Spiritual dimension on human nature brings a special emphasis on counseling and psychotherapy training and practice issues. The growing use of spirituality in recent counseling and psychotherapy literature points out to its important and complementary role in understanding human behavior. Clients are in need of discussing their spiritual interests with their counselors as part of the counseling experience. Spiritual concerns increasingly became one of the important reasons for seeking counseling or psychotherapy. Spirituality is a newly recognized concept acknowledging a different dimension of human being, which is underestimated in the modern psychology. However, spiritual themes in counseling have not been placed on a theoretical background. The present article discusses the spirituality concept and theoretical background also emphasizes the difference between spirituality and religion.


The work purpose is to compare data on a stage of liver fibrosis in patients with HCV-infection, obtained as a result of the ultrasonic and histological research, to give the comparative analysis of distribution of the patients depending on a stage of liver fibrosis treated during 2005-2012. In addition to directly measured ultrasonic structure parameters liver and spleen hemodynamics with calculated indicators were obtained: the portion of the evaluated section of liver and spleen lobes, and also their ratio. It is shown that the ultrasonic research executed on the modern equipment, including a dopplerography, in most cases (70–80%) allows specifying the degree of liver fibrosis without resorting to the histological verification.


With the rapid development of civil aviation, the contradiction between limited airspace resources and increasing traffic flow is intensifying, which raises the development request of modern air traffic management system apparently. Meanwhile, as one of the core parts of modern air traffic management system, aircraft trajectory prediction subsystem is becoming more and more important. Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), is a sort of recurrent neural networks (RNN). It possesses the advantages of high accuracy, easy to implement and suitable for solving the problem of time series data prediction. In this paper, the prediction approach of civil aircraft trajectory based on LSTM Deep Neural Network is proposed aiming at the requirements of accuracy and real-time of aircraft trajectory prediction under the character of multi-dimensional. Via this method, we can get the prediction of the aircraft position and attitude at the same time. The experimental results show that the prediction based on LSTM model is superior to the traditional method in prediction of aircraft trajectory.


The massive antineutrino recently reported by Simpson in an experiment on tritium decay has not been confirmed by experiments on 35S decay. As an independent check, we report here the negative result of a search for the corresponding antiparticle (a massive neutrino) using the decay of 125I. As a by-product, we give accurate data on internal-bremsstrahlung spectra which we have followed over close to four decades in intensity, and we report a new way of measuring its E1/M1 ratio. The experiment provides a new and very accurate value for the 125I-125Te mass difference of 186.1 ± 0.3 keV.


A. A. Anderson 'Herky, Jerky: Playing Fast and Loose in Giménez Caballero's Hercules jugando a los dados', 1–26, M. Raisa Schpun 'Bodies in the City: Sports and Beauty in São Paulo of the '20s', 27–48, K. D. Jackson 'An Enormous Laugh: The Comic Spirit in Brazilian Modernist Literature', 49–75, N. Dennis 'The Avant-Garde Oratory of Ramón Gómez de la Serna', 77–117, W. Bohn 'Heading West with Rafael Alberti and Buster Keaton', 119–29, H. Schwarz 'Alma: The First Complete Motion Picture in Print', 131–56, R. HernándezRodríguez ' "The New Sweaty Beauty of the Century". Avant-Garde, Sexuality, and Revolution in Mexico', 157–75, V. Fuentes 'Transgressive Affinities (and One Difference) in Buñuel's La edad de oro and Lorca's El público', 177–87, G. Aching 'In Hazardous Pursuit of Chance: Mapping the Surrealists' Caribbean Sojourn (1941)', 189–211, M. T. Pao 'The View from the Wheel', 213–41, J. Highfill 'An Aesthetics of Transience: Fashion in the Spanish Avant-Garde', 243–73, S. Larson 'The Commodification of the Image of Spain's "New Woman" by Mass Culture and the Avant-Garde in José Díaz Fernández's La Venus mecánica', 275–306.


Put children securely on the bridge from the Early Years Foundation Stage to the more formal curriculum of primary school with careful planning and an enthusiastic attitude.


Naor and Yung show that a one-bit-compressing universal one-way hash function (UOWHF) can be constructed based on a one-way permutation. This construction can be iterated to build a UOWHF which compresses by "n bits, at the cost of "n invocations of the one-way permutation. We show that this construction is not far from optimal, in the following sense: there exists an oracle relative to which there exists a one-way permutation with inversion probability 2 ?p(n) (for any p(n) 2 !(log n)), but any construction of an n-bit-compressing UOWHF requires (p n=p(n)) invocations of the one-way 1 permutation, on average. (For example, there exists in this relativized world a one-way permutation with inversion probability n ?!(1) , but no UOWHF that invokes it fewer than (p n= log n) times.) Thus any proof that a more eecient UOWHF can be derived from a one-way permutation is necessarily non-relativizing; in particular, no provable construction of a more eecient UOWHF can exist based solely on a \black box" one-way permutation. This result can be viewed as a partial justiication for the practice of building eecient UOWHFs from stronger primitives (such as collision-intractable hash functions), rather than from weaker primitives such as one-way permutations.


Cross linked enzyme aggregates technology is one of the latest methods in immobilization of enzymes. This technique provides biocatalysts with higher activity, stability and reusability in industrial applications. In this research, lipase was extracted from the viscera of river channel catfish (Ictularus punctatus) and was immobilized based on cross-liked enzyme aggregate methodology. Glutaraldehyde was used as a cross-linker, acetone as precipitant and bovine serum albumin as an additive to improve the formation of CLEA-lipase. Experimental design was carried out by Response Surface Methodology using central composite design to find the optimum conditions for immobilization which was 50 mM of glutaraldehyde, 60% (v/v) Acetone and 0.11 mM of BSA. Finally, CLEA-lipase's specific activity was 1.713 U/mg that is 20.43% higher than the free lipase activity.


Stacey Wagner* Department of Mathematical Sciences * Faculty Advisor: Bridget Tenner, Department of Mathematical Sciences Academic year of completion: 2012-2013 Author contact: firstname.lastname@example.com 1 Wagner: Enumerating Alternating Permutations with One Alternating Descent Published by Via Sapientiae, 2013 — 195 — EXAMPLE 1 .5. Consider w362415; w can be expressed visually with each point representing a term in w: If we care only about ascents and descents, and not the relative differences between consecutive values, we can also capture this zig-zag property without using a graph. We will use this form in later analysis. EXAMPLE 1 .6. If w is the alternating permutation w24153867 then w may be written as w 7 6 8 3 5 1 4 2 = w . Counting the number of descents in an alternating permutation is uninteresting because we will always know exactly how many there are: if the alternating permutation w  Sn, then there are     − 2 1 n ascents and     − 2 1 n descents. So we will examine a different statistic. DEFINITION 1 .7. Given the alternating permutation w, read the odd positions of w from right to left and then the even positions from left to right. This mapping of w of size n will be called w, where its size is also n. Equivalently, if the alternating permutation is in the zig-zag form, read the letters starting from the bottom right corner and continuing clockwise all the way around to the top right. The number of alternating descents of w, denoted altdes(w), is defined as altdes(w)des(w), the number of descents of w. We can also find w and altdes(w) for non-alternating permutations w, but here will focus only on the alternating permutations. EXAMPLE 1 .8. For w24153867 from Example 1.6, we have w63124587. There are three descents in w, so altdes(w)2. EXAMPLE 1 .9. There are no alternating permutations with 1 alternating descent in either S1 or S2 because there are no descents in either (1) 1 or (12)12. EXAMPLE 1 .10. The alternating permutation of S3 with one alternating descent is 132 where (132)213. EXAMPLE 1 .11 . The alternating permutations of S4 with one alternating descent are 1324, 2413, and 3412 where (1324)2134, (2413)1243, and (1342)1342. 2. DECOMPOSING EN,1 Let n,1 be the set of alternating permutations of size n with 1 alternating descent. We will show that the set of alternating permutations of n letters with one alternating descent, n,1, can be decomposed as a union of the following pairwise disjoint sets: Example 1.8. For w = 24153867 from Example 1.6, we have w′ = 63124587. There are three descents in w′, so altdes(w) = 3. Example 1.9. There are no alternating permutations with 1 alternating descent in either S1 or S2 because there are no descents in either (1) ′ = 1 or (12)′ = 12. Example 1.10. The alternating permutation of S3 with one alternating descent is 132 where (132)′ = 213. Example 1.11. lternating permutations of S4 with one alternating descent are 1324, 2413, and 3412 where (1324)′ = 2134, (2413)′ = 1243, and (3412)′ = 1342.


The novel complex di-n-butyltin(IV) 2-oxo-propionic acid (4-pyridinecarbonyl) hydrazone, (n-C4H9)2Sn-[O2CC(CH3)=N-N=C(-O)C5N-4] (H2O) has been synthesized and its structure has been determined by X-ray diffraction analysis. The complex crystallizes in orthorhombic system with space group Pca21. Crystal data: a=2.7540(9) nm, b=0.9676(3) nm, c= 1.5750(5) nm, V=4.197(2) nm3, Dc= 1.444 g/cm3, Z=8. μ= 1.241 mm−1. F(000)= 1856, R1=0.0462 and wR2=0.1001. In the crystals of the title complex, the tin atom is in six-coordination with a distorted octahedral geometry, three oxygen atoms [O(1), O(3) and O(4)] and one nitrogen atom N(1) forming the equatorial plane and C(10)-Sn(1)-C(14) being the axis. Two molecules form a dimer with weak interactions of Sn-O bonding and hydrogen bonds.


The Standard Satellite Bus's (SSB) core avionics system is a further step in the development line of the software and hardware architecture which was first used in the bispectral infrared detector mission (BIRD). The next step improves dependability, flexibility and simplicity of the whole core avionics system. Important aspects of this concept were already implemented, simulated and tested in other ESA and industrial projects. Therefore we can say the basic concept is proven. This paper deals with different aspects of core avionics development and proposes an extension to the existing core avionics system of BIRD to meet current and future requirements regarding flexibility, availability, and reliability of small satellites and the continuously increasing demand of mass memory and computational power.


John Hewitt's claim to 'no female bards' as part of the revival of what he called the rhyming weaver poets tradition narrowed the scope of scholarly interest, just as the once popular claim that many of the writers in this tradition were simply Robert Burns imitators had done. A variety of publications have provided a range of in-depth studies on the impact of Robert Burns in Ireland, and have done much to challenge the latter claim. However, the presence and output of Ulster-Scots women writers within this wider area of scholarship remains little known. Consequently, by exploring poetry from three writers, Olivia Elder, Sarah Leech and Margaret Dixon McDougall, this essay aims to advance several lesser-known eighteenth and nineteenth-century female Irish poets, add depth to the study of Ulster-Scots women's writing, and provide new perspectives on Burns in Ireland.


Hackathon, hackspace, maker faire and open source are terms that are increasingly part of the language of artists, designers and engineers. There is a growing movement of making things and sharing the process and outcome within cross-disciplinary communities the idea being to generate new ideas and knowledge through the production of artefacts. To enable this practice products are being developed that simplify technology and break it out of corporate ownership offering access to artists and enthusiasts alike.

We are offering the opportunity to take part in a hardware hackathon. A hackathon is an event where participants are invited to form multi-disciplinary teams to develop an artefact from inception to completion over the course of one or more days. We are running a three-day event providing the materials, space and support to devise and build physical and wearable interactive artefacts driven by switches and sensors. This event will start with a workshop introducing littleBits, arduinos and lilyPads and presenting some projects for inspiration. The rest of day one is dedicated to idea generation and making. On day two, space and some limited supervision will be provided enabling participants to continue their build whenever it fits their schedule and on day three we propose an exhibition of completed artefacts.

LittleBits are a set of snap together modules containing simple electronic components. They are ideal for those with minimal technical confidence to get started in building interactive artefacts using a variety of switches and sensors.

The arduino is a small board containing a microprocessor chip and a number of digital and analogue inputs and outputs. Using an open source programming interface they enable highly sophisticated artefacts to be developed with relative ease and limited expense. LilyPads are wearable arduinos making developing wearable technology accessible.

Our aim is to explore the relationship between art and technology through experimentation and play.


We present a cross-table of almost all publicly known implementations of AES candidates, including the ones done by the authors. A short overview of our own implementations of Rijndael is given. The relative easiness of doing "the world best" implementations and a lot of gaps in the table force us to ask if there is enough information known to really decide which ciphers are fast and which are not. (This paper only compares the encryption speed in the case of the 128-bit keys.) In the conclusions we present a very brief survey of the known attacks to the candidates, stressing the fact that other aspects of the candidates are still less known (at least to the public). We finish this paper with apparent conclusions that the first round of the AES process has been too short, but we still give recommendations which candidates should be elected to the second round basing on the knowledge known to the public at the moment of writing this paper.


ABSTRACT The cervical cancer is the one of the health problem especially in the developing country. In Thailand found the cervical cancer is the major course of death of all Thai women especially the patients aged 45-60 years old. If they were diagnose early by PAP SMEAR. It reduced cancer disease and death rate efficiently. This research is quasi-experimental research. The purpose is for studying Effect of a promoting program by women health volunteer on receiving cancer test in the area of Laothong health public, Sophisai District, Buengkan Province The subject consisted of 30 women aged 30-60 years old who were an experimental group and comparison group. The instrument used for collecting data was an questionnaire  form. The data were analyzed by percentage, mean, median, standard deviation that the sample was not independent to each other Statistics Paired samples t-test and independent samples t-test. The result of the study indicated that, after applying the health program by the volunteer women who encourage the subject women group for receiving cervical cancer screening test. The subject group have the score of knowledge, realization of the violence of cervical cancer, the high risk of disease, the expectation of efficiency of service receiving and expectation for own ability to receive the cervical cancer screening test more than before the experiment and the comparison group (P < 0.05) The subject group were received the cervical cancer screening test than the comparison group. In conclusion, the way of supporting the women for receiving the cervical cancer screening test by the health education program. And the helping from volunteer women. It's the integration and the development and harmonizes with the suitable area and we should have the women group volunteer who encourage another women for receiving the cervical cancer screen test service.  Keyword :  cervical cancer,  woman  group volunteer, effect of promoting


In the areas affected by the 2011 Great East Japan tsunami, some damaged buildings were proposed to be preserved as "Disaster Remain" to share this experience and educating future generations. However, many these potential buildings were eventually demolished. This study aims to provide an alternative and eventually a consensus among communities that faced conflicts over the preservation or destruction of such disaster buildings. The methodology consists of 3D building modelling, tsunami numerical simulation and recording tsunami evacuation behaviour with interview survey. In sum, this practical study of "Sasanao Factory" demonstrates that the archiving of disaster remain can offer a compromise between those who wish to preserve disaster ruins, here the owner of the building, and those who want or need their destruction, here local government.


Using A-share sample of all private listed firms during 2004-2007,this paper empirically tests the relationship between the information content of the stock price(measured as co-movement of the stock price or synchronous stock price movements) and political connections.The results indicate that firms with political connections have higher synchronicity of stock price than those without such connections.Moreover,the positive relation between political connections and synchronicity only exists in firms located in regions with low marketization, more government intervention and poor investor protection.After distinguishing the types of political connections,it is found that firms with "members of PC and CPPCC" connections have higher synchronicity of stock price,whereas "government officials" connections have no significant effect on synchronicity.


Patulin (4-Hydroxy-4H-furo 3,2-C-pyran-2(6H)-one) is a first-in-class mycotoxin under development as a novel chemotherapeutic agent. The mechanism of action of Patulin has been reported to include activation of mitogen activated protein kinases (MAPKs) and generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). We have previously shown Patulin to have activity against myeloma, leukemia, and lymphoma cell lines, as well as primary tumor cells in clinical samples from patients with these diagnoses (Wang BLOOD 2007). Moreover, we have shown that Patulin specifically and potently targets tumor cells over normal cells and effectively killed primary tumor cells of patients with refractory illness. The aim of this study was to determine whether Patulin acts synergistically with the topoisomerase inhibitor doxorubicin or the proteasome inhibitor bortezomib. We hypothesize that drugs with non-cross-reactive modes of action could be complementary. Human tumor cell lines from B-cell lymphoma (DAUDI), T-Cell leukemia and lymphoma (Jurkat and H9, respectively), and myeloid leukemia (HL60) malignancies were tested for their sensitivity to single agents Patulin, bortezomib, and doxorubicin as well as Patulin in combination with the latter two agents (Patulin and bortezomib, P + B; Patulin and doxorubicin, P + D). Cells were treated with a range of concentrations of each single agent and the drugs in combination over 24 hours. Following treatment, cell metabolic activity was assessed using a microculture tetrazolium (MTT) assay and cell viability was assessed by flow cytometry using Annexin V and propidium iodide (PI) staining. Dose-effect curves, median effect plots, and combination index (CI) values were generated in the Compusyn software program for each target cell population. Median-effect doses (IC50s) of individual drugs were interpolated using the y-intercept of median-effect plots. Three dose-effect data points were used to create a range of CI values at different fractions of affect (fa). The lower and upper values of the CI range were used to characterize drug combinations as synergistic, antagonistic, or additive based on Chou's Symbols for Synergism and Antagonism using CI analysis (Table 1). The role for ROS in the mechanism of action of Patulin was confirmed by flow cytometry showing increased levels of ROS in cell lines following Patulin exposure. Preincubation of cell lines with N-acetyl cysteine (NAC) or concurrent exposure to Patulin and NAC abrogated the cytotoxic activity of the mycotoxin. H9 cells were most sensitive to the effects of Patulin, with an IC50 of 1.2 μM. Combinations of P + B acted synergistically against Jurkat, H9, DAUDI, and HL60 tumor cells; however, P + B also demonstrated moderate antagonism against the Jurkat and H9 cell lines (Table 2). Likewise, combinations of P + D interacted synergistically against Jurkat, H9, DAUDI, and HL60 tumor cell lines while simultaneously demonstrating strong antagonism against the H9 cell line. Patulin kills leukemia and lymphoma cells via generation of intracellular ROS. Synergy of Patulin with either bortezomib or doxorubicin in leukemia and lymphoma cell lines indicates a distinct mechanism of action for the mycotoxin and compared to other chemotherapeutics and supports the rationale for continued development of Patulin as a novel chemotherapeutic mycotoxin. TABLE 1. Chou's Symbols for Synergism and Antagonism using CI Analysis TABLE 2. IC50 of single agents patulin, bortezomib, and doxorubicin and CI in hematological cancer cell lines


FIELD: weapons and ammunition. SUBSTANCE: initial workpiece is subjected to machining and thermal treatment to obtain pipe billet with lead-in and drive parts at ends. Said pipe billet is subjected to preliminary reduction to form mid barrel forged piece with smooth bore. Then, inner chamfer for barrel cartridge chamber is made at drive part end face. Then, smooth bore surfaces are subjected to electrolytic chromium-plating and heating. Heating temperature is lower than or equal to that of forged piece material tempering. Chromium plated forged piece is subjected to final radial reduction to produce fields and rifles of barrel guide part, its bullet cone and cartridge case. Then, forged piece is machined to produced finished barrel. EFFECT: lower labour input, higher quality.


Background: This
study aims to evaluate the effects of omission of the bladder flap formation at
primary and repeat lower segment CS. Patients and Methods: The current study was randomized controlled trial conducted in Women
Health Hospital, Assiut University, Egypt between March 2017 and May 2018
(ClinicalTrial.gov NCT03016273). Patients were divided into: Non bladder flap
group: Uterine incision made 1 cm above the vesico-uterine reflection without
incision and dissection of the bladder peritoneum and bladder flap group:
Standard cesarean section technique with incision and dissection of a bladder
flap prior to uterine incision. Results: The
study included 150 patients (75 in each arm). The most common indication for CS
in both groups was repeated CS. Non-bladder flap group, compared with flap group, showed shorter
skin-incision to delivery time and total operative time, and significantly lower mean estimated blood loss and
postoperative pain score. Non-bladder flap group, compared with flap group, was
more likely to show postoperative microhematuria. The two groups required approximately the
same time for post-operative defecation. Conclusion: Omission of bladder flap formation during CS is associated with shorter
operative time, less blood loss, less postoperative pain and lower incidence of
postoperative hematuria.


Abstract Most recent attempts to understand the complex nature of the prehispanic occupation of Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico often have postulated that the canyon was a center for pilgrimage fairs and ceremonies that attracted hundreds if not thousands of individuals from the surrounding region who may have resided in the canyon for significant periods of time. Scholars first proposed this model in the 1980s based on what they perceived as the unusual nature of Pueblo Alto, a Chacoan great house. In particular, they suggested that normal household activity and refuse disposal could not explain the deposition patterns in the Alto trash mound, the unusual number of ceramic vessels, and characteristics of the fauna recovered from the settlement. We evaluate this argument focusing primarily on the ceramic and faunal evidence and conclude that neither the ceramic nor the faunal data support the occurrence of periodic fairs, festivals, dances or pilgrimages of the scale that have been postulated.


This paper focuses on fault root cause analysis in telecommunications networks based on microservices. Root cause analysis is necessary for maintaining system stability, reliability, and quality of service, making it an essential aspect of effective network fault management. However, most current root cause analysis algorithms rely on correlation analysis, which differs from causal inference in theory and necessitates high-quality data. To address these challenges, we propose a novel reachable influence method that assesses node influence and integrates it with Bayesian networks using observed instances in comparable scenarios. Empirical findings indicate that this algorithm outperforms baseline algorithms with higher Top-1 and Top-3 hit rates for root cause events and can perform online inference quickly, effectively supporting fault troubleshooting by operations and maintenance personnel.


An empirical study of the activity systems of entrepreneurs owning and operating small businesses was used as the basis for an examination of their management systems using the PODC elements (planning, organizing, directing and controlling). Two types were identified: operators and visionaries. A management model was established for each type. The activities in the operator's management process were: selecting, performing, assigning, allocating, monitoring and adjusting. Those of the visionary were: visioning, structuring, animating, monitoring and learning. The implications for the education of each type are discussed.


Background:  Normal sleep is paramount for a healthy lifestyle and high quality of life. Sleep modulates the immune system and thus affects the course of several chronic inflammatory conditions. There are no reported studies that address the role of sleep disturbance in the course of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The aim of this study was to characterize sleep disturbance in IBD using validated measures of sleep and quality of life.


Academicians represent the key factor in providing education service to students and universities cannot work well without academicians. This study aimed to examine the influence of human resource practices (HR practices) on employee engagement among academicians in Malaysian private universities. This paper examined four HR practices, namely employee compensation, performance appraisal, training, and employee development. The conceptual framework developed for this paper aimed to fully understand the influence of HR practices and employee engagement. Self-administered questionnaires were distributed to academicians in Malaysian private universities using the proportional stratified random sampling technique. This study was conducted on 331 respondents. Pearson Correlation Coefficient and Multiple Linear Regression Analysis were performed with SPSS to test the hypotheses and secure results. The results indicated that each HR practice (performance appraisal, training, and employee development) has significant impact on employee engagement among academicians in Malaysian private universities. This study could provide useful information for decision-makers in Malaysian private universities in designing more appropriate and effective HR practices to improve employee engagement among academicians and for the government, in improving human resource employment acts, policies or legislation related to Malaysian private universities.


calmodulin kinase and PKD,leading to prolonged cytoplasmic localization of cⅡ-HDACs and consequent cardiac hypertrophy.Thioredoxin 1(Trx1),an anti-oxidant, reduces the critical cysteine residues in cⅡ-HDACs, thereby restoring the nuclear localization of cⅡ-HDACs and inhibiting pathological hypertrophy. Downregulation of Nox4 enhances nuclear localization of HDAC4,thereby inhibiting cardiac hypertrophy, suggesting that endogenous Nox4 mediates oxidation of HDAC4. In summary,oxidative s


An integrated differential common collector Colpitts VCO with a wide tuning range is presented in this paper. The circuit was designed and fabricated in the IHP Technologies SGB25V 250 nm SiGe:C BiCMOS process. It provides a superior low phase noise performance of −115 dBc/Hz covering the frequency range of 6.7 to 8.7 GHz for UWB pulsed frequency modulated secondary radar application. An additional common collector output buffer was implemented as well. The circuit provides an overall output power of −10 dBm single-ended with a power dissipation of 47 mW including the on-chip buffer. This paper also shows the modifications and improvements done at the mmwave topology to reduce size and to improve the tuning range.


"Governor Geer's Fifty Years in Oregon is reminiscent, personal and pleasant… As an adjunct to Oregon history it is of much worth."


The Belarusian national movement in interwar Poland significantly increased its influence on various aspects of social and cultural life, including the Orthodox Church in the 1920s. In the socio-political discourse of the Belarusian minority in Poland the Belarusization of the Orthodox Church and its institutions was actively discussed. One of the main conditions of this process was the expansion of the Belarusian Orthodox component in education, especially in the Vilnius Seminary and at the Theological Faculty of the University of Warsaw, the goal being to bring up a new generation of Belarusian priests. The influence of the Belarusian national movement in these institutions was reflected in the participation of teachers and students in the Belarusian political life, the teaching of the Belarusian language, the creation of Belarusian groups and creative teams.


This paper takes 410 companies listed on GEM in 2015-2017 as a sample, and uses R&D investment as a mediator to study the impact of tax incentives on firm performance and explore the mediating effects of R&D investment. The empirical results show that tax incentives have a significant positive effect on corporate performance and R&D investment; corporate R&D investment has a partial mediating effect between tax incentives and firm performance. Therefore, GEM listed companies should effectively use tax incentives and increase R&D investment to improve corporate performance. 税收优惠、研发投入与企业绩效——基于中介效应的实证研究


In this paper, we show exponential lower bounds for the class of homogeneous depth-$5$ circuits over all small finite fields. More formally, we show that there is an explicit family $\{P_d : d \in \mathbb{N}\}$ of polynomials in $\mathsf{VNP}$, where $P_d$ is of degree $d$ in $n = d^{O(1)}$ variables, such that over all finite fields $\mathbb{F}_q$, any homogeneous depth-$5$ circuit which computes $P_d$ must have size at least $\exp(\Omega_q(\sqrt{d}))$.
To the best of our knowledge, this is the first super-polynomial lower bound for this class for any field $\mathbb{F}_q \neq \mathbb{F}_2$.
Our proof builds up on the ideas developed on the way to proving lower bounds for homogeneous depth-$4$ circuits [GKKS13, FLMS13, KLSS14, KS14] and for non-homogeneous depth-$3$ circuits over finite fields [GK98, GR00]. Our key insight is to look at the space of shifted partial derivatives of a polynomial as a space of functions from $\mathbb{F}_q^n \rightarrow \mathbb{F}_q$ as opposed to looking at them as a space of formal polynomials and builds over a tighter analysis of the lower bound of Kumar and Saraf [KS14].


Electronic reference AL AKASH, Ruba ; BOSWALL, Karen. Listening to the Voices of Syrian Women Refugees in Jordan: Ethnographies of Displacement and Emplacement In: "Guests and Aliens": Re-Configuring New Mobilities in the Eastern Mediterranean After 2011 with a special focus on Syrian refugees [online]. Istanbul: Institut français d'études anatoliennes, 2016 (generated 03 mai 2019). Available on the Internet: <http:// books.openedition.org/ifeagd/1884>. ISBN: 9782362450624. DOI: 10.4000/books.ifeagd.1884.


The aim of this study is to examine the effect of auditor quality and the audit committee in the lowering cost of debt for the company and whether the private age of company at the time of IPO becomes the moderating variable among of auditor quality, audit committees and the cost of debt. This study uses firm private age as a proxy for capital cycle and existing of lending relationship to view the likely extent of debt dependence prior to IPO. Auditor quality and the audit committee is considered as an effective monitoring activity mechanism to increase confidence of the stakeholder of the company. The population of this study is a company doing an IPO on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2008-2012. The method of selecting the sample using purposive sampling criteria, total sample obtained are 52 companies. The analysis method of this study is multiple regression analysis with the Moderated Regression Analysis (MRA). The result show that the auditor quality significant negative effect on the cost of debt. Private age of firm as moderating variables may affect the relationship of auditor quality and cost of debt. While the audit committee did not significantly affect the cost of debt and private age of firm as moderating variables can not affect the relationship of the audit committee and the cost of debt.


This paper presents a novel approach to assist a group of users to access and control personalized context based services by means of natural interactions. The group creation and the service activation are both based on the use of RFID tags. Each user can join a group by placing her personal tag on an RFID reader. Once the group has been created each available service, e.g. pictures slideshow, media player, recommender, can be activated and deactivated in various comfortable modes, such as through 'service' RFID tags or acting on a smart object. User preferences and context, along with the service catalog, are stored in a Context Aware Platform. The platform fuses the preferences and the contexts of the group members to custom tailor the services to the group's dynamic profile.


Relay feedback responses are obtained from simple SISO and MIMO systems. These responses contain much information and can be modeled in time domain. Though in SISO case it has a simple structure, in MIMO case interactions among the loops makes it difficult to model. In this paper, the generalized analytical expressions for closed loop transfer functions of interacting loops (undesired responses) of 2×2 processes with FOPDT structures are derived and validated with simulated one. These analytical expressions are useful to identify unknown system parameters.


Hyperglycemia may occur with no apparent medical, dietary,insulin delivery or pump failure reasons. We hereinpresent a case of persistent hyperglycemia secondary totransient insulin failure in a 24 year old lady with type 1diabetes mellitus who is being treated with continuous subcutaneousinsulin infusion.


Head injury is the leading cause of death, mortality and morbidity figures a head injury was nearly a third cause of death in patients with multitrauma in different countries especially Indonesia. Data on Hospitals Depati Hamzah City Pangkalpinang, in 2015 the total number events head injury by as much as 200 cases in the year 2016 total number events head injury as much as 262 cases, and in 2017 the amount of the total figures for the incidence of head injury as many as 197 cases. The purpose of this research is to analyze the ability of nurses in classifying patients of head injury based on the value of the GCS in IGD Hospitals Depati Hamzah City Pangkalpinang year 2018. Type of this research is descriptive research with qualitative approach. . The collection of data through in-depth interviews. Results of the study showed that nurses in hospitals IGD Depati Hamzah has quite a good knowledge, nurses take action in accordance with SOP (Standard Operational procedures), the nurse must be at least certified training BTCLS, and not There is supervision at IGD Hospitals Depati Hamzah City Pangkalpinang.This research is need for advice of delivery of dissemination of SOP to the clerk in the IGD so that all employees in the good doctor's or nurse's IGD know about it and the need for reactivation of the existing supervision systems at home sick, and need an increase in knowledge and Human resource through the addition quota BTCLS training.


The optimized assignment of railway freight locomotive resources has great significance in reducing railway operating costs.In this paper,in consideration of locomotive maintenance,in order to eliminate the impact of time dimension,the space-time network diagram for locomotive turnaround stations was built.On condition that the transportation demand was satisfied and the train trailing load and dispatching of locomotives were fully considered,the optimized model for assignment of railway freight locomotives was constructed to get ideal connection of locomotives on line.The idea and corresponding immune clone algorithm for solving the model were presented.A numerical example was given to verify the model and algorithm.The result shows that the model and algorithm are of good practical applicability.


Abstract Disclosure: K.M. Halloran: None. A.K. Vyas: None. N. Saadat: None. V. Padmanabhan: None. Prenatal testosterone (T) treatment from gestational days (GD) 30-90 (sexually dimorphic window of fetal development where male fetuses naturally see elevated T) leads to reproductive and metabolic disruptions in female sheep that includes dyslipidemia, insulin resistance, and compensatory hyperinsulinemia similar to that seen in women with PCOS. The effects of excess T are seen as decreased pancreatic/fetal weight in female fetuses as opposed to an increase in beta cell size and lipid/collagen accumulation in adult females. We addressed the prenatal T-induced gene expression changes contributing to pancreatic compromise to determine if 1) the programmed event persists after cessation of T treatment, 2) T females (TF) are similar to control males (CM), and 3) it is exacerbated in the T males (TM). Time-mated pregnant sheep were administered T propionate (100 mg in 2 ml corn oil) or vehicle between GD 30-90 to obtain control female (CF), TF, CM, and TM fetuses (n=6/group). On ∼GD 120 (term: 147), fetuses were weighed and pancreas was collected, weighed, and the tail portion stored at -80°C until next-generation sequencing for gene expression profiling to identify potential pathways influenced by T and fetal sex. After removal of outliers (determined by Principal Component Analysis-PCA using SIMCA), 3D PCA plots showed clear separation of the treatment groups after stratifying by fetal sex. DESeq2 R package was used to identify differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between the comparisons of interest (CF vs TF, TF vs CM, and CM vs TM). Overall, T fetuses weighed less (P<0.05). Cohen's effect size analysis found a large magnitude (Cohen's d>0.8) decrease in fetal weight for TF vs CF, TM vs CM, and TF vs CM and a medium magnitude (d=0.5) decrease in pancreas weight for TF vs CM. Pancreatic:fetal weight ratios did not differ by treatment or fetal sex. 16 DEGS (1 up, 15 down) were identified between TF and CF, 7 DEGs (2 up, 4 down) between TF and CM, and 2 DEGs (up) between TM and CM (Adj P<0.1) with no overlap amongst them, suggesting that the effect of T in females is distinct from males and that TF are more similar to CM. Preliminary analysis indicates that the majority of the DEGs affected in TF are related to immune-signaling pathways, including c-type lectin domain family 4 member G (CLEC4G), cluster of differentiation 52 (CD52), and interleukin 21 receptor (IL21R); CD52, IL21R, and members of the CLEC4 family are implicated in autoimmune pathways linked to Type 1 diabetes. The 2 DEGs affected in TM are involved in plasma membrane dynamics: fer-1 like family member 6 (FER1L6) and chloride voltage gated channel 2 (CLCN2). These changes evident at the gene expression level a month after the cessation of T treatment is suggestive of sexually dimorphic reprogramming of fetal pancreas by exposure to excess T. Further, the endogenous increases in T seen in males may at least in part be responsible for sexually dimorphic programming. Presentation: Saturday, June 17, 2023


We present efficient algorithms for solving the problem of computing an optimal penetration (a ray or a semi-ray) among weighted regions in 2-D and 3-D spaces. This problem finds applications in several areas, such as radiation therapy, geological exploration, and environmental engineering. Our algorithms are based on a combination of geometric techniques and optimization methods. Our geometric analysis shows that the d-D (d = 2, 3) optimal penetration problem can be reduced to solving O(n2(d−1)) instances of certain special types of non-linear optimization problems, where n is the total number of vertices of the regions. We also give implementation results of our 2-D algorithms.


In this work, we consider achievable secrecy rates for symmetric K-user (K ≥ 3) interference channels with confidential messages. We find that nested lattice codes and layered coding are useful in providing secrecy for these channels. Achievable secrecy rates are derived for very strong interference. In addition, we derive the secure degrees of freedom for a range of channel parameters. As a by-product of our approach, we also demonstrate that nested lattice codes are useful for K-user symmetric interference channels without secrecy constraints in that they yield higher degrees of freedom than previous results.


Summary Fracture systems observed in naturally fractured reservoirs (NFRs) tend to be hierarchical ( Figure 1 ): (1) regional faults going through the reservoir or forming the reservoir boundaries and in-field seismically mappable faults; (2) fracture corridors sometimes associated with faults and (3) background fractures. Vertically, background fractures tend to be impacted by mechanical stratigraphy while fracture corridors and faults usually cross-cut through the reservoir units ( Figure 2 ). For fractured carbonate reservoirs, background fractures are usually more abundant but with much lower effective permeability than fracture corridors, and must be treated differently in a reservoir model.


I ntegrated community case management (iCCM) has been endorsed and promoted by WHO, UNICEF, USAID, and other major international organizations as a high-impact strategy to increase access to treatments for the leading causes of child mortality—diarrhea, pneumonia, and malaria. Because it relies on health workers based in the community, iCCM improves access and timeliness of treatment, and the integrated, multidisease approach applied by those community health workers (CHW) has proven an effective way to treat sick children. More generally, CHW-based strategies such as iCCM have proven to be successful in accelerating progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Yet in spite of the strengths and potential impact of iCCM, many countries have yet to implement or scale-up the approach.


A series of novel triazolinones were synthesized and their structures were characterized by 1H NMR, elemental analysis and single‐crystal X‐ray diffraction analysis. The herbicidal activities were evaluated against Echinochloa crusgalli (L.) Beauv., Digitaria adscendens, Brassica napus and Amaranthus retroflexus. The herbicidal activity data indicated that the title compounds had higher activities with substituted benzyl group moieties than with other groups such as sulfonyl, alkyl, etc. To further investigate the structure–activity relationship, comparative molecular field analysis was performed on the basis of herbicidal activity data. Both the steric and electronic field distributions of comparative molecular field analysis are in good agreement in this work. The results showed that a bulky and electronegative group around the ortho‐ or para‐positions of the benzene ring would possibly lead to higher activity. Based on the comparative molecular field analysis, compound I‐23 was designed and synthesized, which display as good herbicidal activities as the commercial herbicide, carfentrazone‐ethyl. The activity against Digitaria adscendens is 66.1% under pre‐emergence at 300 g of a.i./ha.


1. The use of docosahexaenoic acid in the manufacture of a composition for use in pregnant women, at least the third trimester of pregnancy and, after delivery, the newborn baby for a period not exceeding three months for reducing the risk of development of overweight or obesity in a child in infancy and / or early childhood. ! 2. Use according to claim 1, wherein after delivery the composition is administered by a child breastfeeding mother. ! 3. Use according to claim 1, wherein after delivery the composition is administered directly to the child. ! 4. Use according to claim 1, wherein the composition comprises from 100 to 500 mg docosahexaenoic acid per daily dose. ! 5. Use according to claim 2, wherein the composition comprises from 100 to 500 mg docosahexaenoic acid per daily dose. ! 6. Use according to claim 2, wherein the composition further comprises from 2 to 8 g of dietary fiber per daily dose. ! 7. Use according to claim 6, wherein the dietary fiber is a mixture of short and long chain fructo-oligosaccharides obtained by hydrolysis of inulin. ! 8. Use according to claim 2, wherein the composition further comprises one or more of the following micronutrients in the indicated ranges: from 300 to 500 mg calcium, 50 to 100 mg magnesium, 150 to 250 mg phosphorus, 5 to 20 mg iron, from 1 to 7 mg zinc, 0.1 to 0.3 mg copper, 50 to 200 g iodine, 5 to 15 g selenium, 1000 to 3000 g beta carotene, 10 to 80 mg of vitamin C, by 1 to 2 mg vitamin B1, 0.5 to 1.5 mg vitamin B6, 0.5 to 2 mg vitamin B2, 5 to 18 mg niacin, 0.5 to 2.0 mcg of vitamin B12, from 100 to 800 mcg of folic acid, from 30 to 70 g biotin, 1 to 5 g vitamin D, 3 to 10 ME vitamin E. ! 9. Use according to claim 1, wherein the composition further comprises a probiotic bacterial w


In the article author shows the legal basis of the preventing computer crimes in Rusian Federation. The author analyses the X UNO Congress resolution about preventing crimes and treating with infringers of the law and also Russian legislation. As the result the author tries to formulate the conceptual darection of preventing crimes, among them computer crimes.


Metastatic carcinoma to a lymph node with high grade lymphoma is very rare, particularly when high grade lymphoma is the first time diagnosis. Here we report a case where metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma was found in a retroperitoneal lymph node with diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL). Histologically, the metastatic adenocarcinoma is located mainly in the subcapsular region. The lymph node architecture is diffusely effaced by proliferation of medium to large atypical lymphoid cells with prominent nucleoli, eosinophilic cytoplasm and eccentric nuclei. Immunohistochemical studies revealed these neoplastic lymphocytes are consistent with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma with immunoblastic morphology. Literatures on concomitant metastatic carcinoma with lymphoma in the same lymph node were reviewed. The significance and underline biological mechanisms were also discussed.


The article investigates the dependence of the envelope elimination and restoration (EER) transmitter out-of-band emissions on the parameters of its envelope path LPF. LPFs of the sixth order with the Cauer structure, having the same degree of clock frequency unwanted products suppression, unilaterally and bilaterally loaded, and optimized LPFs with a smooth transition of the frequency response from the passband to the stopband are considered. It is shown that when the transmitter is operating at a nominal load (broadband antenna), a sharp transition from the passband to the stopband in the envelope path LPF leads to an increase in out-of-band emissions that are separated from the center frequency of the transmitter by the LPF cutoff frequency. The minimum envelope path allowable bandwidth is at least 5 transmitted signal bandwidths when using a Cauer-type LPF with a standard approximation and at least 3.5 bandwidths for an optimized LPF with a smooth transition. For the case of a transmitter operating on a resonant antenna with a limited bandwidth, the dependences of the minimum envelope path filter required bandwidth on the antenna bandwidth and the VSWR value at the edges of the amplified signal band are revealed. It is shown that the use of two-sided loaded filters in the envelope path allows the transmitter to work on antennas with half the bandwidth and reduce the antenna SWR requirements from 1.03 to 1.07. The use of smooth transition filters allows you to reduce the minimum required bandwidth of the LPF by 20% compared to standard filters. The most preferable is the use of a two-sided loaded LPF of the 6th order with a smooth transition, which ensures the operation of the transmitter to the antenna with VSWR = 1.07 at the edges of the transmitted signal band with a minimum LPF bandwidth equal to 5.8 signal bands.


So you want to move away from a lecture-based teaching strategy, and you recognize that discussion alone cannot provide the missing pieces: What can you do? A lot, it turns out. In fact, many classes can be centered productively on activities that are not based on your talking to students or students talking to you. They can be classified by how much time they take. Some take just a few minutes; others, such as research or community-oriented action-learning projects, can take weeks or months. In between, occupying perhaps an hour or two is the workshop, the topic of this installment. A workshop is a highly structured situation designed to promote learning or reflection through active participation. The main work of the teacher goes into setting up the workshop: designing or adapting it and inserting it into the curriculum in a way that makes best use of its learning potential. Sometimes the teacher also has a role during the workshop as a participant or facilitator, but in some cases the workshop can essentially run itself. Outside evaluators (deans and colleagues) sometimes get the impression from walking past your classroom that by giving a workshop you are taking the easy way out, but it is usually far more difficult and time consuming to create a workshop than a standard lecture. If your goal is to free yourself from the burdens of teaching as much as possible, you can skip the rest of this article. My goal in the pages that follow is to describe and, in some cases, to give simple examples of the different types of workshops that can be used in political economy classes. Before I do, however, one point needs to be stressed: workshops take time, usually more than you plan for them. Most involve some sort of trial-and-error process, and since they are group activities they benefit from a relaxed pace that permits students to enjoy each other's company. Finally, much of the payoff occurs at the end, when everyone pulls back from the immediate tasks and considers what the workshop means in the light of larger intellectual and social concerns. To cut that part short is to vitiate much of what has gone before. The moral is that if you want to make workshops an important part of your teaching, you have to request a schedule based on longer class periods. The sciences have that option for their labs, and the arts have it for their studios. Social scientists should have the same opportunities.


A recently completed facility for high-speed turbomachinery and gas turbine related research is described. A test cell houses a 3000 hp turboshaft engine which is capable of driving research rotors in a direct-coupled mode at speeds to 17,000 rpm. Gearboxes provide for reverse drive and speeds from 8000 to 24,000 rpm. An automatic governing system controls gas generator and load speeds, and provides overspeed protection. Research instrumentation includes on-rotor telemetry equipment for transmission of data from research rotors.Copyright © 1977 by ASME


We report a preliminary measurement of the branching fractions of the radiative decays D0→V γ , where V = φ , K∗0 or ρ0. This is the first observation of the decay D0 → ρ0γ . We also present the preliminary results of the first measurement of CP asymmetry in these decays. We present the results of the search for the rare charm decay D0→ γγ , resulting in the most restrictive upper limit to date. Finally, we present the results of the measurement of CP asymmetry in the decay D0→ π0π0.


Splenic and portal vein thrombosis (SPVT) is considered as a serious complication of splenectomy with potential life-threatening. Chemoprophylaxis may help to curb the incidence of SPVT after splenectomy. This clinical trial study was conducted to determine the incidence rate of SPVT after splenectomy and investigate the effect of chemoprophylaxis to reduce its incidence. Sixty six patients undergoing open splenectomy were included in this single-blind clinical randomized controlled trial (RCT). Patients were randomly assigned in two groups of intervention and control using block randomization to either d receive 40 mg of enoxaparin subcutaneously once a day for 5 days and then 100mg aspirin for one month or no postoperative drug. After one month, all patients over a week underwent Doppler ultrasonography of the splenic, portal and superior mesenteric veins for thrombosis. The mean age of patients was similar between intervention and control groups (28.3±14.5 and 25.6±14.9, respectively) (P value=0.9).Furthermore, two groups were matched regarding distribution of gender. None of patients in intervention group developed portal vein thrombosis, while of 23 patients in control group, 2 (8.69%) subjects were diagnosed with portal vein thrombosis. The two groups had no statistically significant difference in the rate of portal vein thrombosis (P=0.18). Based on the results of our study, prophylaxis therapy had no effects in preventing portal vein thrombosis developed in patients undergoing open splenectomy for any reason.


This note describes six foraging episodes by solitary Black Falcons Falco subniger near Tamworth in northern inland New South Wales. All involved high aerial searching (soaring, quartering or transect-flying) before, in some cases, launching a stoop that became a low-level attack on flocking, ground-feeding birds in the open.


Magnetic measurements and band structure calculations were performed on RT2 and RT5 compounds, where R is a heavy rare-earth and T = Fe, Co, Ni, Al, as well as on pseudobinary compounds GdCo2 − xAx (A = Ni, Cu, Si), YFe2 − xVx and YCo4 − xNixB. The calculated moments per formula unit described well the experimentally determined magnetizations. By considering the 4f–5d–3d exchange interactions, we evaluate the contributions of local 4f–5d and short range 5d–3d interactions to R 5d and Y 4d band polarizations. The 4f–5d induced polarizations are proportional to the De Gennes factor and are the same for a given R and a similar type structure. The R 5d and Y 4d band polarizations induced by R 5d–T3d or Y 4d–T3d hybridizations are proportional to the number of neighbouring T atoms, to a given R, and their magnetic moments. Previous results on the matter are also discussed.


[Objective]To compare the fertilizable and developmental potential of the oocytes after in-vitro maturation and cryopreserved by vitrification at the germinal vesicle (GV) or the metaphase II (MII) stage.[Methods] The surplus GV oocytes from consenting patients from ICSI programme were randomly assigned to one of three groups: ① oocytes cryopreserved at the GV stage by vitrification and then matured in vitro (n =40); ② oocytes cryopreserved at the MII stage by vitrification (n =40); ③oocytes in-vitro matured to MII stage as the control group (n = 74). Following vitrification and in vitro maturation, ICSI was performed, and then incubated up to day 5.[Results] In the control group, the maturation rate was 71.6% (53/74), 16 oocytes matured in vitro were performed ICSI, the fertilization rate was 87.5%(14/16), the cleavage rate was 85.7%(12/14), the bastocyst formation rate was 14.3%(1/7); no significant differences were observed in survival rates between group 1 (97.5%, 39/40) and group 2 (87.5%, 35/ 40); A statistically significant reduce was observed in the maturation rate in group 1 (28.2%, 11/39) compared to control group (71.6%, 53/74) (P 0.01); no significant differences were observed in fertilization rate between group 2 (74.1%, 20/27) and control group (87.5%, 14/16). [Conclusions]This study suggest most of the GV oocytes from ICSI programme can mature in vitro and have good developmental potential, vitrification has a deleterious effect on maturation ability of GV oocytes and developmental potential of MII oocytes after fertilization.


A new study suggests that surgical care for renal trauma cases is evolving in two different directions: Endovascular procedures have become more common for blunt trauma, supplanting nephrectomy and laceration repair.


The origin of the ultralow thermal conductivity in amorphous Si thin films was investigated by comparing their phonon transport properties with those of single-crystal Si. The group velocity and thermal conductivity were measured at 300 K using nanoindentation and the 3ω method, respectively. The phonon mean free path (MFP) and phonon frequency were determined using the measured properties and models. The scattering in the disordered structure of amorphous Si thin films caused a significant decrease in the phonon MFP with increase in the phonon frequency, leading to ultralow thermal conductivity. However, the group velocity was unaffected by the disordered structure.


Objective
To evaluate the influence of international normalized ratio(INR) self-management intervention on the complication of patients after mechanical heart valve replacement (MHVR).

Methods
The randomized controlled trials (RCT) about comparing the INR self-management with conventional management in patients after MHVR were researched by the database of PubMed, Medline, China Biomedical Literature Database, Wanfang data, Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure, and the data were analyzed by Stata 12.0 software.

Results
Nine RCTs were enrolled in this study, 4 265 cases in total. The results of Meta-analysis showed that INR self-management could reduce the incidence of thrombosis, relative risk(RR) was 0.68, 95% confidence interval (95%CI) was 0.50-0.94,P<0.05. However, there was no significant difference in hemorrhage between the two groups, yet could not evaluate the effect on INR values within the target range,RR(95%CI) was 1.29 (1.20-1.38),P<0.05 .But due to the high heterogeneity in literature, the results were for reference only, it remained to be further argumen.

Conclusions
INR self-management can reduce the incidence of thrombosis in patients after mechanical heart valve replacement, and does not increase the risk of bleeding complication at the same time.

Key words:
Heart valves prosthesis implantation; Meta-analysis; Postoperative complications; International normalized ratio


A reduced power consumption of the computing device, reduces the signaling network. An apparatus and method for performing a dormant mode with paging in a WLAN here is disclosed. Reduction of power saving and network traffic in the computer device is achieved by requiring the notification of position in the WLAN to the computer device. Dormant mode with paging, such as IEEE 802.11, but is implemented in protocols supporting the pause function and paging functions, protocol itself does not have a method and criteria for carrying out such functions . The method and apparatus disclosed herein comprises a method needed to perform the sleep mode in such a protocol. Generally, a method and apparatus for performing a dormant mode with paging is basically establishing a (1) paging area, and communicating the information of the access group in (2) computer system, (3 ) and a to identify the location of the computer device.


The invention relates to an aqueous agrochemical suspension composition and an aqueous agrochemical suspension formulation. The present invention provides an agrochemical composition having excellent efficacy, which comprises, as active ingredient, 2-(2,6-difluorophenyl)-4-[4-(1,1-dimethylethyl)-2-ethoxyphenyl]-4,5-dihydrooxazole. The aqueous agrochemical suspension composition comprising 2-(2,6-difluorophenyl)-4-[4-(1,1-dimethylethyl)-2-ethoxyphenyl]-4,5-dihydrooxazole, at least one kind of alcohol selected from the group consisting of ethylene glycol, propylene glycol and glycerin, an inorganic thickener and a dispersant shows excellent efficacy.


Project-based Learning is gaining more favor by educators.Training is an optimum approach for teachers to having an understanding of this learning.But how to improve the effect has become a serious problem facing trainers.This article discusses employing the PBL training sponsored by UNESCO as an alternative to implement teachers training and achieve desired results,shedding light on other similar practices.


Population migration renders positive influence on a population, reducing decline in population and a manpower resources. However the given factor has also the negative side connected to illegal migration. The article is devoted to consideration of a problem of illegal migration in Orenburg region.


Acknowledges that professional associations and colleges and similar bodies have played a major part in the development of occupational and environmental health. Some notable bodies exist at both the national and regional levels.


Geoarchaeological investigations of the alluvial piedmont or bajada emanating from the Tortolita Mountains, Arizona, show that the distribution of Hohokam sites apparent from the surface is complete and undisturbed by geological processes. Late Holocene geomorphic processes and their resultant deposits on the bajada affected the location of prehistoric Hohokam agricultural settlements. Hohokam settlements were commonly situated on small alluvial fans dominated by sheetwash processes and deposition of fine-grained alluvium, where floodwater farming could be easily pursued with little modification of the natural surface. Large alluvial fans, dominated by channel processes and coarse-grained alluvium were avoided by the Hohokam farmer because these areas were less suitable for floodwater farming.


I n this chapter, we begin our detailed exploration of narrative research, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, and case studies. For each approach, I pose a definition, briefly trace its history, explore types of studies , introduce procedures involved in conducting a study, and indicate potential challenges in using the approach. I also review some of the similarities and differences among the five approaches so that qualitative researchers can decide which approach is best to use for their particular study. • What are a narrative study, a phenomenology, a grounded theory, an ethnog-raphy, and a case study? • What are the procedures and challenges to using each approach to qualitative research? • What are some similarities and differences among the five approaches? Narrative research has many forms, uses a variety of analytic practices, and is rooted in different social and humanities disciplines (Daiute & Lightfoot, 2004). " Narrative " might be the term assigned to any text or discourse, or, it might be text used within the context of a mode of inquiry in qualitative research (Chase, 2005), with a specific focus on the stories told by individuals (Polkinghorne, 1995). As Pinnegar and Daynes (2006) suggest , narrative can be both a method and the phenomenon of study. As a method, it begins with the experiences as expressed in lived and told stories of individuals. Writers have provided ways for analyzing and understanding the stories lived and told. I will define it here as a specific type of qualitative design in which " narrative is understood as a spoken or written text giving an account of an event/action or series of events/actions, chronologically connected " (Czarniawska, 2004, p. 17). The procedures for implementing this research consist of focusing on studying one or two individuals, gathering data through the collection of their stories, reporting individual experiences , and chronologically ordering (or using life course stages) the meaning of those experiences. Although narrative research originated from literature, history, anthropology , sociology, sociolinguistics, and education, different fields of study have adopted their own approaches (Chase, 2005). I find a postmodern, and quantitative (e.g., statistical stories in event history modeling) and qualitative approaches in Elliott (2005). Interdisciplinary efforts at narrative research have also been encouraged by the Narrative Study of Lives annual series that began in 1993 (see, e.g., Josselson & Lieblich, 1993), and the journal Narrative Inquiry. With many recent books on narrative research, …


This is a personal 22-year retrospective look at insights gained as the CDSMP has moved from concept to translation. This retrospective look has been both surprising and humbling. I look forward to learning what comes next.


During the summer of 1962, the author collected many Orbitolina-bearing samples in northern Spain with financial support of the "Molengraaff Fonds". One of the samples also was rich in other conspicuous foraminifera, which deserve a description.


Diarrhoea is a major cause of illness and death among under five age group children in India. The main immediate cause of death from acute diarrhoea is dehydration which is preventable through Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT). The present study was undertaken to know the knowledge, attitude, practice of mothers regarding home-based management of diarrhoea in under five children in rural area of Aligarh in August and September 2010. The overall prevalence of diarrhoea in under five children was 32%. Only 26% knew about the correct method of preparation of Oral Rehydration Salt solution. Only 36% of the respondents knew about home available fluids, out of which salt sugar solution was the choice in majority of cases. The study highlights that the knowledge and practice of mothers is not adequate and it emphasizes the need for behavior change communication in specific target group i.e. mothers and health care providers which may lead to substantial decrease in morbidity and mortality due to diarrhoea.


Annual and biennial Salvia miltiorrhiza grown in clay,sandy soil,and gneiss soil were chosen to study the distribution characteristics of tanshinoneⅡA and salvianolic acid B in different root tissues.The results showed that tanshinoneⅡA was mainly located in cork layers while salvianolic acid B was located both in xylems and phloems.Content of tanshinoneⅡA in cork layers was higher in annual than in biennial Salvia miltiorrhiza.However,between annual and biennial Salvia miltiorrhiza roots,there was no significant difference in the content of salvianolic acid B in xylems and phloems.It were also found that content of tanshinoneⅡA in roots of Salvia miltiorrhiza grown in clay was higher than that in roots of Salvia miltiorrhiza grown either in sandy or gneiss soil,and that no significant difference in content of salvianolic acid B existed between roots of Salvia miltiorrhiza grown in different types of soil.


PENICILLIN hypersensitivity is a major problem.1 Various skin tests have been used to determine if patients are hypersensitive to penicillin before the institution of therapy. These procedures involve patch tests, scratch tests or intradermal injection of penicillin.1 2 3 Anaphylaxis has been reported to occur despite negative results for hypersensitivity by each of these methods.3 Recently, an intradermal test has been evaluated that utilizes a penicillin degradation product, penicilloyl, which is conjugated with polylysine.4 5 6 The results of this test have been reported to correlate closely with penicillin allergy.5 , 6 To our knowledge no systemic reactions have been reported after the intradermal injection of . . .


Michels et al. (1) recently reported that use of body mass index alone does not always capture adequately the joint relation of body composition and body size to health outcomes. To arrive at this conclusion, they analyzed a sample of 3,543 white 13-year-old girls from the Pediatric Task Force database (2). A problem with this approach is that body mass index values in adolescents seem to depend also on pubertal status. We have studied 1,019 adolescents (503 boys and 516 girls) aged 13.0-14.9 years. All were Caucasian students in their eighth year of school who volunteered to take part in the study. Their heights and body weights were measured, and body mass indexes were calculated (weight (kg)/height (m)). Girls were asked if they had had their first menstrual period, and boys were asked about the presence of pubic hair. In boys, there were only statistically significant differences between preand postpubertal adolescents, in those aged 14.0-14.9 years. In girls, the mean body mass index was only significantly greater for postmenarcheal adolescents in the group aged 13.0-13.9 years (table 1). Our results confirm previous findings about the effect of pubertal status on body mass index values (3), in both girls and adolescent boys. In the work of Michels et al. (1), heterogeneity could have occurred regarding the pubertal status of girls, thus leading to confounding.


language for the theory. This setup has its origins in Buss' celebrated thesis Bounded arithmetic, Bibliopolis, 1986, for complexity classes beyond PH, and following Zambella Notes on polynomially bounded arithmetic, The Journal of Symbolic Logic, vol. 61 (1996), no. 3, pp. 942–966, the authors adapt the method to PH and below. Of course one could say that the difference is merely cosmetic and that no real gain is obtained by considering two-sorted theories instead of one-sorted theories as in Peano arithmetic, but the point that the authors make is that their treatment makes the subject both closer and more accessible to mainstream computational complexity theory, where the string plays an important role as the basic representation device for inputs to Turing machines and, more importantly, to Boolean circuits. Indeed the outcome of the theory is an elegant setup with a clean language that, for example, avoids the introduction of smash functions and rounded halving from Buss' theories S 2 and T i 2 . One nice consequence of this is that the formulas that describe the languages in the standard complexity classes become syntactically quite close to those used in the capturing results of descriptive complexity theory à la Immerman in Descriptive complexity, Springer, 1999. As a matter of fact, the subject of the book can almost be thought as developing the proof theory that is missing from the descriptive complexity approach to understanding complexity classes through logic. Before we close this review, a comparison to Krajı́ček's book Bounded arithmetic, propositional logic and computational complexity, Cambridge University Press, 1995, is in order. Both books cover the topics of bounded arithmetic and propositional proof complexity through the lens of computational complexity. However, one of the declared goals of Cook and Nguyen's monograph, which is to prepare the ground for developing the program of bounded reverse mathematics, is barely touched in Krajı́ček's book, and in the reverse direction, one of the main focuses in Krajı́ček's book, which is to prove independence results for bounded arithmetic theories and super-polynomial lower bounds for concrete propositional proof systems, is barely covered in Cook and Nguyen's monograph. In this respect, the two books complement each other quite well. A piece of useful information for the student of the subject is that one consequence of this difference in focus is that the book under review makes a more accessible text for learning the basic theory from the start, yet at a good pace. Albert Atserias Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. firstname.lastname@example.com.


Thirty speech therapists from Cairo, Egypt were surveyed about their knowledge, experiences, and attitudes about augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). Only 10 of the 23 respondents (44%) who supported individuals with little or no functional speech felt that they were sufficiently qualified in the field of AAC, while 22 or 74% of the respondents believed that it is important for speech therapists to learn more about AAC. The speech therapists reported that, although teachers and parents had shown resistance towards using AAC, many changed their opinions after realizing that use of AAC methods could help to reduce aggressiveness among clients/students and assist them to express emotions and needs. Accordingly, speech therapists require AAC-based information and tools to enable them to create environments that will support communication and enhance the ability of people with complex communication needs to interact with family members, peers, teachers, and others.


By means of temperature field computer design,a new crystal growth method called the hanging double crucible pulling method was developed.With a steady polycrystalline raw material feeding rate,near-stoichiometric lithium niobate(NSLN) crystal(φ 50 mm × 50 mm) has been successfully grown in Li-rich melt(with Li2O mole fraction(the same below) of 58.5%).The absorption spectrum of the crystal shows that when the Li content reaches 49.87%,an obvious ultraviolet absorption edge shift occurs.The optical homogeneity of the NSLN crystal was measured by a laser interferometer.Refractive index inhomogeneity(root mean square) ?n of the NSLN crystal is 7.250 × 10-5 cm-1.


The free electron laser with a static guide magnetic field has been investigated theoretically and by computer simulation using a fully relativistic electromagnetic particle code which has one spatial and three velocity dimensions. By passing a relativistic electron beam through a helical magnetic field, high frequency electromagnetic radiation is generated by its coupling to the negative energy electrostatic beam modes through the helical magnetic field. In the regime of strong guide field where Ωce/γ≫k0v0z, the dispersion relation is obtained by using a fluid model for the electron beam and the growth rates are solved for numerically. Reasonable agreement between the theory and the simulations has been obtained. It was found that the growth rate increases linearly with magnetic ripple strength but decreases with the strength of the guide field. In addition, the growth rates also increase slightly with the beam energy. For a reasonably strong guide field (e.g., Ωce=6.0ωpe), the growth rate can be on the ...


Based on the Canadian Long-Term Pavement Performance (C-LTPP) data, this paper chooses the road performance related data as variable factors. According to the Dipstick detection results, the characteristic values such as rut depth, wheel track width and cross section area are extracted to describe the rutting. This paper established the relationship between the pavement rutting and the cumulative service time, determined the rutting evaluation index, and proposed the pavement maintenance time threshold. Comparing the flexible layer overlay repair schemes used in various test points, it provides a reference for the pavement performance management decision-making and the road repair scheme design after repair.


The effect of aluminium (Al) phytotoxicity on the growth of soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) cv. 'Forrest' in nutrient solutions (pH 4.25) and its alleviation by organic anions has been investigated. Both 100 and 500 µM Al caused significant reduction in root and shoot lengths and root dry weights over 15 days. Citrate, oxalate, tartrate, malate, malonate and lactate at 1000 µM and humic acid at 1 g L-1 were used to alleviate phytotoxicity caused by the presence of 500 µM Al. The effectiveness of the organic anions in alleviating Al phytotoxicity, measured by the change in root length, was in the order oxalate > citrate ≈ tartrate ≈ malate > malonate >> lactate. Humic acid at 1 g L-1 proved almost as effective as 1000 µM citrate. When the remaining fraction of phytotoxic aluminium was measured by the aluminon method and the results combined with calculated values obtained from stability constant data, the order of effectiveness of complexation was citrate > oxalate > tartrate ≈ malate ≈ malonate >> lactate. It was concluded that benefits other than from simple complexation of phytotoxic aluminium were provided by the organic anions. Three of the anions were also used at different concentrations; these were citrate and oxalate (at 250, 500 and 1000 µM) and humic acid (at 0.01, 0.1 and 1.0 g L-1 ). For citrate and oxalate, it was found that the concentration of the organic anion must be at least that of the Al to reduce phytotoxicity significantly, and twice as much oxalate as citrate was required to achieve the same reduction in phytotoxicity.


Meningiomas are rare tumors of childhood and adolescence but one should always consider them when making a differential diagnosis. Seventy-five patients in this age group were reviewed, including 7 of our own. Several features differing from those of adulthood meningiomas are described. Some of the tumors may have unusual growth patterns, such as cyst formation, resulting in confusing angiographic appearances.


The deinstitutionalization movement has affected art therapy, along with the entire mental health care system in Canada. The shift from hospital-based care to community-based care for psychiatric patients has resulted in a subsequent expansion of community services to meet the needs of this population. The expansion of art therapy into the community is an inevitable outgrowth of deinstitutionalization. This research paper examines how art therapy has been integrated into community-based mental health facilities after deinstitutionalization. What role does art therapy play in the community and how has it been implemented? This primary question is explored through the assessment of three different community-based mental health facilities within the Montreal area. Through interviews with the art therapists from these three community-based mental health facilities, an illustration of how art therapy has been implemented is portrayed. This research paper explores the complex and challenging set of problems created for the mental health care system as formally institutionalized patients are dispersed into the community and the unique challenges that art therapists face within the deinstitutionalized setting.


When the specialized hardware is not too severe a constraint, the most promising Number Theoretic Transforms are those with 2 as a root of unity, since they can be performed without multiplication. Unfortunately, for a given wordlength, previously known NTT's with 2 as a root of unity are too short ( 2^{2}^{t} + 1, 2^{2q}-2^{q}+1 ) or too long (3.2n+ 1). It is then important to match the modulus of the transforms to the dynamic range of the convolution to be performed. To this end, we propose : - New NTT's (by the fact, new moduli) allowing longer transforms than those modulo 2^{2}^{t} + 1 or 2^{2q}-2^{q}+1 , these moduli being obtained through evaluations of generalized cyclotomic polymonials. -An "optimal" algorithm, which further enlarges the possible convolution length.


This paper proposes a predictive torque and flux control for a multi-motor drive system. The scheme is based on a six-leg indirect matrix converter used to drive two induction machines operating at the same speed under different load torque conditions. By using a mathematical model of the converter and machines, the proposed control scheme selects the switching state that minimizes error in the torque and flux predictions according to their reference values. Through simulation results it is shown that the predictive approach can be easily implemented with a good tracking of the controlled variables to their respective references, verifying the fast dynamic response with a good torque tracking conditions and flux regulation in both machines.


Objective This study aimed to compare the outcomes of controlled ovarian stimulation (COS) with corifollitropin alfa versus daily recombinant follicle-stimulating hormone (rRFSH) or highly purified human menopausal gonadotropin (HP-HMG) in patients undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycles based on gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonist protocols. The primary endpoints were total number of oocytes and mature oocytes. Methods This retrospective study looked into 132 controlled ovarian stimulation cycles from IVF or oocyte cryopreservation performed in a private human reproduction center between January 1 and December 31, 2014. Enrollment criteria: women aged < 40 years submitted to COS with corifollitropin alfa 100µg or 150µg (n = 26) and rFSH or HP-HMG in the first seven days of treatment with daily doses of 150-225 IU (n = 106); all subjects were on GnRH antagonist protocols. Results The groups had similar mean ages and duration of stimulation. The mean number ± standard deviation of total aspirated oocytes and MII oocytes was 11.9±10 and 10.3±7.9 in the corifollitropin alfa group, and 10.9±7.2 and 8.6±5.7 in the group on rFSH or HMG (p>0.05). There were no significant differences in fertilization (76.9% vs. 76.8%, p=1.0), biochemical pregnancy (66.7% vs. 47.2%, p=0.1561) or embryo implantation rates (68.7% vs. 50%, p=0.2588) between the groups using corifollitropin alfa and rFSH or HMG, respectively. Conclusions Corifollitropin alfa seems to be as effective as rFSH or HP-HMG when used in the first seven days of ovulation induction for patients undergoing assisted reproduction in GnRH antagonist protocols.


Provided are radiation-cured, laminated materials, radiation-curable adhesive compositions suitable for use in forming the laminated materials, and methods of making laminated materials. The radiation-curable composition includes the use of a cycloaliphatic carboxylic acid functional monomer.


A new implementing method of mobile geographic information system(GIS) is studied based on personal digital assistant(PDA).Key technologies are presented in the method,including mobile agent(MA) distributed computing,global positioning system(GPS),code division multiple access(CDMA),transfer control protocol/internet protocol(TCP/IP),and user datagram protocol(UDP).In view of the narrow bandwidth and instability of the wireless internet,a new mobile GIS model based on mobile agent is further proposed,which provides spatial information mobile computing,realtime monitoring of mobile target,realtime gathering and wireless transferring of spatial information.The mobile agent runtime environment,mobile GIS application server,mobile GIS client and server are built authorship by visual c++ and embedded visual c++.A field test of fire control gridding and maintenance is carried out with this model in Shanghai,and the results show that the proposed model and methods are feasible for mobile GIS.


This chapter sets the present book off against previous studies about the English subjunctive in the historical periods Old English (OE), Middle English (ME), and Early Modern English (EModE). The aim of the book is described as the first comprehensive and consistent description of the history of the present English subjunctive. The key term subjunctive is defined as a realisation of the grammatical category mood and an expression of the semantic/pragmatic category root modality. The corpus used in the book is part of The Helsinki Corpus of English Texts, comprising nearly half a million words in 91 files. The research method adopted is a combination of close reading and computational analysis.


AbstractThe initiation and early growth of fatigue cracks from casting defects has been studied in a nickel-aluminium bronze, to provide a basis for the prediction of fatigue lives of marine propellers operating in a service environment of sea water. Observations have been made on the growth of fatigue cracks from surface shrinkage cavities produced in the casting process. It was found that the cracks irzltiated very easlly and, wnen short, showed anomalously high growth rates. Three regimes of behaviour have been identified: (1) very short cracks; these cracks showed extremely high growth rates, which are related to the effects of stress concentration and interaction with the microstructure; (2) slightly longer cracks; these cracks showed anomalqus growth behaviour similar to that reported by other workers; and (3) longer cracks, whose propagation behaviour was the same as that exhibited by long through-cracks in single-edge-notched bend specimens. These short-crack studies were supplemented by work on l...


Abstract The issue of hypnotic amnesia poses a meaningful problem for both the experimental investigator and the psychotherapist, although the psychodynamics of spontaneous hypnotic amnesia seem to be different from posthypnotically induced amnesia. The relationship of hypnotic amnesia to repression and the "metaphoric" equations that may result are most pertinent to the therapeutic relationship, particularly regarding the organization of language in therapeutic communication. On the basis of clinical experience, the existence of fragmented aspects of hypnotic amnesia may be more prevalent than has been generally reported. Data from clinical studies with patients in hypnoanalysis are presented in order to describe the characteristic nature of hypnotic amnesia and its dynamic role in the treatment process, as well as its effects on the patients behavior outside of the treatment situation.


The Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS) was launched in 2007 to create a central hub supporting clinical and translational science (CTS) across numerous schools at Northwestern University, our three main clinical partners (Northwestern Memorial Healthcare Corporation, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital, and The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago), community and industry stakeholders, and beyond. NUCATS is designed to support the entire spectrum of CTS, from basic discovery through clinical trials to community-based research, dissemination and implementation, regardless of disease area. Funded by a Clinical and Translational Award (CTSA) from the NIH, and supported by extensive institutional resources, NUCATS has become an innovation leader in several key areas of CTS. Here we highlight the critical contributions an enterprise data warehouse can make to advancing translational science and quality clinical care to enable a learning healthcare system. Central to the success of our EDW has been the governance model and data structure that have enabled rapid advances in CTS, several examples of which we provide.


The purpose of this study is to find out the changes that occur to Qlapa. Qlapa was founded on November 1, 2015, founded by Benny Fajarai (also noted as Founder of Kreavi) and Fransiskus Xaverius who is a graduate of Silicon Valley technology companies, such as Google. Qlapa is one of the e-commerce that focuses on Indonesian children's handicraft products ranging from ornaments, hangers, paintings, wooden furniture, jewelry, leather wallets, and other handicraft products directly from the maker. Since the beginning Qlapa itself was founded with the aim to help advance and empower the creativity of home craftsmen by introducing it through the internet. <br>Qlapa itself uses SWOT method, strategic planning method to evaluate factors that are influential in trying to achieve the goal, namely strengths, weaknesses, opportunities,and threats,both short-term and long-term goals.


These researchers synthesized data from seven randomized trials of unstable angina/non–ST-segment–elevation MI (UA/NSTEMI) in which a routine invasive strategy (referral for angiography and, when appropriate, revascularization) was compared with a selective invasive strategy (initial medical treatment and revascularization only for recurrent symptoms or evidence of inducible ischemia). …


S tarting this month, I am assuming the position of Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Spinal Disorders and Techniques. I would like to thank Tom Zdeblick for all of his work in taking the journal to new heights. He is an inspiration to spine surgeons throughout the world, both professionally and personally. I consider Tom a close personal friend and a mentor. His hard work has helped the Journal of Spinal Disorders and Techniques become one of the most internationally recognized and respected journals on spine care. Due to his vision and leadership, the journal is one of the most clinically relevant spine journals today. As I assume leadership of the journal, it is clear to me that over the last 10 years, significant changes have affected the medical publishing world. Specifically, the internet and e-publications have allowed for relevant articles to be published in countless journals, and high quality, scientific research is being reported from all around the world. While these changes have allowed for rapid, global dissemination of knowledge, it has also created problems in terms of understanding the value and practicality of medical information for practicing spinal surgeons. There are now five major English language journals that focus solely on spine care. Additionally, there are many smaller journals and general orthopaedic and neurosurgery journals that publish articles on a variety of spinal issues. Because of this, it is impossible for spine surgeons and other spine healthcare professionals to stay up-to-date on all the clinically relevant literature. Similarly, the widespread distribution of JSDT afforded by the internet has lead to a substantial increase in worldwide submissions, such that 2/3 of our published articles are from authors outside of North America. This has inevitably resulted in a significant backlog of articles as the overall volume of submissions has increased. In response to these challenges, the Journal of Spinal Disorders and Techniques is going to undergo major changes under my leadership. Starting in June, the journal will be composed of seven sections: Primary Research; Controversies in Spine Surgery; Narrative Reviews; Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses; Surgical Techniques; Research Methodology, and The Business of Healthcare. Primary research articles will still be the focus of the journal, with each issue having at least five primary research articles; however, all newly accepted manuscripts will have strict requirements for publication (All previously accepted manuscripts will be published, even if they do not meet these requirements). The goal of this section of the Journal of Spinal Disorders and Techniques is to publish highimpact, clinically important articles in a time-sensitive fashion. The Journal will seek to publish high quality Level 1, 2, or 3 studies with at least 50 subjects. Additionally, clinically relevant, high-impact papers will be identified at major spine meetings, and an editorial invitation will be sent to the corresponding authors. With these changes, authors and readers of the Journal of Spinal Disorders and Techniques will be able to access high quality, clinically relevant articles that will have an important impact on the management of patients with spinal disorders. The remaining sections of the journal are designed to help the clinician synthesize the existing literature, so that they can treat their patients with an evidencebased algorithm. The Controversies in Spine Surgery section will have a single article per issue in which leaders in the field will debate a controversial topic in spine care. Additionally, each issue will have 2–3 narrative reviews that will give evidence-based guidance for the treatment of common spinal pathologies, as well as an authors'


The utility model discloses a pair of gloves capable of playing music. A piezoelectric contact is arranged at the front part of an index finger sleeve of the left hand, and is determined as tone 1, a piezoelectric contact is arranged at the front part of a middle finger sleeve of the left hand and is determined as tone 2, a piezoelectric contact is arranged at the front part of a ring finger sleeve of the left hand and is determined as tone 3, a piezoelectric contact is arranged at the front part of a little finger sleeve of the left hand and is determined as tone 4; a piezoelectric contact is arranged at the front part of a little finger sleeve of the right hand and is determined as tone 5, a piezoelectric contact is arranged at the front part of a ring finger sleeve of the right hand and is determined as tone 6, a piezoelectric contact is arranged at the front part of a middle finger sleeve of the right hand and is determined as tone 7, and a piezoelectric contact at the front part of an index finger sleeve of the right hand is determined as high tone 1. According to the gloves, the whole structure is simple, the operation and the use are convenient, the stability is good, and the reliability is high.


Visualization experiments and the PSD of pressure signal were used to identify cryogenic vapor-liquid two phase flows regime in vertical pipes.The flow regime got from high-speed camera and one inferred according to the PSD of pressure signal of different location were compared.It is found that PSD which is usually used to identify room temperature two phase regime can also be used to identify cryogenic two phase flow regime;even in different heat flux,it all works.


The author studied the climate response to carbon capture and stratospheric sulfur injection geoengineering, using simulation results from two coupled global climate models. The author focused on the climate response, including temperature, precipitation, and aridity over major land area especially North and Southern America. While the scientific question examined here could further our understandings of the potential impact of different geoengineering strategies on the regional climate response, this paper fails to convince me to be useful in a number of aspects (Discussed below). Therefore, I don't think the current paper is suitable for publishing unless a substantially improved version is made.


Institute Mexicano Del Petroleo in cooperation with Woods Hole Group from Massachusetts deployed a deepwater mooring in January 2005 off Nautla, Mexico. The mooring was deployed over the continental slope at approximately 1500 m depth. The instrumentation consisted of an RD Instruments, Inc 300 kHz Workhorse Sentinel ADCP, two 75 kHz Workhorse Long Ranger ADCPs, and two Nortek, As Aquadopp single point current meters. CTD surveys of the area were conducted at the time of mooring deployment and recovery to assess vertical stratification of the water column. The deployment produced excellent quality ADCP data covering the upper 950 m of the water column with high temporal and vertical resolution. These data provide unusually clear evidence of the two sets of energetic near-inertial oscillations: waves propagating in the upward direction almost throughout the entire water column up to the upper portion of the pycnocline, and waves propagating downward from their generation region at the base of the mixed layer. Details of the vertical distribution of near-inertial wave properties are presented.


PROSES TRANSISI MENUJU PEMBELAJARAN ONLINE : SUATU GROUNDED THEORY - online learning, transition process, grounded theory, interpretive
perspective, qualitative research.


This book chapter tells the story of the contempt case brought against Elizabeth Morgan, a Washington, D.C., doctor imprisoned for her failure to produce her daughter for extended visitation with the ex-husband she accused of sexual abuse. The chapter sets the stage for the proceeding in terms of the shift in custody law in the mid-eighties from the maternal presumption to a preference for shared parenting and the discovery of and almost immediate backlash against allegations of childhood sexual abuse. It also details Morgan's parents' flight with the child to New Zealand and provides an update of what has happened to the law and the parties since the case ended.


47 Reza Shah-Kazemi, The Other in the Light of the One (Cambridge, UK: Islamic Texts Society, 2006), 48-50. Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Muzaffar Iqbal, Islam, Science, Muslims, and Technology (Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada: Al-Qalam Publishing), 98. The Denial of Death (New York: Free Press, 1973). Thomas A. Pyszczynski, Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, In the Wake of 9/11: The Psychology of Terror (Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 2003). Tim Winter, "Qur'anic Reasoning as an academic practice," Modern Theology, July 2006). Willard Gaylin, Hatred: the Psychological Descent into Violence (New York: Public Affairs, 2003), 90, 100-101], Ziauddin Sardar. Islamic Futures: the Shape of Ideas to Come (Chicago: Islamic Futures and Policy Studies, 1985), 175. Afro Eurasian Studies Journal Volume 5, Issues 1&2 and Spring & Fall 2016, pp. 47-69