Financial report serves as a tool to analyze financial performance that can provide information about the financial position, performance and cash flows, so it can be used as a basis for making economic decisions. Research aimed at UKM Bingke Khatulistiwa shop that do not have the financial statements. The purpose of this study was to determine how the application of Financial Accounting Standards Entities Without Public Accountability (SAK ETAP) in the preparation of financial statements in UKM Bingke Khatulistiwa shop and any constraints faced by UKM in preparing financial statements based SAK ETAP. This study used a qualitative descriptive method of data collection techniques are interviews, documentary studies, and research literature. It can be concluded that UKM Bingke Khatulistiwa shop is not yet fully comply with and not in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Entities Without Public Accountability (SAK ETAP). Constraints faced by UKM in the implementation of the financial statements is due to the lack of technical knowledge in preparing the financial statements, lack of education about how the implementation of ETAP SAK on UKM and the lack of oversight of the parties interested in the financial statements of UKM. Keywords : Financial Statements, SAK ETAP, UKM


In multi-tenant clouds, requests need to traverse a set of network functions (NFs) in a specific order, referred to as a service function chain (SFC), for security and business logic issues. Due to workload dynamics, the central controller of a multi-tenant cloud needs to frequently update the SFC routing, so as to optimize various network performance, such as load balancing. To achieve effective SFC routing update, we should consider two critical requirements: system robustness and real-time update. Without considering these two requirements, prior works either result in fragile clouds or suffer from large update delay. In this paper, we propose a robustness-aware real-time SFC routing update (R3-UA) scheme which takes both requirements into consideration. R3-UA pursues robustness-aware real-time routing update through two phases: robust NF instance assignment and real-time SFC routing update. Two algorithms with bounded approximation ratios are proposed for these two phases, respectively. The large-scale simulation results show the superior performance of R3-UA compared with other alternatives.


The objectives of the study was to determine the gender differences of emotional intelligence of undergraduate students Fifty male and 50 female undergraduate students from various colleges of Aurangabad, has been selected for the study.Emotional intelligences as the ability to sense understand and effectively apply the power and acumen of emotions as a source of human energy, information, connection and influence.The emotional intelligence was measure through Emotional intelligence by Ankaol Hyde (2007) its provide ten dimensions such as self-awareness empathy, selfmotivation, emotional stability, managing relations, integrity, self-development, value orientation, commitment and altruistic behavior of twenty eight questions.The result reveals that insignificant difference of emotional intelligence was found between male and female students . In order to find out the differences of ten subscales of emotional intelligence between Male and female students; t-ratio was computed for each category separately. The results of the study shows that significant difference was found in Self-Motivation( t = P <.05),Emotional Stability( t = P <.05), Managing relations( t = P <.05), SelfDevelopment( t = P <.05), Value Orientation( t = P <.05) and Commitment( t = P <.05) between male and female undergraduate students.Whereasno significant differences were found in self-awareness, empathy, integrity, and altruistic behaviorbetween male and female undergraduate students.


The paper aims at scientifically determining sample quantities of storage reliability test, which is important for initiating explosive device. Based on the characteristic of unqualified sample rate conforming to normal distribution, the calculate formulation is derived from theory. And the determining method is given by example.


Lying in the southwest of China and having a very unique environment and history, north Guangxi is known for its great variety of natural conditions and folk cultures. Addressing the application of the traditional construction material from the ecological prospective, this paper looks into how the traditional construction materials are utilized in the folk houses in the northern part of Guangxi, the reason behind and the impacts upon the architecture. The related finding will provide suggestions on the protection, renovation, as well as the inheritance of the traditional folk architectural heritage.


Decalogue in Greek means ten words. Some scholars think that the Decalogue began as a list of very short moral sayings that existed long before the Bible time of Moses. This lesson presents two understandings of the Decalogue. A biblical view is followed by a scholarly view. Students read through Decalogue versions that are found in Exodus chapters 20 and 34, Leviticus chapter 19, and Deuteronomy chapter 5. They trace these commandment ideas as they are found in the New Testament. This study sets the stage for discussions about whether highly edited lists of the Ten Commandments should be endorsed by local, state, or national governments, including postings in public schools. The study consists of a student text that can be easily duplicated, a footnoted teachers edition of the text, a source analysis section, an activities for teachers and students sheet, an appendix on "The Religion of Zoroaster," and a 17-item bibliography. (BT) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document.


To improve the bioavailability, the inclusion process conditions for volatile oil from Rhi-zoma curcumae with β-Cyclodextrin was studied. The ratio of volatile oil in the inclusion complex and recovery of inclusion complex were used as criteria in this experiment. The inclusion complex was made by saturated aqueous solution method. The best condition of inclusion complex was that the ratio of volatile oil, β-Cyclodextrin and water was 1:4:60(mL/g/mL), and agitating for two hours. The ratio of volatile oil in the inclusion complex was about 62.29 % . The complex formation was proved by electromicroscope. The chemical compositions of inclusive volatile oil from Rhizoma curcumae were not changed by GC-MS.


Patients performing prostate biopsy have been reported to suffer from high levels of psychopathological symptoms, while there are few significantly influencing factors have been found until now. This study constructed a psychosocial database of prostate biopsy subjects to investigate morbidity and risk factors of psychopathological symptoms. We distributed psychological questionnaires which were scheduled for a prostate cancer biopsy before biopsy and 3 days after biopsy. Psychological questionnaires including data of socioeconomic status, International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS), serum level of Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA), and biopsy-related symptoms were also collected. 138 men returned all questionnaires. The scores of anxiety and depression post biopsy were significantly high compared with those before biopsy (P<0.05). The positive rate of anxiety post biopsy was also higher than those before biopsy (24.6% vs. 14.5%, P<0.05). Likewise, significant difference was detected between anxiety and no anxiety patients in age, serum level of PSA, family economic status, educational level, and having biopsyrelated symptoms (P<0.05). In the multivariate analysis, only young age (<60 y), poor family economic status, high level of PSA (>10 ng/ml), and problematic biopsy-related symptoms were risk factors of anxiety. Prostate biopsy can lead to increased psychopathological symptoms. But other factors, like cancer-related worry, might contribute more to anxiety.


The demand for network resource is adjust through the unit price of resource. When the demand of users is larger than Service Provider (SP)psilas supply, the price rises, users have to reduce their demand to maximize their utility, and then the network congestion will be relieved. The process of adjusting takes some time, the network will be in congestion state in that period of time. In order to avoid network congestion, SP can choose such strategy: when the demand is close, not equal, to the supply from the left, the price starts rising to prevent the increase of the demand, users reduce their demand before the occur of congestion. This method avoids congestion, but also results in the economic deficiency of resource allocation the earlier the price starts going up, the more the total utility of SP and uses falls. It is better that SP still rise the price after the congestion occurs, it is better the network is in low-grade congestion. Simulations are performed to verify the conclusion.


ABSTRACT The activity of reservoir microorganism is essential to Microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR). This present paper investigates the relationship between the microbial activity and production performance by means of long-scale & long-term experiments. The six rounds of nutritional injection was carried out in 135 days. During the microbial flooding experiment was performed recovering additional oil (10.44% Original Oil in Place, OOIP) after first water flooding. There is a positive correlation between water content and shannon index. And the fourth round of nutritional injection causes a considerable reduction in water content, while the concentration of Methyl-coenzyme reductase subunit alpha (mcrA) reaches peak value. In microbial flooding and reference water flooding, the concentration of mcrA maintained higher level with the low concentration of acetic acid. There are intimate correlation between water content and mcrA concentration & bacterial diversity (shannon index), which can be consider the symbol to guide the MEOR filed test.


The current study aimed to identify the level of quality of life among Individuals who Stutter in Jordan and its relationship to some demographic variables using the correlative descriptive approach. In order to achieve the objectives of the study, the researchers used the quality of life scale-BRIEF-WHOQQL, prepared by the World Health Organization (WHO), on a sample (N=32) males and females Stutters.The results of the study showed that the level of quality of life among individual who stutters in Jordan was low, as the physical health field ranked first with the lowest level in the quality of life followed by the field of social relations and then the mental health and finally the field of environment. They also showed that there were no statistically significant differences in the level of quality of life among Individuals who Stutter in Jordan attributed to the variables of age, gender, marital status, family income and the degree of stuttering severity. The study concluded with a set of research and educational recommendations.


Letter to Frederick S. Humphries from the 1972 Reston Black Arts Festival Chairperson, Ernestine Bush, reporting the 1972 festival activities at the administrative level.


The pith of humanism is the principle of"people first",namely,respecting human lives,rights and needs.Applied in news report,humanism means to treat people as the starting point and end-result, to treat human as goal,to attention human feeling and human nature,and to embody the beauty of hu- man feeling and human nature.


In deep roadway mining, high water pressure causes rock mass cracking and weakens the overall strength, affecting the stability of underground metal mine mining roadways. Therefore, using a numerical simulation method, we analyzed the strain softening characteristics of rocks after the inflexion point of elasticity and studied the strain distribution and the minimum support resistance under high-pressure groundwater conditions. Considering the groundwater pressure and effective porosity on the strain softening characteristics of the surrounding rocks, we investigated the critical groundwater pressure under which the surrounding rocks would remain stable. Actual engineering verification helps to obtain the supporting characteristic curves under different influencing factors. We found that water pressure and effective porosity are the significant factors that decide the development scope of the plastic zone. The more significant the increase of the plastic zone, the more notable the changes in the support curve. Moreover, the plastic zone is likely to occur when the hydraulic head is between 30 and 50 m; when the hydraulic head exceeds 50 m, it is likely to produce a relaxation zone.


The period between the years of Tiansheng when he attended the imperial examnation and the years of Jingyou when he was demoted to Yiling is the early stage of Ouyang Xiu's poetry writing.Ouyang's early poetry style absorbed the reasonable kernel and recfified the disadventage of West K'unlun style and gradually approached Song style.


Question Do annual infusions of zoledronic acid (ZA) affect renal function in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis? Methods Design Secondary analysis of a randomized, placebo-controlled trial (RCT) (Health Outcomes and Reduced Incidence with Zoledronic Acid Once YearlyPivotal Fracture Trial, HORIZON-PFT). Allocation Unclear allocation concealment.* Blinding Blinded (patients).* Follow-up period 12, 24, and 36 months. Setting 239 centers in 27 countries. Patients {7765} postmenopausal women 65 to 89 years of age (mean age 73 y based on 7714 women) who had osteoporosis (femoral neck bone mineral density T-score 2.5, with or without evidence of vertebral fracture, or bone mineral density T-score 1.5 with radiologic evidence of 2 mild or 1 moderate existing vertebral fracture). Exclusion criteria included use of intravenous (IV) bisphosphonates 2 years before randomization or oral bisphosphonates without the required washout schedule, previous use of strontium, hypercalcemia, hypocalcemia, and renal disease. Intervention 3 annual IV infusions of ZA, 5 mg (n =3861), or placebo (n =3853) given over 15 minutes at baseline and at 12 and 24 months. Outcomes Included renal abnormalities evaluated by changes in estimated creatinine clearance (30% decrease in patients with baseline clearance 60 mL/min), urinary protein levels (>2+ in patients with baseline levels 2+), and serum creatinine (increase >0.5 mg/100 mL [44.2 mol/L]) and estimated creatinine clearance < 30 mL/min. Patient follow-up {84% completed follow-up}. Main results Groups did not differ for renal abnormalities at 2 years (Table). Conclusion In postmenopausal women with osteoporosis, annual infusions of zoledronic acid did not increase renal abnormalities at 2 years. Zoledronic acid vs placebo in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis Renal abnormalities at 24 mo n Event rates RRR (95% CI) NNT (CI) Serum creatinine increase >0.5 mg/100 mL (44.2 mol/L) 6634 0.5% vs 0.6% 19% (55 to 57) Not significant Estimated creatinine clearance < 30 mL/min 6621 1.7% vs 1.9% 8% (31 to 35) Not significant Estimated creatinine clearance decrease 30% 6622 1.9% vs 2.1% 7% (30 to 34) Not significant Urinary protein level >2+ 6600 0.09% vs 0.15% 39% (130 to 84) Not significant Abbreviations defined in Glossary. RRR, NNT, and CI calculated from data in article. In patients with baseline values 60 mL/min. In patients with baseline urinary protein levels 2+ evaluated using dipstick. Commentary With an aging population, there have been explosive increases in both chronic kidney disease (CKD) and osteoporosis, each of which independently causes bone demineralization and fractures. Many elderly patients with CKD will require treatment for osteoporosis (1). Bisphosphonates are safe and effective for osteoporosis in patients without CKD, but RCTs have not specifically evaluated their use in patients with the condition. Post hoc analyses of RCTs have shown that alendronate and risedronate are safe and probably effective in patients with glomerular filtration rates (GFRs) >30 mL/min/1.73 m2 (2, 3). Acute kidney injury (AKI) has been reported with IV ZA given rapidly at high doses for hypercalcemia of cancer (4). The study by Boonen and colleagues, an analysis of a large RCT by CKD status, is sufficiently robust in design to address the question of safety. The outcome measures are reproducible and sufficiently precise to identify small, clinically relevant changes in renal function over 2 years. However, adverse consequences of transient AKI that recovers before day 9 cannot be excluded. This study shows that ZA is safe when given over 15 minutes and does not cause clinically significant CKD in patients with GFRs >30 mL/min/1.73m2. It does not address whether ZA is effective in patients with CKD or whether it might induce adynamic bone disease in patients with GFRs < 30 mL/min/1.73m2.


Background Dermatological diseases are among the primary causes of the demand for basic health care. Studies on the frequency of dermatoses are important for the proper management of health planning. Objectives To evaluate the nosological and behavioral profiles of dermatological consultations in Brazil. Methods The Brazilian Society of Dermatology invited all of its members to complete an online form on patients who sought consultations from March 21-26, 2018. The form contained questions about patient demographics, consultation type according to the patient's funding, the municipality of the consultation, diagnosis, treatments and procedures. Diagnostic and therapeutic decisions were compared between subgroups. Results Data from 9629 visits were recorded. The most frequent causes for consultation were acne (8.0%), photoaging (7.7%), nonmelanoma skin cancer (5.4%), and actinic keratosis (4.7%). The identified diseases had distinct patterns with regard to gender, skin color, geographic region, type of funding for the consultation, and age group. Concerning the medical conducts, photoprotection was indicated in 44% of consultations, surgical diagnostic procedures were performed in 7.3%, surgical therapeutic procedures were conducted in 19.2%, and cosmetic procedures were performed in 7.1%. Study limitations Nonrandomized survey, with a sample period of one week. Conclusion This research allowed us to identify the epidemiological profiles of the demands of outpatients for dermatologists in various contexts. The results also highlight the importance of aesthetic demands in privately funded consultations and the significance of diseases such as acne, nonmelanoma skin cancer, leprosy, and psoriasis to public health.


The optical characteristics of Sb2Se3 and Sb2Te3 films are changed due to an amorphous‐crystalline phase transition below 200 °C. The respective reflectivity of 400 A Sb2Se3 and 300 A Sb2Te3 films, each on a Te reflective layer, is increased from 10% to 30% and from 45% to 65% by laser radiation. Using these new materials, optical disc recording of FM video signals by a diode laser has been demonstrated.


OTREC researchers helped state transportation department staff members face a problem that isn't strictly part of their job description: how best to deal with homeless individuals and households living in DOT rights of way and rest areas. As owners of some of the largest stretches of public land, DOTs have to maintain the land for public use, but may lack resources to address the social welfare aspects of the stewardship of public land.


Miller presents Corman as an "archivist of the vernacular" and stresses the theatrical dimensions revealed in the artist's appropriation of private snapshots and television imagery. 2 bibl. ref.


Editor—Spinal anaesthesia is generally safe and effective. Intraspinal combined with cerebral subarachnoid haemorrhage has been rarely reported as a complication after lumbar spinal anaesthesia. – 3 Simultaneous spinal haematoma and intracranial subarachnoid haemorrhage after spinal anaesthesia causing neurological symptoms, such as headache, stiff neck, nausea, and vomiting, has been described. – 3 Acute intracranial and intraspinal subarachnoid haemorrhage after lumbar puncture is a rare but lifethreatening complication, requiring urgent diagnosis and therapy. We report the management of a pregnant woman with a dorsal spinal subarachnoid haemorrhage and intracranial subarachnoid haemorrhage after lumbar spinal anaesthesia to perform an assisted delivery. A 35-yr-old multigravida at 34 week gestation with antenatal history of arterial hypertension and polycystic kidney disease was admitted for forceps delivery. Spinal anaesthesia was achieved with bupivacaine 0.5% 2 ml after lumbar puncture in a single prick with a 25 G spinal needle at L3–4. The delivery of a healthy baby weighing 3.1 kg with the Apgar score of 8/10 was uneventful. Two days after delivery, the patient developed severe back pain, headache, vomiting, and stiff neck. Despite analgesia and antiemetic treatment, symptoms increased in intensity, with paraplegia on fifth day postpartum. Cranial computed tomography showed mild hyperdensity in basilar cisterns, temporal sulci, and effacement of suprasellar cisterns supporting the diagnosis of evolving subarachnoid haemorrhage (Fig. 1A). Spinal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) detected an intradural extramedullary lesion compressing and displacing the T10 spinal level and suggesting a late subacute subarachnoid bleeding between T5 and 10 with mass effect on the spinal cord (Fig. 1B). A complete T10–11 and partial T9 bilateral decompressive laminectomy was performed to remove subpial clots from a vascular malformation compatible with a spinal angioma which was completely removed. Neurological examination on admission to post-anaesthesia care unit (PACU) demonstrated a conscious and oriented patient with lower limb paralysis and hypoesthesia from T6. Antihypertensive therapy with labetalol for persistent arterial hypertension and i.v. nimodipine as prophylaxis for cerebral vasospasm were started. On the third day in PACU, headache and stiff neck increased along with nausea and vomiting. Cranial MRI showed subarachnoid haemorrhage and hemoventricle in both occipital poles (Fig. 1C). Conservative treatment with calcium antagonists and antihypertensive agents was maintained. An EMG showed a complete block in long somatosensory conduction at the spinal level. Spinal and cerebral arteriography showed no vascular malformations. On the sixth day, patient suffered a neurological deterioration with paralysis of the upper left limb and impaired consciousness [Glasgow coma scale (GCS) 5] proceeding to sedation, intubation, and assisted ventilation. With transcranial Doppler ultrasound, a severe vasospasm in both middle cerebral arteries (MCAs) appeared. Cerebral arteriography was performed with balloon angioplasty and intra-arterial verapamil, with a partial recovery of right MCA


In this study, we investigated the contribution of the multiple regression to robust noisy speech recognition in improving the recognition rates. Whe n the noisy speech recognition process is carried out; first of all, an Affine Transformation is performed in order to map the feature vectors of noisy speech into those of clean speech. After t ransforming, the recognition step is achieved using the Common Vector Approach (CVA). We used several multiple linear as well as nonlinear regression models to improve the recognition rates by adding non-linear terms into the model during the affine transformation stage. In th e experimental study, the recognition rates of the noisy speech signals with 0 dB, 5 dB, 10dB, and 20 dB Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) values have been obtained. Noisy speech which has 20, 10, 5, and 0 dB SNR is obtained using MATLAB by adding white Gaussian noise on the clean speech taken from the Texas Instruments (TI) Digit Database. Improvements are observed when non-linear terms are introduced into the


This paper, a novel feature selection algorithm for object tracking is proposed. This algorithm performs more robust than the previous works by taking the correlation between features into consideration. Pixels of object/background regions are first treated as training samples. The feature selection problem is then modeled as finding a good subset of features and constructing a compound likelihood image with better discriminability for the tracking process. By adopting the AdaBoost algorithm, we iteratively select one best feature which compensate the previous selected features and linearly combine the set of corresponding likelihood images to obtain the compound likelihood image. We include the proposed algorithm into the mean shift based tracking system. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm achieve very promising results.


Regional hexagonal Tile rewriting grammars(RHTRG) are the recently introduced hexagonal picture generating devices which used a simple type of tiling called regional hexagonal tiling. This model is having isometric rules of derivation and more general than context-free Hexagonal array grammars (HAG) but incomparable with hexagonal tiling systems (HTS). In this paper we compare RHTRG with some parallel generating formalisms like Extended pure 2D hexagonal context-free grammars with regular control and hexagonal array token Petri net Structure with respect to generating capacity..


Palembang is the capital of South Sumatra province is a region that is and will continue to experience rapid development in various fields, especially in the health field in this case is the hospital. It makes a lot of difficulties in Palembang residents know the location of hospitals spread across the city of Palembang. Thus, it is necessary an information system that serves as a guide and to facilitate the citizens to know the location and information Palembang hospital in Palembang.
So one of the ways that will be applied by the researchers in providing solutions for the residents of Palembang is to implement "Application of Geographic Information System Hospital in Palembang". This application can display a map of the city of Palembang and the hospital route. In making this application, researchers used the waterfall model of system development methodologies, as well as the programming language PHP and the database is MySQL.
This application is expected to help citizens, especially the Palembang in searching the location of hospitals and hospital profile information easily, precisely and quickly.


The Linux operating system took one kind of formidable open operating system,more comes the widespread application in the post- PC system. Linux systems are desktop- oriented systems. For the real- time requirement,it makes sense to modify the Linux. The disadvantages of Linux in the aspect of hard real time are introduced in this paper.And the main thoughts of a kind of Linux hard real time extensive system RTAT are analyzed in detail. Then the application scope of RTAT is extended.


Summary form only given. This paper presents a 0-dimensional simulation model of the helical flux-compression generator, adapted to the FOI generator design. The model, which was implemented in Matlab-Simulink, uses analytical expressions for the generator inductance. The model of resistive losses takes into account the heating of the conductors and the diffusion of the magnetic field into the conductors. The simulation results are compared to experimental data from two experiments with identical generators but with different seed currents, which has an impact on the resistive losses. Comparison shows that the agreement between measured and calculated inductance change with time is good and that the simulated current amplification during operation agrees well in both shape and amplitude.


Non-precious metals (NPM) such as iron and nitrogen-doped carbon (Fe-N-C) have been actively studied as alternative electrocatalysts to platinum for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC). However, its low stability is associated to the structural morphology of the electrode made of Fe-N-C and its support that has restricted the mass transfer of fuel and product. In this work, it was attempted to assess the role of RGO derived from sengon wood as catalyst support to Fe-N-C catalyst, and study the effect of the Fe-N-C to RGO ratio, on the ORR activity and durability in acidic medium. This work revealed that Fe-N-C/RGO at the weight ratio of 2:0.2 demonstrated the highest onset potential of 0.91 V, with high limiting current density of 5.7 mA/cm2, owing to the uniform active site distribution on the Fe-N-C/RGO surface compared to other samples with different weight ratio. It was indicated in this work that an improve in the kinetic activity was observed with increase operating temperature from 25 to 80 °C. An electron transfer number of 3.91 indicating a complete oxygen reduction process took place on the catalyst. The durability test showed that Fe-N-C/RGO 2:0.2 retained 89 % of its current density at 0.25 V over a duration of 16000 s, higher than that of the benchmark Pt/C. These results have collectively demonstrated a high performance sustainable noble metal-free ORR catalyst for PEMFC applications with proper tailoring the mass ratio of Fe-N-C to RGO support.


Groundnut a very important oilseed crop is a member of leguminosae family grown during kharif season. It has a very significant place in oilseed crops. Groundnut is grown in India on very large scale and India contribute to 22% of world production. Groundnut is grown in 8 million ha and produces 7.3 million tonnes. Groundnut crop is sown in 0.276 million hectare area in Rajasthan and its production is 0.478 million tonnes. Before implementation of IPM module in the area IPM benchmark survey of 40 randomly selected farmers of village Vallabhnagar of dist. Udaipur, Rajasthan in kharif 2007 season was conducted. Analysis was done of this survey data. As per the survey 85% farmers knew that white grub, collar rot and leaf blight were the key pests of the area. 8% farmers use seed treatment with fungicides and only 15% farmers use pesticide spray. Only 12.5% farmers agree that pesticide spray is effective and useful. 5% farmers have heard about IPM but only 7.5% use bio-pesticides as a component of IPM. After analysis of survey data of farmers IPM module was developed and synthesized for this location/specific 46 Hkkjrh; oSKkfud ,oa vkS|ksfxd vuqla/kku if=kdk o"kZ 18 vad 1⁄421⁄2 twu 2010 Hkkjrh; oSKkfud ,oa vkS|ksfxd vuqla/kku if=kdk o"kZ 18 vad 1 twu 2010 i`46-51 flag ,oa vU; % ewaxQyh dh Qly esa vkbZih,e iz.kkyh dk lQy ewY;kadu ,oa fØ;kUo;u 47 area. IPM technology was implemented on the concept of 'Farmers Field School. After implementation of IPM module in the village farmers obtained 12.8 q/ha yield in year 2008 and 15.26 q/ha in year 2009 while in Non-IPM, they obtained only 7.16q/ha and 11.57q/ha, respectively and they also got more net profit from IPM groundnut crop. In this research paper results of three years have been


According to Shifosi constructed wetland conservation and management objectives,this paper establishes a health assessment index system of Shifosi constructed wetland ecosystem by considering eco-system characteristics,features and characteristics structure reflecting the Shifosi constructed wetland ecosystem.And based on the choice principle of assessment index,this paper chooses ten assessment indexes and advances five grade assessment.The fuzzy pattern recognition model is applied to the Shifosi constructed wetland ecosystem health assessment and AHP is used to determine the index weights.The result shows that the Shifosi constructed wetland Ecosystem belongs to the second standard(healthy).Compared with the actual condition,the result is reasonable.The ecosystem health evaluation and analysis result provides a scientific basis for the future management and regulation of wetlands.


The article deals with the use of formation technologies in the creation of engineering education projects for the transport sector. The article continues the series of our publications devoted to EdTech. Questions of education and, first of all, engineering education become extremely important. Competitiveness of the transport industry is determined by the introduction of technologies and innovations. For this purpose, it is necessary to have a workforce with the necessary knowledge, skills, competencies, and creativity. All this is an important and necessary element in moving towards the fourth industrial revolution. However, the readiness of the current and future workforce is currently not clearly defined. This is due to lack of knowledge, willingness, planning, coordination and cooperation among different stakeholders. The understanding that the world is changing and the nature of work is changing has long been noted in Russian publications. These changes have dictated an increasingly urgent transformation in what to teach, how to teach and when to teach. It is especially important for transport to understand its development forecast and what skills and knowledge to give. The reason for this is that transport is the foundation of world trade and growth in the economy, and that is why it has to grow faster than ever before to avoid becoming a bottleneck. The paper also focuses on EU projects in the field of open engineering education.


We develop a two-dimensional matching model on the marriage market, where individuals are characterized by a continuous trait (e.g., socioeconomic status) and a discrete attribute (e.g., smoking status), and gains from marriage may be diminished by the discrete characteristic. We show that a stable match always exists but may fail to be pure, and we derive some general properties. We then further specify the model by assuming a quadratic surplus function. In that case, the stable match can be fully characterized in closed form. The model generates clear-cut conditions regarding matching patterns. Using CPS data and its Tobacco Use Supplements for the years 1996 to 2007, and proxing socioeconomic status by educational attainment, we …nd that these conditions are satis…ed. There are fewer "mixed"couples where the wife smokes than vice-versa, and matching is assortative on education within smoking types of couples. Among non-smoking wives those with smoking husbands have on average 0.14 fewer years of completed education than those with non-smoking husbands. Finally, we …nd that among smoking husbands those who marry smoking wives have on average 0.16 more years of completed education than those with non-smoking wives. Keywords: Marriage market, multidimensional matching, smoking, education. JEL Codes: D1, J1. We thank Bernard Salanié and Marco Francesconi, as well as participants at the Barcelona MOVE Family Conference 2011, Royal Economic Society Meetings 2012, Columbia University, University of Aarhus, and Universidad Carlos III, for helpful comments and suggestions. Financial support from the NSF (award # SES-1124277) is gratefully acknowledged. Ore¢ ce and Quintana-Domeque acknowledge …nancial support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (ECO 2011-29751). The usual disclaimers apply.


Pyrolysis of intact wildland fuels in the southern United States is being measured at bench, wind tunnel, and field scales as part of a larger research project to measure and model pyrolysis of wildland fuels to improve models used to predict prescribed fire behavior. Traditional pyrolysis experiments typically use dried, ground samples in either an inert or oxidizing environment subject to uniform heating and heat transfer. Fletcher and others are presenting results of pyrolysis experiments using a flat-flame burner to heat intact foliage from 14 species of plants native to the southern U.S. at this conference. The fuel beds in prescribed burns in southern pine forests are composed of a mixture of dead pine needles and a large variety of herbaceous and woody plants. We have burned 73 fuel beds composed of Pinus palustris needles and mixtures of Lyonia lucida, Ilex glabra, and Vaccinium darrowii plants in a wind tunnel facility with and without a moderate wind speed of ~ 1 m s-1. The flame from the spreading fire is the heat source for the pyrolysis experiment. Canister samples of pyrolysis and flaming combustion gases within the fuel bed have been collected for offline analysis. Open path spectrometers nonintrusively measured composition of pyrolysis gases in real-time. Thermocouples, a Schmidt-Boelter heat flux sensor, a nadir thermal IR camera, and background-oriented Schlieren photography estimated heat transfer and air flow around the plants. This presentation will present results of this ongoing work.


of titanium implants has been a large focus of recent research. Thermal oxidation is a technique used to diuse oxygen into the surface of a material. This process forms an oxide layer. By varying the thermal oxidation temperature, the crystal structure of the TiO2 layer can be changed from anatase to rutile at temperatures of 300 to 600 C. The crystal structure of anatase has been shown to resemble hydroxyapatite, a mineral involved in bone growth. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and goniometry are used to analyse the anatase concentrations created at 24, 300, 375, and 450 C. It was found that hydrophilicity increases on rough samples as oxidation temperature increases. Also, a peak shift from anatase to rutile is seen as annealing temperatures increase in the range of 300 to 600 C. Greater relative anatase formation is seen at 300 and 375 C. The shift to rutile begins to occur at 450 C and continues to 600 C.


Pressure ulcers results in a major burden of sickness, pain and reduced quality of life for patients and their carers, coupled with substantial financial cost to the NHS1,2. A study of 5947 patients in 25 hospitals in 5 European countries reported the pressure ulcer prevalence (grade 1-4) was 18.1% and if grade 1 ulcers were excluded, it was 10.5%. The sacrum and heels were the most effected3. Elderly people are particularly susceptible with 70% of pressure ulcers occurring in patients over 70 years of age4.


Traffic demand on our highways is based on the perceived desire to travel by individuals and commercial vehicle operators, and is normally referred to as mobility. It is well known that a city's form has a bearing on the mode of travel, in particular the density of development and location of commercial and industrial areas in relation to residential. However making a city more dense does not on its own lead to a change in travel patterns, but other factors such as security of travel, per capita income, safety, pricing, and imposed restrictions will play a much more significant role. By restricting the expansion of the urban area, land prices go up much faster than inflation and force more people to live in multi-level apartments, which not only increases the number of people per sq km but also the vehicles owned within that area. What this paper examines is the balance between planning, rule setting and pricing, and making full use of new technology to achieve secure mobility without introducing either unbearable congestion or environmentally destroying the city's form, yet achieving overall transport efficiency. At the end of the day, adequate consultation with users and ratepayers coupled with pricing for services received is more likely to deliver an acceptable solution than that delivered by centralist planners who think they know what is right for society.


Active networks are a new kind of packet-switched networks in which packets have code fragments that are executed on the intermediary nodes (routers). The code can extend or modify the foundation architecture of a network. In this paper, the authors present a novel active network architecture combined with advantages of two major active networks technology based on extensible services router. The architecture consists of extensible service router, active extensible components server and key distribution center (KDC). Users can write extensible service components with programming interface. At the present time, we have finished the extensible services router prototype system based on Highly Efficient Router Operating System (HEROS), active extensible components server and KDC prototype system based on Linux.


Exploration efforts in Croatian part of Northern Adriatic started in 1970 with 2D seismic acquisition and exploration drilling. Till 1995 more than 16, 000 km of 2D seismic were acquired and 80 wells drilled. During early 80-s, several gas fields of significant production potential were discovered. Gas reservoirs are in unconsolidated to poor consolidated Pleistocene sands of the Po Depression (Ivana Formation in Croatia, Ravenna and Carola in Italy). Traps are structural and structural-stratigraphic, mostly formed as a result of differential compaction, also supported with folding, Mesozoic palaeorelief and lateral facies changing. Biogenic gas is trapped "in situ", composed mainly of methane with very low quantities of nitrogen. Due to the lack of infrastructure and technological problems related to the sand control, the development of the fields was postponed till 1996, when the implementation of, at that time, state-of-the-art sand control technology started. Most of the production wells were dual-completed with high rate water pack and/or "frac & pack" (FracPack) sand control technique applied. This technology was proved very efficient when developing unconsolidated reservoirs. Successful implementation of sand control increased expectations and encouraged partners (INA and ENI) to invest (via joint venture INAgip) in new exploration and production cycle. Since 1996 approximately 5, 000 km2 of 3D seismic were acquired, 12 new exploration wells were drilled and additional 7 gas fields discovered. INAgip developed 9 gas fields with 105 gas reservoirs, drilled more than 40 production wells, installed 19 production platforms and reached average production of approximately 30, 000 boe/day.


Composite materials in general and wood composites in particular are heterogeneous materials. This heterogeneity arises in part, from differences in the molecular and bulk dynamic behavior of the composite components and their interactions. This work investigates the molecular and bulk dynamics of polymeric diphenylmethane diisocyanate (PMDI)/wood and urea-formaldehyde (UF)/wood composites. Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) techniques were used for the composite characterizations. Differences in proton rotating frame spin lattice relaxations ( 1 HT 1ρ ) and dynamic moduli of PMDI/wood and UF/wood composites are presented. The data indicate that PMDI adhesives deeply penetrate and intimately associate with wood molecules imparting changes in the physical nature of wood.


1 M.E CSE, 2Assitant Professor, UIET, Panjab University , Chandigarh, INDIA __________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT: Software estimation is a process of estimating the effort, size and cost of the software, before the actual development of the software. Realistic estimation helps the software developers and managers in finding the required resources, man-hours, time and cost required in developing software. There are various types of estimation methods such as algorithmic, regression, machine learning, function pts etc, but still there is need of an accurate and precise software estimation method. Some models don't include all the parameters, some are extremely vulnerable to misclassification or error deviation is high. In this paper neural network training functions are used for software estimation as neural network is good at discovering relations (linear or non linear). Results of neural network are compared with cocomo 2 efforts as it is the most used model in the world for estimation. Input to neural network training functions is Cocomo 2 parameters which consist of 17 cost multipliers and 5 scale factors. After analyzing the results, a hybrid set of parameters are given to neural network training functions. Results from these hybrid parameters shows that neural networks techniques shows lowest mean error as compared to cocomo 2 parameters.


The isostructural title compounds can be obtained by arc-melting of cold-pressed mixtures ofMP,M, andM′ in the ratio 1:1:1 (M=Zr, Hf;M′=Co, Ni). Their crystal structure (space groupP21/m, No. 11,Z=2) can be regarded as a new superstructure of the CrB structure type. Thus, the structure ofM2NiP can be derived formally from ZrNi or HfNi (both CrB type) by replacing every second Ni atom by P in such a way that P–P contacts are minimized. Condensed channels formed by zirconium and hafnium, respectively, build up an extended early-transition-metal framework. The late-transition-metal atoms and P are situated in singly capped trigonal prisms of theMsublattice, forming –Ni–P– zigzag chains. The expectation of metallic properties is confirmed by Extended Huckel calculations and experimentally observed Pauli paramagnetism. The differences between Co and Ni on the one hand and between Zr and Hf on the other hand are discussed, as well as the changes from MNi toM2NiP.


To the Editor: In a recent issue of Critical Care Medicine, with interest we read the article by Dhanani et al (1), concerning vital signs after circulatory arrest following withdrawal of lifesustaining therapy. The article has timely given the persistent controversy regarding criteria of death in circulatory death organ donors. How many minutes after circulatory arrest can we consider the patient dead respecting the dead donor rule? As brain activity is a crucial determinant in the concept and determination of death. The authors state that, based on their limited observation that neurologic function could permanently ceases prior to the 5-minute wait period, required for circulatory death organ donation. They came to this conclusion on electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings in four patients, among which in one patient delta-waveform activity persisted following cessation of the electrocardiogram and arterial pressure. We think that this conclusion is to easily reached. With surface EEG recording, only the outer layer of the cerebral cortex can be reached. It is incorrect to state that based on this clinical observation, neurologic function had permanently ceased. It is recently recognized that the cerebral cortex and hypothalamus share massive bidirectional connections. Pessoa (2) concluded that "the hypothalamus is involved in a host of basis control functions. It is part of an extensive bidirectional connective system with cortex and many subcortical structures, in a manner that allows for extensive integration of cognitive and emotional information." As the deeper structures of the brain are more resistant to hypoxia than the cortex (3), we should be very careful stating that "neurologic function permanently has ceased" prior to the 5-minute waiting time after only recoding surface cortical activity. Dr. Kompanje has disclosed employment, lectures, and royalties. Dr. Bakker has disclosed that he does not have any potential conflicts of interest.


Background and purpose:  The inter‐relation between the size of patent foramen ovale (PFO) by transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) and the amount of microembolic signals (MES) on transcranial doppler (TCD) is still not determined.


Aim: On the basis of identified source of major bacterial infections at four agro-climatic zones in West Bengal the cost-effective biosecurity strategy was formulated for backyard poultry farmers. The aim of the present study was to assess the adoption. So, the study was aimed to detect the adoption level of the formulated biosecurity strategy to mitigate the Salmonella and Escherichia coliweek post-hatch period chicks were contamination level in the sources and its correlation with egg production in West Bengal. Materials and Methods: A questionnaire was prepared querying regarding the biosecurity measures presently followed by the farmers, if any and egg production of their birds. Subsequent to the interview the formulated biosecurity strategy was conveyed. After 3 months, the interview with the same questionnaire was conducted to the same farmers to detect their adoption level. Results: The change in practices were noted in certain parameters which differs significantly (p<0.01 or p<0.05). As a consequence, the average egg production/flock was increased in 3 months after adoption of the strategy (618.2±37.77/flock) in comparison to last 3 months average before adoption of the strategy (495.3±30.00/flock) which also differs significantly (p<0.01). Conclusion: The present study detected the implementation of the biosecurity strategy in backyard poultry farming in West Bengal can substantially benefit the farmers in terms of increased egg production.


Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most commonly occurring neurodegenerative disease. It is characterized by motor dysfunctions resulting from a deficiency of dopamine in the striatum caused by degeneration of dopaminergic (DAergic) neurons in the nigrostriatal pathway. While there is no cure for PD, L-DOPA is commonly prescribed to alleviate the motor symptoms by restoring dopamine in the striatum. However, L-DOPA may jeopardize the health of the remaining neurons based on evidence that dopamine handling is dysregulated in PD, which is likely the result of deficient vesicular sequestration by the vesicular monoamine transporter 2 (VMAT2). Accordingly, VMAT2 mRNA, protein, and activity are decreased in PD patients. Deficits in vesicular sequestration result in cytosolic dopamine, which is detrimental to neuronal health due to two processes – metabolism and oxidation – which generate reactive metabolites and cause oxidative stress. It is vital to investigate the consequence of impaired dopamine sequestration to understand the pathogenesis of PD and to understand how to approach therapeutic intervention in PD.
This dissertation research studied the effect of viral-mediated decreased VMAT2 expression on neuronal health. A decrease in VMAT2 resulted in increased dopamine metabolism and oxidation, deficits in dopamine-mediated behaviors, generation of aberrant α-synuclein, activation of PD-associated kinase LRRK2, and a loss of DAergic neurons in the SNpc with a corresponding degeneration of DAergic terminals in the striatum. The loss of DAergic neurons following decreased endogenous VMAT2 was rescued by reintroducing exogenous VMAT2. These data suggest that decreasing VMAT2 expression is sufficient to induce PD associated pathogenic mechanisms of neurodegeneration, further implicating the role of dysfunctional dopamine packaging in the pathogenesis of PD. Given the toxic potential of cytosolic dopamine observed, the hypothesis that increased sequestration of dopamine would be protective against nigrostriatal degeneration in a PD model was tested. While we were able to successfully demonstrate viral-mediated overexpression of VMAT2, we were unable to detect VMAT2 overexpression-mediated protection. This data is in disagreement with previous in vivo studies and is likely due to limitations of our model.


Cost savings from energy conservation are most likely to be realized when managers have direct knowledge of their own departments' energy consumption. The little-used technique of submetering can provide this knowledge, offering hoteliers more control of their utility budgets and more precision in allocating costs


In rotating superfluid 3He‐B, a sharp transition to turbulence which is insensitive to the fluid velocity is observed in contrast to classical turbulence. Instead, this transition is controlled by an intrinsic parameter, q ≡ α/1 − α′, of the superfluid, where α and α′ are mutual friction parameters depending on temperature. However, rotating superfluid 3He‐B is the only system which shows this kind of transition, and many unsolved mysteries yet remain. Hence, we study numerically the quantum vortex dynamics in thermal (unidirectional) counter flow systems especially at high temperatures, with the goal of proposing a new system which also shows a turbulence transition controlled by q. It is shown that the critical velocity above which the system can sustain a vortex tangle increases sharply at q ≈ 0.4. This means that no vortex tangle state can be stable for q ≳ 0.4. This may be closely relevant to the dramatic vortex dynamics transition caused by q in rotating superfluid 3He‐B.


Accurate estimation of the wave field and subsequent vessel response prediction are vital for making crucial judgments on the safe and timely execution of marine operations. Decision support systems based on the Response-Based Decision-Making (RBDM) methodology are still in the early stages due to the challenges in addressing the uncertainties in the environmental conditions and vessel computational models. Therefore, this study offers a model tuning technique that utilizes the waves measured from an onboard X-band wave radar, wave buoy, and simultaneously measured vessel motions using an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), for applications in RBDM. For this purpose, full-scale wave and vessel response measurements were conducted using the NTNU research vessel Gunnerus on the west coast of Norway. The on-site directional wave spectra are obtained by processing the backscattered radar images using existing inversion schemes. Furthermore, the directional wave spectra are also derived from the nearby wave buoy measurements using the Maximum Entropy Method (MEM). The influential system variables in the vessel model that induce maximum variation to the response Quantities of Interest (QoIs) are quantitatively identified using probabilistic sensitivity indices. Out of the 31 system variables, only 14 were considered influential and subsequently tuned by minimizing the error between the measured and simulated response spectra. Heave, roll, and pitch modes were tuned and results exhibit superior agreement with the measured response spectra.


The energy spectrum and angular distribution of the protons emitted from'60Ni on bombardment with 13.5 Mev neutrons have been studied using photographic emulsions. About 30% of the protons emitted can be attributed to direct interaction processes.


Distributed control strategies based on consensus algorithms for DC microgrids have gained intensive interest in recent years thanks to its advantages of high reliability, resilience, and expandability, over centralized control ones. Thus, global information can be accurately shared in a distributed way by sharing information between neighbor units. Meanwhile, hierarchical control paradigm consisting of three levels, i.e., primary, secondary, and tertiary, has become a standard solution for DC microgrids. Usually, the primary control is performed locally without communication, while secondary and tertiary controls desire distributed communication to obtain average voltage or current among units. Thus, the sparse communications are crucial to distributed control of DC microgrids. In this work, three main communication conditions, i.e., link failure, communication delay, and noise are included in analyzing effects of these conditions on distributed control of DC microgrids. Simulation model is built to verify the analysis in MATLAB/Simulink environment.


Synopsis High temperature region including combustion zone ill the eX/Jerimenlal blast furnace was observed by using a jibre- or bore-scope. Interpretation of the iliformations recorded on movies and video tapes on the basis of experiments by a hot model gave the following estimations on the conditions of several parts in the region. (1) Under the normal operation, " dead man " in the sense ofstagnant coke motion seems to exist in the center of lower bosh, but its sufficiently large voidage and dryness bring about a good gas permeability and reason ably high temperature. (2) Combustion of coke particles takes place at least partly during their circulation in the raceways. (3) Flowing of the molten products into the raceways is usually pre vented by ascending gas flow, forming a dry zone around them. Some of slag, however, mcry trickle down and be blown out by radially flowing gas jet. (4) Coke jines generated in a large quantity due to the disintegratioll somewhere in the high temperature region are separated in the raceways from large jJarticLes and are thrown up to a higher level by ascending gas flow. Then they fall down to all directions and are aCCllmulaled even tually in the hearth and bosh, bringing aboul a deteriomled liquid permea bility and abnormal stock descending.


DEAR SIR, EvengaÊrd et al.'s article [1] on chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is disappointing, because in their review, despite its 15 pages and 165 references, there is not a single word about the staggering similarity between CFS and Addison's disease. As someone whose CFS symptoms resolved dramatically with an old remedy for Addison's disease [2], I understandably found that review even more disappointing. To compensate for EvengaÊrd et al.'s failure to mention both the impressive overlap of CFS with Addison's disease and its clinical implications, I summarize here these issues. CFS and Addison's disease share 36 features [3± 6]. Three others, however, are to be added. In fact, reduction in adrenal gland size [7], antibodies against the adrenal gland [8] and respiratory muscle dysfunction [9], besides being present in CFS [7±9], have also been found in Addison's disease [10±12]. In view of the 39 features that CFS shares with Addison's disease [3±12] (see Table 1), which constitute a similarity between two distinctly named diseases that is probably unequalled in the medical Journal of Internal Medicine 2000; 247: 737±739


Objective The aim of this study was to determine the histological changes of l-arginine-induced acute pancreatitis and the possible protective effect of pentoxifylline on pancreatic acini in adult male albino rats. Background Acute pancreatitis is a reversible inflammation that is either localized to the pancreas or may spread to adjoining tissues. Materials and methods Forty adult male albino rats weighing 180-200 g each were used in this study. The rats were divided into four equal groups (10 rats each). Group I was the control group. In group II (l-arginine-treated), rats were administered two intraperitoneal injections of l-arginine at a dose of 200 mg/100 g/body weight with 1-h interval. They were randomly subdivided into two equal subgroups: in IIA, rats were killed after 24 h of the last l-arginine injection and in IIB, rats were killed after 1 week of the last l-arginine injection. In group III (l-arginine and pentoxifylline-treated), rats were administered l-arginine and pentoxifylline. l-arginine was given similar to group II and pentoxifylline was given as a single intraperitoneal injection at a dose of 12 mg/kg body weight/day. They were randomly subdivided into two equal subgroups: in IIIA, rats were given a single dose of pentoxifylline then were killed after 24 h and in subgroup IIIB, rats were given pentoxifylline daily for 1 week then were killed. In group IV (pentoxifylline-treated), rats were administered pentoxifylline as a single intraperitoneal injection of 12 mg/kg body weight/day for 1 week then rats were killed. Results l-arginine-treated rats for 24 h showed pancreatic edema, degenerative changes of pancreatic acini, and inflammatory cell infiltration. These changes were marked after 1 week; however, pentoxifylline supplementation in group III showed amelioration of the histological picture, which was marked after daily pentoxifylline treatment for a week. Conclusion It is concluded that pentoxifylline was found to improve the histological changes of pancreatic acini caused by l-arginine.


Objective: To explore the correlation of TCM syndromes and immune indices in AIDS patients. Methods: HIV/AIDS patients were chosen as an observation group and healthy person as a control group. TCM syndromes of observation group were discriminated. Blood samples of the observation group and the control group were both detected. Results: Yin deiciency and heat exuberance syndrome was lower than qi-blood deiciency syndrome and qi-blood deiciency complicated with phlegm-dampness accumulation in the expression of CD8CD25, lower than phlegm-dampness accumulation syndrome in the expression of CD8CD25 and CD8CD95. Qi-blood deiciency complicated with phlegm-dampness accumulation was higher than qi-blood deiciency and blood stasis syndrome but lower than qi-blood deiciency syndrome in the expression of CD3. Phlegm-dampness accumulation syndrome was lower than Asthenia of both the Spleen and Kidney syndrome, qi-blood deiciency complicated with phlegm-dampness accumulation and qi-blood deiciency syndrome in the expression of CD19. It was also lower than qi-blood deiciency syndrome, qi-blood deiciency and blood stasis syndrome in the expression of CD4, but higher than qiblood deiciency syndrome, qi-blood deiciency and blood stasis syndrome in the expression of CD8CD95. Conclusion: There is a certain correlation of TCM syndromes and immune indices in AIDS patients. Immune indices had a significant difference among different TCM syndromes of AIDS.


This article expounds the character of the control layer that the Rockwell Automation put forward and analyses the implicit token passing protocol that the ControlNet uses.The ControlNet is applied widely in the automation network system by using the producer/consumer network models. 〔


Simple Summary G protein–coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the most critical protein group for drug development, targeting about 35% of approved drugs. As their abnormal activation causes many diseases, including cancer, it is beneficial to discover novel GPCRs that are aberrantly expressed in cancer and function in cancer progression. We discovered that neuropeptide FF receptor 2 (NPFFR2) is aberrantly expressed in liver cancer and promotes malignancy by enhancing the activity of RhoA/YAP, and inhibiting NPFFR2 dramatically reduced the malignant phenotypes. We expect that these findings provide a novel potential target for cancer treatment. Abstract G protein–coupled receptors (GPCRs) are a diverse family of cell surface receptors implicated in various physiological functions, making them common targets for approved drugs. Many GPCRs are abnormally activated in cancers and have emerged as therapeutic targets for cancer. Neuropeptide FF receptor 2 (NPFFR2) is a GPCR that helps regulate pain and modulates the opioid system; however, its function remains unknown in cancers. Here, we found that NPFFR2 is significantly up-regulated in liver cancer and its expression is related to poor prognosis. Silencing of NPFFR2 reduced the malignancy of liver cancer cells by decreasing cell survival, invasion, and migration, while its overexpression increased invasion, migration, and anchorage-independent cell growth. Moreover, we found that the malignant function of NPFFR2 depends on RhoA and YAP signaling. Inhibition of Rho kinase activity completely restored the phenotypes induced by NPFFR2, and RhoA/F-Actin/YAP signaling was controlled by NPFFR2. These findings demonstrate that NPFFR2 may be a potential target for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma.


During the last five years several drugs have been introduced for the treatment of hypertension. Of these, hexamethonium, pentolinium tartrate (Ansolysen), and Ecolid [4, 5, 6, 7-tetrachloro-2-(2-dimethylaminoethyl) isoindoline dimethochloride], which was known experimentally as Su 3088, are orally active agents that reduce blood pressure by blocking or suppressing cholinergic nerve transmission through the sympathetic and parasympathetic ganglions. Hydralazine (Apresoline) hydrochloride has a moderate adrenolytic or sympatholytic action. There is some evidence that it increases renal blood flow, depresses the midbrain, or neutralizes certain humoral vasopressor substances. Alkavervir (Veriloid) and protoveratrines A and B (Veralba), alkaloids of Veratrum viride and Veratrum album, respectively, induce dilatation of arterioles by acting on vasomotor centers or influencing the receptors of the buffer nerves. The Veratrum drugs slow the heart rate and in larger doses cause nausea and then vomiting and salivation. Rauwolfia serpentina, its purified fraction, alseroxylon, or its crystalline alkaloid, reserpine, have a


This study assessed the training needs of cassava farmers in Egbeda local government area of Oyo State, Nigeria. Simple random sampling technique was used to select one hundred and twenty (120) respondents from six communities in the study area. Data were collected using interview schedule and analysed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. The results revealed that, majority of the respondents (60.0%) belong to the age group of 31-50 years. Higher percentage of the respondents (71.7%) were married and (54.2%) of them had no formal education. Majority of the respondents (60.0%) had cassava farming as their primary occupation with many of them (58.3%) having a farm size of less than five hectares. Few (18.3%) of the farmers had access to extension agents and majority of them (46.7%) planted local variety of cassava. Area of training highly needed by the respondents includes choosing desirable variety (71.6%),industrial utilization of cassava chips (70.8%) and fertilizer application (64.2%).The major constraints limiting farmers access to training include lack of credit facilities (72.5%) among other variables. There is significant association between respondents age ( =19.462, p<0.05), educational level ( =13.132, p<0.05), farm size ( =15.156, p<0.05) and training needs of the farmers. Also there is correlation between constraints (r=0.153, p<0.05) and training needs of the respondents among other variables. It is recommended that training programmes should be organised for farmers in the areas where they are deficient in knowledge and skills.


In order to explain the necessity of the establishment of a fishery right institution in civil law and jus rem in China, the provisions on fishery rights in the laws of foreign countries and Taiwan Province are analyzed in this paper. The definition and characteristics of fishery rights are also put forward in accordance to the present condition of fishery right in China. In the end of the paper, the major issues in the fishery right institution in China are analyzed, and specific suggestions are given.


An impact of nitrogen input on growth and photosynthetic physiology of plant species seedlings was analyzed with three desert species,Alhagi sparsifolia,Zygophyllum fabago and Plantago maritime,as examples.The median-and high-concentration input could promote the increase of biomass of these three desert species seedlings.With increase of nitrogen input,the root growth of A.sparsifolia increased,but that of Z.fabago and P.maritime did not.The shoot/root ratio of these three desert species all increased with the increase of nitrogen input,and it suggested that the nitrogen deposition could increase the productivity of plant,especially the aboveground part.With increase of nitrogen input,the net photosynthetic rate,contents of chlorophyll and soluble protein and soluble sugar of these three desert species also increased,but the water use efficiency of A.sparsifolia and P.maritima decreased and that of Z.fabago increased.


To study the novel Periplaneta americana cDNA Parcxpwxxq01,various bioinformatic methods such as BLASTp,ORF Finder,ProtScale,ScanProsite and Tmpred Server were used to analyze and predict the feature and possible functions of the novel cDNA sequence.We get the results:Parcxpwxxq01 was the full-length of a novel Periplaneta americana gene.Von Heijine transmembrane analysis clewed that the protein of gene Parcxpwxxq01 encoding was a alkalinity transmembrane protein.The protein is perhaps the effective medicinal component.Therefore,the functions of the novel gene are valuable for further investigations.


India experiences diverse climatic conditions ranging from tropical in the south to temperate and alpine in the Himalayan north. As the EHV transmission network of India is spread across the length and breadth of the country, it is quite natural that the national grid too is subjected to different climatic conditions. Even different parts of the same overhead 765 kV or 400 kV long line experience different weather conditions at the same time, as the line passes through different weather zones. Depending upon the season, the transmission network is exposed to different extreme weather conditions. Though the overhead lines are well designed to endure these diverse weather conditions while maintaining reliability margin, but their performance is to some extent influenced by the climatic condition. One of the performance indices is its loss. The ohmic loss is dependent on the power flow and not much affected by weather. But corona loss which takes place in EHV transmission network is greatly influenced by the weather condition and seasonal change in the country. This paper aims at identifying the area in the eastern grid of the country where corona loss variation is more in different season. Some measures to minimize such loss are also suggested.


Teacher-student communication is helpful to the setting up of student's active value view. We should realize the importance of teacher-student communication and guide students to realize life's ideal and meaning through constructing student's value world in teacher-student communication.


The paper contains the characteristics of the population density of Convallaria majalis plants in different phytocenoses of Shostka geobotanical district. The groups in which the populations of C. majalis are represented are different by the dominants of the forest tier. Two of them (Pinetum (sylvestris) sorboso (aucuparii)–elytrigiosum (repentis), Pinetum (sylvestris) coryloso (avellanae)–urticosum (dioicae)) are dominated by Pinus sylvestris L., in three (Quercetum (roborisvel aorylory aory))–Fragariosum (vescae), Quercetum (roboris) coryloso (avellanae)–poosum (nemoralis), Quercetum (roboris) poosum (nemoralis))–Quercus robur L., in one (Querceto (roboris)−Aceretum (platanoidos) elytrigietum (platanoidos)) repentis))–Acer platanoides L. when dominated by Quercus robur and two more Tilia cordata Mill. when dominated by Quercus robur.
In the studied populations of C. majalis, the population density values generally range from 20,4 to 45,5 plants/m2. Вut, the highest density values were found in the Querceto (roboris)−Tilieto (cordatae) convallariosum (majalis) group, respectively, reaching 45.5+5.13 plants/m2. In the Quercetum (roboris) coryloso (avellanae)–fragariosum (vescae) group, the values of this characteristic are, in contrast, reduced to 20.4+1.50 plants/m2.
Some regularities have been identified in the distribution of population density values. Populations of C. majalis, formed under the pinnacle forest, tend to have smaller population densities than those growing in deciduous forests. An expressed increase in population increase in population density is manifested in many common pine-deciduous forests. Accordingly, an analysis of the change in population density of C. majalis was conducted against the background of the growth of their populations in different forest plant conditions: common pine forests: (formation Pineta sylvestris, subformations Pineeta sylvestris); 2– oak forests (formation – Querceta roboris, subformation Querceeta roboris); 3 – common oak-maple forest (formation – Acereta platanoiditis, subformation Querceto (roboris) – Acereta platanoiditis); 4 – oak-linden forests (formation – Tilieta cordatae, subformation Querceto (roboris) – Tilieta cordatae).


Internet of Things (IoT) promises to be a reliable technology for the future in different sectors including health. The health sector is one of the fields which is rapidly adopting IoT solutions with the aim to improve health care services; resulting to security vulnerabilities. This paper uses exploratory method with an objective to review various literature on application of IoTs in e-health based on the latest publications and technologies available in the health sector. In addition analyze the various software platforms available in the field of IoT in e-health. The literature on the security and privacy challenges and threats faced by the IoT in the health industry have also been explored. The results of this paper show that Energy Optimization, Denial of services, Physical attacks, Data manipulation, Trust and Privacy are key threats to the implementation of IoT in the health sector. The mitigation strategies to managing the identified security issues including trust and privacy challenges owing the level of data confidentiality required for healthcare organizations using IoT have been discussed.


Major flavours and fragrances in food industries are currently produced by chemical synthesis which act as artificial flavours or naturally identical flavours, however these are not eco-friendly. This review provides a wide idea of those flavours and fragrances which can be produced naturally by biotransformation of chemicals from their precursors using enzymes/whole cells (biocatalysis), fermentation (microbial metabolite biosynthesis), production of flavours from agricultural wastes and plant cells, etc . Biosynthesis provides an abundant amount of compounds with flavour of cherry, almond, strawberry, pine apple, cheese, onions, and grapes. They are mainly synthesized using biocatalysts such as lipase, carboxylesterases, hydrolase and protease. Biosynthesis of flavours are eco-friendly, has specific selectivity (regio-, enantio), wastes can be recycled easily and can be produced under mild reaction conditions such as room temperature, neutral pH and solvent free environment compared to chemical synthesis. Adoption of this naturally produced flavours will be beneficial to human health and creates chemical free atmosphere.


Barangay Health Services has been providing assistance throughout its premise ever since the release of the Letter of Instruction No. 949,s. 1979 by President Ferdinand Marcos mandating the minister of health to develop and implement programs focusing on health development at the community level. This has caused barangay officials to collaborate and create a team of barangay health workers with nurses and midwives that will be able to provide such services for each individuals and families. Thus, in the ever-changing world where technology penetrates in all aspects of human interaction, it is essential to have an automated information system for barangay health services as well. Though the grounds for making such progress were not limited to what one community is using, it is ideal for one barangay health services clinic to work together with the others and be united at its core. This study proposes the development and implementation of an online health services system that will be able to serve its function for the barangays of San Mateo Rizal. It is meant to be user-system adaptive considering the process flows and reports mandated by the Municipal Health office and the Department of Health.


A number of options available for rice residue management including in-situ incorporation, onfarm retention or removal, are available with the farmers to tackle with the menace of rice residue burning. In this connection, a survey was conducted in five villages of district Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar, Punjab adopted by Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Langroya to identify the paddy straw management techniques followed by the farmers and determine their relative cost effectiveness and resource use efficiency, and saving of time for the sowing of succeeding wheat. Survey showed that majority (6283%) farmers in the adopted villages, preferred sowing of wheat crop with Happy Seeder. The insitu residue incorporation techniques were followed by a maximum of 34% farmers. Happy Seeder technology took only 2.42 h to sow an area of one hectare as compared to 10.02 and 11.75 h for residue incorporation involving a sequence of operations comprising either disc harrow-rotodrill or disc harrow-seed broadcast-rotavator. Highest energy efficiency was recorded in Happy Seeder technology, which used 19.97 L of diesel to sow one hectare area in comparison to 69.77 and 71.60 L in disc harrow-rotodrill and disc harrows-broadcasting-rotavator techniques, respectively. Furthermore, least cost of crop establishment (Rs. 3020/ha) was observed using Happy Seeder method compared to Rs. 4812 and Rs. 5195 for disc harrow-rotodrill and disc harrows-broadcasting-rotavator, respectively. Our study clearly demonstrates that for on-farm rice residue management, sowing of wheat crop using Happy Seeder (surface residue retention) is an economically viable and eco-friendly option as compared to residue incorporation.


The debate on sustainability has brought awareness about the environmental aggressions and some consumers now require natural products whose use and exploitation causes minimal impacts, making it a market niche for these products. The Amazon is emerging as repository of these new sources of raw materials and the companies look the rural communities as their suppliers. The objective of this study was to analyze the integration of the farming families of a place called regionally Santo Antonio do Abonari community in the productive dynamics of buriti oil for the corporate segment of the Industrial Pole of Manaus, and the social, economic and environmental consequences thereof arising. The Association's relationship with the buriti oil purchasing companies, active in the market were extremely unfavorable not only in relation to compliance with the requirements for standards of quality, quantity and deadlines. It was found that the inclusion of a community of family farmers in the global economy needs to be planned. So how these farmers are related to the environment ensures the sustainability of their production practices and thus conservation is guaranteed of all the elements, materials and cultural involved. Palavras-chave: Buriti; Extrativismo; Sustentabilidade. 1Universidade Federal do Amazonas. firstname.lastname@example.com 2Universidade Federal do Amazonas. email@example.com 3Instituto Nacional de Pesquisa do Amazônia. firstname.lastname@example.com 4Universidade Federal do Amazonas. firstname.lastname@example.com 5Universidade Federal do Amazonas. firstname.lastname@example.com 50


A liberal education includes an ethnocultural component, characterised by an introduction to the educational process the knowledge of traditional culture in order to foster friendly relations with people of different nationalities. This is the greatest achievement of museums created in schools, libraries, homes, etc. The paper attempts to present materials on studying Mordovian diaspora and the role of museums in the ethno-cultural upbringing based on the results of ethnographic expeditions 2011—2012 in the Vladimir region, Moscow city and Moscow region. During ethnographic expeditions various museums (regional, rural, high school, etc.) were visited in order to collect ethnographic material and identify the role of museums in the ethnic and cultural education, in the study of the traditional culture of ethnic groups, in particular Mordovian diaspora, living in the area under study. Pursuing the above goals, the author studied information stored in the museums on the history of migration, immigrants, statistics, artifacts on the material and spiritual culture, etc. The article focuses on the author's museums that are rich in collections of clothing, utensils, written information (documents, manuscripts and printed sources, etc.), photographs, etc. and have great educational value for the younger generation by strengthening love to the past of their ancestors. The article specifies that the materials from museums of Vladimir, Moscow region and Moscow are justified and valid sources for the study of the past, characteristics of the traditional culture and modern trends of social development of the Mordovian people living in these areas. Museums activities are not only in revealing the history and current situation of Mordovians in these areas, but also in safeguarding and developing traditional, cultural and historical values, customs, and in arousing interest to their good origins. The article underscores the necessity for popularising the research work of museums and libraries in these regions that contribute to the ethnocultural education of students and a wider audience.


PURPOSE: A method for display a dental digital x-ray image is provided to observe the progress and history for each tooth easy regardless of displaying a photo of each teeth in order to confront with the position of each teeth in a dental digital X-ray program. CONSTITUTION: The method comprises steps of deciding a screen possessing ratio between a standard and a history screen, deciding the coordinates of the display area about the tooth image displayed on a screen position confronting with a position of the real tooth according to the screen possession ratio of the standard screen, searching the tooth image stored in each display area, extracting and converting the last image of each display area and displaying the searched tooth image in each display area of the standard screen according to the each coordinates, searching and extracting the history images of the selected tooth, sorting and storing the history images in an array, deciding the coordinates of the display area displayed the history images according to the screen possessing ratio of the history screen, and displaying the stored history images on a history screen display area.


Purpose
This paper studies social inequality in the vital field of employment in Spain during the crisis period 2009-2014.

Design/methodology/approach
Factor analysis is used to build a synthetic index of employment exclusion. The starting information matrix collects data from a wide set of employment variables for all 17 Spanish autonomous communities and the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla. Based on this information, four factors are extracted which explain employment exclusion in different situations of vulnerability, such as unemployment, temporality, poverty or low pay.

Findings
In the territorial ranking, Madrid, Basque Country, Aragon and Catalonia show the lowest risk of employment exclusion, whereas Ceuta, Andalusia, Extremadura and Canary Islands show the highest ones.

Originality/value
The main value of this research is that it confirms the need for coordination of public policies in order to foster social and territorial cohesion in Spain.


According to relevant data from the year 2000 to 2008,this paper analyzes inbound tourism market of Ningxia based on the competition state and the preference scale.This paper also constructs a grey GM(1,1)prediction model of this market with the Grey Theory.It is hoped that it will provide some scientific measures for the development of inbound tourism market of Ningxia province.


Because of the infrequent occurrence of earthquakes, the Easter half of the United states is generally not thought of as being particularly prone to earthquake damage. There have only been a few earthquakes of significant magnitude in recent history and the ones that occur with any kind of regularity are considered mild to moderate. Despite the lack of warning from Mother Nature, the potential for damage to highway bridges in these regions does exist. The vulnerability of the existing bridge population is accentuated by the fact that most were designed and detailed without any consideration of this potential. All states have a rigorous bridge inspection program to assess the physical condition of their bridges. In addition, some states have a vulnerability assessment program to measure the risk of damage from earthquakes as well as from other unusual occurrences like scour, overweight vehicles, fatigue cracking, and collision. This paper will present the screening and evaluation methodologies used by one such Department of Transportation (DOT) to lessen the potential for damage due to earthquakes, as infrequent or mild as they might be. It will also describe what precautionary design and detailing practices are typically used by DOTs in these regions even when high seismic forces are not anticipated.


Some novel heterocyclic derivatives of 1,1-bis(2-phenyl-5-arylidine-1,3-thiadiazolidin-4-one)cyclopropane 4(a-i) have been synthesized from cyclopropane dicarboxylic acid and substituted thiadiazole moieties. All the synthesized com- pounds have been characterized by elemental and spectral (I.R., 1 H-NMR, Mass) analysis. Furthermore, above said com- pounds were screened for their antifungal and antibacterial activities. Compound 4c was found the most potent one which further evaluated for lesser toxicity test.


This paper presents results of statistical analysis of fractal and texture features obtained from images of diffuse pulmonary diseases (DPDs). The features were extracted from preprocessed regions of interest (ROIs) selected from high-resolution computed tomography images. The ROIs represent five different patterns of DPDs and normal lung tissues. A Gaussian mixture model (GMM) was constructed for each feature, including all patterns. For each GMM, the six classes were identified and compared with the radiological classification of the corresponding ROIs. In 78.5% of the features, the GMM provides, for at least one class, a correct classification of at least 60%. The GMM approach facilitates detailed statistical analysis of the characteristics of each feature and assists in the development of classification strategies.


Sparse representation can efficiently model signals in different applications to facilitate processing. In this article, we will discuss various applications of sparse representation in wireless communications, with a focus on the most recent compressive sensing (CS)-enabled approaches. With the help of the sparsity property, CS is able to enhance the spectrum efficiency (SE) and energy efficiency (EE) of fifth-generation (5G) and Internet of Things (IoT) networks.


Affinities and shared ideas may be found at the foundations of both fuzzy set theory and the western philosophical movement commonly referred to as Postmodernism. The interest in highlighting these affinities is driven by the fact that the ideas and beliefs that are questioned by both these movements are exactly those which stand (or used to stand) as foundations of both western philosophy and science, and have their roots in an Aristotelian view of the world. By direct comparison between concepts drawn from passages of the main philosophers of the Postmodern movement and fundamentals of fuzzy set theory, parallelisms and commonalities are brought to the surface.


Acerola is a tropical fruit with great agronomic and nutritional potential. Vegetative propagation of acerola plant can be an advantage for a quick selection of superior clones. With the objective of evaluating acerola clones regarding their agronomic characteristics and antioxidant capacity of their fruit, an experiment was set up in a randomised-block design with 25 treatments consisting of three replicates with three plants per plot at the Experimental Station in Paraipaba-Ceara. For three years the following characteristics were evaluated: plant height, crown diameter and yield and as post-harvest parameters of the fruit, enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidants. The data shows the pattern of vertical growth displayed by the clones is resultant of a selection carried out with the progeny of two cycles. Among the studied clones, 23/2 (3), 79/10 (9) and 26/5 (4) presented good yield and vitamin C content and therefore, have potential for the industrial extraction of vitamin C, while 20/4 (8) has good yield and vegetative growth besides a high antioxidant enzymatic activity, thereby showing good potential for in natura market.


This study investigates the signaling effect of relative social capital (RSC) on IPO performance of entrepreneurial firms. We argue that by signaling RSC through upstream, lateral and downstream partners an issuing firm can build up organizational legitimacy and obtain greater IPO price premium. Using a sample of 315 IPOs of entrepreneurial firms from 2009 to 2012 from China's emerging ChiNext market, we find evidence for our arguments. The RSC of upstream partners plays a significant signaling role in increasing the IPO price premium whereas the RSC of downstream partners has little contribution. Results suggest that the signaling value of RSC is contingent upon underwriters prestige. Specifically, the RSC of lateral partners in firms without prestigious underwriter contributes more to the IPO price premium than that in firms with prestigious underwriter, whereas RSC of upstream partners in firms with prestigious underwriter makes more contributions to IPO price premium than that in firms without prestig...


Surface characteristics of pavements have a significant influence on the comfort and safety for the road users. Fuel consumption and vehicle wear are expenses the road users meet every day and in order to keep these to a limit and to assure comfortable and safe roads it is necessary to be able to measure pavement surface characteristics. One of the characteristics which plays an important role in this connection is the pavement's longitudinal and transverse evenness. Bumpy roads produce poor riding comfort and increase driver fatigue. Poor transverse evenness equals rutting and increases the risk for aquaplaning and often results in situations that the driver cannot control. Today many sophisticated measuring systems are used around the world to measure the evenness of pavements. Modern technology makes it possible to measure the longitudinal and transverse profiles very precisely even if the measuring equipment is placed in a vehicle operated at normal traffic speed. Even with the introduction of modern technology and modern data handling techniques, it is seen that these profiling equipments vary widely from country to country. PIARC is therefore conducting an experiment to compare and evaluate results measured by using different equipment and varying measurement methods. The experiment is anticipated to take place in USA, Japan and Europe in 1998 conducted as three separate regional experiments to facilitate for differences in practice in the regions. PIARC's role in the experiment is to act as an umbrella organisation assuring a common benefit by linking the experiments together by means of a core program. As the experiment will be conducted in 1998, the paper will not be able to report the complete result of the outcome from all three regions. The paper will however, present the status and first achievements of the experiment and present the work to be completed before the PIARC World Congress in 1999.


Spaceborne scatterometry, although originally used to measure winds over oceans, has been useful in the study of vegetation over different regions of the world. For example, scatterometer measurements of the normalized radar cross section, /spl sigma//sup 0/ have been used for tropical vegetation classification and in studies of the freeze/thaw cycles of boreal forests. From September 1996 through June 1997 both the Ku-band NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT) and the C-band ERS-2 AMI scatterometer were operating. This provides a unique opportunity to simultaneously characterize large scale vegetation response at both bands. The authors examine the seasonal response of vegetation in North America using both sensors. Observations of the seasonal cycles are discussed.


This communication investigates the early time radiated electric field from an infinite cylindrical antenna having a finite source region. The results presented here may be used to predict the radiated field from a finite antenna for times such that the wavefront from the source gap has not reached the end of the antenna.


PURPOSE
Activation of the NMDA glutamate receptors is critical for the initiation of synaptic plasticity. In the developing rat retina, NMDA receptor function has been associated with visual experience, though the light-dependent regulation of the subunit composition of the NMDA receptors is controversial. In the present study, the functional expression of NMDA receptors in the developing rabbit retina was characterized and the impact of light deprivation on how the subunit composition of NMDA receptors is regulated was examined.

METHODS
Antibodies against NR1 and NR2A/B were used to examine neonatal expression patterns of the NMDA receptor subunits. Furthermore, the functional NMDA receptors were mapped using the agmatine (AGB) activation assay.

RESULTS
Although NR1 and NR2A/B subunit immunoreactivity was prominently detectable only immediately after birth, AGB activation assay showed that functional NMDA receptors could be identified as early as embryonic day 21. No significant difference was observed between normal- and dark-reared animals in terms of their NR1 and NR2A/B expression. In addition, a comparison of AGB permeation between normal- and dark-reared animals showed no difference in functional expression of NMDA receptors.

CONCLUSIONS
These results indicate that NMDA receptors participate in the synaptic maturation of retinal circuits during the early stages of development but that the functional NMDA receptors, including their subunit composition, in the developing rabbit retina are independent of the rabbit's visual experience.


Is showing a tragic portrait of people in the developing world the only effective strategy to call for action and funding from people in donor countries? Can't we change the perspective toward victims in crisis? Polis reporter Asuka Kageura gives her response to the Polis Media Agenda Talk by Brendan Paddy, Head of Communications at the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), who was speaking in a personal capacity at LSE.


Heterocyclic compounds constitute the largest and probably the most studied class of organic compounds, owing to their ubiquity in Nature and myriad of manifested activities. Four-membered rings are particularly attractive scaffolds, owing to their ability to adopt, upon functionalization, a distinct 3D structure, a highly desirable feature in drug discovery process. Among nitrogen-containing heterocyclic rings, 1,2diazetidin-3-ones (aza--lactams) emerged as pharmaceutically promising motifs, upon the discovery that they act as potent inhibitors of the serine hydrolase protein phosphatase methylesterase-1.


PURPOSE: the aim of our research was to evaluate a child development monitoring program conducted by speech and language therapists taking into account the point of view of the families. METHOD: a qualitative study analyzed a focus group attended by eight subjects during two meetings. All group participants had at least attended two evaluations of the program. Data was collected with the support of a moderator, an observer and a reporter; it was then analyzed by grouping the most relevant and frequent categories found in the speeches of the participants. The discussion focused on the following aspects: reception, health promotion, empowerment, health care team, interdisciplinary work, integrality and bonding. RESULTS: program participants recognized the importance of speech therapists for health promotion and prevention insofar as they offer awareness training to child care providers and empower family members regarding infant development, which results in bonding between professionals and child care providers and integrated work. CONCLUSION: we analyzed the quality of the current health management model and suggest it be continued. However, it should start during gestation, include a higher number of follow up consultations and develop more multidisciplinary work.


Though the prospective relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and human rights has long been a prominent issue within the global political economy, the linkage is empirically underdeveloped. Rather, the conventional wisdom that FDI and respect for human rights are inherently contradictory has persisted. Instead, we posit that respect for human rights may encourage FDI. To examine this issue, we assess the direct effects of human rights upon FDI as well as the extent to which human rights indirectly affects FDI through its impact upon human capital. Using a system of simultaneous equations, we find respect for human rights to have a positive impact upon FDI.