Migrant children might soon be separated from their parents as a matter of course when families enter the United States irregularly, Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly told CAW in early March. Under the proposal, which another Homeland Security official described as among the options the department is considering to "discourage [others] from even beginning the journey," separated parents would be detained in jail-like facilities while children would be placed in foster homes or shelters for children. The suggestion has rightly drawn considerable criticism. "The idea that the government would cause harm to children to dissuade other families from crossing the border is cynical in the extreme," my colleague Clara Long wrote in response. Holding children in immigration detention is a recurring, if abusive, practice around the world, as Australia, Europe, and the United States each seek ways to respond to recent migration flows. To be sure, it's unusual to deliberately separate young children from their mothers, as the US proposal would do. But families are frequently split up, with men held separately from women and children. It's also common for countries to detain unaccompanied children, sometimes for protracted periods. As one example, Mexico began to detain unaccompanied children as well as adults in large numbers after 2014, at least partly at the urging of US authorities who sought to "stem the flow" of Central American asylum seekers, in the words of Lev D. Kubiak, the assistant director of international operations for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in testimony before a House subcommittee in June 2015. Mexican immigration authorities apprehended more than 20,000 unaccompanied children from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras in 2015 and over 17,500 in 2016, detaining the vast majority. In Europe, Hungary has just adopted a measure allowing its authorities to detain asylum seekers on its territory, including families w ith children and unaccompanied children age 14 and above. Belgium, which had been something of a regional model after it eliminated immigration detention for families in 2009, announced at the end of 2016 that it planned to resume the practice sometime this year. In perhaps the most extreme and flagrantly abusive use of immigration detention, Australia has forcibly transferred all asylum seekers who arrive by boat, including unaccompanied children and families with children, to offshore facilities in Nauru and Papua New Guinea. The asylum seekers sent there face the choice of indefinite banishment to those countries, relocation to Cambodia, or return to the countries they fled. Practices such as these are a particularly inhumane response to humanitarian crises. It's no mystery why Central American children flee their home countries in large numbers, on their own or with their families. Gang violence has plagued Central America's Northern Triangle for decades, and children are particularly targeted. It's not uncommon to hear reports that 13-year-olds, or even younger children, were shot in the head, or had their throats slit, or were tortured and left to die, as Oscar Martinez observed in The Nation. Many of the arrivals to Europe, including large numbers of unaccompanied children, are coming from wartorn countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen or from highly repressive states, Eritrea and Ethiopia among them. Similarly, Australia's offshore operations on Nauru and Papua New Guinea's Manus Island house men, women, and children from these and other countries who fled armed conflict or sustained persecution because of their political beliefs, religion, or ethnic origin. Detention has particularly devastating human consequences, which is why international standards discourage detaining asylum seekers and call on countries to end the immigration detention of children. Nevertheless, politicians and policymakers frequently turn a blind eye to the abuses immigration detention entails. …


With more and more new discoveries and theories being openly distributed and discussed in published articles, some unscrupulous behaviors of "coercive" citations have become regrettably prevalent, posing a threat to our scholar field. Thus, Microsoft holds the Citation Intent Recognition Challenge to encourage more people to pay attention to this issue. We treat the task as querybased passage re-ranking task which includes two stages of candidate passage recall and passage re-ranking. To resolve the task, we propose an empirical ensemble recall and re-rank framework for citation intent recognition which both takes full advantage of features and merits of various recall and re-ranking methods. Our entry achieves test set Mean Average Precision@3 (MAP@3) of 40.695% on the final leaderboard, namely Xiong team1.


A modern method of correction of medium and high-grade refractive defects - myopia and hyperopia.The authors evaluate the resultant best corrected visual acuity (BCVA), the resultant postoperative refraction, the incidence of postoperative complications and changed density of endothelial cells in the centre of the cornea in the course of time.The advantage of ICL implantation is rapid postoperative visual rehabilitation, reversibility of the operation, preserved accommodationandsatisfactory stability of the postoperative refraction.


The field of parallel supercomputing has been changing rapidly inrecent years. The reduction of costs of the parts necessary to buildmachines with multicore CPUs and accelerators such as GPUs are ofparticular interest to us. This scenario allowed for the expansion oflarge parallel systems, with machines far apart from each other,sometimes even located on different continents. Thus, the crucialproblem is how to use these resources efficiently.In this work, we first consider the efficient allocation of taskssuitable for CPUs and GPUs in heterogeneous platforms. To that end, weimplement a tool called SWDUAL, which executes the Smith-Watermanalgorithm simultaneously on CPUs and GPUs, choosing which tasks aremore suited to one or another. Experiments show that SWDUAL givesbetter results when compared to similar approaches available in theliterature.Second, we study a new online method for scheduling independent tasksof different sizes on processors. We propose a new technique thatoptimizes the stretch metric by detecting when a reasonable amount ofsmall jobs is waiting while a big job executes. Then, the big job isredirected to separate set of machines, dedicated to running big jobsthat have been redirected. We present experiment results that show thatour method outperforms the standard policy and in many cases approachesthe performance of the preemptive policy, which can be considered as alower bound.Next, we present our study on constraints applied to the Backfillingalgorithm in combination with the FCFS policy: Contiguity, which is aconstraint that tries to keep jobs close together and reducefragmentation during the schedule, and Basic Locality, that aims tokeep jobs as much as possible inside groups of processors calledclusters. Experiment results show that the benefits of using theseconstrains outweigh the possible decrease in the number of backfilledjobs due to reduced fragmentation.Finally, we present an additional constraint to the Backfillingalgorithm called Full Locality, where the scheduler models the topologyof the platform as a fat tree and uses this model to assign jobs toregions of the platform where communication costs between processors isreduced. The experiment campaign is executed and results show that FullLocality is superior to all the previously proposed constraints, andspecially Basic Backfilling.


A majority of quasar surveys have been based on criteria which assume strong blue continua or a UV-excess. Any amount of dust along the line-of-sight is expected to drastically extinguish the optical/UV flux leading to a selection bias. Radio surveys however should suffer no bias against extinction by dust. Recently, a large complete sample of radio-selected quasars has become available (the `Parkes sample'). A majority of these sources exhibit optical--to--near-infrared continua that are exceedingly `red', very unlike those of quasars selected optically. The purpose of this thesis, broadly speaking, is to explore the problem of incompleteness in optical quasar surveys due to obscuration by dust, and to interpret the relatively `red' continua observed in the Parkes quasar sample. The first part of this thesis explores the observational consequences of an intervening (foreground) cosmological dust component, such as that located in galaxies and clusters. The second part examines the continuum properties of Parkes-quasars in the framework of a number of absorption and emission mechanisms to assess the importance of extinction by dust. It is found that spectroscopic and photometric data for the ``reddest'' quasars (with B-K>5) is best explained by the dust model, rather than ``purely'' by an intrinsic emission property.


This article is concerned with the issue of positionality in the context of transnational academic career. Focusing on the views and experiences of Nordic-based Sub-Saharan African academics, the p...


Family function is an essential factor affecting older adults' health. However, there has been no appropriate method to assess the family function of most older adults with fragility or poor health status. The present study aimed to explore the differences and relevance of family function estimated by home care nurses and the older adults, and to determine if nurses could represent older adults to provide the estimation.


As I closed my eyes, their image began to emerge in my mind-three mystical emerald green islands arising from the mist. In the distance, two islands are barely visible through the fog. This is an extraordinary sight to even the crustiest traveler! The legendary islands of Regulation, Technology, and Economics and, beyond, The Effects. The cruise ship has just discovered the Gulyas* Archipelago! From the ship, we can see signs of human habitation on each of the main islands, or at least what appear to be monuments or temples in praise of powerful dieties. On the Isle of Regulation, which we learn from our guidebook is populated with lawyers, the dominant structure resembles a Washington Monument constructed of large volumes of regulations stacked one on top of another. The island has been largely stripped of trees which have been used for the books, but large barren expanses have been painted green according to regulations.


On the basis of ideas such as Hamming Distance, Hill Climbing and Evolutionary Strategy, a method is presented to analyze genes and schemata in every generation so that the requirements of speed and diversity can be met. So the whole evolution is always under this method control,and the searching rate in oplimization of the algorithm is increased. After authentication of four test functions by using Matlab, this new GA is better than SGA.


In this paper a simple technique is presented to determine the shakedown load of a 90 degree pipe bend subjected to constant internal pressure and cyclic in-plane bending using the finite element method. Through the proposed technique, the shakedown load is determined without performing time consuming cyclic loading simulations or conventional iterative elastic techniques. Instead, the shakedown load is determined through performing only two analyses namely; an elastic analysis and an elastic-plastic analysis. By extracting the results of the two analyses, the shakedown load is determined through the calculation of the residual stresses developed in the pipe bend. In the elastic analysis, performed only once and stored, an in-plane closing moment is applied preserving structure stresses within the material elastic range. In the elastic-plastic analysis, a constant internal pressure, below the pressure to cause yielding, is applied in addition to an increasing moment magnitude that causes the material yield strength to be exceeded. For verification purposes, the results of the simplified technique are compared to the results of full cyclic loading finite element simulations where the pipe bend is subjected to constant internal pressure and cyclic in-plane closing moment loading. In order to have confidence in the proposed technique, it is applied beforehand on the Bree cylinder [1] subjected to constant internal pressure and cyclic high heat fluxes across its wall. The results of the proposed technique showed very good correlation with the, analytically determined, Bree diagram of the cylinder.Copyright © 2005 by ASME


We continue to study the notions of Y-category and strong Vcategory which we introduced in [2]. We give a characterization of them in terms of homotopy colimits and then use it to prove some product theorems in this context. In [2] we introduced new homotopy invariants by generalizing the notions of Lusternik-Schnirelmann category and strong category as follows: For any given class of spaces v we define the X'-category X-cat(X) of a space X to be the smallest integer k for which there exists a numerable covering (X1, ..., Xk) of X such that each inclusion X. c X factors through some space Ai E v up to homotopy. If no such covering exists we set X-cat(X) oo. X-cat(X) is an invariant of the homotopy type of X [2, 1.4]. If we replace the condition that each X c X factors through some space in v up to homotopy by asking each X to have the homotopy type of some space in X, then the number V-gcat(X) thus obtained is not a homotopy invariant [3]. So we define the strong X-category sl-Cat(X) of X to be the minimum of Ygcat(X') for all spaces X' having the homotopy type of X. If v consists only of the one-point-space then X-cat (X) is just LusternikSchnirelmann's category cat (X) of X and V-Cat (X) is the strong category Cat (X) introduced by Ganea in [5]. Other interesting examples are the qconnective (strong) category catq(X) (Catq(X)) of X obtained by taking -v to be the class of q-connected CW-complexes, q > 0, and the q-dimensional (strong) category catq(X) (Catq (X)) of X obtained by taking for -v the class of all CW-complexes of dimension < q [2, 1.2]. In this paper we shall prove the following product theorems, which generalize the well known ones for the classical case [7]. Unlike [7] however, we do not restrict ourselves to polyhedra but rather exploit the linear structure given by the numeration of the coverings. Received by the editors November 11, 1986. 1980 Mathematics Subject Classification (1985 Revision). Primary 55M30; Secondary 55P50.


Unintended pregnancy is a public health issue, with young women in their late teens and early 20s at highest risk. Multiple approaches to increasing contraception access have been implemented, including adoption of statewide pharmacist prescribing legislation in multiple states. Indiana does not currently have such legislation in place. The objective of this study was to identify how women at risk for unintended pregnancy in central Indiana perceive pharmacist prescribing of contraception.


Prompted by the report of a number of cases of ill effects, even death, following the injection of collargol into the renal pelvis for roentgenographic purposes, I became interested in the question of whether or not collargol can damage the kidney and can cause death when so injected. With the assistance of Dr. E. W. Schnoor and Miss Elizabeth Byrne, we have attempted to study the question from every angle, employing dogs and measuring the pressure with which the fluid was injected. With the exception of some experiments on pigs' kidneys (removed from the body), reported by Whitman,1we are the first to study the question by not only measuring the amount injected, but also observing the effects of varying this quantity, as well as the pressure with which it is injected. We believe that we are able to show from the lesions found in our experiments on healthy


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One hundred and fifty-seven consecutive intracranial tumours encountered at the Christian Medical College, Vellore, South India, have been studied and classified.

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The history of the classification of the glioma group has been discussed and the relation of astrocytoma and glioblastoma in terms of age, site and sex has been analyzed. It is considered that the type of a tumour is related to its life history.

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The incidence of the types of tumour in this series has been found comparable with the series of other countries.

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Rupture of a dermoid cyst with subarachnoid patchy foreign body reaction is reported.

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The incidence of space occupying lesions due to tuberculomata torulosis and cysticercosis is found to be high. This is related to the general incidence of such infections in India.


This paper proposed a simple and effective layer unit's vector map data encryption technique based on compression domain that having high capacities. To prevet unlawful reproductions and circulations and to control unauthorized accesses about these vector maps, we encrypted two important compression parameters simply and effectively.


Stem cell-based studies have accelerated to treat various pathologies, particularly neurological, cardiovascular, orthopedic diseases and cancer with the understanding of their therapeutic potential after their discovery. Stem cells have recently aroused great interest as a promising treatment option in the fighting to cancer with extensive study in the fields of cancer biology. Nevertheless, much uncertainty regarding the act of stem cells in cancer development and treatment remains obscure before the clinical use of stem cell investigation. Despite many obstacles, the migration ability of stem cells, the bioactive factors they secrete, and their immune regulatory properties make them advantageous for gene therapy strategies. However, unknowns and a lack of scientific data remain concerning the use of stem cell based therapies. Therefore, more experimental data are needed to confirm the different study results presented by different scientific communities. In this review, we focused on summarizing the available experimental and clinical data on the potential uses of mesenchymal stem cells in cancer therapy.


Infections occupy one of the central places among the complications of transplants. The frequency of fatal infectious complications during the first twelve months after transplantation ranges from 2.6 to 51.7%. Identifying markers of opportunistic infections before transplantation will help reduce the likelihood of developing these infections after induced immunosuppression. The aim of the study was to study the role of herpesviruses and pneumocysts in the occurrence of infectious complications in children before and after liver transplantation based on the detection of markers of a number of herpesvirus infections and pneumocystosis. The article presents the results of a comprehensive examination for markers of herpesvirus infections and pneumocystosis of 70 children who were treated at the Shumakov Transplantation Research Center. It should be noted that 55 patients (78.6%) were diagnosed with infectious complications, of which 46 people (65.7%) had pneumonia. To detect IgM and IgG antibodies to herpesviruses and pneumocysts, peripheral blood serum samples were examined by enzyme immunoassay (ELISA). Detection of common HBV antigens was carried out by indirect immunofluorescence reaction (NRIF). Early antigens and reproduction of herpesviruses were detected by rapid culture method (BCM) on Vero and M-19 cell cultures for CMVI. In the event of infectious complications (pneumonia) in children who underwent related liver transplantation, the number of patients with active EBI markers increased almost 7 times and active HCV-6 markers increased 3.5 times. The paper shows the need for a broader laboratory screening of opportunistic infections, which will serve to achieve better clinical results, contribute to the formation of more advanced diagnostic algorithms, as well as improve epidemiological surveillance of these infections.


The rms roughness of sediment‐free basalt at a site east of the East Pacific Rise [measured by Lonsdale et al. (1980)] was computed versus averaging length for predictions of scattering loss versus Fresnel zone dimensions. The source‐receiver geometry replicated previously, reported measurements of the reflection coefficient versus grazing angle at a nearby, sediment‐free site [Diachok et al. (1986)]. The computed roughness increased slowly with decreasing grazing angle (θ) at large θ, being about 8 m (at 20 Hz) at 60°, and increased rapidly with decreasing grazing angle for small θ, being about 38 m (at 20 Hz) at 10° along a track that paralleled the ridge axis. The effective rms roughness inferred from the reflectivity data for 50° < θ < 70° was 6 m (at 20 Hz along a parallel track), approximately consistent with the inference from the deep tow bathymetric data. At large θ, the effective roughness r is much smaller than the wavelength λ, permitting use of Eckart scattering theory. At small θ, however, r...


The environmental conditions become more "civilized" during the time and implicit less favorable in general for the game. It came into sig ht some trace regarding the qualitative and also th e quantitative regress of the products and sub products from this domain. The analysis of the causal relations of the determinant factors and of the game population dynamic during t he years showed that the actual situation is a cons equence of some complex releasers factors (biotic and atrophic factors). We named the following from these factor s: the environmental conditions of the game (climate, reli ef, temperature, humidity, the shelter, and the qui t of this), the specie, the age, the gender of the game, the ga me fatten, the feed supplement, the stress before s laughter, the type of the used arms, electrocution of the game or other methods witch the game became unconsciously. Another category of factors refers to the treatment conditions after slaughter, respectively: the time to disembowel the game, the removal of the males' test icles, the cooling and the correct manipulation dur ing transportation of the game carcass, and the adequat e storage of these carcasses for aging. In this pap er we present some of these factors: age and gender, which affect the game meat quality. In this paper we describe t he influence of gender and the age on game meat qualit y. The results of the experiences showed that the m ale's carcasses have higher contents in muscular and osse ous tissue, comparative to the female's carcasses. The female's carcasses have higher contents in fat and conjunctive tissue, comparative to male's carcasses . Also, these results point out that younger game have soft meat, comparative to the adult game meat


1:2 addition compounds of tetramethyldiphosphane with BH3, BH2Br, BHBr2, and BBr3 (1a–d) have been prepared from the parent diphosphane and the dimethyl sulfide complexes of the boranes in the appropriate stoichiometric ratio. Open-chain and cyclic phosphane-borane cations were obtained from Me4P2 and H2BrB · SMe2 in the molar ratio 2:1 or 1:1, respectively: [Me2PPMe2 · BH2 · PMe2 PMe2]+Br− (2) or [H2B(Me2PPMe2)2- BH2]2+2Br− (3). Treatment of 1b with trimethylphosphane yields the salt [H2BrB·Me2PPMe2 · BH2 · PMe3]+Br− (4). – The crystal structures of 1b and 3 · 2MeOH have been determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction methods. Molecules 1b have crystalographic C2h symmetry corresponding to the anti-configuration of the diphosphane and staggered conformation of the BH2Br moieties. The monomers are arranged in layers with Br … Br contacts of 3.66 A. – Crystals of 3 · 2 MeOH have an ionic structure built from bromide ions, interstitial methanol molecules, and crystallographically centrosymmetric dications [H2B(Me2PPMe2)2-BH2]2+. These dications are in a chair configuration approaching (non-crystallographical) mirror symmetry. The intra-ring valence angles at boron [116.2(2)°] are significantly larger than those at phosphorus (108.4°, average). The BP distances are shorter than in standard reference compounds (e.g. 1b), indicating extra stabilisation in the dicationic phosphane-borane ring system. In the unit cell there are no sub-van der Waals contacts between the individual components.

Zur Chemie der Phosphan-Borane: Offenkettige und cyclische Phosphan-Borane aus Tetramethyldiphosphan

Durch Umsetzung von Tetramethyldiphosphan mit zwei Aquivalenten der Dimethylsulfid-Komplexe von BH3, BH2Br, BHBr2 und BBr3 werden die neutralen 1:2-Addukte 1a–d mit dem Grundgerust BPPB erhalten. Offenkettige und cyclische Phosphan-Boran-Kationen entstehen bei den entsprechenden Reaktionen von Me4P2 mit H2BrB · SMe2 in den Molverhaltnissen 2:1 bzw. 1:1:[Me2PPMe2 · BH2 · Me2PPMe2 ]+ Br− (2) bzw. [H2B-(Me2PPMe2)2BH2]2+ 2 Br− (3). Aus 1b und Trimethylphosphan wird das Salz [H2BrB · Me2PPMe2 · BH2 · PMe3] + Br− (4) gebildet. – Durch Einkristall-Rontgenbeugungsmethoden wurden die Kristallstrukturen von 1b und 3 bestimmt. Die Molekule 1b besitzen kristallographische C2h-Symmetrie, was einer anti-Konfiguration mit den BH2Br-Gruppen in der gestaffelten Konformation entspricht. Die Monomeren sind in Schichten mit Br…Br-Kontakten von 3.66 A angeordnet. – Die Kristalle von 3 · 2 MeOH haben eine ionische Struktur bestehend aus Br−-Ionen, zwei Mol interstitiellem Methanol und cyclischen Dikationen mit kristallographischer Zentrosymmetrie. Die Ringatome bilden eine Sesselkonfiguration aus und entsprechen einschlieslich der Substituenten annahernd einer nicht-kristallographischen Spiegelsymmetrie. Die Ringwinkel an den Boratomen [116.2(2)°] sind groser als jene an den Phosphoratomen (im Mittel 108.4°). Die BP-Abstande sind deutlich kurzer als in Standardverbindungen (wie etwa 1b), was eine zusatzliche Stabilisierung des Phosphan-Boran-Gerusts andeutet. In der Zelle werden keine ungewohnlichen Kontakte zwischen den Baueinheiten beobachtet.


Genomic mismatch scanning (GMS) is a new method of genetic mapping which attempts to purify and map the regions of identity between two complex genomes in a single test. Identical DNA fragments from two genomic sources are enriched in two steps: (i) after reannealing of the two genomes, heterohybrids are purified by using a combination of a restriction methylase and methylation‐sensitive endonucleases, (ii) heterohybrids that contain mismatches are nicked in vitro by the E. coli MutHLS mismatch repair system and are eliminated subsequently from the pool, leaving only mismatch‐free heterohybrids. The genomic origin of this selected pool of DNA fragments is then mapped in a single hybridization step onto metaphase chromosomes or ordered DNA arrays. The principal advantages of GMS are (i) it approaches the theoretical limit of mapping power and resolution offered by an arbitrarily dense set of completely informative polymorphic markers and (ii) it results in a great increase in the effective number of informative markers without a corresponding increase in the number of individual tests. Thus, it should provide an efficient method for affected‐relative‐pair linkage mapping and for linkage disequilibrium mapping. In addition, a variation of GMS may allow rapid genomic scanning for regions of homozygosity‐by‐descent or somatic loss‐of‐heterozygosity. The feasibility of GMS has been validated in the 15 mb genome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This article discusses the principles of GMS, the application to more complex genomes, and the possible uses of GMS.


Variational methods are widely used to solve geophysical inverse problems. Although gradient‐based minimization algorithms are available for high‐dimensional problems (dimension >106), they do not provide an estimate of the errors in the optimal solution. In this study, we assess the performance of several numerical methods to approximate the analysis‐error covariance matrix, assuming reasonably linear models. The evaluation is performed for a CO2 flux estimation problem using synthetic remote‐sensing observations of CO2 columns. A low‐dimensional experiment is considered in order to compare the analysis error approximations to a full‐rank finite‐difference inverse Hessian estimate, followed by a realistic high‐dimensional application. Two stochastic approaches, a Monte‐Carlo simulation and a method based on random gradients of the cost function, produced analysis error variances with a relative error <10%. The long‐distance error correlations due to sampling noise are significantly less pronounced for the gradient‐based randomization, which is also particularly attractive when implemented in parallel. Deterministic evaluations of the inverse Hessian using the Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno (BFGS) algorithm are also tested. While existing BFGS preconditioning techniques yield poor approximations of the error variances (relative error >120%), a new preconditioner that efficiently accumulates information on the diagonal of the inverse Hessian dramatically improves the results (relative error <50%). Furthermore, performing several cycles of the BFGS algorithm using the same gradient and vector pairs enhances its performance (relative error <30%) and is necessary to obtain convergence. Leveraging those findings, we proposed a BFGS hybrid approach which combines the new preconditioner with several BFGS cycles using information from a few (3–5) Monte‐Carlo simulations. Its performance is comparable to the stochastic approximations for the low‐dimensional case, while good scalability is obtained for the high‐dimensional experiment. Potential applications of these new BFGS methods range from characterizing the information content of high‐dimensional inverse problems to improving the convergence rate of current minimization algorithms.


The author presents a new closed-form approximation to the probability density function of the time-average power of a zero-mean bandlimited Gaussian process. Simulation results indicate that the new approximation is very close for small values of the bandwidth-integration duration product BT, and becomes increasingly accurate as BT increases.


This work describes the segmentation of oral speech in the Yakut language. The phonetic structure of the Yakut language is described. For segmentation of sound recording, wavelet analysis is used. The choice of a discrete Meyer wavelet is based. The wavelet library of the Scilab open source software package is described. The results of calculations in the Scilab package are presented. The automatic segmentation of oral speech in the Yakut language is investigated. An example of sound segmentation is given. Reasons for reducing accuracy and complexity in speech segmentation are identified.


Frequently invoked large functions are common in non‐numeric applications. These large functions present challenges to modern compilers not only because they require more time and resources at compilation time, but also because they may prevent optimizations such as function inlining. Often large portions of the code in a hot function fhost are executed much less frequently than fhost itself. Partial inlining is a natural solution to the problems caused by including cold code segments that are seldom executed into hot functions that are frequently invoked. When applying partial inlining, a compiler outlines cold statements from a hot function fhost. After outlining, fhost becomes smaller and thus can be easily inlined. This paper presents Ablego, a framework for function outlining and partial inlining that includes several innovations: (1) an abstract‐syntax‐tree‐based analysis and transformation to form cold regions for outlining; (2) a set of flexible heuristics to control the aggressiveness of function outlining; (3) several possible function outlining strategies; (4) explicit variable spilling, a new technique that overcomes negative side‐effects of function outlining. With the proper strategy, partial inlining improves performance by up to 5.75%. A performance study also suggests that partial inlining's effect on enabling more aggressive inlining is limited. The performance improvement from partial inlining actually comes from better code placement and better code generation. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Along with the development of new information technology the understanding of educational tasks have been broadened. 88 percent of children between the ages 13-16 in Sweden in the academic year 201 ...


The histological classifications of invasive lung adenocarcinoma subtypes are considered to predict patient prognosis after surgical treatment. The objectives of this study were to evaluate cytomorphological characteristics and proliferative activities among the histological predominant patterns by performing cytomorphometric and flow cytometric analyses using liquid‐based cytology materials.


INTRODUCTION The fiDepartament de Fisica i Enginyeria Nuclearfl(DFEN) of fiUniversitat PolitŁcnica de Catalunyafl (UPC) is being collaborating with thefiLaboratorio Nacional de Fusionfl of Ciemat using remote participation tools. This collaboration includes the development of a new version of PRETOR code to perform transport analysis in stellarators [1]. This new version of the code has been used to perform some studies with TJ-II data, obtaining good results of the simulations [2]. Some shots have been simulated in order to benchmark two transport codes: PROCTR and PRETOR-Stellarator. This simulated shots belong to a density scan devoted to study the enhanced heat confinement (EHC) in TJ-II plasmas as well as a configuration scan to study the influence of the


OBJECTIVE: Resident burnout is characterized by depersonalization, cynicism, and emotional exhaustion. Burnout levels as high as 50% have been reported by obstetrics and gynecology residents. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of a wellness curriculum on resident burnout. METHODS: A formal wellness curriculum was instituted during protected resident didactic time. All sessions were led by institutionally-affiliated personnel; thus, were cost-free to the residency. Examples of sessions include: journaling, music therapy and yoga. Residents completed monthly evaluations of each session and an end of year survey to assess for burnout. RESULTS: Regarding individual sessions, 77% of residents reported journaling as "extremely helpful" or "helpful," all felt that yoga was "extremely helpful" or "helpful," and 57% felt the music therapy was "very helpful." Sixty-three percent of residents completed the end of year survey. Residents, who found wellness sessions helpful, were more likely to have attended more than 75% of sessions (60% compared with 20%). Twelve of 20 residents met criteria for burnout based on the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Of these, self-care scores and insight scores were 31% and 22% lower than residents not meeting burnout criteria. Thirty-three percent of burnt-out residents felt that wellness sessions decreased their burnout. Residents who self-identified as resilient attended at least 50% of the sessions, with three fourths attending at least 75% of the sessions. In contrast, half of the burnt-out residents attended less than 50% of the sessions. CONCLUSION: Individual wellness sessions were well received and overall helpful for residents. Although burnout levels were high, residents felt that attending the wellness curriculum decreased burnout.


The effects of cannabinoids on human health have been known since the antiquities when the extract of the plant Cannabis sativa was used because of its psychoactivity. The scientific story of the cannabinoids started in the 1960s with the isolation and characterization of the active component of the plant. After the synthesis of cannabinoid analogues, the analysis of structure–effect relationships was implemented, and this had a similar effect to a positive "Pandora's box" opening. To date, numerous roles have been ascribed to the "endocannabinoid system." Here we describe its involvement in the control of male reproduction, taking into consideration possible evolutionary speculations. Indeed, the endocannabinoid system is a very ancient signaling system, being clearly present from the divergence of the protostomian/deuterostomian.


Abstract The paper is concerned with rhodium(1) complexes of the type acacRh(CO)L, Rh(CO)ClL2, [Rh(CO)LCl]2, [acacRh(CO)[2L and [Rh(CO)LCl]n, where L: P are monodentate, P,N- and P,P-bidentate ligands including 1,3,2-diheterophospholane and phosphorinane cycles In our studies two synthetic approaches were used, viz. the interaction of tricoordinated phosphorus derivatives with the starting rhodium substrate proceeding via the associative mechanism and the reaction of pentacoordinated phosphorus derivatives (hydrospirophosphoranes) 31P, 1H, 13C NMR, IR spectroscopy as well as X-ray and chemical studies of rhodium-coordinated 1,3,2-diheterophos-phacyclanes were carried out. The properties of these organophosphorus ligands were shown to depend on the nature and configurational rigidity of the substituents X, Y, Z at the phosphorus atom. This is illustrated by the dependence of 1J(Rh, P) and ν (CO) on the size of the phosphorus ring and the position of the heteroatoms (O, N) in the ligand molecule.


The amphibolites form a few larger bodies and smaller intercalations in granulites of the Gfohl Group on the southern border of the Naměsť nad Oslavou granulite body. According to their modal compositions, the plagioclase-amphibole and epidote-plagioclase amphibolite there occur. Amphibolites are a metamorphic equivalent of tholeiite basalts with significant signature of the middle ocean ridge basalts.


Tuberose is one of the most important ornamental bulbous flower crop cultivated for cut and loose flower trade. The flower has been used for ornaments, bouquets and buttonholes or crown and frequently used during marriages and religious ceremonies. The tuberose was often infected by various numbers of diseases; among that S. rolfsii is the one of the major disease which causes stem rot disease. The S. rolfsii were collected from various locations of Tamil Nadu were examined for morphological and genomic variability. Fifteen isolates of S. rolfsii was assessed and various morphological growth parameters (Mycelia growth, No. of sclerotia/ plate, colour of sclerotia, time taken for sclerotial production (days) and variations among S. rolfsii isolates was recorded. ITS region of rDNA amplification with specific ITS1 and ITS4 universal primers produced approximately 600 to 700 bp in all the isolates confirmed that all the isolates obtained are S. rolfsii. The sequences of isolates viz., Sr1 and Sr2 were identified as S. rolfsii through BLAST search in NCBI website (www.blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast). The sequences were deposited in the Gene Bank with the accession numbers MK880692, MK880693.


This study, embracing recent and mostly new research, places Red Clydeside in context and gives perspective to the role of the First World War as an incubator of heightened class consciousness and militancy in the region. The extent to which the years 1910-1914 marked a watershed in industrial relations has been widely debated in the British literature, but hitherto there has been no systematic treatment of the pre-war 'labour unrest' in Scotland. This work will have a wide appeal to labour activists, to students of history and industrial relations, and to all those with an interest in the social history of Scottish workers and their relations with employers.


The pseudocolonial coral Lophelia pertusa (Scleractinia, Caryophylliidae) is a eury¬ba¬thic, steno¬ther¬mal cosmopolitan cold-water species. It occurs in two colour vari¬eties, white and red. L. pertusa builds vast cold-water coral reefs along the con¬tinental margins, which are among the most diverse deep-sea ecosystems. Micro¬biology of L. pertusa has been in scientific focus for only a few years. The question whether the coral holds a host-specific bac¬te¬rial commu¬nity is not finally answered. Possible implications of the two colour varieties for microbial colonisation must be taken into account. Bio imaging can reveal the in-situ location of bacterial groups on and possible interactions with the coral. The pre¬sent study aimed at investigating these aspects, drawing a more compre¬hen¬sive pic¬ture of commu¬nity struc¬ture, taxo¬no¬my, and in-situ location of L. pertusa-hosted microbes.


Abstract States are major policymakers and funders of community-based services for older Americans and ADvancing States played a significant role in supporting the OAA authorization this year. This presentation will provide the states' perspective regarding funding, services, research and demonstrations, and more.


The relay-assisted, network-coding (RANC) automatic repeat request (ARQ) protocols are ARQ protocols that leverage both opportunistic retransmission and network coding for wireless relay networks. This paper proposes two single-relay RANC ARQ protocols, the listen-and-supersede (LS) protocol and the hold-and-proceed (HP) protocol. LS offers a fundamental limit to any single-relay RANC ARQ protocol. HP is a simple yet efficient RANC ARQ protocol with near-zero overhead. Moreover, we analyze saturation throughput and segment delay for both LS and HP. Their performances are compared with a representative cooperative ARQ protocol, the opportunistically forwarding (OF) protocol. Through extensive analysis and simulation results, we show that HP has a performance close to LS and outperforms OF significantly.


A music cover for a song by William Clifton, "inscribed [i.e., dedicated] to New York Know Nothing leader James W. Barker Esq." The illustration features the youthful "Sam" type who appears in various identities in earlier nativist prints, such as "Uncle Sam, an American Song" (no. 1854-5). The portrait bears a particularly strong resemblance to "Citizen Know Nothing" in Sarony's "Uncle Sam's Youngest Son" (no. 1854-4) as well as to the central figure in "The Young America Schottisch" (no. 1855-5). Here shown in bust portrait looking toward the right, the figure wears a hat with a curled brim, flowing tie, plaid waistcoat, and jacket.
Signed: Stackpole, Sc.
The Library's impression of the print was deposited for copyright on July 21, 1855.
Title appears as it is written on the item.
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1855-6.


Scholars have long acknowledged Blyden's role as a champion of Pan-African identity and nationalism; they have, however, given less consideration to how he defined the imagined community for which he tirelessly advocated. Blyden wrote at a time when the racial category of "negro," for all of its lingering ambiguities, was far firmer in its application in the United States and in the British Caribbean than it was in Africa. In Africa many observers from Europe and the Americas struggled to make sense of - and to racially categorize - the vast physical and cultural diversity among the people they encountered. Blyden's interventions in debates about who was a negro have been studied in relation to two populations: "mulattos," whom he often denigrated, and Egyptians/Ethiopians, whom he gave a prominent place in his account of the history of the negro race. This paper considers why, at a time, when other observers were expanding the definition of negro to include more of Africa's people (and especially those south of the equator), Blyden remained reluctant to do so. It argues for the prominence of historical analysis - instead of other nineteenth-century race-making tools such as linguistics or ethnography - in Blyden's construction of racial community.


A focal outbreak of highly fatal disease occurred in eastern Costa Rica in 1974. No rickettsial spotted fevers have previously been reported in Costa Rica. Nevertheless, the available evidence points to an unidentified rickettsial pathogen, probably of the spotted fever group, as the agent responsible for this outbreak.


A method is presented for the determination of airplane performance by use of formulas and charts. The conventional method of approximating a polar by expressing the effective induced drag as Ci/7rA.R.e is often inadequate because of the fact that many polars are not symmetrical about zero lift. A mathematical expression for the airplane polar is determined here by expressing the effective induced drag as a parabola symmetrical about the lift coefficient at which the minimum drag coefficient occurs. This coefficient is defined as CLmin. The minimum drag coefficient is defkied as Cj)m Hence, the airplane drag coefficient is


Doxorubicin (DOX) is a potent chemotherapeutic agent widely used for various types of cancer; however, its accumulation causes myotoxicity and muscle atrophy. Endurance exercise (EXE) has emerged as a vaccine against DOX-induced myotoxicity. However, potential molecular mechanisms of EXE-mediated myocyte protection for the unfavorable muscle phenotype remain unelucidated. In addition, most studies have identified the short-term effects of DOX and EXE interventions, but studies on the prolonged EXE effects used as adjuvant therapy for chronic DOX treatment are lacking. Twelve-week-old adult male C57BL/6J mice were assigned to four groups: sedentary treated with saline (SED-SAL, n = 10), endurance exercise treated saline (EXE-SAL, n = 10), sedentary treated with doxorubicin (SED-DOX, n = 10), and endurance exercise treated with doxorubicin (EXE-DOX, n = 10). Mice were intraperitoneally injected with DOX (5 mg/kg) or saline five times biweekly for eight weeks, while a treadmill running exercise was performed. Body composition was assessed and then soleus muscle tissues were excised for histological and biochemical assays. Our data showed that DOX aggravated body composition, absolute soleus muscle mass, and distinct pathological features; also, TOP2B upregulation was linked to DOX-induced myotoxicity. We also demonstrated that EXE-DOX promoted mitochondrial biogenesis (e.g., citrate synthase). However, no alterations in satellite cell activation and myogenesis factors in response to DOX and EXE interventions were observed. Instead, SED-DOX promoted catabolic signaling cascades (AKT-FOXO3α-MuRF-1 axis), whereas EXE-DOX reversed its catabolic phenomenon. Moreover, EXE-DOX stimulated basal autophagy. We showed that the EXE-mediated catabolic paradigm shift is likely to rescue impaired muscle integrity. Thus, our study suggests that EXE can be recommended as an adjuvant therapy to ameliorate DOX-induced myotoxicity.


. Production used in concrete block, and its application in bridge construction relative lag, while the main reason is in the basic application of lightweight aggregate concrete has some involves the concrete specification. Multi-objective equivalent calm wind load analysis method is proposed to achieve the equivalent load with a small amount of general pattern guarantee multiple target equivalent, but in fact, the response of the roof structure of each node generally will not peak at the same time, makes the equivalent methods may overestimate the wind load on the structure effect, causing unnecessary waste. Under this basis, this paper proposes the novel computer aided wind-induced vibration response model of bridges from signal processing perspective. This paper proposes the novel idea of the pattern that will then represent the features of the corresponding models. The performance is verified based on the experiment.


Due to the heavy and dynamic equipment, the vibration and resonance effects that are not encountered under static dead loading may amplify over time in industrial buildings. This might cause damage to the structural system and create human comfort problems while the structure is in service. In this study, ambient vibration testing of a building composed of reinforced concrete and steel structural systems and located at a boron processing plant in Turkey was performed. The velocities and accelerations caused by the sieve shaker system attached to the structure with springs, are evaluated under the effect of sample loading.


The prevalence and severity of mental health disorders on college campuses has been increasing nationwide. This review aims to address some of the prevalent mental health issues that continuously plague college students today. Recent trends in college student mental health are analyzed as well as literature regarding common disorders including depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder. A comparison of honors and non-honors students is provided to contribute to an otherwise lacking area of research surrounding honors student populations. Effective practices and policies for colleges and universities to incorporate into their counseling services are also considered, with viable goals centering on the prevention, early intervention, education, and stigma reduction of those mental health issues. Finally, recommendations and the potential implementation of themes from the literature are provided for the Lee Honors College at Western Michigan University in the hopes that they benefit future honors students as well as setting an example for other universities who are also interested in similar practices. Addressing Common Mental Health Issues Prevalent Among Honors College Students 3 Introduction It is abundantly clear that mental health issues continue to present major concerns for college universities and their students. Mental health disorders not only account for half of the disease burden for young adults in the United States, they also represent a greater and widespread public health problem (World Health Organization, 2008). Given that most lifetime mental disorders have first onset by age 24, a young adult's progression through college highlights a crucial period of time that exposes him or her to many risk factors for mental illness (Kessler, Foster, Saunders, & Stang, 1995). If left untreated, mental illness during one's transition through college may hinder academic performance, productivity, social relationships, and future success (Hunt & Eisenberg, 2010). Aware of these issues, most universities are well served to directly address and emphasize mental health problems through counseling and support services. In addition to those services, some universities also offer honors programs as a part of their curriculum to encourage their academically driven students. Honors students benefit from smaller class sizes and more personalized attention from instructors, but also potentially face a greater workload, more rigorous competition from their peers, and other various stressors that may influence the onset of mental illness (Singell & Tang, 2012). Past research comparisons between honors and non-honors students are scarce and have yielded mixed results, with one study indicating that that honors students generally have higher academic self-concepts as well as grade point averages (Rinn, 2005). However, less is known about the prevalence of mental health issues specifically in honors student populations, compared to their non-honors counterparts. What is certain is that collectively, university students are reporting increasingly higher prevalence rates and symptoms of mental health issues (Hjeltnes, Binder, Moltu, & Addressing Common Mental Health Issues Prevalent Among Honors College Students 4 Dundas, 2015). More than ever, there is a necessity for easily accessible university interventions and services that can accommodate students' growing psychosocial challenges. This review aims to address the mental health issues that are prevalent among university honors students. Best practices and effective programming from the literature are analyzed to promote four main areas regarding mental illness: prevention, early intervention, education, and reducing stigma. A final section addresses recommendations for improving current practices and policies employed at the Lee Honors College at Western Michigan University. By conducting this review, I ultimately hope to contribute to the limited available research regarding honors students' mental health, while also providing new ideas and opportunities for the improvement of other university honors programs willing to utilize them. Literature Review Mental illness comes in a variety of forms and may affect individuals differently based on numerous factors. This literature review begins by giving attention to recent trends in university mental health and common mental health issues among college students. Mental health concerns more specific to honors and high-achieving university students are then addressed. Finally, three common types of mental illness are discussed, as well as a list of other factors that may contribute to the onset of a disorder. It is worth noting that there are other prevalent issues related to the mental health of college students, which include eating disorders, substance abuse, and suicide. Since each of these areas contains a significant amount of literature, they will not be covered in this paper. Rather, more general mood disorders and characteristics such as perfectionism are the primary foci. Addressing Common Mental Health Issues Prevalent Among Honors College Students 5 Recent Mental Health Trends on College Campuses The clearest trend that has presented itself from the research is the growing prevalence of students seeking out clinical help for severe cases of mental disorders (Eisenberg, Gollust, Golberstein, & Hefner, 2007). Not only are more and more students utilizing services in college, there has been a steady increase in the number of students arriving on campus who are already on psychiatric medication (Gallagher, 2014). A continually expanding body of evidence indicates that student mental health problems are still increasing in higher education, with five broad problem domains being commonly reported by college counseling centers: academic, relationships/adjustment, depression/romantic relationships, sexual, and eating concerns (Gallagher, 2014; Putwain & Symes, 2012). Alongside the greater occurrence of mental health issues in college students, the severity of these mental disorders has also increased. Counseling centers report that 52% of clients had severe psychological problems in 2014, as opposed to 44% of clients in 2013 (Gallagher, 2014). For some individuals, the impairment became so serious that the student could not remain in school, or required extensive psychiatric help to do so. This rate of severity seems to increase as the student population increases, with over 59% of students suffering from a severe mental disorder in schools with over 15,000 students. Furthermore, anxiety seems to have shown the greatest increase in reporting among mental health disorders, with over 89% of college counseling center directors indicating an increase over the past five years, far exceeding increases in any other disorder (Gallagher, 2014). Diversity & Mental Health Race: With regards to racial trends, students from diverse cultural backgrounds tend to have less positive attitudes towards help seeking behaviors (Putwain & Symes, 2012). In Addressing Common Mental Health Issues Prevalent Among Honors College Students 6 studies measuring test anxiety, African American students reported significantly higher anxiety scores than Caucasian students (Embse & Witmer, 2014). In Asian and Pacific Islanders as well as international students, rates for perceived stigma regarding mental illness were higher. Other studies have found that race or ethnicity may even increase the risk for non-detection by professionals in help seeking individuals, based on differences in minority acculturation (Chung & Klein, 2007). Gender: There are many gender discrepancies between males and females when it comes to mental health issues. The research indicates that females are much more likely than males to screen positive for both major depression and anxiety disorders (Eisenberg et al., 2007). Females also make more suicide attempts than males, especially in the age range prominent in college environments (ages 18-24). Interestingly enough however, males are 6.5 times more likely to complete their suicide attempts due to more lethal means being employed (Chung & Klein, 2007). Finally, the utilization rates of counseling services by females is consistently 2 to 3 times that of the rate employed by males (Gallagher, 2014). This could be partially explained by generally higher levels of perceived stigma regarding mental illness among males (Golberstein, Eisenberg, & Gollust, 2008). Socioeconomic Factors: It has been generally found that students with lower socioeconomic backgrounds are at higher risk for depressive and anxiety symptoms, as well as having a worse perceived stigma surrounding mental health services; (Golberstein et al., 2008; Hunt & Eisenberg, 2010). Mental health clearly varies across various demographic factors and recognizing these trends allows counseling service providers to understand their clients better and be more prepared in their care that is given Addressing Common Mental Health Issues Prevalent Among Honors College Students 7 Common Mental Health Disorders among College Students Anxiety Disorders: Anxiety disorders are among the most common types of mental disorders experienced on college campuses, having shown the greatest increase in student reporting over the past five years (Gallagher, 2014). This increase in prevalence applies across all demographics, and factors such as financial stress can exacerbate the issues (Sarfati, 2016). Anxiety disorders include panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, and specific phobias. It is estimated that about one in six college students reported being treated or diagnosed for an anxiety disorder in 2016 (JED Foundation, 2017). Usually, most people who experience this disorder show symptoms before age 21. Additionally, women are 60% more likely to develop anxiety than men. Anxiety disorders occur when feelings of fear or worry become excessive or lasting, are difficul


The name Aloe is from the Greek Aloe and refers to the bitter juice from the leaves of these plants. It is probably derived from the earlier Arabic word "Allah" meaning "shining bitter substance," The bitterness results from the presence of aloin and Aloe-emodin, Aloe is referred to as the 'Miracle Plant' and 'Healing Plant'. The Egyptians called Aloe "the plant of immortality. A comprehensive screening study will be carried out for the A. vera and A. vacillans flower collection from the Ibb government of Yemen. This study's main objectives are to identify, collected, shade dry, and Fraction the Aloe vera and Aloe vacillans flowers. Preliminary phytochemical screening to investigate the chemical composition of both extracts revealed the presence of flavonoids, phenolic compounds, carbohydrates, protein, and sterols in the methanolic extract of the Aloe Vacillans flower. Saponin, carbohydrate, flavonoid, steroids, protein, and phenolic compounds were found in the methanolic extract of the Aloe vera flower.


In three T-cell clones of the double-negative phenotype, we measured the in vitro production of chemokines of the C-C type, and we found high atnounts secreted (12-28 ng/ml for RANTES, 21-48 ng/ml for MlP-la, atid 10-64 ng/tnl for MIP-ip), independently of the Th type of the clones. The stable presence of this double-negative Th2 type subset has not been assessed by other studies. The patient survived after 3 years' observation, and spontaneously recovered from the hypereosinophilia and the sytnptoms described, after reintroduction of antiretroviral treatment. Studies of his T-cell lunction are in progress, but the CD4+ cell nutnber further decreased, thus pointing to the possible role of this cell in the hypereosinophilic syndrome observed. The high production of C-C chemokines in an AIDS patient with hypereosinophilia may be due to various causes, but it is very unlikely to have been due to antiviral defense tnechanistns (8). C-C chemokines act as potent activators of eosinophils, and may be implicated in allergic tnanifestations (9). Our observation highlights two main points:


Having a strong attachment to Europe might be crucial in understanding support for policies affecting ethnic minorities and migrants arriving in Europe. However, research examining this link is limited. In 4 out of 5 studies ( N = 1,469), including correlational and experimental data, we found that greater European attachment was associated with support for restrictive policies such as border closures or increased security. These relationships were consistently explained by higher perceptions of realistic threat. European attachment did not show a significant association with support for inclusive policies such as those promoting the integration of cultural diversity or granting rights to minorities, in 4 out of 5 studies. However, meta-analytical integration of the data revealed a significant averaged indirect relationship: European attachment was associated with less support for inclusive policies via increased realistic threat. We discuss these findings while considering the sociopolitical context and the practical implications for Europe's commitment to human rights.


This article discusses the psychological symptoms, in particular depression, experienced by Fiona (a pseudonym), a 23-year-old woman with end-stage ependymoma who was admitted to the author's hospice. The admission was originally to manage her physical symptoms, which included headaches, disorientation, reduction in mobility and worsening eyesight, but she was subsequently diagnosed with depression. In palliative and end-of-life care, depression is often under-recognised and under-treated. The case highlighted in this article was challenging for members of the multidisciplinary team, particularly the nursing staff who felt that they were unable to form a therapeutic relationship with Fiona at the end of her life due to her mental state. This article will discuss depression in palliative and end-of-life care and the difficulties associated with recognising the condition. It will also examine its assessment and diagnosis, before going on to highlight issues related to pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions. Conflicts of interest: none


The need to bring to market a product that ensures the safety of domestic workers and at the same time enables the efficient cleaning of homes, especially windows, is urgent. By focusing on these two objectives emerged a third: after getting data and see what to serve them would take more than one product, making a home cleaning kit, and also observe how these products are saved or not saved simply by lack space in modern homes, it became clear that the project should not only meet the requirements directly related to the task of cleaning, but also to organize and transport the products needed for cleaning a house.


In this paper, we study the oscillation problem of the following higher-order neutral differential equation with positive and negative coefficients and mixed arguments z(t)+ q1(t)|x(t−σ1)|x(t−σ1)+ q2(t)|x(t−σ2)|x(t−σ2) = e(t), where t ≥ t0, z(t) = x(t) − p(t)x(t − τ) with p(t) > 0, β > 1 > α > 0, τ , σ1 and σ2 are real numbers. Without imposing any restriction on τ , we establish several oscillation criteria for the above equation in two cases: (i) q1(t) ≤ 0, q2(t) > 0, σ1 ≥ 0 and σ2 ≤ τ ; (ii) q1(t) ≥ 0, q2(t) < 0, σ1 ≥ τ and σ2 ≤ 0. As an interesting application, our results can also be applied to the following higher-order differential equation with positive and negative coefficients and mixed arguments x(t)+ q1(t)|x(t−σ1)|x(t−σ1)+ q2(t)|x(t−σ2)|x(t−σ2) = e(t). Two numerical examples are also given to illustrate the main results. AMS Mathematics Subject Classification : 34C10.


The rapid growth of the aging population and the increasing cost of the hospitalization are arousing the urgent need of the remote health monitoring system. Using the physiological sensing devices enable early detecting of health issues and allow for prompt treatment to help elderly towards changing their anomalous behavior and having a healthy lifestyle. Our approach, exploited task models to produce scenarios (which is the expected user behavior) and a middleware software, Context Manager to detect the events happened in the real context. Later, our real-time algorithm compares the expected user behavior to the real one detected in user context to find the anomalies if there is any. Finally, we validated our approach via a simulator, which automatically generates the anomalous sequences of user activities. The experimental results show that our system can detect abnormal user behavior precisely and effectively. Besides, the system should be able to generate proper action based on the detected deviation to motivate older people towards a healthy lifestyle.


A hardware-based memory-efficient sequence alignment architecture is described in this paper. This paper expresses a comprehensive blueprint of the hardware implementation of compact sequence alignment for pair-wise global alignment technique to achieve high-throughput processing. This architecture uses SRAM and only a small amount of digital logic circuitry to perform elementary operations of sequence alignment in real time. Additionally, this alignment engine does not require any preprocessing operations like in most of the existing alignment approaches do. Furthermore, it does not call for any sort of comparison mechanism for preparing final sequence alignment by the alignment co-processor. The entire architecture is simulated and synthesized in FPGA board for numerous cases considering dissimilar pseudo-randomly generated sequence pairs with variable sequence lengths ranging from 16 to 2048 nucleotides. The proposed design exhibits compact alignment of the sequences that leads to the identification of close similarity between the sequences under test. Moreover, the proposed alignment engine takes significantly less amount of time, ≈64–95% less time, and ≈85–99% less amount of memory space than existing alignment approaches. The overall system performance is studied with respect to Millions Alignments Per Second (MAPS) and exhibits ≈55–75% more sequence alignments of same set of DNA sequences in a stipulated time compared to existing schemes.


Specific phobia affects 7.7% of the population at some point in their lives. Virtual reality exposure therapy has demonstrated potential as a viable treatment; tracking patients' progress, however, remains a challenge. Recent work has demonstrated that by employing machine learning, multimodal physiological sensing can be leveraged to address this need. Specifically, features extracted from the electrocardiogram (ECG) and electrodermal activity (EDA) can be used to accurately discriminate periods of phobic anxiety from rest. Herein, we extend the state of the art by demonstrating that features extracted from the respiratory effort (RSP) signal can further enhance this capability. This is investigated by adding respiratory markers to the classifier and evaluating feature importance via permutation and removal. We thereby find that respiration significantly contributes to classifier performance. In particular, five respiratory markers rank within the top 10 features based on permutation importance; notably, four of which are respiratory variability metrics. Additionally, respiration features contribute significantly to model generalizability, corroborated by the 7% decrease in accuracy caused by solely using ECG and EDA features (i.e., removing respiration).


Cloud computing offers a kind of on-demand computing method that lets users use IT resources such as network, operating system, hardware, software, application and so on when needing them. However, cloud computing faces many security issues including data integrity, data confidentiality and access control. Recently, Barsoum et al. presents a cloud-based data access scheme that allows the data owner to benefit from the facilities offered by the CSP and enables indirect mutual trust between them. They declare that their scheme can assure data integrity, newness and CSP's defense. However, through our security analysis, their scheme still has some security vulnerabilities. It will easily suffer from the integrity attack, newness attack and CSP's defense attack. In other words, Although CSP have corrupted the outsourced data or ignore the data-updated request issued by the owner, the CSP is able to cheat authorized user into passing through the integrity checking, On the contrary, the owner also accuses CSP of having corrupted the outsourced data, whereas in reality the CSP not.


: The study aimed to examine the Information Technology used and its effect on the nature of the work of the administrators at Al-Azhar University in Gaza. The researchers used the analytical descriptive method through a questionnaire randomly distributed among the employees of Al-Azhar University in Gaza. The study was conducted on a sample of 77 employees the response rate was 92.20%. The study reached a number of results, the most important of which is that there is a high degree of Information Technology Used at Al-Azhar University- Gaza from the point of view of the administrative staff, where the percentage (74.14%). And that there is a high level of the prevailing the Nature of Administrators Work from the point of view of administrative staff, where the percentage (72.14%), there is a direct correlation between the Information Technology Used and the Nature of Administrators Work, there is a statistically significant effect of the Information Technology Used on the Nature of Administrators Work at the university, the absence of differences between the sample according to the variable (gender and variable age) in their perception of the Information Technology Used and the Nature of Administrators Work, there are differences of statistical Sig. in the perception depending on the variable of scientific qualification in Field of the Nature of Administrators Work, while there were no differences in Field: technology used, the differences in the Nature of Administrators Work according to the scientific qualification were in favor of those who obtained the diploma degree compared to postgraduate studies, the absence of differences in the perception of employees of the Information Technology Used and the Nature of Administrators Work according to the variable years of service, and the variable level of employment (manager, head of department, administrative officer), and the change of the workplace. The study reached a number of recommendations, the most important of which is the necessity of giving universities the opportunity to participate in decision-making, the continued administration of universities interest and continuous improvement of the performance of its employees, the need to strengthen the periodic evaluation of job performance and to inform the employees and to express their opinion, the importance of solving the problems of Employees and giving them the opportunity to contribute to solving their own problems, the need to use the method of rotation of employees and periodically, and the importance of strengthening the democratic leadership style and empowering university staff.


Arrangement of concerning wide determination the territorial of sea is conducted by withdrawal the jetty lines that done by harmonizing the regulation of the stipulating the useful of the archipelago jetty lines that matching with region of NKRI by positive law instrument of Indonesia. But which require to be reemphasized is Indonesia obligation to make a map of the regional border line of Indonesia, because till in the end Indonesia still use the illustrative map that made in the 1960 year. The government of Indonesia have to immediately make the map of the region of Indonesia by using dot co-ordinate of the jetty lines of Indonesia archipelago which have been specified according to PP No.37 year 2008  to take care the sovereignty of Indonesia. Kata kunci : pengukuran lebar laut territorial, garis pangkal dan hukum Indonesia.


To assess the factor which affect the catch of sandfish by Danish seine trawl, the fishing experiment was conducted at the coastal area of Kushiro. The towing depth and the duration of that the ground line contact with seabed was measured. The GLM analysis was done using catch data and some parameter of fishing condition, to confirm the significant factor on the catch of sandfish Arctoscopus japonicus. The model with two variables of towing depth and survey area shows the lowest AIC value. In addition, the results show that the catch of sandfish is insensitive to a slight variation in towing duration. From these, it is thought that the number of haul is valid as the catch effort of sandfish by Danish seine.


Multiple description coding is an increasingly popular error correcting technique. In this paper, the application of several multiple description techniques to Advanced Audio Coder is explained. According to the experimental results, both Multiple Description Vector Quantisation (MDVQ) and Multiple Description Transform Coding (MDTC) outperform original single description AAC at %2 packet loss rate.


OBJECTIVE: In view of the increasingly complicated situation in the use of antiepileptic drugs,this paper is to evaluate the clinical application of the traditional antiepileptic drugs and the neotype antiepileptic drugs so as to provide reference for their rational use in the clinic.METHODS: The factors influencing the choice of antiepileptics,including indication,pharmacokinetics,adverse reactions,interactions of drugs,patients' age,gender,morbid state and economic factors etc.of 6 traditional antiepileptics and 9 neotype antiepileptics were discussed.RESULTS CONCLUSION: The traditional antiepileptics were still be used widely;the neotype antiepileptic drugs have the competitive edges over the traditional ones for which have a better pharmacokinetics,less drug interactions,better tolerance,yet there is lack of clinical data and medication experience of neotype ones,therefore,both the merits and demerits should be weighted so as to make a rational choice between the two in their clinical use.


Cloud Computing is emerging as new generation service oriented utility computing model to deliver the resources as services to the end user. The resources that could be delivered are compute, storage and networking. As the data collected from several sources are increasing, the data is moved from private cloud storage setup to and archived to the public cloud storages. Such setups would minimize infrastructure cost setup and also enables data access based on the demands across several devices. To address the bulk storage issues Object based storage technologies are becoming popular, enabling the data access from several devices using high level Application Programming Interfaces. While the data volumes are increased in the private cloud, they are migrated to the public clouds for archival, so as to access the data when it is needed. Hence, this would establishes a hybrid cloud setup-mostly data oriented. The similar features that are applicable in the private cloud setup should be offered, and also the necessary security mechanisms need to be applied for the data to keep it secured, while it is accessed and retrieved. Role Based Access Mechanisms (RBAC) plays a key role in accessing the data and the data security plays a major role while the data is archived and streamed to the end user devices. The data in private cloud is often secure and could be accessed using role based access mechanisms. But, when the data is migrated to the public clouds, the challenges could be maintaining the security and role access mechanisms for the same data, so that user privileges over the data are not disturbed. In this work I propose to bring out the issues, methodologies and frame work to address data security and management in hybrid clouds while the data federation happens, offering the role based access mechanisms bundled with the data encryption mechanisms.


Objective To observe the effect of diclofenac potassium on analgesia in the medical abortion of early pregnancy.Methods 168 voluntary medical abortion of early pregnancy women with indication of the medical abortion and no contraindication of diclofenac potassium were randomized into two groups with 84 cases in each group.Half hours after the administration of misoprostol 600 μ g,the research group administered diclofenac potassium 50mg while the control group administered vitamin C as placebo.Observe the effect of analgesia and the rate of complete abortion,the amount of vaginal bleeding,the incidence of side effect in both groups.Results The effect of analgesia in the research group is marked better than in the control group(P0.01).There is no significant deviation of the rate of complete abortion and the amount of vaginal bleeding(P0.05),and no adverse effect in both groups.Conclusion Diclofenac potassium is an effective and simple,safe way to alleviate the pain by the medical abortion.


A Research Project Submitted to the Board of Postgraduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Business Administration University of Nairobi.


The characteristic that Chen Shi-Dao (陳師道) regarded himself as a poet was quiet profound. He proclaimed that poetry can bring people the glory. He contemplated the relationship between the poor and the poetry. In his old age, he even called himself the old poet. All these behavior represented Chen Shi-Dao's particular self-understanding. He believed that poetry has eternal significance. So he seldom regarded the official honor but the poetry. Thus, he manifested the subject of a poet. Creating poetry was his request throughout his life. In his poetry, we can find the changing definition about a poet in the later period of the Northern Song Dynasty. Specifically, Chen Shi-Dao confronted the value of being a poet with isolation and politics, and confirmed himself as a poet through Du Fu's (杜甫) poor destiny and enhanced the self image of a poet. On the one hand, the self-proclaim that one poet was poor because of poetry expressed the consciousness of following Du Fu (杜甫), on the other hand, the emphasis on self-cultivation showed the moral request by the writer of the Song dynasty. In brief, Chen Shi-Dao paid attention to the innermost self by the moral request and Buddhism beliefs. He undertook the poor destiny being a poet positively and pursued the poetry as his life values. Those behavior demonstrated that how Jiangxi poet (江西詩人) made decisions in a time of turmoil. The historical significance of Chen Shi-Dao's choice of becoming a poet lies in its symbolizing the turning inwards of the literati of the late Northern Song Dynasty. His assertion of a poet also provided a way to fulfill the individual value in the artistic world.


Scenarios of climate changes indicate longer and more frequent spells of mild weather during winter in northern latitudes. De-hardening in perennial grasses could increase the risk of frost kill. In this study, the resistance to de-hardening of different grass species and cultivars was examined, and whether the resistance changes during winter or between years, was tested. In Experiment 1, two cultivars of timothy (Phleum pratense L.) and perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) of contrasting winter hardiness were grown under ambient winter conditions, transferred from the field in January and April 2006 to the laboratory for 9 d with controlled de-hardening conditions of 3� C, 9� C and 15� C. The timothy cultivars were tested at 3� C, 6� C and 9� C in a similar experiment (Experiment 2) in January 2007. De-hardening, measured as decrease in frost tolerance (LT50), was less in timothy than in perennial ryegrass and increased with increasing temperatures. The northern winter-hardy cultivar Engmo of timothy de-hardened more rapidly than the less-hardy cultivar Grindstad, but had higher initial frost tolerance in both experiments, whereas there was less difference between cultivars of perennial ryegrass in Experiment 1. Cultivar Grindstad of timothy lost all hardiness in early spring at all temperatures, whereas cultivar Engmo maintained some hardiness at 3� C. Cultivar Engmo de-hardened at a lower rate in 2007 than in 2006, in spite of similar frost tolerance at the start of de-hardening treatment in both years. This indicates that the rate of de-hardening was controlled by factors additional to the initial frost tolerance and that autumn weather conditions might be important for the resistance to de-hardening.


The rice ecosystem has not only shaped specific culture and life but also the form of houses and the structure of villages in the north of Iran. Rice is present in all aspects of the rice-grower's lives. Villages and houses in this ecosystem have evolved which are bound to the culture and are sustainable, compatible with natural environment and also very beautiful. Indeed, in this rural context, inhabitants intimately interface with the context. Through this article, a complete description of some aspects of a rice ecosystem in part of north of Iran will be presented, and especially tries to find out the close relationship between the environment, climate and the use of construction materials from nature including jungle and rice field, manner of construction technologies, their livelihood, and economical aspects to create the outcome. This work will be beneficial to the villagers, architects, organizations, and all cultural, economical, foundations which are involved with rural development.


I. IntroductionMuslims make up approximately 15% of Singapore's total population.1 Although a demographic minority, Singaporean Muslims have recourse to a number of state-supported institutions involved in the administration of Muslim law,2 including a cabinet minister in charge of Muslim affairs,3 an Islamic Council regulating various religious4 and social aspects for the community (the "Majlis Ugama Islam Singapur a" or "MUIS"),5 and a specialist court6 handling Muslim family law.7 This article presents a brief overview of the position of lawyers involved in cases appearing before Singapore's Shari'a, or as it is spelled in Singapore and will be written in this article, "Syariah" Court.II. What Are the Formal Legal Requirements to Practice Before the Syariah Court?Unlike Malaysia, Singapore does not have a separate body of legal practitioners {peguam syarie) who are specially trained and licensed to practice in the Syariah Court.8 Rather, any advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore, Muslim or non-Muslim, who has been appointed by a party to a proceeding may appear before the Syariah Court.9A. Who Is Responsible for Establishing the Qualifications to Practice Before the Syariah Court?The Legal Profession Act and the Legal Profession Rules prescribe the requirements, procedures, and forms with regard to admission as an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore.10 No further special qualifications are required to practice before the Syariah Court.B. Can a Lawyer Qualified to Practice Before the Civil Courts Practice in the Syariah Courts, and Can a Lawyer Qualified to Practice in the Syariah Courts Practice in the Civil Courts?Yes, an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore may appear before the Syariah Court and the civil courts. 11C. What Proportion of Litigants in the Syariah Court Are Represented by a Lawyer?There is no data in the public domain that would show the proportion of litigants in the Syariah Court represented by lawyers. However, under the Legal Aid and Advice Act, the Legal Aid Bureau may provide legal aid, assistance, and advice to persons who are Singaporean citizens or permanent residents12 and who pass the Means13 (financial eligibility) and Merits14 (reasonable grounds for granting legal aid) tests. Thus, litigants at the Syariah Court who have been granted legal aid by the Legal Aid Bureau will be represented by a lawyer.15D. Can Persons Who Are Not Licensed to Practice Law Provide Legal Services to Litigants in the Syariah Court?Apart from lawyers, Section 39 of the AMLA also allows authorized agents to represent parties before the Syariah Court.16 However, there are currently no authorized agents providing such legal services in Singapore.17III. Admission to Practice Before the Syariah CourtA. What Are the Procedures for Licensing/Admission to Practice Before the Syariah Court?Advocates and solicitors of the Supreme Court of Singapore may appear before the Syariah Court without having to undergo a separate licensing or admission procedure.18B. Who Prepares the Examinations Administered to Prospective Lawyers?There are no separate examinations administered to prospective lawyers in order to practice before the Syariah Court.19 However, law students at the National University of Singapore ("NUS") have some basic exposure to Islamic law through the mandatory second-year course on Comparative Legal Traditions.20 In addition to this, some students may elect to study aspects of Islamic law in elective courses, including those run by visiting professors specializing in Islamic legal studies, such as Wael Hallaq and Clark B. Lombardi.21 Participants of the postgraduate practical law course would also have some knowledge of the applicability of Muslim law in Singapore.22IV. What Is the Profile of Syariah Court lawyers in the Singapore Bar?There is no data in the public domain that provides the number or demographic profile of lawyers practicing before Singapore's Syariah Court. …


It is surprisingly common for us to think that we are the apex of evolution. Similarly, it is easy to convince ourselves that after nearly 3bn years, life on Earth has tried everything: every possible chemical reaction, every possible solution and every possible arrangement. Fortunately, both statements are wrong. We now know that the DNA (and RNA) life on Earth is one solution, of many, on how chemistry can turn towards life. As we discover new ways to code genetic information, in what is an interdisciplinary basic science endeavour, we develop many of the technologies that will establish significant biotechnological and life-saving applications. Welcome to life orthogonal.


OBJECTIVE
To study kidney injury in infants with congenital heart disease (CHD) who underwent cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB).

METHODS
Forty CHD infants undergoing cardiac surgery with CPB from October 2009 to July 2010 were enrolled. The concentrations of serum tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), interleukin-6 (IL-6), cystatin C (CysC) and urinary N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase (NAG) were detected using ELISA before bypass, at the end of surgery, and 2 hrs, 6 hrs and 24 hrs after surgery. Serum concentrations of creatinine (Cr) and urea nitrogen (BUN) were measured with conventional biochemistry technique before and after surgery.

RESULTS
The concentrations of serum Cr and BUN were normal before and after surgery. After CPB, the concentrations of serum TNF-α and IL-6 and urinary NAG increased significantly (P<0.05). Serum TNF-α was positively correlated with urinary NAG and serum CysC (r=0.195, 0.190, respectively; both P<0.05). Serum IL-6 was positively correlated with urinary NAG (r=0.278, P<0.01). The positive rate in kidney injury was detected by serum CysC and urinary NAG were significantly higher than by serum Cr or BUN (both P<0.01).

CONCLUSIONS
CPB can cause acute kidney injury in infants, which may be correlated with the increase in the concentrations of serum TNF-α and IL-6. Serum CysC and urinary NAG may be used as sensitive markers for reflecting the changes of renal function.


Presidents remain a perennial interest of observers of American higher education. As one result, there is no absence of studies, personal recollections, or advice from anyone remotely associated with the office. Within the past three years, there have been major publications by Fisher and the Association of Governing Boards. And the National Center for Postsecondary Governance and Finance is currently involved in a five-year study of institutional leadership with a focus on the presidency under the direction of Robert Birnbaum. Given the plethora of information about an office many regard as already overstudied, one is tempted to view a new work on the presidency with a certain sense of "deja vu." That would be the wrong reaction to George Vaughan's new book on the community college presidency. Vaughan begins with the assumption that little definitive has been written on the community college presidency as distinct from the presidency of four-year colleges and universities. Of course, it has become fashionable for writers to include community colleges in works that appear more generally oriented to four-year institutions. Thus, the current Association of Governing Boards' study directed by Clark Kerr includes, both in the National Commission on Strengthening Presidential Leadership and in its interviews, community college administrators and several of the cases presented by Fisher are drawn from community college settings. Yet, when the reader searches for the reality of the community college presidency in these descriptions or recommendations, it appears to be largely missing. Thus, a review of important works on the presidency over the past five years reveals that most recommendations, while not explicitly disassociating community colleges from their purview, nonetheless address a reality so remote from the one encountered daily by community college presidents as almost to represent a view from another planet.


Scotch pine (1.5-2 m tall) growing in a Christmas tree plantation were chosen for evaluating efficacy of insecticides against pine needle scale crawlers. Heavily infested trees were sprayed 18 May, when crawler hatch was 93%, using a KWH backpack mistblower operating at half throttle on aperture setting 3 for 30 s delivering ca. 600 ml of finished spray to each of 4, single-tree replicates/treatment. Skies were overcast, 13°c, with a 16-25 kph breeze. Light rain (less than 0.25 cm) occurred 2 h after sprays had dried. Treatment effectiveness was evaluated 1 Jun by collecting 5 needle fascicles from each replicate. Needles were placed in coin envelopes and transported in a cooler to the laboratory where viability of the first 100 crawlers for each sample was determined with the aid of a dissecting scope. Counts were made from all 5 needle fascicles (first 20 nymphs from tip of each fascicle).


Solvent-free microwave extraction (SFME) for the isolation of essential oil from leaves of Murraya koenigii L. (Rutaceae) has been compared with the conventional hydro-distilled oil (HD) in terms of yield, composition, antioxidant activity, and antibacterial activity against Listeria innocua. The yield of essential oil obtained from 30 min of SFME was similar to that of HD for 180 min. By GC-MS analysis, the major compounds of the essential oil extracted by SFME, which were obtained in somewhat lower amounts than in the essential oil obtained by HD, were α-copaene (44.3%), β-gurjunene (25.5%), isocaryophyllene (12.1%), β-caryophyllene (8.7%) and germacrene D (2.9%). The content of oxygenated terpenes, slightly higher for the SFME-essential oil (2.3%) than the HD-essential oil (1.4%), were much lower than that of nonoxygenated terpenes in both oils. DPPH radical scavenging activities of both essential oils were relatively low (10%-24%). Complete inhibition of growth of L. innocua was observed with both SFME and HD essential oils, at 400 and 600 μg/mL (minimum inhibitory concentration), respectively. The SFME-essential oil at 300 μg/mL provided 92% inhibition, indicating its potential as a natural antimicrobial agent.


In the article there are presented results of defining demands of Russian Federation in medical human resources. Base for calculating the number of specialists was volumes of aid set in each subject of Russian Federation while realizing territorial program of state guarantees on provision of medical aid with consideration of age-specific indicators of analogue state guarantees federal program, regional specifics and level of population's morbidity in subjects of Russian Federation. Besides that, methodology called «Calculation of demands of Russian Federation in medical human resources», developed in Federal State Entity of «Central SRI of Organization and Informatization of Health Care», considered territorial specifics of subjects of Russian Federation, location of the subject in Far North areas and equivalent to the, density of population, proportion of the rural population. With that there were used reducing the pressure coefficients on physicians positions. In the article there is a comparison of actual number of main professions in 2012 year and revised regulatory normative of physicians numbers in 2013-2014 years (per 10 thousand capita), as well as there is described а deviationof normative number of physicians from its actual number (deficit/surplus of physicians) for the main professions.


In this paper temperature field of the magnetic bearing of a gas compressor unit was considered. A two dimension mathematical model was prepared. Model parameters were calculated with using of analytical techniques and laws of similarity. In result of numerical simulation temperature distribution of the magnetic bearing was made specific. Possibility of using of heat pipes for a magnetic bearing cooling improve was consid-ered. In result of this research temperature distribution of the magnetic bearing was identified. The particular characteristic of this a magnetic bearing design is significant influence of more hot rotor on coil thermal condition. Improve of rotor cooling based on using of heat pipes can decrease maximum temperature of rotor and coil stator. Found results can be using for development of cooling system of an active magnetic bearing.


This study aims to develop an appropriate scale to determine the sustainable leadership behaviors of school principals based on teachers' opinions. In this context, items that can explain sustainable leadership were formed and evaluated by field experts based on the literature. As a result of the evaluation, the draft scale consisting of 26 items was applied to 183 teachers in Yozgat. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was conducted to test the validity of the scale. According to the EFA, it was determined that the "Scale of Sustainable Leadership in Schools" (SSLS) has a four-factor structure. SSLS explained 82% of the variance. In the second stage of the research, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted with the data collected from 385 teachers. CFA revealed that fit values of the scale indicate "perfect" fit. In addition, it was determined that the item discrimination level of the scale was high. Cronbach"s Alpha internal consistency coefficient expressed high reliability. According to the obtained findings, it was concluded that SSLS is a valid and reliable measurement tool that would help to reveal the sustainable leadership behaviors of school principals based on teachers' perception.


As a part of the renaissance and growth of economic sociology during the past two decades, and in response to processes such as economic globalization, financial markets have been increasingly scrutinized by sociologists. Their investigation is seen as relevant with respect to understanding the structure and dynamics of advanced societies, the dynamics of social development, as well as fundamental aspects of human behaviour. This paper charts recent developments in the sociology of financial markets; its starting point is the treatment of the concept of information within three sociological orientations: the social-structural approach, sociological neo-institutionalism and the newer social studies of finance. By highlighting their different assumptions about information and market behaviour, I discuss how these approaches conceptualize financial markets, the methodological implications and the ways in which they contribute to the study of financial exchanges. Copyright 2007 The Author Journal compilation © 2007 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.


This chapter surveys some of the most important issues concerning Kant's relation to Berkeley. Early critics of the first edition of Critique of Pure Reason (1781) accused Kant of Berkeleyanism, which prompted him to repudiate his predecessor in later writings from the 1780s. However, as many readers have noticed, Kant's remarks about Berkeley seem curiously off the mark, which raises a host of interpretive questions. The first section of the chapter addresses the question of whether Kant had firsthand knowledge of Berkeley's writings at all. It presents the case that he probably did. The second section addresses Kant's published criticisms of Berkeley. While these criticisms do reveal some familiarity with Berkeley's writings, they fall short insofar as they either fail to distinguish Kant's own idealism from Berkeley's, or they misrepresent Berkeley's position. The final section presents a direct comparison of several important aspects of Berkeley's and Kant's metaphysics, including the relation between their respective "idealisms," their views on the existence and nature of bodies, and their responses to skepticism.


Constraints and triggers verification in databases is an actual area of scientific researches and practical activities. This article considers a method of formal verification which is based on integrity demands methamodel and allows to check a functional correctness of constraints and triggers


The purpose of this study was to validate the prognostic value of adding narrow‐band imaging (NBI) during transoral laser surgery (TLS) for early glottic cancer.