It has been shown recently S. Pirandola [Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 090504 (2011)] that entangled light with Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlations retrieves information from digital memory better than any classical light. In identifying this, a model of digital memory with each cell consisting of a reflecting medium with two reflectivities (each memory cell encoding the binary numbers 0 or 1) is employed. The readout of binary memory essentially corresponds to discrimination of two bosonic attenuator channels characterized by different reflectivities. The model requires an entire mathematical paraphernalia of a continuous variable Gaussian setting for its analysis when arbitrary values of reflectivities 0≤r0,r1≤1 are considered. Here we restrict ourselves to a basic quantum readout mechanism with two different families of non-Gaussian entangled states of light, in which the binary channels to be discriminated are (i) ideal memory characterized by reflectivity r1=1 (identity channel) and (ii) a thermal noise channel—where the signal light illuminating the memory location gets completely lost (r0=0) and only a white thermal noise hitting the upper side of the memory reaches the decoder. We compare the quantum reading efficiency of two families of non-Gaussian entangled light [(m,m′) family of path-entangled photon states and entangled state obtained by mixing a single photon with coherent light in a 50:50 beam splitter] with any classical source of light in this model. We identify that the classes of non-Gaussian entangled transmitters studied here offer significantly better reading performance than any classical transmitters of light in the regime of low signal intensity. We also demonstrate that the (m,m′) family of entangled light exhibits better reading performance than NOON states.


There is a strong need for murine gastric cancer cell line models recapitulating human gastric cancers. Here, we describe two murine gastric cancer cell lines designated as NCC‐S1 and NCC‐S3. They were generated from gastric adenocarcinomas that formed in a Villin‐cre, Smad4F/F, Trp53F/F, Cdh1F/wt mouse and a Pdx1‐cre, Trp53F/F, Cdh1F/F mouse, respectively. Molecular profiles of both cell lines were very similar to human gastric cancer. NCC‐S1M and NCC‐S3M subpopulation clones were isolated from pulmonary metastasis of heterotopic allografts of NCC‐S1 and NCC‐S3 cells, respectively. NCC‐S1M and NCC‐S3M showed enhanced in vivo growth rates and metastatic potentials and exhibited epithelial‐to‐mesenchymal transition features. NCC‐S1M cells developed orthotopic and heterotopic tumors in immunocompetent mice in predictable manner, and were useful for testing the efficacy of an immunotherapeutic agent, anti‐4‐1BB antibody. NCC‐S1M and NCC‐S3M cells demonstrated Wnt/β‐catenin pathway activation, and knockdown of Ctnnb1 reversed the metastatic phenotype of NCC‐S1M. These results underscore the role of Wnt/β‐catenin pathway in metastatic phenotype of gastric cancer. Taken together, our novel metastatic gastric cancer cell lines are useful resources for drug development and metastasis research. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.


Spatial resolution of the near-field imaging technique with Terahertz pulses is mainly limited by strong signal attenuation in the aperture of the probe. We demonstrate that probe sensitivity can be significantly improved by placing a detecting element into the near-field zone of the probe aperture. In this case the evanescent modes of the field transmitted through the aperture contribute to the detected signal. Electric field is experimentally measured in the near-field zone of a subwavelength aperture. Numerical calculations based on a simple two-dimensional model are used to analyze effects of the probe geometry.


The present invention relates to a thin film rapid thermal processing apparatus, and having a plate provided with a pair heater that generates heat; Receiving the substrate and a chamber interposed between the heating space and the heating space for heating the substrate to form a receiving space for receiving the heater are disposed, respectively; Barrier ribs provided in pairs so as to partition the heating space and the receiving space being arranged between the heating space and the receiving space; The receiving space is disposed in a space other than the heater, the heater insulating portion of the chamber or insulated from the partition wall; characterized in that comprises a. In this way, the heat treatment apparatus is provided with a thin film rapidly to uniformly heat the entire area of the substrate.


Energy consumption cost and environmental effect are dynamic challenge to cloud computing. Data centers are the backbone of cloud computing. They continue to be challenging problems to energy efficiency. We investigated previous research based on energy efficiency approach and obtained the conditions to facilitate green cloud computing. Reducing energy consumption and emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) in data centers represent open challenges and driving the future research work for green data centers. It is found that there is an urgent need for integrated energy efficiency framework fordata centers which combines a green IT architecture with specific activities and procedures that lead to minimal impact on environment and less CO2 emissions. The required energy efficiency framework should also consider the social network applications as a vital related factor in elevating energy consumption, as well as high potential for energy efficiency.


In this work we have showen a comparision between two methods of measuring the back function, because it is still unclear exactly what the back function tests actually measure. Back lifting and extension tests (isometric back extension endurance) are commonly used methods in value judgment of work ability and rehabilitation. Some new devices (isokinetic apparatus) are now in the use which could help in the more descriptive judgment of human's back mechanical capacity. Previous isometric measurements that we have done eariler, are here as control group of data, but they were reffered to the measuring of lumbal moments which depended on pulling forces, and inclination of the trunk, as well as the age of subjects. The new isokinetic devices now incorporated what we call today active dynamometry. In a such devices servo motors and microprocessors transformed the early machines into fast and dynamic tools offering instant data analysis and reproducibility. This change in the fundamental data collection process finally sparked large scale interest in isokinetic testing. Using this method we found out that is possible to get out results which performance is mainly influenced on heredity and behavioral factors i.e. it assesses the physical capacity for lifting, which means that it may prove difficult to alter isokinetic lifting capacity by interventions, what indicates that behavioral factors may play more influential roles.


BACKGROUND
Human papilloma viruses (HPV) have been detected in several types of cancers. Over the last few years, a possible correlation between HPV infection and colon cancers has been suggested. The aim of this study was to assess the presence of HPV-DNA in colon adenocarcinomas and adenomas to describe the relationship of HPV infection with these pathologic features.

MATERIALS AND METHODS
The study included formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded tissue samples of 70 patients with colon adenocarcinoma and 30 patients with adenoma (as study group) and 30 tumor adjacent tissues (as control). HPV-DNA was purified and first amplified through MY09/MY11 and GP5+/GP6+ primers. Subsequently, for more precision, another PCR was performed using PGMY09/11 L1 consensus primer system.

RESULTS
All tested adenocarcinomas and adenomas as well as normal tumor adjacent tissues were negative for all types of HPV in two PCR assays.

CONCLUSION
Our results do not support the relationship between HPV infection and colon carcinoma or adenoma. Attributing a role to the HPV in the etiology of colon carcinogenesis will require further studies.


Syntheses of N-[3,4,5-tris(n-dodecan-1-yloxy)phenyl]maleimide (6) and exo,exo-5,6-bis[[[3,4,5-tris(n-dodecan-1-yloxy)benzoyl]oxy]methyl]-7-oxabicyclo[2.2.1]hept-2-ene (16) and their polymerization by radical, anionic and ring opening metathesis polymerizations, respectively, to yield the corresponding polymers 7 and 17 are described. Regardless of the polymerization method by which it was synthesized, 7 produced a hexagonal columnar (Φh) liquid crystalline phase generated from the tubular architecture of the rigid 7/2 helical chain conformation surrounded by its tapered side groups. 17 also produces a Φh phase. However, in this case, the assembly of tapered side groups of 17 into a tubular architecture induced a 3/1 helical chain conformation of its own flexible backbone. These two experiments support the model in which polymers containing tapered side groups form tubular supramolecular architectures by inducing a flexible helical chain conformation during the self-assembly of their own tapered side group...


The genus chlamydia consists of two species, psittaci and trachomatis. C. psittaci attracted attention during a pandemic in 1929–1930, when it was shown to cause psittacosis ("parrot fever," from the Greek word psittakos, "parrot").1 Exotic birds are not the only source of human infections, however. C. psittaci has been recovered from more than 130 avian species and is also an important pathogen among domestic mammals. Psittacosis is an occupational hazard to workers in the poultry industry. Psittacosis is considered to be exclusively a zoonosis; person-to-person transmission can occur but is rare. Some cases of psittacosis involve no known avian . . .


Natural convection due to localized heating from an array of horizontal cylinders in a shallow water layer has been simulated numerically by approximating the symmetrical region between cylinders as an enclosure with localized heating from a side. Calculations performed for a Rayleigh number range between 103 and 3 X 105 reveal a unicellular vortex motion characterized by three thermal boundary-layer regions (two vertical boundary layers at the sides of the enclosure and a horizontal boundary layer at the air-water interface) In the core region between the boundary layers, the temperature is approximately uniform along horizontal lines but increases slightly along vertical lines to provide a stratified condition. Heat transfer increases with increasing Rayleigh number and decreasing aspect ratio, slightly exceeding that associated with uniform heating from below.


Abstract It is a pleasure to participate in this symposium and to celebrate Dr. Herman Mark, who has done so much for polymer science and the polymer-based industries. I am honored to be asked to talk about our debt to the polymer pioneers in the presence of a man who is indeed a charter member of such a group. As you all know, Herman Mark has written about and explained the history and substance of polymer development with great insight and clarity. And he has probably imparted that understanding to more people in more parts of the world than anyone else.


We present combined experimental and numerical studies of the heat transfer of paramagnetic or diamagnetic fluid inside a differentially heated cubical enclosure subjected to the magnetic field gradients of different strength and orientation. In contrast to the previously reported studies in literature, which observed solely laminar flow regimes, here we focused on the fully developed turbulent flow regimes. That was possible by using a combination of the state-of-art superconducting magnets (with a strength up to 10 T and magnetic field gradients up to 900 T2/m) and by selecting various paramagnetic or diamagnetic working fluids (in a range of 10 Pr 1000). Detailed comparison between experiments (integral wall-heat transfer, temperature time-series at different locations within the enclosure) and direct numerical simulations (DNS) are performed and generally very good agreements are obtained in predicting the integral heat transfer. In addition, analysis of the long-term averaged first- and second-moments of velocity and thermal fields is performed. Finally, budgets of the turbulent kinetic energy and of the temperature variance are analyzed and the mean mechanism of the thermal plume reorganization in terms of the proper-orthogonal decomposition (POD) modes is presented.


In this thesis two general problems concerning goodness-of- fit statistics based on the empirical distribution are considered. The first concerns the problem of adapting Kolmogorov-Smirnov type statistics to test for discrete populations. The significance points of the statistics are given and various power comparisons made.

The second problem concerns testing for goodness-of-fit with censored data using the Cramer-von Mises type statistics. The small and large sample distributions are given and the tests are modified so that they can be used to test for the normal and the exponential distributions. The asymptotic theory is developed. Percentage points for the statistics are given and various small sample and large sample power studies are made, for the various cases.


The following two books are reviewed: Fundamentals of Electrical Drives by A. Veltman, D.W.J. Pulle, and R.W. De Doncker, published in 2007, and Inductors and Transformers for Power Electronics by Alex Van den Bossche and Vencislav Cekov Valchev, published in 2005.


We have used echelle spectra of resolving power 35 000 to derive chemical abundances and the 12C/13C ratio in the 1.9-d carbon Cepheid RT TrA and the Cepheid U TrA, employed as a comparison star. We confirm that RT TrA is very metal-rich with [Fe/H]=+0.4. In addition, C and N are substantially in excess, and a small deficiency in O is present. We interpret these anomalies as resulting from the appearance on the stellar surface of material enriched in 12C by the 3-α process, followed by CNO cycling to convert 12C to 13C and 14N. In addition, some 16O has been processed to 14N. The partial processing of 16O to 14N indicates that substantial 17O may be present. Proton capture seems to have enhanced 23Na from the Ne isotopes.


Psychodynamic methods are well-known as an effective tool in increasing students' self-mindedness, setting up reflection thinking strategies and improving their communication skills. The article represents an evaluation and review of the latest foreign studies on moral decision-making. The author introduces the number of recent Russian psycho-diagnostics development through and by which a comprehensive understanding of the emotional and the ethical processes have been achieved. The paper proposes the original method to deal with ethical reasoning. Using it as a tool enables a teacher to diagnose the ethical attitudes of students and the level of their inadequacy if exists. Moreover, the decision-making algorithms in case of ethical dilemmas may be worked through and reorganized in the teaching process applying this method.


(57) Abstract: The present invention is directed to apparatus for controlling an internal combustion engine equipped with an exhaust-gas after-treatment system. In this case characteristic quantity that characterizes the state of the exhaust gas aftertreatment system (B) is calculated starting from the at least one operating parameter of the internal combustion engine.


Key establishment is the heart of data protection that relies on cryptography, and it is an essential component of the packet protection mechanisms in many Internet security protocols. In this paper, we introduce some key negotiation schemes based on Diffie-Hellman key exchange technology. We also give some discussion on each of them.


The turnovers' evolution and structure analysis can provide many useful information for the construction of a viable set of policies for products, prices and retail network. When the analysis deals with large quantities of raw data, one of the solutions that guarantees the rigorous treatment of the data is the use of a software system based on a data warehouse.


Automatic discovery of foreground objects in video sequences is important in computer vision, with applications to object tracking, video segmentation and weakly supervised learning. This task is related to cosegmentation [4, 5] and weakly supervised localization [2, 6]. We propose an efficient method for the simultaneous discovery of foreground objects in video and their segmentation masks across multiple frames. We offer a graph matching formulation for bounding box selection and refinement using second and higher order terms. It is based on an Integer Quadratic Programming formulation and related to graph matching and MAP inference [3]. We take into consideration local frame-based information as well as spatiotemporal and appearance consistency over multiple frames. Our approach consists of three stages. First, we find an initial pool of candidate boxes using a novel and fast foreground estimation method in video (VideoPCA) based on Principal Component Analysis of the video content. The output of VideoPCA combined with Edge Boxes [8] is then used to produce high quality bounding box proposals. Second, we efficiently match bounding boxes across multiple frames, using the IPFP algorithm [3] with pairwise geometric and appearance terms. Third, we optimize the higher order terms using the Mean-Shift algorithm [1] to refine the box locations and establish appearance regularity over multiple frames. We make the following contributions:


Noise of automotive alternators can be classified into mechanical noise, aerodynamic noise and electro-magnetic noise. which is the same as for electric motors. Previous studies show that the elect ro-magnetic noise takes a maw peak at the rotating frequency multiplied by the number of stator slots. It has not been proved clearly so far, however, that the major peak is wholely due to the stator slots. On the contrary it is well known that noise of motors. which has a mechanism similar to the alternator except that the number of stator slots in automotive alternators is in gene\integer multiple of that of rotor segments, is closely related to the number of rotor slots. Therefore, the statement that only the stator slots is the source of the major peak in the noise spectrum of alternators is suspicious although not easy, to show theoretically, that the statement is incorrect. In this paper. effects of the stator slots on the noise in an automotive alternator are experimentally investigated by intentionally modifying the number of stator slots in such a way that the number of the states is not an integer multiples of the rotor slots. It is shown that both the stator slots are not so much influential as the rotor slots and claimed that the major peak in the noise spectrum of conventional alternators is due to superposition of a component caused by the stator and a higher harmonic component caused by the rotor


In this paper, we propose a new method, the variable separation technique, for obtaining a breather and rogue wave solution to the nonlinear evolution equation. Integrable systems of the derivative nonlinear Schrödinger type are used as three examples to illustrate the effectiveness of the presented method. We then obtain a family of rational solutions. This family of solutions includes the Akhmediev breather, the Kuznetsov-Ma breather, versatile rogue waves, and various interactions of localized waves. Moreover, the main characteristics of these solutions are discussed and some graphics are presented. More importantly, our results show that more abundant and novel localized waves may exist in the multicomponent coupled equations than in the uncoupled ones.


Since official records were first initiated in 1973, there have been reports of 154 small cetacean strandings in Hong Kong territorial waters. The species Neophocaena phocaenoides (finless porpoise) and Sousa chinensis (Indo-Pacific hump-backed dolphin) accounted for 77% of these strandings. There are seasonal peaks in the number of reported strandings: Sousa chinensis is more frequently reported during the summer monsoon season and Neophocaena phocaenoides is more frequent in the winter. Almost a third of all finless porpoises stranded were calves. The number of reported small cetacean strandings in Hong Kong has increased dramatically in recent years; partially due to an increasing awareness of local cetaceans and possibly due to escalating levels of human disturbance and anthropogenic pollution.


Rationale: The metabolic acidoses are generally separated into 2 categories on the basis of an anion gap calculation: high-anion-gap and normal anion-gap metabolic acidosis. When a high-anion-gap metabolic acidosis (HAGMA) is not clearly explained by common etiologies and routine confirmatory testing, specialized testing can definitively establish rare diagnoses such as 5-oxoproline, d-lactate accumulation, or diethylene glycol toxicity. Presenting Concerns of the Patient: A 56-year-old woman had a prolonged hospital admission following perforated diverticulitis requiring sigmoid resection. Her hospitalization was complicated by feculent peritonitis and surgical wound dehiscence needing prolonged broad-spectrum antibiotics and wound debridements. She developed acute kidney injury and HAGMA in the hospital. Diagnoses: Chart review showed that she received a large cumulative dose of acetaminophen during her hospital stay. Laboratory studies showed markedly increased serum 5-oxoproline causing HAGMA. Interventions (Including Prevention and Lifestyle): Patient was admitted to the intensive care unit and treated with N-acetylcysteine and renal replacement therapy. Outcomes: After admission to the intensive care unit, the patient continued to require vasopressor and ventilatory support for septic shock and a ventilator-associated pneumonia. After an initial recovery and resolution of her HAGMA, she subsequently suffered recurrent aspirations which were fatal. Teaching points: 1. The acronym GOLD MARK is useful when assessing patients with HAGMA and most causes of HAGMA can be established with routine testing. 2. When the etiology of HAGMA remains unclear, additional testing can be required to diagnose rare causes of HAGMA. 3. Rare causes of HAGMA are diethylene glycol, 5-oxoproline, and d-lactate accumulation. 4. Acidosis secondary to 5-oxoproline accumulation can occur even with "therapeutic" doses of acetaminophen in patients receiving it regularly for a prolonged period and who have depleted glutathione stores. 5. Risk factors for glutathione depletion include malnutrition, older age, sepsis, pregnancy, multiple chronic illnesses, and chronic kidney disease.


Objective To evaluate the effect of the WHO West Pacific Region tuberculosis control demonstration project carried out in Yancheng city.Methods To compare and analyze the TB control datum of the demonstration at counties and the non-demonstrational counties,according to the chief evaluation and assessment of the tuberculosis control model project.Results The annual smear-positive new register rate and the annual new smear-positive new register rate in demonstrational counties are 2.6 times and 2.2 times more than those of the other.The whole therapeutic term cure rate of the new smear-positive case is 7.2 percent higher than that of non-demonstrational counties.The average cure and management expense on every new smear-positive case and the average cure expense on every new smear-positive case are $ 83.5 and $120.4 lower than those of non-demonstrational counties.Conclusion The short-course intermittent chemical therapy and the whole-course direct supervision are not only based on"the low cost,the high effect"but also the key to realize"the high case-finding rate,the high cure rate.


For scheduling problems, no-wait constraint is an important requirement for many industries. As known, the no-wait scheduling problem is NP-hard and has several practical applications. This paper applies an immune algorithm to solve the multiple-machine no-wait flow shop scheduling problem with minimizing the makespan. Twenty-three benchmark problems on the OR-Library are solved by the immune algorithm. Limited numerical results show that the immune algorithm performs better than the other typical approaches in the literature for most of instances.


As old as our civilization is, no one has yet reduced the methods of raising revenue to an exact science, or found a formula that is satisfactory to all. The operating expenses and administration of government cost annually about 7^ billions of dollars. Divided roughly, the cost of Federal Government is billion and of state, county and municipal government 4 billion. To pay this cost of government means the labor of 5,000,000 men employed at $5 per day, working 300 days each a year. In Illinois we are today functioning under the revenue provisions of the state constitution adopted in 1870, fifty-four years ago, and it is well to consider the changes in the conditions for the last fifty years. In 1870 the total tangible wealth of the state was $1,697,000,000; in 1922, $22,232,000,000. This represents only the value of real estate, and of the more tangible forms of personal property, such as live stock, household goods, motor cars, merchandise stocks, etc., and takes no account of the intangible wealth. Figures are not available for the total value of all


The risk of fractures associated with low bone-mineral density (BMD) has been the subject of study in different pediatric populations. In Cerebral Palsy (CP), immobility, nutritional deficiencies and chronic use of anti-convulsants appear to justify inadequate acquisition of bone mass during childhood and, consequently, an increased risk of fractures. The purpose of the study was to assess BMD and the factors that could be related to the development of osteoporosis in children with spastic CP. For this purpose, the clinical and nutritional history were investigated, the anthropometric data and BMD were assessed using DEXA (dual energy X-ray absorptiometry) of 42 children (28 boys and 24 girls aged 5 to 18.8 years. BMD was reduced in 78.6% of the sample and the risk of fractures related to 54.7%. Absence of ambulation was the factor most highly associated to low BMD in this sample (p=0.005), followed by nutritional involvement.


Network Tomography (or network monitoring) uses end-to-end measurements to characterize the network, such as estimating the network topology and localizing random or adversarial glitches. Under the setting that all nodes in the network perform random linear network coding, this work provides a comprehensive study of passive network tomography in the presence of network failures, in particular adversarial/random errors and adversarial/random erasures. Our results are categorized into two classes: 1. Topology Estimation. In the presence of both adversarial/random failures, we prove it is both necessary and sufficient for all nodes in the network to share common randomness, i.e., the receiver knows the random code-books of other nodes. Without such common randomness, we prove that in the presence of adversarial or random failures it is either theoretically impossible or computationally intractable to estimate topology accurately. With common randomness, we present the first set of algorithms for characterizing topology exactly. Our algorithms for topology estimation in the presence of random errors/erasures have polynomial-time complexity. 2. Failure Localization. Given the topology, we present the first polynomial time algorithms to localize random errors and adversarial erasures. For the problem of locating adversarial errors, we prove that it is intractable.


A study was conducted in groundnut to estimate the magnitude of heterosis for eleven yield contributing characters. Fifteen F 1 s were developed by utilizing eight diverse parents, 3 lines and 5 testers in Line x Testers mating design during Kharif 2015. Analysis of variance showed significant differences among the parents and hybrids for all the characters indicating presence of genetic variability. Large numbers of heterotic crosses were observed in most of the characters. The maximum positive standard heterosis for dry pod yield plant -1 over best check TKG Bold was observed in RTNG 53 X ICG 2630 (98.70 %) followed by RTNG 53 X KDG 171 (91.59%) and RTNG 53 X Konkan Gaurav (84.08 %). The range of heterosis for dry pod yield plant -1 was 9.72 to 131.80 per cent. Estimates of heterobeltiosis and standard heterosis for pod yield plant -1 were highly significant and positive in all hybrids over BP, SC-I and SC-II. The manifestation of heterosis for pod yield by best three crosses, also showed negative heterotic effects for days to 50% flowering, plant height, days to maturity, and positive heterotic effects for number of primary branches plant -1 , number of pods plant -1 , number of kernels pod -1 , dry haulm yield plant -1 , 100 kernel weight and sound mature kernels. From the present investigation, on the basis of economic heterosis it can be concluded that the heterosis breeding could be advantageous for the improvement of groundnut genotypes for dry pod yield and its contributing characters.


Today's technology entrepreneurs ushered in unprecedented opportunities for development,but because of the relatively underdeveloped venture capital,technology start-ups early in the development of enterprises are facing "mutually exclusive decision-making" situation and the new mode selection,and the entrepreneurial environment is to be improved;Even in the case of adequate capital supply,the spatial distribution of entrepreneurial activity is uneven,some the technical entrepreneurs in certain region cannot get corresponding resources.so it is necessary to strengthen the study of technological entrepreneurial environment index to prevent the construction of technological entrepreneurial environment going astray.


In this paper we present results from two pilot studies which show that using the Amazon Mechanical Turk for preposition error annotation is as effective as using trained raters, but at a fraction of the time and cost. Based on these results, we propose a new evaluation method which makes it feasible to compare two error detection systems tested on different learner data sets.


In this paper, the effect of high-energy electron irradiation on the transitional and electromechanical responses of PVDF-TRFE/PMMA (poly (vinylidene nuoride-trinuoroethylene)/polymethylmethacrylate) blend films is investigated in the light of a recent finding of large electrostrictive strain and high electromechanical response of PVDF-TXFE copolymer films after high-energy electron irradiation. Due to the decrease in crystallinity, both the dielectric and polarization responses were found to decrease with PMMA content. Interestingly, the presence of PMMA is found to affect the crystal-amorphous interface properties strongly in irradiated polyblend films. The field-induced strain which could be due to electrostriction and Maxwell stress for a blend system is found to come mainly from electrostriction. At room temperature, the contribution to the total strain from the Maxwell stress is found to be <20% while this contribution increases markedly with increasing temperature, especially for 7 %wt PMMA polyblend films.


The world has undergone rapid and tremendous change in the last couple of decades, much of it attributed to some facet of globalization. We have witnessed the collapse of the Soviet Union; conflict and civil wars in many developing nations; the rapid economic progress of many countries in Asia, most significantly China and India; ongoing economic and social decline in sub-Saharan Africa; increased economic uncertainty in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean; and stagnation in many parts of the Pacific. Developed countries have not remained immune to the same global forces. While they have achieved ever higher per capita incomes, and higher well-being according to traditional measures, they have also experienced profound internal change, causing widespread concerns regarding, inter alia, social exclusion, human security, levels of personal satisfaction, and happiness. Thus everywhere we look seems to accord with the view of a global environment that is more dynamic and diverse, and, arguably, more volatile and uncertain. Social science research on living standards, human well-being and quality of life has altered in response to the changing global conditions, new research priorities and improved data resources. Two decades ago, for example, a comparison of living standards across countries was typically accomplished using figures on average incomes converted into U.S. dollars using market exchange rates. Nowadays, a similar exercise would almost certainly take account of variations in purchasing power parity (PPP) between countries, and would also be likely to recognize two other important factors: the non-income dimensions of well-being that contribute to quality of life, and population heterogeneity, which casts doubt on the reliability and relevance of data on average income. The increased recognition of population heterogeneity is reflected in the attention given to the distribution of income and expenditure, both within and among countries. There is now much more information on levels and trends in income inequality, prompted in part by the availability of more comprehensive and reliable data sets, and by greater comparability in national and sub-national


In this chapter, an innovative model for age replacement is proposed. The costs included in the age replacement model are not assumed to be constants. For effective optimization of statistical decisions for age replacement problems under parametric uncertainty, based on a past random sample of lifetimes, the pivotal quantity averaging (PQA) approach is suggested. The PQA approach represents a simple and computationally attractive statistical technique. In this case, the transition from the original problem to the equivalent transformed problem (in terms of pivotal quantities and ancillary factors) is carried out via invariant embedding a sample statistic in the original problem. The approach allows one to eliminate unknown parameters from the problem and to find the better decision rules, which have smaller risk than any of the well-known decision rules. Unlike the Bayesian approach, the proposed approach is independent of the choice of priors. For illustration, numerical examples are given.


Batupanga Village is one of the largest cocoa contributor areas in Polewali Mandar, West Sulawesi. But in recent years many cocoa farmers have chosen to turn their cocoa fields into rice fields. One of the government's free rice field printing programs encourages farmers to join the program. Changes in livelihoods are closely related to changes in economic aspects. Changes in economic aspects will also affect the social condition of the community, so that the switch of agricultural land also has an impact on the socioeconomic aspects of the community, especially farmers. This research aims to know what factors influence cocoa farmers in transferting their land from cocoa land to rice fields. Data analysis techniques used are descriptive analysis. The results of this study are factors that influence farmers in converting cocoa land into rice fields in Batupanga Village, Luyo District is an economic factor (production, income), ecology (land area, environmental degradation), technical (water sources, alsintan), and social (number of family dependents, interaction).


A new integration method drastically improves the efficiency of the dark matter direct detection calculation. In this work I introduce a complete, orthogonal basis of spherical wavelet-harmonic functions, designed for the new vector space integration method. This factorizes the numeric calculation into a part that depends only on the astrophysical velocity distribution; a second part, depending only on the detector form factor; and a scattering matrix defined on the basis functions, which depends on the details of the dark matter (DM) particle model (e.g. its mass). For common spin-independent DM-Standard Model interactions, this scattering matrix can be evaluated analytically in the wavelet-harmonic basis. This factorization is particularly helpful for the more complicated analyses that have become necessary in recent years, especially those involving anisotropic detector materials or more realistic models of the local DM velocity distribution. With the new method, analyses studying large numbers of detector orientations and DM particle models can be performed about 10 million times faster. This paper derives several analytic results for the spherical wavelets, including an extrapolation in the space of wavelet coefficients, and a generalization of the vector space method to a much broader class of linear functional integrals. Both results are highly relevant outside the field of DM direct detection.


Robust vessel segmentation of fundus images is of great interest for better diagnosis of many diseases like diabetic retinopathy, retinopathy of prematurity, vein occlusions and so on. In this paper, we propose a novel example-based vessel segmentation method, based on learning the mapping relationship between fundus images and their corresponding ground truths. Firstly, the training images and their corresponding ground truths are divided into patches and clustered. Secondly, the mapping functions for each cluster are computed in a simple and efficient way from the training patches to their manual segmentation patches. Finally, Vessel segmentation are reconstructed by the simple mapping functions. Experimental results show that our method is efficient and can achieve competitive performance for vessel segmentation problems.


This article introduced the basic information and arrangement in order of Ph.Int 4th edition and compared the differences between International Pharmacopoeia 4th and third edition


Background  Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is an accepted treatment for superficial basal cel carcinoma (sBCC) and Bowens disease. In Rotterdam, extensive preclinical research has lead to an optimized twofold illumination scheme for aminolevulinic acid–PDT (ALA‐PDT).


The moose population in the Murmansk region has changed considerably in the past century. Moose appeared in the forest-tundra zones in the 1950s, occupied the Ponoy River area in the 1960-1970s, and population growth occurred to the north of the forest zone along the tributaries and rivers flowing into the Barents Sea. Some wintered in open tundra, but more commonly moose migrated between tundra and forested winter habitat. Official harvests began in the 1950s and were managed by Murmanskiy, a state owned company. A 5-year harvest ban was initiated in 1982 to recover the population; however, current harvest remains about a third of previous levels and the proportional harvest of calves and yearlings is higher. The current population is in good condition based upon weight and productivity data, occupies suitable winter habitat, and is not impacted by severe winter conditions. Because the Murmansk region is at the northern extent of moose range, management should focus upon regulated harvests, adequate population surveys, seasonal habitats and migratory corridors, the impact of harvest quotas and poaching, and the possible influence of global warming.


SolFocus has been operating a 1 MW CPV site at Victor Valley College in the southern Mojave Desert of California for over 21 months. Data gathered from site monitoring equipment as well as from nearby weather stations has enabled a detailed analysis of energy production and an in-depth evaluation of our energy prediction model. This paper reviews the results of this analysis, and presents our detailed findings on the relationships between energy production and several environmental factors such as wind speed and humidity.


Thermoelectric currents in Josephson junctions are tunable by the superconducting phase dif-ference φ across junctions. We show that the phase-dependent thermoelectric effect is achievable in short Josephson junctions with two normal metal leads attached at opposite ends, formed at helical edge states of two-dimensional topological insulators (TIs). For all finite phases, an asymmetry appears around the zero energy in the transmission spectra except for φ = nφ 0 , where n is an half-integer and φ 0 is the flux quantum. This asymmetry plays a key role in inducing the charge and heat current through the thermally biased junction. The finite-size topological junction hosts topological Andreev bound states, tunable by the phase, which mediate the current through the junction. However, the current amplitudes are sensitive to the junction size. The optimization condition for a good thermoelectric junction is achieved when the superconductors are of the order of coherence length. The present work demonstrates that TI-based short Josephson junctions are promising systems for superconductor-based phase-dependent thermoelectricity.


In the known field of topological photonics, what remains less so is the breakdown effect of topological phases deteriorated by perturbation. In this study, the authors investigate the variance on topological invariants for a periodic Kekulé medium perturbed in unit cells, which was a gyromagnetic photonic crystal holding topological phases induced by synchronised rotation of unit cells. Two parameters for geometric and material perturbation are respectively benchmarked to characterise the topological degradation. Our calculation demonstrates that such a periodic perturbation easily destructs the topological phase and thus calls for further checkups on robustness under such unit‐cell‐perturbation in realisation.


A set of compact microwave radiometers are under development for tropospheric sounding and imaging, as a part of the Compact High Altitude Imager and Sounding Radiometer (CHAISR) that operates in lower stratosphere. It aims to observe vertical temperature profiles and column-averaged water vapour for entire troposphere where most weather system takes place. Given total weight (4 kg) and power (50 W) constraints for the CHAISR are not the only challenges. The CHAISR requires nominal operation in thermal range between -75 and +43 °C up to 50 hPa. Along with optical cameras and in situ sensors in the CHASIR, microwave radiometers are to fit in 130 mm diameter and 290 mm length with total weight less than 1.5 kg for conical scan unit. Maximum power consumption of less than 15 W does not allow conventional internal blackbody calibration facility onboard, and alternative methods has been developed. Frequency ranges of three radiometer bands are ~20, ~40, and ~55 GHz, with 16 total channels. This MMIC based compact radiometers use quasi-correlation design for continuous observation for both reference and scene. Numerical simulation of the radiometer design shows less than 1 °K of RMSE is expected. Manufacture of the CHAISR is expect to be first quarter of 2017 and test flight is planned in summer of the same year.


Introduction. According to the State Program for the Development of Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan for 2020-2025, the provision of doctors in cities is 56.8 per 10 thousand of the population, and 16.1 per 10 thousand of the population in rural areas. Eighty-three percent of all doctors in the country work in urban areas and only 17% in rural areas. The problem of the provision of human resources remains relevant and not fully resolved. To this end, we have conducted a literature review of the available sources to better understand how this problem is being addressed in other countries of the world. The aim of the research is to study the experience of the development of rural medicine in the developed countries of the world. Search strategy. We studied publicly available articles over 30 years using the following databases of scientific publications and specialized search engines: PubMed, Google Scholar, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, Scopus. Information search was carried out by keywords: rural medicine, telemedicine, COVID-19. Inclusion criteria: Publication level of evidence A, B: meta-analyzes, systematic reviews, cohort and cross-sectional studies. Exclusion criteria: expert opinion in the form of short messages, promotional articles. Results. Analysis of international and domestic experience in the development of rural medicine notes a shortage of personnel, including family doctors in rural areas. Mentoring and organization of the educational process in the workplace play an important role in the professional development of a rural specialist. Proper organization of primary health care with elements of distance medicine reduces health care costs and improves public health indicators. Conclusion. In the era of digitalization, the development of family medicine in rural areas can receive an additional impetus due to the use of modern technologies, which should be provided to every medical institution in the countryside.


This paper presents a design and simulation study of a common-gate with common-source active balun circuit implemented in a standard 90-nm complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process.  The active balun design is intended for worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) application, with operating frequency of 5.8 GHz and supply voltage of 1 V.  Measurements are taken for parameters namely gain difference, phase difference, and noise figure.  The common-source active balun design achieved a minimal gain difference of  0.04 dB, phase difference of 180 ± 1.5 degrees, and noise figure of 8.76 dB, which are comparable to past active balun designs and researches.  The design eventually achieved a low power consumption of 4.45 mW.


A method of Feynman diagrams summation, based on using Schwinger-Dyson equations and Ward identities, is verified by calculating some four-loop diagrams in N = 1 supersymmetric electrodynamics, regularized by higher derivatives. In particular, for the considered diagrams correctness of an additional identity for Green functions, which is not reduced to the gauge Ward identity, is proved.


This dissertation examines the interaction between various musical works of the Second World War and various musical approaches; it is composed of a first part that exposes the possibilities of a musical reception and a second part in which various works are understood. Following the extension of Adorno's and Dahlhaus' propositions, various linguistic conceptions are identified. Three micrologies are then introduced in connection with these linguistic positionings. The first one concentrates on Nono and Huber. The second is dedicated to Boulez, in particular to the Pli selon pli cycle and its fourth part, the Improvisation Illon Mallarme. In the third, Dalbavie, Dufourt, Grisey, Holliger, Lachenmann and Ligeti's musical works are discussed. Modern music does not only mediatise a subject that is battling with history, but also the musical unfolding itself. It is then necessary to confront the musical approach to the very dynamics of musical works, in order to restore to them relevance.


Study Objective. As the results of the Heart Outcomes Prevention Evaluation trial suggested that patients with both coronary artery disease (CAD) and diabetes mellitus would benefit from angiotensin‐converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor therapy, our objective was to increase the percentage of patients with both of these conditions receiving the goal dosage (20 mg/day) or highest tolerated dosage of the ACE inhibitor lisinopril through intervention of a clinical pharmacy service.


The purpose of this study was to investigate the bonding of resin- based root canal sealer, AH26 when the sealer was applied as a thin layer between dentine and gutta-percha surface. In this study forty non-caries extracted human molars and resin-based root canal sealer(AH 26, DeTrey/Dentsply, Germany) were used. Disks of gutta-percha, 6mm in diameter.6mm thick (Diadent/Dentsply, Korea) for thermoplastic obturation were used and dentin surfaces were treated with 2% NaOCl(Group 1) or 2%NaOCl+17% EDTA(Group 3). Disks of gutta-Percha, 6mm in diameter.6mm thick (Diadent/Dentsply, Korea) for conventional obturation were used and dentin surface were treated with 2% NaOCl(Group 2) or 2%NaOCl+17% EDTA(Group 4). Enamel was removed by a horizontal section 1mm below the deepest portion of the central occlusal groove by using a watercooled low speed diamond saw. A second horizontal section was done around cementoenamel junction. Exposed dentin surface was cut to approximately rectangular shape and was ground against 320, 400, 600 grade silicon carbide abrasive paper serially. After grinding, the dentine surface were soaked in a solution of 2% NaOCl for 30 minutes and twenty of specimens were treated with 17% EDTA solution for 1 minute. The treated specimens were washed and dried, Root canal sealer, AH26 was prepared according to the manufacture's instructions The Gutta-percha and dentin surface were coated with a thin layer of the freshly mixed seal or. The specimens were left overnight at room temperature. After their initial set, they were transferred to an incubator at for 72 h. After 72 hours, resin blocks were made. The resin block was serially sectioned vertically into stick of . Twenty sticks were prepared from each group. After that, tensile bond strength f3r each stick was measured with Microtensile Tester Failure patterns of the specimens at the interface between gutta-percha and dentin were observed under the SEM(x1000) and Stereomicroscope (LEICA M42O, Meyer Inst., TX U.S.A) at 1.25 x25 magnification. The results were statistically analysed by using a One-way ANOVA and Tukey's test. The results were as follows; 1. Tensile bond strengths() were expressed with ascending order as follows: Group 1, 1.05Mpa : Group 2, : Group 3, : Group 4, . 2. Tensile bond strengths of the group 2 and 4 used disks of gutta-percha for conventional obturation were significantly higher than that of the group 1 and 3 used fir thermoplastic obturation. (p


Persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn is a critical illness in neonatal period.Rational treatments are based on the correct diagnosis and differential diagnosis. In this paper, the clinical manifestations and diagnosis of persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn, the relationship between the relevant clinical diagnostic procedures, auxiliary examination method and the common need to identify the disease are described, with emphasis on Echocardiographic diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension.

Key words:
Pulmonary hypertension;  Diagnosis;  Differential diagnosis;  Doppler echocardiography; Infant, newborn


Aim: The aim of the present study is to evaluate the phytochemical screening of mango, grapefruit and strawberry juice using HPLC and to investigate the antidiabetic and antioxidant effects of grapefruit, mango and strawberry juice in streptozotocin – induced diabetic rats Methodology: Mango, grapefruit and strawberry juice were orally administered at a dose of 1ml/100g body weight/day to streptozotocin induced diabetic rats for four weeks. Blood samples were collected for analysis of Serum triglycerides (TAG), glucose, Insulin, total lipid (TL), total cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoprotein (LDL) and high-density lipoprotein (HDL) in diabetic rats Original Research Article Faid et al.; JALSI, 11(2): 1-13, 2017; Article no.JALSI.31960 2 compared with control negative rats and diabetic rats fed on different fruit juice. Results: The results showed that mango has the highest levels of protein, crude fiber, ash content and total carbohydrates (0.82, 0.72, 0.51 and 9.61 g/100g fresh weight) followed by strawberry (0.50, 0.35, 0.27 and 8.95 g/100g fresh weight) and grapefruit was 0.40, 0.25, 0.19 and 8.76 g/100g fresh weight, respectively. There was no significant difference the pH at 20 oC, titratable acidity (TA) g/L, total soluble solids (TSS Brix), Vit. C. mg/100g and density g/cm (at 20oC) between different fruit juices. Results also revealed that all fruit juices had rich content of the polyphenols and the results also illustrated that the mango, grapefruit, and strawberry juice oral adminstration decreased serum triglycerides (TAG), serum glucose, serum insulin, total lipid (TL), total cholesterol (TC), lowdensity lipoprotein (LDL) and MDA in diabetic rats. On the other hand, oral administration of fruit juices significantly increased serum HDLcholesterol and modified oxidative stress. Conclusion: From the obvious results, we can conclude that the grapefruit, mango, and strawberry juice have a strong antioxidant and hypolipidemic effects which might be attributed to their high polyphenols and flavonoid content.


The techniques of Fenton oxidation,flocculation,adsorption and distillation were combined for the treatment of methomyl wastewater.The removal rate of COD was above 95%,and the water thus obtained was colorless and available for recycle use.The effects of different adsorbents and the conditions of Fenton reaction such as the dosage of the Fenton reagent and the primary pH value of the water were investigated and optimized.


We systematically investigate the optical analogs of quantum relativistic Jackiw-Rebbi states in binary waveguide arrays in the presence of Kerr nonlinearity with both self-focusing and self-defocusing cases. The localized profiles of these nonlinear Jackiw-Rebbi states can be calculated exactly by using the shooting method. We show that these nonlinear Jackiw-Rebbi states have a very interesting feature which is totally different from all other well-known nonlinear localized structures, including optical solitons. Namely, the profiles of nonlinear JR states with higher peak amplitudes can totally envelope the ones with lower peak amplitudes. We demonstrate that media with the positive nonlinear coefficient can support stable Jackiw-Rebbi states for a wide range of peak amplitudes, whereas media with the negative nonlinear coefficient are only able to support Jackiw-Rebbi states with low peak amplitudes. A general rule for the detuning of nonlinear Jackiw-Rebbi states in binary waveguide arrays is found.


Symptomatic subtalar arthrosis after ankle fusion is not uncommon. If conservative treatments such as injections or bracing fail, a successful subtalar arthrodesis can provide predictably good results. However, achieving a successful subtalar fusion with a rigidly fused ankle is a technical challenge. In some cases, the position of the ankle fusion may be suboptimal with the most common malposition being ankle equinus. Subtalar arthrodesis with a talar neck osteotomy allows for reliable bone-on-bone apposition in the subtalar joint. Advantages of this technique include the degree of compression that can be obtained across the subtalar joint, without bone grafting, and the amount of both sagittal and coronal plane malalignment that can be corrected. The purpose of this paper is to describe the operative technique of subtalar compression arthrodesis with talar neck osteotomy. Level of Evidence: Diagnostic Level 4. See Instructions for Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence.


When Emperor Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum-Li Shan Yuan has opened to the public,the manager is confronted with all aspects of the managing stresses.The arts and heritage management will be influenced by safety factors.Therefore,this article is a real case study from Qin Shihuang Tomb cultural heritage,and it divides the safety factors into three parts: heritage site measurement,ruins measurement and cultural relics measurement.As the starting point of these three measurements,the article has analyzed the security monitoring,ruins scene,climatic environment,human activities and so on.Based onthese,the article puts forward its own opinions on the diffusion of the value of cultural relics.


The purpose of this study is to present a bibliometric analysis of the efforts for mother tongue education before and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Unlike other studies in the literature, this study compares the publications made before and after the pandemic. The data set were created via searching the keywords "mother tongue education", "teaching mother tongue", "first language education", and "teaching first language". As a result of the search, 90 articles before the pandemic and 19 articles after the pandemic were identified in the Web of Science (WoS) database. The articles were evaluated in terms of inter-country collaboration and keyword networks. Visualizations were obtained using the VOSviewer program. The results revealed that there was a greater emphasis on mother tongue education and literacy before the pandemic. South Africa was found to be the leading country among the countries studied. After the pandemic, the focus shifted towards cognitive linguistics, discussion, artistic creativity, communication, competence, educational tasks, and independent thinking. South Africa and Turkey were found to be the leading countries among the countries studied.


Effect of lactic acid bacteria(LAB) on quality of whole-plant corn silage was studied by the experimentat of ferment.Sensory assessment was performed when the silage ripened after 30 days.The results showed the quality of treatments with LAB was better than the control.The feed trial proved that corn silage treated with LAB compared to untreated corn silage can increase the milk yield,simultaneously increasing the milk protein and total non-fat solids content of milk significantly(p0.05),however,it didn't have any effect on the content of milk fat.


We present a new method for the fabrication of a 3-dimensional hierarchical aligned porous scaffold by a combined ice-segregation-induced self-assembly and thermally triggered electrostatic self-assembly method. The oppositely charged thermosensitive microgels were used as the building blocks of the scaffold. The porous structure can be controlled by adjusting both the directional freezing conditions and microgel components. The scaffold thus prepared may survive in a physiological environment (37 °C in water) and has great potential in biomedical applications such as tissue engineering.


Aim: Tranilast is an anti‐allergic compound suppressing transforming growth factor‐beta 1 (TGF‐β1) induced fibrosis. This study evaluated the efficacy of tranilast to attenuate renal fibrosis induced by unilateral ureteral obstruction (UUO) in rats in relation to epithelial‐mesenchymal transition (EMT) and peritubular capillary injury. Methods: Rats were divided into four groups: UUO with vehicle or tranilast and sham operation with vehicle or tranilast. Tranilast (400 mg/kg/day) was administrated to rats for 7 and 14 days after UUO. Results: Fibrosis and tubular injuries were attenuated in UUO kidneys with tranilast (Tr‐UUO kidneys) compared with UUO kidneys with vehicle (V‐UUO kidneys). Decreased E‐cadherin and increased vimentin expression in the tubular epithelium and Snail expression in V‐UUO kidneys were also attenuated in Tr‐UUO kidneys in which heparan sulfate proteoglycan in the tubular basement membrane was preserved and matrix metalloproteinase‐2 expression was attenuated. Increased TGF‐β1 and phospho‐Smad2 expression and increased numbers of myofibroblasts and macrophages in V‐UUO kidneys were attenuated by tranilast. Decreased VE‐cadherin expression and cytoplasmic swelling of the endothelium of peritubular capillaries that occurred in V‐UUO kidneys was prevented by tranilast. Conclusions: Tranilast modulates fibrogenesis by reducing EMT, preventing disintegration of the tubular basement membrane, and reducing peritubular capillary injury in UUO kidneys.


Abstract Genetic differentiation in the New Zealand sea urchin Evechinus chloroticus (Valenciennes) was studied by examining individuals collected from six widely separated (250–2200 km apart) sites from around New Zealand for genetic variation at five polymorphic enzyme loci. Despite the large geographic separations, values of Nei's unbiased genetic distance, D (0–0.019) and standardised genetic variation among populations, FST (0.01–0.02) were small. This indicates high levels of gene flow among populations. However, one population sampled in a fiord in south‐western New Zealand was genetically differentiated from the others, although the scale of differentiation was not large (D = 0.011–0.019). These findings indicate: (1) that the long‐lived planktotrophic larva of E. chloroticus provides this species with considerable dispersal ability throughout its range; and (2) that this is little affected by oceanographic features peculiar to its range, such as the Subtropical Convergence or the southward flowin...


Abstract The non-linear dynamics of a multimodal flexible rotor running in an unsupported squeeze-film damper (SFD) bearing are investigated analytically and experimentally. The main aim is to assess the ability to predict and explain the non-linear performance using an integrated analytical technique and a standard model for the SFD. A fast harmonic balance method that uses receptance functions is used to determine periodic solutions. A modal-based approach is used for the analysis of the stability and bifurcation of these solutions, as well as the analysis of aperiodic motion. Non-synchronous motion with combination frequencies and subharmonic motions are correctly predicted. It is also shown that such an SFD introduces subcritical superharmonic resonance when it is apparently inactive. It is concluded that, despite the economy in design, the benefits of using an unsupported SFD in a flexible rotor-rigid bearing housing system are dubious.


Melanin is a natural pigment of skin and hair, which provides a protective function against sunlight. The non-removal of pigments from the skin gives the finished leather a patchy appearance. As the leather industry is undergoing a paradigm shift towards bioprocessing, enzyme based dehairing and fiber opening are becoming ecologically important. However, the enzymatic dehairing and fiber opening of buffalo calfskins results in non-removal of pigments. In this study, an attempt has been made to remove the pigments from buffalo calfskins using xylanase. Xylanase is a hydrolase, which is generally used for bleaching of wood and pulps. The presence of melanin in enzymatically dehaired buffalo calfskins was identified through UV-visible spectral analysis. Preliminary trials have been carried out for removing melanin with various concentrations of xylanase in enzymatic dehairing and fiber opening. Addition of xylanase provides complete removal of melanin during enzymatic dehairing as well as fiber opening. Semi-technical trials have been performed by employing xylanase during enzymatic dehairing and fiber opening individually. The removal of melanin was found to be 100%. The performance characteristics of the resulted leathers have been analyzed and found satisfactory.


This publication contains 19 papers from a conference of the German Society for Demography held in Bad Homburg West Germany in 1989. The papers focus on demographic changes in family formation and employment particularly female employment. Sections are included on the methodological basis of demographic microanalysis womens risks and family decisions household production and networks and social and employment policy options. (ANNOTATION)


The following paper illustrates the technological principle and application sphere of moving beam with land boat,carries out economic and technical comparison between two schemes,moving beam with land boat and with crane,taking the movement of prefabricated hollow beam of Baishihe bridge in Tai-Qi expressway as an example,and shows that moving beam with land boat is more superior in economy,schedule and safety,in order to promote the application of the construction technology of moving beam with land boat.


The interactions between three or more variables are frequently nontrivial, poorly understood, and yet, are paramount for future advances in fields such as multiuser information theory, neuroscience, and genetics. We introduce a novel framework that characterizes the ways in which random variables can share information, based on the notion of information synergy. The framework is then applied to several network information theory problems, providing a more intuitive understanding of their fundamental limits.


The intention of this article is to analyse the intertextual influence between the American writer Lydia Davis and the French philosopher and critic Maurice Blanchot. This literary dialogue occurs as a result of Davis' experience translating Blanchot's most relevant critical
 and fictional texts. Davis' role as a translator influenced her short fiction in which she discusses the limits of the literary space and therefore constantly challenges the genre as a way of fictionalizing Blanchot's literary theory.


Frans Maurits Jaeger: a chemist as a historian F.M. Jaeger (1877-1945) worked from 1908 till his death as a professor in non-organic chemistry at the Groningen university. In the period around 1918 he showed a great interest in the history of chemistry. This resulted in a number of publications on this subject, which show all the characteristics of Jaeger's approach to science. He was a positivist scientist, who stressed the importance of experimentation. He used the important developments in contemporary chemistry, especially the theory of atomic structure and the elements, to assess the merits of past chemists. Although he claimed to rate every historical period at its true value, he was in fact exalting the chemistry of his own time.


The model-driven engineering paradigm is a paradigm that combines the power of concepts and its relations, using abstracts models in order to offer suitable mechanisms for software development. In fact, software engineering community has applied MDE in different contexts of software engineering, getting suitable results. Despite these mechanisms, both global coordination and effective management of big software projects are not always easy task. Lack in communication lines, configuration plan execution and risky management are activities that have been executed by development teams in order to assure the quality of results, an essential point for a project to succeed. The paper's aim is to present an approach based on the NDT methodology in order to solve these problems pulsar and how it has been applied in a real project called CALIPSOneo.


As populations increase, especially in urban areas, the number of people affected by natural hazards is growing, as many regions of the world subject to multiple hazards. Although the volume of geophysical, sociological and economic knowledge is expanding, so are the losses from natural catastrophes. The slow transfer of appropriate knowledge from theory to practice may be due to the difficulties inherent in the communication process from science to policy-making, including perceptions by stakeholders from disaster mitigation practice regarding the usability of any developed tools. As scientific evidence shows, decision-makers are faced with the challenge of not only mitigating against single hazards and risks, but also multiple risks, which must include the consideration of their interrelations. As the multi-hazard and risk concept is a relatively young area of natural risk governance, there are only a few multi-risk models and the experience of practitioners as to how to use these models is limited. To our knowledge, scientific literature on stakeholders' perceptions of multi-risk models is lacking. In this document, we identify the perceptions of two decision-making tools, which involve multi-hazard and multi-risk. The first one is a generic, multi-risk framework based on the sequential Monte Carlo method to allow for a straightforward and flexible implementation of hazard interactions which may occur in a complex system. The second is a decision-making tool that integrates directly input from stakeholders by attributing weights to different components and constructing risk ratings. Based on the feedback from stakeholders, we found that interest in multi-risk assessment is high, but that its application remains hampered by the complexity of the processes involved.


Internal Rating-Based Approach(IRB) is the core content of the New Basel Capital Accord.Though at present China's banking industry faces many difficulties in the establishment of internal rating system,a wise choice should be choosing the suitable development pattern as early as possible to shorten the gap with the international advanced level.Through analyzing the present situation of the domestic banking industry,this article considers that IRB should be the direction of development of the credit risk measurement for China's commercial banks.In conclusion,it puts forward the pattern of IRB system construction for the banking industry of China.


Introduction

Furosemide is widely administered to Thoroughbred and Standardbred racehorses to reduce the incidence and severity of EIPH. The magnitude and duration of mineral loss following furosemide administration has not previously been measured in horses.

Methods

Six fit Thoroughbreds (age 6.8 ± 1.2 y; bwt 585 ± 19 kg) were used in a 3 x 3 Latin square design trial to measure the effect of furosemide on urinary and fecal mineral excretion for 24 h before (−24 h) and 24 h, 48 h and 72 h after a standardized exercise test (SET) on an inclined (3o) high speed treadmill. The treatment groups consisted of an untreated control (C) and two groups (F and FE) which received furosemide (0.5 mg/kg, IV) 4 h before the SET. C and F were fed 60 g/d NaCl and (FE) was fed 200 g/d of an electrolyte mix (14 g K, 37.7 g Na and 43.3 g Cl) for 21 days before the SET. Following the SET the FE group was supplemented with an additional 10 g/d Ca and 10 g/d Mg.

Results

Urinary Ca, P, Na and Cl excretion increased 24 h post treatment in the F and FE groups (P<0.05). 72 h Ca and Cl balance was decreased in F (P<0.05) and 72 h Mg and Cl balance was decreased in FE (P<0.05). The digestibility of P and Mg was decreased in FE (P<0.05) and Na digestibility was increased in F and FE (P<0.05).

Conclusions

A single dose of furosemide negatively affected calcium balance in horses for 72 h post administration. Further research is needed to assess the effect of chronic furosemide use in racehorses on mineral balance and soundness.

Ethical Animal Research

Study approved by the Kentucky Equine Research Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. Sources of funding: Kentucky Equine Research. Competing interests: none.


Ability to handle uncertainty effectively is very important in almost any decision making. Weather we are uncertain about external information, accuracy of our own knowledge or possible outcomes we often avoid or oversimplify uncertainties while taking decisions, especially when there are time or resource restrains. Complex models, simulations and decision aids are not always applicable. In cases where objective probability distributions are not obtainable, Bayesian approach allows to operate with decision maker's subjective probabilities. Using strictly proper scoring rules our game will encourage players to improve their probabilistic forecasts. The game is aimed to change player's perception of uncertainty and to improve their skills in estimating, quantifying and communicating subjective probabilities and degrees of confidence. The paper will look at psychological aspects of decision making in uncertainty and its implications in the structure, design and evaluation of the game. The approach can be applied in the variety of contexts: public and business decision making, market forecasting, consumer choice research, betting and gambling, etc.


Carnap in the 1930s discovered that there were non-normal interpretations of classical logic - ones for which negation and conjunction are not truth-functional so that a statement and its negation could have the same truth value, and a disjunction of two false sentences could be true. Church argued that this did not call for a revision of classical logic. More recent writers seem to disagree. We provide a definition of "non-normal interpretation" and argue that Church was right, and in fact, the existence of non-normal interpretations tells us something important about the conditions of extensionality of the classical logical operators. 1. Carnap's Problem In the decade from the early thirties to the mid fifties, there was a brief and scattered discussion of a problem raised by B.A. Bernstein (1932), R.Carnap (1943), and A. Church (1944, 1956) of what has now been referred to referred to as ―Carnap's Problem‖. Carnap discovered the existence of what Church later called ―non-normal interpretations‖ of sentential classical logic, and first –order logic. Church's major criticism of Carnap's reformulation of sentential logic was that it essentially incorporated semantical assumptions into what was supposed to be a syntactically presented formulation of the logic. In what follows, I shall consider only sentential logics. Roughly speaking Carnap took interpretations to be truth-value assignments (He called them ―interpretations.‖) which assigned truth to all theorems, and which respected deducibility—that is, if some collection of sentences is true under an interpretation , then any sentence deducible from those sentences is also true under . What Carnap discovered was that there were interpretations of the classical sentential calculus which assigned the same truth value to statements as well as


The nutritive and medical value of loach are very high, it is very popular at home and abroad, especially demand of fresh loach exceeds supply. Under the condition of artificial rearing, some main conditions and technical measures for the high production and high efficiency culture of loach are obtained.


Prednisolone causes hyperglycaemia predominantly between midday and midnight. Consequently, glargine‐based basal‐bolus insulin regimens may under treat daytime hyperglycaemia and cause nocturnal hypoglycaemia. We investigated whether an isophane‐based insulin regimen is safer and more effective than a glargine‐based regimen in hospitalized patients.


The contents and components of polyamines(PAs)in plant source foods were analyzed with the different esculent parts of the representative plants of grains,herbs,fruits and vegetables.The results showed that the flower,seed and stem apex of plants had relatively abundant PAs,such as pear,Chinese gooseberry,fig,tomato,green pepper and pea.On the contrary,the PAs contents in some cucurbits and leaf vegetables were at a lower level.


In an effort to better understand the initial mechanism of selectivity and membrane association of the synthetic antimicrobial peptide NK‐2, we have applied molecular dynamics simulation techniques to elucidate the interaction of the peptide with the membrane interfaces. A homogeneous dipalmitoylphosphatidylglycerol (DPPG) and a homogeneous dipalmitoylphosphatidylethanolamine (DPPE) bilayers were taken as model systems for the cytoplasmic bacterial and human erythrocyte membranes, respectively. The results of our simulations on DPPG and DPPE model membranes in the gel phase show that the binding of the peptide, which is considerably stronger for the negatively charged DPPG lipid bilayer than for the zwitterionic DPPE, is mostly governed by electrostatic interactions between negatively charged residues in the membrane and positively charged residues in the peptide. In addition, a characteristic distribution of positively charged residues along the helix facilitates a peptide orientation parallel to the membrane interface. Once the peptides reside close to the membrane surface of DPPG with the more hydrophobic side chains embedded into the membrane interface, the peptide initially disturbs the respective bilayer integrity by a decrease of the order parameter of lipid acyl chain close to the head group region, and by a slightly decrease in bilayer thickness. We found that the peptide retains a high content of helical structure on the zwitterionic membrane‐water interface, while the loss of α‐helicity is observed within a peptide adsorbed onto negatively charged lipid membranes. Copyright © 2009 European Peptide Society and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


In this paper we propose a hybrid softwarized architecture of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) where Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Software-Defined Radio (SDR) components are integrated to form a cloud-based communication system. We analyze CPU utilization and power consumption in the OpenIreland testbed for different parameter settings and use case scenarios of this NFV architecture. The experiment results show different behaviour between SDN data plane switching and SDR in terms of CPU utilization and parallelization, which provides insights for processing aggregation and power savings when integrating them together in a cloud-based system. We then propose a power saving scheme with flexible CPU allocation that can reduce the overall power consumption of the system. Our results show that our proposed NFV architecture and its power saving scheme can save up to 20% power consumption compared to conventional scheme where SDN and SDR are separately deployed.


Vection is the illusory impression of self motion that can be obtained when an observer views a I,argescreen display containing a rotating or translating pattern. To aid in our construction of an interactive large screen interface to virtual 3D environments, we conducted studies to determine the factors which induce a sense of vection. We found that having a foreground frame and a stereo display increased vection. If subjects moved when the display was being observed then vection decreased. However, if the perspective was coupled to their head position while they moved then vection was restored.


Background: Schizophrenia is associated with a high familial, social and economic burden. Schizophrenia is also associated with a high level of disability which may create impediments on the social and economic areas of the patients as well as on their respective family networks. Families with schizophrenia may encounter problems such as impairment of health and well being of other family members, restriction of social activities of the family members and shrinking of support from the social network. Aims: The present study examined the difference in perceived social support and burden of care between the male and female caregivers of patients with schizophrenia. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study examining the difference in perceived social support and burden of care between the male and female caregivers of patients with schizophrenia. The sample consisted of 60 (30 male and 30 female) caregivers of the patients with the diagnosis of schizophrenia as per ICD-10-DCR. Results and Conclusion: This study revealed that male caregivers perceived more social support and less burden of care as compared to female caregivers. Key words : Gender, social support, burden


Iron abundance distribution is now known for 12 clusters of galaxies. For some clusters (e.g. Centaurus) the observed abundance increases toward the cluster center, while for the others (e.g. Coma and Hydra-A) no significant inhomogeneity was observed. In order to understand this difference, we investigate the influence of cooling flow and turbulence produced by galactic motion on the iron abundance distribution by simple spherical models. We show that the cooling flow has a significant effect to flatten the iron abundance distribution if the flow velocity is sufficiently large. Further, by applying our analysis to the above clusters we show that we can give a systematic account for the observed variety of the iron abundance distribution qualitatively.


The MVC model is an advanced Web service design pattern,and it is capable to solve many problems of traditional development technologies such as the difficulty of reuse,extension,maintenance,etc.BBS(bulletin board system) is one of the most popular platform of information exchange and publish on the Internet nowadays.With the popularization of the Internet,there becomes a large quantities of forum website in different types,and their functions get more and more rich,so that the commercial websites begin to pay much attention to the utilities of forum websites,and hope to utilize the forums to achieve the objects of exchange with their users.This paper will explain the methods of applying the MVC model to the design of forum systems,which has the advantages of scalable and convenience of maintenance.


* SUBSTITUTES—by H. Bennett, Chemical Publishing Co., Inc., 234 King St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 225 pp. $4.00. OVER A PERIOD OF YEARS, the author has developed substitutes or alternatives for numerous products in diverse industrial fields. To this file has been added the suggestions of others and references from scientific and technical journals and texts. Hence this book is a concentration of the experience of many chemists, engineers, and other technical workers. &dquo;Substitutes&dquo; presents a tabulation of chemicals, metals, fibers and other commercial products with a list of alternatives whose properties are such as may qualify them as possible replacement products.


The invention discloses a method for preparing anode slurry of a lithium ion battery. The method comprises the following steps of: mixing and stirring 50 parts of N-methyl pyrrolidone and 3 parts of polyvinylidene fluoride for 120 minutes, adding 4 parts of conductive agent and stirring for 120 minutes, adding 93 parts of positive electrode materials, adding 50 parts of N-methyl pyrrolidone, stirring for 270 minutes, and filtering the slurry which is completely stirred through a 150-mesh filtering net. By adoption of the technical scheme, the method has the advantages that 1. the positive electrode material is a mixed material of lithium manganate and nickel cobalt lithium manganate; 2. the N-methyl pyrrolidone and 3 percent of polyvinylidene fluoride are mixed to prepare colloid; and 3. 4 percent of conductive agent is added for stirring, 93 percent of positive electrode material is added twice and uniformly mixing. The proportioning formula of the positive electrode material is adjusted, and the homogenizing process is improved, so that the slurry is fully dispersed, and compared with the conventional lithium manganate battery, the prepared lithium manganate battery has the obvious advantages that the capacity attenuation rate is reduced, the cycle lift is prolonged, and the cycle performance of the battery is improved.


compare any post-operative complications MATERIAL AND METHOD : Randomized, prospective single-blind clinical trial was undertaken with 60 ASA Grade I and II 2 patients aged between 18 to 30 years, BMI < 22kg/m , posted for short gynaecological procedures were divided in two groups. Group B – Patients received intrathecal 0.5% Bupivacaine 3ml. Group C - Patients received intrathecal1% preservative free 2-Chloroprocaine 3ml. Patients were observed for onset, duration of sensory and motor block. Post-operative analgesia was measured. Result : Onset of sensory block was similar with either drug but onset of motor block was faster with Bupivacaine. Duration of sensory and motor block was shorter in Chloroprocaine group. Post-operative analgesia was longer in the Bupivacaine group. Early ambulation was seen with Chloroprocaine. Conclusion : Chloroprocaine is more hemodynamically stable than Bupivacaine to be used for short gynecological day care procedures. ABSTRACT


The mechanisms controlling normal and exaggerated grain growth in lead magnesium niobate–lead titanate (PMN–PT) ceramics have been investigated by varying the PbO-based liquid-phase volume fraction from 0.03 to 0.6 and sintering temperature from 900° to 1100°C. There is a transition in matrix grain growth rate and matrix grain shape with liquid fraction; samples with liquid volume fractions less than ∼0.15 show relatively small equiaxed grains resulting from grain-to-grain impingement. Samples with higher liquid fractions show significantly larger, facetted, cube-shaped grains, whose size is independent of liquid fraction, indicating that a surface nucleation rate mechanism controls growth in this regime. Exaggerated grains were found in the high liquid fraction samples. Electron backscatter diffraction showed that all of the exaggerated grains contained 60°〈111〉 twins but none of the normal matrix grains contained twins. The reentrant angles in the twinned grains give them a growth advantage over untwinned grains, resulting in a population of exaggerated grains.


Combine photoelectric switch and programming controller technology,design an automatic counting equipment phosphorus ammunition processing system.The results show that the equipment is stable,and is easy for installation,maintenance and correct counting.It can avoid manual error counting,and can improve the work efficiency and automatic level of system effectively.


Cyclones are probably the most commonly used means of separating dust from gases, controlling pollution, collecting particulate product or recovering catalyst particles from fluidised reactors. Cyclone design maybe simple but models use to predict the cyclone pressure drops are not always accurate. An accurate prediction of cyclone pressure drop is very important because it relates directly to operating costs. This paper reviews four empirical models for prediction of cyclone pressure drop, namely Shepherd and Lapple (1939), Casal and Martinez (1983), Dirgo (1985), and Coker (1993). This paper studies and compares the pressure drop prediction models of cyclone of different velocity and temperatures. These four models were compared with experimental result conducted by Patterson and Munz (1989), and Parker et al. (1981). Simulation result shows that the Coker's model predicts cyclone pressure drop far better than the other three models in different operating temperature. While Shepherd and Lapple model is show a good pressure drop prediction in different inlet velocity so as Dirgo model.


The purpose of this work was to assess trans‐perineal prostate magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) for (1) repeatability in phantoms/volunteers and (2) diagnostic power as correlated with histopathology in prostate cancer patients.


The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) with the Vera Rubin Observatory will provide strong microlensing constraints on dark compact objects (DCOs) in our Galaxy. However, most current forecasts limit their analysis to Primordial Black Holes (PBH). It is unclear how well LSST microlensing will be able to constrain alternative models of DCOs with different Galactic spatial profile distributions at a subdominant DM fraction. In this work, we investigate how well LSST microlensing will constrain spherical or disk-like Galactic spatial distributions of DCOs, taking into account extended observing times, baryonic microlensing background, and sky distribution of LSST sources. These extensions represent significant improvements over existing microlensing forecasts in terms of both accuracy and versatility. We demonstrate this power by deriving new LSST sensitivity projections for DCOs in spherical and disk-like distributions. We forecast that LSST will be able to constrain one-solar-mass PBHs to have a DM fraction under 4.1 × 10−4. One-solar-mass objects in a dark disk distribution with the same dimensions as the Galactic disk will be constrained below 3.1 × 10−4, while those with m = 105 M ⊙ will be constrained to below 3.4 × 10−5. We find that compressed dark disks can be constrained up to a factor of ∼10 better than ones with identical dimensions to the baryonic disk. We also find that dark disks become less tightly constrained when they are tilted with respect to our own disk. This forecasting software is a versatile tool, capable of constraining any model of DCOs in the Milky Way with microlensing, and is made publicly available.


OBJECTIVE
To discover morbidity and mortality rates after motor-cycle crashes on the national level in Sweden.

DESIGN
Retrospective study.

SETTING
Teaching hospital, Sweden.

INTERVENTIONS
Extraction of data from International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes E819C (motor-cycle drivers) and E819D (motor-cycle passengers) recorded in the Swedish Hospital Discharge Register (SHDR) between 1987 and 1994.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES
Injury distribution, medical consequences, mortality, survival, and incidence by age, sex and geographical area.

RESULTS
The number of people admitted to hospital after motor-cycle crashes decreased significantly during the period (from 1743 in 1987 to 1258 in 1994, p < 0.001). The most frequent injuries among drivers and passengers alike were fractures of the legs, arms, and vertebrae, followed by injuries to the head and brain. The in-hospital mortality was lower among drivers (n = 172, 2.2%) than among passengers (n = 31,3.3%).

CONCLUSION
The incidence of injuries after motor-cyclist crashes decreased during the study period. The most common victims were young men with fractures and brain injuries. Those at most risk of dying were older passengers.


Background: Tuberculosis is a granulomatous infectious
disease which is still being a real health problem in developing countries.
Mainly, this specific infection affects pulmonary sites, but, the occurrence in
extra-pulmonary sites is more and more reported. However, when extra-pulmonary
tuberculosis affects the cervico-facial
region, the cervical lymph nodes are the most involved. Aim: Throughout this case report, we put emphasis on keeping in mind of the possible
tuberculous infection in a chronic lesion of mandible in children. Case
presentation: In this article, we present a case of a 2-year-old
child who was complaining of swelling of the right angle of the mandible. The
computed tomography showed an osteolytic
lesion suggesting tuberculous osteomyelitis but didn't rule out a bony
malignant neoplasm of the mandible. The histological examination of biopsy of
the lesion proved the tuberculous osteomyelitis
of the mandible. The child has received anti-tubercular therapy for 9 months, and she marked a good recovery. Conclusion: In children, tuberculous osteomyelitis of the mandible is a curable disease
without sequel when diagnosis is given at the right time.


This study is aimed at exploring the effects of SiO2 nanoparticles on the crosslinking and mechanical and thermal properties of UV curing acrylic epoxy coating. The curing polymerization process and thermal and mechanical properties of UV-curable acrylate epoxy system have been evaluated with or without the presence of SiO2 nanoparticles. To fabricate the UV curing acrylic epoxy/SiO2 nanocomposite coating, nano-SiO2 particles (0.5–5 wt.% by weight of resin) were added in the photo-curable system using sonication for 3 h. Various techniques for characterization have been used, such as FESEM (field emission scanning electron microscope), FTIR (Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy), TGA (thermogravimetry analysis), gel fraction, and swelling degree analyses. FESEM data indicated that at the content of 2.5 wt.%, nanosilica was homogeneously dispersed in the coating procedure. However, once added 5 wt.%, large aggregation portions were found inside the coating matrices. Surprisingly, nano-SiO2 could play dual roles, as both UV absorbers and nanoreinforcers, in this nanocomposite coating. Besides, data from FTIR, gel fraction, and swelling degree analyses confirmed the role of SiO2 nanoparticles as UV absorbers that reduced the conversion performance of acrylate double bonds, thus increased slightly the swelling degree of coating. In addition, incorporation of SiO2 nanoparticles (as nanofillers, at content of 2.5 wt.%) in the polymer matrix enhanced significantly the abrasion resistance and thermal stability of the coating, by 60% (from 98.3 to 158.4 lite/mil) and 9°C (from 348°C to 357°C), respectively.


A rapid purification procedure for pyruvate decarboxylase (E.C. 220.127.116.11.) from fresh cells of brewer's yeast (Saccharomyces carlsb.) is reported. The preparation of a crude enzyme (30-45 U/mg) by the use of fractionation steps with protamine sulfate, acetone, and ammonium sulfate takes about 6-7 h. A stable pyruvate decarboxylase (70-85 U/mg) was obtained from such preparations after purification on CM Sephadex C 50 after another 2-3 h. Stability and structural properties are compared for enzymes prepared from fresh and dried yeast.


The therapeutic potential of Indigofera tinctoria was evaluated by paracetamol induced hepatotoxicity in rats. Male albino wistar rats were orally treated with Indigofera tinctoria (75, 150 and 300 mg/kg body weight) or silymarin (25 mg/kg) daily with administration of paracetamol (3 gm/kg body weightp o) only one day. Paracetamol induced hepatotoxicity and significantly decreased the levels of protein and glycogen in liver and kidney as compared with control group. Treatment with Indigofera tinctoria or silymarin consecutively for twenty eight days could significantly increase the levels of protein and glycogen in liver and kidney when compared with paracetamol alone treated rats. ABSTRACT


The objective of the present work is to investigate the relations between culpability end human values. A sample of the 266 university students from a public university in Campina Grande - PB, with an average of 22.1 years of age and from both sexes, participated in it. The instruments used were the Guilt Feeling Questionnaire, and the Basic Values Questionnaire. The results pointed to an expressive association between basic human values and culpability (guilt), specifically regarding the values of tradition and obedience. This demonstrates a higher sensitivity by the religious subjects and/or subjects most bound to tradition and the social standards before guilt. These results suggest that the values exercise an important influence in the perception of guilt of the academic students.


Objective:To determine the platelet surface expression of Fc gamma RⅡA(FcγRⅡA,CD32) and CD40L in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus(2-DM) and coronary heart disease(CHD)and to explore the relationship between them.Methods:The platelet surface expression of FcγRⅡA and CD40L were measured by flow cytometry at fasting state in 104 consecutive patients,including 36 patients with CHD(GroupⅠ),35 patients with 2-DM without CHD(GroupⅡ),and 33 patients with 2-DM and CHD(GroupⅢ).The 30 subjects were served as a control group.The correlation between platelet FcγRⅡA and CD40L were investigated.Results:Platelet surface expression of FcγRⅡA and CD40L were significantly higher in Group Ⅲ than those in control group,GroupⅠand GroupⅡ(P0.05~0.01).The level of platelet FcγRⅡA was positively correlated with the level of platelet CD40L(r=0.374,P0.05).Conclusion:Platelet surface expression of FcγRⅡA and CD40L,may be useful markers for predicting the presence of coronary atherosclerosis in patients with type 2 diabetes.


For precision testing of high speed spindle,is designed lever directly measurement system.The mathematical model of measurement system w as proposed based on the bond graph theory,and draw the system state equation.Dynamic characteristics analysis w as used by MATLAB,and optimize the spring stiffness system.Practice show s that,testing precision of optimizing system has a dramatic improvement.


The mixing of multiple languages in speech or text is termed as the phenomenon of code-mixing. The easier access of internet to a larger population, fluent in various regional languages and the more convenient usage of ubiquitous languages like English for technical terms, sports related words, scientific concepts, etc. has led to an increasing presence of code-mixed content on the world wide web, especially socializing and microblogging platforms like of Facebook, twitter, Instagram, etc. The code-mixing of Hindi, the predominant language of South Asia, with English is colloquially referred to as "Hinglish", a portmanteau resulting from the names of these two languages. Hinglish is considerably different from its parent languages in syntax, phonetics, grammar and even usage of punctuations. The accent and sentiments are drawn from Hindi, the vocabulary is comprised of varying English (Roman) transliteration of Hindi words, certain English terms. The proposed research work aims to build a self-sufficient model, independent of models meant for English language, which can classify code-mixed posts or tweets, or any other text material for that matter, into the categories: Non-Offensive, Abusive and Hate-Inducing. Our work proposes two ensemble models. The first consisting of some basic machine learning models, first experimented individually experimented with, then as an ensemble. The other ensemble is made by stacking some deep learning models. The aim was to combine the learning of models as weak learners into one for getting better results.