Objective To investigate the best time of body temperature measured after physical cooling.Methods 90 patients with T≥38.5℃ were randomly divided into three groups of children received sponge bath with warm water(CW group),adult sponge bath with warm water(AW group) and adult sponge bath with alcohol(AA group).The body temperatures were measured and assessed before sponge bath(T0) and after 30 min(T1),45 min(T2),60 min(T3) and 75 min(T4) of the end sponge bath.Results The body temperatures at T3 were lower than that at T0-2(P0.01),and the temperatures of three groups were equivalent at the same time point(P0.05).Conclusion The best time of body temperature measured was at 60 minutes after physical cooling,and there was no significant impact on the cooling effect by taking alcohol or warm water sponge bath.


In this paper, Image-time correlation is a beneficial technique to apply various applications of dynamical events, where temporal changes of positions of particles (or objects) can be quantified, constructed by the collection of time-resolved video data. With the fast development of camera technologies and imaging softwares, the optimization of time-binning and spatial-resolution are much friendly-used for the imaging analysis. Time-dependent different regions of interest (ROIs) can be chosen, such that the time resolution of subsequent images should be at least 10 times faster than the actual dynamical events. Then time-correlation function will be calculated by the 2d intensity-intensity correlation of an each pixel-pixel of individual time frame of image, and the initial slope of correlation function gives a characteristic time scale that measures the average magnitude of particle velocities within the field-of-view. The advantage of image-time correlation is easy to implement as compared to the PIV (particle imaging velocimetry). In this short proceeding, the performance of image-time correlation is highlighted through a number of applications; such as the slowing down behaviors of collective dynamics of orientation textures, dimer-oscillations in rod-networks, and clay (platelet) migrations in an oil-water droplet. In each system, the interpretation of image-time correlation is addressed, based on the experimental observations.


It is important to solve the multiply connected region graph matching problem in engineering drawings recognition and interpretation, which is compounded by multi-polygon. First, the multiply connected region graph is represented by encircle polygon and connected polygon; then, the position problem of included connectivity is solved by achieving triangulation according to short-distance, non-cover and including principles. In the matching process, first the contour is positioned by matching encircle polygon, and then the connected region is removed successfully by matching connected polygon, at last the rotated and scaled graphics matching problem is accomplished by shrinking the graphics region step by step. This method has been applied in the automobile wire harness drawing recognition and makes good effect.


Applications of computer-aided design (CAD) techniques in the creation of teaching tools used in applied history of technology and mechanical engineering are described. We present the recovery and analysis of an old wheat mill, which used water as its energy source. The mill has been completely modelled using SolidWorksTM software, and a computer animation of the production process has been generated using 3DStudio MaxTM software. The generation of CAD models and learning from simulations is the subject of the course in technology history.


Objective To establish a model of symptomatic cerebral vasospasm (CVS) following subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) in rabbit. To study the three dimensional computed tomographic angiography (3D-CTA)of the basilar artery in rabbit model of symptomatic cerebral vasospasm. Methods After occlusion of bilateral carotid 2 weeks, the survival rabbit were randomized to 2 groups: experimental group(injecting blood twice via cistern)or control group(injecting normal saline twice via cistern) . 3D-CTA were used to measure basilar artery diameter on D0 and D5. Results Diameter of the basilar artery was assessed by 3D-CTA, and vasospasm was demonstrated at D5. Diameter of the basilar artery postoperation in the experimental group was smaller than in the control group postoperation (P 0. 01). Conclusion 3D-CTA is recommended as a reliable, rapid, and minimally invasive diagnostic method, provide a new technique for the delayed cerebral vasospasm research.


The article is devoted to the actual problem of modern traumatology in the treatment of posttraumatic suppurative arthritis of the ankle joint, which, according to the literature, is about 38.5% of all pyoinflammatory lesions of large joints. Purulent infection in the zone of the knee joint differs stubbornly with frequent relapses, conservative treatment is not very effective, in connection with what is currently the priority method of treatment is active surgical sanitation. A new technique which addresses the problem of inflammatory process arresting in an ankle joint with osseous ankylosis formation in surgical treatment of septic osteoarthritis is proposed in the article. The technique could be applied in surgical treatment of osteomyelitis in osseous structures which form the ankle joint. The worked-out method of ankle joint arthrodesis in septic osteoarthritis is the basis of the proposed technique. The method includes the overlap of external fixation device, surgical debridement of septic necrotic focus, lavage of joint cavity by a slotted pipe drain until the bacteria in lavage fluid are absent under three-fold sterility seeding with the following dosed compression of ankle bone and tibia bonesaw-lines. 22 patients were effectively treated with the abovementioned method with no inflammatory recurrences in the course of over five years.


NPM mutation (NPMm) has been recently reported as the most frequent mutation in AML, especially in the presence of a normal karyotype. Association of NPMm with an increased complete remission (CR) rate has been suggested, but the long-term prognosis is not known. The abnormal mutated NPM protein shows an aberrant cytoplasmic localization that allows an immunohistochemical detection of NPM status. However, all mutations reported are insertion/deletion of exon 12 resulting in a global insertion of 4 nucleotides. We therefore developed a NPMm detection test based on DNA PCR amplification and fragment length analysis. As previously reported, we observed a higher frequency of NPMm in AML with normal karyotype (47%, 50/106) than in CBF AML (0%, 0/7) or in AML with poor risk cytogenetic (13%, 4/32). We further evaluated the clinical profile and the prognosis of NPM mutations in a retrospective cohort of 106 patients with normal karyotype treated according to the ALFA-9000 or ALFA-9802 protocols between 1990 and 2004. In these patients aged 17–65 years, NPMm was significantly associated with a high white blood cell count (69 vs 18 G/L, p −4 was obtained. The high frequency, the stability, and the homogeneity of NPMm provide a promising minimal residual disease marker that we are prospectively evaluating. Prospective studies are also needed to confirm the definitive role of NPM mutation in the prognosis of AML patients.


Abstract Three different methods of spectral analysis are compared on the basis of a common interpretation in terms of time-varying Fourier analysis. The spectra obtained by these methods for a particular seismic event are given and differences in the results are resolved.


The copper concentration in serum can be affected by the presence of other trace elements such as silver. Low serum copper may result in decreased caeruloplasmin synthesis. We report the case of a 59-year-old woman, who was admitted to hospital with acute psychosis and who had been ingesting chronically, colloidal silver.


This paper will bring a new proposal for the management and control of consumable items in an electronic company at Manaus Industrial Pole, using the concept of human reliability in order to reach a best efficiency of the activities carried out by the coating station operators and also the use of tools like control charts, Ishikawa diagram, 5W2H, and PDCA which when are combined result in the understanding of the problem and also a better management method in the current situation.


Cooperative diveristy allows a collection of radio terminals that relay signals for each other to emulate an antenna array and exploit spatial diversity in wireless fading channels. For a variety of processing algorithms and transmission protocols, performance improvements in terms of transmission rate and reliability have been demonstrated. This chapter summarizes some low-complexity processing algorithms and transmission protocols for cooperative diversity, summarizes performance predictions in terms of information-theoretic outage probability, and how such constructs can be integrated into wireless network architectures, both


The invention relates to a secondary light concentration device which comprises a plurality of petal-shaped light concentration modules which are circumferentially distributed and integrally fitted into a light concentration surface; the focal lengths of the light concentration modules can be flexibly adjusted through a light concentration module adjusting assembly to realize a modularized focal-length-adjustable function of a secondary reflection light-concentration curve, and therefore the flexibility of the secondary light concentration device is improved, the installation precision requirement is reduced, and the installation and maintenance cost is decreased. The invention also relates a secondary light concentration system provided with the secondary light concentration device; the secondary light concentration system is provided with a single-column-type support structure at one side of the secondary light concentration device so that the shielding problem is effectively solved, and therefore the available range of a ground heliostat is greatly increased; in addition, by means of a secondary light concentration device inclination adjusting assembly of the secondary light concentration system, a variable optical axis function of the secondary light concentration device is realized, and therefore the requirements of target surfaces of various angles of heat absorbers are met, and the adaptation capability and the application range of the secondary light concentration system are greatly increased. The invention also relates to a solar thermal power generation system provided with the secondary light concentration system.


Purpose -Response to the sudden pandemic, COVID-19 drastic shift of work practices requires the implementation of an e-learning system, but their adoption requires a thorough understanding of the user acceptance process. Our key effort is to incorporate a framework, "internet experience" to determine the existing Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) applicability in describing students' s e-learning decisions in Haryana state.

Design/methodology- The researcher has administered a questionnaire based on TAM's constructs and collected data from UG and PG students of Haryana state of India.

Findings – The results revealed that perceived usefulness (PU) has a significant positive relationship with continuous usage intention (CUI) whilst, perceived ease of use (PEOU), computer self-efficacy (CSE) and internet experience (IE) have not. Attitude towards E-learning system (ATELS) has found no relevance in this model.

Originality/value Majority research has been done using the TAM model in a developed nation. Empirical study has not been done in Haryana state so far.


Based on the adaptive importance sampling (AIS) method, an analyzing model examines the effect of coherent and incoherent crosstalk accumulation on the transmission performance of wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) networks. The expression of the average bit error probability of a wavelength channel is given. We study the probability distribution of power penalties, which are influenced by the network nodes number, the WDM wavelength number, and the crosstalk level of optical components.


According to the fact that the large ventilating resistance and large air leakage problems existed in the local ventilation in the driftage of large turning angle road,proposes the solution of the problems by the negative pressure fan drum.It's successfully used in practice,and has widely spreaded in the heading face.


Takayasu's arteritis is a rare, idiopathic and chronic inflammatory disease. We report the successful anesthetic management of a 39- year-old woman with Takayasu's arteritis, in whom visual disturbance occurred after total abdominal hysterectomy.


Opening The Pilgrim's Progress Board Game (McLoughlin Brothers, 1875) reveals a bird's-eye view of a sweeping landscape of mountains and valleys transected by a road that begins at the Wicket Gate and snakes upward in lateral loops toward Mount Zion. The journey passes through topographical sites made familiar by John Bunyan's seventeenth-century allegory, in which readers follow Christian's pilgrimage from this world to the next, from Hill of Difficulty and House Beautiful, to Vanity Fair and the Land of Beulah, the last earthly point before death (fig. 1). A commodification of nineteenth-century religion, the board game nonetheless maintains the narrative structure and basic theology of the original text, embodying the continuities within Protestantism even as it became modernized.1 Indeed, Pilgrim's Progress and other religious games help us discern a development of the Protestant novel distinct from yet intersecting with its secular counterpart. Traditional novel theory has understood the form as explicitly secular, what Georg Lukács memorably defined as the "epic of a world that has been abandoned by God."2 Despite the recuperative work of feminist, historicist, and culturalist scholarship, religious


A thirty-year-old female with relapsing polychondritis was reported. The first symptom was redness and swelling of the bilateral auricles, then hoarsness and dyspnea followed after a half month.The case was followed for one year and three months. Dyspnea was caused by ankylosis and the edema of the bilateral vocal cords. Another causative factor was the stenosis of the main trachea. During the follow-up period, a saddle nose occured. The redness and swelling of the auricles, pain in the chest and upper and lower limb joints relapsed.


This paper designs and implements a set of experiment device for urban railway ATP simulation. The experiment device can realize urban railway train over speed protection,traction force calculation and protection curve draw by comprehensive utilization of Lab VIEW,ELVIS II,PLC and MCU.The experimental device can complete automatic train over speed alarm,stopping a train at a target point,control screen door switch,station voice reporting and other functions. Realization of the experimental system,the hardware,software design and working principle are introduced in this paper. The experimental device operation has achieved well effect in the laboratory.


ABSTRACT Body dissatisfaction is widely recognized as an important public health concern mainly for women because of its increasing incidence worldwide. The aim of this exploratory study was to test the predictive role of family influence on body satisfaction (BS) among young Italian women, during a decade conceptualized as 'emerging adulthood'. Instruments designed to assess BS, appearance-focused parental comments, maternal and paternal criticism were administered to 688 women aged between 18 and 28 years (M age = 23.40; SD = 2.33). Two regression analyses were used with life satisfaction levels, parental comments, and maternal/paternal criticism as independent variables to explain variance in BS for younger (18–23 years) and older (24–28 years) women. The data reveal an interesting difference in the influence of parental criticism on BS depending on the age cohort: maternal criticism negatively predicts BS in younger women, while paternal criticism is a risk factor for BS in older women.


Bacteriocins are proteinaceous substances having antigenic and developed by some microbial strains having the ability and effectiveness against pathogenic bacteria and spoilage, harmless to the consumer, and have no adverse effect on the organoleptic product quality. Bacteriocins are rendered inactive by the action of proteolytic enzymes present in the gastrointestinal tract, thy can resist high temperatures, are non-toxic and does not compromise the immune system in experimental animals. Bacteriocins as microbial defense systems has been widely researched and documented. However, though the diversity and abundance of bactrocins is very high, indicating their use as microbial weapons, research on ecological and evolutionary significance needs elaborate studies. More advanced studies are needed to unfold reasons for their success as toxins.


Background: To identify dialysis patients with low fetuin-A levels, a sensitive immunoluminometric assay (ILMA) was developed. Methods: For the two-site ILMA, one monoclonal antibody was coated to polystyrene beads and one polyclonal antibody was labelled with acridinium ester. Results: The lower detection threshold was 0.013 g/L, with the normal range 0.20–0.87 g/L (arithmetic mean 0.437 ± 0.118 g/L). Serum fetuin-A levels in the dialysis patients were significantly lower (arithmetic mean: 0.352 ± 0.099 g/L, p < 0.0001). Conclusion: This ILMA has been proved to be a reliable method for the determination of serum fetuin-A concentrations in dialysis patients.


: This article will address the secret, or what remains of it, from Jacques Derrida, especially in the books Demeure: fiction and testimony and Paissions: an oblique offering, from the psychoanalysis of MD Magno, the Theory of Revirão, and from the film In the mood for love by Wong Kar -Wai. The text addres-ses the impossibility of testimony, the secret as open and permanently unreachable, like the différance movement.


The sun shines brightly on the two bronze fi gures on the front porch. On the left, looking directly at visitors, Thomas Jefferson sits in shirt sleeves. He balances a lap desk on which he is writing the Declaration of Independence. Seated nearby, wrapped in his great coat, Benjamin Franklin is reading the Constituion. Through the front door comes their companion, Sid Lapidus, whose private home and library the Friends will visit on May 8. "Like many of you," he told a university audience recently, "I spend a good deal of intellectual time in another century. Mine is the eighteenth." He acquired his fi rst antiquarian book in London in 1959. "I had just graduated from Princeton as an American history major, and I was absent-mindedly scanning a bookseller's dusty window. I noticed a small book, a 1792 edition of Tom Paine's Rights of Man. The price? About the equivalent of $5. How could I not buy it? My book collecting career had started." While at Princeton, Lapidus was greatly inspired by the late R. R. Palmer, whose Age of the Democratic Revolution "created the framework for my collecting interests." From the single Paine volume, his collection of English, American, and French books documenting the expansion of liberty during the Age of the Enlightenment has grown dramatically in recent years. Numbering about a thousand items in 1999, it now contains nearly 2,250. At fi rst, Lapidus identifi ed and collected certain foundational themes related to the expansion of liberty. He made sure that he had what he calls "The Giants," the works of seventeenth-century English political thinkers who infl uenced the founders of the American republic: John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, James Harrington, Algernon Sidney. On the French side, he included Montesquieu and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Equally important, however, was the story of how and why political liberty expanded in the En glish colonies of North America. It could be found in the many octavo-size, one-shilling pamphlets of the period, such as Considerations upon the Rights of the Colonists to the Privileges of British Subjects, Introduc'd by a Brief Review of the Rise and Progress of English Liberty and Concluded with Some Remarks on Our Present Alarming Situation (New York, 1766). For that more elusive story, Lapidus relied heavily on the life work of Thomas R. Adams, now emeritus librarian of the John Carter Brown Library. Adams's twin bibliographies of the pamphlets dealing with American independence and the controversies in Britain surrounding it mapped out what Lapidus needed to collect. On his shelves today, arranged by date of printing, one can literally see the rising tide of words disputing the Stamp Act, the Townsend Acts, and all other acts of the Crown that eventually provoked the Declaration Independence. Within the last fi fteen years, Lapidus realized that the expansion of liberty in this era included not just the account of enlarged political rights but also the


To improve the understanding of the interaction between microwaves and water waves the VIERS-l project started in 1986 with the preparation of two wind/wave tank experiments and an ocean tower experiment. In February 1988, combined measurements of microwave backscatter, wind, waves and gas exchange have been carried out in the large Delft Ilydraulics wind/wave tank, with wind generated waves. In March 1989 a second experiment took place in the huge outdoor wave tank, the Delta tank, with wind generated waves and mechanically generated waves. In November and December 1990 the third experiment was carried out from the Dutch ocean research tower 'Noordwijk'. In this paper the VIERS-1 program will be outlined. The features of the X-band scatterometer will be described and some results of the ocean tower experiment will be shown.


To the Editor

After carefully reading the report by Hartzell and colleagues[1][1] on the use of dexmedetomidine for rectus sheath blockade in pediatric umbilical hernia repair, I have a few comments regarding the clinical significance of this study.

The authors reported a statistically significant


The functionalized Shvo's catalyst precursor {3,4-[p-(EtO)3Si(CH2)3OPh]2-2,5-Ph2(η -C4CO)}Ru(CO)3 (1) was covalently immobilized to the surface of magnetic nanoparticles, MNPs, including magnetite (Fe3O4) and magnetite covered by one, two and three independently added silica (SiO2) coatings (Fe3O4@SiO2, Fe3O4@SiO2@SiO2, Fe3O4@SiO2@SiO2@SiO2) resulting in the corresponding ruthenium catalysts Fe3O4@Ru (2a), Fe3O4@SiO2@Ru (2b), Fe3O4@SiO2@SiO2@Ru (2c), and Fe3O4@SiO2@SiO2@SiO2@Ru (2d). These catalysts were characterized by FT-IR, TEM, EDX, powder XRD, BET surface area analysis and BJH pore size and volume analysis. The catalytic performances of 2a–2d were tested for the conversion of levulinic acid (LA) to gamma-valerolactone (GVL) using formic acid (FA) as the hydrogen source. The catalysts were separated from the reaction mixture by using an external magnet. Catalysts on the silica coated MNPs showed higher activity than that of immobilized directly to Fe3O4. There were no significant differences in TONs, TOFs and yields of GVL using catalysts 2b–2d. Leaching test of the four catalysts showed that by increasing the number of independent silica coatings on the surface of magnetite significantly decreased iron leaching. The recyclability of 2b was investigated and it was reused several times without significant loss of the catalytic activity. Hot filtration test of 2c and 2d has established that the catalytic activity was due to the supported ruthenium catalyst and not from some active ruthenium species leached from the solid support to the solution under the reaction conditions.


I n July 2020 the transdisciplinary artist, curator, and writer Gita Hashemi presented Zan-i keh Mikhaham (The Woman I Want), an online performance that offered a reading of the early radical feminist Zandokht Shirazi's writing. Hashemi left Iran in the mid-1980s, after the Islamic Cultural Revolution, because Tehran University's School of Fine Arts expelled her for "anti-Islamic activities."Eventually landing in Canada as a refugee, and based now in Toronto, she has been creating works in new media, installation, performance, social practice, and publishing for the past thirty years. Hashemi's work focuses on marginalized histories. She draws on rigorous research, which she sees as an intervention in contemporary politics, often using language and text as visual and performative elements. Since her 2008 piece EphemeralMonument, Hashemi has been known for using calligraphic writing in live performances, an artistic method that she brought to a truly monumental scale in her durational project Grounding, which won the 2017 Ontario Association of Art Galleries' Best Exhibition of the Year Award. Accompanied by archival visuals and sounds, Zan-i keh Mikhaham brought together a crossgenerational and cross-border group of Iranian women, including the retired professional athlete AzamEskandar, the artists Ghazal Partou and Azadeh Pirazimian, the children's book commentator and seller Farigees, the graduate student Leila MoslemiMehni, and the theater and performance studies scholarMarjanMoosavi. Although she is relatively unknown today, Zandokht—the pen name for Fakhr Al-MoloukZandpour, born inShiraz Iran in 1909—was an exemplaryfigure among a generation of feminist women who worked hard for Iranian women's rights at the


This chapter outlines a framework that characterizes science teachers' practical-moral knowledge utilizing the Aristotelian concept of phronesis/practical wisdom. The meaning of phronesis is further explicated and its relevance to science education are outlined utilizing a virtue-based view of knowledge and practical hermeneutics. First, and to give a background, assumptions about teacher knowledge from a constructivist and sociocultural perspective are outlined. Second, the Aristotelian notion of phronesis (practical wisdom) is explicated, especially in terms of how it differs from other characterizations of practical knowledge in science education and how it relates to practical-moral knowledge. Finally, the authors discuss how the very nature of such practical-moral knowledge makes it ambiguous and hard to articulate, and therefore, a hermeneutic model that explores teachers' practical-moral knowledge indirectly by investigating teachers' commitments, interpretations, actions, and dialectic interactions is outlined. Implications for research and teacher education are outlined. Empirical examples are used to demonstrate certain points. A virtue-based view of knowledge is not meant to replace others, but as a means to enrich the understandings of the complexity of teacher knowledge and to enhance the effectiveness of teacher educators.


The ABO blood group system is vital to blood transfusion and organ transplantation. ABO antigens are the most important of all blood group antigens in clinical practice, and are not only present in red blood cells and platelets, but also in most secretions and epithelial tissues. ABO antigens are known to undergo drastic changes during the development, differentiation, and maturation of normal cells. Profound changes have also been documented in pathological processes such as tumorigenesis. To elucidate the molecular basis of how ABO genes are controlled in cell type specific expressions, such as normal cell differentiation or in cancer cells lacking A/B antigens, it is essential to understand the regulatory mechanisms of ABO gene expression. In this review, current knowledge concerning the regulatory mechanisms of ABO gene expression was summarized.


ecent advances in communications technology make it possible for manufacturers to transmit data to each other in fractions of a second. However, if these corporations do not use the same software tools, understanding of the data can be delayed for weeks or months while employees purchase and learn to use new tools. This article describes ongoing research into an information infrastructure that seeks to use standards (formal and de facto) to reduce the problems that occur when manufacturers want to use different tools to process each other's data. Communicating information between different software tools is a problem common to many application domains. For example, many researchers who have collaborated on research projects are familiar with arguments over which word processor to use for a particular project. In manufacturing, the multifaceted nature of design information makes communications particularly difficult. A mechanical design may contain geometric, tolerance, material, process control, and many other kinds of information. An information infrastructure is needed to allow manufacturing applications to communicate efficiently. The infrastructure should allow engineers to use familiar applications whenever possible. A successful infrastructure will reduce the time to market for new products while letting multiple organizations apply their specialties to product development. Manufacturing has a long history of reducing communications problems through standards. Some of the most significant advances in the industrial revolution occurred when standards were established. For example, drafting standards for drawings represented a significant contribution in the 18th and early 19th centuries. In the modern era, electronic communications are more important every year. Standards are needed so manufacturers can communicate efficiently through the Internet. The required standards are becoming increasingly complex as the range of information the industry wants to communicate becomes wider. Demand for these standards is increased by the desire to allow corporations to communicate in virtual enterprises.


ABSTRACT E-Schoolbag is an integrated platform presented on the portable digital devices for educational purposes. Successful and sustainable integration of e-Schoolbag into the classroom often demands teachers to be equipped with essential knowledge, skills, and willingness to employ it on a voluntary basis. The purpose of this study was to examine if teacher's TPACK abilities could predict their inclination to use e-Schoolbag. A total of 1185 teachers from 45 primary and secondary schools in China participated in this study. A structural equation model was established to examine if and how the TPACK framework might affect TAM. Results showed that the teachers' TPACK level had a large impact on their acceptance of e-Schoolbag through perceived usefulness (PU) and ease of use (EOU). Specifically, the technological knowledge (TK) component was more significantly correlated with the e-Schoolbag acceptance than Pedagogical knowledge (PK) and content knowledge (CK). The path coefficient value further showed that TPACK affected the EOU more than the PU.


Nowadays oral storytelling is frequently used as an effective method to reevaluate values and attitudes amongst different members of the communities in order to enhance social development and community outreach. In this regard, museums and heritage sites, which are the incarnation of human's stories throughout the time, may be considered among the best milieus to apply the art of storytelling and effectively utilize it for social development. This approach may contribute to convert museums and heritage sites to be among the best places for social-based informal learning. This paper has 2 main objectives: · To experiment the heritage storytelling as a basic tool to enhance social development among young communities. · To measure the effectiveness of two storytelling techniques: The first is a participatory technique through which children hear the story from the storyteller then try to convert it into an improvised play, while in the other technique children are asked to learn a long script of a play by heart and to rehearse repeatedly. To reach the two goals of the study, the researcher participated as a freelance storyteller in a summer camp which has taken place in a community center at a popular district in Historic Cairo, and in which she has applied the heritage storytelling technique on children from the local community. To experiment the heritage storytelling as a basic tool to enhance social development among young communities, the researcher applied the focused or group interview method with framework of questions that allow for conversational style and additional questions. Through this method, the children expressed their impressions about the characters of the stories and the actions and reactions of those characters in the different phases of the stories. To measure the effectiveness of the improvised and the non-improvised storytelling methods, the researcher applied the direct observation method through which she monitored the children's ability to convert the narrated story into an improvised play. She also observed the willingness of children to learn a long script by heart and to rehearse repeatedly in order to act in an excellent way and without mistakes at the final performance. Based on the observation method, the researcher evaluated the 2 storytelling methods and presented their advantages and disadvantages and ends by giving recommendation about the best practice of using the storytelling technique as a tool for social development.


In March of 2020, the COVID19 pandemic had expanded to the United States of America (US). Companies designated as essential for the US had to maintain productivity in spite of the growing threat created by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. With this report, we present the response of one such company, the Lennar Corporation, a major homebuilder in the US. Within days, Lennar had implemented a morning health check via its enterprise resource planning system , to identify associates (employees) who were sick, or not in their usual state of health. With this survey, Lennar was able to ensure that no one sick would show up to work, and instead, would self-quarantine at home. Furthermore, with thorough contact tracking, associates exposed to COVID19 patients (suspected or RT-PCR test-confirmed), were also asked to self-quarantine. This survey, in addition to other safety measures, such as an overhaul of the company with nearly 50% of the company working from home, prolific communication, and many more measures, Lennar was able to function safely for its associates and successfully as an enterprise. The data that we present here are real world data collected in the context of working throughout a dreadful pandemic, and the lessons learned could be helpful to other companies that are preparing to return to work.


This paper explores community perspectives of environmental change and the role development actors in the regional Nepali town of Nepalganj. Understanding these perceptions is crucial for planning future adaptation to climate change and ensuring that these measures are sustainable and in line with community priorities. Firstly, I contend that whilst the local community in Nepalganj may be experiencing the impacts of climate change, they are unfamiliar and disassociated with the concept. Secondly, I identify a number of risks and opportunities around the role of local government, international development organisations and local non-government organisations in future adaptation actions. Participant perceptions of these institutions in their community reinforce a number of established critiques of development around themes such as poor consultation and short project timelines. The long-term success of adaptation actions will be shaped by the ability and willingness of development actors to evolve their practices by listening to local communities.


Meta analysis of gene expression data of multiple cancer types such as breast, colon and ovary used to identify gene signatures that functionally used as a marker to prognosis and molecular diagnostics. There is a reliable identification of gene signatures is associated with different cancer types remains a challenge. The aim of this study is to develop microarray statistical data analysis methods and SVM classifiers to identify differentially expressed genes in different cancer types. Using our method to perform 16 datasets such as 6 breast cancer, 4 colon cancer and 6 ovarian cancer of different datasets. Our results is analysed in 4 different methods (a) preprocess the data to identify quality expression of datasets by removing null values and non significant values (p<0.05) (b). Differential gene expression analysis using statistical analysis to predict upregulation and downregulated gene signatures (c) subgrouping of datasets that has been classified based on cancer types (d) gene network prediction to identify gene-gene interaction to understand biological markers. We have predicted 8 markers in breast cancer, 10 markers in colon cancer and 16 markers in ovarian cancer is providing new direction for diagnostics and therapeutic development.


Progress is reported in these areas: a study of electron-positron annihilation using the High Resolution Spectrometer; experimental study of proton decay; gamma ray astrophysics; the DUMAND project; fundamental problems in the theory of gravitational, electromagnetic, weak, and strong interactions; chi production by hadrons; study of collective phenomena; search for the onset of collective phenonmena; work on the Collider Detector at Fermilab; search for a deconfined quark-gluon phase of strongly interacting matter at the FNAL proton-antiproton collider; and development of an electrodeless drift chamber. (LEW)


It analyses the reasons why there is an error if we apply the mathematical induction in the proof of mathematics position directly,At the same time,it gives a method how to use the mathematical induction in the proof of position indirectly.


Double-mode RR Lyrae variables (i.e., radial variables which are simultaneously pulsating in both fundamental and first-overtone modes) appear to be fundamental tools for investigating the mass of old Population II horizontal-branch (HB) stars. The most widespread method adopted for evaluating the masses of these objects is based on the Petersen approach, which relies only on pulsational periods (P1/P0 versus P0), and therefore is independent of any preliminary evaluation of the reddening and/or the distance modulus of the stellar cluster. In this paper we supply an overview of the mass estimates and underline the role played by opacities as well as by full-amplitude nonlinear models for removing the discrepancy between pulsational and evolutionary masses. On the basis of the comparison between the theoretical scenario and double-mode RR Lyrae stars belonging to selected Galactic globular clusters (IC 4499, M3, M15, M68, NGC 2419, NGC 6426), we show that the P1/P0 versus P0 diagram can also provide valuable constraints on the luminosity of these variables.


We study experimentally persuasion games in which a sender (e.g., a seller) with private information provides verifiable but potentially vague information (e.g., about the quality of a product) to a receiver (e.g., a buyer). Various theoretical solution concepts such as sequential equilibrium or iterated admissibility predict unraveling of information. Iterative admissibility also provides predictions for every finite level of reasoning about rationality. Overall we observe behavior consistent with relatively high levels of reasoning. While iterative admissibility implies that the level of reasoning required for unraveling is increasing in the number of quality levels, we find only insignificantly more unraveling in a game with two quality levels compared to a game with four quality levels. There is weak evidence for learning higher-level reasoning in later rounds of the experiments. Participants display difficulties in transferring learning to unravel in a game with two quality levels to a game with four quality levels. Finally, participants who score higher on cognitive abilities in Raven's progressive matrices test also display significantly higher levels of reasoning in our persuasion games although the effect-size is small.


PURPOSE: A manufacturing method of 1,3-butadiene is excellent in produce 1,3-butadiene in high yield and can steadily manufacture 1,3- butadiene in the long term. CONSTITUTION: A catalyst for producing 1,3- butadiene is a catalyst which manufactures 1,3- butadiene from 2,3- butanediol. The catalyst contains 60-95 weight% of hydroxyapatite and 5-40 weight% of alumina. A manufacturing method of the catalyst comprises the steps of: a) a step of manufacturing calcium phosphate slurry by mixing calcium precursor solution with phosphate precursor solution; b) a step of manufacturing calcium phosphate-alumina-based slurry by adding alumina in the calcium phosphate slurry and stirring the mixture; and c) a step of drying and heat-treating the calcium phosphate-alumina-based slurry to produce a catalyst containing hydroxyapatite-alumina (Ca_5(PO_4) _3(OH)-Al_2O_3).


Output synchronization of dynamical networks with non-identical nodes is studied using the passivity property. A synchronization criterion is developed for networks with general outer coupling topologies which need to be neither symmetric nor have the zero-row-sum property. When the passivity property cannot give synchronization for a single outer coupling topology, the problem of how to achieve synchronization by switching among several outer coupling topologies is studied. Synchronization conditions by switching among these topologies are presented and an output-dependent switching law is designed. In particular, it is shown that synchronizability can be checked by verifying if a certain nonlinear programming problem has no feasible solution or has a negative maximum.


Abstract Let φ be an Axiom A flow restricted to a basic set, let g be a C∞ function and let , where λg(τ) is the g length of the closest orbit τ, λ(τ) is the period of τ and h is the topological entropy of φ. We obtain an asymptotic formula for πg which includes the 'prime number' theorem for closed orbits. This result generalizes Bowen's theorem on the equidistribution of closed orbits. After establishing an analytic extension result for certain zeta functions the proofs proceed by orthodox number theoretical techniques.


To explore the clinical significance of the change of serum interleukin-18(IL-18) in the primary hypertensives before and after treatment,serum IL-18 of hypertensives and control group were detected with ELISA before and after treatment in meek interval for two weeks. The hypertensives IL-18 concentration 1032.0±748.0 pg/mL was higher than that of control group 420.6±385.3 pg/mL ( P 0.01). The serum IL-18 concentration of the level 1 patients was 955.2±808.0pg/mL, while after a fortnight treatment it was lowered to be 691.67±589.84pg/mL with significance difference ( P 0.01); The IL-18 concentration of leve 2 and 3 patients was 1284.5±462.2 pg/mL, and after a fortnight treatment it was turned out to be 881.84±474.04pg/mL. A sharp difference could be also observed ( P 0.05). The IL-18 concentration of hypertension patients was obviously higher than that of persons with normal blood pressure. Serum IL-18 concentration after the treatment was obviously lower than that before treatment. The results suggest that the change of serum IL-8 might take part in the pathogenesis of the hypertension,in which immune system doesn't function properly.


As orthogonal array was applied to guide experimental design,the effects of torque converter pump structure parameters,including the cascade inlet and outlet angles on working performance,were studied.The simulations of torque converter internal flow were performed by means of multiple reference frame(MRF) technique.The stall torque ratio and the maximum transmission efficiency were selected as evaluation index to investigate the effects of structure parameters on torque converter performance.Based on the range analysis and variance analysis,the results show that with the increasing of cascade inlet angles and the decreasing of outlet angles,the stall torque ratio is reduced,meanwhile,the maximum transmission efficiency of torque converter is improved;The extremely significant influences on the stall torque ratio and the maximum transmission efficiency are originated from cascade outlet angles,while a certain comparative significant difference to the stall torque ratio is from cascade inlet angles.Moreover,the regression analysis determines that the quantitative relationship exists between the key parameters of cascade and their influence degree on torque converter performance.Then,some of high fitting degree quadratic regression equations provide the references of parameters design and torque converter analysis.


We have selectively studied the component dynamics in a nanocomposite where 25 wt % of PMMA [poly(methyl methacrylate)] soft nanoparticles (SNPs) are dispersed in PEO [poly(ethylene oxide)] by means of quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS) experiments on partially deuterated samples. We have covered a time range from subpico to nanosecond regime and a momentum transfer range 0.5 ≤ Q ≤ 1.8 A–1 by combining three different spectrometers. Complementary diffraction measurements with polarization analysis have facilitated the data analysis, by providing the coherent and incoherent contributions to the scattered intensities. Regarding the SNPs, the α-methyl group dynamics of PMMA—to which the QENS experiments are most sensitive in the temperature range investigated—turn to be faster than in bulk PMMA. This could be due to the plasticization effect induced by the fast PEO chains. In fact, calorimetric measurements show the coexistence of two glass-transition temperatures in the system, associated with each of ...


Based on the "quasi-accurate detection of gross errors"(QUAD) method,an improved algorithm to extract the coseismic velocity with the high-rate epoch-differential carrier phase observations of a stand-alone GPS receiver in real-time is proposed.The improved algorithm attaches great importance to the quality control of the real-time high-rate epoch-differential data in precisely extracting coseismic velocity.It is sensitive to small cycle slips and gross errors and can even estimate them along with coseismic velocity effectively,thus resisting the negative influence of gross errors and cycle slips in parameter estimation.In addition,the improved algorithm simplifies the data processing procedure and makes it more robust.The 1 Hz GPS data of MIZU station(140 km from the epicenter of the Japan earthquake on Mar 11~(th),2011) and broadcast ephemeris are chosen to validate the improved algorithm.The results show that QUAD has a better performance in the automatic detection and estimation of small cycle slips and gross errors.Additionally,the coseismic velocity extracted by the improved algorithm with broadcast ephemeris also presents good consistency with the post kinematic precise point positioning results.


The article describes the physical objects and compiles mathematical models, an experimental and numerical simulation for correct determination of the boundary conditions. The analysis of the results confirms the validity and accuracy of mathematical modeling and software applications ELCUT 5.6 and ANSYS 10.0 (professional version).


Does an increase in a welfare mother's education improve her young child's academic performance or behavior? Positive correlations between mothers' educational attainment and children's well being, particularly children's cognitive development and academic outcomes, are among the most replicated results from developmental studies. Yet, surprisingly little is known about the causal nature of this relationship. Because conventional regression approaches to estimating the effect of maternal schooling on child outcomes may be biased by omitted variables, this study uses experimentally induced differences in mothers' education to estimate instrumental variable (IV) models. Data come from the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies Child Outcomes Study—an evaluation of mandatory welfare-to-work programs in which welfare recipients with young children were randomly assigned to either an educationor work-focused program group or to a control group that received no additional assistance. Findings suggest that increases in maternal education are positively associated with children's academic school readiness, and negatively associated with mothers' reports of their children's academic problems, but with little to no effect on children's behavior. Analyses were not able to determine whether the benefits of maternal education persisted over time, although they were able to test whether mothers' returns to schooling during their children's preschool years were more beneficial than returns during later years. Weak evidence indicates that mothers' reentry into school when children are young will have a lasting effect on children's academic problems. The Effect of Increases in Welfare Mothers' Education on Their Young Children's Academic and Behavioral Outcomes: Evidence from the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies Child Outcomes Study


CrossFit™, a popular high-intensity training modality, has been the subject of scrutiny, with concerns of elevated risk of injury and health. Despite these concerns empirical evidence regarding physiologic stresses including acute oxidative stress is lacking. Therefore, the purpose of this investigation was to examine the acute redox response to a CrossFit™ bout. Furthermore, these findings were compared to a high-intensity treadmill bout as a point of reference. Ten males 26.4 ± 2.7 yrs having three or more months of CrossFit™ experience participated in the present study. Blood plasma was collected at four time points: Pre-exercise (PRE), immediately-post-exercise (IPE), 1 hr-post (1-HP) and 2 hr-post (2-HP), to examine oxidative damage and antioxidant capacity.11%). No trial-dependent differences were observed in any biomarker of oxidative stress. The CrossFit™ bout elicited an acute blood oxidative stress response comparable to a traditional bout of high-intensity treadmill running. Results also confirm that exercise intensity and the time course of exercise recovery influence oxidative responses.


It has been said that the imagination is a powerful tool. We show here that, in reality, this claim may be more than simply a metaphor. Recent studies have revealed that items near the hands benefit from enhanced visual analysis (Abrams, Davoli, Du, Knapp, & Pauli, 2008; Reed, Grubb, & Steele, 2006; Schendel & Robertson, 2004). These results are thought to reflect the importance of representing objects and events that are in close proximity to the body, such as objects that are soon to be grasped or those that must be avoided. Quite naturally, all previous studies that have found perceptual enhancement near the hands have had subjects assume a posture in which their hands were placed close to a visual display. We show here for the first time that the same benefits can occur when one simply imagines such postures.


Reinforcement Learning is a powerful approach to a machine learning from interaction with the environment. Recent impressive achievements show the potency of combining Deep Learning with RL for board games and simple visually oriented tasks, but similar feats seem to wait for physical systems. We ask ourself for the reason(s) for this apparent hole in the science, on our path toward adaptive automata for physical domains. Inspired by computational systems in biology, revisiting conceptual fundamentals of Reinforcement Learning, and dividing complex tasks into numerous parallel learners, we aim to lessen this effect for physical interaction. A simple demonstration of an algorithmic framework is implemented, creating an agent that learns complex reactive behavior in a continuous parameter space by tabular RL methods. We conclude with a discussion on possible implications from this work for adaptive agents in the physical world, and plausible further directions toward life-long learning. Keywords— Reinforcement Learning, Robot, Sample Efficiency, Distributed Learning Learning in Physical Environments Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods rooted in Dynamic Programming (DP) have proven to be effective learning algorithms for decision making in environments with unmodelled or complex system behavior. A prime example of this would be for games, where modelling opponent behaviour with formal methods can be challenging. Multi-layered graph-based function approximation (e.g. deep networks) can be used to estimate the value of a state or a state-action pair, and the two machine learning methodologies appear to create a synergy effect toward something greater. Physical interaction can, however, be challenging for these modern function approximation techniques due to sample-sparseness; Deep Learning or other supervised learning techniques require a large set of labelled samples to form appropriate signal approximation. The importance of safe exploration, constraints due to slow system dynamics1, degradation with use2, combined with requirements for large number of samples might all contribute to the limited use of DRL for physical systems (Amarjyoti, 2017). Knowledge on how spacial orientation is represented in the hippocampus of the mammalian brain (Moser, All physical actuation can be considered slow relative to what is possible for purely digital environments, primarily being limited by available computational power. due to wear-and-tear Kropff, & Moser, 2008), might serve as inspiration when trying to create a real-time learned for physical interaction; By approaching orientation in a continuous parameter space with methods inspired by orientation in mammals, combined with the intrinsically distributed mechanism for biological computations, general value functions (GVFs) (Sutton et al., 2011), and the Id concept from Psychoanalysis (Freud, 1940), we aim to creating a distributed agent inspired by this beautiful complex system comprised of very simple building blocks. We argue further that the resulting orientation can be seen as being general for any N -dimensional continuous parameter space, and show a simple example of how learning can happen individually across state spaces.


Background: Osteoarthritis Genu is inflammation and degeneration of the bones that form the knee joint (osteo = bone, arthro = joints, itis = inflammation). In such cases it can be overcome with physiotherapy modalities. Physiotherapy in this case can reduce pain, increase joint scope, and increase muscle strength using infrared modalities, Transcutaneus Electrical Nerve Stimulation, and Therapeutic Exercise.

Results: After doing therapy for 6 times got result of decrease of pain, in the form of silent pain at T0 result 1 that is pain not felt on T6 result 1 that is pain not felt, Tenderness on T0 result 4 that is pain not so heavy at T6 result 2 that is very mild pain , And motion pain on T0 result 6 that is severe pain in T6 result 4 that is pain not so heavy, increase of range of motion The description of table above got result of increase of range of motion, got result of Scope Motion Joint active motion genu sinistra T0 result S = 00 – 00 - 1150 at T6 S = 00 – 00 - 1200 results, and motion scope of the passive motion joint on the left genus T0 S = 00 – 00 - 1200 results in T6 S = S = 00 – 00 - 1250, increased muscle strength obtained by muscle group Flexor on T0 result 4- at T6 result 4, and extensor on T0 result 4 in T6 result 4+.

Conclusion: Infrared and Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation can reduce pain, otherwise Therapeutic Exercise can increase muscle strength and increase the scope of motion of the joints.


This is a republication of Appendix 1, The Golden Rules and the Peer-Review Good Practice Checklist, from the author's book, Peer Review and Manuscript Management in Scientific Journals: guidelines for good practice, published in 2007 by Wiley-Blackwell in association with ALPSP (the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers), with the permission of the author and publisher (ISBN: 978-1-4051-3159-9, http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/ productCd-1405131594.html).


Using the general framework developed in hep-th/0607056, we study in detail the phase space of BPS Black Holes in AdS, for the case where all three electric charges are equal. Although these solitons are supersymmetric with zero Hawking temperature, it turns out that these Black Holes have rich phase structure with sharp phase transitions associated to a corresponding critical generalized temperature. We are able to rewrite the gravity variables in terms of dual CFT variables and compare the gravity phase diagram with the free dual CFT phase diagram. In particular, the elusive supergravity constraint characteristic of these Black Holes is particulary simple and in fact appears naturally in the dual CFT in the definition of the BPS Index. Armed with this constraint, we find perfect match between BH and free CFT charges up to expected constant factors.


Abstract: This chapter describes the mass and energy requirements of pulp and paper processes in general, and specifically the Kraft process, which is the dominant pulping process as well as the most intensive steam user. The strong interactions between water and heat networks in pulp and paper mills are discussed. Water in pulp and paper processes is used for dilution, washing, cooling and heating, and is the main heat transporter and dissipator in pulp and paper processes. Approaches to increasing energy efficiency in existing mills are presented. Results show that there is a heat-savings potential of approximately 15–30% in typical existing mills. Finally, trends in Process Integration techniques in the pulp and paper industry are presented.


In coming future, Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is going to lead the world of wireless technology world. This technology will become the leader of next generation wireless technology. MANET consists of group of communication devices or nodes. These nodes desire to communicate without the help of any fixed arrangement and predefined association/structure of available links. In a MANET mobile node keeps on increasing and at the same time they are also moveable. With the help of malicious node the attacker will attack. This becomes the biggest security threat of Mobile Ad Hoc network. In MANET, the Black hole attack is one kind of security threat. My main concern is to ensure the security threat against the Black hole attack. This is achieved using a popular routing protocol used in MANET.


Objectives: This study aims to investigate the influenceand underlying mechanism of miR-142-3p on the sensitivity of neuroblastoma cells to cis-diamine dichloroplatinum (CDDP). Methods: The CDDP-resistance neuroblastoma cell line SH-SY5Y/CDDP was constructed, and the expression level of miR-142-3p was detected by RTPCR. The apoptosis level and the IC50 value of SH-SY5Y/CDDP were quantified by CCK8 and Elisa. The 3'UTR of HMGB1 was cloned into the luciferase reporter vector to verify that miR-142-3p could target HMGB1. Results: The IC50 value of SH-SY5Y/CDDP increased from 4.57±0.65 μg/mL to 23.53±3.87 μg/mL, and it was 5.15 times higher than that of the parental cell line SH-SY5Y. The expression level of miR-142-3p in the SH-SY5Y/CDDP cells was remarkably lower than that in the SH-SY5Y cells. The differences were statistically significant (P<0.01). miR-1423p mimics significantly increased cell apoptosis, reduced HMGB1 expression and IC50 (7.02±1.38 vs 24.27±4.13 μg/mL) to CDDPinSH-SY5Y/CDDP cells. In addition, miR-142-3p effectively inhibited the enzymatic activity of the luciferase driven by HMGB1 3'-UTR (P<0.01). In SH-SY5Y/CDDP cells after the knockdown of HMGB1 by siRNA, the apoptosis level was increased and the IC50 value of CDDP was significantly decreased. Conclusions: miR-142-3p can increase the sensitivity of neuroblastoma cells to CDDP by targeting HMGB1.


Abdolmajid Tabrizi, a less well-known poet of the 8th century AD. Is. There is not much information about him. About 699 AH. He was born in Tabriz and probably between 757 and 768 AH. In the past, what is his poem is that he was engaged in farming and at the age of 55 he went over to Hajj, and after returning from the pilgrimage of the house of God, he went to Shiraz and spent some time there. In various forms of poetry, such as poetry, sonnets, compositions, pieces, masnavi and quatrains, they have experimented with various concepts and subjects, including the prayer of God, the promise of the Holy Prophet (s), the exhortation of the rulers, love, mysticism, counsel and Wisdom forms the theme of his poems. In the chanting, followers of such poets as Elementary, Anvari, Zahir Faryabi, and in Ghazalsarai, are the meta tags of Saadi's lyrics. His contemporary poets like Hafez have also been influenced by his poems.


Health and mobility of elderly people is becoming a more and more important issue in Europe's aging societies. New communication-based methods to provide health service with personal health care devices and services are considered promising elements of first-class medical care service for everybody. To achieve this vision, several technological issues have to be solved: (i) body sensors to monitor vital functions have to be developed; (ii) these sensors should be integrated into textile structures to guarantee ease of use and patient acceptance; (iii) the collected sensor data has to be analyzed to detect emergency situations and to reduce the data volume; (iv) relevant data has to be integrated with other information systems in the work environment of medical experts. These challenges are addressed within the HealthNet project at RWTH Aachen University in Germany. The goal of the project is to develop a framework in which health professionals can remotely monitor and diagnose mobile patients.


The present study had the objective to analyze the Operational and Economic Performances of a
whole stalk chopper prototype for sugar cane, comparing them with the found values in the bibliography and
referring to the manual cut in burned sugar cane and suggest modifications on the machine mechanical
project. The analyzed prototype is presented as a substitution option for the hand workers, which are
responsible for the sugar cane cut. The methodologies that had been used in this study were proposed by
Ripoli (1986) and Molina Jr. (2000). The prototype was the Phoenix CM500i®, manufactured by Motocana®
Ltd. The tests had been carried out in Costa Pinto Sugar Mill, located in Piracicaba county, Sao Paulo State,
during the month of July 2000. The following parameters had been determined: Cut Effective Capacity;
Manipulation Effectiveness; Losses; Strange Matter Harvested and a Estimated Cost in the Cut Effective
Capacity, Operations costs reduced 36,6%. Dealing with the prototype, projection's exercises had been made
on the basis of the suggested modifications referring to in its mechanical project.


Adders are basic important logic blocks used in Digital Signal Processors, Digital filters and widely used in the Digital Integrated Circuits and also in Analog ICs. In this paper, a Carry Skip Adder structure that has a higher Performance, Low area as well as lower energy consumption compared with other adders is presented. The speed and reduction in the design area or space can be achieved by using "HYBRID MUX" and 4T XOR Gate instead of conventional MUX for skip logic and to generate partial products respectively in the existing method. In addition, instead of utilizing Compound gates (AND OR INVERT & OR AND INVERT), the proposed structure makes use of "HYBRID MUX" for the skip logic and automatically the number of transistors are reduced. Here with proposing a model evaluated with the comparison of their speed, delay, area & energy/power consumption with that various adders utilized a 45nm cmos technology. The results that are obtained by Xilinx 12.3 version tool. Simulation results reveals, about 44% and 39% better performance in the delay & energy, respectively compared with conventional one. The required design area reduced by reducing the usage of more no of transistors while designing the XOR gates. The Power Delay Product (PDP) is the lowest among all adders.


BACKGROUND
This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of anti-West Nile virus (WNV) neutralizing antibodies in donkeys from two areas in northern Nigeria.

METHODS
Serology was determined by a virus neutralization test in samples collected from 205 healthy adult donkeys.

RESULTS
Fifty-seven donkeys (27.8%) tested seropositive for WNV. Donkeys from Zaria were 2.6 times more likely to have been exposed to WNV (p<0.001).

CONCLUSION
The results of this study demonstrate that this zoonotic pathogen is prevalent in these areas and that measures should be implemented to reduce the risk for both humans and equids.


It is important to record parameters of an accelerator sequentially all through the operations not only for storing o f experimental data but for maintenance in stable operations . In our control system for an FFAG accelerator complex in KURRI (Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute), a client-server type data-logging system, which consists of a database server and PCs controlling the accelerator complex as client PCs has been constructed. In order to construct a data-logging system with multiple client PCs, some data-transfer methods were attempted. The construction method and the performance of our data-logging system will be introduced in this presentation.


This study aimed to evaluate the occurrence of ground pearl (Eurhizococchus brasiliensis), as well as the vegetative growth and the phenology of 'Isabel', 'Bordo' (Vitis labrusca L.), 'Cabernet Sauvignon', 'Malbec' and 'Merlot' grapes (Vitis vinifera L.) grafted on the rootstocks 'Paulsen 1103' and 'VR 043-43 '. The experiment was carried out at the experimental area of Agronomy Department of Universidade do Centro-Oeste (Unicentro), in Guarapuava, PR, Brazil during the 2010/2011 crop season. The statistical design was randomized blocks in factorial 5 x 2 (cultivar x rootstock), with 10 treatments, five repetitions and three plants per plot. Each block consisted of a plant line. The evaluations were: shoot fresh (SFM) and dry (SDM) mass of material from the production pruning. After harvest, the grapevines were removed from the soil and then the number of ground pearl per plant (GPP), the root fresh (RFM) and dry (RDM) mass, the stem fresh (SFM) and dry (SDM) mass were evaluated. In addition, the duration of the phenological stages was evaluated, according to Eichhorn and Lorenz (1984). It was verified that the vines grafted on 'VR 043-43' had a lower number of cysts of ground pearl, but this factor had a positive effect only on the vegetative development of American cultivars. For the other variables analyzed there was no influence of the rootstock.


The effect of different doses of mixed fertilizer on the response of some biogeochemical cycling bacteria were examined using seven different doses (i.e, 105, 211, 422, 844, 1689, 3378 and 6757 g/tank/week) of mixed fertilizers with a fixed C : N : P ratio of 88.6 : 7.5 : 1. Advanced fry of Catla catla (1.20.04 g), Labeo bata (0.990.05 g), and Cyprinus carpio (1.30.06 g) were introduced at the rate of 16 fish/tank and reared for 120 days. Water samples were collected and monitored for bacterial population (HB, CDB, DNB and PSB), primary productivity, plankton, water quality parameters, and total phosphate in the sediment at ten days intervals. Number of bacteria (HB 15-270 x 103/ml, CDB 15-237 x 102/ml, DNB 5-221 x 102/ml and PSB 3-159 x 101/ml) increased directly with the increase in the fertilizer doses and showed maximum rate of bacterial growth at the fertilizer doses 48,000 kg/ha/yr. Three levels of responses to fertilizer doses - poor bacterial density and rate of fertilizer mineralization efficiency (D12 to D48), moderate bacterial density and highest rate of fertilizer mineralization efficiency (>D48 to D192) and highest bacterial density but slow rate of fertilizer mineralization efficiency (>D192 to D768) were observed. The fish growth tended to rise with the increase in fertilizer dose. Maximum fish growth was at D96 (96,000 kg/ha/year) and decline thereafter. Though the bacterial load increased with fertilizer doses, the primary productivity of phytoplankton and fish growth did not increased when fertilizer doses increased. Therefore, it can be concluded that fertilizer dose 48,000 kg/ha/yr is required to manipulate the optimum bacterial population and productivity of the aquaculture pond and application of excessive doses of fertilizer increases production cost and causes environmental pollution.


Aim: Optimization of enrichment media and selective agars for the detection of Escherichia coli O26 and O111 from minced beef.


This research was intended to find out new way of building foundation which was compatible to soft soil located around swamp or embankment area. This foundation had to have big bearing capacity, gives small settleent by using bamboo that it was affordable and easy to afford. The foundation had to be visible to work out by the bricklayer and did not need sophisticated technology such as heavy machinery that this could give benefit to low economy community living in the area. This research was specifically to find out proper combination between water and soil where its power was mobilized by the foundation, as this has been mobilized by using one of them whether the water (Pontoon Foundation) or the soil itself (Conventional Shallow Foundation). The use of pontoon by far had been limited to raw material (drum). While conventional foundation required, the original soil which would settle significantly because of embankment above it. The method used in the research adopted the use of full-scale testing 1:1 and was done physical test to know the strength with right combination to get distribution of bearing capacity between soil and water. This research was located in the soft clay which was still being used as an embankment located in UNISSULA Semarang.


Recent research has revealed that most articles published in top US accounting journals come from institutions based in the USA or a small number of other English-speaking countries (Jones and Roberts, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, 32(5/6), pp. 1107–1140, 2005). It has also been shown that the research paradigm favoured by US journals is financial economics, with the result that articles on accounting history or social and behavioural accounting are very scarce. European journals exhibit a more diverse content. Nevertheless, as shown by some studies, British authors are the main contributors to these journals. As a consequence, the assertion has been made that the published literature is not perfectly representative of the diversity of European accounting research. The aim of this study is to test the validity of this assertion by comparing the content of 18 major academic journals in accounting over five years (2000–2004) with the set of papers presented at the EAA congress in 2003, 2004 and 2005. The results give some support to the assertion that the diversity of European accounting research is imperfectly reflected in academic journals. They also are consistent with the idea that non-English-speaking scholars are at a competitive disadvantage in the race for publication in recognised periodicals.


The propagation of intense electron and ion beams (currents of a few megaamperes at the megavolt level) over long distances is analyzed theoretically and compared to recent experimental results. Two schemes are presented: the use of axial magnetic fields for ion beam propagation and focussing onto small targets and the use of current-carrying plasma channels for either electron- or ion-beam propagation. The problem of current neutralization is dealt with by using Maxwell's equations and finite resistivity of the plasma channel. It is shown that the most important effect is the high inductance of any external path for the return current compared to the low inductance (including the possibility of negative inductance) of the channel where the beam propagates. Self-consistent fields are derived and beam-particle orbits are calculated. Limits on current propagation and focal size are presented. Recent experimental results of e-beam propagation in a current-carrying plasma channel will be briefly reviewed.


Although diabetes insipidus is a syndrome rarely seen (14 per 100,000 cases, Fitz [1]), the condition presents many interesting changes from the standpoint of pathological physiology. The condition may appear during recovery from many of the acute infectious diseases and in the last few years diabetes insipidus has been reported with increasing frequency following epidemic encephalitis. Many of the cases occurring as a sequel to this condition present certain symptoms which appear to differ from those seen in other cases of diabetes insipidus. The following case admitted to the medical wards of the Colorado General Hospital is one of this type and we believe a report of it will not be without interest to endocrinologists and internists. The literature on the general subject of diabetes insipidus has been reviewed recently in a number of admirable papers (2) (3) and (4), and will not be considered at length here.


Flow classification in an IP switch is discussed. Different traditional flow classifiers are briefly introduced. Then a Hopfield neural network flow classifier (HNNC) is proposed. It can detect services as suitable for switching in accordance with the virtual circuit space of the IP switch. The simulation results show that services suitable to be switched are detected by HNNC and the majority of packets are assigned to a minimum number of flows.


This paper focused on the assessment of food cost control in the Hospitality industry in Anambra State. Hotels witnessed low profit volumes, not able to satisfy customers demand and enhance the economic growth of the industry as investigated in this paper. The paper x-rayed perishability of foods, daily variation in food production and multiplicity of low value transactions, as some of the problems. Based on the findings, the paper, however, recommended as follows; Good customer care policy, which will be applied to both customers and staff, should be implemented. Also, a well integrated work flow be practiced among staff in charge of storing, receiving, processing and sales of the products.


Non-cooperative moving targets appear defocussed in SAR images and the blurring effect due to the unknown motion leads to low detection capabilities. In this work, clutter suppression and ISAR processing are combined to obtain well focused images of extended non-cooperative moving targets embedded in strong clutter, by exploiting Multichannel SAR (M-SAR) systems. Clutter mitigation and radar motion compensation are performed by means of the proposed Space Doppler Adaptive Processing. Then ISAR processing is used to compensate the unknown target motion. Two principal issues will be addressed. First, a technique to apply ISAR processing after clutter mitigation is presented, and then a suboptimal approach for clutter mitigation is proposed to overcome computational and statistical issues associated with estimation of clutter cross-power spectral matrix. Results of the processing applied to simulated data are provided in order to show the effectiveness of the proposed techniques.


The new uniform standards for EMC-testing in Europe have strengthened the specifications on electronic products to qualify for the CE-Label. A new method is shown to analyze and optimize anechoic chambers using the finite integration technique, which is based on the well-known finite difference method. A numerical algorithm is introduced for calculation of the electromagnetic fields inside anechoic chambers equipped with ferrite or hybrid absorbers. The modifications in the numerical algorithm are described and the results are verified. Further, a proper discretisation for ferrite tiles is developed and examined. Since the thickness of the ferrite tiles is small in comparison to the dimension of anechoic chambers, it is necessary to model the tiles with a fine mesh. However it is not feasible to model the whole chamber with a fine mesh, because of the computational load. The solution is to insert a step in the mesh width requiring less memory than a smooth transition between the mesh widths. It is shown that the results are accurate if some conventions are considered. The numerical results are verified by comparison with analytical solutions. It is also shown that chambers equipped with ferrite absorbers obtain better performance than those equipped with foam absorbers at frequencies lower than 500 MHz.


The current project looks at the fact that there are more Natural Disasters affecting people in the Base of the Pyramid. These people, due to their poverty, cannot afford to follow traditional Disaster Preparedness recommendations. I've designed 2 booklets for the teaching of DIY skills that can be used to make Disaster Preparedness Kits at very little cost. One booklet is a technical resource, the other is guidebook for those who will teach the techniques


Introduction Early endotracheal intubation improves neurological outcomes in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, although cardiopulmonary resuscitation is initially carried out by personnel with limited experience in a significant proportion of cases. Videolaryngoscopes might decrease the number of attempts and time needed, especially among novices. We sought to compare videolaryngoscopes with direct laryngoscopes in simulated cardiopulmonary resuscitation scenarios. Materials and methods Forty-four medical students were recruited to serve as novice users. Following brief, standardized training, students executed endotracheal intubation with the King Vision®, Macintosh and VividTrac® laryngoscopes, on a cardiopulmonary resuscitation trainer in normal and difficult airway scenarios. We evaluated the time to and proportion of successful intubation, the best view of the glottis, esophageal intubation, dental trauma and user satisfaction. Results In the normal airway scenario, significantly shorter intubation times were achieved using the King Vision® than the Macintosh laryngoscope. In the difficult airway scenario, we found that the VividTrac® was superior to the King Vision® and Macintosh laryngoscopes in the laryngoscopy time. In both scenarios, we noted no difference in the first-attempt success rate, but the best view of the glottis and dental trauma, esophageal intubation and bougie use were more frequent with the Macintosh laryngoscope than with the videolaryngoscopes. The shortest tube insertion times were achieved using the King Vision® in both scenarios. Conclusion All providers achieved successful intubation within three attempts, but we found no device superior in any of our scenarios regarding the first-attempt success rate. The King Vision® was superior to the Macintosh laryngoscope in the intubation time in the normal airway scenario and noninferior in the difficult airway scenario for novice users. We noted significantly less esophageal intubation using the videolaryngoscopes than using the Macintosh laryngoscope in both scenarios. Based on our results, the KingVision® might be recommended over the VividTrac® and Macintosh laryngoscopes for further evaluation.


Studies of the shock loading of porous material formed by selective laser melting have the potential to improve our understanding of factors such as density, crush strength and pore size on energy absorbing capability. Samples have been manufactured in which a lattice is formed of rods of stainless steel angled at 45 degrees to the surface of a 6 mm thick x 64.5 mm diameter disc. The cell size is 1 mm and the density is 44.6% of solid. A 70 mm gas gun has been used to impact the porous samples onto solid stainless steel plates backed by PMMA windows. Het-V laser interferometery was used to measure the velocity time profile of the transmitted shock. The experimental results were compared with two and three dimensional computer predictions. It was found that the 2D simulations provide a good match to the time-averaged velocities but that the individual features in the experimental records are best matched by the 3D calculations.


In this study, flower morphology, seed and fruit structure of Helleborus orientalis Lam. (Ranunculacaae) species were investigated. Helleborus L. is a poisonous plant genus with about 20 species spread from the Ranunculaceae family, from Central, Southern and Eastern Europe to the Caucasus borders. Helleborus L. genus is represented by two species in Turkey. These are H. vesicarius Aucher and H. orientalis Lam. species. In our country, "hellebore", known as such, grows naturally in Turkey. H. orientalis is known by local names such as bundle grass, black litter, black harbak, horn grass, calf and danakiran. It is a perennial herbaceous plant. Their bodies are leafless and 60 cm long, and their base leaves are evergreen. It has long petioles, broad leaves, digitate, and its flower structure is symosis. Sepals are greenish white, sometimes purplish, ovate, 20-30 (-35) mm. The average life span of a single flower after fully opening is about 6 days. The flower cover is arranged on two rows, has 5 wide rings on the outside resembling a sepale or a petal, the fruit is permanent, the ones in the inner ring are small, tubular, 2-lipped piece (nectarium). Short anthers on long crest, rarely blunt. Anthers are a group of fruits with several seeded follicles fused at least at the base. Seeds are usually more than 6. Flowering is usually between March and May. The H. orientalis species is generally distributed in the Black Sea Region and its general distribution is over Greece and the Caucasus regions. It is generally found in forest openings and under forest, between 1-2200 meters in scrub habitats. Turkey A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, A8, A9 and B3 shows the distribution frame. The study material was collected from Cicekli plateau of Bilecik province, located in A3 square, on 23.05.2020 and turned into a herbarium material. Morphological studies were examined by making measurements on living samples.


This article contributes to the literature by examining how the increase in bank competition impacts firms' innovation and how firm size and firm ownership impact the effect of bank competition. Using data which includes the banking sector and firm information across Chinese prefecture-level city over the period 1998-2011. The robust evidence shows that bank competition improves firm-level innovation by firms headquartered within competing regions and find that the positive effect of bank competition is stronger for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), non-state-owned enterprises (non-SOEs) and domestically-owned firms compared to large firms, SOEs, and foreign-owned firms, respectively. We also find that bank competition poses more beneficial effects on innovative performance for firms with more opaque, more dependent on external financing, high debt cost, and short operating years. Overall, these results provide light on the determinants of innovation and the real effects of bank competition.


Background: Acute leukemia contributes to nearly one third of the pediatric malignancies. For effective management of a curable malignancy, the epidemiology of childhood leukemias and audit of previously treated patients would be required. The objective was to study the clinical and immunophenotypic pattern of acute leukemia in children <12 years of age admitted in a tertiary centre.   Methods: Prospective study done on 31 children, diagnosed as leukemia and treated over a period of 3 years in GRH, Madurai. Detailed history analysis, clinical examination, lab investigations including flowcytometry were done.Results: ALL was the most common acute leukemia in children (90.3%). 85.7% were identified as B-cell and 14.3% as T-cell. Of the B-ALL, 87.5% was pre-B, 8.3% pro-B and 4.2% mature B ALL. Myeloid antigen co-expression was seen in 35.7%.  Fever was the most common symptom (87%) and hepatosplenomegaly was the most common sign (>90%). Poor outcome was noted in 42.3%. T-cell appeared to have worse prognosis than B-cell but did not retain independent prognostic significance in univariate analysis.Conclusions: B-ALL was more common than T-ALL. Extra medullary organ involvement indicates increased tumor burden and poor outcome. None of the clinical or laboratory parameters appeared to predict poor outcomes in our study and this may be due to small sample size. This study provides an insight into the data regarding the epidemiology, clinicopathologic feature and outcome of acute leukemia in a center with low resource settings.


The process of sovereignization and politization of the international relations as a predetermining reason of the USSR's collapse is reviewed in this article. It is marked that Gorbatchev's reforms and sovereignization of the RSFSR and republics as well as ethnonationalism and separatism caused the destructive influence on the political system of the Soviet Union.


The rapid development in the domain of wireless communication and high traffic of mobile data led to introduce an advanced model called Deep Learning (DL). It has been proposed in the literature, which is a subset of Machine learning. It is a technology that is considered to be an evolution for mobile data traffic management. A large amount of heterogeneous data is generated by wireless systems which is difficult to compute so to control such data various optimization tools are discussed. DL makes wireless communication more intelligent and versatile. Here, a review of the DL platform and different techniques to enable DL in wireless communications is summarized. There are different domains in wireless networking like networking, routing, and scheduling in which DL is employed. All such domains are discussed in this paper. Further different optimization techniques and recent advancement in this area were discussed.


Objective:To know the physical growth and relative factor of newborn child and compare with nine cities of China. Methods:The cluster sampling of newborn child in a period of time in 2003 was used. Results:The averages of weight ,body long ,head and chest circumference in male newborn child are 3.35 kg, 50.7 cm, 34.6 cm, 33.1 cm.The averages in female are 3.25 kg, 50.3 cm , 34.3 cm, 32.7 cm, data of the male increasod 0.1 kg, 0.4 cm, 0.3 cm, 0.4 cm than that of the female,P0.01.The averages of wcight ,body long ,head and chest circumference in male newborn child of Shenzhcn in 2003 increased 0.05 kg , 0.3 cm, 0.3 an, 0.4 cm than that of nine cities urban in 1995,P0.01,P0.05,increased 0.14 kg, 0.5 cm, 0.7 cm, 0.8 cm than that in 1985,P0.01;the female increased 0.05 kg, 0.5 cm, 0.4 cm, 0.1 cm than that in 1995 of nine cities, P0.05,P0. 01,increased 0.13 kg,0.7 cm, 0.8 cm, 0.5 cm than that in 1985,P0.01. Conclusion:The newborn growth related to pregnancy period closely, the top averages in 41 weeks; the physical growth average of Shenzhen in 2003 increased significantly than that of nine cities urban in 1995 . The averages of first time delivery newborn are at the lowest ,the averages of fourth time delivery newborn are highest.The averages related to delivery times closely.


Abstract The main purpose of the work was to determine the scope and degree of the influence of exploitation on changes of plant cover of the raised peat-bog Baligówka, located in the Orawsko- Nowotarska Valley. The analysis was carried out based on 47 phytosociological surveys using the Braun-Blanquet method. Results of investigations allow to state that excessive drying and fires that took place on the examined object caused wastage of many precious species of plants, especially from the Oxycocco- Sphagnetea class. Their place occupied species belonging to other classes, such as Nardo-Callunetea and Molinio-Arrhenatheretea. The basic cause of drying of the peat-bog and, in consequence, dying of peat formation species is intensified exploitation and connected with this drainage, carried out in the half of the 20th century. Unfortunately, local people up to now illegally have harvested the peat on the investigated object. Decrease in groundwater level leads to accelerated decay of peat, changes in physical and chemical properties of a substratum and, in consequence, changes in trophic values of habitat, what causes great changes in species composition of plant communities.


Bivariate SPI-SRI drought index was proposed to describe drought behaviors of the Tarim River Basin. Five meteor-hydrological drought conditions were identified with three drought hazard: meteorological drought, both meteorological and hydrological drought, and hydrological drought conditions. Drought hazard was investigated in terms of formation process with the atmospheric and hydrological phases. Stochastic analysis of the developed indicator can be used to assess the dynamics of the transition between drought phases. Time series of the meteor-hydrological drought conditions were investigated as a discrete state, discrete-time homogenous Markov chain. Analysis of the properties of Markov chain aimed to evaluate probably of transition between different conditions, frequency of each conditions, residence time in each condition, time required to move from one condition to another, and predict drought hazard in the next month. The results indicate that:(1) The droughts have the significant impacts during its development stage in the Kaidu and Hotan river basins. The negative influences of droughts are evident during its evolution periods in the Aksu river basin and during its successive periods in the Kaidu and Yarkant river basins. The Kaidu and Yarkant river basins are dominated by meteor-hydrological droughts, and hydrological droughts in the Hotan and Aksu river basins;(2) Occurrence probability is the largest for consecutive wetness or drought conditions in the Kaidu river basin and the probability of condition shifts between conditions 2, 4 and 5 in the Kaidu river basin. No drought condition shifts can be expected between conditions 4 and 2in the Hotan and Kaidu river basins;(3) Forecasting practice of drought conditions, the occurrence probability of drought condition shifts between conditions 2 to 4 and 2 to 5 is the lowest.Largest occurrence probability can be expected for drought condition shifts between non-hydrological drought conditions and condition 4 and the smallest probability could be expected for drought condition shifts between non-hydrological drought and condition 5.


intended to be an exhaustive review of environmental chemistry, and readers who desire a more thorough discussion of environmental chemistry are referred to the supplemental reading section. Part 111, "Assessment," is a good discussion on endpoints evaluated in field studies and the use of structure-activity relationships in aquatic toxicology to predict biological activity of a compound. The difficulties faced by scientists in assessing the usefulness of functional endpoints as indicators of ecosystem integrity are discussed. This section also includes relevant information on environmental legislation and an excellent introduction to environmental risk assessment. Case studies are also provided and are very helpful in providing the reader with real-world situations. The book also contains a glossary of terms and an appendix with chapters from the first edition. These chapters are included in the second edition "as classic chapters in aquatic toxicology that should be kept in print and available for reference by more recent works." Although these "classic chapters" provide basic information in aquatic toxicology, the inclusion of the chapters on acute toxicity testing and early life stage tests is unnecessary. As a whole, the second edition is excellent and provides a broad perspective on aquatic toxicology. The addition of new topics, such as environmental legislation and risk assessment, and new authors reflects the changing field of aquatic toxicology.


This study aims to show that language purification policies are the most important factors that influence Korean language differentiation, based on...


The present study was conducted to develop and evaluate the quality control parameters of polyherbal Entoban capsules to reassure the safety and efficacy of developed dosage form. The flow property of..


To test the hypothesis that expected excess bond returns are correlated with macroeconomic variables such as inflation, the relevant null hypothesis is that expected excess returns are stochastic, persistent, and independent of such variables. However, current methods used to test this hypothesis—forecasting regressions and joint dynamic models of the term structure and macroeconomic variables—do not use this null. Instead, they use the null hypothesis that excess returns are serially uncorrelated. This paper presents a dynamic model that satisfies the appropriate null hypothesis. Simulations lead to the conclusion that finite-sample distributions of forecasting regressions under the appropriate null differ substantially from finite-sample distributions under the commonly-used null. Direct estimation of the model reveals that only a small fraction of the variation in expected excess returns is associated with inflation, output growth, or the short rate. ∗Voice 510-642-1435, email firstname.lastname@example.com. Address correspondence to 545 Student Services Building #1900, Berkeley, CA 94720. Thanks to Andrew Ang, Refet Gurkaynak, Monika Piazzesi, Oreste Tristani, and seminar participants at the Federal Reserve Board and the ECB-BIS Workshop on Macrofinance Modeling of the Term Structure of Interest Rates for helpful comments. This paper will eventually appear at http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/duffee/.


The present investigation reports the novel synthesis of polyester containing Ag nanoparticles. The effect of temperature and power of ultrasound irradiation in growth of the Ag nanoparticles were studied. The physicochemical properties of the nanoparticles were determined by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Results show a decrease in the particles size as the power of ultrasound irradiation decreased. Particle sizes and morphology of nanoparticles depend on temperature. As a result, an increase in temperature led to increase of particle size. The textile containing nanoparticles were tested for their antibacterial efficacy against E. coli and S. aureus and were found to possess significant antibacterial activity.


Objective Using insulin pump(CS II) meal of large dose of combining basic rate for drug administration and using only the base rate for drug administration in intensive treatment of type 2 diabetes,to evaluate its clinical efficacy.Method Total 100 patients of type 2 diabetes were randomly divided into high-dose before meal based rate medication group of 50 cases,only the base rate medication group of 50 cases,treated continuously for 2 weeks.Comparison of the 2 groups before and after treatment were compared between the two types of glycemic control,standard time,dosage of insulin,the rate of hypoglycemia.Results Two kinds of different delivery ways of treatment of type 2 diabetes in glycemic control,standard time,dosage of insulin,the rate of hypoglycemia and no significant difference.Conclusion Two different insulin pump administration methods treating type 2 diabetes mellitus shows sicilar effects.


Abstract : We report a theoretical study of ionospheric disturbances caused by either natural or man-made processes. Thirteen papers published in either technical journals or conference proceedings are compiled in this report, These papers discuss (1) the identification of the sources of free energy, the optimum conditions for plasma instabilities as the courses of naturally occurring ionospheric irregularities, and (2) the nonlinear effects leading to the HF ionospheric disturbances such as lower hybrid waves, upper hybrid waves, ionospheric irregularities, and geomagnetic field fluctuations. Originator-supplied keywords: Ohmic dissipation of Pederson current, High-latitude F region ionospheric irregularities, Thermal instabilities, Polar cap, Lower hybrid waves, Field aligned plasma density striations, Whistlers, Magnetostatic fluctuations, Filamentation instability, Thermal source, Geomagnetic field fluctuations, Ionospheric heating, Langumiur waves, Saturation spectrum of parametric decay instability, Upper hybrid waves, O-mode and X-mode pump waves, Pondermotive force, Plasma line enhancement, Beating current, Non-oscillatory modes, Oscillatory two-stream instability, Nonlinear effects, Spread F echoes, Modulational instability.


A volvulus occurs when a redundant loop of bowel twists about its own mesentery. Rarely, it develops when an ileal loop twists around the sigmoid; this is known as ileosigmoid knotting2. Chronic constipation resulting in a dilated redundant colon, along with a narrow mesenteric base, are important predisposing factors to volvulus development. When the degree of twisting exceeds 180 to 360 degrees, it compromises the vascular perfusion of the twisted bowel loop; thus leading to complications of colon obstruction, such as ischemia, strangulation, gangrene and ultimately perforation and fecal peritonitis2. Patients may otherwise present with intermittent chronic volvulus with a long history of recurrent obstructive symptoms.


Six new mixed ligand complexes of Cu" and Zn" with 5-substituted-2-dimethylamino-4-hydroxy-6-melhylpyrimidine have been prepared. Their herbicidal, fungicidal and insecticidal activities have been evaluated. Complex, Cu(C 8 H 1 3 N 3 O) 2 Cl 2 (3) has 81.9% of herbicidal activity against barnyardgrass.


Comprehensive detection and quantitation of metabolites from a biological source constitute the major challenges of current metabolomics research. Two chemical derivatization methodologies, butylation and amination, were applied to human serum for ionization enhancement of a broad spectrum of metabolite classes, including steroids and amino acids. LC-ESI-MS analysis of the derivatized serum samples provided a significant signal elevation across the total ion chromatogram to over a 100-fold increase in ionization efficiency. It was also demonstrated that derivatization combined with isotopically labeled reagents facilitated the relative quantitation of derivatized metabolites from individual as well as pooled samples.