In the context of model transformation, traceability information may be used in a wide variety of scenarios. Each of them potentially requires a different format or complexity level. Moreover, a single transformation program can be used in several contexts. Consequently, such a program may need to be able to generate different kinds of traceability information. This work aims at showing how traceability can be added to programs written in ATLAS Transformation Language while limiting dependencies to program logic. Model transformation is used to implement this approach.


Endotracheal tube that can adjust degree of flexion is disclosed. Endotracheal tube that can adjust degree of flexion of the present invention includes a hollow cylindrical tube body for maintaining the patient's airway, the practitioner in response to airway tortuosity of the patient in which the tube body is inserted anda curvature adjusting wire provided to be adjusted freely curvature of the tube body, the curvature adjusting wire both ends respectively fixed to the distal portion and proximal portion of the tube body , if the practitioner bends the proximal portion, and wherein the bend while the distal portion is pulled.


The problem of designing real-time tightly coupled networks (TCNs) that can survive through temporary blackout (TB) events that disrupt orderly operation of electronic components and erase the contents of all registers and RAMs is treated. Three approaches are considered. The first, in existence for some time although not practiced extensively, relies on the software designer for highly application-dependent design of all parts of TB handling procedures. The second is a fully application-transparent approach to state saving based on the use of recoverable regions. The third, a compromise between the first two approaches, uses time-driven insertion of saving points and relies on the software designer to determine the membership of the state vector. An experiment that involved designing TB handling capabilities into a real-time TCN testbed using each approach is reported. The testbed-based evaluation results validated the practicality of the two new approaches and indicated the complementary relationship between them and the first approach.<<ETX>>


The Information Society (IS) portrays the growing importance of information, knowledge and technological innovations take nowadays. The article aims to draw up an exploratory exercise on the use of synthetic indicator focused on the design of relevant aspects of SI. The methodological procedures involved the use of databases and statistical information, standardization of variables, and analysis of documents and literature. The results suggest that although positive, the trajectory of SI was not linear in time. Among the dimensions under consideration, the most significant manifestation of the SI was associated with the availability of technological infrastructure and Means of Internet Access. In turn, Vocational Education and Financial Resources, pose challenges to be faced for the consolidation of SI in Brazil. In trying to represent complex and multifaceted concept and seek to scale aspects of its manifestation, this article represents the effort to systematize data and information of interest to information science.


The variation of parameters formula is an important tool for the study of both ordinary and retarded differential equations. Recently, a nonlinear extension of this formula, due to Alekseev, has proved useful in studying perturbations of nonlinear ordinary differential equations. (See [1], [2], [3], and [7].) It is the purpose of this note to show that this formula may also be extended to retarded equations, thus generalizing the result given, for example, in [5, p. 366] for the linear case. This allows one to extend to equations with finite lag many of those results in [2], [3], and [7] which assume a bound on the solutions or their "derivatives with respect to initial conditions." We first discuss the differential-difference equation


Five studies were conducted to evaluate the ability of growth-promoting implants containing a pellet of tylosin tartrate [Component®(Ivy Animal Health, Overland Park, KS) with Tylan® (Elanco Animal Health, Indianapolis, IN)] to prevent implant site abscesses in feedlot cattle. Component® with Tylan® implants contain an additional pellet with 29 mg tylosin tartrate as a local antibacterial. Component® with Tylan® was used in heifers and steers and was tested as the initial implant, administered on arrival at the feedlot, or as a re-implant, administered later during the feeding period. Cattle implanted with Component® with Tylan® had or tended to have fewer implant site abscesses. Both incidence and severity of defects were lower; the incidence of missing implants was reduced to nearly zero with Component® with Tylan®. In three studies in which performance was measured, Component® with Tylan® tended (P=0.07 in Study 2, P=0.06 in Study 4, and P=0.09 in Study 5) to improve ADG, and it improved (P=0.03) feed conversion efficiency in the only study in which it was measured (Study 4). Differences in hot carcass weights (HCW) with Component® with Tylan® (3.0, 2.7, and 2.4 kg in Study 2, 4, and 5, respectively) were also observed. Results of implant site evaluations conducted in feedyards as part of a quality assurance program confirm the research results regarding implant site abscesses.


In this article was proved, that any linear equation $Lu=f$ in the case of any linear versions of the Galerkin method, has at least as many unsolved right-hand sides in the form of linear combinations $f=L\psi_1 +...+L\psi_N +L\psi_{N+1} +...+L\psi_{5N} +...+L\psi_{T}$, as there are finite-dimensional linear subspaces with dimensionality as much than five times as the number of basis functions $\psi_1,..., \psi_N$ .


With questionnaires and test methods, this paper analyses and studies the health conditions and the participance in sports of the students in Dalian University. The purposes of the survey and study is to know the health conditions and physical activities of the college students concerned to build up the students body health, and to provide scientific support to the education of physical education in Dalian University.


An organic electroluminescent device can be formed of multiple layers including an electrode, a light emitting layer, and a buffer layer. The light emitting layer includes a light emitting material. The buffer layer is disposed between the electrode and the light emitting layer and is in electrical communication with the electrode and the light emitting layer and includes a triarylamine hole transport material and an electron acceptor material. The buffer layer optionally includes one or more of a) a polymeric binder, b) a color conversion material, and c) light scattering particles. The buffer layer can also be formed using a polymeric hole transport material having a plurality of triarylamine moieties.


The paper discusses some problems of development of modern world education associated with the implementation of the competence approach (CA) in education on the example of the system of higher technical education of Mongolia. Discusses the training of national cadres for Mongolia in the system of the graduate school of the Russian Federation. Touches on some aspects of the international competition for the minds.The concepts of information - mathematical culture (IMC) and professional information - mathematical competence (PIMC), the definition of these concepts, a comparative analysis of the content of the IMC and PIMC in relation to the concepts of mathematical culture (MC) and the professional mathematical competence (PMC).The paper gives a justification of the importance of the proposed information - mathematical competences for the training of national engineering cadres of Mongolia. Addresses General questions relation of culture and professional competence. Emphasizes the importance of the fundamental principle of education when implementing CA in education.The description Problem-Oriented Information-Computational System (POICS) structure and shown their importance for the development of national educational systems.In the description of the conceptual structure of POICS allocated to its component parts, such as: system POICS, actually IP, analytical part, discussion part, and the computing system. Lists the functions performed by each component of POWS.


Carbon-13 and proton nmr data have been required for the following series of compounds: tetralin and sixteen of its methylated derivatives; eleven methylated tetrahydrophenanthrene which include the parent compound; and 9,10-dihydrophenanthrene and four of its 9,10 methylated isomers. Data for all these compounds are provided and a detailed discussion on their molecular structure from the chemical shift studies is presented. The temperature dependence of the solution chemical shifts of various methylated derivatives of tetralin has also been determined in CDCL/sub 4/ from 40/sup 0/C to -65/sup 0/C.


A 52-year-old left-handed man with a history of uncontrolled hypertension presented complaining of "memory problems." Further description of his symptoms, however, revealed relatively isolated dysfunction in finding his way around previously known routes (audio clip at neurology.org/cp), despite recognition of landmarks. This was sudden in onset and nonprogressive. Formal neuropsychological testing revealed moderate impairment in verbal greater than visual memory, with additional impairments on tasks of working memory, processing speed, mental flexibility, and phonemic word fluency. Color naming and face recognition were normal. Brain MRI showed a mesial left temporo-occipital hemorrhage with extension into the left parahippocampal region (figure, A and B). Multiple subcortical T2 and fluid-attenuated inversion recovery hyperintensities were also evident (figure, B). Gradient-echo revealed multiple areas of hemosiderin, evidence of microbleeds (figure, C). A diagnosis of topographic disorientation due to mesial left temporal hemorrhage was made.


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Observations of adult dragonflies found at various localities on Jebel Marra, Darfur Province, Sudan, in November, 1964, are recorded, and notes are given on the reproductive activity of a number of these species.


When 1 day old broilers were infected with avian leukosis virus of subgroup J(ALV J) strain NX0101,the body weight was significantly reduced,atrophy of the bursa and thymus was detected,and antibody reaction to Newcastle disease virus vaccine was inhibited,while compared to the control birds(P0 05).Such phenomena were even more serious when birds were co infected with ALV J strain NX0101 and reticuloendotheliosis virus(REV) strain SD9901 as compared to controls(P0 01) or to birds infected with ALV J alone(P0 05).ALV J infection alone gave no influence on reaction to IBDV vaccination in birds,but co infection of ALV J and REV apparently delayed antibody reactions to IBDV.This is the first report to demonstrate the immunosuppression of ALV J infection on broilers especially when co infcted with REV.


PURPOSE: An electric vehicle and a controlling method an emergency thereof are provided to guarantee the safety of an operator by preventing an accident. CONSTITUTION: A sensor unit senses the state of a vehicle. A motor controller(150) operates the vehicle by controlling a motor. A PRA(Power Relay Assemply)(160) supplies battery power to the motor controller. A main control unit(110) controls the operation of the vehicle corresponding to data inputted from the sensor and an interface unit. A sub control unit(120) monitors an operation state from the main control unit. The sub control unit performs emergency control instead of the main control unit in an unusual condition of the main control unit. The main control unit and the sub control unit block a power source which is applied from a battery to the motor controller by controlling the PRA in the unusual condition of the main control unit.


On reaction with Ag(I), phenyl 1,3-dithiolane-2-carboxylate undergoes hydrolysis and assembles into a metal–organic coordination polymer. Crystals of the polymer were characterized by X-ray crystallography. The metallopolymer exists as a sheet-like structure consisting of twisted strands. An additional structural feature is an apparent Ag–Ag interaction (3.0679 Å) supported by the thiolane sulfur atoms. Carboxyl and triflate oxygen atoms are also key donors to the Ag(I) centers.


Unambiguous determination of the solution conformation of carbohydrates is an important current research challenge. In general, we wish to test the hypothesis that the connecting linkages of these molecules may have significantly greater flexibility than in the crystalline state. In this study we specifically focus on the conformation of the disaccharide methyl 4-O-β-d-glucopyranosyl-α-d-glucopyranoside using 1D and 2D NOESY experiments and molecular modeling. In particular we attempt to discover if "folded" conformations of this molecule exist in addition to the more expected crystalline "extended" conformations. The modeling calculations, both ab initio and molecular mechanics, indicate that the folded conformations are low in energy and can reasonably be expected to exist in solution if solvent effects, which are difficult to predict accurately, are not too large. The NMR data do not support the existence of the folded conformations in solution as a major population. Minor populations of folded conform...


On-line machine translation (MT) services are becoming increasingly popular among Internet users. In particular, over the last few years there has been a dramatic increase in the number of monolingual web-sites that rely on Internet-based MT systems to disseminate their contents in a variety of languages, which seems to be one of the most interesting areas in the current use of MT technology. This paper is based on preliminary observations of these recent developments and reports on how on-line MT services are actually integrated into a sample of monolingual web-sites only available in English, attempting to evaluate the success of the strategies used to incorporate webbased MT technology for dissemination purposes. The discussion suggests in conclusion that the overall lack of a user-oriented approach and the limited consideration of issues of user-friendliness make the integration of on-line MT into the sample of monolingual web-sites largely ineffective.


Due to the implementation of the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, the paper explores the prospects for replacing HFC refrigerants R404a and R507 in refrigeration machines for fruit and vegetable storages. For the optimal choice of environmentally friendly synthetic and natural refrigerants, calculating the coefficient of performance for single-stage refrigeration machines with direct supply of refrigerant to air coolers was carried out. The calculations were made for the conditions of a sharply continental climate at an atmospheric air temperature of +20°C. It was found, that in the near future such refrigerants as R407a, R407c, and R407f can be used as a replacement for R404a and R507 refrigerants in the new energy efficient systems with reciprocating and scroll compressors in developing countries. In the long term, refrigerants such as R290 (propane), R450a, R455a, and R513a can be used after 2036. The use of refrigerants R450a, R455a, R513a will lead to an increase in capital costs for the creation of refrigeration machines due to the need to increase the volumetric performance of compressors. In addition, R450a and R513a refrigerants have a relatively high global warming potential GWP > 150, which may lead to restrictions on their use in large refrigeration systems. As refrigerants R290 and R455a are flammable, their safe use requires a reduction in their charge weight. Therefore, R290 and R455a can be used either in refrigeration systems for individual cold chambers, or in systems with an intermediate heat transfer liquid.


The fatty acid composition of palm oil is the major factor influencing its physical and chemical properties. The purpose of this research was to evaluate the analytical performance of major fatty acids (palmitic acid, stearic acid, oleic acid, and linoleic acid) analysis in palm oil. Triglycerides of palm oil were derivatized to fatty acid methyl esters (FAMEs) by using boron trifluoride (BF 3 ) in methanol. FAMEs were determined by gas chromatography-flame ionization detection (GC-FID) using DB-23 capillary column as stationary phase. The studied parameters were instrument performance analysis, the efficiency of fatty acid derivatization, stability of derivatized analytes, accuracy, repeatability, intra-lab reproducibility, ruggedness, and method uncertainty. The evaluation results showed the instrument linearity at a working range of 5 to 40 mg/mL marked by coefficient of determination ( R 2 ) between 0.991-0.995. Instrument limits of detection (LOD) and instrument limits of quantification (LOQ) for 4 major fatty acids analysis were 26-35 µg/mLand 86-128 µg/mL, respectively. The increase of fatty acid concentration led to the decrease of derivatization efficiency in the fatty acids analysis. The result also showed that derivatized analytes were stable during 24 h storage at freeze temperature. The average recovery values by spiking method with the spiking concentration at 50 and 90 mg/g sample were at 75-94 % for stearic and linoleic acids analysis, however those for palmitic and oleic acids analysis were considered very low (<40 %), due to their low derivatization efficiency. Repeatability and intra-lab reproducibility of 4 major fatty acids analysis were at acceptable ranges, 0.45-1.38 % and 1.15-2.03 %, respectively. Determination by varying the volume of derivatizing agent showed the rugged method. Uncertainty of repeatability ( U r ) and uncertainty of reproducibility ( U r ) were ranged at 1.84-9.02 mg/g and 1.40-10.65 mg/g, respectively. This method was considerably reliable for the analysis of less abundance fatty acids in palm oil, stearic and linoleic acids.


Abstract. Sealed geological models are commonly used as an input to process
simulations, for example, in hydrogeological or geomechanical studies.
Creating these meshes often requires tedious manual work, and it is
therefore difficult to adjust a once-created model. In this work, we
propose a flexible framework to create and interact with geological models
using explicit surface representations. The essence of the work lies in the
determination of the control mesh and the definition of semi-sharp-crease
values, which, in combination, enable the representation of complex
structural settings with a low number of control points. We achieve this
flexibility through the adaptation of recent algorithms from the field of
computer graphics to the specific requirements of geological modeling,
specifically the representation of non-manifold topologies and sharp
features. We combine the method with a particle swarm optimization (PSO)
approach to enable the automatic optimization of vertex position and crease
sharpness values. The result of this work is implemented in an open-source
software (PySubdiv) for reconstructing geological structures while resulting
in a model which is (1) sealed/watertight, (2) controllable with a control
mesh and (3) topologically similar to the input geological structure. Also,
the reconstructed model may include a lower number of vertices compared to
the input geological structure, which results in reducing the cost of
modeling and simulation. In addition to enabling a manual adjustment of
sealed geological models, the algorithm also provides a method for the
integration of explicit surface representations in inverse frameworks and
the consideration of uncertainties.


This article makes use of a transnational historical lens to interrogate the entangled politics of childhood and memory in postrevolutionary Havana and Miami. Drawing on oral histories, government, civic and church documents, memoirs, films, news and magazine articles, and other forms of cultural production, it critically analyzes the form and content of the stories told by and about the more than fourteen thousand Pedro Panes during the forty years between Fidel Castro's assumption of power on the island and the international custody battle sparked by the rescue of five-year-old balsero Elián González off the coast of Florida in November 1999. During this time, influential memory workers on both sides of the Florida Straits have promoted an increasingly institutionalized series of narratives about Operation Pedro Pan, structured by mutually opposed "frames of remembrance." The article concludes that this dialectical process of memory making has obscured the lived experiences of the actual boys and girls who came alone to the United States, even as it has served the shifting social, cultural, psychological, and political needs of revolutionary leaders and powerful sectors of the Cuban American community and their Anglo-American allies.


The theme of this Bachelor thesis is Stock trading at the Bratislava Stock Exchange Corporation. It deals with stock trading at the Bratislava Stock Exchange corporation as a whole and also specifically with stock trading. The Bachelor thesis consists of five parts. The first part characterizes the Bratislava Stock Exchange Corporation, its organization structure and membership. The next chapter engages on the issues of marketing within it and gives information on marketing and regulations of stock trading. The fourth chapter analyses the stock trading progress over the period under consideration. The thesis doesn't omit the current issue of financial crisis effects on stock trading, which is dealt on in the final chapter.


This paper presents a simple illustrative post-Kaleckian model of distribution and growth that incorporates personal income inequality and interdependent social norms. The model shows in an easily accessible manner how personal and functional income inequality can potentially have contrary effects on aggregate demand and growth. It can illustrate some of the major domestic developments that took place in different countries in the decades prior to the Great Recession and which were connected to inequality and country specific consumption and saving behaviour. Furthermore, aggregate consumption functions are estimated for the United States and Germany. The finding of previous studies regarding a higher elasticity of aggregate consumption with respect to wage income than with respect to profit income is confirmed. We find positive long-run effects of personal income inequality on consumption in the US. The effect is strongest for the top 10% income share and the Gini index and less strong for the top 5% and 1% income shares. While this is evidence for relative consumption patterns, it also supports the view that the 'super rich' are a somewhat distant strata for most people - questioning the notion of expenditure cascades from the very top to the very bottom of the distribution. For Germany, we fail to find compelling evidence for substantial effects of personal income distribution.


SIALOLITHIASIS (the presence of stones in the salivary duct) has been recorded in human beings (McGurk and others 2005), monkeys (Ensley and others 1981), donkeys (Kay 2005), dogs (Bartels 1978), cattle (Ali and others 1978), buffaloes (Joshi and others 2003), camels (Barvalia and others 1992) and horses (Schumacher and Schumacher 1995). The incidence in human beings is estimated to be approximately one case per 20,000 people per year (Escudier and others 2003, Marchal and Dulguerov 2003); however, fewer than half of these salivary stones cause clinical symptoms (McGurk and others 2005). In human beings, 80 to 90 per cent of salivary stones are found in the submandibular gland, 5 to 10 per cent are found in the parotid gland and 0 to 5 per cent are found in the sublingual or other minor salivary glands (McGurk and others 2005). Sialolithiasis is uncommon in horses and its incidence is not known. Current published data indicate that in horses salivary stones are localised only in the parotid gland (Kay 2005). Most cases present with a short history of firm and sometimes painful swellings along the mandible. Decreased appetite, increased heart rate and fever have also been reported to occur in some horses. This short communication describes the removal of a sialolith from the parotid duct of a horse via an intraoral surgical approach.


3601 Background: Liver resection remains the best treatment for resectable colorectal cancer liver metastases (CRCLM). Improvements in both surgical technique and anesthesiological management led t...


SCAQMD requirements that gloss floor paints contain no more than 50 g/L VOC means that solvent-based urethane alkyds and 200 VOC latex gloss floor paints will need to be reformulated. A 50 VOC paint based on a combination of water-based ambient temperature crosslinking polymer with a water-dispersible oil-modified urethane gave improved performance in floor paints which meet SCAQMD limits.


Nowadays, despite the significant importance of ecosystems in providing services and numerous natural products, transformation and degradation of these natural systems is dramatically increasing due to different stresses caused by natural and anthropogenic factors. In order to avoid degradation and achieve the conservation goal of ecosystems, reducing the effects of different stresses is required through the application of appropriate planning. To do this, adequate and customizable information concerning natural environment's vulnerability in relation to a wide range of hazards is needed. Vulnerability assessment through the identification of potential stresses (natural and anthropogenic) as well as estimation of the degree of reduction or damage on ecosystems play an important role in creating a quantitative and qualitative picture of the processes and outcomes related to vulnerability. This paper aims to analyze the vulnerability assessment methodology in natural environments and select the best approach by comparing approaches and assessing the benefits of their applications. The results of this study revealed that among the main existing approaches for the study of vulnerability (Risk-Hazard, Pressure and Realize, Political Economy/Political Ecology, Resilience and Integrated approaches), Integrated approach can be considered the best one since it develops a rational and effective relationship between the results of vulnerability analysis and decision-making process and also presents suitable adapted options in order to adjust the devastating consequences on natural environment and meet the challenges in vulnerability assessment and provide a detailed theoretical conceptual model to identify the vulnerability of the natural environments.


Data from 970 feedlot steers and bulls were used to evaluate effects of different age end points on the accuracy of prediction models for percentage of retail product, retail product weight, and hot carcass weight. Cattle were ultrasonically scanned three or four times for fat thickness, longissimus muscle area, and percentage of intramuscular fat. Live animal measures of body weight and hip height were also taken during some of the scan sessions. Before development of prediction equations, live and ultrasound data were adjusted to four age end points using individual animal regressions. Age end points represented mean age at slaughter (448 d), mean age at the second last scan before slaughter (414 d), mean age at the third last scan before slaughter (382 d), and an age end point of 365 d. Ultrasound and live animal measures accounted for a large proportion of the variation in the dependent variables regardless of the age end point considered. For all three traits, final models based on independent variables adjusted to earlier ages of 365 d and 382 d showed better or at least similar model R and root mean square errors than those based on independent variables adjusted to a mean slaughter age of 448 d. Validation of the models using independent data from 282 steers resulted in a mean across-age rank correlation coefficient of .78, .88, and .83 between actual and predicted values of percentage retail product, hot carcass weight, and retail product weight, respectively. Mean across-age rank correlation of breeding values for the corresponding traits were .92, .89, and .82. The results of this study suggest that live and ultrasound traits measured as early as 365 d could be used to predict end product traits as accurately as similar measures made prior to slaughter at age 448 d. Introduction Several workers have evaluated the efficacy of using real-time ultrasound (RTU) technology in predicting the amount and percentage of retail product. Most of these authors have concluded that liveand RTU-based prediction models are as accurate as those based on postmortem carcass measures. Further attempts to improve accuracy of prediction have thus far involved a search for alternative measurement sites. The next logical step in the design of an efficient data collection strategy should be determining the most appropriate age of measurement that maximizes the correlation with final carcass measures. The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of prediction models for percentage of retail product, retail product weight, and hot carcass weight when live and RTU measures are adjusted to four age end points.


This paper explores how the tax treatment of investment and savings affects international capital flows as well as national and global welfare. Focusing on portfolio investment, it evaluates the international effects of capital income taxes in the United States and Japan. During the 1980s, these taxes encouraged capital flows to the United States both by favoring investment in that country and by harming the country`s relative savings performance. The paper concludes that the internationalization of financial markets calls for a careful study of the international implications of domestic tax policies.


Background: Necroptosis is an inflammatory type of regulated cell death, mediated by receptor-interacting protein kinase-3 (RIPK3) and mixed lineage kinase domain-like protein (MLKL). COPD involves airway inflammation and loss of alveolar tissue (emphysema), as a consequence of cigarette smoke (CS) inhalation. There is evidence that CS-induced necroptosis contributes to the pathogenesis of COPD. Objectives: We investigated the presence of necroptotic markers in human COPD. To assess the contribution of necroptosis to pulmonary inflammation, airway remodelling and emphysema, we chronically exposed RIPK3- and MLKL-deficient mice to CS. Methods: Protein expression levels of RIPK3 and (phosphorylated) MLKL in lungs of never smokers, smokers without airflow obstruction and COPD patients (GOLD II to IV) were evaluated by immunohistochemistry (IHC) and immunoblotting. Wild-type, RIPK3- and MLKL-deficient mice were exposed to CS for 8 weeks. BALF was collected and total and differential leukocytes were enumerated, and histology of lung tissue was assessed. Results: IHC of human lungs revealed positive staining for RIPK3 and MLKL, primarily in airway epithelial cells. Quantification demonstrated increased expression of MLKL but not RIPK3 in airway epithelium of COPD patients, compared to smokers and never smokers. In addition, phosphorylation of MLKL was increased in lung tissue of patients with severe COPD. RIPK3- and MLKL-deficient mice were protected against inflammation in experimental COPD, and both strains showed protection against CS-induced airway remodelling and emphysema, compared to wild-type controls. Conclusions: We provide evidence that necroptosis contributes to the pathogenesis of chronic disease features of COPD.


Although the concept of triangles is used primarily as a basis to understand family emotional systems, it can be applied to any system of interacting persons. Triangling is always an attempt to avoid dealing with a problem, and its recognition in the critical care environment allows one to defocus tension and emotional reactivity between individuals and to decrease unit anxiety. Three examples of operating triangles in the critical care unit are presented, and suggested interventions are discussed. The critical care nurse who possesses knowledge of triangles will be able to utilize the unit energy flow in a more positive fashion to maximize the unit's potential for functioning effectively and efficiently.


ABSTRACT A growth study was conducted to quantify the dietary methionine requirement (in the absence of cystine) of the African catfish, Clarias gariepinus, using diets containing casein and gelatin as sources of intact protein, supplemented with crystalline amino acids. Amino acid test diets (400 g/kg crude protein; 3.0 kcal gross energy/g dry matter) with graded levels of methionine (20-40 g/kg protein) were formulated and fed to triplicate groups of African catfish (18.7 ±1.8 g) twice a day up to satiation for 70 days. Anorexia was observed after one week in catfish fed with diets containing 20-24 g methionine/kg protein. Dietary methionine requirement estimated using break point analysis was 32 g/kg dietary protein. No diet-related mortality or cataract were observed in catfish fed any of the diets.


The paper revisits the robust $s$-$t$ path problem, one of the most fundamental problems in robust optimization. In the problem, we are given a directed graph with $n$ vertices and $k$ distinct cost functions (scenarios) defined over edges, and aim to choose an $s$-$t$ path such that the total cost of the path is always provable no matter which scenario is realized. With the view of each cost function being associated with an agent, our goal is to find a common $s$-$t$ path minimizing the maximum objective among all agents, and thus create a fair solution for them. The problem is hard to approximate within $o(\log k)$ by any quasi-polynomial time algorithm unless $\mathrm{NP} \subseteq \mathrm{DTIME}(n^{\mathrm{poly}\log n})$, and the best approximation ratio known to date is $\widetilde{O}(\sqrt{n})$ which is based on the natural flow linear program. A longstanding open question is whether we can achieve a polylogarithmic approximation even when a quasi-polynomial running time is allowed. We give the first polylogarithmic approximation for robust $s$-$t$ path since the problem was proposed more than two decades ago. In particular, we introduce a $O(\log n \log k)$-approximate algorithm running in quasi-polynomial time. The algorithm is built on a novel linear program formulation for a decision-tree-type structure which enables us to get rid of the $\Omega(\max\{k,\sqrt{n}\})$ integrality gap of the natural flow LP. Further, we also consider some well-known graph classes, e.g., graphs with bounded treewidth, and show that the polylogarithmic approximation can be achieved polynomially on these graphs. We hope the new proposed techniques in the paper can offer new insights into the robust $s$-$t$ path problem and related problems in robust optimization.


With the future workloads predicted to feature petascale data sets, we developed a course on exploring various massively parallel architectures and programming models for data-intensive applications. The course covers the architectures of three processors, AMD/ATI RV670 Streaming graphics processors, Nvidia G80 graphics processors, and Cell Broadband Engines, and their latest programming support. The course starts with the single-program multiple-data (SPMD) programming model on ATI/Nvidia graphics processors and extends to the multiple-program multiple-data (MPMD) model using Cell processors. In this paper, we report our experience in developing & teaching this course and present some interesting insights learnt from exploring these different architectures. The results from the students' program experiences are promising: the SPMD model is easy to grasp and with a sound understanding of architectural features, significant performance gains can be achieved through various program optimizations. For example, one optimized matrix multiplication algorithm has been developed, which outperforms the carefully tuned library code (Nvidia CUBLAS) by 49%.


Heteromeric α1β channels are the main isoform of glycine receptors (GlyRs) in adult mammalian neurones. We have recently formulated a detailed activation mechanism that accounts for the single-channel properties of recombinant α1β GlyRs (1). The aim of the present experiments is to determine whether the same kinetic scheme can provide a satisfactory description of the behaviour of native GlyRs. The lumbar spinal cord was dissected rapidly post mortem from juvenile rats (P12-15) and slices (350 μm thick) cut using a vibratome. Single channel recordings were performed from motoneurones (visually identified by their morphology and location in the ventral horn) in the cell-attached or in the outside-out configuration. Surprisingly, only a small minority of cell-attached patches contained glycine-activated channels (14/~1200 patches). On the contrary, GlyRs were observed in the majority of outside-out patches, possibly because outside-out patches have a much larger surface area. Channel properties were found to be substantially different in the two configurations. In cell-attached mode, only one current amplitude was observed in the presence of 30, 100 or 1000 μM glycine. Native GlyR amplitudes varied from patch to patch (range 1.8-3 pA) reflecting differences in the intracellular chloride concentration. Nevertheless, the single channel conductance (estimated applying a 1s voltage ramp) was similar to that measured in cell-attached experiments from recombinant heteromeric GlyRs (2) (41±1 pS (n=14) vs 39±1 pS (n=5); all data expressed as mean±S.E.M.). On the other hand, in excised patches, glycine channels opened to several different amplitudes (typically 2 or 3). Average chord conductance values were similar for GlyRs from spinal motoneurones (28, 38 and 46 pS, n=7, 1 mM glycine) and for recombinant α1β channels from HEK293 cells (27, 34 and 45 pS, n=9). In our investigation of the kinetic properties of native glycine channels, we focused on the cell-attached configuration, as this is closer to physiological conditions. Thus we selected two cellattached experiments in which enough transitions were recorded and the signal to noise ratio allowed detection of transitions as short as 30 μs. At 1 mM glycine, the open period distribution was described by a single exponential (τ=7.0±0.3 ms) and 98±1% of the shut times distribution is described by an exponential with time constant of 11 μs, in good agreement with values from recombinant α1β GlyRs. The gating rates for the fully liganded native receptor, calculated from maximum likelihood fitting (HJCFIT program, http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc.html), were found to be similar to those estimated for recombinant receptors (1). This suggests that the gating behaviour of fully liganded native channels closely resembles that of recombinant α1β glycine receptors.


The objective was to evaluate sleeping and waking states of infants <6 months old. The design of study was comparing video-recorded and actigraphic data. Participants were thirteen healthy 3- to 5-month-old infants. At their homes, subjects wore an ankle actigraph for 1 h and were videotaped simultaneously. We performed per-minute analysis of video data using the method for observing newborns developed by Brazelton. Video and actigraphic data were compared each minute. The total concordance rate was 93.5%. Sleep/wake identification by actigraphy and visual observation correspond closely for infants.


The article seeks to explore the role played by the rhetorical modes of ethos and pathos when scientific knowledge is constructed in public discourse. A case study is presented on the public debate in Germany on possible risks to bees from neonicotinoid pesticides, focusing especially on a detailed analysis of scientific knowledge claims found in texts produced by two lobbying groups involved. The findings indicate distinctive rhetorical patterns in the context of scientific truth claims realising, for example, appeals to concern and the display of scientific competence and integrity.


Many studies in the literature have presented multiple remote sensing techniques for defect inspection of paintings. At present, however, papers on defect inspection and restoration of oriental architectural arts—such as door god paintings—are still rare. If an aged and damaged door god painting needs a restoration, then following the style and treatment skill of the original artist as much as possible is important for the restoration. Unfortunately, it is usually difficult to access the original artists for some of the aged door god paintings. This paper considers the texture features of auspicious patterns of armors on warrior door gods as useful information to recognize styles of door god paintings by unknown artists. First, a two-level two-dimensional discrete wavelet transform coupled with co-occurrence matrix calculation was adopted to analyze the texture features, based on the descriptors of angular second moment (ASM), entropy (ENT), contrast (CON), homogeneity (HOM), dissimilarity (DIS), correlation (COR), and cluster tendency (CLU), in the four orientations of 0° (horizontal), 45° (vertical), and 90° and 135° (double diagonal). Second, a two-tailed t-test based on the analyzed texture features was introduced into the hypothesis testing for demonstrating the master and apprentice relationships between the surveyed artists, and for recognizing the door god painting styles of unknown artists as well. The experimental results show that the proposed method effectively describes the texture features of the auspicious patterns of the surveyed door god paintings, and is able to determine the useful co-occurrence features for recognizing unknown artists' painting styles.


Three parallel algorithms for classical molecular dynamics are presented. The first assigns each processor a fixed subset of atoms; the second assigns each a fixed subset of inter‐atomic forces to compute; the third assigns each a fixed spatial region. The algorithms are suitable for molecular dynamics models which can be dicult to parallelize eciently


Milk from domestic cows has been a valuable food source for over 8,000 years. However, humans can take full advantage of this food source only if adults have the ability to tolerate milk as a food. The ability to digest milk as adults is genetically controlled with most of the world's adult population not being able to produce lactase, the enzyme that digests the milk sugar lactose. In this paper, modern day milk consumption by country is shown to be highly correlated with the frequency in the population of the genetic trait for lactose tolerance. This suggests that genetics rather than culture is the governing factor that determines per capita milk consumption.


The pinning characteristics of a 180° domain wall with grooves are investigated using the micromagnetic simulation. The depinning fields required to pull the wall out of the grooved region were strongly related to the pinning characteristics at each step edge. The depinning field difference between the wall movement directions was improved by the increase of the lower depinning field compared to that with the steplike thickness change. It was also found that the depinning fields for various groove widths were almost constant and the wall displacement was further suppressed by the narrower groove having the vertical edge.


Thermally programmed desorption technique has been applied to the investigation of "virgin" and repeated adsorption of carbon monoxide on Pd/Nb and Pd/Nb 2 O 5 /Nb systems. The desorbed products of the CO interaction with these surfaces, CO and CO 2 , were monitored with a quadrupole mass spectrometer. On the basis of presented results some of the observed differences between the metal- and oxide-supported active metal (Pd) have been ascribed to the morphological rather than to chemical (electronic) effects in these systems. The different excess kinetic energy dissipation of Pd atoms colliding with metallic or oxidic surface is considered to influence the initial growth of the Pd layer, resulting afterwards in a different morphology of the final Pd layers.


Objective: To investigate the effect of rhTNF NC on free cytosolic Ca 2+ concentration ([Ca 2+ ] i) in cultured rat hepatocytes and Ca 2+ contents in mouse livers. Methods: [Ca 2+ ] i was measured by fluorescence spectrophotometer with Ca 2+ detector Fura 2/AM and Ca 2+ contents in mouse livers were examined by atomic absorption spectrophotometer. Results: rhTNF NC dose dependently and significantly increased [Ca 2+ ] i 3 h after it was added into culture medium. rhTNF NC also dramatically increased Ca 2+ contents in mouse livers and induced serious liver injury in mice previously sensitized with D GalN. Calcium antagonists verapamil and nifedipine obviously decreased Ca 2+ contents and attenuated liver injury. Conclusion: Ca 2+ homeostasis in cultured rat hepatocytes and mouse livers is disordered by rhTNF NC. Verapamil and nifedipine can attenuate liver injury induced by rhTNF NC by decreasing Ca 2+ accumulation.


Summary Objective: Optimization of a specially developed automatic microaspirator for fine-needle aspiration of suspicious thyroid nodules. Patients, method: In a preliminary test biopsy effectiveness was evaluated in 20 native resected thyroid glands in vitro with both a Cameco® gun and a specially designed microaspirator respectively. In addition in both techniques two different needles (21-G and 27-G) were used to evaluate the influence of these two cannula. Subsequently, 103 thyroid nodules were biopsied in vivo and compared the results with a preliminary series of the same physician. In the workup and evaluation of the cytology the ThinPrep® technology was used. Results: In vitro the automatic microaspirator was superior to Cameco gun in both when using the 21-Gauge and the 27-Gauge needle. In terms of needle sizes a statistically significant difference at the 95% confidence level was evident for both comparisons in favor of 21-gauge needle. In vivo, 91% of punctures with the microaspirator were usable, while in the pre-series only 84% were usable (p > 0.05). Conclusion: The automatic microaspirator is superior to the manual aspiration. Moreover, under sonographic control it is more convenient, to biopsy even very small nodules and lesiosn (down to 4 mm in diameter)


This thesis presents analysis and computations of systems of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) modelling the dynamics of three stratified immiscible viscous layers flowing inside a channel with parallel walls inclined to the horizontal. The three layers are separated by two fluid-fluid interfaces that are free to evolve spatiotemporally and nonlinearly when the flow becomes unstable. The determination of the flow involves solution of the Navier-Stokes in domains that are changing due to the evolution of the interfaces whose position must be determined as part of the solution, providing a hard nonlinear moving boundary problem. Long-wave approximation and a weakly nonlinear analysis of the Navier-stokes equations along with the associated boundary conditions, leads to reduced systems of nonlinear PDEs that in general form are systems of coupled KuramotoSivashinsky equations. These physically derived coupled systems are mathematically rich due to the rather generic presence of coupled nonlinearities that undergo hyperbolic-elliptic transitions, along with high order dissipation. Analysis and numerical computations of the resulting coupled PDEs is presented in order to understand the stability of multilayer channel flows and explore and quantify the different types of underlying nonlinear phenomena that are crucial in applications. Importantly, it is found that multilayer flows can be unstable even at zero Reynolds numbers, in contrast to single interface problems. Furthermore, the thesis investigates the dynamical behaviour of the zero viscosity limits of the derived systems in order to verify their physical relevance as reduced models. Strong evidence of the existence of the zero viscosity limit is provided for mixed hyperbolic-elliptic type systems whose global existence is an open and challenging mathematical problem. Finally, a novel sufficient condition is derived for the occurrence of hyperbolic-elliptic transitions in general conservation laws of mixed type; the condition is demonstrated for several physical


Aeanthamoeba species are free-living atxtoebae that bave been isolated worldwide from a variety of environmental sources. Tbese organisms are commonly found in dust, soil, satid, rivers, streams, ponds, and tap water.''^ Tbey also have been isolated from bottled drinking water, swimming pools, physiotherapy pools, seawater, industrial cooling water, air cotiditioners, sewage, compost, gastric-lavage tubing, dialysis units, vegetables, fisb, reptiles, birds, mammals,'-^ and tbe throats of humans.-^


24 Fish stocks experiencing high fishing mortality show a tendency to mature earlier and at a 25 smaller size, which may have a genetic component and therefore long -lasting economic and 26 biological effects. To date, the economic effects of such eco v lutionary dynamics have not 27 been empirically investigated. Using 70 years of data, we develop a bio-economic model for 28 Northeast Arctic cod to compare the economic yield in a model in which lifeistory traits can 29 vary only through phenotypic plasticity with a model in which, in addition, genetic changes can 30 occur. We find that evolutionary changes towards faster growth and earlier maturation occur 31 consistently even if a stock is optimally managed. However, if a stock is managed optimally, 32 the evolutionary changes actually increase economic yield because faster growth and earlier 33 maturation raise the stock's productivity. The optimal fishing mortality is almost identical for 34 the evolutionary and non -evolutionary model and substantially lower than what i t has been 35 historically. Therefore, the costs of ignoring evolution under optimal management regimes are 36 negligible. However, if fishing mortality is as high as it has been historically, evolutionary 37 changes may result in economic losses, but only i f the fishery is selecting for medium -sized 38 individuals. As evolution facilitates growth, the fish are younger and still immature when they 39 are susceptible to getting caught . This outweighs the increase in productivity due to fish 40 spawning at an earlier age. 41


Abstract:  Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) usually exhibits a good clinical response to glucocorticoid (GC) treatment, but early clinical symptoms may create some difficulties in the differential diagnosis with elderly onset rheumatoid arthritis (EORA), particularly in patients complaining of shoulder and pelvic girdle involvement at onset (PMR‐like clinical onset) (EORA/PMR). Since neuroendocrine mechanisms seem to play a pathogenetic role in these clinical conditions, the aim of this study was to evaluate hormone and cytokine responsiveness to GC treatment in these patients. Cortisol (CO), dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate (DHEAS), 17‐OH‐progesterone (PRG), interleukin‐1 receptor antagonist (IL‐1Ra), interleukin‐6 (IL‐6), and tumor necrosis factor‐α (TNF‐α) were evaluated at base line, and 1 month after GC treatment (prednisone 10 mg/day), in 14 PMR, 11 EORA/PMR, and 13 EORA patients (mean age 73 ± 5 years, ± SD, mean disease duration 3 ± 2 months, ± SD). No patient was taking GCs or immunosuppressive agents at base line. Following GC treatment, CO, DHEAS, and PRG decreased significantly in both PMR and EORA/PMR patients (P < 0.05), but not in EORA patients. On the contrary, IL‐1Ra was significantly increased in both PMR and EORA/PMR patients (P < 0.05). IL‐6 and TNF‐α serum levels were significantly decreased in all groups of patients (P < 0.05). In conclusion, PMR and EORA/PMR seem to exhibit similar hormonal variations after GC administration, when compared to EORA patients. These differences suggest a deficient function of the hypothalamic‐pituitary‐adrenal (HPA) axis in PMR and EORA/PMR patients, with a related higher responsiveness to GC treatment. Interestingly, in PMR and EORA/PMR patients, GC treatment was found to downregulate PRG serum levels.


The purpose of this case study was to describe a variety of classroom assessment events in high school social studies classes. This study included data from 12 classroom assessment events in the classes of a teacher-researcher in an urban high school. Four assessments in each course of the teacher-researcher's entire teaching load were studied. The courses were world cultures, honors U.S. history, and philosophy. The total number of students was 96; sample sizes for individual assessment analyses ranged from 11 to 39. Results supported the conclusion that even within the same classroom assessment environment, student perceptions of the assigned task and self-efficacy for the task, reported mental effort invested, goal orientations, and learning strategy use differed by assessment. The mean level of these variables differed by type of student. Observed correlations among these variables differed between paper-and-pencil tests and performance assessments. Potential implications for classroom assessment practices are discussed.


Measuring the Return on Investment: Technology Investments ROI Model - History and Background Establishing the Need for the Technology Project Collecting Data and Other Key Metrics Isolating the Effects of Technology Investments Exposing the Value of Your Large Scale Technology Projects Tabulating Project Costs Calculating the Return Identifying Intangible Measures ROI Forecasting How to Communicate Results Implementation Issues


The mean reproductive rates (number of 7-day-old nestlings raised per year per individual) of yearling and older Ipswich Sparrows breeding on Sable Is., Nova Scotia in 1977 and 1978 were the following: yearling males 3.3, older males 4.2, yearling females 3.9, and older females 4.7. The mates of older males began nesting earlier, laid larger clutches, and renested more quickly after each brood than did the mates of yearling males, thereby laying slightly more clutches and significantly more eggs. Older females laid slightly more and slightly larger clutches than did yearling females, resulting in a significantly greater production of eggs. The number of nestlings aged 7 days (i.e., the age immediately before nest leaving) raised per egg laid varied only slightly with parental age. Consequently, the reproductive rate increased with age because parental abilities must have increased by the same proportion as did the production of eggs.


The aim of this project is to analyze the distribution of traffic accidents in Barcelona, for 10 years of data. The principal motivation is to try to see if there are some patterns in human actions, as has been demonstrated in other studies for other actions like email and letter communications. We will focus our project to approximate this behavior by Poisson process and work with some sampling like the day and night. Also, we will try to observe some human habits. We realized that the approach was quite good, however it is described with two different dynamics, day and night.


Let G be a transitive ^-subgroup of the lattice-ordered group A{Ω) of all order-preserving permutations of a chain Ω. (In fact, many of the results are generalized to partially ordered sets Ω and transitive groups G such that β < γ implies βg = γ for some positive geG, thus encompassing some results on non-ordered permutation groups.) The orbits of any stabilizer subgroup Ga, aeΩ, are convex and thus can be totally ordered in a natural way. The usual pairing Δ<—>Δ={ag I aeΔg} establishes an o-anti-isomorphism between the set of "positive" orbits and the set of "negative" orbits. If Δ is an o-block (convex block) of G for which ΔGa = Δ, then Δ' is also an o-block. If Ga has a greatest orbit Γ9 then {β e Ω I Γ' < β < Γ} constitutes an o-block of G. A correspondence is established between the centralizer ZA{Ω)G and a certain subset of the fixed points of Ga. The main theorem states that every o-primitive group ((?, Ω) which is not o-2-transitive or regular looks strikingly like the only previously known example, in which Ω is the


Anal melanoma is a rare and highly aggressive mucosal melanocytic malignancy. It is the third most common after melanomas of the skin and retina. The peak incidence in seen in the sixth and seventh decades. The clinical symptoms are pain, anal mass, bleeding per rectum, tenesmus or change in the bowel habits. It affects anal canal, rectum or both with a tendency to spread along submucosal planes. It is mostly beyond complete resection at the time of diagnosis and majority of patients die of metastasis. MR imaging signi icantly increases the diagnosis of anal melanoma in its early stages.


I. THE PLACE AND THE HISTORY 291 II. IDEOLOGICAL ASSUMPTIONS OF THE LAW AND METHODOLOGICAL LINES FOR ITS TEACHING 295 A. Methodological Assumptions 295 1. Dichotomization 295 2. Neutrality and Objectivity 296 3. Abstraction and Universality 296 B. Methodological Points for Teaching Law 298 III. LAW FOR SOCIAL COMITY: IDEOLOGICAL ASSUMPTIONS AND METHODOLOGICAL LINES 301


Cesium and copper- or iron-substituted Keggin-type phosphomolybdic heteropolycompounds with the general formula Cs2My+xH1−xyPMo12O40(M=Fe3+and Cu2+and 0≤x≤0.43) have been tested as catalysts in the oxidation of isobutane to methacrylic acid in order to study the effect of the transition metal ion on the catalytic properties. Copper appears to have a positive effect on the activity and a negative effect on the selectivity in methacrylic acid. Iron has almost no effect on the activity but a positive one on the selectivity, although this trend is reversed at higher iron content levels. These results have been correlated to the reducibility and the acidity of the catalysts.


Specific strength training is the core of modern strength training.Developing specific strength is not only with the specific technical exercise,but also in the weight room,so as to fit specific event in form and load.The detailed strength classification is another characteristics of modern strength training.It leads to be detailed in training tasks,methods,requests and tests.Strength training is increased in almost all of cycle endurance events.Strength training is regarded as medium of increasing aerobic training,considering energy and neuromuscular system and combining aerobic and anaerobic capability.


Abstrcat The uniform persistence in a predator-prey system with stage-structure for prey is studied. By means of Lyapunov function, a sufficient condition of global asymptotical stability is obtained.


2016 was a remarkable year, a year of significant advances in cancer biology and treatment, a year of social and political transition, and a year of sadness for those of us who have lost dear friends in the field of cancer research. Please join us as we share some reflections on these events. Cancer immunotherapy clearly occupies center stage in treatment research. At the clinical end, we have watched the steady advancement of checkpoint therapy into valuable use in many solid tumors with 15%–20% response rates, many of which are durable, now the norm for tumors of the respiratory, genitourinary, and gastrointestinal tracts, and even greater benefit is realized for melanoma [1] andMerkel cell tumors [2, 3]. At the same time, we recognize the enormous costs of these new drugs and our inability at present to select the right patients for treatment [4]. PDL-1 expression and mutational burden seem to allow for enrichment of response for lung cancer patients but are imperfect biomarkers, as these drugs occasionally benefit low expressing tumors. We hope that better biomarkers for clinical response and patient benefit will soon be forthcoming. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continues to lend strong support to the rapid advancement of new compounds to patient benefit. A number of novel and effective small molecules were approved in 2016, notably venetoclax, a Bcl-2 inhibitor for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) [5]; palbociclib, a CDK 4/6 inhibitor, for estrogen receptor positive breast cancer [6]; rucaparib, a potent PARP inhibitor, for ovarian cancer [7]; and cabozantinib, a c-MET and VEGFR inhibitor, for first-line treatment of renal cancers [8]. Each of these therapies builds upon fundamental research supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and, in particular, the National Cancer Institute (NCI). A host of new monoclonal antibodies were also approved, advancing treatment of multiple myeloma, CLL, and solid tumors [9]. The FDA's Office of Hematology and Oncology Products (OHOP) and its Oncology Center of Excellence deserve great praise for their swift action on many worthwhile agents. Appropriately, cancer research has been very much in the public eye in 2016, thanks to the efforts of Vice President Joe Biden in promoting a national dialogue on cancer. In one of the few congressional actions that reflected bipartisan cooperation, the 21st Century Cures Act passed both the House and Senate following the presidential election, and authorized a major increase of $1.8 billion to fund cancer research over a number of years. The U.S. Senate renamed the research portion of the Cancer Moonshot Task Force the "Beau Biden Cancer Moonshot" in honor of the vice president's late son, who died of a glioma in 2015 at age 46. The bill also aims to strengthen addiction research and mental health services, and authorizes additional funds for both the NIH and FDA. We are cautiously hopeful that these authorizations will lead to significant multiyear appropriation of funds for cancer research. We also note with an air of expectation, the emerging importance of "big data" in the strategy outlined in Biden's Cancer Moonshot initiative. Transparency through data sharing, data curation, and data aggregation enable multiple users to undertake analyses that offer new insights and important discoveries that are just beginning to be published [10, 11].We are particularly proud of the rapidly expanding open source data base, Project Data Sphere R , which consists of 41,000 subjects of industry and government supported trials. This growing resource is now freely available for researchers' use online. Proof of principle has already been achieved using this initiative of the nonprofit CEO Roundtable on Cancer [12]. We would be remiss if we did not address the implications of the U.S. presidential and congressional election of 2016. These results have injected a high degree of uncertainty about issues that directly impact cancer research and Bruce A. Chabner, M.D. Editor-in-Chief


The utility model relates to an A.C. co-phase traction supply device of railway locomotive based on YN, vd wiring transformer; wherein, the traction transformer is a three-phase to two-phase balancing transformer (T), the wiring method of which is YN, vd. A rectifying inverter (Z) is connected between two outputs (b', c') of the line voltage of the transformer (T) and two outputs (a, x) of the phase voltage of the transformer (T), and the outputs (b', c') of the line voltage and the outputs (a, x) of the phase voltage are the supply ends (V1, V2) of the traction locomotive. Meanwhile, a control device of the rectifying inverter (Z) is connected with the two supply ends (V1, V2) of the traction locomotive. The utility model has the advantages of achieving the co-phase power supply in the whole line of the railway without dividing phases, being stable voltage in each section of the traction transforming station, ensuring that the locomotives can move at high speed when the locomotives are overloading, getting the power in three-phase from the public power network of the power supply system of the traction load of the railway, and eliminating the effect of the traction load of the railway to the power quality of the public power network can be eliminate, which can also be made by the prior traction transformer with low cost and convenient implementation.


Recycled asphalt pavement (RAP) has been increasingly used in flexible pavement construction and rehabilitation. Laboratory and in-place evaluation of the performance of RAP and hot-mix asphalt (HMA) produced with RAP is necessary to the successful use of RAP. Extensive research work has been reported with a focus on laboratory tests of RAP materials. But comprehensive evaluation of the long-term in-service pavement performance with RAP is still at its early stage. In this study, the Texas Specific Pavement Studies Category 5 experimental sections from the Long-Term Pavement Performance program provide an opportunity to investigate the in situ performance of HMA with RAP based on about 16 years of data. In the underlying flexible pavement rehabilitation project, the factorial design includes surface preparation, material, and thickness factors. In particular, a relatively high percentage of RAP, with a content of 35% by weight, was adopted in the asphalt overlay. An in-depth investigation of the pavement performance involving two typical distresses, ride quality and transverse cracking and rutting, is conducted. Compared with sections without RAP (HMA with virgin materials), sections with RAP demonstrated higher cracking amount, less rut depth, and similar roughness change over time. The overall evaluation revealed that a well-designed mix with 35% RAP could perform as satisfactorily as that produced with virgin materials to meet the in-service performance requirement.


The advancement of industry in 20 century, it provided the abundant living condition in our life. On the other hand, it also caused negative effects to our environment. Therefore, the efforts which to reduce negative effects are accomplished from a wide range of academic fields. It is necessary even from urban development field as well. Urban spatial structure and land use are closely connected with transportation system, energy consumption and air pollution. That is the changes of urban spatial structure and land use could definitely lead to traffic demands and supplies. Then, this is seriously caused to increasing energy consumption and air pollution. This research focuses how we could reduce energy consumption in transportation sector comparing metropolitan cities in Korea and Japan. It could be presented to analyze the possibility of energy reduction and to interpret the relationship between transportation and urban spatial structure. 1.研究目的 大都市圏における通勤交通は,交通目的の うち主要な部分を占めていることから,都市 構造の面から通勤距離を分析することは,交 通エネルギー消費及び環境負荷等の地球環境 問題を考えるうえでも重要である.また,通 勤交通は,住居地と業務地との地理的位置関 係によって発生するものであるから,通勤距 離は都市規模や都市構造(住居地と業務地の 位置関係)と密接な関係を持っている. そこで本研究は,時系列的に都市の職場と 住居地の空間的な分布の変化が通勤距離に及 ぼす影響を通勤距離の変化から把握すること を目的とする. このため,以下の二つの研究を行う.まず, 1965-2000年の東京大都市圏における通勤距 離の変化とその要因を把握する.次に,198 0-2000年の日韓の大都市圏を対象として,職 住割当問題を基礎とした最小・最大通勤距離 と実際の通勤距離との関係から三つの指標を 定義し,これによって都市構造と通勤パター ンの関係を把握する.


Among the key barriers to commercial scale deployment is the cost associated with CO2 capture. This is particularly true for existing large, fossil-fired assets that account for a large fraction of the electricity generation fleet in developed nations, including the U.S. Fitting conventional combustion technologies with CO2 capture systems can carry an energy penalty of thirty percent or more, resulting in an increased price of power to the grid, as well as an overall decrease in net plant output. Taken together with the positive growth in demand for electricity, this implies a need for accelerated capital build-out in the power generation markets to accommodate both demand growth and decreased output at retrofitted plants. In this paper, the authors present the results of a study to assess the potential to use geothermal energy to provide boiler feedwater preheating, capturing efficiency improvements designed to offset the losses associated with CO2 capture. Based on NETL benchmark cases and subsequent analysis of the application using site-specific data from the North Valmy power plant, several cases for CO2 capture were evaluated. These included geothermally assisted MEA capture, CO2BOLs capture, and stand-alone hybrid power generation, compared with a baseline, no-geothermal case. Based on Case 10, and assuming 2.7 MMlb/h of geothermally sourced 150 oC water, the parasitic power load associated with MEA capture could be offset by roughly seven percent, resulting in a small (~1 percent) overall loss to net power generation, but at levelized costs of electricity similar to the no-geothermal CCS case. For the CO2BOLs case, the availability of 150  ̊C geothermal fluid could allow the facility to not only offset the net power decrease associated with CO2BOLs capture alone, but could increase nameplate capacity by two percent. The geothermally coupled CO2BOLs case also decreases LCOE by 0.75 ¢/kWh relative to the non-hybrid CO2BOLs case, with the improved performance over the MEA case driven by the lower regeneration temperature and associated duty for CO2BOLs relative to MEA. © 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Peer-review under responsibility of the organizing committee of GHGT-13.


ABSTRACT This essay draws on theories of rhetorical ability to analyze public discourse on sexual consent. By emphasizing the rhetoricity of disability, these theories underscore the environmental conditions of communication. Through an analysis of the discourse surrounding a controversial legal case, the author develops a rhetorical theory of consent that calls attention to the way that arrangements of power enable and constrain the communicative conditions that facilitate the possibility of consent.


Abstract The acid-labile 5-[(9-aminoxanthen-2-yl)oxy]valeric acid was prepared in a six-step route. The usefulness of the resulting handle was investigated with solid-phase peptide synthesis of cholecystokinin-8 sulfate and the phosphorylated fragment of the ζ-subunit of the T-cell receptor complex 138-144.


Ecology of Food and Nutrition (EFN) promotes scholarly discussion and engagement on the holistic and cross-cultural dimensions of the study of food and nutrition. Articles published in this journal focus on foods and food systems not only in terms of their utilization to satisfy human nutritional needs and health but also how social and cultural factors relate to food, food cultures, and nutrition. Only a handful of journals publish articles that explicitly address the intersections of food and nutrition, biology and culture, and policy and practice from a holistic and global perspective. It is this scholarship that EFN seeks to promote. This issue of EFN includes three articles discussing cutting-edge issues in food and nutrition, including food insecurity, use of information and communication technology for effective food distribution, and the food culture mismatch. The article by Kihlstorm et al. presents the results of a research study examining the association between food insecurity and health-related quality of life in an older adult population – a rapidly growing population segment in the United States. This important study focuses on predictors of food insecurity (e.g., low income, minority status, single, disability) among older adults. The researchers used cross-sectional surveys completed by 234 older adults accessing health services at three primary care clinics in Florida. Based on a rigorous statistical analysis of their data, Kihlstorm and colleagues conclude that food insecure older adults were more likely to report physically unhealthy days and activity limitation days. This study strongly underscores the importance of considering food insecurity among older adults, especially for developing intervention program, policy planning, and implementation. The article by Ross et al. presents the findings of a unique study that seeks to examine the acceptability of and need for a smartphone app-based delivery service among Baltimore City corner store owners and wholesalers/distributors in order to improve access to healthier foods in neighborhood corner stores. The authors collected qualitative data from wholesalers, distributors, and store owners in addition to a range of other stakeholders to understand the feasibility and cultural adaptability of app-based delivery service in Baltimore City. Their study suggests that while there is a generalized acceptability of app-based food delivery services among storeowners, costs associated with such a delivery system and lack of foreign language capability may act as barriers to the adoption of such an innovative food delivery service system. Finally, the article by Agaronov et al. presents the results of a participatory action research project among Black and Latino adolescents in New York City. The study's main objective was to compare the experience of Black and Latino adolescents between their school and home food environments. The authors used a grounded theory approach to learn about the mismatch between food-related experiences of adolescents at home and school. The article offers a detailed and nuanced discussion of food culture mismatch in terms of sensory-emotional and ECOLOGY OF FOOD AND NUTRITION 2019, VOL. 58, NO. 1, 1–2 https://doi.org/10.1080/03670244.2019.1564872


Abstract : The goal of this project is to develop helical electron beams for radiation therapy of breast cancers. This final report summarizes major findings and results for the entire period of the project The results are organized based on the Statement of Work in our proposal. During the entire grant funding period, we completed and exceeded all the tasks outlined in the original specific aims. In particular, we validated our hypothesis and characterized the dosimetric properties of helical electron beams modulated via axial magnetic field. We published multiple articles reporting the key milestones of project in addition, We are awarded a patent by the US patent office on the device and methods of use of the helical electron beams in radiation therapy. The grant had supported four postdoctoral fellows with two of them are currently holding faculty positions at the academic institutions. Our on-going work in translating our research into clinical practices is currently funded through Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer foundation.


The invention discloses high-strength iron alloy and belongs to the field of alloy materials. The strength of the iron alloy is higher than that of common iron alloy because of addition of sulfur, neodymium, gadolinium, aluminum, nickel, potassium and carbon, especially because of addition of neodymium, gadolinium, potassium and carbon.


We analyze the dynamics of atom-laser interactions for atoms having multiple, closely spaced, excited-state hyperfine manifolds. The system is treated fully quantum mechanically, including the atom's center-of-mass degree of freedom, and motion is described in a polarization gradient field created by a three-dimensional laser configuration. We develop the master equation describing this system, and then specialize it to the low-intensity limit by adiabatically eliminating the excited states. We show how this master equation can be simulated using the Monte Carlo wave function technique, and we provide details on the implementation of this procedure. Monte Carlo calculations of steady state atomic momentum distributions for two fermionic alkaline earth isotopes, {sup 25}Mg and {sup 87}Sr, interacting with a three-dimensional lin-perpendicular-lin laser configuration are presented, providing estimates of experimentally achievable laser-cooling temperatures.


JSR 170 specifies the Java Content Repository (JCR) interface. This interface is accepted as a standard in the field of Web Applications and Content Management. The specification is structured in Level 1 (read-only access) and Level 2 (read and write access). Furthermore, it specifies four optional features. The hierarchic data model described in JSR 170 exhibits strong analogy to XML. However, most JCR implementations use relational database systems. Native XML databases, such as XTC, are able to manage XML data efficiently. This thesis describes the design and implementation of a JCR which meets all requirements on persistence employing DOM and XQuery operations on XML documents in XTC. Optional features "Versioning" and "Transactions" are supported. In order to test the implementation two demo applications (blog & wiki) are developed and benchmarks are run against the reference implementation.


In this work, we present experimental results on the long-term performance of ultrasonic transducers elements. For aeronautic applications these devices are targeted for the wireless transmission of energy and data to and from sensor elements placed inside of hermetically sealed metal envelopes, typically used e.g. for hydraulic accumulators, oxygen bottles, fuel tanks etc. By exciting the transmitter piezo in resonance, acoustic waves are generated traveling through the metallic body and are reconverted to electrical energy on the receiving side. Commercially available cylindrically shaped piezoelectric elements have been selected in order to build up an energy and data transmission system. In a test arrangement for preevaluation purposes both piezoelectric elements are arranged on opposite sides of a metal wall, fixed by using an electrically conductive epoxy and exposed to ambient temperatures up to of 100 deg C. Furthermore, a concept is presented how to integrate the complete system in a compact way in a hydraulic accumulator.


"I do not know what to say anymore, or who to write to. We wrote to Kofi Anan, we wrote to Mary Robinson, we wrote to the whole world but no one seems to care.We hear from friends who live in the States and Europe that things in Palestine have quieted down, they do not know that raids continue, killing of innocent people continues and homes of so many families are destroyed." (Marina Barham, an internet letter from bombarded Beit Jala, December 5.)
Israel, largely followed by Western media, describes its handling of the Palestinian uprising as a war of defence: The Palestinians are violent non-compromising, fanatic people, who reject Israel's generous peace offers.


The application of lithium‐ion batteries especially for electric vehicles has been limited by the factors of safety, lifetime, charging time, and cost. One of the principal limitations is that the performance of Li‐ion batteries drops intensely in a cold environment. Cold environment dramatically reduces the available capacity of the batteries and increases its internal impedance at the same time. Therefore, the estimation of state‐of‐health is of great importance in battery performance evaluation and lifetime prediction. Furthermore, the heating methods need to be developed to ensure that batteries work in abnormal temperature conditions. This paper conducts a comprehensive review specifically on the poor performance of lithium‐ion cells under severe conditions. The content contains three sections. First, a comprehensive study on the aging mechanisms of lithium‐ion batteries at cold temperatures is undertaken. Second, the estimation methods of the health state of the batteries are conducted, which is vital to understand the fundamentals and quantify the performance and aging effects for lithium‐ion batteries. Third, the heating methods are classified and studied in detail to reduce the degradation mechanism and promote the performance of lithium‐ion batteries under sub‐zero conditions.


Department of Physical Therapy, National Rehabilitation Center PurposeTo assess the relationship between post-stroke shoulder pain, motor function, and pain-related quality of life(QOL) MethodsVolunteer sample of 62 chronic stroke survivors with post-stroke shoulder pain and glenohumeral subluxation. The patients answered the question in shoulder pain with the Brief Pain Inventory question 12 (BP1-12), Pain-related Quality of life(BPI-23). Therapists measured the performance of combined upper-limb movement including the hand-behind-neck(HBN), hand-behind-beck(HBB) maneuver, added passive pain-free shoulder external rotation range of motion, and Modified Ashworth Scale(MAS) score of the elbow flexors. Physical performance assessments were used to measure basic activity daily living(Modified Barthel Index-self care, MBI-S/C), motor function of upper limb(Fugl-Meyer Upper/Lower Extremity, FM-U/E).ResultsStepwise regression analyses indicated that post-stroke shoulder pain is associated with the BPI 23, but not with the FM-U/E, MBI-S/C. Thus, the presence of shoulder pain is more important predicting pain-related QOL than its degree in predicting motor function of upper limb and basic activity daily living. ConclusionPost-stroke shoulder pain was associated with reduced quality of life related to pain. The pain was not associated with the motor function of upper limb and basic activity daily living. The result imply that management of shoulder pain & anatomical position of shoulder joint after stroke should be emphasized.This provides a further incentive to develop effective rehabilitation prevention and treatment strategies for post-stroke shoulder pain.


This paper investigates people's social acceptance of a childcare support robot system and compares their attitudes to two childcare technologies: anesthesia during labor and baby food (processed food and formula milk), which includes powdered milk and instant food for babies and toddlers. To investigate their social acceptance, we developed scales from three points of view: safety and trustworthy, diligence, and decreasing workload. For this paper, our participants were comprised of 412 people located through a web-based survey and 14 people who experienced the prototype of our childcare support robot system. They answered questionnaires about our three developed scales and an intention to use scale to investigate their social acceptance toward childcare support technologies. The web-based survey results indicate that our system's concept was evaluated lower than current childcare support technologies, but people who experienced our system prototype evaluated it higher than those who filled out web-based surveys.


Washington - Even though surgical complications are rare, they do not get as much attention as they should, according to Christopher J. Arpey, M.D., Hospitals, Department of Dermatology, Iowa City. Dr. Arpey says the topic of complications is avoided because of its inherent distastefulness, and he believes just the opposite should be happening.


The objectivity of this research is to formulate a simulated rail violent irregular vertical curve
for computerized vibration analysis for train's ride comfort and stability. The force due to horizontal rail curve, slope, different of left and right rail turning radius, and gap of rail connection are ignored. The mathematical model consists of train vibration equations with base motion excitation force that exist interims of implicit and explicit function of design parameters, space variables, and time. The measured oscillating data signal through transducer at predetermined coordinate of points on car body, bogy, and wheel axel are assumed as incomplete periodic harmonic time signal. Assuming that stable vibration energy bound condition is preserved, then the square of displacement-frequency product will be constant. Inverse dynamic analysis will be used to
yield a time function of base motion due to rail irregular vertical curve. A developed Direct Multimodal Harmonic Frequency Separation (DMHFS) method is proposed in form of frequency modulation formula by grouping the discrete vibration data time signal into frequency group along with its lower-upper bound and maximum-minimum peak amplitude. It appears as Fourier like Series in Sine and Cosine time function set consists of Amplitude-Frequency pair beginning Maximum Amplitude-Minimum Frequency pair to Minimum
Amplitude-Maximum Frequency pair due to constant bound vibration kinetic un-dissipated energy.
A simulated rail irregular vertical curve is generated by converting the time function series into space function of travel distance of train x by transformation formula: Z(x) = Z[v(t)dt], where v(t) is a recorded time varying speed journey. The v(t) can be formulated according to the near actual
speed function of time such as: discrete time constant, discrete linear time function, and general
time function. For validity test, the DMHFS method is applied to the bogy vibration data time signal
given by PT INKA Madiun (Indonesian Train Car Industry), to demonstrate how does this new
method work. The accuracy and effectiveness of the result shows that it is absolutely depend on the
data measurement technique and the future development will be suggested.


-A simple and highly efficient producer has been described for Synthesis of 2,4-diamino-6-phenyl-1,4,5,6-tetrahydropyrimidine-5-carbonitriles from aldehyde 1 , malenonitrile 2 and guanidine hydrochloride 3 , freshly prepared sodium ethoxide in ethanol under reflux through condensation followed by cyclization to give desired products tetrahydropyrimidines 4 ( P-1-P-10) (Scheme-1,Table-1). New tetrahydropyrimidines have been synthesized and characterization of these synthesized compounds is done by IR, NMR, 13 C NMR and mass spectral data.


Water is one of the most natural resources for all the living organisms, weather unicellular or multi cellular, since it is required for various domestic purposes irrigation, power generation and industries. In a freshwater system, the zooplankton forms are important group and constitute basic link of the food chain. Planktons are very sensitive to the environment they live in and any alteration in the environment leads to the changes in the plankton communities in terms of tolerance abundance, diversity and dominance in the habitat (Mathivonam, 2007). The planktonic study is a very useful tool for the assessment of water quality in any type of water body and also contributes to an understanding of the basic nature and general economy of the water body. Plankton occurs in all natural water as well as in artificial impoundments like ponds, tanks, reservoirs, irrigation cannels, etc. Plankton being the primary producer from the lowest trophic level in the food chain of fresh water ecosystem and plays a key role in fish culture. The number ad species of plankton serves to determine the quality of water body. The structure of aquatic community is important in monitoring the water quality. The density and diversity of International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 6 Number 8 (2017) pp. 2962-2970 Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com


ABSTRACT The purpose of the present work is to examine, on a clinically diverse population of older adults (N = 46) sleeping at home, the performance of two actigraphy-based sleep tracking algorithms (i.e., Actigraphy-based Sleep algorithm, ACT-S1 and Sadeh's algorithm) compared to manually scored electroencephalography-based PSG (PSG-EEG). ACT-S1 allows for a fully automatic identification of sleep period time (SPT) and within the identified sleep period, the sleep-wake classification. SPT detected by ACT-S1 did not differ statistically from using PSG-EEG (bias = −9.98 min; correlation 0.89). In sleep-wake classification on 30-s epochs within the identified sleep period, the new ACT-S1 presented similar or slightly higher accuracy (83–87%), precision (86–89%) and F1 score (90–92%), significantly higher specificity (39–40%), and significantly lower, but still high, sensitivity (96–97%) compared to Sadeh's algorithm, which achieved 99% sensitivity as the only measure better than ACT-S1's. Total sleep times (TST) estimated with ACT-S1 and Sadeh's algorithm were higher, but still highly correlated to PSG-EEG's TST. Sleep quality metrics of sleep period efficiency and wake-after-sleep-onset computed by ACT-S1 were not significantly different from PSG-EEG, while the same sleep quality metrics derived by Sadeh's algorithm differed significantly from PSG-EEG. Agreement between ACT-S1 and PSG-EEG reached was highest when analyzing the subset of subjects with least disrupted sleep (N = 28). These results provide evidence of promising performance of a full-automation of the sleep tracking procedure with ACT-S1 on older adults. Future longitudinal validations across specific medical conditions are needed. The algorithm's performance may further improve with integrating multi-sensor information.


Load Balancing for high-Scheduler is scalable, highly available network services demand, borrowed many mature technology, the development of a high-performance server, cluster System is a key component of, this paper analyses the development of a network of four needs, details of the three load balancing technology, and accordingly is a load balancing scheduler design, then details of the resulting load balancing for a scheduling system structure of the groups set, finally, load balancing scheduling for specific applications.


Semimetal tin nanowires of sufficiently small diameters become semiconductors. Bandgap engineering based on this effect allows for the design of a confinement modulated gap field-effect transistor in which the need for doping in the source, channel or drain is eliminated. Functionality of a dopant-free, single-material field effect transistor is demonstrated through ab initio simulations. Drain-source current-voltage characteristic of the confinement modulated gap transistor shows that the subthreshold slope and the on/off ratio are 73 mV/dec and up to 104 at VDD=400 mV, respectively.


The minimum description length principle in wavelet denois ing can be extended from the standard linear-quadratic setting in several ways. We d escribe briefly three extensions: soft thresholding, histogram modeling and a multico mp nent approach. The MDL hard thresholding approach based on the normalized maxi um likelihood universal modeling can be extended to include soft thresholdin g shrinkage, which can be considered to give better results in some applications. In M DL histogram denoising approach the assumptions of the parametric density models f or the data can be relaxed. The informative and noise components of the data are modeled with equal bin width histograms. The method can cope with different noise distri butions. In multicomponent approach more than one non-noise components are includ ed in the model, because it is possible that in addition to the random noise there may b e other disturbing signal elements, or that the informative signal is comprised of sev eral different components which we may want to observe, separate or remove. In these cas es adding informative components in the model may result result in better perf ormance than in the NML denoising approach.


Several strategies to achieve 100 Gb/s throughput for single polarization DD-OFDM are considered. Based on state-of-the-art in converter technology, using higher order modulation formats a concept aiming at high sensitivity is proposed.


Existence of natural succession area at Modified Ajkwa Deposition Area (Mod-ADA) closely related to sedimentation process happened. Data of suspended particle in Mod-ADA on April 2009 indicating that particle is precipitated follows
particle size. The biggest suspended particle tends to precipitate in advance. Particle value suspended in water is calculated to apply method APHA (2005) and done in laboratory TRMP PT Freeport Indonesia. Picture as of particle swampy forest suspended at area Mod-ADA projected in data Landsat Acquitation 2007,2008, and 2009. Suspended particle data analysis in 2007 indicating that distribution of large suspended particle sized (> 600mg/l) in upstream ModADA followed by precipitation of smaller fairish particle (300-600mg/i and 50-300mg/1) in centered and 0-50mg/I in estuary area. Distribution of suspended particle shows the same pattern in the 2008 and 2009 that is the large of particle suspension tends to precipitate in centered of
Mod-ADA. Kinetics of rainwater and surface current of influential to sedimentation in river body. Sedimentation process causes changing of river stream pattern. Change of
river stream pattern in ModADA depicted in Landsat Accusation 1991, 1999, and 2008. Result of image analysis to suspended particle swampy forest to indicate that smooth and small fairish particle tends to precipitate in part of downstream Mod-ADA especially in gabion area. Deceleration of current in gabion detains suspended particle stream so that particle to tends to sedimentation. Suspended sediment
characteristic and material contained by it to stand to form sedimentation area which can be growed vegetation. Sediment characteristic like this found at Double Levee which is part of area Mod-ADA and grows as natural succession area. Based on analysis result this has been done able to be predicted that sedimentation process formed in Mod-ADA can be exploited and managed as area growing of natural vegetation. Condensed of particle is dissolved entering Mod-ADA, high water debit and climate influence causes sediment area formed cannot be exploited carefully as place of growing of vegetation, causing natural succession process doesn't take place in area Mod-ADA.


By applying transversal method of research on a sample of 267 male and 88 female students of the Academy of Criminalistic and Police Studies, Belgrade determination of basic anthropometrical characteristics in the function of the year of study was conducted. Basic anthropometrical characteristics were expressed in following variables: body weight - BW, expressed in kg; body height - BH, expressed in cm; body mass index - BMI, expressed in kg/m2. The obtained results showed statistically significant tendency of change in students of the ACPS during the course of studies, namely in increase of BM as basic measure for estimation of body voluminosity (1.2 kg per a study year, F ratio 4287, p = 0.039), as well as in BMI, as a measure for the assessment of the body status, that is, the state of nourishment (0.42 kg/m2 per a study year, F ratio 7.191, p = 0.008). As for female students, the obtained results showed statistically significant tendency of change, namely in decrease of BMI, as a measure for the assessment of the body status, that is, the state of nourishment (- 0.56 kg/m2 per a study year, F ratio 8.290, p = 0.005). At this point, based on the research results, we can not say for sure what could be the cause of the determined trend of increase of voluminosity and body nourishment in male students, and decrease of body nourishment in female students, which should be determined in future researches.


Artisans, assistants and technicians in laboratories remain largely anonymous amid the rapidly expanding experimental practice of the eighteenth century. Where their activities can be traced, it is apparent that the binary conceptions of scholar and craftsman, of philosopher and practitioner, hardly held during the first industrial revolution. Who actually did the work in the early-modern laboratory remains an important issue. In the case explored in this article, William Lewis, chemical lecturer, and Josiah Wedgwood, pottery manufacturer, both employed the skill and expertise of Alexander Chisholm. Chisholm moved among industrial innovators, gathering the knowledge of workmen, and promoted the experimental method ultimately employed in the Wedgwood manufactory.


Many groups are developing submillimeter cameras that will be used to screen human subjects for improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and other threat items hidden beneath their clothing. To interpret submillimeter camera images the scattering properties, specifically the bidirectional scattering distribution function (BSDF) must be known. This problem is not trivial because surfaces of man-made objects and human skin have topographic features comparable to the wavelength of submillimeter radiation—thus simple, theoretical scattering approximations do not apply. To address this problem we built a goniometer instrument to measure the BSDF from skin surfaces of live human subjects illuminated with a beam from a 650 GHz synthesized source. To obtain some multi-spectral information, the instrument was reconfigured with a 160 GHz source. Skin areas sampled are from the hand, interior of the forearm, abdomen, and back. The 650 GHz beam has an approximately Gaussian profile with a FWHM of approximately 1 cm. Instrument characteristics: angular resolution 2.9⍛; noise floor -45 dB/sr; dynamic range ˃ 70 dB; either s or p-polarization; 25⍛ bidirectional-scattering-angle ≤ 180⍛ ; The human scattering target skin area was placed exactly on the goniometer center of rotation with normal angle of incidence to the source beam. Scattering power increased at the higher frequency. This new work enables radiometrically correct models of humans.


Formulae are given for evaluation of the solubility of an interstitial impurity in binary substitutional alloys with structure B2, B8 1 , B 31 , DO 3 , DO 19 , L1 2 which were previously obtained by the authors. The results of the calculations are compared with existing experimental data on the temperature and concentrational dependences of the solubility of nitrogen in Fe-Co, Fe-Si, Fe-Ni, Fe-Mn alloys, and of carbon and hydrogen in the Fe-Ni alloy, and found to be in qualitative agreement with them