Small GTPases of the Rho‐family, like Rho, Rac and Cdc42, are involved in neuronal morphogenesis by regulating growth cone morphology or dendritic spine formation. G‐proteins of the G12‐family, G12 and G13, couple G‐protein‐coupled receptors (GPCRs) to the activation of RhoA. Recently, two novel Rho‐specific guanine nucleotide exchange factors (RhoGEFs), PDZ‐RhoGEF and LARG, have been identified to interact with the activated α‐subunits of G12/G13 and are thus believed to mediate GPCR‐induced Rho activation. Although studies in neuronal cell lines have shown that G12/G13 and PDZ‐RhoGEF mediate GPCR‐induced neurite retraction, the role, as well as the expression of this signalling pathway, in intact brain has not been adequately studied. In the present study, we have characterized systematically the expression of Gα12, Gα13, PDZ‐RhoGEF and LARG in various murine tissues as well as their subcellular localization in the central and peripheral nervous systems. By performing immunohistochemistry, using polyclonal antibodies raised against the above proteins, we observed that Gα12, Gα13 and their RhoGEF‐effectors are distributed widely in the mammalian nervous system. Moreover, these proteins localize to distinct morphological compartments within neurons. While LARG and Gα12 were mainly found in somata of the neurons, PDZ‐RhoGEF and Gα13 were predominantly localized in the neuropil of central neurons. Interestingly, PDZ‐RhoGEF is a neural‐specific protein, whereas LARG is nearly ubiqoutous. Our data provide evidence that the G12/13–RhoGEF‐mediated pathway is present throughout the adult brain and may be involved in regulation of neuronal morphogenesis and function via GPCRs.


A very unusual case of ascariasis is reported. There was massive migration of worms from the small bowel to the liver, and probably thence to the heart and lungs, where adult worms were demonstrated. The cause of death was pulmonary embolism, adult worms blocking the main pulmonary arteries with superimposed thrombosis. This is believed to be unique.


Aim: We aimed to characterize the safety profile of pembrolizumab in advanced melanoma patients at our center to better reflect 'real-world' data on anti-PD-1 inhibitors. Materials & methods: At our institution, 58 ipilimumab-naive and 30 ipilimumab-treated patients with advanced melanoma who have received pembrolizumab between June 2014 and June 2017 were included for analysis. Results: Incidence of any-grade and grade 3/4 toxicities were 81.8% (n = 72) and 12.5% (n = 11), respectively. The most common side effects were skin-related (61.4%, n = 54) and gastrointestinal-related (51.1%, n = 45) events. In total, 25% of patients required oral steroids to manage immune-related adverse events with a median cumulative prednisolone dose of 683 mg (range: 40–3745 mg). Conclusion: Pembrolizumab is well tolerated in 'real-world' patients and severe toxicities can be effectively managed with systemic steroids.


The tragic case of Alan Kurdi, the Syrian boy whose body was found on the Turkish beach of Bodrum, alerted the world to an increasing phenomenon which humanity tends to ignore: the plight of refugees. The powerful image of Alan was symbolic as it came to represent the war in Syrian and Europe's angst to handle the refugee crisis (The Washington Post, 2015). The UN is warning us about the threat of a humanitarian catastrophe. He also mentioned persistent problems such as overpopulation, scarce food and drinking water and the lack of sanitation. As a result, diseases there are spreading like brushfire, and women agree to be raped in order to get at least some food. Unfortunately, all these things are happening in state-controlled camps too. He also mentioned persistent problems such as overpopulation, scarce food and drinking water and the lack of sanitation (Sputnik International, 2017). Refugees are people who flee their countries to escape conflict, war and persecution. According to international laws, deporting refugees to the country where their lives are being threatened is forbidden (Veja, 2015). In Sweden, apathy has been the colloquial term for a condition characterized by global and severe loss of function affecting children and adolescents seeking asylum or undergoing migration process. Typically prodromal anxiousness and depressive symptoms, in particular lethargy, progresses into stupor and finally complete lack of any response behavior even to painful stimulus. At this stage, patients are seemingly unconscious and tube feeding life sustaining. After months to years, remission ensues with gradual return to what appears to be normal function (Sallin et al., 2016). Syria has the most refugees, followed by Afghanistan and Iraq. Germany is the greatest destination in Europe, sheltering more than 35% of the continent's refugees. Even more, Hungary has the highest rate of refugees per 100.000 habitants. Thousands of men, women and children traverse through the Mediterranean or Balkan Peninsula, in what often is a lethal journey. More than 4.000 people lost their lives last 2 years (BBC, 2016). On a social extension, the projection of a culturally sanctioned idiom of distress also interpretable in a predictive coding framework (Sallin et al, 2016). Refugees go through a unique situation in which they are forced by survival instincts to abandon their past life, work, language, culture and even their own identity. Facing that, refugees experience a disruption of self, perceived as psychic pain. Psychic pain is a disturbance provoked by severe emotional pressure, usually violent in nature. This causes a defensive reaction of self, a process that causes intense suffering as it involves a drastic separation and loss of an object to which one was intimately connected to as is the case with refugees. These multiple losses act in synergy, characterized by intense and progressive pain that is not easily visible or detectable by those who have not lived through such a traumatic experience. According to the Medics Without Borders (MSF) international humanitarian organization, the overpopulated refugee centers in Libya are unable to meet even the most basic needs of the migrants, which leads to the spread of scabies, small pox and other diseases. The lack of ventilation results in all kinds of respiratory problems. The MSF also points to the lack of legislations regarding the work of these refugee camps (Sputnik International, 2017). In this context, refugee women face rape, sexual abuse, sexual extortion, and physical insecurity. Such violations precipitate their flight, characterize their attempts to gain refugee status and continue during their tenure in refugee camps, where they are excluded from positions of authority (Beyani, 1995). One condition in which psychic pain compromises the references of space, time and identity of the refugee is the Can destination harbors be the start for a new destiny? The psychic pain of refugees


This research is a type of descriptive qualitative research that aims to analyze the problem solving abilities of students. The data analyzed were in the form of problem solving ability test results. The abilities are analyzed based on 4 indicators, namely: understanding problems, planning problems, solving problems, and making conclusions. This test was conducted on February 28, 2022 at SMP Negeri 1 Paloh with a sample of 33 students of class VIII on the Circle material. Based on the results of the analysis, students have very low ability in solving problems. In the indicator of understanding the problem and making conclusions, many students did it wrong, even many did not write down the information and make conclusions. While on the indicators of making plans and solving problems, some students did not do it correctly.


This article aims to analyze errors and to calculate frequency of erros in 43 texts of college students" writing. The result is that the most frequent errors are "error of the word spacing", "missing constituent of sentence", and "improper choice of words". The erros of the word spacing in students" texts occur mainly in sentences which have noun phrases, modifiers, or bound nouns. The omission of subject is the most frequent error of "the missing constituent of sentence". Through the error of "improper choice of words", we noticed that the college students don"t know differences of basic meaning of words. The other high frequency errors are "errors of highly complicated syntactic structure", surplus of sentence meaning", "errors of punctuation marks" and so on. Of the errors which is ranked in top 10 by error frequency, errors of sentence level, especially grammatical errors frequently occurred in the college students" texts This suggests that teaching of sentence writing, especially teaching of grammar is needed for Korean Students. Also through this analysis, it was found that error frequency per 100 words in Korean texts is much more than in English texts. These findings suggest that teachers have to teach grammar and orthography regulations in education of writing from middle school period.


In recent years, a large number of studies have been published on the clinical relevance of pelvic floor three‐dimensional (3D) transperineal ultrasound. Several studies compare sonography with other imaging modalities or clinical examination. The quality of reporting in these studies is not known. The objective of this systematic review was to determine the compliance of diagnostic accuracy studies investigating pelvic floor 3D ultrasound with the Standards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy (STARD) guidelines.


The membership of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, in partnership with its practice partners, has initiated a national effort to create a new nursing role that is more responsive to the realities of a complex, technologically advanced, everchanging healthcare system. This new role is the clinical nurse leader. Nurses in this new role will be prepared at the master's level and will act as lateral integrators of care, patient advocates over the many components of the continuum, as well as information manager to the multiple disciplines involved in care. Practice and education partners are working together to define the curriculum for this role and create a new care delivery model needed to maximize the skills of the clinical nurse leader and the other team members to achieve better patient outcomes. In this article, the department editor and her associates focus on the current state of healthcare, resulting educational requirements to meet the dynamic changes occurring, the curriculum for the clinical nurse leader, and how the clinical nurse leader will function in the practice setting.


Hyper-heuristics or "heuristics that coordinate heuristics" are fast becoming popular for solving combinatorial optimisation problems. These methods do not search directly the solution space; they do it indirectly through the exploration of the space of heuristics and/or their combinations. This space is named the associated space. The task of finding the best element in the associated space is referred to as the associated problem. This paper presents a formal definition of the associated problem, and investigates several of its properties. An empirical study of the associated problem is performed using a production scheduling problem as experimental environment. Obtained results allow us to partly explain what are the advantages of hyper-heuristic solution representations over other traditional ones, and, to give recommendations on hyper-heuristic design.


Kupper's most readable article on drugs and drugs administration in extreme environments emphasizes the stability of drugs at high temperature, freezing, oscillating temperatures, and ultraviolet exposure.1 Kupper states that spray applicator systems provide constant dosages even if ambient air pressure decreases but does not provide any supporting evidence. We have therefore evaluated this question by a very simple test procedure in a field test in the Alps. …


The article represents a methodological summary of the main levels, tools, approaches and subjects of the use of assessment in educational activity with an emphasis on the university-based dimension. It has been revealed that the use of assessment as one of the tools for quality management has both internal (self-assessment) and external dimensions (variety of tools), which is widespread in universities in the field of implementation of educational programs that have a competency-based dimension. The deep integration of assessment components into a competency-based model for the US labour force development system, as well as the disposition of assessment in the system of competencies in the national qualifications framework in higher education, which are characteristic for the European countries, have been identified. It has been demonstrated that the educational trajectory of personality training throughout life and career development is encountered at various stages with a variety of assessment tools. The comparative characteristics of pre-university assessment, certification programs of global assessment, external assessment of applicants and graduates, and persons aged 30+, functioning of accreditation agencies and agencies of professional accreditation, international rating, international comparisons of education quality, are given. It is proved that the necessity to bear costs for conducting international comparisons, national and international ratings is conditioned not only by the impact of the internationalization of educational activities and the globalization of the world economy, but primarily by the desire to ensure the highest quality of educational services, provided by leaders, and their high average level within the national educational systems. The results are broadly illustrated by evidence and examples from the developed countries (mainly the United States) and Ukraine. Based on the research of the attitude of students and practitioners to different competencies conducted in Ukraine, differences in the perception of competencies of bachelors in the economics and management specialities are revealed. It has been discovered that, in the practitioners' opinion, ability to self-assessment and ability to independent identification of problems are the most significant among the competencies.


The utility model relates to a dual-suction multistage centrifugal pump characterized in small flow rate, high lift, and low specific speed. The pump comprises a pump shaft, a left suction casing, a right suction casing, a left impeller, a right impeller, a left guide blade, a right guide blade, an intermediate section, a discharge casing, a bearing body, a bearing, a guide blade sleeve, and a seal ring and the like. The structural characteristics are that: the pump adheres to the design concept of traditional single-suction multistage centrifugal pumps; water is charged from two directions and discharged in the middle; moreover, the left (right) suction casing, left (right) impeller, and left (right) guide blade are provided to increase the diameter of a water outlet; the water is charged from both left and right ends, so that volume attrition of the pump is reduced greatly; operation reliability of the pump is increased; vibration and noise of the pump are reduced; efficiency of the pump is improved greatly; and types and application scope of multistage centrifugal pumps are extended; furthermore, the dual-suction multistage centrifugal pump is widely suitable for municipal, power, and industrial and mining enterprises for delivering clean water or other physical or chemical liquids similar to water.


The two target articles in this issue draw an important connection between disability bioethics and geriatric bioethics. Dominic JC Wilkinson (2021) makes a pragmatic case for using frailty as a factor in the allocation of scarce resources in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), arguing that doing so avoids ableist and ageist objections. Meanwhile, Andrew Peterson, Jason Karlawish, and Emily Largent (2021) articulate a framework that places supported decision-making for adults with mild cognitive impairments squarely within the auspices of disability rights. Taken together, these two articles illustrate that medical decision making for people with disabilities as well as for older adults poses similar ethical questions about how we can best respect the dignity and autonomy of vulnerable patients. Interestingly, both articles neglect the ethical challenges that arise from inequalities in existing levels of social support for aging patients with significant disabilities. This oversight places both articles squarely within mainstream bioethics, which focuses more on issues of autonomy, individual decision making, and individual rationing choices rather than on justice and equity. Wilkinson, for his part, does not pay adequate attention to how inequalities in social capital and other resources might contribute to a determination of frailty for some patients, but not others. Wilkinson asserts that the clinical frailty scale measures "not the disability per se... rather... the underlying physiological and physical vulnerability." With this statement, Wilkinson appears to be implying that one can separate bodily functioning from one's social context. The experience of many individuals with disabilities speaks to the reality that one's overall level of health and wellbeing is influenced by access to social supports and other resources as much as a particular diagnosis (Shakespeare 1995: 32-4). While frail patients are unlikely to regain health once they reach an ICU, frailty is similar to disability in that one's level of social support can contribute to whether particular conditions cause someone to become frail. Appropriate support from a home healthcare worker can, for example, prevent someone from losing complete mobility after sustaining injury from a fall. Certainly there are illnesses that arise in the aging process from which it is difficult for someone to recover. However, Wilkinson's argument would be strengthened by a more extensive discussion of how underlying inequalities and injustices in healthcare arising from a lack of social support likely contribute to socially disadvantaged patients becoming frail from conditions that more socially advantaged patients might recover from. In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, justice should not only be considered in terms of the allocation of scarce resources, but also in evaluating what is owed to socially disadvantaged patients who are more likely to need critical care. At a minimum, the high likelihood that proposals like Wilkinson's will increase inequity as ICU resources are targeted to the socioeconomically better off (who are likely to be less frail) requires comment. Questions arising from inequalities in a patient's preexisting social ties are even more central in evaluating the strengths and limitations of Peterson et al.'s arguments in favor of supported decision making. The main questions the article raises are: who can most benefit from supported decision making, and how can society cultivate the conditions that will maximize opportunities for people with intellectual impairments to exercise decision making in ways that correspond to their levels of cognitive functioning? In answering the first question, Peterson et al. assume that an individual with intellectual impairments has a preexisting support network of family or friends who can help facilitate supported decision making. In their article, they envision an individual situated to utilize different people in their social networks who can express preferences regarding who makes different types of decisions (housing-related, medical, financial). But not all are fortunate enough to have such a strong social network. This reality makes Peterson et al.'s framework particularly exclusive given that patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias tend to be socially isolated.


The temperature dependence of the ultrasonic velocity and attenuation was measured in pure YBa Cu 0 and in samples doped with Ga. Doping conzen?ritions between 2 atomic percent and 7 atomic percent were used. Both longitudinal waves and shear waves were studied for frequencies between 5 and 50 MHz. The results show that the low temperature peak in the attenuation and the anomalous hardening which usually occurs near T in pure samples is not present in doped samptes are not associated with the superconducting transition temperature. The results are compared with other ultrasonic studies and recent internal friction studies. and therefore suggests that these features


Scribe head 1 of the present invention, by the lifting of the scribing cutter on the rotation of the servo motor 35 and also passed as a scribing pressure of the cutter to scribe a rotational torque of the servo motor 35. If the spill horizontal scribe a scribe line, the scribe temporarily increase the pressure when passing through the scribe lines. In addition, the rotational torque of the servo motor 3, the cutter 6 of the scribing head is controlled to a pre-set limit value at the point moves on the brittle material substrate. Servo motor 35 is controlled in position.


Atopic dermatitis is characterized by Th2‐dominant immunity. Recently many intracellular molecules have been reported to regulate cytokine expression and T cell differentiation. GATA‐3 and T‐box expressed in T cells (T‐bet) are transcription factors that play a critical role in the development of Th2 and Th1 immunity, respectively. Suppressor of cytokine signalling (SOCS)‐3 and SOCS‐5, are negative regulators of the cytokine signalling induced by IL‐12 and IL‐4, respectively. Txk is a transcription factor that activates IFN‐γ gene directly. The present study was designed to identify intracellular molecules that are responsible for the pathogenesis and the imbalance of cytokines in atopic dermatitis. Semi‐quantitative RT‐PCR revealed that in peripheral blood mononuclear cells without any stimulation the levels of mRNA for GATA‐3 and SOCS‐3 were elevated, the levels of mRNA for Txk were depressed and the levels of mRNA for T‐bet and SOCS‐5 were comparable in patients with atopic dermatitis as compared with healthy controls. In addition, successful therapy normalized levels of mRNA for GATA‐3 and Txk, although those for the others including IL‐4, IL‐5, IL‐10, IL‐13 and IFN‐γ did not change. Levels of Txk mRNA correlated with those of IFN‐γ, while the mRNA levels of the other regulators did not correlate with those of any of the cytokines. These results suggest GATA‐3 and Txk might be involved in skin lesions, while SOCS‐3 might be associated with an imbalance of cytokines that is difficult to normalize in atopic dermatitis.


In this paper, the application of a combined high temperature (1550°C) thermal oxidation / annealing process has been applied to 4H-SiC PiN diodes with 110 μm thick n-type drift regions, for the purpose of increasing the carrier lifetime in the semiconductor. PiN diodes were fabricated on lifetime-enhanced 4H-SiC material, then were electrically characterised and compared against fabricated control sample PiN diodes. Forward current-voltage (I-V) measurements showed that the lifetime-enhanced devices typically had around 15% lower forward voltage drop and 40% lower differential on-resistance (at 100 A/cm2 and 25°C) when compared against control sample PiN diodes. Reverse I-V measurements indicated that the reverse leakage current was strongly dependent on the active area, and hence perimeter-to-area ratio, of the fabricated devices, though large-area PiN diodes were measured to have a reverse leakage current density of around 1 nA/cm2 (at 100 V reverse bias). Analysis of reverse recovery characteristics illustrated the excellent transient characteristics of both types of fabricated device, though, as expected from the increased carrier lifetime, the lifetime-enhanced PiN diodes had around 22% higher reverse recovery charge. The minority carrier lifetime was also extracted from reverse recovery characteristics; PiN diodes fabricated on the lifetime-enhanced 4H-SiC material were found to have a carrier lifetime over 35% higher than the control sample devices. Analysis of the overall power losses of both types of device found that the lifetime-enhanced PiN diodes typically dissipated around 40% less energy over the complete switching cycle than the control sample PiN diodes at 25°C.


The origin of "invisible" axion in four dimensional effective beyond-standard models from string compactification is discussed and its refined passover through the QCD phase transition is presented toward a reliable estimate of the current axion energy density in terms of the initial misalignment angle θ̄1. The explicit examples are presented in a flipped SU(5) GUT model. This allows to introduce a flavor symmetry through string compactification, and hence we also comment on the source of flavor symmetries from string compactification and attempts to fit the resulting Yukawa couplings to the observed Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa and Pontecorvo-MakiNakagawa-Sakata matrices.


ABSTRACT Results of X-ray diffraction, dielectric, and Raman studies of the ferroelectric Li0.125Na0.875NbO3 solid solution obtained under hot-pressing conditions (6 GPa, 1400 and 1800 K) are compared with those of the same compound synthesized by conventional ceramics technology. The thermo-barometric synthesis is found to improve the ordering of cations and to increase the value of dielectric permittivity and ion conductivity of the ceramics.


For the realization of the engineering work under the condition of water requirement, this paper designes a variable frequency constant pressure water supply system based on GPRS communication. The GPRS communication module as the main equipment of communication, local conditions of engineering work for real-time monitoring, solves the difficult problem of the traditional wiring. Realizing the collection pipe network pressure accurately, and automatically adjust the speed of a pump and pump input and exit, make network main line basic maintain the outlet pressure in a certain range.After water supply control system put into operation, the indicators meet the design requirements, solves the problems of bad environment and the difficulty of living water.


Aiming at high stress characteristics in deep coal bed in the Pingdingshan,the methane exploitation is more and more difficult and methane reservoir releasing is urgently awaited to be solved.Therefore hydraulic cutting seam technique applied releasing on deep coalbed was studied by numerical simulation.Through calculating the maximum cutting depth of the hydraulic cutting seam,the paper established the finite element model of three-dimension stress field of hydraulic cutting seam releasing and got the stress drop size and sphere of in、uence after the hydraulic cutting seam at the two hydraulic distance(5m,6m,7m,8m),numerical simulation analysis is carried out and obtained the distance of 6m stress drop size and its influence effect the best.Furthermore,the numerical simulation analysis for parallel and staggered multiple hydraulic slotting distressed condition was carried out,the effect of releasing of staggered multiple hydraulic cutting seam is better than the other.The method can provide the theoretical guide for multiple hydraulic slotting configuration on the actual deep coalbed.


The cores of clusters of galaxies are complex and violent environments that represent a crucial test for many aspects of galaxy formation and evolution. Many of most well-studied radio galaxies are associated with the brightest galaxy in a cluster core, e.g. Virgo-A, Perseus-A, Cygnus-A and Hydra-A, and these cluster sources range from canonical FR-Is (e.g. 3C31) to the lowest redshift FR-IIs (e.g. Cygnus-A and Hercules-A).


A method was developed for the simultaneous determination of 13quinolone(QNs)antibiobtics in swine muscle by ultra performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry(UPLC-MS/MS).The analytes were extracted from the sample using Na2EDTA-Mcllvaine buffer solution and phosphate buffer with ultrasonic bath and purified by solid-phase extraction(SPE)cartridge.Sample was analyzed in electrospray positive ion and multiple reaction monitoring(MRM)mode.Satisfied recoveries(64.55%—117.62%) of all the drugs are demonstrated in 5.0,50.0and 100.0μg/kg spiked levels with the RSD for intra-day and inter-day of 13analytes less than 14.28%and 12.81%.Limit of detection(LOD)and limit of quantitation(LOQ)are 1.0μg/kg and 5.0μg/kg.The method is sim-ple,accurate,sensitive and suitable for the determination of 13quinolone(QNs)antibiobtics in swine muscle.


The Cbp3–Cbp6 complex, which has been shown previously to promote cytochrome b synthesis and assembly, plays a key role in adjusting cytochrome b expression to the efficiency of assembly of the respiratory chain bc1 complex.


The experimental device designed by the new method of spark erosion under the conditions of in the low-temperature dielectric liquid successfully prepared ultra-fine stainless steel metal powders.The phase composition,granularity,and grain appearance of the powder were analyzed by X-ray diffraction(XRD),laser particle size analyzer and scanning electron microscope(SEM).The results indicated that the stainless steel metal powder particles prepared by "Spark Erosion" took on some characteristic,such as single austenite,spherical particle,and clear surface.The mechanism of the process termed "Spark Erosion" used for preparation of super fine metal powder was also researched.


Stoichiometric SrNbO3; with a GdFeO3 type structure was synthesized between 1300 and 1550°C in Ar-filled and sealed niobium ampoules. Its crystal structure was refined using time-of-flight neutron ...


JDS scholar/biochem major and Norwich-program alumna Heather Geist '15 discusses shadowing a heart surgeon in the OR, performing original research and why she hopes to channel her science studies into a life-changing career.


ECONOMIC AND POLlTICAL WEEKLY iii) Treasuries and Sub-treasuries (except in the States of Assam and West Bengal) at places not served by the aforesaid branches.


A quad-wavelength fiber ring laser using a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) as a gain medium and an array waveguide grating (AWG) as a selective wavelength filter is proposed and demonstrated. The quad-wavelength fiber ring laser is capable of generating four laser wavelengths at 1531.0 nm, 1533.3 nm, 1535.7 nm, and 1538.0 nm with a peak power at –20 dBm and a channel spacing of 0.24 nm (300 GHz) corresponding to the channel spacing of the selected AWG ports. The quad-wavelength ring laser shows stable operation over time with negligible fluctuations in the peak power of the lasing wavelengths. The separation of the two lasing wavelengths can be tuned over several nanometers by changing the ports of the AWG. The proposed laser configuration has the advantage of stable quad-wavelength output at room temperature as well as a simple and compact design with many potential DWDM and sensor applications.


Abstract –  UPK-BKM Gintung Kerta Karawang desperately need the existence of information systems that support in the process of fund loan services. therefore the author will discuss about the design of information systems loan at UPK-BKM Gintung Kerta Karawang.UPK BKM Gintung Kerta is a financial management unit at the Community Self-Help Agency which directly receives the PNPM-Mandiri Community Direct Fund (BLM) fund from the central level to be managed and distributed to the communities around the UPK area. Where the data processing is still using manual way bookkeeping, so it takes a long time in running the transaction process The loan information system is the right solution to solve the problems of UPK-BKM Gintung Kerta Karawang, with the existence of the loan information system funds, will greatly assist the UPK in carrying out its duties and facilitate in solving problems that exist at the institution such as samples of data collection of borrowers, as well as with a computerized program can facilitate and accelerate the existing process so as to achieve effective and efficient activities


In this paper, a new topological index called as odd-even index(OE) was developed The OE index has good structure distinction for the 150 paraffins with carbon atoms from one to ten The relationship between the OE index and the heat of atomization for the paraffins bearing carbon atoms from one to nine was investigated,and a good correlation was obtained Further,this OE index can be easily calculated and is expected to be used as an important parameter in the QSPR/QSAR study


Validity of content service on ad hoc networks is significantly affected by the QoS of network and quality of service content. Many current models of content service resolve mainly service selecting and accessing. However, many duplicate services in a heterogeneous environment have often been polluted before service published. Our work proposes an audition model to ensure availability of service content. Simulation results reveal that the model can improve availability of service content and validity of content service.


Monte Carlo methods are used to study in detail the resonant radiative transfer of cyclotron line photons with recoil through a purely scattering neutron star atmosphere for both the polarized and unpolarized cases. For each case, the number of scatters, the path length traveled, the escape frequency shift, the escape direction cosine, the emergent frequency spectra, and the angular distribution of escaping photons are investigated. In the polarized case, transfer is calculated using both the cold plasma e- and o-modes and the magnetic vacuum perpendicular and parallel modes. 41 references.


Digital predistortion for an intensity-modulated direct-detection MB-OFDM UWB system is proposed and experimentally demonstrated to compensate for the non-linear transfer characteristics of the utilized Mach-Zehnder modulator and improve system performance.


The title character is Meursault, an indifferent French Algerian ("a citizen of France domiciled in North Africa, a man of the Mediterranean, an homme du midi yet one who hardly partakes of the traditional Mediterranean culture"),[1] who, after attending his mother's funeral, apathetically kills an Arab man whom he recognises in French Algiers. The story is divided into two parts, presenting Meursault's first-person narrative view before and after the murder, respectively.


Seepage and slope stability issues concerning infiltration in unsaturated slopes are investigated and presented. A two dimensional transient finite element analyses are used to study the effects of the rainfall intensity and initial matric suction on the stability of slope in tropical region in Northern Territory,Australia. The Jabiru landslide occurred in March 2007 after severe rainstorm with rainfall amount of 0.8 m in 3 days. This landslide occurred at a soil slope with height. Field and laboratory investigations were carried out to determine soil parameters required in slope stability analysis. Parametric study was performed to find out which cases with respect to rainfall intensity and initial matric suction triggering the landslide occurrence. The results indicates that if the rainfall intensity is greater or equal to the saturated hydraulic conductivity of the soil (I  ksat), the slope stability is controlled by the saturated hydraulic conductivity of the soil. In general, the results conclude that the slope stability is highly dependent on the initial matric suction.

Keywords: rainfall, infiltration, matric suction, slope stability, residual soil


With the rapid development of economy and society, the consumption of water is continuously increasing in Baoji area of Wei River, and the water resources' shortage is becoming increasingly serious, as the use of water in ecology and environment is severely occupied, then ecology and environment are increasingly deteriorating. In this paper a study of water resources reasonable allocation has been given to solve the problem of water shortage in Baoji area, which provides requirement of water in all kinds of departments and improvement of ecology and environment with theory and reference.


The present invention relates to an apparatus for peeling a protection film which is possible to check the peeling of the protection film attached to a substrate without tearing during the peeling process and the protection film remaining on the substrate. The apparatus for peeling a protection film comprises a moving means, an aligning means, an upper shuttle, a first film peeling means, a first sensor unit, a lower shuttle, a second film peeling means, a second sensor unit, and a film collecting unit. According to the present invention, the peeling of the film attached to the upper and lower portions of the substrate and the position of the film not peeled-off can be checked, thereby an operation for detecting a poor substrate with the remaining film and re-peeling the film remaining on the substrate can be done easily.


By combining traditional electrochemical tests including Tafel extension method and Mott-Schottky fitting, spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE) and a micro-region analysis technique, which is an integrated system of a scanning reference electrode technique and scanning tunneling microscope (SRET/STM), the changes in properties of the oxide film that formed on the surface of the U-0.79 wt.% Ti alloy (U-Ti alloy in short) in 0.1 M NaNO3 were carefully investigated as the pH value changed. The results show that the properties of the oxide film are strongly pH-dependent. The corrosion potential and corrosion current density decrease with the increasing pH value. The oxide film appears to be a p-type semiconductor at pH = 2.43. However, the transition from n-type to p-type for the oxide film as a semiconductor is observed with the increasing applied potential when the solution pH value varies from 2.43 to 7.0. The oxide film presents as an n-type semiconductor when the pH value varies from 7.0 to 11.44. In addition, during the transition of the pH, the roughness and the number of active points of the alloy surface decreases while the oxide film is thicker. It can be concluded that the corrosion resistance of the oxide film formed on the U-Ti alloy surface is enhanced in neutral or alkaline solutions.


The aim of this research is to document and provide easy access and exploration to 3D decorative ornament, in order to support its preservation and reuse in future products. The research focuses on the Regency style of ornamentation used to decorate different type of objects such as furniture, and, for example, in architecture. The ambition of the project is to bring this decorative art into the 21st Century by conducting research using the latest 3D access technologies as well as applying additive manufacturing technologies to its reproduction. Therefore, this paper will contribute information about the development of an accessible, web based, digital repository with semantically rich 3D ornamental shapes. This repository has the potential to make the content available to a variety of users, including art historians and designers.


After the founding of PRC in 1949,China's dulcimer players and technicians,cooperating with each other,boldly reformed the shape and performance of traditional dulcimer on the basis of inheriting tradition and learning form others countries.In doing so,they paved the way for the development of contemporary dulcimer art.


The planform of the Brahmaputra-Jamuna River followed its natural path in Bangladesh until the construction of bank protection works started to save Sirajganj from bank erosion since the 1930s. Several so-called hardpoints such as groynes and revetments were constructed in the period 1980–2015 and the Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge was opened in 1998. The Brahmaputra Right Embankment and other projects had saved the western flood plain from inundation during monsoon floods. These river training works experienced severe damage by geotechnical failures, mostly flow slides. A flow slide is an underwater slope failure because of liquefaction or a breaching process in the subsoil or a combination of both. The design of most of these training works did not consider the risk of damage by flow slides. All descriptions of the observed damages show that scour phenomena in the channel close to a river training work are a cause of flow slides, besides pore water outflow. The research question was: how can the design of river training works be improved to reduce the risk of damage by flow slides? The main part of the investigation was focussed on reducing local scour holes near river training works. The most promising results are river training works with gentle bank slopes, permeable groynes, bed protections in dredged trenches with gentle side slopes, and methods to increase locally the bearing capacity of the subsoil. It is recommended to increase the knowledge of the failure mechanisms in the Brahmaputra-Jamuna River by improved monitoring in the field, the setup of a database with descriptions of all observed flow slides and the circumstances in which they occur. In addition to these recommendations, a field test facility is proposed to verify the knowledge of the failure mechanisms in that river. These activities will optimise the design of new river training structures with a very low risk of damages by flow slides and geotechnical instabilities and they will contribute to an improvement of the current design guidelines for river training structures.


This paper describes a framework for modeling emotions in an interactive, decision-making agent. In tune with modern theories of emotions (e.g., Damasio, 1995; LeDoux, 1992), we regard emotions essentially as subconscious signals and evaluations that inform, modify, and receive feedback from a variety of sources including higher cognitive processes and the sensorimotor system. Thus, our work explicitly distinguishes the subconscious processes (in a connectionist implementation) and the decision making that is subject to emotional influences (in


of Adolescent boys have the highest rates of disengagement and drop out from mental health services. Further, research suggests that when boys do enagage with services, they may value therapies that provide practical strategies rather than those that advocate the exploration of thoughts, feelings, and relationships. Research is therefore needed to gain a better understanding of teenage boys' experiences of participating in such therapies. This qualitative study aimed to explore the therapeutic experiences of five male adolescents (aged 16 to 18 years) with moderate to severe depression, who engaged in Short-Term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (STPP) as part of a randomised controlled trial. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of semi-structured interviews was used for an in-depth and idiographic exploration of their experiences. Three themes were identified: 'Pain in therapy for a worthwhile purpose', 'A relationship unlike others: creating a space for reflection', and "Ending with 'a little bit of relief and a little bit of hope'". The findings offer insight into factors that made it possible for these adolescents to engage in and benefit from STPP – a positive therapeutic relationship and gaining self-understanding – and, aspects that hindered their engagement and led to premature endings. This knowledge could inform clinical practice with depressed adolescent boys. Background: Brief psychosocial intervention (BPI) is a treatment for adolescent depression that has recently demonstrated clinical effectiveness in a controlled trial. The aim of this study is to explore experiences of adolescents with major depression receiving BPI treatment in the context of good treatment outcomes. Method: A subsample of five interviews from a larger study of adolescents' experiences of BPI was purposively selected, focusing on good-outcome cases. Interviews were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis to provide a richer understanding of participants' experiences of overcoming depression in the BPI group. Results: Four central themes were identified: 'Being heard and feeling safe', 'Collaborative working enhancing therapy', 'Gaining a different perspective on one's self and relationships' and 'A positive therapeutic relationship'. Conclusion: BPI is a novel approach with promising clinical effectiveness. Utilising adolescents' experiences has revealed potential psychological mechanisms of good treatment response to BPI. Overall implications for clinical practice with depressed adolescents are discussed. medication-use. Methods: The qualitative study reports data from semi-structured interviews conducted 12-months post-treatment with 12 adolescents who were clinically referred and treated for depression as part of the IMPACT trial. The interviews were analysed using Thematic Analysis. Results: Four themes were identified: 'a perceived threat to autonomy', 'a sign of severity', 'a support, not a solution', and 'an ongoing process of trial and error'. Conclusions: This study highlights the value of bringing adolescents' voices into the broader debate on the use of antidepressants in their age group and in the development of future guidelines. Future implications for research and clinical practice are discussed. Patient expectations about therapy have been regarded as a common factor affecting the course and outcome of psychotherapy. However, little is known about the expectations of adolescents. We aimed to explore the therapy expectations of young people (YP) with depression prior to psychotherapy. We conducted semi-structured interviews with six YP (5 female, 15–19 years old) entering psychodynamic outpatient treatment. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. The careful analysis of the YPs' accounts yielded the following four key themes: not knowing but being cautiously hopeful; therapy as a long and difficult process; therapy as a place to understand oneself and to develop; and the importance of the professional and interpersonal skills of the therapist. The findings suggest to foster realistic treatment and outcome expectations while at the same time individual therapists should pay careful attention to the specific expectations that YP bring into therapy. The aim of this study was to explore children's expectations and experiences of psychodynamic child psychotherapy. Semi-structured interviews were conducted using self-rating instruments, drawing materials and a selection of toys. Ten children aged 6–10 years were interviewed prior to and after treatment (mean number of sessions = 99). The main results showed that most of the children, despite their young age, had the ability to give clinically valuable accounts, verbally or non-verbally, of their problems. A majority of the children expressed positive hopes and expectations about their forthcoming therapy as well as support would you find helpful?" The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of pretreatment expectations on clinical outcomes and engagement in Parent–Infant Psychotherapy (PIP). Sixty-one mothers who were experiencing mental health difficulties and who were receiving PIP with their young infants participated in the study. A mixed-methodology was used to examine participants' expectations through transformation content analysis of pretreatment interviews; recurring themes were classified and quantified. Further statistical analyses explored relationships between the quantified themes of parental expectations and clinical outcomes and engagement in treatment. No significant correlation was found between expectations and engagement. One of the six clinical outcomes significantly correlated with parental expectations. Improved reflective functioning (RF) was predicted by participants describing expectations of wanting to improve their parent–infant relationship through the treatment, and expressing concerns about discussing their past experiences. These two expectations predicted improvements in RF independently and when combined. These results indicate that PIP may be more effective for some mothers than others and that assessing future clients' expectations before beginning PIP may be beneficial. discussion, we focus on the respondents' expectations of therapy, treatment experiences, and sense making regarding recovery. Greater emphasis is currently being placed on user involvement in shaping the delivery of mental health services and the need for increasing the evidence base for psychotherapeutic interventions such as individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy (IPP). This qualitative study reports on the range of experiences of six young people aged between 16 and 21 years in undertaking IPP. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used to develop an in-depth understanding of their experiences. The themes identified the young people's initial expectations and concerns about starting psychotherapy, experiences of learning the ropes of therapy and the process and meaning of ending therapy. The affective relationship with the therapist was of particular importance to the young people concerned. Positive experiences of IPP included being listened to and being accepted, and talking and thinking in depth. The power differentials with respect to being a patient were also evident. The paper concludes by suggesting that paying greater attention to young people's views of psychotherapy may improve their initial engagement and help to develop services in more appropriate ways. Qualitative methodologies provide a useful adjunct to conducting process and outcome research in this context. Background: There is emerging evidence for the effectiveness of psychodynamic psychotherapy for depressive disorders. However, we know less of how this relation-focused therapy mode is experienced and what the patients themselves identify as helpful. Hence, the purpose of this study is to explore adolescents' experiences of factors promoting improvement in psychodynamic therapy. Methods: Eight female patients participating in a Norwegian study on psychodynamic therapy, the First Experimental Study of Transference Work – In Teenagers (FEST-IT), were included. The participants were offered a total number of 28 sessions. Semistructured qualitative interviews about experiences with therapy were then conducted and analysed with systematic text condensation and hermeneutic interpretation. Results: The analysis revealed four main themes. 'Exploring oneself' comprises autonomy and acknowledgement, openness, insight and acceptance of oneself. 'Therapist relation and characteristics' includes confidence and trust in and support from the therapist as well as having a trustworthy and experienced therapist. 'Focusing on everyday life' includes learning and practical orientation. 'Time factors' refers to duration and frequency. Conclusions: Together with a supportive and listening therapist, the adolescents improve by exploring themselves within the frames of a time-limited treatment period. Improvement seems to be experienced through better relations to oneself and to others and by finding one's place in the family, or at school. Adolescents value problem solving and help with concrete challenges. Hence, therapy should be tailored to the needs of adolescents with depression and incorporate the challenges they face in their everyday life. Background: 16–18-year-old young people experience a relatively high incidence of mental health problems but there is a paucity of research on their experience of mental health services (MHS). Method: To gain understanding of young people's experiences of 16–18 MHS, we used qualitative Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Ten young people in two 16–18 MHS were interviewed about experiences of using MHS. Results: Five superordinate themes emerged from the data analysis, 'Power Differentials', 'Parental Involvement', 'Developmentally Attuned Services', 'Developing Self-Expressi


Shunt Active Power Filter (APF) is a good solution to eliminate current-type harmonics generated by nonlinear load. Challenges exist in realization of large power and high compensation precision simultaneously due to the limited capacity of semiconductor devices, thermal management, high slew rate of compensation current, low switching frequency and phase lag of digital control loop etc. This paper introduces the issue of developing a practical 527 kVA APF prototype by using dual converters paralleling approach. The circulation current between the two converters was effective suppressed depending on the consistency of the main circuit and drive circuit. With a superior and reliable digital control method and an additional high-pass filter branch, large power and high compensation precision are both achieved. Full power prototype tests validate the feasibility and stability of the proposed scheme.


Image compression is more and more important because it is helpful for saving the memories and reducing the transmission time. Two popular image compression standards are JPEG and JPEG2000. JPEG is an acronym for the Joint Photographic Experts Group, which is a lossy image compression method. "Lossy" means that we cannot reconstruct the original image without error (i.e. some information is lost). Therefore, JPEG may not be suitable in some applications, such as medical image encoding and compressing an image with a complicated texture, etc.
JPEG 2000 has a better compression performance than JPEG. However, it is not as popular as JPEG due to the large requirement of buffer size. When we compress an image with JPEG 2000, we have to input the entire image into the buffer. Thus, it costs a lot of memory to implement JPEG 2000.
In practice, the buffer size requirement is an important issue in many embedded systems and mobile devices. Owing to the fact that the cost of hardware is proportional to the buffer size, we propose a new compression method that is a hybrid of the discrete cosine transform, the discrete wavelet transform, and predictive coding techniques. It has a good compression performance and the required buffer size is as small as that of JPEG.
In addition, we also propose a weighted accumulating method for adjusting the probability table in adaptive arithmetic coding, which can be applied in image compression and text compression. We show the simulation results that our proposed weighted adaptive arithmetic coding has better performance than both the static and the conventional adaptive arithmetic coding schemes.
In recent years, medical image compression becomes more and more popular. In general, a lossy compression method cannot be applied to the medical image because the details in a medical image are important for diagnosis. In this thesis, we also proposed a lossless image compression algorithm to encode collagen images, which are important for diabetes and skin cancer diagnosis. The conventional lossless coding which based on the neighbor-based prediction is not suitable for the complicated collagen image. Therefore, we propose a new method to reduce the complexity of texture in the collagen image and lossless compress the simplified texture after all.


Starting with developing students' sbility to reate by higher education and with the situation the higher education is facing as background, this paper discusses the necessity of strengthening quality-oriented education to develop students' ability to create and the specific practical contents of development of students' ability to create and puts forward such channels and measures for development of students' ability to create as renewal of modes of thought, strengthening quality-oriented education, laying a foundation of development of personnel with ability to create, optimization of the curriculum system and teaching process, attaching much importance to development of practical ability, building a contingent of teachers with high quality and so on in order to bring up a new generation with high quality, who will dare to cerate and be good at creation.


This paper examines shared content editing in opportunistic networks. Instead of immutable messages, such as photos or music files that are often assumed in opportunistic network applications, we focus on mutable content, such as wiki-pages, that can be edited by anyone carrying a copy. We show through simulations that mutable content can be handled by using revision control mechanisms (merging), or by simply adopting/discarding versions wholesale.


The efficacy of an antihelminthic antibiotic (KT-199), a semi-synthetic peptide from streptomyces spp. and the commonly used non-fumigant nematicide, phenamiphos in the control of Meloidogyne incognita affecting winged bean was evaluated and compared. As soil drench the antibiotic was equally effective to that of nematicide while as foliar spray it was more effective than phenamiphos in reducing number of galls per plant, as well as multiplication of parasite in the host indicating downward systemic movement of antibiotic comparable to phenamiphos. Under in vitro tests the antibiotic was more effective in inhibiting egg-hatching than larval survival.


Some use of XML in electronic business is mainly introduced,such as its basic,generalization and key technologies.Moreover,the way of database exchange is discussed between XML database and relative database.


This work was partially supported by the MEC Grant
No. FIS2006-03438 and the European Community-
Research Infrastructure Integrating Activity Study of
Strongly Interacting Matter (Hadron-Physics2, Grant
Agreement 227431) under the Seventh Framework
Programme of EU. L. S. G. acknowledges support from
the MICINN in the Program ''Juan de la Cierva.''
J. M. C. acknowledges the same institution for an FPU
grant.


There is continuing interest in the photochemistry and photobiologyl-' of urocanic acid (2propenoic acid, 3-[ I H-imidazol-4(5)-yl]), primarily due to its presence in the skin and its role as an immunomodulator.' The naturally occurring isomer, trans-urocanic acid (l), is the metabolic product of histidine. and accumulates in the epidermis (ca. 30 mg/cm'). Sunlight converts the trmy isomer 1 to the cis compound 4, and the latter causes immunosuppression in several animal models.',3 For our collaborative studies on the mechanism of cis-urocanic acid-induced immunosuppression,? we needed sufficient quantities of this compound. Previously, the cis isomer 4 has been synthesized in one step by photoisomerization of the truns isomer 1"' (step a in Scheme). Owing to the long reaction times, this procedure involving cumbersome workup and purification protocol, is not convenient for the preparation of large quantities of the cis isomer. The restricted reaction scale is partly attributed to the poor solubility of trons-urocanic acid in a majority of solvents. We report herein a simple three-step method for the synthesis of 4, which can be adapted for any convenient preparative scale. Accordingly, the trans acid 1 was esterified with anhydrous methanol in the presence of sulfuric acid to obtain the trans ester 2 in 95% yield. Photoisomerization of 2 with a low pressure mercury lamp (him = 254 nm) in dichloromethane' provided the cis ester 3 in 74% yield. The ester 3 has been reported as an oil;'.' however. in our hands it was obtained as a low-melting solid (mp 5 I 53"). The spectral data for the esters 2 and 3 were consistent with the literature values (see Experimental Section). The cis ester 3, upon hydrolysis with aqueous sodium hydroxide followed by chromatographic purification, yielded cis-urocanic acid (4) in 94% yield.


: We consider a system or Brownian particles confined in a two-dimensional symmetric tri-lobal enclosure. By employing two external noise forces or different kind, one additive and another multiplicative along x-direction, we demo nstrate that a correlation between two external noise processes driving the thermally activated particles in this symmet ric tri-lobal confinement may cause a symmetry breaking entropic stability and a difference in relative stability or the two side-lobes with respect to the middle lobe. This leads to an asymmetric localization or population and splitting or escape rate from the middle lobe to the other lobes.


The author wants to correct the values of the 95% confidence interval of the standardized mortality ratio (SMR) in Table 3 and Table 4 in the following paper [...].


ABSTRACT Cobetia sp. strain MM1IDA2H-1 is a marine bacterium isolated from seawater samples that uses the heterocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon dibenzothiophene as the sole carbon source and produces a biosurfactant that inhibits bacterial quorum sensing. The Cobetia sp. MM1IDA2H-1 genome was sequenced, processed, assembled, and annotated for basic and applied studies.


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Loss of leaves in olive trees decreases the number of perfect flowers and therefore may lower production since imperfect flowers cannot set fruit.


Deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism affect 300,000-600,000 patients each year in the US. The progression from deep vein thrombus to pulmonary embolism occurs when blood clots, as a whole or partially, break off from the deep veins and eventually occlude the pulmonary arteries. Venous thromboembolism is the cause of up to 100,000 deaths per year in the US alone. To date, we don't fully understand this mechanical process among other reasons because in-vivo samples are difficult to obtain, highly heterogeneous, and their shapes are inappropriate for most mechanical tests. Toward overcoming these obstacles, we have set out to develop an in-vitro thrombus mimic and to test this mimic under large deformation simple shear. In addition to reporting on the mechanics of our mimics under simple shear, we explore the sensitivity of their mechanics to coagulation conditions and blood storage time, and compare three hyperelastic material models for their ability to fit our data. We found that thrombus mimics made from whole blood demonstrate strain-stiffening, a negative Poynting effect, and hysteresis when tested quasi-statically to 50% strain under simple shear. Additionally, we found that the stiffness of these mimics does not significantly vary with coagulation conditions or blood storage times. Of the three hyperelastic constitutive models that we tested, the Ogden model provided the best fits to both shear stress and normal stress. In conclusion, we developed a robust protocol to generate regularly-shaped, homogeneous thrombus mimics that lend themselves to simple shear testing under large deformation. Future studies will extend our model to include the effect of maturation and explore its fracture properties toward a better understanding of embolization.


Job burnout is a special type of work-related stress that is prevalent in our modern society, and constant burnout is extremely harmful for people's physical health and emotional wellbeing. Traditional studies for burnout mainly rely on surveys/questionnaires, which have revealed several interesting findings but are of high cost and very time consuming. With the prevalence of social networking applications, we aim to re-investigate the burnout phenomenon in a novel perspective. In this paper, we collected a dataset consisting of 1532 burnout Weibo users with their postings. Based on the previous literature, we propose a number of hypotheses about what might be the burst signal of the burnout from the perspective of language, time and interaction. Furthermore, extensive correlation analysis is conducted to investigate if these hypotheses are supported, which leads to a number of interesting findings. Finally, we develop machine learning models to predict the burst of burnout based on extracted features and achieve a relatively high accuracy, which reveals potential implications in early-stage intervention.


In this paper, the SIMPLIcity (Semantics-sensitive Integrate Matching for Picture Libraries), an image retrieval system is introduced. The feature extraction is based on Histogram, color layout and coefficients of wavelet transform. This retrieving system adopts feature database for matching so as to reduce the search space which is especially useful in a larger image database. Retrieval images are selected according to the closest similar measures computed by distance. Under experiments of 600 medical images, this method shows a higher performance of matching. And the similarity defined by l1 for searching is more suitable for gray images.


provided by Barry Kemp in an appendix to this chapter). The focus of this chapter is methodo�o�ica�. First, the author investi�ates function by examinin� resination (norma��y associated with vesse�s for the transport of wine), secondary ho�es on the shou�der (in e�ypt conventiona��y interpreted as fermentation ho�es, and e�sewhere to faci�itate pourin�), and capacity. Here, as e�sewhere in the vo�ume, the avai�abi�ity of comp�ementary documents, particu�ar�y those pub�ished for wadi Sar�a, enhance the resu�ts, by detai�in� the ran�e of measures and products used by the monks there. Pyke a�so experiments with different methods for estab�ishin� the number of amphorae present, inc�udin� various wei�ht and count combinations, and estimated vesse� equiva�ents. She conc�udes that this is best achieved throu�h the bases, and by estimatin� avera�e wei�ht per vesse�; eves provide an important means to compare �ar�e, heavy vesse�s such as amphorae with other vesse� c�asses, a�thou�h amphorae frequent�y �ose their rims either when they are opened or throu�h re-use. Chapter 5 ('Coptic and Greek Ostraca from Kom e�-Nana'), by Sarah C�ackson, pub�ishes three ostraca. Despite their sma�� number, they are remarkab�y informative, confirmin� the site's function as a monastery, rather than, as previous�y be�ieved, a mi�itary fort, and indicatin� that the name of the monastery was Tec�ooce. Furthermore, the ostraca were sent to Tec�ooce from a nearby mi�itary base, demonstratin� a mi�itary presence in the re�ion into the Late Roman period. Richard Reece's Chapter 6 ('Coins from Kom e�-Nana') cata�o�ues 102 coins. For many the date cou�d be refined by reference to situation within the strati�raphic sequence, but at present Reece su��ests a sequence between the end of the fifth and the �ast quarter of the sixth century. This raises interestin� questions about the datin� of the site, since the end date conflicts with the pottery date. This issue is discussed by Jane Faiers and Barry Kemp in a fina� chapter (the seventh, 'Datin� the Sites in the Amarna Area'), one exp�anation bein� that there was a chan�e from monetary transactions to payment in kind durin� the �ate sixth and ear�y seventh centuries, a possibi�ity a�so exp�ored by Faiers in Chapter 2 (p. 174). Overa�� this vo�ume presents a rich picture of the Late Roman period at Amarna, and demonstrates the advanta�e both of contextua�isin� the evidence from a sin��e site and presentin� different c�asses of evidence in a sin��e vo�ume. The authors are to be con�ratu�ated on a cohesive vo�ume which, despite the de�ay in production — the text was comp�eted in 1997 — provides important new evidence for Midd�e e�ypt. The forthcomin� vo�ume, a�ready we�� advanced in 2005, is essentia� not on�y for providin� stratified sequences with associated quantified pottery, but additiona� specia�ist reports, such as those on insect fauna and archaeobotanica� assemb�a�es, that wi�� round out our understandin� of �ife at this monastic sett�ement.


ABSTRACTThis thesis is written in order (1) to identify whether or not and in what extent video through KWL method enhance Students' Reading comprehension. (2) To describe the class climate when video through KWL method is implemented in reading class. This study was conducted on the preliminary study in SMA N Gondangrejo in which the researcher found that almost all of the students of the tenth grade got difficulty in understanding such reading text. Most of the students got difficulties catch the main idea of the text, get detail information, guess the meaning of word, find a reference and find the purpose of the text.The research was conducted from 17 April - 10 Mei 2014 at SMA N Gondangrejo. The research was conducted in two cycles, in which the first and second cycle consisted of three meetings. Every cycle consists of four steps: planning, implementing, observation and reflection. The data were collected by using qualitative and quantitative method. The qualitative method consists of assembling the data, coding the data, comparing the data, building interpretations, and reporting the outcomes. The quantitative data were analyzed by comparing the mean scores of the pre-test and post-test.In the end of the meeting, the research finding shows that the use of Know-Want-Learn (KWL) method with video aid can enhance the students' reading comprehension and the classroom situation in teaching and learning activity. The improvement of students' comprehension includes: (1) Students can find out the main idea of the text; (2) Students can identify detail information of the text; (3) Students can guess meaning of word based on the context; 4) Students can find out the reference (5) Students can find out the purpose of the text. The improvement of classroom situation includes: (1) the students enjoy the activity in the classroom. (2) The students are not noisy during teaching Learning English in the classroom. (3) The students tended to be active learner. In addition, the students' mean score improves which can be seen from their mean score of pre-test 61.94, post-test 1 67.36 and Post-test 2 77.50.Finally, it can be concluded that the use of KWL can improve the students' reading skill and the class climate.


This paper gives part of the formal semantics of a planning language called Asbru which has been specifically designed for the medical framework. A formal semantics is an important step within the Protocure project which is concerned with the quality assurance of medical guidelines and protocols. We have constructed a formal semantics in the style of statecharts, which leads to a compact, graphical overview of the operational behaviour. In this style, the semantics documents the language best. 1 This paper is a revised and extended version of [1].


The relevance of the research is caused by the fact that when assessing the ecological and geochemical state of the natural environment, it is necessary to take into account the ratio of natural and technogenic processes occurring in all its components (soil, water, air, etc.). So, the main natural process that determines the enrichment of water with chemical elements is their interaction with rocks. However, the processes in the water–rock system can be significantly affected by the anthropogenic factor. In this regard, a deep understanding of the characteristics of hydrogeochemical processes within territories subject to significant technogenic impact is an important task of modern ecogeochemistry. The main aim is to study the water–rock interaction features under technogenic environment conditions in a case of Lake Imandra catchment (the Kola Peninsula). Objects of the research are natural waters of the Imandra lake catchment (the Kola Peninsula). Methods. Classical methods of analysis were used to determine the major ion concentration. To determine the trace elements in water, a NexION 300D inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer was used. Saturation index (SI) was calculated by PHREEQC. Results. It has been established that within the catchment area of Lake Imandra, low-mineralized natural waters of predominantly hydrocarbonate calcium composition with a neutral and slightly alkaline environment are widespread. The specificity of the chemical composition of the waters of the western and eastern parts of the territory under consideration is determined by the combined influence of natural and anthropogenic factors. Thus, the technogenic impact of the Severonickel plant is confirmed by the increased concentrations of nickel and copper in the surface waters of the western part of the territory. The considered natural waters are not in equilibrium with the primary aluminosilicate minerals and are saturated with hydroxides, iron and aluminum oxides and, to a lesser extent, copper, kaolinite, and, at some points, illite, Ca- and Mg-montmorillonite. From the standpoint of evolutionary development, the high intensity of water exchange in the territory under consideration is a factor that determines the presence of the water-rock system at the initial stages. The presence of copper oxides and hydroxides in the equilibrium mineral phase indicates the influence of technogenic factors on the processes of interaction in the water-rock system.


[Objective] The research aimed to study the Cadmium stress effects on S. photeinocarpum Nakamura intercropping with Aloe vera.[Method]The cadmium distribution of S. photeinocarpum Nakamura intercropping with Aloe vera was studied by different levels of cadmium stress planting cultivation,the accumulation of cadmium influence of S. photeinocarpum Nakamura and the evaluation of its risk were analyzed under interplanting mode. [Result]S. photeinocarpum Nakamura in the growth time obvious allergic reactions to cadmium stress and had little effect on its height and chlorophyll content,but slightly affected on fresh weight. When Soil Cd concentration was 0. 60 mg / kg,the cadmium concentrations of S. photeinocarpum Nakamura leaves were significantly lower than single species,but both single and interplanting mode of Aloe vera were in keeping with Green industry standards. When Soil Cd concentrations greater than 0. 60 mg / kg,S. photeinocarpum Nakamura tends to enrich cadmium,at the same time its absorption coefficient greater than single mode. Due to the higher risk of S. photeinocarpum Nakamura,Aloe vera was protected to a better and safer place. [Conclusion]Selecting suitable plant species can yet be regarded as economically reasonable methods to resolve the low concentration of cadmium in soil. Soil with high p H and high organic matter content makes Cd2 +not easily to transferred to the plant.


Freeway congestion may spill back for several kilometers, blocking a number of on/off-ramps upstream. As a consequence, flows at the off-ramps may be substantially reduced, and vehicles bound for the off-ramps are trapped in the mainstream congestion, causing intensified spillback of congestion that blocks even more off-ramps further upstream. Such off-ramp blockage is readily understood and its impact is empirically recognized, but there is a lack of analysis to provide more insights. In this paper, some flow conditions for the activation of bottlenecks and congestion propagation are first established, and the mechanism of the off-ramp blockage is theoretically explored. Macroscopic and microscopic simulations are conducted to demonstrate the analytical results, and some general relations between the total demand, total inflow, total off-ramp outflow, and the number of vehicles within a freeway system are examined.


According to the theory, private sector is much more productive than the public sector. That was the reason of strong policy orientation towards privatization from the beginning of the transition process. It was considered that this process, after some time, would automatically lead to sustainable economic growth. However, among the transition economies the result of the privatization process exhibits different patterns. A vast literature contribution tries to find answers on such deviation from the theoretical expectations. Countries used numerous privatization methods. Usually they are classified in few broad categories in order to enable analysis. Bennet, Estrin and Urga (2007) distinguish privatization methods by sale privatization, privatization by management– employee buyouts and voucher privatization. Furthermore, they divide countries according to predominant model of privatization in order to estimate effects on economic growth. According to their findings, growth is significantly faster in countries that used the method of voucher privatization. Nevertheless, reasons of ambiguous results of privatization on economic growth are yet to be revealed. Additional topic that has attracted numerous authors is on the issue of foreign direct investments (FDI) and technology transfer. These contributions have been unable to establish a positive and significant impact of FDI on the economic growth of recipient countries. According to the Campos and Kinoshita (2002), a reason for such results could be in the fact that theory equates FDI to technology transferred, while in most countries and regions of the world FDI consists of large number of arrangements and, therefore, cannot be fully related to the technology transfer. Even though one can find numerous research related to the effects of privatization on economic growth on one side, and research related to the effects of FDI on technology transfer and economic growth on the other, the issue of the interrelationship between FDI and privatization in the process of technology transfer has largely been ignored. Therefore, the original approach of this paper is to relate FDI and privatization process and to determine relation of numerous privatization methods used with the FDI inflow. In that sense, the importance for the direction of economic outcomes is not only on the extent of the FDI but on the structure of the FDI as well. Furthermore, privatization methods were directly related to the dispersion of technology depending on whether these methods lead to transfer of state property to " good" or " bad" owners. Such methods that preferred profit maximization within the framework of corporation prosperity instead of profit maximization of rent-seekers have lead towards absorption of technology transfers as well. The analysis will be based on the experiences of EU transition economies. Determination of key elements necessary for increased absorption of technology will enable policy recommendations.


Taxol with high efficiency,low toxicity and broad-spectrum is one of the most effective natural anti-cancer drugs for the coming 20 years.Recent studies have found that taxol from the fermentation of endophytic fungi of plants has been demonstrated a high potential for efficient production of taxol.Summarize recent research advances in the technique of fermentation producing taxol including biodiversity of taxol-producing endophytic fungi,isolation of the fungi,and the techniques of taxol extraction.The pathways to improve the production of taxol by endophytic fungal were also comprehensively discussed.Along with the development of molecular biology techniques and fermentation engineering,the large-scale fermentation to produce taxol is hopefully realizable.


In this paper we present an Eclipse plug-in for defining and executing processes to reverse engineering and comprehend traditional and web based information systems. Processes are defined in terms of UML activity diagrams, where predefined or newly developed software components can be associated to each activity. Components implemented using traditional programming languages and software environments for data analysis can be reused.


The acoustic behaviour of boilers and boiler-burner-systems is a topic of increasing importance in the development of oil- and gas-driven domestic heating devices. On the one hand modern combustion techniques sometimes cause increased noise levels, on the other hand legal and normative regulations on noise emissions of domestic devices are getting stricter. In the context of these matters two topics are of interest: The first one is the analysis of noise emissions of domestic heating devices into the environment and its dependency on mounting, operating conditions and other potential influences. Funded by the EC, a European project team is investigating this subject and developing a standardised measurement method for this kind of test. The second topic is the study of the sources of the combustion noise and methods to reduce it. Of special interest in this matter are the self-excited combustion oscillations. This phenomenon, which can not only cause extreme noise levels but also instabilities of the combustion, is a result of the complete system consisting of the burner, the combustion chamber and the exhaust pipe. A feedback mechanism based on the recirculation of combustion gases can cause Helmholtz oscillations with pressure amplitudes of more than 1000 Pa. Using a system that features severe acoustic problems it could be pointed out that by the introduction of a small change of the oscillating system the feedback loop was broken up and the oscillation was profoundly reduced.


This article analyzes the principle of clock synchronization for single-frequency networks. It is demonstrated the advantage of application of the principle of self-synchronization based on self-synchronizing correcting codes and of the principle based on the dynamic memory devices. For increasing the immunity of networks it is suggested a variant of the principle of self-synchronization using n-positional dynamic memory device.


Most attention to improving vacuum thermionic energy conversion device (TEC) technology has been on improving electron emission with little attention to collector optimization. A model was developed to characterize the output characteristics of a TEC where the collector features negative electron affinity. According to the model, there are certain conditions for which the space charge limitation can be reduced or eliminated. The model is applied to devices comprised materials reported in the literature, and predictions of output power and efficiency are made, targeting the sub-1000 K hot-side regime. By slightly lowering the collector barrier height, an output power of around 1 kW, at ≥20% efficiency for a reasonably sized device (∼0.1 m2 emission area) can be achieved.


This paper presents an optimized method for ship floating calculation based on the tetrahedral meshing. As an example, the floating calculation of a ship with a trapezoidal longitudinal middle section is carried out with the method.


Recordings of noise exposure and annoyance were collected for a group of 148 individuals. The recordings represented three different types of working environments; control rooms (n=57), offices in industry (n=34) and offices in public administration (n=37). In the control rooms the noise was dominated by lower frequencies of a monotonous character, whereas the noise in the offices was more varying. Noise recordings and ratings of annoyance were made at the beginning, the middle and the end of five successive days. The noise exposure levels varied between 39 and 64 dB(A). The results of the study are discussed with respect to differences in the exposure time related changes of annoyance in low frequency and high frequency environments. The results indicate that the annoyance level is stable during a working day and thus, that it is not affected by exposure time. However, annoyance increased somewhat from the first to the fifth working day among the control room group workers, whereas a trend in the opposite direction was seen in the office group.


The communication protocol used to command and control (C2) unmanned aircraft from the ground is vital in regards to the overall system's architecture and capabilities. It directly affects the degree of situational awareness available on the ground through telemetry and the capabilities to remotely guide and control the unmanned aircraft. Consequently, the C2 link protocol may be a limiting factor in regards to system capabilities and autonomy and and may also directly or indirectly impact the design of onboard systems such as the autopilot. In this work, we analyze and compare two well-known C2 link protocols in regards to these aspects. We specifically focus on the requirements of the protocols concerning guidance, control mode design and mission transfer and highlight certain factors that conceptually limit interoperability between the two C2 link protocols. We discuss advantages and disadvantages of both C2 link protocols and outline potential improvements for both. With this work, we provide our perspective towards the development of future C2 communication protocols and the interoperable design of unmanned aircraft systems with extended autonomous capabilities.


Differences in beef, pork and chicken flavor attributes were created in beef Top Choice strip loin steaks (58.3°C and 80°C), beef Select outside round flat roasts (58.3°C and 80°C), boneless pork loins (62.7°C and 80°C), pork inside ham roasts (62.7°C and 80°C), chicken breasts (62.7°C and 80°C), and chicken thighs (62.7°C and 80°C) cooked utilizing a food-service flat grill or Crock-pot. An expert trained descriptive sensory attribute panel, a consumer central location test (CLT) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry-olfactory (GC–MS-O) were utilized to determine flavor attributes and volatile aroma compounds. Texture attributes were evaluated by the expert descriptive attribute and CLT panels. Raw meat fatty acid composition, non-heme iron and myoglobin content, pH, and fat and moisture percentages were determined. Millennials (ages 18 to 34) or non-millennials (ages greater than 34) were selected to be either light (eat beef 2 to 4 times per mo) or heavy beefeaters (eat beef 3 or more times per wk). Results


Anemia indicate poor health conditions usually associated with low economic status and poorly affecting both male and female. In females, the most common causes of anemia are malnutrition, menstrual cycle, and multiple pregnancies. It occurs due to insufficient consumption of dietary iron supplements or with increased utilization or loss of iron in body mechanism are risk factors of IDA.It affects through cognitive function, physical activity, immune response, inflammatory conditions and pregnancy outcomes. Intake of high dietary consumption in the form of pasteurized milk, weaning food and sporadic consumption of iron containing foodsuggests to low iron intake. IDA may observed in patients, those suffer from chronic disorders with decreased iron absorption from intestine. Lack of iron supplements in premenopausal women have also been associatedwith esophagitis, gastroduodenal ulceration, mucosal erosions and gastrointestinal angiodysplasia. The present study revealed that improper diet concerning in various age groups that may lead to IDA. This study further suggests bringing awareness and improving expected health related issues caused by iron deficiency.


【Objective】 To study the growth and development status of only-child aged 6~14 years old,and to provide scientific advice and direction for the health care of children and adolescents.【Method】 4 167 only-child aged 6~14 years old in Bao'an district were got medical examination about their height,weight,ENT,internal medicine,surgery,blood-test,B ultrasonic of abdomen,etc.【Results】 1)The tendency of growth and development of only-child corresponded with the average development regularity,the height and weight increased with age,two cross phenomena were observed in the development curve of height;2)The level of the growth and development was above the whole national average of 2005,while the nutritional status was far from ideal,the rate of obesity was 18.43%;3)The rate of poor sight,dental caries were high among the common diseases,the detection rate of kidney stone with B-ultrasonography was 4.6%.It's worthy mentioned.【Conclusion】 The growth and development status of only-child is better than before,but the imbalance is very serious,and some new health problems appeare.


For creating varieties suitable for organic farming a special breeding programme has been started in Priekuli Plant Breeding Institute. The evaluation o f triticale genotypes in organic farming was done in Priekuli during 2005 2007. The aims of researc h are: Estimating possibility for selecting genotypes desi rable for organic farming in conventional fields. To find desired traits for the organic triticale va rieties breeding programme. There were included 25 different winter triticale ( xTriticosecale Wittm.) breeding lines in our trials, selected from the conventional breeding programme. The different traits were tested for each genotype. The influence of different traits on yiel d and grain quality was analyzed. Every year the best 25 different triticale breeding lines from the organic and conventional growing conditions were compared. The results showed that different breeding lines re acted differently to growing conditions. It is possible to select genotypes suitable for organic c onditions in the conventional field. To select genotypes with better stability of the traits (espe cially in the years with unfavorable weather conditions) and suitability for organic farming, se lected breeding lines must be tested in organic growing conditions. For organic farming only genotypes with good winter hardiness and resistance to snow mould should be selected. Triticale genotypes with different plant height, gr owth habit, leaf size would be suitable for organic growing conditions.


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This paper aims to provide suggestions for the identification of potential new applications for the existing knowledge. A method is presented for extracting information about a product or technology, processing the international patent database (IPD) and extracting useful hints for potential new applications. The approach uses the Cooperative Patent Classification as stimulus for inspiring new potential fields towards which export existing product or technologies. Although some limits inevitably affect the approach, relevant directions for future developments have been inferred for a more comprehensive exploitation of both the firm internal knowledge and the suggestions provided by the international patent database. The achieved results can support firms in expanding market opportunities for their products or technologies.


Hunger seems, at first glance, to be primarily a biological state, emerging first incipiently and then with insistent, yet extremely varying, sharpness in the wide continuum of sentient and feeling beings. The pervasive lived through, but not necessarily attended to, tonus of somatic well-being is unbalanced by the experience of lack that initiates attempts to restore equilibrium in a cycle that continues until death or its equivalent. Hunger in this sense provokes appetite or appetition. It is satisfied by an appropriate object or even, in extreme cases and with catastrophic consequences, inappropriate objects. Toxicity is specific to the organism. There is no guarantee that what can be ingested can be digested. Although hunger is a spontaneous eruption, rooted in the organism, as the organism becomes more and more developed and differentiated, the types of hungers that begin to define and drive it forward undergo a transformation. In the case of ourselves as "articulate and upright animals" we have the proliferation and formulation of desires that do not push us a tergo, as an appetite does, but lure us de fronte. Hunger associated with appetites, paradigmatically for food and sex, gets transmuted into an array of conscious desires and of elaborated means of satisfying them.


A new method for the design of elliptical beam reflector antenna is presented in this paper. By means of the basic principles of ring-focus antenna, a circularly symmetric feed and two specially shaped reflectors are used to form an elliptical beam antenna. Firstly, the design process of this ring-focus elliptical beam antenna is studied in detail. Transition function is defined and used in the design process. Then, combining the needs of practical engineering, a ring-focus elliptical beam reflector antenna is manufactured and tested. The gain at center frequency (12 GHz) is 37.7 dBi with an aperture efficiency of 74.6%. 3 dB beam-width in and plane is and , respectively. Ratio of the elliptical beam (ratio of 3 dB beam-width in and plane) is , substantially equal to designed ratio 2. Simulating and testing results match well, which testify the effectiveness of this design method.


Consumer, as one of the vital stakeholders of fashion supply chain, has a significant role to play to transition fashion industry into sustainable direction. From purchasing and care practice to donation and disposal, every step of their decision has impact on the environment. Various internal and external variables, including culture, custom, value, belief, norm and assumption, economy, gender, and education etc. influence forming that decision. The result of the decision not only directly impacts he environment and society, but also consumer culture and future business opportunity. This study synthesizes a wide spectrum of consumer behavior related to clothing consumption and associated environmental impact. Building on the synthesis, a holistic discussion is offered which can provide relevant behavioral guideline to consumers as well as other stakeholders.


The current research aims to establish a link between internet addiction and Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Symptoms among Pakistani Undergraduates. The sample comprised
of (N =1020) undergraduates from Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan (BZU) and The Islamia
University of Bahawalpur (IUB), Pakistan, including 255 male and 255 female from each university.
A-Priori sample size was estimated with 974 participants, to consider sample size sufficiency, twenty
three respondents were taken additionally from each university. There were two questionnaires
employed; Chen Internet Addiction Scale by © Ko et al. (2005), and ADHD Adult Self Reporting Scale
(ASRS) by © Kessler et al. (2005). Cross-sectional survey research design was used. Data were
collected through purposive sampling and analyzed by use of SPSS (21.0). Regression, t-Test, mean,
and standard deviation were employed. The result depicts; overall 28% students fulfill the criteria of
internet addiction, and comparatively BZU students have higher prevalence of internet addiction with
ADHD symptoms as compared to IUB. Likewise, male students are found more vulnerable towards
ADHD symptoms and internet addiction as compared to female students. Study proved the significant
relation of internet addiction with ADHD symptoms (0.082*). Finally, implications, significance of the
study, and limitation are enclosed.


Contrary to the conditions of high gas content,large pressure,big outburst and large mining height and fully-mechanized mining at 15104 face,Sijiazhuang Coal Mine of Yangquan Coal Industry Group Comp,analyses the main factors effecting coal and gas outburst,technology of high drainage,drilling pressure relief at 15104 face and effectively reduces the seam gas content from 11.22 m3/t to 8 m3/t and the coal and gas outburst danger.


In line with the role of the ATOR as the official monitoring and evaluation report for CAADP, Chapter 12 monitors progress on CAADP indicators outlined in the CAADP Results Framework 2015–2025. The chapter also reviews progress in the CAADP implementation process across the continent, including a look at trends in government social protection expenditures.


In this paper, we will compare experimental test data results versus the mechanical analysis of a rotating intershaft brush seal concept with attributes that will allow it to perform better in the hostile environment of sealing between two rotating shafts. We have focused on the mechanical design of the rotating intershaft brush seal, while the leakage characteristics are delineated in the Part II of this paper. The experimental data will be compared to the mechanical design features and will evaluate the carbon fiber composite rod stress and strain analysis, and composite rod deflections and nesting.