The Australia Council for the Arts is working towards building ways to present unique Australian contemporary dance around the world and to achieve this goal Council takes a strategic approach titled Dance International Market Development Strategy to four key global markets like the US, Japan, the UK and Western Europe. In January 2007, the Council supported twelve Australian dance companies to attend the Association of Performing Arts Presenters' conference in New York.


Investigated are possibilities and features of using the iterative approach, when teaching at university. The article reviews and analyzes data of scientific publications and generalized practical experience. It is shown, that the iterative approach naturally follows from modern teaching concept: "self-study — solution — check — correction". The importance of closing feedback loop and multiple attempts to obtain correct solution in an iterative approach is noted. Considered is change in the role of teacher in the context of the iterative approach; features of self-study by students of educational material, organization of checking correctness of the task, problems of creating necessary motivation for learning and possibility of transition to distance learning. It is shown, that the iterative approach contributes to individualization of teaching, improving degree of understanding of educational material and development of students' thinking. In addition, the iterative approach facilitates formation of skills and abilities to rationally organize educational activities and self-master knowledge. The conclusion is made about effectiveness of using the iterative approach in university educational process.


PURPOSE: A method for forming a floating gate of a flash memory device is provided to be capable of simplifying processes without using masking and CMP processing. CONSTITUTION: A tunnel oxide layer(14) is formed on a semiconductor substrate(10). A lower polysilicon layer is formed on the tunnel oxide layer(14). After forming a pad oxide layer and a pad nitride layer on the lower polysilicon layer, a trench is then formed in the semiconductor substrate(10). An isolation layer(26) is filled into the trench. The pad nitride layer and the pad oxide layer are removed, and the isolation layer(26) is over-etched. A floating gate(30) is then formed by forming an upper polysilicon layer on the resultant structure and patterning the upper polysilicon layer.


A directly heated SO₃ decomposer for the sulfur-iodine and hybrid-sulfur processes has been introduced and analyzed by using a computational fluid dynamics code(CFD) with the CFX 5.7.1. The use of a directly heated decomposition reactor in conjunction with a VHTR allows higher decomposition reactor operating temperature. However, the thermochemical and hybrid hydrogen production processes accompanied with the high temperature and strongly corrosive operating conditions basically have material problems. In order to resolve these problems, we carried out the development of a structural material and equipment design technologies. The results show that the maximum temperature of the structural material (RA330) could be maintained at 800℃ or less. Also, it can be seen that the mean temperature of the reaction region packed with catalysts in the SO₃ decomposition reactor could satisfy the temperature condition of around 850 ℃ which is the target temperature in this study.


In this paper a survey of the activities in the post-sale period of the product is made and based on the analysis of the results, a methodology that managers could use to design and implement the system of total quality management has been created. The implementation of this methodology is carried out in a simplified way and in less time, without having to study and deepen new knowledge for internal standardization, statistical process control, cost analysis and optimization of business processes The purpose of this paper is to lay a good foundation for Macedonian companies in their post-sale period activities of the product, to understand the philosophy of TQM (Total Quality Management) and benefits will be achieved by implementing the system and setting strategic directions for success. These activities begin by identifying the wishes and needs of customers/users, reengineering business processes for sales support, satisfaction of employees and all stakeholders. As a result of the implementation of this methodology in practice, improved competitiveness, increased efficiency, reduction of quality costs and increased productivity are noted. The methodology proposed in this paper brings together all the activities in the spiral of quality in a company that deals with post-sales support. Due to the necessity of flow of information about quality in the entire enterprise, an information system is designed accordingly to the QC-CEPyramid model in several steps.


Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma (ACC) is a slow growing neoplasm which often recurs within one to two decades after treatment. There are many subtypes of ACC, including cribriform, tubular, and solid forms, which have been found to correlate with overall prognosis as well as recurrence among patients with history of previously resected or treated ACC. Review of the existing literature shows that it is difficult to detect and control recurrence of ACC as most sites of metastasis do not show clinical signs or indications until the neoplasm has become increasingly advanced. Adenoid cystic carcinoma of the head and neck is usually found in the salivary glands, oral cavity, nasopharynx, and palate. There have been only a few reported cases of adenoid cystic carcinoma involving the External Auditory Canal (EAC). We present a case of ACC of the EAC along with a review and discussion of the literature to date.


Two novel multifunction monolithic chips, GaAs microwave monolithic integrated circuit (MMIC) and large-scale integration (LSI) chips, have been developed to realize an extremely small and lightweight microwave synthesizer. The MMIC includes a voltage-controlled oscillator, a dual-output buffer amplifier, a balun, and dynamic/static prescalers. To integrate these functions on a single chip, each circuit has been drastically reduced in size by utilizing a uniplanar MMIC configuration. The LSI includes a dual-modulus prescalar, programmable counters, and a phase/frequency comparator. By incorporating these two monolithic chips in the structure, a Ku-band microwave synthesizer has been fabricated in an 11-mm*23-mm flat package. The synthesizer to which these multifunction chips were applied had a tuning range broader than 1 GHz in the Ku-band with a flatness within 2 dB/sub pp/. In spite of low-Q monolithic circuitry, single-sideband (SSB) phase noise was as low as -70 dBc/Hz. >


Solid‐state light scattering using a red laser source has been applied to the study of spherulitic shells of polyethylene and gelatin. The Hv scattering patterns from a collection of shells are qualitatively similar to that of a spherulite. However a single shell gives a scattering pattern wherein several orders of maxima within the recordable range are visible. The relative intensity of the higher‐order maxima depends on the thickness of the shell. Theoretical scattering patterns have been calculated and are in general agreement with the experimental observation.


The blowfly, Phormia regina , provides a model System for the study of neural control systems underlying the regulation of insect feeding behavior This animal regulates its daily food intake. The external chemoreceptors which drive feeding are well characterized and two sets of internal receptor which supply negative feedback to feeding behavior have recently been described. Both sets of internal receptors are stretch receptors activated by gut movements, hence there is no direct monitor for calorie value in the system. The properties of interneurons which integrate internal and external sensory input and command proboscis extension motoneurons must be inferred from behavioral data, however the wealth of behavioral data available suggests scveral interesting classes of interneuronal circuits, including some with a limited amount of plasticity. The neural machinery controlling feeding can be viewed as one component of the mechanism for metabolic homeostisis.


Up-to-date varieties of waterproofing materials and technologies of culverts waterproofing arrangement for quality improvement and duration of their exploitation are offered.


Characterized by widely distributed tidal flat, the Jiangsu coastal zone is a complex system, with radiative submarine sand ridges developed in the conjunct ocean area, while in the land area, develops complicated fresh water system. Under the great pressure from human activities along Jiangsu coastal zone, the traditional environmental management approaches are facing challenges in dealing with the current environmental problems. This paper proposes a simple framework to analyze various coastal environmental pollution control strategies based on the pressure clarification in order to provide some options for the future implementation in Jiangsu coastal zone management.


This chapter addresses Article 40 of the American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR). Article 40 of the ACHR contains a provision that is crucial for the proper functioning of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights, even though it is administrative in nature. A body as important as the Commission cannot function with the required independence and autonomy without the financial resources necessary to carry out its actions, and without a Secretariat of sufficient substance to ensure the exercise of the Commission's functions, implementation, and follow-up. Compared to the Inter-American Court (Articles 58 and 59 of the ACHR), the resources provided to the Commission under Article 40 are "furnished by the appropriate specialized unit of the General Secretariat of the Organization." From an institutional point of view, it means that Article 40 does not affirm the autonomy of the Commission to appoint its own Secretary. Therefore, the direct relationship with the Organization of American States (OAS) General Secretariat is established by Article 40; while for the Court, its freedom and discretion to appoint its own Secretary was affirmed as an important guarantee of independence.


In preparation of the micro-bolometer-based MIcro Satellite for Thermal Infrared GRound surface Imaging (MISTIGRI) mission, we study the error budget of the Temperature-Emissivity Separation (TES) method using several spectral configurations that differ in channel numbers, locations, and widths. The error budget quantifies the contribution of 1) the TES underlying assumption about emissivity spectral contrast, 2) the errors on atmospheric corrections, and 3) the instrumental noise. When dealing with atmospheric corrections, we consider errors in atmospheric temperature, water vapor content, and concentrations of CO2 and O3. To that end, we design an end-to-end simulator of MISTIGRI measurements in order to simulate the radiative and biophysical quantities involved in the data processing. We conduct numerous simulations over a wide range of realistic setups that include cavity effect, i.e., radiance trapping within vegetation canopy. In the case of micro-bolometer-based sensing, the current study highlights that atmospheric and instrumental noises have similar impacts on the TES retrievals, with resulting errors twice as large as those due to the TES intrinsic assumption about spectral contrast, where the latter contributes to the TES error budget within the [0.005–0.009] interval for emissivity, and within the [0.3–0.4 K] interval for land surface temperature (LST). Also, we show that retrieval performance of surface temperature is very similar across all considered MISTIGRI spectral configurations, with RMSE variation within 0.2 K. Eventually, our study permits us to select a 4-channels spectral configuration as the most suited for the MISTIGRI instrument, notably because it enables a moderately better capture of the emissivity contrast than a 3-channels one.


: This article presents the outcomes of experiments on ceramics with porosity from 3.3 to 38%. Cylindrical samples of MgO and Al 2 O 3 were loaded in compression. The loading-unloading-reloading procedure was conducted until rupture. On the basis of strain analysis the values of the mechanical characteristics were estimated (Young moduli, Poisson coefficients). Damage state was evaluated by estimation of permanent strains after multiple unloading of ceramic samples. Material structure was characterized by microscopic observations (SEM). Three point bending tests gave relations between porosity and fracture toughness for alumina and for magnesia.


Graduate student guide to resources and research methods for mathematics education. Find UNI Theses and Dissertations as well as theses and dissertations from other universities


Verley and Meerwein and Schmidt discovered independently that an aldehyde can be reduced to the primary alcohol by treatment with aluminum ethoxide in the presence of ethanol. The reduction of the aldehyde occurs at the expense of an equivalent amount of ethanol which is oxdized to acetaldehyde. The reaction is reversible, but the equilibrium can be shifted to the point of complete reduction by removal of the acetaldehyde with a stream of hydrogen or nitrogen. This has the additional advantage of preventing side reactions such as aldol condensation between the original aldehdye and acetaldehyde. This method of reduction with aluminum chloride was found applicable to several aldehydes, but to only a few ketones of special types. This mild and specific method of reducing carbonyl compounds became know as the Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley reduction Lund later studied the scope and limitations of the reaction.

Keywords:

reduction;
aluminum alkoxides;
Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley reduction;
aluminum isopropoxide;
carbonyl groups;
limitations;
side reactions;
keto esters;
hydroxy ketones;
alpha-bromoketones


Background: Universities continue to experience pressure to prepare work-ready graduates. In Ontario, this has recently taken the form of new provincial funding metrics which include experiential education. This places more formal pressure on all provincial universities to foster experiential education. Purpose: This study focuses on the organizational dynamics within a selected university as it developed an Experiential Education Certificate (EEC). Methodology/Approach: Using a qualitative approach, this case study relies on multiple methods. Content analysis was used to analyze textual data that framed the EEC. Semi-structured interviews (n = 12) with institutional actors were used to analyze how experiential education is framed administratively and practiced at the technical level of the university. Findings/Conclusions: Although the EEC reflected a management logic, it was not fully aligned with the academic logic of ground-level technical actors (e.g., professors). Institutionalizing experiential education has implications for multiple logics at play within universities and thus requires more "logic work" of those working within. Implications: This exploratory study lays the groundwork for further theorizing experiential education from an organizational perspective, namely, studying experiential education across disciplines, theorizing at the field level, and including administrators.


This paper briefly introduces the dehydrogen process in urea plant of Taxinan Fertilizer Plant,process modification for adopting domestic DH-2 catalyst instead of imported catalyst.Through analysis and compare on the process data such as residual hydrogen in carbon dioxide,pressure difference and temperature of catalyst bed,before and after replacement,it comes to the conclusion that the application is successful and satisfied.


Cadmium is a well‐characterized nephrotoxic agent that is also capable of accumulating and diffusing across the placenta; however, only a few studies have addressed its effects over fetal kidneys and none of them has used a panel of sensitive and specific biomarkers for the detection of kidney injury. The goal of this study was to determine cadmium renal effects in rat fetuses by the quantification of early kidney injury biomarkers. Pregnant Wistar rats were exposed by inhalation to an isotonic saline solution or to CdCl2 solution (DDel=1.48 mg Cd kg−1 day−1) during gestational days (GD) 8–20. On GD 21, dams were euthanized and samples obtained. Kidney injury biomarkers were quantified in amniotic fluid samples and fetal kidneys were microscopically evaluated to search for histological alterations. Our results showed that cadmium exposure significantly raised albumin, osteopontin, vascular endothelial growth factor and tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases‐1 levels in amniotic fluid, whereas it decreased creatinine. Clusterin, calbindin and IFN‐inducible protein 10 did not show any change. Accordingly, histological findings showed tubular damage and precipitations in the renal pelvis. In conclusion, gestational exposure to cadmium induces structural alterations in fetal renal tissue that can be detected by some kidney injury biomarkers in amniotic fluid samples. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Livestock production is developing very fast in most parts of Asia, driven by a booming demand. The increase is mainly supported by industrial systems, with series of environmental impacts, among which nutrient overloads is probably the most severe. The purpose of the current study is to asses the geographical pattern of this issue across East, South and Southeast Asia. A combination of nutrient mass balances and spatial modelling was performed. The study shows that along with high livestock densities, large percentage of surfaces are presenting nutrient overloads, particularly in South East Asia. It also clearly reveals the peri-urban phenomenon. Contribution of manure to nutrient supply was identified as being more critical in areas with low overloads than in areas with important overloads.


Objective To study differentiation of neuroendocrine in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and its effect on the responsiveness to chemotherapy and the prognosis. Methods Serum NSE levels were measured in 83 patients with previously untreated NSCLC. These cases were divided into two groups (A and B). The therapeutic efficacy was evaluated after two periods of chemotherapy and survival rate was examined. Results The response rate of chemotherapy was higher in the group A (63.9%) than in the group B (42.6%). The one year survival rate in the group A (25.0%) was lower than that in the group B (38.3%). Conclusion The differentiation of neuroendocrine may be one of the factors effecting the chemotherapy and prognosis in advanced NSCLC.


The use of heavy metals can lead to considerable emission and, hence, harmful levels at workplaces affecting employees and in the general environment resulting in airborne, foodborne etc. population exposure. Lead and mercury represent an environmental health hazard including nervous system damages. Beyond human studies on exposed individuals, animal experimentation is required in order to elucidate toxic mechanisms and develop biomarkers for early detection of the adverse effects. The aim of this study was to see the short-term effect of inorganic lead and mercury on the activity of the somatosensory system of rats. Weak electric shocks to the whiskers served as stimuli, and the evoked nervous activity was recorded from the cortical and subcortical focus of the brain. From the cortex, spontaneous activity was also recorded. Both lead and mercury caused alterations in the recorded stimulusevoked and spontaneous bioelectric activity. These alterations probably reflect a specific action of the heavy metals on the nervous system so they have a potential use in human health protection.


In a relative less span of time we can process and store a large quantity of data due to technological advancements. There is a rapid change in the nature of data, specifically, the dimensional property of data, mostly in multi and high-dimensional. In terms of heterogeneity of data, Data analysis have becoming a humungous task, Because the volume and complexity in data has been increasing incrementally. In data mining, there is a tool called Data clustering, used in many disciplines in order to extract the meaningful knowledge from seemingly unstructured data. The high-dimensional patient's health records such as immune system status, DICOM Images like CT/PET images, electronic medical records, microarray data like gene expressions, genetic background, etc., In this article we have done a survey on high dimensional medical data clustering and different approaches related to this problem. It also focusses on the real-life applications and recent methods in high dimensional cluster analysis.


For women childbirth can be traumatic. For midwives, the working environment and fulfilling their role can be stressful and sometimes traumatic. How we, as midwives, relate to the women we care for, has been shown to be an important aspect of birth trauma and the subsequent development of post traumatic stress disorder. Set against the background of perinatal mental health and recent national maternity reviews, I am exploring the needs not only of women, but also importantly of midwives as they relate to one another during the provision of maternity care. Rather than increase the burden of expectation on midwives, I hope to inform education and support for midwives


A fermented low-alcohol fruit juice beverage is prepared from raw fruit through washing, pilling, crushing, squeezing juice, using soluble sugar to regulate its content of saccharide, regulating pH value, adding dried yeast, stirring, fermenting, filtering the fermented liquid, adding drinking water, soluble sugar and citric acid or sodium citrate to make the content of alcohol to be 0.5-3.5 vol%, filtering, filling CO2 gas, pouring in containers, sealing and sterilizing.


DVB-SH is a new broadcasting standard offering a mobile TV service for handheld devices using hybrid satellite/terrestrial-repeaters solution. A new link layer protection algorithm called Multi-Burst Sliding Encoding (MBSE) has been recently adopted to cope with the long fading time introduced by the direct satellite link. This paper presents a method to optimize the MBSE parameters and an analysis of the performance gain. Various sets of parameters are studied and optimized with respect to the link performance. Furthemore, an algorithm was provided to compute the optimum values of the MBSE parameters according to some constraints. we have implemented MBSE in two UDcast DVB-SH equipements and we have validated our optimization method using intensive experiments with typical usage scenarios under a hardware-emulated wireless link.


In Praise of Music, for mixed voices and strings (flute and other instruments ad lib), by Paul Hindemith. [New York: Associated Music Publishers, Inc. Full score $2.50; vocal score 40c; instrumental parts 30c ea.; song-sheet 4c.] A note by the composer states that this work is "not written for the concert hall or for professional musicians, but to provide 20th century material for those who like to play or sing for their own pleasure. While no very great technical demands ate made, the amateur is provided with a few nuts to crack, as might be expected of any music written in these times." Voice parts are in unison or two parts (but require men's voices), ranges are moderate and intervals are not too difficult. The style is typical of this composer, and the piece provides interesting, profitable material for those of limited technical ability who would like to perform contemporary music. -Maurice Whitney


The National Institute of Education Sciences (abbreviated as NIES) launched the second round of national college satisfaction survey in 2018. This paper starts with the analysis of the student questionnaire, using perspective table, column chart, pie chart, word frequency chart to analyze data. Based on the five dimensions of educational expectation, education quality perception, education environment perception, education equity perception, and education overall satisfaction, this paper analyzes and counts the questionnaires of staff and students in Chongqing College of Electronic Engineering, further use the Likert scale to calculate the scores of various indicators. situation; The cluster algorithm is used to analyze multiple choice topics and the key words of students 'opinions are summarized, and different sizes are displayed according to the frequency of words. The open questions such as "Modern Apprenticeship System" are analyzed. Through the analysis of the results of the questionnaire, this paper points out the problems that should be paid attention to and improved in education and teaching. With the twelve first-class constructions as its goal, it is necessary to establish a high-quality school with high credibility throughout the country.


The specific chemotherapy (CT) in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is accompanied by a risk of the liver functional state violation. However, there are still many unsolved questions regarding the hepatotoxicity of cytostatic drugs, since hepatic tests' impairment develops not in all patients. Objective — to determine the nature of changes in biochemical liver tests in patients of standard risk in the dynamics of remission induction chemotherapy. Materials and methods. The examinations involved 22 patients with newly diagnosed ALL, from them 8 (36.4 %) women and 14 (63.6 %) men; mean age was (27.8 ± 14.8) years. Patients complied with criteria of the standard risk group, who achieved clinical and hematological remission on the 28th day of treatment. Patients were examined at baseline before the CT and on the 28th day of treatment, the panel biochemical parameters were determined. The severity of hepatotoxic reactions was evaluated according to the criteria of Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE), Version 4.02. Results and discussion. The ALL debut in patients of standard risk in 81.8 % of cases was accompanied by violations of the functional liver state characterized by cytolytic, cholestatic and mixed types and did not exceed the 1st grade of CTCAE. The achievement of clinical-hematologic remission was accompanied by a decrease in the number of patients with liver test abnormalities. Increasing activity of ALT, AST, ALP, GGTP, LDH and the concentration of bilirubin and its fractions in the blood serum on the 28th day of therapy was revealed in 14 (63.8 %) patients. In patients with ALL of standard risk without violations of functional liver tests at baseline, during the CT induction, no increase in the activity of ALT, AST, LF, GGTP, LDH, and serum levels of bilirubin and its fractions was observed. The L-asparaginase administration to the patients with ALL of standard risk in the dynamics of remission induction was accompanied by a decrease in the blood serum levels of total protein in 1.3 times compared to the baseline examination (р < 0.05). Conclusions. The conduction of the remission induction to the ALL patients of the standard risk group was characterized by the lowering the serum total protein level, wich did not depend on the transaminases' activity and was associated with the L-asparaginase treatment; this should be taken into account when choosing the supportive therapy.


It is the goal of this project to conduct a case study to prepare producing a 25 year satellite-based aerosol component climatology outside deserts ranging from mid-1995 to 2020 based on the lifetime of ERS-2, ENVISAT, and the MetOp system. In clean areas only the total aerosol optical depth and no composition will be retrieved. This paper will summarize the available results of the predecessor PI projects PAGODA (ERS-2 AO), SENECA (ENVISAT AO), and PROMOTE (GSE) as well as briefly summarize the work plan of AERO25.


The Nordic Ergonomic Society was founded more than 30 years ago to represent Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark. Recently Iceland has also been included. The Nordic Ergonomics Society has, to a large extent, traditionally been oriented towards work in the area of physiology, and a large number of its members have backgrounds within such areas as work physiology, physiotherapy and rehabilitation. However, from its inception the society has had members who are experienced within such ® elds as work psychology, design, engineering and occupational health and safety. Over the last decade we have also had new members from such areas as work sociology, organizational Toni IvergaÊ rd, President of the Nordic Ergonomic Society 1941 International Ergonomics Association


This paper investigates the geometry of a foldable barrel vault with Yoshimura Origami patterns during the motion. On the base of the geometry analysis of the origami unit, the radius, span, rise, and longitudinal length of the foldable barrel vault with regular Yoshimura Origami pattern in all configurations throughout the motion are determined. The results show that the radius of curvature and the span increase during deployment. But the rise increases first, followed by a decrease with increasing fold angle. Furthermore, the influence of the apex angle of the origami unit and the numbers of triangular plates in the span direction on the geometric parameters is also investigated. Finally, the method to obtain the rise and span of the barrel vault with irregular origami pattern is also given.


Yogurt is a fermented milk that is widely consumed in the world and is considered an ideal food from a nutritional point of view, since it carries a variety of health benefits, and some yogurts still have therapeutic properties contributing, for example, to cholesterol lowering. Aiming at this, the objective was to elaborate and evaluate microbiologically and sensorially, formulations of yogurt with cassava jelly added with probiotics. However, three yoghurt formulations were elaborated, differentiated by the partial substitution of UHT milk and powdered milk by Cajan jelly. The samples were submitted to microbiological analyzes (total coliforms, thermotolerant coliforms, E. coli and salmonella sp and fungi) and sensorial (acceptance and Revista Brasileira de Higiene e Sanidade Animal Brazilian Journal of Hygiene and Animal Sanity ISSN: 1981-2965 I


Attempts is being made on developing more advanced and effective techniques for the dissipation of heat in electronic and microelectronic equipment. It is still a main challenge to increase the cooling efficiency by increasing a heat dissipation rate for the performance of microelectronic equipment. The present study deals with a computational numerical analysis of compact heat exchangers, used for the dissipation of heat generated by electrical and electronic components under forced convection. The analysis was done by k-$\omega$ model based with shear-stress transport (SST), low Reynolds no. correction to calculate the heat transfer in turbulent flow for inlet velocities ranging from 1 m/s - 6 m/s. To access the increase heat transfer, first the results were validated using experimental data previously conducted by Kai-Shing Yang et al [1] and then the geometry was modified by attaching 9 semi-spherical shapes on each fin. Staggered arrangement of pin fins is used for effective heat transfer. The performance of pin fins was analyzed for a series of frontal velocities ranging from 1-6m/s in a 470mm long fluid domain. The constant amount of 25W heat at base plate was supplied. It is found that the optimum configuration of pin fins using semi-spherical profiles on it significantly increased the heat transfer in terms of heat transfer co-efficient with the negligible amount of pressure lost across the pin fins. This study suggest that the new model used possess the higher heat transferability and a proper mixing of air in pin fins.


Customer satisfaction is one of the most important variables when applying the ISO 9000 quality management system. Customer satisfaction forms the basis of quality improvement initiatives and therefore needs to be measured through its dimensions and specifications. For these reasons it is vital for the organisation to develop a plan of action to address and improve customer satisfaction on a continuous basis. The primary objective of this research was to assimilate characteristics that would improve quality and customer satisfaction on an automotive seat cover production line. "Sewing", the organisation is currently experiencing difficulties with regards to the quality of its products. The current high level of customer complaints as well as internal data related to scrap, rework, and quality issues indicate that product quality is a major contributor to this dissatisfaction. The investigation applied the qualitative research methodology using a case-study as the primary instrument for data collection.


Since 2016, when the World Health Organization (WHO) Health Emergencies Programme was established, WHO has transformed its capabilities to reliably prepare for, detect, and respond to emerging threats and humanitarian crises around the world. Every month, WHO identifies 4,500 signals of public health events and in 2020, WHO responded to 116 emergencies in 194 countries, territories, and areas [1]. The recent coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has exemplified that surveillance of emerging threats remains challenging, owing to a number of limitations, including data fragmentation and information systems that are not interoperable, limited integration of health information with other contextual information, such as climate information and social factors, little standardisation of analytical tools and methods, difficulties in assessing the effectiveness of public health interventions in real time, sub-optimal use of data-driven insights for public health decision-making [2] and, importantly, a weak global trust architecture for data and information sharing [3].


Listen online Galaxie FM 95.3 - club. Electronic music madio from the North of France. House, Trance, Techno, Progressive, Club, Drum′N′Bass, Retro, Hardcore, Hardstyle, Ambient, Downtempo. Radio Galaxie FM 95.3 is broadcasting in French from France, Wattrelos.


This article expresses the results of a comprehensive scientific research. The following goals were achieved: 1) identification of the features of qualified legal assistance provided by a lawyer in the arbitration process; 2) analysis of the features of the interaction between arbitration proceedings and IT; 3) creation of an approximate algorithm for the use of information tools by an attorney in the process of preparing for arbitration proceedings; 4) recommendations on ensuring information security; 5) analysis of the possibilities of the information tools usage in arbitration processю. The study is based on russian and foreign doctrinal sources, laws of the Russian Federation, attorneys' corporate acts and websites of the main registers of the Russian Federal services.


The present investigation introduces a new series of cycloplatinated(II) complexes, with the general formula Pt(O-bpy)(Me)(CN-R)] (R = benzyl, 2-naphtyl and tert-butyl), which are able to generate the stable trans-Pt(IV) product in the solution after the reaction with iodomethane. In fact, the trans product is both the kinetic and thermodynamic product of the reaction; this observation was supported by DFT calculations. These Pt(II) complexes are supported by 2,2'-bipyridine N-oxide (O-bpy) and one of several isocyanides as the cyclometalated and ancillary ligands, respectively. These new Pt(II) complexes undergo oxidative addition with MeI to give the corresponding trans-Pt(IV) complexes. All the complexes were identified employing the multi-nuclear NMR spectroscopy and single crystal Xray crystallography. The kinetic investigations were also performed for the oxidative addition reactions in order to measure the reaction rates; the reaction was followed by UV-Vis spectroscopy. The rates obtained follow the trend CN-Bu > CN-Bz > CN-2Np for the CN-R Page 1 of 26 John Wiley & Sons Applied Organometallic Chemistry 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60


The surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and surface-enhanced resonance Raman scattering (SERRS) phenomena can be observed when molecules are close to metallic nanoparticles that sustain localized surface plasmon resonances (LSPR). There is a broad spectrum of metallic nanostructures (mainly silver and gold) that may be used to improve the efficiency of Raman signals. Here, we used silver island films (SIFs) to enhance the scattering from tagged phospholipids coating the SIFs, and fabricated using Langmuir- Blodgett (LB) technique. Single molecule detection (SMD) can be approached using LB-SERRS technique and using mixed LB monolayer, containing about one target molecule per 1 μm2ofsurface area. Fluorescence enhancement is achieved with shell-isolated nanoparticles (SHINs) synthesized and delivered to the LB substrate, a technique we term SHINEF. Simply, a drop of SHINs is delivered to quartz slide covered by LB of tag-phospholipid to produce surface-enhanced florescence.


Currently, Zambia is one of the world's major emerald-producing countries. In this study, emerald samples from Kamakanga, Zambia, were systematically analyzed by standard gemological tests, microscopic observation, Raman spectroscopy test of mineral inclusions, and fluid inclusions. The study found Kamakanga emeralds have higher RI (refractive index) and SG (specific gravity) than average. The common inclusions in Kamakanga emeralds are pseudo-hexagonal, dark green, brownish, or oval platelet phlogopite; red spot or skeletal hematite; black spot, platelet, or dendritic oxide inclusions (pyrolusite, magnetite, ilmenite); or schorl. The common paragenetic mineral is schorl. Other mineral inclusions are fluorapatite, tremolite, and calcite. All Kamakanga emeralds contain at least two kinds of common mineral inclusions that are described above, and the characteristic mineral inclusions are pseudo-hexagonal dark green platelet phlogopite and a large quantity of fluorapatite. The fluorapatite inclusions with colorless transparent rims and greyish hazy interiors are reported for the first time. Most fluid inclusions in Kamakanga emeralds are rectangular two- or three-phase inclusions, containing gas phase (CO2 + CH4 + H2O or CO2), aqueous fluid, and sometimes solid phase (carbonate). A small number of hexagonal three-phase fluid inclusions can be seen in Kamakanga emeralds, containing gas phase (CO2 + CH4), aqueous fluid, and daughter crystals (siderite).


With wide adoption of Service Computing and Mobile Computing, people tend to invoke services with mobile devices, requiring accurate and real-time feedback from services at any time and any place. Among these services, some are private to limited users and require identity authorization before use; hence secure access control in wireless network should be provided. To address the challenge, in this study, we propose the architecture and protocols of a system of access to private services for mobile clients, which combines the technologies of trusted computing, Diffie-Hellman key agreement protocol, digital certificate, DES data encryption algorithm and twice verification. We further show the implementation of the proposed system, in which we have realized the authentication and authorization of mobile clients and then secure data transfer between mobile clients in the unsafe Internet and private services in the Intranet.


Simple Summary We propose the use of two universal morphometric indices whose synergetic potency leads to the classification of a cancerous tissue of a few nanometers in size as metastatic or non-metastatic. The method is label-free, operates on conventional histological cross-sections, recording surface height–height roughness by AFM, and detects nanoscale changes associated with the progress of carcinogenesis which are the output of combined statistical approaches, namely multifractal analysis and the generalized moments method. The benefit of this approach is at least two-fold. On the one hand, its application in the context of early diagnosis can increase the life expectancy of patients, and on the other hand, differentiation between metastatic and non-metastatic tissues at the singular cell level can lead to new methodologies to treat cancer biology and therapies. Abstract The characterization of cancer histological sections as metastatic, M, or not-metastatic, NM, at the cellular size level is important for early diagnosis and treatment. We present timely warning markers of metastasis, not identified by existing protocols and used methods. Digitized atomic force microscopy images of human histological cross-sections of M and NM colorectal cancer cells were analyzed by multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis and the generalized moments method analysis. Findings emphasize the multifractal character of all samples and accentuate room for the differentiation of M from NM cross-sections. Two universal markers emphatically achieve this goal performing very well: (a) the ratio of the singularity parameters (left/right), which are defined relative to weak/strong fluctuations in the multifractal spectrum, is always greater than 0.8 for NM tissues; and (b) the index of multifractality, used to classify universal multifractals, points to log-normal distribution for NM and to log-Cauchy for M tissues. An immediate large-scale screening of cancerous sections is doable based on these findings.


Every country pursues her foreign policy in accordance with her national interests. These interests depend upon a number of factors like cultural and historical traditions, geography, economic and political objectives. But in this medley of interests there often is an overriding objective which is not based purely on rational considerations. Every country has a ruling passion in her foreign policy. When one calls it a passion, one is not suggesting that this is something entirely emotional or irrational. It may be based on genuine fears and hatreds which have accumulated over the years and which may be intertwined with material and religious considerations. Pakistan is no exception to this. Indeed very few countries were born in an atmosphere so surcharged with intense illwill and mutual hatred as Pakistan was in 1947 as a result of the partition of the sub-continent. Almost every action of Pakistan can be interpreted as being motivated by fear of India. She complains that India opposed her very formation and that her policy of intense hostility continues unabated. India, both in manpower and material and military strength, is vastly superior to Pakistan. Before India's border clash with China, even with the aid Pakistan was receiving from the United States, her armed forces never exceeded more than one-third of India's strength. After sixteen years of Pakistan's independent existence, and even after India's humiliating defeat in the border clash with China, Mr. Nehru in an inter. view declared that Indo-Pakistani "confederation remains our ultimate end."' Similarly, Pakistan alleges that India has been promoting subversive activity in East Pakistan and that in the event of a military conflict her first and relatively easy target would be East Pakistan. American aid to India has only accentuated Pakistan's fear in the sense that a well. equipped Indian army meant for China in the North-East Frontier Agency would be "so positioned as to be able to wheel round swiftly to attack East Pakistan."2 Thus, Dawn in an editorial observed: "If the main concern of the Christian West is the containment of Chinese Communism, the main concern of Muslim Pakistan is the containment of militarist and militant Hinduism."v3 One may find all this a bit exaggerated, but the fact remains that Pakistan joined the various defense pacts with the United States largely to protect her interests against the future aggression of


In this work, the concept of plasma–metal junction (pm-junction) is presented, in addition to well established physics of pn-junction, metal–semiconductor junction, semiconductor–insulator junction, etc. We demonstrate experimentally the dependence of I-V characteristics on work function of the metal for a pm-junction. The experiment is done using tungsten (W) and stainless steel (SS) having different work functions ( Φ m) of 4.55 eV and 4.30 eV, respectively. The W and SS planar metal probes of identical geometry were exposed to plasma simultaneously, making two distinct pm-junctions. The plasma exposed is identical for both the metals, and therefore, the difference observed in the I-V characteristics of these two pm-junctions is attributed only to the difference in an energy-band diagram of these junctions, owing to respective work function. The proposed concept of the pm-junction may simplify the complex plasma–material interactions in all laboratory plasmas, including cold glow discharges to hot fusion plasmas.


e know it by various names? cross-curricular education, cooperative or coordinate courses, team teaching, interdiscipli nary courses. Of course, format and methodology differ somewhat among institutions. However, the aim of all such programs is the same: to make students aware of the connections among ideas and issues across discipli nary boundaries, and to help them gain intellectual sophistication by confront ing and assessing multiple perspectives (see Katz 1988). Few dispute that this is a worthwhile aim, although many have tried unsuc cessfully, or with only limited success, to implement it. Why are interdiscipli nary, team-taught programs so diffi cult to maintain? The answer seems to lie within the fragmented structure of the university itself, as argued by Fish (1989), Russell (1990), and Daniels (1984), among others. Such a structure of specialized, autonomous depart ments leads to misdirected turf protec tion so that interdisciplinary courses often slip into the cracks between de partments, inviting neglect and eventu ally the program's demise. Yet, the theory of interdisciplinarity refuses to die; witness evidence from Education Index between the late 1950s


The Taiwan Strait is a conduit between East China Sea (ECS) and South China Sea (SCS). Seasonal monsoon winds drive the southbound Zhejiang-Fujian Coastal Current and northbound SCS Warm Current through the strait. Water masses carried by these major current systems also carry fluvial signals from two major rivers, the Changjiang (Yangtze) River in ECS and the Zhujiang (Pearl) River in SCS through the strait. Here we show a switch occurred to signify the monsoon regime change on the western side of this conduit around 10:00 on May 8, 2015. Our data came from water mass properties and environmental proxies of N/P ratio in the surface water and 7Be and 210Pbex isotopes in surface sediments. The timings of the demarcation were identical in the water column and on the water-sediment interface. Our findings put a specific time point in the monsoon regime change in 2015.


The pulsation of a long-period variable star generates shock waves which dramatically affect the structure of the star's atmosphere and produce conditions that lead to rapid mass loss. Numerical modeling of atmospheres with periodic shocks is being pursued to study the processes involved and the evolutionary consequences for the stars. It is characteristic of these complex dynamical systems that most effects result from the interaction of various time-dependent processes.


The paper analyzes the effect of rural tourism development on the migrant farmers' livelihood strategies in Three Gorges Reservoir. The results show: Development of rural tourism has a certain promote role to raise farmers' living income in the Three Gorges reservoir area. Therefore, the local government should make use of the advantages of rural tourism resources in the region, to create a unique model of rural tourism, and provide financial support, technical and tax. Achieve sustainable livelihoods and development of rural tourism in Three Gorges Reservoir area farmers.


A novel algorithm for measuring image edge properties was proposed. The wavelet coefficients in the wavelet domain were used to give two measures: edge intensity measure indicating the intensities of edges and edge diffusion measure describing the distribution of strong and weak edges. Because all the cases of edge degradation (e.g., blurring and noise corruption) are considered, the measures can be taken as objective basis for choosing detection algorithms and tuning parameters in the chosen algorithms. And the experiments on a wide variety of images are acquired which show that the proposed algorithm is efficient


tion to religion in the early modern period. The book raises questions whether, in this age of specialization, it is possible for one individual to master two disciplines in a way that will satisfy both constituencies. But perhaps it takes a sociologist to point out to his or her own colleagues that which historians often take for granted. In that sense, historians should welcome Gorski's essay on the central importance of religion to the formation of the early modern state.


This article is the fourth in a series dedicated to the major manuscripts of Ruusbroec's works. The present publication was preceded by: 'Corpusvorming van Ruusbroecs werken', in: Ons Geestelijk Erf 72 (1998), pp. 3-53; 'Fragment van een onbekend Ruusbroec-verzamelhandschrift', in: Ons Geestelijk Erf 72 (1998), pp. 164-172; 'Een studiereis naar Groenendaal. De Nacomelinc en de totstandkoming van Ruusbroechandschrift D', in: Ons Geestelijk Erf 72 (1998), pp. 221-245. This contribution deals with the table of contents, the pro- and epilogues, the head-ings, and the running titles in the manuscript usually referred to as 'A'. MS A is the surviving part of the once bipartite Groenendaal codex, which contained all of Ruusbroec's works, except for his letters, and was written ca. 1365. Of particular interest is the table of contents in MS A, which not only provides information concerning the treatises, but also determines the periods in which Ruusbroec 'published' them. As we will show, MS F transmits a copy of the table of contents in accordance with the lost part of the Groenendaal codex. Thus it is possible to make a reconstruction of the original table, that enables us to distinguish three periods in Ruusboec's life to which the publication of his works can be related, i.e.: [1] as a secular priest in Brussels (1317-43), [2] as a hennit in the woods near this town (1343-50), and, finally, [3] as the prior of the Groenendaal monastery (1350-81). The reconstruction, however, poses a major problem for the chronology of Ruusbroec's works. According to the reconstructed table of contents of the Groenendaal codex, Die geestelijke brulocht saw the light when Ruusbroec was the prior of the Groenendaal monastery, whereas the communis opinio among Ruusbroec experts to date has been that it belongs to the Brussels' period. There is, however, much more evidence dating from the fourteenth century, which shows that the Brulocht has to be postdated. Most likely, it was written in


BACKGROUND
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) still remains one of the leading causes of infant death worldwide, especially in high-income countries. To date, however, there is no detailed information on the global health burden of SIDS.

AIMS
To characterize the global disease burden of SIDS and its trends from 1990 to 2019 and to compare the burden of SIDS according to the socio-demographic index (SDI).

DESIGN
Systematic analysis based on the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2019 data.

METHODS
Epidemiological data of 204 countries from 1990 to 2019 were collected via various methods including civil registration and vital statistics in the original GBD study. Estimates for mortality and disease burden of SIDS were modelled. Crude mortality and mortality rates per 100,000 population were analyzed. Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) and DALY rates were also assessed.

RESULTS
In 2019, mortality rate of SIDS accounted for 20.98 [95% Uncertainty Interval (UI), 9.15 to 46.16] globally, which was a 51% decrease from 1990. SIDS was most prevalent in Western sub-Saharan Africa, High-income North America and Oceania in 2019. The burden of SIDS was higher in males than females consistently from 1990 to 2019. Higher SDI and income level was associated with lower burden of SIDS; further, countries with higher SDI and income had greater decreases in SIDS burden from 1990 to 2019.

CONCLUSIONS
The burden of SIDS has decreased drastically from 1990 to 2019. However, the improvements have occurred disproportionately between regions and SDI levels. Focused preventive efforts in under-resourced populations are needed.


Since September 11, 2001, the social imaginaries on terrorism have changed. We propose that from 9/11 onwards, the discussion about terrorism has evolved considerably. In this investigation, we shall try to discover the social imaginaries on terrorism that ushered in the 21 st Century from 9/11 to March 11 th , 2004 (the attacks in Madrid); that's to say, how the discussion about terrorism changed from 11 th September, 2001 to 11 th March, 2004, and what strategies and discourses the media has constructed in order to make terrorism feel in some way like a domestic topic or, at least, closer to the community. The role of the mass media is relevant in the way in which it can determine what we understand about terrorism since the media itself proposes ways of reading and interpreting social realities. We consider that the social imaginary facilitates an exploration of the cultural appropriations of terrorism in societies such as the Quebecois and Mexican ones, and the relationship that these societies have established with their own people, in particular the kind of representations they have about themselves with respect to terrorism and the "others". By analyzing the discursive structures (frames and interpretive repertoires) in newspapers we seek to ascertain the social imaginaries that mass media (newspapers) construct on terrorism in Montreal and Guadalajara in an era that as we can see, the new world order is defined around the war against terrorism.


Ethernet is a key component of the standards used for digital process buses in transmission substations, namely IEC 61850 and IEEE Std 1588–2008 (PTPv2). These standards use multicast Ethernet frames that can be processed by more than one device. This presents some significant engineering challenges when implementing a sampled value process bus due to the large amount of network traffic.


On the load side of the power grid, energy storage (ES) can act as a flexible transfer station to relieve the power pressure of users and absorb new energy, for ensuring the stability of the power system and improve the economy of users. Currently, the concept of cloud energy storage(CES) service mode under the background of sharing economy has attracted much attention. Under the CES service system independently invested and operated by a third party, how to price and formulate scheduling strategies to reach a mutually beneficial situation for users and operators is an important research topic at present. Thus, a CES service architecture and pricing mechanism is proposed in the paper, and establishes a Stackelberg game model in which operators and users seek to maximize their respective benefits. The upper layer operator that provides virtual energy storage discharge service releases the discharge electricity price and sends it to the user. The lower layer user decides its own load plan and power purchase strategy according to the virtual energy storage discharge electricity price released by the operator and reports it to the operator. The operator then adjusts the electricity price according to the user's plan. After the lower model is transformed into KKT conditional substitution, the bilayer model can be transformed into monolayer model, and it can be converted to mixed integer quadratic programming problem with Boolean expansion method. The numerical results show the proposed method can realize the reasonable pricing of CES users by operators, and reduce the electricity cost purchased by users while ensuring the benefits of operators.


This paper follows the dual‐cost function methodology and develops a theoretical specification that assesses the contribution of public R&D capital to the productivity growth. The empirical application focuses on the Greek food and beverages industry. For this purpose it employs a micro‐aggregated annual data set over the period 1976–2002. The regression analysis shows that publicly‐funded R&D capital is a productive input as 8.7% and 7.3% of the total factor productivity growth in the food industry and in the beverages industry respectively is attributed to the publicly‐funded R&D capital. The relationship between publicly‐funded R&D and privately‐purchased inputs is also examined.


We find estimates on the coefficients and for functions in the function class . The results presented in this paper improve or generalize the recent work of Srutha Keerthi and Raja (2013).


Engineering geologists and geotechnical engineers are commonly challenged by weak, heterogeneous and geologically complex mixtures of strong blocks of rock embedded in soillike matrices. Melanges (French: melange) are a common example of such complex geological mixtures. Melanges and other soil/rock mixtures are well represented in the Northern California: the Franciscan Complex contains abundant melange bodies. Elsewhere in the Northern California, the geo-professional is challenged by fault and shear zones, lahar deposits, decomposed granites, glacial tills, and colluvium. However, it is not the intent of this paper to focus on American troubles: geologically complex mixtures pose global problems. For example, melanges


AbstractThe objective of this paper is to employ the results from the extensive instrumentation installed on recently tested full-scale cold-formed steel (CFS)-framed buildings to reveal a deeper understanding of the behavior of the building under seismic excitations. In particular, this paper complements a companion paper that focuses on system-level design and response. Here, utilizing strategically located string potentiometers, strain gauges, and accelerometers, the responses of the walls and diaphragms are isolated from the overall building response and studied. The interaction of shear walls along a wall line, as well as across stories is studied through measured data on strains in hold-down anchors, strains on floor-to-floor strap connecting shear-wall chord studs, and displacements across shear-wall sheathing and openings. The behavior of the floor diaphragm is studied through displacements measured perpendicular to the plane of one wall of the building and accelerometers throughout the floor of t...


FIELD: medicine. SUBSTANCE: disclosed is microsphere formulation risperidone with sustained release comprising risperidone or 9-hydroxy risperidone or a salt thereof and a polymer blend comprising a first non-terminated lactide-glycolide copolymer and a second non-terminated lactide-glycolide copolymer, wherein first non-terminated lactide-glycolide copolymer is a copolymer with high internal viscosity (limiting viscosity number), and second non-terminated lactide-glycolide copolymer is a copolymer with low internal viscosity. EFFECT: sustained release microsphere formulation is suitable for large-scale industrialised production with improved stability, formulation release in vivo will not change after prolonged storage. 18 cl, 9 dwg, 2 tbl, 14 ex


The lightweight concrete composite slab is a new type composite slab,the prefabricated slab is made of lightweight concrete,and the cast section adopts common concrete.This slab makes full use of the features of lightweight concrete and common concrete.On the basis of experiment,the finite element method is adopted to analyze the mechanical characteristics of the slab,the analysis result consists with the experimental conclusion.The study manifests that the slab has excellent capabilities.


Accumulation is a simple phenomenon that is key in understanding and managing systems ranging from savings in bank accounts to the build up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. In this journal, based on their experiments Cronin et al. (2009) argued that people do not understand accumulation. We suggest that their results are due to the misleading red herrings introduced by the type of the questions and graph used. We repeated their task with revised questionnaires and asked the participants about the accumulation phenomenon directly. The results show that people do understand accumulation. The result is natural because accumulation is a common phenomenon dealt with successfully in everyday life. We need to pay attention to the way we communicate about dynamic phenomena such as the impact of greenhouse gas emissions to avoid nonmisleading signals. We propose Systems Intelligence as a perspective to help to successfully communicate about complex dynamic systems.


ABSTRACT We studied a Middle Pleistocene molluscan association from northern Tenerife. It was composed of 14 species, all found in the TL-1 and TL-2 stratigraphic beds of the middle Pleistocene Unit I. The families present were Helicidae, Enidae with two new species, Pomatiidae, Canariellidae, Vitrinidae and Geomitridae. For the Geometric Morphometrics (GM) analysis, a total of 58 pictures from three localities were analysed, comparing the morphological similarities between Napaeus guanche sp. nov., and some closely related extant species, Pomatias laevigatus and extant and fossil Hemicycla eurythyra based on shell shape. According to the PCA, Napaeus accounted for 77.53% of the variation of the shell shape within the first two components, Hemicycla accounted for 62.62% and Pomatias accounted for 52.79%. The permutational ANOVA showed to be a useful analysis to discriminate between groups, presenting non-significance for Napaeus, and significance for Hemicycla and Pomatias depicting high similarity. Despite this, the dispersion analysis showed a relatively high dispersion of the dataset for Napaeus and Pomatias, related to sample size, while for Hemicycla, the result was significant and congruent with permutational ANOVA. We describe two new species, Napaeus lipauges and Napaeus guanche increasing the known diversity of the genus Napaeus in the Canary Islands.


Observations of the off-limb corona with the SWAP wide-field telescope in the 174\,A passband onboard the PROBA2 mission provide an opportunity to study post-eruptive processes in the dimming regions. We investigate morphology, temporal evolution, and plasma properties for four `deep' off-disk coronal dimmings associated with limb coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in 2010\,--\,2017. Using the SWAP fixed-difference images, we revealed ray-like structures that appeared in the dimming recovery phase stretching quasi-radially to distances from 1.1 to 1.6\,$\mathrm{R}_{\odot}$ and existing from tens of minutes to several hours. Similar rays were detected earlier at distances above 1.7\,$\mathrm{R}_{\odot}$ by the UVCS onboard the SOHO. These structures apparently represent the coronal roots of the flux rope trunks observed by the LASCO-C2 onboard SOHO. The EUVI data onboard the STEREO show the origins of these structures on the disc as fan rays much brighter in the 171\,A band than in 193\,A, which suggests their temperature being less than 2\,MK. The differential emission measure (DEM) analysis based on the AIA multi-wavelength images onboard the SDO showed that the emission measure (EM) in these rays compared to the pre-eruption plasma state increased up to 45\,\% at temperatures of 0.6\,--\,0.8\,MK, whereas EM of the ambient coronal plasma with temperatures of 1.3\,--\,3.7\,MK dropped by 19\,--\,43\,\%. For the event on 18 August 2010, the PLASTIC instrument onboard STEREO detected signatures of the cold streams in the CME tail as enriched with the ions Fe$^{8+}$\,--\,Fe$^{10+}$, which may be associated with the post-eruptive rays in the solar corona.


Staphylococcus aureus antibiotic resistance in pediatric populations is a dynamic problem that affects the morbidity and mortality of all children. Local efforts to understand its patterns as well as the antibiotic prescribing trends, as well as their relationship, are cornerstone for the development of mitigation strategies.

 We conducted a retrospective observational study of 11,964 clinical isolates at a tertiary pediatric care center in South Florida collected from 2008 to 2019 to determine the antibiotic susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus, compare antibiotic resistance patterns between MRSA and MSSA isolates and evaluate antibiotic prescribing practices from 2013 to 2019.

 Methicillin resistance was present in 47.9% (±0.63) isolates with no significant temporal trend. Resistance to clindamycin was on average 24.8% (±1.08), to erythromycin 66.9% (±1.68), to levofloxacin 35.5% (±1.61) and to gentamicin 6.8% (±1.11). MRSA isolates had higher resistance rates to most antibiotics than MSSA (p< 0.05) except for clindamycin for which both had similar rates. Resistance to clindamycin and gentamicin increased significantly from 20% to 25% and from 5 to 15%, respectively, among MRSA and quinolone resistance rose among MSSA from 7% to 13%. Antibiotic prescription rate increased from 56 prescriptions per 1,000 patients to 136 prescriptions per 1,000 patients from 2013 to 2019. There was a positive correlation between erythromycin resistance rate among MRSA and macrolide prescription frequency (p< 0.05). Figure 1.Antibiotic resistance in S aureus isolates from pediatric patients between 2008 and 2019.
 The trends in erythromycin and gentamicin resistance were statistically significant (p<0.05); all other trends shown were not significant. Figure 2.Comparative annual resistance rate among MSSA and MRSA isolates from pediatric patients between 2008 and 2019
 The trend in levofloxacin resistance among MSSA was statistically significant, as well as the trends in erythromycin, clindamycin, and gentamicin in MRSA; all other trends were not significant. Figure 3.Annual antibiotic prescription frequency as a percent of all antibiotics prescribed in outpatient facilities and emergency department at Nicklaus Children's Hospital between 2013 and 2019Beta-Lactams are expressed as the summation of cephalosporins and penicillins. The frequency at which penicillins, cephalosporins and macrolides were prescribed changed significantly; all other frequencies did not change significantly.

 Pediatric Staphylococcus aureus isolates showed high and stable rates of methicillin resistance during the study period. There is growing clindamycin and gentamicin resistance among MRSA isolates as well as increasing levofloxacin resistance in MSSA isolates. Antibiotic prescribing increased significantly in this population during the study period in South Florida.

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"High voltage DC power systems (HVDC) provide essential technical advantages in relation with the AC classical distribution networks: increasing the capacity and the stability in a natural and efficient way, simultaneously with the decoupling of some local disturbances that may occur in their subsystems and the easy interconnection of power AC grids with different parameters. In addition, the increased share of renewable energy sources and the fact that their production takes place in concentrated areas, often away from the consumption areas, require the existence of distribution facilities in the field of GW power levels, with flexible connectivity possibilities. The paper presents general aspects regarding the configuration and the main components of a HVDC power system, implementation in several representative applications. "


Electronic absorption spectra are reported for four ethynylsilylenes (A,,,, nm), MesSiC=CH (524), MesSiC=CSiMe3 (545), MesSiC=CPh (500), and CH3SiC=CSiMe3 (473), generated in 3-methylpentane matrices by photolysis of the corresponding trisilanes, RR'Si(SiMe3)2. Calculations of the 'A' - lA" (n - 3p) transition energies for these and for some vinyl- and phenylsilylenes, by ab initio methods including the use of spin-projection methods, provided results in good agreement with experiment. Vinyl, ethynyl, and aryl groups all decrease the transition energy of silylenes, compared with MezSi: (Le., they cause a red shift). Also when H in HSiMe is replaced by vinyl or phenyl groups, a bathochromic (red) shift results, but ethynyl induces a small blue shift. The calculated stabilization energies of the two electronic states suggests that the bathochromic shift is due to an excited-state stabilization (resulting from interaction of the singly-occupied 3p(Si) orbital with the ?r* orbital on the substituent) which is larger than the stabilization of the corresponding ground state.


We present a recently developed ray tracing engine for room acoustics computations whose improved physics provide more realistic results than present state of the art methods. Ray tracing has been widely applied within the graphics community to obtain realistic shadings, but the computational cost reduction has oriented eorts towards fast computations of apparently realistic images rather than physically correct results. In the case of audio ray tracers, a similar tendency has led to relatively fast shading algorithms that often miss its physical basis, preventing the resulting impulse responses from converging to physically correct solutions. Our engine improves this situation by focusing on two main issues. First, it ensures the mathematical convergence of the algorithms by maintaining the coherence between the computation of the direction of the reflected rays and the computation of the contribution of the sources to a given point in the environment. Second, the engine works directly in the frequency domain. This allows for the implementation of frequencydependent phenomena, from surface impedance and reflections to frequency-dependent source directivity patterns. We present a comparative study of the proposed ray tracing engine with the state of the art, emphasizing properties like realism, coherence and convergence.


Our integrated college campus information system based on service-oriented architecture (SOA) technology can provide object-oriented half integrated services (OOHIS). It can automatically select corresponding components from system component library in response to different service objectives to build a general-purpose major integration service. Via timely building of system component library, the object-oriented customized services of various colleges can form the different integration services for different customers, including college leadership, faculty, students, administrators, staff, and etc.. Through our developed interfaces and middleware, an old campus IT system can be divided into multiple function components that can be later called by the new system service modules. The system takes advantage of the wire and wireless network technology of IPV6 to realize the seamless integration between the normal office system and mobile office system. We also use XML and Web server technology to implement the system.


JOHN CLARE'S MIDDLE-PERIOD POETRY SERVES AS A CULTURAL MARKER OF the expropriation of the commons and curtailment of common right in the early nineteenth century. The poems identified as Clare's "enclosure elegies" document the most visible forms of land expropriation: former common land is now marked as private by the erection of fences and no-trespassing signs, and the landscape is altered by the deforestation of old-growth trees, the elimination of grazing spaces between fields, and the tillage of common land. In most instances, as J. M. Neeson argues succinctly, "Enclosure meant the extinction of common right." (1) Yet while enclosure, as Clare documents, closed off and transformed the spaces that were commons, it did not fully extinguish the practice of common right; enclosure encouraged in Clare's poetic work a reconception of the commons that reanimated claims to common right. Common right, as E. P. Thompson argues, allowed the poor and propertyless to cultivate localized "usages" of private property, such as digging turf, gathering wood, foraging for food, or grazing animals. (2) These localized usages not only gave the poor access to land-based resources, but the work of common right was also constitutive of a limited but vital sense of freedom, for commoners and communities, from the vicissitudes of wage labor. Peter Linebaugh argues, "commoning is embedded in a labor process; it inheres in a particular praxis of field, upland, forest, marsh, coast. Common rights are entered into by labor." (3) All forms of common right are entered into through work with the land and its resources, and this work strategically resists individual ownership. Clare's post-enclosure poetry insists that the work of commoning is not undertaken by humans alone, but also by cooperating with the "silent work" of non-human animals, plants, and natural processes. Although he never goes so far as to monetize the work of nature like current economists who suggest, for example, that the economic value of the work of bees and other pollinators is worth roughly $250 billion per year, (4) Clare is particularly attuned to the value created when nature "Is left at her own silent work for years." (5) Such acknowledgment of nature's work challenges John Locke's labor theory of property as land that has been improved solely by human labor, and that property owners "hath by this labour something annexed to it that excludes the common right of other men." (6) The Lockean concept of private property erases the labor of the propertyless poor, as Raymond Williams argues. (7) Yet Clare's poetry takes this critique even further by pointing to the way in which both propertyless humans and non-human life are constandy contributing to the productivity and "improvement" of land. Agricultural labor is not, as Locke would have it, "the unquestionable property of the labourer" but rather is dependent upon the work of soil, plants, and animals. (8) The work of the possession of land by an individual, in other words, always involves the dispossession of both the working-class and non-human life that enable that endeavor. Clare's middle period poetry about work, both human and non-human, is inflected by the georgic mode, which depicts human agricultural labor as heroically pressing the land into productivity. (9) Yet Clare decenters the georgic emphasis on human work in order to tackle the problem of how we might see or discern the way agricultural work is always dependent upon the silent work being done by natural processes. In order to contest privatization, Clare's poetry maps a topography of the "silent work" of nature. For example, in "Pleasant Spots" ... the very weeds are left free to flower Corn poppys red & carlock gleaming gold That makes the corn field shine in summers hour Like painted skys--& fancys distant eye May well imagine armys inarching bye In all the grand array of pomp & power (MP 4:299, lines 9-14) The flowers mark the cornfield as an assertion of untrammeled life that coexists with the cultivated wheat field. …


We present a new coccolithophore productivity reconstruction spanning the last 300 ka in core GeoB12613-1 retrieved from the western tropical Indian Ocean (IO), an area that mainly derives its warm and oligotrophic surface waters from the eastern IO. Application of a calibrated assemblage-based productivity index indicates a reduction in estimated primary productivity (EPP) from 300 ka to the present, with reconstructed EPP values ranging from 91 to 246 g C/m2/yr. Coccolithophore assemblages and coccolith fraction Sr/Ca indicate three main phases of productivity change, with major changes at 160 and 46 ka. The productivity and water-column stratification records show both dominant precession and obliquity periodicities, which appear to control the paleoproductivity in the study area over the last two glacial-interglacial cycles. Shallowing of the thermocline due to strengthening of the trade winds in response to insolation maxima resulted to peaks in EPP. Comparison with the eastern IO productivity and stratification coccolithophore data reveals good correspondence with our records, indicating a strong tropical Pacific influence in our study area. Both of these records show high productivity from 300 ka to 160 ka, interpreted to be due to stronger Walker Circulation while the declining productivity from 160 ka to the present day is a consequence of its weakening intensity.


Adsorption equilibria of toluene on various polymeric adsorbents were obtained by a static volumetric technique. The polymeric adsorbents used were Ambersorb 600 (Rohm and Haas Co.), Sp 850 (Mitsub...


The working face 23113 in Xiegou Coal Mine solved the problems of the coal's hardness,hard to break due to the top coal's thickness,too much dust in the working face,spontaneous combustion of gob residual coal and other problems encountered in the process of top coal caving mining in the shallow extra thick medium hard spontaneous combustion coal seam through reasonable choice of mining equipment,optimizing mining process parameters,appropriately improving the recovery ratio and preventing coal dust explosion and coal seam spontaneous combustion,and successfully applied the technology of top coal caving mining to the shallow extra thick medium hard spontaneous combustion coal seam,achieveing good economic returns.


The article studies and compares agricultural land management performance criteria applied in different countries worldwide. It is stated that there are different definitions and classifications of agricultural lands in different countries, which implies different indicators of land use efficiency. Sometimes these indicators cannot be correlated or compared with each other. It is suggested using such criteria as arable land area and fodder yield per 1 ha as the most unified and appropriate ones.


By installing a Diffusion sensor inside the oven unit to prevent accidents caused by the gas leakage inside the oven main body, and during normal operation of the oven it has to be cut off by the sensor and the inner prevent damage caused by opening the oven; Forming a through hole opening at a side loop (ROOF) of the oven, and the elevating cylinder which is mounted to downwardly through the mounting frame from the outside of the oven into the through-hole side; Wherein W is lowered and a pneumatic cylinder connected via a conduit control valve to regulate the supply of air pressure control according to the control signal of the controller; Detector frame in which the upper side to be fixed to the elevating operation of the elevating cylinder rod end on the through-hole; Gas detectors to be mounted inside an upper portion of the frame detector detects the gas leakage inside the oven, and outputs the signal to the controller; Provides a painter household oven gas detection apparatus of characterized in that to be fastened to the lower end of the sensor frame in the interior of the oven operating elevating with the sensor frame comprises a heat leakage preventing plate which is configured to open and close the through holes. A painting process, an oven, a gas detection apparatus


Despite high importance of macrophytes in shallow thaw lakes for control of major and trace nutrients in lake water, the chemical composition of different aquatic plants and trace element (TE) partitioning between macrophytes and lake water and sediments in the permafrost regions remain totally unknown. Here we sampled dominant macrophytes of thermokarst (thaw) lakes of discontinuous and continuous permafrost zones in Western Siberia Lowland (WSL) and we measured major and trace elements in plant biomass, lake water, lake sediments and sediment porewater. All 6 studies plants (Hippuris vulgaris L., Glyceria maxima (Hartm.) Holmb., Comarum palustre L., Ranunculus spitzbergensis Hadac, Carex aquatilis Wahlenb s. str., Menyanthes trifoliata L.), sizably accumulate macronutrients (Na, Mg, Ca), micronutrients (B, Mo, Nu, Cu, Zn, Co) and toxicants (As, Cd) relative to lake sediments. The accumulation of other trace elements including rare earth elements (REE) in macrophytes relative to pore waters and sediments was strongly species-specific. Under climate warmings scenario and the propagation of southern species northward, the accumulation of trace metals in aquatic plants of thermokarst lakes will produce preferential uptake of Cd, Pb, Ba from thermokarst lake water and sediments by the biomass of aquatic macrophytes. This may eventually diminish the transport of metal micronutrients from lakes to rivers and further to the Arctic Ocean.

Support from the RSF (RNF) grant 19-77-00073 “Experimental modeling of the formation mechanisms for elemental composition of water in thermokarst lakes of Western Siberia: vegetation effect”.


Use this guide to locate resources for studying entrepreneurship, including background reading, journal and newspaper articles, websites, and statistics. Use this page to locate journals, magazines, trade publications, and newspaper articles related to business.


Background: Combined spinal-epidural analgesia has become the preferred technique for labor analgesia as it combines the benefits of both spinal analgesia and flexibility of epidural catheter. Study was carried out with the primary aim to compare levobupivacaine and ropivacaine with fentanyl in terms of onset and duration of sensory block and to know maternal and fetal outcome. Materials and Methods: In a prospective randomized double-blind study, 60 primipara of the American Society of Anesthesiologists health status Class I and II with singleton pregnancy in active stage of labor were randomly allocated into two groups of 30 each. Group A received 3 mg intrathecal levobupivacaine with 25 μg fentanyl followed by epidural top-ups of 14 ml of levobupivacaine 0.125% with fentanyl 30 μg whereas Group B received 4 mg intrathecal ropivacaine with 25 μg fentanyl followed by epidural top-ups of 14 ml of ropivacaine 0.2% with fentanyl 30 μg. Patients were monitored for sensory and motor block characteristics, hemodynamics, maternal and fetal outcome, side effects, and complications. These characteristics were analyzed using the "Chi-square tests" and "unpaired t-test." Results: Onset of analgesia was rapid in Group A (4.72 ± 0.54 min) as compared to Group B (5.58 ± 0.49 min). Duration of analgesia was also prolonged in Group A (117.00 ± 11.86 min) as compared to Group B (90.17 ± 8.85 min). Patients remained hemodynamically stable and side effects, and complications were comparable in both groups. Conclusion: Levobupivacaine with fentanyl leads to early onset and prolonged duration of analgesia as compared to ropivacaine with fentanyl during labor analgesia.


Though Norman Foster is always regardedas the guru of High Tech style, it is rarely noticed that hepaid a lot attention to civic life and public space duringconceiving. By analyzing his two magnum opuses inhistorical context-the BBC Radio Centre and CarredArt, this article discusses how the modernArchitecture designs respond to the sensitivehistorical environment through paying more attentionto urban spaces than to building form.


In view of the existing problems in the teaching of the literature retrieval of pharmacology,the reform in the teaching of this lesson was designed and carried out by the task-based teaching method.A survey revealed that this method can reflect students' subject status and teacher's leading role,and effectively promote students' learning enthusiasm and the teaching effect in the literature retrieval of pharmacology.


Atherosclerosis is associated with the formation of microvessels in the arterial wall, referred to as vasa vasorum (VV). VV imaging may constitute a new intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) metric of coronary artery plaque vulnerability. The potential of nonlinear contrast IVUS to detect VV in vivo was demonstrated using a prototype transducer with dual-peak frequency response. In this study, we report the feasibility of pulse-inversion ultraharmonic IVUS contrast imaging and chirp reversal contrast IVUS imaging. Their performance is compared for VV detection. Both sequences operate with limited transducer bandwidths (<;60%), and are therefore implementable on clinical IVUS catheters.


According to China's standard,the paper puts forward many geological problems on site selection of solid waste landfill site.These problems mainly include the effects of quaternary geological deposits,bedrocks and geological structures on site selection.Work procedures and methods of geologic examination for municipal solid waste landfill site are given in the paper.


The use of high-ordered porous templates on valve metals for formation of nanostructures via electrochemical deposition is a cheap and convenient method. Filling of the matrixes by other materials is applied to produce solid state solar cells, photodetectors, magnetic sensors, metal–insulator–metal capacitors[1]. Dire ct investigation of deposition and nucleation processes in porous templates is hindered because the interface is hidden. Besides, the diffusion limitations in the pores can create additional effects. However, deep understanding of the nucleation process and other processes, which occur in the beginning of the deposition, is extremely important because exactly in the beginning of the deposition it is easy to change properties and structure of the deposited materials. In the current work, zinc electrodeposition from a deep eutectic mixture of ZnCl2 and choline chloride/ethylene glycol on titanium covered by a dense and porous anodic titania film was studied. It was shown that thin titanium dioxide layers work as high resistive media and the rate of zinc deposition decreases with film thickness. Thicker titania layers (23 nm and higher) have opposite properties and the zinc reduction rate starts gradually increasing with thickness. The results firstly obtained on planar electrodes have been transferred to the non-detached porous anodic titania templates. Titania nanotubes were formed in ethylene glycol based electrolyte with ammonium fluoride. Matrix modification such as annealing and crystallization of the pore bottom have strong influence on the electrodeposition process and allow preparation of zinc coaxial structures or nanorods.


In this paper, a methodology to extract the constituent parts from a noisy line drawing is presented. The image is decomposed into primitives and a heuristic search is performed to identify meaningful aggregates of primitives. Separation of overlapping entities and robustness against noise were the principal objectives of the project while object-oriented programming allowed us to design a system very flexible to change and additions. Results of experimentation on different types of objects are reported.


Objective To investigate the effect of imatinib(Gleevec,STI571) and staurosporine(STS) on the apoptosis of non-small-cell lung carcinoma cell(NSCLC) A549.Methods After A549 cells were treated with STI571 and STS respectively,the molecular mass form of the apoptosis-inducing factor(AIF) was detected by Western blotting,and apoptosis was analyzed by flow cytometry technology and Hoechst staining.The variety of AIF and mitochondria was detected by immunofluorescent technology.Results The expression of 57×103 form of AIF was increased in A549 cells treated with STI571 and STS.In the STS-treated group,the result of flow cytometry revealed that the number of cells stained with Annexin Ⅴ FITC increased at first and then decreased with as time went by while the number of cells stained with propidium iodide(PI) kept increasing until treated for 20 h.Compared with the control group,the change in the cell numbers stained with PI and Annexin Ⅴ FITC was not significant in the STI571-treating group.Fewer cells were stained by Annexin Ⅴ FITC in the STS and STI571combined application group than in the group treated with STS alone,while more cells were stained by PI in the combined application group than in the STS-treated group.When stained by Hoechst,chromatin condensation occurred in the STS-treated group and STS with STI571 combined application group.The results of indirect immunofluorescence assay revealed that AIF gathered together and the staining intensity of mitochondria was weakened.Conclusion STI571 and STS may affect the distribution of AIF in A549 cells,STS induces cell apoptosis in NSCLC and STI571 cannot cause the apoptosis of NSCLC,but can cause AIF to gather together and promote the apoptosis of the NSCLC induced by STS.


Background and Purpose— This study aimed to test the explanatory qualities of the Stroke-Thrombolytic Predictive Instrument (S-TPI) when applied to patients treated in routine practice. Methods— S-TPI predictions were compared with observed outcomes in terms of normal/near-normal (modified Rankin Scale score, ⩽1) and catastrophic outcome (modified Rankin Scale score, ≥5) at 3 months. Logistic regression was used to calibrate and expand the S-TPI. Results— The S-TPI overestimated probability of catastrophic outcomes and overestimated the probability of a normal/near normal outcome above 0.4 and underestimated those below. Calibrating the S-TPI minimized discrepancies between predicted and observed outcomes, in the case of normal/near-normal outcomes, where including additional predictors (serum glucose and signs of current infarction on pretreatment brain scan) further reduced discrepancies between predicted and observed outcomes. Conclusions— The explanatory power of the S-TPI in thrombolytic-treated patients can be improved to reflect outcomes seen in routine practice.


The development of case study training materials for an experimental research strategy is described, and the effects of such training are discussed. The theoretical foundation for learning strat2gies training was a social-cognitive/expectancy value model of college learning and teaching. In a posttest-only 2-group design, 54 students in an associate degree business program at a state university were given a short business management case with background information about the primary functions of management. Subjects completed analysis tasks during four 75-minute sessions over 2 weeks. Assessments of performance were made; and relationships among individual characteristics, experimental outcomes, learning strategy use, and strategy value were examined. The learning strategy training resulted in significant performance increases in listing the symptoms of case problems and in labeling them according to management function or process. Results indicate that task-related learning strategy training is a viable method for increasing academic performance; and that task-related learning strategy training may affect synergistic interactions among learning strategy use and value, performance, motivation, and individual characteristics. Implications for educational practice are discussed. Two figures illustrate the discussion. Five appendixes give instructions for the training sessions, guidelines for problem analysis, a review sheet on management functions, an example sheet, strategies hints, and a worksheet for the pretest case. (Contains 34 references.) (SLD) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) 0 This document haS been reproduced as received I rom the peison or organization originating it 0 Minor changes have been made to improve raproduct.on quality Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OER1 position or policy Title The Design of Effective Case Study-Related Learning Strategies Thsdning Author: Alice E. Nuttall 753 "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATER/AL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY Michael Simonson TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC)." THE DESIGN OF EFFECTIVE CASE STUDY-RELATED LEARNING STRATEGIES TRAINING by Alice E. Nuttall Introduction The purpose of this paper is to: (a) describe how case study training materials were developed for an experimental research study, and (b) discuss effects of such training. Because the research study (Nuttall, 1991) examined the effects of taskrelated learning strategies training on performance and motivation in a case study task, it was necessary to develop both general case guidelines and learning stategy guidelines. The Need for Learning Strategies Tra;ning A dearth of experimental studies on achievement and motivational outcomes of training in self-regulated learning strategies suggests a need for research in this area. As stated by Dansereau (1985), ...at this point systematic learning strategy research is still in its infancy. Consequently, it is impossible to derive a solid set of principles that car.. be used to plan and conduct future studies (p. 218). One needed research area is the domain-general vs. domain-specific training question. For example, Mayer (1988) and Miles (1988) recommend the pursuance of domain-general or content-independent research, while Dansereau (1985) and Cook (1982, cited in Mayer, 1988) are pursuing domainspecific or content-dependent learning strategies training. Researchers (i.e., DuBois & Kiewra, 1989) also recommend studying combinations of at least two or three strategies in a domain(subject-or content-) based situation where individual outcomes can be assessed. Along that line, DuBois (1988) and Mayer (1988) recommend the study of which strategies make a difference and why. Furthermore, Mayer (1988), McKeachie (1988), and Weinstein et al. (1988) suggest that connections between student motivation and learning strategies skill be studied. As DuBois (1988) notes, "It is not enough to analyze GPA changes" (p. 17). Among other needed research are: (a) classroom application studies (Doyle, 1986; Good & Tom, 1985; Martin & Briggs, 1986, Reigeluth, 1983)


Objective To study CT characteristics and classification of extremely lateral lumbar disc herniation (ELDH) with spiral CT multiplanar reformation (MPR).Materials and Methods MPR findings of 11 ELDH confirmed by surgery were analyzed.Results According to the relation of ELDH and pedicle of vertebral arch, ELHD could be classified into three types: intervertebral foraminal type (n=6), external intervertebral foraminal type (n=2) and mixed type (n=3). On MPR, ELDH was characterized as a soft tissue density mass in intervertebral foramen. The site, shape and size of ELDH could be well demonstrated on MPR.Conclusion MPR is an effective method in diagnosing ELDH and is very helpful for the selection of surgical management.


Reviews recent developments in criminal law. Discusses consent to bodily harm, provocation, proof beyond reasonable doubt, and recent legislation (Criminal Procedure Bill, Crimes (Intimate Covert Filming) Amendment Act 2006, Coroners Act 2006). Examines in detail manslaughter by unlawful act (particularly the requirement of objective dangerousness), cultivating cannabis (centred around a possession for the purpose of sale charge in R v Gillan [2006] 2 NZLR 781), the mental element in attempt, and crimes against right of property (emphasising changes stemming from the Crimes Amendment Act 2003).


The accuracy and appropriateness of plate properties for seamed tube hydroforming analysis and process design is questionable due to the fact that the properties are changed obviously during the seamed tube forming process. Thus a testing method that would give properties of seamed tubes accurately is necessary. The theoretical calculation and experimental measurement of base material mechanical properties is the main concern of this paper. The mechanical properties of welded zoon(including welded line and heat affected zoon),which would not measured by hydraulic bulge test due to the complex stress condition,is determined by uniaxial tension test and methed of mixture rule. At last,a numerical model of squared component is established by using the measured material mechanical properties. Good correlation between the simulation result and experiment data is indicated,and the accuracy of this measurement method is prared.


A case study of a long term wheelchair user: This presentation will highlight the difficulties associated with matching client's environmental access, seating and mobility needs using multi-functional systems, which also happen to be the "latest and greatest" technologies. The paper addresses the issues experienced by these clinicians when prescribing systems with minimal trial history (due to their newness) and the compatibility issues encountered by the supplier when matching the new with the old of the current powered wheelchair for a particularly motivated wheelchair user.