China's ideological and political education has a long history, but legal education has been developed only for a short time. During the "Cultural Revolution", China's legal construction was damaged. Enhancing legal education is imminent at present when running the country in accordance with the law and improving the socialist legal system are required. Integration of running the country in accordance with the law and ruling the country by virtue is to unify legal education and ideological and political education. Only when the two are unified, can the socialist political culture be constructed successfully. China's ideological and political education has a long history, but legal education has been developed for not a long time. With the initiative of "running the country in accordance with the law, and constructing a socialist legal state", legal education is put on the agenda. Enhancing socialist legal construction and strengthening legal education are extremely urgent. Combining rule of virtue and law requests us to integrate legal education and ideological and political education and promote the organic unification of legal education and ideological and political education. 1. Relationship between the science of law and ideological and political science Legal system refers to the law and system established by a ruling class according to their own willingness through a state political power to maintain the dictatorship of the class. All types of nations have their own legal system. Socialist legal system is the law and system built by socialist states in accordance with the will of the proletariat and the masses, and is an important tool to protect people, attack enemies, punish crimes, maintain social order, guard socialist economic foundation, promote the development of social productivity, and realize the historical task of people's democratic dictatorship. China transformed from a semi feudal and semi colonial society to socialist society with an imperfect legal system. Besides, in "ten chaotic years", the legal system was overridden rampantly, leading to lawlessness, little observation of laws, slack law enforcement and refraining from punishing law breakers, and meanwhile, resulting in people's weak understanding of law in general. In this case, enhancing socialist legal system construction and intensifying efforts to socialist legal education is very necessary. The science of law and ideological and political science are independent subjects with close relation: first, in view of social governance, legal education and ideological and political education are two functions and methods to govern the society, and they are correlated, supplementary and irreplaceable. Law is led by ideological and political education, and ideological and political education is backed by law. If we fail to construct a good the legal system, the social order will be disordered, and ideological and political education will be failing. Social governance must attach equal importance to legal and ideological and political education. Second, viewed from the contents of subject, the science of law and ideological and political science are correlated and consistent in content. One important content of ideological and political education is legal education. However, 2017 3rd International Conference on Economy, Management and Education Technology (ICEMET 2017) Copyright © (2017) Francis Academic Press, UK 76 in a society with perfect legal system, law must include the ideological and political education of a certain class into provisions to protect it. Therefore, ideological and political education must absorb the knowledge and theory of the science of law, and takes legal thought and relevant laws as its important contents to make the educated grasp necessary knowledge of laws, establish legal sense, and consciously respect justice and abide by the laws. 2. Establishment and improvement of the Basis of Law 2.1 Evolution of the curriculum goal Basis of Law was generated in the context of nationwide education for law knowledge. Before the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Sate Council transmitted the notice on Five Year Plan of Popularizing the Common Knowledge in Law to All Citizens (the First Five-Year Plan of Law Popularization), many of the delinquency were law-ignorant person who violated laws but did not understand laws. In October 1985, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the "Notice on Further Enhancing Teenager Education and Preventing Delinquency of Teenagers", requested to "vigorously popularize the common knowledge of laws, and make teenagers to culture a good habit of observing law and discipline", and proposed that universities should open legal education curriculum. In September 1986, the Ministry of Education of the PRC regulated in the "Notice on Opening 'Basis of Law' in Universities" that in accordance with the demand of the the Party Central Committee and NPC Standing Committee to implement the popularization of laws, the course that Basis of Law should be opened to college students. In 1987, the Ministry of Education of the PRC stipulated the teaching purpose and demands of Basis of Law in "Suggestions for the Construction of Ideological and Political Education Course in Colleges and Universities": to enable students to understand the basic viewpoints of Marxist jurisprudence, grasp the fundamental spirit and regulations of constitution and specialized laws, enhance legal sense and sense of social responsibility, and correctly utilize civil rights and obligations to adapt to the requirements of socialist legal system construction". In 1995, the Ministry of Education of the PRC, the Comprehensive Treatment of Social Management Committee, and the Ministry of Justice of the PRC jointly issued the "Suggestions of Enhancing Legal Education in Schools" and further emphasized that "legal education in colleges and universities should take the cultivation of socialist legal sense of college students as the core". The goal was slightly higher than the Second Five-Year Plan of Law Popularization and accommodated to the Third Five-Year Plan of Law Popularization issued later. In 1998, the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the CPC and the Ministry of Education of PRC pointed out that "the 'Basis of Law' is mainly socialist legal education to help students grasp the basic viewpoints of Marxist jurisprudence, understand the basic spirit and provisions of constitution and relevant specified laws, enhance students' socialist legal sense and consciousness". In February 2003, the Ministry of Education of the PRC revised the basic requirements of "Two Courses" in colleges and universities. The fundamental requirements for "Basis of Law" was "to enable college students understand the basic viewpoints of Marxist jurisprudence, grasp the basic spirit and contents of China's constitution and relevant laws, enhance legal consciousness, and improve legal quality". The goal requested to be based on "improving legal quality", which was obviously higher than the requirements of the "Fourth Five-Year" Plan of Law Popularization. In February 2005, the Suggestions for Further Enhancing and Improving Ideological and Political Theoretical Course in Colleges and Universities issued by the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the CPC and the Ministry of Education of PRC integrated Ideological and Moral Cultivation with Basis of Law. The Implementation Plan issued in March emphasized that "ideological and moral cultivation and basis of law" focused on socialist moral and legal education, helped students enhance socialist legal sense, improve ideological and moral quality, and solve the practical problems encountered in growth. In 2010, the socialist legal concept was included into the textbook of Ideological and Moral Cultivation and Basis of Law. It is necessary to teach according to the content in Socialist Legal Concept when teaching "Chapter 7 Enhancing Legal Consciousness


In consumer behavior, it followed by post-purchase evaluation. When in the evaluation, there appears a doubt about the purchase decision on a product, and then an individual must be experiencing a post-purchase dissonance. The product used in this study is the iPhone. As for the factors that can influence post-purchase dissonance, one of them is the tendency of individual anxiety, which is caused by personality type. This study aims to determine the differences in iPhone users' student with type A and type B personalities in experiencing post-purchase dissonance. The analysis used causal comparative and determination of the subject used purposive sampling. The research subjects were iPhone users' students of Muhammadiyah Malang University, amount 125 subjects. This study used a post-purchase dissonance scale, also type A and type B personality scale. The analysis in this study used an independent sample t-test. The results showed that there was no difference in post-purchase dissonance in terms of type A and type B personality patterns with a significance value of 0.352 and p = 0,05 (0,352 > 0,05). Keywords: Post-purchase dissonance, Type A and type B personality, iPhone users' Student.


From the practice of construction of scientific and technological journals,this paper carries a research on innovative development of the journals with the outlook of scientific development.These methods are to strictly adhere to the direction of scientific development,to pursuit the concept of producing characteristic journals,to keep sustainable development,to improve quality of journals,and to respect both authors and readers,etc.


Based on the experimental results, the electrothermal characteristics of graphite cement and carbon fiber graphite cement conductive composites were studied. Cement based conductive materials developed in this paper exhibit good resistance to over current and over voltage, lower surface temperature and excellent stability during heating. They are especially suitable for using as electrothermal materials.


On the basis of logical and structural analysis the article has revealed the contents of the current criminological characteristics of crimes committed against justice. Based on the history of questions and the main debate developing in domestic doctrine, the author concludes that the criminological characteristics of crimes has a specific structure


Utilizing robustness,fault toleration and generalization ability of neural network,three different neural networks were established to evaluate the localization and quantification of the plane steel truss damage.firstly,PNN neural network was employed to locate the damaged substructure and RBF neural network was employed to further locate the specific damaged bar.Finally,RBF neural network was employed to quantify the damage extent.Numerical simulation shows that this method is effective.


Will the moral character of floating children in state-run schools develop as well as local children ? What affects their moral development? And what measures can we take to make the moral character of floating children develop as well as the local children? We propose that the blending difficulty is the main reason affecting the moral development of floating children in state-run schools.Owing to the blending difficulty,the character of floating children is obviously different from that of local children.The healthy development of floating children can be realized only when we take measures to make them blend into local life and school life and remove the obstacles.


Cloud computing uses the ideal model of information mining-as-a service, Utilizing these it seems to be an obvious choice for companies saving on the cost of contributing to secure, manage and keep up an IT infrastructure. An organization/store lacking in mining ability can outsource its mining needs to service provider on a cloud server. However, both the association rules and item-set of the outsourced database are viewed as private property of the organization. The data owner encrypts the data and sends to the server to preserve the corporate privacy. Client sends mining queries to server, and then server conducts data mining and sends encrypted pattern to the client. To get true pattern client decrypts encrypted pattern. In this paper, we consider the issue of outsourcing the association rule mining task within a corporate privacypreserving system. Thus Privacy Preserving Data Mining is a examination area concerned with the security determined from personally identifiable information when considered for data mining. The Rob Frugal encryption strategy is introduced to overcome the security vulnerabilities of outsourced information, which is focused on one to one substitution ciphers for items and including fake patterns for database. However, it contains a various fake patterns which increase the capacity overhead. To overcome this issue, the proposed procedure includes addition of weighted support in original support of items so as to reduce the number of fake patterns and to enhance the security level for outsourced information with less complexity. The fake transaction table data is converted into matrix format to reduce the storage overhead. Also the guessing attack and man in the middle attack are possible on basic Rob frugal algorithm. To overcome these attack we utilize Elliptic Curve Diffie Hellman key exchange algorithm after Rob frugal encryption scheme in order to provide privacy preserving outsourced mining. In our proposed work we improved the security as item and item-set based attack are not possible on the system; also we reduce the processing time.


The paper describes the different industrially used options to produce a clad pipe and explains in detail the manufacture of metallurgically cladded pipes starting with the production of roll bonded plates. In plate manufacturing the advantages as well as the limitations of thermo-mechanical (TM) rolling are discussed. The TM-technology is shown to improve weldability, HIC-resistance, strength and toughness properties of the carbon steel section of the pipe. Moreover, it also improves corrosion resistance of the CRA layer. The pipe manufacturing procedure, which involves two welding technologies for longitudinal welds is described. The carbon steel parts of the pipe are joined using double-sided multi-pass Submerged-Arc-Welding (SAW). The single-pass Electroslag-Welding (ESW) is subsequently used for recladding of the CRA layer. The multi-pass SAW results in excellent mechanical properties of the weld joint, whereas the ESW technique ensures low dilution of CRA with the carbon steel, a smooth weld bead shape and a high corrosion resistance of the deposited layer. With the aid of thermodynamic modeling and numerical simulations it is shown, that the high corrosion resistance is promoted by an intensive mixing within the ESW weld pool and relatively low segregation level of Cr and Mo during solidification. Furthermore, FEM analysis is applied to examine the plastic deformation and residual stresses distribution in the pipe during forming, welding and final calibration. The obtained information assists in optimization of manufacturing procedure, and can also be included in prediction of resulting pipe fatigue during operation.Copyright © 2008 by ASME


Objective
To systematically assess the relationship between metabolic syndrome and osteoarthritis.

Methods
Databases including PubMed, Excerpta Medica Database(EMbase), China Biology Medicine disc (CBM), China Science and Technology Journal Database(VIP), the Cochrane Library(Issue 5, 2018), China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) and WanFang Data were searched for the published studies including the investigation of the correlation between metabolic syndrome and osteoarthritis from inception to May 2018. The observational trials about correlation between metabolic syndrome and osteoarthritis were included, and repeat published literatures were excluded. Two authors specifically assessed literature according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, acquired data and evaluated the risk of bias of involved studies. Meta-analysis was performed using RevMan 5.3 software.

Results
A total of nine studies including 25 096 patients were involved. The results of meta-analysis showed that pooled crude risk of occurrence of osteoarthritis in metabolic syndrome population was 2.23 times of the non-metabolic-syndrome population[OR=2.23, 95%CI(1.48, 3.36), P=0.0001], and pooled adjusted risk of occurrence of osteoarthritis in metabolic syndrome population was still greater than non-metabolic-syndrome population[OR=1.05, 95%CI(1.03, 1.07), P<0.01].

Conclusion
Metabolic syndrome is associated with osteoarthritis, which increases risk of osteoarthritis.

Key words:
Metabolic syndrome; Osteoarthritis; Meta-analysis


Objective
To explore the effect of nursing support on negative emotion and quality of life in patients with brain tumor.

Methods
A total of 139 cases of brain tumor in Shandong Provincial Cancer Hospital of Shandong University from September 2014 to February 2016 by convenient sampling, according to the random number table, they were divided into the control group and the intervention group. The patients in the control group were given routine discharge follow-up, while the patients in the intervention group were given emote team nursing support on the basis of the control group. We used anxiety self rating scale (SAS), depression self rating scale (SDS) and quality of life assessment scale (QLICP-BN) evaluation two groups of patients with anxiety, depression and quality of life level in the patients when they were discharged from hospital and discharged after 1 month, 3 months.

Results
Comparing the two groups of patients with anxiety and depression level and quality of life in the hospital, there was no statistically significant difference (t=0.187,0.174, P > 0.05);1 month after discharge, the scores of SAS and SDS respectively (62.97±485), (63.83±5.24) points in the intervention group, the scores of SAS and SDS respectively (64.58±5.15), (65.17 ± 5.11) points in the control group, the difference is statistically significant (t=2.753, 2.321, P < 0.05); 3 month after discharge, the scores of SAS and SDS respectively (61.04±4.13) , (62.25±3.95) points in the intervention group, the scores of SAS and SDS respectively (63.91±4.73) , (64.83±4.29) points in the control group, the difference is statistically significant (t=4.621,5.196, P < 0.01); 1month, 3 months after discharge, the total quality of life scores respectively (65.28±12.53) , (68.71±12.78) points in the intervention group, the total quality of life scores respectively (62.07±11.27) , (63.86±12.13) points in the control group, the difference is statistically significant (t=2.439, 3.803, P < 0.01). The intervention effects and time effects of anxiety, depression and quality of life were statistically significant (W Mauchly's were 0.823, 0.782, 0.757, P <0.05).

Conclusions
Remote team nursing support can effectively reduce the negative emotions of patients with brain tumor, improve the quality of life, can be used in the department to promote the quality of clinical care.

Key words:
Brain neoplasms; Quality of life; Remote team nursing support; Negative emotions


Objective To explore different ways of physical exercise influence on the interference of college students' depression and anxiety symptoms,in order to provide a basis to solve the problem of college students' mental health. Methods Sports dance,basketball and badminton were conducted as exercise intervention on patients with depression and anxiety,and Zung's depression self rating scale( SDS) and anxiety( SAS),self rating scale were used for assessment. Results The diffenence of the depression level of the sports dance group,the depression and anxiety level of the basketball group and the anxiety level of the badminton group after and before the experiment were statistically significant( t = 3. 534,2. 803,2. 826 and 3. 361 respectively,P 0.01). After the exercise intervention,statistical significance was also found in the anxiety level of basket ball group and sports dance group,the depression level of sports dance group and badminton group,the anxiety level of badminton group and sports dance group and the depression level of basketball group and badminton group( t = 2. 610,- 2. 917,2. 901 respectively; P 0. 05). Conclusion Physical exercise can effectively improve the students' level of depression and anxiety. Among three kinds of exercises,dance exercise has the most obvious effect for the treatment of depressive symptoms and badminton has the most obvious effect for the treatment of anxiety symptoms.


In recent years, universities have begun to dilute the concept of specific major direction at undergraduate level, and most undergraduates are faced with the problem of secondary professional selection. In order to better guide undergraduate students to choose the most suitable for their specific majors, while ensuring that the university's quality education resources can be reasonably allocated and utilized, universities should use the resources of educational big data to provide scientific undergraduate professional selection guidance. This paper takes this as a starting point and proposes a PSO-KNN algorithm based on association mining. Firstly, the optimized Apriori algorithm is used to find out the association rules between course achievement and professional selection, and the original data set is reduced dimensionally. Secondly, the most valuable professional choice is analyzed from educational data using the optimized PSO-KNN algorithm. Finally, the APK algorithm proposed in this paper is validated experimentally to prove the feasibility of the algorithm from the two dimensions of algorithm matching accuracy and running time, which provides a reference for universities to establish a scientific undergraduate professional selection guidance system.


A particle swarm optimization based on particle-Cooperation and search-space-Reconfiguration(CRPSO) is proposed. Firstly,different inertia weights are given to particles with different fitness.Secondly,when iterating for some certain generations,a smaller search-space is reconfigured according to former one and positions of present particles.Then,the swarm is reinitialized to recover its diversity and the search is continued.The global optimization solution is obtained in the end.Both CRPSO and another typical PSO is tested by 4 widely used test functions'optimization problems.The experimental results indicate that CRPSO has better optimization performance on both precision and efficiency.


Leukemia is a malignant clonal disorder of hematopoietic progenitor cell. Leukemia cell population is functionally heterogeneous,which consists of leukemic stem cells (LSCs) and mature leukemia cells in different differentiation stages. LSCs are source of leukemia relapse. LSCs are rare in amount,but they have the ability to self-renew,differentiate and proliferate extensively. LSCs show the antigenic features of CD34+,CD38-,CD90-,CD117-,CD123+. Eradication of LSCs might be necessary for curing the disease permanently. Promising therapeutic approaches include inhibiting key signal transduction pathways (for example,PI3K/ Akt/mTOR,NF-кB ) with small molecule inhibitors and applying effective cytotoxic antibodies of specific cell surface molecules (such as CD44,CD123).


Potential absorptive and realized absorptive capacity is important for improving regional Competitiveness and economic level.This paper analyzed the element of knowledge absorptive capacity in Regional Innovation System,set up the key index of knowledge absorptive capacity,had tested the dimensions capability of knowledge absorptive capacity using factor analysis method.Lastly we put forward some suggestions for regional economic development.


We have reproduced Perkin's synthesis of mauve and have scaled it down to microscale levels. As such, we present a synthesis of mauve that can be performed in a microscale organic chemistry laboratory.


The Board of Austin Community College against the Southern United States Association of Colleges the evalua tion criteria and evaluation of policies in Texas develop teaching evaluation program,including student evaluation,teacher self-evaluation,peer evaluation and leadership evaluation four aspects,and further establish and improve mechanisms for the teaching evaluation complaint.The sound construction of teachers teaching evaluation system,the build a variety of teacher professional development platform and the evaluation of the formation of multiple subject teachers of Austin Com munity College bring a enlightenment for higher vocational schools teaching evaluation in China.


The evidence-based practices literature has defined a core set of practices and treatments that are effective, at least in empirical studies. Implementing these evidence-based practices and treatments requires a different set of empirical studies to understand the operational issues that affects client-driven outcomes. In this article, we review the following three areas: (a) use of a standardized risk and need assessment tool, (b) use of cognitive-behavioral programs to address criminogenic needs, and (c) use of swift and certain responses to shape behavior. The review focuses on the unanswered questions regarding implementation and organizational change strategies to increase receptivity for the evidence-based practices, lay the foundation for improving effectiveness of "evidence-based practices and treatments," and provide a work environment that supports evidence-based practices and treatments. This article outlines a research agenda to build implementation knowledge that can further the use of evidence-based practices and treatments.


This research aims to find out whether there is a relationship between the prices partially and a Blackberrys customer satisfaction, the previewed value and a Blackberrys customer satisfaction, and the quality and a Blackberrys customer satisfaction in Surabaya. Besides that, it also attempts to reveal whether there is a relationship between price, perceived value, and quality simultaneously and a Blackberrys customers satisfaction in Surabaya. Analysis is done by means of multiple linear regression analysis in SPSS 16.0. This study took 100 people as the respondents for getting the data which was conducted in Surabaya with a sample of the Blackberry users who have been using a Blackberry for at least 6 months. The sample technique is convenience sampling. It shows price significantly affects customer satisfaction; the perceived value has no effect on the customer satisfaction. Yet, quality significantly affects customer satisfaction. Simultaneously, price, perceived value, and quality affect the customer satisfaction.


of strategic planning, but Jan Sobieski also receives fair treatment. It is known that national resentments used to play an important part in discussions of the Turkish assault of 1683. They were especially manifest at the bicentenary of 1883, and even at the memorial celebration of 1933 could still be felt occasionally. Barker's book presents a new, international view of events. He has supplied the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment in English of the defeat of the Turks at Vienna and altogether one of the leading studies of the year 1683.


The heterogeneity in the distribution and morphological features of TAR DNA‐binding protein‐43 (TDP‐43) pathology in the brains of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD‐TDP) patients and their different clinical manifestations suggest that distinct pathological TDP‐43 strains could play a role in this heterogeneity between different FTLD‐TDP subtypes (A‐E). Our aim was to evaluate the existence of distinct TDP‐43 strains in the brains of different FTLD‐TDP subtypes and characterise their specific seeding properties in vitro and in vivo.


4 Thesis declaration 5 ................................................................................................................................ Volume 1. Nick Mount: Blow by blow Preface 8 1. The scent of the maker 10 2. At the furnace 13 3. Red dots 31 4. Ties that bind 50 5. All fired up 71 5. Repeat and return 92 7. Holy Toledo 112 8. The Nick and Dick show 130 9. Doing the hand jive 146 ................................................................................................................................ Chronology 166 End notes 172 Select bibliography 179 Image credits 182 Acknowledgements 183


Nowadays, the environmental crisis and energy crisis have been known by people around the world as issues that have to be taken seriously. It is recognized that electric vehicles are more environmentally friendly than traditional fuel cars, but there are still many immature aspects of electric vehicle technology. Battery technology is one of them, and lithium battery is a common power storage tool for electric vehicles. Therefore, it is very important to monitor the status of the battery pack in real-time. Improving the practical capacity, safety, and service life of lithium batteries all have an important impact on the development of electric vehicles. In battery management systems (BMS), the accurate prediction of the battery state of charge (SOC) is particularly important. In this paper, the 18650 lithium battery was selected for the research experiment, and the circuit model of second-order RC was selected. Modeling by MATLAB, the SOC-OCV curve of the battery was determined through the data obtained from the charging and discharging experiment (HPPC), the original least squares method was improved, the forgetting factor was introduced, and the model was identified by the parameters based on the experimental data. The traditional SOC prediction method added noise adaptive rules and iterative theory in the extended Kalman filter(EKF), formed the adaptive Kalman filter (AIEKF) to estimate the SOC of lithium battery, and estimated the SOC using the American urban road cycle (UDDS) data. The results show that the AIEKF algorithm has fewer errors and advantages than the traditional EKF algorithm.


This article summarized the effects of soil nitrogen nutrition on the accumulation and distribution of nitrogen and nicotine in flue-cured tobacco,as well as the research advances in the fast detection technology of nitrogen nutrition in flue-cured tobacco,the loss approach of nitrogen in tobacco field and the use ratio of nitrogen fertilizer,and put forward the approaches to enhance the use ratio of nitrogen fertilizer.


Images are often ruined by noises. Noise is an undesired data which moderates the contrast and brightness of image resultant blurring the edges and defects its size and shape. Noise removal is a vital task in Image processing. In general the results of the noise removal have a strong outcome on the quality of the image processing technique. Several techniques for noise removal are familiar in gray image processing and very few works is done for color image processing. In the field of image noise fall several linear and nonlinear filtering methods have been offered.so in this paper wavelet technique have been proposed for denoising the color image based on bipearson shrinkage technique. The wavelet techniques are very effective to remove the noise also use of its capability to confine the power of a signal in tiny convert of energy values. Also this paper gives comparison between hard and soft threshold technique based on bipearson shrinkage method. Index Terms – Noise, Filter, Bi Pearson shrinkage, wavelet transforms


This study aimed at recognizing the contribution of Yarmouk University (YU) in the field of environmental awareness, and environmental ethics. The sample of 30 professionals was selected randomly from the faculties of science, education and economy at YU in Jordan. A validated questionnaire was used. It distributed to the sample to achieve the study's aim. The results showed an accepted level for YU in dealing with environmental ethics and awareness. The study revealed the highest response for the cooperative and participated actions. It displayed no serious plan considered, and no environmental ethical researches were done. The study submitted a number of recommendations. In addition, further researches were suggested.


The 15N NMR spectra of three N‐alkyl‐δ‐carbomethoxyvalerothiohydroxamic acids (2) and six synthesized N‐isopropylbenzothiohydroxamic acids (3) were measured and compared with appropriate spectra of structurally similar hydroxylamines (1), benzohydroxamic acids (4), benzamides (5) and thiobenzamides (6). The analysis of the chemical shifts of the thiohydroxamic acids under investigation indicates that the inductive effect of the hydroxyl group rather than steric hindrance is responsible for non‐additivity of the effect of substituents. Additionally, N‐hydroxyl diminishes the effect of aromatic ring substituents on the 15N chemical shifts in the thiohydroxamic acids 3 which is approximately half that in the respective thiobenzamides 6. The chemical shift values correlate best with Brown's σ+ parameter. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Is free-riding in teams reduced when one member receives a signal on his colleagueis performance? And how does free-riding depend on the signal's type? We address these questions in experimental teams in which two agents sequentially exert effort to contribute to the team output. We vary the type of information the second mover receives prior to his effort choice and find that agents work more when signals are available. Overall, behavior differs from predictions of standard theory. Signals that are predicted to have no effect are, in fact, influential and signals that are predicted to have an effect are redundant.


The important problem of resource allocation in multi-user wireless networks is that to achieve the balance between efficience and fairness. In this paper, by using the cross-layer optimization mechanism, we derive an optimization model to obtain efficient and fair downlink sub-carrier allocation in multi-user OFDM wireless networks. A dynamic sub-carrier allocation algorithm (DSAA) is proposed in order to obtain the maximization of the total scheduling utility based on the optimization model and the maximization utility theory. It is shown that by combining DSAA with time scale interference predictor (TSIP) which at large time scales predict ON / OFF period of user data with temporal correlation structure across multiple time scales in multi-user interference environment, efficiency is improved further. Preliminary simulation results verify the efficiency and fairness of the scheme.


Monitoring phases during development process is an essential phase for construction industry. Tools that used to monitor project development were report submission and weekly meeting. This however will cause a problem to some individuals that cannot attend the meeting due to some emergency. According to progress activity an issue is brought up in an meeting that was held weekly. What if the issue can't wait until the next meeting because the issue is the most important factor that will lead to next progress? An online monitoring system will be design to help solve this kind of problem or situation. Based on anywhere and anytime principle where internet connection and a personal computer are available, individual such as consultant can respond to the issue that occur. Not limited to one consultant but any other consultant can help by giving suggestion that can help solve the issue. The system implemented a Rational Unified Process Approach as a result of opting an object-oriented method that would be an advantage for a internet based system and encourage the development of small, free standing systems that are capable of providing user benefit. Previous cases that related to this system was studied to obtained some information regarding to the system. Outcomes however can be measure after the system is develop. A web - enable system for monitoring project is expected from it. However, few improvement for future recommendation on Project Monitoring System is needed and being stated in this report.


SPOROTRICHOSIS is a chronic infection caused by Sporothrix schenckii, and usually presents as a fixed cutaneous or lymphocutaneous infection in animals (Kwon-Chung and Benett 1992, Rosser and Dunstan 1998). Since a number of diseases can resemble sporotrichosis quite closely (KwonChung and Bennett 1992), it should be diagnosed definitively on the basis of histopathological and mycological findings. Direct microscopic examination is rapid, but can be quite insensitive and is reliant on the operator's skills. Kano and others (2003) developed a PCR method to detect S schenckii directly in biopsy samples from human patients with sporotrichosis using specific oligonucleotide primers based on the chitin synthase 1 (CHS1) gene of S schenckii (Kano and others 2001). The primer pair (S2 and R2) did not amplify DNAs from other pathogenic fungi (Aspergillus fumigatus, Blastomyces dermatitidis, Candida species, Cryptococcus neoformans, dermatophytes, Malassezia species and Histoplasma capsulatum), bacteria (Staphylococcus aureus), normal human skin cells or normal feline skin cells (Kano and others 2001). The sensitivity of the PCR was equivalent to the detection of 10 pg of S schenckii genomic DNA (Kano and others 2001). This short communication describes a study to identify S schenckii DNA directly from biopsy specimens obtained from a case of feline sporotrichosis. A 23-month-old male crossbred cat, weighing 5·4 kg, was referred to the Gifu University Animal Medical Center with abscesses and a draining puncture wound on the left foreleg and right hindleg which had been present for seven months. The lesions had been drained surgically and treated with chitin and chitosan. A subcutaneous nodule, 18 x 6 x 15 mm in size, was found on the right hindleg. Histopathological analysis of a biopsy of the nodule revealed granulomatous inflammation and many globular and ovoid budding yeast cells (Fig 1), with no asteroid bodies. Therefore, molecular diagnosis of sporotrichosis was performed. DNA was extracted from the biopsy. The tissue sample (approximately 100 mg) was digested at 37°C for 16 hours with 100 μg of proteinase K in 400 μl of a lysis buffer containing 0·1mM Tris-HCl (pH 8·0) and 0·3 per cent 2-mercaptoethanol. The DNA was obtained by phenol and chloroform extraction and then dissolved in Tris-EDTA buffer (10mM Tris-HCl [pH 8·0] and 1mM EDTA) and used directly for PCR amplification. A sample (200 ng) of DNA was amplified by PCR in a 30 μl reaction mixture containing 10mM Tris-HCl (pH 8·3), 50mM potassium chloride, 1·5mM magnesium chloride, 0·001 per cent gelatin, 200μM of each deoxynucleoside triphosphate, 1·0 U Taq polymerase (Takara) and 0·5 μg of the primer pair. To detect S schenckii rapidly, species-specific primers for PCR based on its CHS1 gene sequence were used (Kano and others 2001, 2003). The sequence of the forward primer (S2) was 5′-TGGGCGTCTACCAAGAGGGTATTGC-3′ (nucleotides 173 to 197 of the S schenckii CHS1 gene) (GenBank accession number L24908) and the sequence of the reverse primer (R2) was 5′-GCACATGGGCTCAAGATCAAAGGCC-3′ (nucleotides 468 to 492 of the S schenckii CHS1 gene). With these primers, a 318 base pair (bp) fragment of the CHS1 gene was expected to be amplified. The PCR amplification was carried out for 40 cycles consisting of template denaturation (one minute at 94°C), primer annealing (two minutes at 68°C) and polymerisation (two minutes at 72°C). Then, 10 μl of PCR products were separated in a 2 per cent (w/v) agarose gel, stained with ethidium bromide and visualised with ultraviolet light. The S2-R2 primer pair amplified approximately 320 bp fragments of the DNA from the clinical specimen and a control sample of S schenckii DNA (Fig 2). The primer pair did not amplify 320 bp fragments from normal feline skin DNA (Fig 2). Therefore, the case was diagnosed molecularly as sporotrichosis. The biopsy material from the nodule on the right hindleg was cultured on sunflower seed agar at 27°C for one week and then examined morphologically. The clinical isolate developed a black colony with a grey aerial surface after incubation for two weeks on sunflower seed agar. Microscopic examination of the isolate revealed one-cell, dark brown, thick-walled, subglobular, elliptical to cylindrical, smooth and hyaline conidia, which were 2 to 3 x 3 to 6 μm in size, produced on hyphae and in a bouquet at the tip of conidiophores. The conidiophores were slender and tapered from 1 to 2 μm diameter at the base to 0·5 to 1 μm at the tip. Since these findings were consistent with the description of S schenckii by Kwon-Chung and Bennett (1992), the isolate was identified as S schenckii. The cat was treated with itraconazole (Itrizole; Janssen Pharmaceutical) administered orally at a dose of 15 mg/kg once a day. After two months of treatment, the nodule had healed and the itraconazole was discontinued. The cat was in Veterinary Record (2005) 156, 484-485


The patient,Mrs. Z ,age thirty-eight years, white, married, mother of two children, has suffered for some years with chronic nephritis ; is fairly well nourished but anemic. September 29th, while scrub bing a slate drainage board attached to one side of her kitchen sink, ran a small splinter of slate into the outer surface of the first pha lanx of the little finger of her right hand; the splinter was a small one and broke off even with the surface of the skin; she dug out the splinter with a pin which she heated in a gas flame before using ; the splinter was very friable and she experienced a good deal of trouble in removing it, but afterwards continued at work. That night the wound pained enough to interfere somewhat with sleep, and by noon the next day, twenty-four hours after the injury, the pain, now of a throbbing character, was so severe that she came to me for relief.


Bacterial cellulose (BC) is a potential eco-friendly biopolymer. BC has higher crystallinity and purity compared to plant cellulose. Scientific studies on the production of BC from lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are minimal compared to other common bacteria such as Acetobacter xylinum. LAB was screened and isolated from different tissues of Mimosa pudica (medicinal plant) using MRS broth and agar as the selective medium. LAB isolates were subjected to 16S rRNA gene sequencing of all the bacterial isolates. BC was produced from all LAB isolates by incubating at 30 °C for 14 days in herbal tea medium (Strobilanthes crispus) and HS medium (control) with 130 r.p.m agitation. BC produced by two selected bacterial isolates was characterized using FESEM, FTIR, XRD, and TGA. Molecular analysis of the 16S rRNA gene of all the potential LAB isolates shows 99.86 - 100% identity to 16S rRNA sequences of other Lactobacillus plantarum strains. Two selected L. plantarum strains (LBM001 & LBM004) produce BC in sphere-like particles with a 1.4 to 2.2 µm diameter range of microfiber. FTIR analysis shows that BC produced by LBM001 and LBM004 have four similar cellulose regions identified in cellulose from other sources, which are O-H stretch (3400-330 cm-1), C-H stretch (2970-2800 cm-1), O-H bending (1620cm-1) and C-O-C stretch (1100-1073 cm-1). XRD analysis shows BC produced by the L. plantarum strains consists of two different XRD peaks at the 2θ angle of 21.53° and 21.85° instead of a single peak (22.76°) identified in the BC produced by A. xylinum and plant cellulose. A similar TG and DTG curved pattern was detected in the BC produced by the L. plantarum strains with the BC produced by A. xylinum and plant cellulose. The LAB isolates from M. pudica have potential in BC production based on the multiple characterization studies.


In this research, the turbulent behaviour of non-Newtonian suspensions in open channel conditions will be examined and investigated. With lack of fundamental understanding about the mechanisms involved about how turbulent flows of non-Newtonian fluid transport suspension particles, direct numerical simulation may come into the research as a useful validation tool. A better understanding of the mechanism operating in the turbulent flow of non-Newtonian suspensions in open channel flow would lead to improved design of many of the systems used in the mining and mineral processing industries. The main aim of the study is to describe how does a non-Newtonian fluid transport particles in an open channel and validation of a computational model. Direct numerical simulation (DNS) of the turbulent flow of non-Newtonian fluids in an open channel is modelled using a spectral element-Fourier method. The simulation of a yield-pseudoplastic fluid using the Herschel-Bulkley model agrees qualitatively with experimental results from field measurements of mineral tailing slurries. The effect of variation in flow behaviour index is investigated and used to assess the sensitivity of the flow to these physical parameters. This methodology is seen to be useful in designing and optimising the transport of slurries in open channels.


Abstract: Abstract: Nature is a highly tendentious Word and was already so
in the time of Quintilian. Since the Stoic ideal was "to live according
to Nature," the concept can be invoked persuasively in every phase of
education. But Nature had other regular functions in rhetoric: to
demarcate innate talent from acquired skill ( Natura vs. Ars ); to
distinguish reality, the outside world, from verbal imitation; and to
privilege preferred patterns of argumentation. These competing uses
lead to inconsistencies, especially in presenting the relationship
between Nature and imitation. The purpose of this paper is to detect
these contradictions and illustrate the assumptions that underlie them
in Quintilian9s tieatment of invention, organization, and expression.


As part of the integration of the RL10 engine into the Shuttle Centaur vehicle, a satisfactory method of conditioning the engine to operating temperatures had to be established. This procedure, known as cooldown, is different from the existing Atlas Centaur due to vehicle configuration and mission profile differenced. The program is described, and the results of a Shuttle Centaur cooldown program are reported. Mission peculiarities cause substantial variation in propellant inlet conditions between the substantiated Atlas Centaur and Shuttle Centaur with the Shuttle Centaur having much larger variation in conditions. A test program was conducted to demonstrate operation of the RL10 engine over the expanded inlet conditions. As a result of this program, the Shuttle Centaur requirements were proven satisfactory. Minor configuration changes incorporated as a result of this program provide substantial reduction in cooldown propellant consumption.


This thesis unravels the pizza trade through a sociological inquiry into its history, its businesses, and its people. In Sweden, the typical pizza place is a small independent business, owned and o ...


Introduction: Thrombo-embolic event (TE) is a frequent complication of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (cALL) and is associated with reduced survival. Overexpression of podoplanin or coagulome genes and coagulation pathway activation have been identified in cancer-induced TE but the role of leukemia environment in TE occurrence has not been fully elucidated in ALL. We assessed whether leukemia gene expression (GE) signature at diagnosis was associated with TE development in cALL.
 Methods: We included children aged 0-18 years old (y.o.), from two hospitals, with newly diagnosed ALL and available RNA sequencing data from bone marrow at diagnosis. The primary outcome was the occurrence of grade ≥2 TE during ALL therapy using the Ponte Di Legno Working Group classification. TEs were classified as early (ET) if they occurred within 6 weeks from treatment start, or late (LT) otherwise. We compared differential gene expression (DE) in children with and without TE, adjusted for age (<10 or ≥10 y.o.) and ALL type (T or B-ALL). A secondary analysis stratified children between ET, LT and no TE. Gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) was performed on KEGG and gene ontology (GO) databases. DE with absolute fold change ≥2 and p-values <0.05 were considered significant.
 Results: We included 80 patients (median age: 5 years [interquartile range, IQR: 3-11 years], 53% male, 83% precursor B-cell ALL) of whom 19 (23.8%) developed a TE (7 ET and 12 LT) at a median of 76 days (IQR: 31-133 days) following cancer diagnosis. Patients with TE were more likely to be ≥10 y.o., while other demographic and clinical characteristics were similar. No genes from the coagulome, podoplanin or Hallmark coagulation pathways were differentially expressed in children with and without TE. The KEGG Ribosome pathway was the most upregulated pathway in the group with TE (normalized enrichment score (NES) = 2.35, adjusted p-value= 0.012) and ET (NES = 2.63, adjusted p-value < 0.001). LT was not significantly associated with ribosome pathway dysregulation. Interestingly, prior reports identified functional enrichment in ribosomal pathway as a biomarker for venous TE. A heatmap classification for ribosomal genes revealed 3 distinct signatures: ribosomal downregulation, moderate and high ribosomal activation. High ribosomal activation profile was seen in 6/7 ET and 9/12 LT, corresponding to a positive and negative predictive value of 0.55 and 0.92 for TE, respectively.
 Conclusion: TEs in cALL were not associated with dysregulation in coagulation pathways or podoplanin gene at the RNA level. However, ribosomal translational pathway was highly upregulated in the group with thrombosis, particularly with ET. Dysregulation of posttranscriptional machinery might explain the pro-thrombotic effect of leukemia environment in cALL and warrants further investigation including proteomic exploration.
 Citation Format: Marie-Claude Pelland-Marcotte, Meredith Michelle Rémy, Yan Ma, Jessica Liu, Camille Jimenez-Cortes, Thomas Sontag, Maxime Caron, Pascal Saint-Onge, Sylvie Langlois, Charles Joly-Beauparlant, Daniel Sinnett, Arnaud Droit, Thai Hoa Tran, Raoul Santiago. Ribosomal translational regulation is a potential mechanism for leukemia-related thrombo-embolic event in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2022; 2022 Apr 8-13. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2022;82(12_Suppl):Abstract nr 3897.


The heavy quark spin symmetry implies that in addition to the recently observed Z(10610) and Z(10650) molecular resonances with I = 1+ there should exist two or four molecular bottomonium-like states with I = 1. Properties of these G-odd states are considered, including their production in the radiative transitions from Υ(5S), by applying the same symmetry to the Υ(5S) resonance and the transition amplitudes. The considered radiative processes can provide a realistic option for observing the yet hypothetical states. The masses and the decay properties of the recently discovered [1] isotriplet resonances Zb(10610) (Zb) and Zb(10650) (Z ′ b) at the B B̄ and BB̄ thresholds strongly suggest that these are 'molecular' type [2] threshold singularities in the S-wave channels for the corresponding heavy meson-antimeson pair. The properties of such threshold resonances are related by the heavy quark spin symmetry (HQSS) similarly to the relations between the properties of the B and B mesons. In particular it has been argued [2] that the existence of the observed 'twin' resonances Zb and Z ′ b resonances and the heavy quark spin symmetry imply an existence of a larger family of 'molecular' peaks at the thresholds of the B and B meson-antimeson pairs, which family should consist of at least four, but more likely of six isovector resonances. The observed Zb and Z ′ b states have quantum numbers I(J ) = 1(1). The rest of the isovector states in the family have negative G parity and are denoted here asWbJ with two states having J = 0 (Wb0 andW ′ b0) and one each with J = 1 and J = 2: Wb1 and Wb2. The WbJ states cannot be produced in single-pion transitions from Υ(5S), but can be produced in hadronic transitions with emission of ρ meson from higher Υ-like bottomonium states with mass above approximately 11.4GeV. At present however no data are available on such bottomonium states, and we have to consider other possibilities for a study of the expected new molecular resonances. In this paper I discuss the production of the isotopically (and electrically) neutral components of the expected isovector multiplets in radiative transitions from the Υ(5S) resonance: Υ(5S) → WbJ γ. Specifically, will be considered the relations, following from HQSS, between the rates of such transitions to all the WbJ resonances. Although a prediction of the absolute rate is currently quite uncertain and is limited to the general expectation that Γ[Υ(5S) → WbJ γ]/Γ[Υ(5S) → Zb π] ∼ α, an understanding of the relative rates could serve as a guidance in the searches for the expected molecular resonances. The relations between the discussed resonances arise due to the known suppression by the inverse of the b quark mass of the strong interaction depending on the spin of the b quark or antiquark. In particular in the limit, where this interaction is completely turned off the spin variables of the heavy quark and antiquark are purely 'classificational' in the sense that they define the quantum numbers of the states containing the bb̄ pair, but the dynamics proceeds as if the heavy quark had no spin at all. In particular in this 'spinless b' (SLB) limit the B mesons behave as heavy particles with spin 1/2, and an S-wave BB̄ pair can be in a state with total angular momentum zero or one, and these states are denoted here as 0−SLB and 1 − SLB respectively, where the superscript indicates the parity. Clearly, in the SLB


Optimal entry flight of hypersonic vehicles requires achieving specific mission objectives under complex nonlinear flight dynamics constraints. The challenge lies in rapid generation of optimal or near-optimal flight trajectories with significant changes in the initial flight conditions during entry. Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have shown the capability to capture the inherent nonlinear mapping between states and optimal actions in complex control problems. This paper focused on comprehensive investigation and evaluation of a DNN-based method for three-dimensional hypersonic entry flight trajectory generation. The network is designed using cross-validation to ensure its performance, enabling it to learn the mapping between flight states and optimal actions. Since the time-consuming training process is conducted offline, the trained neural network can generate a single optimal control command in about 0.5 milliseconds on a PC, facilitating onboard applications. With the advantages in mapping capability and calculating speed of DNNs, this method can rapidly generate control action commands based on real-time flight state information from the DNN model. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method maintains a high level of accuracy even in scenarios where the initial flight conditions (including altitude, velocity, and flight path angle) deviate from their nominal values, and it has certain generalization ability.


Modified tripyrranes incorporating furan and thiophene rings were found to condense with benzene, pyridine and indene dialdehydes to give a series of novel porphyrin analogues, including thia- and oxa-carbaporphyrins; the latter readily forms nickel(II) and palladium(II) organometallic complexes.


Europe as a multilingual continent hosts three main types of languages: dominant languages, autochthonous minority languages, and new minority languages. From a policy standpoint, planning for speakers of these languages and their needs become a complex matter in which many actors with different interests are involved. Of the many issues which policy-makers must deal with, the role of translation is often unexplored. However, in any multilingual territory, the adoption of a language policy implies decisions whether to translate or not. With that understanding, this paper explores the role of translation in language policy in Northern Ireland. By doing so, we highlight the translation implications of policy decisions. This helps to illustrate the complexity of language and translation policy. In detail, the paper explores the complexities of language policy as seen in translation policies for speakers of Irish, Ulster Scots, and new minority languages. Specifically, it considers translation policies in the judicial system, in the healthcare system, and in local governments.


Motivation Political groups frame issues to build support for their policy agenda. Issue framing helps unite diverse coalitions, but it may also invite competition from political opponents. Identifying political "discourse coalitions" – communities of allied interest groups that invoke similar semantic concepts during legislative debate (Hajer 1993) – is valuable but has proven not easily amenable to large-scale quantification. It involves identifying discursive concepts ("frames"), associating each frame with a political actor, and measuring the shared frames and other ties connecting those actors. The biggest scalability hurdle is reliance on human coders. The sheer amount of political debate – thousands of utterances between hundreds of actors over days, months or years – seems to demand a selection of a subset of the data for a small-N case study analysis. Similarly, the complexity of debate would appear to call for qualitative analysis. Indeed, the study of political discourse is perhaps best associated with the qualitative and postmodern traditions of social science (e.g. Hajer 1993, 1995; Schmidt 2008; Fischer 2012).


This article introduces how SecureKey Technologies Inc. (SecureKey) worked with various network participants and innovation partners alongside government, corporate, and consumer-focused collaborators, in a consortium approach to create a mutually beneficial network of self-sovereign identity (SSI) principles with blockchain in Canada. These principles are based on giving users ownership and control over all of their digital identity attributes as an alternative approach to the current status quo of centralized digital identity, which focuses on discrete identities are made within individual online properties. Blockchain is used as the foundation for its strong security protocols to prevent information from being identified, accessed, or misused and uphold SSI principles. This article will consider the current status quo of digital identity known as centralized digital identity and comparisons to the case study's emphasis on the alternative thinking of SSI with principles with blockchain, which prioritizes a decentralized, self-sovereign, consortium approach as opposed to discrete identities within individual online properties. Each of these principles will be explained in detail before highlighting the practical implications, lessons learned for future applications, and how both the Canadian and global identity landscapes should proceed for wider acceptance of SSI with blockchain. The case study detailed – that of Verified.Me – will demonstrate how blockchain developers can actively work to help partners transition from current identity silos to instead collaborate across varied industries and create a cohesive, secure service and digital identity network that benefits users through SSI principles and the benefits of blockchain. We also offer recommendations for how both the Canadian and global identity landscapes should proceed for wider acceptance of SSI with blockchain, the benefits of doing so, and anticipated barriers affecting the adoption of future decentralized identity initiatives.


Based on the ANN αth order inverse system method, this paper presents a novel method to approximately decouple the controlled nonlinear MDF robot into a number of independent SISO linear subsystems. Then well developed linear system theory is used to design an additional feedback linear controller to successfully realize the real time tracking of any arbitrary trajectory starting from arbitrary initial conditions even if the desired trajectory is not known in advance. Experiment results show its very good decoupling control and tracking performance. With the character of simple structure and without knowing the control system's precise model, this method can be generalized to a class of MIMO nonlinear system in real field.


This paper has made a method of the load distribution coefficient ( K 1) among contact zones of double W-N gears, from the calculation of nerly a hundred kinds of diffesent working conditions with distinct parameters or load, the simplified formulus for K 1 at 4-8 steps of load are made out, and the calculated of the strength of double W-N gears is improved.


Using the Monte Carlo techniques single steps on Kossel-type crystal surfaces were simulated under equilibrium conditions up to the temperature region where statistical theories excluding overhanging step edge (ledge) configurations are questionable. The ledge length was varied between 40 and 960 units leading to average maximal step widths up to 40 units, so reaching dimensions observable with modern electron-optical techniques. Jump and pair frequency distributions of the ledge were investigated after an equilibrium state was reached by direct tracing of its successive paths over the surface. The distributions were compared with those of an analytical low temperature step model.


The Georgia Institute of Technology, in collaboration with four local school systems, is teaching sophomore level calculus via distance learning to students who have exhausted the math offerings in their high school. Students enrolled in the program are highly successful in the course compared to their on-campus college peers. They also matriculate in large numbers to Georgia Tech, making it a highly effective recruitment tool for attracting the most academically advanced students in the state. This paper addresses the many benefits to the students and university in such a program. Further, it highlights some of the potential problem areas for both K-12 public school systems and universities when trying to forge similar partnerships.


Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci first coined the term "hegemony" and also elaborated on cultural hegemony. It is a common perception that cultural powers and organisations are hegemonic-centred, resulting in a network of invisible powers. Hegemonic power processes are an integral part of daily social and cultural practices that help to perpetuate power relations. The repercussions of hegemony can be seen in various aspects of society, such as caste, class, ethnicity, occupation, gender, tradition, etc. This paper enlightens on the gendered hegemonic cultural practice of prostitution (sex work) as a traditional institution in the Bedia community. The intensive fieldwork in Habla hamlet, a sub-village of Luhari village (village assembly) of the Bedia community in Sagar district in Madhya Pradesh, India, was conducted to reveal the hegemonic practices in the community. Forty people aged between 50 to 60 years have been interviewed for this study. Twenty females and twenty males were selected for data collection, and observations had been made in the hamlet to understand hegemony through social institutions. Moreover, we have found that the male members are alert to the preservation of the purity and chastity of their wives but compelled their sisters and daughters, with the support of social institutions, to remain unmarried and take up prostitution (sex work). In particular, Bedias' hegemonic traditional cultural behaviour plays an essential role in the continuation of discrimination against Bedia women. Additionally, we explore the mechanism of this hegemonic power through the role of gender, patriarchy, false consciousness, emotions, power of common sense, ideology, and history, which have been responsible for the victimisation of Bedia women for


Summary The aim of field experiments carried out in 2012–2013 was to evaluate the usefulness of chemical fungicides, natural products, fertilizers and biological products used in integrated protection against septoria late blight of celery (Septoria apiicola Speg.). The following conventional fungicides: Amistar 250 SC and Signum 33 WG, natural products: Timorex Gold 24 EC, Beta-Chikol, extracts WS-15 TM, WS-16 FN and WS-1M, fertilizers: Viflo Cal S, Silvit, Actifos and biological product – Serenade were evaluated. The examined products showed high and very high effectiveness in protection of celery against septoria late blight.


Many methods to calculate message latencies for Controller Area Network (CAN) have previously been presented based upon the static worst-case behaviour of the system. With the use of modern simulation tools however, the behaviour of CAN networks can be simulated dynamically in order to find the likely worst-case response times for CAN messages. This paper shows the development of an automotive body control network model to be used as the basis for further simulations. A method to simulate the Worst-Case Response Time of this model is then presented, taking into account random queuing jitter.


The therapeutic efficacy of atropine and salbutamol sprays alone or in association was experimented in patients with atopic bronchial asthma as part of an investigation of the bronchodilatatory drugs and the pathogenesis of bronchospasm. As personally observed in other situations, combination of these drugs does not allow their maximum effect to be obtained.


The current energy demand of buildings in the studied countries varies a lot. With the new directive from the EU requiring nearly zero energy buildings, all the countries are striving for similar goals. Although the countries can make their own interpretation of what a nearly zero energy building is, the goals are quite close to each other. In a way, the EU has succeeded with their directive. The Swedish proposal about nearly zero energy buildings is way behind the other countries in our study. This proposal has received a lot of critique and a new proposal is being developed.


Strict provisions are made in "Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Administration of Credit Reference Industry"for commercial banks to fulfill their personal bad information prior disclosure obligations,which is conducive to the protection of the information subjects' rights. Based on an investigation and inspection of Xuancheng City Central Sub-branch of the People's Bank of China regarding law enforcement,the paper discusses the status of commercial banks in terms of fulfilling personal bad information prior disclosure obligations,analyzes the existing problems and adverse effects in practice,and puts forward the related countermeasure proposals.


Chord transformation and the description of chord space feature are studied in detail,and the concrete approach for extracting geometric feature is achieved experimentally.Meanwhile,the robustness of this feature is proved through experiment.The feature has invariant character for translation,rotation and scale,and some degree of tolerance for affine transformation.On the other side,after filtering original image with the feature of a specifically shape of model in the chord space by inverse chord transformation,the result holds the edges of objects having the same or similar shape with the model while restraining other edges.Experimental results show that it is effective to use the feature for the similarity match between(geometric) shapes.Moreover,the approach is easy to be understood which can be implemented in various fields such as object recognition,target tracking,etc.


The Late Cretaceous Adel Mountain Volcanic (AMV) center was characterized primarily by mafic to intermediate, eflusive volcanism and deposition o f primary eruptive products and volcaniclastic sediments in coastal plain and marginal marine environments along the Western Interior Cretaceous seaway. The AMV succession consists o f sequences o f lava flows and associated intrusive and sedimentary rocks, including sequences o f coarse-grained volcaniclastic deposits interbedded with fine-grained fluvial deposits. Sedimentary rocks are dominated by pebble to boulder, matrixand clastsupported conglomerates and stratified, graded and massive sandstone and mudrock units. This study applies delineation o f lithofacies and lithofacies assemblages to define sedimentary transport processes and depositional environments that typify AMV volcaniclastic apron and intertonguing foreland basin deposits. Sedimentary rocks were divided into lithofacies, based on texture, grain size, fabric and geometry, and lithofacies assemblages, groups o f lithofacies produced by common flow types and sediment support mechanisms. Five main flow types were recognized in the AMV succession: tidal currents, normal or dilute stream flow, hyperconcentrated flow, debris flow and lava flow. Associations o f lithofacies assemblages are characteristic o f particular depositional environments: lava flow and tidal current assemblages comprise tidal flat deposits o f the coastal plain environment; normal or dilute stream flow and hyperconcentrated flow assemblages comprise deposits o f the braidplain environment; and debris flow and hyperconcentrated flow assemblages comprise deposits o f the volcaniclastic fan environment. Late Cretaceous volcanic activity in western Montana induced significant changes in foreland basin depositional processes which are recorded by volcaniclastic sequences o f the AMV center. Sedimentary deposits and primary igneous rocks o f the AMV volcaniclastic apron were deposited in tidal flat, braidplain and volcaniclastic fan environments that record progradation o f the volcaniclastic apron into the retroarc foreland basin. The lateral and vertical distribution o f lithofacies assemblages record depositional processes in proximal, medial and distal regions o f the volcanic center and distinctive lateral changes in sedimentation that correspond to distance from the volcanic source area. The lithofacies architecture o f the AMV volcaniclastic apron and intertonguing foreland basin deposits is distinguished by widespread intereruptive sedimentation, dominated by debris flow and hyperconcentrated flow deposition, in response to denudation o f the volcanic center.


Adolescents grow to experience both emotional and sexual changes that occur at this stage in life. During this stage, these adolescents have increased experimentation, including sexuality, this also affects HIV-positive adolescents. The aim of this study was to evaluate the sexual and reproductive health of HIV-positive adolescents.

A semi-structured interviewer-administered questionnaire was used to obtain relevant information from adolescents who were enrolled into the study over a 6 months period. Information obtained included the bio-data, menstruation, sexual activity, HIV status of partner, use of contraceptives, abortion, and treatment of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Data were analyzed using SPSS version 23.

One hundred and forty-seven HIV-positive adolescents were recruited into the study, males were 56 (38.1%), while females were 91 (61.9%). Fifty-nine (64.8%) of the females have started menstruating, out of which nine (6.1%) of them were sexually active. All those that were sexually active did not know the HIV status of their partners. Four (44.4%) of those who were sexually active use contraceptives, while three became pregnant out of wedlock and one had an abortion. Three (33.3%) of the sexually active adolescents had sexually transmitted infection. None of the 46 early adolescents was sexually active, but three out of the 71 middle adolescents and 6 out of the 30 late adolescents were sexually active.

HIV-positive adolescents engage in sexual activities which are sometimes risky, just like other adolescents. The consequences of such acts include unplanned pregnancies and abortions in addition to sexually transmitted infections. Therefore, additional programs/interventions should be put in place to address these observations as well as prepare them as they transit to adulthood.


Let be Siegel's modular form of genus which is an eigenfunction for all operators in the -component of a Hecke ring; in particular, . This paper examines the series ( does not divide ). It is proved that each such series is a rational function, where the degree of the numerator of this function does not exceed and the denominator coincides with the denominator of the series .Bibliography: 6 titles.


Andesitic rocks produce an alkali-silica reaction with the components of the interstitial phase of concrete. This reaction can be considered as belonging to the slow-kinetic type, since the incongruent dissolution of the rock-forming minerals leads to the late formation of siliceous calc-alkaline gel. As a conquence, the conventional mortar-bar method does not detect such reaction until 90 days later.


In this study, we demonstrate the effect of atomic arrangement and valence band structures on the optical properties of ZnxCd1−xS nanocrystals (NCs) by controlling the Zn ratios. Our results indicate that the increase in coordination number of Zn–O bonding within the NCs and the structural changes in the valence band (VB) would enhance their quantum yield (QY) due to the influence of the surface states and charge recombination rate in VB, respectively. Consequently, the ZnxCd1−xS NCs with an optimal x = 0.4 have the highest QY of about 56%. By combining structural and optical analysis, we systematically elucidate the effect of composition on the local structure and the charge distribution in the VB of the ZnxCd1−xS NCs. Thus, this study provides mechanistic insight into the development of ZnCdS NCs with high QY.


This paper deal with current stress during the starting time of Dual-Active-Bridge DC/DC converters. The cold-starting method and the popular soft-starting technique using Dual-Phase-Shifts (DPS) are firstly analyzed. Accordingly, mathematics equations to identify the current stress are derived. Based on that a new method is proposed that preserves the minimum current stress of the former method, whereas reduces the starting time. Experimental results confirm that current stress is reduced 40% compared to that of cold-starting method; and the starting time is shorten by 12.5% compared to that obtained by DPS method with the same current stress.


The presence of Haitian immigrants in the Brazilian Amazon after 2010 is a new development that challenges both researchers and governments in terms both of understanding the phenomenon and responding to their needs. Based on ethnographic material collected at the Tri-border region and in Manaus, the author raises key questions about the Haitian presence in the region and asks why Brazil came to be an emigration option for them. From this perspective, the paper asks; Is Brazil becoming a new Eldorado for skilled and unskilled immigrants? Some implications of this new phenomenon for Brazilian society are considered, with particular attention to the country's immigration policy.


BROOK RH, Fink A, Kosecoff J, et al: Educating physicians and treating patients in the ambulatory setting. Where are we going and how will we know when we arrive? Ann Intern Med 107:392-398, 1987. Recommends the addition of programs in ambulatory care and housestaff education to improve the quality of care in the ambulatory setting. BROWN MS, Brown CA: Circumcision decision. Prominence of social concerns. Pediatrics 80:215-219,1987. Observes that parents base their decision predominantly on social con-


Many nations are adopting smart city applications, which boost residents' satisfaction with their living conditions and reduce pollution by better-using people's time and resources. Multi-Location parking garages are standard in smart cities because they allow for better access control and space allocation to avoid traffic and delay in complex business areas. The Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to link billions of devices and services worldwide, at any time, and for a wide range of uses. Smart parking is currently one of the most talked-about subjects in IoT research. More than a million cars are on the roadways of a contemporary major city, but more parking spots are needed to accommodate them. The main idea of the research is to link multiple parking stations as a single unit using IoT and to design a shared parking system to avoid delays in parking. An intelligent parking system is proposed in this research to help users overcome the challenge of locating parking and reduce the time spent searching for the closest accessible parking spot. In order to ensure the safety of highly restricted places such as residential areas, military bases, and government buildings, the system has developed to serve as the centralized automatic vehicle identifier for owner identification.When a vehicle enters the parking station, the slot number will display with the vehicle number and capture the Driver's image to maintain vehicle security. If the slots are unavailable, the model displays the corresponding parking station slot number to avoid delay. The image processing technique is applied to recognize the driver/owner of a vehicle while leaving the parking station to avoid the theft of vehicles and to enhance vehicle security. Suppose a driver is allowed or denied access to a particular parking station. In that case, they can see this information clearly on the user interface installed at the exit gate. The proposed algorithm is an Intelligent Face Recognition based Multi-Location Linked IoT-based Car Parking System (IFRbMLL-IoT-CPS) for secure car parking that reduces parking delay with better efficiency levels. The proposed system also reduces traffic congestion, saves drivers valuable time and money, innovative natural resource usage, lowers pollution, wastage of fuel, and improves vehicle security. The proposed model exhibits better performance when contrasted with traditional models.


The misalignment of the transmitting and receiving coils in a wireless inductive link can degrade the link efficiency and limit the amount of power transfer. A coil structure, which is composed of two orthogonally-placed windings for the receiver, will be presented. Such structure lessens the variation of the coupling between the transmitting and receiving coils under coil misalignment. A canonical model for describing the interactions between the transmitting and receiving coils will be firstly presented and then applied to model the entire coil structure. An experimental prototype has been built and evaluated on a test bed under lateral and angular misalignments. Experimental results are found to be in close agreement with the theoretical predictions.


Cannabinoids biosynthesis in phytoplankton has attracted much attention
due to the rapid development of genetic tools and the optimization of
genetic transformation methods in microalgae. To monitor the
biosynthesis process, proper sample preparation and practical
instrumental methods are needed to measure the various precursors,
intermediates, cannabinoids, and their degradation products. The
objective of this study was to develop a sample preparation procedure
for the quantification of olivetolic acid (OA), cannabigerolic acid
(CBGA), cannabidiolic acid (CBDA), tetrahydrocannabinolic acid (THCA),
olivetol (OL), cannabidiol (CBD), and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) using
single-quadrupole gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS).
Isochrysis galbana was used as the model matrix. After methanol
extraction, samples were purified using solid phase extraction (SPE),
silylated with N-methyl-N-(trimethylsilyl)trifluoroacetamide, and
analyzed using GC-MS in electron ionization mode. A strong
anion-exchange SPE efficiently recovered OA, CBGA, CBDA, and THCA. A
graphitized carbon black SPE was necessary to purify OL, CBD, and THC.
Both columns removed amino acids, sugars, polyols, and pigments from the
algae extract and prepared samples that are suitable for silylation and
GC-MS analysis. The total protocol, including solvent extraction, SPE,
silylation, and GC-MS analysis, was validated in accordance with the ICH
guidelines. Performance characteristics of our method are superior to
existing protocols with similar complexity in the literature.


The invention relates to a log frame transport cart, comprising a frame, walking systems, a braking system, a power system, a hydraulic system, an electrical system and a cab. The walking systems are installed on the frame and can be lifted and steered, and at least one layer of log frame boxes used for piling logs is arranged on the frame. The log frame transport cart is used for transporting logs, the log frame transport cart walks flexibly with lower site requirements, the whole cart can be lowered through the walking systems, waste of agents can be decreased, and thus the cost is reduced; the cart is controlled by a wireless remote control, and operating personnel do not need to wait ventilation of a fumigation room, so that the process is reduced and the working efficiency is improved; the operating personnel do not need to enter the fumigation room, so that hurt to the operating personnel by the chemical agents is lowered.


Objective To investigate the relationship between normal pregnancy,threatened abortion,and the balance of helper T cell 1(Th1) and helper T cell 2(Th2)cytokines.Methods The concentrations of Th1 cytokine(IL-2 and TNF-α) and Th2 cytokine(IL-4 and IL-10) in the sera of 60 threatened abortion women and 42 normal pregnant women were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay(ELISA).Results The concentrations of IL-2 and TNF-α in the sera of threatened abortion group were significantly higher than those in normal pregnancy group(P0.05),while the concentrations of IL-4 and IL-10 in the sera of threatened abortion group had no statistical significance compared with those in normal pregnancy group(P0.05).The balance of Th1/Th2 cytokines deviated to Th1 cytokine reaction.Conclusions The results show that the pathological imbalance of Th1/Th2 cytokines may be related to threatened abortion.


The theoretical relationship among multi-dimension trust,multi-dimension commitment and information sharing is proposed based on related literatures and empirically tested using data collected from 189 manufacturing companies in Pearl River Delta.The result shows that competence trust between the supplier and buyer has significant positive impact on calculative commitment and affective commitment,while the impact on information sharing is insignificant;what's more,goodwill trust has significant positive impact on affective commitment and information sharing,while has insignificant effect on calculative commitment,on the other hand,calculative commitment has significant positive impact on information sharing,while affective commitment's impact is relatively insignificant.Based on the above mentioned empirical study and environment of Chinese culture,some management suggestions are concluded.


Detection of minimal repeated pattern (MRP) is an indispensable ingredient of the color dividing and plate-making system in the IoT-based printing fabric industry. We present a minimal repeated pattern detection problem and then design an effective and efficient neighbor similarity point location (NSPL) method for automatic detection of PRP. We theoretically reveal the effective working mechanism of NSPL and provide a specific implementation by transforming it into a sub-pattern retrieval problem. Evaluation on the printing fabric image set and the experimental results demonstrate that the NSPL is very suitable for the detection of the minimal repeated pattern of printed images and achieves greater performance than the manual and other existing automatic detection methods in detection accuracy, efficiency, and robustness.


'O‐Acyl isopeptide method' is an efficient synthetic method for peptides. We designed 'O‐acyl isodipeptide units', Boc‐Ser/Thr(Fmoc‐Xaa)‐OH, as important building blocks to enable routine use of the O‐acyl isopeptide method. In the synthesis of an Aβ1–42 isopeptide using O‐acyl isodipeptide unit Boc–Ser(Fmoc–Gly)–OH, a side reaction, resulting in the deletion of Ser26 in the O‐acyl isopeptide structure, was noticed during coupling of the unit. We observed that the side reaction occurred during the activation step and was solvent‐dependent. In DMF or NMP, an intramolecular side reaction, originating from the activated species of the unit, occurred during the activation step. In non‐polar solvents such as CHCl3 or CH2Cl2, the side reaction was less likely to occur. Using CH2Cl2 as solvent in coupling the unit, the target Aβ1–42 isopeptide was synthesized with almost no major side reaction. Copyright © 2007 European Peptide Society and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Deep brain stimulator surgery represents an interesting option for medically resistant Parkinson's disease patients, indisposed by "wearing-off" and motor fluctuations. Considering the neurodegenerative nature of PD, after approximately five years of natural disease evolution, one half to twothirds of patients develops this delayed complication. The occurrence of dyskinesia and motor fluctuations interferes with activities of the daily living, consequently impacting the quality of life. A high frequency chronic stimulation targeting the subthalamic nucleus, located ventral to the thalamus and involved in the basal ganglia system, generates the same outcome than an ablation of this structure. Despite the positive impact of DBS surgery on PD symptomatology, physicians should be mindful of the vulnerability of this particular population and promote thorough monitoring, especially during the perioperative phase. A thoughtful approach considering the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying PD is required in order to select an individual's pharmacopoeia. We report the case of a 61 year-old male, known for seventeen year of evolving PD, who developed acutely a state of generalized symmetrical rigidity, with a predilection for axial and bulbar musculature. After a meticulous review of this patient's pharmacologic profile, sufentanil was deemed the responsible agent.


The formation and stability of FexPy+ cluster ion produced by laser ablation were investigated. The gas-phase reaction equation in the formation of these cluster ions is P-x+Fe-x(+)-->FexPy+Px-y. And the odd-even variation related to the number of P atom in mass spectrum was explained with the calculation of the electronic occupied state in the cluster ions in which the electronic structure of transition metal dominates the bonding in cluster ions, and the higher ionization energy of even cluster ions results in removing easily electrons from the-single electron occupied states of cluster ions.


Summary Normal and genetically dys-trophic chickens were fed diets deficient in arginine or further aggravated by the addition of lysine. Growth of dystrophic chicks is depressed less by a deficiency of arginine than that of normal chicks. Muscular ability of dystrophic chicks was improved by feeding them an arginine deficient diet but this effect may be related to the size of the bird. The total creatinine content of the pectoral muscle of dystrophic chicks was reduced more with a deficiency of arginine than was that of normal chickens.


1. Hopewell JC, Parish S, Clarke R, Armitage J, Bowman L, Hager J, Lathrop M, Collins R; MRC/BHF Heart Protection Study Collaborative Group. No impact of KIF6 genotype on vascular risk and statin response among 18,348 randomized patients in the Heart Protection Study. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2011;57:2000–2007. 2. Ridker PM, Macfadyen JG, Glynn RJ, Chasman DI. Kinesin-like protein 6 (KIF6) polymorphism and the efficacy of rosuvastatin in primary prevention. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2011;4:312–317.


Plasmodium vivax malaria traditionally thought to be benign, nowadays is often diagnosed in patients with a myriad of systemic complications like cerebral malaria, acute respiratory distress syndrome, acute kidney injury, acute pancreatitis, hepatic dysfunction, disseminated intravascular coagulation, etc which were earlier attributed only to plasmodium falciparum. Hence timely intervention and expert care should be undertaken for vivax patients so that the mortality and morbidity associated with this form of malaria can be reduced.


According to the existing problems of dominate cells information missing,an automatic data mining method of contingence table is purposed.According to the location of dominate cells,the categories in the original table are classified and represented by tree structure models on the basis of relevant theories of Multinomial Processing Tree(MPT) models,the following processes including hypothesis generations,parameter estimation and goodness-of-fit test is performed automatically.Application result shows the approach can effectively extract the latent interactions and peculiarity association rules.


In today's high-speed wireless communication applications, the simultaneous demand for bandwidth-efficient modulation schemes such as M-QAM and high power-efficiency of electronic components in the system imposes a contradicting tradeoff. On one hand, with the RF power amplifier (PA) at the transmitter antenna being the major power "hungry" block in many such systems, high power-efficiency for the system is obtained when the PA consumes most of the little supplied dc power (e.g. from a battery) as RF power, which is the power delivered to the load. On the other hand, at high powers, the PA becomes nonlinear, which becomes problematic when the input to the PA has a time-varying envelope. More precisely, when an M-QAM modulated signal (which has varying envelope and phase) is transmitted, the PA nonlinearity characteristics adversely affect the system performance, such as degradation of the Bit Error Rate (BER). Although linearization and compensation techniques can be used to minimize the above mentioned degradation in system performance, such techniques are mostly not suitable for low-cost and small-size integrated-circuit implementations. As a result, to obtain an optimal solution to this linearity/efficiency tradeoff, the objective of this thesis is to qualitatively and quantitatively characterize the effect of the PA nonlinearity on the system performance metric, BER. To gain an intuitive understanding of the effect of the PA nonlinearity, a system simulation is developed. In addition, to achieve a simple relationship between this circuit nonlinearity and system performance, an appropriate model (AM-AM/AM-PM) to characterize the PA nonlinearity is found. In fact, the results of this thesis in characterizing the effect of the PA nonlinearity on system performance can be useful to PA designers to design cost-effective and efficient PAs by finding a PA operating point that lies in the nonlinear region as much as possible while still meeting the system performance requirements. Thesis Supervisor: Charles G. Sodini Title: Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science


The relation between body weight and dementia is complex. Some studies have found that weight loss precedes dementia onset, whereas others show that


Bladder cancer becomes the 5th leading cancer incidence. Management of bladder tumor is difficult because of its high recurrence rate (as high as 80%) after resection. It causes tremendous suffering and stress to the patient and the family. A non-invasive means of evaluating the entire bladder wall, especially the wall thickness as a biomarker, is clinically desired. MRI can provide such a means because of the intrinsic contrast between the urine and the wall by T1 and T2 relaxations. However, an acquisition without signal average (short-time scan) suffers from low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), while with signal average (long-time scan) introduces motion artifacts because of the bladder wall deformation due to urine inflow, intestines' peristalsis and lung breathing, etc. To enhance the SNR while mitigating the motion artifacts, we proposed an image-processing approach of acquiring repeated short-time scans without signal average and registering the repeated scans prior to average. The effectiveness of the approach depends on the noise level in the short-time scans and the robustness of the registration method. This pre-requisition leads us to investigate adequate pulse sequences for fully 3D data acquisition and registration method. After investigating several potential pulse sequences, we found the THRIVE pulse sequence with TR=6.23ms, TE=3.87ms, sampling size of 208×100, and flip angle of 10 degrees produced adequate tradeoff of noise and contrast in images of 224×224 array with voxel size of 0.9375×0.9375×1.0 mm3. Then a group-wise B-spline based 3D deformable algorithm was developed to register the short-time scans for compensating the bladder wall motion. Results from volunteer and patient studies demonstrated the effectiveness of the presented simple, innovative approach in reducing bladder motion, enhancing the SNR and preserving edge details for imaging the bladder wall and, therefore, facilitating the measure of the wall thickness and detecting bladder wall abnormality.


In this paper, the modeling and dynamic gain scheduling design of the Networked Control System(NCS) with packet losses are investigated. Instead of finding statically boundary condition for stability of NCS, we develop a linear quadratic regulation(LQR) gain scheduler method to dynamically compensate for degradation of the NCS real-time performance caused by lossy network. The NCS with packet losses is modeled as a jump linear system(JLS) by multi-rate sampling approach. A bank of packet-loss-dependant LQR gains is obtained via linear quadratic optimal control theory. One-on-one relationship between packet loss value and LQR gain is described through a lookup table. Simulation results of a networked robotic arm show the proposed algorithm can guarantee system stable and fast convergence rate of system states.


A visual cue is introduced that exploits the visual appearance of a single image to estimate the proximity to an obstacle. In particular, the appearance variation cue captures the variation in texture and / or color in the image, and is based on the assumption that there is less such variation when the camera is close to an obstacle. Random sampling is applied in order to evaluate the appearance variation fast enough for use in robotics. It is demonstrated that the randomly sampled appearance variation cue can be complementary to optic flow for obstacle detection; combining the two visual cues leads to better obstacle detection performance. Random sampling leads to sufficient computational efficiency for the cue's utilization in autonomous flight: a speed-up of a factor ∼100 is attained, which allows the successful control of the 16-gram flapping wing MAV DelFly II.


This article raises the decision - making function in recognizing outline of vehicles. Base of the ratio of lengths of . as well as the angles between, all sides to describe features of a ve- hicle. it also tells a way of taking data of the fringes of a vehicle in action, which will be analyzed and concluded for the purpose of recognition, t last. it have given the program block diagram of realizing the process of recognition.


Mast cells (MCs) participate in allergic diseases by producing pro-inflammatory mediators and regulatory cytokines. After high affinity IgE (FceRI) receptor activation, they release tryptase, b-hexosaminidase and other preformed pro-inflammatory substances by anaphylactic degranulation. Also, upon stimulation through Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4), they release pro-inflammatory mediators (such as Tumor Necrosis Factor, TNF), by piecemeal degranulation, orchestrating protective reactions against pathogens. Reactions involved in anaphylactic degranulation require specific vesicular-associated membrane proteins (VAMPs) involved in the latest step of exocytosis. However, the particular roles of VAMP proteins on piecemeal secretion observed after TLR4 receptor activation are not known. Utilizing RBL-2H3 cells differentiated to a pro-inflammatory phenotype, we investigated the role of VAMP8 and VAMP3 on lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced mediator secretion in MCs. Confocal microscopy images showed that, in non-stimulated cells, TNF localizes in VAMP3 and VAMP8-positive vesicles. After TLR4 stimulation, we observed an increase in TNF and VAMP8 co-localization, without any change on TNF and VAMP3 co-localization. Remarkably, VAMP8 blockade with specific siRNA impaired TNF secretion after LPS-challenge, while VAMP3 siRNA-mediated down regulation did not. Our data indicate that, although TNF is maintained in VAMP3-containing vesicles, TLR4 triggering leads to the secretion of TNF in VAMP8-containing carriers. Our results contribute to the description of the molecular events involved in late steps of TNF secretion induced by innate immune stimuli in that important immune cell type.


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November 9–10—A moderate disturbance commenced suddenly at 08h 57m GMT, November 9. H increased rapidly and then more slowly by a total of 39 γ in six minutes. D showed an easterly movement of 16′ before moving again towards the west, while Z decreased by 16 γ in the same time. H showed a downward trend from 12h to 13h, while at the same time Z increased, and all elements showed a few large and irregular movements which continued for the next thirteen hours. H remained depressed until 11h 50m, November 10, by which time movements in all elements had become only very slight. Ranges: D, 20′; H, 166 γ; Z, 168 γ.


Before analysing the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) it is useful to recall how it came about. In 2013 the governments of the EU member states instructed the EU Commission to start negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA) with Japan. At that time, the negotiations were considered as secondary by both parties to talks with the US: Europe was trying to forge the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and Japan was in the process of finalising the Transpacific Partnership (TPP) with, besides the US, 10 other nations. For both Europe and Japan at least part of the rationale for negotiating an FTA between them was to avoid the TTIP and TPP putting Japanese firms in Europe and European firms in Japan at a competitive disadvantage.