Abstract Green or an environmental consciousness has been a major issue for businesses and government offices, as well as consumers, worldwide. In response to this movement, the Korean government announced, in the early 2000s, the era of "Green Growth" as a way to encourage green-related business activities. The Korean fashion industry, in various levels of involvement, presents diverse eco-friendly products as a part of the green movement. These apparel products include organic products and recycled clothing. For these companies to be successful, they need information about who are the consumers who consider green issues (e.g., environmental sustainability) as part of their personal values when making a decision for product purchase, use, and disposal. These consumers can be considered as eco-sumers. Previous studies have examined consumers' purchase intention for or with eco-friendly products. In addition, studies have examined influential factors used to identify the eco-sumers or green consumers. However, limited attention was paid to eco-sumers' disposal or recycling behavior of clothes in comparison with their green product purchases. Clothing disposal behaviors are ways that consumer can get rid of unused clothing and in clue temporarily lending the item or permanently eliminating the item by "handing down" (e.g., giving it to a younger sibling), donating, exchanging, selling, or simply throwing it away. Accordingly, examining purchasing behaviors of eco-friendly fashion items in conjunction with clothing disposal behaviors should improve understanding of a consumer's clothing consumption behavior from the environmental perspective. The purpose of this exploratory study is to provide descriptive information about Korean eco-sumers who have ecologically-favorable lifestyles and behaviors when buying and disposing of clothes. The objectives of this study are to (a) categorize Koreans on the basis of clothing disposal behaviors; (b) investigate the differences in demographics, lifestyles, and clothing consumption values among segments; and (c) compare the purchase intention of eco-friendly fashion items and influential factors among segments. A self-administered questionnaire was developed based on previous studies. The questionnaire included 10 items of clothing disposal behavior, 22 items of LOHAS (Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability) characteristics, and 19 items of consumption values, measured by five-point Likert-type scales. In addition, the purchase intention of two eco-friendly fashion items and 11 attributes of each item were measured by seven-point Likert type scales. Two polyester fleece pullovers, made from fabric created from recycled bottles with the PET identification code, were selected from one Korean brand and one US imported brand among outdoor sportswear brands. A brief description of each product with a color picture was provided in the survey. Demographic variables (i.e., gender, age, marital status, education level, income, occupation) were also included. The data were collected through a professional web survey agency during May 2009. A total of 600 final usable questionnaires were analyzed. The age of respondents ranged from 20 to 49 years old with a mean age of 34 years. Fifty percent of the respondents were males and about 58% were married, and 62% reported having earned university degrees. Principal components factor analysis with varimax rotation was used to identify the underlying dimensions of the clothing disposal behavior scale, and three factors were generated (i.e., reselling behavior, donating behavior, non-recycling behavior). To categorize the respondents on the basis of clothing disposal behaviors, k-mean cluster analysis was used, and three segments were obtained. These consumer segments were labeled as 'Resale Group', 'Donation Group', and 'Non-Recycling Group.' The classification results indicated approximately 98 percent of the original cases were correctly classified. With respect to demographic characteristics among the three segments, significant differences were found in gender, marital status, occupation, and age. LOHAS characteristics were reduced into the following five factors: self-satisfaction, family orientation, health concern, environmental concern, and voluntary service. Significant differences were found in the LOHAS factors among the three clusters. Resale Group and Donation Group showed a similar predisposition to LOHAS issues while the Non-Recycling Group presented the lowest mean scores on the LOHAS factors compared to the other segments. The Resale and Donation Groups described themselves as enjoying or being satisfied with their lives and spending spare-time with family. In addition, these two groups cared about health and organic foods, and tried to conserve energy and resources. Principal components factor analysis generated clothing consumption values into the following three factors: personal values, social value, and practical value. The ANOVA test with the factors showed differences primarily between the Resale Group and the other two groups. The Resale Group was more concerned about personal value and social value than the other segments. In contrast, the Non-Recycling Group presented the higher level of social value than did Donation Group. In a comparison of the intention to purchase eco-friendly products, the Resale Group showed the highest mean score on intent to purchase Product A. On the other hand, the Donation Group presented the highest intention to purchase for Product B among segments. In addition, the mean scores indicated that the Korean product (Product B) was more preferable for purchase than the U.S. product (Product A). Stepwise regression analysis was used to identify the influence of product attributes on the purchase intention of eco product. With respect to Product A, design, price and contribution to environmental preservation were significant to predict purchase intention for the Resale Group, while price and compatibility with my image factors were significant for the Donation Group. For the Non-Recycling Group, design, price compatibility with the factors of my image, participation to eco campaign, and contribution to environmental preservation were significant. Price appropriateness was significant for each of the three clusters. With respect to Product B, design, price and compatibility with my image factors were important, but different attributes were associated significantly with purchase intention for each of the three groups. The influence of LOHAS characteristics and clothing consumption values on intention to purchase Products A and B were also examined. The LOHAS factor of health concern and the personal value factor were significant in the relationships with the purchase intention; however, the explanatory powers were low in the three segments. Findings showed that each group as classified by clothing disposal behaviors showed differences in the attributes of a product, personal values, and the LOHAS characteristics that influenced their purchase intention of eco-friendly products. Findings would enable organizations to understand eco-friendly behavior and to design appropriate strategic decisions to appeal eco-sumers.


Objective To determine the content of quercetin in the Luobuma Tea by HPLC. Method The mobile phase consisted of methanol-0.4% phosphoric acid (50∶50). Kromasil C18 column (250 mm×4.6 mm, 5 μm) was used. The wavelength for measurement was at 371 nm and the temperature was at 30 ℃. Result The calibration curve was linear in the range of 5.98~47.84 g/mL for quercetin. The regression equation was A=7 750.68C+1 196.33 (r=0.999 7). Conclusion This method can be used to determine the content of quercetin in Luobuma Tea accurately.


A multi-objective scheduling model was developed to solve the steelmaking-continuous casting scheduling problem of a special steel plant.Static scheduling and dynamic scheduling were investigated in the solving process of the model.The production modes in static scheduling were classified and the corresponding solving methods were formulated in combination with the running principles of steelmaking workshops and on the basis of the operation cycles of steelmaking furnaces and casters,while time-adjusting methods based on scheduling rules were described for the process of dynamic scheduling.A case in a BOF special steel plant,in which three casters are producing at the same time,was used to test the methods,and the scheduling plans of three casts were calculated and compared with actual production data.The comparison result indicates the validity of the methods.


We propose an online visual-object tracking method that is robust even in an adversarial environment, where various disturbances may occur on the target appearance, etc. The proposed method is based on a delayed-Hedge algorithm for aggregating multiple arbitrary online trackers with adaptive weights. The robustness in the tracking performance is guaranteed theoretically in term of "regret" by the property of the delayed-Hedge algorithm. Roughly speaking, the proposed method can achieve a similar tracking performance as the best one among all the trackers to be aggregated in an adversarial environment. The experimental study on various tracking tasks shows that the proposed method could achieve state-of-the-art performance by aggregating various online trackers.


Objective To investigate the occurrence time and variation of the amylase elevation in peritoneal drainage fluid after pancreaticojejunostomy.Methods Collected prospectively clinical data of 28 patients with pancreatic disease from 2008 February to 2011 December.Pancreatic resection was performed by the same medical group,using the same pancreaticoenteric anastomosis method.The amylase was continuously collected in cholecystoenteric anastomosis and pancreaticoenteric anastomosis drainage fluid respectively,as well as serum and T tube fluid.The results were assessed by domestic and international recognition of pancreatic fistula.Results In 28 cases,postoperative amylase in abdominal drainage fluid rised extremely by 85.7%(24/28).The early rising type was 42.9%(12/28),the delayed rising type was 7.1%(2/28),the re-rising type was 28.6%(8/28),the persistent rising type was 7.1%(2/28).12 cases(42.9%) presented A grade postoperative pancreatic fistula according to ISGPF,with pancreatic parenchyma fistula,without fistula of pancreaticoenteric anastomosis.Conclusion Amylase rising in peritoneal drainage fluid is common after pancreaticojejunostomy with certain regularity.It is related to postoperative pancreatic parenchymal leakage.Only a few patients may develop clinical significance of pancreatic fistula.


The article deals with an issue of the Church being a sacrament of mercy. According to the Second Vatican Council, the Church, being a sacrament of salvation, is one only in Christ and in connection with Him. The Church's mission to the world is to communicate Christ already present in it through His grace and words; that is to unite the whole humanity with Christ. Not only does the Church show Christ's revelation of God's charity, but also it is the Church of Christ himself as long as it remains the sign of that charity. Giving the testimony of the charity is the obligation of both the whole Church and its each and every member.


"Event data" record the interactions of political actors reported in sources such as newspapers and news services; this type of data is widely used in research in international relations. Over the past ten years, there has been a shift from coding event data by humans—typically university students—to using computerized coding. The automated methods are dramatically faster, enabling data sets to be coded in real time, and provide far greater transparency and consistency than human coding. This paper reviews the experience of the Kansas Event Data System (KEDS) project in developing automated coding using "sparse parsing" machine coding methods, discusses a number of design decisions that were made in creating the program, and assesses features that would improve the effectiveness of these programs.


In this thesis,an effort is made to construct a deep freezer with a cascade,where the purpose here is to achieve a temperature at about -50 °C. These systems are called two stage systems and can reach temperatures from -40°C to -90°C.So for that reason cascade systems works in two refrigerant cycles,with the same or a different refrigerant in each cycle.


Wused random depth-first search algorithm to solve optimal path problem of large-scale transport network. We applied the algorithm to the transport network with more than 4,000 stations and 520 lines ,which have achieved success. Random depth-first search algorithm can find an excellent solution in 2000ms.


In brief Study finds more opioids are prescribed in the north of England than the south Five novel sub-types of diabetes have been identified Applying a brief intervention to elicit parental concern combined with safety net advice and a point-of-care CRP test appears to reduce antibiotic prescribing in children, research finds


The earthquake response of torsionally coupled buildings is presented for a wide range of the system parameters. By comparing these responses with those of corresponding torsionally uncoupled systems, the effects of lateral-torsional coupling on building motions, arising from lack of symmetry in building plan, are identified.


Abstract  Background:  The objectives of the present study were to characterize, according to tumor significance, the clinicopathological features of patients with prostate cancer who underwent radical prostatectomy, and to determine useful parameters for predicting insignificant disease before surgery.


Aiming at all kinds of common situations of the slope deformation on Yunnan mountainous expressway,the author gets classification,analyzes its deformation mechanism and causes,combines with concrete project practical situation and aiming at deformation type provides corresponding treatment measures,so as to realize the safety and suitableness of expressway construction and operation period.


Sweden mainly participates in the EU projects and cooperates with the United Kingdom,Germany,Denmark,Norway and France on carbon dioxide capture and storage(CCS) Technology.Sweden has involved itself in the research and development of the whole process of CCS technology,and most of the test rigs,pilot and demonstration plants of CO2 capture are located at the fossil power plants.Storage sites are closely relevant with the factors of the transport and geological conditions.


S-ATA with a definition of the S-ATA bus connection; The present invention discloses a data storage device based on the Serial ATA bus, comprising a data storage unit, the data storage unit is constituted by at least one semiconductor memory chip for storing data interface connectors, said data storage device providing input and output port, transmits data to the S-ATA-defined bus and the bus receives data from the S-ATA; S-ATA, and a memory controller, and provides the data storage unit S -ATA data connection between the interface connector, an operation instruction input of said data storage means, data storage means for data manipulation. Advantageous Effects The data storage device of the present invention: First, since the storage medium of the data storage device according to the present invention employs a flash memory module, which has vibration resistance, small size, low energy consumption, no noise; read and write speed, and hot-swappable.


Introduction: IgA-associated vasculitis (IgA vasculitis, IgAV), formerly known as Henoch-Schönlein purpura, is the most common systemic inflammation of the small vessels in children. The disease most often affects the skin, joints, digestive tract and kidneys. It is usually characterised by a mild and self-limiting course and full recovery within a few weeks. The paper presents the cases of patients with severe and complicated IgAV. Case report: In both cases, the kidneys were affected by the disease. The first patient had rare necrotic skin changes and splenic infarction not previously described. The second patient developed hypertension and nephropathy with nephrotic proteinuria. Conclusions: IgA-associated vasculitis can have a severe course and produce rare complications. Patients may require non-standard individualised management as well as long-term clinical observation to monitor renal function parameters and complications of the treatment.


At present the historic circle sticks to the traditional view that Yan Song was a treacherous court official, meanwhile there is argument about the historic materials of Yan Song. On the basis of the research result of Yan Song, the paper presents the authors' view about Yan Song from four aspects, that is, currying favour with the emperor and usurping power, framing the faithful and innocent, eliminating the birder defense and embezzling money and accepting bribes. It thinks that although Yan Song was a disputable person, he did many significant things in history, which should not be neglected.


An important class of flavour groups that are subgroups of U(3) and that predict experimentally viable lepton mixing parameters including Majorana phases, is the Δ(6n2) series. The most well-known member is Δ(24) = S4. I present results of several extensive studies of lepton mixing predictions obtained in models with a Δ(6n2) flavour group that preserve either the full Klein symmetry or a Z2 subgroup for neutrinos and can include a generalised CP symmetry. Predictions include mixing angles and the Dirac CP phase generally; and if invariance under a generalised CP symmetry is included, also Majorana phases. For this, the interplay of flavour group and generalised CP symmetry has to be studied carefully.


The Odin satellite, which can observe the 1 1 0 -1 0 1 rotational line at 557 GHz of ortho water with a high spectral resolution (80 m s - 1 ) and a spatial resolution of 2.1', is well suited for cometary studies. The intensity of this line provides an estimate of the water production rate. The line width gives a direct measure of the coma expansion velocity. The line centre position and shape are affected by the anisotropy of the outgassing and by optical depth effects. Comets observed with Odin up to now are C/2001 A2 (LINEAR) during the commissioning phase of the satellite, 19P/Borrelly at the time of the Deep Space 1 flyby, C/2000 WM 1 (LINEAR), and 153P/2002 Cl (Ikeya-Zhang). For this last comet, thorough observations were made at the moment of its closest approach to Earth at the end of April 2002. A deep integration resulted in the detection of the 1 1 0 -1 0 1 line of H 2 1 8 O at 548 GHz. No 1 6 O/ 1 8 O isotopic anomaly is found.


The author presents statistics on prevalence and causes of blindness in China. Schools in various regions are described. Issues of higher learning and employment opportunities are also addressed.


There are three things that can be done with light collected by telescopes:
produce images,
do some photometry, and
do some spectroscopy.
Amateur astronomers have in recent times started doing the first two, with remarkable success, and now more recently, spectroscopy. Using simple, low cost equipment they can produce the spectrum of any object that is accessible by the equipment that is being used. This has opened up a field of observation previously only accessible to professional astronomers using large telescopes. But like everything in life, the more precision one wants, the more expensive the equipment tends to become!


Intraoperative motor-evoked potential(MEP)monitorings were performed during 100 spinal operations. Among these 100 operations, transcranial MEP(TCMEP)were performed in 98 operations including 30 cervical laminoplasties, 22 lumbar laminectomies, 12 cervical anterior fusions, 9 lumbar discectomies, 7 posterior interbody fusions, 7 vertebroplasties, 6 lumbar spinal canal fenestrations, and 4 spinal tumors. Transcranial stimulations at 300~400 V were used and applied by screw electrodes placed in the scalp and the resultant electromyographic responses were recorded with surface electrodes on the affected muscles. To exclude the effects of muscle relaxants on TCMEP, compound muscle action potential(CMAP)by supra-maximum stimulation of the peripheral nerve immediately after transcranial stimulation was recorded in 97 operations. Among 80 patients who had had no preoperative and postoperative definitive motor palsy, the amplitudes of TCMEP compensated by CMAP after peripheral stimulation decreased less than 20% in 4 patients with cervical spondylosis, thus the false positive rate was 4.9%. A false negative finding was not recognized in one patient who had had postoperative newly progressed motor palsy. The improvement of mild motor disturbance such as reduction of grasping force or intermittent claudication could not be monitored intraoperatively by conventional TCMEP. Among 16 patients who had had preoperative severe motor palsy, TCMEP could not be recorded preoperatively in 20 limbs of 12 patients. After the decompression of the spinal cord in these 12 patients, TCMEP could be recorded in 3 limbs in 3 patients, but postoperative improvement of the motor function was recognized in only one patient. In conclusion, although TCMEP monitoring during spinal surgery might seem to be too sensitive, it should be performed to prevent most postoperative severe adverse motor function events after spinal surgery that is intended as functional surgery. Finally, the selection of the muscles for recording should be elaborately decided for the most effective TCMEP monitoring during spinal surgery. (Received:August 22, 2008;accepted:December 18, 2008)


Objective: Copeptin, the C-terminal peptide of pro-vasopressin which is released from the neurohypophysis, reflects the activity of the hormone arginine vasopressin. Copeptin has been found to be associated with cardiovascular and all-cause mortality in patients with hypertension. The aim of this study is to compare copeptin levels in patients with treatment resistant hypertension (TRH) before and 6 months after renal denervation. Design and method: Copeptin was measured in 43 patients with TRH and in 30 patients with primary hypertension stage 1 or 2 (HT) using ELISA Elabscience®. In addition, copeptin levels were measured in patients with TRH at 6 month follow-up visit after renal denervation. Renal denervation was performed by an experienced person applying at least four ablations longitudinally and rotationally within the lengths of each renal artery to cover a full four quadrant ablation. Results: Patients with TRH showed systolic and diastolic ambulatory BP of 154 ± 14/ 87 ± 12 mmHg before and systolic and diastolic ambulatory BP of 144 ± 13/ 82 ± 8 mmHg after renal denervation (p < 0.001). There was no significant difference in copeptin levels in 43 patients (age 61 years) before and six months after renal denervation (10.9 ± 10.8 vs 12.5 ± 14.6 pmol/l, p = 0.287). Patients with TRH showed higher copeptin levels compared to patients with HT (age 47 years, systolic and diastolic ambulatory BP (142  ± 11/ 90 ± 8 mmHg) (copeptin conc.: 5.8 ± 4.8 vs 10.9 ± 10.8 pmol/l, p = 0.007). In patients with HT there was a correlation between copeptin concentrations and diastolic 24 h ambulatory BP (r = 0.428, p = 0.018). Conclusions: Patients with TRH showed nearly 2 fold higher copeptin levels than patients with HT. Renal denervation did not lead to any change of copeptin levels in patients with TRH six month after procedure.


Self-stabilization is a promising technique for making network protocols resisting to any memory and channel corruptions. Primarly, we present a self-stabilizing RAR Token Ring (SSTR) protocol derived from a self-stabilizing mutual exclusion protocol through an automatic transformation we provide. Secondly, we enhance Dijkstra's classic self-stabilizing mutual exclusion protocol in terms of forwarding delay, and use it as the underlying self-stabilizing mutual exclusion protocol for the SSTR algorithm. We believe our solution can compete with actual Token Ring protocols when corruptions do exist but are rare.


Elephants are the main agent shaping the vegetation (substrate), whereas soil properties and, at a larger scale, climate constitute major controllers of elephants' activities and of their effects o ...


In future, since the user experience plays a more and more important role in the development of today's communication systems, quality of experience (QoE) becomes a widely used metric, which reflects the subjective experience of end users for wireless service. In addition, the energy efficiency is an increasingly important problem with the explosive growth in the amount of wireless terminals and nodes. Hence, a QoE-aware energy efficiency maximization based joint user access selection and power allocation approach is proposed to solve the problem. We transform the joint allocation process to an optimization of energy efficiency by establishing an energy efficiency model, and then the optimization problem is solved by chaotic clone immune algorithm (CCIA). Numerical simulation results indicate that the proposed algorithm can efficiently and reliably improve the QoE and ensure high energy efficiency of networks.


The temperature and fluid profiles of flow inside tilted square cavities are analysed with two different cases of thermal boundary conditions, (1) Isothermally cold sidewalls of the cavity and the hot bottom wall kept parallel to the insulated top wall, (2) Hot left wall, cold right wall, insulated top and bottom walls. The Galerkin finite element method with penalty parameter is used to solve the nonlinear coupled system of partial differential equations governing the flow and thermal fields. The method is further used to solve the Poisson equation for stream function. The results are presented in terms of isotherms and streamlines. The Gaussian rule with the hybrid function formed from the block-pulse function and Lagrange polynomial is implemented for the evaluation of the definite integrals present in the residual equations.  Attempting to affix the hybrid methods in the integration part for solving Finite Element Method (FEM) turned efficacious as the convergence is achieved for streamlines and isotherms with the existing results. The tilted square cavities with inclination angles Deg 0 to Deg 90 and Rayleigh number ranging between 10^3  and 10^5 for Pr=0.71  (air) are investigated. The source code for the finite element analysis is written in Mathematica. The results thus obtained are found to be competent with those of COMSOL, the Software for Multiphysics Simulation.


ABSTRACT Inclusion complexes of nefopam base (NEF) with various β‐cyclodextrins (βCDs) were investigated. All tested βCDs increased the apparent solubility of NEF according to a Higuchi AL type plot (except βCD: AN type plot), which indicates the formation of 1:1 stoichiometry inclusion complexes. 1H-NMR and 13C-NMR experiments showed that complexation by CDs allowed an easy separation of the R and S enantiomers. Based on spectral data obtained from the two-dimensional rotating frame nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy (2D-ROESY), a reasonable geometry for the complexes could be proposed implicating the insertion of the benzoxazocine ring into the wide end of the torus cavity.


Foreword by Chief Justice Malcolm M. Lucas The Constitutional History of California The American Acquisition of California: Cry Aloud for Independence! The 1849 Constitution and California Statehood: Born in different climes,...assembled...as Californians The 1879 Constitution: A sort of mixture of constitution, code, stump speech, and mandamus The Progressive Movement: Give us a square deal for Christ's sake Constitutional Change after the Progressive Movement: Constant amendment has produced an instrument bad in form The Rise and Threatened Decline of an Independent California Constitution: Rights guaranteed by this Constitution are not dependent on those guaranteed by the United States Constitution The California Constitution and Commentary Bibliography Table of Cases Index


Introduction 44 Oil Hydrocarbon Fingerprinting Methodologies 47 Source-Specific Target Hydrocarbons 47 Tiered Analytical Approach 51 Revised Nordtest Methodology for Oil Spill Identification 58 Level 1 58 Level 2 59 Level 3 59 Conclusion 59 Two-Dimensional GC: An Emerging Technique for Fingerprinting Hydrocarbons 60 Chemical Composition of Oil and Petroleum Products and Spill Identification 61 Chemical Composition Features of Crude Oil 62 Background Hydrocarbons: Distinguishing Biogenic Hydrocarbons from Petrogenic Hydrocarbons in Oil-Contaminated Samples 64 General Chemical Composition Features of Refined Products 67 Light Distillates 67 Midrange Distillates 68 Classic Heavy Residual Fuel 70 Lubricating Oil 70 Waste Oil 71 PAH Fingerprints of Oils and Petroleum Products 71 Distribution of Alkylated PAH Homologues and Other EPA Priority PAHs 71 Recommended Diagnostic Ratios of PAHs 72 PAH Isomer and Cluster PAH Analysis 75 Methyl Phenanthrenes 76 Methyl Dibenzothiophenes 76 Other Relative Ratios of PAH Isomers 77


Through collecting the landslide data as the research sample and selecting average slope,slope of the invading front,slope of the sliding surface,the maximum annual average rainfall,the recent slide situation and human activities as the influence factors of landslide,BP neural network method is used to analyze the stability of the landslide.Applying Matlab toolbox to design neural networks,weight initialization,data normalization and network training,a landslide stability analysis model is put forward,and the error analysis is conducted.The results show that sample training results agree with the actual situation basically,demonstrating that this model tally with the project reality.


The aim of the current research work was to analyzed Endophytic fungi and there enzymatic activity. The research work was carried out in the Microbiology Lab, University of Haripur, during May 2015 to September 2015.The plant was collected and fungi were isolated by inoculating the leaf sections on different Medias. Six fungal species were isolated and identified on Sabouraud Dextrose agar medium. The results indicate highest colonization frequency at Sabouraud Dextrose Agar media that is 83%. Frequency of colonization was 76%, 26% and 23% on Malt Extract Agar, Potato Dextrose Agar and Czapak Dox Agar respectively. Identification was done by comparing with available literature and by microscopy. The study on this plant revealed that plant contains endophytic fungi that have ability to produce amylase, protease and lipase enzymes, although better activity for production of amylase enzyme was observed.


Aim To discover new active antifungal compounds. Methods Tetrahydroisoquinoline was synthesized through the Pictet-Spengler reaction,and the compounds were synthesized by way of alkylation.Preliminary antifungal activities were tested. Results The 18 compounds of 2-substituted-6,7-dimethoxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline were synthesized and their structures were determined by IR and 1H-NMR and the antifungal activities in vitro were tested. Conclusion The results show that the compounds synthesized possess antifungal activities to a certain extent.


The invention relates to a non-continuous machining surface system error and random error separation method and belongs to the mechanical machining field. The objective of the invention is to solve the incapability of an existing method to be applied to non-continuous surface error separation. The method includes two steps, namely preliminary separation of system error and random error and precise separation of the system error and the random error. According to the method, the system error is obtained from non-continuous machining surface profile error through gridding and interpolation fitting, and differencing is performed on the surface profile error and the system error, so that the random error can be obtained, and a preliminary separation result can be obtained; and the number of grids is increased continuously, so that the separation result of the system error and the random error is considered as a precise separation result when the information entropy of the system error is stable. The method of the invention is suitable for error separation of non-continuous machining surfaces with holes and slots. The method has the advantages of high error separation efficiency and accurate separation result.


In the Beginning the world was void. And then a voice came and spoke: There shalt be Zero and One. There shalt be a diierence between dark and light, earth and sky water and land. Humanity came. And they claimed to discover things like night and day truth and beauty mind and matter.


Objective
To describe the current situation of marital adjustment in the third trimester of pregnancy.

Methods
A total of 834 women in the third trimester of pregnancy in three maternity Chengdu Childrens Hospital(ministerial, municipal, District each one) were recruited during January 2008 to December 2009. Using a General Survey(own design, including maternal age, education level, marital status, age of marriage and other 21 items) and a Dyadic Adjustment Scale(DAS) [(contains 32 items and four small molecular weight form, such as Affection Expression(AE), Dyadic Consensus(DC), Dyadic Cohedion(AC), Dyadic satisfaction(DS)]. The DAS score ≤107 is divided into the standard to judge the poor marital adjustment (procedure followed in this study was consistent with Sichuan University West China Second Hospital Institution Review Board Ethical Standards approved by the committee, and with all clinical study subjects signed informed consent).

Results
A total of 834 cases of the third trimester women were distributed, General Survey, and Dyadic Adjustment Scale of the one, 785 subjects completed the two lists at the same pass, so the 785 valid questionnaires were valid questionnaires rate of 94.12%. The poor marital adjustment has 212 cases(29.4%) (DAS score≤107). In the dyadic consensus dimension, followed by the three lowest scoring item was common hobbies and activties, mutual friends, common recreational activity. And the highest scoring entries followed by religion, family finances, and to make important decisions. In the dyadic satisfaction dimension, followed by the three lowest scoring item was time to fight with your spouse, annoying time with spouse, the good time that spouses have, except the items 23 and 31. In the affectional expression dimension, love said, and sexual relationship scores those were in place, sex thoughts and affection scored higher.In the dyadic cohesion dimension, 5 items were also in the median scores.

Conclusion
In the third trimester of pregnancy, the proportion of women in poor marriage is not maladaptive in the minority, the medical staff should arouse sufficient attention. Marital adaption should be emphasized in the health guidance, so learn to adapt to the skills of the spouses, mutual understanding, tolerance, support, and maintain good husband and wife, to reduce or avoid adverse events.

Key words:
third trimester of pregnancy( >28 gestational weeks); pregnancy; spouse; marital adjustment


This paper reviews recent numerical and experimental investigation of application of wire-based ENZ metamaterials in miniaturization of waveguide horn antennas, undertaken at University of Zagreb. Two representative examples of prototyped shortened horn antennas that operate in 10 GHz band are described: the horn with embedded single-wire ENZ slab and the horn with embedded double-wire ENZ slab. These two horn antennas had lengths of 52% and 33% of the length of the optimal horn, respectively. Measured gain was found to be very similar to the gain of the full length optimal horn (within 0.1 dB), but in a narrow band (5% – 12%). Finally, the results of numerical study of applicability of a simple Drude model of wire medium in the design of shortened horn antennas are presented. The results show that Drude model of wiremedium is not accurate if the wires are not connected to the metallic plates at an angle of 90 degrees. However, even in this case a Drude model is good starting point for the initial design, while the required antenna characteristics should be achieved by an additional numerical optimization.


Lithology and rock structure of a rock slope are two of the most important controlling factors on its deformation and failure process during earthquake.Four shaking table models of slopes are designed to explore the effects of the above two factors on slope seismic responses.Referring to lithology,hard rock with high strength and soft rock with low strength are modeled,at the same time,an isotropic slope and a horizontally layered slope are selected for each kind of lithology.Based on a large number of sensor recordings,results are analyzed under excitations of both the real waves and sine waves which have the similar predominant frequency.The main conclusions are drawn as follows:(1) The horizontal accelerations on the slope surface and inside the slope demonstrate topographic amplification effect for all the 4 model slopes;and the maximum amplification factor occuring at the crest of the soft rock slope model;(2) The topographic effects in soft rock slopes are stronger than those in hard rock slopes,which is more obvious in the two isotropic rock slopes,and the topographic effect in the isotropic and soft rock slope depict nonlinear change laws.(3) When the shaking direction accords with the horizontal structure surface just as in the present study,the layered slopes demonstrate stronger topographic amplification effect for horizontal accelerations,especially in soft rock slopes;(4) Lithology plays a more important role in topographic effect than discontinuity in a rock slope during earthquake.The results provide a reference for the seismic design of rock slopes.


God the Spirit by Michael Welker

Karl Barth's Critically Realistic Dialectical Theology: Its Genesis and Development 1909-1936 by Bruce L. McCormack

God Owes Us Nothing: A Brief Remark on Pascal's Religion and on the Spirit of Jansenism by Leszek Kolakowski

The Gift of Death by Jacques Derrida, trans. David Wills

Desiring Theology by Charles E. Winquist

Postmodern Theologies. The Challenge of Religious Diversity by Terrence W. Tilley, with others


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If the original Tomb Raider was a huge hit, the second in the series was a monster. Seldom has a game provoked such anticipation, or delivered so completely on the premise of its predecessor, as did Tomb Raider. Since the price point for both games has recently been lowered to just $19.99, now is the perfect opportunity for a strategy guide that covers both games in one!!
"Prima's Tomb Raider I And II Flip Book" will include valuable hints, tips, and strategies for both "Tomb Raider I and Tomb Raider II." On one side of the strategy guide you'll find comprehensive strategies for Tomb Raider I, then flip it over to find extensive coverage of Tomb Raider II. In the center of the guide you'll find an exclusive Lara Croft Paper Doll along with tons of hot outfits.


Pen and paper is one of the most important ways of communication in our daily life. Traditional pen and paper has its own fault, such as the content in a paper is difficult to modify or reprocess and information kept in a paper lack of effective way of maintenance and search, whereas computer is superior in those aspects. Research on pen user interface is to make those traditional works computable through study of hardware and software of relative fields. In our research work, we describe interaction tasks in word inputting and editing by the input events of pen device. And we design and realize a new pen based text editor that simulate pen-paper working mode of our daily life.Our editor integrate advanced Rubin algorithm and rule based recognition technologies.This system is suit for users who are not familiar with computers.


Poly(ethylene - co - vinyl alcohol)(EVOH) hydroxyls comb polymer was prepared from products of sodium alcoholate and alkylogen. EVOH were grafted by diglycol / triethylene-glycol. The main chain of the comb polymer is polythene segments which hydrophobic; and the side chain is polyalkylene oxide. The effect of the length of the said chain on the molecule mass, distribution of molecular weight and thermal stability were discussed. The graft copolymers were characterized with respect to molecular weight and composition using FTIR and gel permeation chromatography. Thermal properties were examined by TG. It proved that the Mw of the comb polymer was larger than EVOH; because the break apart of the chain of a little part of EVOH, the distribution of molecular weight of the comb polymer becomes wider; and the initial decompose is higher because of the ether linkage has draw into the said chain. But the side chain also destroy the crystallization of EVOH, so the total thermal stability of the comb polymer is lower.


This paper discusses the active role of the prophet within divine providence, namely her understanding of the prophetic message and her use of prophecy. I focus on Aquinas' account of prophecy and I adopt two methods: the phenomenological method that describes the experience of prophecy and the metaphysical method that starts from the divine attribute of goodness and works through the order of divine providence. In Aquinas' view, prophecy is a personal mission that the prophet receives to fulfill God's plan for humankind. This mission involves the prophet's mental operations and practical engagement. I start with the metaphysics of providence and then describe the prophetic experience. Finally, I address the issue of judgment in the understanding of the prophetic message and the use of prophecy.


China will look into establish-ing a nation-wide trading system for pollution permits as part of efforts to use mar-ket mechanisms to help clean up its environment,the country's top environ-ment official was quoted as saying by China Daily.


THE TASK OF estimating the components, i.e., parameters and distributions, of a stochastic structure and the companion problem of identification have been treated in a series of papers in the last few years. Impetus to research in this sphere was given by the work of Reiersol [2] which appeared in a 1950 issue of Econometrica. Recently, Wolfowitz [3] has shown that strongly consistent estimators may be obtained by the method of minimum distance for various structures when the components are identifiable. This raises anew the desirability of specifying under what conditions the more important structures are identifiable. Suppose that an observable chance variable X is known to be representable by the stochastic difference equation (structure) Xi = Ui + aUll where the chance variables Ui are independent and identically distributed. If we consider a pair of observables


The gate voltage dependence of a single-electron transistor using the shuttle mechanism in which a vibrating conductive nanoparticle carries charges between the electrodes is studied theoretically and with numerical simulations. Two types of gate voltage effect on the transport properties are demonstrated: one is direct modulation of the current via modification in the tunneling rate, giving rise to shift of $\ensuremath{\partial}I/\ensuremath{\partial}V$ peaks on the step-like current, splitting of the current steps and periodic behavior of the current with the change in gate voltage. Another is an indirect effect due to a shift in the range of the nanoparticle vibration induced by the gate voltage. The latter effect stops the shuttle mechanism at a large gate voltage, leading to the conduction gap which widens in proportion to the gate voltage.


The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a renewed interest in urban environment and healthy living and the changes in urban environments which can make for a healthier living. Today, more than 50% of the global population lives in urban areas, and in Europe the number is 75%. We present a narrative review to explore considerations and necessary requirements to achieve health and well-being within strategies for healthy design and urban planning whilst rethinking urban spaces for a post-COVID-19 and carbon-neutral future. The achievement of health and well-being demands healthy design strategies, namely, (1) moving from the concept of infrastructure for processes to the infrastructure for healthy living—requirements for healthy places, cycling, walking, disintegrating the role of polluting traffic from the urban environments, social vulnerability and equality; (2) physical space that will achieve standards of 'liveable communities'—open, green space requirements and standards for any built environment; (3) mainstreaming 'in-the-walking distance' cities and neighbourhoods for healthy physical activities for daily living; (4) exploring any of the new concepts that connect the nexus of urban spaces and public health and improving of the population's well-being. Public health needs to be prioritised systematically in planning of built environments, energy generations, sustainable food production, and nutrition.


Objective To survey the periodontal of type 2 diabetes family members.Methods There were 732 people in 204 cases with type 2 diabetes family members,we tested their blood,we studied six representative teeth of every subjects.Results Compared with non-diabetic patients,gingivitis and mild,moderate and severe periodontitis prevalence of diabetic patients were higher,PD,AL and its number of missing teeth were higher(P 0.05).Compared with the good blood glucose control in diabetic patients,BI,AL of the poor glycemic control diabetic patients were higher(P 0.05).Conclusion We compare with the non-diabetic patients,the diabetic family members with diabetes have higher periodontitis prevalence,with a heavy degree of periodontal damage;we compare with the non-diabetic patients,blood glucose is well controlled patients with similar periodontal status.


In order to systematize the changes in the women's movement and women's discourse during the Japanese colonial period, this study aimed to investigate and analyze the characteristics of women's discourse data in the MAEILSHINBO in the 1910s. This newspaper played a role in promoting colonial policies to the extent that it was recognized as the official newspaper of the Japanese colonial government during the Japanese colonial period, and it also shows colonial regression in women's discourse. In this study, data that can confirm women's discourse was investigated for editorials, editorials, articles, and columns of this newspaper, and based on this, the content of the discourse was classified by field, and the content was analyzed accordingly. As a result, it was discovered that there were certain characteristics in the material of discourse on women appearing in the MAEILSHINBO in the 1910s. First, data related to women's issues have been continuously published in this newspaper since modern times. However, most of the data from the 1910s were expressed in terms of 'BUIN(wife)' or 'YEOJA(woman)', and the term 'YEOJA'was used very limitedly. Second, discourses such as 'women's labor' and 'BUEOP(side work)' appear most frequently in the content or distribution of discourses on women. In particular, by guarding against 'women who do not work' and 'women indulged in luxury and vanity', the logic that these women are the cause of poverty is often developed, which is a logic that regards women as objects of colonial assimilation. Third, the issue of women's education also reflects the retirement of the modern view of women. The primary goal of education was to 'cultivate innocent people', and education for women also aims to make compliant women. Fourth, it can be confirmed that the women's discourse in this newspaper aimed to formulate colonial women who combined nationalism based on the traditional view of women is emphasizing. As such, the disappearance of women's discourse under the colonial rule in the 1910s shows a major change in the newspaper media reflecting the position of Koreans after the cultural movement in the 1920s. Therefore, this study is expected to contribute to some extent in objectifying the changing aspects of women's discourse during the Japanese colonial period.


Based on the theory of the knowledge production function, by using the time series data of agricultural innovation from 1990 to 2009, the paper tests the smoothness of variables and the cointegration relationship by building state-space model with variable coefficients to describe contributions to agricultural innovation in the dynamic inputs effect. The results show: from 1990 to 2009 output elasticity of RD expenditures and RD staff keep opposite trends. RD expenditures contribute to positive which since 1994 has been steadily rising, while the negative contribution of RD staff from 1992 onwards has been declining until 1999 and gradually converged to a certain value and continues today. Elements scarcity of RD expenditures and RD staff, quality differences and specificity of development of agricultural science and technology led to different trends and characteristics of output contribution of input elements in agricultural innovation.


High quality laser diffraction patterns are obtained from optically flat and plane parallel c-cut samples of KDP in the ferroelectric phase. Sample thickness t dependence of domain width D was measured between t=0.7 mm and 4.6 mm, which agrees very well with theory D∝√t. Very interesting polarization characteristics of diffraction beams may have some applications.


Mobile communications have grown rapidly these last years. A race between GSM and CDMA techniques is engaged throughout the world. This novel activity has generated new research in the antenna domain. Compact antennas integrated on handsets have been designed. In the case of base stations, the activity is oriented towards signal processing. To test new algorithms in this domain, our lab is involved in the design of an array which would be able to tilt the beam up to 70 degrees in azimuth. The antenna would operate in the frequency band 790-830 MHz which is near the GSM frequencies.


Abstract A general strategy for the facile construction of both the ABDE and ABCD cores of tronocarpine, chippiine and dippinine alkaloids through the retrosynthetic disconnection of the polycyclic motifs into an indole or tryptamine fragment and a suitably functionalized alkyl chain is presented. The approach is enabled by an efficient Ir(III)-catalyzed, photoredox-mediated radical addition of tetramethyl 1-bromopentane-1,1,3,5-tetracarboxylate and dimethyl 2-bromopentanedioate selectively at C-2 of the indole. Subsequent intramolecular cyclization events furnish the desired ABDE and ABCD polycyclic cores in good preparative yields.


Bioreaction and fermentation processes of all scales – from 100,000 liter vessels to small development reactors – require pure culture for their successful, productive operation. In this article the term "pure culture" and "pure culture capability" will be used instead of "sterile" or "sterility assurance" to acknowledge that bioreactions are, by nature, the process of growing large populations of helpful microorganisms or cells as opposed to the more unwanted varieties. Contamination by adventitious agents costs time, money, and lost productivity; moreover, contaminants and their sources can be very difficult to locate and eliminate. Many elements of pure culture bioprocess design and operation are straightforward, often even a matter of common sense. Most modern facilities have pure culture capability built into


The transport sector plays a fundamental role in the European Union economy and its efficiency is fundamental to strengthen the region's environmental and economic performance. Unfortunately, the sector still remains heavily dependent on oil resources and is responsible for a large part of the air pollution. The European Union has been promoting various initiatives towards sustainable transport development by setting targets in the sector such as the ones proposed in the 2011 White Paper on transport. Under this context, this study aims at evaluating the environmental performance of the transport sector in 28 European Union countries, from 2015 to 2018, towards the policy agenda established in the strategic documents. The assessment of the transport environmental performance is made through the aggregation of seven sub-indicators into a composite indicator using a Data Envelopment Analysis technique. A variant of the Benefit of the Doubt model is used to determine the weights to aggregate the sub-indicators. The results obtained indicate that the European Union countries have been improving their transport environmental performance in the last two years of the time span under analysis, i.e., 2017 and 2018. Regarding the inefficient countries, results suggest they should improve the transport sustainability mainly by drastically reducing the greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel-based propulsion, increasing the share of freight transport using rail and inland waterways and also the share of transport energy from renewable sources.


The least weighted squares estimator is a well known technique in robust regression. Its likelihood analogy in logistic regression is the maximum weighted likelihood estimator, proposed in Vandev and Neykov (1998) and Mueller and Neykov (2003). This article mentions already proved properties, shows its inconsistency and compare it to the other estimators by an extensive simulation. Introduction For estimation of parameters in regression models with categorical outcome, maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) is commonly used. A disadvantage of this method is high sensitivity to deviation from assumptions, e.g. to outliers in the dataset (see figure 1). To solve this problem, many robust alternatives of MLE were developed. Carroll and Pederson (1993) and Wang and Carroll (1995) discussed different types of Mand GM-estimators for binary regression, depending on the type of contamination. However, the breakdown point of these estimators drops down for higher number of covariates (cannot exceed 1/(p+1), where p is the number of covariates). Christmann (1994) proposed a high breakdown point estimator based on least quantile squares estimation (LQS, Rousseeuw and Leroy (1987)). In this paper maximum weighted likelihood estimator will be discussed. Throughout the paper it will be assumed that observations Y1, . . . , Yn are independent and Yi has density fi(yi;β). A vector y = (y1, . . . , yn) ′ denotes a vector of realizations of (Y1, . . . , Yn) and w = (w1, . . . , wn) is a vector of weights. Let li(β) = log f(yi;β). −4 −2 0 2 4 0 .0 0 .2 0 .4 0 .6 0 .8 1 .0


Introduction: Trichodynia refers to pain, discomfort or paresthesia of the scalp. It is a very common, relatively new and usually under diagnosed entity. It is frequently related with diseases of hair loss like Telogen Effluvium, Alopecia Areata and Androgenic Alopecia. Methodology: 300 subjects were recruited after taking written informed consent for study, including 100 cases of Androgenic Alopecia, Alopecia Areata and control each. First each group was analyzed for the presence of Trichodynia, then the patients with Trichodynia were evaluated for anxiety and depression by applying Hamilton Rating Scale for Anxiety (HAM-A) and Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HAM-D). Results: Trichodynia was found in significantly higher in patients of Androgenic Alopecia and Alopecia Areata when compared with control. Anxiety was significantly higher in patients with Alopecia Areata with Trichodynia, when compared with Alopecia Areata without Trichodynia, while no statistically significant difference was found in terms of depression. Conclusion: Trichodynia is a common problem in patients of Androgenic Alopecia and Alopecia Areata and anxiety is frequently associated with Trichodynia.


Acute kidney injury (AKI), known as acute renal failure (ARF) remains a very common problem and potentially devastating in critically ill children and adults. AKI develops in about 5-30% of children undergoing cardiac surgery and is associated with a mortality rate of over 50% of cases. The present study was an evaluation of the cystatin C for early diagnostic of AKI in pediatric patients undergoing cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass compared with the markers of the clinical practice, such as creatinine and its clearance estimated by the Schwartz's formula. For the AKI definition, it was used the pRIFLE criteria. The creatinine and cystatin C dosages were performed on time 0 (preoperative), 12 and 24 hours. The participants of the study were 21 patients. Most patients were female (71,4 %). The AKI incidence was 19% (n = 4), with 3 patients presenting the stage R and one patient with the stage I. It was observed that the patients with AKI were younger, with lower weight and height. As for the RACHS 1 risk score, patients with AKI presented categories 2 or 3. As for the intraoperative variables, surgery time, aortic clamping time and CPB time, there were no differences with statistical significance among them. It was observed an increase in the creatinine, especially in time 12 hours in the group with AKI, but without statistical significance. This increase resulted in a decrease of the creatinine clearance during the same period, also without statistical significance. This fact was not observed for the cystatin C dosages. The present study showed no superiority of the cystatin C when compared to creatinine, in patients undergoing cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass.


The review is devoted to common epilepsy of childhood — childhood absence epilepsy. This epileptic syndrome debuts at pre-school age and is characterized by frequent seizures which may be underestimated by doctors due to the clinical features of a seizure. The seizures can debilitate a child and restrict socialization, as specific comorbidities in cognitive field are very common for child absence epilepsy. The etiology of neropsychiatric comorbidities is different. Seizures, epileptic discharges, as well as interictal epileptiform activity in the brain may cause neuropsychological impairments in children. Antiepileptic drugs are important in the development of neuropsychological impairments. The aim of this review was to actualize information on childhood absence epilepsy and stress the necessity to pay practitioner's attention to common comorbidities in cognitive field.


Few readers will be surprised to learn that the Dutch language was still used in North America aft er the year 1664, when governor Petrus Stuyvesant had to surrender the Dutch colony of Nieuw-Nederland (New Netherland), including the city of Nieuw Amsterdam (which later on became New York), to the English. Less widely known is the fact that spoken Dutch remained in use far longer th an people generally assume , continuing into the fi rst decades of the twentieth century, when its very last speakers died. Th e production of literary texts in this American


Women doctors believe that medicine is still a male dominated profession in which they have to work harder to compete, have less status, get passed over for promotion, and find it difficult to get a GP partnership, according to new research.

At the same time male doctors see themselves as having to deal with the worst and the most aggressive patients, being required to cover for female partners, and being forced to take on organisational roles and "carry the can."

A survey of nearly 1000 GPs and consultants also comes to the …


CORRELATION FEMTOSCOPY Å BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 611 Noninteracting Nonidentical Particles: Space-Time Coherence. 611 Noninteracting Identical Particles: QS Correlations. 614 Interacting Particles: FSI Correlations. 619 ONE-CHANNEL WAVE FUNCTIONS 630 Continuous Spectrum. 630 Discrete Spectrum. 638 Universality. 642 The n Dependence. 644 TWO-CHANNEL WAVE FUNCTIONS 646 Continuous Spectrum in Both Channels. 646 Discrete Spectrum in the α Channel. 649 Universality. 651 FINITE-SIZE EFFECT IN THE DIRAC EXPERIMENT 653 π+π− System. 653 π−π− and ππ Systems. 663 CONCLUSIONS 667


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Using the inpatient disease data of t he years from 1996to 1999of the four big hospitals in Nanchang city,selecting the disease summit period,and analyzing the correspond ing synoptic chart,it is found that t he depression in summer and the cold air in other season are the main inductiv e factors for the respiratory -tract and cerebral blood vessel diseases,and the changes of temperature and air pressure have hysteresis effect on inducing or worsening the diseases.


The operation By letter dated 5 November 2004, the French Minister of Economic Affairs cleared a merger after a Phase I procedure where the Group Lactalis acquired cheese producers or parts of…


This article presents a provision point mechanism experiment designed to investigate the impact of suggested contributions in a public-good contribution process. We find that suggesting contributions is ineffective if subjects value the public good equally. However, if valuations for the public good differ among individuals, as they do in the real world, we find that contribution suggestions increase the likelihood of providing the public good, increase the fraction of individuals contributing their suggested share, and improve the equity of the distribution of contributions.


Press coverage of the Brazilian Parliament is done daily by a contingent of more than 200 journalists. One part of that contingent is hired by the traditional press, while another part works for the Federal Senate mass media of source structures (MFSF). The aim of this article is to delimit the social–professional profile, the routines, values and journalistic paradigms adopted by those professionals of the MFSF in a comparative study with their colleagues from the traditional press, as well their social representation they possess in relation to the MFSF.


The status of quantifier raising in German and other languages where scope is fairly rigid is debated. The first part of this paper argues that quantifiers in German can undergo covert extraction out of coordinations, and therefore that quantifier raising is available in German. The second part argues that quantifier raising in German is constrained to never move one DP across another. This result might provide part of an explanation of scope rigidity in German. One interesting difference between English and German concerns quantifier scope: The relative scope of two quantificational noun phrases is in some cases determined by their surface order in German, but not in English. Consider for example the contrast in scopal possibilities between subject and object in the embedded clauses in (1). The English sentence (1a) has an interpretation where the object every book takes scope above the subject at least one student. The literal German translation (1b) doesn't allow this interpretation (Frey 1993, Krifka 1998, Pafel 1998), but only


When examining the decline of the leftist Partido dos Trabalhadores and the ascension of the right-wing extremist Jair Bolsanaro of the far-right Partido Liberal Social to the 2018 presidency, political scientists David Samuels and Cesar Zucco have argued that this shift is best understood not through positive characteristics of Bolsonaro's candidacy but through antipetismo ['anti-PT-ism'], an intensely personal resentment of the Partido dos Trabalhadores. We assert that popular right-wing Facebook groups and networks formed around the communication network WhatsApp-fueled antipetismo by channeling anger originating in the 2013 nationwide protests away from a variety of social, political, and issues and toward a villainous depiction of Partido dos Trabalhadores leaders and valorization of anti-Partido dos Trabalhadores activists like Bolsanaro, as well as some focus on his own conservative, nationalist agenda. To interrogate this assertion, we propose two specific lines of research. The first is a qualitative textual analysis of the social media accounts of two of the most active anti-Partido dos Trabalhadores groups: Vem Pra Rua and O Movimento Brasil Livre. Through close reading of the materials distributed on these sites, we will illustrate how they channeled general unrest into a specifically partisan attack. The next line of research and case will be an examination of the role of mainstream news networks (namely TV Record) and WhatsApp by those campaigning for recently elected president Bolsonaro for a continued negative campaign against left candidates, specifically the Partido dos Trabalhadores, using fake news items like the supposed 'gay kit' that was being circulated in schools by the Partido dos Trabalhadores and others on the left to persuade children to become gay. When possible, we will analyze examples of the materials that were circulated that have emerged in the press coverage and will examine the processes that were used to target and persuade people to forward the materials created for the campaign.


Object: To investigate effect of different Laboratory conditions to examination of some hemostasis: prothrombin time(PT),activated partial thromboplastin time(APTT),fibrinogen(FIB) and thrombin time(TT).Methods: After treated with different method by appropriate reagent,specimens were measured for hemostasis by Sysmex CA7000 automatic machine.In method one blood was collected by general anticoagulative glass tube without silicification..In method two blood was collected by specific anticoagulative silicification glass tube provided by different manufactory.The measured result were compared by statistics method.Results: There was significant difference between method one and two when measured value of PT,APTT and TT were concerned(P0.01).If centrifuging(2500r/min) time was less than 15 minutes,the detected value of PT,APTT would be significantly longer than normal(P0.01).If the blood sample was transferred to plastic cup before added to automatic machine,all the detected value would be significantly longer(P0.01).If PT was examined in room temperature in 8 h,APTT in 4 h,FIB and TT in 24 h,there was no difference in the detected result compared with examined immediately after sampled.Conclusion: Specimens for hemostasis examination should be ampled with specific tube,centrifuged in adequate time,and should be detected in limited time.


Significance Triads are specialized stable membrane contact sites present in skeletal muscles fibers, where 2 junctophilin isoforms (JPH1 and JPH2) tether the sarcoplasmic reticulum to the transverse tubules (T-tubules), which are infoldings of the sarcolemma. Several muscle-specific proteins are localized at triads, where they participate in the excitation–contraction (e-c) coupling process, which consists of a series of functional events resulting in muscle fibers' contraction in response to electrical stimulation. Many reports have shown that JPH1, in addition to mediating the assembly of triads, can also interact with several proteins of the e-c coupling machinery. We report here that JPH1 and JPH2 can form homo- and heterodimers and that the transmembrane domain promotes the localization of JPH1, likely via interactions with endogenous JPHs. In adult skeletal muscles, 2 junctophilin isoforms (JPH1 and JPH2) tether the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) to transverse tubule (T-tubule) membranes, generating stable membrane contact sites known as triads. JPHs are anchored to the membrane of the SR by a C-terminal transmembrane domain (TMD) and bind the T-tubule membrane through their cytosolic N-terminal region, which contains 8 lipid-binding (MORN) motifs. By combining expression of GFP-JPH1 deletion mutants in skeletal muscle fibers with in vitro biochemical experiments, we investigated the molecular determinants of JPH1 recruitment at triads in adult skeletal muscle fibers. We found that MORN motifs bind PI(4,5)P2 in the sarcolemma, but do not mediate the selective localization of JPH1 at the T-tubule compartment of triads. On the contrary, fusion proteins containing only the TMD of JPH1 were able to localize at the junctional SR compartment of the triad. Bimolecular fluorescence complementation experiments indicated that the TMD of JPH1 can form dimers, suggesting that the observed localization at triads may result from dimerization with the TMDs of resident JPH1. A second domain, capable of mediating homo- and heterodimeric interactions between JPH1 and JPH2 was identified in the cytosolic region. FRAP experiments revealed that removal of either one of these 2 domains in JPH1 decreases the association of the resulting mutant proteins with triads. Altogether, these results suggest that the ability to establish homo- and heterodimeric interactions with resident JPHs may support the recruitment and stability of newly synthesized JPHs at triads in adult skeletal muscle fibers.


The invention discloses a wastewater treatment device for hard capsules, which belongs to the technical field of capsule-making equipment. The wastewater treatment device comprises a filtering bracket (3) arranged in a box body (1), the top of the box body is provided with an upper cover (11) which can movably seal the box body, and the upper cover is provided with an air vent (12); the filtering bracket comprises a horizontal plate, an inclined plate II and an inclined plate I, wherein the inclined plate II is vertically arranged on a baseplate of the box body, an included angle a is formed between the inclined plate II and the inclined plate I, the included angle a is 90-135 DEG, one end of the horizontal plate is vertically arranged on the side wall of the box body, the other end of the horizontal plate is vertically arranged on the inclined plate II, one end of the inclined plate I is connected to the top of the inclined plate II, and the other end of the inclined plate I is arranged in the box body; and a filter mesh I is arranged on the horizontal plate, and a filter mesh II is arranged on the inclined plate I. Multiple layers of filter meshes are arranged in the device, and the filter meshes are arranged more reasonably, so that the improvement of the filtering and impurity removal effects of waste liquid produced in capsule production is facilitated; and the device is simple in structure, and convenient to operate and use.


Spring ligament is a structure responsible for giving stability to the plantar arch of the foot. Some injuries or rupture of this ligament can have consequences such as flat feet or induce the foot to have greater ranges of motion of pronation and abduction. The solutions proposed over time have been to reconstruct the ligament through autograft or allograft surgery, however, research and results have shown that this is a temporary, partial solution, or even a new way to worsen the previous problem. In this research, new tissue engineering technologies will be used to obtain a Scaffold from synthetic and natural polymers that give the new ligament mechanical and biological properties, respectively, to obtain a tissue as close to the native one. A solution of 50% PCL- 50% type II collagen, at a concentration of 10%w/v, was prepared. The solution was electrospun under an align fibers configuration. The sample obtained was characterized in a uniaxial equipment obtaining values of: Ultimate tensile stress = 1.375MPa; Young's modulus = 7.767MPa; Poisson's ratio = 0.1. These mechanical properties were attached to a healthy foot model provided by [2], to evaluate the performance of the new SL properties versus the healthy model. The tissues primarily involved in plantar arch stabilizers: FP, LPL and SPL, were evaluated. Due to the elastic properties of the material, the computational model of the foot, presented high loads on the mentioned tissues, also displacements that discrepancy from the healthy ones. The electrospun scaffold does not yet meet the specifications to act as a possible graft with successful mechanical properties that would allow the spring ligament to withstand the loads without foot collapse or excessive pronation.


One objective of AWIATOR Task 1.3 is the assessment of flight procedure feasibility and safety. Due to the lack of A340 performance data for fast time simulation which should be performed by DLR this objective could only be accomplished through extended analysis of simulator data resulted from TU-Berlin study. For the same reason an analysis of the influence of aircraft weight and wind-speed on procedure precision and safety will be based on a theoretical approach without applying fast time simulation methods.


The present study was performed to estimate the effect of P-glycoprotein inhibitor (captopril) and inducer (spironolactone) with their common substrate (lovastatin) on liver functions in rats after two periods of administration at 45 days and 90 days with alone and combined therapeutic doses. Thirty rats were used to perform the liver enzymes such as (serum alanine amino transferase (ALT), aspartate amino transferase (AST) and alkaline phosphatase (ALP)) and lipid profile in blood serum. The animals of study divided equally into six groups according to daily dosing regimen as following G1control group administered distilled water orally, G2 administered orally captopril 0.7 mg/kg b.w., G3administered orally spironolactone 1.4 mg/kg b.w, G4administered orally lovastatin 0.57 mg/kg b.w, G5 -administered orally spironolactone 1.4 mg/kg b.w. and lovastatin 0.57 mg/kg b.w, G6administered orally captopril 0.7 mg/kg b.w and lovastatin 0.57 mg/kg b.w. The results of experiment showed that there is a significant increase (p<0.05) in serum alanine amino transferase (ALT) between groups at day 45 and day 90 of treatment also there were significant differences between different drugs alone or combined, since combined groups showed significant increase in both periods compared with other groups. Also the results indicated elevation in serum aspartate amino transferase (AST) during the experiment in all treated groups. As well as the results of effects of different drugs alone and in combination on alkaline phosphatase (ALP) revealed a significant increase (p<0.05) in serum ALP in CP+LV group due to increase effect of increase its accumulation at both times in comparison with controls groups. The results of lipid profiles revealed that some significant differences in treated groups at 45 days and 90 days, these significant differences were in LV group showed decrease in total cholesterol and its derivatives ( TAG, LDL, HDL and VLDL) after 90 days in comparison with control group. Also in combined administration groups especially CP+LV group showed decrease in total cholesterol and improve the high density lipoprotein.


INTRODUCTION Congenital lateral saccular cysts of the larynx are rare but may cause acute airway obstruction in the neonate and infant. After the airway is secured, endoscopic marsupialization is frequently the initial mode of therapy. Many patients will develop a recurrent cyst requiring additional intervention. A lateral, transcervical approach to the paraglottic space, used only for lateral saccular cysts, has been previously described.' In using that technique, we have found dissection medial to the thyroid cartilage difficult. We have successfully modified this procedure by vertically incising the thyroid cartilage and folding it inferiorly (much like an osteoplastic frontal sinus flap), providing panoramic visualization of the paraglottic space and unimpeded access to the anteromedial extent of the cyst.


In this paper, a novel step-up converter is presented, where the charge pump concept, combined with the traditional boost converter structure, is utilized. Although two inductors are used in such a converter, the difference in value between the two inductors does not degrade the performance of this converter. Besides, the behavior of this converter is similar to the traditional boost converter, and hence control of this converter can be realized easily. In this paper, the basic operating principles of the proposed converter are presented along with some experimental results to demonstrate the effectiveness of this converter.


The article studies the general principles of the functioning of the education system in China at the present stage, and considers their features. The paper also identifies the main stages of the development of the education system in China, identifies the problems that characterize the current state of education of Chinese children and students, and suggests ways to eliminate the identified problems.


The problem of simultaneously broadcasting a common source to multiple receivers over a broadcast channel remains a challenging open problem in network information theory. Each receiver is required to partially reconstruct the source sequence by decoding a certain fraction of the source symbols. Our scheme involves splitting the source sequence into multiple segments and applying a systematic erasure code to each such segment . A new Randomized Tree Walking Algorithm, which is secure against active eavesdroppers and allows for the efficient interrogation of many channels .The proposed scheme first relies on a pseudorandom preamble, which is identical for all transmit antennas, to acquire the partial common support by utilizing the sparse common support property of the MIMO channels. Then, a very small amount of frequency-domain orthogonal pilots are used for the accurate channel recovery. Our proposed architecture has been coded in Verilog HDL and simulated using xilinx 12.1.


Twisted light carrying orbital angular momentum inherently possesses a handedness, which would produce chiroptical responses by chiral matter. In this work, a scheme of vortical differential scattering (VDS) was utilized to investigate the chiroptical responses of dielectric chiral particles to the twisted light. The simulation results showed that the dielectric chiral particles have obvious VDS signals under the illumination of twisted light with opposite topological charges. The larger the relative chiral parameter of the particles, the more obvious the VDS signals. The extreme value of the VDS signals can be enhanced by reducing the waist radius of the twisted light or by adopting the circularly polarized twisted light. In addition, non-spherical dielectric chiral particles exhibit more obvious VDS signals compared with spherical ones. These findings are expected to find potential applications in the detection and identification of chiral substances.


Objective Method Results Conclusion The relation between food or food component and health is ultimately reflected in the food labeling and health claims. In order to ensure the labeling and claims be scientific and trustworthy, a scientific substantiation is indispensable. This article introduced the scientific evidence and criteria for the substantiation of Process for the Assessment of Scientific Support for Claims on Foods in Europe.


The utility model relates to a simple tablet personal computer desk type support. The simple tablet personal computer desk type support comprises a supporting plate and a bearing base. A sponge mat is fixed at the bottom of the supporting plate through a screw, the supporting plate is provided with a base cover, the port of the base cover is provided with two opposite cavities, the bottom end of the bearing base is provided with a through hole meshed with the cavities, the supporting plate is connected with the bearing base through a plastic stick, the outer surface of the bearing base is connected with a bearing base cushion, and a magnet installing plate is fixed on the top of the bearing base cushion. The simple tablet personal computer desk type support is simple in structure, the sponge mat is utilized for covering the bottom face of the supporting plate in an attaching mode, and therefore the friction of the bottom face of the support can be increased, and the anti-skid effect can be achieved; a soft cushion is arranged on the surface of a magnet block and can decorate and protect the surface of a tablet personal computer; two magnet blocks are adopted so that the tablet personal computer can be fixed firmly; the simple tablet personal computer desk type support is easy to use, convenient to carry and adjust and firm in fixation.


With the rapid expansion of web technology in recent years, there is a significant trend that Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)5 becomes a global web consortium and leads front-end development to take the stage at the forefront of internet history. React, Angular, and Vue are just a few of the front-end development frameworks and libraries available. The decision of which framework or library to utilise to build an e-business and reach out to maximise the user experience has become a top priority in web development. This article begins by providing an overview of the most popular front-end frameworks and libraries, as well as a comparison of their performance in web services. This study will outline the advantages and disadvantages of each framework by assessing the research data on different levels


A metal oxide anchored graphene and carbon nanotube hybrid foam can be formed via a two-step process. The method can include forming at least one graphene layer and a plurality of carbon nanotubes onto a surface of a porous metal substrate by chemical vapor deposition to form a coated porous metal substrate, and depositing a plurality of metal oxide nanostructures onto a surface of the coated porous metal substrate to form the metal oxide anchored graphene and carbon nanotube hybrid foam.


The authors have done an empirical study on 17 Chinese airlines to explore the relationship among customer equity drivers,sub-drivers,customer satisfaction,affective commitment and intentional loyalty.The results of cluster analysis and logistic analysis indicated that customers with higher asset value are more satisfied with, committed and loyal to firms.Customer perceived sacrifice is negatively related to customer satisfaction,affective commitment and intentional loyalty,while value equity,brand equity,retention equity,customer perceived service quality,convenience,customer's attitude toward brand,business ethics,awareness of brand,financial bond,social bond,and structural bond are all positively related to these constructions.Customer satisfaction,affective commitment, and intentional loyalty are mainly determined by customer equity drivers and sub-drivers,not by customers' demographic characteristics.Airline companies should segment customers according to customer equity drivers and sub-drivers and take different marketing strategies for them.


Human nature is the root of being a man.The ancient and modern philosophers have a different view on the question of human nature.This paper focuses on Marxist view of human nature from the perspective of the unity of human nature and human nature of social relations,and the characteristics of Marx's view of human nature,then on the background of building a harmonious socialist society to exposition practical significance of the Marxist view of human nature.


Due to the revolution of computer technology image-processing techniques has become very important in a wide variety of Applications. The Image segmentation is most important process of image processing. Image segmentation is the technique of dividing an image into small parts, that parts are called as segments. It is very useful for image compression or object recognition applications, because for these types of applications, it is inefficient to process the whole image. There arevarious image segmentation techniques thathelps in image segmentation based on certain image features like pixel intensity values, color, textures, etc. The various image segmentation techniques are reviewed anddiscussed in this paper.


This article examines portrayals of visual artists in novels by Pat Barker and A.S. Byatt, focusing on artists' appeal to writers, and the associated ethical and artistic challenges. It proposes that artist characters can offer creative ways of probing not only particular periods of history, but the creative process itself.


Abstract Bookbinders are still among the least known of the professions of the early modern Italian book trade, partly because they rarely signed their work. However, they had an undeniably fundamental role in the production and circulation of books (both manuscript and printed) across Italy, and especially in Venice, where the book trade was a particularly lively industry. In recent years, there has been a strong interest in early modern material culture but little attention has been paid to bookbinders, who quite literally shaped the materiality of books. This article looks at the scarcity of documentary sources on Venetian bookbinders between 1450 and 1630 both as a methodological challenge and as evidence of their role in local production and consumption of books. It explores both the lack of sources documenting the professional lives of binders, and sources traditionally underused in book history, to highlight the social lives of binders. Evidence of binders' family finances, marriages, and social and geographical mobilities is used to identify their lower social standing in the early modern Venetian book world in comparison to booksellers, the overlapping of their professional roles, and the locations of binders' workshops in the topography of the city.


Prediction of the dynamic response of APS magnet/support systems requires knowledge of the free vibrational characteristics, including natural frequencies, modes, and modal damping ratios. A preliminary dynamic analysis of the magnet/support system of a typical section of the APS storage ring, as presented in the APS Conceptual Design Report, was performed to gain insight. The preliminary analysis is based on the assumption that the support girder could be considered rigid relative to the stiffness of the pedestal supports when considering the lower modes and frequencies. Further, only the vertical (in-plane) translational and rocking modes were studied. The subject analysis was performed to include the flexibility of the support girder and to investigate the horizontal (out-of-plane) modes as well. Also, the most up-to-date design of the five magnet sections are studied. Here, it should be noted that in the latest design the positioning of the support pedestals (jack-screws) is different from that in the conceptual design.


The Jurassic weathered bedrock aquifer in Northwest China is the main aquifer for filling water in coal mines. Many water inrush disasters in the coal mine are related to the aquifer. The south wing of Ningtiaota coalfield was taken as an example to analyze the water aboundance of weathered bedrock and its controlling factors. The waterrich zoning of weathered bedrock aquifer is carried out by using AHP and entropy weight method to calculate the weights separately and coupled with each other. The results indicated that coupled of improved AHP and the entropy weight method can be used to predicte the water-richness of weathered bedrock accurately.


Background: Breastfeeding is known to confer many benefits upon the newborn. It is becoming increasingly apparent that breastfeeding also benefits the mother's cardiovascular health. This study aimed to determine if breastfeeding is associated with an alteration in a woman's risk of high blood pressure (HBP), using observational data from the 45 and Up Study, Australia. Design and methods: Data was obtained from women who were recruited from the 45 and Up Study. Participants were classified according to a physician's diagnosis of high blood pressure, parity and breastfeeding duration. Relative risks (RR) and 99% confidence intervals for risk of having HBP were estimated using logistic regression, stratified according to age quartiles, adjusting for demographic and lifestyle factors. Results: The final analysis included 83,139 women. An increased duration of breastfeeding (both cumulative lifetime duration and duration per child) was associated with a decreased risk of having HBP (45 to < 53 years, 6-12 months breastfeeding per child: RR 0.82, 99% CI 0.68-0.98, p = 0.004), and the longer a woman breastfed, the lower her risk of HBP. The younger two age categories (45 to <53 years and 53 to <60 years) were associated with the greatest benefit. This benefit diminished with increasing age until there was no association between breastfeeding and HBP in women aged >69 years. Conclusions: Breastfeeding is associated with a reduction in the maternal risk of having high blood pressure. This study agrees with the WHO recommendations of a minimum of six months breastfeeding per child for both infant and maternal health.


Background: To investigate the perioperative efficacy and cost of robot-assisted radical cystectomy(RARC) and laparoscopic RC(LRC) in patients with non-advanced bladder urothelial carcinomaMethods: 156 patients with non-advanced bladder urothelial carcinoma undergoing minimally invasive radical cystectomy in our center between January 2015 and April 2020 were included. Perioperative data and hospitalization expenses were extracted from our database. All analyses were performed using SPSS 23.0 software, and p < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.Results: The proportion of male patients was 86.5%(135/156) and the median age was 65(IQR 59-71) years old. RARC had a lower PSM rate (0 vs 5.3%,P=0.051), longer median operation time(370 vs 305 min,P<0.001) and higher median hospitalization cost(20565.2 vs 15532.4$,P<0.001). There were no significant differences in intraoperative transfusion rate, anesthesia resuscitation in ICU, postoperative hospital stay, 30-d complications and postoperative treatment expenses between the two groups(P=0.815,0.715, 0.817,0.92 and 0.543,respectively.)Conclusion: Short operation time and low hospitalization costs are favorable factors for LRC, but RARC may be the preferred surgical procedure for non-advanced bladder urothelial carcinoma considering the potentially low PSM rate.Trial registration: A complete informed consent was obtained from the patient and their families before the surgery.Informed consent was signed for all patients.This study was approved by the Ethics Review Committee of the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University


The fish community is a key ecological component contributing to the diversity of coral reefs. This community is characterized by conspicuous and vividly colored fish and by so-called cryptic fish. Cryptic reef fish have been underestimated in most community ecological studies because of several factors: small size, shy behavior and hiding most of the time, and protective texture or coloration to match their habitat or a combination of these characteristics. For the same reasons, knowledge of their biology is scarce. In the Gulf of California, cryptic species are important because of their diversity. Most are endemic to the reefs in the Gulf. The rainbow scorpion fish Scorpaenodes xyris is a small fish occurring among shallow rocky reefs from California to Peru. A recent study, designed to describe community structure of cryptic fish associated with coral heads (Pocillopora spp.) and rocky walls in the southwestern Gulf of California, showed the rainbow scorpionfish to be present throughout the year. Additionally, it is one of three dominant species. The functional importance of this species in the reef community is unknown. To gain insight concerning this species, its feeding habits in both microhabitats was studied. Bi-monthly samples were collected from 2000 to 2001, using the anesthetic quinaldine for capturing specimens on isolated coral heads and rocky walls at several sites (El Portugues, Los Callos, Las Animas, San Gabriel, La Ballena, and Los Islotes in Bahia de La Paz in the southwestern part of the Gulf of California. The collected specimens (270) were dissected and their stomachs removed. Prey items were separated and identified to the lowest taxon possible. The food habits of S. xyris consisted mainly of shrimp belonging to the families Processidae, Hippolytidae, Alpheidae, Palaemonidae, and Pandalidae, and crabs belonging to the families Porcellanidae and Xanthidae sensu latus. Amphipods, mysidaceans, and polychaetes worms were found in low frequency. Also, fish belonging to the families Tripterygidae and Gobidae were part of their diet. This species was considered a carnivorous predator specialist based in its diet. Growth parameters and mortality rates were calculated by the application of the ELEFAN I method. The total instantaneous mortality rates were estimated by length-converted cath curve methods, Jones and Van Zalinge, Beverton and Holt, Powell-Wetheral, Aula and Ehrhard. Natural mortality rates were estimated by the empirical formula of Pauly (1980). The maximum body size was 81 to 83 mm with a growth coefficent of 0.21 and 0.25. The values of seasonal oscillating growth were 0.1 to 1. The computed value of the Winter point index indicates that the lowest growth rate occurs between August and May. Based on the original growth parameters, the estimated instantaneous mortality rate ranged form 0.85 to 1.38 per year.


Eight commonly available weeds in Mulberry gardens of Doon Valley were studied to assess the VAM status. Root infection percentage and spore numbers were worked out. Cyperus rotundus showed highest (45.8%) root infection. Lowest root infection (24.0 %) was found in case of Digitaria sp. On the other hand Digitaria sp. harboured the highest number of spores in its rhizosphere (247 per 50 g of soil) and Alysicarpus vaginalis lowest spores (40 per 50 g of soil). Glomus was the fungus associated with all the plants studied. The mycelia of fungus were seen in all the weeds and vesicles were available in Ageratum conyzoides, Commelina paludosa, Bauhinia retusa, Euphorbia hirta, and Alysicarpus vaginalis. The arbuscles however were found in Ageratum conyzoides, Cyperus rotundus, and Euphorbia hirta only. The species harbouring VAM spores in their rhizosphere in descending order were as Digitaria sp. > Euphorbia hirta >Cyperus rotundus > Bauhinia retusa. These four species can be used as trap plants for multiplication and maintenance of VAM for experimental purposes and multiplication of VAM spores. These plants can easily be propagated as they are found abundantly in this area.


In order to develop multifunctional visual mechanical CAD software with design calculation,database management and automatic drafting, it was studied that multiplatform development technology includes Visual Basic 6.0, Visual FoxPro 6.0, Visual LISP and AutoCAD. The technology mainly includes interface programming, directory structure design, and reasonable use of platforms.The multifunctional visual cylindrical gear drive CAD software which uses the technology mentioned above, has greatly inproved the efficiency and quality of gear drive design in practical application.


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Although tremendous revolution has been made in the emerging cloud computing technologies over digital devices, privacy gradually becomes a big concern in outsourcing computation. Homomorphic encryption has been proposed to facilitate the preservation of data privacy while computational tasks being executed on ciphertext. However, many existing studies only support limited homomorphic calculation functions which barely satisfy complex computing tasks such as machine learning with massive computing resources and rich types of function. To address this problem, a novel multifunctional and privacy-preserving outsourcing computation toolkit is proposed in this paper, which supports several homomorphic computing protocols including division and power on ciphertext of integers and floating point numbers. Specifically, we first implement the homomorphic mutual conversion protocol between integer and floating point ciphertext to balance the efficiency and feasibility, considering the high-precision ciphertext operation on floating point numbers costs 100x computational overhead than that on integers. Second, we implement a homomorphic K-means algorithm based on our proposed toolkit for clustering and design the homomorphic silhouette coefficient as the evaluation index, thereby providing an informative cluster assessment for local users with limited resources. Then, we simulate the protocols of our proposed toolkit to explore the parameter sensitivity in terms of computational efficiency. Last, we report security analysis to prove the security of our toolkit without privacy leakage to unauthorized parties. Comprehensive experiments further demonstrate the efficiency and utility of our toolkit.