The vertical position of elongated tokamak plasmas is unstable on the time scale of the eddy currents in the axisymmetric conducting structures. In the absence of feedback control, the plasma would drift vertically and quench on the wall, a situation known as Vertical Displacement Event (VDE), with serious consequences for machine integrity. As tokamaks approach reactor regimes, VDE's cannot be tolerated: vertical feedback control must be robust against system uncertainty and the occurrence of noise and disturbances. At the same time, adaptive routines should be in place to handle unexpected events. The problem of robust control of the vertical position can be formulated in terms of identifying which variables affect vertical stability and which ones are not directly controlled/controllable; identifying the physical region of these variables, and the corresponding most unstable equilibria; and designing the control system to stabilize all equilibria with sufficient margin. The margin should be enough to allow the system to tolerate realistic scenarios of noise and disturbances. A set of metrics is introduced to characterize the problem of vertical stability: the stability margin describes the plasmawall interaction and the open-loop growth rate; the maximum controllable displacement looks at the vertical stabilization power supplies and their ability to handle noise and off-normal events; the gain and phase margins quantify the linear stability of the feedback control loop. The dependence of these metrics on relevant plasma parameters is proven with analytic calculations and numerical simulations: in particular, it is shown that the stability margin is a decreasing function of the plasma internal inductance, for a given plasma elongation. An upper bound of the value of the internal inductance is derived and validated with database analysis, which describes the most unstable equilibrium for given values of the external elongation and the edge safety factor. The stability metrics are evaluated for typical and ITER-like C-Mod plasmas to give an example of


The basic definitions of hazard, vulnerability and risk introduce the paper. Then, a comparison between different models for flood hazard assessment is performed, with application on a case study area (San Benedetto PO). Afterwards, vulnerability maps and risk evaluation are carried out for the area and thus risk evaluation. Finally some considerations about the reliability of different models proposed are drawn.


C an you see the fibre?" asks Johannes Köhler. And there it is: a gossamer thread bridging a gap about the width of my hand. The fibre is only 100 micrometres in diameter – roughly the thickness of a human hair. Despite being so small, it has some very special characteristics; they didn't yet exist 26 years ago, so the manner in which they might guide and modify laser light was unknown. For example, intense nonlinear optical effects within the fibre open up new vistas in basic research as well as promising new real-world applications. Conventional glass fibres have already fulfilled their promise – today's global fibre network forms the very backbone of our information society. Compared with the filigree fibres being developed in Erlangen, conventional glass fibres are as primitive as an early electronic calculator next to a modern tablet computer, in the sense that PCF offers a multitude of different "apps". The research being pursued by Philip Russell's department at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light focuses on this new breed of glass fibre, which is produced by unique microand nano-fabrication techniques. Doctoral student Johannes Köhler and I are standing in his lab next to an optical table on which a race track for light has been set up, complete with a powerful laser, lenses, mirrors and other optical elements. The invisible infrared light of the laser is passing through the 12-centimetre-long glass fibre at which Köhler is pointing. The fibre is hollow, its interior spanned by two closely spaced parallel glass membranes that run along the entire length of the fibre. These membranes are so gossamer-thin that the laser light, whose photons exert a weak physical force, can set them vibrating. The optoacoustic oscillations, in turn, alter the properties of the light. Just what is going on is the focus of Köhler's work. Experiments with other fibres containing different nanostructures are being conducted in nearby labs. Each alters laser light in a different way. Theodor Hänsch, Director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, and John Hall at NIST in the US, who shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics with Roy Glauber, made use of one such glass fibre type in their prize-winning work. Philip Russell, a British physicist born in Belfast, is the pioneer of PCF and mastermind of the Erlangen-based fibre world. He directs the 40-strong


Building contraventions and illegal subdivision of residential land are common phenomena in developing countries. These practices have major implications for the urban quality of life and place an enormous strain on urban services. The main purpose of the paper is to identify and discuss the impacts of building contraventions and informal land subdivision on the Quality of Life (QOL) within the context of the Al 'Utayfiyah area, located in the Al Karkh district of Baghdad, Iraq. A mixed methods approach involving a questionnaire and interview surveys and field observations was adopted to obtain the necessary data. Results indicate that building contraventions and informal land subdivision have significantly diminished the QOL in the study area. Specifically, it was found that the public utility networks are in poor conditions. Furthermore, these illegal activities have reduced open and public spaces and have put excessive pressure on urban infrastructure, resulting in an unhealthy and aesthetically unappealing urban environment. The paper concludes with some policy recommendations for improving regulation enforcement and building control in Baghdad.


Data from 12 US case-control studies of ovarian cancer, conducted during the period 1956-1986 and representing some 3,000 cases and 10,000 controls, were pooled and reanalyzed. Separate analyses were conducted for four subgroups of the pooled data: invasive epithelial ovarian cancers in white women; epithelial ovarian cancers of low malignant potential in white women, epithelial ovarian cancers in black women, and nonepithelial ovarian cancers. This paper gives a brief description of the participating studies and describes the methods used in the collaborative analysis.


The following paper accounts for a study carried out in order to find out the most recurrent types of aural misperceptions made by native listeners of Chilean Spanish when they are faced with the task of properly decoding spoken English in its RP accent, now known by some as GB (General British), in an educated colloquial style. The importance of the study in question lies primarily in discovering which are the segmental, suprasegmental (phonetic boundaries, word stress placement), lexical and syntactical elements in spoken discourse which most commonly impede comprehension. The findings of the referred study may become of importance in order to device strategies to avoid decoding difficulties by teachers and trainers of EFL for learners who intend to achieve a high-level command of the English language.


Imaging in monitoring metastasis in mouse models have low sensitivity and is not quantitative. Cell DNA barcoding, demonstrating high sensitivity and resolution, allows monitoring effects of drugs on the number of tumor and metastatic clones. However, this technology is not suitable for comparison of sizes of metastatic clones in different animals, e.g. drug treated and untreated, due to high biological and technical variability upon tumor and metastatic growth and isolation of barcodes from tissue DNA. Yet, both numbers of clones and their sizes are critical parameters for analysis of drug effects. Here we developed a modification of the barcoding approach for monitoring drug effects on tumors and metastasis that is quantitative, highly sensitive and highly reproducible. This novel cell double barcoding system allows simultaneously following the fate of two or more cell variants or cell lines in xenograph models in vivo, and also following the fates of individual clones within each of these populations. This system allows comparing effects of drugs on different cell populations, and thus normalizing drug effects by drug-resistant lines, which corrects for both biological and technical variabilities and significantly increases the reproducibility of results. Using this barcoding system, we uncovered that effects of a novel DYRK1B kinase inhibitor FX9847 on primary tumors and metastasis is clone-dependent, while a distinct drug osimertinib demonstrated clone-independent effects on cancer cell populations. Overall cell double barcoding approach can significantly enrich our understanding of drug effects in basic research and preclinical studies.
 Citation Format: Arkadi Hesin, Santosh Kumar, Valid Gahramanov, Maria Becker, Maria Vilenchik, Ilya Alexandrov, Julia Yaglom, Michael Sherman. A cell double barcoding system for quantitative evaluation of primary tumors & metastasis in animals: Uncovers clonal-specific anti-cancer drug effects [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 6269.


This article considers power and sample size calculations for the Wilcoxon–Mann–Whitney test. An exact variance large-sample method is introduced and explicit formulas are derived for the uniform, normal, double exponential and exponential shift models. A Monte Carlo simulation study is conducted to evaluate the exact variance procedure and compare its performance with some other large sample methods. The results show the remarkable accuracy of the suggested formula and the fundamental limitations of the other approximations. Practical considerations in determination of sample size for the two-sample location problem are also discussed.


EDITOR,—The measles and rubella immunisation campaign in 1994 was the biggest mobilisation of immunisation services ever undertaken in Britain. This presented an opportunity to identify the rate of needlestick injuries and hepatitis B immunisation status during an immunisation campaign in staff working in the Southwark and Lewisham boroughs of London.

Questionnaires were distributed to 42 nurses and 29 doctors who immunised children during the campaign. The response rate was 67% (n=28) for …


Summary Although the annual quantity of wastewater generated by olive oil mills in the Mediterranean basin is 10-12x106 m 3 , it is only recently that solutions for proper management of Olive Mill Wastewater (OMW) are under serious consideration. The common practice for handling such liquid by-products has been the deposition in oxidation tanks/ponds. No special attention is paid to the polluting potential of OMW or the intrinsic toxicity of the mixture to aquatic organisms. The acute toxicity of OMW produced in a three-phase olive mill on the island of Crete, Greece, was tested on Wistar rats and on two marine species, the photobacterium Vibrio fi scheri (Microtox® assay) and the crustacean Artemia fransiscana. The acute toxicity to the aquatic organisms was also determined for the treated OMW (following a pilot scale treatment system developed in the frames of the EU LIFE-Environment program MINOS) and the isolated polyphenol mixtures. The untreated OMW exhibited low acute oral toxicity on rats but high toxicity on the photobacterium V. fi scheri and the crustacean A. fransiscanα. Treatment of OMW led to the production of wastewater of lower toxicity to the photobacterium V. fi scheri (eight-fold reduction following one-cycle treatment and about twenty-fold reduction following twocycle treatment). On the contrary, the above mentioned treatment of OMW had no eff ect on the exhibited toxicity against the crustacean A. fransiscana. The polyphenolic fraction isolated from OMW, on the other hand, exhibited high toxicity on the photobacterium V. fi scheri but low toxicity on the crustacean A. fransiscanα. Therefore, further study is needed on the OMW management before its deposition into the environmental system.


Under various rules of failure intensity of repairable systems, a generalized reliability growth model has been presented to assess the reliability of repairable system. For the estimation of the model parameters, MLE method has been used, both for time censored and failure censored data. For the test data of some system, the goodness-of-fit test and reliability growth assessment were carried out. The result shows that the data the GRG model is more suitable for the data analysis to some extent.


When carrying out measures to popularize and support the population of Ukraine's acquisition of full membership in the EU and NATO, first of all, it is necessary to make sure that, as a result of the implementation of these measures, the system for the development of public opinion of the population will remain in a constant process of desired changes without uncontrollable disturbances. The main objective of the study is to test the stability and sustainability of the development of civic thought in the right direction, to identify and anticipate unwanted disturbances in the relations of citizens of different political orientations. The article discusses the scientific substantiation of the features of the application of the fractal analysis method in determining the sustainability of the development of public opinion of the state in the implementation of a strategic narrative when carrying out appropriate measures to popularize and support by the population the acquisition of full membership of Ukraine in the EU. By calculating the fractality index, it has been proved that the process of development of public opinion of the population of Ukraine regarding accession to the EU, which is represented by a time series based on the results of generalized statistical data from a survey of the population of Ukraine in the period from 2002 to 2019, is constant. The results of the study show that the implementation of the control actions of the staff structures and subdivisions of the strategic communications system of the Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces of Ukraine, calculated taking into account the forecast data for 2020-2021, will not cause significant uncontrollable disturbances, and the process of changes in public opinion of the population of Ukraine will take place in constant movement of the desired changes in accordance with the strategic narrative of the state. This will make it possible to carry out a scientifically grounded distribution of the predicted total volume of tasks between various structural divisions of the strategic communications system of the Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with the obligatory consideration of the characteristics of various target audiences.


Abstract : Spontaneous cases of Cryptococcus neoformans infection were diagnosed in a burro (Equus asinus) and a rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta). The burro, which was native to Maryland, had a single cryptococcal lung granuloma, which was an incidental finding seen during a routine necropsy performed after sacrifice of the animal. The disease in the monkey, a recent arrival from India, was a disseminated, overwhelming infection to which the animal was apparently unable to react effectively. This is the first report of the disease in a burro and the second natural occurrence in the rhesus monkey.


This research is purpose to examine the effect of Low Cost Carrier on Customer's Decision Selecting the Airline at PT Indah Wisata Tour and Travel empirically This research is purpose to examine the effect of Low Cost Carrier and Brand Image on Customer's Decision Selecting the Airline at PT Indah Wisata Tour and Travel empirically, either partially or simultaneously. This type of research is quantitative descriptive research. Population in this research were 432 respondents and sampling method using non probability sampling with Slovin formula. Based on Slovin formula obtained a sample of 82 size. Hypothesis examination using multiple linear regression analysis, data processing using SPSS version 22.0. Multiple linear regression equation obtained : Y = 3.183 + 0.381 X1 + 0.463 X2 (X1 = Low Cost Carrier, X2 = Brand Image, Y = Customer's Decision Selecting The Airline). The result of t test indicates that the independent variable Low Cost Carrier (X1) with the result t test 5.120 and Brand Image (X2) with the result t test 6.649 partially has a positive and significant effect on the dependent variable (Y) Customer's Decision Selecting The Airline. The result of F test 65.248 indicates that both independent variables (X) Low Cost Carrier and Brand Image simultaneously has a positive and significant effect on the dependent variable (Y) Customer's Decision Selecting the Airline. Contribution of the effect of all independent variables (Low Cost Carrier and Brand Image) on dependent variable (Customer's Decision Selecting the Airline) is about 61,3%. While the rest is about 38,7% affected by other variables that were not examined. Keywords : Low Cost Carrier, Brand Image and Customer's Decision Selecting the Airline at PT Indah Wisata Tour and Travel.


Perusahaan Nasrieq dan Rakan-Rakan is the name of our business venture and it is mainly serves as a restaurant which offers a variety range of burger serving style and
other types of fast food. Because of the separation between our administrative office and the business premise, we have decided to call our burger booth as Burger Raya. Our
partnership form of business consists of six people which contribute same amount of monetary capital.


An Euclidean topological space E is homeomorphic to the subset of delta-functions of the space D'(E) of Schwartz distributions on E. Herewith, any smooth function of compact support on E is extended onto D'(E). One can think of these extensions as sue generis quantum deformations. In quantum models, one therefore should replace integration of functions over E with that over D(E).


The Somogyi phenomenon or rebound hyperglycaemia is known as the counterregulatory response to asymptomatic nocturnal hypoglycaemia; the Somogyi phenomenon occurs with high fasting blood glucose levels and hyperglycaemia the following morning. Most published trials, however, do not agree with this theory. Although data from some experimental studies may suggest a pathophysiological link. Perhaps, the differences in research results are caused by the evolution of blood glucose monitoring methods. Nevertheless, it cannot be excluded that the results of Michael Somogyi's studies were misunderstood.


The formation mechanism,migration and change process of large-scale submarine geomorphological(LSSG) unit is one of the important subjects in the study of ocean sciences.Based on the observation and analysis of LSSG,Morphodynamic process and geomorphological simulation and migration prediction,the study on these geomorphlological issues are summarized.Combined with the sedimentary environment of erosion/deposition waves in the northern bank of Hangzhouwan Bay,"silt",the key factor in this process is emphasized in the study of LSSG.Taking the interaction between the drainage basin and coast,the behavior and influence of the LSSG migration in response to the anthropogenic factors and natural action are discussed.


We describe a method for determining the dispersion of magnetic field vectors about large-scale fields in turbulent molecular clouds. The method is designed to avoid inaccurate estimates of magnetohydrodynamic or turbulent dispersion—and help avoiding inaccurate estimates of field strengths—due to a large-scale, nonturbulent field structure when using the well known method of Chandrasekhar and Fermi. Our method also provides accurate, independent estimates of the turbulent to large-scale magnetic field strength ratio. We discuss applications to the molecular clouds OMC-1, M17, and DR21(Main).


The objective of this work is the study of the dinamic simulation and fuzzy control of a multicomponent continuous distillation column. In this work, the mathematical model of the distillation column and the computing program for the simulation are described. Also, the structure and implementation of the fuzzy controller are presentad. Finally, the results obtained using this programare compared with those reported in the scientific literature for different mixtures.


The purpose of this study was to examine the presence of food deserts on the subjective health of rural residing African Americans. The authors also examined the potential moderating role of physical activity. Data were part of a larger health assessment project. In this study, African Americans (156 women, 49 men) taking part in this study lived in rural central Texas. Results indicate that whereas participants did not perceive a lack of healthy food, they did perceive financial barriers to obtaining such diet options. Further analyses revealed that the presence of food deserts interacted with physical activity levels to predict subjective health: when activity levels were low, food deserts were negatively associated with subjective health, but these effects were nullified when physical activity levels were high. African Americans living in rural settings face unique challenges to obtaining and consuming healthy food, and as a result, health can suffer. These negative effects can be countered though by engaging in the recommended levels of moderate physical activity.


The Java Sea is one of the important fishing areas for small pelagic fishery in Indonesia. The production of the fishery was dominated by five fish species groups. To support the management of  that  fishery,  an  assessment  of  the  stock  of  the  five  predominant  small  pelagic  fish  species groups was conducted. Based on the result of analysis, the maximum sustainable yield (MSY) of the stock of five predominant small pelagic fish species was about 244.6 thousand tons. Meanwhile, the MSY of the stock of the whole exploitable small pelagic fish species was about 315.5 thousand tons. The optimum fishing effort (EMSY) was 1032 units. The total fishing effort was higher than EMSY and the fish stock was likely over-exploited since 2000. To ensure the optimal fish production of the small pelagic fish stock in the Java Sea, it is necessary to recover fish stock by controlling fishing effort to EMSY. The time which it takes for the fish stock to recover was about two years when fishing effort was reduced from its level in 2009 to EMSY.


This thesis shows the complexity and multidimensional concept of quality of care in head and neck cancer. The selected topics represent examples of quality assessment using structure [centralization (Chapter 2) and variation of care (Chapter 3)], process [waiting time (Chapter 4) and pathologic specimen handling (Chapter 5, 6)] and outcome indicators [influence of volume and variation of care on outcome (Chapter 3) and specific outcome of rare head and neck tumors arising in the salivary gland (Chapter 7, 8)]. Head and neck cancer care in the Netherlands is centralized in specific head and neck cancer centers, but nonetheless the care given varied per head and neck center. We showed that volume may play a role in this variation, but several other quality related aspects of head and neck cancer care are of influence as well. For instance: waiting time differences, as we showed that waiting time has significant influence on outcome. What we also showed is that pathology specimen handling is another key factor, and that non-standardized workflow leads to differences and non-uniformity. For the more rare types of head and neck cancer, like salivary gland tumors, the low volume in the Netherlands makes quality assurance almost impossible. For proper quality assessment and thereby quality assurance, based upon this thesis, redistribution of rare head and neck cancers appears inevitable. The variation in numbers and treatment we found could have been biased by case-mix factors we did not include. The relatively small sample size of our study population limited us regarding some statistics.


A clone RDP1. 1 (1) containing the Rhesus monkey IL-3 (RhIL-3) gene was isolated from a X Charon 40 library by screening with radiolabeled human IL-3 (hIL-3) cDNA (2). A 4.1 kb EcoRI fragment of RDP1.1 included the RhIL-3 promoter region containing regulatory elements, identical to those of the hIL-3 gene (3), as well as 5 exons which encode RhIL-3. The isolated gene encodes functional RhIL-3 (1, 4). Comparative studies in vitro between hIL-3 and RhIL-3 produced by B. licheniformis showed that RhIL-3 was about 100-fold more effective in stimulating Rhesus monkey bone marrow cells (1). Similar data were obtained from in vivo studies (4). The availability of RhIL-3 enables further preclinical studies in Rhesus monkeys with homologous IL-3.


With the emergence of microforms collections as valuable and trusted material for primary and secondary source research, and the recent years' emphasis in library literature on their versatility, technologies, management, and bibliographic control, as Judy Fair's five-part series, The Microtext Reading Room attests, attention has likewise been given to the environment in which they are housed. Among other things, the subject of lighting has been addressed in the literature. Two components make up a successful useroriented microforms program—a use and user study as part of every microforms acquisitions program and the creation of a suitable environment for their use. "Since most microforms are used in the library," writes Alice H. Bahr, "the second part of a successful user-orientated microforms program entails creating a comfortable, properly lighted environment, maintaining equipment and enthusiastically promoting the collection." Microforms facilities have come into their own within the last fifteen or twenty years—from basement-like quarters into often spacious and attractive rooms, as evidenced in many academic and special libraries today. This has come about thanks to increased awareness of the importance of microforms in terms of availability, in relationship to materials needed to support a variety of research needs which are difficult, at best, to come by. This is to say nothing of the usual storage and retrieval capabilities


Quickly and accurately recognizing emotional cues in a collective, referred to as emotional aperture, has been posited to be important for navigating social contexts. This ability, therefore, may be particularly strong among those who live within culturally situated collectivist contexts. In this research, we examined evidence for this variability in recognizing collective emotions across cultures by comparing Chinese and Americans' performance on an emotional aperture task. We found that Chinese were indeed more accurate in recognizing collective emotions as compared with Americans. This was mediated by cultural variability in global (vs. local) processing. We discuss how these findings contribute to our understanding of culture and collective emotion perception.


ABSTRACT One under-explored area of concern is the relationship between disasters and the waste they generate, which often amounts to the equivalent of 5 to 15 years of garbage that a community would create under normal circumstances. The road to recovery depends heavily on the removal of waste and debris, the bulk of which is directed towards construction and demolition (C&D), industrial, and municipal landfills. This paper theoretically develops and empirically evaluates the spatial distribution of disasters and waste using environmental justice and spatial inequality frameworks. We employ the spatial durbin model (SDM) to analyze the distribution of landfills, disaster events, and socioeconomic factors for 613 counties in the southeastern region of the United States. Findings demonstrate the disproportionate concentration of landfills in poor areas with high female-householder families and minority populations. We also find natural disasters have significant impacts on the communities that process waste. Conclusions point to the benefits of using spatial perspectives and companion analytic approaches to deepen our understanding of environmental inequality.


Wireless communication based on Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is one of the important technologies in the future communication system. It is necessary to establish an accurate air-to-ground (A2G) wireless channel model. In this paper, a A2G channel model with UAV three-dimensional (3D) wobbles (pitch, roll, and yaw) is proposed. The internal vibration of the UAV is modeled as a sinusoidal random process, and the UAV wobble caused by the random air fluctuations is modeled as the uniform distribution random process. We derive the A2G channel temporal auto-correlation function (ACF) with UAV 3D wobbles, analyze the variation of the temporal ACF with different time instants, carrier frequencies, and amplitudes of the wobble angles. It is found that, even if the UAV wobbles slightly, the channel temporal correlation will be significantly affected. Numerical results show that the channel ACF will decrease rapidly with the increase of the amplitudes of the wobble angles and the carrier frequency. This work contributes to the establishment of the next generation wireless channel model and the design of communication system.


Writing almost two months after the conclusion of the Battle of Monterrey, which ended with the U.S. army s victory over Mexican forces, DeLancey Floyd-Jones recounted the movements of William Worth s 7th Infantry, the unit in which he served, and described the capture of the city center. DeLancey Floyd-Jones wrote to his sister, discussing his Infantry unit's upcoming movement to Victoria, General Worth s responsibilities as governor of Saltillo, and the conditions in the U.S. army's camp. The letter concluded with a series of comments on family and personal matters.


This paper investigates experimentally the suitability of relatively new basalt fibres as an economic alternative to the more expensive carbon fibres commonly used in strengthening of RC beams. The efficiency of a strengthened composite system is dictated by its ability to attain the target flexural capacity. Hence, a set of design models for anchorage debonding are compared against an extensive selection of experimental data. The results show high variability in predictions, with the majority being unsafe or uneconomic. However, the safest predictions were found to be by models based on shear capacity. Hence, a testing program has been designed to address both applicability of basalt fibres in shear strengthening applications and the influence of shear capacity on plate end debonding. It was found that the basalt can be a successful alternative to carbon fibres when the strengthening requirements are moderate. Even a small amount of U-shaped shear basalt strips was able to provide significant anchorage, delaying plate end debonding and reducing the brittleness of the failure.


A couple of years before the collapse of the Soviet system ignited nationalist passions in the dormant backwaters of South-Eastern Europe an English historian writing in German, observed that "the question of the actual nationality of the ancient Macedonians . . . is scientifijically trivial and has acquired importance in modern times only because nationalists of all sorts in the Balkans and elsewhere have laid hold of it, and each according to the answer, has put it in the service of territorial or other claims." Moreover, he continued, "All ancient accusations that the Macedonians were not Greeks originate from Athens, from the time of the conflict with Philip II . . . Only because of the political conflict with Macedonia was the question at all raised." He also stressed that "today it must be considered as certain that the Macedonians and their kings actually spoke a Greek dialect and bore names of Greek type."1 Paradoxically, six years earlier his former thesis supervisor, a reputed scholar, hailing from a Germanspeaking country but writing in English, delivered at an international symposium staged by the National Gallery of Art at Washington a paper with practically the same title as the present chapter, challenging the Greek credentials of the ancient Macedonians.2 His communication claimed to concentrate not on what the Macedonians actually were, but exclusively on the way in which they were perceived by their contemporaries, discarding as irrelevant the objective criteria on which national identities are usually evaluated (ancestry, language, religion, customs), only to reserve for the fijinale the argument that the most important objective criterion, to wit language, proved that the Macedonians were not Greeks. Indeed according to him "Greek was a difffijicult, indeed a foreign, tongue"


Introduction: The article explores some processes that activate the creative potential of 7/8- year old children after mixed painting techniques introduction and application. Problems on a theoretical and empirical level are discussed, based primarily on the children's creative activity results and determined by the degrees of free experimental application of painting and non-painting materials.
Study Objective: The usage of some mixed techniques in the fine arts is considered and how they reflect on the dynamics of the children's education creative process.
Methods: During the experimental work, the following methods are applied: monitoring and analysing the processes of working with different materials, experimenting with mixed painting techniques, composition analysis, image and richness of the expression means.
Results: In the course of the study, it is established that the usage of more than one material for the pictorial activity significantly increases child creativity and better image in graphic and artistic terms are acquired, composition and richness of expression means are attained.
Conclusions: The application of mixed painting techniques in fine art education of 7/8-year olds increases the creative activity, builds a lasting interest in the fine art, and enhances the emotional and aesthetic impact.


The traditional dietary habits of differing ethnic groups vary greatly; concomitantly nutritional intakes are also likely to vary. Knowledge of differences in nutritional intakes between ethnic groups is important for understanding associated health risks. There is limited data on dietary intakes and patterns of South Asian populations. The aim of this study was to compare nutritional intakes of two ethnic groups; Caucasian (Cauc) and South Asian (SA). Healthy Cauc and SA women, aged 20–64yrs, were recruited from the county of Surrey onto the D2-D3 study and a sub-set of these women were used in these analyses: n47 Cauc and n47 SA women. Anthropometrics and four-day food diaries were collected at baseline, as part of the D2-D3 study. Under-reporting of dietary intakes were determined by calculating energy intake (EI) to basal metabolic rate (BMR) ratio, and ratios below 1·35 were classified as under-reported. Dietary and statistical analyses were carried out using DietPlan6(2013) and SPSS21(2013) respectively. The Cauc women had significantly smaller waist circumferences than the SA women (Cauc:79·44 ± 11·33 cm vs. SA:87·62 ± 12·62 cm; p< 0·001), however BMI was not significantly different (Cauc: 24·60 ± 3·75 kg/m vs. SA: 25·18 ± 3·85 kg/m). As shown in Table 1, there were significantly lower daily intakes of micro-nutrients in the SA women compared to the Cauc women.


Objective To study the efficacy and the toxicity of chemotherapy including Epirubicin,Cisplatin,Loucov-orin,5-Fu,for advanced cancer. Methods Eighteen patients with advanced gastric carcinoma received chemotherapy of ELFP regimen (epirubicin 60 mg/m2 iv,cisplatin 30 mg/m2 iv dl-d5,leucovorin 150 mg/m2,dl-d5,5-FU 500 mg/m2, continuous infusion for 16 hours,dl-d5,q28d). Results The overall response rate was 46.9% (15/32) and complete response 9.4% (3/32) ,the partial response rate was 37.5% (12/32). The main toxicity was myelosuppression. Leukopenia was observed in 75 % of the patients, but grade 3 and 4 in 15.6 %. Conclusion This study shows that the regimen of E-PLF is effective and tolerable as first-line treatment of advanced gastric carcinoma.


The photosensitive unit and transfer unit exchange system of the disclosed printer includes a frame provided in the printer main body, and a guide rail provided in the frame to guide and guide the guide protrusions of the photosensitive unit and the transfer unit descending through the upper entrance of the main body to a mounting position. And a rotating lever and a rotating cam interlocked to simultaneously lock and unlock the photosensitive unit and the transfer unit seated at the mounting position. According to such a configuration, the locking and unlocking operations of the two units can be performed at the same time, and they can be made to enter and exit the upper entrance without interference with the peripheral device, so that the replacement work can be performed more conveniently and stably.


Muslim community throughout world has established a potential market segment due to their specific patterns in the consumption of a product. This consumption pattern is set in the teachings of Islam are called Shari'ah "at. In the teachings of Shari"ah "at, not Muslims allowed to consume certain products because they contain a substance or process that accompanies it is not in accordance with the teachings of Shari"ah" at the. Given these strict rules so that marketers have at once a barrier and an opportunity to target specific markets of the Muslims.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of spiritual marketing, which consists of Spiritual Products, Spiritual Price, Spiritual Place and Spiritual Promotion, on Consumer Behavior in choosing halal food on Muslim communities in Bandung, West Java. The method used is survey, while the analysis conducted is descriptive and verification. This study uses primary data and secondary data. Primary data were obtained from 100 respondents who are consumers of packaged food products. This study uses a regression analysis, correlation, hypothesis testing with the t-test, and coefficient of determination. The data Processing uses SPSS software program for Windows 13.0. The results illustrate that spiritual marketing that has been done has a significant impact on Consumer Behavior in choosing halal food (77,2%), while the dominant spiritual marketing variables that influence Consumer Behavior in choosing halal food is spiritual products.


In this article, we have developed a generalized optimization model for 2structure by using some fundamental techniques of functional analysis. Some necessary and sufficient conditions (NASC) for a -controllable problem are deduced in arbitrary 2Banach spaces. The existence and uniqueness of solutions are discussed without assuming any type of normality conditions. Also, a complete characterization of the solution is given in terms of a hyper-plane.


This paper points out that the dilemma of the Marxist Ideological and Political Theories Education in contemporary China is postmodern one and explains the reasons to define it as a "postmodern dilemma".This paper then analyzes the three aspects of the dilemma and offers the way out of it in theory and technique.


Abstract Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a life-shortening, genetic disorder caused by mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator gene (CFTR). The primary cause of CF is reduced CFTR-mediated chloride and bicarbonate transport, due to mutations in CFTR. However, inflammation and persistent infections influence clinical outcome. Cellular stress response pathways, such as the unfolded protein response (UPR) and the integrated stress response (ISR), referred to here as cellular stress response pathways (SRPs), contribute to the pathology of human disorders. Multiple studies have indicated activation of SRPs in CF tissues. We review our present understanding of how SRPs are activated in CF and their contribution to pathology. We conclude that reduced CFTR function in CF organs establishes a tissue environment in which internal or external insults activate SRPs. SRPs contribute to CF pathogenesis by reducing CFTR expression, enhancing inflammation with consequent tissue remodeling. Understanding the contribution of SRPs to CF pathogenesis is crucial even in the era of CFTR "modulators" that are designed to potentiate, correct or amplify CFTR function, since there is an urgent need for supportive treatments. Importantly, CF patients with established pathology could benefit from the targeted use of drugs that modulate SRPs to reduce the symptoms.


ABSTRACT Following Trent, J. [2014. "Innovation as Identity Construction in Language Teaching and Learning: Case Studies from Hong Kong." Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching 8 (1): 56–78], the present study used identity as the unit of analysis for examining three foreign language student teachers' experiences with content-based instruction (CBI) during their teacher preparation program. With teacher socialization as its primary theoretical lens, it adds to the limited amount that is currently known about traditional foreign language teachers' identity construction, compared to other second language contexts. Analysis of a variety of data sources (including interviews, digital journals, and post-observation conferences) revealed that participants actively processed what CBI meant to them, were able to implement CBI to varying degrees in their student teaching placements, and expressed a range of aspirations for CBI in their future teaching. These findings confirm Trent, J.'s [2014. "Innovation as Identity Construction in Language Teaching and Learning: Case Studies from Hong Kong." Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching 8 (1): 56–78] claim that student teachers require adequate implementation space for validating change-oriented identity positions if desired innovations are to take hold.


Inconsistent results about heat transfer effects on performance and poor understanding of the aerothermodynamics loss mechanisms related to heat transfer in turbocharger turbine motivated this stud ...


9,10-Phenylethynyl-anthracene has been prepared by a coupling reaction of dibromoanthracene and phenylethyne,with PdCl2(PPh3)2 and CuI as catalysts.A mixed solvent of THF/diethylamide was used as the media of the coupling reaction.The product has been obtained with desired yields and it is characterized by IR,UV and melting point.Furthermore,the spectral properties of the product have been studied.


Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) in the form of periodic breathing is common in heart failure patients and is thought to increase sympathetic activity. Since heart rate (HR) cyclically increases during SDB in synchrony with the oscillation in ventilation, these increases have been interpreted as indirect evidence of an augmented adrenergic activity brought about by SDB. To support this hypothesis, however, the distribution of HR fluctuations during SDB has to be compared with the distribution of spontaneous HR variation during normal breathing within the same night. The aim of this work was to develop a computer application to carry out this task efficiently, analyzing HR across different sleep stages, breathing conditions and abnormal breathing type (obstructive and central). The system automatically selects homogeneous segments of HR from standard polysomnographic recordings and computes a set of relevant distribution descriptors of HR. A pilot testing of the system has been performed in five stable heart failure patients.


A folded waveguide structure is presented farmed from microwave laminates as a space saving alternative of the rectangular waveguide. It is shown that the folded waveguide results in a width reduction of ε r -1/2 /2 over standard air filled rectangular waveguide making integrated waveguide viable at low microwave frequencies. Via hole technology is used to manufacture this design, at low cost, using computer controlled drilling machines. The guide is integrated to planar circuitry using tapered stripline.


Purpose – In today's knowledge-based economy, knowledge networks (KN) increasingly are becoming vital channels for pursuing strategic objectives in project-based organizations (PBO), in which the project is the basic organizational element in its operation. KN initiatives often are started with the selection of a creation methodology, which involves complex decisions for successful implementation. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to address this critical selection of methodology and proposes a holistic framework for selecting an appropriate methodology in this kind of flatter, speedier, and more flexible organizational form. Design/methodology/approach – In the first step, the study established a theoretical background addressing the problem of KN creation in PBO. The second step defined selection criteria based on extensive literature review. In the third step, a holistic framework was constructed based on different characteristics of existing methodologies categorized according to the selected criteri...


Great efforts have been made to ensure that the field of scientific visualization lives up to its name. In particular, the challenge has become one of finding the appropriate method or suite of methods to best portray the meaning of the given data. Determining these methods relies on information such as the structure of the data, the scale of the problem, and the questions to be answered. This paper provides an overview of several vector visualization techniques in the context of visualizing global-scale ocean model data. A comparison of the techniques is given, and conclusions for appropriate uses are made.


In the last few years we have witnessed a sustained rise in the popularity of online Social Network Sites (SNSs) such as Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Flickr, LinkedIn, FriendFeed, Google Friend Connect, Yahoo! Groups, etc., which are some of the most visited websites worldwide. However, since they are are easy to use and the users are often not aware of the nature of the access of their profiles, they often reveal information which should be kept away from the public eyes. As a result, these social sites may originate security related threats for their members. This paper highlights the benefits of safe use of SNSs and emphasizes the most important threats to members of SNSs. Moreover, we will show the main factors behind these threats. Finally we present policy and technical recommendations in order to improve security without compromising the benefits of information sharing through SNSs.


Soil water potential is the main driving force which causes the soil water to move from one point to other point in the soil depending upon it's energy state. The total energy state of soil water is defined by its equivalent potential energy, as determined by the various forces acting on the water per unit quantity. In general, flow rates of water in soils is too small to consider kinetic energy. Therefore, the energy state of soil water is defined by its equivalent potential energy, that is by virtue of its position in a force field and which further has a scope to manage irrigation. Usually, farmers mostly apply flood irrigation but after properly monitoring soil water potential with the help of tensiometer helps us to save a significant amount of water. Thus, a proper understanding of soil water potential, it's components and their relation with the soil water movement is a must for every soil scientist, agronomist and hydrologist for implementing effective plans towards the judicious use of water.


The article seeks to explain why denials of reality are tolerated and go largely unchallenged in communication research. It proposes that the acceptance of anti-realist views is related to communication theorists' general hostility toward radical political economic critiques of media institutions and coverage. Unwilling to undertake research which lucidly exposes the central power relations in society, communication scholars sympathetic to corporate ownership and elite opinion resort to a particular form of obscurantism. This form of obscurantism does not only misrepresent uncongenial work, but espouses an apparently abstruse – though rather vacuous – anti-realist philosophy, which pre-empts consideration of ideas that threaten to expose the workings of existing institutional structures and communication scholars' role in defending them.


Lake Hayq is located in the highland of northern Ethiopia. The Lake is a home of different fish species, water birds and aquatic organisms, but it was without Nile Tilapia and currently the ecosystem is dominated by the introduced Tilapia fish. Tilapia was introduced into the lake in 1978s. Since then it has been become commercially important species in the region. Before the introduction the fish, the lake has a clear-water, but currently the lake is turned into eutrophic lake probably due to the omnivorous nature of Nile tilapia. This monograph, therefore, provides new insight regarding to the biology of Nile Tilapia in such dynamic ecosystem. The book covers the food and feeding habits, some reproductive aspects and the length-weight relationship of the fish. Similarity in the composition of the diet between size groups also assessed using the multivariate statistical software CAP. Hence, the monograph is written to those professionals who engaged in aquaculture, fish biology, environmental biology and fishery fields, or anyone else who want to know the biology of exotically introduced Nile tilapia in completely new & different habitats.


Small size of the time-of-flight mass spectrometer (TOF-MS) has been developed for the program of the NASA / ASTID which was started in 2008. Major applications this technique is intended is to detect the non-volatile (low volatility) substances and biological substances as mission carried out land on the planet. Astronomical no celestial and atmospheric having atmosphere, the purpose of analyzing the mineralogical characteristics, for the purpose of finding evidence that are or existing biological activity was present in the past, becomes a target point get are some of the candidates. .FIELD 1


This paper presents density experimental data for pure cis-decalin and trans-decalin, along with carbon dioxide + n-decane + cis-decalin (or + trans-decalin) ternary systems for a temperature from ...


BOOK cence demonstrated the de-localization of the protein within the nucleous in CBF AML but it is completely cytoplasmatic in leukemic cells with normal karyotype and in MDS. Transfection experiments with PR3 plasmid demonstrate that overexpression of PR3 results into a significant increasing of the proliferation rate and reduced apoptosis. By contrast transfection with shRNA triggers apoptosis and cell growth inhibition. Conclusion: PR3 gene expression and protein are significantly increased in AML and MDS, particularly in CBF leukemias in which the protein is completed delocalized within the nucleous. PR3 overepression is associated with CEBP/α downmodulation. Ectopic expression of PR3 induces increased proliferation and apoptosis arrest. The mechanism underlying the nuclear localization of PR3 in CBF leukemias and its pathogenetic role remains unexplored.


Some surgical patients (e.g., patients with active cancer or with Caprini score ≥9) bear a uniquely high risk for postoperative venous thromboembolism


Effects of non-local electrodynamics on surface superconductivity in type-I superconductors in zero magnetic field are predicted, employing the Ginzburg-Landau (GL) theory as the local approximation. A perturbation expansion in the ratio ξ0/ξ(T) is set up, where ξ0 is the Pippard (or BCS) coherence length and ξ the temperature-dependent GL coherence length of superconductivity. For materials with surface enhancement of superconductivity, characterized by a negative GL surface extrapolation length b and by a surface critical temperature Tcs that exceeds the bulk Tc, an additional increase of Tcs is predicted. Calculations to first order in ξ0/ξ(T) show that about 13% of the recently measured difference Tcs−Tc≈0.05 K in a surface-enhanced Sn film, is attributable to a non-local electrodynamics effect.


Praziquantel (PZQ) microcapsules in powdered form with good fluidity were prepared by simple coacervation method using biodegradable gelatin as the coating material. The average volume diameter of the PZQ microcapsules was 82.66 μm and their activation energy of thermal degradation determined by differential thermal analysis was 337.09 kJ/mol. The first order derivative spectrophotometry for determination of PZQ in PZQ microcapsules was established, and the average content was 14.2%, with an average recovery of 97.9% and a RSD of 1.72%.


Dialysis-associated hypotension is a common complication during hemodialysis,and it may be an independent risk factor of death in hemodialysis patients. In clinical practice,certain effective prevention approaches are available,but all are of some limitations. Preventing and controling of dialysis-associated hypotension are summaried in this review.


This study was conducted to investigate the perspectives of social sciences faculty members on the development of the Turkish Republic History of Revolution and Kemalism Curriculum for eighth-grade education in Turkey. The study was carried out via the Qualitative Research Method. The study participants consisted of 15 faculty members from eight different universities in Turkey. The Purposive Sampling Method was used in the selection process of the research participants. A semi-structured interview protocol developed by the researcher based on expert opinions was used to collect research data. The Descriptive Analysis Method was employed to analyse the obtained data. The study results showed that according to the faculty members, the curriculum under scrutiny should be developed through a learner-centred approach, the name of the curriculum should be changed, the time allocated for the units should be adjusted, the content of the curriculum should form a link between the past and the present, and the curriculum should make more emphasis on the economic, social and cultural developments by incorporating different perspectives. The faculty members stated that the course objectives should be developed by taking the nation's recent past into account, emphasizing a sense of unity and solidarity, homeland-nation consciousness, and the struggles of the Turkish Republic in gaining its independence. The faculty members suggested that the learning outcomes of the curriculum should be simplified by reducing the number of standards, ensuring the balance between the time allocated for teaching and learning outcomes. From the perspectives of the participants, the curriculum should be redesigned under the principles of the Constructivist Learning Theory or learner-centred education so that students can gain a deep understanding of the subject and develop their higher-level thinking skills.


The adoption of e-commerce in the travel sector has become one of the main business improvement areas in the travel industry that seems unavoidable in competing and even surviving in a highly competitive industry. This study focuses on the impact of ecommerce usage on business performance of travel agencies in Sri Lanka. It was found that many firms attempted to adopt e-commerce to upgrade their competitive capabilities, but it seems e-commerce related businesses performance has not improved significantly over the years. In order to review this problem in the Sri Lankan travel agencies. Data were collected through the structured questionnaire and the results were analyzed by the SPSS software. According to the results 40% of travel agencies were in 1-3 years of services and 38% of them are the lesser than one year. Top management shows the higher interest to implement the strategy related to Ecommerce and the results show that 20 respondents agree and 11 respondents strongly agree for above statement. Around 50% of them agree that ecommerce support for dynamic business demand. Finally, 68.5 % of them are agree that e-commerce increase the business performance.


Deals with the not commonly used terms environmental cybernetics and more sophisticated technologies (MST) in connection with a frequent term sustainable development. In the introduction the author characterises the current situation in the world and mentions problems connected with human survival. Environmental cybernetics and MST are defined in the second part of the paper; stress is put on their relationship with sustainable development . The third part of the paper focuses on possible ways of using MST to solve topical global problems. In conclusion, says that it is possible and desirable to change human activities by cybernetical and technological means in order to exploit natural resources to a lesser extent than is being practised now.


The effects of MnO and M_2O_3 promoters on Fischer-Tropsch synthesis behaviors over(Fe_(1-x)O-)Based fused iron catalyst was investigated by means of CO hydrogenation,XRD and CO-TPD techniques.The results showed that selectivity to methane decreased,CO+H_2 conversion decreased,and selectivity to light olefins increased with the addition of MnO.Selectivity to methane decreased from 21.18% to 18.84%, light olefins yield remarkably increased from 31.20 g·m~(-3) to 40.91 g·m~(-3),and C~+_5 yield increased from 45.52 g·m~(-3) to 59.61 g·m~(-3) with the addition of 0.5%-1.0wt% rare earth oxide of M_2O_3(M=La,Nd,Pu,etc). However,CO+H_2 conversion declined to 30.29%with the addition of(1.5wt%)M_2O_3.XRD results indicated that,with the addition of MnO,Mn~(2+) replaced Fe~(2+) in the lattice of Fe_(1-x)O,and lattice parameter of Fe_(1-x)O increased.New crystalline phase formed with the addition of M_2O_3.CO-TPD results indicated that the area of desorption peak observably decreased with the addition of M_2O_3 or MnO.


Oyster mushroom baglog waste that is not used properly will cause problems such as environmental pollution, and can also be a source of pollution for cultivated oyster mushrooms. Composting is an alternative to the management of oyster mushroom baglog waste. However, the compost must also be of good quality, the quality of the compost can be determined both by the physical and chemical properties of compost. Given the importance of compost quality, compost must refer to the standard criteria that have been determined. Therefore, this research aims to evaluate the physical quality (temperature, aroma, and color) and chemical (pH, organic C, total N, ratio C/N, total P, and total K) compost of oyster mushroom baglog waste based on the Indonesian National Standard (SNI) 19-7030-2004, corn seed germination, and rice root growth on acid sulfate soil applied to oyster mushroom baglog waste compost. The results showed that the compost of oyster mushroom baglog waste had complied with the SNI, where the parameters of the compost had met SNI, namely: temperature 33 oC, blackish-brown color, smell like soil, organic C 14.38%, N 0.74%, ratio C/N 19.43, P 0.50%, K 0.35%, and the percentage of germination of corn seeds of Exsotic Pertiwi Varieties was 97% of germinated seeds. The application of oyster mushroom baglog waste compost at a dose of 20 ton.ha-1 was able to increase the root length of rice in acid sulfate soils.


Background: Guillain-Barre syndrome is defined as a recognizable clinical entity that is characterized by rapidly evolving symmetric limb weakness, the loss of tendon reflexes, absent or mild sensory signs, and variable autonomic dysfunctions. This study evaluated the clinical and electrophysiological findings retrospectively. Materials and Methods: Forty-five patients with Guillain-Barre syndrome, who were admitted to the Yeungnam University Hospital for six years from Jan. 1994 to Dec. 1999 were investigated. The correlation between the clinical manifestation and the electrophysiological study was evaluated. Results: The male to female ratio was 1.8:1 and there was a peak seasonal incidence in the winter. A preceding illness was noted in 66.7 % of cases, and an upper respiratory tract infection was the most common one. The most common clinical manifestations were a loss of tendon reflex and ascending muscle weakness and paralysis. The cerebrospinal fluid examinations revealed, albuminocytologic dissociation in 33 cases (73.3 %). Intravenous immunoglobulin therapy was performed in 29 cases (64.4 %). The sequential electrophysiological abnormalities were most marked at 2 to 4 weeks after onset. At that time the most significant change was a decrease in the compound muscle action potential amplitude. These 45 patients with Guillain-Barre syndrome were subclassified using the clinical and electrophysiological data. Conclusion: The result in this study, concured with other research on the clinical and electrophysiological data of Guillain-Barre syndrome. However, an extensive and dynamic investigation is necessary to determine the reason for the peak seasonal incidence in winter.


Objective To discuss the cosmetology orthopedic surgery idea and the technology create clear in the serious facial flesh wound emergency medical treatment.Methods In the situatin of not affect the rescue life,creates the condition to repair the serious face flesh wound positively.In front of sufficient preoperative communication.All injured area were repaired with cosmetic surgical operation.The different type injured area use the different method to maintain the function and the contour as far as possible,statistical curative effect.Results All patients obtain treat and cure promptly.All injured area homogeneous time cicatrization.Makes a follow-up visit for one year,71.1% injured area scars are small,18.4% injured area scars are slightly obvious,10.5% injured are two issue of repairs,the injured area has not obvious scar proliferation,abnormal,the function of injured area were wonderful.The patients were all satisfied with the course of treatment and the result.Conclusion Applies the cosmetology orthopedic surgery technology in serious facial flesh wound processing,which could obtain the wonderful effect.


This paper provides a technique for the control of a wind turbine system drawing power from the grid and solar energy sources for rotor injection. A Doubly Fed Induction Generator (DFIG) is a two input conventional induction machine which can be connected across both stator and rotor. It is used as an electrical transducer for the conversion of wind energy. An array of Solar Photovoltaic (PV) panel is utilized to translate the solar power, connected to DFIG through a common direct current bus using a boost converter. Indirect vector controls of the Rotor Side Converter (RSC) and Grid-Side Converter (GSC) is employed. Constant DC voltage is maintained using GSC and, RSC is used to operate DFIG under constant drool characteristics and any variations in voltage and frequency could be controlled. Both wind and solar energy sources incorporate Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) through their control algorithms. A simulation model of 300KW solar PV array and a 2.0MW DFIG system is developed in MATLAB/Simulink environment and solar system provides 30-80kW of rotor injection power. Therefore, it decreases dependence on grid power throughout both generation and motoring action.


Deshpande N.R. Faculty, Ph.D Abstract There has been an increase in the demand for newer antimicrobial agents to combat prevalent microbial diseases of oral tissues due to rapid emergence of multidrug‐resistant pathogens and many drawbacks of synthetic chemotherapeutic drugs. This study aims to comparatively evaluate the antimicrobial efficacies of herbal extracts of Morinda pubescens and Ehretia laevis against salivary microflora and with a standard synthetic chemotherapeutic agent, to support use of natural herbs' formulations as preventive and therapeutic agents. Their efficacy was evaluated by performing antimicrobial assay on patient saliva samples. It was observed that all the extracts have marked activity against the tested microorganisms with the acetone extract of M. pubescens and derived Compound 5 of ethanol extract of E. leavis showing maximum antimicrobial activity with larger zones of inhibition at used concentrations. This paper primarily focuses on a comparison between these two extracts, and it shows that extracts of E. leavis have higher antimicrobial activity than M. pubescens extracts at lower concentrations, but at higher concentrations M. pubescens shows larger zones of inhibitions. The effect of these plants on more pathogenic organisms, evaluation of further higher concentrations for toxicological investigations and further purification however needs to be carried out.


Headache occurring in association with episodes of transient cerebral ischemia has not been emphasized as part of the symptom complex. In an effort to ascertain the frequency and characteristics of these headaches and to determine whether there is any localizing, diagnostic, or prognostic significance to them, the records of 240 TIA patients were reviewed. We concluded that headache is a prominent symptom in 25% of patients with TIA and that there were no distinguishing population characteristics, arteriographical findings or prognostic features among patients whose TIAs were accompanied by headache. The locations and temporal relationships of headache occurring in cases of carotid and vertebrobasilar TIA also were compared.


Concurrent engineering process is characterized by executing a large number of interdependent project tasks. One effective way of managing such tasks is to decompose them into groups. However, not all tasks are decomposable. Without the need to apply a decomposition method, this paper describes a simple quantitative approach to test whether an underlying pattern of relationships exists between interdependent design tasks, such that they may be rearranged into groups. In addition, a grouping efficiency index for predicting the goodness of the best possible obtainable decomposition is introduced. The proposed approach and the grouping index were applied to simple hypothetical projects and a sample project adapted from the literature. Both the approach and the grouping index are proved to be powerful yet very easy to use.


With the development of large-scale, multi-region and multi-layer networks, policy and constraint-based path computation is more and more complicated and dynamic routing becomes one of the key issues in GMPLS/ASON networks. Then a routing architecture named PCE is proposed to resolve the aforementioned complicated routing problem. However, as the huge bandwidth requirement emerges, capacity of Tbit/s transmission links and Pbit/s switching are necessary for next generation optical networks. According to the current photonics technology level, the node architecture will be very complicated and of large power consumption. Then how to configure the switching architecture in the node will be very important for the entire network performance. Unit engine (UE) is proposed for the management and configuration of resource in the node. PCE and UE constitute dual routing engine architecture (DRE) in GMPLS/ASON optical networks for path computation and resource optimization. The collaboration of PCE and UE makes it effective to optimize path computation especially under the condition of complex multi-constraints. The functional architecture of DRE is described in detail. Performance of PCE-based path computation in multi-region optical networks is simulated and analyzed.


Facing the internationalized ear, cultures in the world show an assimilation trend in the process of confliction, interchange, adoption, and fusion. Particularly, introduction of English has realized international unification of letters and languages and English has taken a positive role as a global communication tool. However, this globalization of English has raised some various malfunctions and one example is the demise of some languages that are used by minor nations. Thus language ecology confronts a disruption for the first time in its history. Therefore, many scholars are actively studying to preserve the Korean language and to adopt the foreign words in proper way and they assert the "globalization of Korean language," making great efforts not only to protect the Korean language but also to spread the Korean language to overseas countries. However, in using letters, it is urgently needed that language protection and preservation movement must be carried out not only in the fields of linguistics but also in the fields of design where letters are used in visual and emotional means of communication. To meet for this need, several professors and researchers including Professor Duseop Kim (2004) have carried out "Lala Project" with the maxim of "Restoration and Preservation of Pure Korean Designig" and pursue the target of "Let"s design in Korean in Korea." Therefore, it was necessary to research how much the foreign letters including the representative foreign language English are influencing upon designing the urban environments. Thus, the purpose of this research is to identify in detail the current status of using foreign letters in designing urban street in the background of current status of socio-cultural phenomenon. This research focuses on malfunction of internationalization and suggests the seriousness of contaminating pure Korean culture. In particular, this research stresses the fact that adoption of foreign words in design field must be done with resonable recognition and evaluation.


Among traditional Chinese physical educational cultures, Wushu is the only activity that has became one of the competition events in the Asian Games. The Wushu jumping-front-kick is an important jumping action in Wushu competition, and the height of the jump that the athlete completes is a very important element to evaluate the athlete's performance by the Rules for International Wushu Routine Competition. Having a well skill of run-up of the jumping-front-kick will effectually enhance the height of jump. The purpose of this study was to analyze the biome-chanical characteristics and then to diagnose the skill of the run-up of the Wushu jumping-front-kick for elite Wushu athletes of Taiwan. Six elite male Wushu athletes of Taiwan were served as the subjects in this study. Their mean (±S.D.) age, height, and weight were 20.0±2.8 years, 167.9±6.0cm, and 62.0±5.0kgw, respectively. Peak Performance Video Motion Analysis System (120Hz) was used to record, digitize, and calculate the biomechanical parameters in the run-up of the Wushu jumping-front-kick. The results indicated: (1) The best athlete's center of gravity was getting lower in step by step, but the other athletes were opposing the best athlete's performance. (2) The maximum horizontal velocity of center of gravity was usually appeared before the takeoff step that was different with the advice from the book of "Fundamentals of Wushu" (1988) that indicated the running speed must be faster from step to step in the three steps approaching skill.(3)This study suggested that Wushu players should lower their center of gravity step by step, and the trunk should be leaning backward before the last step to increase the right hip angle in order to bring out a optimum angle of right knee during the initial takeoff phase.


We herein report a novel fluorimetric detection method for Hg2+ and Pb2+ based on in situ formation of AgNPs, where thiocholine (TCh), a product obtained by the hydrolysis of acetylcholine (ACh) by acetylcholinesterase (AChE), can act as a stabilizing agent. Uniformly dispersed AgNPs were obtained in the control sample (in the presence of optimized concentrations of AChE, ATCh, AgNO3 and NaBH4) without addition of any inhibitors (Hg2+ or Pb2+), resulting in decreased fluorescence intensity. However, the addition of Hg2+ and Pb2+ to the reaction mixture tends to decrease the vibrational and rotational speed with an increase in the aggregate diameter of particles, and thus increases the emission intensity of AgNPs at 423 nm. The increase in the emission intensity can be well correlated to the increase in concentration of metal ions. The limit of detection (LOD) was found to be 1.47 × 10−14 M for Hg2+ and 0.324 × 10−10 M for Pb2+, and the proposed method was successfully used for the determination of Hg2+ and Pb2+ in environmental samples. Further, this sensor model was also employed to perform the concurrent detection of Hg2+ in the presence of Pb2+ or vice versa in aqueous solutions.


Mobile database permeates into today's computing and communication area; we envision application infrastructures that will increasingly rely on mobile technology. Transaction's security of database will need to integrate peer-to- peer mobile environment: people and computers. In this paper we develop a security model for transaction management framework for peer-to-peer environments. A key requirement in such an environment is to support and secure frequent disconnection of mobile database. We present algorithms that implement this framework in an asynchronous and synchronous system.


Trafficking in persons is a criminal act of organized crime that occurs internationally. Indonesia, as one of the countries with the fourth largest population, has experienced this crime. One of the provinces that is the center of this biggest crime is East Nusa Tenggara. In this case, the Indonesian government through existing state institutions coordinates to eliminate the crime of trafficking in persons. Immigration as one of the agencies that deals with immigration traffic problems plays a major role in efforts to deal with the Crime of Trafficking in Persons. Coordination between one party and another is carried out by the provincial government of East Nusa Tenggara. However, improving coordination is a key point of success in handling the Crime of Trafficking in Persons. This research was conducted by conducting a literature case study which aims to find out more about the crime in question. This writing is done with a descriptive research method by describing the research results in a case study literature from various literatures used by the author.


Clubroot caused by Plasmodiophra brassicae Woron. is one of the most important diseases in Brassica crops worldwide. To investigate resistance of cabbage to disease caused by P. brassicae isolates, we evaluated development of clubroot on commercial clubroot resistant (CR) and nonCR cultivars, a CR line, and F3 lines from a cross between a CR line and a non-CR line using several isolates of P. brassicae. Four P. brassicae isolates (DJ, HN1, GN1, and YC) were used to measure development of clubroot on 16 non-CR cabbage cultivars that have been commercialized in Korea. Although four P. brassicae isolates induced similar disease severity on non-CR Chinese cabbage, these isolates exhibited different virulence on the cabbage cultivars. The YC isolate was the most virulent, followed by the GN1, HN1, and DJ isolates. Despite differences in virulence of the isolates on the cabbage cultivars, a CR cabbage line 'YCR478' and two CR cabbage cultivars showed high resistance to 12 P. brassicae isolates including DJ, HN1, GN1, and YC. When three isolates (YC, GN1, and DJ) were inoculated onto 107 F3 lines that were derived from a cross between 'YCR478' and a susceptible cabbage line 'C1176', our results showed that 89, 33, and 6 of F3 lines were susceptible to YC, GN1, and DJ isolates, respectively. In aspects of resistance, 6, 36, and 67 of F3 lines exhibited resistant responses to YC, GN1, and DJ isolates, respectively. Taken together, these results suggest that resistance of cabbage to clubroot is likely affected by the virulence of P. brassicae isolates. Additional key words: breeding, clubroot, crucifer crops, race, resistant cultivar Received: November 20, 2015 Revised: February 16, 2016 Accepted: June 12, 2016 Copyrightc2016 Korean Society for Horticultural Science. This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 본 연구는 농림축산식품부∙ 해양수산부∙ 농촌진흥 청∙ 산림청∙ Golden Seed 프로젝트 원예종자사 업단(213003-04-4-WTV11)과 채소종자사업 단(213002-04-4-SBc10)의 지원에 의해 이루 어진 것임 Korean J. Hortic. Sci. Technol. 34(3):442-452, 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.12972/kjhst.20160045


Knowledge of the spatial and temporal distribution of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) is important for understanding the carbon natural cycle, predicting its future levels and its impact on global warming and climate changes. Laser technology has advanced considerably during the past few years in the 2-micron region where strong optimum lines are available for measuring CO2 using the Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) technique. Although several types of detectors might be suitable for this particular wavelength, an ideal device would have high gain, low noise and narrow spectral response peaking around the wavelength of interest. This increases the signal-to-noise ratio and minimizes the background signal, thereby increasing the instrument sensitivity and dynamic range. In this paper the detector requirements for a long range CO2 DIAL measurement will be presented. The requirements were compared to commercially available and newly developed infrared (IR) detectors. The IR detectors considered for this study consist of the well developed InGaAs and HgCdTe p-n junction photodiodes, beside the newly developed and proposed InGaAsSb and InGaSb detectors. All of the detectors were characterized and their performances were compared with the CO2 DIAL detector requirements. The characterization experiments included spectral response, dark current and noise measurements. CO2 DIAL measurements using InGaAs detectors were attempted and indicated the need for better detector performance. While InGaAs detectors showed the closest performance to the instrument requirements, InGaSb detectors indicated a promising solution.


The article presents the system review of the basic arguments put forward by the researchers supporting the position according to which lease agreement must be considered as tenancy contract type. The critical analysis of these reasons is carried out with a view to their sufficiency for substantiating the announced position by presenting author's counter-evidences.


Abstract 3830 Background: Although the primary care physician (PCP) is often the first point of contact for patients with suspected hematologic malignancy, little is known about hematologic referrals from primary care, including their frequency, the factors that affect choice of specialist, and the quality of information exchanged. Methods: In April 2010, we administered a 34-item questionnaire to a random sample of 190 physicians in the state of Massachusetts identified as PCPs (family practice, general practice, or internal medicine) in the American Medical Association9s physician file. PCPs were given the opportunity to complete the survey via post or Internet. An additional mailing was sent to non-respondents, followed by at least two attempts at telephone contact. Physicians were asked for the approximate number of patients seen in the past year with suspected hematologic malignancy, the frequency of formal specialty referral, and informal "curbside" referral. PCPs were also queried about the factors that influence their choice of specialist, and about the information exchange with the specialist; these measures were then analyzed by self-reported PCP characteristics using chi-square statistics. Results: As of August, 2010, 118 physicians had responded (response rate = 62.1%). 67.8% identified themselves as internists, and 61.9% were male. The median reported patient panel size during the prior 12 months was 1800; median percentage of patients ≥ 65 years was 30.0%; median percentage of patients in managed care was 55.0%; and median year of graduation from residency, 1996. PCPs were evenly distributed with respect to academic affiliation (from no affiliation to full-time faculty). The median number (IQR) of patients in the prior 12 months who were suspected of having hematologic malignancy was 5 (3, 10). Among suspected hematologic malignancies, the median number formally referred to a specialist (hematologist or surgeon) was 5 (3, 10), and the median number who received informal "curbside" consult was 0 (0, 0.5). Respondents rated the importance of several factors in their choice of specialist (1 = not important at all to 5 = extremely important). Those factors rated ≥ 3 included reputation of specialist/facility (94.9%), patient9s preference for site of care (92.4%), distance of site from patient9s home (89.8%), specialist9s affiliation with a cancer center (88.1%), practice9s affiliation with specialist (82.2%), personal relationship with specialist (79.7%), patient9s ability to pay (67.0%), and availability of clinical trials at the referral site (63.6%). The following table summarizes responses to questions about flow of referral information and follow-up: Conclusions: Consultation for suspected hematologic malignancy from PCPs is relatively infrequent, tends to manifest through formal referral as opposed to informal discussion, and is most often affected by specialist reputation and patient preference for site of care. Only about half of our respondents reported providing the specialist with a referral letter or email, which may result in poor quality of referral information. Alternately, a high number reported giving a copy of abnormal test results to their patients to bring to the specialist, which may ameliorate this issue and reflect an ongoing evolution in the patient/provider partnership. Moreover, fairly often, patients have not been to see the specialist upon follow-up with their PCP. This finding seems to reflect patient cancellations rather than a failure in physician systems, suggesting that increases in patient education and personalized follow-up may be the best approach to ensure completion of timely hematologic referrals. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


Given a spatial raster framework F, a set of explanatory feature maps, training and test samples with class labels on F, as well as a base classifier type, the problem of ensemble learning in raster classification aims to learn a collection of base classifiers to minimize classification errors. The problem has important societal applications such as land cover classification but is challenging due to existence of class ambiguity from spatial heterogeneity, i.e., Samples with the same feature values may have distinct class labels in different areas. Many existing approaches are non-spatial ensembles (e.g., Bagging, boosting, random forest), which assume that learning samples follow an identical distribution. Some spatial ensemble approaches also exist, which simply partition the raster framework into several regular sub-blocks and combine classification results on each sub-block. However, these existing approaches can not address the class ambiguity issue among pixels. In contrast, this paper proposes a new spatial ensemble approach, which partitions the spatial framework into several spatial footprints to minimize class ambiguity of training samples and then learns a base classifier for each footprint. Experimental evaluations on a real world remote sensing dataset show that the proposed spatial ensemble approach outperforms existing approaches when strong class ambiguity exists.


SUMMARY Onehundredfourteenpatientswithvariantanginaperformedbicycleexercise stress tests, and were divided into three groups. Group 1 included 37patients with a normal exercise test. Coronaryarteriog-raphy revealed absence of significant coronary stenoses in 18 patients, one-vessel disease in 17 and involve- ment of two or more vessels in two. Group2 consisted of40patients whohadST-segmentelevation during or just afterexercise. Coronaryarteriography in these cases revealed absenceofsignificant coronary stenoses innine patients, one-vessel disease in 18anddisease of two or more vessels in 13. Group3 included37patientswhohad ST-segmentdepression during exercise. Absence of coronary artery disease was found in only two patients, one-vessel disease was found in 19 and disease of two or more vessels was found in 16.Sixty-one patients repeated the exercise test after amean of18monthsafter hospital discharge. Exercise-induced ST-segment elevation wasno longer present in surgically or medically treated patients; ST-segmentdepression


Objective To observe the anti-inflammatory therapeutical effect of laminarin on rats with adriamycin nephropathy.Methods Rats model with adriamycin nephropathy was established,and then the rats were divided into three groups:normal control group,adriamycin nephropathy group and laminarin treatment group.Meanwhile,urinary protein,renal function,inflammantory cells in renal tissue,expression of Heparanase mRNA in peripheral blood lymphocytes,and expression of Hpa,IL-6,IL-8 in renal tissue were measured in each group.Results All of the indexes in laminarin treatment group were better than those in adriamycin nephropathy group.Conclusion Laminarin has therapeutic effects on adriamycin nephropathy,which is probably related with the inhibition of Hpa and proinflammantory cytokins expression by laminarin.


The Internet of Things devices and users exchange massive amount of data. Some of these exchanged messages are highly sensitive as they involve organizational, military or patient personally identifiable information. Therefore, many schemes and protocols have been put forward to protect the transmitted messages. The techniques deployed in these schemes may include blockchain, public key infrastructure, elliptic curve cryptography, physically unclonable function and radio frequency identification. In this paper, a review is provided of these schemes including their strengths and weaknesses. Based on the obtained results, it is clear that majority of these protocols have numerous security, performance and privacy issues.


The utility model provides a birds embryo inoculating implement for injecting liquid in birds embryo or eggs. The birds embryo inoculating implement is characterized in that two cams with different radius are respectively arranged at the inner part and outer part of the utility model, and a housing is impelled by an inner slip sleeve which is depressed by the outer cam. A push rod is depressed by the inner cam through making holes and needling of a needle head and physic liquor is injected by an injection needle. In this way, making holes and injecting are completed once and are capable of working continuously. The birds embryo inoculating implement is used for injecting liquid in birds embryo or eggs. The utility model has the advantages of exact injected dose and high work efficiency, and the semi-mechanization or mechanization inoculating is realized.


This study aimed to determine the effect of ownership structure with a proxy of foreign ownership and institutional ownership and firm size categories of BUMN and non- BUMN as control variables to make the approach to the disclosure of corporate social responsibility within the sample. This study is an econometric study uses empirical data to sample the mining company listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX). The sample used by 8 companies with a total of 24 companies in the observation period of 3 years between 2008 and 2010 based on purposive sampling. Thus, the data used is panel data. The analysis method used is multiple regression. To test this hypothesis, using t-test statistics and test of determination. Determination test shows R-squared value of 0.902079. This means that 90.2% of social responsibility disclosure can be explained by the foreign ownership, institutional ownership, firm size and category of BUMN and non- BUMN. Based on the t test, it was found that all variables are highly significant positive effect on the disclosure of social responsibility by the coefficient of each variable is for foreign ownership of 0.0077, 0.0090 for institutional ownership, firm size at 0.0000, and the category of BUMN and non- BUMN of 0.0001 with a significance level of 5%. Keywords : social responsibility disclosure, foreign ownership, institutional ownership, firm size, category BUMN and Non-BUMN


Hijab (veil) for female Muslims has been subject to a debate regarding its meanings. On the one hand, it represents the virtue of religious obedience and piety. Still, on the other hand, it is associated with the form of women oppressions in the public domain. At this point, the hijab has been an arena of contesting interpretations. Meanwhile, contemporary Indonesia is witnessing the increase in the use of veil among urban female Muslims that leads to the birth of various hijab wearer communities. One of them is Tuneeca Lover Community (TLC). This community has become a new sphere where female Muslims articulate their ideas about Islam through various activities such as religious gathering, hijab tutorial class, fashion show, and charity activities. This study seeks to answer several questions: Why do these women decide to wear a hijab? Why do they join the TLC? How do they perceive the veil? Is it related to religious doctrines or other factors such as lifestyle? This research employs a qualitative method using documentation and interview to gather the data among 150 members of the TLC.  This research shows that their understanding of the hijab results from the common perception that places the veil as a religious obligation. Nevertheless, each of the members has one's orientation over the hijab. This paper also suggests that they try to transform this understanding into modern settings. As a consequence, they are not only committed to the traditionally spiritual meaning of the hijab but are also nuanced with modern ideas such as lifestyle and particular social class. Their participation in the TLC enables them to reach both goals simultaneously.


SINCE the first case of splenic aneurysm was published (Crisp, 1847), 119 cases have been recorded, the details of which are available to us. Previous reviews of the literature include those of Baumgartner and Thomas (1924) j Anderson and Gray (1929) j and Machemer and Fuge (1939). This account is prompted by the identification of an unruptured specimen during splenectomy. T h e pre-operative diagnosis had been chronic thrombocytopenic purpura ; but subsequent investigation showed the patient to be suffering from Gaucher's disease, a condition in which the complication of splenic aneurysm has not hitherto been recorded. An additional 5 specimens of splenic aneurysm have been obtained from the Pathological Museum of the University of Edinburgh; and the paper is based on an analysis of these 6 cases and of the 119 cases collected from the literature. Although the condition is rare, it may be diagnosed before rupture, when surgical intervention is often successful. After rupture, diagnosis is difficult and treatment usually unavailing. A diagnosis of aneurysm of the splenic artery should be considered in patients presenting vague upper abdominal symptoms, especially if these are associated with enlargement of the spleen.


abstractThe Malaysian national news agency is not only an active partner in the Asean News Exchange. Since 1981, it has become the nerve-centre of the Organisation of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OA...


The paper presents an analysis of aboriginal answers about the gold in the antilles. This answers show elements of original ideas about her own world. The analy sis sourse is the Columbus Navegation Diary.


Light scalar and pseudoscalar particles are compelling dark matter candidates, with a vast running experimental program to discover them. Previous studies have shown that these light fields can generate sizable isocurvature perturbations in high scale inflationary models. Thereby, dark matter existence and cosmic microwave background measurements impose an upper bound on the inflationary scale. In this work, focusing on the axion case, we point out that light fields present during inflation can generate important isocurvature perturbations also in scenarios of low-scale inflation. In our mechanism, the axion field starts with some non-zero field value during inflation and rolls along its potential. Since inflation has a different duration in different patches of the universe, different regions will then have different values of the axion field, generating cold dark matter isocurvature modes. These modes are fully correlated with the adiabatic ones and share the same spectral index. In this scenario, the axion mass determines a lower bound on the Hubble parameter during inflation.


Scientific views of psychologists of different times for the indicated problem are construed. The basic approaches concerning research of features of development of a creative potential of the personality are revealed. Development of creative potential of the personality bases on study of actual potencies of the person, a level its creative and intellectual development. It is defined by ensuring of a duly actualization and optimum performance of thought processes of the individual. For this purpose special choronomic and intrinsic conditions are frameed.


This article reports an interview with Franchising Director Roger Salmon, who believes that an incentive-based regime, with carefully constructed contracts, is the key to achieving an efficient privatised railway, whose managers have real autonomy. His duties are to: (1) ensure that railway passenger services are provided in Great Britain under franchising agreements as soon as reasonably practicable; (2) secure an improved overall service for passengers through payment of support to the British Railways Board and its wholly owned subsidiaries and to franchisees. His office of Passenger Rail Franchising should thus oversee the sale of British Rail's passenger businesses to the private sector, and administer the financial support that the UK Government is committed to provide for socially necessary but uneconomic services. However, he admits that there could be problems if the Government reduces the level of available subsidy. He has an enormous sales campaign ahead of him, and his success depends on many factors, including clarifying what is on offer and what privatisation is intended to achieve. He envisages that the railways will eventually provide an economic, efficient, continually improving high-quality service, responsive to passengers, and allowing a true market response.


The massive amount of meter measurement data brought by smart meters and remote meter reading technology makes it possible to carry out topology identification of low-voltage power supply networks. This paper proposes a topology identification method for low-voltage power supply network based on meter measurement data. The method defines the meters in the topology as branch node meters. According to the characteristics of power mu-tation, the feature is extracted by wavelet transform, and the connection relation of branch nodes is determined by similarity judgment. By using actual field data, an example analysis of a power supply network with 12 branch meters and 114 user meters is carried out, and the effectiveness of the method proposed in this paper is verified by the results.


High pressure and high magnetic field experiments have been performed on the ferrimagnetic Er6Fe23 compound. The erbium-iron interaction parameter is found to be independent of pressure, magnetic field and temperature in the range of the experimental facilities (p<or=5 kbar, mu 0H<or=35 T and 4.2<or=T<or=300K). The relative volume dependence of the iron moment in Er6Fe23 at 4.2K is almost equal to the value in pure iron.


ZHOU Yang is the receiver of Chernychevsky aesthetics in China.Circling around "The textbook for life" and "literature that serving the most of people",this paper studies deeply how and what Zhou Yang's thought of literature and art inherited and developed from the Chernychevsky aesthetics,and it's weak points during the accepting process.


Abstract Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is the most severe manifestation of coronary artery disease. Considerable efforts have been made to elucidate its etiology and pathology, but the genetic factors that play a decisive role in the occurrence of AMI are still unclear. To determine the molecular mechanism of the occurrence and development of AMI, four microarray datasets, namely, GSE29111, GSE48060, GSE66360, and GSE97320, were downloaded from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database. We analyzed the four GEO datasets to obtain the differential expression genes (DEGs) of patients with AMI and patients with non-AMI and then performed gene ontology (GO), Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) enrichment analysis, and Protein-protein interaction (PPI) network analysis. A total of 41 DEGs were identified, including 39 upregulated genes and 2 downregulated genes. The enriched functions and pathways of the DEGs included the inflammatory response, neutrophil chemotaxis, immune response, extracellular space, positive regulation of nuclear factor kappa-light-chain-enhancer of activated B cells (NF-κB) transcription factor activity, response to lipopolysaccharide, receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE) receptor binding, innate immune response, defense response to bacterium, and receptor activity. The cytoHubba plug-in in Cytoscape was used to select the most significant hub gene from the PPI network. Ten hub genes were identified, and GO enrichment analysis revealed that these genes were mainly enriched in inflammatory response, neutrophil chemotaxis, immune response, RAGE receptor binding, and extracellular region. In conclusion, this study integrated four datasets and used bioinformatics methods to analyze the gene chips of AMI samples and control samples and identified DEGs that may be involved in the occurrence and development of AMI. The study provides reliable molecular biomarkers for AMI screening, diagnosis, and prognosis.