The paper discusses the ethno-psychological aspect of the value orientations structure of the Baikal region students. The paper presents only a part of the data from a large-scale cross-cultural research. The objective was to study the structure of value orientations of students from different nationalities living in the Baikal region. The study used the method of survey which was taken by more than 900 students of Russian and Buryat ethnic groups living in Irkutsk region and Buryatia. The results of the study showed that the structure of value orientations of young people has some differences which depend on specific national characteristics. The structure of the value orientations of young people of Russian and Buryat ethnic groups living in Irkutsk region significantly differs in a number of life values in comparison to the structure of value orientations of Russians and Buryats living in the republic of Buryatia. These differences indicate that the factor of human habitation in their motherland affects the development and the formation of values in life. Universal basic life values such as respect for the relatives and friends, family and marriage, love and friendship, regardless of the ethnicity and the region of residence, occupy a significant place in the structure of the value orientations of young people. The results of our research will be applied in practice and will make a valuable contribution to the currently important, significant area of research which aims to understand patriotism and interethnic harmony.


Wireless location system, voice over Internet - it can include geolocation of a wireless device connected to the protocol (VoIP) adapter. VoIP adapter may include a wireless transceiver or a wireless location determining receiver, to facilitate the wireless devices in the detection of the position connected to the VoIP adapter. Wireless transceiver or the location determining receiver may provide location information to emergency communications dispatcher. .The


To provide that the determination and precise traffic information than predicted with reasonable traffic information received from the GPS in collecting the judgment of traffic information considering the various factors that may affect the traffic, The process of applying the various factors influencing the traffic situation in the process of collecting local roads by real-time traffic information with collected media and real-time traffic information to be collected and the factors affecting the real-time collecting traffic information and traffic conditions converting process and the extracted spread value for extracting a purge value through fuzzy reasoning considering the speed values is extracted as the representative speed for that road by including the step of data beyiseuhwa. In addition, the process of the traffic control center server determines the traffic situation of the process, and each regional roads that collect location coordinates information for each road from the process and, GPS building a model for each region Road by data beyiseuhwa and beyiseuhwa data predicted by the road traffic conditions are considered the local characteristics that are located in the traffic conditions of the road and each region includes the step of providing the vehicle.


Using techniques developed , we show that some minimum cardinality problems subject to linear inequalities can be represented as finite sequences of semidefinite programs. In particular, we provide a semidefinite representation and a set of successively finer relaxations for the minimum rank problem on positive semidefinite matrices and for the minimum cardinality problem subject to linear inequalities.


: With the rapid development of the economy and society, the urbanization level is increasing, and the urban buildings contribute a great force to the improvement of the city's appearance, and the demand for living comfort is increasing. The air conditioning has become the basic electrical equipment of the buildings, which has greatly improved the living comfort and people's quality of life. Compared with the traditional central air conditioning system, the multi-split air conditioning system has the features of simple installation and flexible operation methods, and no special refrigeration machine room and duty personnel are required, which saves space and operation cost. According to user investment, decoration and other different use requirements, the system can be installed and used in batches. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the principle of multi-split air conditioning system, and further put forward the basic problems that should be paid attention to in engineering design of multi-split air conditioning system, so as to facilitate designers to design and apply multi-split air conditioning system. The research method is mainly literature analysis and practical experience summary of two methods, the principle and characteristics of multi-split air conditioning system are analyzed in detail, and the related key points are discussed in combination with the working practice experience. Finally, it is considered that attention should be paid to the design program, air conditioning load calculation, unit performance coefficient and climate conditions, fresh air problem, outdoor unit arrangement and so on. Through the analysis, it can be seen that the design of air conditioning system shows a diversified trend with the different requirements of buildings at present. Only the air conditioning system designed to meet the needs of the building itself can fully meet the needs of owners and meet the multiple standards of health, green energy saving and environmental protection. In the current air conditioning design, multi-split air conditioning system is more common, which has become the preferred air conditioning system design scheme for most buildings.


PURPOSE: To protect the battery inner part in high level and easily manufacture a battery package by using a flexible inorganic material layer deposited on a flexible polymer base film. CONSTITUTION: A battery package 10 to enclose and seal a thin type battery 12 in a capsule-like state is provided with a flexible polymer film 22 and the film 22 is formed into a structure body to wrap the battery 12 and a flexible inorganic material layer 24. The inorganic material is silicon nitride, aluminum nitride, or aluminum oxide and deposited on the surface and the rim parts of the film 22 to enclose an assembled body in a capsule-like state. The film 22 is physically attached to the battery 12 using a thermally active type adhesive material 26. At the time of manufacturing the battery package 10, the film 22 is attached to the battery 12 to enclose an anode 18 and a cathode 20 and the inorganic material 24 is deposited on the surface and the end part to constitute an air-tightly sealed assembled body. COPYRIGHT: (C)1994,JPO


Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) have been ex-situ post-synthesized in an aqueous solution and in-situ synthesized on polyamide fabric through a simple chemical reduction method by using silver nitrate (AgNO 3 ), stannous chloride (SnCl 2 ) and cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) under daylight irradiation. SnCl 2 and CTAB act as reducing and stabilizing agents in the colloidal silver nanoparticles solution respectively. Post in-situ synthesis of Ag NPs have been carried out on polyamide fabric by spraying solution of AgNO 3 , CTAB and SnCl 2 on the fabric and then irradiating under daylight for 2 h. Ag NPs solutions and Ag NPs loaded polyamide fabrics are characterized by UV-vis spectroscopy, dynamic light scattering (DLS), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Appearing a strong plasmon resonance peak at 400 nm in UV-visible spectrum, XRD patterns and SEM images are found to clearly confirm the formation of silver nanoparticles. The UV-vis spectra also confirm no Ag NPs formation without daylight irradiation.


A flow sensor is presented, based on the deflection of a 1 mm diameter grooved polymer optical fibre in an air flow. By measurement of optical strain in two orthogonal directions, the sensor is able to measure both the magnitude and direction of air velocity, by performing vectorial addition of the flow components in two orthogonal directions. Experiments in a wind tunnel showed that the sensor was unaffected by its orientation to the flow. It is able to measure over a flow range of 0 to 35 m/s, with a sensitivity of 0.0049 ± 0.001 units of optical strain s/m and a resolution of 0.844 m/s.


Yale University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the USA have developed a multi-functional metamorphic buffer (MFMB) for indium phosphide (InP) substrates that acts both as a bridge between lattice constants and optical confinement for laser diodes (LDs) [Daehwan Jung et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol109, p211101, 2016]. The researchers have demonstrated the concept for 2.5μm short-wavelength infrared (SWIR, 1.4-3μm) devices with lasing up to room temperature (RT) in pulsed mode. Usually the buffer layer that is used to bridge lattice mismatching is separate from the cladding layers that are used to provide optical confinement in laser diode structures. This increases the amount of material needed to be grown epitaxially, adding to processing times and costs. The MFMB was used to both bridge the substrate-laser lattice structures and provide graded-index cladding for optical confinement. The team hopes that the technique could open up the range of semiconductor laser devices, allowing wavelength 'gaps' to be accessed efficiently. The 2–3μm range is one such gap. While other technologies — InPbased laser diodes or quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) from opposite ends – can be stretched into this gap, the result is usually suboptimal. Gallium antimonide (GaSb) is often used as a substrate for SWIR LDs, but the material has lower thermal conductivity and immature commercial processing infrastructure compared with InP built up through extensive 1.55μm laser telecoms (i.e. fiber-optic) applications. The researchers comment that the approach could be extended to devices on gallium arsenide (GaAs) or silicon (Si): "More generally, the MFMB concept may enable a new class of laser diodes for many applications such as GaAs-based mid-IR lasers or photonic integrated circuits (PICs) on Si," they write. The Yale/Urbana-Champaign MFMB provided the bottom cladding for the laser diode, while the top cladding came from low-index p-AlGaAs (Figure 1). The asymmetricindex InAsP waveguide structure was designed to center the fundamental transverse-electric (TE) optical field on the device's active region. The confinement factor in the nine compressively strained QWs was estimated at 6.8%. Buffer layer structure combines lattice-mismatch bridging and bottom cladding for optical confinement.


A highly efficient, easily filterable Cu/Al(OH)3 catalyst for the hydration of acrylonitrile to acrylamide has been synthesized by reducing a particle-size-controlled malachite phase-free Cu/Al hyd...


The article considers the possibility of reduction of anthropogenic impact on ecosystems of various levels of waste of mining complex by their largetonnage direct using in the construction industry. The methods of utilization of waste crushed production modified with natural zeolites and stabilizing additive in the composition of soil concrete are studied. The chemical and phase compositions of the inital mineral raw materials and soil concrete based on them are studied by a complex of modern methods. Optimal mass fractions of clinoptilolite rock (5–15 wt. %) and a polymeric stabilizing additive (1 wt. %) allowing to obtain composites with a maximum strength grade of 100 (М 100) are established. The increase of strength characteristics of soil concrete modified with zeolite-containing rock is associated with an increase of their density by the presence of crystalline calcium and magnesium silicates in the structure as well as the filling of the interparticle space with mineral and polymer additives.


This article presents a cross-disciplinary approach to the study of constitutions: 'constitutional institutionalism'. Conventional approaches in law, philosophy or political science tend to reduce constitutions either to their formal, factual or ideal aspects. The constitutional-institutionalist approach, by contrast, seeks to integrate these aspects into a more general perspective by focusing on the dynamic interplay between constitutional actors and constitutional norms. It understands constitutional norms as binding institutions that shape and constrain political action, but never fully determine it. Constitutional institutionalism furthermore asserts that constitutional norms, whatever form they take, only have meaning in relation to other constitutional norms as well as to constitutional actors, who impose meaning on these norms. Therefore, constitutional phenomena ultimately require interpretive explanations. This article concludes with a brief constitutional-institutionalist research agenda.


The pontine respiratory group comprises of the Kölliker‐Fuse nucleus (KF) and parabrachial complexes in the dorsolateral pons. The KF plays a major role in respiratory motor patterning, coordination of respiration with other motor outputs, and protective upper airway reflexes. Despite this, little is known about the postnatal maturation of the pontine respiratory group and its implications on respiratory control. During postnatal development, there is an emergence of topography as well as changes in neuronal cytoarchitecture and NMDA receptor subunit expression in the dorsolateral pontine region. A key hindrance in characterizing pontine maturation has been the lack of a reliable anatomical marker of respiratory‐related pontine neurons. Preliminary results have identified specific pontine expression of Forkhead Box Protein P2 (FOXP2), a transcription factor related to the development of speech and language.


The number of the people who has been learning Turkish has been increasing of late years. However their reasons in learning Turkish has been changing a lot. Due to these increase, a lot of places have been established under the name of "Turkish Course, Turkish Culture Center".

In this paper, some of the problems in "Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language" will be mentioned and some of the keys will be proposed:
1. Lecturer Case: As its has been expressed in lots of sources, a person who speaks Turkish is not always a person who can teach it properly. If so, to know a language does not mean always you can teach it. That kind of beliefs unfortunately would reduce the public esteem for Turkish. In order to avoid this, the language teachers should be aware of the details, specialities of the language. Otherwise, they cant express the originality of Turkish and would teach only "a translation language" Turkish.
2. Source Case: With the incerease in number of the people who are learning Turkish, a lot of sources has been published in that area. Most of them are written by the people who have hardly experiences in the area. Because of this, most of the sources can't answer language teachers and learners needs.

In most of the books, its neglected to put exact rules in Turkish. If we put rules as much as possible, the time in learning language would be shorter, and the result would be better. For instance, because the place of the answers can change the mean of the sentence in Turkish, some of students have some difficulties while answering questions about where to put the answer. In order to avoid this difficulty, we can say "You should put the answer the place of the question word."
"Dun arabayla nereye gittin?" "Dun arabayla ise gittim."
The rules would make the language teaching and learning duration easier and funnier. Fort the native Turkish speakers to put rules can be seen unimportant, for he Turkish learners putting that kind of rules are so essential.

3. Pupil Case: Before starting the language teaching activities, we should beter consider "the pupils" properly. Firstly, their levels should be found out, then the points of why she/he is learning the language, whats her/ his needs and what the mother tongue of her/him is as well. These datas will help in preaparing the teaching plan. For instance, a boss and a housewife's needs are very different in a new language. Because of this, if the needs of the students are found out properly, the needs can be answered as it should be.

4. Designation Case: Generally, adjective "foreign" is used for the pupils who has been learning Turkish. But instead of using that adjective for pupils, we'd beter use it for the language. Otherwise, unconsciously, the Turkish learnes is isolated.


WHEN, nine years ago. in 1958. a few of us formed the British Academy of Forensic Sciences, we expressed as our objectives our desire "to encourage the study, improve the practice, and advance the knowledge of the forensic sciences." We may, I feel, pride ourselves that, in that relatively short space of time, this Academy has become the principal forum for the investigation and discussion of problems which beset the three disciplines of which we are comprised, namely, medicine, science and the law. The factor, which each of these disciplines shares in common, within the framework of the Academy, as the presence of the word " forensic " in the title signifies, is the cross-fertilisation of minds, within those three disciplines, in relation to the presentation of evidence to courts of law. For this reason, I have taken as my subject today " Trial at Law." and I intend, with your indulgence, to examine its effectiveness both in procedure and practice. Unquestionably, the English system of trial at law enjoys an enviable reputation for integrity and fairness throughout the world. Indeed, it is an oft-repeated boast within the United Kingdom that our system of justice is the finest in the world. Recently, when I suggested, to lay magistrates, that limited, but important, changes might be made in the constitution of their comts. one asked me why, since British justice was regarded as the finest in the world, did I believe it necessary to make any changes? I replied that he was, of course, right in asserting that British justice was said to be the finest in the world—in Britain. I added, however, that other countries still prefer their own systems, regarding them as superior to those obtain ing elsewhere. The continentals prefer their judicial system, whilst the Americans believe theirs, originally based as it was upon that obtaining here, represents an improved procedure which eliminates that which they thought to be inferior, and substitutes that which they thought to be better. That you and I may not agree with them is beside the point. I am no advocate of change for the sake of change, but I do believe, that the present climate in which established customs are critically examined is healthy, so long as alterations are not made merely to justify the trouble involved in the exam ination. Thus, whilst today I may appear critical, you may come to the conclusion, when the examination is completed, that some of the defects are beyond easy solution; that one must sometimes be content with the best one can do within the limits of human fallibility and that, over all, we have a judicial system of which we can be proud. Some years ago, at a meeting of this Academy. I observed (and I may be for given for repeating it) that discussion within the Academy seemed to indicate three divers approaches amongst the three disciplines in relation to the purposes and


The objective of the present work is to focus on the thermal analysis of ceramic coated piston, working under thermal loads. Thermal analysis was carried out on uncoated and ceramic coated piston to verify the temperature changes at the ceramic coated regions using Hyper-mesh and Ansys. The study of thermal stresses generated due to temperature differences at different materials junctions used in coating was analyzed.


Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate potential therapeutic effect of Metagonimus yokogawai on the OVA-induced allergic rhinitis model. Methods: OVA-sensitized mice were used to assess potential therapeutic effect of the extract protein of M. yokogawai (My-TP). My-TP was administrated via the intralymphatic route to cervical lymph nodes. The frequencies of sneezing or nasal rubbing were recorded. Histopathologic evaluation was performed for eosinophil infiltrations in the tissues of the nasal mucosa and skin. The mRNA relative expressions of the cytokine profiles including Th1, Th2, Th17, and Treg subsets in the nasal mucosa, cervical lymph nodes, and spleen were analyzed by quantitative real-time reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction. The potential underlying mechanism was investigated by examining cytokine profiles including IL-4 and Treg subsets from lymphocytes of the spleen by flow cytometry. Results: Intralymphatic injection of My-TP reduced allergic symptoms and eosinophil infiltration in the nasal mucosa. My-TP-treated group showed markedly decreased levels of OVA-specific IgE and WBC counts in nasal lavage. My-TP-treated group showed the decreased expression levels of IL-4, while those of IL-10 were increased in both the nasal mucosa. The levels of IFN-γ and IL-17 were also decreased in the nasal mucosa and cervical lymph nodes. The immunological mechanism may involve the downregulation of Th2 response and upregulation of Tregs in the nasal mucosa and cervical lymph nodes. Conclusions: Our results provide the first evidence of potential therapeutic effect of M. yokogawai in OVA-sensitized allergic rhinitis mice, suggesting that a Treg/Th2 reorganization may play a role in clinical course of allergic rhinitis.


Buried nanocavities at about 350 nm depth in Si were produced by thermal treatment of He implanted p-type (100) Si. The internal surfaces of the nanocavities were found free of impurity decorations by examining the high-momentum part of the Doppler-broadened positron annihilation spectra. Positron lifetime measurements with a pulsed slow positron beam show neither a short lifetime (125-150 ps) ascribable to parapositronium nor a longer lifetime (2-4 ns) ascribable to pick-off annihilation of orthopositronium. The lifetime of positrons trapped into nanocavities was found to be about 500 ps. The absence of positronium formation could be explained by an insufficient electron density and a lack of electron states in the band gap at the nanocavities internal surfaces produced in the p-type silicon.


On machine measurement and tool path compensation methods are introduced to improve the accuracy for fabrication of freeform optics in infrared range. The design and deposition of coatings for the dual-band system is also presented.


Most manipulation tasks involving the use of an end e ector coupled to a robot arm, require, as a basic skill, the ability to reach a point in space. For example most of the tasks proposed by the organizers of this workshop (such as inserting, catching, digging, unlocking a door, feeding someone with a spoon and others), require, as a part of the overall task, to bring the end e ector close to some point in space. This observation becomes even more important considering that, during the approaching phase, vision is the only sensory information usable to adapt the system to changes in environment conditions. The simplest possible example is that of \reaching" a target which moves unpredictably in the environment. Many solutions have been presented in the literature to solve this problem even in complex, dynamic situations [1, 2]. Almost all systems, however, are bounded by the use of quantitative geometric measures relying, one way or the other, on the knowledge of some calibration parameters. Even if in many practical situations this is not really a constraint, the exibility of the resulting system is reduced because the procedure required to set-up the system has to undergo a calibration phase involving the extraction of the camera's intrinsic and extrinsic parameters as well as the relationship between the camera and the arm coordinate systems. It is worth noting that, following this approach, even in a \simple" reaching task, part of the calibration procedure must be repeated whenever the end e ector is changed or a di erent tool has to be manipulated (e.g. a spoon or a fork, an hammer or a wrench). This solution is not feasible


By using the method of literature,expert interviews,questionnaire and mathematical statistics,the paper investigates and researches competition recourses of China's 2009-2010 Futsal League and proposes the following development strategies: at the present,we should depend on and work with colleges and universities to develop the sports in various ways.In the mean time,we should strengthen commercial development and arrange more training for coaches.We should also establish the multi-level competition systems in the future.


their treatment of a topic of comparative company law. This they have done par excellence. The end result is a book of great interest which leaves the reader with a desire to encourage the development of the promised series as soon as possible. Jean Palliseau explains the philosophical shift in company law thinking in this century, tracing thinking from contract through institutional to the theory of the enterprise. This theme of the enterprise runs throughout the book giving cohesion to subjects which might otherwise have appeared disparate. Xuereb shows how the apparent conflict between different interest groups may be resolved by resort to the notion of the enterprise, Angel Rolo examines different legal forms across Europe, Eddy Wymeersch examines the effect of securities regulation on company law in the EC, Francesco Galagno examines the enterprise theory in the context of groups of companies, a theme further examined by Frank Wooldridge. The financing of current transactions is the subject of comparative study by Bob Pennington and the book concludes with a fine study of the nullity of companies written by Robert Dniry. This is an excellent book which can be highly recommended to all interested in comparative law, company law, securities regulation, EC law and jurisprudence. Further titles in the series must be anticipated with interest.


This study is included in wind energy sector, which seems a more promising in Tetuan city northern of Morocco, where it is part of very Moroccan region windy, with annual average speeds close to 11 m/s. So for this, estimating of wind energy potential values of three sites in Tetuan city in northern of Morocco is made, taking account of weather data provided by quantifying of wind resources of each site and its yearly average power available estimations. We begin by determining the various parameters of wind such as mathematical modeling of Weibull distribution frequency, also the processing and simulation of real wind data collected. We evaluated for each site the wind energy potential, the generated electricity prediction based on a judicious choice appropriate to wind turbine energy needs from wind climate.


Primary intracranial malignant ectomesenchymoma (MEM) is a rare proliferative disorder that only occasionally involves the central nervous system. We presented a 16-year-old case of primary MEM located in pineal region. The patient was treated by total surgical resection followed by radiation and experienced no recurrence during the 6-month follow-up. The clinicopathological features of this case raised two points for the first record, as the first regarded the special age and pineal location as well as the second regarded the specific pathological components with malignant large round cells. The diagnosis for MEM is still challenging. The histological displays, immunophenotypical characteristics and cytogenesis arrays are still reliable evidence for diagnosis. Surgical resection has been demonstrated an effective treatment, but radiotherapy and chemotherapy have not been confirmed reliable therapeutic efficiency.


JR Hokkaido has been promoting research and development of "a new type Dual Mode Vehicle (DMV) which can run on both rail tracks and roads" to implement changes in railway systems for revitalizing local lines. JR Hokkaido is currently working on a project for its full-scale commercial operations. This paper introduces our approach and outlines this project.


Carotenoids are considered as important nutrients from food.Their distribution and occurring form in water-contained foods was paid attention.This article reviewed published results of carotenoids aggregation studies.It is expected that information provided in this article is able to be useful for food and nutrition scientists who are working on carotenoids from foods.


Petaloptila (Petaloptila) aliena, until now only recorded from eastern Spain and (probably incorrectly) from Portugal, is announced for the first time for France (Pyrenees-Orientales). This species was found in the Cerdagne valley. This valley is oriented towards Spain, a fact that permits the existence of iberic taxa. An illustrated identification key of the two Petaloptila species is presented.


As in many other studies, a finding on 50:50% acceptability threshold of DE* = 3.3 was used in result interpretation, which is pretty consistent with the thresholds reported in some other well controlled studies. Compared with the current study, Ruyter and colleagues evaluated different materials and specimens of different size (35 mm in diameter). It is always beneficial to include a remark on relative validity of interpretations due to differences in study design into the discussion section.


Various Types of Encoding and decoding are used in data communications. For the transportation system dedicated short-range communication (DSRC) techniques are used. The transportation system generally based on or two ways medium range communication techniques. There are two types of categories are used in DSRC application such as vehicle-to-roadside and vehicle to vehicle. Generally DSRC (dedicated short-range communication) is allowing collision prevention applications. By using these types of application it exchange the data at very high speed between the vehicles and the roadside vehicles. These applications are very frequent for the data transmission based on the DSRC application.


A broadband light source for a wavelength range of around 1.2-1.3 μm can be fabricated using a multi-stacked and modulated InAs/InGaAs quantum dot (QD) structure with the sandwich sub-nano separator (SSNS) technique. These techniques, such as use of the modulated QD structure and SSNS structure, are considered useful in obtaining a high-quality and ultra-broadband QD optical gain material for the laser and/or optical amplifier. A broadband (>75 nm bandwidth) and bright (few tenths of a mW) light emission in its waveband is successfully demonstrated from a QD laser diode using a modulated QD optical gain with the SSNS technique. (© 2011 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)


Number 1 Distribution of times to first neoplasm for a variety of fishes exposed to a variety of chemicals in the laboratory 18 2 Relationship between hepatic lesions and size or age of Atlantic hagfish, ruffe, and English sole 37 3 Length frequency distributions of various age groups of male and female English sole from Commencement Bay, WA 39 4 Sample sizes required to detect one individual affected with a lesion with 95 percent confidence, given various population sizes and prevalences 42 5 Example of a 2x2 contingency table 44 6 Power of the G-test vs. sample size when lesion prevalence at the reference site is 0.1 percent 49 7 Power of the G-test vs. sample size when lesion prevalence at the reference site is 5.0 percent 50 8 Effects of sample size on the minimum detectable prevalence at a test site relative to the prevalence at the reference site 52 9 Seasonal variation of hepatic lesions in English sole from the Duwamish River, WA 54 10 Results of simulation experiments showing the proportion of Type I errors in tests of the null hypothesis that lesion prevalence at both the reference and test sites equals 10 percent 76 iv


High mortality rates caused by malaria are seen in children under five years, but there is limited knowledge on neonatal immunity to the Plasmodium infection due to the lack of a reliable neonatal animal model to study the disease in children. By utilizing a newly developed young rodent model in our lab, we have observed that purified CD4+ T cells from day 14 old young mice (pups) proliferate slower than those purified from 8-week adult mice when stimulated in vitro. To investigate neonatal CD4+ T cell response to malaria, we infected 14-day old pups or adult mice with Plasmodium chabaudi and determined the activation status (CD127−CD44+CD11a+) and differentiation of effector (Teff) subsets, using the expression of CD62L or CD27. Pup CD4+ T cells were activated by downregulating CD127, even though in lower proportions and numbers when compared to adult CD4+ T cells. Surprisingly, there were more proportions of TeffEarly (CD27+CD62L+) and TeffInt (CD27+CD62L−) subsets in the pups than adult mice, which had mostly TeffLate (CD27−CD62L−), suggesting that the transition of Teff subsets is slower in the young mice. We next determined cytokine secretion and Tbet expression by the Teff. Apart from IL-2 which was high in the pups, there was no difference in the proportions of protective cytokines including IFNγ, IL-10 and TNFα in both groups. Effector CD4+ T cells from the pups expressed high proportions of the Tbet transcription factor when compared to adult cells. Taken together, these data suggest that pup CD4 T cells may require more Tbet to differentiate into functional effector cells during Plasmodium infection.
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ABCA1 plays key roles in cholesterol transport and apolipoprotein E (APOE) metabolism in the brain. To evaluate the relationship between ABCA1 genetic variants and Alzheimer's disease (AD), independently or in concert with the APOE ε4 allele, we examined three ABCA1 polymorphisms located in the coding region (R219K, I883M, and R1587K) and two ABCA1 polymorphisms in the promoter region (C−14T and C−477T) in a group of 372 Spanish AD patients and 440 controls. The ABCA1 219K, 883I, 1587R haplotype was significantly associated with AD, conferring a risk of 1.78 (P = 0.007). The ABCA1 C−14T polymorphism modified the risk of AD in an APOE ε4 allele‐dependent fashion: in APOE ε4 carriers, homozygous for the ABCA1 −14T allele had 3.7 times higher risk of developing AD (OR = 13.99) than carriers of the ABCA1 −14CC and CT genotypes (OR = 3.79). These data suggest that the development of AD might be influenced by either a qualitative change of the ABCA1 protein caused by coding region variants (219K, 883I, and 1587R), or by a quantitative change in ABCA1 expression caused by promoter region variant (−14T) in concert with the APOE ε4 allele. © 2007 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


Midlevel clouds occur in the region of the troposphere, lying between high cirrus ice clouds and low boundary layer stratus, stratocumulus and cumulus clouds. Midlevel clouds are associated with moisture advected to the middle part of the troposphere between about 2km and 6km, or temperatures between about 0°C and -20°C. However, there is no sharp gradation between cirrus and altus clouds, rather, a blending of one into the other. Again, deep frontal clouds, which include midlevel cloud, can extend from cirrus level to the boundary layer. Both the depths and the compositions of midlevel clouds are thus very variable. The clouds can often exist as supercooled water drops, which sometimes glaciate rapidly; as the saturation vapour pressure over ice is lower than over water, and the deficit is maximum at about -15°C in the mid-troposphere, any tendency for ice crystals to form can cause rapid growth of the crystals at the expense of the water drops. Optical remote sensing of these clouds has been confined in the past to a few observations (e.g. Platt and Gambling, 1971, Platt and Bartusek, 1974, Platt, 1977, Sassen, 1984, Uchino et al., 1988). However, recently, a few more observations were made in the first FIRE experiment (e.g. Heymsfield et al., 1991) although observations tended to concentrate on cirrus.


In the last decades, there has been a trend present in the world to increase
 the size of dairy herds while increasing the yield of milk per head. In
 addition to environmental and economic benefits, this trend carries certain
 risks for the welfare of cows because in conditions of increased
 agglomeration of cattle the possibility of spreading of pathogens is also
 increased, there are less opportunities for adequate control and cows are
 exposed to greater selection and production stress. Research of the
 relationship between herd size and welfare quality parameters is still not
 sufficient to make relevant conclusions. Starting from that, the aim of this
 study, conducted in Serbia, is to examine the influence of herd size on
 parameters related to providing good feeding and housing conditions as
 important segments of the overall welfare of dairy cows. The assessment of
 given welfare parameters was done by Welfare Quality? Assessment Protocol
 for Cattle (2009) on 16 dairy farms of different herd sizes (large, medium
 and small) and housing management. The results indicate that there are
 significant variations in welfare indicators in each of the observed groups,
 which is why the size of the herd cannot be taken as a parameter that
 explicitly determines the quality of welfare. However, individual
 observation and comparison of welfare parameters between groups indicate
 that small herds in our production conditions could be identified as the
 greatest risks to the welfare of cows. In small herds, the highest share of
 cows of poor (4.62%) and fattened condition (8.76%) was found, as well as
 the lowest freedom of movement because cows on small farms are mostly reared
 in a tied system. Average values of indicators: lying down time (6.24s),
 frequency of collisions with equipment (13.25%) and high dirt contamination
 of cows (65.6-89.8%) further emphasize the issue of providing comfort in
 small herds.


Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder that includes behavioral, emotional, and cognitive disorders. This affects the sufferer in daily activities. Supportive therapy is given to improve the adaptive and interpersonal functions of the subject, in order to control themselves and restore adaptive balance, especially in daily activities. The assessment used were interviews, observation, psychological tests, Wartegg, Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM), and Woodworth's Character Questionnaires (WWQ). The results of the intervention showed that there was a change in the daily lives of subjects who were often silent to become individuals who began to diligently carry out activities while in rehabilitation institutions. Subjects who often remain silent begin to be able to carry out activities that have been created in accordance with the collective agreement.


This paper presents a tool to help the completion of the metadata of the IMS Access for All v3.0 specification, which main objective is to simplify the definition of the accessibility metadata for learning objects and the preferences and needs of the users of these objects. The LOMPad tool has been modified for helping the accessible learning objects creators to complete the set of specification's accessibility metadata and to create the XML files that represent them. This tool also helps users to create their XML files with the preferences and needs metadata. This tool has been developed by the authors at the University of Alcala (Spain) in the field of project ESVIAL.


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In this paper we discuss how to construct a barrier certificate for a control affine system subject to actuator constraints. We motivate this discussion examining collision avoidance for fixed-wing aircraft. In particular, we show the theoretical development in this paper can be used to create a barrier certificate that can ensure that vehicles will not collide. We demonstrate in simulation how the constructed barrier certificate keeps vehicles at a safe distance from each other even though their nominal paths would otherwise cause collisions.


Level сформированности impellent qualities, an objective estimation of physical readiness and physical development, functional deviations and adaptable indicators of an organism at students was defined. In physical, psychophysical development, physical perfection experimental and basic groups of students have certain authentic distinctions that is caused by backlog of experimental group of students owing to presence at them low adaptable potential. In indicators of growth, weights of a body, a circle of a thorax, respiratory volume in experimental and basic groups of divergences it was not observed. The estimation of functionality сердечнососудистой systems was informative. The superiority of the basic group of students over experimental practically by all kinds of pedagogical tests is revealed. Increase of adaptable potential and adaptability to environmental conditions will allow to solve successfully the problems put before the young expert in training in high school.


Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com with Red Sudan. These revealed cases suggests the possible existence of a durable or structural problem. These cases of food frauds already have a negative impact on consumer confidence in the food chain, creating a major paradox, food has never been as safe, but consumers have lost confidence. An European citizen is 260 times more likely to die from flu than die from eating unsafe food, but one on three consumers do not trust on the information on the labels of foodstuffs. The various types of fraud includes i. Adulteration ii. Substitution iii. Alteration iv. Counterfeiting Products represent the most risk include


Abstract Background Patients' long-term phenomenology and outcomes after first episode psychosis are of great interest to patients, their caregivers and care providers. Contradictory messages regarding the necessity of long-term antipsychotic treatment and the factors affecting outcomes warrant careful examination. Methods We conducted a retrospective observational study by reviewing medical records at the study hospital of a cohort of patients since their participation in an early psychosis study starting from 2006, with special focus on patients maintaining very low dose antipsychotics and their functioning. Results Of the 81 patients with first episode psychosis, 55 patients (67.9%) had follow-up information for longer than 5 years. The majority (n=46, 83.6%) had non-affective psychosis, 20 patients (36.4%) had full-time employment/education by the time of their latest visit and 10 patients (18.2%) received very low dose antipsychotics (chlorpromazine equivalent [CPZE] dose < 50 mg/d) during maintenance, which was significantly correlated to good functioning. Being male, having a history of hospitalization and being on clozapine therapy were correlated to poorer functioning. Fifteen of the 20 good-functioning patients received dosage of antipsychotics no more than the reported minimum effective dose (CPZE 200 mg/d). Antipsychotic-free status was achieved only in two non-psychotic patients. Discussion A substantial proportion of patients could achieve good functioning under low-dose antipsychotic maintenance after first episode psychosis, even if they cannot successfully discontinue antipsychotic treatment in the long run. Optimizing the balance between preventing relapse and preserving functioning by fine-tuning antipsychotic dosage during maintenance is a challenge warranting more clinical attention.


Studies of normal individuals reveal an asymmetry in the folk concept of intentional action: an action is more likely to be thought of as intentional when it is morally bad than when it is morally good. One interpretation of these results comes from the hypothesis that emotion plays a critical mediating role in the relationship between an action's moral status and its intentional status. According to this hypothesis, the negative emotional response triggered by a morally bad action drives the attribution of intent to the actor, or the judgment that the actor acted intentionally. We test this hypothesis by presenting cases of morally bad and morally good action to seven individuals with deficits in emotional processing resulting from damage to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPC). If normal emotional processing is necessary for the observed asymmetry, then individuals with VMPC lesions should show no asymmetry. Our results provide no support for this hypothesis: like normal individuals, those with VMPC lesions showed the same asymmetry, tending to judge that an action was intentional when it was morally bad but not when it was morally good. Based on this finding, we suggest that normal emotional processing is not responsible for the observed asymmetry of intentional attributions and thus does not mediate the relationship between an action's moral status and its intentional status.


Minimal Boltzmann kinetic models, such as lattice Boltzmann, are often used as an alternative to the discretization of the Navier–Stokes equations for hydrodynamic simulations. Recently, it was argued that modeling sub-grid scale phenomena at the kinetic level might provide an efficient tool for large scale simulations. Indeed, a particular variant of this approach, known as the entropic lattice Boltzmann method (ELBM), has shown that an efficient coarse-grained simulation of decaying turbulence is possible using these approaches. The present work investigates the efficiency of the entropic lattice Boltzmann in describing flows of engineering interest. In order to do so, we have chosen the flow past a square cylinder, which is a simple model of such flows. We will show that ELBM can quantitatively capture the variation of vortex shedding frequency as a function of Reynolds number in the low as well as the high Reynolds number regime, without any need for explicit sub-grid scale modeling. This extends the previous studies for this set-up, where experimental behavior ranging from Re~O(10) to Re≤1000 was predicted by a single simulation algorithm.1–5


Device for processing a signal subband actual (xk) of a plurality of frequency sub-band real queson a representation of an actual signal discrete time x (n) generated by a bank of analysis filters (50) comprising: a weighter (10) for weighting the signal subband (xk) by a certain weighting factor (ck) for lasenal subband signal to obtain a weighted sub-band (11); one determiner correction term (12) for calculating a correction term, the determined determiner correction implemented to calculate the correction term using at least another signal neighboring subband (xl) and using another weighting factor (cl) being which is provided for the other subband signal (xl), the other weighting factor (cl) different weighting factor (ck); and a combiner (13) for combining the signal weighted subband and the correction term for the subband unasenal corrected (yk); wherein the determiner correction term is implemented to calculate the correction term linear comocombinacion signal subband (xk) filtered by a first filter (33) and at least one signal sub-bandafiltrada by another filter; wherein the term determiner correction is implemented to calculate the correction term enfuncion a difference between the weighting factor (ck) signal subband and the other factor ponderacionpara the other signal subband neighboring (xl).


Basic trends of contemporary textile art are presented in the article, the author providing information on the history of woven carpets and the necessary terminology. Analyzing works presented at the exhibition «Modern Danish Tapestries» in the State Hermitage, the author describes the synthesis of traditional and modern technologies as their characteristic feature, giving considerable attention to several exhibits.


Despite some weakening in the 1990s, partly due to sluggish trend growth, the Swiss innovation performance has been very strong. There are, however, areas in which policy reforms could strengthen innovation further and help Switzerland maintain its lead in the face of a changing global environment. Boosting competition, simplifying administrative burdens and reforming the bankruptcy law would go a long way towards stimulating the innovativeness of small enterprises in sheltered services sectors, which becomes more crucial to sustaining high domestic innovation in a context where large firms are increasingly mobile. On the other hand,the growing knowledge economy and the increasing competition from emerging countries in skill-intensive activities press for further upgrading the vocational education system and increasing the efficiency of the university system. Regarding innovation-specific policies, budget spending priorities on education and research should be better protected and more resources devoted to bridge the gap between fundamental research and the market, especially through the activities of the Commission for Technology and Innovation. This Working Paper relates to the 2006 OECD Economic Survey of Switzerland (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/switzerland).


The effects of magnetic shear on drift instabilities due to a density gradient are discussed for a plasma in which the ratio of plasma pressure to magnetic pressure is larger than the electronion mass ratio.


In this paper, we prove the strong unique continuation property for the following fourth order degenerate elliptic equation \begin{equation*} \Delta^2_{X}u=Vu, \end{equation*} where $\Delta_{X}=\Delta_{x}+|x|^{2\alpha}\Delta_{y}$ ($0<\alpha\leq1$), with $x\in\mathbb{R}^{m}, y\in\mathbb{R}^{n}$, denotes the Baouendi-Grushin type subelliptic operators, and the potential $V$ satisfies the strongly singular growth assumption $|V|\leq \frac{c_0}{\rho^4}$, where \begin{equation*} \rho=\left(|x|^{2(\alpha+1)}+(\alpha+1)^2|y|^2\right)^{\frac{1}{2(\alpha+1)}} \end{equation*} is the gauge norm. The main argument is to introduce an Almgren's type frequency function for the solutions, and show its monotonicity to obtain a doubling estimate based on setting up some refined Hardy-Rellich type inequalities on the gauge balls with boundary terms.


(57) Abstract: the E provided with an automatic loading device (60) having a plurality of cartridges (62) include different types of inserts (70), a machine that implanting insert sheet metal strip. Each of the cartridge (62) can be selectively connected to the insert feed duct is integral with the punch (46).


Using the first 3 waves of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, this article examines the prevalence and factors of domestic violence among unmarried mothers with a young child. The findings indicate that the prevalence of domestic violence for mothers increased substantially in the first 3 years after the child's birth. Findings from regression analyses show that mothers who lived with the father, either as a wife or cohabiting partner, had significantly lower odds of domestic violence in the study measures than mothers who did not live with the father. However, the odds of domestic violence were not significantly different between married and cohabiting mothers. Policy implications are discussed.


This article analyzes how trade facilitation influence China's agricultural exports to RCEP partners. Based on the data of the World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Report and principal component analysis, we constructs a 14 index system to measure trade facilitation. Based on the export data from 2011 to 2019, the extended gravity model is used to estimate the relationship between trade facilitation and the depth and breadth of China's agricultural exports. The study shows that improving the trade facilitation of RCEP partners can significantly enhance the depth of China's agricultural exports. Specifically, the trade openness, e-commerce and financial environment of importing countries have a significant positive impact on the depth and breadth of exports. Another important finding is that China's trade facilitation has played a more active role in the depth and breadth of exports. Its infrastructure quality, e-commerce and financial environment can greatly promote China's agricultural exports.


How does social interaction among investors affect decision-making in the online social lending platform? And what is the reason? In this study, in order to obtain the answer, we carried out case study research of Moneyauction and Popfunding, which are domestic online social lending platforms. We conducted interviews with managements of both social lending platforms and investors and analyzed statistical data including investment records, social interaction history between investors and lenders from both platforms. In addition, researchers performed direct participation and observation through the platforms as real investment members. As a result, we revealed that social interaction among investors has a material impact on the investment decision-making. Also we found that investors build trust by socially interacting with each other and this trust building leads to the investment decision making. Our findings confirm that social lending investors`s decision-making process comply with the social embeddedness theory and imply that loan applicants must do their best efforts to display sincerity and truthfulness through their posting.


Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate long-term corneal endothelial cell changes and visual outcomes after iris-fixated phakic intraocular lens (pIOL) explantation in patients with endothelial damage and to investigate potential predictors of endothelial injury. Methods: Consecutive patients undergoing pIOL explantation with corneal endothelial cell density (ECD) <2000 cells/mm2 at the time of the procedure were retrospectively reviewed in a single tertiary center. All patients were treated between April 2016 and October 2020 at a high-volume referral-based tertiary hospital. The primary outcome was the change in corneal endothelial parameters, including ECD, over long-term follow-up. Secondary outcomes included changes in corrected distance visual acuity and analysis of prognostic factors. Results: This study included 44 eyes from 28 patients with an average age of 42.5 ± 7.8 years (range: 27–63). Mean ECD before explantation was 1375.4 ± 468.2 cells/mm2 (range: 622–1996), and the average duration of follow-up after explantation was 20.5 months (6–58.2). Two years after explantation, ECD had significantly decreased by more than 25% to 1019.6 ± 368.6 (608–1689; P < 0.01). However, there was no significant change in corrected distance visual acuity (20/23–20/22, P = 0.59). Longer operation duration (odds ratio, 1.004; P = 0.04) was the only significant factor weakly associated with postoperative decreases in ECD. Conclusions: Although ECD continuously decreased despite pIOL explantation on a long-term follow-up, patients did not experience any discomfort or showed decreases in visual acuity. Therefore, a careful follow-up is required for possible endothelial injury after pIOL explantation.


HLA alleles have been determined in individuals from the Re- public of Macedonia by DNA typing and sequencing. HLA-A, -B, -DR, -DQ


Consolidation and permeability tests were conducted on soft clays with different liquid limit by GDS consolidation apparatus. Some fitting parameters were studied for 4 common nonlinear permeability models based on the test data. But different soil samples have different parameters for the same model. In order to find the universal law of permeability coefficient and compressibility with the soil property and void ratio, the void ratio was normalized by the liquid void ratio eL, and the relationship of e/eL with logkv and logp were established based on the test data. The Chapman-Richard curve fitting model was adopted to best fit the obtained time-compression data. The relationship between e/eL with logkv was further verified using 30 groups of test data of permeability collected from China and abroad. The relationship between e/eL with logp was also discussed in this paper, and the fitted curves and nonlinear equations was further simplified into two linear equations at the point of e/eL=0.9 so as to consistent with the well-known theory. The nonlinear equations can be used to calculate the permeability and compressibility according to the void ratio and liquid limit.


The paper deals with relations between on the one hand the supporters of the pan-European identity, which has to take the place of the particular national ones, and on the other hand the proponents of maintaining specific national identities as the top priority within the European Union (EU). Certainly, the European Union continues to expand its borders, individual national currencies are becoming unified into the common EU currency - Euro (€), and the political and economic climates are gravitating towards pan-continental unification. However, what does this unification process mean in terms of identity? The crucial question is: will the success of the EU rest solely in economic and political interdependence or will a strong pan-European identity emerge in a fashion similar to what we see in the United States, Australia, France, New Zealand, etc? This research paper will try to identify already existing views and models in regard to the creation of the pan-European identity before addressing additional factors which have to be taken into consideration as well as.


Cotton crop is known as "White gold" and is a premier commercial crop in India, which occupies only 5 per cent of the arable land and supports 60 million people having direct bearing on the country's economy. India is a unique among the cotton growing countries of the world in which four species of cotton viz., Gossypium hirsutum, G. barbadense, G. arboreum and G. herbaceum are grown commercially under diversified ecosystem. In India, it is cultivated in 110.00 million hectares with 325.00 lakh bale production and an average productivity was 503 kg/ha during 2010-11 (Anon., 2011). India accounts for approximately 23 per cent of the world cotton area but the average productivity of cotton is markedly low at about 521 kg/ha as compared to world average of 765 kg/ha. The major cotton growing states in India are Maharashtra, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Orissa.


The yield and compos ilion of coal-derived humic acids (AH) was studled. obtained by xidaUon of a Venezuelan bitu minous coal with alkaline polassium p nnanganale under differ nt temperature, reac tion time a nd substrale: oxidizing agent ra Lios, wiUl the aim 01" establishing Ule optimal c onditions of ex trac lion and yield . and lo compa re the struclure of the generaled Ali. Oxidation products were analyzed by 11I RMN . FT-ir and elemenlal analysis. The yie ld of AH obta ined by coal o>..idaUon i increased a s lempe rature an d time increasing. and it d creased wilh the increase of the relal ionsh ip KMn04 to coal. Elemen tal composition of lhe oblained AH di ffers n ol ve ry lo each olh r , excep t for those coming fram the reac tions in tha l the oxid izing ratio t a coalls 3 : l . The yields . a s well as the speclro copie and eompositional re sults c1ear videncc lhal the AH initially fonned in lhe oxid a lion af lhe coal, are fun her oxidized by the x  cess of oxidizing agent , to generale slruclures sim pl r and fulvic acids .


The invention relates to a quality-of-service (QoS)-guaranteed video stream method, system and transmitting server. The QoS-guaranteed video stream method includes transmitting, by a transmitting server, a video stream including different video stream data for a plurality of respective layers, to a relay server, receiving, by the transmitting server, first section network state information which is information about a network state between the relay server and the transmitting server, from the relay server, receiving, by the transmitting server, second section network state information which is information about a network state between the plurality of respective user terminals and the relay server, and adjusting, by the transmitting server, qualities of video streams which are transmitted to the plurality of respective user terminals through the relay server by using network state information of the first section and network state information of the second section.


Information and Communication Technology (ICT) centres are a vital resource required to ensure the integration of digital technologies in education. Recently adoption of ICT in teaching and learning is rapidly gaining access in secondary schools. However and unfortunately, many schools in Nigeria are yet to adopt these tools for many reasons. This paper focuses on the basic requirement for the development of ICT centres in schools. To achieve this, the paper covers the need and place for digital technologies, networking, infrastructure, human resource training, community and local support. The paper recommends that government and the school community should support the school in the development, maintenance of ICT centres in schools. It's further recommended that adequate and stable power supply should be supplied in the schools for optimal utilization ICT to facilitate the adoption of advanced technologies in rural schools.


Scientists today conduct new research via software-based experimentation and validation in a host of disciplines. Scientific software represents a significant investment due to its complexity and longevity yet there is little reuse of scientific software beyond small libraries which increases development and maintenance costs. To alleviate this disconnect, we have developed KADRE, a domain-specific architecture recovery approach and toolset to aid automatic and accurate identification of workflow components in existing scientific software. KADRE improves upon state of the art general cluster techniques, helping to promote component-based reuse within the domain.


As a Greek academic bred in the classical and the Anglo-American literary traditions and with French culture as a second option, I have always felt a frustrating gap in my firsthand communication with the German and Slavic languages and cultures. Especially in the domain of theatre theory the Greek academia is still under the strong influence of French (and also Italian) Structuralism and semiotics, enhanced both by theatre theorists, the majority of whom have pursued their graduate studies in France, and by the highly active Greek Semiotic Society, supported mainly by the School of Architecture. The influence of the Anglo-Saxon theatre tradition has been mostly felt in theatre historiography and performance practice and in Marxist/materialist criticism. So far there have been very few Greek academics to engage with theatre phenomenology. In the last decade or so a productive dialogue has started between the two opposite theories of the stage but the semiotic approach is still strongly encouraged among younger researchers, for most of whom theatre semiotics has been elevated to a kind of fetish or cult beyond judgment or future development. My own encounter with phenomenology as an alternative analytical tool for the theatrical activity was in the late 1990s through my acquaintance with the newly emerging theory of theatre phenomenology in the U.S. first by Bert O. States and later, and more systematically, by Stanton B. Garner.1 This discovery sent me back to a re-examination of the various branches of semiotic theory and to fruitful comparisons between leading semioticians of


The botanical composition of an annual unirrigated pasture at Werribee, twenty miles west of Melbourne, Victoria, grazed at one, three, and six sheep to an acre was greatly influenced by level of stocking. The areas grazed at one sheep to an acre became dominated by Wimmera ryegrass and had large reserves of grass and subterranean clover seeds in the soil. In those grazed at six sheep to an acre the original Wimmera ryegrass and subterranean clover had virtually disappeared at the end of three years, and there were few grass and clover seeds in the soil. Some change in botanical composition occurred from year to year in the areas grazed at three sheep to an acre but it was not progressive and the pasture at the end of the observations was similar to that at the beginning. The reserves of grass and clover seed, although lower in these plots than in those grazed at one sheep to an acre, were considerably above the level of those grazed at six sheep to an acre. It is concluded that at their present level of productivity these pastures will not carry six sheep to the acre continuously, but they may carry more than three sheep to the acre.


The AIDS Control Programme of the Federal Government is the first national programme in the Federal Republic of Germany, trying to prevent the spread of a specific disease on a broader scale. The question is raised whether the present highly legally orientated Public Health services in the Federal Republic of Germany meet the real health needs of the population. The author also calls for a more policy-orientated Public Health care by the physicians in Public Health services.


The aim was to discuss the influence of different carbon and nitrogen source on the growth of the hyphae of root rot disease of Aster tataricus L.f. by growth rate method. The results showed that the most suitable carbon source for the growth of hyphae of root rot disease of A. tataricus L.f. was sucrose glucose fructose maltose lactose starch,namely the non reducing sugar reducing sugar, monosaccharide disaccharide polysaccharide. Absorption effect of different nitrogen source was potassium nitrate ammonium nitrate glutamic acid asparagine sodium nitrate alanine urea ammonium chloride ammonium sulfate, namely nitrate nitrogen and amino acid urea ammonium nitrogen,the optimum nitrogen source for the growth was potassium nitrate.


The site for placement of the epidural catheter was selected based on the underlying pathology as well as on each patients description of the pain dermatome. All patients were having pain between T1-T12 dermatome level. Epidural was performed either sitting or lateral position depending on patient comfort. Under aseptic precautions skin of epidural site was anaesthetized with 1% Xylocaine. A 20 G catheter was placed 3-5 cm within the epidural space at level of T5-T6 level using an 18 G Touhy needle using loss of resistance technique. Correct placement of catheter was tested by complete pain relief with 5 ml of 0.125% Bupivacaine injection and aspiration for CSF and blood. The epidural catheter was taped securely in place. Epidural injection of 5 ml of 50% Alcohol was done slowly 4 hours after LA injection test. The patient was positioned 30° Head up with supine for visceral or bilateral somatic pain or Lateral on affected side up for unilateral pain as alcohol is bit hypobaric in nature. 12 After injection catheter was flushed with1 ml of 0.125 % bupivacaine. Second and third epidural alcohol injections were made in a daily basis until the patient experienced 75% pain relief persistent over 24 hours and decrease in narcotic use of at least 25%. Patients were asked about any tingling, numbness, sensory loss, motor weakness, bladder and bowel dysfunction. The position of patient, precautions and techniques were kept similar on all 3 days. The intravenous hydration was only instituted in cases where patients experienced nausea vomiting, diarrhoea or hypotension. Heart Rate, Blood Pressure and Spo2 monitoring were utilized during each injection. Catheter was removed at least one hour following final injection of alcohol. Following the procedure, patients could receive medications according to a modified analgesic regimen based on World Health Organization guidelines [4]. The patients were discharged 24 hrs after catheter removal.


In this paper a new solution of fault injection in the processor cores of systems on a chip is presented. It consists in the placement of infrastructure injection of single fault in a system-on-chip as an intellectual property core. This simplifies fault injection environment, improve the performance of ongoing injections, as well as allows doing long autonomous fault injection with the appropriate construction unit injection. The solution has been applied to a LEON3 processor. The results from the use of solutions demonstrate its simplicity and performance.


Investigations were carried out of the synthesis of butyronitrile via the ammonolysis of butylalcohol and the dehydrogenation of butylamine over Mo[sub 2]N. At 573 K butyronitrile is produced with virtually 100% yielded by both reactions. The ammonolysis of butylalcohol proceeds via dehydrogenation of the butylalcohol to form butyraldehyde, which then reacts with ammonia to produce butylimine. Butyronitrile is formed by butylimine dehydrogenation. The formation of butyronitrile from butylamine occurs via the stepwise dehydrogenation of the amine. The presence of ammonia in the gas phase suppresses the hydrogenolysis of either butylalcohol or butylamine. 11 refs., 8 figs., 2 tabs.


This paper describes geometric modeling systems that are being applied with computer systems in construction surveying of highway tunnels. These modeling systems include sweeping, skinning, mesh generation, combined constructive solid geometry and boundary representation modeling systems, and computational geometry for irregular surfaces and tunnel intersections.


Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) algorithm is a fuzzy pattern recognition method. Clustering precision of the algorithm is affected by its equal partition trend for data set of large discrepancy of each class samples number, and the optimal clustering result of the algorithm mightn't be a right partition in this case. In order to overcome this disadvantage, a Gaussian function Weighted Fuzzy C-Means (WFCM) algorithm is proposed, which the weighted function is produced by a Gaussian function calculating dot density of each sample. To certain extent, the WFCM algorithm has not only overcome the limitation of equal partition trend in fuzzy Cmeans algorithm, but also been favorable convergence and stability. The calculation of the weighted function and the choice of sample dot density range restriction value for the algorithm are both objective. When partially supervised information obtained from a few labeled samples is introduced to the WFCM algorithm, the classification performance of the WFCM algorithm is further enhanced and the convergent speed of objective function is further accelerated.


Coil coatings are widely used as corrosion protection systems. They are one of the most advanced techniques to apply continuously an organic coating on a metal sheet during fabrication. The pre-coated material is a product of consistent quality, with excellent formability, durability, corrosion and weathering resistance. It is however lacking of easy-toclean and anti-scratch properties with controlled optical properties.


More steps for basic medical education are now organised in Italy. After the first agreement signed between University of Modena and Italian College of General Practitioners, now we have various kind of experiences in Bari, Genova, Pavia, Udine, Bologna, Rome, Milan, with courses and lessons and tutorships (even if usually not in a really structured module) for students on fifth and sixth year. A course is organised for Tutors specifically for an unique aim: the post-graduating national exams to get professional license. These ones are really Tutors for the University, working in every town where an University of Medicine is seated, and in charge to deeply exam the new doctors giving a structured scheme of scores, in this way judging what these students learned during six years in University, usually not been prepared at all on Primary Care specific competences. The problems are ''political'', and there are still many difficulties, because the academic body is still not agreeing in its majority (but consensus is growing), and because all European WONCA Networks are out of the political decisional arena (now EURACT National Representative is trying to be always there, active and super-parts in a national context really divided in Societies and Trust Associations. The success could be facilitated if enough supported by a strong EURACT position).


This article presents selected research and development projects committed to advance the technical capability of Deutsche Bahn (DB) rolling stock and infrastructure, to facilitate train operations on the rail network. At the same time the life cycle costs will be lowered and the high safety level will be kept.


International trade in organic products is growing rapidly thus it provides an ideal opportunity for African exporters to find premium export markets. The EPOPA (Export Promotion of Organic Products from Africa) programme was created by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency in 1997. The programme has been instrumental in helping African exporters improve their businesses and thousands of farmers their livelihoods through sound agriculture practices. The programme is up and running in Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. January 2006 Export of organic products improves livelihood for thousands of farmers


Locked-In Syndrome is admittedly the worst case of motor and speech impairment, seriously damaging the ability of oral and gestural communication of patients. In recent years, alternative and augmentative communication technology has provided resources to restore these patients' ability to communicate. Among the various methods and existing communication software, we can highlight the virtual keyboard. However, the data entry for these keyboards is considerably slower than entering information through physical keyboards. In order to identify the main approaches employed to optimize the data entry on virtual keyboards, we performed a systematic review by searching for papers in databases. As a result, we found 250 articles and selected 31 papers among them to compose this research. Analyzing these articles, we identified five methods for optimizing data entry performance and 15 ways of implementing them. In addition, this review contains a critical analysis regarding the optimization methods and assistive virtual keyboards.


In the present study, the genetic composition of Salta capital city was estimated in a population sample. A total of 223 non-related blood-donors from the Centro Privado de Hemoterapia were included, who provided written informed consent and genealogical information. Twelve autosomal markers, GM allotypes, mtDNA and Y-chromosome continental origin were analysed; genetic admixture was estimated employing the ADMIX program. Autosomal markers show the presence of 50,02% for the Amerindian component, 46,29% for the European and 3,51% for the African component. Amerindians mitochondrial haplogroups represented a 93,75%, while the Europeans haplogroups represented a 3,85% and the Africans a 2,40%; 17,1% of males analysed exhibited the aboriginal variant Q*M3. The data were compared to those obtained previously in other cities, and the genetic admixture of Salta showed the highest values of Amerindian and African component. The intraregional immigration is much more remarkable than interregional or foreign immigration. These studies reinforce the idea that the Argentine population should not be considered as a homogeneus totality but variability must be taken into account.


We study how to convert OpenStreetMap data to road networks for downstream applications. OpenStreetMap data has different formats. Extensible Markup Lan-guage (XML) is one of them. OSM data consist of nodes, ways, and relations. We process OSM XML data to extract the information of nodes and ways to obtain the map of streets of the Memphis area. We can use this map for different downstream applications.


We demonstrated the quantum efficiency (QE) of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) photodiode was enhanced in visible frequency region by using Au nanoparticles. Two-fold enhancement in the QE was achieved in visible by the optimized particle size and density.


The retail industry in India has emerged as one of the most dynamic and rapidly growing industries with several domestic and foreign players entering into the market. With increasing competition, retailers strive to ensure that their stores are appealing to their target markets. Retailers are finding it increasingly difficult to create a differential advantage on the basis of merchandise alone. Since, Indian consumers have diametrically changed in terms of their shopping behavior and impulse buying is emerging as a highly noticeable behavior, the role of impulse buying plays a significant role for modern retailers and hence for researchers. Understanding the factors that cause consumers to make impulse purchasing has become more important than ever. The present paper tries to study the impact of Visual Merchandising techniques on impulse buying behavior of consumers as Visual Merchandising is one of the major tactics used by retailers to attract customers to the stores. Findings of this study suggest that Visual merchandising techniques like Product Shelf Position Product Display & Promotional Signage significantly influence impulse buying behavior. The role of these visual merchandising techniques is to serve as external motivator influencing customers and creating a desire to make unplanned purchases.


Outside of the present economic situation with worldwide petroleum consumption, it is realistic to state one fundamental objective of the oil exploration and production business: ''Continue development of offshore production facilities in key reserve areas for the long-range worldwide demand for petroleum related products.'' From the United States perspective, this goal is substantiated by the estimate that 50% of all U S oil company investments will be in the South East Asia region, with emphasis on offshore opportunities. Recent exploration and purchasing activity in the South China Sea has involved nearly twenty worldwide interests in securing strategic production capability. Based on this activity level and projected investment in future offshore ventures, it is practical to expect offshore production to continue at an accelerated rate.


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Macrosaldula bogdashana Luo et Vinokurov sp. n. is described from Bogda Shan Range, Northwestern China. The new species is most similar in size and vestiture to M. oblonga oblonga (Stal, 1858) but differs in the color pattern of forewings (Fig. 1-3) and male genitalia structure (Figs. 11–14). M. bogdashana is also similar to M. tadzhika (Kiritshenko, 1912) in the same vestiture, but can be distinguished from the latter by the shorter body (see Table), shape of pale spots on corium (Figs. 6–9), and the male genitalia structure (Figs. 15–18).


This study presents a numerical study concerning the flow control by suction and injection. The case study is over a symmetrical airfoil with suction and injection slots. The angle of attack is 3 degree with the Mach number 0.12. Introduction This paper aims to study the stability of incompressible laminar boundary layer by numerical simulation carried out on an aerodynamic profile with suction and injection flow. The method purpose in this paper for the study of laminar stability is based on small disturbance theory in witch a small sinusoidal disturbance is imposed on a given steady laminar flow to see whether the disturbance will amplify or decay in time. If the disturbance decays, the flow will stay laminar, if the disturbance amplifies sufficiently the flow become turbulent. n e The small disturbance theory does not predict the details of the nonlinear process by which the flow changes from laminar to turbulent. It establishes which shapes of velocity profiles are unstable, identifies those frequencies that amplify fastest and indicates how the parameters governing the flow can be changed to delay transition process. Mathematical Model Let be , , u v p a solution of the incompressible laminar boundary layer equations. Over this solution assign a disturbance . , , u v p ′ ′ ′ ; ; u u u v v v p p p ′ ′ = + = + = + ′ (1) Since the basic solution , , u v p and sizes u,v,p satisfy the boundary layer equations, following equations are obtained for disturbance: 0 y v x u = ∂ ′ ∂ + ∂ ′ ∂ (2)


carbon that is generally used as a solvent in the industrial process of metal degreasing. The major contributors to human exposure of TCE are a number of commercial products such as parquet cleaning solutions, stain removers, surface adhesives, and wood paints.1 Owing to environmental contamination, TCE is not found in natural habitat even though it could be detectable in air, surface and underground water.2 Therefore, human exposure in general population can occur through ingestion, inhalation or transdermal absorption. The degradation rates of TCE differ according to its physical state and concentration. TCE evaporation from surface water produces TCE vapor in the air with a half-life of one to eleven days.3


This Article introduces the conflict between HIPAA and FOIA in Part II, which explains the provisions of HIPAA and FOIA and the HHS regulations that cover access to medical records held by the federal government. Part II delineates the practical realities agency personnel will face when a record request falls under both HIPAA and FOIA. Part IV of this Article highlights how two states have dealt with HIPAA's conflict with state statutes to see how those courts have resolved a similar conflict. Part V delves into the case law interpreting Exemption Six of FOIA to conclude that HHS's assessment that Exemption Six should not cause a conflict with FOIA is inaccurate. Finally, this Article argues that a federal court should decide that public access to a medical record held by a government health provider is dictated by FOIA's Exemption Six instead of HIPAA and HHS regulations.


Question: What is the efficacy and safety of 1% pimecrolimus cream compared with vehicle in children with atopic dermatitis (AD)? Design: A combined analysis of 2 identical randomized controlled clinical trials (N=403). Setting: Children attending specialist dermatology units in the United States. Study Participants: Children and adolescents aged 1 to 17 years with AD as defined by the United Kingdom Working Party's refinement of Hanifin and Rajka's diagnostic criteria. Those entered into the study had to have at least 5% body surface area involvement and investigators' global assessment (IGA) baseline score of 2 to 3 (mild to moderate AD) and no treatment except emollients in the 7 days prior to randomization. Children who had received systemic therapy within 1 month prior to the study were excluded. Intervention: Application of 1% pimecrolimus cream twice daily for 6 weeks vs vehicle only. Participants were randomized in a ratio of 2:1 in favor of 1% pimecrolimus cream. Outcome Measures: The primary outcome measure was the proportion of children who, in the view of the investigator, had achieved a category of 0 or 1 on the IGA scale. The IGA scale was based on descriptions of AD signs to define 6 categories from 0 to 5 representing clear, almost clear, mild disease, moderate disease, severe disease, and very severe disease, respectively. Secondary outcome measures included EASI (a composite scale of the 4 signs of erythema, papulation/induration, excoriation, and lichenification combined with extent), patient/caregiver-rated severity of pruritus on a 4-point scale, and patient/caregiverrated overall disease control on a 4-point scale. Safety assessments includedstandardmonitoringof adverseevents, as well as hematologic and biochemistry assessments and urinalysis. Outcomes were measured on days 8, 15, 22, 29, and 43 (end of treatment period). Results: At the end of 6 weeks, 35% of participants in the pimecrolimus group (93/267) attained an IGA of 0 or 1 (clear or almost clear) compared with 18% in the vehicleonly group (25/136) based on an intention-to-treat analysis (P .05). The number needed to treat with pimecrolimus to achieve 1 additional success compared with vehicle was 6. Secondary outcomes showed similar magnitudes of improvement in the pimecrolimus group, and improvements were noted as early as day 8. Adverse events were similar in both groups. In particular, application site burning was noted in 10.4% and 12.5% of pimecrolimus and vehicle groups, respectively. Authors' Conclusion: Application of 1% pimecrolimus cream appears to be a safe and effective alternative to currently used therapies in AD. Four of the authors were employees of Novartis Pharmaceuticals, which manufactures pimecrolimus, and the remaining 4 had declared conflicts of interest relating to various associations with Novartis Pharmaceuticals.


One of the greatest challenges facing artists and performers involved with the production of 'real-time', interactive installations, performances and digital artifacts is the creation of suitable and meaningful interfaces between the 'user' and the artwork. In the majority of cases the interaction experience of 'point and click' can be inappropriate, disappointing or devalue the conceptual and visual integrity of the artwork. This proposal describes and demonstrates the GVision project which is developing flexible software that harnesses developments in computer vision for use by artists in a wide range of installation and performance scenarios.


Along with electric power marketability unceasingly thorough,the importance of the boundary electricity price forecast will be more and more highlight,and it draws universal attention from the general electricity generation enterprise.The questions that how to carry out the boundary electricity price forecast and how to raise the accuracy of it become urgently needs to solve.This paper unifies the chaos theory,and deductive new ways of electricity price forecast technique.


Rapid manufacturing using laser beam and/or electron beam has been applied to fabrication of artificial hip and knee joints in quite recent years. In the electron beam melting (EBM) method, the high energy electron beam effectively melts the metal powder without creating flaws such as porosities or inclusions of oxide particles during building. Thus it is found that EBM technique for rapid manufacturing of artificial hip and knee joints processes a higher possibility as the next-generation methodology for fabrication of the medical devices such as hip and knee joints. In the present study, we focus on the EBM technique. The microstructures and mechanical properties of Co-29Cr-6Mo alloy with C and N additions, produced by using EBM method, were studied using X-ray diffraction, electron back scatter diffraction, transmission electron microscope (TEM), Vickers hardness tests, and tensile tests, focusing on the influences on the build direction and the various heat treatments after build. It is found that the microstructures for the as built specimens were changed from columnar (Fig. 1a) to eqiaxed grain structure (Fig. 1c) with average grain size of approximately 10–20 μm due to the heat treatment employing the reverse transformation from a lamellar (hcp + Cr 2 N) phase to an fcc phase. Our results will contribute to the development of biomedical Ni-free Co–Cr–Mo–N-C alloys, produced by EBM method, with refined grain size and good mechanical properties, without requiring any hot workings. Fig. 1 Inverse pole figure (IPF) maps of microstructure of samples produced by EBM method, taken by EBSD. (a) as-built, (b) after aging treatment, (c) after reverse transformation heat treatment (RT-HT).


Submartingales are processes that grow on average. Subject to some condition of uniform integrability, they can be written uniquely as the sum of a martingale and a predictable increasing process. This result is known as the Doob–Meyer decomposition.

Keywords:

submartingale;
predictable compensator;
stopping time;
totally inaccessible;
canonical decomposition


The study was conducted to examine the factors that have contributed to the causes and persistence of farmer-herder conflicts in Tanzania. The work is anchored on the fact that there have been numerous efforts by the government to bring to an end the conflicts between farmers and herders but these conflicts have been escalating and are becoming economically and socially unbearable. Respondents for the study included farmers, herders, and district level officials in Kilombero, Kiteto, Rufiji and Kilosa districts. Focus Group Discussions were conducted to collect information on conflict resolution mechanisms and the persistence of the conflicts in their areas. Key informants interviews and discussions involving individual farmers, herders, village leaders and district government leaders were also conducted. Major factors for the persistence of conflicts between farmers and herders were found to include policy deficiencies and contradictions, insecurity of land tenure, inadequacy of capacity of the local institutions, corrupt practices, poor coordination in resettling the migrants, inadequate capacity in village land use planning, and the heavy handed approaches used to resolve the conflicts. The study concludes that the root cause of the conflicts is the lack of security of land tenure to smallholder farmers and herders who hold and use unsurveyed land that is liable for alienation through acquisition and encroachment. Unless the government reviews its land policy to ensure security of land tenure land grabbing and corrupt practices will escalate and lead to further conflicts.


Joseph Priestley's Chart of Biography is a masterpiece of hand-drawn data visualization. He arranged the lifespans of around 2,000 individuals on a timeline, and the chart obtained great value for teaching purposes. We present a generic, interactive variant of the chart adopting Priestley's basic design principles. Our proposed visualization allows for dynamically defining person groups to be visually compared on different zoom levels. We designed the visualization in cooperation with musicologists having multifaceted research interests on a biographical database of musicians. On the one hand, we enable deriving new relationships between musicians in order to extend the underlying database, and on the other hand, our visualization supports analyzing time-dependent changes of musical institutions. Various usage scenarios outline the benefit of the Interactive Chart of Biography for research in musicology.


Russula binchuanensis and Russula laurocerasi Melzer var. microcarpa are discribed as new to science. Specimens examined are deposited in Herbarium Mycologicum Academiae Sinicae (HMAS). Color terminology follows that of Ridgway.


A rare case of endogenous fungal endophthalmitis(EFE)in a 73-year-old woman with recurrent tongue cancer is presented. The patient had terminal-stage disease and underwent insertion of a central venous catheter(CVC)for nutritional support. Her visual acuity decreased 10 days after the onset of a high fever. The bacterial cultures from blood and catheter were positive for Candida albicans. Fundal examination revealed characteristic features compatible with fungal endophthalmitis. The serum β-D glucan value was elevated. Consequently, this case was diagnosed as EFE subsequent to catheter insertion. Her visual acuity recovered after removal of the catheter and treatment with intravenous fluconazole for 6 weeks. The case suggests that oral and maxillofacial surgeons should consider the risk of EFE in compromised patients with CVC.


One of the main tasks of real estate management in the area of the municipality is making decisions concerning the location of investments on a local scale. These decisions should be taken with the principle of sustainable development. For such an action obliges Poland's membership in the European Union. Poland as a member of the EU is obliged to implement the rules in force in the Member States. In the field of land management stands out the guidelines of the UN / ECE. Bearing in mind that any investment impact directly or indirectly on the economic development of the municipality, is therefore a significant impact on the local real estate market. Investments that have a negative impact on the environment can contribute to a reduction in the activity of the local real estate market. While performing tasks related to the economic development of the region and the increase in quality of life, increases the activity of the local real estate market. The work was carried out research on the dynamics of changes in the local real estate market in the area of the municipality Skrzyszow in the Malopolska province in Poland, in connection with the construction of the reservoir. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3846/enviro.2017.238