The claimed technical solution relates to dentistry and can be used in prosthetic tooth replacements supported by endosseous implants. The aim of the claimed technical solution is to develop a dental implant which can be anchored in cortical bone, enables the free positioning of straight and angulated multi-units and makes it possible to carry out cement or screw retention in a way that is less traumatic for the patient, and to develop a method for organizing a dental prosthesis supported by the above implant, which makes it possible to create dental prostheses with improved reliability and a longer lifespan, to reduce surgery time, to simplify the prosthetic stage of the surgical procedure, and to produce a screw-retained dental prosthesis which can be removed by a dental professional if necessary for repair and adjustment. The claimed technical solutions provide the technical effect of making it possible to anchor an implant in cortical bone, to position straight and angulated multi-units freely within a range of angles from 0 to 360 degrees, to create dental prostheses with improved reliability and an extended lifespan, to reduce surgery time, to simplify the prosthetic stage of the surgical procedure, and to produce a screw-retained dental prosthesis which can be removed by a dental professional if necessary for repair and adjustment.


Four wheats of similar maturity were compared at two seed rates and two nitrogen levels. The cultivars were two high-yielding Mexican semi-dwarf wheats, Pitic 62 and accession WW 15, one local semidwarf crossbred, HMR, and one Australian variety, Robin. At each of two sites WW 15 yielded most grain and Robin the least. Yield components, growth, development and leaf characters were studied at one site. The semi-dwarf wheats had a higher proportion of ear weight at anthesis and set more grains per ear and per unit area. The high yield of WW 15 was associated with many grains per ear and a dense ear population. There were relatively small differences in total dry matter yield and leaf area index. WW 15 formed the most leaves on the main stem, had the shortest period from flag leaf emergence to anthesis and showed delay in the senescence of its flag leaves. Its leaves were also particularly narrow and small. The early effects of a higher seed rate on crop growth diminished with time in the main experiment but resulted in a small increase in grain yield. Nitrogen stimulated growth throughout the season, but the increased vegetative potential was not fully reflected in grain yield. Both nitrogen and the higher seed rate hastened flag leaf senescence.


Introduction:
 Previously, miR-425 have been implicated in the inhibition of the cardiac natriuretic peptide (NP) ANP gene expression with their role on BNP undefined. The mechanism by which miR-425 modulates NP expression remains to be explored. In heart failure (HF), adrenergic and neurohormone pathways are aberrantly activated. Our goal was to investigate the role of miR-425 and its downstream target Cofilin 2 (CFL2) on ANP and BNP expression in human CV disease (CVD).

 Hypothesis:
 We hypothesized miR-425, via CFL2, supresses NPs expression in vitro. MiR-425, CFL2 and NP levels were also determined in CVD patients.

 Methods:
 In vitro, human cardiomyocytes (HCM) were treated with vehicle (Veh), catecholamine isoproterenol (ISO) and cytokine endothelin (ET), miR-425 mimic. Cells were transfected with CFL2 plasmid or CFL2 siRNA. Normal (NM, n=100), Hypertension (HTN, n=30) and Acute HF (AHF, n=74) cohorts were studied. A confirmatory cohort was recruited. Plasma NT-proBNP, miR-425 were measured. In left ventricles (LV) from NM or HF (n=5 each), NP, CFL2 and miR-425 expression were assessed. Data expressed as means±SEM. * p<0.05 vs NM or Veh.

 Results:
 In vitro in HCM, treatment with ISO or ET in HCM reduced miR-425 and elevated NP mRNA levels. Furthermore, miR-425 mimic reduced
 Nppa
 (Veh: 1.0±0.03, mimic: 0.7±0.02*) and
 Nppb
 levels (Veh: 1.0±0.03, mimic: 0.5±0.01*). We showed that a top predicted target of miR-425, CFL2, was also reduced by the mimic. Further, NP mRNA was elevated by CFL2 overexpression and reduced by the knockdown of CFL2. In humans, MiR-425 was lower in HTN and AHF patients (NM: 0.15±0.03, HTN: 0.03±0.005*, HF: 0.01±0.003*) than NM. MiR-425 negatively correlates with NT-proBNP in NM and AHF cohorts. Downregulation of miR-425 was validated in a second AHF cohort. Similarly, in HF LV tissues, miR-425 (NM: 2.5±0.5, HF: 1.0±0.5*) was lower than NM group, while CFL2 and NP gene and protein expression were increased.

 Conclusion:
 In vitro, cardiac stress hormones downregulate miR-425 and increase NP gene expression, potentially through a novel target, CFL2. In CVD patients, miR-425 is lower, accompanied by an elevation of CFL2 and NP. Our findings implicate the pathway of stress hormones/miR-425/CFL2/NP production in CVD.


Water is the most important factor affecting plant growth,primary production and ecosystem stability in rocky mountain areas in north China. In the rocky mountain areas in north China,there are three main plant species including Platycladus orlentalis,Quercus variabilis and Vitex negundo var. heterophylla,and they adapt to the dead soils well in such arid region and play an important role in vegetation regeneration in Beijing mountain areas. In order to understand the water sources of these species after rainfall in rainy season,the direct inference of hydrogen and oxygen isotopes and multi-source mass balance assessment were used to estimate the water sources of these plant species based on the characteristics of stable isotopes of rainwater,soil water,groundwater and plant xylem water. The results were as follows: ① After rainfall,Platycladus orlentalis used mainly the upper-soil( 0- 10cm) water( 35. 8%) and the deep-soil( deeper than 80 cm) water( 55. 6%); ② The water sources of Q. variabilis were similar to those of P. orlentalis,the utilization rate of deep-soil water was higher than that of P. orlentalis,but that of upper-soil water was lower. The utilization rates of shallow-soil water and deep-soil water were 17. 7% and 77. 2% respectively; ③ The water sources of Q. variabilis were the most complicated,but the proportion of upper-soil( 0- 10 cm) water was still dominant( 46. 6%). Our findings revealed that there was a difference of water use modes among plant species,thus the effective utilization of soil water was improved,the interspecific water competition in the semiarid ecosystem was reduced,and these were important for the species selection in ecological regeneration in the rocky mountain areas in north China.


In this thesis, we address the problem of evaluating deterministic EMS location models via simulation. For deterministic set covering location models, the performance of the model is typically determined by an objective function representing a certain type of coverage. After determining the location of EMS stations by deterministic models, we propose to conduct a simulation analysis to evaluate the performance by estimating the ''real'' coverage of the population. We compare 4 different deterministic models, Maximum Coverage Location Model (MCLM), Single Period Backup Double Covering Model (SPBDCM) which is a variant of MCLM, Maximum Service Restricted Set Covering Location Model (MSRSCLM) and finally Centralized Final Ratio Model (CFRM). By using optimization tools, we find the location of ambulances for each model by siolving the mathematical models and then we simulate each setting for 2 different policies under the same parameters. The models' overall performance is firstly tested on Istanbul data and then followed up with extensive experimental study with different problem size, different layout and different arrival rates with two distinct policies. The tested policies include first come first serve with zero line capacity and lost call approach, and dispatching the closest idle station whether the call origin is served at the moment of the call or not. The study is then extended by a myopic heuristic, which basically tries to improve the performance of the system by relocating ambulances.


This letter focuses on the multiplicity of power flow (PF) equations and presents the observation of two continuous solutions for widely studied IEEE-14 bus system. The continuous solutions are located by a method combining the semidefinite program (SDP) relaxation and reformulation linearization technique (RLT). Although the observation is non-trivial, it is of interest to researchers investigating the geometry or multiplicity nature of PF equations.


This work deals with coming and going verbs in three typologically distinct languages: a Romance one (Spanish), a Germanic one (German) and a Slavic one (Polish) within Fillmore's (1966, 1971, 1975, 1982, 1983) framework. On the grounds of data description it is shown that visible linguistic phenomena, such as deixis or Aktionsart related clearly to the coming and going verbs, can be transcended, resorting to the more abstract notion called by the author, following Winston (1987) and Speas and Tenny (2003), "viewpoint".


s: Background & Objective: To determine the effect of ptosis surgery on the astigmatic refractive error in pediatric patients. Methodology During the period of June 2005 to October 2007, a prospective study of 30 patients was carried out among patients attending department of ophthalmology, vadilal sarabhai hospital Ahmedabad. All eyes were refracted with 2% homatropine under full cycloplegia and were screened on keratometer for objective measurement of corneal curvature. All findings were recorded as per performa and analyzed at completion of the trial. Descriptive statistics were calculated. Level of significance was set at p≤0.05. Results : Developmental ptosis was seen in one eye in 26 patients. Only 4 patients (13.4%) had bilateral involvement. Fifteen patients had severe degree of ptosis (50%). When unilateral it was seen more often affecting left eye. A high incidence of amblyopia was associated with astigmatism in congenital ptosis. Conclusion: Patients with congenital ptosis should have cycloplegic refraction as soon as possible, and long-term postoperative refraction checkup is also recommended. [Pujara P NJIRM 2015; 6(3):6-9]


In the current economic conditions, the innovation project value assessment is a driving force of innovation system development of high-tech enterprises. Innovation projects value assessment is a crucial determinant of technologically advanced industrial enterprises competitiveness in the world market. Therefore it is important to identify the factors that influence on selection of innovation project value assessment methodology for high-tech enterprises. The aim of this paper is to select the innovation project value assessment methodology for high-tech enterprises, that would satisfy their features and to offer the approaches to innovation project value assessment in case of unsuitability of reviewed methodologies. The analytic hierarchy process and fuzzy inference method is used as methods of decision-making in this paper.


Background:Recent finding have suggested that discordance between primary and metastatic colorectal tumors is influenced by time, intervening therapy, and sites of metastatic disease. CfDNA allows a non-invasive assessment of the present molecular features of the tumor, but the degree of information provided and the clinical utility of the testing remains to be defined.Methods: Patients were prospectively consented for collection of cfDNA from plasma samples for sequencing on a 54-gene platform optimized for very low allele frequencies (Guardant360), a CLIA certified lab, and concurrent sequencing of clinically available and FFPE tissue following institutional standard of care (Ion-Torrent panel). Results were returned to patients and physicians within 12-19days, and used for evaluating clinical trial options. Surveys of treating physicians were provided to assess clinical utility of the additional ctDNA testing.Results: 105 patients were enrolled after a median of two prior lines of therapy for metastatic disease. Plasma testing was successful in all patients, and tissue sequencing was only able to be performed in 90% of patients, due to limited tissue availability. In the plasma testing, 85% of samples had a detectable genomic alterations (including 21% with detectable amplifications in EGFR, MET, or ERBB2), with an average of 4.6 mutations detected per patient. In the cases with tissue sequencing results, 38% of the cases had mutations detected in the plasma that were not present in the historic tissue. Only 8% of these were the previously described 'acquired' mutations in KRAS, NRAS, and EGFR with anti-EGFR monoclonal inhibition. Mutation in TP53 and SMAD4 genes were the most common newly detected in plasma. In many cases, it appeared that these represented minor clones not represented in the sequenced FFPE tumor. In support of this, the median allele quantification for these newly detected mutations was only 4% (IQR = 1.7% to 31%) of the dominant clone, in contrast to concordant mutations that were present at 87% (IQR = 54% to 100%) of the allele burden of the dominant clone (P Citation Format: Maria Pia Morelli, Michael Overman, Eduardo Vilar, Van Morris, David Fogelman, Imad Shureiqi, Chris Garret, Raghav Kanwal, Cathy Eng, Brian Kee, Shanequa Manuel, Robert Wolff, Dragon Sebisanovic, LaiMun Sew, Aubey Zapanta, Ben Shiller, Gangwu Mei, Helmy Eltoukhy, AmirAli Talasaz, Scott Kopetz. Prospective clinical application of circulating cell-free DNA sequencing in metastatic colorectal cancer. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2015 Apr 18-22; Philadelphia, PA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2015;75(15 Suppl):Abstract nr 5236. doi:10.1158/1538-7445.AM2015-5236


The central tenet of this paper is that the philosophy, concepts and tools used by marketing managers provide a fresh approach to meeting the opportunities and challenges faced by human resource managers. A mar keting oriented human resource manager is considered more likely to make an impact on the success of a company, through being more effective in demonstrating the relevance of HRM to management team members, and helping other managers to increase their productivity.


The tablet inscription school and rubbing school of calligraphy circle isolate themselves due to the debate between the two schools since the middle Qing dynasty.He Shaoji,one of the eminent scholars in the late Qing dynasty,developed useful skills of both schools and discard the useless in his calligraphic practice.He first combine the tablet inscription with rubbing.The paper probes into He Shaoji'scalligraphic practice on the basis of artistic value of He's calligraphy as well as relative historic materials,and concludes the inspiration to contemporary from his calligraphic practice.


The present economic situation and global market conditions have led companies to look for ways to increase competitiveness by improving production processes, reducing production costs, and improving product quality. In terms of the food industry, two other factors should also be included: the need to ensure food safety and the need to protect consumers' health. Therefore, the existence of a system that ensures food safety is crucial to preserve a company's image and reputation and to increase local and international market shares. Food safety has become a common concern worldwide, making public health agencies and governments of several countries look for more effi cient ways to monitor production chains (Makiya and Rotondaro 2002 ) . The hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP) system is widely recognized as a management tool capable of ensuring food safety. The keyword of the system is "prevention" (Mortimore and Wallace 1998 ) , by means of the identifi cation of possible contaminations before they occur, and of the defi nition of control measures to maximize food safety in every step of the process (Cullor 1997 ; Leitão 1993 ) . Compared with traditional methods of inspection and quality control based on the analysis of fi nished products, HACCP facilitates a stricter control of contaminations (Stevenson 1990 ) . The HACCP system is recognized as an important tool in the reduction of foodborne diseases (FBDs), and it is a global reference in terms of food safety control. It is recommended by the World Health Organization, the International Commission on Microbiological Specifi cations for Foods, the Codex Alimentarius , and food regulatory agencies in various countries.


This paper discussed local government financing platform in the framework of the dual impulse of local governments and commercial banks.Considering the large debts and financial risk in the local government,and the close connection between financing platform with the credit market and the real estate market,the concept of financial accelerator was introduced in the analysis.This paper concluded that the dual impulse underlocal governments and commercial banks actually had a credit accelerator effect,which might lead to uncontrollable risk.


Abstract Pasteurized milk, milk treated with hydrogen peroxide-catalase, and raw low-protein milk inoculated with each of two psychrotrophic organisms and uninoculated (control) milks were made into cottage cheese by the direct-acid-set method. Combinations of raw milk treatment, psychrotrophic concentration, separation temperature, and control were studied along with peroxide-catalase treated milk and pasteurized milk similarly inoculated and separated. Also, one trial with pasteurized milk similarly inoculated and separation was made by the culture method and studied. Later, raw and peroxide catalase treated milks were inoculated after separation instead of before separation prior to being made into cottage cheese by the direct-acid-set method. Vat failures occurred only when milk was inoculated with the psychrotrophic bacteria before separation. The higher the separation temperature and count, the greater was the tendency for vat failures. When psychrotrophic bacteria were more numerous in cheese milk, yields were lower than in uninoculated milk whether inoculation was before or after separation. Proteolysis was greater in milk inoculated before separation when vats failed than when failures did not occur. However, when inoculation was after separation and much proteolysis, no vats failed. Hence, the combination of proteolysis and higher separation temperatures appear to contribute to vat failure in cottage cheese making.


Abstract This paper describes new operational and experimental forecasting programs at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) designed to provide users with more detailed and more useful weather forecasts. User groups currently served by these programs include construction contractors, farmers, electric power companies, street and highway departments, and ski resorts. The programs represent a major component of a SMHI-wide effort to develop products to meet the needs of the public and private sectors in Sweden for meteorological and hydrological information. An important feature of these programs is that many of the forecasts are expressed in probabilistic terms, and some results of the probability forecasting components of four programs are presented here. These subjective forecasts specify the likelihood of occurrence of various precipitation, wind speed, temperature, and cloud amount events, and they generally involve relatively short lead times and/or valid periods. The probabili...


The 100th annual meeting of The Geological Society of America (GSA) was held in Phoenix, Arizona in October 1987. The occasion presented an opportunity for the organizing committee to provide, through 34 field trips, a comprehensive expose of the geology of Arizona. Thirty-three of the field guides to these trips are included herein. Field-trip plans were made with two chief goals in mind: to provide to participants a sense of the discovery and momentum that attend geologic research and exploration in the Southwest during this, the close of the first century of GSA; and to underscore the quality of geologic exposures and the natural aesthetic appeal of the Southwest in general and Arizona in particular. It seemed very appropriate that the 100th meeting of GSA be held in the Grand canyon State.


Solid source molecular beam epitaxy was applied to create silicon carbide nanoclusters on silicon. The island size distribution can be controlled by appropriate substrate temperature, carbon fluxes and process times. Nevertheless, up to now the earliest stages of the carbon interaction with silicon are not well understood. To have a deeper insight into the early nucleation stages and to investigate the growth laws in such systems the kinetic Monte Carlo computer simulation method was applied. The simulation enabled us to estimate the values of the growth parameters and to obtain the cluster size distribution function and nanocluster concentration in agreement with the experimental obtained data.


The knowledge of distribution of radionuclides and radiation levels in the environment is important for assessing the effects of radiation exposure to human beings. Terrestrial radiation is due to the radionuclides present in different amounts in rocks, soils, building materials, water and atmosphere. Radon is the main natural radiation source of exposure of human beings and has been recognized as a carcinogenic gas. Radium ( 226 Ra) and its ultimate precursor uranium ( 238 U) are the parent sources of radon. In the present study, radon exhalation rate and radium concentration in soil and rock samples around Chamaraja Nagar area of Karnataka State, India are measured using solid state nuclear track detector's employing can technique and LR-115 Type-II detectors. The result from the present investigation shows that radium activity in rock sample varies from 2.9 to 39.5 Bq/kg with a geometric mean of 13.4 Bq/kg. Mass and surface exhalation rate of radon in rock samples varies from 8.0 to 119.7 mBq/kg/h with the geometric mean of 24.8 mBq/kg/h and 93.9-1787.3 mBq/m 2 /h with a geometric mean of 562.5 mBq/m 2 /h respectively. Radium concentration in soil samples has been found to vary from 3.6 to 34.1 Bq/kg with a geometric mean of 14.7 Bq/kg. The mass exhalation rate of radon in soil samples has been found to vary from 10.0 to 31.4 mBq/kg/h with a geometric mean of 18.6 mBq/kg/h. The surface exhalation rate of radon varies from 142 to 918.4 mBq/m 2 /h with a geometric mean of 391.5 mBq/m 2 /h.


The paper presents the description of microtunneling technology, requirements for the technology in large urban areas, and the main principles of working out the theoretical methods for geotechnical prospects for the technology. An example is presented of the design forecast of the technology of microtunneling and construction of a vertical technological pit.


Background: Previous studies have shown that breast cancer (BC) occurs more frequently in the left breast with the ratio of left to right ranging from 1.05 to 1.26. In spite of the difference in frequency, prior studies have failed to show any significant differences in clinical characteristics or outcomes between left and right sided BC. We hypothesize that left BC have distinctive clinical features and cancer biology compared to right BC. We aim to further evaluate the difference in clinical characteristics by laterality utilizing a large patient cohort, to analyze the difference in cancer biology by transcriptome profiles, and to investigate the clinical relevance by a neoadjuvant cohort. Methods: Using SEER database, we analyzed a total of 858,001 BC patients. Cancer specific survival (CSS) and overall survival (OS) were analyzed by Kaplan-Meier methods. Multivariable analyses were conducted using Cox regression models. The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) BC cohort was used to analyze genomic and clinical features from a total of 1081 patients. LVI status, mitotic rate, nuclear score and tubular score were collected from pathology reports in TIES client 5.8. Cytolytic activity (CYT) and gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) were conducted. 155 BC patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy from 2009-2013 at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center were retrospectively analyzed using Logistic and Cox regression models to evaluate associations between rates of pathological complete responses (pCR) and cancer laterality. Results: In SEER database, left and right sided BC were seen in 50.8% and 49.2% respectively. Poorly differentiated tumors and hormone negative tumors were more common on the left. The left BC demonstrated poorer outcomes in both OS and CSS (both p Conclusion: We observed that left BC have more aggressive biology and pathology as compared to right BC, resulting in worse outcomes in multiple patient cohorts. The differences in response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy suggest distinctive underlying biologic characteristics between the two sides. This is the first study that looked into differences in cancer biology between right and left sided BC. Future similar studies will help confirm this observation in order to better understand BC biology and make best treatment decisions for our patients. Citation Format: Yara Abdou, Medhavi Gupta, Mariko Asaoka, Kristopher Attwood, Opyrchal Mateusz, Shipra Gandhi, Kazuaki Takabe. Breast cancer arising on the left side is biologically more aggressive and has worse outcomes compared to the right side [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 2019 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium; 2019 Dec 10-14; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2020;80(4 Suppl):Abstract nr P2-09-09.


[Objective] The reference for the security of agro-products was provided through the experiment.[Method] The soil sample of the base of green and organic vegetable production and the vegetable sample in Guangzhou were collected and six kinds of compounds of phthalic acid ester(PAEs),listed in U.S.EPA as priority pollutants were determined with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry(GC/MS).[Results] The results showed that the di-(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate(DEHP)and di-n-butylphthalate(DnBP)were the predominant compounds in all soil samples and the concentration of six PAEs compounds(PAEs)in soils varied from 9.7 to 58.9 μg/kg.In vegetable samples,DEHP,DnBP and butylbenylphthalate(BBP)were the most abundant in six compounds,and the concentration of PAEs ranged from 1.7 to 479.1 μg/kg.In all samples of both soil and vegetable,the concentration of DEHP was highest in six kinds of compounds and contributed 76%-97% and 95%-99% to PAEs,respectively.Compared with soil and vegetable from ordinary vegetable land,the concentration of DEHP and PAEs was lower by ten-time or even several orders of magnitude,and those in vegetable sample were also generally low.[Conclusion] On the whole,the concentration of six PAE compounds in soil and vegetable sample was below the control limitation of PAEs required by U.S.A.


Objective To observe normal citizen's LA's internal diameter and volume by two dimensional echocardiography. Methods Useing have measured practically and figured out the pigs' atria volumes by applying two dimensional echocardiography. That calculated the correlation coefficient of them. On the basis of that, we observe the normal citizen's LA's internal diameter and volume by the same means. Results Sectional measuring data of parasterral LV long axis view (4 section SD):①Two dimensional sectional measuring data (unit mm). Two dimensional sectional measuring data (Front and back) 32 25±2 55;27 25~37 25;Women:32 04±2 44;26~36 82. ②Taking sample's data by M\|mode. (unit mm). Internal diameters of LA. Men 30 69±3 34,24 14~37 24;Women 30 58±3 25,24 21~36 95. Two dimensional sectional measuring data of heart pinnacle's four cells (unit mm) 2.1 left and right diameters of LA. Men 33 12±2 51,28 20~38 04; Women: 32 57±2 25,28 16~36 98. Up and down diateters of LA. Men 52 04±3 07,46 02~58 06;Women 50 43±3 24,44 08~56 78. The volumes of LA:(unit cm 3) Men 33 97±3 9,26 32~41 61;Women 31 79±4 20,23 56~40 02. Conclusion Through experimenting on animals the calculating volume of LA from three diametral lines is correct and feasible so it provide a quick and convenient method for clinical calculating by the use of computer software as well as references for solving nonuniform LA standard domestically at present. [


Previously, it was believed that mutations in filamin C are able to cause only skeletal myopathies, cardiac tissues have not been studied. However mutations in FLNC have been recently found that lead to both joint damage to the skeletal and cardiac musculature and to isolated cardiac tissue damage. Moreover, had known that mutations in FLNC are associated with all known types of cardiomyopathies (HCM, DCM, RCM, arrhythmogenic) аt present. The article presents our own clinical observations of an adult and children's cases of isolated phylaminic RCM based on our institution. The study of this problem will allow us to include the known mutations in the genetic screening panels, which will lead to early diagnosis of cardiomyopathies associated with mutations in FLNC and the ability to prevent rapid disease progression and more later cardiac transplantation in the future.


The ATP‐Mg/Pi carrier in liver mitochondria can catalyze the exchange of ATP‐Mg on one side of the inner membrane for Pi on the other. This mechanism allows for net uptake or release of ATP‐Mg from mitochondria and thus regulates the matrix ATP + ADP + AMP pool size. In isolated mitochondria, carrier activity is stimulated by submicromolar concentrations of calcium, suggesting that calcium may regulate transport rates in vivo. Whenever the carrier is active, the direction of any net changes in the matrix adenine nucleotide pool size is determined mainly by the extent to which the prevailing ATP‐Mg concentration gradient deviates from an equilibrium related to Δ pH through the phosphate concentration gradient. Thus it seems that in the cell, energy status (reflected by ATP:ADP ratios in the cytoplasm and matrix) determines whether calcium‐mediated hormone activation of the carrier will produce an increase or a decrease in the matrix adenine nucleotide content. Consequent variations in the absolute concentrations of ATP, ADP, and AMP in the matrix may contribute to the selective regulation of those metabolic activities in the cell that have adenine nucleotide dependent steps localized to the mitochondrial compartment (gluconeogenesis, urea synthesis, mitochondrial biogenesis, and even oxidative phosphorylation).—Aprille, j. R. Regulation of the mitochondrial adenine nucleotide pool size in liver: mechanism and metabolic role. FASEB J. 2: 2547‐2556; 1988.


The aim of this study is to investigate the types of spelling errors made by the Grade three students in English in Gedu Higher Secondary School. The study also tells the major sources underpinning such errors in contextual writing composition tasks. The data were collected from written samples of 18 students (male and female) of grade three students of Gedu HSS. The students were given 45 minutes to write on one of five different short essay topics. The spelling errors found in the writing samples were analyzed and classified into four categories of errors based on Cook's classification: omission, substitution, insertion, and transposition. An analysis of errors showed that errors of substitution were the highest proportion of errors. The most common spelling errors of the students were the wrong use of vowels and punctuation. Furthermore, the problem of spelling errors and the causes of these spelling errors results were also discussed.


The experiment is performed in the upgraded LArge Plasma Device (LAPD). The LAPD is a linear device, which produces a highly magnetized quiescent plasma. A schematic of the machine is shown in figure 1. The plasma is formed by a pulsed discharge between cathode and anode. The electron beam thus formed collisionally ionizes the fill gas (Helium). The discharge typically lasts for 10 15 ms, and is pulsed at 1 Hz. The plasma is highly reproducible. It is 18 m long, with a diameter of 50 cm, which is more than 100 ion larmor radii across at a background field of 1000 G. In the experiment typical electron densities and temperatures are on the order of 1012 cm−3 and 0.25 eV respectively. Magnetic fields were varied from 750 G to 1800 G.


The Authors introduce a new technique to realize HPC and a new assessing method of the index of pumping ability of high quality concrete; the technique and assessing method found the theoretical basis for the application of HPC.


In this paper,in order to accurately predict the combustion and emission characters of HCCI gasoline engine by building dynamic mesh model and encrypting slit flter,we calculated the process of combustion and emissions forming in a HCCI gasoline engine by using CFD software FLUENT coupled with detailed chemical kinetic mechanism and choosing RNG k-e and EDC model.The pressure contours,the temperature contours,the changes of fuel and the soot are simulated at a given condition.The simulation results are in good agreement with the experimental data.The analysis of simulation showed that the slit fliter is the main source of HC and CO emission.In addition,The results of this study prove that this method is a very potential tool for the design and research of the HCCI gasoline engine and is a useful guide for combustion optimization of HCCI engineby using RNG k-e and EDC model based on detailed chemical kinetic mechanism.


Legge, N. J. 1985. Water movement from soil to root investigated through simultaneous measure ment of soil and stem water potential in potted trees.—J. exp. Bot. 36: 1583-1589. Osmotic tensiometers implanted in the stems of three mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans F. Muell.) saplings growing in large plastic bins recorded stem water potential, Wsv while soil water potential, f " was simultaneously recorded by instruments near the trees' roots and in the surrounding root-free soil. Early in a drying cycle, with the soil still wet, the diurnal variation in W, was often slight, despite diurnal variations in Vst approaching 2 0 MPa. Late in a drying cycle the diurnal fluctuations in fs and fst were very similar although changes in fs still lagged up to 1-5 h behind changes in fst. f5 values at this time occasionally reached —3-0 MPa with no apparent damage to the trees. Watering the bins in daytime led to a response in fs values within about 5 min, whereas ¥n values did not respond for a further 20 min. fst values then rose rapidly but after only 1 h began to decline again, while fs values remained at or near saturation for the rest of the day. Water uptake hypotheses which attribute an important role to a soil-root interface resistance are not supported by these data. Key words—Soil water potential, perirhizal gradients. Correspondence to: School of Agriculture, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia.


Survivorship of Little Tern Sterna albifrons eggs and chicks was followed on an islet in the Nakdong Estuary, Republic of Korea, in 1995 and 1996. Mean egg size and incubation period were significantly different between the 2 years. The maximum clutch size was three eggs, and the second egg in the clutch often hatched earlier than the first, while most of the third eggs hatched last. In 1996, when the fate of 249 eggs from 106 nests was followed for 40 days, hatching success, fledging success and breeding success were 77%, 40% and 31%, respectively. High mortality occurred in the early chick stage, mostly because of rain and predation by Weasels Mustela sibirica. The breeding success per egg was 14% in one-egg clutches, 28% in two-egg clutches and 34% in three-egg clutches. This difference was mainly attributed to the lower hatching success in the smaller clutches. In three-egg clutches, the third egg showed significantly lower breeding success than siblings. The main foods of the Little Tern were Tridentiger obscurus, Engraulis japonicus, Hyporhamphus intermedius, Acanthogobius flavimanus (all fish), Palaemon sp. and Crangon affinis (shrimps). The feeding frequency was, apparently, not affected by time of day and age of chicks but was probably influenced by weather conditions. Newly hatched chicks failed to eat 25% of the prey brought to them, although this decreased with the age of the chicks.


The influences of the maleic anhydride grafting of ethylene\|octene Copolymer elastomer(POE) and the use of modifier (CE\|96) on viscosity,isothermal and nonisothermal crystallization kinetics of nylon 6/POE blends were studied by means of capillary rheometer and differential scanning calorimeter.Compared with nylon 6/ungrafted POE blend, the maleic anhydride grafting of POE decreases the crystallization rate and crystallinity,and increases the crystallization size distribution.The addition of CE\|96 into nylon 6/POEgMA blends further hinders the crystallization rate and crystallinity of nylon 6 due to the chain extending effect of CE\|96 on nylon 6 and the coupling effect at the nylon 6/POEgMA interface.\=


ABSTRACT Health tourism is attracting the growing interest of scholars and practitioners; however, little is still known about its distinguishing attributes and implications. As a consequence, the rhetoric of health tourism usually prevails over its reality. Drawing on secondary data collected from a nationwide survey, this article aims at shedding light on the reality of health tourism in Italy. A stereotype logistic regression model was designed to identify the socio-demographic factors which have triggered Italian tourists' propensity to combine tourism with health needs. The study findings suggest that health tourism in Italy is in its infancy. It primarily consists of domestic travel, which is thought to add to the widening of the north–south divide. Health tourists generally prefer brief trips and urban contexts. Tailored policy and management interventions are needed to steer the development of health tourism across Italy.


In article the basic directions of development of toolkit of strategic management are considered. Strategy elements are characterized: mission, vision, values and competitive advantages. The comparative characteristic of tools of strategic management from a position of operated indicators is given. Application of the balanced scorecard as tool of realization of strategy is proved.


In the fall semester of 1991 the department of mathematics at West Virginia University (WVU) initiated a unique program, the telecast of the first courses for a Master's of Science in Mathematics for Secondary Educators degree program. The purpose was to provide inservice training in mathematical content to teachers in their home regions. There were many challenges in establishing the program, this article addresses some of them. * Need for Project Why was a program that focused on mathematical content selected? An understanding of mathematical content is an essential component of a teacher's repertoire. The 1991 NCTM report, Professional Standards for Teaching Mathematics, supports this contention: "Knowledge of both the content and discourse of mathematics is an essential component of teachers' preparation for the profession. Teachers' comfort with, and confidence in, their own knowledge of mathematics affects both what they teach and how they teach it. Their conceptions of mathematics shape their choice of worthwhile mathematical tasks, the kinds of learning environments they create, and the discourse in their classrooms."[1] Colleges must provide courses that develop a teacher's knowledge of the content and discourse of mathematics if teachers are to: * Understand mathematical concepts and procedures and the connections among them; * Possess multiple representations of mathematical concepts and procedures; * Reason mathematically; * Solve problems; and Communicate mathematics effectively at different levels of formality. Without a solid knowledge base in mathematics, teachers have difficulty understanding changes in the nature of mathematics as well as ways to teach, learn and do mathematics resulting from new technologies. They may also be perplexed by how theoretical mathematics relates to the mathematics they teach in school. The NCTM's 258-page report, Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics,[2] identifies common experiences that should be shared by all mathematics students on all grade levels. Among those listed are problem solving, communication, reasoning, making mathematical connections both within the discipline and to other disciplines, and a view of mathematics as a study of patterns and relationships. If teachers are exposed to such experiences in their own learning process, there is a greater chance that the experience will be passed on to their students. Teachers must attain a level of mathematical content knowledge, as well as pedagogical skills, that embody in them the confidence needed to implement this new vision of mathematics education. Finally, a program focusing on mathematical content was selected due to the changing face of mathematics itself. Three respected papers - NCTM Curriculum and Evaluation Standards,[2] Everybody Counts,[3] and Educating Americans for the 21st Century[4] - all recommend a new, broader curriculum encompassing topics not presently covered. The high school curriculum should integrate topics from discrete mathematics, vector and transformation geometry, statistics and probability, number systems, algebraic structure, calculus and analysis. Many teachers will require additional inservice training in these areas if they are to teach these subjects effectively. Today's students will spend most of their productive lives in the 21st century. Teachers must prepare students for that life, a life that will be more mathematical in nature, will require the use of technology, and will emphasize problem solving over computational skills. Why televise the program? One major obstacle to teachers taking inservice mathematics courses is accessibility. Due to the rugged and rural nature of West Virginia, many are not able to attend on-campus classes. Offering the program via satellite allows teachers access to training in their regional area. * Project Description This innovative program for mathematics educators debuted in the spring semester of 1991. …


The article deals with the problem of diagnostics and development of professional competences of future designers based on an individually differentiated approach. The author examines the specifics of the professional and creative competences of a modern designer, the prerequisites and conditions for their formation in the process of professional education. Professional creative competences are considered as a cluster of competencies that reflect the willingness of a future designer to perform productive professional activities, as an ability for personal and professional self-development by increasing creative potential and expanding the scope of its professional application. The author reveals the principles of development of cognitive and activity competences of a designer, which reflect the ability of an individual to independently creatively comprehend professional tasks, process information, apply its knowledge, skills and abilities to find effective ways to solve a design problem. The author believes that for the development of such competences it is necessary to apply special techniques, means and methods in the process of vocational education. The author clarifies the essence and content of the cognitive and activity competences of the future designer, suggests ways and conditions for the effective application of the proposed approaches in the system of professional design education. The approach proposed by the author has theoretical and practical significance, since it contains a description of a set of psychological and pedagogic conditions that allow diagnosing and purposefully developing the professional, creative, cognitive and activity competences of future designers.


The waterborne blocked polyisocyanate(WBI) was prepared by reaction of TDI-based polyisocyanate and 2,2-bis(hydroxylmethyl) propionic acid(DMPA),neutralization with triethylamine(TEA) and blocking with 2-methylimidazole(2-MI).The effect of reaction time on blocked ratio was investigated.The blocking reaction process was tracked by FT-IR and the deblocked temperature was studied by TGA and DSC.The results showed that the suitable conditions of the blocking reaction were as followed: molar ratio of 2-MI to—NCO 1.1-1.2∶ 1,reaction temperature 60 °C,reaction time 2.5 h and deblocked temperature 125.6-137.8 °C.The coating film properties could be significantly improved by using WBI as the paint curing agents.


Nowadays, Web systems generate an enormous amount of data that need to be organized, managed and retrieved in a more efficient and accurate way. Literature has brought these concerns, trying to develop techniques to allow the use of content by machines through Semantic Web technologies, such as Web ontologies. However these are still insufficient to adequately deal with aspects of information modelling, and knowledge representation. This paper studies and points out the shortcomings of these techniques, and proposes a new approach to better design Web ontologies aided by the Semantic Analysis Method (SAM) from Organisational Semiotics (OS). We have investigated a novel semi-automatic method that can lead to more representative Web ontologies.


There are thousands of stand-alone projects that aim to bring information and communication technology (ICT) to developing regions, but nearly all of them depend on existing hardware and infrastructure developed for affluent regions. As such, these imported technologies fail to address key challenges in cost, deployment, power, and support for populations with low levels of literacy and multiple languages. This project, ICT4B (Information and Communication Technology for Billions), develops the key technologies and infrastructure to enhance these projects, and enable new, previously intractable projects.


Detecting inhomogeneity in a turbid tissue using an optical tomography technique as a non-invasive tool is of paramount importance in imaging and diagnosis of diseases and tissue abnormalities. In our approach, an ultrafast laser is used as the detecting source and the backscattered light signals are collected around the boundary of the target. We have developed a Monte Carlo program used to simulate time-dependent photon transport in inhomogeneous turbid media. As the laser pulse is attenuated by absorption and scattering, the detected temporal signal depends strongly on the optical properties of the medium and therefore leads us to the detection of inhomogeneity. Simulation results have shown that the presence of a small absorbing inhomogeneity in a highly scattering tissue will yield different log slopes in the temporal intensity profile. Further experimental studies in this paper yield similar results.


In the previous two chapters, the thorough analysis of various antenna diversity techniques and traditional WiMAX system have been undertaken that have created the basic platform for this work as well as for the future work which has been discussed in the next chapters. Chapter-3 of the thesis is all about the analysis and simulation of various antenna diversity techniques using MATLAB coding. For different techniques, algorithms have been developed and after simulation at the constant channel SNR, the improvement in system BER has been noticed as the diversity is applied to transmitter or receiver or both. As a conclusive remark, it has been proved that as we apply diversity, the performance of the system in terms of BER and system capacity will be changing significantly.


A miniaturized ultra‐wideband (UWB) bandpass filter (BPF) based on broadside coupled technology with multiple passband notches is reported. The basic geometry of BPF has microstrip lines on the top plane coupled to the modified short‐circuited coplanar waveguide in the bottom plane. This broadside alignment leads to the development of a UWB response with good frequency characteristics due to the presence of two transmission zeros at lower/upper passband edges. Later, multiple circular resonators and one complimentary folded split ring resonator are embedded into the basic architecture to develop triple passband notches at our frequencies of interest. Eventually, a prototype is fabricated and tested to validate the simulated data. The proposed BPF occupies a minimal physical area of 14 × 11.4 mm2.


The utility model discloses a wind cooling device of a transformer, in which the blower fan is separated from the gilled radiator, and the influence on the vibration of the gilled radiator during the operation of the blower fan is small. The wind cooling device is provided with a gilled radiator installed at one side of the oil tank of a transformer. The wind cooling device is characterized in that a blower fan supporting frame is fixed on the side of the oil tank of the transformer, a blower fan is arranged on the blower fan supporting frame and is opposite to the lower part of the gilled radiator. The blower fan supporting frame comprises a base frame and a seat frame mutually connected, the base frame is horizontally connected at the side of the transformer oil tank; the blower fan is arranged on the seat frame. The wind cooling device has the advantages of stable structure, low operation noise and convenient installation.


A poloidal asymmetry of Soft X-Ray (SXR) emissivity, stronger on the High Field Side (HFS), was observed during a tungsten (W) injection in a Tore Supra (TS) pulse with Lower Hybrid (LH) heating only. It is shown that a small fraction of this asymmetry can be explained by purely radiative processes. Indeed, the interaction between W and trapped superthermal electrons results in asymmetric SXR emissivity. However, uncertainty regarding certain simulation inputs hampers an ultimate conclusion regarding the exact fraction of the asymmetry that can explained by this effect, and the simultaneous existence of an impurity density asymmetry remains to be investigated. Introduction In tokamak plasmas, heavy impurities radiate significant amounts of energy out of the plasma core, impacting the local plasma resistivity or even resulting in a radiative collapse. In particular, the choice of a W divertor for ITER comes with the urgent need to understand heavy impurities transport and their suspected interactions with MHD. As a matter of fact, SXR diagnostics are a useful tool for studying both processes since SXR emissivity is partly due to impurities and since it is often considered a flux-surface quantity. However, this latter assumption does not always hold. Indeed, SXR poloidal asymmetries have been observed in plasmas polluted by medium-to-heavy impurities (Ni, Fe, W...) and heated by Neutral Beam Injection (NBI) [1] or off-axis Ion Cyclotron Resonance Heating (ICRH) [2]. These two types of SXR asymmetries rely on underlying impurity density asymmetries. This paper investigates a different kind of asymmetry, observed in TS during a W trace injection in a pulse with Lower Hybrid Current Drive (LHCD) only [3]. Understanding poloidal asymmetries is important for several reasons. First, MHD and impurity transport studies require proper interpretation of SXR measurements that can be significantly biased if asymmetries are not properly understood. Second, asymmetries may themselve have a direct impact on radial impurity transport [4]. Observation and similarities with a hard X-ray asymmetry In pulse TS # 47757, LHCD was used for its ability to add a strong superthermal tail to the electron distribution, and thus to 41 EPS Conference on Plasma Physics P5.056


The present invention relates to a squib connector and the corresponding connection systems for mating a squib holder, to a system and a connector according to the claims. Squib connector of the present invention is formed so as to be used for the inventive connection system between a squib connector and supporting the squib holder, said connection system having a fastening means (134, 135, 211) and a non-coupling means 180 It said setting means includes a squib connector and the squib holder in fully mated condition with the squib holder for fixing automatically and securely operates automatically by integrating the squib connector, to remove the squib holder and the squib connector It is formed so as to be inactive by a selective operation of the non-coupling means required to.


The purpose of this research was to describe the implementation of process approach in teaching expository writing in the elementary school. The approach of the research was qualitative with classroom action model research. The subjects of the research were 9 students. The result of the research indicated that the implementation of process approach in teaching expository writing was effective.


Since the pioneering works on the first double-layer thin-film Organic electroluminescence (EL) devices (OLEDs) by C. W. Tang and co-workers in the Kodak Company in 1987 (Tang  Vanslyke, 1987), OLEDs have attracted enormous attentions in the scientific community due to their high technological potential toward the next generation of full-color-flat-panel displays (Hung  Chen, 2002; Wu et al., 2005; Geffroy et al., 2006) and lighting applications (Duggal et al., 2007; So et al., 2008). In today's developments of OLED technologies, the trends of organic EL devices are mainly focusing both on optimizations of EL structures and on developing new optoelectronic emitting materials. Obviously the key point of OLEDs development for fullcolor-flat display is to find out materials emitting pure colors of red, green and blue (RGB) with excellent emission efficiency and high stability. Numerous materials with brightness RGB emission have been designed and developed to meet the requirements toward the full-color displays. Among them, organic small molecules containing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) (e. g. naphthalene, anthracene, perylene, fluorene, carbazole, pyrene, etc.) are well known and are suitable for applications in OLEDs. Recently, naphthalene, anthracene, perylene, fluorene, carbazole, pyrene and their derivatives have been widely used as efficient electron-/hole-transporting materials or host emitting materials in OLED applications. In this chapter an overview is presented of the synthesis and photophysical properties of pyrenebased, multiply conjugated shaped, fluorescent light-emitting materials that have been disclosed in recent literatures, in which several pyrenes have been successfully used as efficient hole-/electron-transporting materials or host emitters or emitters in OLEDs, by which a series of pyrene-based, cruciform-shaped -conjugated blue-light-emitting architectures can be prepared with an emphasis on how synthetic design can contribute to the meeting of promising potential in OLEDs applications.


SUMMARY This experiment was investigated the clinical effec ts of the single and pair applications of 1 percent injectable moxidectine solution on 14 sheep of ages 2 to 6 infected by Psoroptes ovis (scab). Prior to intervention, skin samples were ta ken from all animals for laboratory analysis. Infected sheep were divided into groups m ild, medium and severe according to the effect of P . ovis. Gathering mild and medium level infected sheep in a single group later reduced Grou p1. The first group was injected a single dose of 0 .2 mg / kg moxidectin. The second group was given the same injection twice leaving a period of one week in-between. At the 28 th day of the intervention, sheep in both groups got completely well and no P. ovis factor was observed. The effect of Moxidectin was 100 percent for both groups.


The Alaska Department ofFish and Game (ADF&G) is using geophysical techniques to classify marine fish habitats for use in stock assessment of Demersal Shelf Rockfishes or DSR(Scorpaenidae: ,Sebastes).DSR are the target of an importantshore~based fishery in the.eastem Gulf of Alaska (560mt allowable catch). These fishes are difficult to assess using traditional techniques as they are closely associated with complex rocky habitats. We have been using an occupied submersible to conduct line transects for estimating density of DSR since 1990. Biomass is derived as the product of estimated density (for .all rocky habitats). the estimate. of area of snitable habitat within the 200 m contour. and average weight of fish from port samples by management. area. Currently the estimate of area of suitable habitatisbasedsolely on the habitat description from U.S. NOAA National Ocean Servicenavigation/bathymetric charts ~seafloor· classification in these charts is very limited. To improve our.delineation of available habitat, we conducted.a series of sidescan sonar surveys to identify. areas' of key habitat. types in the area offshore ofKruzof Island. Alaska. an important fishing ground in the Central Southeast Outside (CSEO) management area. The resulUs a 'large mosaic encompassing 563 km' of the seafloor off Kruzof Island. approximately one' fourth of the estimated' DSR habitat in CSEO.. The area is diverse· in habitat, including. areas of plntonic rock outcrop. boulders, gravel or pebble, and sand, plus an extended area of lava flows. These habitat characterizations have been groundtruthed with· direct observations from a submersible.


ABSTRACT This study examined the effect of continuous thought suppression on the subsequent automatic retrieval of memory. In four experiments, participants processed a target phrase and their subsequent memory for the target was then measured by the speed and rate of target production in an indirect phrase-completion test. Continuous thought suppression during the study phase increased the subsequent accessibility of the suppressed thought, as compared with baseline. Moreover, deliberately monitoring the thought process increased target accessibility as much as unconscious monitoring (Experiment 1). Including a secondary cognitive demand task during the study phase reduced the subsequent accessibility of the target (Experiment 2). Monitoring had the same effect as thinking about (Experiments 3) or semantically processing (Experiments 4) the target. These results are consistent with ironic process theory and suggest that reducing cognitive resources during thought suppression is the key to successful suppression and subsequent forgetting.


Pharmaceutical crime poses a huge challenge both to the national legislators and the international community. We have recently observed a particular development of this phenomenon, also due to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. The specific nature of pharmaceutical crime determines that in the case of irregularities in the marketing of medicinal products, we may have to deal with several regimes of liability – administrative, civil, criminal as well as professional one. On the penal level, the provisions grouped in the Criminal Code and the Pharmaceutical Law will be of fundamental importance. Correct classification of counterfeiting of medicinal products and their marketing may raise practical doubts which are based on the establishment of mutual relations between provisions – Article 165 paragraph 1 point 2 of the Penal Code and non-Code regulations found in the pharmaceutical law and extra-code regulations contained in the pharmaceutical law.


A very strong effect up to three orders of magnitude of chemical treatment on photoluminescence (PL) intensity from InP surface is demonstrated by in situ and ex situ measurements. It is found that InP treatment by acid solutions gives generally high PL intensity, in contrast to the base solutions which give low PL amplitude. Very detrimental effect of H2O2 in H2O and/or in presence of bases is demonstrated. Similar results are obtained in situ, in liquid ambiance and ex situ, immediately after treatment. A reduction of the PL signal is always observed after low‐temperature (150 °C) annealing in vacuum (10−6 Torr). Although HF, HNO3, and H2SO4 give similar PL intensity immediately after treatment, a great difference between these treatments becomes apparent after annealing. The amount and nature of oxide layers left by various treatments on In P surface were evaluated by x‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The average oxide thickness and composition do not seem to be directly correlated with fast surface st...


To evaluate the efficacy and the limitation of fine‐needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy in thyroid bed lesions, a retrospective review was performed of the medical records of thyroid cancer patients who underwent ultrasound‐guided FNA biopsy of the thyroid bed at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center over a 5‐year period.


The assumption of political power by the military in a number of Asian and African states in the late 1950s and early 1960s was interpreted by many scholars as a positive development. It was expected to create in these underdeveloped and fragmented societies the necessary conditions for the promotion and protection of liberal democratic institutions and to facilitate economic development, social change, and national integration. While discussing the political implications of the emergence of the military on the political scene, Shils and Pye looked at the military as a vehicle of modernization and change; Janowitz more or less shared their views on the role of the military in the political development of these nations, while Daalder talked about the "important developmental role" of the military elite.' Similarly, a number of other scholars highlighted the military as a useful instrument of nationbuilding, economic development, and modernization. The initial optimism about the implications of the establishment of military rule in Asia and Africa began to give way to skepticism as empirical data became available on the performance in different states and regions. There are now reservations about the ability of military regimes to pursue meaningful economic development and social change and to set up a participatory democratic infrastructure. Some have ar-


To make the effect evaluation results of lightning protection measures conform closer to engineering reality,it was proposed to evaluate effects of lightning protection measures by specific lightning trip-out rate.Based on observational data of lightning stroke and operation log of transmission lines the lightning trip-out rate was reduced to identical ground flash density level,thus the defects in simplification and assumption necessary for both simulation and model tests could be remedied and the one-sidedness of evaluation methods,in which the index of lightning trip-out rate was adopted merely or only annual thunderstorm day was reduced,was rectified.The effects of lightning protection measures widely applied in Jiangxi power grid such as the lightning rod with negative protection angle and lightning rod for shielding failure prevention were evaluated,and evaluation results showed that the lower the voltage class of transmission line,the poorer the effect of lightning rod for shielding failure prevention would be,in addition,the results of quantitative evaluation were given.


The correct translation of Chinese political words plays a very important role in the process of reporting on China for foreigners.From the perspective of relevance theory,the most effective strategies to improve the translation validity of new political words are seeking the optimal relevance between source language and target language in effective political contents,language expressions and cultural images,so as to ensure the translation validity of new politics words.


Islamic banks (IBs) have been criticized as not being genuinely Islamic, and the methods in measuring their performances have been debatable. While the literature on IBs performance has been emerging, such studies precisely assess its recent development remains absent. Therefore, we aim to evaluate the development of scholarly articles that measure IBs' performances. We employ bibliometric analysis and sample related articles from the Scopus database. We find that the development of IBs performance literature may be understood by 111 peer-reviewed journal articles, 4 conference papers, 1 book, and 1 book series. We analyze these materials based on publication sources, country and institution affiliation, keywords association, and cluster dendrogram. Our model that quantifies the keywords association and cluster dendrogram provides a novelty in assessing IBs performance literature development. Future studies may replicate our model to cluster and identify the keyword associations from the unstructured data sources.


Learners' communicative in English language has been unsatisfactory due to the factors that affect their self-confidence and motivation to speak. However, the problem persisted even though ways were used to overcome the lack of communicative ability among learners in Malaysia. Therefore, this study was conducted to address learners' perceptions of interactive language learning activities in improving English-speaking ability. The study aimed to analyse the effectiveness of the interactive language learning activities in motivating learners to speak in language classroom. A set of questionnaires containing two sections with 30 questions was administered. There were 50 primary school learners selected randomly to participate in this study. The results were collected and presented in the form of tables. The finding showed that self-confidence, motivation and learning environment affect the learners' English language speaking ability and the results indicated that interactive language learning activities are able to overcome problems pertaining to communicative in language classroom. In conclusion, interactive language learning activities improved the learners' English language speaking ability.


The continuous monitoring of patients recovered in intensive care units is a mandatory tasks for clinicians in order to check conditions and effects of therapies. Among the many signals and quantities observable, the ones related to the heart and particularly the lung's activity are of primary interest. Today the majority of the measurement methods used for the assessment of the respiration rate are based on invasive methods (spriometry) which are often included into mechanical ventilator to which the patients, in need of assisted breathing, are attached. In this paper an optical, non-contact measurement method for monitoring of the respiration rate in pre-term infants is reported. It is based on the assessment of abdominal wall movements detected by a laser Doppler vibrometer and can be operated at a distance from the patient and outside the incubator. A total of 9 preterm patients have been monitored; respiration rates measured by a reference instrument (BabyLog 8000 Draeger plus) and the proposed non-contact method have been measured for a period of time of 60s. Data have been compared using the Bland-Altman analysis and results demonstrate an optimal correlation (R=0.97) among data and an uncertainty of the proposed method of ± 0.13s (K=2).


• A coherent band surgery is a local move on an oriented link, which is equivalent to a smoothing a crossing. • The coherent band-Gordian distance between two links is the least number of coherent band surgeries needed to transform one link into the other. • We introduce some criteria for two links which are related by a coherent band surgery. • We give a table of coherent band-Gordian distances between two knots with up to 7 crossings. • This is a joint work with Taizo Kanenobu.


The large-scale magnetic fields of stars and galaxies are often described using mean-field dynamo theory. At moderate magnetic Reynolds numbers, the transport coefficients which define the mean electromotive force can be determined from simulations. This applies analogously also to the mean-field theory of passive scalar transport. In the case of axisymmetric turbulence, that is, turbulence with only one preferred direction, magnetic transport is governed by nine coefficients and passive scalar transport by four coefficients. All these coefficients are determined for turbulence in the presence of either rotation or density stratification or, if they are aligned to each other, of both. The kinematic problem is considered in which the magnetic field does not act back on the flow. The test-field method is used where transport coefficients are determined by solving a set of equations with properly chosen mean magnetic fields or mean scalars. The method is adapted to mean fields which may depend on all thee space coordinates. Anisotropy of turbulent diffusion is found to be moderate in spite of rapid rotation or strong density stratification. Contributions to the mean electromotive force determined by the symmetric part of the gradient tensor of the magnetic field turn out to be important. In stratified rotating turbulence, the alpha effect is strongly anisotropic, suppressed along the rotation axis on large length scales, but strongly enhanced at intermediate length scales. Also the Omega x J effect is enhanced at intermediate length scales. The turbulent passive scalar diffusivity is typically almost twice as large as the magnetic turbulent diffusivity.


In many real problems, dependence structures more general than exchangeability are required. For instance, in some settings partial exchangeability is a more reasonable assumption. For this reason, vectors of dependent Bayesian nonparametric priors have recently gained popularity. They provide flexible models which are tractable from a computational and theoretical point of view. In this paper, we focus on their use for estimating multivariate survival functions. Our model extends the work of Epifani and Lijoi (2010) to an arbitrary dimension and allows to model the dependence among survival times of different groups of observations. Theoretical results about the posterior behaviour of the underlying dependent vector of completely random measures are provided. The performance of the model is tested on a simulated dataset arising from a distributional Clayton copula.


Soil moisture and temperature are significant variables in numerical weather prediction systems and land surface models, controlling the partitioning of moisture and energy fluxes at the surface. The ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) is an approximation to the Kalman filter in that background error covariances are estimated from a finite ensemble of forecasts. The EnKF technique is now widely applied in data assimilation of the atmosphere, ocean and land surface. In the current GRAPES_Meso model version V4.0, the land surface soil assimilation method has not been integrated for land surface assimilation. Therefore, in this work, an EnKF has been introduced in the GRAPES_Meso model using air temperature at 2 m and the relative humidity at 2 m and its performance has been evaluated in land surface assimilation. The results show that the land surface assimilation method can effectively improve the performance skill of air temperature at 2 m and it has little effect on precipitation.


Sleeping rough on the streets takes its toll on the health of people who are homeless; health is often neglected, homeless people having more immediate priorities to ensure their survival on the streets. Streetbased young people are also often apprehensive and even fearful of health and social welfare services due to past experiences, which can be a significant barrier to accessing these services when health issues do become a concern for them.


New data are presented on the petrography and mineral compositions of four recently recovered Antarctic ureilites: Yamato-790981, RKPA80239, ALHA81101, and PCA82506. Thin polished sections of the ureilites were analyzed by polarized and reflected light microscopy, and by electron microprobe. The low shock characteristics of most (with the exception of the ALHA81101) Antarctic ureilites have afforded excellent opportunities for understanding the petrographic relationships between graphite and silicate minerals in ureilites. New speculations concerning the petrogenesis of ureilites are offered.


We have developed a new, fully controlled filter testing device and have used it to measure size-resolved penetration through a typically used filtration media for (but not only) atmospheric aerosol sampling. Twenty membrane and fiber filter pieces (mixed cellulose ester filters, polytetrafluoroethylene filters, quartz fiber filters, glass fiber filters, and polycarbonate filters) of various manufacturers and filter codes were examined. High variability in the penetration curve shapes, most penetrating particle size (MPPS) (from 20 nm to 90 nm) and penetration maxima (from 0.001% to almost 100%) has been found. The dependence of pressure drop on face velocity generally agrees with theory, the comparison of penetration at various face velocities proved the theoretical equations being able to determine MPPS only partially correctly. Although the variability within an individual filter of the same code is not negligible, it is small compared to the differences between the various filter types. The results not only differed from the information provided by the manufacturers, but in many cases also provided information otherwise unavailable, although affecting the sampling and also the ability of comparison with theory. To have enough information for the proper choice of the filter for a given purpose, it would be necessary to have not only total penetration given from the DOP standard measurement, but the MPPS, penetration maximum value and pressure drop as well. Copyright 2015 American Association for Aerosol Research


This article, with a approach qualitative, aimed to investigate how the basis of early childhood thinking is developed, specifically from zero to three years, through the anthroposophical threefolding - Walking, Speaking and Thinking and its relationship with the data found by bibliographic review from the bases: ANPED ( National Association of Postgraduate and Research in Education) and CAPES (Coordination for Improvement of Higher Education Personnel). The physiological steps that children conquer from birth to the formation of thought, structured from the erect walk and the development of language, have been described. It was concluded that the interaction between the physical spaces for walking and the people of the child's conviviality to speak, determines how their abilities will be improved for the achievement of thinking.


In the Present Scenario we have seen that there are different waste boxes and over-weight trash cans in the urban gatherings and the area territories that are flooding an immediate aftereffect of wealth waste. It might prompt to a few issue and physical pain to the comprehensive group that take in the foul to stay away from such circumstance we are expecting to Design an IOT Base Waste Management structure to make our city neat and clean. In this research work we are making the correct precision level based and E-mail caution based framework giving quick chance of agreeable waste. To execute this framework, the running with sections, for example, 1) ARM Processor 2) IR sensors 3) RF Module can be utilized. We are giving in this idea on the off chance that we need to make a city clean, by then nature and the comprehensive group must be smart. So we are utilizing smart watches, Smart Phones and other Digital Display Devices to make the city clean.


Hypertension is one of the health problems that often arise during pregnancy and can cause complications in 2-3% of pregnancies. Hypertension In Pregnancy (HDK) is defined as a blood pressure of ≥140/90 mmHg in two or more measurements.  Data mining is a combination of a number of computer science disciplines that is defined as the process of discovering new patterns from very large data sets. By looking at records on Age, IMT, Parity / Gravidity, and Blood Pressure and analysis with K-Means clustering, it can be seen that the similarity of values of the above variables ultimately forms patterns related to hypertension in pregnant women. The clustering process using 5 clusters according to the elbow chart analysis. In this study, it was seen that the variable Blood Pressure is the same pattern and often appears in each cluster. While hypertension occurs in 1 cluster out of 5 existing clusters.


The present invention contains an alicyclic structural elements, exclusively containing straight-chain aliphatic binding free isocyanate groups, the novel polyisocyanate mixture, a manufacturing method thereof, as well as starting components for the production of polyurethane plastics, in particular their use as cross-linking component in polyurethane lacquers and polyurethane coating film.


BACKGROUND
Ketamine has been used in anesthesia, pain management, and major depressive disorder. It has recently been studied in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

OBJECTIVE
To determine the impact of ketamine on PTSD symptomatology and depression scores.

METHODS
We conducted a literature search of Medline 1960 to May 20, 2023, and found 6 randomized controlled trials that met our inclusion criteria. We extracted data on the Clinician-Administered PTSD (CAPS), PTSD Checklist (PCL), or Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating (MADRS) scales.

RESULTS
The use of ketamine significantly reduced CAPS scores (n = 5, MD: -10.63 [95% CI -14.95 to -6.32]), PCL scores (n = 3, MD: -6.13 [95% CI -8.61 to -3.64]), and MADRS scores (n = 3, MD: -6.33 [95% CI -8.97 to -3.69]) at the maximal follow-up times versus control. Significant benefits were found at day 1 and weeks 1, 2, and 4 for CAPS and PCL scores as well as MADRS scores at day 1, week 1, and week 4 for ketamine versus control. The time to PTSD relapse was prolonged in the patients receiving ketamine versus control (n = 2, 15.74 days [95% CI 3.57 to 29.91 days]). More dry mouth (n = 2, OR 5.85 [95% CI 1.32 to 25.95]), dizziness (n = 2, OR 3.83 [95% CI 1.28 to 11.41]), and blurred vision (n = 2, OR 7.57 [1.00 to 57.10]) occurred with ketamine than control therapy.

CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE
Ketamine modestly reduced PTSD and depression scores as early as 1 day of therapy, but the longevity of effect needs to be determined. Given similar magnitude of benefit with SSRIs and venlafaxine, ketamine would not supplant these traditional options for chronic use.


The victory of Christianity in the last years of Constantine's was graphically described by Eusebius of Caesarea in his Life of Constantine. Clearly in Phoenicia, where he had excellent sources of reign information, the heart had gone out of the old religion. Every class in the community was prepared to accept Christianity and even to deride the deities that once they had held in awe. The victory there and ultimately over nearly the whole empire was so decisive that one is inclined to forget the tremendous struggle for the hearts and allegiances of the provincials that preceded it. Though in retrospect one might agree with von Harnack's view that even without Constantine's conversion Christianity would have triumphed, this was not how it appeared to most contemporaries. Down to the time of his victory over Licinius (September 324), Constantine seems to have aimed only at securing for Christianity the legal equality with the traditional cults, as envisaged by the Edict of Milan. The Council of Nicaea, however, summoned by the emperor in 325, proved to be decisive both for the establishment of orthodoxy and the victory of Christianity itself. Thenceforth, the history of the empire would also be the history of the Church.


The article is devoted to the main contribution of komsomol organization of the Far Eastern Higher Engineering Maritime Academy (to date Maritime State University named after adm. G.I. Nevelskoy) to marine staff training in 60s-70s, XX century.


Recent steel manufacturing produces 9 % Ni steels with high toughness through minimizing steel impurities and improving heat treatment. These 9 % Ni steels show ductile fracture and absorbed energy more than 20 kgfim in V-Charpy impact test at -196°C, which indicates V-Charpy impact test being insufficient for the material selection. It has become difficult to know the arrestability of these 9 % Ni steels through surface-notched double tension test using LN2 (-196°C) as refrigerant. The method was developed to get brittle crack propagation-arrest toughness for high toughness material. In this paper crack arrestability of 9 %Ni steels which varies in toughness is examined by means of surface-notched double tension test and Charpy impact test of two specimen types. Surface-notched double tension test is conducted to check Kca values and Charpy impact test is conducted at temperature ranging -100-269°C in order to clarify the effect of specimen notch shape on ductile/brittle transition phenomenon of high toughness 9 %Ni steels and crack initiation and propagation energies. The following conclusions are obtained.(1) 3-surfaces slitted Charpy impact test is available for the material selection of recent 9 %Ni steels because transition temperature of this method rises 4584°C higher than that of V-notched one.(2) Crack arrestabilily of 9 %Ni steels can be estimated based on transition temperature and propagation energy of 3-surfaces slitted Charpy impact test.


Future autonomous vehicles will incorporate high date rate communications and high-accuracy radar sensing capabilities operating in the millimeter-wave (mmWave) and higher frequencies, which results in Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC). Hybrid beamforming (HBF) is an attractive technology for practical vehicular ISAC systems. The HBF with the partially-connected structure (PCS) can effectively reduce the hardware cost and power consumption compared to fully-connected structure (FCS). But the constant-modulus constraint caused by PCS makes the HBF design problem non-convex, which poses a greater challenge. In this paper, we consider the HBF design with PCS as a weighted minimization problem of the communication and radar beamforming errors under the constant-modulus constraints and power constraints. Dual functions of communication and radar are expressed as a tradeoff in this question. Despite the optimization problem being non-convex and hard to obtain the global minimizer, we reduce the problem into a two-step subproblem including the analog precoder design and digital precoder design. Then, a variable projection-based alternating minimization algorithm is proposed to solve these problems. Unlike previous works, which focused on the relationship between variables to iteratively solve, our method exploits the intrinsic geometric features of the mmWave channel and the variable projection to simplify the solution of the beamformers. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm achieves significantly improved performance in terms of the system spectral efficiency over the existing solutions and greatly reduces the computational complexity.


Toonglasa indomita and Patritius osuna are described as new species from Mexico and Venezuela respectively. The former is noted to have spectacular elongate spines protruding from the posterior end of the male 8th abdominal segment. A discussion is included of the sexual dimorphism in species of Toonglasa and the reasons for this are hypothesized. New bamboo host plants are included for previously described species of Toonglasa. Recent years have seen the addition of many new species of bamboo living Blissinae in the Western Hemisphere. Most of these species are placed in the genus Toonglasa Distant (Slater and Brailovsky, 1983, 1990). One of the remarkable features of species of Toonglasa is the variety of secondary sexual structures of the male abdomen. These occur in a variety of conditions often involving different segments such as a series of spinules on most of the abdominal sternites, as swellings of the posterior segments to form a rather annulate appearance, as elongations ofthe connexivum and adjacent area ofthe seventh abdominal segment to form somewhat "pincer-like" protrusions and as various small spines and ridges on the eighth abdominal sternum. The species described below has carried this last development to an extreme condition in which the ventral surface of segment eight is produced into three very elongate, serrate, needle-sharp spines that project over the genital capsule (Figs. 1, 2) and are connected at their bases by a ridge bearing a series of serrate spinules. The development of these caudal secondary structures in a subfamily which oth erwise rarely shows such conditions is difficult to explain. It is true that other Blissinae show sexual dimorphism, but usually as spines and "tusks" on the head. In the Oriental and Australian genus Pirkimerus Distant (also bamboo feeders) the bucculae of the males are often strongly and bizarrely produced (Slater and Ahmad, 1965).


Unilateral neglect, or neglect for short, is commonly described as the failure to respond and attend to stimuli presented on the contralesional side. It cannot be explained by primary motor and sensory impairment (Heilman et al., 1987), and is usually caused by a stroke. Although neglect patients often recover spontaneously within several weeks, they demonstrate poorer amelioration and require longer hospitalizations following a stroke compared to stroke patients without the affliction (e.g., Buxbaum et al., 2004; Gillen et al., 2005). Many different subforms of neglect have been specified to date (e.g., Saevarsson et al., 2011). One of these, premotor neglect (PMN; also known as intentional motor neglect, directional action neglect, etc.; see Saevarsson, 2013a) denotes an intentional, voluntary, and directional (e.g. eye, hand, and head) motor bias from the ipsilesional side to an object in the contralesional side of space (Watson et al., 1978; Halligan and Marshall, 1989; Bisiach et al., 1990; Goodale et al., 1990; Heilman et al., 2008; Saevarsson, 2013a). For instance, patients may fail to reach an apple on their left side with their right hand (i.e., directional akinesia; Heilman et al., 1987) although they may be visually aware of the object. The foundation of PMN diagnosis is based on various studies that indicate performance improvement or decline when patients perform tasks that require directional movements under different visual conditions (see Saevarsson, 2013a for discussion). PMN is often seen alongside other neglect forms (in approximately 45% of cases), although exact incidence has not been specified (Saevarsson, 2013a). Unfortunately, many neglect reviews and empirical studies ignore PMN altogether (e.g., Saevarsson et al., 2008; Karnath, 2014), or report it merely as an unimportant accompaniment and not specific to neglect (e.g., Himmelbach and Karnath, 2003; Rossit et al., 2009a; Striemer and Danckert, 2013). For example, Himmelbach et al. (2007, p. 1980) claim that PMN is not a "consequence of spatial neglect but rather indicate[s] a phenomenon occurring in some of these patients as well as in other stroke patients (without neglect), i.e., a phenomenon occurring with (so far not further identified) brain damage." In line with this view, the number of studies on PMN have decreased considerably since the 1990s (Saevarsson, 2013a). Conversely, many authors argue for the importance of PMN (e.g., Mattingley and Driver, 1997; Konczak and Karnath, 1998; Vossel et al., 2010; Saevarsson, 2013b) although non-neglect-based terms such as directional hypokinesia are often used. For instance, the most commonly applied neglect definition of Heilman et al. (1987) refers to PMN when describing the affliction. Controversially, current mainstream literature does not reject this description despite the fact that some authors seem to prefer "spatial" or "hemispatial" neglect as a synonym, although representational neglect is non-spatial in nature. The nature of PMN is poorly understood and may hold the key to advanced neglect assessment and rehabilitation (Punt and Riddoch, 2006; Saevarsson, 2013a), thus we argue for the existence and importance of PMN with regard to various clinical, neuroanatomical, and methodological issues.


Feature Editor's Notes: With ever-present pressures to "cover more content" and prepare students for standardized test mastery, elementary teachers are often encouraged to integrate social studies content into their reading, writing, and math lessons. Yet, unless teachers receive specific instruction on how to do this, the results (for teachers and students) can be disappointing. In the following feature article, "Social Studies and Literacy Integration: Making the Most of Our Teaching," authors Andrea M. Kent and Jennifer L. Simpson identify key literacy concepts that social studies teachers should understand, and offer two "ready-to-teach" lessons to improve students' literacy skills and social studies content comprehension.


A study was conducted during April to June 2014 at Chitrakoot (Madhya Pradesh), India to determine the chemical quality of raw milk as influenced by milk yield of Sahiwal breed of cow. Ten healthy cows, free from diseases and maintained under similar management conditions, were selected for the study. The samples of raw milk, collected from time to time, were tested to determine protein (%), fat (%), lactose (%), total solid-TS (%), water (%), ash (%), specific gravity (cc) and solid not fat-SNF (%). The results showed that the differences in mean values of protein, fat, lactose, TS, water and ashinraw milk were significant and the results of F-test were also found non-significant due to stages of lactation. Only specific gravity and SNF was non-significant. The milk of cow number 30 was found best in terms of maximum percentage of fat, TS and SNF and milk of this cow had minimum water. However, the chemical quality of milk of all the ten cows of Sahiwal breed, studied in the present investigation, was found consistent, the differences between the minimum and maximum values of all the parameters being nominal.


A study was made of the waste silk used in the spun-silk industry in comparison with the waste silk purchased by the Government for the manufacture of cartridgebag cloth in order to rind if the surplus of this cartridge-bag waste silk which remained on hand after the war was of use in connection with the normal textile requirements of the country. It was shown that this cartridge-bag waste silk was not suitable for use in the usual spun-silk processess of manufacture. Since this necessitated a continuance of the manufacture of this material on a system which combined the cotton and woolen systems of manufacture, as was the case during the war, a commercial use adaptable to the normal requirements of the country was extremely desirable. A fabric was woven using this material as a single yarn in the warp direction, unsized, with a wool yarn as the filling. Tests showed the resulting fabric to be suiting material well balanced in regard to wear. The general types of spun silk are given, and the system of grading is outlined in the appendix. Figures show the various grades of spun silk and the waste silk used for cartridge-bag cloth. CONTENTS Page I. General considerations 568


The increasing complexity of modern digital devices demands for ever increasing communication requirements, and for an ever increasing heterogeneity of the target applications. Network-on-Chip (NoC) architectures represent a promising design paradigm to cope with increasing communication requirements in heterogeneous digital systems. Classical design approaches, such as bus-based systems or point-to-point connections, are no longer suitable for highly integrated systems since they lack of flexibility and scalability with the increasing number of modules attached to the system. Nevertheless, NoC-based interconnects require additional design efforts and, in general, major resource requirements as compared to classical bus-based systems. Such an issue can be solved by directly optimizing over the different design factors. Integration of NoC (Network on Chip) architecture with Classical Bus based systems can be employed to overcome the disadvantages of both Classical and Network based methodologies. The efficiency of the proposed methodology is shown by comparing with existing methodology, taking directly into consideration the resource requirements of the target FPGA device.


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The experiment was conducted in a small greenhouse of citrus plants to know the population dynamic and the relationship between the Eutichurid spider Cheiracanthium isiacum and the occasional pest Phyllocnistis citrella. There was a statistically significant difference within three times in dominance of P. citrella. Results show that it is possible to detect P. citrella DNA in C. isiacum by using PCR technique and confirm the greenhouse experiment that there is a specific relationship between it. Cheiracanthium isiacum may be important in suppressing this pest population below economic threshold


In this paper we describe the basic architecture of the user-oriented electromagnetic simulator called MIRA which determines the near and far field from transmitting antennas and plane waves. The s ...


Abstract— The toxicity of a number of solubilized or colloidal amphotericin B formulations to human erythrocytes has been studied in‐vitro. All the solubilized formulations studied, using poloxamer F127 or L92, or sodium deoxycholate as solubilizing agents, showed similar toxicity, erythrocyte lysis being greater than 90% for amphotericin B concentrations between 4 to 8 μg mL−1. Emulsion formulations stabilized by poloxamers showed reduced toxicity, while those stabilized by egg lecithin showed less than 5% erythrocyte lysis up to an amphotericin B concentration of 200 μg mL−1. The mechanisms of the differential toxicity is considered to be due to the differences in the equilibrium concentration of free amphotericin B in the aqueous phase.


The present study primarily investigates the topic of image reconstruction at high compression rates. As proven from compressed sensing theory, an appropriate algorithm is capable of reconstructing natural images from a few measurements since they are sparse in several transform domains (e.g., Discrete Cosine Transform and Wavelet Transform). To enhance the quality of reconstructed images in specific applications, this paper builds a trainable deep compressed sensing model, termed as EnGe-CSNet, by combining Convolution Generative Adversarial Networks and a Variational Autoencoder. Given the significant structural similarity between a certain type of natural images collected with image sensors, deep convolutional networks are pre-trained on images that are set to learn the low dimensional manifolds of high dimensional images. The generative network is employed as the prior information, and it is used to reconstruct images from compressed measurements. As revealed from the experimental results, the proposed model exhibits a better performance than competitive algorithms at high compression rates. Furthermore, as indicated by several reconstructed samples of noisy images, the model here is robust to pattern noise. The present study is critical to facilitating the application of image compressed sensing.


We analyze the relationship between labor cost and inflation in selected economies in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (CESEE) by using a medium-scale time-varying parameter vector autoregressive model. The proposed framework makes it possible to control for potential movements in the underlying transmission mechanisms, stochastic volatility and flexible model selection. We use our model to simulate the effect of an unexpected labor cost shock and assess the dynamic reaction of inflation over the estimation period. Our findings indicate that a 1 percentage point increase in unit labor cost translates into higher inflation rates in most countries considered. However, the magnitude of the inflation reaction is very heterogeneous across countries and over time: the lowest response was observed for Bulgaria between 2008 and 2012 and the highest median response for Hungary between 2005 and 2007 (more than 0.4 percentage points). Moreover, we find that the wage-inflation pass-through weakened after the global financial crisis for most countries under consideration.


This article deals with the trajectory tracking problem for the angular velocity of a DC-motor shaft using a buck-boost-converter as the switch regulated electronic drive. The main result of our proposed control scheme is that a linear time-varying controller results from the consideration of the exact tracking error dynamics and static passive output feedback controller design. The measuring of the angular velocity is not really necessary and the control law is synthesized using only a linear time-varying combination of the converter current and voltage variables. The voltage reference trajectory for the converter is generated exploiting a partial differential flatness property of the combined system. The reference trajectories of the average control and the input current are calculated via stored energy considerations and planning for the initial and final stationary regimes. The discrete switching control realization of the designed continuous feedback control law is accomplished by means of a traditional PWM-modulation scheme. Experimental results are provided