This paper introduces a new type high efficiency and energy saving air-cooled shower-cooled combined air conditioner,as well as its characteristics,principles of operation,performance parameters and methods of installation.


The Radiological Physics Center (RPC) is charged with assuring the consistent delivery of radiation doses to patients on NCI-sponsored clinical trials. To accomplish this, the RPC conducts annual mailed audits of machine calibration, dosimetry audit visits to institutions, reviews of treatment records, and credentialing procedures requiring the irradiation of anthropomorphic phantoms. Through these measurements, the RPC has gained an understanding of the level of quality assurance practiced in this cohort of institutions, and a database of measurements of beam characteristics of a large number of treatment machines. The results of irradiations of phantoms have yielded insight into the delivery of advanced technology treatment procedures.


The paper presents a middleware implemented in Java, RT-MED, which corresponds to a software layer to be placed above the operating system. This software component is designed to execute and evaluate the performance, reliability and correctness of some real-time scheduling approaches which are theoretically validated. It describes a transition from the theory to the actual implementation of the proposed solutions. These solutions are based on a combinatorial optimization approach to solve the problem of feasibility in a system which is dynamically reconfigurable. RT-MED also presents a patch between the system and its environment under different constraints such as time and energy. It offers a set of adjustable parameters to control the flow of the execution. The middleware can be integrated into many operating systems and provides good quality both in terms of execution time and energy consumption. The implementation of this tool is based on java technology with embedded and real-time systems supported by the Real-Time Specification for Java. We have used a UML profile to describe various states and run-time reconfiguration of the embedded system. Results show that the middleware can effectively maintain the control and the stability of the system.


: We report a laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) in a patient with situs inversus totalis (SIT), focusing on the surgical anatomical challenge. GERD with SIT is a very rare condition, and because of its extremely low prevalence, it presents a once-in-a-lifetime challenge for the gastroesophageal surgeon. A laparoscopic approach with minimum modifications enabled us to perform surgery as in patients with normal anatomy. In this article we describe in detail how we adapted the surgical technique to the anatomic alteration, so it can be reproduced elsewhere. We share our experience and the challenges we encountered, with the objective to give insight to a surgeon confronting a similar scenario. This is the case of a 65-year-old female, with hiatal hernia, GERD symptoms, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations, which required continuous treatment adjustment. After proper evaluation, we performed a hiatoplasty and laparoscopic floppy Nissen, with only surgical ports placement modifications. We found few difficulties during surgery and a swift and ergonomic dissection for the right-handed surgeon. The patient was discharged on the second day after tolerating oral feeds. After 6 months, the patient remains asymptomatic without further COPD exacerbations. To the best of our knowledge, we present which is possibly the first reported case of a laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication in SIT in Latin America.


The distribution network with small current grounding mode can ensure high power supply reliability, but it is difficult to locate single-phase grounding fault line. Most of the faults in distribution network are single-phase to ground fault. It is important to locate the fault line timely and accurately for the normal operation of the power grid. In this article, a fault line selection method based on signal injection is proposed. The dynamic selection of parameters and injection frequency in real-time monitoring distribution network by injection method is analyzed. The accuracy of signal frequency domain conversion is improved by using all phase Fourier transform. Taking the active power consumption of injected signal after fault as the criterion, the accuracy of line selection is improved. Through theoretical analysis and simulation, as well as experiments in a 600V distribution system, the fault line can be accurately selected.


In a method for manufacturing a a bump for a flip-chip or the like compound having the layer arrangement (1), a plurality of layers (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11) laminated from solid material to a layer stack (8). In the layer stack (8) transversely to the layer planes of the layers (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11) over a plurality of layers (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11) extending recess (10) introduced. In the recess (10) a bump material (14) is introduced. On the lateral boundary wall of the recess (10) by removing layer material of different layers (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11) of the layer stack (8) a profile is created which, starting from the surface (9) of the layer stack (8) the inside of the recess (10) toward layers at least two recesses (12) and at least one intervening projection (13). After the completion of the profiling, a bump material (14) in the recess (10) is introduced, that the recesses (12) engages behind (Fig. 1).


Background: Serious mental illnesses, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression are heritable, highly multifactorial disorders and major causes of disability worldwide. Polygenic risk scores (PRS) aggregate variants identified from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) into individual-level estimates of liability and are a promising tool for clinical risk stratification. Methods: By leveraging the VA's extensive electronic health record (EHR) and a cohort of 9,378 individuals with confirmed diagnoses of schizophrenia or bipolar I disorder, we validated automated case-control assignments based on ICD-9/10 codes, and benchmarked the performance of current PRS for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression in 400,000 Million Veteran Program (MVP) participants. We explored broader relationships between PRS and 1,650 disease categories via phenome-wide association studies (PheWAS). Finally, we applied genomic structural equation modeling (gSEM) to derive novel PRS indexing common and disorder-specific latent genetic factors. Results: Among 3,953 and 5,425 individuals with diagnoses of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder type I that were confirmed by structured clinical interviews, 95% were correctly identified using ICD-9/10 codes (2 or more). Current PRS were robustly associated with case status in European (p<10-254) and African (p<10-5) participants and were higher among more frequently hospitalized patients (p<10-4). PheWAS confirmed previous associations among higher neuropsychiatric PRS and elevated risk for psychiatric and physical health problems and extended these findings to African Americans. Conclusions: Using diagnoses confirmed by in-person structured clinical interviews and current neuropsychiatric PRS, we demonstrated the validity of an EHR-based phenotyping approach in US veterans, highlighting the potential of PRS for disentangling biological and mediated pleiotropy.


This comprehensive review of Native American life skills covers collecting and preparing plant foods and medicines; hunting animals; creating and transporting fire; and crafting tools, shelter, clothing, utensils, and other devices. Step-by-step instructions and 145 detailed diagrams enable the reader to duplicate native methods using materials available in local habitats. A new foreword, introduction, and index complement the practical information offered.


In OFDMA (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access) wireless system, environmental conditions and mobility of all users make the conditions of propagation of each user on all subcarriers changed at different times. Required radio resource allocation scheme that works with accurate, has a fairly low complexity and it is able to adapt to changing conditions. This research is to answer these issues by developing a new resource allocation scheme that is adaptive to changes in the channel, with the classification of some subcarriers into one chunk is based on the analysis of the constellation signal received on each subcarrier. We propose grouping some subcarriers into one chunk by using clustering concept, the algorithm chosen for the simplicity of the computing process is a K-Mean Clustering. The simulation results indicate that the resource allocation scheme that we have proposed give SSE (Sum Squared Error) improvement and can improve throughput when compared to the conventional scheme which uses clustering on the received signal level.


This research paper investigates the relevance of NAV per share in influencing the volatility of share prices. Standard deviation has been considered as the measurement scale of volatility. Besides NAV, the other variables considered include P/E ratio, face value and market lot size. Using 92 companies for the period between 2000 to 2009, this research found NAV per share has significant impact in determining the market volatility. Unlike what happened in the Dhaka Stock Exchange during the years between 2006-2010, changes in the face value and the market lot size should not have any impact in determining the market volatility.


PHL possesses significant antagonist action for immunodepression in mice induced by different immunodepressors. It can reverse the hypomacrophage function and the reduction in percentage of T-lymphoid cell induced by hydrocortisone (50 or 80 mg/kg, sc), reverse the reduction of phagocytosis of reticuloendothelial system (RES) induced by hydroprednisone acetate (20 and 40 mg/kg, ip), restore the cyclophosphamide-suppressed delayed anaphylaxis reaction in mice (40 and 80 mg/kg, ip). In vitro PHL at a dose of 1 and 10 micrograms/ml accelerated lymphocyte mitosis induced by conA and PHA.


A silicon six-axis force–torque sensor is designed and realized to be used for measurement of the power transfer between the human body and the environment. Capacitive read-out is used to detect all axial force components and all torque components simultaneously. Small electrode gaps in combination with mechanical amplification by the sensor structure result in a high sensitivity. The miniature sensor has a wide force range of up to 50 N in normal direction, 10 N in shear direction and 25 N mm of maximum torque around each axis.


During recent years a large variety of wearable devices have become commercially available. As these devices are in close contact with the body, they have the potential to capture sensitive and unexpected personal data even when the wearer is not moving. This work demonstrates that wearable motion sensors such as accelerometers and gyroscopes embedded in head-mounted and wrist-worn wearable devices can be used to identify the wearer (among 12 participants) and his/her body posture (among 3 positions) from only 10 seconds of "still" motion data. Instead of focusing on large and apparent motions such as steps or gait, the proposed methods amplify and analyze very subtle body motions associated with the beating of the heart. Our findings have the potential to increase the value of pervasive wearable motion sensors but also raise important privacy concerns that need to be considered.


A novel method based on optimal nonuniform subarray configuration and optimal subarray's excitation is proposed to study low sidelobe beamforming with millimeter wave conical phased array. This method employs multi-objective evolutionary algorithms following two procedures. Firstly, sampling is made in scanning space and then conformal array patterns are formed. Secondly, two multi-objective functions which realize low sidelobe patterns inside scanning space anywhere are introduced for constraining these patterns at sampling points. By optimizing subarrays' configuration and their excitations with the multi-objective evolutionary algorithms, the sidelobe level can be suppressed effectively. Simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. (4 pages)


Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute Leningrad 191104, USSR ABSTRACT Uniaxial and biaxial compression tests on ice samples of the Vostok ice core (Antarctica) were carried out in order to study the flow behavior of anisotropic ice with c-axes in a vertical plane. Values of the Theological parameters involved in power law creep are given. It is deduced that the viscosity of Vostok ice for the thinning of annual layers is very high. Our results are compared with those obtained with ices with a single maximum fabric. Borehole tilting measurements were analyzed by taking into account the anisotropic power law creep. The possibility of a linear viscosity at low stresses is also considered. Regardless of the value of the exponent of the flow law, dislocation glide appears to be at the origin of the typical fabrics of polar ice. Comportement mecanique de glace polaire anisotrope RESUME On a effectue des tests de compression uniaxiale et biaxiale sur des echantillons de la carotte de glace de Vostok, afin d'etudier la loi de comportement d'une glace anisotrope ayant les axes c dans un plan vertical. On donne les valeurs des parametres rheologiques que comporte une loi de viscosite puissance trois. Il apparait que pour la glace de Vostok la viscosite intervenant dans l'amincissement des couches annuelles est tres elevee. On compare nos resultats a ceux obtenus avec des glaces ayant une fabrique a un seul maximum. Les mesures inclinometriques ont ete analysees a l'aide de la loi puissance anisotrope. L'eventualite d'une viscosite lineaire aux faibles contraintes est aussi envisagee. Mais, quel que soit l'exposant de la loi de fluage, un glissement par dislocations semble etre a l'origine des fabriques propres aux glaces polaires. INTRODUCTION Polar ice sheet flow modelling is hindered by limited knowledge of the rheological law for polycrystalline ice. Several deformation mechanisms take place within glacier ice depending on values of stresses, temperature, crystal size and impurity concentration. Dislocation glide accommodated by grain boundary migration (gbm) seems to be the deformation mode of polar 57


The Malian Gulf forms the northern boundary of what in Antiquity was known as Epicnemidian Locris. Strabo, an author who offers considerable topographical details of the region, called the waters that lapped those shores "the Sea of the Locrians". On the other hand, the waters between Euboea and Boeotia, and even Opuntian Locris, were known as "the Euboean Sea". Firstly, by presenting a historical overview of navigation along the Euboean Gulf, the Malian Gulf and the Oreus Channel during the pre-Christian Era, this chapter shows just how important this stretch of sea that separated Euboea from Mainland Greece was for the ancient seafarers. It analyses various literary, epigraphical and archaeological sources in order to determine, as far as possible, what activities went on in the Epicnemidian ports. Finally, the chapter examines the possible involvement or participation of the Epicnemidians in maritime trade, sea warfare and fishing. Keywords: ancient seafarers; Epicnemidians; Euboean Gulf; Malian Gulf; Oreus Channel; Sea of the Locrians


''Isn't it a lot easier to learn sign language when you can see?'' 86-year-old, deaf–blind, Bert Riedel asked me with a chuckle [Chambers, 2005]. I answered with a nod of my fist which he felt with both hands. It was the spring of 1998 and I had only known Bert for a couple of months. I was teaching him to read tactile sign language. After losing his wife of 58 years, Bert had recently moved to our town to be with his son, John, and daughter-in-law, Mary. Bert had not always been deaf and blind. He had actually practiced Dentistry for more than a decade before he became legally blind. His deteriorating vision eventually forced him to retire and to learn braille. As the light dimmed and his hearing slowly faded, Bert slid into silence and darkness. The communication problems he faced in this stark and lonely place were not only his. They had been the entire family's for many years. Finally, desperate for another ''tool,'' in which to communicate, Bert's family had begun searching for someone who could teach them some ''basic signs.'' I am a professional sign language interpreter, experienced with deaf–blind persons. I also happened to live in their community. When they discovered that, Mary called asking if I would be interested in teaching them. I was shocked at first, when she told me how old Bert was. ''He's eighty-six, you say?'' ''Yes,'' Mary answered. ''He swims and lifts weights. He's very active.'' I guess thatwas enough to convinceme that I could teach them because I accepted the job. But really, I had no idea whether an 86-year-old deaf–blind man could learn a few ''basic signs.'' I also had misgivings whether a handful of signs could really be of much use to them. In spite of any doubts, I set out to meet Bert one week later. The first thing that struck me when I entered their house was the sound of classical music coming from a piano. Somehow I sensed it was Bert. The thought of a deaf personplayingmusic like that suddenly sent a rush of tingles through me. Until Bert, I had never met a deaf person who played the piano. He was unique in this way. He was also unique in one other. He had Usher syndrome type III. During 26 years as a free-lance interpreter, most of the deaf–blind people I had worked with have Usher syndrome type I. Theyhavebeendeaf sincebirth and are fluent in sign language. Some, who have lost their vision completely, depend on tactile sign language. Others, who still have a tunnel of vision, require a certain light or distance between us in order to see my signs. One deaf woman with very low vision uses the tracking method. She holds my wrist when I sign. It helps her follow my hands as I move them through space. I was unaccustomed to working with people with Usher type III. These individuals typically lose their hearing later in life, and have not learned sign language. Because they have no use for my interpreting services, I do not see them often. Also, while it is common in Finland, type III is rare in the United States [Pennings et al., 2002]. Nevertheless, if I could be of any help to this family by teaching them ''hand-over-hand'' sign language as the Riedels referred to it, I was willing to try. What ultimately transpired was a journey for Bert and I that lasted nearly 6 years. An early part of our journey is captured in my book, Words in My Hands:


DEAR EDITOR, A 3-week-old boy with primary congenital glaucoma presented with a congenital swelling of the left upper eyelid (a) with trichomegaly and inconspicuous hypertrichosis of the left cheek (b). One month later, caf e au lait spots and naevus anaemicus were revealed over the trunk, while brain magnetic resonance imaging showed trigeminal nerve neurofibroma, left buphthalmos and orbital plexiform neurofibroma. A diagnosis of sporadic neurofibromatosis type 1 with an orbital plexiform neurofibroma was made. Congenital glaucoma with plexiform neurofibroma located on the eyelid is uncommon in neurofibromatosis type 1. This case highlights the importance of ophthalmological signs, which can reveal neurofibromatosis type 1 early on.


Research and innovation are crucial in the process of achieving sustainable development goals. Given the significant role Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) play in research. Africa is still grappling with both the changing higher education global landscape and fostering of a research culture that addresses its own societal needs. This study explored the changing role of HEIs on research and innovation and the bottlenecks to its' realisation in Africa. E-literature was searched from online databases mainly Google Scholar, PubMed, ScienceDirect, Embase and African Journals Online. The search strategy considered relevant content on the subject by use of keywords, purpose of the study and year of publication (2010 to 2021). Overall, the search yielded 889,264 results. From Google Scholar, 805,000 were found, ScienceDirect; 9196, PubMed; 1168, Embase; 63100, and African Journals Online; 10800. The Cochrane review protocol and the PRISMA flowchart were used to assess the relevance of these articles. Eventually, 107 full articles were critically analysed for legibility resulting in 16 studies, which were included. Research and innovation as well as the role of HEIs to the two are keywords of the time. This role has been changing to meet up with globalization demands and increase in population. While their indigenous role was co-creation of knowledge and transfer, they have of recent past surged to create innovation ecosystems, transfer technologies, promotion innovation and research and its' management. They have gained an ascendancy in sustainability debates as engines of innovation most especially in science, technology, and human progress. This changing role has been compounded by shortcomings such as inadequate competences in the use of emerging ICTs, inadequate funding, curriculum content that does not clearly spell out practical life skills, innovation opportunities, and corporate social responsibility that is still very low. The changing role of HEIs in research in Africa is evidently clear and has been from creation of new knowledge and its transfer to one that is need-driven, entrepreneurial, transformational, and able to reconfigure the status of innovation systems for regional socio-economic transformation. The limitations to its realization could be mitigated through institutional collaboration, funding and customization of research.


We have demonstrated a high pulse energy, high peak power, and high beam quality picosecond (ps) master oscillator power amplifier system of 1064 nm at a pulse repetition rate of 5 kHz. This system consisted of a ps mode-locked oscillator, a regeneration amplifier, and three-stage Nd:YAG slab amplifiers, which enabled us to manage good thermal issues and provide an average power of 41 W. Up to 8.2 mJ of energy per pulse was achieved at the total absorbed pump power of 460 W with an average extraction efficiency of 8.5%. The pulse duration was 25.3 ps, which corresponds to a peak power of 324 MW. The beam quality factors of M2 were measured to be M x 2 = 2.8 along the x axis direction and M y 2 = 2.2 along the y axis direction, respectively, and the corresponding brightness was as high as 5.88 × 108 W cm−2 · Sr.


Recent progress in the semiclassical quantization of multidimensional molecular potentials is reviewed. We discuss quantization of multimode and resonant systems using the Fourier transform method and operator-based Lie transform perturbation theory, quantization in the multiresonance and chaotic regime using algebraic quantization and resummation techniques, and application of unitary group methods to the description of resonant dynamics.


Some new taxonomic considerations are proposed for Tityobuthus Pocock, 1890, a Malagasy genus of the Ananterinae subfamily (sensu Pocock). Tityobuthus elements are only present in Madagascar, but the group does belong to a lineage representing a typical Gondwanian distribution. The number of known Tityobuthus species rose considerably in the last 25 years but most are rarely collected and only known from very few or even a single individual. The reanalysis of certain morphological traits of Tityobuthus species suggests the existence of two possible taxonomic groups within the genus, one comprising species with short chelae and another with long chelae. One new species, Tityobuthus orangea n. sp., is also described from a cave located in the reserve of Orangea in the North of Madagascar. The new species is a possible endemic element to this cave in Orangea.


Cross-sectional, finite-difference, steady-state ground-water-flow models of a generalized New England landscape were constructed to examine the effects of hydraulic conductivity and topography on bulk-fluid flow processes in fractured crystalline rock. The generalized landscape consists of a flat hilltop, a hillside that has a slope of 0.17 ft/ft, and a flat river valley. It includes three hydrogeologic units, stratified drift in the river valley, glacial till, and underlying crystalline rock.

Distribution of recharge to and discharge from bedrock is affected by the presence of small topographic features, such as terraces on the hillside. Most of these terraces consist partly or entirely of sand, and they create localized areas of recharge to and discharge from bedrock. Maximum recharge to bedrock commonly occurs at downward inflections of the water table, and discharge occurs at upward inflections of the water table. These inflections of the water table are associated with inflections in topography because the shallow depth of water on hilltops and hillsides resemble the configuration of the land surface.

Regional ground-water flow in crystalline rock and distribution of bedrock recharge and discharge are also affected by heterogeneities in hydraulic conductivity of the bedrock. Vertical heterogeneity creates short, shallow flow paths in high-relief terrain. Horizontal heterogeneity causes large variations in the size of bedrock recharge areas; in some cases the difference from homogeneous conditions is more than 50 percent.


In standard error correction models GDP and credit share a long-run cointegration relationship with causality running from GDP to credit. The models are inconclusive about the question whether credit has also a positive impact on GDP. A reason for the mixed effects is the dual nature of credit, having a potential for both supporting economic growth and jeopardizing financial stability. This paper shows that disentangling the two forces by looking at disaggregated credit data broken down by sector of economic activity and distinguishing between credit directed to the real sector and credit directed to the financial sector is instrumental. In an error correction model using quarterly German credit data from 1980-2012 and focusing on bank credit to real sector companies only, a cointegrating relationship between GDP and credit is found with causality running from credit to GDP.


In the Western United States, historical forest conditions are used to inform land management and ecosystem restoration goals (North et al. 2009, Stephens et al. 2016). This interest is based on the premise that historical forests were resilient to ecological disturbances (Keane et al. 2018). Researchers throughout the US have used the General Land Office (GLO) surveys of the late 19th and early 20th centuries to estimate historical forest conditions (Bourdo 1956, Schulte and Mladenoff 2001, Cogbill et al. 2002, Paciorek et al. 2016). These surveys were conducted throughout the US and represent a systematic, historical sample of trees across a broad geographic area. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.


Objective: To assess the current knowledge of botulism in health care students. Methods: A pre-test survey on botulism was given to students in the progressions of nursing, pharmacology and physician assistant studies at the University of Toledo Health Science Campus, before they began an AMA Basic Disaster Life Support (BDLS) training course. After the course, which included information on botulism, the students completed a post-test survey. Results: A total of 301 pre-test surveys were collected with a mean of 25% correct. Ninety three percent reported having had classes on infectious diseases. After the BDLS course with teaching on botulism, the post-test scores were significantly improved among all student groups with a mean score of 72%. Conclusions: Students in health care have inadequate knowledge of botulism and there are statistically significant differences between groups of students based on area of study. Additionally, BDLS serves as a reasonable platform for botulism education.


The paper is devoted to the study of lexical and semantic features of terms in the field of nanotechnology e.k. the study of semantic peculiarities of this terminology is one of the poorly studied issues in modern linguistics. The article examines the degree of presence of such semantic processes as polysemy, homonymy, synonymy in the provided terminology. The paper describes the main sources of origin of the abovementioned semantic processes. It is found that the same lexico-semantic processes and phenomena occur in the sublanguage of nanotechnology as in the general literary language. It is established that such semantic phenomena as intra-system and interdisciplinary homonymy, polysemy, synonymy and antonymy are observed in the terminology under study, and it is proved that ideal terms must have complete semantic neutrality. As a result, the author proves that the nanotechnological terminological vocabulary, in most cases, is neutral and unambiguous, despite the inevitability of the existence of those linguistic processes characteristic of the lexical system of the general literary language. The above phenomena become part of the development of this terminological system. Based on the conducted research, the author suggests the joint work of linguists in the creation of special dictionaries of nanotechnology.


Objective To understand the etiological feature and drug resistance of pathogenic bacteria so as to provide the evidence for improving the clinical diagnose and treatment.Methods From July 2011 to June 2012,654 stool samples of children with diarrhea were examined for routine,rotavirus(RV),bacterium culture,and drug susceptibility.Results There were 109 cases of pathogenic bacteria(16.7%),115 cases of RV(17.6%),and 4 cases of parasites(0.6%).The infectious diarrhea accounted for 34.9%,and non-infectious diarrhea accounted for 65.1%.Infectious diarrhea mainly occurred in children aged from one to six years.,and RV was the major pathogen,followed by bacteria.The bacterium infection mainly happened in the autumn,and virus infection appeared mainly during the winter.Non-infectious diarrhea mainly appeared in infants aged below 3 years old(75.8%).The top of five strains in bacterium infection were Shigella(28.4%),Escherichia coli(25.7%),Salmonella(11.0%),athogenic vibrio(7.3%),and fungus(6.4%).Three mainly pathogenic bacteria had not drug-resistance to imipenem and little resistance to third generation cephalosporin and antibiotics of β-lactanase inhibitors.The resistance of Shigella and E.coli were high to ampicillin and sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim(82.1%).The resistance of Salmonella was high to ampicillin and gentamicin(66.7%).Conclusions The causes of diarrhea of children were more.The clinicians should choose suitable antibiotics based on the results of faces routine,culture and drug susceptibility examinations.The children with infect virus diarrhea or non-infectious diarrhea should not use antibiotics to prevent dysbacteriosis of intestines and superinfection.


Objective To get the message of clinical types and fungal composement of superficial fungal infection in Pudong district.Methods Fungal examination and clinical analysis were performed on 2166 cases suspected superficial mycoses.Results Eight hundred and ninty-five cases were diagnosed of superficial mycoses.Of all dermatomycoses,tinea corporis and cruris(37.65%) were the most frequently clinical types,followed by,extra genital candidiasis(25.36%),tinea manuum and pedis(18.77%)and onychomycosis(10.39%).The majority of the the patients fell within the younger age groups,commonest with in 20-39 years age group(48.72%),but there were significantly more females than males in 50-59 age years group with a diagnosis of onychomycosis(P0.05).Seven hundred and ninty-seven strains of pathogenic fungi were isolated.,in which Trichophyton rubrum was detected most frequently(47.55%),followed by Candida albicans(36.76%),Trichophyton mentagrophytes(7.78%) and Malassezia furfur(7.28%).Conclusion In Pudong district,more males were seen with a diagnosis of tinea corporis and cruris;while more females were seen in the 50~59 years age group with a diagnosis of onychomycosis.Trichophyton rubrum was the most common pathogenic fungus,followed by Candida albicans and Trichophyton mentagrophytes.


in the application system of the Chip Microcomputer, high precision and low cost dual integrating A/D converter is needed in some special application occasions . The article introduces a high precision dual integrating A/D converter which is made of programm able counter 8253, it has an advantage of flexible usage and single interface.particularly suitable for the purpose of instrument meters A/D converter


The present invention is a glass composition comprising a crystalline phase and a glass flakes produced therefrom. These glass flakes can be used as a substrate serving as a base of effect pigments. Glass flakes may further be used paints, coatings, printing inks, in the plastics and cosmetic formulations. Glass flakes glass - is converted into a ceramic, is present in one of the following composition ranges I or II by


This paper focuses on the gaps found in the rules in Direct Tax Policy of India. Income Tax Act 1961 is a mature, refined and seasoned tax regime of India. However, there are still many loopholes in the rules which could have been generated due to lopsided view of the effect of the policy or due to generalization of the policy or due to human errors. The paper focuses on finding such gaps and strives to present the directions for further reforms. The methodology used for this paper is a literature review of the published materials. A broad search strategy was used using the key terms like the Income Tax Act, reforms in direct taxes and loopholes in the existing direct taxation system. The major contribution of the paper is to draw the attention towards the loopholes which are extensively used to evade the tax and should be immediately plugged by applying the reforms suggested through this paper.


To explore and investigate young people's considerations and attitudes around sexting using a unique, qualitative approach. To generate research in this area from young people's perspectives.The study used vignettes in focus groups to explore young people's considerations and attitudes towards the consequences of sexting and analysed the data using thematic analysis (Braun & Clark, 2006). Sexting is under-researched, particularly given the diverse psychosocial consequences which typically arise when an image travels beyond the intended recipient. This study aims to contribute to the developing understanding of this seemingly increasingly prevalent behaviour.Specific implications for Educational Psychologists in relation to consultation, intervention, training and research are outlined.Sample size and generalisability of findings typical to smaller scale studies.Considering and applying adolescent cognitive development supports the finding that consequences are rarely considered when engaging in sexting. There are complex attitudinal responses reported by young people when considering the consequences of sexting.As an alternative to an abstinence approach, a more effective approach might be to engage young people in a depersonalised, compensatory, non-judgemental discussion of the legal and psychosocial implications and consequences that can potentially arise from participating in sexting. This could lead to the development of an understanding for young people of rules and etiquette for participating in sexting.


In model-driven engineering, metamodels are central artifacts that allow to capture domain concepts and build domain-specific languages. However, bad design decisions, continuous changes, and the evolution of requirements may introduce bad smells and deteriorate the quality of metamodels. Refactoring metamodels is a complex task as it should be performed according to many conflicting quality attributes while maximizing the removal of smells. In this paper, we propose a generic automated approach based on a multi-objective heuristic search to refactor metamodels. The process aims at generating a set of refactoring recommendations with various quality trade-offs from which the modeler can choose the most appropriate for her context. We evaluate the efficiency of our approach with a user-based experiment, on time to perform understandability and extendibility tasks, as well as the correctness of the task output. Our results show that, globally, considering trade-offs between quality and smell removal is significantly better than focusing on smell removal alone. The observed difference is statistically significant for the extendibility but only partially for the understandability.


In this paper we deal with the problem of controlling a timed Petri net when the marking is not known, but an estimate is computed using an observer. We show that the use of marking estimates may significantly reduce the performance of the closed-loop system and may also lead to a deadlock. We propose a solution to this problem that is based on a linear algebraic characterization of deadlock markings based on siphons analysis. More precisely, two different approaches are suggested depending on the knowledge of the timing structure of the net.


Transport logistics problems decision features in the food-processing industry are considered. The interrelation at the decision of the given problems and influence of results on supply chain efficiency as a whole are marked.


Functional property changes in Phaleria macrocarpa fruit during ripening on tree were studied. Results showed that juice extracted from fruit flesh had low acidity and soluble solid content. Fruit acidity decreased but soluble solids increased as the fruit ripened. In terms of antioxidant content, ascorbic acid, DPPH free radical scavenging activities and total phenolic content were, however, the lowest in fully ripe fruit flesh while the unripe fruit flesh had the highest. High percentage of these antioxidants was water soluble. This study suggests that the unripe fruits should be harvested for valuable medicinal product development instead of the fully ripe fruits.


This paper aims at enhancement of dynamic stability of power systems using artificial neural network (ANN) controlled static VAR compensator (SVC). SVC is proven the fact that it improves the dynamic stability of power systems apart from reactive power compensation; it has multiple roles in the operation of power systems. The auxiliary control signals to SVC play a very important role in mitigating the rotor electro-mechanical low frequency oscillations. Artificial neural network based controller is designed using the generator speed deviation, as a modulated signal to SVC, to generate the desired damping, is proposed in this paper. The ANN is trained using conventional controlled data and hence replaces the conventional controller. The ANN controlled SVC is used to improve the dynamic performance of power system by reducing the steady-state error and for its fast settling. The simulations are carried out for multi-machine power system (MMPS) at different operating conditions.


Introduction: Thalassemia is a genetic inherited blood disorder in which the body makes abnormal hemoglobin with excessive destruction of red blood cells, which leads to anemia. For many years, hepatitis B virus was a major problem for patients with thalassemia substantially contracted from blood transfusions. The development of effective vaccine has further reduced the magnitude of the problem of hepatitis B. Iron chelators are used to remove excess iron that accumulates due to repeated blood transfusion.
 Aim of the work: To compare thalassemic patients either have or haven't HCV with healthy persons as regards biochemical indices taking in consideration effect of vaccination against HBV or not and using iron chelating therapy or not by the studied persons.
 Methodology: A case control study in which 40 thalassemic, blood transfusion dependent patients were chosen randomly to act as a case group from thalassemic patients attending the VACSERA Company. The cases (40 patients) they were classified to patients having HCV,  patients were HBV vaccinated ,other non vaccinated, using iron chelating therapyor don't use it. Another 10 healthy and non thalassemic persons were chosen randomly among persons attending the same company as a control group to be matched with the case group.
 Results: 50% of studied thalassemic patients had HCV seropositivity. Biochemical blood indices which were found to be significantly elevated among thalassemic patients than controls were ALT, AST, ALP, GGT and LDH enzymes in addition to serum iron, ferritin and globulin mostly in HBV non-vaccinated and iron chelating therapy non dependent patients while, other biochemical indices which were significantly decreased among thalassemic patients compared to controls included: total cholesterol, total protein, albumin and albumin/globulin ratio mostly in HBV vaccinated  and iron chelating non dependent patients.
 Conclusion: this study illustrated the effectiveness of iron chelators agentsand the importance of vaccination for reduction of morbidity and mortality.


The present research work aimed to shedding light on the effect of various plant growth regulator namely 2,4 dichlorophenoxy acetic acid (2,4-D) and �-Naphthalene Acetic Acid (NAA) on callus induction of ricinus commun. Callus culture were initiated from cotyledonary leaf and root segments explants from in vitro Ricinus communis L seedling . After four day of inoculation callusing was observed from cotyledonary leaf segment explants, after about one week from root segment explant. Auxins 2,4-D and NAA effecting in callus agitationbut 2.5 mg/L 2,4-D proved to be more effected for induction of callus in R. communis L. Individual treatment of NAA reveal low effectiveness for callus induction. Among all treatment media comprising 2,4 D (2.5 mg/l) showed superior response of callus degree (4 .0±0.0) with cotyledonary leaf segment explant and at this concentration, maximum amount of callus was observed whereas, root segment explants showed (2.7±0.19 ) degree of callus response in the same concentration . The callus from cotyledonary leaf segment explants was Light brown colour with compact nature in media fortified with 2,4 D while in media fortified with NAA callus was Light green colour with Friable nature. The callus from root segment explants was creamy to yellow colour with compact nature with the both tested auxin.


Although we think it is impossible in our recent past, today we can take a picture of a black hole and measure the size of the proton. We discover many new planets; we can track subatomic particles. Moreover, every observation we make by crossing our human borders informs us of new phenomena that we did not know before. We position these new phenomena, which we have identified, with an ontological status, to be compatible with the phenomenon ʹ s own location and the world we perceive. But; This success of science today not only manages this positioning process, but also brings a new form of a discussion that has been going on for a long time to the agenda of philosophy philosophers; epistemic value of observation. Human contact with the outside world is generally with perception and in particular with observation. Man tends to determine the ontological position of things around him by resorting to observation. Science also expands and deepens this contact by systematizing human contact with the tools it has developed to observe. used in scientific research conveys the outside world as it is, and that the perpetrator acquires the correct or approximately correct knowledge of the world through vision. According to them, the real success of science lies here. But this argument is subject to criticism in many ways. Antirealists insist that instrumental observation should be kept separate from instrumental observation. Our aim with this article is to reveal the relations of the arguments with each other while describing the arguments developed by scientific realism to maintain the observability of the outside world and the ontological status of new phenomena.


Milton Friedman did not like the euro. In early 1999 I wrote to him mentioning my daughter Erika's thesis and, in a letter dated March 127 1999, he wrote back: Erika's thesis on "The Euro and the Dollar" is one of the subjects I have been maintaining a real interest in. As you know, I am very negative about the euro and I am very doubtful about how it will work out. However, I am less pessimistic about it now than I was earlier simply because I never expected that the various countries would display the kind of discipline that was required in order to qualify for the euro. The convergence in inflation rates, interest rates, and so on was greater and more rapid than I would have expected. I believe that the monetary-fiscal constitution adopted with the introduction of the European single currency is consistent with Friedman's intellectual legacy. Let me explain. The ideas of Milton Friedman on money have been so largely spread and absorbed that it may appear trite to repeat them once again. But, since there still is a lot of misunderstanding on the issue, I may be forgiven for giving a summarized version of them. Discretion versus Rules In the field of money and public budgets, the market-liberal view, which stresses the need for impartial roles and constraints on the discretionary powers of government, has been contrasted with the Keynesian one, which viewed money and the public budget as instruments of short-run discretionary policy. (1) For the better part of the last 50 years, the Keynesian view has been prevalent: only the accurate manipulations of monetary aggregates and especially of the public budget by the authorities in charge of economic policy could prevent the instability, the cyclical Fluctuations, and the crises that were typical of a capitalist system. It was up to economic policy--the enlightened action of government officials--to remedy the deficiencies of a market economy, and prevent stagnation, recession, and mass unemployment. Today, the traditional liberal wisdom is vindicated: a growing number of economists support the need to take monetary policy decisions away from the discretion of monetary authorities, and entrust money to a monetary constitution, a set of impartial rules, aimed at providing that framework of stability without which markets cannot efficiently operate. Similar considerations apply to fiscal policy: a decreasing number of economists today believe that full employment, price stability, and economic growth can be achieved by the expert manipulation of budget deficits, while more and more economists of all persuasions have finally come to accept the need for a fiscal constitution--a set of rules making it impossible for governments to borrow their countries into bankruptcy. The Keynesian ideas that inflation was the unavoidable price of economic growth, that there was a stable tradeoff between inflation and unemployment, that it was possible to reduce interest rates through monetary expansion, and that the time horizon for monetary policy decisions had to be dictated by the needs of short-term stabilization policies have 'all succumbed to the empirical evidence and the theoretical analyses of the last 30 years. There is no evidence that economic growth inevitably involves price inflation. On the contrary, there are good reasons to believe that monetary instability hinders long-term projects and makes economic growth more difficult, as evidenced by the experience of a number of" Latin American countries. The idea of a stable tradeoff between inflation and unemployment is thoroughly discredited: an unexpected acceleration of inflation may temporarily reduce unemployment below its "natural rate," but this effect is short-lived. Only an accelerating inflation could keep unemployment below its "natural rate," but even that unappetizing possibility is dubious. …


The inclusion of different sources and levels of vitamin C was evaluated on growth, survival, protein retention and health of Litopenaeus vannamei with initial weight of 5.90 ± 0.57 g. Five hundred and forty individuals were distributed in 27 cages in a completely randomized design in a 4x2 factorial scheme (four sources and two levels) (n = 3). The sources used were ascorbic acid crystal, coated ascorbic acid, ascorbic acid monophosphate and ascorbic acid PEG (polyethylene glycol) with two levels: 180 and 260 mg kg-1. No influence was observed (P>0.05) from the source, level of vitamin C nor interaction of these factors on growth, survival, retention of protein and parameters of health of the shrimp. Necrosis was observed in the abdomen of all animals. The use of vitamin C in sources and levels estimated for the shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei weighing over 5 g shows no improvement in growth, survival, protein retention and health of shrimp. KEYWORDS: ascorbic acid; nutritional requirement; sanity; shrimp production.


Professional Autonomy to Professional Accountability What is professional accountability? Professional accountability is the activity of a professional person or organisation explaining their actions or decisions and taking responsibility for them in a transparent manner. Traditional accountability was to personal conscience and professional peers, centred in the individual and enforced by their association. This form of accountability was second to and served professional autonomy. Contemporary professional accountability, by contrast, is mandated by and salient for parties external to professional association and community.


Compared with other virtualization technologies, container technology is widely used in edge computing because of its low cost, high reliability, high flexibility and fast portability. However, the use of container technology can alleviate the pressure of massive data, but also bring complex and diverse security problems. Reliable information security risk assessment method is the key to ensure the smooth application of container technology. According to the risk assessment theory, a security risk assessment method for edge computing containers based on dynamic game theory is proposed. Aiming at the complex container security attack and defense process, the container system's security model is constructed based on dynamic game theory. By combining the attack and defense matrix, the Nash equilibrium solution of the model is calculated, and the dynamic process of the mutual game between security defense and malicious attackers is analyzed. By solving the feedback Nash equilibrium solution of the model, the optimal strategies of the attackers are calculated. Finally, the simulation tool is used to solve the feedback Nash equilibrium solution of the two players in the proposed model, and the experimental environment verifies the usability of the risk assessment method.


A model network consisting of curled-fibre and binder segments in series is offered to represent the structure of bonded-fibre fabrics. By consideration of the geometrical deformation and energy changes of individual elements under a uniaxial strain, a method is formulated to predict the fabric stress in terms of applied strain and also relevant fibre, binder, and fabric parameters. Application of the analysis to fabrics consisting of composite webs or fibre blends or both is also outlined.


Investigation of the characteristics of the jet flow, issuing from a circular pipe and affected by the reciprocal oscillating flows, was addressed in this paper. These reciprocal flows issue from two circular pipes and have the contrary phase each other. Moreover, the net flow rate of the reciprocal flow is zero, respectively. The jet diffusion has been investigated by means of the flow visualization and the PIV analysis. As a result, it has been found that the jet diffusion is affected by these reciprocal oscillating flows largely and is enhanced considerably under the influence of these flows. Furthermore, it has been recognized that the jet flow tends to bifurcate clearly.


Wet Walls As fortunate as he was to work together with the grand master of modernism, Chilean painter Roberto Matta could not help but disagree with the principles of Le Corbusier. Working as a draftsman in Le Corbusier's office, Matta rejected his idea of modern architecture as a fusion of the aspira tions of classical renaissance architecture with the qualities of accelerating new technologies at the time. In the article of the surrealist magazine Minotaure1 he describes his contrasting ideals as "walls 'like wet sheets that change shape to fit our psychological fears', furnished with biomorphic couches that appear in his illustrations to mould to and at the same time threaten to swallow the human body"2. Matta describes his ideas of space as a flexible coat, almost fluid and imperceptible in its alignment with the human body. He portrays a synchronised relationship; two entities moving, intersecting, merging. An architecture rids itself from its material character, the essential "stuff it is made off" as opposed to the monumental and rigid qualities of Corbusier's renaissance references. An architecture that shows no restraint in adjusting to the needs of its user producing the agility of different modes of usage. Increasing shifts in the modes of usage of the built Charly Blödel


In this paper an overview of the current and future nuclear power reactor technologies is carried out. In particular, the nuclear technology is described and the classification of the current and future nuclear reactors according to their generation is provided. The analysis has shown that generation II reactors currently in operation all around the world lack significantly in safety precautions and are prone to loss of coolant accident (LOCA). In contrast, generation III reactors, which are an evolution of generation II reactors, incorporate passive or inherent safety features that require no active controls or operational intervention to avoid accidents in the event of malfunction, and may rely on gravity, natural convection or resistance to high temperatures. Today, partly due to the high capital cost of large power reactors generating electricity and partly due to the consideration of public perception, there is a shift towards the development of smaller units. These may be built independently or as modules in a larger complex, with capacity added incrementally as required. Small reactors most importantly benefit from reduced capital costs, simpler units and the ability to produce power away from main grid systems. These factors combined with the ability of a nuclear power plant to use process heat for co-generation, make the small reactors an attractive option. Generally, modern small reactors for power generation are expected to have greater simplicity of design, economy of mass production and reduced installation costs. Many are also designed for a high level of passive or inherent safety in the event of malfunction. Generation III+ designs are generally extensions of the generation III concept, which include advanced passive safety features. These designs can maintain the safe state without the use of any active control components. Generation IV reactors, which are future designs that are currently under research and development, will tend to have closed fuel cycles and burn the long-lived actinides now forming part of spent fuel, so that fission products are the only high-level waste. Relative to current nuclear power plant technology, the claimed benefits for generation IV reactors include nuclear waste that lasts a few centuries instead of millennia, 100-300 times more energy yield from the same amount of nuclear fuel, the ability to consume existing nuclear waste in the production of electricity and improved operating safety. Generation V+ reactors are designs which are theoretically possible, but which are not being actively considered or researched at present. Though such reactors could be built with current or near term technology, they trigger little interest for reasons of economics, practicality or safety. Copyright © 2013 International Energy and Environment Foundation - All rights reserved.


11 Who should Use this Book and How? 72 Why have an Academic Career? 12The professional academic 12The pros and cons of being an academic 133 Shaping up: Academic Anatomies 20Academic identities 20Career contexts 24Paths into academia 26The main elements of academic work 32Research 36Teaching 38Consultancy and professional practice 43Administration 46Balancing acts 50Reputation matters 514 Presenting Yourself:


Abstract Following the initial survey into provision for young deaf children in families of ethnic minority origin (Turner, 1996), teachers of the deaf in eight different areas of England were interviewed. Most of the families served by these teachers were of South Asian origin. Developing mutual respect and partnership was believed by teachers to be a primary aim when working with families of pre-school children. Yet, where cultural difference and language barriers undermined two-way communication, establishing a close, trusting relationship was perceived to be a challenge. The teachers interviewed believed that problems could be alleviated by more generous resourcing of specialist interpreters and printed and video material in several minority languages. More sensitive and flexible funding arrangements which allowed for the pooling of resources across LEAs was seen by teachers as a step in the right direction of providing a high quality service and of ensuring equality of opportunity for deaf children and families of minority ethnic origin.


This article talks about the importance of the education system, the attention given to education in our country. Opinions of foreign economists on education are presented. Also, the relevance of professional education today, its influence on the country's economy were discussed and conclusions were formed.


Modern power supply and lighting systems of cities are complex electrical systems of an automated type, in which the processes in individual power supply systems and city lighting systems are interconnected and interdependent. Therefore, the search for efficient technologies for the transmission of electrical energy in them is an extremely difficult task. The real state of the power supply and lighting systems in cities today is characterized by low operating efficiency, largely due to the low quality of electrical energy and insufficient compensation of reactive power in them. The mutual influence of power supply and lighting systems in cities, as well as the presence of significant voltage deviations and the overflow of additional reactive power in the networks, causes an increase in voltage and power losses in them, as well as a decrease in the efficiency of networks and connected consumers, in general. Unfortunately, the existing methods and technical means based on them cannot fully solve this problem. The research carried out made it possible to clarify the nature of the processes in the power supply systems and the sanitation of cities and to determine the methods and technical means based on the Smart Grid concept. They are based on the use of phase-shifting booster transformers with an electronic control system. Their use made it possible to provide the possibility of complex control of the voltage modes of active and reactive power with the possibility of installation at any point in the network and centralized control from a single centre. The calculations show that the use of the developed methods and technical means provides an opportunity to reduce power losses in networks by 10–15% and energy costs for consumers by 50–75%.


Titanium film with about 3nm thickness is deposited on SiO2-Si substrate with dual facing targets sputtering method. Nano-oxidation lines are fabricated on this Ti film with various biased voltages and for the first time, current monitoring is performed during the oxidation process using a contact-mode AFM. In the cases of all lines, a flow of current began immediately when the biased voltage was applied and it kept almost unchanged as each of the oxide line was growing. The level of detected currents during the fabrication of oxide lines on Ti film is in the microampere (μA) level. The detected currents increase linearly with the biased voltages, which indicates that the detected current is mainly tunneling current. Thus, the process of nano-oxidation of Ti film is controlled either by the tunneling of electrons or holes through the Ti/water interface.


Blackberry (Rubus subgenus Rubus Watson) blooming and fruit development can be adversely affected by heavy precipitation and excessive heat under subtropical climates in Florida. High tunnels or net houses may protect blackberry plants from these undesirable weather conditions. Our objective is to examine the effects of the two production systems on microenvironments, phenology, yield, and fruit quality of three floricane–fruiting blackberry cultivars, 'Natchez', 'Navaho' and 'Ouachita'. Trials were conducted in Balm, FL in 2016–2017. Although bud break was delayed in all cultivars by 3 to 19 days under the high tunnel tcompared to under the net house, subsequent floricane development was accelerated under the high tunnel, advancing the first harvest date in 'Navaho' and 'Ouachita' by 7 and 11 days, respectively. 'Natchez' produced approximately 6 and 9 times higher marketable yield than the other cultivars under the high tunnel (932 vs. 158–159 g/plant) and the net house (1027 vs. 110–112 g/plant), respectively. The average fruit size was 39% and 24% heavier in 'Natchez' and 'Ouachita', respectively, under the high tunnel than under the net house, whereas that of 'Navaho' was similar under both production systems. Total soluble solid (TSS) concentration was 40% higher in 'Navaho' and 'Ouachita' than in 'Natchez' under the net house, but it was similar in all cultivars under the high tunnel. These results suggest several advantages of growing blackberry under high tunnels rather than under net houses, including improved earliness and increases in average fruit size, yield, and TSS, but the extent of these advantages depends on cultivars.


This paper describes several reference models of a nation such that the development of these models will facilitate the understanding of such models of nations and assist in their use by decision-makers for the purpose of achieving a more stable and peaceful set of relationships among countries. Through the development and understanding of these reference models of nations, and the understanding of their use in national decision-making, it should be possible to use more effectively the methodology of systems, man, and cybernetics to help bring about a more peaceful world in which cooperative security among nations is possible.


major irony of the present higher education landscape is that just as we are developing some of the most promising models for teaching, learning, student engagement, and the use of technology, we are simultaneously facing dire budgetary circumstances. Whether we are able to maintain and advance quality teaching and learning in this environment is a challenge that almost all of our colleges and universities will need to address.


Let A_2 be the moduli stack of principally polarized abelian surfaces and V a smooth l-adic sheaf on A_2 associated to an irreducible rational finite dimensional representation of Sp(4). We give an explicit expression for the cohomology of V in any degree in terms of Tate type classes and Galois representations attached to elliptic and Siegel cusp forms. This confirms a conjecture of Faber and van der Geer.


Since the critical size of defects in ceramics is usually very small, the conventional method of fracture mechanics prediction often becomes inapplicable. In the present study, the fracture strength of silicon nitride with small defects is evaluated on the basis of the R-curve method. The parameters of the R-curve of silicon nitride are determined from the experimental relationship between the fracture strength and the defect size. For penny-shaped cracks, the fracture strength is constant for small defects and the critical stress intensity factor is constant for large defects. The equivalent defect size is an excellent parameter to correlate the fracture strength to the size of elliptical cracks with an aspect ratio between 0.3 and 1. For small voids, the fracture strength is nearly the same as that for a penny-shaped crack. On the other hand, for large voids, the fracture strength approaches a constant value which is equal to that of materials without voids divided by the elastic stress concentration factor. When the tip radius of deep long notches is small, the critical stress intensity factor for fracture is independent of the tip radius. A Monte Carlo simulation of bending fracture of silicon nitride was performed by randomly distributing penny-shaped cracks having random sizes in a specimen by a computer. On the basis of twenty-five runs of fracture simulation, the relationship between the bending strength and the equivalent defect length, and cumulative distribution function of the fracture strength were successfully derived.


The electronic band structure of GaxIn1−xAs alloy is calculated by using the local empirical pseudo-potential method including the effective disorder potential in the virtual crystal approximation. The compositional effect of the electronic energy band structure of this alloy is studied with composition x ranging from 0 to 1. Various physical quantities such as band gaps, bowing parameters, refractive indices, and high frequency dielectric constants of the considered alloys with different Ga concentrations are calculated. The effects of both temperature and hydrostatic pressure on the calculated quantities are studied. The obtained results are found to be in good agreement with the available experimental and published data.


In April 1992, after nearly 11 years of military rule in Ghana, a draft democratic constitution of the Fourth Republic was overwhelmingly approved in a national referendum.1 The ban on multi-party politics was lifted by the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) Government in the following month. An independent interim National Electoral Commission was established, and a hotly contested presidential election in 200 constituencies monitored by teams of international observers was held in November 1992. After multi-party parliamentary elections to the National Assembly, boycotted unfortunately by opposition groups, the democratically elected Government of Ghana's Fourth Republic was inaugurated in January 1993.2


Gay-rights activists have mocked the idea that gay marriage threatens religious liberty. But what they mean by religious liberty is no such thing.


This study aims to determine and analyze the causality of Domestic Investment (PMDN), Foreign Investment (PMA), and Labor Absorption in Indonesia. This type of research is descriptive and associative research that is research that describes the research variables and find the presence or absence of causality between each of these variables. The type of data in this study are secondary data and panel data from 2013-2017 per Province in Indonesia. Analysis of the data used is descriptive analysis and inductive analysis. In inductive analysis there are several tests, namely: Analysis of Vector Auto Regression (VAR), Empirical Model Analysis of Vector Auto Regression (VAR), Steps of Analysis of Vector Auto Regression (VAR) such as: Root Unit Test (Panel Root Test), Coordination Test ( Panel Cointegration Test), Optimum Lag, Granger Causality Test, Stability Test, Implementation of Vector Auto Regression (VAR) Models. The results of this study indicate that (1) domestic investment and foreign investment are not qualified in Indonesia, (2) foreign investment and absorption of unsuspected workers in Indonesia, (3) domestic investment and absorption of qualified workers in Indonesia.


Epicurean and antiepicurean positions in valuation about a status that death has for the person are analysed. The analogy between death ("the life after death") and pre-natal non-existence ("the life before birth") is used as a basis for an explanation of possible differences between the deprivation of values and goods in both cases. It is argued against asymmetric position that the thesis that persons do worry about the period after their death, because they will not be able to enjoy pleasures, goods, values that they do have now and that they do not worry about the period of pre-natal non-existence, because they will become alive and therefore they will enjoy the welfare of their lives is untenable. At the end the modified symmetrical thesis is exposed as an answer to the old question: should we fear before death?


Abstract Wastewater treatment plants are typically subject to continuous disturbances caused by influent variations which exhibits diurnal patterns as well as stochastic changes due to rain and storm water events. In order to achieve an efficient operation, the control system of the plant should be able to respond appropriately and reject these disturbances in the influent. A methodology is described here which systematically addresses the assessment of the plant and the influent dynamics, in order to propose a controller tuning that is best adapted to an existing or planned wastewater treatment plant.


With the popularization of the intelligent portable terminal and the development of the portable computer technology,people's requirements of constant real-time processing and management of moving data are continuously improving.As portable database is gradually put into application,embedded portable database increasingly embodies its superiority.This article is to analyze the present development of portable database and its key technology,probe into the basic characteristics of the portable database system and present the research horizon and further development of portable database managing system.


With the wide availability of natural gas, a lot of gas pipelines are laid. But because of the factors of nature and human, the leakage accident of pipe occurs frequently. This paper introduces the principle of pipeline leaking detection which is based on the infrasound wave and expounds the advantage of the infrasound wave which is used in the detection of leaking pipeline. The time lag is determined by using the synchronal method of Global Positioning System (GPS) time and analyzing the factors which can influence the propagation speed of sound waves. The paper also introduces the structure of the experimental platform and explains the hardware design of the leak detection system. The whole experiment uses the sensor of infrasound wave which was invented by the Chinese Academy of Sciences to realize the data acquisition and real-time monitoring of gas transmission pipeline. The paper describes the composition of software systems which need to achieve the main functions of the data import, digital filtering and data storage.


This paper presents a general overview of the theory and operation of Linear Ultrasonic Motors (LUMs). A nominal linear model of the LUM is used to perform the parametric estimation. Subsequently, with the estimated parameters, two controllers are designed to carry out the nano-positioning using a Proportional-Derivative (PD) controller plus a Generalized Proportional Integral (GPI) Observer and a PD controller plus a Disturbance Observer (DOB), then the performance of both are compared. External and internal perturbations are assumed to be a lumped bounded disturbance and its estimate is used in the design of the controller to compensate its effects. Experiments with a laboratory prototype allow evaluating the good performance of both control schemes obtaining steady-state position errors of 50 nm using both disturbance estimators.


The utility model discloses an evaluation device for determining whether well liquid can form a semi permeable membrane on the sidewall rock and measuring the well liquid membrane efficiency after drilling under the condition that the high pressure liquid submerges, which uses the osmotic pressure difference caused by the method of different activities on the two sides of the permeability media with a semi permeable membrane to study the formation of the semi permeable membrane and the semi permeable membrane efficiency after forming. The technical proposal is that: the device adopts a bilateral symmetry structure, a gas source control valve is connected with the tops of the left, right, and intermediate containers by high pressure pipelines with feeding inlets, the intermediate container is connected with a liquid kettle through a stop valve with a pipeline, the left and right liquid kettles are connected by a core-sets pros thread, meanwhile a pressure gauge, a liquid discharge valve, an exhaust valve, and a pressure sensor are arranged on the liquid kettles, the pressure sensor is connected with a computer by USB data, and data collection procedures are arranged on the computer. The utility model is used for studying the formation of the semi permeable membrane and the semi permeable membrane efficiency after forming, suitable for studying the well liquid after drilling.


Squamous cell carcinoma of hypopharynx is a relatively rare tumour. There are different treatment options depending upon extent of disease. In this study 20 patients having carcinoma hypopharynx at T3 and T4 stage were treated by total laryngopharyngo oesophagectomy and stomach pull up with or without neck dissection. There were 12 females (60%) and 8 males (40%) with age range 30-60 years. Regarding the nodal status 10 had Nl , 5 patients N2 and 5 patients were without nodal involvement. Out-come of surgery was assessed by regular follow-up in ENT outpatient department for 3 years. The results showed that 8 patients (40%) were disease free, 6 patients (30%) were under observation, 4 patients died and 2 patients (10%) lost in follow-up. Immediate complications, 4 patients (20%) had pneumothorax and one patient (5%) had rupture of trachea. Delayed complications noted in our patients, 2 had pharyngogastric stenos is ( 10% ), 2 paitents presented with recurrence of disease. We assessed that total laryngopharygo oesophamygectomy with stomach pull up is a procedure of choice for the advanced stage of carcinoma hypopharynx. The procedure offers a significant chance of locoregional control of the disease and early postoperative oral feeding.


In her article "The 'We' in the Me: Solidarity in the Era of Personalized Medicine," Barbara Prainsack develops an earlier interest in the relationship between solidarity and autonomy and the way that these notions operate once passed through the lens of bioethical thought and practice. In his response to this article, Simpson introduces the perspective of two South Asian physicians on these issues. The piece highlights issues of personhood upon which the informed consent transaction is based and draws attention to the culturally specific versions of how people conceive of relationality, duty, care, and the obligations they feel they owe to others. The piece highlights the pronomial shifts between the "we" and the "me" and the way that these dispositions emerge in sociopolitically configured spaces. By paying careful attention to the settings and situations in which the movements between different positions actually take place, the ways in which the fabric of ethical life is made rather than simply given is revealed. Ethnographic inquiry is seen as crucial in understanding this process because it points to disjunctions between the categories that we are provided to apprehend the world and what it is actually like to live in that world.


Estonia has experienced the reform of external evaluation of higher education in the last decade. The general principles of the new system were developed in cooperation with major stakeholders (e.g. HEI-s, student organisations, professional unions, employer organisations), taking into account the lessons learned from the implementation of the previous system. The major shift was made from the resource-consuming external evaluation system, which was based on the study programme accreditation, to the institutional accreditation of more general nature and study programme group (SPG) assessment that aims at giving feedback. However, the implementation of this system provides challenges for both the higher education institutions in developing new-type self-evaluation reports and experts who are expected to compose a tailormade analysis based on the self-evaluation reports in addition to extracted background information. From study programme assessment to study programme group assessment: from accreditation to supportive assessment. The previous system of QA in Estonian higher education, like in many other countries, was based on the accreditation of curricula. The primary aim was to assess whether a curriculum and studies based on the curriculum conformed to standards and legal documents. The assessment focused heavily on accountability. The need for the new system of external quality assurance, where the aim for continuous improvement is prioritized, was perceived by the higher education institutions as well as the Ministry of Education and Research. The need for this shift was also outlined in the doctoral thesis by B.Vilgats "The impact of external quality assessment on universities: Estonian experience" (2009). The major factors were described as follows: The existing system was resource and time consuming for both the HEI and the state. The self-assessment of the study programme required the analyses of the HEI as well as the whole academic unit that was not in the competence of the self-evaluation team. The accreditation of the curricula did not have much impact on the organizational learning and development of the university as an organization The focus of the accreditations was too broad. It focused at the same time on controlling and giving suggestions for the development As the result of the accreditation could be closure of the study-programme in case of a negative decision, the honesty in analysing development needs was strongly challenged


This is a human resource competency and effectiveness audit of accounting information systems and their implications for the quality of financial statements. The company is registered with the Financial Services Authority having its address at DKI Jakarta. The unit of analysis in this study is every finance company in Indonesia. The observation unit of employees is involved in the use of accounting information systems. The data used in this study are primary data. Data analysis was performed using Smart PLS (Partial Least Square) software. The research shows that the competence of human resources and the effectiveness of internal audits have a significant effect on the implementation of accounting information systems and have implications for the quality of financial statements.


We present an approach based on the method of moments (MOM) to model and eliminate the mutual coupling for signals arriving from a given direction of arrival (DOA). The MOM can model the mutual coupling and any near field scatterers that may be present. The technique is tested on a linear array with a signal being corrupted by jammers. Another test is the same array in the presence of a near field scatterer.


We have carried out high temperature x-ray diffraction studies on (Pb1−xBax)ZrO3(PBZ) to correlate the large thermal hysteresis (∼100 °C for x=0.05) and irreversibility (for x=0.10) of the antiferroelectric (AFE)–ferroelectric (FE) phase transition observed in dielectric measurements with structural changes. It is shown that for both the compositions, the sequence of phase transitions during heating is orthorhombic antiferroelectric (AO) to rhombohedral ferroelectric (FR) and then to cubic paraelectric (PC). The wide phase coexistence region (∼80 °C for x=0.05 and ∼160 °C for x=0.10) and the arrest of the FR to AO transition for x=0.10 during cooling strongly indicate first order character of the AO–FR transition. It is shown that the transformation strains associated with the AO to FR transition increases with Ba2+ concentration from a value of 0.6% for x=0 to 0.9% for 0.10. Similarities of the AO–FR transition in PBZ with nonthermoelastic martensitic transformations are pointed out. The FR to PC transit...


Chemokines, chemokine receptors and adhesion molecules on different human endothelia: discriminating the tissue-specific functions that affect leucocyte migration Journal Item How to cite: Hillyer, P.; Mordelet, E.; Flynn, G. and Male, D. (2003). Chemokines, chemokine receptors and adhesion molecules on different human endothelia: discriminating the tissue-specific functions that affect leucocyte migration. Clinical and Experimental Immunology, 134(3) pp. 431–441.


China's archives professional development faces new opportunities and challenges with the advent of the Internet + era. Based on the annual statistical report published by the National Archives Administration of China, the manuscript combined the characteristics of the current era and then analysed the current situation of the development of the archival profession in China. The manuscript found out the problems and shortcomings in the archival profession in terms of subject, object, occupation content, skills and conditions of the archives. The new orientation of the archival profession, the construction of the subject specialization and the object resources were put forward. The manuscript provide suggestions on department construction, and provide ideas on improving and expanding professional skills, improving professional environment and promoting professional identity. Ideas in promoting the professional skills and the professional identity were provide to improve the professional environment. 1. Promoting the Development of Archives by Social Change New technologies such as digital technology, cloud technology, big data, and mobile Internet communication with the advent of the Internet+ era have been widely used in social administration, commerce, culture, and human life. These new technologies have profoundly affected social administrative management methods, public thinking, and behaviours and value pursuit. People's cognition and expectation of the property, function and value of the archives under the new social environment also affect the development direction and function expansion of archives profession. In the period when the voucher recording function was concerned, the main content of the archival profession was to save and keep the archives, and to wait for the archives needed. But when people began to discover the value of the archives in seeking cultural identity and retaining social memory, the archives profession began to slowly step out of the limitations of administrative functions, paying attention to a broader social culture and living space. Canadian archivist Terry Cook [1] proposed four paradigm theories for archival thinking and archival work from the 19th century to 2011—evidence, memory, identity, society. He believed that archivists had been passive in these four stages. The custodians have been transformed into active intermediaries, social activists, and community promoters. In China, the archival profession has not yet achieved the leap and transformation of the functions above. However, it can be affirmed that the various elements of the archives occupational subject structure, object form and vocational skills and conditions are constantly changing with the development of society. The archives profession itself is undergoing changes either actively or passively 2. Analysis of the Current Situation of China's Archives Profession According to the nature of professional activities, the elements of the archive profession include the professional subjects, the professional objects, the occupational conditions and the professional skills. These elements together constitute the basic form of the archive profession, which determines the basic status of the archive profession and affects and the development trend of the archives profession . At present, China's archives professional team has grown steadily. Social 2019 4th International Symposium on Management, Economics, E-business and Marketing (ISMEEM 2019) Copyright © (2019) Francis Academic Press, UK DOI: 10.25236/ismeem.2019.128 680 archives resources have been greatly enriched. Archives professional skills have been continuously improved. The working environment and conditions have improved significantly. However, modern digital, information and network technologies in the new era are changing with each passing day. The development of the archives profession shows obvious lag with many new problems. 2.1. Profession Subject: Coexisting Across Growth and Structural Issues At present, the ranks of archives professional subjects in China have continued to grow, and the level of education has improved significantly. However, the construction of specialization is still weak. The trend of aging is obvious, and the young practitioners are insufficient. According to the statistics by the National Archives Administration of China, the statistics of 2005 and 2017 were selected for comparison. Table 1 shows the education level of full-time archives staff in administrative department and archives in China. The number of full-time archives staff in China has doubled in number. The number of the bachelor degree or above was leapfrogging in the 13 years. The staff with the bachelor degree or above grew from a total of 35.28% to 65.3%. The academic level of the archives professional team tends to be reasonable. Table 1 Education level of the full-time archives staff in administrative department and archives in China. Year Staff number PhD Master Double Degree Bachelor degree Specialist Secondary school and vocational high school Junior high school and below 2005 22620 13 (0.06%) 85 (0.38%) 48 (0.21%) 7626 (33.71%) 10720 (47.39%) 3552 (15.7%) 320 (1.41%) 2017 48505 78 (0.16%) 1727 (3.56%) 351 (0.72%) 28793 (59.36%) 14000 (28.86%) 2348 (4.84%) 133 (0.27%) Table 2 shows the archive professional education of the full-time archives staff in administrative department and archives in China. As shown in Table 2, China's archives professional team is still lacking in high-level professionals despite 13 years of professional construction. High-level professionals are far from meeting the needs of the archives career development. In 2005, the proportion of China's full-time archives staff who had received professional archives education was 17.41%. By 2017, the proportion fell to 11.08%, a decrease of 6.33%. In 2005, 5.71% of the professional education in bachelor degree and above were accepted. In 2017, the proportion was 6.37%, which was no more than 1% compared to 2005.In the past 13 years, compared with the doubling of the total number of full-time archives staff, the proportion of archival professionals has not risen but fallen, and the proportion of educators who have received bachelor degree or above in archives is not obvious. These phenomena must have our attention and reflection. The professional construction of the archives professional team can be said to have a long way to go. Table 2 Archive professional education of the full-time archives staff in administrative department and archives in China. Year Staff number PhD Master Double Degree Bachelor degree Specialist 2005 22620 3 (0.01%) 9 (0.04%) 1280 (5.66%) 2101 (9.29%) 524 (2.32%) 2017 48505 11 (0.02%) 181


We describe a prototype for power line communication for grid monitoring. The PLC receiver is used to gain information about the PLC channel and the current state of the power grid. The PLC receiver uses the communication signal to obtain an accurate estimate of the current channel and provides information which can be used as a basis for further processing with the aim to detect partial discharges and other anomalies in the grid. This monitoring of the power grid takes advantage of existing PLC infrastructure and uses the data signals, which are transmitted anyway to obtain a real-time measurement of the channel transfer function and the received noise signal. Since this signal is sampled at a high sampling rate compared to simpler measurement sensors, it contains valuable information about possible degradations in the grid which need to be addressed. While channel measurements are based on a received PLC signal, information about partial discharges or other sources of interference can be gathered by a PLC receiver in the absence of a transmit signal. A prototype based on Software Defined Radio has been developed, which implements the simultaneous communication and sensing for a power grid.


In this paper, we present a cooperative strategy for multiple UAVs under communication constraints to follow a moving target in an area with multiple threat sources. The main goals of the cooperative strategy are, (i) to ensure that UAVs do not enter restricted regions (ii) to maintain the pursuit of the target by at least one UAV (iii) to minimize the threat exposure level of each UAV (iv) to maintain the relative distance between UAVs within the communication range, and (v) to generate commanded heading and speed within the dynamic constraints of each UAV. Exposure of the UAVs to threat is modelled by using multidimensional Gaussian Law. When the UAVs are within the communication range, they send their own position and target measurements to other UAVs. The time delay during the data transmission between the UAVs is taken into account by the strategy and estimation algorithm. During the pursuit, the UAVs estimate the position of the target using the position measurements of both UAVs if they are within the communication range. When the target is out of a UAV sensor range, that UAV uses the information from the other UAV as long as they are within communication range. When the UAVs are out of communication range, they only use their measurements. The linear least-squares estimation is used to estimate the position and to predict the target position by processing the position measurements considering the time-delay. Speed and heading of the target was also calculated from the estimated positions by using kinematic equations.


The purpose of this interim report is to verify that the structural performance of the current Multiple Canister Overpack (MCO) cask design meets the structural performance requirements.


This chapter provides clear definitions of the concepts the book uses and the theory of inside-out identity contestation it develops. The chapter defines competing identity proposals as suggested understandings of the national self that prescribe and proscribe specific behaviors and red lines as particularly intolerable points of contention among supporters of various proposals. It then argues that identity hegemony is the goal of these supporters, and contestation is the process by which the contours of identity debates change over time in supporters' efforts to achieve hegemony. The chapter briefly reviews relevant literature to carve out space for the book's theoretical argument: when supporters of a proposal are blocked at the domestic level, they take their fight "outside" through the use of international institutional conditionality, transnational activist networks, and/or diasporic politics. The chapter also discusses the methodology of intertextual analysis and process tracing employed in the study.


MANAGEMENT OF ADULT NEUROGENIC DYSPHAGIA Maggie Lee Huckabee, Cathy A. Pelletier Singular Publishing Group Inc. 1998 ISBN 1 56593 731 7. Price: £38.00. pp 300. Amongst all the patients gastroenterologists see with dysphagia, some of them do not have an oesophageal cause, and in those it is usually of neurogenic origin. Gastroenterology training is often quite sketchy when it comes to neurogenic dysphagia and therefore I found this book somewhat of a revelation. It is part of a series looking at aspects of dysphagia in a lot of detail. It is certainly written by American practitioners for an American Readership but nevertheless there is a great deal of interest and importance to those practising in the UK. On the one hand it looks at neurogenic dysphagia from many different viewpoints, with some of them quite unusual and innovatory. On the other hand it could be regarded as a practitioners' manual and goes into a great deal of detail as to how to practice a whole range of interventions.


Objective To explore the feasibility of natural constituents in Chinese materia medica used for the preparation of porous scaffold material as bone repair biomaterials and for the tissue regeneration and to study the preparation method and the properties of gum-bletilla scaffolds.Methods Gum-bletilla was extracted from Bletilla Rhizoma,then purified,hydroformylated,mixed with other excipient,cross-linked,and lyophilized to get scaffolds.Results High-purity standard gum-bletilla could be obtained by water extraction,alcohol-precipitation,and enzymatic purification.After oxidation,the gum-bletilla had Schiff base condensation to form reticular conformation,which was made into porous materials by freeze-drying.Conclusion The scaffolds could be made of gum bletilla,which conforms to the requirements.


With the development of information technology, the theory and methodology of complex network has been introduced to the language research, which transforms the system of language in a complex networks composed of nodes and edges for the quantitative analysis about the language structure. The development of dependency grammar provides theoretical support for the construction of a treebank corpus, making possible a statistic analysis of complex networks. This paper introduces the theory and methodology of the complex network and builds dependency syntactic networks based on the treebank of speeches from the EEE-4 oral test. According to the analysis of the overall characteristics of the networks, including the number of edges, the number of the nodes, the average degree, the average path length, the network centrality and the degree distribution, it aims to find in the networks potential difference and similarity between various grades of speaking performance. Through clustering analysis, this research intends to prove the network parameters' discriminating feature and provide potential reference for scoring speaking performance.


Quality of service commitments are not completely specified by the present set of standards concerning ATM networks. This paper describes the basic relationships existing between cell conformance, traffic control and cell losses. Namely, it is stated how a cell loss ratio commitment may be defined on the basis of the proportion of cells transmitted by the user that are conforming to the peak cell rate that is negotiated at set-up time between the user and the network.<<ETX>>


Metal magnetic memory technique has potentials to detect early failure,such as stress concentration and fatigue damage of ferromagnetic components.The paper summarizes recent advances in the developments of magnetic memory technique,from mechanism study,basic experiments to influence factors on detection signals and its engineering application,and discusses some questions in theory and practical applications.The characteristics and future research directions of metal magnetic memory technique are also presented on the basis of the current research status at home and abroad.


In order to track moving targets in real time and effectively, in this paper, a new Camshift target tracking algorithm is proposed, in which corner features and color features are fused adaptively. The invariance of the corner is combined in this algorithm, and the kernel probability density estimation of the Mean-Shift algorithm is used to calculate the probability density function for each feature. Bhattacharyya coefficient is adopted as similarity measure function, then using the ratio of similarity to achieve adaptive fusion of corner and color features. The new probability density distribution and the Camshift tracking algorithm will be combined to achieve the target tracking. Simulation results show that the algorithm is better than traditional Camshift algorithm, and tracks object more accurately.


The full text is reproduced below. The Convention came into force on 4 July 1950. It has not been ratified by the New Zealand Government.


A b s t r a c t. The physiological and biochemical changes of honey peach were investigated under combined hypobaric and atmosphere cold storage conditions. The freshness of honey peach was improved (P≤0.05) using hypobaric treatment over one week, but was not bettered when the hypobaric treatment time was shorter than 4 days, as compared with atmosphere cold storage. The best preservation effect was obtained by utilization of the sequential combination of hypobaric storage respectively at 10-20 kPa, 2±2°C for one week, at 20-30 kPa, 2±2°C for one week, and atmosphere cold storage.


The present paper problematizes and reflects on the health promoting school model in the Italian context, following its successful development throughout Europe. Beginning with Massa's statement and provocation on prevention activities in school as a sort of alibi for the missing innovation in didactic practices, health promotion boundaries have been traced. Wellbeing and learning are discussed in three areas: schoolwork and organization, curriculum, and partnership. The Health Promoting Schools framework is grounded in epistemologies recognized and argued within a pedagogical scholarship. More specifically we refer to the capability approach and to critical pedagogy. The salutogenic model and the whole school approach place themselves in this framework, guided by salutogenic and positive factors which are health promoting in the school setting. Salutogenesis emphasises the positive role of experiential learning and meaning-making as processes capable of enabling people to recognize and use resources. The action-research for traslating the health promoting school in Italy, developed in the Umbria Region, will be discussed as a case example to thoroughly investigate strengths and weaknesses of the model. Nowadays, the school system is going through an evolving process. The paper describes how wellness and learning are strictly connected and how taking care of both could become a way of adding quality of life and effectiveness to a successful transformation and innovation of the school system.