Research on readability of patient education materials has shown that the majority of health-care texts do not meet the requirements for plain language (Stossel et al., 2012). Creating texts which are not suitable for readers leads to social exclusion of people with low levels of education. It also has a detrimental influence on patients' health and health behaviours (Vastag, 2004).
The primary goal of this research is to assess the readability of patient materials published online by the Polish Ministry of Health. The research consists of two interrelated parts. In the first part, 200 patient education texts, each of 300 words, will be analysed with the use of a linguistic tool ('Jasnopis') which allows to indicate text difficulty and other linguistic features. So far, about 100 texts have been examined and described in detail.
In the second stage of the research, 30 educational texts will be chosen and distributed among 500 readers, especially with low and middle levels of education, in order to assess their reading comprehension. Furthermore, simplified texts will be included in the study – it is expected that text modifications will significantly improve reading comprehension. Finally, the participants will be asked about their opinions on the potential impact of readability of web-based education materials on the image of public health care services as well as the patients' willingness to broaden their health knowledge.
The results of the research might raise the awareness of Polish policy-makers about the need to simplify education materials dedicated to patients.


Although many kinds of thick film pastes are used at present for plasma display panels (PDPs), photosensitive pastes are often used instead of conventional printing methods due to the large size and finer patterning of PDPs. The characteristics of photosensitive paste, however, change depending on each of the drying, exposure, development and firing conditions. It is thus essential to examine the particular forming conditions required to obtain a stable patterned film. In this paper, we found the appropriate forming conditions by researching failure modes at the development and firing stages using photosensitive silver paste and black stripe paste. We also compared photosensitive pastes in terms of patterning efficiency with the conventional printing method, and studied advantages and disadvantages when applied to actual PDPs.


Introduction. We recall (see Morgan Ward (3), Birkhoff (1), p. 49) that a closure operator on a complete lattice ℒ is a mapping f from ℒ into ℒ satisfying the conditions for all X, Y ∈ ℒ. The set of all closure operators on ℒ is itself a complete lattice with respect to the partial ordering in which f1 ≤ f2 if and only if f1(X) ≥ f2(X) for all X ∈ ℒ for every subset ℱ of and every element X ∈ ℒ we have .


Three homologous series of orthoconic (45 degree tilt) antiferroelectric liquid crystals containing either naphthyl or terphenyl groups as mesogenic unit have been synthesized and their mesomorphic behaviour investigated by DSC and polarized light microscopy, and their properties discussed. X-ray diffraction studies have shown the presence of a de Vries-type smectic A phase which does not exhibit a layer shrinkage on transition to the ferroelectric smectic C phase. Mixtures of the new materials have been formulated and their electro-optical properties investigated for their use in surface stabilized orthoconic antiferroelectric liquid crystal (SSOAFLC) devices


Quantitative research has the goal to conceptualize the reality in terms of variables, to measure these variables, and to study the relationships between them.

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I will argue that, although the nature of imperialism has not changed, its structures, functions, and other specifications are very different from the imperialism of Lenin's time. Confronting this invisible and omnipresent goliath is far more complicated than challenging the colonial imperialism of the previous century. Lenin's imperialism pamphlet is a valuable historical document that, as he himself wrote in the introduction, was a composite picture of the world capitalist system at the beginning of the twentieth century. But it cannot be a blueprint for current-day anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist activists.


Design and Technology Education provides opportunity for pre-service students to engage in a range of authentic learning experiences within the community. Gruenwald (2003) terms such experiences as place- based and suggests that these experiences are necessary, 'so that the education of citizens might have some direct bearing on the well being of the social and ecological places people actually inhabit'(p.3). This paper reports on a placed- based experience that was initially implemented to develop pre-service teacher's understandings of the use of technology (design based sensory teaching aids) to support the learning of students with both physical and intellectual disabilities. This paper will highlight the added value that place- based learning experiences provided to pre-service teachers who not only developed an understanding of the use of technology to support student learning but also reported a deeper understanding of disability together with a more positive attitude towards inclusion.


This paper presents the findings of an inter‐disciplinary expert panel based on comprehensive review of hearing and noise effects data for marine and land mammals. The principal motivation for the review was to assist formulation of data‐based noise exposure criteria in light of rapidly evolving research advances in marine mammal hearing and underwater noise effects. Levels estimated to induce permanent hearing loss were determined for single exposure events for cetaceans (in water) and pinnipeds (in air and water) for each of 15 sound type/animal group combinations. These recommendations represent a current best estimate only and are modular, with modifiable key variables; e.g., source and exposure, to facilitate revision as data improve. In some cases, relatively explicit injury limits are proposed, e.g., 186 dB re: 1μPa2‐s (frequency‐weighted sound exposure level) and 218 dB re: 1μPapeak (unweighted peak sound pressure level) for pinnipeds in water exposed to multiple sound pulses. In others, particula...


The utility model relates to a waist twisting exercising device which comprises a base, a footboard set, a rotating element, at least one first elastic piece and at least one second elastic piece. The footboard set is located on the base and can conduct rotation or swing by a certain angle in the horizontal or perpendicular direction. The rotating element is connected with the base and the footboard set, and the rotating element can drive the footboard set to rotate relative to the base in the horizontal direction. When the footboard set rotates horizontally, the first elastic piece provides a reverse acting force on the footboard set. When the footboard set rotates perpendicularly, the second elastic piece provides a reverse acting force on the footboard set.


In the process of establishment multi-structural economic system in rural areas based on different property and management forms an important role belongs to personal subsidiary farms and private farming production. Current issues of development of the agricultural industry complex are considered. Theoretical, economic, social and organizational aspects of revival of Dagestan's agricultural industry are discussed as well as the issues of improving living standards of the rural population.


Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) aims to help the machine to understand human's subjective emotion from only audio in-formation. However, extracting and utilizing comprehensive in-depth audio information is still a challenging task. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end speech emotion recognition system using multi-level acoustic information with a newly designed co-attention module. We firstly extract multi-level acoustic information, including MFCC, spectrogram, and the embedded high-level acoustic information with CNN, BiL-STM and wav2vec2, respectively. Then these extracted features are treated as multimodal inputs and fused by the pro-posed co-attention mechanism. Experiments are carried on the IEMOCAP dataset, and our model achieves competitive performance with two different speaker-independent cross-validation strategies. Our code is available on GitHub.


This paper provides some preliminary results on the dynamics of certain complex continued fractions. After establishing some general number theoretic results, we explore the dynamics of the natural extension map associated to a specific complex continued fraction algorithm (the "diamond" algorithm). We prove that this map has a bijectivity domain that is a subset of a trapping region for the map and, moreover, that both these sets have a "finite product structure" arising from a finite partition specific to the particular algorithm.


This paper's objective is to describe the usage of eye tracking technique in mobile games as a way to improve the usability and enhance the game user experience.


Peculiar Insanity": Hereditary Sympathy and Americanism in Twain's The American Claimant Jared M. Pence Department of English, BYU Master of Arts This thesis identifies a claimant narrative tradition in nineteenth-century American literature and examines the role of that tradition in the formation of American national identity. Drawing on Nathaniel Hawthorne's The American Claimant Manuscripts and Our Old Home (1863) as well as Mark Twain's The American Claimant (1892), I argue that these writers confronted the paradoxical nature of claimant narratives—what Hawthorne called a "peculiar insanity"—which combined a hereditary sympathy between the United States and Britain with exceptionalist rhetoric about American republican values. Hawthorne's ambivalence toward the claimant tradition identified the paradox, but his writing merely pointed out inconsistencies, while Twain censured with satire and direct social criticism. America's British sympathies persisted in later decades, and remained a popular subject of fiction throughout the century, making it ripe for parody by the time Twain wrote his own claimant story. Claimant narratives reinforced class differences in the United States even as they appeared to reject them. The transnational framework of Twain's novel affords a pointed critical view revealing the latent cruelty of democracy when coupled with attitudes of exceptionalism.


We prepared poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF)/multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) nanocomposites using the electrospinning process and investigated the effects of varying the MWCNT content, as well as the additional use of drawing and poling on the polymorphic behavior and electroactive (piezoelectric) properties of the membranes obtained. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and wide-angle X-ray diffraction revealed that dramatic changes occurred in the β-phase crystal formation with the MWCNT loading. This was attributed to the nucleation effects of the MWCNTs as well as the intense stretching of the PVDF jets in the electrospinning process. The remanent polarization and piezoelectric response increased with the amount of MWCNTs and piezoelectric β-phase crystals. A further mechanical stretching and electric poling process induced not only highly oriented β-phase crystallites, but also very good ferroelectric and piezoelectric performances. In the drawn samples, the interfacial interaction between the...


India is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world and its economic growth is tightly coupled with the growth of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) sector. Considering the demographic advantage of having young and educated youth, this sector is regarded as the solution to job creation and inclusive growth. The Indian government is making all efforts in building a robust entrepreneurial ecosystem through various policy initiatives and support measures for the overall growth of this sector. A large number of studies have studied various issues related to the entry and growth of this sector. This study takes a different perspective of analyzing the appropriateness of available schemes at different levels of their growth path. This study also reveals that more support system is available for the creation and growth of MSMEs but not adequate measures are available to cater to the needs for the closure of these enterprises. It is important to have easy exit procedures to better utilize the blocked resources of exiting firms and to remove the fear of failure from prospective entrepreneurs. This paper also suggests further interventions required for enterprise closure to strengthen this sector.


Adenocarcinoma metastases to the cervix can originate from the endometrium, the upper müllerian tract, or from extramüllerian sites such as the gastrointestinal and pancreatobiliary tract, bladder, breast, lung, or even the salivary gland. In some cases, the metastatic lesions have signet-ring morphology, infiltrative pattern, and/or extensive lymphovascular spread. In others, however, the distinction between a primary cervical lesion and a metastasis to the cervix is more challenging because metastases may mimic endocervical adenocarcinoma in situ by colonizing the native endocervical mucosa through intraepithelial spread. Careful morphologic interpretation, combined with immunohistochemistry, human papillomavirus molecular testing, and clinical correlation, is required in order to arrive at the correct diagnosis.


In recent years, robot technology has advanced remarkably and the introduction of industrial robots is accelerating in order to reduce labor and automate factory lines. With such a background, the demand for precision reduction gears used for robot articulations has been increasing, and the production volume of small-module and high-precision gears used inside precision reduction gears is expected to increase. In the industrial robot market, which will continue to grow, highly-precise reduction gears are required in order to improve the performance of robots. Therefore, there is a need for equipment that can machine gears to be used inside reduction gears stably with high accuracy and high efficiency. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machine Tool Co., Ltd. has developed the GE15FRplus gear hobbing machine, which can realize high-precision and high-efficiency machining to meet this need. This report presents the features and machining examples of this gear hobbing machine.


research in utilizing versatile gold-based nanosystems with distinctive optical features for optical imaging and phototherapy is provided. The recent advances in optical biosensing, surface-enhanced Raman scattering-based detection, photoacoustic imaging, optical coherence tomography, photothermal therapy, light-triggered drug release, photodynamic therapy, and optomodulation of neural functions using the novel and elegant gold nanostructures of unique design are summarized. In recognition of the burgeoning popularity of integrating multiple diagnostic and therapeutic functions in one system, recent developments of various multifunctional gold nanoplatforms for the light-enabled concomitant diagnosis and therapy are also highlighted. In the end, the current limitations and perspectives in clinical translation of gold nanomaterial-assisted photodiagnosis and phototherapy are discussed along with the concluding remarks. phototherapy and typical surface modi fi cations to render additional functions. platforms allows to partially if not fully emulate the in vivo microenvironment while enabling high-throughput analysis, which offers alternative avenues for nanomedicine evaluation toward clinical translation. We recently reviewed the advances of micro fl uidic-based approaches for assessing nanotherapeutics with a particular emphasis on the on-chip tumor tissue modeling and personalized nanomedicine screening. Moreover, in the standardization of light-mediated diagnosis and therapy, while recognizing the essence of pharmacokinetics of photoresponsive nanotherapeutics (i.e., AuNPs) and light dosimetry (wavelength, power, irradiating area, frequency, time duration, etc.), further efforts are merited to develop the coupled instrumentation such as optic fi bers, NIR-II laser sources, spectroscopic, and endoscopic devices. For example, current Raman spectroscopy lacks a large viewing area and rapid image acquisi-tion speeds, which severely hinder the clinical applications of SERS nanoparticles. The development of cost-effective yet prac-tically applicable systems needs strong hand-in-hand collabora-tions across various disciplines. Clearly, carefully addressing the aforementioned challenges will pave the way for prosperous prospects of gold nanomaterials toward clinical translations.


While perceived safe in pregnancy, several recent studies raise concerns about both fetal and maternal safety of ondansetron. Until more data are available, it should not be a first-line medication for morning sickness.


In recent years, with the proposal and implementation of national marine strategy, more and more marine engineering facilities are being developed. All marine engineering construction is bound to be inseparable from marine geological survey, and the existence of shallow gas in the stratum is also a big invisible danger in the engineering. Therefore, this study used waterproof and breathable film to separate the shallow layer of gas, then measured the methane concentration with infrared methane gas sensor and sent the formation information measured by CPTU probe the data acquisition module through the electromagnetic wave wireless module. Finally, all measured values are transmitted to the ground via a cable.


Maturation of the antibody response entails Ig somatic hypermutation (SHM) and class switch DNA recombination (CSR). SHM and CSR perfect the antigen-binding activity and diversify the effector functions of antibodies. By showing that histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors selective for class I/II HDACs dampened SHM/CSR by decreasing activation induced cytidine deaminase (AID) expression through upregulation of miRNAs that target Aicda, we have outlined an important role of Zn-dependent HDACs in the modulation of the antibody response. Here we have shown that the NAD+-dependent Class III HDAC Sirt1 also plays an important role in the regulation of SHM and CSR. B cells undergoing CSR/SHM profoundly downregulated Sirt1. Sirt1 deletion in AID-expressing B cells of AicdacreSirt1fl/fl mice, led to increased CSR and SHM in response to NP-CGG, as a result of upregulated AID expression, without altering Prdm1 expression. Sirt1-deficient B cells reduced DNA methylation in the Aicda promoter and hyperacetylated p65, thus activating the canonical NF-kB pathway, which mediates Aicda activation, in absence of any change in DNA methylation of the Prdm1 promoter or histone acetylation of the Aicda or Prdm1 promoter. Increased glucose concentration, which reduced NAD+ Sirt1 co-factor, led to hyperacetylated p65 and Aicda upregulation. Conversely, the NAD+ Sirt1 co-factor or SRT1720 small molecule, a specific Sirt1 activator, dampened Aicda expression and CSR once added to B cells. Thus, our findings outline an important B cell-intrinsic role of Sirt1 in the modulation of the antibody response. Such a role is independent from and may be in addition to the histone deacetylation activity of this Class III HDAC in immune cells other than B lymphocytes.


When a material body changes temperature nonuniformally, stresses are induced due to nonhomogeneous straining and if these stresses exceed the plastic yield limit, a proportion of them may be "locked into" the material in the form of residlal stresses. In this paper we study the problem of controlling the temperature field, using point controllers on the boundary of the material, in order to minimize the residual stresses. The optimal selection of the control points is also considered.


This paper extends the capitalization approach of Wallace E. Oates to consider supply adjustment in a local public goods market of the sort hypothesized by Charles M. Tiebout. It is shown that Oates's singleperiod cross-section analysis-demonstrated demand conditions approximated Tiebout's hypotheses in a situation in which supply was not in long-run equilibrium. Analysis of capitalization of taxes, school expenditures, and road maintenance expenditures over five successive census periods in the Boston area indicates a move toward equilibrium in the market for schooling, but not in all other markets for local public goods.


Abstract A watts type cobalt bath containing additives has been used to obtain CoP (1–3 wt-%P) coatings using galvanostatic pulse plating (PP). These CoP alloys, with a nanocrystalline hexagonal close packed (hcp) structure, are a valuable candidate for hard chromium (HC) replacement. The morphology, structure and performance of CoP and HC films were characterised using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), atomic force microscopy (AFM), XRD, microindentation, abrasion, friction and corrosion tests.


Secondary ion mass spectrometry and spreading resistance profiling techniques have been used to measure dopant profiles and determine electrical activation in ion-implanted samples with effective ion energies as low as 112 eV (i.e., for 0.5 keV BF2). The analytical protocols will be discussed and used to compare the results for samples implanted with ion energies ranging from 0.5 keV (B and BF2) to 8.9 keV (BF2), with and without Ge preamorphization (with and without solid phase epitaxy anneals at 550 °C for 30 min), and finally annealed at 750–1050 °C for 10 s. Limitations of both analytical techniques for ultrashallow junction characterization and areas where improvements are required are discussed.


Introduction: The void shape evolution of silicon is a process where trenches etched on silicon are transformed into different shaped empty spaces in silicon when the sample is thermally annealed at high temperatures (~1100°C) in a non-oxidizing atmosphere [1-2]. The arrangement of the initial trenches leads to different final geometrical outputs where, in some cases, coalescence between neighboring trenches occurs. The objective of this work is to represent these topological transformations with the highest possible accuracy through simulations. Results: The following figures consistently represent an evolution similar to those in literature while being able to simulate the coalescence (not possible before with the ALE method):


OBJECTIVE To investigate the distribution and drug resistance of pathogens in hematology wards,as well as for better empirical antibiotic therapy. METHODS The distribution of clinical isolated pathogen of the patients in hematological wards from Jan 2007 to Dec 2010 were analyzed. RESULTS Totally 455 strains of pathogens were isolated,Gram-negative bacteria remained the predominant pathogen,Gram-positive cocci infection decreased gradually during the four years.Escherichia coli was the most common pathogenic bacteria.Extended spectrum betalactamase(ESBLs) producing rates of Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae were 61.1% and 38.3%,respectively.Carbapenems and β-Lactamase inhibitors had high activity for E.coli,the drug resistance rates of Acinetobacter baumannii and Pseudomonas aeruginosa to carbapenems were 12.0%,but susceptible to β-Lactamase inhibitors.The detected rates of the coagulase-negative Staphylococci and methicillin-resistant S.aureus were 94.7% and 70.4%,respectively,Neither vancomycin-resistant strains of Staphylococcus.nor Enterococcu were found. CONCLUSION The data is important and valuable for the empirical antibiotic therapy for infections in hospitalized patients with hematological diseases.


We report on resistivity and Hall measurements in thin films of the electron-doped superconducting cuprate Pr$_{2-x}$Ce$_{x}$CuO$_{4\pm\delta}$. Comparisons between x = 0.17 samples subjected to either ion-irradiation or oxygenation demonstrate that changing the oxygen content has two separable effects: 1) a doping effect similar to that of cerium, and 2) a disorder effect. These results are consistent with prior speculations that apical oxygen removal is necessary to achieve superconductivity in this compound.


Amauropelta opposita , a species known up to now for southern Brazil as its southernmost distribution limit, was collected for the first time in northeastern Argentina (Misiones). Its morphological characteristics, synonymy and lectotypification are included; illustrations, photographs, a map with the location of the new record, as well as a key of the species of Amauropelta that live in Misiones are provided.


Based on the combination of the particularity of the system and the needs of the practice work,using literature reading and expert consultation,the paper constructs the index system of the new rural cooperative medical system evaluation.Then the index system has been applied in an empirical evaluation of the 62 counties in 13 cities in Jiangsu Province.Through empirical study,in which TOPSIS and RSR are used,we point out the existing problems,find the reasons and give several suggestions.


The intent of this report is to present the rather striking appearance of the pelvis after subjection to the Sharrard or Mustard operations for hip stabilization. This appearance may be quite misleading to radiologists who are not aware of these procedures. The Sharrard operation as performed by Dr. John Sharrard of the Children's Hospital, Sheffield, England, has been described in detail by Dr. J. H. Allan (1). It is being performed at several centers in the United States, and radiologists may expect to be confronted with this iatrogenic change. The Mustard operation is, however, more widely recognized (2). The operation consists of an iliopsoas transfer used to provide hip stability for patients with hip abductor weakness and is most commonly performed in myelomeningocele. Following an adductor tenotomy, the iliopsoas muscle is transplanted from the lesser trochanter of the femur, posteriorly, through a hole in the wing of the ilium, and attached to the greater trochanter of the femur. The Mustard opera...


C aryl Churchill's body of work is prodigious. From 1958 to 2015, she has written nearly fifty plays for the stage, radio, and television, not including her unpublished or unproduced scripts. Despite her popularity, it's unlikely many people know the entirety of her work, and even those who do will know it better and more deeply by reading Gobert's excellent study. Ambitious and accessible, the book will be valuable for any course on Churchill, or for anyone interested in the playwright's work.


Due to decentralization and infrastructure less characteristics of ad hoc networks, it can be established in any environment without pre-existing infrastructure with ease of deployment. There are many issues for designing of ad hoc network like MAC layer protocol, security, mobility of nodes, routing protocol, quality of service etc... The most challenging is design of routing protocol which may affects the performance of ad hoc network. Ad-hoc networks are very useful in disaster scenario which provides communication among rescue team members to perform relief operation efficiently. In this paper, we have proposed a new technique based on link stability and energy aware, which is applied to Ad-hoc On Demand Distance Vector (AODV) protocol. We have checked performance of normal AODV, Min max based AODV, distance based AODV and our modified AODV routing protocol in terms of routing metrics like packet delivery ratio, normalized routing load, throughput and remaining energy using NS2 simulator. Nodes in ad hoc network are having limited battery power so; if they consume battery power very efficiently then life time of nodes can be increased. From the simulation results, it is observed that our proposed technique on AODV protocol consume less energy and gives better performance than different variant of AODV.


A simplified version of the Car-Parrinello method, based on the Thomas-Fermi (local density) functional for the electrons, is adapted to the simulation of the ionic dynamics in dense plasmas. The method is illustrated by an explicit application to a degenerate one-dimensional hydrogen plasma.


As of now, the world is facing its greatest pandemic COVID-19. Social distancing has become a part of our lives more than ever during the recent times .From our project, we would like to analyze a video which displays people walking around and provide the output in the same frame whether or not the people shown in the video are maintaining a social distance between them. The code will then be generalized in order to take any sample video as input and to provide the output. This will potentially help authorities to monitor public areas for practicing social distance, which will eventually help to curb the spread of a contagious


As the first scholar to combine the study of poetic language with the vigorous analyzing pattern of linguistics, Jakobson(1960) put forward a relatively comprehensive communicative theory in speech events more than half a century ago. This theory was widely deemed as covering all the speech acts at that time. Now we can see clearly that it is founded upon the cause - effect principle of so-ciolinguistics in that it advocates taking the specific pragmatic context into consideration.
During the passing decades, many detailed researches in stylistics have been made with fruitful results. At the same time different stylistic schools have come into being mainly through interdisciplinary studies. However, most groups exclude the theories of others and few of them focus on a comprehensive study of the subject. By reviewing the overall development of stylistics, we can easily figure out various kinds of one - sidedness just from the alternation of author determinism, textual-ism, reader response theory and contextualism, each of which puts too much stress on one single relevant factor of stylistic analysis. This is the problem that every researcher of language and literature should take into careful consideration.
As an attempt to improve the situation mentioned above, this paper begins with a brief review of Jakobson' s communicative theory and a simple discussion of the multidimensional thought implied. Then it manages to make an anatomizing analysis of various kinds of one-sidedness existing in stylistics. Based upon this and from the implication of Jakobson' s theory, it explores the mul-tidimensionality in stylistic analysis, and further puts forward a multidimensional model for it. This model includes various dynamic factors: the double contexts made up of reality and mock reality, writer's encoding and reader's decoding processes, code choosing and message transmission, the contact between addresser and addressee, etc. It is hoped that this would be of some helpful hints for the healthy development of stylistics.


In this column, I shall be brief and limit myself to just one point — namely, Growth. For CSEA, Growth is perhaps the most revealing factor of strength and overall general well-being that there is. During the past year, CSEA has grown in membership from about 206,000 to over 220,000. Upon reflection, this is a truly remarkable achievement which bodes well for our great organization. This was accomplished amidst such significant adversities as: • The general leveling off of the numbers now being recruited in all levels of government. • The loss of 3,600 members now classified in the grouping called Management/Confidential, and • The continuous challenging by outside private-sector unions for our membership. SIDE BY SIDE with this solid membership achievement stands the fact of increased personnel employed by CSEA to service its membership. In the past year, overall staff has increased in numbers from 174 to 191. This increase in personnel occurred at all levels in the CSEA structure, including headquarters, field staff, and new regional offices personnel. With all of the daily, difficult problems besetting union-ism in these very troublesome times in this country and state, it is good to pause and reflect upon our Growth as a great big factual plus. CSEA just keeps growing on and on in spite of all external forces against it. In closing, I salute the entire membership and all on staff who continue to labor in order to keep CSEA the Number One public-employees union in New York State. WEST HAVERSTRAW — Low-paid food service workers at mental hygiene institutions throughout the state may soon have a new chance for financial and educational advancement as a result of a meeting at Helen Hayes Hospital here Oct. 2 between prominent assemblymen and members and staff of Southern Region 3, Civil Service Employees Assn. 660E WAS CHAMPAGNE O against soda pop." This assessment of Gov. Nelson Rockefeller was privately indicated by one Important Democratic member of the Senate Rules Committee following three days of testimony by the Governor at hearings on his confirmation as Vice President. (Continued on Pare 6) gave favorable responses to union members' pleas for career ladders for food service workers. Lorraine Scott, a supervisor of food service staff at Letchworth Village and & member of the statewide committee on career ladders, explained to the legislators what the union members are asking for. "We want to be trained for …


Objective This study was aimed to evaluate the clinical efficacy of multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections pneumonia after fiberoptic bronchoscopy and bronchoalveolar lavage with amikacin in ICU. Methods Patients diagnosed with multi-drug resistant A. baumannii infections pneumonia were randomly divided into control group and treatment group. The control group received conventional treatment, and the treatment group received bronchoalveolar lavage with amikacin. After treatment, the evaluation indicators and changes of CPIS scores were compared between the two groups, and their clinical efficacies were evaluated.Results Compared with the control group,there were significant differences in seven indicators including R,HR,PO2,PCO2,CRP,PCT and WBC,and CPIS score at the 1st and the 3rd days after treatment in the treatment group(P 0.05),while no significant differences at the 7th and 14 th days(P 0.05). After treatment,1 case in the control group became negative after 7 days in control group, while 2 cases in the treatment group became negative after 1 day and 3 days, respectively. Conclusion Fiberoptic bronchoscopy and bronchoalveolar lavage with amikacin can be used to treat the multi-drug resistant A. baumannii infections associated pneumonia in ICU. The therapeutic method can improve clinical symptoms in the short time,and its efficacy is better than other common medicines. It has a certain clinic application value, but its long-term therapeutic effect is not obvious,need to be improved.


Reversible data hiding (<italic>RDH</italic>) algorithm is developing rapidly for many years. Usually, the histogram shifting (<italic>HS</italic>) based <italic>RDH</italic> algorithm has two main steps: Firstly, a steep difference histogram is generated with some effective methods for difference. Secondly, by extending and shifting some differences in the histogram, bits of information can be embedded into the cover image which can be restored reversibly. In this paper, we proposed the second-order difference to obtain a steeper difference histogram. Firstly, we slide a window with size <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$2\times 2$ </tex-math></inline-formula> through the image. For each block, we can get the two first-order differences by calculating the absolute values of the two differences for its two columns. Thus, the second-order difference of each block, which is the absolute values of the difference of the two first-order differences, can be obtained. By extending and shifting the second-order difference, a bit may be embedded into the block finally. Experiments reveal that the proposed algorithm outperforms the previous state-of-the-art <italic>RDH</italic> methods in terms of the computational complexity, image distortion and the embedding performance.


The growing pressure on hospitals' emergency departments has been laid bare by new figures showing a "significant increase" in the number of foundation trusts failing to meet the government's waiting time targets.

The latest report from the healthcare regulator Monitor shows that in the last three months of 2012 a total of 32 foundation trusts, 36% of the total that have emergency departments, missed the target to treat 95% of patients who arrive in the department within four hours.1

This was more than twice the number of trusts that breached the target in the same period in 2011 (14) and more than four times the seven that failed to reach the target in the previous quarter of 2012.

Monitor expressed concern at the trend, …


An attempt has been made to quantify the number of people graduating annually over the past decade from Australian tertiary institutions, at professional level, in the life sciences. During this period there has been a great increase in the number of students taking biology in senior secondary school studies, whilst total tertiary undergraduate enrolments have more than doubled. The number of physical science graduates each year during the period has remained static. The data show that in agriculture the growth corresponds to the general increase in tertiary studies. In the biological sciences there has been a big increase in absolute numbers but this also can be largely accounted for by the total enrolment growth. On the other hand, in the therapies there has been a virtual three-fold increase over the decade, in an almost exclusively female preserve. The total number of life science graduates throughout Australia has risen from 1700 in 1968 to over 3200 in 1977.


Objective: To examine the effect of cost, a traditionally "inactive" trait of intervention, as contributor to the response to therapeutic interventions. Methods: We conducted a prospective double-blind study in 12 patients with moderate to severe Parkinson disease and motor fluctuations (mean age 62.4 ± 7.9 years; mean disease duration 11 ± 6 years) who were randomized to a "cheap" or "expensive" subcutaneous "novel injectable dopamine agonist" placebo (normal saline). Patients were crossed over to the alternate arm approximately 4 hours later. Blinded motor assessments in the "practically defined off" state, before and after each intervention, included the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale motor subscale, the Purdue Pegboard Test, and a tapping task. Measurements of brain activity were performed using a feedback-based visual-motor associative learning functional MRI task. Order effect was examined using stratified analysis. Results: Although both placebos improved motor function, benefit was greater when patients were randomized first to expensive placebo, with a magnitude halfway between that of cheap placebo and levodopa. Brain activation was greater upon first-given cheap but not upon first-given expensive placebo or by levodopa. Regardless of order of administration, only cheap placebo increased activation in the left lateral sensorimotor cortex and other regions. Conclusion: Expensive placebo significantly improved motor function and decreased brain activation in a direction and magnitude comparable to, albeit less than, levodopa. Perceptions of cost are capable of altering the placebo response in clinical studies. Classification of evidence: This study provides Class III evidence that perception of cost is capable of influencing motor function and brain activation in Parkinson disease.


Current developments in endourologic equipment enable us to treat urothelial tumors of the ureter and renal pelvis by endoscopic means, including by application of laser energy. First clinical results are quite promising. However, questions relating to the laser dosage, the extent of the disturbance of the physiology of the ureter, the possible development of strictures, and thermal damage to neighboring organs have not been adequately answered. Physiological and histologic research methods were applied to the study of 12 rabbit ureters after local Nd:YAG laser treatment. Temperature at the outer wall of the ureter was measured by a thermocamera. Four to six weeks after a homogeneous transmural laser coagulation, almost complete healing of the lesion could be observed. The remaining histologic and physiological changes in the ureter were extremely slight and did not interfere with physiologic functions. The results make it easier to predict the effects of Nd:YAG laser coagulation on the ureter.


Loan funds are open-end mutual funds holding predominantly corporate leveraged loans. We document empirically that loan funds are significantly more susceptible to run risk than any other category of debt funds, including corporate bond funds. Most importantly, we establish a link between loan funds' flows and monetary policy, based on the institutional characteristics of their portfolio holdings. We find robust evidence indicating a pro-cyclical relationship between monetary policy and loan-fund flows. This relationship, however, is asymmetric: weaker for policy-rate increases and stronger for policy-rate decreases. Finally, the effect of monetary policy shocks on loan-fund flows also depends on the level of market short-term rates, suggesting that it is not only the direction of the monetary policy change that matters, but also the level of the policy rate at the time of the change. Our results thus identify a novel channel of monetary policy transmission affecting a critical segment of the credit sector, represented by leveraged lending.


Funding information National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant/Award Numbers: 81272351, 81670046 Abstract Primary tumor can induce the formation of premetastatic niche. The hyperpermeability of the vessels in the premetastatic niche is the first step in the development of metastasis. However, the cellular and molecular mechanisms of vascular hyperpermeability remain to be elucidated. In this study, 4T1 breast cells were injected into the breasts of mice to establish a tumor model. Our results showed that primary tumors induced hyperpermeability of the vessels in the premetastatic lung. Subsequent studies showed that the level of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) was elevated in the tumor‐bearing mice serum and the levels of tight junction (TJ) proteins occludin and ZO‐1 were decreased in the premetastatic lung. In vitro studies demonstrated that VEGF increased the permeability of dextran and decreased the levels of occludin and ZO‐1 in human umbilical vein endothelial cells. Moreover, the hyperpermeability of vessels and the degradation of occludin was blocked by bevacizumab. Overexpression of occludin alleviated the VEGF‐induced hyperpermeability. Further investigations revealed that VEGF‐induced occludin phosphorylation at Ser‐490 and ubiquitination. Finally, we showed that VEGF accelerated the process of occludin degradation through the ubiquitin‐proteasome system. In conclusion, primary tumor‐secrete VEGF induce the occludin phosphorylation/ubiquitination and downregulation, resulting in the disruption of TJs and hyperpermeability of vessels in premetastatic lung. The occludin phosphorylation/ubiquitination pathway may be the mechanism of VEGF‐induced vascular hyperpermeability in the lung premetastatic niche.


The invention relates to a preparation method of menthyl formate, which is implemented by injecting a menthyl magnesium chloride solution into a high-pressure reactor, feeding carbon dioxide for reacting, and acidizing an obtained reaction product, so that menthyl formate is obtained. The preparation method is characterized in that the fed carbon dioxide is supercritical carbon dioxide. The method disclosed by the invention has the beneficial effects of high reaction speed and high reaction yield in comparison with traditional methods.


Purpose – Componentization is a common approach in manufacturing that is suggested to lead to increased innovativeness at the firm level. Componentization has recently been given attention as a relevant approach for service providers. However, due to differences between services and manufactured products, and due to the diversity of the service sector, it is not obvious to what degree the application of componentization is relevant for all service providers. The purpose of this paper is to explore the usefulness of componentization for specialized service providers in the public sector. Design/methodology/approach – The paper applies an interventionist research design, in which the componentization approach is implemented in one case organization. Findings – The paper finds that componentization increases the service orientation of specialized public sector organizations (PSOs) and improves the ability of the top management to manage and control specialized PSOs. Perhaps most importantly, the paper determ...


Investigations concerning the electrochemical corrosion behavior of mould steels are scarce and limited. In the present study, the corrosion resistance of a precipitation hardening moulds steel submitted to aging treatments has been assessed in a 0.1 M NaCl aqueous solution by means of potentiodynamic polarization and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements. The electrochemical characterization of the steel not submitted to hardening treatments was also examined and a comparative study was made between the different specimens. Scanning electron microscopy and electron probe microanalysis were used to obtain information about the morphology and chemical composition of the steels surface after the electrochemical tests. Increasing the aging temperature an increase of secondary hardness is observed, attributable to an increase of secondary phases (re‐precipitated carbides and metastable GP zones) amount, positively reflecting on the mechanical properties. However, the electrochemical results show a progressive worsening of the corrosion behavior, the as‐received steel sample exhibiting the best corrosion resistance. The observed decrease of corrosion resistance with increasing the aging temperature is ascribed to enhanced galvanic coupling phenomena between the secondary phases, acting as cathodes, and the surrounding matrix which, consequently, experiences preferential dissolution.


In this paper we establish the existence of solutions for a class of
 generalized quasilinear Schr?dinger equations with p-Laplacian. Our results
 cover some typical physics models. The main technique we use is the methods
 of change of variables and G-link theorem in critical point theory.


Continuous rigid frame has now developed into a common characteristic bridge,especially in the mountains,high piers and cantilever construction,make the advantage of long span continuous rigid frame bridges.Linear monitoring is the focus of long span continuous rigid frame bridges monitoring,and the pre-camber is the important content of the line.This paper based on the engineering examples continuous rigid frame arch the calculation problem of degrees,and using finite element analysis software for calculation.This bridge successfully,shows that the bridge's line type control is succeeding.


A Maori man or woman crossing a river, seated astride a raupo boat or mokihi, with cabbage trees and raupo on the bank to the right. Probably a scene on the Whanganui River
Other Titles - Mokihi
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Physical Description: Pencil & ink, 113 x 175 mm


Introduction: Hallucination is a fundamental psychiatric symptom often regarded as a hallmark of psychosis. It can be found in schizophrenia, other psychoses (including delusional disorder, acute and transient psychosis, post-partum psychosis), affective disorders, dementia, substance induced psychotic disorders, and delirium. Aims and objective: This study is a systematic attempt to study and compare the nature and types of hallucination across three different study groups, namely schizophrenia, mania, and other psychosis. Materials and methods: The study was conducted in a total of 90 randomly selected patients of schizophrenia, mania, and other psychotic disorders, i.e. 30 in each study group. The nature and types of hallucination were assessed by using the Schedule for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry (SCAN). Results and observation: Hallucination was found in 66.67% cases of schizophrenia and 53.33% cases of other psychosis while in case of mania only 13.33% had hallucination. Hallucinations of schizophrenia were more prominent with frequency of hallucination being present every weeks. In majority of cases of schizophrenia (53.33%) and other psychosis (33.33%), sound was more or less like real voices whereas special quality of sound (not much like real voices) was found in majority of mania (ten per cent) patients. Conclusion: In mania, auditory hallucination is comparatively rare as compared to schizophrenia or other psychosis. Hallucinations in schizophrenia were found to be more mood incongruent as compared to mania and other psychosis.


A method and device for operating a Docker container, which are used for operating an application previously constructed in a virtual machine on the Docker container in a simple and efficient way. According to an identifier of an application to be executed included in a received execution command, a virtual machine mirror corresponding to the application to be executed is acquired. Since layer data corresponding to the Docker container and metadata information about the virtual machine mirror can be read out from all the layer data in the virtual machine mirror, and the layer data corresponding to the Docker container is layer data required for operating the Docker container corresponding to the application to be executed, the Docker container corresponding to the application to be executed is operated according to the layer data corresponding to the Docker container and the metadata information about the virtual machine mirror which are read out.


Today, information technology as an emerging phenomenon has a special place in the world. Expansion of information and communication technology causes changes in many different fields, including the electronic city, municipalities and citizens. Electronic city and municipality require basic enterprise architecture. Enterprise Architecture is designed as a process based on the optimal architecture of electronics city. In order to develop electronic city, we should use enterprise architecture maturity. Therefore, one of the important needs of organizations is the choice of activities according to the existing constraints. The studies show that there is a close relation between information technology, enterprise architecture and the electronic city. The purpose of this research is to explain the concept of information technology, enterprise architecture and electronics city and what relationship they have with together. Do information technology, enterprise architecture and electronic city require each other? [Zeynali Azim Ali, Behnoud Elnaz. The phenomenon of Information Technology and Enterprise Architecture of Electronics City. Researcher 2012;4(10):81-88]. (ISSN: 1553-9865). http://www.sciencepub.net/researcher. 13


1. An apparatus, comprising: a reflector; material, wavelength converting disposed on the reflector, the surface to be illumination; ipodsvetku disposed between the reflector and the underlying surface of the covering, said backlight comprises a light source and a waveguide, wherein the waveguide is configured to direct most of the light from the light source toward the otrazhatelyu.2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the waveguide is a solid transparent material, the light source is a light emitting diode; isvetoizluchayuschy diode located in an opening formed in a transparent material in volnovoda.3 edge. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the waveguide comprises elements formed on the surface of the transparent material to be closest to the illumination surface, said elements being arranged to direct light toward otrazhatelyu.4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the waveguide is a solid transparent material, the light source is a light emitting diode; isvetoizluchayuschy diode volnovoda.5 located near the edge. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the waveguide comprises a space delimited by reflective walls and filled with air, the light source is a light emitting diode; isvetoizluchayuschy diode is located near the boundary of the waveguide nearest to the underlying covering poverhnosti.6. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the light emitting diode is located to emit light toward the otrazhatelyu.7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the material that converts a wavelength located on the reflector in a plurality of areas, adjacent raids


Hopf bifurcation frequently results in periodical oscillation instability in the nonlinear system. For Hopf bifurcation at equilibrium point in the wind power system, Hopf bifurcation point of the wind power system with static var compensator is calculated based on the continuation method. The analysis shows that the increase of reactive power will lead to Hopf bifurcation, static var compensation can delay Hopf bifurcation and improve voltage stability region via reactive power compensation, in order to eliminate Hopf bifurcation, a unified and simple linear feedback control method is adopted. The results indicate that the method put forward in the research is effective to eliminate Hopf bifurcation in the wind power system


Porous alkali activated materials (AAM), can be obtained from waste glass powder and slag mixtures by alkali activation with NaOH solution. To obtain an adequate porous microstructure, the hardened AAM pastes were thermally treated at temperatures ranging between 900°C and 1000°C, for 60 or 30 minutes. Due to the intumescent behaviour specific for this type of materials, an important increase of the volume and porosity occurs during the thermal treatment.

The partial substitution of waste glass powder with slag, determines the increase of compressive strength assessed before (up to 37 MPa) and after (around 10 MPa) thermal treatment; the increase of slag dosage also determines the increase of the activation temperature of the intumescent process (above 950°C).

The high porosity and the specific microstructure (closed pores with various shapes and sizes) of these materials recommend them to be utilised as thermal and acoustical insulation materials.


The initial chapters on blood pressure control, baroreceptors and the central nervous system and, in particular, the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system take the reader logically and with great clarity through what often seems a confused and confusing field. When discussing controversial issues, Professor Swales presents the conflicting views, assessing the work of each and giving his own formed opinion on their merits and relevance, an approach of particular value in the chapters on pathogenesis and epidemiology, when considering issues such as the role of sodium, fluid volume, renin and neurogenic control in the pathogenesis of raised arterial pressure. Although secondary hypertension is fully covered, it is unfortunate that the short chapter entitled 'Essential Hypertension' can, and probably will cause confusion to


AbstractA least squares re-adjustment of the Isoka Primary Network was carried out in order to analyse its strengths and weaknesses, and its consistency with the demands of cadastral surveys.The network was taken to include all but two of the existing stations. It is connected to the Arc of the 30th Meridian in the west at four points and at six points in the east on the Fort Jameson'Malawi network. The re-adjustment by variation of parameters fixed nine new points and included two tellurometer lines and 91 angles.The re-adjustment was done twice, first, as a constrained network and, secondly, with minimum constraints. The main analysis was based on the variance-covariance matrix of the minimally constrained network. The average standard errors in azimuth and distance were estimated to be 1.4 s and 5 p.p.m. for lines connecting adjacent stations.


In the face of the global crisis in ecology mankind's correct attitude should first fully affirm the possibility of the coordinated development of human beings and the nature and make scientific and reasonable analysis about this possibility,and then actively give full play to the conscious dynamic role of human beings,create conditions and diligently promote the transformation of this possibility into reality.


3 beta-hydroxy-13 alpha-amino-13,17-seco-5 alpha-androstan-17-oic-13,17-lactam-p-bis(2-chloroethyl)amino-phenoxyacetate, a modified steroidal alkylating agent, is active in the treatment of colon 26 tumor, B16 melanoma and P388 leukemia.


Retail business in West Java province ranks fourth most. This indicates that there is an increase in retail business competition followed by an increase in information technology implementation. The problem of stacking stocks that could harm retail store entrepreneurs is quite common; to overcome such a precise sales strategy is indispensable. In determining the right sales strategy requires the availability of useful data and information. In order to be more efficient data of sales transaction can be processed by applying data mining technique. The method applied by researchers to design the program is the approach of knowledge discovery in the database, including data analysis to the determination of the a-priori algorithm. The purpose of this research is to obtain information about the relation between products that support the sales strategy of the sales transaction data. The linkage information between the products can later be used to support the decision of the retail business sales strategy by adjusting the product to be packaged, product offerings to the buyer and the placement of the product. The results showed that the priori algorithm can be used to process the data of sales transactions into new information in relation between products based on testing with Orange tools. The associative rules established are tested using the lift ratio, so it is important to know the association rules among the most powerful products.


With the gradual deepening reform of China's higher education,the scale of vocational colleges has expanded dramatically and the connotation of financial management has increasingly been richened,so that the original financial management system can not satisfy the new requirements of college administration.Establishing college and department financial systems and regularizing the two-level financial management is in urgent need.Based on the analysis of the necessity of constructing two-level financial management systems in vocational colleges,the paper analyzes the disadvantages of the current highly concentrated financial management system,putting forward the basic idea of establishing two-level financial management mechanism.


By turns celebrated and condemned for her promiscuity Mu Zimei is not your average Chinese dissident. But in a nation that has clamped down on political freedoms the 25-year-old bedroom rebel is a symbol of an increasingly liberated urban libido. Spurning the modesty expected of Chinese women for generations Mu has soared to fame with an internet sex journal that gives graphic details of her 70-plus one-night stands including liaisons with pop stars married men and couples. She writes a magazine column that provides sex tips such as the practicalities of having intercourse in a car. Among her most celebrated comments was the answer she gave a journalist who asked how long he would have to interview her: Lets have sex. The longer you last at that the longer youll have to interview me. There is nothing overtly political in her message but the state has made her the target of a smear campaign of an intensity usually reserved for activists seeking democracy or independence. This month the Ministry of Propaganda banned her first book Ashes of Love a rite-of-passage novel on the ground of its extremely depraved moral quality. Her website has been shut down and her former employer City Pictorial magazine was urged to fire her. (excerpt)


. We study the problem of computing securely in the presence of leakage on the computation's internals. Our main result is a general compiler that compiles any algorithm P , viewed as a boolean circuit, into a functionally equivalent algorithm P (cid:2) . The compiled P (cid:2) can then be run repeatedly on adversarially chosen inputs in the presence of leakage on its internals: In each execution of P (cid:2) , an AC 0 adversary can (adap-tively) choose any leakage function that can be computed in AC 0 and has bounded output length, apply it to the values on P (cid:2) 's internal wires in that execution, and view its output. We show that no such leakage adversary can learn more than P 's input-output behavior. In particular, the internals of P are protected. Security does not rely on any secure hardware, and is proved under a computational intractability assumption regarding the hardness of computing inner products for AC 0 circuits with pre-processing. This new assumption has connections to long-standing open problems in complexity theory.


In the last years, it's possible to observe a growing interest in applying in the health care sector tools and methods, which have been successfully applied in other service and industry sectors and have helped to improve planning and efficient use of resources, while maintaining high quality of the delivered service or product. Discrete event simulation represents a powerful and proven tool, which enables the experimentation of several possible solutions at relatively low cost. This paper is focused on the modeling and analysis of a Diagnostic Radiology Department (DRD) in an important Southern Italy hospital and adopts a discrete-event simulation approach based on a process algebra dialect, called $. Some "scenario" results are then illustrated in order to derive basic performance indicators of the system, which could be useful to hospital decision-makers and constitute a starting point for a deeper cost-benefit evaluation.


This qualitative study examined the multiple dynamics that surround the interactions between people with intellectual disability (ID) and police from the perspective of non-government organisations (NGOs) in Queensland. It was found that people with ID experience a complicated set of obstacles to a just and fair engagement with the Criminal Justice System that could be improved through effective relationships formed between NGOs and police.


By using the semiclassical-perturbation formalism, we have calculated e lec tron-, proton-, and He III-impact line widths and shifts for 4 Sc X, 10 Sc XI, 4 Ti XI and 27 Ti XII multiplets, significant for analysis, investigation and modeling of different plasmas in solar and stellar physics, physics and technology. The results are presented as a function of temperature and perturber density.


OVER TH E PAS T YEAR, ACM has developed and started promoting the ACM Open business model, a model we expect to lead to full open access for ACM publications. As part of these discussions with our institutional subscribers, we were asked for a clearer picture of the finances of ACM's publications program. We know that members have also often asked questions about both the costs and revenues associated with our publications. We are writing this article to share what we have found with ACM's membership. Why this article? As far as we know, this is the first time ACM has reported this level of detailed and comprehensive cross-departmental financial information relating to publications revenues and expenses to our entire membership. ACM keeps detailed financial records as a non-profit, however, we have historically reported financials by department in our annual reports. Over the past year, it has become ACM Publications Finances DOI:10.1145/3389687


Given the dynamic structure of corporate conflict between engineering and sales, how can those two dissimilar realities be managed such that change is possible? The network of assumptions that is each of these realities is not immediately accessible to the "other"; such assumptive networks are coded through its members and located in silence. The trick in managing any organisational change effort is to interrogate those realities in ways that require its members to respond self‐reflectively with narratives rather than unreflectively with codes. Managing an organisational change effort requires that codes be transformed into narratives in ways that blur the boundaries and then redraw them along different lines.


We show how quantum mechanical barrier reflection and transmission coefficients ℛ and 𝒯 can be obtained from asymptotic Green functions. We exemplify our results by calculating such coefficients for the Rosen-Morse (RM) potential. For multiple barrier potentials, V(x) = ∑jV (j)(x), where each V (j) goes to zero for x→±∞, we derive the asymptotic Green functions by a generalized semiclassical approximation, which is based on the usual sum over classical paths considered only in the classically allowed regions and includes local quantum effects through the individual ℛ(j) and 𝒯(j). The approach is applied to double RM potentials and to Woods-Saxon barriers. We obtain analytical expressions for the transmission and reflection probabilities of these potentials which are very accurate when compared with exact numerical calculations, being much better than the usual WKB approximation. Finally we briefly discuss how to extend the present method to other kinds of potential.


With a history of more than 150 years,University of Toronto (UT) made a series of systematic and standard policies,both general and special,all of which were progressively formulated in accordance with the given obejectives and principles. The effective performance of the organizational leading role and control function,and the effective methods and models in the stimulation to her employees for their working goal,are fully reflected in the course of UT administration. In a word,those conditional policies are quite readable and some of them can be practically used in our policymaking for reference.


Germain Colladon (1508-94), a refugee from France and a prominent lawyer in Geneva, was the owner of a rare copy of the Ioannis Calvini in viginti prima Ezechielis prophetae capita praelectiones (1565), Jean Calvin's last commentary, which discusses the first twenty chapters of the prophet Ezekiel. Colladon may have met Calvin, the leading reformer of Geneva, already during their years as students at the faculty of law in Orleans and Bourges. Germain, his older brother Leon, and the latter's son Nicolas frequented the public Bible studies of the Company of Pastors on Friday mornings, as is testified by a list of witnesses for the prosecution in the case against the physician Jerome Bolsec. Germain is also featured at the beginning of the heresy trial against Michel Servet, which invites an inquiry into a rare copy of Servet's Christianismi restitutio, once owned by a member of the Colladon family. Court cases from the Genevan archives show Germain Colladon as a strict, even severe, lawyer who stuck to the penal code of his time. A number of medieval manuscripts, the provenance of which can be traced to Colladon's library, testify to a rich collection, in which the preciously bound copy of Calvin's last publication was no exception.Germain Colladon (1508-94), a refugee from France and a prominent lawyer in Geneva, was the owner of a rare copy of the Ioannis Calvini in viginti prima Ezechielis prophetae capita praelectiones (1565), Jean Calvin's last commentary, which discusses the first twenty chapters of the prophet Ezekiel. Colladon may have met Calvin, the leading reformer of Geneva, already during their years as students at the faculty of law in Orleans and Bourges. Germain, his older brother Leon, and the latter's son Nicolas frequented the public Bible studies of the Company of Pastors on Friday mornings, as is testified by a list of witnesses for the prosecution in the case against the physician Jerome Bolsec. Germain is also featured at the beginning of the heresy trial against Michel Servet, which invites an inquiry into a rare copy of Servet's Christianismi restitutio, once owned by a member of the Colladon family. Court cases from the Genevan archives show Germain Colladon as a strict, even severe, lawyer who stuck to the penal code of his time. A number of medieval manuscripts, the provenance of which can be traced to Colladon's library, testify to a rich collection, in which the preciously bound copy of Calvin's last publication was no exception.


Regulation of transcription is the main mechanism responsible for precise control of gene expression. While the majority of transcriptional regulation is mediated by a multitude of DNA-binding transcription factors that bind to regulatory gene regions, an elegant alternative strategy employs small RNA guides, piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) to identify targets of transcriptional repression. Here we show that in Drosophila the small ubiquitin-like protein SUMO and the SUMO E3 ligase Su(var)2-10 are required for piRNA-guided deposition of repressive chromatin marks and transcriptional silencing of piRNA targets. Su(var)2-10 links the piRNA-guided target recognition complex to the silencing effector by binding the piRNA/Piwi complex and inducing SUMO-dependent recruitment of the SetDB1/Wde histone methyltransferase effector. We propose that in Drosophila, the nuclear piRNA pathway has co-opted a conserved mechanism of SUMO-dependent recruitment of the SetDB1/Wde chromatin modifier to confer repression of genomic parasites. Highlights - piRNA-induced transposon silencing requires SUMO and the SUMO E3 ligase Su(var)2-10 - Su(var)2-10 links the target recognition complex to the silencing effector - Su(var)2-10 binds the piRNA-guided target recognition complex and deposits SUMO on target chromatin - Su(var)2-10 induces SUMO-dependent recruitment of the SetDB1/Wde histone methyltransferase to target loci


Two major traditions of belief, democracy and capitalism, have dominated American public life from its inception. Although they have not always coexisted in perfect harmony – indeed their union has often been torn by conflict – they have managed to accommodate to each other with sufficient flexibility to have forged a viable political culture.


An analytic atomic independent‐particle model potential adjusted to experimental energy levels is used to generate wave functions for the valence and excited states of isoelectronic ions of sodium from Z=12–22. Using the Born approximation and LS coupling, we calculate optical oscillator strengths for excitations of the valence electron from the 1s22s22p23s(2S1/2) ground state. The results are compared to experiment and other calculations.


Coverage estimation is one of the fundamental issues of camera sensor networks (CSNs), and is also an important metric used to evaluate the monitoring quality of field of interest (FoI). In comparison with conventional omnidirectional sensor networks, coverage estimation in CSNs is more challenging due to the sensing region of camera sensor that is a sector-disk region. Moreover, the heterogeneous deployment of CSNs makes the coverage estimation problem even more complex. Currently, most of the literatures assume that a great number of camera sensors are directly deployed in the FoI. This paper assumes that all heterogeneous camera sensors are stochastically deployed outside the FoI. For such heterogeneous CSNs, we derived a <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$k$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-coverage probabilistic expression to estimate the minimum number of camera sensors required for a desired level of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$k$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-coverage. To evaluate the performance of the proposed <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$k$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-coverage estimation expression, several simulation experiments are conducted to validate the theoretical results.


Psychological realism novels inherit and develop the tradition of realism novels. Henry James is known as the founder of psychological realism. Study Henry James and his psychological realism novels, summarize James' creation and its rich cultural connotation, and provide necessary cultural resources for the construction of socialist literature and art with Chinese characteristics. James' unique novel theory and creative practice, inherit and carry forward traditional realism, and have a profound impact on modern stream of consciousness novels. The formation of James' personality and psychology is related to his family background, education experience and back injuries, which formed a unique view of marriage, which directly affected his future literary thoughts and artistic creations. Representative writers of psychological realism, in addition to Henry James, including Joyce Carol Oates, Raymond Carver and Jerome David Salinger, have all made important contributions to the development of psychological realism novels.


In this paper, we present a two-phase shallow semantic parsing method based on a maximum entropy model. The first phase is to recognize semantic arguments, i.e., argument identification. The second phase is to assign appropriate semantic roles to the recognized arguments, i.e., argument classification. Here, the performance of the first phase is crucial for the success of the entire system, because the second phase is performed on the regions recognized at the identification stage. In order to improve performances of the argument identification, we incorporate syntactic knowledge into its pre-processing step. More precisely, boundaries of the immediate clause and the upper clauses of a predicate obtained from clause identification are utilized for reducing the search space. Further, the distance on parse trees from the parent node of a predicate to the parent node of a parse constituent is exploited. Experimental results show that incorporation of syntactic knowledge and the separation of argument identification from the entire procedure enhance performances of the shallow semantic parsing system.


The tricyclic alc I was prepared, in several steps from 3-methyl-2-cyclohex-1-ol. Reaction of I with $MeSO_2Cl$ in pyridine gave the title mesylate II in 72% yield


Introduction: Dengue fever is an emerging acute febrile illness caused by arboviruses and presenting with wide spectrum of clinical manifestations ranging from self-limiting asymptomatic infection to severe fatal infection like Dengue hemorrhagic shock with unpredictable outcome. It is endemic in India and in recent years it is appearing in the form of epidemics especially during rainy season. Objectives 1. To determine seroprevalence of dengue virus among clinically suspected cases. 2. To determine the seasonal variation of dengue infection in the study setting. 3. To study the demographic profile of dengue positive patients. Materials and Methods: A cross sectional study was done at a tertiary care hospital, Chamarajanagar using secondary data which were maintained in the microbiology laboratory registers, for clinically suspected dengue patients reported to the hospital from JanuaryDecember 2017. Prevalence was estimated by analyzing data for the results of both NS1antigen and IgM antibody by ELISA tests and any variations in disease reporting by gender, age and season were assessed. Statistical analysis was done using WHO Epi info software version 3.5.4. Results: A total of 2213 serum samples were analyzed during the study period. Out of which 475 samples (21.46%) were found positive for dengue infection either by NS1 or IgM ELISA. The proportion of dengue cases was higher in monsoon season with maximum rate of positivity in August (55.37%). Paediatric population was the most common affected group (30.33%). Conclusion: The present study confirms that dengue is mainly a disease of rainy season and also identifies certain vulnerable groups for effective planning of interventions.


Objective To investigate the the expression of soluble Fas (sFas) in the placenta of pregnancy induced hypertension (PIH) patients after perinatal. Methods Expression of sFas were detected by Fluorescent MGB Probe Real-Time PCR in 34 severe PIH patients and 30 healthy pregnant women served as normal controls.Results Expression of placenta sFas in 34 patients were significantly higher than those in normal controls.Conclusion PIH patients' placenta had higher expressiom of sFas; Detection of sFas may be helpful to value PIH degrade and sFas would be become a indicative markers of cell proliferation and apoptosis during the perinatal period.

Key words:
Hypertension pregnancy- induced; Soluble Fas(sFas) ; In situ hybridization,fluorescence


In this paper, to make wireless power transfer applications to be safer, an Android application and a Micro Python-based magnetic sensor read-out system are developed to visualize the strength of the magnetic field in an Augmented Reality (AR) environment. The basic principle is letting the microcontroller read out the magnetic data and using Wi-Fi to send it to the phone which finally shows the electromagnetic field strength in the image of the camera view.


A new design expression for web crippling of cold formed steel members has been developed. An extensive statistical analysis was performed using published test data from Canada, the United States, Sweden and France to develop new expressions for the web crippling strength of cold formed steel members under four different loading cases, i.e. (1) end one-flange loading (EOF), (2) mterior one-flange loading (lOF), (3) end two-flange loading (ETF) and (4) interior two-flange loading (lTF). I-sections made of two channels connected back-to-back, Z-sections, channels and multiple web sections (decks) were considered. Comparisons were made with the web crippling expressions presented in the Canadian Standard for the design of cold formed steel structural members, CAN/CSA-S136-M89 (from here on referred to as S136) and with the 1991 LRFD edition of the American Iron and Steel Institute Specification (from here on referred to as AlSI). The web crippling strength depends primarily on the web thickness (t), the yield strength (Fy), the inside bend radius (r), the bearing length of the load (n), the flat dimension of the web measured in the plane of the web (h) and the angle between the plane of web and the plane of the bearing surface (8). The definition of web depth, h, in both current design standards in Canada (SI36) and the United States (AlSI) was incorporated in the'development of the new expressions. The new developed expression is nondimensional, therefore any consistent units of measurement can be used such as imperial or S1. Certain unnecessary complexities which now exist in both design standards have been removed to simplify the web crippling expressions. Eight simplified new expressions have been 'developed and one particular expression is recommended for design, which has already been adopted by the 1994 edition of S 136.


The tap (1) has a profile shaft (6) provided with a cutting body (7) with plate-like cutting tools (8). The plate-like cutting tools are arranged one upon the other, and the cutting body is connected with the shaft in a rotatably fixed manner. The cutting tools are provided at the body and manipulated by a user, where distance between the cutting tools is changed among each other by an adjusting device (11). The adjusting device is formed by a threaded drive, and the shaft is designed as a hollow shaft.


This paper explores the possibility of enhancing the decision-making capability of a decentralized sensor network by establishing cooperative behavior among sensor agents. For that purpose, it was necessary to devise a robust consensus mechanism that distributes sensing information through local fusing with neighbors rather than through a centralized control. This paper proposed a novel particle swarm optimization framework to achieve robust consensus of decentralized sensors; the new framework showed an 16.5% improvement in consensus achievement as compared to the classic majority rule method. Noteworthy enhancements in consensus achievement are also pertinent to the comparable situation of decentralized-sensor network.


A great deal of attention has been paid to the role of idiomatic language in learning a second language. It has been recently recognized by some second language researchers (e.g. Danesi, 2003) that second language speakers may sound unnatural if their speech is devoid of idiomatic language. This article is an attempt to see how the acquisition of idioms can be achieved on the part of EFL students through focus of form techniques. At the end, a number of exercises are provided that are thought to expedite the process of the acquisition of this ubiquitous part of language.


From the analysis of the humanism, this article talks about its influence to the modern education, explains the key reasons humanism developed in the educational field and puts forward the idea that humanism is the basic quality a Chinese educator should hold.


Summary Theclinical histories oftwopatients arepresented, whobothdeveloped haemorrhagic anuria after ashort course oftherapy withthecarbonic anhydrase inhibitor, acetazolamide (Diamox). Theclinical findings, in particular theradiological changes, areillustrated in thispotentially fatal condition. Thetherapeutic success ofimmediate relief oftheureteric obstruction isemphasized anditishoped that this report will act asareminder oftheimportance ofthis agent asa cause ofanuria.


In this paper, we consider a quasilinear Schrödinger equation, which arises from the study of the superfluid film equation in plasma physics. Our main goal is to find the growth condition for nonlinear term and decaying condition for the potential, which guarantee the nonexistence of positive solutions.


Positive stable realizations of fractional continuous-time linear systems Conditions for the existence of positive stable realizations with system Metzler matrices for fractional continuous-time linear systems are established. A procedure based on the Gilbert method for computation of positive stable realizations of proper transfer matrices is proposed. It is shown that linear minimum-phase systems with real negative poles and zeros always have positive stable realizations.


Background and Aims: Breast lump is the clinical presentation of various breast diseases that range from benign cyst to malignant lesions. Differentiation of benign from malignant is the most important aspect for patient care and proper management. The Aim and objectives was 1). To study the mammographic and sonographic characteristics of the breast lesions. 2).To study the sensitivity of combined mammography and ultrasound compared to that of individual modalities in diagnosing malignant lesions of the breast 3). To compare results the present study with similar studies available in the present literature Materials and Methods: This is a prospective study done on 60 patients over a period of 18 months in Department of Radio Diagnosis, Chalmeda Anand Rao Institute of Medical Sciences, Karimnagar. Results: In present comparative study in 60 solid masses Diagnosing palpable breast masses by mammography alone. Benign cases were 19, Malignant cases were 26, Suspicious cases were 15 Diagnosing benign/malignant tumour by mammography alone was Sensitivity 89%, Specificity 94%, Positive predictive value 92% Negative predictive value 91% values. Our sample size for the study was fairly small compared to many of the other studies referred to for comparison. Also, we have considered only those masses that were palpable. Hence, there may be a slight variation in the results and percentages. Conclusion: In present comparative study diagnosing benign/malignant cases by mammography alone has sensitivity 89% positive predictive value 92%. Diagnosing Benign /malignant cases by sonography alone has senisitivity 92% positive predictive value 92%. Diagnosing benign /malignant cases by combined sonography & mammography has increased sensitivity & positive predictive values up to 100% &100% respectively which indicates combined study is better than individual alone studies. Hence it can be concluded that combined mammography and high resolution ultrasound yields highest diagnostic accuracy in evaluating palpable breast lesions, especially in relatively young patients or in radiologically dense breasts.


As portrayed above, an increase in the current flowing through the assembly, besides a drop in the resistance at the interface, results in a temperature increase of the assembly as well. This indicates that Joule heating due to contact resistance on the interface between the GDL and the bipolar plate causes a increase of the temperature, which is more eminent when the contact resistance has high values, namely at low clamping pressures, where the GDL and the bipolar plate are not in good contact. This temperature increase seems to affect the interface characteristics. It has been suggested that the local temperature increase causes thermal expansion of the carbon fibers of the GDL, thus improving the interfacial contact and yielding lower values for the ICR.


This thesis presents experimental observations of the coherent manipulations of Rubidium87 atoms via two photon excitations. Atoms are cooled using a magneto-optical trap (MOT) into two far off resonance traps (FORT) that are separated by 10 micrometers. State sensitive single atom detection is performed by gathering the fluorescence signal of two atoms trapped in the FORT potentials with an electron-multiplying CCD camera. A custom built multiplexing optical system is used to individually address the FORT potentials. A microwave modulated 780nm laser is used to coherently Rabi flop atoms between the F=1 and F=2 hyperfine ground states via two photon excitations. Cavity stabilized lasers at 780nm and 480nm are used to conduct two photon excitations of F=2 hyperfine ground state atoms to Rydberg states with principal quantum numbers ranging from n=43 to n=97. This experiment is the first to observe coherent Rabi oscillations at megahertz rates between ground and Rydberg levels. These coherent Rydberg Rabi oscillations are used to demonstrate Rydberg blockade at a single atom level for the first time. The Rydberg Rabi oscillations of a target atom are observed to be 75% blockaded by the presence of a Rydberg atom more than 10 micrometers away. This paper reports on the preliminary work towards the first neutral atom controlled-NOT (CNOT) gate, and on preliminary experiments working towards deterministic loading of single atoms in a FORT potential.


1. Subjectivity in a Bottle: Commodity Form and Advertising Form, 2. Advertising and the Production of Commodity Signs, 3. The Mortise and the Frame: Reification and Advertising Form, 4. Legitimation Ads: The Story of the Family and how it Saved Capitalism from Itself, 5. Commodity Feminism, 6. This is not an Ad, 7. Levi's 501s and the "Knowing Wink": Commodity Bricolage, 8. The Postmodernism that Failed.


Ferrovalley materials with spontaneous valley polarization are crucial to valleytronic application. Based on first-principles calculations, we demonstrate that two-dimensional (2D) YX2(X= I, Br,and Cl) in 2H structure constitute a series of promising ferrovalley semiconductors with large spontaneous valley polarization and high Curie temperature. Our calculations reveal that YX2 are dynamically and thermally stable 2D ferromagnetic semiconductors with a Curie temperature above 200 K. Due to the natural noncentrosymmetric structure, intrinsic ferromagnetic order and strong spin orbital coupling, the large spontaneous valley polarizations of 108.98, 57.70 and 22.35 meV are also predicted in single-layer YX2(X = I, Br and Cl),respectively. The anomalous valley Hall effect is also proposed based on the valley contrasting Berry curvature. Moreover, the ferromagnetism and valley polarization are found to be effectively tuning by applying a biaxial strain. Interestingly, the suppressed valley physics of YBr2 and YCl2 can be switched on via applying a moderate compression strain. The present findings promise YX2 as competitive candidates for the further experimental studies and practical applications in valleytronics.


A bstract. This study investigates the relationship between atm ospheric extinction and the spectrum of the Red Rectangle nebula on scales of a few


The application of radiologic techniques, corrosion methods and new means of dissection have led to a better knowledge of the coronary artery anatomy and pathology. Postmortem angiographic investigations of these arteries were initiated by GROSS in 1923, since when the work in this field has been much improved, especially by SCHLESINGER (1957) and FULTON (1965). Corrosion techniques were started by HYRTL (1855) and HENLE (1866) (quoted by SPALTEHOLZ 1924), who used low-grade fusion metals to fill the coronary bed; new materials such as nylon ( WAGNER & PINDEXTER 1949), plexene or vinyl (JAMES & BURCH 1958, VINEBERG & MUNRO 1965) are now employed. The specimens obtained through the corrosion techniques are useful, specially for teaching. Individual films must be obtained of the atrium, the ventricular walls and the interventricular septum. Among the myocardium dissection techniques for the angiographic investigation of the coronary arteries those of SPALTEHOLZ (1924),


This paper presents a universal scheme for automatic content-based video representation and indexing. Firstly, a video sequence is subdivided in time into shots each of which has similar content. These shots can be represented by key frames. Key frames provide a suitable abstraction and framework for video representation. Secondly, we could support an even wider range of video representation and indexing by segmenting and extracting smaller units (key object) within the key frame. In this paper, we also propose a novel approach of object segmentation.


In view of the importance of rail transit passenger flow forecasting,in order to improve the precision of "the four stage methods" of urban agglomeration transit passenger flow,this paper first analyzed the characteristics of the urban agglomeration transit passenger flow,then divided that into two types: independent network assignment method and comprehensive network assignment method.It also analyzed the merits and the shortcomings of the two methods,and made some improvements of the comprehensive network assignment method which based on the association of traffic mode split and traffic assignment,meanwhile it advanced a forecasting method of passenger flow on the basis of operation organization and also introduced the practice in TransCAD.This method use the city and intercity public traffic network as the base assignment network,it considered the cooperation and competition relationship of public transportation modes based on operation organization,then got the steady rail transit passenger flow.The result is more reasonable and it is the only method for passenger flow forecasting of rail transit.


Coupling the gasification of biomass with solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) offers a promising
way to generate power in a carbon neutral and efficient manner. While the gasification
product has a suitable composition to be converted in an SOFC, there are biogenic
contaminants like tars and sulfur that lower the performance, or can even lead to irreversible
damage to the anode. The complete removal of these traces significantly increases the costs
of a gasifier-SOFC-system. Therefore, the anode must become more tolerant towards
biogenic contaminants originating from the gasification process. As a reference for this
optimization, anode supported cells were tested for several hundred hours under realistic
conditions using a cell size of 100 x 100 mm², with syngas as fuel, consisting of 50 % H2O,
25 % H2, 10 % CO, 10 % CO2, 5 % CH4, a current density of up to 0,5 A/cm², and in presence
of phenol as a model-contaminant. In situ, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS)
and the conversion via the distribution of relaxation times (DRT) were used to reveal
changes of the cell in an early stage.


The invention discloses a biological interplanting cultivating method of fructus schisandrae and fiddlehead, relates to the technical field of agricultural cultivation, and in particular relates to a biological cultivating method of interplanting fiddlehead with fructus schisandrae with wide line spacing. The method comprises the following steps of: selection of field, field planting of nursery stocks, field planting of fructus schisandrae seedlings, field planting of fiddlehead seedlings, building of racks for leading vines to climb, pruning in winter, rack surface management in summer, fertilization and harvesting. According to the cultivating method, gaps among racks of the fructus schisandrae can be taken good advantage to plant perennial fiddlehead, so that the defects of too many disorder branches, serious harm of weeds, large labor investment in farmland management, high cost, low land utilization rate and the like during growth of fructus schisandrae in the traditional cultivation production process can be overcome, more benefits are generated by limited land resources, and economic benefit and biological benefit of the planting of the fructus schisandrae and the fiddlehead are improved.


Such criticism is not cheap flippancy. The authors may be sincere and their conviction firm; but forcible adjectives and capital letters will not remove &dquo; the singular blindness characterizing the school of so-called New Economists of our times &dquo; (p. 13). Until then the benighted have at least physical justification for dissent from the unfaltering pronunciamentos, with which the volume abounds, and of which such statements as, the heavy excise on spirits is responsible for the growth of drunkenness in the United States (p. 210), or the


I.r. and n.m.r. spectral data for new σ-silyl-acetyl- and σ-silylmethyl-π-cyclopentadienyliron carbonyl phosphine complexes are discussed and indicate that it should be possible to synthesize and resolve optically active organo-iron complexes from the general asymmetric system σ-R-π-C5H5FeCO(L).


Policy and Coverage Criteria: Harvard Pilgrim considers the following procedures for the treatment of benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) as appropriate and medically necessary: • Transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) • Channel TURP (for the treatment of members with a history of prostate cancer only) • Transurethral incision of the prostate (TUIP) • Transurethral vaporization of the prostate (TUVP) • Transurethral enucleation of the prostate (TUEP) • Transurethral microwave thermotherapy (TUMT) • Transurethral needle ablation (TUNA), also known as transurethral radiofrequency needle ablation (RFNA) • Laser prostatectomy and laser based procedures including contact laser ablation of the prostate (CLAP), holmium laser procedures of the prostate (HoLAP, HoLEP, HoLRP), photoselective laser vaporization (PVP), transurethral ultrasound-guided laser induced prostatectomy (TULIP), and visually-guided laser ablation of the prostate (VLAP) When ALL the following criteria are met: • Member has been diagnosed with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), renal insufficiency, recurrent UTI, bladder stones, or gross hematuria secondary to BPH, • Symptoms interfere with activities of daily living, • Member has a peak urine flow rate on a voided volume greater than 125cc no greater than 10cc/second, • Member has an intolerance to or unsuccessful history with alpha blockers and alpha-reductase inhibitors, and • Member has received a prostate-specific antigen test in the past year yielding a result of no more than 2.5 ng/mL if the member is no older than 60 years or no more than 4.0 ng/mL if the member is over 60 years in age, Or member has a history of prostate cancer and EITHER of the following criteria are met: • Prostate cancer is in remission or • Prostate cancer will be treated by radiation therapy and BPH symptoms of "severe" severity, as indicated by an International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS)/American Urological Association Symptom Index (AUA-SI) score of at least twenty.


Nando Island is reported as one of the biggest breeding colonies of seabirds in South Korea, and is protected as a Natural Monument. This study was conducted between July to November 2015, to investigate the breeding population of Black-tailed gulls and their habitat on Nando Island. We estimated the breeding population of Black-tailed gulls (Larus crassirostris) using nest density. The mean nest density of Black-tailed gulls was 0.51 per 1 m2 (0.51 m-2), and the breeding population was approximately 26,760 individuals. The dominant vegetation was Echinochloa crusgalli and Agropyron tsukushiense var. transiens, which served as shelter and nest sites to Black-tailed gulls. The diet of Black-tailed gulls was mainly the fish, Japanese Anchovy Engraulis japonicas (48%). Other species which were found to breed on Nando Island were Streaked Sheawater (Calonectris leucomelas), Temminck's Cormorant (Phalacrocorax capillatus), and Swinhoe's storm petrels (Oceanodroma monorhis).


In this paper,relations between dynamic synchronization ability and three hybrid ratios(dr,fd and gr) are calculated numerically.Analytical results show that three hybrid ratios have important effects on the synchronization ability in a unified hybrid network theoretical framework,in which deterministic preferential attachment increase can enhance the synchronization ability of HUHPM model,but random preferential attachment increase can weaken the synchronization ability of HUHPM.Increasing hybrid preferential attachment and random attachment can both weaken the synchronization ability of LUHPM model;People can adjust 3 hybrid ratios to design and meet the actual network need.