The six cucumber varieties in protected cultivation were used as the tested material,the nutrition and reproductive growth of plant were studied by shading treatment.The results showed that: The yield of 'Jinyou30' was the highest,The root/shoot and C/N ratio were higher,plants growed strongly;the yield of 'Jinyou2' and 'Jinlv3' was slightly lower than 'Jinyou30',the root/shoot and C/N ratio were modest;the yield of 'lvning3' was in the middle,the root/shoot and C/N ratio were lower,the nutrition growth of plant was vigorously;the yield of 'Beijixing'and 'Hanyue' were the lowest,root/shoot ratio moderate,but C/N ratio lower,plants mainly was in nutrition growth.Comprehensive comparison drawn:The tolerance ability to low light of was the best,'Jinyou2' and 'Jinlv3' better,'Lvning3' was in the middle,and 'Hanyue' and 'beijixing' were worst.


The aim of the article is to identify, analyze and compare basic values of representatives of modern generations in Western Europe and Ukraine using the value-oriented approach, which implies the perception of generational values as one of the three basic layers of personal values (individual, generational and national ones). The article analyzes basic values and conditions of their formation for five modern generations in contemporary Western Europe and Ukraine: the Silent, the Baby Boomers, Generation X, Generation Y and Generation Z. The results of the comparative analysis of basic values inherent in representatives of these generations showed their almost complete identity despite the differences in conditions of their formation. Thus the key factor of grouping people of approximately the same age into one generation is the presence of identical values.


Abstract A 49-year-old woman had pemphigus vulgaris for 8 years. She had been treated for 5 years with prednisolone in increasingly high doses, up to 200 mg daily, and had developed numerous and li...


Some autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) patients experience relapse during their clinical course, and some risk factors for relapse have been identified previously using a relatively small sample size. The aim of the present study was to identify the risk factors for relapse in recently diagnosed AIH patients using a nationwide survey in Japan.


The opening lecture of the conference was on a Scottish theme to complement the Scottish venue. Professor JOHN BUTT (Strathclyde) spoke on 'Working-class housing in the Scottish cities 1900–51'. He began with a fairly traditional picture of working-class housing, which seemed to suggest that it was almost synonymous with slum-dwelling. He also outlined the system of house-letting which operated in Glasgow at the turn of the century, and suggested the impact on the housing market. This system was based upon yearly lets expiring at one date for all but thebottom of the market, where monthly lets were the norm. The main agitation for a change in the letting system came from the mostly 'respectable' tenants who occupied yearly-let property, as opposed to the slum-dwellers who rented on a monthly basis. (Regular attenders at the Urban History Group conferences will remember that these themes were discussed in the paper presented by Nick Morgan and Martin Daunton to the Loughborough meeting in 1981; they will also form a major element in Dr Englander's forthcoming book on Landlord and Tenant in Urban Britain 1838–1918.) Professor Butt went on to argue that during the rent strikes of the First World War, it is possible to see a clear distinction between the 'landlord class' and the 'employer class', the latter not always supporting the view of the former. The final part of the lecture considered the provision of new housing for the working classes after 1918. Detailed figures were provided to support the contention that the building industry and building supplies trade in Scotland were incapable of meeting the demand for new housing from the public sector during the 1930s. He illustrated his argument with specific examples of corporation house-building in Aberdeen, Glasgow, Dundee and Edinburgh.


Objective To know the epidemic status of hypertension among primary and secondary students,and to investigate the relationships between anthropometric measurements and blood pressure.Methods A total 3 087 residential students from two districts in Ningbo were surveyed by using of random cluster sampling.Blood pressure,weight,height,hip circumference and other anthropometric measurements were measured.The relations between blood pressure and different anthropometric variables were investigated in linear regression models.Results The prevalence of hypertension was 2.49%,there was no significant difference between girls(1.99%) and boys(3.01%).The prevalence of hypertension in urban and in rural areas was 2.45% and 2.54% respectively,which there was no difference as well.Further analysis showed that body mass index(BMI),waist circumference(WC),hip circumference(Hip) and waist / height ratio(WHtR) had significant positive correlation with the systolic and diastolic blood pressure.Hip,BMI,age,and waist/height ratio(WHtR) index had greater impact on blood pressure in boys while waist indicators and age had a greater impact on blood pressure in girls.Conclusion Anthropometric measurements are closely related with blood pressure,which imply that they may be used to predict or screen for hypertension among primary and secondary students.


This study is to investigate how empowering women through Information Communication Technology (ICT) in public administrations influences the development processes. Field study is conducted in Jordan and limited to research the empowerment process for women in the public sectors. The study is qualitative and report results based on interviews with employed women and government employees responsible for employee's development. In this paper Capability Approach (CA) framework is operationalized to be used in empowering women through ICT. The research questions are: 1) what are the opportunities that women can get through ICT? 2) What are the challenges that affect the process of empowering women through ICT in public administrations?. The questions are answered by analysing the data through the operationalized framework that helps to study the development outcomes through empowerment through ICT. The results show that ICTs have enabled many valued opportunities for the employed women. However, challenges that affect the empowerment process are found: conversion factors that affect the women's choice to act on ICT an opportunity, and administrative factors that affect the empowerment process inside the public sector.


The reliability and performance of high pressure pumps are essential for every waterjet cutting equipment. The paper presents the results of measurements of pressure and flow rate fluctuations at intensifier pumps. The recording was done with a flow meter and a high pressure sensor, both suitable for a maximum pressure of 400 MPa. The paper compares the results of hydraulic pressure inside the actuating cylinder at the intensifier as well as high pressure level and flow rate on the discharge connection of the pump. Direct measurement inside the high pressure cylinder and the influence of an accumulator in the high pressure line round out the work.


ABSTRACT The capacity of the cell to produce, fold and degrade proteins relies on components of the proteostasis network. Multiple types of insults can impose a burden on this network, causing protein misfolding. Using thermal stress, a classic example of acute proteostatic stress, we demonstrate that ∼5–10% of the soluble cytosolic and nuclear proteome in human HEK293 cells is vulnerable to misfolding when proteostatic function is overwhelmed. Inhibiting new protein synthesis for 30 min prior to heat-shock dramatically reduced the amount of heat-stress induced polyubiquitylation, and reduced the misfolding of proteins identified as vulnerable to thermal stress. Following prior studies in C. elegans in which mutant huntingtin (Q103) expression was shown to cause the secondary misfolding of cytosolic proteins, we also demonstrate that mutant huntingtin causes similar 'secondary' misfolding in human cells. Similar to thermal stress, inhibiting new protein synthesis reduced the impact of mutant huntingtin on proteostatic function. These findings suggest that newly made proteins are vulnerable to misfolding when proteostasis is disrupted by insults such as thermal stress and mutant protein aggregation. Summary: This study shows that stressors that burden the proteostatic network produce the greatest impact on newly made proteins with a substantial portion of the proteome being vulnerable to such stress.


Mary Speer, 'Tutoring the King: Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda's Victory over Bartolomé de Las Casas', Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 97 (2020), 271–287, maintains that linguistic and substantive similarities between four Sepúlveda works— Democrates Primus (1535) arguing against Erasmus's pacifism and in favour of Church wealth; Democrates Secundus (1544) justifying war on Amerindians; the dedication of his 1548 translation of Aristotle's Politics; and a letter written the year before the 'Salamanca debate' between Sepúlveda and Las Casas in 1550—reveal an ongoing bond with his childhood pupil Philip ii. Democrates Secundus, she suggests, was directed to the future king and influenced the decision to pursue the encomendero system in the Americas. Joan Tello Brugal, 'The Satellitium sive Symbola of Joan Lluís Vives: Critical Edition with a Short Introduction', Humanistica Lovaniensia, 69 (2020), 35–114, is the first critical edition of Vives's annotated collection of saws and Pythagorean symbols first published in Leuven by Peter Martins in 1524 alongside two other works also begun during Vives's time at Corpus Christi College, Oxford: Introductio ad sapientiam and De ratione studii puerilis, of both of which Tello Brugal promises critical editions in the near future. The present


According to symmetry, at arbitrary degree of freedom, inertial stabilization platform was simplified to one degree of freedom. Drive model and math model of inertial stabilization platform were built. The combined use of gimbal and flexible support makes system structure compact. It is not sensitive to linear vibration, and can partly suppress angular vibration. As inertial moment of rotation was very small, drive torque was mainly decided by control bandwidth. By derivation on the math model, the relationship between natural torsion frequency、environment vibration angular frequency and vibration transfer ratio. Environment angular disturbance with the frequency above 6Hz can be suppressed. Bandwidths of inertial stabilization platform in two degrees both reach 100 Hz. But it remains to be studied when the system is controlled by closed loop.


Measurements of the driving‐point impedance loop and directivity pattern of a small magnetostrictive‐stack transducer were made for the transducer at an air–water surface in the presence of spherical scatterers in the water. The scatterers, a hollow sphere and a hard sphere, were mounted on the transducer's radiation axis in the water below at depths of λ/4, λ/2, and λ. Significant effects were found.


In this paper, we employ the notion of weighted sharing to consider the problem of uniqueness of meromorphic functions when they share two or three sets. Our results not only improve the results of Qiu and Fang [21], Lin and Yi [27], Lin and Yi [28], Fang and Lahiri [6] but also supplement the result of Lahiri [13] in a new direction and consequently provide an answer to the question of Gross [7].


AIM:To study the inhibitory effect of astragaloside IV on hepatitis B virus(HBV) replication in vitro.METHODS:Different concentrations of astragaloside IV and lamivudine in DMEM were added to the wells with the monolayer growth of HepG2.2.15 cells and the supernatant was collected at day 3,6 and 9.The cytotoxic activity of drugs on HepG2.2.15 cells was detected by means of MTT.The concentrations of HBsAg and HBeAg in the culture supernatant were determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay(ELISA) and the extracellular HBV DNA was measured by real-time PCR.RESULTS:When administrated for 9 d,astragaloside IV produced dose-dependent inhibition of HBsAg and HBeAg excreted by HepG2.2.15 cells,with a 50% inhibitory concentration(IC50)of 22.1 mg/L and 26.2 mg/L,respectively,and selectivity index(TI)was 4.4 and 3.72,respectively.Astragaloside IV reduced extracellular HBV DNA replication in HepG2.2.15 cells,with IC50 of 13.2 mg/L and TI was 7.4.The inhibition rate of astragaloside IV against HBV DNA was higher than that of lamivudine 5 mg/L.CONCLUSION:Astragaloside IV has a dose-dependent inhibitory effect on replication of human HBV in vitro.


Fery Andrianto. K5113024. THE EFFECT OF JARIMAGIC METHOD TO INCREASE MATHEMATICS LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT OF BLIND STUDENT CLASS V A IN SLB-A YKAB SURAKARTA ACADEMIC YEAR 2016/2017. Skripsi, Surakarta: Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Sebelas Maret University, April 2017. The objective of this research is to know the effect of jarimagic method to increase mathematics learning achivement of blind student class V A in SLB-A YKAB Surakarta academic year 2016/2017. In the research, the subject was be used of the entire class V A SLB-A YKAB Surakarta amounting to 5 students. The research used is quantitative method with the type of experimntal research methods pre-expeimental design in the form of one group pretest-posttest design. Collecting data using the technique of multiple-choice test. Data analysis using non-parametric statistics using the Wilcoxon Sign Rank Test, with a level of significant 0.05. The results of research showed the increase in the average score value between pretest and posttest, gained an average score pretest 47 and posttest 79 and test statistic pretest and posttest score that indicates value of Asymp. Sig. (2-tailed) is less than the specified significance level of 0.05. So that there are significant differences between pretest and posttest results are Asymp. Sig. (2-tailed) = 0.041 < significance level = 0.05. Thus the hypothesis which says "there is effect of using jarimagic method to increase mathematics learning achievement of blind students class V A in SLB-A YKAB Surakarta Academic Year 2016/2017" can be accepted. Keywords: Influencing, Jarimagic method, learning achievement, mathematics, visual impairment student


14-у ears experience of management of 83 children with chemical burns of oesophagus of III degree treated in State Regional Children Clinical Hospital is summarized in the work. Children with chemical esophageal burns III degree and postburn constrictions were divided into 3 groups. The first group (group of clinical comparison) included 32 children which were treated with «blind» gullet bougienage. The second group (group of treatment 1) comprised 40 children; during their treatment gullet bougienage with guiding string was used. And in the third group (group of treatment 2) there were 11 children, which were treated with application of worked out in the Clinic esophagoprotector (Patent for invention N 2225229 «Device for restoration of esophageal permeability») in combination with local application of preparation Kuriozin. Recovery in the 1st and 2nd groups made 65,5 ± 8,4 % and 90 ± 4,7 % of children. With application of worked out complex method of treatment (esophagoprotector + Kuriozin) 100 % recovery was achieved in the 3rd group of children, terms of treatment were lowered on 47,8 ± 8,8 %, which significantly reduce financial expenses.


With the theory research and new quality appearing in the Chinese poetry at the beginning of the 21st century,the issue of the"poetry' s ethics"had been highlighted.This is a phenomenon beyond the past writing,and a necessity of the stress of responsibility on the basis of reality.The paper,by examining the phenomenon and the relationship between writing(mirror) and reality(image),as well as the artistic reality,reflects,under the historical and realistic premise,its occurrence,development and makes corresponding value judgment,whose purpose is to direct the research to a broader and deeper theoretical space.


House have a lot of functions such as phisic and social and mental growth.  The purpose of this research is to study the association between society characteristic (level of education, knowledge, income, and amount of family member) and health status of house. Cross sectional study design was conducted in Bandealit, Jember. Data collected by interviewed to 79 samples and observation to their house by using health house card. The samples were selected by proportional random sampling. The research was to be analyzed with chi square test. Result of research indicate that is relationship between level education  and health status of house (significantly, p=0.037), mount family income and health status of house (significanty, p=0.0001), but there no relationship between level of knowledge and health status of house (p=0.587), amount of family member and health status of house (p=1.00) Conclusion ,the research show that  there is association between society characteristic and health status of house from education factor and income, but there is no association  with knowledge factor and amount of family member. Government should rebuild a healthy house for village community. Keywords : society characteristic ,health  house card, health status of house


Copper(II) and palladium(II) form 1:2 and 1:1 complexes with indane-1,2,3-trione mononsemicarbazone (ITMS) respectively in sodium acetate-acetic acid buffer medium. Both complexes conform to Beer's law up to 3.49 ppm of copper [molar absorptivity (E), 1.25 x 10^4 liter mole^1 cm^-1 at 355 nm] and 7.66 of palladium [E, 7.21 x 10^3 liter mol^1 com^-1 at 360 nm]. The solid complexes of copper(II) and palladium(II) with ITMS are isolated and characterized and probable structures assigned. Tolerance limit for foreign ions are given and ITMS is sued for the determination of copper in ferrous material.


Was established that from 26 diseases noted at domestic cats of Gomel 8 was hereditary (3 ― monogenic and 5 ― polygenic). Individuals of domestic cats F. catus bearing in the genotype mutant alleles genes of coat color and fur structure are more subject various diseases, rather than to the individual with alleles «wild type». Also was established connection of tortoise color (genotype Оо) F. catus with predisposition to formation of tumors different derivations


The paper analyzes the problems in rural land system on the basis of the effect of rural land system on agricultural production and farmer' life at present and puts forward some measures to improve rural land system.


Welfare issues for livestock at farms have received more and more attention in recent years. Attention focuses mainly on farms raising cattle, pigs, sheep, horses, goats or gallinaceous poultry. From the welfare point of view, the same attention is paid to fish farms whose purpose, i.e. production of fish meat, makes them comparable to livestock factory farms. Fish and fish meat hold an irreplaceable position among foods of animal origin. The aim of this study was to gather information on fish welfare in Rybnikarstvi Pohorelice, as a major producer of freshwater fish in the Czech Republic.


Megymenum distanti, a new species of the dinidorid subfamily Megymeninae, is described from India and is comparedwith M. affine and M. brevicorne. It is the sixth species of this genus known from India. Remarks on the habitat, wherethe type material was collected, photographs of the host plant and a brief description of all instars are provided. This species is of a different color as an adult and as nymphs, a situation which is unusual.


Abstract : Currently an increasing number of RAAF F/A-18 aircraft are developing acoustic fatigue cracks on the rear fuselage. Acoustic fatigue is the result of high frequency lateral vibration of an aircraft panel as a result of time varying pressure waves caused by engine and/or aerodynamic effects. While the exact broadband power spectral density (PSD) spectrum is not available for this area of the F/A-18, the PSD is known for the inlet nacelle area in which cracking has occurred. Cracking in the inlet nacelle proceeded cracking in the aft fuselage by a period of several years. As a result the inlet nacelle experiences a more severe spectrum and is the PSD adopted here. Viscoelastic damping materials are used in this repair in conjunction with the constrained layer technique to reduce the lateral vibration. Since viscoelastic materials have a limited temperature range it has been necessary to use two types of damping materials to cover the expected temperature range. A highly damped repair is proposed for the aft fuselage area and is shown to be significantly effective in reducing the crack growth rate.


The book will be a useful guide for those who are at risk of occupational noise exposure and its health effects as well as prevention of Occupational Noise Induced Hearing Loss. The contributors to this book are experienced occupational health physicians, who share their competence and experience with the readers by bridging scientific knowledge in order to prevent Occupational Noise Induced Hearing Loss. This book will be useful for medical students, occupational health physicians, occupational health nurses, industrial hygienists, all employers and employees who are exposed to high level of noise at their work places. We hope this booklet is useful, and its use will translate into improvement and prevention of Noise Induced Hearing Loss.


Existing super-resolution models for pathology images can only work in fixed integer magnifications and have limited performance. Though implicit neural network-based methods have shown promising results in arbitrary-scale super-resolution of natural images, it is not effective to directly apply them in pathology images, because pathology images have special fine-grained image textures different from natural images. To address this challenge, we propose a dual-branch framework with an efficient self-texture enhancement mechanism for arbitrary-scale super-resolution of pathology images. Extensive experiments on two public datasets show that our method outperforms both existing fixed-scale and arbitrary-scale algorithms. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to achieve arbitrary-scale super-resolution in the field of pathology images. Codes will be available.


Abstract Spin probes, such as (3-spiro[2′-N-oxyl-3′,3′-dimethyloxazolidine])-5α-cholestane (in Figure 1) have proved to be extremely valuable for studies of the long range orientational order and rates of molecular reorientation in a wide variety of liquid crystals. Their value stems, in part from their elongated form which results in a high alignment of the long molecular axis in an anisotropic environment. The extent of alignment is invariably described by a single order parameter associated with the long axis. This implies that the ordering matrix for the spin probe is cylindrically symmetric and such a description has considerable advantages for the theoretical analysis of both the spectral linewidths and the order parameter. However the spin probe does not possess a three-fold or higher symmetry axis and so the cylindrical symmetry of the ordering matrix must be established by direct measurement. There have been several investigations of 1 in lyotropic mesophases which conclude that the ordering matr...


As the development of new curriculum reformation goes deeper and deeper, the teaching methods and mode are updated. The teaching quality is improved and at the same time, the core ability of students can be developed to help them obtain more knowledge from textbook and professional skills, and ensure their continuous growth under education system, of which project-based teaching, as an innovated teaching mode, enjoys better aim to target group and deeper contains, which can effectively improve the level of teaching. This paper will design and explore the method and procedure of project-based teaching with the example of format design course, to provide proofs to improving the teaching quality of project-based teaching courses. Project-based teaching takes students as the body, developing core abilities, such as analyzing, comprehending, self-studying, cooperating, practicing and so on, as the core, and current textbook as carrier, connecting students with their future career and guiding them to obtain professional skills and related knowledge effectively. Compared with traditional teaching mode, in project-based teaching. teachers and students are equal. Around a task or project, students accomplish those activities like collecting and categorizing data, analyzing, researching, practicing and so on, while help teachers to complete teaching goal and get themselves' core ability developed, showing the practical value of project-based teaching. However, in current field of education, the related research outcome of project-based teaching is few, and guiding practical mechanical system hasn't been formed yet, which had negative effect on putting this kind of teaching method into practice, while offer condition to our research this time. Based on those, it is of vital importance to design and explore the method and procedure of project-based teaching with the example of format design course, to provide proofs to improving the teaching quality of project-based teaching courses. 1. Acting procedure of project-based teaching design Format design course is an important part in developing contemporary artists and designers, and it can improve students' ability to visual expression. It seems that learning related courses is obtaining arrangement knowledge, but actually it's learning a new skill and helping students to achieve design goal, which is high-standard combination of art and skills. As one of must-know 2019 International Conference on Arts, Management, Education and Innovation (ICAMEI 2019) Published by CSP © 2019 the Authors 950 skills for contemporary designers, format design requires teachers to teach in the background of new curriculum reformation, to learn advanced education ideology, to combine and refine educational resources, to activate the educational function of project-based teaching method, to enable students to master he procedure of format design work, to improve teachers' abilities to contemporary art design. In order to achieve those, teachers should complete the design of project-based teaching in advance, and lay a solid fundament for conducting educational goal of format design course. In the scope of management, the concept of "working procedure" is a summary of conducting process when guiding practitioners to accomplish a certain project. A good one should include goal, contains, standard, criteria, disciplines and so on. Seeing from this aspect, the design of "working procedure" is similar to the design of conducting a project, and they all require practitioners to complete certain projects according to existed design process. Under normal circumstances, modern design enterprises have functional departments such as planning department, customer department, creative department, and media department. The prototype of the work process is obtained under the interaction of various departments. First, the customer department puts forward specific layout design opinions, followed by planning. The planning department is responsible for integrating the relevant materials, analyzing the layout design opinions "landing" situation, and after deriving the design feasibility evaluation report, feedback to the customer department, and modifying the layout design plan with the customer as the core. After the layout design plan is clear. The planning department integrates and digests relevant materials, draws ideas for planning and implementation, and works with the media department to come up with a media plan, and submits it to the creative department in the form of a creative briefing. The creative department needs to complete the design task within the agreed time and submit the high-quality layout design to the client. Compared with the layout design "workflow", the content of regular lectures is not so complicated. It is only under the blessing of "teacher-student relationship" to complete the established educational tasks. For students, the knowledge they learn is too "dead" and even work practice, which affects students' learning ability and work ability. Under normal circumstances, modern design enterprises have functional departments such as planning department, customer department, creative department, and media department. The prototype of the work process is obtained under the interaction of various departments. First, the customer department puts forward specific format design opinions, followed by planning. The planning department is responsible for integrating the relevant materials, analyzing the format design opinions "landing" situation, and after deriving the design feasibility evaluation report, feedback to the customer department, and modifying the format design plan with the customer as the core. After the format design plan is clear. The planning department integrates and digests relevant materials, draws ideas for planning and implementation, and works with the media department to come up with a media plan, and submits it to the creative department in the form of a creative briefing. The creative department needs to complete the design task within the agreed time and submit the high-quality format design to the client. Compared with the format design "workflow", the content of regular lectures is not so complicated. It is only under the blessing of "teacher-student relationship" to complete the established educational tasks. For students, the knowledge they learn is too "dead" and even work practice, which affects students' learning ability and work ability. In order to effectively improve the teaching quality of the format design course, teachers need to do a project-based teaching design work based on the workflow: First, clarify the tasks of teachers and students. The teacher is the proposer of the format design project, the founder of the workflow, the maintainer of the work order, and exerts the energy efficiency of the "leader" in the project-based teaching practice to help the students solve various problems encountered in the


When a synthesis such as Stephenson's appears, those concerned with it had better speak up, lest silence be mistaken for approval. Synthesis can only be helpful to the rest of the profession if done as accurately as available information permits. "Culture Chronology in Texas" is not entirely accurate. A line-for-line criticism of this article would require a good deal of explanation and documentation; hence I will confine my remarks to what seem to me the principal faults – those which may mislead those not well acquainted with Texas archaeology.


The purpose of this paper is to research ways of the intellectual property right education Based on cooperation between school and enterprise. Using the method of document study and applying theory to practice obtain historical and present related data in order to correctly comprehensively, understand the problem of intellectual property right education. Effective measures and suggestion to promote intellectual property right education should be put forward based on problems. This paper focus on analysis problems and measures of perfecting intellectual property right education. The conclusion is that It is important for school and enterprise to establish the concept of cooperation, to establish long-term cooperation mechanism and to adopt the appropriate teaching model. Effective cooperation between schools and enterprises is helpful to improve the teaching quality of intellectual property.


The expansion door of the community is seen everywhere in today's urban district, but the traditional expansion door has some danger, unintelligence and environmental protection. This paper introduces a small gate control system based on PLC, the structure and working principle of intelligent gate in detail, illustrates the working process of the intelligent community gate control system and the PLC address of the detailed distribution, completed the design of control wiring diagram, PLC and to residential intelligent control purpose telescopic door.


A 62-year-old healthy male presented with a 4-month history of a painful enlarging penile ulcer not associated with any trauma, medications or new sexual contacts. Physical examination showed a healthy appearing male with a firm tender 1 cm red ulcer juxtaposed with the corona of the penis (fig. 1). The patient had no palpable lymphadenopathy. Penile biopsy demonstrated a nonspecific necrotizing granulomatous inflammation without vasculitis (fig. 2). Viral, fungal and selective bacterial cultures were all negative. Other evaluation with syphilis serologies (VDRL, fluorescent treponemal antibody absorption), serological tests for Chlamydia trachomatis and purified protein derivative tests yielded neg-


ABSTRACT Recently, a lot of interest is increased in sensor network which gathers various data through many sensor nodes deployed in wired and wireless network environment. However, because of the limitation in memory, computation, and energy of the sensor nodes, security problem is very important issue. In sensor network, not only the security problem, but also computing power should be seriously considered.In this paper, considering these characteristics, we make the sensor network consist of normal sensor nodes and clusterheaders with enough space and computing power, and propose a group key rekeying scheme adopting PCGR(Predistribution and local Collaboration- based Group Rekeying) for secure group communication. In our proposal, we enhance the security by minimizing the risk to safety of the entire network through verifying the new key value from clusterheader by sensor nodes. That is, to update the group keys, clusterheaders confirm sensor nodes through verifying the information from sensor nodes and send the new group keys back to authentic member nodes. The group keys sent back by the clusterheaders are verified again by sensor nodes. Through this mutual authentication, we can check if clusterheaders are compromised or not. Qualnet simulation result shows that our scheme not only guarantees secure group key rekeying but also decreasesstorage and communication overhead.Keywords:Sensor Network, Security, Group Key, Mutual Authentication


Puerto Rico suffered the worst hurricane which caused devastating damage in 2017. In order to deliver medical supplies in time and patrol the lines, NGOs try to improve the response capabilities of its by designing a portable disaster response system called DroneGo.DroneGo needs to find the optimal delivery path and the optimal equipment utilization rate for delivery according to the disaster relief conditions and schedule. In this paper, the integration of integer programming algorithm and Dijkstra algorithm is used to construct the shortest distribution path model for medical supplies transported by rescue drones in disaster areas. Using integer programming method, 7 kinds of drones and 3 kinds of medical packages are distributed, and then the DIjkstra algorithm is used to obtain the optimal distribution plan: San Juan Port is equipped with medical kits and three C-type drones, Arecibo Port allocates B-type drone patrol lines and medical kits for rescue, and Guayama Port only allocates drones for patrol lines. Using this distribution scheme greatly improves the efficiency of rescue, and distributes rescue materials reasonably and effectively, achieving the goals of optimal delivery path and optimal equipment utilization.


These new forms of targeting present huge opportunities to make valuable interventions more effective, for example by delivering public services to those most in need of them. However, the use of more fine-grained information about individuals and groups also raises huge risks, challenging key notions of privacy, fairness, and autonomy. Some cases of targeting will be clearly beneficial, and others clearly manipulative, but there will also be a large grey area in between.


Professor associate in paediatric pathology University of Sheffield, 1972-80 (b 1915; q Bristol 1939; FRCPath, DCH), died in a fire in his Gloucestershire home trying to rescue his dog on 1 May 2000. He was a paediatric registrar at the Bristol Children's Hospital in December 1940 when the hospital was blitzed, and he helped to evacuate the inpatients. He registered as a conscientious objector and drove ambulances during the second world war. Mindful that this decision was likely to jeopardise opportunities in paediatric medicine, he turned his interest to pathology. He was appointed lecturer in pathology in Bristol in 1942 and consultant paediatric pathologist at the Sheffield Children's Hospital in 1947 and remained in the post until 1980. He was probably Britain's leading scientist in the subject of sudden infant death syndrome. He proposed significant new ideas, which were often initially rejected, only to be later proved correct. He claimed that 80% of infant deaths were probably due to recognisable medical causes which doctors had failed to diagnose, while a further one in ten were the result of infanticide or filicide. His conclusions were based on a career of postmortem examinations of more than 10 000 babies as well as confidential interviews with parents, health visitors, and social workers. From the outset Emery suspected that there were many different causes behind infant mortality. He was heavily involved in the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths. He discovered particular links between mortality and such matters as smoking, room temperature, and prematurity. He was involved in research which suggested that laying a child on his or her back was the safest course of action. He was a founder member of many scientific establishments, including the Paediatric Pathology Society and the Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida. For many years all trainees in paediatric medicine spent some time in his laboratory and in 1979 he was pivotal in initiating the advanced course in paediatric pathology. After retirement he continued his studies into cot death and was sought after for expert legal advice. In 1987 he was awarded the James Spence Gold Medal by the British Paediatric Society and in 1999 received an honorary degree in Sheffield at the same ceremony at which his granddaughter graduated. Outside medicine he kept a large garden and was a keen sailor. At scientific meetings few present escaped being recorded in one of his pencil sketches. He and his wife bred Airedale terriers for many years. He leaves a wife, Mytts; four sons; two daughters; and 15 grandchildren. [Dick Variend, Ewen MacKinnon]


Cassava is one of the most important food and industrial crops in Asia, Africa, and South America. Cassava mosaic disease (CMD), caused by cassava mosaic geminivirus, is one of the major constraints to cassava cultivation. In Asia, the disease is caused by the Indian cassava mosaic virus and Sri Lankan cassava mosaic virus. Phytosanitation, vector control, breeding, and genetic engineering strategies have been widely adopted to manage the disease. This study provides a comprehensive review of the disease spread, the development of diagnostic methods, and various approaches employed for the management of CMD in South and Southeast Asia.


To reduce the cost of establishment of new plantations of Opuntia ficus-indica in marginal rural zones in Mexico, four treatments were established according to the proportion of the cladode used as germinal material: T1=plantation of a whole cladode (1/1), T2=half cladode (1/2), T3=a quarter cladode (1/4), and T4=an eighth cladode (1/8). Survival rate was estimated at five and eight months after plantation, which ♦ Received 13 November 2007; Accepted 17 May 2008


The use of relations between structural parameters of early-type galaxies to perform the Tolman test for the expansion of the universe is reconsidered. Scaling relations such as the fundamental plane or the Kormendy relation require the transformation from angular to metric sizes, to compare the relation at different z-values. This transformation depends on the assumed world model: galaxies of a given angular size, at a given z, are larger (in units of kiloparsecs) in a nonexpanding universe than in an expanding one. Furthermore, the luminosities of galaxies are expected to evolve with z in an expanding model. These effects are shown to conspire to reduce the difference between the predicted surface brightness (SB) change with redshift in the expanding and nonexpanding cases. We have considered expanding models with passive luminosity evolution. We find that their predictions for the visible photometric bands are very similar to those of the static model until z~1, and therefore the test cannot distinguish between the two world models. Recent good-quality data on the Kormendy relation and the fundamental plane at intermediate redshifts are consistent with the predictions from both models. In the K band, where the expected (model) luminosity evolutionary corrections are smaller, the differences between the expanding and static models amount to ~0.4 (0.8) mag at z=0.4 (1). It is shown that, owing to that small difference between the predictions in the covered z-range, and to the paucity and uncertainties of the relevant SB photometry, the existing K-band data are not adequate to distinguish between the different world metrics and cannot yet be used to discard the static case. It is pointed out that the scaling relations could still be used to rule out the nonevolving case if it could be shown that the coefficients change with the redshift.


The present invention relates to an upper roller support and loading arm (1) with arms (4, 5, 6) for receiving the top rollers (7, 8, 9) on a drawing frame, wherein the holding means (4, 5, 6) comprises a resiliently resilient compression spring (11, 12, 13) for loading the associated upper roller (7, 8, 9) is associated, wherein the compression spring (11, 12, 13) is designed as a plastic molded part.


This case book is organized around a series of criminal procedure problems based on a major homicide case (which appears in the appendix). Focuses on the hearing and adjudication phases of criminal procedure, and emphasizes prosecutor and defense roles in each of the vital steps in a criminal case from bail hearings through appeals, preliminary hearings, joinder and severance of offenses, speedy trial hearings, applications for discovery, motions to close proceedings to avoid prejudicial publicity, motions to suppress confessions, and many others.


Introduction. For many research and development organisations, the prompt supply of consumables is a prerequisite for efficient operation. The article presents changes made to the regulations governing the procurement of consumables for research and development, as well as the assessment of these changes provided by universities and scientific organisations. Monitoring Tools. This work utilises analysis, generalisation and interpretation of the rule of law. Stakeholder surveys were conducted to collect information on the effectiveness of rulemaking in the field of procurement. Results. A survey of senior and middle managers in science and higher education institutions showed that regulatory deficiencies are the main obstacle to simplifying the procurement of research and development materials. In recent years, the state has taken a number of consistent steps to adjust the regulatory legal framework in the field of procurement. Despite the measures taken, procurement procedures remain excessively long and laborious. Conclusion. To improve the supply of universities and scientific organisations with consumables, it is necessary to optimise procedures within organisations, further efforts to improve legislation, as well as explanatory work on the part of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia about existing opportunities to improve consumable procurement process efficiency within the framework of current legislation.


In this paper we give a short overview about how the known, different methods (DTI, WMT) can be integrated as new components into a multi functional system. Our exact aim was to develop a well applicable implementation for the DTI method and Fiber Tracking. The final goal is to integrate the fibers or ellipsoids into the surface model clipped by examination planes. Furthermore, the stream of the molecules (the fibers) can be modelled by a particle system. These techniques are available by the new graphic cards and the standards they support.


South Korea has witnessed a remarkable decline in birth rates in the last few decades. Although there has been a large volume of literature exploring the determinants of low fertility in South Korea, studies on spatial variations in fertility are scarce. This study compares the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) models to investigate the potential role of the spatially heterogeneous response of the total fertility rate (TFR) to sociodemographic factors. The study finds that the relationships between sociodemographic factors and TFRs in South Korea vary across 252 sub-administrative areas in terms of both magnitude and direction. This study therefore demonstrates the value of using spatial analysis for providing evidence-based local-population policy options in pursuit of a fertility rebound in South Korea.


Stretchable conductive fibers have received significant attention due to their possibility of being utilized in wearable and foldable electronics. Here, highly stretchable conductive fiber composed of silver nanowires (AgNWs) and silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) embedded in a styrene–butadiene–styrene (SBS) elastomeric matrix is fabricated. An AgNW‐embedded SBS fiber is fabricated by a simple wet spinning method. Then, the AgNPs are formed on both the surface and inner region of the AgNW‐embedded fiber via repeated cycles of silver precursor absorption and reduction processes. The AgNW‐embedded conductive fiber exhibits superior initial electrical conductivity (σ0 = 2450 S cm−1) and elongation at break (900% strain) due to the high weight percentage of the conductive fillers and the use of a highly stretchable SBS elastomer matrix. During the stretching, the embedded AgNWs act as conducting bridges between AgNPs, resulting in the preservation of electrical conductivity under high strain (the rate of conductivity degradation, σ/σ0 = 4.4% at 100% strain). The AgNW‐embedded conductive fibers show the strain‐sensing behavior with a broad range of applied tensile strain. The AgNW reinforced highly stretchable conductive fibers can be embedded into a smart glove for detecting sign language by integrating five composite fibers in the glove, which can successfully perceive human motions.


We report on a series of new platforms and events dealing with AI evaluation that may change the way in which AI systems are compared and their progress is measured. The introduction of a more diverse and challenging set of tasks in these platforms can feed AI research in the years to come, shaping the notion of success and the directions of the field. However, the playground of tasks and challenges presented there may misdirect the field without some meaningful structure and systematic guidelines for its organization and use. Anticipating this issue, we also report on several initiatives and workshops that are putting the focus on analyzing the similarity and dependencies between tasks, their difficulty, what capabilities they really measure and ultimately on elaborating new concepts and tools that can arrange tasks and benchmarks into a meaningful taxonomy.


On April 26-29, (1994) all South Africans, irrespective of their color, had the opportunity to vote. This was truly. a historic moment in South Africa's history. The exhilaration forced me to reflect upon the despair created by South Africa's election in 1948. History was also made then: The National Party was brought into power and racial segregation and discrimination were officially sanctioned by the government. Under these new laws, which became known collectively as apartheid, blacks had no right to equal or integrated housing; no right to freedom of movement, assembly or association; no right to equal political representation; no right to equal or integrated education; and, most tragic of all, no right to vote in a national election.The April election established Nelson Mandela as a dominant leader in South Africa, the African National Congress as the dominant party and an interim constitution. Ironically, the election was the first time Nelson Mandela, now president of South Africa, had the right to vote in a national election in the country of his birth. A country that he refused to leave in 1962 and subsequently convicted him of treason and sentenced him to life in prison for plotting to overthrow the apartheid regime. Most significant, however, the election established an assembly empowered to draft a final constitution.


The focus of this paper is to highlight one aspect of a larger project seeking to identify and address the difficulties international students are experiencing in a core unit of the Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) at the University of New England. Academic developers at the Teaching and Learning Centre, in consultation with the unit coordinator, decided to incorporate into the unit a set of online scenario-based learning modules to assist students with the IRAC (Issues, Rule, Application and Conclusion) law methodology. The modules presented a workplace scenario that emphasised finding, understanding and using information. They were designed to help students acquire the skills that underpin success in the assessment tasks and develop strategies to deal with the subject-specific discourse. The first module was made available online and two compulsory workshops were given to familiarise the students with the content. The students were then able to revisit the online module in their own time. This module was designed to assist the students in identifying the issues that are relevant to a particular client of a local law firm. The second module continued the workplace scenario and supported students in developing their skills of identifying the rule, applying their findings and preparing a conclusion based on the evidence. Both these modules form part of a larger, ongoing project that has included focus group sessions and online surveys to determine what difficulties international students face in the unit and how support should be provided.


Using the Taylor Formula and a Gruss type inequality, with the integral remainder, we point out a Taylor's like formula for mappings of two variables defined on a interval and point out some upper bounds for the remainder.


Water-assisted injection moulding. Compared with gas, water offers good thermal conductivity, high heat capacity, incompressibility and low cost as a process fluid. Water-assisted injection moulding (also known as the water-injection technique, WIT) can produce moulded parts with functional cavities more economically than was hitherto possible. It can therefore open up new application areas for thermoplastics. For their part, thermoplastics are being tailored to the requirements of WIT.


Microscopic calculations of nuclear reaction cross sections and total reaction probabilities are compared with measurements for the {ital d}+Si, {sup 3,4}He+Si, and {ital d}+Ge systems at energies ranging from 2 to 53 MeV/nucleon. Good agreement is obtained, except for {sup 3}He+Si at the very lowest energies, when zero-range nucleon-nucleon forces are assumed and realistic nuclear density distributions are used in the tail regions, where the models are most sensitive. The agreement is less good for finite-range forces. A strong absorption model gives much poorer agreement with the recent {sup 4}He+Si measurements than do the microscopic models.


Di-ammonium phosphate (DAP) band application generally improves phosphorus (P) fertiliser use efficiency but can cause ammonia toxicity to plants. We used specially constructed pots to study P and ammonium (NH4+) gradients between the DAP band and plant roots grown in 2 soils. The pots were with or without a 30-mm nylon mesh between the roots and the fertiliser band, and had a movable side to enable sampling of soil layers at various distances from the fertiliser band and/or plant roots. After 28 days, ammonia toxicity symptoms occurred in plants grown in Lancelin soil in both mesh and no-mesh pots with the band placed 1 cm from the seed. Smaller root and shoot dry weights and a shorter root length were measured in both soils in no-mesh pots when the banding distance from the seed was 1 cm compared with 2.5 cm. In contrast, no differences in root and shoot dry weight occurred when direct contact between the roots and the fertiliser band was prevented in mesh pots; however, roots were shorter in mesh pots when fertiliser was banded 1 cm, compared with 2.5 cm, from the seed. The highest values for pH, NH4+ concentration, and bicarbonate-extractable P level occurred 4–5 cm from the seed in mesh pots, and in the layer between the fertiliser band and the seed in no-mesh pots. Phosphorus concentration in shoots was greater when plants were grown in Lancelin than in New Norcia soil, and when grown in no-mesh compared with mesh pots. In conclusion, large gradients of pH, ammonium, and bicarbonate-extractable P existed around plant roots when DAP and ammonium sulfate were banded in the vicinity of the seed. The frequently employed practice of growing plants in mesh pots to characterise nutrient gradients in soil close to roots, including the rhizosphere soil, results in plants with altered growth and nutrient accumulation characteristics in comparison to plants with no physical restriction for root growth within the pot.


The effect of compressibility on velocity gradient structure and the related flow-field patterns/topology is investigated using direct numerical simulation data. To clearly isolate compressibility effects, the behavior is investigated as a function of local level of dilatation. Importantly, dilatation-conditioned behavior is found to be independent of Mach and Reynolds numbers. Not surprisingly, at low dilatation level, velocity gradient structure and local flow topology are similar to incompressible turbulence. At high dilatation levels, however, the behavior is quite different. A recently developed velocity gradient evolution equation – Homogenized Euler Equation (HEE) – qualitatively captures many of the observed features of compressible turbulence.


Objective:To evaluate whether once daily (q.d.) lopinavir/ritonavir is noninferior to twice daily (b.i.d.) dosing in children. Design:International, multicentre, phase II/III, randomized, open-label, noninferiority trial (KONCERT/PENTA18/ANRS150). Setting:Clinical centres participating in the PENTA, HIV-NAT and PHPT networks. Participants:Children/adolescents with HIV-1 RNA viral load less than 50 copies/ml for at least 24 weeks on lopinavir/ritonavir-containing antiretroviral therapy. Intervention:Children were randomized to continue lopinavir/ritonavir b.i.d. or change to q.d. Main outcome measure:Confirmed viral load ≥50 copies/ml by 48 weeks (12% noninferiority margin). Results:One hundred seventy-three children were randomized in the KONCERT trial (86 q.d., 87 b.i.d.); 46% men, median (IQR) age 11 (9–14) years, CD4% 33 (27–38)%. By week 48, 97 and 98% of time was spent on q.d. and b.i.d., respectively (one q.d. child lost at week 4). Twelve q.d. vs. seven b.i.d. children had confirmed viral load ≥50 copies/ml within 48 weeks; estimated difference in percentage with viral load rebound 6% [90% CI (–2, 14)]. Numbers of children with grade 3/4 adverse events (11 vs. 7) or major resistance mutations (3 vs. 2) were similar, q.d. vs. b.i.d. (both P > 0.3). Among 26 children in an intrasubject lopinavir/ritonavir pharmacokinetic substudy, lower daily exposure (AUC0–24 161 h.mg/l vs. 224 h.mg/l) and lower Clast (1.03 mg/l vs. 5.69 mg/l) were observed with q.d. vs. b.i.d. dosing. Conclusion:Noninferiority for viral load suppression on q.d. vs. b.i.d. lopinavir/ritonavir was not demonstrated. Although results, therefore, do not support routine use of q.d. lopinavir/ritonavir, lack of safety concerns or resistance suggest that q.d. dosing remains an option in selected, adherent children, with close viral load monitoring.


To investigate the differences in verbal and visuo-spatial memory abilities in cerebral palsy patients. Twenty-seven cerebral palsy patients with dysarthria, 29 cerebral palsy patients without dysarthria and 32 mental age-matched normally developed controls were compared using a Digit span test, a Verbal learning test, the Corsi Tapping test and a Figure memory test. We found that Verbal and visual working memory functioning is selectively impaired in CP patients. Dysarthria in CP patients may play an important role both in verbal and visuo-spatial working memory. The two components of working memory, PL and VSSP, work in synergy and especially in high point tasks.


This new book, an edited collection of articles by active chemical education researchers, provides a good entry point for those who want to know more about chemical education research: what it is, how it is done, and its value for the chemistry community.


Abstract Prepulse inhibition of the blink reflex is widely applied to investigate information processing deficits in schizophrenia and other psychiatric patient groups. The present experiment investigated the hypothesis that prepulse inhibition reflects a transient process that protects preattentive processing of the prepulse. Participants were presented with pairs of blink-eliciting noises, some preceded by a prepulse at a variable stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA), and were asked to rate the intensity of the second noise relative to the first. Inhibition of blink amplitude was greater for a 110-dB(A) noise than for a 95-dB(A) noise with a 120-ms SOA, whereas there was no difference with a 30-ms SOA. The perceived intensity was also lower for the 110-dB(A) noise than for the 95-dB(A) noise with the 120-ms SOA, but not with the 30-ms SOA. The parallel results support a relationship between prepulse inhibition of response amplitude and perceived intensity. However, the prepulse did not reduce intensity ratin...


Accurate assessment of aortic stenosis (AS) severity is critical for the correct management of patients. This has become particularly important because the introduction of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has markedly increased the number of patients eligible for aortic valve replacement

 To assess whether reclassification of aortic stenosis (AS) grading by integration of fusion imaging using data from transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) and multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) under consideration of the energy loss index (ELI) predicts outcome in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI).

 197 consecutive patients with symptomatic severe AS undergoing TAVI at our University Heart Center were included in this study. AS severity was determined according to current guidelines.

 Left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) area derived from TTE was smaller than the planimetric area in MDCT due the ovoid shape of the LVOT (3.4±0.12 cm2 vs. 4.5±0.23 cm2; p<0.01). The sinotubular junction (ST-junction) diameter measured in TTE was similar to maximal, minimal, and mean diameters determined by MDCT. The sphericity index confirmed an almost circular anatomy of ST-junction, and its area derived from TTE was similar to the planimetric area in MDCT. Fusion aortic valve area index (fusion AVAi) assessed by inserting MDCT derived planimetric LVOT area in the continuity equation was significantly higher in all patients compared to conventional AVAi. 62 patients were reclassified from severe to moderate AS because fusion AVAi was >0.6 cm2/m2. ELI was calculated for conventional AVAi and fusion AVAi each with ST-junction area determined by both TTE and MDCT. Calculating ELI with fusion AVAi resulted in significantly larger effective orifice area, with values >0.6 cm2/m2 in 83 patients (ST-junction area from echo) and 85 patients (ST-junction area from MDCT). Similarly, calculating ELI with conventional AVAi resulted in significantly larger effective orifice area as compared to AVAi alone. Reclassified patients had lower mean transvalvular pressure gradients, lower myocardial mass, less symptoms according to NYHA classification, and lower proBNP levels at baseline. While both groups exhibited improvement of functional status at 1 year of follow-up, the survival rate at 3 years after TAVI was higher in patients reclassified to moderate AS (81% versus 66%; p=0.02).

 Integration of TTE and MDCT derived values for calculation of ELI reclassifies the severity of AS in 43% of patients initially diagnosed with severe AS.Although reclassified patients display less advanced valve disease at baseline, TAVI results in functional improvement in all patients. Furthermore, patients reclassified to moderate AS exhibit higher survival rates at 3 years after aortic valve replacement.


By design, combined HP-IP turbines have a small amount of internal leakage from the high-pressure turbine to the intermediate-pressure turbine. When turbines are new, the amount of this leakage is close to the design heat balance. But as turbines age, the leakage increases considerably, causing a heat rate penalty and possibly a reliability problem. In Part I, we explore the symptoms and causes of excessive leakage within GE steam turbines and how to correct the problem. Part II, in next month's issue, will examine the same issues for Westinghouse and Allis-Chalmers turbines.


Despite often complaining about the existence of the European Court of Human Rights, the UK has one of the strongest compliance records in the Court's 47-country system. Zoe Jay explains how the UK's conceptions of human rights protection shape its willingness to comply with the Court's rulings.


A revelation of the elegant maturity reached by architect Peter Aldington's British village housing design from the 1960s, celebrated as among the best in Europe. This account explains how good house design was complemented by a glorious sequence of gardens, in a Buckinghamshire setting.


LEGO Mindstorms NXT is a powerful robot programming target. It has ARM7, sensor and motor ports, and bluetooth support. and G-Code, C-Based, JAVA programming support, too. In this paper, we introduce the effectiveness of NXT via computer science education at college and university.


The report is devoted to the description of the inconspicuous line of scientific activity of the USSR programming leader A.P. Ershov in the field of manifestation and development of programming paradigms. In science, leadership means the ability to recognize new problems and expand the space for practical solutions. A.P. Ershov was able to see unexpected key programming problems as a new area of research and purposefully expand the space for solving such problems. (Quotes from previously published materials are provided for readability.)


Along with the accelerating economic growth in the BRICS,the contribution of human resources and urbanization to economic growth will become increasingly significant and two important engines of economic development of the BRICS. This paper comparatively analyzes the potential for economic development based on these two aspects in the BRICS. It points out that, in the process of urbanization in the future,on one hand,China should vigorously improve the quality of life of its population and develop human resources to promote the advantage of the quality of life instead of the quantity of its population. On the other hand, China must promote coordinated development between urbanization and economic and social development to avoid the trap of over-urbanization, so that China could maintain its absolute superiority in the BRICS.


OBJECTIVES
To identify a dose as low as diagnostically acceptable and a threshold level of image quality for CBCT imaging root canals, using maxillary first molar (M1M) second mesio-buccal (MB2) canals of varying complexity for two CBCT scanners.

METHODS
Dose-area product (DAP) and contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) were measured for two scanners at a range of exposure parameters. Subjective-image-quality assessment (SIQA) at the same exposures was performed for 3 M1M's of varying MB2 complexity, positioned in a anthropomorphic phantom. Nine raters (three endodontists, three dental radiologists and three junior staff) assessed canal visibility, using a five-point confidence scale rating (CSR).

RESULTS
Identification of simple-moderate MB2 canal complexity was achieved at a range of protocols, with DAP values of ≥209.3 mGy cm² and ≥203.2 mGy cm² and CNRs of 3 and 7.6 for Promax®3D and Accuitomo-F170® respectively. For complex canal anatomy, target subjective image quality was not achieved, even at the highest DAP values for both scanners. Junior staff classified significantly more images as undiagnostic compared with senior staff (p = 0.043).

CONCLUSIONS
In this first study to address optimisation of CBCT imaging of root canal anatomy, a similar threshold dose for both scanners was identified for M1Ms with simple-moderate MB2 canal complexity. Increasing dose to enhance visualisation of more complex canal anatomy was ineffective. Selection of standard protocols (while avoiding lower kV/mA protocols) instead of high-resolution scans was a practical means of reducing patient dose. CNR is not a transferable measure of image quality.


As an important carrier of student management work,cadres of college students' improvement of quality and training of ability are of important subjects.Student leaders have to correct their attitude,know their positions exactly;they have to own their personal charm to play the role of the backbone models;they should start from the small to become classmates' good friends;they must establish credibility and exercise strict self discipline;they should make best use of the advantages and bypass the disadvantages and have ability of Agglutination force;they have to play the role of the bridge and the link and do as good job aides.


Obesity occurs when energy intake exceeds energy expenditure (EE). EE decreases with age, which increases obesity rates in older populations. This makes EE (e.g. cellular bioenergetics) an attractive target for treating obesity. Cellular bioenergetics occurs in mitochondria. Increases in muscle can also increase EE, possibly due to the large number of mitochondria. This study determined if 1)leucine (Leu) and ω‐3 fatty acids (O3) can alter cellular bioenergetics and improve mitochondria function in muscle cells, 2)this is an mTOR‐mediated process, and 3)age alters efficacy of treatment. Young(Y) and aged(A) C2C12 myotubes were serum and leu starved for 12 hr then treated with rapamycin or DMSO for 1 hr. Cells then received one of four physiological treatments: control, 0.5mM leu, 60μM EPA/240μM DHA, or leu+EPA/DHA for 1 hr. Cellular bioenergetics (measurement of mitochondrial function) was measured using an XF24 Flux Analyzer. Basal O2 consumption rate (represents mitochondrial OXPHO linked to ATP synthesis was not different b/w Y and A, however O2 consumption linked to proton leak was higher (P<0.05) in A. Y had more mitochondria than A. A were more responsive to nutrients and rapamycin inhibited both treatments, suggesting that Leu and O3 act via mTOR to alter mitochondrial function. NRF1 was higher (P<0.05) in A and ANT1, UCP3, SIRT1 and PGC1a were higher (P<0.05) in Y. SIRT1, ANT1 and NRF1 were increased with rapamycin (P<0.05). PGC1a was increased (P<0.05) with O3 and UCP was increased (P<0.05) with Leu and O3. Taken together, these data suggest that both Leu and O3 regulate cell bioenergetics via mTOR in Y and A. Funded by AR Biosciences Inst. and UAMS Pepper Center Pilot Grant AG028718.


We set new constraints on a seven-dimensional space of cosmological parameters within the class of inflationary adiabatic models. We use the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background measured over a wide range of l in the first flight of the MAXIMA balloon-borne experiment (MAXIMA-1) and the low-l results from the COBE Differential Microwave Radiometer experiment. We find constraints on the total energy density of the universe, Ω = 1.0, the physical density of baryons, Ωbh2 = 0.03 ± 0.01, the physical density of cold dark matter, Ωcdmh2 = 0.2, and the spectral index of primordial scalar fluctuations, ns = 1.08 ± 0.1, all at the 95% confidence level. By combining our results with measurements of high-redshift supernovae we constrain the value of the cosmological constant and the fractional amount of pressureless matter in the universe to 0.45 < ΩΛ < 0.75 and 0.25 < Ωm < 0.50, at the 95% confidence level. Our results are consistent with a flat universe and the shape parameter deduced from large-scale structure, and in marginal agreement with the baryon density from big bang nucleosynthesis.


Objective To investigate the etiologic significance of the expression of peroxisome proliferators active receptor(PPAR γ) in the colonic adenoma and adenocarcinoma.Methods PPAR γwere tested by immunohistochemical assay.Results The positive signals were mainly in the nucleus.The expression of PPAR γwere increased both in the adenoma and adenocarcinoma.The higher the expression PPAR γis,the lower the differentiation of tumor cells is.Conclusion The PPAR γmay play an important role in the development of the tumor.


A numerical investigation is presented for a two-dimensional simulation of the gas flow field and of the dynamic behavior of lignite particles inside Beater Wheel mills with classifier, installed in large coal-fired plants. A large number of representative particles are tracked using Lagrangian equations of motion, in combination with a stochastic model for particle turbulent dispersion. All the important mechanisms associated with the particle motion through the mill (particle-surface collisions and rebounding phenomena, fuel moisture evaporation and erosion wear of internal surfaces) are modeled. A special model is constructed to simulate the fragmentation of impacting particles and to calculate the size distribution of the final mill product. The models are regulated on the basis of available data from grinding mills of the Greek lignite power stations. The numerical code is capable of predicting the locations of significant erosion and to estimate the amount of particle mass that circulates through the mill via the classifying chamber. Mean impact velocity and impingement angle distributions along all the internal surfaces are also provided. The results indicate remarkable differences in the extent of the erosion caused at different locations of the mill. Also, the significant role of the leading blades arrangement inside the classifiermore » on its classification performance and efficiency is elucidated.« less


The program shall periodically measure its success in achieving this goal by analyzing the number of fatalities caused by aircraft maintenance-related accidents and incidents resulting from human error. Data for this analysis will be collected from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board and the Annual International Study of Airline Safety Statistics published by Boeing Commercial Airplane Company.


Considering more constraints in higher design level will enhance the design convergence and decrease the designing time in VLSI design.This paper have research on how constraints are considered in floorplanning step and present a new algorithm on clustering constraint floorplanning (CCFP) problem based on B-tree representation.


...................................................................................................x CHAPTER 1. LITERATURE REVIEW...................................................................1 1.1 Remote Sensing..................................................................................1 1.2 Aerial Photography..............................................................................3 1.3 Imagery for Precision Farming.................................................................4 1.4 Using NDVI for Determining Crop Density..................................................6 1.5 Image Processing Techniques for Obtaining NDVI.........................................9 1.6 Mosaicing........................................................................................10 CHAPTER 2. INTRODUCTION..........................................................................13 2.1 Background......................................................................................13 2.2 Objectives.......................................................................................13 2.3 Parameters for Determining Crop Vigor and Density.....................................14 2.3.1 Normalized Difference Vegetative Index........................................15 2.3.2 Ratio Vegetative Index (RVI) or Simple Ratio (SR)...........................16 2.4 Geo-referencing.................................................................................17 2.5 Image Processing...............................................................................17 CHAPTER 3. IMAGERY IN AGRICULTURE........................................................19 3.1 Methods to Obtain Satellite Imagery........................................................19 3.2 Methods to Obtain Aerial Imagery..........................................................19 3.3 Techniques for Analyzing Aerial Images in Agriculture.................................21 3.4 Image Processing Software Used in Previous Research..................................24 CHAPTER 4. METHODS AND MATERIALS.........................................................25 4.1 Data Acquisition................................................................................25 4.1.1 Commercial Agricultural Aircraft................................................25 4.1.2 Remote Controlled Airplane.......................................................27 4.2 Image Processing...............................................................................29 4.2.1 Overview of the Integrated Development Environment.......................30 4.2.2 IDE for Developing Mosaic of Images..........................................31 4.3 Software Modules for the Development of the Mosaicing Process.....................34 4.3.1 Module 1: block_divide............................................................34 4.3.2 Module 2: GridImage...............................................................36 4.3.3 Module 3: NDVI_Process..........................................................39 4.4 Analyzing Images from Infrared and Color Cameras......................................41 4.5 Software and Code for Rotation of Images..................................................43


Video game development is a growing industry nowadays with high revenues. However, even if there are many resources invested in the software development process, many games still contain bugs or performance issues that affect the user experience. This paper presents ideas on how computer vision methods can be used to automate the process of game testing. The goal is to replace the parts of the testing process that require human users (testers) with machines as much as possible, in order to reduce costs and perform more tests in less time by scaling with hardware resources. The focus is on solving existing real-world problems that have emerged from several discussions with industry partners. We base our methods on previous work in this area using intelligent agents playing video games and deep learning methods that interpret feedback from their actions based on visual output. The paper proposes several methods and a set of open-source tools, independent of the operating system or deployment platform, to evaluate the efficiency of the presented methods.


The city of Hanford, California, relies on ground water for its municipal water supply. Arsenic concentrations in local wells frequently exceed the current drinking water standard (50 μg/L), although some dilution is achieved within the distribution system. Water samples were collected from municipal water supply wells and storage tanks in July and December 1996. Total arsenic concentrations ranged from 9 to 75 μg/L. Arsenic was found to occur predominantly in the +III oxidation state. Lower contributions of As(III) to total arsenic concentrations were found in three wells and one storage tank. In all other samples, the percent As(III) was 89 ± 6%. The very low values of %As(III) in one storage tank (1% in July and 14% in December) indicate that As(III) oxidation occurs within the distribution and storage system.


MEMBERAIEE DURING recent years, there hasbeen aconsiderable increase intheunderstanding oflightning behavior, andinthe performance oflightning protective devices. Thispaperwasprepared atthe suggestion oftheAIEEProtective Devices Committee, inorder that acomparisonofthepresent lightning protection practices ofutilities invarious sections of theUnited States will beavailable. In theareaserved bytheSouthern California EdisonCompany, lightning stormsare veryinfrequent andthemethodsof lightning protection maybequite different fromthose required byutilities situated wherethere isagreat deal oflightning. Inthecompany's service area, there is anextreme variation intopography which includes mountainranges,sheltered valleys, widedesert areas, andcoastal plains. Theisokeraunic level varies from 0to15,butrelative freedom fromlightningdoesnotsimplify theproblem of protection. Ifthere werenolightning, arresters would notberequired anywhere andifthere wereagreat deal oflightning, arresters wouldbeusedeverywhere, but sincethelightning frequency on the systemvaries widely, a careful analysis mustbemadeofeachcasetodetermine ifarresters should beinstalled. Because ofthelack ofexactinformation on thevariation ofisokeraunic level within thearea, a survey wasmadein 1953anda local isokeraunic mapprepared.Thecompanyhasalso evaluated theprotection afforded apparatus when several lines areconnected toastation. Entirely satisfactory protection isnow obtained witha minimumnumberof arrester installations. Itappears thaton this system, notmorethan30percentof thepowertransformer bankswill need


non-proliferation treaty the outcome of three years of negotiations between 1965 and 1968 was meant to stop the spread of nuclear weapons beyond the five states the Soviet Union, the United States, Great Britain, France, and China which possessed them in 1964. Once it came into force in 1970, the development of nuclear weapons changed from a symbol of national pride into a violation of international law. The importance of the treaty must be judged, therefore, by what might have happened had it not been made: the spread of nuclear weapons would probably be uncontrollable. Instead, the treaty, to which 172 states have adhered, is the most widespread arms-control agreement in history and has set the pattern for disarmament negotiations at the United Nations.


In the developing chick embryo tibia type X collagen is synthesized by chondrocytes from regions of hypertrophy and not by chondrocytes from other regions381). To investigate further the relationship between differentiation of endochondral chondrocytes and type X collagen synthesis we have developed a novel culture system for chondrocytes from 29-31-stage chick embryo tibiae. At the beginning of the culture these chondrocytes are small and synthesize type II and not type X collagen, but when grown on agarose-coated dishes they further differentiate into hypertrophic chondrocytes that synthesize type X collagen. The synthesis of type X collagen has been monitored in cultured cells by analysis of labeled collagens and in vitro translation of mRNAs. When the freshly dissociated chondrocytes are plated in anchorage-permissive dishes, most of the cells attach and dedifferen-tiate, as revealed by their fibroblastic morphology. De-differentiated chondrocytes, after several passages, can still reexpress the differentiated phenotype and continue their development to hypertrophic, type X colla-gen-synthesizing chondrocytes. Hypertrophic chon-drocytes, when plated in anchorage permissive dishes, attach, maintaining the differentiated phenotype, and continue the synthesis of type X collagen. T HE development and growth of long bones mainly occurs by endochondrai bone formation. During this process, chondrocytes in the bone growth region pass sequentially through a proliferative, a hypertrophic, and a degenerative stage (44). Differentiating chondrocytes synthesize collagens and other extracellular matrix macromolecules which are deposited in the cartilage. For several years type II collagen has been recognized as the only cartilage-specific collagen (29). More recently the existence of other minor collagens has been demonstrated, including 1 c~, 2a, 3a chains (6), and type IX (33, 34, 45) and X collagens. In particular, type X collagen, first detected in cultures of chick embryo tibial chondrocytes (8, 9, 37, 38) and in cultures of chick embryo sternal chondrocytes grown within collagen gels (16, 17) and subsequently in other species (35), becomes a major collagen in the regions where cartilage is removed and replaced by bone tissue. Its synthesis by hypertrophic chondro-cytes and its association with endochondral development have been shown by metabolic labeling of proteins made by the cells (10, 20) and by immunofluorescent staining of cartilage with specific monoclonal antibodies (40). From the same regions of the tibiae the type X collagen deposited in the cartilage in vivo has been purified in milligram quantities (9, 32). After performing cultures of chondrocytes from sterna of chick embryos at different stages of development, Gibson …


Abstract : In this work, we consider the task of extracting key-words such as key-players, key-locations, key-nouns and key-verbs from news stories. We cast this problem as a classification problem wherein we assign appropriate labels to each word in a news story. We considered statistical models such as naive Bayes model, hidden Markov model and maximum entropy model in our work. We have also experimented with various features. Our results indicate that a maximum entropy model that ignores contextual features and considers only word-based features combined with stopping and stemming yields the best performance. We found that extraction of keyverbs and key-nouns is a much harder problem than extracting keyplayers and key-locations.


To assess the feasibility of using a hybrid Maximum‐Entropy/Nonlinear Least Squares (MEM/NLS) method for analyzing the kinetics of hyperpolarized dynamic data with minimum a priori knowledge.


The following article will examine some of the principal organisational and institutional problems thwarting CFSP and look at how the IGC might address them. Four major themes have been selected for a more detailed analysis: the question of introducing Qualified Majority Voting; the issue of consistency among the pillars; the legitimacy of CFSP; and the relationship of the EU with the Western European Union. Throughout the history of European integration, foreign policy cooperation, going to the very core of the sovereignty of a nation, has always been a very slow and strenuous process. After the failure of the European Defence Community in the 1950s and the Fouchet negotiations in the 1960s, it only developed from 1970 onwards in the framework of European Political Cooperation (EPC). EPC developed outside the Community framework on a purely intergovernmental basis and it was only with the adoption of the Single European Act that it received a treaty basis.


Abstract As the most abundant component in black tea, thearubigins (TRs) contribute a lot to black tea's characteristic color, mouthfeel, and potential health benefits. But compared to lower molecular weight black tea polyphenols, there are fewer researches that focus on TRs because of their heterogeneity. This review summarized recent research progress on (1) isolation method of TRs; (2) structure analysis and formation mechanism of TRs; (3) biofunctions of TRs, including antioxidation, antimutagenic and anticancer effects, effects on mitochondrial activation, gastrointestinal motility and skeletal health, to show some future research aspects and prospects of TRs.


Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are robotic submarines that are a part of the
emerging field of autonomous and unmanned vehicles. AUVs are valued for both their
expand ability and replace ability; they can be deployed in hazardous environments without
risking human divers. Economically, the potential for cheap scalability makes AUVs ideal for
large scale and long term data collection tasks. This project shows the design and
development an AUV as a test bed platform for a variety of research in underwater
technologies especially involving small-scale, surface water and low-cost underwater robots.
The prototype has been developed and will have a fixed mechanical system and body, having
a modular electronic system that allows development of various controllers, as well as able to
add some recording devices and sensors module. The controller and motors has been tested in
small scale surface water and the result is encouraging. Some modification need to be done to
the electronic parts as it also can be used for testing and learning conventional and advanced
control algorithms and techniques to other underwater systems.


Ethylammonium nitrate (EAN) is composed of C_2H_5NH_3^+ and NO_3^- ions, which behave as an acid and a base, respectively. The ionic liquid thus involves small amounts of C_2H_5NH_2 and HNO_3 molecules owing to proton transfer from C_2H_5NH_3^+ to NO_3^-. The equilibrium constant K_s (= [C_2H_5NH_2][HNO_3]), which corresponds to the autoprotolysis constant of water, was obtained to be ca. 10^-10 mol^2 dm^-6 by potentiometry using an ion-selective field-effect transistor and hydrogen electrodes at 298 K. The value indicates that C_2H_5NH_2 and HNO_3 molecules of ca. 10^-5 mol dm^-3 are involved in neat EAN. On the other hand, in an EAN-water mixture, a water molecule behaves as a base. The apparent pKs value was determined in EAN-water mixtures of various solvent compositions. Interestingly, the pK_s value is remained at 10.5 in mixtures over the range of an EAN mole fraction of 0.05–0.9. The value is close to the pK_a of C_2H_5NH_2, or the acid- dissociation constant of C_2H_5NH_3^+, in aqueous solution. This implies that the reaction C_2H_5NH_3^+ + H_2O → C_2H_5NH_2 + H_3O^+ is responsible for the p K s over a wide range of solvent composition. The p K s value in neat EAN is thus slightly smaller than that in the mixtures, implying that H_3O^+ is a stronger acid than HNO_3 in an EAN solution, unlike water.


He was a candidate for the Polish Parliment. He was a patriot and person of a good reputation, deeply envolved in his profession and in causes of nation and state.


In this paper, the classical Logistic Regression is generalized to the RKHS space, and a new Kernel Logistic Regression method FVS-KLR is proposed. Using the Feature Vector Selection algorithm, a feature vector set is selected, which forms a set of bases to approximate the mapping of training samples in the RKHS space. Based on the feature vector set, the objective function of the Kernel Logistic Regression is deduced and the Newton-Raphson method is used for the optimization. The computation complexity decreases from O(N3) to (NL2) with LN. The algorithm in the multi-class situation is also deduced. The experimental results show this method is superior to SVM in the estimation of posterior and can decrease the computation of classifiers while preserving the same performance.


Understanding and improving outcome in schizophrenia remains a major challenge for clinical research. Follow-up of samples of patients recruited for intervention studies provides us with useful information regarding differential effects of treatment on outcome. Generalization of the results of these studies may be limited, however, by the selection criteria associated with research samples recruited almost invariably in academic and tertiary care facilities. Follow-up of more naturalistic samples of patients receiving care in diverse settings, academic as well as non-academic, may provide us with additional information regarding the outcome of patients treated in diverse settings with the diverse characteristics inherent in routine clinical practice. This supplement of the journal presents results of the Canadian National Outcomes Study in Schizophrenia which was carried out in academic and non-academic settings across all regions of Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts. The contents describe the nature and objectives of the study, characteristics of patients recruited, treatments prescribed and regional differences in patient and treatment characteristics; outcomes of pharmacological treatment in routine practice as reflected in symptom measures and quality of life. In addition, there are data on different domains of quality of life; and variations in costs associated with different pharmacological treatments. Subjects included in the study constitute a convenience sample and are not necessarily representative of all patients with schizophrenia. Not withstanding such caveats and cautions associated with the nature of sampling these data represent a reasonably broad sample of patients treated in routine care across Canada. Canada is a multicultural society with distinct cultural differences between provinces, most prominently between the predominantly French Quebec and the predominantly English speaking rest of the country. The findings reported in this supplement need to be interpreted in the broader context of the nature of health care in Canada. Mental health care is publically funded in all provinces and territories of Canada. While fiscal responsibility for providing mental health care and policies guiding such care are under provincial jurisdiction, they have to adhere to some federal principles such as, universality of access. There are some regional variations in financial support available to cover costs of medications and aspects of mental health policy. The Canadian National Outcomes Study in Schizophrenia and the publication of this supplement was possible as a result of funding from Janssen-Ortho, Canada. The authors of this supplement wish to thank the sponsors (JanssenOrtho, Canada).


Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of death worldwide and results from progression of atherosclerosis, which is triggered in part by elevated plasma concentrations of LDL cholesterol. Gen ...


Abstract One-year-old seedlings of sawtooth oak, white oak, green ash and flowering dogwood were evaluated to determine the effect of tree shelters on survival, growth and gas exchange. Trees were grown under both field and container nursery conditions. Shelters had a significant impact on survival of field-grown trees, but not on containerized, nursery-grown seedlings. Overall survival was approximately 75 and 40% for sheltered and non-sheltered, field-grown trees, respectively. Sheltered plants had approximately a 90% survival rate and non-sheltered trees exhibited approximately 80% survival in a nursery situation. In the field, sheltered trees had greater height growth and biomass production than non-sheltered trees. However, sheltered plants exhibited a decrease in total biomass in the nursery study, the majority of which was reflected in an overall 62% reduction in root production in the sheltered trees. Photosynthesis of sheltered trees averaged 65% of non-sheltered trees and internal leaf CO2 was a...


Nick Andersen UCLA Title: Polyharmonic Maass forms Abstract: Polyharmonic Maass forms are nonholomorphic modular forms which are annihilated by a (possibly fractional) power of the hyperbolic Laplacian. My talk will be an exampledriven introduction to polyharmonic Maass forms, focusing on a function constructed by Duke, Imamoglu, and Toth, and one constructed by myself, S. Ahlgren, and D. Samart. The coefficients of the former encode class numbers of real and imaginary quadratic forms, while the coefficients of the latter are related to partition statistics. Time permitting, I will state some more general results on shifted polyharmonic Maass forms which are joint with J. Lagarias and R. Rhoades.


The title compound (also known as phragmalin triacetate), C35H42O14, is a phragmalin-type limonoid extracted from X. rumphii. The molecule consists of eight rings with the orthoacetate group bridged at positions 1, 8 and 9. The two five-carbocyclic rings (A 1 and A 2) and the dioxolane ring (G) adopt a distorted envelope conformation. The 1,3-dioxane ring (E) exists in a chair conformation. The six-carbocyclic rings (B and C) exhibit a twisted-boat conformation. The lactone ring has a half-chair conformation and the furan ring is planar (r.m.s. deviation = 0.002 Å). Rings A 1/B, A 2/B, B/C, C/D and C/G are all cis-fused. The two acetoxy groups attached to ring B and the furan ring attached to the lactone ring are in equatorial positions. The porous crystal packing exhibits voids of 688 Å3 and weak intermolecular C—H⋯O interactions. The absolute configuration was assigned on the basis of literature data.


In recent years, Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET), a subset of an ad-hoc network and an important component of intelligent transportation system (ITC), has gained more attention to provide safe and comfort journey for users. VANET applications are categorized as safety and comfort based. The safety applications are important to human life such as accident prediction and detection, collision avoidance and dissemination of emergency messages to vehicles. Broadcasting is an efficient method of communicating the safety messages. This paper presents a unique Hybrid Partitioning Approach for Data dissemination (HPADD) by partitioning the road using a hybrid approach. The selection of relay vehicles is addressed in this paper to provide minimum end to end delay. An insight into our work also reveals the issue of transmissions by hidden node problem and the issue of packet collision. The simulations are carried out using NS2 to prove the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed mechanism.


The Medial epicondylitis is one of the most common and disabling injuries of pitchers, it has been shown that proper diagnosis and early treatment of this condition can prevent future defections of pitchers. A causal-experimental, descriptive, longitudinal study of a 32-year-old softball pitcher diagnosed with medial epicondylitis. In this study, the pitcher was reintegrated into the pitch without experiencing painful episodes during and at the end of the game, which is why the physiotherapeutic treatment was complemented with the neuromuscular bandage that supported the forced valgus movement during the pitching. Without showing painful episodes. There was a considerable increase in the range of mobility and the increase in speed in their throws. It could be concluded that the successful treatment can not only reinstate the pitchers to the field of play but also improve their speed and throwing technique by not perceiving painful sensations


First reported during the Ulysses flyby of Jupiter in February 1992, null events are sporadic dropouts in the magnetic field strength detected in the outer Jovian magnetosphere, with the magnitude of the field strength decreasing to values that can be less than 0.2 nT. The events occur in regions where the ambient field is primarily southward, that is, aligned with the local planetary dipole field direction and are distinct from the field depressions encountered in the center of the magnetodisk in the middle magnetosphere. They also appear distinct from the field structures encountered at the magnetopause. Here we report a survey of the occurrence of such events in the magnetic field data recorded by the earlier Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft passages through the Jovian system. All of the previous spacecraft to fly through the Jovian magnetosphere recorded field null events on their inbound passes where the field magnitude dropped below 2 nT. There is little or no evidence of any field reversal in the center of events. Only Pioneer 11, which was the only spacecraft to exit on the dayside of the magnetosphere, recorded events on its outbound pass.


Magnetic levitation maglev has been a keen area of research, especially in the field of transportation. Maglev is used in order to reduce the maintenance cost, increase the efficiency and thereby the useful life of the system is increased. Controlling the maglev system is not an easy task. Literature shows several authors have proposed different controllers to stabilise the position of the object in the air. The main drawback is that the controllers are designed by neglecting the eddy-current-based force due to the motion of the levitated object. This paper presents an analytical relation for the eddy current-based force as a function of the plate thickness and its distance to the permagnet. A model reference adaptive PID controller is proposed to reduce vibration in the object. The efficacy of the proposed controller is tested on a maglev system considering the eddy current-based force.


In this paper, we investigate the content delivery problem in the context of multi-antenna (MIMO) wireless networks. The single-antenna users, equipped with some cache memory, receive requested contents from the server through a multi-antenna base station. We propose a scheme that carefully combines the multicast and unicast capabilities offered by MIMO, as a function of the quality of channel state information at the transmitter side. Thereby we reveal the complementary roles of coded caching and MIMO transmission for content delivery.


Processing an aqueous solution containing potassium sulfate and magnesium sulfate K2SO4 method comprising the crystallized crystals crystallize and circulating at least a part of the circulating mixed crystals with the aqueous solution. System for a machining potassium and magnesium sulfate crystallizer comprises a first and a second a second crystallizer in fluid communication with the mixing tank. The second mold is configured and adapted to cycle crystals precipitated from the concentrated solution to form a potassium-lean brine cycle. The precipitated crystals circulating in said second crystallizer having a cycle adapted to the composition of the first crystallizer to increase the production of SOP.