Based on Fourier Transform Near-Infrared spectroscopy(FT-NIRS),the different brands of Zhacai sauce have been very well distinguished by Principal Component Analysis(PCA).the quantitative analysis model was established to determine the composition of Zhacai sauce with Partial Least Squares(PLS),the determination coefficient(R2) of the analysis model to total acid,amino-acid nitrogen and salt of the calibration samples were 98.44,98.74 and 98.48,the RMSECV were 0.001 3,0.008 44 and 0.355,respectively.the determination coefficient(R2) of the model to total acid,amino-acid nitrogen and salt of the prediction samples were 96.04,95.90 and 96.27,the RMSEP were 0.017 4,0.012 9 and 0.48,respectively.The results of the experiment with higher accuracy can be used for determination of the main components of in Zhacai sauce.


A simple, specific and precise reverse phase HPLC m ethod was developed and validated for the determination of gemifloxacin present in pharmaceut i al dosage form. Separation of the drug was achiev ed on a reverse phase X terra C 18 5 μm column having 4.6 mm × 15 mm id in isocratic mode with mobile phase containing acetonitrile and phosphate buffer in the ratio of 40:60 (v/v). The pH of the final mobile p hase consisting buffer was adjusted to 3.5 with dilute p hosphoric acid. The compound was eluted at a flow r ate of 0.5 ml/min and effluent was monitored at wavelength 272 nm. The retention time of gemifloxacin was reporte d to be 5.164 min. Calibration curve for gemifloxacin wa s linear over the concentration range of 0.01– 0.50 μg/ml. The limit of detection and limit of quantification were found to be 0.06 and 0.19 μg/ml, respectively. The mean recovery of gemifloxacin was 99.9% for pharmaceutic al preparation. The results of the proposed method have been validated statistically. The proposed reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography method was found to be simple, reproducible, accurate and econ omical. The developed and validated RP-HPLC method can be used successfully for the routine quality contro l analysis of commercial gemifloxacin to quantify t he drug.


This study looks for an urban environment concept that allows the identification of the nature and the territorial extension of urban environments impacts.


ABSTRACT This mixed methods study explores college biology students' perceptions of the utility of evolution knowledge. In Phase I, 14 college biology students from an upper-level Evolution course were interviewed about their evolution acceptance and perceptions of the utility of evolutionary knowledge. In Phase II, findings from Phase I were used to develop a 28-item quantitative Usefulness of Evolution Knowledge Survey. Then, 472 college biology students enrolled in three biology courses were given the Usefulness of Evolution Knowledge survey to identify (1) evolution topics that have the highest utility value for evolution learners, (2) careers for which evolution knowledge is deemed most useful, and (3) relationships among evolution utility value and other constructs. The most useful evolutionary topics were genetic variation and adaptations of particular organisms to particular environments. Evolutionary knowledge was deemed most useful for conservation careers, with less utility for medical and forensic careers, and far less utility for careers in physics or chemistry. Significant relationships were found between perceptions of the usefulness of evolution and evolution acceptance, understanding of evolution, and intended career. Findings are discussed within the framework of the Expectancy Value Theory, and implications for future pedagogical interventions and associated research are provided.


Objective To learn about the situation of graded health management for the elderly persons in community health service institution.Methods The stratified sampling method was taken to select 11 community health services (CHS) centers in Chengdu.The situation of graded health management for the elderly was surveyed.The personal interview was conducted among the directors of the 11 CHS centers about their recognition and views of graded health management for the elderly.Results There were 10 CHS centers where the graded health management for the elderly had been carried out.Of which there 6 centers where the grades were classified according to age combining with health status,3 centers where the grades were classified mainly according to age;9 centers where the elderly persons were classified into three grades,and 1 center,into four grades.The assessing work was conducted by the unified assessment scale of CHS office software in all the CHS centers,and the corresponding health services were given according to the different grades.The directors held that the graded management improved the health services for the elderly and raised the health conditions for them,thus increased the service level and awareness of CHS centers.Nevertheless the directors also believed there still were some problems in grade criteria,human resource,skill,fund and acceptance by the elderly.Conclusion The graded health management for the elderly has already been carried out in CHS institutions to some extent.However,there are some barriers in technique support,found,and service network and service object.It is necessary to formulate the more effective grade criteria,improve the staff's' skills,broaden financing channels,and enhance propaganda to push forward the graded health management for the elderly,thus really raising the quality of life and health level for the elderly.


Part 1 New conceptual frameworks and paradigms in entrepreneurship: paradoxes of entrepreneurship, Bengt Johannisson and Knuth Senneseth in search of entrepreneur - business environment contingencies, Asko Miettinen and Nina Hedberg the process of becoming an entrepreneur - a theoretical framework of factors influencing entrepreneurs' start-up decisions, Visa Huuskonen venture teams start-ups - an undiscovered field of research, Detlef Mueller-Boeling entrepreneurs, competitive definitions - evidence from computer-software start-ups, Michael Levenhagen and Howard Thomas. Part 2 Special methodological approaches in entrepreneurship research: entrepreneurship - some lessons of social antropology, Peter Rosa and Alison Bowes real and potential entrepreneurs playing a business simulating game, Heinz Klandt. Part 3 Survival and exit of enterprises: the owner-managers exit-route, Sue Birley and Paul Westhead survival, entrepreneurship, growth - which relationship? the Milanese area's case, Giuliano Mussati and Andrea Fumagalli new firm and plant survival in united states manufacturing, David D. Audretsch. Part 4 Factors influencing entrepreneurial intentions and activities: entrepreneurial interest among business students - results of an international study, Hermann J. Weihe and Frank-Rainer Reich "ecological" basis for the analysis of gender differences in the predisposition to self-employment, Daphne Hamilton social continuity and change - the contextual environment of self-employment, Dieter Boegenhold and Udo Staber. Part 5 Factors influencing entrepreneurial performance: factors associated with relative performance amongst small firms in the British instrumentation sector, Graham Hall and Sally Fulshaw intensity of planning conviction among entrepreneurs - differences between zealots and non-believers, Harold P. Welsch and Gerhard R. Plaschka. Part 6 Entrepreneurial versus administrative behaviour: profiling entrepreneurs - multiple perspectives and consequent methodological considerations, Elisabeth Chell and Jean M. Haworth a new perspective of entrepreneurship - a dialectic process of transformation with the entrepreneurial mode, types of flexibility and organizational form, Henk W. Volberda and Hock-Beng Cheah. Part 7 Entrepreneurship and government policy: towards an effective subsidizing policy, Hermann Frank, et al incentives for the venture capital industry in Finland, Juha Auer, et al. Part 8 Entrepreneurship and innovation/technology: manager participation in innovation activities of small and medium-sized enterprises, Liisa Hyvaerinen creating an entrepreneurial management system in large corporations - the STK innova case, Birgit Helene Jevnaker introduction of information technology to small firms - a network perspective, Mette Monstedt.


This paper presents a high-level summary of the architecture and early experience with Trinity, the first DOE ASC Advanced Technology System (ATS). Trinity is a Cray XC40 supercomputer with planned delivery in two phases: a Haswell first phase, with Knights Landing being added to phase 2. The paper describes many aspects of the overall Trinity platform and project.


Objective To study the role of Ⅲb isoform of human fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 (FGFR1-Ⅲb) in PANC-1 pancreatic cancer cells. Methods The plasmid of human full length FGFR1-Ⅲb isoform, pSVK4/FGFR1-Ⅲb. was stable transfected into cultured PNAC-1 pancreatic cancer cell lines facilitated by lipofectamine. The function of FGFR1-Ⅲb in transfected pancreatic cancer cells were examined by MTT assay, soft agar assay, cell migration assay, single cell movement assay, In vivo tumorigenicity assay. Results The basal anchorage-dependent and -independent cell growth was significantly inhibited. Additionally FUFR1-Ⅲb expression inhibited single cell movement and in vitro invasion as determined by time-lapse microscopy and boyden chamber assay as well as in vivo tumor formation and growth in nude mice. Microscopic analysis of the xenograft tumors revealed a reduced Ki-67 labelling, lower amount of tumor necrosis and higher grade of differentiation in FGFRI- Ill b expressing tumors. Conclusion We identified a functional human FGFR mRNA splice variant that inhibits the transforming potential of pancreatic cancer cells.


The band-gap narrowing of p-type GaAs as a function of doping concentrafion has been investigated by photoluminescence spectroscopy on samples grown by molecular beam epitaxy on (110) semi-insulating GaAs. It was first found that the band-gap narrowing of p-type GaAs comes from the moving up of valence band, the location of dopant level (band) remains unchanged relative to conduction band, and the ionization energy decreases with the increase of doping concentration.


Many of us conduct a significant part of our lives online paying bills, ordering groceries, booking travel, biding on auctions, and catching up with long lost friends. The extent to which modern society has become reliant on online services influences the way in which people communicate with one another and the way we conduct our lives (Wellman and Haythornthwaite, 2002). The specific focus of this paper is web based communication for planning in local government. Despite communication with the community being an integral part of local government functions, the types of communication being used are rarely monitored or analysed. This paper provides a comparative snapshot of the types of web based communication being employed by local government in Sydney, New South Wales (NSW), Australia, and investigates some of the correlates of this communication process. We begin by reviewing the U.S. based studies that this paper seeks to make a comparison with and then move onto recent research that has a specific focus on emerging social networking tools such as Facebook. We then provide details of the study area and present a comparative study of web based communication by local government in the state of NSW with the U.S. based studies previously conducted by Evans-Cowley and Conroy (2010). After outlining the extent and types of electronic communication employed and their correlation with other easily accessible statistics, the paper also highlights a number of third party hosting techniques being employed to extend the use of web based communications locally.


The formation of simple and mixed-ligand complexes of Ni(II) and Cu(II) with nitrolotris(methylenephosphonic) acid (H6T) and several nitrogen-containing ligands (L), viz. ammonia, monoethanolamine, ethylenediamine, glycine, - and US -alanine, valine, tryptophan, -phenylalanine, and histidine, has been investigated by nuclear-magnetic-relaxation methods, spectrophotometry, and pH-metric titrations with treatment of the data obtained on a computer. The stability constants and the relaxation parameters of the complexes (MH/sub n/T) (n = 3 to 0) have been determined. The formation of a number of mixed-ligand complexes with the general formulas (MHTL) and (MTL) has been established, and their stability constants have been calculated. From an analysis of the constants obtained it has been postulated that some of the amino acids have monodentate coordination in the complexes of the type (CuTL). It has been shown that, in contrast to the case of the simple complexes (ML), in the mixed-ligand complexes (MTL) the closure of six-membered chelate rings is more favorable than the closure of five-membered rings.


We discuss techniques for analyzing digital elevation models (DEMs) of surface topography of microelectronics objects exemplified by silicon wafers and wafer-based structures, such as SiO2/Si wafers, silicon–glass assemblies, thin film membranes formed by the Bosch process, and Ni–W films on Bi2Te3 substrate. We describe approaches to calculate and analyze wafer curvature using (1) data of curvature of DEM profiles, (2) second partial derivatives computed from DEMs, as well as (3) geomorphometric methods (e.g., analysis of digital models and maps of Gaussian, mean, and principal curvatures as well as other morphometric variables derived from DEMs). We show possibilities of using digital models and maps of catchment area derived from DEMs to analyze location of microcrests of wafer surface. We demonstrate capabilities of these techniques for analyzing volumetric defects. We also present specific recommendations for handling experimental data, such as DEM smoothing by approximation and processing DEMs with voids.


Materials Science
Polyurethane foams are widely used in upholstered furniture and mattresses but pose a fire hazard because they can be highly flammable. Flame and heat retardants are used to make these materials safer, but they can have issues regarding cost or toxicity. Fahami et al. show that three common, inexpensive materials can be used to make a flame retardant. Foams were coated with chitosan-stabilized mica and then poly(acrylic acid)-stabilized mica in a layer-by-layer process with repeated cycling to build up thicker coatings to open cell foams. They found that the coated foams resisted dripping when exposed to heat and would self-extinguish during a 10-second torch test. Further, when exposed to a heat test, the coatings reduced the release of volatile components and smoke from the foam.

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 12 , 19938 (2020).


In the course of finishing dissertation research, this author encountered a wall of opposition from the Canadian penitentiary service and parole board to his proposal. For political reasons they opposed research on dangerous offenders from the perspective of 'convict criminology', concluding: 'This proposal does not reflect CSC [Correctional Service of Canada] priorities and service objectives, and would result in disruption to institutional operations.' For a period of two months, this criminologist was barred from all penitentiaries in Ontario and could not interview any prisoner. Complaints were made to Members of Parliament including the then‐Solicitor General of Canada, as well as the Office of the Correctional Investigator; even the University tried to censor the project. This article seeks to place this episode in the context of the historic marginalization to which critical and convict criminology have been subjected. It will document how the state controls the criminological research agenda and what happens when 'voices from below' want to have a say in penological research. Of related interest will be a discussion of how a university research ethics committee, in conjunction with the penitentiary service, tried to stop this project.


RL to a conditions to be inefficient. inefficiency, we introduce a method that discovers structure in an agent's high-dimensional continuous action space to speed up learning across a range of environmental conditions. Whereas prior work on finding so-called latent action requires expert demonstrations or on-task experience, we propose to discover the latent, lower-dimensional action space in a simulated environment and then transfer the learned action space for training over a distribution of environments. We evaluate our novel method on randomized variants of simulated MuJoCo environments and find that, when there is a lower-dimensional action space to exploit, our method significantly data efficiency. For in the Ant environment, our method reduces the action space to a 3-dimensional action space and doubles the median return achieved after a training budget of 2 million timesteps.


Summary High-polymer dextran only slightly inhibited granulation tissue formation when applied directly in high concentration, but not when injected intraperitoneally in rats. No qualitative differences between the granulation tissue of experimental and control groups were observed.


The present paper intends to investigate with an empirical analysis the role of capital structure, a traditional and controversial topic in Corporate Finance, on firms' performance in the maritime industry. The results show a negative effect of debt on firms' performance. Maritime firms should consider their capital structure choices to keep financial flexibility, avoiding the risk of financial distress or even more bankruptcy. Funding decisions are also important to prevent or face agency problems.


The utility model belongs to the checking technique, in particular to a zero-crossing circuit and relative refrigerator. The invention comprises a transistor whose base is connected with the resistances R101, R102, emitter is grounded, and collector is connected with the resistances R103, R104, while the R103 is connected with the 5V direct-current power source. The invention uses the voltage jump of transistor to control the single chip, to make the device work near the zero point of voltage, thereby prolonging the service life of refrigerator.


The progressive reduction in the quantities of copper regulated by the European Union is focusing the research on new formulations with a reduced copper content but equally effective. In this regard, the activity of an Italian copper chabasite-rich zeolitite, which proved to be effective against grapevine grey mold and sour rot, was assessed against downy mildew. A two-year study was carried out in the Abruzzo region, Italy, in a cv. Montepulciano vineyard. The applications of the copper zeolitite showed the same good results obtained by a standard integrated/conventional strategy based on contact and systemic fungicides. At harvest, in both trial years, the plants with infected bunches in the untreated control ranged from 86.25% to 100%, compared to 15–30% of the treated plants. Furthermore, infected bunches and berries of the untreated control vines were 70–100% while treated ones never exceeded 2.32%. Furthermore, an increase in the polyphenol content and color intensity in wines made from vines treated with copper zeolitite was confirmed and appeared to be particularly evident in hot and dry seasons. The activity of copper zeolitite towards downy mildew, the potential use against grey mold and sour rot and the protection of grapes from high temperatures indicate that this product is a promising tool for a viticulture environmentally friendly control strategy.


We assemble a broadband spectral energy distribution (SED) ranging from the optical to the mid-infrared of nearby active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at z < 0.4. The SED fitting analysis is performed using semiempirical templates derived from Palomar-Green quasars to classify the sample into normal, warm-dust-deficient (WDD), and hot-dust-deficient (HDD) AGNs. Kolmogorov–Smirnov tests reveal that HDD AGNs exhibit higher AGN luminosity on average than normal and WDD AGNs. The HDD fraction, on the other hand, is only weakly correlated with the black hole mass and inversely correlated with the Eddington ratio. By fixing the other parameters, we conclude that the HDD fraction is primarily connected with the AGN luminosity. This implies that there is a causal connection between the covering factor of the hot dust component and AGN luminosity, possibly due to the sublimation of the innermost dust or the thickening of the intervening gas in the broad-line region. Analysis of the outflow properties traced by the wing of [O iii]λ5007 suggests that outflows may be related to the formation and maintenance of the hot dust component. Finally, we demonstrate through comparison with previous studies that the classification of HDD AGNs requires careful subtraction of the host galaxy light.


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This paper introduces When a certain build company in charge of construction undertake task of driving pile on Zhejiang information engineering school, moving device of stake machine was changed from motor-drived to hydraulic drived. Introducing design, operate principle of the hydraulic system and type, specification, function of hydraulic parts.


Introduces an intermediate suitable for condensation with terephthalic acid to produce new fibers and engineering plastics. It can be also used for the preparation of polyureas and isocyanates. Important features of polymers in wash-wear fibers and engineering plastics are high glass-transition temperature and low effect of water on mechanical behavior. The Phillips pilot-plant process for production of C/sub 10/ diamines from acrylonitirile and isobutylene consisted of 4 sections: dinitrile synthesis, dinitrile recovery, dinitrile hydrogenation, and diamine recovery. Develops methods to conduct an ''ene'' type reaction using a suitable solvent in a continuous, stirredtank reactor. The solvent used was a mixture of unsatureated C/sub 7/ nitriles, produced as an intermediate in the reaction. Technical problems solved in this area which materially contributed to the success of this project included means to minimize reactor fouling and means to prevent isomerization of the solvent. Unsaturated C/sub 10/ dinitriles produced in the first half of the process were hydrogenated to saturated C/sub 10/ diamines using a suitable catalyst in a trickle-bed reactor. Use of NH/sub 3/ in the hydrogenation reactor prevented formation of secondary and tertiary amines. Alkylation products in the hydrogenation reactor were avoided by selection and use of suitable solvents.


Based on the results from the previous research on Mesozoic igneous rocks, as well as tectonic environments in the northern South China Sea and southern East China Sea (NSCS-SECS), geophysical parameters, strata, and characteristics of seismic facies in NSCS-SECS were investigated. These findings were combined with results from the analysis of the balanced profile evolution to re-evaluate the tectonic evolution of SECS since the Jurassic. Furthermore, burial history and simulation of wells in the SECS were analyzed using well, seismic and source rock data. Furthermore, favorable models of oil–gas accumulation in the Lower–Middle Jurassic were proposed in combination with studies on elements and conditions of the petroleum system. The results demonstrated that the NSCS-SECS had consistent tectonic settings and comparable strata from the Jurassic to the Cretaceous time. There was a large unified basin in this period. The basin experienced two evolutionary stages, respectively, the fore-arc depression basin in the Early–Middle Jurassic (J1-2) and the back-arc faulted basin in the Late Jurassic–Cretaceous (J3-K). There was considerable deposition of dark mudstones in the SECS during the Lower–Middle Jurassic. The Keelung Sag was the depositional center accumulating the thickest section of the Lower–Middle Jurassic source rocks which entered a high-maturity stage. Hence, it was the hydrocarbon generation center in the SECS. The process of generating hydrocarbons from Lower–Middle Jurassic source rocks was of high complexity from northwest to southeast. The Lower–Middle Jurassic source rock at the northwest edges of the basin experienced two hydrocarbon generation stages, while the Keelung Sag toward the southeast experienced three hydrocarbon generation stages. The models and types of oil–gas accumulation in various evolutionary phases were different due to the control by tectonic evolution. Oil and gas that were generated by Lower–Middle Jurassic source rocks in the Keelung Sag migrated and accumulated in the western high-tectonic units. Research findings provide insights into Mesozoic oil and gas exploration in the NSCS-SECS.


1 In this study, the effect of fundamental variables and size on stock return is considered. The aim of the study is to answer two questions about each variable. The first question is how the effects of variables on the return have changed through time. In order to answer this question, the effect of each variable is considered in three consequential time windows: 2004-08, 2009-13, and 2014-18. The second question is on the effects of variables in 2018. The return of the market in this year significantly deviated from the historical average and it could be marked as an anomaly. The study aims to investigate how this irregularity affects the association between return and variables. In order to answer this question, the effect of each variable is considered in two different time windows: 2004-17, 2004-18. The data in this study consists of price and financial statements of listed companies on the Tehran Stock Exchange from 2004 to 2018 which are analyzed by methods used in Fama and French (1993) and Assadi and Eslami (2014). The results suggest that the effect of some variables has changed over time. The results also have shown that market irregularity in 2018 significantly changed the effect of some variables on stock return.


Objective: The aim of this study is to evaluate control of the cardiovascular risk factors in patients with previous cardiovascular disease Design and method: Observational and cross-sectional study. We analyzed 100 patients that presented a cardiovascular event in the previous 24 months. Subjects (18–75years of age) that suffered a stroke in the previous year were included. All patients signed an informed consent. Anamnesis and blood test was performed. 24 h Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (SpaceLabs® Model90207) was practiced. We evaluated control level of their cardiovascular risk factors attending to recommendations provided by recent international guidelines (2013 ESH/ESC Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension) Results: We studied 100 patients (70% males; mean age: 59.68 (± 9.5) years). Reason for admission was 48% ischemic heart disease, 47% stroke and 5% peripheral arterial ischemia. At discharge 49% were controlled in primary care and 45% in specialized medicine (25% cardiology, 8% neurology, 8% internal medicine and 4% nephrology). Statistical analysis showed a premature family ischemic heart disease in 34% of patients and 11% of patients had a family history of sudden death. Obesity was found in 33% of patients (BMI> 30 kg / m2); smoking in 14%; sedentary lifestyle in 50% and alcohol drinking in 50%. [Mean alcohol consumption was 10.33 g/day (SD: 14.0) in women and 28.37 g/day (SD: 41.1) in men]. The prevalence of hypertension was 61%, 56% dyslipemia and 27% diabetes. Objective levels (<70 mg/dL) of LDL cholesterol were not achieved in 79.8% of patients and 32.3% had an LDL-cholesterol above 100 mg/dL. 23% of patients had SBP24hr > 130mmHg; 8% DBP24hr> 80mmHg; 37% SBP-night> 120 mmHg and 23% DBP-night> 70mmHg. Patients with diabetes showed HbA1c> 7% in 19.4%. Conclusions: We observed no controlled cardiovascular risk factors in 3/4 of patients. Hypertension and dyslipemia were the most prevalent cardiovascular risk factors. High nocturnal blood pressure was found in 20% of patients. Promoting lifestyle changes (including healthy eating, physical activity and smoking cessation) should be the principal aim for prevention and/or management of cardiovascular disease.


The effectiveness of a data visualization depends on several factors, such as the visual encoding of its elements, the analytical task it aims to support, the dimensionality of the data, and even the data distribution. In this work, we report an empirical evaluation of common data visualizations, focusing on how different data distributions affect their effectiveness and the level of confidence users have when answering questions related to certain analytical task types. The study allowed us to assess to what extent some data visualizations are more effective than others, regardless of data distribution. We conclude that data visualization creators and algorithms need to consider the data distribution when generating data visualizations. From the results, we also propose recommendations for choosing a visualization when dealing with data distribution issues.


In this paper, we consider the nonlinear $r(x)-$Laplacian Lam'{e} equation $$ u_{tt}-Delta_{e}u-divbig(|nabla u|^{r(x)-2}nabla ubig)+|u_{t}|^{m(x)-2}u_{t}=|u|^{p(x)-2}u $$ in a smoothly bounded domain $Omegasubseteq R^{n}, ngeq1$, where $r(.), m(.)$ and $p(.)$ are continuous and measurable functions. Under suitable conditions on variable exponents and initial data, the blow-up of solutions is proved with negative initial energy as well as positive.


Very‐low‐birth‐weight (VLBW) neonates require regular nursing procedures with frequent opening of the incubator resulting in a decrease in incubator air temperature. This study was designed to assess changes in the thermal status of VLBW neonates according to the type of nursing care and incubator openings.


ABSTRACT An analysis was performed to determine how viscosupplementation influences the need for knee replacement surgery in orthopaedic practice. A total of 989 patients (1366 knees), in three clinical practices were treated with hylan G-F20 over a two-year period. The patients had advanced osteoarthritis (predominantly Kellgren and Lawrence X-ray Grade IV) and severe symptoms/disability. Most patient knees (82%) received a single 3-injection course of treatment. The majority of patients were clinically improved for 6 months or longer. No significant systemic adverse reactions were observed, and local reactions occurred at a rate of 2-3% per injection, similar to other intra-articular procedures. The response to the second course of treatment was found to be similar to that of the first course in terms of safety and effectiveness. The rate of knee replacement in patients at all three clinical sites was significantly reduced compared to historical controls. Interestingly, Health Care Utilization Data from the United States similarly reflect declined national rates of knee replacement since the introduction of viscosupplementation. These data demonstrate that viscosupplementation with hylan G-F20 is an effective treatment for patients with advanced knee osteoarthritis that may postpone knee replacement surgery in certain patients.


Objective
To investigate the clinical significance and application of combined determination of reticulocyte hemoglobin(Ret-He) and lactate dehydrogenase(LDH) on differential diagnosis between megaloblastic anemia(MA) and myelodysplastic syndrome(MDS).

Methods
Fifty case patients with MA, 50 cases patients with MDS-RA and 50 healthy people were selected as study objects.All of them were tested of Ret-He and LDH.Variance analysis and LSD method were used to compare the test results of the above indicators between each group.The diagnostic value of Ret-He, LDH alone detection and joint detection for MA by ROC curve analysis.

Results
Variance analysis showed that the index of Ret-He of three groups was different(F=13.483, P<0.001), and that of MA group was significantly higher than MDS-RA group and controlled group(P<0.05). For LDH detection, variance analysis showed that there were significant differences among three groups(F=1 676.445, P<0.001), and there were significant differences between MA group compared with MDS-RA group and control group, MDS-RA group compared with control group(P<0.05). Furthermore, the sensitivities of the detection of Ret-He, LDH and combined determination were 65.8%, 61.0%, 89.2% respectively, the specificities were 79.5%, 68.9%, 80.3% respectively, and the AUC were 0.720, 0.642, 0.875 respectively.

Conclusion
Combined determination of Ret-He and LDH can provide better diagnostic efficiency in distinguishing MA from MDS-RA.

Key words:
Megaloblastic anemia; Reticulocyte hemoglobin; Lactate dehydrogenase; Refractory anemia


Sports became the most interesting area of media coverage among different stream. As it has got its most important status in the world's media to popularize the newspaper, there is a distinct lack of comparative research on the media coverage of sports. To minimize the gap, this search draws attention on sports coverage during the London Olympics, 2012 from three different newspapers of different languages. The coverages were recorded considering the preview, competition and review phases. The results show that the total coverage of the English newspaper, the Telegraph (36039 sq. cm.) was more than the other two Bengali and Hindi newspapers (9224 sq. cm. and 2599 sq. cm. respectively). The female performers got more attention (34942 sq. cm.) than the male performers (12920 sq. cm.). All the three newspapers provided maximum coverage in the competition phase rather than the other two phases. The English newspaper provided more attention in preview of the main competition also in comparison to the other two newspapers. It has concluded that the coverage of the print media depends mainly on the performance of the athletes, popularity of the performers and intensity of the competition.


In this note, we give short inductive proofs of two known results on k-extendible graphs based on a property proved in [Qinglin Yu, A note on n-extendable graphs. Journal of Graph Theory, 16:349-353, 1992].


Static stretching is a primary component in the warm up routine of athletes (Beckett et al. 2009). It consists of stretching the muscles while at rest for about 30 seconds. This type of stretching is believed to aid in athletic performance and decrease the risk of injury and muscle soreness (Beckett et al. 2009). Athletes warm-up with stretching to prepare them in their training or competition, believing that these routines will help them in their performance (Fletcher et al. 2007). Research has shown a decrease in muscular performance with static stretching being a part of the warm-up routine (Fletcher et al. 2007). Six women (W; age 23.3 + 1.21 yrs) and nine men (M; age 24.4 + 2.74 yrs), participating in this study. Subjects were divided into three groups of five labeled group A, B, and C. The test was completed indoors on a basketball court. Each subject had their scores compared to their own sprint times in three different situations, which included them doing a set of dynamic and static stretches and then a control series. Across conditions, the Static, Dynamic, and Control stretching had no significant difference. (Static: mean=3.07; Dynamic: mean=3.09; Control: mean=3.1) Repeated Measures results indicated no effect for Run Time, Static: F=.381, p > .05, SD=.442, df = 2; Dynamic: F=.246, p > .05, SD= .384, df =2; Control: F=.599, p>.05, SD=.585, df=2. Even if order was considered (1: static, dynamic, control; 2: dynamic, static, control; 3: control, dynamic static), the data showed no significant difference. The study found that when compared to their own sprinting times after a completion of static, dynamic or no prior stretches, there were no significant differences in the final times. METHODS


Excretion of lithium in urine was studied in 2 healthy males while recumbent and while upright, either walking or standing quietly. An oral dose of 24.3 mmol of Lit was taken as three lithium carbonate tablets 13 h before clearance tests. Renal lithium clearance decreased and lithium fractional reabsorption increased while upright. Standing immersed to the neck in water, which prevents the fall in plasma volume upon changing posture from recumbent to upright, prevented the fall in renal lithium clearance as well as the rise in lithium fractional reabsorption while upright. Oral doses of guanethidine (total dose of 200 mg) or oxprenolol (total dose of 140 mg) taken to prevent high levels of sympathetic nervous system activity and plasma renin, respectively, failed to prevent the fall in renal lithium clearance or the rise in lithium fractional reabsorption upon changing posture from recumbent to upright. The findings indicate that the fall in renal lithium clearance and the rise in lithium fractional reabsorption upon changing posture from recumbent to upright is related to the fall in plasma volume but not to high levels of sympathetic nervous system activity or plasma renin activity.


In combination with the production process and equipment of Baosteel 2030mm Cold Rolling Finishing Branch,this article briefly analyzes trimming's stress in the deformation process of cold strip.Meanwhile,the article analyzes the causes of cold strip's trimmed wavy edges and the ways of improvement.


The petroleum products unleaded gasoline and reformate have been analyzed by Fourier transform (FT) Raman spectrometry with the use of a fiber optic cable that allows a measurement to be carried out remotely from the spectrometer. Samples were contained in glass cuvettes, and collection of high-quality spectra was simple. Fuel properties such as research octane number (RON), motor octane number (MON), density, benzene content, and flexible volatility index (FVI) were determined by application of the partial least-squares multivariate statistical approach. Analytically useful calibrations (R2 > 0.97) were obtained for all of the significant fuel properties studied. Cross-validation results were, as expected, worse than the calibration results but still indicated the usefulness of the method. Standard errors of prediction with the use of cross validation for models that contained 14–28 samples include: MON = 0.12, RON = 0.16, benzene % = 0.09, and density = 0.0018. These results demonstrate that it is feasible to undertake on-line analyses of petroleum fuels by fiber-optic FT-Raman spectrometry.


We present a novel score detector for temporal spectrum opportunity detection in cognitive radio by exploiting the differences in both energy and correlation of the empty band and the occupied band. Motivated by the challenge of detecting a weak primary user's signal without precise knowledge of the signal, where the conventional energy detector faces the limit of "SNR wall", we assume a simple model which captures a key difference between noise and primary user's signal - their correlation structures. Besides the merit of incorporating signal correlation, our score detector also avoids the computational complexity of covariance matrix inversion incurred by the corresponding maximum likelihood statistic assuming signal correlation. We provide a theoretical approximation to the false-alarm-rate of the score detector, which can be used to determine the threshold efficiently. We demonstrate that our approximation is quite accurate, and that our score detector has an advantage when the signal is weak and correlated.


are resubmitting a white paper entitled, "Resequencing multiple strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae". Both the Comparative Genome Evolution (CGE) working group and the Coordinating Committee (CC) raised a number of important issues regarding this project. Below we have summarized these concerns as well as our response. 1. Number of strains. Both the CGE and CC pointed out that the genome sequence of 5 or 20 strains may be just as valuable as 100 strains. We agree that many population and quantitative genetics questions could be answered with 5 or 20 strains. However, the key difference between 100 and even 50 strains (see Figure 3) lies in their value for association studies. As outlined in the white paper and summarized below, S. cerevisiae provides an excellent system in which to develop and experimentally validate novel methods of association that combine whole-genome genotype data, comparative genome sequence data, expression and linkage data. 2. Relevance to human health and biology. The CC raised the question of whether yeast is really a good model for population genetics that could provide broader lessons for human studies, either conceptually or methodologically. We agree that many aspects of yeast population and quantitative genetics are not relevant to understanding human health and biology. However, yeast does provide an excellent system to develop and test computational methods and statistical models for distinguishing functional from nonfunctional polymorphism. Specifically, the yeast data would make it possible to: i. Test the extent to which sequencing conservation across species can be used to identify function polymorphism within a species. There are many possible strategies to estimating the probability a polymorphism is functional. The development and experimental validation of such methods would be of direct value to identifying functional polymorphism in humans. ii. Develop and test novel methods of association. These may combine both direct and indirect methods of association along with linkage and expression data. Development of these methods would be valuable to understanding why both yeast and humans show high rates of genetic variation in gene expression and what downstream phenotypic consequences there might be. 3. Community value. The CGE noted that the community of yeast biologists working on population and quantitative genetics is small. This is true. However, the same was true of comparative genomics before the genome sequences of multiple Saccharomyces species became available. The generation of this sequence data combined with high-throughput, 96-well phenotype data would pose the broadly relevant …


Making use of PRO/E software established the 3Dentity model of 4GH120forage harvester cutter parts,through restraining assembly,complete the forage harvester monomer virtual manufacturing process.The model is imported into the ADAMS software for motion simulation by using the interface software Mech/Pro.The simulation results showed that the motion feature of reciprocating motion cutter blade was consistent with the theoretical expectation and ensured the correctness and reliability in the process of design,improved the design efficiency,established foundation for design and production of mower series.


The parameter and dynamic spaces of the cubic mappings consist of many small copies of the Mandelbrot-like sets and Julia sets, respectively of the standard quadratic mapping z - > z * z + c. We find the effective quadratic mappings for the kth iteration of the cubic mappings in the neighborhood of the centers of these small copies. Thus we are able to calculate the positions, sizes and orientations of these small copies. The structure of the cubic mappings is therefore understood.


Phase 1 and 2a studies of the first drug in a new pharmacological class to be tested in humans have found that the drug was well‐tolerated in healthy volunteers and inhibited the effects of cannabis in individuals with cannabis use disorder. The drug, AEF0117, is a signaling‐specific inhibitor of the cannabinoid receptor 1 (CB1‐SSi) and appears to reduce cannabis self‐administration without precipitating withdrawal, according to the investigators. Results of the studies were published online June 8, 2023, in Nature Medicine.


Many commercial database systems maintain histograms to efficiently estimate query selectivities as part of query optimization. Most work on histogram design is implicitly geared towards discrete or categorical attribute value domains. We consider approaches that are better suited for the continuous valued attributes commonly found in scientific and statistical databases. We propose two methods based on spline functions for estimating the selectivity of range queries over univariate and multivariate data. These methods are more accurate than histograms. As the results from our experiments on both real and synthetic data sets demonstrate, the proposed methods achieved substantially better (up to 5.5 times) estimation error than the state-of-the-art histograms, at exactly the same storage space and with comparable CPU runtime overhead; moreover, the superiority of the proposed spline methods is amplified when applied to multivariate data.


Austrian Ambassador to Paris, that is the period of his Paris mission before the commencement of the campaign in Russia. It presents Schwarzenberg's personality as seen in his hitherto unstudied correspondence between him and Klemens von Metternich, plus some other sources of a perso nal nature, belonging to the same period and the same social ambience. The fundamental source was the 29 letters Schwarzenberg sent to Metternich from Paris. These map not only the social life in Paris, the world of diplomatic dealings, but also the private affairs of both figures.


principles. Article 38(1)(d) specifically identifies "judicial decisions" as a subsidiary 215 Michael Ignatieff, Human Rights and Idolatry (Princeton Press 2001) 95. 216 Bantekas and Oette (n 14) 10. 217 ibid. 218 In the United Kingdom, although the ECtHR refused, for almost two decades, to recognise a right to gender recognition, the language of human rights was used in making the case for legal recognition – both in terms of advocacy before the ECtHR but also within domestic politics. Even before Goodwin v United Kingdom ([2002] 35 EHRR 18), the UK Government had been convinced to begin laying the groundwork for a gender recognition regime; see, Ralph Sandland, 'Feminism and the Gender Recognition Act 2004' (2005) 13(1) Feminist Legal Studies 43; Alex Sharpe, 'Gender Recognition in the UK' (2009) 18(2) Social and Legal Studies 241. 219 In the United States, the legal movement towards marriage equality, which culminated with the US Supreme Court recognising a general right to same-gender marriage in 2015 (Obergefell v Hodges [2015] 576 US), only began to experience success once wider social inclusion for gay, lesbian and bisexual persons had begun to be achieved, see: Molly Ball, 'What Other Activists Can Learn From the Fight for Gay Marriage' (The Atlantic, 14 July 2015) https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/what-other-activists-can-learn-from-the-fightfor-gay-marriage/398417/ accessed 15 May 2017. Mullally argues that, in Ireland, incremental social awareness and acceptance was a vital step towards greater legal rights, see generally: Una Mullally, In the Name of Love: The Movement for Marriage Equality in Ireland (The History Press Ireland 2014). 220 Javaid Rehman, International Human Rights (n 5) 22. 73 means for determining the rule of law. While these decisions must be understood in their specific regional or national contexts, and not be presented as internationally enforceable, they are nonetheless valuable in contextualising and clarifying international norms. Chinkin writes that regional and domestic litigation "fleshes out and develops international...treaties and customs." Applying human rights principles to live disputes, such litigation frequently has a "greater influence than might be expected for a subsidiary [source]." Where there is ambiguity over the precise contours of international norms, regional or national judgments offer guidance on the appropriate limits. Judicial decisions have been particularly influential in defining the contours of trans protections. In the absence of treaty law and custom, regional and national courts have established a substantial jurisprudence on trans human rights. Domestic adjudicators, in jurisdictions such as the United States, were among the first actors to validate preferred gender. In recent years, national judges – from Australia to Argentina – have led the application of human rights to gender recognition. They are now joined by regional tribunals, most notably the ECtHR, which, in a series of landmark judgments, is increasingly examining conditions of recognition. This thesis draws upon that wealth of regional and national case law to better understand how international human rights influence legal transitions.


The basic research question of this paper is how to determine the optimum maintenance concept for an industrial installation in a practical, i.e. with a reasonable input effort, way. The paper starts out with a critical review of maintenance concepts available from literature. These concepts are considered for use in a specific case, i.e. a paint spraying robot in an automobile manufacturing plant, and it is decided to implement a RCM‐like approach. The original RCM concept is modified in order to better fit the specific needs in terms of technical and organizational requirements of the company in question. The paper concludes with some general thoughts on the applicability of such an RCM‐like concept for the company in question.


0chitosan on drug crystals. The precipitate obtained was filtered through Whatmann No. 1 filter paper using vacuum filtration unit and dried at 45 C for 24 h. The prepared cocrystals were characterized in terms of saturation solubility, drug content, infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), in vitro dissolution studies and stability studies. The considerable improvement in the dissolution rate of drug from optimized co-crystal formulation was attributed to the decreased drug crystallinity, altered surface morphology and reduction in particle size. The 0.2% chitosan and 0.4% chitosan chlorhydrate were found to be optimized concentrations for enhancement of dissolution rate of irbesartan. The technique is scalable and may prove valuable in manufacturing process in future for enhancement of dissolution of poorly water soluble drugs.


This work relies on the development of a sensorized medical needle with an all-optical guidance (Lab in a Needle) system for epidural space identification. The device is based on the judicious integration of a Fiber Bragg grating sensor inside the lumen of an epidural needle to discriminate between different types of tissue and thus providing continuous and real time measurements of the pressure experienced by the needle tip during its advancement. Experiments carried out on an epidural training phantom demonstrate the validity of our approach for the correct and effective identification of the epidural space.


Abstract In introducing this special issue, a justification is offered for this South African journal providing valuable space to showcase Indian sociology. This is part of a broader process of creating possibilities for challenging the sociological theory that emanates from just a few wealthy countries yet dominates the way we understand the world. Indio is particularly important because of the size and influence of the country and the scale and substance of its sociology. Some introductory comments on Indian sociology are presented and the contents of the issue summarised. It is argued that whilst we are located in South Africa we should have on orientation towards the development of a new global sociology, and that the development of co-operation between Indian and South African sociologists, and this special issue in particular, are steps in the right direction.


Objective To examine the effects of nebivolol, a β-blocker with nitroxide-mediated vasodilating properties, on coronary flow reserve (CFR) in patients with uncomplicated arterial hypertension. Design, setting and patients Fourteen newly diagnosed, never-treated, World Health Organization grade I–II hypertensive patients (male/female, 10/4; mean age, 47 years), free of coronary heart disease, underwent standard Doppler echocardiography and determination of CFR in the distal left anterior descending artery by low-dose dipyridamole (0.56 mg/kg intravenously in 4 min) at baseline and after 4 weeks of treatment with 5 mg nebivolol once daily. Results At baseline, nine patients had left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy (LV mass index ⩾ 51 g/m2.7). After 4 weeks of therapy, the blood pressure was decreased from 148 ± 8.1/101.4 ± 4.6 mmHg to 140.7 ± 7.0/91.1 ± 7.4 mmHg and end-systolic stress was also significantly reduced. Heart rate was reduced (P < 0.01), whereas LV end-diastolic diameter and stroke volume tended to increase (P = 0.07 and P = 0.09, respectively). No changes were detected in the LV mass index, relative wall thickness, fractional shortening and LV diastolic properties. Both resting and dipyridamole rate–pressure products were lower after nebivolol but dipyridamole-induced changes were not influenced by the therapy. In contrast, nebivolol therapy did not alter coronary velocities at rest, but caused a greater increase in coronary velocities after dipyridamole (P < 0.03), leading to a greater CFR (2.12 ± 0.33 versus 1.89 ± 0.31, P < 0.0001). Nebivolol induced an absolute increase of 8% in the CFR in nine of 14 patients (64.3%). Conclusions In hypertensive patients free of coronary artery disease, 4-week nebivolol therapy induces a significant increase of the CFR. Nebivolol preserves coronary flow at rest despite the reduction of metabolic (O2 consumption) and hemodynamic (diastolic blood pressure) determinants. The increase of hyperemic coronary velocities appears due to the reduction of coronary resistance.


(57) Abstract: The present invention is, programmed cell death in tumor cells (i.e., apoptosis) multicatalytic protease for inducing substance, and more particularly for use as anti-tumor agents (MCP) on using specific inhibitors. The present invention provides method for inducing apoptosis in cells transformed, method of inhibiting proliferation of transformed cells, and methods of inhibiting tumor growth using the MCP inhibitors.


We address the problem of weakly supervised object localization where only image-level annotations are available for training. Many existing approaches tackle this problem through object proposal mining. However, a substantial amount of noise in object proposals causes ambiguities for learning discriminative object models. Such approaches are sensitive to model initialization and often converge to an undesirable local minimum. In this paper, we address this problem by progressive domain adaptation with two main steps: classification adaptation and detection adaptation. In classification adaptation, we transfer a pre-trained network to our multi-label classification task for recognizing the presence of a certain object in an image. In detection adaptation, we first use a mask-out strategy to collect class-specific object proposals and apply multiple instance learning to mine confident candidates. We then use these selected object proposals to fine-tune all the layers, resulting in a fully adapted detection network. We extensively evaluate the localization performance on the PASCAL VOC and ILSVRC datasets and demonstrate significant performance improvement over the state-of-the-art methods.


The KAO Chemical Karawang International Industrial City warehouse has 5 floors which originally planned to use reinforced concrete structures on the 1st floor and steel structures on the 2nd floor to the roof. In this plan, another alternative is provided using composite steel on floor plates, joists, and main beams. The composite steel structure will produce a profile/element design that is stronger and stiffer than non-composite structures. The loading plan is based on SNI 1727: 2013 and the steel structure design plan is based on SNI 1729: 2015 using the LRFD method. From the results of the analysis obtained the roof plate and floor using a floor deck with a thickness of 120 mm and a main reinforcement O10-150 mm and a shrinkage reinforcement O6-250 mm, joist with a profile of WF 300 x 150 x 6.5 x 9 and floor joists with a profile of WF 300 x 150 x 6.5 x 9, roof transverse beam with a profile of WF 400 x 200 x 8 x 13 and floor transverse beam with a profile of WF 450 x 200 x 9 x 14, roof longitudinal beam with a profile of WF 300 x 150 x 6.5 x 9 and floor longitudinal beam with a profile of WF 400 x 200 x 8 x 13, the column with profile of WF 350 x 350 x 12 x 19. The maximum deflection in the joist is 19.10 mm, the transverse beam is 18.66 mm, and the longitudinal main beam is 19,10 mm that still meet the maximum deflection requirements which is less than L/360.


Regulation of insurers has focused primarily on insurer solidity.1 The concern for solidity centers on safe capitalization requirements for insurers, premium rate adequacy, and investment controls. Although current regulatory concerns frequently address issues of pricing equity and new approaches to risk classification, solidity remains the principal consideration. Capital adequacy, a key solidity requisite, has generally been addressed from a context of rules-of-thumb and general conservatism. Questions of capital adequacy are relatively complex and analysis of risk theory and finance has been difficult to translate into statutes and difficult for insurance commissiohers to incorporate into regulatory practice. Rule.of-thumb analysis, therefore, has held considerable appeal for insurance commissioners. In recent years, research into the capital adequacy of established insurers has expanded considerably. Aside from the long-standing conceptual contributions of risk theory, advances were stimulated greatly by the linking of portfolio theory to the risk and return analysis of different lines of insurance.2 The most thorough explanation is the work of Bachman, who employed the optimization features of the portfolio model to estimate minimum capital requirements


Among all the basic SI units, the mass unit is the only one to be defined in terms of a material standard: a prototype called K. All the industrial countries possess their own standards which were compared to the K during the last international comparison showing that unknown evolution occurs, but the adsorption-desorption of cleaning products plays a relatively important role. A few years ago, several laboratories in the U.S.A., Germany, and France reported interesting results of photothermal measurements to detect desorption at normal temperature and pressure (NTP). This paper presents a mirage set-up built to detect the film of condensable gasses on metallic surfaces at NTP conditions. In order to quantify these measurements, an inverse method has been developed to determine the adsorption isotherm involved in the physical process of adsorption-desorption and the linked parameters such as absorbability, type of adsorption, and differential heat of adsorption. The results will be discussed to imagine possible tracks to reduce the instabilities of the standards in the future and for possible new definitions of standards built with silicon.


In this paper,the error sources of the integrated navigation system were analyzed,and the error models were built.Then,the alignment algorithm of IMU/GPS integrated navigation system on moving base was designed by Kalman filtering.Computer simulation results show that,under the condition of big initial error and shell's high speed rolling,after 360 seconds' alignment on moving base,the error of azimuth angle and attitude angle can be decreased to no more than 10 seconds,and the position and velocity error had been corrected effectively.This shows the effectiveness of the designed arithmetic.


This article inquires into the group analyst's capacity to influence the social sphere. To this end, I begin by introducing the principles of 'managerialism', or 'New Public Management', as this is the norm that currently prevails in the social sphere. This is followed by a critical excursion into the values of classical psychoanalysis, which I argue continues to prevail within group analysis. Next, I critically reflect on contemporary group analytic trainings in the light of these two ways of thinking, managerialism and the analytic orthodoxy. I conclude that there is a real danger that group analytic trainings concede to and imbibe bureaucratic managerialist norms, producing group analysts who are more likely to be deferential to established authorities rather than being able to question and challenge them.


To better protect the ecological environment during large scale underground coal mining operations in the northwest of China, the authors have proposed a water-conservation coal mining (WCCM) method. This case study demonstrated the successful application of WCCM in the Yu-Shen mining area. Firstly, by using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), the influencing factors of WCCM were identified and the identification model with a multilevel structure was developed, to determine the weight of each influencing factor. Based on this, the five maps: overburden thickness contour, stratigraphic structure map, water-rich zoning map of aquifers, aquiclude thickness contour and coal seam thickness contour, were analyzed and determined. This formed the basis for studying WCCM in the mining area. Using the geological conditions of the Yu-Shen mining area, the features of caved zone, water conductive fractured zone (WCFZ) and protective zone were studied. The equations for calculating the height of the "three zones" were proposed. Considering the hydrogeological condition of Yu-Shen mining area, the criteria were put forward to evaluate the impact of coal mining on groundwater, which were then used to determine the distribution of different impact levels. Using strata control theory, the mechanism and applicability of WCCM methods, including height-restricted mining, (partial) backfill mining and narrow strip mining, together with the applicable zone of these methods, were analyzed and identified. Under the guidance of "two zoning" (zoning based on coal mining's impact level on groundwater and zoning based on applicability of WCCM methods), the WCCM practice was carried out in Yu-Shen mining area. The research findings will provide theoretical and practical instruction for the WCCM in the northwest mining area of China, which is important to reduce the impact of mining on surface and groundwater.


Due to the fact that the higher density of mobile devices is expected, the fifth generation (5G) mobile networks introduce small cell networks (SCNs) to prevent exhausting radio resources. SCNs improve radio spectrum utilization by deploying more base stations (BSs) in the networks. Even though authenticated key exchange (AKE) is still essential to ensure entity authentication and confidentiality in mobile communications. Besides, user anonymity is required to guarantee the footprints of mobile communications being concealed. However, AKE with user anonymity may increase the latency of communications dramatically in total due to several times more frequency in SCNs. The increase of latency will be more serious when an AKE protocol supports user anonymity, where traceability and revocability to users are necessary. Thus, this paper presents a secure region-based handover scheme (ReHand) with user anonymity and fast revocation for SCNs. ReHand greatly reduces the communication latency when user equipments (UEs) roam between small cells within the region of a macro BS, i.e., eNB, and the computation costs due to the employment of symmetry-based cryptographic operations. Compared to the three related prior arts, ReHand dramatically reduces the latency from 82.92% to 99.99% by region-based secure handover. Nevertheless, this paper demonstrates the security of ReHand by theoretically formal proofs.


For the first time in 135 specimens of ticks (24.4%) identified pathogens rickettsial spotted fever Rickettsia helvetica (22.2%) and Rickettsia monacensis (3.7%). Gegenetic markers of Rickettsia spp. were identified in 24% of the investigated ticks also. A mixed infection of Rickettsia with Borrelia, Anaplasma and Babesia found in 8% of the ticks. Identified a case of rickettsiosis children 4 years of age after sucking Ixodes tick. Other rickettsial infection (epidemic typhus) was recorded in Belarus after the war. The causative agent of epidemic typhus is Rickettsia prowazekii that can long-term (40 years) to persist in the human body and cause recurrent disease (Brill–Zinsser disease).under the influence of debilitating factors.


This article explores embodied encounters with the Sea Empress oil spill of 1996 and their representation in oral narratives. Through a close reading of the personal testimonies collected in the Sea Empress Project archive, I examine the relationship between intense sensory experiences of environmental change and everyday interpretations of the disaster and its legacy. The article first outlines the ways in which this collection of voices reveals sensory memories, embodied affects and narrative choices to be deeply entwined in oral representations of the spill, disclosing a 'sensory event' that created a powerful awareness of both environmental surroundings and their relationship to everyday social processes. Then, reading these narratives against-the-grain, I argue that narrators' accounts tell a paradoxical story of a disaster that most now wish to forget, and reveal an ambivalent legacy of environmental change that is similarly consigned to the past. Finally, I relate this social forgetting of the Sea Empress to the wider history of environmental consciousness in modern Britain.


A 62-year-old man with RA for 10 years who presented with abdominal bloating was hospitalized. He was receiving MTX (10 mg/week), iguratimod and bucillamine, and he showed no evidence of viral hepatitis, diabetes mellitus or alcoholism. His aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels were 79 and 53 U/l, respectively. His platelet count was 50 10/ml. The fibrosis 4 (FIB-4) score, f[Age (year) x AST (U/l)] / (platelet (x10/ml) x ALT (U/ l))g, was 13.46 (advanced liver fibrosis). CT performed every few years before hospitalization showed gradually progressing liver atrophy (Fig. 1a and b: 7 and 3 years before hospitalization, respectively). CT performed at the time of hospitalization showed severe liver atrophy and ascites (Fig. 1c). Then, MTX treatment was discontinuated. Ten months after drug discontinuation, his AST and ALT levels reduced to 25 and 20 U/l, respectively, and the platelet count and FIB-4 score were 109 10/ml and 3.23 (moderate liver fibrosis), respectively. The ascites disappeared, and the liver atrophy slowly improved (Fig. 1d). Among all types of MTX-induced liver damage, liver cirrhosis is rare [1]. To our knowledge, there are no reports of radiological changes in the liver and ascites in


Many studies have suggested that the corrosion detection of reinforced concrete (RC) based on electrical potential on concrete surface was an ill-posed problem, and thus it may present an inaccurate interpretation of corrosion. However, it is difficult to prove the ill-posed problem of the RC corrosion detection by experiment. One promising technique is using a numerical method. The objective of this study is to simulate the ill-posed problem of RC corrosion detection based on electrical potential on a concrete surface using the Boundary Element Method (BEM). BEM simulates electrical potential within a concrete domain. In order to simulate the electrical potential, the domain is assumed to be governed by Laplace's equation. The boundary conditions for the corrosion area and the noncorrosion area of rebar were selected from its polarization curve. A rectangular reinforced concrete model with a single rebar was chosen to be simulated using BEM. The numerical simulation results using BEM showed that the same electrical potential distribution on the concrete surface could be generated from different combinations of parameters. Corresponding to such a phenomenon, this problem can be categorized as an ill-posed problem since it has many solutions. Therefore, BEM successfully simulates the ill-posed problem of reinforced concrete corrosion detection.


ABSTRACT Circular synthetic aperture radar (CSAR) is the imaging mode when the radar moves along a circular path and the observed area is always covered by the wave beam. It is different from traditional SAR modes (strip-map SAR and spotlight SAR) and has potential advantages such as 360° observation, target recognition, and three-dimensional reconstruction. According to the imaging processing of CSAR, motion error is an important issue affecting the CSAR image quality, but the motion compensatio n (MOCO) method for CSAR is underdeveloped. Accordingly, with detailed analysis the motion error model is established and a data-driven MOCO flow chart for CSAR is proposed. The real CSAR data are used to verify the proposed method.


eScholarship provides open access, scholarly publishing services to the University of California and delivers a dynamic research platform to scholars worldwide. Abstract: This paper analyzes the reasons for the clear victory of the leftist Party of Social Democracy (PDSR) and its presidential candidate, Ion Iliescu in the 2000 Romanian elections, as well as the strong showing of the extremist Greater Romania Party (PRM) and its leader Corneliu Vadim Tudor. Based on an analysis of voter surveys, the paper argues that the rise of the extreme right does not reflect a radicalization of the Romanian electorate but rather a protest vote against the perceived corruption and incompetence of the country's political elite in the last decade. The paper concludes with implications for the future of democracy in the former communist countries in and around the region.


This paper presents the correlation between experimental fan performance measurements and simulation results using an unsteady fluids solver. Flow rate, pressure rise, and torque are measured on two different plastic truck cooling fans in a test plenum environment including a production truck shroud and a downstream engine silhouette. It was found that the simulation results compared very well with the test results of the more rigid fan; however, there were more discrepancies with the fan that deformed during testing. The influence of fan deformation was then studied by evaluating data collected from different fan speeds. The correlation between experiment and simulation improved when the experimental data for the deformable fan was taken from a lower fan speed and scaled via the standard fan law.


The origin of NBTI variability was investigated experimentally using the recovery by hydrogen annealing after NBT stressing. In the case of hydrogen-annealed devices after low voltage NBT stress, ΔVTH and ΔICP values including these distributions completely coincide with those in the case of the first NBT stress, irrespective the number of both the stress and the hydrogen annealing. This result indicates that the defects generated by applying low voltage NBT stress can be completely recovered by hydrogen incorporation. On the contrary, in the case of the hydrogen-annealed devices after high voltage NBT stress, the variability of ΔVTH under low-voltage NBT stress after hydrogen annealing becomes more marked compared to that for fresh device, while the relationship between the mean values and the variability of ΔICP coincides with that of fresh device. Based on the experimental results, we conclude that the variability of the quantity of hole-trapping precursors in gate oxide films is the dominant origin for the VTH-shift distribution, rather than the variability of the quality of the gate dielectric interface.


The origin of 11 samples of (Z)-3-hexenol was studied by SNIF-NMR measurements. The results show a possible distinction between synthetic and extractive materials and those biogenerated from linolenic acid by enzymic fragmentation at position 13 of the carbon framework of the 13-hydroperoxide obtained by the action of oxygen in the presence of lipoxygenase, followed by baker's yeast-mediated reduction of the intermediate (Z)-3-hexenal. Particularly significant to this end result are the deuterium contents at relevant positions of (Z)-3-hexenol, such as 3+4 and 1. The results suggest that one sample might be a mixture of materials of extractive origin with those obtained by biodegradation from linolenic acid. Keywords: (Z)-3-Hexenol; naturality; SNIF-NMR; biogeneration


The article is motivated by the analysis of the relationship between university student ratings and teacher practices and attitudes, which are measured via a set of binary and ordinal items collected by an innovative survey. The analysis is conducted through a two-level random intercept model, where student ratings are nested within teachers. The analysis must face two issues about the items measuring teacher practices and attitudes, which are level 2 predictors: (a) the items are severely affected by missingness due to teacher non-response and (b) there is redundancy in both the number of items and the number of categories of their measurement scale. We tackle the missing data issue by considering a multiple imputation strategy exploiting information at both student and teacher levels. For the redundancy issue, we rely on regularization techniques for ordinal predictors, also accounting for the multilevel data structure. The proposed solution addresses the problem at hand in an original way, and it can be applied whenever it is required to select level 2 predictors affected by missing values. The results obtained with the final model indicate that ratings on teacher ability to motivate students are related to certain teacher practices and attitudes.


Interest in promoting neighborhood revitalization has led local governments and community groups to propose the establishment of historic districts. By creating a historic district, and by imposing land use controls, they hope to foster increased demand for the properties. However, the restrictions may prove burdensome and the additional information may have no value. Using a hedonic pricing model for housing sales for Elgin and Aurora, Illinois, the authors test for the effect on sales prices of location in a historic district and find it positively, but weakly, related to sales price in Elgin and positively related to location in a low-income area in the historic district in Aurora.


This article discusses the present status of neonatal circumcision in the United States and presents clinical findings regarding the long-term somatic, emotional, and psychological consequences of this procedure in adult men. These consequences are seen as typical of complex posttraumatic stress disorder. They emerged during psychotherapy focused on the resolution of prenatal, perinatal, and developmental trauma and shock experiences. Their relationship to phenomena such as trauma, shock, somatic decisions, discounting, and scripting is described.


The system of the independent board of directors is an unique system in the Britan and American corporation law.In order to perfect management structure of the listed companies and protect benefits of the middle-small stockholders,independent board of directors begins to be introduced in China.This article makes a brief analysis on Chinese independent board of directors that is just in initial stage from the angle of comparative study between China and Japan,and puts forward some proposals with regard to gradually perfecting independent board of directors.


Wannier functions for a one-dimensional quantum system with a generic periodic potential are calculated directly using orthogonal compact support multiwavelets in conjunction with a sparse iterative method. This allows systematic elimination of error from scales both shorter and longer than the basic period. The converged values of the Wannier function and the associated energy Fourier components are analyzed, yielding improved formulas for their behavior in the important regions that are not fully asymptotic.


This paper introduces a novel method for image classification using local feature descriptors. The method utilizes linear subspaces of local descriptors for characterizing their distribution and extracting image features. The extracted features are transformed into more discriminative features by the linear discriminant analysis and employed for recognizing their categories. Experimental results demonstrate that this method is competitive with the Fisher kernel method in terms of classification accuracy.


Mindfulness, based on an ancient spiritual practice, is a core quality and way of being that can deepen and enrich the supervision of counselors. This model of mindful supervision incorporates Buddhist and Hindu conceptualizations of the roles of the five elements—space, earth, water, fire, air—as they relate to adhikara or studentship, the ongoing experience of a beginner's mind. By extending the invitation to studentship and outlining a flow through the elements, this model cultivates a stance of "not knowing," wonder, curiosity, and openness. We explore the contributions and dynamic interplay of each of these elements in promoting mindful supervision.


Photocatalytic removal of organic substances from waste water comprises using photocatalyst granules based on pyrogenic titanium dioxide with a mean particle size of 10-150 mu m, a BET surface area of 25-100 m /g, a pH of 3-6 and a compacted density of 100-1200 g/l.


The open heart preparation of Bufo spinulosus (n=24) was used to study the effect of extracts from herbal medicine (Rosmarinus officinalis, Melissa officinalis, Sanguisorba officinalis and Trichocereus pachanoii) and compare them to standard pharmacological products (epinephrine, pilocarpine and epinephrine+pilocarpine) and electrolites (KCl and CaCl2). Electrodes are placed on the skin surface and ECG recorded before and after instillation directly on the heart. The extracts were prepared following the method of ethanol extracts. Results were the effects of bradycardia and tachycardia of CaCl2 and epinephrine, respectively. Similar behavior is also shown by Sanguisorba officinalis and Trichocereus pachanoii. P wave was prolonged by herbal medicine, R wave was prolonged by Rosmarinus officinalis (0.61Vs, 17%), T wave was prolonged by epinephrine (1.94 Vs, 185%) and Trichocereus pachanoii (1.65 Vs, 157%), PR interval was prolonged by epinephrine (62ms, 18%) and medicinal herbal, QT interval was decreased by herbal medicine, and ST segment was prolonged by epinephrine (73ms, 31%) and Trichocereus pachanoii (78ms, 34%). Finally, further research will be conducted on those compounds that showed biological effects upon the heart.


QUEENSBOROUGH Community College of the City University of New York admitted 30 students to the initial AAS degree program for Medical Laboratory Technology in the fall of 1967. The purpose of this study was to determine the validity of three measures in the prediction of achievement (the criterion being final grades) in the first semester (four credit) college chemistry course required of all students in the program. The three predictors used were: (1) students' high school average, (2) Lorge-Thorndike Intelligence Test, Verbal Battery, Level 5, Form A, and (3) Lorge-Thorndike Intelligence Test, Nonverbal Battery, Level 5, Form A. The standardized tests were administered (N = 30) at the first laboratory class according to instructions in their manual published by the Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, Mass. Final grades obtained in the course were converted to numerical grades on the basis of A = 4, B = 3, C = 2, D = 1, F = 0 and


The present invention provides a completely different and novel methods of peptide synthesis, and provides new artificial possible function of the protein synthesis / created, the new synthesis of new compounds function of the peptide / created, and a manufacturing method thereof. One of the following compounds of formula (I), or a salt thereof.


The present available radionuclide techniques offer the possibility to obtain clinically relevant data regarding myocardial perfusion, viability and function, at the patient's bedside. The value and limitations of the various imaging techniques are at present reasonably well explored. Meaningful results can be obtained when each technique is used with an understanding of its own temp]oral sequence and accuracy.


This study utilized ICP Atomic Emission Spectroscopy to assess heavy metal content in wetland sediments. Sixteen different sites, grouped into four categories, were sampled during the study. Sediment was filtered with a 63 pm nylon sieve, allowed to settle, and dried. The dried sediment was then microwave acid bomb digested with concentrated nitric acid and diluted for heavy metal analysis by ICP-AE spectroscopy. There was a strong correlation between elevated heavy metal levels and occurrence of past mining among the sites. No correlation was found between elevated heavy metal levels and amphibian's absence of breeding activity. Large relative concentrations of arsenic, lead, cadmium, and zinc were found in the mining sites Upper and Middle Frohner Meadows and Dog Creek and in the non-mining site Spring Meadow Lake (SML). Spring Meadow also exhibited extremely high concentrations of manganese. Resampling and additional analysis was carried out on SML after preliminary results indicated elevated heavy metal levels. The second set of results also indicated elevated levels of arsenic, lead, and zinc and extremely high levels of manganese at Spring Meadow Lake.


Annotation: The present paper aims at defining the concept of economic sovereignty in the framework of processes of State-building, with particular regard to the regulation of foreign direct investments (FDIs). Firstly, it addresses the definition of the concept of «economic sovereignty» and its development, with particular regard to countries facing processes of economic reconstructions (like post-conflict and transitional situations). In this respect, attention will be devoted to the concept of «conditionality», as first developed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) within its supporting programs and then used by the European Union (EU) for its enlargement policy.The analysis will focus on the Western Balkans and in particular to Kosovo: the Kosovo case study sums up various aspects of external influences on a country's governance. Taking into account the role of EU conditionality in the exercise of the economic sovereignty of Kosovo, the main question to be answered is whether there is an 'erosion' of economic sovereignty or simply a reconfiguration of the relationship between national economic policies and EU policies, with particular regard to the definition of a domestic legal framework for investment protection.Key words: Economic sovereignty, state-building, post-conflict reconstruction, economic reconstruction, investment protection, economic conditionality, globalization, Kosovo, EU Stabilisation and Association Process, EULEX mission.


Thank you for reading the ancient mediterranean world from the stone age to ad 600. As you may know, people have search hundreds times for their chosen books like this the ancient mediterranean world from the stone age to ad 600, but end up in malicious downloads. Rather than reading a good book with a cup of coffee in the afternoon, instead they cope with some malicious virus inside their desktop computer.


An optical method to improve the system for modulo exponentiation is proposed. In this method, modulation patterns are modified in comparison with that of our original system. The proposed method is numerically analyzed and effectiveness of the method is verified.


Through the on-road survey to the Chongqing urban areas, the pollution situation of vehicle emission is gotten. Factors of vehicle emission on roads of the city are calculated with the M0BILE5 program recommended by EPA. The research shows that the contributive rates of the CO and NO x emited by motor vehicles in the urban area reached 81.3% and 34.21% respectively. The more and more serious pollution from motor vehicle emission, become the first important task of the controlling air pollutions in the city.


Based on a characterization for the multivariate normal distribution, we propose two uniform tests for detecting non-multinormality. Monte Carlo study and an analysis of a real data set show that the two uniform tests can help explain conclusions obtained from other existing tests of normality.


Introduction: Identifying errors and examining their causes in diagnostic and therapeutic processes is special conditions which has considerable impact on fertility medicine.  Porpuse: The purpose of this investigation is to identifying and assessing the causes of potential errors in the Isfahan Fertility and Infertility Center using Pareto analysis Materials and Methods: Data for this study were a Descriptive-analytic study approach was adopted to assess the management practice of twofold: 1. identification of errors in process of from admission to stimulate ovulation and 2. Evaluation of causes of errors in process by using Pareto analysis.  Results: Of the 5 proposed processes, 123 errors were identified. The result ,as shown in chart1, indicate that the most common causes of error in each of the 5 processes related to "Mistake in entering the system information by personnel(13%), patient's swarm(25%), Lack of knowledge(33%), Occupation of personnel(39%) and Doctor mistake in prescription(record, date and condition tests(45%).In fact, 80% of the causes of the error were in each of the 5 processes considered at 20% of them. Conclusion: Pareto chart seems to be a useful tool for identifying the main problem created by diagnostic and therapeutic processes and can identify the true cause of errors, including common errors.


This production method can be easily produced with the SOF retardant, flame retardant blended yarn having dyeing properties, uniformly improve the properties such as light-fastness is prepared. Production method of the flame retardant blended yarn, the silica raw cotton, aramid cotton, and polyester by preparing a raw cotton, silica fiber 60 and 80 parts by weight of aramid fibers of 1 to 10 parts by weight of polyester fibers 19 to 30 lab by mixing parts by weight the other surface horn to form a remove impurities from the process, lab and arranged to remove the staple fibers of the carding process, the sliver for extracting a sliver form and align the ordering information carding process for increasing the uniformity, triple combination, and stretching the sliver by reducing the thickness and collimated by increasing the soft processing parallelism by re-stretching the soft sliver for producing a soft sliver and adjust the thickness to impart Cao Fang process, twisting the research for making a survey with the flame retardant blended yarn from the irradiation comprising: a winding step of winding by connecting a prepared spinning process, and that the produced flame retardant blended yarn, flat horn to the other surface conduct a The rotational speed of the running speed of the Rucker (plucker), the combing machines (combing machine) for performing a driving speed and a constant carding process of the carding machine (carding machine) to perform a carding process, static electricity generated in the lab or slivers It is adjusted to maintain a size of less than 1kV.


Abstract : The problem is considered of ascertaining when the conditions: b sub j = the integral from 0 to T with respect to + of u(t)phi sub j (t), where j = 1, 2,...,N, determine a unique solution of the linear Nth order differential equation in u with coefficients of the form a sub i (t), i = 1,2,...,N. This is a particular problem arising in the general study of the identification of linear systems.


Abstract The sulfur(VI) fluoride exchange reaction (SuFEx), developed by Sharpless and co-workers in 2014, is a new category of click reaction that creates molecular connections with absolute reliability and unprecedented efficiency through a sulfur(VI) hub. Ethenesulfonyl fluoride (ESF), as one of the most important sulfur(VI) hubs, exhibits extraordinary reactivity in SuFEx click chemistry and organic synthesis. This review summarizes the chemical properties and applications of ESF in click chemistry, organic chemistry, materials science, medicinal chemistry and in many other fields related to organic synthesis. 1 Introduction 2 Chemical Transformations of ESF 3 Chemical Transformations of 2-Arylethenesulfonyl Fluorides 4 Novel SuFEx Reagents Derived from ESF 5 Applications of ESF Derivatives in Medicinal Chemistry 6 Applications of ESF Derivatives in Materials Science 7 Conclusion


Compression modes are characterized as volume oscillations of the nucleus which do not contribute to the photonuclear sum rule but show up as concentrated strength in, e.g., inelastic hadronic scattering. Comparison of the nuclear response to different operators in the frame of a continuum random phase approximation is the theoretical technique used to search for such compression modes. Sharply concentrated strength is found only for the breathing mode and the isoscalar dipole mode. Large widths are expected for the isovector monopole, the isovector dipole compression mode, and the isoscalar quadrupole compression mode. For those modes whose escape width corresponds to a large fraction of the total width, one suggests the possibility of detecting them in coincidence experiments by observation of the decaying particle.


The number of halos as a function of mass and redshift is a powerful cosmological probe. The most massive halos are inhabited by clusters of galaxies, whose observational features scale with the host's halo mass and redshift with some scatter. These features allow us to select galaxy clusters in X-ray, optical and millimeter wavelength. We demonstrate in this thesis how to extract cosmological information from a cluster sample. The major limiting factors to this measurement are the uncertainty in the mapping between observable and mass, and the uncertainties in the modelling of the selection function. We demonstrate, introducing novel techniques and developing established ones, how to empirically calibrate these sources of systematic uncertainty. We furthermore demonstrate how to set up empirical validation tests for the cosmological inference from cluster samples.


Dramatic growth in a section of Ohio east of Columbus fueled plans to expand a 12-mile segment of State Route 16. When a leading manufacturer in the area expressed a desire to see construction begin by spring 1998, ten years worth of highway design was pared down to a single year. Growing pains felt along S.R. 16 led to plans for expansion. The proposed schedule for this highway design -- a process normally consumed by ten years of planning, environmental study, and design work -- was pared down to a single year when the manufacturer expressed a desire to see "dirt flying by spring." Strategic planning involving the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT), Longaberger, Woolpert, an engineering-architecture firm, and Resource International, Inc., an engineering and geotechnical firm, led to meeting the schedule for the highway design.


Emerging market demonstrates four constraints, name ly wealth-related constraint, skill-related constra int, access-related constraint and time-related constrai n . The distinguishing features of emerging market customers are their low per capita income, consequently, they exp ect to pay below average price on commercial produc ts with good-enough quality and services. High-quality low -price commodity has thus become an important strat egy of multinational corporations to penetrate emerging ma rkets. This study focuses Nokia's strategies in pen etrating China's mobile phone market. Strategies included integrati ng supply chain, local R&D, establishing marketing channel to small towns and villages and low-cost models. Noki a has successfully overcome the above four constrai ts.


A history of the development of criminal law is a history of the discovery of humanity.This paper intends to explore the human nature and the relationship between humanity and criminal law,hoping to help our criminal law evolution.


This study proposes the concept, indices and calculation method of boundary supply capability (BSC), which is the first capability curve for distribution networks. BSC describes the supply capability of distribution networks under various loading conditions. First, BSC is defined as a total load of an operating point on the security boundary. The BSC set of all boundary points represents the overall capability of a distribution network; while the total supply capability is the maximum value in a BSC set. Second, a method is proposed to calculate the BSC and its related indices. This method consists of three steps: (i) obtain a set of boundary points by sampling, (ii) calculate the BSC value of each point, and (iii) analyse the BSC set and obtain the following information: sorted BSC curve, BSC proportion distribution curve, mean value, lower bound, upper bound and so on. Finally, extended IEEE-RTBS-BUS4 cases are used to illustrate the proposed concept and demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed BSC method. It is demonstrated that BSC can describe the supply capability distribution of distribution networks under N − 1 security comprehensively.


Three balance periods of 7 days with 12 castrated males each in the life weight range from 35 kg to 60 kg were car ried out to determine the P digestibility of 3 different feed phosphates according to the guidelines of GfE (1994). The phosphates were 2 Dicalcium phosphates and 1 Calcium Magnesium phosphate. Additional to the digestibility of P also the Ca digestibility and in the case of the Calcium Magnesium phosphate the digestibility of Mg were deter mined. Differences were found in case of the P-digestibility between 72 % and 84 %. These differences clearly reflect differences in chemical composition (anhydrous vs. dihy drate). The digestibility of P was in all phosphates above the value of the DLG table (1999).


We prove induced Ramsey theorems in which the induced monochromatic subgraph satisfies that some of its partial automorphisms extend to automorphisms of the colored graph.


Nodular subepidermal fibrosis is a common complication of non‐filarial elephantiasis of the lower legs. It occurs in the 'rubbery' type of elephantiasis only. The sites of predilection correspond to areas exposed to microtraumata; the sole and the leg above the ankle are never involved by nodulation. The microscopic appearances are described. Treatment, which is demanded by the patient for aesthetic reasons, or required as a preparatory measure for footwear, is surgical removal of the nodules.


Abstract This study was designed to reveal university students' motivations for sport. A sample of 934 students (male: 47.4%; female: 52.6%) with different educational levels and fields of study were involved in our research. A revised and developed scale was employed for measuring the students' motivation. Inferential and descriptive statistics were used to describe the differences in students' motivations for sport. The results indicated that having fun and experiencing joy, maintaining physical and mental health, and having a fit body were rated most frequently as the students' motivations for sport; whereas spending leisure time, being with friends, and participating in competitions were found as the lowest motivational dimensions. Furthermore, various motivational differences could be observed between students regarding their gender, age, educational level, and field of study. In conclusion, it is suggested that preparing special plans based on the students' different motivations and on their special needs for sport could improve their participation rate in sporting activities.


Synthesis of a damage-mitigating control law requires additional information on damage states beyond what is needed for the design of a conventional output feedback controller. In this context, the paper establishes the necessity of a fatigue damage model that must account for the impact of variable-amplitude stress excitation on crack growth rate (e.g., crack retardation and sequence effects). It is shown that predicted structural durability and the damage-mitigating controller design could be grossly inaccurate if the fatigue crack damage model does not represent the effects of variable-amplitude cyclic stress. A specific example is given based on the design of output-feedback damage-mitigating controllers for a reusable rocket engine that was reported in an earlier publication. Simulation results are presented to compare the predicted structural durability and closed-loop performance of the rocket engine under the same controllers for two different damage models, with and without consideration of the effects of variable-amplitude stress.


In the title compound, [Co(C12H8NO2)2(H2O)4], the Co atom lies on a twofold rotation axis and has an N2O4 octahedral coordination environment formed by four O atoms of water molecules in the equatorial plane and two apical N atoms of pyridine groups. An intricate three-dimensional supramolecular network is formed by multiple O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds between the coordinated water molecules and the uncoordinated carboxylate groups.


Objective To investigate the effect and safety of tirofiban treating non-ST elevation-acute coronary syndrome(NSTE-ACS) in the early emergency. Methods 126 patients with NSTE-ACS admitted into our hospital were selected and randomly divided into the observation group(n=63) and the control group.Within 48 hours in the early emergency,the control group was given the conventional pharmacological treatment and the observation group was given tirofiban on the basis of conventional pharmacological treatment.The clinical efficacy and safety indicators were recorded and compared between the two groups. Results After 48 hours treatment,the number of NST and ST segment depression value,the rate of platelet aggregation,sCD40L and incidence rate of major adverse cardiovascular events of 30 days were obviously reduced compared with those before treatment and the control group(P0.01).There was no statistical difference of the incidence rate of complication(thrombocytopenia and bleeding)(P0.05). Conclusion Tirofiban auxiliarily treating NSTE-ACS in the early emergency has a good clinical effect and safety.