Changes in the security environment that took place on the European continent in recent years have forced a number of NATO and EU member states to reconsider their approaches to the protection of state sovereignty and territorial integrity. A significant proportion of some EU member states implemented their own defense policy through the organization and preparation of territorial defense, as one of the most economical and effective reserves for maintaining the appropriate level of defense capabilities of their state. For Ukraine, the organization of territorial defense acquires special significance in improving the state defense system, which is currently carried out in conditions of armed confrontation. In determining Ukraine's tasks of territorial defense the attention should be paid to the historical aspects and experience of NATO and EU member states. The purpose of the article is to analyze the historical aspects, the experience of NATO and EU member states to determine the tasks of territorial defense during the development of the draft Law of Ukraine "On Territorial Defense of Ukraine". Most NATO and EU member states assign additional tasks to territorial defense, in particular: -          Ensuring public safety and maintaining public order; -          Crime prevention; fight against terrorism; -          Participation in information security activities; -          Ensuring the security of the population and territories; -          Emergency response. A significant proportion of NATO and EU member states do not rule out the performance of the task by patriotic forces to successfully combat action with a possible aggressor in the framework of territorial defense. Such tasks can include: -          Carrying out sabotage operations in the rear of the enemy to destroy or decommission its military facilities; -          Adjustment of blows and fire of missile and artillery means on the enemy; -          Release of hostages and prisoners of war; -          Disorganization of the work of the occupying authorities; -          Conducting information activities among the population in the temporarily occupied territories.


Taking the seeds from selected-out quality mother trees grown in 9 counties of Southwest Yunnan province as the studied materials,the seedling growth variation of Betula alnoides provenance was studied in Gucheng township of Zhenyuan County from March to July in 2009.The seedling growth of the different provenances reaches the extreme marked level,the growth performance Jinghong and Jiangcheng are the best,and the lowest growth is Zhenyuan.The growth performance is negatively correlated with latitude and elevation,positively correlated with mean annual temperature and ≥18℃ accumulated temperature.Geographic variation pattern is exist in seedling growth of Betula alnoides,the heat is the main factor causing this kind of pattern.Based on the height growth of seedlings,using European minimum distance cluster method,the tested 9 provenances can be divided into three grades,the first grade includes 3 provenances namely Jinghong and Jiangcheng,the second grade includes 5 provenances namely Ruili,Luxi,Longchuan,Gengma and Ximeng,the third grade includes 2 provenances namely Changning and Zhenyuan.


In this paper the existence of the corner frequency value for the seismic moment distribution is investigated, analysing worldwide data. Pareto based distributions, usually considered as the most suitable to this type of data, are fitted to the most recent data, available in a global earthquake catalog. Despite the undeniable finite nature of the seismic moment data, we conclude that no corner frequency can be established considering the available data set.


Objective To compare the serum levels and abnormal rate of CK and its CK-MB in the normal control and patients with seven kinds of cancer.Methods The serum levels of CK and CK-MB were detected in 108 prostate cancer patients,139 gastric cancer patients,101 breast cancer patients,160 pancreatic cancer patients,101 colon cancer patients,71 lung adenocarcinoma patients,72 cervical cancer patients,and 200 healthy controls.Results Compared with the healthy control,the serum levels of CK in prostate cancer patients showed significantly increased(P0.05),while there was no significant difference in patients with other six kinds of cancer.Compared with the healthy control,the serum levels of CK-MB in patients with seven kinds of cancer showed no significantly difference.The abnormal rates of serum CK-MB in patients with seven kinds of cancer were significantly higher than that the healthy controls;the highest abnormal rate was in gastric cancer.Conclusion The serum levels of CK in patients with prostate cancer were significantly increased.The abnormal rates of CK-MB in gastric cancer and breast cancer group were significantly higher.


In this study, thirteen 3‐hydroxy‐6‐methyl‐2‐substituted 4H‐pyran‐4‐one derivatives were synthesized for the evaluation of their potential anticonvulsant activity. Mannich bases were prepared by the reaction of substituted piperazine derivatives with allomaltol and formaline. The structures of the synthesized compounds were confirmed by IR, 1H‐NMR and elemental analysis. Their anticonvulsant activities were determined in vivo by maximal electroshock (MES), sub‐cutaneous Metrazol (scMet), and rotorod toxicity tests for neurological deficits. The antimicrobial activities of the synthesized compounds were investigated in vitro against some bacteria and fungi using the microdilution broth method. Ac‐cording to the activity studies, 3‐hydroxy‐6‐methyl‐2‐[4‐(2‐trifluoromethyl‐phenyl)‐piperazin‐1‐ylmethyl]‐4H‐pyran‐4‐one (3i) was the compound determined to be most active in the scMet test for all doses at four hours and for the 300 mg/kg dose at half an hour. 2‐[4‐(4‐Chloro‐phenyl)‐piperazin‐1‐ylmethyl]‐3‐hydroxy‐6‐methyl‐4H‐pyran‐4‐one (3f) was found to be protective against MES whereas 2‐chlorophenyl derivative (3e) was not. Looking at the antifungal activity results, compounds 3b, 3h, and 3i were determined to have activity against all fungi.


Some benefits of micromachining with ultrashort optical pulses are well established in the literature. The most well known advantage is that a minimal amount of heat is transferred to the bulk material during processing. The small amount of thermal transfer is an effect of the physics behind the ablation process. In contrast to long pulse interactions, the ablation of materials with ultrashort optical pulses results in plasma generation at or near the surface. This plasma plume arises from optical breakdown of the substrate and perhaps the surrounding atmosphere. The highly chaotic plume will subsequently interact with the surroundings, which include the bulk material and the ambient atmosphere.This initial survey examines the practical effects of atmospheric conditions on material processing using ultrashort optical pulses. Data examining the quality, size, and debris of processed features will be shown. We will also compare the adherence of debris to the processed substrate as a function of the atmospheric conditions.Some benefits of micromachining with ultrashort optical pulses are well established in the literature. The most well known advantage is that a minimal amount of heat is transferred to the bulk material during processing. The small amount of thermal transfer is an effect of the physics behind the ablation process. In contrast to long pulse interactions, the ablation of materials with ultrashort optical pulses results in plasma generation at or near the surface. This plasma plume arises from optical breakdown of the substrate and perhaps the surrounding atmosphere. The highly chaotic plume will subsequently interact with the surroundings, which include the bulk material and the ambient atmosphere.This initial survey examines the practical effects of atmospheric conditions on material processing using ultrashort optical pulses. Data examining the quality, size, and debris of processed features will be shown. W...


Burn injury is a kind of trauma with the high mortality and morbidity rate that needs special treatment since the very first phaseup to the end. this study targeted medium to severe burns, limited to liver complications. the objective of this study is to calculate andobserve the difference Sgot, SgPt activities in medium and severe burns. the Methods of this study was Cross Sectional, we conductedon 42 subjects with medium to severe burns, Hospitalised during the period of June 2005 to May 2007 at DR.Wahidin Sudirohusodohospital of Makassar. the data were calculated and statistically analysed using the SPSS V.11.5. We obtained of 12 (28.6%) mediumburn injuries and 30 (71.4%) severe burn injuries. In medium burn subjects the got showed normal activities in 6 subjects (50%) andhigh activities in 6 subjects (50%), the gPt showed normal activities in 8 subjects (66,7%) and high activities in 4 subjects (33.3%).In severe burn subjects the got showed normal activities in 6 subjects (20%) and high activities in 24 subjects (80%), the gPt showednormal activities in 13 subjects (43.3%) and high activities in 17 subjects (56.7%). there was no significant difference in the increasingactivities of Sgot and SgPt in either medium or severe burns, where p > 0.05. Increased activities of SgPt and Sgot was higher insevere burns than in medium ones. It was also obtained that increasing Sgot activities was found more often than SgPt in patientswith either medium or severe burns.


SUMMARY. Background and objectives. Thermal injury of the skin is an oxidation injury and it is associated with biological and metabolic alterations. The use of honey in burn treatment results in biochemical alterations and may provide an insight into the mechanism of the action of honey in burns. The levels of serum lipid peroxide, serum ceruloplasmin, and uric acid in burn patients during treatment with silver sulphadiazine and honey therapy were studied. Methods. This was a single-blind prospective randomized control study involving a comparison of biochemical alterations during silver sulphadiazine treatment and honey treatment in burns. Results. In burn trauma, there is excessive activity of free radicals at the site of injury. This is reflected in elevated blood levels of lipid peroxide, ceruloplasmin, and uric acid. Honey treatment led to a decline in the levels of serum lipid peroxide, while there was a mild increment in serum ceruloplasmin levels; there was no significant effect on serum uric acid levels in comparison with patients treated with silver sulphadiazine. Conclusion. Honey treatment exerted a positive effect on the oxidative stressful state in burn trauma by effectively mopping up free radicals, compared with silver sulphadiazine, and resulted in rapid healing.


A new wave of sunscreen filters is on the cusp of being approved in the United States after widespread use elsewhere.


Systematic changes were made in an Egyptian mummy exhibit gallery, and visitor reactions were assessed. The changes included adding exhibit labels to the wall, changing the physical characteristics of these labels, and introducing a bronze bust reconstructed from a mummified individual. Results demonstrated that several of the factors studied influence label reading: (a) words per label, (b) size of letters, and (c) location of labels. For the most part, label reading facilitated visitor attention to exhibit objects rather than competed for visitor attention. An exception to the facilitation of attention occurred when the mummy cases and the labels were arranged so that visitors had to turn from the label to view the cases (or vice versa). This latter arrangement seemed to produce competition for visitor attention and resulted in shorter viewing times of the mummy cases. Another competing situation occurred when the bronze bust was introduced, apparently diverting attention from label reading to the bust.


From the experiments of the monomineral that is either magnesite or dolomite, we know that the respective flotability of the two minerals is similar when using using dodecyl phosphonate ester as a collector. But the differences of the two minerals in flotability are remarlkable after using certain appropriate depressor in certain condition. Experiments of mixed minerals are carried out in order to test this result. The experiments show that we can effectively remove CaO from mixed minerals while high recovery ratio of concentrate was still kept if dodecyl phosphonate ester is used as a collector and water glass as a depressor.


In 1962 in the full flush of (pre-Gulf of Tonkin) expansiveness, the United States congress voted nearly $2½m to bring six channels of educational television to the atolls and islets that make up American Samoa. Those were hopeful times. Congressmen—and most other Americans—believed in educable Asians, in the great television learning curve, and social engineering on a big scale. Thus a 5,000-foot aerial tramway was strung across Pago Pago Bay to ship a television antenna to the Samoan peaks; classrooms built and sets installed; thousands of hours of programming produced.


Background. In North America, epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is the fifth most common cause of cancer death among women. Many drugs are used in the treatment of EOC, with gemcitabine showing recent promise. The objective of this study was to determine whether gemcitabine is a beneficial treatment option for patients with EOC. Methods. The charts of 20 heavily pretreated women (median: four previous treatment protocols, range: 1-6) with a histological diagnosis of EOC were retrospectively reviewed to determine response. Eligible patients were treated with gemcitabine at a starting dose of 800 mg/m2 as an intravenous infusion on days 1, 8, and 15 of each 28-day cycle. The patients had a median age of 56 years (range 37-81). Results. Response to treatment was assessed both clinically and serologically (CA-125 tumor marker was monitored). Of the 20 enrollees, 17 were evaluable clinically and 16 were evaluable serologically (2 were not evaluable by either technique). There were two (12%) patients with a clinical partial response, six (35%) patients with clinical stable disease, nine (53%) patients with clinical progressive disease, and three patients that were not evaluable clinically. There were four (25%) patients with sero-logical partial response, six (38%) patients with stable serological disease, six (38%) patients with serological progressive disease, and four patients that were not evaluable serologically. Physician-reported toxicity included fatigue; however, this information was recorded inconsistently. Conclusion. Gemcitabine showed modest activity in heavily pretreated EOC with a 12% clinical partial response rate and a 25% serological partial response rate. No serious toxicities were encountered.


This paper analyses the stress and the displacement with multiple loads by the structure of the linear static. Use the static solver provided by UG NX Nastran; get the parameters of the stress and the displacement of the component with some kinds of loads. Not only get the result for each subcase, but also for any subcase in the combined quickly. It provides facilitation for comparison and analysis of each subcase and the combined case on some calculation results.


Natriuretic peptides (NP) act as ligands on the guanylyl cyclase family of receptors. The NP binding site on these receptors is extracellular and the guanylyl cyclase and protein kinase domains are intracellular. The guanylyl cyclase receptor catalyzes the synthesis of the second messenger molecule, cGMP, which activates protein kinase. This in turn is involved in the phosphorylation of various ion transport proteins. Ion transport proteins, which are modulated by NP and are thought to underlie the natriuretic and diuretic actions of NP, include: (a) calcium‐activated K+ channels; (b) ATP‐sensitive K+ channels; (c) inwardly‐rectifying K+ channels; (d) outwardly‐rectifying K+ channels; (e) L‐type Ca²+ channels; (f) Cl‐ channels including cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator Cl‐ channels; (g) Na+‐ K+ 2Cl‐ co‐transporter; (h) Na+‐ K+ ATPase; (i) Na+ channels; (j) stretch‐activated channels; and (k) water channels. It appears that NP modulate the kinetics, rather than the conductance, of ion channels. Some of these channels, like the Ca²+, ATP‐sensitive K+ and stretch‐activated channels, are also involved in NP secretion. In addition, the structural properties of the NP, e.g., ovCNP‐22 and ovCNP‐39, appear to confer on them the ability to form ion channels. These CNP‐formed ion channels can modify the trans‐membrane signal transduction and second messenger systems underlying NP‐induced pathological effects. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Med Res Rev, 19, No. 1, 75–94, 1999.


Experiments conducted on the newt Taricha torosa, under influence of high CO 2 content of the water, showed that no escape response is stimulated by the high CO 2 , but instead, death results. It is therefore concluded that lowered oxygen tensions in the water (as shown by other workers) is more important as a stimulus for respiratory failure in newts than is high CO 2 concentrations. This is probably because the CO 2 content of natural waters does not normally accumulate to very high concentrations.


If you are looking for a book about the food or techniques employed by Ferran Adria at elBulli, this is not that book. However, if you are looking for a sociological analysis concerning the organiz...


The bus voltage of the ship DC microgrid is sensitive to the change of loads, which has an influence on the power supply quality. This paper introduces a hybrid energy storage system (HESS) that is composed of a battery set and a supercapacitor set, and further studied the control method of HESS. First of all, the topological structures of the ship DC microgrid and HESS are described. Second, combined with the frequency division droop control and voltage PI control, a sliding mode control (SMC) method is proposed to control the charge and discharge of HESS based on an improved reaching law. Finally, the simulation model of the ship DC microgrid is established for the verification of the control method. Simulation results show that: (1) HESS can overcome the shortage of the dynamic response ability of the diesel rectifier generator to the steep change of load power. The supercapacitor set and the battery set successfully respond to the high-frequency and low-frequency components of the differential power in the system, respectively. (2) Compared with the traditional PI control method, SMC can reduce the current chattering of HESS and the voltage fluctuation amplitude of the DC bus. The proposed SMC method can provide a reference for the stable and reliable operation of the ship DC microgrid.


It has been widely recognized that the residual stress of the weldment affect the integrity of steel structures and cause an initiation of crack in the welded regions. Since the power plants adopt a variety of welding processes, it is necessary to know the distribution and magnitude of residual stresses. This paper has attempted to investigate the validity of the saw cutting method and the indentation method to measure the residual stresses in the steel plates. The residual stresses in the specimens of hot reheater pipes, cold reheater pipes and feed water lines in power plants were determined by the saw cutting method and the indentation method. The data were compared and reviewed for the validity of the methods.


The goal of weather forecast verifcation is to quantify the quality of given forecast, i.e. to determine the degree of similarity between the values of forecasted and observed quantity after the forecasted event has occurred. In this thesis, the verifcation is performed in order to adequately select the wind gust forecasts at a 10 m height for different geographical areas of the Republic of Croatia using data from 61 stations in 2018. In addition to the ALADIN numerical model forecast, 3 additional forecasts based on the analog method are verifed: a simplest AnEn forecast, a forecast with additional weight optimization, AnEnT, and a forecast with an additional correction to determine performance for high wind speeds AnEnK. In the analysis of wind gust as a continuous variable, the ALADIN forecast takes on the largest error values in the coastal group of stations, while the analysis of wind as a categorical variable shows that the ALADIN forecast exhibits the worst results in the continental group of stations. It is shown that predictions obtained by the analog method mostly perform better than the ALADIN forecast. The largest improvements in the forecasts obtained by the analog method, when compared to the ALADIN forecast, are achieved in the coastal group of stations, while the smallest improvements are achieved in the continental group of stations. At climatologically prevailing wind gust speeds, the analog method is more successful than the ALADIN one. The same is valid for the extreme events, except for the continental group of stations, where ALADIN performs better. The results presented in this paper suggest that all the considered forecasts better model the bora than the sirocco wind. Overall, better results are achieved after the application of the analog method in the northern Adriatic then in the southern Adriatic. However, the relative improvement gained by the analog method is more pronounced in the southern Adriatic, where the occurrence of the sirocco wind is more frequent. Among the forecasts obtained by the analog method, the AnEnK variant could be singled out as the best one, especially for high wind gust speed. However, the differences in performance between the three variants of analog method are often very small.


When historians are interested in demographic and social network information of historical actors in the early Chinese empires (841 BC–1911 AD), very few studies have been done on entity retrieval from classical Chinese historiography.The key challenge lies in the low resource of the language: deep learning requires large amounts of annotated data and becomes impracticablewhen such data is not available. In this study, we employ domain experts (history professors) to curate a set of person entities and their profile attributes (e.g., courtesy name, place of birth, title) and relations (e.g., fatherson,master-disciple) from two books, Records of the Grand Historian and Book of Han. We develop a pattern-based bootstrapping approach to extract the information with a very small number (i.e., 1 or 2) of seed patterns. Experimental results show the effectiveness as well as the limitations of the iterative method. We would appreciate research of digital humanities to address the challenges in entity retrieval from low-resource languages.


Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) has recently completed building of 2.34 M TelescopeS Optics for the same was fabricated in the Optical shop of the Institute. The paper describes the technology used in making 2.34 M Telescope Optics. A polarisation shearing interferometer developed for the testing of large mirrors has also been discussed.


Abstract : Visual inspection of this dam did not reveal any conditions which constitute an immediate hazard to human life or property. However, several deficiencies were noted which should be evaluated and remedied. The hydraulic/hydrologic analysis performed indicates that the spillway has sufficient capacity to discharge the peak outflow from one-half the Probable Maximum Flood (PMF), but not from the full PMF. However, overtopping is not likely to result in failure of the dam. In any case, spillway discharges occurring during large storm events will cause flooding in downstream areas along the canal, regardless of an overtopping failure. Therefore the spillway is assessed as inadequate according to Corps of Engineers guidelines. The most serious deficiency is the deteriorated condition of the concrete on the retaining walls and on the spillway piers. Cracks, spalling and efflorescence throughout the structure indicate the need for more thorough maintenance work. Since the condition of the submerged section of the piers and spillway sill could not be evaluated, dewatering of the area, followed by a thorough inspection of both the concrete and steel work, is recommended. In lieu of dewatering the area, an underwater inspection of the steel and concrete may be conducted.


The possibility that a derangement in normal dream mechanisms is responsible for the occurrence of hallucinations in certain cases of mental illness has long been recognized and has recently been the focus of several investigations( 1-3) in our laboratory. These investigations utilize the discovery that a low-voltage fast (Stage 1) electroencephalographic (EEG) pattern accompanied by rapid eye-movements (REM) occurs cyclically during sleep and that this pattern is associated with the subjective recollection of dreaming(4). Thus, continuous recording during sleep of EEG and REM activity may be used to furnish an index of "dream time"(S). During the course of such an electrophysiological study of sleep patterns in hallucinating and nonhallucinating chronic brain syndrome patients, we encountered a case whose clinical features were unusually interesting and who showed extraordinarily high levels of Stage 1 and REM activity.


The inception speeches delivered by graduating masters of theology during the thirteenth century are of paramount interest for the study of the history of theology. Much like the introductions to philosophy written within the Faculty of Arts at Paris during the same period, the so-called principia articulated the image that theology entertained of itself at that time. Interestingly enough, some graduating masters took the opportunity to present a detailed discussion of the relation between philosophy and theology in an attempt to demonstrate the preeminence of the latter. Thus, they reflected not only upon the epistemological status of theology, but also — and sometimes in considerable detail — upon that of the secular sciences. One very eloquent example of such a comparative inception speech is the principium by Stephen of Bensançon (1286), who later became Master General of the Dominican Order. In this article, I focus on Stephen's discussion of the relationship between philosophy and theology, and show that the epistemological criteria he applied to both were drawn directly from one of the most important introductions to philosophy of the thirteenth century, that is, Robert Kilwardby's De ortu scientiarum. Stephen's case yields further evidence, therefore, of the interconnectedness of both genres, that is, philosophical introductions and theological inception speeches, and confirms the productive intellectual exchanges between philosophical and theological discourse at the University of Paris during the thirteenth century.


Natural source zone depletion (NSZD) is increasingly being integrated into management strategies for petroleum release sites. Measurements of NSZD rates can be used to evaluate naturally occurring hydrocarbon (HC) mass losses, and provide a baseline for evaluating engineered recovery systems. Here, nominal saturated and unsaturated zone HC losses were quantified by groundwater sampling and ground surface CO2 effluxes approximately monthly over a 1‐year period. In addition, subsurface gas profiles and temperature, precipitation, and groundwater elevation were evaluated to elucidate dominant environmental factors controlling NSZD rates. Results showed that NSZD rates estimated by surface CO2 effluxes were, on average, more than a factor of 3 greater than those estimated by uptake of electron acceptors (primarily sulfate) in extracted groundwater. This may indicate that vadose zone mass loss mechanisms (e.g., volatilization and subsequent biodegradation) were dominant in this system, but possible transfer of gases from the saturated zone to the vadose zone confounds this interpretation. Results for this semiarid site revealed that increasing NSZD rates tended to occur with increasing ambient monthly precipitation and temperature when accounting for time lags associated with subsurface transport. However, groundwater elevation was not found to be significantly related to NSZD rates. This result is counter to an expectation that increased smear zone exposure increases HC mass losses, and suggests that the pump‐and‐treat system did not greatly influence total NSZD rates directly through smear zone flushing or indirectly by lowering the regional water table.


There remains uncertainty about the value of using genotype information to guide decisions about P2Y12 inhibition in patients with ST-segment elevation


Based on the technique of conformal mapping and the complex variable function method,the anti-plane problem of a wing-shape in a piezoelectric composite material was studied.By using Cauchy integral formula and the Residue theorem,the analytical expressions of the field intensity factors and the mechanical strain energy release rate were presented with the assumption that the surfaces of the crack were electrically impermeable and electrically permeable.The results showed that K was with changes of β,when β = 0,the type Degenerate to Ⅲ Griffith crack in an infinite piezoelectric.


Higher education is considered the center of scientific and social progress, because it qualifies individuals to serve society in various fields of life. Therefore, the faculty member has become the main pillar in building future generations, so his energies should be blown to make his teaching practices innovative, distinctive and creative. This study aims to develop a scale of creative university teaching practices at King Faisal University, and to know the degree of reliance of faculty members on creative teaching practices. Furthermore, it aims to know the relationship between creative teaching practices and some personality variables. To achieve this, 50 items, distributed on four dimensions, were formulated and the construct validity of the scale was tested using the Rasch Model measurement. The study sample consisted of (150) respondents. The findings showed that the faculty members rely on creative teaching practices with a high degree in the whole scale. The findings also showed that there were statistically significant differences based on gender in favor of males, and there were no statistically significant differences based on faculty, academic rank and teaching experience. This study recommends conducting more research to find out the reasons for the different level of creative teaching practices between male and female faculty members, and determine their level of performance.


For any congruence subgroup Γ 0 (N), an explicit Dirichlet series is given which represents an analytic function of s in the half-plane Re s > 1/2 except for having simple poles at s = 1, 1/2 + p 1/4 − λ j , j = 1, 2, · · · , S, where λ j , j = 1, 2, · · · , S, are the exceptional eigenvalues of the non-Euclidean Laplacian for the congruence subgroup.


In our dedicated catheterization laboratory, within the years 2009–2016, 8286 Interventional Cardiology (IC) procedures were performed by two interventional cardiologists with more than 10 years of experience. There were 5469 Coronary Angiographies (CA) and 2817 Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI). The purpose was to analyze annual patient radiation data, investigate trends and compare with national and international literature and Dose Reference Levels (DRL). Patient doses were determined in terms of: kerma-area product PKA, fluoroscopy time FT and reference air-kerma Ka,r. Concerning the number of frames F, in 1.8% of CA cases and in 40% of PCI cases, was higher than Greek DRLs. PKA, in 13% of CA cases and in 31% of PCI cases, was higher than Greek DRLs. In 0.4% of CA cases, the calculated effective dose values were higher than 40 mSv, whereas in 0.9% PCI cases higher than 80 mSv. In 0.2% of CA cases, PSD was higher than 2 Gy and in 0.04% cases higher than 3 Gy. In 13% of PCI cases, PSD was higher than 2 Gy, in 3% higher than 3 Gy and in 0.4% higher than 5 Gy. FT in 19.2% of CA cases and in 32% of PCI cases was higher than Greek DRLs. The radiation dose trends in IC procedures in this hospital, for the last 8 years, suggest that patient radiation doses in CA are less variable through the years compared to PCI. Doses are comparable to the literature and median values are lower than Greek and European DRLs. The practice of the well experienced interventionalists, with the support of evolving technology, shows that simpler procedures, like CA, need slight shorter FT, while the most demanding procedures like PCI, appear to require more frames without increasing in FT or PSD.


Controversies over coaching for scholastic aptitude tests include disputes over the meaning of scholastic aptitude, over the meaning of coaching, over the nature of the fundamental research questions, over the adequacy of the empirical evidence for coaching effectiveness, over the possible implications of effective coaching for student performance and for test validity, and over the consequent ethical imperatives for educational and testing practice. Three possible outcomes of coaching having different implications for college performance are discussed — genuine improvements in the abilities measured by the test resulting in commensurate increases in test scores; enhanced test‐taking sophistication (item familiarization, guessing, pacing) resulting in increased test scores that are more accurate assessments of ability; and, heightened test‐taking artifice (stratagems and answer‐selection tricks) resulting in increased test scores that are inaccurately high assessments of ability. A framework for gauging t...


The idea that there might be democratic forms of non-participation has been largely overlooked in the theoretical and empirical literature on democracy. Non-participation has variously been seen as a threat to the proper functioning of democracy, as a rational choice, or (more rarely) as potentially beneficial at the systems level. We argue that there are forms of non-participation that may be justified on democratic grounds. Our main theoretical move is to distinguish between reflectivity (or thoughtfulness) and participation. We argue that the normative value of both participation and non-participation is conditioned by reflectivity, such that there may be democratically desirable forms of reflective non-participation. To support our claims, we provide examples of how non-participation can help support democratic goods—such as inclusion, influence, and legitimacy—that are normally associated only with democratic participation.


Genetic algorithm is one of the most optimizing techniques used today. GA can use the raw fitness of population which can be used for evolution. In this paper we have just using the fitness scaling with genetic algorithm and just observe the output of simple GA and the output of GA with fitness scaling. Fitness scaling can covert the raw fitness of population into the fittest population. In this paper we can apply various types of fitness scaling with GA and try to analysis the results with each type of scaling. The main drawback of simple genetic algorithm is premature convergence but by applying fitness scaling this problem is somehow solved. Our main motive in this paper is just to analyze the difference between good result and best result. The results in this paper show a better diversity and accuracy by using proposed fitness scaling with genetic algorithm. Keywords-Genetic algorithm (GA), Fitness function, Fitness scaling, Premature convergence, Evolutionary programming, Mutation, Crossover, Selection


E-Band diplexers have been designed to be used as front-end components in the transceivers of point-to-point wireless communication systems. They are specified to work at the frequency bands 71-76 GHz and 81-86 GHz. Three designs are presented here, two of which are the conventional T-junction and manifold diplexers, and the third is a novel compact structure based on coupled resonators.


Objective: This study aimed to investigate the factors affecting the sale of non-prescribed antibiotics in Jakarta, Indonesia.Methods: A cross-sectional, observational study was conducted across 190 randomly selected pharmacies in five administrative districts of Jakarta,Indonesia. Data regarding pharmacies were obtained from the Facility of Pharmaceutical Services Ministry of Health Data, in 2014, which includes allpharmacies in Jakarta. Further data were obtained using structured questionnaires.Results: Among the 190 respondents, 15 pharmacies (9.7%) never provided antibiotics without prescription, whereas 44 (23.6%), 60 (31.6%), and71 pharmacies (36.3%) provided antibiotic services without prescription rarely, sometimes, and always, respectively. Factors considerably associatedwith the increased sale of antibiotics without a prescription included the attitude and age of pharmacists, the type of pharmacy (independent or chainstore), and the presence of pharmacist assistants. Attitude was the most common variable related to providing antibiotics without a prescription.Conclusion: Antibiotics are frequently dispensed by community pharmacies in Jakarta without an appropriate prescription. These findings supportthe need for strict enforcement of pharmacy laws through improved inspections, and they highlight the need for evidence-based guidelines andeducational interventions to improve practices regarding antibiotic provision.


Looking back at the 100-year-history Chinese spoken drama,the Spoken Drama Movement disobeyed from its beginning the basic principle of realism, for it regarded social problem plays as realism. And the so-called realism is too realistic to be of art. Therefore, Cao Yu's writing practice and aesthetic thought, his mysterious rise and rapid fall, his 'realism should not become such reality', have turned out to be a historical testimony of the 100-year-history Chinese spoken drama as well as the most valuable wealth of Chinese theater today.


[Problem] To provide a doll body in which the degree of freedom of movement is increased for a light-emitting part provided to a surface and used for irradiating light to the exterior. [Solution] Light emitted from a single LED light source (41) exits from light-emitting parts (22, 31) provided to a plurality of locations on a doll body (10), either directly or via a light guide (50). In this case, when a joint (24) is provided between the LED light source (41) and the light-emitting part (31), a light guide joint section (53) is provided to a position on the light guide (50) corresponding to the joint (24), and the degree of freedom of movement of the light-emitting part (31) accompanying the movement of the portion (30) where the light-emitting part (31) is provided can therefore be increased.


We propose a) a Language Agnostic end-to-end Speech Translation model (LAST), and b) a data augmentation strategy to increase code-switching (CS) performance. With increasing globalization, multiple languages are increasingly used interchangeably during fluent speech. Such CS complicates traditional speech recognition and translation, as we must recognize which language was spoken first and then apply a language-dependent recognizer and subsequent translation component to generate the desired target language output. Such a pipeline introduces latency and errors. In this paper, we eliminate the need for that, by treating speech recognition and translation as one unified end-to-end speech translation problem. By training LAST with both input languages, we decode speech into one target language, regardless of the input language. LAST delivers comparable recognition and speech translation accuracy in monolingual usage, while reducing latency and error rate considerably when CS is observed.


ALTHOUGH this title may seem pretentious and to some, perhaps, even irrelevant, I do not think that Darwin would have been shocked by it. He wrote the prolegomena for a treatise on the subject in 1872 and he would, I think, rather have been shocked that the road he indicated had not been further explored. For here Darwin failed in his encounter with prejudice, a failure which he owed at least as much to his well-meaning friends as to his enemies. 'Man is an animal' said Darwin in effect. 'Certainly', said the friends, who had made it their task to put Darwinism across, 'Man is the reasoning animal, the self-conscious animal, the talking animal, the constructor of railways and ethics, the inventor of law and conscience and differential equations, the highest animal, the animal with free will.' Such comfortable words smoothed the passage of the evolutionary hypothesis, for it was seen that it had no personal application. The man in the street might have inherited his kidneys from his ancestors, but his mind at least was wholly his own. Rousseau was right in his opinion that man was born free. The shackles in which he was subsequently observed to be entangled were an unfortunate accident. Theoretically he was still safely in his Cartesian observatory, divinely privileged to observe the universe and all the other animals from outside. The wall which Descartes had erected between man and the animals was still there and apparently as solid as ever. But, in case it had been shaken by Darwinism, steps were taken to buttress it. Anthropomorphism was raised to the status of a heresy. The intelligence of animals was debunked by a number of striking public trials, such as those of the Elberfeld horses and Clever Hans. The canon of Lloyd Morgan was ruthlessly applied, and doubters were effectually silenced by the simple expedient of denying credence to any account of animal behaviour which could not be reproduced at will in the laboratory. These measures were effective and the wall remained stable until it was


Introduction When Christopher Columbus set out on his quest for riches and landed upon the shores of America in 1492CE, he thought he had found a new world. Contrary to this, an old world long inhabited by a civilisation that had arrived across the Bering Strait from Asia, tens of thousands of years prior to Columbus' arrival, was already in existence (Taylor and Sturtevant 1996; Zimmerman 2003). Believing he had finally reached 'the East Indies off the coast of Asia' (Hightower-Langston 2003, 2), Columbus named the inhabitants he encountered Indios (ibid.; Clare 2000). Given Columbus' geographical misunderstanding, under which these Native peoples of America were called 'Indians', this paper will purposely address them as 'Native Americans'. In demonstrating some of the spiritual and cultural beliefs of the Native American peoples, there will be a focus on how contact with European colonisers has affected these beliefs and practices.


During an orbital maneuver of a spin-stabilized spacecraft, undesired transverse torques are present due to thruster misalignment and offset from the center of mass. These body-Ž xed torques cause the thrust vector to precess about a direction that is offset from the nominal. This oscillation of the thrust vector over the course of the maneuver decreases the Ž nal magnitude of the D V while the average offset causes a pointing error. Previous work shows that inserting a short-coast phase into the maneuver can eliminate the pointing error. The behavior of the thrust axis is considered to Ž nd solutions for the coast phase timing that minimize the average oscillation of the thrust axis to maximize D V, while retaining the property of eliminating the secular pointing error. The new maneuver scheme realizes a signiŽ cant increase in efŽ ciency over the previous solution, particularly if the oscillation of the thrust axis is large.


Elie Wiesel's Night is the iconic Holocaust narrative. Composed in Yiddish and published in Argentina in 1956, it appeared in a series that commemorated the vanished Ashkenazi culture of Eastern Europe. The Night that English readers know appeared in 1960. It was based on an abridged version of the original that was published in 1958 by Editions de Minuit, a press founded during the War in response to Nazi censorship. Wiesel was involved in editing the text, and he translated it into French. Although the original English version of Night is by Stella Rodway, a definitive translation by Marion Wiesel appeared in 2006, and it is to it that all essays in the above volume refer. Night has been read by more people than any Holocaust-related work other than Anne Frank's diary, and it is the one that you will find on almost every syllabus in a Holocaust literature course. I included it whenever I taught such a course, even though my students had often read it in high school. My response was that this gave them the opportunity to read it again, knowing how the story's richness becomes more apparent with each repetition. What underlies this short book's continuous appeal? It is certainly a compelling story. The events it describes are enough to captivate any reader, but the narrative is organized brilliantly and with unerring instinct. In 1944, a religious Jewish boy of fifteen with a bent for mysticism is ripped from his native community in Hungary (formerly part of Romania), along with his family, and sent in a crowded cattle car to Auschwitz. This enormous concentration camp, industrial complex, and extermination centre has become a metonym for the entire Holocaust (termed the 'anus mundi' by an SS man who helped to run it). Here the boy, Eliezer, watches his mother and sister be 'selected' by a wave of Dr. Mengele's dreaded finger, to end their lives in a gas chamber. He is left alone with his father, and it is the relationship between father and son that sustains them throughout most of the narrative and compels the reader to continue reading this painful story. In addition, central to the book's appeal is the personal and spiritual development of the teenage boy who tries to fathom the absolute evil of his experience within the history and structure of his religion and its sacred texts, especially the Talmud and Kabbalah. Although a


After long combined blowing smelting technology been investigated by Central Iron and Steel Research Institute was abopted at new Lin-gang, combined blowing model and its maintaining methods adapted for small vessel were found, and better metallurgical effects and economic benefits were abtained.


Thiss research aims to detrmine how much influence the Debt to Equity Ratio (DER) dan Return on Equity (ROE) on Stock Prices at Food and Beverage Sub Sector companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange for the period 2013-2018. The sample used in this research were ten companies obtained based on purposive sampling technique. The data used in this study is panel data so that the data will be tested using the help of the Eviews 9 application and analysed using panel data multiple analysis. The results of this analysis indicate that DER partially has a negative and significant effect on stock prices and ROE partially has a positive and significant effect on stock prices. Meanwhile, simultaneously, DER and ROE have a joint influence on stock price of companies in the Food and Beverage Sub Sector for the 2013-2018 period.


The purpose of this study was to find out the dimensions (factors) that customers use in deciding about purchasing a consumer durable, more specifically, a color television. A thirteen item questionnaire was used to elicit responses from 100 potential customers in the city of Jaipur. Factor analysis (data reduction technique) was applied on the collected data. It resulted in the emergence of five factors viz. Core Features; Reliability and Cost; Ease of Operation; Memory, Aesthetic, and Response features; Brand Performance and New features. This seems to confirm the customer - value hierarchy model of five product levels namely Core Benefit, Basic Product, Expected Product, Augmented Product, and Potential Product as these levels match with the earlier five factors presented in the research study. The implication of this study is the continued relevance of looking at a consumer durable as a five layered product offering.


Ashenfelter, 0. and D. Card. 1986. Why have unemployment rates in Canada and the U.S. diverged? Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University, Working Paper 204 (February). Kennan, J. 1985. An econometric analysis of aggregate fluctuations in labor supply and demand. College of Business Administration, University of Iowa, Working Paper No. 83-16A (July). Sargent, T. J. 1979. Macroeconomic Theory. New York: Academic Press.


The chemisorption energies of hydrogen adatoms on a stepped nickel surface were calculated with the use of the Newns model (1969). The large increase of the chemisorption energy in the stepped region was found to be caused mainly by the increase in the adatom coordination number.


In this paper, we study the routing and wavelength assignment (RWA) tasks in WDM mesh networks with wavelength conversion capabilities. We solve the routing and wavelength assignment sub-problems as a single problem, rather than separating them into two separate problems. We use two different optimization criteria: (1) minimize the number of wavelength conversions used; and (2) minimize the number of wavelengths used. Each of these problems is solved by using a method based on the Dijkstra algorithm, sequentially on one connection at a time. We study and comment on the performance of the algorithms for different network topologies and traffic scenarios.


We have experimentally and theoretically investigated, both in the time domain and in the frequency domain, the characteristics of a nanoacoustic mirror, which is a 17-period 8nm∕8nm Al0.7Ga0.3N∕Al0.2Ga0.8N superlattice and its first phononic band gap frequency is centered at ∼280GHz. By using a femtosecond optical pulse to excite and detect the nanoacoustic strain pulses with an In0.2Ga0.8N single quantum well, we directly measured the transient dynamics of the acoustic nanowaves inside a phonon cavity composed of the studied nanoacoustic mirror. The phase-resolved reflection transfer function of the phononic band gap superlattice and the properties of the nanophononic cavity have been experimentally obtained and investigated.


. This is an essay on the adoption of city government and the decline of municipal liberty in Boston. The municipality is the smallest unit of general self-government in the United States. It originated from colonial charters granting liberties of self-government to corporations which settled New England. The land grants to these companies were extensive, and, as remote settlements developed, the General Court of the corporation extended to them the liberties of self-government. In New England, these local liberties


In the course of our screening for plant growth regulators among fungal metabolites, we succeeded in the isolation of two phyto toxic substances (I and II) from the culture filtrate of an unidentified fungus, which was separated from the diseased leaf of crapemyrtle (Lagerstroemia indica L.). In this paper we wish to report preliminarily the iso lation and structural elucidation of the substances. The fungus isolated from the leaf of crapemyrtle was stationarily cultured at 26°C for 25 days in Richard's medium (8 liters). The culture filtrate was extracted with ethyl acetate and conventionally fractionated into the neut ral, acidic and basic fractions. Among these, only the neutral fraction showed the marked inhibition against the germination of lettuce seeds, Lactuca sativa L. Through the further purification, the biological activity of each fraction was tested in the same manner as mentioned above. The neutral fraction was applied onto a silica gel column eluted stepwise with the mixture of benzene and ethyl acetate. The effluent with benzene containing 10% ethyl acetate was subjected to the preparative thinlayer chromatography (PTLC) on silica gel GF254 plate developed with benzene-ethyl acetate (1: 1) and the extract corresponding to Rf 0.40 gave 5 mg of I as an amorphous solid. The fraction eluted with benzene containing 70 % ethyl acetate from the silica gel column was further fractionated with PTLC on silica gel GF254 plate developed with benzene-ethyl acetate (1: 3) and the extract (Rf 0.52) yielded 24 mg of II as an amorphous solid. Physicochemical data of I are as follows. [a]'-?-221° (c=0.83, ethanol). MS m/e: 140.0448 (M+, 140.0472 calcd. for C7H8O3), 112, 111, 97, 83, 71, 69. IR v" am cm-1: 3440 (OH), 1668 (C-O), 1282, 1042 (C-O), 830, 727. ' NMR ƒÂCD13TMS ppm: 6.40 (1H, m, -U=CH_),


By members of the Literature Review Committee of the ASME Metal Processing Research Activity: J. L. Wennberg, General Electric Company, Chairman ; B. F. von Turkovich, University of Illinois, Metal Cutting Analysis; J. R. Roubik, Kearney & Trecker Corp., Metal Cutting Practice; F. W. Boulger, Battelle Memorial Institute of Technology, Plastic Working of Metals; R. S. Hahn, the Heald Machine Co., Grinding; P. A. Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Metalworking Fluids. The purpose of this review is to appraise the important contributions to the knowledge of material processing appearing in the published literature and to present a digest of this new knowledge through the Society as a contribution to the improvement of material processing practices throughout industry.


Abstract : This thesis explores the nature of the relationship between foreign news media and network incidents against DoD networks. A rank correlation was performed between the number of network incidents against DoD networks and foreign news media reports covering U.S. Military events. Further analysis was conducted to determine the key terms used in the contents of foreign news media reports for the months the reports were significantly correlated with network incidents. Several significant correlations were found between various combinations of regions and categories of network incidents. However, the correlations were only moderate and the key terms only led to a slightly better understanding of such relationships.


We proposed appropriate plasma conditions for hydrogenation of graphene without structural defect formation using ion energy analysis. Graphene sheets were exposed to plasma having H3 + ions with energies of 3.45, 5.35, and 7.45 eV. Only the specimen treated by the plasma with the lowest energy was converted back to graphene by thermal annealing, and the others showed irreversible characteristics because of the vacancy defects generated by high-energy ions. Finally, we demonstrated the reversible characteristic in graphene field-effect transistor using the plasma with appropriate ion energy and Joule heating, indicating that damage induced by plasma was negligible.


In real environments, autonomous vehicles must be able to deal with uncertainties related to the measurements provided by their perception system. Not taking such perception uncertainties into account can lead the vehicle to take erroneous decisions and cause accidents. Excessive speed rate change variations and red light crossing at signalized intersections are special cases of this problem. This paper presents a decision making for autonomous vehicles that considers uncertainty in timing information, but also in traffic light color (signal phase) measurement at signalized intersections. A Partially Observable Markov Decision Problem (POMDP) model is proposed in order to deal with the problem of partially observability of both signal phase and timing. By incorporating the perception system uncertainty, the POMDP model can reliably predict signal phase transitions, avoiding reacting in a too reactive manner and running red lights. Results show that the proposed POMDP model is able to estimate the true values of the signal phase and timing as more observations are gathered, which allows better decisions when compared to deterministic approaches.


To investigate physical chemical behaviors of dielectric barrier discharge at atmospheric pressure in oxygen, the chemical active species which might exist in plasma were analyzed with the diagnosis technique of optical emission spectroscopy (OES) in oxygen discharge system. From the oxygen atom emission spectra in 500-950 nm, the electronic temperature was calculated by some atomic lines to be (1.02±0.03) eV. The oxygen atmospheric band O2 (b1Σ+g-X3Σ-g) in 760 nm was analyzed, and the rotational temperature (gas temperature) was calculated by its rotational structure to be (650±20) K. The first negative system O+2(b4Σ-g-a4Πu) in 500-700 nm and the Hopfield system O+2(c4Σ+u-b4Σ-g) in 190-240 nm were observed. The research showed that there were various reactive species in plasma of dielectric barrier discharge at atmospheric pressure in oxygen, such as a series excited oxygen atoms, excited oxygen molecules, ground and excited states of oxygen molecular ions. The formation of reactive species concerned many procedures of excitation, dissociation and ionization of oxygen, many energy transfer steps were included in every procedure. The oxygen atoms produced from oxygen molecule dissociation were ruling factor leading to generate reactive species besides electron.


The method of generation of cluster beams is analyzed in the regime when large clusters grow in a flow of a dense afterglow plasma and clusters are formed in a narrow region near the axis of this flow. This method gives a high intensity of the cluster beam in comparison with standard methods of cluster generation. Numerical parameters are evaluated for processes involving iridium clusters in an argon plasma. © 2000 MAIK "Nauka/Interperiodica".


The struggles between Malay-Muslims and Thai authorities in the southernmost provinces of Thailand, namely Yala, Pattani, Narathiwat, and four districts of Songkhla, have been ongoing for more than a century and there seems to be no end in sight. Interestingly, the Thai security policy regarding the violence in Deep South from 2004, which was the year that the violence re-emerged and expanded, to the present, has gradually changed to promote further participation and collaboration between state- and non-state actors. This article aims to examine cross-sector collaboration in the conflict area of the southernmost part of Thailand by focusing on both state- and non-state actors. Moreover, the article will investigate the role of the state and its agencies, as well as the governmental response to the political activities of people in the conflict area, through the lens of cross-sector collaboration. Based on interviews with governmental officials, civil society activists, and local people, as well as field work in the Deep South of Thailand, this article found that the ongoing conflict and violence did not only lead to more violence and negative impacts, but also influenced an increased awareness and led to changes in the collaborative activities between the Thai state and the MalayMuslim people. However, even though the Thai government has recently worked to provide more channels of cross-sector collaboration to the Malay-Muslims, collaboration in the conflict area is still restricted by the State's close watch and tight control under the application of martial law. Therefore, although the state's policy has gradually changed to be more open to participation and collaboration, due to the continued feelings of suspicion and distrust, and the concern of national security, the state still maintains centralized power and exercises control over the participation of Malay-Muslims in cross-sector collaboration.


This paper is to examine the effects of apology methods on tourists' perceived trueness and image restoration toward the golf resort induced to agricultural chemical contamination. Apology contents were obtained from the frequently used image restoration strategy. Data were collected through onsite interviews of 250 tourists in Bomoon Resort. Hypothetical apology messages such as denial. bolstering, differentiation, transcendence, and compensation, were created through 8 scenarios. The results indicated that the same patterns of determinants were evident for each of the two variables. For trueness, the most prominent part-worth coefficient was 10% donation for local residents, followed by inability to control contamination. For image restoration, the factor with the highest coefficient was also to return 10% of the profit back to local residents.


Dependencies of protection ratio for receive paths of satellite ground stations at joint use of frequency bands 3,4-3,6 MHz with radio electronic means of WiMAX technology (class of emission -10M0D7W) are presented.


An explanation is provided for the difference in wake vortex alleviation achieved by roll oscillations in flight tests with B-747 and L-1011 transport aircraft. Both aircraft had their landing flaps extended and several spoilers deployed. Numerical analysis shows that the growth in amplitude of the initial waves in the vortex filament is brought about by the sinusoidal instability. In the case of the B-747, growth is enhanced by a vortex whose strength is about the same as the tip vortex which is shed near the fuselage by the inboard end of the flaps. Conversely, the L-1011 is estimated to shed a negligible fuselage vortex and to have a relatively strong wingtip vortex. These characteristics bring about a rotation and amplification of the initial waves in the vortex filaments in the wake of the B-747 but not in the L-1011 vortex wake. An aircraft following the B-747 would then experience only intermittent encounters with the intense parts of the wake vortices so that the time-averaged wake-induced rolling moment is substantially reduced.


A series of "wanderers"-type images--"passers-by", "beggars", "phantoms", "warriors" and "cadavers", etc. were created in Wild Grass by Lu Xun, constructing the unique series of images of Wild Grass. The author considers the "wanderers" to be the fighting warriors, full of courage, loneliness and desperation. Through a thorough study of these images, this paper attempts to demonstrate that the "wanderers" were in fact the concrete embodiment of the spirit and dignity of Lu Xun himself.


The issue of Intellectual Capital is emerging and raising a discussion about its relevance to the wealth of organizations. Knowledge is accepted as an economic resource that imposes new paradigms on the evaluation of human beings and on the evaluation of companies, for such knowledge has produced intangible benefits that alter their value. The aggregate of such intangible elements has been named Intellectual Capital. This paper examines whether the understanding of the concept of Intellectual Capital by managers has an influence on the economic and financial performance of large Brazilian corporations. The work is based on a sample of 30 companies selected from the industrial, commercial and services sectors. The data were treated through the qualitative (content analysis) and quantitative (cluster analysis and correlation/association analysis) methods. The study concludes that corporate managers understand the concept of Intellectual Capital as it is presented in the literature and that investments have been made in the elements that identify Intellectual Capital. The understanding of the concept has indirectly influenced the performance of the selected companies through actions of investment in human resources. The paper also identifies a gap to be filled by


Two patient cases are reported in which an aneurysm of the right coronary sinus of Valsalva ruptured into the right ventricular outflow tract, near the crux of the heart. Transthoracic two‐dimensional echocardiography and transesophageal echocardiography using Doppler color flow mapping allowed accurate preoperative assessment of the left‐to‐right shunt, which was subsequently confirmed by contrast aortography and surgery.


"Your Shadow" is an interactive multimedia interactive audiovisual installation that explores the phenomenon of surveillance, which is rampant in our society. As your actions and activities leave a digital and physical footprint behind, is your shadow safe and protected, or is it open to exploitation? How are your movements and actions being tracked? What is at stake as your shadows are constantly monitored onand offline? The sonic and visual interaction will capture the formation of shadows and vestiges. As each audience member swings their face left and right, leans forward and backward, the video will capture the gradual shadows that follow the participant's movements. Overall, this interactive installation aims to create an embodied and visceral experience for audiences. In doing so, this work hopes to raise viewers' awareness in regards to the dangers and potential risks associated with high-tech


Background Glioblastoma is a highly aggressive and malignant type of brain cancer that originates from glial cells in the brain, with a median survival time of 15 months and a 5-year survival rate of less than 5%. Regulated cell death (RCD) is the autonomous and orderly cell death under genetic control, controlled by precise signaling pathways and molecularly defined effector mechanisms, modulated by pharmacological or genetic interventions, and plays a key role in maintaining homeostasis of the internal environment. The comprehensive and systemic landscape of the RCD in glioma is not fully investigated and explored. Method After collecting 18 RCD-related signatures from the opening literatures, we comprehensively explored the RCD landscape, integrating the multi-omics data, including large-scale bulk data, single-cell level data, glioma cell lines, and proteome level data. We also provided a machine learning framework for screening the potentially therapeutic candidates. Result Here, we explored RCD-related phenotypes, investigated the profile of the RCD, and developed a RCD gene pair scoring system, named RCD.GP signature. Using the machine learning framework consisting of Lasso, RSF, XgBoost, Enet, CoxBoost and Boruta, we identified seven RCD genes as potential therapeutic targets in glioma and verified the SLC43A3 by q-PCR in glioma grades and glioma cell lines. Conclusion Our study provided comprehensive insights into the RCD roles in glioma, developed a robust RCD gene pair signature for predicting the prognosis of glioma patients, constructed a machine learning framework for screening the core candidates and identified the SLC43A3 as an oncogenic role and a prediction biomarker in glioblastoma.


The paper analyzes the portfolio in the superior asset with the mean-variance model, and discusses the conception, conditions and the amount of informaiton required for specialization and gives a real application method to completely specialize.


Gaussian approximation (GA) is widely used to construct polar codes. However when the code length is relatively long, the subchannel selection inaccuracy due to the calculation error of conventional approximate GA (AGA), which uses two-segment approximation function, results in a catastrophic performance loss. In this paper, new principles to design GA approximation functions are proposed. First, we introduce the concepts of polarization violation set (PVS) and polarization reversal set (PRS) to explain the essential reason that conventional AGA can not work well. In the AGA process, the subchannels belonging to these two sets lead to the reliability sorting error among the subsequent subchannels, which violates Arikan's fundamental polarization principle. Moreover, we propose a new metric, named cumulative-logarithmic error (CLE), to quantitatively evaluate the remainder approximation error of AGA in logarithm. We derive the upper bound of CLE to simplify its calculation. Guided by PVS, PRS and CLE bound, we further propose new rules to design multi-segment GA approximation functions, which obviously improve the calculation accuracy of AGA so as to guarantee the excellent performance of polar codes. Numerical results show that the new proposed GA approximation functions are critical to construct high-performance polar codes with long code lengths.


Recent advances in WLSF detector technology at ISIS are presented here. Cost reduction strategies, such as a transition from single anode to multi-anode PMTs and optically isolated scintillator elements to continuous scintillator sheets, will be discussed. Advantages and current disadvantages of WLSF detector technology will also be discussed. Thermal neutron detection efficiencies of approximately 65% with corresponding gamma sensitivities on the order of 10 are shown. Pixel to pixel variation of less than ±6% has been achieved for linear and 2D position sensitive detectors. These properties make WLSF detectors viable for a variety of applications at ISIS.


This paper addresses the functional design of an energy management system (EMS) applicable to hybrid energy systems (HES) formed by the power grid, photovoltaic (PV) generators, diesel generators, and energy storage systems (ESS). The implementation of these HES and their EMS is related to the MED-Solar Project which main objective is the construction of four pilot plants in three countries of the Mashreq area (Lebanon, Palestine and Jordan), in order to show that the utilization of these systems can reduce some energy problems present in these countries and, therefore, becoming attractive for different economic sectors.


The present article fits to the work of research named strategies of reading that promote the school conviviality, focuses in the implementation and the description of the strategies of reading and writing for the construction of the conviviality among the students of fourth degree of the College Distrital Orlando Higuita Rojas, which proposed to answer the question how the reading compression contributes to the school conviviality, by means of the implementation of the strategy of reading do I free album of the students of fourth degree of the College Distrital Orlando Higuita Rojas? To be able to come to a response there appeared an aim that is to help and to describe a strategy of reading from the book album to improve the comprehension of reading and to promote the school conviviality Among the students and to be able like that to determine what means the development of the reading skills for the comprehension and the construction of the school conviviality, with the support of a strategy of reading book album to improve the comprehension of reading and in turn the conviviality in the school context. The development of the present research was realized by means of the implementation of a didactic sequence by the students, four observations were realized, with the intention of identifying and describing the strategies of reading used in class and as these they facilitated the comprehension of the school conviviality. Finally, the results of the analysis of the observations have shown that the implementation of reading strategies and the album book contribute to the learning of coexistence from reading comprehension, linked to the activities of participation and understanding of coexistence, said strategies Were used in different moments of the class with purposes related to the activation and generation of knowledge, the construction of the understanding and the reflection of the coexistence school.


The Earth's core for med via a series of high‐energy collisions with already‐differentiated objects, likely resulting in several distinct magma ocean epochs. The cores of these impactors probably underwent only limited emulsification and moderate (~50%) isotopic re‐equilibration with the target mantle during the collision. Later impactors likely originated from more distant regions of the inner Solar System and were plausibly more volatile‐rich and more oxidized than earlier impactors. Short‐lived isotopes, especially the hafnium‐tungsten (Hf‐W) system, provide the strongest constraints on the timescale of accretion and core formation. These short‐ lived isotopes and dynamical models provide a mutually self‐consistent, albeit approximate, chronology. Terrestrial core formation took more than 30 Myr but less than about 200 Myr to complete.


Abstract A differential microcalorimetric technique for the investigation of high-pressure adsorption of fluids on microporous solids is developed. The thermodynamic analysis of the experimental scheme and the relationship between isosteric and calorimetric differential heats of adsorption are given. These values are obtained for the system Xe-zeolite Na X at pressures of 1 × 10 -5 -22 MPa and temperatures of 299-467 K. The strong dependence of differential calorimetric heats on adsorption on temperature observed at sufficiently high loadings is interpreted in terms of cooperative adsorbate-adsorbate interactions and adsorption deformation of the adsorbent. The notion of the area of thermodynamic inertness of the adsorbent is introduced and its frontiers are established for the system under question. In this region of comparatively low pressures and temperatures, the differential calorimetric heats and the isosteric heats of adsorption determined under the assumption of an inert adsorbent are in good agreement. Beyond this region, considerable differences between these values are shown to be due to adsorption deformation of adsorbent.


The purpose of the present invention is to provide: a method for provisionally determining the quality of ballast water, which comprises provisionally determining whether or not the composition of organism in the ballast water meets a standard; a method for treating ballast water, which comprises treating the ballast water on the basis of the determination method; a method for provisionally determining the composition of organisms, which comprises provisionally determining whether or not the composition of organisms in a sample of interest meets a standard; a method for evaluating a biological activity, which comprises directly and rapidly evaluating organisms occurring in a culture medium of interest as an activity; and a method for predicting the concentration of organisms, which comprises rapidly predicting the concentration of organisms occurring in the culture medium. The purpose can be achieved by evaluating organisms occurring in a culture medium of interest as an activity or predicting the concentration of organisms occurring in the culture medium on the basis of the amount of a substrate consumed in accordance with the progress of culturing in the culture medium.


A new method of some linear objects tracking such as the runway being changed to tracking of the feature point is presented based on Hough transform during the stable-falling of the sub-muniton. Given all the case of each parameter's decoupling, the parameters of the line in Hough space have been estimated and predicted with the methods of Kalman filtering. In order to establish the relative position between the runway and sub-munition, some modificative processing in equation for predicting the state of objects' contrail are conducted combining some data information of the current image when considering the influence of the detector's spinning with sub-munition. In the instance of small perturbation, a new processing data is established based on the theory of parachute-munition's dynamic analysis in order to obtain the curve of D0 which would ascertain the relative position of sub-munition and runway. All processing data shows that this method has high efficiency and good stability, and reduces the quantity of calculation to some extent. Experiment results show the error of estimation is small and it can meet the general object requirement.


Organic layers are heterogeneous in space and their composition changes over time. This poses challenges to ecohydrologists, subsurface hydrologists, and ground engineers to characterize subsurface peat structures and to predict their behavior over time. A better characterization of peat deposits in terms of hydraulic properties can be achieved by performing multifrequency elect rical surveys provided the complex conductivity of peat is understood and connected to its index and geomecha nical properties.For this purpose, the relationship between water content, porefluid conductivity and the bulk conductivity of peat was investigated using a PVC compression cell equipped with two couples of electrodes placed at the top and bottom of the sample. This setup allows measurements of electrical resistivity and induced polarization at different levels of compression, and thus water contents, of the peat. Broadband frequency measurements (10 �1 to 10 6 Hz) of complex electrical conductivity were carried out on peat samples saturated with water at different salinity in the range 0.001 to 1 S/m. The results were interpreted with an empirical model which shows a positive correlation between water content and the peat conductivity when the porefluid conductivity is higher than the cond uctivity of the solid material, whereas the correlation is found to be negative when the porefluid conductivity is lower than the conductivity of the solid material. The results indicate that the water content of peat can be predicted by lowfrequency electrical measurement when the value of the porefluid conductivity is known. This study presents results that can provide a better understanding of the lowfrequency electrical properties of organic soil s.


The total synthesis of antibiotic A26771B was completed in short steps from 15-hydroxy-3,4-hexadecadienoic acid which was easily prepared by the ring-opening reaction of β-ethynyl-β-propiolactone with Grignard reagent in the presence of a copper(I) catalyst.


This paper proposes ways to view the rich semantics of actions as activities. This is achieved by unfolding the invoked activities and the implicit joins and forks. The unfolding offers an explanation for the semantics of actions by activities and also allows a simple translation from an activities subset to a well-known Petri net class. One example of an activity diagram and the respective Petri net is included.


Abstract Stoichiometric rutile single crystals have been deformed under uniaxial compression between 800 and 1700 K in oxygen at 1 atm pressure. Four equivalent {101} slip systems operated in the crystals, which could be plastically deformed above 875 K. The distinctive feature of the mechanical behaviour of the crystals is the occurrence of a serrated flow due to a double dynamic-strain-ageing (DSA) effect in the temperature range 1150–1450 K at strain rates between 10−5 and 10−3 s−1. Detailed study of this effect suggests that each of the two DSA maxima is associated with a different point defect having a different mobility. The activation energies for migration of both defects have been determined as 2.8 ± 0.3 eV and 3.8 ± 0.4 eV respectively; the latter value is higher than that reported for non-stoichiometric point defects in rutile. Point defects causing DSA also give rise to ageing-dependent yield drops after stress-relaxation experiments at temperatures below those at which the serrated flow ...


According to characteristics of flight training of trainer aircraft and flight parameters data collected in flight training, research on evaluation of flight training quality of flight cadets is carried out. Through functional requirements analysis, general process of flight training quality evaluation is established, five functional modules required for evaluation are defined, and technical development ideas of each module are detailed, design structure of evaluation system is built.


At the end of 1948 single party ruling of PZPR (Polish United Workers' Party) started uncritical following of the Soviet state model. The changes concerned physical culture as well.The guidelines on the new model of sport and physical culture management were created by the resolution of Politburo (BP) of KC PZPR (Central Committee of Polish United Workers' Party) of September 8th,1949. The implementation of the tasks were handed over to the Head Committee of Physical Culture. In ŁodźVoivodeship it was at first the Voivodeship Office of Physical Culture, then the Voivodeship Committee of Physical Culture and Łodź Committee of Physical Culture that supervised the proces of sports reorganization. The biggest difficulty in the reforms was the lack of staff. The trials of its replacement by the Polish Youth Association did not compensate the purge that was carried out among the pre-war activists. As a result of the September resolution sports unions were reorganized into sports sections and sports clubs lost their legal status and traditional names. The impelmentation od the physical culture tasks into the six-year planning secured the financial resources for their realization.The level of physical culture was marked by its range, mass events and the «Fit for Work and Defence» badge.


Highly fluoridated water is hazardous to human and animal health and effects are not limited to dental and skeletal fluorosis, diarrhea and impaired brain development. Traditional water treatment methods have limitations such as high production cost, ineffectiveness and are not reusable. In this work, the use of waste polyethylene materials derived from municipal solid waste as a green water treatment technique that affords low price, value addition and ecological friendly technology has been presented. The polyethylene wastes were dispersed in vegetable oil and modified using triethylamine. Modification was confirmed by Fourier transform infrared spectrometry (FTIR) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The effect of pH, initial fluoride concentration, contact time and adsorbent dose were investigated and optimized. adsorption was found to prescribe to Langmuir adsorption with an adsorption capacity of 10. 30 mgg1. The removal process was found to be optimal at pH 6.0. This study showed that triethylamine modified polyethylene adsorbent has a potential application for removal of fluoride from contaminated waters.


Abstract We consider the dynamics of a small trojan companion of a hypothetical giant exoplanet under the secular perturbations of additional planets. By a suitable choice of action-angle variables, the problem is amenable to the study of the slow modulation, induced by secular perturbations, to the dynamics of an otherwise called 'basic' Hamiltonian model of two degrees of freedom (planar case). We present this Hamiltonian decomposition, which implies that the slow chaotic diffusion at resonances is best described by the paradigm of modulational diffusion.


This book describes acidic emissions control technology and costs. The objectives are: to identify and characterize stationary combustion and industrial sources of directly emitted acidic materials in the United States; to evaluate the feasibility of control technologies for these sources; and to estimate the costs of applying these control technologies. This book gives results of estimates, using a model plant approach, of costs for retrofitting selected acidic emission control systems to utility and industrial boilers, Claus sulfur recovery plants, catalytic cracking units, primary copper smelters, coke oven plants, primary aluminum smelters, and municipal solid waste incinerators.


This study aims to determine the effect of tax services, tax sanctions, knowledge, and income on taxpayer compliance in paying land and building taxes. Questionnaires were distributed to 100 respondents who were distributed randomly. The sampling technique used in this research is accidental sampling. The data analysis used is the test instrument data including validation test and reliability test, classical assumption test includes normality test, multicollinearity and hesteroscedasticity test, and hypothesis testing includes t test, f test and R2 test. The results of testing tests that all of the variables tested have no significant effect on taxpayer compliance. Tax and tax variables have a significant effect on taxpayer compliance in paying land and building taxes in Surakarta. While knowledge and income have no effect on taxpayer compliance in paying land and building taxes in Surakarta.


: The image of "God's Armor" in Eph 6,11–17 is modeled, on the one hand, after biblical traditions, taking formulations from the book of Isaiah (Isa 11,5; 52,7; 59,17). But on the other hand the author of Ephesians also adds some elements to the image that do not have any equivalents in Isaiah or other biblical texts. These extra elements in Ephesians are the sword, the shield, the mention of the military term πανοπλία ("armor"), and the sandals. The naming of these additional items is based on first century knowledge about the equipment of a Roman legionnaire. As can be shown by comparison to descriptions of ancient Roman warfare in Josephus and Polybius, the wearer of God's armor in Ephesians is figuratively posi-tioned in a concrete battle situation, namely the siege of a town wall. The author of Eph 6,11–17 imagines the present life of the Christian community as a dramatic situation that can be compared to a battle. With the sword of God's word in their hands the members of the Christian community are supposed to defend the wall of their fortress against the attacks of the forces of evil. ¹


This paper presents a study of the effect spatial rainfall distribution on hydrologic response, based on a dense (1̃/km2) network of rainfall sensors in a small alpine catchment. The question of how spatial rainfall distribution affects hydrologic response has been addressed in many previous studies, several based on multiple catchments and longer series of rainfall events. The novelty of this study in its current set-up is therefore not convincing. Both reviewers point out that the indicators used to characterize rainfall variability are rather simplistic compared to what has been presented in previous studies. Furthermore, the results are not put in context of the literature (which should be done in the Discussion section), to show what new findings were achieved. The reviewers have provided multiple suggestions for the use of more elaborate indica-


Objective
To evaluate the application of job competence guided standardized training for new nurses.

Methods
A total of 28 nurses received traditional training (experienced nurses trained new nurses) as control group for new recruited nurses in 2012, and 28 new entry nurses in 2013 underwent job competence guided standardized training as experimental group. We compared passed rates of bedside comprehensive ability and scores in two groups nurses before and after training.

Results
Before pre-service training, the passed rates of bedside comprehensive ability was 7.14% in two groups, and increased to 92.86% after training. After training, the score of experimental group was (83.48±9.86) comparing with (79.47±8.91) in the control group (t=4.45, P<0.01).

Conclusions
Pre-service training plays a important role in improving nurses′ bedside comprehensive ability, and job competence guided standardized training is more effective than traditional training for new entry nurses.

Key words:
Pre-service training; New entry nurses; Job competence; Bedside comprehensive ability


Near-infrared optical spectroscopy is employed to investigate the cognitive response to motor tasks in the prefrontal cortex of adults with and without cerebral palsy.


The background to assistance in processing and providing additional food as an effort to prevent stunting includes an in-depth understanding of the factors that cause stunting and how nutritional interventions can affect children's growth. Here is the background. The Importance of Optimal Growth in Children Under Five: Optimal growth in children under five is the key to ensuring they grow into a healthy, intelligent and productive generation.This problem formulation will help design studies or programs that are right on target and focus attention on key aspects that need to be improved to prevent stunting through assistance with food processing and providing additional food in Suka Asih Village, Tangerang District. a condition where a child has a height lower than the standard that should be appropriate for his age. Stunting prevention is a very important effort to ensure optimal growth and development of children. One effective strategy in preventing stunting is through assistance with food processing and providing additional food.


This paper could also be titled, "Fortunately, I Was Not Electrocuted." Dr Winslow candidly discusses her bathing and toileting research as well as her more recent research. Because she believes that failure is a good teacher, she describes her blunders as well as her accomplishments. In addition, she provides criteria helpful in selecting a good clinical problem for study and stresses the importance of identifying and investigating nursing rituals. Approaches that enhance the likelihood of success in research, public speaking, publishing, and in life are also shared.


The role that mast cells play during contact hypersensitivity (CS) response is unclear because some studies have shown that mast cell-deficient mice have relatively intact CS responses whereas others have shown opposing results. Mast cells secrete a wide range of immunomodulatory mediators and can potentially influence the type of immune response generated in the skin during CS. Therefore, we examined the type of microenvironment generated during CS in both W/Wv mast cell-deficient and wild-type mice in response to different immunizing doses of hapten (oxazolone). The CS response elicited after low-dose oxazolone was significantly diminished in W/Wv mice compared with wild-type mice. Unexpectedly, the CS response elicited in W/Wv mice immunized with highdose oxazolone was more severe compared with wildtype mice. In addition, after immunization with high-dose oxazolone, the granulocyte infiltrate in W/Wv mice was increased by twofold compared with wild-type mice. A shift in the cytokine milieu toward the expression of type-1 cytokines as well as a significant increase in the local adhesion of neutrophils and CD4 T cells in the microvasculature of the skin was observed after hapten challenge in W/Wv mice immunized with high-dose oxazolone compared with wild-type mice. These results suggest that mast cells can act as regulators and inducers of the inflammatory response depending on immunizing stimulus strength. (Am J Pathol 2008, 172:1638–1649; DOI: 10.2353/ajpath.2008.070559) Contact sensitivity (CS), a form of delayed type hypersensitivity is a prototypical T-cell-mediated skin inflammatory response that occurs after cutaneous exposure to haptens. Re-exposure of the skin to the same sensitizing hapten results in an inflammatory response that is characterized by substantial leukocyte infiltration into tissue and edema formation that peaks throughout 24 to 48 hours. This response is subject to the regulatory effects of cytokines produced by T lymphocytes and is dependent on the recruitment of antigen-specific T cells to the site of hapten challenge. Multiple types of T cells have been shown to play a role in murine CS. In addition to interferon gamma (IFN)and interleukin (IL)-2-producing CD4 helper T lymphocytes (TH1 cells), IFN-producing CD8 T cells, T cells, and IL-4or IL-10-secreting CD4 T cells (TH2 cells) also participate in murine CS. 4–8 Thus, to potentially control hypersensitivity responses it is important to understand the antigen-specific/nonspecific events that are responsible for the recruitment of Tlymphocyte subsets into skin. The inflammatory response elicited after re-encountering antigen can be separated into two distinct phases, both demarcated by a macroscopic swelling response. The first phase occurs within the first 2 hours after elicitation and is thought to involve the activation of the complement system, degranulation of mast cells, and the release of vasoactive and inflammatory mediators such as histamine, serotonin, and tumor necrosis factor (TNF).


Since this is the first panel discussion within the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) on credibility of models, a summary of previous activities is important. The Society for Computer Simulation (SCS) has recognized the need for a standing committee on Model Credibility since the late seventies; the committee's major task is to develop terminology, procedures, and qualifying measures pertinent to model credibility. There have also been annual panel discussions at the Summer Computer Simulation Conferences with formal papers presented.&dquo; In this frame, the terminology, methodology, and techniques developed used applications from various fields with examples from technical as well as social sciences.


1 Boutati EI, Anaissie EJ. Fusarium, a significant emerging pathogen in patients with hematologic malignancy: ten years' experience at a cancer center and implications for management. Blood 1997; 90: 999–1008. 2 Nucci M, Anaissie EJ, Queiroz-Telles F et al. Outcome predictors of 84 patients with hematologic malignancies and Fusarium infection. Cancer 2003; 98 (2): 315–319. 3 Okuda C, Ito M, Oka K. Relationship between tissue reactions and morphological changes of the fungi in chromoblastomycosis: morphometry and electron microscopy. Arch Dermatol Res 1992; 284 (2): 95–99. 4 Albarenque SM, Doi K. T-2 toxin-induced apoptosis in rat keratinocyte primary cultures. Exp Mol Pathol 2005; 78 (2): 144–149. 5 Marangon AV, Svidzinski TI, Salci TP, Meurer R, da Cruz Fernandes M, Hernandes L. Metabolic extract of Fusarium oxysporum induces histopathologic alterations and apoptosis in the skin of Wistar rats. Int J Dermatol 2009; 48: 697–703.


Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites of filamentous fungi that may contaminate food plants, including nuts, depending on abiotic and biotic factors. They are of major concern worldwide as they may cause acute or chronic intoxication, and even death, in humans and animals. This chapter reviews fungal infestation and mycotoxin contamination of nuts depending on the environmental conditions and production practices. It then describes the pre- and post-harvest strategies to prevent and limit mycotoxin contamination throughout the nut production chain. Finally, it discusses how knowledge and research results are applied to the field, and how to improve and extend their use and effectiveness. The focus is directed towards aflatoxin contamination in groundnuts, especially in the main African producing regions. (Resume d'auteur)


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Background & Method: The study was conducted in the Department of Medicine Shyam Shah Medical College and Associated Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital, Rewa (M.P). History was followed by a careful clinical examination i.e. cardiovascular, respiratory and gastrointestinal and nervous system. Investigations had done included routine haematological examination, Biochemical analysis, urine examination, ECG, 2 D. Echo & Histopathological examination was done.
Result: ST-T changes were most common finding in Aluminium phosphide poisoning in relation to mortality. However hyperkalemia was the most ominous finding associated with 100% mortality, ECG finding in EDB was normal ECG. The most ominous finding was arrhythmia which was associated with 100% mortality. Survivors of ethylene dibromide poisoning echocardiography was normal in 11 (84.61%) followed by pericardial effusion in 2 (15.38%) patients.
Conclusion: Noteworthy finding was absence of correlation between cardiovascular involvement, histopathological changes and ECG findings. It was seen that even if ECG showed normal pattern there were significant histopathological changes in heart.
Keywords: electro-cardiographic, Aluminium phosphide, ethylene dibromide & poisoning.


The effect of aqueous sodium hydroxide solutions on coal derived pyrites was investigated in a packed bed reactor. The ranges of the variables used in the investigation were: temperature from 250 420°P; particle size from 69 to 335 micron; concentration from 0-10%; particle Reynolds number from 15 75. The results of the study indicate that at the conditions used, the reaction is chemical reaction controlled with an apparent activation energy of 21 kcal/mole and a frequency factor of 1.45 X 10 /cm/sec. The reaction rate is linear in sodium hydroxide concentration. No significant trends are evident with variations in particle Reynolds number. Particle size variations gave results consistent with a porous par ticle shrinking core chemical reaction controlled model. The reaction products affect the rate of sulfur extraction causing a significant rate maximum to occur at low levels of product concentration in the liquid phase. Evidence suggests that a surface complex forms during the reaction, causing an induction period to be observed. Suggestions regarding the chemistry of the reaction are presented based upon experimental observations.


In dogs, bipolar electrograms were recorded from the SA node and His bundle to localize pacemaker sites during vagal escape and to study the effects of isoproterenol on escape mechanisms. Vagal escape can result from the development of pacemaker activity above the A-V node, within the region of the A-V node, and below the common bundle of His. Isoproterenol shortened the period of asystole prior to the onset of vagal escape, increased the rate of escape rhythms at all pacemaker sites, and occasionally changed the pacemaker to a higher focus in the conduction system.


The invention relates to a two-stage clocked electronic power converter (20) for transmitting an electric power having a first terminal (38, 40) for connecting an electrical power source, a second terminal (42, 44) for connecting a load (46) and an intermediate circuit capacitor (28), wherein a first stage (1) of the two-stage clocked electronic power converter (20) comprises a first converter in the boost operation, an electric voltage at the first terminal (38, 40) converts into an electrical intermediate circuit voltage at the intermediate circuit capacitor (28), and wherein the intermediate circuit capacitor (28) supplies a second stage (2) of the two-stage clocked electronic power converter (20) which supplies the load (46) in the power controllable with electrical energy. According to the invention the energy converter comprises a control unit which is adapted to adjust from the second stage (2) the intermediate circuit capacitor extracted (28) power such that a what is caused by the power extraction instantaneous minimum of the intermediate circuit voltage is greater than a predetermined voltage comparison value (50, 54 ) is.