High-throughput sequencing adopted Hiseq2500 sequencTo the Editor: Endometriosis refers to the endometrial tissue (interstitial substance and gland) with growth ing platform of Illumina, resulting in 101 bp paired-end function occurring in the uterine lining of uterine cavity and the places outside myometrium. It often leads to pain, infertility, nodules or masses and other symptoms and signs, and thus, brings a heavy burden on individuals and society. Traditional blood reflux theory, immune theory, inflammatory theory, hormone theory, etc., cannot fully elucidate the pathogenesis of endometriosis. Recent studies have shown that there is some specificity in eutopic endometria of patients with endometriosis themselves, making it possible that endometrial fragments adhere, invade, and grow outside of the uterine cavity. Eutopic endometria may be one of the key factors in the occurrence of endometriosis. This study intends to use the whole exome sequencing (WES) and gene chip sequencing technology to explore the role of eutopic endometria of patients with ovarian endometriosis (OEM) in the pathogenesis of endometriosis.


Abstract : Chaplain Ministry Teams are always a part of the Task Force in Humanitarian and Peacekeeping Operations. The purpose of these ministry teams is to provide ministry for soldiers, families, and Department of the Army civilians. A question frequently asked in recent situations is: what is the role of the chaplain in ministry to civilians?" The purpose of this research project will be to analyze of the issues surrounding this important question. Examples will be considered of situations where chaplains have been called into question for extending ministry to civilians. Practical, professional, legal, and doctrinal guidelines will also be considered in this paper. At the very heart of this issue is: 'what are the limits and boundaries for the ministry team when it is called upon to provide ministry to civilians in Humanitarian/Peacekeeping operations?' Very little has been said or written officially that speaks to this issue directly. Chaplain training in this sensitive area has been neglected, because there is no clear guidance regarding doctrine, policy, and practice. Considerations will be offered as to what Army chaplain policy should be in regard to military ministry to civilians in humanitarian/peacekeeping operations.


ABSTRACT: This essay attempts to provide a useful research agenda for researchers in both strategic management and business ethics. We motivate this agenda by suggesting that the two fields started with similar interests, diverged, and are beginning to converge again. We then identify several streams that hold particular promise for developing our understanding of the relationship between strategy and ethics: stakeholder theory, managerial discretion, behavioral strategy, strategy as practice, and environmental sustainability.


This paper presents a practical approach to output feedback adaptive control for robot manipulators. A novel approach is used to design the adaptive controller. Simulations and experimental results are used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the method. The approach to the controller design is based on ease of design and implementation and not on achieving theoretical stability results. Nevertheless, the origin is shown to be locally asymptotically stable.


This research discusses code switching used by the main character in Gaure Sinde English Vinglish movie. The research problem of this research is (1) what are the patterns of code switching used by the main character in "English Vinglish" movie and (2) what are the factors that influence code switching used by the main character in "English Vinglish" movie. The aims of this research are to describe the patterns and the factor of code switching which influence the main character in this movie. In this research, the writer applied content analysis and descriptive qualitative research designs. The data are taken from the utterances of the main character in English Vinglish movie. The theory that used in this research is Fishman theory and Janet Holmes theory. As the result of this research, the researcher find 9 data that related the patterns of code switching, three data in family domain, two data in friends domain, one data in education domain, and three data in employment domain. Then, the factors of code switching that used by the main character there are Economic relates with financial. Social relates with status and prestige, Politic is included the pressure of institutional domains. Demographic factor is area. Then, the most factor of code switching used by the main character is social factor.


The Local Supervising Authority Midwifery Officers (LSA MO) Forum UK has identified as a key priority the need to increase user involvement in the work of Local Supervising Authorities (LSA) and LSA MOs. This can help to promote better communication between service user and supervisors of midwives, which can ultimately improve maternity services. In this article, a service user explains how she became involved with supervision of midwifery through working with her LSA on service user audits and recruitment for the Preparation for Supervisors of Midwives course.


The purpose of this research is to describe the Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) strategy carried out by the Sekolah Musik Indonesia (SMI) as a technology-based music school. The research is wualitative research. The research uses interview, observation, and study of documents method to collect data. From the finding of the data obtained, the researcher concludes that the Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) strategy carried out by SMI combines several forms of promotional mix but with one purpose of introducing and attracting the public to be interested in joining as students at SMI. Some forms of promotion carried out are public relations, direct marketing, sales promotion, personal selling, and advertising.


This paper report the results of a field study aimed at relationship of the organizational characteristics, IT(information technology) competency and export performance of small and medium sized firms. This study applies the resource-based view to investigate the effects of organizational characteristics on IT competency and export performance. The resource-based view prescribes that firm resources are the main driver of firm performance. Resources include assets, capabilities, processes, attributes, knowledge and know-how that are possessed by a firm, and that can be used to formulate and implement competitive strategies. The development of the research model is based on the empirical studies of the IT capability literature and the resource-based view perspective. The model is empirically tested using data collected from 103 firms in the Korea. The data from the survey was analyzed using Partial Least Squares(PLS). Based on the empirical analysis, the following results were found. First, it was found that IT competency is affected by international marketing orientation, organizational learning and top management support, but that IT competency is not significantly affected by international entrepreneurial orientation. Second, export performance is effected by IT competency. The implication of this paper can be found that IT competency has to be considered in improving export performance.


A generalization of the Akulov-Volkov effective Lagrangian governing the self interactions of the Nambu-Goldstone fermions associated with spontaneously broken extended supersymmetry as well as their coupling to matter is presented and scrutinized. The resulting currents associated with R-symmetry, supersymmetry and space-time translations are constructed and seen to form a supermultiplet structure.


Rationale: Pneumonia is the most common cause of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) is downregulated in infectious and inflammatory conditions. Inhibition of CFTR was found increases lung endothelial permeability in vitro. Objective: We hypothesized that loss of CFTR play role in endothelial barrier failure in pneumonia-induced ARDS, and aimed to elucidate the signaling mechanisms underlying this effect. Methods: CFTR expression was assessed from Streptococcus pneumoniae-infected human and C57/BL6J mice lung tissue. In isolated rat lungs, edema formation, endothelial Cl− ([Cl−]i) and Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) was quantified by weight gain measurement and real time fluorescence imaging. Lung edema was assessed from S. pneumoniae-infected TRPV4-deficient (trpv4−/-) mice and their wild type (C57/BL6J) controls. Results: CFTR expression decreased in infected human and murine lung. In isolated rat lungs, CFTR inhibition by CFTR-inh172 increased endothelial permeability, [Cl−]i and [Ca2+]i. Inhibition of the Cl− sensitive with no lysine kinase 1 (WNK1) by tyrphostin replicated the effect of CFTR inhibition, while temozolomide, a WNK1 activator, or HC-067047, a TRPV4 antagonist, blocked the CFTR-inh172 effect. In vivo, infected trpv4−/- developed less lung edema and protein leak than their controls. Conclusion:S. pneumoniae infection causes loss of CFTR which promotes endothelial barrier failure through inhibition of WNK1 and subsequent disinhibition of TRPV4, an endothelial Ca2+ channel negatively regulated by WNK1. Inhibition of TRPV4 may present a promising strategy to prevent or treat ARDS in pneumonia patients.


A metal silicide layer to provide a method for forming on a substrate. According to one embodiment, the method includes providing the substrate to a process chamber, the substrate, at a first substrate temperature, and exposed to a plasma generated from a deposition gas containing a metal precursor, wherein by the plasma exposure, the self-limiting process, conformal metal-containing layer is formed on the substrate. The method, the metal-containing layer, a second substrate temperature, exposure to the reducing gas in the absence of a plasma, further comprises, wherein the exposing step is carried out at least once alternative wherein forming a metal silicide layer, the film forming gas does not contain the reducing gas. By the method, the deep trench having a high aspect ratio, conformal metal silicide formation is provided.


Sleep is thought to be tightly regulated by two processes, a homeostatic and a circadian process, which interact in a complex way to integrate prior wakefulness and circadian time (Borbély et al., 1982). Despite extensive research, however, little is known about how each contributes to the regulation of sleep and wake states. The goal of this study was to explore the regulation of sleep and wake during and after extended wakefulness and describe how different waking experiences may contribute to changes in brain-wide electrophysiological activity and neuronal activity reporters. In addition, sleep and wake regulation was compared in the presence and absence of circadian rhythms. This study demonstrates that waking experience during sleep deprivation (SD) changes sleep state dynamics following SD and results in experience-specific electroencephalography (EEG) patterns during wake. Sleep and wake regulation was shown to be different in rhythmic and arrhythmic animals. This difference was reflected in the percent of time spent in each state and in cumulative amounts of slow wave sleep (SWS) and rapid-eye movement (REM) sleep at baseline and during and after sleep deprivation. An automated pipeline for detecting whole brain neuronal activity reporters in 2D sections was also developed as a complement to EEG studies, allowing for the interrogation of changes in regional activity over time. Taken together, this study contributes to our understanding of sleep-wake regulation by demonstrating (1) that wake experiences differentially modulate sleep homeostatic responses and (2) that the homeostat responds differently to high sleep pressure in the absence of circadian rhythms.


Doing fieldwork: ethnographic methods for research in developing countries and beyond, by Wayne Fife, Palgrave USA, 2005, 174 pp., £50.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781403969088 There is a long tradition in ethnography of methods-based texts that go beyond a 'how to do' fieldwork to also explore the challenges, politics and practices of conducting research from a distinctly post-positivist perspective. This book is a contribution to this literature though with a focus on the developing world. Part 'tales of the field', part instructional text, Fife aims to guide neophyte researchers through the ethnographic craft from conceptualising a research project, collecting and analysing data, through to writing up. Fife approaches ethnography as a science–art hybrid: science in its dedication to the pursuit of knowledge through empirical evidence, art because, seemingly, the ethnographic writer is required to make an 'aesthetic judgement' about when sufficient evidence has been presented. In practice, echoing many others, Fife presents ethnography as a craft and aims to equip any would-be craftsperson with the right set of tools to learn it. Accepting practice as the most appropriate way of learning ethnography, Fife provides the next best thing in extensive examples from his own fieldwork experiences based predominantly around education in Papua New Guinea and, to a lesser extent, 'old age homes' in Southern Ontario, and the effects of tourism in Newfoundland (both Canada). If the Papua New Guinea provides the 'Developing World' of the title, the Canadian examples are the 'Beyond' and are provided in order to shed light on how to conduct ethnographies among seemingly 'disadvantaged people'. The book's logical structure comprises three parts: methods for macro-level research; methods for micro-level research and 'Putting the ethnography together'. In the first two sections different methods for researching that particular scale of enquiry are outlined. At a macro-level these are: historical sources, contemporary scholarly sources and newspapers and government documents. For the micro-level these are participant observation, interviewing and self-reporting (which here appears to be participant-based essay writing). Putting the ethnography together comprises chapters on doing analysis, creating and testing theory, and academic and 'practical writing'. Fife's belief that ethnographic challenges are best understood with reference to specific encounters in real-world research provides a firm foundation for the book. His experiences provide a comforting guide and outlines of specific techniques such as semi-structured interviewing and participant observation. Somewhat ironically, it is the not quite textbook, not quite reflective account that makes, for me, a sometimes over-detailed text. When method-orientated instruction is recast in the context of Fife's specific substantive research, readers face a minutiae of details about (for example) how missionaries founded Papua New Guinea's formal education system, or the ways in which different social International Journal of Social Research Methodology Vol. 14, No. 6, November 2011, 503–508


We prove irreducible components of moduli spaces of semistable representations of skewed-gentle algebras, and more generally, clannish algebras, are isomorphic to products of projective spaces. This is achieved by showing irreducible components of varieties of representations of clannish algebras can be viewed as irreducible components of skewed-gentle algebras, which we show are always normal. The main theorem generalizes an analogous result for moduli of representations of special biserial algebras proven by Carroll-Chindris-Kinser-Weyman.


Objective: Existing evidence shows that increased values of blood pressure variability (BPV) are associated with a higher risk of subclinical organ damage and cardiovascular events, independently of elevated average BP values. We sought to investigate the relation of novel BPV indices with micro- and macrovascular parameters that have not all been previously studied and to identify differences according to hypertension status. Design and method: We evaluated the relationship between BPV indices and micro- and macrovascular parameters in a selected population of 344 individuals (233 never-treated, newly diagnosed hypertensive and 111 normotensive individuals).Using data from 24-h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring device, BPV was assessed by average real variability (ARV) during 24-hours, daytime and nighttime and as systolic weighted standard deviation (wSD). Nonmydriatic retinal photography was used to assess retinal microvascular diameters. Arterial stiffness was evaluated by measurement of pulse wave velocity(PWV) and aortic augmentation index (AIx). Myocardial perfusion was evaluated using subendocardial variability ratio (SEVR).The carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) was measured by ultrasound. We performed a multiple regression analysis for all the parameters which were statistically significant in the univariate analyses. Results: After adjusting for potential confounders, all vascular parameters [venular retinal diameter (p = 0.036), PWV (p < 0.007), cIMT (p < 0.06)], except for SEVR were independently associated with ARV components in the total population. Further analysis based on hypertension status showed that in hypertensives only macrocirculation indices such as PWV and cIMT were independently associated with ARV (for PWV: 24-h systolic, p = 0.025, nighttime systolic, p = 0.001 and nighttime diastolic, p = 0.012 respectively; and for cIMT, p = 0.001 for both 24-h and daytime systolic). In normotensive individuals, venular diameter was associated with 24-h systolic and diastolic and daytime systolic and diastolic ARV (p = 0.004, p = 0.002, p = 0.001 and p = 0.049 respectively). The arteriovenous ratio was associated with daytime systolic ARV (p = 0.022), and AIx was associated with daytime diastolic ARV (p = 0.022). None of the univariate correlations between vascular parameters and wSD remained significant after adjustment for potential confounders. Conclusions: We concluded that short-term BPV represented by ARV is independently associated with macrovascular parameters in untreated hypertensive patients and microvascular parameters in normotensives.


Lead has been successfully used in several mechanisms to dissipate the energy associated with earthquake motion. During high strain cyclic deformation at room temperature, lead maintains its mechanical properties due to its tendency to recrystallize, both dynamically and metadynamically. The high strain cyclic deformation characteristics of pure lead were assessed through mechanical tests and microstructural analysis.


An in depth study uncovering Morrison's use of difference as a strategy to explore the African American experience beyond race to include gender, class, and region.


Background: Adjustment is an important concern during the adolescent stage. It is a behavioural process for maintaining the equilibrium of one's needs and obstacles offered by the environment. The rapid changes in the contemporary society contribute to adjustment problems among adolescents. Adjusting to constant changes in their internal as well as external environment becomes a major challenge during this stage. This study was conducted to assess the adjustment problems faced by adolescent boys in comparison to adolescent girls in the home, health, social, and emotional areas.Methodology: Quantitative research approach with a comparative descriptive research design was used to assess and compare the adjustment problems among adolescent boys and girls. Convenience sampling technique was used to collect the data from the 100 adolescent students (50 boys and 50 girls) using Bell's adjustment inventory by RK Ojha. Results & Conclusion: Data analysis revealed that there is a significant difference in the adjustment problems among adolescent boys and girls (p = 0.019). On comparison, adolescent girls have been found to be suffering from more adjustment problems (mean ± SD = 66.84 ± 16.853) than boys (mean ± SD = 58.60 ± 17.682). No significant association could be found between the adjustment problems of boys with residence, type of family, education of parents, occupation of parents, and religion, while a significant association could be found between adjustment problems among girls and type of family (p = 0.02).


Digital connectivity is viewed as a great leveller; however, when access to digital connectivity is skewed, those able to wield it benefit from profitable opportunities while those left behind the times have to play catch up. This gap creates a hindrance to the economic development of a country. This situation can be observed in India, where certain strata of the society are left behind due to geographical, prejudicial, and political reasons. However, recently Covid-19 has posed an anomaly. There has been uncertainty in the telecommunications climate due to the pandemic. Moreover, if the pandemic were to help telecommunications and teledensity, it has to be wielded correctly, supplemented with quick and decisive policies; it would lead to a net positive in India's efforts to bridge the digital divide. A study using the teledensity data sets of 17 regions from January 2014 through October 2021 was run to analyse the correlation between Covid-19 and the teledensity of these regions. We observed that the relation between Covid-19 cases and teledensity was positive and statistically significant at the 5% level. With a 1% increase in Covid-19 cases, the teledensity increased by 8%, and a rise in Covid-19 cases could explain 27% of the variance in teledensity.


The problem in this study was motivated by complaints from customers for services received by the customer, which should not happen considering the complaint that the motto of Parahita lab is to provide services with a vengeance. While competition in the field of health services increasingly stringent, making it mandatory for Parahita Laboratory to continue to improve services. Because if standing companies offering the same services, customers still rely on the Health Parahita Laboratory Diagnostic Center Jember Branch.
The problem in this research is to measure how much the level of customer satisfaction of each variable intangibles / tangibles, reliability, responsiveness, empathy and assurance. And to determine which variables are the dominant influence on customer satisfaction Parahita Laboratory Diagnostic Center Jember Branch.
Population of this study is that all customers who check in Parahita Laboratory Diagnostic Center Branch in Jember for 1 month starting on 20 December 2012 until 20 January 2013. The samples in this study with purposive sampling with criteria (1) The customer has to check the DC Parahita Laboratory Jember branch over 2kali. (2) Customers who can provide information or be able to communicate.
The results of this study are known (1) that the calculated F is greater than F table (22.552> 2.3861) so it can be concluded simultaneously all independent variables affect the dependent variable. (2) that t variable intangibles (2,122), reliability (2.271), responsiveness (2,186), empathy (7.648), collateral (2,794), greater than t table (2.0211) that proved to significantly affect customer satisfaction . (3) variable empathy dominant influence on customer satisfaction.


Every 13.7 minutes, someone in the United States takes their own life, leaving behind friends and family. Suicide bereavement also been associated with psychiatric disorders, major anxiety, and depression in loved ones left behind. Can one develop emotional strength in the face of tragedy? What factors contribute to resilience? I would say it was acts of love, constantly displayed by a community of caring made up of friends, colleagues, and the leadership of the organization that I work for has enabled me to continue to live a productive life. Caring builds resilience.


This dissertation presents an approach aimed at three-dimensional perception's obstacle detection on all-terrain robots. Given the huge amount of acquired information, the adversities such environments present to an autonomous system and the swiftness, thus required, from each of its navigation decisions, it becomes imperative that the 3-D perceptional system to be able to map obstacles and passageways in the most swift and detailed manner. In this document, a hybrid approach is presented bringing the best of several methods together, combining the lightness of lesser meticulous analyses with the detail brought by more thorough ones. Realizing the former, a terrain's slope mapping system upon a low resolute volumetric representation of the surrounding occupancy. For the latter's detailed evaluation, two novel metrics were conceived to discriminate the little depth discrepancies found in between range scanner's beam distance measurements. The hybrid solution resulting from the conjunction of these two representations provides a reliable answer to traversability mapping and a robust discrimination of penetrable vegetation from that constituting real obstructions. Two distinct robotic platforms offered the possibility to test the hybrid approach on very different applications: a boat, under an European project, the ECHORD Riverwatch, and a terrestrial four-wheeled robot for a national project, the Introsys Robot.


Metal oxide nanoparticles are materials of interest because of their special properties like chemical stability, photocatalytic activity, antibacterial activity due to the presence of oxygen. Among all the metal oxide particles, MgO nanoparticles were of special interest due to their anionic vacancies. MgO nanocomposite particles have non-toxic and odourless nature which makes them a suitable material for a wide range of applications. The properties that make MgO nanoparticles distinct are its ability to produce superoxide anion, i.e., O 2 - and alkaline effect. These properties make it an important antibacterial agent. Doped MgO nanoparticles show higher reactivity and stability making them a promising material in fields of medicine, water purification, catalysis and gas sensors. In this review, the various applications of MgO nanoparticles have been summarized.


This work represents the research spectrum of Raman scattering of light crystal niobate lithium in room temperature. As a repeated researches there was revealed that low-intensity maximum can be observed in low-frequency area of Raman scattering LiNbO3 crystal spectrum/ we have proved that there is a direct relation between the intensity of observed peak and Q-factor of LiNbO3 crystal.


AbstractThis study examines the approaches used by teachers to motivate their pupils to read and investigates what underlying factors they claim may explain why pupils feel no motivation to read. T ...


The Laboratory of Accidentology and Biomechanics Associated with Peugeot SA and Renault (APR) takes into account its knowledge of accidents and biomechnics, when investigating many real and simulated vehicle crashes having varying configurations and using dummies of different sizes. The APR has been able to combine a certain number of specifications to define the highest performance in child restraint systems. The objective is to offer the best possible protection as a function of the age of occupant, combined with easy mounting in vehicles. (A) For the covering abstract of the conference see IRRD 864606.


Abstract : This task provided for assembly, definition, and completion of technical enhancements in coordination with the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center -Northeast Region (NLECTC-NE). It also provided for Test and Evaluation (T&E) for the Advanced Generation of Interoperability for Law Enforcement (AGILE) and for analysis and assessment in cyber science including computer forensics. The mission of the NLECTC-NE in conjunction with the Air Force Research Laboratory/Information Directorate (AFRL/IF), is to facilitate the identification, development, and adoption of new products and technologies specifically designed for law enforcement, corrections, and other criminal justice applications. The current technology thrust areas for the NLECTC-NE are Concealed Weapons Detection (CWD), Secure Communications, Communications Interoperability, Timeline Analysis, Computer Forensics, Audio/Video Processing, Information Management, Automatic Speaker Recognition, Automatic Language Translation and Facial Recognition. This report outlines the major accomplishments of the task and identifies on-going technology efforts. These accomplishments include outreach activities, scientific and engineering assistance, AGILE development and technology demonstration activities, cyber crime initiatives, and Integrated Border Enforcement Teams (I BET) technology support.


The current "Belt and Road" has become one of the main strategic forms of the development of the western region, which has led to the great difference between the economic production mode of the western region and the economic development thinking of various industries. The current western society is in a stage of increasing demand for sports talents in fitness and health care. It is necessary to further industrialize and scale the curriculum setting, the transformation of teaching methods and the mode and system of training talents. Under this premise, the employment model of talents in fitness and health care has tended to be "two-way choice." The current fitness and health profession in the west is developing its talents. Its goal is mainly to set up a relatively balanced state for the needs of talents in the market and the cultivation of sports professionals in the process of industrialization of the profession. This paper aims at the research and analysis of the training of social sports professionals in the western region and the professional production of sports professionals. It will eventually provide a theoretical analysis for the training of fitness and health professionals in the west and employment in the future.


Leonhard Schwartz's importance in the history of psychology has probably not been fully appreciated, and this article is dedicated to the life and work of the Basel neurologist. It highlights the triangular relationship he maintained for 20 years with Pierre Janet, of whom he was a disciple, and Henri F. Ellenberger, to whom he passed on his passion for Janet's oeuvre.


In the master thesis the concept of Programmed Modulation is investigated for motor drives with Three-Level NPC inverter. Programmed Modulation operates with pre-calculated PWM switching-patterns, ...


Abstract. The aim ofthis research is to identify the social-economic structureof the Kalitengah Plantation labour and to reveal the motive of Kalitengah Plantation labour still loyal toKalitengah Plantation as labour despite in low-wage by using historical methodand structural functional teory. The result of this research shows that there are an internal and external motive that makethe labour of Kalitengah Plantation still loyal to the Kalitengah Plantation. Key Words : social-economiclife, Kalitengah Plantation labour, structural functional


We give a polynomial-time constant-factor approximation algorithm for maximum independent set for (axis-aligned) rectangles in the plane. Using a polynomial-time algorithm, the best approximation factor previously known is $O(\log\log n)$. The results are based on a new form of recursive partitioning in the plane, in which faces that are constant-complexity and orthogonally convex are recursively partitioned into a constant number of such faces.


For speaker recognition in noisy environments performs unsatisfactorily with normal features like LPCC and MFCC.This paper does a further feature extraction of the classical features and proposed a new algorithm of feature extraction based on principal component analysis neural network(PCANN).The new PCA parameters are effective in reducing the redundancy and weakening the noise influence.Experiment results demonstrate that the new feature vectors enhanced the robust of the speaker recognition system.


Graph-based relaxed clustering(GRC) is a spectral clustering algorithm with straightforwardness and adaptability.However,for large data sets,its heavy time cost severely weakens its usefulness.In order to overcome this shortcoming,a novel algorithm named CCMEB-based constrained GRC(CCMEB-CGRC) is proposed in this study by constraining the clustering indicator of GRC and introducing Center-Constrained Minimal Enclosing Ball(CCMEB).This algorithm has the merit of asymptotic linear time complexity as well as inherits the straightforwardness and adaptability of GRC.Thus,a fast and efficient spectral clustering method fitting for large data sets is proposed.This is confirmed in the experimental studies.


A summary is presented of the options available for the placement of feature management functionality in the intelligent network (IN). The various options available to the telephone companies for the distribution of features in a fully distributed network and the implications for the placement of the arbitration mechanism needed to resolve interactions among the features are shown. The options for the placement of the feature management mechanism are explored and the impact on the network is also discussed.<<ETX>>


The invention discloses a substation-based high atmospheric pressure real-time monitoring system for a return air shaft of a coal mine, belongs to the technical field of coal mine safety monitoring, and aims at providing a system for real-time monitoring of explosion accidents of the coal mine. The system is characterized in that a steel pipe (2) is pre-buried on a wall of a return air shaft (1) of a coal mine, wherein one end of the steel pipe (2) is communicated with air in the return air shaft (1); the other end of the steel pipe (2) is communicated with a high atmospheric pressure sensor (3) and sealed; a high atmospheric pressure sensor signal line (4) is connected with a monitoring substation (5); the monitoring substation (5) is connected with a data transmission interface (6); the data transmission interface (6) is connected with a monitoring host (8) by a transmission line (7); and the monitoring host (8) monitors and records an atmospheric pressure value signal of the shaft transmitted by the high atmospheric pressure sensor (3) in real time, and records an instantaneous pressure peak and gives an alarm when the instantaneous pressure exceeds an atmosphere.


This article reviews the development and application of existing runoff volume regulation theories with a focus on emulating natural on site hydrological processes and discusses the design intentions,merits,and weaknesses of each theory.Stormwater split theory is then introduced using elements found in each of these existing theories.This new theory proposes to systematically split runoff into three volumes and evaporate,infiltrate and discharge;and manage these volumes in ways that emulate natural hydrological site processes,thereby creating stormwater management systems that are more ecologically based.The intent is to provide a stormwater management theory that can be used to emulate natural processes of evapotranspiration,infiltration,and runoff and,by extension,emulate pre-development stormwater rate,quality,frequency,duration,and volume.


It has been found that raising the applied bias on a long sample containing a high-field domain can result in a temporary increase in material conductivity over the region of the sample traversed by the domain while the higher bias was applied. The effect can be explained in terms of intrinsic impact ionization within the domain in the presence of a deep impurity level. The measured decay time of the "memory" is consistent with a capture cross section of about 10-15cm2, for electrons at the deep level, indicating that the empty center is neutral. Conversely, the filled center will have a high capture cross section for holes. Following intrinsic impact ionization in the domain the mechanism is believed to involve the rapid capture of holes at the filled centers and a subsequent relatively slow return of the extra electrons to the empty centers. The deep impurity level is thus responsible for fixing the memory in position in the material and also for inhibiting the emission of recombination radiation during impact ionization.


Avian parental infanticide is apparently a rare phenomenon judging from the scant reports in the literature. However, unexplained cases of single nestling disappearance or of apparent fall from the nest are rather common and are routinely attributed to parental eviction of dead nestlings, single chick predation or dislodging of nestlings through errors by nestlings or parents. During long-term studies of pied flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca in central Spain 29 cases of eviction from the nest cup of mostly hatchlings or small, heterothermic nestlings were recorded, leading invariably and quickly to death. Parental errors and failed attempts to predate single chicks are unlikely in these cases. Although the incidence of recorded evictions was mostly below 5% of nests, it reached higher levels in years and populations where reproductive success was low. Some cases were preceded by prior egg eviction. In these studies, there were unexplained disappearances affecting 3.7% of eggs laid which amounted to 20% of all losses. During studies of three other passerine cavity nesting species, similar cases were observed. The rarity of reports of parentally evicted nestlings is apparently based on the difficulty of directly observing parents evicting live nestlings but may also be due to observer bias as ejections of dead nestlings, erroneous dislodgings or single-chick predation events are also rarely observed but are normally given as reasons for single-chick losses. Field researchers should attempt to determine the real causes of partial brood loss before assuming that parsimony excludes parental infanticide through eviction.


This paper originated in a study made of the possibility of building an APL system capable of supporting more than one thousand simultaneous interactive users.
 when the number of ports is as large as one thousand, the traditional configuration for an APL system, with all terminals connected to a large general purpose computer, is quite infeasible. The reason is simple. The CPU loading imposed is far beyond the capacity of any existing computer.
 So the decision was made that the workload must in some way be spread amongst a number of processors, which must then be connected in order to provide inter-user communication. Having adopted this approach, it became clear that the optimum configuration is a network type system with a large number of quite small processors. Such an APL network is described in the remainder of this paper.


Investigate the effects of salt stress on some physiological and morphological traits in four varieties and four salinity levels, including SC302, SC700, BC662, SC704 and Zero (control), 50, 100 and 150 mM NaCl in three replicates for the factorial experiment in randomized complete block design was carried out. During the experiment, several traits including plant height, chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, proline and antioxidant enzymes were measured. For the trait days to germination at different levels of salinity significantly different at 5% probability level was seen. Interactions between genotypes and salinity in a significant difference was found. Between different levels of salinity on chlorophyll trait in a significant difference was seen in 1% level. Between different levels of salinity in catalase showed a significant difference. Between genotypes of the enzyme ascorbate peroxidase significant difference was seen, But genotypes showed not significant difference in amount of proline. The most plant height was obtained at zero salinity and with increasing salinity decreased plant height. Maximum chlorophyll a in normal conditions was found in S.C704 with 1.27 mg of chlorophyll per gram fresh weight of leaves. Superoxide dismutase with increasing salinity stress in all genotypes increased. With increasing salinity, the amount of catalase increased and at 100 mM salt stress reached a maximum. Maximum catalase was measured in 100 mM salt in BC666, that with SC302 and SC700 was not significantly different. The least amount of catalase in normal conditions in s.c704 and sc700 respectively 0.3567, 0.3533 units min g fresh weight of leaves was obtained. Of the enzyme ascorbate peroxidase, the enzyme in the greatest amount of salt concentration in 50 mmol in Sc302 with 3.73 units min g fresh weight of leaves was obtained. Lowest of these enzymes in salinity third in s.c704 was obtained. Most of proline, was obtained in 100Mm in variety SC302 with 537 micromole. Between proline and catalase positive and significant correlation was obtained. In other words with increasing salt stress also increases the amount of enzymes. Significant positive correlation was found between the enzyme ascorbate peroxidase and proline.


We consider the inverse coefficient problem for a stationary non-linear convection–diffusion–reaction equation in which the reaction coefficient depends rather arbitrarily on the concentration of the substance and on the spatial variable.


As well as documenting the famous, this guide to the pop-music performers of the 1970s also covers the less meteoric, but no less influential, careers of many groups and individuals. With the demise of The Beatles in 1970, the Sixties made way for an uncertain era of pop music which threw up many unlikely stars. Among them were artists whose output defined the music of the Seventies, but whose international success carried on well past that decade, such as David Bowie, Kiss, Stevie Wonder, Pink Floyd and Elton John. There was the influence of Marc Bolan, who paved the way for Gary Glitter, Slade and Sweet; and the shock-rock revue of Alice Cooper, which contrasted with the showmanship and technical expertise of bands such as Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Yes, and Genesis. Meanwhile David Cassidy, the Osmonds, the Jackson 5, the Bay City Rollers and other teen-stars took up where The Beatles had left off.


We develop a data-driven optimal shrinkage algorithm for matrix denoising in the presence of high-dimensional noise with separable covariance structure; that is, the nose is colored and dependent. The algorithm, coined extended OptShrink (eOptShrink), involves a new imputation and rank estimation and we do not need to estimate the separable covariance structure of the noise. On the theoretical side, we study the asymptotic behavior of singular values and singular vectors of the random matrix associated with the noisy data, including the sticking property of non-outlier singular values and delocalization of the non-outlier singular vectors with a convergence rate. We apply these results to establish the guarantee of the imputation, rank estimation and eOptShrink algorithm with a convergence rate. On the application side, in addition to a series of numerical simulations with a comparison with various state-of-the-art optimal shrinkage algorithms, we apply eOptShrink to extract fetal electrocardiogram from the single channel trans-abdominal maternal electrocardiogram.


INTRODUCTION: An important component in the study of sex related offences is the analysis of the effects of personality disorders and their correlation with other psychopathology. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate and compare psychosocial and psychopathological factors characterising sexual offenders with and without the comorbid personality disorders (antisocial and not otherwise specified). The study dataset consisted of 180 court ordered psychiatric-sexuological assessments issued by forensic experts from the Mental Health Outpatient Unit between 2004 and 2012 in the 10th Military Clinic Hospital in Bydgoszcz (Poland). RESULTS: Relevant statistically significant differences have been observed between the study groups. CONCLUSIONS: 1. The study revealed strong association between the prevalence of personality disorders and the use of psychoactive substances among the perpetrators of sexual offences with antisocial personality disorder. 2. Predictive factors influencing the formation of antisocial (dissocial) personality occur in the developmental stage and relate to the family low level of social functioning and the disrupted family structure.


Self-assembling is a widely accepted for manufacturing of nanostructured materials and nanometer-scale devices. In this paper, coating of titanium oxide nanoparticles into a porous alumina template by electrophoresis technique was investigated. Aluminum template was made by anodization of aluminum plate in an oxalic acid solution. The diameter of porous aluminum was in the range of 35-45 nm. The electrophoresis deposition of nanoparticles of titanium oxide was carried put using a colloidal titanium oxide complex. The structural and composition of these films were investigated using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) measurements. It was found that the titanium particles were loaded into the porous cavity of nanotemplate under bias conditions. Self-assembled titanium dioxide nanoparticles can be used in different applications including catalysts, sensors, photonics and biomedical devices. In this paper, results of our preliminary experiments are reported.


Microbial infections that affect reproduction are poorly studied in wildlife because reproductive disorders usually go unnoticed. However, such infections are a major concern in domestic ungulates, which raises the question of their influ- ence on reproductive success and population dynamics of wild ungulates. Three bacterial abortive infections are frequent in domestic ruminants: salmonellosis caused by Salmonella enterica serovar Abortusovis, enzootic abortion caused by Chlamy- dophila abortus, and Q fever caused by Coxiella burnetii. They induce abortions and neonatal mortality in sheep (Ovis aries L., 1758), goat (Capra hircus L., 1758), and cattle (Bos taurus L., 1758). However, little information is known about these bacteria in wild ungulates, particularly in mountain ungulates that may share alpine pastures with infected domestic rumi- nants. We investigated the relationship between female serological status against Salmonella, Chlamydophila, and Coxiella and her reproductive success. From 1986 to 2003, the reproductive and serological statuses of 125 female chamois (Rupi- capra rupicapra (L., 1758)) aged 2-10 years were available. Reproductive success was the lowest for 2-year-old females and for females born at the highest density. Moreover, we showed for the first time in a wild ungulate population that fe- males with high titer in antibodies against Salmonella experienced a decrease in their reproductive success. Titers in anti- bodies against Chlamydophila and Coxiella were not related to the reproductive success of female chamois. Resume´ : Les infections bacteriennes affectant la reproduction sont peu etudiees chez la faune sauvage oules troubles re- producteurs passent souvent inapercus. Pourtant ces infections ont des consequences importantes chez les ongules domesti- ques, ce qui pose la question de leur effet sur le succes reproducteur et la dynamique des populations d'ongules sauvages. Trois infections bacteriennes induisant avortement et mortaliteneonatale, la salmonellose due aSalmonella enterica Abortu- sovis, la chlamydophilose abortive provoquee par Chlamydophila abortus et la fievre Q due a Coxiella burnetii, sont coura- ntes chez les ovins (Ovis aries L., 1758), caprins (Capra hircus L., 1758) et bovins domestiques (Bos taurus L., 1758). Peu d'information est disponible concernant ces bacteries chez les ongules sauvages, notamment chez les ongules de montagne qui peuvent paturer les memes pelouses alpines que des ruminants domestiques infectes. En etudiant de 1986 a 2003 les stat- uts reproducteurs et serologiques de 125 femelles chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra (L., 1758)) agees de 2 a 10 ans, nous avons recherchesi le succes reproducteur dependait du titre serologique vis-a `-vis de Salmonella, Chlamydophila et Coxiella. Les femelles de 2 ans et celles nees les annees oula densiteetait elevee ont un plus faible succes reproducteur. Nous avons montrepour la premiere fois dans une population d'ongules sauvages que les femelles avec un titre serologique elevevis-a `- vis de Salmonella une annee donnee ont un plus faible succes reproducteur cette annee-la `. Aucun lien n'a etemis en evi- dence entre les titres en anticorps vis-a `-vis de Chlamydophila et Coxiella et le succes reproducteur des femelles chamois. (Traduit par la Redaction)


The information life cycle in a libraryinvolvesacquisition as one of the steps which involves acquiringdocuments for the library. Relevant resources are procured for use by the users. The process of library acquisition has witnessed a drastic change in recent times due to factors like digitalization, financial disruptions, various modes of delivery etc. The purpose of the present research is to understand the factors affecting acquisition policies of libraries of central universities and CFTIs. Literature review for the study was done from reputed databases like Emerald, Taylor and Francis and Web of Science and a Prisma model was developed to narrow down the literature review process. NVivo was used to understand the literature gap with TreeMap and Word cloud. A structured closed ended questionnaire having components related to acquisition was sent to library staff in the ranks of librarian, deputy librarian and assistant librarian for primary data collection. Descriptive statistics was applied to understand the demographic data and comprehend the importance of various components of acquisition. A comparative analysis was done with respect to the two types of institutions-centrally funded technical institutions and central universities. The conclusion of the research work is that the library staff of centrally funded technical institutions and central universities have different preferences for the factors affecting acquisition. The library staff of centrally funded technical institutions had the top priority for 'ease of acquisition' whereas their counterparts in central universities looked for 'significance of the resources' the most.


Explores the behaviour of transnational corporations (TNCs) in Malaysian manufacturing firms in relation to employment absorption, human capital formation and technological change, based on a survey of 60 firms randomly selected within the major manufacturing establishments in Malaysia. Argues that TNCs exert an influence in promoting employment, training and innovation and adopt a much more proactive policy towards HRD than the local firms in Malaysia. However, their reluctance to participate and invest substantially in local R&D could result in a gradual reduction of technology flow and stifle the development of domestic innovative capacity. Policy measures are therefore required to induce TNCs to undertake greater R&D activities in Malaysia, and such measures should be conceived in the broader context of the indigenous technological development policy of the country.


A fighter's response to a severe application of controls is predicted as a function of its static lateral and directional stability derivatives and lateral control characteristics. This was accomplished by developing two boundaries which identify the onset of roll reversal and departure in terms of the lateral-directional characteristics. These boundaries demark four airplane response regions, i.e., commanded maneuver, commanded maneuver accompanied by an alpha excursion, uncoordinated roll reversal, and departure susceptibility. The responses within the latter two regions become progressively more severe the further the lateral-directional characteristics are displaced from the onset boundary values. The boundaries were developed and their sensitivity to other variables was determined through large-angle, six-degree-of-freedom parametric computer studies. Since they were found to be applicable for most fighter mass distributions and for a large range of pitch characteristics, it was concluded that they could be used for specification, design, and evaluation purposes.


ABSTRACT How do ethnic groups compete in a decentralized Indonesia? How do their political competitions to claim a new province lead to open conflict? The Indonesian government devised its massive territorial autonomy (TA) strategy—regional proliferation or pemekaran—as part of expansive decentralization reform in 1999. While scholarship is generally ambiguous regarding the relationship between regional proliferation and conflict, many districts still experience small-scale episodic conflict some of which may be fuelled by ethnic-group competition after pemekaran. This study aims to investigate ethnic groups' political competition during the initiation stage of non-successful new province campaigns. Using four cases—two new province aspirations, one no-province claim and a null case—I argue that ethnic groups' political competition can develop to the level of a localized small-scale episodic conflict. The evidence suggests that political competition among ethnic groups may temporarily escalate due issues of the location of the new province's capital location and the future bid for a new gubernatorial position. This study fills a scholarly gap in the discussion of ethnic groups' politics and conflict (e.g. Cederman, L.-E., Hug, S., Schädel, A., & Wucherpfennig, J. [2015]. Territorial autonomy in the shadow of conflict: Too little, too late? American Political Science Review, 109(2), 354–370. doi:10.1017/S0003055415000118; Cunningham, K. G. [2014]. Inside the politics of self-determination. Oxford University Press). Furthermore, this study finds support for the effectiveness of a moratorium policy, such as buying-time tactics to reduce the conflict.


Through the study process, I gained a lot of knowledge and interests in fields such as algorithms, optimization, betting, finance and artificial intelligence.
So I developed a desire to specialize in Deep Learning.

I wanted to achieve a level of knowledge and understanding of how to use the learned specialization with the latest machine learning technologies.

I was also extremely impressed by the story about MIT students who discovered and used the Black jack hole from which they opened a profitable game.

So I decided to make a system that learns how to discover the legitimacy of the Black jack game, to learn DQN techniques and try to improve the basis of their system with it.


[Aims] The study aims to prepare the(+)-(tetrahydrofuran-3-yl) methanol with preparative HPLC.[Methods] First,(tetrahydrofuran-3-yl) methanol enantiomers were converted to two(tetrahydrofuran-3-yl) methylcamphor sulfonate diastereomers with D-(+)-10-camphorsulfonic chloride, the diastereomers were then separated by preparative HPLC, using Wondaisil-C18 preparative reversed-phase column chromatography, 200 nm detection wavelength, and acetonitrile∶ water(80:20, by vol) as mobile phase. [Results] The separated(+)-(tetrahydrofuran-3-yl)methyl-camphor sulfonate was dissociated with sodium hydride/benzyl alcohol to give(+)-(tetrahydrofuran-3-yl)methanol, which was used as the starting material to prepare(+)-dinotefuran. [Conclusions] This route avoids selecting the chiral column, the operation is simple and convenient.


Hyperammonaemia is a potentially life-threatening condition that is often neglected diagnostically. It presents with non-specific symptoms, such as encephalopathy. Delayed recognition leads to potentially irreversible neurological damage. We report 3 patients who on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of brain demonstrated a rare pattern of cortical signal change, which spared the perirolandic cortex. This characteristic radiological pattern should prompt immediate testing for raised serum ammonia, facilitating early treatment for this disorder.


Lunar and planetary craters and caves are of special scientific interest and have the potential to provide shelter for human habitats. Robots could provide the means to explore these difficult environments. A number of challenges are involved with the exploration: The robots have to be highly mobile to negotiate the difficult terrain, and need to perform most of their task autonomously, especially in caves lacking radio communication. This paper gives an overview of the Entern project and the associated goals and challenges. This includes the research of technologies for operations, environment representation and navigation. Special emphasis is put into the development of on-board simulation, to improve the reliability and the operational envelope of the robots. Further, a description of evaluation scenarios in relevant earth analogue environments is provided.


Cooperative learning is largely considered a powerful instructional method. Decades of research based on the interdependency theory has created a strong framework on how to design an effective cooperative learning environment. In recent years, new technological innovations have emerged, creating a new field of research known as Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. This chapter examines how technology can be incorporated using the foundation set by cooperative learning, the challenges such incorporation solves, and the challenges it creates. Additionally, this chapter poses some recommendations for both practitioners and researchers of cooperative learning.


The utility model discloses a stable structure panel component and an air-condition indoor machine with the stable structure panel component. The panel component comprises a panel decoration element, a glass panel and a plastic cement panel, the panel decoration element comprises an installation plate and an enclosing blocking plate, an installation hole communicated with the installation plate along the front and back direction is formed in the installation plate, the back edges of the enclosing blocking plate are connected with the outer edges of the installation plate, and the enclosing blocking plate stretches forward from the installation plate. The shape of the glass panel is matched with the shape of the installation plate, the glass panel is arranged on the installation plate, and the enclosing blocking plate is arranged around the glass panel. The plastic cement panel is arranged on the back surface of the glass panel through the installation hole. According to the stable structure panel component and the air-condition indoor machine with the stable structure panel component, the panel component has the advantages of being stable in structure, beautiful in appearance and the like.


An existing varying coefficient calibration method for estimating herbage mass from rising plate meter reading was validated using datasets for different years and pastures, and the variation among these in the coefficients of the model was structurally assessed using a linear mixed effects model to develop a versatile calibration equation. The calibration's advantage was confirmed by the lower Akaike's information criterion values in the two current pooled models than those in the model that assumes fixed coefficients throughout the year. While sites affect the degree of gradual change after the reproductive stage in the slope coefficient, years affect the degree of steep change before the reproductive stage in the intercept coefficient. Further, the shift in the levels of both coefficients was detected by site and year.


It is not intended, in the present article, to give a systematic review either of the meeting of the International Astronomical Union held in Rome on May 2-10, 1922, or of the centenary meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society of London, held on May 29-31. An authoritative account of the former is printed in The Observatory for June, 1922 (pp. 176-190), and of the latter, in the June number of the Monthly Notices, R. A. S. (431-443), and to these the reader is referred with the assurance that he will find every page of both reports full of interest. It is rather my purpose to remove, as far as possible, a misconception as to the object of the Rome meeting, evidenced by questions that have been put to me both before and after the meeting, to set forth in a general way what this meeting accomplished and to record some of the impressions and experiences of a delegate who had the privilege also of attending the memorable meeting in London. The meeting of the International Astronomical Union at Rome was not, as many people interested in astronomy seem to think, one for the presentation of the results of original investigations conducted by the members present. Not a single paper of this kind was read at any of the sessions, although the work in practically every field of astronomical research was passed under review. It was essentially a business meeting ; a meeting called to discuss ways and means of providing for closer cooperation among astronomers engaged in similar lines of work in the seventeen countries now adhering to the Union and in the others which may later join; for cooperation is quite as essential to progress as the extreme specialization which is so prominent a characteristic of all present day scientific "research. Before the world war interrupted their activities, such organiza-


We will consider a five-zero texture non-Fritzsch like quark mass matrices that is completely valid and generates all the physical quantities involved, including the quark masses, the Jarlskog invariant quantity and the inner angles of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa unitarity triangle, and explaining the charge parity violation phenomenon at 1$\sigma$ confidence level. To achieve this, non-physical phases must be included in the unitary matrices used to diagonalize the quark mass matrices, in order to put the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix in standard form. Besides, these phases can be rotated away so they do not have any physical meaning. Thus, the model has a total of nine parameters to reproduce ten physical quantities, which implies physical relationships between the quark masses and/or mixings.


Abstract Poker has a historic association with men, masculinity, and male‐only spaces (Morton, 2003). Yet, what often remains absent from contemporary gambling research is a sustained and critical discussion of masculinity itself. My project here is to argue for an approach to gambling research that draws from critical race theory and masculinity scholarship. After briefly mapping out trends in gambling scholarship, I argue that masculinity studies have much to contribute to gambling research. Using Gillian Rose's (2001) "critical visual methodology," I examine the ways in which social power relations continue to legitimize hegemonic discourses about masculinity and gambling within selected poker websites. I also consider the ways in which social differences are articulated through representations of race and gender in advertisements for online poker and through avatars, the on‐screen representations of players.


Abstract Pre-impaired glucose tolerance (pre-IGT) is the stage of compensated hyperinsulinemia and the earliest stage of dysmetabolism in the pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). Endothelial dysfunction is a critical pathogenic process for the development of macrovascular and microvascular complications due to uncontrolled hyperglycemia among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. In pre-IGT, the main problem is hyperinsulinemia on a background of normal blood sugar. C-peptide, a segment cleaved off from pro-insulin and is equimolar to insulin has been shown to cause intima media thickening when present in increased amount. We hypothesize that in high risk individuals with prolonged hyperinsulinemia, endothelial dysfunction is already present in the prediabetes state. This study was undertaken to determine the following: (1) prevalence of endothelial dysfunction among individuals with pre-IGT and (2) correlation of FMD with levels of blood sugar, serum insulin, HbA1c, BMI, systolic BP and diastolic BP. This is a cross-sectional analytical study of adult patients with risk factors for developing diabetes [first-degree relative with type 2 DM, obesity, history of gestational diabetes, and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)]. Patients diagnosed with pre-IGT underwent brachial artery flow-mediated dilatation. Statistical analysis were conducted using STATA 13.1. Of the 40 high risk individuals, 25 (62.5%) was diagnosed with pre-IGT. Of the 25 individuals with pre-IGT, 19 underwent brachial FMD and abnormal FMD was already demonstrated in four. Although statistically not significant, FMD had positive correlation with 2-hr serum insulin levels and systolic and diastolic blood pressure levels, and no correlation with BMI and blood sugar values. However, as previously shown, the mean 2-hour blood sugar of the individuals with pre-IGT had statistically higher levels than those with normoinsulinemic normoglycemia (NN) (pre-IGT; 107.40 vs. NN; 75 mg/dL, p=0. 001). Our study has shown that as early as the pre-IGT stage, endothelial dysfunction has already developed. This calls for a robust early identification and management of high-risk individuals for type 2 diabetes mellitus. Presentation: No date and time listed


As a common symbol in industry, QR code has the function of information carrier and positioning. With the help of vision technology, the information of QR code is extracted to complete the QR code retrieval and matching. For the matched QR code, the location information of the positioning point is extracted, and the positioning information of the pre calibrated QR code is compared and calculated. According to this, the navigation drive of AGV is solved Dynamic parameters, complete the end positioning based on QR code. After the experiment, in the AGV navigation terminal, through the QR code image acquisition and comparison calculation, can effectively achieve navigation without the help of other sensors.


Objective
To explore the relationship between the Chinese Version Wechsler intelligence scale for children(C-WISC) and the Das-Naglieri cognitive assessment system(DN: CAS) in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Methods
Thirty-two children with ADHD were evaluated with C-WISC and the digital remote assessment system——DN: CAS, and both results were administered for correlation analysis.

Results
The results showed that there was a strong correlation between the full intelligence quotient (FIQ) of C-WISC and the full score of DN: CAS, also the scores in Plan, Simultaneous, and Successive of DN-CAS, and the correlation coefficient was between 0.6 to 0.8. There was a strong correlation between the full score of DN: CAS and the verbal comprehension IQ(VCIQ), perceptual organization IQ(POIQ), memory/concentration IQ(M/CIQ), verbal IQ(VIQ), and performance IQ(PIQ) of C-WISC, as the correlation coefficient ranges from 0.6 to 0.8. There was also a strong correlation between the score in Planning and VCIQ, POIQ, M/CIQ, VIQ of C-WISC. As to the score in Simultaneous of DN: CAS and POIQ, VIQ, PIQ of C-WISC, the correlation was also strong with the correlation coefficient ranging from 0.6 to 0.8. For the rest of the sub-tests of C-WISC and DN: CAS, there was moderate correlation between them, the correlation coefficient was from 0.4 to 0.6.

Conclusions
These results show that the correlation between C-WISC and DN: CAS in children with ADHD is significant. The correlation coefficient shows diversity in the sub-tests of C-WISC and DN: CAS.

Key words:
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; Chinese Version Weehsler intelligence scale for children; Das-Naglieri cognitive assessment system; Correlation


Au‐Cd and Au‐Cd‐Cu alloys having the CsCl structure were annealed after quenching from various temperatures in order to determine the activation energy for migration of the quenched‐in defects. Both isothermal annealing and alternate annealing between two temperature baths (change‐in‐slope method) were employed to calculate the activation energy Em. The activation energies were generally higher than would be expected theoretically, depended on the method of calculation, and were strongly dependent upon the quenching temperature. The order of the kinetics was also found to be dependent upon the quenching temperature. The higher‐than‐anticipated activation energies may be associated with the movement of divacancies.


Excellent coating adhesion between the can end lacquer and the chemically pretreated aluminum substrate is of primary importance for product acceptability. In order to achieve good adhesion, the chemical pretreatment applied to a suitably cleaned aluminum substrate must act to passivate the surface and provide a high level of chemical interaction with the lacquer system. The level of chemical pretreatment, the composition and distribution of chemical constituents through the pretreatment layer, the method of pretreatment application and the chemical constituents and degree of cure of the can end lacquer all play a role in controlling the adhesion performance of the final product. In this study, the effects of these parameters on the adhesion of a vinyl chloride copolymer lacquer to AA5182 treated with a Molybdenum/Zirconium based pretreatment system are reported. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, XPS, was used to characterize the chemical constituents of the surfaces both before and after application of the chemical pretreatment. Time of flight secondary ion mass spectrometry, ToF-SIMS, was used to provide data on the mapping of elements on the surfaces. Ion etching of the surfaces to a depth of approximately 100 nm was then carried out to examine the distribution of chemical species in the outermost layers of the aluminum sheet. Interactions between the lacquer and the pretreatment were evaluated using photo-acoustic infrared, PA-IR, spectroscopy. Changes in these interactions as a function of the level of organic and inorganic constituents of the pre-treatment layer are discussed. Effects of lacquer cure and the correlation of these measurements with adhesion properties are then reviewed.


Summary: Various media selective for potential food poisoning staphylococci have been investigated to determine the most suitable ones for use with fish. These were then used with 161 samples of fish and fish products simultaneously with estimations of viable bacterial counts and of the numbers of coli-aerogenes organisms. Attempts to isolate salmonellae from these were also made.


GAIN-BASED remedies are now often characterised as either "restitution" or "disgorgement". Restitution is the giving back of wealth received by a defendant from a claimant, which must be given back or restored because it amounts to an unjust enrichment at the claimant's expense. Disgorgement is the giving up to a claimant of a gain made by a defendant, as a consequence of a wrongdoing committed against the claimant, but received from a third party. This dichotomy presents a difficult problem: what happens if a defendant, who is liable only in unjust enrichment and not in wrongdoing, makes a gain causally related to the unjust enrichment but by receipt from a third party? An answer to this question has important consequences for the coherence of an independent claim in unjust enrichment.


Abstract : This study describes a distributed attack detection approach for a tactical MANET using intelligent agents equipped with inference systems based on fuzzy logic. The results produce a prototype intrusion detection system capable of effectively detecting attacks in a tactical MANET with accuracy approaching 95%. The attack recognition system is implemented using stationary intelligent fuzzy agents (SIFA) resident on each node. Agents run autonomously on each node, collect packets from the data stream, extract relevant information, exchange information through light-weight messages, and trigger alerts using the fuzzy inference process.


Purpose
The work described below compares three very different residential typologies in terms of their energy performance in operation. The purpose of this paper is to identify the influence of building typologies and corresponding urban morphologies on operational energy demand and the potential for building integrated energy production.

Design/methodology/approach
Two of the typologies studied are apartment buildings while the third comprises single-family homes located on small plots. An important factor under consideration is the insertion into the respective urban design configuration so that mutual shading of the buildings and the ensuing impact on energy performance is evaluated. Heating and cooling demands, as well as the potential for building-integrated electricity production were investigated for four different European climates in a dynamic thermal simulation environment.

Findings
The results show that the investigated apartment buildings have a lower operational energy demand than the single-family home in all climates. This advantage is most pronounced in cool climate conditions. At the same time the investigated single-family home has the highest potential for building integrated renewable energy production in all climates. This advantage is most pronounced in low latitudes.

Originality/value
The study builds up on generic buildings that are based on a common urban grid and are easily comparable and scalable into whole city districts. Still, these buildings are planned into such detail, that they provide fully functional floor plans and comply with national building regulations. This approach allows us to draw conclusions on the scale of individual buildings and at an urban scale at the same time.


ABSTRACT Diplodocid sauropods had a unique skull morphology, with posteriorly retracted nares, an elongated snout, and anteriorly restricted, peglike teeth. Because of the lack of extant analogs in skull structure and tooth morphology, understanding their feeding strategy and diet has been difficult. Furthermore, the general rarity of sauropod skulls and the fragility of their facial elements resulted in a restricted knowledge of cranial anatomy, in particular regarding the internal surface of the facial skull. Here, we describe in detail a well-preserved diplodocid skull visible in medial view. Diagnostic features recognized in other skulls observable in lateral view, such as the extended contribution of the jugal to the antorbital fenestra, are obliterated in medial view due to extensive overlapping joints between the maxilla, jugal, quadratojugal, and the lacrimal. These overlapping joints permitted limited anterior sliding movement of the snout, which likely served as a kind of "shock-absorbing" mechanism during feeding. Diplodocid skulls therefore seem to have evolved to alleviate stresses inflicted on the snout during backward movements of the head, as would be expected during branch-stripping or raking.


Oral lichen planus is a chronic mucocutaneous disorder. There are plethora of 2D histopathological images, but 3D images and 3D animation video of the same have not been published so far. Therefore, this article is a preliminary attempt to present the same which the author has designed herself.


This study examines the day-of-the-week trading patterns of individual and institutional investors. Consistent with previous evidence, we find an increase in the proportion of Monday trading volume attributable to individual investors relative to other days of the week. However, we document that this increase results from a reduction in trading by institutional investors, rather than from an absolute increase in trading by individual investors. In fact, the absolute trading volume by individual investors is significantly lower on Monday than on any other

weekday. We also document that the degree of day-of-the-week effect varies with the quality and

dissemination of public information proxied by the market capitalization of each company.


One of the obstacles for scaling the use of multicast over the Internet is the development of adequate congestion control protocols. The ALMTF (Adaptive Layered Multicast TCP-Friendly) protocol is part of the project SAM (Multimedia Adaptive System), and it was elaborated in a dissertation for achieving doctorate degree. It had its original evaluation in the network simulator NS-2. One advantage of this algorithm is to infer the level of network congestion, determining the best receiving rate for each receptor. Besides that, the protocol controls the received rate, aiming to achieve fairness and impartiality with the concurrent network traffic. The objective of this work is to extend the ALMTF protocol to a real network, proposing new alternatives for this environment adaptation, in such a way that it can be integrated in multicast applications such as distance education, internet conferences or IPTV. The results were validated in local and long distance networks and showed a new and more efficient algorithm, called ALMTF++.


Based on the time-dependent Gutzwiller approximation we study the possibility that the diagonal incommensurate spin scattering in strongly underdoped lanthanum cuprates originates from antiferromagnetic domain walls (stripes). Calculation of the dynamic spin response for stripes in the diagonal phase yields the characteristic hour glass dispersion with the crossing of low-energy Goldstone and high-energy branches at a characteristic energy ${E}_{\text{cross}}$ at the antiferromagnetic wave vector ${Q}_{\text{AF}}$. The high-energy part is close to the parent antiferromagnet. Our results suggest that inelastic neutron-scattering experiments on strongly underdoped lanthanum cuprates can be understood as due to a spatial mixture of bond-centered and site-centered stripe configurations with substantial disorder.


A patient presents with an acute chest pain with the clinical features typical of acute myocardial ischaemia but is found on thorough examination and investigation to have no abnormalities in the cardiac, respiratory, or gastrointestinal systems. Musculoskeletal intervention fails to help. The management of neuropathic pain in this instance is discussed. (author abstract)


Using the method of multi-body dynamics,establish the double wishbone front suspension model by ADAMS software Then the simulation of the Kinematics and flexibility was done,Sensitive parameters in the simulation results were analyzed to determine the optimization objectives.And then the structure of the suspension was optimized by using ADAMS/Insight through the method of Multi-objective optimization,Modify the suspension kinematics simulation model according to the results of optimization,and compare the overall suspension performance before optimization and awwwwwwfter optimization.The results show that this method has achieved good optimization results,and improved suspension kinematics.


The influence of seasonal changes in temperature and climate on metabolic rates in birds has been a topic of interest to ornithologists and ecophysiologists for decades (e.g., Hart 1962; Dawson 1958; Miller 1939). Because metabolic rates increase linearly with temperature in endotherms outside the thermal neutral zone, comparisons of metabolic rates among seasons or species require standardized measurements of metabolic rates. The most common of these standardized metabolic rates used for comparisons of energetics among seasons or species is basal, or resting, metabolic rate. It often serves as a baseline for comparisons of metabolic costs of activities within species, and for comparisons of the "rate of living" among species or species groups (e.g., Wiersma et al. 2007a; White et al. 2007; McKechnie et al. 2006; McKechnie and Wolf 2004; Trevelyan et al. 1990; McNab 1988; Bennett and Harvey 1987; Kersten and Piersma 1987). Theoretically, basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the minimum metabolic rate required for maintenance in endotherms. BMR is measured within the thermal neutral zone under postabsorptive digestive conditions during the resting phase of the daily cycle on resting, nongrowing, nonreproductive animals (McNab 1997). It is doubtful whether truly BMRs can ever be achieved in the laboratory, so the term resting metabolic rate (RMR) is often used to refer to such measurements, even when the standard conditions for BMR have been met. Here, I will revert to the standard terminology and consider BMR as the metabolic rate measured under the standard conditions listed above, recognizing that this may not, in fact, represent truly basal rates (Table 3.1).


Daily net canopy photosynthesis (Pn) of cocksfoot (Dactylis glomerata L.) was predicted for combinations of temperature, herbage nitrogen (N) concentration and water status from the integration of models of leaf photosynthesis of the light-saturated photosynthetic rate (Pmax), photosynthetic efficiency (α) and the degree of curvature (θ) of leaf light-response curves. The effect on Pn, maximum Pn (Pn max) and the optimum leaf area index (LAI at Pn max) was examined when any one of these factors was limiting. The ranges that gave the optimum values of Pn (Pn max = 30.8-33.5 g CO 2 m-2 d-1) for temperature (19-22°C) and N concentration (40-50 g N kg-1 DM) were smaller than those for net leaf photosynthesis. Also, Pn fell to 0 at a lower level of water stress (pre-dawn leaf water potential, ψIp = -12.5 bar) than for Pmax. The canopy photosynthesis model was then used to compare predicted and measured dry matter (DM) production for cocksfoot pastures grown under a diverse range of environmental conditions with field data from New Zealand and Argentina. To predict DM production leaf area index and leaf canopy angle were included from field measurements. The model explained about 0.85 of the variation in cocksfoot DM production for the range of 6.5-134 kg DM ha -1 d-1. The canopy model overestimated the DM production by 0.10 which indicates that a further Pmax function for leaves of different ages and a partitioning sub-model may be needed to improve predictions of DM production.


This paper discusses our experiences developing and delivering a computer security curriculum in a graduate software engineering program. It describes our program and student backgrounds, our approach to teaching computer security aimed towards a software engineering audience with disparate backgrounds, other challenges and solutions, course contents with emphasis on our core course, and additional venues and future plans.


Objective To analyze and discuss the different of curative effect of octreotide in the treatnment of pancreatitis by different modes of administration so as to find out the best one.Methods 98 cases of patients with acute pancreatitis admitted to our hospital From January 2013 to June 2014 were randomly divided into observation group and control group,49 cases in each group:the control group was treated by ordinary infusion,while observation group were treated by micro pump.The effect of the two groups were analyzed and compared.Results Of the observation group and the control group,the total effective rates were 91.84%and 91.84%respectively,and the patients relieve symptoms(6.4±1.1)d vs(10.5±2.4)d,and amylase recovery time(18.5±6.5)d vs(27.8±9.4)d,and length of hospital stay(8.6±1.4)d vs(13.8±2.2)d.The differences between the groups were statistically significant(P 0.05).Conclusion The effect of micro pump infusion of Octreotide in the treatment of acute pancreatitis is remarkable,and it can shorten the recovery time,so it is worthy of widespread clinical application.


A novel application of FTIR imaging to study polymers subjected to high-pressure CO2 was demonstrated. FTIR images of polymer blends under high-pressure CO2 were obtained in situ using a single reflection ATR diamond accessory combined with a high-pressure cell. Two systems, a polystyrene (PS)/poly(vinyl methyl ether (PVME) blend and a poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO)/poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) system, have been studied to demonstrate the feasibility and principles of this new approach. Using this approach, the CO2-induced phase separation of an initially homogeneous PS/PVME blend was observed at a CO2 pressure of 60 bar and temperature of 40 °C. FTIR imaging allowed us to identify formation of distinct domains that are PS- and PVME-rich. The size of these domains was ca. 200 μm. In a second high-pressure imaging experiment, the interfacial region between PEO and PMMA was studied. Sorption of high-pressure CO2 in both polymers was studied simultaneously. The effect of temperature and pressure on the solub...


Last will and testament. Sounds majestic, doesn't it? And
reassuring: Once you've had your will prepared, signed and
witnessed, you'll probably feel you've done right by your heirs.
But many doctors fail to realize how much of an estate may not fall
under the provisions of a will. Let's see where five of the biggest
holes are, and how you might fill them.


Mineral resources were rich in our country, vigorously developing the domestic mineral resource evaluation was very important to promote the sustainable supply of mineral resources, which was an important measure.In this paper, it is proposed that the SVM is used to evaluate the mineral resources,to classify the metallogenetic information,and then evaluate comprehensively the result to obtain the favorable metallogenetic area and the delineation of prediction target areas.It is also introduced that the geological spatial database is set up for evaluating,the selection of evaluating indicator, and graph grid processing technologies.


Power source is an important parameter that can affect the characteristics of atmospheric-pressure plasma jets (APPJs), because it can play a key role on the discharge characteristics and ionization process of APPJs. In this paper, the characteristics of helium APPJs sustained by both nanosecond-pulse and microsecond-pulse generators are compared from the aspects of plume length, discharge current, consumption power, energy, and optical emission spectrum. Experimental results showed that the pulsed APPJ was initiated near the high-voltage electrode with a small curvature radius, and then the stable helium APPJ could be observed when the applied voltage increased. Moreover, the discharge current of the nanosecond-pulse APPJ was larger than that of the microsecond-pulse APPJ. Furthermore, although the nanosecond-pulse generator consumed less energy than the microsecond-pulse generator, longer plume length, larger instantaneous power per pulse and stronger spectral line intensity could be obtained in the nanosecond-pulse excitation case. In addition, some discussion indicated that the rise time of the applied voltage could play a prominent role on the generation of APPJs.


Quality of cut flowers is an important issue at postharvest as well as an important factor contributing to marketing of and profitability from the chrysanthemum. A trial was consummated at Postharvest Lab of Floriculture Res. Dept. Hort. Res. Inst. ARC, Giza, Egypt during 2014 and 2015 seasons to study the effect of some metal salts at different concentrations on three cultivars of chrysanthemum. The obtained results indicated that all measured characters, i.e. longevity, water uptake, water loss, dry matter, diameter of head and relative fresh weight improved significantly by applying copper sulfate at 50, 150 and 250 mg/l, cobalt chloride at 150, 300 and 450 mg/l and aluminum sulfate at 100, 250 and 400 mg/l, in addition to sucrose at 20 g/l and citric acid at 0.2 g/l. All these treatments were compared to distilled water as a control. The effects varied between the Arctic Queen, Marabou and Pink Loly Pop cultivars, due to genetic variations in response to these chemical compounds. Pink Loly Pop was the most responsive to the different transactions, as it gave the maximum lifespan period compared to the other two cultivars. The best treatment was copper sulfate at 150 mg/l + sucrose at 20g/l + citric acid at 0.2 g/l, as it enhanced the longevity of cut flowers, reduced water loss and induced the highest rate of relative fresh weight in both seasons. On the other hand, application of aluminum sulfate at the different concentrations increased diameter of flowers and raised their dry matter during the two seasons. Almost all preservative solutions significantly increased chlorophyll a, b and carotenoids content over the control. Total and reducing sugar; and total anthocyanins were affected by aluminum sulfate impact on different cultivars in this experiment.


Background & Purpose: With continuous changes occurring in the business environment new project methods have emerged to accommodate the new needs. This has resulted in that the traditional ways to manage projects have become rigid which has given rise to the new concept of agile. Agile project methods had its breakthrough in the software development industry and have since then spread to other industries. One industry that work with projects and has to manage change is the management consulting industry, and agile project methods could thereby be efficient to apply in this industry. To be able to see how they apply these agile project methods it was seen as interesting to examine which agile project methods they apply most commonly and which key success factors and challenges can be related to its application. Due to the lack of literature on agile project methods outside the software development industry a need was identified to examine this in connection to the management consulting industry. The purpose of this study has thereby been set on examining how this industry applies agile project methods in their work processes. Methodology: Since there is not much literature on the research topic the authors decided on the exploratory approach to the research and also a comparative multiple case study of management consulting firms. The literature review was conducted in a systematic manner to ensure an extensive overview of the topic. Moreover, the thesis's empirical contributions were made through a qualitative strategy using semi-structured interviews with 11 respondents in six different case companies selected through purposive sampling. Lastly, the authors analyzed the collected data using a thematic analysis. showcased management main methods methods are context dependent. Moreover, an aspect of the findings was the impact of IT elements on the choice of using agile project methods. Additionally, including IT in management consulting firms can also be a contributing factor to the pace of adoption of agile project methods. The findings also indicated that it can be difficult to understand agile practices and that previous experience ease this process.


The low learning absorption of students reflects the gap between the demands of the curriculum and the level of students' thinking abilities. The inability of students to do a task is not only because they do not have the necessary prerequisite knowledge, but also their limited ability to process the amount of information received. This study aims to analyze the relationship between mastery of science concepts, especially physics, on students' ability to solve physics problems. This research is an experimental research with a pre-experimental type and a one-shot case study design. The population in this study were 9th grade junior high school students. Determination of the sample was carried out by purposive sampling method, in order to obtain a sample of 48 students. Data collection was carried out using an instrument in the form of an achievement test for mastery of the concept of science (physics). Data analysis was carried out descriptively and inferentially. The results showed that the mean (average) was 77.40 and the standard deviation (sd) was 6.58, which was included in the good category, while for the physics problem solving ability test the mean (average) was 80.16, and the standard deviation (sd) was 6.28 which was also categorized as good. which can exceed the minimum completeness criterion (KKM) score above 70. The magnitude of the correlation coefficient index (r) is 0.815 (high), with a coefficient of determination (r2) of 0.6642, which indicates that at least 66.42% mastery of the concept of science (Physics) ) can contribute to students' ability to solve physics problems.


It was found that there are four main patterns that explain the use of social media for recruitment in SMEs. First, social media is not the first choice when it comes to choosing a recruitment tool. Second, the use of social media for recruitment is not a structured activity. Third, recruiters use social media the same way they do in their own life. Finally, marketing people are often involved in recruitment practices on social media. These patterns stem from the fact that SMEs have shortcomings in their social media capabilities in general and more specifically in recruitment where gaps exist in terms of knowledge, skills, and attitudes. To our knowledge, this study is the first to explore the use of social media for recruitment and to propose an integrated framework to evaluate social media capabilities. Through the identification and the discussion of a series of practices concerning e-HRM, our results are also helpful in a digital context where SMEs are struggling to keep up with the pace of adoption and use of IT in general.


The high fracture toughness alumina ceramics were prepared by hot pressed sintering using calcined α alumina powder made from aluminum hydroxide by seeding of wet grinding abrasion powder The mechanical properties at different sintering temperatures were examined The maximum fracture toughness reaches 6 70 MPa·m 1/2 , which is one time higher than general The microstructure of sintered samples was investigated, which showes elongated grain structure The elongated grain structure is considered to play a significant role effect in the increment of fracture toughness


This paper sets out to present and discuss a user-centered design process, during which a new and innovative parcel delivery system was developed. The paper will revolve around emphasizing the roles of the system end-users, who in this case were lead users engaged and involved throughout the design process. The main focus will be put on providing you, the reader, with a thorough understanding of how and why the users were presented in forms of personas, and included continuously in several different formats during the process. The aim is additionally to explain and argue how the personas were applied differently at the beginning of the ideation in comparison to how they were transformed and used as a basis for testing the usability of the system later on. Consequently, we suggest, designers can benefit from using personas not only to communicate their initial inquiry to key partners, but also include them in their way towards designing systems founded on solid reasoning.


We propose a novel approach for compiling MATLAB and similar languages that are characterized by tensors with dynamic shapes and types. We stage an evaluator for a subset of MATLAB using the Lightweight Modular Staging (LMS) framework to produce a compiler that generates C code. But the first Futamura projection alone does not lead to efficient code: we need to refine the rigid stage distinction based on type and shape inference to remove costly runtime checks. To this end, we introduce a stage-polymorphic data structure, that we refer to as metacontainer, to represent MATLAB tensors and their type and shape information. We use metacontainers to efficiently "inject" constructs into a high-level intermediate representation (IR) to infer shape and type information. Once inferred, metacontainers are also used as the primary abstraction for lowering the computation, performing type, shape, and ISA specialization. Our prototype MATLAB compiler MGen produces static C code that supports all primitive types, heavily overloaded operators, many other dynamic aspects of the language, and explicit vectorization for SIMD architectures.


Though technological innovation by R&D is at the core of business strategy for firms to compete in the competitive market, but the previous studies did not lead to a consensus about the R&D impacts on financial performance. The study suggests that the separation of Board's chairman and CEO may play an important moderating role in firm's R&D investment decision-making. After testing the correlation between firms R&D investment intensity and the one-year lagged financial performance, the moderating effect of chairman-CEO duality is studied, and the results suggest that duality does mediate the effect of R&D investment on firm's financial performance. But further analyses of subsample suggest that it is the fact only in the low-tech firms.


Objective: The objective of the study was to determine the attitude of future health care providers regarding the treatment and management of mental health disorders (MHDs). Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted using a convenience sampling method. A selfdeveloped and pre-validated tool was used to collect data from students studying in three health care faculties of a university in Malaysia. The Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) Version 24.0 was used to analyze the data. Results: Out of the total study participants, males were 104 (36.6%) and females were 180 Original Research Article Iqbal et al.; JPRI, 32(28): 20-27, 2020; Article no.JPRI.62060 21 (63.4%) in the study. For the race variable the Malays students were 7 (2.5%), Chinese students 212 (74.6%), Indians students 60 (21.2%), and others 5 (1.7%). Conclusion: Overall positive attitude was observed among the studied cohort of future health care providers.