Abstract Six new cholesteryl esters have been prepared from chiral alkanoic acids. Oxidation of 2(S)-methylbutanol and 2(S)-ethyl-3-methylbutyraldehyde gave the corresponding butyric acids, while condensation of the tosylates of the corresponding alcohols with diethyl malonate led ultimately to the substituted hexanoic acids. 2(R)-Methylpentanoic and (-)-2-ethylhexanoic acids were commercially available.


The invention relates to an anti-islanding protection system for a distributed grid-connected system and a protection method of the anti-islanding protection system based on wave carrier communication and decentralized detection technology. The anti-islanding protection system comprises a decentralized detection device, a central detection device and a communication device. The decentralized detection device is used for acquiring the electrical capacity of the system and judging whether a public supply network loses power or not by data processing and logical judgment for the electrical capacity. The central detection device receives information from the decentralized detection device and logically judges the information to protect a common connection point of the distributed grid-connected system, and transmits a control instruction to a distributed power supply grid-connected point switch. The communication device is used for transmitting the information of the decentralized detection device to the central detection device and transmitting the control instruction of the central detection device to the distributed power supply grid-connected point switch. An upper carrier acquires the information of the supply network for islanding discrimination, a lower carrier controls the distributed power supply grid-connected point switch on a user side, a distributed power supply is cut off, islanding effects are prevented, and reliability and safety of the distributed grid-connected system are improved.


The invention discloses a method and a device for air conditioner inner fan operation control and an air conditioner. The method for air conditioner inner fan operation control comprises that a user order is received; wind gears of the air conditioner in different time periods are set according to the user order; and the air conditioner is controlled to operate according to the wind gears in different time periods. The problem that in the prior art, inner fan wind speed which is more suitable for human body comfort degree can not be set according to specific conditions is solved, and accordingly the inner fan wind speed can be set according to specific conditions, and the effect that the human body comfort degree is improved is achieved.


In this paper, we model the various wireless users in a cognitive radio network as a collection of selfish, autonomous agents that strategically interact in order to acquire the dynamically available spectrum opportunities. Our main focus is on developing solutions for wireless users to successfully compete with each other for the limited and time-varying spectrum opportunities, given the experienced dynamics in the wireless network. We categorize these dynamics into two types: one is the disturbance due to the environment (e.g. wireless channel conditions, source traffic characteristics, etc.) and the other is the impact caused by competing users. To analyze the interactions among users given the environment disturbance, we propose a general stochastic framework for modeling how the competition among users for spectrum opportunities evolves over time. At each stage of the dynamic resource allocation, a central spectrum moderator auctions the available resources and the users strategically bid for the required resources. The joint bid actions affect the resource allocation and hence, the rewards and future strategies of all users. Based on the observed resource allocation and corresponding rewards from previous allocations, we propose a best response learning algorithm that can be deployed by wireless users to improve their bidding policy at each stage. The simulation results show that by deploying the proposed best response learning algorithm, the wireless users can significantly improve their own performance in terms of both the packet loss rate and the incurred cost for the used resources.


Abstract : Several selected essays by various American military writers are discussed. The articles, representing current American strategic thinking by professionals in the field, are being collected and edited for publication in French translation.


A noninvasive sleep screen uncovers a Vamp2 mouse mutation with synaptic deficits underlying substantial sleep disturbances. Switches between global sleep and wakefulness states are believed to be dictated by top-down influences arising from subcortical nuclei. Using forward genetics and in vivo electrophysiology, we identified a recessive mouse mutant line characterized by a substantially reduced propensity to transition between wake and sleep states with an especially pronounced deficit in initiating rapid eye movement (REM) sleep episodes. The causative mutation, an Ile102Asn substitution in the synaptic vesicular protein, VAMP2, was associated with morphological synaptic changes and specific behavioral deficits, while in vitro electrophysiological investigations with fluorescence imaging revealed a markedly diminished probability of vesicular release in mutants. Our data show that global shifts in the synaptic efficiency across brain-wide networks leads to an altered probability of vigilance state transitions, possibly as a result of an altered excitability balance within local circuits controlling sleep-wake architecture.


In today\'s competitive world, it is inevitable to haveexpertise, knowledge, and marketing experience for financialmarket activators, especially the brokerage firms. This isessential along with performing the marketing operations andbeside intermediary and carrying on the daily transactions ofshares in stock exchange market The objective of the study isinvestigating gap expectation between two groups of activatorsin stock exchange market in Iran. The first group is aboutbrokerage firms, while the second one is the investors in thecapital market. The research methodology used in this studyis based on both survey and description methods. So faraccurate answer to the research questions, the authors designand developed a questionnaire which it is the most suitablefor this study. A survey questionnaire was completed by twogroups of brokerage firms and investors those who areactivating in Iranian stock exchange market at the end of2009 and in the mid of 2010. The finding of this researchstate that there are gap between brokerage firms andinvestor's point of view in case of application the service mar-keting mix to attract investors to the Iranian capital market.


It is 3 years since the National Health Service (NHS) Plan was published, 4 years since our National Service Framework appeared. Changing mental health services was always going to be a long-term task, but after 3 years there should at least be signs of improvement, however early. But are there? And


: This composite technology of Ti-oxide metallurgy and V-microalloying for the research and development of high energy input welding steels has aroused extensive attention in the present stage. This carbon and nitride particles precipitated on the non-metallic inclusions by the composite technique, This inclusions can induce massive nucleation of the acicular ferrite in the coarse-grained heat affected zones, So as to improve the toughness of the CGHAZ. The quantitative calculation of the solid solution and precipitation of second phase particles is carried out by using the Thermo-Calc thermodynamic software. The key role of Ti, V, O, N and other elements in the formation of AF nucleation by oxidation and carbon nitride inclusions is further investigated. Meanwhile, the Ti-V microalloyed steels with V content of 0, 0.05% and 0.1% is subjected to high energy welding, The Mechanical properties and morphology is analyzed by using the thermal simulation testing machine, mechanical measuring equipment, high power electron microscope and other equipment. Through the analysis of the experimental results, it is concluded that the general law of V element in improving the strength and the CGHAZ toughness of Ti-V microalloyed steels, and further expounded the mechanism of inducing AF nucleation in the CGHAZ of Ti-V microalloyed steels.


The article presents the investigation into reactivity and critical parameters affected by temperature changes in cylindrical and spherical space-effective multiplying systems (MS) of plutonium in α-phase without reflector during integral critical experiments. The experiments were performed in "Zababakhin All-Russia Research Institute of Technical Physics" on a critical assembly stand FKBN-2. Brief description of the experimental set up is provided. During the experiments, the multiplication factors and decay constant of the prompt neutrons were determined at a fixed gap between MS parts and different MS temperatures. Values of MS critical gap at different MS temperatures were established experimentally. The change in MS reactivity is initiated by energy release under the plutonium isotopes alpha-decay. As a result, the change in MS temperature during the experiments without its forced regulation may reach ~40 °C. It is proposed to consider this temperature effect when specifying experimental results including error estimation. The obtained experimental data were used to estimate the temperature coefficients of reactivity. The work results are applied to create benchmark models of the multiplying systems.


Objective To investigate the role of PKC and transcription factor NF-κB in the regulation of TF expression induced by TNFα in human umbilical vein endothelium(HUVEC).Methods HUVEC were cultured in RPMI-1640.TF activity was determined with one-stage clotting assay measuring total cellular pro-coagulant activity.TF antigen was measured by ELISA.TF mRNA was examined by RT-PCR.Liquid scintillation count was used to check PKC activity by radioimmunoassay.Immunohistochemical analysis was performed to evaluate the activation of NF-κB.Results The addition of TMP or Staurosporin,significantly inhibited the stimulative effects of TNFα as well as PMA on TF activity,antigen and mRNA expression(P0.01).Addition of PMA or TNFα resulted in a sharp decrease in protein kinase C activity in the cytosolic fraction(P0.05),a great increase in the activity in the membrane fraction(P0.01) and NF-κB translocation from cytoplasm to the nucleus.Pretreatment with TMP,however,significantly decreased the PKC activity in the membrane fraction and inhibited TNFα-induced NF-κB translocation.Conclusion PKC activation and NF-κB translocation play an important role in TNFα-induced TF expression.The inhibitory effect of TMP on TF expression in HUVEC is involved in these signal transduction pathways.


Eurima, the European Insulation Manufacturers'Association, has carried through a project on standardisation of full-scale chamber method for regulation purposes by simulation of building site fibre emission from mineral wool products during installation. For some years five Eurima member companies have worked with individual full-scale chamber measurements, using different chamber sizes and installation procedures. Due to different test conditions, the previous test results obtained are not comparable and thus form an unreliable basis for determination of standard method. The chamber size and several other parameters seem to influence the fibre concentration. During the project in question all relevant parameters, which are considered to have a measurable impact on the fibre concentration, have been examined, and suitable standard test conditions have been defined according to the test results.


Introduction: Breast cancers in less than 40 years of age group usually present with aggressive biology and has poor prognosis. The aim of this study was to see clinic-pathological and hormone receptors of breast cancers in young women and compare with less than 40 year age group. Methods: Prospective analysis of 97 breast cancer in patients less than 40 years out of total 373 patients (26%) over a period of 8 years (2007 Jan to 2014 Dec) was carried out at the Department of Surgery, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal. Result: Among the young women diagnosed with breast cancer, the mean age was 34.5±6.2 years. Mean tumour size was larger in younger women (5±2.5 vs 4.5±2.4 cm). Locally advanced disease was higher in younger patients (55% vs 47%). Lymphatic and vascular invasions were higher (63% vs 35% and 40% vs 25%). Grade II and III tumours was higher (56% vs 25%). ER, PR and HER2 positivity was detected in 46.9%, 48.9% and 28.9% respectively. Significant lower ER or PR expression (34.5% vs 54%) was seen in younger women, p=.002.Triple negative tumours (ER -ve, PR -ve and HER2 -ve) was proportionately higher in younger patients (23% vs 13.7%, p=.043). Conclusion: Young Nepali women presents one quarter of all female breast cancers, more frequently locally advanced with aggressive tumour biology like ER/PR negative and triple negative breast cancers.


Policy orientation from ACCEPT Pluralism, an EU funded research project investigating whether European societies have become more or less tolerant during the past 20 years. This policy brief is based on that part of the research comparing faith-based education in six EU Member States: Denmark, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden.


Introduction: Facial erythema is a frequent and often distressing complaint in patients with rosacea. Botulinum toxin has been proposed as a treatment of facial erythema with relatively good results. Objective: This study aims to assess botulinum toxin's safety and efficacy in a split-face trial in two different administration modalities: intradermal injections on one side of the face and facial electroporation on the other side. Materials and methods: The trial enrolled 20 subjects aged between 25 and 75 years with erythematotelangiectatic rosacea. Subjects received five units of Botulinum toxin through intradermal injections on the right side of the face. The same amount was introduced through electroporation technique on the left side. We conducted the evaluation using a standardized erythema grading system (System Vectra) and digital photographs at baseline, 2, 6, and 12 weeks. Results: The effectiveness in reducing the erythema of botulinum toxin with both the injection and electroporation was evident from the second week and persisted until week 12. Both techniques were effective. Conclusions: Intradermal injection of botulinum toxin and electroporation seems both effective and safe for treating erythema related to rosacea. The mechanism of action is still controversial.


"To demand that all women be educable and admitted to posts on a par with men is a notion that will always remain pure theory and only cause women to leave their proper path.… In any case this teaching of the nihilists is not dangerous because it will never be put into practice." This is from the Memoranda [Zapiski] of the Third Department [Secret Police] dealing with magazines of the 1860s. The words "always" and "never"—how many similar "nevers" have sunk into oblivion!


Antibiotics have made a tremendous contribution to mankind. They are one of the most successful medicines in human history. However, more and more bacterial strains develop resistance and the risk ...


52 years old man presented with open dislocation of elbow due to road traffic accident was not complaining of another joint injury or pain was radiographed as per protocol of including the adjacent shoulder joint and incidentally discovered with anterior dislocation of shoulder was treated with close reduction of shoulder dislocation and debridement  as well as reduction and trans fixation of ulno-humeral joint with k-wires. Skin coverage later was done. Patient recovery was excellent in terms of motion at both joints. The purpose of reporting of this case is to convey a message that ipsilateral dislocation of shoulder and elbow is a very rare occurrence but do occur and a high degree of suspicion and imaging protocol can save from missing this event.


Twenty patients with cardiac rupture were compared with suitable control groups. In each ruptured heart there was an acute coronary artery occlusion and a recent, transmural myocardial infarction which was unprotected at the site of rupture by scar or anastomotic circulation. Clinically, rupture usually occurred during the first two weeks of an acute infarction in a hypertensive patient with no previous history of old infarction or congestive failure; persisting hypertension or excessive effort usually preceded rupture. The role of an increased intraventricular pressure in the pathogenesis of cardiac rupture has therapeutic implications.


In this paper, we obtain the conditions for univalence of the integral operators of two forms. Key Words: Integral operator, Univalent.


There are many bridging‐the‐digital‐divide initiatives implemented by various government agencies and non‐governmental organisations throughout the world. Numerous studies have been conducted to identify the critical success factors in providing remote and rural communities equitable access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Malaysia has its fair share of successes and failures in such initiatives. One such initiative, the eBario Project, which provided ICTs to the rural and remote community in Bario, Borneo Malaysia, has been in operation over the last decade. The project was undertaken by the Centre of Excellence for Rural Informatics (CoERI), Institute of Social Informatics and Technological Innovations, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) with active participation of the local community in Bario. Critical success factors of the eBario Project include the close cooperation between the project initiator and the local community, strong support from the local champions, focus on actual needs and socio‐economic goals of the community, and deployment of appropriate technologies to the remote community. Given its relative success, the eBario project has been replicated to four other rural and remote communities in Borneo Malaysia. This paper highlights the approach used in implementing telecentres within these communities and some of the lessons learnt during the replication process. The CoERI Experience provides a useful guide to policy makers, project implementers and researchers who intend to deploy telecentres in rural communities at a larger scale.


In this work, the finite difference method have been used to model microwave signal propagation. The data used for this analysis were gathered between January and December 2006 in Akure - Owo digital microwave line of sight link in southwestern Nigeria.The data collected were analyzed using finite difference method and writing a program in MATLAB 7.0 software program to obtain a model equation for the line of sight link. The results of the work shows that the months of August, September, July and January have the poorest signal reception while the months of February, march and April have the best signal reception in the link.The results of the predicted model were validated by measured data and the results obtained showed that the developed model can be used to accurately predict the link degradation parameters.


This is to examine the correlation between the literature-canon and dominant ideology in Korean literature school textbook(first~fourth education course). Korean textbook novel as hunting (Lee, Hyo-Suk), the passing rain (Hwang, Soon-Won) and evergreen tree (Sim Hoon) include purity and nationalism in it`s essential element. This essential ideology as purity and nationalism is settled as image of Korean aesthetic feelings in 1970's~80( third ~ fourth education course). Textbook canon in the Korean modern novel is founded in pak jung-hee Revitalizing Reform and the fifth republic. This modernity project of development-dictatorship take part in formation of Korean aesthetic feelings by means of aesthetic and pedagogy. 'Canon' as property of nation state is shaped in this method.


Background: In 2014, the US Preventive Services Task Force recommended adults who are overweight or obese and have additional cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors be offered or referred to intensive behavioral counseling interventions to promote a healthful diet and physical activity for CVD prevention. Hypothesis: We hypothesized that primary care providers (PCPs) who discussed physical activity with most of their at risk patients would have a higher prevalence of offering select components than PCPs who discussed physical activity less frequently. Methods: DocStyles 2015, a Web-based panel survey of 1251 PCPs (response rate=76.8%), assessed physical activity counseling practices with patients at risk for CVD (overweight or obese and with hypertension, dyslipidemia, impaired fasting glucose, or the metabolic syndrome). Results: Overall, 55.9% (SE=1.4) of PCPs discussed physical activity with most of their patients at risk for CVD. Among respondents who discussed physical activity with any at risk pa...


This paper focuses on the design process of a direct drive motor which is to be installed within the wheel rim of a light electrical vehicle. The work starts with the set of requirements, considering space and mass restriction, torque capability and cycle efficiency. Next it is discussed in what manner the design goals are conflicting, alluding to the tradeoff between high torque density and efficiency rating. Supposing low frequencies and a distinct space restriction, it is shown how this conflict is resolved in an optimal way, revealing a descriptive analytic expression. The result is used to govern the design process of a permanent magnet, transverse flux machine. Beginning with an analytic approach, the initial set of geometry parameters is further optimized by finite element analysis.


An introduction is given,which includes the background,purpose and meaning of research work,the configuration of MC and matrix converter's control methods.The principles and the equivalent AC-DC-AC topology of MC,and the SPWM strategy is analyzed and modulated.The characteristic of SPWM is that the control is simple,the control switch function needn't completed math reasoning and calculation,the output line voltages of converter meet sinusoidal rule,and the output frequency can be modulated.Simulations and experiments are used to identify its feasibility.


In this document we make a first assessment of the impact of the counter cyclical fiscal measures adopted by Mexico had over the economy during the recent crisis. This is a highly controversial subject, both theoretically and empirically, due to the debate about the multipliers' relevance. Mexico took these actions since the beginning of 2008. However, the composition of these fiscal packages shows among other things, the restrictions faced by our public finances. In order to carry on our analysis we built a counter example through a VAR, to later compare the forecasted base line values for GDP and employment with the observed data. The results suggest that the counter cyclical actions were insufficient in terms of their impact upon GDP and general employment, although our results suggest a favorable progress in terms of the result over private formal employment. Our research offers some useful lessons on the fiscal reform debate.


Ultra-low power systems require very low standby power and operate at moderate speeds. Traditionally, the normal surface channel inversion (SCI) FET would be considered better for such applications when compared to the buried channel (BC) FET, since the BC FET has always shown more short channel effects in past research. However, past comparisons between the two FETs have been done with the highest frequency in mind and the same conclusion need not hold true for moderate speed, ultra-low power applications. Due to a better subthreshold slope and negligible band to band tunneling leakage at the drain-halo and drain-channel region, the BC FET is better suited for such applications.


The present invention REFERS TO SILICA GELS Hydrophobic organosilicate MODIFIED AND AGED neutral pH, and a method of preparation thereof. Said method comprises three phases: FIRST PHASE IN A MODIFIED SILICA HIDROSOL organosilicate, thermally IS THE PRESENCE OF A STRONG ACID MINERAL, at a pH below 1, to form a hydrogel organosilicate modified silica. IN THE SECOND PHASE said hydrogel organosilicate-modified silica is aged at a pH between 3.5 and 8. In the third phase, said hydrogel organosilicate-modified silica is contacted with an organosilicon compound in the presence of AN AMOUNT cATALYTIC A strong acid to effect hydrophobicization of the silica hydrogel MODIFIED organosilicate, forming a silica hydrogel HYDROPHOBIC MODIFIED organosilicate, having a surface area between 100 and 750 m 2 / g, measured in state CO . IN A preferred process said hydrogel is contacted with a quantity enough of a water-immiscible organic solvent to convert the silica hydrogel organosilicate MODIFIED IN A organogel organosilicate MODIFIED HYDROPHOBIC SILICA.


By analyzing the content of 6,523 pronouncements by Brazilian decision-makers, this paper aims to present some quantitative evidence to answer the following questions: 01. How did Brazilian Foreign Policy decision-makers employ the concepts of Latin America and South America from 1995 to 2014? 02. Were South American terms prioritized over Latin American terms? 03. Did the diplomacy of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula) invoke the idea of South America more than that of Fernando Henrique Cardoso (FHC) and Dilma [...]


From the mastering of the skills of technical care to the special relationship with the other, Catherine Barbier presents some of the reflections which have influenced her nursing career for the benefit of patients and their families.


The U.S. Department of Agriculture provides subsidized credit to high-risk farm borrowers unable to obtain credit from commercial sources. To boost incomes and to relieve financial stress, Farm Service Agency programs can provide additional interest rate subsidies to borrowers. However, when market interest rates are low as in recent years, these additional subsidies are less effective in improving borrower income and financial performance. Directing these additional subsidies to beginning farmers and socially disadvantaged borrowers or reserving their use for more stressful economic periods may help control program costs while increasing benefits to borrowers and the public.


A Human Development Index(HDI)concept,proposed by UN,was used to comprehensively evaluate the sustainable devel- opment status of thirty-one provinces(municipalities and cities)of China since 1994,according to economy,education and health.The HDI of every province or municipality for each year was evaluated,and its variation trend was further analyzed.The HDI for each province(munici- pality or city)was then compared with other countries.The evaluation provides new insight to estimate the effect of economic development and status of sustainable development of these regions.


The majority of the midbrain reticular neurons of the rat altered their discharge patterns synchronously with a cortical EEG spike induced by intravenous injection of pentetrazol. The patterns were classified into four types, i.e., facilitated, inhibited, mixed and unaffected types. Intravenous lidocaine suppressed both facilitatory and inhibitory components in the firing pattern. In particular, it reversed inhibitory to facilitatory pattern in some neurons. This may support the hypothesis that local anesthetics are liable to depress some inhibitory process in the central nervous system.


The main goal of this work was to establish a monitoring network on main rivers of Kosovo. We aim to apply WFD (Water Framework Directive) in Kosovo as soon as possible, and our research could be the first step towards it. Waters of the rivers Drini i Bardhe, Morava e Binces, Lepenc and Sitnica, which are of supra-regional interest, are investigated systematically. Statistical methods are applied to find locations where integrated water resources management can be suggested. Sediments of these rivers were also investigated at the same monitoring points and results have recently been published by us. In this paper we present results of mass concentrations of ecotoxic metals: Cu(II), Pb(II), Cd(II), Zn(II) and Mn(II) in waters of four main rivers of Kosovo. Results of anomalous concentrations of ecotoxic metals in water are compared with anomalous concentrations of the same elements found in sediments. In Drini i Bardhe River the only anomalous value (for Mn) was found in sediment. In Morava e Binces extreme values of Cd were found in sediments at the lower stretch of the river. In water anomalous values of Cd, Cu and Mn were found at the upper stretch of the river, which are above permanent toxic values. In Lepenc River anomalies were not found, indicating uncontaminated river. Sitnica River is still polluted at two locations, although most of the industry is closed. Anomalous values of Cd, Pb and Zn were found in sediments and of Pb in water at location S2 (Fushe Kosove); at location S5 (Mitrovice) anomalous values of Cu, Cd, Pb and Zn were found in sediments and of Cd and Zn in water. Continuation of water and sediment monitoring by Kosovo authorities is highly recommended. Possible remediation at critical locations on Sitnica and Morava e Binces rivers would be desirable.


Study on the sites of nerve entrance in innervation of skeletal muscles is important in the field of anatomy, histology, physiology and pathology , and since 19 th century, many researchers have been engaged in the macroscopical investigations on nerve entrance of muscles. However , their results were not always precise, because they seemed to employ macroscopical methods without measuring a length of muscles and a distance between origin and insertion of various muscles in thigh In this paper, first, the muscle length was determined by measuring the distance between origin and insertion directly(designated here as•gdirect method•h) or by measuring the length of muscles along their course (designated here as•gindirect method•h) by scale . C oncomitantly, the number and diameter of major innervated nerves of each muscle were also examined. Next, the distance between nerve entrance and the origin of 9 thigh muscles were carefully measured. The difference of the values obtained referring to sex and age was also surveyed. Adding to it , the correlation between the sites of nerve entrance and that of muscle belly was also studied . The details of respite were ae fn11imr 1) The values of muscle length obtained from direct and indirect methods were compared in paying attention to each belly of muscles . 10 specimens in M, sartorius and M, rectus femoris were used for it. The difference of values between direct and indirect methods was negligible , that is, only 1 to 2.5% difference are there respectively. 2) The number of major nerve entering into each muscle were one or two . The number of major nerves and their diameter(parenthesized)of 21 specimens were as follow; one (1.6 mm) for M, sartorius , two (1.6 mm) for M. rectus femoris, two (2.4 mm) for M, vastus medialis and M. vastus lateralis , one (1.8 mm) for M, gracilis, one (1.7 mm) for M. adductor longus, two (2.4 mm) for M, biceps femoris (caput longum) , two (2.5 mm) for M, semitendinosus and two (2.6 mm) for M, semimembranosus. 3) Using 41 specimens, the sites of nerve entrance where one or two major nerves were entered into thigh muscles were measured with the indirect methods . The sites of nerve entrance were indicated with the ratio calculated from the formula described in Result-C. Their sites were 21.4% from the origin for M , sartorius, 14.9% and 25.5% for M. rectus femoris, 22.6% and 39.3% for M . vastus medialis, 17.0% and 35.1% for M, vastus lateralis, 22.3% for M, gracilis, 44.7% for M, adductor longus , 22.1% and 38.6% for M. biceps femoris (caput longum), 15.5% and 43 .0% for M. semitendinosus, and 46.7% and 61.7% for M, semimembranosus. However , the difference in the sites of nerve entrance related to sex and age was hardly in those specimens . 4) The difference between the sites of nerve entrance(either one or two)and muscle belly was evident in M, vastus medialis and M, adductor longus . The values of deviation in M. vastus medialis and M. adductor longus stood about at 20% . The difference of the other muscles (M. sartorius, M, rectus femoris , M, vastus lateralis, M, gracilis, M, biceps femoris; caput longum, M, semitendinosus, M, semimembranosus) stood at 3 to 7% . 5) Some discussions were devoted to the relationship of sites between nerve entrance in anatomy and motor point in kinesiology . (J. Physical Fitness Japan 1985, 34: 51•`64) key words:神 経 入 口部(Nerve entrance),大 腿 筋(Thigh muscles) ,運 動点(Motor points) *宇 都 宮 大 学 教養 部Faculty of general education ,Utsunomiya University 〒321宇 都 宮市 峰 町350 **自 治 医 大 解 剖学 講 座Department of anatomy ,Jichi medical school 〒329-04栃 木県 南 河 内 町 薬 師寺3311-1


Metaplastic Breast Carcinoma (MBC) is very rare, and metaplastic carcinoma with osseous differentiation is even rarer. Here we report a case of metaplastic breast carcinoma with extensive osseous differentiation. A 65 years female presented with the complaint of lump left breast for the last 6 months. Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology (FNAC) suggested carcinoma breast. Modified radical mastectomy was performed. Histopathologically, the neoplasm consisted of invasive ductal carcinoma of no special type with an osseous metaplastic component and showed a direct transition from carcinoma to the osseous elements. It is necessary to distinguish the different types of metaplastic carcinomas and distinction between benign and malignant metaplastic (osteoid) elements should be taken into consideration.


Objective To determine whether the gene related to an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis family in Chongqing is linked to chromosome 21q microsatellite marker D21S223 by genetic linkage analysis. Methods D21S223 polymorphims were analyzed by polymerase chain reaction amplification and denaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Linkage analysis was performed by GeneHunter soft package(version 2.0). Results A peak 2-point Lod score of 3.06 (θ=3.06) was obtained, suggesting that this familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (FALS) was linked to chromosome 21q. Conclusion The mutation of SOD1 gene may be responsible for the disease of this family.


The invention discloses a method for high-efficiency floatation and separation of molybdenum and nickel and recovery of molybdenum and nickel from high carbon nickel-molybdenum ore to obtain molybdenum concentrate and nickel-molybdenum bulk concentrate. The method comprises the following steps of: selecting raw ore; grinding the ore; performing floatation to remove carbon; performing floatation of molybdenum preferably; and performing nickel-molybdenum bulk floatation, wherein in the step of performing carbon removal floatation, an ore dressing reagent of methyl isobutyl carbinol (MIBC) is used as a carbon substance foaming agent and collector, and water glass and lime are used as a dispersing agent and an ore pulp regulator; in the step of performing floatation of molybdenum preferably, emulsified kerosene is used as a collector for molybdenum mineral, terpenic oil is used as a foaming agent, carboxy methylated cellulose (CMC) is used as an inhibitor for carbonic matters and gangue, and Na2SO3 and lime are used as an inhibitor for nickel mineral and pentlandite; and in the step of performing nickel-molybdenum bulk floatation, ore dressing reagents of butyl xanthate and diethyldithiocarbamate are used as a collector for nickel-molybdenum mineral, terpenic oil is used as a foaming agent, CuSO4 is used to activate the nickel mineral, and sulfuric acid is used as a regulator to regulate the pH value of the ore pulp so as to induce the floatation of the nickel and the molybdenum. In the method, the metallic mineral separating effect is good, the recovery rates of metals are high, and the process flow is easy to control and has high repeatability.


Campbell and colleagues propose a robust and rigorous strategic model to address and reduce Relationship Violence and Sexual Misconduct (RVSM) at Michigan State University, which significantly advances the field of RVSM prevention and education, particularly for survivors belonging to marginalized populations. While prior efforts have addressed RVSM on college and university campuses, Campbell and colleagues' model is groundbreaking in its ability to reduce RVSM against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, and asexual/agender (LGBTQIA+) students of color, by its principles of intersectional and trauma-informed action. This commentary highlights the contributions of Campbell et al.'s model and provides recommendations for enhancing programming and postassault services by addressing the totality of LGBTQIA+ survivors of color's identities.


Preface.- 1 The Role of CRM.- 2 Relationship Marketing.- 3 Strategic CRM.- 4 Implementing the CM Strategy.- 5 CRM Metrics.- 6 Data Mining.- 7 Using Databases.- 8 Software Tools and Dashboards.- 9 Designing Loyalty Programs.- 10 Campaign Management.- 11 CRM and Multichannel Management.- 12 Customer Management in B2B.- 13 CRM and Consumer Behavior.- 14 Application of CRM in B2B and B2B Scenarios.- 15 The Future of CRM.- Index.


The article examines some new words in the Bulgarian language with the first part of evroI 'referring to the European Union'; 'belonging to Europe', and the evroII 'referring to the currency of the European Union'. The main idea is that evroI is a radixoid (one of the types of affixoids), involved in the formation of the so-called affixoidal derivative words, and evroII is a basis of nouns which participates in the formation of compound and derivative words.


"This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited." The Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association Volume 50 Number 4 2015 Received March 16, 2015 Revised May 23, 2015 Accepted July 21, 2015 Correspondence to: Hyun Guy Kang, M.D., Ph.D. Orthopedic Oncology Clinic, National Cancer Center, 323 Ilsan-ro, Ilsandong-gu, Goyang 10408, Korea TEL: +82-31-920-1665 FAX: +82-31-929-2798 E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


The management of agriculture industrialization starts late in Tongren area,the rudiment of industry are basically formed at present,but it is still just beginning.we should realize the importance of management of agriculture industrialization and develop it rapidly,thus the overall quality and management level of agriculture industrialization should be improved constantly from some aspects,as culturing leading enterprises is the core,developing deep processing of agricultural products and raw material base building is the key,optimizing regional distribution to develop the leading industry greatly,and increasing investment to perfect the guarantee system of in-vestment and financing.


The Republic of Ecuador is currently a member of the Andean Community and, therefore, is obliged to comply with community regulations, especially with the request for mandatory preliminary interpretation by the Court of Justice of that Community. Within the national legislation, it was not foreseen until the moment in which this study is terminated, the procedural stage in which the exercise of that competence by that Andean jurisdictional body should take place. If this stage is not evacuated, for whatever reason, the process could be nullified. In the present work, the essential characteristics of the prejudicial interpretation will be analyzed, as well as the procedural moment indicated to make this request and the obligatory nature of it.


Ticket fares have decreased by almost 40% over the last two decades, while demand has doubled. With the decreasing margins on tickets, ancillary products and services have become an important source of income for airlines. This study is motivated by the prevalence to charge for ancillary services and investigates the effects of different prices on customer purchasing behavior of checked baggage, in addition to the flight ticket. Empirical sales results from a low-cost carrier were used, in which customers were assigned to one of the four price levels, between June 2016 and June 2017. Segments were created by group size (group size 1 versus >1 segments) and number of days before departure (DBD) booked (DBD ≤3 or ≥16 versus DBD >3 or 1 were significant at the 0.05 level. All price treatments were estimated to be insignificant at any of the segments. Probabilities to buy at the unweighted data were both higher and more differentiated than after propensity modelling, meaning the population was subject to selection bias. The research showed that customers were not significantly affected by the price treatments, and that their checked baggage purchasing probability is strongly correlated to DBD and group size.


Intersectionality is a theoretical concept that carries both scholarly and personal meaning for the editors of this special issue of the Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology. Commonly associated with critical legal studies and Black feminist thought, intersectionality was originally defined as "the ways in which race and gender interact to shape the multiple dimensions of black women's : : : experiences" (Crenshaw, 1991, p. 1244). Although Crenshaw coined the term in 1989 as a way for the legal profession to contemplate Black women's experiences with oppression, the Combahee River Collective, a group of Black queer feminists, had issued a statement in 1975 explaining how the lived experiences of Black women were inextricably tied to interlocking systems of oppression of race, gender, and class (Collective, 1977). This statement would lay the groundwork for Crenshaw to powerfully articulate the intersectional nature of employment discrimination (Crenshaw, 1989). Subjected to discriminatory hiring practices that excluded them from factory jobs held by White women and Black men, Black women were being oppressed by a legal system that refused to recognize the interlocking nature of oppression, forcing them to sue in court on the basis of race or gender oppression. Patricia Hill Collins would later note that intersectionality was not just a critical theory, but it had also become an accepted practice that created communal spaces for collectively resisting social injustice and oppression (Collins & Bilge, 2020). While intersectionality has been expanded to include other social constructions of identity like ethnicity, nationality, sexuality, ability, and faith, as guest editors for the special issue, we wanted to provide the reader with a historical overview of the concept and acknowledge its original intent and focus. As the editorial team, we were purposeful in highlighting the importance of intersectionality within sport, exercise, and performance psychology settings. Society, sport, and the field of sport psychology have historically failed to


Introduction Organotin compounds have attracted attention as an optimal model for antitumour agents due to the function of the interesting intramolecular O→Sn coordination[1,2]. Our recent concern has been focused on the preparation of (Z)-1-[2-(triarylstannyl)vinyl]-cyclooctanol[3]. In order to find more appropriate compounds used as anticancer agents and explore the effect of the coordinate O→Sn interaction to the antitumor activity, the new compounds were halodemetallated and characterized. During the course of the process, some linear correlations between proton chemical shifts and the sum of the electronegativities of the tin substituents of halogens were found for the first time.


Generalized linear models were applied to identify factors affecting the capture rates (catch per unit effort, cpue) of Xiphopenaeus kroyeri and to estimate time-series data with standardized abundance indices. The adjusted models revealed that the most powerful vessels (with greater HP) were up to 3.5 times more efficient than vessels with less powerful engines. The seasonal variation of the resource changed from year to year, most likely due to variations in the recruitment season and the timing of temporary fishing bans. The variation of cpue was similar between the northern and southern sectors of the study area. In these, X. kroyeri abundances increased in the years 1996, 1997, 2001 and 2002, while in the central sector, the cpue fluctuated with a period duration of approximately two years. During the period, the relative abundance of the species displayed neither a decreasing nor an increasing trend, indicating that this has been harvested at stable levels. However, X. kroyeri stock was reduced by overfishing during the 1980s and exhibits variations in abundance that may occur in response to environmental fluctuations; thus, the harvesting of this species should be managed with extreme caution.


In Electrical Power network, consumer loads are time to time variation in existing transmission system. Loads will not constant means, power quality issues there such as voltage have been flickering and deviations in power supply which make some of the electronic equipments and domestic devices highly sensitive to it . Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC) is most promising new technologies among the many FACTS devices which can improve the power system operation and power quality problems. To avoid such problems need to find out devices that can provide a backup during the time of voltage sags and such deviations. UPFC joined with batteries through dc-dc chopper have been introduced to improve their ability to exchange real power. The active power injected into the DC-bus is controlled by varying the duty cycle of the switches in the dc-dc chopper while the battery is discharging.


This paper builds a more accurate Hilbert's type inequality with a best constant factor by introducing a parameter α.As applications,we give an equivalent form.


Periodic signal tracking is certainly easier than general signal tracking. This has been manifested for linear time-invariant systems by applying theories of repetitive control. However, because of the lack of corresponding theories, the difficulties in designing repetitive controllers for both periodic signal tracking and general signal tracking in nonlinear systems are similar or the same. In view of this, this paper proposes a new viewpoint on the internal model principle which is used to explain how the internal models work in the time domain when the desired signals are step signals, sine signals and general periodic signals, respectively. Guided by this viewpoint, the periodic signal tracking problem is considered as a stability problem for nonlinear systems. To demonstrate the effectiveness of this new viewpoint, a new method of designing repetitive controllers is proposed for periodic signal tracking of non-minimum phase nonlinear systems, where the internal dynamics are subject to a periodic disturbance. A simulation example illustrates the effectiveness of the new method.


Author(s): Chapple, Steve | Abstract: Ocean health is declining as fisheries crash, species are lost, coastal development and pollution spread, and coral reefs vanish. The scientists that study these ecosystems have many differing viewpoints and ideas regarding restoring our oceans to their pristine condition before human interference. This project documents the responses of scientists to the plight of declining ocean health and gathers perspectives on what can or should be done. Interviews include 1) Dr. Enric Sala discussing shifting baselines, 2) Dr. Nancy Knowlton exploring coral degradation and restoration in the Caribbean, 3) Dr. Paul Dayton contemplating science and conservation within the academic community, 4) Dr. George Sugihara regarding the economics of fisheries, 5) Dr. Richard Sommerville on scientists speaking out about climate change and 6) Dr. Nicholas Holland discussing mass extinctions on geologic timescales. The paper explores how science communication is necessary to educate the public and inform policy decisions. The overarching theme of the report is to draw attention to how we can protect our oceans from the major biodiversity loss that has occurred on land due to human interference.


An individual's modern daily program of activities is likely to be entirely depended on electronic tools and media as our personal interaction with others become increasingly mediated by technology. Observation of the people surrounding us has decreased so much, and I dare say that we are so absorbed by our touch screens that these are becoming extensions of our hands. I examine and demonstrate work in which handmade, minumental, representational, full body portraits of individuals are created (Figures. 1,2). The familiarity of the human figure bridges the cognitive chasm between the viewer and the object, and consequently understanding improves. The viewer connects easily with the object and the object ceases to be an object. It becomes the mould of our perception, facilitates understanding of an issue, bridge voids, balances chaos, stands for itself and leads the viewer's imagination to make subjective scenarios, reflections. My investigation is about a complex web of interactions which take place in the process, between agencies which might traditionally understood as artist, subject, viewer, participant, recipient, audience and object. In times when social media offers the power to every individual to promote and publicise his or her lifestyle, personality, thoughts and so much more, at an instance, 3D scanning and printing introduce an extra dimension to representational depiction: What does sculpture have to offer? Its stillness remind us to stop for a minute and think, dream, fly to another dimension, see things from another perspective.


Hopcroft and Tarjan [2] have recently proposed an algorithm that runs in linear time for testing the planarity of a graph. The technique finds a representation of the graph as a sequence of paths and then iteratively imbeds these paths to find a mesh structure, rearranging the meshes as needed to accommodate each new path. Demoucron et al. [1] have shown that this rearrangement process is unnecessary if the paths are considered in the proper order. The present implementation is found to run in linear time for most ordinary cases, about twice as fast as Tarjan's Algol implementation. A graph of 3000 vertices and 8994 edges required about 18 s.


Emphasis on human care is not only an important manifestation of universities' ideological and political education implementing the scientific development concept,but also an urgent need to effectively improve the effectiveness of ideological and political education.The current practice of ideological and political education usually focuses on common development,overlooking personality development;emphasize indoctrination,overlooking psychological needs;emphasize system management,lacking emotional care and other phenomena reflecting the lack of humanistic care.Therefore,ideological and political education must be integrated into human care,innovate education content and form,optimize the campus environment,pay attention to practice to implement human care in a multi-channel and all-around way.


FIELD: medicine. SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine and may be used if it is necessary to prevent and treat inflammatory processes by applying various compresses. The presented dressing represents a strip-shaped domino mask and comprises an outer layer of an impermeable fixation material and at least one layer of a material in contact with the body surface. The impermeable fixation material is a soft waterproof breathable polyester fabric, preferentially like Dewspo. The material in contact with the body surface is natural linen fabric coated with liquid medicines or ointments. Additionally, the dressing comprises adjustable stabiliser bands. The dressing can be applied on clusters of lymph nodes, pustulations, lungs and/or bronchi. EFFECT: invention provides the most efficient and effective use of the compress dressing on the various parts of body due to its certain configuration using only "breathable" materials and reusable material in contact with the body surface. 7 cl, 8 dwg


Objective: In the present study, three different extracts of Pemna herbacea (Roxb.) were evaluated for its anticonvulsant activity against pentylenetetrazol (PTZ) and maximal electroshock (MES)-induced convulsions in mice.Methods: The shed-dried powder of P. herbacea roots was passed through a sieve and subjected to extraction using Soxhlet apparatus with 70% ethanol, petroleum ether, and chloroform to get respective extracts named as ethanolic extract of P. herbacea, petroleum ether extract of P. herbacea, and chloroform extract of P. herbacea (PHC). Preliminary phytochemical analysis and acute oral toxicity study were done. Thereafter, the extracts were analyzed for PTZ- and MES-induced convulsions.Results: The results revealed that PHC at the doses 200 and 400 mg/kg was effective against both, i.e., PTZ- and MES-induced convulsions. Overall PHC 400 mg/kg was most effective, as it significantly delayed onset of convulsions (p<0.01) and reduced % mortality (50%) in PTZ model, while in MES model, it showed the highest reduction in duration of hind limb extension (p<0.01) and percentage protection (33.33%).Conclusion: The results reported anticonvulsant potential of PHC against both PTZ- and MES-induced convulsions suggesting mixed mechanism of action which may be attributed to different phytochemicals acting simultaneously.


More than 10% of people aged 50 years and older report dizziness. Despite available treatments, dizziness remains unresolved for many people due in part to sub-optimal assessment.

 to identify factors associated with dizziness handicap in middle-aged and older people to identify targets for intervention to address this debilitating problem.

 This secondary analysis of baseline and prospective data from a randomised-controlled trial involved 305 individuals aged 50-92 years reporting significant dizziness in the past year. Participants were classified as having either mild or no dizziness handicap (score < 31) or moderate / severe dizziness handicap (score: 31-100) based on the dizziness handicap inventory (DHI). Participants completed health questionnaires and underwent assessments of psychological well-being, lying and standing blood pressure, vestibular function, strength, vision, proprioception, processing speed, balance, stepping and gait. Participants also reported dizziness episodes in monthly diaries for 6 months following baseline assessment. Participants reported dizziness episodes in monthly diaries for six months following baseline assessment.

 DHI scores ranged from 0-86 with 95 participants (31%) reporting moderate/severe dizziness handicap. Binary logisitic regression identified a postive Dix-Hallpike test for benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, cardiovascular medicationuse, high postural sway when standing on the floor with eyes closed and severe anxiety, as significant and independent predictors of moderate.severe dizziness handicap. Poor balance (high sway) also significantly identified participants who reported frequent (> or = weekly, n=134) dizziness episodes.

 Assessment of cardiovascular medication use, benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, anxiety and postural sway identify middle aged and older people with significant dizziness handicap. A multifactorial assessment including these facotrs may assist in tailoring evidence-based therapies to alleviate dizziness handicap in this group.


Motion prediction of vehicles is critical but challenging due to the uncertainties in complex environments and the limited visibility caused by occlusions and limited sensor ranges. In this paper, we study a new task, safety-aware motion prediction with unseen vehicles for autonomous driving. Unlike the existing trajectory prediction task for seen vehicles, we aim at predicting an occupancy map that indicates the earliest time when each location can be occupied by either seen and unseen vehicles. The ability to predict unseen vehicles is critical for safety in autonomous driving. To tackle this challenging task, we propose a safety-aware deep learning model with three new loss functions to predict the earliest occupancy map. Experiments on the large-scale autonomous driving nuScenes dataset show that our proposed model significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art baselines on the safety-aware motion prediction task. To the best of our knowledge, our approach is the first one that can predict the existence of unseen vehicles in most cases. Project page at https://github.com/xrenaa/Safety-Aware-Motion-Prediction.


It was recognized as a basin in 1926 by Charles N. Gould who gave its present name. Exploration and drilling have been slow and sporadic since that time, the present deep-well saturation being less than one test per 150 square miles. At present, there are one small gas field and one oil field within its limits; around its margins eight other oil pools are producing, of which the Anton-Irish is the largest. It is bounded on the north by the Amarillo Mountains and their westward continuance, the Bravo dome; on the west by the New Mexico Highlands; and on the south by the Matador line of basement peaks. Having approximately 1,000 feet of general closure along its deepest axis, it opens eastward into the Hollis-Hardeman basin, and southward into the Midland basin. Structure within its limits is complex with sharp folding accompanied by high-angle faulting trending primarily northwest-southeast. Subordinate to this prominent trend, a low-relief counter-trending system of folding is becoming more apparent with latest control. The basin probably had its inception near the beginning of Pennsylvanian time when the surrounding regional structural components had their initial movement. Structural movement along these axes has continued through the most recent deposits in the area. Movement along the buried Amarillo Mountains was noted as recently as three years ago when the last tremor emanating from the area was felt. Historically, the area was an embayment of the major Permian-Pennsylvanian sea on the south and east. Sediments in this interval are closely akin to their counterparts in the surrounding area. Lower Permian and Pennsylvanian shales, carbonates, and sands appear identical with the same End_Page 426------------------------------ deposits in the surrounding basins. The great carbonate development of this interval extends into the area from the south and east and is of comparable magnitude. Within the clastic part of the basin the few wells penetrating this section have encountered well developed local sand and arkose deposits. The facies relationships here are the same as those in the Midland basin, with carbonate deposits averaging 800-1,200 feet thick and clastics ranging from 2,000 to 3,000 feet. Pre-Pennsylvanian stratigraphy for the basinal area is comparatively simple. There is a basal sand of possible Cambrian age locally developed on the pre-Cambrian basement surface. In southeast Swisher County in the heart of the basin it reaches a thickness in excess of 200 feet. Here, it is a fine to coarse, porous sand, glauconitic in part. Above this the Ellenburger dolomite extends into the area from the east and southwest but is missing due to either erosion or non-deposition over the wide central part of the area along the axis of John E. Adam's "Texas Peninsula." From this Ellenburger remnant to Mississippian time there are no deposits present. The Mississippian consists of approximately 600 feet of carbonates near the south limits of the basin, thinning as it approaches an eros onal edge along the south margin of the Amarillo Mountain structure. The relationship of the Osage, Meramec, and Chester shows that these rocks were eroded by early Pennsylvanian orogeny. End_of_Article - Last_Page 427------------


By now, the broad definitions that a biomarker is a characteristic, measured and evaluated as an indicator of normal biologic processes, pathogenic processes, or pharmacological responses to a therapeutic intervention, and a surrogate end point that is intended to substitute for a clinical end point and is expected to predict clinical benefit (or harm, or lack of benefit or harm) based on epidemiologic, therapeutic, pathophysiologic or other scientific evidence, are well known [1]. Biomarkers are measurements that have become very powerful tools for drug development, medical practice, diagnosis and regulation throughout the healthcare sector. Typically, biomarkers start with discovery. Some of the most compelling recent developments in biomarker discovery center around multiplexed platforms, which include genomicand proteomic-based biomarkers. Advances in multiplexed technology have driven innovative use of genetic and proteomic testing, such as gene signatures in drug development [2], and are rapidly expanding into widespread use for individualized testing as diagnostics in medical practice. As highlighted by Boja et al. in this issue, the development and implementation of verification methodologies for proteomics is expected to drive biomarker discoveries into qualified US FDA biomarkers [3]. The complex issues surrounding evidentiary links for multiplexed biomarkers have also been highlighted by the controversial use and interpretation of direct-to-consumer genetic testing [4]. Discovery and implementation of safety biomarkers has also enjoyed rapid growth over the last several years, as evidenced by a dramatic increase in the use of the safety biomarker QT interval in US labels, driven, at least in part, by recent regulatory requirements [5]. Other innovative safety biomarkers are now emerging, as described by Khan et al. in this issue [6]. Creatinine has long been recognized as an inadequate biomarker of renal injury, resulting in delayed diagnosis, which drives the discovery of novel biomarkers to detect early kidney damage, including cystatin C and Kim-1.


Aim:  The hypothesis that isometric handgrip induces a progressive increase in arterial pressure and a linear increase in setpoint for arterial pressure control was tested.


Digital beamforming (DBF) is a powerful method to enhance the antenna performance. In DBF the received signal from each array element is processed individually. These systems are less complex since beamforming is not carried out using analog phase shifters. Signals are simultaneously processed in the digital domain to generate a multitude of beams essential for a variety of applications like fast adaptive interference rejection, ultra-low side-lobes, high resolution direction finding, etc. DBF is most advantageous in its receive mode [1]. The features provided by DBF in this mode include: improved adaptive pattern nulling; closely-spaced multiple beams; array element pattern correction; antenna self-calibration and ultra-low side-lobes; super-resolution; and flexible radar power and time management.


&NA; Staff members who care for the polytrauma population need diverse educational programs even if they have many years of experience working in the brain‐injury rehabilitation field. This article explores key concepts that help guide rehabilitation nursing practice, strengthen clinical skills, increase family involvement, and identify educational resources.


Machine transliteration has received significant research attention in last two decades. It is observed that Hindi to English and Marathi to English named entity machine transliteration is comparably less studied. Currently, research work in this domain is carried out by using grapheme based statistical approaches. But, to achieve better accuracy for the transliteration, an adequate bilingual text corpus is a mandatory requirement for statistical approaches. This paper focuses on Hindi to English and Marathi to English direct machine transliteration of Indian-origin named entities such as proper names, place names and organization names. Proposed phonetic based statistical approach uses phoneme and named entity length as features for supervised learning and transliterates them in English using full consonant based phonetic scheme without support of corpus. This system takes Indian origin named entities as an input in Hindi and Marathi using Devanagari script and transliterates it into English by using only two weights.


The introduction of the Sun SPOT, Small Programmable Object Technology, developed by Sun Microsystems has been depicted as providing a revolutionary change in cyber physical interaction. Based on Sun Java Micro Edition (ME), this sensor technology has the potential to be used across a number of discipline areas to interface with systems, the environment and biological domains. This paper will outline the potential of Sun SPOTs to enhance community sustainability. An action based research project was carried out to investigate the potential uses of these technologies and develop a prototype system as a proof of concept. The research will compare Sun SPOTs with similar technologies, provide an assessment of the technology, and propose a number of possible implementations of the technology to enhance community sustainability.


Abstract:Recent theorizations of narrative empathy, narrative medicine, and cosmopolitanism have stressed how literature transmits and makes intelligible the lived experiences of others. Representing a family confronting mysterious illnesses, disabling injuries, and deaths, Rohinton Mistry's Such a Long Journey instead stresses how narrative transfigures these experiences. Refusing to dismiss Mistry's fixation with illness as either metaphor or manipulative sentimentality, this essay argues that Mistry's representation of bodily precarity in patterned realist texts suggests a vulnerable aesthetic that, in risking failure, emphasizes how aesthetic forms transmit and transfigure experiences to prompt an examination of sentiment and offer interpretative choices for readers.


This is a study about the female body and identity in contemporary Latin American art based on performance records. Exile, territories, displacements and body are keywords for understanding the work Silueta Series (1974), composed of 200 photographs taken in a period of approximately seven years, by the cuban artist Ana Mendieta (1948-1985). Thus, this qualitative study throughbibliographical survey, iconographic data collection and interpretative analysis of the collecteddata, taking as its starting point a historical iconographic panorama of the representation of the female body, to reflect the multiple intrinsic concepts in the artist's work that has the female body as a central element integrated into the landscape, in addition to issues of gender, politics, identity that are subjectively established in a timeless manner. The results reveal that the poetic action of the feminine in media art can deconstruct the concepts rooted in the woman, having her own body as a support through technologies.


Objective. To analyze complications of reconstructive operations in women-patients with tubular breasts of Type ІІ, to propose the procedures of the complications correction and to estimate their results.
Materials and methods. In the clinic during last 14 yrs 54 reconstructive operations in combination with endoprosthesis were performed in women-patients with tubular breasts of Type ІІ. Among far remote morbidity capsular contracture was observed, dense postoperative cicatrices, widening of areola, formation of double submammarial plica, the implant palpation.
Results.The morbidity correction and prevention procedures proposed, such as application of lipofilling in the fibrotic ring zone, correction and stabilization of the areola form, have permitted to reduce the reoperations quantity.
Conclusion. Application of procedures for morbidity correction and prevention have guaranteed the esthetic result improvement of reconstructive operations in women-patients with tubular breasts of Type ІІ.


It is an urgent, imminent and present danger that we have to focus on the traditional terrorists, who are transforming ICT into the modern attacking tools that can devastate the metropolitan areas with the deconstruction of critical infrastructures via the computer network using state-of-the-art hacking and cracking technologies. The cyber terrorists could inflict catastrophic loss or damage on civilians, corporations or the governments physically thousands of miles away and accomplish severe death polls than the traditional one. The government in the public sector or the private critical infrastructure administrators should not underestimate these potential cyber attacks. In this paper, we presented the cyber terrorism, the next generation of terrorism, to be a forthcoming and unavoidable threat to the global community as well as providing a potential rational cyber terrorist scenario, which could be the global cyber terror- ism phenomena. This paper explicitly demonstrates the feasibility of launching cyber attacks toward critical infrastructures that might cause severe casualties.


According to literary sources, soft tissue hemangiomas of the maxillofacial region, arouses an interest of scientists in the etiopathogenesis, clinical and morphological characteristics of the structure. The article presents the results of clinical studies on the incidence and symptoms of soft tissue hemangiomas of the maxillofacial region in children. On 26 preparations made from postoperative material`the morphological features of the various forms of hemangiomas of specified location have been studied.. The obtained results of the research have been compared with the corresponding data of literature.


Pulp development was studied with light and electron microscopy in apical portions of cat primary and permanent incisors at various stages of development in order to qualitatively assess hypothesized differences during maturation. Primary and permanent tooth pulps passed through similar stages up to when the primary teeth began to resorb. At that point permanent tooth pulps continued to develop in complexity relative to myelinated axons and developed thin epineurial sheaths. Although the stages were similar in several regards, the time needed by the permanent tooth pulps to reach each stage was considerably greater than for the primary tooth pulps. It is of interest that the young permanent teeth had only a small portion of their final complement of nerves in spite of their relatively complete development.


As important transaction strategies in international financial market based on overreaction and underreaction, contrarian strategy and momentum strategy have provided key evidences for predictability of security price and stood in contradiction with the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH). The difference in validity of these strategies has been empirically compared in US, UK, Japan and China markets by employing CAR in this paper.


Scholars of the late medieval and early modern period have expressed little interest in the far North West and, less still, its political figures.1 One explanation for this may be an ostensible lac...


The procedure that leads to the estimates of the variables of interest, such as land use and crop yield and their sampling standard deviations, is rather tedious and complex, till to make necessary for a statistician to have a stable and generalized computational systems available. The SAS is often the ideal instrument to face with these needs, because it permits the handling of data effectively and provides all the necessary functions to manage easily surveys with thousands of micro-data. This paper focus on the use of this system in different steps of the survey: sample design, data editing and estimation. The information produced is, however, available for one user only, the manager of the survey. Our idea is to reduce the time needed to process the collected data and to reduce the inefficiencies which unfortunately characterize the management and dissemination of aggregated information, without loosing the stability of the SAS and at the same time increasing the informative content of the survey. For this reason we developed a user oriented Visual Basic (VB) software, whose aim is the production of reports based on the data coming from the SAS central system, capable of meeting the user needs of private and public agencies involved in this sector. If SAS is excellent for large scale data processing and has a very rich function set, VB 2005 helped us develop a high quality graphical interface that make possible to personalize estimations. Particularly, in this type of survey, we may be asked to provide estimates not only at the national level, but also at provincial and local levels, in other terms we may be interested at the estimation for domains: VB software support the definition of a priori domains. We feel that through the use of this two integrated systems we could help researchers and institutions working on remote sensing in agriculture in growing their interest in this kind of large scale surveys.


Three issues usually are associated with threat prevention intelligent surveillance systems. First, the fusion and interpretation of large scale incomplete heterogeneous information; second, the demand of effectively predicting suspects' intention and ranking the potential threats posed by each suspect; third, strategies of allocating limited security resources (e.g., the dispatch of security team) to prevent a suspect's further actions towards critical assets. However, in the literature, these three issues are seldomly considered together in a sensor network based intelligent surveillance framework. To address this problem, in this paper, we propose a multi-level decision support framework for in-time reaction in intelligent surveillance. More specifically, based on a multi-criteria event modeling framework, we design a method to predict the most plausible intention of a suspect. Following this, a decision support model is proposed to rank each suspect based on their threat severity and to determine resource allocation strategies. Finally, formal properties are discussed to justify our framework.


The tropical tropopause layer (TTL) shows a curious stratification structure: temperature continues to decrease beyond the level of main convective outflow (∼200 hPa) up to the cold point tropopause (∼100 hPa), but the TTL is more stably stratified than the upper troposphere. A cold point tropopause well separated from the level of main convective outflow has previously been shown to be consistent with the detailed radiative balance in the TTL even without dynamical effects. However, the TTL is also controlled by adiabatic cooling due to large‐scale upwelling within the Brewer‐Dobson circulation, which creates the extremely low stratospheric water vapor content via freeze drying. Here we study the role of water vapor and ozone radiative heating on the detailed temperature structure of the TTL based on idealized single‐column radiative‐convective equilibrium simulations. An atmosphere without adiabatic cooling due to upwelling results in much higher stratospheric water vapor content; the resulting altered radiative heating structure is shown to push the TTL in a regime of radiative control by water vapor. The TTL structure is furthermore shown to be strongly sensitive to the altitude where ozone sharply transitions from tropospheric to stratospheric values. Adiabatic cooling due to upwelling is found to reduce the radiative control by water vapor, resulting primarily in a negative transport‐radiation feedback. Conversely, the radiative control by ozone is enhanced due to upwelling—a positive transport‐radiation feedback. The particularly strong ozone radiative effect may explain about half of the reported spread in cold point temperatures (∼10 K) in current climate models.


The unfired both principal surfaces of the ceramic laminate 4, a composite laminate 1 which ceramic green sheets 5 shrinkage suppression is not sintered provided in unfired firing temperature of the ceramic laminate 4, green ceramic laminate 4 of higher than sintering temperature, and after firing at a temperature lower than the sintering temperature of the shrinkage suppression ceramic green sheets 5, ceramic green sheets 5 shrinkage suppression by spraying water and compressed air unfired ceramic laminates 4 a first removal step of removing a portion not reacted with the glass component, a second removal step of removing the ceramic powder, the residue that did be removed by the first removing step by blowing the water and compressed air, the 1, the third removal step of the ceramic multilayer substrate after the second removing step of ultrasonic cleaning to remove ceramic green sheets 5 shrinkage suppression layer.


signaling loop to promote cancer progression". Science. 2021;372(6538):eabf2022. 5. Voehringer D. Basophils in allergic immune responses. Curr Opin Immunol. 2011;23(6):789793. 6. Khodoun MV, Kucuk ZY, Strait RT, et al. Rapid polyclonal desensitization with antibodies to IgE and FcepsilonRIalpha. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2013;131(6):15551564. SUPPORTING INFORMATION Additional supporting information may be found in the online version of the article at the publisher's website.


The species equilibrium theory has proven to be a useful framework in which to analyze the distribution and abundance of species, especially for islands and habitats distributed as islands. In this study, the distribution of marine epifaunal invertebrates on rocks has been interpreted using this model. The relationship between area and the number of species present is sustained within this community. However, the increase in the number of species with increasing area appears to result from increasing immigration rather than decreasing extinction, as predicted by the model. Two factors have a major effect on the species equilibrium: seasonality and substrate stability. The seasonality of the climate causes the immigration rate to change seasonally. Colonization curves are dependent on the time of initial immersion of the substrate and vary in shape. However, with time, all converge. A simple model which allows immigration to fluctuate seasonally is developed. It predicts both the initial difference in the slope of the colonization curves and their eventual convergence. This same model also predicts that the colonization curve will cycle between a summer high and a winter low. The duration of the study was only long enough to test weakly this last prediction. The physical and temporal stability of a rock "island" is also a function of its size. Smaller rocks are disturbed more frequently than larger ones. This leads to an undersaturation in species on small rocks, causing an increase in the rate of change in the number of species with increasing area. Other changes in the slope of the area-species curve were found to be caused by changes in other environmental parameters. The species equilibrium theory is a fairly robust model in that changes in many parameters have a predictable affect on immigration and extinction which, in turn, determine species diversity. Although the utility of such an all-encompassing model may be questioned, its predictive framework makes it a very attractive tool for examining the diversity of communities.


Sediment transport in alluvial channels is a problem of nonlinearity,and artificial neural net(ANN) have many merits in dealing with nonlinearity.For abundant sampled data which contain noise from measurements and sediment transport itself,batch-mode training can effectively reduce the computing time and improve the training precision.The A3-33-1 ANN model is established for the prediction of flow depth according to energy slope,dimensionless unit discharge,and dimensionless sediment diameter.Compared with the measured data,the results show that the ANN model has a high precision.Also,compared with other equations based on regression,the ANN model is better than traditional regression model.


entered Spain from the north, by the only possible pass of the Pyrenees, at Biarritz and San Sebastian, or by Gibraltar, through which, twelve hundred years ago, refinement and learning entered the Peninsula with Tarik the Moor. The muster exceeded that of Paris three years ago. Madrid is a modern capital and a modern city, with boulevards, gardens, plazas, fountains, etc.; but there is not that magnificent panorama which greets the eye 011 entering Moscow, with its domes, minarets, and the fretted walls of the Kremlin. The Spain to be seen, however, is the Spain of the Moors at Cordova, Seville, Cadiz, and G-ranada, the latter the gem of the peninsula ; and were it not for the slow speed of the trains, admitting of the ticket-collector travelling from carriage to carriage along the footboard while the train is proceeding at full speed, there lingers the desire to revisit those imperishable monuments of Moorish architecture, colouring, and art, which have suffered quite as much from religious prejudice as from the ravages of time. For some reason or other, Spain is one of the least known countries of Europe, and yet, apart from its magnificent Moorish ruins, there is much to be observed that is to be found nowhere else. Is it not the land of the dons and grandees, and of the courtiers of Philip, who, four centuries ago, brought refinement, manners, and dress to the English Court ? Was it not the land of chivalry, until Cervantes was said to have smiled it away ? Is it not still the land of inveterate beggars, of the bull-fighter {matador), of the mantilla, of long raven locks that " foil the painter's power," of windmills, of guitars, castanets, Sevillanos dances, and of strange courtships which puzzle the American and English lady. And where else are to be seen lemons, oranges, olives, and vines in such profusion ? Here is to be witnessed the pelota game ( jcu-dc-paumc), played in halls 210 + 36 + 50 in height. It is of the tennis order, but more illustrative of endurance and skill than any English game. Marred by gambling, it is mostly played in the cities by the athletic youth of the Basque provinces on the southern slopes of the Pyrenees, but the players are short-lived, owing to the severity of the strain. And is it not the land of Columbus, who, five centuries ago, set sail


Medical tourism (also called medical travel, health tourism, or global health care) is a term initially coined by travel agencies and the mass media to describe the rapidly growing practice of travelling across international borders to obtain health care. In the past decade, the attempt to achieve better health while on holiday through relaxation, exercise, or visits to spas has been taken to a new level with the emergence of developing countries as destinations for medical tourism. It has grown dramatically in recent years primarily because of the high costs of treatment in rich countries, long waiting lists, the relative affordability of international air travel, favourable economic exchange rates, and the availability of well-qualified doctors and medical staff. Keeping in mind the rapid growth of this industry, a study was conducted to shed light on the importance of different factors that influence the travel motivations of US medical tourists to international destinations.


A family of polarizing kernels is presented together with polynomial-complexity algorithm for computing scaling exponent. The proposed convolutional polar kernels are based on convolutional polar codes, also known as b-MERA codes. For these kernels, a polynomial-complexity algorithm is proposed to find weight spectrum of unrecoverable erasure patterns, needed for computing scaling exponent. As a result, we obtain scaling exponent and polarization rate for convolutional polar kernels of size up to 1024.


How to design a rational network node is the key problem of WSN.Based on analysis of architecture and working principle of WSN,a node design which adopts 32bits LPC2103 as the MCU,with RF chip CC2420,memorizer AT45DB401 and digital temperature sensor as peripheral equipments is introduced.The system's structure,hardware circuits and software flow chart are given too.


samuel a. chambers is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Saint MaryÕs College of Maryland, where he teaches political theory. His recent articles include ÒSpectral History, Untimely Theory,Ó Theory & Event 3.4 and ÒThe Hegemonic Politics of Race,Ó Agora 1.2. His ÒSubjectivation, Subjectivity, and Sex: Having the Historical Sense to ÔBypassÕ Psychoanalytic TheoryÓ is forthcoming in The Queer Theory of Michel Foucault, ed. David Halperin (U of Chicago P).


In the face of numerous events that threaten both people's sense of security, as well as the continuity of technical systems, the issue of considered structures' resilience to negative external factors is becoming increasingly important. Resilience is an interdisciplinary term interpreted in numerous fields of science, as well as the daily life of human. The crux of this article is to develop a few methods of considered structures' (supply chains) resilience measurement and evaluation. This work was preceded by indication of supply chain resilience definitions.


PURPOSE
To identify the genes that can differentiate primary from recurrent pterygia.

METHODS
The transcriptional differences of primary and recurrent pterygia were first determined by microarray analyses. Computational analyses were used to extract the biological significance of the genes accurately, and a significant functional classification of the genes was made by unsupervised methodologies. After confirming the functional classification for primary and recurrent pterygia by a clustering algorithm, a support vector machine (SVM) algorithm was applied. Based on a machine learning technique, the minimum number of genes that can accurately classify primary and recurrent pterygia was determined.

RESULTS
Clustering analyses classified primary and recurrent pterygia transcriptomes and identified 10 clusters associated with distinct biological processes. When the SVM algorithm was applied to the microarray-analyzed products from three primary and three recurrent cases, periostin, TIMP-2, and L-3-phosphoserine phosphatase homolog (PSPHL) were identified as the minimum set of predictors with 100% accuracy. A differential expression of these genes in primary and recurrent pterygia was confirmed by immunohistochemistry. When the 24 patients with primary disease and the 8 patients with recurrent disease were analyzed with this gene set, an accuracy of classification of 84.38% was achieved.

CONCLUSIONS
Periostin, TIMP-2, and PSPHL can be used as predictor genes for the recurrence of pterygia. Their biological activities may explain the events leading to recurrences of pterygia and thus may be genes to target for pharmaceutical interventions.


EFIE(electric field integral equation) in combination with the moment method is used to analyze the electromagnetic(EM) scattering by electrically small three dimensional(3-D) multi-conducting bodies.The surfaces of the multi-conducting bodies are partitioned into triangular cells,the current distribution on the patches is represented by sub-domain type basis function,the EFIE is translated into matrix equation by the Galerkin method,and then the current coefficient is obtained.Numerical results of multi-conducting bodies varying with the incident angles show that the distribution of multi-conducting bodies,the number of multi-conducting,the incident azimuth and the polarized azimuth all affect radar cross section(RCS).


This article presents a secure communication scheme based on chaotic systems using a sliding-mode observer (SMO) that is robust against disturbances affecting the transmitter and transmission process. The original message is first encrypted using a $N$ -cipher with a key signal and then fed into the state equation, whereas the key signal is fed into the output equation. The chaotic system in the transmitter is re-expressed to decouple the disturbances from the signals of interest. An SMO is then designed based on this form and implemented in the receiver to perform synchronization, and recover the broadcast messages to perform secure communication. The conditions required for the SMO to be feasible are investigated in terms of the transmitter system matrices. A set of design procedures for the chaotic secure communication scheme is outlined. Finally, a simulated example is shown to exhibit the efficacy of the proposed scheme.


Early Shakespeare, 1588–1594 draws together leading scholars of text, performance, and theatre history to offer a rigorous re-appraisal of Shakespeare's early career. The contributors offer rich new critical insights into the theatrical and poetic context in which Shakespeare first wrote and his emergence as an author of note, while challenging traditional readings of his beginnings in the burgeoning theatre industry. Shakespeare's earliest works are treated on their own merit and in their own time without looking forward to Shakespeare's later achievements; contributors situate Shakespeare, in his twenties, in a very specific time, place, and cultural moment. The volume features essays about Shakespeare's early style, characterisation, and dramaturgy, together with analysis of his early co-authors, rivals, and influences (including Lyly, Spenser and Marlowe). This collection provides essential entry points to, and original readings of, the poet-dramatist's earliest extant writings and shines new light on his first activities as a professional author.


By using LI-6400 portable photosynthesis determination system,the paper conducted an analytical study of the physi-ecological factors affecting the photosynthetic rate of slash pines' half-sib.Results show that the physi-ecological factors making main effects are quite different;and that the main factor affecting the rate of clone 609 and 1077 is water content in air and soil,the main factor affecting that of clone 464,1027 and 46 is water content in air and soil,and carbon dioxide from atmosphere,the main factor affecting that of clone 101's 1-year-old needles and 508's 2-year-old needles is also water content in air and soil,and the main factor affecting that of clone 508's 1-year-old needles and 101's 2-year-old needles is water content in air and soil,and carbon dioxide from atmosphere.Appropriate water content in air and soil and proper carbon dioxide concentration from atmosphere are the key ecological factors to the fast growth and high yield of slash pines' half-sib.


A total of 900 individuals (pre-monsoon = 250, monsoon = 350, post-monsoon = 300) of P. paradiseus were collected from the fishers catches during January to December 2014. For each individual, TL (total length) and BW (body weight) were measured with 0.1 cm and 0.1 g accuracy, respectively. Length weight relationship (LWR) was estimated by the equation, W = a × L. Length-frequency distributions (LFD) were significantly different between the seasons (P < 0.001). Allometric coefficient (b values) of LWRs (TL vs. BW) indicated isometric growth in pre-monsoon and post-monsoon (b ≈ 3), but negative allometric growth was found in monsoon (b < 3). All LWRs were highly significant (P < 0.001) with all r values ≥ 0.984. The LWRs were significantly difference between the seasons (ANCOVA, P < 0.001). The KF is highly correlated with TL (Spearman rank test, P < 0.001) in all the seasons, thus suggesting the best condition factor for assessing the wellbeing of this fish in our study area. Additionally, the WR was significantly different from 100 (Wilcoxon rank test, P = 0.003) in pre-monsoon, which indicates the habitat was in poor condition for P. paradiseus, nevertheless it was not significantly differed in monsoon (P = 0.0186) and post-monsoon (P = 0.423). The calculated Lm was 12.1 cm in TL and form factor was 0.0061 for P. paradiseus in the Tetulia River.


Objective To explore the application of Protis protein analysis system in early renal damage and evaluate glomerular filtration rate(GFR).Methods Serum creatine,urinal creatine,urinal total protein were detected by the automatic biometry analyser.Urinary Alb、IgG、α1M、α2M and serum cysC were detected by the automatic defenite protein analyser.Urine routine was detected by chemical analyzer and microscope.All results were analyzed using Protis protein system generation atlas.Results The comparative results of 301 patients and 50 healthy controls demonstrate: ①Serum cysteine of tubulointerstitial nephropathy and bloody urine mixed albuminuria group were significantly higher than that of healthy group;②Urinary Alb of all disease groups were higher than that of the controls;③Urinary α1M of all disease groups was higher than that of healthy group,it showed the highest in nephrotic syndrome group;④Urinary α2M in postrenal group increased significantly.Conclusions Pathogenetic condition and renal damage,renal and postrenal bloody urine can be identified by using Protis protein analysis system.


Prestack seismic inversion is the complex method which is a combination of various types of information and get a variety of associated parameters.Basic data and technical links in the process of inversion could influence and constrain directly reliability and accuracy of inversion processing result.By controlling the different technical links and correlative parameters of inversion process,we analyze different parameter and technological change on the result of prestack seismic inversion result influence.Based on the theoretical model for prestack seismic inversion,we respectively make in-depth analysis on influence degree for inversion with influence factors,such as prestack migration precise velocity imaging,prestack gather correcting,the selection of stack-angle range,etc,and key technique,such as seismic calibration,wavelet computation,compensation of low-frequency information,analysis of inversion result,etc.Thus,cognition acquired is advantage to guide practical application and improve the effect of prestack inversion.Finally,by analyzing all kinds of factors and key technologies,some conclusions and cognition related with practical application are summarized and obtained,which support effective technical support for the forecast of reservoir and oil-gas distribution,even reveal underground reservoir distribution more reliably.


At present there are many construction companies spread across Indonesia, so they have competition both in terms of promoting their companies and in terms of bidding on the right and quality construction costs. CV. OSA Karya Mandiri is a construction company that was founded in 2015. The bid for construction costs is CV. OSA Karya Mandiri is currently still recorded manually and computerized using Microsoft Excel version 2010 software which causes many errors to be found in recording and calculating the RAB itself. In order to overcome this, it is necessary to create a system that makes it easier to calculate the budget plan for a construction project by the company. This study aims to design a web-based budget plan management system using the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) method. The result of this study is an information system for managing budget plans (rab) in web-based construction companies (case study cv. osa Karya Mandiri).


Consider a set of n points in the plane in convex position, where each point has an integer label from {0,1,…,n − 1}. This naturally induces a labeling of the edges: each edge (i,j) is assigned the label i + j, modulo n. We propose algorithms for finding large noncrossing harmonic matchings or paths, i.e., the matchings or paths in which no two edges have the same label. When the point labels are chosen uniformly at random, and independently of each other, our matching algorithm with high probability delivers a nearly–perfect matching, a matching of size n/2 − O(n1/3 lnn). We show that, in sharp contrast, a near‐perfect path is unlikely: with high probability the length of the longest path is below 0.96n. In a series of computer experiments, one of our algorithms invariably found a path of length above 0.76n, and the likely path length for our empirically second best algorithm is proved to be above 0.66n. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Random Struct. Alg., 2007


Maintaining database at the application developer's end needs too many parameters like lease line, servers, licensed software's and many more. And this is a costlier affair that's why most of the application developers never rely on that. So, to overcome this financial and technical glitches application developers outsource their database storage headache to a third party. Where third parties always have high end infrastructure and sophisticated settings to store the data. The integrity of the data has always been a headache, most of the time this integrity is facing danger from the internal employees of the organization at the third party's end. Some methodologies are existed to tackle this, where they are handling the tampered data tuples and restore them. But they are never going in depth to analyze the facts to find the real culprit, and also, they often suffered with the greater time complexity. So proposed methodology put forwards an idea of handling the variable databases using the recursive bilinear paring and Avalanche Effect. And this process is catalyzed by the techniques of notarization and validation to detect the parameters like who, when and what.


The short service life span of ETL for 1420mm leads up to frequent salvaging,which affects the normal production to an extant.It is proved that the failure of reflowing conductive roll is due to tin sticking and wear by tentative analysis.Some countermeasures are also put forward,such as improving the roughness form,wear ability and working condition of reflow conduct roll,altering strip dragout process and reducing tin sticking defect,and so on.