In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay's first paragraph. "What can one say about life with a degree in Religious Studies from St. John Fisher College? Well, it's almost been a year since graduation and I can say that things are definitely different but ever the same. I am now at the Faculty of Theology at the University of St. Michael"s College (USMC) in Toronto, Ontario. When people ask me what I am doing with my life now, I do sometimes answer using the acronym. Of course, to an American, it is first heard as the branch of the United States military and not a theological institution. But here in Canada, USMC has no other connotation than a member school in the Toronto School of Theology consortium. The TST is a good fit for me. Here I am exposed to many different theological outlooks and denominational worldviews that could have otherwise gone unnoticed in a different setting. Such diversity is refreshing and, at times, challenging. On the whole I view these opportunities as growing/learning experiences." This alumni corner is available in Verbum: http://fisherpub.sjfc.edu/verbum/vol7/iss2/11 "The Life and Miracles of Fisher Alumnus Peter Santandreu" What can one say about life with a degree in Religious Studies from St. John Fisher College? Well, it"s almost been a year since graduation and I can say that things are definitely different but ever the same. I am now at the Faculty of Theology at the University of St. Michael"s College (USMC) in Toronto, Ontario. When people ask me what I am doing with my life now, I do sometimes answer using the acronym. Of course, to an American, it is first heard as the branch of the United States military and not a theological institution. But here in Canada, USMC has no other connotation than a member school in the Toronto School of Theology consortium. The TST is a good fit for me. Here I am exposed to many different theological outlooks and denominational worldviews that could have otherwise gone unnoticed in a different setting. Such diversity is refreshing and, at times, challenging. On the whole I view these opportunities as growing/learning experiences. I must first express my thanks to all my professors at St. John Fisher who have lent their expertise to the task of my education. In a special way, I would like to thank the Religious Studies department. There was nothing "Micky Mouse" about a REST class at Fisher. I really feel like I was prepared to go onto higher education after my time at St. John Fisher. If I didn"t know everything, at least I knew where and how to find it. So thank you again REST faculty and staff, you"ve done good by me. That being said, let me tell you, it was not all sweetness and light starting out. The first semester here was probably the most difficult schooling since Kindergarten when I failed motor skills because I couldn"t skip or do a summersault. Each class would be another humbling encounter with those who are incredibly more knowledgeable than me. There were times when I seriously considered attempting something else, like drywall or landscaping. But I made it through and learned a lot from it. I learned that I don"t have to be good at everything and that if I can do a few things well and succeed in my concentration, I"ll be alright. Thus I came to understand how to be a grad student just like when I finally learned to summersault my sophomore year of high school...skipping is still in the works though. Recently I have had some really good days where I get up, drink a pot of coffee, read for eight to ten hours, go to class if I have to, and then take the rest of the night off. I am very fortunate to be naturally disposed to solitude because it has been a pretty constant experience for me. God willing, I should be able to keep up this routine at least until the end of the semester (April 12 th here in the Great White North). One last point that I find important: von Balthasar was right, one cannot study theology without doing it from the knees. Granted, it is possible to maintain a dispassionate stance about one"s personal faith-life while in a theology program, but why miss the opportunity? This is not to say that these opportunities are only available while attaining an advanced theological degree, but rather that it is something that one is faced with every day and thus allows for greater exposure. It has been an interesting journey thus far and I am very excited to get back into classes in the Fall. St. Michael's College, University of Toronto


A method and a technical solution for controlling the quality of production of liquid and gaseous media is proposed. It is also proposed to monitor harmful factors in production while ensuring safe working conditions. Initially, using the mathematical model of an ideal atmosphere, the projection to the horizontal surface of the observation trajectory is calculated. At the second stage, the horizontal projection of the observation trajectory in real conditions is measured. The quality of the medium is judged by the difference between the projections of observation trajectories. The technical result is presented in the form of a device allowing obtaining information about the quality of the medium under investigation.


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The current massive oil glut is the product of the effects of the tight oil or shale oil revolution, which for a time turned the United States into the biggest oil and gas producer in the world. Now, suddenly as a result of an overproduction of world oil, made far worse by the sudden falloff in demand due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are witnessing the possible euthanasia of the U.S. tight oil industry, bleeding cash even before the oil price collapse and encumbered with mountains of debt.


For the current investigation, the gas liquid two-phase media are modeled as air involving fine droplet or droplets of water. A cylinder-piston system is modeled which contains air with single or multiple droplets of water. The compression process is achieved by the movement of the piston. During the compression process, thermodynamic properties such as temperature and pressure are investigated in detail. Analytical equations have been derived to obtain the transformation in fluid properties. The results thus obtained are discussed for different conditions of overspray and initial absolute humidity of the air inside the cylinder. The thermodynamic curves obtained are seen to deviate significantly from the dry isentropic curve ( PVγ=constant) with decreasing droplet diameters and increasing mass of droplets. This deviation can be associated with the latent heat absorbed by the evaporating droplets during the process of compression.


Well test analysis can be used for determining reservoir characteristics such as rock permeability, skin factor, reservoir pressure, reservoir limit, and layer heterogeneity. Usually a pressure buildup test is programmed by shutting the well in after being produced at a constant rate for a while. Then, by analyzing the pressure buildup vs. time during well shut-in period, the flow scheme in the reservoir and reservoir characteristics can be determined. This paper will be discussing pressure buildup analysis of oil well W-1 at Java Sea by using pressure derivative method. It is concluded that dual porosity pseudo steady state with two impermeable zones as boundaries is the best model fit the reservoir. The Value of ω and λ that was found shows the storage matrix capacity is high but permeability matrix is low. It means that fluid flow contribution from matrix to fracture is not significant. Beside storativity ratio (ω ) and interporosity flow coefficient (λ), the other characteristics such as initial reservoir pressure, wellbore storage, permeability, skin factor, flow efficiency, and radius of investigation can be determined. The result of pressure buildup analysis is suitable for reference in managing and developing the oilfield.


Irony is derived from Greece. Accompany with development of era, Irony is being a rhetoric. Germany's Romanticism make Irony be a principle of inditement and the New Criticism adequately excavate it. In these foundations, Irony which is on the modern significance ultimately formed. The Irony not only consist in Poetry, but only be a basic factor of Modern Novel. In my opinion, Irony consists of Diction Irony, Scene Irony and Drama Irony.


Simultaneous Stabilization of Linear Time Varying Systems by Linear Time Varying Compensation.- Robust Feedback Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems.- Feedback Design from the Zero Dynamics Point of View.- Two Examples of Stabilizable Second Order Systems.- Orthogonality - Conventional and Unconventional - in Numerical Analysis.- Discrete Observability of Parabolic Initial Boundary Value Problems.- Numerical Optimal Control via Smooth Penalty Functions.- Observability and Inverse Problems Arising in Electrocardiography.- Eigenvalue Approximations on the Entire Real Line.- Prediction Bands for Ill-Posed Problems.- Controllability, Approximations and Stabilization.- Interval Mathematics Techniques for Control Theory Computations.- Accuracy and Conditioning in the Inversion of the Heat Equation.- On the Recovery of Surface Temperature and Heat Flux via Convolutions.- Observability, Interpolation and Related Topics.- Constructing Polynomials over Finite Fields.- A Collocative Variation of the Sinc-Galerkin Method for Second Order Boundary Value Problems.- A Sinc-Collocation Method for Weakly Singular Volterra Integral Equations.- Tuning Natural Frequencies by Output Feedback.- Efficient Numerical Solution of Fourth-Order Problems in the Modeling of Flexible Structures.- Explicit Approximate Methods for Computational Control Theory.- Sinc Approximate Solution of Quasilinear Equations of Conservation Law Type.- Systems with Fast Chaotic Components.- Bifurcation and Persistance of Minima in Nonlinear Parametric Programming.- Numerical Solution of an Ill-Posed Coefficient Identification Problem.- Observability, Predictability and Chaos.- Geometric Inverse Eigenvalue Problem.- Observability and Group Representation Theory.- Highly-Accurate Difference Schemes for Solving Hyperbolic Problems.- A Finite Spectrum Unmixing Set for $$\mathcal{G}\mathcal{L}\left( {3,\mathcal{R}} \right)$$.


Introduction: Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) is being increasingly utilized in patients with advanced heart failure both as bridge to heart transplantation and as destination therapy. Intrac...


Thermally driven chillers and heat pumps usually run with a working pair composed of refrigerant and solvent. Yet, commonly used working pairs show limitations with regard to operating conditions, i.e. external temperature levels and temperature lift. The performance of chillers operating with aqueous lithium bromide solution as solvent is limited due to salt crystallisation at high mass fractions and low temperatures as well as to the limited thermal stability of the used corrosion inhibitors. Due to the properties of the refrigerant chillers running with ammonia/water exhibit an increased complexity concerning mechanical design and operating safety. During the last years ionic liquids (organic, liquid salts with melting points below 100°C and negligible vapour pressure) were proposed as promising substitute for solvents used in absorption chillers. Within this work a complete lab-scale absorption chiller has been constructed, in order to evaluate the suitability of ionic liquids as solvent. In order to overcome limitations due to insufficient wetting of falling film heat exchangers only spray components were installed within this chiller. Heat transfer is carried out by external heat exchangers, followed by exchange of refrigerant vapour in an adiabatic spray process. The first results using a working pair consisting of water and 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium ethylsulfate are presented. It is shown that this ionic liquid is a suitable working fluid for a thermally driven chiller, however it exibits severe limitations concerning external temperatures and capacity.


It analyses the factors of affecting the project cost controlling(especial in the phase of construction design),and discusses the affection of the phase of design to project cost controlling from the practitioner lack of economical consciousness and conception,the lacking of benefited market adjust and control,and the governor and decision maker lacks of the regard to the phase of design,to get the effect of explaining that the phase of design and decision should be paid more attention.


USING THE COSTS FOR THE library automation activities at Southern Methodist University plus a review of the literature in automation costs and requirements, the authors present some of the hidden as well as obvious budgetary requirements to meet the electronic library needs in small- and medium-sized university libraries today.


A hydrostatic high pressure cell is used to record pressure resolved wide-angle X-ray microdiffraction data (WAXS) from Bombyx mori silkworm silk fibers with in situ pressurization in the range of 0.01–0.5 GPa (0.1–5 kbar). From the pressure dependent peak positions of (002), (020), (200), and (210) Bragg reflections the (anisotropic) elastic moduli of compression were determined for the different unit cell axes of the crystalline fraction of silk fibroin, comprising of stacked polyalanine β-sheets. The data are compared with X-ray diffraction results previously obtained from silkworm silk at tensile load and spider silk data at high hydrostatic pressure and indicate a different response of the silk fibroin structure to pressure versus tensile load. The response of the unit cell of silkworm silk fibroin to the applied pressure is discussed and modeled taking into account the weak van der Waals bonds between protein β-sheets. Differences are pointed out between the responses of silk's nanostructure to unid...


A number of 75 adults with pulmonary tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis positive at microscopy and in cultures) were randomly selected for one of the following therapeutical regimens, administered under close surveillance in hospital during 3 months: --INH5 mg/kg body weight+RMP10 mg/kg body weight+EMB25 mg/kg body weight daily; --INH15 mg/kg body weight+RMP10 mg/kg body weight+EMB40 mg/kg body weight, intermitent administration (2/7). Disappearance of the Mycobacterium from the sputum was studied quantitatively both by microscopy and in cultures; the sputum samples were collected in the morning three days running every week during the period of 13 weeks surveillance. Processing of the results showed that in the material studied the initial intermittent administration of the drugs was just as efficient as daily administration irrespective of the criterion used for comparison (moment of negativation, rate of disappearance of the Mycobacterium and/or proportion of negative cases, dynamics of the decrease in the number of bacilli eliminated in the course of the treatment, regression of the radiologic alterations).


This study extends some recently acquired knowledge about the development of visual imagery as an associative-learning strategy. Incorporating the present findings into the data already gathered, it appears that as a facilitator, sentence production precedes imagery generation since preoperational children benefit from instructions to engage in the former though not in the latter. Moreover, the provision of relevant motor activity, which has been shown to induce imagery generation in 6-year-olds,.has at best a variable effect on the performance of 3and 4*-year-olds. (Author/SET)


Aiming at electromagnetism efficiency evaluation of large ground interference antenna is complex, the paper proposes to model and simulate it by FEKO and then the radiation pattern of the antenna can be obtained. The simulation result is conform to the fact. In view of the large power of the vice and back orientation of antenna from the simulation, adopt the method of installing electromagnetism shield wall to solve. Through the simulation shows the efficiency of electromagnetism shield wall in improving antenna's electromagnetism compatibility.


Modern research has shown the essential role played by secondary phases in the properties of composites. Depending on their characteristics, these phases are known to substantially alter the transport properties of composites, such as electrical conductivity, their gas diffusion, determine their mechanical strength or corrosion resistance, and may lead to the occurrence of phase transitions and to important changes in other physical, chemical and mechanical properties.


Along with the swift development of network, the importance of time in management sticks out gradually. Time management theory has got rapid development. When looking some related problems of accounting from the angle of time management, especially looking closely at financial cost accounting content, we have to recognize that traditional cost accounting content has a significant fault. Therefore this paper applies time management theory to discuss cost accounting content again, putting forward time cost concept, discussing the confirmation of time cost ,the measurement of time cost, reporting of it and its important meaning.


Submitted for the MAR17 Meeting of The American Physical Society Large Area CVD MoS2 RF transistors with GHz performance MARUTHI NAGAVALLI YOGEESH, ATRESH SANNE, SAUNGEUN PARK, DEJI AKINWADE, SANJAY BANERJEE, Microelectronics Research Center, University of Texas at Austin — Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) is a 2D semiconductor in the family of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Its single layer direct bandgap of  ̃1.8 eV allows for high ION/IOFF metal-oxide semiconducting field-effect transistors (FETs). More relevant for radio frequency (RF) wireless applications, theoretical studies predict MoS2 to have saturation velocities, vsat >310 6 cm/s. Facilitated by cm-scale CVD MoS2, here we design and fabricate both top-gated and embedded gate short channel MoS2 RF transistors, and provide a systematic comparison of channel length scaling, extrinsic doping from oxygen-deficient dielectrics, and a gate-first gate-last process flow. The intrinsic fT (fmax) obtained from the embedded gate transistors shows 3X (2X) improvement over top-gated CVD MoS2 RF FETs, and the largest high-field saturation velocity, vsat = 1.88 10 6 cm/s, in MoS2 reported so far. The gate-first approach, offers enhancement mode operation, ION/IOFF ratio of 10 8 , and the highest reported transconductance (gm) of 70 μS/μm. By manipulating the interfacial oxygen vacancies in atomic layer deposited (ALD) HfO2−x we are able to achieve 2X current density over stoichiometric Al2O3. We demonstrate a common-source (CS) amplifier with voltage gain of 14 dB and an active frequency mixer with conversion gain of -15 dB. Our results of gigahertz frequency performance as well as analog circuit operation show that large area CVD MoS2 may be suitable for industrial-scale electronic applications. Maruthi Nagavalli Yogeesh Microelectronics Research Center, University of Texas at Austin Date submitted: 22 Nov 2016 Electronic form version 1.4


Objective
To observe the clinical effects of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) footbath prescription on children' s exogenous wind-heat type fever, and analyze the antipyretic effects and symptom improvements of TCM footbath on the fevered children patients.

Methods
A total of 90 children patients with the exogenous wind-heat type fever were randomly divided into experimental group(n=30) and control group (n=60)according to the check-in time, and all of them were given the regular anti-inflammatory rehydration therapies.When the axillary temperatures exceeded 37.5 ℃, patients in the experimental group were given 2 000 ml TCM decoction for footbath for 30 minutes with the liquid temperature of 38~40 ℃, and if the body temperatures rose again, the same prescription was used for footbaths for 1~2 times; patients in the control group were given the warm water footbaths, and the temperature change situations, improvements of the related symptom and signs and the general effective percentage of the therapies were observed.

Results
The curative effect of experimental group was superior to that of control group.The decreasing rates of body temperatures in experimental group had no obvious differences after the plan being implemented during 0.5 h, however after 1 h, 2 h, 3 h, 4 h, 5 h, 6 h, the decreasing rates of body temperatures were obviously superior to those of control group; and what's more, the decreasing effects of body temperatures were all superior to those of control group at T24 h, T48 h and T72 h. The decreasing amplitudes of symptom scores in experimental group is obviously superior to those of control group.

Conclusions
TCM footbath therapy assisting the treatment of children's exogenous wind-heat type fever is superior to control group in antipyretic effects, general effective percentage, and improvements of symptom with lasting cooling effects, conveniences and good compliances of the children and parents.

Key words:
Infants' exogenous fever; TCM footbath; Efficacy


Shell-core composite particles of SiO_2-potassium titanate whiskers (PTW) were investigated. The structure of SiO_2-PTW composite particles prepared by sol-gel method was characterized by SEM, EDS, XRD and FT-IR. The results showed that the untreated PTW were corroded in acid solution at pH 2.0 and dissolved by boiling concentrated sulfuric acid. However, the SiO_2-PTW composite particles might still keep their fibrous shapes in boiling concentrated sulfuric acid. Thus the acid fastness of PTW coated with SiO_2 was improved because of the protection of SiO_2 shell. In addition, the shell of SiO_2 could hinder the water soluble potassium ions in PTW to be dissolved.


Abstract The mechanical behavior of soils can be modeled using a non-linear elastic part showing an incremental response depending on current stress state, while the plastic part can be described appropriately by a smoothed Drücker-Prager based plastic criterion. In order to reproduce the behavior of such media under prescribed loading, a new constitutive model is proposed as a combination of a hyperelastic formulation and a plastic criterion within the elastoplasticity framework. In this new model, both inherent and induced anisotropies are taking into account in the elastic part by mean of a pressure exponent parameter. The tangent stiffness matrix of the elastoplastic model varies as a function of current state of stress which is in accordance with experimental observations of soils and leads to define only one set of parameters for the different initial mean stresses. It is found that the stress-strain responses including hardening tendencies are affected by different values of the pressure exponent which accords to different levels of anisotropy, and the level of influence of anisotropy is related with density and the drainage condition of soils.


Introduction: Visiting the hospital is important as a part of check-up in avoiding the major risks of unknown and serious diseases irrespective of any pandemic. Our study aims to understand the attitude and behaviour of common people towards visiting the hospital during COVID-19 pandemic in two major hotspot states of India namely Maharashtra and Karnataka. Methodology: A cross-sectional study was conducted between July-august 2021 among the population of two states. A total of 636 respondents completed the survey and returned electronically. Data were analysed using suitable statistical tools to achieve the objective of the study. Results: 74.8% of the respondents were not ready to visit the hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic unless the symptoms were serious. On the other hand, 25.2% of the of respondents were willing to go to the hospitals. The top three reasons for the reduction in visits are fear of getting infected in the hospitals by COVID-19 patients (72.6%), fear of stepping out of home (31.1%) and fear of COVID-19 infection by the lab equipment (24.5%). Conclusion: Overall the study revealed that there was a reduction in number of visits to the hospitals for common diseases in people after the pandemic started. But the people were still willing to go to the hospitals if they noticed any major symptoms or symptoms related to COVID-19. Our findings may be useful to develop strategies to address concerns in order to ensure that people do not get any serious illness because of the fear of COVID-19.


Agriculture is subjected to number of stress and potential yield are seldom achieved with stress. All crops grown under natural environment are subjected to one or the other stress. Climate change can affect the yield positively as well as negatively. Agriculture, particularly in India with nearly 60% rainfed area, has been a highly risky venture with vagaries of monsoon besides the interplay of other biotic and abiotic factors. Rainfall is predicted to be highly erratic with fewer rainy days but with greater intensity. A combination of higher average annual temperatures and water stress (excess or deficit) can have serious implications for crop production in the tropics. There is positive correlation between meteorological parameters on the natural incidence of early blight disease and its severity (Dhal et al., 2016) in tomato. Cultivated varieties of eggplant are susceptible to a wide array of biotic and abiotic stress conditions.


The mechanics of relieving dystocia are well described in the veterinary texts (1,2,3,4). In our opinion, the procedure decisions are not clearly presented. I hope to stimulate some response from you experienced practitioners to give your guidelines for decisions in bovine dystocia. I would like to stress I do not believe our way is the only way to make these decisions. I would like to emphasize if a practitioner is not capable in the management of dystocia, he is not likely to be a successful bovine practitioner because dystocia is about 20-25% of the caseload of bovine practice.


About 1 of 10 women, particularly those older than 60 years of age, shows some degree of thyroid hormone deficiency. Thyroid diseases are generally characterized by perturbations of thyroid signaling homeostasis. The most common examples of thyroid diseases include hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, and several types of thyroid cancers. Phytochemicals have been shown to have either beneficial or detrimental effects on thyroid function. Some flavonoids have been reported to affect the expression and the activity of several thyroid‐related enzymes and proteins, and for this reason some concerns have been raised about the possible thyroid‐disruptive properties of foods enriched in these substances. On the other hand, the beneficial effects of some plant‐derived compounds, such as myricetin, quercetin, apigenin, rutin, genistein, and curcumin, and their possible role as adjuvants for the treatment of thyroid cancers have been described. Here, the role of phytochemicals in thyroid signaling modulation and their possible beneficial or detrimental effects on thyroid disease risk are discussed.


The top five ways in which some green ingenuity can be brought to one's everyday learning and development projects are discussed. Learning and development practitioners who are the best at changing the behavior of people and organizations are the best people to bring about a green revolution as well.


Copyright: © Author, this is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial No Derives License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is noncommercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. The present paper deals with the report of a new trilocular, triserial, capsular, monocot fruit from the Deccan Intertrappean Beds of Paladaun (Lat. 220 3' 25.78''N; Long. 780 56' 17.53'' E), Chhindwara district, Madhya Pradesh, India. The specimen is tricolular, elongated multiseeded, capsular, dehiscent fruit. The fruit measures about 8 mm in length and 3 mm in cross section tapering at both ends. The anatomy of fruit consists of outer pericarp, Pericarp is thick and differ into epicarp, mesocarp and endocarp. Each locule contains 12 seeds in two rows of 6 seeds each. Central axis is thick. Locules are separated by thin septa. Seeds are small and total 36 in all. Embryo is monocot type. Placentation is axile. Vasculature is seen along the central axis. Dehiscence is loculisidal type. The fossil fruit is named as Liliaceocarpon paladaunensis gen.et sp.nov.


Analyzing and comparing 61 exceptional cases by using wavelet theory and MATLAB wavelet toolbox,including eigenvalue computing.And finding the basic rule of blood-flow curve of exceptional case.


In this paper two configurations of photovoltaic energy conversion using the NPC three levels inverter for stand-alone application are proposed and their performances compared. The first cascade uses separate PV sources and the second configuration use only one PV generator. Without a DC/DC converter used in these two studied cases, and in order to get a stable output voltage, authors propose a proportional regulator of inverter modulation index. For the second configuration proposed, we introduce in the control loops another algorithm which uses the redundant vector of the three levels inverter to stabilise the DC bus voltages. A real data of solar irradiation and temperature of Ghardaïa city in south Algeria are used to test the proposed controls. The simulation results show that the inverter output voltage is stable for the two configurations. Then, the PV cascade with separate PV sources is the best solution, seeing that we do not need to use another algorithm in the control loops.


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This paper presents a case of anomalous perception, mainly in the form of out-of-body experiences (OBEs), of a healthy individual. The individual has been experiencing massive out-of-body experiences, spontaneously or at will, on a daily basis, since birth, which is more than 45 years.The paper further presents some characteristics of phenomenology as well as semiology of OBEs of the above mentioned subject based on anecdotal as well as first hand evidence.


Devise a lightweight and low-cost attitude measurement system,consisting of a three-axis accelerometer,three single axis angular rate gyros,a three-axis magnetometer and other MEMS inertial sensors.Discuss the estimation algorithm of the attitude angle.In the past research of the attitude measurement system,the gyro bias and kinetic acceleration effects limit its application.Put the error of the angular gyro into the system as state variables,and the kinetic acceleration as the noise term of the observation equation,and then using the extended Kalman filter to form the attitude estimation algorithm in order to reduce the error.After comparing the designed system with commercial high-precision sensors in several outdoor flight experiments,the conclusion can be drawn that the designed system can be applied to rotary-wing MAVs.


Bawang tiwai (Eleutherine americana Merr) is one kind of medicinal plant. To obtain an active substances with good physical and chemical properties, it is needs to do optimization of making extracts, one with solvent optimization. Type of solvent will determine the types of extracted substances in accordance with the polarity. On this research, extraction of bawang tiwai bulbs simplicia by maceration method using ethanol and water as solvent. This research is an experimental research with varying ethanol and water in a three comparison solvent that is water, ethanol, and mixture of water-etanol, then the yields is calculated. Furthermore, the data were analyzed statistically using ANOVA program to determine significant differences in the three yields. In each extract was conducted phytochemical screening to determine the content of secondary metabolites. The results showed significant differences in the yield of bawang tiwai extract with three treatments and two repetitions. The results of average yields using water as solvent is 8.75%, ethanol 5.3%; and water-etanol 8.31%


The present case study intents to compare proportion on five paintings made, in 1934, for a competition for Painting Professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon. Model proportions indicated that the male portrayed would had a height between 170 and 180 cm. Henrique Franco winning represented the breakthrough from naturalism in the Academy of Fine Arts of Lisbon with the embrace of new plastic forms of representation, as it can be confirmed by these painting competition testimonies.


This paper studies the cutting by a wedge of advanced double hull (ADH) small-scale models. A total of six cutting experiments were performed with six different wedge geometries. Complex deformation patterns observed in the damaged specimens were simplified to obtain a closed-form upper bound for the steady-state cutting force. The ADH steady-state cutting force solution varied from 6% above to 12% below the experimental mean steady-state force. The absolute average error is 5%.


Effective recruiting can help an organisation gain competitive advantage by attracting and retaining the best talent from the campuses. In this paper, the authors draw upon marketing literature to examine how employer brand image can effect the application intentions of business school undergraduates. Based on the analysis of data collected from 125 students from five different business schools located across India, the authors find that attitudes of the prospective candidate about an organisation is an important predictor of intent to apply. Amongst the job attributes, the students' application intentions are influenced by their perceptions of the responsibility and empowerment inherent in the job, as well as on compensation and locational considerations. Prior work experience moderates the relationship between the responsibility and empowerment dimension of employer brand image and application intentions. Implications of the findings and directions for future research are also discussed.


We study the implications of a pseudo-phase-space density power-law for the anisotropy profile of a Milky Way-like dark matter halo. Requiring that the anisotropy parameter does not take non-physical values within the virial radius places a maximum value on the local radial velocity dispersion. For a plausible range of halo parameters, it is possible to take a local total velocity dispersion of up to about 300 km/s. Making this choice uniquely specifies the anisotropy and dispersion profiles. We introduce a way to model the local velocity distribution that incorporates this anisotropy and study the impact on direct detection.


Multilevel inverters (MLIs) are becoming increasingly popular in medium and high-power applications due to benefits of low total harmonic distortion (THD) and lower voltage stress across switches. The proper operation of these multilevel inverter topologies is heavily dependent on the reliable operation of semiconductor devices. The role of the inverter is very crucial and in case of failure of the switches, the output voltage of the MLI is significantly affected which leads to degraded performance or in some cases complete shutdown of the overall system. Recently, several fault-tolerant (FT) MLI topologies have been proposed, however, in most of cases, the design has been accomplished for the open circuit faults (OCF) only. The switches of any topology can suffer from another type of fault namely short-circuit fault (SCF). In this paper, a reliability assessment of the different FT-MLI has been carried out by considering OCF and SCF in single as well as double switches. A comparison has been provided to assess the reliability of the FT-MLI topologies with the scope for improvement in a more robust design. Finally, a 5-level FTT-type converter has been simulated and results have been analyzed for different types of faults.


The question of what makes for effective initial professional development of teachers is both complex and contested. From 1992 in England there have been major changes to the pattern of initial teacher training [ITT], changes that have been centrally imposed with minimal or no consultation with the Higher Education Institutes' [HEI] teacher training community involved. The revolution has seen initial professional development move its locus from HEIs to schools and colleges, with a downgrading in both the role and status of HEIs in the process. The study reported below is a longitudinal one from 1996-2000 into the factors that affect the professional development of teachers of history to 7-11 year olds. Because of the disruption caused by changes in government policy towards both schools and HEIs the research adopted a case study approach, examining the career paths of 18 initial trainees within the context of developing their professionalism. The findings are accordingly tentative but suggest that professional development in terms of the teaching of history is a highly complex long-term process that has two dominant influences: the students' prior experience of both learning and being taught history and the Initial Teacher Training within the HEI. The paper examines within the ITT course the affect that an Intervention Strategy for the teaching of History had upon the student teachers. The conclusion is that where students have a well developed and syntactic understanding of the discipline prior to the course that the Intervention Strategy builds upon and complements, they are able to develop many of the features of proto-expert teachers of history. Where their prior experience of history as an academic discipline is limited, both the overall college course and the Intervention Strategy have a relatively superficial impact upon their development as teachers of history.


Introduction:Heparin induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is present in over 30% of normal subjects receiving heparin and the incidence of HIT may even be higher in patients with occlusive atherosclerotic disease. Confirmatory laboratory assays can broadly be classified as functional which have high specificity and rely on activation of platelets by the platelet factor 4 (FP4)-heparin-IgG immune complex or as immune based assays that are relatively more sensitive. At the time when the clinician is evaluating heparin as a cause of thrombocytopenia the 4 "T" criteria are helpful. However, after the episode of decreased platelets is resolved, an increase in the patient's platelet count is critical for confirmation of the diagnosis. Methods: We developed a variation of a previously described technique (Newman Thromb Haemost 1998;80:292) and used clinical criteria as the standard for comparison to evaluate the assay. Radiolabeled 125-I-PF4 is incorporated into the immune complex of PF-4-heparin-immunoglobulin and the amount of radiolabeled immune complex is measured after binding to Staphylococcal A Protein Sepharose. Our working hypothesis is that since this assay has both immune and binding components it would have better specificity and sensitivity than the currently used assays and as a single assay be more cost effective. The hospitalized subjects medical record was reviewed to; measure a 4 "T" score, to determine if the patient's platelet count increased after heparin was stopped, to record the results of the hospitals' assays for HIT and to ascertain what other causes of thrombocytopenia might be possible. Results: To date we have evaluated 20 samples. True positives were observed in 3 hospital patients and 4 known positives that were a gift from the Blood Center of S.E. Wisconsin. 10 true negatives included 5 from hospital patients and 5 from thrombocytopenic patients who were not treated with heparin. 3 samples were negative in our assay, had a 4 "T" score of 6 and 5 and NA and had increased platelet counts after heparin was stopped and were judged as false negatives. However, these samples had high relative binding to the Staph-A-Sepharose in the sample without the addition of heparin suggesting that either the sample already had enough heparin from the patient's treatment to form immune complexes or as has been recently reported another negatively charged molecule formed a complex with PF-4.(Warkentin Blood;2014;123:3651) Concordance between the radiolabeled PF-4 assay and the commercial PF-4 hospital assay was observed in 10 of 11 patients. Conclusions:To date when judged using clinical criteria, the radiolabeled PF-4 assay correctly distinguished true positives and true negatives in 17 of the 20 samples. This is an ongoing study with the goal of studying another 30 patients before the ASH December meeting. The addition of clinical criteria including the 4 "T" score and the increase in platelet count after stopping heparin to a review of the patient's acute care hospital record is helpful in evaluating the reliability of the radiolabeled PF-4 assay as a predictor of HIT. Disclosures No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


The reactive instabilities are characterized by the absence of dissipation, algebraic dispersion relations (in slab approximation) and the existence of marginal (bifurcation) points of stability. In the vicinity of these points the reactive instabilities are amenable to a thermodynamic treatment based on tlie electrostatic entropy concept. After recalling the essential aspects of this concept and its connection with the linear description of the electrostatic instabilities, the theory is extended to the nonlinear domain near the marginal point. It is shown that the marginal state is a maximum of the electrostatic entropy with respect to arbitrary variations of the bifurcation parameter (e.g. the temperature gradient). However, a nonlinear neighboring electrostatic structure is formed, which is lie manifestation. on average, of large-amplitude fluctuations towards the linearly unstable side of the marginal point. A correspondence with numerical models of turbulence involving ion temperature gradient (ITG) saturation is noted. Compact analytical expressions for the mean square amplitude of the fluctuations valid in the range from the stable to tlie unstable side of the marginal point are presented. As an example, too theory is applied in detail to the flute modes.


The purposes of this research were to determine effectiveness of Conceptual Understanding Procedures (CUPs) in enhancing students' conceptual understanding and curiosity in physics. This research used experimental method by conducting pretest-posttest control group design. The data were obtained by using paper and pencil test, questionnaires, and observations to determine students' improvement in understanding the concept and curiosity. Therefore, the data were analyzed by using gain test and t-test. The obtained gain of conceptual understanding in experiment group was 0.68 and control group was 0.58. Meanwhile, the obtained gain of curiosity in experiment group was 0.21 and control group was 0.20. The result of hypothesis testing about students' improvement of conceptual understanding and curiosity showed that Ho was accepted and Ha was rejected. Based on data analysis, it can be inferred that the CUPs is more effective in improving students' understanding of concepts and curiosity in physics.


Suppose that all primes are colored with k colors. Then there exist monochromatic primes p 1 , p 2 , p 3 such that p 1 + p 2 = p 3 + 1.


A never reported effect as a result of omitting vacuum treatment during fabrication of PDMS/CNTs nanocomposite is reported. EDS and FESEM results indicate the presence of voids and NaCl crystals on the surface of nanocomposite. The results indicate the importance of vacuum treatment prior to the curing of nanocomposite.


The present invention discloses a combination door and its production process, comprising a core plate, and door molding: middle frame provided with a cavity, one side of the door frame, the four sides of the cavity, is provided with a cavity inward flange section, four sides of the inner frame or wherein any two opposing sides of the slot is provided with inner: core plate provided on the intermediate frame cavity, with one side of the core sheet strip bonded to four sides of the cavity; molding core plate is not provided on the side wall of the bonded article four sides, and inserts the slot in the door frame: molding by the core plate is fixedly connected to the nail. Its production process is: were produced door frames, moldings and the core plate, and each painting: The middle of the core plate into the intermediate chamber door; the four sides of the core sheet is embedded in the molding, embedded within the slot: the last nail by molding and core board as a single entity. The present invention provides compositions and door production process, between the monolithic frame advance, and molding the core plate well, and the monomers spray, prevent the door edge of the core plate after assembling shrinkage grin.


PurposeIn view of the substantial gaps between desirable and actual competencies of project practitioners, there is a genuine and continual need to improve approaches towards project management education. The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine whether previous work experience of students pursuing a master's programme in project management plays a role in their understanding and learning from the programme.Design/methodology/approachSurvey data were collected from 282 respondents, who included working project professionals along with first-year (junior) and second-year (senior) students of a two-year postgraduate programme in project management. Considering the responses of working project professionals as the benchmark, the paper employs exploratory factor analysis and multiple comparisons to examine differences in the perceived importance given to factor groupings of critical success factors (CSFs) of construction projects by different respondent groups.FindingsResults of the study suggest that irrespective of students' seniority in the postgraduate programme, responses of students with previous project work experience more closely match the responses of project professionals, in contrast to students without such experience. The results indicate that students' previous project work experience does play a role in their understanding and learning. In addition, the paper also identifies four factor groupings of CSFs and, diverging from past studies, conceptualises "alignment" as a new factor grouping.Practical implicationsFindings support the view that adequate previous work experience may be included as an essential qualifying requirement for pursuing higher education in project management.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors' knowledge, this is one of the first empirical studies that investigate the requirement of students' previous work experience and reveals its significance in higher project management education.


– In the original von Bertalanffy growth equation, the rate of change in body mass of an individual is assumed to result from two opposing biological processes: anabolism and catabolism. Because this differential equation cannot be solved analytically, some of its analytically solvable special cases are commonly used,


A method of composting, comprising charging a fermentation promoter into organic wastes in a sealed storage tank and effecting mixing and agitation thereof so as to realize fermentation and decomposition of the wastes into compost; and a composting apparatus therefor. The organic wastes are heated from outside the storage tank with the use of exhaust gas from a heating burner, and portion or all of the exhaust gas is introduced in the storage tank so as to bring the organic wastes to be fermented with direct contact with the exhaust gas. Thus, composting can be attained at high fermentation rate, and ammonia odor can be effectively decomposed through liberation and evaporation. Further, compost wherein miscellaneous bacteria have become desirably extinct can be produced.


In a general equilibrium model of endogenous capital utilization the comparative statics effects of the introduction of a tax on corporate-sector capital income are computed. The tax burden on capital is overestimated by as much as 333 percent by the Harberger exogenous utilization model if utilization is endogenous. Overestimates of the burden between 10 and 60 percent seem most probable. Additionally, the tax may induce utilization to rise by as much as 65 percent, with the most likely rise in utilization between 10 and 30 percent.


The invention discloses a super-light foam cement concrete and a preparation method thereof. The super-light foam cement concrete comprises the following raw materials by weight parts: 9-36 parts of dead burnt magnesium oxides, 9-32 parts of dihydric phosphates, 0.5-7 parts of adjustable solidification agents, 6-25 parts of light burnt magnesium oxides, 0.5-7 parts of sulfur-containing components, 1-25 parts of industrial slag powder, 1-20 parts of kieselguhrs, 0.3-3.9 parts of waterproof agents, 0.2-1.7 parts of foam stabilizing agents, 1.0-8.9 parts of foaming agents and 25-90 parts of water. The preparation method of the high-performance super-light foam cement concrete comprises the following steps of: metering raw materials; preparing the slurry containing the foam stabilizing agents; uniformly mixing the foaming agents; pouring and standing by; foaming and expanding; coagulating and curing; and naturally maintaining. The super-light foam cement concrete has the advantages of light weight, high strength, heat preservation and insulation, stable volume, low production cost, energy-saving property, no environmental pollution, and the like. The super-light foam cement concrete is simple in production process and is especially suitable for the heat-insulating material of external building wall, roof and floor.


This article intends to analyze the use of the jury system in the criminal justice system of Indonesia, jury is a form of lay participation or the participation of lay that community of professional non-law in the judiciary, to make decisions which provide a more fulfilling sense of justice in society, in order to avoid the role of judges is absolute in the criminal justice process, in the legal system of modern states today dichotomy between legal systems tradition of common law or civil law is fading and towards the tendency to mix both the legal system in order to find substantive justice in the judicial process. Indonesia never make changes conceptually to the criminal justice system, so that the judicial process drab dominated the role of judges is great where law and justice seems to be the monopoly of a judge, the role of judges becomes absolute in determining aspects of the facts (fact finding) and the legal aspect in judge, legal research using law approach, conceptual, and comparative law. The results of this study is that morality is the essence of a sense of justice in society, morality can not be separated from the law, because morality is is what is considered correct by the general public, so the public will view the law as something that has no authority and can not be trusted, when morality is left in any decision of the judge in criminal justice. Entering jury in the justice system is able to raise the level of public confidence in the legal and judicial institutions that exist, because the inclusion of jury in the criminal justice system to prosecute in the aspect of fact (fact finding) addition will ease the task of the judge also made aspects of morality local is the living law in automatically entered in every decision, every decision so it is possible to better meet the sense of justice in society.


The tris(pyridin-4-yl)amine ligand was found to exhibit a radical-actuated coloration phenomenon, and a novel copper-based color-changeable metal-organic framework (MOF) was synthesized via this photoactive ligand. After light irradiation, the photogenerated stable radicals in this framework induced increasing amplitude of magnetization (32%) at room temperature, being the largest enhancement among radical-based photochromic systems.


Some bisimulation based abstract equivalence relations may equate divergent systems with non-divergent ones, examples including weak bisimulation equivalence and branching bisimulation equivalence....


|In mobile radio communications, for a given system bandwidth the number of supported mobile terminals and the o ered data rates per mobile terminal should be maximized. The enhancement of the air interfaces plays an important role when pursuing this goal. In the paper various possibilities of air interface enhancements suited for 3G and beyond-3G mobile radio systems are discussed. The considered approaches include advanced detection techniques, adaptive antennas, the rationale of opportunistic transmission, receiver and channel oriented transmission, and novel air interface architectures.


Polyacrylamides and their derivatives are widely used as polyelectrolytes or polyampholytes. The morphology of polymer chains in solution plays an important role in their application. To illustrate the relationship between microstructure and properties, intrinsic viscosity as an apparent indication of the polymer chain hydraulic volume was focused on. A series of well-defined cationic polyacrylamides (C-PAMs) with dot-charges have been prepared via an aqueous living reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization, in which "dot-charges" means that any two cationic monomer units in the copolymer are not immediately connected each other. Water-soluble 4,4′-azobis (4-cyanovaleric acid) (V-501) and 2-(2-carboxyethyl-sulfanylthiocarbonylsulfanyl) propionic acid (CTA) were employed as the initiator and the chain transfer agent respectively and acryloyloxyethyltrimethylammonium chloride (DAC) acted as the cationic unit. The number of dot-charges and segment size between dot-charges were varied by adjusting the feed ratio and the polymerization time. The polymerization followed first order kinetics as indicated by gel permeation chromatography (GPC) characterization and the quantitative 1H-NMR analysis showed that DAC was incorporated into PAM chains as single dot-charges. The intrinsic viscosity of the well-defined C-PAMs solution was determined in an electrolyte solution and the result showed that end-groups with opposite charges in C-PAMs had serious effects on the expansion of polymer coil in aqueous solution. According to modified Rushing–Hester theory, a semi-empirical model based on molecular weight, chain length, cationic degree and charge distribution was established to explain the dependence of a dimensionless viscosity upon a dimensionless length and a dimensionless mass by regression analysis. The model will give theoretical suggestions for designing polyelectrolytes with desired viscosity.


Lateral intercostal thoracotomy was performed in twenty-eight mongrel dogs divided in four groups for different post-operative treatments. The six animais of group I received oxigen by nasal catheter after surgery and the data was compaired to the group II that did not receive postoperative oxygen. The dogs of group III received intravenous flunixin meglumine before surgery as an analgesic protocol, and those of group IV received interpleural bupivacaine before closing the chest for the same purpose of pain prevention. All animais were maintained in a recovery room during four hours in which the pulmonary tidal volume, blood gas, capilary refill time, mucous membrane color, respiratory and heart rates, rectal temperature and the tolerance to the nasal catheter of those animais of the group I were monitored. Pain scores were used to evaluate the effect of the analgesic technics in groups III and IV. The comparative statistical analysis showed a significant difference between groups I, which received postoperative oxygen, and group II. No significant statistical difference was shown between groups III and IV and both flunixin and bupivacaine were effective in the analgesia of the postoperative period.


BACKGROUND: Hypoxia program to alleviate type 2 diabetes insulin resistance has been recommended, but this program is still questioned because of the risk of osteoporosis caused by hypoxia in patients with diabetes. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of vibration training on bone mineral density, bone structural mechanics, bone metabolism and insulin sensitivity in type 2 diabetic osteoporosis rats under hypoxia environment. METHODS: Ninety clean Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into two groups, and subjected to high-fat diet (n=60), or normal diet (n=30), for 8 weeks. High-fat rats were given the injection of streptozotocin to establish the rat model of type 2 diabetic osteoporosis. The control rats were subdivided into normoxia control and hypoxia control groups; the model rats were subdivided into hypoxia modeling group, hypoxia modeling vibration group, normoxia modeling group, normoxia modeling vibration group. Hypoxia and vibration program was performed by hypoxia tank and vibration platform (PowerPlate®) for 12 weeks. Glucose metabolism, insulin sensitivity, bone metabolism and bone mineral density and modeling were detected at 4 weeks after modeling and 12 weeks after vibration training. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: At 12 weeks after intervention, the fast insulin level, fast blood glucose, and homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance in the hypoxia modeling vibration group were significantly superior to those in the hypoxia modeling, normoxia modeling, and normoxia modeling vibration groups (P < 0.05). The bone mineral density, maximum stress, maximum load, breaking load and elastic modulus in the normoxia modeling vibration and hypoxia modeling vibration groups were significantly lower than those in the normoxia control and hypoxia control groups (P < 0.05). After vibration training, all indexes were significantly increased (P < 0.05). These results suggest that hypoxic environment can promote the insulin sensitivity, improve glucose and lipid metabolism in type 2 diabetic rats, but can lead to a decrease in bone mineral density and increase bone resorption. Vibration training not only can significantly enhance the insulin sensitivity, but also can avoid the decreased bone mineral density, bone metabolism disorder, and biomechanical properties induced by hypoxia. Subject headings: Anoxia; Vibration; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2; Bone Density; Osteoporosis; Tissue Engineering Funding: the Scientific Research Project of Chongqing Bureau of Sports, No. B201619


This study provides an estimate of the relative anti-human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) activities of synthetic sulfated alkyl oligosaccharides in vitro and of their mechanism of action, and an assessment of the levels of alkyl oligosaccharides in small mammals. The antiviral activities of the compounds against several human immunodeficiency virus type-1 and type-2 strains were determined in human CD4+ cells, including primary lymphocytes and macrophages. Laser flow cytometry and a cell-based syncytium assay were used to elucidate the anti-binding/fusion properties of the oligosaccharides. The sulfated alkyl laminarioligosaccharide DL-110 was shown to be the most potent and selective anti-HIV agent in culture with a median inhibitory concentration of 0.2 μM in primary human lymphocytes. This compound did not markedly interact with the CD4+ receptor on lymphocytes at 50 μM, but demonstrated potent anti-syncytium properties in vitro at submicromolar concentrations. DL-110 had no anti-coagulation activity at 38 μM. Mice, rabbits and beagle dogs were given an intravenous injection of test compounds and the drug levels in serum were quantified. When 32 mg kg−1 of DL-110 was administered to mice, significant antiviral concentrations in serum were achieved even 12 h after treatment. Similarly, prolonged antiviral effects were noted in rabbits and dogs 24 h after injection of DL-110. The half-life of DL-110 in mice, rabbits and dogs was estimated to be 5 h. DL-110 and some of its derivatives are promising candidates for further evaluation of the prophylaxis and therapy of HIV infections.


It is argued that Oscar Wilde in many ways anticipated important premises of Karl Popper's critical rationalism. Since Wilde developed his ideas so playfully and exuberantly, their epistemological significance and modernity have in general been overlooked. The first section of the article outlines a central assumption of critical rationalism: the impossibility of verifying theories and the fallibility of all inquiry. It is shown that such a view is prefigured in Wilde's epigrams, in his essay The Portrait of Mr. W.H., and in The Importance of Being Earnest. The last section elucidates the reasons for these strange analogies between two such vastly dissimilar personalities such as Wilde and Popper. Both are indebted to Kantian philosophy which in this context constitutes a lowest common denominator of epistemological thought. Apart from these diachronic links, Wilde's epistemological ideas coincide with overall developments in philosophy and literature at the turn of the 20th century: e.g. Hans Vaihinger, Friedrich Nietzsche, and the American Pragmatists (William James and John Dewey). It will become apparent that the elements of critical rationalism in Wilde's epistemological beliefs are far from being arbitrary, accidental or segregated fragments – they are in fact variants of a comprehensive history of an idea. The search for truth often appears as a specifically human, if not existential concern, a privileged property of human nature in its anxiety to rely on intellectual certainties. Truth occasions an enormous degree of psychological pleasure which Francis Bacon (1561-1626) compared with an erotic act. Drawing on an imagery of overflowing delight, Bacon characterizes "the inquiry of truth" as a form of "love-making or wooing." The advancement of truth is portrayed as a series of amatory advances that bring about further stages of joy, "the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it." All this, concludes Bacon, "is the sovereign good of human nature." Such a view is critically reflected, indeed, ridiculed in Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy. Truth may turn out to be a mere bundle of opinions, a The article that follows is a summary of chapter three in my book Sinnhafte Fiktion und Wahrheit: Untersuchungen zur ästhetischen und epistemologischen Problematik des Fiktionsbegriffs im Kontext europäischer Ideenund englischer Literaturgeschichte (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1994). I am indebted to Sujata Banerjee and Bruce Allen for suggestions, corrections, and proof-reading. Thank you! "Of Truth," The Works of Francis Bacon, eds. James Spedding et al. (London: Longman, 1857-1874) vol. 6: 378.


Waste polyethylene (WPE) was segregated from the municipality solid waste, cleaned, dried, and chopped into pieces, then processed in a Brabender Plasticorder using the melt mixing technique. Blends of WPE and virgin polyethylene were prepared in various proportions under optimized process conditions. Of the various blend proportions studied, 70/30 blend of WPE/low density polyethylene (LDPE) and 50/50 blend of WPE/high density polyethylene showed better mechanical properties and hence selected for further modification involving electron beam irradiation. Aforementioned blends were exposed to various doses of electron beam irradiation and the effect of irradiation on physicomechanical properties such as tensile strength, flexural modulus, hardness, and impact resistance were studied. Thermogravimetric analysis, X-ray diffraction studies, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and gel content were considered to characterize the blends. Physicomechanical properties improved to an appreciable extent on irradiation but the elongation at break reduced drastically. Blow molding of the 70/30 WPE/LDPE blend could be done successfully to make bottles. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 101: 715–726, 2006


In this paper we obtain some existence and multiplicity results for periodic solutions of nonautonomous Hamiltonian
systems $\dot z(t)=J\nabla H(z(t),t)$ whose Hamiltonian functions may have simultaneously, in different components,
superquadratic, subquadratic and quadratic behaviors. Our results generalize some earlier work [3] of P. Felmer
and [5] of P. Felmer and Z.-Q. Wang.


The objectives of this research were to identify factors that influence rhizome cutting propagation of giant cane (Arundinaria gigantea) and to develop procedures for producing machine-plantable stock for use in canebreak restoration. Phase I of the study investigated factors that influenced culm production from rhizome sections under intermittent mist in the greenhouse. Rhizome sections with at least 10 internodes that were surface planted and exposed to sunlight produced greater numbers of culms compared to those buried and with fewer internodes. Phase II studied the effect of collection date and site (putative genotype) in the production of culms for rhizomes planted in containers under mist in the greenhouse. Culm production varied by date of collection and genotype, with 76% of 435 rhizomes generating at least 1 culm shoot. Results indicate that rhizome cutting propagation may be used to generate machine-plantable stock for giant cane restoration.


This paper presents the application of an Emission Inventory GIS-based software system called EIGIS across a geographic area covering Detroit, Michigan and south-western Ontario. The common goal behind these two related projects was to examine how EIGIS could be used to improve the current emission inventories for transboundary modelling applications. The EIGIS software system is based on a bottom-up approach such that it is possible to produce updated or scenario inventories based on changes in science (e.g., emission factors), feature-based activity data (e.g., road traffic volumes, population density), and geography (e.g., changes in the location and/or magnitude of emissions that are based on physical characteristics of geographic features such as roads or land use). The EIGIS tool can also be used to analyze emissions data, generate reports and prepare model input files from the computed emissions inventories. Both projects involved a detailed examination of how emissions for specific sectors were being computed, and how they could be improved by adopting a bottom-up approach using EIGIS. GIS-based activity data were obtained and imported into EIGIS, which was then used to compute the emissions at the geographic feature level. * Corresponding Author 1.0 BACKGROUND The work described herein was performed under two separate projects that shared a number of common goals. The underlying purpose of each was to identify, assess, present options, and make improvements to existing regional emissions inventories. Although undertaken separately, these projects both fall under the general context of a collaborative, multi-year project being undertaken by Environment Canada and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA), the purpose of which is to explore opportunities for greater cross-border cooperation that could improve air quality in the Detroit–Windsor airshed. The goal of this program is to enhance the exchange of information on air pollution and associated health-related impacts, as well as to support the examination of technical and non-technical issues that influence air quality management in the region. The specific focus of this paper is on how the EIGIS tool was used to develop more accurate, better spatially resolved emissions inventories on both sides of the border. For the US portion of the study area, the project involved supporting the US EPA by evaluating different means of computing emissions, using the 2002 NEI as a benchmark. More specifically, the goal was to generate better spatially resolved emissions of both criteria and toxic compounds in SMOKE model-ready format for three source sectors across ten counties in the Detroit Metropolitan Area. The work performed for Environment Canada focused on assessing and improving the existing, provincially-aggregated, 2002 Canadian federal Criteria Air Contaminants Emissions Inventory (CAC EI) for seven sectors across six census-divisions in south-western Ontario. The majority of the discussion in this paper is focused on the work done for the US EPA as the project was undertaken as a pilot study to assess how well the Canadian-developed EIGIS system could be adopted for use in the U.S. In the autumn of 2003, Environment Canada commissioned a study to determine the feasibility of developing a multi-agency Emission Inventory GIS-based tool. The results of the feasibility assessment indicated that it was not only feasible, but also highly desirable. Based on the feasibility assessment and subsequent reviews by other stakeholders, it was determined that a successful tool must have the following, minimal functionality: 1. The ability to create emission inventories from first principles (ab initio) in a straightforward and automated fashion for emission sources that are dependent on demographic, land use, and land based transportation activity data (roads/railways); 2. The built-in functionality to allow for the straightforward generation of reports on emissions in the inventory, including: maps, backcasts/forecasts, and reports; 3. The capability to generate emissions data suitable for direct use in comprehensive air quality modelling systems in a straightforward and automated fashion; and, 4. Be developed based upon ESRI's ArcGIS software system. EIGIS has undergone two phases of development over the past two years . It is approaching its third phase of development wherein the results of various sample applications of the tool will be used to improve its functionality. 2.0 CURRENT EMISSION ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES 2.1 Detroit Metropolitan Area Emissions were computed for six counties using the EIGIS software tool (Livingston, Monroe, Macomb, Oakland, Washtenaw, and Wayne) for the following source groups, which were selected following a series of analyses performed on the existing 2002 NEI data by the authors and US EPA: Residential wood combustion (SCCs 2104008001, 2104008002, 2104008003, 2104008004, 2104008010, 2104008030, and 2104008050); Industrial fuel combustion – coal (SCCs 2102001000 and 2102002000); and, Charbroiling (SCCs 2302002100 and 2302002200). For each sector, the authors obtained and reviewed emission inventory methodology documents from numerous sources 5, . Based on this review, areas of potential improvement were identified for each source, taking into consideration specifics of the bottom-up, GIS-based emission calculation techniques that can be achieved using the EIGIS tool. 2.1.1 Residential Wood Combustion This sector includes emissions from residential heating with wood combusted in fireplaces and woodstoves. Emissions reported in the 2002 NEI are provided for seven types of equipment, including four types of fireplaces and three types of woodstoves. National activity data were used to compute emission inventories at the county level using a well defined methodology as documented and summarized. This methodology was compared to what has been recently adopted by Environment Canada, and the Michigan DEQ for the same source types. Although Environment Canada uses different emission factors, the overall approach adopted was very similar to that employed in the compilation of the 2002 NEI. The MI DEQ defaulted to US EPA emissions for this sector. 2.1.2 Industrial Fuel Combustion Coal This sector is comprised of emissions from the combustion of both anthracite and bituminous/sub-bituminous coals by industry. The 2002 NEI was compiled using the mass of coal consumed by the industrial combustion sector to estimate emissions at the county level. Environment Canada's approach regarding industrial coal combustion is based on statistics of total fuel quantity consumed by province/territory using a similar approach as that used to compile the 2002 NEI. The Michigan DEQ approach is similar but makes use of unique emission factors developed by LADCO for certain pollutants. 2.1.3 Charbroiling This sector is comprised of emissions resulting from the charbroiling of various types of meat at commercial restaurants. The 2002 NEI was developed for two source categories: chain drive charbroilers; and, under-fired charbroilers. Data from the state of California and from individual counties were used to compute emission inventories at the county level as documented. Environment Canada's approach regarding charbroiling considers only boneless red meat, consisting of beef, veal, and mutton/lamb; the approach is otherwise very similar to that adopted in the U.S. The MI DEQ defaulted to US EPA emissions for this sector for the 2000 NEI. 2.2 South-Western Ontario The assessment for south-western Ontario focused on the Environment Canada Criteria Air Contaminant pollutants (CACs): Particulates (Total Particulate Matter or TPM, PM10, and PM2.5); Oxides of Sulphur (SOX); Oxides of Nitrogen (NOX); Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs); and, Ammonia (NH3). This assessment was focused geographically on six census divisions (Lambton, Middlesex, Essex, Kent, Elgin, Halidmand-Norfolk) and the following source sectors: Small and medium sized enterprises (Asphalt plants, Ferrous foundries, Nonferrous foundries; and, Commercial wood burning (e.g., bakeries, restaurants); Industrial and commercial boilers; Agriculture burning; and, Garbage burning (residential and at landfills). The Criteria Air Contaminants Emission Inventory Guidebooks for both 2000 and 2002 published by Environment Canada, Pollution Data Division (PDD) were reviewed in conjunction with the most up-to-date version of PDD emission inventory (EI) compiler spreadsheets to determine the current methodologies employed to develop emission inventories for each source sector on a provincewide basis across Canada. Current EI compilation methodologies were compared to a number of other sources of information from North America, Europe, and Australia in a similar but more rigorous manner than what was done for the US EPA. The results of these analyses are not described explicitly herein but are presented in RWDI's report. 3.0 METHODOLOGY USED TO UPDATE EMISSION INVENTORY CALCULATIONS USING EIGIS 3.1 Detroit Metropolitan Area Although a number of potential improvement options were identified for each source sector, it was only feasible to investigate a small number of options under the scope of this project. After a review of the various options, an approach based on combining county-level activity data with higherresolution land use data to compute emissions at the sub-county level (i.e., at the resolution of the land use data used) was adopted. A modest level of effort was put towards finding publicly available land use data. Based on this research and discussions with the US EPA, it was determined that the 1992 National Land Cover Database (NLCD) would be the best choice as they were readily available and contained sufficient attribute data to allow for the generation of spatially-resolved emissions within EIGIS for each source group. To compute emissions within EIGIS, GIS files containing land use attr


OBJECTIVE To optimize the extraction and purification technology of the herba centipedae for E'zao nasal drop.METHODS UV spectrophotometry was adopted to detect total flavonoids and single factor tests are employed. The factors such as ethanol concentration,dosage liquor ratio,extraction time and number of times was used to carry out L9( 34) orthogonal test. Total flavonoids extraction percentage and purification extraction diversion rate were employed to inspect and optimize the best technical parameter of herba centipedae's extraction and purification technology. RESULTS The optimal extraction technology was as follows:35% ethanol as 14 times of drugs was used to extract total flavonoids for 3 times and every time for 1.5 h,and the extraction rate was75.93%. The extracted concentrated solution( concentrated solution: drug = 1 ∶ 1) was precipitated by 70% ethanol,and the total flavonoids diversion rate was 63.07%. CONCLUSION This maneuverability of extraction and purification technology is feasible with high extraction efficiency,and it could be applied to research and develop the E'zao nasal drop.


Several pyrene-based polyphenylene dendrimers (PYPPDs) with different peripheral chromophores (PCs) are synthesized and characterized. Deep blue emissions solely from the core are observed for all of them in photoluminescence spectra due to good steric shielding of the core and highly efficient surface-to-core Förster resonant energy transfers (FRETs). Device performances are found in good correlation with the energy gaps between the work function of the electrodes and the frontier molecular orbital (FMO) levels of the PCs. Pure blue emission, luminance as high as 3700 cd m(-2) with Commission Internationale de l'Éclairage 1931 (CIE(xy)) = (0.16, 0.21), and a peak current efficiency of 0.52 cd A(-1) at CIE(xy) = (0.17, 0.20) are achieved. These dendrimers are among the best dendritic systems so far for fluorescent blue light-emitting materials.


Since 1957 Sidney Lumet has deepened audiences' awareness of social, ethical, and feminist issues through such distinguished films as 12 Angry Men, The Verdict, Running on Empty, and Critical Care. Especially praised for his literary adaptations - including Long Day's Journey into Night and Murder on the Orient Express - Lumet has also directed such trenchant urban films as Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico, and Network. In this new edition Frank Cunningham expands his analysis of Lumet's earlier films and examines his most recent work, from A Stranger Among Us (1992) to Gloria (1999).


This study discusses traditional knowledge and its role in the production of the ethnic identity, using as reference the Satere-Mawe indigenous people. The used methodology was bibliographical research of works that approach the themes of cultural identity and cosmology of the Satere-Mawe. The traditional knowledge, also denominated ethnoknowledge or local knowledge, concerns the body of knowledge built and rebuilt inside a given traditional population. To the Satere-Mawe ethnic group this body of knowledge goes through a process of resignification process that operates in the construction of the identity of that indigenous group.


By using the inhomogeneous mean-field theory, the phase diagram of the two-dimensional soft-core extended Bose-Hubbard model with both on-site and nearest-neighbor interactions in the presence of spatial disorder is determined. Rich phases, including Mott-insulator, checkerboard solid, supersolid, superfluid and disordered solid are obtained. Interestingly, due to the presence of disorder, a new disordered solid phase is found between the incompressible lobes, and it is demonstrated that the supersolid phase can survive in two-dimensional soft-core bosons. Furthermore, the system undergoes the phase transition from a disordered solid into a solid order or supersolid landscape when the disorder strength is increased. For weak nearest-neighbor repulsion, the increase of the disorder strength induces both checkerboard solid and supersolid phases shrinking to smaller hopping regions. However, for strong nearest-neighbor repulsion, the disorder stabilizes the supersolid phase and makes it occupying a remarkably broad region in the phase diagram. The analytical expressions for the phase boundaries between the incompressible and compressible phases are also obtained, which are in qualitative agreement with our numerical results.


Objective: to assess the effect of pregnancy on systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) activity, and the obstetric/neonatal outcome. Methods: historic cohort inc...


Output voltage and fuel utilization control of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs) is challenging due to large inertia, nonlinearity and safety related constraints associated with the system. The academic community seeks to solve this problem by resorting to Model Predictive Control (MPC), which is convenient to formulate the difficulties in its receding horizon optimization problem. However, the high demand of MPC for online computation limits its application in practical engineering. In this paper, a combined control strategy with MPC and L1 adaptive control (L1AC) is proposed to handle the control difficulties in SOFC with acceptable computation cost. The L1AC compensates the system nonlinearity and disturbances as lumped uncertainty with guaranteed performance and then provide an ideal linear model for MPC. Then MPC provides optimal control signal with all the system constraints satisfied. The simulation result shows the proposed control system has good performance of regulation and disturbance rejection. The computation time for MPC is much less than the sampling time and is capable of practical application.


This paper discusses systematic efficiency considering the efficiency of both a motor and airflow in an inverter-driven single-phase brushless direct-current (BLDC) motor with two different lamination designs for a cordless vacuum cleaner. In other words, multi-physical lamination design has to be conducted, and hence, the shape and placement of a whole electromagnetic structure are investigated in terms of a tradeoff between the electrical and mechanical efficiencies. In this paper, a single-phase BLDC motor for cordless vacuum cleaners is designed to satisfy starting and continuous torques by means of asymmetric air gap, and fluid analysis is performed to determine which shape of a single-phase BLDC motor has better system efficiency. The prototype of a single-phase BLDC motor has been tested, and the speed of the operation is ranged from 84468 r/min up to the rated speed of 100020 r/min. The motor efficiency of 94.7% has been measured to verify a good match with the estimated efficiency of 94.5%.


This paper describes a new partitioning algorithm, BISECT, which is an extension of the Fiduccia-Mattheyses (FM) algorithm that recursively combines clustering and iterative improvement. A post analysis of sequences of moves in one pass generates disjoint subsets of nodes for clustering. After clustering BISECT is applied again on the compacted circuit. BISECT is stabler, achieves results that can be up to 73 times better than FM, and runs in linear time under suitably mild assumptions. BISECT also performs well in comparison with the Kernighan-Lin algorithm and simulated annealing. The empirical results show that BISECT is stable and is not very sensitive to the initial partition. For many random sparse graphs, BISECT achieves 0-cut bisections (balanced partitions).<<ETX>>


The modeling of high‐order converter systems and design of their closed‐loop controllers are difficult due to their high nonlinearity, hence high‐order systems, large number of zero‐poles, and complex frequency‐domain characteristics. To ease the design methodologies, this paper studies high‐order power converters and proposes a modeling and control method for such converter systems with order reduction. As an example, the 7th‐order non‐electrolytic capacitor‐I‐Z‐Source converter (NEC‐I‐ZSC) is employed to implement the proposed design method. Operational analysis and small signal modeling of the NEC‐I‐ZSC are conducted, and a reduced‐order controller is then devised. Experimental verification is conducted, which prove the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed design method.


In some accidents of earthquake, the steel frame was brittle damaged. The problem lied in the hinge part of the structure—beam-to-column connection. This made some academicians point out connection with haunch. In this article, the modal analysis and harmonic response analysis of frame are made at the basis of connection with haunch by using ANSYS. Through the model analysis, the natural frequency and relative vibration modes of the structure are gotten, which can help us prevent the frame from resonance, the harmonic response analysis is made based on the model analysis, the curve between the frequency and the deformation of each layer is drawn, from which we can also know the peak. The method used in the article can provide a train of thought about how to deal with complexly giant steel structure, and also lay the foundation for further research.


The article emphasizes the importance of awakening national consciousness and patriotism through the organization and provision of excursion services based on local history material. It is important to involve the young generation in researching and learning about the region, for the sake of expanding its national memory and outlook, awakening pride in its past and future, and understanding Ukrainian identity. The geographical and historical features of the origin of the names of selected settlements of the Ternopil region, their meaning, development, current state, spelling and pronunciation have been studied. The toponymy of the Ternopil region is extremely rich and unexplored at the same time and has many prospects for its use for the implementation of excursion activities. For toponymic research, tourism workers can use a geographical map, archival and literary materials, and official reference sources. In the course of this study, the origin of the names of the most interesting for tourist and excursion activities, settlements of the Ternopil region, which are located directly on excursion routes or close to their passage, is described. Also, an important criterion for the selection of these settlements was the interesting features of historical, natural or human factors that influenced the formation of their names, which makes it possible to acquaint the users of excursion services with the history of Ternopil Oblast through its reflection of the geography and history of the region in these names. This information makes it possible to fill the tour guide's story, as an important component of the tour, with interesting material along the entire tour route and makes it possible to implement various methods of the tour method. Recommendations are given for improving the methodology of conducting any excursion using the research material. The article emphasizes the relevance of such local history and toponymic research in modern society, which makes it possible to get acquainted with the history of settlements in the Ternopil region, to study the peculiarities of the formation of the names of cities and villages of the region due to many factors, among which geographical and historical factors take the main position. Motivating and involving young people in such knowledge of the region for the sake of expanding their national memory and outlook is also relevant.
Keywords: toponymic studies; toponyms; settlement; origin of the name of the village; history of the city; organization of excursion services; road excursion information; methodological techniques; method of conducting excursions.


This handsomely printed volume belongs to the Harvard East Asian series "designed to further scholarly understanding of China, Korea, Japan and adjacent areas". The author is an American expert with over thirty years of service as a financial expert in the service of his own or other countries. Between 1928 and 1947 he was in China where he was attached as financial adviser to the Ministry of Finance, the Executive Cabinet and the Central Bank of China. To judge from this record of his experiences, the government of Chiang Kai-shek could not have had a more devoted or capable adviser who never lost heart despite the most discouraging conditions. Mr. Young writes for the general reader with clarity and detachment but his stubborn determination to make him understand the complex problems involved (his guide for readers must surely be unique) leads him at times to undue repetition. Unlike so many narratives of this period, this monograph is not looking for either villains or scapegoats. Thus, he assesses the aid given by the Soviet Union in the period between 1937 and 1940 as "substantial, prompt, helpful and without political conditions". The change for the worse only came after the Soviet leaders no longer feared the Nazi menace and saw an opportunity to fish in troubled waters. In contrast, Western aid until the latter part of the war was "both late and little relative to China's needs." The evidence to support this judgment is substantial and convincing. Like many non-American critics of the United States, Mr. Young believes that his government was too concerned with military goals and too little alive to political objectives. Such an attitude was further complicated by clashes over policy among the rival empires in Washington in which State ranked a poor third to War and Treasury. Despite his obvious affection and respect for many of the Chinese colleagues and leaders, the author is too careful a historian to praise them uncritically. Thus, after pointing out that inflation raised average prices more than 2,000 times the level of 1937 in eight years and inevitably bred corruption, he adds "the corruption went beyond what could be deemed excusable as due to inflation and confusion." Mr. Young has produced a first-class book that no student of this period can dare ignore.


Taking the Computer Building of Taiyuan University of Technology as the example, this paper introduces theconstruction procedures of the large- scale roof repairing work by using the newtype of waterproof material- - SBS roll, andpoints out that the material is the base and the construction and the maintenance are the keys.


The human genome project is developing rapidly.The following ethical issues are the human genome project and the human dignity,the human genome project and the privacy,the human genome project and the right,the human genome project and the patent,the human genome project and the technical uncertain consequence and so on.These ethical issues create challenges to bioethicists and policy-makers.


Abstract Methyl iodide is a derivatization reagent often used to methylate molecules with amine, hydroxyl or carboxylic groups before a gas chromatographic analysis. In order to improve the analytical qualities of quantitative determination by gas chromatography mass spectrometry, derivatization with reagents labelled with stable isotopes can be used. Deuteromethyliodide can be used instead of methyliodide to obtain labelled compounds easily detected, as far as the reagent is pure enough. This paper illustrates the use of the gas chromatography atomic emission detection coupling (GC-AED) for the study of the purity of a reagent labelled with deuterium (IC2H3) used for the derivatization of a new immunoenhancer (sodium ditiocarb - lmuthiolR) before the GC-MS determination of the parent drug and its methylated metabolite. The elements monitored simultaneously are: carbon (193.03 nm), hydrogen (656.3 nm), deuterium (656.04 nm), iodine (183.1 nm) and sulfur (180.7 nm). The chromatograms corresponding to these...


Since its isolation in 2004, graphene, a honeycomb-structured, single layer of carbon atoms, has sparked the curiosity of engineers and physicists worldwide. Graphene possesses amazing physical properties: as a viable replacement for indium tin oxide in photovoltaics, and silicon in RF switching applications. Using a process known as chemical vapor deposition (CVD), graphene can be grown on copper,1 and companies have produced 30-inch graphene sheets on copper foils.2 Employing copper in these processes is appealing: copper is relatively cheap and—it is thought—causes only a single layer (monolayer) of graphene to grow. Many electronics applications for which graphene is grown require such monolayer films and require them to be defect-free. However, careful examination reveals that copper-grown films are riddled with defects and multilayer regions, indicating that growing high-quality graphene remains challenging. What is causing these graphene defects and multilayers, and how can we overcome them? Growing graphene by CVD involves heating carboncontaining gases to high temperature (>700C) in a chamber containing hydrogen, argon, and the copper growth surface. Imprecise gas control during graphene growth is one cause of graphene defects and multilayer island formation.3 Furthermore, rough copper surface features bring about random graphene nucleation and growth,4 increasing defect density and layer number. A closer inspection reveals that typical copper foil surfaces contain different crystalline facets, each having a different atomic structure. In our recent work5 we found that the formation of defect-free, monolayer graphene depends critically on the copper's crystalline structure. Understanding these effects and how to control them will lead to better graphene. We perform a number of imaging and spectroscopic techniques on grown graphene for different copper facets, giving us information about the copper's influence on growth.5 Figure 1. Rendered experimental data showing a polycrystalline copper (Cu) surface and differing graphene coverages. Graphene grows in a single layer on the Cu(111) surface and in islands and multilayers elsewhere.


In order to adapt to the trend of distribution network to be intelligent, efficient and green, Guangdong Power Grid has successfully developed a new type of dry-type transformer with high energy saving and reliability. As the key equipment of voltage and capacity control, its dynamic characteristics can not be ignored. In this paper, the working principle of on-load voltage regulation and capacity regulation of 10kV new high energy-saving dry-type transformer is analyzed theoretically. In addition, the simulation model is built based on the electromagnetic transient simulation software PSCAD/EMTDC, and the influence of voltage regulation and capacitance regulation process on voltage stability is simulated and analyzed. Relevant conclusions can provide theoretical support for the promotion and adjustment strategy formulation of the new distribution transformer.


Microsatellite instability (MSI) status is an important prognostic marker for various cancers. Furthermore, because immune checkpoint inhibitors are much more effective in tumors with high level of MSI (MSI‐H), MSI status is routinely tested in multiple cancer types. Therefore, many studies have tested the feasibility of deep learning (DL)‐based prediction of MSI status from hematoxylin and eosin (H&E)‐stained tissue slides. In the present study, we attempted a fully automated classification of MSI status in gastric cancer (GC) tissue slides. For frozen and formalin‐fixed paraffin‐embedded (FFPE) GC tissues from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), the areas under the curves (AUCs) for the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were 0.893 and 0.902, respectively. The classifier trained with the TCGA FFPE tissues performed well on an external validation Asian FFPE cohort, with an AUC of 0.874. However, the DL‐based classifier seems incompatible with cancers from different organs because morphologic features of MSI‐H tissues are different. Analysis of histomorphologic features of MSI‐H GC tissues suggested that MSI‐H GC could largely be divided into two groups: intestinal type tumors with moderate to poor differentiation and diffuse type mucinous tumors. However, the recognizable morphologic features cannot completely explain the good performance of the DL‐based classifier. These results indicate that DL could automatically learn the optimal features for discrimination of MSI status in GC tissue slides. This study demonstrated the potential of a DL‐based MSI classifier as a screening tool for definitive cases.


Some diagnostic problems and approaches to the management of patients with dissecting aortic aneurysm have been described based on this clinical case. In particular, the role of a thorough clinical examination, examination of the medical history, and the utility of routine diagnostic tests such as electrocardiography, chest X-ray, and aortic ultrasound were to be analyzed. The discussion also touched upon the process of selecting the best treatment strategy. Certain considerations included optimal blood pressure levels, heart rate, and the use of appropriate antihyper tensive, pulse-lowering drugs.