Normal anatomical structures and lesions characterized by low T2W signal intensity are reviewed in this pictorial essay. The purpose is to demonstrate how evaluation of the appearance, shape and exact anatomical location of the T2W hypointense sellar region structure, correlated with its T1W signal intensity, can based on the clinical context lead to an appropriate differential diagnosis.


Heating [Ru2(CO)(µ-CO){µ-C(O)C2Ph2}(η-C5H5)2] with an allene R1CHCCHR2(R1= R2= H or Me; R1= H, R2= Me) in toluene at 100 °C displaces diphenylacetylene and produces allyl complexes [Ru(CO){η3-C3H4–nMen[2-Ru(CO)2(η-C5H5)]}(η-C5H5)](2, n= 0, yield 90%; 3, n= 1, 70%; 4, n= 2, 10%). A Ru–Ru bond is broken in this process but is regenerated upon protonation of (2) with HBF4, which yields the µ-vinyl species [Ru2(CO)2(µ-CO){µ-C(Me)CH2}(η-C5H5)2][BF4. Treatment of this with NaBH4 effects hydride addition to the µ-vinyl to form the µ-dimethylcarbene complex [Ru2(CO)2(µ-CO)(µ-CMe2)(η-C5H5)2] in 77% yield. Similar sequential addition of H+ and H– to (3) gives [Ru2(CO)2(µ-CO){µ-C(Me)Et}(η-C5H5)2] in 60% yield, but (4) does not transform to a µ-CEt2 complex. The molecular structure of [Ru2(CO)2(µ-CO)(µ-CMe2)(η-C5H5)2] was established by X-ray diffraction. The two ruthenium atoms are 2.712(1)A apart and are bridged symmetrically by the carbonyl and the dimethylcarbene ligands. The interplanar angle between the two bridge systems is 153°. Each Ru atom carries one terminal carbonyl group and one cyclopentadienyl ligand. These cyclopentadienyl ligands lie in an eclipsed cis orientation, skew to the Ru ⋯ Ru axis, on the convex side of the bridge system, giving the molecule as a whole Cs symmetry. The mean Ru–C (carbene) separation is 2.113(4)A and the plane of the carbene ligand coincides with the molecular mirror plane. The structure is triclinic and has been refined to R 0.018 for 2 001 intensities measured on a four-circle diffractometer. In solution the complex exists as both cis and trans isomers which interconvert rapidly on the n.m.r. time-scale above room temperature. This, and related behaviour of the complex [Ru2(CO)2(µ-CO)(µ-CMe2)(PMe2Ph)(η-C5H5)2], is interpreted in terms of a bridge ⇌ terminal carbene exchange. Minor products of the synthesis of [Ru2(CO)2(µ-CO)(µ-CMe2)(η-C5H5)2] are the isomers [Ru2(CO)2(µ-H){µ-C(Me)CH2}(η-C5H5)2] and [Ru2(CO)2(µ-H){µ-CHC(H)Me}(η-C5H5)2]; the former is dominant in solution but an X-ray diffraction study revealed the latter as the solid-state structure. The molecule comprises two Ru(CO)(η-C5H5) fragments joined by a Ru–Ru bond [2.857(2)A] which is bridged by hydrido- and 2-methylvinyl ligands. The vinyl ligand spans the Ru–Ru bond in a σ, η2 mode, with a Ru–C(σ) separation of 2.013(4)A and Ru–C(π) separations of 2.189(4) and 2.275(4)A. The hydrido-ligand bridges with a small degree of asymmetry, but lies coplanar with the Ru (1)Ru(2)(µ-C) metallacycle. The terminal ligands on each ruthenium atom are arranged to give the molecule an overall cis configuration. However, the carbonyl ligands are not perfectly eclipsed, the torsion angle (O)C–Ru–Ru–C(O) being 15.7(2)°. The structure is monoclinic, and has been refined to R 0.028 for 2 041 intensities measured on a four-circle diffractometer at 200 K.


Blood compatibility is dictated by the manner in which their surfaces interact with blood constituents like RBCs, WBCs, platelets and blood proteins. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of surface free energy and the corresponding work of adhesion of biomaterial surfaces on such interactions. Hydroxyapatite and AW glass ceramics, whose properties and gradations in bio compatibility are well established, were chosen for analysis. Work of adhesion of erythrocytes and platelets on to these surfaces, in aqueous solutions, were determined from contact angles with three standard liquids. Glass was used as control in these experiments because of its well-documented properties. The work of adhesion was lower for AW glass ceramics (-36.1 mJ/m 2 for erythrocytes and -47.4 mJ/m 2 for platelets) and Hydroxyapatite (-44.9 mJ/m 2 for erythrocytes and -41.9 mJ/m 2 for platelets), suggesting that these would lead to a lesser extent of cell adhesion when exposed to blood. The corresponding values for Glass were –13.6 mJ/m 2 for erythrocytes and 35.6 mJ/m 2 for platelets, which suggests that maximum red cell and platelet adhesion would occur on glass. Spectrophotometry and platelet aggregometry were used to assess the damage caused to the RBC and platelet membranes following exposure of these cells to these biomaterials. Absorbance was measured at 540 nm to quantify the hemoglobin released in order to estimate the extent of red cell lysis. The absorbances of blood samples (following exposure to various biomaterials) were normalized with that of control blood. At a Sodium Chloride concentration of 0.18%, Hydroxyapatite exhibited a value of 1.1 on the normalized scale (similar to that of control) while AW glass ceramics exhibited a value of 1.8 (almost twice that of control). Glass exhibited the maximum value of absorbance (2.4) suggesting that exposure to glass has resulted in maximum lysis. Glass exposure also resulted in the maximum change in platelet aggregation. These results are in agreement with the results interpreted from the work of adhesion of erythrocytes and platelets on to these materials. The number of adhered platelets on the biomaterial surfaces following incubation in Platelet Rich Plasma was also studied using environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy. Glass surface exhibited the maximum number of adhered platelets. In summary, the surface free energy of biomaterials and the corresponding values of work of adhesion can be used as characterization parameters for predicting cell adhesion on to their surfaces and hence for establishing their blood compatibility.


In this paper, we briefly present some theoretical ideas to contribute to transforming the philosophy of science into a curriculum component of pre- and in-service science teacher education. These ideas are then exemplified in an instructional activity designed to acquaint science teachers with the philosophical notion of 'theory-ladenness of observation'


This study documents the existence of price change and price volatility effect from Seoul housing market to local markets. Kangnam in Seoul city, Suwon city in capital region and Busan city are chosen for the case study. First, we find that EGARCH(1,1) model is superior to GARCH(1,1) model in Kangnam housing market and news shock breaks out asymmetric volatility effect. It is turned out that good news shock is more effective on the volatility of Kangnam housing market than bad news shock. Second, we demonstrate that price change and price volatility are spreaded from Kangnam housing market to local markets. If the change of housing price index of Kangnam is 1%p, the change of Suwon city is 0.43%p and Busan city is 0.36%p. This result is of help to forecasting the housing price of local large city.


The electrochemical reduction of diethylmaleate, diethylfumarate and
diethylacetylene dicarboxylate in the form of microscopic droplets
generated by applying power ultrasound to aqueous electrolyte media allows
a clean hydrogenation of the carbon–carbon double/triple bond whilst
providing a novel and versatile methodology for electrochemistry of
insoluble materials in aqueous environments.


Aims. The goal of this work is to test the ability of Schwarzschild's orbit superposition method to measure the mass content, scale radius, and shape of a flattened dwarf spheroidal galaxy. Until now, most dynamical model efforts have assumed that dwarf spheroidal galaxies and their host halos are spherical.
Methods. We used an Evans model (1993, MNRAS, 260, 191) to construct an isothermal mock galaxy whose properties somewhat resemble those of the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxy. This mock galaxy contains flattened luminous and dark matter components, resulting in a logarithmic profile for the global potential. We tested whether the Schwarzschild method could constrain the characteristic parameters of the system for different sample sizes and whether this was possible without knowledge of the functional form of the potential.
Results. When assuming the true functional form of the potential of the system, the Schwarzschild modelling technique is able to provide an accurate and precise measurement of the characteristic mass parameter of the system and accurately reproduces the light distribution and the stellar kinematics of our mock galaxy. When assuming a different functional form for the potential of the model, such as a flattened Navarro–Frenk–White (NFW) profile, we also constrain the mass and scale radius to their corresponding values. However in both cases, we find that the flattening parameter remains largely unconstrained. This is likely because the information content of the velocity dispersion on the geometric shape of the potential is too small.
Conclusions. Our results using Schwarzschild's method indicate that the mass enclosed can be derived reliably, even if the flattening parameter is unknown, and already for samples containing 2000 line-of-sight radial velocities, such as those currently available. Further applications of the method to more general distribution functions of flattened systems are needed to establish how well the flattening of dSph dark halos can be determined.


STP and ACVP must be guided by the opinions voiced by their memberships, but ultimately both organizations must provide leadership and vision relative to the future of the discipline and the professionals they serve. The process of training and certification of anatomic and clinical pathologists is not broken nor is the product flawed. However, as was recognized earlier with veterinary pathology and more recently with clinical pathology, it is now time to recognize the specialty of toxicologic pathology. This specialty has moved beyond the traditional veterinary pathology training, which focuses on infectious disease, large animal and companion animal pathology, and diagnostics. One cannot expect that the undirected graduate will naturally develop excellence in the principles of toxicology or understand mechanisms of xenobiotic metabolism. There is a need to readdress the educational process and the standards of excellence by which specialists in toxicologic pathology are measured. Our commitment to improving recognized deficiencies and establishment of expectations will move toxicologic pathology forward and create opportunities for those who follow.


STATISTICAL PREDICTION AND TIME SERIES Statistical Prediction Optimal predictor Optimal linear predictor Linear models and joint normality Time Series Concepts Definitions Stationary processes Integrated processes ARIMA models Multivariate extensions UNOBSERVED COMPONENTS Unobserved Components Model The unobserved components model Trend Cycle Seasonality Regressors and Interventions Static regression Regressors in components and dynamic regression Regression with time-varying coefficients Estimation The state space form Models in state space form Inference for the unobserved components Inference for the unknown parameters Modelling Transforms Choosing the components State space form and estimation Diagnostics checks, outliers and structural breaks Model selection Multivariate Models Trends Cycles Seasonalities State space form and parametrisation APPLICATIONS Business Cycle Analysis with UCM Introduction to the spectral analysis of time series Extracting the business cycle from one time series Extracting the business cycle from a pool of time series Case Studies Impact of the point system on road injuries in Italy An example of benchmarking: Building monthly GDP data Hourly electricity demand Software for UCM Software with ready-to-use UCM procedures Software for generic models in state space form


As China gradually entered the aging society, the incidence of stroke, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury and other diseases gradually increased. In the future, the medical needs for rehabilitation will be very urgent, and the appearance of the rehabilitation robot is a relief. In order to analyze the motion gait for patients in the course of rehabilitation, in this article, we use Kinect-II tracking and gather the gait motion of patients in the process of rehabilitation exercise, and then we achieve the global classification of gait by using multidimensional differential dynamic time warping algorithm based on slope constraints. At the same time, in order to realize the local analysis of the gait motion, we provide a gait analysis method which separates the gait information based on semantic feature.


The suture material is important in the success of the surgical method adopted. The strands act like a foreign body stimulating the formation of inflamatory reaction that may alter the healing process. However, the knowledge of physical-chemical proprieties and their tissue relation is indispensable in the choice of suture material. The literature reviews surgical suture material utilisation in the repair of dogs' trachea l defects and the results obtained with different materials.


The article deals with the problems of development of domestic poultry farming on the basis of technical and technological modernization. The dynamics of the number of new, modernized, and reconstructed poultry facilities was analyzed and the volume of increase in poultry production for slaughter at these enterprises was assessed. Factors constraining the development of modernization processes in the sub-industry are considered. Government support measures for the modernization of the industry have been proposed. According to the author, the implementation of these measures will contribute to the full provision of the domestic market for poultry products and the transformation of the poultry industry into a high-tech sub-industry competitive in the domestic and foreign markets.


The agricultural sector in Afghanistan faces many challenges in general that have directly affected the production of crops. Especially wheat crop because of its great importance to the population sector as it is the first source of food in Afghanistan. Problem of this study due to wheat production in Afghanistan is insufficient for domestic consumption. Therefore, the Afghan government is relying on foreign markets to cover the gap between production and consumption. The study aims to assess the current situation of wheat production and consumption in Afghanistan, as well as to understand the farmers' perceptions and attitudes towards the problems facing them. The agricultural sector in Afghanistan faces many challenges in general that have directly affected the production of crops. Especially wheat crop because of its great importance to the population sector Original Research Article Ahmadzai et al.; SAJSSE, 5(3): 1-10, 2019; Article no.SAJSSE.53212 2 as it is the first source of food in Afghanistan. The current study applied simple regression analysis in estimating the general trends to determine the productive and economic indicators of Wheat crop. Also, we use Analysis of variance (One Way ANOVA) to understand the farmers' perceptions and attitudes towards the problems facing them. The results showed that wheat productivity averaged 1.77 tons per ha and ranged between a minimum of 1.23 tons per ha in 2008 and a maximum of 2.20 tons per ha in 2015. On the other hand, the estimated regression equation indicates that productivity of wheat crop followed an increase trend, at an annual rate of 0.047 ton per ha and a statistically significant rate of change amounting to 2.66% of the study period's average productivity.


ntensively developing relations  between Russia and China need people who can speak Chinese . Nowaday, studying Chinese begins at the elementary stage of  secondary school, but the methods of teaching Chinese language and  hieroglyphics are still poorly developed. The article provides a critical  analysis of modern Russian and Chinese researches of this question,  shows the poorly studied aspects, makes conclusions. The author analyzes  the existing student's books for the students of the  elementary stage of secondary school and identifies their shortcomings in  aspect of learning hieroglyphics. The author on the basis of  teaching experience and theoretical analysis  determine s the components of the  interconnected teaching hieroglyphic writing and reading, which include: psychological and  pedagogical features of students of different stages of education, the  content of teaching hieroglyphics, the stages of forming hieroglyphics skills , a set of interrelated exercises in reading and writing hieroglyphics .


Noncoherent space-frequency coding in MIMO-OFDM is an important method to obtain space and frequency diversity in the absence of channel state information.In this paper,we address a new view of the transmission of space-frequency codes which transform the transmission in frequency selective channels into flat fading channels.Then,a sub-block noncoherent space-frequency coding is proposed which divides the space-frequency plane into small sub-blocks and each one constitutes a space-frequency codeword.By a modified signal model,an asymptotic analysis of the pairwise error probability(PEP) is derived and thus the design criteria for full diversity-achieving code is explicitly defined.We also propose a code construct that achieves the promised order of diversity and demonstrate our conclusion by computer simulation.


Objective
To analyze the effect of preoperative visit with illustration on psychological and behavioral improvement in patients undergoing thoracoscopic lobectomy.

Methods
From January 2018 to March 2019, 100 patients with elective thoracoscopic lobectomy were selected as objects of study, and were divided into control group and study group, 50 cases in each group. The control group received conventional visit, while the study group received preoperative visit with illustration. The psychological and behavioral improvement effects of different preoperative visit nursing modes were recorded in the two groups.

Results
The total score of SCL-90 in the study group was (132.74±9.27), and that in the control group was (186.92±10.27), which in the study group was significantly lower than that in the control group (P<0.05). And the improvement effects of fasting water compliance rate, correct posture rate, anaesthesia cooperation rate, and skin disinfection cooperation rate in the study group were significantly higher than that in the control group (P<0.05).

Conclusion
The application of visit nursing with illustration before thoracoscopic lobectomy can relieve the adverse psychological states such as tension, negativity, and fear, and improve the cooperation effect of patients on perioperative behaviors.

Key words:
Illustration; Preoperative visit; Thoracoscopic lobectomy; Psychological state; Behavioral cooperation


Hypertension and dyslipidemia are considered reversible risk factors for cardiovascular disease. The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of traditional and nontraditional blood lipid profiles on the risk of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and to explore the superposition effect of dyslipidemia combined with hypertension.


"We are not anorexics. We are individuals who struggle with anorexia. We cannot stop his words from being whispered in our ears, but we can choose what we do about it." Jane, a British eighteen-year-old who has battled anorexia for four years, eloquently wrote this in her blog about the "voice" of her eating disorder. She captures the point well: people who suffer from an eating disorder can learn to recognize it as a mental illness both external to their true identity and internal as an infiltration of their minds distorting and consuming that identity. To recover, people with anorexia must not only nourish their starving bodies but also learn to separate the eating disorder "voice" in their mind—known in the blogosphere as "ED," "Ed," or "Edward"—from their healthy voice. Such people must ceaselessly choose which voice to listen to. Thus, recovery is a mental process as well as a physical one, a process that, for many, increasingly involves blogging. A study of recovery blogs, though, demonstrates that even in blogs the same two voices still battle, presenting risks that might not be immediately apparent to those seeking support through blogging. Apart from a variety of counseling methods for treatment of eating disorders, some people in recovery use blogs to chronicle their daily food intake and disorder-influenced thoughts for a number of reasons. The most obvious may be the cost of treatment, as inpatient treatment for eating disorders can cost $30,000 or more a month. While the duration of the illness when left untreated can be more than fifteen years, one study by the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Eating Disorders showed that only 50 percent of patients reported being "cured" by the end of their treatment. With 7 million women and 1 million men affected in the U.S. alone, many people choose to seek recovery mostly on their own rather than face such expenses (National Association of Anorexia Nervosa). Besides being a cheaper form of therapy, recovery blogging has clear benefits as social writing: it allows people to come to terms with their problems, reflect, and vent emotions, as well as to receive sincere feedback and support from others who truly understand the blogger's suffering and experiences. The combination of reflection, catharsis, and supportive feedback experienced by bloggers is perhaps not achievable in any other way. Still, despite its positive aspects, blogging may not be as safe an outlet for recovering from anorexia as it appears, due to the obsessive nature of anorexics. An anorexic's intense fear of weight gain pushes him or her to restrict caloric intake, so that this restriction, and maintaining low body mass indexes, creates a feeling of a "safe haven," a comfort zone. In some ways, a blog focused on anorexic aspects of eating helps maintain this safe haven by establishing a medium through which one publishes one's routine eating times, monitors acceptable meals, compares the amount eaten to fellow recovery bloggers, and risks obsession with another aspect of eating: the journaling of what one allows oneself to eat. In an effort to explore such risks of blogging for recovery, this article


This
study explores the implementation of Mantle of the Expert (MoE) as a drama-based
approach to English instruction within three Indonesian senior and vocational
high schools. It investigates the experience of the implementation among
teachers and students and highlights the potential benefits for the teaching
and learning processes.
   The study was constructivist in orientation and adopted a
qualitative approach. A multiple case study presents three accounts of
implementation in three school settings. I conducted a MoE workshop for teacher
participants to introduce the MoE concept. Thereafter, a series of interviews
prior to, during and post implementation were conducted with each teacher
participant. This was augmented by classroom observations and a questionnaire
distributed to student participants in each classroom setting.
   Analysis within and across cases indicate the enactment of
MoE elements and signal the the challenges and constraints experienced by the
teachers which limited enactment. A number of positive outcomes emerged for
both student and teacher participants. Overall, the study demonstrates that the
principles of Process Drama, of which MoE is one approach, enhanced student
engagement in learning through the construction of an imaginary context.
Collaboration proved to be a powerful learning platform and it reduced
students' English speaking anxiety. The MoE approach encouraged student agency
and their active and inquiry-based learning. For teachers, it introduced a new
framework for their instructional practice and presented possibilities for
their integration of language skills through connection to content across the
curriculum that was learnt within real-world contexts.
   The study demonstrates the potential significance of MoE as a
Process Drama approach for enhancing student engagement in English language
teaching and learning. The approach aligns strongly with the principles of
Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) and holds potential for the realisation
of the goals of English for secondary schools as outlined in the School-Based
Curriculum (SBC) in Indonesia.


Dispersa! mechanisms of 22 plant species from a tropical palm-swamp community in the Venezuelan high llanos were analysed on the basis of morphological and functional characteristics of diaspores. The dispersa! unit for 63.6% of the species is the seed, for 27 .3 the fruit, and for 9.1 mericarps. Among fruits, 81.8 are dry and 18.2% fleshy. Dry fruits have brown colors, and most fleshy fruits are purple. Seed weight is less than 0.12 g for a11 plant species. The pericarp/ seed ratio is high in both dry and fleshy fruit. V alues lower than one are associated with monospermous fruits with large seeds or polyspermous fruits with many small seeds. Among the 22 species, 33.3% utilize water as the dispersing agent, 36.7% birds, 26.7% wind and 3.3 ants.


During the last decade the Mexican government implemented nationwide ICT policies within elementary education as a tool to tackle underperformance levels. However, the results have been highly contended. While literature suggests a lack of consistency in teacher training and the informal use of the equipment by some teachers; there is no significant research about how ICT is being adopted despite the lack of training. A qualitative study was conducted in Mexico within 6 elementary schools. Using a framework based on Critical Theory, empirical evidence collected will be preliminary analyzed aiming to understand how the policy could influence how teachers are making sense of ICT and elucidate patterns of teacher ICT knowledge acquisition within their contexts. Context Almost a decade ago, after 70 consecutive years of rule of the same political party, Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), elections in 2000 presupposed the beginning of a new era as for the first time after the Mexican Revolution a change in parties in power was possible. Shortly after the arrival of the new party to office, Partido Accion Nacional (PAN), the reports about the low performance of Mexican education pinpointed the stagnation of the Mexican education system.


In order to be said a food has functional attributes, it will convey to the consumer both the unique characteristics of the food and associated health benefits. Today, species-based researches are making within foods with more micro-level approaches; one of these functional foods is radish. Radish, which has important roles in diet of people, raw-eaten and consumed as appetizer vegetable in meals; has high amount of medical and nutritional content. In this study, results of researches about the evaluation of radish (Raphanus sativus L.) and the using of this vegetable as functional food are reviewed.


A joint project of the ABA Community Bankers Council and ABA Banking Journal Regaining your perspective It's the rare community banker who does not feel a bit like a punching bag, if not in the sense of impact, at least in the sense of having one's attention forcibly jerked this way and that. BAM! A sliding economy to the jaw. BOP! A fat new regulation to the ear. When one must react all the time, there's difficulty gaining perspective, rising above the fray. (WHUMPH! One to the stomach for variety.) While presenting community bankers with perspective has always been the goal of this survey report, in working with our banker advisory panel, we attempted to take some things one step further. A few examples will illustrate: * Human Resources: We've asked in the past about how the state of the lob market affected bank recruitment. But this time, we asked specifically about 11 different job categories. And what we learned will surprise you. * Service Quality: Harry Radix, one of our advisory committee bankers, early on said he wanted more than anything else to know about other bankers' efforts with "mystery shoppers." These undercover customers, if you will, visit banks to give them an independent perspective on their service. This banker's interest led to an entire new section regarding service quality. * Income Picture: Once again, we asked bankers about their product offerings and their plans on future additions to their products and services. But this time we added a new wrinkle: We asked those offering the product if the product represented a significant source of revenue--and what we learned may affect where you take your bank in the future. About the Survey and the Sample This is the seventh Community Bank Competitiveness Survey conducted by ABA Banking Journal and the ABA Community Bankers Council. The survey's purpose is to establish rolling benchmarks regarding community banks' ability to maintain their edge, while also exploring new ground as issues dictate. In early September, 5,474 top management subscribers, mostly from banks under $1 billion in assets, were mailed a four-page questionnaire--760 usable and unique responses were received. These came from 49 states as well as Washington, D.C., and represented a 14% response rate. The average asset size of the sampled banks came to $178.8 million. Results were analyzed across the entire sample, as well as across other breakouts. Among these were three asset-size categories: Under $100 million in assets (372 banks); between $101-$200 million (191); and over $201 million (197). Results were also analyzed by regions, using the same state breakdown that FDIC uses for its reports. Below are other data concerning the sample. RESPONDENT DEMOGRAPHICS REGION Northeast Southeast Central Midwest Southwest West 66 banks 118 137 244 117 78 8.7% 15.5% 18% 32.1% 15.4% 10.3% BANK'S MAIN MARKET Rural Rural/ Suburban Suburban/ Urban Suburban Urban Mix Mix 44.4% 30.6% 8.1% 12.7% 4.2% BUSINESS CONCENTRATION Business Consumer Farm Trust General Community 18.2% 9.4% 14.5% 0.1% 57.8% TYPE OF OWNERSHIP Family Locally Publicly Employee owned held traded owned 33.6% 49.3% 16% 1.1% FORM OF OWNERSHIP Is your bank a Subchapter S corporation? Yes No 27.7% 72.3% HOLDING COMPANY OWNERSHIP Is your bank owned by a holding company? Yes No 81.3% 18. …


Commingled yarns and powder/sheath fibre bundles are two flexible thermoplastic composite preforms, consisting of a blended combination of reinforcing fibre yarn (e.g. carbon fibres) and a yarn spun from a thermoplastic resin or a polymer resin powder respectively. These preforms can be used as basic filament yarns that can be interwoven, braided or knitted for making two- or three-dimensional composite parts. Commingled yarns and powder/sheath fibre bundles retain the flexibility of a tow such that when a fabric is woven from these materials, the fabric can be designed to be highly conformable and drapeable. When heat and pressure are then applied, the thermoplastic yarn or powder/sheath melts, thus wetting the reinforcing fibres and forming a thermoplastic resin binder. In the subsequent cooling step, the system is transformed into a rigid composite material. In this paper, major achievements in the study of the fundamental mechanisms which govern the impregnation process, the consolidation quality and ...


According to A.M.A., "services are activities, advantages or utilities that are offered and traded on the market, being in a close entanglement with the sale of a material object or economic product". By using the phrase "group of activities", this definition beholds the real contents of a service because in most cases, these are executed by following a certain order of interdependent actions. Also within this definition along with the obvious intangibility of services, is mentioned the buyer-fulfiller relationship which can most times be decisive in executing a service. Following the renowned Philip Kotler "a service is made of any action or operation which can be offered to a partner and which doesn't have any concrete form and also which doesn't result in acquiring a product".


This report documents the history of a program initiated in 1946 to evaluate materials for use as chemical soil stabilizers by the military. A number of Government agencies, universities, and private firms were involved in the program. In addition, many other companies submitted candidate materials for evaluation. Appendix A presents documentation of all materials evaluated including category, components, cost, applicability with regard to soil type, mixing capability, and related effectiveness. Also give are (Continued) the agencies which conducted the evaluation and appropriate references in which more detailed information of the materials can be found. The most effective soil stabilizers and the compressive strengths produced by them in four general types of soils are also included. /Author/


Background Medical oncology is a steadily evolving field of medical practice and professional pathway for doctors, offering value, opportunity and challenge to those who chose this medical specialty. This study examines the experiences of a group of Australian medical oncologists, with an emphasis on their professional practice, career experiences, and existing and emerging challenges across career stages. Methods In-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with 22 medical oncologists, including advanced trainees, early-career consultants and senior consultants, focusing on: professional values and experiences; career prospects and pathways; and, the nexus of the characteristics of the profession and delivery of care. Results The following themes were emergent from the interviews: the need for professional reinvention and the pressure to perform; the importance, and often absence, of mentoring and feedback loops; the emotional labour of oncology; and, the impact of cascading workload volume on practice sustainability. Conclusions Understanding professional experiences, career trajectories and challenges at the workforce level are crucial for understanding what drives the oncological care day-to-day. The results indicate that there are considerable potential tensions between the realities of professional, workforce demands and expectations for patient care. Such tensions have real and significant consequences on individual medical oncologists with respect to their futures, aspirations, satisfaction with work, caring practices, interactions with patients and potentially therapeutic outcomes.


• Retrospective review of medical and radiology records from databases of patients with CHARGE from three tertiary care academic medical centers. • Temporal bone CT of 20 patients with CHARGE were reviewed specifically to assess for venous malformations of the temporal bone. MRI was also viewed when available. Associated temporal bone abnormalities and clinical features were also noted. • Venous malformations of the temporal bone are a common feature in CHARGE that have not previously been appreciated. • While several case series have reported isolated venous anomalies in CHARGE patients, none have previously focused on defining the spectrum of these specific abnormalities and its implications in otologic surgery which these patients undergo. • In particular, collateral emissary veins of the temporal bone including posterior condylar veins, mastoid emissary veins connecting occipital or post auricular veins with the sigmoid sinus and petrosquamosal emissary veins of the temporal bone have been previously noted.6 • One report of patients with petrosquamosal sinuses included a 6-year old female with CHARGE. CT revealed inner ear anomalies and a hypoplastic jugular foramen noted on ipsilateral side of a transmastoid venous canal which joined the internal jugular vein.7 Others noted abnormalities in sigmoid sinus development and jugular bulb diverticulum.3,8 • Reports of skull base anomalies in CHARGE including abnormal basiocciput development and hypoplastic jugular foramen may suggest preceding developmental bony malformations leading to venous malformation, possibly as a compensatory response for required venous drainage.9,10 • Collateral emissary veins should be evaluated as part of the pre-operative assessment for cochlear implant surgery. CT of the temporal bone may reveal venous malformations that require pre-operative identification and possibly an altered surgical approach to mastoidectomy and/or cochleostomy as encountered in this series. • Such abnormalities may not be mentioned in the official radiologic report, so otologic surgeons must look specifically for these findings. Venous Malformations of the Temporal Bone: A common feature in CHARGE David R Friedmann, MD1 Lawrence R Lustig, MD3, John A Germiller MD, PhD5, Misha Amoils3 Christine M Glastonbury4, Bidyut K Pramanik MD2, Anil K Lalwani, MD1 1Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery and 2Department of Radiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 3Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery and 4Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 5Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA


In the current market scenario of high volatility and the subsequent rapidly changing market place, various avenues for investment in gold are creating the confusion among Investors. In the midst of several options gold bullion is finding a space for itself in the minds of investors rather in a slow and steady manner. The study aims to analyse the awareness, perception and satisfaction level of gold bullion investors. For the research primary data and secondary data has been collected and analysed in detail. The study revealed that the promotional measures in the market are inadequate to influence the buyers and suggested proper measures to improve the same.


Over the past three years, a surprising number of independent chemistry-based pharmaceutical service firms in the U.S. have been acquired and folded into larger organizations. PharmaCore was purchased by Cambrex; Irix Pharmaceuticals was swallowed up by Patheon. Albany Molecular Research Inc. (AMRI) acquired Cedarburg Pharmaceuticals. Universal Display acquired Adesis. The Indian company Piramal purchased Ash Stevens. Most recently, J-Star Research was bought by the Chinese firm Porton. The acquisitions were driven by several motives, including the desire by foreign firms to move into the U.S. market, a push to serve earlier phases of the drug development process, and the need for more active pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturing capacity. And some of the payouts were pretty good. J-Star, started in 1996 in New Jersey by the former Merck & Co. chemist Andrew Thompson, fetched up to $26 million. Universal Display ponied up $36 million for Adesis last June. A few months later,


In this paper, the fourth-order central difference is adopted to analyze the space domain with the time domain remains being unchanged, to improve the traditional FDTD algorithm, it has also reset the PML absorbing boundary. The improved FDTD algorithm can not only increase the computational accuracy, but also shares the advantages of the original method in easy and simple programming. Finally, the correctness of the improved FDTD algorithm is verified, while simulated analysis of solar panels is conducted, based on which preventive suggestions are proposed.


With the accelerated pace of industrial upgrading and improvement of precision products,CNC machine tools manufacturing requirements for the growing higher and higher,based on this consideration,CNC machine tools and precision the CNC control,to have a higher breakthrough.


The average densities of currents and charges, induced by a weak electromagnetic field in spatially inhomogeneous systems, are calculated at finite temperatures. The Kubo formula for a conductivity tensor is generalized for spatially inhomogeneous systems and fields. The contributions containing electric fields and derivative from fields on coordinates are allocated. The Semiconductor quantum wells, wires and dots may be considered as spatially inhomogeneous systems.


shard with which she had stabbed Lily. It's another gynecological displacement by Aronofsky, but a timid one. Both Bergman's Cries and Whispers and Terry Hands's 1978 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Middleton and Rowley's The Changeling made horrific use of vaginal self-mutilation, but Aronofsky plays it safer, with white feathers around Nina's wound suggesting the sexual nature of her self-inflicted damage. Nina smiles beatifically, repeating, "That was perfect." Has she actually killed herself, or is she hallucinating again? Either way, this chillingly literal illustration of the opening of Sylvia Plath's last poem, "Edge"— "The woman is perfected. / Her dead // Body wears the smile of accomplishment"—argues that Nina has won her great artistic victory by losing her battle with reality; her future beckons not from the stage, but from the psych ward or the morgue. Aronofsky asks us to suspend not only disbelief but our last shred of common sense to accept a ballerina going mad while giving her greatest performance (not to mention with a threeinch dagger of glass in her gut), and, worse, achieving balletic greatness because of her descent into psychosis. In Richard Blanshard's 2006 documentary Bringing Balanchine Back, which follows the New York City Ballet on tour in St. Petersburg, one storyline focuses on principal Alexandra Ansanelli preparing one of the leads in Balanchine's great early ballet Serenade. Though thrilled to dance the role, Ansanelli proves unable and even unwilling to concentrate in rehearsal, and her mental and emotional blocks prompt ballet master Peter Martins to scratch her from the cast. Clearly this wonderful performer should nail the choreography she appears to love, but her difficulties demonstrate how a dancer can grow debilitated when her head won't let her body perform as it should. If mere neurosis can prevent a ballerina from dancing a coveted role, what chance is there that a young woman plunged into psychotic horror can enact the "perfect" Odette and Odile? Black Swan, lush and deliriously compelling as it is, requires us to suppress almost everything we know about the art of ballet. Curiously, though, far from scaring the public away from classical dance, it has helped whet the appetite for balletic tragedy: NYCB's winter season Swan Lake entirely sold out. Black Swan may turn out to be the best thing that never happened to ballet.


This video describes the different modalities of stress echocardiography and demonstrates that exercise is the most physiological stress. LINK http://youtu.be/m0GGNhu1dgM


Numerous image coders have been proposed which improve the reconstructed image quality in the presence of transmission errors. Some of the more successful examples involve partitioning the image during the encoding process, and transmitting each 'description' of the image over a separate channel. However, analysis of the performance of such coders, given a network model, has been lacking until when the performance of generic coders and Gaussian sources was investigated. We build on this previous work by analyzing the performance of a specific partitioned coding algorithm called 'smoothed descriptions coding' coupled with a network model. Unlike other commonly considered coders, this coder has the pleasing feature of adding virtually no overhead to the encoded bit-stream. The results show that smoothed description coding can provide a gain over single-description coding. For test images, the largest gain was found to be approximately 7.4 dB at a moderate network loading of /spl rho/=0.4.


The uneven development of cities and regions has moved to the forefront of the public and political debate not only in Germany, but many countries as well. Of great concern is possibility that the gaps between large and small cities and between winning and losing regions of structural change are widening and that this may result in negative political and social consequences. Against this backdrop, three issues are addressed in this paper: How can the evolution of cities and regions be explained? What are central drivers of this development? What are the roles and scope of regional policies? JEL Classifi cation: R1, R5, J2, H2


A 100 mesh flour was prepared from mesquite pods and its proximate chemical composition, amino acid and vitamin content determined. the flour was tested as an ingredient in beverages, pinole, candy, butter, breakfast cereals, and yogurt. Nutritional attributes of the products are discussed and ingredient cost estimates calculated. Taste panel studies indicated the most desirable mesquite flour containing products were mesquite candy, chocolate/mesquite flour beverages, and breakfast cereals with added mesquite flour.


The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of workload, compensation, work stress on employee performance. The object of research is all employees of PT. Airo Maha Kerinci. Data collection techniques by distributing questionnaires to all employees of PT. Airo Maha Kerinci as many as 110 respondents and direct observation to the company. Method of data analysis using simple linear regression analysis and multiple linear regression analysis using IBM SPSS 22. The results showed that the workload has a nega-tive and significant effect on employee performance, compensation has a positive and significant effect on employee performance, while work stress has a negative and significant effect on employee performance. However, simultaneously workload, compensation, and work stress affect employee performance. The im-plications of the result are work load and work stress need to be improved so that passion for work and en-joyment of work are maintained amidst high workload.


The shortest path problem is a classical problem of the graph theory.Its aim is to find the shortest path between two arbitrary points in the graph.The shortest path problem in the traffic net is just to find the shortest path between two points.To prove the practicability, the algorithm of the shortest path in bus net aims to the least of number of changing. This paper produces an algorithm of the shortest path in bus net. It consults the breadth-first search.It finds all the buses which pass by the starting station and terminus. This paper gives its realization method.Secondly it gives an example.Finally it points out some new uses of this algorithm.


Texture analysis on digital images can be used to correctly segment areas of an image and/or classify different objects within the field of view of a digital camera. Depending on the application, one can use a Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) to detect patterns or a simple contrast measure such as variance can be a good metric as well. In this work, our main objective is to define a set of new texture metrics simple enough to be computationally efficient so that real time processing is feasible. Our main application is to detect the hardness levels of dates. We would like to introduce the use of income inequality metrics used in the field of economy to measure the distribution of income and wealth inequality within a population. We found that these metrics can be used effectively on texture analysis of digital images.


Purpose – Nominal prices are known to have a distinct impact on pricing, which is normally seen in the form of 9‐ending prices. This article aims to study the effect of nominal prices on pricing patterns using data from a real‐life experiment: the currency changeover to the euro.Design/methodology/approach – The study examines quantitatively the impact of the euro changeover on the price endings used in grocery retailing.Findings – The results show that the length of the price has a marked impact on price endings. The adjustment of price endings is also found to be a very slow process.Research limitations/implications – The study examines pricing two different market situations within one industry (grocery retailing) in one country (Finland) and shows that there is a difference between pricing patterns in different market situations. It is clear that more research is needed to obtain a more detailed picture of pricing patterns by studying diverse market situations.Originality/value – This article gives a ...


In the theory of dynamics of closed relations on compact Hausdorff spaces, the definition for the Conley relation f of an iterated closed relation f is nontrivial. This paper establishes a new equivalent definition for f, and discusses its interpretation.


The static-linear-response function $\ensuremath{\chi}(k)$ is derived for the quantum Bose fluid with the use of the hypernetted-chain approximation in the Jastrow theory. The pair-correlation function of the uniform system required as an input function is optimized within the same theory. The compressibility sum rule as well as the sequential and screening conditions are exactly fulfilled by construction. It is shown analytically that in the small-wavelength limit the leading correction in ${\ensuremath{\chi}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}(k)$ to the freeparticle kinetic energy is a constant $\frac{2}{3}\frac{{T}_{\mathrm{JF}}}{N}$, where ${T}_{\mathrm{JF}}$ is the Jackson-Feenberg kinetic energy. We have also developed a reliable numerical method which is used in the calculation of the linear-response function of the charged-boson gas at metallic densities.


A monitoring system for hospital use which is based on hospital ward calling system and P89LPC932 microcontroller is introduced in this paper. The system makes use of microcontroller and wireless communication technology, thus realizing data transmission from one host to several extensions, and it also overcomes shortcomings of old wired concept. For example, numerous link lines, difficult installation, and few functions, etc. Related hardware and software technique are given.


The aim of this study was to assess the appropriateness of using combined cell index (CCI) in the assessment of iron stores in blood donors. This index is calculated by the formula: red blood cell distribution width (RDW) × 104 × mean corpuscular volume (MCV)−1 × mean corpuscular haemoglobin (MCH)−1.


Artificial Neural Networks play a pivotal role in the branch of Artificial Intelligence. They can be trained efficiently for a variety of tasks using different methods, of which the Back Propagation method is one among them. The paper studies the choosing of various design parameters of a neural network for the Back Propagation method. The study shows that when these parameters are properly assigned, the training task of the net is greatly simplified. The character recognition problem has been chosen as a test case for this study. A sample space of different handwritten characters of the English alphabet was gathered. A Neural net is finally designed taking many the design aspects into consideration and trained for different styles of writing. Experimental results are reported and discussed. It has been found that an appropriate choice of the design parameters of the neural net for the Back Propagation method reduces the training time and improves the performance of the net.


Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, first stirred to life at the point where the Monongahela and Alle gheny rivers join to form the Ohio. It is an indus trial city; the landscape along the rivers is domi nated by the steel mills for which the area is known. The steel mills drew immigrants to west ern Pennsylvania from throughout Europe, and Allegheny County today remains rich in its ethnic diversity and cultural heritage. Pittsburgh is also the headquarters of many major corporations, a center of higher education, and a leader in urban restoration and historic preservation. Tlifeie is much civic piiue among Pittsburghers. It is a big small town, a friendly place, warmly regarded by natives and newcom ers alike as "someplace special," a label fondly applied to the city by a local radio station. However special Pittsburgh may be, in at least one respect it is very much like most other metropolitan areas in the United States. Through out the city and in the hills and valleys of the smaller towns and suburban communities that surround it, thousands of young people proceed through days of high school classes that are simi-


Objective To know about the basic situation of the nursing staff in Shanghai and to discover the existing problems and put forward suggestions.Methods Literature review,expert consultation,on-spot interview and statistical analysis were used in the present study.Results The academic background,technical title,age composition,and gender proportion of nurses in 34 hospitals in Shanghai were summarized.Conclusion Scientific adjusting of the composition of nursing staff is the key to high quality nursing service and stabilization of nursing staff.


Hypothesis / aims of study Diabetic cystopathy is a common complication of the diabetes mellitus. Majority researchers believe that the leading factor in the pathogenesis of diabetic cystopathy is the diabetic angiopathy. Blood flow abnormalities leads to endonevral hypoxia and peripheral neuropathy, morphological changes of the detrusor and to urothelium dysfunction. At the same time there are a few researches which assess the blood flow in the bladder wall in patients with diabetes mellitus. The purpose of this study was to examine the microcirculation in the urinary bladder wall in patients with diabetic cystopathy.


Abstract This note extends previous results of Mullikin and the author on convergence of the FN method to isotropic multi-group problems in half-space geometries.


The present paper aims to study the function of the high voltage power supply three-phase in various industrial applications specified in microwave application. The microwave oven transformer is essential components used in power supply systems, the previous model used to feed a magnetron per phase. The new model proposed to use different design to feed two magnetron instead of one. Hence the new transformer will take a new variables, which should be dimensioned take into account the constraint imposed to avoid the disruption of the mganetrons. These different model products differ in their design parameters such as core flux density, dimensions of windings, secondary or primary number of turns etc. the results obtained are compared with those of the previous model design. This new system is composed of three phase leakage flux transformer, each phase supplying two cell, composed of a capacitor and a diode, which multiplies the voltage and stabilizes the current.


Nonlinearity characteristics of the inverter will cause the output voltage and current waveform distortion, directly affecting the torque output stability and speed control performance of the AC motor drive system. For this reason, a new inverter nonlinearity compensation method for permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) is proposed in the paper. A simple voltage error observer based on current deviation of the reference model and the actual system is used in d-q synchronous coordinate system. The method is simple to implement and does not require the precise polarity of current and additional design of testing circuit. The proposed scheme is applied to the discretized Simulink model for PMSM and the simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the method.


Alcohols enhance the extraction of a basic potential through a
liquid membrane in the presence of quaternary ammonium salts, thus enabling
preparation of caustic solutions without direct transport of hydroxide
ions.


â-galactosidase production is carried out using lactose or lactose rich substrates like whey. Tamarind seed powder has not been reported as a substrate for production of this enzyme before. In this study, statistical optimization of medium components for production of â-galactosidase, using tamarind seed powder, by Aspergillus terreus was attempted. Screening for the effects of eleven medium components on enzyme activity was carried out by Plackett-Burman design which showed that NH4(SO4)2, lactose and MgSO4 has significant (p<0.001) positive influence and pH, yeast extract, maltose and NaNO3 has significant negative influence. Optimal levels of positively influencing parameters were determined by ridge analysis and was found to be 2.97, 2.88 and 2.67 g/L of NH4(SO4)2, lactose and MgSO4 respectively. In the optimized medium, enzyme activity increased 2.8 folds in comparison with basal medium. Improved activity, being achieved by the use of a cheaper substrate, could reduce the cost of production of the enzyme.


Suppose we are given a matrix that is formed by adding an unknown sparse matrix to an unknown low-rank matrix. Our goal is to decompose the given matrix into its sparse and low-rank components. Suc...


While popular management literature discusses 'exit' as a successful outcome of entrepreneurship, empirical research have frequently considered exit as a negative outcome. This dissertation suggests that exit may be the outcome of both failing and successful venturing. Using advanced research designs and high-quality data that follow over 7,000 individual entrepreneurs and the evolution of their firms for 14 years, I show that while the resources and skills of entrepreneurs affect their possibilities to stay in business, exit is to a considerable extent a voluntary decision that entrepreneurs take if the performance of their venture is less than what they aspired to. The empirical evidence presented in the dissertation indicates that the high failure rates among new firms reported in both the academic and popular press may be, at least partially, misinterpreted positive exit decisions rather than failures. The dissertation contains five empirical studies that provide theoretical and empirical contributions to the research fields of entrepreneurship and organization studies. Taken together, the dissertation represents a comprehensive picture of entrepreneurial exit that highlights the importance of entrepreneur(s)' skills and experiences, as well as contextual factors such as industry structure, geography, and social interaction among similar entrepreneurs.


The paper probes into the transformation of the basic educational idea and the essential quality structure of teachers in colleges and universities in the background of the globalization era and considers it is valuable for the teachers to develop open minded and creative thinking quality, global and modern personality and fine education theory quality conforming to the globalization trend. The paper points out that teachers should try to form the ability centered quality structure by improving their abilities through their academic research, the abilities in educational scientific research, the abilities in bilingual utilization and modern education technology.


Aim and objectives: To evaluate and compare the effects of topical application of metrogyl ointment, diltiazem ointment and lignocaine in the healing of chronic anal ssure (CAF). Materials and method: This Randomised controlled trial was conducted in the Department of General Surgery, Swaroop Rani Nehru Hospital, Prayagraj, after obtaining clearance from hospital Ethics Committee. The drugs were applied over thessure twice a day. Healing of the ssure in terms of complete epithelialization, and reduction of pain (measured by visual analogue score) were noted. VAS score was rated from 0-100 in terms of pain sensations as used in another similar study. Any side effects of the used drugs were recorded. The patients were followed up at 2, 4 and 8 weeks of initiation of treatment for assessing the outcomes. Results: It was noted that the VAS score were signicantly lower with Metronidazole in comparison to Lignocaine at 4 weeks; whereas at 8 weeks, it was signicantly lower in Diltiazem group as compared to Lignocaine group. There was a signicant difference in the healing between Diltiazem and Lignocaine (p=0.0006) and Metronidazole and Lignocaine (p=0.007) but no statistical difference between Diltiazem and Metronidazole (p=0.667). Headache was signicantly more in Diltiazem group (24%) and burning sensation was signicantly more with the use of Metronidazole. (p=0.022). Conclusion: Diltiazem and metronidazole are equivalent to treat anal ssures for relieving pain and healing, both of which are better in comparison to lignocaine.


Traffic noise in urban areas is increasing day by day, owing to addition in the number of vehicles on road in developing and developed countries. The increase of noise level reduces the wellbeing o...


We demonstrate a novel all-fiber narrow bandwidth acousto-optic tunable bandpass filter with a UV-induced core-mode blocker in a dispersion compensating fiber.


We present the concept of Sloterdijk, based on the "term of crutches" of "optimism". We try to explore the basis upon which, as for Sloterdijk, a more peacefully inhabitable world can evolve. The study is particularly centered on his books "You Must Change Your Life" and "Anger and Time", depicting the difficulties – sometimes contradictions – of maintaining this enlightened optimism. In any case, it is demonstrated that Sloterdijk is playing a game in his philosophical discourse that escapes the strict argumentative art, evading conflicts in regard of content. However, we base ourselves on following abstract concepts: "argument" and "contradiction" to propaedeutically present the first in a series of articles about the German philosopher.


Objective:To study effects of Qingfeixiaoke granule on antitussive,expectorant,antiasthmatic and anti-bacteria,anti-virus,anti-inflammatory.Methods:The following experiments were carried out: cough induced by ammonia, removing phlegm with phenol red,in vivo and in vitro tests for relieving asthma.The effects of the drug on relieving cough,removing phlegm and relieving asthma were investigated;The in-vitro anti-bacteria,and the mouse model infected by pathogenic bacteria,The mouse model of ear edema caused by xylene and the nat midle of tampon granuloma were established to evaluate the anti-bacteria,anti-virus,anti-inflammatory effects.Results:The antitussive expectorant and antiasthmatic experiments of Qingfeixiaoke granule showed that it can restrain mice to cough by ammonia,increase phenol red secretion of mice in bronchus,release asthma induced by histamine phosphate-acetylcholine in guinea pigs,increased latent period of breathe with difficulty and induced asthma.the Anti-bacteria,anti-virus and anti-inflammatory experiments showed that Qingfeixiaoke granule had strong an effect on inhibiting or drowned activity pneumonia streptococcus、α/β-hemolytic streptococcus,staphylococcus aureus and had infirm an effect on inhibiting bacillus coli and bacillus pyocyaneus,the death rate of infected by pneumonia streptococcus in mice could reduce and could prolong the mean survival days.Qingfeixiaoke granule indicated no toxicity to MDCK cells at 12.5 mg·mL~(-1),and could effectively inhibit influenza A1 virus at 0.78 mg·mL~(-1),could markedly debase indexes of lung of mouse pneumonitis which was elicited by influenza virus;Qingfeixiaoke granule could significantly suppress ear swell induced by xylene in mice and granuloma proliferation.Conclusions:Qingfeixiaoke granule has significant effects on relieving cough,removing phlegm,relieving asthma,also shown effects on anti-bacteria,anti-virus,anti-inflammatory.


Background: The Recent Studies Have Reported Outstanding Results Concerning Medical Expulsive Therapy (MET) For Lower Ureteric Stone In Terms Of Stone Expulsion And Control Of Colic Pain. Therefore We Conducted A Prospective Randomized Controlled Study To Evaluate The Role Of Tadalafil In Comparison Of Placebo In Lower Ureteric Stone Expulsion. Objective: To Evaluate The Role Of Phosphodiesterase 5 Inhibitor (Tadalafil) 10mg In Conservative Therapy For Patients With Lower Ureteral Stones. Patients And Methods: From September 2016 To August 2017, 60 Consecutive Symptomatic Patients With Unilateral Lower Ureteric Stone From The Urology And Nephrology Department In Pgims Rohtak Were Enrolled In This Randomized Prospective Placebo Controlled Study. Patients Were Randomly Divided Into Two Groups, Group 1 (N=30) And Group 2 (N=30). Group 1 Was Given Tadalafil 10mg. Group 2 Was Given Placebo. Tadalafil 10mg Or Placebo Was Administered Once Daily. The Treatment Duration Was Until Stone Expulsion Or 14 Days. During This Period, All Patients Were Evaluated Weekly By USG And Serum Creatinine Level And Were Asked Whether They Experienced Acute Colic Pain, To Score The Intensity Of Pain According To A Visual Analog Scale, Whether The Calculus Passed Spontaneously, The Day And Time Of Stone Expulsion, Number Of Analgesic Use, And Any Drug Side Effects Results: The Mean Stone Size Was 7.41mm For Treatment Group And 7.15mm For Placebo Group (P> 0.05) .The Stone Expulsion Rate Was 90% For Treatment Group And 60% For Placebo Group (P<0.05). Mean Expulsion Time Was 5.4 Days For Treatment Group And 9.54 Days For Placebo Group (P=0.001). Mean VAS Was 2.9 For Treatment Group And 6.9 For Placebo Group (P<0.0001). Mean Number Of Tablet Diclofenac Used Was 1.87 For Treatment Group And 7.11 For Placebo Group (P<0.05). The Univariate Analysis Using Cox Proportional Hazard Model Revealed That Only Therapy And Stone Size Proved To Be Significantly Predictive Factors Of Stone Expulsion (P<0.0001 And 0.001) Respectively, While Gender And Age Did Not Have Any Predictive Value. Although Side-Effects Occurred More In Patients Who Were Given Tadalafil 10mg, No Significant Side-Effect Was Detected So As To Require Exclusion Of A Patient From The Study Conclusion: Medical Expulsive Therapy (MET) For Lower Ureterolithiasis With Tadalafil During Conservative Treatment Period Is Safe And Effective As Demonstrated By The Absence Of Serious Side Effects And Increased Stone Expulsion Rate With Early Time. Also MET With Tadalafil 10mg Affords An Outstanding Control Of Pain For Patients While Waiting For Stone Expulsion.


Food selection and food-seeking behaviour of hand-raised Goosanders Mergus merganser and Red-breasted Mergansers M. serrator were tested in experimental situations. When different combinations of two species of fish were presented simultaneously to hungry birds in a small trough where the prey was easily and equally available, neither duck species showed any preferences in prey selection. However, when these same fish species were presented to satiated birds, they showed definite preferences; the most preferred species were baltic salmon and brown trout followed in decreasing order by minnow, whitefish, sculpin, burbot and river lamprey. This was also the case when combinations of five to seven species were presented. However, under semi-natural conditions in a stream tank, the number of each species offish caught was related to their escape behaviour, not to the previously determined predator preferences. When salmon and minnows of different size were presented to hungry birds, they selected the larger fish regardless of species. In contrast, when satiated, they preferred small fish over large fish. Under the experimental conditions, the use of certain elements of foraging behaviour clearly differed between the two bird species: Mergus serrator spent more time hunting underwater than did M. merganser. Results are discussed in relation to the predator-prey situation existing under natural conditions in northern Swedish rivers.


AbstractPrevious studies have demonstrated that a sudden change in stiffness at the base of a building (e.g., due to nonlinear deformation in the base isolator including sudden sliding) during seis...


B3F I/2 (2006.01) (76) Inventors: Y'ally ge, Ei's COSL 77/06 (2006.01) ; Gary S. Furman, J.R., St. Charles, IL (US); Mingli Wei, (52) U.S. Cl. .......... 162/111; 525/420; 525/435; 524/602 Naperville, IL (US); Winston Su, (57) ABSTRACT Naperville, IL (US); Christopher D. Kaley, Naperville, IL (US); The invention provides a composition of matter used to pro Bryan M. Schertzer, Geneva, IL duce very soft high grades of tissue paper. The composition of (US) matter comprises a PAE resin acidified with a multifunctional acid. The multifunctional acid includes but is not limited to carboxyl and Sulfonyl. The acid has a functional group selected from carboxyl and Sulfonyl and a functional group selected from carboxyl, Sulfonyl, hydroxyl, lactone, phenol, amine and heterocycle. The PAE resin facilitates the use of an adhesive in aYankee Dryer apparatus that is durable when the adhesive is wet but remains soft when the adhesive becomes Correspondence Address: NALCO COMPANY 1601 W. DEHL ROAD NAPERVILLE, IL 60563-1198 (US)


NMR of protons in ferromagnetic ..beta..-UH/sub 3/ was observed at 4.2 and 85 K in zero external magnetic field. The line was centered at ..nu../sub 0/ = 19.4 MHz (T = 85 K). This frequency yields a value of n/sub f/ = (1.45 +- 0.1)..mu../sub B/ for the uranium-ion magnetic moment. The large linewidth (..delta nu..approx. =6 MHz) could be explained by a distribution of the dipolar fields at the proton sites. The spectrum was also measured in an external field. The line shape agrees well with measurements made previously for paramagnetic ..beta..-UH/sub 3/. Line broadening in an external field is due to distribution of demagnetization fields. The spin-spin relaxation time T/sub 2/ = 90 ..mu..sec (at 4.2 K) is well explained by the proton-proton dipolar interaction. T/sub 2/ becomes shorter at 85 K and is field dependent.


Recent advances in data intensive information processing systems is becoming increasingly important to make decisions in business organizations. Precious & sensitive knowledgeable patterns may reside in the process of business analysis. Recently Privacy preserving data mining have acquired a great extent by data mining and Information security community researchers in development of techniques that integrates privacy concerns. Many researchers have projected and implemented numerous algorithms for privacy preserving in data mining that mainly focus on cluster based, classification approach, association and outsourcing of sensitive knowledgeable patterns obtaining from data mining systems for the intended persons. This paper presents and evaluates comparative based analytical results of privacy preserving data mining algorithms empirically. Various kinds of analytical measures were employed and plotted them against the different data sets on a graph, in order to find out the effectiveness and efficiency of privacy preserving data mining algorithms.


BACKGROUND
FUS reduces the proliferator factors such as cyclin D1 and Cdk6, and increases Cdk and p27. Therefore, FUS prevents the growth of prostate cancer cells.

METHODS
This review tried to summarize data about FUS gene expression in correlation with the degree of prostate cancer. To find the relevant studies, the search in PubMed, Science Direct, and Scopus were performed.

RESULTS
Increasing the expression of FUS decreases and increases the rate of apoptosis of prostate cancer cells, respectively. In fact, FUS reduces the proliferator factors such as: cyclin D1 and Cdk6, and increases Cdk (an anti-proliferation factor) and p27 (a proliferative inhibitory factor). Therefore, FUS prevents the growth of prostate cancer cells. An immuno-histochemical analysis showed that FUS gene expression had an inverse correlation with the degree of prostate cancer, which suggests that patients with higher levels of FUS are more likely to survive and less likely to have bone pain.

CONCLUSION
The key to FUS is the signaling of the androgen receptor and the progression of the cell cycle in prostate cancer. Based on these findings, we might be able to consider exogenous expression of FUS as a treatment for prostate cancer (Fig. 1, Ref. 32).


Studies worldwide have shown that the available vaccines are highly effective against SARS-CoV-2. However, there are growing laboratory reports that the newer variants of concerns (VOCs e.g. Alpha, Beta, Delta etc) may evade vaccine induced defense. In addition to that, there are few ground reports on health workers having breakthrough infections. In order to understand VOC driven breakthrough infection we investigated 14 individuals who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 after being administered a single or double dose of Covishield (ChAdOx1, Serum Institute of India) from the city of Varanasi, which is located in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Genomic analysis revealed that 78.6% (11/14) of the patients were infected with the B.1.617.2 (Delta) variant. Notably, the frequency (37%) of this variant in the region was significantly lower (p<0.01), suggesting that the vaccinated people were asymmetrically infected with the Delta variant. Most of the patients tested displayed mild symptoms, indicating that even a single dose of the vaccine can help in reducing the severity of the disease. However, more comprehensive epidemiological studies are required to understand the effectiveness of vaccines against the newer VOCs.


T he proliferation of informal and illegal forms of access to urban land and housing has been one of the main consequences of the processes of social exclusion and spatial segregation that have characterized intensive urban growth in developing countries. Given the absence of adequate housing policies and the failure of the land market to offer sufficient, suitable and accessible housing options, millions of urban poor have to create their own shelter, either by invading private or public land or by buying land illegally and constructing their own housing. This phenomenon has attracted the attention of many researchers, policy makers and others worried about the grave socioeconomic, environmental and political implications for the urban poor and society at large. Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto is one of the most influential contemporary ideologues addressing this complex issue. His ideas and proposals regarding large-scale regularization programs, most recently presented in his book, The Mystery of Capital, have received extensive media coverage and have raised the level of public debate. His influence can be measured by the fact that an increasing number of countries and cities, in Latin America and elsewhere, have introduced regularization policies based on his ideas, and these programs have already had a significant impact on international and institutional approaches to property reform and good governance. In many countries, politicians who were never particularly interested in urban development concerns have now become vigorous defenders of de Soto's ideas. Why?


The article is devoted to the history of the regional policy of the PRC during the implementation of the policy of «reform and openness.» The period under consideration is the 1990-2000s. characterized by the beginning of the implementation of the main directions of the strategy for the regional coordinated development of China, aimed at eliminating the disproportional phenomena of the spatial organization of the economy of the PRC and combating the uneven development of the Western, Eastern, North-Eastern and Central regions of China.


The formalism, which permits to study the phase structure of gauged NJL-model for arbitrary external fields, is developed. The effective potential in the gauged NJL model in the weak magnetic field is found. It is shown that in fixed gauge coupling case the weak magnetic field doesn't influence chiral symmetry breaking condition. The analogy with the situation near black hole is briefly mentioned.


Using three maize varieties,through pot experiment to study the change of electric conductivity and fluorescence parameters under low-temperature stress.The results showed that the resistance of three varieties is Jin Yu 5Xing Ken 3Ji Dan 198.Membrane leakage and minimum chlorophyll fluorescence(F0) of the three varieties were increased;the Fv/Fm,Fv/F0,and NPQ were declining with low-temperature treatment time.This experiments show that light absorbed by chlorophyll for photosynthesis can be reduced.The PSⅡactive centers of maize leaves were injured under low-temperature stress.


This paper summarizes the orthogonal testing methods of manufacturing system of ion -exchange pure water and the best technological process of manufacturing pure water.


FIELD: instrument engineering. SUBSTANCE: device, system and method aim at generation of column air flow. An air handling device comprises a body, an in-built driving wheel that generates downward air flow and in-built blades mounted in close proximity to the driving wheel at specified distance and serving to generate straight-line air flow. The device generates air flow that essentially holds column shape at the considerable distance. The method consists in generating air flow that essentially holds column shape at the considerable distance and is directed from ceiling to floor to mix air layers of air of various temperatures in an enclosed air space. Besides, the method consists that warm air directed from ceiling to floor accumulates thermal energy in floor, in devices being thereon and thereunder. If ceiling is colder than floor, accumulated energy is released. EFFECT: reduced power consumption and noise level. 32 cl, 24 dwg


This paper extends the classical theory of random fatigue to multiaxial stress fields, using a quadratic criterion. An equivalent uniaxial random process is constructed by combining the power spectral densities of the normal and tangential stresses according to the von Mises criterion. This process, that we call the von Mises stress, is used to evaluate the damage with a uniaxial model of random fatigue. A finite element implementation is proposed. 17 refs.


Four DC/DC converters are analyzed and compared with respects to availability, efficiency, ratings, repair costs and power density. Intended application is offshore wind farms with MVDC power collection. The selected topology is a new series resonant converter, which offers 99% efficiency across the entire operational range, but needs components designed for high voltage stress.


S 16 and Cd 10 S 16 clusters bearing twelve naphthalene units on the surface showed characteristic blue emission in response to the cation- π -mediated intercalative binding of quaternary ammonium cations that allows the formation of ground-state naphthalene aggregates.


In this paper, we propose a nonlinear multi-objective optimization problem whose parameters in the objective functions and constraints vary in between some lower and upper bounds. Existence of the efficient solution of this model is studied and gradient based as well as gradient free optimality conditions are derived. The theoretical developments are illustrated through numerical examples.


Various individuals and groups have suggested guidelines for authors, governing the format and content of statistical reporting in medical articles. The present article presents guidelines for clinical trials, based closely on those of the CONSORT group. The headings are as follows: Introduction; Methods, Protocol Design; Methods, Treatment Assignment; Methods, Treatment Blinding; Methods, Quality Control; Results, Follow-up Schedule, and Loss to Follow-up; Results, Analysis; and Comment.

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clinical trials;
CONSORT;
protocol;
assignment;
blinding;
quality control;
follow-up


Orality is one of the main features of Caribbean literature and an important aspect of Olive Senior's texts. This study will be based on my own experience of the translation of Olive Senior's stories into French. Maria Tymoczko argued that post-colonial literature and translation can both be regarded as a "carrying across". Translators, however, cannot simply be expected to transport language without being burdened with a mixture of cross-cultural, as well as foreign, elements. All textual elements are "fixed", whereas cross-references vary according to the audience; as a consequence, cultural disjunctions cannot be muted or obscured, but neither can they be foregrounded. This is when colloquialisms and exoticism collide. "Decoding operations" may lead to "re-encoding familiar tones" and result in "defamiliarization", creating cultural distance, but welcoming what sounds alien. The versatility of cultural cross-references can create confusion in the minds of the target text readers. The author's jubilatory manipulation of language finds its utmost expression in the voice that the mind's ear is supposed to hear. Consequently, the translator's creativity aims to fabricate new layers of texts aiming at reproducing heteroglossy, heterology and heterophony, appealing to the senses in order to invite new reader responses.


To understand the effect of climate factors on the grass yield of natural pasture,integration regression was adopted to analyze the pasture in Sanjiangyuan Tongde district in Qinghai.The model of integrated regression was set up,and the influence coefficient of temperature,precipitation,and sunlight in every 10 days to the grass yield from April to September were calculated in this paper.The results showed that the effect of average temperature of 10 days to grass yield is greater than the precipitation,means the effect of heat is greater than water,in contract the sunlight has negligible effect to the grass yield.


Thermal resistance network based on traditional thermal resistance significantly simplifies the numerical simulation module.Based on analyzing the thermal resistance of every component inside LED illumination system,a kind of thermal resistance network module is proposed to calculate the temperature of every node.Using one-dimensional heat resistance network topology the thermal calculation and analysis results are compared with the finite element simulation results.The error between the result obtained from the thermal resistance network and the finite element simulation is less than 5%.It is indicated that the thermal resistance network has obtained high precision and can be used for heat analysis of light-emitting diodes(LED) or other complex illuminating systems.


The purpose of this study was to analyze counseling interview techniques learned while in counselor preparation in relationship to those techniques that secondary school counselors considered useful in actual secondary school counseling.


In MANET communication or data delivery through neighbor nodes, that are freely move within the network and number of times route modification situation for same sender or multiple senders is happening. Therefore successfully data receiving is the complicated task to take care of routing in decentralized dynamic network. MANET faces variety of challenges like limited bandwidth capacity, quality of service issue and determination of network topology for strong link establishment. In this research, we work on multicast protocol (Quality of Service) QoS enhancement. The Multicast routing is not anything but communication between a single sender to multiple receivers on a dynamic network and it transmits a single data or message to a select group of recipients. MANET communication is dynamic in nature and each and every node behaves like a both host and router. The proposed multicast routing work done is to resolve the whole drawback of channel sense based communication and congestion control queue management scheme with the assistance of range of effective communication technique therefore congestion control approach is provides effective multicast communication with the comparison of MAODV and ODMRP multicast routing protocols and improves quality of service parameter. The proposed multicast communication diminishes the packets dropping due to congestion and collision by utilizing the network limited bandwidth proficiently. The proposed protocols performance is better than ODMRP and MAODV. This proposed scheme improves the standard of service moreover as provides reliable communication in the network. The performance metrics like better throughput and reduced routing packets flooding shows the effective outcome of proposed scheme in dynamic network.


Objective To study the method for separating and purifying the total flavonoids in Crataegus pinnatifida Bge. (TFC) with macroporous adsorption resin FL-2.Methods According to the structural characteristic of flavone,the resin FL-2 was systematically studied for its adsorption capability. The technological conditions of the adsorption resin FL-2 for separation of TFC was selected. UV-Vis was used to measure the content of TFC.Results The macroporous adsorption resin FL-2 can be used to produce the TFC with high quality. The optimal technological conditions were:the flow velocity of adsorption,1 BV/h; the eluting reagent,60% ethanol; eluting velocity,2 BV/h. The purity and yield of the TFC were 68.71% and 4.78% with the technological conditions respectively.Conclusion It is a simple and efficient method to separate the total flavonoids from Crataegus pinnatifida Bge. by using FL-2 resin,and can be applied to manufacture.


Charlotte SCHOELL-GLASS: Introduction History and Identity Pamela J. WARNER: "To Paint the Color of Things": The Goncourt Brothers and the Pictoriality of History Lauren S. WEINGARDEN : The Mirror as a Metaphor of Baudelairean Modernity Valentin NUSSBAUM : A l'ombre des portraits en fleurs: Symbolisme et troubles de l'identite de Whistler a Hitchcock Andrea GRUNERT : L'Histoire transformee en legende: Andrzej Wajda et la Pologne idealisee Cultural Memory Marijke JONKER : "From Death and Despair to Hope": Gericault, Poussin, and Cultural Memory in France Stephanie A. GLASER : "Deutsche Baukunst", "Architecture Francaise": The Use of the Gothic Cathedral in the Creation of National Memory in Nineteenth-Century Germany and France Nathalie ROELENS : La Representation de la barbarie en litterature, en peinture et au cinema Texts and Photographs: Cultural Anthropology and Cultural Memory Etienne SAMAIN : Les Risques du texte et de l'image: Autour de Balinese Character (1942), Gregory Bateson et Margaret Mead Rebecca J. DEROO : Boltanski's Display at the Documenta 5: Personal or Cultural Memory? Ursala REIDEL-SCHREWE : The Burial Place of Heimat Mixed-Media Texts: Cartography in Contemporary Art and Fiction Christina LJUNGBERG : Cartographic Strategies in Contemporary Fiction Susanne DUCHTING : The Interaction of Art and Cartography in the Work of Simon Patterson and Susanne Weirich Mixed-Media Texts: "Yellow-Cover Books", Artists' Books, and Comic Strips Fumiko T. TOGASAKI : Defiance from Within: Cosmopolitan "Innovators" in Isolated Feudal Japan Regine RAPP : Tango with Cows: Russian Futurist Book Art Veronique PLESCH : From Image to Word: The Books of Lucie Lambert Claude DUEE : La ou le mot se fait image et ou l'image se fait mot: Nouvelle bande dessinee et bande dessinee d'avant-garde Intermedia Texts : Logotypes Hans LUND : Alma Mater's New Face: From University Seals to University Logos Claus CLUVER : Mini-Icons: Letterforms, Logos, Logopoems Space, Spatialization, Virtual Space Massimo LEONE : On the QuincunX Carrie NOLAND : Graffiti and the Reinvention of Space Alan PROHM : Resources for a Poetics of Visual Poetry James TOBIAS : Gesture, Techniques, and Time: Disorientation at the Interface Notes about the contributors


In this paper, an elastic sphere approaching a lubricated elastic coating surface with couple stress lubricant is explored under constant load condition. The finite difference method (FDM), Gaussian elimination, and Gauss-Seidel iteration method are used to solve the transient modified Reynolds equation with its boundary condition, the elasticity deformation equations of ball and coating layer, load balance equation, and lubricant rheology equations simultaneously. The transient pressure profiles, film shapes, and elastic deformation during the pure squeeze process under various operating conditions in the elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) regime are discussed.


Biofilm formation is one of the virulence factors of Candida albicans, contributing to the development of resistance to various antifungal drugs. In order to combat resistant microbes such as C. albicans, the discovery and development of antifungal substances must explore the anti-biofilm activity of substances, which are extracted from traditional medicinal plants widely available in tropical countries such as Indonesia. One of the natural ingredients that can be developed is red ginger. This plant has been used empirically in the treatment of various infectious diseases, including fungal infections. The aim of this study is to determine the composition of chemical compounds in the essential oil of the red ginger rhizomes planted in Aceh, Indonesia and the anti-biofilm activity of the essential oil against C. albicans, isolated from a clinical sample. The chemical analysis of the essential oil was performed by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrophotometry (GC-MS). Anti-biofilm activity was observed through biofilm inhibition and degradation activities, determined by Cristal Violet assay. Data were analyzed using ANOVA test and Duncan's post hoc test with 99% CI. The GC-MS results showed that the essential oil used in this study contained high monoterpenes (60.55%) which is dominated by E-citral/geranial (11.97%) and 1.8 - cineole (15.10%). The highest sesquiterpenes derivative was αr-curcumene (16.86%). The significant inhibition of C. albicans biofilm formation was obtained at a concentration of 0.5% and the biofilm degradation was obtained at a concentration of 0.125%. The data indicates that the high monoterpenoids-red ginger essential oil used in this study has performed significant anti-biofilm activity against C. albicans.


Nickel-based alloys have been considered as candidate structural materials used in generation IV nuclear reactors serving at high temperatures. In the present study, alloy 617 was irradiated with 180-keV helium ions to a fluence of 3.6 × 1017 ions/cm2 at room temperature. Throughout the cross-section transmission electron microscopy (TEM) image, numerous over-pressurized helium bubbles in spherical shape are observed with the actual concentration profile a little deeper than the SRIM predicted result. Post-implantation annealing was conducted at 700 °C for 2 h to investigate the bubble evolution. The long-range migration of helium bubbles occurred during the annealing process, which makes the bubbles of the peak region transform into a faceted shape as well. Then the coarsening mechanism of helium bubbles at different depths is discussed and related to the migration and coalescence (MC) mechanism. With the diffusion of nickel atoms slowed down by the alloy elements, the migration and coalescence of bubbles are suppressed in alloy 617, leading to a better helium irradiation resistance.


This relective article does an analysis about the historic-graphics discourses which have been built on the independence process. These explain the participation of the social actors and the popular masses. The question is: How does the independence process generated, and what way the social actors are related?.


According to the characteristic of machine tool fixture design,a process of SolidWorks applying in 3-dimentional(3D) computer aided design was introduced and the structure of a 3D computer aided fixture design(CAFD) system was established.Througn the application of a 3D parts database,which was established by the pro-development in SolidWorks,and a process of establishing assembly of fixture parts in SolidWorks,fixture designers could easily improve the quality and efficiency of the fixture design.


A Lai's novel Dust in the Air Has All Fallen has a deep look into lumbersome history evolution and the intervention of different culture.The degradation and transation of native culture make people despair and searable painfully.The novel has an stirring effect of seeing through history and nationality.On an angle of anthropology culture change,this novel mainly analys how Dust in the Air Has All Fallen reflects the culture change and the fluctuation to personality and selfhood,hoping to has a further understanding of the novel and also analyse the writing of A Lai and Dust in the Air Has All Fallen.


Complicity readers are invited to "pick up" this special issue dedicated to early childhood education where they feel most drawn, circling back and forth, and/or iteratively making connections. But we hope you start here. Not because this is somehow a beginning, but because it might act as a middle that teases out emerging themes, while it resists resting at final meanings. Sellers ' work with rhizomatic analysis speaks to the importance of defying beginnings and instead of working generatively with middles which might open up vocalities for seeing the complex work of children's learning. We view children as competent, capable of complex thinking, curious, and rich in potential. They grow up in families with diverse social, cultural, and linguistic perspectives. Every child should feel that he or she belongs, is a valuable contributor to his or her surroundings, and deserves the opportunity to succeed. When we recognize children as capable and curious, we are more likely to deliver programs and services that value and build on their strengths and abilities. (Ontario Ministry of Education, 2014, p. 6)


A.-There is not a great deal of difference between the carbohydrate values of the various proprietary diabetic breads. They vary from about 10 to 14 g. of carbohydrate per ounce (28 g.) compared with about 12.5 g. for wholemeal and 15.2 g. for white bread. The chief advantage of the special breads is that they are lighter in texture so that a greater bulk goes to the ounce. For example, four slices of one brand of diabetic loaf contain about 10 g. of carbohydrate, which is the same as one small slice of ordinary bread. The choice of bread for any individual diabetic is a matter of taste, but it should be realized that whichever bread is used the actual weight eaten for a given carbohydrate intake will not vary much, although the size of the slices may.


Due to the specific traits of translating Chinese poems into English,the study of the internal system of poetic culture and style focuses on the translator′s subjectivity.A study of the nature of Chinese and English poems in the process of translating Chinese poems into English can reveal the obvious influence of such traits on the translator′s subjectivity.The traits of the translator′s subjectivity or the translator′s initiative quality will finally determine the quality of poetry translation.


With the development of wind generation, the calculation of available transfer capability (denoted as ATC) considering wind generation has very high application value. Based on the maximum function, this paper presents an ATC model. The characteristic of the new model is twofold. First, it considers wind turbines connected to power system and static security of power system simultaneously. Second, it is a system of semismooth equations. By using the smoothing strategy, a smoothing Newton method is adopted for solving the proposed new ATC model. Numerical simulation results of the IEEE 30-bus and 118-bus system show the new model and algorithm are feasible and effective. The impact of wind turbines connected to power system on ATC is analyzed.


The sliding abrasion properties of the TiC ceramic layer were tested.The result shows that the kinetic friction coefficient of layer are worse and steady.In the same conditions of wearing test,the weight loss of surface treated with EDC is about one tenth of the weight loss without treatment,and is about one sixth of the weight loss treated with electroless composite Ni-P-SiC coating.The abrasion morphology shows the wearing trace of layer are mostly shallow parallel furrow and indicates the abrasion mechanism is slight grain abrasion.


ABSTRACT The number of manufacturing services for cross-enterprise business collaborations is increasing rapidly because of the explosive growth of Web service technologies. This trend demands intelligent and robust models to address information overload in order to enable efficient discovery of manufacturing services. In this paper, we present a personalised manufacturing service recommendation approach, which combines a PageRank-based reputation model and a collaborative filtering technique in a unified framework for recommending the right manufacturing services to an active service user for supply chain deployment. The novel aspect of this research is adapting the PageRank algorithm to a network of service-oriented multi-echelon supply chain in order to determine both user reputation and service reputation. In addition, it explores the use of these methods in alleviating data sparsity and cold start problems that hinder traditional collaborative filtering techniques. A case study is conducted to validate the practicality and effectiveness of the proposed approach in recommending the right manufacturing services to active service users.


Background: Seropositivity for chlamydia pneumoniae has been associated with coronary artery disease, but results of interventional studies with antibiotics have been contradictory. We therefore investigated whether clinical cardiovascular events in patients undergoing coronary angioplasty can be reduced by medication with roxithromycin. Methods: 327 consecutive patients undergoing coronary angioplasty were randomized to roxithromycin 300 mgld for 6 weeks or placebo regardless of antibody titers. The primary clinical end point included cardiovascular death, nonfatal infarction (Ml) and symptomatic restenosis at 1 year. indication for angioplasty was stable angina in 51/47% of patients (roxithromycinlplacebo). unstable angina in 43144% and prognostic in 6g% of patients. Results: Treatment groups were balanced for age, BMI and risk factors, and roxithromytin was well tolerated. During the trial period of 1 year, 36 endpoints occurred (cardiovascular death, 1; MI, 4; and symptomatic restenosis, 31) with 20 events in the roxithromycin group and 16 in the placebo group, n.s.. When analyzed for the 3 indication groups, there was a trend towards more events in the unstable angina group receiving roxithromycin, but ho significant differences could be detected in any of the groups. lschemic stroke occurred in 3 roxithromycin VS. 0 placebo patients, hs.. Conclusion: The results of our study suggest that antibiotic therapy with roxithromycin in unselected patients undergoing coronary angioplasty is not associated with a reduction of clinical cardiovascular events. However, this does not exclude positive effects of antibiotics in subgroups such as patients with high antibody titers against chlamydia pneumoniae.