Combined engineering practice,based on the investigation in the excavation and construction about the instability phenomenon of the layered rock high slope along Wanzhou-Liangping expressway,the theoretic formula for calculating the excavation height and instability length of layered rocky slope have been deduced.And being aimed at in-situ actual complicated geometry slope conditions,the corresponding modified calculation method is given.In order to exactly conforming to on-site intricate slope body conditions,under the proof of on-the-spot example,the slope body type is classified as three different kinds.And each calculation parameter is modified in the light of the practical situation of each type.After that the safety factor is calculated in accordance with homological calculation formula.By the aid of the confirmation on three different slope body types in ten different locations,the calculation result tallies with the investigation case on the spot.It is demonstrated that the calculation of the instability length of the layered rock high slope by this theory is reasonable.


ABSTRACT The extensive 'secretarial' labour that Gretel Karplus Adorno performed for the Frankfurt School is often overlooked in critical accounts. This article examines the Adornos' division of textual labour, and Karplus' 'vulture-like' stenography, distinguishing it from the dominant modernist views of secretarial labour, such as T. S. Eliot's automaton typist, and Henry James's typist-as-medium. The Adornos' stenographical method hinges upon a dialectical division of labour, which can be read through Theodor Adorno's aphorism 'Sacrificial Lamb'. Adorno's writer elides the 'risk of formulation' necessary to commit to unformed ideas, by engaging his 'troublesome helper' typist in a dialectical struggle over textual authority. Whilst the dictator dominates his aide, the text still bears the imprint of its invisible contributor. Indeed, as Karplus shoulders Adorno's own divested 'risk of formulation' after they wed in 1937, he develops his critique of the capitalist mode of production, which lures women to the workforce under the promise of emancipation, and instead exploits and devalorizes their mental and physical labour. Simultaneously, Adorno cultivates a philosophical style that supports his modernist aesthetics, characterised by fragmentation, parataxis, and verbal improvisation, abetted by Karplus and their mutual investment in the risks of writing.


OBJECTIVE
Describe complications and postoperative management problems associated with the anterior cricoid split.

DESIGN
Retrospective case series.

SETTING
Urban referral hospital.

PATIENTS
Nine consecutive patients with acquired subglottic stenosis believed amenable to the anterior cricoid split.

INTERVENTION
The anterior cricoid split was performed on 10 occasions between June 1989 and June 1992.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE
Extubation or decannulation.

RESULTS
Six of nine patients underwent decannulation, with success. Management problems included those related to surgery or postoperative endotracheal stenting, preexisting medical conditions, and postoperative sedation requirement.

CONCLUSIONS
The number of postoperative complications and management problems was highest in those patients with both bronchopulmonary dysplasia and preexisting tracheotomy.


The corrosion inhibition of mild carbon steel in solution was studied in presence of Cardaria Draba leaf extracts and his absence; it is a nontoxic and environmentally friendly inhibitor. The study was at different temperatures and different concentrations of extract using weight loss technique. the inhibition efficiency increases with increase in the concentration of the extract also with rising in temperature, where the maximum inhibition is around (94.3%). the results obtained showed that extract act as an inhibitor for mild carbon steel in and reduces the corrosion rate. the adsorption of Cardaria Draba leaf extracts was found to follow Langmuir adsorption isotherm. The values of the free energy of adsorption were more than (-20kJ/mol), which is indicative of a mixed mode of chemical and physical adsorption, but chemical adsorption is the predominant mode of adsorption. Corrosive, green inhibitors, mild carbon steel, adsorption.


Method and apparatus for selling products are designed from the defined range, such as micro-warehouse comprising a door (37) (35). The method detects the step of attaching the radio frequency identification tag (95) to each product (90), placing a plurality of products to micro warehouse (35) in the opening and closing of the door of the micro-warehouse a step, when detecting the closing of the door by scanning a plurality of products within the micro-warehouse, determining the number and types of products in the micro warehouse, a message, a product in the micro warehouse comprising a step of generating, based on the number and type, and transmitting the message to the remote processor or server (12), a step of maintaining managing based inventory in the remote processor to the message.


When a small water droplet is deposited on a cold surface, the freezing process transforms the droplet so that its upper portion attains a conical shape. Such a transformation occurs because the density of ice is lower than the density of water. Here, we assume that the freezing process in its final stage becomes self-similar, so the freezing front has a concave spherical shape, with a center that coincides with the vertex of the forming cone. This assumption gives a vertex angle of 65°, corresponding to a density ratio of 0.917, in a good agreement with experimental data.


Since there is a strong relation between the materials used in manufacturing, and the efficiency in use, a life-cycle approach is needed to design industrial electrical equipment with minimum environmental impact. Simplification is needed to ensure that eco-design remains a practical option. At the same time, careful modelling is essential to ensure an acceptable accuracy level. With a partnership of materials producers, equipment manufacturers, eco-design experts and academia, a toolbox for fast turnaround eco-design has been developed, which can be used by non-experts in life-cycle assessment. It quantifies environmental impacts and produces related environmental reports automatically.


Criminal punishment is one of the basic measures of influence on criminals. The theme to which A.F. Mickiewicz's research is devoted is actual also because the positions of the criminal law concerning punishment and practice of their application remain insufficiently worked scientists. Emphasizing the importance and fundamentality of the monography, the reviewer makes his remarks as well.


Heterogeneous posterior fossa abnormalities consist of Mega cisterna magna (MSM), Dandy-Walker malformation and vermian hypogenesis / hypoplasia. The incidence of posterior fossa malformations is 1 in 5000 live births (1). Our objective is to discuss a case in the light of literature who was followed after the 33th week of gestation . The subject was delivered at the 37+1 gestation by cesarean section. The arachnoid cyst was diagnosed via neonatal ultrasound and MRI. Fetuses with MSM or arachnoid cyst should be screened for additional intracranial / extracranial anomalies and karyotyping should be advised.


With the rapid development of High-speed Railway worldwide, particularly in China, its economic effect is increasingly prominent. In this paper, we claimed that the distance to HSR station rather than HSR connection affects its economic influence by examining the panel data of 333 prefectures during 1999-2013 in China. It is shown that cities would receive positive and significant economic gains if the distance between cities administrative center and the nearest HSR station is less than 10km. To address the potential endogenous problem, a least cost spanning tree network IV strategy based on Faber (2014) is adopted and further confirmed the robustness. Our finding provides scientific evidence of HSR station's location planning and is promising to optimize HSR's structural layout.


The results of surgical treatment of 59 women (average age 31.9 ± 1.3 years) who underwent laser ablation of paraurethral cysts using the Lakhta-Milon laser apparatus (Russia) (diode laser with a wavelength of 0.97 μm) are presented. The postoperative period in all patients proceeded without serious complications. The average hospital stay was 1.7 ± 1.5 days. 4 weeks after surgery, all 59 patients noted improvement such as lack of dysuria, only 10 (16.9%) had minor discharge from the genital tract. 6 weeks after surgery all 59 operated patients had wound epithelization. Conclusion: The treatment of paraurethral cysts should be surgical and as radical as possible. The operation of choice is laser ablation of paraurethral formations.


This paper deals with the issues of cultural identity and transcultural spaces in the travel writing of D. H. Lawrence. The travel writings of Lawrence are important analyses of modern culture. They definitely give opportunity to study the role of cultural identity in the genre of travel writing. Travel writing as a genre primarily deals with the experiences of a travel writer travelling to different unknown cultures or places and most of the travel writings of Lawrence document the meeting of two alien cultures. The strange meetings represented by the travel writer's own culture and the culture of the people of the country travelled by him make a transcultural space. The strangeness produced out of the encounter of two different cultures is the most important issue here. The strangeness between the self and the world brings with it the issues of 'cultural identity' and 'transculturation'. Lawrence's Mexican travel writing, Mornings in Mexico (1927) is built on the notion of cultural identity. His encounter with the Mexicans reminds of the vast gulf of difference between his European culture and the native Mexican culture. As transculturation is a transition from one culture to another, Lawrence's encounter with the Mexican culture definitely produces a transcultural space that is only translated through the strangeness existing between the two cultures.


Objective: Popular tourist destinations like Hawaii and Guam are exploring ways to increase numbers of tourists by examining niche markets that involve the consumption of unique experiences, such as those associated with Sports Tourism. There are a number of international marathon events that provide a positive economic impact on these destinations via direct and indirect spending from participants and their families (Agrusa, J., Lema, J., Botto, T., & Cho,Y. 2008). More than just economic benefits for host destinations, these events provide an avenue for participants to engage in an overseas group activity that provides a heightened sense of well-being. This paper will examine how tour companies package these experiences for Japanese marathon runners. Methods: This paper provides a case analysis of online marketing literature from a major Japanese tour company, Club Tourism International (CTI), which specializes in marathon tours for Japanese consumers. By reviewing the menu items on the company website as well as other online elements used by CTI, (which are also commonly used by other Japanese overseas marathon tour companies) we are able to capture online marketing methods used to attract marathon tour participants from Japan. The latest trends in marketing these events, the types of amenities offered to tour participants, price level variations of tours, and methods used in differentiating tour experiences from other destinations will be examined. Results: The latest trends in marketing these events, the types of amenities offered to tour participants, price level variations of tours, and methods used in differentiating tour experiences from other destinations will be examined. The results of this study may be used to assist community and event organizations interested in attracting and marketing similar events to Japanese sports tourism enthusiasts.


In the VT/Sisyphus experiment, a set of problem solving systems were being built against a common specification of a problem. An important hypothesis was that the specification could be given, in large part, as a common ontology. This article is that ontology. This ontology is different than normal software specification documents in two fundamental ways. First, it is formal and machine readable (i.e. in the KIF/Ontolingua syntax). Second, the descriptions of the input and output of the task to be performed include domain knowledge (i.e. about elevator configuration) that characterize semantic constraints on possible solutions, rather than describing the form (data structure) of the answer. The article includes an overview of the conceptualization, excerpts from the machine-readable Ontolingua source files, and pointers to the complete ontology library available on the Internet.


In early modern history, numerous vices were represented as having the ability to transform humans into beasts. These representations would appear to play into a theological and moral conceptualization of the world rather than a "zoological" one. An analysis of early modern constructions of perception and the role of the passions reveals a logic in which humans can actually become animals through their actions. The writer discusses the work of Oxford clergyman and author Robert Burton, whose early exploration of self, The Anatomy of Melancholy, drew heavily on the belief that human failings constituted a kind of base animal immorality.


Mobile shopping has emerged as a significant part of the global e-commerce landscape. Given the growing prominence of the mobile e-commerce sector in Vietnam, conducting research this market is both timely and pertinent. Hence, this study focuses on examining the factors that influence the trust in mobile shopping apps and their intent to make mobile shopping purchases. The results show that user experience, online customer review and mobile app design significantly effect on trust in mobile shopping apps, subsequently, influencing purchase intention. However, it's noteworthy that attitudes towards social networking site (SNS) advertising do not have a significant effect on trust in mobile shopping apps


In this work we propose the application of state-of-the-art feature descriptors into a Particle Filter framework for the lane detection task. The key idea lies on the comparison of image features extracted from the actual measurement with a priori calculated descriptors. First, we demonstrate how a feature expectation can be extracted based on a particle hypothesis. We then propose to define the likelihood function in terms of the distance between the expected feature and the features calculated from the current measurement. We select the Histogram of Oriented Gradients as a descriptor and the Battacharyya distance as a metric. We show that this simple approach is powerful in terms of pattern discrimination and that it opens a new set of possibilities for increasing the robustness of lane detectors.


When the Super-8 system was introduced, providing a much higher picture quality by reason of its larger frame size, the educationist as well as the amateur could not fail to recognize the possibilities opened up by the new development. Even if Super-8 could not rival the 16 mm. film in light output and sharpness of picture, it had the advantages of cheapness and ease of handling, either when 'shooting' film or projecting it. From these points of view the new Super-8 format has much to recommend it for the use of film groups in schools and youth organizations.


[Objective]Observe the efficacy of Pei Ruixia's Modified Er Dong Tang combined with Western medicine therapy lung and kidney Qi Yin deficiency type 2 diabetes.[Methods]The method of randomized parallel controlled is used,80 cases of hospitalized patients were randomly divided into two groups by random number table,to keep diabetic diet,exercise,patterns of life,blood pressure,blood glucose,expansion of the crown and other conventional therapy,the Chinese medicine and general preventive medication belong the therapy of the disease were stopped,the medication between the two groups remained balanced.Control group,40 cases of pioglitazone capsule,metformin enteric-coated tablets of conventional Western medicine hypoglycemic.40 cases in the control group on the basis of the treatment group to give Modified Er Dong Tang.(Aspartame,Radix,Trichosanthes the 15g,Skullcap 6g,Anemarrhena 12g,Licorice 10g,North Adenophora 15g,Lotus Leaf 10g) 1 dose of / d,water simmer in water,morning and evening hours service.Observe the fasting plasma glucose(FPG),2-hour postprandial blood glucose(2hPG),glycosylated hemoglobin(HbAlc).Are continuous treatment for 3 months course of treatment.Continuous therapy a course of treatment,to determine the efficacy.[Results] Treatment group Control 0 cases,cured 27 cases,effective 9 cases,no effective 4 cases,the total efficiency of 90.00%.Control group,the clinical control of 0 cases,12 cases markedly effective in 13 cases,no effective 15 cases,the total efficiency of 62.50%.Treatment group is more effective than the control group(P0.01).Two sets of FBG,2hPG,HbAlc were significantly lower(P0.01),no significant differences between the groups(P0.05).[Conclusion]Modified Er Dong Tang for the therapy of lung and kidney Qi Yin-deficiency type 2 diabetes with a satisfactory outcome.


Big data analysis requires extensive use of statistical modelling which works efficiently in many organizations. Decision tree is a versatile business analytics tool for finding out trends, patterns or relationships in the data. Chi-square Automatic Interactive Detection (CHAID) is a tool which enables us in examining relation between predictor variable and target variable. With this tool one can predict the target population for any product/ service. A large number of students come to Pune for education. Daily, they are in the college campus for more than 8 hours. They have to take their lunch near college campus. There are various types of food available near campus area. A study is conducted to predict, a target students population for lunch viz "Thali" which would be available near their college campus. Questionnaire is prepared to find out students' inclination for this lunch and associated confounding categorical variables. With the help of repeated applications of chi-square tests between students' inclination for the lunch and associated variables, a target population is found out.


We have evaluated the angioscopic findings before and after various percutaneous techniques to treat 39 lesions in 32 cases of arteriosclerosis obliterans (ASO). We applied a laser (CL50: SLT, Japan), percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA), and atherectomy -- either singly or in combination, with angioscopic luminal observation (angioscope: PF14L & PF18L Olympus, Japan) recorded before and after the treatments. In the case of a complete obstruction, we employed PTA as the first choice. We used a laser prior to PTA when the PTA guide-wire failed to penetrate the lumen. For eccentric and calcified lesions atherectomy was applied. A sufficient enlargement was obtained initially in 37 of the 39 lesions. The angioscopic observations after treatment revealed carbonization (3/5) and attachment of small thrombi (3/5) after using the laser, intimal rupture (3/8), dissection (2/8), flap formation (2/8), and attachment of small thrombi (4/8) after PTA, and attachment of small thrombi (9/19), flap formation (6/19), and dissection (2/19) after atherectomy. We established the efficacy of angioscopic assessment demonstrating beneficial clinical results. The angioscopic findings suggest that attachment of small thrombi may be responsible for a poor prognosis. Additional angioscopic observations with angiography are recommended for improved understanding of the luminal changes.


The author outlines the history of the isolation of therapeutic gases from the ambient air, and also the industrial introduction of gases that pollute the air and menace the health of man. Both geriatric and middle‐aged patients with respiratory and cardiac disease have experienced exacerbation of symptoms and even death as a result of high concentrations of air pollutants.


Comics studies has taken a comparative turn to global culture, which challenges claims in favor of Richard F. Outcault, Rodolphe Töpffer, or William Hogarth as the originators of comics. The synthesis for each claim is founded in the proliferation of image and text in the printing press. The printing press standardized visual tropes such as the panel-strip convention which is fundamental to comics. Examples of the panel-strip convention are found in the early period of print, where it might have begun as a side effect of intaglio printing. Alongside the panel-strip convention are several alternative conventions for organizing sequential images: processions, curtains, staircases, calendars, wheels, and decks. Each possesses affordances not found in the panel-strip convention. Furthermore, these conventions represent the way that visual metaphors were used to scaffold meaning, a method virtually erased by Hogarth. Rather than being an early artist of sequential images, Hogarth radically simplified an existing tradition that included direct predecessors to Rake's Progress.


Although quite recently our diversity and inclusion core values were challenged, we should not forget to recognize the importance and value of bringing together students from underrepresented minorities and their different perspectives into our various workplace processes one day. Unfortunately, most of the outreach efforts in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (STEM-C) fields are designed only to help students coming from economically disadvantaged backgrounds to catch up with other students. What if instead of only making up for the opportunities they had missed, we could provide at least some of them with the cutting-edge education? In this paper, we present how Student Research Development Center's of Ana G. Mendez University System (AGMUS) in San Juan, Puerto Rico will achieve that the 14 Panel Advanced Modular Incoherent Scatter Radar (AMISR) becomes a base for an educational program for undergraduate and graduate students from Puerto Rico. Having AMISR belong to a Spanish Minority Institution is the first step in the right direction of putting together a scientific team, within AGMUS that will offer competitive research opportunities in Atmospheric Sciences to STEM-C majors from Puerto Rico and Latin America.


By means of quadric regression orthogonally rotational combination design, a four-factor (temperature, time, corn-cob content, catalyst content) experiment was conducted. The quadric regression equations of the relationship between temperature, time, corn-cob content, catalyst content and liquefaction rate were established. The model was significantly fit well. The optimum combination was obtained by Matlab methodology. The results indicated that liquefaction rate of corn-cob was affected obviously in successive order by corn-cob content, catalyst content, temperature and time. Considering the high liquefaction rate, the optimum liquefaction conditions for obtaining 94.64% were: 159℃ temperature, 50 min time, 20% corn-cob content, 3.61% catalyst content respectively. The predicted values were also verified.


This reply is a response from Kevin Warwick to the comments made by Holm and Voo, Chadwick and Lodge to his article in this issue.


Since the fact that the university amalgamating is reaching and other reasons such as fresh college districts' building,more and more multi-campus universities have been emerged in our country.How to enhance the efficiency of needs for teachers and students have becoming an urgent problem need to be solved.This article tries to present some tentative thoughts on the optimization of our university's literature and information resources under the mode of multi-campus.


The authors present the results of an investigation of the electrical performance of 115 kV transmission line fiberglass crossarms used by the Mississippi Power & Light Company. Three 115 kV transmission line fiberglass crossarms removed from service and three identical ones were examined. The evaluation of electrical performance was based on flashover voltage value at AC voltage and standard lightning impulse. Flashover voltages were measured under dry and wet conditions. The impulses used in the tests had positive polarity. The obtained flashover voltages showed no large difference in the electrical strength of fiberglass crossarms removed from service and those stored outdoors.<<ETX>>


In this paper we consider the application of the Block Stride Reduction algorithm for the solution of separable self-adjoint elliptic equations on rectangular domains. Non-overlapping domain decomposition techniques are applied to reduce the differential operator to block diagonally bordered linear systems which can then be solved by the Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient method. Finally, a new preconditioner for such systems is outlined.


This article outlines the biological significance of one of the most important heterocycles, the pyrimidine. An attempt has been made to cover most of the physiologically as well as medicinally important compounds containing pyrimidine and its derivatives.


Load profiles that characterise neighbourhoods can be usefully constructed using both detailed measurement data from mid-voltage stations and neighbourhood population density. This neighbourhood characterisation allows for the identification of similar mid-voltage stations and can help inform the roll-out of, amongst other topics, advanced measurement equipment. Neighbourhood population density and address density are found to be relatively simple and moderately good descriptors for load profile class compared to a large number of other characteristics. A novel classification for neighbourhood density is created that matches cable density and time durations curves observed in the neighbourhoods.


Based on analyzing information flow, the paper discusses the reengineering and optimization of information process and business process in military vehicle equipment allocation system and applies the modeling method of 3D view, i.e. object, position and task in describing the core business process.


A new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) launch and recovery system has been built that is adaptable enough to allow integration to most vessels equipped with an A-frame or deck crane. The system was developed to allow an AUV to be lifted either horizontally or vertically depending on vehicle configuration or vessel geometry.


We estimated the amount of incubation time that first laid Black Brent eggs received before completion of the clutch. First laid eggs received up to 48 hours of incubation before the last egg was laid in Brent clutches. Waterfowl clutches usually hatch within a period of 24 hours, suggesting that dome mechanism reduces developmental asynchrony during incubation. The combination of incubation during laying and hatch synchronization mechanisms should be adaptive because these traits reduce nest exposure, maintain egg viability, and result in an earlier hatch date, all of which increase fitness in waterfowl.


Whilst there have been many papers on logistics outsourcing there is very limited commentary on the contractual issues with logistics outsourcing. Most of the literature can be generally categorized according to different focus area. Some of these focus areas include logistics practices, usage of 3PL logistics services, current state and future trends, strategies, and performance measurements. The chapter attempts to address this "gap." The chapter will focus on some of the key contractual issues with logistics outsourcing contracts currently troubling customers, service providers, and advisers, such as (a) scope of the services; (b) change control; (c) service levels and service credits; (d) risk allocation – limitations and exclusions of liability; and (e) benchmarking. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2008-7.ch022


The disordered region is an important protein structure which contains much information about protein function. Until now, the prediction of protein disordered region is also much popular task. In this paper, we proposed a new approach to predict protein disordered regions in a protein sequence using the gap-constraint subsequence patterns mining and association rule mining. At first, the gap-constraint frequent subsequences are generated by Gap-BIDE algorithm in two classes, disordered sequence and ordered sequence. Based on these frequent subsequences, we calculated the conditional probability of disordered subsequence patterns in both classes and classify the candidates into the class which has the higher conditional probability. Finally, we used the disordered/ordered subsequence patterns which we generate to search the disordered regions in a protein sequence. In the experiment, we used the CASP 9 and Disprot 5.7 dataset as test data and the performance is higher than other methods.


Part One: The Initial Reception among Women Philosophers Part Two: The French Reception and French Cartesianism Part Three: Spinoza and the Dutch Reception Part Four: The Reception in Rome and Naples Part Five: The Reception across the Channel


The diploma thesis has a theoretical-empirical character and is focused on the protective and risk resilience factors of secondary school students. The main goal of the thesis is to find out, which social-ecological factors influence resilience of the students in secondary school and which areas of school life are supportive and risky for their satisfaction in the school. The theoretical part deals with the definition of the concept of resilience, resilience at the time of adolescence and resilience in education. The key point of the first part is the socio-ecological concept of resilience. The empirical part of the thesis was focused on protective and risk factors of resilience and the area of school life by using the questionnaire survey method.


The objective of this research was to design English teaching learning kits which facilitate the teacher in teaching English to elementary school children. The kits are easy to reach, to use, and to understand because they are completed with teacher's guide. The next objective was to find out the characteristics of the appropriate design of materials for the fifth grade pupils of SDN 14 Pelutan, Pemalang.
This is Research and Development (R&D). The research steps of this research consisted of the needs survey, needs analysis, writing the course grid, developing the materials, evaluating the first draft of the materials, revising the first draft, implementing the second draft, and writing the final draft. The instruments of the data collection were questionnaires, an interview guide, and the observation guide. The types of the data were quantitative and qualitative. They were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The materials were evaluated and revised based on the data obtained.
The results of the study were the kits included the course grid, lesson plans, the materials, teacher's guides, hands out, flashcards, a flannel board, and CDs of listening tasks and songs. The result of the study showed that the designed materials had the characteristics of appropriate design of English Teaching Learning Kits proposed by the experts. The result of the expert judgement questionnaires also showed that the mean score of material aspect was 133.54 (Good), the kits aspect was 13.62 (Very Good), and media aspect was 13.77 (Very Good). Therefore, the characteristics of good materials were 1) matching with standard and basic competencies, 2) providing materials which are interesting, motivating, suitable, and organized from easy to difficult level, 3) making the students communicate, interact with friends in English and more active in English class, 4) consisting of individual, pair and group work, 5) including integrated skills, 6) providing songs and games which are appropriate with the topics, easily mastered by the teacher, various, interesting, motivating the students, and having clear games rules. Then, good kits should be easy to use, suitable with the teacher's needs, and provide clear instructions, while good media should be interesting, motivating, and easy to use.


This paper introduces the data transmission mechanism currently practiced under the cloud computing architecture.To address the lack of coupling among tasks on the links under the network transmission mechanism,we propose an improved data transmission scheme for the future network architecture which is cloud computing oriented.In view of improvement in three aspects,namely the transmission delay,transmission reliability,and storage security of the cloud node,we build a new cloud architecture in order to meet different requirements in the Qos.Being able to integrate with current network,this scheme is characterized by controllable,administrable and extensible,which makes it applicable for the new network communication infrastructure.


The purpose of the present investigation was to use the stabilized municipal sewage sludge from the facultative lagoon of the Residual Water Plant Treatment, COVICORTI-Trujillo to improve the sandy soil from the Santo Domingo of Santa Catalina Valley – La Libertad. The sewage sludge was added in 5 doses from 10 to 70 tons of sludge per hectare of sandy soil, were treated with, extracted, in different rates. The treatments were prepared in doses from 10 to 70 tons of sewage sludge per hectare of sandy soil, calculated upon the requirement of nitrogen, necessary to produce a ton of hybrid yellow hard corn of the Marginal 28 Tropical variety. The addition of 50 t/ha of stabilized sewage sludge to the sandy soil improved the contents of organic matter from 0,08 to 1,83 %; phosphorus, from 100 to 647 mg/kg; nitrogen, from 0,012 to 0,150 % and potassium from 160 to 185 mg/kg. It also improved considerably the hydraulic conductivity, from 11,55 m/d to 3,24 m/d; apparent density, from 1,6207 g/cm3 diminished 1,0317 g/cm3; hydraulic retention from 24,2 % to 59,0 % and finally the porosity, from 44,6 % was increased to 63,50 %. It is concluded that the addition of stabilized sewage sludge improves the physical and chemical properties of the sandy soil and renders it suitable for agricultural use. It was determined that the yield in corn improves gradually with the addition of sewage sludge to the sandy soil. It was proved that 50 t/ha is best dose, which increases the yield of dry grain of corn in 472,2 percent related to a chemical fertilization


The purpose of this research is to calculate and design a teller queue management system that will work during peak hours at a bank. The analysis was done utilizing the M/M/S computations and the queuing theory method. The calculations are done to determine the average wait time, average service time, and queue organization. According to the study, each person receives an average treatment in 5 minutes, whereas each person waits an average of 13 minutes. Each consumer gets two minutes of ordinary service. System engineering involves setting up two queues, the first for client queues carrying fewer than two transaction applications with a single teller, and the second for queues carrying more than three application transactions with three tellers. Bank services can be optimized through queuing analysis based on customer behaviour without adding additional service servers.


Introduction For the past several years, our lab has been conducting research to understand the physiology and genetics of freezing tolerance and cold hardening in Rhododendron funded, in part, by the ARS Research Foundation. This research involved populations derived from a "very hardy" x "moderately hardy" parental cross (Rhododendron catawbiense x R. fortunei) in which progeny segregated for cold hardiness, measured as leaf-freezing tolerance (Lim et al., 1998 a, b). Based on our detailed investigation of the leaf proteins isolated from the non-hardened (August/summer) and cold–hardened (January/winter) plants of these parents, segregating progenies, and a wide array of Rhododendron species and cultivars, we demonstrated that 1) members of a specific class of proteins, called "dehydrins" generally accumulate at higher levels in hardened leaf tissues, and 2) accumulation of a particular dehydrin (of approximately 25 kDa molecular mass) was tightly linked to the degree of leaf freeze-tolerance and the cold-hardening ability (Lim et al., 1999; Marian et al., 2003). We hypothesized that this protein presumably played a key role in conferring freezing tolerance in Rhododendron. Dehydrins are hydrophilic (waterloving) proteins, i.e., they serve the role of tiny "sponges" inside the plant cells that help retain the hydration around cell membranes and proteins thereby protecting them from desiccation injury. Numerous studies show that dehydrins accumulate at high levels during dehydrative stress and also during controlled (in growth-chambers) and/or natural (seasonal) cold hardening in most plant species, including woody plants (Arora et al., 1997; Dhanaraj et al., 2005; Kalberer et al. 2007; Karlson et al., 2003; Rinne et al., 1999; Wisniewski et al., 2006). It is argued that since freezing stress in plants results in dehydration due to the removal of cellular water to ice crystals out side the cell, protection of cells from such desiccation should be one of the key components of the cold hardening mechanisms during fall and winter. And, an accumulation of dehydrins is perhaps one way to achieve this protection. It is presumed that dehydrins serve as "cryoprotectants" whereby they protect cell membranes and other proteins from freeze-desiccation-induced perturbations in structure and function (Svensson et al., 2002). Here we report our results from biochemical assays to test the cryoprotective ability of R. catawbiense dehydrin (RcDhn5, see below) and from experiments whereby the gene encoding RcDhn5 was inserted and expressed in a model plant Arabidopsis followed by testing and comparing the freezing tolerance of transgenic and non-transformed (control) Arabidopsis plants. Our results from biochemical assays indicate that purified RcDhn5 protects certain proteins against freeze-thaw stress-deactivation, and that Physiology of Cold-hardening in Rhododendron: Role of a Dehydrin Protein from R. catawbiense (RcDhn5) in Cryoprotection and Improving Freezing Tolerance


in or its on antioxidant by electrospinning and conduits formed by using the nanofiber the of a 1 cm gap in the peritoneal PHBV conduits sacri 17th week after the operations. (MDA), oxidation protein products (AOPP), glutathione and superoxide dismutase of as as surrounding of conduits and serums were measured. Compared to control groups, MDA, AOPP and GSH levels and SOD activites in all graft group serums showed a significant increase, while only MDA and AOPP levels in tissues were statistically higher. Therefore, these findings suggest that PHBV nerve graft used for sciatic nerve defects may lead to oxidative stress in rats.


AbstractSeasonal streamflow prediction skill can derive from catchment initial hydrological conditions (IHCs) and from the future seasonal climate forecasts (SCFs) used to produce the hydrological forecasts. Although much effort has gone into producing state-of-the-art seasonal streamflow forecasts from improving IHCs and SCFs, these developments are expensive and time consuming and the forecasting skill is still limited in most parts of the world. Hence, sensitivity analyses are crucial to funnel the resources into useful modeling and forecasting developments. It is in this context that a sensitivity analysis technique, the variational ensemble streamflow prediction assessment (VESPA) approach, was recently introduced. VESPA can be used to quantify the expected improvements in seasonal streamflow forecast skill as a result of realistic improvements in its predictability sources (i.e., the IHCs and the SCFs)—termed "skill elasticity"—and to indicate where efforts should be targeted. The VESPA approach is,...


MONODROMY GROUPS OF BOUNDARY SINGULARITIES G G Il'yuta ON THE INVERTIBILITY OF ALMOST PERIODIC OPERATORS V G Kurbatov Singularities of systems of rays Vladimir I Arnol'd THE TOPOLOGY OF INTEGRAL SUBMANIFOLDS OF COMPLETELY INTEGRABLE HAMILTONIAN SYSTEMS A V Brailov and A T Fomenko Joint meetings of the Petrovskii Seminar on differential equations and mathematical problems of physics, and The Moscow Mathematical Society (twelfth meeting, 18-21 January 1989) O A Oleinik STRUCTURE OF THE SET OF SUMS OF A CONDITIONALLY CONVERGENT SERIES IN A NORMED SPACE A hobanyan Asymptotics of solutions of a class of non-linear elliptic equations in a cylindrical domain F A Chechkin On the number of integral points in a domain


Immunity acquired by newborn animals is known as passive immunity, and for ruminants, antibody acquisition depends on the ingestion and absorption of adequate amounts of immunoglobulins from colostrum. This study relates different initial levels of acquired passive protection and serum total protein (TP) and immunoglobulin G (IgG). Serum immunoglobulin concentration and total protein were evaluated for female Holstein calves in the first sixty days of life. Animals were separated into three groups according to their initial level of passive immunity: group 1- animals with a low level of passive immunity (below 20 mg mL-1); group 2- animals with a medium level (between 20 and 30 mg mL-1), and group 3- animals with a high level (above 30 mg mL-1). Serum total protein was determined through the biuret method and IgG was determined by radial immunodiffusion. Data were analyzed as a completely randomized, split-plot statistical design. Fluctuation of the variables along the experimental period was determined through non-linear regression by the DUD method (PROC NLIN - Non Linear SAS). Animals with low antibody acquisition started to produce antibodies earlier, reflecting a compensatory synthesis. On the other hand, animals having adequate levels exhibited an extended period of immunoglobulin catabolism and the beginning of the endogenous phase was delayed. Regardless initial levels, the fluctuations in IgG contents occurred around adequate physiological concentrations, ranging from 20 to 25 mg mL-1.


IT is hoped that at least some of the visitors to the Second Australian Medical Congress in Perth in August will have some sort of interest in birds, for the city offers opportunities for some of the world's most convenient and rewarding bird-watching. One of the best venues for watching waterfowl is the C.S.I.R.O. observation post overlooking the Pelica!?" po~nt sanctuary, which is practically part of the Universtty campus. When he visited Perth in April, 1963, the Duke of Edinburgh left the Royal Yacht Britannia at 6 a.m. one morning to spend two hours at Pelican Point, on .the Swan River, watching cormorants, terns and ba~-taI1ed godwits feeding in the warm shallows. Officers In ~he C.S.I.R.O.'s wild life division frequently take sen!or diplomats and visiting "V.I.P.'s" on similar bird-watchIng


The H2 plasma treatment for spin-on carbon (SOC) hard mask in the trilayer resist process is expected to serve as a reliable alternative to single layer resist process for 45nm nodes and beyond. The authors have investigated this treatment with a view to suppress the deformation of SOC by oxide etching. The wiggling profile of SOC drastically improves due to the formation of a thicker diamondlike amorphous carbon structure by the H2 plasma treatment with higher-energy hydrogen ions.


T o the Editor: We have recently read the article of Peck et al (1) with great interest. As they stated, early initiation of enteral nutrition after the percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) procedure is recommended by guidelines and has many benefits, including reduced nutritional disruption and length of hospital stay (1). There are, however, also some concerns associated with early refeeding like postprocedural nausea and vomiting (PONV), which make clinicians be hesitant to start feeding (1). As most of these pediatric patients are known to have many neurological problems, along with other comorbidities, PEG procedure is commonly done under general anesthesia (2). Apart from the risks associated with the procedure, it's a well-known fact that volatile anesthetics, inadequate pain control, and opioid use could also lead to PONV (3). Using total intravenous anesthesia during the intraoperative period is just one part of the solution. As the main solution is to provide opioid-free anesthesia, regional anesthesia techniques should be used for pain management (4–6). We have long been using regional anesthesia techniques in combination with total intravenous anesthesia in children undergoing PEG procedure to reduce the PONV incidence and to successfully achieve early refeeding, and have promising results. Patients either do not require analgesics or just a single dose of paracetamol would be sufficient for the postoperative 24 hours and initiation of enteral nutrition is within 6 hours of PEG insertion. We recommend that randomized controlled trials with large case series should be done to clarify both the benefits and limitations of this clinical management.


Activation radiative-capture cross sections of 14.6-MeV neutrons in 27Al, 50Ti, 51V, 103Rh, 127I, and 139La have been measured to check and extend to other nuclei recent improved activation measure...


For wireless networks under jamming attacks, suppressing the jammer is essential to guarantee a rehable communication link. However, it can be problematic to nullify the jamming signal when the correlations between transmitted jamming signals are deliberately varied over tone. Specifically recent studies reveal that the time-varying correlations create a "virtual change" m the jamming channel and thus their nullspace, even when the physical channels remain unchanged Unlike existing studies that only consider unchanged correlations or merely propose a heuristic solution to the "virtual change" problem by continuously monitoring the residual jamming signal then updating the beam-forming matrix, we develop a deep dueling Q-learning technique to minimize the magnitude of the "virtual change" by choosing a suitable allocated time for different phases of each communication frame. Extensive simulations show that the proposed techniques can suppress the jamming signal, even when the correlations vary over time, and the correlations' trajectory is unrevealed. Moreover, our techniques do not require monitoring the residual jamming signals then updating the beam-forming matrix. Therefore, our technique can improve the system's spectral efficiency and reduce the outage probability.


Project Sherwood Residence Apartment is an apartment development project
located in Kelapa Gading, North Jakarta consists of 3 Tower (Richmond, Welington,
Regent), each of which consists of 24 floors plus a roof and 4-story parking building
(roof) and the podium on the 1st floor up to the 4th floor in the tower area. The total
area of the project is 10,284 m2.
In the work of Sherwood basement apartment reaches a thickness of 2 to 3
meters in this case the volume of concrete is relatively very large cast and the casting
is done continuously, also called Mass Concrete casting. Use the volume of concrete
in very large and will cause massive temperature occurred at the time of casting and
hardening of the concrete will be very high, which occurs in the temperature
monitored by installing concrete Thermocouple in locations as needed and can be
seen and the concrete temperature gradually down in a period of time.
Concrete temperature observation was conducted over several days to obtain
otherwise secure the concrete temperature of the observation tool Thermocouple,
temperature sensor indicator if the reduced upper air temperature indicator results are
less than 20 ° C. End of Thermocouple temperature observations, upper sensor
indicates the number of each 46 ° C and 45 ° C when the air temperature is reduced
by 29 ° C 17 ° C result and 16 ° C, the concrete can already declared safe because the
temperature is less than 20 ° C. Thermocouple temperature observations in the
apartment basement foundation Sherwood performed every 2 hours for 10
consecutive days.


In this paper, in order to optimize the heat transfer structure of LED light bulb, the effects of various parameters on the temperature of the LED device were systematically analyzed, and a design guideline was shown. Although LED device has become popular due to its high-efficiency and long life, the design issues on the heat transfer structure of LED light bulbs has still remained. Because the original efficiency and life of the LED device can not be obtained due to the local temperature rise of LED element and the surrounding polymer molding material. Therefore, heat transfer analysis by finite element method was conducted systematically by changing parameters such as the shape, number and thickness of the radiating fin of the LED. As a result, advantage of open type structure was shown, and the proper design guidance for the structure of the fin shape was obtained.


Muhammad Fawad 1,2 Sumaira Mubarik 3 Saima Shakil Malik 4 Yangyang Hao Chuanhua Yu 3 Jingli Ren 1 1Henan Academy of Big Data, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, People's Republic of China; 2School of Mathematics and Statistics, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, People's Republic of China; 3Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Health Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430071, People's Republic of China; 4Department of Zoology, University of Gujrat, Gujrat 50700, Pakistan Objective: A severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was detected by researchers from a patient in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, in December 2019, and broke out in January 2020. Then, the pandemic was detected in countries around the world. Therefore, precise estimates of its current and future trends are highly required for future policy implications. Methods: We retrieved data from the Health Commission of Hubei, China. Logistic-S curve model was used to estimate the current and future trends of SARS-CoV-2-infected cases among 16 cities of Hubei, China from Jan-11 to Feb-24, 2020. Results: Out of 64,287 confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Hubei, higher percentage of cases were in Wuhan and Xiaogan. The highest death percentage was found in Wuhan and Qianjiang. A significant percentage of cures were found in Enshi Prefecture and Huanggang, while Wuhan showed the lowest percentage of cures. Rising trends in infected cases were observed throughout the study period, particularly in Wuhan, and a higher trend was observed after 12-Feb. Gradual decline trend of SARS-CoV-2 cases was observed during Feb-25 to Mar-15 in Hubei Province. Future forecast showed that the average number of SARS-CoV-2-infected cases might be decreased or stable in Hubei in the coming 20 days. Conclusion: The public must take precautionary measures in order to control and prevent disease spread and avoid extra travelling.


A general approach for solving systems of time domain partial differential equations using circuit analysis programs is described. The approach is then used to solve a nonlinear one-dimensional transient fluid flow problem. Using the general purpose circuit analysis program SPICE, the approach is fully implicit and should provide a convenient method for physical simulations in one dimension. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 13: 601–615, 1997


Obstract: To search for nov el sulfur-containing tricyclic fluoroquinolone compounds with better antibacteria l activity. Methods: Different groups were introduced into the t enth position of rufloxacin parent structure, thus 8 sulfur-containing tricycli c fluoroquinolones were synthesized. And their in vitro antibacterial activities were evaluated by MICs against a variety of bacteria. Results: The target compounds were synthesized, their structures were confirmed by 1 HNMR, MS, IR spectra and elementary analysis and they showed different powers in antibacterial activity, of which some had higher activity than that of ruflox acin. Conclusion: The results of preliminary antibacterial activity test showed that the target compounds had antibacterial activity to different degree . [


The harmonic equations and the boundary integral eqaations were solved by using the boundary element methods. And the collocation method for solving this integral equation (Poisson integral equation) was introduced. The asymptotic expansion for the remainder of the collocation solution was discussed,from which the extrapolation solution with high accuracy 0( h3 ) was obtained.


Quantitative structure - activity relationships (QSAR) is a well established ligand-based approach to drug de- sign. It correlates changes in the chemical structure of a series of compounds with changes in their biological activities. Peptides of equal length which bind to a certain protein are an excellent target for QSAR. In the present review, we sum- marize our experience in QSAR studies of peptides acting as T-cell epitopes. T-cell epitopes are protein fragments pre- sented on the cell surface which afford the immune system the opportunity to detect and respond to both intracellular and extracellular pathogens. Epitope-based vaccines are a new generation of vaccines with lower side effects. The process of antigen presentation, which includes proteasome cleavage, TAP and MHC binding, has been modeled and analyzed by QSAR. Derived QSAR models are highly predictive, allowing us to design and test in vitro MHC superbinders. All mod- els have been implemented in servers for in silico prediction of MHC binders and T-cell epitopes. In practice, better initial in silico prediction leads to improved subsequent experimental research on epitope-based vaccines.


Summary To determine the role of portacaval shunts in the development of hepatic siderosis, rats were subjected to end-to-side and side-to-side portacaval shunts. Hepatic siderosis developed only in rats with end-to-side shunts, while visible liver cell damage and cirrhosis were absent. It is concluded that shunting of the portal blood flow per se results in hepatic siderosis, even in the absence of cirrhosis.


Teleoperated driving, where an operator remotely takes over for some time-span, enables a fallback mode for autonomous vehicles. Complex urban scenarios, however, involve a too high workload for the operator. The main reasons for this are the communication delay and the lack of three-dimensional perception. This contribution presents a supervisory control concept with distinct human-machine interactions that explicitly addresses highly complex and sensitive driving tasks. By integrating automated driving functions and human-predefined corridors, a corridor-based planning scheme based on a shared autonomy approach is derived. Within the specified corridor, a modified Constrained CHOMP algorithm determines a collision-free path online using LiDAR sensor information. Since the operator remains outside the closed control loop, the proposed approach is insensitive w.r.t. any time delays. Real driving and simulation experiments confirm the effectiveness of the proposed approach and highlight both the achieved driving safety and the real time capability.


Previous work has shown that automated essay scoring systems, in particular machine learning-based systems, are not capable of assessing the quality of essays, but are relying on essay length, a factor irrelevant to writing proficiency. In this work, we first show that state-of-the-art systems, recent neural essay scoring systems, might be also influenced by the correlation between essay length and scores in a standard dataset. In our evaluation, a very simple neural model shows the state-of-the-art performance on the standard dataset. To consider essay content without taking essay length into account, we introduce a simple neural model assessing the similarity of content between an input essay and essays assigned different scores. This neural model achieves performance comparable to the state of the art on a standard dataset as well as on a second dataset. Our findings suggest that neural essay scoring systems should consider the characteristics of datasets to focus on text quality.


The aim of this study is to find out elementary 6-8 grades teachers' views on assessment and evaluation methods, frequency of use and their level of adequacy in these methods. Data were collected through a questionnaire developed by the researchers in this survey study. Population of the study is composed of 1470 primary teachers teaching at grades 6 to 8 in Erzurum city center. A sample of 474 teachers selected on the basis of voluntary participation out of the population. At the stage of data analysis, the mean of views of teachers about adequacy level and frequency of the use of assessment and evaluation methods were calculated. In order to test the relationship between adequacy level and frequency of the use of assessment and evaluation methods, the Sperman's rho was used. Furthermore, in order to analyze effects of genders and branches on adequacy level and frequency of occurrence in assessment and evaluation, Mann Whitney U test, in order to analyze effects of years of teaching experience Kruskal Wallis H tests were used. Results indicate that teachers feel themselves compatible in the use traditional assessment and evaluation methods compared to alternative approaches. It is also found that there is a positive and significant relationship between frequency of use and level of adequacy related to assessment-evaluation methods. Moreover, it is also determined that frequency of use and level of adequacy related to assessment-evaluation techniques and methods changes according to year of teaching,


Ancient wood of Heritiera fomes, Bischofia javanica and Picea excelsa has been studied with reference to chemistry of these woods and of their normal representatives in relation to anatomical degradation; structure and texture of the walls of tracheids and fibres and their chemical degradation; microscopic architecture of the cell-wall in terms of its submicroscopic organization, and of its composition.
The cellulose in ancient wood is degraded and disappears relatively guickly, whereas lignin is largely retained. When cellulose is destroyed, its original trend of orientation is left in the form of texture in lignin. In some cases, the original submicroscopic structure of cellulose is, however, well preserved. Probably the mineralization of the decaying cell-wall is mainly controlled by the surviving cellulose or the pattern it leaves in the texture of lignin.


Management of integration is based on the knowledge of the community and on its social-economic, cultural and educational profile, as a form of determining its values to be applied in the school plan, in the classroom plan and in the school administration. This form of management establishes communication between the school and the community with the adoption of the program: Alunos de Bom-Senso, whose content includes concepts of formal and informal education. This model enables the manager to establish closeness and integration between the school and the community, culminating in a participative management. This form of management is being applied in the rural school EEPSG Profa. Edina Aparecida Bampa Fonseca, in the school municipality of Valinhos, situated in the state of Sao Paulo.


Paul robert magocsi has written a thought-provoking essay on the role of North American political diasporas from east central Europe before and after the seminal years of 1918 and 1989. While he showed that the pre-1918 diasporas had a major impact on the future of east central Europe during and after World War I, he found very little evidence of a similar impact before and after 1989. He suggested that we look closely at 1989 to see what, if any, impact such diasporas had at the end of the twentieth century.


To the Editor: We would like to share our opinions regarding the concerns that extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) may itself aggravate systemic inflammatory response in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients as raised by Dr. Angouras regarding our recently published clinical experience.1 Although the ECMO technology evolved from cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) during cardiovascular surgery, research has demonstrated that the degree of systemic inflammatory response is quite different and much less compared with CPB because ECMO is a closed system.2,3 This is one of the main reasons that ECMO technology can be safely utilized in critically ill patients for a relatively long periods of support. At the same time, we must realize that ECMO technology does have a certain degree of inflammatory activation. Therefore, we should balance the advantages of ECMO for respiratory support and the possible risks of systemic inflammation aggravated by ECMO. In Shanghai, we were able to admit all patients diagnosed with COVID-19 into one designated hospital.1 We monitored major organ function and inflammatory response in all patients including mild, moderate, severe, and critically ill patients. We found that the severity and duration of systemic hypoxia may be the most important cause of systemic inflammatory response and organ dysfunction. Therefore, we implemented a strategy to prioritize treatment of systemic hypoxia. Under this principle, it is necessary to strictly follow the adult (or acute) respiratory distress syndrome treatment guidelines for critically ill patients, and reasonably use ECMO technology for respiratory support on the premise of sufficient medical resources. Traditional ECMO indications might lead to prolonged hypoxia and multiple organ failure in these patients. Therefore, we adopted early ECMO when mechanical ventilation was insufficient to correct hypoxia in COVID-19 patients. However, we observed that once the patients who met our indications were established on effective ECMO support with protective lung ventilation and completely reversed the systemic hypoxia state, the systemic inflammatory indexes actually decreased in varying degrees. We speculated that the benefits from the decrease in systemic hypoxia with ECMO outweighed the systemic inflammatory response induced by ECMO itself in COVID-19 patients. The Initial Extracorporeal Life Support Organization Guidance Document: ECMO for COVID-19 patients with severe cardiopulmonary failure emphasized that whether ECMO is applied to COVID-19 epidemic should be a local (hospital or regional) responsibility.4 "It is a case by case decision that should be reassessed regularly based on overall patient load, staffing, and other resource constraints, as well as local governmental, regulatory or hospital policies." In Shanghai, all COVID-19 patients were admitted to designated hospitals and financial support was provided. Shanghai made every effort to save every COVID-19 patient. Multidisciplinary critical care teams with extensive ECMO experience supported the designated COVID-19 hospitals. A total of 12 ECMO units were enlisted to care for the critically ill COVID-19 patients, with four units stationed outside the hospital as backup. It is only possible to implement successful ECMO management for COVID19 patients with abundant resources and support. In summary, early and timely correction of systemic hypoxia via ECMO support might actually reduce the systemic inflammatory response in COVID-19 patients. Adequate medical resources and highly experienced ECMO teams are key to successful ECMO support in COVID-19.


Belinda Linden highlights the NICE recommendations for treating patients with arrhythmias or heart failure with implantable cardioverter defibrillators or cardiac resynchronisation therapy


Simultaneous or independent control of a bypass valve and a Zwangsansaugkomponente variable geometry in an internal combustion engine, based on operating parameters which are measured by various sensors and provided as inputs to a control module. A sudden loss of power due to low turbine efficiency is prevented during transitions between operating conditions of engine speed and load. It can be prevented by an engine boost pressure at high engine speed and load is controlled at an allowable limit also excessive peak cylinder pressures.


The non-additive behaviour of 13C shifts observed for 4-X-substituted phenols or phenoxides are evidence for large substituent–substituent interactions (up to 5 p.p.m.;i.e., 75% of the substituent shifts observed in monosubstituted benzenes). X-Induced para-substituent shifts on C(1) are analysed by non-linear Dual Substituent Parameter correlations or by proportionality relationships with the corresponding shifts in monosubstituted benzenes (provided that for phenoxides electron donor or acceptor groups are treated separately). Similar proportionality relationships are also established for ipso SCSs [on C(4)]. Extension of this data treatment to various families of para-substituted benzenes leads to a general approach to the effect of substituent interactions on SCS values. In the factorisation model proposed, deviations from additivity are expressed via the product of ipso and para-SCS values, derived from the corresponding monosubstituted benzenes. The strict additivity of SCS values in meta-substituted derivatives is obeyed for phenols, whereas for phenoxides minute substituent–substituent interactions are observed.


In order to speed up the development of Shanghai sports career in new period, this article, in accordance with the requirements of shanghai tenth five-year plan, analyzes the current situation of shanghai sports and its orientation and on this base, puts forward the objective and conception of the construction of the first-rate asian sports central city and the foundational countermeasures.


In-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) survival trends have not been well reported in recent years. Whether the implementation of the new 2015 AHA guideline affects the survival of IHCA is largely unknown. Our study aims to provide an updated analysis of the trends of IHCA among the hospitals in the United States

 Using United States National Inpatient Sample Database 2008–2017, the cohort was generated with patients age above 18 who received Cardiopulmonary resuscitation during Hospitalization. Hospitalization with a principle diagnosis of cardiac arrest or ventricular fibrillation/ventricular tachycardia were excluded as outside hospital cardiac arrest. Demographic features, baseline characteristic as well as hospital outcomes were described. Trend analysis was performed using a multivariate model adjusted for age, sex, and comorbidities score.

 From 2008 to 2017, the cases of In-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) has steadily increased from 96,771 to 106,320. This trend was accompanied by a decline in age from (67.48±0.30 to 65.78±0.13, Ptrend <0.001) but increase in comorbidity score (from 2.44±0.27 to 3.47±0.21, Ptrend <0.001). It is noted that the mortality rate has been steadily declining since 2008 (from 74.01% to 68.68%, Ptrend <0.001)), although no significant changes before or after 2015 were noted (from 68.90 to 68.68, P>0.05). Length of stay has decreased from an average of 9.06± days to 8.76±0.13 days at the cost of increased health care costs (from 30.78 to 37.40 thousand dollar P<0.001 adjusted for inflation rate).

 The survival rate of In-hospital cardiac arrest has increased from 2008 to 2017 despite increased comorbidity burden. The length of stays has decreased at the cost of an increase in health costs.

 Type of funding source: None


Interstellar shock waves have a significant influence on the structure and dynamics of interstellar matter and probably trigger star formation in suitably dense regions. The overall structure of regions near shock waves is reviewed; in addition, the main observational effects of shocks on interstellar molecules are discussed including: (1) acceleration to velocities in the 1 km/s to 100 km/s range relative to the ambient gas, (2) excitation of infrared lines in the heated postshock gas, and (3) production of high abundances of certain molecular species such as H, OH, H2O, CH(+), OCS, and SiO through high temperature chemical reactions in the postshock gas at temperatures above 1000 K. The molecular region around the BN infrared source in Orion and the high velocity molecules in IC443 are discussed as possible examples of shocked molecular gas.


A colleague of mine recently told me a story of a discussion he had had about Islam and politics with an FBI agent during an intensive summer course in introductory Arabic. Sayyid Qutb, the infamou...


Abstract The purpose of this study was to compare body image, body-cathexis, and self-cathexis variables among the following sport groups at Florida State University: team sports — football (N = 65), basketball (N = 12), baseball (N = 26); individual sports — weightlifting (N = 15), swimming (N = 18), gymnastics (N = 9). Using multiple discriminate analysis, significant differences were noted among the team sports and individual sports, but not between the combined team sports and the combined individual sports. Significant differences were also noted among the six sport groups for the body and self-cathexis variables, but not for the body image variable. Of the groups tested, basketball players and gymnasts were found to be the most different from each other.


Industries consisted of high temperature processes discharge a certain amount of waste heat in a wide temperature range. In such industries, on the other hand, a large amount of primary energy is still used for drying processes of raw materials and wastes such as wet dust and sludge. In this study, a new drying process was proposed by employing metallic heat storage materials (HSMs) as drying media, which can store waste heat from low to mid temperatures (250–500°C) as both sensible and latent heat. The process possesses several advantages that the process size and exhaust gas volume are significantly small and heat recovery from a dusty gas is possible.The cold model experiments understanding the motion of HSM balls and powder inside the rotary dryer and its numerical simulations were carried out. The behavior of HSM balls was simulated by using the friction coefficient as a fitting parameter. Further, assuming that a HSM ball forms a composite particle with a powder layer, the numerical simulations of its drying process were conducted. They confirmed that, drying time can be shortened significantly when the latent heat was considered. Design of the drying process of wet dust in a practical scale showed that the size of the dryer will be several times smaller than that of a conventional rotary dryer because of higher volumetric heat transfer coefficient between HSM and dusts. Since the heat exchange tower between waste gas and HSM balls is also compact, the proposed process shows a certain potential to be applicable as an actual drying process.


Both intellectual developmental disorder (IDD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are included in the section of neurodevelopmental disorders of the ICD-11 and DSM-5. They represent meta-syndromic groups including many different clinical conditions characterized by cognitive and relational impairment. The guiding syndromic pattern involves maladaptive cognitive impairment in IDD and severe limitation and restriction of complex interpersonal interactions in ASD. The two conditions often co-occur, and their differentiation may be difficult, especially in the context of increasing severity of cognitive impairment. About 30-40% of persons with ID have pervasive features of ASD, and about 80% of persons with ASD have lower intellectual functioning compared to the general population. Both IDD and ASD are associated with a broad vulnerability to concomitant health issues, especially psychiatric disorders, with a prevalence five or more times higher than in the general population. The identification of concomitant psychiatric disorders in persons with IDD and ASD requires a specific knowledge and expertise. The symptomatology can in fact be mixed, intermittent, atypical, masked, and range from poorly defined to extremely rigid. Even key elements of some syndromes, such as delusions, hallucinations or suicidal ideation, are often very hard to recognize, especially in persons with low or absent verbal communication skills, who may only be able to express themselves through changes in behaviour. IDD and ASD impose an enormous burden on families and caregivers, require high service provision, and have high health and societal costs. Despite the above evidence, IDD and ASD have often been overlooked as mental health issues by the majority of national and international organizations worldwide. Even in those countries where specific care programs are available, significant gaps are usually reported between awareness, planning and delivery of services, especially for persons with higher severity of impairment in communication, conceptual and adaptive skills. Specific training for psychiatrists and other mental health professionals is also often lacking, at every level within the clinical education system, including undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate training as well as professional continuing education. Around one half of the persons with ID and low-functioning ASD receive psychotropic medication, and in one-third of cases drugs are prescribed to manage problem behaviours such as aggression or self-injury, in the absence of a diagnosed psychiatric disorder. These vulnerabilities and shortage of services to address them seem to extend to persons with borderline intellectual functioning (BIF), who present an IQ below the average (between one and two standard deviations), but not enough to be comprised within the upper limit of IDD. According to research findings, at least one-eighth of the world population has BIF and shows, compared to people with higher IQ, greater social disadvantage, higher rates of psychiatric disorders and substance use, and more frequent use of psychopharmacological therapies and health services, including emergency ones. To address the above-mentioned issues, to raise awareness, and to provide some initial solutions, the WPA has just launched a specific program within its proposed Action Plan 2021-2024. During the 19th World Congress of Psychiatry, held in Lisbon in August 2019, two interrelated working groups on IDD and ASD have been established, comprising experts with long-standing contributions to WPA activities in the field. In the next triennium, these groups will produce a set of collaborative documents on policies, services, as well as education and training. Within these documents, the diagnosis of concomitant psychiatric disorders, and the relevant treatment and out come measures, will occupy a central place. The WPA Action Plan 2021-2024 aims to address the mental health needs of persons with IDD and ASD, develop strategies for the collaboration of psychiatrists with other health professionals, and promote partnerships for joint collaborative work in capacity building among medical students, young psychiatrists and allied professionals. The overarching objective is to strengthen the care of persons with IDD and ASD worldwide and to fulfil their right to mental health care, in accordance to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.


With mathematical software (Maple), we have calculated quantitatively the entire absorption spectrum of the hydrogen atom in its electronic ground state for transitions to both discrete and continuum states, within the purview of non-relativistic wave mechanics. We present plots of wave functions in both coordinate and momentum representations and the calculated spectra.


The objective of this study was to investigate the changes of expressions of insulin-like growth factor Ⅰ(IGF-Ⅰ) and insulin-like growth factor Ⅰ receptor(IGF-ⅠR) genes in the ruminal epithelium of dairy goats in the process of inducing subacute rumen acidosis(SARA) under the condition of different dietary ratios of non-fiber carbohydrate and neutral detergent fiber(NFC/NDF).This study was designed for four experimental periods with twelve lactating Guanzhong dairy goats,and 15 days in each period.Goats were fed 4 diets with different NFC/NDF(1.02,1.24,1.63 and 2.58,respectively).The induction of SARA was conducted by the gradual increase of dietary NFC/NDF,and expressions of IGF-Ⅰ and IGF-ⅠR genes were quantitatively analyzed by quantitative real-time PCR(qRT-PCR).The results showed as follows: expressions of IGF-Ⅰ and IGF-ⅠR genes were both increased with the gradual increase of dietary NFC/NDF.The expression of IGF-Ⅰ gene in periods Ⅱ,Ⅲ and Ⅳ was 1.70,2.71 and 9.61 times of that in period Ⅰ,respectively,and the expression of IGF-ⅠR gene in periods Ⅱ,Ⅲ and Ⅳ was 1.88,3.09 and 10.19 times of that in period Ⅰ,respectively.Compared with period Ⅰ,expressions of IGF-Ⅰ and IGF-ⅠR genes significantly were increased when NFC/NDF reache 2.58(P0.01).In conclusion,induction of SARA using the method of increasing dietary NFC/NDF can significantly increase expressions of IGF-Ⅰ and IGF-ⅠR genes,and they are increased sharply after SARA occurs.


The F_1 of Shorthorn×Mongolian cross adapts itself very well to the environmental conditions of the northern part of Hopei Province.They are strong-built, with low succeptibility to diseases. The F_1 has highly improved conformation over the Mongolian cattle, being more symmetrical, with refined head, increased body width; back and loins are straight, wide and long; ribs well-sprung, length of legs increased.They are more meaty than the Mongolian cattle.But their hind quarters are still not well developed and rather narrow, some of them with sloping and ridge-shaped hips. The udders of the F_1 cows are better developed, with thicker and more curved milk veins, and longer teats.The hair of the crossbred cattle is short and lustrous.The predominant coat color is red or roan, cattle of black, black and white, yellow, yellow and white colors are next numerous, while those of brown, white, steel grey, and wild cat are still less in number. The development and growth of F_1 attained a higher level.Average birth weight of bull calves is 25.13kg, and of heifer calves 23.14kg, they increased by 31.36% and 32.46% respectively than the Mongolian calves.Their weight at 6 months increased by 26.12% and 32.48% respectively, at 12 months by 65.85 and 90.10% respectively.Average weight of F_1 cows at 1st freshening is 399.04kg, 2nd freshening 405.80kg, 3rd freshening 436.00kg, an increase of 41.75%, 26.54% and 31.92% as compared with Mongolian cows at respective freshenings.F_1 bulls at 3 years of age weigh 577.5kg, at 4 years 750.0kg. The height at withers of mature bulls is 141.00cm on the average, body length 175.00cm, heart girth 215.0cm, increased by 17.50%, 17.69% and 20.14% respectively.The average height at withers of mature cows is 124.61cm, body length 146.17cm, heart girth 181.71cm, increased by 1198%, 10.40% and 10.03% respectively. Average length of lactation period of F_1 cows is 267.82 days, an increase of 108.24 days.Average production of milk is: 1st lactation 1,625.25kg, 2nd lactation 1,977.53kg, 3rd lactation 2,342.43kg, increased by 290.36%, 285.27% and 302.22% respectively as compared with Mongolian cows.Cows with milk production over 2,000kg at 1st lactation amounted to 30.80% of the total number of cows, the highest producer gave 3,337.2kg.Average fat content is 4.60%, they range from 3.93% to 5.5%.


Continuing our studies of the preparation of products of practical value from asphaltite, a new by-product of oil refining, we obtained sulfonated cation-exchangers from a mixture of asphaltite and acid tar. It is shown that these cation-exchangers have good kinetic properties and are superior in thermal and thermohydrolytic stability to the commercial cation-exchange resin KU-2.


The solid-phase interaction of lithium carbonate and niobium pentaoxide, mixed in different dispersion media (water, ethyl alcohol, acetone, and air), was studied by means of thermographic and x-ray phase analyses, and the kinetics of sintering of the charges with different chemical pretreatment was studied. The existence of products of interaction of components with the dispersion medium gives rise to a different mechanism (including multiple stages) for the reaction forming lithium metaniobate and the sintering characteristics of the charges. Mixing of components in alcohol and in air is effective. It gives a quite high rate of sintering of the charges and leads to the formation, based on them, of a high-density ceramic with a crystalline structure of the highest-quality and an equilibrium microstructure.


The implementation of the virtual water strategy (VWS) transporting invisible water resources through product scheduling faces resistance due to limited reporting and understanding and the lack of motivation analysis for stakeholders. This study builds a semi‐quantitative Hotelling game model under different scenarios to analyse the influence of preference and material benefits on potential acceptance of VWS with policymakers and stakeholders. Equilibrium analyses of the game show that human preference can be as important as real benefits. With preference differences, it is hard to make all stakeholders accept or reject a VWS approach in achieving optimal results for environment and social welfare. To implement a sustainable VWS mode, modifying preferences through propaganda and education can be effective. The natural play of the game with modified preferences will ultimately favour a holistic VWS approach to responsible management. This model supports the effectiveness of game theory in the implementation of a VWS.


Background and Purpose— The anticlockwise (ACW) deviation of the visual and visuohaptic subjective verticals (SVs), known to occur in patients with right hemisphere lesion, is amplified by spatial neglect (N). These patients have only been assessed when sitting. We investigated the hypothesis that postural changes modulate visuohaptic SV deviation. Methods— Eight patients presenting with a right hemisphere lesion and spatial N were compared with 6 matched control subjects (C). In the dark, they had to rotate a luminous rod to put it at the vertical in 4 conditions: (1) sitting with plantar sole support; (2) sitting without plantar sole support; (3) sitting with legs extended on a support; and (4) supine position. Results— N patients showed a significant ACW deviation (−4.5°) of the SV compared with C subjects (+0.01°). The effect of body position depended on the group (P=0.022) because changes had definite effects in the N but not in the C group. In fact, the former showed a reduction of the ACW deviation, from the first to the fourth condition. Conclusions— Although the possible role of plantar and leg somaesthetic inputs remains to be thoroughly investigated, the modulation of gravitational inputs at trunk or vestibular level influences the SV deviation in N patients. This has to be put in relation with the modulation of N signs reported by other authors when passing from the sitting to the supine position.


PURPOSE: To explore the clinicopathologic characteristics of osteoblastoma in the jaws. METHODS: Five cases of osteoblastoma in the jaws treated in our hospital were reported and the Chinese literatures of 54 cases of osteoblastoma in the jaws were reviewed. The histological features and clinical characteristics including age distribution and location were analyzed. RESULTS: The highest incidence age ranged from 10 to 30 years. The lesion seemed to occur most frequently in the molar region. Localized swelling and dull pain were the main symptoms. Histologically, the pathognomonic features were the presence of islands of osteoid tissue undergoing various degrees of calcification with abundant, plump, active osteoblasts in well-vascularized stroma. CONCLUSION: It is valuable to study the clinicopathologic characteristics of osteoblastoma in the jaws for better diagnosis and treatment.


Recent research has suggested that affective embodied agents that can effectively express simulated emotion have the potential to build and maintain long-term relationships with users. We present our experiences in this space and detail the wide array of design and evaluation issues we had to take into consideration when building an affective embodied agent that assists users with improving poor dietary habits. An overview of our experimental progress is also provided.


Absolute frequency of continuous-wave terahertz radiation was determined at an acuracy of 10-11 in real time by modulating a frequency spacing of photocarrier terahertz comb induced by a free-running femtosecond laser.


The radiation characteristic of alum inum board heated by laser was calculated and analyzed in this paper.using three -dimension heat transmit equation,considering the heat physics coefficient as f u nction of temperature,and considering the real boundary condition of existing he at radiation and convection exchange heat,the radiation characteristic an d stabilization of radiation mass center of 3.8 μm and 10.6 μm wave band wer e analyzed.


This study examines teacher identity through conflicts and agency emergent from the narratives of five non-local English teachers working in Bangkok, Thailand. The examination of conflict and agency to gauge one's identity is suitable as these constructs are interdependent. Using a sociocultural approach, the study examined meaning and word choices found in the participants' narratives. The findings indicated that participants encountered conflicts with different social entities such as their employers' expectations, circumstances of their students, and interference from other stakeholders. The ways in which these conflicts were addressed depended on the workplaces of the participants, wherein those whose workplace had stronger social suggestion resorted to a resolved acceptance of difference, while participants whose workplace had weaker social suggestion enacted agency by modifying pedagogy or teaching content, or opposing the school administration. It was found that these agentic actions were carried out based on the notion of inclusivity and social justice. From these findings, the multifaceted identity of non-local English teachers was not only determined by their culture or country of origin but also by their work context. This study calls for further examination of international school settings, as well as the professional growth of non-local English teachers in such contexts.


INTRODUCTIONAs one encounters quantum mechanics and real life, one soon realizes that there are shades of grey and moral dilemmas and objects are not always as they may seem. The failures of major corporations left many questioning whether the collapse and ultimate bankruptcies was solely as a result of the product of bad business praxis or the consequence of criminal conduct. In their seminal work, The phenomenology of earnings management within the confines of Agency Theory, Palliam and Shalhoub (2003) capture eloquently the extent to which earnings management and manipulation are prevalent in major corporations. When any two numbers put together could equal to whatever the agenda happens to require would certainly make creative financial officers with questionable financial practices that would erode the investor confidence in the financial markets. Consequently, reports of corporations manipulating their financial statements have been widely noted. Beneish (1999) in his study: The detection of earnings manipulation contends that the extent to which earnings are manipulated has long been a question of interest to analysts, regulators, researchers, and other investment professionals. Despite recent commitments by the regulators and particularly the accounting profession to instill moral and ethical codes of conduct in its membership in their reporting practices, earnings manipulation has been given scant attention. In this regard Partnoy (2003) argues that the nature and characteristic of manipulation of accounting information is complex and extremely difficult to determine, and Jennings (2006) concludes that there is a need for more moral training and leadership to motivate professionals (accountants) to act in the public's best interest, not only for the sake of the profession as a whole but also the well being of the entire economy.The question that one needs to address is whether earnings manipulation is a one-time activity with no intention to deceive stakeholders or is it a series of actions to commit fraud. In addressing similar issues, Prentice (2003) indicates that a rational model suggests that fraudulent conduct should never occur because individuals should understand it is not in their self-interest to pursue such strategies or tragedies. What is the role of self interest in social and political attitudes have been addressed in numerous articles (Sears and Funk, 1991). However, self interest in accounting has rarely been addressed. Would corporate managers act rationally, and would this result in their firms acting rationally. The "behavioral" argument provides some insight as to why they do not act rationally despite their efforts to do so (Culver, 2002). How did the agents, of one of the largest information technology companies in India, carry out what could be the biggest financial fraud in the history of India? Although the potential billion-dollar fraud at Satyam has been called the Indian Enron, an examination of the company's accounting suggests the scandal may more closely resemble the fraud cases where cash on the company's balance sheet was padded. Cash reserves had been genuine but had been siphoned off to a number of other companies controlled by a close knit of families and their friends. As long as lies appear in families ends will appear in friends, and accounting for self interest will always be self defeating.Jennings (2006) argues that no one wakes up one day and decides to commit a fraud and that no one wakes up suddenly to forge documents to increase the value of the company's assets. Pfeffer's (2005) report on a survey of 50,000 undergraduates on some 60 campuses found that 70 percent admitted to some cheating, and there is evidence that both plagiarism and giving unpermitted aid on examinations or assignments are increasing. This continues into the workplace. Research shows that cheating among business school students exceeds the rate of cheating of any other college major (Pfeffer 2005:189). …


B_2O_3-BaO-ZnO system glasses are prepared using conventional melt quenching technology.The forming regularity is investigated and the structure are studied.The results show that:the forming range of B_2O_3-BaO-ZnO system glass is very wide,but the content of B_2O_3 has a limit within 25-75mol%;when the B_2O_3 content is lower,the B~(3+) ions exist in the single [BO_3] triangles,the [BO_3] triangles convert into [BO_4] tetrahedrons with the increasing B_2O_3 content in the glass forming area.Then the the [BO_3] triangles and the [BO_4] tetrahedrons are linked by bridge oxygens.


In this study, Mg-10Al-6Ca-1Sn and Mg-17Al-4Zn-3Ca-1Sn composite alloys were prepared. They were prepared by melting them in argon atmosphere on a water-cooled copper hearth. The sample were then analyse to determine the microstructure and mechanical properties using scanning electron microscope (SEM) and hardness testing, respectively. Moreover, a few of tests had been done to observe and determine microstructure and mechanical properties of the alloys. Mg-17Al-4Zn-3Ca-1Sn alloy, the microstructure of Mg-17Al-4Zn-3Ca-1Sn alloy distinctly portrays fine grains, resulting abundant of grain boundaries, which consist of eutectic phase, surround of primary magnesium grains. In contrast, the Mg-10Al-6Ca-1Sn alloy exhibits large differences in grain size. As a control, the sample without the addition of Zn element portrays large particles and creating very small amount of grain boundaries in the captured area of 30 µm. In perspective of mechanical properties, Mg-17Al-4Zn-3Ca-1Sn composite alloy showed higher Vickers hardness value with average of 81.8 Hv compared to Mg-10Al-6Ca-1Sn composite alloy, which was 70.5 Hv. In conclusion, the addition of Zn has effectively improved the hardness of the Mg alloy. This is supported by XRD analysis, which confirms the phase of new alloys that composed of Zinc element.


The application of economic capital management is increasingly abroad as the core tool of risk management of commercial banks.Commercial bank can quantify the risk it is facing and the capital demanded to resist the risk.In practice,in order to realize economic capital management,firstly we need to establish inner rating system,which involves the establishment and maintenance of the data system;however,because of the lack of credit culture and effective data,our commercial banks have much work to do.


The relationship of increases in the intensities of electrons in the outer magnetosphere and large-scale disturbances of the solar wind is studied with measurements of fluxes of energetic (E/sub e/ approx. 1 MeV) electrons made on the satellites Prognoz-6, -7, and Raduga. It is shown that the effect of high-speed solar wind fluxes on the geomagnetosphere involves the acceleration of electrons near the magnetopause and the enhancement of charged-particle transport into the magnetosphere from the boundary.


Abstact:Using the optimum regression design,the effects of seeding date(X1),seeding rate(X2),urea rate(X3)and nitrogen proportion in various growing stages(X4)were studied on 8 agronomic traits of japonica late hybrid rice Yongyou 538 by direct seeding.The results showed that the order of the cultivation effects was X1X2X4X3.There were various significant effects of seeding date to 6 agronomic traits(full heading date,seed setting rate,yield,etc),seeding rate to 7 traits(maximum seedlings,total grains per panicle,yield,etc),urea rate to 4 traits(tillerings,effective panicles,etc)and nitrogen proportion to 6 traits(plant height,1000-grain weight,yield,etc),and had interactions among factors.The analysis by the full factorial simulation screen indicated that in order to obtain higher rice yield ≥ 750 kg/667 m2,the optimal cultivation requirements should be adopted as follows:seeding date June 2-5,seeding rate 1.25~1.41 kg/667 m2,amount of urea 36.3~40.0 kg/667 m2,and nitrogen proportion 28%~32% in seedling stage,32%~28% in tillering stage,18%~22% in booting stage,and 22%~18% in flowering stage.


The control volume method gives the forces which act on the system, but not necessarily the wall pressure of the system. The author has made an attempt to develop a control volume method which makes it possible to obtain the wall pressure of the control volume. The 2-D inviscid incompressible steady duct flow is considered. The conservation equations in integral form are discretized for a control volume. The circulation along the control surface is expressed as a nonlinear function of the vertical velocity component at the inlet and is set equal to zero for the inviscid flow. The equation is solved by the Newton method, and the other aerodynamic properties can be obtained. The calculated results have been compared to the experiment and the agreement has been found fairly satisfactory.


In this communication, a detailed theoretical performance and economic analysis of conventional solar air heaters with bare plate, single cover and double cover have been reported. Evaluation of the annual cost (AC) and the annual energy gain (AEG) of the collectors has been performed and the ratio AC/AEG is displayed for different combined values of m, L and Z to make it feasible for the users to select optimum design and operational features which correspond to minimum AC/AEG.


Introduction: Medical treatment of uncomplicated Stanford type-B aortic dissection (AD) is associated with a high rate of late adverse events (AE). Endografting may prevent late complications, howe...


In post‐mitotic tissues, damaged cells are not replaced by new cells and hence effective local tissue repair mechanisms are required. In skeletal muscle, which is a syncytium, additional nuclei are obtained from muscle satellite (stem) cells that multiply and then fuse with the damaged fibres. Although insulin‐like growth factor‐I (IGF‐I) had been previously implicated, it is now clear that muscle expresses at least two splice variants of the IGF‐I gene: a mechanosensitive, autocrine, growth factor (MGF) and one that is similar to the liver type (IGF‐IEa). To investigate this activation mechanism, local damage was induced by stretch combined with electrical stimulation or injection of bupivacaine in the rat anterior tibialis muscle and the time course of regeneration followed morphologically. Satellite cell activation was studied by the distribution and levels of expression of M‐cadherin (M‐cad) and related to the expression of the two forms of IGF‐I. It was found that the following local damage MGF expression preceded that of M‐cad whereas IGF‐IEa peaked later than M‐cad. The evidence suggests therefore that an initial pulse of MGF expression following damage is what activates the satellite cells and that this is followed by the later expression of IGF‐IEa to maintain protein synthesis to complete the repair.


Objective: To explore the clinical characteristics and gene mutation of children with JMML, so as to improve the diagnostic level for this disease. Methods: Clinical characteristics, diagnosis and treatment, and gene mutation, were observed and explored with the combination of literature review. Results: The clinical manifestations included infection, rash, and hematological abnormality. By means of gene analysis, the mutation of NF1 gene was found in patient 1: nonsense mutation in its Exon10a, c.1318C > T; P.Arg440x and insertion mutation in Exon13, c.2033_2034insC; p.Pro678ProfsX2. In patient 2, two gene mutations of N-RAS were observed, Exon2 missense mutation c.35G > T (p.G21V) and Exon3 intron mutation c.112-70C > T. No relationship was noted between the effect and prognosis of the children after transplantation and nonchemotherapy, low dose of chemotherapy, and strong chemotherapy before transplantation. Conclusion: Clinical and laboratory tests of children with JMML lack specificity, and currently, molecular genetic testing is an important diagnostic basis for the disease.