This study was to assess the accuracy of fixed posterior condylar referencing cutting blocks to the accuracy of combined epicondylar/AP axis referencing in femoral component rotation using a computer navigation system. Seventy-five consecutive patients undergoing TKRs were randomized into two groups. The first received femoral component rotation by a computerized method that combined the epicondylar axis and Whitesides AP axis measurements to determine rotation. The second group had a zero or three-degree posterior referencing external rotation block, depending on which was closest to the epicondylar axis. All patients underwent axial CT scans of the distal femur to determine component rotation around the surgical epicondylar axis. Femoral component alignment with the combined method as compared to fixed posterior alignment guides is statistically improved (p=0.001). In the posterior referencing group 43% were correctly rotated to the epicondylar axis but another 43% were malrotated by 3 degrees or more. The mean malrotation was 1.72 degrees (range 0–5) In the combined group 82% were correctly rotated and 11% were malrotated by 3 degrees or more. The mean malrotation was 0.51 degrees (range 0–4). Conclusion: A combined computerized method of using the surgical epicondylar axis and Whitesides AP axis produces superior results when aiming for neutral femoral component rotation. Fixed posterior referencing blocks will produce errors in malrotation in over 50% of cases.


Abstract : To effectively utilize an arc-imaging furnace as a source of controlled thermal energy, the flux density received at the sample must be known. A commercially available, double-elliptical, arc-imaging furnace has been calibrated using both an integrating calorimeter and a discriminating radiometer. The results show the thermal flux received over both a 0.9-mm-diameter area and a 9.5-mm-diameter area as a function of three-dimensional position within the receiving zone. In addition, flux contour maps are presented for several appropriate planes in the focal zone. The effects of rotating interrupter shutters on both heat flux and optical temperature measurements are discussed.


In the light of the quality diseases of the cracks easily occurring on the walls of aerated concrete block, this paper analyzes the causes of the cracks, and puts forward some engineering and technical measures to prevent these cracks, that is to strengthen the management of blocks' quality, guarantee the quality of materials, adopt the masonry mortar and finishing mortar matching well with the blocks, make careful design and meticulous construction, practice strict management, and increase the quality of the engineering.


The present invention relates to a front light having a touch display module, comprising: a light source; a light guide plate is adjacent to a side surface of the light source, a light guide plate having a first index of refraction; a cladding layer, located above the light guide plate having a second refractive index, wherein the second index of refraction less than the first index of refraction; a plurality of columnar structures, located below the guide plate, the columnar structure has a third refractive index, wherein the the third refractive index greater than or equal to the first refractive index; a touch structure, located in the upper cladding layer; and an electronic paper device, positioned below the columnar structure.


Dedovo Village (Rodopi Municipality, Plovdiv District) is located at 25 km from Plovdiv City in the Western Rhodopes Mts., at an altitude of 1000 to 1060 meters. Its proximity to the city and relatively preserved natural environment make it a more attractive place during the last years for relaxation, especially in the summer. However, the increased tourist presence in the area leads to an increase of anthropogenic pressure on the natural ecosystems. Aim of this study is to assess the plant and vertebrate animal diversity in the area of Dedovo Village and to identify the potential threats and risks to its conservation. More than 70 plant species were described, including one rare species and 5 Balkan endemics and 30 species, listed in the Bulgarian Medicinal plants Act. From the vertebrate animals 39 species were described, including 15 mammals (3 species with conservation status), 15 birds (4 species with conservation status), 6 reptiles and 2 amphibians.


Name ambiguity problem has raised an urgent demand for efficient, high-quality named entity disambiguation methods. The key problem of named entity disambiguation is to measure the similarity between occurrences of names. The traditional methods measure the similarity using the bag of words (BOW) model. The BOW, however, ignores all the semantic relations such as social relatedness between named entities, associative relatedness between concepts, polysemy and synonymy between key terms. So the BOW cannot reflect the actual similarity. Some research has investigated social networks as background knowledge for disambiguation. Social networks, however, can only capture the social relatedness between named entities, and often suffer the limited coverage problem. To overcome the previous methods' deficiencies, this paper proposes to use Wikipedia as the background knowledge for disambiguation, which surpasses other knowledge bases by the coverage of concepts, rich semantic information and up-to-date content. By leveraging Wikipedia's semantic knowledge like social relatedness between named entities and associative relatedness between concepts, we can measure the similarity between occurrences of names more accurately. In particular, we construct a large-scale semantic network from Wikipedia, in order that the semantic knowledge can be used efficiently and effectively. Based on the constructed semantic network, a novel similarity measure is proposed to leverage Wikipedia semantic knowledge for disambiguation. The proposed method has been tested on the standard WePS data sets. Empirical results show that the disambiguation performance of our method gets 10.7% improvement over the traditional BOW based methods and 16.7% improvement over the traditional social network based methods.


During the past three decades,importing market mechanism be came one of the important higher education policy and practice in many coun tries,leading to the formation of markets in higher education.The formation of markets in higher education had profound effects on efficiency,quality,and equi ty.Because of information asymmetry in higher education,education competition as a kind of status competition,as well as the nature of knowledge as a public good,markets in higher education are imperfect markets.It's necessary to regu late markets in higher education owing to their intrinsic limits.


This paper studied the technological processing and conditions of extraction of long jujube pigment from long jujube with methods of enzymolysis-alcohol extraction, By single-factor experiment and orthogonal experiment the optimal technological parameters is found as follows: material-water ratio 1:20, comminution degree 60 meshs, enzyme dosage 1%, enzymolysis temperature 50℃ , enzymolysis time 40 min, enzymolysis pH 6, ethanol extraction volume ratio 1:3. under these conditions the extraction rate of long jujube pigment is 9.85%. In the meantime, the stability of long jujube pigment is studied. The result shows that except in strong oxidizer H2O2 and alkali, it has good stability under other conditions.


The description of fixed-point rotation needs two three-dimensional coordinates,three independent variables.The relations of this coordinates and variables are so complexity that it's difficult to show the movement of fixed-point rotation.Instructing the fixed-point rotation becomes a problem.Using 3D animated graphics assist teaching;we have solved this problem well.


My diploma thesis is a reflection on thinking about the process of creating a sculpture. Nowadays, our choice of materials and processes to create a sculpture is almost entirely free. Randomness and lack of control in processing as well as the artist's interference with the work of art all play an additional part. The common denominator of the task lies in the answers to: "How does the sculpting process influence the creation of the sculpting form?", "How does the choice of a mechanical interface influence the sculpting form?", and lastly "How does the choice of material influence the process of creating a sculpture?" I was, therefore, interested in the process of creating a sculpture that is based on a different approach – by using mechanical interfaces. I searched for instances, where the process of creating a work of art is either designed differently or includes mechanical interfaces as part of its final form.
The practical part of the thesis includes my works of art and interprets my expression. While creating the sculpture within the framework of sculpture projects mentored by Prof. Roman Makse, I have come up with an interesting way of transforming the soft material that is clay, by means of mechanical interfaces that I have transferred from my home kitchen to the sculpture studio. The thesis consists of a number of abstract elements, which multiplied and supplemented the basic composition. I am also expanding the issue to fitting one's own sculpture into one's own surroundings. I am including the interior and the exterior in connection with nature and the urban environment.


The failed coup of July 2016, while uncovering the struggle inside Turkish institutions and Islamic movement, represented the fall of Kemalism and the rise of a new face of political Islam, too. This process is not simply due to the long-lasting AKP government, but also to the deep changes occurred between 1980 (date of the bloodiest coup in Turkey's history) and the electoral victory of Erdoğan's party in 2002. These crucial twenty years lead us to reconsider the relationship between Kemalism and Islamism not as a pure dichotomy but as a complex interaction, which is better understandable in the light of domestic/international factors, Turkish Islamism's particular features and internal contradictions of Kemalist ideology. These two decades also show the continuity of some dynamics in Turkey's history, in particular the persistence of a tutelary democracy; the inclusion/exclusion of parties from the political system; the compatibility of nationalism and Islamism; the alienation of normal political order between Right/Left. Ultimately, despite their different paradigms of modernization, both Kemalist and AKP Islamic élites have preserved the "continuous coup regime". Turkish model of authoritarianism is now entering a new phase with the permanent extension of the state of emergency and the approval of the presidential reform.


We prove a quantitative estimate with a power saving error term for the number of points in a mapping class group orbit of Teichm\"uller space that lie within a Teichm\"uller metric ball of given center and large radius. Estimates of the same kind are also proved for sector and bisector counts. These estimates effectivize asymptotic counting results of Athreya, Bufetov, Eskin, and Mirzakhani.


As a Carnot-like cycle the continuous Ericsson cycle represents the upper efficiency limit of multistage gas turbine operations using intercooling, reheating and regeneration. When considering linear external heat transfer modes, the theory of irreversible thermodynamics for continuous endoreversible Carnot-like cycles gives rise to an optimum efficiency at maximum power output of β= 1 — (T L /T H )0.5 in contrast to the upper limit of β = 1 — (T L /T H ) obtained from classical thermodynamics for ideal Carnot-like cycles. It is shown here that, additionally, for continuous (gas turbine) endoreversible cycles like Carnot and Ericsson, the optimum specific work output at maximum power (wopt), is exactly half of that obtained for externally reversible cycles (Carnot work, wrev) operating between the same temperature limits (i.e. wopt = 1/2 wrev). Moreover, this optimum specific work output is the same expression for these and a family of other continuous cycles. The formulation used in the analysis makes use of the ideal gas model with constant specific heats, though the results are shown to be universal for cycles using linear heat transfer laws and using vapours and real gases having specific heats that vary only as a function of temperature. Also given for the first time for this general family of cycles are expressions for power optimized mass flow rates and the cycle operating temperatures which yield optimum power. These results quantify the absolute upper power limit for power optimized gas turbine operations where the external heat transfer is by linear modes.


A ll Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) undergraduates are required to take introductory chemistry, which means that their willing or unwilling ears are ours for a full semester. MIT therefore has the unique opportunity to instill an appreciation of chemical principles in every incoming student, including those who left high school with an ambivalent or negative view of chemistry. Two classes within the chemistry department fulfill MIT's basic chemistry requirement, with the more advanced course attracting the majority of those students already excited about chemistry. Here, we discuss our plans for the other course, Principles of Chemical Science 5.111, which is composed of students who are generally not planning on chemistry or engineering majors, 25% of each freshman class. Among this group, there is considerable interest in biology. Many students express a passion for cancer research and the biology of disease but claim they "hate chemistry". Few understand that chemical reactions are at the heart of biological processes, from the workings of a cell to the inhibition of cancer targets. By demonstrating the relationship between chemistry and biology, we hope to harness the students' enthusiasm for biology and medicine to increase their interest in andunderstanding of chemistry. This enriched introductory chemistry course is central to a larger initiative, funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Professors Program, aimed at increasing the understanding of chemical principles among biology students and demonstrating the vital connection between biology and chemistry. Similar to the overall program goals, our hope for the course is to foster an understanding of chemistry's relevance by illuminating the centrality of chemistry in biological and medicinal research. Although scattered biological examples have been part of our curriculum for several years, this fall will mark the first full run of the more biologically focused course. In this article, we outline the changes that have been implemented and the feedback we have thus far received. With an assessment plan in place, we look forward to reporting successes and pitfalls as the program continues. Course Material. In compiling biologically enriched material for the freshman chemistry course, our intent is not to create a combined chemistry and biology course or even to change the current curriculum, which has been set by the MIT chemistry department. Instead, our approach is to invigorate the lectures and associated problem sets with biological examples that illustrate each concept presented. We hope that the placement of relevant examples and research applications of a given chemical principle will give new context to the course material. This approach has already been implemented on a smaller scale by presenting several biological examples per semester that bring the excitement of research into the classroom. For example, in teaching about the 3D *Corresponding author, email@example.com.


Management of ocular trauma is both challenging and controversial. Using current available evidence in literature and author experience this review aims to highlight critical issues in management of ocular and orbital trauma. This review provides a working framework from initial presentation, investigations, management principles, complications and prognosis to outcome and controversies involved in management. The review will focus on the concept of atraumatic repair of traumatized globe and will also give guidelines about strategic planning in ocular trauma management. Clinicians are occasionally faced with dilemmas and challenges in management of severely traumatized eyes with limited or no visual potential in view of life-time risk of sympathetic ophthalmia and the authors aim to address the controversy surrounding it.


ABSTRACT Achieving and maintaining an adequate plant stand is a major priority when making planting and early season management decisions in peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.). Unpredictable and often extreme weather and high disease pressure in the southeastern United States can contribute to poor emergence and below-optimum plant stands. When plant stand is affected, replanting may be agronomically justified. This study was designed to determine i) the effect of plant stand on pod yield, market grade, and disease incidence in peanut seeded in a twin row pattern, (ii) if replanting is a viable option in a field with a below adequate stand and, iii) the best method for replanting peanut when an adequate stand is not achieved. Field trials were established at two locations in south Georgia in 2012 and 2013 to evaluate peanut production at four plant stands (7.4, 9.8, 12.3, and 14.8 plants/m [total plants/m across both units, or 'twins' of the twin row pattern) and four replant methods (no replant, destroy the or...


The present study aimed to determine whether rapamycin could increase the expression of γ‐globin genes in human erythroid cells. Rapamycin is a macrocyclic lactone that possesses immunosuppressive, antifungal and anti‐tumour properties. This molecule is approved as an immunosuppressive agent for preventing rejection in patients receiving organ transplantation. To verify the activity of rapamycin, we employed two experimental cell systems, the human leukaemia K562 cell line and the two‐phase liquid culture of human erythroid progenitors isolated from normal donors and patients with β‐thalassaemia. The results suggested that rapamycin, when compared with cytosine arabinoside, mithramycin and cisplatin, is a powerful inducer of erythroid differentiation and γ‐globin mRNA accumulation in human leukaemia K562 cells. In addition, when normal human erythroid precursors were cultured in the presence of rapamycin, γ‐globin mRNA accumulation and fetal haemoglobin (HbF) production increased to levels that were higher than those obtained using hydroxyurea. These effects were not associated with inhibition of cell growth. Furthermore, rapamycin was found to increase HbF content in erythroid precursor cells from four β‐thalassaemia patients. These results could have practical relevance, because pharmacologically mediated regulation of the expression of human γ‐globin genes, leading to increased HbF, is considered a potential therapeutic approach in haematological disorders, including β‐thalassaemia and sickle cell anaemia.


As ultrasonic studies have played an important role in characterizing the behaviour of partially miscible systems, especially at and around the critical points, some partially miscible liquid systems have been studied previously and anomalously large values of absorption near the critical region have been reported [1-4]. F I X M A N [5] proposed a theory for the excess absorption of sound in critical binary liquid systems. His model for sound absorption involves the interaction between variations in temperature and pressure caused by sound waves and the long wavelength density fluctuations which are present in a system near its critical region. His theory predicts the dependance of sound absorption on frequency and temperature. This theory was applied to some systems [1-4] and found to be in agreement with experimental results. For a better evaluation of this theory, measurements in a number of systems would be of interest. In this paper the results of ultrasonic absorption and velocity in the critical binary system iso-octaneo-toluidine are presented. This system has a consolute temperature of 35°C at a critical composition of ~0-5 mole fraction of iso-octane.


In this letter, a 10.4-Gb/s real-time baseband orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) receiver utilizing 256/64/16-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) adaptive modulation format, incorporating several key functionalities, including symbol synchronization, channel equalization, as well as sampling clock frequency synchronization is successfully implemented using a commercial field programmable gate array chip and a sample rate of 5-GS/s analog-to-digital converter. The performance of the real-time baseband OFDM receiver is experimentally investigated in an intensity-modulation and direct-detection optical communication system. The offline generated 10.4-Gb/s adaptively modulated 256/64/16QAM encoded optical OFDM signal with a high spectral efficiency of 4.84 bit/s/Hz can be successful transmitted over 20-km standard single mode fiber with a bit error rate <;3.8 × 10-3. In addition, the frame miss probability is real-time measured in the receiver to obtain an optimal threshold value for the symbol synchronization.


Introduction: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a disabling disease with multiple complications, like, increased serum levels of uric acid due to glomerular filtration rate (GFR) impairment. Objectives: This study was designed to evaluate the effect of allopurinol on metabolic acidosis in patients with renal failure. Patients and Methods: This is a randomized controlled-trial study on 50 patients with CKD stage II-IV, who referred to Qaem and Montaserieh hospitals in Mashhad. Patients were selected and randomly divided into two equal groups of 25 subjects. In addition to standard treatments, the intervention group received 100 mg allopurinol tablet for three months and the control group received placebo. Demographic data were obtained from each individual. Serum uric acid level, creatinine, blood pH and bicarbonate levels were assessed at the initiation of treatment and at the end of the third month. Results: The mean age of patients was 54.04±12.62 years. Allopurinol administration resulted in a significant increase of serum bicarbonate levels and pH (P<0.001 for each) compared to the control group. A significant reduction in uric acid (P<0.05) and an increase in GFR (P<0.05) was observed in both groups. Conclusion: Allopurinol could ameliorate metabolic acidosis, glomerular filtration and uric acid in patients with CKD.


Aqueous two-phase systems were formed from solutions of a polyelectrolyte, polyethyleneoxide–maleic acid copolymer, and potassium phosphate. The properties of such aqueous two-phase systems were highly dependent on pH. This was reflected in the partition behavior of three chicken egg white proteins: lysozyme, conalbumin and ovalbumin. Separability of these three proteins was improved by the use of the polyelectrolyte, in comparison with when uncharged polyethylene glycol (poly(1,2-dihydroxyethane)) was used as a phase-forming polymer.

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We thank Dr. Wu et al. for their interest in our article [1]. Postoperative ileus (POI) is considered to be inevitable after abdominal surgery by many and has been underestimated consequently. We have shown that POI not only affects patient comfort and recovery, but is also associated with severe complications such as anastomotic leakage. It has been unclear until now the cause and effect of POI, though the inflammatory response plays a significant role in these conditions. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved


Read the Case Background. Then analyze the Documents provided. Finally, answer the Key Question in a wellorganized essay that incorporates your interpretations of the Documents as well as your own knowledge of history. The Necessary and Proper Clause gives Congress the power to "make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States." It is not a free-standing grant of power, but rather was intended to give Congress the power to enact laws needed to "carry into execution" the various powers granted to the federal government by other parts of the Constitution.


SECOND ORDER STEREOSCOPIC PLOTTING INSTRUMENTS ARE CAPABLE OF OBTAINING A THEORETICALLY CORRECT SOLUTION OF DOUBLE POINT RESECTION UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS. IT IS POSSIBLE, HYPOTHETICALLY, TO ADAPT THE BASE-IN, BASE-OUT METHOD OF FIRST ORDER OPTICAL TRAIN AERIAL TRIANGULATION INSTRUMENTS TO A KELSH DOUBLE PROJECTION, STEREOSCOPIC PLOTTER AND TO ACHIEVE RESULTS FOR LIMITED PHOTOGRAMMETRIC OPERATIONS. THIS TECHNIQUE FOR TRANSFERRING THE EXTERNAL ORIENTATION OF A CONTROLLED STEREOSCOPIC MODEL TO UNCONTROLLED STEREOSCOPIC MODELS IS BASED ON THE PRINCIPLE OF SPATIAL RESECTION. TRULY RELIABLE INFORMATION ON COST IS UNAVAILABLE BUT THE MOST IMMEDIATE BENEFIT OF THIS PROCESS OF PHOTOGRAMMETRIC BRIDGING IN GEORGIA WAS DETERMINATION OF ERRONEOUS FIELD SURVEYED CONTROL. POSSIBLE APPLICATIONS OF THIS TECHNIQUE IN THE FIELD OF SMALL-SCALE TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING, PLANIMETRIC MAPPING, AND HORIZONTAL BRIDGING USING FIELD SURVEYED VERTICAL CONTROL ARE OUTLINED.


Transdermal drug delivery systems are becoming more popular in the field of modern pharmaceutics because it has many advantages over traditional drug delivery system and mostly used to overcome the problems associated with conventional delivery system of drugs. it is self-contained, non-invasive, painless, userfriendly and discrete dosage form. The main objective of transdermal drug delivery system is to deliver drugs into targeted organ or parts through skin at predetermined rate with minimal inter and intra patient variation. The present study was carried out to develop transdermal patches of atenolol with different ratio of EVA 40% copolymer, EC (ethyl cellulose) and ERS by solvent casting method. DEP (2%) is used as a plasticizer and Span 80 as permeation enhancer. The identification of drug and the possible drug polymer interactions were studied by FTIR spectroscopy. Formulated transdermal patches were evaluated with regard to physicochemical characteristics (thickness, folding endurance etc.) and In-vitro permeation studies were performed using Franz diffusion cell. The data obtained from invitro permeation studies was treated by various conventional mathematical models (zero order, first order, Higuchi and Korsmeyerpeppa's) to determine the release mechanism from the transdermal patches formulations. Selection of a suitable release model was based on the values of R2 (correlation coefficient), k (release constant) obtained from the curve fitting of release data. It was found that all the formulations follow the first order kinetics. The regression coefficients (R2 ) for the all formulations F1 to F4 of Higuchi plot was found to be almost linear.


One second grader, Junsu, was observed 4 times before and after formal multiplication lesson in Grade 2. This study describes how solution strategies in multiplication problems develop over time and investigates awareness of the relation between situation and computation in simple measurement and pa...


To study the energy consumption of machine tool, an energy test plan is designed, the energy consumption of the machine tool is analyzed, the energy consumption of all relevant components are determined, an energy consumption model of the machine tool based on Matlab is proposed. During machining the total energy consumption of the machine is tested, and according to the machining cycle and relat-ed parameters the energy consumption of machine tools is simulated, then the results of test and simulation are compared, the accuracy of the model is verified. Relevant intelligent features in CNC system, such as energy monitoring and forecasting and other functions based on energy consumption are studied, and an architecture of intelligent CNC system based energy consumption, which lays a foundation to further re-search to improve the energy efficiency of intelligent CNC machine tools, is provided.


Background: Walking pace is a well-known indicator of physical capability, but it is also a strong predictor of type 2 diabetes (T2D). However, there is a lack of evidence on the association between walking pace and T2D, specifically, within developing countries such as Chile. Aim: To investigate the association between self-reported walking pace and T2D in the Chilean adult population. Methods: 5520 Chilean participants (aged 15 to 90 years, 52.1% women) from the Chilean National Health Survey 2016–2017 were included in this cross-sectional study. Both walking pace (slow, average, and brisk) and diabetes data were collected through self-reported methods. Fasting blood glucose (reported in mg/dl) and glycosylated haemoglobin A (HbA1c) scores were determined via blood exams. Results: In the unadjusted model, and compared to people who reported a slow walking pace, those with average and brisk walking pace had lower blood glucose levels (β = −7.74 mg/dL (95% CI: −11.08 to −4.40) and β = −11.05 mg/dL (95% CI: −14.36 to −7.75), respectively) and lower HbA1c (β = −0.34% (95% CI: −0.57 to −0.11) and β= −0.72% (95% CI: −0.94 to −0.49)), respectively. After adjusting for sociodemographic, Body Mass Index and lifestyle factors, the association between glycaemia and HbA1c remained only for brisk walkers. Both the average and brisk walker categories had lower odds of T2D (OR: 0.59 (95% CI: 0.41 to 0.84) and (OR 0.48 (95% CI: 0.30 to 0.79), respectively). Conclusion: Brisk walkers were associated with lower blood glucose and HbA1c levels. Moreover, average to brisk walking pace also showed a lower risk for T2D.


In this paper, according to dimensional analysis, the dimensionless function of the intensity of the air shock wave overpressure of the explosion in structure leaking into a tunnel is established. Forty-eight experiments were carried out focusing on some influencing factors such as explosive charge, explosive depth, ratio of reinforcement, concrete matrix strength, and existence of the structure, revealing the influence laws of explosive charge, explosive height, ratio of reinforcement and concrete matrix strength on the overpressure intensity of air shock wave. Then, engineering calculation methods for leak shock wave effect are obtained, which include the overpressure distribution of shock wave in explosive tunnel in structure, equivalent coefficient of explosive charge compared with explosion in tunnel as well as the reduction factor of shock wave with or without structure.


A model for the core of a viscous vortex is presented. It is based on a s i d a d t y solution to the Naner-Stokes equations in which the following assumptions are made: the flow is incompressible; . the flow is axisymmetric; ., the flow is conical; 2 the Reynolds number is high; the vortex is slender. Under them assumptions, the Navier-Stokes equations and the continuity equation take the form of four coupled, nonlinear, ordinary differential equations. These equations are discretized using centered differences, and solved by a Newton procedure, after imposing appropriate boundary conditions. The model is found to agree fairly well with experimeutal data of Earnshaw [l], and very well with the matched asymptotic solution for a vortex core developed by Hall [2]. The level of total pressure loss pxedicted in the core of the vortex is found to be independent of Reynolds number, depending only on the edge circumferential velocity. Some implications of this result on the prediction of the onset of vortex bursting are given. W Introduction Due to the critical role that vortices play in aeronautical engineering, naval engineering and metmrology, a number of modela for vortex cores have been developed through the years. These have ranged from very simple nd hoc models to complicated mnltiple-scale analyses. In this paper, the vortex core wiU be modeled as a region of distributed vorticity. Similar models have been proposed by Long [3], Hall [2], Luckring [4] and Brown (51, among others. While a vortex core of distributed vorticity can occur only in a viscous flow, Euler calculations of vortex flows by the authors [6,7] and others [8,9,10] indicate that the dis Crete Euler equations model the flow inside a vortex core surprisingly well. In particular, the level of total pressure loss inside the core of a given vortex computed by the discrete Euler method is independent of computational parameters such as mesh spacing and artificial viscosity level [Ill. and agrees well with losses measured in experiment W 'Asastanc Pmfeuor, AlAA Member tPmfesessor, AlAA Fellow 1 Copyright @ 1988 by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc. AU rights reserved. Figure 1: Cylindrical Coordinate System [12]. Navier-Stokes c d d a t i o l u [9,13,14] have comparable l o w . This numerical evidence has driven the authors to determine whsther there is a vortex core model which accounts for viscosity, but has a total presanre loss level that is independent of the level of viscosity. Burgers' Vortex Burgers developed a core model [I51 that, it will be shown, has this characteristic. It is an exact solution to the axisymmetric, incomprnvlible Navier-Stokes equations. For the cylindrical (r,6,2) system, shown in Figure 1, the velocity field is given by u = -AI u = u(r) w = 2Az where u(r) is to be determined from the 8-momentum equation. The velocities are non-dimensionalired by a reference velocity W , and r and I are nondimensionalized by a reference length L. This velocity field satisfies the continuity eauation. aw 0, I S 3 --(In)+ = r a? a2 identically. The r-momentum equation (with pressure nondimensiondized by pW2) reduces, for the above choices of u. u and w. to The z-momentum equation redncea to


Clinic is a unit of healthy service and it is location is nearest with society, it is easy to reach and inexpensive than the other healthy service. Now, the information of clinic's area in Yogyakarta Province can we found in healthy's official site. But The information is not enough to help the society to looking for the real location from the clinic, because not all people know the location of clinic only based on the address.The searching system of clinic's area of Yogyakarta consists of two part, they are web system and mobile system. Web system build with use the program language PHP (Hypertext Prepocessor) version 5.3.8 with employing framework Yii (yes it is) version 1.1.10.  Storage the data with use MySQL version 5.1.41 and mobile system build with use the program java language.The result of this searching of clinic's area in Yogyakarta with use location base service method SIPLOPUS DIY. SIPLOPUS DIY can give the address information, the kinds of clinic, servicer of healthy and location of clinic in Yogyakarta by smartphone. Keywords: Central healthy of society, Location Base Service, Java, Android, And  Framework Yii (Yes It Is).


Objective To explore the clinical effect and safety of omeprazole combined with hydrotalcite in the treatment of gastric ulcer complicated with gastrorrhagia. Methods 88 patients with gastric ulcer complicated with gastrorrhagia admitted into our hospital from January to December 2013 were evenly divided into the observation group and the control group according to different therapeutic methods.The observation group was treated with omeprazole combined with hydrotalcite,while in the control group,only omeprazole was applied.The total effective rate,eradication rate of helicobacter pylori(Hp),recurrence rate, incidence rate of adverse reaction,and symptom score after therapy were compared in the two groups. Results In the observation group,the recurrence rate was greatly lower than that in the control group,the eradication rate of Hp in the observation group was obviously higher in comparison with that in the control group(P 0.05). The incidence rate of adverse reaction in the observation group and control group was 13.6% and11.4% respectively,but didn't show statistical difference(P0.05). The total effective rate in the observation group and control group was 88.6% and 63.6% respectively with a statistical difference(P0.05).After treatment,symptom score in the two groups both decreased,and symptom score in the observation group was remarkably lower than that in the control group with a statistical difference(P0.05). Conclusion Omeprazole combined with hydrotalcite in the treatment of gastric ulcer complicated with gastrorrhagia can obtain a definite clinical effect.It is reliable and safe,and is worthy of expansion in clinic.


The invention discloses a method and device for database backup, relating to the field of databases. The database backup device disclosed by the invention at least comprises a backup policy formulation module and a data backup module, wherein the backup policy formulation module sets a backup policy of a database according to a user command and sends the backup policy to the database backup module, and the backup policy at least comprises backup time, backup position and backup type; and the database backup module stores the data of the database in the backup position according to the backup type of the backup policy when the backup time of the backup policy arrives. The invention also discloses a database backup method. The way of separated policy, backup and storage is adopted for the technical scheme of the invention, the flow of user backup is simplified, and more flexible backup way is provided.


Objective:To discuss the influence of Didang Decoction on glomerulosclerosis.Methods:The glomerulosclerosis model was established by uninephrectom and injection of adriamyci,and was treated by modif ied Didang Decoction and taken western medicine Losartan as the comparison group.To observe 24-hour urinary protein and kidney function of model group and each treatment group.Reverse transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction(RT-PCR) was used to determine the expression of TIMP-1 and PAI-1 in each group of rats kidney tissue.Results:Didang Decoction could decline elevated 24-hour urinary protein and improve kidney function,and decline the expression of TIMP-1 and PAI-1mRNA in glomerulosclerosis rats.Conclusion:Didang decoction could delay renal failure,it may be related to the down-regulated expression of TIMP-1 and PAI-1mRNA.


It is a standard practice to identify theories with their author. Though this practice seems all too natural, it creates substantial confusion. This is the case with Foucault himself when he is seen as a theorist of power, with Discipline and Punish (1978a) and volume 1 of The History of Sexuality (1978b) as his representative works. A set of recent and forthcoming publications, however, should rectify some of the confusion and bring out the wider relevance of Foucault's work for sociology. Foucault did not formulate a theory of power. Rather, his work was an ongoing process of reflection. This was possible because, contrary to widespread opinion, Foucault did not simply select facts that would fit his preconceptions in order to formulate a tight theoretical system. Instead, he used the empirical material to test, to challenge, and to remold his conceptual tools. In the introduction to The Use of Pleasure (1986, p. 8), he called this type of activity a way "to get free of oneself" (se déprendre de soi-même). In addition, power was not the central concern of Foucault's work, which he said publicly and with considerable emphasis. In the fall of 1981, Foucault's fame as a philosopher of power reached its first zenith, and even Time magazine called him "France's philospher of power." As the article appeared, however Foucault gave a talk at the University of Southern California in front of an overflowing audience where he stated, "The goal of my work during the last twenty years . . . has not been to analyze the phenomenon of power, nor to elaborate the foundations of


Internal and surface voids of known sizes incorporated into silicon carbide and silicon nitride ceramic reference specimens at prescribed locations. Specimens used to demonstrate sensitivity and resolution in nondestructive examination techniques like scanning laser acoustic microscopy and x-radiography, and to assist in establishing proper examination procedures.


The utility model relates to a packing structure of glass basic plates, which can be used for packing a plurality of glass basic plates, and comprises a packing structure body, wherein desiccating agent and anti-rusting agent are arranged in the packing structure body. The packing structure is characterized in that the packing structure body comprises a first box body and a second box body which is mutually tabled with the edge of the first box body, wherein the first and the second box bodies are provided with opening cavities, the external edges of the opening cavities are provided with edgegrooves for mutually tabling, a containing groove is concavely arranged in at least one of the opening cavities of the first and the second box bodies, the desiccating agent and the anti-rusting agent are arranged in the containing groove, and the glass basic plates are arranged in the opening cavities on the first or the second box bodies. The packing structure avoids the problems of sliding ordropping of the desiccating agent and the anti-rusting agent, simultaneously can reduce the volume of the packing structure body and saves the packing space through utilizing buffer tablets to be arranged between each of the glass basic plates. Furthermore, the packing structure not only can be arranged horizontally, but also can be arranged vertically.


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committee as well as readers, the cost of printing is expensive, and page number
of the magazine is limited, and the manufacture of print magazines published at a
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Electronic Magazine are needed both in the center or reader board.
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News,Waterfall, UML (unified Modeling Language).


The concentration of tumor necrosis factor in the circulation of calves, which were infected with Salmonella typhimurium and exhibited septicemia as indicated by clinical signs and blood culture, was measured with a radioimmunoassay. These levels were compared with those in calves before infection and in other calves that had received an intravenous dose of gram-negative endotoxin. The tumor necrosis factor levels measured in samples taken during septicemia were not different from those in samples from infected nonsepticemic calves or samples from calves before infection. In contrast, the levels of tumor necrosis factor rose rapidly in calves after treatment with endotoxin by intravenous injection.


This is a comparative study concerning the efficiency and cost of medical equipment used forthe diagnosis of cardiac and coronary artery diseases. Due to the high costs and rapid changes intechnology, factors such as unit price, maintenance, user-friendly operation, speed of reconstructiveimage and upgradeability must be assessed. Cost comparison between Magnetic Resonance Imaging(MRI) and 64-slice CT scanner was conducted. Recently developed, the 64 slice multidetectorCT scan, can be seen as one of the most sensitive and specific tool in the diagnosis of coronary arterydiseases. With the ability to produce high sensitivity of 94-95 percent, high specificity of 93-97percent and high negative predictive value of 93-99 percent in diagnosis of cardiac especially coronaryartery diseases, all cardiac centers must take notice of such an effective apparatus. Its breakpoint even was 6.6 years while that of the MRI was 8.7 years.Key words: multislice CT scan, efficiency, coronary artery diseases


This study aims to compare some methods of radiometric pre-processing for the change detection using aerial hyperspectral images. In this paper, we used a multi-temporal hyperspectral image of Cheonan in South Korea and the change detection utilized six data sets for comparison to draw conclusions. According to the comparison, the least accurate results were detected when raw data were applied. In fact, the highest accuracy was found when both absolute radiometric correction using FLAASH and radiometric normalization methods were used at the same time.


A male incontinence device has one coupling part 200 attachable to a silicone pad 500 and a second coupling part 300 attached to a condom-like drainage member 400. A stretchable ring or wall 312 can be shifted ("snapped") by manual pressure between a locking position wherein the two coupling parts are locked together and an unlocking position wherein the two coupling parts can be separated to permit removal of the condom-like drainage member from the silicone pad.


The epitaxial growth of technically-important \b{eta}-Ga2O3 semiconductor thin films have not been realized on flexible substrates due to limitations by the high-temperature crystallization conditions and the lattice-matching requirements. In this report, for the first time single crystal \b{eta}-Ga2O3 (-201) thin films is epitaxially grown on the flexible CeO2 (001)-buffered hastelloy tape. The results indicate that CeO2 (001) has a small bi-axial lattice mismatch with \b{eta}-Ga2O3 (-201), thus inducing a simultaneous double-domain epitaxial growth. Flexible photodetectors are fabricated based on the epitaxial \b{eta}-Ga2O3 coated tapes. Measurements show that the obtained photodetectors have a responsivity of 40 mA/W, with an on/off ratio reaching 1000 under 250 nm incident light and 5 V bias voltage. Such photoelectrical performance is already within the mainstream level of the \b{eta}-Ga2O3 based photodetectors by using the conventional rigid single crystal substrates; and more importantly remained robust against more than 1000 cycles of bending tests. In addition, the epitaxy technique described in the report also paves the way for the fabrication of a wide range of flexible epitaxial film devices that utilize the materials with lattice parameters similar to \b{eta}-Ga2O3, including GaN, AlN and SiC.


Smut is an important disease of sugarcane, caused by the fungus Sporisorium scitamineum. Two fungicides, propiconazole and triadimefon can be applied as a 5 min dip to protect the buds from smut infection. This 5 min dip of 1-2 tonne bundles of seed cane has some practical problems. The treatment requires a separate, large 5 000-10 000 L tank and disposal of the waste fungicide by an environmentally acceptable method is difficult and costly. The aim of this research was to evaluate the potential of flutriafol for control of smut by methods that will be more practical for field application. Two pot experiments were undertaken to: (i) determine whether flutriafol mixed with fertiliser can be taken up by sugarcane roots in sufficient concentration to protect plants from smut infection; and (ii) compare the efficacy of flutriafol with other triazole fungicides, propiconazole and triadimefon, when mixed with fertiliser or used as a dip. The pot trials also tested methods of inoculation with smut that could be used in larger-scale field trials of the fungicide. Results indicated that flutriafol is effective in significantly reducing sugarcane smut infection when applied at rates of 100-400 g a.i./ha mixed with fertiliser and at rates of 12.5 g a.i./100 L and above when applied as a 10-minute dip of setts. There were significant relationships between application rate of flutriafol and smut suppression when the fungicide was applied mixed with fertiliser. The 10-minute dip applications of the three triazole fungicides were more effective than the fungicide/fertiliser mix. Propiconazole and triadimefon were equally effective when applied as a dip, but they were less effective than flutriafol when mixed with fertiliser. Control was achieved when the smut was injected into the buds or applied by a dip of the setts at planting. Results suggest that flutriafol can kill smut fungus after it has established within the plant. Dipping setts in a suspension of smut spores is a practical method of inoculation that can be used for future field trials of flutriafol.


A new moulding compound (press material) based on cyanate ester resin and high-silica fiber has been developed. Samples of the heat-resistance material based on this moulding compound with long-term operating temperatures up to 250°C were made. The physico-mechanical, thermophysical and dielectric properties of the obtained samples of heat-resistance material were studied. The complex dielectric permittivity was measured in free space in the temperature range 20-300°C and in the frequency band 7–14 GHz. At a temperature of 20°c, the frequency dependences of dielectric permittivity of the developed material were measured in the ultra-wide frequency band from 3 to 48 GHz. Based on the results obtained, the mathematical modeling of electromagnetic waves transmission through the flat radome walls made of both the new material and already existing heat-resistant materials based on phenol-formaldehyde and organosilicon resins was carried out. It is demonstrated that the new material has certain advantages over traditional materials.


An improved algorithm for indefinite quadratic programming is presented.By using affine scaling technique,a general indefinite quadratic programming problem is transformed into a ball constrained quadratic programming which is solved by a ball constrained convex quadratic programming.The convergence of the algorithm is discussed.


In swimming tournaments, a good swim start can help the swimmer achieve a good record. The present paper aims to compare the effect of two plyometric exercises in water and on land on breaststroke grab and track starts among male swimmers. 20elite swimmers were divided into in-water and on-land groups. Swimmers' performance variables include anaerobic power of hands and legs, 25-meter record, the time of contact of head with water and the time of keeping movement in water, flying distance from the starting point to the end point of contact with water and the distance of continuing movement after entering water using both start techniques, the number of movements of hands and legs in 13 meter breaststroke swimming without start and glide. Mean and standard deviation were used to describe the sample, and MANOVA at P≤0.05 was used to determine intergroup difference. A significant difference was seen in the time mean of head contact with water in both start techniques of breaststroke swimming; in addition, there is a significant difference in number mean of hand movements and leg movements in breaststroke swimming as well as the number of hand and leg movements in full 13 meter breaststroke swimming after polymeric exercise in both groups. It seems that plyometric exercises improve and enhance the measured parameters in both on-land and in-water groups, so the use of these exercises to improving swimmers' start performance is recommended. The effect of plyometric exercises on the selected biomechanical parameters of breaststroke among male swimmers aged 10-14.


Comparable ortho-substituted compounds of the biphenyl, 2-phenylpyridyl, and 2,2′-bipyridyl type have been synthesized and resolved, and the resistance to racemization determined. The results are as would have been predicted on geometrical considerations only, the compounds containing nitrogen atoms in the rings not behaving in any abnormal manner.


Objective: This study aimed to describe a methodology that involves obtaining a temporal scale in days, along with the technical information necessary to obtain maximum vigor of Pochota fendleri seedlings when sown in containers and/or Gerbox boxes, as well as their quality.

Method: The experimental design was completely randomized, with four replicates, composed of 25 seeds of medium size and light brown color.

Result and conclusion: Emergence of Pochota fendleri seedlings grown from freshly harvested seeds of medium size and light brown color sown was 97% at 10 DAS, with emergence speed index of 13.2. Freshly harvested seeds of medium size and light brown color sown are recommended for the production of Pochota fendleri seedlings.

Research implications: Obtaining knowledge that guides appropriate practices and the temporal scale is essential for the production of seedlings of native forest species. These seedlings can enhance the success of planting forest stands for timber or non-timber purposes, besides ensuring the establishment and survival to programs for restoration of degraded areas.


The article deals with the assembly sequence problem of complex technical products. It is shown that geometric coordination of parts in a product is a variable arity relation. In general, this relation cannot be described by graph means. The hypernetwork and hypergraph models are proposed. It is shown that the mathematical description of coherent and sequential assembly operations is a normal contraction of edges of the hypergraph. The notion of an s-hypergraphs is introduced. It is shown that s-hypergraphs correctly describe structures of technical systems. A theorem on necessary conditions for contractibility of s-hypergraphs is proved.


Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a dominant technology for the large-scale network delivery which can reduce the network transfer delay, but it has low expandability and high cost. Pear-to-Pear (P2P) network is a complementary technology with some advantages to CDN. The paper proposes a mixed delivery network based on CDN and P2P, which deploys the CDN in public backbone network and P2P network in local area. The application and user experience analysis of mixed content delivery network in streaming media system are presented. The experimental performance shows that the mixed content delivery network can enormously reduce traffics over backbone network, make user request be responded quickly, and solve the problem that less seeds lead to the inefficient use of resources.


Anti-wear additives and friction additives are used for medium stresses and the protective film relies heavily on adsorption processes and regeneration of the protective film. This study presents the influence of graphene concentration as additive in soybean oil and test regime (load and speed) on tribological characteristic (friction coefficient and wear rate of the balls used in a four-ball test). A general view of the results, easy to see by the plotted maps of the average value for friction coefficient depending on load and additive concentration and of wear rate of the scar diameter, reveals that the wear rate is almost non-sensitive to the test parameters and this zone is limited by F = 200 …300 N, for all the sliding speeds. As for the friction coefficient, the additivation does not lower this tribological parameter in a spectacular way for the additivated lubricants. These results encourage to use the additive for tribosystems that function with variable load and speed, but in the ranges as the tests done by the authors.


where A and B satisfy certain growth conditions given in Section 2. In [3] Yu. G. Reshetnyak proved that weak solutions of (1) are totally differentiable almost everywhere. For a linear equation div(a(x)∇u) = 0 this was proved independently by B. Bojarski [1]. We will show how to simplify Reshetnyak's proof by adopting the method of Bojarski. As was shown by Reshetnyak, the theorem on almost everywhere differentiability is a simple consequence of a difficult theorem of Serrin [5] which asserts the Hölder continuity of weak solutions of (1). We shall use instead a weaker (and much easier to prove) result on local boundedness of weak solutions. Then the final argument is provided by the classical Stepanov differentiability criterion (Theorem 4 below). This shows that the a.e. differentiability is, in some sense, independent of Hölder continuity of weak solutions of (1). It also seems that the proof presented in this paper is simpler and more natural than the original one: it works for any class of elliptic equations in divergence form for which one is able to prove the local boundedness of weak solutions, provided the difference quotient (u(x0 + hX)− u(x0))/h satisfies an equation (belonging to the class in question) whenever u(x) does. Finally, we want to stress the fact that, in the case 1 < q ≤ n, Reshetnyak's theorem in fact yields some nontrivial geometric information about weak solutions of (1). First of all, the Hölder exponent provided by [5] is very close to zero. On the other hand, there exist continuous, nowhere differentiable functions v ∈ W 1,n loc (Ω) (see the example of Serrin [6]). (For q > n the result becomes trivial: by a well-known theorem of Calderón [2],


Following paper presents new approach to the problem of automotive Ki-67 proliferation factor estimation in breast cancer biopsy images. This method is based on context filtering with designated neighborhood masks for edge detection. Proposed method was designed to compensate two major problems: cell shape divergence from ellipse and variability of color hue along with intensity in cell staining. Both factors cause issues with the edge detection and segmentation. Proposed solution exhibits absolute mean error value equal to 6.5% in comparison to expert results.


Abstract : This report describes and discusses the results from the Maneuvering and Seakeeping (MASK) Basin wave survey test conducted in May of 1999. The test deals exclusively with the A, or long bank of wave makers. The purpose of the test was to determine the uniformity, long crestedness, and repeatability of the waves in the MASK. Additionally, the test determined beach reflection and run length. The test were done using the test matrix for the follow on Mobile Offshore Base hydroelastic test so the results could be used as incident wave data.


Ternary complexes of rare earth, with cinnamic acid and 1,10-phenanthroline were synthesized and characterized. The interaction between ternary complexes and bovine serum albumins (BSA) was stud- ied by ultraviolet spectrum and fluorescence spectrum. Results show that the absorption intensity of BSA increased with the increasing of the concentration of ternary complexes. Ternary complexes quenched the fluorescence of BSA and it was static quenching. The binding constant (KA) and binding sites of ternary complexes with BSA at room temperature were 0.91×10 5 Lmol -1 and 2.1, respectively.


The proportion of wind power in power systems is increasing year by year. Large-scale wind turbine off the grid when grid system failures. So the wind turbine needs to low voltage ride through (LVRT) function of wind turbine. Aiming at this problem, which in this article by DIgSILENT simulation software build 1.5MW doubly-fed wind turbine(DFIG) model, using active Crowbar and series grid side converter (SGSC) control strategy to realize the simulation of low voltage ride through of wind turbine. The control strategy of active Crowbar is mainly through the short circuit of rotor side converter to realize LVRT, and needs to be matched with the active and reactive power control strategy. SGSC is a novel converter structure, which mainly through compensating stator flux drop to realize LVRT. Finally this two kinds of control strategies were compared, demonstrated SGSC control strategy can achieve the low voltage ride through capabilities of the doubly-fed wind turbine.


Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) with and without a cardioverter defibrillator has emerged as a mainstream therapy for heart failure patients with drug-refractory, mild to severe symptoms, severely reduced left ventricular ejection fraction, and a prolonged QRS duration, a marker of ventricular dyssynchrony. Acute effects of CRT include the immediate improvement of left ventricular filling time, decrease in mitral regurgitation, and elimination or reduction of left ventricular intraventricular dyssynchrony, accompanied by an improvement in left ventricular contractility, wall motion score, and cardiac output. The implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is a single- or dual-lead system implanted transvenously in the right ventricle. The ICD has been developed to detect and terminate life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias, and it has been tested in heart failure populations to reduce the risk of mortality. A newer technology, the subcutaneous ICD, completely eliminating the need for a transvenous right ventricular lead has recently been introduced, and current data suggest similar safety and efficacy to the transvenous ICD systems.


We have developed a novel method of wavelength division multiplexed operation of thermally stabilized fiber Bragg grating (FBG) vibration sensors in that simultaneous multipoint vibration detection with a temperature-insensitive operation can be achieved. One of the sensing elements of the arrayed sensors consists of a pair of FBGs, one is used for providing a narrow-spectrum light from a broad-spectrum incoherent optical source and the other is used for vibration sensing. The paired FBG configuration enables us to compensate the temperature effects that are commonly applied to the FBGs used. In the experiment, two sensing elements are arranged in tandem and the detection of simultaneous two-point multiple vibrations and the measurement of an elastic wave propagating in a metal bar are demonstrated.


In the design of reconfigurable controller,software modules of system not only satisfy the requirements of performance and precision,but also have the features of modularization,integration and reuse.If real-time middleware is putted into the design of controller and manages the interaction of modules,it is convenient to implement the reconfigurable of controller.It is necessary to put CORBA into RTLinux real-time kernel space in the construction of the middleware platform based on RTLinux and Real-time CORBA.In this paper,RTCK is presented first,which is an implementation of Real-time CORBA and minimum CORBA specifications in RTLinux real-time kernel space.Then,the GIOP protocol based on RTLinux MBuff driver and FIFO is implemented.Finally,a performance comparison and analysis between RTCK and TAO are also given.


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This study investigates the influence of financial development on the relationship between remittances and economic growth within the Sub-Saharan Africa region. The study utilised panel data encompassing 42 countries, spanning the time frame 1980 to 2021. The research employed a cross-sectional augmented panel unit root test, as well as the Im-Pesaran-Shin unit-root test, to conduct the unit root analysis. The regression estimations employed the Pooled Mean Group and Mean Group/ARDL methodologies. The research findings demonstrate a significant association between the development of financial systems and sustained economic growth over an extended period. The findings from the empirical analysis indicate that there exists a substitutive relationship between financial development and the association between remittances and economic growth. The study proposes that it would be advantageous for financial policies in the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region to give priority to the implementation of efficient financial reforms with the goal of improving the overall depth of the financial sector.

Keywords: Remittances, Financial development, ARDL, Economic growth, Sub-Saharan Africa.


Many current and state-of-the-art deep learning models for accurate image segmentation are based on the U-Net architecture, a convolutional neural network designed for biomedical applications. Despite its widespread adoption in the medical imaging community, U-Net has two major limitations. First, due to its deep structure and the large number of filters used, the number of parameters and Floating-Point Operations Per Second (FLOPS) are high. This results in high computational complexity and demands a large memory size, making real-time implementation and deployment of U-Net models challenging. Second, the base U-Net model only uses a single kernel type (i.e., $3\times 3$ ) throughout the network for all convolution operations. Feature extraction using a single spatial extent throughout the network is suitable if the size, location, and shape of the salient regions remain static in all the dataset images, which is not necessarily the case in medical imaging. To address these two limitations, we propose an Efficient Multi-Encoder-Decoder based UNet (EMED-UNet), a novel architecture for efficient medical image segmentation. We evaluated our network on four medical imaging datasets: Montgomery County, Shenzhen CXR, COVID-19 CT LS, and the BraTS (Brain Tumor Segmentation) dataset. EMED-UNet outperforms U-Net and its variants in terms of accuracy, with around 77% reduction in parameters, a 60% reduction in FLOPS, and a 79.2% reduction in memory usage (all as compared to U-Net). The results demonstrate that EMED-UNet is a lightweight and accurate model for image segmentation that substantially improves upon the U-Net base model and is more feasible to deploy, given its decreased computational cost.


Background Loss of muscle mass (sarcopenia) and function in ageing are associated with reduced functional ability, quality of life and reduced life expectancy. In cancer patients, age related muscle loss may be exacerbated by cachexia and poor nutritional intake. Individuals with widespread disseminated disease are most prone to increasing functional decline, increased morbidity and accelerated death. However subjective assessments of physical performance have been shown to be poor indicators of life expectancy in these patients. Aims To develop an objective measure to aid calculation of life expectancy in cancer by investigating the association between objectively measured lean muscle mass and longevity, in 41 patients with known spinal metastases from all cause primaries. Methods Lean muscle mass was calculated as total psoas area (TPA)/height (m)2. Two blinded doctors independently calculated TPA from CT images at the L3 level, performed routinely within 7 days of diagnosis of spinal metastases. Time to death was recorded from retrospective analysis of hospital notes. Results Of patients within the highest tertile for muscle mass 85% were alive at one year, compared with 50% in the lowest tertile. Conclusion Death within one year in individuals with spinal metastases is significantly higher in patients with low lean muscle mass at presentation.


We analyzed the changes in patients' clinical characteristics and transport refusal pre- and post-COVID-19 and identified the reasons for transport refusal using emergency medical services run sheet data from pre-COVID-19 (April–December 2019) and post-COVID-19 (April–December 2020) in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. We included patients aged ≥18 years. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were performed to identify the relationship between patients' personal factors and clinical characteristics and emergency transport refusal. During the control and study periods, 612,681 cases were reported; the transport refusal rates during the control and study periods were 6.7% and 8.2%, respectively. Emergency transport refusal was associated with younger age, the male sex, a normal mental status, a shock index < 1, and trauma in both the pre- and post-COVID-19 periods. Although fever prevented transport refusal during the pre-COVID-19 period (aOR, 0.620; 95% CI, 0.567–0.679), it became a significant risk factor for transport refusal during the post-COVID-19 period (aOR, 1.619; 95% CI, 1.534–1.709). The most common reason for transport refusal by critically ill patients was "because it was not accepted within the jurisdiction and remote transport was required." It is necessary to expand the response capacity of patients with fever in the community to reduce the refusal of transport by critically ill patients.


Endogenous flows of nitrogen and amino acids at the terminal ileum of broilers (6 weeks old), layers (70 weeks old) and adult roosters (70 weeks old) were determined using the peptide alimentation method. The ileal endogenous output of nitrogen and total amino acids in broilers, layers and roosters, expressed as mg/kg dry matter intake, were similar (F > 0-05). Endogenous flows were similar (F > 0-05) for nine of the 17 amino acids analysed, but the flows of serine, glutamic acid, proline, alanine, isoleucine, tyrosine, arginine and methionine differed (P 0-05) between the three classes of chickens, except for serine, glutamic acid, proline and isoleucine. The concentrations of proline were higher (F


What is the effect of offering agents an option to delay their choices in a global coordination game? We address this question by considering a canonical binary action global game, and allowing players to delay their irreversible decisions. Those that delay have access to accurate private information at the second stage, but receive lower payoffs. We show that, as noise vanishes, as long as the beneÞt to taking the risky action early is greater than the beneÞt of taking the risky action late, the introduction of the option to delay reduces the incidence of coordination failure in equilibrium relative to the standard case where all agents must choose their action at the same time. We outline the welfare implications of this Þnding, and probe the robustness of our results from a variety of angles. ∗This paper is a revised version of a chapter from my PhD dissertation at Yale University. I am grateful to my advisor, Stephen Morris, and committee members Ben Polak and Dirk Bergemann for their guidance. In addition, I thank Don Brown, Sanjeev Goyal, Johannes Horner, David Pearce, Yianis SaraÞdis, and Hyun Shin for valuable discussions, and seminar participants at Berkeley, Chicago (GSB), Duke (Fuqua), ErasmusRotterdam, FRB Minneapolis, ISI (Calcutta), Liecester, LBS, LSE, Michigan, Minnesota, NYU, Oxford (Said), UCLA, Washington University, and Yale University for comments. An earlier version of this paper was circulated under the title "Coordination, Learning, and Delay". Financial support for the early years of this project was provided by Yale University in the form of a Robert M. Leylan Dissertation Fellowship. †Mailing address: Room A352, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


Sex determination techniques (amniocentesis chorionic villus biopsy and ultrasonography) have been used in many Indian states for selective female feticide. India is one of the few countries where significant inequities are evident in the sex ratio of the 0-6 year age group. A United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF) report identified 8 states (Uttar Pradesh Rajasthan Punjab Haryana Gujurat Maharashtra Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu) where prenatal sex determination and female feticide are widely practiced; this accounted for 1.4 million "missing" girl children. Abortions are legal under the Indian Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act 1972. In the late 1980s the state of Maharashtra made the use of sex-determination tests for the purpose of terminating female fetus pregnancies illegal. Other Indian states followed suit and on January 1 1996 the Indian parliament gave its formal assent to the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Misuse) Act. The state government of Delhi enacted the Delhi Artificial Insemination (Human) Act in 1995 which for the first time in India legalized the donation of semen and oocytes to infertile couples. Semen banks are registered under the supervisory authority of the director of Health Services. The Act provides for the compulsory screening of gamete donors for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Segregation of spermatozoa by X or Y chromosome for the purpose of conceiving a male fetus through artificial insemination is prohibited. Legislation on reproductive technologies provides the means for preventing their misuse; however several legal ethical moral and social issues are involved in the implementation of these laws. Legislation will be ineffective until societal perceptions of the female child and women change. Some form of regulatory agency concerning all aspects of human reproduction is required. There must be a conscious decision to adhere to the recommendations of scientific and social institutions.


Unique and advanced school-running idea is the key to construction of characteristic schools, and high-quality team of teachers is indispensable; School-based education and research can facilitate its development in the right direction; Its objective is to highlight school-running characteristics and overall development.


Shuttle vector for a microorganism of the genus Bifidobacterium and Escherichia coli comprising a part of the region from the pTB6 comprising a region of the replication origin (oriV) -repB of pTB6 but not comprising MembB regions, MobA, OrfI and oriT of and pTB6-derived plasmid portion Escherichia coli comprising a region of the replication origin (ori) of Escherichia coli.


The condition of DKI Jakarta as one of the economic centers in Indonesia, has a very high level of population mobility both from within and other cities around it. The application of urban management in the form of Transit Oriented Development (TOD)-based development planning which accommodates the need for human mobilization in the area on foot is one of the principles of organizing a compact city towards a sustainable city. Considering this explanation, this study aims to examine the needs of the main and supporting facilities on the pedestrian path in the TOD area. The method implemented in this study is the collection of literature and secondary data and field verification by comparing the existing conditions in the area with the stipulation of policies that have been approved for further processing in order to provide recommendations for input or improvement in accordance with applicable regulations.


The methods of intelligent process control and their application to provide a quality product with a minimum number of defects are presented. A case study of a high-pressure polyethylene production process using intelligent distributed controls is examined. A distributed statistical quality control structure is defined in two levels. The first level is the statistical process control scheme, and the second is the process management system, including statistical quality control. The design and implementation procedures are discussed as applied to a polyethylene reactor.<<ETX>>


According to the period development and the typical characteristics of medical stages, traditional medicine can be divided into six aspects: legendary traditional medicine, instinctive traditional medicine, witchcraft traditional medicine, empirical traditional medicine, theoretical traditional medicine and integrated traditional medicine. Among them, instinctive traditional medicine and legendary traditional medicine belong to the stage of ignorance according to the level of human cognition ("not knowing reason and result", "only knowing result" and "knowing reason and result"). It belongs to the immature and hazy development period of human traditional medicine before it became "medicine" from the perspective of the development of traditional medicine, which can be summarized as the pre-medical period. Scientific understanding of traditional medicine and instinctive traditional medicine is helpful for people to understand and grasp the development of traditional medicine and even the whole medicine.


not fully understood, so that in this study, we aimed to measure and evaluate the relationship between cognitive function and 'chronic knee pain', a kind of chronic pain, with international standards. Materials and Methods: 98 patients with ages of 18-70 having knee pain for at least 6 months were included into the study. It was determined that A1 was the group with chronic knee pain whose cognitive functions were evaluated before treatment and A2 was the group whose cognitive functions were evaluated af ter taking treatment for chronic knee pain. Both group A1 and A2 had same number of patient and same individuals. Montreal Cognitive Assessment-MOCA, an international test for measurement and evaluation of cognitive functions, was applied to the patients before and af ter treatment. The patients with MOCA score 26 and over were accepted as normal in terms of cognitive functions. Results and Discussion: MOCA score of group A2 was significantly higher than of group A1 and VAS values in group A2 significantly decreased according to A1. While the patient in group A2 showed statistically significant increase in abilities of visual functions, language, abstract thinking, delayed recall which is the units of cognitive function according to A1, orientation score decreased. Conclusion(s): The chronic pains resulting from the knee arthritis might lead to cognitive function disorders in long term. This can be prevented with the present arthritis and the ef fective treatment of pain and the life quality of the person can be increased. Moreover, the use of more costly diagnosis and treatment ways by the clinician and the patient can be prevented. References: 1. Keenan A, Tennant A, Fear J, Emery P, Conaghan P. Impact of multi ple joint problems on daily living tasks in people in the community over age 55. Arthritis Rheum. 2006;55(5):757-764. 2. Kreitler S, Kreitler M. Psychological approaches to treatment of pain. Handbook of Chronic Pain. New York: Nova Science, 2007.


During embryonic haematopoiesis, haematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HSPCs) develop from hemogenic endothelial cells (HECs) though endothelial to haematopoietic transition (EHT). However, little is known about how EHT is regulated in human. Here, we report that GFI1 plays an essential role in enabling normal EHT during haematopoietic differentiation of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs).


The computer communication and its objects of talks are investigated. The peculiarities of writing and oral speech of the Russian chat users new Russian language (Newspeak) are revealed. As a part of a special type of language existence electronic genres mail, website, forums and guest books, e-conference, chat and others are developed. The language became a unifying factor for these objects. E-talks while chatting are the "real speech", which can be explained by different levels of language culture of the users, by careless attitude to the written (told) word, by mixing Cyrillic and Latin alphabets, by the desire to "play" with a word, by the desire to reduce spellings. The spontaneous of the oral speech is kept, i.e. the graphic form of words becomes close to the sound, a disturbance of the spelling rules becomes intentional, specific computer terms appear among slang words, polylogue of chat is filled with ironic cheers imitating spoken words, electronic formula-cliches of greetings, initiating contact are met and etc. In the Russian-language communicative space not only a new vocabulary, but also new forms of verbal behavior can be met. There is a new communicative environment, which is characterized with automation, multimedia, temporal and spatial independence, voluntary contacts, difficulties in emotional self-expression such as use of emoticons, emoticon and paragraphemic. New phenomena in the Russian electronic speech contradict the norms and traditions of the classical Russian language.


Currently, genome analysis has become a rou-tine component of molecular breeding of major crops. Today's commercial sugarcane hybrids are the products of breeding over one hundred years with the starting clones produced by crossing two founding species ( Saccharum officinarum and S. spontaneum ) in India and Indonesia. Current sugarcane varieties have a highly complex and large genome with 100–130 chromosomes. Despite the complexity and size of the genome, considerable progress has recently been made in sugarcane genomics, including the sequencing of a haploid S. spontaneum , AP85-441 and sugarcane cultivar hybrids R570 and SP80-3280. AP85-441 genome is assembled to chromosome level and allele-defined. Significant progress also has been made in genetic research of important agronomic traits. Here, we outline these advances in order to provide a reference for future sugarcane genomics and genetics research.


The aim of this work was to investigate the emulsifying capacity of marine phospholipids derived from large yellow croaker roe (LYCRPLs). Initially, conditions for preparing astaxanthin (1% w/w) nanoemulsions with LYCRPLs were optimized based on single-factor experiments, including homogenization pressure, homogenization cycle, emulsifier concentration and corn oil concentration via the response surface methodology. The optimal homogenization pressure was 60 MPa, the optimal number of homogenization cycles was nine, the optimal emulsifier concentration was 4.7%, and the optimal oil concentration was 20%. Under these conditions, the stability, particle size and polydispersity index of nanoemulsions were 0.018 ± 0.0016, 247 ± 4.5 nm and 0.215±0.019, respectively. The droplets of nanoemulsions were characterized by transmission electron microscopy, which revealed that all the droplets were more or less spherical and nonaggregated. In addition, the storage experiments indicated that the nanoemulsions were stable at different temperatures. Therefore, LYCRPLs could be explored as carriers for the delivery of insoluble bioactive compounds in the food industry.


To any non-negatively graded dg Lie algebra $g$ over a field $k$ of characteristic zero we assign a functor $\Sigma_g: art/k \to Kan$ from the category of commutative local artinian $k$-algebras with the residue field $k$ to the category of Kan simplicial sets. There is a natural homotopy equivalence between $\Sigma_g$ and the Deligne groupoid corresponding to $g$.
The main result of the paper claims that the functor $\Sigma$ commutes up to homotopy with the "total space" functors which assign a dg Lie algebra to a cosimplicial dg Lie algebra and a simplicial set to a cosimplicial simplicial set. This proves a conjecture of Schechtman which implies that if a deformation problem is described ``locally'' by a sheaf of dg Lie algebras $g$ on a topological space $X$ then the global deformation problem is described by the homotopy Lie algebra $R\Gamma(X,g)$.


This work investigates the fundamental properties of armchair single-wall carbon nanotubes (armchair-SWCNTs) dipole antenna at THz band using Drude method. Due to their metallic conducting properties, the armchair SWCNTs will be utilized in this work. The radiation pattern, s11 parameters, phase velocity and antenna directivity are presented for this antenna. The results demonstrate that armchair-SWCNTs dipole antenna with a radius of 2.71 nm takes on the resonant frequency properties from 1THz to 18THz, corresponding antenna lengths 1500nm to 50nm. All results in this work can be used for design of CNTs antenna (armchair-SWCNTs antenna) in wide THz band. The evaluation of the antenna's performance was done using Computer Simulation Technology (Microwave studio) CST (MWS), which exhibited and analyzed the key parameters of the antenna.


The ruler goal of the current study is to determine the effect of organic fertilizer represented in bio-char that loaded by both inorganic nitrogen as (ammonium sulphate) and biofertilizer strains (Azotobcter chrococcoum, Bacillus subtilis, Pseudomonas fluorescents, Spirulina latensis and Anabaena azollae), in comparison with recommended fertilizer represented in (NPK), on biochemical composition, nutritional and therapeutic values of bio-sweetener Stevia (honey leaves). The promising data were obtained during the 30, 60, 90 days after transplanting represented in growth parameters which include plant tallness, leaves number per plant, leaf area and leaf area index. Total chlorophyll content, moisture content, ash, protein, fats, total dietary fiber, and total carbohydrates, amino acid contents, macro and micro, fatty acids and vitamins which were determined. Bio-fertilizer strains immobilized by bio-char were ameliorated the nutritional characteristics. Data lead to employ bio-fertilizers immobilized on biochar for large scale because of low cost, high efficiency and easy in employ. In summing up, it can be used bio-char as an organic fertilizer, natural soil conditioner, safety ecosystem fertilizers could acquisition for high economic profits and multiple returns for the ecosystem and producers.


Cancer is one of the leading causes of death, and breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in women. One method to realize the level of malignancy of breast cancer from an early age is by classifying the cancer malignancy using data mining. One of the widely used data mining methods with a good level of accuracy is the Support Vector Machine (SVM) and K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN). Evaluation techniques of percentage split and cross-validation were used to evaluate and compare the SVM and KNN classification models. The result was that the accuracy level of the SVM classification method was better than the KNN classification method when using the cross-validation technique, which is 95,7081%. Meanwhile, the KNN classification method was better than the SVM classification method when using the percentage split technique, which is 95,4220%. From the comparison results, it can be seen that the KNN and SVM methods work well in the classification of breast cancer.


With sulfur dioxide and other environmental pollution is becoming more and more serious. It is of great significance to explore an efficient, fast and clean way to remove these environmental pollutants. In this paper, the microwave plasma technology is applied in the desulfurization process. The effect of microwave power, carrier gas, carrier gas type and sulfur dioxide concentration on the desulfurization efficiency is studied. The results show that: in the microwave power 60W, the oxygen carrier gas flow rate of 0.8L/min, SO2 intake concentration of 20mg/m 3 , the desulfurization rate can reach 98.6%. In the management of air pollution, this paper proves that microwave plasma technology is one of the most promising and effective technical methods.


Traditional band selection methods only analyze one dataset at a time and start searching band subsets from the zero ground state of knowledge, which cannot effectively mine spectral information to guide band selection. However, for hyperspectral images (HSIs) obtained by the same sensor, the spectral information has a similar physical meaning (radiance or reflectivity). Collaborative analysis technology can analyze multiple hyperspectral datasets to explore the inherent spectral features shared among them. In this letter, a multiple datasets collaborative analysis framework for hyperspectral band selection is proposed to realize spectral information communication, thereby guiding and promoting the band selection of each dataset. Different band selection tasks are established pertinently, and then, the evolutionary multitasking band selection method is designed to facilitate the knowledge sharing of different band selection tasks. More importantly, the interaction mechanism among different datasets is adjusted dynamically, thereby improving the cooperation ability of the collaborative analysis framework. Besides, a predominant gene reservation crossover and a deduplication mutation are designed for retaining the promising bands and avoiding the selection of repeat bands. Experiments indicate that the proposed collaborative analysis method works more efficiently than the comparison methods and successfully enhances accuracy and convergence compared to single dataset analysis.


It has analyzed the defects that exists in the Mechanical Hydraulic System of Speed Governor of Wanjiazhai Hydro-Power Station, the measures of transforming have leen taken and the dependability of Hydraulic System has leen improued.


The distribution and age-constrained by stratigraphy, paleontology and isotopic age dates of Jurassic igneous rocks, and the nature of Jurassic granitoids that are poorly discussed previously in the Gangdese Belt are preliminarily summarized on the basis of regional geological survey(1∶250000) and related works. At present no Jurassic volcanic rocks have been found in the Gangdise back-arc fault uplift belt; Early Jurassic magmatism in the eastern Gangdise took place almost synchronously in the southern Gangdise (e.g. the Yeba Formation volcanic rocks and Oiyug and Niemo granitoids), Gangdise back-arc fault uplift belt (e.g. Nyingzhong, Gyinda and Puqu granitoids) and northern Gangdise (Nyainrong granitoids). Mid-Upper Jurassic Jienu Group and Lagongtang Formation volcanic rocks are discontinuously distributed in the northern Gangdise and Late Jurassic magmatism is only sporadically observed to the north of the Shamolei-Maila-Luobadui-Milashan fault. Geochemical analysis combined with spatial and temporal constraints on the Jurassic magmatism indicates that the southern Gangdise and northern Gangdise were primarily affected by subduction during Jurassic time, while the Gangdise back-arc fault uplift belt and central Gangdise were not only affected by subduction but also by westward-propagating collision since Early Jurassic time. Considering paleomagnetic reconstruction and other related new findings, it may be considered that the features of such Jurassic magmatism in the Gangdise may be explained using the bidirectional scissors-style (opening westward) subduction model involving the southward subduction of the Bangong Co-Nujiang Tethyan oceanic crust and northward subduction of the Neo-Tethyan oceanic crust.


Objective To analyze the relationship between rabbit foot dermatitis and ambient relative humidity and the effect of foot dermatitis on pyrogen screcning test.Methods The records of laboratory humidity and rabbit foot dermatitis in 2006 and 2007 were collected and the effect of rabbit foot dermatitis on the qualification rate of pyrogen screening test was analyzed.Results When the laboratory humidity was over 70%,the incidence rate of rabbit foot dermatitis was significantly elevated(P0.01).The qualification rate of pyrogen screening test in the rabbits with foot dermatitis was significantly(P0.01) decreaced in comparison with that in normal healthy rabbits.The base temperature of the rabbits remarkably influenced the qualification rate of pyrogen screening test(P0.0001).Conclusions The incidence of foot dermatitis in rabbits is positively correlated with the ambient relative humidity.When the laboratory humidity exceeds the suitable humidity scope for rabbits,it may significantly increase the rate of foot dermatitis in rabbits,and the qualification rate of pyrogen screening test in rabbits with foot dermatitis may be significantly decreased.


We fabricated high power ultraviolet (UV) light emitting diodes (LEDs), whose emission wavelength is around 365 nm. We found that, in order to improve the external quantum efficiency (ηex) of UV LEDs, it is very important to reduce the optical self-absorption and the threading dislocation density (TDD) of epi-layers. Therefore, at first, UV LEDs epi-layers were grown on high-quality GaN templates (TDD = 2x 108/cm2) with sapphire substrates, and then the GaN templates and the sapphire substrates were removed by using laser-induced lift-off and polishing techniques. As a result, we obtained the low self-absorption and low TDD UV LEDs. When this UV LED was operated at a forward-bias pulsed current of 500 mA at room temperature (RT), the peak wavelength, the output power (Po), the forward voltage (Vf) and the ηex were 365 nm, 410 mW, 5.3 V, 24%, respectively. Moreover, at a forward-bias direct current of 500 mA at RT, Po, Vf and ηex were 360 mW, 5.0 V, 21%, respectively.


To some, this Florida hoteller's rock-bottom employee health costs attest to his revolutionary vision. Others point to exclusions in coverage and say the price is too high.


This paper describes the design and development of an on-line problem-based learning environment designed to provide a means for creating a converged learning environment for on and off-campus students. The paper describes the environment and the intended implementation strategies as well as results from its initial implementation with a large cohort.


DESCRIBE THE INVENTION SYSTEMS USEFUL HARDENED thermoset resin as structural adhesives AND HOW TO PREINPREGNADOS matrix resin fiber reinforced thermosets. THESE HARDENED RESINS USED A VERY SMALL AMOUNT OF PARTICLE Functionalized Elastomer A CO TG 10 degrees less dispersed in a resin system BASE heat stable.


In order to improve the visual effect of the around view monitor (AVM), we propose a novel ring fusion method to reduce the brightness difference among fisheye images and achieve a smooth transition around stitching seam. Firstly, an integrated corner detection is proposed to automatically detect corner points for image registration. Then, we use equalization processing to reduce the brightness among images. And we match the color of images according to the ring fusion method. Finally, we use distance weight to blend images around stitching seam. Through this algorithm, we have made a Matlab toolbox for image blending. 100% of the required corner is accurately and fully automatically detected. The transition around the stitching seam is very smooth, with no obvious stitching trace.


IT. is observed from the references in the Index Medicus over the past 18 years that the annual increments to the literature of pellagra are steadily increasing. It is noticed from the titles of many papers that the geographical distribution of the disease has been considered a matter of some interest. Although pellagra appears to be commoner in warm countries, an increasing amount of the disease is being observed in the UWited States, including those states along the nolthern border. It is rather surprising therefore that extremely few cases have been reported from Canada. No doubt a larger number of cases have occurred, but due to non-recognition or other causes they have not been reported. A case which occurred in a rural district of northern New Brunswick in 1915 was reported by L. G. Pinault,' of Campbellton. Another case, in which carcinoma of the stomach was also present, was reported by F. W. Rolph2 in Toronto in the following month. Malcolm Mackay,3 of Sherbrooke, Que., reported two cases which he had seen in 1920, and diagnosed as pellagra. One of these did not present the usual mental changes and recovered. The other had cancer of the uterus and died. Both patients were women. Finally two more cases, also in women, were reported by G. H. Stevenson4 which were seen in Ontario in 1921. In his bibliography the author referred to three cases reported by J. M. Forster and C. S. McVicar, of Toronto, and F. S. Vrooman, of Brockville, in the Bulletin of the Ontario Hospitals for the Insane in January, 1914, and a case by C. A. McClennahan in the same Bulletin in July, 1916. There is one more reference in the Index Medicus to a cae reported by A. Desforges,5 in Quebec, but we have not had access to the journal in which it was published. Recently, Palmer" reported a case occurring at Verdun, Que. It would thus appear that not more than 12 cases of pellagra in all have been reported in Canada. None of these occurred west of Ontario. The publication of the following report of a case in British Columbia, if for no other


The discovery of relevant research in the field of international education can be difficult due to the nature of the field and how scholarly work is indexed. This article presents a review of published international education literature to identify key topics and publication patterns, along with potential gaps and inequities in current scholarly discourse. Using the keywords "international education" and "global education," the analyses focus on records retrieved from Web of Science. Of the 1492 peer-reviewed journal articles reviewed (published from 1991 to 2017), the analyses revealed only 705 articles relevant to the field of international education. Additional analyses of bibliometric data show a significant increase in international education publication over the past two decades; evolving trends regarding topical foci and methods; and publication disparities regarding national contexts and languages outside the Global North/anglophone-dominated discourse. The article concludes with recommendations to improve discoverability, better connect various areas of international education research, and expand scholarly discourse to include more diverse representation.