The accuracy of determining the north point is a very important matter in determining the Qibla direction. Finding the north using a compass, especially in buildings, is not encouraged so that an alternative method is needed. Apart from using a compass and istiwa stick (gnomon),  Polaris can also be used to reference the north, but it is not popular because of its limited appearance, which is only easily observed in areas which located above latitude 10o N. This study aims to examine theoretically the accuracy of Polaris as a reference for the north point in determining the Qibla direction. This research belongs to library research using secondary data. The data were obtained from various sources such as Stellarium software and various relevant articles. Based on this research, it is concluded that in the region near the equator (less than latitude 10o N),  Polaris is difficult to observe because it is very low above the horizon. Thus, for the sake of determining the Qibla direction, the results are inaccurate. Whereas in regions that are located far north from the equator (at latitude above 10o N) the north point can be determined easily because Polaris can be observed quite high. Thus, its use in determining the Qibla direction is classified as accurate.


The article presents the results of a study which investigated the relationship between corporate culture and innovation in Chinese manufacturing firms. Data from companies located in Zhejiang province, China was collected. The results indicated that a corporate culture oriented toward stability tended to weaken the relationships between research and development, human capital, and innovation. Additionally, a strongly results-oriented corporate culture was found to have a negative impact on innovation, as the inherent risks associated with innovative activity are not compatible with guaranteed outcomes.


The aim of the present study is studying the impact of overinvestment on the investors' reaction to the maintained amount of cash in the companies accepted in the stock market of securities of Tehran. In this study the levels of investment and its components (overinvestment and underinvestment) were selected as independent variables and the final value of the cash amount was selected as a dependent variable. For carrying out this study, two main hypothesises were designed and presented, and the data related to 114 companies accepted by the stock market during 20072012 was used as sample companies. The results of the analysis of the first hypothesis showed that there is a negative and significant relationship between the levels of investment and the final value of the cash amount. In other words by increase in investment levels, the final value of the cash amount will decrease. The results of the second hypothesis showed that the final value of the cash amount in companies without overinvestment is higher than in companies with overinvestment.


Pregnant women infected with SARS-CoV-2 are considered as a risk group for the development of severe complications and an unfavorable outcome of a new coronavirus infection. At the same time, various non-gestational factors may be an additional unfavorable background that determines the course of this disease in pregnant women. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the clinical and anamnestic data of pregnant women with different course of a new coronavirus infection. Material and research methods. A retrospective analysis of the history and comorbidity data of 360 pregnant women infected with SARS-CoV-2 was carried out. The features of the reproductive history and ex-tragenital pathology of pregnant women with different course of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) were revealed. The standard collection of anamnesis and clinical examination was carried out, which is required to fill in the medical records of an outpatient and inpatient patient. Statistical pro-cessing of the obtained results was carried out using Microsoft Excel 2010 and Statistica (version 6.0). Research results. It has been established that among pregnant women with a severe course of this dis-ease, patients who use nicotine-containing products and have such concomitant somatic pathologies as diabetes mellitus, obesity, hypothyroidism, iron deficiency anemia, chronic arterial hypertension and varicose veins are significantly more common. Unfavorable factors of the reproductive history in-clude: abortion, non-developing pregnancy, preeclampsia. Conclusion. To predict the course of a new coronavirus disease in the gestational period, it is necessary to take into account the listed clinical and anamnestic data of the patient.


We have demonstrated an integrated magnetic field sensor consisting of a Faraday rotator and a mode selector for the first time. The sensor is a loaded waveguide which has a waveguide layer made of a garnet with magneto‐optical effect for Faraday rotation and a metal clad layer for mode selection. The magnetic field can be measured by detecting the change of optical output power from the waveguide. An output power change of ±5% has been observed as the magnetic field is changed from zero to ±60 Oe.


Two different methods were applied for estimating the yearly emission rate of a fly-ash storage site. In applying the first method, the dust emissions from the individual sources were assessed and then added up, resulting in an estimate of the yearly dust emission. In applying the second method, a series of long-term meteorological data, and measurements of fugitive-dust concentrations and size distributions at various receptor points were entered into a fugitive-dust dispersion model. Fugitive dust was sampled using Coarse Dust Recorders. The samples were analysed by means of automatic image analysis. The measurementand analytical methods applied were found to be usable for assessing the yearly dust emission of a fly-ash storage site. The yearly dust emission of the storage site under investigation was estimated at between 115 tonnes/year (Method 1) and 83 tonnes/year (Method 2). The factor identified as being the main contributor to the dust emission was wind erosion: loose dust is blown from the concrete surface by wind.


This paper discusses aspects of qualitative reasoning about approximate spatio-temporal location at multiple levels of granularity. We start by defining systems of granularities which are tree-like hierarchical structures and which are used as frames of reference in order to specify approximate location of objects. We then define levels of granularities within those tree structures and stratified map spaces over such granularity structures. Stratified maps are descriptions of objects in a certain domain at different levels of granularity. The structure of stratified map spaces allows us to perform reasoning about location which is specified at different levels of granularity like: Assume that John is in the same place in which Mary is (in Hyde Park) and that Mary is also in the same place in which Paula is (in London). It is then our aim to derive that John and Paula are in the same place (in London).


o Book value withdrawals. Participants can get distribution of their assets at book value regardless of the investment environment. With employment so insecure during the past few years, older and younger participants alike have chosen this option because they know exactly what they'll get from the plan should they leave. . Competitive return. Throughout the years, the investment returns associated with GIC options have been attractive, and, in fact, many defined-contribution plan sponsors still support blended rates above 8.5%, a very good rate in the current environment.


The paper is devoted to the identification of basic requirements for the formation of a new type of real estate in the Arctic zone of Russia. Based on the review of aqua-territorial production complexes and the evaluation of the prospects for their expansion, the resource potential for sustainable development of the national economy can be substantially adjusted. This predetermines their prospective advantage. The need for a parallel solution of the environmental issues is a peculiarity of the strategic approaches to the development of the Arctic spaces. In this regard, the potential of the Arctic in scientific research in this area is being actualized. In addition, the Arctic is the most important region in the world for studying climate change and its consequences. Taking into account the attention paid to this topic in the leading countries and the likely amount of damage due to the global warming, large-scale complex climate studies can turn into a fullfledged branch of the economy, which together with investment construction projects of the point development allows the Russian innovation cluster to take the advanced positions in the world. Considering domestic experience in implementing investment construction projects in the extreme conditions of the North and Siberia, it is advisable to focus investments in the development of aqua-territorial production complexes, the features of which are presented in the article. Their study allows formulating basic requirements for the implementation mechanisms for the projects of the Arctic zones development.


This study aims to investigate a feasible converter architecture and corresponding control method for Wind Turbine (WT) systems using permanent magnet synchronous generators (PMSG). The converter configuration is designed based on the AC/DC/AC converter, including the Diode Bridge Rectifier (DBR) and Pulse Width Modulated Current Source Inverter (PWM-CSI), Buck-Boost Converter (BBC), and Bypass Chopper (BC). The control strategy for the proposed converter is developed to enhance the operating performance of WT-PMSG, which must satisfy four requisitions. Firstly, it proposes the control approach for the pitch angle to control the output power of the WT when the wind speed is over the rated value. The selected control variables are the generator speed and active power. Secondly, the Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) is archived to the satisfaction of the full-range operation through the control strategy for the BBC. The control strategy is applied by the Proportional Integral (PI) controller. The control variables are the generator speed and the diode rectifier's output DC current. Thirdly, the control strategy for PWM-CSI controls the voltage at the connection point and the frequency of the inverter. Fourthly, the DC-link voltage is controlled to the constant value at various operating conditions. Simulation of a 3MW and 0.69 kV WT-PMSG was carried on in PSCAD software to verify under considering the variable wind speed and the three-phase fault. The obtained results prove the feasibility of the proposed WT-PMSG system that serves as an alternative for a high-power wind energy conversion system.


Objective: Examine ef fi cacy of the Spanish version of the modi fi ed Story Memory Technique (SmSMT), a 10-session inter-vention teaching context and imagery to improve learning and memory in a Mexican sample of persons with multiple sclero-sis(MS). Primary hypothesis: individuals with MS and learning de fi cits will demonstrate signi fi cant improvements in memory after SmSMT. Method: Patients were recruited from the Mexican Foundation for MS. 20 participants with relapsing-remitting MS who met inclusion and exclusion criteria signed informed consent, were enrolled, and randomized (double blind) into treatment (10) and control (10) groups. Groups were similar in age, gender, and disease characteristics, but differed in education (treatment 15.3 ± 2.0, control 12.9 ± 3.5). Baseline and post-treatment testing consisted of cognitive and psychosocial measures. Analyses of covariance(ANCOVA) were conducted, with baseline performance and education as covariates. Primary outcome measure was Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-Revised (HVLT-R) total learning. Exploratory ANCOVAs were conducted on everyday memory (Everyday Memory Questionnaire, EMQ), depression (Patient Health Questionnaire-9, PHQ-9), anxiety (Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7, GAD-7), and life satisfaction (Satisfaction with Life Scale, SWLS). Results: The treatment group showed a trend toward improved learning (95% con fi dence interval [CI] 22.66 – 27.88) relative to the control group (95% CI 19.33 – 24.54, F(1,16) = 3.14, p = .095, demonstrating a moderate-large effect size ( η 2 p = .16). Similar trends were noted on EMQ, PHQ-9, GAD-7, and SWLS, with moderate effect sizes. Conclusion: Findings show pre-liminary evidence for the ef fi cacy of the SmSMT in improving learning and memory in MS. This is an important step in the expansion of cognitive rehabilitation treatment options for monolingual Spanish-speakers worldwide.


In order to be successful in the future, nursing administration must have the same rigor and quantity for its research as we find in the advances we have made with clinical research. To paraphrase Victor Hugo's oft-quoted statement about the future: ''We have the potential for multiple futures.'' If we are weak in our approach, the future potential will be unattainable. If we lack courage, we may have unexpected outcomes. But if we are deliberate and thoughtful, we have a bright future. Our task is taking the multiple challenges that face the issue of administrative research and creating coherency. Key to creating coherence is addressing critical questions. Nursing administrative research has been around for a long time. We could argue that Florence Nightingale's basic principle, ''to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act,'' provides the mandate for administrative research. In fact, her work studying the system issues (the military and healthcare) provided evidence for revolutionizing care for the soldiers at Scutari and later healthcare in Great Britain and beyond. Over the decades in the United States, nurse researchers whose primary interest focused on administration developed studies to describe or predict how organized nursing services needed to perform certain functions or practices in specific ways. Even today, we see, as evidenced by the articles in this issue of JONA, issues of great importance to administrators being addressed. These efforts have been made to harness the environments of care to put the patient in the best condition, thus improving the health of the nation. The complexity of the challenge to meet the demands for administrative research poses several areas for specific consideration. These include (1) educational preparation, (2) capacity to match the need, and (3) partnerships to enhance research efforts. The one thing we do not lack, however, is an identifiable list of priorities. When we asked the membership of the Council on Graduate Education for Administration in Nursing (CGEAN) to pose their most pressing research questions, we were deluged with ideas.


The National Ignition Facility (NIF), currently under construction by the Department of Energy at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is a megajoule class Nd:glass laser and target irradiation complex for investigating the physics associated with stockpile stewardship and inertial confinement fusion (ICF).


Effects of small strain nonlinearity on deformation behaviour of geotechnical structures have been extensively studied in the literature. This paper offers a slightly different perspective, looking at effects of the small strain non-linearity on the identification of surface loads caused by pedestrians and vehicles. Due to the small load magnitudes caused by these objects, the corresponding strains in the ground are extremely small, making them difficult to detect using conventional strain measurements. An experimental field study as been carried out to investigate deformation behaviour of soil using ground buried distributed fibre optic sensors (FOS). FOS has been proven an adequate tool for measuring extremely small strains in soils and capturing accurately the small strain nonlinearity of soil behaviour. In contrast to conventional discrete strain measurements at the surface, FOS provides a large array of strain data at higher accuracy. The deformation of soils at very low stresses and strains has been shown to be highly nonlinear, affecting the surface load identification.


William Wilberforce was born in 1759 in Yorkshire, England. As a young man, he enjoyed life and soon gained the reputation of being a worldly, likeable individual. He was elected as a Member of Parliament in 1780, at age 21, and again in 1784. In 1785, he experienced "a deep conversion to Christianity," prompted in part by reading Philip Doddridge's book The Rise and Progress of Religion and later by reading the New Testament in Greek with his friend Isaac Milner. Previously, he hesitated becoming a serious Christian because he felt he would have to forfeit invitations to elite social gatherings.

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Wilberforce, William (1759–1833);
"a deep conversion to Christianity";
"amazing grace"


In the presence of acetic acid, trifurylphosphine and CO (2 atm), palladium catalyses the conversion of a range of enynes to cyclic δ,γ-unsaturated carboxylic acids in good yield.


The objective of this research is to compare the satisfaction level on job aspects of hospital employees in Australia and Taiwan. A self-report questionnaire on 'Employee Perspective' was used to survey hospital employees in Australia and Taiwan. Overall, 150 questionnaires in Australia and 111 questionnaires in Taiwan were collected. Findings indicate that Australian employees had significantly lower job aspect levels than their Taiwanese counterparts. Three factors, namely morale, participation, and recognition, were identified to explain the differences. The forth factor, job security, however, did not show any significant difference between the two groups. Although different countries utilize management style differently, it is beneficial to compare employee satisfaction levels on their job aspects between countries, because practitioners may adjust their management styles based on the study results.


SUMMARY AND CONCLUDING REMARKS A dedicated Fortran EPS performance code was used in concert with spreadsheet models to quantify the potential mass benefits of high voltage spacecraft power systems and a direct-drive architecture for a representative, Earth-orbiting solar electric propulsion mission. Results showed that spacecraft EPS mass decreased as PMAD voltage was increased over the range of 28-V to 300-V. The mass savings from higher voltage, lower current were achieved by the use of lighter power cabling and component down-sizing due to lower system losses. Results from a simplified model showed that 300-V PVA plasma electron current collection was less than 5% of the array operating current. Further mass benefits were afforded by the direct-drive architecture by eliminating the ARU, removing the PPU converter, reducing the PPU heat rejection radiator and down-sizing EPS components due to lower system losses. These mass benefits were achieved assuming either SOA or advanced EPS technologies. The impact of EPS and propulsion subsystem mass savings on the spacecraft ACS system was also calculated. Results showed that mass savings of a 120-V system over that of a 28-V system can save only a few percent in ACS propellant mass over the mission duration. Further increases in voltage and direct-drive implementation offer very little added ACS propellant mass savings. However, increasing system voltage from 120-V to 300-V reduced spacecraft dry mass to save 68-kg in spacecraft wet mass (out of an initial 1500-kg total wet mass) and implementing direct-drive saved an additional 104-kg of wet mass. These added mass savings were achieved by reduced xenon propellant and tankage mass in the spacecraft primary electric propulsion system.


A survey was undertaken in the central Victorian city of Maryborough to investigate the use of pharmacies and general practitioners as sources of advice about skin problems. In a 2 week period consumers purchasing either prescription or over the counter (OTC) products for skin, hair and nails in pharmacies were approached for interview. Simultaneously, each of the city's general practitioners (GP) completed questionnaires on all patients presenting with conditions of skin, hair and nails.


Monorail hanging locomotive is a more extensive use of coal auxiliary transport equipment,monorail driving unit as walking part, on the coal mine safety production, production efficiency plays an important role. Aiming at some problems existing in the original development of driving part, design a explosion-proof diesel engine to provide the power of hydraulic station, hydraulic motor driven drive gear, the drive gear by gear carrying the power to the wheels, load wheels to overcome the new monorail locomotive driving unit and the friction between the drive rail locomotive running.


Students stratification is one of superficial characteristics that are manifested in educational system by social stratification. Student stratification and unequal allocation of educational resource are influenced by each other. A great amount of researches approved that equal allocation of education resource doesn't have a strong power to fix the problems such as school selecting or students stratification. The strategies that UK and America had carried out to solve the problem of student stratification have some important implications to us. We should think about the harm of student stratification seriously and take some measures such as monitoring the degree of student stratification with the indicator of the share of students whose parents are officials at school, preventing from residential stratification, giving priority to the disadvantages, keeping the rules of educational laws and social supervision, etc.


Currently, red phosphorus (RP) based catalysts have shown great potential for photocatalysis due to several important intrinsic advantages. The integration of single atomic sites and RP becomes a promising solution, which has rarely been discussed. Herein, a brand‐new type of photocatalyst is proposed by in situ loading Ni single atoms on the P vacancy defects of the RP quantum dots (Ni‐RPQD), achieving the successful attempt of combining single atomic catalyst (SAC), RP, and QDs for the first time. The Ni‐P sites act as electron antennas, which attract the photocarriers to the solid‐liquid interface and activate protons to initiate an efficient hydrogen production process, resulting in a high hydrogen production rate, which is 224 times higher than that of the original RPQD and is also superior to most reported RP‐based photocatalysts and competitive with the non‐noble metal‐based SAC photocatalysts. Theoretical explorations reveal that the atomically dispersed Ni atoms significantly lower the energy barrier for electron transfer during photocatalysis. This results in enhanced adsorption and fast dissociation of water molecules for more efficient H2 generation. This study offers a significant and new direction for future developments of advanced and stable photocatalysts for water splitting.


.................................................................................................................................................. 3 Method .................................................................................................................................................. 10 Search Strategy ................................................................................................................................. 10 Assessment of Methodological Quality ............................................................................................. 12 Data Extraction ................................................................................................................................. 13 Data Synthesis ................................................................................................................................... 13 Results ................................................................................................................................................... 14 Table 1. Summary of included quantitative and qualitative articles ................................................ 15 Prevalence of Indigenous Australians with communication disorders ............................................. 21 Table 2. Prevalence of communication disorders reported within the literature ............................. 22 Assessment and diagnosis of communication disorders in Indigenous Australians ......................... 24 Effective treatment for Indigenous Australians with communication disorders ............................... 27 Experiences of Indigenous Australians with communication disorders ........................................... 30 Discussion ............................................................................................................................................. 31 Study limitations and future research .................................................................................................... 38 Conclusion ............................................................................................................................................ 38 Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................... 39 References ............................................................................................................................................. 40 Appendix ............................................................................................................................................... 52 Appendix A. Initial key words used in search strategy ..................................................................... 52 Appendix B. Additional databases and journals searched................................................................ 52 Appendix C. Additional search strings/keywords used in Phase 2 searches .................................... 53 Appendix D. Description of included studies (alphabetical by area of disorder) ............................. 56 Appendix E. Flowchart of article selection process.......................................................................... 94 Appendix F. List of Abbreviations..................................................................................................... 95


ABSTRACT Racks and quandles are rich algebraic structures that are strong enough to classify knots. Here we develop several fundamental categorical aspects of the theories of racks and quandles and their relation to the theory of permutations. In particular, we compute the centers of the categories and describe power operations on them, thereby revealing free extra structure that is not apparent from the definitions. This also leads to precise characterizations of these theories in the form of universal properties.


The importance of the collection of property taxes in the town of Nilo, the theoretical framework will apply the background that will sustain our trial, we will define the theoretical bases which give the necessary structure and operationalization of the variables in our hypothesis we propose is if we share the Benefit Payment of Property Tax then will influence positively on the Sustainable Development of the Municipality of Nilo, we propose a culture of Good Payer, then raising the property tax increase and we present the Growing Sustainable Development through Property Tax will be justified. We can find in the development of our research is aimed at finding the sustainable development of society by generating an adequate quality of life and because of the importance of the payment of the property tax is essential to develop tools to improve the collection system creating a social conscience


The present invention relates to a cementless concrete composition, more specifically from 30 to 50% by weight of coarse aggregate; And fine powder of the present invention relates to a cementless concrete composition comprises a large amount of bottom ash aggregate 50 to 70% by weight, using the bottom ash to a fine powder contained in the bottom ash characterized in that for coupling to cure the liquid alkali solidifying agent . Concrete composition of the present invention it is possible to replace the natural aggregates used in traditional using bottom ash as aggregate for concrete mix, and to reduce the production cost, equivalent to the concrete using a conventional additive-free aggregate, or has a higher strength as it is possible to obtain excellent strength and durability, there is an effect that can provide eco-friendly concrete products represents similar or higher compressive strength of the existing products.


Abstract In the present study 120 senior citizens residing in the rehabilitative institutes of U. T. Chandigarh and State Uttar Pradesh participated. It was found that majority of male and female senior citizens suffer from depression, lose their social status and become economically poor after retirement. Health wise males were poor or good in their health status, while greater percentage of female senior citizens was good in their health status. There was significant difference in health status of male and female senior citizens.


Correction for 'Correction: Hypoxia inducible factor (HIF) as a model for studying inhibition of protein–protein interactions' by George M. Burslem et al., Chem. Sci., 2017, 8, 5214–5215.


Large area chemical vapour deposition of diamond has been obtained using magneto-microwave plasma. The important point of the developed system is to set the electron cyclotron resonance condition (875 G), where the highest plasma density is expected, at the deposition area by controlling the distribution of an applied magnetic field. Even in 10 Torr where complete electron gyrations cannot be expected, the size of the discharge area controlled by the magnetic field is 70-80 mm in diameter. This value is the largest of all plasma deposition systems of diamond. The crystallinity obtained by the above-mentioned plasma compares favourably with those of the best ones by previous methods.


Data collected by means of marked honey bees did not support the hypothesis that the dispersion of foragers is more uniform in a direction away from a neighboring apiary than it is approaching the same apiary. Bloom attractiveness was a stronger factor in determining the distribution of the marked bees than was the competition from the other apiary.


Remote sensing scene classification is a hot research topic in computer vision and it is of great significance to the semantic understanding of remote sensing images. At present, remote sensing scene classification methods based on deep learning occupy a dominant position in this field. However, it suffers from the lack of samples and poor model generalization ability in actual application scenarios. Therefore, this paper proposes a few-shot remote scene classification method based on attention mechanism, and designs a structure of dual-branches similarity measurement. This method is based on the meta-learning training strategy to divide the dataset into tasks. At the meantime, the input images are divided into blocks to preserve the feature distribution in the remote sensing image. Then the lightweight attention module is introduced into the feature extraction network to reduce the risk of overfitting and ensure the acquisition of discriminative features. Finally we add a dual-branches similarity measurement module on the basis of Earth Mover's Distance to improve the discriminative ability of the classifier. The results show that compared with the classic small-sample learning method, the few-shot remote scene classification method proposed in this paper can significantly improve the classification performance.


We explained better this concept for in-situ instrumentation, although we believe that interferometric techniques have serious limitations in the case of extremely slow movements. We also think that sometime it is difficult to tell if a DSGSD is active; therefore, trenching methods might prove useful also to understand if there have been pre-historic recent movements that might indicate a potential for reactivation for those DSGSDs that move by sudden increments of motions interleaved by phases of inactivity.


The article focuses on the architecture of the algorithmic trading system. The software structure invariant with respect to use of mechanical trading system interacting with the broker server through the widely used in Russia stock exchange terminal Quik is provided. The possibility of changing the structure of the robot according to its function set is shown.


Simple Summary A successful response was obtained after selection for ovulation rate during 10 generations in rabbits. However, no correlated response in litter size was observed due to an increase in prenatal mortality. This increase could be due to the reduction in fetus weights and/or an increase in variable asynchrony among fetus weights. Therefore, the consequences of the selection procedure on weight at 28 and 63 days old (weaning and commercial time, respectively) and its variability are unknown. Using genetic trends and a cryopreserved control population for estimating correlated responses to selection, no relevant response on weight at 28 and 63 days old was observed. Similar results have been obtained for the variability of growth traits. Abstract The aim of this work was to estimate correlated responses in growth traits and their variabilities in an experiment of selection for ovulation rate during 10 generations in rabbits. Individual weight at 28 days old (IW28, kg) and at 63 days old (IW63, kg) was analyzed, as well as individual growth rate (IGR = IW63 − IW28, kg). The variability of each growth trait was calculated as the absolute value of the difference between the individual value and the mean value of their litter. Data were analyzed using Bayesian methodology. The estimated heritabilities of IW28, IW63 and IGR were low, whereas negligible heritabilities were obtained for growth variability traits. The common litter effect was high for all growth traits, around 30% of the phenotypic variance, whereas low maternal effect for all growth traits was obtained. Low genetic correlations between ovulation rate and growth traits were found, and also between ovulation rate and the variability of growth traits. Therefore, genetic trends methods did not show correlated responses in growth traits. A similar result was also obtained using a cryopreserved control population.


The role of cyclooxygenase‐2 (COX‐2) and the mechanism by which it influences the development and behavior of prostate cancer is unclear. Selective COX‐2 inhibitors may be effective against prostate cancer via COX‐2‐independent mechanisms. But administration of high doses of COX‐2 inhibitors over longer period of time may not be devoid of side effects. There is increasing interest in using COX‐2 inhibitors in combination with other chemopreventive agents to overcome the issue of toxicity. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying their combined actions are not well understood. Therefore, the present study was designed to determine the effects of low doses of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in combination with celecoxib on the molecular targets at the proteins level in rat prostate cancer cells. Two‐dimensional gel electrophoresis, in combination with mass spectrometry analysis, was used for protein identification. Western blot analysis confirmed the proteins identified. Paraffin‐embedded tissue sections from the rat prostate tumor were used to detect base level expression of heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) and p53. The rate of cancer cell growth was inhibited more effectively (p < 0.01) by DHA in combination with celecoxib at lower doses (2.5 μM each). A total number of twelve proteins were differentially expressed by the combined action of DHA and celecoxib at low doses. It was interesting to note that these agents activated both HSP70 and p53 proteins. Activation of HSP70 by the combined actions of DHA and celecoxib in the presence of wild‐type p53 reveals a unique COX‐2 independent mode of action against prostate cancer. © 2006 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


Coinfection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) has been associated with severe liver disease and frequent progression to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Clinical evidence suggests reciprocal replicative suppression of the two viruses, or viral interference. However, interactions between HBV and HCV have been difficult to study due to the lack of appropriate model systems. We have established a novel model system to investigate interactions between HBV and HCV. Stable Huh‐7 cell lines inducibly replicating HBV were transfected with selectable HCV replicons or infected with cell culture–derived HCV. In this system, both viruses were found to replicate in the same cell without overt interference. Specific inhibition of one virus did not affect the replication and gene expression of the other. Furthermore, cells harboring replicating HBV could be infected with cell culture–derived HCV, arguing against superinfection exclusion. Finally, cells harboring replicating HBV supported efficient production of infectious HCV. Conclusion: HBV and HCV can replicate in the same cell without evidence for direct interference in vitro. Therefore, the viral interference observed in coinfected patients is probably due to indirect mechanisms mediated by innate and/or adaptive host immune responses. These findings provide new insights into the pathogenesis of HBV–HCV coinfection and may contribute to its clinical management in the future. (HEPATOLOGY 2009.)


This study determined the corrosion inhibition levels of benzimidazole (BIA), 1-hydroxybenzotriazole (HBT), methylbenzimidazole (MBI) and 4-phenylimidazole (PIZ). By using simulation, it was possible to have a complete relationship with the experimental work because the results were completely consistent. Density functional theory (DFT) and Monte Carlo simulations were used to calculate several quantum chemical parameters. The molecules are simulated using quantum chemical calculations with Gaussian09 software. Fundamental factors determining the corrosion order of molecules are the highest-energy occupied and lowest-energy unoccupied molecular orbitals (HOMO and LUMO), frontier molecular orbital energy, back donating energy, electrophilicity, nucleophilicity, energy gap ∆E, absolute electronegativity (χ), softness, the number of electrons (∆N) transferred from inhibitors to iron, the dipole moment (μ), the global hardness (η) and the total energy.


Northern killifish spawn in June and July at the margins of estuaries. Because of the 6-12 foot daily tidal range in Maine, not all embryos remain immersed in seawater and some are exposed to air and survive for long periods. Immersed embryos are exposed to aquatic predators. We previously showed that adult killifish readily eat immersed killifish embryos but it was possible that the embryos could survive passage through the adult GI tract. We show here that embryos do not survive ingestion. This supports the hypothesis that the unusual ability of embryos to survive in air provides a selective advantage under the potentially intense predation pressure of adult killifish.


We describe our experience in teaching two different levels of undergraduate business analytics courses during the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic In particular, we focus on two challenges that arose during the shift to emergency remote teaching: 1) engaging students and 2) teaching students how to use software We discuss our efforts to mitigate the effects of these problems and highlight the differences in implementing our strategies in a general-education (i e , required for business majors) course versus an upper-level elective Finally, we discuss lessons learned and recommendations for other educators regardless of their teaching modality © 2021 by the Association for Information Systems


Trajectories of 5 and 10 mm metallic and plastic particles in a quiescent liquid during their sedimentation toward a plate were studied using experimental and numerical means, and the influence of gravity, drag, added mass, and history forces were evaluated. Variations of particle diameter and density allowed measurements at Reynolds numbers, based on the impact velocity, in the range of 1 000 to 13 000. A computer model was developed and the Lagrangian equation of particle motion was solved. The results showed that the combination of gravity, drag, and added mass forces are important for the simulation of the motion of small particles for the duration of their flight from the starting point to the wall impact, in the range of particle Reynolds numbers between 1000 and 5000. Comparison of the simulation results with the data showed that the predicted trajectories underestimated the experimental observations by about 1% to 4.3%. When the history force was included in the governing equation, however, excellent agreement between the measured and predicted particle trajectory was obtained. Experimental results for the motion of large particles showed oscillations in the time history of particle velocity when the particle Reynolds number was in the range of 3 000 to 13 000. Repeating the experiment, and averaging the data of a large number of experiments, yielded averaged curves for the particle velocity that did not show oscillatory values. In this case, good agreement between numerical and experimental data was observed. The study also shows that at high particle Reynolds numbers, the effect of the history force becomes negligibly small.


Genetic improvement of fillet quality attributes is a priority of the aquaculture industry. Muscle composition impacts quality attributes such as flavor, appearance, texture, and juiciness. Fat and moisture make up about 80% of the tissue weight. The genetic architecture underlying the fat and moisture content of the muscle are still to be fully explored in fish. A 50K gene transcribed SNP chip was used for genotyping 789 fish with available phenotypic data for fat and moisture content. Genotyped fish were obtained from two consecutive generations produced in the NCCCWA growth-selective breeding program. Estimates of SNP effects from weighted single-step GBLUP (WssGBLUP) were used to perform genome-wide association (GWA) analysis to identify quantitative trait loci (QTL) associated with the studied traits. Using genomic sliding windows of 50 adjacent SNPs, 137 and 178 SNPs were identified as associated with fat and moisture content, respectively. Chromosomes 19 and 29 harbored the highest number of SNPs explaining at least 2% of the genetic variation in fat and moisture content. A total of 61 common SNPs on chromosomes 19 and 29 affected the aforementioned traits; this association suggests common mechanisms underlying intramuscular fat and moisture content. Additionally, based on single-marker GWA analyses, 8 and 24 SNPs were identified in association with fat and moisture content, respectively. SNP-harboring genes were primarily involved in lipid metabolism, cytoskeleton remodeling, and protein turnover. This work provides putative SNP markers that could be prioritized and used for genomic selection in breeding programs. Consistently, our data showed a significant negative correlation between fat and moisture content (R = -0.88; p-value = 6.3E-262).


Diameter distributions in a forest stand have been successfully characterized by use of the Weibull function. Of special interest are cases where parameters of a Weibull distribution that models a future stand are predicted, either directly or indirectly, from current stand density and dominant height. This study evaluated four methods of predicting the Weibull parameters, using data from loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) plantations. One method, the CDF Regression, consistently produced better goodness-of-fit statistics than those from the other methods.


The gold mine occurs in the tall-medium mountainous area.Phyllite is the main rock type.Structure is dominated by NWW faults.Hydrogeological condition is simple and engineering geological condition is moderate in the mine.However the mine construction,for example,mining area,industrial place,or tail mineral database construction etc might induct or turn to be a geological disaster.We should carry on a homologous prevention and cure work,treatment in the mine drainage and factory effluent to prevent pollution from the water environment at the same time.


Whistleblowing research has progressed considerably over the past decade. One area that has not progressed in the same way is the theorisation of the organisations within which whistleblowing takes place. The survey-based whistleblowing literature tends to ignore questions about the nature of organisations, while much other writing on whistleblowing repeats the simple dichotomy between whistleblowers as 'ethical resisters' and organisations as 'bureaucratic hierarchy' that became prominent in the 1970s. This paper identifies some of the problems with this typical way of thinking about organisations and whistleblowing. It challenges the view that bureaucracy in itself is particularly inimical to whistleblowing. Bureaucratic hierarchy presents opportunities as well as problems for effective whistleblowing. The paper also challenges the assumption that, because bureaucracy presents problems for whistleblowing, alternative participative forms of organization must be the solution. Application of Mary Douglas's grid-group theory suggests that all forms of organisation have the potential to produce mixed results for whistleblowers. Keywords: whistleblowing, bureaucracy, hierarchy, integrity, grid-group theory


Make ethically informed choices about international nurse recruitment that not only balance your staffing needs, but also minimize the potential negative aspects of nurse migration.


ABSTRACT Current literature on the over use of psychoactive drugs by elderly people suggests that alienation, poverty, rolelessness and lack of drug experience in earlier life are principal causes. But these are mainly empirical observations which have not been ordered into any theoretical framework. In proposing the applicability of the concept of 'internal colonialism' as a mode of explanation, the paper presents a survey of drug use prevalence as a basis for later conceptual analysis. It is concluded that drug misuse is an institutionalized response which perpetuates dependency.


To find rational method to repair incarcerated inguinal hernia. 32 patients with incarcerated inguinal hernia were analyzed retrospectively from January 1999 to October 2003. Clinical feature of the disease and various types of herniorrhaphy were summarized. All patients except one death caused pneumonia and respiratory failure recovered. 16 cases had preoperational concomitant diseases and 6 cases had postoperational complications. 21cases who underwent tension-free herniorrhaphy had no recurrence, while 3 of 7 cases who underwent Bassini operation recurred .According to statistic test, there were no difference in incarceration time and operation time between tension-free group and tension group, while there was nearly difference in recurrence rate between two groups. 4 cases were performed a simple internal ring repair after the necrotic intestine were dissected. [Conclusion] Tension-free herniorrhaphy are feasible and safe to treat incarcerated inguinal hernia. Plug patch and prolene hernia system(PHS) tension-free herniorrhaphy can be alternatively used according to the different type of classification .


Background and ObjectivesZZActive noise cancelling (ANC) is a technology that can reduce external noise by producing a signal that is similar to noise but different in that it has an opposite phase to noise. Nowadays ANC has become an important technology in the field of hearing aids, but many studies have not focused on the effect of ANC of earphones when listening to portable music players. In this study, we aimed to evaluate whether ANC earphones can effectively reduce external noise and lower the preferred listening level. Subjects and MethodZZThree different earphones (Ear-canal, On-the-ear, Covering-theear) were tested in three different noise environments. Nine participants were tested in 10 experiments. First, through the real ear measurement (REM) system, we evaluated the differences in sound pressure level when the ANC was either turned on or off. Second, we evaluated the effects of ANC on Preferred Listening Level (PLL) for participants listening to the same song with different earphones. Through the REM system, we evaluate the level of sound pressure level when participants controlled the volume and felt most comfortable with the volume level.


To get an understanding of English teaching in middle schools,we made an investigation in 11 cities and counties in a large scale. The investigation proves that teachers don't necessarily meet the demands of current reforms and development of secondary education in professional attainment,operation quality, teaching concepts and teaching methods. Thus, teaching reforms stressing on communicative competence, pedagogic character and practicality in normal colleges are tasks of top priority.


To overcome the problem of pulse pile-up at high count rates, a digital deconvolution algorithm is used to remove the exponential current tails of NaI(Tl) detectors, so as to obtain a current unit impulse. Then a narrow pulse can be obtained through pulse shaping. The pulse deconvolution technique can thoroughly eliminate the influences of ballistic deficit and improve traditional pulse shaping systems in both pulse throughput and energy resolution. To demonstrate this method, the energy spectrum of a 137Cs radioactive source was measured. When the shaping time constant is 1.5 μs, traditional pulse shaping systems yielded a 6.99% energy resolution and 68 kcps count rate, while the new pulse deconvolution technique, used to improve traditional pulse shaping systems, yielded a 6.37% energy resolution and 102 kcps count rate.


The regulatory requirements for the economics of the quality of vehicles, taking into account international experience, are considered. The dependence of the total cost of quality improvement on the intensity of work and awareness of the quality level, as well as the number of complaints is presented. The results of studies on the dynamics of losses from defects in dump trucks and trailers are presented.


The Khoy ophiolite in northwestern Iran represents remnants of Neo-Tethys oceanic lithosphere formed in the Mesozoic. This ophiolite complex consists from bottom to top of peridotites (dunite, harzburgite) and serpentinized peridotite, gabbros, sheeted dikes, pillow and massive lava flows, and pelagic sedimentary rocks, including radiolarian chert. The investigated pillow lavas of the western ophiolitic complex of Khoy and the associated rocks have been studied on the basis of field geology and petrology. Also chemical composition, magma series and tectonic setting of the investigated rocks has been determined based on whole rock chemistry. Petrographic studies of pillow lavas of the western ophiolitic complex of Khoy show that the main minerals include plagioclase and clinopyroxene phenocrysts. The main textures of the rocks are porphyry, microporphyry and intersertal, glomero-porphyritic, variolitic and vesicular. Geochemical information indicates that the investigated samples are basaltic to basaltic-andesite and the magma was sub-alkaline. Tectonic setting of the basalts was determined as an IAB environment. Enrichment in LREE/HREE is the most important characteristics of these rocks.


This paper proposes an improved intra prediction method for H.264/AVC. The conventional method uses only adjoining pixels as reference pixels. The residual energy is increased if the decoded pixels are occluded, which would result in low coding efficiency. In addition, the conventional prediction method copies the same weighted prediction value to several of the pixels lying in the prediction direction. However, if the original image exhibits gradations, the residual energy might be increased which would also result in low coding efficiency. To handle these problems, we proposed, separately, two improved methods. One allows the use of distant pixels as well as adjoining pixels. The other generates prediction signals with a spatial gradient. This paper confirms the performance of the combination of the two methods. Simulation results show that the combined method outperforms the proposed methods, in isolation, at high bit-rates.


The cutting tests on carbon steels, alloy steels and aluminum were carried out with ceramic, cermet and carbide tools. From the results, the types of failure on the flank and face of tools were observed and the applicability of ceramic tools to various Kinds of work materials was discussed. The results are as follows : (1) The kinds of failure of ceramic tools when machining steels are essentially the same as those of carbide tools. The rectangular type of wear on the flank of ceramic tools is generally observed. (2) It may be concluded that the ceramic tool shows good cutting characteristics for high carbon steel and free cutting steel, in comparison with carbide and cermet tools.


Objective
To analyze long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) expression profiles in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) with Hashimoto's thyroiditis (PTC-HT, group A) and PTC only (PTC, group B) .

Methods
55 cases of thyroid species were collected. High-throughput microarray lncRNA was used to detect the expression difference of lncRNAs between group A and group B. Real-time quantitative PCR (QRT-PCR) was used to verify.

Results
1031 lncRNAs and 1338 mRNAs were detected abnormally expressed in tissue samples of group A compared to B. GO and Pathway analysis of mRNAs suggested some biological processes changed obviously, such as immune system and immune reaction. QRT-PCR showed that the expression of uc002stn.1, ENST00000452578 and uc002sti.1 in group A and group B was significantly different.

Conclusion
IncRNAs expression was significantly different in PTC with or without HT, which may play important roles in the pathogenesis of PTC with HT.

Key words:
Hashimoto's thyroiditis; Papillary thyroid carcinoma; Long noncoding RNA; Microarray


This review aimed to survey some classes of  phytoplankton composition in  Iraqi waters. These data were taken from investigations of phytoplankton in Iraq, covering both freshwater and saline waters in many cities. A total of 342 taxa belonging to twelve classes have been recorded in the review. Among these classes, Chlorophyceae presented a larger number of taxa, while Compsopogonophyceae, Conjugatophyceae, Coscinodiscophyceae and Trebouxiophyceae presented one taxon only. This study proposes to present a checklist of phytoplanKton in Iraq, built on the compilation of preceding surveys.


The fourth industrial revolution, also commonly known as Industry 4.0, has brought about significant advancements in areas such as connection, mobility, analytics, scalability, and data, which have resulted in a complete transformation of the service and manufacturing industry. Quality 4.0 is an approach that integrates technology and data into quality management systems while also retaining traditional methods. This approach enhances value by facilitating modifications through culture, leadership, and collaboration. This paper aims to evaluate the sustainability and effectiveness of Quality 4.0 tools in the telecom industry by utilizing advanced Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) techniques. The study seeks to analyze the impact of Quality 4.0 tools on both the quality management system and the overall sustainability of a telecom company through a combination of quantitative and qualitative data collection methods. The study has identified four crucial parameters of sustainability that significantly impact the sustainability evaluation of Quality 4.0 tools. It is focused on the telecom industry, specifically within the quality department, and identifies three potential tools for Quality 4.0 that are considered alternatives within the MCDM method. To effectively evaluate the effectiveness of these tools, the study utilizes the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) techniques of MCDM. The results of this study provide a comprehensive overall ranking of the alternative tools, while a sensitivity analysis based on sustainability criteria demonstrates that the ranking of the alternatives can change based on specific sustainability factors. This groundbreaking research sheds invaluable light on the sustainability and effectiveness of Quality 4.0 hybrid tools in the telecom industry, providing valuable insights and practical recommendations for organizations considering their adoption.


Street foods are of main concern today due to their popularity and ease of availability. As it is fulfilling the requirements at reasonable rates, population usually refers to street food. But the food safety and sanitation is also a very important aspect. A Questionaries' of sixteen questions was prepared and people were asked to fill it according to their experience with street foods. A descriptive analysis on the data generated was done and results were interpreted. Serious food poisoning is linked with unhygienic street food consumption. Lack of Knowledge among people as well as vendors is the main cause of food borne diseases. This study is concerned with the satisfactory or unsatisfactory response of people according to their experience.


After almost two decades of privatization, the private sector has now become the key actor providing many aspects of transport infrastructures and services. Remarkably, the private sector is also starting to build, finance, and operate basic infrastructure, although public sector financing will continue to be important, especially in activities that carry strong socioeconomic implications. After a transport infrastructure is decided to be privately delivered and produced, government and franchise board of directors must decide who the franchise chief executive officer should be and what incentive contracts to offer. During the selection and the subsequent relationship with a franchise CEO, board of directors and government will have incomplete information as to his credentials for the position and (post selection) performance. Given a survey of different forms of information inefficiency, the importance of agency costs in determining a transport infrastructure's overall efficiency can be put in context. In private investment of transport projects there are two primary principals, the government and the board of directors. They will have incentive contracts with the agent, namely the CEO and his/her executive team of the private franchise. And, in a development type transport project the infrastructure is mainly served to anticipate real property development. Sometimes they are dependent on contributions from government or land developers. There then exists occasions where transportation service and property development could: cross subsidized to each other, change the capital structure and project returns, reverse CEO's efforts (due to different risks and returns between services), and distort the resources related to the transport project operation and management. The incentive contracts will then be designed on the basis of regulation, subsidy policy, investment returns, capital structure, CEO's efforts and the behavior information being exposed. Contracts of infrastructure projects are collected by means of interview, questionnaire, and from major journals that cover news or events of private provision of transport infrastructure as well as secondary sources from case studies. Each observation consists of the identity of the country group classified by the World Bank, the nature of the financial contract between the CEO and the Board and the incentive regulation designed by the government, and a comprehensive set of project characteristics. Each country group chooses one of several standard contracts for each of its awarded projects. It is therefore possible to use these data to assess the relationship between contract choice and the tasks that the agent performs. In particular, since many projects are multitask operations, the data can be used to analyse interactions between the characteristics of non-transport activities, such as different types of estate development and the choice of incentive contracts. The goal to analyze the financial-incentive contracting designation is to provide insight that is useful for constructing an efficient and complete contract. The process of this study is therefore to combine the topics of private transport delivery, agency theory, and executive incentive to analyze the incentive designing and financial contracting issues in a two-principals-to-one-agent situation (refer as common-agency) with related infrastructure products (namely transport service and different types of property development and shall be referred as multitask-agency) and product characteristics (such as substitution among services).


Since the early 1940s, the Supreme Court has developed several doctrines under which a federal court may abstain from exercising its jurisdiction, leaving the parties to proceed in state court.' The abstention doctrines thus provide judicial exceptions to the federal jurisdictional statutes in order to prevent federal courts from intruding unnecessarily into matters of importance to the states.2 The "administrative abstention" doctrine, created by the Supreme Court in Burford v. Sun Oil Co.,' allows federal courts to abstain from reviewing certain decisions of state administrative agencies or from otherwise assuming the functions of state courts in the development and implementation of a state's public policies. Despite thirty-six years of case law, the contours of Burford abstention remain unclear. This comment examines the rationale and development of the Burford doctrine and suggests ways in which that doctrine should


China's excellent traditional culture has a history of thousands of years, which may influence the students' thinking and behavior, therefore, it will be good if the China's excellent traditional culture is integrated into the teaching. In this paper, the problems that are faced following the integration of "Numerical Calculation Methods" course with the China's traditional culture, and ideological and political into teaching, were analyzed. Further, the strategy and specific implementation plan for the integration of traditional culture, ideological and political elements with the numerical calculation methods course was proposed. This provides a new platform, and experiences following the integration of basic mathematics courses in colleges and universities with curriculum traditional culture, ideological and political education.


The research objective was to determine the phenotypic diversity of the qualitative characteristics of Kampung chickens. This research uses a descriptive statistic method. A total of 300 adult (unsex) chickens aged 6 months were used for this study. Qualitative characteristics include: color feather, color pattern, comb shape, fliker, and color variations. The results showed that the gene frequencies of colored feathers and colorless feathers from Kampung chickens were 0.96% and 0,04. The gene frequencies for the color feather pattern were 0.61, 0.43, and 0,03 for the columbian, wild and black color patterns. The gene frequencies for striated and plain hair were: 0.29 and 0.71. The gene frequencies for silver and gold feathers are 0.30, and 0.71%. The Gene Frequencies for Single Comb and Pae are 0.60 and 0.40. The phenotypic frequency of the color pattern of the Kampung chickens was 43.33%, 38.00%, and 12.00%, for wild, Columbia and black pattern. Phenotypic frequency of lurik and plan were: 81.34% and 18.66%. The phenotypic frequency of silver and gold feather were 31,89%, and 68.11%.  The phenotypic frequencies of the comb shape single, pea, rose, and walnuts were 36%, 27,82%, 18,51% dan 17,67%. The population of Paguyaman chickens has a phenotype of colored feathers, the color feather pattern are wild, single comb, yellow shank color, and these characteristics are dominant compared to other characteristics.


Absolute rate coefficients for the reactions of OH with CH{sub 3}OH (k{sub 1}) and CD{sub 3}OH (k{sub 2}) were measured over the temperature range 293-866 K by using the laser photolysis/laser-induced fluorescence technique. The kinetic data, in the units cm{sup 3} molecule{sup {minus}1} s{sup {minus}1}, are fitted to the three-parameter expressions k{sub 1}(T) = 5.89 {times} 10{sup {minus}20}T{sup 2.65} exp(+883 cal mol{sup {minus}1}/RT) and k{sub 2}(T) = 1.28 {times} 10{sup {minus}22}T{sup 3.48} exp(+1275 cal mol{sup {minus}1}/RT). The measured kinetic isotope effect, k{sub 1}/k{sub 2}, yields insight into the branching ratio for H-atom abstraction from the methyl versus the hydroxyl site in methanol.


New Zealand soldiers wrestling bareback on mules in Louvencourt, France, during World War I. Photograph taken 22 May 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders.
Other - An original print from this negative is in album PA1-f-094.
Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - H602
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches


Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cell systems have been studied as the alternatives of the internal combustion engine systems. However, these systems are not appearing in daily life yet, due to the high cost, shortage of infrastructure, technical issues, etc. Concerning technical issues, water/thermal management is a critical one to keep high proton conductivity in the electrolyte membrane for the design of PEM fuel cell systems. Therefore, the heat and mass balances in the PEM fuel cell system have been studied for a long time. However, the influence of stack design on the power and heat generation have not been deeply discussed yet. In this study, influence of the pressure drop and maldistribution in a PEM fuel cell stack on the heat and mass balance in the 100 kW systems was studied. It has been found the heat load in the radiator is reduced by the consideration of the pressure drop in the stack. This is because of the reduction of the water condensation in the stack. The amount of heat, which is reduced in the radiator, is mostly shifted to the condenser for the water recovery. As a conclusion, it can be argued that, by involving the influence of pressure drop in the stack, the amount of heat load in the radiator is reduced about 5%. This is mostly due to less water condensation in the stack. This reduced heat is shifted to the condenser. It corresponds to about 10 % increase in the heat load in the condenser. The design of the radiator and condenser must consider this shift in heat load due to the pressure drop in the stack. (Less)


In the present study, efforts were made to optimize the growth of Azotobacter beijerinckii in the media with essential nutrients for production of PHB. The effects of temperature, agitation rate, carbon and nitrogen source concentrations on microbial grows and PHB production were investigated. Glucose and ammonium chloride were used as carbon and nitrogen source, respectively. The optimal temperature for the growth and PHB synthesis appeared to be 30°C. However, over the range of 25–38°C, the effect of temperature was not very significant. Fermentation under controlled conditions such as agitation rate of 250 rpm, incubated inoculums for 15 h, fermentation temperature at 30°C, and fermentation time of 72 h was performed. Glucose concentration of 30 to 60 g/l with increment of 10 g/l and ammonium chloride in the range of 0.5 to 2 g/l with increment of 0.5 g/l were utilized as carbon and nitrogen sources, respectively. The PHB production was maximized at the desired concentration of glucose (50 g/l) and ammonium chloride (1.5) for carbon and nitrogen sources, respectively. A. beijerinckii exhibited maximum biomass of 17.31 g/l with a PHB concentration of 5.84 g/l. Under the best conditions, PHB constituted up to 34% of dry cell mass after 64 h of culture. The average biomass yield coefficient on glucose was about 0.57 kg/kg.


This report, the fourth and last in a series of reports for EPRI Project RP1065, describes an application of the three-dimensional, nonlinear, fluid-structure interaction methodology that was developed in the project. The methodology was applied to the calculation of the structural response of pressure vessel internals during a postulated LOCA. The model used was a modification of the HDR Test V31.1 model described in the third volume of this series. The PWR/HDR model included a simplified representation of fuel bundles so that the configuration was closer to a typical PWR than was the HDR C31.1 model. Results of the PWR/HDR calculation are compared with the HDR V31.1 results. Transient response of the fuel bundle is also discussed.


Incisor extraction in orthodontics treatment has been one of the options since there are very few patients who are considered for such treatment. Proper and detailed diagnosis should be done so that good results can be obtained. A case report of a 20 year old female is presented who has Class II, Division 1 malocclusion with crowding in the lower arch.


To improve the viscosity and improve the rheological characteristics of the produced oil in fields with heavy, high-viscosity oil, a number of technologies are used. Heat treatment and other methods of physical exposure; dilution with light fractions of oil or various solvents, as well as the introduction of additives that regulate the viscoelastic properties of the oil. The work considers nonionic and anionic surfactants that are obtained from petroleum products. Alkyl aromatic and alkyl naphthenic-aromatic hydrocarbons in the heavy oil fraction are the most important that produce fat-soluble additives.


Motivation One of the long‐expected goals of genome‐scale metabolic modelling is to evaluate the influence of the perturbed enzymes on flux distribution. Both ordinary differential equation (ODE) models and constraint‐based models, like Flux balance analysis (FBA), lack the capacity to perform metabolic control analysis (MCA) for large‐scale networks. Results In this study, we developed a hyper‐cube shrink algorithm (HCSA) to incorporate the enzymatic properties into the FBA model by introducing a pseudo reaction V constrained by enzymatic parameters. Our algorithm uses the enzymatic information quantitatively rather than qualitatively. We first demonstrate the concept by applying HCSA to a simple three‐node network, whereby we obtained a good correlation between flux and enzyme abundance. We then validate its prediction by comparison with ODE and with a synthetic network producing voilacein and analogues in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We show that HCSA can mimic the state‐state results of ODE. Finally, we show its capability of predicting the flux distribution in genome‐scale networks by applying it to sporulation in yeast. We show the ability of HCSA to operate without biomass flux and perform MCA to determine rate‐limiting reactions. Availability and implementation Algorithm was implemented by Matlab and C ++. The code is available at https://github.com/kekegg/HCSA.


Using a paradigm similar to the one employed by Crowe et al., this study was undertaken to determine the genetic characteristics of multiple neurofibromatosis in Korean people. Thirty three subjects were used in this study. All subjects were identified through an exarnination of the records of all patients who had visited the Department of Dermatology of Chonnam Medical University Hospital between 1967 and 1976. Relatives of subjects were examined whenever possible, The results of the study projected that the total number of persons in Chonriarn Province afflicted with multiple neurofibromatosis lies sornewhere between 880 and 16,500. Crowe estimated that between 2500 and 3300 patients could be found on Michigans lower peninsula. Sixty percent of this studys subjects presented as sporadic patients, a condition thought to be the resu.lt of a genetic mutation. They had no blood relatives who demonstrated the disease. Fifty percent of Crowes subject were found to be sporadic patients, and a similar study by a Japanese investigator revealed a sporadic patient rate of sixty percent. In this study, the rernaininp 40% of the subject group conformed to the expected genetic frequency, thus pointing toward the fact that rnultiple neurofibrornatosis is a highly penetrant autosomal dorninant disease. This was demonstrted by the fact that, of the 79 offspring bad by this group, 82 persons demonstrated multiple neurofibromatosis. This study also suggested somatic mutation in 3 of the 20 sporadic patients. Because this nutation did not occur at the germinal level,
the patient is much less likely to transmit this disease to his offspring, One patient showed the usual clinical and family traits but the chromosome analysis was negative. Genetic issues associated with multiple neurofibromatosis are also discussed in this sturly.


In today's deregulated energy markets, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) methods are frequently employed for estimating short-term load demand. Out of all the AI/ML techniques available, Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) provide different features such as controller design, analysis of regression and forecasting, etc. The efficacy of ANN depends on how well the network is trained. So, the proper selection of training algorithm is required for effective load demand forecasting in the system considered. So, with this intent in this paper, the performance of different ANN-based weight updating algorithms such as Levenberg-Marquardt (LM), BFGS Quasi-Newton (BFGS-QN), and Resilient Back Propagation algorithms (RBP) are investigated to forecast the load demands on 24-hours basis in a microgrid cluster. All the simulations are done in "MATLAB/Simulink 2021a software". To validate, the performance indices of all the algorithms are measured and compared, thereby the superior algorithm is recommended.


A Multiplicative Spanner is a spanning sub-graph <tex>$H(V, E^{\prime})$</tex> of a graph <tex>$G(V, E)$</tex> such that <tex>$distance(u, v, H) < t. distance (u, v, G)$</tex> where <tex>$distance(u, v, G)$</tex> is the shortest distance between the vertices <tex>$u$</tex> and <tex>$v$</tex> in <tex>$G$</tex>. The parameter <tex>$t$</tex> is called the multiplicative stretch of the spanner. When the size of the graph is reduced to construct a spanner, the shortest distance between the vertices increases, consequently the stretch factor also increases. It is known that the construction of spanners with optimum size-stretch is hard. Many researchers proposed efficient algorithms that yield proven near optimal results. In this paper we propose a quadratic time algorithm to construct multiplicative t-spanners with a bound on the stretch factor.


The chapter explicates the need to rethink the prospects of sustainable finance (SF) for agribusiness transformation in spite of the challenges facing the sector in Nigeria. It extends to highlighting the implications of the nexus on entrepreneurship development. After a triangular data analysis using the world development indicators (2000-2016) and scholarly articles, the authors found that the prospects of SF are enormous: (1) Nigeria has a modest agricultural growth performance in the crop, food, livestock, and cereal production that could support SF; and (2) SF options such as green loans, green bonds, green credit, green investment funds, green mortgage scheme, and other green financial support instruments could be suitable for agribusiness transformation in the country. Also, the content analysis revealed there are 13 challenges facing agribusiness transformation in the country, and these have harmed the vegetation, farmland, and ocean leading to low productivity. The authors contribute to the literature by identifying SF options as a game-changer for agribusiness transformation.


Aim: To value the most frequent psicopatolgy in six to ten years old children who were premature.
Methods: Cross sectional study. Patient from neurology pediatric database, which assist to medical visit according to the premature childbirth protocol in the Central Military Hospital. We took the patient who has between 6 to 10 years old, and each one answered the Achenbach behavior child scale.
Results: We studied 62 school patients (26 girls) with a history of prematurity (gestational age mean 33.84 weeks, minimum 25, maximum 36), in which it was found from the Achenbach scale, a higher frequency of internalizing syndromes, the most frequent was somatization, followed by ADHD. No statistically significant correlation with risk factors studied was found.
Conclusion: Patients with a history of prematurity require neuropsychological follow - psychiatric disorders found to prevent behavioral frequently in this population, as are somatic complaints, ADHD and defiant disorder.


Art as a discipline, has attached more and more attention, sketch as the important one aspect, has been a lot of controversy in the teaching method, this paper puts forward some thinking points treating using "heart" to sketch the "shape" based on the current situation of sketch education. With the increasing interest in art, art as a discipline in the major colleges and universities become increasingly hot up. The majority of institutions are hoping to start this piece of "art" brand. While sketch, is the basis of shaping arts, but also the basis of learning art. It is a skill that all the students who study art must master, but now they are faced with some difficulties, so, sketch and even art teaching reform have become an urgent problem to be solved. Most of the current sketch education model still remain in the simply teaching techniques stage, purely depicting the image, so that the content is too "rigid", in other words, that works lack of tension and creativity. The reason for this situation is not enough skill, nor the lack of ability of teachers, or students learning it are not serious enough. I think its real crux is that we have not achieved the using "heart" to sketch the "shape". The so-called using "heart" to sketch "shape", the first meaning is to use "heart" to feel the beauty of art. If you want to learn to feel beauty, first of all to learn "observation", "observation" does not mean "see", "observation" is active, and "see" is implied passive meaning; the core of "observation" is the process, "see" focusing on the results. In order to observe the images we have to describe, we must not only look at every detail of it, but also regard the heart as a pair of invisible hand, to touch its "soul", feel its inner vitality, and even find a breakthrough, pouring your emotions. For example, when we face a building, not only to show its shape and its material, but also to show its unique historical and cultural heritage, regional characteristics, etc. At this point, we can through their own feelings create a special or even exaggerated changes in light and shade, the surrounding environment set off or other ways to express the things we feel. Second, specifically training this ability, we should establish a model of the combination of that short-term task and long-term task, short-term task is based on the current arrangement of the task, long-term task is to gradually master more skills, at the same time, make continuous changes on the works in the process, in the process of completing long-term tasks, students through self-examination can consolidate and master a variety of skills. This teaching process should be "from shallow to deep, from the surface to inner, from simple to complex, step by step", students only through the heart to experience their own works have more and better ideas to improve, so that works better express their own will, to give their work vitality. 1 In fact, if you want to be felt carefully, difficult or not difficult, just a little, that is the love of art. In the present education system, less and less students learning art is really loving art. Only in a love of art heart, I think all of the above will not be so difficult. It is difficult to train students how to cultivate the love of art. As a teacher, we should be appropriate to change our teaching methods, the most important point is to stimulate students to the initiative of learning, so that students are in the main position, they participate in the creation of the discussion, appropriately guided by the teacher, rather than blindly instill their own ideas, after all, everyone has their own unique preferences, a teacher's ideas and opinions do not necessarily apply to each student. If you only use their own ideas to unify the standard of appreciation works, will stifle students' independent interest and ability, especially for college students, at their stage, the need to fully explore their sense of innovation. In addition, we should try to use their passion for art, using the enthusiasm of the This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Copyright © 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. 1948 Advances in Computer Science Research (ACSR), volume 76 7th International Conference on Education, Management, Information and Mechanical Engineering (EMIM 2017)


Abstract Before 1985 the home-office deduction was rarely available for professors. The Weissman Case (1984) liberalized the home-office deduction significantly. Now the focal point doctrine has been dismissed by the U.S. Tax Court and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, making the home-office deduction more available to university professors. This article addresses the qualifying factors for professors to obtain the home-office deduction.


It has been reported that higher serum levels of phosphate (P) and calcium (Ca) are associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and premature death of maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients. Thus, several clinical guidelines recommend that serum P and Ca levels in MHD patients be maintained within the optimal range. However, in the current situation in which the guidelines have penetrated widely, there are few reports that have investigated the association between chronic kidney disease (CKD)-mineral and bone disorder (MBD)-related factors and adverse events in MHD patients.

 The study design was a 3-year multicenter, observational study. A total of 989 MHD patients were enrolled in this study. The blood levels of Hb, ferritin, iron, total iron-binding capacity, β2-microglobulin, creatinine, total protein, albumin, total cholesterol, Ca and P were measured every 3 months. The blood levels of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hCRP) and intact parathyroid hormone (int-PTH) were also measured every six months. The correlation between CKD-MBD factors and adverse events was evaluated by the time-dependent Cox hazard model.

 In 82% of patients, 83% of patients, and 78% of patients, serum P levels, serum Ca levels, and int-PTH levels, respectively, were maintained in the target ranges (3.5≤P≤6.0 mg/dL, 8.4≤Ca≤10.0 mg/dL, 60≤int-PTH≤240 pg/mL) that were recommended by the 2012 guidelines of the Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy. After correcting for age, sex, past history of CVD, Hb, albumin, and hCRP, compared with the patients with target levels of P, patients with low P levels (<3.5 mg/dL) had a significantly higher risk for CVD (P=0.042, HR: 2.27), hospitalization (P=0.034, HR: 2.44), and all-cause mortality (P=0.03, HR: 2.29). On the other hand, there was no association between higher serum P levels and adverse events. Compared with the patients who maintained target int-PTH levels, patients with lower (<60) (P=0.025, HR: 1.46) and higher (>240 pg/mL) (P=0.04, HR: 1.44) int-PTH levels had a significantly higher risk for hospitalization. There was no significant correlation between serum Ca and adverse events. Furthermore, compared with the patients who maintained the target levels of both Ca and P, the patients with target Ca and low P levels (P=0.042, HR: 2.75) had a significantly higher risk for CVD. Compared with the patients who maintained the target levels of both Ca and P, the patients with low Ca and low P levels (P<0.001, HR: 4.4) and target Ca and low P levels (P=0.22, HR: 2.0) had a significantly higher risk for hospitalization.

 After correcting for several clinical factors, we found that patients who maintained low serum P levels had a significantly higher risk for CVD and all-cause mortality than patients who maintained higher Ca and P levels. Undoubtedly, extremely high serum P, Ca, and int-PTH levels should be treated according to the guidelines. However, in the current situation in which the guidelines have penetrated widely, CKD-MBD management, in which the clinical conditions of low P, Ca, and int-PTH are considered, is needed.


Nowadays, the number of cases of violence has been responsible for a growing demand for care in public health services, especially in emergency units. This is an article of reflection, which aims to reflect on the dynamic interaction between health professionals and victims of violence during the process of care in emergency rooms. The process of taking care of health professionals suffers changes, which may be differentiated, depending on the placement of professional ethics, leading to major ethical and moral dilemmas in emergency services. Therefore, we conclude that the consolidation of a quality care for victims of violence is necessary to: identify the main obstacles faced during the care, establishing a support network of referral services for cases of violence, development of institutional routines for each type of violence, establishment of better working conditions of health professionals, especially those in the emergency room.


Aiming at the requirement of the research on the watercraft crashworthy system,the paper did research and design on a kind of new crashworthy alarming system based on watercraft-based navigation radar.The system took advantage of modern FPGA technology and DSP (digital signal processing) technology,and combined the FPGA and PC/104.The target real-time surveillance was implemented through the collection,detection and procession of the radar signal.And the threaten to the target was taken automatically.


Determining alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels is the most common way to evaluate liver injury. However, several studies have clearly demonstrated


This experiment is to study the characteristics of the vertical dense liquid jet discharged into the two-layer density stratification coastal waters. Experiments were conducted in the water tank. Laser light sheet was created to illuminate the dense liquid jet. In order to obtain a better illumination of the jet, titanium dioxide, TiO was added and mixed with the dense liquid. The CCD (Charged Couple Detector) was used to grab the images of the jet. The digital image process technique was applied to analyze images of dense liquid jet. Results show that the linear log-log relations between the dense liquid jet terminal height ( ) and the jet initial densimetric Froude number ( ) exist for the various two-layer density stratification ( ) cases of ambient coastal waters. The final width ( ) of the dense liquid jet and the initial densimetric Froude number (F ) also has the same results of the linear log-log relations for different stratification cases. 2


Aims: To investigate the influence of appropriate culture medium by optimizing the cultural conditions affecting the growth and bioactive metabolite production by Streptomyces gulbargensisDAS 131 under submerged culture conditions in order to reduce the cost of fermentation process to improve the formation of antimicrobial compounds.


ABSTRACT This retrospective study directly compared the morbidities associated with abdominal hysterectomy and abdominal myomectomy for the treatment of symptomatic leiomyomas in premenopausal women. Medical records of consecutive inpatients with a discharge diagnosis of leiomyoma who underwent operative therapy from July 1990 through June 1991 were reviewed. A total of 313 patients met inclusion criteria and were available for analysis. Women undergoing hysterectomy (n = 204) were older (42.8 ± 0.3 vs 35.8 ± 0.5 years, mean ± SEM, p < 0.0001) and had greater mean gravidity (1.9 ± 0.1 vs 0.7 ± 0.1, p < 0.0001) and parity (1.4 ± 0.1 vs 0.3 ± 0.1, p < 0.0001) than women undergoing myomectomy (n = 109). Preoperative indications, symptoms, and preoperative uterine size were comparable between groups. There was no difference between the groups in the mean length of the procedure, the proportion of patients receiving blood transfusions, or the mean length of hospital stay. Women undergoing hysterectomy had a gr...


This paper introduces some questions of low load prcssure oscillation: the unit vibration and the undulating quantity exceed the allowed figure and hydraulic turbine wheel vane crack of 4~# Hydroturbine generator in Wanjiazhai Hydropower Station,and introduces corresopnding technological transformations and the effect after the transforming.


To facilitate the cultural and technical changes that are a hallmark of successful digital transformation, a few leading-edge firms have adopted the principles of FLOW-Agile. 10; 10; 10;,The FLOW framework formalizes a visual representation of a company's adaptive value-seeking process being implemented by Agile teams. 10;,In FLOW-Agile, the aim is to make all processes visible on the walls of operating units and to allow employees to collaborate in constant process redesign so they are continuously defining the best way to get work done.,A case example shows how Paddy Power Betfair, an online betting site, initiated a completely new system of open, visual and collaborative project and process design that now serves more than 3.5 billion application program interface (API) requests every day.,For leaders to guide their companies through the transition to digital culture, a sea change for established businesses, they must be able to understand and explain that culture in the context of the values and the flows of work that make digital-age companies successful. To facilitate the cultural and technical changes that are a hallmark of successful digital transformation, a few leading-edge firms have adopted the principles of FLOW-Agile, an adaptation of the Agile framework designed to enable small teams to accomplish rapid iterations of customer-focused projects in a networked system. The FLOW framework formalizes a visual representation of a company's adaptive value-seeking process being implemented by Agile teams.


The paper presents the concept of using the capabilities of Microsoft Access to manage and archive technical documentation made in the CAD systems (e.g. AutoCAD). An original application was created in the Access program for the design documentation of a rotary cleaning device prototype. It has been shown that such an application can be used to organize and view drawings without the need to use expensive commercial programs to manage drawing files.


The rapid development of computer technology in the past decades opens up the way to CAI (Computer-Assisted Instruction), thus revolutionizing the traditional English teaching method. However due to its inherent limitations and lack of person-to-person interaction, CAI is not very conductive to improve the learners' communicative abilities. Cooperative language learning method, emerging in mid 80s and based on student-student interaction and cooperation is helpful in improving learners' actual communicative competence, so it can be used to remedy the defects of CAI. On the basis of analyzing their advantages respectively, the author attempts to put forward a new CALL strategy to integrate both.


Hypertension is one of the many cardiovascular diseases which lead to death.Inflammation may be an important link in the developmental process of hypertension.In cases of essential hypertension,and in hypertension modeling,the tissue expression and plasma concentration of inflammatory mediators are shown to be increased in patients.Epidemiological studies have shown that the presence of chronic low grade inflammation can anticipate the future development of hypertension.


This paper targets the SHL recognition challenge, which focuses on the location-independent and user-independent activity recognition using smartphone sensors. To address this long-range temporal problem with periodic nature, we propose a new approach (team IndRNN), an Independently Recurrent Neural Network (IndRNN) based long-term temporal activity recognition with spatial and frequency domain features. The data is first segmented into one second sliding windows, then temporal and frequency domain features are extracted as short-term temporal features. A deep IndRNN model is used to predict the unknown test dataset location. Under the predicted location, a deep IndRNN model is further used to classify the 8 activities with best performed features. Finally, transfer learning and model fusion are used to improve the result under the user-independence case. The proposed method achieves 86.94% accuracy on the validation set at the predicted location.


Ice forces can be estimated from measurements of the pressures which occur in the ice near obstructions. The special problems associated with making this particular kind of pressure measurement are discussed, as well as the ways in which these problems have been solved by development of a new ice pressure sensor with certain favorable characteristics. The present paper concludes that the most advantageous sensor in order to minimize ice over loading and to permit accurate high-pressure measurements, has a stiffness comparable to that of the ice. (Author)


The density gradient centrifugation of the histamine-sensitizing factor (HSF) of B. pertussis extracts in admixture with purified foreign proteins has revealed a property of the HSF not previously recognized. The HSF sedimentation was markedly accelerated in the presence of human serum macroglobulin and hog thyroglobulin. The absence of gross detectable changes in the protein profiles after the displacement of the HSF by sedimentation suggests the need for studies on the chemical composition of the HSF.The affinity of the HSF towards the foreign proteins, particularly those of large molecular size, has suggested a useful model by which the relationship of the HSF to other biological activities of B. pertussis may be studied.


Tasik Aman was constructed in 1990 as a flood retention pond in the Universiti Sains Malaysia, Main Campus, Penang, Malaysia. Tasik Aman has been experiencing accumulation of excess nutrients from the surrounding area mainly from Sungai Gambir, causing high algae population in the water body. Thus, a study was carried out in December 2019, focusing on the current water quality determination of Tasik Aman, to predict the future water quality condition of the lake. Four sites were designated to conduct water quality analysis comprising of water temperature, dissolved oxygen (DO), pH, transparency, biological oxygen demand (BOD), total dissolved solids, total suspended solids, conductivity, orthophosphate, chlorophyll-a, total phosphorus, ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate. Some physico-chemical parameters were measured in-situ while some were measured in the lab by analyzing the water samples collected in the field in accordance with APHA (2005). DO and BOD data were modeled using Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program (WASP). Tasik Aman showed high readings in temperature, TSS, TDS, conductivity, DO, BOD, chlorophyll-a, and nitrate-nitrogen. One-way ANOVA further revealed significant differences of DO, TDS, conductivity, transparency, orthophosphate, nitrate, and chlorophyll-a among the stations of Tasik Aman (p<0.05). Based on WASP analysis, simulated graphs produced for Tasik Aman showed a decrease in DO and an increase in BOD level proving that the lake contain high nutrient content that may exacerbate the eutrophication.


A comparison is made of the intensity distribution of
the horizontally and vertically polarized radiation sidescattered from small sph
erical particles in a cylindrical scattering volume.The incident radiation is a
nearly collimated linearly polarized He-Ne laser beam.The scattering medium cons
ists of various concentrations of particles which are either 0.22 μm or 0.494
μm in diameter and which were suspended in filtered,distilled water.In general,
the effect of the diameter of the particle on depolari-zing the incident beam is
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MicroRNAs(miRNA) are a new class of noncoding RNAs, which are encoded as short inverted repeats in the genomes of animals and plants. It is believed that miRNA are modulators of target mRNA translation and stability. MiRNA might play an important role in cells. [


A missal for the royal abbey of Saint-Denis, made around 1350 (Victoria and Albert Museum, London), contains a rare cycle of miniatures depicting the abbey's foundation legends for the feasts of Dedication of the Church and Invention of Saint Denis. This pictorial representation is closely related to a specific version of illuminated manuscripts of hagiography and chronicle, composed by monks of Saint-Denis, such as Vita et passio sancti Dyonisii (Paris, BnF MS Lat. 5286) and Grandes chroniques de France (London, British Library MS Royal 16 G VI). Liturgical texts for these feasts and the anniversary of King Dagobert as well as an extensive corpus of vita manuscripts, including Gesta Dagoberti, are analyzed to demonstrate the fusion of liturgy, chronicle, and hagiography stressing a special bond between the community and King Dagobert, an eternal patron in its collective memory, as appeared in writings of earlier Dionysian authors like Hilduin and Suger.