Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore environmental sustainability (eco-sustainability) policy and strategy adoption and implementation in Australian companies. Specifically, it assesses what influences the extent of organizational eco-sustainability strategy implementation. Design/methodology/approach – This research used semi-structured interviews with senior executive from a list of the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) 200 companies in banking, materials, real estate and transportation industry groups. A purposive sampling method was used to select the most appropriate participants. The "elite" interviewing method was adopted with persons who are recognized as the expert in the topic under investigation. Finally, an interpretative approach to data analysis was used. Findings – The paper shows the importance of eco-sustainability strategy alignment with the overall business strategy. Similarly, organizational structure and systems are recognized to be equally important. The senior execut...


The in-source photoreaction and the postreaction of 1-(2-naphthoyl)aziridine (NAz) in various halogenated hydrocarbons have been investigated at room temperature under deaerated conditions. Secondary amide such as N-(2-chloroethyl)-2-naphthamide (CENA) or N-(2-bromoethyl)-2-naphthamide (BENA) was obtained along with a rearranged product of 2-(2-naphthyl)-2-oxazoline (NOz). The initial rate of secondary amide formation increased with decreasing dissociation energy of the carbon–halogen bond of halogenated hydrocarbon. The yield of CENA in the postreaction was substantially equal to that of chloride ion formed via the photolyses of chlorinated hydrocarbons. The rearranged product of NOz was confirmed to undergo subsequently photochemical ring-opening reaction to afford CENA or BENA.


The paper explores the action — cognition loop by investigating the relation between overhelp and evaluation. It presents a study on the helping and overhelping behaviors of teachers with students of their own vs. of a stigmatized culture, and analyses them in terms of a taxonomy of helping behavior, and adopting an annotation scheme to assess the multimodal behavior of teachers and pupils. Results show that overhelping teachers induce more negative evaluations, more often concerning general capacities, and frequently expressed indirectly. This seems to show that the overhelp offered blocks a child's striving for autonomy since it generates a negative evaluation, in particular the belief of an inability of the receiver.


This article shows the analysis of the efficiency of the pomegranate husks like an adsorbent agent in aqueous solutions contaminate with mercury (II). The contaminated with mercury (II). The variables of this experiment were: the initial concentration of mercury (II) in water, quantity of adsorbent material 50 ml of contaminate solution with Hg (2 and 4 grams), size of the particle of pomegranate husk and contact time between adsorbate and adsorbent (60 minutes). In this process the pomegranate husks were dehydrated at temperature between 30 °C and 50 °C. The results obtained at the end of the investigation show that the pomegranate husks have the capacity to decontaminate mercury (II) from contaminated water at a level of 1 ppm quantity accepted by the World Health Organization (WHO, 2003). This is an alternative method, environmentally friendly and sustainable to eliminate pollutant agents from water such as mercury (II).


Objective Severe secondary tricuspid regurgitation (STR) causes significant right atrial (RA) volume overload, resulting in structural and functional RA-remodelling. This study evaluated whether patients with severe STR and reduced RA function, as assessed by RA-reservoir-strain (RASr), show lower long-term prognosis. Methods Consecutive patients, from a single centre, with first diagnosis of severe STR and RASr measure available, were included. Extensive echocardiographic analysis comprised measures of cardiac chamber size and function, assessed also by two-dimensional speckle-tracking strain analysis. Primary outcome was all-cause mortality, analysed from inclusion until death or last follow-up. The association of RASr with the outcome was evaluated by Cox regression analysis and Akaike information criterion. Results A total of 586 patients with severe STR (age 68±13 years; 52% male) were included. Patients presented with mild right ventricular (RV) dilatation (end-diastolic area 13.8±6.5 cm2/m2) and dysfunction (free-wall strain 16.2±7.2%), and with moderate-to-severe RA dilatation (max area 15.0±5.3 cm2/m2); the median value of RASr was 13%. In the overall population, 10-year overall survival was low (40%, 349 deaths), and was significantly lower in patients with lower RASr (defined by the median value): 36% (195 deaths) for RASr ≤13% compared with 45% (154 deaths) for RASr >13% (log-rank p=0.016). With a median follow-up of 6.6 years, RASr was independently associated with all-cause mortality (HR per 5% RASr increase:0.928; 95% CI 0.864 to 0.996; p=0.038), providing additional value over relevant clinical and echocardiographic covariates (including RA size and RV function/size). Conclusions Patients with severe STR presented with significant RA remodelling, and lower RA function, as measured by RASr, was independently associated with all-cause mortality, potentially improving risk stratification in these patients.


The surface recombination at the Si/amorphous hydrogenated silicon nitride (a-SiN x :H) heterojunction is investigated by transient photoconductance measurements as a function of the applied potential. A minimum of the photoconductance decay time is observed at the flatband potential. The fast decay at this potential, compared to the slow decays under accumulation and depletion regimes, indicates that surface passivation of silicon by an a-SiN x :H layer is mainly due to field passivation caused by the fixed charge in the a-SiN x :H layer. The present measurements suggest that the fixed charge is not stable under the application of a potential, at least in the electrochemical cell configuration studied here. .


Fangzheng fault depression is the north part of the Yishu garbon. Under the strike-slip influence of Tanlu fault,its structure is commonly complex,mainly because of its complicated fault system and tectonic style. Fangzheng fault depression has three evolution types of faults,and well matched with the basin formation and evolution. The three types of fault are the secular development fault,the fault developing on the earth stage and the fault developing on the late stage. And the fault system of Fangzheng fault depression is mainly composed of EW strike extensional normal faults and NE strike wrench faults. The main tectonic style of the Fangzheng fault depression can be subdivided into 3 types,the strike-slip-shear tectonic system,the step block fault tectonic system and the tilting-reversed tectonic system. And each tectonic system has an important effect on the distribution of the oil and gas.


Hydrological sustainability is a significant phenomenon associated with several processes in the biosphere. This study analyzes the land-based remote sensing inputs for the hydrological sustainability of the upper Ramganga Catchment in the Himalayas. The catchment units (117) are delineated from the SRTM-DEM. The spectral indices, NDBSI, NDVI, NDWI, and NDMI, from the LANDSAT-5/8 datasets are used for 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2020. The statistical measures of the indices concerning the subbasins provide a spatiotemporal relationship among the factors. The priority weightage of factors is computed using the MCDA Fuzzy Analytical Network Processor (FANP), which involves Gaussian and Triangular Fuzzy membership functions and the ANP-based relationship scale values. The weighted GIS overlay analysis provides spatial variations concerning the subbasins and the degree of sustainability for the decadal and overall hydrological sustainability maps. The results are useful for formulating strategies for water resources planning, monitoring, and management activities.


Purpose Most studies on neuroblastoma (NB) have been conducted in Western countries or Japan. The objective of our study was to analyze clinical and pathological features, MYCN status, surgical methods, and prognosis in Chinese NB patients. Methods A retrospective, single-center case series study of 275 NBs was implemented. Clinical manifestations, pathological features, MYCN status, and surgical treatment were analyzed. Log-rank test and Cox hazards models were used to assess overall survivals (OSs). Results The cohort consisted of 105 females and 170 males, with an age range of five days to 15 years. MYCN amplification was detected in 21.5% of all cases. The median OS was 15.0 months for MYCN amplified group. The five-year OS rates were 70.8% and 18.3% for MYCN unamplified and amplified groups, respectively, and the comparison of Kaplan–Meier curves for these two groups showed statistical significance (P < .001 by log-rank test). Gross total resection (GTR, n = 111) and subtotal resection (STR, n = 58) were administered in 169 patients at stages 3 and 4 who received chemotherapy and the comparison of Kaplan–Meier curves for different groups in these patients had statistical significance (STR vs. GTR, P = .009; MYCN unamplified vs. amplified, P < .001 by log-rank test, respectively).The multivariate survival analyses showed statistical significance (STR vs. GTR, P = .047; MYCN unamplified vs. amplified, P = .001 by Cox regression model). Conclusions MYCN amplification is an independently adverse prognostic factor in Chinese NB patients at stages 3 and 4 and GTR is associated with improved OS compared with STR in these patients.


Video inpainting deals with the ability to fix/rest ore damaged videos and provide flexibility to edit home videos. It also ensures visual privacy in security. Video inpa ting is used in large number of applications to i npaint missing objects from a video sequence, remove black spots or holes from vi deo sequence, as a signature remover, a ghost shado w remover. For video repairing the basic approaches has been developed i n recent years. Lots of research is done in image i npainting as compared to video inpainting. The video inpainting is broadly c ategorized as Patch based method & Object based met hod. There are some critical issues in video completion regarding to ke ep the spatial-temporal consistencies, and the fait hful inference of pixels. Previous work is done in the area of video inpainti ng and most of the techniques try to ensure to main tain either spatial consistency or temporal consistency between the fra mes. But no one try to ensure both of them in the same technique with good quality. The research can be done to increase the c omputational efficiency & to make video inpainting an intelligent. In this survey paper the classification is done in between Patch-based inpai nting methods and object-based inpainting methods. Thi paper represents a brief review on various approaches which is used in video inpaintin g a d it helps to make an intelligent object based inpainting approach for video repairing. KeywordsVideo Inpainting, patch based inpainting, Texture s ynthesis, Object based Inpainting, pattern recognit ion, Image restoration.


The Guide Star Catalog (GSC), being the largest astronomical catalog to date, is widely used by the astronomical community for all sorts of applications, such as statistical studies of certain sky regions, searches for counterparts to observational phenomena, and generation of finder charts. It's format (2 CD-ROM's) requires minimum hardware and is ideally suited for all sorts of conditions, especially observations. Unfortunately, the actual GSC data is not easily accessible. It takes the form of FITS tables, and the coordinates of the objects are given in one coordinate system (equinox 2000). The included reading software is rudimentary at best. Thus, even generation of a simple finder chart is not a trivial undertaking. To solve this problem, at least for PC users, GUIDARES was created. GUIDARES is a user-friendly program that lets you look directly at the data in the GSC, either as a graphical sky map or as a text table. GUIDARES can read a sampling of GSC data from a given sky region, store this sampling in a text file, and display a graphical map of the sampled region in projected celestial coordinates (perfect for finder charts). GUIDARES supports rectangular and circular regions defined by coordinates in the equatorial, ecliptic (any equinox) or galactic systems.


EMMA CAMPBELL AND ROBERT MILLS, eds., Rethinking Medieval Translation. Ethics, Politics, Theory. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2012. Pp. xii, 292. isbn: 978-1-84384-329-0. «99Theeditors of this volume have gathered twelve contributions on medieval translation with the overall aim of taking the current ideas on medieval translation theory and practice a step further, especially with respect to ethical and political dimensions. In their introduction, they discuss the objectives of the collection, and show the important and necessary interaction between medieval studies and translation studies. As they state, ' [given] the centrality of ethical and political issues both to the medieval notion of translatioana to recent discussions of translations in contemporary translation studies, this is one area where the interface between modern theory and research on medieval translation is-and might continue to be-enormously productive' (2). Especially, the editors draw attention to the importance of the emergence of postcolonial criticism as a specific field of literary and cultural analysis, inspired by the work of Jacques Derrida, Lawrence Venuti and Antoine Berman, and exploring the translator's role with respect to cultural dominance.In other words, the volume wants to examine the ability of translation 'to negotiate cultural and linguistic difference' (4) and to give a more nuanced perspective on the limits but also the possibilities of approaches to medieval translation that explore these issues. The question of difference is tackled in several ways: how must contemporary reflections on ethical and political issues of translation be adapted when applied to medieval translation? How does the concept of relevance in translation work in the light of the medieval translatif) as non-textual, non-linguistic transfer? Related to that are the themes of (in)hospitality, the attitude of the translator toward his sources, and possible conflict situations.After the introduction, which also provides an interesting and useful overview of today's knowledge on medieval translation, making suggestions with respect to possible mutual interests of medieval and modern translation studies, the first four essays all deal with the ethics and politics of translatif) studii. Marilynn Desmond studies the encounters of Leonzio Pilatus (14th c.), who translated Homeric epics from Greek to Latin, with Petrarch and Boccaccio, leading to discussions on issues of language, identity, and difference. Miranda Griffin analyzes the way in which the Ovide moralise translates, but also transforms, Ovid's Metamorphoses. Drawing on Derrida's theory on the limits of translation, the author shows how the translator of the Ovide moralise is 'treading a fine line' (60) with respect to Christian faith and figures of sacred bodies. Translations of Latin histories into Middle French prose, and more specifically ethical aspects in the translation and interpretation of the episode on Lucretia's rape and suicide in Simon de Hesdin's translation of Valerius Maximus, are at the center of Catherine Leglu's essay. …


The experimental results on the dissociation of iodine molecules in the presence of single oxygen molecules under a wide-range variation of the oxygen – iodine composition are presented. The rate constants are determined as for the reaction (reaction 1), for the reaction and for the reaction . The analysis of the experimental results shows that for different compositions of the active medium of the oxygen – iodine laser the iodine dissociation occurs via the chain of reactions , 4 and in the cascade process . For typical active medium compositions of the supersonic chemical oxygen – iodine laser, the contributions of each of the mechanisms to the dissociation are comparable. The experiments carried out did not reveal any contribution from the vibrationally excited oxygen molecules to the iodine dissociation. Thus, the performed experiments and the conclusions drawn from them completely confirm the mechanism of iodine dissociation, proposed earlier.


The theory of David Barker on "the fetal origin of adult diseases" is revolutionising the pathophysiology and aetiopathogenesis of adult human diseases such as atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis and related coronary heart diseases (CHDs) appear to be the result of fetal programming, with the cardiovascular system, and particularly the endothelium component, being the principal target of this process. This suggests that cardiovascular diseases can take place during fetal development. This life period is crucial for developmentally programming body systems (such as the cardiovascular system), their ageing and disease. A sophisticated interplay of exogenous-gestational environmental factors with the fetal genome induces epigenetic changes (microRNA, DNA methylation patterns and histone structure alterations) and expression of altered phenotypes of developing systems. A poor maternal diet rich in cholesterol, diabetes, obesity, smoking and exposure to various environmental pollutants represent the major factors related to an increased risk and progression of atherosclerosis in postnatal life. The fetal cardiovascular system is susceptible to these factors, and developmental programming events cause endothelial dysfunction, small coronary arteries, stiffer vascular tree, fewer cardiomyocytes, coagulopathies and atherogenic blood lipid profiles in the fetus. Consequently, preventive interventions are recommended for both parents who want to have children, for counteracting the onset of atherosclerosis and CHDs in new generations.


This article was originally intended as a response to the NATE booklet English A Level in Practice, answering some critical comments there on an earlier piece by Nick Peim published in The English Magazine. The debate clearly raised wider issues, however, and we invited Nick to relate his argument to current thinking in general. He has risen to the occasion here, with a polemical attack on the complacency of liberal, progressive orthodoxies, pointing to the theoretical and political implications of the questions never asked.


This paper analyses the basic security mechanism for the main technical characteristics and shortcomings which used in WLAN at present.Introduced the latest development of several security mechanism for WLAN.At last, The security mechanism direction of development for WLAN is given.


The purpose of this study was to examine whether working night shifts has health consequences for female nurses and whether these consequences vary according to the phase of the menstrual cycle of the subjects. Both shift work and the premenstrual phase of the menstrual cycle have been found to produce a variety of symptoms, particularly depression, in women. The present study measured a series of symptoms with the Premenstrual Assessment Form, a questionnaire widely used for the assessment of premenstrual syndromes, and the Beck Depression Inventory on a sample of 26 female nurses. Repeated measures were taken weekly over a period of six weeks. The kesults show consistently higher endorsement of symptoms in a group of nurses who worked on rotating shifts compared with a group which worked only days. This effect was strongly related to the immediate consequences of working a night shiftThere was an interactive effect between shift work and menstrual cycle which rendered women who work rotating shifts more vulnerable to depression premenstrually compared with the control group. This type of interaction was not found for the other symptoms examined. The results were discussed in terms of theoretical and practical implications,


The crude polysaccharide was extracted from Saussurea involucrate.After acidic ethanol fractionation and DEAE-SephadexA-25 gel filtration,XL31 was got. Its homogeneity was confirmed by paper chromatography,chromatography on Sepharose CL4B and cellulous acetate electrophoresis.XL31 was composed of arabinose(Ara)、rhamose(Rha)、xylose(Xyl)、galactose(Gal)、glucose(Glc)、galacturonic acid(GalA) and its molar ratio is 11∶4∶1∶18∶3∶9.Its average molecular weight is 170kD.By means of HIO4 oxidation,Smith degradation,methylation and IR,NMR,GC,GC-MS analysis,the structure of XL31 was identified.Its main chain is mainly made up of β-(1→4)-linked or β-(1→5)-linked Ara,β-(1→6)-linked Gal,β-(1→4)-linked Gal and α-(1→4)-linked GalA residues.β-(1→4)-linked or β-(1→5)-linked Ara is substituted at 3-O;(1→6)-linked Gal is substituted at 3-O and 4-O;(1→4)-linked Gal is substituted at 2-O,3-O and 6-O;The side chain is composed of(1→4)or(1→5)-linked Xyl,(1→4)-linked Glc and(1→2,4)-linked Rha.The nonreduced end is composed of GalA,Gal,Ara,Xyl,Rha,Glc.


In certain situations, a richer geological interpretation can be achieved through integrated compressional(P) and shear(S) wave seismic imaging. Converted-wave (or PS) reflection is an economical approach to such integrated analysis. However, one of the major impediments to viable onshore PS imagery relates to the difficulty in defining and processing Swave receiver statics (e.g. Cary and Eaton, 1993). This is because near-surface S velocities are lower and often more variable than P velocities.


Endocrinologists should have a high index of suspicion for a Hb variant when the HbA1c is not consistent with other indices of glycemic control.


The study aimed at identifying the teacher practices that support the implementation of the new business subjects' curriculum in selected secondary schools of Kabale district, Uganda. The study was underpinned by Ralph W. Tyler's (1949) principles of curriculum theory. Based on the pragmatist perspective, a concurrent triangulation research design was adopted. Data were collected from 37 business subject teachers and 13 directors of studies across 13 secondary schools in Kabale district, making a total of 50 participants. Data were collected using semi-structured in-depth interview schedules, and survey questionnaires. Quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive statistics while qualitative data were analyzed using thematic analysis approach by Braun and Clarke (2006). Findings revealed that ICT integration, assessment and evaluation, lesson planning, use of teaching aids, and integration of teaching methods were the major teacher practices that business subject teachers use to support implementation of the new business subjects' curriculum. It emerged that business subject teachers had some knowledge on ICT; were fully equipped in designing assessment items; dominated class sessions with both teacher-centeredness and learner-centeredness; and prepared prior actual implementation process for consistency and timely completion of the syllabus. The quantitative findings revealed that: the majority (56%) of business subject teachers applied a combination of teacher practices in a single lesson. The findings provide insights into the teacher practices that support business subject's teachers in the implementation of the new curriculum and could be useful in informing the development of guidelines for the implementation of the same.


The phenomenon of natural convective flow being there with magnetic field in a trapezoidal cavity with cold triangular obstacle for different leaning angles ф (ф=0°, 30°, 45°) has been studied in this work numerically. The horizontal wall of the cavity is considered as non-uniformly heated while the upper wall of the cavity is thermal insulated and other side walls are at a cold temperature. Finite element technique of Galerkin weighted residual method (GWRM) is used to solve the principal partial differential equations. The numerical calculations are worked out for magnetic field parameter, such as, Hartmann number, Ha (0≤Ha≤200), which is used to find the effects on flow and temperature field and the study is also executed for other buoyancy parameters Rayleigh number, Ra (103≤Ra≤106) and Prandtl number, Pr = 0.7 and also for diverse orientations or rotations (0°≤rot≤90°) of cold triangular obstacle of the cavity. The obtained results are demonstrated in terms of streamlines, isotherms, heat transfer rates as well as local and average Nusselt numbers affected by the rotations of cold triangular obstacle and also aforesaid parameters.The phenomenon of natural convective flow being there with magnetic field in a trapezoidal cavity with cold triangular obstacle for different leaning angles ф (ф=0°, 30°, 45°) has been studied in this work numerically. The horizontal wall of the cavity is considered as non-uniformly heated while the upper wall of the cavity is thermal insulated and other side walls are at a cold temperature. Finite element technique of Galerkin weighted residual method (GWRM) is used to solve the principal partial differential equations. The numerical calculations are worked out for magnetic field parameter, such as, Hartmann number, Ha (0≤Ha≤200), which is used to find the effects on flow and temperature field and the study is also executed for other buoyancy parameters Rayleigh number, Ra (103≤Ra≤106) and Prandtl number, Pr = 0.7 and also for diverse orientations or rotations (0°≤rot≤90°) of cold triangular obstacle of the cavity. The obtained results are demonstrated in terms of streamlines, isotherms, heat transfer ra...


This paper deals with different beamforming techniques for DOA estimation. High resolution techniques such as Multiple Signal Classification (MUSIC) and Estimation of Signal Parameters via Rotational Invariance Techniques (ESPRIT) which are subspace based techniques are also discussed. Finally, further resolution improvement is achieved through the use of directional sensors. The computational complexities of beamforming techniques are also compared. Index Terms—Beamforming, computations, direction-of-arrival, multiple, radar, resolution.


The VME bus which is used in the radar signal processing plug-in box is an open industrial computer bus.The characteristics of the VME backboard which is defined according to the actual requirement of the signal processing meet the VME64 bus system standard.Based on structural features of the VME board interconnector,the press-in fit technology and the VME backplane stack assembly technology are studied in this paper.According to the technological experiments,key factors of VME connector press-in technology and backplane stack assembly technology are determined and the control requirements and control methods of the press-in fit technology are defined,which can be referred to as the rule of manufacturing.


This paper compares the performance of test model systems of H.26L and MPEG-4with the same rate control algorithms and optimal parameter configurations.The computer simulation results show that H.26L is more efficient than MPEG-4.For CIF and QCIF format pictures,under the same PSNR,target bit-rate of H.26L is about 1/3-1/5of that of MPEG-4ASP.We also find that the algorithm of H.26L is far more complex.So we introduce integral-pixel and sub-pixel fast motion estimation algorithms so that algorithm complexity reduces to1/3of the original level.[


The conceptions of PPKC and IPKC are introduced in this paper.Secure performances of PPKC and IPKC under different attacks are contrasted.A new type of attacks,Errors Sniffing Attacks(ESA) which work on IPKC only,are presented.Because NTRU is a typical IPKC,its performance of ESA resistance should be studied.Based on NTRU decryption(failures,) an ESA algorithm can explore partial even whole information of private key f.In order to keep NTRU away from ESA,some suggestions are given at the end of this paper.


Additively manufactured intraoral scan bodies can be used to guide the alignment of a patient's digital file information, including facial and intraoral digital scans both with and without a cone beam computed tomography scan, and to obtain a 3D virtual patient's representation. The present manuscript reviews the different intraoral scan body designs, procedures involved in additive manufacturing, clinical protocols for fabricating an additively manufactured scan body, performing a patient's digital data collection, and completing the alignment techniques.


: Patient safety concept has been developed regarding increasing of medical error incidence around the world. In Indonesia, this concept is predominantly concentrated in hospitals whereas this incidence has been witnessed in Bidan Praktik Mandiri (BPM). This investigation was aimed to develop patient safety model in BPM situated in Bogor Distric, West Java Province. Cross-sectional study was carried was out using Independent Practice Midwife/Bidan Praktik Mandiri (BPM) situated in Bogor Distric, West Java Province. This study was conducted using mixed method in three steps of research. The first step was targeted construction of patient safety in BPM with three Prefer Focused Group (FGD) and in-depth interview on 2 informants. Consecutively, the second step was cross split on 90 Midwife and analyzed using SEM PLS. Stage 3 is the evaluation of the model carried out quantitatively with the design of pre and posttest at 30 BPM who have participated in the Patient Safety Model training. Results showed that there was proper targeted patient safety in BPM including patient identification accuracy, effective communication, medicine safety, the procedure and treatment reassuring, infection risk and risk of patient fall. Thereafter, in step two was all of patient safety indicators in BPM according to the previous step was valid. In evaluation of model implementation (step 3) results showed that this model was effective in increasing knowledge (p 0.000), character (p 0.000), motivation (p 0.0000) and behavior (0.001) BPM related to patient safety. Conclusion: patient safety model developed in BPM was built from targeted variable, knowledge, character, motivation and behavior of patient safety interaction.


While morphological processes and representations across human language have been argued to be underwritten by a comparatively small number of theoretical mechanisms within the framework of Distributed Morphology (Halle and Marantz, 1993; 1994; Harley and Noyer, 1999; Embick and Noyer, 2001), one place where this theoretical reduction is not so empirically obvious concerns the difference between so-called concatenative and non-concatenative morphology. Whereas the majority of the world's languages involve morphological processes which are CONCATENATIVE and involve linear affixation of material to a base which remains relatively unperturbed, languages such as Hebrew, Arabic, Maltese, and Yolumnwe have morphological processes which are NON-CONCATENATIVE and involve morphological material from both the base and affix interleaved in non-trivial ways. Examples of this distinction are shown for concatenative plural formation in (1) and non-concatenative plural formation in (2):


Possible models of the arrangement of hydrogen atoms at the sites of the cubic lattice of titanium oxyhydride TiOyHp with vacancies in the metallic and nonmetallic sublattices are considered. It was found that titanium oxyhydride retains the B1 type crystal lattice of the initial cubic titanium monoxide TiOy and contains structural vacancies in the metal and oxygen sublattices. Comparison of the found analytical expressions for the intensity of diffraction reflections with experimental X-ray and neutron diffraction data showed that interstitial H atoms in oxyhydrides occupy vacant octahedral positions 4(b) of the oxygen sublattice. No displacement of H atoms in tetrahedral positions 8(c) is observed. A disorder-order phase transition channel associated with the formation of an ordered monoclinic titanium oxyhydride of the Ti5O5 type was found. The distribution functions of Ti, O, and H atoms in the partially ordered monoclinic oxyhydride Ti5.33O5.12H0.74 (Ti0.89O0.85H0.12) with a Ti5O5-type structure are calculated for the first time, and the concentrations of these atoms at the positions of its lattice were found.


Conclusion The number of ambulatory patients investigated for PE has reduced from 2012 to 2014 which probably reflects an increased acute physician presence at our DGH but some bed savings (7 nights over our 2 month period) were still made. Over 2 years approximately 180 ambulatory patients have been investigated and managed for PE at our DGH with no adverse incidents to date.


Based on the Lippmann-Schwinger equation approach, a generalized Luscher's formula in 1+1 dimensions for two particles scattering in both the elastic and coupled-channel cases in moving frames is derived. A two-dimensional coupled-channel scattering lattice model is presented, which represents a two-coupled-channel resonant scattering scalars system. The Monte Carlo simulation is performed on finite lattices and in various moving frames. The two-dimensional generalized Luscher's formula is used to extract the scattering amplitudes for the coupled-channel system from the discrete finite-volume spectrum.


May–Thurner syndrome (MTS) is a relatively rare vascular condition that is characterized by external compression of the left common iliac vein by the right common iliac artery against the fifth lumbar vertebra. This condition slows the blood flow and is a predisposing factor for deep vein thrombosis (DVT). The key to its successful treatment is to remove the clot and fix the anatomical lesion. If this MTS diagnosis is missed, the recurrence of thrombosis will lead to significant morbidity and mortality. We report a case of 70-year-old female who had left leg DVT caused by MTS and was treated with catheter-directed thrombolysis along with long-term anticoagulation.


Intravenous access can be delayed during medical emergencies such as shock and cardiac arrest. The intraosseous (IO) route delivers drugs into the non-collapsible vessels within the bone marrow and...


Air traffic plays an important role in the economy and daily life both in developing and developed countries, The shutdown of the crucial airport will lead to large financial losses. In this study, the data have been collected from Openflight.org with information of flights and routes. Then the characteristics of the Chinese aviation network and Australian aviation network have been computed. The results indicate that the Chinese aviation network and Australian aviation network are both scale-free networks of power-law degree distribution with long-tail attributes. Then, the centrality analysis of the top 10 airports in the Chinese aviation network and Australian aviation network have been assessed, such as betweenness centrality analysis and closeness centrality analysis. Lastly, the study looks into how the characteristics of the Chinese and American aviation networks have changed as a result of node attacks and offers helpful advice for both the Chinese and Australian aviation networks after the most important node attacks.


Nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) influences the initiation, progression, and maintenance of diverse cancer types. Despite current therapeutic efforts to block hyperactive NF-κB in cancer cells, the in vivo effects of a drug upon this complex pathway are unclear. We monitored NF-κB activity and a fast-expressing reporter level simultaneously in head and neck squamous carcinoma cells by quantitative live microscopy. The real-time single cell assay revealed the tumor necrosis factor-α-induced oscillation of NF-κB was echoed by equally dynamic reporter expression rate. Bortezomib is a proteasome inhibitor whose anticancer action is partly mediated through inhibition of NF-κB. When administered to preactivated cells, the drug gave rise to distinct inhibition dynamics, with discrete pulses of reporter induction remaining for hours. These findings suggest that, contrary to a simplistic presumption for a pathway "blockade," the network dynamics and the intracellular pharmacokinetics of the inhibitor must be critically evaluated in developing strategies for optimal intervention of oncogenic pathways.


1) The design of artificial systems that possess precision sites capable of selectively encapsulationg and delivering smaller molecules; 2) Understanding the detailed structural and chemical aspects of enzyme active sites involved in and affecting the important catalytic process, i.e., substrate binding, product release, rate of catalysis


Using partially restored isospin symmetry, we calculate the nuclear matrix elements for a special decay mode of a two-neutrino double beta decay – the decay to the first 2+ excited states. Employing the realistic CD–Bonn nuclear force, we analyze the dependence of the nuclear matrix elements on the isovector and isoscalar parts of proton–neutron particle–particle interactions. The dependence on the different nuclear matrix elements is observed, and the results are explained. We also provide the phase space factors using numerical electron wavefunctions and properly chosen excitation energies. Finally, we present our results for the half-lives of this decay mode for different nuclei.


Plasma catalysis continues to gain increasing scientific interest, both in established fields like toxic waste abatement and emerging fields like greenhouse gas conversion into value-added chemicals. Attention is typically focused on the obtained conversion process selectivity, rates and energy efficiency. Much ccepted 10 February 2015 vailable online 18 March 2015


New standards for the training and education of nursing students will raise the profession's profile, according to an equality impact assessment by the nurse regulator.


As the demand for computationally expensive optimization has increased, so has the interest in surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms (SAEAs). However, if a fitness landscape is approximated using only a surrogate model, thereby replacing a fitness function, it is possible for a solution to evolve toward a false optimum based on the surrogate model. Therefore, many conventional studies have been carried out in which the real fitness function and surrogate model are dealt with simultaneously. Nevertheless, such an approach leaves much to be desired because studies should be performed for real fitness function evaluation and surrogate model-aware search mechanisms. In this study, we discovered that the approximation error of the surrogate model at low dimensions has a significant relationship with the performance of SAEAs at high dimensions for three binary encoding problems and three real encoding problems. Therefore, if the approximate error is sufficiently small in the low dimension, then high GA performance can be obtained even when the real fitness function is not used, because a high-quality surrogate model can be obtained in the high dimension.


Copyright © 2014 by The Geochemical Society of Japan. tential for further exploration because of its location in the Jinshajiang tectonic zone (Pan et al., 2001). Previous studies have focused on the stratigraphic schemes for the Yangla region (He et al., 1998; Qu et al., 2004; Zhu et al., 2009a), type of deposits present (Lu et al., 1999; Wei et al., 2000), geochemistry of the Yangla granite (Wei et al., 1997, 2000), and geochronology of the Yangla granite (Wang et al., 2010). Though the systematic study of the source of the ore-forming materials of the deposit is of great significance, it has not yet been conducted. To Isotope geochemistry and its implications in the origin of Yangla copper deposit, western Yunnan, China


Department of Engineering for Livestock Management, Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (ATB), Max-Eyth-Allee 100, 14469 Potsdam, Germany; Climate Impacts and Vulnerabilities, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Telegraphenberg A62, 14473 Potsdam, Germany; Growing, Production and Environmental Engineering, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO), Volcani Center, Hamacabim St. Rishon Le-Zion, 75359, Israel; Department of Engineering, Aarhus University, Nordre Ringgade 1, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark; Animal Science and Technology, Polytechnic University Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain; Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Alameda Urquijo 4, 4o-1a, 48008 Bilbao, Spain; Department of Technology Assessment and Substance Cycles, Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering Potsdam-Bornim e.V. (ATB), Max-Eyth-Allee 100, 14469 Potsdam, Germany; Department of Veterinary Medicine, Free University Berlin, Robert-von-Ostertag-Str. 7-13, 14163 Berlin, Germany


In this paper, we propose a new trust-region algorithm for bound-constrained semismooth systems of equations. Trust-region subproblem is defined by minimizing a quadratic function subject only to a rectangular constraint. By employing a new active set and nonmonotone techniques, solution of the equations can be found effective. Global and local convergence results of the proposed algorithm are established under reasonable conditions. The algorithm is applied and tested on complementary problems and the experiments show that our method is efficient.


We report two cases of cutaneous B‐cell pseudolymphoma (PCBCL) induced by intradermal antigen injections for specific immune therapy (SIT). In both cases, the lesions had first developed on the area of injection; years later, new lesions appeared far from the original site. The histological, immunohistochemical, and molecular findings of the lesions showed features consistent with the diagnosis of PCBCL in both cases. In particular, the staining for sIg light chains showed a polyclonal pattern, and the molecular analysis by reverse transcriptase‐polymerase chain reaction (RT‐PCR) and Southern blot showed a germ‐line configuration of the Ig heavy chain genes. While the development of PCBCL related to a specific stimulus is well known and widely reported, the development of histologically and immunohistologically identical lesions far from the injection site is definitely worthy of note. This behaviour might be due to the presence of retained antigens in the injection site. This chronic antigenic stimulation could induce the progressive selection – and subsequent dissemination – of antigen‐specific B cell clones.


We find that inventory productivity strongly predicts future stock returns among a sample of publicly listed U.S. retailers during the period from 1985 to 2010. A zero-cost portfolio investment strategy, which consists of buying from the two highest and selling from the two lowest quintiles formed on inventory turnover, earns more than 1% average monthly abnormal return benchmarked to the Fama-French-Carhart four-factor model. Our results are robust to different measures of inventory productivity, distinct from the well-known firm characteristics known to generate abnormal returns, and not driven by a particular sub-sample period. A longitudinal analysis of portfolio returns over longer holding periods shows that, while inventory productivity is predictive of stock returns, its information dissipates about 1-2 years after release.


We have investigated a new reinforcement hat structure for a RE-Ba-Cu-O (REBaCuO, RE: rare earth element or Y) ring-shaped bulk superconductor (ring bulk) shrink-fitted with a double Al alloy ring and set on the cold stage of a cryogenic refrigerator prior to field-cooled magnetisation (FCM). With the hat structure, a ring bulk having an outer diameter of 64 mm, inner diameter of 40 mm, and height of 20.5 mm achieved a trapped field as high as 6.8 T at 50 K during FCM with an applied magnetic field at Bapp = 10 T without fracture; a similar ring bulk without the hat structure broke during FCM at Bapp = 8.8 T. Using a numerical simulation for electromagnetic and mechanical properties, the potential benefit of the hat structure was confirmed. The magnetic field dependence of the average critical current density Jc(B) of the ring bulk used in the simulation was determined by experimental results of time step dependence of the trapped field Bz at the bulk centre. As a result, the total hoop stress σθtotal in the ring bulk including the resulting stress of cooling from 300 K to 50 K and subsequent FCM at Bapp = 10 T is lower than the fracture strength of a typical Ag-doped REBaCuO bulk material. The effect of double Al alloy ring reinforcement was also analysed using a numerical simulation and compared with that of the conventional single Al alloy ring reinforcement. These results suggest that the double ring provides only a limited benefit, whereas the hat structure is fairly effective in reducing the electromagnetic hoop stress during FCM at Bapp = 10 T. Using this reinforcement method, a 400 MHz (9.4 T) nuclear magnetic resonance bulk magnet system could be realised.


Selection of proper seismic input is important for seismic response analysis of hydraulic structures. Analytical formulae are derived herein for calculation of equivalent loadings for 2-D plane P waves and planeVS waves via viscous-spring boundary on the basis of previous studies and the theories of wave motion. They can be applied to an artificial boundary and model the effects of obliquely incident seismic waves. The results of numerical examples show that this method has a high accuracy for P waves orVS waves and can be useful for computation of structure-foundation interaction under obliquely incidences of waves.


The German educational system passes through a lasting conversion under the aegis of terms like "market", "competition", and "personal responsibility". As a result the rapport of corporate and individual responsibility will be reversed: education solely becomes a resource of individual competitiveness in deregulated markets. The article deciphers the conversion as an example for the long lasting strategy of neoliberal politics. Thereby a special focus lies on a certain kind of "sub-politics" carried out by advocacy think tanks, which are acting in the threshold of science, media and politics.


The supererogation problem is that a virtue theory of right action faces difficulty in distinguishing between obligation and supererogation. Lei Zhong (2016) proposes a Confucian virtue theory of supererogation, which solves the supererogation problem nicely. Nevertheless, I argue that Zhong's theory runs into the suberogation problem.


"PRINCE RABBIT"(A.A. MILNE) "A HARP OF FISHBONES"(JOAN AIKEN) "THE PRINCE AND THE GOOSE GIRL"(ELINOR MORDAUNT) "A WIND FROM NOWHERE"(NICHOLAS STUART GRAY) "THE WOODCUTTER'S DAUGHTER"(ALISON UTTLEY) "THE PRINCE WITH THE NINE SORROWS"(LAURENCE HOUSMAN) "THE GREAT QUILLOW"(JAMES THURBER)


In order to determine the effective shoot cutting height on the high training in paper mulberry, two experiments were conducted. The results were as follows. Cutting at the height higher than 15 to 30 centimeters from ground surface in the first year, showed the merits as increased yield and yield rates and the distinguished marks of high training. The most effective shoot cutting height on and after the second year was 3 centimeters in 30 centimeter high training.


Islam is a religion which guide us in all aspects of our lives, Economic Activity is also an important aspect where Islam guided us that how it is important and how the one can do his activities as per Shariah guidelines described in Qur'an o sunnah, these are divine revelation for Muslims and defined principles under which one can do his economic activities. Islam give importance to economic activities but today, as Muslims, we seem to be very active in the field of worship and try our best to fulfill it, but we are very lack in the field of economic activities, although the field of economic activities is more important than worship.  This is critical because the correctness of the acts of worship depends on the correctness of the economic activities as If the principles of Shari'ah are not observed in the economic activities, then its effects on the acts  of worship are also compounded. But even so, if we look at our society, we see more people who are negligent in economic activities than in worship.  Apparently, the religious class also looks weak in the economic activities.  While there are many other reasons for this, one of the main reasons is the lack of knowledge and awareness about this important field of Shariah. Therefore, as a Muslim, it is our responsibility to know and follow all the commands that we do in our daily lives so that we can do the correct economic activities along with worship and one should also be able to perform his duties according to the law and be entitled to the pleasure of his God. The principle stated by the jurists in the economic activities is that economic activities are permissible in nature which means that any transaction in the field of economic activities other than acts of worship will be permissible in principle, provided that the transaction should be free from Shariah prohibitions. Therefore, any transaction, whether it was made fourteen hundred years ago, whether it is a transaction in today's modern age, or a transaction in the future, in principle  this transaction will be ruled to be lawful until there is no Shari'ah prohibition in it. Now the question is what are those Shariah prohibitions? We can easily divide these Shari'ah prohibitions into four categories: General Prohibitions, interest, Uncertainty/Gambling  and Violation of Islamic Law of Contract. In this paper importance of economic activities, conditions and Shariah prohibitions are defined.


Hydrophilic member comprises a substrate having a surface, comprising a particulate present on the surface of at least the substrate. Microparticles consisting of at least one selected from tungsten oxide microparticles and tungsten oxide complex microparticles. Substrate surface particles are present in the range arithmetic average roughness Ra of 1~1000nm when the reference length and 100 [mu] m, and shows a hydrophilicity irrespective of the light.


Hall effect studies in disordered superconducting films reveal particle-hole symmetry in the enigmatic quantum metallic phase. Electrons confined to two dimensions display an unexpected diversity of behaviors as they are cooled to absolute zero. Noninteracting electrons are predicted to eventually "localize" into an insulating ground state, and it has long been supposed that electron correlations stabilize only one other phase: superconductivity. However, many two-dimensional (2D) superconducting materials have shown surprising evidence for metallic behavior, where the electrical resistivity saturates in the zero-temperature limit; the nature of this unexpected metallic state remains under intense scrutiny. We report electrical transport properties for two disordered 2D superconductors, indium oxide and tantalum nitride, and observe a magnetic field–tuned transition from a true superconductor to a metallic phase with saturated resistivity. This metallic phase is characterized by a vanishing Hall resistivity, suggesting that it retains particle-hole symmetry from the disrupted superconducting state.


Phase diagrams of the pseudoternary system: N-alkyl-N-methylgluconamines/isobutanol/isooctane /water have been determined. Size and morphology of organic/water microemulsion droplets (optically isotropic, low viscosity one-phase systems) have been characterized by dynamic light scattering (DLS) to select systems suitable to prepare by interfacial polymerization poly(ethyl-2-cyanoacrylate) nanocapsules, the latter analyzed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The diameter of the nanocapsules (ranging from 300 to 1550 nm) was found to be dependent on the the monomer mass used in the polymerization process. Investigation of those nanoparticles as a cyanine IR-768 carrier, for enhancing the photosensitizer selective delivery to tumor cells, has been performed. Incubation of MCF-7 Dox cells with cyanine dye IR-768 (Indoc5), free or encapsulated in nanoparticles, allowed the cellular accumulation of the photosensitizer. Our preliminary experiments indicate that higher doses of encapsulated cyanine improved the cytotoxic effect.


to coerce the medical profession as a whole. Thus the situation became increasingly complex as the medical profession, the unions (in majority and minority groups), the insurance companies, and the government all joined the fray. Political struggles of such magnitude must be reflected in the day-to-day provision of medical care. Professor Garbarino sets out to assess this interaction and has studied the effects of the political manoeuvring on the medical services in the San Francisco Bay area of California. This area was chosen, not because it was typical of the United States as a whole, but because representative examples of all types of medical service are to be found there. The sharp rise in the cost of medical care in the United States during the past 25 years has brought opprobrium on the medical profession. The American public cannot overlook the fact that, of all the professional men in the country, the doctors now have the highest average income. The study shows that the rise is largely due to the increase in the cost of admission to hospital, which has gone up by 319% in the time taken for the cost of living index to rise by 110%. During the same period physicians' and surgeons' fees have increased by 88% and 66% respectively. Both doctors and patients have played a part in forcing up the hospital costs, mainly by abuse of the insurance schemes. The abuses are inextricably bound up with the quality of medical care and are usually in the field of overmedication. The seriousness of this trend is revealed by the prevalence of unnecessary admission to hospital and even the performance of unnecessary operations. The reaction of the American medical profession to various political pressures has been the subject of study first, at the level of the American Medical Association, next, at the level of the State or County Medical Society (which is all-powerful in the control of the methods of medical practice) and finally at the level of the individual practitioner. The arguments for Federal and for State medical plans are elaborated and the plans themselves are compared with the group practice pre-payment schemes organized by practitioners, and with the services provided by insurance companies. The effect of these developments on the movement towards compulsory health insurance on a national basis is evaluated and the book ends with the conclusion that the growth of private health insurance, and in particular of collectively bargained plans, has virtually eliminated the possibility of a governmental monopoly of health insurance in America. Professor Garbarino is an economist with a special interest in industrial relations. He has presented us with a most topical evaluation of a situation that Mr. Kennedy will find hard to unravel. C. J. H. MANN


Imidacloprid, a systemic insecticide is labeled for use against Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (HWA) and armored scales. In this study we applied imidacloprid by soil and/or tree injection, neither of which is, in of itself unique. What is new is combining both as a strategy for insect management and tree protection. Designed as a two year study, applications to trees were made in 2007. Evaluations include HWA and Elongate Hemlock Scale (EHS) densities, tree response and imidacloprid residues. An outcome is a method for the forest manager to gauge hemlock health. In 2007 results, 94.2% of hemlocks were categorized as being in poor to very poor health (little or no growth or dieback); 52.2% of hemlocks had symptoms of dieback. Low HWA densities (mean of 0.41 HWA/cm of twig) and poor tree condition categorize very late stage infestation. HWA survival is most closely associated with new growth (17.5% of trees); the potential of reemergence therefore exists. EHS was present in the study trees as well (mean of 1.15 EHS/needle) with highest numbers observed in three-year old needles. Protecting the extant canopy is critical to tree recovery; therefore EHS is a management priority. Successful treatment methods are those that aid hemlock recovery and provide protection over time. Combining tree and soil injection is a new strategy that may provide the forestry manager with key advantages, such as quick and simple applications for near and long term tree protection.


In view of the difficulty in preparing single crystals, a c-axis oriented epitaxial lead zirconate titanate (PZT) film was prepared as a model system for the single-crystalline PZT. By employing an extraordinary backscattering configuration in which the relevant phonon wave vector, k, is parallel to the film/substrate interface, we have successfully isolated the E [transverse optical (TO)] symmetry phonons from A1(TO) phonons. Compared with polarized Raman spectra of the c-axis oriented PbTiO3 film, the polarized spectra of the epitaxial PZT film (with Zr/Ti=40/60) exhibited significant asymmetric line broadening with a noticeable downward shift of the mode frequencies. In addition to this, we observed a splitting of the "silent" mode into the B1-symmetry mode and the E(TO) mode using the parallel and cross polarization configurations, respectively.


Permanent or transient reduction of blood flow to the hindbrain is often responsible for symptoms of disequilibrium, dizziness and occasionally sensorineural hearing loss. Recent advances in CT technology and the development of continuous rapid rotational CT brain scanning now permit a practical and relatively non‐invasive method for evaluation of regional brain circulation.


Commonly available respirators may be used safely to improve the quality of chest radiographs in selected patients. The film is exposed following inflation of the lungs and during prevention of exhalation. This method is most effective in uncooperative, semiconscious, weak, or paralyzed patients.


We study dynamics of rolling tachyon and Abelian gauge field on unstable D-branes, of which effective action is given by Born-Infeld type nonlocal action. Possible cosmological evolutions are also discussed. In the Einstein frame of string cosmology, every expanding flat universe is proven to be decelerating.


Objective of the study. To investigate the effect of triazino-indole derivative on the parameters of glycolysis in the endolymph during preventive and therapeutic use on the model of acoustic trauma. Experimental animals and methods. The experiments were carried out on 82 mice, female F1 hybrids of the CBA and C57BL/6 lines weighing at least 17 g at the age of 4–12 weeks. When simulating an acute acoustic trauma, an animal was exposed to white noise with a level of 107 dB SPL and frequency band 3–100,000 kHz. For therapeutic purposes, a single intravenous injection of a triazino-indole derivative was carried out immediately after noise exposure. The drug was administered at doses of 5, 7, and 10 mg/kg of animal weight. For prophylactic purposes, the intramuscular drug injection was administered before the acoustic trauma application. The drug was administered at doses of 5, 7, and 10 mg/kg of animal weight once a day for 3 days before noise exposure. The Cytoflavin was a reference drug. A normal saline was administered to the control group. When using the acoustic trauma models, the metabolic processes level in the cochlea was assessed by the glucose and lactic acid (lactate) content in the labyrinth fluid before and 2 hours after pathological exposure. Results and discussion. The triazino-indole derivative, both during preventive and therapeutic administration, significantly corrects changes in the glycolysis (glucose, lactate) indicators in the endolymph, thereby improving the bioenergetics of the inner ear cells. The best effect is observed when the drug is administered at a dose of 10 mg/kg. When compared with Cytoflavin, the antihypoxic effect of the triazino-indole derivative is more pronounced.


Objective To study the radiation sensitizing effects of irinotecan on local advanced cervical carcinoma by detecting the changes of apoptosis and the expression of proliferating cell nuclear antigen(PCNA) and vascular endothelium growth factor(VEGF) before and during radiotherapy.Methods Forty-one patients with local advanced cervical carcinoma were randomly divided into two groups: patients in control group(n=21) only received radiotherapy;while patients in irinotecan group(n=20) were treated with irinotecan(40 mg/m2) immediately after radiation,once a week for 5 weeks.Before and 24 h after 10 Gy of radiotherapy,tissue specimens were obtained from cervical tumor of all patients to study the related biological factor expression.A-LI,the index of apoptosis,was determined by TUNEL assay,and PCNA and VEGF were evaluated by immunohistochemical staining.Results(1)A-LI in iriontecan group was increased compared with that in control group(P=0.004).(2) The reduction of PCNA in irinotecan group was significantly greater than that in control group(P=0.034).(3)The levels of VEGF in both groups were increased after radiotherapy,but there was no significant difference between the two groups(P0.05).(4) T50(the time for 50% reduction of tumor) of control group and irinotecan group were 15d and 10.5d respectively,and irinotecan shortened T50 obviously(P0.05).(5) The levels of A-LI induced by irinotecan was negatively correlated with T50.Conclusions Irinotecan is a novel potential radiosensitizer.It can increase tumor cell apoptosis,reduce cancer cell proliferation in the early time of radiotherapy of cervical cancer,and speed up the reduction of the local tumor size.


When a company offers shares in an Initial Public Offering (IPO), insiders typically undertake a lock-in agreement that prohibits them from selling their shares for a specified period of time after the IPO. Recent evidence from the US has shown that there are predictable share price movements at the time of expiry of these lock-in periods thus challenging the Efficient Markets Hypothesis. Using a sample of 188 firms that went public on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) during 1992-1998, we focus on the characteristics of the lock-in agreements in the UK and also on the share price behaviour of the firms around the lock-in expiry date. We find that the lock-in contracts of the LSE listed firms are much more complex, varied and diverse as compared to the US contracts, which are usually standardised at 180 days after the IPO. We also find evidence of negative share price movements at and around the lock-in expiry dates thus providing further support to the US evidence. The deterioration in stock returns around the expiry date is particularly pronounced for high-tech companies.


Objective To investigate the sleep condition and the influence factors of paramedics who worked in elderly cadres ward for long-term, and thus to provide the clinical basis for improving the sleep quality, easing fatigue, promoting health and making good use of human resources. Methods 339 clinical nurses who worked in elderly cadres ward for more than 2 years were investigated by using pittsburgh sleep quality index ( PSQI) and Self-made questionnaires and to analyze the influence on sleep quality and the correlative factors. Results About 56.63 percent nurses had somnipathy. The age group of high incidence was older than 40,the reasons caused somnipathy included that mental stress、working pressure shift work schedule、 work and rest habit and sleep environment. Conclusions The efficient path to improve health condition of nursing staff of older cadres ward is to take comprehensive measures to improve their sleep status.

Key words:
Elderly cadres ward;  Paramedics;  PSQI;  Sleep quality;  Influence factor


This paper presents a biography of Charles Concordia. His education, career and contribution to the power engineering field are detailed. In particular, his efforts in the power systems arena are described by the author.


In applications related to object recognition and image understanding it is essential that preprocessing of image data yield meaningful edges and closed contours. An edge extraction and extrapolation approach using both bottom-up and top-down analyses is presented. This approach vectorizes initial edge data and extrapolates the vectors, based on a predefined cost function, in order to link edge data. After the initial clusters of edge vectors are obtained through the linking process, a top-down analysis is initiated to test the validity of the clustering. As a result of this analysis, the extrapolation of edge vectors is modified based on the support of additional edge data. Such a low-level processor provides a logical and systematic method of clustering incomplete edge data, and would be well suited for a cooperative or neural-network-based system which could provide higher level top-down feedback for further analysis.<<ETX>>


There is an increasing interest in the use of optical methods in medicine. Areas of interest are optical methods for patient monitoring, screening, photodynamic therapy and laser surgery. The main area of clinical application for the work described in this thesis lies in the monitoring of metabolism in the brain using optical spectroscopy, and the localisation of areas of metabolic deficiency. The objective of this study was firstly to determine the optical properties of brain tissue that govern the transport of light through tissue and secondly to develop a model for light transport in tissue that makes it possible to predict various parameters of clinical interest. These parameters arc the effective optical pathlength for light transmitted through tissue, needed for the purpose of quantative spectroscopy, and the light distribution in tissue produced by an external light source in order to determine the deposited dose and for the study of imaging through tissue. To this end, a number of instruments have been designed and developed to measure the absoiption and scattering properties of brain tissue as a function of wavelength. The effect of gestation on these properties is investigated. To study light transport in tissue, a Monte Carlo model has been developed. This model gives a full 3-D simulation of light transport, and takes into account specular reflection and refraction at the tissue boundaries. Objects of differing absoiption and scattering properties and of arbitrary shape can be included. To validate the model, predictions have been tested against reliable analytical data. A number of applications of the model, together with results from experiments are presented.


The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of intravenous adipose tissue‐derived stem cell (ADSC) transplantation on olfactory epithelium regeneration following transection of the olfactory nerve in rats.


Objective To study the safety of the clopidogrel in treating coronary heart disease in elderly patients. Methods 212 coronary heart disease patients were divided into oldest old group,70 patients(range 80~92 years),mean 84.50±8.16 with CAD,old group with 60 patients aged 60~79 years old mean 76.50±7.16 and younger group with 82 patients 59 years old mean 56.50±3.16. All the patients treated with 75mg of clopidogrel. The blood lipid,the function of the liver and the kidney,platelet,leukocyte count,neutrophils(N),the risk of upper gastrointestinal bleeding and other adverse effects were monitored before treatment and after treatment for 6 months and 12 months respectively. Results There was no significant difference in the function of the liver and the kidney,platelet,leukocyte count,N and gastrointestinal hemorrhage between 3 groups before the treatment and after 6 months and 12 months(P0.05). The TC and LDL-C of blood lipid was lower than those before treatment(P0.05). There was no significant difference between after treatment 6 months group and 12 months group. Conclusions Clopidogrel is effective and safe in treating CAD in elderly patients.


L2C code are introduced,and the SNR of carrier phase on different satellites and the noise level of pseudoranges are compared.Calculation indicates that the SNR of L2 carrier phase resumed by L2C code is improved obviously.


Purpose – This case study seeks to discuss the author's experience of providing e‐journal services to the scientists at the Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute – a centre of excellence in the field of glass and ceramics situated in Kolkata, India. It describes the developmental activities involved in providing user access to the e‐journals and its impact on library operations.Design/methodology/approach – The article begins with background information on the Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute and its parent body, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, and then goes on to discuss the development of e‐journal services within the library of the Institute.Findings – The author shows that providing training to the staff as well as library users and managing services of the e‐journals were the most important issues. The author also shows that e‐journals have added enormous resources to the collection and improved the service of the library, enhanced access to journal literature, a...


The invention relates to a microfluidic chip and a control method thereof. The microfluidic chip comprises a substrate, a cover sheet, electrodes, electrode lead wires, coating layers, a detection window (or a detection hole), a channel containing a bifurcation structure, liquid inlet interfaces (or sample pools), a liquid outlet interface (or a finished product pool), a waste liquid interface (or a waste liquid pool) and the like; the liquid inlet interfaces (or the sample pools), the liquid outlet interface (or the finished product pool) and the waste liquid interface (or the waste liquid pool) are communicated with the channel; the detection window (or the detection hole) is located near the channel; sealing sides of the substrate and the cover sheet are respectively provided with a plurality of coating layers; the electrodes are fixed on the surfaces of the sealing sides of the substrate or the cover sheet and are adjacent to the channel. A using method of the microfluidic chip comprises a liquid drop is subjected to real-time detection of characteristic parameters and position parameters through the detection window (or the detection hole), according to the parameters, before the liquid drop moves to a bifurcation position of the channel, a plurality of electrodes at two sides or one side of the channel are controlled to be in connection or disconnection with electrical signals, and thus the liquid drop position or the liquid drop movement direction can be changed.


Reduced-scale model tests and corresponding finite-element analyses were performed to investigate the effect of different excavation sequences for twin tunnels under the unsymmetrical pressure in weak rock. In these tests, the alternative sequences of the excavation of the left tunnel first and then the right one, or the right first and then the left, were simulated. The displacement of ground and the earth pressure in the rock were measured. Particular attention was paid to the different behaviors of the displacements and the stresses caused by the different excavation sequences. The result of the present study indicates that the state of stresses, the displacements around the tunnels and the ground surface settlements are all different when the excavation sequence is alternated. When the right one is excavated firstly, the stratum condition is more deteriorated. It can be concluded that the sequence of the left first and then the right one is better for such twin tunnels.


Increasing demands on the improvement of the performance of the turbocharged internal combustion engine places in turn higher demands on the efficiency of turbochargers. The aerodynamic performance of the turbocharger compressor is influenced by the uniformity of airflow that the impeller receives. Typically, the compressor performance is measured in a gas stand with straight and conical adaptors. The ducting before the compressor in a vehicle is invariably more complex with additional bends than in the gas stand test setup. This creates differences in performance of engine compared to the performance based on the compressor map obtained from the gas stand. In this study, Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) simulations are performed for a compressor with a baseline intake that has a single bend and the results are compared with the test data. Subsequently tests and CFD simulations are performed with ducts having additional bends. The CFD results provide insight into the losses arising in the intake. Additional bends and the nature of bends add to total pressure losses and distorts the flow going into the impeller. The inlet distortion and total pressure losses are quantitatively expressed in terms of a set of parameters in order to facilitate comparison of different designs. The intake geometry is modified to improve the overall compressor efficiency by reducing pressure drop and inlet distortion.


In a recent monograph on the architecture of Toyo Ito, eminent philosopher and architecture critic Koji Taki made use of a striking analogy – he described Ito's Tod's Omotesando Building (2004) as being as if "the entire volume were wrapped in a single sheet of paper" (Taki 2006: 9). The aesthetics of thinness and ephemerality have long been central to Ito's work, and the image of paper is something Ito himself used early in his career. In an essay entitled The Thin Façade Ito described the façade of the one of his key projects from the 1970s, the PMT Building in Nagoya (1978), as being "like a curved sheet of paper" (Ito 1978a: 21).


Event-related potentials (ERPs) are part of the EEG generated by sensory and cognitive processing of external stimuli. As such, ERPs provide a real-time physiological measure of fundamental cognitive processes, i.e. a cognitive biomarker. Numerous research studies have helped establish ERPs as a useful cognitive biomarker for the diagnosis of dementia, tracking disease progression, and evaluating the pro-cognitive effect of therapeutics.


This study aimed at analysing the relationship among organisational culture, work–life balance, and service innovation in a technology-based Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (t-KIBS) firm. This quantitative, survey-typed, and cross-sectional research was performed in a sample of 278 respondents. Data were analysed using structural equation modeling by partial least squares. Our results showed that the adhocracy culture is positively related to work–life balance and service innovation. The results also showed a positive effect of work–life balance in the development of service innovations. Contributions of this study are focused on the understanding of the direct and indirect effects of organisational culture on the service innovation and work–life balance fields in a highly competitive industry as the t-KIBS'. Due to the dynamism of this market, urgent execution deadlines for demanding projects cause high levels of employee stress, making work–life balance policies more necessary, as they emerge on the leadership and organisational culture and impact its innovation. Thus, it is recommended to create a long-term sustainable competitive advantage in companies and promote service innovation, that organisational culture should be treated in synchrony with the strategic corporate objectives and simultaneously with programs and incentives to promote the balance between employees' professional and personal lives.


Eukaryotic cells employ a series of elegant regulation mechanisms to replicate the entire genome only once-per-cell cycle to maintain genetic stability. According to the currently accepted model, t...


Abstract Introduction Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer worldwide, with 25% of patients being diagnosed with metastatic disease, mostly in the liver, resulting in poor survival. Standard treatment of stage-IV colorectal cancer consists of primary tumour resection followed by chemotherapy. Case Presentation Here, we report on the treatment effectiveness using integrative therapies in a 52-year-old male with metastatic colon cancer and liver lesions to achieve stable partial remission with an overall high level of wellbeing. After surgical removal of the primary tumour, the 8-month integrative treatment regime consisted of standard anti-angiogenesis treatment, as well as multiple non-standard but evidence-based therapies, including high-dose intravenous nutrients and herbal therapies, oral intake of repurposed medication and nutritional supplements, and a 4-month targeted electromagnetic field/Rife frequency therapy. Conclusion The integrative therapies used in this case study were highly tolerable and effective in the treatment of metastatic colon cancer with liver lesions, achieving substantial tumour response and stable partial remission with a high level of wellbeing.


This paper discusses the design and performance of the toroidal field (TF) coils for one of the possible options for the Tokamak Fusion Core Experiment (TFCX). TFCX is a proposed long-pulse, ignited next-step tokamak to follow the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR). In the TFCX option considered here, designated TFCX-S, there are 16 superconducting TF coils which produce 4.3 T at a plasma major radius of 3.75 m. Each of the TF coils is rated at 5.06 MAT, and operates at a peak field of 9.8 T at the winding. Several winding/cooling approaches have been considered for the TFCX-S TF coils. A NbTi winding, cooled by superfluid helium (He/sub II/) at 1.8 K, is discussed here. The conductor is similar to that being developed by GA Technologies as part of the Department of Energy (DOE) 12 T conductor development program. Use of either sub-cooled atmospheric pressure He/sub II/ or saturated sub-atmospheric pressure He/sub II/ has been considered; both cooling schemes appear feasible.


The subject of electronic technology design is an important part of practice ,and EDA technology is a new way in the field of electronic system design. This paper introduced some attempts of training for EDA technology in the subject of electronic technology design.


It has been conjectured that, on a compact 3-dimensional orientable manifold, a critical point of the total scalar curvature restricted to the space of constant scalar curvature metrics of unit volume is Einstein. In this paper we prove this conjecture under a condition that ker , which generalizes the previous partial results.


Disulfide-paired regioisomers of a-conotoxin SI can be accessed by orthogonal schemes using the combination of S-9H-xanthen-9-yl (S-Xan) and S-acetamidomethyl (S-Acm) groups for cysteine protection. Following solidphase assemblies of the linear precursors, the peptides were cleaved from the solid support concurrent with removal of S-Xan protecting groups. The first disulfide bridges were formed in solution, using either the traditional DMSO method or a recently introduced approach featuring a solid-phase Ellman's reagent. The second disulfide bridges were oxidized by three different methods: reactions mediated by thallium trifluoroacetate, iodine, or a sulfoxide/silyl mixture. In general, yields depended primarily on which regioisomer was the target, rather than the specific chemistry used for either disulfide-forming step. However, the selectivities towards the desired regioisomers were reproducibly better using the solid-phase Ellman's reagent, by comparison to the DMSO method. In the most favorable cases, complete selectivity was achieved, while even in cases where the net results using DMSO gave considerable scrambling, the corresponding experiments with the solid-phase Ellman's reagent were more selective. Possible reasons why choice of oxidation method for the first step affects the selectivity at the second step are discussed.


The invention relates to a carbon-carrier metal catalyst, wherein the active component is 5-80%; the mol ration of metal atoms is 3:1-1:3; the metal diameter of catalyst is 1-4nm. And the production comprises that: adding active component, complex agent, alcohol reducer and carrier into solvent; functioning ultrasonic wave at room temperature, adding alkali material, adjusting the pH, adding nitrogen gas to protect reflux at normal pressure, or reacting at high-pressure kettle; cooling to room temperature, adding acid, breaking gel via ultrasonic wave; filtering, washing with water until there is no CI-ion detected; vacuum drying; thermally treating at inertia gas; cooling in nitrogen gas to obtain the carbon-carrier metal catalyst. The invention has simple process; the catalyst active component is two-dimension at the surface of carrier; it has small particles, low crystallization degree, high metal utilization, and high catalysis activity.


Dear Editor, It is with great interest I read the report by Skariah et al. entitled "Lowdose prednisone and immunoglobulin G treatment for woman at risk for neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia and T helper 1 immunity", which was recently published in your journal.1 Fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (FNAIT) is a rare but potentially devastating condition for the afflicted fetuses/newborns. Today's FNAIT management is far from being optimal and represents an unmet medical need. Prevention of HPA1a immunization would represent a major step forward in FNAIT management as FNAIT will not occur without antibodies against platelets. The authors conclude that "Screening for couples at risk and prednisone and/or IVIG treatment is an option for women with paternal homozygosity for offending HPA antigen to prevent antenatal sensitization." Unfortunately, the data presented by the authors do not allow this conclusion. Around 10% of an unselected population of HPA1anegative pregnant women have HPA1a antibodies.2 As some of these women have undergone several pregnancies, they would have been at risk of becoming HPA1aimmunized during each of these pregnancies. Consequently, the risk of developing HPA1a antibodies in relation to one single pregnancy is much lower than 10%. Moreover, since approximately threefourths of immunization cases occur in relation to delivery,3 the risk that an HPA1anegative women develops antibody during pregnancy is less than 2%. In addition, it is important be aware that around half of the newborns of HPA1aimmunized mothers will have normal platelet counts, and less than 20 % will have platelet counts of <35×109.4 Thus, the probability of not becoming HPA1aimmunized without any treatment is >98%, or said in other words, the risk of becoming immunized is <2% without any treatment. In the light of these figures, it is difficult to understand how the authors can state that their treatment prevented immunization. The authors may claim that they detected IgM antibodies, which reflects immunization that did not pass on to immunoglobulin class switching and affinity maturation. I sincerely doubt the significance of this finding and tend to interpret this result as an artifact. It is notoriously difficult to reliably detect antibodies to platelets, particularly antibodies of IgM class. Further, the authors have not described which technique they used for antibody detection in the case report. Thus, their result cannot be trusted unless it has been confirmed by a platelet immunology reference laboratory. I was astonished to discover that the authors did not determine the HLA DRB3*01:01 status of the woman in their case report. The risk of HPA1a immunization is 20 higher in HLA DR3*01:01positive women as opposed to women lacking this HLA type. Moreover, those very few HLA DR3*01:01negative women who develops antiHPA1a will only produce very low levels of antibodies, and the vast majority of these women will give birth to a child with normal platelet count or occasionally to a child with only moderate thrombocytopenia with no or little clinical consequence.4,5 Hence, if the patient in the authors' case report was HLA DRB3*01:01 negative, the risk of having the pregnancy complicated by FNAIT is negligible. Thus, to treat a nonimmunized HLA DRB3*01:01negative woman with intravenous immunoglobulin G (IVIG) would be unethical; first, because the patient will be exposed to a drug that is not needed and which has significant sideeffects,6 and secondly, because it will be a waste of precious human resources as IVIG is manufactured from plasma collected from blood and plasma donors. Finally, in the retrospective casecontrol study, the authors use the terms "confirmed FNAIT" and "possible FNAIT" for HPAmismatch cases with and without antibodies, respectively. This is misleading; it is only relevant to talk about FNAIT if the fetus or newborn has low platelet count. FNAIT is not exclusively a laboratory diagnosis but requires the presence of thrombocytopenia in the fetus/newborn.


For fixed compact connected Lie groups H ⊆ G, we provide a polynomial time algorithm to compute the multiplicity of a given irreducible representation of H in the restriction of an irreducible representation of G. Our algorithm is based on a finite difference formula which makes the multiplicities amenable to Barvinok's algorithm for counting integral points in polytopes. The Kronecker coefficients of the symmetric group, which can be seen to be a special case of such multiplicities, play an important role in the geometric complexity theory approach to the P vs. NP problem. Whereas their computation is known to be #P-hard for Young diagrams with an arbitrary number of rows, our algorithm computes them in polynomial time if the number of rows is bounded. We complement our work by showing that information on the asymptotic growth rates of multiplicities in the coordinate rings of orbit closures does not directly lead to new complexity-theoretic obstructions beyond what can be obtained from the moment polytopes of the orbit closures. Nonasymptotic information on the multiplicities, such as provided by our algorithm, may therefore be essential in order to find obstructions in geometric complexity theory.


Health maintenance organizations (HMOs) may relax some of the institutional barriers to using preventive screening services by requiring only a nominal copayment for such services and by promoting their use via educational programs. However, the gatekeeper system employed by HMOs may discourage the use of these services if referrals are required to access them. Using the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey and the 1992 National Health Interview Survey, the authors investigate whether HMO enrollment is associated with the use of preventive screening services for nonelderly, privately insured women. Employing models that control for self-selection into HMOs, the authors find that women who were enrolled in HMOs in 1987 were more likely to have received Pap smears and breast exams within the last year and to have ever received a mammogram when compared with women with fee-for-service coverage. By 1992, however, HMOs had lost this comparative advantage.


We address in this work the role touch interfaces could play in reducing the inequalities motor disabled students confront with. To this end, we conduct a between subjects experiment, involving students with motor disability and able bodied participants,  investigating both the attitude and the self-efficacy with respect to the utilisation of  touch technology in the everyday life. We rely on the well-established relationship between attitude, self-efficacy, and actual performance in order to explore strategies for increasing the actual performances through psychological means. The statistical analysis indicates significant differences between subjects with motor impairments and able bodied participants in the case of both attitude and self-efficacy. We connect these outcomes with strategies for reducing the inequalities for the students with motor disabilities in the context of educational activities.


Objectives : The purpose of this study was to assess the temperament of male patients with alcohol dependence. Methods : The subjects were 30 patients who met DSM-Ⅳ criteria for alcohol dependence and 36 normal controls. All subjects completed Temperament and Character Inventory(TCI) which was developed by Cloninger. Results : 1) The educational level, marital status, and occupation in alcohol dependence group were significantly lower than those of normal control group, but there was no difference in the age between two groups. 2) Among the scores of TCI, the score of harm avoidance(HA) and self-transcendence(ST) were significantly higher in the alcohol dependence group than in the normal control group. The score of self-directiveness(SD) was significant lower in the alcohol dependence group than in the normal control group. 3) In the alcohol dependence group, a significant negative correlation among the scores of TCI was between HA and SD, HA and Persistence(PE), ST and SD, and positive correlation between ST and PE, SD and Cooperativeness(CO), Reward Dependence(RD) and CO. Conclusions : These results suggest that shy, fearful, pessimistic and fatigable temperament are related to developing alcohol dependence in Korean males.


A hitting-set generator (HSG) is a polynomial map $G:\mathbb{F}^k \to \mathbb{F}^n$ such that for all $n$-variate polynomials $C$ of small enough circuit size and degree, if $C$ is nonzero, then $C\circ G$ is nonzero. In this paper, we give a new construction of such an HSG assuming that we have an explicit polynomial of sufficient hardness. Formally, we prove the following result over any field $\mathbb{F}$ of characteristic zero:
Suppose $P(z_1,\ldots, z_k)$ is an explicit $k$-variate degree $d$ polynomial that is not computable by circuits of size $s$. Then, there is an explicit HSG $G_P:\mathbb{F}^{2k} \rightarrow \mathbb{F}^n$ such that every nonzero $n$-variate degree $D$ polynomial $C(\mathbf{x})$ computable by circuits of size $s'$ circuits satisfies $C \neq 0 \Rightarrow C \circ G_P \neq 0$, if $O(n^{10k}d^3 D s')< s$.
This is the first HSG in the algebraic setting that yields a complete derandomization of polynomial identity testing (PIT) for general circuits from a suitable algebraic hardness assumption. Unlike the prior constructions of such maps, our construction is purely algebraic and does not rely on the notion of combinatorial designs.
As a direct consequence, we show that even saving a single point from the "trivial" explicit, exponential sized hitting sets for constant-variate polynomials of low individual-degree which are computable by small circuits, implies a deterministic polynomial time algorithm for PIT. More precisely, we show the following:
Let $k$ be a large enough constant. Suppose for every $s$ large enough, there is an explicit hitting set of size at most $((s+1)^k - 1)$ for the class of $k$-variate polynomials of individual degree $s$ that are computable by size $s$ circuits. Then there is an explicit hitting set of size $s^{O(k^2)}$ for the class of $s$-variate polynomials, of degree $s$, that are computable by size $s$ circuits.


The invention discloses a method for improving a roof tank. The method for improving the roof tank comprises the following steps that (1) a plurality of expansion bolts are installed in the tops of the inner faces of the periphery of the roof tank at intervals in a driven mode; (2) a plurality of hot melting connecting fixing blocks are installed on the inner faces of the periphery of the roof tank through the expansion bolts; (3) soft PE plate strips are cut off according to the size of the roof tank; (4) a plurality of through holes which correspond to the expansion bolts arranged on the tops of the inner faces of the periphery of the roof tank in position are formed in one end of each cut soft PE plate strip; (5) the soft PE plate strips are installed; (6) every two adjacent soft PE plate strips which are in lap joint with each other are combined together in a hot melting mode through a hot melting gun; (7) a water inlet pipe and a water outlet pipe are installed; (8) the hot-melt soft PE plate strips are connected in a lap joint mode; (9) the soft PE plate strips are fixedly connected with the hot melting connecting fixing blocks. The hygienic roof tank obtained through the method for improving the roof tank has the advantages of being short in construction period, low in cost and the like, secondary pollution cannot be caused to water in the improved roof tank, and the requirement for environmental protection is met.


regional distributions of the species that have been described. Given what I have just stressed, this could be seen as the most important part of the whole book, as it identifies habitats. The eye will run down the list of species and see that probably more, proportionally, live in region 20, the Townsville-Cooktown rainforest area', than any other. The table will not tell you, unfortunately, that there are two divisions in this region: a southern one (Atherton Tablelands and Bellenden Ker range), and a northern one (Daintree/Bloomfield forests). Some of region 20's species are found in both; others, such as the two species of tree-kangaroo, are restricted to one or the other. The Daintree/Bloomfield forests, despite being in part included in the Cape Tribulation National Park, are at present under threat. Australia, as the book's introduction indicates—though this may not be made sufficiently explicit for foreigners—suffers from a stultifying federal system, with divisions of responsibility between the Federal Government and the State Governments. At the last federal election, the balance was probably swung Labour's way by that party's promise to take on the Tasmanian (State) Government and save the wild Franklin River from being dammed. Now another federal election is due, and another conservation issue has arisen; but this time, Labour is in power, and if it wants to save the Daintree forests it must take on the powerful Queensland State Government, and could lose more seats in Queensland than it would gain elsewhere...


The most spreading illness that generally affects individuals and is the cause of the majority of deaths in the nation is the coronary illness. By 2030, around 25 million individuals will lose their lives in light of heart diseases. Even though numerous analysts have recommended and proposed strategies for diagnosing the heart maladies from the considerable measure of coronary illness information, suitablemethods are not available and are not appropriately mined. To get exactness and productivity in result, another methodology called improved k-mean calculation is proposed in this paper. The dataset utilized for the forecast is extracted and used from UCI machine learning archives. The exploration work depends on prediction analysis for heart disease recognition.


Indirect cost of engineering changes represent increasing challenges for companies. Their high frequency and complex cost impacts makes it difficult to estimate and influence the cost outcomes. Currently direct cost (eg. changed material) are well mastered in industry, but indirect cost (e.g. engineering design, administration, testing, procurement) are not yet supported sufficiently. Early knowledge of amounts and effective measures to influence indirect costs can be crucial for the economic result on the market. Hence, fast and easy prediction and influence methods are needed in practice. The article describes an application-oriented approach to analyze systems behaviour of indirect cost based on expert estimation and weighted influence matrices. As multiple domains within the company at different times involve during change process, a flexible, customizable and open model structure is proposed for solution. This enables to represent the characteristics of company individual and change case-specific indirect costs. We also present a corresponding approach for company-specific derivation and application of indirect cost reduction measures.


One of the tasks for the SC19 Student Cluster Competition is to reproduce the results in the reproducibility challenge article "Computing Planetary Interior Normal Modes with a Highly Parallel Polynomial Filtering Eigensolver", by J. Shi et al., which describes a highly parallel algorithm for computing planetary normal modes. In running experiments from the article, we study the weak and strong scalability of the algorithm, as well as the relationship between model size, degree of polynomial filter, and execution time. We investigate these findings on a two-node, 64-core Intel Skylake-based Xeon cluster. Unfortunately, we are able to confirm some, but not all, of the original findings, with discrepancies possibly due to a low number of experimental runs due to competition time limits as well as nonuniform scaling of compute resources.


This chapter will identify the key aspects of software engineering and systems engineering in an effort to highlight areas of consensus and conflict to support current efforts by practitioners and academics in both disciplines in redefining their professions and bodies of knowledge.By using the Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model - Integrated (CMMISM) project, which combines best practices from the systems and software engineering disciplines it can be shown that significant point of agreement and consensus are evident. Nevertheless, valid objections to such integration remain as areas of conflict. This chapter will provide an opportunity for these two communities to resolve unnecessary differences in terminology and methodologies that are reflected in their different perspectives and entrenched in their organizational cultures.


The correction of the atmospheric tip-tilt using a polychromatic laser guide star (PLGS) is the only solution currently suggested to run the adaptive optics of ground telescopes over 100% of the sky. The difficulty is to create a sufficiently intense UV chromatic component of the PLGS. We show that, if one uses a gravity centre technique, the returned flux of photons at 330nm must lie between 2×10 5 photons/s/m 2 and 1.3×10 6 photons/s/m 2 . This paper describes a model which is validated on experimental results on the sky at the observatory of Keck, the LLNL and Pierrelatte. We give the results of this model for the solution already suggested which consists in exciting the 4D 5/2 level of mesospheric sodium atoms with two photons, using two lasers operating at 589nm and 569nm (case 2). We present a new method which consists in exciting the level 4P 3/2 with a single photon, using a laser operating at 330nm (case 1). Thanks to a modeless laser we show that 1W in case 1 produces the same flux as 30W in case 2. Moreover, to reach necessary flux at 330nm one needs 10W in case 1 whereas one would need more than