Over the past decades, hollow fibre membranes (HFMs) have attracted much interest of the researchers due to their extensive industrial usage in CO2 separation processes. In the current study, we have reported the effect of take-up speed on the fabrication of cellulose acetate (CA) HFMs in gas separation. The morphology of the resultant HFMs was examined by using field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM). The gas permeation results obtained in this work revealed that, when take-up speed increased from free fall to 12.2 m/min, CO2, N2 and CH4 permeances of the resultant CA HFM were reduced 55.68%, 87.25% and 82.00%, respectively. Meanwhile, gas pair selectivities were increased 146.18% and 247.76% respectively. These results were mainly due to the increment of polymer orientation and chain packing which suppressed the macro-voids in the HFMs and thus, the gas pair selectivities were improved. Furthermore, it was found that CA HFM spun at take-up speed of 12.2 m/min showed highest CO2/CH4 and CO2/N2 ideal selectivities of 3.9 and 3.6, respectively.


This paper provides a theory on how board of directors determine two important decisions: the amount of monitoring level, and the choice of a successor to a CEO. The board consists of a CEO, outside directors, and inside directors. The two types of directors have different incentives about becoming the next CEO. I analyze that when the incumbent board members jointly determine these decisions, they


Purpose. Develop an automated method for calculating parameters for heat pump systems for heating, air conditioning and hot water supply, designed for use in domestic conditions with non-standard heat transfer flows.
Methodology. Mathematical modeling of thermodynamic processes occurring in heating, air conditioning and hot water supply systems.
Findings. The automated method of calculating the parameters of non-traditional technology, which uses standard heat pump equipment of the water heating system for the cooling mode of the air in the warm period of the year, and the discharge of heat dissipated into the ground, was substantiated and developed; and for the needs of hot water supply heat pump air-liquid, acting as a high-speed water heater.
The estimation of technologies of the thermal energy utilization in buildings developed earlier by authors is executed. The first technology involved the use of a heat pump and heat accumulator scheme in the cold season, and halved the consumption of conventional fuel compared to a gas column for hot water at the same facility. The second technology involved heat recovery with the help of a heat accumulator in a complex system of air conditioning and hot water supply in the warm period, which saves from 74 to 82% of conventional fuel compared to the scheme with boiler and air conditioner without heat accumulator.
Critical conclusions were drawn about the need to use additional dimensional equipment for these technologies and the excess amount of hot water received. Possibilities of realization of such scheme were analyzed. Analytically substantiated recommendations on the design (ribbing of heat exchange surfaces) of heating devices and parameters of their operating modes in the cold and warm periods of the year were given. The condition of invariance of heat exchange areas of heating devices and basic water consumption in the heating system was fulfilled. The need to regulate the air conditioning regime by changing the water flow in the system to maintain a constant indoor air temperature with fluctuations in outdoor air temperature was substantiated.
Originality.  For the first time, attention is paid to the study of non-traditional methods of using heat pump heating for heating, air conditioning and hot water supply of residential premises. The automated method for determining rational parameters for these technologies was developed.
Practical value. The automated method of forming the control dependence of the mass flow of water in the system on the outside air temperature on the condition of constancy of the set comfortable indoor air temperature was developed. The use of air-liquid heat pump for hot water supply in the warm period was analyzed, a high energy conversion factor was noted (14 ... 22). The savings of conventional fuel from the application of the considered technology from 13% to 18% in comparison with the technology using a heat accumulator were substantiated.


The effects of chromium doping on the luminescence properties of the deep levels in gallium nitride (GaN) have been studied exclusively. Chromium (Cr) doping induced a blue luminescent band (BL) centered in the range of 2.79–2.91 eV with the limited Cr doping concentration varying from 0.5% to 1.5% and also a slight increase in the intensity of the yellow luminescent band (YL). By analyzing the luminescent spectrum obtained with different excitation intensities, Cr doping concentration and temperature dependences revealed the nature of donor–acceptor pair transition for the observed blue band. The participating donor and acceptor are expected to be the deep-acceptor related center, CrGa, and the shallow compensating vacancy complex, CrGa–VN respectively.


- Nowadays Pre-Engineered Building (PEB) concept is majorly used in industrial and commercial sectors due to its benefits of time optimization and economy. Pre-Engineered building means a steel building system that is predesigned and prefabricated. Various research on the comparison of displacement and weight parameters for conventional and PEB has been already done. This paper represents an investigation of PEB resting on different types of soil strata with pinned base and fixed base support. In this study a PEB structure of span 15m, 20m, and 40m resting on hard, medium, and soft soil strata with pinned and fixed base support is to be analyzed and designed according to Indian standard code IS 800, 2007, The design and analysis can be done using the software STAAD Pro.


The influence of the cations on the condensation of anions CdBr 4 2 ~ in salts (A')CdBr4(II) and (A) 2 CdBr 4 ( I I ) is studied by 79 ,81 Br N Q R and X-ray crystal structure determinations. (A')CdBr4 : A' = [H 3 N(CH 2 ) 3 NH 3 J 2 + (1) crystallizes with a layer-type anion structure at 298 K and A' = [ l ,4 (H 3 N) 2 C 6 H 4 J + (2 ) crystallizes with a chain-type anion structure at 298 K. (A) 2 CdBr 4 : A = [n -H 3 C(CH 2 ) 2 NH 3 ] + (3) crystallizes with a layer-type anion structure at 293 K. (1) shows successive phase transitions at 328, 363, and 495 K according to the N Q R and DSC measurements . Phase IV of (1): at 298 K orthorhombic, Pnma, Z = 4,a = 772.1 (4), b = 1905.4(9), c = 789.8(4) pm. 81 Br N Q R spectrum showed a doublet at 77 K (phase IV) with vx = 61.177 and v2 = 45.934 MHz and also a doublet at 350 K (phase III) with z/, = 57.581 and u 2 = 48.747 MHz. (2): at 295 K orthorhombic, Pnma, Z = 4, a = 802.5(3), b = 1775.1(6), c = 881.9(3) pm; the five-coordinated Cd atom and one-dimensional [CdBr4J~~ anion chain structure was observed. This coordination and chain structure are very rare for (A')CdX4(II) or (A)-,CdX4(II). Two 81 Br N Q R lines were observed at 77 K: vx = 70.159 and z/3 = 40.056 MHz. One more line appeared at 85 K: v2 = 53.622 MHz. A 8 Br NQR triplet was observed at 273 K: vx = 67.919, v2 = 56.317, and u3 = 40.907 MHz. (3) shows successive phase transitions at 121, 135, 165, and 208 K according to the NQR, DSC, and DTA measurements. Phase I of (3): at 293 K orthorhombic, Cmca , Z = 4, a = 783.4(4), b = 2480.2(10), c = 806.5(4) p m . 8 1 Br NQR doublet was observed at 77 K (phase V) and at 300 K (Phase I) with t/, = 61.060 and i/2 = 54.098 MHz (77 K); vx = 55.835 and u2 = 55.964 MHz (373 K). No NQR line could be observed in phases II, III, and IV.


The following new species of Melastomataceae from Peru and Bolivia are described:Tibouchina wasshausenii, Miconia rimachii, M. boomii, M. histothrix, M. thysanophylla, and Topobea pascoensis.


The article proves the position about the necessity of improvement of the Institution of tutorship with the help of technological management of institutionalization of the Institute. The theme of the research is determined by: firstly, high regulatory raising, forming potential of the Institution of tutorship, the search for mechanisms of its optimization and modernization, the possibility of expansion of the social perception of the corporate culture of the institution; secondly, the need for effective management of the institutionalization of coaching through the optimization of the regulatory, Supervisory, organizational functions and their social technology. Are the data of the author´s sociological research. The study was conducted in 2010 and 2012, according to one and the same indicators. This gave the author an opportunity to trace the development trends of the Institution of tutorship. The conducted research made it possible to outline the problem areas of activity of the Institute, associated first of all with the imperfect system of evaluation of work of curators, the personal qualities of the curator, lack of motivation curators. The author offers social technologies, containing ten components: 1) organization; 2) technology; 3) personnel; 4) communication; 5) the scientific-methodical; 6) information-analytical; 7) teacher training; 8) psychological; 9) motivational; 10) the evaluation. The author is recommended for use by the Dynamics of formation of the socio-moral maturity of the curator of the student group to measure the readiness of the curator to work with students.


Some problems in the process of land requisition in China at present were introduced and analyzed from the perspective of property right.Results showed that land property right system in China should be improved to protect the interests of farmers in land requisition.


Objective To investigate the performance of multi- mode MRI for adult patients with moyamoya disease( MMD) and its diagnostic value. Methods 10 patients with MMD admitted to Jilin City People's Hospital from March 2012 to February 2014 were selected. The results of MRI plain scan,ASL- PWI,SWI,3D- TOF- MRA,4D- TRAK- MRA and MRI enhanced scan( CE- MRI). Results MRI plain scan showed that flow- void signs of anterior cerebral artery( ACA) and middle cerebral artery( MCA) disappeared,and flow- void signs of moyamoya vessels and leptomeninges high signals appeared in basal ganglia; ASL- PWI showed that the cerebral blood flow( CBF) was reduced in ACA and MCA; SWI showed that the imaging development of small vein was deficient in infarction area,and there were multiple enlarged small veins in leptomeninges of compensation area; 3D- TOF- MRA directly showed that the stenosis or occlusion of the tail end of bilateral internal carotid artery( ICA) and head end of ACA and MCA,as well as the thickened and lengthened posterior cerebral artery( PCA) and moyamoya vessels at the base of brain; 4D- TRAK- MRA could show a dynamic panoramic image of blood supply in brain and neck and the collateral circulation of leptomeninges, and it had a accuracy of 90%( 9 /10) in diagnosing and grading MMD. Conclusion Multi- mode MRI can reflect the condition of brain parenchyma and intracranial blood vessel both in terms of morphology and function,which is regarded as an effective,non- invasive imaging methods for the screening,diagnosing and staging of MMD.


The author, in this note, critically examines the decision of the Borgarting Court of Appeals in the Dell Products case, wherein the Court held that the taxpayer, an Irish resident company, had an agency permanent establishment in Norway and consequently upheld the estimated assessment issued by the Norwegian tax authorities.


CT showed a rapid and almost total regression of the lesions of a primary cerebral lymphoma during corticoid therapy. Such results assists the evaluation of changes provoked by radiotherapy and chemotherapy, since corticoids are often combined with these treatments.


Code switching as a phenomenon has been extensively scrutinized especially in communities where people are exposed to more than two languages; that is, multilingual societies. Morocco is considered to be a multilingual country given the existence of a range of different languages (e.g. Moroccan Arabic, Tamazight, and French). Many research studies whose main concern was to deal with classroom discourse in bilingual/multilingual environments (e.g. Milk 1981, 1982; Gurthrie, 1984; Jacobson, 1979; Gonazalez & Maez 1980), were primarily concerned with the study of code switching between learners' first language and the language used as a medium of instruction.
 The study at hand seeks to shed light on three essential points. Firstly, it aims at investigating the extent to which Moroccan high school teachers switch from one language to another. Secondly, it explores the hidden motives behind code switching in language classrooms. Finally, it examines students' perceptions towards code switching.


While hardware implementations of inference routines for Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) are plentiful, current realizations of efficient BNN hardware training accelerators, suitable for Internet of Things (IoT) edge devices, leave much to be desired. Conventional BNN hardware training accelerators perform forward and backward propagations with parameters adopting binary representations, and optimization using parameters adopting floating or fixed-point real-valued representations-requiring two distinct sets of network parameters. In this paper, we propose a hardware-friendly training method that, contrary to conventional methods, progressively binarizes a singular set of fixed-point network parameters, yielding notable reductions in power and resource utilizations. We use the Intel FPGA SDK for OpenCL development environment to train our progressively binarizing DNNs on an OpenVINO FPGA. We benchmark our training approach on both GPUs and FPGAs using CIFAR-10 and compare it to conventional BNNs.


This study compares three procedures for the detection of differential item functioning (DIF) under item response theory (IRT): (a) Lord's chi-square, (b) Raju's area measures, and (c) the likelihood ratio test. Relations among the three procedures and some practical considerations, such as linking metrics and scale purification, are discussed. Data from two forms of a university mathematics placement test were analyzed to examine the congruence among the three procedures. Results indicated that there was close agreement among the three DIF detection procedures.


Most of the available literature on accelerated life testing deals with tests that use only one accelerating variable and no other explanatory variables. Frequently, however, there is a need to use more than one accelerating or other experimental variables. Examples include a test of capacitors at higher than usual levels of temperature and voltage, and a test of circuit boards at higher than usual levels of temperature, humidity, and voltage. M-step, step-stress models are extended to include k stress variables. Optimum M-step, step-stress designs with k stress variables are found. The polynomial model is considered as a special case, and a lack of fit test is discussed. Also a goodness-of-fit test is proposed and the appropriateness of using its asymptotic chi-square distribution for small samples is shown.


Examines the ontological interpretation of artwork as the chronotope (of semantic world). The address to the work of art as the chronotope helps to reveal its historicity (as its proper history and belonging to a particular culturalhistorical epoch), meanings and values, the integral image, its links to other artworks and the cultural space on the whole.


The AA. offer here a close reading if the images and layout structures from the introductory chapters of two history textbooks. In both countries (Sweden and Australia), textbooks play an important role in the construction of units of teaching and assessment materials, as in many other countries because they make considerable use of visual communication, and because each is concerned with themes of national identity


At the Mental Health Clinic of De Paul University 14 depressed middle-aged women have been treated in outpatient group therapy. On the basis of demonstrated improvement of patients in the group, the authors suggest that group therapy may be a preferred form of psychotherapy for similar patients.


The Australian sugar industry is highly competitive by world standards and in order to sustain this advantage, has maintained an expansionary phase to achieve better economies of scale. Expansion of sugar production generally means increased use of raw water feed and increased liquid effluent production, both of which are undesirable from an environmental perspective. For the adoption of strategies that can reduce both water usage and effluent production, it is essential to determine the water balance over key areas in a raw sugar factory. As water is a constituent in all process streams in a sugar factory and is used for heating and cooling, the balance is complex. This paper discusses how the water balance can be divided into five sub-balances, namely: an overall water balance, a raw water balance, a condensate balance, a cooling water balance and an effluent balance. A variety of methods are used to estimate the flows in each balance. These methods include standard factory measurements on key flows, for example, the cane crushing rate, effluent production rate and the water content in the bagasse (residual fibre after sucrose extraction). Specific snapshot measurements are performed to verify some flows or to determine important flows for the balance that are not measured routinely in the factory. Several computer programs, developed at the Sugar Research Institute, assist in determining flows that are difficult to measure. The procedure can highlight areas where savings in water consumption and reductions in effluent production could be achieved.


The development of medical equipment, telecommunications and computer's technology provides new possibilities for diagnostic purposes. Usually, it is necessary to use optical image or noise transmission. The application of the medical system with a system of optical fibers determines specific requirements of parameters and characteristics given in this paper. The optical fiber as a medium has some limits, versus energy and a quantity of information which could be propagated and distortionless detected and demodulated. Therefore, the fiber systems in different fibers dispositions are relay in various applications schemes. In the first approximations (very often in many cases of applications) the fiber transmits the optical signal (the part of optical image) without affecting signals in other fibers. In that application, the placement of each fiber in the system must be well defined (equal on both ends). A large number of fibers (about 10000) are needed for coherent systems with high resolution. The quality of transmission depends on possible damages in the system and attenuation of each fiber. One of the devices for optical transmission, frequently used in medical diagnostics, is endoscope.


Criteria for the existence of local thermal equilibrium in various classes of plasmas are derived. In addition to general criteria that should also be fulfilled for homogeneous and time-independent plasmas, special criteria must be imposed on homogeneous and/or transient plasmas. The influence of the imprisonment of resonance radiation on the establishment of thermal equilibrium is considered, and it is concluded that even then complete thermal equilibrium can usually not be achieved for multiply ionized species. (auth)


Recording characteristics of single and doublelayer perpendicular media without and with a thin soft magnetic backlayer are investigated using merged MR heads. Comparing with single-layer medium, even a thin soft backlayer of 10-nm thickness improves the low density output and overwrite properties of double-layer medium at the magnetic spacing less than 50 nm. For the double-layer medium with a backlayer of 50-nm thickness, an improved overwrite is achieved even at larger spacing, but the degradation of recording density is observed.


ABSTRACT In this investigation, we synthesized deep eutectic solvents (DESs) based on methyltriphenyl phosphonium bromide/tetra ethylene glycol (MTPPBr/TetEG) in different molar ratios ranging 1:2, 1:3, 1:4, and 1:6 and characterized by FTIR. The densities and viscosities were also measured at different temperatures. Dibenzothiophene (DBT) was extracted using the synthesized DES. Results concluded that at a single stage extraction, a 45% reduction of DBT sulfur compounds from model oil was found even at low-temperature 20°C.


Prognosis of disease progression is necessary for development of individualized treatment, understanding of the disease. Risk modeling is a challenging problem, and too often amount of available relevant observations is not sufficient to build a quality model with traditional approaches. New method Smooth Rank for survival analysis, risk modeling is introduced here. Smooth Rank is robust against overfitting on relatively small samples. The method is compared with established risk modeling methods on 10 real life datasets. The experiments confirmed significant advantage of the proposed method on smaller samples.


The paper analyzes the current situation and problem of industry cluster logistics informization in the west econom- ic zone of Taiwan Strait,puts forward the entire,framework of logistics informization construction and expatiates on the functions of in- duatry cluster logistics informization platform.


An operation method of an upper die in permanent mold casting device in which die opening of the upper die can be carried out stably. In the operation method of an upper die for a lower die in a permanent mold casting device for producing a casting product by pouring molten metal in a holding furnace into a die consisting of upper and lower dies through a stalk, a die open/close mechanism fixed to an elevating/lowering frame has an upper die elevating/lowering means performing die matching and die separation by elevating/lowering the upper die fixed to a lower portion with respect to the elevating/lowering frame and the lower die, and setting of a core in the upper and lower dies and formation of a space for taking out the product are performed by elevating the upper die elevating/lowering means with respect to the elevating/lowering frame and elevating the elevating/lowering frame with respect to the lower die. Molten metal is poured under a state where the elevating/lowering frame to which the die open/close mechanism having the upper die is fixed is secured with respect to the lower die, and then the upper die elevating/lowering means is operated while sustaining the secured state thus separating the upper die from the lower die.


This article examines interaction of literature discourse and institutional talks. The analysis of modern science fiction shows the ways the institutional talks enter the fictional discourse. The institutional talks take place in the professional sphere and contribute to the intellectualization of fiction which leads to further development of its special type, called intellectual literature.


Four major soil series (Jharokuali, Kumaradapalli, Ranibara and Kantiagada) representing the cashew growing soils in coastal Odisha, which are developed from different parent materials were studied for their morphological, physico-chemical properties and their suitability for cashew production. Soils are moderately deep to very deep, well drained, texture varied from sand to sandy clay. The soils are slightly acidic to moderately alkaline in nature. A cation exchange capacity is low. Plant available nutrients status of soils are low in N, low to high in available P and K. The DTPA-extractable Fe, Cu and Mn were sufficient. Available Zn is sufficient in surface horizons while deficient in subsoils.The soils at the order level are classified as Alfisols and Entisols at sub group level as Typic Rhodustalfs, Typic Haplustalfs and Typic Ustipsamments. Interpretative groupings for Land Capability, Land Irrigability and Suitability were assessed and identified soil related constraints and suggested appropriate managements measures to improve Cashew productivity.


Limited time makes it impossible to enter into details of four years' experience with music at Eloise. We shall confine ourselves, therefore, to the broader theoretical aspects, the general principles, and the major techniques. Dr. Samuel W. Hamilton in his preface to Music in Institutions by van-de-Wall expresses the following fecund thought: "Medicine, music, engineering-indeed every body of knowledge or practice-lives through a long period of empiricism before it can be formulated and passed along by any method except the most intimate apprenticeship. It is but yesterday that fever therapy was put under control for the benefit of the victims of a certain disease of the brain. Liver has been a foodstuff for ages, but only a few years ago we learned that a baffling and formerly fatal disease can often be checked by its use." Why does music affect human beings? Because tone and rhythm, put into proper order, appeal to the pleasure principle. Musical rhythm, which has a strong affinity to bodily rhythm, affects the Id, offers an opportunity for the ego to indulge in open erotisation as in "jitterbugging." The raw material of music is intimately linked with instinctual drives. Nature makes use of "music" in its work of sexual selection and self-preservation. Charles Darwin referred to music as "charming" and "fascination"; his concept of music was that it possesses a sort of hypnotic influence, the male animal using it to overcome the instinctive coyness of the female. Whether the music is self-made as in the stridulating insect, the drumming of the sniper's tail, or the singing of the birds; or by man-invented instruments, is another question. The chief point is that music has the property of attracting attention by appealing to the


Frequency response analysis (FRA) is a widely used approach for detecting winding faults in a transformer. Appropriate and quantitative FRA features will help to improve the accuracy of fault diagnosis. In this study, a novel FRA interpretation including new image features is proposed based on the image processing technique. First, winding faults of different windings are simulated in a test autotransformer and the FRA curves are measured under various faults. Then frequency region division method and image processing technique are first applied to the measured FRA curves. The area ratio and centroid deviation in different frequency regions are calculated through a novel algorithm. Finally, the image features are used as the inputs to support vector machine model. Additionally, three different parametric optimisation algorithm are compared during the training process. The results show that the particle swarm optimisation and image feature exhibit best performance for identifying winding faults.


. The article describes the importance of psychohymnastic exercises as a means of reducing the level of aggressiveness in children of primary school age with mental retardation. As a result of the study, it was found that the majority of children of primary school age with mental retardation have a high level of aggressiveness. Psychohymnastics promotes the formation of the ability to be aware of and express their feelings and emotional states, as well as the development of the ability to be aware of the emotions and nonverbal behavior of other people. The developed course of psychohymnastic exercises includes three stages.


Kaliwungu Dream Building Shop is a business engaged in the sale of building materials and building-producing tools. This trading business sells various materials and tools for building buildings such as sand, cement, nails, paint, hammers and so on. The Dream Building Shop was founded by Mr. Zaenal, whose address is Jalan Raya Sekopek No. 10 Sarirejo Kaliwungu, Kendal Regency.
Kaliwungu Dream Building Shop in recording sales transactions, purchases and reports - reports still use the manual method by writing them into a book, this method still requires time which is relatively old and prone to calculation errors, as a result you have to work 2 times or even many times to recalculate transactions that occur. Factors that are generally controlled are human errors that occur in cooking data and storing & maintaining paper-shaped documents, where this is very difficult to overcome. In addition, the process of searching for data or inventory is also less effective and efficient. also affect customers, even though performance according to the store is needed to satisfy customers.


Abstract According to the statistics, occupational fatal injuries by m obile cranes were about 12 per year in whole industrial. Mobile cranes are widely used in various part s of industries to improve the efficiency of the work. However considerable number of fatal injuries happ en each year during the operation of the machines. In this study, the current regulations to be adeq uate in industrial site have to be renew in order to prevent the fatal injuries by mobile cranes. Fatal injury analyses were conducted with several accident ca ses by the mobile cranes. For each accident, the causes of the injuries were examined and proper s afety measures were proposed. In this study, the mobile crane showed a high fatality rate in industrial accidents and no detailed cause analysis of fatal accidents was conducted in terms of unsafe ac ts or conditions. This study proposed a revision of the standard guideline as an accident prevention me asures through in-depth analysis of fatal accidents. First, among the mainly five machines caused the accidents, m obile crane was higher for the second showed 0.6% for number of fatalities compared to number of mobi l cranes and for the third showed 11% for number of fatalities compared to number of injuries. Se cond, main cause of cognitive engineering agenda was visibility, responsibility, affordance. As the measures to prevent accidents before starting operation, alternative revision for the fool pr oof including visibility, responsibility, affordance etc. for the fool proof measures was proposed. Third , alternative revision as cognitive accident prevention for the fail safe measures was proposed.Key words : mobile crane, human error, visibility, compatibilit y, fool proof, fail safe.


Rb-Sr biotite ages of Archean and Early to Middle Proterozoic crystalline rocks in northern Wisconsin and adjacent Upper Peninsula of Michigan describe a regionally systematic pattern related to differential uplift. An "age low" occurs in northern Wisconsin where values range from 1070–1172 Ma for rocks with crystallization ages of 1760 to 1865 Ma. These values overlap with the main episode of mafic igneous activity (1090 to 1120 Ma) along the Midcontinent rift system (MRS). We interpret these low biotite ages as registering closure due to cooling below the 300°C isotherm as a consequence of uplift and rapid erosion of an area that we are informally naming the Goodman swell. The position of the Goodman swell is independent of the Archean and Early Proterozoic regional geologic framework but closely linked with the curvilinear (concave to the south) MRS. We interpret the swell to be a forebulge imposed on an elastic crust by loading of mafic igneous rocks along and within the axis of the MRS. The southward concavity of load axes resulted in flexural interaction that localized the swell. Because of rapid uplift the swell may have been a source area for clastic sediments in the rift sequence.


The use of independent component analysis (ICA) methods for blind source separation of signals and images has been demonstrated in many applications and publications. While many ICA based algorithms for source separation exist, few impose physical constraints on the recovered independent components and the mixing matrix. Of particular interest is the non-negativity of the recovered independent components and the recovered mixing matrix. Such constraints are important for example when trying to do subpixel demixing on hyperspectral images. In this article, we propose a constrained non-negative maximum-likelihood ICA (CNML-ICA) algorithm that tackles the limitations of some existing non-negative ICA methods.


Purpose: The Ni-base superalloy GTD-111 gains its appropriate microstructure and high temperature strength through precipitation hardening mechanism. Because of their service condition, tensile properties of the alloy have strong influence on stability and life of the blades. Design/methodology/approach: Tensile fracture mechanisms of the cast and heat treated superalloy were studied over a wide range of temperatures from 25 to 950°C with a constant strain rate of 10-4s-1. The present paper provides structural and fractography evidence by means of scanning electron microscopy at different temperatures for the superalloy GTD-111. Findings: The variation in alloy ductility was found to correlate well with the fractography results of the tensile tested specimens. Transgranular and intergranular fracture with fine dimples, cleavage facets and a combination of them were shown in the fractographs. Research limitations/implications: Although tensile properties alone are important for the alloy, it is suggested for future research to work on the simultaneous effects of tension and fatigue on the fracture mechanisms. Originality/value: It was cleared that different fracture mechanisms operate in different temperature ranges; while transgranular dimple fracture was dominant at 650°C, the dominant fracture mechanism at room temperature was intergranular.


This study was a single-centre, prospective, non-blinded, randomised crossover trial of citrate vs. heparin in continuous venovenous haemofiltration (CVVH). The study group comprised vasopressor dependent, mechanically ventilated patients who developed acute renal failure and required continuous renal replacement therapy. CVVH was chosen in preference to daily dialysis in these patients because of haemodynamic instability. Exclusion criteria included those with a high risk of bleeding (recent surgery, severe coagulopathy and liver cirrhosis).


This paper investigates the effect of microsilica, water proofer and super plasticizer on the durability of concrete to phosphoric acid attack, in addition to their sole and combined effects on workability, air content, modulus of elasticity, durability to freezing thawing, compressive strength and modulus of rupture after 28 days. Different microsilica, water proofer and super plasticizer contents were considered: 10%, 15% and 20% by weight of cement for microsilica, 0.4, 0.6 and 0.8 L for water proofer and 0.15, 0.2 and 0.25 L for super plasticizer. The water to cement ratio was considered to be constant in this study. The degree of acid attack was evaluated by measuring the percentage changes in weight of concrete cubes. The results showed that the combined effect of microsilica and water proofer was the best to enhance the durability of concrete to phosphoric acid attack without major effect on the response of concrete to other factors. The optimum concrete mixes were 10% microsilica with medium portions of water proofer.


Chemical communication plays a significant role in the aquatic environment, enabling the mutual recognition of mates, predators and food items. Invasive species facing new communities are subjected to a huge variety of new scents. Their ability to recognize and interpret them adequately could be the reason of their successful establishment. We studied reciprocal chemical recognition among invasive freshwater Ponto-Caspian gammarids (Dikerogammarus villosus, Dikerogammarus haemobaphes and Pontogammarus robustoides) that often co-occur in native and invaded areas, to test their ability to avoid via chemical signals possible competitor and/or top intraguild-predator. We used a Y-maze with inflow of water to the Y-arms from two source tanks containing the signal (scent of living animals or the alarm cues released by crushed individuals) or a control (dechlorinated tap water), respectively. Time spent in the Y-maze zones, number of visits to the Y-arms and animal activity were analysed. Only D. villosus was attracted to conspecific and heterospecific alarm cues as well as to living heterospecifics. The other two species avoided the scent of D. villosus. We conclude that D. villosus, as the strongest competitor and intra-guild predator (including cannibalism) among the tested species, perceived various scents as potential food cues and posed a threat to other gammarids.


Abstract Electronic excitation energy deactivation in self-assembled porphyrin triads has been studied by the time correlated single photon counting technique as a function of the solvent polarity (toluene-acetone mixtures), temperature (77–350 K), and mutual spatial arrangement of the donor and acceptor subunits. The donor (Zn-octaethylporphyrin chemical dimer) fluorescence quenching with time constant of 1.7÷10 ps is due to competing energy migration and electron transfer processes to the acceptor (dipyridyl substituted tetrapyrrole extra-ligand). The quenching of the acceptor fluorescence (by ∼1.3–1.6 times) does not significantly depend on the mutual spatial arrangement of the triad subunits and increases with the solvent polarity rising and the decrease of the temperature. The obtained experimental data are analyzed using the reduced density matrix formalism in the frame of Haken-Strobl-Reineker approach taking into account the energy transfer, charge separation, and the dephasing of coherence between the excited electronic states of the triad.


Type of funding sources: Private company. Main funding source(s): Servier, France

 Hypertension poses a significant healthcare burden in Asia. Detection, treatment and control of hypertension are suboptimal, despite the existence of clear international guidelines and the availability of safe and effective treatments.

 To understand hypertension management in Asia, based on the analysis of national guidelines, treatment patterns and patient characteristics.

 A PubMed search was performed using four search strings relating to 1) hypertension; 2) treatment/management/drug therapy; 3) guideline, consensus, real world evidence; and 4) Asian countries. The search was restricted to English language articles published since January 2008 to July 2022. Articles were filtered by relevance to the research question, study size, scope, methodology, and country/region to identify a target of 100 final references.

 The search yielded 2,436 articles, of which 92 were selected as being most relevant. Compared with Europeans, Asians appeared to have higher systolic blood pressure (BP), diastolic BP, and mean arterial pressure, with stronger association between BP and stroke. Rates of severe hypertension were also higher. Trends identified in the literature suggested that calcium channel blockers are the most common monotherapy used in Asian countries, with a high variability across the region. In the available publications focused on the studies with RAAS inhibitors, the majority of them compared the use of angiotensin receptor blockers as mono/combination therapy versus combination therapy with ACE inhibitors, calcium channel blockers or diuretics. Among treated patients, the observed control rates were only ~35–40% (~10% or less in the general population). There is a lack of focus on selecting the most appropriate treatment for each individual patient. Areas for improvement in delivering guideline-directed therapy for improved BP control also included facilitating access to health care and compliance with medication (including support mechanisms like community programmes, telemedicine, mobile phone apps and home BP monitoring), improving diet (reducing salt intake) and encouraging exercise.

 Asian patients and European patients have different clinical profiles, with more severe hypertension in Asians. Rates of BP control across Asia are low. The management of hypertension requires a focused multimodal and supportive approach with implementation of public health measures, more effective screening initiatives and evidence-based goal-driven recommendations for appropriate pharmacotherapy augmented by lifestyle changes.


With the wide adoption of instant messaging, online discussion forums, blogs and social networks, online communication has shifted from narration to highly collaborative discussions with multiple authors and discussion threads. However, the theories and methodologies for analyzing this new type of discourse which is different from narration, but also from dialogue, have remained mostly the same. The authors propose a new method for the analysis of this type of discourse, designed especially for multi-party chat conversations where parallel discussion floors and threads exist at the same time. The theoretical underpinning of the inter-animation framework is the detection of links between utterances in order to build a conversation graph that may be used to discover the discussion threads. The framework has been used for analyzing chat conversations of students in Computer Science in order to assess the involvement of each student, the inter-animation of the conversation and the degree of collaborative discourse.


The objective of this research is to describe the dynamics emotional maturity of
adolescent girls who their parents are divorce and the factors which influence.
The source of this research is comprise with two female adolescent which
experience divorce of their parents at the age of adolescent. This research exerts
qualitative method with case study phenomenological. In this case are to
understand development emotional maturity of source, how the emotional
maturity is formed and the reason emotional maturity formed or less. Aggregation
of data in this research exerts observation method, interview, and documentation.
Data analysis exerts Miles and Huberman models which are comprise with data
reduction, data presentation and conclusion. The result of this research indicates
there is emotional maturity on both source. However emotional maturity is more
conspicuous at the first source as compared to second source. Aspects emotional
maturities that seen at the first source are good and positive thinking, emotional
adequacy, emotion restrains, social adaptation, forgiveness, self emotion
recognize and self motivated. Aspects emotional maturities that seen at the second
source are self emotion recognize, self motivated and autonomy. The biggest
factor that influences emotional maturity is both source are catharsis emotion,
circles and parenting. Exist new invention in this research, that is emotional
maturity and adolescent independence that their parents are divorce, adolescent
sincerity who their parent are divorce and adolescent religiosity who their parent
are divorce.


Statistical suppression occurs when adjusting for some third variable enhances or substantially modifies the association between an initial predictor and an outcome. Although many methodologists have discussed this phenomenon, very little work has examined suppression in longitudinal regression models such as the pretest-posttest design. This research addressed this gap with two separate studies. Study One was a literature review that reviewed 80 articles from a variety of fields within psychology. Study Twowas an analysis of a large longitudinal clinical dataset via 925 statistical models. Both studies revealed consistent results: in approximately 20% of instances, suppression effects were observed and were attributable to the inclusion of a pretest measure. Results underscore that controlling for pretest measures when assessing change may be of value, as this can help clarify the associations between predictors and posttest outcomes.


Speed is a necessity in low-level systems software. Mechanisms through which it is achieved are often at odds with well-known practices in terms of evolution and maintenance tasks. Ironically, though these mechanisms often create adverse code conditions, in practice they thinly veil structural support associated with language mechanisms for both Object-Oriented (OO) and Aspect-Oriented (AO) programming. This paper argues for aggressive and comprehensive tools designed to provide support necessary for developers to take control in this high-speed, low-level systems domain. Through these tools, we envision evolving highly configurable single-source systems according to high-level structural principles, without imposing any speed limits on their underlying code.


Egypt's usual calm has been shattered. Nearly every day new incidents occur in the deadly struggle between the government of President Hosni Mubarak and Islamic militants known as the Gamaa al-Islamiya, or Islamic Group. The militants gun down policemen, ambush officials and hostile intellectuals, and terrorize tourists with bombs near the pyramids or the Karnak Temple. The government hits back with equal ferocity. Suspected extremists are rounded up by the score in bloody sweeps that have left many bystanders dead or wounded. This summer Mubarak began sending his antagonists to the gallows. Groups of six and seven men were hanged on single mornings. Such mass executions are rare and shocking in Egypt. Mubarak is facing the most serious challenge since he took over the government following the assassination of Anwar Sadat in October 1981. The danger is not so much that the Gamaa will seize power. They lack the popular appeal and the talent to take over any time soon. But they could cripple Mubarak's ability to deal with economic and polit ical challenges that are daunting enough without the added complica tion of an armed insurrection. The rebellion also leaves Mubarak vul


The performance of electro-optical systems can be substantially affected by aerosol particles that scatter and absorb electromagnetic radiation. The performance assessment of EO systems by propagation prediction codes then requires accurate aerosol models. However, concentrations and optical properties of aerosol particles in the atmosphere are very variable both in time and space. In particular, coastal areas induce specific physical processes. To include coastal effects in the model for the prediction of aerosol concentrations, Piazzola et al.1 proposed an extension of the Navy Aerosol Model (NAM2) to coastal areas. This work has been coupled with Mie theory to develop the aerosol extinction code MEDEX,3 which is based on an extensive series of measurements in the Mediterranean. The present paper deals with the extension of the predictions of MEDEX to a regional scale. To achieve it, MEDEX has been coupled with a regional meso-scale meteorological model (RAMS). This allows taking into account the details of the orography of the coast and a better modelling of the unsteadiness for both meteorological and oceanic conditions. The results show the feasibility of extending the predictions of MEDEX to any coastal site.


Objective To understand the epidemiological characteristics of measles in Cixi city so as to improve the control strategy of this disease.Methods Descriptive epidemiological analysis was applied.The data were from measles surveillance system in 2008.Results Of 171 measles cases reported in the whole year,65 cases were diagnosed by serological method and 6 cases were diagnosed by clinical examination,with an incidence rate of 9.20/100,000.The cases were found over all townships.In addition,there were cases reported in each month except for November and December,but the peak seasons were from February to April.The proportion of male to female was 1.48∶1.Of 171 measles cases,89 cases were migrant peasant workers and 82 cases were local inhabitants,accounting for 52.05% and 47.95%,respectively.The cases of local population mainly focused on younger than 8-month-old baby (22cases) and older than 20-year-old adults (36cases),accounting for 26.83% and 43.90%,respectively.However,for foreign population,most of measles cases occurred among the children who were 1-7 years old (37cases),which accounted for 41.57%,only including 6 cases with immunization history.The incidence rates of foreign and local population were 10.9/100,000 and 8.0/100,000,respectively.Of all cases,102 cases were without an immunization history.Conclusion The key points to control measles in Cixi city are ∶ to raise the routine immunization rate of migrant children,vaccinate the second dose of measles vaccine timely,carry out supplementary immunization,enforce planned immunization and enhance preventive consciousness.However,how to adjust the immunization strategy of younger than 8-month-old infants and adults is the problem to be discussed in future.


Protestantism is today generally assumed to have little public voice in English-Canadian society. This assumption may be seen most forcefully with the rise of the Reform Party, and its rather wobbly successor, the Canadian Alliance. These parties are taken as aberrations of the Canadian political tradition, as imports from the United States, outgrowths of the moral majority. Social democrats fear, in particular, Stockwell Day's social policies: the sacrosanctity of heterosexual marriage, the privileging of this institution as the proper sphere for sexual relations and child-rearing, along with his anti-abortion stance. Yet less than fifty years ago many of these ideals were taken for granted – not by a minority of practising Christians but most within the mainstream culture of English-Canada. The inability of educated Canadians – the media or academics, for example – to recognize these religiously-based ideals as a particular form of Canadian political rhetoric should not come as a surprise to historians of religion who also teach Canadian history. The three basic textbooks used for university survey courses – J.L. Finlay and D.N. Sprague's The Structure of Canadian History; Douglas Francis, Richard Jones, and Donald B. Smith's Destinies: Canadian History Since Confederation; and Alvin Finkel and Margaret Conrad's History of the Canadian Peoples: 1867 to the Present – deal with Protestantism in twentieth-century Canada in only a cursory


Due to the implementation of curricula in Germany this study examines how preschool teachers in Saxony-Anhalt have perceived the in 2004 introduced curriculum Bildung: elementar-Bildung von Anfang an. The teachers' reaction towards that programme and its involved challenge concerning the alteration of their procedural knowledge is analysed based on twelve problem-centred interviews with preschool teachers. Referring to the social-scientific paraphrasing the analysis of the interviews shows that the content of Bildung: elementar was case-related differently transferred to the professionals' procedural knowledge. Concerning the individual implementation of the educational programme there are four different patterns reconstituted. In the first pattern, a personal persuasion regarding the programme's contents and a continuing orientation in them in everyday work is significant. In comparison, the second pattern is defined by rejection since it is strongly believed that aligning one's own work with the basic assumptions of Bildung: elementar leads to a decrease of quality. The third pattern signifies the orientation in the programme's contents which results from a personal belief in increasing one's own rank as well as receiving certitude. The fourth pattern is marked by an orientation along the programme's contents, but practice seems to be oriented along the contents of the educational programme which was exercised in the GDR (Bildungsund Erziehungsprogramm der DDR).


The milk sector is one of the most important pillars of the animal production sector in Egypt, as this activity has achieved about 23 billion pounds representing about 24.91% of the total value of livestock production in 2018, and that the value of dairy in the new land amounted to about 2.69 billion pounds, equivalent to about 6.91% of the value of the dairy sector in Egypt, which amounts to about 38.94 billion pounds in the same year, and aims to measure the efficiency and economic of the dairy farms of the Nobaria to determine The extent of the efficiency of investment and continuity in this activity has reached several results, the most important of which are:
Milking livestock production decreased at a rate of about 31.96 thousand tons per year and at a change rate of about 0.59% of the annual average of about 5,383,000 tons of milking dairy production during the study period.
- The net return (POUND/head) for the total sample study of dairy farms of cows and buffaloes in Nobaria was about 10824.3, 14084.5 pounds each respectively, and reached the highest in the third production capacity followed by the second and then the first with an average of 12,770, 10442.6, 9260.2 pounds in production capacities for dairy production from cows respectively. Also, the average age is about 19,304.3, 12,662.7, 10,285.5 pounds in production capacities for buffalo dairy production, respectively.
-The ratio of total revenue for the total cost of the study sample was about 1.7, 1.8 each respectively, and was higher in the third production capacity followed by the second and then the initial with an average of about 1.9, 1.7, and 1.6 for dairy production from cows, respectively. Also, the average is about 2.2, 1.7, 1.6 for buffalo dairy production respectively and the third most efficient production capacity according to this standard.
- The profitability of the pound for the total sample study of dairy farms of cows and buffaloes in Nobaria amounted to about 0.7, 0.8 pounds each respectively, and reached the highest in the third production capacity followed by the second and then the initial with an average of about 0.9, 0.7, 0.6 pounds in production capacities for dairy production from Cows in order. Also, the average is about 1.2, 0.7, 0.6 pounds for buffalo dairy production respectively and the third most efficient production capacity according to this standard.
-It turns out that the sensitivity of the net yield to a ton of dairy in the total sample study of cows and buffalo milking for the decrease in revenue was higher than if it increased.
-The sensitivity of the net yield to a ton of dairy in the total sample study of cows and milking buffaloes to increase costs was more than if they were reduced .
Through the results, the study reached these recommendations:
- Support and development of dairy production projects in the new land areas to achieve capacity savings economies by supporting investments in dairy production as it is highly economically efficient.
- Increasing revenues and reducing costs by various capacities in dairy farms by adopting a strategy of using modern breeding methods and improving the genetic characteristics of the dairy herd and intensive production of specialized farms depending on high-production cows.


Segmentation is one of the most critical steps in image analysis. Also, the quantification of the error commited during this step is not a straightforward task. In this work, the performance of some comparison function or metrics are studied, when just one object appears in the analyzed regions. We develop a method for rank many validation measures of segmentation algorithms. It is based on thresholding a test image with a range of threshold and to find the middle threshold value when the performance measure is minimum or maximum. The performance is plotted and the first derivate is employed in the ranking construction. We have determined that RDE and MHD are two performance measures that show the best results (both are the most selective).


During a woman's lifespan, the endometrium will undergo an average of 400 cycles of near complete regeneration. A growing body of evidence points to the existence of progenitor cells that are responsible for this remarkable feat. Additionally, the endometrium contains a pool of adult multipotent stem cells. The uterus is a particularly convenient source of mesen chymal stem cells that can be used in regenerative medicine. Here, we discuss some exciting recent developments in the field. Adult (or somatic) stem cells (ASCs) located in a given tissue or organ are defined as un differentiated cells that have a capacity for self-renewal and can also differentiate into some or all of the major specialized cell types in that tissue [1]. These cells may also have the potential to be reprogrammed in vitro or in vivo into cell types that are unrelated to their original tissue source. The growing number of US FDAapproved clinical trials that aim to treat various pathologies using ASC-based cellular therapy is an indication of their promise. However, such promise is met with a rising demand for an ideal source of ASCs that is abundant and readily available. Therefore, in recent years, investigators have focused on the endometrium, such as the inner lining of the mammalian uterus, as a potential source of ASCs; its dynamic and renewable nature make it an ideal source of ASCs. Prior to menopause, the endometrium undergoes 400 cycles of near complete regeneration and differentiation after loss at each menses [2,3]. Further, after menopause, this tissue is easily regenerated by administration of estrogen. These remarkable characteristics led scientists years ago to hypothesize that the endometrial basalis (the remaining layer of the endometrium after menstruation) is rich with a population of progenitor cells [4–6]. These cells can be obtained through


The factors influencing friction betwen the tyre and road surface are discussed. Skid resistance and the standardisation of its measurement are considered. The historical development of systems in the Netherlands, UK, Germany and France are described. The development by PIARC of the IFI (International Friction Index) is outlined and problems associated with skid resistance measurements in porous asphalt discussed. An investigation into the skidding resistance of porous asphalt found no marked difference from dense asphalt. On new porous asphalt surfaces low braking deceleration was observed. The reasons for this and some solutions are discussed. For the covering abstract see IRRD 890329.


The reaction of [Pd(dmba)(acac)] (dmba = C6H4CH2NMe2-2 or 2-[(dimethylamino)methyl]phenyl-C1,N; acac = C5H7O2 or acetylacetonate) with optically pure α-amino acids (HAa, 1:1 molar ratio) [HAa = S-alanine, S-2-amino butyric acid, R-2-amino butyric acid, (2S,3S)-isoleucine, (2S,3R)-threonine and S-asparagine] in refluxing MeOH results in the formation of the corresponding neutral complexes [Pd(dmba)(Aa)] in good yield. The CD (circular dichroism) spectra of these complexes have been measured. The analysis of the shape of the CD curves reveals that all complexes with the same configuration at Cα display similar CD curves, whereas complexes with opposite configuration at Cα display CD curves that are mirror images. Thus, these complexes could be used as analytical tools in the assignment of absolute configurations of α-amino acids.


The paper presents a review of techniques being used for the retrieval of quantitative meteorological information from INSAT VHRR (Very High Resolution Radiometer) data. It describes how the constraints imposed by the spacecraft design and the ground segment capabilities led to the development of innovative and unconventional techniques of product retrievals from INSAT. The utility of the INSAT derived products, viz. Cloud Motion Vectors, Sea Surface Temperature, Outgoing Longwave Radiation and Quantitative Precipitation Estimates is discussed. The variation of these parameters on different space and time scales is presented.


The present invention relates to a secondary battery and a manufacturing method comprising a, in particular, relates to a secondary battery protection circuit module and a manufacturing method thereof. According to the present invention, the bare cell; And circuitry located in the substrate and, at least one side of the longitudinal direction of the circuit board and the circuit board includes a protection circuit module provided with a coupling member for coupling to the bare cell, the engaging member engaging portion to be secured to the circuit board and, it is extending from said engaging portion characterized in that characterized in that it includes a module protective circuit, characterized in that comprising the second support and the first support portion that are spaced apart from each other along the longitudinal direction of the circuit board a secondary battery and is provided with a manufacturing method. Secondary batteries, a bare cell, a circuit board, the coupling member, the welding, the support


Soft x-ray emission from the Oak Ridge Tokamak (ORMAK) has been studied with an array of diode detectors. The thermal character of the plasma emission allows observation of phenomena associated with fluctuations in electron temperature. Measurements of internal disruption growth rates and repetition times corroborate a theoretical tearing-mode instability model. Heat pulses from the disruption evolve diffusively, but with a heat conduction coefficient larger than that inferred from the plasma equilibrium.


It's a hot day during a Queensland summer. Your tenant decides to buy a $25 baby pool from Bunnings, fill it, and plonk the kids in - or sit in it themselves on a Sunday afternoon with a refreshing beverage on hand. So what's the deal? Does a baby pool come under the pool legislation? What if it's just a small, shallow pool? What if it's emptied after use?


Provided are an image processing device, an image processing method, an image processing program, and an endoscope system which are capable of obtaining a distance to a surface of a body tissue stably accurately on the basis of image information obtained by exposure in a single illumination while avoiding an influence of a spectral sensitivity characteristic of the body tissue. A workstation (4) according to the present invention processes image data including reception light value data obtained by taking an image of the inside of a living body in a single exposure, the workstation (4) being provided with a distance data obtaining unit (23) which obtains, in a bright section area of the image data, distance data to the surface of the living body on the basis of the reception light value data of light having a first wavelength band and an exposure period of time, and obtains, in a dark section area of the image data, distance data to the surface of the living body on the basis of the reception light value data of light having a second wavelength band, which is longer than the first wavelength band, and the exposure period of time.


Objective To design and synthesize 4-(2′,3′-dichlorophenyl)-2,6-dimethyl-1,4-dihydropyridine-3-carboxylate. Methods 2,3-Dichlorobenzaldehyde was used as starting material to synthesize the target compound by condensation, cyclization, and hydrolysis reactions. Results The target compound was synthesized and characterized by MS and 1H-NMR. And the purity detected by HPLC was 98.3%. Conclusion The synthesis of 4-(2′,3′-dichlorophenyl)-2,6-dimethyl-1,4-dihydropyridine-3-carboxylate provides convenience for the study of impurities in clevidipine butyrate.


Neural machine translation (NMT) normally requires a large bilingual corpus to train a high-translation-quality model. However, building such parallel corpora for many low-resource language pairs is rather expensive. In this paper, we propose to select informative source sentences to build a parallel corpus under the active learning framework so as to reduce the cost of manual translation as much as possible. Particularly, we propose two novel and effective sentence selection methods for active learning: selection based on semantic similarity and decoder probability. Experiments on Indonesian-English and Chinese-English show that our selection approaches are superior to random selection and two conventional selection methods.


RABBIT granulocytes release a factor which causes increased vascular permeability and leucocyte sticking and emigration (Moses, Ebert, Graham, and Brine, 1964). These components of the inflammatory reaction to granulocytic substance begin after a latent period of more than 30 min. and hence may be considered delayed in onset. Although the temporal coincidence of enhanced vascular permeability on the one hand and emigration of leucocytes on the other has been established for the response to granulocytic substance, the interrelationship of these phenomena has not been defined. In other systems the results have varied. The evidence accrued in delayed reactions to bacterial infections (Burke and Miles, 1958) and some phases of turpentine injury (Hurley and Spector, 1965) suggests at least a temporal relationship between edema and tissue leucocytosis, but no correlation was demonstrable in the late phase of thermal burns (Hurley and Spector, 1961) and ultraviolet injury (Logan and Wilhelm, 1966). The studies described herein were designed to investigate the association of enhanced vascular permeability and leucocyte mobilization induced by granulocytic substance. The response to this material was compared to the reactions to histamine and bradykinin, agents which enhance vascular permeability in concentrations which fail to cause leucocyte sticking and emigration (Graham, Ebert, Ratnoff, Moses, 1965; Ebert and Graham, 1966). Inflammatory reactions were observed in leucopenic rabbits which had been treated with nitrogen mustard and in rabbits with impaired leucocyte mobilization after ethanol administration. The results suggest that the delayed augmentation of vascular permeability induced by granulocytic substance is dependent upon leucocyte mobilization.


Key Points Question Is a brief automated bilingual computerized alcohol screening and intervention (AB-CASI) health information technology tool superior to standard care in reducing alcohol consumption and alcohol-related adverse health behaviors and consequences among US Latino emergency department (ED) patients? Findings In this randomized clinical trial of 840 self-identified adult Latino ED patients with unhealthy drinking, the number of binge drinking episodes within the last 28 days was significantly lower in the AB-CASI group compared with the standard care group (3.2 episodes vs 4.0; 7.7 episodes at baseline in both groups) at 12 months after randomization. Meaning These findings suggest that AB-CASI is a viable approach to addressing alcohol-related health disparities in the ED, a setting that serves as a national health care front line and safety net.


PURPOSE
The purpose of this letter is to draw attention to recent literature regarding the communication abilities and experiences of Autistic people and the potential for detrimental effects on mental health and service provision resulting from behavior modification programs. I will argue that viewing Autistic communication as characterized by pragmatic language impairment is inconsistent with evidence of effective and positive communication between Autistic people and with the social model of disability.

CONCLUSION
Proposals for interventions targeting Autistic people should carefully weigh the costs and benefits for Autistic people and should integrate the perspectives of Autistic people.


Postmodern psychology is a new orientation in the development of western psychology, which also has many coincident points with ideological and political education work in colleges. Starting from the connotation of postmodernism and postmodern psychology, this paper discusses the three paradigms of postmodern psychological consultation and therapy, and the basic viewpoints of postmodern psychological consultation and therapy. This paper analyzes the relationship between postmodern psychological consultation and therapy and ideological and political education in colleges and the significance of its application, the problems existing in the application of postmodern psychological consultation and therapy in ideological and political education in colleges. Finally, the author puts forward the concrete application path of postmodern psychological consultation and therapy in ideological and political education in colleges. 1. The overview of postmodern psychological consultation and therapy 1.1 The connotation of postmodernism and postmodern psychology The word "postmodern" first appeared in German philosopher Rudolf panwell's book "The Cultural Crisis of Europe", which referred to "nihilism" at that time, and later used in literature, architecture, philosophy and other fields.Postmodernism can be understood in a broad sense and in a narrow sense. In a broad sense, postmodernism includes philosophy and other western postmodern cultural movements. In a narrow sense, postmodernism mainly refers to postmodern philosophy.Postmodernism is the sublation of the scientific view of traditional natural science and methodology, and doubts the legitimacy of knowledge, the objectivity of truth and the universality of theoretical principles. Under the influence of the postmodernism ideological trend, a brand new thought appears in the discipline of psychology which is trapped in the paradigm dilemma, namely post-modernism psychology, which is the product of the spirit of the post-modernism era and also an important part of the post-modernism ideological trend. In 1988, gergen's "Towards Postmodernism" special report on psychology marked the rise of postmodern psychology.The typical characteristic of postmodern psychology is to oppose foundationalism and essentialism, and hold that psychological phenomena are not a "spiritual reality", individuals do not exist a stable internal essence, and everything is just a social construction of culture, and social constructivism is the theoretical basis of postmodern psychology. 1.2 Three paradigms of postmodern psychological consultation and therapy Under the influence of post-modern psychology, modern psychological consultation and therapy also begin to transform into post-modern. Postmodern psychological consultation and therapy not only refer to the difference in time concept, but also reflect the difference in therapy theory and paradigm.The modernist psychotherapeutic theorists Nemeyer and Reskin summarize the three main 2nd International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2019) Copyright © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 369


Learning difficulties are described on a personal level by a parent/teacher who offers encouragement for others who face similar problems and challenges.


Many quantum simulation tasks require preparing a state with overlap γ relative to the ground state of a Hamiltonian of interest, such that the probability of computing the associated energy eigenvalue is upper bounded by γ 2 . Amplitude amplification can increase γ , but the conditions under which this is more efficient than simply repeating the computation remain unclear. Analyzing Lin and Tong's near-optimal state preparation algorithm we show that it can reduce a proxy for the runtime of ground state energy estimation near quadratically. Resource estimates are provided for a variety of problems, suggesting that the added cost of amplitude amplification is worthwhile for realistic materials science problems under certain assumptions.


The bedside teaching method is introduced in medical ethics teaching practice,which has great superiority on stimulating students' interests in learning,facilitating communication skills,training practice ability and enhancing the comprehensive quality.Actively exploring the bedside teaching method and the effect,paying attention to the problems in the process of teaching,integrating advantaged resources,and promoting the idea of medical ethics in the entire medical system,which is of great significance to the future development of the practice teaching.


In this study a method for the determination of veterinary antiparasitic drugs of the avermectin family (ivermectin, abamectin, doramectin, eprinomectin) and milbemycin (moxidectin) in aqueous solution was developed, using high-performance liquid chromatography coupled to a photodiode array detector (HPLCPDA). The method was applied to evaluate the sorption of these drugs on surfaces of different materials: polymers, metal and glass. The sorption followed the order: polyethylene frits > polypropylene frits > micronized polyethylene > metal > spherical glass > glass wool.


ABSTRACT:"The BEATLES" a.k.a., the "White Album," released in November 1968, has sold 24 times Platinum (U.S.) and continues to garner fans and analysis. The following examines the album as reflection of the band, its legacy, song writing, recording and production techniques, and packaging. The White Album reveals individual development and outside influence, as the core faded and different interests led to dissolution. The multi-genre album shows group and solo efforts, along with the politics, maturity, drug and religious inspiration, technology, social norms, and pop culture of tumultuous 1968; an account of how and why is justified.


Electoral and political violence represents one of the greatest challenges of many democratic societies. Electoral violence has become a feature of Nigeria's political landscape. The foundation of electoral violence in Nigeria has been attributed to social and political marginalization, poverty, unemployment and under-employment and other unbearable human problems which are built on intervening processes that connect to electoral violence which has direct relationship with arms proliferation. While some scholars argue that small arms are one direct cause of insecurity, others maintain that small arms are mere triggers or precipitating factors. There is a wide range of provisions of the criminal and civil law which could check electoral violence. This paper posits that the anomalies emanating from electoral violence can be check-mated if such punishments enumerated are dutifully applied to offenders irrespective of their class or creed.  These will go a long way in restoring democratic fascination, free, fair and credible elections in our nations' polity. Furthermore the causes of electoral violence are traceable to political exclusion and economic deprivation.  There is an urgent need for an intervention into the underlying causes of electoral and political violence in Nigerian politics in other for democracy to prevail.


BACKGROUND Nodular hidradenocarcinoma was first reported as clear-cell eccrine carcinoma by Keasby and Hadley in 1954 (Cancer 1954;7:934–52) and rare malignant tumor. Several synonyms and related terms for nodular hidradenocarcinoma have appeared in the literature. OBJECTIVE They have potential for uncontrollable local recurrence, tend to metastasize, and often cause death. Most cases have been reported in the pathology literature with limited clinical information. METHODS We report a 27-year-old woman with nodular hidradenocarcinoma on the scalp. RESULT The management of rare cases is not well defined. In our case, she was only treated with a wide local excision, and no recurrence was observed 2 years after excision. CONCLUSION Most authors have concluded that early wide surgical excision of the tumor is the treatment of choice. The efficiency of adjuvant therapy generally has not established.


The research of the objective bases and concrete forms of realization of social responsibility of the business is connected with the necessity of definition the basic reasons of its functioning and development tendencies in the world community in the process of intellectualization of public production. The article encloses the features of the conception of social business responsibility as the system that improves efficiency of the public production and competitive ability of national economy on the innovative base, the main element of which are the investments in human development. The evolution of perceptions about the social business responsibility in the economy studies is shown, so as the results of the analysis of the essence and functions of the social business responsibility.


The fall of communism in Eastern Europe, facilitated by its collapse in the Soviet Union, caused fundamental societal changes that led from a rigidly directed economy to a modern approach to capitalism and a market economy. The process of transition from communism to capitalism is, in Czech literature, more precisely referred to as the "transformation." However, it also deeply affected the sphere of environmental policy inherited from the preceding system. Identifying and characterizing these changes in connection and contradiction with the preparation for the enlargement of the European Union with Eastern European countries, which had just occurred in the year the reviewed book was released, is the main focus of the work. From the perspective of geographical delimitation of the studied region, the book's subtitle proves to be rather imprecise. In fact, the book does not deal with all the countries of Eastern Europe (while "eastern" is understood here as a political term), but with only some of them, namely with two Central and East European states: the Czech Republic, (it has also an official geographical–i.e., short name, Czechia, which I highly recommend to use) and Hungary (politically known as the Republic of Hungary). The Central Eastern Europe (hereafter "CEE") region, however, furthermore consists of Poland, Slovenia, and Austria. The book then deals with one country from each of the following regions: Southeast Europe: Romania; Northeastern Europe: Estonia, and, finally, post-Soviet Russia. The regionalization of Eastern Europe, I suggest, is not a merely formal geographical delineation. In (European) geography, the entire area of Central Europe as a rule also includes Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. Each of the East European sub-regions mentioned here distinguishes itself with particular historical, economic, and cultural development, with specific socio-economic and physical-geographical characteristics as well as different geopolitical and geo-economic positions. All of these positions have been changing over time and space, constituting an enormously important factor in the regional development. The forty-year-long activity of the Soviet mode of communism, however, erased certain differences between the countries, or, to be more precise, left behind traces that are common to all states of the former Soviet block. With regard to studying the given topic in the context of the development of the European Union (EU), the book would be more methodically unified if it focused on those of CEE countries that joined the EU in 2004, i.e., Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and Slovenia. For the purpose of comparison it would be valuable to add Estonia, and as a model of a non-EU country, Russia. The key country of Central East Europe, Poland, is not covered in the book as it has already been sufficiently addressed (p. 30). However, it would be worthwhile to add a brief chapter containing an overview of crucial knowledge and compare Poland especially with Czechia, a country whose industry was, in terms of energy production, based on coal-generated electricity and heavy


The centennial of the birth of Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929), the GermanJewish philosopher and educator, provides an obvious occasion for an examination of his relevance to Jewish life today. However, there are a number of factors that would seem to frustrate the meaningful encounter with Rosenzweig's thought by the two largest contemporary Jewish communities, Israel and North America. The particular Jewish community for which he wrote was destroyed less than two decades after his death. There has been a continual controversy surrounding his thought as to whether it is "authentically" Jewish, or too influenced and distorted by either Christianity or Idealist philosophy to be considered as a legitimate statement of Jewish thought. Finally, Rosenzweig, at first glance, seems to have paid scant attention to the central foci of the present-day selfunderstanding of the Jewish communities in Israel and America, Zionism and the dangers from anti-semitism and assimilation. In Rosenzweig's magnum opus, The Star of Redemption, he implicitly rejected Zionism as a betrayal of the eternal purpose of Judaism and he did not view either anti-semitism or assimilation as a major problem for even modern Jews. The former was simply evidence of the metaphysical envy or hatred of Judaism by Christianity and the latter was said to threaten only the borders, but not the center of the community. In light of these preliminary statements, we might question whether it is possible for Rosenzweig to be regarded as truly relevant to the Jewish communities in Israel and America. Yet, a survey of the writings of some of the most important thinkers within these communities during the last few decades indicates that the thought of Rosenzweig is often being plumbed for insight and guidance. Such a survey is important not only because it tells us about the continuing influence of this philosopher, but also because it allows us to learn much about Jewish life in Israel and America. For in investigating the ways that contemporary writers describe Rosenzweig's "contributions" to us, utilize some of his analyses of challenges that face Jewish life, and cite and extend some of the solutions that he proposed, we are engaging in a study of these communities themselves. This wrestling with the thought of Rosenzweig has many dimensions, among them the probing of the nature of Jewish history and the place of


With its well-known panda icon, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is an international non-governmental organisation that works on issues relating to the conservation, research and restoration of the environment. Christine Colvin, Senior Manager of the Freshwater Programmes WWF South Africa (WWF-SA) is leading many of the organisation's water-related initiatives in South Africa. Debbie Besseling spoke to her.


Abstract Development of efficient and green methods for extracting bioactive phytochemicals has great industrial value. Increasing environmental sensitivity at the global level has tremendously enhanced the demand for such methods. Azadirachta indica is a well-known medicinal tree. As glycerol has emerged as a green and safe extraction solvent for bioactive phytochemicals, this study aimed to investigate the efficacy of a glycerol–water solvent system to extract bioactive compounds from A. indica leaves. Modelling and optimisation were carried out by using response surface methodology (RSM) as per the Box–Behnken design with three variables, namely, solvent concentration, time and temperature. The responses were total phenolic content (TPC), total flavonoid content (TFC), 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical scavenging activity and metal chelating activity (MCA). The optimum conditions found by numerical optimisation were a solvent concentration of 69.713%, a time period of 38.328 min and a temperature of 32.114 °C with the predicted values of TPC, TFC, %DPPH and %MCA as 5.27 mg gallic acid equivalents · g−1 DW (dry weight), 9.869 mg rutin equivalents · g−1 DW, 73.8% and 54.366%, respectively. The validation experiments showed almost the same results for each response with very low% errors (5.431–7.661). Increasing glycerol concentration in the extracting medium favoured the extraction of TPC, TFC and antioxidant phytochemicals, but for MCA, the trend was the opposite. In conclusion, 70% aqueous glycerol is an effective medium for the extraction of polyphenolic and antioxidant phytochemicals from A. indica leaves. Extraction models suggested by RSM have high prospects to be used on a large industrial scale.


Experimenters use strategies when experimenting. Design of experiments is concerned with developing and employing the best possible experimental strategies for the particular requirements of the experiment. The Defense Acquisition community and in particular the Test and Evaluation community are starting to embrace the concepts of statistical design of experiments and especially the need for raising the overall statistical competence of their workforce. This paper lays out a very preliminary framework for meeting some of the educational and research challenges associated with the test and evaluation transformation. The framework is part of the Air Force Institute of Technology's efforts in test and evaluation education and research.


PurposeThis study explores the potential of computational design processes in creating contextually responsive envelopes for high-rise residential buildings in the Middle East. This includes considering both physical constraints and social preferences, with a focus on balancing sunlight exposure, privacy and views.Design/methodology/approachA two-phase simulation study analyzed various exterior envelope systems in Baghdad high-rise buildings. The first phase examined two commonly used exterior envelopes – fully glazed and window-based – to assess sunlight exposure, privacy and views. In the second phase, a multi-objective optimization process was applied to derive contextually optimized design solutions addressing the challenges identified in the first phase.FindingsThe study reveals that contextually optimized design solutions significantly improved direct sunlight exposure and privacy while maintaining satisfactory views. Although fully glazed exterior envelopes provided better-uninterrupted views, the optimized solutions offered more balanced performance across all factors, demonstrating the potential of computational design processes in creating contextually responsive building envelopes.Originality/valueThis paper emphasizes the importance of considering both physical and social contexts in the development of algorithms for architecture in the Middle East. This paper supports a progressive interpretation of traditional building references and demonstrates how computational design processes can create contextually responsive building envelopes that satisfy social needs and provide better-performing buildings for inhabitants.


A list of mineral elements known to be essential to animals and dietary components which under the appropriate conditions modify either their utilization or apparent requirements is shown in Table I. Clearly, detailed discussion of all of these cannot be included in this review and thus a few examples will be briefly discussed to illustrate the many types of interactions that can occur. These can be broadly classified into three categories. First, there are situations when the presence of one element in excessive concentration can modify the utilization of another essential element, usually but not exclusively at sites of absorption. Second, there are factors which, while exerting no effect on the absorption of an essential element, may affect its subsequent utilization. The best examples of this type of interaction are the goitrogens which affect the metabolism of iodine. The third class of substances which can impair mineral utilization are organic factors which can bind essential minerals to form insoluble or indigestible complexes in the lumen of the intestinal tract and prevent their absorption.


Existing research indicates that introducing school choice and competition into the public education system might improve the quality of schooling. Yet, up to date most empirical work on school choice has concentrated on developed countries and it is far from obvious that the experience of these countries can be of any guidance for transition economies. Our work intends to fill this gap. We concentrate on the case of Poland. We argue that in Poland, school choice and competition tends to improve average education quality and efficiency of public education expenditure.


Obesity is widely under diagnosed among South Asians due to the lack of awareness among health care professionals to adopt ethnicity-specific criteria for BMI and waist circumference (WC). This compilation of three studies conducted in the United States focuses on documenting trends in South Asian obesity and training physicians in modified BMI and WC criteria.


The objective of this article is to reflect on the role of higher education in our country. Chilean education, structured according to its context and history, has been structured according to a constant and unstoppable process of modernization of social institutions and the State. The idea is to understand how the economic structures converge on sociocultural dispositions, which in turn determine the agents of the educational process on cultural and symbolic levels. Consequently, we will try to reflect on a form of higher education that, beyond its regulatory and institutional structure, is affected by a social and economic structure to the extent of their dominance and the internalization of values from modernity, transformed in habitus, such as competitiveness, and individualistic requirements of a teleological and instrumental form, over the common good, vocation, social responsibility and professional ethics, to name a few.


The purpose of this study is to assess the future hydrological and water quality change of Man-gyeong river basin (1,602 km2) based on future extreme climate change scenarios and reduction of inter-basin water transfer amount using SWAT (Soil and Water Assessment Tool). The SWAT was calibrated (2012~2014) and validated (2016~2018) at 2 water level observation stations (DC, JJ) and 2 water quality observation stations (SR, GJ) considering inter-basin water transfer amount, stream water withdrawal, and point source data. For the streamflow, the coefficient of determination (R2) was 0.70 and the average Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency (NSE) was 0.51 respectively. For the water quality of SS, T-N, and T-P, the R2 was 0.72, 0.80 and 0.72 respectively. The future average streamflow under climate change scenarios increased up to 459 mm/yr, and average SS, T-N and T-P yields also increased up to 19,548 ton/yr, 68,748 kg/yr, and 13,728 kg/yr respectively. When the amount of inter basin water transfer decreased, the streamflow especially decreased in spring and winter periods, and the future water quality yields increased under the influence of precipitation. In order to solve the deterioration of water quality due to decrease in the flow rate and an increase in the load, the amount of inter basin water transfer should be maintained to a certain level.


A multi-functional single-chip 53 GHz radiometer front-end MMIC has been designed in a commercial GaAs mHEMT technology and evaluated by probed measurements. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first multi-functional MMIC ever presented intended for a radiometer application. Thus, the presented MMIC represents the future in radiometer front-end design, enabling a new generation of radiometers with lower cost, weight and DC power consumption. The MMIC is intended to be used in a demonstrator for a future geostationary synthetic thinned aperture radiometer for satellite-based environmental studies of the earth. Measured results for conversion gain, RF and IF bandwidths, image rejection ratio, 1-dB compression point, input referred third order intercept point (IIP3), LO saturation, and noise figure are presented and discussed. A study of the influence of benzocyclobutene (BCB) as a dielectric coating used for surface passivation on the measured RF performance is also performed. Furthermore, the very important issue of phase stability versus temperature and time was also investigated.


Field studies have been carried out to determine the bryoflora of the Kackar Mts in the Eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey. Nearly 1500 bryophyte specimens were collected from diverse localities in this mountain range. After identification of these specimens, 255 taxa (203 mosses and 52 liverworts) with specific and subspecific rank, belonging to 125 genera and 58 families, are presented here. Among them, eight mosses were new records for A4 grid square, which was adopted by Henderson. Furthermore, the list of taxa was compared with the Red Data Lists of European Bryophytes. Apparently, three taxa - Jubula hutchinsiae subsp. javanica, Scapania verrucosa and Schistidium trichodon - are threatened in Europe.


Objective: This research primarily focuses on understanding the application of internal fixation implants in the treatment of Pauwels Type-3 vertical Femoral Neck Fractures (FNF). The main objectives encompass understanding the application of four distinct types of implants, assessing the impact of these fixation techniques on the femur bone, and comparing the efficacy of the implants using finite element analyses (FEA). Methods: Four types of internal fixation implants were examined: Cannulated screws in the inverted triangle (CSIT). Fixation by four screws. Dynamic hip screw with derotational screw system (DHS+DS). Proximal femoral locking plate system. The comparative effectiveness of these implants was determined using finite element analyses (FEA). Results: The research revealed that the DHS+DS implant exhibited superior performance when compared to other internal fixation implants. Conclusion: For the treatment of Pauwels Type-3 vertical FNFs, the DHS+DS implant demonstrates enhanced efficacy, potentially making it the most appropriate technique for such fractures. ABSTRACT


In the late 1980's some felt that it was imperative for Japanese interpreters to participate in a new area of research - interpretation studies - because the profession by its very nature is global. I


The Image Method (IM) has become increasingly popular for small-room acoustics simulations. While it gives an exact solution of the wave equation in shoebox-rooms with rigid walls, the assumption of rigidity is not valid in real rooms. Based on spherical wave reflection from an infinite wall, several authors have independently developed what is known as the Complex Image Method (CIM). However, its adoption in room acoustics has been rare, although it has been shown to give performance equivalent to the boundary element method in shoebox rooms with soft-walls. In this paper, we review the theory behind CIM and provide a Python implementation to study directional scattering patterns as a function of wall impedance. For a highly symmetrical room, room impulse responses simulated with CIM are shown to have less so-called "sweeping echoes" than those simulated by IM.


Objective To investigate the clinical curative effect of treating Peptic ulcer( PU) with LiverComforting Decoction combined with omeprazole. Methods 150 cases after Trigeminy treatment for one week were divided into two groups. The control group was given omeprazole capsules 20 mg,1 times a day,while the treatment group was given the Liver-Comforting Decoction additionally. After 4 weeks, the negative rate of Helicobacter pylori( Hp) and the rate of ulcer healing of the two groups were compared. And these patients were followed up tor 18 months. Results The Hp negative rate and the rate of ulcer healing in the treatment group were higher obviously than those in the control group,but the recurrence rate was the lower in the treatment group. Conclusion Liver-comforting Decoction combined with omeprazole in treating the hepatogastric swelter of Peptic ulcer can increase the cure rate,reduce the recurrence,and improve the prognosis.


Improve troughput and reduce packet loss rate and delay by optimizing RED algorithm.Simulation based on NS-2 is conducted:Firstly, analyze RED algorithm to find drawbacks of it;Secondly,optimize theoretically the drawbacks of RED algorithm and then get IM-RED algorithm;Finally,carry out IM-RED algorithm on NS-2,get results by comparing with RED algorithm on packet loss rate,troughput and delay.Reasonably setting maximum packet loss rate on router is main characteristic of text and acquire better network condition.The results show that IM-RED algorithm indeed has more advantages than RED algorithm in packet loss rate,troughput and delay.


The studying in the department of medical imaging is a vital part of the standardized training for resident, which is important to make appropriate and efficient training schedule for the im-provement of residents' diagnostic capability. At present, the standardized training for resident doctors of tra-ditional Chinese medicine is lack of enough attention and effective teaching plan. In view of the current situa-tion of poor imaging basis, short rotation time and the lack of educational programs in clinical doctors of tradi-tional Chinese medicine, we achieved significant training effect through a series of systematic training pro-grams such as using the theory of teaching, PPT teaching, informatization teaching, individuation teach-ing and so on.

Key words:
Traditional Chinese medicine; Resident; Standardized training; Medical imaging


We study the interaction between the block decompositions of reduced enveloping algebras in positive characteristic, the Poincaré-Birkhoff-Witt (PBW) filtration, and the nilpotent cone. We provide two natural versions of the PBW filtration on the block subalgebra [Formula: see text] of the restricted universal enveloping algebra [Formula: see text] and show these are dual to each other. We also consider a shifted PBW filtration for which we relate the associated graded algebra to the algebra of functions on the Frobenius neighborhood of [Formula: see text] in the nilpotent cone and the coinvariants algebra corresponding to [Formula: see text]. In the case of [Formula: see text] in characteristic [Formula: see text] we determine the associated graded algebras of these filtrations on block subalgebras of [Formula: see text]. We also apply this to determine the structure of the adjoint representation of [Formula: see text].