Luwian is an Indo-European language closely related to Hittite. The cuneiform tablets found in Hattusa contain a considerable number of Luwian incantations, usually embedded into Hittite texts. These compositions continue to pose serious interpretation problems, and this is why the majority of them still lack full philological editions. The last few years, however, saw the intensification of research work on Luwian in cuneiform. The project Luwili / Luwian Religious Discourse between Anatolia and Syria (codirected by Alice Mouton and Ilya Yakubovich), has the publication of Hittite texts with Luwian passages as its principal goal, while the projects eDiAna /Digital Philological/Etymological Dictionary of the Minor Anatolian Corpus Languages (co-directed by Elisabeth Rieken, Olav Hackstein, and Jared Miller) and PALaC / Preclassical Anatolian Languages in Contact (directed by Federico Giusfredi) contribute to the interpretation of the relevant texts and use them in turn for achieving their specific objectives. The purpose of the proposed panel is presenting and comparing the results of the abovementioned projects and individual researchers in as much as they contribute to the understanding of the Luwian cuneiform corpus. The methodological approaches of individual presentations may include work on decipherment relying on philological methods, etymological analysis, or the combination of both, comparison between Luwian passages and their counterparts available in other traditions, as well as the new insights into the classification and attribution of the texts under discussion.


This essay reflects on my community work in a rural village located approximately 70 km from Kathmandu in Nepal. As a social worker, my task was to help integrate people from the Dalit (lower) caste in their local community. The assignment proved to be a challenge, not only because I lacked practical knowledge but also because I belonged to a different caste group, the so-called Brahmin, i.e. the upper caste. In this essay, I discuss how the fact that I am from an upper caste affected my work. The essay attempts to bring forth the problems that I encountered, particularly the critical incidents, and my critical reflections on being a social worker.


In the belief that Martins Pena was one of the most important theatrical Brazilian authors
of the 19th century, this text purposes that he influenced the major author of the Brazilian
romanticism, Jose de Alencar. It focuses in discuss the history of Brazilian theater in its
matter of comedy plays of the 19th century. To accomplish that, we made a study the
concept of 'Realism' and its relation with an anti-bourgeois worldview. After that, we
read some critic texts of the 19th century whose influenced the theatrical thoughts of the
19th century and made an analysis of 'Os dois ou o ingles maquinista', by Martins Pena,
and 'O demonio familiar', by Jose de Alencar, to show that the romantic worldview is
similar to that we call Realistic Theatre. Our research showed that the term Brazilian
realistic play of comedy is – as a matter of fact –, a romantic play of comedy.


A laser Doppler anemometer system is described which operates with a noncontinuous signal and measures the velocity of individual scattering centers. Histograms of the instantaneous individual velocity realizations provide accurate and unambiguous estimates of the mean velocity and rms fluctuation velocity in regions of intense turbulence levels. Measurements are presented for a fully developed two‐dimensional water channel and a deflected jet of air.


We have read with interest "COVID-19-associated coagulopathy and thromboembolic disease: Commentary on an interim expert guidance" recently provided by Cannegieter and Klok.1 This commentary exemplifies the importance that venous thromboembolism (VTE) and atheroembolism may be underrepresented and a cause for increased morbidity and mortality among coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients. COVID-19 is mainly recognized as an acute infectious disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; however, COVID-19 is emerging as an underrecognized hypercoagulable endothelial vascular disease that has contributed to significant morbidity and mortality. Although similar thrombotic events have occurred during outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS),2 emerging data, reports, and commentary of the prothrombotic complications (eg, VTE and arterial complications) in patients with COVID-19 is rapidly accumulating. Recently, Cui and colleagues3 retrospectively reported a lower-extremity VTE incidence of 25% (20/81) with a mortality of 40% (8/20) among the 81 patients diagnosed with severe COVID-19 pneumonia. Klok and colleagues4 reported a 13% mortality rate among 184 intensive care units (ICU) patients infected with COVID-19, with 3.7% having arterial thrombotic events and 27% with VTEs confirmed by imaging despite the use of standard-dose thromboprophylaxis. Furthermore, Llitjos and colleagues5 reported a 69% incidence of VTE events among patients with COVID-19 in the ICU. Moreover, pulmonary embolism (PE) has been reported in 23% of COVID-19-positive ICU patients while on thromboprophylaxis.5 Although the recent data demonstrate a high incidence of thromboembolic complications, especially VTE complications, in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in the ICU with respiratory failure, to date, the literature of VTE complications on medical wards or outpatients with COVID-19 remain sparse. Reports of strokes in the young and middle-aged have also been increasing among patients with COVID-19.6 Similarly, large-artery cerebral thrombosis have been seen among individuals with SARS caused by coronavirus in 2004.7 The mechanism underlying morbidity related to thrombosis in patients with COVID-19 remains unclear, but the importance of recognizing the thrombogenicity of COVID-19 is imperative, preventable, and potentially lifesaving. Many of the emerging reports surrounding the potential causes for thrombosis, demand ischemia, or microthrombosis have evolved around elevated markers of hypercoagulability, including D-dimer, tissue factor expression, fibrinogen levels, factor VIII levels, short-activated partial thromboplastin time, platelet binding, and thrombin formation.8 Based on well-defined clinical and laboratory parameters, a proposal for staging COVID-19 coagulopathy may provide treatment algorithms stratified into 3 stages.9 However, reports on acquired thrombophilias, such as antiphospholipid antibody syndrome, have been limited and should be considered among patients with COVID-19 in the right clinical context, especially among those without severe coagulopathy or known VTE risk factors (eg, immobility, active cancer, chronic neurological disease with leg paresis).10 To address these thrombotic concerns in COVID-19, providers should obtain a detailed inquiry into constitutional or specific symptoms and consider certain laboratory and diagnostic testing that might affect treatments and outcomes. Patients with COVID-19 who develop arterial thrombosis require a thorough evaluation for a vasculitis, systemic or local infections, trauma, dissection, vasospasm, atheroembolism (eg, artery-to-artery embolism, VTE through patent foramen ovale), or vascular anomaly. Furthermore, patients with COVID-19 should be considered for testing for heparin-induced thrombocytopenia, disseminated intravascular coagulation, or for acquired thrombophilia, such as antiphospholipid antibodies (eg, lupus anticoagulant, anticardiolipin antibodies, anti-β2 glycoprotein-1 antibodies) in the right clinical context. Currently, there are no absolute indications for routine acquired thrombophilia testing among patients with COVID-19. The role of special coagulation testing for an acquired thrombophilia must be considered in the context of the clinical presentation and should be done only if the results are likely to change medical management. Relative indications among patients with COVID-19 could include selected screening among those with an incident thrombotic event at a young age (eg, ≤40-45 years for venous thrombosis, ≤50-55 years for arterial thrombosis), recurrent thrombosis without risk factors, unprovoked thrombosis, or thrombosis in unusual vascular territories (eg, cerebral vein, portal vein, hepatic vein, mesenteric vein or artery, renal vein or artery).


Probably the silliest title ever seen in a journal published by IEE, but there is a serious point. Automatic systems, such as lights which switch on when it goes dark, and alarm systems to warn of fire, flood, intruders or pencil theft are both big business. At a simple level, they can be tackled by 11–14 year olds.


A new performance-based ANSI standard establishes two levels of eye and face protection-basic impact and high impact (or plus)-and provides a user-friendly process for selection of the right protective device.


ABSTRACT This article seeks to provide a comprehensive review of existing literature relating to the use of the Vienna Test System (VTS) in sport psychology research. A comprehensive search of major databases such as SPORTDiscus, PsycINFO, and Google Scholar yielded 22 studies related to the topic of interest. The results showed that VTS was used to compare athletes and non-athletes, as well as athletes from different sports and levels. It was also used to investigate the effect of certain factors on athlete cognitive performance, to induce ego depletion in athletes, and was shown to be a reliable and valid measure of coordinated motor abilities. The review demonstrates that VTS is a useful objective measure of various psychological constructs, and can be used to complement existing subjective measures in the field. There is great potential in using VTS to provide both researchers and applied sport psychologists with valuable information to aid them in their work with athletes, and future research should aim to identify VTS tests that are relevant to each particular sport.


The issue of growth rate reduction of high speed mixing layer with convective Mach number is examined for similar and dissimilar gases using Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) methodology with k–ɛ turbulence model. It is observed that the growth rate predicted using RANS simulations closely matches with that predicted using model free simulations. Velocity profiles do not depend on the modelled value of Prt and Sct; while the temperature and species mass fraction distributions depend heavily on them. Although basic k–ɛ turbulence model could not capture the reduced growth rate for the mixing layer formed between similar gases, it predicts very well the reduced growth rate for the mixing layer for the dissimilar gases. It appears that density ratio changes caused by temperature changes for the dissimilar gases have profound effect on the growth rate reduction.


A magnitude 2.7 earthquake shook part of central Missouri at about 6:25 A.M. local time on 5 May. The event, which caused no reported damage, follows an 18 April magnitude 5.2 earthquake whose epicenter was in Illinois near the border of Indiana. That earlier quake, classified as moderate by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), occurred in the Wabash Valley seismic zone and was the strongest earthquake in southern Illinois since 1968.


Abstract This article reflects on C. A. Bayly's legacy, with particular attention to his late turn to the history of Indian political thought. It highlights the force of his attempt to approach South Asian history with a keen eye to its specificity without correlatively compromising his attention to questions of comparability. It also highlights some of the conceptual and methodological dilemmas with which his final work confronts us.


Abstract : Report documents the results of a USAFETAC study done to determine whether or not reliable global Effective Sunspot Numbers (SSNis) for the Air Force Global Weather Central's (AFGWC's) Ionospheric Conductivity and Electron density (ICED) model could be calculated based on the present number (11) of digital ionosonde sites. The study found that increasing the number of sites would have a limited effect on ICED output, and that it was feasible to run the ICED model using the present 11-station network, subject to certain limitations.


| Rotavirus infection is widespread and major cause of acute viral gastroenteritis in dairy animals. The study describes development and application of a reverse transcription SYBR green real-time PCR assay system for the detection of group A rotaviruses (RVA) in bovines. The examination of clinical samples (n=80) showed consistent diagnostic specificity and sensitivity of the real-time PCR assay in comparison to a routinely used RNA electrophoresis method. The specificity of the assay was confirmed using other enteric viruses with the melting curve analysis of amplified products. The reproducibility of the assay was proved by low values of coefficient of variation in the intra(1.7%) and inter-assay (2.4%). In comparison to RNA-PAGE screening method which detected 25% (20/80) positive samples for RVA, the newly developed real-time PCR detected 46.25% (37/80) positive samples for RVA, providing higher sensitivity of the assay developed. Reports on development of real time PCR for detection of RVs in animals are limited and in particular from India are not available for the use of the said test for detection of RVs in bovines. The results indicate use of real-time RT-PCR assay as a method of choice for the specific detection of RVA in field samples and particularly in a situation where a number of other clinically resembling infectious agents like picobirnavirus, coronavirus, calicivirus, and astrovirus are known to coincide as mixed infection.


On September 28, 1916, the late C. S. Brimley captured an adult female Seminole bat, Lasiurus seminolus ( Rhoads), as it hung among the branches of a small tree in a woods near Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. In his annotated list, "The Mammals of North Carolina" (Carolina Tips, Installment No. 5, August, 1944, Elon College, N. C.) Brimley identified the specimen as a hoary bat, Lasiurus cinereus Beauvois.

A second North Carolina specimen, also an adult female, was shot by the junior author at Camp Steere, which is located near the city of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, on August 31, 1949. This …


The national road network within Quebec's maritime region will most likely be significantly impacted by climate change. Risk and extreme condition evaluation methodologies dealing with coastal zone road network and other critical infrastructure must be adapted, as conventional statistical projection methodologies are no longer applicable. An attractive alternative is offered by new climate model forecast based methodologies. The authors' discussion includes risk evaluation, including storm risk assessment.


Optical properties of multilayered materials, including synthesized superlattices received special attention in the last few years. To some extent, reflectance and absorption of these materials are adjustable: the polariton structure depends sensitively on the layer geometry. Though the approach considered here is applicable to any stratified structure, we emphasize on polaritons of semi-infinite superlattices, that is superlattices which exhibit a free surface. In these thin-film structures, the accumulation of interfaces gives rise to peculiar electromagnetic eigenmodes, distributed as continuous frequency bands. The termination of the superlattice at the surface modifies the density of these modes, as compared with the mode density of an infinite, truly periodic superlattice. In particular, one notices the appearance of isolated branches analogous to surface polariton modes of semi-infinite homogeneous materials. We approach the description of radiative and non-radiative modes, including finite life-time effects, from the point of view of scattering theory, using a Green's function technique. The local density of states of the polariton modes is calculated and provides a complete information on allowed electromagnetic excitations, as a function of wavelength, at any depth in the superlattice. These results will be used to discuss reflectance and attenuated total reflection experiments on superlattices.


A 57‐year‐old male presented to his primary care physician with three months of right chest pain, which persisted and became local‐ ized to a pinpoint at 6:00 in the right breast. Physical exam showed no palpable mass or skin changes, but there was reproducible exquisite tenderness focally at 6:00 in the right breast. Mammogram and ultrasound were performed. The site of the breast pain was marked with a BB. An isodense mass was seen on mammogram measuring 5 mm in diameter (Figure 1). Ultrasound revealed a thick‐walled, oval‐shaped, hypoechoic mass with no in‐ creased vascularity measuring 4 mm in diameter (Figure 2). Ultrasound‐guided core needle biopsy was performed and showed findings consistent with a benign glomus tumor. The lesional cells were positive for SMA and negative for cytokeratin AE1/AE3 consistent with the diagnosis (Figures 3 and 4). The patient was taken to the operating room where an excision was performed. The patient recovered well, and his pain resolved.


This study purposes to investigate effect of the achievement goal orientation on self management and sports confidence of students who are applicants of kinesiology department and examine empirically on what casuality exists among the variables. The major results are as follow: First, effect of achievement goal orientation on self management and sport confidence in applicants of kinesiology department turned out that the factors of task orientation in achievement goal orientation have positive effect on physical management, personal relationship management, training management, mental management of self management. Second, it turned out that the task orientation and ego orientation of achievement goal orientation have positive effect on physical/mental preparation, social support, coaching leadership of sport confidence, also the ego orientation of achievement goal orientation have positive effect on ability establishment of sport confidence. Third, it turned that self management have positive effect on physical/mental preparation, social support, coaching leadership, ability establishment of sport confidence.


In this article we examine why chocolate consumption patterns and understandings of quality vary significantly between the United States and Western Europe on the one hand, and among western European countries on the other hand. We argue that different attitudes towards chocolate and different marketing strategies by chocolate manufacturers explain much of the difference in consumption patterns. In many continental European countries, chocolate is considered a serious food rather than an indulgence, and consumers demand both tradition and innovation to a much larger degree than in the United States. Differences in understandings of quality can largely be explained through the history of chocolate manufacturing in individual countries, with many continental European countries emphasising quality ingredients and quality-oriented manufacturing processes, while many British and US manufacturers prioritise cost over quality. Most people love chocolate, probably because it has a particularly complex taste made up of more than 500 flavour components, which is considerably more than most other foods (Albright, 1997; Richardson, 2003). Americans like chocolate so much that they eat about five kilograms of chocolate products per person per year (Figure 1). This may seem like a large amount, but Europeans consume significantly more chocolate. The inhabitants of the main chocolate-producing countries – Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Austria and the United Kingdom – eat on average about ten kilograms of chocolate per person every year (Zackowitz, 2004). Why do Western Europeans consume so much more chocolate on average than Americans? Why do Americans and the British have a different understanding of what constitutes quality chocolate from continental Europeans? We argue that the history of chocolate manufacturing in Europe explains how and why different notions of quality developed. Each innovation in the manufacturing process influenced understandings of quality in the chocolate industry in the country in which the innovation was made. These understandings of what constitutes quality chocolate, in turn, influence how chocolate is manufactured and marketed in the respective countries. Finally, traditions in marketing and manufacturing shape and are shaped by consumer preferences, showing that cultural and economic processes are at work simultaneously. Our analysis suggests that continental European chocolate manufacturers' dual focus on traditional understandings of quality on the one hand, and innovation in terms of flavours on the other hand, make their chocolate bars so popular. In both the United States and in Europe, mass-market chocolate makes up the lion's share of the chocolate market, with gourmet chocolates only accounting for 3.2% in the United States (Hopkins, 2005). Originally, only small-scale producers made chocolate, but in recent decades the chocolate industry has become increasingly dominated by just a few large, often multinational, companies (Fold, 2000). Because of the dominance of these large manufacturers, we limit our analysis to mass-market chocolates. We believe that they are a better indicator of general trends in chocolate manufacturing and chocolate consumption patterns than gourmet chocolates. Chocolates produced by smaller companies often cater to a more upscale market and reflect regional variations in chocolate preferences, complicating the patterns significantly. In this article, however, our main concern is not with sub-national differences, but variations among countries. In our analysis we primarily contrast the United States and Western Europe, but also address differences among Western European countries. In particular, it is important to point out that the UK's chocolate industry has taken a different path from continental Western European producers. While the UK is distinctly European in its chocolate consumption patterns, its understandings of chocolate quality are more like those of the US, resulting in a bitter dispute among the member states of the European Union about what constitutes quality chocolate.


The article look over the current state of international cruise shipping market. The author have proved that the world cruise shipping market is characterizing of a significant level of control concentration. The large part of market controlled by a small number of global companies. This market is dynamic and he is attracting more quantity of tourists. The article reveals the essence and benefits of cruise tourism, the tendencies and prospects of development of cruise traffic in the world. The author have also identified cruise industry outlooks: the size of cruise ships is becoming less relevant, the focus being more on design and ameninities; specialty cruises continue to thrive; the Caribbean remains the most popular destination, with the Med continuing to grow; itineraries will continue to offer new and exciting destinations around the world; travel agents continue to be key to cruise travel. They need to be consider when you need to plan activities for the specialized shipping companies.


The polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a complex and heterogeneous endocrine disorder. MicroRNAs negatively regulate the expression of target genes at posttranscriptional level by binding to the 3′ untranslated region of target genes. Our previous study showed that miR‐141‐3p was dramatically decreased in the ovaries of rat PCOS models. In this study, we aimed to characterize the target of miR‐141‐3p in rat ovarian granulosa cells. 3‐(4,5‐Dimethylthiazol‐2‐Yl)‐2,5‐Diphenyltetrazolium Bromide (MTT) assay showed that cell viability was dramatically increased when miR‐141‐3p was overexpressed but was decreased when miR‐141‐3p was interfered. Flow cytometry showed that cell apoptotic rate was dramatically decreased when miR‐141‐3p was overexpressed but was increased when miR‐141‐3p was interfered. Bioinformatics analysis predicted that death‐associated protein kinase 1 (DAPK1) might be the target gene of miR‐141‐3p because the 3′ untranslated region of DAPK1 contains sequences complementary to microRNA‐141‐3p. Transfection with miR‐141‐3p mimics and inhibitor into granulosa cells showed that both DAPK1 mRNA and protein levels were negatively correlated with miR‐141‐3p level. Dual‐luciferase reporter assay established that DAPK1 was the target of miR‐141‐3p. Taken together, our data indicate that miR‐141‐3p may inhibit ovarian granulosa cell apoptosis via targeting DAPK1 and is involved in the etiology of PCOS.


Somatotropic hormone (STH) administration accelerated the rate of gain of body weight in normal rats, and effectively neutralized the inhibitory effect of hypoxia on gain in body weight. STH administration caused a nonsignificant reduction in the incidence of bacterial endocarditis. STH had no detectable effect upon the usual hypertrophy of the adrenal glands and cardiac ventricles resulting from the stressful exposure. A sex difference was noted in the weight gain response of rats receiving STH.


A device disposed between a carburetor and the intake manifold of an internal combustion engine has a passage aligned with the carburetor and intake manifold opening into which secondary-air is admitted radially from a valve system connected to the accelerator pedals of the vehicle.


Increasing the number of lines of lidar can alleviate the sparsity of point cloud, but the cost of high-line lidar is higher. From the perspective of algorithm, the fusion of continuous point clouds frames can obtain more abundant information, which is expected to be a means to achieve high-performance object detection on low-line lidar. At present, most multi-frame point cloud fusion methods stack different frames after registration. This fusion method, which introduces GPS, ego-motion, and other information for registration, can only align static objects, not larger moving objects. In this paper, we implement a multi-frame fusion method based on Non-Local, which does not need registration and takes into account both moving and stationary objects. We validated the model performance on the NuScenes dataset. Experimental results show that the performance of the proposed fusion method is better than that of fusion method by stacking frames after registration.


The utility model, which relates to the technical field of a signal analogue simulation generator, relates to a pulse condition signal analogue simulation generator, more particularly to an apparatus capable of simulating signals of various pulse conditions basically identical with those of the real human body at a bionic hand. The generator comprises a hydraulic system (100), a pressure stabilizing system (200), a flow distributor (300), a waveform synthesizer (400), a bionic hand system (500) and an oil tank (600), wherein the components are connected in pipeline and circuit modes. Various pulse condition signals basically identical with those of the human body as well as various pulse condition finger feelings of pulse feeling of the traditional Chinese medical science can be obtained at the radial artery portion of the bionic hand, thereby realizing regeneration and simulation of various pulse conditions of the traditional Chinese medical science. Therefore, the provided generator can be widely applied to traditional Chinese medicine experiment teaching; visualization and quantitative analysis of pulse conditions and provide standard pulse condition signals for modern research and industrialized process of the pulse conditions can be realized; in vitro study on various pulse condition formation mechanisms can be carried out; and reliable and stable standardization quantitative indexes can also be provided for teaching, scientific researches, clinical practice, and industry of the traditional Chinese medical science.


Innovative list of components and indicators of socioeconomic modernization of regions was formed to identify the region by comparing the integral indexes with integral threshold values, which allows using adaptive management techniques to solve the problem of required values synthesis of the components and their indicators as being the strategic benchmarks for possible scenarios of Development strategies. The current state of infrastructure development of Donetsk region as part of the macroeconomic development was identified as well as t strategic benchmarks for indicators were defined providing rapid infrastructure development up to 2020, the quantitative impact of infrastructure development on the macroeconomic development was shown.


Censored Sentiments offers a new perspective on women as letter writers and on the eighteenth-century increase in, and subsequent decline of, epistolary fiction by tracing forms of censorship that affected female letters in England, France, Italy, and America.


The routing problem in area array integrated circuit (IC) packaging has become an extremely complex problem in the realm of high I/O count IC packages. With the advent of flip-chip and ball grid array (BGA) technology to meet the current demands of smaller size and high wiring densities, the routing problem lies in the core of electronic design automation process. In this paper, we describe an intuitive computer visualization-based approach for placement and routing of bonding pads that would result in low manufacturing costs and smaller component size compared to conventional approaches. This novel approach is an extension of "balls shifted as needed" method for I/O ball placement in BGA package enabling single-layer board-level routing for any I/O count. The I/O ball/pad layout and routing designs along with results are presented for two routing layers with the inclusion of vias in the design. This routing scheme is shown to be easily extensible to accommodate more practical multilayer routing and can be incorporated in current electronic design automation (EDA) computer-aided design (CAD) tools to offer an integrated routing solution for area array chip-package-board codesign. The results show that different trace routing patterns lead to different area requirements for same number of I/Os. This has led to the formulation of new design paradigms which are presented in the paper for smaller component size


In the wake of the "war on terror" and the emergence of a global surveillance regime shrouded in secrecy during the first part of the 21st century, notions of "empire" and the "white man's burden" (including "saving" the global economy, or behaving as global protector) are in the process of being rehabilitated in social theory, public law, human rights and global economics. Meanwhile, such principles as universal access to justice and equality are relegated to the dustbin of history, as if they were dangerous remnants of a previous period of history in which genuine aspirations to global justice resulted in the pathologies of today. The work of social theorist and political philosopher Enrique Dussel, emerging from within the legacy of Latin American thought, is hereby marshalled to the aim of reconstructing such notions as "people", "justice" and "international" in relation to the need for political organisation and legal creativity, against new forms of imperialism today. Based on Dussel's reading of the liberatory event in Paulian theology and Latin American society's popular religiosity, this paper seeks to explore an alternative agenda for theorizing about legal and political principles and institutions from an internationalist


The ecuavoley is the second sport more practiced by people from Quito. Ecuavoley
players have created a lot of urban imaginaries .Those include the language and the
clothes.
The ecuavoley is an important part of the Ecuadorian identity because of the fact that
all the different cultures forget their conflicts that permit that our country be a
pluricultural place that makes people to feel proud of their origins. Thousands of
people from different neighborhoods go to play ecuavoley in the El Ejido and La
Carolina´s courts like every single day .For that reason ecuavoley is more than a
simple game .There are too much special things around this sport, like social codes
and stories that lend people to get a especial dialect wich is easy to be understand by
all Ecuadorians .That's way ecuavoley is an important part of the city.


Octacalcium phosphate (OCP) coating was formed on the surface of MgAlZnCa alloy (AZX612) by anodically oxidized and subsequently immersed in a supersaturated aqueous solution containing phosphate and calcium ion under ordinary temperature and pressure. The formed OCP layer consisted of both the inner layer of the fine crystallites and the outer layer of the large crystallites, and the inner layer remained on the alloy even after the ultrasonication process. In simulated body fluid, AZX612 treated with both anodic oxidization and subsequent OCP coating process showed higher corrosion resistance than those treated with only anodic oxidization. ©2022 The Ceramic Society of Japan. All rights reserved.


All collections of books are interesting, but in Grahamstown, South Africa, there is a collection with a particular claim to fame.


. We study shift functional equations that generalize the functional equation satisfied by Euler Gamma function. Under a natural growth condition, the vector space of meromorphic solutions is finite dimensional. We construct a basis of the space of solutions composed by Omega functions that generalize Euler Gamma function. Omega functions are defined as exponential periods. They have a meromorphic extension to the complex plane with simple poles at negative integers. They are characterized by their growth property on vertical strips and their shift functional equation. This generalizes Wielandt's characterization of Euler Gamma function.


L-Convex Polyominoes: A Survey (G Castiglione & A Restivo) Contextual Array Grammars (R Freund et al.) A Cosmic Muse (T Head) Triangular Pasting System (T Kalyani et al.) Petri Nets, Event Structures and Algebra (K Lodaya) Simple Deformation of 4D Digital Pictures (A Nakamura) On Languages Defined by Numerical Parameters (A Salomaa) Digitalization of Kolam Patterns and Tactile Kolam Tools (R Thamburaj & S Nagata) Hexagonal Array Acceptors and Learning (D G Thomas et al.) and other papers.


Basing on integral equation in time domain (IETD) hybridization with finite difference method, a new method is applied to solve the radiation problem of the thin curve wire antenna. The results are compared with those from moment method (MoM) in frequency domain. The comparison illustrates a good agreement between results from both methods, so it can be efficiently applied to solve the radiation and scattering problem of the thin curve wire conductor in time domain.


The design of signal generators has evolved through various analog techniques and in the recent years has seen the adoption of digital design methods owing to tremendous advantages that digital methods offer over analog. This work studied Direct Digital Synthesis (DDS) technique and the implementation was done using simplified yet innovative approach to realize the memory data storage of signal points on look-up tables in a PROM and also the DAC.


Glen and Louis would like to thank . . . First, we would like to thank the contributors to this volume. We were very deliberate in who we invited to participate in this volume. It has been a great pleasure to work with a group of professionals who have contributed so many great things to the field. We believe the strength of The God Image Handbook is in the dialogue; we thank you for sharing your voice, perspective, and time. Second, we would also like to thank the faculty at the God Image Institute who contributed in many unseen ways to the current volume: Rodney Hesson, Michael Mitchell, Nicholas Gibson, Jay Gattis, Clarence Leung, Steve Simpson, and Peter Kalve. Third, we would like to offer special thanks to William Schmidt. He has been a tremendously supportive editor. He has offered encouragement, helped us learn to trust our own judgment, and been remarkably available throughout this entire process. We would also like to thank the many others at Haworth who have helped us with this project, but have not played as visible a role.


Abstract Using the Environmental Impact Assesment (EIA) of the proposed Third Limfjord Crossing in Aalborg, Denmark, as an example, this paper discusses how pessimism bias against the no‐build alternative acted as an instrument to persuade decision‐makers into adopting a proposed road scheme. Assuming that traffic growth would be the same whether or not a new motorway was constructed, the planners in the Limfjord case concluded that intolerable congestion would arise in the absence of increased road capacity. The paper discusses how such bias was created through the assumptions of the Limfjord case traffic model, and gives an outline of the planning and decision‐making process in which the model was used. The latter includes a formal complaint opposing the motorway project and the responses to this complaint. The paper concludes that a process of knowledge filtering has taken place, where state‐of‐the‐art knowledge about induced and generated travel ended up being dismissed in the political and legal decision‐making system.


In this issue, instead of a review of new books or textbooks on transport and transportation, paying tribute to the oeuvres of our predecessors, the journal reproduces a bibliographic article first appeared more than a century ago in the journal «Zheleznodorozhnoe delo» [Rail Business]. The editors hope that it will help to get an idea of how concise, meaningful and, in modern terms, informative reviews of scientific literature were compiled at that time, as well as the range of scientific problems considered.By tradition, the publication retains the vocabulary, punctuation and abbreviations adopted at the beginning of the 20th century.


This study uses the concepts of economic development from the perspective of local production arrangements (APL), with a focus on local development, and aims to analyze the psciculture activity in Dourados region, in Mato Grosso do Sul. APLs are known as the productive matrix activities based on the economy of proximity and is represented mainly by small and medium-sized companies which represent specific forms of production organization. These are integrated to the territory and are capable of autonomous development, based on the action as a main territorial propulsion development. The region of Dourados, located in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, stands out in the national market for the production of grains and the creation of cattle and chickens, with the presence of multinationals around. Parallel to these activities, psiculture has been highlighted in the state as an economic activity with high development potential and an alternative income for small landowners in the region, which concentrates more than 60% of the pool for the activity of psiculture in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul.


To the Editor: We have read the article by Chantepie et al evaluating safety of benadamustine-based conditioning prior to autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) with great interest. The authors reported concerningly high frequency of acute renal failure (27.9%) and high rates of other toxicities observed with BeEAM (bendamustine, etoposide, cytarabine, melphalan) conditioning regimen. Shortage of carmustine led to replacement of standard BEAM (carmustine, etoposide, cytarabine, melphalan) with BeEAM conditioning regimen in our institution as well. High frequency of febrile netropenia and increased mortality that we observed prompted us to further compare toxicities and outcomes between these two regimens which we report here. We retrospectively analyzed a cohort of 60 ASCT patients 18 years or above with histologically confirmed diagnosis of NonHodgkin or Hodgkin lymphoma that received either BEAM (43 patients) or BeEAM myeloablative regimen (17 patients) as a part of the ASCT procedure in the period from 2008 to 2018. Bendamustine doses of 200 mgmday were used. Acute kidney injury was defined according to KDIGO guidelines as in the article by Chantepie et al. Numerical variables were expressed as median and interquartile range (IQR) and were compared between two groups using the Mann– Whitney U test. Categorical variables were expressed as percentages and were compared between two groups using the Fisher test or χ test where appropriate. Survival analysis was based on the Kaplan–Meier method, the Cox–Mantel version of the log-rank test was used to compare survival between two groups. P values <0.05 were considered statistically significant. Analyses were done using the MedCalc statistical program ver. 18.10 (MedCalc Software bvba, Ostend, Belgium). Median age was 51.5 years, a majority of patients had diffused large B-cell lymphoma (53%). Patients' characteristics and outcomes are shown in Table 1. BEAM and BeEAM groups did not differ regarding age, gender, diagnosis, baseline-estimated creatinine clearance, duration of hospitalization, time to neutrophil or platelet recovery (P > 0.05 for all comparisons) showing that two regimens were comparable in terms of baseline and engraftment characteristics. However, patients receiving bendamustine were significantly more likely to develop acute kidney injury (23.5% vs 0% for BeEAM vs BEAM, respectively; P = 0.005), virtually all experienced febrile neutropenia (100% vs 74% for BeEAM vs BEAM, respectively; P = 0.025) and were more likely to require intensive care unit (ICU) management (23.5% vs 0% for BeEAM vs BEAM, respectively; P = 0.005). Most worrisome, patients receiving bendamustine experienced significantly higher 100-day mortality (17.6% vs 0% for BeEAM vs BEAM, respectively; P = 0.004) as shown in Figure 1. All three deaths observed in the bendamustine group were due to septic complications. It should be noted that high rates of ICU admission (24%) and renal toxicity (17%) were observed with BeEAM by other author groups as


This paper presents the variance analysis, and performance comparison, of the least-squares frequency estimator (LSFE). and a specific version of the nonlinear frequency estimator (NFE). The results are obtained for the case where the received signal contains both phase and frequency errors (Δθ and Δf irrespectively). It is shown that under rather restrictive conditions, the LSFE is a low signal-to-noise ratio approximation to the ML estimate of Δf. Also considered are the effects on the moments of this estimate, if any of these conditions are violated. The latter part of the paper deals with the various versions of the NFE. The problem of phase ambiguity associated with these nonlinear estimators is investigated, and a resolution technique is proposed.


Planktonic eggs of some pelagic and neritic fishes collected at Madras, Mandapam and Porto Novo were found infected by an acellular parasite, which was found within the yolk of the eggs. The taxonomic identity of the parasite is under investigation. Intense infection was found to lead to the death of eggs as well as the newly hatched larvae. The incidence of infected eggs in the samples was 4% at Madras, 16% at Mandapam and 10.5% at Porto Novo


Interactive electronic technical manual(IETM) has become a hotspot of current research and application on the repairing and maintenance information-based of air craft.The present situation and development tendency at home and abroad is introduced.The total structure and function of a IETM authoring system based J2EE on platform is established.The system can complete catalogue structure,data organizing,document writing,print and publishing on air craft IETM.Operate principle and core technology of structure IETM authoring system based on J2EE platform is researched.A new method of the integration is presented between SGML/XML editor and IETM authoring system.The description and solution of the key process is taken.


The floor rocks of the Kalahari Group are only known from boreholes. It consists of rocks of the Karoo Sequence with its associated intrusions of dolerite. The pre-Kalahari topography was dissected by rivers which drained in the direction of the present Botswana. The distribution of the oldest formation of the Kalahari Group, the Wessels Formation (clayey gravel), and the overlying Budin Formation (clay) was also determined from borehole records. The Karoo Sequence was probably the source of these rocks. The overlying Eden Formation (sandstone, grit and conglomerate) had a source which could yield much sand. All these formations were deposited under fluviatile conditions. The Mokalanen Formation (calcrete) and the Gordonia Formation (sand) indicate a change from a humid to an arid environment. The Lonely Formation (clayey diatomaceous limestone) was deposited in a lacustrine environment. It also indicates a higher rainfall in an otherwise arid period. The Goeboe Goeboe Formation consists of clay and sand in the pans and rivers.


Although NAGAS are adapted from the NIAS, it is clear that at present the focus of internal audit has been changing; and not just paying attention to the evaluation of operational processes and financial institutions, in order to identify fraud; but now stress the importance of including risk management and direct advice to the board or senior management.


St. Thomas Aquinas is known for his masterwork the "Summa Theologiae," yet his biblical commentaries have been somewhat neglected. Similarly many readrs of the Bible do not spend much time with the book of Colossians. This pearl of a commentary should assist not only in renewing interest in Aquinas's biblical insights, but also in deepening our appreciation for the richness of this Epistle to the Colossians.


As hopes of an end to the 20 year civil war in Sudan were raised by new talks taking place in Kenya this week, charities reported that the health situation in the south was deteriorating.

As Dr John Garang, leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement met Ali Osman Mohamed Taha, vice-president of Sudan, diplomats and analysts saod the prospects for peace have never been better. But observers from charities and non-governmental organisations said that the country was facing a whooping cough outbreak, many cases of preventable blindness and record malnutrition.

An estimated 175 children have died of whooping cough during a recent outbreak in southern Sudan. Almost 1000 suspected cases have been seen so far, a spokesman for the charity Tearfund said last week. More than 850 cases have been confirmed. A mass treatment and prevention campaign is being carried out in …


In the framework of usual superfield approach, we derive the exact local, covariant, continuous and off-shell nilpotent Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) and anti-BRST symmetry transformations for the U(1) gauge field (A_\mu) and the (anti-)ghost fields ((\bar C)C) of the Lagrangian density of a four (3 + 1)-dimensional QED by exploiting the horizontality condition defined on the six (4, 2)-dimensional supermanifold. The long-standing problem of the exact derivation of the above nilpotent symmetry transformations for the matter (Dirac) fields (\bar \psi, \psi), in the framework of superfield formulation, is resolved by a new restriction on the (4, 2)-dimensional supermanifold. This new gauge invariant restriction on the supermanifold, due to the augmented superfield formalism, owes its origin to the (super) covariant derivatives. The geometrical interpretations for all the above off-shell nilpotent transformations are provided in the framework of augmented superfield formalism.


STC is a set of popular textbook among some science textbooks written for primary school under the direction of NSES in America. The paper introduces the basis for composing,the system of content,the system of goal and teaching materials of STC textbook,which can provide some reference for our reform on science curriculum and textbook in primary schools.


The technological process of the use of polymer nanoporous antireflection film is discussed in detail. The influence of some technological conditions is also analyzed (such as the polymers' molecular weight, experimental temperature, experimental humidity, and the volatility of common solvent). It is found that different technological conditions will lead to the different porous size. The larger the porous size is, the more the scattering loss will be, so the transmission ratio of the film is low. It is indicated that the use of a low-molecular-weight polymer, an increase in the environment temperature, the reduction of the humidity, and the adoption of a low-boiling-point solvent are keys to small porous size and high transmission ratio.


I i«XJLD like to express my happiness that F.ducation Ministers of practically all the states and Union territories have responded to my invitation to this Conference. I am looking forward to two days of fruitful discussion with them. Shri Rajiv Gandhi has instilled a new hope in the country and he syntx.lises its determination to equip itself for the challenges of the 21st century. He is not content with strategies of mere survival. He has not hesitated to question age-old assUJlptions, which may have been valid at one time but have lost their relevance to the present day, and even more so for tOll'Orrow. In charting out the country's course for the future, his airphasis is on clearly defined goals and their timely realisation. This approach is reflected in his determination to bring about radical changes in education. In articulating his concern for educational reorganisation, the Prime Minister is expressing his dissatisfaction with the ~ucational system which is shared by the whole country. At the root of the Prime Minister's concern for education is his realisation that the future of our country depends on the development of its human resource. As Gunnar Myrdal pointed out in Asian Drama, no country can progress without investment in its people. A question is often asked how was it possible for countries of EUrope and for Japan, which were decimated during the world war II, to rise to become great economic powers in such a short period of time? All authorities ascribe this to the strength of their human resource, discipline and hard work. We have to build that kind of resource in our country to stride towards the next century. F.ducation is both an ingredient and an instrument of human resource developrrent. All men and women and, even m:>re so, every child


Abstract Client control orientation is modeled as a force on program completion in alcohol treatment programs. A representative sample of adult alcohol abusers entering all state-funded programs in Missouri was recruited into the study and administered a pre-treatment interview including a locus of control scale. Official program records of completion and reason for non-completion were also accessed. The theoretical advantage of internal control orientation on client outcomes post-treatment was mitigated by its inverse relationship to a desire to change and to program completion. Possible reasons for an effect of locus of control on retention in program are explored.


Speaking notes from Catherine Morris's presentation to the Canadian Bar Association -
International Assistance Section, Vancouver, BC, Canada on February 12, 2014.


Generally speaking, in both the patent and copyright fields, the industrial and artistic property law of the United States is hostile to compulsory licenses, whether by administrative or judicial imposition pursuant to a legal mandate or automatic, i.e., by operation of law.' Apart from a section in the United States Code which, in effect, establishes a general automatic compulsory license to use patented inventions for purposes of the federal government,2 there exist only very few federal3 statutory provisions pertaining to compulsory licensing; the principal body of the actual United States law is decisional, developed to provide sanctions for violations of the antitrust laws. It even has been questioned whether Congress actually could enact broad and extensive compulsory licensing schemes such as are found in some other legal systems. The Constitution vests the Congress with the power: To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.4 On the occasion of the revision of the Atomic Energy Act in 1954, when compulsory licensing of atomic energy patents was under consideration, Congressman Cole, now the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, made an impassioned plea to the effect that the proposed compulsory licensing clauses were not only un-American but also uncon


Received 11 January 2015 Revised 27 January 2015 Accepted 4 February 2015 Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for bifurcation lesions remains challenging in the era of drug-eluting stents (DES) because of worse outcomes compared with simple coronary lesions [1]. A single stent strategy is the gold standard for bifurcation lesions even when the ostial side branch (SB) has severe stenosis. However, data on unprotected left main (ULM) bifurcation lesions are limited. We encountered two contrasting cases: one case of acute occlusion of the left circumflex artery (LCx) during PCI, resulting in hemodynamic collapse, and


Recent health care policy directives advocate partnerships between researchers and service users in setting the research agenda and conducting research. This paper seeks to explore the meaning and reality of user participation from the perspective of a parent-carer and his experiences of being involved in three recent research projects. Important issues, such as the need for practical and emotional support and respect for user partners, are discussed alongside key questions for participants, including, what's in it for me? Drawing these ideas together, the authors' highlight four broad issues and recommendations to inform and guide the further progress of participatory research within health and social care.


A partial-access scheme is proposed for coded-IDMA (interleave-division multiple-access) systems. Similar to conventional IDMA systems, the transmitter of each user consists of a concatenation of channel encode, spreading, and user-specific interleaving. The only difference is that after spreading, some 0s are inserted into the chip sequence. Among the transmitted symbols of −1, 0, 1, symbol 0, however, implies a non-energy transmission or non-access to the channel. In the IDMA receiver, we use a customary joint iterative decoding based on a single factor graph. In our proposed IDMA systems, partial access not only greatly decreases the complexity of the joint decoding; it also decreases the number of short loops in the factor graph. Our extrinsic information transfer (EXIT) analysis and bit-error-rate (BER) simulations show that the proposed partial-access scheme outperforms conventional full-access-IDMA systems in a low SNR range.


Uterine morphology assessed by transvaginal ultrasound and the hemodynamics of intratumoral vessels assessed by color Doppler ultrasound were prospectively correlated with the clinical outcome of 25 patients with trophoblastic tumors. Twenty patients were followed without treatment (observation group) and 16 achieved complete local resolution. The four subjects with local persistence were combined with five patients referred from other institutions and received chemotherapy (treatment group).


The most important invention of the god is the man which has been enriched with various attributes and this man has successfully utilized such features for the betterment of himself as well as the society. But as said by a prominent jurist Voltaire "that with great power comes great responsibility" and also that
everything has merit as well as demerit which is responsible for maintaining the equilibrium of the society. Likewise with the invention of cyber world the problem of compromising and hence the issue of cyber security is stem out and along with the it a major and serious concern of the developing nations is that of hindrance to Human Rights due to such intrusion of the cyber world by human beings. This above article talks about the concern that why it is need of the society to not only treat cybersecurity as cyber issue but also as a Human Rights issue for which answers to the question that how can be cybersecurity be taken into the ambit of Human Rights


Social security policy in Australia currently aims to encourage people to undertake activities to improve their chances of gaining employment. A key question is then 'how can policy motivate people to undertake such activities?' This article reviews theory and empirical results on work-related motivation, describes the main features of social security policy for unemployed people, and considers the impact on motivation the social security system is likely to have, particularly for the long-term unemployed.


This article is devoted to such specific subject of Saltikov-Schedrin's novel Gospoda Golovlevy (misters Golovlevy) as food subject. The meal becomes a sort of a ritual for Golovlevy and it is closely connected with the word: to speak for Iudushka is as necessary as to eat. That is because all the characters are half dead, empty people, without souls and food fills the bodies instead of soul. Saltikov always transformed traditional views, show them to us in the opposite or mutilate way.


Review on ANP32A (acidic (leucine-rich) nuclear phosphoprotein 32 family, member A), with data on DNA, on the protein encoded, and where the gene is implicated.


Observations of ACTH and TSH-producing cells of the rat pituitary studied immunohistochemically in thick sections were correlated with observations of adjacent thin sections studied by electron microscopy. ACTH-containing cells are small and stellate, with poorly developed organelles and granules ≤250nm in diameter. TSH cells are much larger, contain well-developed intracellular organelles, and variable sized granules (≤270nm), some of which appear in vesicles with dense cores. In addition, TSH cells show ultrastructural changes in response to adrenalectomy.


A lightweight website search system was put forward,together with the technique of its realization.Its structure was given,including the details for its realization,web page access as well as the calculation of sub-term and similarity of web face.The system can be used to serve the designated websites,such as searching the relevant web pages according to key words .Experiments show that the system functions well,greatly improving the efficiency of users' access to information.


From an approach to questions and theories of identity and recognition and through authors that have dealt with them over the last few decades using different political-philosophical perspectives, I have addressed the concept of recognition by focusing on the issue of work from the starting point of Axel Honneth. Self-realization at work and capitalist paradox are combined in a debate with Fraser's perspectival dualism, continuing the dialogue between the two scholars on recognition and redistribution.


If privacy occupies a central place in contemporary discussions of the enforcement of morals, its role in the Athenian context was no less important. Plato, for example, clearly realized that if a state was to carry out a program of moral education privacy was one of the most significant barriers that would have to be overcome. Analyzing the conceptions of privacy in the context of political ideology at Athens is a relatively straightforward matter, for which Aristotle, Plato, and the Athenian orators provide a great deal of interesting evidence. The foregoing chapter has suggested, however, that while political ideology may be important, it is far from the whole picture, representing only one aspect of the social system that a full presentation must take into account. Here the question presents itself: how, for an ancient society, can the historian reconstruct the rich texture of social practice? In my view, comparative evidence from contemporary social anthropology can play a crucial role in such an undertaking. This chapter illustrates the use to which anthropological models may be put in sorting out the historian's "jigsaw puzzle" alluded to above. To put it another way, though ancient historians commonly label communities like classical Athens "face-to-face" societies, they rarely (if ever) provide a detailed account of the structures and practices which define such social systems. The richness of the anthropological record describing contemporary Mediterranean "face-to-face" communities vastly exceeds that available for any ancient society.


Flow and ionic transport in porous media are central to electrokinetic pumping as well as to a host of other microfluidic devices. Electrokinetic pumping provides the ability to create high pressures (to over 10,000 psi) and high flow rates (over 1 mL/min) with a device having no moving parts and all liquid seals. The electrokinetic pump (EKP) is ideally suited for applications ranging from a high pressure integrated pump for chip-scale HPLC to a high flow rate integrated pump for forced liquid convection cooling of high-power electronics. Relations for flow rate and current fluxes in porous media are derived that provide a basis for analysis of complex microfluidic systems as well as for optimization of electrokinetic pumps.


Endoscopic sinus surgery has progressed immensely in the past decade. The indications and so the frequency of its use has increased tremendously. In routine practice of an endoscopic surgeon, it is not unusual to have cases where bleeding is encountered in spite of good decongestion and surgical techniques. In such conditions, patient is defi nitely at a higher risk of aspirating blood, blood clots and packing material. Also, the surgeon has a bad surgical fi eld which worsens the matter further. The aspiration of blood increases the morbidity in the postoperative period and sometimes obstruction of larynx and trachea with clots or dislocation of packing, sometimes lethal is not unheard of. Our technique is a very simple, cost-effective answer to these problems which play an important role in the ultimate surgical outcome. TECHNIQUE


model for vertical profiles of velocity and suspended sediment concentration in straight and curved submarine channels" M. Bolla Pittaluga, J. Imran, D. Medicina, and G. Parker Department of Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigne, Urbana, Illinois, USA


In all fields of endeavor, there are basically two classes of practitioners; those who have a genuine understanding of how and why things work, and those who have little if any notion of the principles involved. The first class is exemplified by the electrical engineer who knows a great deal about the generation and transmission of electricity; the second, by the naive individual who merely plugs a lamp into a wall receptacle and neither knows nor cares how or why the light goes on. The limit of the latter's sophistication may well be the ability to change a light bulb.


Performs a two-sample multidimensional Kolmogorov-Smirnov test as described by Fasano and Franceschini (1987). This test evaluates the null hypothesis that two i.i.d. random samples were drawn from the same underlying probability distribution. The data can be of any dimension, and can be of any type (continuous, discrete, or mixed).


Objective To observe the efficacy and safety of applying platelet glycoprotein Ⅱb/Ⅲa receptor antagonist(tirofiban) during the perioperation period of emergency percutaneous coronary intervention(PCI) in acute myocardial infarction(AMI).Methods Patients with coronary artery TIMI blood flow 0-1 grade and underwent emergency PCI were consecutively randomized into tirofiban group(n=45) and control group(n=45).Tirofiban was used in the former group before operation and continued for 36-48 hours after PCI.In the latter group,PCI was performed through routine process.The reflow rate,30 days reinfarction rate,mortality and platelet activation degree before and after PCI were recorded during the study.Results All patients in the tirofiban group were recovered with TIMI 3 grade flow and neither slow-reflow nor no-reflow phenomena were observed.In the control group 88.90% of patients restored TIMI 3 grade flow and 11.10% of patients were just recovered with TIMI 0-2 grade flow.The difference was found to be statistically significant(P0.05).There was a lower reinfarction and mortality rate in the tirofiban group(0%) compared with the control group(6.66%) 30 days after the operation(P0.05).Platelet activation degree was reduced while no increase in haemorrhage was observed in the tirofiban group.Conclusion Tirofiban used during perioperation period of emergency PCI for AMI can facilitate coronary artery revascularization,increase blood flow and reduce reinfarction rate after PCI.


Abstract Dammar varnish was introduced into Europe and America during the nineteenth century, but the chronology of its use in various countries is still imperfectly understood. New information from unpublished manuscripts shows that dammar was used by painters in the United States by the middle of the nineteenth century—one American painter wrote that dammar was 'much used in the United States' in 1851—and by 1860 it was available from at least three American colormen. The use of dammar may have been more widespread in the United States at this time than it was in Britain, perhaps because of connections between German and American painters.


Pressure controlled intermittent coronary sinus occlusion (PICSO) has been found to substantially salvage ischemic myocardium. To indentify optimum occlusion and release points within PICSO cycles, two mechanisms are involved, however neither method is ideal. In this paper, a third method utilizing pattern recognition technology combined with ECG is introduced. This results in more efficient calculation of CSP parameters. Results of the new technique are shown from studying 3 groups of animals, namely sheep, pigs and dogs. The group size was 5, 5 and 3 respectively. All animals were drugged and anesthetized for the duration of the study.


Introduction: Good dental hygiene and regular attention to dental caries are vital parts of health supervi- sion during school age period. Children of this age tend to become careless and they should be taught to carry out their own dental care with the supervision and guidance of parents. Objective: To assess the knowledge of mothers of primary school children regarding dental hygiene. Methodology: Knowledge level of 100 mothers of school children aged between 6-12 years was assessed using structured interview schedule. Results: The 13% of mothers had adequate knowledge, 50% of the mothers had moderate knowledge, 35% of mother had average knowledge and 2% of mothers had inadequate knowledge regarding dental hy- giene with mean knowledge scores 16.28 and mean percentage 54.49%.Conclusion: Mothers knowledge on dental hygiene must be improved for preventing dental problems of children.


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ABSTRACT N-Acetylglutamate kinase (NAGK) catalyzes the second step of arginine biosynthesis. In Pseudomonas aeruginosa, but not in Escherichia coli, this step is rate limiting and feedback and sigmoidally inhibited by arginine. Crystal structures revealed that arginine-insensitive E. coli NAGK (EcNAGK) is homodimeric, whereas arginine-inhibitable NAGKs, including P. aeruginosa NAGK (PaNAGK), are hexamers in which an extra N-terminal kinked helix (N-helix) interlinks three dimers. By introducing single amino acid replacements in PaNAGK, we prove the functionality of the structurally identified arginine site, as arginine site mutations selectively decreased the apparent affinity for arginine. N-helix mutations affecting R24 and E17 increased and decreased, respectively, the apparent affinity of PaNAGK for arginine, as predicted from enzyme structures that revealed the respective formation by these residues of bonds favoring inaccessible and accessible arginine site conformations. N-helix N-terminal deletions spanning ≥16 residues dissociated PaNAGK to active dimers, those of ≤20 residues decreased the apparent affinity for arginine, and complete N-helix deletion (26 residues) abolished arginine inhibition. Upon attachment of the PaNAGK N-terminal extension to the EcNAGK N terminus, EcNAGK remained dimeric and arginine insensitive. We concluded that the N-helix and its C-terminal portion after the kink are essential but not sufficient for hexamer formation and arginine inhibition, respectively; that the N-helix modulates NAGK affinity for arginine and mediates signal transmission between arginine sites, thus establishing sigmoidal arginine inhibition kinetics; that the mobile αH-β16 loop of the arginine site is the modulatory signal receiver; and that the hexameric architecture is not essential for arginine inhibition but is functionally essential for physiologically relevant arginine control of NAGK.


The solution and analysis of a problem are considered concerning plane wave scattering by a resonance cubic lattice of spherical air-filled bubbles located in magnetodielectric medium.


The Riemann hypothesis is identified with zeros of ${\cal N}=4$ supersymmetric gauge theory four-point amplitude. The zeros of the $\zeta(s)$ function are identified with th complex dimension of the spacetime, or the dimension of the toroidal compactification. A sequence of dimensions are identified in order to map the zeros of the amplitude to the Riemann hypothesis.


The airlines companies affect a diverse audience. They must be present effectively in all media where this audience is able to research information and also, operate in an area where their positive or negative reputation is formed at high speed. This is to inform the airlines companies both collective and individual basis, to produce a satisfactory message which is reachable easily by their audience and to be present everywhere. Social media can be defined as an unstructured assembly of free agents, maintaining strong communication between them, with three characteristics: – Common interests and common objectives (knowledge, skills...) – A common understanding (common language - common culture and values); – Mutual credibility (competence and recognition of the value of other). In this sense, this article aims to analyze the impact of social media on a crisis management example of Onur Air's social campaign which has received too many reactions in order to expose the effect of organizational reputation. Our work aims to compare the created effects by Onur Air's followers through social campaign presented and published on the official Facebook page of Onur Air and also, the comments made on Facebook and Twitter by users by a qualitative analysis.


The patient's condition and the environment of the Emergency Installation (ER) that are unique can affect the psychological condition of the patient's family. This causes the emergence of psychological problems in the patient's family, such as anxiety, stress, and depression, these problems can affect the role of the family as a supporting system of patients in the process of handling actions while in the ER. These problems can be minimized by fulfilling family needs while in the ER to accompany the patient. The purpose of this study is to find out the description of the patient's family needs in the emergency room. This research is a descriptive quantitative study with a survey approach, with the research instrument in the form of a CCFNI-ED questionnaire. Respondents numbered 96 patient families obtained through convenience sampling techniques. The results of this study indicate that family needs which according to the family are important to fulfill are communication needs followed by understandable needs, support needs, comfort needs and needs close to the patient. Communication needs are considered the most important needs needed by the patient's family while in the emergency room. This research is expected to be a source of reference for the nursing profession in meeting family needs while in the emergency room, so it is expected to increase the family's role in healing patients.


A multivalent galactosyl carborane derivative 10 (dendritic glyco-borane, DGB) was synthesized and demonstrated as a potential cell-targeting agent in BNCT with HepG2 cells. DGB 10 improved the delivery of boron to HepG2 cells and neutron irradiation data show DGB 10 with ten-fold improvement at killing the HepG2 cells over BSH.


The challenges of innovating at pace in recent conflicts has encouraged military medical lessons to be codified into an integrated model of innovation, with generic application for the wider healthcare sector and the COVID environment specifically. This 'Toolset for innovation and change' emphasises the need to first understand and frame the problem using external (STEEPLE) and internal (TEPID COIL) factor analysis. The conditions that support exemplar innovation adoption by an organisation are described (ADOPTER—Agile, Decisive, Outcome focused, Politically aware, Tolerant of Risk, Empowered and Rewarded) as are the conditions that are necessary for successful innovation translation to another organisation (TRANSL8—Transformational leadership, Relevance, Adaptability/Acceptability, Networks, Simplicity, Life enhancing change, 8-steps of complex change). The obstructions to innovation, or 'innovation constipation', are highlighted and remembered as B-OWELS. The toolset was first developed by the author in 2015 from sustained experience of innovation at pace and has been successfully applied to messy problems requiring complex change in both the military and civilian healthcare sectors.


[1] A model, SedPlume, has been developed to simulate marine sediment deposited by glacial meltwater plumes emerging from tidewater glaciers. Turbid meltwater emerging from beneath a glacier into a fjord rises as a buoyant forced plume due to density contrasts with the ambient fjord water. SedPlume assumes that meltwater discharge flows at a constant rate for long enough periods that the plume reaches a steady state. Entrainment of ambient fluid into the turbulent plume is assumed to occur at a rate proportional to the local velocity of the plume. Plume motion is considered in two dimensions: one horizontal dimension (perpendicular to the glacier front) and the vertical dimension. An integral model is formulated for the conservation equations of volume, momentum, buoyancy, and sediment flux along the path of a turbulent plume injected into stably stratified ambient fluid. Sedimentation occurs from the plume when the radial component of the sediment fall velocity exceeds the entrainment velocity. When the plume reaches the surface, it is treated as a radially spreading surface gravity current, for which exact solutions exist for the sediment deposition rate. Flocculation of silt and clay particles is modeled using empirical measurements of particle settling velocities in fjords to adjust the settling velocity of fine-grained sediments. SedPlume has been applied to McBride Inlet, Alaska, a temperate glaciated fjord where the majority of sedimentation originates from meltwater sources. SedPlume produces rates and patterns of sedimentation in good agreement with observations, with calculated peak ice-proximal annual sedimentation rates of approximately 22 m yr−1.


Hoya anulata Schltr. (Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae) has been recorded for the first time in the Maluku Islands based on a specimen collected in Buru Island. Description, along with distribution, ecology, photograph and a brief discussion is presented.


The ADSP-21262 DSP is the latest member of the SHARC® family delivering new levels of speed, power performance and peripheral integration while maintaining code compatibility with the existing SHARC portfolio of products. This document is focused on helping existing SHARC designers who need information on evaluating whether upgrading systems to the new ADSP-21262 is right for them. This note will highlight the new features that the ADSP-21262 has to offer and detail the list of traditional SHARC peripherals that do not exist in this product. The ADSP-21161 will be used as the example for the traditional SHARC processor. For a more in depth analysis of each of the peripherals available on the ADSP-21262 the ADSP-2126x SHARC Hardware Reference Manual is an excellent resource.


The changes in the components of a wide variety of tensor physical properties, including piezomagnetic, piezomagnetic, magnetoelectric properties and toroidic properties, on traversing from the bulk to the surface of a crystalline material are explicitly tabulated.


The Urban heat island (UHI) is a well-known phenomenon in an urban area where the urban core areas experience higher temperature than the surrounding rural areas. It has numerous implications among which building energy consumption is a prominent one. This study investigates the UHI effects on the building energy consumption for cooling in the urban areas of the Continental United States (CONUS). To account for UHI effects, long-term differences in mean annual cooling (CDDs) between observations from Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) and the urbanization-insensitive National Center for Environmental Protection-National Center for Atmospheric Research 50-year Reanalysis (NNR) form the years 2008 to 2017 are used. Cooling energy consumption data from surveyed buildings by the Energy Information Administration were used to identify the relationship between cooling energy consumption intensity and CDDs and other covariates related to building characteristics. Using universal kriging and observed minus reanalysis (OMR) method, it has been found that there will be up to 2,509 additional cooling degree days annually in the urban areas due to the UHI effect. Quantile regression results using CDDs and other covariate show that show that a unit increase in CDD will cause an average increase in median cooling energy use intensity by 2.1 BTU/sq.ft. (residential) and 2.5 BTU/sq.ft. (commercial). The mean increase in cooling energy consumption in selected building type, building construction year, and the number of occupants is 28.1% for commercial buildings and 22.9% for residential buildings in all Census Divisions.


The grid-connected inverter may get unstable due to variation of grid impedance. To improve the system stability, an adaptive active damper, which emulates an adaptive tuning virtual resistor, can be introduced at the point of common coupling (PCC). However, subject to the control bandwidth, the virtual resistor is actually a frequency- dependent impedance, and its damping performance is impaired. This paper proposes an impedance shaping method to make the virtual impedance be resistive in a wider frequency range, and it is implemented under hybrid frame for directly controlling the active power of the active damper and eliminating the influence of the cross-coupling terms on the emulation of a virtual resistor. Finally, the prototypes of a 3-kVA three-phase active damper and a 6-kVA three-phase LCL-type grid-connected inverter are fabricated and tested in the lab. The experimental results are provided to verify the effectiveness of the proposed control methods for the three-phase adaptive active damper.


Protagoras presents philosophy with a serious challenge, which ancient thinkers found hard to deal with. For this reason Plato severely criticizes him as the first sophist. Protagoras was well-known amongst his contemporaries, including the Athenians of the latter half of the fifth century BC. The testimonies show us that he was regarded as a sophist, but not necessarily in the Platonic sense. Even if the appellation 'sophist' originated with Protagoras, it may be Plato who first used it as a label for criticism. On the one hand, Protagoras is placed in the successions of philosophers and treated as a kind of dogmatist, on the other, he is regarded as a major sophist and rhetorician. Whenever Protagoras was treated (and respected) as an important contributor to rhetoric and argumentation, his doctrines, above all the homo mensura thesis, were often discussed by philosophers. Keywords: homo mensura thesis; Plato; Protagoras


Although our knowledge of reproductive parts of bamboos is still very defective, an adequately collected vegetative specimen is valuable and sufficient for identification. Like in tree ferns (see p. 567) and in rattans, a well-collected specimen does not need to be excessively bulky, provided the essential parts are taken.
We hope that field workers will overcome the hesitation they might feel to attack this difficult but very important plant group.


A palm-sized optical measurement device capable of polarisation rotation and single-wavelength absorption measurements is presented. The device is equipped with a polarisation-analysing CMOS image sensor with an on-chip multi-angular polariser array. The volume of the device is as small as 51 cm3, which is smaller than both 1/1000 of a conventional desktop polarimeter and 1/10 of the previous device. The capability of the proposed device to perform simultaneous polarisation rotation/single-wavelength absorption measurements is experimentally verified through in situ monitoring of a photochemical reaction performed in a microflow reactor.


Nowadays racial and ethnic differences in health care has become a growing concern. It is one of the critical determinant in influencing the genotype of the host in which may results in some diseases such as periodontal disease. Tannerella forsythia can be found in oral cavity and have the strongest relation in resulting on the destruction of connective tissue in periodontal disease. This research is aim to investigate the prevalence of periodontal pathogens, particularly T. forsythia in four major ethnic groups in Sarawak which may result in periodontal disease in Sarawak. This disease may due to the results from the infection of the tissue supporting the teeth. A total of (n = 40) saliva samples consist of 10 samples for each ethnic groups such as Iban, Malay, Chinese and Bidayuh were collected in Kuching and Kota Samarahan using culture-independent method. The DNA was extracted from saliva based on Phenol Chloroform Isoamyl Alcohol method. After that, 16S rRNA gene was then amplified via PCR for bacterial detection using 27 F and 1492 R primers, followed by PG-F and PG-R primers set in identifying T. forsythia. The PCR product was observed on 1.5% gel electrophoresis. As a result, the presence of bacteria T. forsythia was found more frequently from saliva samples of ethnic in Iban (70%), followed by Malay (60%), Bidayuh (60%) and lastly Chinese (50%). The differences of demographic, certain cultural beliefs and practices might affect the oral health status. This finding show that it may help to identify the risk groups and has contributed an additional evidence for the association between ethnicity and periodontal disease.


The monosaccharide octulose was first isolated and identified about seventy years ago. Although this sugar has frequently been found in plants, bacteria, yeast and animals, its metabolic function has hardly been explored. It often occurs in small amounts, but occasionally it is highly abundant, notably in some resurrection plants. Recent results show that its synthesis may involve an alternative pentose phosphate pathway and that when present in large amounts it might confer important benefits such as ROS scavenging. It could also have value for nutrition and healthcare. The time is ripe for developing our understanding further.


This article determines the impact of the tourism and digitalization: achievements and challenges for the future. One of the most important areas in the field of digitalization of the economy is tourism, especially international tourism, which has developed dynamically in recent years. However, the coronavirus pandemic and related restrictions have had the most negative impact on international tourism.


Transition metal chalcogenides have been regarded as promising storage materials for sodium ions owing to their high theoretical capacity. Herein, copper‐based metal–organic frameworks (Cu‐BTC) are reported as precursors to fabrica copper chalcogenides‐carbon composites, namely Cu1.8S@C and Cu2‐xSe@C. The materials exhibit excellent electrochemical performance with high specific capacities (504 mAh g–1 for Cu1.8S@C and 317 mAh g–1 for Cu2‐xSe@C at 0.1 A g–1) and long‐term cycling stability when used as anode materials in cells employing carbon‐coated Na3V2(PO4)3 (NVP/C) positive electrodes. The Cu2‐xSe@C||NVP/C cell delivers a specific capacity of 73 mAh g–1 at 1.2 A g–1 (based on cathode mass) and excellent cycling stability (capacity retention of 85% after 500 cycles at 0.12 A g–1) with Coulombic efficiency of ≈99.9%. Moreover, the Cu2‐xSe@C composite performs well as positive electrode storage material in a sodium‐metal cell, offering a high reversible capacity of 216 mAh (per gram of Cu2‐xSe@C) after 1800 cycles at 2 A g–1 and enabling high specific energy and power.


Watanabe-Akaike information criterion (WAIC; Watanabe, 2010) and leave-one-out cross validation (LOO) are two fully Bayesian model selection methods that have been shown to perform better than other traditional information-criterion based model selection methods such as AIC, BIC, and DIC in the context of dichotomous IRT model selection. In this paper, we investigated whether such superior performances of WAIC and LOO can be generalized to scenarios of polytomous IRT model selection. Specifically, we conducted a simulation study to compare the statistical power rates of WAIC and LOO with those of AIC, BIC, AICc, SABIC, and DIC in selecting the optimal model among a group of polytomous IRT ones. We also used a real data set to demonstrate the use of LOO and WAIC for polytomous IRT model selection. The findings suggest that while all seven methods have excellent statistical power (greater than 0.93) to identify the true polytomous IRT model, WAIC and LOO seem to have slightly lower statistical power than DIC, the performance of which is marginally inferior to those of the other four frequentist methods. Keywords: polytomous IRT, Bayesian, MCMC, model comparison.


This paper describes a special use of manhao(蛮好)in the Shanghai dialect.Syntactically,manhao,together with the clause to which it belongs,is tied to the so-called "Main Clause Phenomenon";semantically,clauses with manhao have the counter-factual meaning.It is assumed that manhao can be treated as a past subjunctive mood marker.The paper also compares manhao with its counterparts in other dialects from the perspectives of markedness hierarchy,subjectivization and the inventory typology theory.


Peanut protein concentrate was extracted from low-denatured peanut protein flour by ethanol lixiviation twice.The peanut protein concentrate was modified by trypsin.Through orthogonal test,the optimum conditions were obtained as follows:The solid-to-liquid ratio was 1∶11,the E∶S was 0.2%,the reaction time was 30 min,and the reaction temperature was 35 ℃,the oil absorption of peanut protein concentrate after enzymatic modification could be increased by 79.6%.


A diamond-like carbon (DLC) coating was deposited on YT14 cemented carbide cutting tools using an MS (magnetron sputtering), and the surface–interface morphologies, phases, and bonding energy of the obtained coatings were investigated using a scanning electron microscope (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), respectively. The wear behaviors of DLC coatings were measured using high temperature wear tests. The results show that the [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] appear at 284.4, and 285.3[Formula: see text]eV, respectively, the DLC coating is composed of the crystal planes (111) and (220). The average COF of DLC coatings at 750, 800, and 850[Formula: see text]C was 0.1956, 0.2082, and 0.4085, respectively, the wear depth increases with the wear temperatures increasing: At 750[Formula: see text]C, the diamond planes (111) and (222) remained, while at 800 and 850[Formula: see text]C, only the diamond plane (111) still remained, the diamond plane (220) was oxidized, resulting in wear capability decreasing. The wear mechanism was composed of abrasive wear, delamination, and oxidation wear.


This study tackles the question of whether reading instruction has any effect on recreational reading attitudes and behaviors of EFL learners. The study used a recreational reading questionnaire as a pre-and post-test for three groups of students who were taking a reading course at their second year undergraduate studies at Ishik University. The course aimed to enhance students' comprehension and fluency skills in reading. The same questionnaire was utilized both at the beginning and at the end of the course to see the changes in attitudes and behaviors of students towards recreational reading. It was found that as EFL learners were significantly exposed to reading instruction, they developed positive behaviors and attitudes towards recreational reading.


Aiming at the influenee of existing line reconstruction and its daily maintenance on transport efficiency and traffic capacity,this paper annalyzes the requirement of existing line construction on safety risk management of train operation system,discusses the safety control measures of train operation system in construction site,which means strengthening safety responsibility of management staff and control measures of key point of construction safety risk,and exploring new methods and new approaches of safety risk management for existing line construction,which come into being a long-acting mechanism of safety risk management.


Aims : Invasive micropapillary carcinoma of the breast is an aggressive and distinctive variant of breast cancer. These tumours have a characteristic histological appearance and have been associated with a high incidence of axillary lymph node metastases and a poor clinical outcome. The aims of this study were to investigate the immunohistochemical profile of invasive micropapillary carcinoma of the breast, to compare it with invasive ductal carcinoma, and to identify the morphological parameters which predict its poor outcome.


Magnetic domains were observed by means of the Faraday effect, and by the Bitter technique in a number of compounds having the spinel, magnetoplumbite, and perovskite‐like structures. The latter compounds are orthorhombic and have the general formula MFeO3 where M is Y, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, or Lu. Domain boundaries in these compounds move for fields less than one oersted, and after saturation, crystals as large as (∼0.2×0.2×0.1 in.) remain single domains. Fields of 2500 oersteds are required to reverse the magnetization in the single domain crystals. Reversal occurs by nucleation and growth of a reverse domain. This is evident from the unusual torque curves. The fact that domain walls occur and move in such weak fields in these compounds indicate that the slight or parasitic magnetization is a uniform body property of the crystals. The parasitic magnetization of these compounds was determined from torque measurements. These crystals are well suited for light modulators because a uniaxial anisotropy holds the magnetization vectors normal to the large surfaces of thin flat crystals and weak fields produce changes in magnetization. Absorption coefficients were measured for some compounds for radiation having wavelengths from 0.6 μ to 13 μ. Thin sections were found to be transparent to light at the red end of the visible spectrum. The Faraday rotation was measured for Li0.5Fe2.5O4, MgFe2O4, YFeO3, and PbFe11Al1O19.


Purpose: The purpose of this current study is to compare the effectiveness of respiratory circulation function and tidal volume according to two different types of practice methods, in terms of breathing training program and abdominis muscle strengthening using a swiss ball. Methods: The subjects we...


The deposition prediction of debris flow hazardous area is very important for organizing and implementing debris flow disaster prevention and reduction. This paper selected the data base from laboratory experiments and applied the multiple regression statistical method to establish a series of empirical calculation models for delimiting the debris flow hazardous areas on the alluvial fan. The empirical models for predicting the maximum deposition length (Lc), the maximum deposition width (Bmax) and the maximum deposition thichness (Z0) under the condition of different debris flow volumes (V), densities (rm) and slopes of accumulation area (θd) were establised. And the verification results indicated that the established models can predict the debris flow hazards area with the average accuracy of 86%.


With the outbreak of Covid-19, this global pandemic has posed significant problems in various industries. Food safety being one of them places challenges in many areas such as, agriculture and food production, food retail, public health, and supply chain. Under the pandemic circumstance, food safety concerns have risen in the market in an unprecedented way. This could stimulate new business that meets the demand of portable near-infrared (NIR) devices and imaging technologies. In the coming years, it is critical to build the vision not only on the platforms of collecting data but also on how to take advantages of the predictive analytics to get ahead. From the NIR instrumentation manufacture stand of point, one thing is to keep improving the quality of spectral/imaging data by enhancing the hardware, and the other is to incorporate user interface into customer's data automation system, data pipeline, and their cloud computing database. The automation system will maximize operation efficiency, simplify data management and sharing, and generate analytical reporting. It helps customers to reduce human errors, acquire clean data to influence decision making in a timely manner, and increase the chances of creating values and customer loyalty. In addition, with in-line NIR generating so much real-time data during production monitoring process, it provides opportunities for large data processing for making data-driven business strategies. With the economic growth slowing down, and the developments of trade wars, shifting of regulatory, the market of NIR applications will be impacted on both local and global levels. On the other hand, the NIR business could leverage this opportunity, for example, to convert stand-alone instruments to the digital network solution plan for the recovery ahead, where the benefits are clearly shown in this pandemic.


Aimed at overcoming blurring edge and distortion revealed by traditional methods used in image processing,this paper proposes the combination of stationary wavelet transform with Gaussian scale mixtures model to develop the neighborhood model based on stationary wavelet transform coefficients and the reduction of the speckle noise by using Bayes least square estimation.The paper ends with the objective assessment of filtering results of the various methods by using evaluation parameters.Experimental results show that this method exhibits the speckle noise-reducing performance better than the spatial filters and standard wavelet transform.


A Cepheid-based calibration is derived for four distance indicators that utilize stars in old stellar populations: the tip of the red giant branch (TRGB), the planetary nebula luminosity function (PNLF), the globular cluster luminosity function (GCLF), and the surface brightness (cid:209)uctuation method (SBF). The calibration is largely based on the Cepheid distances to 18 spiral galaxies within cz \ 1500 km s ~1 obtained as part of the Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ) Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale, but relies also on Cepheid distances from separate HST and ground-based e(cid:134)orts. The newly derived calibration of the SBF method is applied to obtain distances to four Abell clusters in the velocity range 3800 ¨ 5000 km s ~1 . Combined with cluster velocities corrected for a cosmological (cid:209)ow model, these distances imply a value of the Hubble constant of (random) ^ 6 (systematic) km s ~1 Mpc ~1 . H 0 \ 69 ^ 4 This result assumes that the Cepheid PL relation is independent of the metallicity of the variable stars; adopting a metallicity correction as in Kennicutt et al. would produce a 5% ^ 3% decrease in H 0 . Finally, the newly derived calibration allows us to investigate systematics in the Cepheid, PNLF, SBF, GCLF, and TRGB distance scales.


We investigate Problem 155 form the"Scottish Book"due to S. Mazur and L. Sternbach. In modern terminology they asked if every bijective, locally isometric map between two real Banach spaces is always a global isometry. Recently, an affirmative answer when the source space is separable was obtained by M. Mori, using techniques related to the Mazur-Ulam theorem and its generalizations. The main purpose of this short note is to offer a different approach to Problem 155 motivated by recent advances in metric geometry. We show that it has an affirmative answer under the additional assumption that the map considered is a local isometry.