The invention disclose a non-epitaxial high-voltage insulating N-type LDMOS (Laterally Diffused Metal Oxide Semiconductor) device structure. A thicker deep N-type well is injected below the P-type well area of a device along with a long-time deep well pushing process; and in the drain terminal expanding area and other areas of the device, a thinner shallow N-type well is adopted along with a short-time deep well pushing process. A way for injecting two different N-type wells into different positions of the device in two steps along with different deep well pushing processes is adopted instead of the conventional deep N-type well injection and deep well pushing process, so that the process is simple, and is easy to realize. Meanwhile, compared with a process method of layer burying and extension, the process has the advantage that the cost is greatly reduced.


The article presents a case study of the three labor Code reforms implemented in Portugal in the last decade. The analysis focuses on the politicization of the successive reforms of 2003, 2009 and 2012 and addresses the link between specific politicization and Europeanization mechanisms from different perspectives: decision-making processes and agenda-setting, political cleavages and reforms coalitions.
Beyond the content of public policies, the article also shows how different actors' coalitions (governing political parties, trade-unions, peripheral actors) deal with national membership to the EU and how it affects political debates and social protest.
If policies do not crucially differ from one partisan government to another, the economic crisis has considerably deepened the polarisation between both Portuguese trade unions (Confederacao geral dos trabalhadores portugueses and Uniao geral dos trabalhadores). If the former has been disadvantaged in the policy process it has nevertheless gained popular support as while as labor legislation is getting increasingly flexible. The policy cases under study plea for analysing social reforms in the light of European orientations, an angle that is underestimated in the welfare studies literature.
The article reveals an increasingly politicization of the EU influence. In the 2000s (2003 and 2009), successive governments managed to avoid over-politicization of labor legislation reforms. To do so, they set -up academic experts groups to prevent early confrontation and negotiations with and between social partners. In the early 2010s, the economic crisis and the new European pressure of the bailout negotiated with the troika crucially changed the decision-making process; experts groups were not set up, the right-wing government used the terms of the Memorandum to implement difficult social reforms. The politicization of the EU and its influence over national policies is getting more controversial, not among political parties, but among trade-unions.


Superficial acral angiomyxoma (SA) that is digital angiomyxoma is a rare tumor with a predilection for the subungual or periungual regions of the hands and feet. To date, fewer than 50 cases have been reported worldwide. The present case, hence, is unusual, because the lesion developed on the index finger.  Histologically characterized by being poorly delimited tumors with the presence of interstitial scanty cellularity and myxoid material. We discuss the clinical and histological features of digital SA as well as a brief outline of other myxoid lesions. DOI: 10,21276/APALM.1652


LVC combines the advantages of the actual training, the virtual simulation and the deduction simulation, and this training system. In this paper, the construction requirement of the smart equipment operation test and evaluation system of the distributed joint operation test is analyzed, on the based of which the application view of the public operational test system is established. The rapid construction program and the test scheme of the multi-dimensional war field environment combined is designed with the future smart equipment operation mode. Secondly, the design of public operational test framework based on LVC distributed joint operation is built. At last, the unified management and control method of digital joint operation simulation experiment based on LVC virtual reality training is proposed.


RESPECT THE INVENTION INSTALLATION WIPER MOTOR VEHICLE. INSTALLING THIS INCLUDES MOTOR WIPER 20 RESULT IN A SPEED SENSOR AND SWITCH-21 TRANSLATOR 22 POSITION THAT PROVIDE SIGNALS CIRCUIT EVALUATION 30. THIS CIRCUIT USED COUNTERS 31, 33 AND 36 GAUGE FOR DETERMINING THE MOMENT OF CUT OF MOTOR BY THE RELAY 26 ACCORDING TO THE iNSTANT SPEED The WIPER. THE iNVENTION APPLIES TO ORDER WIPER MOTOR VEHICLE.


Pass-by noise contribution analysis is an engineering procedure employed to estimate the contributions from various noise sources on a vehicle to the overall sound pressure level. This can be realised by placing a set of microphones close to the various sources to estimate their source strengths and then synthesising the response at a far-field linear array in the presence of the remaining sources. The results described in this paper rely on measured near-field pressure data close to the tyres of an electric vehicle under accelerating conditions. The number and position of the estimated virtual source strengths used is a compromise between complexity and accuracy, which has previously been addressed mostly empirically. A power-based, frequency-averaged 𝓁1-norm regularisation technique is investigated to optimise the equivalent source position and strength for one operating tyre and, subsequently, the far-field pass-by noise pressure estimates. It is shown that for the tyre under investigation, optimising the positions of only two equivalent sources over the frequency range of interest gives a good representation of the measured far-field spectra.


As collider energy increases, the study of multiplicity distributions from high energy collisions has become even more interesting. On top of the very apparent "shoulder" structure first observed in the UA5 multiplicity data, the multiplicity data from LHC is now showing a sharper peak structure at low multiplicities. In this work, we first introduce the General Multiplicity Distribution (GMD) formalism before extending it to a two component GMD model. We adapt the interpretation that these two component refer to two different classes of events, one of which is known as the soft component, and the other, the semihard component. The soft component is understood as events without minijets while the semihard components as events with minijets. We then fit the multiplicity data from the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) at CERN using our two component GMD model. We show that this generally gives excellent results. By calculating the Cq moments, our two component GMD manages to show KNO Scaling approximately obeyed at low pseudorapidity cuts ηc but violated at higher ηc. Comparing with other available models that also perfomed fits on the same set of data, we found that our fitting gives χ/dof values lower than the other models such as the two component NBD, IPPI and QGSM indicating a better fit. However, we also found that our χ/dof values are higher when compared to the three component NBD model. We end this work by


The purpose of this study is to comprehend the physical symptoms as well as the self-esteem of the elderly residents of nursing homes in accordance to their socio-demographic characteristics. For this study a survey was conducted on the city of Seoul. The analysis results showed that, first, there was a significant difference between the results of self-esteem in accordance to the general characteristics of the elderly residents and the self-esteem in accordance to the elderly families' monthly income, marital status, age, and level of education. Second, the result of examining the physical symptoms of the elderly residents in accordance to their socio-demographic characteristics revealed a difference depending on the respondent's marital status, level of education, and economic power. Consequently, self-esteem was lower the more severe the physical symptoms. The implication of this study is that the self-esteem of the elderly residents of nursing homes, in accordance to their socio-demographic characteristics, is lower the more severe their physical symptoms, and therefore a policy concerning the improvement of each elderly resident's physical symptoms is required.


In national innovation system, universities are the most important sources of talents training and innovation. University innovation system, as one of the basic elements of the national innovation system, plays a special and vital role in it. Those universities which have made outstanding contributions to the world development and human progress are universally acknowledged as the world first rate universities. A world first rate university of nationalities must be, at first, a world first rate university. The inevitability of building a world first rate university of nationalities depends on the historical contributions as well as the opportunity in the new century of CUN. [


In the previous research, we proposed a practical planning method for operating semiconductor fabrication factories more stably and linearly by determining daily movement targets based on the work in process (WIP) targets. Although the previous method was efficient and effective enough to be applied in semiconductor fabrication factories, it had some weakness in the respects of computation speeds and difficulty in understanding the concept of the algorithm for shop floor workers. For overcoming the weakness, we propose an improved planning method which determines daily movement targets without setting any WIP targets. This improvement can be achieved by introducing the concept of line of balance (LOB) to the daily production planning. We call the new planning method that accepts the LOB concept as a progress management based planning method. By using the progress management based planning method, we can generate the same movement targets from the previous method more rapidly and explain the planning concepts to the field managers and operators more easily. We can expect that the proposed method will be used as a useful tool for operating semiconductor fabrication factories more efficiently and effectively.


Preliminary experiments indicate the feasibility of constructing for field use a contaminant-detection instrumentation based on dielectric measurements. This study applies the technique of time-domain reflectometry to assess characteristic "signatures" of some selected contaminants and soil–contaminant mixtures. The results imply that a proper differentiation between various signatures can be attained, allowing an assessment in regard to soil–contaminant status. The proposed technique is similar in principle to the induced-polarization method applied in mineral exploration. Key words: electric polarization, contaminant transport, dielectrics, induced polarization, nonpolar liquids, time-domain reflectometry, relaxation, contaminant–soil interaction.


Pycnodysostosis is a rare condensing bone dysplasia of recessive inheritance and well over 50 cases have now been reported. Two further illustrative cases are now reported, one with the unusual feature of right heart failure, occurring in an 18-month-old child, as a result of micrognathism. This has been described previously as a serious clinical feature only once, by Maroteaux and Faure (1973), in one of their series of cases. The second case illustrated is of an 18-year-old woman with a more typical, uncomplicated presentation. A brief discussion of the findings in pycnodysostosis is appended. An 18-month-old Asian girl presented to the Children's Hospital with respiratory difficulties. The pregnancy had been normal, and her birth weight was 3 kg. At delivery, the umbilical cord was noted to be short. Her parents were first cousins, and the paternal grandparents had also beenfirst cousins. An enlarged posterior fontanelle was described in the neonatal period, withwidened sagittal sutures and a micrognat...


In the current geopolitical situation related to the restrictions of the EU member states on trade and economic relations with the Russian Federation, the development of a powerful energy export system in the eastern direction is one of the priorities and main sources of the Russian economy in the midterm. This article is devoted to review the prerequisites and causes of the current activity of the Russian Federation in the "eastern direction". Eastern vector of Russia's energy policy envisage the energy infrastructure development in the eastern territories of the Russian Federation and the export of Russian energy resources to the countries of the Asia-Pacific region.


The influences of main diagenetic minerals and pore types on physical properties are analyzed based on diagenesis effect. Four diagenetic facies are divided according to contribution to physical property in the Chang 81 reservoir of Huanjiang area,which are ferrocalcite cementation facies,hydromica / kaolinite cementation facies,chlorite film cementation facies and feldspar dissolution facies. Thereby favorable reservoirs are predicted. This research is of important significance to forecasting the distribution of low permeability sandstone reservoirs and guiding oilfield production.


A study of heat capacity as function of temperature of the 0.7PbNi1/3Nb2/3O3–0.3PbTiO3 solid solution within the 120–800 K range is reported. Broad anomalies on the curve of heat capacity are revealed in the 250–450 K and 450–650 K intervals peaking at 520 K and a λ-anomaly at T ≈ 225 K. Results are discussed with account for dielectric and structural data.


To protect against a latent programming error (software fault) existing in an untried branch combination that would render the space shuttle out of control in a critical flight phase, the Backup Flight System (BFS) was chartered to provide a safety alternative. The BFS is designed to operate in critical flight phases (ascent and descent) by monitoring the activities of the space shuttle flight subsystems that are under control of the primary flight software (PFS) (e.g., navigation, crew interface, propulsion), then, upon manual command by the flightcrew, to assume control of the space shuttle and deliver it to a noncritical flight condition (safe orbit or touchdown). The problems associated with the selection of the PFS/BFS system architecture, the internal BFS architecture, the fault tolerant software mechanisms, and the long term BFS utility are discussed.


Inflammation is a serious health problem that needs treatment. The use of steroids and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) can actually relieve inflammatory reactions well, but their long-term use can have many side effects and are uneconomical. Therefore, the use of natural ingredients that are effective and economical is needed. One of the plants that are considered anti-inflammatory is the leaves of miang beans (Mucuna pruriens). The purpose of compiling this narrative review is to analyze the phytochemical content of miang beans leaves and its mechanisms for inflammatory reactions. The narrative study of this preparation was carried out using the literature study method from August to September 2020. The phytochemical content of miang bean leaves are alkaloids, flavonoids, saponins, cyanogenic glycosides, and tannins. Phytochemicals that have a direct anti-inflammatory effect are alkaloids, flavonoids, saponins, and tannins. Alkaloids are antibacterial. If there are bacteria that cause inflammation, the alkaloids will damage the bacterial peptidoglycan cell walls, thus causing bacterial cell death and preventable inflammatory reactions. Flavonoids have anti-inflammatory effects by inhibiting macrophages from producing NO (nitric oxide) and inhibiting the cyclooxygenase pathway. Saponins affect the inflammatory reaction by inhibiting the lipoxygenase pathway and inhibiting the release of inflammatory mediators. Meanwhile, tannins affect the inflammatory reaction by inhibiting macrophages from producing ROS (Reactive Oxygen Species). Potential which is fatal because it can turn into cyanide acid. However, the content of these cyanogenic glycosides can be minimized by drying at low temperatures. So, mung bean leaves are effective as anti-inflammatory drugs because the alkaloids, flavonoids, saponins, and tannins they contain are anti-inflammatory.


The new rural construction must be under the scientific development instruction,speed up the agriculture advance in technology,build the good environment,take positive innovation,transform agriculture growth way,develop the digital agriculture vigorously.


Human ability to discriminate and identify visual attributes varies across the visual field, and is generally worse in the periphery than in the fovea. This decline in performance is revealed in many kinds of tasks, from detection to recognition. A parsimonious hypothesis is that the representation of any visual feature is blurred (spatially averaged) by an amount that differs for each feature, but that in all cases increases with eccentricity. Here, we examine models for two such features: local luminance and spectral energy. Each model averages the corresponding feature in pooling windows whose diameters scale linearly with eccentricity. We performed psychophysical experiments with synthetic stimuli to determine the window scaling for which human and model discrimination abilities match, called the critical scaling. We used much larger stimuli than those of previous studies, subtending 53.6 by 42.2 degrees of visual angle. We found the critical scaling for the luminance model was approximately one-fourth that of the energy model, and consistent with earlier studies, that a smaller critical scaling value was required when discriminating a synthesized image from a natural image than when discriminating two synthesized images. We offer a coherent explanation for these results in terms of alignments and misalignments of the models with human perceptual representations.


A wet clutch assembly includes an inner housing which is common to set up for rotation with a torque input member for the clutch assembly. The inner housing has a number of spline teeth in order to keep a portion of the plates in a clutch pack. Each spline tooth defines a single aperture in fluid communication with at least one plate of the clutch pack, wherein openings are staggered on adjacent spline teeth against each other in order to distribute a cooling fluid almost evenly between the friction surfaces. A uniform flow distribution represents an efficient use of the cooling fluid and prevents overheating of plates which receive less fluid flow.


This paper suggests to challenge the opportunity right now to further study the multi-body dynamics and to apply it to mechanical and mechantronic products in AMT,so as to make those products competitable in the international market.


Nowadays, there are a few dozen of seismically-instrumented buildings in Mexico, from which one of the best instrumented was selected for this paper (PC building). The building is a 17-storey reinforced concrete structure located in Mexico City. It is founded on soft soil through an embedded box supported on friction piles. The building is one of the several structures that were damaged during the Michoacán earthquake (September 19th of 1985, Mw =8.1) and it was later retrofitted. Since 1990 an accelerometer network is operating in the building. Twenty-five seismic events have been recorded and analyzed through these 26 years of continuous monitoring. The maximum responses recorded in the building until 2015 in terms of maximum acceleration and displacement have been 0.22 g and 24 cm respectively. The maximum drift, calculated by dividing the relative displacements by the vertical distance between instrumented stories, has been 0.55%. The purpose of this paper is to present the variations of the vibration frequencies of the soil-structure system and the vibration frequencies of the structure excluding the effects of soil-structure interaction (SSI). In addition, the influence of the building damage and of the increase of the site dominant frequency in defining the vibration frequency of the whole soil-structure system is discussed. The analyses of the aforementioned records are studied with a simplified model and by using a system identification technique based on the Modal Minimization Method (MM model). Both models are used to identify the vibration frequencies of fixed-base buildings and to evaluate if the frequency variations of the systems correlate with SSI effects. It was found that the MM model is a useful tool for identifying the frequencies of the fixed base building, the movement of the base, and of the whole system.


Rural-urban migration is one of the most widespread demographic trends, particularly in developing countries. In India, it is seen that among the migrants in the rural areas, about 90 percent migrated from the rural areas while only about 9 percent were from the urban areas. Unemployment pushes migrants towards areas with greater employment opportunities. The migrant workers shift to different places either individually or with families depending upon the nature of work and seasonality of work. This movement of population is explained by both push and pull factors due to varied rural based development programme. This current study focuses on examining the various push and pull factors influencing for migration among informal workers in Coimbatore. The universe of the study consisted of all 120 migrants workers residing in Pannimadai and Veerapandi area in periyanayakkanpalayam were selected by adopting purposive sampling technique. The study found that that rural stagnation such as lack of economic and social opportunities for self improvement (education and training facilities) and lack of career progression are the main reasons for migration to urban areas. The government should identify the opportunities and constraints for poverty reduction and development provided by rural-urban linkages


PURPOSE: A duct connecting device with a damper is provided to control the rotation of a duct without classifying top or bottom sides. CONSTITUTION: A duct connecting device comprises a lid part(31), a connecting member(30), a rotary axis, a damper, an adjustment knob(50) and a display part(60). The connecting member fixes a rectangular duct to a seating groove(33). The rotary axis passes through an upper part and an lower part. The damper has a turning board guiding the air flow direction. The adjustment knob rotates the rotary axis and is fixed in the both ends of the rotary axis along with a washer(51). The display part detects the mass flow of the air and rotation number of the damper.


In Collection Building, Vol. 8, No. 4, a bibliography of U.S. government publications on AIDS from 1981 to September 1986 appeared. This annotated bibliography updates that work, covering legislative materials from 1986 to 1989. Documents that have information prior to 1986 are included when they were not published until 1986, such as a congressional hearings from 1985. This bibliography is thorough and comprehensive in its coverage of legislative materials, with an exception of two items from the Congressional Research Service. Contractor documents from the Office of Technology Assessment are included when found, but there is no systematic method to identify such sources.


Time-integrated spatially-resolved emission spectroscopy, in the deep vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) region, of laser-produced plasmas was employed for the quantitative determination of the carbon content in steel targets. Six prominent VUV carbon spectral lines, representing three dierent ionization stages, were selected and proved to be spectral interference free. Several experimental parameters and conditions, including the focusing lens type, the laser power density, the background atmosphere and the pressure, were optimized, leading to an optimum limit of detection for carbon of 1 ppm obtained with the 97.70-nm CIII spectral line. Thus article presents a summary of the overall results obtained from this study.


cases of burn were treated with MEBO. The analgesic effect of MEBO during the course of treatment was observed. The authors analyzed the mechanism of the analgesic action of MEBO and suggested that MEBO has the effects of improving microcirculation and drainage. These effects may be responsible for the reduction of pains. The authors also suggested that MEBO may produce different pain reducing effect for burns of different causes and different depths. Finally, the authors concluded that early application of MEBO always results in good reduction of pains.


Gallstone ileus is a rare complication of cholelithiasis which represent 1-3% of the causes of intestinal obstruction in the general population and is more commonly seen in females. Gallstone ileus does not present with unique symptoms, making the diagnosis difficult. Symptoms are often non-specific with intermittent intestinal obstruction. The management is surgical, but there is no consensus as to which of the different surgical techniques is the procedure of choice. We report an interesting case of a 78-year-old male brought to casualty with abdominal pain following a history of fall. Managed as a case of blunt trauma abdomen initially. Surprisingly investigations showed features of small bowel obstruction, a hyperdense structure in the distal jejunum with dilated proximal jejunal loops suggestive of gallstone ileus. The patient had undergone exploratory laparotomy with enterotomy and removal of gallstones without any postoperative complications. Intraoperatively cholecystoduodenal fistula was identified and the patient was electively planned for cholecystectomy and fistula repair.


Cancer‐related cognitive impairment (CRCI) has long‐term effects on survivor quality of life, but CRCI research on patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) is lacking. The aims of this study were to investigate CRCI and concomitant quality of life among patients with GIST.


directly, as related taxa do today around the world. Webb (4) lists tilefish among these, but tilefishes (Malacanthidae) are unknown in fresh waters. Rasanen et al. (1) correlate and credit the Pebasian transgression "with the latest Serravallian high global sea stand -10 Ma" (1, p. 389) on the basis of a report by Haq et al. (5). Webb (4), using associated fossil land mammals, suggests an age of about 12 Ma for both the Pebasian and Paranan transgressions, which he correlates with an earlier part of the Serravallian highstand. However, a tectonic, not eustatic, event created the conditions that permitted both transgressions. Beginning about 11 Ma, the Quechua tectosedimentary episode initiated along the Central Andes (6, 7). Resumption of nearly perpendicular movement of the Pacific plate against the western edge of the South American plate produced crustal shortening, hence uplift, and resulted in tectonic loading in the cordillera and subsidence (enhanced by sediment loading) in the foreland basin. Because of a lagtime before erosion could provide enough sediment to compensate subsidence in the foreland basin, its axial groove, which ran adjacent and parallel to the thrust front, subsided without being completely filled by alluvial deposits (7). This subsidence per-


Adopting the literature review,logical analysis,comparative analysis and other methods and analyzing the dream and reality of China's sport,this paper summarizes and analyzes the Chinese sports' achievements and gaps.Then it puts forward some suggestions on the development of China's sport power in terms of clear objective orientation,sports and physical health of the youth and social vulnerable groups,strengthening the human resources management,promoting the development of the sports industry and China's sport soft power.


The litter water-holding capability of the artificial plant communities of the rehabilitated land in Datong county of Qinghai province located at the southern foot of Qilian mountains was studied.The ages of the artificial communities of these areas is only 10~27 years,however the litter in these vegetation has been as thick as 2.9 cm,which is 56.9 % of the thickness of natural plant communities of 30 to 200 years old;the water-holding capability of litter averages 4 mm,which is 35.7 % of that of natural plant communities.The results of study also indicated that the older the plant communities were,the more plentiful the canopy layers were,the larger the amount of litter was and higher the water holding rate of litter was.As an important preventing and obstructing measure,mitter layer can reduce the rainfall splash and runoff so effectively that the average runoff velocity has increased by 33 % ~ 35 % after removing litter layers The results of gradual regression analysis showed that the factors affecting the water-holding capability of litter layers of were 99.8 % from the volume of litter,age of forest,number of plant layer and water-holding ratio of litter.


G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) constitute a large and diverse family of proteins whose primary function is to transduce extracellular stimuli into intracellular signals. They are among the largest and most diverse protein families in mammalian genomes. On the basis of homology with rhodopsin,


It is the great honor for me to edit proceedings of "7th World Conference on Design and Arts (WCDA- 2018)", 28-30 June 2018, BAU International Berlin University of Applied Sciences, Berlin – Germany. This privileged scientific event has been contributing to the field of educational research for seven years.As the guest editor of this issue, I am glad to see variety of articles focusing on Art Management, Art and Corporate Identiy, Art and Media, Art and Advertising Design, Art and Globalization, Civil Society and Art, Community Arts, Experimental Typography, Fashion Design, Game Design and Cinema, Game Design and Art, Gastoronomy and Art, Industrial Design, Interactive Arts, Interactive Sound Design, Interior Design, Jewelry Design, New Media for Learning and Teaching, Packaging Design, Performing Arts, Sonic Sculptures, Sound Installations, Teacher Training, The Science of Arts, Typeface Design, Urban Culture and Art, Visual Culture and Art, etc..Furthermore, the conference is getting more international each year, which is an indicator that it is getting world widely known and recognized. Scholars from all over the world contribute to the conference. Special thanks are to all the reviewers, the members of the international editorial board, the publisher, and those involved in technical processes. We would like to thank all who contributed to every process to make this issue actualized. A total of 27 full papers or abstracts were submitted for this conference and each paper has been peer reviewed by the reviewers specialized in the related field. At the end of the review process, a total of 8 high quality research papers were selected and accepted for publication.I hope that you will enjoy reading the papers.Best RegardsGuest EditorsProf. Dr. Ayse Cakir Ilhan, Ankara University, TurkeyEditorial AssistantZeynep Genc, Msc. Near East University, North Cyprus


An exercise-induced idiopathic Brugada electrocardiographic pattern during the effort phase is very rare. A 42- year-old male visited our cardiology clinic for chest discomfort. He has been treated for myocardial infarction 2 months ago. He underwent a treadmill test according to the Bruce protocol. Typical coved-type ST-segment elevation was found during the effort phase, and it gradually recovered after the exercise. The ST-segment eleva- tion appeared to be unrelated to hypervagotonia. This elevation was not induced by a pharmacological test with flecainide. A significant ventricular arrhythmia was not induced by programmed ventricular stimulation. Hence, we discharged the patient without implantation of an implantable cardioverter defibrillator. (Korean Circulation J 2007;37:517-519)


The aim of the present study was to evaluate the variations in the phytochemical compositions and the antimicrobial activities of Syzygium grande and Oenanthe javanica leaf extracts against Bacillus sp. The antibacterial activity of the methanol, 70% methanol, ethyl acetate, and hexane extracts of both plant species were examined in vitro, against various Bacillus species. In addition, the H Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (H NMR) spectroscopy-based metabolomics was employed to gain insights into the correlations between the chemical constituents of the bioactive extract to the biological activity. The hexane extract of S. grande leaves and methanolic extract of O. javanica leaves showed more potent anti-Bacillus activity, among the test extracts. Principal component analysis (PCA) successfully differentiated the extracts on the basis of their metabolite profiles. The results of the Partial Least Square (PLS) analysis showed that the non-polar compounds of the hexane extract of S. grande (alanine, betulin, β-sitosterol, β-caryophyllene, acetic acid and 3-hydroxybutyric acid) were strongly correlated to its anti-Bacillus activity. On the other hand, choline, ellagic acid, and gallic acid, the metabolites present in the methanolic extract of O. javanica, were strongly correlated to its anti-Bacillus activity. On this basis, it was therefore concluded that these conmpounds could be the potential bioactive constituents, contributing to the anti-Bacillus activity of the individual plant species. Further in-depth investigations into the potential utilization of the two plants for useful applications in managing and control of Bacillus sp., will help pave the way towards their valorization.


The invention discloses a radial magnetic bearing of a low-power consumption inner rotor of a permanent-magnetic up-attracting and down-repelling structure, which consists of an outer magnetic conduction ring, an outer magnetic insulation ring, a stator core, a magnet exciting coil, an inner permanent-magnetic ring, a rotor core, an inner magnetic insulation ring, an inner magnetic conduction ring, an outer permanent-magnetic half ring, an air gap and a rotating shaft. The stator core is provided with eight electromagnetic poles and four permanent-magnetic poles in the positive and negative directions of an X axis and a Y axis, the outer magnetic insulation ring is arranged between a permanent-magnetic core and an electromagnetic core on a stator, and the outer permanent-magnetic half ring is clamped in the middle of two permanent-magnetic cores in the negative direction of the Y axis of the stator through the outer magnetic conduction ring. The air gap is reserved between the stator core and the rotor core, the inner magnetic insulation ring is arranged between a permanent-magnetic core ring and an electromagnetic core ring on a rotor, the inner magnetic conduction ring is arranged between the permanent-magnetic core rings, and the inner permanent-magnetic ring is clamped in the middle of the inner magnetic conduction ring. The radial magnetic bearing of the low-power consumption inner rotor has the advantages of low power consumption, simple control, convenient manufacture and the like, and can be used as a non-contact support component of rotary equipment such as wind driven generators, electro motors, molecular pumps, high-speed bearings, machine tools and the like.


The invention discloses a method for preparing a cabbage type rape BnPABP3 promoter (PBnPABP3) and the application thereof. The method comprises the following steps of: cloning PBnPABP3 sequence by utilizing the genome walking method, extracting genome DNA by utilizing the SDS cracking method, carrying out enzyme digestion on DNA by respectively using endonuclease DraI, EcoRV, PvuII and StuI in different systems, carrying out the first round of PCR amplification by adopting the product as a template after joint segments are connected with the product, and carrying out the second round of PCR amplification by adopting the 50 times diluent of PCR products obtained in the first round as a template so as to obtain the PBnPABP3. The PBnPABP3 is applied to anther and pollen grains of plant. The promoter has the function of driving exogenous gene expression, the expression parts of the promoter are in the anther and pollen grains of plant, and the promoter has the application potentiality in the aspects of improving the safety of rape edible oil as well as the quality of crops, artificially creating sterile line and restorer line, enriching germ plasm resources, and the like.


-carried out during the last thirteen years and a glance at the title of his contributions will show that he has been extremely ambitious in his efforts to advance our knowledge in fields so varying and extensive as above indicated. Chapters vii, viii, and ix deal with the allied subjects of atheroma and aneurysm and represent the combined researches carried out by the author and the late Professor Coats. The authors have concluded that atheroma is largely an affection of the subendothelial tissues of arteries brought about by senile change and blood pressure. The rupture or solution of the middle coats of the arteries is produced by the impact of the atheromatous mass: the authors admit the frequent occurrence of recent granulation tissue in the neighbourhood of the patch reaching in some cases to the external coat of the artery; they are -quite convinced that the atheromatous patch is primary and all other changes secondary: at no place is there discussed *any occlusive change of the vasa vasorum which might be responsible for the whole series of changes in the arterial walls in atheroma. Under the heading of Addison's Disease Dr. Auld gives an account ofhis own researches, partlyanatomical partly chemical. IHe explains the fact that cases of Addison's disease fail to be benefited by suprarenal extract on the ground that in health epinephrin, that is the alkaloidal body supposed to be responsible for the rise of blood pressure described by Oliver and Schafer, does not reach the general 'circulation at all-it is a mere product of decomposition in the part of the suprarenal body, of toxic bodies whose nature is unknown, and by the action of the blood in the venous sinuses of the medulla is neutralized so that the blood in the .suprarenal veins has no action allied to the extract of the medulla. The argument in favour of the possibility of a haematogenous jaundice is not convincin -Minkowski and Naunyn's experiments are far more valuable from the negative side than are Dr. Auld's conclusions. Although pigment in a solid form was carried in abundance into the general circulation through the liver capillaries, there may yet be very considerable doubt that a soluble pigment in the blood plasma was also carried over, especially when Dr. Auld gives no positive proof of the occurrence of a pigment: the main difficulty, however, is to prove that such pigment was bile -and in our present state of knowledge, it is not safe to conelude that because there was bile in the urine of the animal experimented on, the soluble pigment (undemonstrated) in the hepatic capillaries was bile pigment. Dr. Auld is to be -commended most warmly on the industry which he has patiently exercised in the researches in question. In some ,places he would have done well to have given more complete details of his method of experimentation, but the volume will well repay perusal, for Dr. Auld is original and does not hesitate to differ from current opinions.


The objective of this work is to evaluate the effects of the presence of masonry participating in concrete building systems, considering them as a resistant element. For this purpose, the prescriptions of the standard draft ABNT NBR 16868-1:2020 (under public consultation phase) were applied, which aim to unify the masonry standards that deal with the blocks used with structural function. In the international literature, several studies of numerical and experimental analysis are found on frames filled with masonry, especially due to the concern with seismic behavior. In the national bibliography, studies on the subject have intensified over the past two decades. Currently in Brazil there are no regulations in force regarding the consideration of the presence of masonry in in-service analyzes or when the purpose of the masonry (participant) is to be considered in the Ultimate Limit State. By this way, studies on the theme are justified for the development of the use of participating masonry, its main concepts and practical application. The theme of this work was divided into three distinct and complementary aspects: initially the prescriptions of the standard design were applied to a building of usual dimensions – showing the main characteristics of the reinforced concrete portico and the masonry necessary for the calculations – with the analysis of the effects of the presence of masonry, in terms of displacements and efforts in the structure. Subsequently, numerical simulations were compared with experimental results to determine the quality of the results obtained in the simplifications admitted using the MEF models. Finally, the standard draft and expressions in the literature were applied to determine the width of the equivalent diagonal and its consequences with regard to structural displacement, in order to compare the results found for masonry panels with concrete blocks. The study demonstrated the ease of considering the prescriptions of the draft standard, interesting for its practical application. In addition, it was confirmed that the presence of masonry contributes or reduces the structure (reduction of displacements around seven times) and influences the absorption and redistribution of activities. It was also possible to verify the great differences between the formulations that determine the equivalent diagonal width (variations of up to 212%) and the consequence of this variation in the alternative displacements (reaching up to 55% of difference).


Author(s): Grismer, ME; Collison, RS | Abstract: © 2017 by the authors. Water quality in San Francisco Bay has been adversely affected by nitrogen loading from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) discharging around the periphery of the Bay. While there is documented use of zeolites and anammox bacteria in removing ammonia and possibly nitrate during wastewater treatment, there is little information available about the combined process. Though relatively large, zeolite beds have a finite ammonium adsorption potential and require periodic re-generation depending on the wastewater nitrogen loading. Use of anammox bacteria reactors for wastewater treatment have shown that ammonium (and to some degree, nitrate) can be successfully removed from the wastewater, but the reactors require careful attention to loading rates and internal redox conditions. Generally, their application has been limited to treatment of high-ammonia strength wastewater at relatively warm temperatures. Moreover, few studies are available describing commercial or full-scale application of these reactors. We briefly review the literature considering use of zeolites or anammox bacteria in wastewater treatment to set the stage for description of an integrated zeolite-anammox process used to remove both ammonium and nitrate without substrate regeneration from mainstream WWTP effluent or anaerobic digester filtrate at ambient temperatures.


A puncturing and catheterising device for human and animal bodies has a metal puncturing needle 3 and a cannula 9, which surrounds the puncturing needle in the area between its tip and its rear end. When the puncturing needle 1 is drawn out of the cannula, a longer guide thread can be inserted through the cannula into the body, and when the cannula has also been drawn out, the said thread can serve as guide for a catheter that is to be inserted. The puncturing needle 3 is made to be electrically conductive from its tip 1 to its end protruding from the cannula 9, and at its rear end is provided with an electrical connection part 5.


Companies are facing 17to 27% losses in their revenues due to Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) as revealed in the research conducted over past many years. The disturbing fact is that these hidden failure costs are not reflected in the existing accounting and management information systems. Thus management fails to initiate corrective actions. COPQ adversely affects the productivity of resources and profitability of construction companies. Therefore an effective mechanism is needed to identify and measure the failure costs along with a management information system, so that corrective actions are initiated to control further hidden losses. A COPQ measurement and dashboard Management Information System was designed by the researchers to show the extent of losses during project execution along with reasons for the losses with the help of charts/graphs and summaries. The system/tool was used in an actual construction project to validate its effectiveness. The research purpose was to examine the effectiveness of the proposed system in reducing COPQ and its corresponding effect on profitability and labor productivity.


In this presentation we present a framework for designing and implementing the Web-based Intelligent Education System (WIES). It was designed to provide a web-based intelligent teaching/learning environment which will adapt to the students' different learning styles and lecturers' different teaching strategies.


End-user training is a critical factor in the success of information systems. With rising demand for end-user training, organizations are seeking new and innovative approaches for providing low-cost and effective training. Recently, intranet technology has received wide acclaim in the business press as a powerful and cost-effective method for providing anytime-anyplace training. Most of these claims, however, are anecdotal in nature. We have used a case study research method to evaluate intranet-based training in an organization. This study relies on extensive collection and analysis of both qualitative and quantitative data to study two research issues: (1) the role of intranet technology in all phases of the training process and (2) effectiveness of intranet-based training. This research expands our understanding of a new and innovative strategy for training end-users. The results of this study will provide a foundation for conducting further research on the role and effectiveness of intranets in providing end-user training. It will also provide guidelines to IS and training managers in evaluating the appropriateness of intranet technology for training end-users.


Thispaperinvestigates theeffectiveness ofa recently proposed numerical control design methodology in thestabilization control design ofa 3-DOFRC helicopter. Thiscontrol methodology isthecombination oftheTP (Ten- sorProduct) modeltransformation andthePDC (Parallel Distributed Compensation) framework. Firstwe recall the nonlinear modeloftheRC helicopter, thenwe execute the TP modeltransformation onthesimplified modeltoyield its TPmodel(orTakagi-Sugeno fuzzy model) representation, with specific characteristics, whereupon thePDC framework can immediately beapplied. Beyondthestabilization wetakeinto account practical performance considerations intermsofgood speedofresponse andsmall control effort toavoidactuator saturations. Simulation results areincluded tovalidate the control design. Itwili bepointed outthat theresulting controller isequivalent withtheonesuccessfully applied inthereal control experiment ofthehelicopter presented inarecent paper.


CUBIC, the Cosmic Unresolved x-ray Background Instrument using CCDs, is instrumented to make non-dispersive spectral observations, with moderate energy resolution over the energy range 200 eV - 10 keV. The CUBIC filter set is designed to attenuate optical and UV photons, with special emphasis on blocking geocoronal lines. To still allow useful soft x-ray transmission, a single thin (1200 angstroms) Al/Ti filter has been designed as the Optical/UV blocking filter. Since the detectors are mechanically collimated, the CUBIC filters are susceptible to pin hole punctures from micrometeoroids. We review some of the LDEF micrometeoroid measurements, and find that while there is good probability that micrometeoroids will transit our filter, the holes will be small enough and few enough in number to have no significant impact on our stray light counting rate.


THE CONTEMPORARY SYRIAN NOVEL IN TRANSLATION Cinnamon Samar Yazbek Translated by Emily Danby London: Haus Publishing, 2012 (226 pages) $16.95 (paper)In Praise of Hatred Khaled Khalifa Translated by Leri Price London: Transworld Publishers, 2012 (x v i + 299 pages) $25.99 (cloth)The Silence and the Roar Nihad Sirees Translated by Ma x Weiss London: Pushkin Press, 2013 (160 pages) $13.95 (paper)Writing Love Khalil Sweileh Translated by A lexa Firat Cairo: The American Universit y in Cairo Press, 2012 (192 pages) $16.95 (paper)It has become something of a commonplace to lament the lack of adequate translations of Syrian literature into English. The brisk new Anglophone market for the art and culture of the so-called Arab Spring, however, has not left the contemporary Syrian novel out in the cold. While Syrian giants of the second half of the twentieth century like the playwright Sa'adallah Wannus and novelists Salim Barakat and Haydar Haydar remain undertranslated, if not unavailable, in English, the post-2000 Syrian novel is witnessing some- thing of a boom in translation. In turn, publishing houses and readers are cultivating certain assumptions about what kinds of revolutionary insights the Syrian novel of the past decade can provide for foreign readers. The marketing and reception of Syrian literature and cultural production in English since 2011 have upheld the premise that contemporary artworks can shed much-needed light on the political, social, and psychological contours of an uprising that continues to inspire and confound observers in Europe and the United States. And at least three of the four novels discussed in this review (Khalid Khalifa's In Praise of Hatred, Samar Yazbek's Cinnamon, and Nihad Sirees's The Silence and the Roar), which tackle social, political, and religious questions and belong to what could be loosely termed pre-2011 opposition literature, may do just that. Nevertheless, the novels discussed in this review were all published between 2004 and 2008, and their links to our contemporary moment are not always direct. It would be reductive, then, to posit an uncritical equivalence between these novels and the texts that emerged from the revolution, such as Yazbek's nonfictional Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution (trans. Max Weiss [London: Haus, 2012]), which have received a warm welcome in English translation. We might ask, in other words: How can we read translations of the prerevo- lutionary Syrian novel today, in the years following a national uprising that began far from the circles of elite culture, without reducing these works of literature to prescient foreshadowings of our present day?Doubleday's translation of In Praise of Hatred, first published in Arabic in 2006, is a welcome and expected piece from Khaled Khalifa, Syria's best- known contemporary novelist. Khalifa's distinctive narrative technique, which twists and curves across time and space at dizzying speeds, forms a vital aspect of the novel, and Leri Price has done excellent work capturing its ambitious style. The novel was shortlisted for the prestigious Arabic Booker Prize in 2008 and is now in its sixth Arabic edition. It is a dense and sophisticated literary rendering of a young Sunni woman's embrace of sectarian hatred in the 1980s, a period in which Syrian society was caught in the crosshairs of the conflict between the Hafiz al-Asad government and the Muslim Brotherhood. This woman, the unnamed narrator for much of the novel, is from an aristocratic Aleppan family whose glory days are long gone, and the somber, occasionally morbid tone that pervades the novel is Khalifa's nod to a writer he cites as an influence, William Faulkner. The narrator is eventually imprisoned for her Brotherhood affiliations, and Khalifa shines in the prison section, "The Scent of Spices," which depicts the narrator's descent into absolute hatred, the collapse of her conscious- ness, and her eventual rejection of extremism in the all-female world of her prison cell. …


New legislation has encouraged regulatory biologists in the UK to examine the impacts of eutrophication in rivers for the first time. The principal tools for this have been new indices based on macrophyte and diatom communities. The use of such indices is placed within an appropriate theoretical framework. The importance of recognizing the upper limit of sensitivity of such indices, as well as factors such as organic pollution, which can confuse interpretation, is discussed. Despite their limitations, community-based indices are valuable tools for reconnaissance studies and, in the long-term, as indicators of the extent to which nutrient reductions have led to an ecological response. Some general guidelines for monitoring eutrophication in rivers are proposed.


A fully developed turbulent flow in a rotating straight square duct is simulated by direct numerical simulations at Reτ = 300 and 0 ≤ Roτ ≤ 40. The rotating axis is parallel to two opposite walls of the duct and normal to the main flow. Variations of the turbulence statistics with the rotation rate are presented, and a comparison with the rotating turbulent channel flow is discussed. Rich secondary flow patterns in the cross section are observed by varying the rotation rate. The appearance of a pair of additional vortices above the pressure wall is carefully examined, and the underlying mechanism is explained according to the budget analysis of the mean momentum equations.


On the basis of the comparison between general search engines and vertical search engines, the development of vertical search engines will be discussed. After the introduction of the theory and algorithms of reinforcement learning, the reinforcement learning methods will be applied to the spider, a vertical search engine, as a new technology. This will develop the application of reinforcement learning and provide a new idea for Spider. From the experimental results, the conclusion is that the performance will be improved a lot with this technology in spider search by the experimental analysis.


Left atrial (LA) dysfunction, expressed as impaired LA deformation using two‐dimensional (2D) strain imaging, has been observed in association with rheumatic mitral stenosis (MS). However, the clinical role of speckle tracking echocardiography (STE)‐derived LA strain has rarely been studied in MS.


Water-soluble Mn-doped ZnSe luminescent nanowires were successfully prepared by hydrothermal method without any heavy metal ions and toxic reagents. The morphology, composition, and property of the products were investigated. The experimental results showed that theMn-doped ZnSe nanowires were single well crystallized and had a zinc blende structure. The average length of the nanowires was about 2-3 µm, and the diameter was 80 nm. With the increase of Mn2+-doped concentration, the absorbance peak showed large difference. The UV-vis absorbance spectrum showed that the Mn-doped ZnSe nanowires had a sharp absorption band appearing at 360 nm. The PL spectrum revealed that the nanowires had two distinct emission bands centered at 432 and 580 nm.


On the afternoon of July 22, 2011, a white Norwegian killed seventy-seven people in and around Oslo. A majority of those killed where Social Democratic youth, camping on the island of Utoya. Dressed as a Norwegian policeman, Anders Behring Breivik took the ferry over to the island and shot sixty-nine children with a pistol and a semi-automatic gun. The weapons were carved with Rune names and dedicated to Thor and Odin, the war gods in Norse mythology. About ninety minutes before the attacks, Breivik had published a 1,500-page manifesto on the Internet, urging radical nationalists in Europe to defend Christianity by fighting back Islamic migration, multiculturalism, and feminism. I propose to analyze how a new project linking "Christian and pagan" was launched through the Oslo massacres. I also make a distinction between the sacrificial aspects of a bloody massacre, and the non- bloody acts of love that manifested among surviving youth at Utoya, and ask if these contrary acts express, or at least involve, two radically different ways of doing religion.


Literature search is a course of tool,skill,and practice.The teaching of the course should base on practice,reform teaching methods continuously,standardize teaching modes,and perfect teaching contents to make it adapt to the needs of the times.


A 17-year-old girl presented with a 2-month history of right-sided chest pain, cough, expectoration, and fever. A week before presentation, the patient had received generalized treatment for cough and fever at another clinic and was hospitalized with a preliminary diagnosis of lung abscess. Conservative treatment for lung abscess, lung biopsy, and antibiotic treatment based on the biopsy results yielded no improvement, and the patient was referred to our institution. Computed tomography at our facility showed a cavitary mass in the right upper lobe of the lung, and right upper lobectomy through a right thoracotomy was performed. On resection, the mass was found to be a mature teratoma with golden hairs and teeth. Germ cell tumor arising from lung parenchyma is extremely rare, and only a few cases of choriocarcinoma and yolk sac tumor have been reported to date. In our patient, diagnosis of the lesion was achieved by open thoracotomy, and the bulk of the tumor was resected by right upper lobectomy. Although intrathoracic teratomas are common, benign intrapulmonary teratomas seldom occur. The incidence of teratomas is the same in men and in women. These tumors generally are identified when associated complications such as lung abscess, bronchiectasis, empyema, and hemoptysis are being investigated. Preoperative diagnoses are usually inaccurate. Most of these tumors are benign and resectable. Our case illustrates all the typical features of a teratoma.


Objective To investigate the influence of pulmonary infection on noninvasive ventilation(NIV) therapy in hypercapnic acute respiratory failure(ARF) due to acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(AECOPD),and evaluate the predictive value of simplified version of clinical pulmonary infection score(CPIS) for the efficacy of NIV therapy in ARF patients with AECOPD.Methods Eighty-four patients with ARF due to AECOPD were treated by NIV,and were divided into a successful group and an unsuccessful group by the therapeutic effect of NIV.The CPIS and simplified version of CPIS between two groups was compared.The predictive value of simplified version of CPIS for the efficacy of NIV was evaluated using ROC curve analysis.Results The CPIS and the simplified version of CPIS of the successful treatment group(4.0±2.8,3.2±2.4) were lower than those of the unsuccessful group(8.0±2.1,7.2±1.8) significantly(P=0.006,0.007).The area under ROC curve(AUC) of CPIS and simplified version of CPIS were 0.884 and 0.914 respectively,the cut point of CPIS and simplified version of CPIS were 6(sensitivity of 78.0%,specificity of 91.2%) and 5(sensitivity of 80.0%,specificity of 91.2%) respectively.Conclusions The level of pulmonary infection is an important influencing factor on the therapeutic effect of NIV in patients with ARF due to AECOPD.Simplified version of CPIS is a helpful predictor for the effect of NIV on ARF of AECOPD.


Abstract This research analyzed the patterns of agricultural transformations and adjustments to rapid environmental changes in deltaic island ecosystems by considering the case of Sagar Island of Indian Sundarbans using decadal climatic datasets, geospatial information, and farmers' perceptions. Farmers' cognition was considered for identifying crops that were suitable for cultivation in the changing environment. Results indicated that the average annual temperature and precipitation in this region had increased notably since 1980. Similarly, surface soil salinity had also recorded an overall increase throughout the island during the last three decades. In such a scenario, local farmers were only able to profitably cultivate few salinity-tolerant varieties of paddy (e.g., Masoori, Kalma, Santoshi, and Pratiksha) and vegetables (e.g., sunflower, potato, onion, okra, and betel leaf). Brackish water aquaculture had also become popular here in spite of its socio-ecological detriments. Many farmers were found to use their traditional knowledge proficiently alongside modern methods. However, the pressure of local peers, lack of readily investable wealth, and appropriate technological expertise often weakened their adaptive capacity. The findings suggested that effective cropping strategies such as coupled mangrove-shrimp farming and cultivation of salinity as well as waterlogging tolerant crop varieties could be considered as viable strategies toward enhancing resilience.


The underwater acoustic channel features long and variable propagation delay, high bit error rate and limited bandwidth. Moreover, underwater mobile networks consisting of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) for surveillance and monitoring applications often suffer from intermittent connectivity as nodes move around the area of operations. Therefore, this scenario is appropriately modeled as a Delay-Tolerant Network (DTN). In this paper, we investigate two classes of DTN routing protocols: Spray-and-Wait (SNW) and the Resource Allocation Protocol for Intentional DTN (RAPID), together with a standard flooding protocol for underwater mobile networks, and their performance is analyzed in terms of packet delivery ratio, average end-to-end delivery delay and throughput, in different load conditions across various node mobility scenarios. Our results show that RAPID performs better than other DTN routing protocols in terms of packet delivery ratio at higher load conditions irrespective of node mobility, whereas the Binary version of SNW has the best performance in terms of average delivery delay.


While studying the growth of a number of acid fast bacteria in microculture a series of micro motion pictures has been made of a strain of organisms pathogenic to frogs. This mycobacterium, M. ranae I, was provided by the Phipps Institute which obtained it several years ago from E. R. Baldwin. Planted at room temperature on the usual media it gives a rich white growth which at first often has the consistency of very thick cream but with age assumes the wrinkled growth more familiar in acid fast bacterial cultures. Both young and old growths are completely acid fast when stained by the Cooper modification 1 of the Ziehl-Neelson technique. Dissociation was readily brought about by following Petroff's procedure 2 of dilution platings on egg medium containing sodium taurocholate. The rough strain gives the usual wrinkled surface growth on fluid media. Streaked on solid it yields a coarse mealy mass. The smooth strain clouds glycerinated broth and produces a luxuriant mucoid growth on solid media. By transplantation from old Petroff bottles 2 S strains have recently been isolated which differ greatly from one another in their mucosity, one being so fluid that it will almost drip from the surface of an inverted Petri dish. Micro motion picture records show that these R and S dissociants grow in very different ways. The completely dissociated R organisms lie closely packed together as they multiply. They show little tendency to spread over the medium and commence early to overlie one another, forming thereby a thick tangled mass of bacilli. Micro colonies of the S organisms thus far photographed, on the other hand, strikingly resemble those of highly capsulated pneumococci. Several bacilli placed close together when seeding a micro field will not elongate for the first day or two.


Objective To analyze the infective mode of hepatitis B virus with the coexistence of HBsAg and anti-HBs,and explore its possible causes.Methods Serum samples with HBsAg/ anti-HBs double positive were selected from 10 939 serum samples which were detected quantitatively by time-resolved immunofluorescence assay,and 12 000 serum samples were compared with the ones detected by ELISA.Results Among 10 939 serum samples,3 338 samples were HBsAg positive(30.5%).28 samples were HBsAg/ anti-HBs double positive in 3 338 HBsAg positive samples(0.8%),which showed four mode of serological indicators.The ratio of HBsAg/ anti-HBs double positive from 12 000 serum samples by ELISA was 0.3%.There was a significantly statistical difference(P0.05) between the two methods in detecting HBsAg/ anti-HBs positive at the same time.Conclusion The coexistence of HBsAg and anti-HBs is rare,but it has some clinial importance and should be considered by both laboratory and clinic.


We discuss the prospects for detecting at a muon collider the massive new vector resonances V and light pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons {ital P} of a typical strongly interacting electroweak sector (as represented by the BESS model). Expected sensitivities to V{close_quote}s at a high energy collider are evaluated and the excellent prospects for discovering {ital P}{close_quote}s via scanning at a low energy collider are delineated. {copyright} {ital 1998 American Institute of Physics.}


Twenty-seven measurements of traveltime and longitudinal dispersion in 10 Illinois streams made from 1975 to 1982 provide data needed for estimating traveltime of peak concentration of a conservative solute, traveltime of the leading edge of a solute cloud, peak concentration resulting from injection of a given quantity of solute, and passage time of solute past a given point on a stream. These four variables can be estimated graphically for each stream from distance of travel and either discharge at the downstream end of the reach or flow-duration frequency. From equations developed from field measurements, the traveltime and dispersion characteristics also can be estimated for other unregulated streams in Illinois that have drainage areas less than about 1,500 square miles. For unmeasured streams, traveltime of peak concentration and of the leading edge of the cloud are related to discharge at the downstream end of the reach and to distance of travel. For both measured and unmeasured streams, peak concentration and passage time are best estimated from the relation of each to traveltime. In measured streams, dispersion efficiency is greater than that predicted by Fickian diffusion theory. The rate of decrease in peak concentration with traveltime is about equal to the rate of increase in passage time. Average velocity in a stream reach, given by the velocity of the center of solute mass in that reach, can be estimated from an equation developed from measured values. The equation relates average reach velocity to discharge at the downstream end of the reach. Average reach velocities computed for 9 of the 10 streams from available equations that are based on hydraulic-geometry relations are high relative to measured values. The estimating equation developed from measured velocities provides estimates of average reach velocity that are closer to measured velocities than are those computed using equations developed from hydraulic-geometry relations. INTRODUCTION Traveltime and mixing of water within a stream reach are basic streamflow characteristics that water-resources managers and planners must know to predict the rate of movement and dilution of contaminants that may be introduced into streams. They also are necessary for most waterquality models used in water-resources planning. A study designed to measure traveltime and longitudinal mixing in selected reaches of Illinois streams under a range of steady flow conditions was carried out from 1975 through 1982 in cooperation with the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. Purpose and Scope The purposes of this report are to summarize the results of measurements that were used to develop relations for estimating traveltime and mixing characteristics for unregulated streams in Illinois and to present the estimating techniques. Ten streams were selected for measurement of traveltime and mixing characteristics (fig. 1). They include a range in drainage area and conditions expected to govern velocity and mixing. Measured reaches range from 5.2 to 40.3 mi in length, average channel slopes range from 0.98 to 7.97 ft/mi, and drainage areas above sampling sites range from 12.4 to 1,516 mi2 . Most of the studied streams, like the majority of streams in Illinois, have sand beds with sand and gravel riffles. Beds of the Apple and Vermilion Rivers are coarser than those of the other eight streams and are composed primarily of gravel and bedrock. Although nine of the streams have predominantly naturally formed meandering channels, the Kaskaskia River has a straightened, dredged channel in the reach measured. Flow is unregulated in all reaches measured, but some artificial structures or modifications are present. Riffle-pool sequences are apparent on the streambed at low flow, and these sequences cause local variations in channel geometry, velocity, and slope. Stream gages are located on each stream (fig. 1, table 1), and the gaging records provided the data base used to relate measured variables to the long-term streamflow regime. Details of the measurements and graphical relations for estimation of traveltime and mixing characteristics are presented for each measured stream. Equations for estimating traveltime and mixing for unmeasured streams are derived, and examples of the application of techniques to Introduction 1


The trend of increasing dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in surface waters motivated us to gain a mechanistic understanding of DOC exchange at the sediment water interface in lakes. We quantified seasonal DOC and solute fluxes under different redox conditions, in a small drinking water reservoir using sediment core incubations. Processes governing benthic DOC exchange were microbial production of DOC and interaction with mineral surfaces. Mobilization of DOC in anoxic sediments seemed to be closely linked to reductive dissolution of ferric minerals as shown by the strong positive correlation (r2 = 0.99) between DOC and Fe fluxes. Oxidized surface sediments were an efficient DOC trap where DOC was bound to ferric minerals. Redox conditions appeared to be the primary regulator of the DOC exchange, resulting in sedimentary uptake of DOC (−1.8 mmol m−2 d−1) only under oxic conditions. DOC production was regulated by temperature, leading to higher DOC fluxes (up to 2.4 mmol m−2 d−1) in summer. The sediment was a net sink of DOC (−0.2 tonnes yr−1) but this was small compared with the annual DOC load (15 tonnes yr−1) of the reservoir. However, the benthic DOC flux was about 10–20% of the dissolved carbon flux at the sediment–water interface, making it a significant process in the lake internal carbon cycle. Climate change is supposed to promote reducing conditions at the bottom of lakes, which might increase benthic DOC production in the future.


SummaryTwo ethylene experiments were designed to show the reaction of the pot plant Capsicum annuum 'Janne' to ethylene and to define the critical level of ethylene exposure. The ethylene exposure consisted of 72 h of darkness at 19°C, an ethylene duration of 6–72 h and ethylene concentrations of 0.05–5.0 µl l−1. After the plants had been exposed to ethylene they were placed in a post-production evaluation room. The response of capsicum to ethylene, as expressed by leaf and fruit abscission, was dependent on developmental stage, duration of ethylene exposure and ethylene concentration. Leaves were the most ethylene-sensitive plant parts, followed by the green and maroon fruits. Ethylene did not affect the rate of development into red fruits. The most developed plants were less sensitive to ethylene. Capsicum is very sensitive to ethylene, e.g. there was significant abscission of leaves after exposure to an ethylene concentration of 1.0 µl l−1 for 12 h and a significant abscission of leaves and green fruit...


In this paper, the empirical Green's function is calculated based on a method that inverts the radiation patterns of earthquakes. The method utilizes several close-lying earthquakes with known foca ...


The peculiarities of reforming the structure of the Ukrainian electricity market have been researched. The role of distribution electric networks in the energy system when implementing a new model of the energy market is defined. The analysis of the technical condition and features of the functioning of the distribution electric networks of Ukraine has been completed. The disadvantages are revealed in the work, and also the main prospects of the development of distribution electric networks of Ukraine are considered. The complex of measures to increase the reliability of Ukrainian distribution electric networks is designed to increase the efficiency and reliability of their operation. The technical and economic efficiency criterion for substantiation of application expediency for developed measures on reliability increase of distribution electric networks functioning has been developed. It takes into account the peculiarities of the electricity market current state and the calculation specifics of compensation to consumers for violating the electricity supply quality standards in Ukraine. Reliability indicators estimation for Ukrainian distribution electric networks is made, the significance of these indicators will be improved when implementation of the developed measures to improve the condition of distribution electric networks in Ukraine.


The objective of this'paper is to investigate the predictability of clothing sensory comfort from psychological perceptions by using a feed-forward back-propagation net work in an artificial neural network (ANN) system. In order to achieve the objective, a series of wear trials is conducted in which ten sensory perceptions (clammy, clingy, damp, sticky, heavy, prickly, scratchy, fit, breathable, and thermal) and overall clothing comfort (comfort) are rated by twenty-two professional athletes in a controlled la ratory. They are asked to wear four different garments in each trial and rate the sensations above during a 90-minute exercising period. The scores are were input into five different eed-forward back-propagation neural network models, consisting of six different numbers of hidden and output transfer neurons. Results showing a good correlation between redicted and actual comfort ratings with a significance of p < 0:001 for all five models indicate overall comfort performance is predictable with neural networks, particularly models with log sigmoid hidden neurons and pure linear output neurons. Models with a single log sigmoid hidden layer with fifteen neurons or three hidden layers, each with ten log sigmoid hidden neurons, are able to produce better predictions than the other models for is particular data set in the study.


Super-high-yielding soybean cultivar needs more nutrients and water than common cultivar to produce more biomass for high grain yield.The super high-yielding soybean may have specific root morphology and function to coordinate root and shoot.However,fewer research have been done for the root related traits because of soil restrictions.For the purpose of understanding the relationship of soybean root traits and yield,provide basis for high yield breeding and cultivation,the comparative study on root activity,root bleeding sap,root dry weight,yield and lodging score of super-high-yielding cultivar and common soybean cultivar was carried out under field condition.The results showed that soybean cultivars maintained higher root bleeding sap,root dry weight and root activity at R4 to R6 stage.From R1 to R6 stage,super high-yielding soybean cultivar had a significantly higher root activity,root bleeding sap and root dry weight,compared with the common soybean cultivar.The medium and high levels of fertilization of diammonium phosphate significantly promoted the three measured root traits from V3 to R4 and R6 to R8,respectively,while fertilizer had no significant impact on yield and lodging score.Root activity,root bleeding sap and root dry weight from R1 to R6 stage showed a significant positive correlation.From R1 to R6 stage root activity,root bleeding sap,and root dry weight were significantly positively correlated with yield and negatively correlated with lodging score.Super-high-yielding soybean cultivar had a stronger root physiological activity than common cultivar at R1-R6 stages,which was one of reasons that super-high-yielding cultivar had a higher productivity.


High-resolution Sea Beam bathymetry and sea surface magnetic data have been collected between 25°S and 27°30′S on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Analysis of the morphology and structure of the ridge axis and flanking terrain as well as the results of a three-dimensional inversion of sea surface magnetic data are presented. This 227-km-long portion of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is offset 42 km by the right-lateral Rio Grande Transform at 25°40′S and 9.5 km by the left-lateral nontransform Moore Discontinuity at 26°30′S. A third nontransform discontinuity, the Midway Discontinuity, exists near 26°12′S and is defined by a small displacement of the axial magnetization distribution and the disruption in the along-strike continuity of ridge-parallel terrain elements. Although the detailed survey presented in this paper extends out to only 5- to 7-m.y.-old crust, a regional compilation of magnetic data from this area by Cande et al. (1988) indicates that the relative positions and dimensions of the spreading cells have characterized this part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge for at least the past 55 m.y. The offsets dimensions and geometries, however, have changed markedly because of prolonged differential asymmetric spreading between segments. Between and within the accretionary units that are spreading at uniform rates (35 mm/yr total opening rate), the morphology of the ridge axis varies dramatically, from a well-defined rift valley (20–25 km wide, 1–1.5 km deep) to an axial swell that rises 1500 m above the adjacent valley floor. The axial magnetic structure is also highly variable along-strike. The inversion solution shows a series of generally linear, short-wavelength (<10 km) magnetization highs within the central Brunhes anomaly over each of the four segments in the survey area. These anomalies are interpreted to be the central anomaly magnetization high that is observed over the neovolcanic zones of many of the world's mid-ocean spreading centers. The distinct axial magnetization highs can extend out to 2-m.y.-old crust at ridge-discontinuity intersections, suggesting that in some instances they may also be the product temporal variations in the geochemistry of the extrusive rocks, e.g., highly fractionated and strongly magnetized basalts enriched in iron and titanium. The magnetic inversion shows that the central anomaly is locally attenuated at the minimum depth points of three of the four spreading segments in the survey area. Both inversion and forward modeling of magnetic data show that topography alone cannot produce the anomalously low values observed. In the case of an axial swell centered at 26°S, attenuation of the central anomaly is attributed to the effective thinning of the source layer by demagnetization effects of a crustal thermal anomaly and/or a zone of substantial alteration. Taken together, the bathymetric data and magnetic modeling document strong along-axis gradients in crustal and upper mantle properties.


ReceivedFeb. 27, 1987;revision accepted Oct. 2, 1987. For reprints contact: Robert H. Rubin, MD, InfectiousDisease Unit, MassachusettsGeneral Hospital, Boston, MA 02114. (3-12) when labeled with either radioiodine or indium 111 (†̃ †̃ †̃In), will localize in tumor masses and provide sufficient contrast for external scintigraphy with the conventional gamma camera. In addition to the interest in imaging such tumors, it has been assumed that if tracer quantities of a radionuclide attached to an anti body or an antibody fragment produce a clear image when injected into a cancer patient, then therapeutic amounts of radionuclide or a cytotoxin could also be attached. This would make possible antibody-directed treatment with high local potency but lesser amounts of systemic toxicity (2).


Simultaneous measurement of molecular orientation and current as a function of voltage has been conducted. Molecular orientation was measured using the polarization dependence of intramolecular electronic transition. In ITO/poly(3-hexylthiophene)/Al structure, it was found that the molecular orientation change assists the hysteretic current-voltage (J-V) characteristics. The result indicates that this measuring method can be useful in investigating the effects of molecular orientation change on unusual J-V characteristics.


The development of Digital Manufacturing is the result of the integration between network, information technology and manufacturing science, the result of global economy and global information, the result of intensely competition of the manufacture, and the result of variation market. Therefore, Digital Manufacturing is sure to become the important characteristic and the inevitable trend of the intending manufacturing development. The globosity, celerity, network, virtual and green of manufacture are regarded as the trend of modern manufacturing, firstly, they depend on the manufacturing circumstance, furthermore, they almost can't develop without the sustain of Digital Manufacturing technology and the notion of Digital Manufacturing. Consequently, the fast development of advanced manufacturing technology is based on the Digital Manufacturing. The core of this paper is mainly digitizing technology, introduce several advanced manufacturing technology based on the platform of the digital manufacturing.


Considering pressure factor in design and retrofit of heat exchanger networks(HEN) can improve its economic benefit.In this work,three schemes for the HEN in a diesel hydro-upgrading device are proposed with different consideration of pressure factor by Pinch technology.Scheme 1 without considering pressure constraints can recover heat to the maximum extent while the investment cost is the highest.Scheme 2 considers the pressure factor under the condition that the reaction feed pump can be replaced,which is suitable for the new design of the heat exchanger network.Scheme 3 considers the pressure factor under the condition that the reaction feed pump is kept unchanged,which is appropriate for the retrofit of the heat exchanger network.Compared with Scheme 1,Schemes 2 and 3 can significantly reduce the investment cost and have better economic benefits.The results show that the pressure can not be ignored in the synthesis of heat exchanger networks.


To the Editor.— In his editorial, Dr. Chalmers states that "a positive inotropic effect on the heart... has now been confirmed by catheterization studies in humans," quoting as a source the review by Levey et al ( Ann Rev Med 25:69, 1974). In turn, this review alludes to Hildner et al, who studied 15 patients requiring cardiac catheterization in whom a bolus injection of 250 mg of tolbutamide, given intravenously, produced a definite inotropic effect as reflected by ventricular function curves. In a less convincing technique (noninvasive, using a carotid sensor), they demonstrated a similar effect by measuring preejection period and left ventricular ejection times. I believe Dr. Chalmers should, in fair balance, have included the following additional statements of Levey et al: The critical question pertaining to whether or not sulfonylureas have inotropic actions on human hearts remains unresolved. Epstein and co-workers examined the effects of tolbutamide on two human


National Parks can provide diverse benefits to those living in and around them, supporting livelihoods and providing opportunities to harvest natural resources and to participate in nature-based tourism. To explore the direct benefits to local people, a questionnaire-based survey was conducted in four villages in Langtang National Park, Nepal. Firewood and fodder / grasses were the main resources harvested by local people. Household size and the total number of livestock units were the only significant predictors of resource use (firewood and fodder). These findings suggest that local people are dependent on national park resources. Strategies to reduce firewood dependency and hence pressure on the national park forests are recom-mended.


THE HIDDEN ENCYCLICAL OF PIUS XI AGAINST RACISM AND ANTI-SEMITISM UNCOVEREDONCE AGAIN! A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY BY FRANK J. COPPA Recently two volumes appeared which shed considerable light on the "encyclical" Humani Generis Unitas (On the Unity of the Human Race), which Pope Pius XI commissioned against racism and antiSemitism in 1938. Unfortunately, Pius XI died early in February,1939, before it could be issued. His Secretary of State and chief collaborator, Eugenio Pacelli, who succeeded as Pius XII early in March, 1939, decided to shelve this "encyclical," which was not released during the course of the war, during the Holocaust, or even in the postwar period. One can only surmise what its impact might have been, if published.1 Its private publication in the 1900's has reopened the debate on the position of the Catholic Church toward racism and the Holocaust.2 As early as 1972 Gordon Zahn regretted the failure of this strong papal indictment of anti-Semitism to appear, deeming it a missed opportunity.3 The two current volumes which explore this "lost opportunity," are respectively by Georges Passelecq and Bernard Suchecky: L'Encyclique Cachee de Pie XI: Une occasion manquee de l'eglise face a l'antisemitisme, with a preface by Emile Poulat (Paris: Editions La Decouverte,1995), and Robert A. Hecht, An Unordinary Man: A Life of Father John LaFarge, SJ. (Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, 1996). The first was written by Georges Passelecq, a Belgian Benedictine monk and vice-president of the Belgian National Commission for Relations with the Jewish World, and the Belgian Jewish historian Bernard Suchecky. The second is the contribution of Robert A. Hecht, professor of history at Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York. More recently, the Passelecq and Suchecky volume, translated into English from the French by Steven Rendall, has been published under the title The Hidden Encyclical of Pius XI (New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1997). However, it does not include Poulat's preface, which has been replaced by Gary Wills's "Introduction: Fumbling toward Justice."4 Although the appearance of these volumes has once more brought the "encyclical" to public attention, with various publications commenting on it,5 its existence has been long known. In the summer of 1938 Pius XI publicly made reference to it.6 Father John LaFarge, SJ., who was assigned the task of writing the encyclical by Pius XI under the seal of secrecy, made reference to it, though not his role in drafting it, in his article on "Racism" for the New Catholic Encyclopedia. He noted therein: It is well known that Pius XI planned in 1939 to issue an encyclical dealing directly with the racist issue, notably from the standpoint of its obvious and un-Christian anti-Semitism, but also dealing with the question of the color bar as well. He referred to this proposed document as an Inediturn in a public audience later in the summer of 1939 [1938]. His subsequent illness and death prevented the fulfillment of his plan.7 In that same 1967 article, LaFarge indicated that Pius XII had borrowed from this unedited text in his first encyclical, the Summi Pontificatus of October 20, 1939.8 His Jesuit collaborators in drafting the encyclical, Gustav Gundlach of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, who wrote the 1930 article on anti-Semitism for the Lexikon fur Theologie und Kirche,9 and Gustave Desbuquois of Action Populaire, a social action center in Paris, recognized their work in Pius XII's first encyclical. This was no revelation, having been reported in The New York Times, on the basis of well-placed though unnamed Vatican sources.10 During the chaos of World War II, the existence of this projected encyclical was forgotten, or, as some have suggested, suppressed. LaFarge continued to preserve the secrecy invoked by Pius XI long after his death and after the war. …


IN A STUDY of the effect of ethanol upon the net movements of sodium and potassium in the cerebral cortex in vitro (NIKANDER and WALLGREN, 1970), silver electrodes (WALLGREN and KULONEN, 1960) were used for tissue stimulation. However, it was observed that silver electrodes damaged the tissue, since the characteristic restoration of the ion distribution after termination of stimulation was sometimes completely blocked. On average, 50 per cent of excess sodium was extruded, and 57 per cent of the potassium loss was recovered. It appears that metal electrodes require great stability of the stimulation conditions. To avoid these difficulties, carbon was tested as an electrode material. Both concentric and parallel electrodes were prepared. (A) Concentric electrodes (Fig. 1). Carbon cylinders 12 mm in height, and with an internal diameter of 17 mm, were made by boring out the centre of a commutator rod 30 mm in diameter (Fresta Ltd., Helsinki). A ring of this type was inserted into a glass vessel 45 mm in height, and of the same diameter, and fixed with Araldite hardened at room temperature. The vessel was closed with a rubber stopper fitted with four glass tubes. Two of these were used for gassing the flasks, and two for connections to the stimulator. The two connections were effected by sealing hooked platinum wires in the glass tubes. Carbon rods 5 mm in diameter (Airam Ltd., Helsinki) were introduced into the tubes, and connected to the platinum hooks by steel wire helices. One of the rods was inserted in a cavity in the centre of the flask, and the other into a cavity on the upper edge of the carbon cylinder. The external ends of the platinum rods could be connected to the stimulator. (B) Purulfef electrodes (Fig. 2). Two carbon blocks (battery carbon from Airam Ltd., Helsinki), 33 x 27 x 9 mm, forming electrodes in a square flask with a circular mouth, were glued with Araldite to the opposite walls of the flask. Silver wires were fixed on the upper edge of the blocks, by pushing


Indonesia's energy mix target in 2025 is 23 %. While the achievement of the target in 2021 has only reached 11 %. Acceleration towards a 23% energy mix in 2025 requires the support of human resources (HR) in the field of Renewable Energy . These human resources are obtained from universities in Indonesia. This study aims to determine the curriculum and laboratories in universities in the field of renewable energy . The methodology of this research is descriptive qualitative with a simple survey approach using Microsoft form by random sampling. The number of respondents was 56 students from various public and private universities in Indonesia. The results showed that universities did not provide a special renewable energy curriculum and did not have a special renewable energy laboratory while student interest in learning renewable energy was very high. The conclusion of this study is that universities have not been able to support human resources in the field of renewable energy in terms of curriculum and laboratory infrastructure.


The aim of this study is to investigate the primary and middle school students' skills of saying 'no' in terms of having special ability, gender, location and age. The study was designed based on the correlational survey model. Population of the study was selected in accordance to convenient sampling method because of time and fund limitations for doing reseach with populations having more number of participants or individuals specially chosen based on specific criteria. It consists of 259 gifted students in different age groups ranging from 7 years old to 13 years old studying centers of science and arts (BİLSEM) in Iğdır and Isparta provinces in Turkey.It should be noted that the students in these centers are chosen based on particular intelligence and ability tests. First finding of our study shows that students having special ability have higher points in the context of refusal dimension but lesser points in terms of resistance dimension. Second finding of our study is that there is no significant difference between students for the skills of saying 'no' in terms of gender. Third finding of our study shows that students in Iğdır have higher points in the context of refusal dimension but lesser points in terms of resistance dimension. Fourth of our study shows that students who are 10 and 11 years old have higher points than others in the context of refusal dimension and students who are 13 years old have higher mean ranks in terms of resistance dimension. Finally, the neural network model shows that the most important factor is to have special ability, the second significant factor is the location, the third one is the age and the last one is the gender which is compatible with our finding. The result showing that the most important factor is to have special ability implies that there is a strong relationship between disposition of saying "no" as a result of critical thinking disposition with having special ability.


This paper investigates a novel model based on the Magic Formula and the Pan's model to effectively predict the inherent nonlinear hysteresis behavior of magneto–rheological (MR) dampers. In the pr...