For an area of its size, the state of Connecticut exhibits considerable diversity both in topography and in vegetation. From a geographical standpoint three well defined regions may be recognized: the Western Highland, the Eastern Highland, and the Central Lowland. The surface of the Highlands is for the most part exceedingly rugged, and in the northern part of the state, especially in the Western Highland, elevations of 300 or more meters are common. The Central Lowland is characterized, on the whole, by its gentler contours and lesser elevations. Over large areas here the surface is almost level, while the hills, as a rule, seldom reach a height of more than 75 meters. Exception to this latter statement, however, must be made in the case of the trap ridges which traverse the Lowland from north to south, dividing it lengthwise into two sections. In topography these conform with the Highlands rather than the Lowland. Geologically, as well as topographically, the Highlands contrast sharply with the Lowland. Except for limited areas of limestone, the Highlands are underlain by granites, gneisses, and schists. The Lowland rocks are sandstones and shales. Throughout the state, however, the underlying rock is in large part covered over by a mantle of glacial drift which in places is more than 50 meters in thickness. The vegetational differences between various parts of Connecticut are not so sharply or clearly defined. Moreover, the situation is complicated by the fact that practically the entire area at one time or another has been deforested, while a large share of it is at present under cultivation, so that the nature of the original plant covering has become more or less modified. Considering the vegetation of the state in its entirety, the ultimate climatic formation is a forest dominated by various deciduous trees and hemlock. Of the virgin forest scattered remnants are occasionally encountered, but for the most part the present woodlands are second growth. 143] [Botanical Gazette, vol. 56


Published theoretical predictions of selection response in closed nucleus breeding schemes are too high. Predictions need to be revised by accounting for the effects of population size and structure, selection disequilibrium, inbreeding and reduced selection differentials. A deterministic model was developed to predict response for genetically closed nucleus herd breeding schemes for beef cattle relying on multiple ovulation and embryo transfer


It is the purpose of this article to analyze the process of elaboration and implementation of the Brazilian higher education evaluation policies during the period between 1983 and 1996. Based on the reading of some official documents and based some Political Analysis referents, we demonstrate that this process develops in well-defined phases, namely, construction, formulation and implementation of policies. We point out, however, that these phases do not follow a linear order. To the contrary, they follow a complex and contradictory trajectory. As a consequence, the implementation phase did not consider and discarded the proposals and experience previously formulated by the university community, the Ministry of Education and organized society.


Traditional games are one of the cultural assets that have the characteristics of a nation's culture, character education can be formed through traditional games from an early age. This study aims to determine: 1) Implementation of strengthening character education through traditional games at Muhammadiyah Elementary School in Depok District. 2) School efforts to improve the strengthening of character education through traditional games at Muhammadiyah Elementary Schools in Depok District. This research is a field research or field research, with the type of qualitative research. The data presentation was carried out descriptively with the method of observation, interview and documentation. Data analysis refers to Miles and Huberman's model by collecting data, reducing data and presenting data. The results of this study are 1) Implementation of strengthening character education through traditional games at Muhammadiyah Elementary Schools in Depok District is carried out in local content lessons contained in RPP 2) School efforts to improve the strengthening of character education through traditional games at Muhammadiyah Elementary School in Depok District namely by providing infrastructure support used for traditional games


The experimental report is an important link of experimental teaching,but in the experiment teaching of experiment report writing there are a series of problems.In this paper the author analyzes the questions in virtual experiment experimental report,proposes the design scheme of half automated virtual experiment experimental report in the chemistry of the junior middle school,expounds the half automated experiment system structure and its functional and structural design.Finally takes " To produce oxygen on the condition of the lab" as a case to design half automated experimental report.


Abstract About up to 40% of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) will develop brain metastases during the course of disease. The prognosis for such patients is relatively poor with limited survival. In addition to the whole brain radiation therapy (WBRT), some studies have shown that chemo-agent can improve the outcome of these patients. but some long-term survivors who received WBRT develop leukoencephalopathy. Here, we report two patients who achieved complete remission of brain metastasis with pemetrexed-based chemotherapy without any radiation therapy or EGFR-TKI exposure. Case 1: A 49-year-old man was admitted to our hospital after the detection of a mass in his right lung in a routine physical examination. He did not have any disease-related symptoms. Chest CT revealed a mass of 2cm in size in the right upper lobe with ipsilateral hilar lymph node. brain MRI showed two metastatic lesions in parietal and temporal lobe. Chemotherapy was initiated with cisplatin and pemetrexed combination. After 6 cycles of chemotherapy, brain metastases and primary lung lesion disappeared. He has been in CR state for more than 3 years Case 2: A 68-year old man was referred from primary clinic to our hospital with a suspicion of pneumonia. Chest CT showed a tumor in the right upper lobe and swollen mediastinal lymph node with a bronchial obstruction. Chemotherapy was initiated with cisplatin and pemetrexed combination. After 6 cycles of chemotherapy, complete response and 18 month progression free survival were obtained in brain metastasis until last follow-up of brain MRI. The patient subsequently received maintenance therapy with pemetrexed for 14 cycles until disease progression. maximal effect in the primary lesion was partial response. Conclusion: Chemotherapy alone, with a new agent such as pemetrexed, would be a promising option for the initial treatment in NSCLC patients with asymptomatic brain metastasis.


This study reports a comparative analysis of challenges of selection and recruitment system in two private and public sectors of Iran's petrochemical industry and its impact on effectiveness of human resources management practices. A survey was conducted using the field-descriptive method. The results show that there is a significant difference among identified challenges in selection and recruitment system in two sectors. Also, the effectiveness of human resources management practices in selection and recruitment system is lower than the average level. There exists a significant difference between effectiveness level of human resources management practices in selection and recruitment system in two sectors. Studying the impact of existing challenges shows the existence of a significant and reversed relation among the existing challenges in selection and recruitment system and effectiveness of human resources management practices in this regard.


Hyperglycemia in pregnancy (HIP) is an important component of primary prevention of diabetes both globally and in Pakistan. To ensure that the opportunity of primary prevention is not missed it is important to diagnose hyperglycemia early in pregnancy. Universal screening in pregnant women at booking is recommended with its implementation at primary, secondary and tertiary levels of health care settings. These guidelines by Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (SOGP) are pragmatic addressing screening methodology, preconception care screening & diagnosis, antenatal care plan, intrapartum and postpartum management & follow up, neonatal care, breastfeeding, contraception, counseling for future pregnancy, lifestyle modification, nutritional recommendations and proper techniques for insulin injection, management of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) and recommendations for future research. There are many available guidelines for the screening, diagnosis and management of HIP. The SOGP GDM guidelines recommendations are simple, tailored to the local context especially for the busy health care providers; medical as well as nurse practitioners, for whom it is confusing to choose the recommendations from different available guidelines. These guidelines are meant to standardize clinical practice at all health care levels across the country. In order to ensure its practical utilization, a national GDM registry has been proposed and designed so as to observe its applicability in the clinical practice by health care providers.


(57) [summary] azeotrope or azeotrope-like composition in an amount effective to form a 1,1,1,2,3,4,4,5,5,5 decafluoropentane, heptane, and alcohol, such as methanol, ethanol, azeotropic or azeotrope-like composition of n- propanol or isopropanol is disclosed. Such compositions, detergents, refrigerants, aerosol propellants, heat transfer media, gaseous dielectrics, fire extinguishing agents, for polyolefins and polyurethane blowing agent, and is useful as a power cycle working fluid.


Abstract Archaeological parks provide hypothetical reconstructions that allow the general public a better historical understanding. This paper presents the case of an underwater museum, Kaş Archaeopark, which incorporates interpretative reconstructions of the Uluburun shipwreck site and its cargo. The project emphasized three outcomes of the creation of an underwater museum: education through nautical archaeology training, recreational diving as a means to raise public awareness, and research through experimental archaeology projects. Overall, the Kaş Archaeopark has improved knowledge and awareness of heritage preservation in both the local and diving communities.


. Scalar-tensor theories of gravity provide mathematically equivalent descriptions of Einstein's gravity with a scalar field, in a conformally connected spacetime, described in terms of the Jordan frame and the Einstein frame. In this paper, we use the Jordan frame-Einstein frame correspondence to explore dual universes with contrasting cosmological evolutions. We study the mapping between Einstein and Jordan frames where the Einstein frame universe effectively describes the late-time evolution of the physical universe, driven by dark energy and non-relativistic matter. The Brans-Dicke theory of gravity is taken to be the dual scalar-tensor theory in the Jordan frame. We show that the standard Einstein frame universe, with dark energy and non-relativistic matter, always corresponds to a bouncing Jordan frame universe, if it is governed by a Brans-Dicke theory. This essentially leads to an alternative description of the late-time evolution of the physical universe, in terms of a bouncing Brans-Dicke universe in the Jordan frame. Previous studies have shown that for a bouncing Jordan frame, particularly for an early-time accelerating phase of the universe, the map between the Einstein and Jordan frames may become singular in the perturbative regime, causing the conformal correspondence to break down. In order to check whether the present bouncing model for late-time acceleration is free of such instabilities, we study the evolution of scalar metric perturbations. The Jordan frame metric perturbations are numerically solved, first via pulling the perturbations in the Einstein frame using the conformal correspondence, and then directly in the Jordan frame. The evolutions of perturbations obtained in these two cases are in a good agreement. Thus, the duality between the Einstein frame, mimicking the physical universe,


Public pension schemes are most often discussed from a social welfare and public policy point of view. Nevertheless, the design of public pensions should also be taken into close consideration by companies planning and designing private pension plans for their employees. Social security and private pensions are both very important parts of retirement resources for the vast majority of the population and the adequacy of these resources thus depends not only on the generosity of social security but also on the financial commitment employers choose to make to private arrangements. In this sense, private pensions come to complement social security benefits and, in many cases, they are either explicitly or implicitly integrated with public provision. In many countries, private pension designers consider projected social security benefits and contributions when defining their overall benefit strategy. It is vital, nevertheless, that more employers take into account the specificities of first pillar pensions in each country so as to develop benefit packages that complement social security benefits effectively. Accordingly, in the following paper we will examine and analyze social security systems across eight developed nations (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, UK and US). We have based our comparison on three key aspects: the generosity of state benefits; whether the focus rests on the insurance or redistributive role of social security; and the long term sustainability of public pensions. We will show that the way in which these aspects are defined and interact have different implications in terms of how companies plan and design the retirement benefits offered to employees.


Future Anterior Volume XI, Number 1 Summer 2014 Only a year following the untimely death of Melvin Charney (1935–2012) comes On Architecture: Melvin Charney, a Critical Anthology. Thoroughly researched and impeccably organized (both in terms of the book's overall structure and its visual presentation), this new anthology is most welcome, as it offers the first systematic compilation of Charney's essays, which made significant contributions to architectural culture over the past decades, both in Canada and internationally. On Architecture is divided into six parts, each preceded by a brief introductory essay by architectural historian Louis Martin, and brings together chronologically more than thirty texts written by Charney between 1962 and 1989 (a few are unpublished manuscripts or appear in English translation here for the first time).1 The book also includes two recent interviews, a short biographical entry, as well as three essays by George Baird, Georges Adamczyk, and Réjean Legault. The essays, grouped under the heading "Critical Contexts," offer fresh, appreciative insights into the work of the artist, architect, and educator. They are particularly useful for anchoring Charney in the cultural scene of his native Montreal, where he resettled after studying in the United States and traveling abroad. In the early 1960s, the young Charney journeyed to Turkey and rural Italy and recorded his impressions of these places in a series of articles. Along with texts documenting his critical engagement with the nascent pop art scene and the new developments of modernist architecture, these articles are grouped in the section titled "Beginnings." This section is particularly significant as it shows Charney's early interest in architecture as "image" and his fascination with the vernacular (in Quebec and abroad)— both of which would thread throughout his lengthy career. For Charney, vernacular buildings such as the rockcut houses of Göreme or the trulli of Apulia conveyed a valuable sense of identity "at a time when humanity is losing touch with its environment."2 As Martin points out, Charney's early interest in the vernacular is no doubt symptomatic of the humanism and the search for an alternative to the orthodox modernism of the architectural scene of this period (one thinks, of course, of Bernard Rudofsky, whose famous Architecture without Architects exhibition to which Charney explicitly refers, but also of Team 10 members Aldo van Eyck and Peter and Alison Smithson). Although Charney professes a genuine Book Review Nicola Pezolet On Architecture: Melvin Charney, a Critical Anthology


A compressed air energy storage system according to the embodiments of the present invention comprises a reversible mechanism to compress air and to expand one or more compressed-air storage tank, a control system, one or more heat exchangers, and in certain embodiments of the invention, a motor-generator. The reversible air compressor expander use mechanical power to compress air (when operating as a compressor) and converts the energy stored in the compressed air, mechanical energy (when operating as an expander). In certain embodiments, the compressor-expander comprises one or more stages, each stage consisting of a pressure vessel (the "pressure cell") is partially filled with water or other liquids. In some embodiments, the pressure vessel communicates with one or more cylinder devices to exchange air and liquid with the cylinder chamber (chambers). Suitable valves (valve timing) allow air into and from the pressure cell and cylinder device enter and exit, if present, with an electronic control.


The determination of the formative needs is essential condition for the programs design and pedagogical orientation strategies. The article presents a descriptive analysis of the teacher's formation needs of the novel professors. It was determined in a population of 96 individuals by means of the application of a questionnaire designed and validated beforehand by the authors. For the descriptive statistician's calculations, it was used the professional software SPSS 15.0 in the data's analysis. The study was developed from a quantitative position following the methodology of opinion poll investigation that made possible the characterization of the formation needs of the novel professors at the University of Ciego de Avila.


This study aims to find: 1) student learning outcomes before using the media in the material audiovisual Greenery on science lesson in class V SDN Mekargalih I; 2) student learning outcomes after the use of audiovisual media in the material Greenery on a science lesson in class V SDN Mekargalih I; and 3) the significant student learning outcomes among students before using Audiovisual media with students after using the material Audiovisual media Greenery on a science lesson in class V SDN Mekargalih I. The method used in this study is an experimental method with quantitative approach and design research using one group pretest-posttest design. The results showed: the learning outcomes before using audio-visual media to produce an average value of 44.81 ± 14.76 were under the KKM and outcomes after using audio-visual media to produce an average value of 75.32 ± 12.357 is above the KKM. There are differences in learning outcomes prior to learning after learning using audio-visual media, outcomes after using audio-visual media (75.23) higher than before using audiovisual (44.81) and hence improved outcomes after using the media audio-visual amounted to 0.5668 the medium category. Recommendations put forward include 1) the expected Teachers, Students, Principals to play an active role in the implementation and use of Audiovisual Media in the process of learning and teaching; 2) Teachers should design their own so that the media made in accordance with the desired learning objectives. Likewise in use in order to provide the maximum benefit, teachers should be able to use for their intended use; 3) recommended to conduct further research to interested parties with this research with a variety of treatment variables.


Results A total of 1,389 consecutive patients with STEMI were assessed by the emergency medical services (EMS) and referred for primary PCI: 822 (59.2%) were referred directly from the field to a PCI center, and 567 (40.8%) were transported to a non–PCI-capable hospital first. Death at 180 days occurred in 5.0% of patients transferred directly from the field, and in 11.5% of patients transported from the field to a non–PCI-capable hospital (p 0.0001. After adjusting for baseline characteristics in a multivariable logistic regression model, mortality remained lower among patients referred directly from the field to the PCI center (odds ratio: 0.52, 95% confidence interval: 0.31 to 0.88, p 0.01). Similar results were obtained by using propensity score methods for adjustment.


To clarify recruitment patterns of Photinia glabra, which is an evergreen, broad-leaved, bird-dispersed tree species, we analyzed spatial distribution in P. glabra recruits at each growth stage and demography of current-year seedlings with respect to distributions of adults in a warm-temperate secondary forest, western Japan. Although individuals ≥ 5 cm diameter at breast height (DBH) that had nearly produced fruits showed a random distribution, seedlings (≥ 1 year old, < 10-cm stem length [SL]), small saplings (10 ≤ SL < 30 cm) and large saplings (≥ 30-cm SL, < 5-cm DBH) were clumped and associated with reproductive adults at approximately 2–3-m scales, nearly equal to their average crown radius. Based on monitoring the demography of current-year seedlings, emerged seedling density profoundly decreased, and no seedlings survived at longer than an adult's crown scales, with distance-dependent mortality as a result of disease and herbivory not greatly affecting the current-year seedling mortality. Thus, aggregated seed dispersal under the crown of adult P. glabra would directly influence the distribution of recruits for P. glabra in this forest. Of the bird-dispersed tree species in this forest, P. glabra produced the highest amount of fruits during large crop years, and their fruits ripened during the late seasonal period (early January), suggesting that birds might be strongly attracted to these species, in turn leading to seeds being deposited mostly under the tree crowns. We propose that dispersal limitation would occur, even in a bird-dispersed tree species such as P. glabra, owing to plant–bird interactions in the forest.


The simplified quasi-cubics function is used quite common in the ordinary differential equation, which is used to describe the biological neuron model. As complexity of the biological neuron model, its analytical solution hardly can be solved in common situation. Numerical solution of the model is very important in reality. Three fast convergence methods are proposed for the simplified function by means of changing the step size of the classical Euler method in this manuscript. The results obtained are pretty good. First method is to correct the step size of two directions. Second method is to correct and encrypt two directions' step size. And the last method is to search unidirectional step size. On one hand, the feasibility of the three methods are proved based on the theoretical analysis. On the other hand, numerical results and comparison show that the advised three methods are effective to get the numerical solution with small population size, enhanced convergence speedup and improved precision.


Simultaneous measurements of stress relaxation and differential dynamic modulus were made at 268K for nearly monodisperse polybutadiene (Mw=2.2×105, 1,2-structure 70%, Me=3.6×103) and also one having coarse cross-linking (Mc=2.6×104) in double-step large shearing deformations with intermittently superposed small oscillations at a frequency of 0.1Hz, which falls in the middle of the rubbery plateau zone of the polymer. The first and the second strains, γ1 and γ2, were applied with a time interval t1. γ1 was constant 1.0. γ2 was varied from 1.0 to −2.0. t1 was 1000s being several times longer than τk, after which time-strain separability relationship holds in nonlinear relaxation modulus. Relaxation of stress after the second strain did not agree with BKZ prediction at −(3/2) γ1<γ2<0 for the uncross-linked sample, but it agreed at any γ2 for the corss-linked sample. At −(3/2) γ1<γ2<0, the uncross-linked sample showed irreversible change in the height of rubbery plateau, while the cross-linked sample showed reversible change. Such the differences between the two samples are discussed in terms of the two origins for nonlinear viscoelasticity of well entangled polymers, chain anisotropy and disentanglement.


This article concludes the first detailed study of judicial liens under New York law in over forty years, and the very first since New York inacted the CPLR in 1963. The study concludes that New York law on this matter is highly absurd and arbitrary. The article includes a detailed look at how New York judicial liens on personal property interact with Article 9 security interests, tax liens and bankruptcy proceedings.


The Professional Nurse Advocate (PNA) programme is a clinical and professional leadership programme delivered by Higher Education Institutions (HEI) which equips nurses with the skills to deliver restorative clinical supervision to colleagues in England. The programme has been gradually rolled out across England during 2021/22 with the aim of ensuring there will be PNAs in place to support colleagues in the following specialties: Critical care, Mental Health (Adult Acute & Children and Young Peoples inpatient settings) Community, Learning Disabilities (Adult), Children and Young People, Safeguarding, Health & Criminal Justice settings (HCJ), and International Nurses. In February 2022, NHSE sought an evaluation of the PNA programme. A research team from Coventry University was commissioned to undertake this work. This Executive Summary Report sets out the methods, activities, findings, and recommendations as requested by commissioners.


I s there a culture-general definition of intercultural communication competence? Or does it have to be defined differently in each culture (i.e., is it culture-specific)? In 1989, we were invited to present a conference paper that dealt with these questions. We then proposed that intercultural communication competence was both culture-general and culture-specific, and furthermore, culture synergistic (Cupach & Imahori, 1989). Speci fically, we argued that people's ability to behave effectively (i.e., achieve personal goals) and appropriately (i.e., treat others politely) are culturally universal standards for intercul tural competence. Different cultures, however, have different expectations regarding which communicative behaviors are considered effec tive and socially appropriate. Moreover, we maintained that intercultural communication competence is also culture-synergistic because relational partners are able to negotiate their own idiosyncratic ways of behaving compe tently within their relationship (Imahori & 1989) and this relationally negotiated compe tence reflects a synergy between the individual partners' distinct cultural expectations for competence. Identity management theory (IMT; Cupach & Imahori, 1993) was then conceptualized based on this relational and culture-synergistic view of competence. It was also heavily influ enced by other identity-based theories of intercultural communication, such as iden tity negotiation theory (Ting·Toomey, 1988, 1993) and, particularly, cultural identity 195


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None of the textbooks available to me mentioned the treatment of kerion celsi with CO 2 therapy. I have attempted to treat this condition by the usual methods of compresses, antibiotics by mouth, and locally in the past, with resultant slow healing. About four years ago, I began treating all kerions with solid CO 2 applications, using a pencil of approximately 2 to 2.5 cm. in diameter and firm pressure for 25 seconds to a sufficient number of areas to cover the kerion and a 0.5 cm. margin around it. The patients experience considerable discomfort for a period of a few minutes following the treatment. The lesion becomes quite edematous but subsides in a few days with hot compresses and antibiotic ointment. In about 10 days the kerion is usually entirely healed. An occasional lesion requires additional treatment to one or two small areas two weeks after the


A paper presented at the Transportation Research Board annual meeting described research that attempted to develop a mathematical model that could predict truck accidents based on a number of factors primarily related to the design of the roadway. The model was based on different highway types for the State of Utah using a newly developed highway safety data base from the Federal Highway Administration called 'Highway Safety Information System.' Factors used in developing the model are described. It is noted that little documentation exists that relates to the design and operation of the highway system, and that it is very difficult to perform valid research with the limitations that exist.


In Wireless Sensor Networks sensor nodes are used to sense the environment to collect important information. These tiny sensor nodes are generally battery operated and deployed randomly out of human reach. Thus efficient utilization of battery power is an important issue. In this paper, we proposed a new protocol: Energy Sensitive Routing Protocol (ESRP) for Wireless Sensor Networks, which introduces a new clustering technique in order to select cluster heads. In ESRP, we grouped the sensor nodes of a network into four classes based on their initial and residual energy. Node belongs to higher level energy class having greater probability to become a cluster head. This technique introduces a balanced and dynamic method where the cluster head election probability is more efficient. Simulation results prove that ESRP successfully achieves a long stability period, network lifetime and better average throughput than existing protocols like LEACH and SEP.


doctors with a kindliness, a tolerance and large understanding, the skill of hand, the skill of mind and the resourcefulness of a past generation. Where are the successors of van Swieten, John Hunter and Benjamin Rush or, in more modern terms, of Neusser, Osler and Billings? The Greek world sank as it grew in democratic principle-not in the abstract principle of democracy but in the concrete expression of it which substituted for its earlier rulers, proficient in ithe arts and sciences, the ever increasing number of non-productive Athenian traders. I s the efficiency of modern medical practice riding to a similar fall? Let us be honest with ourselves. If medicine fails it can not be ascrill~d to our stars, for our 'time, as all ages before it, in the hour of sickness anci death cries as did Jeremiah: "Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there?"


The present invention epoxy resin composition that requires no conductive circuit layer, and a component to increase the harmony in the insulating layer of the build-up method the multilayered printed circuit board of the built up with an insulating layer in turn worsen the performance to form a good conductor layer adhesion, this provides a multilayer printed wiring board and a method used. An epoxy resin having two or more epoxy groups in a molecule (A), Phenolic curing agent (B), A phenoxy resin having a bisphenol S skeleton having a weight average molecular weight of 5,000 to 100,000 (C) and In the epoxy resin composition of the curing accelerator (D) as essential components, particularly that containing a phosphorus atom is an epoxy resin (A) and the phenolic curing agent (B) contains a nitrogen atom, and the phenoxy resin (C) bisphenol this is more suitable when the epoxy resin composition having a S skeleton and a biphenyl skeleton. Further, a method of manufacturing a multilayered printed circuit board with coating, impregnated prepreg and those in the supporting the epoxy resin composition of the invention in which the adhesive film formed on the base film, a sheet-shaped reinforcing substrate of the epoxy resin composition of the present invention into a fiber . An epoxy resin, an adhesive film, a prepreg, a multilayer printed wiring board, the phenolic curing agent, a curing accelerator


COVID-19 had been declared a pandemic in March 2020. The disease has caused destruction all around the world. Symptomatic treatment, supportive care, isolation and experimental measure are the most important ways to manage this disease. However, 81% of the COVID-19 patients showed mild-to-moderate symptoms such as fever, cough, nasal congestion, fatigue, sore throat, loss of smell and loss of taste etc. Patients with mild-to-moderate symptoms may not need hospitalization because most of them will be able to manage their sickness at home through medication or supportive care. It will be useful to take both preventive measures and substances that boost the immunity while rest at home. Ministry of AYUSH in India recommended several approaches for preventive health care to boost immunity and respiratory health: following yoga and meditation plus intake of a few medicinal-plant-based compounds such as those from turmeric (Curcuma longa), cumin (Cuminum cyminum) and coriander (Coriandrumsativum) etc., once or twice a day. C. longa has been one of the most commonly used remedy for symptoms during COVID-19 pandemic in India. Based on existing scientific evidences, C. longa has been proved to be a potent anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory, immunomodulatory and antioxidant source, as well as a medicinal plant effective for respiratory disorders. In this review, scientific evidence of C. longa phytochemicals responsible for pharmacological activities are presented using in silico, in vitro and in vivo models. This review also discusses the disease COVID-19 and its causative virus SARS-CoV-2.


The Cray Scientific Library (libsci) implementation of the linear algebra package LAPACK differs from the standard netlib version in several important and occasionally annoying ways. The latest LAPACK releases, LAPACK 3 and LAPACK 95, include new subroutines not in libsci, new tests that better exercise the existing software, and new Fortran 90 interfaces that allow dynamic memory allocation of scratch space. On the other hand, libsci features performance enhancements to parts of LAPACK and years of software engineering that have filtered out some IEEE arithmetic bias in the original code. This paper presents highlights of a publically available LAPACK 3 supplement to libsci that attempts to strike a balance between the new and the old. It also introduces LAPACK 95, a Fortran 90 interface to LAPACK, and presents several open issues related to the linking of Fortran 90 modules.


In plants, solar energy is used to extract electrons from water, producing atmospheric oxygen. This is conducted by Photosystem II, where a redox "triad" consisting of chlorophyll, a tyrosine, and a manganese cluster, governs an essential part of the process. Photooxidation of the chlorophylls produces electron transfer from the tyrosine, which forms a radical. The radical and the manganese cluster together extract electrons from water, providing the biosphere with an unlimited electron source. As a partial model for this system we constructed a ruthenium(II) complex with a covalently attached tyrosine, where the photooxidized ruthenium was rereduced by the tyrosine. In this study we show that the tyrosyl radical, which gives a transient EPR signal under illumination, can oxidize a manganese complex. The dinuclear manganese complex, which initially is in the Mn(III)/(III) state, is oxidized by the photogenerated tyrosyl radical to the Mn(III)/(IV) state. The redox potentials in our system are comparable t...


We present results from STAR for Au+Au 19.6 GeV and Cu+Cu 22.4 GeV collisions from previous RHIC runs. Particle spectra for π±, K±, p and p̄ are studied as a function of mT −m0. We report on the K/π and p/π ratios from these collisions. Freeze-out parameters from both chemical freeze-out and kinetic freeze-out are extracted from the spectra. We make systematic comparisons with the data from 7.7, 11.5 and 39 GeV Au+Au collisions taken in 2010 during the RHIC Beam Energy Scan.


Email from Bruce Ehresman to James J. Dinsmore regarding Bald Eagle nest locations, August 4, 2000. Includes the locations and status of several Bald Eagle nests across the state. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists' Union Quarterly field report of summer 2000.


The factors which must be considered for making reasonably valid generalizations about the accomplishments of Soviet education are multiple and complex, a situation which has not limited the flow of reports. Excluding newspaper commentary, about 300 articles, booklets, and books on Soviet education were published in the United States in the post-Sputnik period 1957-1960; perhaps somewhat less, but a substantial number were published in 1960-1963. An uncomfortably large number of these reports appear lacking when measured against standards of adequate development of source materials and valid criteria for evaluation.


The Peace of Illusions: American Grand Strategy from 1940 to the Present, Christopher Layne, Cornell Studies in Security Affairs; Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2006, pp. 304, xi. In The Peace of Illusions, Christopher Layne explores the issue of American grand strategy, past, present and future. Adopting a classical realist approach, which incorporates both domestic politics and external security concerns, Layne offers provocative conclusions about the nature of American foreign policy and the challenges facing the country in the years to come. This book contributes to a debate that began with the end of the Cold War. It was eclipsed by September 11, but has re-emerged as scholars have begun to contemplate the limits of US hegemony and the need for coherent strategy.


Let denote the set of all polynomials of the form with and , . In this paper, we show that in for all polynomials . For , this reduces to a result due to Aziz and Zargar.


The chapter addresses homeostasis and novelty on an organizational level. The successful Dutch regional networks (in Dutch: voortgezet onderwijs–hoger onderwijs netwerken) may serve as a best practice in Europe, and are strongly supported by the Ministry of Education and the National Platform Science & Technology (Platform Bèta Techniek). The Northern Netherlands Regional Network (in Dutch: Netwerk Noord), one of eleven Dutch regional networks, covers three provinces and brings together five universities, forty schools and a number of companies, reaching out to over 5000 pupils and 300 teachers with a yearly agenda of formal and informal learning activities with a strong local identity. The Dutch network approach has grown from one of the world's highest performing educational systems, that of the Netherlands. As the OECD stated, 'the excellence of the Netherlands is evidenced by its strong average performance and few low performers in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC). A leading principle in the Dutch educational system is how it balances a remarkable degree of freedom at the level of schools alongside strong national accountability mechanisms. And it is this that enables new balances of homeostasis and novelty. The chapter will critically discuss how a regional collaboration developed over the last ten years and describe the overall short term, medium, and long term impacts against a theoretical backdrop provided by OECD and (the former) Noyce foundation key publications.


According to Sir George Grierson, one of the pre-eminent Indologists of the early twentieth century, Ramanand led 'one of the most momentous revolutions that have occurred in the religious history of North India.'Yet Ramanand, the fourteenth-century teacher of Banaras, has been conspicuous by his relative absence in the pages of English-language scholarship on recent Indian history, literature, and religion. The aims of this essay are to reflect on why this is so, and to urge historians to pay attention to Ramanand, more particularly to the reinvention of Ramanand by his early twentieth-century followers, because the contested traditions thereof bear on the vexed issue of caste and hierarchy in colonial India. The little that is known about Ramanand is doubly curious considering that Ramanandis, those who look to Ramanand for spiritual and community inspiration, are thought to comprise the largest and most important Vaishnava monastic order in north India. Ramanandis are to be found in temples and monasteries throughout and beyond the Hindi-speaking north, and they are largely responsible for the upsurge in Ram-centered devotion in the last two centuries. A fairly recent anthropological examination of Ayodhya, currently the most important Ramanand pilgrimage center in India, has revealed that Ramanandi sadhus, or monks, can be grouped under three basic headings: tyagi (ascetic), naga (fighting ascetic), and rasik (devotional aesthete).4 The increased popularity of the order in recent centuries is such that Ramanandis may today outnumber Dasnamis, the better-known Shaiva monks who look to the ninth-century teacher, Shankaracharya, for their organizational and philosophical moorings.


Objective To study the relationships between nephritic gene expression of scavenger receptor A,lipid metabolism and pathology in adriamycin nephrosis rats.Methods Injecting of adriamycin in veins of the rat′s tail was used to make adriamycin nephrosis model,PCR and RT-PCR were used to measure the gene expression levels of scavenger receptor A in different groups.Results Compared with control group,protein excretory quantity in adriamycin nephrosis group was significantly increased(P0.05),the levels of serum total protein and albumin were remarkedly decreased(P0.05), while the levels of TG,TC,HDL,LDL,ApoA,ApoB were increased((P0.05)).The gene expression value of scavenger receptor A in adriamycin nephrosis group(0.74±0.14) was higher than that in control group(1.17±0.13)(P0.01).Glomerulus epithelium foot appeared confluence,endodermis cells proliferated,in some serious ones the basis membrane of glomerulus was unclear,endodermis cell was archoid observed under electron microscope in adriamycin nephrosis rats.Conclusion The gene expression value of scavenger receptor A is lower in normal rats,and the high value of scavenger receptor A is closely related to abnormal of lipid metabolism in adriamycin nephrosis rats.It is also one of the main reasons of pathologic changes of the kidney.


The carbide precipitation of 2.25Cr-1Mo-0.25V steel is studied during the head-fabrication heat treatment process using gold replica technique, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and selected area electron diffraction (SAED). Shapes, structures and sizes of carbides before and after heat treatment are analyzed. The dissolution of strip-shaped carbides and the precipitation of granular carbides are confirmed. Amorphous films at the boundaries of carbides are observed by high-resolution transmission electron microscope (HRTEM), which is formed due to the electron irradiation under TEM.


The utility model relates to a blind insertion type tracheal inside inserting tube, which belongs to a tracheal inside inserting tube. One end of the tracheal inside inserting tube is spaced and provided with two air bags; the air bag closing to the end in the two air bags can inflate toward the inside of the inside inserting tube and the outside of the inside inserting tube; the other air bag only can inflate toward the outside of the inside inserting tube; holes are on the inside inserting tube between the two air bags; the other end of the tracheal inside inserting tube is provided with two valve mouths; the two valve mouths are respectively communicated with the two air bags through thin tubes. The tracheal inside inserting tube has the advantages of simple structure, high use correct rate and the time of emergency treatment saving. The utility model which is inserted in esophagus or trachea can both establish effectively artificial airways. When the utility model is used, special trainings are not needed, and accuracy operation can be achieved.


of gassing by hydrocyanic acid in industry are few, but when poisoning does occur death comes on so rapidly that urgent and energetic treatment is necessary. It is all the more important therefore that the mechanism of poisoning and the principles underlying successful treatment should be widely known. In this monograph on cyanide poisoning Dr. Paulet brings to bear his wide and intensive experience as biochemist, physiologist, pharmacologist, and clinician, and the result is a peculiarly well-balanced and satisfying discussion of the many facets of the subject. He points out that it was a big step in the understanding of cyanide poisoning when Warburg in 1927 showed that it is not an asphyxia but an anoxia caused by the inhibition of cellular respiration. Experiments on the whole animal,


Before I turn to some meditations on the normative complexity of evaluating submissions, let me note a transition in our body of editors. After five years of exemplary service, marked by unexcelled promptness and incisiveness, Peter Vallentyne is departing the group of associate editors. In addition to having helped us maintain our very high standards, Peter has tirelessly campaigned for greater conciseness in what we publish—an effort that, as I will explain below, the journal fully supports.Wewill greatly miss him. I am very pleased to announce that, to fill the gap that his departure leaves in our coverage of political philosophy, we have been able to recruit Christopher Heath ð"Kit"Þ Wellman as an associate editor. One of our most loyal manuscript reviewers, Kit has authored many books in political philosophy and many articles on that subject in this journal. We look forward to working with him. Perhaps—who knows?—his knack for writing prize-winning philosophical essays will rub off on some of the articles he handles as an editor. To be sure, having an article published in Ethics may rightly be viewed as a prize in itself. Our acceptance rate remains around 5 percent. Although an increase in our page allotment has allowed us to publish a few more articles, their quality has not declined. My predecessor as editor in chief, John Deigh, rankled at the now-common practice of publishing information about the most cited and most downloaded articles because he firmly believed, on solid grounds, that all of the articles we publish are good. Then as now, all are selected by a triple-blind peer-review process which requires passing, as an additional final step, a vote by the associate editors. Papers that pass this gauntlet can be pretty well guaranteed to be of high quality. Suppose that you grant this rather self-congratulatory thought that the papers published here are of high quality. Youmight now ask whether our review process guarantees that the papers we accept are the highest in quality of those submitted. Insofar as this is a new question, the question is to be resisted: an abstract standard of "highest comparative quality" is a will-o'-the-wisp. A failure to recognize this seems to underlie commonmisapprehensions about the journal review process.


Abstract Background: Linking and analysing large volumes of health data in electronic records, datasets, registries and biobanks can provide detailed insights into the health profiles of individuals, communities, regions and national populations. Good governance for data sharing can be challenging, particularly when private sector organisations are the recipients of public sector data. Many jurisdictions have responded by instituting new regulations and laws related to data protection, responding to calls to promote data sharing and manage associated risks. This review integrates and interprets five years of research on public and patient perspectives on sharing publicly-held health data with private industry for research and development. Our review question was: what are community attitudes towards the use of government administrative health data by private industry organisations for therapeutic development? Methods : We developed two logic grids: first, used terms describing citizens or patients, big data, private health sector and views or perspectives, second, used terms describing big data, social licence and public interest. We conducted a systematic literature search using electronic databases; PubMed, Scopus, CINAHL, Web of Science. Searches were conducted using Google Advanced and Google Scholar to identify grey literature Results: A total of 6,788 articles were screened based on title and abstract. Full text screening was conducted for 224 articles and a total of 33 publications were identified. Across all studies, support for sharing administrative health data with private sector organisations was low. Background knowledge and lack of trust that data use would lead to public benefit were the most important reasons for low level of support. Conclusion: Policymakers, data custodians and companies will need to establish robust safeguards including secure storage, anonymisation, monitoring and independent oversight, and institute and implement sanctions on misuse, if they are to secure legitimacy to share publicly-held health data with private industry for research and development. Registration none available


Major heavy equipment in the nuclear power plant such as reactor vessel and steam generator are installed utilizing large size anchor bolts which are greater than 2 in. in diameter and 25 in. in embedment depth into concrete. While the tensile behavior of smaller anchors has been studied extensively the world over, large anchors have not been adequately addressed. Tests of large anchors in tension were performed to develop design criteria and to evaluate the effectiveness of capacity prediction method developed for small anchors. According to the test results, the concrete capacities can be predicted by the ACI 349-01, and they can be increased by the supplementary reinforcements designed by a strut-tie model.


The chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), encompass a wide spectrum of diseases, characterized by both intestinal and extra-intestinal manifestations. From the early days of IBD genetic studies, the goals have included identification of healthy relatives at high risk of disease development and recognition of patients at risk for a severe disease course. To make progress on the path to personalized medicine, genetic polymorphisms or stable biomarkers are highly sought after in the profiling of IBD patients. A genetic test with high specificity has the potential to alter the treatment course of a subset patients, as shown in the case of thiopurine S-methyl transferase genotyping.1 At present, it is impossible to confidently predict a patient's future disease burden.2 In referral center studies, certain clinical features are indicative of a more complicated disease (younger age at diagnosis, perianal disease, steroid requirement at diagnosis [CD], endoscopic severity of ulcerations and inability to achieve mucosal healing [CD/UC]), but their therapeutic application in patient stratification for "top‐down" strategies is still debated.3 Considering that mucosal healing is overtaking symptoms as the real therapeutic goal, with a true potential for modification of the disease course, diagnostic tests, able to accurately predict the mucosal response to treatment and the longevity of this response, will be required to successfully personalize treatment. 4 Biomarkers like C-reactive protein are proving useful in monitoring disease activity (including mucosal healing) in patients treated with infliximab and early normalization of C-reactive protein correlates with long-term response. 5 The utility of biomarkers (including fecal calprotectin and serum antiglycan antibodies) was the subject of a recent GASTROENTEROLOGY review. 6 In this article, we outline how some of the recent advances in our understanding of the genetic susceptibility to IBD may start to impact on therapy of our patients.


This work compiles hydroacoustic recordings and catch data over Senegambia (Senegal and The Gambia) from assessment surveys on the major clupeid species to identify sources of bias in abundance estimates caused by their horizontal distribution. The latitudinal distribution of small pelagic fish is often well known, while their "across shelf" distribution on the continental shelf is less understood. The southern part of the Senegambian shelf has a wide shallow water ( ) of the total shelf surface, while the northern part accounts for 3% (200 NM2 ). These areas are not assessed by conventional fisheries acoustics surveys and therefore increase the uncertainty of the assessment of these species. Our findings show that this likely introduces a bias in the assessment of Sardinella maderensis , while for S. aurita no major estimation-error is caused by their horizontal distribution. The data confirm that Ethmalosa fimbriata and Ilisha africana are challenging to assess by conventional surveys, due to their mostly inshore distribution. We emphasise the usefulness of assessing S. aurita through fisheries independent hydroacoustic surveys, and propose alternative methods to survey shallow water areas to reduce biases in biomass estimates and distribution mapping.


Development of auto industry leads to parking difficulty and traffic jam in the city, which decreases operating efficiency of the city and happiness of people. Under the circumstances, parking space is planned on both sides of roads, by which the traffic jam is relieved to a certain extent. But some problem exists in management of the parking space as follows: Firstly, the management cost is high such as Human Resources investment. Secondly, rate of received fees (about 30 percent) is low because many car owners don't pay parking fees consciously. For the above problems, in this paper, the road intelligent parking request is firstly analyzed, and then an intelligent management and fee collecting solution for the road parking based on IoT is put forward. Besides, a management and control platform of road intelligent parking is designed. Finally key technologies for this system are analyzed. The purpose is to realize intelligent management, lower management cost, and higher fee collecting rate for the road parking.


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Background. When creating an effective reservoir pressure maintenance system, unstable spontaneous hydraulic fractures can be created in injection wells. This can both negatively and positively affect hydrocarbon production. First, fracture improves reservoir connectivity, which increases injection efficiency. On the other hand, unstable fractures can cause behind-the-casing flows and unproductive injection into off-target layers or fingering.

Goal. The paper is devoted to the analysis of well testing (PTA) and production logging (PLT) improvement for the diagnosis of unstable fractures in injection wells.

Materials and methods. The analysis is based on the results of modeling the pressure in the reservoir system, describing the penetration reservoirs by an unrestricted conductivity unstable fracture. It is taken into account that the fracture can cross both the perforated formation and the thickness not penetrated by the perforation, and can grow with increasing overbalance.

The modeling results made it possible both to assess the potential informative capabilities of well testing and to substantiate recommendations for the practical use of the obtained results.

Conclusions. The proposed approaches to the technology of well testing and production logging and the interpretation of their results make it possible to estimate the additional thicknesses of the reservoirs connected by the spontaneous hydraulic fracturing to injection, the proportion of nonproductive injection in the total volume of the well. The research technology used by the authors is based on continuous measurements of pressure and flow rate during cyclic change of pressure and assessment of the effective transmissibility of the formation system at different heights of unstable fractures.

The role of the PLT is to determine the effective production thickness of the reservoirs. When assessing the injectivity profile when penetrating the injector with the spontaneous hydraulic fracturing, the key role belongs to non-stationary temperature logging. In this case, it is necessary to take into account the specific features of temperature relaxation in the wellbore after the injection cycle, related to hydraulic fracturing, primarily the increase in the relaxation rate with increasing fracture length.


Different frequencies of feedback were applied in Basketball teaching.The conclusion is that the results of learning are different owing to different frequencies of feedback.33% feedback group is obviously better than the 100% feedback group and non-feedback group.It shows that in basketball teaching,the feedback such as teachers'appraisals plays an important role in improving teaching results.The students'learning effects of basketball skill depend on whether the teacher boosts freedback in class and the frequency by which the freedback is boosted.


An important aspect often overlooked in discussions is the concept of opportunity costs. In this note, location theory is emphasized in terms of opportunity costs.


Cohesion contributes to the realization of textual coherence. Reference is one of the five main cohesive devices. On the basis of a contrastive analysis of reference between Chinese and English, this paper probes into some similarities and differences between the two languages in terms of textual cohesion. Accordingly, translators are required to make natural adjustments for cohesive patterns in the process of translation on the basis of the cohesive preferences of different languages for the sake of the production of a smooth and coherent translated version for readers.


Collaborative testing or two-stage testing as it commonly referred, is where students work together to discuss examination questions and arrive at a consensus to test answers. Two-stage testing is an extension of collaborative learning that has been purported to decrease test anxiety and increase critical thinking, communication, and cooperation skills. Concurrently, there has been considerable research and attention focused on the development of these same transferable skills since employers highly value them. This paper explores the outcomes over two academic terms from administrating a two-stage midterm in a mandatory management course for undergraduate students in an engineering technology program. The pedagogical consideration, application to transferable skills, and administration of this type of assessment method are discussed, along with the student perspective regarding the experience and impact on student test performance.


Submitted for the DAMOP10 Meeting of The American Physical Society Spontaneous creation of non-zero angular momentum modes in tunnel-coupled two-dimensional degenerate Bose Gases1 TOM MONTGOMERY, ROBIN SCOTT, IGOR LESANOVSKY, MARK FROMHOLD, The University of Nottingham, ULTRA COLD ATOMS RESEARCH GROUP TEAM — We investigate the dynamics of two tunnel-coupled two-dimensional degenerate Bose gases. The reduced dimensionality of the clouds enables us to excite specific angular momentum modes by tuning the coupling strength, thereby creating striking patterns in the atom density profile. The extreme sensitivity of the system to the coupling and initial phase difference results in a rich variety of subsequent dynamics, including vortex production, complex oscillations in relative atom number and chiral symmetry breaking due to counter-rotation of the two clouds. 1This work is funded by EPSRC-UK. Tom Montgomery The University of Nottigham Date submitted: 22 Jan 2010 Electronic form version 1.4


In a multi-dimensional diffusion framework, the price of a financial derivative can be expressed as an iterated conditional expectation, where the inner conditional expectation conditions on the future of an auxiliary process that enters into the dynamics for the spot. Inspired by results from non-linear filtering theory, we show that this inner conditional expectation solves a backward SPDE (a so-called 'conditional Feynman-Kac formula'), thereby establishing a connection between SPDE and derivative pricing theory. The benefits of this representation are potentially significant and of both theoretical and practical interest. In particular, this representation leads to an alternative class of so-called mixed Monte-Carlo / PDE numerical methods.


The monogenic signal is a multidimensional generalization of the analytic signal. The monogenic signal of the continuous wavelet transform is called the monogenic wavelet transform. Stationary wavelet transform is a redundant discrete wavelet transform, which is translation-invariant. A new method for blind image source separation based on position-scale information using the monogenic wavelet transform discretized by the stationary wavelet transform is presented.


In China, promoting harmless blackwater treatment and resource utilization in rural areas is a priority of the "toilet revolution". Exploring the effects of blackwater application in arid areas on soil nitrogen losses can provide a basis for more effective water and fertilizer management. This study analyzed nitrogen leaching and maize yield under blackwater application in the summer maize season of 2020. A total of 5 treatments were used: no fertilizer, single chemical fertilizer application (CF), single blackwater application (HH), and combined chemical fertilizer and blackwater application ratios of 1:1 (CH1) and 2:1 (CH2). The total nitrogen leached from the fertilization treatments was 53.14–60.95 kg·ha−1 and the leached nitrate nitrogen was 34.10–40.62 kg·ha−1. Nitrate nitrogen accounted for 50–62% of the total leached nitrogen. Compared with blackwater treatments, nitrate nitrogen moved into deeper soil layers (80–100 cm depth) during the CF treatment. Compared with CF, HH significantly reduced the maize yield by 24.39%. The nitrogen surplus of HH was higher than that of other fertilizer treatments. Considering nitrogen leaching, maize yield, and economic benefits, the CH2 treatment presented the optimal results. These findings address knowledge gaps and assist in guiding policy-makers to effectively promote China's "toilet revolution".


Matte heat resistant ABS resin composition of the present invention (A) N- substituted maleimide-based 100 parts by weight of ABS resin containing the copolymer; (B) a styrene-based matting agent of 0.1 to 10 parts by weight of the weight average molecular weight 1000000-10000000; And (C) a UV stabilizer consists amount of 0.1 to 1 by weight, weather resistance / light resistance and is excellent in thermal stability. Matte, heat-resistant ABS, N- substituted maleimide copolymer, a quencher, a UV stabilizer, weather / light resistance


Aldosterone-producing adenoma can present months to years after adrenalectomy in the contralateral adrenal gland. Laparoscopic adrenalectomy may be the procedure of choice for this pathology.


Objective:To discuss one practical and feasible management method to narcotic, the first kind of psychotropic drugs in the hospital use.Methods:Strengthens the medical personnel of cancer pain management in the study and clinical application of new knowledge, LAN management information cancer patients, and use of statistical theory dealing with the data before and after the implementation of new measures,the first psychotropic drugs was the same as the use of narcotic.Results:Analgesic ladder after three patients with cancer pain therapy the ideal control rate was 90.6%, drug dependence rate was 3.1%,the patient satisfaction was 94.8%. No ideal system in the treatment of patients with cancer pain control rate was 67.5%,and the incidence of drug dependence was 27.5%,the patient satisfaction was 54.9%.Conclusion:LAN management information cancer patients,the application system method treats the cancer patient regarding to relieve the cancer patient ache,to enhance the anti-cancer curative effect,lengthens the patient survival time all to have positive sense.


Moving object detection is considered as a crucial phase of automatic video surveillance systems, particularly, people detection is the first important step in any technique of video analysis processes which can be divided in many stations as motion estimation, tracking people etc. Several methods have been developed for this problem of separating the foreground and background pixels in video surveillance. This paper focuses on computable evaluation of some people detection algorithms for four different video sequences. Our study is based on quantitative and qualitative results respectively by calculating the loss of foreground pixels. Particularly, Three methods have been evaluated by using two metrics: False Negative Error (FNE) and False Positive Error (FPE). In the result we choose the algorithm witch minimize the Error (%). Practically the good technique which dominates on the video surveillance applications is the statistical representation of pixels in foreground which named Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM). In the second part of this paper we control the people entering in a supervised region and we trigger an alarm system in order to find out person presence.


Objective
To survey knowledge of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) among general practitioners in Beijing Dongcheng district.

Methods
In November 2017, an online questionnaire survey on knowledge of SLE was conducted among 226 general practitioners from 7 community health service centers and 44 community health service stations in Beijing Dongcheng district. The questionnaire included three parts: the basic information of participants, SLE-related knowledge and the demand of continuing education for SLE.

Results
Total 225 valid questionnaires were received with a retrieval rate of 99.6%. The overall accuracy rate was 47.0%(1 269/2 700). And the rates of correct answer for SLE diagnosis, treatment and management were 28.3% (191/675), 58.4%(526/900) and 49.0%(551/1 125), respectively. Educational background, professional titles and working years had a certain impact on the level of SLE disease-related knowledge. Higher educational level and longer working years were associated with the higher knowledge level of SLE treatment goals (χ2=6.054, 4.296; P<0.05). Knowledge scores regarding side effects of glucocorticoid were slightly higher in GPs who were working for a longer time and in senior positions (χ2=6.048,5.499;P<0.05). In addition, the study also identified SLE patients in 5 community health centers and 15 community health service stations, who were given medications of glucocorticoids and immunosuppressants. Fewer SLE patients presented to the community health service and lack of learning resources mainly affected the GPs′ perception of SLE, as well as patient management. Besides, 79.6%(179/225) of GPs perceived that community management of SLE patients is necessary and they would be interested in receiving further training on SLE. The most preferred method of training delivery was short courses and lectures.

Conclusion
The knowledge and practice of SLE need improvement among GPS, especially early identification and long-term management. Fewer patients and lack of learning resources are the primary barriers. The results of the study are of practical significance for the training of general practitioners in the future.

Key words:
Systemic lupus erythematosus; General practitioner; Questionnaire


A daytime field study was conducted to determine the conspicuity in terms of peripheral visual detection and recognition of different fluorescent and nonfluorescent color targets against different backgrounds. Ten color targets [6 x 12 in. (15 x 30 cm)], of which six were nonfluorescent and four were fluorescent, were tested against different nonuniform multicolored backgrounds. Three different painted plywood boards of 4 x 4 ft (1.2 x 1.2 m) depicting either typical city, fall foliage, or spring foliage background colors were used as the backgrounds. The stimuli (color targets) were presented at three different peripheral angles (20, 30, and 40 degrees to the right of the line of sight) against the different backgrounds. Twelve subjects with normal color vision between the ages of 20 and 22 years participated in the experiment, which was conducted on an unused airport runway. A randomized block experimental design was used in such a way that for each subject the order of presentation of the three peripheral angles was random so that each angle occurred exactly once. Furthermore, for a given angle the order of presentation for the backgrounds was randomized so that each background occurred exactly once. For each background and for each of the two blocks of 10 colors each color was randomized in such a way that each color target appeared exactly once in the first block as Replication 1 and exactly once in the second block as Replication 2. Daytime chromaticity measurements were recorded for all of the color targets and background colors along with daytime luminance measurements of all of the color targets and backgrounds. The data were analyzed for two conditions: (a) detection percentage of total responses on the basis of the total number of presentations in which the subject detected the presence of a color target but in which the subject's color recognition response could be either the correct color or an incorrect color and (b) recognition percentage of the correct color target recognitions on the basis of the total number of presentations in which a subject's response with regard to the recognition of the color of the target was correct. In general, fluorescent yellow was found to be best detected and fluorescent orange was found to be best recognized against any of the three backgrounds investigated. Looking at the results of the study and the increased detection and recognition performances achieved with fluorescent colors for the conditions investigated, one may tentatively conclude that the fluorescent colors investigated in the study are considerably more conspicuous during daytime in terms of the peripheral detection and recognition percentages. It is recommended that designers of traffic signs, personal conspicuity enhancement items and devices, and roadside traffic control devices consider the superior visual conspicuity properties of fluorescent colors (especially fluorescent yellow and fluorescent orange) and incorporate them in designs when the highest possible daytime target conspicuity is absolutely necessary.


Behind numbers of post-modernist expressions, post-modem Taiwanese novelist Luo Yijun, undoubtedly had searched for identity recognition over and over again within his novels; "Who am I?" he questioned. Behind the identity recognition, it is when Taiwanese-Mainlanders face historical consciousness and local consciousness, they struggling between compIex mental state of "Chinese immigrants" or "outside of Taiwan" Through novels of Luo Yijun, we use the ethical literary criticism, which more clearly to see the subtle ethical dilemma and recognition ambivalence of the Taiwanese Mainlanders and their descendants. This is bidirectional and complicated ethical relations, which the relation between China and Taiwan just like relation between father and son relatively in history. But which point Luo Yijun had used to observe Taiwanese Mainlanders and their descendants ' position in historical spectrum? In this premise, this thesis borrows ethical literary criticism, to find out and think the complexity of the ethical problem they face.


Technologies play a key role in finding employment in today's job market. However, the majority of those who are unemployed, e.g., individuals who have limited education or who are racial and ethnic minorities, are not well supported by existing digital employment tools. Therefore, we conducted an 8-month randomized field experiment to evaluate two tools-Review-Me and Interview4-designed to address these job seekers' key employment needs. We used the Theory of Planned Behavior to examine the tools' effects on three factors influencing job seekers' job search intention: job search self-efficacy, subjective norms, and job search attitudes. Our interview data suggested that the tools positively affected all factors, but our survey results were mixed. Interview results suggest that these trends were caused by positive feedback and self-reflection. We contribute ways to integrate these two features into future tools for, and techniques to increase study retention among, underrepresented job seekers.


The forming process of a two-layer film is generally constituted by pulling through a variable air gap into a water-cooling bath after the two polymer melts are coextruded through a flat die. In this process, the film thickness often varied in a cyclic manner according to the process conditions. This phenomenon is referred to as draw resonance and is also observed in melt spinning and film processing.An experimental study was carried out to investigate the draw resonance in forming process of a two-layer film. The two-layer film in which the first layer consists of poly (vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) and the second layer consists of poly (methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) or PMMA/PVDF was prepared, and the total film thickness was about 50μm. As the take-up velocity or the die land gap was increased and/or the air gap was decreased, the instability of film thickness was in-creased.The average elongational strain rate was calculated from the conditions of the film forming process. The instability of the film thickness increased abruptly at a critical point of the average strain rate, and the critical point changed with the composition of polymers. Through rheological mesurements on the polymer melts, we concluded that the instability is related to the elasticity of the second polymer layer.


Among so many different teaching methods,which is the better one to develop the students' comprehensive ability depends on who the students are and the different phases of the lecture.And the ecletic compromise approach could be the answer.


This case study of Avis Europe PLC examines the diminished role of franchising in the vehicle leasing firm's achievement of market dominance in Europe. Market maturity, industry consolidation, adoption of centralised, efficiency-oriented technologies, and strategic alliances are the principal factors in accounting for the decline in the reliance on franchisees for local entrepreneurship and market expansion. Though many theories of franchising find at least some support in this study, the life cycle or ownership redirection explanation proves particularly compelling. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


In recent years, travel writing has become popular in Taiwan's publishing market. In contrast to the outsider/foreigner perspective adopted by most previous travel accounts, the "Taiwan Literature Travel Series" published during 2002-2004 invited local/native writers to construct travel landscapes from within. However, what qualifies one as a "local" writer? What sense of place does this "local" identity imply and what kinds of landscape were hence constructed? Close examination of the texts reveals that high degree of mobility in modern society has made the "local" identity more subjective and diversified, and long periods of estrangement not only produced a sense of alienation on the "local" writers but turned the supposedly space-oriented travel accounts into time-biased nostalgia.


In this work, we have studied zeolite-oxide interaction in the solid state and have found that V and Mo are inserted in forms which remain to be determined. Thus, in the range 680-750 K the zeolite appears to accept levels of V or Mo corresponding to ratios R V2 O 5 = 0.05 and R M oO 3 = 0.075, without any modification of the lattice.


Provides call control apparatus, HSS, AS and methods for processing user traffic embodiment of the present invention. The call control apparatus comprising: a receiving module, configured to initiate a call to the called UE, receive an access acknowledgment in the home network domain routing device sends a call request message, the access confirmation request message carries the domain identifier of the called UE; determining module according to the identifier of the called UE, the receiving module, determining the home network via the visited network communicates with the CS domain of the home network of the called UE; sending means for sending a call response message to the access domain routing acknowledgment device , an acknowledgment response message carries the access domain indication information, indicating information indicating a call through the CS domain routing apparatus routes the call to the home network to the visited network. Embodiments of the invention need not visited network returns the information to the home network traffic in real time, to ensure the normal triggered service called UE.


28 This study investigated the concurrent validity of a rugby-specific high-intensity intermittent 29 running test (HIIR) against the internal, external and perceptual responses to simulated match30 play. Thirty-six rugby league players (age 18.5 ± 1.8 years; stature 181.4 ± 7.6 cm; body mass 31 83.5 ± 9.8 kg) completed the prone Yo-Yo IR1, of which sixteen also completed the Yo-Yo 32 IR1, and 2 x ~20 min bouts of a simulated match-play (RLMSP-i). Most likely reductions in 33 relative total, low-speed and high-speed distance, mean speed and time above 20 W·kg 34 (HMP) were observed between bouts of the RLMSP-i. Likewise, rating of perceived exertion 35 (RPE) and percentage of peak heart rate (%HRpeak) were very likely and likely higher during 36 the second bout. Pearson's correlations revealed a large relationship for the change in relative 37 distance (r = 0.57-0.61) between bouts with both Yo-Yo IR1 tests. The prone Yo-Yo IR1 was 38 more strongly related to the RLMSP-i for change in repeated sprint speed (r = 0.78 cf. 0.56), 39 mean speed (r = 0.64 cf. 0.36), HMP (r = 0.48 cf. 0.25), fatigue index (r = 0.71 cf. 0.63), 40 %HRpeak (r = -0.56 cf. -0.35), RPEbout1 (r = -0.44 cf. -0.14), and RPEbout2 (r = -0.68 cf. -0.41) 41 than the Yo-Yo IR1, but not for blood lactate concentration (r = -0.20 to -0.28 cf. -0.35 to 42 0.49). The relationships between prone Yo-Yo IR1 distance and measure of load during the 43 RLMSP-i suggests it possesses concurrent validity and is more strongly associated with 44 measures of training or match load than the Yo-Yo IR1 using rugby league players. 45 46 47 48 49 50 51


Traditionally, medical trainees have been taught how to perform clinical skills on patients, moving directly from observation of senior physicians to carrying out the procedure themselves. In recent years, there has been a shift in medical education towards including simulation‐based teaching methods, which has been associated with reduced learner discomfort and improved patient outcomes. Simulation models are currently used to train medical students on lumbar punctures. The aim of this project is to improve upon existing models by creating a lumbar puncture simulation model with flexibility in the spine, with anatomically accurate physical measurements and mechanical properties, where required. Clinicians were interviewed to gather input on the initial design of the model, and will be interviewed again after testing the prototype to obtain feedback on how to further modify the model for increased clinical accuracy. A parametric CAD model was based on anatomic data collected by cadaveric experiments and measurements obtained from a literature search of imaging, cadaveric and in vivo studies. We will discuss the current prototype of the lumbar puncture model and the mechanical properties, physical measurements and clinician input incorporated in the design. Improved anatomic accuracy of the finalized model will allow trainees to translate their lumbar puncture skills more readily from practicing on the simulation model to performing on patients, leading to increased patient safety.


Abstract A slender trefoil knotted vortex is studied using direct numerical simulation of the Navier–Stokes equations for vortex Reynolds numbers ($Re \equiv \varGamma /\nu$, circulation/viscosity) up to 12 000. For initially zero twist ($T_{w,0}=0$), neither the writhe $W_r$ nor the global helicity $H$ is conserved. Initially $W_r$ slowly decreases, then suddenly drops during reconnection and becomes almost constant thence; its evolution is almost $Re$ independent. Before reconnection, $H$ also gradually decreases but sharply increases during reconnection. The evolution of $H$ after reconnection strongly depends on $Re$. While steadily decreasing at low $Re$, $H$ significantly increases before eventually decaying at high $Re$. Flow visualization, helicity decomposition and helical wave decomposition reveal that significant amounts of positive and negative twist helicities are simultaneously generated before and during reconnection. Also, the small leading and large trailing rings resulting from asymmetric reconnection have respectively negative and positive twists, which then decay differently due to different initial values, geometries and mutual induction. In particular, at high $Re$, the twist in the small ring, under stretching by the large trailing ring, decays much faster and even switches sign to become positive by the writhe-to-twist conversion – the main reason for the 'transient growth' of $H$. Simulations with non-zero initial twists ($T_{w,0}=7.48$ and $22.48$) reveal that the overall dynamics is similar to the $T_{w,0}=0$ case. Hence, the evolution of the trefoil knotted vortex is mainly governed by $W_r$, not $T_w$, although the latter is found to play an essential role in enstrophy growth as well as energy cascade.


It is well known that research on mechanical characteristics of the underground draft tube and corresponding stress distribution of the steel lining under complex conditions plays an important role on assessing the underground powerhouse and hydropower project safety. However, due to complex boundaries and load conditions of the draft tube, especially the concrete itself is so easy to crack, crush and become plastic that it is more difficult to determine its 3-Dimensional mechanical behavior of the underground draft tube. To better solve the above difficulties, 3-D FEM simulated model was built based on the universal software named Ansys to analyze the stress distribution of the draft tube structure and the steel lining. The calculation results showed that the hoop stress and radial stress of the tube were all satisfied with the standard requirement, and maximum stress of the steel lining also accorded with the strength requirement, which indicated that simulation model and the analysis method brought forward in the paper was applicable and practical, and also provided an effectie method for the underground structures design and steel arrangement of the draft tube.


Magnetic-field-stimulated 'ON' and 'OFF' biochemiluminescence is accomplished by electrocatalyzed reduction of naphthoquinone-functionalized magnetic particles in the presence of a biocatalytic peroxidase/luminol system.


ABSTRACT Few studies have examined the influence of winery tourists' motivations and satisfaction on number of visits and revisit intentions. This study examined these relationships through 1602 online survey responses from former winery visitors. The data were analyzed through a series of multiple regression analyses. Findings show that among tourists' motivations, the reputation, reviews, and perceived quality of the winery and its wines significantly affect the number of visits and revisit intentions, while media exposure affects revisit intentions. Further, visitors' satisfaction with the winery significantly impacts revisit intentions. While visitors' geographic proximity to the winery increased the number of visits, as expected, distance from the winery is shown to increase revisit intentions. Finally, the number of previous visits had a significant positive effect on revisit intentions.


I solemnly and sincerely declare as follows: 1. I was at this election the election agent of the person named above as a candidate. 2. I have examined the return of election expenses [about to be]* delivered by me to the police area returning officer, of which a copy is now shown to me marked _________, and to the best of my knowledge and belief it is a complete and correct return as required by law. 3. To the best of my knowledge and belief, all expenses shown in the return as paid were paid by me, except as otherwise stated. 4. I understand that the law does not allow any election expenses not mentioned in this return to be defrayed except in pursuance of a court order.


The absorbent article such as a disposable diaper includes a body having a crotch region extending between the front waist region, a back waist region, and the front waist region and the back waist region. The outer cover member and a bodyside liner extend longitudinally between the front waist region and the back waist region. Absorbent body structure is sandwiched between the outer cover member and bodyside liner. The waist band comprises at least one elastomeric part. Waist band portion has a relaxed circumference of about 45 to about 70% of the time circumference is defined by the elastomer section. Waist band portion has a perimeter extending about the wearer's target, where the elastomeric part of extended circumference is stretched from about 10 to about 40% of its relaxed circumferential length. Absorbent article, disposable diaper waist band portions, the circumferential extension, the relaxed circumferential length


Suspicions of the occurrence of Lamanema chavezi in New Zealand were fi rst reported when some unusual worm eggs were detected in faecal samples from llamas (Lama glama) and alpacas (Vicugna pacos) on a property in Canterbury in 2005 (McKenna 2006). Although the eggs resembled those of Nematodirus spp., measuring 175 x 76 μm (mean of fi ve), they differed from them in being fl atter-sided and having a morula in a further stage of development than the typical eight cell-stage normally associated with freshly excreted Nematodirus spp. eggs. They also had an obvious yellowish-brown colouration atypical of eggs of members of this genus, apart, perhaps, from those of N. battus, which have been variously described as "markedly brown" (Thomas 1959) or "coffee coloured" (Jansen 1973). Similar eggs were subsequently detected in the faeces of a further fi ve llamas and alpacas from the same property.


Australia's so-called Malaysia solution for stemming the tide of boats carrying asylum seekers from Indonesia has hit a snag called the High Court of Australia. The Gillard Government is now in very stormy waters, simply because the rule of law and the separation of powers do not readily yield to the sound bites of populist sentiment and the fear tactics of politicians. The wheels of the law turn slowly.


Abstract : Both the inverted-Y yoke torso harness with inertia reel and the air- bag restraint system have had extensive independent development for some time by several engineering and research organizations for both aviation and ground vehicle occupant protection. The research reported in this paper consists of the first biomechanical primate evaluation of these concepts as experimentally adapted for possible automotive use. These tests are a continuation of a study involving the relative impact protection and effectiveness of major restraint systems utilized in general aviation aircraft and in limited automotive use. The objective of this test series was to determine how much protection those advanced restraint concepts provided; to obtain preliminary biomechanical and physiological data; to identify problems of technique and applications in occupant protection; and to provide an initial basis for direction of future test requirements. Since over 60 tests of baboon subjects now have been conducted with various restraint systems under identically controlled impact conditions, valid relative assessments of the impact injury protection offered by these systems may be made. Conclusions of the relative value of these restraint systems for automotive use to protect occupants during impact are discussed from a biomechanical viewpoint.


Real-time quantitative imaging becomes increasingly desirable to study the cell behaviour in 3D in vitro experiments, but it could not be carried out by most of the traditional measurement methods. In this study, electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is used to monitor the real-time cell-drug response in a bioscaffold. MCF-7 breast cancer cells cultured in 3D bioscaffolds were placed into a miniature sensor and exposed to lysis buffer Triton X-100 to simulate drug effect. The images of cell response were reconstructed by measurement data with a structure based algorithm. The results show that the changes of cell conductivity caused by the drug effect could be effectively monitored by EIT in real-time. With the help of structure based image reconstruction algorithm, the background noise in the reconstructed image is eliminated and the conductivity change in the area of interest is highlighted. These results indicate that EIT has potential to be a novel technique for the drug evaluation by quantitative analysis of 3D cell culture.


(75) Inventors: Jean-Marc Andreoli, Meylan (FR); An apparatus operating on a time sequence of events com Marie-Luise Schneider, Grenoble prises an event handling module configured to generate a (FR) predicted label for a current observed event of the time sequence of events, and a true label handling module config (73) Assignee: XEROX CORPORATION, ured to process a true label revealed for an observed event of Norwalk, CT (US) the time sequence of events. The event handling module and the true label handling module cooperatively model Stochas (21) Appl. No.: 12/770,922 tic dependence of a true label for the current observed event based on observed events of the time sequence of events and (22) Filed: Apr. 30, 2010 revealed true labels for past observed events of the time O O sequence of events. The event handling module and the true Publication Classification label handling module operate asynchronously. The event (51) Int. Cl. handling module and the true response handling module are G06F 9/44 (2006.01) Suitably embodied by one or more digital processors.


In Office Automation system,office documents storage is a very important section.Office documents are small,but the quantity is very large.It makes the files take up more and more space.The method of office documents storage adopts HADOOP to build the distributed file system,which can solve the problem of the large amount of data and make file management more efficient.Small files are merged by using SequenceFile.The memory pressure of namenode and low processing efficiency can be overcome in this way.And then,the merge machine stores them in local at busy time and takes idle time to merge the sorted files.Experimental results show that the method can decrease write times and save the searching time.


Oligochitosan salt-based antibacterial wound gels were developed and evaluated in both in vitro and in vivo models. The antibacterial activities of the oligochitosan salts and the wound gels were investigated against Staphylococcus epidermidis RP625 and Escherichia coli ATCC 11775. The minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) of the oligochitosan salts were found in the range of 16-256 μg/mL. The wound gels demonstrated their in vitro activities on inhibiting the growth of bacteria. The 3-D collagen gel matrix containing human dermal fibroblasts cultured with each test gel was used as an in vitro model for the examination of cell proliferation and secretion of interleukin-8 (IL-8). The gels appeared to promote the proliferation and formation of cellular process of the fibroblasts in the 3-D collagen gels and stimulate the fibroblasts to produce more IL-8. In the in vivo model, it was noted that the gels could accelerate the wound closure process. The wounds were completely closed within 14 days.


The consumption of seafood has been rising in recent years and accompanying this growth also increased cases of foodborne illness related to the consumption of seafood. Considering this, oysters and another shellfish are an even bigger problem because during their natural feeding process, they are able to filter large quantities of water, retaining and concentrating in their bodies bacteria and viroses that are presents in the environment. To minimize the risks associated with the consumption of shellfish, several measures were taken in order to regulate the cultivation areas. In accordance with current legislation in Brazil (IN 07, May, 8, 2012), the growing areas are classified according to the amount of E. coli present in 100 g of mollusc meat into 3 categories. The intermediate category (between 230 – 46000 MNP in 100g of meat) are able to be consumed after through a decontamination process. The oysters were collected in Santo Antonio de Lisboa , Florianópolis , Santa Catarina and brought at the food microbiology laboratory of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, where the samples were contaminated and submited to the depuration process. The enumeration of E coli was done with 0, 12, 18, 24, 36 and 48 hours. After 48h , was observed a statistically significant reduction in the amount of E. coli in all replicates tested, with ρ < 0.001 , showing the efficiency of purification in this study. In replicates witch the initial amount of E. coli was ≥ 230 and <46000 NMP in 100g of mollusc meat ( range set by legislation as indicated to purification ), the reduction of E. col, in the end of 48 hours, was in accordance with the limits established for consumption ( < 230 NMP in 100g of mollusc meat ).


Summary form only given. A 400 W remote plasma oxidation process has been developed in a cluster tool which uses N/sub 2/O and O/sub 2/ for controlling incorporated amounts of nitrogen within the grown oxide. This technique has been developed for Si/SiO/sub 2/ interface formation for addition of nitrogen at the interface. Verification through in-situ Auger electron spectroscopy demonstrates that nitrogen is incorporated within the 15 /spl Aring/ grown oxide and is therefore confined to the Si/SiO/sub 2/ interface. Ex-situ SIMS analysis indicates incorporation of /spl sim/8/spl times/10/sup 14/ atoms/cm/sup 2/ of nitrogen at the interface for a 30 second oxidation in pure N/sub 2/O, and the nitrogen content can be effectively controlled by adding O/sub 2/ to the process mixture and varying the N/sub 2/O/O/sub 2/ percentage. Gate stacks for MOS devices are fabricated by depositing a bulk oxide by remote plasma enhanced CVD (RPECVD) on top of the grown interface and then capping the structure with rapid thermally deposited polysilicon. MOSFET devices demonstrate the usefulness of this oxidation technique for interface formation.


A method for increasing survival rate of autumn juvenile leech is characterized in that the cast juvenile leech are different in size, leech larvae are sorted out and put into an intensive culture pool for culturing, the intensive culture pool is formed by putting up a greenhouse on an existing pool and adding heating lamps, so that the leech larvae can safely pass the winter, and the growth of the leech larvae is promoted, wherein the greenhouse is made of vinyon, the heating lamps are infrared lamps, and the temperature in the intensive culture pool is kept to be above 20 DEG C, and ventilation is performed properly. By adopting the method disclosed by the invention, the growing speed of the leech can be effectively enhanced, the death rate of the leech larvae is reduced, the survival rate of the juvenile leech is improved, and the leech yield is increased.