There is provided an apparatus for filtering liquids and an associated filter cartridge 100 is described, which has a defined sealing position in the inlet hopper 10 with simple assembly. The apparatus is characterized in that the sealing edge 160 is a snap rim 161 which, via a film hinge 162 with one of the two cartridge parts 101, 110 is connected, the snap edge is 161 from a first lower snap position into an upper second snap position and vice versa folded and that the hopper bottom 12 has a receiving opening 13 surrounding the sealing seat 60, in which the snap rim snaps in its second position 161st


The natural setup in which to consider bifurcation theory is, so far as this paper is concerned, continuous maps of the unit interval I into C(X, X), the space of continuous maps of a compact topological space X to itself. The space X is the state space a n d / E C(X, X) represents a system with discrete time. (We use discrete time for simplicity; all that we say has its analog for continuous time.) If the system depends on parameters, say on p belonging to the parameter space P , we write gp and consider the continuous map g : P -, C ( X , X ) , p gp. Work6 on stability and genericity of bifurcations has required X to be a differentiable manifold, each gp to be C 2 , C', or even better a n d g itself to be at least C ' . I n this article we shall discuss topological entropy so no differentiability assumptions are necessary. Following the definition of Adler, Konheim, and McAndrew' we fix .f E C(X, X) and choose an open cover ?L of X. Then f-'% is again an open cover and we can consider the refinement ? L Y ~ ' % V . . ~f-"+'%. Define N n ( J , ' u ) to be the minimum number of open sets of


In this work present the mineralogical and microtextural characterization of near surface sediments recovered from the Prestige sinking area in SW of the Galicia Bank, using backscattered-electron Scanning Electron Microscopy. Such technique allowed us to characterize the mineralogy of the biogenic and terrigenous signals identified in the geochemical records, to detect early diagenetic processes and to describe different depositional processes. The high power of resolution of this technique for the chemical identification turns it into a useful tool for the study of the geochemistry of sediments.


BACKGROUND
The initial encounters with allergens are crucial for sensitisation later in life. The IgG1 responses to house dust mite in infancy are later accompanied by an IgG4 response, with high levels seen particularly in atopic children. Little is known of the development of IgG subclass responses to other inhalant allergens. The aims of this study were to develop a sensitive method for the study of postnatal immune responses to the important seasonal inhalant allergen Bet v 1.

METHODS
Antibodies to rBet v 1 were analyzed in 96 children at birth, 6 and 18 months using a sensitive enzyme-amplified ELISA.

RESULTS
Immunoglobulin G responses to rBet v 1, mainly of the IgG1 subclass, were common in young children, and could at 6 months be demonstrated in several infants who had not yet experienced a postnatal birch pollen season. Atopic dermatitis was associated with high levels of IgG subclass antibodies to birch at 18 months. Maternal atopy was associated with high levels of all IgG subclass antibodies to rBet v 1 in cord blood. In postnatally birch-pollen-exposed infants with atopic mothers, the levels of IgG antibodies at birth correlated with the levels at 6 months. In contrast, high antibody levels to rBet v 1 at birth were associated with low IgG titres to rBet v 1 at 18 months.

CONCLUSIONS
IgG1 responses to birch are common during the first 18 months of life. High levels of maternally derived birch-specific IgG antibodies are associated with maternal atopy and may influence the development of the IgG antibody responses to birch in their child.


We study the local upper semicontinuity of pullback bispatial attractors for singularly perturbed nonautonomous stochastic reaction‐diffusion equations on an unbounded domain. The local property means that the semicontinuity of bispatial attractors is local uniform with regard to the time as the singular perturbation parameter tends to 0. To do this, by introducing some new and local‐uniform concepts of nonautonomous cocycles, we first establish the regularity and local upper semicontinuity of pullback attractors simultaneously. In applications, the presence of the singular perturbation term ϵΔ2u brings some difficulties even to prove the existence of pullback attractors in H1 . Therefore, we prove an (L2,L2) ‐pullback attractor without any restriction on the order of the nonlinearity. With the critical exponent of the nonlinearity, we apply positive‐negative truncations and splitting methods to attest an (L2,H1) ‐pullback attractor. We use weak assumptions for both the nonlinearity and force here. Finally, from the viewpoint of left and right limits, we prove the local upper semicontinuity of the family of obtained attractors as the perturbation parameter approaches to 0 in L2⋂H1 , by using the continuity of solutions on the time. This result essentially improves and completes previous works on upper semicontinuity of attractors only as the change of single parameter.


This Pillars of Immunology article is a commentary on "Induction of T-cell anergy by altered T-cell-receptor ligand on live antigen-presenting cells," a pivotal article written by J. Sloan-Lancaster, B. D. Evavold, and P. M. Allen, and published in Nature, in 1993. https://www.nature.com/articles/363156a0


The object of this paper is the study of a new Latin Inscription from Oceja (Pyrénées Orientales). It is a rock inscription that records the name of four quattuorviri. The magistrates and their fathers have Iberian anthroponyms. It is a fundamental document to study Latinization and Municipalization in the Pyrenean region. We offer a commentary on five important aspects : how the Iberian names were adapted to Latin Language, the Onomastic Formula, magistrates, the expression scriptum est and the chronology.


ABSTRACT This article seeks to explore the ideal of parliament nurtured by various political actors in the Russian-controlled Kingdom of Poland, up to the formation of the Polish nation state after the interim German occupation. Spanned between the legacy of the noble Sejms and radical democratic ideas for future Poland, the cultural imagination of parliamentarism faced its imperfect embodiment in the existing imperial assemblies – above all, the Russian Duma. Drawing from an extensive collection of political leaflets, press of various profiles and Russian administrative sources, I demonstrate the entangled, lived relationship between parliament and revolution, by no means opposite concepts in the global wave of constitutional revolutions. The parliamentary ideal served to renegotiate the arrangements of imperial social space in the direction of national self-assertion and perpetuated social practices conductive to future democratic arrangements. The actors involved demonstrated ambiguous potentials of various forms of national representation. These experiences and considerations had grave consequences in the critical juncture of the revolutionary sequence leading to the emergence of the Polish nation state – for the time being, in a majoritarian parliamentary form.


For society to progress towards that or any other goal it must fulfill one condition. It cannot be a titanothore, a beast with a three-ton body and a ten-ounce brain. It must not direct its main effort to the ordinary final product of standard of living but to the overhead final product of cultural implements. It must not glory in its widening, in adding industry to industry, and feeding the soul of man with an abundant demand for labor. It must glory in its deepening, in the pure deepening that adds to aggregate leisure, to liberate many entirely and all increasingly to the field of cultural activities. It must not boast of science on the ground that science fills its belly. It must not glue its nose to the single track of this or that department. It must lift its eyes more and ever more to the more general and more difficult fields of speculation, for it is from them that it has to derive the delicate compound of unity and freedom in which alone progress can be born, struggle, and win through.


Adjoint-based error estimation is used in finite element methods to effectively and accurately estimate discretization errors in physically meaningful output quantities. These estimates are obtained via the solution of an auxiliary adjoint problem. Obtaining an enriched representation of the solution to this adjoint problem is a necessary step in the process of adjoint-based error estimation. Solving the adjoint problem on a uniformly refined mesh is one possible way to obtain such an enriched adjoint representation. In this note, we propose a similar method for adjoint enrichment, whereby the adjoint problem is solved on a mesh obtained via non-uniform refinement. This leads to an adjoint problem with fewer degrees of freedom than the traditional uniform refinement approach. We propose two possible non-uniform refinement strategies and investigate resulting output error estimates for Poisson's equation in two dimensions and nonlinear elasticity in three dimensions.


Abstract. Balocci Resort Banntimurung Bulusaraung National Park is a location that is overgrown with many natural orchids. This research is a descriptive study that aims to determine the type of epiphytic orchid host tree and the distribution of host trees at the Balocci Resort in Bantimurung Bulusearaung National Park. The method used is a survey method. The stages of the research are termining location and observations, collecting data and indetifying spesies. Based on the result; Alstonia  scholaris, Sauarauia malayana, Mangifera sp, Tabernaemontana sphaerocarpa, Arenga pinnata, Syzygium sp, Elaecarpus angustifolius, Bischofia javanica, Maesea sp, Erythrina subumbrans, Lithocarpus celebicus, Cryptocarya sp, Elmerillia ovalis, Memecylon paniculatum, Ficus benjamina L, Ficus variegate, Ficus fistulosa, Knema laurina, Litsea sp, Uncaria longiflora, Coffea sp, Melicope sp, Planchonella firma, Palaquium lobbianum, and Laportea stimulant which belongs to 19 families. The tree that is overgrows with orchids is Alstonia  scholaris, Sauarauia malayana and Ficus benjamina L. the host tree which is used as a place for growth has uneven surface characteristics of the tree, overgrown with nails and generally mossy. Host tree species that have a wide spread on mount Bulusaraung is Sauarauia malayana which is at an altitude of 700-1300 m above sea level. Keywords: host tree, epiphytic, resort balocci, bantimurung bulusaraung national park area


The teachers' cultural reconstruction is one of the most important factor of curriculum reform. From two angle about content and form ,we can analyze the meaning of teachers' culture. The traditional characteristic of teachers' culture restrict the curriculum reform. New curriculum appears for new teachers' culture. It is crucial that teachers should set up curriculum consciousness as well as form cooperative and open behavior way.


This note describes the design and performance of a controller circuit for stabilizing the high - voltage in a mobile x-ray stress diffractometer. The circuitry described here is used in conjunction with a saturable core reactor which acts as a controlling element in stabilizing the high voltage. Stabilization of the order of 0.5% has been achieved.13; 13;


This article provides an overview of stigma associated with mental health and substance abuse treatment in military settings and discusses articles included in this issue. These articles examine the predictors of and barriers to treatment entry; assess the influence of military culture and unit influences on attitudes toward treatment; examine unique challenges associated with reserve personnel; and address policy changes to improve access to care. We review challenges associated with reducing stigma and the importance of policy, culture, education, and leadership to effect the desired changes.


This paper investigates the potential of designing a vibratory energy harvester which utilizes a ferrofluid sloshing in a seismically excited tank to generate electric power. Mechanical vibrations change the orientational order of the magnetic dipoles in the ferrofluid and create a varying magnetic flux which induces an electromotive force in a coil wound around the tank, thereby generating an electric current according to Faraday's law. Several experiments are performed on a cylindrical container of volume 5x10-5 m3 carrying a ferrofluid and subjected to different base excitation levels. Initial results illustrate that the proposed device can be excited at one or multiple modal frequencies depending on the container's size, can exhibit tunable characteristics by adjusting the external magnetic field, and currently produces 28 mV of open-circuit voltage using a base excitation of 2.5 m/s2 at a frequency of 5.5 Hz.


This study aims to know the students' learning achievement after studying under Lesson Study learning model at MAN 1 Konawe Selatan, under cooperative learning model type STAD and to investigate the significant difference between Lesson Study learning model and cooperative learning model type STAD .  The subject of the study is the students of MAN 1 Konawe Selatan class XI IPA. This study is a quasi experimental research which means that it is not a real experimental research because it included the basic steps of experiment but exclude the control class. The result indicates that there is different students' physics learning achievement between using Lesson Study learning model and coopertive learning model type STAD . The students learning under lesson study model obtained 87 as their average score, while those with cooperative model type STAD obtained 67.3. In other words, learning by lesson plan model contributes more positively to students' learning achievement than STAD model. This indicates that there are differences in physiscs learning achievement between lesson study learning model and cooperative learning model type STAD at students class XI-Science MAN 1 South of Konawe


A comparison between rectangular microstrip patch and C-shaped patch antennas are proposed in this paper for
wireless local area networks (WLANs) applications operating at the frequency band of 5.2 GHz. The rectangular patch
antenna has a return loss of -40.951 dB and bandwidth of 7.9% at 5.2 GHz. The patch antenna has an Omni-directional
radiation pattern with maximum gain of 6.5 dBi. The C-shaped patch antenna has shown a bandwidth improvement of
more than 13% at a return loss of -43.859 dB better than -10 dB. Similarly, the C-shaped antenna has shown a size
reduction of more than 16% compared to the rectangular microstrip patch antenna. However, the antenna's radiation
pattern is more to unidirectional pattern with reduced gain of 4.830 dBi compared to the rectangular microstrip patch
antenna. Both antennas were printed on a FR4 substrate with dielectric constant of 4.7. The simulated results were verified
through measurement in which a good agreement between the simulated and measured result were documented.


In this present paper,an innovative method to detect and isolate multiple microalge from one field water sample was proposed.Tissue culture plate was proved to be excellent to provide convenient microscopic observation and suitable space for microalgal living.Community succession during different culture conditions along the time course can be monitored with rapidity and convenience.Different dominant species could be appeared in individual tissue culture cells and be easily isolated.This novel technique can be widely applicable to observe and isolate non-dominant or undetected microalgal strains in the field sample.One of the examples applied in a marine field sampling was described in this paper.


The information data architecture must be built and the data flow direction must be defined before the system setting since the widely distribution, the special characteristics,and the different demands of the information resources. The paper introduces the characteristics of the various real-time information and data resources, describes the signal transfer mode of the different instruments and the data acquisition system, put forward the structure setting of information and analysis the realization of the relative functions and system features.


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Objectives of the study were ascertaining the temporal variation of fish density and biomass as well as the changes in fish species composition in a surveyed area before and after deployment of an artificial reef. The study was initiated within an area of 0.25 km2 in response to a strong demand for fisheries enhancement and resource conservation in Xiangshan Bay, Zhejiang Province, China. This survey data was collected through a SIMRAD EY60 system and bottom trinal nets pre- and post-construction of the artificial reefs, May 2011 to September 2012 in Xiangshan Bay. The raw data were analyzed using fisheries acoustic Echoview (Myriax) software combined with bottom trinal net data. The results showed that estimated fish density, represented by a nautical area scattering coefficient (NASC) at the artificial reef increased by 14.04, 31.10, 17.35% in May, July and September 2012 after construction of the artificial reef, and that the fish biomass increased by 8.92, 29.06, and 18.09% in these three months of 2012 in contrast to 2011. The numbers of fish species varied from 7 to 9 in May, from 10 to 14 in July and from 9 to 12 in September of 2012. These temporal changes in the fishery status were considered as being mainly due to deployment of the artificial reefs in early April 2012.


The authors describe a measurement of 24-hour adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (AMP) excretion in patients with affective disorders. Manic patients were fbund to have greater cyclic AMP excretions than normal controls. Severely depressed patients had lower 24-hour values than normal subjects and a lower 24-hour cyclic AMP excretion than moderately depressed individuals.


The invention discloses an LCL filter utilizing integrated inductors. The LCL filter can be applied to a single-phase inverter or a three-phase grid-connected inverter, the size of magnetic cores can be effectively reduced, and the power density of grid-connected inverters is improved. The LCL filter comprises an inverter side inductor L1, a filter capacitor C, and a grid side inductor L2, wherein the input end of the inductor L1 is connected with the middle point of a leg of the inverter, the output end of the inductor L1 is connected with the input ends of the inductor L2 and the capacitor C, and the output end of the inductor L2 is connected with a power grid. Windings of the inductor L1 and the inductor L2 are wound on two independent magnetic cores respectively, a public magnetic post without air gap is arranged between the two magnetic cores, and magnetic flux of linkages of windings of the inductor L1 and the inductor L2 are counteracted on the public magnetic post, and the magnetic flux of the public magnetic post is reduced, so that the size of the public magnetic can be reduced. Simultaneously, coupling does not exist between the inductor L1 and the inductor L2, so that the integrated LCL filter has the same characteristic with that in discrete conditions.


A fundamental-mode TE/sub 111/ degrees two-cavity intense-beam gyroklystron amplifier experiment, operating at an accelerating voltage of 1 MV, is reported. The two cavities that were tested are designed to serve as bunching cavities for a high-power output cavity. The two-cavity amplifier has demonstrated a linear gain of 15 dB and an unsaturated output power of approximately 40 kW, with the intracavity gain and power approximately 4 dB higher. The frequency of the second cavity has been found to track the frequency of the driven cavity over a range of 300 MHz around a center frequency of 35 GHz. Stable amplifier operation was achieved with beam currents as large as 150 A and a velocity pitch ratio of 0.36. The stable operating range was limited by spurious oscillation in the TE/sub 112/ degrees mode. Theoretical calculations indicate that higher gains might be attainable if this mode could be suppressed. >


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To study the morbidity and Chinese medical pattern characteristics of metabolic syndrone in high-risk diabetics,805 subjects were surveyed.It is found that 31.34% diabetics suffered from metabolic syndrone,which is characterized by qi and yin deficiency of the heart,blood stasis and dry heat.


The development objective of the Additional financing for Mekong Integrated Water Resources Management Project for Lao People's Democratic Republic is to establish key examples of integrated water resources management practices in the lower Mekong Basin at the regional, national and subnational levels, thus contributing to more sustainable river basin management in the lower Mekong. Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures are includes : (i) losses of productive land (paddy, garden, and Teak Plantation); (ii) residential land; (iii) totally affected houses/Shops, and Secondary Structures (kitchen, rice bins); (iv) loss of business income during relocation or during dismantling/repair of affected portion (without relocation); (v) loss of crops and trees; (vi) permanent loss of physical cultural resources/public structures/village or collective ownerships; (vii) graves located in the affected areas; (viii) for marginal loss of land, cash compensation at replacement cost which is equivalent to the current market value of land within the village, of similar type, category and productive capacity, free from transaction costs (taxes, administration fees); (ix) cash compensation at replacement cost which is equivalent to the current market value of land of similar type and category, and free from transaction costs; (x) cash compensation of affected portion at replacement cost which is equivalent to the current market value of fishpond, labor and rent of equipment to excavate fishpond, free from transaction costs; (xi) excluding those who will move back to their residual land, timely provision of dump trucks for hauling personal belongings at no cost to the PAPs; (xii) cash compensation at replacement cost for affected fixed assets (e.g., structures, trees, crops); (xiii)compensation at replacement cost for present/existing structures based on its present value;(xiv) Compensation for the removal, excavation, relocation, reburial and other related costs will be paid in cash to each affected family; (xv) compensation at replacement cost for present/existing structures based on its present value; (xvi) eligible to participate in income restoration program.


A novel process for the low temperature synthesis of titanium nitride thin films by APCVD is described. TiN coatings containing less than one atom percent of carbon and oxygen were deposited at 200 °C on silicon, vitreous carbon, glass, stainless steel and plastic substrates using Ti(Nme 2 ) 4 and ammonia gas as precursors. The films were characterized by Rutherford backscattering spectrometry and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.


The high accuracy $\phi $-meson photoproduction data from the CLAS experiment in Hall~B of Jefferson Laboratory allow us to determine the near-threshold total cross section of the $\gamma p\to\phi p$ reaction and use it for evaluating the $\phi p$ scattering length $\alpha_{\phi p}$. These data result in an absolute value of $|\alpha_{\phi p}| = (0.063\pm 0.010)$~fm, which is smaller than the typical hadron size. A comparative analysis of $\alpha_{\phi p}$ with the previously determined scattering lengths for $\omega p$ and $J/\psi p$ from the A2 and GlueX experiments is performed.


Photodynamic therapy (PDT) represents a novel method of selectively treating atherosclerosis using a combination of photosensitizer drug, low power laser light, and molecular oxygen. In this preliminary study, PDT was used to treat atherosclerotic lesions in a miniswine model. Yucatan miniswine weighing between 20-30 kg, were rendered atherosclerotic by a combination of balloon endothelial injury and dietary supplementation with 2% cholesterol and 15% lard diet for 7 weeks. Following this, miniswine were given a porphyrin-type photosensitizer, Photofrin 2.5 mg/kg IV. Twenty-four hours after receiving Photofrin, swine received a general anesthetic and the infrarenal abdominal aorta was exposed. Through a longitudinal aortotomy, the posterior aortic wall was irradiated with 630 nm laser light at one of the following light doses: 60, 120, and 240 J/cm2. Four weeks after PDT, swine were killed and perfusion- fixed with glutaraldehyde. Light microscopy showed a decrease in intimal thickness for all light doses. Decreased cellular elements were seen in the irradiated zones as the laser power was increased. Non-irradiated sites showed typical atherosclerotic lesions with foam cells, fibrosis and calcification. This study demonstrated the feasibility of using PDT for atherosclerotic lesions.


Of the many laboratory measures and techniques available for understanding and quantifying biological aspects of Alzheimer disease (AD), imaging the structure and function of the brain is a particularly attractive approach in that it can provide highly relevant and diverse information using a variety of techniques. The application and interpretation of such information have considerable practical clinical relevance, but as these technologies and our understanding of the disease pathogenesis continue their rapid evolution, so do the potential utilities of these imaging methods in addressing timely neuropsychopharmacologic research issues. Brain imaging techniques are often categorized as either structural or functional, based on the primary form of information provided. This classification method breaks down, however, when considering newer applications of these techniques. For example, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) equipment is used to provide functional brain responses with functional MRI (fMRI). Moreover, both positron emission tomography (PET) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) have the potential to provide visualizations of the pathognomonic structural lesions of AD, the amyloid neuritic plaques (NPs), and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs). The in vivo visualization of relevant structures and functions through brain imaging has several clinical and research applications for AD and other dementias. Recognition of dementia is particularly difficult in its early stages, when family members and physicians often incorrectly attribute the patient's symptoms to normal aging (1,2). Systematic studies indicate that the frequency of unrecognized memory impairment, beyond that associated with normal aging, or a dementia diagnosis can range from 50% to 90% of cases (3,4). A related application is the differential diagnosis of


In recent decades, the tourism sector has become one of the most profitable sectors of the economy and is one of the most important factors in socio-cultural development. At the present stage of development of society, tourism is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon, which is one of the most dynamically developed and highly profitable sectors of the world economy. For the state, tourism plays a significant role in the socio-economic development of territories and stimulates the preservation of existing tourist resources in the region. The purpose of tourism development in Ukraine is to create a favorable organizational, legal and economic environment for the development of the area based on the efficient use of natural resources and historical and cultural potential of Ukraine and ensuring its socio-economic interests and environmental security. Theoretical substantiation of the tourist resources as a key factor in tourism development and their role in socio-economic development allows to consider them as a set of certain factors: natural, climatic, socio-cultural and infrastructural, which affect living standards indirectly. It is important in the classification of resources to use an attractive approach – focusing on attractive and leisure facilities for tourists. Tourist resources must be attractive, accessible, safe, environmentally friendly, have a potential reserve and have the appropriate level of research. The study of tourist resources should take into account natural and socio-economic, cultural factors, as well as infrastructure development and quality of service. Optimal use of potential opportunities of tourist resources, historical and cultural potential allows not only to improve the economic condition of cities, regions of the country, but also to increase the efficiency of tourism enterprises and other participants in business processes, as well as to influence the social level welfare and promote the active infrastructure development of Ukraine's regions.
Key words: tourism, tourist resources, recreation, recreational tourism, tourist offer.


The present invention relates to a method of encoding the current block, comprising the steps of: - determining (30, 32) a prediction block from the current block; - determining (36) a residual block by extracting from the current block the prediction block; - encoding (38) a residual block, the method being characterized in that, to determine the prediction block from the current block according to the following steps: - moving the at least one reference image data and determining (30) previously coded and reconstructed from the initial prediction block; - the image data of neighboring blocks and the prediction block data of the initial atomic decomposition method (32) on Ycp vector data, vector data comprising Ycp previously coded and reconstructed current block; and - extracting (34) from the vector with decomposition block corresponding to the current data, the data is extracted form the prediction block.


The correlation between the polymorphism of exons of GH gene of male half-smooth tongue sole(Cynoglossus semilaevis)and their growth traits and hormone level was determined with polymerase chain reaction-single strand conformation polymorphism(PCR-SSCP)and by sequencing.One SNP(c.T382C)located in exon 4at base 382 was found to be non-synonymous(p.Phe106Leu).One-way ANOVA showed that this point was significantly associated with weight(P0.05),weight without viscera(P0.05)and serum T3level(P0.01).Duncan multiple-range testing showed that CC genotype was significantly higher in weight and weight without viscera((234.58±8.11)g and(210.23±7.55)g)than TT genotype((201.64±13.04)g and(180.21±12.13)g);and CC genotype was significantly higher in T3level(3.01±0.07)ng/mL than TT genotype(2.12±0.12)ng/mL.These findings indicated that mutation of GH gene may influence the hormone level and growth traits of male halfsmooth tongue sole,and base 382 may serve as a selection assistant maker.


Botnets are often used in cyberattacks on network services and individual users, so the ability to detect botnets is very important. Botnets use DNS tunneling to send malicious command-and-control (C&C) commands to victims' hosts. Unfortunately, DNS tunneling attacks are very hard to detect. The paper presents a new approach for DNS tunneling botnet detection, which considers all the features and architectural characteristics of botnets. The technique described in this paper is highly efficient at detecting DNS tunneling attacks.


This paper presents the speed control of a permanent magnet direct current (PMDC) motor. The drive system of the mentioned motor is based on a full bridge (H-bridge) DC-DC converter (chopper) that is controlled in closed loop with two methods. The first procedure utilizes PI control by Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) switching technique and the other one applies a novel carrier-based with unipolar switching technique (CU) current control. The model of the proposed motor, chopper and controllers are presented. The proposed topologies were simulated using MATLAB/Simulink software package and the results were obtained, shown, and discussed. Results show that the hysteresis current control has lower torque ripple than PI controller, therefore makes it more appropriate in electric vehicle (EV) applications.


Objective:To explore the curative effects of platelet-rich plasma(PRP) in the restoration of jaw cyst cavities.Methods:24 patients were randomly divided into experinental group and control group.PRP with soluble gauze for hemostasis were used to fill the jaw cavity after curettage of the cyst on experinental group,and soluble gauze alone for hemostasis were used to fill the jaw cavity on control group.X-ray observations were checked in 6 months after operation.Results:X-ray examinations showed the bone mineral density of cyst cavities recovered better on experinental group than on control group.Conclusions:PRP can be used to promote the recovery of the defect area.


The study aims to explore onset arrival time and factors related to onset arrival time in patients with acute stroke. Dodd's symptom management model was used as the research framework. Purposive sampling was used to select 76 transporters of patients with acute stroke who were admitted to the acute stroke unit, RamathibodiHospital.The following instruments were used to collect data: the demographic data assessment form, the hospital visit records, the perception of stroke questionnaire and the perception of stroke severity questionnaire. Data were analyzed in terms of frequency, percentage, mean, mode, standard deviation, Chi-square and Pearson's product moment correlation coefficient. The findings of this study showed that onset arrival timewithin 180 minutes, mean averagewas 95.29 minutes. Participants had a correct perception of stroke and a moderate score of perception of stroke severity. In addition, the perception of stroke and perception of stroke severity were negatively related to onset arrival time at .05 and .01 level of statistical significance respectively. Age, education level, income of the subject and patient transfer system were not related to onset arrival time. It could be explained that transporters who had a correct perception of stroke and high perception of stroke severity would have a reduced onset arrival time to the hospital. The findings of this study suggest that health care providers should provide information to increase perception of a stroke, and management for family members of persons who are at risk of stroke in order to decrease onset of arrival time.


This paper presents a novel special robot gripper for Chinese on-orbit satellite serving. Because of the relative slow real time vision feedback rate (about 5 Hz), the free-flight robot (FFR) will probably float to a new position and orientation during a long cycle after the satellite attitude control is switched-off. A large-error tolerated gripper with two stereo cameras has been developed to capture the micro target satellite (MTS). Moreover, the gripper must lock the MTS's handle at the unique position and attitude after capture. The tactile sensor, angle sensor and temperature sensor etc. were highly integrated into the gripper, which made the gripper more intelligent. The same electronics as one the robot's joint was juxtaposed together, which composed of power supply unit (PSU), controller unit (JCU) and motor servo unit (MSU), to make the whole system more modular and reliably. There is a special designed handle on the MTS, which composed of two supporters and a cylinder with V shape at bottom. A weight-balanced passive 6-DOFs float target simulator has been developed to verify the function of the gripper under the zero gravity environments


In 2005, Wang, et al. proposed a threshold proxy multi designated-verifiers signature scheme (Wang-Fu) by combining the properties of the threshold proxy signature and the multi designated-verifiers signature. In the same year, Chen, et al. also proposed a designated-verifier signature scheme. It is shown that the manager of the set of all verifiers can directly forge signatures, so that, each verifier should give zero knowledge proof for the partial data generated in verifying phase by using his secret key, and that CFT (Chen-Feng-Tan) scheme does not satisfy the non-transferability, i.e., the designated-verifier can prove to a third party that the signature is generated by the signer. The reason is that the scheme directly follows from the technique in Schnorr signature. The designated-verifier can easily transform the signature into a common signature with respect to the signer's public


In an article on the basis of Kizlyar commandant archives, are considered economic and trade ties Kumyk fiefdoms of Dagestan with Russia. Trade contributed to the favorable geographical position Kumyk public entities. In Kumyk shopping centers were Tarki, Endirey, Aksay, Kostek, where Persian and Caucasian merchants met with Russian merchants and exchanged goods. According to the authors, in the XVIII century. Kizlyar played the role of an important link in trade Kumyk fiefdoms with Russia. Hence, through the Kizlyar exported manufacturing industry is important for Russian raw materials like raw silk, cotton, madder


This paper attempts to generalize work the authors performed at high pressures on the phase equilibria in the PbTiO/sub 3/-PbZrO/sub 3/ system for Ti contents up to 50 at.%, i.e., the most interesting compositions from the practical standpoint. It is established that the rhombohedral ferroelectric phase, localized near the Curie point, not only expands its region of temperature stability, but also shifts its region of temperature stability to higher pressures with rise of solid solution Ti content. The authors construct for the first time the complete p-t-x diagram of Pb(Ti, Zr)O/sub 3/ solid solutions with Ti contents up to 50 at.%.


9582 Background: Extracellular matrix (ECM) turnover mediated by matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) has been speculated to be associated with cancer diagnosis and mortality. No tools have so far been a...


Abstract This study considers Xunzi's criticism of Zisi, Confucius' grandson, providing a detailed analysis of some of the most famous but also difficult passages in the Xunzi. By drawing on the newly excavated text, "Wuxing" (The five conducts), the study shows that not only did Xunzi have an intimate knowledge of Zisi's teachings, but in fact he had available to him a certain version of the "Wuxing." This understanding makes it possible to evaluate Xunzi's role as a reporter of Zisi's teachings, and to the extent that Xunzi reported these teachings fairly and accurately, the study offers specific suggestions for reimagining a period that has been little understood in Early Chinese intellectual history, or the transition from Confucius to Mencius. 摘要 本論文探討荀子在《解敝》、《不苟》、《非十二子》等幾段文字中,針對孔子孫亦即子思所作的評論。通過新出土《五行》與上述幾段文字的對讀,本文指出,荀子不僅相當熟悉子思的學說,他甚至接觸過《五行》的文本。這樣的理解可以幫助我們評估荀子評論的忠實性與可靠性,同時提供線索重新想像從孔子到孟子、先秦思想史十分模糊的一個過渡時期。


The cathodic reduction of iodides of 1-methyl-3-bromo- and 1-methyl-2-iodopyridinium is examined. It is shown that, at the introduction of a bromine atom into a heteroaromatic cycle, the reaction mechanism remains the same as for the electroreduction of unsubstituted salts of alkylpyridinium in alkaline solutions ;however, the reactivities of the initial and end compounds undergo a change, as well as the solubility of the latter. Comparing the effect of the methyl group in different positions in the cycle and that of bromine atom in position 3 on properties of the initial cations and the dimeric reaction products confirms indirectly the proposed structure of the dimers as the charge-transfer complexes that are formed during electrolysis of alkylpyridinium salt solutions in polar media. The pyridinium salt that contains an iodine atom in position 2 undergoes a chemical transformation in an aqueous medium and does not reduce on the electrode. In acetonitrile solutions, its cations are stable, and the process involves two successive stages characterized by two waves in the polarization curve. In the potential region of the first wave, iodine splits out; in the region of the second wave, the formed methylpyridinium cations unsubstituted in the ring are reduced


This paper proposes to list elements for a Social Service debate with other areas of knowledge, united by the social critique of culture. With the focus on the transformation of social relations based on inequality, the Social Service has as an ethical-political project to qualify social subjects inserted in social relations in which the right is subjected to an antagonistic politician, in a daily in dispute driven by interests contrary to the workers and groups. The reflection is focused on the field of mental health, where the subjectivity of psychiatric patients is already compromised, and hospital care is a "loophole" for the subjects' self-mastery. However, the city's mental health care policy is insipient in its ways of organizing the mental health care network.


Abstract The objective of this short communication was to evaluate the roles of reputation and objective measures in U.S. News rankings of the top 50 children's hospitals for diabetes and endocrinology. Analysis was performed on data obtained from the 2011 to 2012 report. Reputation scores exhibited more variance (CV=158%) compared to objective measures (average CV=14%). Ranking hospitals based on reputation, compared to total score, identified the same top hospital, same top five hospitals, and 90% of the same top 10 hospitals. Ranking based on total objective score resulted in different top hospitals, 60% of the same top five hospitals, and 50% of the same top 10 hospitals. Hospital total rank was strongly associated with reputation rank (ρ2=0.78) and moderately associated with objective rank (ρ2=0.48). Objective rank was minimally associated with reputation rank (ρ2=0.19). Among the top 50 children's hospitals in diabetes and endocrinology, standings reflect reputation more than objective measures.


As the identity of the young is largely shaped through the feedback they receive from their peers the impression-management has become an essential part in the lives of young people, both in the real and in the virtual worlds. The aim of the paper is to analyse how young people present themselves on the photographs of dating and communication website Rate. Rate is known as a site where people can post a short description of themselves and photos, so that other users could give their points and comments. The purpose of my study was to analyse how the youngsters on the website formulate their gender identities in order to appeal to potential partners. Content analysis involving elements of visual analysis methods developed by Goffman (1979), Kress and van Leeuwen (1996), Kang (1997), and Bell (2001), was carried out to analyse the photos of youngsters who appeared in the TOP 100 of the most remarkable people in Rate in a period of six months. Altogether 139 women and 144 men from Rate were analysed to find out how the gender identity is reflected on the photographs. The results suggest that the photos of the most remarkable girls play with the stereotypical codes of sexuality presented by the media with the hope of meeting the social expectations of ideal female beauty. In case of boys, two contradictory types of masculinity tend to be most popular – the age-old Macho man and 21 century Metrosexual.


Nanoimprint lithography has been shown to be a viable means of patterning polymer films in the sub-100 nm range. In this work, we demonstrate the use of a bilayer resist to facilitate the metal liftoff step in imprinter fabrication. The bilayer resist technology exhibits more uniform patterns and fewer missing features than similar metal nanoparticle arrays fabricated with single layer resist. The bilayer resist relies upon the differential solubility between poly(methyl methacrylate) and poly(methyl methacrylate methacrylic acid copolymer). Evidence is presented that shows the technique has a resolution of better than 10 nm.


BIM is regarded as a new problem-solving method in the field of architecture construction. With the continuous development and progress of BIM, it also has a series of impacts on the field of project cost. In this paper, through literature research, expert interviews, questionnaires, data analysis, and other ways, the current front-line AEC (architecture, Engineering & Construction) practitioners were investigated. This paper investigates the understanding of BIM in the field of construction cost and the current development obstacles and makes a cross-analysis of the development obstacles of various industries. It is found that technology is the most important obstacle in technology, economy, society and other factors, and how to solve the problem of model standardization and accuracy is the most important part. In the cross research of technical problems and professions, we found that there are many deficiencies in the modeling function of current BIM software, and there are also some problems in the transformation of two-dimensional and three-dimensional data, which are considered as obstacles of the whole industry. The research results of this paper can be used as a practical reference for future research, trying to provide technical and management solutions for the implementation and development of BIM in the construction cost of our country.


In order to investigate the effect of atmospheric pressure plasmas on adhesion between aramid fibers and epoxy, aramid fibers were treated with atmospheric pressure helium/air for 15, 30 and 60 s on a capacitively-coupled device at a frequency of 5.0 kHz and He outlet pressure of 3.43 kPa. SEM analysis at 10 000× magnification showed no significant surface morphological change resulted from the plasma treatments. XPS analysis showed a decrease in carbon content and an increase in oxygen content. Deconvolution analysis of C1s, N1s and O1s peaks showed an increase in surface hydroxyl groups that can interact with epoxy resin. The microbond test showed that the plasma treatment for 60 s increased interfacial shear strength by 109% over that of the control (untreated). The atmospheric pressure plasma increased single fiber tensile strength by 16-26%.


pandemic period (0.36%). We also observed a decrease of the hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) rate from 0.16% to 0.12%. Finally, three different outcomes were evaluated in patients admitted for perinatal asphyxia: mortality, brain imaging lesions and seizures. During the pandemic we observed a significant decrease in all of these ( Table 1 )


Due to the aggravating problem of solid waste disposal and rising demand of fuels for energy generation, pyrolysis can serve as a promising solution to both these challenges. The majority of the municipal solid wastes are constituted of carbonaceous wastes including biomass. Pyrolysis can be universally applied to all these types of wastes to obtain non-condensable fuel gases, pyrolysis oils and solid coke achieving complete waste disposal. In the present study, a review of pyrolysis with respect to various types of waste feedstock is presented. The interactions of the various types of waste feeds during co-pyrolysis were also reviewed. The applications of the products obtained as well as their further upgrading is also discussed. The presence of catalyst, reaction conditions, heating rate as well as the type of reactor, influence the yield as well as the composition of the products to a great extent. Pyrolysis of single feed as well as co-pyrolysis is also reviewed. Some co-pyrolysis studies reported better results than single feed pyrolysis owing to the synergistic interactions between waste feeds. This paper provides an overall outlook of the current scenario of the pyrolysis techniques for solid waste management.


Abstract : A time-accurate multistage Navier-Stokes solver has been extended to simulate wake-induced transition in unsteady multistage turbomachinery flow. To this end, the Spalart-Allmaras turbulence model has been modified in several ways and coupled to a transition correlation on the basis of new modeling approaches by other authors. Application to an unsteady test case, a turbine cascade subject to the wake of a moving bar, shows very good agreement with the measurements. First, the turbine cascade is considered without any wake disturbance at two Reynolds numbers. It is shown that the model is capable of simulating laminar separation-bubble induced transition and reproducing correctly the observed Reynolds number effects. In the unsteady case, no separation occurs due to wake-induced transition. The migration of the transition start location is in remarkably good agreement with hot film measurement data.


The proposed research is basically important because it aims to analyze the different methods used by the teacher in the learning of children with intellectual disabilities, in this way a basic learning application will be carried out, where the teacher will use it as a reinforcement in the process of teaching in children, the interest is to encourage teachers to use applications as one more method of teaching and an educational tool that could facilitate children's learning by interacting with the subject raised in the application.
On the other hand, the teacher plays a very important role in guiding the child in the use of the learning application, that is, the teacher will be able to expand its range of resources, didactic strategies and education modalities that could facilitate the quality of teaching in the children of basic education.

Keywords:
Intellectual disability, Basic learning, Basic education, Education-learning, Special education.


During the development of pavement design methods, the MEPDG is evolved by NCHRP 1-37 project. This reason led the roadway agencies to implement the MEPDG. To implement MEPDG, the local calibration is necessary to increase the accuracy of distress models used in MEPDG to predicted pavement performance, because these models were derived depending on the conditions of the United States. This study aims to the calibration of MEPDG based on the conditions of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The rutting and IRI models were calibrated using an optimization approach embedded in MS Excel (namely, solver optimization). The study results reveal that the adjusted coefficients are appropriate for this study because the new coefficients of the rutting models reduced the bias from 4.90 to 0.03 and SSE from 317.68 to 61.71 while the new coefficients of the IRI model reduced the bias and SSE from 0.44, 0.31 to 0, 0.03 respectively.


In this note we show that a well known relationship between the Lowner partial ordering and the space preordering within the class of non-negative definite matrices remains true for Hermitian matrices with the same number of negative eigenvalues. Some consequences in connection with other partial orderings are discussed.


Current regulatory policies for hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) target the sources of direct emissions. In addition to direct emissions, some of the aromatic, nitrogenated, and oxygenated HAPs can be formed in the atmosphere. Formaldehyde and acetaldehyde, in particular, are produced by almost every hydrocarbon photooxidation reaction. Estimates have been made that, in some urban areas, in situ formation contributes as much as 85 percent of the ambient levels of formaldehyde and 95 percent for acetaldehyde. Over 40 percent of the HAPs being regulated under Title III of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments have atmospheric lifetimes of less than one day. The transformation products of these HAPs with low atmospheric persistence are important for assessing risks to human health, especially for cases where the transformation products are more toxic than the HAP itself.


At the current level of social development, more attention should be devoted to improving the effectiveness of public and local administration, which should be results-oriented to serve as the basis of regional socio-economic development. Aim. The presented study aims to determine major directions for improving the effectiveness of public and local administration from the perspective of workforce capacity as the basis of regional development under current conditions. Tasks. The authors analyze scientific and methodological approaches to staffing as the basis of improving the effectiveness of public and local administration. Methods. This study uses general scientific methods of cognition and special methods to examine public and local administration as the basis of regional development and to propose a methodology for assessing the effectiveness of public and local administration from the perspective of staffing of government authorities. Results. In the context of uneven socio-economic development of territories and different levels of territorial potential of local economies, using unified approaches to the assessment of administrative effectiveness is unreasonable. Under current conditions, it becomes increasingly important to find new methodological approaches to the assessment of administrative effectiveness that would make allowance for local specifics and reflect the actual contribution of the authorities into the improvement of the life quality of the population within their jurisdiction. Conclusion. Approaches to the assessment of the effectiveness of public and local administration are changing. Formation of new approaches requires adequate methodological support. Therefore, new approaches should be aimed at examining the activities of executive authorities and the subject of administration as a unified system that includes economy, population, and territory.


This review article discusses the current state of knowledge on water treatment and reuse by biofiltration systems focusing on biologically enhanced activated carbon (BAC) process. First, the applications of BAC in water treatment systems are overviewed, and then, the mechanisms for both biofilm formation and contaminant treatment are discussed along with the operational parameters influencing the performance of BAC process. Since contaminant removal by BAC is governed by adsorption and biodegradation, both processes are reviewed in relation to the treatment mechanisms. Information on removal of recent emerging contaminants including nitrogenous and unregulated disinfection by‐products (DBPs) and their precursors, poly‐ and perfluorofluoroalkyl substances, nanoparticles, and plasticizers and microplastics by BAC is given along with suggestions for treatment improvements and future research. The uniqueness of this review includes insights on relevant biofilm aspects and the coverage on the abilities of BAC for treatment of recent and less common emerging contaminants especially unregulated DBPs and their precursors, nanoparticles, and plasticizers and microplastics. For future BAC studies, recommendations are proposed on exploring the biofilm development on media and recent emerging contaminants as co‐contaminants, as well as developing novel supporting materials such as biochar.


Disclosed is a prophylactic and/or therapeutic agent which can exhibit an effect by itself on the prevention and/or treatment of a basic condition of a lifestyle-related disease such as metabolic syndrome and type-2 diabetes.  Also disclosed is a method for the screening of the prophylactic and/or therapeutic agent. Specifically disclosed is a prophylactic and/or therapeutic agent for metabolic diseases, which comprises an inhibitor of PSGL-1 as an active ingredient.


1. Solution polymerizations of styrene, p-methyl-, p-ethyl-, p-tert-butyl-, m-methyl-, 2,4-dimethyl-, 2,5-dimethyl- and 3,4-dimethylstyrene were carried out at 50 and 70°C by ABIN in benzene, and the rates of polymerization and [η]'s of the polymers were determined. For 3,4-dimethylstyrene, the same equation as for styrene was obtained:R0=k[M] [ABIN]1⁄22. Rate constants of initiation of the polymerizations of styrene and p-methylstyrene were determined, according to the FeCl3-method as follows:ki=0.67×10−5 (sec−1) (for p-methylstyrene)ki=0.76×10−5 (sec−1) (for styrene)3. Polymerizations of styrene and p-methylstyrene were carried out at 70°C by the Bz2O2-DMA system, and the same equation as styrene was derived for p-methylstyrene as follows:R0=k′[Bz2O2]1⁄2[DMA]1⁄24. Polymerizations of styrene, p-methyl-, and dimethylstyrenes were carried out at 50 and 70°C by ABIN-DMA system, and the results for the rate of polymerization and the value of [η] were discussed. A correction was made for the results previousl...


In this paper we develop a Bayesian inference for a multiplicative double seasonal autoregressive (DSAR) model by implementing a fast, easy and accurate Gibbs sampling algorithm. We apply the Gibbs sampling to approximate empirically the marginal posterior distributions after showing that the conditional posterior distribution of the model parameters and the variance are multivariate normal and inverse gamma, respectively. The proposed Bayesian methodology is illustrated using simulated examples and real-world time series data.


The work presented in this thesis demonstrates a new approach to the design of integrated fluidic devices. Most 'lab-on-a-chip' are in fact 'chips-in-a-lab'. The equipment used to operate them, such as microscopes and syringe pumps, is bulky, expensive and the portability is non-existent. Fluidic devices operate on multiple domains, such a fludics, pneumatics, sensing, control, etc. By integrating the domains to a single device, cost can be reduced and portability increased. A new manufacturing process was developed to allow for the integration of multiple domains. The vast majority of fluidic devices are two-dimensional, made via soft lithography, which limits the complexity and integration of other components. Threedimensional fluidic devices can be used to create complex intricate networks and can include sensors, actuators and optics. A negative mould was 3D printed in Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS), encased in Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) before being placed in an acetone bath. Because of the swelling properties of ABS in solvents, Acetone could reach the embedded ABS. ABS was liquefied in the presence of acetone, making it possible to be flushed from the PDMS, leaving a void. Following the development of the manufacturing process, functional fluidic blocks were developed to create more complex devices based on usage. Each block was designed to perform a given task, including a photometric sensor, a proportional valve, a turbulent flow mixer, and storage wells. Using the blocks that were developed, a device designed to perform Michaelis-Menten enzyme kinetics analysis was demonstrated. The device was operated by a combination of a custom PCB and a Matlab GUI, thus creating an integrated system. Enzyme kinetics were analysed by determining the initial reaction rate of the enzyme-catalysed reactions for various concentration of its substrate. In order to determine reaction rates, it is common to monitor the opacity of the reaction product over time. This is often achieved by using a substrate (or a substrate analogue) which produces a product with a unique optical absorbance, thus the opacity of the product can be monitored by absorption spectroscopy. The experiment was repeated for multiple concentrations before the kinetics were extrapolated. The device created can perform the same task, as well as automating the mixing of any concentration necessary for the kinetic analysis, at fraction of the cost of commercial equipment. Declaration of Authorship I declare that this thesis has been composed solely by myself and that it has not been submitted, in whole or in part, in any previous application for a degree. Except where stated otherwise by reference or acknowledgement, the work presented is entirely my own. Anthony Buchoux 23/01/2020


The viability of composting as a practical alternative for disposal of the large quantities of organic wastes generated by municipalities, industry and agricultural procesSing depends, to a large degree, on adequate local markets for fished compost. In m y areas, the use of composts as soil ameadments in nearby agridtural fields offqs a large potential mark&. The benefits of adding stabilized organic xnattez on water dynamics and other physical and chemical soil properties is weU established. oftas however, these bmefits do not result in sufficient improvement in crop performance to offset the costs of producing, shipping and applying composts. When composts also supply a portion or all of the soil nutrients required by crops, thek value as a soil amendment is greatly enhanced by reducing naed for industrially produced fertilizers to produce high-yielding crops.


The actual assignment has the objective of verifying where the social marketing, making use of marketing tools will be able to join value and make the image of institutions that sponsor social activities stronger. The bibliographic study was crucial to the development of this work, once the literary concepts learnt were base for the analysis the institution studied. The results were obtained through questionnaires which were applied to Sete de Setembro School clients, it showed that the institution social projects are not recognised enough, it also displays the not recognition of the Institution ideology. Showing the institution as a private company with economical purposes only. Nevertheless, the personal advertising was identified in this research as the most important mean o communication for the company. This also emphasizes the use of social marketing for promotion of the institution real ideologies and value of social action. Key-Words: Social marketing, Social actions, Image Promotion.


We report an enantioselective palladium-catalyzed trans-hydroalkoxylation of propargylic amines with a trifluoroacetaldehyde-derived tether to build chiral oxazolidines. Diastereoselective hydrogenation using a heterogeneous palladium catalyst then gave access to protected benzylic amino alcohols in 45–87% yields and 84–94% ee values. Hydroalkoxylation of the alkynes required a catalytic amount of aryl iodide, highlighting the counterintuitive key role played by a putative Pd(II)/ArI oxidative addition complex to promote oxypalladation/protodemetalation.


existence until I941, sometimes to the right, sometimes to the left of the great stairway. From I951 to I953 a more remote area was occasionally used for display of new material, until the space was taken for offices. Thereafter no space was available until this year for display of works of art recently received at the Museum. Nor has our custom of listing gifts, bequests, and purchases in the Annual Report satisfied public interest in our current activities.


The natural history of diabetes mellitus can be arbitrarily divided into four stages based on the presence or absence of abnormal carbohydrate metabolism. Overt diabetes is the most advanced stage, characterized by elevated fasting blood glucose concentration and classical symptoms. This stage is divided into ketotic and nonketotic forms. Preceding overt diabetes is the latent or chemical diabetic stage, with no symptoms of diabetes but demonstrable abnormality of oral or intravenous glucose tolerance. Subclinical diabetes is an earlier stage when glucose tolerance is abnormal only with stress, such as pregnancy or the administration of cortisone. The earliest stage, prediabetes, extends from conception until the first demonstrable abnormality in glucose tolerance. In groups of presumed prediabetic individuals, delayed and/or decreased plasma insulin response to glucose has been noted. Progression of the diabetes may not occur, may occur very slowly or very rapidly, and regression to an earlier stage of abnormality may also occur.


Effect of cake fertilizer and renewal matched on development and quality of flue-cured tobacco leaf were studied by laboratory analysis and serial trials.The results indicated that:Application of cake fertilizer and renewal which the proportion of nitrogen content was one-to-one could increase the tobacco leaf number,plant height,leaf length and width,and improve the tobacco plant disease,accelerate growth and development of flue-cured tobacco leaf,shorten the growth one to six days for flue-cured tobacco leaf.Significant differences at the 0.05 level among treatments were found for dry matter weight of the root,leaf and the whole plant,but the significant differences at the 0.05 level among treatments were not found for dry matter weight of the stems.The dry matter content of flue-cured tobacco leaf was higher which the treatment was that nitrogen content of cake fertilizer was higher,output and value were higher,too.The average price and hierarchical structure of flue-cured tobacco leaf was higher which the treatment was that nitrogen content of renewal was higher;Application of cake fertilizer and renewal which the proportion of nitrogen content was one-to-one increased the average price and hierarchical structure of flue-cured tobacco leaf,and improved the appearance quality of the flue-cured tobacco leaf,strengthened inherent quality of flue-cured tobacco leaf,improved aroma quality,aroma volume,and other sensory index.


growth of institutional autonomy, the expansion of the tasks of the ILO, the acceptance by members of unintended consequences of policies and decisions, and the evolution of the ILO's effectiveness in influencing the behavior of its members. Haas distinguishes between the "authority" of the organization—its capacity to persuade states to perform their obligations unwillingly—and its "legitimacy"— the capacity to convince states that they should perform their obligations. He employs a set of statistical devices for measuring the development of those capacities, which, despite the inevitable imperfections of such gadgets, serve as useful indicators. He develops important insights into the means available to international organizations for influencing the policies and behavior of states, the factors affecting the sensitivity of states to pressures emanating from international bodies, the positive as well as the negative impacts of political conflict upon the evolution of the powers and the programs of such agencies as the ILO, and the possibilities of bureaucratic leadership in international organizations. In short, one finds here an impressive contribution to the theory of international integration—a contribution that appears to derive from the author's thorough investigation and imaginative utilization and interpretation of his data, without substantial indebtedness to the body of theoretical material that occupies a prominent place in the volume.


Recent findings indicate that alterations of the amygdalar resting‐state fMRI connectivity play an important role in the etiology of depression. While both depression and resting‐state brain activity are shaped by genes and environment, the relative contribution of genetic and environmental factors mediating the relationship between amygdalar resting‐state connectivity and depression remain largely unexplored. Likewise, novel neuroimaging research indicates that different mathematical representations of resting‐state fMRI activity patterns are able to embed distinct information relevant to brain health and disease. The present study analyzed the influence of genes and environment on amygdalar resting‐state fMRI connectivity, in relation to depression risk. High‐resolution resting‐state fMRI scans were analyzed to estimate functional connectivity patterns in a sample of 48 twins (24 monozygotic pairs) informative for depressive psychopathology (6 concordant, 8 discordant and 10 healthy control pairs). A graph‐theoretical framework was employed to construct brain networks using two methods: (i) the conventional approach of filtered BOLD fMRI time‐series and (ii) analytic components of this fMRI activity. Results using both methods indicate that depression risk is increased by environmental factors altering amygdalar connectivity. When analyzing the analytic components of the BOLD fMRI time‐series, genetic factors altering the amygdala neural activity at rest show an important contribution to depression risk. Overall, these findings show that both genes and environment modify different patterns the amygdala resting‐state connectivity to increase depression risk. The genetic relationship between amygdalar connectivity and depression may be better elicited by examining analytic components of the brain resting‐state BOLD fMRI signals. Hum Brain Mapp 36:3761–3776, 2015. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.


The effectiveness of surface water treatment by immersed UF membrane are investigated through pilot studies.The experimental results show that the turbidity of membrane effluent is below 0.10 NTU;the CODMn value is 2.34~3.12 mg·L-1;the number of particles bigger than 2 μm is 11~20 counts per 100 mL;bacterial are un-determined in the membrane effluent.Backwashing with air and water in short period and excluding water empty can resume the membrane running pressure at a certain extent.


In bioclimatic rooms with programmed temperatures, the rate of searching by female Trichogramma minutum Riley, T. evanescens Westwood, T. semifumatum (Perkins), and Trichogramma sp. increased as the temperature was increased from 20 to 35°C, and decreased at 40°C. Females of the different species did not differ significantly in rate of search when all were reared on Sitotroga cerealella (Olivier). However, females of T. minutum reared from eggs of Trichoplusia ni (Hubner) traveled about 40 and 50% farther at 30 and 35°C than those reared from S. cerealella. The results of this study suggest that designing a field-release program is a very complex task, as this single input of temperature alone appears to have a significant effect on the searching activity and thus on the potential effectiveness of Trichogramma in the field.


Sleep problems, a major problem for children and their parents, are the most common complaint brought to pediatric clinicians (advanced practice nurses and other healthcare providers) attention but are often ignored and underdiagnosed in the pediatric population (Faruqui, Khubchandani, Price, Bolyard, & Reddy, 2011). "Sufficient amounts of good quality sleep are necessary for healthy development in childhood" (Bordeleau, Bernier, & Carrier, 2012, p. 254). Inadequate sleep in children has been linked to numerous adverse outcomes psychologically as well as physically (Owens, Jones, & Nash, 2011). The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), issued recommendations in 2002 stating screening for snoring, one of the many sleep problems of childhood, should become a fixed component during well child exams (Erichsen et al., 2012). The purpose of this project was to promote awareness of sleep problems for preschool children aged three to five years old, in a pediatric primary care office setting by: (a) implementing a sleep problem screening project, (b) determining the prevalence of sleep problems, and (c) evaluating the sleep problem screening process. A 52question, lengthy screening was easily administered in a well-established and busy pediatric practice with little to O'Donnell, Jennifer, UMSL 2014 3 no issues and a high level of cooperation from staff, clinicians, and parents/caregivers. The result of the screening revealed that more than half (63%) of children aged three to five years old had a positive score on the Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ) indicating potential sleep problems. The most prevalent sleep problems were resistance going to bed at bedtime, child taking longer than 20 minutes to fall asleep after going to bed, child awakening once during the night, more than once during the night, and child unable to return to sleep without help after waking. O'Donnell, Jennifer, UMSL 2014 4 Acknowledgements First I would like to thank Dr. Sue Farberman who served as the chair of my committee. She was always available for questions and had calming and reassuring feedback. She never once had any doubts in my capabilities in completing the DNP project. I also want to thank Dr. Jean Bachman for being such a perfectionist when editing my papers. She truly has made me a better writer. I am also extremely grateful to Dr. Dawn Garzon; without her this project would not be coming to life. She helped me to focus my topic and allowed me to bounce ideas off of her on countless occasions. She has held a special place in my heart since having her as a teacher during my master's project. Thanks to Dr. Shalini Paruthi, the content expert for this project; without her expertise and passion I would not be where I am today. I am blessed to have met her and consider her a friend, as well as a colleague. Last but not least, thanks to Dr. Rick Yakimo for helping me to get organized and allowing me to contact him at any time. Because of him and his project class, the fog in my brain started to clear. I also thank Northwest Pediatrics, especially Dr. Bob Hoffman and the rest of the staff for allowing me to collect data and welcoming this project with open arms. O'Donnell, Jennifer, UMSL 2014 5 Obviously I wouldn't be where I am without the help of my classmates. It was such a comfort knowing they were all struggling and going through the exact same feelings. I just wish I had seen more of them once the classwork was complete. I must thank my partner in crime, Rebecca LightPearlman; we started together and will finish together. She has been a tremendous support and one of my biggest cheerleaders; I will be forever indebted to her. I cannot complete this section without thanking the most important people in my life, my family. This project is dedicated to all of you. To my husband who proofread papers he did not have a clue about what he was reading, I love you with all my heart. Going back to school was his idea and he cheered me on every step of the way. Thank you to my children, Brick and Briar. A special thank you to my daughter Briar (my tender heart) who inspired this project. Without those sleepless nights I would not be writing this now. You both have made me a better mother and I would do anything for you. I hope these past few years have shown you that you can do anything you want to do. The sky is the limit, you two. O'Donnell, Jennifer, UMSL 2014 6 Table of


. People increasingly use a wide variety of applications on their smartphones, thereby putting an ever higher burden on their phone's battery. Unfortunately, battery capacity does not keep up with the energy demand of these applications. Various solutions have been proposed to get as much work as possible done with the scarcely available energy, among which offloading heavy weight computation to cloud resources. In addition to offloading computation to cloud resources for computation intensive applications, we propose to also offload communication to cloud resources for communication intensive applications. In this paper we show that applications that monitor information on the Internet can offload the majority of their communication to cloud resources, thereby saving a significant amount of energy. Along with discussing the principle of communication offloading, we detail the design and implementation of our communication offloading component that is part of the Cuckoo Offloading Framework. We evaluate this framework with an application monitoring a subsection of any given website based on image comparison and that communication offloading saves energy on the mobile device.


Usual approaches to quantisation of a 3-Toda lead to numerical calculations requiring many steps that can be time consuming to insure their reliability. In order to reduce as much as possible the numerical part of the EKB quantisation procedure, and then to ease numerical calculations, we propose a reformulation of the mathematical framework with more adapted variables. The resulting equations and procedure might be easily imple-mented in a short Mathematica code. This more explicit framework will be useful for studying quantum Toda-Bianchi IX models in quantum cosmology where the true Bianchi IX anisotropy Hamiltonian can be approximated by a 3-particle Toda system.


This article, inspired in part by the Levine report that criticizes teacher education programs in the United States for being out of touch with practices that work in real classrooms, is a self-study that explores the rift between educational theory, particularly theory that pushes for social constructionist, child-centered approaches to teaching, and teaching practices in majority African-American, inner-city schools. The authors conducted this year-long self-study to answer the question: What could the college's education program do to improve preparation for teaching in inner-city schools? Through their year-long collaboration in a middle-school writing classroom in an inner-city charter school, the authors examined what a prospective teacher learned in his education program that helped and hindered him and then explored how the successful approaches he developed as a new teacher could be incorporated into the college's preservice program.


Plate impact and laser experiments have been conducted to study the shock wave response of aluminum 6061 T6/epoxy resin/aluminum 6061 T6 composite structure below 1 GPa. The experimental configurations have been designed so that tensile stresses are successively applied into the epoxy resin and at aluminum/epoxy resin interfaces. The computations showed mixed cohesive and adhesive failure of the composite structure. The tensile strength of the structure depends on the stress pulse duration: 270-310 MPa for plate impact experiments and above 400 MPa for laser tests. Failure has been clearly identified on the velocity profiles measured at free surface of the aluminium back plate. These results have major interest in the way to develop an adhesion test based on shock loading.


We consider the spin and charge Josephson current between two nonuniform Fulde-Ferrel-LarkinOvchinnikov superconductors with helimagnetic order. We demonstrate that the presence of the helimagnetic phase generates a spin Josephson effect and leads to additional contributions to both single-particle and Josephson charge current. It is shown that for such systems the ac effect differs more radically from the dc effect than in the case of a Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer superconductor with helimagnetic order considered earlier in the literature M. L. Kulic and I. M. Kulic, Phys. Rev. B 63, 104503 2001 where a spin Josephson current has also been found. In our system the most interesting effect occurs in the presence of an external magnetic field and in absence of voltage, where we show that the charge Josephson current can be tuned to zero while the spin Josephson current is nonvanishing. This provides a well controlled mechanism to generate a spin supercurrent in absence of charge currents.


This chapter argues that since the fetish of value is something produced kinetically, its alternative, communism, must also be something understood kinetically, that is, having its own form of motion. In particular, the previous chapters have aimed to show that what is fundamentally at stake in the difference between material production and fetishism is the transparency and direction of the form of motion. Only when the social form of motion is left fully uncovered by coats, mirrors, and fogs can it be collectively organized without devalorization, appropriation, and mystical domination. Communism is the material social condition in which production is treated not as if it were coming from what is produced but as a threefold metabolic process itself. The thesis of this chapter then is that previous social forms of motion have always relied on a certain degree of fetishism of this motion.


The invention relates to a device for controlling the air supply to nozzles working on the Venturi principle, and for switching on and off a pump of a bathtub whirlpool system that sucks in water from the bathtub and supplies it to the nozzles, in which system an actuator can be rotated in a cylindrical housing via a control knob. As a function of its rotational position, the actuator connects chambers provided with connections for the connecting lines to the nozzles to a greater or lesser degree with an inlet air channel communicating with the atmosphere. The device also contains switching means for generating switching pulses for switching the pump on or off. A simple, operationally reliable switching device for electrical devices of the bathtub whirlpool system is obtained, according to the invention, in that the switching means is a sensor key with at least one switching range which is built into the control knob and can be actuated via the top side of the latter, in that the switching ranges of the sensor key are connected via a connecting cable with a central control unit in which each switching range is allocated a bistable switching element, in that the switching elements can be alternately adjusted from one switching state to the other switching state by means of the switching pulses of the allocated switching range, and in that the pump and other electrical devices of the bathtub whirlpool system can be switched on and off by means of the switching elements.


We consider the path integral of a quantum field theory in Minkowski spacetime with fixed boundary values (for the elementary fields) on asymptotic boundaries. We define and study the corresponding boundary correlation functions obtained by taking derivatives of this path integral with respect to the boundary values. The S-matrix of the QFT can be extracted directly from these boundary correlation functions after smearing. We interpret this relation in terms of coherent state quantization and derive the constraints on the path-integral as a function of boundary values that follow from the unitarity of the S-matrix. We then study the locality structure of boundary correlation functions. In the massive case, we find that the boundary correlation functions for generic locations of boundary points are dominated by a saddle point which has the interpretation of particles scattering in a small elevator in the bulk, where the location of the elevator is determined dynamically, and the S-matrix can be recovered after stripping off some dynamically determined but non-local ``renormalization'' factors. In the massless case, we find that while the boundary correlation functions are generically analytic as a function on the whole manifold of locations of boundary points, they have special singularities on a sub-manifold, points on which correspond to light-like scattering in the bulk. We completely characterize this singular scattering sub-manifold, and find that the corresponding residues of the boundary correlations at these singularities are precisely given by S-matrices. This analysis parallels the analysis of bulk-point singularities in AdS/CFT and generalizes it to the case of multi-bulk point singularities.


Using the land surface temperature data of the MODIS Remote sensing image, we analyzed the differences before and after the 2011 Japan's M9.0 earthquake which is typical for case analysis. Change detection results in the affected area of Japan's earthquake showed that before and after the earthquake the land surface temperature data around the epicenter was changing regularly daily and monthly, and this kind of thermal infrared anomaly before earthquake could be used to predict large earthquake in the future.


This study is concerned with the development of a robust particle filtering algorithm tailored to the problem of terrain-aided positioning (TAP) via radar altimeter measurements. The Rao-Blackwellized particle filter (RBPF) is a popular particle filtering algorithm for TAP that takes advantage of the nature of the state-space model by sampling particles in a subspace of the state space, yielding more efficient estimators than the standard particle filter. Like most Monte Carlo filters, the standard RBPF uses the transition kernel as the proposal distribution during the particle update step. However, in contexts where the likelihood function is peaky, this may be highly inefficient since samples may fall in regions of low posterior probability. To address this issue, it is often advocated to use an importance sampling density that takes into account the latest observation. In a sequential importance sampling context, an optimal importance density is available but can be easily sampled only for specific state-space models, which raises the question of how to design a proposal density that is efficient yet easy to sample from. In this paper, we propose a particle filtering importance sampling method adapted to multimodal distributions. It hinges on the use of a robust proposal density as well as a cluster-based representation of the multimodal posterior. This leads to a novel marginalized particle filter, the regularized RBPF, that is evaluated on a challenging terrain positioning application.


Controversy about the teaching pattern of the Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery(VATS)was araised with the widely application of the skill.Through our practice of VATS in our hospital,a systemic training process was formed and it was proved to be effective in improving the precision and accuracy of the operation,and significantly shortening the learning curve.We summarized the experience and presented it here.


Leaves of the C4 plant maize have two major types of photosynthetic cells: a ring of five large bundle sheath cells (BSC) surrounds each vascular bundle and smaller mesophyll cells (MC) lie between the cylinders of bundle sheath cells. The enzyme ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase is encoded by nuclear rbcS and chloroplast rbcL genes. It is not present in MC but is abundant in adjacent BSC ofgreen leaves. As reported previously, the separate regions of rbcS-m3, which are required for stimulating transcription of the gene in BSC and for suppressing expression of reporter genes in MC, were identified by an in situ expression assay; expression was not suppressed in MC until after leaves of dark-grown seedlings had been illuminated for 24 h. Now we have found that transient expression of rbcS-m3 reporter genes is stimulated in BSC via a red/far-red reversible phytochrome photoperception and signal transduction system but that blue light is required for suppressing rbcS-m3 reporter gene expression in MC. Blue light is also required for the suppression system to develop in MC. Thus, the maize gene rbcS-m3 contains certain sequences that are responsive to a phytochrome photoperception and signal transduction system and other regions that respond to a UVA/blue light photoperception and signal transduction system. Various models of "coaction" of plant photoreceptors have been advanced; these observations show the basis for one type of coaction. In photosynthetic CO2 fixation ribulose-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase [Rubisco; 3-phospho-D-glycerate carboxylyase (dimerizing), EC 188.8.131.52] catalyzes the synthesis of two molecules of 3-phosphoglycerate from one of CO2 and one of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate. But the Rubisco-catalyzed reaction does not discriminate completely between CO2 and 02. This and its relatively low affinity for CO2 are surprising features for an enzyme that operates in the low CO2 partial pressures and relatively high 02 tensions of the earth's atmosphere today. However, these characteristics are not surprising for an enzyme that originated and evolved in an atmosphere rich in CO2 and poor in 02. C4 photosynthesis has evolved independently among flowering plants a number of times (1, 2) to circumvent these "deficiencies" in Rubisco. Leaves of the C4 plant maize contain two types of photosynthetic cells: bundle sheath cells (BSC) are present as a single ring of cells around each vascular bundle and mesophyll cells (MC) surround the BSC and occupy the remaining space in the leaf. CO2 is fixed first in MC by phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase to produce oxaloacetate, which is reduced to malate. The malate is transported to BSC where it is oxidatively decarboxylated. The CO2 "pumped" into BSC in malate is fixed by Rubisco. MC lack Rubisco; BSC contain Rubisco. The eight large polypeptide subunits of angiosperm Rubisco are encoded by the chloroplast rbcL gene, and the eight small subunits are encoded by a family of nuclear rbcS genes. Both The publication costs of this article were defrayed in part by page charge payment. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. §1734 solely to indicate this fact. MC and BSC in dark-grown maize seedlings contain transcripts of rbcS and rbcL. Upon illumination, the pools of rbcS and rbcL transcripts increase in size in BSC but remain constant and then decrease in MC (3). There are three photoregulated steps in these processes (4): First, expression of rbcS-m3 is stimulated in BSC during the first 24 h of illumination of dark-grown seedlings [the rbcS-m3 sequence region extending from -211 (taking the transcription start site as + 1) to +64 is sufficient (ref. 4; J.-F. Viret and L.B., unpublished data)]. Second, expression of a rbcS-m3 reporter gene is suppressed in MC of dark-grown seedlings but only if they have already been illuminated for 24 h (regions extending from -907 to -444 and from +720 to +957 are required together with the -93 to +64 sequence). The third light-requiring step is the development, during the first 24 h of illumination, of the capacity to downregulate rbcS expression in MC later. The best known plant photoperception signal transduction systems are those based on phytochrome photoreceptors (5, 6). Five genes encoding phytochrome apoproteins have been identified inArabidopsis thaliana and closely related sequences occur in other plants (reviewed in ref. 6); phytochromes A and B have different roles in controlling the elongation of etiolated hypocotyls (7, 8) and in controlling germination, seed development, and flowering in A. thaliana (9). It seems likely that the other phytochromes will also have distinct functions but it is also conceivable that a single phytochrome photoreceptor feeds into more than one signal transduction chain. Understanding these pathways is a major goal of contemporary phytochrome research. Other photomorphogenic systems are driven through UVA/blue lightand UVB-absorbing photoreceptors (10). In several species the increase in expression of rbcS upon illumination of dark-grown seedlings has been shown to be mediated by a phytochrome system (11-16). But blue light (B) is required to induce rbcS expression in tobacco cells in suspension culture (17) and to restore the levels of transcripts of two pea rbcS genes (either in situ or in transgenic petunia plants) that are reduced after the plants have been in darkness for 4 days; phytochrome is also involved for the latter (ref. 18; also see ref. 19). Transcription of rbcS in light-grown Phaseolus vulgaris increases in response to B (20). In none of these cases is it known whether signals cross over between postphotoperception signal transduction chains. In the present experiments, we have found that expression of rbcS-m3 is enhanced in BSC through a phytochrome photoperception and signal transduction system, whereas the two steps required for suppressing expression in MC are effected through one or more B-absorbing photoreceptors. A phytochrome-based system may also be involved in the two latter processes directly or indirectly. Abbreviations: R, red light; B, blue light; FR, far-red light; GUS, f3-glucuronidase; BSC, bundle sheath cell(s); MC, mesophyll cell(s). *Present address: Department of Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt. tTo whom reprint requests should be addressed.


In 3-D integrated circuits (3D-ICs), through silicon via (TSV) is a critical technique in providing vertical connections. However, the yield is one of the key obstacles to adopt the TSV-based 3D-ICs technology in industry. Various fault-tolerance structures using spare TSVs to repair faulty functional TSVs have been proposed in literature for yield and reliability enhancement, but a valid structure cannot always be found due to the lack of effective generation methods for fault-tolerance structures. In this paper, we focus on the problem of adaptive fault-tolerance structure (AFTS) generation. Given the relations between functional TSVs and spare TSVs, we first calculate the maximum number of tolerant faults in each TSV group. Then we propose an integer linear programming-based model to construct the AFTS with minimal multiplexer delay overhead and hardware cost. We further develop a speed-up technique through an efficient min-cost-max-flow model. All the proposed methodologies are embedded in a top-down TSV planning framework to form functional TSV groups and generate AFTSs. Experimental results show that, compared with state-of-the-art, the number of spare TSVs used for fault tolerance can be effectively reduced.


Sunlight is the main environmental factor influencing human skin. The sun-light's terrestrial spectrum is different from the extraterrestrial one, sunlight being changed by the filter effect of ozone


The established areas of online activity: finance, science, and now law, are characterised by the high value which they attach to information and their ability to pay for it. Outwardly this would seem to be true for the media and we would be rather surprised at their omission from this list. Indeed, one might expect that, given their close and heavy commitment to information research, information processing and packaging, and dissemination, they would make ready converts to online. Yet despite the considerable efforts expended by database vendors, who long ago targeted this potentially huge and lucrative market, they have gained little more than a foothold. Market penetration is weak, very patchy, with the case for online still, in many instances, unproven. This paper reports on initial research into online use in the media, and provides early findings from which general lessons may be learnt about the use, value, and impact of online information retrieval.


OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the effectiveness of image diagnosis methods used in the vertical location of sites elect to insert mini-implants. METHODS: The sample was composed of four patients, in which 32 inter-radicular sites were established in the subsequent area, for setting up mini-implants. These sites were represented by holes filled out with guta-percha in acetate moulder (PCg - contact point of dental crowns in the acetate moulder; PIg - point of insertion of the mini-implant in the acetate moulder). Periapical X-rays, interproximal and computerized tomographies of cone-beam, with the moulders positioned in mouth, were performed and the following points were taken into consideration: PC - radiodense image of the PCg point; PI - radiodense image of the PIg point; PCx - contact point among the determined dental crowns on the X-ray. Vertical measures used: gold-pattern from PCg to PIg; measure 1 - from PC to PI; and measure 2 - from PCx to PI. The measures were compared through descriptive analysis and test t of Student. RESULTS: For the measure 1, differences statistically significant were observed (4.1%), in relation to the gold-pattern, 25% and 100% of the appraised measures in the computerized tomographies, interproximal and periapical X-rays, respectively. For the measure 2, differences statistically significant were observed in relation to the gold-pattern (4.1%), 56.2% and 100% of the appraised measures in the computerized tomographies, interproximal and periapical X-rays, respectively CONCLUSIONS: The cone-beam computerized tomography was the most precise exam in the evaluation of the vertical position of the elect sites to install mini-implants; the interproximal X-ray can, with reservation, be also used; the periapical X-ray presented unsatisfactory results, being contraindicated for this purpose.


By analyzing the reasons for mist generated by through water cooling devices,mist collecting cover and wire mesh demister can be adopted to eliminate mist under making the most of existing equipment in Bar Mill resulting in the reduction in investment and running cost,improvement of demisting efficiency so as to ensure safety in production.


Transfusions, adrenal corticosteroids, androgens, and splenectomy in the treatment of aplastic anemia have yielded generally unsatisfactory results.1-5Although hemorrhage due to thrombocytopenia is the most common cause of death in aplastic anemia, platelet transfusions have not been commonly used. The possibility that continued administration of platelets may result in immunization of the recipient and finally refractoriness to transfusion has limited the use of platelet transfusions. However, in studies of repeated transfusions of fresh platelets from the same donor to patients with acute leukemia, only rarely was progressive resistance to platelets noted.6,7 The patient reported here received one to two platelet transfusions weekly for 14 months as prophylaxis and treatment of thrombocytopenia and hemorrhage, and the purpose of this report is to call attention to the efficacy of repeated platelet transfusions in this condition and to studies of the red cell life span during the recovery phase of his