The paper presents investigation results of the engine AD3.152 fuelled with mineral oil EKODIESEL PLUS-50 and vegetable oil BIODIESEL D-FAME that allows determining injection rate and injected fuel stream disintegration. The tests were made basing on extremal speed characteristic of engine using engine test bench with measurement system of high-speed pressure parameters and lift of injector needle. The aim of the tests was to comparison influence of self-ignition feeding mineral fuel Ekodiesel Plus 50B with select vegetable fuel BIODIESEL D-FAME. Using fuels of different physicochemical properties to compression-ignition engines requires high accuracy of diagnostic parameters measurements in order to learn differences in processes of injection and combustion. Necessity of fulfilling more and more strong standards, concerning emission of toxic components of exhaust gases, forces users of diesel engines to posses quick and precision methods of their technical state assessment and particularly of a combustion process and of injection equipment technical state. Analysis of the obtained diagrams of fuel pressure in the injection pipe and injection needle lift allows determining fuel outlaw rate from the atomizer and fuel stream disintegration info drops. Experimentally obtained indicator diagrams of cylinder pressure were also applied.


The ground-state energy of two deeply bound acoustic deformation potential (ADP) polarons is examined as a function of the separation between them. A detailed interrelation between the ground-state energy of the system and the size and the structure of the ADP polaron is exhibited. It is also observed that the equilibrium separation is not altered by any variation of the strength of phonon coupling and the values of the band masses.


Background: Jaundice in newborn is quite common affecting nearly 60% of term and 80% of preterm neonates during the first 7 days of life. It is the most common cause of readmission in the hospital during early neonatal period.
Aims: To find out the sensitivity of cord blood bilirubin and albumin level in predicting neonatal hyperbilirubinemia in healthy newborn.
Material and Methods: The study was conducted on 200 full term healthy babies delivered by LSCS and were followed up till day 3 of life. 2ml of blood was drawn for estimating albumin and bilirubin in a sterile manner from the umbilical cord & then veni puncture at 72 hrs of life from those neonates for estimation of bilirubin. All these samples were taken to the laboratory immediately.
Results: from 200 babies, 53 babies developed significant hyperbilirubinemia (>15mg/dl) with incidence of 26.5%. The mean weight of these babies was 2.47±0.38kg, mean cord blood bilirubin was 2.83±0.44mg/dl, mean cord albumin was 2.64±0.3 gm/dl and mean total serum bilirubin after 72 hrs of life was 17.31±2.09mg/dl. Cord blood bilirubin >2.5mg/dl had a sensitivity of 90.5% and specificity 90.4% in the development of hyperbilirubinemia and had a direct correlation, wherever cord blood albumin <2.8gm/dl has sensitivity 86.0% and specificity of 93% and showing an inverse correlation.
Conclusion: Neonates with cord blood bilirubin <2. 5mg.dl and cord blood albumin >2.8 can be safely discharged early whereas neonates with bilirubin >2.5gm/dl and cord blood albumin <2.8g/dl will need close follow up for development of significant hyperbilirubinemia.

Keywords: Hyperbilirubinemia, cord blood, bilirubin, albumin


LoBo ~4oore Local Arra.ngem~nts Chair~m The APL V Conference was held at the Inn on the Park in Toronto, Ontario~ Canadag beginning the evening of May 15th through the afternoon of May 18tho The theme of the conference was APL Applications in Education and Business° Therefores the papers tended ho emphasize applications rather than the more technical aspects of APLo At last counts 245 registrations were recorded° Twenty-three papers were presented, on subjects including Teaching APL~ APL for CAI~ APL as an Analytic Notation, APL in Management and APL Implementations. On the Tuesday eveningr a reception for all attendees was held in the Hospitality Suites which was well attended by those who arrived the night before the program began° On Wednesday evening, a dinner was held at the Ontario Science Centret close to the Inn on the Park, at which Dr. Ken Iverson was guest speaker. Dro Iverson warned against too great an emphasis in APL communications media, such as Quote Quad, on treating APL as a subject of discussion rather than as a means of defining and implementing real-world problems. The dinner was attended by 182 delegates at the Conference and was preceded by a tour of the Science Centre by those who were interested. On Thursday morning, IBM chose the Conference as the forum for announcing APL SV, the long-awaited announcement of APL extensions. The announcement was made at the 7:30 aomo breakfast, to which all attendees were invited. A£in Falkoff hosted the breakfast meeting, and made the announcement. Thursday evening was devoted to a number of informal sessions called "APL/BOB's". These discussions, patterned after the Birds-of-a-Feather sessions of GUIDE and SHARE permitted members of the APL community to gather together with those of similar interests for two hours of discussions and proved to be very popular. Friday afternoon was devoted to a business session, chaired by Garth Foster. Garth gave a history of the development of the APL Users' Group, discussed the pro's and conWs of joining the ACM SIGPL~E, established a nominating committee for new officers and bold a vote which decided that the next meeting will be held under the auspices of Coast Conmaunity College Distri<~t in ~i~e Lcs 9~geles area.


ABSTRACT There are grave issues with how the U.K. government approaches the issue of wellbeing. Specifically, policy interventions that might improve the material conditions of citizens are being down-played, and at times out-rightly dismissed. Instead, an individualist, instrumental message is being promoted, namely, that the best way to improve wellbeing is by improving individual happiness and mental health. I argue that this instrumental message – which in practice blames the victims for their lack of happiness and removes state responsibility – can be made to sound feasible because of a reliance on positivist-based research, whether obtained objectively (by measuring material conditions) or subjectively (by measuring stated levels of happiness). In this paper, I therefore detail the failings of mainstream wellbeing research and its policy conclusions, and argue that critical realism offers solutions.


For ex-vivo diabetic control, the voltammetric diagnosis of glucose (GU) was conducted with a modified carbon nanotube paste electrode, using handheld analytical circuits. The optimum analytical conditions were attained within the 0.5-4.0 ug/L working range and at the 0.06 ug/L detection limit, which system was interfaced to the feedback circuits and was applied to human urine for diabetic-patient diagnosis. It can be used for ex-vivo flow control analysis, vascular flow detection, and other medicinal assays.


The author describes a tyre testing rig which has recently been designed and constructed at the Lanchester Polytechnic, Coventry. The rig measures the six force and moment components acting in the contact patch of a tyre rolling slowly on a flat continuous surface for a wide range of slip angles, camber angles, tyre pressures and wheel loads.Either driving or braking torques can be applied to the wheel axle and both the slip angle and the lateral displacement of the wheel can be varied sinusoidally or instantaneously in order to investigate the frequency responses and step responses of tyres.


A method for operating an air-cooled switching power supply for industrial application in which influence of spaced switching power supply sources of heat temperatures by means of thermocouples (11, 12, 13, 14, 15) is measured and reported to a control device, wherein arranged at least two at different measuring points thermocouples (11, 12, 13, 14, 15) measured temperatures are reported to the control device and that the measured temperatures are compared in such a way with temperature patterns that the measured temperatures at the measurement points corresponding points are allocated in the temperature patterns and that possible installation positions of the switching power supply own, caused by the air-cooling temperature distributions are assigned as the temperature pattern and that by comparing the measured temperatures with these temperature patterns, the mounting position of the switching power supply is detected.


This article presents a laboratory computer vision system for vehicle detection and tracking. Vehicles are marked with colored circles, that are detected by the presented computer vision system. Detection of targets is performed by their shape using circular Hough transform. Once the locations of the targets are known, their colors are acquired. Tracking of the targets through video frames is then performed by color matching.


The Targejia hot spring geyserite cesium deposit,located in Ang Ren County of Xigaze district in Tibet,remains very active now.This geyserite cesium deposit is rare in size in China,whose cesium reserves have reached the superlarge grade.This paper has studied geochemical characteristcs of gas,water and sinter,and the result suggests that the CO2-3-Na type water is the main kind of water in this ore district.Nevertheless,the SO2-4-Na water mass(pH=4)also exists.In the CO2-3-Na type water,the content of Cs+ is(6626~7395)×10-9,and the mineralization intensity is(1168.6~1284.9)×10-6.In the SO2-4-Na type water,the content of Cs+ is 1422×10-9,and the mineralization intensity is 471.4×10-6.The Fe-Mn-Al,Cr-Zr and Th-U geochemical graphs imply that hot water is the main genetic factor,whereas the biological effect also exerts its role.Al/Fe,Si/Al,∑REE,∑LREE/∑HREE,Lashale/Ceshale,Eu/Eu and U/Th ratios of the 2nd and 5th stages of this deposit are all different from those of the other stages.This indicates that hot water served as the main source of cesium during the 2nd and 5th stages,while the country rock only provided a little ore-forming material.


The natural environment situation, agricultural production situation, agricultural non-point source pollution caused by crop straw, animal manure, pesticide, chemical fertilizer, agricultural film and agricultural pollution caused by industrial waste of Tongchuan City were introduced. The cause of agricultural pollution was analyzed, and its prevention measures were proposed.


For a partially ordered set $(A, \le)$, let $G_A$ be the simple, undirected graph with vertex set $A$ such that two vertices $a \neq b\in A$ are adjacent if either $a \le b$ or $b \le a$. We call $G_A$ the \emph{partial order graph} of $A$. Further, we say that a graph $G$ is a partial order graph if there exists a partially ordered set $A$ such that $G = G_A$. For a class $\mathcal{C}$ of simple, undirected graphs and $n$, $m \ge 1$, we define the Ramsey number $\mathcal{R}_{\mathcal{C}}(m,n)$ with respect to $\mathcal{C}$ to be the minimal number of vertices $r$ such that every induced subgraph of an arbitrary partial order graph consisting of $r$ vertices contains either a complete $n$-clique $K_n$ or an independent set consisting of $m$ vertices. In this paper, we determine the Ramsey number with respect to some classes of partial order graphs. Furthermore, some implications of Ramsey numbers in ring theory are discussed.


Aluminum substituted nickel hydroxide was prepared by using a technique called "controlled crystallization process". The crystal structure and electrochemical performance of the sample were analyzed.The results of XRD analysis show that the structure of the Al substituted nickel hydroxide is similar with that of the α nickel hydroxide, and it has a large interslab distance that is helpful for the diffusion of proton. The results of the electrochemical tests show that the material has the capability to transfer more than one electron. The NEE(number of exchanged electron) that one nickel atom can transfer during the electrochemical cycles may reach 1.4~1.5, the charge efficiency of the material is near 100% when it is charged at 0.2 C rate, and its charge/discharge efficiency are more than 90% when it is charged/discharged at 10 C rate. The excellent plateau characteristic and the performance at large current make it the favorite choice of the cathode materials for the power battery used in electric vehicles.


17 This book is a theoretical consideration of the ways that neoliberalism, a peculiar form of reason that configures all aspects of existence in economic terms, is quietly undoing basic elements of democracy. These elements include vocabularies, principles of justice, political cultures, habits of citizenship, practices of rule, and above all, democratic imaginaries. My argument is not merely that markets and money are corrupting or degrading democracy, that political institutions and outcomes are increasingly dominated by finance and corporate capital, or that democracy is being replaced by plutocracy — rule by and for the rich. Rather, neoliberal reason, ubiquitous today in statecraft and the workplace, in jurisprudence, education, culture, and a vast range of quotidian activity, is converting the distinctly political character, meaning, and operation of democracy's constituent elements into economic ones. Liberal democratic institutions, practices, and habits may not survive this conversion. Radical democratic dreams may not either. Thus, this book charts both a disturbing contemporary condition and the potential barrenness for future democratic projects contained in this troubled present. The institutions and principles aimed at securing democracy, the cultures required to nourish it, the energies needed to animate it, and the citizens practicing, caring for or desiring it — all of these are challenged by neoliberalism's "economization" of political life and of other heretofore noneconomic spheres and activities.


As early the buffer design is done using conventional static CMOS. Most of power dissipation in CMOS structure is caused by charging or discharging the output load and by the short circuit current that flows from the power supply to the ground during switching. By using conventional static CMOS buffer design power and delay optimization is achieved by slightly increasing threshold voltage. As threshold voltage increased beyond 0.4 vdd propagation delay also gets increased. Further propagation delay can be compensated by slight increase in the number of buffer stage. While increasing number of stages area of the circuit gets increased. To overcome these aspects skewed inverters are designed as proposed system. From this design power dissipation, propagation delay and area also gets reduced. These aspects are achieved by varying threshold voltage of circuit given. Using this design type buffers in the logic circuit clock skew problem is overcome. Keyword: Vdd-Supply Voltage, CMOS-Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor Device.


In order to determine the optimal combination of different plant species,a vegetation establishment experiment was conducted on NingDa highway slope of Qinghai during the year of 2005 and 2006.The results showed that the largest canopy was Agropyron cristatum+Medicago sativa on north facing aspect and the coverage was 95%.The canopy of Leymus secalinus+Caragana korshinskii varied from 8% to 80% on both north facing aspect and south facing aspect.The plant height change showed that Hippophae rhamnoides grew well on north facing aspect than on south facing aspect,and Peganum harmala and Nitraria tongutorum grew well on south facing aspect,and other species showed no obvious differences on both aspects.


Based on the thermal equilibrium test and analysis on the whole energy supply and use installations of some galvanizing sheet production line, the author presents a plan of recuperating the fume residual heat of annnealing furnace instead of available heat supply boiler. The plan has been realized and the predict effectiveness obtained.


Urine Supernatant Aspirator "USA" was invented for the good quality urine sediment preparation, using to replace the conventional decanting method. Measured the retaining distillated water volume by each of Urine Supernatant Aspirator "USA" method and conventional decanting method 20 times. Shows that the conventional decanting method was more variance than the Urine Supernatant Aspirator "USA" method, at the significant level .01. It mean the urine sediment preparation by using Urine Supernatant Aspirator "USA" was more precision than conventional decanting method.


The increasing complexity and shorter time-to-market cycles demands enhancement methods for conceptual design phases. An instrument to promote product development activities by enlarging document-based methods on system level via increasing modeling effort is Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE). The intention of shifting this effort into early phases by frontloading-concepts on the one hand should reduce costs in the series development on the other. The resulting cost-benefit coherences of these correlations on system level as a symbiosis of mechanical-, electrical- and software engineering is currently a small highlighted research topic. Therefore, the paper analyzes the recent state of the art by evaluating industrial cost-benefit-theories in MBSE. The summary of existing industrial studies and indicators transferred to thereof resulting cost-benefit models consolidates a lack of research regarding the product system level. An initial approach to create new indicators, based on recorded expert interviews, for the development of an industrial MBSE benefit-model regarding costs is focussed after this summary. For this model, a MBSE pilot project in industry is discussed


Introduction: The family and psychological approaches in asthma patients are essential because a dysfunctional family can increase asthma symptoms of the sick child. Aim: To determine family functioning and classification of asthma in pediatric patients, and the condition in the areas that comprises it. Method: A cross-sectional study in asthmatic patients treated in pediatrics Regional General Hospital No. 1 between April and July 2015 was done. Asthma severity was classified in response to the GINA 2010 guide. The Dr. Emma Espejel Scale of Family Functioning was applied to the patient's family. Results: The male presented more severe asthma by 70%, especially in school age. The dysfunction of the control area of family dynamics in the Mexican family impact on the severity of asthma. Discussion and Conclusion: 50% of families with a carrier member of asthma reflect dysfunction; control area was the most affected. Family and psychological approaches in patients with asthma are basic to prevent changes in family function.


This paper deals with a quadratic optimization problem for linear impulsive hybrid systems. We study a class of LQ-type impulsive hybrid optimal control problems (OCPs) and consider the application of the hybrid Maximum Principle (MP). Our aim is to investigate the natural relationship between the Pontryagin-type MP and the Bellman Dynamic Programming (DP) approach. As next we develop the "hybrid" Riccati formalism and discuss some related computational aspects.


Because of incomplete information and the impact of market,the volatility of classical option pricing theories can not be obtained accurately,which leads to the price bias.This paper supposes that the volatility can not been observed directly,but have to be inferred by some limited information signal.Based on this hypothesis we establish our models with binominal option pricing frame,and draw the conclusion that the price of European call option is not unique but falls within an interval.Through the analysis of single-period and multi-period models,single-signal and multi-signal models,we find that improvement of the quality of information makes the price interval narrower and improves the accuracy of option pricing.Our model can contain the situation with random volatility,and it is the generalization of CRR model.


The invention relates to a compound Chinese traditional medicine granule used for treating chicken coccidiosis, including four medicines of southernwood, dichroa febrifuga, Chinese bulbul and radix astragali. The invention is mainly used for treating various chicken coccidiosis diseases and also is used for treating the symptoms of bloody stool of sick chicken, emaciation, poor growth, and laying decline of adult chickens caused by chronic coccidial infection. The invention has the efficacies of clearing away heat and toxic material; considering the short avian genital tract and the special physiological structure of inability to digest lignocellulose, the medicine is prepared into soluble granules which can quickly be dissolved into drinking water which is absorbed by sick chickens so as to achieve the purpose of quick effect.


Results: The sex distribution male to female was 0.84:1. Majority of male (43.1%) and female (41.7%) cancer patients were from Udupi district in Karnataka. The diagnosis of cancer was confirmed by microscopic method, among men 88.2% and among women 92% cancer diagnosis was done microscopic method. In women breast was the leading site of cancer (29.6%) followed by cervix uteri (20.4%) Among men lung is the leading site of cancer (10.5%).


A total of 750 specimens of Locusta migratoria Linnaeus and Gastrimargus africanus sulphureus, Bei-Bienko were collected from different agricultural lands, vegetables and pastures during the year 2012-2013. Significant variation has been found in the morphological characteristic as well as in genitalia components of these two studied species. Beside this, it was noted that they were seen huge numbers during March to end of October. Their distribution at province level was also discussed.


Recently, network slicing which addresses the deployment of multiple logical networks as independent business operations on a common physical infrastructure has attracted more and more attentions. Despite the advances of network slicing, there are still many open issues regarding the isolation of the wireless slices and resources allocation. The paper focus on spectrum resource allocation for Cloud-RAN slices. We develop a bankruptcy game based algorithm to allocate resource for the Cloud-RAN slices. Cloud and slices are modeled to the bankrupt company and debtors in the game respectively, where Shapley value is adopted to obtain a stable solution. Simulation results show that the bankruptcy game based algorithm significantly improve resource utilization and guarantee the fairness of allocation.


This work investigates the link between the most extreme daily precipitation (EDP) events observed since 1900 on the west coast of Norway and the large‐scale moisture fluxes over the North Atlantic Ocean. Using station precipitation data, vertically integrated water vapor (IWV) from Special Sensors Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) satellite observations and the state of the art NOAA‐twentieth Century (NOAA‐20C) reanalysis, it is shown that 55 out of 58 EDPs are associated with narrow plumes of intense low‐level moisture defined as atmospheric rivers. Despite the high spatial correlation between IWV fields in the SSMIS and NOAA‐20C data sets, the significant positive relationship between the maximum amount of observed precipitation at all stations and the IWV content hitting the coastal terrain is only observed in the SSMIS data set. Further, the composite analyses of synoptic conditions show that the preferred circulation type consists of a mean sea level pressure (MSLP) dipole pattern where a high‐pressure system over central Europe and a series of low‐pressure systems to the east of Iceland and over the Norwegian Sea are present. The west coast of Norway is located in the exit region of the anticyclonically curved upper tropospheric polar jet stream implying that the coupling of upper troposphere and surface dynamics begins to weaken at the time of EDPs. It is also found that the primary synoptic‐scale precursors are persistent positive 500 hPa height geopotential and MSLP anomalies over central Europe up to 10 days before the occurrence of EDP events.


In situ and dip coating methods were used to prepare arylated soy protein films designated as ISP and DSP, respectively. ISP and DSP protein films were arylated with 2,2-diphenyl-2-hydroxyethanoic ...


Strength characteristic of towers of cable-stayed bridges, acting as main compression member, is mainly to bear vertical component force produced by cables. This paper simulates mechanical behavior of the surface of towers by using PFC software and applies Fish language programming to analyze structural materials of concrete on the surface of towers, boundary control conditions, as well as appliance of load. Three states of particle clusters are employed to simulate microcosmic damage on the surface of concrete towers. It also describes in detail the produce of microcrack, the expansion of crack, as well as the energy changing in the process of cracking, which is a evolution of damage at the beginning of surface cracking on towers: the bigger the radius of particle clusters is, the severer the damage is, among which the predominant energy is strain energy.


Existing remote sensing images of ground objects are difficult to annotate, and building a hyperspectral dataset requires huge resources. To tackle these problems, this paper proposes a new method with low requirements for the scale of the dataset that involves correcting the inter-class differences of hyperspectral images and eliminating the redundant information of spatial–spectral features. Firstly, the algorithm introduces the spatial information of hyperspectral images into the classification task through the superpixel definition based on the entropy rate, which not only reduces the spatial redundancy information of hyperspectral images but also uses the similarity of spatial neighbors to increase the differences between classes and alleviate the differences within classes. Secondly, under the theoretical guidance of similar spectral fluctuation trends of similar objects, a feature extraction method based on fast Fourier transform is proposed to alleviate spectral feature redundancy and further eliminate the inter-class differences of the algorithm. Finally, to verify the improvement effect of the proposed idea on the traditional classification method, the idea was applied to the traditional SVM algorithm, and experiments were carried out based on the PaviaU and Indian Pines hyperspectral datasets. The simulation results show that the proposed (ERS–FFT–SVM) algorithm shows a significant improvement in classification accuracy when compared with the traditional classification algorithm and is able to perform the small sample classification of hyperspectral images.


A numerical algorithm for solving a generalized Black-Scholes partial differential equation, which arises in European option pricing considering transaction costs is developed. The Crank-Nicolson method is used to discretize in the temporal direction and the Hermite cubic interpolation method to discretize in the spatial direction. The efficiency and accuracy of the proposed method are tested numerically, and the results confirm the theoretical behaviour of the solutions, which is also found to be in good agreement with the exact solution.


Non-uniform routing architecture contains routing channels of different widths. In this paper we propose a design methodology of domain specific non-uniform programmable routing architecture for embedded programmable IP cores. This non-uniform architecture is based on symmetrical FPGA model and consists of connection boxes of full connectivity and rectangular switch boxes. The rectangular switch box is derived from universal switch box module. Area and timing efficiency of the proposed architecture is compared with those of uniform architecture based on placement and routing result over a set of MCNC benchmark circuits. The comparison results show that non-uniform routing architecture gains up to 8% layout area reduction from uniform ones. Besides, by widening some of the routing channels where routing congestions accumulate, the average critical path delay of non-uniform architecture is 8% less than that of uniform one while maintain the same area.


The name DANA is an abbreviation for "good and harmless contraceptive." But our experience and that of foreigners show that the complications and failure of IUD contraception are not to be disregarded. Unfortunately some of the results of foreign experiments cannot be statistically compared since they are given without the total number of women used in the study. J.W. Baker provides the following figures: perforation 13; hemorrhage 2; inflammation 3; extrauterine g ravidity 6; intrauterine gravidity 34. Czechoslovak experiencies with Dana are: Vojta gives results with an index of 100 women in 1 year of gr avidity (1.8) expulsions (9.3) indicated extraction (23.9) total extractions (35.1). With the same index Vachs results were gravidigy (3.24) expulsion (8.22) bleeding (17.0). From this short overview is is apparent taht the percentage of failure and complications is so high that it is unreasonable to speak of good effectiveness and harmlessness of these preparations.


The invention belongs to the field of inorganic material and analysis technology, in particular to a magnetic carbon ball superficially modifying C8 alkyl chain, a preparing method and an application thereof. The magnetic carbon ball firstly synthesizes a nano-material of magnetic ferroferric oxide, and then synthesizes an Fe3O4 (at) carbon magnetic microsphere material characterized by a core-shell structure, and further adopts C8 to conduct the surface chemical modification to obtain the magnetic carbon ball. The fixed C1-C8 magnetic nanoparticles, as a micro-absorbent, have a large specific surface area and can be used in enriching peptide among biological samples, and the method is simple and effective. The material has a good practical value and application prospect in the field of proteomics and other fields.


Hemorrhage is the main cause of Maternal Mortality (MM) (27%) followed by hypertensive disorders and sepsis (12%). Septic abortion is considered an intermediate risk factor for the development of Massive Obstetric Hemorrhage (MOH). The algorithm for the management of postpartum hemorrhage due to uterine atony that includes systematic pelvic devascularization has been described, but this management is really planned for resolution of the pregnancy after the 20th week of gestation, since an HMO due to abortion is un usual. We present the case of a 21-year-old patient who self-medicates a prostaglandin analog at 2 months of pregnancy, achieving only a threat of abortion, goes to the emergency room 3 months later with a diagnosis of septic shock, USG and MRI are performed with altered results, only of hepatomegaly, delayed abortion of 8 weeks of evolution and gestational trophoblastic disease. Emergency MVA was performed due to profuse bleeding, placement of a Bakri balloon and clamping of the uterine arteries without results, for which an emergency exploratory laparotomy (LAPE) was performed with ligation of the anterior trunk of the internal iliac artery, being a successful procedure, without the need for Obstetric Hysterectomy (HO). The patient is managed in intensive care and in the end the diagnosis of TSG is ruled out. Bilateral Hypogastric Artery Ligation (BHAL) in the case of Massive Obstetric Hemorrhage (MOH) secondary to delivery or cesarean section is commonly used, however it is not a technique to report when bleeding is secondary to abortion. In these cases, it is also a viable, successful, fertility-preserving surgical procedure, and an alternative to Obstetric Hysterectomy (OH) when other less invasive methods such as uterine artery clamping or Bakri balloon have failed.


A novel low-loss, high-power GTO (gate turn-off thyristor) which has a blocking voltage of 4.5 kV and a current capability of 4 kA with a snubber capacity of 5 mu F has been developed. A narrow n-emitter stripe whose width is reduced 35% compared with conventional GTO and de-alloy technology were adopted for this GTO. The de-alloy technology that is used here has no alloying process and realizes improved uniformity of the pressure distribution, as well as optimization of the impurity diffusion profile, leading to an improved tradeoff between turn-on and turn-off characteristics. Using these technologies, snubber capacity was reduced 17%, turn-on switching loss was reduced 50%, and turn-off switching loss was reduced 20% compared with the conventional GTO.<<ETX>>


Writing in his Autobiography about the joys of beetle collecting and, particularly, the pleasure of discovering a new species, Charles Darwin makes an interesting comparison: No poet ever felt more delighted at seeing his first poem published than I did at seeing, in Stephens' Illustrations of British Insects, the magic words, "captured by C. Darwin, Esq." (21) Here Darwin compares the simplest of his accomplishments--the capture of a new beetle--to the publication of a poem. Taking my cue from this remark, I would like to compare the pattern underpinning Darwin's work to Elizabeth Bishop's characteristic process of epiphany. The idea is originally Bishop's and was first put forward as part of a correspondence between Bishop and Anne Stevenson that took place in the 1960s, while Stevenson was working on what was to be the first full-length study of Bishop's poetry. In a letter of 28 October 1963, Stevenson sent Bishop a working outline of the book, the second chapter of which was to deal with the relationship between Bishop and "the surrealists and the symbolists too," particularly "Klee and Ernst." Stevenson perceived in all three an interest in "hallucinatory and dream material" and a shared belief that "there is no split personality, but rather a sensitivity that extends equally into the subconscious and the conscious world." In her reply Bishop agrees about the lack of a "split" between the conscious and the unconscious but is less enthusiastic about surrealism. Instead, she changes the topic to Darwin: Yes, I agree with you. I think that's what I was trying to say in the speech above. There is no "split." Dreams, works of art (some), glimpses of the always-more-successful surrealism of everyday life, unexpected moments of empathy (is it?), catch a peripheral vision of whatever it is one can never really see full-face but that seems enormously important. I can't believe we are wholly irrational-and I do admire Darwin! But reading Darwin, one admires the beautiful and solid case being built up out of his endless heroic observations, almost unconscious or automatic--and then comes a sudden relaxation, a forgetful phrase, and one feels the strangeness of his undertaking, sees the lonely young man, his eyes fixed on facts and minute details, sinking or sliding giddily off into the unknown. What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self- forgetful, perfectly useless concentration. (Letter 8-20 Jan. 1964; hereafter Jan. letter) There is much to be said about this passage, but what I am interested in here is the somewhat surprising shift from surrealism to Darwin. Though Bishop flirted with surrealism in her youth, she later took pains to distance herself from it: "I [...] am not a surrealist" she wrote to her publisher with uncharacteristic firmness in 1946, worried about what might appear on the back of her first collection of poetry (One Art 135). And yet, confronted with Stevenson's attempt to link her to Ernst, whom she calls "a dreadful painter" (Jan. letter), Bishop, ever polite, does not correct Stevenson so much as simply change the subject. When Stevenson raises the question of surrealism and the relationship between the conscious and the unconscious, Bishop agrees, and then talks about Darwin. The link here is Ernst's Histoire naturelle, a book that Bishop owned as a young woman, and which she mentions to Stevenson as one of the few of Ernst's works that she "liked" (Jan. letter). In a letter to Hallie Tompkins, written when she first got the book, she describes it as an attempt to "mak[e] fun of Darwin" (qtd. in Millier 89). But though the train of thought that leads Bishop from surrealism to Ernst's Histoire naturelle to Darwin is clear, the use to which she then puts Darwin is considerably more complicated. …


Seed priming is a pre-sowing hydration technique which leads to a physiological condition triggering germination and enhancing uniform seedling emergence. It is a promising tool for enhancing drought tolerance in plants which is essential for promoting economic development by coping up with the adverse effects of climate change on crop productivity. So, a better understanding of seed priming efficacy is required. Therefore an experiment was conducted with a view to investigating the effect of seed priming agent on the weed growth and yield performance of high yielding rice variety BRRI dhan29 sown on different dates following dry direct seeded condition in boro season. Two sowing dates viz., 20th January (early or optimum sowing as control) and 20th February (late sowing as high temperature stress during reproductive stage) and seed priming agents included NaCl (20000 and 30000 ppm), KCl (20000 and 30000 ppm), CaCl2 (20000 and 30000 ppm), CuSO4 (50 and 75 ppm), ZnSO4 (10000 and 15000 ppm), Na2MoO4 (2 and 3 ppm) and PEG (100 and 150 ppm) were used. Plant height and tillers of BRRI dhan29 were significantly enhanced when seeds were sown early (20th January) and due to seed priming at early stage and at harvest. Among the yield parameters grains panicle-1, grain yield, and straw yield were produced more by early sowing (20th January). Grains panicle-1, 1000-grain weight, and grain yield were positively influenced due to seed priming. Considering the growth and yield parameters and yield of rice, early sowing and seed priming with KCl or CaCl2 were found as the best. Seed priming produced no significant effect on the weed growth. There was no significant effect of interaction between sowing date and priming agent on crop characters and yield parameters. Therefore, seed priming with 20000 ppm KCl or 20000 ppm CaCl2 and early sowing is recommended for increasing the yield of dry direct seeded boro rice (BRRI dhan29). If somehow early sowing is not possible, seed priming with 20000 ppm KCl or 20000 ppm CaCl2 is highly recommended or mitigating temperature stress during reproductive stage and enhancing yield of BRRI dhan29 under dry direct seeded, late sowncondition.


Transmit beamforming and artificial noise (AN) methods have been widely employed to achieve wireless physical layer (PHY) secure transmissions. While most works focus on transmit beamforming optimization, little attention is paid to the design of artificial noise projection matrix (ANPM). In this paper, compared with traditional ANPM obtained by zero-forcing method, which only makes AN power uniform distribution in free space outside legitimate users (LU) locations, we design ANPM to maximize the interference on eavesdroppers without interference on LUs for multicast directional modulation (MCDM) scenario based on frequency diverse array (FDA). Furthermore, we extend our approach to the case of with imperfect locations of Eves. Finally, simulation results show that Eves can be seriously affected by the AN with perfect/imperfect locations, respectively.


Although the design,construction,operation and management of modern nuclear power plants(NPPs) are approaching perfect,accidental malfunctions and/or mistakes on safety issues cannot be absolutely excluded.Considering China's conditions,the authors provide a new practical proposal,i.e.,to construct underground,semi-underground and/or mountain-tunnel structured NPP clusters in the western deserts of China.The advantages and feasibility of this proposal are carefully discussed.This study offers a constructive roadmap on developing a safer and more reliable energy strategy for the future of China.


European Union (EU) countries pay meticulous attention to environmental issues and achieve carbon-free development. In this direction, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and extending renewable energy are the primary goals. At the same time, the energy price and declining energy efficiency increase countries' environmental expenditures and hinder their capabilities for economic growth. Against this backdrop, this research aims to examine the influence of environmental regulations, renewable energy, and energy efficiency on green economic growth. The originality of the study is twofold: first, it evaluates the green economic growth of a country, which simultaneously reveals the options for economic growth and the capability to eliminate its negative effect on the environment by applying the Global Malmquist–Luenberger productivity index; second, it develops an econometric model based on panel data for EU countries for 2000–2020 to investigate the nonlinear impact of environmental regulations, the effect of extending renewable energies, and the growth of energy efficiency on a country's green economic growth. The study applies the following methodology: a system generalized method of moments (GMM) analysis. The empirical results confirm the U-shape, nonlinear impact of environmental regulations on a country's green economic growth along with a gradual increase in energy efficiency. In addition, the findings indicate that renewable energy is crucial for furthering a country's green economic growth. At the same time, environmental regulation has a significant role in extending renewable energy. The study results could be used as the basis for implementing green economic growth for EU countries and improving the policy of carbon-free development of these countries.


We report on the automated control of self-configuring programmable photonics meshes employed for the manipulation of free-space optical beams. Applications include optical beam coupling and identification, phase front correction and transmission through scattering media.


Since the political transitions and economic reforms of the 1980s, and especially since the end of the 1990s, Latin American states have been active in revising programs for civic education in order to create a more broadly democratic political culture. Perennially a bulwark of national identity and allegiance for more authoritarian or populist regimes, civic education in schools has been reconceived as a space for fostering democratic citizenship. Yet what does this democratic citizenship consist of? What kind of citizen, for what kind of democracy? And how does the State, primarily through its ministries of education, but also in concert with a variety of national and international organizations, use schools to form democratic citizens?


Rajkot District in Gujarat, India harbours abundant avifauna, yet systematic checklists of this region are lacking. Here we present a checklist of bird in key habitats both natural and man-made, including grasslands, open lands with scattered scrub forests, wetlands (urban lakes) and reservoirs in Rajkot District. We report 348 species of birds belonging to 74 families and 22 orders, of which 281 species were observed by us during the survey and 67 species were compiled from published literature. Species recorded were from the orders Passeriformes (140), Charadriiformes (50), Accipitriformes (28), Anseriformes (19), and Pelecaniformes (19); 316 species were classed as  Least Concern (LC), 18 Near Threatened (NT), eight Vulnerable (VU), two Endangered (EN), and four Critically Endangered (CR) as per IUCN. One-hundred-and-forty-six species are resident, 138 winter visitors, 13 monsoon migrants, 12 vagrants, 12 local migrant, and the rest have multiple migratory status. With regards to habitat suitability, 116 species are aquatic (wetland dependant), 67 open land, 66 forest, 19 grassland, and the remainder show overlaps in habitat preference. A total of 124 species are found to breed in Rajkot District. It is important to note that 17 species have not been sighted in and around Rajkot District since 1990, hence they are listed as locally extinct, along with four Data Deficient species.


Abstract We introduce a contact invariant in the bordered sutured Heegaard Floer homology of a three-manifold with boundary. The input for the invariant is a contact manifold
$(M, \xi , \mathcal {F})$
 whose convex boundary is equipped with a signed singular foliation
$\mathcal {F}$
 closely related to the characteristic foliation. Such a manifold admits a family of foliated open book decompositions classified by a Giroux correspondence, as described in [LV20]. We use a special class of foliated open books to construct admissible bordered sutured Heegaard diagrams and identify well-defined classes
$c_D$
 and
$c_A$
 in the corresponding bordered sutured modules. Foliated open books exhibit user-friendly gluing behavior, and we show that the pairing on invariants induced by gluing compatible foliated open books recovers the Heegaard Floer contact invariant for closed contact manifolds. We also consider a natural map associated to forgetting the foliation
$\mathcal {F}$
 in favor of the dividing set and show that it maps the bordered sutured invariant to the contact invariant of a sutured manifold defined by Honda–Kazez–Matić.


AA3103 aluminium strips were cold rolled to various von Mises strains up to 4.7. In addition, two severely deformed conditions were obtained by one and four cycles of cold accumulated roll bonding subsequent to cold rolling to a strain of 4.2. For cases of subsequent annealing at 225oC for 10 minutes, an increase in the ultimate tensile strength was observed at the rolling strains of 1.7 and above. Similar hardening is observed for a wide range of temperature-time combinations for temperatures above 150oC. The yield stress is also increased with further cold rolling by a few per cent. The magnitude of the increase in strength on annealing increased with increasing strain. Electron backscatter diffraction and transmission electron microscopy studies showed no significant changes in the high or low angle grain boundary spacing by this annealing. A systematic investigation on the role played by Si and Mn was made by different homogenization treatments of AA3103 and of an AlSi alloy. Based on tensile tests, differential scanning calorimetry and electrical conductivity measurements it is concluded that Mn plays a major role. The exact mechanisms causing hardening on annealing are not identified, but by elimination of other explanations it is suggested that some clustering or precipitation mechanism is involved.


The direct reaction of ethylene oxide with trioxane was thought impossible because of the weak basicity of trioxane. Thus, as the initiation mechanism of the copolymerization of trioxane and ethylene oxide, the formation mechanism of dioxolane from ethylene oxide and formaldehyde was proposed by several authors, and this mechanism was thought plausible for a long time.We found a new reaction, that is, the direct reaction of ethylene oxide with trioxane and isolated a novel cyclic formal. From this novel cyclic formal, 1, 3, 5-trioxepane was formed and then dioxolane was also generated. A new intermediate, or a novel cyclic compound, was separated using a micro-distillation apparatus. Its chemical structure was confirmed using 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR, Mass spectrum and elemental analysis. The new isolated intermediate or novel cyclic compound was 1, 3, 5, 7-tetraoxacyclononane, which identifies a new direct reaction between trioxane and ethylene oxide. This reaction identified the precise initiation mechanism of the copolymerization of trioxane and ethylene oxide.


CALCIUM SILICATE HYDRATES CONSTITUTE THE TOBERMORITIC GEL WHICH IS THE BASIS OF THE BINDING PROPERTIES OF ARTIFICIAL PORTLAND CEMENT PASTES. THEY ARE FORMED OF FOLIACEOUS PARTICLES, MORE OR LESS COILED, VERY SMALL IN SIZE AND EXTREMELY THIN (A FEW DOZEN ANGSTROMS). DIFFICULTIES ARE ENCOUNTERED IN STUDYING RHEM UNDER THE ELECTRON MICROSCOPE, MAINLY DUE TO THEIR SEMI-AMORPHOUS STATE, THEIR VARIABLE, MULTIPLE, OFTEN IMPRECISE MORPHOLOGY AND THE FACT THAT THEY ARE INTIMATELY MIXED WITH THE LIME. OBSERVATIONS MADE DURING THE INITIAL HOURS OF HYDRATION ON SUSPENSIONS AND PASTES OF CALCIUM SILICATES OR PORTLAND CEMENT HAVE SHOWN THAT THE LIME, AND UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS THE CALCIUM SILICATE HYDRATE, PASS THROUGH AN AMORPHOW STATE. THE TRANSITION FROM THIS STATE TO THE CRYSTALLINE STATE HAS BEEN ESPECIALLY DEMONSTRATED IN THE CASE OF LIME. THE COHESION IN THE HARDENED PASTES MAY RESULT AT ONE AND THE SAME TIME FROM THE MUTUAL TANGLING AND WRAPPING OF LEAVES OF TOBERMORITIC GEL. THIS IS CONFIRMED BY OBSERVATIONS MADE WITH A STEREOSCAN REFLECTION TYPE ELECTRON MICROSCOPE. IN THE PROPERTIES OF TOBERMORITIC GEL, LIME PLAYS A ROLE WHICH IS CERTANLY IMPORTANT BUT COMPLEX: THIS FACT HAS BEEN UNDERLINED BY THE ELECTRON MICROSCOPE. /AUTHOR/


Column chromatographies of silica gel and Sephadex LH-20 were used to isolate the chemical constituents of Aglaia perviridis.Eleven compounds were isolated from the leaves of Aglaia perviridis,and their structures are identified on the basis of 1H-NMR,13C-NMR and MS techniques.


We report the collection, and provide a description, of the first Great Barracuda, Sphyraena barracuda , in Canadian waters based on a partial skeleton from Country Island, Nova Scotia.


The termination of relationships is a complex process for clients, interns and supervisors. Negotiating this process can be facilitated by utilizing the concepts of parallel processes in supervision. Bases on the notions of parallel process this paper provides a framework for assisting supervisors in training interns to effectively terminate thier relationships with clients, supervisors and field placements . The significant role of schools of social work and field liaisons in facilitation supervisors to adequately manage these complex terminating processes with trainees are discussed.


Fix some metric d : F × F → R. A list-l decoder for Calt (with respect to d(·, ·)) can now be designed as follows. Find an integer β and a mapping M : F → N such that for the largest possible integer τ , the following two conditions hold for the matrix M(y) that corresponds to any received word y, whenever a codeword c ∈ Calt satisfies d(c,y) ≤ τ : (C1) SM(y)(c) ≥ β. (C2) (i) and (ii) are satisfied by some Q(x, z) 6= 0.


The invention discloses a transit-mixed concrete mixing transport cart, and belongs to transport carts. The transit-mixed concrete mixing transport cart structurally comprises an automobile chassis, an auxiliary frame, a mixing cylinder and a feed and discharge system, wherein the mixing cylinder is connected with the auxiliary frame through a reduction gearbox and two riding wheels, the feed and discharge system comprises a feed hopper and a discharge chute, a front stage and a back stage are respectively arranged on the lower portions of the front side and the back side of the mixing cylinder, a water supply system is arranged on the auxiliary frame and comprises a water tank and a water pipe assembly, the water tank is arranged on the front portion of the mixing cylinder, one end of the water pipe assembly is connected with the water tank, the other end of the water pipe assembly is connected with the feed hopper, a water metering device is arranged on the water pipe assembly, a sealing device is arranged between the back end of the mixing cylinder and the feed hopper, an electric control system is arranged on the back stage, and the discharge chute, the mixing cylinder and the sealing device are respectively connected with the electric control system in an electric mode. The transit-mixed concrete mixing transport cart has the advantages that mixing quality and mixing efficiency of transit-mixed concrete are improved, pollution is reduced, the problem that at present, an ordinary mixing transport cart can not meet the mixing requirement of the transit-mixed concrete is solved, and the like.


Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) in adults is a heterogeneous disease. Biologic subgroups of DLBCL with a favorable prognosis (germinal center B-cell-like, GCB) and with a poor prognosis (activated B-cell-like, ABC) have been defined by gene expression profiling and can be distinguished by immunohistochemistry. In contrast to their adult counterparts, children with DLBCL have an excellent prognosis. We analyzed 63 cases of DLBCL in pediatric patients by immunohistochemistry and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and found a striking predominance of a GCB subtype, which might explain the good clinical outcome in these lymphomas. Interestingly, FISH applied to 50 of these cases, as well as conventional cytogenetics available in 3 cases, revealed absence of the translocation t(14;18) involving the BCL2 gene, which is present in about 15% of adult GCB subtype DLBCL. Our data indicate that pediatric DLBCL differs from adult DLBCL and might comprise a biologically unique subgroup of DLBCL from which important insights into the pathogenesis and biology of this disease might be gained.


In a particular embodiment, an audio amplifier drives a load in the form of a sound producing loud speaker exhibiting a frequency variable impedance characteristic over a range of audio frequencies. Voltage and current feedback circuits respectively establish a minimum voltage feedback and a feedback characteristic representative of the load. A presence feedback circuit couples the voltage feedback circuit to ground for reducing feedback with increasing frequency above a selected level whereby the damping factor of the amplifier is reduced. A resonance feedback circuit coupled in parallel with the voltage feedback circuit reduces voltage feedback with decreasing frequencies below the selected level whereby the damping factor is accordingly reduced. The amplifier is responsive to the reduced damping factor for increasing power to the load for enhancing the sound produced by the loud speaker.


Weld regions are formed wherever polymer flow fronts meet. The present study examines the effects of melt temperature, mold temperature, mold cooling conditions, injection speed and annealing on the tensile properties and morphological structure of weld regions in four commercially available polypropylene resins. One of the resins contained nucleation particles. Scanning electron micrographs of the weld region revealed a wide range of morphologies from very strong welds which formed part of a stable neck to brittle failures at low elongation caused by the presence of large nucleation particles in the weld region. The melt temperature, mold temperature, and annealing had the greatest effect on the weld region's tensile properties.


Background Contrast-induced nephropathy remains a common complication of radiographic procedures. Consistent evidence of benefit in the face of preexisting renal insufficiency has been shown only by pretreatment hydration with saline, nonionic contrast, lowor iso-osmolar contrast, and smaller volumes of contrast. Prophylactic use of the free radical scavenger, N-acetylcysteine has shown benefit in some studies and in a recent meta-analysis, supporting the hypothesis that contrast-induced renal failure is a result of free radical generation. We hypothesized that low renal tubular pH contributes to free radical formation and renal failure from contrast. Thus, NaHCO3 should be superior to NaCl in preventative hydration. All prophylactic protocols to prevent contrast-induced nephropathy include the infusion of sodium chloride (NaCl) either alone or with other agents. However, in prophylactic hydration to combat contrast-induced nephropathy, it is possible that the most efficacious anion for sodium is not chloride (Cl), but bicarbonate (HCO3). As a consequence of the kidney's role in excreting inorganic acids, urine is usually acidic, creating a setting that may facilitate free-radical mediated injury. Free radical formation in human tissue is subject to the biochemical milieu: promoted by an acidic environment, and reduced by an environment with the pH of normal extracellular fluid. Since a postulated mechanism of contrast-induced nephropathy is oxidant damage by free radicals, attempts to alkalinize renal tubular fluid may reduce renal injury.


In today's diverse workplace, "the one size fits all" approach to office design is becoming less prevalent. The indoor environmental quality of the workplace is important to owners and occupants. Architects are developing innovative ways to encourage interaction and collaboration while also increasing productivity. Many of these ideas are at odds with the traditional acoustical approaches used for office buildings. Employees are asking for, and designers are incorporating, amenities such as kitchens, game rooms, and collaboration spaces into offices. Architects and end users are becoming increasingly aware of acoustics in their environment. The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) research documents, as well as those from other sources, discusses the importance of acoustics in the workplace. Private companies are also creating acoustical standards documents for use in design of new facilities. As more buildings strive to achieve sustainable benchmarks (whether corporate, common green building rating...


PURPOSE: To produce a polypeptide that inhibits the proliferation of mammalian neoplasm cells (for example, tumor) by using a DNA coding for a special amino acid sequence through genetic engineering technique. CONSTITUTION: A DNA fragment of about 5 or less kb, coding a peptide comprising at least 8 amino acids in the amino acid sequence represented by the formula is used to produce the objective polypeptide according to the genetic engineering. COPYRIGHT: (C)1990,JPO


Some characteristics of network application flow are inconspicuous,and they can not be simply identified by Keywords,ports+IP.The paper applies fuzzy mathematics theory to P2P traffic identification,and presents a kind of Fuzzy Recognition Method based on Flow Characteristic Description(FCD).FCD fuzzy recognition method analyzes captured network data first,and then describes uniformly key processes.Subsequently,the paper analyzes distributional state of those data in key process,and obtains their membership functions,which can be used as comment aggregates.Finally,fuzzy judgment method will judge whether the data are some kind of network application.The proposed recognition method is put to test through a popular network game.The experiment results verify that FCD fuzzy recognition method can identify network game flow and its accuracy is high.


We study a model for the spread of fake news, where first a piece of fake news is spread from a location in a network, followed by a correction to the news. We assume that both the fake as well as correct news travel as first-passage percolations or SI epidemics with i.i.d.\ traversal times, possibly with different distributions and dependence. We make the (hopeful) assumption that once a vertex in the network hears the correct news, they are immediately convinced that this is indeed correct, and continue to spread the correct news. Even in this optimistic scenario, our main results show that it is very difficult to remove the fake news from the network, even when the correct news would spread much faster than the fake news. We show this on the configuration model, a model that has gained enormous popularity as a simple, yet flexible, model for real-world networks. The crux of the proof is the realization that this problem on a branching process tree (which is known to be the local limit of the configuration model) can be reformulated in terms of the maximum of a branching random walk, a topic that has attracted considerable attention in the past decade. We then extend the results to the graph setting using couplings to branching processes, local convergence and detailed estimates on first-passage percolation on random graphs as derived in \cite{BhaHofHoo17}. Remarkably, despite the fact that our proofs for the configuration model rely on its local branching process structure, the condition for strong survival on a finite number of generations of a branching process tree is {\em different} from that on the configuration model.


The ubiquitin‐specific protease 18 (USP18) has two major functions: (a) it is a highly specific protease that cleaves the ubiquitin‐like modifier ISG15 (interferon‐stimulated gene 15) from proteins, and (b) independent from its enzymatic activity USP18 interacts with the type I interferon receptor and shuts off downstream signaling. The structures of USP18 and a USP18–ISG15 complex revealed the molecular basis of the unique specificity of the protease and might shed some light into its interaction with the interferon receptor.


Agent oriented technology is important to address problem solving of complex dynamic systems, to achieve integration, intelligent, automation and network. The paper introduces the architecture of agent and multi-agent. In order to improve abilities of diagnostic system of self-learning, parallel process and emergency reaction, a new design program of multi-agent diagnostic system is proposed.


Carsharing is a type of vehicle rental that allows individuals to rent vehicles from a fleet on an hourly basis, allowing those without a personal vehicle to have access to a car as needed. Carsharing trip frequencies and mode share are of value to both carsharing and metropolitan planning organizations, and this analysis provides innovative techniques to estimate the number of trips taken and the share of total travel completed with free-floating carsharing. Average household income, and household sizes have a negative effect on the modal split of free-floating carsharing, and land use density has a positive effect; all of these results confirm previous analyses. When considering the number of rentals instead of modal share, both household and employment densities have a positive and strong effect on the number of rentals. Males are found to make slightly more trips via carsharing than are females, and carshare members between the ages of 20 and 39 als o have increased trip rates. While these results are based on a free-floating carsharing system in Austin and may not be applicable to all carsharing systems in all cities, they nonetheless provide a basis for enhanced mode share modeling of carsharing in general.


37 In recent years, energy research has had a resurgence of interest due to concerns about humanity's environmental footprint, due to issues such as the large-scale production of carbon dioxide and concerns about security and rapid global development. Technological innovations will be essential in addressing this global challenge. For fossil fuel systems, the emphasis has been on carbon dioxide mitigation, and control of fine particle and other pollutant emissions. The development of next-generation biofuels from plant-based sources will require a systems approach to account for all of the associated environmental, human, and economic costs. Advances in materials to accelerate the development and implementation of cost effective solar-based technologies and energy-storage technologies will be essential. The training of a future workforce of broadly educated engineers and scientists, with strong technical skills will be essential. In this important area of research, electrochemists and electrochemical engineers are needed to play an active role in addressing these challenges. By definition and by its nature, electrochemistry involves reactions that produce current (energy) or use current (energy) to favor reactions. Due to the ubiquity of the electrical potential at the small scale, the electrochemical engineering community is well placed for leading and contributing to current and future technology developments. This is an opportune time to consolidate and enhance the status and role of electrochemistry and electrochemical engineering in chemical and other engineering, chemistry, and materials science curricula and departments across the country. Electrochemical engineers are in an ideal position to develop technological solutions to the global energy crisis. Some of the unresolved issues and research topics in the energy area relevant for Current Needs in Electrochemical Engineering Education


Nanocrystalline materials have very low losses compared to standard iron-silicium, amorphous materials and can work at higher inductions than ferrite materials. It makes them a good candidate for high power medium frequency transformer applications. However, manufacturing processes such as impregnation or cut significantly increase magnetic losses, as shown previous studies.


There is no shortage of legal scholarship on the relationship between race and sex discrimination. Most of this scholarship over the past decade, however, has focused on the "intersection" between the two, along with related issues of multidimensionality, multiple consciousness, and anti-essentialism. This Lecture focuses on race and sex, not where they cross, but what they look like side by side. The legal world has become


Tianjin city is the economic center of the circum-Bohai-Sea region for its natural environment in North China. But it belongs to the city of severe shortage of water resources. Based on the analysis of water supply and demand of Tianjin at the beginning of the 21~(st) century, it is proposed in this paper that the water resource in the present condition can meet the basic need of the city in the general years (50 % guarantee rate) by means of putting more efforts into economizing on water, discovering more native water resource, transfering water from other rivers to Tianjin (including the South-to-North water diversion), purifying the waste water, desalination of sea water and so on, except for the low water years (75 % guarantees rate) in which the shortage of water will still exist in the city. Therefore, the key to the sustainable development for economy of Tianjin is rational use and exploitation of the water resources.


Previous experiments1,2 carried out on parathyroidectomized dogs have demonstrated the effectiveness of the lactates of strontium and magnesium in relieving tetany and in bringing about a cure. Experiments carried out last spring show that ammonium chloride also is an effective agent. Parathyroidectomized dogs given a 5 per cent solution of ammonium chloride in 100 cc. doses twice daily, 3 to 4 hours before, and 5 to 8 hours after feeding, will retain the solution and may be kept free from tetany for long periods. One dog, reported here, never showed any symptoms of tetany save for a slight depression 4 days after operation. Once tetany appears, and the serum calcium falls below 7 mgm. per 100 cc., the ammonium chloride brings about a recovery within 2 hours, usually 1 hour and 15 minutes after administration. Examinations of the serum calcium at this time shows that the calcium has risen, on the average 2 ½ mgm. or to 8.5 mgm. per 100 cc., which is above the level at which tetany appears in dogs. The experiments indicate clearly that ammonium chloride exerts a marked influence on tetany, probably more through its acidotic effect on the organism, than through an immediate effect on the serum calcium, although the rise in serum calcium may be sufficient to cause the disappearance of tetany symptoms. Six dogs were parathyroidectomized. Dogs 4 and 6 were allowed to develop tetany; they recovered in l 1/4 hours after receiving 100 cc. of 5 per cent solution NH4Cl. The calcium of dog 6 rose from 6.6 mgm. to 10.1 mgm. per 100 cc. This was the greatest rise obtained for the 1 1/4-hour period,


Plato's education thoughts is mainly expressed in the republic.With three famous metaphors,the author clarify his grand,well-designed education system in this masterwork: the metaphors of the sun clarify the ultimate goal of education,that is the knowing and holding of the highest "good";the metaphors of the segment clarify the metaphysical presupposition of education,that is the possibility that the highest "good" is known by the soul;the metaphors of the cave clarify the process of education,that is the process that the soul turn off and pursue the highest "good".Also,it is these wonderful metaphors that make us enjoy the peculiar ideal feelings and humanistic spirit of Plato's education thoughts.


Viscous fingering (VF) between miscible fluids of different viscosities can affect the dispersion of localized fluid samples in porous media and the adsorption of solutes initially dissolved in this sample onto the porous matrix. Here, we investigate numerically the influence of VF due to the difference in sample solvent and displacing fluid viscosities by considering a sample solvent more or less viscous than the carrier fluid in a three component system. The model equations are Darcy's law for the fluid velocity coupled with a mass-balance equation for the sample solvent and solute concentrations. The influence of the retention parameter κ controling the adsorption of the solute on the porous matrix and various other parameters that control VF is studied.


The Bertrand (1991) distribution, which is a member of the affine class of time-frequency distributions (TFDs), and the Altes (1970, 1990) distribution, which does not belong to any known class of TFDs, are studied. It is shown that both TFDs are closely related to a hyperbolic time-frequency geometry. Based on this geometry, a new hyperbolic class of TFDs which contains both the Bertrand distribution and the Altes distribution is defined and studied. It is shown that the hyperbolic class can be derived from the Cohen's (1966) class of TFDs by a frequency-warping procedure that potentially results in a constant-Q time-frequency analysis.<<ETX>>


Basic architecture of integrated monitoring system for IPTV platform is introduced, as well as the implementation of its functions. Monitoring video images is realized in P2P (Peer-to-Peer) mode and source mode. The system gets video streaming data from other peers by P2P peer searching strategy in P2P mode while it gets the data from source directly in source mode. The system also provides function of monitoring running status, including the status of processes, network and video streaming publishing, and sends alert information as SMS (Short Message Service) messages to administrators via GSM modem when faults happen and recover. For the function, abnormal tables which record status duration times of faulty items are maintained in order to determine the opportunity to alarm. The system lends it well to helping administrators aware of the video quality and user experience and reports running faults in time, thereby guaranteeing the normal operation of the IPTV service.


The paper presents the characteristics of dilemma zone and option zone, where a driver can either stop or legally pass through the intersection, revealed by the data analyses on vehicle behaviour and the existing serious problems on using the constant clearance intervals and, as a countermeasure, a new strategy of signal control for minimizing dilemma and option zones.


In our analysis, we show that Howell et al.'s nonlinear beam theory [1] does not depict a representation of the Euler-Bernoulli beam equation, nonlinear or otherwise. The authors' nonlinear beam theory implies that one can bend a beam in to a constant radius of deformation and maintain that constant radius of deformation with zero force. Thus, the model is disproven by showing that it is invalid when the curvature of deformation is constant, while even the linear Euler-Bernoulli beam equation stays perfectly valid under such deformations.


ABSTRACT Rivers are important surficial geologic processes that shape Earth's landscape. Students' conceptions of river features and processes serve as a foundation for their learning of new river concepts. Despite the importance of rivers and students' conceptions of them, little research has focused on identifying students' river conceptions. This study investigated students' conceptions of the role of river processes in canyon formation. In-depth interviews with 18 college students were conducted, and students' responses were analyzed using a modified version of constant comparative analysis. Students' conceptions fell into three categories: incomplete scientific conceptions, alternative conceptions, and incomplete scientific–alternative conceptions. Students with incomplete scientific conceptions thought that rivers carved canyons and did not recognize the connection between surficial processes and base level changes in forming a canyon. Students with alternative conceptions thought that catastrophic processes such as earthquakes form canyons or that canyons do not undergo a formation process at all (i.e., they have always been there). Students with incomplete scientific–alternative conceptions thought that catastrophic processes initiated canyon formation (similar to those students who held alternative conceptions) but also thought that rivers contributed to the process of canyon formation (similar to those students who held incomplete scientific conceptions). These findings add to the growing knowledge base of geoscience conceptions and have implications for improving geoscience teaching strategies.


FIELD: medicine. SUBSTANCE: invention refers to a compound having the structure of formula (I), or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt, wherein specified radicals are presented in the description, and also concerns a compound representing or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt. The present invention declares a pharmaceutical composition possessing inhibitory activity in the relation to 20S proteasome containing a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or a diluent and a therapeutically effective amount of the compound, and also the invention refers to methods of treating the immune diseases, such as inflammatory intestinal disease, to treating cancer, to treating infection, to treating proliferative diseases, to treating neurodegenerative disease or asthma. EFFECT: higher clinical effectiveness. 34 cl, 21 ex, 2 dwg


This technical note brings a general overview about the most important drugs used in the chemical restraint of wild animals in order to update veterinary practicioners and students knowledge about pharmaceuticals available in the Brazilian and international markets.


In the early 1840s most of eastern North America was shaken by the fervor and excitement of an apocalyptic movement founded by the Baptist preacher William Miller. Believing in a literal understanding of the Bible, Miller and his associates concluded that Jesus would return to earth and judge the world around 1843-1844. A few months after the movement experienced the failure to see Jesus returning to earth on October 22, 1844, Millerire groups took, unconsciously at first, various steps toward the institutionalization of Adventist denominations. During this period, as ex-Millerites searched for a new identity, questions were raised about the similarities between Millerism and other denominations. In April 1845, Richard Hutchinson, an Adventist pastor and leader in Canada, asked the editor of the Advent Herald, Joshua V. Himes, to explain to him the essential difference between Adventism and other groups. Answering his own rhetorical question, Hutchinson believed that the essential difference is found in two different conceptions of the Millennium. He contended that other denominations were postmillennialists, expecting the millennial kingdom of Christ rhrough "the preaching of the gospel, the restoration of the Jews, and the conversion of the world." On the other hand, he continued, Adventism believes that the Millennium "will be introduced by the Second Advent of Christ, and the resurrection of the just."* Apart from this, Hutchinson believed there were no major differences. Hutchinson's opinion expresses the general belief that Miller ism, and thereafter Adventism, were not substantially different from other nineteenth-century Protestant denominations. In fact, as demonstrated by


1. Bedwell, L. W., Fiore, M. S., & Salas, E. (2014). Developing the Future Workforce: An Approach for Integrating Interpersonal Skills into the MBA Classroom. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 13(2): 171-186 2. Bilal, A. R., Naveed, M., & Anwar, F. (2017). Linking distinctive management competencies to SMEs' growth decisions. Studies in Economics and Finance, 34, 302-330 3. Davies, A., Fidler, D., & Gordis, M. (2011). Future work skills 2020. Institute for the future for Apollo Research Institute [Internet]. Available from: https://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=20 Accessed 12 May 2018. 4. Erstad, O. (2010). Educating the Digital Generation. Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy, 1, 56–70 5. European Union, (2015). Digital Skills and Jobs [Internet]. Available from: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/policies/digital-skills Accessed 12 May 2018 6. Gallagher, P. (2015). Graduate transition into work: the bridging role of graduate placement programmes in the smalland medium-sized enterprise workplace. Journal of Education and Work, 28, 461-480 7. Murawski, M., & Bick, M. (2017). Digital competences of the workforce: a research topic? Business Process Management Journal, 2017, 721-734 8. Ngoasong, M. Z. (2018). Digital entrepreneurship in a resource-scarce context: A focus on entrepreneurial digital competencies. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 25, 483-500 9. Pan, G., & Seow, P-S. (2016). Preparing accounting graduates for digital revolution: A critical review of information technology competencies and skills development. Journal of Education for Business, 91, 166-175 10. Susskind, D., & Susskind, R. (2015). The Future of the Professions: How technology will transform the work of human experts. 7. Auflage. New York: Oxford University Press References This project investigates the relationship between digital competency and decision to recruit graduates in Small Medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) between the United Kingdom (UK) and Switzerland. It is a cross-national project that seeks to explore how SMEs value graduate digital competencies, and the role of individual managers' decision-making style towards the likelihood to recruit graduates.


The invention provides a network computation device, comprising a conversion module, a transmission module, a recording module, a receiving module and a computation module, wherein the conversion module is used for converting a transmission control protocol (TCP) package into an internet protocol (IP) package; the transmission module is used for transmitting the IP package to a server via a network device to be detected; the recording module is used for recording the data quantity contained in the TCP package and the transmission time used thereby and recording the quantity of the transmittedIP package; the receiving module is used for acquiring the number of the IP package received by the server; and the computation module is used for calculating the network throughput according to the data quantity contained in the TCP package and the transmission time used thereby, and calculating the error rate of packages according to the IP package quantity sent by the network computation deviceand the IP package quantity received by the server. The invention also provides a network computation method. The network throughput and the package error rate of the network device to be detected can be tested simultaneously by utilizing the network computation device and the method provided in the invention.


rarely found in works of this genre. At the same time a polemical undercurrent may be detected in his writings which seem to assert that anti-Semitism in Mexico is illogical because Jews in that country are not newcomers; rather they date from the earliest settlement and were among the "founding fathers." Finally, Liebman hopes that scholars will continue research in this field. While it is true that many documents remain to be unearthed, The Jews of New Spain is a definitive assessment within its conceptual framework. In the opinion of this reviewer future researchers could only add scholarly footnotes to Liebman's comprehensive contribution.


SUMMARY The most recent UNAIDS report (December 2003) estimates that approximately 5 million persons became infected with the HIV virus globally in 2003 alone, while 3 million persons died as a result of HIV/AIDS. What do these staggering numbers mean for the Caribbean population? Is the impact of HIV/AIDS the same among Caribbean immigrants in the United States as among the Caribbean population in the countries of origin? If so, what are the factors that promote the spread of HIV/AIDS among this population regardless of their geographic location? Finally, what can be done to reverse the growing infection rate that has made the Caribbean the second largest population to suffer from HIV/AIDS globally? In this paper the authors explore sociocultural, attitudinal and gender-specific factors that place the Caribbean population at risk of the ongoing spread of HIV/AIDS. The authors make recommendations for a community involvement response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic that targets the individual, family and community to address the problem of HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean population. A community involvement model with its potential to reduce the negative impact of socio-structural factors, and attitudes towards victims of HIV/AIDS is recommended as a meaningful response to HIV/AIDS among the Caribbean population.


Based on the situation of alkaline residue, the paper analyzed the process of filtration through the experiment of static soakage and eluviation to alkaline waste of chemical plant and the influence of chlorine in the waste to the groundwater. By the analysis of experiment data, the paper provided a mathmodel and a result of total chlorine leaching amount. It is calculated out that 35kt chlorine is sent out from the alkaline waste site in the past 13 years.


This study aims to develop a valid and reliable instrument for measuring students' social studies achievement goal. The research was conducted on a study group consisted of 374 middle school students studying in the central district of Diyarbakır in 2014-2015 school year fall semester. Expert opinion was consulted with regard to the scale's content and face validity. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) were performed in order to measure the scale's construct validity. As a result of EFA, a 29-item and a six-factor structure model which explains 50.82% of the total variance was obtained. The emerging factors were called as a self-approach, task-approach, other-approach, task-avoidance, other-avoidance and selfavoidance respectively. The findings acquired CFA indicated that the 29-item and six-factor structure related to social studies oriented achievement goal scale have acceptable goodness of fit indices. The scale's reliability coefficients were calculated by means of internal consistency method. As a result of reliability analysis, it was determined that the reliability coefficients were within admissible limits. The finding of the item correlation and 27% of upper and lower group comparisons demonstrated that all of the items in the scale should remain. In light of these results, it could be argued that the scale is reliable and valid instrument and can be used in order to test students' social studies achievement goals. Eğitimde ve Psikolojide Ölçme ve Değerlendirme Dergisi ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ISSN: 1309 – 6575 Eğitimde ve Psikolojide Ölçme ve Değerlendirme Dergisi Journal of Measurement and Evaluation in Education and Psychology 336


The difficulties which arise in the measurement of the power factor of cable samples owing to leakage over the surface of the dielectric at the ends have been previously studied, but the remedial measures suggested are not always adequate, particularly when the cable is immersed in water at elevated temperatures. Price's guard wire, which acts so successfully in the direct-current measurement of insulation resistance, fails to eliminate all the leakage in the alternatingcurrent case. The author has modified the simple guard wire to make it effective for a.c. measurements, and in conjunction with a suitable bridge it completely avoids the error due to end leakage.


Wastewater from car wash stations of agricultural machinery is contaminated with mechanical impurities, oil products, pollution generated by exhaust gases, fertilizers and processing agents used in agriculture, as well as a large amount of surfactants. Purification of this wastewater to the quality required for their reuse allows organizing a circulating water supply scheme, which significantly reduces not only the negative impact on the environment, but also the need for clean tap water. This article describes the results of wastewater treatment from car wash stations of agricultural machinery on an electroflotator and post-treatment by filtration through various filter media, incl. through a sorbent made of modified rice straw - agricultural waste.


Human motion modeling for animation and VR has reached a level of capturing real motion data from people using various visual and non-visual sensors. However, most of the available systems require special devices and environments, or even attachments of extra things on an actor. To realize a personal system, we developed a general type software to acquire arbitrary motion from a video sequence. A 3D articulated human model with changeable size, color and surface shape is constructed and personalized to fit with a focused figure in the video. The personal model is then driven either automatically or manually to match with the moving body in consecutive image frames. This matching starts from key frames that contain key poses. A smooth motion is then interpolated in between key frames. The evaluation of the generated motion is enhanced by image correlation. We provide various methods to make the matching feasible in order to reduce the modeling time. This approach is suitable for personal use to meet wide needs of human motion acquisition.


This paper is dedicated to the design and implementation of automated security configuration after installation of a Linux web server. We analyze cybersecurity, focus, and scope of the configuration. Based on that, we design an automated security configuration with a detailed description. The main accomplishment of our work is a configuration script. The script is compared and evaluated with existing solutions and it achieved the best rating in security audits.


This paper proposes a multimedia English learning (MEL) system, based on Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) and mastery theory strategy, for teaching students with the aim of enhancing their English phonetic awareness and pronunciation. It can analyze phonetic structures, identify and capture pronunciation errors to provide students with targeted advice in pronunciation, intonation, rhythm and volume. In addition, the paper also applies the mastery learning to effectively help students practice pronunciation of English words and sentences. Finally, this paper adopts a quasi-experimental design and lasting for 12 weeks and 120 third-graders, aged 9-10 years, from an elementary school in Yunlin County in Taiwan. These students were recruited and randomly assigned as the experimental group and the control group, respectively. The former used the MEL system, while the latter received the conventional English teaching. Research data were collected through the Phonemic Awareness Test and the English Achievement Test. The results showed that the experimental group with low phonemic awareness performed significantly better than the control group in the English Achievement Test.


PURPOSE
We investigated the impact of more accurately computed apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) maps, generated by registration of high-b-value and low-b-value diffusion weighted MR volumes, on early evaluation of tumor response to therapy.

METHODS
As in previous work, voxel-by-voxel ADC changes in diffusion MR exams during the course of cancer treatment have been shown to be capable of predicting therapeutic response earlier and more accurately than conventional methods. Here we further improved the prediction accuracy using better estimated ADC values. Due to the different susceptibility effects of the different b-field acquisitions, the low- and high-b-value diffusion weighted MR volumes can be markedly out of alignment. Nonlinear registration was employed to align these two volumes and more accurate ADC values were produced. Therapeutic efficacy was then evaluated using the voxel-by-voxel ADC change analysis on the registered pre- and post-treatment ADC maps.

RESULTS
We have applied the described method to 14 sets of pre- and post-treatment diffusion MRI volumes of breast cancer patients. The post-treatment exams were acquired in average five weeks after the initiation of treatment. Voxel-by-voxel ADC change analysis with logistic regression (p=0.009) demonstrated that the probability of a responsive treatment is significantly associated with increased ADC values. There were 2 false positives and 1 false negative (sensitivity=80%, specificity=75%). Using more accurate ADC values estimated with nonlinear registration, ADC change analysis yielded 1 false positive and 1 false negative for a sensitivity of 90% and a specificity of 75%.

CONCLUSION
The study suggests registration of high-b-value and low-b-value diffusion weighted MR volumes ensures their voxel correspondence and the subsequent estimation of ADC values are more accurate than ADC computation without registration. The improved ADC maps could increase the accuracy of voxelby- voxel ADC change analysis of registered interval exams in early assessment of treatment response. NIH/NIGMS U54 GM104944, Lincy Endowed Assistant Professorship.


As the outcome of much controversy towards the end of last century, former erroneous notions of a preferential burning whether of hydrogen or of carbon in hydrocarbon combustion were finally overthrown and the way opened for new interpretations of the mechanism of the process; and more particularly for one, originally suggested by H. E. Armstrong so far back as 1874, namely, that its successive stages involve the transient formation of unstable hydroxylated molecules which, according to circumstances, decompose more or less rapidly under the influence of heat, giving rise to simpler intermediate products, and finally to steam and oxides of carbon.


There are 80 kinds of Miao and Dong traditional minority national sports, more than 50 kinds of them continue in the national festival activities. Traditional sports activities seem to have some connection with festivals. How to inherit Miao and Dong minority festival? what's the role of Miao and Dong traditional sports? With these questions, the author tries to explore the relationship between Miao and Dong traditional minority festivals and traditional sports, in order to provide theoretical support for the protection and inheritance of traditional sports culture of Miao and Dong minority.


Service industries today comprise more than 75% of the U.S. economy and the great majority of the gross domestic product of virtually all developed nations. It is therefore important to conduct a systematic analysis on service and develop service science for further studies and researches. Service has been classified as acts, deeds or performance in contrast to tangible goods and products. Current researchers are more focused on business-oriented or commercial service. Nevertheless, there are other types of service activities within the public sector and voluntary sector as well. Those service activities not only provide an excellent outlet for a variety of society's labor and skills, but also serve other political, economic and social functions in our society. This paper therefore proposes a broader definition for service as a process by which the provider fulfills a mission for a client so that value is created for each of the two stakeholders. This definition encompasses all perceived service activities of interest, so that it can be utilized in studying and analyzing the characteristics of service and the service system in general.


In this paper, the modified Hawking temperature of a static Riemann space-time is studied using the generalized Klein-Gordon equation and the generalized Dirac equation. Applying the Kerner-Mann quantum tunneling method, the modified Hawking temperature for scalar particle and fermions that crosses the event horizon of the black hole have been derived. We observe that the quantum gravity effect reduces the rise of thermal radiation temperature of the black hole.


Background - Equine pastern dermatitis (EPD) is a common multifactorial clinical syndrome in horses. Treatment can be difficult; pathogenesis and triggering factors cannot always be determined. Objectives - To assess risk factors for developing EPD in a large group of horses kept under the same conditions and to analyse whether or not a spot-on containing essential fatty acids and antimicrobial agents is able to prevent the development of EPD or accelerate the healing process. Conclusion and clinical importance - Moisture and lack of pigmentation predisposed to EPD. Topical application of the tested spot-on once weekly did not prevent the disease. A positive effect of both spot-on products on the severity of EPD lesions was detected.


A new technique for estimating the cuticular component of epidermal gas exchange by a stomatous leaf side is proposed. It is based on the process of elimination of stomatal diffusion by mass flow of air applying an air pressure gradient across the leaf. This technique was designed to enable a reliable estimation of the cuticular component irrespective of stomatal opening. A model solution of diffusive and mass flow counteraction in terms of general substance fluxes is presented


The aim of this thesis is to apprise remaining problems of unemployed women after maternity leave. The theoretical part is focused on desctiption of situations that affect a possibility to come in useful in the labour market - the psychological aspects, the women position in the labour market and related gender disparity in getting and keeping a job. The practical part is focused on an analysis of the previous inquiry about investigated group of unemployed women in the Uhersky Brod region.


In general, fruits and vegetables that were immature at the time of flooding should be safe to eat by the time they are ready to harvest. This would include vegetables in the blossom or pre-blossom stage. For additional safety, wash thoroughly and cook before eating. Unless flooding was light and there is no danger of bacterial contamination from floodwater, do not use fruits and vegetables that were ready for harvest at the time of flooding. Some fruits and vegetables are more susceptible than others to bacterial contamination.


In this paper, the authors investigate how target sputtering, dose retention, and damage formation is generated in thin-body semiconductors by means of energetic ion impacts. The problems associated with ion implanting or plasma doping Si thin-bodies are well documented, however, it is not clear how changing the target material to other semiconductors currently being considering for multi-gate field-effect transistor devices will counteract or enhance these effects. By means of binary collision approximation based modeling with the Stopping and Range of Ions in Matter (SRIM) software, we explore the consequences of different target atomic density, lattice density, surface binding energies, and lattice binding energies on target sputtering, dose retention, and damage formation.


Ameloblastoma is a benign neoplasm originating from odontogenic epithelium. It is the most common neoplasm in the jaws and is characterized by aggressive behavior and local invasion. Intraosseous ameloblastomas are classified into solid, unicystic, and multicystic types. According to the World Health Organization, unicystic ameloblastoma (UA) is similar to a cyst. UA has a more favorable prognosis compared to solid and multicystic type and its recurrence rate ranges from 3.6% to 30.5% depending on the treatment method. The highest recurrence rate (30.6%) is observed after simple enucleation, whereas the lowest recurrence rate (3.6%) is observed after resection; a recurrence rate of 18% was reported when marsupialization was used before curettage. Decompression and marsupialization are conservative method of treatment of large cysts and UA. The purpose of decompression and marsupialization are size reduction of the mass, which makes it easy to handle at total enucleation. The success of decompression and marsupialization are influenced by various factors, such as age, surgeon's technique, amount of incisional biopsy tissue during marsupialization, and close radiological follow-up. Here we report successful conservative treatment of extensive UA using conservative therapy with a review of literature. Case Report https://doi.org/10.14368/jdras.2018.34.3.246


Whatever the age of the subject or the causative agent, the commonest burns are those of the hand. Their potential consequences, which are both functional and cos- metic, are much feared and require early multidisciplinary management in an acute burns treatment centre. Rehabilita- tion is of great importance. It follows well-established princi- ples whose application must recognise the constraints, which sometimes derive from the threat to life, surgical necessities, the means available and the intensive care environment. To cite this journal: Lett. Med. Phys. Readapt. 27 (2011).


The explosive growth of social platforms on web including blogs, products review sites, forums, Twitter and Facebook, millions of user's daily share and exchange their opinions about different issues like products, events, persons or organizations on sites. Sentiment analysis on social users' data considered as a valuable analysis for automatically extract people opinions regarding some interested topic issues which enables to provide important information for informed decision making in different domains. With the noticed importance of sentiment analysis on social sites many applications and techniques are available. Keyword: Features extraction, Context based sentiment analysis, Machine Learning