Machining of fibre-reinforced thermosets is becoming a very popular technology today. Nevertheless, machinability of these materials is rather different from conventional materials such as metals since hard and abrasive fibres are combined with relatively soft resin with low glass transition temperature. Special attention has to be given to workpiece quality because delamination and burning of machined surface can occur. An experimental investigation into machinability of a polymeric and cellulose fibre-reinforced resin material was carried out. Milling operations were inspected with respect to process temperature, cutting forces and machined surface quality. The effect of cutting conditions on the mentioned aspects was determined. Standard and tailored cutting tools were used in the investigation. It was observed that surface quality is strongly dependent on tool geometry, milling strategy, fibre orientation and feed. On the other hand, cutting forces are relatively low and dependent on tool geometry and feed. The modified cutting tool with more positive tool geometry showed better results compared to the conventional one.


(57) Abstract: means the object tracking method tracks a plurality of rigid body motion, and fractional components, a plurality of colors used throughout vector image sequence, the general sense object. This method, the image regions spatially divided from the current frame, then what the meaning object whether sourced by classifying these areas, exactly these general sense objects of the previous frame to keep track of. To classify each region, the method performs motion estimation area basis for the calculated predicted position preceding frames between the previous frame and the spatially divided respective regions. The method then, which means the object of the preceding frame, on the basis that it contains a point that the most overlap of the predicted region, classifies each area of the current frame as a portion of the sense object. Using this method, each region of the current, in the absence of gaps or overlap, until one semantic object from the previous frame is tracked. This method, rather than the boundary of the object is to the projection and adjusting the boundary in the frame is unknown, since the boundaries of the sense object is projected areas in a frame that is previously calculated, little or no error It does not propagate the.


This paper reports on a study of public relations (PR) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Indonesia. The study examined the web-based CSR communication of 140 State-owned Entities (SOEs) in Indonesia. Whilst there is variation in the exercise of the public relations function through website communication, the study finds that it is predominately one-way information about what the SOE does under the banner of CSR. Furthermore, and in accordance with Indonesian government regulations, CSR tends to be partnership programs and community development. There are opportunities to strengthen CSR communication, and to further extend this to be an ongoing two-way dialogue with stakeholders. PR has an important role to play in these developments. JEL Classification: M14, H40


The pig farmer group located in Baru Village, Marga Sub-district, Tabanan Regency, has been raising pigs since 2014. However, this group always experiences problems associated with pig cage management such as low weights and high mortality rates. Therefore, the right cage sanitation settings need to be applied when raising pigs to achieve tremendous success. The method used in implementing this training are face-to-face interviews, counseling and direct practice. The activities were carried out in stages. Firstly, general counseling on proper pig management were carried out to specifically explain how cages and mortality rates are managed. This is because the optimal weight of the 102 pigs used in this study failed to reach15% with mortality rates below the normal percentage of 11-24%. Secondly, direct practice were carried out in the cage, and thirdly, when the PKM activity ends, the farmers were motivated to implement good cage management techniques, in order to increase their body weight and decrease mortality rate. The result showed that the pig farmer group was able to understand the recommended cage management process needed to achieve a standard body weight and a lower mortality rate from 30% to 15% such as the size, shape, type and cleanliness.


The achievements in liquor-making industry in the period of "11th five-year plan" were reviewed in this paper,which reflected the important roles of technical innovation.According to the requirements of the "12th five-year plan",technical innovation and technical progress were emphasized for further upgrade of liquor industry.(Tran.by YUE Yang)


We examine the effect of treaty linkages established between Chinese cities and foreign countries during the nineteenth century on China's trade today. We hypothesize that these historical arrangements created relationship-specific capital that continues to facilitate trade. In the full sample of bilateral trade between 335 cities and 212 countries, there are significant linkage effects. However, ensuing analysis indicates that greater trade among cities and countries who are linked by treaties largely reflects the propensity of higher income partners to trade more with each other. These findings underscore the importance of controlling for trade complementarity related to the level of development of trading partners in cases where lack of time-series variation in the key explanatory variable prevents inclusion of bilateral fixed effects.


Right-wing extremism has had a long history in India with the current atmosphere heavily tilted in favor of right-wing extremists. This article explores the history of the right wing in the nation and various factors that strengthened different actors within this spectrum of politics in India. Relying on secondary sources, it notes that the Indian caste system has played a role in bolstering the Hindu majoritarian identity that is currently dominant in India apart from various other factors, such as the incompetency of other political parties (including left-wing parties). Drawing on several examples, it argues that the unwillingness of the current government to tackle right-wing extremism could facilitate the rise of fringe groups that will eventually turn against the government for being too soft. As such, it aims to be an introductory article for readers unfamiliar with the phenomenon in India.


In different coefficient of thermal conductivity, two kinds of finite element model were used to simulate and solve for the annealing process. The results show that gaps and tension of degrease in sheet steel to coil can lead to biggish thermal stress. In addition, gaps in coiled sheet steel make more influence on bonding.


In this paper we demonstrate an exfoliation technique with which single layered graphene can be acquired from a patterned highly ordered pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) mesa (20 μm x 20 μm x 1 μm) under room-temperature atmosphere environment using a micropipette and a high-precision nano-stage. The acquired thin layered graphene was analyzed through atomic force microscope (AFM) and Raman spectra for verification of its thickness. The results showed that the acquired graphene had a single layer and its lateral size of 20 μm x 20 μm with well-defined boundary features as patterned on the HOPG mesa. This result indicates that highly pure, size-controllable, and patterned graphene can be obtained via a mechanically controllable way such as the one studied in this paper.


Franciszek Ksawery Martynowski (1848-1896), a historian and art critic, archaeologist and ethnographer, expert on and propagator of artistic crafts as well as theoretician of restoration of historical monuments, editor of scholarly publications and journalist, was not a trite figure, Despite many passions connected with welfare work he was able to find enough time for his own research work whose significant part was history of Polish art. He was a lover of the Middle Ages; however, having the ambition to write a handbook of history of art on the Polish territories he also analysed other epochs. Hence the times of baroque and rococo were also within the scope of his interest and he had to make a thorough study of their artistic output. As result of the education he acquired as a student at the Jagellonian University he formed a negative opinion about works of art created after the Renaissance; the opinion was not shaken by any material proofs contrary to it. His critical attitude towards the old works is a conclusive example of how strong resistance is encountered by facts on the side of strongly rooted theories.


Dysphagia is a swallowing disorder that occurs following mechanical, neurological or prebisphagia disturbances, with negative consequences for patients functioning and quality of life. The food is an extremely social activitie that become compromised, affecting the interaction with others. The intervention in dysphagia presents a great failure of communication of the professionals to the patients and their caregivers on the necessity of the change. The aim of this study is to identify the experience of health professionals and of caregivers about the communication that exists between them about dysphagia. We used the qualitative method, with the application of semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis was used, and representative themes were chosen. We interviewed 13 nurses, 3 speech and language pathologists, 8 clinical assistants and 10 caregivers working in six inpatient unit care, in Portugal. Three subjects were identified in the interviews of caregivers and multidisciplinar team: 1. Knowledge about food procedures in dysphagia, 2. Conflicts with the multidisciplinary team of professionals/caregivers, and 3. Application of knowledge to/into practice. Our Results show areas in which communication about dietary procedures between caregivers and health professionals can improve. They underscore the importance of professionals having more knowledge about dysphagia, communicating about risks, using basic language and implementing two-way conversation with caregivers to address 7 procedures. These concerns may promote greater awareness of dysphagia, which may lead to the promotion of patient health safety and reduced conflict with the team.


Ryegrass harvested at various stages of maturity was dried and offered to sheep either ad libitum or at approximately 90% of the ad libitum intake. Feed consumption and the times spent by the sheep in ruminating and eating were measured when the forages were offered ad libitum, and several aspects of digestion were studied when the level of feeding approached 90% of ad libitum intake. The chemical composition of the grasses and the apparent digestibility of the constituents showed the usual changes with maturity. As the grass matured, there was a tendency for: (i) the rate of flow of digesta from the abomasum to increase relative to the flow from the rumen, (ii) the concentration of organic matter in digesta leaving the abomasum to decrease, (iii) the quantity of nitrogen leaving the stomach in digesta per unit intake of dietary nitrogen to increase, and (iv) the sheep to spend more time in ruminating and eating per unit feed intake. No differences attributable to maturity were observed in: (i) the rate of flow of digesta from the rumen, (ii) the retention time of a water-soluble marker in the rumen, (iii) rumen volume, (iv) the distribution of the digestion of organic matter and carbohydrate between the stomach and intestines, and (v) the apparent digestion of nitrogen in the intestines. Although the quantity of nitrogen provided by 100 g of forage organic matter decreased with maturity from 4.3 to 1.2 g, the corresponding change in the quantity of nitrogen, in forms other than ammonia, apparently digested in the intestines was only 2.6 to 1.5 g. It was calculated, after making several assumptions, that the net energy value of the metabolizable energy derived from volatile fatty acids produced in the rumen and from amino acids digested in the intestines was little affected by the stage of maturity. On the other hand, after making assumptions about the energy costs of ruminating and eating, it was calculated that the proportion of the metabolizable energy used in ruminating and eating could increase from 5% with the immature grass to 13% with mature grass. Intraruminal infusion of propionic acid did not increase the sheep's intake of one forage that provided a relatively small quantity of propionic acid during ruminal digestion.


A fragment of the linguistic view of the world of the Kets, a minority ethnos, whose language is going through a period of shift, is reconstructed. The category of mortality is implicated on the basis of vocabulary united by the meanings "death", "to die". Through the analysis of contexts, including this vocabulary, the peculiarities of the linguistic representation of ideas about the category of death are revealed and cognitive-figurative models that order these representations are identified. As a result of the study, it is found that metaphorization and description of visual signs in the Ket language act as key mechanisms for the linguization of the phenomenon of death, and the meanings expressed in discourse reveal an ambivalent and antinomic character. Along with such metaphors as "eternal sleep," "withdrawal into another world," the Ket discourse of death also contains direct descriptions of objective ones, i.e. visible manifestations of the category under discussion - cessation of breathing, inability to move, etc. An analysis of the Ket discourse of death indicates that the belief in the immortality of the soul and the other world, expressed in it, is intended to neutralize the fear of death. On the other hand, plots are revealed that express the possibility of struggle and victory over death. This indicates that death is understood as an undesirable, frightening phenomenon that opposes the successful course of a person's life events.


Improving blind people comfort of life is a problem of great importance. Fortunately, new technolgies provide us with additional methods to improve everyday life of the blind and visually impaired. The paper presents experimental system made by researchers from Department of Geoinformatics of Gdansk University of Technology, which is capable of finding the route from the indicated source to chosen destination, using dedicated digital map and a set of various sensors. Subsequently, it supports the movement of the blind along the found route. The user's position is obtained with the use of DGPS receiver. In order to further improve accuracy, particle filtering method is used. The system operates on a casual smartphone and communicates with the blind by the touch screen and by the voice messages generated by voice synthesizer.


Due to the continuously increasing demand for fresh water in the desert and remote areas, the development of non-conventional water resources in Egypt is essential. The most advanced and promising desalination system is the reverse osmosis (RO) system. In this paper, a 5000 m3/day RO desalination plant in the city of Nuweiba in Sinai, Egypt is taken as a case study. The measured data of the plant are recorded during 5 years of its normal operation. Also, experimental tests are carried out on site to investigate the influence of the main design and -operating parameters on the plant performance. The RO system is found to be sensitive to the variation in the feed water temperature, pressure and salinity. The used maintenance schedule is also seen to be suitable for the plant, since the change in plant performance during the operation period is not noticeable. On the other hand, a cost analysis is carried out on the RO plant components. The major factors affecting the cost of product water of this plant are the power consumption and capital cost. Surprisingly, the chemical treatment cost is one of the lowest in percentage. In this case, the power consumption cost is 35.1% and the capital cost is 33.6% and that of maintenance and repairs represent only 4.9% while the chemical treatment represents 10.6% of the total cost.


The present invention, in a composition comprising a physiologically acceptable medium, as an agent for the order or prophylaxis to reduce the aging signs of skin, to the cosmetic use of at least one peripheral benzodiazepine receptor antagonists.


Previous experiments on post-fire establishment of two obligate seeders and two resprouting species suggested that initial establishment processes differ between wet- and dry-heath habitats. Disturbance, interspecific competition between seedlings and between seedlings and adults, and access for potential predators were manipulated in the field after a fire to identify mechanisms to explain between- and within-habitat species coexistence. When soil surfaces are disturbed or seeds are buried, dry-heath species can establish in the wet heath. Under natural conditions, however, wet heath is rarely disturbed by animal foragers and lack of safe sites may preclude establishment of dry-heath species. In contrast, dry heath is often disturbed by ground foragers such as bandicoots and safe sites are plentiful for establishment of all heath species. Nevertheless, while wet-heath species can establish in dry heath, their seedlings are apparently unable to survive there due to the drier conditions. No evidence for competition among species was detected in either type of habitat during the first 3 years of the experiment, even at elevated seedling densities. Lack of early competition and unsaturated seed-banks may promote coexistence of species. Seedling predation from vertebrates was low and did not appear to influence patterns of coexistence within or between habitats. In terms of community theory we suggest that several interacting mechanisms are responsible for community structure in heaths after a fire. Chance and microsite disturbance are important during dispersal, while resources are critical during establishment and early survival of seedling populations. In these heath systems where fires burn extensive areas, seed-banks may be more important in temporal storage of species than patch or spatial storage as a mechanism for maintaining coexistence and plant diversity.


In this paper,the superposition of bire-polarized lights by birefringent crystals was studied with the technology on fiber optics and CCD.Some issues were discussed which might be difficult for the students to understand in teaching.


CONTEXT: Enteric fever prevails to be a considerable health issue worldwide. Ciprofloxacin became the mainstay of its therapy after multidrug resistant salmonellae emerged. Treatment failure was soon recorded with ciprofloxacin, the index being in-vitro resistance to nalidixic acid. Chloramphenicol sensitive strains have resurfaced. Resistance to alternatives- macrolides is cropping up though not documented widely. These variations in addition to the fact that India is witnessing escalating resistance to antibiotics, stress the significance of continual surveillance of salmonellae resistance. INTENT: The study undertaken intends to document the current deviations in the antibiogram of the Salmonella isolates from blood culture, with a perspective of evaluating ciprofloxacin susceptibility and macrolide resistance, further considering, if there is a need to modify the antibiotic strategies for this condition. METHODOLOGY: The isolates from blood cultures from January 2012 to September 2013 obtained using commercial BACTEC 9120 system, sub-cultured and processed for determining salmonellae serotypes were further subjected to drug susceptibility testing for patterning their resistance. MICs to ciprofloxacin of nalidixic acid resistant (NAR) isolates were recognized. RESULTS: Salmonella was isolated from 114 out of 8210 blood culture specimens received. There were 74 Salmonella Typhi isolates, 39 Salmonella Paratyphi A and 1 Salmonella Paratyphi B. Highest resistance of salmonellae (85.96%) was exhibited to nalidixic acid and highest susceptibility (100%) to ceftriaxone. Decreased ciprofloxacin susceptibility-DCS (MIC of 0.125-1μg/ml) was noticed in around 90% of NAR salmonellae. Isolates demonstrated sizable resistance (42.10%) to azithromycin. Only three strains were multidrug resistant. INTERPRETATION AND CONCLUSION: Routine screening of nalidixic acid sensitivity should be encouraged as a means to predict decreased fluoroquinolone susceptibility, thereby preventing therapeutic failure. In order to avert the profound impact of antimicrobial resistance and to define the best possible therapy, periodic monitoring of Salmonella antibiogram is of prime value. The upsurge of occurrence of ciprofloxacin resistance, impending resistance to macrolide- azithromycin, re-emergence of chloramphenicol sensitive strains is of particular concern and necessitates a change towards 'evidence-based' treatment and rationalization of existing empirical therapy of enteric fever shifting the vital focus towards antibiotic recycling.


The protective effects of celery leaves extract (CLE) to nephrotoxicity induced by gentamicin (GM) and lipids profile in rats were evaluated. Forty adult male rats were randomly distributed into 5 groups, 8 animals each Group. Group A control negative without treatment ,Group B was daily injected with GM (80 mg/kg, i.p.) during the last 8 days of the experiment to induce nephrotoxicity positive control(C+ve). Groups C, D and E were orally pretreated with celery leaves extracts in the doses at 200 400 and 600 mg/kg respectively for 6 weeks and intoxicated with gentamicin in the last 8 days. Blood samples at last 24 hr of the experiment were collected for biochemical analyses. Rats were sacrificed and both kidneys were taken for estimating lipid peroxidation, antioxidant enzymes activity and histopathology. The results showed that oral pretreatments with celery leaves extracts in gentamicin intoxicated rats for 6 weeks induced significant (P< 0.05) decreases in serum urea nitrogen, uric acid and creatinine when compared with GMintoxicated rats. Pretreatments with Oral intake of 200,400 and 600 mg/kg b. wt., of celery leaves extract were significantly (P<0.05) reduced serum Total cholesterol levels by 12.86., 22.99 and 27.29 % respectively. On the other hand, triglycerides were significantly decreased by 18.35., 22.43 and 28.60 % respectively when compared to Group (B) positive control(C+ve). The extracts decreased tissue malondialdehyde (MDA) and increased activity of antioxidant enzymes. The nephroprotective mechanisms of both extracts could be attributed to inhibition of lipid peroxidation and enhancement of antioxidant enzymes activity. These results affirm the traditional use of these herbs in folk medicine for the prevention of kidney diseases.


Objective:To investigate the release and regulation of PAs and PAI 1 from cultured human decidual cells. Design: An in vitro culture study Methods: PAs and PAI 1 activities were determined by SDS PAGE followed by fibrin overlay and reverse overlay techniques. Results:uPA and PAI 1 were released from both cultured human decidual glandular and stromal cells. Estradiol and RU486 enhanced uPA and reduced PAI 1 activities in both cultured cells,while progesterone was affected in the opposite way Conclusion:The balance regulated by estradiol and progesterone between PA and PAI 1 in human decidual cells may be involved in maintenance of pregnancy.The contragestational effect of RU486 may be mediated by increase in uPA activity and decrease in PAI 1 activity.


The article is dedicated to the thinking and language in A. Piatigorski's philosophy. The issue is considered in the context of history of linguistic theories and history of phonology. The work may be interesting to philosophers, philologists and for anyone who is interested in the studying of thinking.


A 27-year-old male status-post kidney transplant 5 months prior presented to clinic with fever, weakness, orthostasis and mild neck pain for the previous 3 days. Over this time period, the patient's serum glucose concentrations were running in the 200–300 mg/dL range, which was high for him. He denied cough, abdominal pain, chest pain, or shortness of breath. On presentation to clinic, the patient was febrile to 38.2 C, and his white blood cell count was 1030/mm3 with an absolute neutrophil count of 180/mm.3 The patient was admitted for fever and neutropenia and was empirically initiated on cefepime. The neutropenia was attributed to his transplant medications and valganciclovir. Lumbar puncture showed 0 WBC, 1 RBC, protein 87 mg/dL, glucose 166 mg/dL. All blood, urine and CSF cultures remained negative. Viral blood cultures and CMV antigenemia were negative. His immunosuppressant medications were modified, valganciclovir was stopped, and G-CSF was started. By hospital day 4, he was no longer neutropenic or febrile, so he was discharged to complete a course of oral gatifloxacin and amoxicillin/clavulanate. Several days after discharge, the patient's neck pain became more severe and localized to the left shoulder. On evaluation in clinic he was in renal failure, with a creatinine of 4.4 mg/dL up from a baseline of 1.2 mg/dL. He was febrile to 39.0 C. He felt weak, fatigued, and had a sensation of early satiety. He was admitted for further care.


A nine row direct drilling machine with notched double disc furrow opener was developed. The machine is capable of performing sowing operation directly without any prior field preparation in a clean field as well as in standing stubble condition. All the nine furrow openers are independently mounted on the frame with the advantage of keeping same seed placement depth even in an uneven field. Fluted rollers are used for seed and fertilizer metering. A mechanical clutch is provided for engaging and disengaging the power to the metering mechanism. The machine can be operated with 30 and above HP tractor. It was found that the draft requirement for operating the machine is 30–40% less than the no-till-drill with inverted T type furrow openers. The machine also allows higher ground speed for sowing operation while conserving soil moisture and minimizing soil and residue displacement for conservation compliance.


The tourism transportation planning of eco-resorts is combined with traffic systems, tourism service functions, and eco-environmental constraints. It has a great influence on the sustainable development of the resort area. This work studies the Taihu Lake resort planning case, which is based on the trip characteristic analysis, taking"4E" as restraints. The planning involves travel mode identification, public transport, slow traffic, and waterborne traffic plans. This case suggests that a transit-oriented transport system is appropriate to meet the tourism transport demand and ensure the sustainability of the eco-resort area development.


The efficiency of managing pulmonary tuberculosis is at a low level. In modern conditions there is a need for treatment intensification. The drug Cycloferon is used in pathogenetic therapy of destructive forms of pulmonary tuberculosis as immunomodulator. The drug was administered in various course doses together with antibacterial therapy. There are no complications during the therapy. The treatment efficiency (76.3%) is increased and the MBT excretion is discontinued (71.1%) reliably more frequent as compared with the standard therapy course (45.9% and 58.9% accordingly). Cycloferon may influence the loyalty to treatment of patients with tuberculosis and increase the efficiency of a basic course of treatment.


Carbohydrate‐rich substrates present in woodlands were classified into a number of broad categories. Representatives of each category were presented as larval food and oviposition sites to 3 species of woodland Drosophila. Their suitability was assessed by measuring larval survivorship, development time and winglength (body size) and by counting the number of eggs laid on each. The "ovipositional niche" was generally a subset of the "development niche", however, differences in niche breadth between Drosophila species were observed with D. obscura < D. phalerata < D. subobscura.


.............................................................................................................................. ii Acknowledgments.............................................................................................................. iv List of Tables .................................................................................................................... vii List of Figures .................................................................................................................... ix List of Abbreviations ......................................................................................................... xi Chapter 1. Literature review ..............................................................................................1 Chapter 2. Objectives .......................................................................................................36 Chapter 3. Prevalence and population structure of Vibrio vulnificus on fishes from the northern Gulf of Mexico .................................................................................38 Abstract ................................................................................................................38 Introduction ..........................................................................................................39 Material and methods ...........................................................................................41 Results ..................................................................................................................46 Discussion ............................................................................................................50 References .............................................................................................................56 Chapter 4. Occurrence of Vibrio vulnificus and V. parahaemolyticus in bait shrimp from Alabama and Mississippi ..............................................................................73 Abstract ................................................................................................................73 Introduction ..........................................................................................................73


Abstract This article provides information on World-Wide Web (Web or WWW) sites which offer mental health content targeted at a consumer or public audience. It consists of descriptive reviews of Web pages organized by type of information provider, and covers sites maintained by professional organizations, government agencies, consumer groups, and WWW services. An Appendix of additional electronic resources, arranged by subject, is also included.


In the present study, the application of free space optics (FSO) transmission system to realize a long-reach high-altitude platform (HAP)-to-satellite communication link has been exploited. High-speed information transmission without interference is accomplished using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). Further, the information capacity of the proposed system is increased by employing mode division multiplexing (MDM). We have investigated the proposed MDM-OFDM-HAP-to-satellite FSO transmission system performance over varying FSO range, diameter of the receiver, pointing errors, and input power. Also, an improved transmission performance of the proposed system using a square root module is reported.


Context is a very important concept in translation studies.Therefore,translation studies are perfectly associated with contextual studies.This paper,starting with the analysis for the practice of college English translation teaching carried out in our college,is meant to illustrate the influence of intra-linguistic context and situational context on English-Chinese translation.Meanwhile,it analyzes the two types of contexts and concludes with some effective advices of paying more attention to the contextual influence on English-Chinese translation.


The invention discloses a fragmentation processing method for germination bacterium liquid strain mycelium pellets. The method comprises preparation of a mother stock, shake flask static culture, and shake flask shake culture and mycelium pellet fragmentation processing. According to the method, the raw material cost is low, and the process is simple and easy to implement; the germination bacterium mycelium pellets are subjected to fragmentation processing, so that the mycelium pellets become small and consistent in size, the mycelium pellet quality is improved, the problem that germination bacterium mycelium pellets are difficult to be fragmented in shake flasks is solved, germination bacterium liquid strains can grow fast after being inoculated with solid cultivars, the growth cycle of the strains is shortened greatly, and the production efficiency is improved.


Writing is discussed in further depth in Ken Hyland's book Teaching and researching writing, which was released in 2016. The book draws on earlier versions of the book to investigate what is known in the subject of writing as well as the current dynamic contributions to the area. However, while he retains much of the current paradigms of writing in this third edition, he shows the electronic shift and its pedagogical consequences with writings that have been released since 2009, when he first published the second version. Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America are just a few of the places this book touches on. Among Hyland's goals, which he outlines in the book's opening chapter, are acknowledging that writing is an ever-changing field, emphasising the significance of discovering, exploring, and developing practical applications for well-known frameworks, and advocating for the "cycle of practice-theory-practice" (p. xii). In addition, he explains the structural changes and the components that have been retained in this third version.


671 Background: Bevacizumab in association with paclitaxel or docetaxel has been approved in patients with metastatic breast cancer. It is currently used in clinical studies in the adjuvant setting. We report our experience of the nasal septum perforation rate in patients receiving bevacizumab together with chemotherapy. Methods: 69 patients were treated with bevacizumab (15 mg/kg every 21 days) and chemotherapy between January 1 and December 31, 2009. An endonasal tract examination was performed in those experiencing epistaxis, mucosal crusting or nasal obstruction. Results: Sixty-two patients received bevacizumab in association with taxanes. Fifty-two (75%) had epistaxis and twenty-five had an ENT examination. Six cases of nasal septum perforation were diagnosed (8.7%); all of them had epistaxis and one had a nasal infection, some experienced turbulent airflow and whistling on inspiration. Four other patients had local symptomatic treatment and are followed by the head and neck surgeon. Four patients wi...


A Multi-Ability classroom is a set of recommendatio ns for permanent changes in the task and evaluation structure of classroorils. These changes are calculated to increase active, engaged, learning behavior of low status students and to provide detailed enriched feedback to the student on how he or she is doing on many different specific tasks. These changes are designed to modify expectations of competence held by classmates for each other and by the student for him/herself. Instead of a set of consistent expectations for competence for a student based on how "smart" or "dumb" he or she is, we introduce multiple intellectual abilities on which each child develops mixed expectations. This classroom model requires the changing of the perception and conception of human ability from unidimensional to multi-dimensional. Active steps must be taken to prevent reading achievement from being used as the index of where each child stands on what is commonly thought to be a single dimension of human intelligence. Unless strong steps are taken, what happens in many classrooms is that a child's ability in reading is used as an index to organize expectations for how competent he or she will be at a wide range of classroom tasks. This is, of course, encouraged by making reading a prerequisite for success at almost every classroom task. However, even if we set a task, such as small group discussion or a game task not requiring reading, we have collected consistent evidence that those children who are perceived to be better readers will be more active and influential than those who are perceived to be weaker readers (Rosenholtz, 1980; Stulac, 1975). This is a kind of self-fulfilli ng prophecy whereby those who are better readers expect to be better at a wide range of intellectual tasks; and those who are weaker readers expect to do poorly at a wide range of tasks. These dif


The forest diseases,pests and mice management information system with the combination of WebGIS is researched and realized.Taking advantages of Internet technology,by means of ArcGIS Server and J2EE,with Oracle10g as the database,combining relational data and special data,the system includes several modules such as monitor management,preventing and controlling management,law consultation management and code maintenance management.The paper makes the forest diseases,pests and mice management information system more integrating,network based and public.


Planetary democracy is necessary and possible. T he worlds citizens must participate in decision-making on global issues like the environment development and population. There is a recognition at the international level that almost everything in politics and culture has been decided by men. Women must speak out on the problems that afflict humanity in an endeavor to democratize human relationship and politics. At the UN Conference on Population and Development women must fight to have their reproductive rights respected. Planeta Femea the womens event during ECO92 was a demonstration of this new stance taken by women. The Coalition of Brazilian Women that coordinated Planeta Femea addressed two issues: population and ethics. The Rio Conference unmasked the simplistic notion that it was the populous nations of the South that degraded the environment polluted water and burned forests when the Norths patterns of production and consumption were the principal culprits of environmental degradation and the depletion of natural resources. The Norths technological innovations drive all those denied access to these resources further into underdevelopment. The majority of mankind is becoming less and less competitive. According to UNDP figures worsening terms of international trade the burden of foreign debt and trade protectionism deprive developing countries of 500 billion dollars in resources every year. To continue with present policies that perpetuate disparities among countries is to increase poverty worldwide and risk making our planet unsustainable. Improving the quality of life for all mankind requires a global alliance a shared responsibility by all nations in confronting squalor and inequality. Modifying patterns of consumption and lifestyle in the North as well as reviewing global patterns of use of capital resources and technology are needed to implement a common North-South agenda to salvage the planet.


MEMS electrostatic actuators are used in optical applications because of their small size and quick response. However, nonlinearities of electrostatic force, long settling-time and small range of motion significantly hampers their performance. Adding electrostatic levitation to MEMS parallel-plate mechanism, we achieved a wide linear operation region away from the center electrode. Because of linearity, command-shaping becomes an easy and effective method to decrease the settling-time and overshoot. Compared to the conventional parallel-plate electrodes, we have shown a considerable increase in the travel range of levitating electrodes using double-step command signals.


The healthcare industry is changing and as such, so is the role of medical practice manager and the business of care delivery. Here's how to adapt.


Abstract Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is one of the most common causes of acquired hemorrhagic disorders in children. It is known to occur secondary to various infectious and noninfectious diseases. The most common infections associated with secondary ITP in children are Helicobacter pylori, hepatitis C, HIV, varicella, and cytomegalovirus. Thrombocytopenia in tuberculosis is usually part of a pancytopenia secondary to bone marrow suppression. Immune-mediated isolated thrombocytopenia in tuberculosis is rare, and even fewer cases associated with pulmonary tuberculosis have been reported. We report a case of isolated thrombocytopenia as the initial presenting feature of pulmonary tuberculosis, along with a detailed review of ITP, including its pathophysiology, newer diagnostic tools, and emerging association with tuberculosis.


Changes in the structural and electronic properties of zinc oxide (ZnO) due to the O vacancy and F-centre were studied using a semi-empirical quantum-chemical approach based on Hartree–Fock theory. A periodic supercell of 128 atoms was exploited throughout the study. The semi-empirical parameters for the Zn atom are obtained by reproducing the main properties of the ZnO crystal as well as the first three ionization potentials of the Zn atom. The perturbation imposed by the defect leads to atomic relaxation, which is computed and discussed in detail. It is found that electron density redistribution in the vicinity of defects plays an important role in the determination of atomic movements. The introduction of an oxygen vacancy generates a local one-electron energy level placed below the conduction band while the presence of an F-centre produces a local energy level just above the upper valence band of the material. The deep situation of the local energy level corresponding to the F-centre implies that the F-centre cannot serve as a source of unintentional n-type electrical conductivity in ZnO. Changes in the chemical bonding are observed, showing that it becomes slightly more covalent because of oxygen-vacancy-type defects.


P–T  paths based on parageneses in the immediate vicinity of former high‐temperature contact zones between mantle peridotites and granulitic country rocks of the Central Vosges (NE France) were derived by applying several conventional thermometers and thermobarometric calculations with an internally consistent dataset. The results indicate that former garnet peridotites and garnet–spinel peridotites were welded together with crustal rocks at depths corresponding to 1–1.2 GPa. The temperature of the crustal rocks was about 650–700 °C at this stage, whereas values of 1100 °C (garnet peridotites) and 800–900 °C (garnet–spinel peridotites) were calculated for the ultramafic rocks. After emplacement of the mantle rocks, exhumation of the lower crust took place to a depth corresponding to 0.2–0.3 GPa. The temperatures of the incorporated peridotite slices were still high (900–1000 °C) at this stage. This is indicated by the presence of high‐T /low‐P parageneses (c. 800 °C, 0.2–0.3 GPa) in a small (1–10 m) contact aureole around a former garnet peridotite. Crustal rocks distant to the peridotites equilibrated in the same pressure range at lower temperature (650–700 °C). High cooling rates (102–103 °C Ma−1) were calculated for a garnet–biotite rock inclusion in the peridotites and for the crustal rocks at the contact by applying garnet–biotite diffusion modelling. Minimum rates of 0.75–7.5 cm a−1 are required for vertical ascent of rock units (30 km vertical distance) derived from the crust–mantle boundary, resulting in a late Variscan (340 Ma) high‐T /low‐P event.


The utility model relates to an infiltration irrigation system, which is composed of a reservoir, a coarse filter head, a filter, a water-conveying main pipe, a water-conveying branch pipe, a hair pipe, a three-way joint, a hair pipe joint, an infiltration irrigation head, a vent pipe, etc., wherein, the lower part of the reservoir is connected with the outlet coarse filter head and is connected in series with the filter. Thereafter, the lower part of the reservoir is connected with the longer water-conveying main pipe and a main pipe body is connected with the water-conveying branch pipe. A branch pipe body is connected with the water-conveying hair pipe, the end head of the hair pipe is connected with the infiltration irrigation head. The utility model solves the problem of blockage, and has the advantages of easy installation and maintenance, good compensability and strong applicability.


In a departure from the historical focus on individual-level turnover, scholars have recently examined turnover at the collective level. Building on this work, we invoke human and social capital arguments and analyze the implications of varying rates of top management team (TMT) turnover for firm performance. Our principal finding is that TMT departures have deleterious effects on subsequent firm performance, though we find evidence to suggest that this effect is nonlinear. Results also suggest that higher levels of average organizational tenure of the TMT will modestly attenuate this negative effect. Contrary to arguments grounded in the managerial discretion literature, environmental munificence weakened the negative effects of TMT turnover rates on subsequent firm performance, whereas the hypothesized moderating effects for both industry complexity and instability were not supported.


In this paper a study of a Superplastic Formed/Diffusion Bonded (SPF/DB) aircraft wing section under working load is presented. Such structures operate under cycle load, therefore fatigue has to be considered. The presence of cracks has to be included since damages can occur either in production or during the operating life. The damaged structure is then considered and the stress intensity factors are evaluated for cracks of different sizes. Considering a load cycle which span from 0 to maximum load, the relationships between the stress intensity factor and the criteria for fatigue-life prediction and crack growth directions is soon derived. The aim of this work is to demonstrate the effectiveness of the boundary element method to investigate behaviour of cracks in complex large scale structures in presence of damages. INTRODUCTION Superplastic Forming/Diffusion Bonding [4] is a process that provides the capability to manufacture complex structures as a single element, which otherwise would have been made out of a large number of elements. Typical application are to be found in the aircraft design where it is essential to provide structures with high strength and light weight. An example of SPF/DB structures can be found in figure 1; this component is a part of a larger X-core stiffened section. These structures operate under fatigue loading and cracks grow in fatigue. Key parameter for crack growth and fatigue-life is the Stress Intensity Factor (SIF), hence accurate methods to evaluate it are required. Figure 1: X-core structure BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD FOR MODELLING SPF/DB STRUCTURES Introduction The growth of cracks under fatigue load (such as variable working load for aircraft structures) may also be described by the stress intensity factor, following Paris postulate [5] which relates the rate of growth per cycle of stress (da/dN) to the stress intensity range ∆K (Kmax −Kmin), when the stress is at its maximum level: da dN = C(∆K) where C and m are to be found experimentally. Typical rate diagram is shown in fig.2. It is clear the central role that stress intensity factor plays at this stage therefore the importance of its correct evaluation. Although many numerical solution are available in literature, there is still a gap in the application to more realistic problem as the damaged X-core wing section presented. The Boundary Element Method The X-core stiffened structure examined here can be seen as an assembled plate structure; therefore the BEM for flat plates is used following Aliabadi [1] and Wen and Aliabadi [2]. The displacement boundary integral equations for 2D plane stress can be written as follow: Figure 2: Typical fatigue crack growth rate diagram


We describe our experiences with the implementation of a process migration mechanism for the distributed operating system Amoeba. After describing our design goals, we present our implementation for Amoeba. Though our goals have very largely been met, we have fallen short of the goal of complete transparency, and we discuss the consequences of that. We also present performance figures, indicating that the speed of process migration is limited only by the throughput of the network adapters used in our configuration, and that the overhead is comparable to that of process creation. We conclude with a review of the degree to which our design goals have been met, and discussion of the lessons learnt.


The contributions of the skeleton and the .respira tory muscles to over-all lung function have been studied in various ways. Abnormal lung function has been observed in patients with abnormal chest cage and respiratory muscle function caused by kyphoscoliosis, spondylitis, :poliomyelitis, obesity, and spinal cord injury (1-9). Investigations of thoracic mechanics have been undertaken in normal subjects and in subjects who have been anesthetized and/or paralyzed by drugs (10-13). While both types of studies are informative, they fail to distinguish the effects of abnormal function of the individual respiratory muscle groups. The electromyographic studies reported by Campbell demonstrate that, in normal subjects, differential function of intercostal, abdominal, and diaphragmatic musculature exists (14, 15). It would, therefore, be of value to attempt to isolate, when possible, the independent contributions of these various muscle groups to respiration. Although documented studies of aspects of lung function have been reported in patients with spinal cord injury, there has been no overall assessment of the lung function in these subjects. Neither has the relationship between altered lung mechanics and abnormalities of gas exchange been reported. In order to further study the effects of respiratory muscle dysfunction on lung function, subjects with spinal cord injury and documented loss of respiratory muscle function were selected for study in this laboratory. It is the purpose of this communication to report complete lung function studies in such subjects, and to attempt to explain the


The multi‐phase or four‐dimensional computed tomography (4D CT) has emerged as a promising technique for preoperative localization of parathyroid lesions in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT), but little is known about its accuracy in patients with normocalcemic primary hyperparathyroidism (NPHPT).


In the consideration of the value of history in the developmental process of any group of people or programme, after almost 50 years of her existence, the history and development of the Association of Public Health Physicians of Nigeria (APHPN) is being documented here for the benefit of the association and her members both now and in the future, as the history is updated from time to time as is the case of progressive bodies as APHPN surely is. Having been created at a meeting in Lagos as the Association of Community Physicians of Nigeria (ACPN) in 1974, this article traces its life and development up till 1985 at Ibadan when it became an association of a sizeable number, including theestablishment of its journal and the quarterly newsletter.
The association then got reorganized between 2005 and 2007, with a new constitution, as the present ACPN, with the first Board of Trustees and registration with the Corporate Affairs Commission in the Presidency. The constitution was again revised in 2021 to accommodate the several growths that had taken place therein.
The establishment from the APHPN of two other non-physician-only public health associations in Nigeria with wider global activities and other developments within the APHPN are captured in this paper so that younger members of the association may learn from these and so grow more seriously and efficiently in their personal and group benefits; and especially for the country and the world at large.


The "Cold War" means the long, open rivalry that pitted the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics with their respective allies since the end of World War II in 1945 until the dissolution of the Soviet bloc in 1991. In Latin America, the tension of the period, materialized in one of the political and revolutionary landmarks of the continent, known as the Cuban Revolution of January 1, 1959. In this essay, compares and describes the construction of historiographical account of the occurrence of this revolution as the most important Latin American historical event period. Made more than fifty years have happened, continues to arouse interest in interpretation, in this particular case from the perspective of two selected films: "Memories of Underdevelopment" Cuban director Tomas Gutiérrez Alea, 1966, categorized as one of the 100 best films of Latin American cinema and "Before Night Falls" by US director Julian Schnabel, 2000, which deals with the life and work of Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas in and out of the Revolution. Film and history converge in the historiographical construction of an event.


The transmission behavior of 90‐ns CO2 laser pulses through germanium has been studied at high intensities up to 20 MW/cm2. With increasing incident intensity, the transmitted intensity was observed to saturate quite abruptly at a level which decreased with increase in crystal length. The saturated level of transmitted intensity was found to be higher at lower temperatures. The observed transmission behavior is interpreted in terms of multiphoton absorption across the direct band gap, followed by absorption by the excess carriers thus generated. By fitting experimental data to a phenomenological model, a room‐temperature seven‐photon absorption coefficient of 1.5×10−9 (cm2/MW)6 cm−1 is obtained for germanium in the 10‐μm region.


Ethnomusicology has always been a selfaware or self-conscious discipline, with all the positive and negative connotations of those terms. Ethnomusicological theorists have documented the historical emergence and development of the discipline and the theoretical perspectives that have informed it, and given both descriptive and prescriptive accounts of research methodologies.1 Much less attention has been paid to the everyday ways in which the discipline reproduces itself, through the practical procedures of teaching and learning in university classrooms. Solis's edited volume on World Music Ensembles (2004) was perhaps the first serious examination of ethnomusicology in its native habitat. Krüger's recent monograph takes a broader overview of the processes through which ethnomusicology is brought forth in a reflexive move which constitutes ethnomusicology itself as 'the field'. The book is based on fieldwork in a range of universities in Germany and the UK, and is divided into four sections, entitled 'Disciplining Ethnomusicology', 'Listening to Ethnomusicology', Performing Ethnomusicology' and 'Constructing Ethnomusicology', followed


Communication networks are used as an important guarantee for information interaction and efficient collaboration within many fields and systems; however, under information technology conditions, the destruction of a number of nodes in a network may have a great impact on the overall operation of the network. Therefore, it is important to accurately determine the critical nodes in the network to enhance the network's resistance to destruction. Combining the characteristic attributes of the communication network, a node contribution evaluation matrix is proposed based on the efficiency matrix, from the perspective of node receiving information; a node value evaluation matrix is proposed from the perspective of a node providing information to neighboring nodes, and node importance is calculated by integrating the evaluation results of the two matrices and the node's own attributes. The algorithm is suitable for directed-weighted network node value evaluation, and the effectiveness and accuracy of the algorithm are verified by comparing other algorithms for a small-scale network. In further experimental validation, a hybrid weighted communication network evolution model based on organizational structured networks is proposed, and networks of different sizes are generated for experimental simulation. The results show that when nodes with high importance are removed from the network, they can cause a rapid decrease in the network efficiency and maximum connectivity, confirming the accuracy of the algorithm in evaluating the importance of nodes and identifying critical nodes in the network.


In the last few years a number of studies have proposed algorithms that can obtain fuzzy systems which are simple and easy to read, while maintaining quite a high level of accuracy. Following this philosophy, the paper presents a simple, new approach based on Genetic Algorithms, with the aim of selecting the features and tuning the parameters of a fuzzy classification algorithm. From the results obtained by the optimized classifier a transparent, efficient fuzzy system is generated using simple heuristic methods. The main features of the approach are accuracy, scalability, adaptability and expandability. Comparative examples based on three data sets well known in the pattern classification field are given, showing that the approach leads to classifiers with a small number of transparent, readable rules, which are less complex than those reported in the literature with comparable or better accuracy.


Intercalation of oligomeric chromium(III) polycation species in layered tetratitanates was prepared by three steps: 1) ion-exchange of H + for K + in potasium tetratitanates, 2) intercalation of n-alchylamine (n-propylamine, nbutylamine, n-amylamine, and n-hexylamine) compounds in layered hydrogen tetratitanates by adding an aqueous solution of 5M n-alchylamine to hydogen titanates with stiring at room temperature, and 3) intercalation of oligomeric chromium(III) polycation species by mixing butylamine-intercalated tetratitanates with an aqueous solution of CrCl3.6H2O at pH various. The procedure was carried out by Chimie Douce method. The results showed that all of n-alchylamine-intercalated tetratitanates crystallize on monoclinic crystal system with the Bravais lattice C. The hight intensity of the first peaks (200) indicated that butylamine and amylamine-intercalated tetratitanates have a remarkably high crystallinity without impurities phase. The interlayered distance (d) and the lattice parameter projected along a increase with increasing the amount of C-atoms in n-alchylamine. At pH=1.3, [CrCl(H2O)5] 2+ or [CrCl2(H2O)4] + species was pillared more efective in layered tetratitanates than [Cr(H2O)6] 3+ spesies and just one spesies, Cr(H2O)6] 3+ at pH=1.7. On the contrary, [Cr(OH)(H2O)5] 2+ or [Cr(OH)2(H2O)4] + was intercalated more effevtive than [Cr(H2O)6] 3+ species at pH=5.3.


In this paper we study geometric versions of Burnside's Problem and the von Neumann Conjecture. This is done by considering the notion of a translation-like action. Translation-like actions were introduced by Kevin Whyte as a geometric analogue of subgroup containment. Whyte proved a geometric version of the von Neumann Conjecture by showing that a finitely generated group is non-amenable if and only if it admits a translation-like action by any (equivalently every) non-abelian free group. We strengthen Whyte's result by proving that this translation-like action can be chosen to be transitive when the acting free group is finitely generated. We furthermore prove that the geometric version of Burnside's Problem holds true. That is, every finitely generated infinite group admits a translation-like action by $\Z$. This answers a question posed by Whyte. In pursuit of these results we discover an interesting property of Cayley graphs: every finitely generated infinite group $G$ has some Cayley graph having a regular spanning tree. This regular spanning tree can be chosen to have degree 2 (and hence be a bi-infinite Hamiltonian path) if and only if $G$ has finitely many ends, and it can be chosen to have any degree greater than 2 if and only if $G$ is non-amenable. We use this last result to then study tilings of groups. We define a general notion of polytilings and extend the notion of MT groups and ccc groups to the setting of polytilings. We prove that every countable group is poly-MT and every finitely generated group is poly-ccc.


In order to improve the performance of First 1 bit run-length bit-plane coding algorithm (F1-run), we employed a context estimate based method to adaptive adjust coding parameters, including run-length threshold value and k parameter of Exp-Golomb coding, context was estimated here by counting bit method to predict the probability of bit equal to 0. Proposed algorithm has retained the advantage of efficiency and parallelization. As the context predict process need not to access the neighbor pixels, proposed algorithm retained independence of pixels in coding process, which lead to the benefit of less buffering and more parallelization. The simulation result showed that the proposed algorithms performed well and reduced 0.12bit/pixel than original algorithm in loss-less compressing, which was close to JPEG2000.In loss-compressing experiment, proposed algorithms performed better than original F1-Run and CCSDS-IDC algorithm, slightly better than SPIHT as using INT97 DWT, and close to JPGE2000.


ppropriate acceptance of online collaborative learning tools can improve interaction and collaboration between teachers and students.This study intends to investigate the influence factors on students acceptance behaviors of communication tools.Based on the technology acceptance model,we propose a model of acceptance behaviors of communication tools in online collaborative learning.In addition,this study verified the theoretical model and associated hypotheses.The results show that,technology characteristics,task characteristics,and individual differences canpositively influence learner's perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use.Learning environment positively influences learner's perceived usefulness and acceptance behaviors,and both learner's perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use positively influence intention to acceptance.This study also discovers that intention to acceptance increases acceptance behaviors.


Wavelength dependence of the intersubband absorption saturation in InGaAs/AlAsSb quantum wells is presented. Large intersubband nonlinearity at 1.72 /spl mu/m With the estimated saturation intensity as low as 4 MW/m/sup 2/ was observed.


The multi-agent paradigm for building intelligent systems has gradually been accepted by researchers and practitioners in the research field of artificial intelligence. There are also attempts of adapting agents and agent-based systems for creating industrial applications and providing e-services. In this paper, we present an attempt to use agents for constructing an online after-sale services system. The system is decomposed into four major cooperative agents, and in which each agent concentrates on particular aspects in the system and expresses intelligence by using various techniques. The proposed agent-based framework for the system is presented at both the micro-level and the macro-level according to the Gala methodology. UML notations are also used to represent some software design models. As the result of this, agents are implemented into a framework for which exploits case-based reasoning (CBR) technique to fulfil real life on-line services' diagnoses and tasks


The article offers approbation of theoretical concept of typology of national identities according to two criteria: ascriptive and voluntary. The first group consists of sociocultural characteristics of individual, which are obtained either without any activity or attitudes, or as a result of activity, which wasn't aimed to achieve these characteristics (so they are epiphenomena of that activity). The other group consists of characteristics, which could be obtained only in case of conscious and purposeful individual's activity. These two criteria make possible elaboration of national identities typology, which contains four types. First type is defined as intense identity, because it is based on two groups of criteria simultaneously. Second type is defined as ascriptive identity, because it is based only on ascriptive characteristics. Third type is defined as consecutive identity, because it is based on voluntary characteristics, but not on individual activity – rather on individual ideas about role of voluntary actions and their results in obtaining national identity. Fourth type is defined as indefinite identity, because it is based on absence of clear understanding of criteria, which allow possessing national identity.
 Empirical verification of offered typology is conducted on results of Ukrainian survey "Ukrainian Society – 2006" (respondents with Ukrainian national identity). Validity of criteria classification into two groups, ascriptive and voluntary, is confirmed by exploratory factor analysis of responses to the 9 questions about characteristics, important to be Ukrainian. Exploratory factor analysis has been conducted using categorical principal components analysis with oblique rotation (method direct oblimin). This method of EFA has been used, because it is based on categorical variables quantification, which allows using all analytic resources of EFA – computing factor variables, which are sensitive to the contribution of observed variables to the latent factor variable. Validity of national identities typology has been confirmed by analysis of proportion of respondents, who identify themselves with citizens of Ukraine, in four types of national identity. This analysis showed, that national identities typology are hierarchic: the highest proportion of respondents identifying themselves with citizens of Ukraine is observed in group of respondents with intense type of national identity, the lowest – in group of respondents with indefinite type of national identity. Other source of concept validation has been used: analysis of respondents without Ukrainian national identity. Analysis of their responses about nature of Ukrainian national identity and their national self-identity has showed tendencies, which correspond to the tendencies in the medium of respondents with Ukrainian national identity.


During the past few years China's economical growth was studied throughout as being one of the biggest manufacturing country in the world. Most of the products label containMade in China printed on it, thusmaking other markets wonder: what are the consumer perception about buying and using those products?This paper aims to take a closer look and analyse, if the Romanian buyers consider these products as a challenge for the goods from other countries. Another aspect, the paper intends to research is if China identifies with the products it manufactures. The research is based on the consumer behaviour as well it measured the differences between age, the amount of money spent by the consumers and the perception of the Chinese goods and China as a country.To collect the necessary data, was designed a questionnaire that was handed to the Romanian consumers, mostly from the West-North part of Romania.


affect less than one in 2000 people. Many rare diseases are very much rarer, occurring only once in 50'000 or 100'000 people, and in some instances there is only one known case in Switzerland. Nevertheless rare diseases are de facto quite common, because almost a quarter (about 7000) of all 30'000 or so known diseases are considered «rare». Estimates suggest that one in twenty patients suffers from a rare disease. Throughout Europe, then, about 20 million people are affected, and in Switzerland alone 400'000. That corresponds to almost the entire population of the City of Zurich. Simply on the basis of their relative frequency, «rare» diseases are considered as a single group, which is therefore very heterogeneous. About 80% inherited diseases and many other diseases of genetic origin must be classed as «rare». Besides a few well-understood and treatable conditions (e.g. thalassemia, phenylketonuria, Fabry disease, Gaucher's disease etc.) there are also many diseases that are incurable at the moment.


The article is devoted to one of the most dynamic sectors of the world economic system - to the sector of cultural and creative industries and to the issue of modeling its economic development public policy. One of the current trends today is intensifycation of the transformation process of the subsidized cultural sector into a dynamic business environment through a combination social services and market mechanisms. The creative economy has the potential to support developing countries in diversifying production, exports and providing sustainable development. In a context pandemic COVID-19, the sector has suffered significant losses and today needs comprehensive support. The question of applying a strategic approach to the state policy of CCI economic development, which involves determining its main directions, has become acute. The system approach in modeling process can ensure the successful implementation of an such policy in practice. In the article are identificated strategic directions for the state policy of CCI economic development in Ukraine using the method of modeling, to ensure the holistic development of the sector, taking into account the specific risks in the absence of such a policy. The main method in the article is the method of modeling, as well as used of strategic and systematic approaches for studing and analysis of the public policy specifics in the field of cultural economy in such countries as Ukraine. In the article is presents the developed model of the economic development state policy of the CCI, which consists of the main directions, its main elements, as well as a group of management decisions aimed at the development of the sector. The modeling process is based on taking into account the possible risks of the lack of a holistic approach in the implementation of public policy in the Ukrainian CCI sector. The proposed model with the main directions and elements, further focused on the separation of subsectors in the CCI sector and the development of legislative support for their functioning, establishing intersectoral cooperation, the relationship of their development strategies, taking into account and minimizing risks associated with lack of policy in the field of culture, as well as creates the preconditions for the use of economic and mathematical apparatus to substantiate forecasts and prospects for adaptation of management decisions to the changing internal and external environment.


This research suggests a framework of R tool. R tool frame work is used for analyzing big data in cloud computing. The aim is to identify the challenges for analyzing big data. R is a statistical programming language which is behind statistics, analytics and visualization. Today's data scientist and business leader uses R to make power business decisions. The RFramework is open source and flexible. R includes different packages which are useful in analysis of data. R Framework contains Deploy R server, Deploy R repository and Deploy R API's which are used to upload and verily data. In R we can write our scripts and we can also upload different format files. We can also link RFramework with other languages such as java, .NET. R is a flexible framework and it is capable for analyzing various types of data which is available on cloud.


We consider the problem of decoding first-order Reed-Muller codes efficiently. We give an algorithm that implicitly adapts to the noise conditions, runs significantly faster than known maximum-likelihood algorithms, and yields an error rate that is very close to optimal. When applied to complementary code keying (CCK) demodulation (used in the 802.11b standard for wireless local area networks), the algorithm runs up to 4 times faster than a decoder based on the fast Hadamard transform, with a loss of at most 0.2 dB in error rate. We show analytically that the error rate of our adaptive algorithm is 2/sup -/spl Omega/(n)/, where n is the length of a codeword.


Wart treatments are numerous and varied. Which if any of these treatments actually cure warts? These investigators performed a systematic review of all


The present invention relates to a method for transmitting data in a mobile communication system using an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) scheme, the method comprising the steps of: dividing the entire frequency band of the mobile communication system into a plurality of sub-carrier frequency band, and the sub-frequency bands preset number, and generating a plurality of segments having a frequency domain and a time domain occupied by the section when the preset number, more by a plurality of segments in consideration of data characteristic in the step of classifying the types of segments in consideration of data characteristic, determining combinations of signal transmitting and receiving schemes applied to each segment of the plurality of types, the data to be transmitted is generated, the data characteristics in view, for transmitting the data of one type of segment one of multiple types And selecting as a segment.


Material and Methods: It was a prospective study conducted from May 2012 to May 2013 at Khyber Eye Foundation Peshawar. 437 eyes of 406 patients were included in the study. Before performing YAG laser detailed history was taken and complete ocular examination was performed. A consultant ophthalmologist performed all YAG laser capsulotomies. Follow up was done at 1 day, 1, 2 and 4 weeks. Detail eye examination was performed at each visit to look for any complications.


The testes, seminal vesicles and coagulating glands of hamsters subjected to bilateral optic enucleation (blinding) involuted within 6–8 weeks. During the first several weeks after blinding there was relatively little change in the weights of the reproductive organs, however, between 4–6 weeks the weights of these organs declined precipitously. Finally, the testes and accessory sex organs of 8‐week blinded hamsters were about one‐tenth and one‐third their normal size, respectively. The atrophic testes exhibited a complete loss of spermatogensis and an apparent diminished secretion of androgens since the seminal vesicles and coagulating glands also regressed significantly. Despite the involution, the testes showed a high degree of deoxyribonucleic acid synthesis as evidenced by the large number of spermatogenic cells which took up tritiated thymidine. These findings indicate that the testes retained a certain level of regenerative capacity even in the presence of advanced tubular damage.


A temperature-controlled sapphire growth furnace comprises a pull device, a power supply controller, a temperature sensor, a continental controller, a tungsten crucible, a tungsten heater, a tungsten barrel, a furnace body, a bottom heat-heat-insulating layer, a tungsten pillar and a side surface heat-insulating layer, and is characterized in that the side surface heat-insulating layer is arranged on the inner side of the furnace body; the bottom heat-insulating layer is arranged at the bottom side of the furnace body; the tungsten pillar is arranged in the central axis position of the furnace body; the pull device is arranged at the upper end of the furnace body; the tungsten crucible is arranged at the upper end of the tungsten pillar; the tungsten heater is arranged on the outer side of the tungsten crucible; the tungsten barrel is arranged on the outer side of the tungsten heater; the temperature sensor is arranged on the outer side of the tungsten barrel in the middle of the furnace body; the temperature sensor is connected with the power supply controller through the continental controller. The sapphire growth furnace has the benefits that with the temperature-controlled scheme, the temperature controlling is stable, sapphire crystal growth is stable, and crystal growth quality is high.


Recent research has confirmed the study of emotion as an important organizational concept in its own right. Central to this claim is the growing body of research into the causes, content and consequences of emotional labour. However, despite a plethora of studies into the emotional labour of front-line staff, to date, professional groupings have been largely ignored. Notwithstanding occasional anecdotal references to physicians, existing research neglects the emotional facets of professional life. This study is designed to rectify this imbalance through the exploration and description of the extent, content and consequences of emotional labour by barristers. After detailing the research methods employed, the study presents the results of an interview and observation-based study of barristers at work. The findings suggest that not only do barristers routinely display expected emotions, but also they do so differentially. Insights into the causes and effects of such labour are also presented and discussed. The paper concludes with a series of implications and suggestions for future research.


A benign epithelial neoplasm characterized by an endophytic growth, papillary pattern, and proliferation of neoplastic squamous cells without morphologic evidence of malignancy.


In this report, we propose the Appointed BrOadcast (ABO) method to achieve packet overhearing to reduce the routing overhead in the IEEE 802.11 mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). Using the ABO method, IEEE 802.11 frames are modified in such a way that the Intended Receiver Address (IRA) is appended to the frame body. These ABO frames are broadcasted to enable packet overhearing while keeping the transmission to specific node reliable. How ABO-enhanced and standard IEEE 802.11 nodes can coexist in a MANET is also discussed.


Article history: Received on: 02/08/2016 Revised on: 13/09/2016 Accepted on: 27/09/2016 Available online: 29/10/2016 Production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) yields serious damage oxidation of proteins, lipids and genomic structures. Studies have shown that production of ROS increases during intensive exercise training. This study aimed to investigate the effect of high intensity interval training on 8-oxoguanine DNA glycosylase (OGG1) and 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) levels in the brain and liver of rats. 16 adult Albino Wistar rats were randomly divided into sedentary control and high intensity interval training groups. Animals ran on treadmill for 6 weeks, 6 days per week, at 95 to 100 percent of maximal oxygen consumption. Using commercial kits, the content of OGG1 and 8-OHdG were measured using sandwich ELISA assay. Data analyzed using Student's Ttest at P≤0.05 level. High intensity interval training resulted in significant increases in contents of OGG1 in brain (t14=7.22, P=0.001) and liver (t14=2.55, P=0.02) of rats. However, high intensity interval training had no significant influence on 8-OHdG levels in brain (t14=1.60, P=0.13) and liver (t14=1.28, P=0.22) of rats. Also, there were no significant differences between changes in the brain and liver contents of OGG1 (t14=0.97, P=0.34) and 8-OHdG (t14=0.42, P=0.68) of rats following high intensity interval training. Taken together, separation of the training sessions to various bouts of exercise with maximum effort, through increase in OGG1 contents, will lead to modify of 8-OHdG levels in brain and liver.


Objective: To present the case of a boy with a late diagnosis of precocious puberty and its consequences. Case Report: A boy of 7 years and 11 months enters the paediatric emergency room with vomiting, diarrhoea and signs of dehydration. His mother referred appearance of secondary sexual characters since he was 5 years old. A prepubertal testicular size (2,5 mL) was observed, with high values of 17-hydroxiprogesterone and testosterone, a prepubertal response in the stimulation test of GnRH, a very advanced bone age (14 years) and a predicted adult height of 147 cm with a target height of 168 cm. The diagnosis of congenital suprarenal hyperplasia was done and the treatment with hydrocortisone was initiated. Subsequently, the patient showed an increase of the testicle volume (8 mL) and a pubertal response in the test of GnRH. In this moment, the treatment with GnRH analogue was associated. This is a peripheral precocious puberty that secondarily triggered a central precocious puberty. Conclusions: The sex steroids peripherally produced may accelerate the maturation of the hypothalamus- hypophysogonadal axis getting to a mixed aetiology of the precocious puberty (peripheral and central). The early diagnosis and treatment could reduce the impact on the height and sexual development.


The paper presents the principles of operation and the electrical characteristics of a transducer, for the measurement of radiated emissions, first described by Fromy (1966). The transducer was originally intended for the measurement of power radiated from linear radiators, such as dipoles and monopoles, placed directly on top of the transducer. The present paper investigates some of the limitations of the transducer, with the view of applying it for emission measurements from electrical apparatus. >


even the worst of the city slums were certain to be frustrated by interested parties, the Glasgow City Improvement Trust Act was passed. The preamble of the Act set forth that ' various portions of the City of Glasgow, and the buildings thereon, are so densely inhabited as to be highly injurious to the moral and physical welfare of the inhabitants .... that it would be of public and local advantage if various houses and buildings were taken down and other portions of the said city reconstituted.' The lands at which the Act was specifically directed comprised the congested heart of the city, north, south, east and west of the Cross, and a large portion of the ancient burghs of Calton and Gorbals and of the districts of Oatlands and Overnewton. Ihe Trust obtained power to turn out the inhabitants of certain dwellings, and in a paper read before the Philosophical Society on December 14, 1874, Dr. (later Sir) J. B. Russell was able to report that ' since 1870 the Improvement Trust has, from time to time, demolished the houses of some 15,425 persons.' At the May term in 1874, 351 houses were pulled down (in St. Andrew's Square, Calton and Main Street, Gorbals). Partly because of difficulty in tracing some of the families concerned and partly because


The use of titanium miniplates and screws in surgery of the maxillomandibular complex has been growing in recent years with the scientific evidence of its high effectiveness. It is thus common for doubts to emerge as to whether or not such devices should be removed after bone repair. The present review sets out to discuss the differences in management and their rationale, bearing in mind that this issue is rarely examined in Brazilian journals, and to provide scientifically based data for deciding on the correct treatment option. Descriptors: titanium; plates; screws; healing.


Vehicle tracking is an essential approach that can help to improve the traffic surveillance or assist the road traffic control. Recently, the development of video surveillance infrastructure has incited the researchers to focus on the vehicle tracking by using video sensors. However, the amount of the on-road vehicle has been increased dramatically and hence the congestion of the traffic has made the occlusion scene become a challenge task for video sensor based tracking. Conventional particle filter will encounter tracking error during and after occlusion. Besides that, it also required more iteration to continuously track the vehicle after occlusion. Thus, particle filter with genetic operator resampling has been proposed as the tracking algorithm to faster converge and keep track on the target vehicle under various occlusion incidents. The experimental results show that enhancement of the particle filter with genetic algorithm manage to reduce the particle sample size.


Summary of the "Gesta Dei per Francos" Guibert's other works the translation - letter of Guibert to Lysiard, preface to the book of the "Deeds of God by Means of the Franks", "The Deeds of God Through the Franks".


Transient liquid phase(TLP) bonding was applied to join TP304H stainless pipe,and the effect of bonding temperature on joint microstructure and mechanical properties was studied.With increasing bonding temperature,the alloy elements diffused enough between base metal and joint,bond interface disappeared slowly and the grains grew across joint,then a joint with rnicrostructure and mechanieal properties that were similar to those of base meted was produced.As TLP bonding can easily produce a good joint in short time,it can be widely applied in pipe welding.


Abstract Selection of suitable numerical scheme for solving macroscopic traffic flow models should be based on the numerical errors in various traffic parameters. Although such errors associated with state variables such as density are known to some extent, their implications to the derived parameters such as travel time and queue-length are not understood well. This paper proposes a general basis for selecting the spatial order of accuracy of a finite volume scheme for solving first-order traffic flow models. Four Measures of Accuracy that are especially relevant for traffic flow have been introduced. We illustrate that, although higher order schemes outperform the lower order ones in the quality of simulation in terms of resolution as well as computational cost, their superior performance is underestimated with the use of conventional error measures of state predictions. Localized parameters such as size and duration of the queue are more sensitive towards the order of the scheme, than domain aggregated parameters such as duration of congestion and travel time.


Background: Adipose tissue has an important role in inducing lung dysfunction through production and secretion of adipokins such as leptin. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of 12 weeks of moderate intensity exercise training on Lung function, serum leptin levels and lipid profile in inactive obese men. Methods: This research was conducted with a semi- experimental methodology with pre-test and post-test. Twenty-two inactive obese men (18 to 30 years old) voluntarily participated in this study and randomly divided into two exercise (n = 11) and control (n = 11) groups. Subjects performed moderate intensity aerobic exercise training for 12 weeks. Blood samples were collected after overnight fasting, before and after the 12-week of exercise training program. Serum leptin levels, Lipid profile and pulmonary function were measured before and after of 12 week moderate intensity exercise training. All statistical tests (paired sample T-test, Independent T-test, Pearson correlation coefficient) were performed and considered significant at a p≤0.05. Results: The results of this study showed that after 12 weeks of moderate intensity exercise levels of triglyceride (P=0.001), cholesterol (P=0.001), leptin (P=0.001), LDL (P=0.001), and VLDL (P=0.01) decreased and HDL (P=0.001) increased after 12 weeks of aerobic exercise compared to baseline in exercise group. Also FVC (P=0.022) and MVV (P=0.02) significantly increased. Conclusion: Twelve week of moderate intensity exercise training caused favorable changes in lipid profile, obesity-related metabolic biomarkers and Pulmonary function in inactive obese men.


Purpose – The object of this study is to formulate, establish and apply a suitable and reliable tool for measuring the course experience satisfaction of Master graduates. A questionnaire was formulated, based on similar tools, and adjusted to the reality of Hellenic Higher Education, in order to measure the satisfaction of graduates in three Master programmes in the area of health care management.Design/methodology/approach – Master graduates of the study (n=162), 2003‐2007 admission years, filled in the questionnaire either electronically (web‐based) or by phone interview. The overall response rate was 50.6 per cent. In total, 37 statements were used for the measure of satisfaction while other questionnaire parts recorded the demographic, occupational and educational characteristics of the graduates.Findings – Analysis revealed seven factors, listed as teaching, skills, assessment, feedback, social opportunities, facilities and organization of the course. Gender and first degree content do not affect the...


K e y w o r d s Essential hypertension, Overswinging of blood pressure, Non-dipping of blood pressure, Cardiovascular disease risk, Left ventricular mass index


At the present time Nitrogen-Mustard-N-Oxide (NMO) is being widely used. clinically in the treatment of cancer. The trouble is that with continued use, cancer becomes resistant to an anticancer agent. We have studied both clinically and experimentally the problem of NMO resistance, especially with regard to tumor DNA, on which we report here. We cite here as the first clinical case that of a seventeen year old youth with mediastinal tumor. A thoracotomy was done but resection of the tumor was found to be impossible. After the operation, this patient was given 125mg THM and 700mg NMO and we could see by x-ray film that these alkylating agents were most effective. Thereafter, 25mg TEM and 1600mg NMO were added but up to the present time the tumor has been increasing and it is thus proved that.


Antoninus Pius' s rescriptum on the slaves of Iulius Sabinus is an exceptional document pertaining to slavery in the Betica province. lts contents regulate the slave shelter in the temple devoted to the worship of the emperor.


Mining association rules was introduced as a novel framework of Data Mining by Agrawal et al. [1] and some e cient heuristic algorithms for mining all association rules have been devised [2]. Based on such research, some systems for mining association rules have been already in commerce and have succeeded in discovering a rule like \if a customer buys a swimsuit and a pair of ippers then the customer buys goggles too in 90% of the cases" from huge databases. This method is obviously applicable to genomic data and a successful result has been reported for nding simple association rules from signals found in mammalian promoter sequences [4]. In order to increase the diversity and expressibility of rules, we introduce a rule in a more general form, Binary Diagram Rule (BDR, shortly), so that a rule like \at teatime, if a person


The Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) is the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's census of motor vehicle crash fatalities in the United States and its territories. This paper seeks to explain the implementation of the re-coding process, in which previously entered cases were sampled and re-coded by select, experienced FARS analysts to check the accuracy and performance of the original analysts. The goal of the re-coding process is to enhance the quality control process to maintain accurate, complete, and timely FARS data. To test the feasibility of the re-coding process, 80 cases were selected by a random case generator tool for a pilot study. The pilot study results indicated that when all the re-coders coded the same value, there was an 85.4% agreement with the original coded value. The pilot study proved projected timelines, sample sizes, and the re-coding processes to be practical and the first systemwide re-coding process was conducted. Overall, the first systemwide re-code was successful and results indicated that there was 83% agreement between the re-coders' values and the original coded values for the Accident, Driver, and Person level variables. At the vehicle level, the re-coders matched the original coding 98% of the time. Both the pilot study and the first systemwide sample had over 80% of cross-coder agreement, an acceptable level of uniformity. The re-coding process also identified complex data elements that require analytical skill to discern and code correctly.


Most of the existing mathematical models for analyzing the dynamic response of TLP are based on explicit or implicit assumptions that motions (translations and rotations) are small magnitude. However, when TLP works in severe adverse conditions, the a priori assumption on small displacements may be inadequate. In such situation, the motions should be regarded as finite magnitude. This paper will study stochastic nonlinear dynamic responses of TLP with finite displacements in random waves. The nonlinearities considered are: large amplitude motions, coupling the six degrees-of-freedom, instantaneous position, instantaneous wet surface, free surface effects and viscous drag force. The nonlinear dynamic responses are calculated by using numerical integration procedure in the time domain. After the time histories of the dynamic responses are obtained, we carry out cycle counting of the stress histories of the tethers with rain-flow counting method to get the stress range distribution.


This experiment was conducted to evaluate the safety of high doses of phytosterol supplementation in laying hens by determining production performance,blood routine parameters and serum biochemical parameters.Three hundred and sixty 21-week-old Hy-Line Brown laying hens with the similar body weight and laying rate were randomly assigned to 5 groups with 6 replicates per group and 12 birds each.Birds were fed basal diets supplemented with 0(control),20,80(the maximum recommended available dose,MRAD),400(five fold of MRAD) and 800 mg/kg(ten fold of MRAD) phytosterol for 12 weeks,respectively.All birds were acclimated to the basal diet for 3 weeks.The results showed as follows: phytosterol had no significant effects on laying rate,feed intake,egg mass,the ratio of feed to egg and blood routine parameters(P0.05).Only serum glucose content was significantly affected by phytosterol supplementation(P0.05),and there was a significant linear correlation between them(P=0.010),while there were no significant differences in other serum biochemical parameters among five groups(P0.05).It is indicated that no adverse effects are observed in laying hens by the high doses of phytosterol supplementation.


The author examines the methodological contributions of the ten unique reviews developed in this special issue on the methodologies for studying visual expertise. Op portunities, research results and lessons, offered by each methodology are analyzed according to four dimensions criteria: (i) The different levels of visual and cognitive processes targeted in the different methods; (ii) The effect of the t ask gaols and task design on the outcomes; (iii) The potential effect of the format (dynamic versus static) of the visual material and the interactive features provided in previous studies (iv) The potential modulating effect of learners individual differences. Concluding comments are developed about the l imitations of each m ethod but also about the challenge and promises of designing and using combined and synchronized methods.


The transformation of radiocarbon years to calendar years (cal AD/BC) is not straightforward because of past variations in atmospheric 14C content (de Vries 1958; Suess 1970). A calibration curve, y = f(x), transforms each dendrochronologically dated calendar age (x) to a 14C date (y). By inverting this relationship, one can determine the calibrated calendar age of a given sample. In some time intervals, the calibration curve is problematic in that f(x) is not uniquely invertible (Fig. 1); even an exact measurement of y cannot be converted to a single calendar age (see examples in van der Plicht & Mook (1987)).


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