We propose that a kind of four-dimensional (4D) Hamiltonians, which host tensor monopoles related to quantum metric tensor in even dimensions, can be simulated by ultracold atoms in the optical lattices. The topological properties and bulk-boundary correspondence of tensor monopoles are investigated in detail. By fixing the momentum along one of the dimensions, it can be reduced to an effective three-dimensional model manifesting with a nontrivial chiral insulator phase. Using the semiclassical Boltzmann equation, we calculate the longitudinal resistance against the magnetic field $B$ and find a negative relative magnetoresistance effect of approximately $ -B^{2} $ dependence when a hyperplane is cut through the tensor monopoles in the parameter space. We also propose an experimental scheme to realize this 4D Hamiltonian by extending an artificial dimension in 3D optical lattices. Moreover, we show that the quantum metric tensor can be detected by applying an external drive in the optical lattices.


Based on one-way fluid-solid coupling, a variable pitch axial fan was simulated through ANSYSY Workbench platform. With the software Fluent to describe the flow field and the software Mechanical to describe the structure field, the static structure analysis of the blades was carried out to study the strength of the blades. The flow field data were applied on the blades by interpolation. The results show that the centrifugal force plays an important role on the strength characteristics of the blades. Considering the aerodynamic load, the distribution of stress of the blades tends to be more uneven, the maximum equivalent stress reduces by 4.5% and the maximum deformation decreases by 26.6%. With the increase of flow, the maximum equivalent stress and the maximum total deformation of the blades decrease gradually.


Exascale systems are expected to have fewer bytes of memory per core available than present petascale systems. Previous analysis of the Open MPI OpenSHMEM runtime has shown that it allocates some object types which use memory proportional to the square of the number of PEs. In this paper, we describe a technique for tracking memory accesses by OpenSHMEM runtimes. By tracking reads and writes, we can determine which object types are constant after initialization; those objects could be shared across PEs which are co-located on the same physical node. This tracking is implemented in the TAU Performance System by using user-level page fault handling in Linux.


Reproductive efficiency is one of the key elements for any milk production system to be successful. In this regard, reproductive management must be planned properly and the identification of the main reproductive disorders that affect the herd is primordial for decision-making. The aim of the present study was to identify the main reproductive problems that affect dairy herds on Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brazil. Data regarding breed, age, reproductive disorder occurrence, and breeding system were individually collected from dairy cows raised at 25 farms located at RJ. The occurrence of reproductive disorders was reported in 37% of the studied animals. Estrous repetition (76.2%) and abortion (15.6%) were the most frequent reproductive problems reported. Estrous repetition was more common in older animals (>6 years old). However, an association between abortion and age of animal was not observed, nor an association between breeding system and occurrence of abortion. The present results demonstrated that estrous repetition is the main obstacle to the reproductive efficiency in dairy herds at RJ, and that the replace of older cows by heifers is an important point within reproductive management of a dairy herd.


This research is motivated by conditions among teachers. frequently use social media. The research objective was to determine the effect of using social media and school culture on student learning outcomes at Junior High School 01 Kisam Ilir, Muaradua Kisam District. This research uses quantitative methods. The population is 172 people and the research sample is 90 respondents. Data collection uses questionnaires and documentation of student learning outcomes which are then tested using the SPSS version 2.5 program. Hypothesis testing at the 5% significance level using the t-test, the conclusion of this study H1 is rejected, this shows that there is no influence between variable X1 on variable Y. For H2 is accepted, it shows that there is an influence between variable X2 and variable Y by 97%. To test the effect of variables X1 and X2 on Y simultaneously, the F test is used which results in H3 are rejected. The implication of this research is to cultivate social media in the school environment to support learning achievement.


Acknowledgements Introduction: Aryanism and the Webs of Empire The Emergence of Aryanism: Company Orientalism, Colonial Governance and Imperial Ethnology Indocentrism on the New Zealand Frontier: Geographies of Race, Empire and Nation Systematizing Religion: From Tahiti to the Tat Khalsa 'Hello Ganesha!': Indocentrism and the Interpretation of Maori Religion Print, Literacy, and the Recasting of Maori Identities The Politics of Language, Nation, and Race: Hindu Identities in the Late Nineteenth Century Conclusion: Knowledge, Empire, Globalization Bibliography Index


The authors proposed a new steel frame connection called modified Dog_bone connection with oval weld holes in this work. With finite elements analysis procedure, the authors analyze the connection on mechanics and anti_seismic performance. The results indicate the modified connection has the merits of both general Dog_bone connections and connections with oval weld holes. Its plastic deformation is larger and its stresss concentraion is less than another two. It is a connection that is worth studying in detail.


In 1968, the largest single discovery of oil and natural gas ever found on the North American continent was made at Prudhoe Bay on the North Slope of Alaska. The Prudhoe Bay field contains over 26 tcf of recoverable natural gas, or ca 13% of the proven domestic gas reserves. To bring this natural gas to the market in the Lower 48 states, filings were made with the Federal Power Commission, the predecessor to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, to construct a pipeline transportation system. The gas pipeline project will initially transport ca 2 billion cu ft of gas daily, expandable to 3.2 billion cu ft/day with additional compressor stations. The total ANGTS comprises nearly 4,800 miles of pipeline with diameters ranging from 36 to 56 in., and initially ca 1.4 million hp will be installed to transport 2.0 billion cu ft/day. This presentation concentrates on the Alaska segment of the ANGTS.


Summary: This study measured the antenatal fetal heart rate changes in response to a single vibrotactile stimulus. In a group of 11 normal patients, this resulted in a significant change in the fetal heart rate (P < 0.001). Sixty‐eight high risk patients were also tested. In the group of 25 patients whose fetuses showed no response to the stimulus, there were 4 stillbirths and 4 neonatal deaths; 23 of these 25 infants were small for gestational age (SGA) compared to only 15 of the 43 that showed a response to the stimulus.


The extensive use of antibiotics leads to an increasing number of antibiotic-resistant pathog enic microorganisms. The development of new antimicrobial s is needed for clinical, veterinary, and food appl ications. Bacteriocins are small peptides with antimicrobial ac tivity ribosomally synthesized by bacteria and coul d be applied as an alternative to classical antibiotics. In this study , the bacteriocin-like (BLIS) peptide, produced by S taphylococcus xylosus was partially purified and main characteristics (pH, thermal stability, resistance to some protease enz ymes and molecular weight) were evaluated. Ammonium sulfate precipitatio n, acetone extraction and ion-exchange chromatograp hy methods were applied for purification of bacteriocin. The ac tivity of bacteriocin was detected using a well diffu sion assay method and the amount of protein concentration was estimate d by Lowry method. Molecular weight (~ 6 kDa) of puri fied bacteriocin was determined by sodium dodecyl sulphat e polyacrilamide gel electrophoresis (SDS PAGE) metho d. The highest purification yield (80 %) was obtained usin g ion-exange chromatography and SP-sepharose as sor bent. The purified bacteriocin remained stable at pH values b etween 2.0 and 12.0 for 4 h. No decrease in antibact erial activity was estimated after 30 min at 121o C temperature. The p urified bacteriocin was resistant to papain, pepsin a d trypsin action. The BLIS inhibits a growth of Listeria monocytogenes (93 ± 3.0 %), Bacillus subtilis (85 ± 4.0 %), Pedio coccus pentosaceus (79 ± 4.0 %), Staphylococcus aureus (51 ± 5.0 %) and Propionibacterium acnes (70 ± 5 %) up to 24 hours. Such bacteriocin preparation could be applied as an timicrobial agent in medical and food industry.


Much has been made in trade journals and popular press about the role of competition as traditional telecommunications companies enter the established purview of cable and satellite video providers. Much has also been made about the new possibilities enabled by the use of internet protocol (IP) to deliver video. These are important issues, but there are other critical topics that have received scant attention. The purpose of this paper is to examine one of those critical yet neglected topics-the role of professional broadcast encoders in next-generation television services.


Objective To evaluate the efficacy of topical treatment of onychomycosis by occlusive dressing using 1% bifonazole cream.Method In a retrospective study,analyzing all the patients diagnosed onychomycosis during January,2007 to December,2009 treated by occlusive dressing using 1% bifonazole cream.Results The efficiency rate of fingernails onychomycosis with good compliance was 86.67% and that with bad compliance was 38.46%,the efficiency rate of toenails onychomycosis with good compliance was 82.76% and that with bad compliance was 37.50%,there were sigernificant correlations between them(P0.05).There was not any obvious adverse effect in treatments.Conclusion It was effective,affordable and safe for onychomycosis treated by occlusive dressing using 1% bifonazole cream.


This paper deals with an observer-based preview control for semi-active suspensions. An Observer has been designed such that all the state variables and road inputs can be estimated from accelerations
Since the road input to the rear wheels is a delayed version of that to the front wheels. it can be obtained by estimating of the road input to the front wheels without preview sensors. The performance of LQ optimal control and the wheelbase preview control using the estimated values of state and the estimated road input has been investigated. The results show that the observer-based control can provide good performance. The observer-based preview control improves the dynamic behavior of the rear axle and that of pitch motion compared to the LQ optimal control.


Two-Dimensional Single and Joint Inversion of Direct Current Resistivity and Radiomagnetotelluric Data: Comparison of Non-linear Model Variance and Resolution Properties


ABSTRACT This article looks at the number of convictions for a group of offences categorised as obscenity-related in the official statistics. While the aggregate numbers show a dramatic rise, this article examines the trends in relation to the individual offences. The article shows that the law of obscenity has undergone a significant transformation. A central change has been the shift from the publisher as the target for criminal liability to the viewer of the content (for example, through the introduction of possession offences). A further change is the move away from the reliance on broadly worded offences to provisions that target a narrower range of content. Those two changes explain why the number of convictions has sharply increased while the law has become more permissive as to the types of content that can be published. The discussion places these changes into context, looking at the original rationale for the offences and how the interpretation and usage of the legislative provisions has evolved with the system of communication and distribution.


conflict resolution represent a cultural challenge to the attitudes and assumptions that dominate prison governance and dynamics. The tension between the paradigms of current penal practice and restorative justice is carefully examined. It is stressed that prisons should not expect too much from restorative justice. Properly done it is demanding of staff time. Thus, restorative responses require much greater support for both offenders and victims than is given by the current system. Any restorative approach highlights deep human needs. Making a commitment to the establishment of a restorative spirit the prison also commits itself to empowering prisoners to create legitimate ways of getting their basic human needs met. It is emphasised that prisons are complex institutions. Inevitably, there are aspects of prisons that welcome restorative justice, and others that stand in opposition to it. The authors distinguish two prisons -restorative and punitive -in the same place, or more accurately, they find that these two images coexist in every prison in England and Wales. The obstacles that traditional prison culture can put in the way of the proper development of a restorative ethos are identified and relevant conclusions and recommendations are drawn. A model of a fully restorative prison is developed. Guidance for criminal justice agencies is offered. All findings are illustrated with useful diagrams, comparative tables, case studies etc. A Glossary of Terms used in the book helps the reading process. The book will be of interest to a wide range of prison and restorative justice practitioners as well as to magistrates, police and probation officers who deal with crime prevention, reparation, rehabilitation and reintegration. It will be a very helpful tool to those who are planning the way ahead towards a restorative prison. Dobrinka Chankova, Associate Professor, South-West University, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria


Perhaps for the first time in history, a single statistical measure is now dictating the entirety of UK government policy. The 'basic reproduction number', R0 value for Covid-19 is more directly determining economic and social policy than has ever the inflation rate, interest rate, or exchange rate. It is encouraging to see political policy for once 'rational' but disappointing it took a pandemic to make it so. However, is R0 an appropriate and significant measure? Like many mathematics/statistical parameters, R0 is relatively easy to explain, more complicated to understand (even graphically), and very difficult to calculate, or use for modelling. Given its significance for all our lives, it is important to understand a little of its background. This article seeks to explain the issues in a non-technical way, relegating all equations (used sparingly) to appendices.


The multiple repeat liftable development apparatus is disclosed. Multiple repeat liftable development unit of the present invention, in the power generator to convert the flow energy of the fluid to produce electric power, it is arranged in the fluid the first reciprocating member reciprocates by an increase due to the fluid, and strongly or flow energy .; First second reciprocating member that reciprocates by a reciprocating member and is spaced apart and arranged in the fluid increases due to the fluid, and a powerful flow or energy; A first conversion unit for connection to the first reciprocating unit is converted to reciprocating rotational motion; A second conversion unit that interfaces with the second reciprocating member is converted to reciprocating rotational motion; A first conversion unit and a main power shaft for rotation movement by the rotational motion of the second transformation unit; And the power state comprises a power generation unit to generate electricity by receiving the rotation shaft, the main power shaft rotational motion is characterized by comprising not transmitted to the first conversion unit and the second conversion unit. According to the present invention, the first reciprocating member and the second round trip to rotate with the member first reciprocating member and the second total movement length of the swing member to transfer the kinetic energy of the reciprocating first deflecting member and the second side deflecting member by reduction in size in the energy transfer interval, the vibration in accordance with the energy loss caused by friction and thus with the fluid flow, it is possible to provide a multiple repeat liftable development unit consisting minimized.


In this paper multiple classifiers are used for automatic plant recognition based on the shape of leaf features which are extracted from the leaf images using different herbal plants. Four different classifiers have been used namely SVM, KNN, Random Forest, and Logistic regression. Shape feature is considered as an important feature among all other features like- color, texture, vein structure, etc. as a leaf is available throughout the year and leaf shape contains more features to extract. Geometric shape features that are calculated as leaf's length, width, area, perimeter, area of leaf enclosed in a rectangle, percentage of leaf in the rectangle, calculated pixels of leaf in four different quadrants are extracted during feature extraction. Among all cases, LR (Logistic regression) performed best in 7 cases while RF performed in 5 cases. SVM and LR model classifiers performed best with 95% accuracy for feature 6. KNN and RF model classifiers performed best with 90% and 93% accuracy respectively for feature 3.


We study a situation where a swarm of wheeled robots, the footbots, is deployed in an indoor environment to solve a foraging problem, i.e., they need to go back and forth between a source and a target location. For the navigation between the two locations, they are assisted by a swarm of flying robots that can attach to the ceiling, the eye-bots. The eye-bots are deployed beforehand and form a grid on the ceiling between source and target. From their position on the ceiling they give directional instructions to the foot-bots on the ground. Since the topology of the terrain is different on the ceiling and on the ground, eye-bots cannot derive the instructions to give based on their own sensor feedback (e.g., distance scanner, or infrared communication between eye-bots). Instead, we use an iterative solution whereby eye-bots give instructions to foot-bots and then observe the behavior and feedback of footbots to adapt the instructions they give. Through this adaptive process, the heterogeneous system of eye-bots and footbots is able to cooperatively learn paths through the environment. Moreover, it is capable of finding shortest paths and spreading over multiple paths in case of congestion. We describe both a swarm intelligence inspired approach and an approach using reinforcement learning. The setup described here relates to existing work on the use of sensor networks to guide robots or persons through cluttered environments. Moreover, the proposed approach shows how stigmergic reinforcement learning can be applied in swarm robotic systems.


A methodology has been offered – from case studies of sealed fire areas – y which it becomes possible to identify the origin of the fires, whether from endogenous heating or mainly from exogenous origin, like contact fires. In case of the former, it becomes possible to identify the most important mining parameter(s) causing the eruption of the fire.
 The method developed is based on fire risk evaluation of extrinsic mining parameters.


In the case of 300.00 kg/ha total N supply,the influences of different ratios of base tiller fertilizer to panicle granule fertilizer on the panicle traits of keng rice(Oryza sativa spp.japonica) were investigated.The results indicated that,when the nitrogen ratio of base tiller fertilizer to panicle fertilizer was 6∶4,1 000-grain weight and full grain number in the primary or secondary branches were the largest,and the quality of superior and inferior grains were greater than other treatments.Besides,the total grain number per panicle had a significantly positive correlation with the numbers of primary and secondary branches and grains,but had a significantly negative correlation with the grain number and seed setting rate of secondary branch.The filled grain number per panicle was positively correlated with the filled grain number(very significant),grain number and spikelet number(significant) of primary branch.The seed setting rate per panicle was negatively related with the number of primary and secondary branches and the spikelet number of secondary branch,but had a positive correlation with the seed setting rate of primary and secondary branches.The spike-type index had a significantly negative relation with the panicle number per plant and a significantly positive relation with the grain number per panicle.The ripening grain density was negatively correlated with the spike grain number.


Abstract A financial evaluation of the effectiveness of chronic disease health management programs would ideally take into account the health care costs of managed chronic member populations compared against the health care costs of comparable nonmanaged chronic member populations. This paper considers one approach when a comparison chronic member population is not readily available. The approach uses a nonmanaged nonchronic member population as the comparison group, applying a claims normalization methodology to the medical claims costs of the chronic and nonchronic populations. The normalization process includes stratification by demographic and risk factors. The resulting savings factors are then modified to identify expected savings for single-employer groups. The analysis develops savings factors at the book-of-business level, which are then applied to groups to estimate the savings at the group level. Separate savings factors are developed by age and sex, condition, and duration from initial chronic...


The novel amphiprotic highly branched polyester nanoparticles (HBPN) were prepared by a copolymerization(condensation) of pentaerythritol and phthalic anhydride and studied by laser light scattering (LLS) in both of N,N-dimethylformamide(DMF)and buffer solution (pH=12).The results show that the size of HBPN can be controlled basically by the copolymerization time;HBPN is monomolecular dispersion in DMF,unsoluble in water,but can be dissolved and bears negative charges on surface in alkaline solution;a little amount of HBPN aggregated still in pH=12 buffer solution.


We propose an intra-node arrayed optical amplifier (AOA) to improve the OSNR of received signals by reducing the insertion loss of multi-degree ROADM nodes. Our AOA shares a pump laser between several EDFAs with the aim of reducing the module size and manufacturing cost compared with the size and cost when only arraying discrete EDFA modules. We confirmed the feasibility of our fabricated AOA experimentally. The experimental results show that the pump power was properly distributed to each EDFA and the OSNR of the received signals was successfully improved for 128-Gbit/s PDM-QPSK signal transmission systems.


Cathode materials that have been synthesized by reduction of l i thium-manganese-oxide and manganese-oxide precursors with hydrogen at 300 to 350~ and with carbon at 600~ have been evaluated in rechargeable l i thium cells. The cathodes which initially have a composition close to LiMnO2 contain structures related to the lithiated-spinel phase Li2[Mn2104 and/or orthorhombic LiMnQ. The orthorhombic L iMnQ component transforms gradually to a spinel structure on cycling. These cathodes are significantly more tolerant to repeated li thium insertion and extraction, when cycled over both the 4 and 3 V regions, than a standard Li~[Mn2]Q spinel electrode (0 < x < 2). "Rocking-chair" cells, with intercalation electrodes as both cathode and anode, are being developed for commercial rechargeable l i thium battery applications. Because these cells do not contain metallic lithium, they are far safer than conventional l i thium cells. On the first charge cycle, l i thium ions are extracted from the cathode and inserted into the anode; cathode materials which can be prepared chemically in the discharged state, such as LiC%Nil yO2 (0 y 1) and Li[Mn~]O4 are therefore required for this type of cell. 14 Carbon is an attractive anode material that can be used as a host for accommodating li thium in rocking-chair cells; it provides high capacity, good reversibility, and a low voltage (<1 V) vs. l i thium over a wide compositional range Li~CG (0 x -< 1). 3'6 Some lithium is, however, always irreversibly consumed by a carbon anode on the first charge cycle. To compensate for the li thium that is not released from the anode (which can account for at least 20% of the anode capacity), an excess of discharged cathode is initially required when cells are assembled. This has the disadvantage of reducing the overall energy density of the cell. Alternatively, additional l i thium may be incorporated within the cathode structure to yield an "over-discharged" state which is possible, for example, with a Lix[Mn2104 spinel cathode. 7 Lix[Mn2]O4 operates at approximately 4 V vs. l i thium over the range 0 < x -< 1 and has a theoretical capacity of 154 mAh/g based on the mass of the fully oxidized electrode (MnQ). In practice, a rechargeable cathode capacity of approximately 120 to 130 mAh/g can be achieved from Li~[Mn2]Q cathodes at moderate current rates? ~ Li~ [Mn2104 is therefore, in principle, an attractive cathode * Electrochemical Society Active Member. Present address: Chemical Technology Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439. for C/Li~[Mn2]O4 rocking-chair cells. Moreover, surplus li thium can be introduced into the Li~[Mn2]Q structure over the range 1 -< x -< 2 to balance the capacity loss at the carbon anode on the first cycle. Unfortunately, the maximum benefit of the surplus capacity in the Lix[Mn2]O4 cathode cannot be fully utilized in a rocking-chair cell, first, because the Lix [Mn2]Q electrode operates at a significantly reduced voltage over the compositional range 1 -x -< 2 and, second, because the Lix[Mn2]Q electrode is structurally unstable over this range which leads to a rapid loss of electrode capacity on cycling. Tarascon et al. 7 have demonstrated the use of LiI as a lithiating agent for the preparation of Lil+x[Mn2]Q spinel electrodes. Although this technique can be carried out in air, it is expensive to apply on an industrial scale. A simple and cheap processing route for synthesizing l i thium-manganese-oxide cathodes with an excess li thium capacity is therefore required. Li~+x[Mn2]O4 materials cannot be synthesized directly in air because of the tendency of the manganese ions to oxidize and to form compounds in the Li20 9 yMnO2 system, for example, the rock salt phase Li2MnQ (y = 1) and the Li20 . yMnO2 spinels (2.5 -< y --4.0). In this paper we describe alternative methods for the chemical synthesis of l i thium cathodes in the "over-discharged" state with structures characteristic of spinel-related and orthorhombic LiMnO2 materials, and we examine their electrochemical properties in room temperature li thium cells.


When Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Safar e Ghandehar/Kandahar was screened at London's Institute for Contemporary Arts in Autumn 2001 it drew sell-out audiences, as it did in other European and North American cities. The film's success, partly due to its timely release, also reflects an enthusiasm internationally for Iranian films which has been gathering momentum in recent years. This essay focuses on one characteristic of 'New Iranian Cinema' which has evidently intrigued both critics and audiences, namely the foregrounding of a certain type of ambiguous, epiphanic image. We attempt to explore these images, which we have chosen very simply to call 'open images". One might read these images directly in terms of the political and cultural climate of the Islamic Republic which engendered them, as part of the broader ongoing critical debate on the relationship of these films to contemporary Iranian social reality Our intention, however, is primarily to draw structural and aesthetic comparisons across different national cinemas, to show, among other things, how a repressed political dimension returns within the ostensibly apolitical aesthetic form of the open image. The term "image' encompasses shot, frame and scene, and includes sound components open images may deploy any of these elements. Open images are not necessarily extraordinary images, they often belong to the order of the everyday. While watching a film one may meet them with some resistance yet they have the property of producing virtual after-images in the mind. Although their effects are ambiguous, the images exhibit identifiable signs and techniques, and this essay provides a classification of the open image drawing on


In order to implement the real time control of the Rail-Guided Vehicles systems,a deadlock control modeling method via Dual Colored Timed Petri Nets was proposed.Moreover,the scheduling strategy for the RGVs system based on shortest path method was addressed to improve the efficiency of storage and retrieval.Then,the critical state in deadlock free was identified and FCFS policy was applied to solve it.Finally,experimental results verified the effectiveness of the policies.


A voluminous body of research has reported the establishment of efficient protocols for sugarcane multiplication through tissue culture. However, a reliable and reproducible in vitro plant production system remains obscured. Furthermore, validation of virus free nature of in vitro plants using molecular techniques is the most challenging one. Considering the need for high yielding cultivars due to land and constraints, this study was devised for mass multiplication of high yielding elite cultivars of sugarcane viz. HSF-240, YT-55 and YT-53. Use of 100% Clorox for surface sterilization of apical and lateral buds, and of cefotaxime (500 mg L -1 ) for controlling bacterial contaminants revealed complete sterilization of field grown explants. Culture initiation was dependent upon plant growth regulators (PGRs), genotype and type of explants. The highest shoot initiation frequency of 96% was obtained with combination of four plant growth regulators (0.1 mg L -1


For the past decades, environment and its relevant issues are becoming the greatest concern of most countries. Public opinion becomes the interest of most policy makers and sociologist reformist. Improved understanding of public perceptions about global warming and other environmental issues can contribute to informing scientific and policy discussions. The aim of this study is to assess the (1) the extent of concern on the major environmental issues of the city (2) the preference between environmental protection and energy production, and (3) to compare the extent of concern of the public according to their respective district.  A total of 1151 respondents, ages 18 and above was derived using the systematic sampling at 95% confidence interval, and proportionate sampling distribution to ensure representativeness with the population of the city. The results suggest that Dabawenyos are greatly worried about global warming (92%), deforestation and urban flooding (88%), and energy crisis are considered as the most alarming environmental problem in the city. Moreover, they are more favorable to environmentally-friendly solutions in addressing the city's energy problem, and the government should put greater emphasis on the development of renewable energy (96%). The degree of concerns and emphasis on environmental protection of the community can be directly equated to the traumatic environmental phenomena that had happened in the city. Keywords: Ecology and Conservation, environmental issues, renewable energy, poll survey, Philippines


Thank you for your most-beautiful words and for this wonderful occasion. It is an unequalled honour, for which I am deeply grateful – especially to my fellow sociologists. Even though I call myself not a sociologist but a "social-cultural anthropologist," my relationship with Sociology is a long and cordial one. It began at university when I took the course "Introduction to Anthropology," only to learn that much of the material had been written by sociologists. For the rest of my career I have maintained a certain confusion about the division of labour between these two fields of investigation of human life. Today you confirm their resemblance, acknowledging the kinship relation between them. In a word, you have adopted me, and it's good: I feel at home. If you do me this great honour, I should thank you in your own language. I apologize for the unavoidable mistakes and for the fact that this speech is given in a simpler language – a language that was learned not primarily from books, but in a village, talking with people. Because my audience today is mixed, I thought that rather than presenting a summary of my work in Romania, I would offer something more personal, about this work's "infrastructure" in my relations here. Instead of giving a new interpretation of some material, I would like to present a brief homage to a few people in Romania who supported the career that I built here and without whom I couldn't have advanced much in my projects. Because the list is very long, I will mention only a few names. You will see that my talk also concerns the methods of ethnography.


The article represents the review about topography and structure of the fortified settlements of the Cheptsa river basin. They have an essential value for historical and cultural reconstructions and strengthen the researchers' arguments in studying the processes of hail formation. The latest archeological materials confirm the main conclusions and supplement them with new observations.


In the elderly in comparison with other age groups, the risk of poisoning is greater because of using many drugs, of accidents and of suicidal attempts. By some data, 11.4% of the elderly is poisoned accidentally and 2.8% in suicidal attempts. During 5 years in the Dept. of Internal Med., Rebro, Zagreb, we treated 0.2% of poisonned patients aged 65 or more and 0.6% younger than 65. In out Intensive Care Unit, 2.41% of all patients were treated because of poisoning, 76.6% of them younger than 65 and 23.7% 65 and older. In following we are presenting 4 cases of acute poisoning in the elderly, all of them admitted in comatouse states of 4^th degree, treated successfully. 1) FB, m, 68 was poisonned by 4mg of medigoxin and 400ij of Lente insulin ; 2) GJ, m, 80, have been taking 500mg of morphine orraly from an ampoule 40 years old ; 3) FK, m, 80, ingested 1dl of 2, 4-D, and with serum 2, 4-D level of 177mg/100ml ; 4) DK, m, 68, have been taking 1.5L of cognac, and have had serum ethanol level of 7.2g/L, and 0.8g/L at the end of the procedure. In conclusion: there is no age limit for using any of the therapeutic procedures in the treatment of acute poisonings.


In the Landau--de Gennes theory, a nematic liquid crystal is described by a tensor order parameter, ${\bf Q}$, which, at each point of the region $\Omega$ occupied by the system, is a symmetric, traceless $3 \times 3$ matrix. The free-energy density $\psi$ of nematic liquid crystals is expanded into powers of the components ${\bf Q}_{ij}$ of ${\bf Q}$ and ${\bf Q}_{ij,k}$ of its gradient $\nabla {\bf Q}$, and can be decomposed in the sum $\psi = \psi_B + \psi_E$ of the bulk part $\psi_B({\bf Q})$ and the elastic part $\psi_E({\bf Q}, \nabla {\bf Q})$. A most common expression for $\psi_E$ is given by the four-constant approximation $\psi_E({\bf Q},\nabla {\bf Q}) = L_1 {\bf Q}_{ij,j}{\bf Q}_{ik,k} + L_2 {\bf Q}_{ik,j}{\bf Q}_{ij,k} + L_3 {\bf Q}_{ij,k}{\bf Q}_{ij,k} + L_4 {\bf Q}_{lk}{\bf Q}_{ij,l}{\bf Q}_{ij,k} $ [J. M. Ball, The Mathematics of Liquid Crystals, Cambridge Centre for Analysis short course, 2012, https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/ball/teaching.shtml, H. Mori, E. C. Gartland, Jr., J. R. Kelly, a...


Short films are regarded as an alternative form of artistic creation, and they express, in a few minutes, a whole gamma of different emotions oriented to impact the audience and communicate a story. In this paper, we exploit a multi-modal sentiment analysis approach to extract emotions in short films, based on the film criticism expressed through social comments from the video-sharing platform YouTube. We go beyond the traditional polarity detection (i.e., positive/negative), and extract, for each analyzed film, four opposing pairs of primary emotions: joy-sadness, anger-fear, trust-disgust, and anticipation-surprise. We found that YouTube comments are a valuable source of information for automatic emotion detection when compared to human analysis elicited via crowdsourcing.


The study of grapevine phenological traits such as flowering and ripening time has become increasingly important in the past few years. With regard to climate change, cultivars with delayed flowering and ripening characteristics may be more advantageous in viticulture. However, genetic markers for these traits applicable for marker-assisted breeding are sparse. Even though homologs of genes that control flowering time have already been identified and characterized in model plants, our overall knowledge about which genetic factors are involved in the complex control of flowering time in Vitis remains very limited. A mapping population consisting of 150 F1 individuals derived from the cross of the early-flowering genotype 'Calardis Musque' and late-flowering cultivar 'Villard Blanc' was used for quantitative trait locus (QTL) detection of the flowering-time trait. For this purpose, vines were phenotyped in 11 seasons for the date of full bloom. QTL analysis led to the identification of several genomic regions, and epistatic effects between the identified loci were observed. The QTLs could be verified in a large extended population of 'Calardis Musque' × 'Villard Blanc'.


Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) are important for the well-being of rural communities because their use is a viable alternative for the sustainability of forest management and conservation. The purpose of this research is to identify the main non-timber forest products (NTFPs) of plant origin in five communities of Zapotillo canton, Loja province, in order to know the traditional uses and the possible generational loss of knowledge of use, through the application of semi-structured surveys to the inhabitants of the five communities, finding out about the knowledge and use of plants that provide NTFPs. We worked in 5 communities in the canton (Miraflores, Tronco quemado, Valle hermoso, Jaguay Grande and Ceiba Grande). The number of informants per community was structured according to the population of each community, interviewing 255 people, including men and women, and stratified into age groups that allow us to know the species and their vegetative parts used as NTFPs.
The use of 87 species was reported, within 82 genera and 61 families, as well: 31 trees, 38 shrubs and 18 herbs. In terms of age groups, older adults know more about the use of species, due to their relationship with the forest. The best-known categories of NTFPs are: human medicine, fodder, and food and beverages. In Zapotillo's forests, there are NTFPs that the local population knows about their ancestral use, but their use is occasional, which causes a generational loss of knowledge. Of the species identified as NTFPs, the vegetative parts used basically comprise: the root, stem, leaves, flowers, branches, fruits, bark and sometimes the entire plant. The species are managed directly and most grow in forests and open areas. The frequency of exploitation is moderately frequent; the perception of abundance of the plants is average and they are collected in medium quantity. The inhabitants of the community's state that they collect only the useful part of the plant, mostly for family consumption, rarely for commercialization; the collection is done in dry season because of the ease of access to the ecosystem where the species grow.
The knowledge possessed by men and women is similar in the communities studied in Zapotillo canton. Based on the results of traditional uses, frequency of use, and SWOT analysis, technical guidelines were developed to promote NTFP management in the five communities of Zapotillo canton. Two programs are proposed: The second program: Promotion of the use of potential NTFPs through environmentally friendly practices.


The internal oxide scale of twelve superheater and reheater tubes were tested which were serviced for 30,000~120,000 hours in thermal power plants. The oxide scale was formed in three layers. The Cr-rich area was observed beneath the original metal surface. The hematite (Fe₂O₃) phase was formed on the outer surface. The intermediate layer was magnetite (Fe₃O₄). The thickness of Cr-rich layer was about half of the total scale. All layers grew during the operation hour of the plant. The thickness of thickest scale was 0.2㎜ in superheater tubes. This can increase the tube metal temperature about 7℃ more than initial state. 7℃ tube metal temperature can reduce tube life about 30%, but the boiler tube's design margin is big enough therefore it has been analyzed that it would not effect on the life span.


The three-dimensional structure of a semiconductor device and its manufacturing method are provided. Method of manufacturing a three-dimensional semiconductor device are stacked in turn on the cell array region and a contact region preparing the substrate, on the substrate, the sacrificial film pattern separated horizontally by the lower isolation region and a sacrificial layer pattern, including comprising: forming a thin film structure including a sacrificial layer to form an opening that penetrates the thin film structure to expose the lower isolation region of the cell array region, the lower isolation region crossing a cell array region and a contact region, an opening is It is limited to the formation in the cell array region. Three-dimensional structure, the ground select line, pre-separation pattern


We investigated how coherent interfaces, between face centered cubic (fcc)/hexagonal close packed (hcp) systems, affect large strain deformation and fracture modes in hcp zircaloy aggregates with fcc hydrides. We derived 36 unique transformations related to coherent interfaces between fcc and hcp systems. We then used these orientation relations (ORs) with a dislocation-density crystalline plasticity formulation, a nonlinear finite-element, and a fracture approach that account for crack nucleation and propagation. We investigated how these ORs affect crack nucleation and propagation, dislocation density and inelastic slip evolution, stress accumulation, lattice rotation, and adiabatic heating. The predictions indicate that the physical representation of ORs affects local deformation and fracture behavior and are, therefore, essential for the accurate predictions of behavior at different physical scales in heterogeneous crystalline systems.


In the present research, the high pressure homogenization (HPH) technology was applied to prepare ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) nanosuspension. The aim of developing this new UDCA formulation was to enhance its bioavailability. The physicochemical characterization of UDCA nanosuspension was performed through particle size and Zeta potential measurements, differential scaning calorimetry (DSC) analysis, x-ray diffraction (XRD) measurements, and drug solubility and dissolution determinations. The mean particle size of UDCA nanosuspension was 297.5 nm with a polydispersity index of 0.162. Its particle size and Zeta potential did not show essential changes before and after water removal. The DSC curve of bulk UDCA showed a sharp endothermic peak at 207.82°C indicating the melting point. The XRD profile of dried powder of UDCA nanosuspension showed 2 intense peaks at 11.92° and 21.56°, respectively, indicating difference from the crystal characteristics of bulk UDCA. Its highest solubility and dissolution rate were 278.6 µg/mL and 98.77%, respectively. The feasibility of preparing nanosuspension by HPH technology was testified through successful preparation of UDCA nanosuspension.


As an important electromagnetic wave signal receiving and transmitting equipment, antenna reflector is widely used in radar, communication and astronomical observation and other fields. The positional accuracy of the sub-reflector of a large aperture radio telescope is a key indicator that affects the receiving performance. This paper briefly expounds the principles and characteristics of various position measurement methods, and summarizes the main advantages and limitations of various technical solutions, providing a reference for the exploration and innovation of position and attitude measurement methods for radio telescope sub-reflectors.


ABSTRACT Can we improve upon an income-driven approach for assisting poor single mothers? This study evaluates the No Limits program (Illinois) by applying Amatya Sen's capabilities approach, which implies that the main purpose of welfare programs for single mothers should be to improve their capability to increase their opportunities beyond income. Using qualitative interviews with 16 single mothers who are participants of the program, this study investigates if and how No Limits provides participants with opportunities and resources to improve capabilities beyond income. Implications for welfare programs for single mothers suggested.


This paper analyzed a single phase nine level cascaded h-bridge multilevel inverter (CHMLI) topology in which requires lesser number of components and easier to control if compared to other methods. The inverter of different voltage levels (up to 9-Levels) are designed and simulated using MATLAB Simulink. A Level Shifted Multi-Carrier PWM control scheme is used to control the operation of the power switches for CHMLI topology. The results are compared in terms of THD.  The value of THD is found to be reduced as the number of voltage level of CHMLI is increased.


Leaf Area Index (LAI) is an essential parameter for many process-based ecological and climate models. A large number of LAI products at local, regional, continental, or global scales have been derived from different remotely sensed data. However, due to the lack of the foliage clumping index, most LAI products can only provide the effective LAI (LAIe), which cannot fully satisfy the requirements of ecological and land surface models. In this study, based on the new 500 m resolution foliage clumping index, a new true LAI at 500 m resolution in 8-day intervals from 2003 to 2008 over China is retrieved from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data. The temporal and spatial characteristics of the new LAI over China are analyzed. The results show that the true LAI and LAIe have similar spatial distribution patterns over China mainly depending on vegetation types. Forests have the maximum LAI larger than 6 averaged over the country in July, followed by shrubs with a mean LAI of 2.45 in July, and croplands and grasslands with the values of 1.5 and 1.0, respectively. Furthermore, the new LAI has been validated using the field measurements in two forest and two grassland areas in China through an upscaling process using Landsat5-TM images. Compared with MOD15A2 LAI, the new LAI shows much stronger correlation with the reference TM LAI in these validation areas.


Activityonnode network is one of the network planning techniques which are used most widely.Seeking logical loop and layout of the nodes and arrows in network are difficult in network CAD system,this paper puts forward detailed algorithm for layout according to grading and layering method.The software automatic plotting activityonnode network is developed,and the diagram plotted by it has clear logical relations,rational layout and simple appearance.


The propagation of light beams originating from synthetic 'Type Ia' supernovae, through an inhomogeneous universe with simplified dynamics, is simulated using a Monte-Carlo Ray-Tracing method. The a ...


The success of learning can be seen in terms of processes and results. Data on student learning outcomes at the beginning of the semester founded that only 13% of class 1E students had reached the KKM. One of the important components in the learning process is the learning strategy. The Random Text Active Learning Strategy, because the random text strategy makes students remember the surahs and text of hadits .The Random Text Active Learning Strategy increases the activeness and learning outcomes of grade 1E students on Hadith subject at KMI Darussalam Gontor Islamic Boarding School. The aim of this study are: 1) to increase in a learning activity of class 1E  in Hadith material through the Random Text Active Learning Strategy. 2) to the improvement of student learning outcomes 0f class 1E in Hadith material through the Random Text Active Learning Strategy. This research is a Classroom Action Research (CAR) with Kemmis and Mc Taggart model. methods to data collection used tests and observations. The subject of this research is class 1E KMI as 39 students. Classroom action research was carried out in two cycles consisting of planning, implementation, observation, and reflection. The results of this study are: 1) The implementation of Random Text Active Learning Strategy can increase the student's learning activity in the Hadith subject for class 1E at KMI Darussalam Gontor Islamic Boarding School, reached 59% or 34 students in the first cycle and increased by 84% or 39 students. While the increase from the first cycle to the second cycle reached 25%. 2) The Random Text Active Learning Strategy is proven to be effective to increase student learning outcomes, reaching 26 students or 67% in the first cycle and increasing to 34 students or 87% in the second cycle.


A review is given of experimental and theoretical work in the last few years which yields information about states in the gap in non-crystalline semiconductors. The discussion is limited to hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si-H) and to the chalcogenides including selenium. Among issues treated are: the evidence for a mobility edge in the conduction and valence bands of a-Si-H; the process of hole transport; the Hall effect and thermopower, and evidence for and against a polaron hypothesis; the deep states, dangling bonds and vacancy-type defects. In chalcogenides, again the polaron hypothesis is discussed, and also the valence-alternation pairs and the nature of the luminescence centres, whether they are VAPS or IVAPS.


Infrared spectroscopy has been used to show that irradiation of solid N2 and N2-rich ices with 0.8 MeV protons produces the N3 (azide) radical. In contrast, no N3 was observed after solid N2 and N2-rich ices were photolyzed by far-UV photons. Isotopic substitution experiments support the N3 identification, as does an analysis of the reactions occurring in the ices. This is the first documented difference in reaction products between the radiation chemistry and photochemistry of a nonpolar astronomical ice analog. We suggest that this difference in reaction chemistries could be used to identify ion-irradiated ices on interstellar grains and in the outer solar system. Further, N3 might be used as a tracer of solid-phase interstellar N2, which is expected to exist in dark, molecular clouds but is difficult to observe directly. Although the absolute strength of the N3 band in solid N2 is unknown, we estimate that it is at least 100 times greater than that of the fundamental vibration of N2.


[Objective]To assess the therapeutic efficacy of Qingyi decoction(QYD)and the influence of QYD on IL-8 and IL-10 in patients with severe acute pancreatitis(SAP).[Methods] Patients with SAP were randomly allocated into comprehensive therapy(CT) group and CT plus QYD group.CT group was given conventional western medicine and gastrointestinal decompression and so on.Then IL-8 and IL-10 were tested in 24 h,at the second and the forth day after the attack.The marks of APACHE-Ⅱ and the level of serum amyenzyme,albumin and triglyceride at the forth and the eighth day after the attack were given.Controls were obtained from MAP.[Results]The levels of IL-8,IL-10 in SAP group were significantly higher than those in MAP(P0.05);The levels of IL-8,IL-10 in QYD group were lower than those in CT group at the se-cond and the forth day after the attack significantly(P0.05).The level of serum triglyceride and the marks of APACHE-Ⅱ in QYD group were lower than those in CT group(P0.05).[Conclusion]The condition of system inflammatory response syndrome in SAP patients was serious.The comprehensive therapy of western medicine plus QYD can decrease the marks of APACHE-Ⅱ significantly.The possible mechanism may lie in inhibition of the production and release of IL-8 and IL-10.


Our purpose was to identify the self-reported strengths and concerns of 267 obese youths and their caregivers. Measures included a demographic questionnaire and an open-ended questionnaire whereby youth and caregivers were asked to list their top 3 strengths and concerns. Using qualitative methods, themes were deducted for both youth and caregiver strengths and concerns. Youth reported "physical activity" and "school" as a strength, and "weight" as a concern. Caregivers reported "health" and "weight" as their most prevalent concern, whereas "child behavior, character, or outlook" and "family" were strengths. Results were further compared by gender and race. Understanding the self-reported strengths and concerns of obese youth and caregivers can inform future family-based treatment.


Type 2 Diabetes Melitus is a metabolic disorder that is marked by the rise in blood sugar due to a decrease in insulin secretation by pancreatic beta cells and insulin function ordisorders (insulin resistance). Risk factors of diabetes mellitus type 2, namely age, gender, obesity, hypertension, genetics, diet, smoking, alcohol, lack of activity. Patients with Diabetes Melitus are required to implement a complex management disease such as nutritional therapy, physical exercise, glucose controlling, and pharmalogical therapy. Diabetes melitus can cause complications and symptoms that interferes activities, the implications of Diabetes Melitus be a stressor that cause stress, stressor can be controlled by coping mechanism. Mechanism coping is an active process in which the use of resources from the private and develop new behavior that aims to grow the strength of an individual, even an emergency reduce the impact of stress in life, disability incurred. Coping mechanism is adaptive and maladaptive. This aims study to explore coping strategies of patients with type 2 diabetes melitus in internal medice polyclinic Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, Jakarta. This study used quantitative description. Research result shows that patient who use adaptive coping 38 people (73%), whereas the use coping maladaptive 14 people (27%), then it can be concluded that diabetes mellitus patients more coping mechanisme malaadaptive.


MF01/PCO2 Plus Postage. Adult Basic Education; *Basic Skills; *Comparative Analysis; Computer Assisted Instruction; *Computer Managed Instruction; *Conventional Instruction; Correctional Education; Educational Research; Individualized Instruction; Language Arts; Males; Mathematics Instruction; Pacing; *Prisoners; *Program Evaluation; Reading Ability; Reading Comprehension; Reading Instruction; Teaching Methods To evaluate the relative effectiveness of traditional versus computer managed instruction (CMI) basic skills programs for incarcerates adults, 359 male inmates from three traditional self-paced and three PLATO/CMI programs were given pretests in the Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE) and the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale (TSCS). Following three months of basic skills instruction, 47% of the original sample were administered TABE and TSCS posttests. Results showed significant gains for all students in language, math, and reading, with the greatest gains in language and the least in reading comprehension. Problems in administering and scoring the self-concept scale invalidated that test's results. Findings failed to indicate a way of using information on student age, ethnicity, type of prison sentence, and institution's security level to predict which students would gain the most from either classroom or CMI instruction. (MM) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ***********************************************************************


In this paper, we propose an end-to-end self-supervised feature representation network for imitation learning. The proposed network incorporates a novel multi-level spatial attention module to amplify the relevant and suppress the irrelevant information while learning task-specific feature embeddings. The multi-level attention module takes multiple intermediate feature maps of the input image at different stages of the CNN pipeline and results a 2D matrix of compatibility scores for each feature map with respect to the given task. The weighted combination of the feature vectors with the scores estimated from attention modules leads to a more task specific feature representation of the input images. We thus name the proposed network as SMAK-Net, abbreviated from Self-supervised Multi-level spatial Attention Knowledge representation Network. We have trained this network using a metric learning loss which aims to decrease the distance between the feature representations of simultaneous frames from multiple view points and increases the distance between the neighboring frames of the same view point. The experiments are performed on the publicly available Multi-View pouring dataset [1]. The outputs of the attention module are demonstrated to highlight the task specific objects while suppressing the rest of the background in the input image. The proposed method is validated by qualitative and quantitative comparisons with the state-of-the art technique TCN [1] along with intensive ablation studies. This method is shown to significantly outperform TCN by 6.5% in the temporal alignment error metric while reducing the total number of training steps by 155K.


The present invention relates to methods of screening for inhibitors of M. tuberculosis, assays for use in such methods, as wells as methods and compositions for treating or preventing M. tuberculosis infection comprising inhibitors of M tuberculosis identified by the methods and assays of the present invention.


In order to solve the problems of traditional harmony search in complex function multiobjective optimization, such as low precision, slow convergence, and easy to fall into local optimum, this article proposes a multiobjective optimization harmony search parallel algorithm based on cloud computing. First, according to the characteristics that the traditional harmony search algorithm uses a single harmony library for storing and processing the memory harmony, and it is divided into multiple harmony sublibraries according to different harmony. At the same time, the roulette selection and dynamic trade-off factor strategies are used for the dynamic setting of harmony memory library value-taking probability, pitch fine-tuning probability, pitch fine-tuning bandwidth, and other parameters which the traditional harmony search algorithm mainly relies on. Then, MapReduce programming model is used to establish Map and Reduce core parallel computing functions, to construct the parallel algorithm of dynamic parameter harmony search based on cloud computing. Finally, the algorithm optimization comparison test is conducted on Hadoop platform and compared with several existing optimal harmony search algorithms, the searching precision of this algorithm is improved by eight orders of magnitude, and the iteration number on the convergence speed is reduced by 6500 times, and the parallel achieves the linear acceleration ratio. Experimental results show that the optimization efficiency of this algorithm is higher than several existing optimal harmony search algorithms.


A 2-D visible physical model of horizontal well production was set up using the advanced electronically monitoring technology and flow testing tools to investigate the fluid flow in bottom water driving reservoirs during horizontal well production.The formation and development of water coning were visualized,and the effect of water coning on water breakthrough times and recovery ratios was studied.When horizontal section is short,the water coning is formed in a short time,the two shoulders of the coning are steep and the oil/water interface deforms greatly.When horizontal section is long,the water coning is formed in a long time,the two shoulders of the coning are gentle and distributed symmetrically.With the increasing of horizontal section length,the water breakthrough time delays,the water free recovery and the ultimate recovery increase.The increase of producing pressure shortens the production period before water breakthrough,and decreases both water free recovery and ultimate recovery.


In avian embryos at the gastrula stage, prospective mesodermal cells located in the cranial prim~ive streak are ingressing and moving from medial to lateral to form either a paired precardiogenic mesodermal area (early gastrula) or somitic paraxial mesodermalarea (lategastrula;Schoenwolfet aI., 1992;Garcia-Martinezand Schoenwo~,1993). Thus, cells from the cranial prim~ive streak at different stages have different fates and patterns of displacement during development. The factors controllingcell movement and fate during gastrulation and the timing and mechanisms of induction and differenliation of the mesodermalcells are poorly understood. In the present study we analyze the results of experimentsdesigned to elucidate mechanismsunderlyingthe establishmentof the pattern and differentiation of precardiogenicmesodermalcells_ We graft heterotopicallyand heterochronicallygroups of precardiogenicquail cells into chick host embryos, subsequently analyzing thedistribution andgene expression of these cells using immunocyochemistry and in situ hybridization.


PURPOSE
To describe a case of frosted branch angiitis secondary to herpes simplex virus type 2 infection that progressed to acute retinal necrosis.

METHODS
The medical records and clinical photographs were reviewed for a patient with frosted branch angiitis that progressed to acute retinal necrosis.

RESULTS
The patient rapidly developed acute retinal necrosis followed by rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. Polymerase chain reaction analysis of the vitreous was positive for herpes simplex virus type 2.

DISCUSSION
Frosted branch angiitis is a clinical sign that may represent active viral disease capable of progressing to acute retinal necrosis.


The thickness of collector is one of the factors that limit cut-off frequency in microwave bipolar transistors.APCVD is not applicable for thin epitaxial layer with abrupt concentration profile.In this paper,intrinsic silicon epitaxial layers were grown on N type(As doped) substrate by UHV/CVD,which were then characterized using SPR,AFM and DCXRD methods.SiGe HBT's based on the epitaxial layer exhibit excellent breakdown characteristics.


Market actors define the volatility in financial markets as a measure of risk. This study aims to investigate the volatility movements in the return series calculated on the closing values of the BIST 100 index between 01.Jan.2020-11.Feb.2021. In addition, the days of the week anomaly, the dates of public holiday, and COVID-19 pandemic effect were used as dummy variable in the econometric model. The findings showed that the EGARCH (3,3) model is to be the best performing model. Accordingly, Friday's anomaly, Public Holidays


In view of question and so on voice switchboard expensive resources and hardware conflict,The research has developed acomprehensive voice platform, This system for needs to use on the identical voice switchboard together a many kinds of differentvoice provision of service comprehensive software platform, Realization to in hardware switchboard logic seal,Enables the differentvoice service to monopolize a virtual switchboard respectively, Achieves in the structure the network distribution and the resourcessharing goal.


Cerebrovascular disease is one of the main causes of death in the developed countries. Several G‐protein coupled receptors, such as the Endothelin‐B receptor (ET‐B), are upregulated after a stroke. These receptors cause constriction in the blood vessels and reduce blood flow, causing further damage and reduced chances of recovery. Our group has previously shown that MEK/ERK1/2 inhibition greatly reduced the receptor upregulation and the cerebral damage. Extracellular ATP is a short‐range signal important in the regulation of both the blood flow and also in long term cellular modifications. One of the receptors for ATP, the P2X7 receptor, is of high interest, as it can be involved in apoptosis, proliferation, and ERK1/2 signaling. We hypothesized that ATP could be an important activator of MEK/ERK1/2 and contribute to the upregulation of contractile receptors. Ex vivo ET‐B receptor upregulation in basilar arteries (assessed by the specific agonist sarafotoxin 6c (S6c) in a myograph) can be induced by incubation of artery segments in DMEM media for 48 hours (organ culture). The changes are similar to those observed in vivo in experimental stroke. Surprisingly, adding apyrase (an ATP degrading enzyme) further increased the contraction induced by S6c and was nearly mimicked by the specific P2X7 antagonist Az10606120. The addition of a P2X7 agonist (10µM BzATP) during organ culture had little effect, indicating that the lower ATP concentrations are the important stimuli. In conclusion, ATP and P2X7 appear to be important in the upregulation of ET‐B receptors during organ culture and play a beneficial role because inhibiting them causes an increased upregulation of contractile ET‐B receptors.


Finding a photo on a mobile phone should be as easy as finding a phone number. Comparing the date of one calendar appointment to the due date of a task should be equally easy. And seeing where a set of friends are on a map should be as easy as checking the local weather. All of these are information tasks and all of them are migrating to an emerging class of mobile device we call smartphones. Currently, these types of tasks are restricted in their fluidity by separate applications and strong object typing. We propose ways of re-conceptualizing these constructs so that users can fluidly create, edit, manage, and share personal information. We are presenting TapGlance, a design proposal for how to support common Personal Information Management (PIM) on a smartphone. This paper presents extensions to our previous design work on TapGlance (to be presented at DIS 2008). TapGlance is a reworking of the entire smartphone user experience (UX). In the initial TapGlance work we focused on adapting the interface to the various levels of attention that a user had, presenting information in a feed style, and coupling all of that with a faceted search system. Our current work focuses on how tasks, tagging, and commands can be woven into the TapGlance UX. Our new design centers on methods for creating, organizing, and disseminating information. This information encompasses many different types, from text to photos to people. User interactions are consistent across information types and independent of origin and storage of the information. This TapGlance design proposal is the first step before we engage in prototyping and user evaluation.


As an aspect of the regional innovation system, the capacity of regional technical innovation is determining factor of region economy growth. The capacity of regional technical innovation is the interactive outcome of various regional innovational factors. This paper sets up evaluation indexes for four aspects with twenty-two variables selected from six provinces in Central China. The principal of factor analysis with SPSS is introduces. The method of factor analysis is applied to evaluation of regional technical innovation capacity. The process and result with the method of cluster analysis are illustrated in detail based on factor analysis. It can help us to compare different areas innovation activities and provide the scientific reference for adopting suitable regional technical innovation strategy.


Nanotechnology is a multidisciplinary field, which covers a vast and diverse array of devices derived from engineering, biology, physics and chemistry.1 Nanotechnology is the science of manipulating matter measured in the billionth of meters or nanometer, roughly the size of two or three atoms. The word nano is the greek word for dwarf.2 Nanomedicine is the process of diagnosing, treating, and preventing disease and traumatic injury, of relieving pain, and of preserving and improving human health, using molecular tools and molecular knowledge of the human body by using nanoscale-structured materials and nanodevices including the interaction of nanostructured materials with biological systems.' Nanodentistry will give a new visionary to comprehensive oral health care, as now trends 'of oral health have been changing to more preventive intervention than a curative & restorative procedure: MEDICAL NANOMATERIALS AND NANODEVICES CURRENTLYIN USE3 Currently used materials would include, Nanopores, Molecular Imprinting, Quantum Dots, Nanocrystals, Fullerenes, Nanotubes, Nanoshells, Magnetic Nanoprobes, Targeted Nanoparticles, Dendrimers, Radio-Controlled Biomolecules APPLICATIONS IN DENTISTRY: Development of nanodentistry will make possible the maintenance of near-perfect oral health through the use of nanomaterials; biotechnology, including tissue engineering; and nanorobotics.' Local Anesthesia: To induce oral anesthesia, dental professionals will instill a colloidal suspension containing millions of active analgesic micrometer-sized dental nanorobot "particles" on the patient's gingivae. After contacting the surface of the crown or mucosa, the ambulating nanorobots reach the dentin by migrating into the gingival sulcus and passing painlessly through the lamina propria or the 1to 3-l.lmthick layer of loose tissue atthe cementodentinal junction. On reaching the dentin, the nanorobots enter dentinal tubule holes that are 1 to 4 urn in diameter and proceed toward the pulp, guided by a combination of chemical gradients, temperature differentials and even positional navigation, all under the control of the onboard nanocomputer, as directed by the dentist. 5 ?


A new method of calibration signal implementation in power quality monitoring devices based on heterogeneous equivalence of similarity theory is proposed in the paper.Timing-shift similarity calculation between the sampling signal sequence of the monitoring device and the output signal sequence of standard source has been carried out so as to analyze calibration signal synchronization method and its composition.Output method of heterogeneous calibration signal has been considered in the case of the whole point sampling and random sampling of the monitoring device.In addition,the calibration software about power quality monitoring devices is developed to measure the accuracy of the devices.Calibration results show that the questions of asynchronous between the sampling signal of the monitoring device and the output signal of standard source,and mutual interference between adjacent calibration signals are completely solved,which will greatly improve the accuracy and reliability of detecting the monitoring device,as well as the level of monitoring grid and user power quality.Moreover,it will play a positive role in upgrading and promoting the technology and industrial development of power quality monitoring devices.


The popularity and functionality of Microsoft Windows has dramatically changed the expectations for automated tests. Operators expect a friendly, intuitive graphical interface, managers expect productivity gains based on reusability and standardization, and developers expect powerful tools and accessories to speed test application creation. This paper examines Window's influence on automated test development by first exploring instrument driver technology, then reviewing Wavetek's instrument driver strategy, and finally by presenting an example of how an automated test can be built in Windows. A major decision test developers face is choosing the test environment. Basing automated tests on Windows has the advantage of latching on to the worlds most popular graphical system: there are numerous tools available to speed and ease development, there is a wide variety of applications and languages to choose from, and the risk of future obsolescence is minimized by the enormous installed support.<<ETX>>


We propose an efficient heuristic algorithm that sets up and releases lightpaths for connection requests dynamically. We partition the routing and wavelength assignment (commonly known as RWA) problem into two subproblems and solves both of them using a well-known shortest path routing algorithm. For solving the routing subproblem, an auxiliary graph is created whereby the nodes and links in the original network are transformed to the edges and vertices, respectively, and the availability of each wavelength on the input and output links of a node as well as the number of available wavelength converters are taken into account in determining the weights of edges. Furthermore, for solving the wavelength assignment subproblem, an auxiliary graph is also utilized and the cost for wavelength conversion is taken into consideration in the edge weight function. A distinguished feature of our algorithm is that it employs more accurate network information on the availability of both the wavelengths and the wavelength converters than the existing algorithms in deciding the routing and the wavelength assignment. Simulation results show that our algorithm performs much better than previously proposed algorithms with comparable computation time, especially when the number of wavelengths is large while the number of converters at each node is limited.


observation during show aerosol optical depth are more This paper presents results of airborne remote sensing (4STAR) and in situ (LARGE) observations of aerosols during the KORUS-AQ field campaign in and around Korea during summer 2016. They are analysed jointly with satellite retrievals (GOCI) and reanalysis (MERRA2). One key result is that Ångström exponent (AE) and aerosol fine mode fraction (FMF), proxies for columnar aerosol type, showed more rapid spatial variation than aerosol optical depth (AOD). This is in contrast to previous studies elsewhere which have generally observed that AOD varied on finer scales than composition. Potential reasons why are discussed.


in this article, the privatization of hunting and wild life by leasing the property rights of them through contracts to the forest villager or the land owners around the hunting ground will be discussed.


Transverse joint faulting is a distress that develops in unbonded concrete overlays (UBOL). Historically, faulting models used for predicting the performance of a UBOL have not accounted for the effects of the interlayer between the overlay and the existing pavement on the development of faulting. This is a significant limitation since characteristics of the interlayer play a primary role in the rate at which faulting develops in UBOLs. To develop a more robust faulting prediction model for UBOLs, enhancements were made to the current process to address this limitation. This includes the use of a structural response model that can account for the effects of the interlayer properties on the response of the UBOL. Additional enhancements include the use of a deflection basin of the overlay (in lieu of corner deflections of an equivalent slab system for accumulating differential energy [DE]), the incorporation of an erosion model that can account for the erodibility of the interlayer material, the adjustment of the incremental faulting equations to accommodate small slab sizes that are common in UBOLs, and a national calibration using faulting data from in-service UBOLs. This enhanced faulting model has been implemented in the mechanistic-empirical design tool Pitt UBOL-ME.


ABSTRACT A novel dual-band out-of-phase power divider with inherent impedance transformation and high power-handling capability is presented in this article. This proposed power divider essentially consists of four sections of double-sided parallel striplines for the signal transmission, an inserted middle conductor plane as the common ground, and two resistors to improve the isolation between two outputs. Closed-form design equations are derived based on the conventional even- and odd-mode analytical methods and the transmission-line theory. Finally, a practical three-layer out-of-phase power divider is designed and fabricated. The experimental results show that good ports matching, excellent isolation between two outputs, and out-of-phase performance are simultaneously achieved at both 1 and 2.6 GHz.


The Dementia disease is characterised by neuropsychiatric disturbances due to lack of proper synaptic communication between neurons causing the cognitive behavioural problems. The Alzheimer's disease (AD) in elderly population is one of the several forms of Dementia. Recent data by World Health Organisation indicates that nearly 10 million people are getting dementia every year, of which 60-70% accounts for AD. The etiology of AD involves the formation of amyloid-β plaques and neurofibrillary Tau tangles in the brain resulting in the death of neural cells. There is no permanent solution for AD treatment, except the FDA approved drugs like galantamine, donepezil, rivastigmine and memantine that are normally associated with side effects. At this juncture, cerebrosides, the natural secondary metabolites identified from different taxa with potential neuroprotective effects offer a promising scope for the treatment of AD. In this paper, cerebrosides reported from all taxa are pooled up along with their functions and listed. The review of literature revealed that Cerebrosides can increase the cognitive functions by regulating or interacting with the N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) calcium ion (Ca2+) channels at post-synaptic receptor; nitric oxide (NO); Bcl2, Bax, amyloid precursor (APP) and Tau proteins; brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and cAMP- response element-binding proteins (CREB).This indicates that the Cerebrosides could be potential therapeutic agents for the protection of neurons involved in neurodegenerative disease like Alzheimer's disease. The current neuroprotective drugs are AChE inhibitors; hence, in the present investigation, in silico molecular docking study on cerebrosides for the inhibition of AChE was assessed to find out their capacity to interact with an active catalytic site of AChE. The results of present investigation revealed that all 22 cerebrosides selected for this work interacted with catalytic active site of AChE measured in terms of Gibbs free binding energy. Of all the cerebrosides assessed, compound 6 exhibited strong interaction, followed by 15. This is the first report of molecular docking study on cerebrosides for AChE enzyme inhibition for treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Nevertheless, detailed in vitro and in vivo, biochemical and molecular investigations are needed to bring them to useful form.


At the airfield in hub airports, many activities occur that involve a range of participants, including various-size aircraft, ground vehicles, and workers. The safety management system is FAA's approach for systematically managing aviation safety. A major component of the safety management system is safety risk management (SRM), which entails analysis, assessment, and control of safety risks, including risks on the airfield. Current SRM has few specific safety models to estimate the likelihood or frequency of risks. This paper presents an example for development and incorporation of safety models into SRM. Specifically, it discusses safety models for runway incursion that use the following variables: total and general aviation operations, length of runway by type, number of taxiway intersections, snowfall, precipitation, number of hot spots, and construction activity. Categorization and processing of data were significant because each variable used could take on multiple forms, and some types of data involved review of airfield diagrams. The data used were from 137 U.S. hub airports for 2009 through 2014. For modeling, the negative multinomial distribution was used because it proved suitable for representing overdispersed data such as runway incursion frequency. Performance of the models was assessed through the goodness-of-fit measures of log likelihood, overdispersion, and cumulative residual plots. Models were developed for five severity categories of runway incursions and three types of surface events. The safety modeling approach presented here can serve as a foundation for development of other safety models that can be integrated into SRM to enable quantitative analysis of safety risks.


Most previous investigations of microbial interactions with truffle have been conducted within the soil environment and have not considered effects on post-harvested truffles. After harvest, truffles spoil easily and quickly within 4 days. This study evaluated the efficacy of bacteria isolated from fresh Tuber aestivum fruits ascocarps as biocontrol agents against the bacteria and fungi responsible for spoiling truffle fruit. Effects of acetic acid (12 %-v/v) and citric acid (10%-w/v) as inhibitors of isolated spoilage bacteria were also tested. An antagonism test between microbes extracted from unspoiled truffle microorganisms was performed against microbes responsible for spoilage of truffle fruits. Spoilage bacteria were


Objective: The changes of platelet aggregation (P. A) pre and post drinking HAOS alkaline ionic water (AIW) in thirty cases were reported.Methods:P.A. was assaied by optical method pre and post(2~ 3 months, 3 - 6 months) drinking AIW. The results were expressed by one minute, five minutes, and maximum (Max) aggregation. Some index of blood viscosity, coagulable factors were assaied simultaneously, and the chief electrolytes and partia hepato - renal function were also assaied at the same time by automatic biochemical machine. Results: The results of P. A were significantly decreased Pre AIW, especially in the disease group (Max 80%), P values were less than 0.001. The decrease of P. A was possibly related to the repair of the damaged endothelial cell post - drinking AIW according to our Laboratory data. There were no significant changes in chief electrolytes and partial hepato- renal functions. Conclusion:Due to the results of P. A were increased in most patients with cardio cerebro- vascular thromboembolic diseases, and if would be significantly decreased post - drinking AIW. There were no significant abnormal changes in electrolytes and hepato- renal function over a long periold of time for drinking AIW. We consideered that the use of AIW is convenient, safe effective and cheap, therefore, it might be used as one of the positive and accessory method as in preventing and managing cardio - cerebro - vascular thromboembolic diseases. It would be worthy to further investigation clinically.


One of the defining features of the city of Dublin in recent years has been its diffusion into the surrounding hinterland, creating major outlying suburban communities some of which now qualify as "edge cities." One consequence of this diffusion is a re-orientation of the citizenry away from the downtown. It's hard to imagine now but in the 1940s and 1950s, O'Connell Street was the vibrant core of the city of Dublin replete with entertainment, restaurant, hotel, and business facilities. If we try to think of an iconic image from that period it has to be that of young men and women, sensibly belted against the wind and rain, waiting expectantly for their dates under Clerys' clock. From the 1960s, O'Connell Street and its surrounding environs began to go into decline, as the commercial heart of the city migrated across the river to Grafton Street and Stephen's Green. While the city centre's main thoroughfare retained its status as the civic centre point —it is still the main route for all protest marches in the city - lax planning laws saw it increasingly colonised by burger joints,games arcades and pound shops. The sad decline of O'Connell street, served to exacerbate the Northside/Southside distinction already deeply ingrained in the city's psyche.


Prosody, it is assumed, does not always disambiguate syntax. We investigate one classic case at point from the psycholinguistics literature: garden path sentences involving the main-verb vs. reduced relative clause contrast (the horse raced past the barn (and) fell). Despite their centrality in shaping theoies of sentence processing, no experimental work to date has investigated the prosody of these sentences. We show that, contrary to previous assumptions (Fodor 2002, Wagner & Watson 2010), this contrast is prosodically disambiguated, but that this disambiguation can only be observed when the relevant clauses are embedded within a matrix clause which provides a baseline pace. Prosodic disambiguation obtains through pace modulation, with faster pace associated with the embedded/reduced relative reading and regular pace (no change) with the main-verb analysis. The essential contribution of the matrix sentence is to provide a baseline pace without which it is impossible to establish whether a change took place. Importantly, duration is solely determined by prosody and independent from complexity: faster pace is associated with the more complex structure.


This paper mainly introduces the design features of air pipeline and braking system used in"Tiansuo"AC transmission locomotive The braking test has been done in the test ring line of China Academy of Railway Sciences,which has reflected that the braking performance can meet its design requirement completely


The indications for early surgery for ruptured basilar artery aneurysms remain controversial, because operative results have not satisfactory enough to date. Thirty-three cases of ruptured basilar artery aneurysm havebeen seen during the last 17 years, from 1971 to 1987, in the authors' institute. Twenty-five cases were basilar bifurcation aneurysms and eight were basilar-superior cerebeller aneurysms. Surgical treatment was performed in 19 cases. Only six cases were treated by early operation. Of these, three suffered surgical complications and died. These complications were brain contusion due to severe brain retraction, ischemia or embolism due to direct retraction of the major artery, and injury ofperforating arteries. The neck of the aneurysm in these three cases was located in the high portion more than 10 mm above the line between the anterior clinoid process and the posterior clinoid process. The position of the aneurysm seems to be related to the surgical outcome in the basilar artery aneurysm. Judging from our experience in past surgical cases, the most difficult and important aspect of surgery is achieving a good exposure around the aneurysm through minimal brain retraction, especially in early intervention. For that purpose, the transsylvian approach is considered to be the most effective of several approaches. However, there are some key points to be considered in the transsylvian approach to basilar artery aneurysm, as follows: 1)At craniotomy, the sphenoid wing must be planed sufficiently to get a good exposure. If the aneurysm is located high, either a supraorbital pterional approach or a frontozygomatic approach can provide better exposure. 2)The brain must be shrunken using ventricular drainage andmannitol. 3)The sylvian fissible must be dissected widely. 4)Direct retraction of the major artery must be avoided much as possible except when applying a clip for the aneurysm. 5)The aneurysm must be exposed and dissected not only lateral to the carotid artery but also medial to it. Recently, several cases have been operated on early following these key points and the result has been a good clinical outcome.


Abstract:  In Letters for Literary Ladies Maria Edgeworth discusses the positive effects of women's exclusion from the division of labour. According to Edgeworth, their exemption from professional life grants women 'leisure to be wise'. Drawing on Edgeworth's father's Essays on Professional Education, as well as on her novel Belinda, this article considers the extent to which intellectual capital can provide a viable alternative to the possession of either landed estate or professional skills. With reference to previous interrogations of the 'separate spheres thesis', this article suggests that domestic education is, in fact, informed by an ethic of professionalism.


A microscopic study of the total concentration fluctuations of the dilute reacting species in a ternary mixture is presented. A Fokker‐Planck description of the concentration fluctuations of the molecules in specified internal states is used and the necessary matrix elements are evaluated by a variational method. Expressions for the contribution of these fluctuations to the light scattering spectrum are presented along with expressions for the nonequilibrium corrections to the rate coefficient which depend on frequency and wavenumber. The general features of the results are illustrated by considering specific stochastic models of chemically reacting fluids.


In order to analyze cause of stepladder cracks on the joint of a SH150 elevator link with hook,the elevator link was investigated using macroscopic examination,chemical composition analysis,metallographic analysis and mechanical properties test.It was showed that decarburized layer existed on the surface of elevator link and inhomogeneous wear on service were the main causes.


Purpose Determine the pharmacokinetics of insulin peglispro (BIL) in 5/6-nephrectomized rats and study the absorption in lymph duct cannulated (LDC) sheep. Methods BIL is insulin lispro modified with 20-kDa linear PEG at lysine B28 increasing the hydrodynamic size to 4-fold larger than insulin lispro. Pharmacokinetics of BIL and insulin lispro after IV administration were compared in 5/6-nephrectomized and sham rats. BIL was administered IV or SC into the interdigital space of the hind leg, and peripheral lymph and/or serum samples were collected from both LDC and non-LDC sheep to determine pharmacokinetics and absorption route of BIL. Results The clearance of BIL was similar in 5/6-nephrectomized and sham rats, while the clearance of insulin lispro was 3.3-fold slower in 5/6-nephrectomized rats than in the sham rats. In non-LDC sheep, the terminal half-life after SC was about twice as long vs IV suggesting flip-flop pharma-cokinetics. In LDC sheep, bioavailability decreased to <2%; most of the dose was absorbed via the lymphatic system, with 88% ± 19% of the dose collected in the lymph after SC administration. Conclusion This work demonstrates that increasing the hy-drodynamic size of insulin lispro through PEGylation can impact both absorption and clearance to prolong drug action. ABBREVIATIONS AUC 0-t Area under the serum concentration-time curve from 0 to time of the last sample with a quantifiable concentration BIL Basal insulin peglispro C o Serum concentration extrapolated to time 0 after IV administration CL Total body clearance from serum C max


The chapter on mood stabilizers discusses and reviews the use of available treatments for bipolar disorder, including lithium, selected anticonvulsants (such as valproate, carbamazepine, oxcarbazepine, and lamotrigine) and second-generation antipsychotics. It reviews each medication's mechanism of action, clinical characteristics, potential medication interactions, and adverse effects. The chapter also reviews emerging pharmacotherapies such as the use of ketamine. It also briefly discusses complementary and alternative pharmacotherapies and the use of omega-3 fatty acids. The chapter includes an in-depth review of the clinical use of the previously listed medications for bipolar depression, mania, mixed episodes, and bipolar maintenance. It also reviews the risks of using antidepressants for bipolar depression. It also discusses the use of mood stabilizers in women of childbearing age, notably for pregnancy and breastfeeding considerations. Finally, the chapter includes a table of mood stabilizers that includes each medication's generic and brand names, usual adult doses, pertinent clinical comments, black box warnings and Food and Drug Administration indications.


Exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) is a serious threat to public health, and a significant cause of lung cancer and heart disease among non-smokers. Even though Greek hospitals have been declared smoke free since 2002, smoking is still evident. Keeping the above into account, the aim of this study was to quantify the levels of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and to estimate the attributed lifetime excess heart disease and lung cancer deaths per 1000 of the hospital staff, in a large Greek public hospital. Environmental airborne respirable suspended particles (RSP) of PM2.5 were performed and the personnpel's excess mortality risk was estimated using risk prediction formulas. Excluding the intensive care unit and the operating theatres, all wards and clinics were polluted with environmental tobacco smoke. Mean SHS-RSP measurements ranged from 11 to 1461 μg/m3 depending on the area. Open wards averaged 84 μg/m3 and the managing wards averaged 164 μg/m3 thus giving an excess lung cancer and heart disease of 1.12 (range 0.23–1.88) and 11.2 (range 2.3–18.8) personnel in wards and 2.35 (range 0.55–12.2) and 23.5 (range 5.5–122) of the managing staff per 1000 over a 40-year lifespan, respectively. Conclusively, SHS exposure in hospitals in Greece is prevalent and taking into account the excess heart disease and lung cancer mortality risk as also the immediate adverse health effects of SHS exposure, it is clear that proper implementation and enforcement of the legislation that bans smoking in hospitals is imperative to protect the health of patients and staff alike.


This paper investigates a novel multi-segment dielectric resonator antenna (DRA). The antenna consists of a thin segments of different permittivity material bonded to the underside of a rectangular dielectric resonator segment. The multi-segment DRA element is excited by a microstrip line. The permittivity and thickness of the segments are used to concentrate the fields of the micro-scrip line and enhance the coupling from the line to the dielectric resonator segment. Experimental results are presented on a two-segment DRA consisting of a thin segment of high permittivity bonded to a dielectric resonator segment of low permittivity. Without the high permittivity segment, coupling from the microstrip line to the DRA is quite weak, achieving a return loss of only 5 dB. With the high permittivity segment, a maximum return loss of 24 dB was achieved with a 10 dB return loss bandwidth of 17%.


SPICAV IR, a part of SPICAV/SOIR suite on Venus Express, is a compact single pixel spectrometer for the spectral range of 0.65–1.7 mm based on acousto-optical tunable filter (AOTF) technology. SPICAV IR is derived from SPICAM IR operating on Mars Express, the first AOTF spectrometer in the deep space, and adapted for Venus atmosphere measurements. The spectrometer sequentially measures spectra of reflected solar radiation from Venus on the dayside and the emitted Venus radiation in spectral ''windows'' on the nightside, and works also in solar occultation mode. The spectral range is 0.65– 1.1 mm with spectral resolution of 7.8 cm � 1 , and 1–1.7 mm with spectral resolution of 5.2 cm � 1 .A description of this near-IR instrument, its calibration, in-flight performances, and the modes of operations on Venus' orbit are presented. A brief overview of the science measurements is given: water vapor measurements in the mesosphere on the day-side and near surface on the nightside, mapping of the O2(a 1 Dg) emission at 1.27 mm, aerosol studies via polarization and scattering solar radiation at the day-side, and measurements of aerosol properties at the tops of the clouds in solar occultations.


Case Number : CA 30/2006, SUM 2929/2006 Decision Date : 03 November 2006 Tribunal/Court : Court of Appeal Coram : Chan Sek Keong CJ; Andrew Phang Boon Leong JA Counsel Name(s) : Cavinder Bull and Lim Gerui (Drew & Napier LLC) for the appellants; Leung Wing Wah and Lim Tiek Beng Jonathan (Sim & Wong LLC) for the respondent Parties : Rickshaw Investments Ltd; Seabed Explorations GBR — Nicolai Baron von Uexkull Conflict of Laws – Choice of law – Equity – Choice of law rules governing equitable claims – Whether claims in equity subject to automatic and blanket application of lex fori as lex causae


Which patients with syncope require hospital admission? To answer this question, researchers studied the incidence of acute myocardial infarction within 30 days of presentation in a cohort of 1474 consecutive emergency department patients who presented with syncope or near-syncope (mean age, 62) in California. Patients with definite seizure, trauma-associated syncope, or syncope …


: Based on his scholarly research and studies on the New Testament witness about the Person and mission of Jesus, George Soares-Prabhu presents his insights into the mystery of Jesus of Faith. Thus, he overcomes the dichotomy between the Jesus of History and the Christ of Faith that plagued the discussions about the NT Christologies for more than a century. It is the Jesus of faith encountered by the early community of the disciples that is articulated in the gospels conditioned by the specific context of the communities in which they were formed. Soares-Prabhu affirms that in the Indian context relevant Christological reflections can be developed only by those who are graced to have an experience of the Person of Jesus and actualize that transforming experience in solidarity with the poor, the marginalized, the discriminated against and all who are oppressed in some way or other.