Seating furniture component (10) with at least partially elastic fabric, in particular the backrest (41) of a seat (40), with a frame (11), with a frame (11) secured to or in the frame is clamped (11), load-stable membrane (14) which is formed at least zugbelastbar to a mounting interface in the region of the frame and which at least in a region of the intended load on the seating furniture component (10) with the intended load is designed pressure resistant, forms with a cover (13) having a front visible side (17), the useful surface (17) of the seating furniture component (10), and a rear view side (18), the back (18) of the seating furniture component (10), having and which covers the membrane (14) completely together with the frame (11).


The Staff: Director: Dan Rogers '08 Assistant Director: Jenn Simonian '09 Stage Manager: Amanda Glassman '08 Production Manager: Nick Leiserson '09 Tech Director: Matt Ball '09 Set Designer: Peter Fallon '09 Scenic Painter: Laura Atkinson '07 Lighting designer: Justin Spiegel '08 Sound designer: Todd Lipcon '07 Costume Designer: The Story (so far): The Skin of Our Teeth received its first performance in New Haven, Connecticut, on October 15, 1942. The United States had declared war on Japan on December 8, 1941, and the Battle of Stalingrad, which would, in 1943, mark the first major German defeat of the war, had on just begun on September 13. Meanwhile American troops were becoming more and more involved in the War on both fronts. The themes of war are echoed in the text: man's potential for savagery, the progress of science (Hiroshima was bombed in 1945), and man's determination to survive. This play is about humanity and what it does in the face of tragedy. How do we pull through in a world that repeats itself with natural disasters, family problems, and, as Wilder's audience in 1942 saw (and we today see), war? The Skin of Our Teeth presents the whole of human history as its story, and comes to the conclusion that, in the end, all that we really have is each other. What we need to go on living is hope and faith – in progress, in the future, and in all of humanity. One of the important concepts to grasp in reading this work is its cyclical nature.


The lycopene has the superior physiological functions of anti-oxidant,dispelling the human free radical,etc.It is a natural pigment of functionality with high market.It plays a positive role in prevention of certain types of cancer or chronic disease.In recent years,Lycopene is a hot topic in researching area of funtion food.This review include advances in physicochemical properties,biological synthesis,absorption distribution,extraction analysis,physiological funtion,and production application of Lycopene.


The Houdry process and Kem- Tone wall finish have joined a growing list of chemical sites and processes designated National Historic Chemical Landmarks by the American Chemical Society's Division of the History of Chemistry and ACS's Office of Public Outreach. They are the ninth and 10th such landmarks to be established. The two companies that received the historic landmark designations and commemorative plaques—Sun Co. and Sherwin-Williams Co.—paid tribute to and recognized local communities for the companies' past success as well as their continued operation. The Houdry designation ceremony— a family-style picnic on April 13 in Linwood, Pa.—paid tribute to Sun Co/s Houdry catalytic process for converting crude petroleum to high-octane gasoline. The Kem-Tone event—a gala dinner and history exhibition on April 23 in Cleveland—recognized Sherwin-Williams for its development of Kem- Tone wall finish, the first water-based paint, which launched a revolution in home decorating. People in the Linwood area—incl...


The present invention provides an oil-based formulation and the double tube heat shrinkage process, the oil-based heat-shrinkable polyolefin mixed resin using a double tube made of a double tube and the outer wall of additives, use of a polyamide and Related aid made a double casing wall materials, oil prepared by double tube type heat-shrinkable layer co-extrusion, irradiation, the expansion step. While the invention products have excellent mechanical properties, it has good resistance to various types of oil, lubricants, detergents, heat, flame, maximizes the use of double heat-shrinkable sleeve at an oily environment life.


Background: The rise of a viral respiratory sickness was recognized in China and later known as COVID-19. The current study reports the epidemiological and clinical attributes of COVID-19 in Baluchistan.
Objective: This study aimed to investigate the epidemiological parameters and route of transmission of COVID-19 positivity that will help the health department develop future strategies to handle deadly pandemics.
Methodology: This study was performed by gathering information from patients with their socioeconomics, epidemiological status, history of comorbidity, and clinical signs of the disease. The data was collected from the COVID-19 dashboard. A correlation test was applied to evaluate the connection between clinical pathological parameters.
Results: A sum of 3999 clinical records was analyzed. Total 70.8% of patients were positive, and 29.2% were negative. The most affected group was aged 22-42, however, disease severity increased with age. Most positive patients had a high fever, severe cough, sore throat, body ache, shortness of breath and comorbidity on clinical pathological grounds. The earliest reported cases of the infection were connected to travelers returning to Pakistan from Iran. The spread among men was higher as compared to women.
Conclusion: This report will display a linkage between the studies of disease transmission and clinical features which thus can be helpful to forestall the local transmission of similar infections in future. The epidemiological literature on this topic from Baluchistan is scarce.


Polypropylene/organoclay nanocomposites modified with different maleic anhydride grafted polypropylene (PPgMA) compatibilizers were compounded on a twin-screw extruder. The effectiveness of the feeding sequence and compatibilizer type toward the dispersion of organoclay into PP matrix was critically studied. The composites prepared with side feed appeared to provide better dispersion and modulus improvement over that with hopper feed. The effect of PPgMA compatibilizers, including PB3150, PB3200, PB3000, and E43, with a wide range of maleic anhydride (MA) content and molecular weight was also examined. The structure was investigated with X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy. The relative complex viscosity curves also revealed a systematic trend with the extent of exfoliation and showed promise for quantifying the hybrid structure of the nanocomposites. Mechanical properties were determined by dynamical mechanical analysis and tensile and impact tests. Maleated polypropylene with low-melt flow index and moderate MA content enhanced clay dispersion and resulted in significant improvement in tensile modulus of the nanocomposites. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 93: 100–112, 2004


For a self‐interaction energy density U(‖ψ‖2) that is positive‐definite, monotone‐increasing with increasing ‖ψ‖2, and concave‐saturating, it is shown that the total field energy E and particle number N satisfy the general inequality E⩾ (function of ξ) ‖N‖(3−ξ)/2(2−ξ) in which the positive parameter ξ≡min [dlnU( ρ)/dlnρ] is less than unity.


ABSTRACT Background Patients with aortic stenosis (AS) and small aortic annulus (SAA) who undergo surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) are more likely to receive smaller prostheses, predisposing them to prosthesis patient-mismatch (PPM). Since the Ozaki Procedure (aortic valve neocuspidization – AVNeo) has proved promising, we aimed to assess its immediate results in this scenario. Methods AVNeo was performed in 106 consecutive patients from January 2017 to March 2019 at three centers. The records were prospectively collected and reviewed retrospectively. Most of the patients were older than 60 years and 97.2% had AS. Preoperative echocardiography showed an average peak pressure gradient of 64.9 ± 20.7 mmHg and a mean pressure gradient of 46.0 ± 12.2 mm Hg for patients with AS and an annular diameter of 19.8 ± 1.1 mm for all patients. EOA and indexed EOA (iEOA) averaged 0.7 ± 0.2 cm2 and 0.4 ± 0.2 cm2/m2 before surgery, respectively. Results There was no conversion to SAVR. Four patients needed reoperation for bleeding, but none needed reoperation due to early infective endocarditis. Median intensive care unit and hospital length of stay were 1.5 ± 1.2 and 13.7 ± 5.1 days, respectively. There were two in-hospital deaths due to non-cardiac causes. Postoperative peak pressure gradient averaged 11.8 ± 5.9 mmHg and mean pressure gradient averaged 7.3 ± 3.5 mmHg, which means statistically significant average decreases of 58.1 and 38.7 mmHg, respectively. Postoperative EOA and iEOA averaged 2.5 ± 0.4 cm2 and 1.3 ± 0.3 cm2/m2, which means statistically significant average increases of 1.8 cm2 and 0.9 cm2/m2, respectively. Conclusions AVNeo is feasible and reproducible with good immediate results. Our findings show that AVNeo produces immediate postoperative low-pressure gradients, larger EOA, and minimal regurgitation of the aortic valve.


This paper analyzes the general equilibrium aspects related to the choice of technology. The paper studies the problem from the perspective of a small, labor abundant open economy that does not generate its own technology. The economic planners must choose between two technologies, one better geared toward the production of labor intensive goods, the other to capital intensive goods. It is shown that the choice of technology not only will affect the welfare level, but it can also reverse the pattern of international trade. It is also shown that the imposition of a tariff can lead the planner to choose a different technology from the one that is optimal under free trade.


S(23226008) [1].K. Tanaka and Y. Cho. Appl. Phis., 97 (2010) [2]Y. Hiranaga et. al. Jpn. J. Appl. Phis., 48 (2009) Fig.1 SNDM image of bits written on a single-crystal CLT recording medium with a bit spacing of 20 nm (areal density: 1.6 Tbit/inch). Fig.2 SNDM image of bits written on a single-crystal CLT recording medium with a bit spacing of 15.5 nm (areal density: 2.7 Tbit/inch). 第 61 回応用物理学会春季学術講演会 講演予稿集(2014 春 青山学院大学)


Whereas in the past, resilience was seen as a character trait of the few, enabling a 'bounce back' to some prior healthy state, it is described as something that is transitional, that enables a 'bouncing forward' for all those who experience growth from having survived or even thrived through challenging experiences. This interpretation enables action as it opens the possibility of exploring what can be put in place to ensure these experiences can be opportunities for positive change for all, leading to improved mental well-being and physical health. While for most migrants the act of migration is an active choice driven by hopes for life improvement, migration can create challenges. For refugee and asylum-seeker populations, who have been the focus of most migrant-resilience research, their status suggests an increased likelihood of having experienced adversity and a risk of experiencing ongoing challenges. Qualitative studies with migrant populations indicate high levels of resilience, including personal characteristics, beliefs, behaviours, and cultural understandings that enable people to survive and even thrive following such experiences. Policies and interventions to support resilience should include both external protective factors such as access to basic human needs, social integration and relationships in destination countries, and services for those who require intervention. Few intervention studies use asset-focused outcomes such as resilience and well-being, and there is an opportunity for established and emerging therapies to use these to enhance evaluation and understanding.


The study of geotechnical index properties of soils in Oworoshoki, Kosofe, Lagos State was conducted to characterize and classify the index properties of soil samples. Disturbed and undisturbed soils were collected at different shallow depths (1m, 2m and 3m) from the study area and laboratory test was conducted. The laboratory test conducted includes natural moisture content, atterberg limits (liquid limit and plastic limit), particle size distribution, specific gravity, unit weight and hydrometer. The results of the test were gotten: natural moisture content as 23.5%, 24.5% and 25.3% , liquid limits (LL) 28.68%, 26.64% and 29.10%, Oworoshoki is non-plastic for the three depths i.e. plastic limit (PL) is 0, particle size distribution percentage passing through BS #200 (0.075mm) are 95.97 %, 97.97%, 98.10% and this shows that the soil sample contain much silt, the samples are non-plastic for all depths (1m, 2m and 3m), specific gravity as 2.61, 2.55 and 2.60, unit weight as 17.5 KN/m3, 18.1kn/m3 and 18.9KN/m3 and hydrometer percentage passing through BS #200 (0.075mm) as 95.97% at 1.0m depth, 97.97% at 2.0m depth and 98.10% at 3.0m depth. Hydrometer test was conducted because 95.97% passes sieve 0.075mm.This shows that the soil contain high amount of silt. Soils from depth 1.0m, 2.0m and 3.0m are non-plastic (NP) because the Plastic Index (PI=0) and the soil samples are classified as A – 3 according to American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) System.


An unsteady state method is described in which a charge of electricity is passed through a stainless steel,tube containing a gas to abruptly raise the temperature a fraction of a degreeo The change in . ' the pressure (or volume) due to temperature change of the gas is followed with timeo From the resulting data~ it is possible to calcu~ late the thermal diffusivity and thence_ the thermal conductivity of the . . . . gaso This method has been applied to numerous gas mixtures and the results obtained are in substantial agreement with published measured valueso The results agree well with the equation of Lindsay and Bromle~lO for gas mixtures:


The collectivity in the simultaneous diffusion of many particles, i.e. the interdependence of stochastic forces affecting different particles in the same solution, is a largely overlooked phenomenon with no well-established theory. Recently, we have proposed a novel type of thermodynamically consistent Langevin dynamics driven by spatially correlated noise (SCN) that can contribute to the understanding of this problem. This model draws a link between the theory of effective interactions in binary colloidal mixtures and the properties of SCN. In the current article, we review this model from the perspective of collective diffusion and generalize it to the case of multiple (N  >  2) particles. Since our theory of SCN-driven Langevin dynamics has certain issues that could not be resolved within this framework, in this article we also provide another approach to the problem of collectivity. We discuss the multi-particle Mori–Zwanzig model, which is fully microscopically consistent. Indeed, we show that this model supplies a lot of information, complementary to the SCN-based approach, e.g. it predicts the deterministic dynamics of the relative distance between the particles, it provides an approximation for non-equilibrium effective interactions and predicts the collective sub-diffusion of tracers in the group. These results provide the short-range, inertial limit of the earlier model and agree with its predictions under some general conditions. In this article we also review the origin of SCN and its consequences for a variety of physical systems, with emphasis on the colloids.


Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which was flying from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing, China, lost communication with air traffic control shortly after take-off on March 8, 2014, and vanished. While the rest of the world awaited news of the missing plane and the 239 people on board, officials and experts began to look into the limited information available concerning the airliner's real activities. The disappearance of a Malaysia Airline flight, carrying 239 passengers and crew, is one of the world's biggest aviation mysteries. Despite all the efforts and evidence obtained so far, the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 could not be determined exactly. In this study, which we have done, the crash zone of the aircraft has been determined approximately by using the data in the previously prepared reports. In addition, the average ocean current speeds, directions and the parts of the debris of the aircraft were investigated on the satellite images, and the estimation of the area where the plane crashed was tried to be strengthened.


This paper presents the extraction of the complex propagation constant from carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) transmission lines up to 5 GHz. A test-fixture is designed and fabricated to obtain the propagation constant using a line-line extraction method. Use of this method reduces the required number of fabricated transmission lines compared to calibration algorithms such as TRL. Comparison of the extracted propagation constant with simulation data indicates CFRP conductivity of 1.0 –1.5x104 S/m.


As I was browsing through various articles and position papers, I thought that emerging contributions by India's political and academic leadership to promote innovation shows remarkable improvements and presents a better vision for the country. Therefore, I thought I must present my thoughts as a sheer expression of optimism since I am encouraged that the predicted outcomes in promoting the welfare of a large mass of people is becoming real and technological innovations in India is beginning to serve her people well despite many implementable challenges. Entrepreneurial India has its ancient roots where indigenous products of India were a major attraction to foreign traders from Arab countries, China and Greece. After independence in 1947, India invested heavily to improve its economic conditions through several fi ve year plans. The policy makers made necessary reforms for India to succeed today as the second fastestgrowing economy in the world. During this reform, India embraced private ownership, innovation and trade as key components for its economic prosperity. India's commitment to diversity, religious freedom, promoting innovation and free enterprise are additional components to its future economic success. Through this meticulous planning, good leadership, practicable, realistic and adaptable policies, India is poised to become the third largest economy by the year 2025. Outsourcing to India has changed the landscape of urban India. In the global Received Date : 20-07-2012


In the paper, after outlining the criminological background, namely the corporate criminality in the field of core international crimes and some possible arguments in favour of criminal accountability of corporations on an international level, the case law of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg and the so-called subsequent Nuremberg trials is introduced. Finally, the third part is devoted to examine the questions of the codification process of the Statute of the International Criminal Court in relation to the organizational liability, putting the emphasis on answering the question: was there and is there an international court or tribunal that can exercise criminal jurisdiction over corporations?


Master's Thesis Master's Degree Program in Agricultural Engineering Federal University at Santa Maria KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMATIZATION FOR THE DESIGN OF HARVEST HEADERS OF BEANS AUTHOR: ANDRÉ BISOGNIN ADVISER: PROF. LEONARDO NABAES ROMANO, DR. ENG. MEC. Time and place of defense: Santa Maria, September 21, 2011 Due to the need to increase in production and to the high rates of losses in the header because of machines with low efficiency in harvesting, it is presented, in this thesis the knowledge systematization needed to develop new header designs to harvest beans. This work presents the machines used for the harvest of beans, the harvesting systems, and a list of influencing factors that determine the knowledge required for new projects. In the patent records, harvesters able to carry out all the harvest's phases, machines for cutting or pulling off plants, addition or replacement parts for harvesters, and machines with different technologies were found. The result of a search for machines in the market showed the main characteristics of headers such as mechanical and hydraulic couplings, dimensions and power transmission systems that are used. A comparison among subsystems was made, and it was noticed that, although the machines are designed for the same culture, and the systems are virtually identical, there are some quite different adjustments, and, in some cases, they do not observe agronomical recommendations, showing that the optimization of designs is possible. It is presented a study on the technologies in harvesting and the size relation of machines that enable their construction followed by the four main categories related to the influencing factors in the project (project scope examination, operating environment characteristics, ratification criteria, and machines available in the market). It was observed that there are still potential improvements in the recorded designs in the patents including the exploration of new concepts. It was observed that many machines recorded in patents are not found in the market. Among the possible reasons for this, there is the fact that the great majority of machines registered in patents carry out the harvest by individualizing the planting lines, which is a characteristic that does not have a good market acceptance.


To undertake an inventory of the resources around the Mediterranean coasts necessarily involves a study of the distribution of the Posidonia oceanica meadows because of the major role they play (from ecological, economic and sedimentary points of view) in maintaining the equilibrium of the coastal environment. Paradoxically, the available data regarding the assemblages are rare, and only deal with a small part of the Corsican coastline, although the coastal areas constitute one of the major assets of the island with regard to economic development. To make good this lack, a cartographical survey has been undertaken for the whole of the Corsican coastline (about 950 km). Because of the relatively wide bathymetric range of Posidonia oceanica (0 to 40 m depth), two techniques have been used jointly : airborne remote sensing and side scan sonar. The results obtained confirm the extensiveness of these meadows with regard to the area covered (more than 60 000 ha). In addition, the maximum bathymetric range of the Posidonia oceanica meadow (lower limit) is unusually deep, with an average maximum depth of more than 35 m. Comparison of the present results with the available data on the distribution of the main meadows worldwide confirms the exceptionallymore » wide range of this species around the Corsican coastline.« less


The use of secretin as a test substance for the study of pancreatic function has increased extensively in recent years but has been limited, as far as can be determined, to normal adults and to adult patients. 1 The studies reported here were carried out to supply data concerning the effect of secretin on the pancreatic function of infants and children and to ascertain its usefulness as a diagnostic aid in studies of pancreatic disease in early life. The discovery by Bayliss and Starling in 1902 of the hormone secretin was followed by numerous unsuccessful attempts to make clinical use of this observation. 1a The recent isolation of secretin from the intestinal mucosa as a crystalline salt, by Hammarsten, and the preparation by Agren of a substance suitable for clinical work have permitted a number of investigations of the action of secretin within the last few years. 1a As observed


Relevance. The number of scientists explored the motives of entrants to choose teacher's profession noted, that now selection of pedagogical studies does not reflect future teachers' pedagogical directivity, the motivation is small of future teachers' to work pedagogical job. It is also noted, that enrolling graduates pay more attention to financial costs of studying or financial perspectives of interested specialty delegate. The research discloses future teachers' motives for enrolling into pedagogical studies. The research focuses on the problem that motives for enrolling into pedagogical studies are still insufficiently investigated. The aim of the research is to reveal the motives for enrolling into the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences and their changes. The objectives of the research are as follows: 1. To identify the main motives for enrolling into pedagogical studies; 2. To compare the motives for enrolling into pedagogical studies of students who entered the university in different academic years (in 2002, 2010 and 2011 years). The empirical method was applied in the research which was carried out in three different faculties (those of Natural Sciences, Philology, and Mathematics and Informatics) of the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences in 2010–2011. The research sample included the answers of 270 first-year students. Questionnaire was prepared in order to analyze motives of first year entrants to Lithuanian Educational University and to compare it with results of 2000–2002 year study. 48 motives were presented in questionnaire and each of them had to be evaluated according significance. Motives were selected based on analysis of relevant literature and the structure of 2000–2002 study questionnaire. Main motives, mostly mentioned in scientific literature for choosing teachers profession, were distinguished in this study. The research findings reveal that, in 2010 and 2011, the main motives for the informants to choose pedagogical studies were their intention to acquire a diploma of higher education, a possibility to get a better-paid job, and career aspirations. Comparison of the data of the year 2002 and of 2010–2011 shows that in 2002 the choice of pedagogical studies (in the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences) was determined mainly by students' extrinsic motivation – intention to acquire a diploma of higher education and to improve their financial situation as well as the social image. Similar motives were identified in 2010, when the main motives included a wish to acquire a diploma of higher education (though this motive was 20 percent weaker then), a possibility to get a better paid job, and career aspirations. Both in 2002 and in 2010 the same number of the informants mentioned their intrinsic motivation – aspiration to become a teacher as an important motive, and in 2011, however, the majority of the first-year students (72.9 %) did not consider becoming a teacher as important. The significance of such a motive as pedagogical love  for children also decreased. This reveals a lack of professional purposefulness and that unmotivated students are admitted to pedagogical studies. Keywords: teacher profession, pedagogical studies, motives of entrance to these studies, changes of motives.


Commercial and mall datasets need to using the most known data mining techniques to classify goods and to predict the user requirements , behavior and company strategies. Classification applied to the financial dataset used which is called Wholesale customers dataset which can be collected by any other company or mall be filling the attributes with the information required which is contains 440 instances of 8 attributes, it refers to clients of a wholesale distributor. It includes the annual spending in monetary units (m.u.) on diverse product categories. In this paper many classification algorithm is been tested with the dataset used and compared by using many characteristics to explain the best algorithm used for such data classification. In order to classify or predict commercial data many algorithms used by companies and malls, these algorithms helps the owners and management of these companies for digging the data and analyze it and then extract meaningful data which can be used to take decisions related to it. Four data mining classification algorithms is been used Naïve Bayes, J48, IBK and SMO and results is discussed in details.


This is a reply to J. T. Gammel's Comment (9404047) on Tuning of the CDW in MX Chains. We show that while the harmonic elastic energy can fit a small region around zero dimerization, it is insufficient to treat the large amplitude CDW of the MX systems which was the main physics of our Letter (Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 71}, 1415 (1993)). We also stress that \underline{anharmonic} elastic potentials are {\it essential} to explain the charge-density-wave systematics of an entire class of MX material.


High structural homogeneity of high-purity silica glass is required in optics,optical communication and inertial navigation field.The structural property of Chemical Vapor Deposited silica glass is determined by the process conditions.The structural homogeneity of silica glass produced by horizontal and vertical process separately was studied.By stress birefringence test and fictive temperature test,silica glass produced by horizontal process has ring structure at the horizontal direction,and homogeneous structure an the vertical direction;silica glass produced by vertical process has layered structure with the thickness of 0.16 cm,and fine homogeneous structure at the horizontal direction,and without structural stress within the diameter of 8 cm.


Comparative genomics analyses indicated that the Flavobacterium columnare genome has unique denitrification genes relative to Flavobacterium psychrophilum and Flavobacterium johnsoniae, including nasA (nitrate reductase), nirS (nitrite reductase), norB (nitric oxide reductase) and nosZ (nitrous oxide reductase). The current study determines the roles of nasA, nirS, norB and nosZ in anaerobic growth, nitrate reduction, biofilm formation and virulence.


This paper discusses fiber characteristics and cable design considerations that affect cable reliability. Installed cable and splice reliability data are presented, and it is concluded that intrinsic cable and splice reliability is very high. Cable failures are dominated by uncontrollable factors, and the highest failure mode is "backhoe blackout." Finally, restoration issues are discussed.


The invention discloses a method for intensively culturing artemia through photosynthetic bacteria and a single-step food chain. The method comprises the following steps: (1) performing disinfection treatment on a photosynthetic bacteria culture container: performing the disinfection treatment on the wall of the culture container, and rinsing thoroughly the wall of culture container with boiled water after disinfection; (2) performing the disinfection treatment on an artemia culture container: performing the disinfection treatment on the wall of the culture container, and rinsing thoroughly the wall of the culture container with the boiled water after disinfection; (3) preparing artemia culture solution; (4) performing inoculation and culture on the photosynthetic bacteria; (5) performing inoculation and culture on the artemia. The method disclosed by the invention has the advantages that the photosynthetic bacteria serve as single baits for the artemia, and a single-step food chain culture mode is adopted, so that nutrition is complete, culture is convenient, no toxin or harm is generated, and the cost is lower.


From contemporary fiction on sea voyage appears a striking image. The ships that sailed between The Netherlands and Dutch East Indies, amidst 1850 and 1890, formed a micro colony: a compressed version of a colonial society. Practically, all components of a colonial community are represented on board. That includes the so-called backsliders: the Indianised Europeans. Analysis of eight novels on the sea voyages round Cape of Good Hope shows that Europeans that went native were represented in colonial discourse as a fundamental threat to colonial society, as they proved that the alleged superior Western civilization could be affected by supposed inferior Eastern cultures. For that encroaches upon the legitimacy of the colonial hegemony.


An object of the present invention is affinity for Aβ A heavy chain and light chain variable regions are characterized by having a hypervariable region below, it is a monoclonal antibody. Heavy chain hypervariable region 1 SEQ ID NO: 1 Heavy chain hypervariable region 2: SEQ ID NO: 2 Heavy chain hypervariable region 3: SEQ ID NO: 3 Light chain hypervariable region 1: SEQ ID NO: 4 Light chain hypervariable region 2: SEQ ID NO: 5 Light chain hypervariable region 3: SEQ ID NO: 6 .BACKGROUND


The defense of the cultural and Environmental patrimony and their managementis an issue that cannot be approached except in relation to today?s conceptions a...


Current techniques for the creation and exploration of virtual worlds are largely unable to generate sound natural environments from ecological data and to provide interactive web-based visualizations of such detailed environments. We tackle this challenge and propose a novel framework that (i) explores the advantages of landscape maps and ecological statistical data, translating them to an ecologically sound plant distribution, and (ii) creates a visually convincing 3D representation of the natural environment suitable for its interactive visualization over the web. Our vegetation model improves techniques from procedural ecosystem generation and neutral landscape modeling. It is able to generate diverse ecological sound plant distributions directly from landscape maps with statistical ecological data. Our visualization model integrates existing level of detail and illumination techniques to achieve interactive frame rates and improve realism. We validated with ecology experts the outcome of our framework using two case studies and concluded that it provides convincing interactive visualizations of large natural environments.


A total of 232 species of macrofungi were identified from 827 specimens collected in the Fujian Wuyi Mountain Scenic Area,These belonged to five classes,16 orders,and 45 families,and 102 species have been documented as edible,39 species as medicinal,and 25 species as poisonous.


The technique of laser vibrometry is used to generate vibration images, i.e. data cubes where the target vibration amplitude distribution across the target, for a given vibration frequency, is mapped onto the x-y-plane, and frequency varies along the z-direction. Sample vibration images were taken by laser radars at (lambda) equals 10.6 micrometer (CO2 laser) and (lambda) equals 1.54 micrometer (erbium fiber laser) at ranges over 1 km. The first ever taken vibration images of motorized vehicles at such distances will be presented. Vibration imagery offers new possibilities for target classification, and for investigating and monitoring vibration behavior of large scale structures. Experimental and theoretical comparisons of laser vibrometry techniques with and without spatial resolution capability will be presented.


Dear Editor, Hereditary angioedema (HAE) is a rare autosomal dominant disorder, characterized by episodes of angioedema of various body parts, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting. A sudden attack of HAE is unpredictable, and swelling of the airway can potentially lead to death. Most cases of HAE are classified into type I and type II with heterozygous deficiencies of the C1 inhibitor (C1-INH) gene (SERPING1), but the genotype–phenotype relationship of them has not been reported. The administration of compliment C1-INH, which is available as Berinert P (CSL Behring, Tokyo, Japan) in Japan, reduces the symptoms when administrated shortly after the onset of each attack. Therefore, presymptomatic genetic diagnosis of HAE is beneficial. As such, we conducted genetic counseling and the DNAbased diagnosis of a family. The proband was a 30-year-old woman who experienced recurrent episodes of angioedema. The low level of both C1INH activity and protein concentration, along with the low C4 level, suggested that she had HAE type I. DNA analysis revealed that she has a heterozygous splice site mutation (g.1820G>A, c.51+1G>A) of the C1-INH gene. This mutation has already been reported as a pathological mutation in HAE type I of Hungarian patients, but this is the first report of the same mutation in an individual of Japanese heritage. The proband has three daughters. At the time of the study, all of them were free of angioedema and their serum C4 levels were normal (Table 1). However, the second and third daughters showed slightly low levels of C1-INH activity and protein concentration, as well as C1q. These test results raised the possibility that two of the daughters also have HAE. To confirm this, we conducted genetic counseling and presymptomatic genetic diagnosis of HAE in all three daughters. DNA tests revealed that the second (a 2-year-old) and third (a 1-year-old) daughters have the same heterozygous splice site mutation of the C1-INH gene. The first daughter does not carry the mutation. All study protocols were approved by the institutional review board of the Ethical Committee for Human Genome Research of Hiroshima University (Gen-M114-9) and the Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine (#2986) before the genetic analysis. The proband provided written informed consent. Based on the diagnosis of HAE, we clarified for this family which hospital to visit in case of a sudden attack. According to Ohsawa et al., the sensitivity and specificity of low C4 for HAE were 95.6% and 93.8%, respectively. In Ohsawa et al.'s case series, only one of 23 HAE patients showed a normal level of C4. However, the second measurement during an attack exhibited a low C4 level. Therefore, normal C4 levels in the present cases may be attributable to the lack of the attacks of angioedema so far. Thus, although it has been generally agreed that low serum levels of C4 are a useful marker for HAE, normal serum C4 levels do not exclude the possibility of HAE. This underscores the importance of DNA-based diagnosis of HAE, particularly for presymptomatic young children who may be prone to atypical laboratory tests for C4.


Hydrogen is a green, environmentally benign and sustainable energy source with no harmful combustion products to fulfil the increasing energy demand. Photocatalytic oxidation has various advantageous to produce hydrogen from different sources such as wastewater, alcohol solutions using different types of catalysts. Sucrose solution was chosen as a model solution to evolve hydrogen using LFO and GLFO catalysts under solar light irradiation, and graphene was used as a catalyst support to enhance the amount of produced hydrogen amount. A characterization study, which consists of SEM‐EDX, BET, XRD, PL, TEM, XPS and FT‐IR analyses, was carried out. A full factorial design was created via Minitab 18 to analyse the factors affecting the produced hydrogen amount, which are pH, catalyst loading, H2O2 concentration and graphene content statistically. Based on the results, graphene content is an important parameter and pH and H2O2 concentration have a synergetic effect over hydrogen production. Additionally, the effects of calcination temperature, pH, H2O2 concentration and catalyst loading over produced gases were investigated. The best promising result was obtained as 3388 μmol/gcat at the following reaction conditions: 7.5 of pH, 0.1 g L−1 catalyst loading (GLFO, which is calcined at 700°C) and using 15 mM H2O2 under solar light irradiation.


OBJECTIVES
To investigate the prevalence of pathological disease and spectrum of HPV types among symptomatic foreskin tissue.

MATERIALS AND METHODS
Consecutively excised symptomatic foreskins (N=351) were sent for histopathological evaluation. During the surgical procedure a fresh biopsy was taken for HPV analysis by MGP-PCR. A medical questionnaire regarding medication, smoking habits, number of lifetime sexual partners, former diseases and surgery performed on penis was completed by all participants.

RESULTS
The most common clinical diagnosis and cause for circumcision was phimosis, seen in 85.2%. Histopathologically inflammatory dermatological conditions were present in 87% of the cases. The most common histopathological diagnosis was lichen sclerosus (LS) observed among 58.7%. Notably penile intraepithelial neoplasia (PeIN) was present in 2% without former clinical suspicion. Overall, HPV was detected in 17.1% of cases and 28 different HPV types were found. High risk (HR) HPV types was identified in 9.1 % and HPV16 was present in 2.3 %. Current smoking increased the risk for HPV (crude odds ratio (OR) 2.8, confidence interval (CI) 1.4-5.6, p-value 0.005). Having > 15 sexual partners over life increased the risk for HPV (crude OR 2.6, 95% CI 1.4-5.1, p-value 0.003) and when adjusted for current smoking the OR was substantially increased (OR 6.0, CI 2.2-16.8, p-value <0001).

CONCLUSIONS
Histopathological evaluation of circumcised symptomatic foreskin revealed PeIN in 2% of the cases without any clinical suspicion of malignancy and that treatable dermatological conditions were present in 87%, LS being the most common. HR HPV types were present in 9%. Due to risk of malignant development both in PeIN and in inflammatory skin diseases we recommend that all symptomatic foreskins should be histopathologically evaluated as guidance for further clinical management.


The experimental details are given of an evaporation technique for producing epitaxial layers of zinc selenide on 0.1 Ωcm p-type germanium substrates. The degree of crystal order in the deposited layer is presented and the results show that, whilst the (100) orientation readily produces epitaxial layers of zinc selenide, the (110) and (111) orientations are more restricted. The preliminary electrical characteristics of the devices formed on the (100) substrate indicate that, at the higher growth temperatures, an interface layer is formed between the germanium and zinc selenide.


Using a qualitative research method, this work investigates risks associated with IT outsourcing and aspects of managing outsourcing risks in the context of Higher Learning Institutes (HLI) in Ethiopia. Primary data is collected through interviews conducted with various stakeholders in the IT outsourcing process including a select set of executives, committee members, domain experts and users. Respondents of the HLIs demonstrated adequate understanding of IT outsourcing processes, yet the HLIs were found to have no structured or documented outsourcing strategy, policy or program in place. Risk management frameworks for IT outsourcing projects were either absent or not documented. Overall, the findings reveal a general lack of appreciation for needs of structure and documentation in all aspects of outsourcing contracts. As a result, the risk management practices of the HLIs are found to depend largely on intuitions and previous experiences.


Method for controlling a tension of the paper web in a press, in which a paper web (B) runs through at least two printing mechanisms (06; 07; 08; 09), and determines a first position phase (gamma1) of one of the printing mechanisms (06, 07, 08, 09), and a second phase position (gamma2) measured in the conveying direction (T) after one of the printing mechanisms (06, 07, 08 ; 09), characterized in that the second phase position (gamma2) is determined after the last printing unit (09) in the transport direction (T), and depending on their phase positions (gamma1, gamma2) voltage is changed ( S2) of the paper web (B) before the printing of the first (06; 07; 08; 09).


How might an optical design change in the final optics assembly couple with the spherical geometry required for beam delivery to the target chamber to cause the 40 cm beam to be rotated by more than several design teams had thought and not be discovered until the final design stage for the beam enclosure and structures?


The following learning session has been designed upon linguistic, psychological and
pedagogical foundations. This lesson plan entails the whole learning session procedure
that will be carried out to enable high school students to develop the learning competence
of writing in English as a Foreign Language. The topic and the context upon which the
lesson has been built is the physical appearance of people.
In the theoretical background, the topic has been approached from a linguistic point of
view. That is to say, the use of specific grammatical structures and vocabulary items
related to the lesson topic that will allow students to produce the language in written form.
Regarding the psychological and pedagogical background, both basic psychological and
pedagogical foundations have been taken into account to facilitate students learning
process as well as help them achieve the expected learning objectives.


Real-time PCR protocols were developed to detect and discriminate 11 anastomosis groups (AGs) of Rhizoctonia solani using ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions (AG-1-IA, AG-1-IC, AG-2-1, AG-2-2, AG-4HGI+II, AG-4HGIII, AG-8) or β-tubulin (AG-3, AG-4HGII, AG-5 and AG-9) sequences. All real-time assays were target group specific, except AG-2-2, which showed a weak cross-reaction with AG-2tabac. In addition, methods were developed for the high throughput extraction of DNA from soil and compost samples. The DNA extraction method was used with the AG-2-1 assay and shown to be quantitative with a detection threshold of 10−7 g of R. solani per g of soil. A similar DNA extraction efficiency was observed for samples from three contrasting soil types. The developed methods were then used to investigate the spatial distribution of R. solani AG-2-1 in field soils. Soil from shallow depths of a field planted with Brassica oleracea tested positive for R. solani AG-2-1 more frequently than soil collected from greater depths. Quantification of R. solani inoculum in field samples proved challenging due to low levels of inoculum in naturally occurring soils. The potential uses of real-time PCR and DNA extraction protocols to investigate the epidemiology of R. solani are discussed.


In [13], a new quasi-local energy is introduced for spacetimes with a non-zero cosmological constant. In this article, we study the small sphere limit of this newly defined quasi-local energy for spacetimes with a negative cosmological constant. For such spacetimes, the anti de-Sitter space is used as the reference for the quasi-local energy. Given a point $p$ in a spacetime $N$, we consider a canonical family of surfaces approaching $p$ along its future null cone and evaluate the limit of the quasi-local energy. The optimal embedding equation which identifies the critical points of the quasi-local energy is solved in order to evaluate the limit. Using the optimal embedding, we show that the limit recovers the stress-energy tensor of the matter field at $p$. For vacuum spacetimes, the quasi-local energy vanishes to a higher order. In this case, the limit of the quasi-local energy is related to the Bel-Robinson tensor at $p$.


Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of an exercise program intended to influence craniocervical posture on participants'...


The 19th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC 2002) 23–25 September 2002, Washington DC, USA Contact: Stephen A. Cauffman, National Institute of Standard and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8611, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8611, USA Tel: 301 975 6051 Fax: 301 869 6275 E-mail: email@example.com eLEGAL 2002 (European Conference on Legal Aspects of ICT Application in Project-Based Business) 3–4 October 2002, Loughborough, UK Contact: Chris Carter, Department of Civil & Building Engineering, Loughborough University, Leics., LE11 3TU, UK Tel: (0)1509 228741 Fax: (0)1509 223945 E-mail: email@example.com


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Technetium-99m methoxyisobutylisonitrile (MIBI) is a myocardial perfusion imaging agent that has been reported to effectively localize in various tumors (e.g., lung and thyroid carcinomas and osteogenic sarcoma). To determine its usefulness in thyroid tumors, we compared 99mTc-MIBI with 201TI imaging.

METHOD
We evaluated 25 patients with thyroid tumors (papillary carcinoma in 11, follicular carcinoma in 2, follicular adenoma in 7, adenomatous goiter in 5). Fifteen metastatic lesions from differentiated thyroid carcinomas were also evaluated. Early (10 min after injection) and delayed images (120 min after injection) were obtained for both 99mTc-MIBI and 201TI scintigraphy.

RESULTS
The early images showed very similar findings for both 99mTc-MIBI and 201TI. However, the delayed images showed that malignant tumors tended to retain more tracer agent than benign nodules. Marked retention was in 61.5% (8 of 13) of 201TI images and 53.8% (7 of 13) of 99mTc-MIBI images. For metastatic lesions from thyroid carcinomas, the findings for 99mTc-MIBI imaging were nearly identical to those for 201TI imaging. A slight difference in clarity was seen that may have been due to the effect of the 99mTc.

CONCLUSION
Although 99mTc-MIBI scintigraphy does not have particularly good results in differentiating malignant from benign thyroid tumors, it may be useful in evaluating metastases or predicting recurrence because of its better imaging characteristics.


quent laboratory values, serum creatinine levels normalized after an average of 15.9 days postoperatively (range, 10–26 days). The data provide evidence of systemic tobramycin absorption from ACSs placed during revision joint arthroplasty. This finding suggests that patients receiving an ACS may have prolonged exposure to elevated serum aminoglycoside levels, which could increase the risk of toxicity, including nephrotoxicity. Prospective studies are warranted to determine the true incidence of systemic aminoglycoside absorption from ACSs and the operative and patient risk factors that lead to nephrotoxicity.


The theme The History of the Transfer of Technologies in the Mediterranean Region of the 2005 conference of the European Centre for Ancient East-Mediterranean Studies in Tartu (Estonia) was the stimulus for considering trumpet snails and purple snails. In this chapter, first the trumpet snails are considered and then the purple snails: the triton or trumpet snail and its shell as an object of worship, and the purple snail and the use of its secretion as a dye for wool. The emphasis of these considerations is made not only from the viewpoint of the cultural history of Ugarit but also from the archaeological finds in the ruins of that port at all times in the east Mediterranean region. The conclusion provides a summary: sea-snails as an indication of the transfer of religion and technology in the eastern Mediterranean region. Keywords: eastern-Mediterranean region; purple snails; religion; sea-snails; technology; trumpet snails


ABSTRACT Television's longfascination with crime makes a study of contemporary justice shows imperative. An analysis ofthree contemporary prime-timejustice shows (Law and Order, The Practice and NYPD Blue) was undertaken to discover the way in which crime and its participants are presented by entertainment television. The findings revealed an overrepresentation of violent crime and distorted images of offenders and victims. These findings not only confirm research findings from previous studies of prime-time crime shows, but suggest that contemporary justice shows have not become any more sophisticated in presenting accurate depictions of crime than their crime show predecessors. Clearly, such media distortions of crime and its participants have important implications for viewer knowledge and understanding, which are discussed.


It has been some time since the expression "the softization of the economy" came into use. The word softization, created by the mass media, means a drastic structural change in the economic society and is symbolized by six types of change. They are the increased service sector, the growing importance of information, internationalization, the growing importance of the financial sector (economic obesity), increased speculation, and the increased importance of energy saving.


Silicone rubber insulators are noted for their excellent anti-contamination performance in most environments. However, acid rain conditions challenge many materials including silicone rubber used for high voltage outdoor insulators. Presented in this study are the results of a long term (720h) acid rain + multistress performance of 10kV insulators, containing silica and ATH additives under Islamabad, Pakistan conditions. The various stresses applied include UV radiation, heat, and acid rain spray. The results indicate that the insulators remained intact despite some degradation. It can be safely assumed that these insulators can withstand the studied conditions for several years.


The presented research study focuses on demonstrating the learning ability of a neural network using a genetic algorithm and finding the most suitable neural network topology for solving a demonstration problem. The network topology is significantly dependent on the level of generalization. More robust topology of a neural network is usually more suitable for particular details in the training set and it loses the ability to abstract general information. Therefore, we often design the network topology by taking into the account the required generalization, rather than the aspect of theoretical calculations. The next part of the article presents research whether a modification of the parameters of the genetic algorithm can achieve optimization and acceleration of the neural network learning process. The function of the neural network and its learning by using the genetic algorithm is demonstrated in a program for solving a computer game. The research focuses mainly on the assessment of the influence of changes in neural networks' topology and changes in parameters in genetic algorithm on the achieved results and speed of neural network training. The achieved results are statistically presented and compared depending on the network topology and changes in the learning algorithm.


It is a truism of educational theory that the higher the abstraction level of the task, the more difficult it is to learn and teach. The history of education abounds in advice to teachers about the need to lower this abstraction level, especially for those of low chronological or mental age. Thus very early in the game Comenius (Keatings, 1896) urged that The sense of hearing should always be conjoined with that of sight, and the tongue should be trained in combination with the hand. The subjects


Computer has a lot of the use of the work has been promoted,meanwhile,the computer systems security issues.in order to ensure that the computer system important data security,the library computer work to strengthen data security,the use of various security measures to ensure that all the computer data safety.


The authors have calculated the optical transmission spectrum of Rb/sub 2/ZnBr/sub 4/ using a three-dimensional tight-binding model with modulation along one direction. The authors' calculation reproduces very well the observed change of spectrum across the normal-to-incommensurate transition at 355 {Kappa}.


The main goal of exploring emerging technologies in food processing is to improve the safety and overall quality of our food by providing food products that are not only high in nutritional content and have good sensorial characteristics, but foods that are deemed microbiologically safe with long storage life and at a reasonable cost to consumers. Some of these technologies are already under use in the food industry, such as high hydrostatic pressure (HHP); this technology was tested for some years in the laboratory and regulatory standards were approved by official agencies; however, more research is nevertheless being conducted with HHP to explore new challenges. Another novel technology currently under research is ultrasound, while other new technologies such as pulsed electric fields and microwave are now under examination for approval by regulatory agencies. We are also just beginning to understand the mechanism of action of some of the newest technologies, such as radio frequency. This special issue summarizes the needs of Emerging Food Processing Technologies in North America including the points of view gathered from academia, industry, and government in the discussion of collaborative research needed to satisfy the consumer's increasing expectation that food not only be safe to eat and reasonably priced, but of the highest possible quality. Equipment suppliers participated as well in order to learn and better understand the needs of food scientists and engineering researchers as well food processors. The issue is divided into 10 chapters, with a brief introduction highlighting the need for emerging technologies in food processing and also the challenges associated with these technologies, which it is also pointed out, and it could be addressed by the creation of a Center of Excellence for Innovative Food Processing Technologies. The main challenges related to thermal and nonthermal emerging technologies are discussed throughout this manuscript, as well as the research needs for each one. High hydrostatic pressure, ohmic heating, microwave, radio frequency, pulsed electric fields, ultrasound, ultraviolet, and several chemical processes are the main technologies discussed in this document. The report concludes with a chapter dedicated to the food industry's viewpoint on emerging technologies and the barriers they believe still need to be crossed to satisfy consumer expectations, while at the same time, fostering acceptance of these new technologies as viable food processing methods.


Concentrations of lattice point defects produced by thermal-neutron and fast-neutron irradiation of copper, nickel, iron, titanium, and palladium at 4.5$sup 0$K were measured resistometrically, and the values are compared with the theoretically predicted values. For thermal-neutron irradiation the ratio of the predicted to measured concentration of defects ranged from a minimum of 1.0 for titanium to a maximum of 4.5 for palladium; for fast-neutron irradiation this ratio ranged from 2.3 for titanium to 6.5 for copper. On postirradiation isochronal annealing no stage II or V are present in copper after thermal-neutron irradiation, but both these stages are present after fast-neutron irradiation. Both nickel and titanium exhibit more than 100 percent recovery, super-recovery, after thermal-neutron irradiation. The super-recovery is attributed to the irradiation-induced supersaturation of vacancies that provide the enhanced diffusion required for the precipitation of impurity atoms from the lattice. Little or no enhanced diffusion is observed after fast-neutron irradiation of nickel and titanium. (auth)


There are number of antennas required for a wireless body area network (WBAN) to perform different types of communications at different positions of body. Therefore to decrease the number of antennas, there is a need of antennas with flexibility of operation that is a single antenna should serves a purpose of more than one type of communication. In case of WBAN antenna is to be placed over body therefore shape of antenna should be adjustable according to the body. Most of the body parts are curved therefore flat antenna cannot follow the curvature of body and some of the part of antenna will be protruding, which can interfere the natural body movements. The curved shape antenna can follow the curvature of body therefore proposed antenna is made curved. The curved antenna discussed in this book is designed to be radiating at two frequencies 2.45 GHz and 5.8 GHz and modeling is done using CST software. The proposed antenna has less effect of radiations on body. The SAR value of antenna is 0.676 W/kg at 2.45 GHz and 0.294 W/kg at 5.8 GHz. These values of SAR are well below the limits for SAR in India.


The reaction of selenoesters with o-aminobenzamide and o-aminothiobenzamide derivatives led to the formation of 4-hydroxy- and 4-mercaptoquinazolines. Their structures were elucidated by means of elemental analyses and spectropic data (nmr and ms).


PURPOSE: A refrigeration cycle directly using high-pressure gas as a driving energy source is provided to secure an environment-friendly and low-cost refrigeration environment by obtaining cold and heat required from a building or industry. CONSTITUTION: A refrigeration cycle is complexly formed of a Rankine cycle converting pressure energy of high-pressure gas into motive power, and the existing vapor compression cycle, wherein the two cycles use one condenser in common. A generator(15) evaporates and pressurizes a refrigerant(22) by a fluid(14) of high temperature obtained from solar heat or waste heat of a factory. A turbo charger(20) rotates a compressor integrated with an expander when the expander is rotated by receiving the pressurized refrigerant from the generator, thereby sucking refrigerant vapor from an evaporator(13). A regenerator(21) is installed between an outlet(5) of the turbo charger and the condenser for recovering heat capacity contained by overheated vapor, and recovering heat capacity from liquified refrigerant pressurized by a liquid supply pump(11). The condenser liquifies the refrigerant passing through the expander and the compressor at an outlet of the regenerator. An expansion valve supplies a part of the liquified refrigerant to the evaporator. The liquid supply pump supplies the rest of the liquified refrigerant to the generator via the regenerator.


Peculiarities of remodeling of Wistar rat liver after singlefold administration of doxorubicin sublethal dose in dynamic have been investigated. It has been shown that main role in liver three-dimensional reorganization plays vascular-parenchymatous relations which specify dynamics of stromal-parenchymatous relations. Noticeable reduction of the ratio of stroma to parenchyma predominantly due to reduction of spatial density of sinusoidal capillaries occurs in pericentral zone of liver acinus in early and late terms after administration of the preparation. In periportal zone increase in spatial and surface density of sinusoidal capillaries causing increase in the spatial ratio of stroma to parenchyma occurs in a week after administration of the preparation. Increasing with time Disse`s space infiltration by plasmocytes and lymphoid cells is consider to be a peculiarity of parenchymatous-stromal mutual relations in liver acinus.


experience! The basic steps involved in the sending and receiving of mail in your own classroom can provide a valuable means of helping your students develop their communicative skills in a foreign language. Why not, then, incorporate such an exercise into a language lesson that will prepare your students to deal effectively on a practical level with a real-life situation? In an earlier article I referred to a series of


Polyaniline was grafted onto a mixture of rutile and anatase TiO2 nanoparticles by in situ chemical oxidative polymerization. These nanocomposites were characterized by carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen (CHN) analysis, x-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared (FTIR), ultraviolet–visible (UV–vis), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analysis. FTIR and UV–vis confirm the formation of polyaniline on TiO2 nanoparticles. The TEM shows that the composites consist of PANI and TiO2 nanoparticles. Compared to the neat polyaniline, PANI/TiO2 composites show a higher capacitance and also a higher activity per mass of polyaniline. Since the PANI/TiO2 composites are stable during the electrooxidation of ascorbic acid, they can be used as an alternative catalyst for direct ascorbic acid fuel cells.


The article deals with the issue of forest fire risk and regional differentiation of this phenomenon in Poland. A set of indicators characterizing forest fires in voivodeships (equivalent of provinces) was developed, including: area indicators, variability indicators, 10-year indicators, normalized indicators and a synthetic indicator. The study is based on the data for the years 2009-2018 provided by the Local Data Bank. Assessment of the severity of forest fires phenomena in the analysed period was presented. The results of the assessment were compared to theoretically designated fire risk categories. Areas where the actual number of fires, average area and the burned area were adequate to the forecasted degree of fire risk were indicated. Additionally, the obtained results allowed to identify the voivodeships where the characteristics of forest fires for the analysed period differed from the forest fire risk degree found in the literature. This indicates the complex nature of the phenomenon resulting from, inter alia, large variability of factors that determine the occurrence of forest fires. An example of such a situation is the Lubuskie Voivodeship which is assigned to the medium fire risk category, while the actual intensity was found to be low. Another example is the Podkarpackie Voivodeship with a medium and low fire risk, where over the past 10 years the intensity of the phenomenon was high.


In this paper, a wiretap channel where the transmitter and receiver communicate through a discrete memoryless channel, and the eavesdropper (Eve) has perfect access to a fixed fraction of transmitted symbols (of its choosing) is considered. An outer bound for the rate-equivocation region of the channel, for all such fractions, is derived. An achievable scheme, which provides an inner bound for the rate-equivocation region, is proposed. The achievability is established by defining a class of good codebooks for which there exists a good partition that achieves the required level of equivocation no matter what subset of symbols Eve chooses. It is shown that, for a uniform input distribution, the probability of this class of good codes approaches 1 as the block length increases. This generalizes the wiretap II model to one with a noisy main channel.


Typed litigation from the 1887 United States Circuit Court for the District of Indiana case of The Brush Electric Company versus the Fort Wayne Electric Light Company, Henry G. Olds, Perry A. Randall, and Ranald T. McDonald, by M. D. and L. L. Leggett, H. A. Seymour, and R. S. Taylor. Includes Complainants Record, Defendants Proof, Brief for Complainant, Brief for the Defendants, and Brief for the Complainant on the Motion to Strike Defendants Cross Bill from the Files of the Court, related to arc lamp components. Documents probably published in 1887, 1888, 1889, or 1890


Th e coordinates of center-stake in independent Local Coordin at e System can be integrated into Control Coordinate System of the road by the for mula of Coordinate Transfor-mation in the computation model.In order to conve nience for the layout of Electronic Theometer Total Station or RTK in GPS,th e coordinates of side-stake are deduced from the model at the same time.


Abstract : In attempting to eliminate the negative effect of metals or metal-containing enzymes in the nutrition industry, efforts are being made to utilize the so-called complexons (derivatives of alpha-aminopolycarbonic acids). These are distinguished by their unusual complex-forming affinity with various metals. The utilization of complexons -- mainly, the bisodium salt of the?ethylendiarnine-tetracetic acid (complexon-3) in food technology -- is based principally on the complexide constants which increase in the order: Na Ca2 Fe2 Co2 = Zn2 Cu2 Pt2 Fe3.


Fuel ethanol is selected as good replacable resource and gains highly attention for its attributes as renewable,clean resource and being possible to replace petroleum.The large-scale and complete-set producing technology of fuel ethanol,preprocessing of ligno-cellulose,modern fermentauon technology and dehydration of fermentation aqueous solution comprise the important content of modern producing technology of fuel ethanol as well as the research emphasis and development direction of biological resources industry.


Objective To observe the treatment effect of injecting urokinase in chest for encapsulated tuberculous pleurisy patients.Methods Regular antituberculosis treatment was given to all patients observed.For the treatment group,urokinase(100,000 u) was injected into the pleural cavity of 76 patients.For the control group,urokinase was not injected.Results The general effective rate of the treatment group was 97.4%.For the control group it was 78.8%.The effect was significantly different in the two groups.Conclusion For patients with encapsulated tuberculous pleural effusion,regular antituberculosis treatment plus urokinase injection into the pleural cavity can accelerate absorption,increase the drainage,and decrease pleural thickening.


Industry-University-Research (IUR) cooperative innovation has been regarded as the frontier innovation mode to promote the major innovations of knowledge and technology. It has been the general consensus of small satellite enterprises, universities and scientific research institutes that the superiority of IUR cooperative innovation should be further developed and the level of technical service of small satellites should be further enhanced to promote the innovation and development of the small satellite industry. In this paper, based on the study of the IUR cooperative innovation system, we analyze the concept and connotation of IUR cooperative innovation, present the deficiencies in the current research, put forward the management and control method, design the path of cooperative innovation, and provide the strategy and suggestion.


With the increase in smartphone users, attacks targeting smartphone malware, zombie smartphone, such as smart phones is increasing. Security of smart phones is more vulnerable than PC security, for a zombie smartphone and generates a serious problem than the zombie PC attack on the smartphone every day is diversification. In this paper, the comparative analysis of malicious code and smartphone DDoS attacks and DDoS attacks from the PC, When using a service by connecting to the data network, proposes a method for users to confirm the packet smartphone direct a method for detecting by using the PC malware Smart PC Phone. Propose the measures of malicious code and smartphone DDoS attacks.


In this article a multistate system under some checking policy is considered. The system has n + 1 states: 0,1, …,n, and deteriorates gradually. State 0 is a normal (full capacity) state and states 1, …,n are considered unsatisfactory. Transition from state 0 to state 1 is considered a system failure. This failure can be detected only through checking, which entails a fixed cost c. The holding time in the undiscovered state i (i = 1, …,n) results in cost di per unit of time. For such a system, the algorithm of determining optimum checking times is given.


AML is a disease of the elderly. Patients aged ≥60 years (y) account for ~65% of all AML patients. However, while 40% of younger AML patients achieve long term survival, only 5-15% of older patients do. Especially given increasing availability of alternative treatment strategies the identification of patients who benefit from standard induction chemotherapy and those who do not is of crucial importance. The 2017 European LeukemiaNet Genetic Risk Classification (ELN GRC) provides guidance on genetic risk stratification of AML patients and is currently routinely used in clinical practice for both younger and older AML patients.
 The goal of our study was to test the performance of the 2017 ELN GRC in our cohort of 399 de novo AML patients aged ≥60 y (median: 69 y) which were similarly treated with cytarabine/daunorubicin-based chemotherapy on Cancer and Leukemia Group B/Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology protocols. Our cohort did not contain any patients with core-binding factor AML [i.e., with inv(16)/t(16;16) or t(8;21)]. We also aimed to identify additional molecular prognosticators in older AML patients.
 Utilizing the 2017 ELN GRC, 31%, 25% and 44% of patients were classified as Favorable (Fav), Intermediate (Int) and Adverse (Adv) risk, respectively. The median CR rates of 81% for Fav risk, 55% for Int risk and 39% for Adv risk separated patients in accordance with the ELN GRC groups (P<.001). However, there was no difference in disease-free (DFS) and overall survival (OS) rates for Int and Adv risk patients (3-year [3y] DFS, Int risk, 6%, Adv risk, 3%, P=.91; 3y OS; Int risk, 11%, Adv risk, 6%, P=.46). Fav risk patients had superior DFS and OS compared to both Int and Adv risk patients, but with 3y rates for DFS of 25% and OS of 29%, outcomes were still relatively poor.
 We next tested the prognostic impact of each 2017 ELN GRC marker in our patient cohort. Fav risk group patients with NPM1 mutations (NPM1mut) and either no FLT3-ITD or low FLT3-ITD allelic ratio (FLT3-ITDno/low) had a CR rate of 84%, while patients with biallelic CEBPAmut had a CR rate of only 54% (P=.02, Table 1). While 3y OS of NPM1mut/FLT3-ITDno/low was 31%, it was only 15% for patients with biallelic CEBPAmut (P=.13). Within Int risk patients the outcomes of NPM1mut patients with high FLT3-ITD allelic ratio (FLT3-ITDhigh) and NPM1 wildtype (NPM1wt)/FLT3-ITDno/low patients were equally dismal, and actually resembled those of NPM1wt/FLT3-ITDhigh patients (Table 1). All other patients with gene mutations classified as ELN Adv risk had poor outcomes (Table 1). Thus, the only genetic classification in 2017 ELN GRC that associated with favorable outcome in AML patients ≥60 years was NPM1mut/FLT3-ITDno/low, while biallelic CEBPAmut patients resembled more Int risk patients. NPM1mut/FLT3-ITDhigh, NPM1wt/FLT3-ITDno/low andNPM1wt/FLT3-ITDhighpatients all had CR rates in line with Int risk, but very poor DFS and OS.
 To potentially refine criteria used to classify patients, we performed outcome analyses of mutations co-occurring with NPM1mut on CR, DFS and OS. In addition to the known adverse impact of FLT3-ITDhigh, presence of DNMT3Amut was also associated with lower CR and OS in NPM1mut (CR, 85 vs 32%, P<.001; 3-yr OS rates, 15 vs 7%, P<.001) vs DNMT3Awt patients, resembling the outcomes of Adv risk patients. In contrast, NPM1mut patients that also harbored mutations in SRSF2 (n=18) had longer DFS and OS compared to NPM1mut/SRSF2wt patients (3-yr DFS rates, 44 vs 16%, P=.01; 3-yr OS rates, 50 vs 21%, P=.03).
 Thus, with the exception of the small subsets of NPM1mut/FLT3-ITDno/low and patients harboring both NPM1mut/SRSF2mut all evaluated subsets of AML patients had 3-y DFS and OS rates of <20%, indicating the need for early additional interventions in patients that achieve a CR.
 In summary, our data demonstrate the very poor DFS and OS of older AML patients treated with standard chemotherapy, despite the relatively high probability of achieving a CR. We show that the 2017 ELN GRC performs suboptimally to risk-stratify AML patients aged ≥60 years. NPM1mut/FLT3-ITDno/low status was the only current 2017 ELN GRC prognostic factor associated with improved outcomes in older AML patients. We identified NPM1/DNMT3A (which associated with shorter DFS+OS) and NPM1/SRSF2 (which associated with longer DFS+OS) as additional mutation combinations that might be useful for further group refinement.

 Mims: Jazz Pharmaceuticals: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Abbvie: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Agios Pharmaceuticals: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Astellas Pharmaceuticals: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; PTC Therapeutics: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees. Stone:Cornerstone Pharmaceuticals: Consultancy; Pfizer: Consultancy; Takeda: Other: Fees for serving on a data and safety monitoring board ; Astellas Pharma: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Stemline Therapeutics: Consultancy; Agios: Consultancy, Research Funding; Abbvie: Consultancy, Research Funding; Amgen: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Fujifilm: Consultancy; Roche: Consultancy; Celator Pharmaceuticals: Consultancy; Ono Pharmaceutical-Theradex Oncology: Consultancy; Orsenix: Consultancy; Actinium Pharmaceuticals: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Arog Pharmaceuticals: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding; Otsuka-Astex Pharmaceuticals: Consultancy; Daiichi Sankyo: Consultancy; Celgene: Consultancy, Other: Fees for serving on a steering committee, and fees for serving on a data and safety monitoring board; Novartis: Consultancy, Research Funding; Argenx: Other: Fees for serving on a data and safety monitoring board ; AstraZeneca: Consultancy; MacroGenics: Consultancy; Jazz Pharmaceuticals: Consultancy. Powell:Rafael Pharmaceuticals: Consultancy, Research Funding; Novartis: Consultancy, Speakers Bureau; Janssen: Research Funding; Jazz Pharmaceuticals: Consultancy, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Pfizer: Consultancy, Research Funding. Wang:Pfizer: Other: Advisory role, Speakers Bureau; Stemline: Other: Advisory role, Speakers Bureau; Jazz: Other: Advisory role; Astellas: Other: Advisory role, Speakers Bureau; celyad: Other: Advisory role; Abbvie: Other: Advisory role; Kite: Other: Advisory role; Daiichi: Other: Advisory role; Amgen: Other: Advisory role; Agios: Other: Advisory role. Kolitz:Boeringer-Ingelheim: Research Funding; Roche: Research Funding; Astellas: Research Funding. Byrd:Janssen: Consultancy, Other: Travel Expenses, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Ohio State University: Patents & Royalties: OSU-2S; Acerta: Research Funding; Pharmacyclics LLC, an AbbVie Company: Other: Travel Expenses, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; BeiGene: Research Funding; Acerta: Research Funding; Ohio State University: Patents & Royalties: OSU-2S; Gilead: Other: Travel Expenses, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Novartis: Other: Travel Expenses, Speakers Bureau; TG Therapeutics: Other: Travel Expenses, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Genentech: Research Funding.


Power transformers used in the subtransmission substations of the Iranian power grid have YNd connection. In addition, a grounding transformer with YNd connection is used to create an artificial neutral on the medium voltage side. Ifthe phase to ground capacitor is high in the medium voltage network, in some conditions, such as interruption of the phase-to-ground fault current in one of the output feeders, a kind of resonance is created in the network that not only damages the grounding transformer, but also causes protection problems related to the misalignment of ground fault relays. In this paper, the resonance between the grounding transformer and the phase-to-ground capacitor of the medium voltage output feeders of a sample subtransmission substation is investigated, considering that the phase-to-ground fault is interrupted. In this way, several indicators are defined to adjust the surge arrester and other elements of the subtransmission network. Also, appropriate solutions are presented in order to damp the aforementioned resonance.


In order to take advantage of the resources of climate and soil,the paper analyzed systematically the natural productivity evaluation process of wheat based on the geographic information system(GIS),and then the evaluation system of wheat potential productivity in Henan province was designed using the.NET platform,GIS component technology and Oracle 9i database,which can accomplish the space analysis and evaluation of wheat natural productivity in different regions.


Cybercrime is the result with the development of Information Technology.Computer Network plays a vital role in the network criminal cases.The traditional analysis model in the Internet age faces big challenges.Cybercrime investigation should refer to the traditional criminal investigation methods.On the other hand should focus on the characteristics of criminal networks to find practical ways to provide better support and help for detecting and combating crime.


The contact betwaan the Lower Muschelkalk dolostones and the Middle Muschelkalk red shales in the area of Aiguafreda is marked by a carbonate crust of 20-35 centimetres thick, with milimetrie lamination, abundant iron patines and chert rossettes. Ihis crust present remarkable dome and basin structures up to sevaral meters in diameters and 1,5 metres high, and seems not to be relatad with stromatolitic structures neither caliche profiles. The similarity of this crust with the one described in KORNIcKER (1958) and MULTER and HOFEMEISTER (1968) is pointed out.


Air pollution is an emerging key player in determining the residual risk of coronary events. However, pathophysiological mechanisms linking air pollution and coronary events have been not adequately investigated. We aimed at assessing the relationship between exposure to air pollutants and mechanisms of coronary instability evaluated by optical coherence tomography (OCT) in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS).

 ACS patients undergoing OCT imaging were retrospectively selected. Mechanism of culprit lesion instability was classified as plaque rupture (PR) or intact fibrous cap (IFC) by OCT, and the presence of macrophage infiltrates (MØI) and thin-cap fibroatheroma (TCFA) at the culprit site was also assessed. Based on each case's home address, exposure to several pollutants was evaluated, including particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5), particulate matter 10 (PM10), and carbon monoxide (CO). Only patients with >2 years of available data on air pollution exposure prior to ACS were enrolled. We included 126 patients [median age 67.0 years (55.5–76.0), 97 (77.0%) male]. Sixty-six patients (52.4%) had PR as mechanism of plaque instability. Patients with PR were exposed to significantly higher PM2.5 levels compared to IFC, and PM2.5 was independently associated with PR [odds ratio per unit = 1.194, 95% CI: (1.036–1.377), P = 0.015]. Moreover, exposure to higher levels of PM2.5 was independently associated with the presence of TCFA and of MØI at the culprit site. Interestingly, PM2.5, PM10, and CO levels were positively and significantly correlated with serum levels of C-reactive protein. ROC curves were constructed to assess the ability of PM2.5 to predict the presence of plaque rupture, TCFA or MØI. The AUC for PM2.5 to predict plaque rupture was 0.62 (95% CI: 0.52–0.71, P = 0.018), for TCFA was 0.71 (95% CI: 0.61–0.80, P <0.001) and for MØI was 0.80 (95% CI: 0.71–0.88, P <0.001). Using a PM2.5 cut-off value of 13.40 μg/m3, the sensitivity and specificity for MØI were 81% and 66%, respectively.

 We provide novel insights into the missing link between air pollution and increased risk of coronary events. In particular, exposure to higher concentrations of air pollutants is a risk factor for vulnerable plaque features and for plaque rupture as mechanism of coronary instability mediated by systemic and local plaque inflammation. Of importance, the thresholds of air pollutants that predicted the presence of vulnerable plaque features are far lower than commonly accepted safety thresholds used to start preventive measures for public health, suggesting that further efforts are needed in order to reduce the adverse effects on the cardiovascular system.


This paper reports the first measurement using the NOvA detectors of νμ disappearance in a νμ beam. The analysis uses a 14 kton-equivalent exposure of 2.74×1020 protons-on-target from the Fermilab NuMI beam. Assuming the normal neutrino mass hierarchy, we measure Δm232=(2.52+0.20−0.18)×10−3  eV2 and sin2θ23 in the range 0.38–0.65, both at the 68% confidence level, with two statistically degenerate best-fit points at sin2θ23=0.43 and 0.60. Results for the inverted mass hierarchy are also presented.


A new method, in the interface of stochastic differential equations with boundary value problems, is developed in this work, aiming at representing solutions of exterior boundary value problems in terms of stochastic processes. The main effort concerns exterior harmonic problems but furthermore special attention has been paid on the investigation of time-reduced scattering processes (involving the Helmholtz operator) in the realm of low frequencies. The method, in principle, faces the construction of the solution of the direct versions of the aforementioned boundary value problems but the special features of the method assure definitely the usefulness of the approach to the solution of the corresponding inverse problems as clearly indicated herein.


Does skin colour determine the friends a preschooler can make? How does it feel to be 'different' amongst peers in a preschool setting? Addressing these key questions, "Colours of Friendship" explores the views, attitudes and feelings of a small group of preschoolers in Singapore on the process of friend selection and in some cases, the despair of rejection. Children's viewpoints are projected in their own voices through the innovative use of Persona Dolls and coloured photographs in semi-structured interviews. "Colours of Friendship" will be a valuable addition to the libraries of teachers and researchers who want to understand children's experiences first-hand and who seek to co-build a world with our children, which is foundationed on mutual respect and acceptance of the myraid differences that make our planet an interesting place to call home.


A portable wind tunnel was designed and built to research wind erosion of soil and simultaneous emissions of fine dust from agricultural fields. This approach allowed for time efficient, in situ measurements of erosion processes under controlled wind conditions. The tunnel had an overall length of 13 m with a working section 7.3 m long, 1.0 m wide, and 1.2 m high. Power was supplied using a 33-kW gasoline engine driving a 1.4-m industrial fan.


The fluid flows through both the fractures and pores in deep-seated rock masses, which is of special importance for the performance of underground facilities such as groundwater use and nuclear waste disposal [...]


This work investigates how participation in the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Grand Challenge Scholars Program (GCSP) influences first year engineering students' development of a systems perspective. Students in the NAE GCSP participate in curricular and extracurricular activities to gain research/project experience, an interdisciplinary perspective, an entrepreneurial mindset, multicultural awareness, and social consciousness. At Arizona State University, most GCSP students begin program participation in their first year, primarily through a GCSP specific course designed to help them to develop an interdisciplinary perspective. Each year, approximately 20-25 percent of the incoming GCSP freshmen get involved in the program before classes start, during a weeklong summer program. To evaluate how these GCSP activities influence students' development of systems perspective, qualitative research methods were used to analyze students' end of semester course reflections. Results of a thematic analysis of the data indicate that first year students participating in these activities experience a change in how they think about engineering, recognizing the complexity of problems facing society and the need to consider societal factors (e.g. policy, culture) when developing engineering solutions.


We investigated the role of cortisol (an important stress-hormone) in the regulation of social fear and avoidance behavior in socially anxious individuals, which are characterized by extreme fear and avoidance of social situations. Previous studies in animals and children showed a relation between increased fearfulness and avoidance and elevated cortisol levels, but the causal role of cortisol in these processes is not known.
We found that, only in high socially anxious participants, cortisol administration or stress induction increased avoidance of social threat on an affect-evaluation computer task. Concurrent event-related potentials (brain activity measured with electrodes on the scalp) showed an associated increase in early processing of social threat. Another experiment indicated that the effects of cortisol on early threat processing are task dependent. We conclude that cortisol increases avoidance and facilitates or inhibits early processing of social threat in an adaptive manner, in line with the task goal. This effect is strongest in high anxious individuals, which are particularly sensitive to these threat signals. This knowledge can be relevant for the treatment of SAD, as cortisol levels may increase during exposure therapy, and also because cortisol administration has recently been proposed as a treatment for this disorder.


In order to find the optimal extraction conditions of polyphenol in Magnolia denudate, and further perfect the extraction techniques, taking M. denudate as materials, the levels of some extraction factors were determined and the optimal extraction conditions were obtained on the basis of single factor and orthogonal experiments. The results showed that the optimal extraction solvent of polyphenol in M. denudate was ethanol, the optimal conditions were extracting for 1 hour at 50 ℃, taking 50% ethanol solution as extracting solvent and 1∶30 as ratio of material to extracting solvent. The mass concentration of polyphenol extracted in M. denudate flower was 5.07 mg/g.


This paper describes the design of memory protection based on page-level memory mechanism in the embedded operating system.The approach overlays protection domains on regions of physical memory that are in use by application processes and the operating system kernel.The design is easy to implement and portable between various CPU.Some of the details encountered when implementing this memory protection mechanism on several processors are presented using a sample at the end of the paper.


Contact allergy (CA), a pathologic response after (usually repeated) contact to environmental substances of low molecular weight occurring in a varying proportion of exposed persons, often results in clinical disease, allergic contact dermatitis (ACD), which can be disabling. CA is diagnosed by patch testing, a technique of controlled exposure of patients suspected to have ACD to a standardized set of substances frequently found to be the cause of ACD (Uter, 2004). ACD is an inflammatory reaction of the skin that follows percutaneous absorption of antigen from the skin surface and recruitment of previously sensitized, antigen-specific T lymphocytes into the skin (Rietschel & Fowler, 2001a). Although sensitivity to contact allergens occurs in 10-20% of the adult population, the exact incidence and prevalence of sensitization in children is unknown. ACD in children is not rare. The documented rates of ACD in children are on the increase (Militello et al., 2006; Goossens & Morren, 2006). Sensitization to contact allergens begins in infancy and continues to be more common in toddlers and young children. Infants, even neonates, may be sensitized (Fisher, 1994a; Bruckner et al., 2000). The rate of positive results may vary with referral patterns, selection criteria for patch testing, regional and social variations in allergens exposure and the allergen tested (Militello et al., 2006; Goossens & Morren, 2006; Wahlberg & Lindgerg, 2006).


We interpret several constructions with C*-algebras as colimits in the bicategory of correspondences. This includes crossed products for actions of groups and crossed modules, Cuntz-Pimsner algebras of proper product systems, direct sums and inductive limits, and certain amalgamated free products.


This article describes future energy and emissions scenarios in China. Using the scenarios on future economic development, energy use and emissions generated by the Integrated Assessment Model WITCH, a few key messages are highlighted. In particular, for the crucial role that China has and will have in determining global future climate, it is of utmost importance that the gap between the stated goals and what appears politically feasible is filled in the next ten-twenty years.


Aim To report analyses and propose hypotheses of adaptive radiation that explain distributional patterns of the alpine genus Pachycladon Hook.f. – a morphologically diverse genus from New Zealand closely related to Arabidopsis thaliana.


Objective: Stroke is such a serious disease which would cause patients being disabled, with the development of medical treatment level, the death rates of stroke have been decreased progressively, But the disabled are increasing with years.Methods: This clinical study use Rood method to train 35 patients with stroke, Aim to estimate the disabled abilities after rehabilitation train.Results: The results show the FMA index of trained patients have make disparity than normal patients(P0.01).Conclusion:The stroke patients can get remarkable curative effect after using Rood methods in early stage, especially in their move ability.


In this paper, we focus on the web service discovery problem. Roughly speaking, this issue consists in selecting a set of services that are suitable to a given request. This searching process will be more complicated, when we aim to exploit several matching algorithms, as well as several matching criteria (such as inputs, outputs...). In this work we present a novel hybrid matching approach, that simultaneously uses five matching algorithms. The results (ie. ranked services) given by these components are aggregated into a final list. This later should have a high precision and recall rates, in comparison with the input lists. To get this aim, we adopt a fuzzy aggregating function that sums for each service, the margin separating the current service and those that dominate it. The conducted experiments show that the proposed approach is more effective than the individual matching algorithms.


Stacy Fang-ching Teng The Australian National University and Academia Sinica Possession is a universal concept, and we expect every language to have at least one or two conventionalized strategies to express it. A distinction between predicative possession and adnominal possession can be made in terms of whether the possessive relation is expressed in a predicate or a nominal construction. It is predicative possession I am dealing with in this paper. Some of the most common encoding strategies for denoting the possessive relations found in world languages have been discussed by Heine (1997), Stassen (2001), and Clark (1978), among others.


This paper gives a brief introduction of WGS system.Based on the digital channelized wide band receiver,this paper gives one projects to the onboard processing of signal whose bandwidth may change,and then proved its feasibility and necessity.At last simulation curves are given.


Given a collection of complex, time-stamped events, how do we find patterns and anomalies? Events could be meetings with one or more persons and one or more agenda items at zero or more locations (e.g., teleconferences), or they could be publications with authors, keywords, publishers, etc. In such settings, we want to find time stamps that look similar to each other and group them; we also want to find anomalies. In addition, we want our approach to provide interpretations of the clusters and anomalies by annotating them. Furthermore, we want our approach to automatically find the right time-granularity in which to do analysis. Lastly, we want fast, scalable algorithms for all these problems.
 We address the above challenges through two main ideas. The first (T3) is to turn the problem into a graph analysis problem, by carefully treating each time stamp as a node in a graph. This viewpoint brings to bear the vast machinery of graph analysis methods (PageRank, graph partitioning, proximity analysis, and CenterPiece Subgraphs, to name a few). Thus, T3 can automatically group the time stamps into meaningful clusters and spot anomalies. Moreover, it can select representative events/persons/locations for each cluster and each anomaly, as their interpretations. The second idea (MT3) is to use temporal multi-resolution analysis (e.g., minutes, hours, days). We show that MT3 can quickly derive results from finer-to-coarser resolutions, achieving up to 2 orders of magnitude speedups. We verify the effectiveness as well as efficiency of T3 and MT3 on several real datasets.


AbstractA forecaster-interactive capability was added to an automated convective storm nowcasting system [Auto-Nowcaster (ANC)] to allow forecasters to enhance the performance of 1-h nowcasts of convective storm initiation and evolution produced every 6 min. This Forecaster-Over-The-Loop (FOTL-ANC) system was tested at the National Weather Service Fort Worth–Dallas, Texas, Weather Forecast Office during daily operations from 2005 to 2010. The forecaster's role was to enter the locations of surface convergence boundaries into the ANC prior to dissemination of nowcasts to the Center Weather Service Unit. Verification of the FOTL-ANC versus ANC (no human) nowcasts was conducted on the convective scale. Categorical verification scores were computed for 30 subdomains within the forecast domain. Special focus was placed on subdomains that included convergence boundaries for evaluation of forecaster involvement and impact on the FOTL-ANC nowcasts. The probability of detection of convective storms increased by 20...


Burmese spirit worship offers a particularly complex case of translating transgression and transgendered identities.1 The Burmese nat kadaw,2 or spirit medium is, on the one hand, provocatively represented and constructed in variegated globalized representations highlighting the exotically queer and, on the other hand, often miscategorized and unevenly transposed into Western frames of language and epistemology. The challenge of speaking across cultures and languages is demonstrated in Gary Morris's review of the 2002 San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival:


Social network analysis(SNA) has been recently applied to business areas such as social network services (such as Facebook and Twitter). In addition, the mobile telecommunication field attempts to analyze CDR(call detail record) data and apply customer relationship management and customer churn management through the use of social network analysis. The paper analyzes links between ego and alter based on ego-network and discovers four kinds of customer roles and then provides insights as a tool for customer relationship management or customer management.