONCLUSION
Increased evaluation of screening outcomes and of specific interventions, such as improved education and communication about trial procedures, may increase the efficiency of screening and enrollment in clinical trials.


This experiment was conducted to determine the best roughage combination of alfalfa meal(AM)and ammoniated corn straw(ACS),so as to improve the efficiency of roughage utilization and reduce the cost of feeding.The AM was mixed with ACS in the proportion of 100∶0, 80∶20,60∶40,50∶50,40∶60,20∶80and 0∶100with 3replicates per group.The accumulated gas production(GP)at fermentation for 3,6,12,24,48h,and the changes of pH,dry matter disappearance rate(DMD),ammonia nitrogen(NH3-N)concentration,microbial protein(MCP) and volatile fat acids (VFA)concentration,and their single factor associative effects index (SFAEI)and multiply factors associative effects index(MFAEI)were determined by gas production technique in vitro after fermentation for 48h.The results showed as folows:The accumulated gas production of AM20∶ACS80group was higher than that of the other groups,and the DMD of AM0∶ACS100group was significantly lower than other groups(P<0.05).The NH3-N concentration of AM20∶ACS80and AM0∶ACS100groups was significantly higher than the other groups(P<0.05).The MCP concentration was highest in AM20∶ACS80group,and the concentration of acetic acid and TVFA in AM20∶ACS80group was the highest(P<0.05),and the


1: Coyne and Orr: The evolutionary genetics of speciation 2: Tregenza and Butlin: Genetic diversity: Do market genes tell us the whole story? 3: Harwood and Amos: Genetic diversity in natural populations 4: Skulason, Snorrason, and Jonsson: Sympatric morphs, populations, and speciation in freshwater fish with emphasis on arctic charr 5: Price: Sexual selection and natural selection in bird speciation 6: Turner: Explosive speciation of African cichlid fishes 7: Partridge and Parker: Sexual conflict and speciation 8: Magurran: Population differentiation without speciation 9: Tautz and Schmid: From genes to individuals - Developmental genes and the generation of the phenotype 10: Barraclough, Vogler, and Harvey: Revealing the factors that promote speciation 11: Gould: Gulliver's further travels: The necessity and difficulty of a hierarchical theory of selection 12: Gaston and Chown: Geographic range size and speciation 13: Sepkoski: Rates of speciation in the fossil record 14: Conway Morris: The evolution of diversity in ancient ecosystems: A review.


This paper implements a simple and elegant version of bottom-up Kilbury chart parsing (Kilbury, 1985; Wiren, 1992). This is one of the many chart parsing variants, which are all based on the data structure of charts. The chart parsing process uses inference rules to add new edges to the chart, and parsing is complete when no further edges can be added. One novel aspect of this implementation is that it doesn't have to rely on a global state for the implementation of the chart. This makes the code clean, elegant and declarative, while still having the same space and time complexity as the standard imperative implementations.


This work presents a dynamic model of the reactive side of large-scale fluidized bed (FB) boilers that describes the in-furnace transient operation of both bubbling and circulating FB boilers (BFB ...


The purpose of this study was to examine the use of computer and communications technologies at four-year public/private college and university career centers that are members of the Southwest Association of Colleges and Employers (SWACE).

The findings of this study reveal that (a) all career centers are now using computer and telecommunications technologies for at least one office function; (b) small institutions do not use technologies as much as large institutions because they have fewer financial resources, less technical
support from institutions, fewer personnel, and they also need time to learn to use technologies effectively; (c) public career centers are more willing to explore new technologies but private career centers mostly adopt and implement proven technologies; (d) career education does not utilize
technologies as much as career counseling or job placement functions; (e) lack of financial resources and lack of technical support are major barriers to a technological infusion; and (f) technologies, including electronic student databases, computerized presentations with the network connection, and
OCR scanners, will be needed in the near future.


A highly convergent approach was developed to achieve the first asymmetric and scalable total synthesis of FD-594, a complex polycyclic xanthone natural product from Streptomyces sp. TA-0256, in (LLS) 20 steps. The trans -9,10-dihydrophenanthrene-9,10-diol fragment (B-C-D ring) was generated through a new strategy involving an asymmetric dihydroxylation, followed by Cu-mediated oxidative cyclization. Late-stage stereoselective glycosylation assembled the angular hexacyclic framework with a β-linked 2,6-dideoxy trisaccharide fragment.


The 47 strains were isolated from Polygonurn cuspidatum collected in Qinba mountain areas,selecting and taking 4 sorts of mediums that contained trehalose,glucose and starch as main nutrients and energy sources.The 6 strains with strong antibacterial activity were classified into 3 genera of Streptomyces(2 strains),Micromonospora(2 strains) and Streptosporangium(2 strains) by 16S rDNA sequence analysis and morphology.Antimicrobial activities of endophytic actinomycetes fermentation broth were determined with filter paper.The results showed that 17 strains performed different degrees of antimicrobial activity accounting for 36.2% of all strains and 6 of them with significantly higher antibacterial activity.The PEA023 strain had strong inhibition to all target strains.Only PEA023 and PEA032 strains had antagonist activity against the gram-negative of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.


Objective To compare the value of ultrasonography(US),mammography(MAM)and magnetic resonance imaging(MRI)in the diagnosis of breast cancer with Meta-analysis.Methods Articles reporting US,MAM and MRI data of patients with known or suspected breast cancers were searched in the Cochrane Library,MEDL INE,EMBASE,CBM,CNKI,VIP.Study quality was assessed and data extraction was performed.Statistic analysis was performed with Meta-disc 1.4 software.Results Nine articles involving 1370 lesions were included in this Meta-analysis.Significant heterogeneity was present except the sensitivity of US and MRI in these studies.The fixed effect model and random effect model were both correspondingly used.Sensitivities of US,MAM,MRI were 84%,75%,95% and specificities were 70%,71% and 66% respectively.Area under the curve(AUC)of summary receiver operating characteristic(SROC)curve were 86.6%,81.6%,95.8% respectively.AUC of combined diagnosis using the three methods together was 98.6%.In the Meta-regression analysis,covariate of age was associated with US,as well as BI-RADS with MAM.Conclusion US,MAM and MRI are valuable diagnostic methods for breast cancer,but the combination of these three methods is greatest valuable.


By analyzing the limitations of URL safety management in Web applications, this paper proposes a method to manage URL rights using configuration variable namespace of Struts2 framework. Firstly, user-defined configuration files are read to match the log role and request role, then analytical algorithm is used to parse the operation rights value to match the permit operator and request operator. Only the two matches successfully can users be allowed to access normally. The experiment shows that this method can not only meet the general URL rights management, but also according to users' needs, customize the granularity of access control to manage the operation rights. It also supports the configuration of the rights management and is a common management tool.


The management of patients with MEE and their follow-up care must he based not only on the clearest pos sible understanding of the structure and function of the ET, but also on the anatomic abnormalities that may alter that function. However, to our knowledge no histopatho logic study of the ET has thoroughly investigated these ab normalities. Meaningful pathologic study of this problem has not heen possible to date, because most of the speci mens collected for study only contained portions of the cartilaginous tube. We are studying this pathologic rela tionship extensively, using serial horizontal and vertical (axial) plane sections of specimens, which consist of the petrous portion of the temporal bone and the entire ET and its accessory muscles. Human and Rhesus monkey specimens are being studied histopathologically to investi gate the following: 1) the relationsip between MEE and abnormalities of the E T (human), 2) the inner ear path ology associated with sensorineural hearing losses second ary to MEE and ET abnormalities (human), 3) the MEE and ET abnormalities in association with cleft palate and/or a high arched palate (human), 4) the congenital anomalies of the ET as possible causative factors in MEE (human), and 5) the pathology of the ET, middle ear, and other surrounding structures following experimental surgical procedures (Rhesus monkey).' ' Age_ TABLE 15. DISTRIBUTION OF EXTENDED TEMPORAL BONE COLLECTION ACCORDING TO AGE AND CLASSIFICATION


In this research, it is aimed to compare the sports management students placed with the talent examination system and the central placement examination system, within the framework of the requirements of the sports managemers profession. In the research parallel mixed methods research design which is the one of mixed methods was preferred. Quantitative data used in the research were collected with using a questionnaire form developed by the researchers, and a semi-structured metaphor form developed by the researchers for qualitative data. Typical sampling methods from the purposeful sampling method were used to determine the research participants. In this context, students from Ankara University, which using with a special talent exam, and Gazi University, which using the central placement system, were included in the study. In this framework, 121 students from the sports management department participated in the study, but 109 data forms that were valid among 121 forms were included in the analysis. Qualitative data were analyzed with content analysis method and quantitative data were analyzed with descriptive statistical methods. According to the research findings, students who enter the sports management departments with the central placement system are behind in terms of their sportive background, knowledge, interest and equipment compared to the students who enter with the special talent exam. And It is seen that they perceive the physical and health benefits of sports less, and the multi-faceted benefits more. As a result, it can be said that it is not correct to select students to sports management departments through central exams that only make cognitive assessments.


A method of microdissection comprising: FORMING A FIELD OF IMAGES OF CELLS tissue sample using a microscope, identify at least one zone of cells of interest in the image field of cells, whose area of cells of interest UNDERSTAND DIFFERENT TYPES OF ADJACENT AREAS cells and cell extract that cell area attractions include tissue sample. EXTRACTION IS CONDUCTED contacting the tissue sample with a transfer surface can be activated selectively SO THE REGIONS OF THE SAME ADHERE TO THE AREA OF INTEREST TO REMOVING CELLS. The transfer surface comprises a layer ADHESIVA SELECTIVELY activatable capable of adhering, chemically or electrostatically, for example, SELECTED REGIONS tissue sample. Upon activation of the transfer surface, SEPARATE SURFACE TRANSFER AND TISSUE SAMPLE. During separation, the zone of cells of interest remains adhered to the transfer surface and thus can be separated from the tissue sample AND ANALYZE MOLECULARLY.


The thesis will compare the domestic and foreign education with their classroom teachings,cultivation of studentsindividuality and higher educations system of enrolment and allocation.It points out that the teaching of innovation is the fundamentality of strengthening the country.\;[


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY * A FIRM'S SUCCESSION PLAN ISSUES include mentoring new leadership, providing retirement benefits and deciding how to transfer the firm to younger owners. * TO ENSURE FAIRNESS, CPAs should establish a succession plan before the partners know who will stay and who will move on. The ideal time is when the firm is formed, but make a plan a minimum of 10 years before a senior partner's likely retirement. * A FIRM ALSO SHOULD HAVE a partnership agreement, an up-to-date valuation and buy/sell agreements in place. Because circumstances can change quickly, a plan should be reviewed no less than once a year. * A PRACTICE CONTINUATION PLAN provides for an outside party to take over the practice under a predetermined compensation and payment schedule. It's a small to midsize firm's only defense against potential calamity when a senior partner dies suddenly. Review it with heirs and key clients. * FIRMS NEED TO CHOOSE A SUCCESSOR managing partner. A future owner must know how to recruit, hire, train, evaluate, compensate and supervise new accountants as well as how to schedule engagements. * OFFERING MANAGER TRAINEES A BONUS based on firm profits conditions them for ownership before the fact rather than after. Benjamin Franklin said that nothing is certain in this world but death and taxes, and CPA firms ought to be ready to deal with both eventualities if anybody is. Nevertheless, a surprising number of firms don't have a written succession plan to provide for continuation of the business after one of the owners withdraws or dies. For a small to midsize firm, such a plan is its only defense against potential legal, financial and personnel calamities when a senior partner leaves unexpectedly. This article offers a few pointers for CPAs who need a push to get them to roll up their sleeves and get their house in order. ADVISERS NEED GOOD ADVICE, TOO The skills of succession planning are part of the professional currency of accountants--although CPAs apparently use them more on behalf of their clients than their own firms. More than three-quarters of those replying to a recent PCPS poll said they didn't have a written succession plan in place and that the withdrawal, disability or sudden death of a partner would pose a significant challenge to their business (see exhibit, page 44). The issue of least concern--providing for retirement benefits--would still pose a challenge for 46% of the firms. Half of those having a strategic plan believed it prepared them for such major changes. However, the fact that 69.3% felt their plan prepared them to handle the sudden death of a partner means that 30.7%, nearly a third, did not. Statistics indicate that one in three partners of firms with less than $5 million in annual revenue will turn management of their business over to new hands within the next five years. Wanda Lorenz, CPA, former managing partner of Lane Gorman Trubitt LLP--a single-office firm in Dallas with 16 partners and about 100 staff--says, "Succession is among the most important practice management issues facing the profession." A firm's biggest transition issues involving partner turnover are * Coping with a sudden withdrawal, disability or death of a partner. * Mentoring new leadership. * Providing retirement benefits. * Transferring the firm to younger partners. * Selling the firm. * Overcoming procrastination about making a plan. "I DON'T HAVE A PLAN--WHAT DO I DO?" "Most small-business owners don't have an exit strategy," says Jody Davis, CPA, who is an authority on small-business succession planning issues and a partner of Davis Monk & Co., a 40-person CPA firm in Gainesville, Florida. "They just don't want to deal with it until it's too late--and that's just as true for small CPA firms," he says. (See "Preserving the Family Legacy," page 34, for more information on succession strategies for small and family-owned businesses. …


This paper deals with researching out-of-school physical
activities of students who attend the higher grade of
elementary schools in the region of Broumov. The research
contained 203 children: 101 attending the 5th form; 102
attending the 9th form. Data were gathered through an anonymous
questionnaire. It was found out that children perform physical
activities which are not part of Physical Education on a daily
basis. The results show that the age of children affect the
frequency of daily physical activities, namely that the higher
the children's age, the smaller their interest in out-of-school
physical activities. In the 5th form, 44 % of children
performed some physical activity on a daily basis; whereas in
the 9th form, it was only 32 % of the informants. Boys devote
more time to physical activities than girls. Favorite physical
activities were the same for both boys and girls; sex
influenced only the order of the favorite activities. Boys
stated the following order of favorite activities: ball games,
cycling, and running. Girls stated a different order: cycling,
running, ball games. Further, the students stated that they
also spend their leisure time rollerblading, exercising
(aerobics, Zumba, pilates, and gymnastics), dancing, horse
riding, walking, combat sports (boxing, judo, and fencing).
They also attend a number of hobby and leisure courses (Scouts,
fire fighters, fishers, chess players) and fit centers.


This article uses a case study of a Melbourne-based youth media project called Youthworx to explore the processes at stake in cultural engagement for marginalised young people. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted between 2008 and 2010, I identify some ways in which the city is implicated in promoting or preventing access to socially valued spaces of creativity and intended social mobility. The ethnographic material presented here has both empirical and theoretical value. It reveals the important relationships between the experience of place, creativity, and social life, demonstrating potentialities and limits of creativity-focused development interventions for marginalised youth. The articulation of these relationships and processes taking place within a particular city setting has theoretical implications. It opens up an opportunity to consider "suburbs" as enacted by specific forms of access, contingencies, and opportunities for a particular demographic, rather than treating "suburbs" as abstract, analytical constructs. Finally, my empirically grounded discussion draws attention to cultural and social consequences that inhabiting certain social worlds and acts of travelling "to and beyond" them have for young people.


The rationale behind this article was to explore the importance for academics to reflect constantly and consistently on what they teach; why they teach what they teach; how they teach and assess, keeping in mind who they teach (calibre of their students); and the circumstances under which they teach. The authors posed the question : How is reflective practice used in fostering or creating a humane higher education? Using a desktop approach, the article delves into classroom practices, challenges and the influence of what happens 'beyond the classroom' on both the lecturer and students' performance. The article is fundamentally are flection of what the authors witness themselves in their daily encounters, to a large extent, with lecturers sharing their challenges, and to a lesser extent, with students seeking development and support in their endeavours to succeed in their studies. Reflective practice is offered as a plausible approach that can be used systematically to gain a deeper understanding of the teaching and learning process in a higher education context.


It is now time to begin the study of personal genome services based on the interdisciplinary theories and technologies of genomics and artificial intelligence (AI). Although recently much attention has been given to personal genome services for realizing personal medicine, little systematic research has been done on their communication and computational aspects for intelligent wellness service in AI communities. We believe that the intelligent personal genome services of the future need to include an understanding of how the knowledge of genetic risk influences people's behavior. This paper proposes the concept of MyFinder, a new framework for realizing an intimate personal genome service with AI technologies. This paper also describes the grand challenge problems of personal genome services that the AI and genomics communities should tackle jointly.


of 1940 and the foundation of the Interamerican Indigenous Institute (INI); c) The neo-liberal period that lived along with the internationalization of indigenous' identity and that began in 1982 with the of fi cial adoption of neoliberalism as the main policy of Mexico up to the birth of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in 1994. Hence, once "Genealogy" is stated we will jump to the contemporary period during which Mexico implemented the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with USA and Canada that revisited the article 27 of Mexican constitution for which indigenous landholdings had to be protected from sale and privatization. Here the analysis will be conducted on existing literature through a qualitative analysis of the data extrapolated via "Discourse Theory". At this point, we will compare counter-hegemonic and hegemonic discourses of Subcomandante Marcos and President Salinas de Gortari. Hence, it will be clear how the two opponents, via the concepts of "democracy" and "modernization", have tried to give a new meaning to the signi fi er "indigenous" and how the discursive fi ght of EZLN has tried to reach as main goal the rebuilding of the word "indigenous", making it enter in the San Andrés Accords of 1996 as a term that had to include all those native subjects who had right to have rights.


This paper presents techniques to integrate worst-case execution time (WCET) data into a compiler. Currently, a tight integration of WCET into compilers is strongly desired, but only some ad-hoc approaches were reported currently. Previous work mainly used self-written WCET estimators with limited functionality and preciseness during compilation. A very tight integration of a high quality WCET analyzer into a compiler was not yet achieved. This work is the first to present such a tight coupling between a compiler and the WCET analyzer aiT. This is done by automatically translating the assembly-like contents of the compiler's low-level format (LLIR) to aiT's exchange format CRL2. Additionally, the results produced by aiT are automatically collected and re-imported into the compiler infrastructure. The work described in this paper is smoothly integrated into a C compiler for the Infineon TriCore processor. It opens up new possibilities for the design of WCET-aware optimizations in the future. The concepts for extending the compiler structure are kept very general so that they are not limited to WCET information. Rather, it is possible to use our concepts also for multi-objective optimization of e. g. best-case execution time (BCET) or energy dissipation


Excerpt The use of sulphanilamide in the treatment of undulant fever has been recently advocated.1, 2, 3, 4In the case herein described, features other than the disappearance of fever seem to make ...


the purpose of this project is to develop Profile Change application that runs on Android platform. This is the first version of its kind and is developed based on Android platform.  The goal of this project is to find mobile when it is silent and forgot where it is placed. In present days in the entire world mobiles are using very rashly so the people are expecting some new technologies in mobiles as we know android is an open source. Our project name is " Secured Phone Mode Conversion ". It is an application which can convert any silent, vibrate mode into general mode.   In this project we will send a Message to my mobile, it will authenticate the message and it reacts converting to the silent mode to general mode. If the message is not matched with the mobile password then it will be normal message. In this app whatever the message is sent is itself a password for the app. means in this app message online processing will be done and the output action will be performed on receiver side of mobile. In this also we can manage WIFI and schedule the message by using application.


In an incompatible combination of rice cultivar and blast fungus race, the rapid increase of perexidase activity of rice leaves occured within 24hr after inoculation, while a little or no increase was observed in a compatible case at early stage of infection. However, sudden increase occured at 3-5 days after inoculation in a compatible combination and the activity exceeded that of an incompatible combination. These alteration of activities occured more rapiclIy in aged leaves. The highest activity was observed at t.he time of rapid lesion enlargement in compatible case. The isezymes activated by the infection were iixed, and no new isozyme speeific to cornpatible or incompatible combination was detected. The distinct difference between both combinations was the time of increase started, The arnple supplies of nitrogenous fertilizer reduced the degree of resistance to rice blast disease. However, peroxidase activities increased with the doses of N-fertilizer and the highest activity was observed at the highest dose, i,e., under the most susceptible condition. These results indicate that the increase of peroxidase activity is possibly the reflection of host cell collapse or physiological disorder and may not be directly involved in the resistance mechanisrn. (Received June 8, 1981) Introduction The shift of oxidative enzyme activities reflects a rapid physiological response of host cells in infection site and is commonly observed in various plant diseasesJ The increased activity of peroxidase after infection have been well documented5,iS,37,4i,4Sny50). AIthough the role and site of action of peroxidase are still in arnbiguity, some close relations with physiological processes have been clarified. Peroxidase plays as a catalyst of ethylene,47) lignini3,33,34) and phytoalexin4) formation, further it may, in some cases, participate in the oxidation of phenolics20,54) and direct inhibition of parasite's growth23) through such as myeloperoxidase-halide-hydrogen peroxide antibacterial systemi9). Therefore, the implication of peroxidase in resistanee to various plant diseases have been much stressed. Some reports indicated that the qualitative and quantitative changes of peroxidase isozyrnes may assoeiate with determining resistance or susceptibilityi2,Z2i45,5i). However, in some cases it was indicated that the increase of peroxidase aetivities or appearance of new isozymes occured as a result of syrnptom response, or may be related with the degeneration of host cell$ caused by infectionii,ai:2"). The critical reports describing the increase of peroxidase activities unrelated with the resistance have been ''i Fa'c' ulty of Agriculld'r'e, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812, Japan th.Y'Hjc*va#V,B ** Research Laboratory of Japan Plant Protection AssociatiQn, Kodaira, TQkyQ 187, Japan H* reimMnvaskMXwt The Phytopathological Society of Japan NII-Electronic Library Service he hytopathologica S ciety f apan Ann. Phytopath. Soc. Japan 47 (5). ?ecember, 1981 655 recently accumulatedi,e,6LiO,i4"'i7i24,8t,S6,3S,40,42,52,53). These re$ults, however, were mainly on unrelated increase of activity with race-specific resistance and not with the general resistance which changes according to the ageing of leaf tissues or various environmenta! conditions, In this report the alteration of total and individual isozyme aetivity of peroxidase in compatible and incompatible combinations in riee blast disease caused by Ryricularia el:y2ae Cav, was compared and, furthermore, the increase of activity which does not correlate with the general resistance in cornpatible combination will also be reported, The abstracts and similar data have partly been repDrted elesewhere25ny2S). Most experiments were carried out at National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Tokyo, Materials and Methods ISolates. The isolates of PJ,ricularia oryxae Cav. used in this experiment were Ken 68-17 (NIAS) and TH 65-105 (Tohoku National Agricuitural Experiment Station)・ ExP・ 1Rice cultivar Kanto 51 (Pi-k) which is susceptible to Ken 68-17 and resistant to TH 65-105 was sown in soil mixture of Nishigahara soil and paddy field soil (6:4) fertilized with 1g of pre-mixed fertilizer (Chiyoda Kasei Co, Ltcl.) in plastic pots (15× 6 × 10cm). At 5-Ieaf stage, spray inoculation was reutinely carried out with a spore suspension (ca. 10 spores under × 150microscopic field). PIants sprayed were incubated in a moist chamber at 24 C for 17 hr. Then, inoculated plants were transferred to a green house air-eonditioned around 27C. Sampling of 4th and 5th ieaves was carried out at O, 1, 3, 5 and 7th day after inoculation. Samples eollected were wrapped with aluminium foil and stored at -10C until the final sampling at 7th day, The preparation of peroxidase from every sample was earried out at the same day. Time courses of total and isozyme activities of peroxidase after infection in compatible and incompatible combinations of host and parasite were compared. Exp, 2. Cultivar Aichi Asahi (Pi-a) was preliminarily raised on the mesh-screen floated on tap water which was adjusted to pH5.0-5.5. At 2-Ieaf stage, seedlings of uniform size were selected and transplanted to vermiculite in 15cm porcelain pots, six seedlings per each pot, One-fourth strength of Kasugai's culture solution2) was watered every 4days for 8days after transplanting and followed by 1/2 strength solution. When 6th leaves cleveloped fully, the ammonium sulfate solutions containing 188 and 376mg of (NH4)2S04 respectively were added to some pots. These treatments were designated as Tr-1 and Tr-2 respectively. The ample supplies of ammonium sulfate was repeated once more at 5th day after the first reatment When 7th leaves developed fully, 6th and 7th leaves were sampled separately. The alteration of peroxidase activity in amply N-fertilized rice p]ant which reduced its resistance to rice blast was examined. P}'eparation of peroxidase. In Exp. 1, lg of leaf sample was homogenized in 5 ml of 12.5% glucose containing 1115M phosphate buffer (pH7.4) with the addition of quartz sand in a mortar. The homogenate was centrifuged at 12,OeOxg for 10min. Then, 2ml of cold acetone was added to 1ml of the supernatant in a small centrifuge tube and centrifuged at 6,OOOxg for 10min, Resulting pre ¢ ipitate was resuspended to 3ml of cold acetone and centrifuged as stated above. The washing was repeated once more and remaining acetone was completely eliminated in vacuo. The precipitate was transferred to a Tefron homegenizer with distilled water, homogenized slowly to make The Phytopathological Society of Japan NII-Electronic Library Service he hytopathologica S ciety f apan 656 Hdstsimfien\ftiR as47ts ee5e HllEll.56ff12A m.r a emulsion in ice cold, The homogenate was finally adjusted to 60ml with distilled water and used as the enzyme solution. The supernatants before acetone treatment were used as the enzyme preparations for gel electrophoresis. In Exp, 2, the preparation of enzyme was conducted as stated above except for using 1/60M phosphate buffer (pH 7.4) and addition of equal volume of cold acetone for precipitation of enzyme. All procedures were carried out volumetrically in the cold. Peroxidase activity. Five ml of O,2M acetate buffer (pH4,7), lml of 1% o-phenylenediamine ethanol solution, lml of 0.3% H202 solution and 200pt1 of the enzyme solution were ineubated at 30C for 5min. Then, lml of saturated sodium bisulfite solution was added to stop the reaction, The activity was measured colorimetrically by O. D, at 430nrn with a spectrophotometer (Beckman Co.). Thin tager electrophoresis. The enzyme preparations were subjected to polyacrylamide gel thin layer electrophoresis. Nitto GE (Acrylamide 92% and ethyleneureabisacrylamide 8 %) was used as a supporting medium with DMAPN (Dimethylamino propionitrile) and ammonium persulfate as catalysts, A 4% gel was used with discontinuous buffer system (Gel buffer : O.038M Tris hydroxymethylaminomethane-O.05 M NaOH, pH8.2). Ten pt1 of each sarnple was poured into gel slots, The samples frem compatible and incompatible combinations were always run on a same gel sheet with the check sample from healthy leaves. The running was conducted at ca. 5C for about 100 min at constant 1 mAlcrn (width of the gel). Dletection and densitometry. o-Dianisidine which is the most stable electron donor and was recommended for the detection of peroxidase35) was used. One hundred mg of o-dianisidine was dissolved in 50ml of 95% ethanol and mixed with 49ml of O.2M acetate buffer (pH4,7). One ml of O.3% H20z (final coneentration is ca. O.O03 %) was added to the mixture stated above and poured in the tray. Gel was dipped in and the tray was floated on 30C water bath. Fifteen min after dipping, 1ml of saturated sodium bisulfite was added to stop the reaction. The gel was immediately transferred to Chromoscan densitometer (Joyce Loebl Co,) and the activity of each isozyme was measured colorimetrically by O,D, at 430nm. Results The alterations of peroxidase activities after inoculation were compared in compatible and incompatible combinations of rice cultivar and races of Pyricularia ory2ae Cav, In the incompatible combination, the total activities at 5th leaves increased within 24hr after inoeulation and successively inereased. While in the compatible combination, the activity was stable until 3rd day and followed by rapid increase, reaching its maximum at 5 th day and then slightly decreased toward 7 th day, The activities in the compatible case at 5-7th day were higher than that ef the incompatible case (Fig. 1-a). The highest increase was observed at the time of rapid enlargement of blast lesions in the compatible combination. The increase of activities occured more rapidly at 4th leaves (second leaf from the top) (Fig. 1-b). The gradual increase was observed in intact eheck leaves. AIthough total activity is the reflection of each isozyme activity, total activities were affected by activities of the major isozymes. Isozyme


The present study had the general objective to propose an environmental tax to encourage the reduction of garbage produced by the population of the municipal...


Asphalt pavement has good safety and comfort of driving. But there's the phenomenon of early fault in it because of many reasons .This paper analyzes the genesis of early fault in asphalt pavement and gives out several disposal measures.


Mechanisms of thermal quenching of photoluminescence (PL) related to defects in semiconductors are analyzed. We conclude that the Schon-Klasens (multi-center) mechanism of the thermal quenching of PL is much more common for defects in III–V and II–VI semiconductors as compared to the Seitz-Mott (one-center) mechanism. The temperature dependencies of PL are simulated with a phenomenological model. In its simplest version, three types of defects are included: a shallow donor, an acceptor responsible for the PL, and a nonradiative center that has the highest recombination efficiency. The case of abrupt and tunable thermal quenching of PL is considered in more detail. This phenomenon is predicted to occur in high-resistivity semiconductors. It is caused by a sudden redirection of the recombination flow from a radiative acceptor to a nonradiative defect.


SUSPENSION OF THE REQUIRED USE OF PARKING METERS IN GREAT NECK, N.Y., DURING SATURDAYS IN SEPTEMBER IN ORDER TO STIMULATE RETAIL TRADE IN THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT


The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a drainage pipe microbial milk fat detergent composition block and a detergent composition blocks, the microbial milk fat detergent solid (固 形) contained in the drain cap is installed at the entrance of the drain hole is dissolved, so flowing into the drain fixation in the water pipe the milk fat is made possible that biodegradation by microorganisms milk fat detergent is maintained to facilitate the flow of the sewage, so prevented from occurring in that the milk fat fixed in the drain pipe by a cleaning agent is able to remove odors inside the water pipe, Further, in the dissolved microbial milk fat detergent is drained through the drain pipe with the sewage, so collects in the sump of milk fat secured within the sump is doemeun course, the water collection allows the biodegradation by microorganisms dairy cleaners to remove odors in the sump It can prevent fat fixation It therefore relates to a process for the preparation of good water quality to keep drain microbial milk fat detergent composition for being able to block state and its detergent composition block.


Abstract. Kumar R, Tapwal A, Pandey S, Raja-Rishi R, Mishra G, Giri K. 2014. Six unrecorded species of Russula (Russulales) from Nagaland, India and their nutrient composition. Nusantara Bioscience 6: 33-38. The young and matured carpophores of mushrooms were collected from the forests of Puliebzie, Zakhama, Pherma, Mankoi, Chungtia, and Tigit located in different districts of Nagaland, one of the north-eastern states of India. All the species were found associated with Pinus khasya, P. caribaea, P. patula, Cryptomeria japonica, Canarium resiniferum, Dipterocarpus macrocarpus, and Shorea assamica. The collected mushrooms were identified as Russula species on the basis of their macro and microscopic characteristics. The identified Russula species were also screened for their nutrient content. The protein and carbohydrate content was found to vary between 28.12 to 42.86, and 49.33 to 55%, respectively. These species [Russula aeruginea Lindblad; -Fr., R. alnetorum Romagnesi, R. brevipes Peck, R. fragrantissima Romagnesi, R. nobilis Velen. and R. ochroleuca (Pers.) Fr Gray.] are a new record from Nagaland state of India.


Asbestos is a material known and used by man for nearly 5000 years, its commercial definition includes six different types of fibrous mineral. Because of their numerous thermal and mechanical properties, asbestos has been mined intensively for commercial use in the last century. It is now well recognized that asbestos exposure can cause severe damage to health and thus its use and exploitation is therefore banned in many countries and its exposure is strictly regulated. The application of those regulations requires rigorous analytical methods to support it. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is the most powerful and efficient tool for the analysis of asbestos fibers. However, identification errors caused by damage to asbestos fibers can occur and this problem has been investigated in depth. Asbestos amosite fibers were initially investigated to evaluate the damage caused by a transmission electron microscope electron beam. Since elemental x-ray intensity ratios obtained by energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (EDS) are commonly used for asbestos identification, the impact of beam damage on these ratios was measured. It was determined that the magnesium/silicon ratio was the most sensitive to damage caused by the electron beam. Various tests showed that most fibers have a current density threshold above which the chemical composition of the fiber is modified. The value of this threshold current density varied depending on the fiber. The existence of a threshold electron dose was also demonstrated. This value was dependent on the current density used and can be increased by providing a recovery period between exposures to the electron beam. This study also established that the electron beam current is directly related to the damage rate above a current density of 165 A/cm 2 . Guidelines were established in order to ensure that the amosite fibers are not damaged. It was determined that analysis should be conducted below a current density of 100 A/cm 2 . In the second part of this study, the main objective was to assess whether temperature is a factor influencing damage to asbestos fibers and, if so, how it can be used to minimize damage. It was found that lowering the temperature to 123 K can inhibit, for a given time, the manifestation of the damage. The significant decrease of atom diffusion at low temperature momentarily prevents mass loss, greatly reducing the possibility of misidentification of


In two series of measurements, Cardone, Carpinteri et al. report an excess of neutrons over the background flux corresponding to the catastrophic fracture of a granite block subject to compression. Here we show that these measurements contain large inconsistencies with respect to the stated experimental procedure, including fractional neutron counts and strongly non Poissonian statistics


We provide upper and lower bounds on the least-perimeter way to enclose and separate n regions of equal area in the plane (theorem 3.1). Along the way, inside the hexagonal honeycomb, we provide minimizers for each n (theorem 2.7).


A small area of CdTe single crystal within a spot of ≤2 μm diameter has been oxygenated under ambient conditions using 514.5 nm radiation from Ar+ laser. The oxygenation could be monitored using laser Raman spectroscopy, and it has been established that the asymmetric TeO2−3 ion is formed on the surface. The significance of the process for basic material science and technological applications in electronic and optoelectronic devices has been emphasized.


OBJECTIVE
To analyze the network of human and non-human actors involved in the computerization of primary health care in the Brazilian federal government.

METHOD
A qualitative study that used as a theoretical reference the actor-network theory and as a methodological reference the cartography of controversies. Data analysis was carried out using Gephi software, and through the extraction of reports, informed by the actor-network theory.

RESULTS
We found a network of 288 connections among 33 actors, composed mainly of nonhuman influencers of computerization. These actors are distributed throughout 3 inter-related communities, and manage the network by defining obligations, penalties, conflicts and intentionalities, thus influencing the success of the intended computerization.

FINAL CONSIDERATIONS
The network of actors at the federal level generates situations that, in many cases, hamper the successful implementation of a nationwide computerization strategy.


Paper presents structural aspects of friction in polymer materials. Three main issues are discussed and namely: surface segregation of components, gradient of crosslinks density and supermolecular structure. Low molecular weight fraction of trans-1,4-polyoctenamer (TOR) can migrate to the surface of its blends with natural rubber (NR), exhibiting lubrication effect. The phenomenon is likely to be of more general character, being especially important in terms of ozone protection of diene rubbers. Gradient nature of vulcanisation, confirmed for cis-1,4-polyisoprene (IR), exerts great influence on friction of the material. Its sulphur vulcanisates exhibit enhanced hardness of the surface layer in comparison to the bulk, what has been associated with differences in density of crosslinks. The gradient has been explained as the result of: surface migration of curing system components, crosslinks getting "matured" and general low heat transfer of polymers. Rolling with side constraints or channel-die compression followed by annealing at elevated temperature, applied to isotactic polypropylene (iPP) or high-density polyethylene (HDPE), make possible to obtain not only highly oriented material but also modified to high extent morphology of its crystalline phase. Such structure exhibits very high mechanical properties, comparable even to constructional steel. Friction of the polymers differs significantly when measured along and perpendicularly to the direction of rolling and depends on direction in relation to crystalline planes.


The paper presents the most important implementation issues of an industrial communication protocol, the EtherCAT (Ethernet control automation technology) protocol, on an embedded Linux platform. The authors underscore critical aspects (e.g. reliability, timeliness, predictability) concerning the use of an Ethernet-like protocol in an industrial environment


OVERVIEW Developing nationally consistent data products describing ecological departure from historical conditions and historical fire regimes is a main component of the LANDFIRE Project. The purpose of this document is to describe the development of LANDFIRE data products related to characterizing historical vegetation conditions and fire regimes, these include: 1) maps of potential vegetation (an important pre-cursor to LANDFIRE fire regime products); models of vegetation dynamics, maps characterizing current seral status (succession class), maps of fire regime groups (FRG), and maps of fire regime condition class (FRCC) and FRCC departure. Potential vegetation and succession class maps are developed using gradient modeling and remote sensing methodologies; vegetation dynamics models are created at regional workshops organized by The Nature Conservancy; FRG maps are developed by combining maps of simulated mean fire return interval and percent replacement-severity fire (http://www.frcc.gov, NIFC 2007); and FRCC and FRCC departure maps are developed using the methods described in the interagency FRCC guidebook (http://www.frcc.gov). All LANDFIRE data products are available at http://www.landfire.gov.


In their own analysis of these letters, Alam and Alavi demonstrate how Polier, and his peers, participated in the intellectual 'bazaar' of north India. This included seeking out and acquiring rare Indian manuscripts and art works. Such activities brought together Indian and European connoisseurs into shared cultural values. Yet, Polier and his European peers also held fundamentally competing and contrasting interests from the Indians around them. Polier clearly profited immensely from supplying European-made goods to the Awadh rulers. When he eventually retired in 1788, he also took his wealth with him to Europe, leaving his Indian wives and children behind on modest pensions. Thus, like many other Europeans of his day in India, Polier may have 'diluted his European identity' (p. 17) by participating in the varied cultures of India, yet his chief distinguishing features, and one that enabled him to become wealthy, was his link to European colonialism.


Introduction: Lenvatinib (LEN) is an oral, multiple-receptor, tyrosine kinase inhibitor that mainly targets vascular endothelial growth factor and fibroblast growth factor receptors. Combination therapy with LEN and everolimus is approved for people with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Combination therapy with LEN and pembrolizumab, an anti human-programmed-cell-death-1 (PD-1) antibody, is also approved for the treatment of people with advanced endometrial cancer and advanced RCC. In this study, we investigated the antitumor activity of LEN in combination with chemotherapy and immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), and explored the mechanism of action underlying these effects, in the mouse lung cancer syngeneic model.
 Methods: In the LL/2 mouse Lewis lung carcinoma model, LEN was dosed at either 3 or 10 mg/kg (orally; once daily for 2 weeks) with or without cisplatin 4 mg/kg (intravenously; 3 or 4 times, twice weekly) and with or without anti-PD-1 200 ug/head + anti cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen 4 (CTLA4) antibodies 10mg/kg (intraperitoneally; twice weekly). Functional blood vessels were evaluated in tumor microenvironments by injections of Hoechst 33342 (Hoechst) into the tail veins of mice. The Hoechst-stained area and expressions of angiogenesis/immune-cell-related molecules were analyzed by immunohistochemistry (IHC) analysis.
 Results: In this model, the combination treatment of LEN 3 mg/kg + cisplatin showed significant tumor growth inhibitory activity compared with each single agent without any marked body-weight loss. LEN 10 mg/kg + cisplatin did not show enhanced antitumor activity vs LEN 10 mg/kg as a single agent. IHC analysis using anti-CD31 antibody showed that LEN 3 mg/kg daily decreased microvessel density in tumors after 4 days. In addition, LEN 3 mg/kg daily for 4 days showed a trend toward an increase of the number of functional blood vessels stained with Hoechst in the tumor microenvironment compared with untreated controls. The combination of LEN 3 mg/kg + cisplatin + ICIs (anti-PD-1+anti-CTLA4) significantly inhibited tumor growth compared with combinations of cisplatin + ICIs.
 Conclusion: Our findings show that LEN 3 mg/kg enhances the antitumor activity of cisplatin in the LL/2 mouse Lewis lung carcinoma tumor model; and LEN 3 mg/kg + cisplatin + ICIs shows greater antitumor activity compared with cisplatin + ICIs. The results of the IHC analysis suggest that LEN 3 mg/kg inhibits angiogenesis. Conversely, LEN 3 mg/kg increases functional vessels in tumor microenvironments. This situation could enhance combination antitumor activity of chemotherapy, and also chemotherapy + ICIs combination treatment. Further analysis of the mechanism of action of LEN 3 mg/kg in combination with chemotherapy + ICIs is warranted.
 Citation Format: Yu Kato, Yoichi Ozawa, Keito Adachi, Masahiko Kume, Yusuke Adachi, Yudai Narita, Megumi Kuronishi, Junji Matsui, Akira Yokoi, Yasuhiro Funahashi. The effect of lenvatinib in combination with chemotherapy plus immune checkpoint inhibitors on tumor microenvironments in the mouse syngeneic tumor model. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2023; Part 1 (Regular and Invited Abstracts); 2023 Apr 14-19; Orlando, FL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2023;83(7_Suppl):Abstract nr 5124.


Cu(I) complexes of free ditertiary aminomethylphosphine ligand, N,N-bis(diphenylphosphinomethyl)aminopropyltriethox- ysilane (DIPAPTES) and its silica supported form (SiO2-DIPAPES), have been synthesized under nitrogen atmosphere using Schlenk method and characterized by atomic absorption, FT-IR, NMR (1H and 31P), and elemental analysis. Acetylacetonate (acac)− complexes of Cr(III) and Mn(III) complexes were prepared according to the literature. All the complexes were used as catalysts for the oxidation of 2-methyl naphthalene (2MN) to 2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone (Vitamin K3, menadione, 2MNQ) using hydrogen peroxide as a clean and cheap oxidant. All the complexes did not show good catalytic activity for the selective oxidation of 2-methyl naphthalene to 2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone.


Significant improvements in the speed of fault simulation of combinational circuits have been achieved by parallel pattern implementations of trace-based methods for identifying detected faults. The authors present methods of achieving further speed improvements by reducing explicit fault simulation of stem faults. The method presented here reduces fault propagation in trace-based parallel-pattern simulation. The concept of joining stems is introduced and shown to be effective in reducing simulation time even if fault-dropping is not used. It is shown that the method proposed can be combined effectively with the quit-line method proposed earlier. Results of simulating the ISCAS85 benchmark combinational circuits with the proposed methods indicate that they are faster than other published methods, both with and without fault-dropping.<<ETX>>


As the first part of an oral history of education of students with emotional/behavioral disorders, 15 first-generation leaders were asked to relate how they entered the field and to describe their careers, which span the past 35 to 50 years. Their videotaped responses were transcribed and are reported here together with discussion of several apparent themes. Most of these persons had no plan to pursue careers in special education or knew that such a career was possible. Their careers coincided with cultural and legislative changes that established the right to public education for students with disabilities. As such, they encountered opportunities for teaching positions and graduate study that ultimately led to long-time engagement and leadership roles. They entered an emerging and rapidly developing profession and were able to help shape the field over its first several decades.


The mainstay of treatment for thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is plasma exchange (PE), but the role of splenectomy is still undefined. The records of all patients with TTP at a single center over a 20‐year period were retrospectively reviewed. Response to plasma exchange was determined. The outcome of patients treated with splenectomy in the setting of TTP was evaluated. Sixty‐one patients had been treated for TTP. Thirty‐nine patients (64%) achieved complete remission (CR) with PE, nineteen (31%) of these achieving sustained CR and seventeen (28%) with relapsed TTP. Twenty patients (33%) had PE refractory TTP and two patients (3%) had PE dependent TTP. During this time period, 10 patients (16%) underwent splenectomy, four patients (7%) for PE dependent TTP, three (5%) for relapsed TTP, and three (5%) for refractory TTP. All of the patients achieved CR after splenectomy. Two patients who had undergone splenectomy had subsequent relapses, both with previously relapsed TTP. In relapsed patients the relapse rate after splenectomy was 0.27 events per patient year compared to 0.6 events per patient year before splenectomy. Median follow‐up after splenectomy was 19 months (range 0.13–90 months). In conclusion, relapses in TTP can be managed successfully with additional PE or with splenectomy. PE dependent or refractory TTP can be successfully treated with splenectomy. Am. J. Hematol., 2006. © 2006 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


Network Survey is a practical method to send questionnaires and get the result by the Web pages and computer networks.The power of Network Survey System can be improved by JSP technology.This paper discusses the key features of JSP Technology,introduces how to access the database actively using JSP,JavaBeans and JDBC Technology,and proposes a scheme of Network Survey System based on JSP.The outline design principle is introduced;the implementation method of its main modules is also given.


Low voltage differential signaling (LVDS) has developed as a data transmission standard for on-chip, on-board/backplane or cable connections. This paper reports design criteria and measurement results of 1.25Gb/s LVDS I/O cells serving various application requirements (e.g., SONET/SDH), developed for 0.25µm and 0.18µm standard digital CMOS processes. Especially the design of a rail-to-rail input stage is described.


This paper presents a theoretical model of residential mortgage default when borrowers face beneficial as well as costly relocation opportunities. It amplifies and extends previous work by providing explicit conditions leading to default. The model also establishes when a borrower's relocation decision and default decision are dependent and when they are not.A central result is that there is a range of book equity wherein the decision to default is not determined solely by the current level of equity or the borrower's ability to continue the mortgage payments. Rather, various costs and benefits, both tangible and intangible, enter into the decision. Specific conditions are identified that lead to relocation without default, default and relocation, and no default or relocation. The effects of changes in the variables upon default probability are presented.Assuming that the borrower does not wish to retain ownership in the property, the model also predicts whether an individual borrower will choose prepayment or default when a relocation is made. The choice depends on the value of the relocation opportunity faced by the borrower, as well as financial variables such as house value, mortgage balance, and transaction costs. This finding suggests that existing empirical analyses of default may have omitted explanatory variables. Copyright American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association.


The present paper deals with the technique developed in India on the location of hidden deposits of calcrete by the application of airphoto interpretation. Calcrete is a calcareous granular material and is locally termed as kankar. Since large scale road construction programmes are visualized in the country, emphasis is laid on the judicious use of locally available materials so as to reduce the cost of construction. In connection with development of a fast survey technique of such deposits, ground survey and study of aerial mosaics of about 4500 sq. Miles area in the alluvial plains of India have been conducted. It will be shown that a well defined pattern has been recognized on the aerial photographs. Twenty five sites have been selected for field checking and 80 per cent of the sites confirm the airphoto interpretation (A).


This study is aimed to determine the moderating effect of Dividend Policy on Free Cash Flow and Profitability towards Firm Value. This study use Moderate Regression Analysis (MRA) as tool to analyze the moderating effect of Dividend Policy on the sample tested. Sample are chosen by using purposive sampling method from all manufacture firms that listed on Indonesian Stock Exchange throughout 2010-2015 which offered cash dividend to their shareholders. By using panel data, the findings show that Free Cash Flow and Profitability themselves have significant effect on Firm Value. But conversely, each Free Cash Flow and Profitability does not have significant effect on Firm Value after being moderated by Dividend Policy. It is because the direct effect of Free Cash Flow and Profitability toward Firm value is bigger than the indirect effect. The results indicate that Dividend Policy is just predictor moderation in this case.Keywords:Dividend Policy, Free Cash Flow, Profitability, Firm Value, Manufacture, MRA


Recent work has found that the metal-poor star HD 94028 shows interesting abundance features. The s-process material (e.g., Ba, La, Ce, and Pb) and r-process material (e.g., Eu, Os, Pt) are mildly overabundant while the element C is not enhanced. However, the observed supersolar ratio [As/Ge] (=0.99 ± 0.23) and subsolar ratio [Se/As] (=−0.16 ± 0.22) could not be fitted by the combination of s- and r-process abundances. In this work, adopting the abundance decomposition method, we investigate the astrophysical origins of the elements in this star. We find that the primary process of massive stars dominates the production of the light elements and iron-group elements. The lighter neutron-capture elements from Ge to Te mainly come from the weak r-process. The elements from Ba to Pb are synthesized dominantly by the main s- and main r-process. The observed abundance features of Ge, As, and Se in HD 94028 are mainly produced by the weak r-process, which possesses the features of the supersolar ratio [As/Ge] and subsolar ratio [Se/As]. Because Ge is not synthesized solely by the neutron-capture process, As should be the lightest neutron-capture element. Although the i-process has been suggested in several astrophysical environments, it should be superfluous to explaining the abundances of the lighter neutron-capture elements in HD 94028.


To make full use of college English classroom to perform ideological education in the era of big data, this paper provides a scheme of using analytic hierarchy process(AHP) to evaluate the quality of ideological and political teaching. We construct the evaluation index system of college English ideological and political education, and use AHP method to determine the weight of each index. Then we introduce the method and main process of determining the weight of evaluation index combined with empirical analysis, and test the effectiveness of the model. Finally, the three-tier technology architecture of display/logic/data processing separation and JSP + JavaBean technology are used to realize the development of college English ideological and political education quality evaluation system. Through the system test and analysis of the coordination rate computer, the objective results of teacher evaluation are provided with the visual interface, which proves that the teaching quality evaluation model has good calculation accuracy, and provides a new scientific way for English teachers' teaching quality evaluation.


A projection objective for imaging an object placed in an object plane of the projection lens object in a in an image plane (IS) of the projection objective lying image of the object by means of radiation of a working wavelength has a plurality of optical elements held at predetermined positions along an imaging path of the projection lens by means of holding means are. An optical element (L) has a lying in the imaging beam path of the optical payload (OPT) and a useful range lying outside the optical edge region (ER) has. At least one of the optical elements (L) is associated with a shutter array (BA), which shields at least a portion of the edge portion extending to outside of the imaging beam path of stray light. The diaphragm assembly (BA) by means of a Blendenaktuators (DR) in response to control signals of an operation control unit between a first operating position and at least a second operating position is adjustable, wherein in the first operating position, at least a predeterminable heating zone of the edge region is shielded by the diaphragm assembly against stray light in the second operative position at least a portion of the heating zone is exposed in an exposure operation of the stray light.


We investigated whether the occurrence of the flying squirrel, a declined virgin forest species, was accounted for by the structure of the landscape in northeastern Finland. We sampled 20 forest areas (1-77 km 2 in size) in 1995 for the occurrence of the species using a sampling plot method. Landscape structure around occupied and unoccupied areas were compared using seven different radii ranging from 100 m to 10 km. Classified satellite images were analyzed with Geographic Information System (GIS). Ten areas could be determined to be occupied by the flying squirrel. Results showed that occupied areas did not deviate from unoccupied ones in total area. In unoccupied areas there were more mature pine-spruce forests, and less matrix habitat, at the home range scale (100 m and 200 m radii) than in occupied areas. Furthermore, in unoccupied forest areas open habitats (clear-cuts, open fens) were more common than in occupied ones at distances between 200 m and 2 km around sampling plots. These differences resulted from both larger mean patch size of and smaller mean nearest neighbor distance between open habitat patches in unoccupied than in occupied forest areas. According to a logistic regression analysis, information on the amount of open habitat within 1 km radius alone correctly classified 75% of the areas into occupied and unoccupied ones. The probability of the presence of flying squirrel decreases with the increasing amount of open habitat within 1 km. The results suggest that increasing the amount of open habitats (e.g. clear-cutting) at the local scale has a negative impact on the flying squirrel. It is obvious that in the present situation where the population has severely declined and its optimal habitat is still diminishing, every patch suitable for the species - whether occupied or not - may be important for the population persistence.


On introducing natural units (the reduced mass of the ion pair for mass, e2/k theta for length and k theta for energy, theta being the temperature) the physical similitude of the recombination process becomes apparent. It is hence shown that the dependence of the recombination coefficient alpha on theta and on the ambient gas number density n(Z) must be such that a plot of ( theta / theta s)3/2 alpha against ( theta s/ theta )tn(Z) is rigorously theta independent where t=3/2 for a purely polarisation interaction and t=1 for a simple hard sphere interaction and where theta s is some standard temperature. This enables results at one temperature to be deduced from results at another for the same species of ions in the same gas.


Framing effects research addresses how frames in the news media affect cognitions, attitudes, and preferences. A growing amount of research is devoted to the question which individual and contextual variables can enhance, limit or obliterate framing effects. However, the fundamental question whether framing effects may vary depending on the particular issue at stake has not been addressed. Based on an experimental study, this article investigates the extent to which framing effects differ in magnitude as well as process, depending on how important an issue is. The study shows that a high importance issue yields marginal effects and a low importance issue large effects. This moderating function of issue importance is not fully driven by individual-level importance assessments, and issue importance rather functions as a contextual moderator of framing effects. We additionally find that individual issue importance moderates the mediational process for a low importance issue. The implications for future framing effects research are discussed.


Production and consumption of rice, wheat and maize in China is projected until the year 2010 at both the national and regional level using a multiregional and multimarket net trade model for Chinese agricultural markets. The results show that China can ensure a stable grain market development under more liberalized internal and external conditions. Transmission of the world market prices as projected by the World Bank (2003) to the internal Chi nese market would lead to a long-run recovery of the growth in grain production. Total production of paddy rice, wheat and maize is forecast to increase from 390 mil lion tons in the base period 2002 to over 420 million tons in 2010. Because of a lower expansion than in the baseline of demand, the rate of self-sufficiency in these three grain types will rise to about 91 % under world market condi tions. This may be significantly lower than the target of the Chinese government. The corresponding deficit amounts to 40 million tons, three fifth of it is of wheat. China would also become a net importer of maize. The regional results indicate an increasing grain deficit in East and South China. Northeast and North China will achieve higher production growth mainly owing to maize produc tion. The Central South will be able to increase production faster than consumption. The Southwest and Northwest will maintain their current deficit. Finally, some implica tions for future market policies as regards food security, prices and grain imports are discussed.


Venous thromboembolic disease (VTE) is a well known risk in orthopaedic and trauma surgery. There is no unified opinion on the best method of prophylaxis and so most orthopaedic departments use very different regimes. We provide an overview of the best prophylactic methods available at present and an insight into the future of VTE preven- tion.


The present invention discloses a method of error control for high-speed wireless packet data service, characterized by: taking N channel control method of packet data transmission by waiting for the completion flag and sends the packet counter N transmission channels provided packet error control data. The present invention also discloses a method applied to high-speed wireless packet data service error control means, wherein: each channel by channel N N channel controller disposed waiting flag and sends the packet counter, the ARQ process N scheduling channel to complete transmission of the error control data packets. Application of the method of the present invention to improve the channel utilization, thereby increasing the effectiveness of the overall communication system; the same time, facilitating scheduling, and fault diagnosis, and reduces the complexity of the system delay.


Acoustic impedance is a material property that depends on mass density and acoustic wave speed. An impedance mismatch between two media leads to the partial reflection of an acoustic wave sent from one medium to another. Active sonar is one example of a useful application of this phenomenon, where reflected and scattered acoustic waves enable the detection of objects. If the impedance of an object is matched to that of the surrounding medium, however, the object may be hidden from observation (at least directly) by sonar. In this study, polyurea composites are developed to facilitate such impedance matching. Polyurea is used due to its excellent blast-mitigating properties, easy casting, corrosion protection, abrasion resistance, and various uses in current military technology. Since pure polyurea has impedance higher than that of water (the current medium of interest), low mass density phenolic microballoon particles are added to create composite materials with reduced effective impedances. The volume fraction of particles is varied to study the effect of filler quantity on the acoustic impedance of the resulting composite. The composites are experimentally characterized via ultrasonic measurements. Computational models based on the method of dilute-randomly-distributed inclusions are developed and compared with the experimental results. These experiments and models will facilitate the design of new elastomeric composites with desirable acoustic impedances.


Sensor fusion combines multiple sensor measurements to improve a controller's knowledge about the internal state of an observed physical environment. Many such sensor fusion techniques exist and have been implemented for the Robot Operating System (ROS). However, they often have been developed for specific applications and cannot be easily reused for other applications. Reasons are the use of application-specific, partly undocumented interfaces, and the often limited reconfigurability caused by a tight coupling of the implementation to an application-specific purpose. Our approach is based on the concept of a fusion node which provides a configurable sensor fusion service with a generic interface. Fusion nodes can be interconnected to combine several sensor fusion techniques, can be attached to any single-dimension value sensor, can handle asynchronous multi-rate measurements and are robust regarding indeterministic, best-effort communication. This paper presents, to the best of our knowledge, the first generic sensor fusion package (GSFP) for ROS which collects various exemplary sensor fusion methods implemented as fusion nodes. We demonstrate the feasibility of our package in a small test application. Main benefits of our contribution are the developed ROS package's independence regarding specific sensors or applications, the easy integration of configurable fusion nodes in existing applications, and the composition of fusion nodes to realize complex sensor fusion scenarios.


Apprenticeship is a powerful technique to guide and improve the learning process of reinforcement learning agents. Although only a few papers have been written on this topic, promising results have been achieved. [2, 4] To make the understanding for the reader easier, the idea of the E3 algorithm [3] is presented and used as a hook for the main ideas.


This paper presents a microwave imaging for brain tumour detection utilizing ForwardBackward Time-Stepping (FBTS) inverse scattering technique. This technique is applied to solve electromagnetic scattered signals. It is proven that this technique is able to detect the presence of tumour in the breast. The application is now extended to brain imaging. Two types of results are presented in this paper; FBTS and FBTS integrated with image segmentation as a pre-processing step to form a focusing reconstruction. The results show that the latter technique has improved the reconstructions compared to the primary technique. Integration of the image segmentation step helps to reduce the variation of the estimated dielectric properties of the head tissues. It is also found that the optimal frequency used for microwave brain imaging is at 2 GHz and able to detect a tumour as small as 5 mm in diameter. The numerical simulations show that the integration of image segmentation with FBTS has the potential to provide useful quantitative information on the head internal composition.


Abstract Neutron irradiation, gamma irradiation and quenching all change the internal friction of pure polycrystalline rods of copper. Only if the rods are initially given an anneal near the melting point for many hours do these three treatments give consistent and similar results, and then the logarithmic decrement is reduced. It is concluded from the results that it is the vacancies introduced by each of the three treatments which pin the dislocation lines by diffusing to them, and that unless the purity of the copper is high their effect can be obscured.


Abstract. For the problem of high energy consumption of existing variable-Range sprinklers, a method was put forward to realize variable-range spraying, using variable frequency pump unit to change the sprinkler inlet pressure. A controller was designed based on a Micro-computer unit to gain a desired wetted area shape. To make sure that a set cycle time for the controller works well, the relationship between cycle time and range of a lawn sprinkler was researched, and a method was developed to determine the precise cycle time of the sprinkler, which makes the sprinkler spray continuously. Experiments were carried out to operate a square wetted area spraying, tests show that the set cycle time matches well with the exact cycle time of the sprinkler, and the wetted area appears to be square. Moreover, the uniformity of the square wetted area was improved to 0.77 by using a needle to break the water, meeting the requirement of uniformity for spraying.


The present study, conducted at a commercial poultr y farm at Baffa, district Mansehra, North West Fron tier Province of Pakistan during 2005, evaluated the improvement in the nutri tive value of broiler finisher rations by adding va rious levels of probiotic named as Organic Green Culture (OGC), imported from Korea and presently available in the local market. For such purpose, four hundred and forty eight, 21 days-old commercial Hubbard broiler chicks were randomly divided into 4 main g roups viz. A, B, C and D. Each main group was further divided into 4 sub groups having 28 chicks each. Four experimental rations, I (contr ol), II, III and IV adding probiotic at 0, 1, 2 and 4 g/kg of basal feed ingre dients were randomly allotted to these groups. The experiment lasted for 21 days. The mean values for gain in body weight (GBW) of chicks in groups A, B, C and D were 1287.5, 1302.5, 1427.5 and 1431.3 grams, respectively. The chicks in groups C and D were sig nificantly (P<0.001) higher in GBW than groups A and B. The mean dry matter intake (DMI) values were 2345.0, 2298.5, 2203.8 and 2206.8 grams for the chicks in groups A, B, C and D, respectively. The chicks in groups C and D showed significantly (P<0.001) less DMI as compared to the chicks in groups A and B. The mean feed efficiency (FE) values were 1.82, 1.76 for the chicks in groups A a nd B, while 1.54 and 1.54 for the chicks in groups C and D, respectively. The chicks in groups C and D showed significant (P<0.001) improvement in FE values than the chicks in groups A and B. It was concluded that probiotic addition at 2 g/kg of finisher rations ha s successfully improved the nutritive value of the finisher rations, which in turn, brought positive change in the overall performance of the experimental birds. In this regard the ratio n III was found to be highly effective, under the conditions of the present expe riment. Moreover, these findings have also predicte d that the claims of the OGC probiotic manufacturer seem to be reliable. Therefo re, based on the present findings, it is recommende d that adding OGC probiotic @ 2 g/kg in the finisher rations of commercial broile rs could be highly effective for the broiler producers of Mansehra district of Hazara division.


Current study revealed that ultra-widefield optical coherence tomography angiography is a reliable noninvasive tool for familial exudative vitreoretinopathy lesions such as peripheral retinal avascular zone with a high detective ratio, which offers a safe, fast alternative for screening and diagnosis of familial exudative vitreoretinopathy. Abstract Purpose: To investigate ultra-widefield optical coherence tomography angiography (UWF-OCTA) to detect and evaluate mild familial exudative vitreoretinopathy and compare the detective ratio of UWF-OCTA with ultra-widefield scanning laser ophthalmoscopy and ultra-widefield fluorescein angiography. Methods: The patients with familial exudative vitreoretinopathy were included in this study. UWF-OCTA, using a 24- × 20-mm montage, was performed for all patients. All images were independently tested for the presence of familial exudative vitreoretinopathy-associated lesions. Statistical analysis was performed with SPSS V.24.0. Results: Forty-six eyes of 26 participants were included in the study. Ultra-widefield optical coherence tomography angiography was found to be greatly superior to ultra-widefield scanning laser ophthalmoscopy in detecting peripheral retinal vascular abnormality (P < 0.001) and peripheral retinal avascular zone (P < 0.001). The detection rates of peripheral retinal vascular abnormality, peripheral retinal avascular zone, retinal neovascularization, macular ectopia, and temporal midperipheral vitreoretinal interface abnormality were comparable with ultra-widefield fluorescein angiography images (P > 0.05). Furthermore, vitreoretinal traction (17/46, 37%) and small foveal avascular zone (17/46, 37%) were detected effectively on UWF-OCTA. Conclusion: Ultra-widefield optical coherence tomography angiography is a reliable noninvasive tool to detect familial exudative vitreoretinopathy lesions, especially in mild patients or asymptomatic family members. The unique manifestation of UWF-OCTA offers an alternative to ultra-widefield fluorescein angiography for the screening and diagnosis of FEVR.


An analysis to the telephoning chat is often ignored by analysts as it is very common and very colloquial. In my opinion, however, it differs to the spoken language in daily life in some aspects. For example, it has two parties connected by a line, the speakers talks in deferent places and may do different things. So in analyzing the discourse, such factors as field, tenor, and mode, skipping and coherence, reference and presupposition in study the context are to be emphasized. The third part of this paper gives an example to show one method to analyze the informal chatting on the phone. It also mentions some practical applications of the analysis to this style of discourse in the conclusion part.


OBJECTIVE: To study the hygroscopicity of Amoxapine maleate direct compression mixed powder, and to provide reference for the promotion of direct powder compression. METHODS: Amoxapine maleate mixed powder was placed in desiccators with different relative humidities (31%, 43%, 75% and 92.5%), then the growth rate of moisture was measured at different time to obtain moisture absorption balance time and moisture absorption rate was calculated, and the moisture equilibrium curve was drawn to achieve critical relative humidity. RESULTS: The critical relative humidity of Amoxapine maleate mixed powder was 75%, and moisture absorption balance time was 3 days. CONCLUSION: The study provides scientific basis for reasonable relative humidity control of industrial production of direct powder compression and the promotion of technology.


The ANC has experienced rapid membership growth in recent years. This paper explores competing explanations for this growth, and concludes that subnational political competition and national factional conflicts, rather than deliberate membership recruitment campaigns, have been the primary drivers of increased numbers. The paper goes on to assess the implications of this dynamic of membership change for party organisational challenges.


Japanese packaging design in China's Wei,Jin and Northern and Southern Dynasties,though with distinctive local features,were more influenced by Chinese packaging design at the same time,including the materials,shapes and compositions in China then.Traditional Chinese elements,such as religion,folk customs,crafts,calligraphy and painting,are evident in the designs.These Japanese designs highlight the exchange and integration of different nations' modern packaging ideas.


The educational system of our country which blocks all the way up from basc education to higher education must be reformed by measures hereinafter: 1.All roads lead to university; 2. Increase the times of university matriculation; 3. Allow universities exam and recruit students by themselves; 4.Encourage universities to recruit students who have talents but incapable to get high scores in examinations.


This present research is conducted to find out the code switching phenomenon which is produced by the conversation of two Ambonese students of Petra Christian University. This research is aimed to investigate the types of code switching and also the factors influencing code switching produced by the two Ambonese students. The writer mainly based his research on the theories from Holmes (1992) and Wardhaugh (2006). This research used qualitative approach. The writer got the data from the conversations of two Ambonese students of Petra Christian University. The writer used five steps in analyzing the data. Firstly, the writer observed the conversation of two Ambonese students of Petra Christian University by listening and recording the conversation in the first of August. Secondly, the writer chooses the utterances that consisted of code switching. Thirdly, the writer wrote down the data into table. The final step is to analyze the data based on the types and the factors of code switching. After the writer had analyzed the utterances of the conversations, the writer found several findings. The conversation produced two types and four factors of code switching. The types of code switching were situational code switching and metaphorical code switching. The factors of code switching were participants, solidarity (affective functions), status, and topic. The most frequent factor is the participant, in which the dominant code was Ambonese. The least factor of code switching is status and topic. The writer found that the number of topic was the same as status.


oybean damping-off caused by Rhizoctonia solani is considered one of the most important diseases in Egypt. Seven isolates were collected from different locations and tested for their virulence on Crawford cv. R. solani (R5) was the highest virulent isolate, which significantly increased pre-and post-emergence damping-off and reduced the survived plants. The ten Trichoderma spp. significantly increased the growth reduction of R. solani in vitro. T. hamatum and T. harzianum were the most effective bioagents which gave the highest growth reduction. All treatments of the biocides Bio-Arc, Bio-Zeid, Bio-4 and Bio-Nagi, T. hamatum and T. harzianum, the green alga (Ulva sp.) and the fungicide Vitavax-200 decreased the incidence damping-off of the four tested cultivars (Crawford, Giza-35, Giza-111 and Giza-83) under greenhouse conditions. Bio-Nagi was the best treatment, which gave the highest survived plants followed by T. hamatum and Bio-Zeid when compared to the untreated control. Under field condition, all treatments decreased damping-off incidence of the four tested cultivars and increased the survived plants during two consecutive seasons (2014 and 2015). Seed yield was positively correlated with plant height, number of pods/plant, 100-seed weight. The fungicide Vitavax-200 was the most effective treatment for controlling dampingoff of the four tested cultivars during the growing seasons of 2014 and15, followed by Bio-Nagi then T. hamatum.


Contents: Preface. Language Matters: Introduction to Language and Language Study. What We Mean By "Knowing" a Language and How We Come to Know It. The Power of Words. Hate Language and Bully Language: The Language of Destruction. Language and Gender: The Cart Before the Horse? Dialects: Expression or Suppression? English Language Learners, Bilingualism, and Linguistic Imperialism. Afterword.


Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) is a chronic progressive cholestatic liver disease often observed in the middle-aged and elderly women and it can eventually lead to liver cirrhosis or liver failure. Osteoporosis is one of the common complications in PBC patients and is characterized by decreased bone mass and increased susceptibility to fractures. Osteoporosis and fractures caused by osteoporosis seriously affect the quality of life of PBC patients, and with the improvement of PBC treatment strategies and the increase in life expectancy, early diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of PBC with osteoporosis is of particular importance. This article briefly summarizes the epidemiology, pathogenesis, and diagnosis and treatment of patients with PBC and osteoporosis and proposes current challenges and future research directions.


Closed-loop topology plays an important role in sustaining reliable oscillation for resonant pressure sensor.A hybrid model of a typical MEMS resonant pressure sensor,which is driven by electrostatic force and sensed by capacitance changes,was constructed to research the influence of closed loop topology.Four closed-loop topologies including self-oscillation,automatic gain controller,Phase-Locked Loop and self-oscillation with automatic gain controller,were employed in the hybrid model.Using a mixed signal simulation platform,performance simulation and comparison among different topologies was implemented in terms of startup capability,automatic frequency tracking performance,shock immunity and frequency stability.The results show that PLL loop has the best overall performance.


Thermoelectric properties of chromium-modified Mn2Sb are systematically investigated to evaluate the power factors. Single-crystalline samples of Mn2−xCrxSb with 0 ≤ x ≤ 0.1 were successfully grown...


The present invention relates to a kind of subway transportation conflict method for early warning based on Robust Strategies, comprise the following steps:First according to the plan operational factor of each train, the topology diagram of Rail traffic network is generated;Topology diagram is based on again, analyzes the controllability and sensitiveness of train flow;Further according to the plan operational factor of each train, many train Lothrus apterus running orbits are generated;Again in each sampling instant, based on the current running status of train and historical position observation sequence, advanced positions to certain following moment of train are predicted, then set up from the continuous dynamic of train to the observer of discrete conflict logic, be the conflict situation that discrete observation value is expressed by continuous dynamic mapping;When system is possible to violate traffic control rule, to the Hybrid dynamics behavior implementing monitoring of subway transportation hybrid system, warning information is provided for control centre.The present invention rolls and subway train track is predicted in real time, effective early warning train conflict, improves the security of subway transportation.