"Thought Projections Are Nothing but Scenarios We Construct About Others and Are the Products of Our Own Closed-Mindedness. Report on the ""Living Philosophy"" Project. This text is a reflection on Projections. The aim here is to show that it is necessary to go beyond the Freudian concept to offer a more open reading of the concept of projections. The term is taken in its true sense. Projection is mainly used today in the world of cinema and entertainment. To be victim of a projection is to "make himself is proper film" of reality and live in an imaginary world. Our idea is to maintain that these projections develop in the era of the spectacle which is ours. The term "société du spectacle" is borrowed from Guy Debord. However, we distinguish ourselves from him by maintaining that the spectacle is only an epiphenomenon which is only the result of a culture of secret itself produced by contemporary narcissism. This work is the continuation of a series of conferences which are organized within the framework of a movement called Living Philosophy. This movement aims to bring philosophy back to life by leading it into living spaces and bringing it down into bodies, streets and villages. To do this, she wants to be creative and bring together the Ancients, the Moderns and the post-moderns. Living Philosophy is a movement built on the idea of dialogue and mediation. Keywords: philosophie vivante; Freud, Sigmund; projections; Debord, Guy; narcisism."


ACL2 allows users to define predicates whose logical behavior mimics that of universally or existentially quantified formulae. Proof support for such quantification, however, is quite limited. We present an ACL2 framework that employs tables, computed hints and clause processing to identify quantified formulae and to skolemize or instantiate them when possible. We demonstrate how the framework can be used to prove automatically the forall-p-append example presented in the ACL2 documentation.


Isolation of microorganisms that can biodegrade organic compounds which are present in olive mill waste and more specifically microorganisms that can survive at high phenol concentrations was studied in the Environmental Engineering Laboratory for three months in the Department of Environmental Science and Technology in the Cyprus University of Technology. Firstly, liquid crops were created, then the samples were cultivated in solid crops (with phenol as the sole carbon source) and at last isolation and purification of the samples were performed and the single colonies were replicated in liquid crops to check their performance. Eight single microbial culture will be sent to Macrogen The Nederlands Research Center for recognition and identification.


A novel active clamp dual half bridge DC/DC converter with bidirectional power flow is proposed in this paper. By adding auxiliary active clamping circuits to both bridges, zero voltage and zero current switching are achieved to improve the performance of the bidirectional DC/DC converter. The principle of operation is analyzed and simulated. With the proposed active clamp ZVZCS concept, the MATLAB simulation results of the applications of the fuel cell and battery have been obtained and compared with those of ZVS-ZCS bidirectional converter. The simulation results of proposed converter is compared with the ZVS-ZCS bidirectional DC-DC converter, efficiency, switching losses are the key parameters compared.


Inspections of multi-layered print circuit boards and connections of its mounted electronics chips are gaining practical importance as the integration density increases for small and mobile electronics devices. Although X-ray tomography is commonly applied to micro-scaled objects, severe beam-hardening caused by overlapped soldering materials and gold bondings disturbs detailed observation. This is particularly noted for layered objects where the aspect ratio is large. Among such flat-shape objects, integrity of contacts between BGA(Ball Grid Array) / CSP(Chip Set Package) and print circuit board is of particular interest. We developed an oblique view cone beam tomography system which can be applied to the flat-shaped objects without suffering from severe beam hardening. This method avoids excessive attenuation of X-rays through high absorbing regions and is able to provide high-contrast images, which also contributes to increase in spatial and density resolution. The present methods outperforms the laminography method in a sense that it provides better resolution in height direction. Besides, the method of X-rays introduced into the sample is advantageous when a magnified view of the sample is required. Application of the proposed method can be extended to wider fields of engineering such as FRP materials and bones.


This report documents the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 20021 "Spoken Language Interaction with Virtual Agents and Robots (SLIVAR): Towards Effective and Ethical Interaction". Held in January 2020, the seminar brought together world experts on spoken language processing and human-robot interaction. The aims of the seminar were not only to share knowledge and insights across related fields, but also to cultivate a distinct SLIVAR research community. In this report, we present an overview of the seminar program and its outcomes, abstracts from stimulus talks given by prominent researchers, a summary of the `Show and Tell' demonstrations held during the seminar and open problem statements from participants.


Abstract. Female birds are exceptionally consistent in laying rather uniform and individually specific eggs, so that variation in eggs of individual females is low, while variation among females is high. Repeatability is a population-level parameter used in quantitative genetics to quantify the level of intraindividual consistency in relation to interindividual variation in phenotypic traits, in this case, the egg traits. The statistical measure of repeatability is intraclass correlation of particular egg traits clustered in clutches. This study is based on a long-term dataset on repeatabilities of the length, breadth, volume and shape of eggs of Blue Tits Cyanistes caeruleus investigated in two ecologically varying sites (an urban parkland versus a mature deciduous forest) around the city of Łódź, central Poland in 1999–2013. Coefficients of repeatability of egg length, breadth, volume and shape in the study populations of Blue Tits showed some variation between years and study sites, but were generally very high, on average 0.7 or more, and did not significantly differ between the traits within years. The observed differences between repeatabilities do not seem to be strongly associated with year-specific weather indicators for the first half of April. Only coefficients of variation in mean daily temperature influenced repeatabilities of egg length and breadth, whereas effects of mean temperature were non-significant. Repeatability of egg length in the forest and breadth in both sites increased with increasing variation in daily temperature, whereas repeatability of egg length in the urban park site showed a reverse relation with variation in temperature. Year-site-specific mean laying dates, clutch sizes and egg volumes, considered as indicators of breeding conditions, tended to negatively affect the repeatabilities. However, in general, repeatabilities of different egg traits were not consistent in their variation between years and sites, which suggests an important role of stochastic factors in shaping this variation. External factors that are able to force females to diversify traits of eggs in a particular laying sequence do not seem to directly result from the environmental conditions prevailing during a spring period critical for laying eggs in a population in a given year (the first half of April), but seem to be linked to more subtle aspects of variation in the conditions for egg laying, as shown by links with the mean values of basic breeding parameters.


The invention discloses a strain classified and named as Umbelopsis dimorpha. The Umbelopsis dimorpha belongs to Genus umbelopsis, Order mucorales and Subphylum zygomycota and has strain number of JSNL001-1. The Umbelopsis dimorpha is now preserved in China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center on August 15, 2014 and has the preservation number of CGMCC No. 9563. The Umbelopsis dimorpha disclosed by the invention has the significant effect on improving the growth speed and the drought resistance of dendrobium officinale and the like, the Umbelopsis dimorpha can be artificially cultured and has rapid propagation speed, the large-scale production is convenient to perform and Umbelopsis dimorpha has good development application prospects.


This note studies cardinal numbers κ which have a partition property which amounts to the following. Let ν be a cardinal, η an ordinal limit number and m a positive integer. Let the m-length sequences of finite subsets of κ be partitioned into ν parts. Then there is a sequence H1, … Hm of subsets of κ, each having order type η, such that for each choice of non-zero numbers n1, …, nm there is some class of the partition inside which fall all sequences having in their i-th place (for i = 1, …, m) a subset of Hi which contains exactly ni elements. The case when m = 1 is thus seen to be the well known property κ . The most interesting results obtained relate to the ordering of the least cardinals with the appropriate properties as m and η vary.


Finding sparse cuts is an important tool in analyzing large-scale distributed networks such as the Internet and Peer-to-Peer networks, as well as large-scale graphs such as the web graph, online social communities, and VLSI circuits. In distributed communication networks, they are useful for topology maintenance and for designing better search and routing algorithms.
In this paper, we focus on developing fast distributed algorithms for computing sparse cuts in networks. Given an undirected $n$-node network $G$ with conductance $\phi$, the goal is to find a cut set whose conductance is close to $\phi$. We present two distributed algorithms that find a cut set with sparsity $\tilde O(\sqrt{\phi})$ ($\tilde{O}$ hides $\polylog{n}$ factors). Both our algorithms work in the CONGEST distributed computing model and output a cut of conductance at most $\tilde O(\sqrt{\phi})$ with high probability, in $\tilde O(\frac{1}{b}(\frac{1}{\phi} + n))$ rounds, where $b$ is balance of the cut of given conductance. In particular, to find a sparse cut of constant balance, our algorithms take $\tilde O(\frac{1}{\phi} + n)$ rounds.
Our algorithms can also be used to output a {\em local} cluster, i.e., a subset of vertices near a given source node, and whose conductance is within a quadratic factor of the best possible cluster around the specified node. Both our distributed algorithm can work without knowledge of the optimal $\phi$ value and hence can be used to find approximate conductance values both globally and with respect to a given source node. We also give a lower bound on the time needed for any distributed algorithm to compute any non-trivial sparse cut --- any distributed approximation algorithm (for any non-trivial approximation ratio) for computing sparsest cut will take $\tilde \Omega(\sqrt{n} + D)$ rounds, where $D$ is the diameter of the graph.


Environmental and health monitoring have become crucial the last decades. In-liquid sensing plays an important role for this kind of monitoring. Exhaustive studies have been going one in order to improve the sensing devices. Sensors based on thin film electroacoustic (TEA) devices have emerged as a promising alternative to quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) and surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensors. TEA devices include quasi shear mode film bulk acoustic resonators (QS-FBAR) and S0 mode Lamb wave resonators (S0-LWR) based on AlN films. These devices offer miniaturization and easy integration. For a better understanding of their physical behavior, we present a comparative study on their sensing mechanisms in liquid media. For this study we employed finite element analysis (FEA). QS-FBARs behave as pure shear resonators, sensing viscosity and density in a non-distinguishable manner. However, S0-LWRs demonstrate different sensitivities to liquid viscosity and density. Their different in-liquid sensitivities offer the possibility to combine them and measure independently changes in density and viscosity.


The knowledge exchange in the enterprise can be divided into three types, management nonparticipation, management participation and management-directly-exchange. Three kinds of knowledge exchange mode are analyzed based on the Holstrom and Milgrom model in the paper. The Enterprise should make the exchange more favorably through setting up knowledge map, enterprise culture and inspiration mechanism, which forms the knowledge sharing eventually.


Introduction Aging shifts bone remodeling toward a negative balance between bone formation and resorption, causing bone loss and increased fracture risk. Antiresorptive agents are commonly used to inhibit bone resorption and stabilize bone mass. While they are effective to prevent further bone loss, there is also a great need for anabolic agents which can reverse bone deterioration and regain lost skeletal integrity. PTH is the only FDA-approved anabolic treatment for osteoporosis, which greatly stimulates bone formation. Combined therapy of anti-resorptive treatments, such as alendronate (ALN), and PTH have been proposed and are expected to further increase bone mass. Despite conflicting results in the literature, previous work in our lab has shown that combined PTH and ALN therapy results in an additive effect, with enhanced bone volume fraction beyond that of PTH or ALN monotherapy. This additive effect was driven by preferential plate thickening, resulting in an increase in the relative number of plateversus rod-like structures. The current study was aimed at identifying the mechanism through which plate-structure was enhanced, and the resulting implications on the mechanical behavior of the trabecular bone. A novel in vivo imaging technique allowed the precise alignment of subsequent scans in such a way that changes in each individual trabecula can be explored. By viewing the individual trabecular dynamics (ITD), we may gain insight into the mechanisms of combined PTH and ALN therapy. In addition, using computational modeling, this study aimed to determine the mechanical implications of combined therapy when compared to monotherapy. We hypothesized that combined treatment would result in enhanced structural repair and strength than PTH or ALN monotherapy. Furthermore, we expected that a small percent increase in bone volume by structural fortification would result in a significant strength enhancement.


Two novel [Dy4(μ4-O)] based dysprosium(III) clusters, namely, [Dy8(bpt)8(μ4-O)2(μ-OMe)8(μ1,1,3,3-N3)(μ1,3-N3)(N3)2]•11H2O•9MeOH (1) and [Dy10(bpt)6(μ4-O)4(μ3-OMe)4(μ-OMe)8(μ-OAc)2(OAc)2]•40H2O (2) (Hbpt=3,5-bis(pyridin2-yl)-1,2,4-trizole), are synthesized successfully. To obtain complex 1, a mixture of DyCl3 (0.1 mmol), 2,2'-Hbpt (0.1 mmol) and NaN3 (0.15 mmol) was sealed in a 25 mL vessel and then heated at 160 °C in methanol condition (8 mL) for 72 h. The reaction of Dy(OAc)3 (0.17 mmol) and 2,2'-Hbpt (0.1 mmol) under the same condition as complex 1 yielded complex 2. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction reveals that complex 1 consists of a pair of [Dy4(μ4-O)] tetrahedral units bridged by two azido groups in μ1,1,3,3 and μ1,3 modes as well as two bpt ligands, while complex 2 possesses four edge-sharing [Dy4(μ4-O)] tetrahedral units. Magnetic susceptibility of polycrystalline samples were carried out using a SQUID magnetometer in the temperature range 2~300 K at 500 Oe dc field. The χMT value are 107.8 cm•K•mol for complex 1 and 133.6 cm•K•mol for complex 2 at 300 K, which are close to the expected values. The maximum values of magnetization at 1.8 K are 40.81 Nβ and 51.62 Nβ for 1 and 2, slightly smaller than the expected saturation values. For further investigation of the dynamic behaviour, ac susceptibility measurements were undertaken under zero-dc field between 1~1500 Hz, they both show temperature dependence and have maximum values in the χM′′ vs v plots above 1.8 K, indicating the presence of slow relaxation of the magnetization. After linear fitting the first four points of ln(τ/s) vs 1/T plot, we get energy barrier Ueff=9.83(9) K, pre-exponential factor τ0=1.63(2)×10 s for 1, and Ueff=12.05(2) K, τ0=6.75(8)×10 s for 2 respectively. The bridging mode of azido in complex 1 is novel and complex 2 holds the record for highest nuclearity among the reported pure lanthanide single-molecule magnets (SMMs) under zero dc field.


Wireless communication is the most energy expensive operation for energy constrained wireless sensor networks. Dynamic modulation scaling (DMS) is a technique useful for optimizing transmission energy with respect to number of packets that need to be transmitted at that particular time intervals. In general, DMS trades off transmission energy against transmission delays. Multilevel (M-ary) modulation is the key aspect for dynamic modulation scaling. Dynamically varying the constellation size b (number of bits per symbol) with respect to number of packets that need to be transmitted helps in optimizing transmission power. In this scenario it is very important to decide minimum and maximum bounds on constellation size (scale of modulation) otherwise it may result in performance degradation. In this paper various factors affecting minimum and maximum limit of b are discussed and it is shown that the individual node can decide minimum limit on b but for deciding maximum limit it needs to consider network aspects such as network topology, node density, location of particular node etc. Only proper selection of these limits results in optimized power consumption with satisfactory performance. Otherwise trying to save energy without satisfying performance parameters will require retransmission and the energy cost for that will be much higher than what was saved earlier.


The idea of philosophy held by Heidegger in his early courses can be characterized by the features that Karl Jaspers uses to describe the prophets of indirect communication. The aim of this article is to show the influence of Soren Kierkegaard's methodological work on the young Heidegger.


"Perplexity: inability to determine what to think, or how to act, owing to the involved, intricate, or complicated condition of circumstances, or of the matters to be dealt with, generally also involving mental perturbation and anxiety."1

Dr Silverman2 has called for a "formal national inquiry" to address whether opportunism has overwhelmed compassion in the American neonatal intensive care "industry"; ie, to investigate the possibility that the relatively aggressive care provided to extremely premature infants in the United States is driven by the lucrative reimbursement on which academic pediatric departments depend for fiscal solvency.

After a few weeks, I was able to put the defensiveness and righteous indignation that this commentary evoked …

Address correspondence to John M. Lorenz, MD, Children's Hospital of New York, Division of Neonatology, CHS 115, 3959 Broadway, New York, NY 10032. E-mail: jl1084{at}columbia.edu


BACKGROUND Pulmonary embolism is one of the leading causes of maternal death in the Western world. Because of the low specificity and sensitivity of the D‐dimer test, all pregnant women with suspected pulmonary embolism undergo computed tomographic (CT) pulmonary angiography or ventilation–perfusion scanning, both of which involve radiation exposure to the mother and fetus. Whether a pregnancy‐adapted algorithm could be used to safely avoid diagnostic imaging in pregnant women with suspected pulmonary embolism is unknown. METHODS In a prospective study involving pregnant women with suspected pulmonary embolism, we assessed three criteria from the YEARS algorithm (clinical signs of deep‐vein thrombosis, hemoptysis, and pulmonary embolism as the most likely diagnosis) and measured the D‐dimer level. Pulmonary embolism was ruled out if none of the three criteria were met and the D‐dimer level was less than 1000 ng per milliliter or if one or more of the three criteria were met and the D‐dimer level was less than 500 ng per milliliter. Adaptation of the YEARS algorithm for pregnant women involved compression ultrasonography for women with symptoms of deep‐vein thrombosis; if the results were positive (i.e., a clot was present), CT pulmonary angiography was not performed. All patients in whom pulmonary embolism had not been ruled out underwent CT pulmonary angiography. The primary outcome was the incidence of venous thromboembolism at 3 months. The secondary outcome was the proportion of patients in whom CT pulmonary angiography was not indicated to safely rule out pulmonary embolism. RESULTS A total of 510 women were screened, of whom 12 (2.4%) were excluded. Pulmonary embolism was diagnosed in 20 patients (4.0%) at baseline. During follow‐up, popliteal deep‐vein thrombosis was diagnosed in 1 patient (0.21%; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.04 to 1.2); no patient had pulmonary embolism. CT pulmonary angiography was not indicated, and thus was avoided, in 195 patients (39%; 95% CI, 35 to 44). The efficiency of the algorithm was highest during the first trimester of pregnancy and lowest during the third trimester; CT pulmonary angiography was avoided in 65% of patients who began the study in the first trimester and in 32% who began the study in the third trimester. CONCLUSIONS Pulmonary embolism was safely ruled out by the pregnancy‐adapted YEARS diagnostic algorithm across all trimesters of pregnancy. CT pulmonary angiography was avoided in 32 to 65% of patients. (Funded by Leiden University Medical Center and 17 other participating hospitals; Artemis Netherlands Trial Register number, NL5726.)


The invention relates to a kind of nutrient wine. It contains: 100%(w) sticky rice, 20-40%(w) jujube, 2-5%(w) medlar, 5-10%(w) hawkthorn, 2-4%(w) rice leaven. Marinate stickly rice, jujube, medlar, and hawkthorn in water for 24 hours. Then braise them to be gentle but not adhesive and lower the temperature to 38 deg.C by watering. Mix round in rice leaven and then ferment with candy for 6 to 8 days under 37 deg.C. The separate them from the jar and filter, and fill, and sterilize. The nutrient wine tastes good and the color is canary. Moreover the degree is very low and it fit for older individuals. Additionally, for extended drinking it can enhance the appetite, enrich the blood, and protect the skin, and is good to health. Moreover, it can cure neurasthenic, insomnia, and so forth.


Aimed at the clamped-clamped beam structure of MEMS devices, standard polynomial controlled sources of SPICE and modal analysis are introduced to build the multi-modal small-signal macromodel of equivalent circuit for the clamped-clamped beam microsensor. Corresponding IP library model is then created. Under the outside force load, the output electrical parameters' characteristic of distributed-parameter clamped-clamped beam microsensor is presented by adopting the IP library and taking system-level simulation including the periphery circuits with SPICE. The resonance frequencies of each modal and related curves of the model are verified with the COVENTORWARE software.


ii 2 for Construction and of the European Construction Technology Platform. He has produced over one hundred and seventy single volume publications, refereed papers and reports, and has made over one hundred and ten presentations in around sixteen countries. Peter has been leading the CIB initiative on Revaluing Construction for some years and part of this concerns better understanding how value from the built environment is gained by those in society. This has led to work in the area of Senses, Brain and Spaces, ie how spaces are experienced by people through their senses and interpreted by their brains. The practical application of this interest has been around school buildings and in particular how to create " optimal learning spaces ". use environmental control strategies to modify their internal environment. In January 2008, she joined SCRI as a Research Fellow. Yufan's work in SCRI is to conduct research on a variety of issues related to 'realising value in use' of the built environment. This involves the identification of international good practice, linking this to evidence from applied activities, such as the post occupant evaluations, in order to develop a stronger evidence base to better understand the characteristics of beneficial spaces for users, especially in the design and refurbishment of schools. Dr Yufan Zhang is an architect. She carried out her PhD in the School of Architecture, University of Sheffield. Her PhD work was focused on occupants' comfort and behaviour and how they Contacting SCRI If you would like to find out more of this project please contact any of the following team members: All rights reserved; no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photopying, recording, or otherwise without prior written permission of the copyright owner. However, there is no restriction on the onward circulation of this report in electronic form provided it is transmitted in its entirety. iii Acknowledgements Many people and organisations collaborated to produce this report. Firstly we have to express our gratitude to the Manchester City Council (MCC) who understood the potential value of this work and strongly supported the study. Thanks also go to the primary schools that were involved in the post-occupancy evaluations. They took time from their very busy schedules to share information, arrange visits and review the results of the surveys. We are also grateful to …


Psychotherapy with the use of high-dose psychedelic drugs shows immense promise in treating a myriad of debilitating psychiatric conditions. After a three-decade long suspension, regulators have allowed for new studies and re-awakened interest in the potential of psychedelics. However, while research on the topic has quickly progressed, little has been done to reinvigorate our clinical understanding of the psychedelic healing process. This thesis interprets the psychedelic state through the twin perspectives of existentialism and neuroscience with the goal of starting to develop a theoretical language. The subjective experience of high-dose psychedelics under therapeutic conditions often results in a loss-of-self referred to as 'ego-death'. Ego-death is sometimes accompanied by fearful experiences which people compare to mortal terror, and is a strong predictor of therapeutic success. Based on these observations, Irving Yalom's existential theory provides a helpful framework from which to interpret these experiences and understand the powerful emotions that arise during the psychedelic state. Interestingly, the biologically-based neuroscience approach compliments the subjective language of existentialism by providing supporting observations about brain activity during ego-death. That these experiences are predictable and observable give credence to their importance.


This is a monograph rather than a textbook that serves as a compendium of current knowledgeÐand its lacunaeÐon growth, centred primarily around child and youth developments. As such, it will interest a wide readership from advanced students to researchers and others by providing a valuable overview for those who do not have time or access to detailed accounts in auxology journals. Whereas the ®rst edition was predominantly factual, the current one attempts more of a synthesis, primarily from an evolutionary perspective. Chapter 1 provides the background to growth studies, including basic de®nitions and a summary, but very instructive, history of human developmental studies. In notable contrast to many other accounts, attention is paid to many investigations by non-Anglophone researchers, whose achievements are not trivial, and the author utilizes materials from almost all countries within his text. However, there are, inevitably, still gaps, with excellent research on the histology of ontogenetic development presented by the Moscow and Leningrad schools, analyses of growth patterns by Jasicki from Cracow, as well as some Czechoslovak investigations omitted. Chapter 2Ð`Basic principles of human growth'Ðis interesting and original. As with Bogin's previous publications, development is divided into intrauterine development (prenatal life), the neonetal period, infancy, childhood, the juvenile period, puberty and adolescence, but here the account is updated and more fully documented According to Bogin, infancy continues until weaning, childhood is ended by the mid-growth spurt, and after that sexual maturation starts. Bogin calls the mid-growth spurt a `small increase of growth' (p. 78) but if we present this spurt in percent of an initial value, its magnitude is similar to the pubertal spurt, and in some traits even greater (Wolanski 1962). The statement that the mid-growth spurt is associated with adrenarche, the maturation event of the adrenal gland, and not with gonardarche, the maturation of the gonads (p. 179) is an important one. According to my own studies, adulthood is not a period of homeostasis, but rather a period of improvements of certain functions, whereas some others deteriorate or regress. Adulthood is therefore a period of continual reconstruction between the organism's structures and functions which continues for about 20 years. While Bogin provides excellent evidence that youth is not a continuous and unchanging process of progressive development, I feel that there is too little information about senescence and old age and the treatment here too abbrieviated (pp. 95±97). Ageing is not a continuous and unchanging process of regress and, like youth, has its substages (Wolanski and Siniarska 2000). The ®rst entails a decline from the peak values of many vital traits, followed by `second youth' (about 44±55 years) when the decline stops, and is sometimes reversed, with a small increase in several physiological and psychomotor traits. Finally, involution (the third substage) involves a more marked loss in the e ciency of several biological functions, including repair. Chapter 3 (`The evolution of human growth') is the most original and, together with Chapter 4 (`Evolution of the human life cycle'), represents the book's core. The author analyses primate growth patterns (pp. 123±129) with great clarity. He discusses whether the human adolescent growth spurt is unique (pp. 131±146) and treats important diŒerences between human and non-human primate growth. For Bogin, humans are cultural animals, characterized by dependence on technology, codi®ed institutions (kinship, marriage), and ideology, and he reviews biocultural perspectives on human developmental processes. Bogin notes the paradox in human growth of lengthy development and low fertility (pp. 200±201). The outcome is great reproductive economy, with infants and children physically dependent, and juveniles socially dependent, whilst at the end of adolescence, boys and girls enter the social world of men and women. He also draws attention (p. 217) to the fact that reproduction usually ends before menopause, and whilst it is clear that the period from menarche to


for government cachets, along with a sampling of postcards, aerograms, and ham radio operator QSL cards, the most interesting aspect of this book is the postal covers showing the changing postal markings, especially those featuring the moai. Since 1972, the illustrated cancellations have changed fairly frequently. Many of the postal covers from Rapa Nui are illustrated with added graphics of ahu, or the island, and add to the collectible nature of this material. It was also a pleasant surprise to see letters sent by notable persons from the island, including Padre Sebastián Englert, Pedro Atan, William Mulloy, and Carlyle Smith. The book begins with a very generic overview of Rapa Nui prehistory and history illustrated with tourist-styled snapshots. The text does become more engaging after the first chapter, especially the section about aviation and the quest to make Rapa Nui the destination on a trans-Pacific aviation route. My only difficulty was linking the discussion to the illustrations, as the figure numbers are not included in the text. Despite these small shortcomings, authors Pendleton and Maddock have done a very fine job in giving us a developed context for this aspect of Rapa Nui history.


The utility of p53 as a prognostic assay has been elusive. The aims of this study were to describe a novel, reproducible scoring system and assess the relationship between differential p53 immunohistochemistry (IHC) expression patterns, TP53 mutation status and patient outcomes in breast cancer.


Early growth, the rate of yolk sac absorption, and nucleus size in liver parenchymal cells were correlated with the nutritional status of first feeding larval haddock, Melanogrammus aeglefinus. Larvae that successfully began exogenous feeding maintained high growth rates, delayed yolk sac resorption, and had larger hepatocyte nuclear sizes than starved larvae. At 10 days post hatch (DPH) the cumulative mortality in the starved larval haddock group was 100%. The area of the hepatocyte nuclei in starved larvae gradually decreased, reaching its lowest value by 9 DPH. Our results support the current practice of providing the first food supply at 3 DPH. Hepatocyte nuclear size can be used to assess larval haddock nutrition status, and may be a good criterion for assessing the success of transition from endogenous to exogenous feeding.


Migrating cells measure the external environment through
receptor-binding of specific chemicals at their outer cell membrane.
In this paper this non-local sampling is incorporated into a
chemotactic model. The existence of global bounded solutions of
the non-local model is proven for bounded and unbounded domains in any space
dimension. According to a recent classification of spikes and plateaus, it is shown
that steady state solutions cannot be of spike-type. Finally,
numerical simulations support the theoretical results, illustrating
the ability of the model to give rise to pattern formation. Some biologically relevant
extensions of the model are also considered.


Management of village and town planning is the weak part of planning and the theory and practice is concerned insufficiently. But planning is the important part of urban - rural composition in China. Impact of the urban - rural composition upon management of village and town planning is researched, the internal and external motivity to the urban - rural composition is analyzed, the problems and the suggestions of management of village and town planning are indicated.


— A building facade is the interface between interior and exterior, climate, user and environment, and above all, function and aesthetics. It is an important visible element of a building, affecting occupant comfort and energy efficiency. New advances in façade materials and technology create numerous opportunities to vary the height and performance of buildings across different parameters. Take ideas such as opening size, position and proportions and integrate new trends in building materials for façades to improve building performance. This paper aims to identify, investigate and understand emerging innovations in building materials and techniques currently used for facades. This paper discusses the methods of qualitative evaluation studies. Research methodology includes data collection, visual observations, and case studies of various contemporary trends in the development of façade materials. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________


[Objective] This study aimed to find out a way of fast multiplication of Dendrobium fimbriatum in vitro.[Method] Taking Dendrobium fimbriatum as material to do tissue culture.The content included seed sprouting in pure condition,generation culture,and transplanting.[Result] The result showed that the seed sprouted very well in pure condition in the culture medium of 1/2MS+ potato juise 50 g/L +cane sugar 25 g/L.In the culture medium of 1/2MS+6-BA 0.50 mg/L +NAA 0.10 mg/L +potato juise 50 g/L +banana juise 50 g/L+activated carbon 5 g/L+cane sugar 25 g/L,seedling multiplication was very effective and its growth was well.The survive rate was high after transplanting.[Conclusion] The study can provide the scientific basis for preserving nearing disappearing Dendrobium fimbriatum germ plasm resources and bringing higher economic effect.


In response to the stress of harvesting latex due to the stimulation and tapping, a change in the distribution of small RNAs has been observed in latex cells associated with physiological disorders that stop latex flow (Tapping Panel Dryness, TPD). Small RNAs are negative regulators of gene expression either at the transcription level (class size 23-25 nt) or at the post-transcriptional one (class size 20-22 nt). We observed a major peak of 24 nt of small RNA in the latex healthy trees and 21 nt in TPD-affected trees. Our first objective is to annotate small RNAs produced in the latex of TPD-affected trees. In that aim, the MIR genes and miRNAs were annotated for the genome sequence from clone PB 260, as well as transposable elements (TEs). Our results showed that the small 21-nt RNAs accumulating in the latex of TPD-affected trees were not miRNA, derived from MIR genes, and could therefore be siRNAs. TEs have been annotated and represent 74% of the genome sequence of Hevea clone PB 260. Our second objective was to evaluate the contribution of post-transcriptional gene silencing by a small RNA. We sequenced of all 3' ends mRNA degradation products from 6 tissues, subjected or not to abiotic stress and TPD to build an atlas of the small RNA-mediated post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression. Latex cells showed the highest level of post-transcriptional regulation by mRNA cleavage. As a biological perspective, the annotation of MIR genes, transposable elements associated with curated structural and functional annotations, and the consideration of small RNA interference in the regulation of gene expression, will help us to understand the complexity of gene expression regulation networks genome-wide in response to stress.


Professional boundaries represent the sets of behaviors and interactions that are considered appropriate and ethical between people in professional relationships. These can be defined by considering the roles of the people involved, the scheduled times for these interactions, and the designated places for them. Boundary violations happen when interactions deviate markedly from the social conventions of professional relationships. Sexual boundary violations happen when sexual behavior is introduced into the training relationship. Because of the inherent power differential, sex in trainer-trainee relationships is considered unethical and harmful. This chapter will discuss sexual boundary violations in counselor training including incidence rates, perceptions of trainers and trainees, ethical and legal implications, how sexual boundary violations begin, solutions and recommendations, and suggestions for future research.


Mountainous landscape evolution under tropical and alpine environments is mainly dictated by climatic forcing which influences underlying mechanisms of geomorphic transport (e.g., soil formation, r...


In 2018, the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Cross-Cultural Student Emotional Wellness (CCCSEW) developed the CCCSEW Consortium, a year-long virtual program for secondary schools, colleges, and universities, to support campus staff in promoting the mental health of Asian American and Asian international students. The program shares similarities with the Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes model, including the hub-and-spoke virtual learning environment, development of self-efficacy, and peer learning. The program is in its second year of operation and has been well received by participants. The Consortium, a nonprofit entity, has achieved financial sustainability through support of annual membership fees.


increasing CO2 leads to increased temperatures (climate change) and results in changes in frequency of extreme weather events, bushfire risks and major changes in vegetation type. This research investigates the likelihood that, along with climate change, fire-promoted changes in the distribution of vegetation types across the australian sub-alpine landscapes could result in increased rates of respiration and a positive feedback (see 'Key Terms' box) to further increase atmospheric CO2.


The problem of the integrated guidance and control (IGC) design for strap-down missile with the field-of-view (FOV) constraint is solved by using the integral barrier Lyapunov function (iBLF) and the sliding mode control theory. Firstly, the nonlinear and uncertainty state equation with non-strict feedback form for IGC design is derived by using the strap-down decoupling strategy. Secondly, a novel adaptive finite time disturbance observer is proposed to estimate the uncertainties based on an improved adaptive gain super twisting algorithm. Thirdly, the special time-varying sliding variable is designed and the iBLF is employed to handle the problem of FOV constraint. Theoretical derivation and simulation show that the IGC system is globally uniformly ultimately bounded and the FOV angle constraint is also guaranteed not only during the reaching phase but also during the sliding mode phase.


This special issue contains selected papers from the Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'97), held in Singapore on 2223 February 1997. PAKDD is one of the few conference series dedicated to knowledge discovery and data mining. The PAKDD seeks to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners from the Pacific Asia region as well as world-wide in KDD research and development. The data explosion, brought about by the pervasive use of computers, has caused many organizations to lament, "'Computers have promised us a fountain of wisdom but delivered a flood of data." The advent of KDD has provided data analysis tools to cope with the massive databases that have ensued. The scientific challenges for KDD, coupled with a practical orientation, have ignited the interest of both the academic and user communities. This, in turn, has provided the motivation to create PAKDD for the tyro communities to interact. PAKDD'97 is the first conference in this series. This inaugural conference was very well received, One hundred and twenty researchers and practitioners from all over the world attended the conference. From the twenty-six papers presented in its technical sessions, seven have been selected fl)r publication in this special issue. Reflecting the diversity of research work, these papers address different issues in the area of knowledge discovery and data mining. The goal of data mining is to discover knowledge from data. However, most mining processes usually require certain domain knowledge. Such requirements often make a discovery system impractical or too restricted. On the other hand, adequate a priori knowledge can make the process of discovery more effective. Finding the equilibrium is indeed an art. The first paper in our selection, "'Discovery of First Principle Equations Based on Scale-Type-Based and DataDriven Reasoning", co-authored by T. Washio and H. Motoda, gives such an example. The authors propose a new approach that enables automatic discovery of formulae of first principles from the measurement data with minimum knowledge of quantity scale-types. Classification is one of the well-studied data mining problems. Most classification techniques stem from machine learning. One limitation of these popular


A pot experiment was established during two successive seasons to evaluate the effect of biopromotor which is commercial product known as Biomagic (0,5,7.5,10g/l)and bacterial inoculation with Azotobacter, Bacillus and their mixture on the growth and chemical composition of jojoba (Simmondisa chinensis (Link) Schneider) plant. Experimental results indicated that, all applied treatments significantly increased vegetative growth prameters compared with control treatment. The highest values were always obtained from sprayingt plant with the high rate of Biomagic (10g/l) and inoculation with mixture of Azotobacter and Bacillus. The highest values of pigments were always obtained from spraying plant with the medium rate of Biomagic (7.5g/l) and inoculation with Azotobacter . The highest total carbohydrates in leaves, shoots and roots were recorded with spraying Biomaic at (10g/l) presence of mixture of Azotobacter, and Bacillus . The effect of Biomagic application and bacterial inoculation on leaves, shoots and roots content of mineral element was significantly increased compared with control treatment. Spraying Biomagic at high concentration (10g/l) plus inoculation with Azotobacter caused a high accumulation of N,K, Cu and Mn in jojoba leaves, shoots and roots followed by high concentration of Biomagic and inoculation with mixture of Azotobacter, and Bacillus . Using (10g/l) Biomagic and inoculation with Bacillus promoted a higher accumulation of elements P, Fe and Zn on jojoba tissues followed by the same concentration of Biomagic and dual inoculum.


Abstract This one-man show type of performance is a theatrical project in which the actor Alexandru Dobinciuc, a final year master's student at the George Enescu University of Arts, Department of Theatre was involved. We aim to describe both the specific evolution of a character in a one-person show, and the strategies and technical means used in this type of show, such as scenography, costumes, music and video projections. The latter element is what makes this show exciting; from a purely technical standpoint, the show has the benefit of being easy to relocate. Nowadays, actors need these means of practicing artistic skills: any actor should include in his repertoire this type of show to be able to demonstrate his artistic talents. We use the metaphor of Dialogue of the arts in contemporary theatre to support faculties in the field of arts and young actors who are no longer eligible for indefinite employment contracts, even if they play in an institution-based cultural environment. (The highly debated issue of vacancies in theatres is not part of our discussion.) It is worth mentioning that the actor with whom I have worked on this project is one of the few graduates who were hired by a theatre institution. He is employed by the Mihai Eminescu Theatre in Botoşani.


The anaesthetic management of a patient suffering from carcinoid syndrome and myasthenia gravis is described including the successful treatment of a carcinoid attack with intravenous aprotonin. The differences between myasthenia gravis and the myasthenic (Eaton‐Lambert) syndrome are considered and the rationale for the choice of vecuronium as the muscle relaxant is discussed.


Ecotype process was used to treat wastewater in highway service area with treatment capacity of 120m3/d. The equipment operated stably, with the effluent quality satisfactory to Class I of national discharge criteria and partial effluent quality superior to the wastewater reuse standard.


The possibility of obtaining a renewable, available, safe and effective source of energy is one of challenges that world is facing today. The bio-fuels, particularly the bio-ethanol, are an environmentally clean source of energy. Production costs of fuel ethanol are higher than production costs of gasoline in some cases, although there is a strong influencing cost factor as feed-stocks for ethanol production. Nevertheless, many research scholars in different countries are continuously carrying out investigations aimed at reducing ethanol production costs. Diverse research trends and process improvements got success in the task of lowering ethanol costs by different steps of processing, nature of utilized feedstocks, and tools of process engineering, mainly process synthesis, integration and optimization. Grains are wasted every year all over the world that needs to be better utilised quickly and easily. Exhaustive review of literature is done for economical use of damaged sorghum and corn grains in ethanol production. These damaged or inedible sorghum and corn grains are harmful if consumed. It is observed that vast potential exists for economical conversion of damaged or inedible sorghum and corn grains into ethanol.


ABSTRACT This essay explores Walter Scott's artistic pivot from writing poetry to writing novels during the Napoleonic Wars and the subsequent "heroic age of popular Radicalism." In the famine-stricken postwar years, early British socialists like Robert Owen wrongly believed that Scott might support a centralized government program of wealth redistribution—a misunderstanding rooted in the implicitly collectivist politics of Scott's staggeringly popular wartime verse romances. With the nation under threat of invasion from without, Scott's bestselling poems portrayed British landscapes as encoding a legible, transnational history that belonged equally to Britons from a diverse set of class and gender backgrounds. Against the backdrop of postwar social unrest, and with his poems coming under increasing critical censure, however, Scott's earliest novels revise his poetry's collectivism in favor of offering a more qualified account of the rightful owners of British places, property, and national history.


States must disseminate international humanitarian law (IHL) and integrate it into military instruction. Implementation of the IHL training obligation was delayed in the UK; when the government asserted that IHL was inapplicable to colonial warfare, resisted the development of the IHL of non-international armed conflict, and was keen to maintain the nuclear deterrent. Absent or perfunctory IHL training correlated with recurrent violations of the prohibitions of torture and inhuman treatment, from the 1950s to the 2000s. Despite official assertions that the British Army's training in IHL was being reformed following the death of Baha Mousa in British military custody in 2003, there were gradual changes from 2004 to 2011, and more thorough improvements from 2012 to 2017. Training materials for soldiers and officers now offer breadth and detail on IHL, with elements of international human rights law. They implement the 71 recommendations in the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry Report which the Ministry of Defence accepted, and are supplemented by practical training. Yet these are reactive reforms, which still lack norm-by-norm evaluation of soldiers' understanding. Prohibitions on humiliating or degrading treatment of a sexual nature, and on the intentional infliction of severe mental pain and suffering are (respectively) under-emphasised and absent. References to the necessity of restraint positions (as opposed to the prohibited stress positions) may cause confusion. There is a simplistic suggestion that reprisals are lawful if they are politically authorised. Training reforms have been cited as one reason to close criminal investigations into alleged war crimes: a response which neglects coexistent investigatory obligations.


Cellular stress caused by abnormal accumulation of unfolded or misfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is becoming a possible driver of cardiovascular diseases. The primary aim of our study was to explore Tanshinone IIA (Tan IIA)-induced protection against ER-induced apoptosis of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs). HUVECs were treated with high glucose (HG), administrated with Tan IIA (2.5, 5, and 10 μM), and transfected with microRNA-133 (miR-133) mimic or inhibitor. Then cell viability was evaluated by MTT assay, the release of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) was measured by detection kit, and ER stress was analyzed by Western blot measurement of ER stress-related indicators. Cell apoptosis was observed through flow cytometry and Western blot analysis of apoptosis-related markers. miR-133 and RAC-1 expressions in HUVECs were assessed. For HUVECs, HG inhibited cellular survival, promoted the release of LDH, apoptosis and ER stress, down-regulated miR-133, and up-regulated RAC-1. We demonstrated that Tan IIA reverted the damage of HG to HUVECs in a concentration-dependent manner. miR-133 could negatively regulate RAC-1 expression, and Tan IIA inhibited RAC-1 expression by elevating miR-133, thereby reducing the damage of HG to HUVECs. Tan IIA regulates miR-133–RAC-1 axis to reduce the apoptosis caused by ER stress in HG-induced HUVECs, which could provide new insights for treating cardiovascular diseases.


In this paper, a portable physical health monitoring system is proposed based on the Android smart phone system. This system can be applied to monitor human multi physiological and biochemical parameters in real time, including the ECG, blood pressure, body temperature, heart rate, SPO2, blood sugar, and etc. The Android smart phone receives the parameters via Bluetooth communication from each health sensor module, and display the monitoring data simultaneously. It also delivers the related data to web server, which makes the health diagnosis and analysis on these data and feedbacks important information to the users. In order to solve the problem of the common Bluetooth module only providing the one to one communication, the multi-thread and the link reuse techniques are applied to realize the wireless data transmission from multi-sources to the smart phone. The experimental results show that this network works effectively, and the smart phone can interact with up to 7 Bluetooth sensor modules simultaneously.


WT5"BZ]Chinese misty poetry origiated from the French trend of misty poetry,and the symbolic poetry restores the poetic fatures on the basic of Western poetc nurishment.Poets of the two schools all advocate self-expression and try to make their poems misty and intricate by using symbols and hints.But similar poetic views cannot cover the poetic difference.The comparision and contrast of their poetic origins and internal aesthetic meanings will make clear their respective charasterics and influence,and helps to the study of the poetic development. [WT5"HZ]


Several cavities were revealed during the excavation phase of the new building complex planned to host the regional University in the city of Kozani, Combined 3D geoelectrical and GPR geophysical methods have been applied at the foundation level prior the construction phase in order to detect voids. Initially, the foundation areas have been surveyed with dense GPR scans.
GPR data were processed and combined to form depth slices and 3D volumetric information. Targets revealed by the interpretation of radar data have been further investigated by the resistivity method which was applied in a full 3D mode at selected areas.
Evaluation of the results obtained by both methods led to the distinction of different type of structures related to possible voids or fractured areas. Locations proposed by the geophysical survey have been drilled and borehole data in most of the cases confirmed the geophysical results. This helped to better evaluate the geophysical anomalies and to increase the reliability of the interpreted data. The described approach resulted either into accelerating the construction of the buildings in areas that no geophysical anomalies were found or to redesign and to redesign construction in specific areas in which voids were detected.


This article presents the first assessment of air quality in the Energy Golden Triangle (EGT) in northwest China. Using the planetary boundary layer (PBL) column density (PCD) of SO2 and the tropospheric column density (TCD) of NO2 retrieved from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI), we show that the column densities of both SO2 and NO2 exhibit an increasing trend from 2005 to 2014 in the Ningdong energy and chemical industrial base (NECIB) within the EGT, in contrast to the rapid and widespread decrease of SO2 emissions in northern China. This is largely attributed to the rapid development of the energy industry in this region. It is expected that SO2 and NO2 emitted from the EGT would increasingly contribute to the total emissions of these two air pollutants in northern China.


Synthesis of Ni/TiO2 core/shell nanorod arrays is carried out using a one-step electrodeposition technique. The TiO2 shell and Ni core are synthesized at the same time. Furthermore, this approach makes the Ni core directly connect with the Ni substrate without a barrier layer, which would benefit electron transport from the Ni core to the substrate. The TiO2 shell thickness can be tuned from about 20 to 90 nm by changing the concentration of TiF4, and the length of the Ni/TiO2 core/shell nanorods can be tuned from about 2 to 60 μm by changing the deposition potential or time. The Ni/TiO2 core/shell nanorods are characterized by scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy. Energy dispersive spectroscopy and selected area electron diffraction are used to determine the chemical composition and crystal structure of the Ni/TiO2 core/shell nanorods. The present approach can be used for synthesizing variable metal/TiO2 core/shell nanostructure.


We report on observations of the γ-ray and optical photopolarimetric behavior of the radio-loud, narrow-line type-1 Seyfert galaxy PMN J0948+0022 over a 27 month period. As this object has recently been suggested to represent a prototype of an emerging class of blazar-like objects, the observed properties are compared to those of blazars. We extract doubling timescales of roughly 4 hr for the optical and γ-ray bands. The rapid microvariability in the optical/near-IR, significant and variable optical polarization, and strong yet rapidly variable γ-ray emission we observe for PMN J0948+0022 are all classical observational characteristics associated with blazars. However, since these observations do not show a clear correlation between the γ-ray and optical behavior, they do not offer conclusive proof that the emissive behavior of PMN J0948+0022 is due to a relativistic jet oriented close to our line of sight.


The present invention relates to a novel pulsatile medical device, comprising: a catheter (1), the conduit (1) designed to be inserted in a blood vessel having a diameter, and is referred to as insertion end of a rod portion A; an expandable member (6), said expandable member (6) is accommodated in said conduit (1) called the peripheral portion of the B portion of the expandable member (6) designed to be connected to the inflation means (9), which inflation means (9) attached to said catheter (1) referred to the other end portion C, such that the expandable member capable of expansion / contraction in a pulsed manner, the catheter (1) is smaller than the diameter B a portion C and the diameter of said conduit portion (1), while the diameter of the portion a and portion C of the duct (1) is approximately equal.


Abstract A full description of the subadult male holotype of the diastylid Ektonodiastylis robusta, new genus, new species, is presented, as well as of the adult male and adult female of E. nimia. Ektonodiastylis nimia is transferred from Brachydiastylis to Ektonodiastylis. The family definition of Diastylidae is expanded. The implications of this expansion on the systematics of the Cumacea in general, and Diastylidae and Gynodiastylidae in particular, are discussed.


Abstract : The report is one of six volumes providing user's manuals for a series of computer programs developed for the Air Force Weapons Laboratory. The program described in this volume treats the inviscid flow field, ablation mass loss, and turbulent boundary layer on a spherically blunted conical body. The principal advantage of this formulation is the use of a real gas equation of state for the ablation products air mixture. The report describes the theory and calculation procedure for the program and presents sample cases for clarifying the data input. (Author)


Within a pilot project to the Joint Task Water Resources Development of the River Spree funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) a water quality model has been developped to analyse, conrol aiifl predict the future development of the water quality and quantity of River Spree and its tributaries in Saxony. The mam focus of the pilot project has been the development of algorithms to describe the complex transport, mixing and transformation processes.


A specimen of slender skulled monofenestratan pterosaur from the Upper Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay Formation of Dorset, UK, is referred to the new genus and species Cuspicephalus scarfi. The dentition and posterior skull morphology suggest affinities with Darwinopterus, but a close relationship cannot be proved. There are also some similarities with the pterodactyloid Germanodactylus cristatus, but the presence of teeth on the distal rostrum excludes it from that genus. Pterosaur remains are rare in the Upper Jurassic of the UK and this specimen represents the first significant cranial remains of a pterosaur from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation, and possibly the first non-pterodactyloid monofenestratan outside China.


Comparing with all kinds of launching method of unmanned aerial vehicles in existence,electromagnetic launch has more excellences and can enhance the launching efficiency of the unmanned aerial vehicle.In this paper,the feasibility of the electromagnetic launch technology of unmanned aerial vehicle is researched by principle analysis and the rail launching kinematics.After the higher-powered pulsed power supply releases strong direct current,the circuit of current is formed via the rails and the armature,strong magnetic field is produced,the unmanned aerial vehicle is driven by electromagnetic force and is moved speedily along the rails.Finally,calculating data of the test is compared,the electromagnetic launch technology of the unmanned aerial vehicle is confirmed to be feasible and its excellences are obvious.


ABSTRACT This study aimed to isolate and characterize viable lactic acid bacteria (LAB) from the most popular in Bulgaria fermented milk products. Different samples from home-made cheeses, yoghurt and katak, from ecological regions of Stara Planina, Rila and Rodopi mountains were collected. A total of 25 LAB cultures (coci and rods) were isolated and polyphasic taxonomic characterization was performed. Eight of the strains from yoghurt were phenotypically similar to Lactobacillus delbrueckii. Other seven isolates from cheese and yoghurt were identified as Lactobacillus plantarum, according to classical tests and API LAB profiles. Their species affiliation was confirmed by species-specific and multiplex PCR. The molecular- based methods allowed reclassifying two cheese isolates determined as L. paracasei. L. plantarum was the predominant species in cheese samples and referred as member of non-starter lactic acid bacteria. Two of the new isolated L. plantarum strains showed anti-E. coli activity.


The bad trails left by the financial crisis led many researchers to propose an adequate remedy to ensure financial stability. It is integrated in this framework paper from which we will be testing the resistance of the Islamic bank before, during, and after the period of the subprime crisis (2003-2012). To find out if Islamic finance is a real driver of financial stability, by making a comparison between the two industries, we will use the Data envelopment analysis method (DEA) by integrating a new input "Interest expense". The results do not confirm totally on one of the previous works, nor reject them, since they support the work who says that Islamic banks have kept their stability during the crisis. But those results did not agree that conventional banks are affected by the subprime crisis.


The concentrations of a number of reproductive hormones found in the peripheral plasma of the cow around the time of oestrus have been measured by numerous authors: plasma concentrations of progesterone throughout the oestrous cycle (Stabenfeldt, Ewing & McDonald, 1969), LH (Schams & Karg, 1969), oestrogen and progesterone (Henricks, Dickey & Hill, 1971) and LH and progesterone (Henricks, Dickey & Niswender, 1970). These and other reports have paid little attention to the precise onset and duration of oestrus, behaviour being checked at various intervals (usually two or three times a day) before the expected onset. To obtain a more precise pattern of hormone concentrations around oestrus, we have measured simultaneously LH, oestradiol-17\g=b\and progesterone in samples of plasma taken at 2-hr intervals from cows over a period of 5 days. The cows were maintained with a bull, to allow continuous observation of sexual behaviour. By such observation, we have attempted to define the true onset ofoestrus, to dissociate it from preliminary pro-oestrous behaviour and to correlate the behavioural manifestations of oestrus with the internal hormonal parameters. This preliminary study was intended to establish hormonal criteria in the normal cyclic cow for later comparison with animals undergoing treatment for synchronization of oestrus, when administration of exogenous hormones might modify the endogenous hormone balance, and when a decrease in fertility often results. Blood samples were collected from the jugular vein of four cyclic, multi¬ parous Friesian cows, at intervals of 2 hr for a period of 5 days, starting on Day" 18 of the cycle (day of oestrus = Day 0). Daily blood collections were made for several days before this, and until Day 10 of the following cycle. Plasma was separated by centrifugation and stored at


Bias in the news media is an inherent flaw of the news production process. The bias often causes a sharp increase in political polarization and in the cost of conflict on social issues such as the Iraq war. This article presents NewsCube, a novel Internet news service which aims to mitigate the effect of media bias. NewsCube automatically creates and promptly provides readers with multiple classified views on a news event. As such, it helps readers understand the event from a plurality of views and to formulate their own, more balanced, viewpoints. The media bias problem has been studied extensively in mass communications and social science. This article reviews related mass communication and journalism studies and provides a structured view of the media bias problem and its solution. We propose media bias mitigation as a practical solution and demonstrate it through NewsCube. We evaluate and discuss the effectiveness of NewsCube through various performance studies.


Nanon hybrid materials MMT/PMMA and MMT/PBA/PMMA were prepared by emulsion polymerization of acrylic acid ester monomer with sodium dodecylbenzenesulfonate (SDBS) and Na-montmorillonite(Na-MMT).Compared with conventional method using org-MMT,nanon hybrid material can be prepared with Na-MMT by this method without prior organization treatment.Through TEM and XRD,the hybrid material is proved to have exfoliative structure.The heat capability of the hybrid material was tested by DSC,which indicates that Tg and Td elevate above 10 ℃ and the exothermal quantity decreases by about 50%.


RATIONALE
Daily high-dose aspirin therapy benefits many patients with aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease but provides no benefit for aspirin-tolerant asthmatics. Type 2 inflammation characterizes aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease.

OBJECTIVE
We sought to determine whether high-dose aspirin therapy changes biomarkers of type 2 inflammation in aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease.

METHODS
Forty-two subjects with aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease underwent an aspirin desensitization and were placed on high-dose aspirin (1300 mg daily). Fifteen aspirin-tolerant asthmatics were also placed on high-dose aspirin. Biologic specimens and clinical parameters were collected at baseline and after 8 weeks on aspirin. Urinary eicosanoids, plasma tryptase and cytokine levels, platelet-leukocyte aggregates, and granulocyte transcripts were assessed.

MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS
Eight weeks of high-dose aspirin decreased nasal symptoms and urinary prostaglandin E metabolite (P<.05) and increased urinary leukotriene E4 (P<.01) levels in subjects with aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease, but not in those with aspirin-tolerant asthma. Urinary prostaglandin D2 and thromboxane metabolites decreased in both groups. In aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease subjects only, exhaled nitric oxide (P<.05), plasma tryptase (P<.01), and blood eosinophil (P<.01) and basophil (P<.01) counts increased and plasma tryptase correlated with eosinophil counts (Pearson's r= 0.514, P<.01) on aspirin. After correction for eosinophil counts, aspirin-induced changes in blood granulocyte transcripts did not differ between groups. Aspirin had no effect on platelet-leukocyte aggregates, platelet activation markers, or plasma cytokines in either group.

CONCLUSIONS
High-dose aspirin therapy for 8 weeks paradoxically increases markers of type 2 inflammation in subjects with aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease, despite reducing nasal symptoms. This effect of aspirin is unique to aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease and not observed in aspirin-tolerant asthmatics. Clinical trial registration available at www.clinicaltrials.gov, ID NCT01597375.


We study the effect of heave and sway on roll dynamics for a ship in beam waves. In the first part of the paper we discuss quantitatively the limitations of single-roll models that neglect these couplings, in terms of wave steepness and the long wave assumption. Thereafter we present a roll-sway-heave mathematical model that is currently developed and is suitable for systematic investigations of large amplitude rolling and capsize. Preliminary predictions of response will be shown for a fishing vessel exposed to harmonic beam waves, including her non-zero mean roll and drift as function of wave steepness. Introduction Capsizing of a ship in waves is one of the most basic fears for mariners, passengers as well as for anyone with a vested interest on maritime transportation. The keen interest of the international community is reflected by the current efforts at IMO to improve the main ship stability criterion, the so-called "weather criterion" [Francescutto, 2002] as well as by abundance of research papers on the topic [Perez-Rojas, 2003]. Approaches based on mathematical modelling are nowadays established as the main route towards improving understanding and developing effective design criteria. Contemporary investigations range between rigorous analyses of nonlinear dynamics based on some simplified model of roll motion, to simulation studies that rely on a fuller set of motion equations, incorporating interactions with the other degrees of freedom. So far, these two 'worlds' are quite separate although they target the same problem. Our longer term research goal is to work towards bridging the two: i.e. to set up an environment enabling rigorous nonlinear dynamics analysis of ship roll and capsize on the basis of a detailed coupled mathematical model. At this stage we are focusing on the development of a detailed roll-sway-heave model for regular and 16 International Conference on Hydrodynamics in Ship Design 3 International Symposium on Ship Manoeuvring Gdansk – Ostrόda, Poland 7 – 10 September 2005


The present invention relates to a calcium-enriched edible salt composition, containing (wt%) 30-90% of edible sodium chloride, 0-60% of potassium chloride, 1.5-6.0% of (by calcium) water-soluble organic acid calcium and 30-60% of (by calcium) casein-phosphopeptide. Its salt taste is not changed, and said composition has a higher calcium content, good taste and water solubility.


The current paper presents Implementation of Wireless Electrocardiogram Detection for personal health monitoring using ARM7 Processor. We are going for this system to solve a problem in present daily life style which leads to cardiovascular diseases which is the major adult illness. So there is a need for health monitoring on a daily basis but one cannot go to the hospital every day. So for that reason this system is to be implemented. To make this system most reliable, the proposed system comprises of three sub systems, namely, (1) Bio Information Node, (2) the protocol for standard IEEE 802.15.4, Zigbee system, and (3) Intelligent host machine. The bio information node is integrated with ECG, Blood pressure sensor, Respiratory sensor, Temperature Sensor. An ARM processor is integrated to detect the ECG signal. For high integration, the Zigbee protocol is considered for wireless communication. Intelligent host machine is used to display the ECG signal which is received through Zigbee system.


Ideological and political education in graduate,there is the situation of validity weakening,mainly due to by postgraduate their own reasons,impact of three aspects of the graduate counselor team building and post-graduate training mode.Analysis of the reasons for the weakening of the graduate ideological and political education aspects,from the focus on individual development,team building,innovative forms of education should to enhance the effectiveness of the graduate political education.


The mixed-flow compressor has high efficiency and pressurization ability even at an extremely high flow rate. However, so far the design principle of the mixed-flow compressor has not well been established. In this paper, a novel and practical design method of mixed flow impellers is developed, in which the meridional construction needs few control parameters, and easily applied to engineering product design.
 In order to verify the developed method, a mixed-flow impeller with flow rate coefficient of 0.2374 is designed and manufactured for the experimental study. The experimental results show that the peak efficiency of the compressor at the machine Mach number of 0.6 and 0.8 reach 85.17% and 85.20%, respectively, which are competitively well-performed at large flow coefficient in the published literature. The comparison between experimental and numerical results verifies the feasibility and effectiveness of this proposed method and also provides some valuable guidance for the choice of the exit inclination angle of the mixed-flow impellers.


Small intestinal xanthomas are uncommon and exhibit a striking endoscopic appearance that may give rise to a wide differential diagnosis. The aetiology of these lesions is not well understood and, unlike their cutaneous counterparts, an association with hyperlipidaemia has not been identified. We describe the case of a young girl with multiple duodenal xanthomas and a pre-existing diagnosis of CHILD syndrome, an X- linked disorder due to a mutation in the cholesterol synthesis pathway.

A 3-year-old girl with background of CHILD syndrome was referred for gastroenterology opinion due to persisting dysphagia for solids with frequent vomiting. Nutrition was normal with no evidence of malabsorption. Oesophagogastroduodenoscopy was performed which revealed normal oesophagus and stomach. White plaque-like lesions were noted throughout the duodenum (figure …


Sieved size fractions of 4 marine sediments were examined for 4 quantities presumably related to nutritional value organic carbon, bacteria, chlorophyll a and C : N ratio of organic matter in order to determine whether they showed a consistent relation with particle size. However, there was no predictable relationship between these quantities and particle size either within or among the 4 sediments. Despite wide variations in organic carbon, bacterial abundance and chlorophyll a content, C : N ratios were similar (near 7) for most of the size fractions from all 4 areas; apparently there was a large, and as yet unidentified, pool of organic carbon in these sediments other than living bacteria or microalgae with a C : N ratio near 7. Variation of microbial abundance between winter and summer was inconsistent, but bacteria always accounted for less than 2 % of the organic carbon in the sediment. This study emphasizes the difficulty in attempting to predict nutritional value of sediments from bulk samples.


icosapentaenoic (EPA) and docosahexaenoic (DHA)acids are of considerable pharmaceutical interest due to their biomedical properties.1-3) This leads to attempts to produce n-3 PUFA-containing lipids by lipase reaction. Since the lipase reaction is advantageous with respect to stereochemical and positional specificities and mild reaction conditions, lipase is considered to be suitable for the production of n-3 PUFA-containing lipids which are labile by oxidation. Some available lipases from fungi and yeasts have been reported for this purpose.4~9) The


An analysis of the Italian migratory situation shows that foreigners who work in the domestic sector and care for the elderly find themselves in a "blocked" situation without prospects of escape. This is parallel to a real "backlash" or "counter-attack" in terms of social representation and rights that affects Italian women. The article considers the impact of the creation of a number of immigrant women's associations and the role of their leaders. It argues that the desire to participate in the public sphere has not lead to collective action for the improvement of the living and working conditions of immigrant women or to acquiring more rights.


There is a continuous need for antibiotics, mainly with new mechanisms of action, since infectious diseases represent the second major cause of death in the world and bacteria resistance levels are high. This review describes the contribution of microbial natural products for the development of the major antibiotic classes, the mechanisms of action of current antibiotics, some modern approaches involving genetic tools for the discovery and development of new antibiotics from microbial products and antibiotics in clinical trials.


Objective To explore the prevalence and risk factors of hypertension among community residents in Xihu district of Nanchang city of Jiangxi province,and to provide a scientific basis for the integrated prevention and control of hypertension in community. Methods A total of 2 631 residents aged 18 years or older in Xihu district of Nanchang city were selected using multi-stage sampling method.The prevalence of hypertension was investigated with hypertensive questionnaire and physical examination.The risk factors for hypertension were investigated by multi-factor non-conditional Logistic regression analysis. Results The top five prevalence of chronic diseases in Xihu district were:hypertension(18.93%),diabetes(5.78%),coronary heart disease(1.48%),hyperlipemia(0.46%),bone structure and density disorders(0.38%).The prevalence of hypertension in males was significantly higher than that in females(24.35% vs 13.94%,P0.05).Non-conditional Logistic regression analysis showed that elder,male gender,low level of education,family history of hypertension,high body mass index,irregular meals,passive smoking,high daily salt intake,less sleep,non-single marital status and introversion were the risk factors for hypertension. Conclusion The hypertension is the most frequent chronic diseases among residents in Xihu district.It should be brought into the community chronic disease prevention and control program,and be included in the areas of chronic disease management in general practitioners.In addition,the monitoring of blood pressure should be strengthened and comprehensive prevention and treatment programs(body weight control,dietary salt restriction,regular meals,adequate sleep,smoke-free environment,etc) should be performed to control the incidence of hypertension and complications in high-risk groups.


A biosequence of soil profiles, ranging from Black through various stages of Dark Gray to Eluviated Dark Gray Chernozems and a Degraded Brown Wooded soil, is found under a sequence of vegetation ranging from rough fescue prairie (Festuca scabrella association) to encroaching poplar (Populus spp.) and fir trees (Pseudotsuga taxifolia (Poir.) Britt.) in the Porcupine Hills of southwestern Alberta. Samples were gathered to establish the differential physical and chemical changes that have occurred in the soils over an 80-year period.Increased eluviation accompanied a reduction in the percentage of exchangeable calcium but it remained the dominant exchangeable cation in all horizons. Most of the exchange capacity arises from the organic matter. The exchange sites are mainly pH-dependent. The changes in the organic matter, because of the encroachment of trees, are more strikingly evident than are the changes in the mineral matter.Infrared absorption spectra of electrodialyzed humic acids display a conspicuous ...


Fisher, M. Rights and wrongs.--Townsend, J. R. Standards of criticism for children's literature.--crvig, M. One world in children's books?--Heurlimann, B. Fortunate moments in children's books.--Southall, I. Real adventure belongs to us.--Hunter, M. Talent is not enough.--Fritz, J. The education of an American.--Watanabe, S. One of the dozens.--Ofek, U. Tom and Laura from right to left.--Egoff, S. Beyond the garden wall.


ABSTRACT Banana short fiber/Al(OH)3/epoxy composite laminates were prepared by dispersing short banana fiber and Al(OH)3 particulates in an epoxy matrix and investigated for their specific wear rate, water intake, flammability and mechanical properties. The sliding wear results showed that due to the synergistic effect of both fiber and filler in epoxy matrix enhanced the wear resistant in the composites. Similarly, the tensile stress and hardness improved significantly due to the addition of banana fiber in the composite material. Also, it is found that the composite becomes more fire resistant due to the addition of Al(OH)3. However, the higher percentage of fiber and filler increases the water absorption rate due to voids in the composite. The results of this study provide the insights of solid–solid interface leading to different bulk properties.


Problem Bullying issues are increasing among school-age children worldwide. Children and adolescents involved in bullying as victims, perpetrators, or both are likely to experience negative consequences on their emotional, social, and academic levels (Espelage & Holt, 2001). In spite of the increasing research on bullying in Saudi Arabia, there exists gaps in the literature, especially in the role of individual traits (self-esteem, emotional intelligence) and cognitive processes (moral disengagement) on bullying behavior. Additionally, using modeling analysis to understand the predictive factors affecting bullying involvement processes also filled in some of the gaps in the literature. The current study investigated the prevalence of bullying behavior and gender differences in bullying behavior. In addition, the extent of the relationships among bullying behavior, self-esteem, emotional intelligence, and moral disengagement were examined, including how these variables predicted bullying behavior (victimization/perpetration), and mediated the relationship between moral disengagement and bullying. Method The current study was designed as a non-experimental quantitative research analysis, with data collected via survey methodology. The data was collected from 735 high school students (male/female) between 14 and 19 years old who were attending public high schools in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, during the 2022 academic year. Participants completed a self-report survey measuring their (a) demographic background information, (b) bullying behaviors (BCS-A), (c) moral disengagement (MDS), (d) self-esteem (RSES), and (f) emotional intelligence (WLEIS). Statistical analyses included descriptive statistics and binary logistic regression to examine gender differences, and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to examine the structure of relationships among the study variables. Results Regarding the prevalence of victimization, 20.8% of students reported being involved in verbal bullying, followed by physical bullying victimization (17.1%); cyberbullying victimization (17.3%); and relational bullying (16.9%). Regarding the prevalence of perpetration, verbal bullying was reported by 7.9% of the participants, followed by physical bullying (5.9%); cyberbullying (4.9%), and relational bullying (2.3%). The binary logistic regression analysis indicated there were significant differences in relational bullying victimization and perpetration in favor of females, and physical and verbal bullying victimization and perpetration were significantly different for male students. SEM analysis indicated that the initial model was a poor fit for the data. Therefore, upon some revisions, the SEM model predicted 40% of the variances in bullying behavior. Moral disengagement had a positive direct influence on bullying perpetration. Self-esteem was found to positively predict bullying perpetration and negatively influence bullying victimization. Emotional intelligence had a direct positive influence on self-esteem. Moral disengagement had a negative influence on emotional intelligence and self-esteem. Bullying victimization had a direct and positive impact on bullying perpetration. Mediation analysis indicated there was an indirect effect between moral disengagement and bully victimization through self-esteem and/or emotional intelligence; thus, both significantly mediated the relationship between moral disengagement and bullying victimization. In addition, all direct effects were found to be significant among self-esteem, emotional intelligence, and bullying victimization; significant indirect effects were observed between moral disengagement and bullying perpetration. As a result, partial meditation was evidenced. Conclusions The current study contributed to the body of literature by providing a better understanding of the important role of moral disengagement and bullying victimization experiences in predicting bullying involvement among adolescents in Saudi Arabia. The results provide support for the increase of specific protective and preventive factors to control bullying issues in school. Implications for bullying prevention and intervention program makers, educators, mental health professionals, school psychologists, and researchers of bullying behavior were discussed.


In this paper the authors present some existence results for the initial value problems for first order impulsive equations with discontinuous differentiation by means of the method of upper and lower solutions,the monotone iterative scheme and Schauder fixed point theorem.


The present investigation was carried out at the research farm of Cotton Research Unit, Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, during kharif 2016-17. Four different cotton cultivars were used to estimate pink bollworm damage with three different sowing periods in factorial randomized block design. The results revealed that among the different cotton cultivars, minimum green boll damage (35.00%) due to pink bollworm was recorded on arboreum hybrid (Suvarna) whereas maximum (48.88%) was recorded in Non Bt hirsutum hybrid (DCH-32). Maximum pink bollworm infestation (18.92%) in loculi at harvest was observed in early sowing of Non Bt hirsutum hybrid whereas minimum loculi damage (13.69%) was recorded in timely sown arboreum variety. Maximum seed cotton yield (11.08 q/ha) was recorded in Bt BG II hybrid (RCH-2) whereas the minimum (6.43 q/ha) was recorded in arboreum variety (AKA-7). Maximum pink bollworm infestation at harvest was observed in early sown (5 June) non Bt hirsutum hybrid (DCH-32), whereas minimum infestation was recorded in timely sown (25 June) of arboreum variety (AKA-7).


The sound scattering by a convected isentropic vortex is numerically studied by solving the linearized Euler equations (LEE) with high-fidelity finite-difference methods and non-reflecting boundary conditions. Our computations are in good agreement with previous studies. Simulations for the scattering from a Taylor vortex at a range of convected velocity reveal that the convection of the vortex leads to the spectral broadening of the incident waves. The power spectral density analyses of the scattered pressure in the frequency domain show that the range of the spectral broadening is strongly influenced by convected velocity. This fact can be explained by the relative motion between the vortex and observer associated with the Doppler factor. The sidebands originating from the scattered fields at a fixed point in the frequency domain can be associated with the scattered beams observed in the case of scattering by a steady vortex.


The leaf is almost ubiquitous throughout land plants
but due to its complex and flexible developmental program is highly
morphologically variable between taxa. Description of the functions
of regulatory genes key to leaf development in different
evolutionary lineages allows the study of changes in developmental
mechanisms through evolutionary time as a means for anatomical and
morphological diversification. The roles of homologs of
 CINCINNATA -like TCP family genes, ARP genes, and
Class I KNOX genes were investigated in two members of the
Papaveraceae, a basal eudicot lineage positioned in between major
angiosperm groups, by phylogenetic analysis, in situ hybridization,
expression profiling by quantitative polymerase chain reaction, and
virus-induced gene silencing in Eschscholzia
californica and Cysticapnos vesicaria .
Expression data were similar to those for homologous genes in core
eudicot species, however, some gene functions found in core
eudicots were not associated with basal eudicot homologs, and so
have either been gained or lost from the ancestral state. This
reflects the dynamism of the leaf developmental plan and its
diversification through evolution.


The decay of 3.6-h /sup 150/Tb to levels in /sup 150/Gd has been studied by ..gamma..-ray and conversion-electron spectroscopy. A level scheme is proposed which accounts for all but 35 of the 256 ..gamma.. rays assigned to this decay. Most of the low-lying levels in /sup 150/Gd show a remarkably close correspondence with the predictions of the simple vibrator model. Possible candidates are observed for three-phonon quadrupole states and for the states coupling quadrupole and octupole phonons. The low-lying positive-parity levels can be adequately described by the phenomenological collective model of Gneuss and Greiner. The microscopic boson-expansion model of Kishimoto and Tamura, however, appears to predict /sup 150/Gd to be more transitional than the data imply. Systematics of the 86-neutron isotones show increased stability at 64 protons. This can be correlated with the filling of the g/sub 7/2/ and d/sub 5/2/ spherical proton orbitals.


This article deals with the Constitutional and revolutionary process in Portugal, which began with the fall of the Salazarist dictatorship. The text highlights particularly how the tensions born in the core of the dictatorship influenced the making of the new Constitution. The text also tries to explain the nature, deficiencies and characteristics particular to the process, under the democratic theory.


The proliferation of arterial SMC plays an important role in process of atherosclerosis. Oxidized HDL(OX HDL) can increase 3H TdR incorporation to DNA of cultured human arterial SMC, so promote proliferation of SMC. A study on effect of OX HDL on proliferation of cultured human arterial SMC with MTT method was made. It was showed that native HDL(N HDL) has no effect on proliferation of SMC but OX HDL significantly stimulated the proliferation of SMC ( P 0 01);N HDL significantly inhibited proliferation of human SMC induced by OX LDL ( P 0 01) and OX HDL significantly enhanced proliferation of human SMC induced by OX LDL ( P 0 01).


Insulin-like growth factors(IGFs)system,including IGFs and IGF-binding proteins,plays a central role in growth and reproduction of fish and higher vertebrates.In serum and extracellular fluids,most circulating IGFs are bound to specific high affinity IGF-binding proteins(IGFBPs)that can protect them from degradation and modulate their actions.Common carp(Cyprinus carpio)is one of the most economically important fish in China.To improve the yield of common carp and get more economic benefits,the study of mechanism of growth and reproduction is very important.In the previous study,the cDNAs of common carp Igfbp-2 and-3 had been cloned,and the expression profiles and hormonal regulation were studied.The results showed that common carp Igfbp-2 and-3 mRNAs were expressed in many various tissues and different embryonic developmental stages,but the abundances were different significantly.To further understand the regulation mechanism of Igfbp-2 and-3,the study of their promoters is necessary.So,in this paper,the sequences of Igfbp-2 and-3 promoters were firstly cloned,and then the putative transcription binding sites were analyzed.The length of Igfbp-2 and-3 promoters we obtained was 1 142 bp and 1 067 bp,respectively.There was a consensus TATA box 22 bp 5' to the start site of transcription in Igfbp-3 promoter,while in the upstream there was a SP1 binding site instead of CAAT box.Neither TATA box nor CAAT box was found in the promoter of Igfbp-2,only a SP1 binding site and rich G/C motif in this region.These results showed that the promoters of common carp Igfbp-2 and-3 did not contain the characteristics of classic promoter.Furthermore,some other transcription binding sites were observed in the two promoters,such as CREB,HNF,Pit-1,Oct-1,RXR,GR,ER,PR,SRY and so on,while the STAT(signal transducer and activator of transcription)was only found in Igfbp-3.These results suggested that there were basic and hormone-inducible expression patterns of Igfbp-2 and-3 genes.However,the regulation mechanisms were not consistent between the two genes.


using soxhlet extraction and ultrasonic extraction,seed kernel saponin contents in the process of maturity were measured. Through verification and comparison tests,ultrasonic extraction of camellia tea saponin is better. With matury,tea saponin content increased first and then decreased,distribution of camellia fruit tea saponin in various parts during ripening were:kernelsfruit shellseed shell,saponin contents of seed kernels,fruit shell and seeds shell were 15.85%,9.66% and 4.32% in late maturation,respectively.


A rapid and sudden death in a single incident like mass casualty poses challenge for health care facilities. Especially in such cases, identification of the deceased is the most important task for investigating police officers and doctors. The present study is a seriesof death of five young adult male workers,who died in a tragic fire which broke out in the confined space at under construction plant. All the bodies were rendered unidentifiable from facial recognition due to charring and blackening. Theprimary identification of the deceased was established based upon partially burnt clothes and personal belongings. The autopsy findings being superficial to deep burns, charring and blackening, soot particles inrespiratory tract were similar in all the five victims. The bloodpreserved for estimation ofcarboxy-haemoglobin level showed positive results in all the five cases. Soot in trachea and increased carboxy-haemoglobin level in blood suggested that the persons were alive at the time of incident. In all the five cases, death was caused due to suffocation by inhalation of carbon monoxide gas associated with thermal injuries. Role of forensic experts is to help in the identification of victims and to determine manner and cause of death.


Safety in the production of canned meat products depends on the numbers of heat resistant clostridia in the product before processing, as the effect of heat processing is limited. For this reason, the numbers of clostridia in the raw materials are of great importance, and any method which may reduce these numbers is of value.

This investigation has shown that clostridia are present on the rind side of pig carcases at various stages during slaughter operations, the numbers depending on the bacteriological state of the slaughtering equipment. In addition, frozen sections have indicated the presence of clostridia in the deeper layers of the skin. Washing the carcases with hot water besides lowering the aerobic count also reduces the numbers of clostridia.


Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) has recently gained tremendous research interest due to its distinctive properties. A comprehensive understanding of the performance of MoS2 across a complete range of pressures is significant from the perspective of practical application. While extensive research has been conducted to explore the potential of MoS2 under extremely high pressures, there is still a lack of deep insights into how it performs under vacuum to normal pressures. In this experimental study, we examine the electrical behavior of MoS2 as the pressure varies from vacuum pressure to standard atmospheric pressure in N2 and O2, respectively. The I–V measurements show that higher pressures induce faster oxygen adsorption of MoS2. In addition, the investigation into the effect of humidity reveals that humidity has a greater influence on the electrical behavior of MoS2 than oxygen.