A computer code PROVER-I is developed for propagation phase of vapor explosion. A new thermal fragmentation model is proposed with three kinds of time scale for modeling instant fragmentation, spontaneous nucleation fragmentation and normal boiling fragmentation. The energetics of ex-vessel vapor explosion is investigated based on different fragmentation models. A higher pressure peak and a larger mechanical energy conversion ratio are obtained by spontaneous nucleation fragmentation. A smaller energy conversion ratio results from normal boiling fragmentation. When the delay time in thermal fragmentation model is near 0.0 ms, the pressure propagation behavior tends to be analogous with that in hydrodynamic fragmentation. If the delay time is longer, pressure attenuation occurs at the shock front. The high energy conversion ratio (>4%) is obtained in a small vapor volume fraction together with spontaneous nucleation fragmentation. These results are consistent with fuel-coolant interaction experiments with alumina melt. However, in larger vapor volume fraction conditions (αv>0.3), the vapor explosion is weak. For corium melt, a coarse mixture with void fraction of more than 30% can be generated in the pre-mixing process because of its physical properties. In the mixture with such a high void fraction the energetic vapor explosion hardly takes place.


This study examined the 10-year effects of a light (20% basal area removed) low thinning and urea fertilization (336 kg N/ha) on a 45-year-old Pinusbanksiana Lamb. stand. Thinning had no effect other than salvaging potential mortality, while fertilization resulted in an average annual gross volume growth response of about 2 m3 ha−1 year−1. Volume growth response to fertilization was greatest in the largest diameter trees, and continued until 10 years after treatment. Growth response did not begin until the second growing season after treatment. There were indications that fertilization had positive effects on form factor.


Gaogouli hindered unity of China in the Sui and Tang Dynasties.It caused the war of Gaogouli.The Tang Dynasty won the war by developing sea power and suppressing Baekje.The Sui Dynasty utilized sea power rashly and sino-Baekye diplomacy failed.Gaozong of Tang realized the plan of Taizong,triumphing at last.


The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of child psychosocial concerns in rural primary care, hypothesized to be greater than national averages due to lacking mental health services in rural areas. This study was an examination of the role of SES, various definitions of "rural," and the interaction of SES and rurality, in predicting parent-reported child psychosocial concerns in Appalachian primary care clinics. Caregivers presenting with their child at one of 8 pediatric primary care sites (n=2,672) were recruited to complete a measure assessing demographics and the Pediatric Symptom Checklist (PSC). Results showed that while rural status was not associated with PSC scores, higher parental education was associated with lower rates of clinically significant psychosocial concerns. The present study failed to replicate prior preliminary findings that child psychosocial concerns are more prevalent in rural primary care. SES, rather than rurality, appeared to be the primary predictor of such concerns.


A combined approach, comprising PCR screening and genome mining, was used to unravel the diversity and phylogeny of genes encoding 5-aminolevulinic acid synthases (ALASs, hemA gene products) in streptomycetes-related strains. In actinomycetes, these genes were believed to be directly connected with the production of secondary metabolites carrying the C5N unit, 2-amino-3-hydroxycyclopent-2-enone, with biological activities making them attractive for future use in medicine and agriculture. Unlike "classical" primary metabolism ALAS, the C5N unit-forming cyclizing ALAS (cALAS) catalyses intramolecular cyclization of nascent 5-aminolevulinate. Specific amino acid sequence changes can be traced by comparison of "classical" ALASs against cALASs. PCR screening revealed 226 hemA gene-carrying strains from 1,500 tested, with 87% putatively encoding cALAS. Phylogenetic analysis of the hemA homologs revealed strain clustering according to putative type of metabolic product, which could be used to select producers of specific C5N compound classes. Supporting information was acquired through analysis of actinomycete genomic sequence data available in GenBank and further genetic or metabolic characterization of selected strains. Comparison of 16S rRNA taxonomic identification and BOX-PCR profiles provided evidence for numerous horizontal gene transfers of biosynthetic genes or gene clusters within actinomycete populations and even from non-actinomycete organisms. Our results underline the importance of environmental and evolutionary data in the design of efficient techniques for identification of novel producers.


Let D = G/K be a bounded symmetric domain and K/L the Shilov boundary of D. Let N be the Shilov boundary of the Siegel domain realization of G/K. We consider the case when D is the exceptional non-tube type domain of the type (e6(−14), so(10)× so(2)). We prove that (N o L, L) is not a Gelfand pair and thus resolve an open question of G. Carcano.


The quick development of municipal modernization and industrialization,which has resulted in the quickly increasing amount of hazardous wastes,has great adverse impacts on the human being and environment.This article tries to reply how to control the impacts in the bound as least as possible, how to use foreign advantageous experiences for reference to guide China to change the production mode of resource wasting and the consumption mode of "using it and then abandoning it"and how to take the cycling economy mode so as to realize the minimization of the amount and hazards of hazardous waste and the economic and social development of sustainability.


This paper presents an acoustic feature extraction approach based on weighting Mel filter banks. By extracting the formant information of audio signal,this method uses dynamic adaptive method for weighting high- frequency part of the Mel filter bank to achieve the purpose of simulating the auditory frequency selection mapping. Compared to the conventional MFCC feature,the proposed feature is more suitable for the fast acoustic event detection under driving noise task and makes up the poor robustness of the traditional methods which is resulting with the low resolution of Mel filter bank at the high-frequency part. The experiments show that the proposed feature helps to improve the detection rate of acoustic events in the low SNR driving environment.


In recent years, increase of electricity consuming, reduction of fossil resources and as well as attention to environmental issues have led to increase producing of energy by photovoltaic systems. Floating solar power plants are one of the approaches for using of solar photovoltaics has been strongly developed because of more efficiency due to water cooling and the reduction of water evaporation due to expanding on dams and canals. In present study, to introduction the technology of floating solar power plants, the advantages and disadvantages of different solar power plants, especially the floating solar power plant, the mechanism of floating solar power plants and the equipment related of them have been investigated. A thorough study of the floating solar power plants in the world has also been done to investigate the future and market of floating solar power plants. In this regard, the main actors and the active countries in this field have been studied. Considering the significant benefits of floating solar power plants compared to other solar power plants, as well as the study of its dependent market, it is expected that the launch of these types of power plants in the future years around the world will grow tangentially. In Iran, due to the presence of dams, lakes and sea from the north to the south, and the proper radiation of the sun on their surface, there is a potential for the development of these types of power plants.


Aims. The aim of this paper is to study the Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) environment through the analysis of the optical absorption features due to the gas surrounding the GRB. Methods. To this purpose we analyze high resolution spectroscopic observations ($R=20\,000$–45 000, corresponding to 14 km s -1 at 4200 A and 6.6 km s -1 at 9000 A) of the optical afterglow of GRB050730, obtained with UVES@VLT ~4 h after the GRB trigger. Results. The spectrum shows that the ISM of the GRB host galaxy at $z = 3.967$ is complex, with at least five components contributing to the main absorption system. We detect strong C II*, Si II*, O I* and Fe II* fine structure absorption lines associated to the second and third component. Conclusions. For the first three components we derive information on the relative distance from the site of the GRB explosion. Component 1, which has the longest wavelength, highest positive velocity shift, does not present any fine structure nor low ionization lines; it only shows very high ionization features, such as C IV and O VI, suggesting that this component is very close to the GRB site. From the analysis of low and high ionization lines and fine structure lines, we find evidences that the distance of component 2 from the site of the GRB explosion is 10–100 times smaller than that of component 3. We evaluated the mean metallicity of the $z=3.967$ system obtaining values ≈ 10 -2 of the solar metallicity or less. However, this should not be taken as representative of the circumburst medium, since the main contribution to the hydrogen column density comes from the outer regions of the galaxy while that of the other elements presumably comes from the ISM closer to the GRB site. Furthermore, difficulties in evaluating dust depletion correction can modify significantly these values.
The mean [C/Fe] ratio agrees well with that expected by single star-formation event models. Interestingly the [C/Fe] of component 2 is smaller than that of component 3, in agreement with GRB dust destruction scenarios, if component 2 is closer than component 3 to the GRB site.


1. Buccinum undatum digestive gland ribonuclease chromatographed on phosphocelulose consists of three enzymatic components, all showing an optimum PH of about pH 5 in acetate buffer. Activation energies of the three components are 21.000, 22,900 and 27,000 cal./mole at pH 5.2. Fasciolaria tulipa digestive gland ribonuclease chromatographed on phosphocellulose consists of two enzymatic components, both with pH optimm ner pTH5 in acetate buffer. Activation energies of the two components are 19,500 and 24.000 cal./mole at pH 5.3. It is concluded that the ribonucleases of gastropod digestive glands show little or no adaptation, by way of differences in activation energies, to the thermal environment.


The Haramachi Thermal Power Station No. 2 Unit of Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc., has achieved the high pressure and temperature steam conditions of 24.5 MPa(250kg/cm{sup 2}{sm{underscore}bullet}g) and 600 C/600 C for the first time in Japan, which resulted in a highly efficient coal fired plant. Hitachi, Ltd. and Babcock--Hitachi K.K. (BHK) have supplied the 1,000MW (gross) steam turbine-generator and the 2,890 t/h boiler as the main equipment suppliers. The newly developed high-strength materials are utilized for high temperature operating conditions of the main steam and reheat steam, and consequently high gross plant efficiency of 44.76% (Higher heating value basis) has been realized at the rated load for this power plant. Furthermore, state-of-the-art low NOx combustion technologies have been applied to minimize the emission level. This paper focuses on the latest boiler technologies used by Tohoku Electric Power Co. Inc. and BHK to make the plant most efficient and friendly to the environment, together with the boiler commissioning results confirmed in 1998.


The invention discloses a novel part assembly and a method for stretching a main steel bar in producing a prestressed pipe pile. The part assembly comprises a head plate, and is characterized in that the head plate is fixedly connected onto an end plate in one end of a pipe die through a screw; the inner ring of the head plate is provided with an internal plum-blossom fastener; the outer ring of the head plate is in threaded connection with a nut ring; one end of the pipe die is provided with a barrel; the barrel is provided with a bearing plate; a stretching head is arranged in the barrel; one end of the stretching head is connected with the threaded rod of a stretching machine; the other end of the stretching head is provided with a plum-blossom fastener matched with the internal plum-blossom fastener; and the stretching head is connected onto the head plate. The invention aims to provide the stretching assembly for stretching the main steel bar in producing the prestressed pipe pile, which has a simple structure, flexibility in assembly and high production efficiency. The invention also aims to provide the method for stretching the main steel bar of the prestressed pipe pile byadopting the stretching assembly.


In the process of information society, new media technology not only affects the economy and culture of human society, but also affects people's social communication and thinking learning style. In this paper, the author analyse the effectiveness of teaching information application based on new media thinking analysis. The change in the new media environment will highlight the dominant position of learners. Learners are more likely to make their own learning plans and choose online courses according to their individual needs, or participate in the search for network resources. Therefore, the role of educators will gradually turn to the assistant of knowledge, and provide more suggestions for learners in the direction of learning.


The diversity of methods and approaches to design of institutional links, allows you to apply different in the process of management approaches and consider the organization as a complete system consisting of subsystems and elements; this approach will allow the transition to market conditions of economic management in modern organizations.


The distribution of TCDD in tissue is key important for investigation of TCDD caused early embryo loss of pregnant mouse. By using a newly established yeast gene report system, TCDD content in liver, kidney, brain, fat, uterus and embryo of pregnant mouse were analyzed after had been taken different dosage of TCDD orally. The results showed that fat tissue accumulated highest amount of this toxin; liver, uterus and embryo also accumulated high concentration of TCDD from high to low. Since TCDD needed to be activated by its induced enzyme including cytochrome P450 1A2, the levels of enzyme were tested using immunohistochemical assay in different toxicity treatment. The highest signal was observed in liver and uterus, even in low dosage treatment, implying that uterus was an important sensitive target tissue of TCDD toxin. Positive signals were observed in kidney and fat at high dosage group, and only few cells in brain tissue could show the weak signals. These results implied that uterus was another TCDD metabolizing organ similar to liver, in which TCDD was converted into activating forms by cytochrome P450 1A2 enzyme. The high accumulation of TCDD in uterus, as well as high sensitivity for inducing cytochrome P450 1A2 enzyme mediated by AhR in uterus could explain the reason of early embryo loss in pregnant mouse at low dosage treatment.


Objective To explore the clinical measures to reduce the misdiagnosis rate of brucellosis in non-epidemic area.Methods The clinical data of 33 cases of misdiagnosed brucellosis treated in Lanling County People's Hospital from January,2010 to December,2013 33 were analyzed retrospectively.Results8 cases were misdiagnosed as septicemia,8 cases as typhia,7 cases as orchitis,5 cases as rheumatic arthritis,2 cases as pneumonia,2cases as hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and one cases as tuberculosis.Conclusion Brucellosis can be easily misdiagnosed and doctors should be open-minded and be skilled in recognizing similar symptoms of different diseases to reduce misdiagnosis rate.


We present a novel piecewise-linear stochastic resonance model in this paper to detect weak signal in noisy environment.It is validated through numerical simulation when the model is driven by white noise and period signal.Besides,the model is implemented with analog circuit and tested in real environment.In our experiment,various practical periodic signals with different noise magnitudes are detected using the circuit.The behaviors of stochastic resonance are studied.The result shows that our circuit can effectively detect weak periodic signal,and boost SNR(signal-to-noise ratio) prominently.


Companies continue to flock to the Internet in ever-increasing numbers, despite the fact that the overall and underlying environment is not secure. To further complicate the matter, vendors, standards bodies, security organizations, and practitioners cannot agree on a standard, compliant, and technically available approach. As a group of investors concerned with the success of the Internet for business purposes, it is critical that we pull our collective resources and work together to quickly establish and support interoperable security standards; open security interfaces to existing security products and security control mechanisms within other program products; and hardware and software solutions within heterogeneous operating systems which will facilitate smooth transitions. Interfaces and teaming relationships to further this goal include computer and network security and information security professional associations (CSI, ISSA, NCSA), professional technical and engineering organizations (I/EEE, IETF), vendor and product user groups, government and standards bodies, seminars and conferences, training companies/institutes (MIS), and informal networking among practitioners. Having the tools and solutions available within the marketplace is a beginning, but we also need strategies and migration paths to accommodate and integrate Internet, intranet, and World Wide Web (WWW) technologies into our existing IT infrastructure. While there are P A Y O F F I D E A


area outlying the city proper, which is steadily becoming more and more an economic and social part of the central city, and which may or may not in the future have political identity with it. Any consideration of city problems, therefore, must include the problems of this metropolitan region. Especially is this true of the traffic and transportation systems. Modern development of rapid transit, of means of communication, and the almost universal use of the automobile have been the principal cause in welding city and suburbs into an economic and social


Previous studies examining gene expression profiles in normal endometrium and endometriotic lesions have used RNA extracted from whole tissue samples. Results from these studies can be difficult to interpret as they reflect expression averaged across several different cell types that may be functionally quite different. The aim of this study was to establish laser capture microdissection (LCM) as a technique to examine gene expression in stromal and epithelial cells from normal and ectopic endometrium. We hypothesised that genes associated with inflammation would be elevated in cells from endometriotic lesions. Full thickness uterine samples were collected during abdominal hysterectomy from normal cycling premenopausal women. Endometriotic lesions were collected during abdominal laparoscopy. Samples were either frozen in OCT or stored in RNAlater for 12 h before freezing. Tissues were immunostained with an antibody against CD10 to identify ectopic endometrial stromal cells before LCM. Endometrial epithelial and stromal cells were collected using the PALM MicroLaser System. RNA quality was accessed using Experion. TGFβ1, MMP1, αSMA, SMAD2 and NFκB mRNA was analysed using real-time RT–PCR. Of the endometriotic samples stored in OCT (n = 58), only 14% (n = 8) had visible endometrial glands. Of these, only 37% (n = 3) had RNA of an acceptable quality for further analysis. However, RNA quality and quantity were dramatically improved in 3 of 5 samples collected in RNAlater. In preliminary studies, expression of TGFβ1 and αSMA mRNA was elevated in endometriotic lesions in comparison to the normal endometrium, whereas NFκB expression did not change. We have shown that RNAlater solution is useful to preserve RNA quality for small clinical endometriotic samples and that immuno-guided LCM-generated homogenous cell populations coupled with real-time RT–PCR can provide valuable insights into cell and disease-specific gene expression in endometriotic lesions.


Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a rapidly growing disease that is estimated to affect about 36 million people worldwide, therefore there is an immediate need for its' early diagnosis and treatment. A number of research studies are performed on possible accurate and reliable diagnostic biomarkers of AD. This review study provides an update on the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) proteins that are being currently used in clinical practice and studied as biomarkers for early AD diagnosis and their future prospects, as well as relevant patents.


This paper is a discussion of Gödel's arguments for a Platonistic conception of mathematical objects. I review the arguments that Gödel offers in different papers, and compare them to unpublished material (from Gödel's Nachlass). My claim is that Gödel's later arguments simply intend to establish that mathematical knowledge cannot be accounted for by a reflexive analysis of our mental acts. In other words, there is at the basis of mathematics some data whose constitution cannot be explained by introspective analysis. This does not mean that mathematics is independent of the human mind, but only that it is independent of our 'conscious acts and decisions', to use Gödel's own words. Mathematical objects may then have been created by the human mind, but if so, the process of creation cannot be completely analysed and re-enacted. Such a thesis is weaker than some of the statements that Gödel made about his conceptual realism. However, there is evidence that Gödel seriously considered this weak thesis, or a position depending only on this weak thesis. He also criticized Husserl's Phenomenology from this point of view.


Abstract : Representativeness of analyze concentrations collected from ground water monitoring wells has come into question. The focus of this issue is the selection of well encasement material, stemming from recommendation for only stainless steel and poly(tetrafluoroethylene) (PTFE). Accurate determination of the presence and concentrations of hazardous waste transported with ground water is jeopardized if the materials used in monitoring wells influence the solution chemistry. Recent studies of rigid PVC and PTFE examining the rate at which these two materials sorb organic compounds from aqueous solution, concluded that rigid PVC was superior to PTFE. The other recommended material, stainless steel is composed of iron, chromium and nickel. Metal versus polymeric casings has been questioned. Studies of ground water collected from wells encased with steel indicate that the leaching of metals from these materials is a continuous process. Laboratory experiments have shown stainless steels to have the greatest potential to leach barium, cadmium, lead, and copper or sorb arsenic, chromium and lead in comparison to PVC and PTFE. These studies attributed release or sorption of metal analytes by stainless steel and steel to be associated with corrosion.


The digital economy is an economic activity, the key factor of which are digital data, automatic processing and use of analysis results that make it possible to improve significantly the quality and productivity of labor in comparison with traditional forms of management. Transformational digital processes affect the infrastructural foundations, associated with new communication mechanisms, trading platforms, electronic payments and document management. The most tangible results of digitalization in the industrial market, where there are factors restricting the development of digitalization, which leads to the lack of development of a digital business paradigm, that provokes the destabilization of existing and established relationships of real processes. Currently, there is a radical shift in the production paradigm towards automation, the introduction of information and computing systems that allow us replace human labor with a program, which is especially noticeable in the activities of the accounting, personnel, planning department at the enterprise. However, the issues of security, protectability, stability, continuity, integrity and reliability of operations and work with information are of particular importance, which makes high demands on the digital shell of the enterprise.


IntroductionEach year there are more than 120 million emergency department (ED) visits in the United States. Data sets specific to adolescent ED utilization frequently overlap and extend to young adulthood (trauma data sets), but a reasonable estimate is that about 15% of all ED visits (more than 18 million) are by adolescents and young adults. Young people in their late teens and or early 20s make more visits than younger teens. Many youth have minimal or no medical insurance; the number of uninsured youth increases with age. By age 18 to 21 years, 40% of males and 25% of females have no insurance. No one knows whether the proposed federal healthcare insurance changes will affect this number. Among young adolescents (ages 11 to 14 years) and mid-adolescents (ages 15 to 17 years) injury and musculoskeletal complaints are the leading reasons for ED visits. Respiratory illness, gastrointestinal maladies, neurologic complaints, and genitourinary problems comprise the majority of the remaining visits. For women, beginning in mid-adolescence, genitourinary and gastrointestinal complaints are increasingly prevalent. With respect to severity, there is little variation among age groups.Approximately half of the ED visits by adolescents are considered urgent, and about one in 20 adolescents who present to the ED will be hospitalized (although not necessarily at the initial hospital). Not unexpectedly, injuries are more numerous and their causes more disparate in adolescent males than females. These injuries range from simple sprains, fractures, and lacerations to life-altering or -ending penetrating and blunt traumas. Unintentional injury is the leading cause of death, accounting for almost half of all deaths during adolescence. Motor vehicle deaths, nearly twice as common among males as females, account for the majority of unintentional adolescent deaths. Tragically, homicide is the second leading cause of death among American adolescents and young adults; homicide rates are 6 time higher in males than females. Significant racial disparities exist, with much higher homicide death rates among African American and Hispanic males than among non-Hispanic white males. Psychiatric illness, including suicidal ideation, gestures, and attempts are increasingly common. Suicide death rates are 5 times as high among males as females in this age group, though suicide ideation/gestures/ attempts are more common among females.While there is no "right to treatment in an emergency department" under the current statutes in the United States, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) does guarantee that all patients, regardless of age, severity of condition, or financial status receive a medical screening examination (MSE). If, after the MSE, there is no apparent emergency, the ED must be certain that an adolescent has consent from a parent or guardian to be seen. While all states allow for ED treatment (without parental consent) of adolescents who present with pregnancy, pregnancy-related conditions, sexually transmitted diseases, and treatment of drug, alcohol, and mental illness, practitioners should be familiar with local policies. In general, every effort should be made to get appropriate consent before treating a non-emancipated minor. However, in life-threatening situations, consent is implied and care should never be delayed; simultaneous efforts at both providing appropriate care and obtaining consent should be pursued. Adolescents who seek confidential treatment for non-life threatening conditions will be expected to provide insurance information; while some insurance companies provide confidential billing of parental insurance, the provider should caution the adolescent that confidentiality is not always maintained during the payment process.Advanced cardiac life supportAdvanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) has become an important management in saving lives (1-4). The most recent American Heart Association (AHA) recommendations for Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) were released in 2010; several key changes have been made (1). …


This paper compares some characteristics of critical thinking promoted in science classes with characteristics of a type of thinking which we have called anti-critical, promoted by some social actors. For this purpose, firstly, we analyze the conceptualizations of critical thinking, especially its evaluative character based on quality standards. Next, we examine some examples of anti-critical thinking that deliberately violate the standards of clarity and precision intended to be developed at schools. Finally, we conclude by stressing the importance of promoting specific interdisciplinary instruction on anti-critical thinking in the classroom.


E-health is used in a variety of digital technologies. The internet, for example, enables users of e-health to connect to health workers via e-mail, access medical records, examine health data and exchange useful information on an individual basis. As ehealth deals with highly sensitive information, it is important to implement robust cryptographic algorithms to enhance its security. Cryptography is a vital component of all information security systems to protect private information from unauthorized access, ensuring confidentiality, data integrity, authentication and other tasks. This paper proposes a modified version of the hill cipher by implementing a double encryption and decryption process with integration of non-linear operations such as transposition, substitution, circular bit shifting, and exclusive-OR operation to strengthen the key security used during the encryption of healthcare data content and to boost the unpredictability of the ciphertext, which enhances data protection across unsecured networks. The results of experiments conducted on 336 medical records validate the enhanced method's favorable performance as it improved in key security with an avalanche effect average of 52.45% and the unpredictability of the ciphertext which also achieved an average entropy index of 7.01%.


Objective:To analyze the relationship between serum bilirubin level and coronary severity scores in coronary heart disease for Uygur and Han patients in Xinjiang area,and to study the difference of serum bilirubin level between Uygur and Han nationalities. Methods:A total of 223 Uygur and 178 Han patients who suffered from chest pain were divided into Coronary heart disease group and Control group according to the results of coronary artery angiography.Coronary severity scores were calculated by Gensini methods.Total bilirubin,direct bilirubin,indirect bilirubin,total cholesterol,triglyceride,high-density lipoprotein,low-density lipoprotein levels were examined and compared respectively. Results:There were no significant differences between Uygur and Han nationalities for serum bilirubin by gender and age. The levels of total bilirubin,direct bilirubin and indirect bilirubin in Coronary heart disease group were significantly lower than Control group in either Uygur or Han nationalities(P0.05),and the total bilirubin level decreased while coronary severity scores increased(P0.05).Total bilirubin levels were inversely associated with the risk of coronary heart disease by multivariate logistic regression analysis(P=0.000).Linear correlation study showed that serum bilirubin levels were negatively correlated with the coronary severity scores in both Uygur and Han coronary heart disease patients(P0.05). Conclusion:Serum bilirubin level had negative correlation with the risk of coronary heart disease and the coronary severity scores in Uygur and Han nationalities and there were no significant differences between Uygur and Han nationalities of serum bilirubin level in Xinjiang area.


The linkage learning genetic algorithm (LLGA) and equilibrium genetic algorithm (EGA) have improved efficiency. LLGA emphasizes the importance of linkage in the process of evolution. However, because of the random selection of initial population, evolutionary speed may be unnecessarily slowed down. Besides, linkage between genes may become closer and closer because of the pressure of selection, which makes the harmful genes become closely connected with the favorable ones and reduces the possibility of being erased. By reserving the optimal chromosome of each generation, EGA improves the converging speed. However, the speed of mutation is far slower than that of selection, resulting in premature convergence. In light of theory and methods of genetics and evolutionary biology, this paper proposes the idea of utilizing linkage processing to initialize the population to improve the efficiency of the genetic algorithm. The genetic stream is proposed to replace the mutation operator to keep the diversity of population and avoid premature convergence. We call this method an advanced linkage learning genetic algorithm (ALLGA). Empirical comparisons between LLGA and ALLGA are performed to testify the effectiveness and accuracy of ALLGA.


This paper describes a study designed to investigate the efficacy of two traditional classical conditioning procedures in generating evaluative conditioning (EC) in the picture–picture paradigm in human participants. Differential EC was found using both simultaneous and trace conditioning procedures. In addition, the use of a block–subblock (BSB) nonpaired control condition and full counterbalancing of conditioned stimulus–unconditioned stimulus (CS–UCS) pairings across participants indicated that the observed EC effects were the result of associative learning. Examination of whether successful conditioning could take place with or without conscious awareness of CS–UCS contingencies was inconclusive. The results provide evidence for EC as an associative process and also provide some insight into the possible conditioning parameters that might successfully generate EC.


Separations by capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) in plain, uncoated fused silica capillaries were compared with those in electroendosmosis-free coated capillaries. For small ions, exemplified by some anti-inflammatory drugs, resolution and analysis times were comparable in the two types of capillaries. The advantage of the coated capillary was that it predictably eluted all negative analytes regardless of electrolyte pH. The uncoated capillary, on the other hand, allowed separation of both positive and negative species in one run, provided that the electroendosmotic flow was sufficiently high to elute all negatively charged analytes. Because electrolyte conditions were established that eluted all sample analytes, subsequent analyses were performed in uncoated capillaries.

Antibiotics such as sulfonamides, cephalosporins, and penicillins were separated by zone electrophoresis. Optimal separation conditions were established by varying the pH and ionic strength of the electrolyte. For the separation of structurally similar peptides and barbiturates, micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography (MECC) was the method of choice because the structural differences conferred differences in hydrophobicity.

The feasibility of using CZE in pharmaceutical analysis was shown in the evaluation of over-the-counter pain, cold, and allergy medications. These typically gave relative standard deviations of 1% for retention times and 3% for peak areas.


Aluminium borate nanowhiskers with varying aspect ratio were synthesized via sol–gel synthesis. The morphology of aluminum borate (Al4B2O9 and Al18B4O33) nanowhiskers could be controlled by varying the aluminum to boron (Al:B) molar ratio in the sol–gel derived precursors. Sintering temperatures (850 and 1100°C) and sintering times (4 and 32 hours) also affected the phase composition and size of the nanowhiskers. Citric acid was also added in the sol–gel derived precursors as a surface stabilizer for obtaining uniform finely dispersed nanostructures. Fine nanowhiskers were obtained by the calcination at 850°C, whereas higher temperature of 1100°C led to thicker and longer nanowhiskers and became rod-like crystals. The morphology and phase composition were investigated by field emission scanning electron microscope and X-ray diffraction. Chemical bond vibrations in the synthesized nanowhiskers were investigated by Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy.


Introduction Supported employment has been defined similarly in both the Rehabilitation and Developmental Disabilities Acts as "competitive work in integrated work settings . . . for persons for whom competitive employment has been interrupted or intermittent . . . and who because of their disability need ongoing support services to perform such work" (Public Law 100-146). The Rehabilitation Act further suggests that ongoing supports may include training, retraining, and other ongoing employment supports. As indicated in these federal laws and definitions, in the supported employment initiative throughout the country ongoing employment support has been a major distinguishing characteristic of supported employment, as opposed to other methods of job placement. Advocates and program developers have indicated that in supported employment, ongoing support and assistance is provided to insure that the person is able to maintain employment. The supported employment model is intended to provide timely assistance to the person and employer to help deal with problems, provide retraining, develop job accommodations, assist with personal issues, etc. Rather than being left without assistance after placement, both employer and employee are able to count on help to solve job-related problems (Bellamy, Rhodes, Mank, and Albin, 1988; McLoughlin, Garner, and Callahan, 1987; Moon, Goodall, Barcus, and Brooke, 1987). As we have increasingly implemented supported employment a range of issues related to the provision of on-going supports has become increasingly clean On the one hand, the capacity of human service agencies to provide effective on-going supports is less than clean Over time case loads of job coaches and case managers of community mental health agencies have grown and will continue to do so. This occurs at a time when funding for such programs is often being reduced rather than increased. We are also finding, however, that our method of providing supported employment services is having some unintended negative results. While the availability of job coaching services is useful in obtaining agreements from employers to hire individuals with disabilities, employers and employees may become dependent upon the job coach on an ongoing basis. The individual with a disability may not develop relationships and interdependent working relationships with co-workers and may not receive natural support and supervision typically provided by employers. As these problems are becoming evident, an increasing number of individuals are engaging in efforts to address ongoing employment supports and the relationship between natural supports and supports and assistance provided by human service personnel (Bellamy, et al., 1988; DiLeo and Hagner, 1991; McLoughlin, et al., 1987; Moon, et al., 1987: Nisbet and Hagner, 1989). Tremendous needs exist for demonstration, dissemination, and evaluation of ongoing employment supports that are associated with general community supports (Griswold, 1986; Peterson, 1987). Roles of rehabilitation, special education, mental health, and other agencies, as related to ongoing employment supports, need to be identified. A survey by Michigan State University validated this need. Berquist (1988) and the Supported Employment Technical Assistance Project staff at Michigan State University conducted a technical assistance needs assessment study of supported employment projects in the state. Follow-along support services were indicated by 63% of the respondents as among the 10 highest priorities, ranking number 6. This ranked higher than earlier and more traditional training and technical assistance issues of job development, worker matching, and training strategies. A reasonable conclusion is that, as programs are able to place and train more workers effectively, the concern of service providers shifts from training to providing meaningful assistance to help individuals maintain employment and participate effectively in the community. …


Data for the reaction was measured at the LEPS detector using a linearly polarized photon beam produced by laser-backscattering at the SPring-8 facility. The cross sections are in good agreement with predictions from a theoretical model by Oh, Ko and Nakayama. This model, which uses SU(3) flavor symmetry, suggests that the coupling constants for strange-particle production in the baryon decuplet can be predicted with reasonable accuracy using this symmetry.


This article discusses the ways in which digital games affect the behaviours of teenagers by promoting aggression. Also highlighted is what the field of neuroscience can tell us about the implications of using digital games, particularly with respect to their effects on teenagers' brains and, consequently, on their behaviours. In addition, this paper demonstrates the importance of conducting research on the ways in which the use of digital games affect teenagers' behaviour, values and mental health and stresses the need to find ways in which to ensure the safe use of digital games and other new entertainment media.


Actors provide concurrent, distributed, and event-driven autonomous objects which communicate asynchronously. Actor model benefits from higher level of scalability and actor programs are less error-prone in comparison to programs developed in other concurrent models. However, it does not prevent the racing and concurrency errors. So, to guarantee the correctness of mission critical actor programs, verification techniques like model checking are needed. Previously, Basset has been developed based on Java PathFinder, for model checking of Java actor programs. The message scheduling approach of Basset can cause false negative results as well as and early state space exploration. In addition, using Java PathFinder as the back-end model checker imposes the execution time inefficiencies. To resolve these issues, we developed Jacco as the direct model checking toolset for Java actor programs. We provided a new message scheduling approach and implemented it in Java. To illustrate how efficiently Jacco works, Basset and Jacco model checking results are compared for a number of case studies. We also used Jacco for the model checking of a real-world program in robotics systems.


We are here to discuss how education and industry can forge a more effective partnership, so that we can match the professionalism of our rivals in world markets. Our context is Britain as an industrial and commercial nation faced with the basic need to survive and prosper in those markets. Because without such success, without the big enough resources which can come only from that success, it really is pointless to talk about values or the kind of society we would ideally like to see. Except for saints, there is very little nobility or spiritual uplift in poverty. When people talk glibly about the post‐industrial society being a good thing, they fail to recognise the reality under their noses — our urban problem areas. Never let us forget that one possible future for Britain, when the oil‐lake finally runs down, is a swift descent into Third World status.


Summary During the past year five patients from countries in the Middle East admitted to a burns unit were found to harbour a strain of Staphylococcus aureus with unusual multi-resistance to antibiotics. The admission of the first patient was followed by an outbreak of infection with this strain involving ten patients in the unit. In addition five staff members were found to be nasal carriers of the strain. As a result of this incident, the following four patients admitted to the unit were isolated on admission and the spread of their strains was thus prevented. It is recommended that patients on admission to burns units, or similar departments with patients very susceptible to infection, are isolated until their bacterial floras have been examined.


Abstract— Although both thymine and uracil can form similar dimers, exposing RNA of tobacco mosaic virus lo ultraviolet radiation of different wavelengths did not reproduce any of the phenomena that implicate dimerization of thymine residues as a major cause of the inactivation of a bacterial transforming DNA. If uracil residues dimerize at all in the irradiated RNA, such dimerization either does not affect infectivity or is not photoreversible in the same way as dirnerization of thymine residues in DNA. Unlike inactivation of the transforming DNA, inactivation of the virus‐RNA seems to be a function of the amount of absorbed radiation energy, irrespective of the wave‐length within the range 285 to 230 mμ and irrespective of a change in the wave‐length during irradiation.


Wowor, A. J., Auclair, S. M., Zhao, P., Kendall, D. A., and Cole, J. L. (2011). Defining the Dimer Interface of SecA. 2011 NESS: Meeting Abstracts. The 8 Annual North Eastern Structure Symposium. Storrs, CT. October 21, 2011. Wowor, A. J., Auclair, S. M., Zhao, P., Kendall, D. A., and Cole, J. L. (2011). Defining the Dimer Interface of SecA. 2011 Gibbs Conference: Meeting Abstracts. The 25th Annual Gibbs Conference on Biothermodynamics. Carbondale, IL. September 17-20, 2011. Wowor, A. J., D. Yu, D. A. Kendall, and J. L. Cole. (2011). Linkage Between SecA Dimerization and Ligand Binding. Biophysical Journal. 100: 388a. The Biophysical Society's 55 Annual Meeting. Baltimore, MD. March 5-9, 2011. Wowor, A. J., D. Yu, D. A. Kendall, and J. L. Cole. (2011). Salt Concentration, Temperature and Signal Peptide Binding Effects on SecA Dimerization. 2011 NYSB Discussion Group: Meeting Abstracts. New York Structural Biology Discussion Group 6 Winter Meeting. New York, NY. January 19, 2011. Wowor, A. J., D. Yu, D. A. Kendall, and J. L. Cole. (2010). Linkage equilibrium analysis of SecA dimerization. 2010 NESS: Meeting Abstracts. The 7 Annual North Eastern Structure Symposium. Storrs, CT. October 16, 2010. Wowor, A. J., D. Yu, D. A. Kendall, and J. L. Cole. (2010). Linkage equilibrium analysis of SecA dimerization. 2010 Gibbs Conference: Meeting Abstracts. The 24 Annual Gibbs Conference on Biothermodynamics. Carbondale, IL. September 25-28, 2010. Wowor, A. J., K. Datta, G. S. Thompson, and V. J. LiCata. (2009). Single-Stranded, PrimerTemplate, and Blunt-End DNA Selectivity by Klenow and Klentaq Polymerases. The FASEB Journal. 23: 482.2. Experimental Biology 2009 (American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology). New Orleans, LA. April 18-22, 2009. Wowor, A. J., K. Datta, G. S. Thompson, and V. J. LiCata. (2009). DNA Structure Selectivity of Escherichia coli versus Thermus aquaticus DNA Polymerase I. Biophysical Journal. 96: 418a. The Biophysical Society's 53 Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. February 28-March 4, 2009. Wowor, A. J., K. Datta, G. S. Thompson, and V. J. LiCata. (2008). DNA Structure Selectivity of Escherichia coli versus Thermus aquaticus DNA Polymerase I. 2008 Gibbs Conference: Meeting Abstracts. The 22 Annual Gibbs Conference on Biothermodynamics. Carbondale, IL. October 4-7, 2008. Wowor, A. J., K. Datta, G. S. Thompson, and V. J. LiCata. (2008). DNA Structure Selectivity of Escherichia coli versus Thermus aquaticus DNA Polymerase I. The FASEB Journal. 22: 592.1. Experimental Biology 2008 (American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology). San Diego, CA. April 5-9, 2008.


The Present Paper aims at the study of inductive property developed due to propagation of electromagnetic waves through the structure and its dependence on the spacing between two metal strip and other factors. Due to interaction of electron beam with electromagnetic waves, kinetic energy of electron is increased. Microwaves have become very powerful experimental tools for study of some of the basic properties of materials. There are different structures for the propagation of electromagnetic powers in different modes. The Microwave Integrated circuits (MIC'S) have changed the systems in the present days by replacing large scale waveguides and co-axial component arrays to small light weight assemblies. These introduced microwave striplines, microslotlines, coplanar strip lines and coplanar waveguide etc.


Context. One of the most interesting questions in interstellar chemistry concerns whether we can detect the basic building blocks of proteins in astronomical sources. In ascertaining whether amino acids could be possible interstellar molecules, a crucial point is how they could be synthesized in the interstellar medium. Aims. We do a theoretical study of the ion-molecule reaction involving protonated aminomethanol and formic acid to establish its viability in space. This ion-molecule reaction has been proposed by other authors as a possible way to produce glycine in the interstellar medium. Methods. The relevant stationary points on the potential energy surface of the reaction between protonated aminomethanol and formic acid have been theoretically studied by using ab initio methods. The second-order Moller-Plesset level was employed, in conjunction with the correlation-consistent polarized valence triple-zeta (cc-pVTZ) basis set. In addition, the electronic energies were refined by means of single-point calculations at the CCSD(T) level (coupled cluster single and double excitation model augmented with a non-iterative treatment of triple excitations) on the MP2/cc-pVTZ geometries with the aug-cc-pVTZ basis set. Results. Formation of protonated glycine is an exothermic process; however, the process presents a net activation barrier that makes this reaction unfeasible under interstellar conditions. Conclusions. The reaction of protonated aminomethanol with formic acid does not seem to be a plausible source of interstellar glycine. This particular case is a clear example that a detailed study of the potential energy surface is needed to establish the relevance of a process in the interstellar medium.


Recommender systems are widely used by online retailers to promote products and content that are most likely to be of interest to a specific customer. In such systems, users often implicitly or explicitly rate products they have consumed, and some form of collaborative filtering is used to find other users with similar tastes to whom the products can be recommended. While users can benefit from more targeted and relevant recommendations, they are also exposed to greater risks of privacy loss, which can lead to undesirable financial and social consequences. The use of obfuscation techniques to preserve the privacy of user ratings is well studied in the literature. However, works on obfuscation typically assume that all users uniformly apply the same level of obfuscation. In a heterogeneous environment, in which users adopt different levels of obfuscation based on their comfort level, the different levels of obfuscation may impact the users in the system in a different way. In this work we consider such a situation and make the following contributions: (a) using an offline dataset, we evaluate the privacy-utility trade-off in a system where a varying portion of users adopt the privacy preserving technique. Our study highlights the effects that each user's choices have, not only on their own experience but also on the utility that other users will gain from the system, and (b) we propose Privacy Canary, an interactive system that enables users to directly control the privacy-utility trade-off of the recommender system to achieve a desired accuracy while maximizing privacy protection, by probing the system via a private (i.e., undisclosed to the system) set of items. We evaluate the performance of our system with an off-line recommendations dataset, and show its effectiveness in balancing a target recommender accuracy with user privacy, compared to approaches that focus on a fixed privacy level.


As developing nations progress it leads to more vehicles on the road. Vehicles are necessary to transport people and goods which ultimately leads to road congestion. Current methodologies in traffic congestion prediction are still inadequate, especially in developing nations. In this paper, we propose a use case of combining neural networks with computer vision using existing CCTV camera installations to obtain the necessary information for traffic congestion prediction.


Modern life exposes us all to an ever-increasing number of potential sources of electromagnetic interference (EMI) and patients with Implantable rhythm devices (IRD) like pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators or implantable loop recorders often ask about the use of microwave ovens, walking through airport metal detectors and the use of cellular phones. Electromagnetic interference occurs when electromagnetic waves emitted by one device impede the normal function of another electronic device. The potential for interaction between implanted pacing systems and cardioverter-defibrillators (electromagnetic interference, EMI) has been recognized for years.1,2,3,4. It has been shown that EMI can produce clinically significant effects on patients with implanted pacemakers and ICDs. For these reasons the following text discusses the influence of several EMI generating devices on IRD .


This work introduces a tensor-based framework of graph signal processing over multilayer networks (M-GSP) to analyze high-dimensional signal interactions. Following Part I's introduction of fundamental definitions and spectrum properties of M-GSP, this second Part focuses on more detailed discussions of implementation and applications of M-GSP. Specifically, we define the concepts of stationary process, convolution, bandlimited signals, and sampling theory over multilayer networks. We also develop fundamentals of filter design and derive approximated methods of spectrum estimation within the proposed framework. For practical applications, we further present several MLN-based methods for signal processing and data analysis. Our experimental results demonstrate significant performance improvement using our M-GSP framework over traditional signal processing solutions.


Trichomonas vaginalis is a flagellated parasite that causes sexually transmitted infections mainly in women. The disease found with other sexually transmitted infections such as Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Syphilis and Herpes simplex virus type II is a sensitive marker of highly sexual behaviour. It causes pelvic inflammatory disease and adverse pregnancy outcomes. The parasite, T. vaginalis, causes Trichomoniasis, a disease with significant medical, social and economic implications. The data presented in this report showed that Trichomoniasis caused by T. vaginalis remains the only reported sexually transmitted parasitic disease in Nigeria. The progressive abandoning of condom use relative to discomfort and linked to forgetting the risk of Trichomonas vaginalis and the increase of poverty may partially explain the increase in the annual number of urinogenital trichomoniasis cases in Nigeria. Metronidazole has been the treatment of choice for women for decades, and single dose has been considered the first line of therapy. However, high rate of retest positive are found among T. vaginalis infected person after single dose of Metronidazole treatment. Evidence from the review indicates the need for the concern stakeholders to attempt a holistic approach towards eradicating the disease in our environment.


【The present study was carried out to evaluate the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities of three extracts (hot water, 50% ethanol and mixed solvent;water, ethanol, butylene glycol, propylene glycol) of dried chestnut, chestnut shell, chestnut leaves and dried chestnut leaves obtained from Castanea crenata tree. When conducted DPPH assay, radical scavenging activity of ethanol extract of chestnut shell was the highest with $IC_{50}$ $10.8{\mu}g/mL$ among four extracts from these parts (p】


Given the American Journal of Medical Genetics [1] was cited some five times [2–6], one is led to wonder why [7] and [8] were not cited? Regarding craniofacial involvement with cranioschisis, exencephalocele, orofacial clefts, etc. one is clearly dealing with disruptions, not deformities. With respect to pathogenesis it needs to be considered how a condition can come about with both, apparently early primary malformations of progenitor fields during blastogenesis, and with apparently secondary later disruptions of embryonic/fetal structures in a totally random, stochastic manner. Animal data suggest, barely, that other mammals may be involved in a similar manner; however, these few, older observations lack developmental biological analysis of homology by virtue of descent from a common ancestor. Causal hypotheses of ADAM are discussed in Ref. [8]. Technical advances since then have now made it possible to perform genome-wide analyses of mother–fetus–father, sampling fetal areas of primary and secondary involvement, and searching not only the syncytins but all retroviruses. Until clear-cut results of such studies are at hand I would be reluctant to designate ADAM a pleiotropic syndrome in the classic sense of the term [9].


This work proposes a novel method of matrix factorization on the complex domain to obtain both extracted features and coefficient matrix with high recognition results in facial expression recognition. The real data matrix is transformed into a complex number based on the Euler representation of complex numbers. Sparse regularization in dimensionality reduction using ridge term (L2-norm) is applied into this study. Basic complex matrix factorization (CMF) is modified into sparse complex matrix factorization using ridge term (SCMF-L2) which adding sparse L2-norm constraint in the coefficient. The gradient descent method is used to solve optimization problems. Experiments on facial expression recognition scenario reveal that the proposed methods provide better recognition results that prevalent NMF and CMF methods.


Aiming at peasants'passive factors,we should develop village economy,so as to lay a solid foundation for the development of primary democracy;consummate democratic autonomy of the village,so as to provide good environment for the moderation of village political psychology;strengthen village political education,legal education and cultural education,so as to create good cultural conditions for the modernization of their political psychology,which promotes the development of democracy quickly.


The surface fluorination of graphite in some glow discharge plasmas was studied. The plasmas contained excited fluorine atoms, and were, generated by various discharges, Direct-current, RadioFrequency (13.56MHz) and Micro-Wave (2450MHz), with CF4 as source gas. The contact angles formed by water, dropped on the treated surfaces, were over 160°, and changes of mass indicated addition of the fluorine. But the effect of etching appeared as a decrease of mass under some conditions, and such effects were observed also by a scanning electron microscope. The ESCA results on the surfaces treated by plasma were similar to those which were measured on the surfaces treated by F2 gas at high temperature.


W H E N the Manhigh capsule system was being designed in the fall of 1955, the pr imary objective was a maximum performance system of minimum weight that could lift a man into a space equivalent environment for twenty-four hours. This objective 'had to be met safely and supply an answer to what the man could :do if any specific componem failed. Beyond this, an effort was made to provide him with as comfortable a "shirt sleeve" environment as possible. The 1pressure and atmosp,heric composition of a sealed cabin designed for a space mission must be selected in terms of the peculiar needs of that specific mission. This paper shows how the atmosphere used on the Manhigh program was tailored to fit the needs of that flight. Many of the eonsiderations apply directly to. satellite missions and other 'high altitude balloon flights. The sealed cabin atmosphere of the


Contemporary ocean governance continues to pose challenges for states and regional arrangements. Old problems are brought into sharper focus while emergent issues add to an ever-broadening agenda. Issues that traditionally may have been identified within discrete sectors are now increasingly intersecting with others sectors. The scope of these challenges is highlighted in the contributions to this edition of the Australian Journal of Maritime and Ocean Affairs. Yapa Mahinda Bandara and Hong-Oanh Nguyen's 'Port Infrastructure Pricing Policy and Practice: A Case Study of Australia and New Zealand Seaports' centres on port reform in Australia and New Zealand. The authors highlight the significance of these reforms and identify key differences in port infrastructure tariffs across ports in Australia and New Zealand. International and regional responses to address people smuggling and current legal measures addressing this emergent problem in South-East Asia, including the progress made by the Bali Process, are discussed in Ahmad Almaududy Amri's paper, 'People Smuggling in Southeast Asia: Trends, Challenges and Way Forward'. Alexander White's commentary, 'Passengers' Duties and the Marine Safety (Domestic Commercial Vessel) National Law 2012 in Queensland's Internal Waters?' focuses on recent innovation in maritime law in Australia. White notes that law reform that imposes a duty upon passengers to take care for their own safety is a welcome development, but highlights gaps in the application of this national law in the state of Queensland. I note, too, that the books reviewed in this issue provide further examples of continuity and change in ocean governance. As with all issues of the journal many people have contributed to getting this issue to press. I thank the authors for submitting papers, reviewers for their work on manuscripts and the journal's hardworking production and editorial teams from Routledge/Taylor & Francis Australasia. In particular I wish to thank Ingrid Sjölund, Production Editor and Natalie Davall, Managing Editor, for their support. I thank Rebecca Bryson for her support in bringing the Australian Journal of Maritime and Ocean Affairs into the Routledge/Taylor & Francis 'family' and wish her well in her future endeavours.


This research is part of a series of conference papers from graduate students at Molloy College in Rockville Centre, NY. The theme emerges from a pedagogical philosophy that an essential learning outcome of a graduate education is the significant influence that business has upon society. For example, developing a focus on job creation rather than solely profit-taking must be integrated into the disposition of emerging business leaders. The learning activity leading to the learning outcome is requiring the graduate business students to experience a real-world project. The students are presented with an opportunity to study a problem and to generate a set of solution-driven recommendations that will lead to social good


Estimation of selection response and genealogical tracing in family mixtures require an appropriate tool for parentage analysis. In this study, we tested 19 marker loci for parentage analysis allocation in Mediterranean mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis). To this aim, we reared families in tanks isolated from wild mussel seed, analysed them using the 19 marker loci and characterized their performances based on Mendelian rules. Probabilities of exclusion of a false parent were estimated for different groups of loci and contrasted to the real paternity assignment. Based on this, we chose nine microsatellites with the highest exclusion probabilities and a real paternity assignment of 99.6%. Next, we analysed 600 individuals reared as in the usual production process, where contamination from wild seed is likely. We obtained a real assignment of 94.7% and were able to identify individuals from the wild as the most likely hypothesis to explain the observed incompatibilities with candidate parents. This information was used to evaluate parental contribution in offspring obtained from gamete mixtures of several parents, which bestowed results of interest for future breeding programs of Mediterranean mussel.


Providing the energy security of European Union has become one of the most significant issues for European politicians and academics, especially after the Ukrainian crisis with Russia. The most critical point is the fact that there is not a common policy of EU countries concerning energy security. Individual choices of member states have more influence on the energy supply. EU's failure of developing a common policy for the security of energy supply has led to disagreement about other foreign policy issues. Different reactions among EU member states about sanctions against Russia after the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014 has been the most recent example. Common policy of energy security is the diversification of resources and suppliers. Accordingly, with their hydrocarbon resources, Azerbaijan and Central Asian states have become alternatives for EU.


In parallel sparse Cholesky factorization, nding elimination order-ings that produce elimination trees of low height is important. The problem of nding the minimum elimination tree height for a graph is NP-hard for general graphs. This problem is equivalent to the problem of nding the vertex ranking number of a graph. The problem can be solved in polynomial time for special classes of graphs. Aspvall and Heggernes presented a polynomial time algorithm for solving the problem for interval graphs, in 1993. This algorithm is O(n 4). Later, when Deogun, Kloks, Kratsch and M uller solved the vertex ranking problem for permutation graphs in time O(n 6), they mentioned that the problem for interval graphs could be solved in time O(n 3). In this paper we present a simple O(n 3) algorithm for nding minimum elimination tree height for interval graphs. In addition, our algorithm gathers enough information so that an actual elimination tree of minimum height can be found within the same time bound.


Speech produced in noisy environments (Lombard speech) is characterized by a range of acoustic and phonetic changes. These changes stem from increased speaking effort which reflects communicative intent as well as decreased auditory feedback of the speaker's own voice. An accurate understanding of real-world Lombard effects is important in hearing science for the development and assessment of signal processing strategies targeting realistic speech signals. While Lombard effects are well known from the literature, studies of Lombard speech have typically been based on relatively unnatural speaking tasks such as reading from a script and have been measured in simplified acoustic backgrounds such as stationary noise or constructed babble noise. Lombard speech produced under such unnatural conditions may differ significantly from speech produced in real-world settings. This study describes a novel method of eliciting natural conversational speech across five highly realistic everyday acoustic environments. Th...


This study aimed at investigating the effect of implementing active learning strategies in enhancing EFL learners' motivation, attitudes, aptitudes and skills. To achieve the objective of this study, the researchers attempted to answer these questions: 1- What do the students in the English classroom need to learn? 2- Will the active learning strategies help students promoting their language skills? 3- Will the designed activities help maximizing students' participation and interaction in the classroom? 4- To what extent do active learning strategies affect English learners' performance in the English language? The researchers used the quasi- experimental approach. Two instruments were employed for data collection: a questionnaire besides a pre and post- test. (30) female English majors' students of Arts Faculty-Shamli Branch -University of Hail, served as subjects for the study. The participants were distributed into two groups. The first group represented the control group of (15) students; while the second one represented the experimental one of (15) students. The active learning strategies were implemented in teaching the experimental group, and the traditional teaching method was utilized with the control group. A combination tests out of (25) questions, covered all skills (Reading, listening, writing and speaking.) was designed to be used as a pre and post- test. The data analysis of the post-test results showed that there were statistically significant differences between mean results of the experimental and the control group favoring the experimental group; Thus, the experimental group outperformed the control group. Consequently, the use of the active learning strategies proved to have a positive role and effect on EFL Learners' Motivation, Attitudes, Aptitudes and Skills. In their responses to the questionnaires, they reported a very good and positive attitude towards learning English language through using active learning strategies.


From the visual angle of employee,550 employees from 10 small and medium-sized enterprises in Shandong province was selected as the research samples and the data were collected by questionnaire investigation.The empirical research on the relationship between employee psychological contract and job satisfaction was conducted with statistical methods such as correlation analysis and regression analysis.The results indicate that there is a significant positive linear correlation between them.


The students of the Second Years of the Bachelor's degree of the Chordeleg National High School present difficulties to be integrated into English class; for that reason motivational didactic material is indispensable, so the students can have a dynamic and interesting class. To counteract this problem, we intend to elaborate didactic material to awaken the interest and motivation and incentivize the students' English learning, through games, songs, crosswords, stories, and dynamics. This work is dedicated to innovate the curricular design, to motivate, awaken the interest for English learning and to integrate the student into each one of the classes, by including in the lesson period diverse activities.


Floating slab track(FST) is one of the most effective countermeasures for reducing vibration induced by moving train.FST is divided into short FST(SFST) and long FST(LFST) according to the length of FST.The length of which is above 15 meters is called long floating slab track.With rail and fasteners,the structures could be treated as a Double-decked isolation system,and the formula of transmissibility of the isolation system was deduced using the receptance method.Using the receptance method,three new proposed structures parameters of FST,mass ratio,stiffness ratio and damping ratio,were deeply investigated to evaluate the effect of isolation function of the Double-decked isolation system with different structure form.And proposal values of these three ratios are given here to define the most suitable form of FST when the others values of rail and fasteners are known as actual ones.


This paper presents a new GaAs P-HEMT distributed amplifier IC that employs a micro-machined, grooved-CPW. By removing the substrate between the signal and ground metal, the grooved-CPW has small effective dielectric constant (/spl epsi//sub r,eff/) and becomes a highly inductive line. When the grooved-CPW is used in the distributed amplifier, the f/sub 3dB/ and the chip size have been improved by about 20%. The fabricated GaAs P-HEMT distributed amplifier IC has a gain of 10 dB with f/sub 3dB/>50 GHz.


Intrapartum opioids in labor may interfere with the early breastfeeding phase and cause breastfeeding difficulties. This study examines the effects of intrapartum fentanyl given intravenously (IV) or through epidural analgesia (EDA) on early breastfeeding.


The invention relates to a silencer for compressed air systems of vehicles. The noise damper comprises a housing (1a, 1b), an insulating means (2) and at least one web (3a, 3b, 3c), the housing (1a, 1b) having an air inlet (4) and an air outlet (5) Insulating means (2) within the housing (1a, 1b) is arranged, and the at least one web (3a, 3b, 3c) within the housing (1a, 1b) is arranged so that it at least partially protrudes into the insulating means (2) , and from the air inlet (4) to the air outlet (5) through the housing (1a, 1b) flowing air from the at least one web (3a, 3b, 3c) in the insulation means (2) is passed.


2016 event sponsors: Four distinct generations are working together shoulder to shoulder, each with a unique set of attitudes, values and work styles. It used to be that older workers were bosses and younger ones took orders. Now, roles are all over the map and rules are being rewritten. Organizations are feeling the pain of generations as they struggle to manage productivity and morale while maintaining high standards of quality and service in a challenging economy. This program will give you the tools to convert this form of diversity from an obstacle into an opportunity. 2016


This paper discussed the development of a chain operator agricultural product information exchange platform based on SSH framework.The system integrates Struts and Spring to realize the presentation layer,and integrates Spring and Hibernate to realize the data persistence layer.The platform SSH-based framework implements data exchange and information sharing among various departments,and eliminates the isolated information island.The clear hierarchical structure and the loose coupling make the system highly expandable and reconstructable,which improves the maintainability and code reusability of the system.


OBJECTIVES
To date, the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for acute stroke patients has not been well recognized. The study aimed to discover the effectiveness of group-based ACT in treating depression for acute stroke patients.

METHODS
We conducted a randomized controlled trial with 140 acute stroke patients with depression. The ACT intervention comprised seven sessions, of 45-60 min over 4 weeks. Data were collected pre- and post-intervention and at 3-month follow-up, assessing depression, health-related quality of life (HRQoL), psychological flexibility, cognitive fusion, sleep quality, and confidence.

RESULTS
Overall, 99.3% of the included patients were assessed as having mild depression. The ACT intervention significantly reduced depression in acute stroke patients in comparison with the control group post-intervention and at 3 months (partial η 2 = . 306 $\eta^{2}=.306$ ). Additionally ACT significantly improved HRQoL-mental component summary, sleep quality, psychological flexibility, cognitive fusion, and confidence compared with control group.

CONCLUSIONS
ACT is effective in treating acute stroke patients with depression, and the efficacy was maintained at 3-month follow-up.


The penetration depth of a magnetic field into a superconducting YBa/sub 2/Cu/sub 3/O/sub 7-x/ film was measured by polarized neutron reflection. The sample comprised an epitaxial film with the c-axis of its orthorhombic structure perpendicular to the film's surface. Measurements at 14 K showed that a magnetic field (parallel to the surface) penetrates into the surface over a depth of 1400 /angstrom/. 9 refs., 3 figs.


This paper presents a Wide Band Antenna Array with a DGS structure for mm-wave 5G communications. 1×4 antenna array has been designed by using RT / Duroid 5880 substrate with the size of 11.34×21.85×0.5mm3. The antenna array with the defected ground structure resonating at the frequency of 28GHz and 38GHz and the wide bandwidth achieved at these two frequencies are 4.17GHz and 6.24GHz with the sufficient gain value of 2.21dBi and 5.21dBi. By implementing DGS on the 1×4 array is providing large bandwidth with good performance characteristics. HFSS software is used to design the antenna and the proposed structure is useful for mm-wave 5G applications.


Background: Obesity is the most important modifiable risk factor in the pathogenesis of type-2 diabetes reported in most cross-sectional studies. However, racial factors seem to be important in the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and glucose intolerance. Methods: Three-hundred and seventeen subjects participated in the study. Mean age of subjects was 35.0 + 9.8 years (33.0 + 9.6 among females and 36.2 + 9.6 among males p= 0.1007). Results: Female subjects had significantly higher BMI than their male counterparts, (26.6 + 7.2 kg/m 2 versus 24.0 + 5.4 kg/m 2 p=0.0341). Random blood sugar levels were, however, similar between males and females (85.2 + 27.0 mg/dl versus 85.9 + 14.7 mg/dl, p=0.8868). There was a positive but non significant correlation between casual blood sugar and BMI among female subjects (r= +0.1520, p>0.05). In the males however, there was no correlation between these variables (r= -0.0395, p>0.5). Conclusion: BMI is higher among females in this community and correlates with random blood glucose levels. Concerted efforts need to be made to address the issue of weight in this community within the framework of what is culturally acceptable. (Int J Diabetes Metab 14:144-145, 2006)


This study was to explore the effect of local community on participation of local festival. In order to carry out the empirical study, 320 survey questionnaires were collected in Cheonan. AMOS 4.0 and SPSS Win 12.0 statistics packages were utilized for analysis of SEM. The study results were as follows: first, analysis on the relationship between identity and participation of local festival(interest of festival participation, extent of local festival, intention of local festival) Showed that identity effected every factor of participation of local festival, second, dependence effected interest of festival participation and intention of local festival, third, social friendship can`t effected every factor of participation of local festival.


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A stable and taste-masked pharmaceutical dosage form includes porous apatite (calcium phosphate) grains and a drug entrapped in the pores in said grains. The grains have a size of 0.1-1000 žm and the openings in the grains are 0.5-300 nm. A water-soluble polymer, for example chitosan, gelatine, hyaluronic acid, polyethylene glycol, polylactic acid or polyvinyl alcohol, may be incorporated in the pores of the grains and the grains themselves may be bound by a biocompatible polymer, such as polyglycolic acid, polylactic acid, polyethylene glycol, poly(meth)acrylates and dextran, to form a microspherical composite. A process for preparing the dosage form is also disclosed. Preferred drugs to be entrapped in such a dosage form include zinc gluconate, copper gluconate, aspirin, ibuprofen and ascorbic acid.


This study was performed compressive strength and length change properties of cement concrete using industrial by-product. As the results of study, early-age strength of BSC and TBC were less than OPC. But, when 28 days compressive strength of BSC and TBC were similar concrete using OPC. Also length change of BSC and TBC were less than using OPC.


A series of 2,4-dinitrobenzamide mustards were prepared from 5-chloro-2,4-dinitrobenzoic acid or the corresponding 5-dimesylate mustard as potential prodrugs for gene-directed enzyme prodrug therapy (GDEPT) with the E. coli nfsB nitroreductase (NTR). The compounds, including 32 new examples, were evaluated in four pairs of NTR+ve/-ve cell lines for selective cytotoxicity (IC50 and IC50 ratios), in multicellular layer (MCL) cultures for bystander effects, and for in vivo activity against tumors grown from stably NTR transfected EMT6 and WiDr cells in nude mice. Multivariate regression analysis of the IC50 results was undertaken using a partial least-squares projection to latent structures model. In NTR-ve lines, cytotoxicity correlated positively with logP, negatively with hydrogen bond acceptors (HA) and donors (HD) in the amide side chain, and positively with the reactivity of the less-reactive leaving group of the mustard function, likely reflecting toxicity due to DNA monoadducts. Potency and selectivi...


Context: Change in stunting as the children grow older is rarely found in published literature. Aims: The present paper compares the change in the prevalence of stunting among children as they grow from 0–4 years to 7–11 years. Settings and Design: The present paper is a secondary analysis of India Human Development Survey-I (IHDS-I) (2005) and IHDS-II (2012) data for Kerala. Methods and Materials: In total, 411 children of age 0–4 years and 390 children of age 7–11 years with anthropometric measurements were included in the present study, respectively, from IHDS-I and IHDS-II. Statistical Analysis Used: The statistical analyses were done using SPSS 21.0. The prevalence of stunting was estimated. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were performed using the Pearson Chi-square test. Results: The prevalence of stunting among children has been drastically reduced (50.4% to 20.3%) while growing older from 0–4 years to 7–11 years. Conclusions: More than half of the stunted children below 5 years regained normal growth, as they grow older.


Calcific tendinitis of the shoulder is a common cause of shoulder pain and is usually treated conservatively initially. We evaluated the ultrasound-guided needling procedure for calcium deposits in the rotator cuff. Between 2002 and 2003 eight men and 18 women (mean age 49 years) with calcific tendinitis of the shoulder were treated this way. The mean duration of symptoms was 29 months. Before the procedure, the skin and subacromial bursa were infiltrated with local anaesthetic. The calcium deposit was perforated and aspirated when possible. With saline, a lavage was done to wash out the calcium. Eleven patients (42.3%) had marked improvement in pain and needed no further treatment. Four patients required a reneedling procedure, and four patients needed repeated subacromial injections during the absorption phase of the calcium. In six patients arthroscopic calcium removal was needed. The mean visual analogue pain score during the procedure was 2.63. There were no complications. The ultrasound-guided needling procedure is an effective and well-tolerated method of treatment of calcific tendinitis of the shoulder and in 77% of our cases there was no need for surgical removal. Where there is incomplete dissolution, the procedure can be repeated.


Abstract A simple algorithm to estimate the latent heating of cloud systems from their vertical hydrometer profiles is proposed. The derivation as well as the validation of the algorithm is based on output generated by a non-hydrostatic cloud model with parameterized microphysical processes. Mature and decaying stages of a GATE squall-type convective system have been tested. The algorithm-derived heating budget is in reasonable agreement with the budget predicted by the cloud model. The input to the proposed algorithm can be obtained from either a rain retrieval technique based on information from multichannel passive microwave signals or a kinematic cloud model based on information from Doppler radar wind fields and radar reflectivity patterns. Such an application would have significant implications for spaceborne remote sensing and the large-scale weather prediction data assimilation problem.


Morbidity and mortality rates caused by HIV infection are increasing and it is a public health problem which become worldwide concern. The purpose of this research is to determine the process of nutritional care in hospitalized patients with HIV-AIDS at Dr. Wahidin Sudirohusodo general hospital center. The research used an observational descriptive study with cross sectional design because dependent and independent variables were taken at the same time in this research. Sampling in this research was done by using non-probablity sampling technique by considering the inclusion criteria (selective sampling). From the sampling, 22 patients with HIV-AIDS were obtained.The results of research showed that nutritional assessments of 21 patients (95.5%) in advanced screening, biochemical examination, and personal anamnesis are accomplished, 22 patients (100%) in physical / clinical examination and nutrition history anamnesis are accomplished, 20 patients (90.9%) in nutritional diagnosis determination are accomplished, 18 patients (81.8%) in needs calculation are appropriate, 8 patients (36.36%) in diets which prepared with prescription are appropriate. The assessment based on the food which was spent on the first measurements, there were 8 fulfilled patients and the second measurements, there were 14 fulfilled patients. On the implementation of nutrition education, there were 18 accomplished patients (81.8%) and 13 monitoring patients (59.1%) and their evaluations in accordance with the scoring. It is concluded that the assessment, diagnosis, and nutrition education are mostly accomplished and most of the interventions in accordance with the prescription. Hospital foods which were spent by patients were largely unfulfilled and the monitoring and evaluation were largely in accordance with the scoring.


Nowadays, when we talk about sustainability or environmentally friendly practices, we try to convince groups or individuals to be good citizens or good people. Especially young people do not care deeply about pursuing an environmentally conscious lifestyle if it requires an effort on their part. What if one uses fun to influence (i.e., motivate and inform) students about sustainability in their daily life? Would this approach be more successful in changing their behavior? Can sustainability even be considered to be fun? As we already know, behavior change requires motivation and fun could be used as a motivational factor. Proposing that we need to develop programs and concepts that make a sustainable lifestyle fun instead of perceiving it as a negative influence on our quality of life provides new opportunities for projects and interventions.


The use of organic manures in crop production is known from time immemorial. Organic manures include different oilcakes with nitrogen content ranging from 2-5 to 6-2 per cent and organic waste of animal origin like dried blood, slaughter-house refuse and fish manure, where the nitrogen content ranges from four to ten per cent. But the largest source of organic manures comprise farm yard manure, compost and green manure. These bulky organic manures, which contribute to a great deal to the organic matter content of the soil, are very necessary for soil fertility. In cultivated soils of the tropics and subtropics the organic matter content is very low because of the rapid and continuous oxidative decomposition taking place. If crop production has to be maintained, the loss of organic matter has to be periodically supplemented to keep up the organic matter content in the soil which is very necessary for soil fertility.


This paper states and studies an epidemic model where the dead corpses are also infective while the asymptomatic population is also present. There are several vaccination ways including susceptible vaccination, infectious antiviral control and culling of infectious corpses.


The paper offers an overview of the complex, not easy period in which Antonio Panizzi was teaching at London University (1828-1831), innovatively suggesting that "a uniform program be adopted for the study of all modern languages and literatures" and nevertheless dedicating himself to research with care and passion. In the article, the teaching materials and custom tools he quickly provided to his students for learning italian language and culture are analyzed regarding concept, structure and target: The Elementary Italian Grammar 1828, and two anthologies of prose writings: Extracts from the Italian Prose Writers, 1828, and Stories from Italian Writers with a Literal Interlinear Traduction, 1830.


The importance of room arrangement in an early childhood classroom has been an underlying principle of my work on curriculum design. Although I did not set out to write a curriculum for early childhood education, the Creative Curriculum for Early Childhood grew quite naturally out of my initial interest in helping teachers look at their classroom arrangement and how it was working for or against them. I found that in many classrooms the arrangement of the physical environment was contributing to behavior problems that made teaching more difficult. I began to ask myself these questions: How was the room arrangement inviting children to run in the classroom? How was the environment making it difficult for children to make choices and stay involved? Why were children fighting over materials, misusing them, and resisting clean up?


This investigation determined the effects of exogenous ATP supply on the senescence-related physiology of cut carnation flowers. With a view to understanding better the role of tissue energy status in the senescence of carnation flowers, the effects of exogenous ATP supply on time to maximum flower expansion, vase life, rates of ethylene production and respiration, and endogenous ATP and adenosine monophosphate (AMP) concentrations during vase life of cut carnation flowers were investigated. Carnation cv. 'Master' flowers were obtained from a commercial market in Guangzhou, China. Flowers were transported to the laboratory within 6 h. Flowers were uniform at commercial maturity (outer petals horizontal), as described by Wu et al. (1992). Their stems were recut under water to a length of (cid:2) 30 cm. Stems were assigned at random to flasks containing either distilled water (con-trol) or 0.1 mmol (cid:3) L –1 ATP solution until the end of the vase life of the control flowers (up to 10 d). The concentration of 0.1 mmol (cid:3) L –1 ATP is the most beneficial in extending the vase life of the cut flowers, as identified by Song et al. (2006b). The volume of ATP solu- tion or distilled water was maintained at con-stant levels by replenishing the flasks daily. There were four flowers per flask and three flasks (replications) per treatment. Flasks were arranged in a completely randomized design. Throughout the experimental period, flowers were held at 25 (cid:2) C and 70% to 80% relative humidity with a 12-hour light period per day at an irradiance of 12 W/m 2 at flower level from fluorescent light tubes. The time (d) from harvest to the maximum flower expansion was calculated. Vase life was evaluated every 12 h on a scale from 1 to 5 pt as described by Song et al. (2006b), where 1 pt is fresh without any deterioration;


Purpose
This paper aims to understand the incorporation of sustainability methods of construction through the study of a low-cost housing Tamil Nadu Housing Board settlement in a locality in Chennai, India. Such a study helps to arrive at proper design decisions and incorporate a participatory approach involving the residents to enable the developers, here the decision-makers of the government, cater to the local interests.

Design/methodology/approach
First, a survey was conducted to understand the local conditions and people's aspirations. Along with this, the parameters pertaining to a green housing were derived and compared with the needs of the locals, to arrive at the most influencing parameters by decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory model (DEMATEL) analysis.

Findings
The study finds that parameters viz. "ensuring basic services" and "social inclusivity" happen to be the causal factors that seem to influence the needs of the locals. These factors therefore can guide the future plans to redevelop the settlement or construct similar settlements in a more sustainable way.

Originality/value
This paper is a unique study to combine the twin pillars of low-cost housing and sustainability, which helps in developing settlements that are conducive to the city's socio-developmental requirements as well as respectful of the natural environment. Further, the analysis conducted through DEMATEL method could essentially guide the decision-maker to tackle urban challenges in the most locally suitable and sustainable approach.


Primary care clinicians play a vital role in the treatment of patients with epilepsy with ongoing seizures. Advances in anticonvulsant drugs help in the management.


A shrinking-clustering method using flexible size grid is proposed to solve the clustering problem of high dimensional data in data mining.The data bins are arranged according to their density span,and the data points are moved along the direction of the density gradient.Thus the condensed and widely-separated clusters are generated.Then the connected components of dense cells are detected using a sequence of grids with flexible size.Finally,the best clustering result is obtained when the borderline does not change again.The simulation result shows that the method could detect clusters effectively and efficiently in both low and high dimensional data.


The "generalized theory of the instantaneous reactive power in three-phase circuits", proposed by Akagi et al., and also known as the p-q theory, is an interesting tool to apply to the control of active power filters, or even to analyze three-phase power system in order to detect problems related to harmonics, reactive power and unbalance. In this paper it will be shown that in three phase electrical systems the instantaneous power waveform presents symmetries if 1/6, 1/3, 1/2 or 1 cycle of the power system fundamental frequency, depending on the system being balanced or not, and having or not even harmonics (interharmonics and subharmonics are not considered in this analysis). These symmetries can be exploited to accelerate the calculations for active filters controllers based on the p-q theory. In the case of the conventional reactive power or zero-sequence compensation, it is shown that the theoretical control system dynamic response delay is zero.


The article presents a short review of the growth of single crystal bulk semiconductors by liquid phase electroepitaxy (LPEE) under a static magnetic field. Following a short introduction on early modelling and theoretical studies on LPEE, recent experimental results of the LPEE growth of GaAs/GaInAs single crystals under a static applied magnetic field are discussed. Crystal growth experiments show that the application of a static magnetic field in the LPEE growth of GaAs increases growth rate very significantly. A continuum model that introduces a new electric mobility, i.e., the electromagnetic mobility, allows accurate predictions for both the growth rate and the growth interface shape. A thermodynamic and kinetic interpretation for this electromagnetic mobility is given.


In this paper,the γ LiAlO 2 powder,which is a state of art electrolyte matrix material for the molten carbonate fuel cells,was prepared by the low temperature combustion method.The EDS,XRD,IR,SEM and TEM techniques were used to study the composition,structure and morphology of the synthesized powders.


Objective:Explore the metabolic characteristics of the people that 1 hour plasma glucose(1 h PG)increased in oral glucose tolerance test(OGTT).Methods:Using OGTT to test 370 patients who cannot be diagnosed T2DM by FPG.Analyzed by ROC,obtained the cut-off value of diagnose IGR and T2DM by 1 h PG,divided non-diabetic people into 1 h-NGT group,1 h-IGR group and 1 h-DM group,compared between groups and each group compared with T2DM group.Results:BMI and LDL-c of 1 h-NGT group were lower than 1 h-DM group,and HDL-c was higher than 1 h-DM group(P 0.05).NGT group could be further divided into different metabolism stats groups by 1 h PG.In the people with 1 h PG increased,the proportion of BMI,WHR and blood lipid(1 item)were all increased higher than the people with normal 1 h PG in all NGT group,the difference was significant in IGT group and IFG group(P 0.05).Conclusion:The metabolism state of people with 1 h PG increased is significantly worse than the normal people,which is helpful for clinical intervention or treatment.


This chapter argues that literature—or at least certain kinds of literature—facilitates mentalization. Book reading shares some of the same features as mind reading. Psychoanalysis, via the work of Hanna Segal and others, has been interested in the differences between escapist literature and literature that encourages genuine psychological engagement. This chapter engages that issue via the lens of mentalization. It focuses specifically on literary form rather than on content, and examines the ways in which some kinds of literary form facilitate mentalizing capacities. More narrowly, it shows how different kinds of literary techniques—the free indirect discourse employed by Jane Austen, the tight structure of the sonnet form—enable different mentalizing abilities and develop our capacity for self-reflection.