The objective of this research is to study the relationship between Role Stress (RS) and Workplace Bullying (WB) of nurses at Teaching Hospitals in Egypt. The research community consists of all nurses at Teaching hospitals in Egypt. Due to time and cost constraints, the researcher adopted a sampling method to collect data for the study. The appropriate statistical methods were used to analyze the data and test the hypotheses.The research has reached a number of results; the most important of which are: (1) RS is an important part of nurses at Teaching Hospitals in Egypt that combine the individual with the organization and the role assigned to him or her within the general structure of the organization, (2) RS reduces staff productivity, which will affect the overall competitiveness of the organization. RS will reduce the quality of services and products, poor customer relations, disruptive work environment and high turnover, (3) The increasing expectations of companies and organizations affect the way in which individuals are viewed as being part of an organization, commonly referred to as RS, (4) WB needs a sustainable and systematic exploration because the responsibility to protect its employees from psychological harassment to chase bully in the workplace, (5) Hospitals are busy and stressful work environments, difficult working conditions, night duties, probabilities, low staff pay, and bullying during academic career and bullying have a negative impact on business life, (6) The degree of WB experience was higher in nurses working in poorer environments, the nursing environment became an important factor in the deceleration factor in the WB, and (7) There was a statistically significant relationship between RS in terms of Role Conflict (RC), Role Ambiguity (RA), and Role Overload (RO) and the WB (person-related bullying, work-related bullying, and intimidation-related bullying) of nurses at Teaching Hospitals in Egypt. The study referred to a number of recommendations; the most important of which are: (1) managers at Teaching hospitals in Egypt must be aware of the concept, types, causes, methods, consequences and bullying treatments of their organizations. They have to watch the behaviors of their staff to diagnose bullying behaviors, develop organizational culture and bullying politics to prevent bullying behaviors and punish and get rid of intruders in their organizations, (2) managers at Teaching hospitals in Egypt should reduce the WB by improving workers' awareness of them, (3) writing group patrols can reduce negative actions in the work environment. This may happen because when the nurses read and write together about an important issue, their relationships become more solid and supportive. The role of the head nurse was important in the atmosphere of nursing units and interpersonal relationships among nurses. If the main nurse does not take appropriate action against the negative procedures in the nurses, this will lead to a high turnover rate of nurses, (4) there is a need to develop a structural model that can explain the underlying factors and consequences of the WB, (5) there is a need to develop a reliable and correct measurable bullying tool, (6) propose an organizational policy and conduct interventionist research to reduce the WB at Teaching hospital in Egypt, and (7) conducting positive training courses and focus on the need to provide senior management support to staff members in a manner that prevents WB at Teaching hospitals in Egypt.


This short article provides brief coverage of the planetary boundary layer (PBL) and some characteristics featuring this lowest part of the atmosphere. Any readers who are interested in deeper and more extensive coverage are encouraged to consult the references listed at the end of this article.


FIC is submitting a revised assessment of hurricane deductibles based upon further review of Section 627.701, Florida Statutes. We hope this updated information will help clarify any confusion that may have been caused by FIC's initial advisory regarding homes valued under $100,000 - FIC inaccurately reported homes valued under $100,000 were not subject to the 2% hurricane deductible option offered by insurance carriers For homes with dwelling limits under $100,000, deductible options range from $250 to 2%. Please refer to Summary and Bulletin below.


Mg2+ and Zn2+ substituted manganese ferrite nanoparticles were synthesized by chemical coprecipitation route. The synthesized samples were characterized by powder X-ray diffraction which confirms the cubic spinel ferrite structure and the crystallite size is in nanoscale. High resolution transmission electron microscope and scanning electron microscope were used to examine the surface morphology. The elemental composition and purity of the sample were confirmed from energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopic analysis. The band gap energy determined from UV-Vis absorption spectra reveals the semiconducting behavior of both the samples. The optical parameters calculated from the UV-Vis absorption spectra show that MMF has better optical property compared to ZMF nanocrystallites. The magnetic parameters determined using vibrating sample magnetometer show low coercivity, low squareness ratio exhibiting superparamagnetic behavior of the Mg2+ and Zn2+ substituted manganese ferrite nanoparticles which are important for technological applications.


A. Lemma A.1. Proof of lemma 1 Lemma 1. Let the regularization term in Eq. (2) be R(φ) = ∑k i=1 φi log φi. Then the optimal solution φ ∗ for the problem in Eq. (2) has a closed form φ(s,A)i = exp(ηr(s, ai))/ ∑ aj∈A exp(ηr(s , aj)). Furthermore, in each session t, the user's optimal policy φ∗ is equivalent to the following discrete choice model where ε follows a Gumbel distribution. a = arg maxa∈At η r(s , a) + ε. (3)


The effects of polyester content, pick density and weave on the thermal comfort and tactile properties of polyester/viscose blended yarn fabrics have been studied by measuring the low- stress mechanical properties on Kawabata evaluation system. The thermal comfort has been studied by measuring the air permeability, thermal insulation and moisture vapour transfer properties of fabrics. The tactile properties have been studied by measuring the fabric mechanical and surface properties, such as tensile, shear, bending, compression, surface roughness, surface friction and handle. The fabrics with higher polyester content give higher total hand value and higher thermal insulation, but lower air permeability and lower moisture vapour transfer. The fabrics with higher polyester content also show lower extensibility; the extensibility in warp direction is higher than in weft direction and twill woven fabrics give higher extensibility than the plain woven fabrics.


Chemically hydrolyzed curdlan oligosaccharides (CRDO), low degree of polymerization (DP) of β-1,3-glucan, were prepared to compare with Laminaran (Lam) with high DP for discussing the difference on defense-inducing activity in tobacco. Fast response defenses such as extracellular pH shift, H2O2 production, nitric oxide (NO) release and stomatal movement under light as well as the protection against tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) were performed. CRDO triggered faster extracellular alkalinization than Lam. Refractory states analysis showed there existed different perception modes between β-1,3-glucan and chitosan oligosaccharides (COS). Elicitors induced cells to generate NO probably via nitric oxide synthase (NOS) pathway. Moreover, CRDO exhibited more intensive than Lam in stomatal movement. However, protection against TMV implied Lam played a longer term role than CRDO in defense responses. Therefore, we concluded β-1,3-glucan with low DP played a vital role in rapid responses, whereas high DP β-1,3-glucan displayed durable effects.


On-Load Tap-Changer (OLTC) is the core equipment of regulating the output voltage of the transformer. In order to diagnose the states of OLTC timely and accurately, a mechanical fault feature extraction method based on multi-wavelet transform is proposed. An OLTC fault simulation platform is established. Based on GHM multi-wavelet, fault characteristics of spring loosening, spring fatigue, spring fracture are analyzed. Energy, entropy, mean, standard deviations of wavelet coefficients are extracted and were used to construct feature vector. The support vector machine was used to recognize faults. The recognition accuracy is about 97%.


The purpose of this interpretive/descriptive qualitative study was to develop a framework to enhance our understanding of educational partnerships in health programs between public and private post-secondary institutions in British Columbia (B.C.), Canada. In B.C., both public and private post-secondary institutions offer health programs for employment purposes. Through interviews with representatives of institutions in both sectors, industry stakeholders, and government, this study documented that there were limited interactions and few existing partnerships between the two types of institutions. Significant distrust and negative attitudes toward potential partners were evident although advantages and positive strategic outcomes of partnerships, as well as examples of potential partnerships, were cited by interviewees. Perspectives from interviewees about the role of the B.C. government with regard to private institutions and potential partnerships between the two sectors of education were also documented. Partnership vignettes were created based on the reports of interviewees. The academic literature about partnerships in business, the academic literature about post-secondary education, and information from a variety of sources about the context of post-secondary education in B.C., including mechanisms government uses to influence post-secondary institutions, were used to reflect on the interview findings. Distinctions between public and private post-secondary institutions were identified. Reasons for the lack of partnerships were proposed, including lack of knowledge about the potential partner, philosophical disagreement, concerns


Pulsed lasers and continuous wave lasers were used experimentally in our laboratories. Because of their characteristics lasers are best suited for microsurgery. The Argon laser offers definite advantages: 1. a very small spot size; 2. selective destruction of tissues with red pigments; 3. in depth effect; and 4. it can be incorporated into the optical system of a standard operating microscope.


The impact of the reversal of the medical burden of proof on the medical expenses included two aspects: control medical expenses rising and make medical expenses unreasonably rose.At present the implementation of this policy is necessary.Medical institutions must adapt to the rule actively,policy-makers need to perfect relevant supporting policies,only in this way the government can implement this policy smoothly.


1. First nights 2. Without a telescope 3. Meteors 4. Choosing a telescope 5. Recording your observations 6. The Moon 7. Moon 2: advanced observations 8. The Sun 9. Jupiter 10. Saturn 11. Mars 12. Five planets worth watching 13. Asteroids 14. Comets 15. Double stars 16. Variable stars 17. The deep sky 18. Messier hunting 19. The sky on film 20. Solar eclipses 21. Lunar eclipses and occultations 22. Passing the torch 23. The poet's sky Resources.


On the basis of Earley parsing extended grammars,this paper gives an automatic generation algorithm of a semantic parser for EBNF.Given an extended grammar with embedded semantic routines and an(input) string,the algorithm outputs the corresponding semantic parser.With the execution of these semantic routines,some work such as type checking,intermediate code generation and optimization can be done,which makes the parsing algorithm a full and significative parsing technique.


The behavior of the rf-current driven Josephson junction is studied in the presence of quantum fluctuations in the semiclassical regime by the quantum Langevin equation. It is found that the onset of chaos is suppressed quite sensitively by the introduction of the quantum noise.


The existing compactness and nuclearity conditions characterizing phase space properties of a quantum field theory are compared and found to be particularly sensitive either in the infrared or the ultraviolet domain. A sharpened condition combining both features is proposed and shown to be satisfied in free field theory in four space-time dimensions Nous comparons les conditions connues de compacite et de nuclearite qui caracterisent les proprietes d'espace de phase d'une theorie quantique des champs. Nous montrons qu'elles sont particulierement adaptees soit au domaine ultraviolet ou infrarouge. Nous proposons une nouvelle condition qui combine ces deux aspects et qui est verifiee pour le champ libre en dimension quatre


: This study aims at investigating the effect of a fusing treatments on anti-corrosion characteristics of Ni-based self-flux alloy coating. Ni-based coatings were fabricated by flame spray process on steel substrates, and fusing treatments were performed using a vacuum furnace at 800 ℃ 900 ℃ , 1000 ℃ and 1100 ℃ . After fusing treatments, corrosion tests were carried out using potentiostat/galvanostat at solution with pH 2 and pH 6. Corrosion potential(Ecorr) and corrosion current density(Icorr) could be analyzed from polarization curve. Fusing-treated coating at 1100 ℃ showed more favorable anti-corrosion characteristics than as-sprayed coating. Anticorrosive effect of fusing-treated coating at solution with pH 2 was relatively greater than at solution with pH 6. Fusing-treated coating at 1100 ℃ showed the most excellent anti-corrosion characteristics.


The epidermis constitutes the outer layer of the skin and acts as a protective barrier between the body and the environment.Skin undergoes fast self-renewal throughout life to maintain the homeostasis of body's internal environment.Its proliferation,differentiation and apoptosis stay in a dynamic balance.If the balance is broken,it will result in skin diseases,so the body should have a complex and exact control system to regulate this process.Recent advances suggests that several signaling pathways are associated with epidermal terminally differentiated keratinocytes.


Definition (Moukoko Priso(2)). A locally convex spaceE[T] is said to have a strict absorbent network of type Σ if there exists in E a familyof absolutely convex absorbent sets such that (1) if {nk} is a sequence of positive integers andfor each k, then the seriesconverges in E[T] (2) for each sequence {nk} there is a sequence {λk} of positive real numbers such that, ifand 0 ≤ μk ≤ λkfor each k, then (i) converges in E[T], and (ii) for each p.


Drought stress can have substantial negative impacts on cocoa plant growth until affect the death of plant. The present study aimed to determine theeffect of drought stress on the some physiological characters of cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) seedlings. The research was carried out at the Indonesian Coffee and Cocoa Research Institute, Jember, East Java, Indonesia. This research was conducted from January–December 2017. The experiment was designed by using completely randomized block design with two factors and with three replications. The first factor was clones, namely ICS 60, Sulawesi 1 and KW 641 clones. The second factor was interval of watering treatment, namely watering every 2 days (control/adequate water condition), watering every 5 days (moderate stress), and watering every 8 days (severe stress). Result of this study concluded that drought stress reduced the growth of cocoa seedlings, mainly as a result of reducing photosynthetic activities in all stressed cocoa clone seedlings. Under drought stress, KW 641 and Sulawesi 1 had higher leaf area, chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, total chlorophyll content, relative water content, and photosynthetic rate than ICS 60 clone.


Petroleum is an important natural resource for human. The demand for petroleum in the next several decades will continue to be high, which requires the exploitation of more petroleum sources. Chang-7 member of the Ordos basin is proven to be the richest among all members, and this research took a focus on making a comparison between the source rock quality of Chang-7 member in four major oil fields in the basin, to provide a simple view of priority oil fields for exploitation in the future. The research analyzed the source rock quality of four oil fields from the TOC, A%, rock type, R0, sedimentary environment, and kerogen type, and found a superiority of source rock quality of Maling and Zhidan oil field in multiple dimensions, mainly triggered by their sedimentary environment. The research concluded that the oil fields that was once in the central-southern region of the basin contains a slightly better source rock quality among the chosen fields, which is related to a more stable sedimentary environment in the early Triassic.


Over the past few years federal authorities and local offlclals have dlsagreed over how adequately local nunicipalities are equlpped to regulate cable televislon. The purpose of thls study rras to trace the developnent of local regulation ln the city of Ithaca, New York in order to determine if the city effectlvely regulated its cable franchisee. Procedure: The tern "effective regulatlon" was defined Eo mean: (1) ratea were reasonable and unwarranted rate hlkes were prevented; (2) local needs were met by the cable oPerator; and (3) the cable aervice provided was technically adequate. Data for the study was collected frorn: (1) newspaPer articles; (2) Idritten documents; and (3) personal lnterviews. Al1 informati.on was organizcd lnto chronological order and analyzed. ConcLuslons: (1) regulation of cable televisi.on by the City of Ithaca lras effecti.ve; (2) an Advisory Comulttee On Cable Television is currently necessary for a communlty to effectively regulate CATVi (3) the FCC should provide more extensive assistance Eo munlcipalities; and (4) the City of Ithaca should withdraw fron the Tonpkins County Cabl"e TeLevlslon Connission. Reconunendat lons: (1) investigaEe the possibility of overregulation ln lthaca; (2) expand this study when Anthony Ceracche is wllllng to cooperate; and (3) artempt to generalize the restrlts ol' thls study through further research -[n othcr rnunicipall t les .


The paper presents a methodology for aeroelastic tailoring of membrane wing pretension for a flapping micro air vehicle (MAV) in forward flight. The aeroelastic model tightly couples a prestressed structural membrane finite element model with an unsteady vortex lattice aerodynamic model. Cubic prestress distributions in both the chordwise and spanwise directionsare independently prescribed to a flapping, rectangular, membrane wing. A gradient-based optimizer is used to maximize the cycle-average thrust generated by the wing. The optimal results tends toward a prestress distribution that is lower near the leading edge and higher at the trailing edge.


A method for aerial rendezvous of small unmanned aircraft systems is proposed. The system includes placing a passively towed drogue into an orbit that is suitable for a small unmanned aircraft systems to follow, and a seeker guidance method for use with a monocular camera mounted on the centerline of the unmanned aircraft systems. The principle contributions of the work include a method for controlling the drogue path in moderate winds by manipulating the mothership orbit and airspeed, and a vision-based nonlinear pursuit tracking method that uses pitch rate and roll commands to guide the unmanned aircraft systems to an aerial rendezvous with the drogue. Simulation and flight-test results are presented to demonstrate the suitability of these methods.


The decline of star formation in massive low-redshift galaxies, often referred to as "quenching," has been attributed to a variety of factors. Some proposals suggest that erupting active galactic nuclei may strip galaxies of their interstellar medium (ISM), and thus the ability to form stars. Here, we note that, whereas star formation is universal in small, low-redshift galaxies, the fractional duty cycles Φ of star formation steadily decline in galaxies of increasing mass, although star formation may not cease entirely. We show that when the infall of gas from extragalactic space ceases, galaxies of high stellar mass M* appear to sustain star formation with gas liberated in mass loss from evolved low- and intermediate-mass stars admixed with occasional SN II ejecta. This model quantitatively accounts for the universal limiting metallicity plateau at a ratio of oxygen to hydrogen atoms, Z O = n O / n H ∼ 1.3 × 10 − 3 ?> , characterizing high-mass, intermittently star-forming galaxies. We show that when duty cycles Φ are specifically taken into account, the star formation rates of galaxies on this plateau correspond to mass loss rates from evolving stars of the order of M ˙ ∼ 10 − 11 M * ?> yr−1, in rough agreement with observed estimates. Far-infrared continuum and fine-structure line observations, as well as molecular data, may soon be able to resolve whether or not low levels of sporadic star formation can be sustained indefinitely in massive galaxies.


The invention discloses a compound xanthophyll soft capsule comprising contents and a capsule material, wherein the contents comprise xanthophyll, proanthocyanidins and beta-carotene, and the capsule material comprises raw materials: gelatin, glycerol and water. The xanthophyll in the contents of the compound xanthophyll soft capsule is xanthophyll crystal powder with the purity of 80%-90%, whichis extracted from no-pollution marigolds by refining, saponification and residual solvent removal and has the advantages of high content, no pollution, no extraneous odor, direct absorption by human bodies and the like. The capsule material of the compound xanthophyll soft capsule has no any pigment and preservative, thereby having good safety; and tests prove that the compound xanthophyll soft capsule has good stability, can isolate air and prevent the effective components of the xanthophyll from being oxidized so as to improve the absorption and utilization rate of the human bodies and hasattractive appearance and convenient administration.


The article is devoted to ethnical identity of the Russian Germans according to materials from Chelyabinskaya Oblast' during the post-Soviet period. Basing on the regional periodicals, archival data, verbal stories and depth interviews, subject to proposal and description being models of ethnical identity of the Russian Germans, such as assimilation, symbiosis, migration. Besides, the author describes the activity of German cultural and education centres, quoting statistics of the external migration processes with the involvement of the Germans from this region.


FIELD: petroleum processing and petrochemistry. SUBSTANCE: synthetic mixture of hydrocarbons, at least partially paraffins, containing alcohol fraction is subjected to separation into low- and high-boiling fractions. The former is hydrogenised under conditions excluding any significant change in average molecular weight of the fraction. At least part of hydrogenised fraction is combined with high-boiling fraction and resulting hydrocarbon mixture is subjected to catalytic hydrocracking, wherein paraffin portion is significantly converted into middle distillate. EFFECT: enabled production of distillates with high low-temperature characteristics. 21 cl, 2 dwg, 3 tbl, 2 ex


The core element and target of E-government is to improve the ability to meet the public needs.Thus the critical factor to evaluate E-government is the public satisfaction.The article compare the several models to evaluate E-government and infer a method that based public satisfaction.


"Television livelihood of the people news" is a newer type of program.It not only obtains a higher audience rating,but also receives the popular concern of the educational circles from its germinate to start.This article interprets this special program by telling stories,along with combining theory with practice,analyzes its skill of broadcast under its unique news skeleton,the connections and differences among other newspaper programs as well as discourse space functions which cannot be replaced by the discourse patterns in the news media.


Most of the essays included here were presented as public lectures at Stanford University in 1979 under the sponsorship of the Center for Research on Women. Various questions concerning the family are discussed from a feminist perspective. The topics covered include the relationships among feminism reproduction and the family and changes in these relationships between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. (ANNOTATION)


The Ras oncoprotein must be modified by farnesyl transferase (FTase) for biological activity. Therefore, inhibition of FTase may offer a means to block ras induced cell transformation. To address this hypothesis, we have introduced antisense and dominant inhibitory FTase expression plasmids into a panel of normal, mutant ras-, and mos- transformed rodent fibroblasts in an effort to genetically suppress FTase activity. Antisense FTase constructs reduced colony formation efficiency approximately 29% in normal and approximately 41% in ras-transformed cells relative to control plasmids. In contrast, antisense FTase plasmids did not exhibit a statistically significant effect on colony formation efficiency in mos-transformed transfectants. FTase alpha N199K is a mutant form of the alpha subunit of FTase that exhibits dominant inhibitory activity versus native FTase. Only mos-transformed transfectants exhibited expression of alpha N199K RNA in 15 of 16 fibroblast lines that were randomly selected and characterized. Our data suggest that genetic inhibition of FTase may result in a selection against animal cell growth.


Implications of post-traumatic hypothermia are known for over four decades however general awareness of such occurrence is still low. Post-traumatic hypothermia is a risk factor for severe complications and death of pa- tients with serious injuries. Medical treatment in perioperative period should be directed towards the prompt cessation of patient exposure to adverse weather conditions, inhibi- tion of heat loss by appropriate thermal insulation, haemorrhage control, avoidance of excessive administration of fluids and quick transfer to a hospital in appropriately prepared means of transport. Hypothermia awareness, preventative tasks and coordination of action at each stage of the rescue is crucial. kwatną jak najszybszy do odpowiednio i odpowiednia


It is known that a meromorphic function f(z) of finite lower order satisfies Σ<5(β, f)<oo as long as α ^ l / 3 , where δ(a, f) denotes the deficiency of f(z) at a and Σ the summation over all extended complex numbers ([3]). In this assertion, we cannot replace a by any positive number less than 1/3 ([2] p. 98). These facts naturally pose the problem to determine the upper bound Δ(a, μ) of Σ^(α, f) over all meromorphic functions f(z) of lower order t^μ ( l / 3 ^ α < l ) . To do this, we begin with studying the behaviour of Δ(a, μ) as a function of μ. The purpose of this paper is to show


Variance estimation for non-linear functions of interest under a complex sampling framework can be conducted by different methods. We propose here some new results in bootstrap and linearization techniques for variance estimation of non-linear statistics. Different inequality measures are studied, with emphasis put on the well-known Gini index. A simulation study using a Poisson sampling design is conducted in order to compare the performance of the different methods when estimating the sampling variance of the Gini index. In survey sampling, we are interested in a finite population U = {1, . . . , k, . . . , N} of size N from which a random sample S of size n is selected by means of a sampling design p(s) = Pr(S = s), for all s ∈ U. Define the inclusion probabilities πk = Pr(k ∈ S), k ∈ U, and the joint inclusion probabilities πk` = Pr(k ∈ S and ` ∈ S), k, ` ∈ U. The sampling weights wk can be equal to the Horvitz and Thompson (1952) weights dk = 1/πk or can have been improved by a calibration technique (Deville and Särndal, 1992) or a non-response adjustment. Let y1, . . . , yk, . . . , yN denote the characteristic of interest (here, the income) of the units in the population and y(1), . . . , y(k), . . . , y(N) the same incomes ordered in increasing order. In order to estimate totals


The author analyses common troubles occurred in the engine starting circuit,introduces the design projects of the two protection circuits for starter control and main power.These measures can protect the starter effectively and lengthen its service life.


This system has plurality of sensors 1a, 1b and 1c and a system control circuit 10 which includes a case memory portion 17 and a work script memory portion 18. In response to an application of state data from the sensors 1a, 1b and 1c, the state data is converted into a symbol. Then the symbol is evaluated to judge whether or not a fault exists and specify a fault symptom. As a result of the judgement, the fault symptom and the fault of an objective machine are determined. Then, a lot of cases stored in the case memory portion 17 are retrieved on a basis of the results of the fault diagnosis and a simulation of a fault state. A case close to the present state of the objective machine is detected. Repair work based on the detected case is executed.


Proceeding from the basic quality necessarily possessed for training an excellent modern basketball referee and analyzing the students in colleges and universities, who take basketball item as specialty in the aspects of training professional morality, mastering basketball technology, regulations and theoretical knowledge on judgment law, and the superiority in the aspects of raising practical ability of approach judgment, physical quality and raising English study level as well as how to give full play to the superiority and to supply more excellent basketball referees for the basketball judgment of our country. Besides, it pointed out that the colleges and universities are the cradles of training high-quality basketball referees and are the bases of echelon construction of basketball referees.


China is rich in coal resources and has cheap labor, but the backwardness of mining technology and the lack of management seriously affected the sustainable development of the coal industry. Internet of Things, whose management and control is very convenient, is to realize the connection between objects and objects, objects and people, objects and network. This paper introduces Internet of Things technology to the development of coal mining and monitoring system, and makes design from the aspects of hardware and software. The system improves the production efficiency, safety and reliability.


Direct measurement of the depletion interaction between electrically charged surfaces has been obtained using the optical technique of total internal reflection microscopy (TIRM). The long-range interaction between a polystyrene sphere and a polished glass plate was measured in aqueous solutions of non-adsorbing colloidal silica particles (all surfaces were negatively charged). The measured potential-energy profiles displayed a repulsive potential at large separations, followed by a depletion attraction at closer distances. At increasing silica concentrations, evidence of a long-range oscillatory behaviour was observed.Comparison of the measured energies to those predicted using a force-balance model indicate that the non-adsorbing silica particles contribute slightly to the screening of the electrostatic interaction between the polystyrene particle and plate. Adjustment for this screening produces good agreement between theory and experiment.


Managerial women experience a number of work-related stressors which produce strain symptoms that function as predictors of their ill-health in organizations. This finding is made from a study that examined the existing relationships among job characteristics symptoms of stress, and the development of health outcomes (depression, anxiety and physical symptoms) among women in lower and middle management positions in some organizations in Ghana. The stratified and simple random sampling procedure was used to select the study participants which numbered 170 female managers. Data was collected using both questionnaires and interviews, and analyzed using the Occupational Stress Indicator, the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale, and the Beck's Anxiety Inventory. It is concluded that since work-related stressors are predictors of women managers' ill-health in the work environment, organi- zations should be aware of the stressors in order to be able to guard against the deterioration of job performances of their women managers. Relevance to Industry : This study highlights the high prices organizations pay for the work-related stresses their women managers experience at the workplace, which impact negatively on their mental health, and by implication their productivity. Recommendations made can be used to enhance the managerial capacity and productivity of female managers at the workplace. (cid:2) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.


"On the Dragon or Lindworm" was first published by Swedish ethnologist Gunnar Olof Hylten-Cavallius in 1884, and in a second edition in 1885. This third edition includes the whole original text, with 48 accounts by people who claim having seen and in some cases even killed huge snakes called dragons or lindworms. Thomas Malm (herpetologist and human ecologist) has added an introduction, notes, illustrations and a postscript where Hylten-Cavallius' work and the eyewitness accounts are analysed.


e19533 Background: Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) is a rare type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. As described in European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Consensus, the subtypes of mycosis fungoides (MF) and Sézary Syndrome (SS) comprised roughly 55% and 5% of CTCL, respectively. The clinical presentations of MF and SS include skin lesion, tumors, ulcerations, systemic involvements and even death. This study aimed to measure the overall HRQoL and economic burden of MF and SS patients in China. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted from 21 July 2022 to 24 October 2022. Eligible adult participants with a pathologically confirmed diagnosis of either MF or SS were recruited from specialty or general hospitals across China. All participants were asked to complete a questionnaire that assessed HRQoL and annual economic burden. Validated instruments in Chinese, specifically the EuroQoL Group's five-level QoL five-dimensional questionnaire (EQ-5D-5L), Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G), and Skindex-29, were used to assess general, cancer and skin-related HRQoL. All HRQoL outcomes were calculated using the scoring system provided by the institutions, and EQ-5D utility scores were mapped using the China time trade-off value sets. As for economic burden, it was investigated from the societal perspective, as the direct medical costs, direct non-medical costs, and productivity loss were all calculated. Results: A total of 61 patients were recruited and completed the survey. Patients resided in 38 cities of 21 provinces across China. 56 patients (92%) were diagnosed with MF and 5 (8%) with SS. 56% were male, with a mean age of 39 years. Half of the patients had early-stage disease (defined as less than stage IIB, patch or plaque), with the remainder having late-stage disease. Among the recruited patients, 43 (70%) received skin-directed therapy, and 55 (90%) received systemic therapy. As for HRQoL measures, EQ-5D utility score was 0.79 (±0.18), FACT-G score was 61.3 (±12.4), and the Skindex-29 score was 43.4 (±24.2). Comparison between patients with early-stage disease and late-stage is presented in the table. As for economic burden, the annual per capita cost for MF and SS patients was CNY 86,729 (USD 12,428), which greatly exceeded the annual disposable income in 2022 (CNY 36,883, equals USD 5,440). Conclusions: This was the first study investigating economic burden and HRQoL using patient-reported outcomes conducted in mainland China. The findings suggested that MF and SS has significantly compromised patients' HRQoL and posed substantial economic burden. [Table: see text]


We propose to extend standard Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) usage by storing semantically annotated data within RFID tags memory, so that objects may actually 'describe themselves' in a variety of scenarios. In particular here we exploit our approach to carry out an advanced matchmaking process using metadata stored in RFIDs. A 'fully backward compatible' modification to the original RFID data exchange protocol is presented, allowing to implement an advanced resource discovery framework. A compression algorithm specifically devised to ease embedding of annotated DIG description is also proposed. Motivations and benefits of the approach are outlined in a tracking of agricultural and food products case study.


The meat industry is a branch of the food sector, w hich significantly affects the degradation of the environment. Consuming large amounts of water consequently produces significant quantities of water which are characterised by a high organic content and high concentration of suspended solids, inorganic salts and nutrients. The study attempted to determine the influence of the H RT and OLR on biogas production and the treatment of wastewater from the meat indus try, and it was found that the most preferred treatment process carried out was at HRT 3d (OLR-0.55 kgCOD/m 3 d). The anaerobic process under HRT 3 d obtained a considerable degree of the removal of organic pollutants from raw wastewater designated a s COD (79%), BOD (77%) and TOC (73%). The concentrations of COD and BOD were 350 mg/dm 3 and 363 mg/dm 3


PURPOSE: To obtain a monoalkyl aromatic compound in a high yield by alkylating an aromatic compound in the presence of a molecular sieve catalyst by subjecting the polyalkyl compound separated from the reaction product to alkyl transformation and recirculating the reaction mixture in a separation process. CONSTITUTION: An aromatic compound and a 2-4C alkylation agent are fed to a reaction zone containing a molecular sieve catalyst for the alkylation of an aromatic compound and are reacted at such a temperature and under a such pressure as to maintain the aromatic compound liquid. The alkylated product is sent to a first separation zone where a low boiling point fraction comprising aromatic compounds is separated from a high boiling point fraction comprising the alkylated product. The latter fraction is then sent to a second separation zone where a low boiling point fraction comprising monoalkyl compounds are separated from a high boiling point fraction comprising the polyalkyl compound. Finally, the polyalkyl compound and the aromatic compound from the first separation zone are fed to a transform reaction zone containing a molecular sieve transformation catalyst to cause disproportionations, and the reaction product is sent to the first separation zone. COPYRIGHT: (C)1992,JPO


This new edition of Murachs classic "CICS Programmers Desk Reference" is updated throughout to present both the latest versions of CICS and the latest CICS programming practices. An easy-to-use CICS command reference makes up the bulk of the book. But there is also new or expanded material on CICS program design, creating HTML documents from BMS mapsets for web-based CICS applications, defining CICS resources, and more!


Following our previous paper on core He and C burning, we present results of detailed nucleosynthesis calculations for (hydrostatic) core Ne to Si burning, with a complete reaction network.


This paper develops a simple model with heterogeneous firms and labor unions to analyze the bidirectional relationship between unionization and industry productivity. The model shows how general wage setting reforms, measured by the costs of organizing workers, may have a non-monotonic impact on aggregate industry productivity. The paper also indicates how reallocation caused by international trade impacts unionization rates, thus highlighting an effect of trade on industry productivity not studied in the existing literature.


Abstract Male infertility is caused by spermatogenetic failure, clinically noted as oligoor azoospermia. Approximately 20% of infertile patients carry a genetic defect. The most frequent genetic defect leading to azoospermia (or severe oligozoospermia) is Klinefelter syndrome (47, XXY), which is numerical chromosomal abnormality and Y- structural chromosome aberration. The human X chromosome is the most stable of all human chromosomes. The X chromosome is loaded with regions of acquired, rapidly evolving genes. The X chromosome may actually play an essential role in male infertility and sperm production. Here we will describe X chromosome aberrations, which are associated with male infertility.


Management in the Islamic perspective is a management practice that implements Islamic values in management functions within the company. The purpose of this study is to implement the application of management in the process of recruitment, selection, and employee training. This study also analyzes management practices based on Islam in the company. The method used is descriptive qualitative method. Azalea Botanicals has an understanding of Islamic management that is applied to function management systems such as human resource planning, recruitment, selection, and employee training. And the researchers found that by applying Islamic values in every activity the company provided good assistance for the religiosity and responsibilities of employees, as well as creating an environment that rahmatan lil'alamiin provided assistance for many people.


This paper deals with various kinds of Sugeno's fuzzy measures which, with the exception of probability measures, have been introduced recently in the literature : g\-fuzzy measures, Shafer's belief and plausibi 1i ty Functions, Zadehrs possibility measures, necessity measures among others. First are recalled the existing axiomatic theories dealing with Iarge classes of fuzzy measures: Shafer's belief theory and the triangular norm-based approach. From both approaches emerge three remarkable families of fuzzy measures : the probability, possibility and necessity measures. Shaferrs beLief and plausibility functions can be represented via a so-called basic probability assignment (which is nothing but a random set) ; triangular norm-b ased fuzzy measures can be expressed in terms of a density; the relations existing between these two representations, basic assignment and densiLy, are investi.gated for the various families of introduced fuzzy measures. The remainder of the paper is more particularly devoted to the study of the consistency relationship existing between possibilistic and probabilistic informa-tj-on A distinction is made between physical and epistemic possibility. It is shown how to derive an eoistemic oossibilitv distribuLion from statistj.ca-I evidence (i.e. a given histogram) in i rather natural way. The results are in agreement with the loose connections which exist, according to common sense, between the probable, the possible and the credible. Pruuouf frL/ r PUoofurrfL/ , eef. flzzv cof. trirnnrrlar rule .


An experiment was conducted on day-old broiler chicks (n=480) to determine the effects of phytase supplementation on the growth performance and economics of broiler production. Phytase was supplemented (750 phytase units/kg diet) by replacing dicalcium phosphate (0% and 100%) to the maize and/or wheat based diets containing two levels (0.30% and 0.50%) of non-phytate phosphorus (NPP). Reducing dietary NPP significantly (P<0.05) depressed feed intake and body weight gain. Phytase supplementation to low NPP diets improved (P<0.05) growth performance, replaced dicalcium phosphate completely and safely, lowered feed cost and economized broiler production in terms of feed cost per unit live weight gain. The supplemental phytase was more effective in maize based ration that wheat based.


The flexible principle of Chinese teaching to foreign students is based on the language teaching theories as well as the closely related psychological and educational theories. It is also connected with the current use of Chinese and the changes in the levels and purposes of the foreign students who come to study Chinese from different countries. This principle is reflected in the coding system of Chinese teaching to foreign students such as pronunciation correction and error correction. The proper application of the principle often has a direct influence on the results of the teaching.


We propose a method providing an optimal aperture for common-scattering-angle Kirchhoff migration. Migrated data are split into constant-dip-angle partial images. Then, in every partial image, we estimate slopes of reflectors and filter out horizons whose slant is far from the constant dip of the analyzed section. Integration of the filtered partial images corresponds to migration with an optimal aperture. The technique improves image quality and preserves reflection boundaries in the case of conflicting dips.


V TABLE OF CONTENTS VIII LIST OF APPENDICES XI LIST OF TABLES XIII LIST OF FIGURES XIIII ABREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS XIVV LIST OF PRESENTATIONS XVI PROLOGUE XVII CHAPTER 1


OBJECTIVE— Previous work from the HLA-B27 transgenic rat model of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) suggests that macrophages develop an intracellular stress response called the Unfolded Protein Response (UPR) and as a result secrete increased cytokines in response to Toll like receptor agonists such as lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Our objective was to determine if macrophages from AS patients also undergo an UPR and secrete increased cytokines/chemokines in response to LPS. METHODS— Peripheral blood monocytes isolated from 10 AS patients and healthy controls were differentiated in vitro with M-CSF. Select samples were treated with IFN- γ to up-regulate MHC class I (HLA-B) expression prior to stimulation with LPS for 3h (for RNA collection), or 8–24h (for supernatant collection). UPR induction was assessed by expression of ERdj4, BiP and CHOP mRNA. RESULTS— Although IFN- γ treatment up-regulated HLA-B expression 2-fold(p=0.0094), neither IFN- γ nor LPS enhanced BiP or CHOP expression substantially (<1.3 fold). ERdj4 expression increased weakly but insignificantly in IFN- γ +LPS AS samples (2.2 fold, p=0.31). In response to LPS, AS macrophages secreted more CXCL9, IL-10, IL-12p70, IL-23, and TNF- α than controls(p ≤ 0.025)The most striking difference was observed for IL-23 (median AS patient 265 pg/mL vs. control 9 pg/mL, p=0.0007). We did not detect significant differences in IL-6, IL-8, or IFN- β production. CONCLUSIONS— Greater IL-23 production by AS patient macrophages in response to LPS than controls. These results have implications for AS pathogenesis and further support the development and application of anti-IL23 therapeutics to AS.


We present in this work a proof of the exponential dichotomy for dynamically defined matrix-valued Jacobi operators in $(\mathbb{C}^{l})^{\mathbb{Z}}$, given for each $\omega \in \Omega$ by the law $[H_{\omega} \textbf{u}]_{n} := D(T^{n - 1}\omega) \textbf{u}_{n - 1} + D(T^{n}\omega) \textbf{u}_{n + 1} + V(T^{n}\omega) \textbf{u}_{n}$, where $\Omega$ is a compact metric space, $T: \Omega \rightarrow \Omega$ is a minimal homeomorphism and $D, V: \Omega \rightarrow M(l, \mathbb{R})$ are continuous maps with $D(\omega)$ invertible for each $\omega\in\Omega$. Namely, we show that for each $\omega\in\Omega$, \[\rho(H_{\omega})=\{z \in \mathbb{C}\mid (T, A_z)\;\mathrm{is\; uniformly\; hyperbolic}\}, \] where $\rho(H_{\omega})$ is the resolvent set of $H_\omega$ and $(T, A_z)$ is the $SL(2l,\mathbb{C})$-cocycle induced by the eigenvalue equation $[H_\omega u]_n=zu_n$ at $z\in\mathbb{C}$.


the main objective to estimate the correct water requirement for a crop. The main instruments, which give the name to the eddy covariance technique, are gas analyzer and tridimensional sonic anemometer. They measure turbulent fluxes into surface layer (Stull, 1988), thanks to the covariance between vertical wind velocity and concentration of a scalar passive (for example: air/water, temperature or carbon dioxide). Flux estimations are obtained through complex series of steps starting from raw data acquired with high frequencies of about 10-20 Hz. The quality of these measurements is mainly influenced by problems of sensor configuration, place of the tower and stability of the atmosphere (Foken and Wichura, 1996; Fuehrer and Friehe, 2002). Example of necessary details and considerations in Accuracy of turbulent flux measurements through the use of high frequency data by eddy covariance tower: the case study of Landriano (PV), Italy


Various methods of selection and regulation of temperature in cooling installations are discussed with reference to thermodynamic parameters. The required features in the temperature regulation of the described systems were achieved by using nonlinear feedback regulators of the type "UPOR".


The author's attention was directed recently to the hands of a woman aged about 50 years. Clinical and radiological examinations were made and an unusual combination of malformations thereby discovered. The patient is employed as a cook and carries out her duties without difficulty. She can hold a pencil between the index and middle fingers of her left hand and can sew as well as write. Her feet are normal. She knows of no relative with any similar condition.


Febrile morbidity appears to be an inevitable sequel to operative obstetric procedures in about 10-15% of patients. Apart from endometritis, serious infections such as pelvic abscess, septic shock and septic pelvic vein thrombophlebitis may occur. Patients at risk include those in prolonged labour with ruptured membranes. Obesity is also a risk factor as well as anaemia. Prophylactic use of antibiotics has proven benefits in reducing maternal morbidity following operative procedures. Key words: Antibiotics; Operative Procedures; Prophylaxis


Boer goat is world famous mutton type variety which has fertures of big sized body,well developed hind limb,fast growth,fine quality mutton,good field of carcass,no season reproductivity,wide adaptation,and significant crossing effet in weight gain with local goats.Through a comparision of pure licheng Daqing goat with lambs of three crossings of boer×Hongdong milking goat(bo-nai),boer×Auglar(bo-an) and boer×licheng Daqing(bo-qing),it shows that the lambs of boqing has outstanding performance as licheng Daqing,a fine local goat with good adaptation and mutton yielding;and that bo-nai has fine body size,milking performance and the lambs has remarkable improvement both in lambing percentage or growth rate.Though its mutton quality needs improvement.


Abstract A graph is said to be reconstructible if it is determined up to isomor- phism from the collection of all its one-vertex deleted unlabeled subgraphs. Reconstruction Conjecture (RC) asserts that all graphs on at least three vertices are reconstructible. In this paper, we prove that interval-regular graphs and some new classes of graphs are reconstructible and show that RC is true if and only if all non-geodetic and non-interval-regular blocks G with diam(G) = 2 or diam(Ḡ) = diam(G) = 3 are reconstructible


[Objective] To analyze the false-positive results of Treponema pallidum antibody detection caused by 3 different methods compared with Treponema pallidum colloidal gold method.[Methods] Research group included 112 000 clinical asymptomatic syphilis patients and control group had 210 outpatients with sex-transmitted diseases(STD).The serum samples from the patients who were colloidal gold positive were tested by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay(ELISA),syphilis toluidine red untreated serum test(TRUST) and treponema pallidum particle assay(TPPA).TPPA was performed as a confirmatory test.[Results] Among 181 colloidal gold-positive patients in test group,126 were confirmed by TPPA and the positive coincidence rate was 69.6%(126 / 181).Of the 126 TPPA-positive patients,124 were positive by ELISA;Of the 100 TRUSTpositive patients,91 were confirmed by TPPA;89 were positive by ELISA,colloidal gold assay and TRUST.In control group,80 were positive by colloidal gold assay;51 were positive by TPPA and ELISA and 40 were TRUST-positive.39 were positive by ELISA,colloidal gold assay and TRUST.[Conclusion] The results of ELISA and TPPA are consistent in diagnosis of syphilis patients who may suffer from previous or latent infection.Among 4 different methods,colloidal gold assay has a little high false-positive rate and there are some false-positive rate and false-negative rate by TRUST.So false-positive rate can be decreased combining colloidal gold assay with ELISA,TRUST and TPPA.


A new family of silicon (Si) wafer heterojunction solar cells fabricated by solid phase crystallization of PECVD amorphous silicon emitters by rapid thermal annealing (RTA) has been analyzed in order to understand the dominant recombination mechanisms. Solar cells fabricated with a broad RTA temperature range of 600–1000 °C were characterized through quantum efficiency, illuminated I–V, and capacitance–voltage measurements. Using the experimental data and theoretical considerations, the influence of carrier recombination in the quasi-neutral and space charge zones as well as at the heterojunction interface were studied. It is established that the carrier recombination in the quasi-neutral base region in the p-type Si substrate predominantly limits the device open circuit voltage. The analysis also showed that the interface recombination velocities at the heterojunction were less than 100 cm s−1. It is also qualitatively established that a post-fabrication forming gas anneal reduces the defect density at the hetero-interface.


In recent years, with the rapid development of large-scale open online courses, low completion rate and high dropout rate have been important challenges for open online courses. Therefore, it is necessary to make effective prediction and timely intervention to ensure the completion of the course. Some of the traditional prediction models only use the features extracted manually from students' clickstream data, which is too subjective to guarantee the quality of features and affect the prediction accuracy. Others generate features automatically with finer granularity, but the problem of feature redundancy appears. In order to solve this problem, this paper proposes a comprehensive dropout prediction framework of MOOCs students. The framework can automatically extract features from clickstream data, and filter features with an integrated feature selection strategy based on clustering and weighted MaxDiff, and finally predict. Experiments show that the model can effectively improve the accuracy of prediction of dropout.


Dissolution of silica, silicate, and calcite minerals in the presence of a chelating agent (NTA) at a high pH has been successfully performed in the laboratory using a high-temperature flow reactor. The mineral dissolution and porosity enhancement in the laboratory experiment has been reproduced by reactive transport simulation using TOUGHREACT. The chemical stimulation method has been applied by numerical modeling to a field geothermal injection well system, to investigate its effectiveness. Parameters from the quartz monzodiorite unit at the Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS) site at Desert Peak (Nevada) were used. Results indicate that the injection of a high pH chelating solution results in dissolution of both calcite and plagioclase minerals, and avoids precipitation of calcite at high temperature conditions. Consequently reservoir porosity and permeability can be enhanced especially near the injection well.


By laser mass spectroscopy,the MPI mechanisms of acetone and 2-butanone are studied at 532nm through analysis of their multiphoton ionization and time of fly mass spectrum(MPI-TOFMS).It shows that acetone molecules absorb several photons coherently and transmit into super-excited states;then they go on absorbing photons and give birth to all ions.2-butanone molecules dissociate firstly and ionize secondly.There are signals of ions(m/e=4 or 6 or 8),and they should be multiply charged ions.But there is no correlative report under the same condition,so more studies are needed on the reason for the appearance of this phenomenon and the affirmation of these ions(m/e=4,6,8).During the experiment,2-butanone's isomers ionize and dissociate,and produce stronger C2H3O+(m/e=43).No correlative ions are found in acetone's mass spectrum.


Objective To summarize and explore the perioperative care of tension-free hernia repair. Methods In the near 3 years,65 cases of tension-free hernia repair patients were randomly divided into two groups,32 patients of the control group were treated with conventional care measures,in the observation group, 33 cases for the patient's psychological characteristics,strengthen preoperative psychological care before and after surgery with the knowledge missionaries,give close observation of the condition incision diet and rehabilitation guidance.Results The wound healing time and the hospitalization time of the observation group patients were significantly lower than those of the control group patients,the incidence of complications in the observation group was significantly lower than that in the control group,patients satisfaction in the observation group was significantly higher than that of patients in the control group,with significant difference(P0.05).Before treatment,the anxiety and depression scale score of two groups were not statistically significant(P0.05 ), and the observation group score after treatment was significantly improved than the control group(P0.05 ). Conclusion good preoperative and postoperative care is the key to successful operation.


Both the proportion of bankruptcy filings by the elderly and the proportion of foreclosure starts that affect the elderly have increased dramatically over the past 20 years, suggesting an increase in financial distress of the elderly relative to younger age groups. This chapter uses new data to examine whether these trends can be explained by either the 2005 bankruptcy reform or the 2008 financial crisis. Our results show that while these events made both the elderly and younger age groups worse off, they do explain the increase in relative financial distress of the elderly.


OBJECTIVE:To study the comprehensive effect of simvastatin in the treatment of myocardial infarction.METHODS:50 MI patients in our hospital from Jan.2008 to May 2009 were selected as observation object,and they were randomly divided into control group and observation group(25 cases).Both groups were given routine treatment and observation group were additionally treated with simvastatin.Then the killp grade,one year survival rate,reoccurrence rate of cardiovascular disease and the serum levels of hs-CRP,IL-6,CK-MB,LDH,AST and cTnI of 2 groups before and after treatment were detected and compared.RESULTS:The killp grade of observation group was better than that of control group,one year survival rate of observation group was higher than that of control group and reoccurrence rate of observation group was lower than that of control group.The serum levels of hs-CRP,IL-6,CK-MB,LDH,AST and cTnI of observation group were all lower than those of control group,there were significant differences(P0.05 or P0.01).CONCLUSION:Simvastatin has significant comprehensive effect on MI,and it is worthy of further study.


Although outdoor adventure is no longer a fashionable method of intervention, Andrew Preston, Probation Officer in a rural field team in Staffordshire, argues that it is still relevant for today's Probation Service, and can be a valuable supplement to the offence focused orthodoxy.


Objective To explore the application of multiplex PCR and heteroduplex technique in the detection of B-cell receptor IgH/Igk rearrangement.Methods DNA from paraffin embedded tissues were extracted and amplified by multiplex primer PCR.To use double stranded heterologous for capillary electrophoresis,and analyzed by hereroduplex and Gene-Scan.Results Totally 29 cases of B-cell lymphoma were positive for PCR rearragement to use heteroduplex technique detecting.10 cases of reactive lymphoid hyperplasia were negative.These results were corresponding to the detection by Gene-Scan.Conclusions Multiplex-PCR and heteroduplex technique is a sensitive and convinient tool for PCR rearrangement analysis.It can be useful in diagnosis and differential diagnosis of B-cell lymphoma.


This report deals with an electrical system for variable-speed wind power
plants. It consists of a synchronous generator, a diode rectifier and a
thyristor inverter. The aim is to discuss the system design and control, to
model the losses and to compare the average efficiency of this variable-speed
system with the average efficiency of a constant-speed and a two-speed
system. Only the steady state operation of the system is discussed. Losses in
the system are modelled, and the loss model is verified for a 50 kVA
generator. The proposed simple loss model is found to be accurate enough to
be used for the torque control of a wind turbine generator system. The most
efficient generator rating is discussed, and it is shown how the voltage control
of the generator can be used to maximize the generator and converter
efficiency. The average efficiency of the system is calculated. It depends on
the median wind speed of the turbine site. It is found that a variable-speed
system, consisting of a generator and a converter, can have an average
efficiency almost as high as a constant-speed or a two-speed system. Three
different control strategies and their effect on the system efficiency are
investigated.


and France to a survey of the conceptual history of the aesthetic in the thought of Baumgarten, Kant, Ranciere and Bourdieu. Part IV offers a stimulating contextualisation of the term habitus in the development of the concept of habit as a crucial principle in Edward Burnett Tylor's doctrine of survivals, which enabled the British colonial government to explain the annihilation of the Aboriginal population. The book is wrapped up with a chapter that defends Bourdieu against Ranciere's critique of his sociology as an attempt to cognitively dominate the aesthetic (p. 131), as Bennett demonstrates that both Bourdieu's theory of cultural habitus and his suggestions for cultural policy are based on the Kantian, liberal notion of the aesthetic. Bennett writes like a scientist, his style being compact, context is kept to minimum: his ideal reader is definitely one with considerable prior knowledge of the subject area. While the reader might need to equip herself with some patience and concentration, the effort will be fully rewarded. This book is not an introductory text, but an attempt to push forward the frontier of cultural sociology and as such it should be of interest to scholars from different disciplines in the social sciences and humanities.


One evening in 1997, John Febbraro was lounging at home in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, when a narrator popped up on the television and began pleading for donations on behalf of the world's poor. As dolorous photos of impoverished faces flashed across the screen, the narrator talked about how—with just one dollar a day—viewers could change a person's life in the developing world. As Mr. Febbraro, a Canadian entrepreneur, listened to the sales pitch, he realized that these people didn't just need food—drinking water was a problem for them as well. That's when he came up with a bold and daring idea: to ship Great Lakes water to thirsty people halfway around the world. "They need water," he remembers thinking, "and literally we look in our backyard and we have tons of it!" In the days that followed, Mr. Febbraro huddled with a partner at his diminutive consulting firm, the Nova Group, and they began fleshing out a plan to use oceangoing bulk freighters to ship cool, clean Lake Superior drinking water to Asia. Mr. Febbraro, a former consultant to the Canadian space agency, spent the next several weeks contacting shipping companies, crunching numbers, and developing a business model. The more modeling he did, the more he became convinced of the project's viability. From a business school perspective, however, the model was somewhat unusual—a humanitarian effort on behalf of the world's poor that was also designed to make money. "It was a for-profit," he says unapologetically. "I mean, I'm an entrepreneur, right?"


Submitted for the MAR08 Meeting of The American Physical Society Metallic Transport and Anderson Localization on In Atomic Layers on Silicon SHIRO YAMAZAKI, The Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, YOSHIKAZU HOSOMURA, IWAO MATSUDA, REI HOBARA, SHUJI HASEGAWA — Metallic temperature dependence of electrical resistance have not been observed except extremely limited number of examples[1] below 100K in atomic-scale low-dimensional metal systems due to Anderson localization. Si(111)√ 7 × √3-In surface reconstruction consist of 1.2 ML In atoms. According to ARPES study, the surface is 2D metal with the large Fermi wave number (kF =14nm−1) and the large electron density (4.6×1014eV−1cm−2), leading to a low resistance [2]. By using variable-temperature micro-four-point probe method [3], low resistance and metallic transport was found down to 10 K. It is quantitatively explained by the ARPES result by using Boltzmann equation R2D = 4π 2λm∗ e2h̄k2 F kBT . By introducing defect, it shows semiconducting temperature dependence of variable range hopping due to Anderson localization. [1]K. Lee, et al. , Nature 441, 65 (2006). [2]E. Rotenberg, et al. , Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 246404 (2003). [3]T. Tanikawa, et al. , e-J. Surf. Sci. Nanotech. 1, 50 (2003)


"Hometown" ethnic-development associations are accused of deepening the factional politics of belonging in Africa, and of being too easily coopted by the political forces that civil-society organizations should in theory be challenging; however, their capacity to operate on and across multiple registers of citizenship formation means that they may be capable of achieving more progressive forms of politics. This possibility is explored through an association established to protect the rights and culture of a marginal pastoral group in Cameroon. Although the association's success remains uneven and contested, its origins in a struggle for rights, and the nonterritorial basis of its mobilization, give it an "alternative" character, which may offer clues to more progressive forms of politics in contemporary Africa.


In the process of the construction of small towns and cities at the near suburb of Tianjin,although rural collective construction land transfer is conducted under government guidance,the change of local economic development level and peasants' living methods is the basis and premise for governments to push forward land transfer.Governmental integration and re-plan for local land boost local industrial structure adjustment and industrial level improvement,accelerate the change of peasants' identity and provide corresponding employment opportunity and social security for the peasants who lost their land.Rural collective land transfer is the demand for regional industrial structure upgrading and peasants' employment transition,furthermore,the land transfer under governmental guidance can better promote local industrial structure evolution and upgrading as well as peasants' employment transition.


Has conducted a study to analyze the nutrient properties of oil palm plantation land by ureaCO(NH2)2 uses sensor Wenner modification of soil nutrients. Soil nutrient concentrations simulatedby varying the mass amounts of fertilizer, where the mass of fertilizer used is 5, 10, and 15 grams.Then measuring to see a shift in the frequency and amplitude. The results showed that the frequencyshift


Considering a general vector optimization problem, we attach to it by means of perturbation theory new vector duals. When the primal problem and the perturbation function are particularized dierent vector dual problems are obtained. In the special case of a constrained vector optimization problem the classical Wolfe and Mond-Weir duals to the latter, respectively, can be ob- tained from the general ones by using the Lagrange perturbation.


Assessing regeneration state is essential for forests sustainable management. However, field surveys to collect data on regeneration are time consuming and difficult to implement. Remote sensing could therefore be an effective way to characterize regeneration. Only few studies focused on forest regeneration characterisation using ALS data: understory coverage estimation (Latifi et al. 2017, Venier et al. 2019), post-fire vegetation characterization (MartinAlcon et al. 2015), regeneration stems density and height estimation (Debouk et al. 2013, Imangholiloo et al. 2020). Regeneration dynamic depends on the characteristics of canopy gaps. They increase availability of understory light, which is beneficial for regeneration development, especially for less shade-tolerant species (Ligot et al. 2014). Moreover, the regeneration that develops within canopy gaps is not overtopped by dominant trees and is therefore favourable to the production of high value wood. Some studies focus on the identification of understory types in canopy gaps (Vehmas et al. 2011). Another method was developed to distinct non-regenerating gaps from regenerated ones (Sénécal et al. 2018). The height growth of regeneration saplings within canopy gaps was also estimated using ALS time series (Vepakomma et al. 2008). Using ALS data, the study's objectives were (i) to detect and map canopy gaps, (ii) to characterize and delineate four regeneration development stages within these canopy gaps and (iii) to differentiate ligneous stems from herbaceous and soil for the first development stage (height < 1.5 m).


Following the theoretical approach of Bansigir and Iyengar, an expression for the stress-optical coefficient q44 is developed. Using experimental values of q44, ionic polarizibilities of some ions are calculated. Also, the wavelengths at which q44 = 0 are evaluated for a few crystals. Both ionic polarizibilities and reversal wavelengths are found to be in good agreement with reported values.


In morphology (the first and most developed direction of typological research in language); we consider, first of all, the ways of expressing grammatical meanings of a language, and then, the nature of the connection in a word of its significant parts (morphemes). Depending on the aspects of expressing grammatical meanings, languages such as synthetic and analytical are distinguished.


EDITORIAL COMMENT: We accepted this paper for publication because it provides further evidence that the combination of an antiprogestogen and prostaglandin provides a medical termination of pregnancy with the median blood loss being approximately 90 mL and the median number days of bleeding 4. The amount of bleeding is comparable to a heavy period of normal duration albeit there being the risk that bleeding can be excessive. The antiprogestogen mifepristone is not available in Australia


High-resolution x-ray diffraction data show that the low-temperature superstructure of ${\ensuremath{\alpha}}^{\ensuremath{'}}\ensuremath{-}{\mathrm{NaV}}_{2}{\mathrm{O}}_{5}$ has an F-centered orthorhombic $2a\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}2b\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}4c$ superlattice. A structure model is proposed, that is characterized by layers with zigzag charge order on all ladders and stacking disorder, such that the averaged structure has space group $\mathrm{Fmm}2.$ This model is in accordance with both x-ray scattering and NMR data. Variations in the stacking order and disorder offer an explanation for the recently observed devil's staircase of the superlattice period along c.


In ad-hoc networks, an optimized way of flooding packets is to find the minimum connected dominating set (MCDS). Nodes belonging to the MCDS set are responsible for relaying messages, while other nodes are not. The problem of finding a small size MCDS is known to be NP-hard. Most of previous methods, such as CDS-based and weakly-CDS, have followed combinatorial approach or graph coloration technique to find an approximate solution. However, these methods are centralized. In order to give a distributed solution with less computing complexity, this paper proposes a new approach of employing integer linear program. This approach offers a two-step scheme to solve the small size MCDS problem. In the first step, the size of the dominating set is minimized with the constraint that each node in the network needs to be either in this set or adjacent to at least one dominating set node. The aim of this step is to find the minimum dominating set (MDS), where the elements are not connected yet. The second step finds the spanning tree for the MDS set to get all of its elements connected. To evaluate the performance of our approach, we compute the size of MCDS in a variety of graphs, Simulation results show that our approach has a very good performance in parameters such as size of MCDS and computing complexity compared with CDS-B and WCDS approaches


During a recent flight campaign, measurements of far infrared radiation were taken with a Fourier transform spectrometer. The results taken in clear conditions will further understanding of the atmosphere and ability to predict climate.


Facultative diapause of Eotetranychus smithi appears to occur at the egg stage and is induced by temperatures ≤17.5 °C, independent of photoperiod. However, the effect of thermoperiod on the induction of diapause remains unclear. To answer this question, we exposed female E. smithi to various thermoperiods under constant light conditions. First, we found that the deposition order of eggs affected the incidence of diapause: the first eggs (exclusively males) tended to avert diapause compared with the second and third eggs (most of them are females), possibly because of the sex of the eggs. Next, the incidence of diapause of the second eggs decreased with shortening of the cryophase, which was associated with an increase of the average temperature, and it showed clear long‐day‐type thermoperiodic response curves. However, this species does not sense the ratio of day (thermophase) to night (cryophase) of a given thermoperiod. Short thermoperiods did not increase the incidence of diapause, but rather precluded the entry into diapause. We detected no sign of the involvement of the circadian system in diapause induction in the thermoperiodic Nanda–Hamner protocol. We conclude that diapause induction of E. smithi does not involve the circadian system, and thus does not show thermoperiodism. Diapause induction under the various thermoperiodic conditions tested in the present study appears to be derived from the temperature itself. E. smithi is an exceptional species that relies on temperature alone to induce diapause.


Extended Abstract Adsorbents are the main design factor in the desiccant rotor of a solid dehumidification system because they are directly related to the dehumidification and energy performance [1,2]. Silica gel and zeolite have been widely used in conventional desiccant rotors owing to their wide range of temperature and humidity conditions. However, they have a limitation to dramatically enhance the dehumidification and energy performance of a desiccant rotor owing to its high regeneration temperature and low water adsorption capacity [3]. In this regard, MIL-100 (Fe) has attracted attention to overcome this challenge because it has a low regeneration temperature and high-water adsorption capacity [4,5]. However, studies on the desiccant rotor coated with MIL-100 (Fe) have been very limited. Therefore, the moisture removal capacity (MRC) and dehumidification coefficient of performance (DCOP) of a desiccant rotor coated with MIL-100 (Fe) must be investigated to figure out the dehumidification and energy performance. In this study, the MRC and DCOP of the desiccant rotor coated with MIL-100 (Fe) were investigated through experiments under various process air conditions. The experimental setup was constructed in the environmental chamber based on the NREL desiccant wheel test guide [6] and ASHRAE standard 174 [7]. The desiccant


Avra Valley is a deep, elongate alluvial basin in southern Arizona, which contains an extensive unconfined aquifer. This aquifer was modeled by using a statistical inverse model. The input data required by the inverse model are (1) spatially averaged logtransmissivity estimates in zones of the aquifer, (2) steady-state hydraulic head estimates at points in the aquifer, and (3) the covariance matrices of log-transmissivity and hydraulic-head estimation errors. The geostatistical interpolation technique of kriging was used to assign the spatially averaged log-transmissivities and to compute the covariance matrix of the log-transmissivity estimation errors. Estimates of the steady-state hydraulic heads were made by interpolating between known data points. Two independent determinations of the covariance matrix of the hydraulic-head estimation errors were made. The output from the inverse model is a modified set of spatially averaged logtransmissivities and the covariance matrix of their associated estimation errors. The magnitude of the estimation errors of this modified set of log-transmissivities is less than the magnitude of the estimation errors of the kriged log-transmissivities. A conditional simulation analysis was also performed to assess the magnitude of errors in the hydraulic heads predicted by the kriged log-transmissivity field and the logtransmissivity field computed by the inverse model.


Background: Benign familial neonatal convulsion (BFNC) is an autosomal‐dominantly inherited epilepsy of neonates. The KCNQ2 and KCNQ3 genes have been cloned as the responsible genes for BFNC. Detection of mutations in these genes is helpful for confirmation of BFNC or differential diagnosis of convulsive disorders in the neonatal period.


1. Footwear article comprising a platform for placing the feet, having a front portion and a heel cushions, located in the same plane, wherein the front portion has a centerline that separates the front portion in the longitudinal direction at a substantially equal parts, heel cushions and has an axis extending through the geometric center and separating the heel cushions in a longitudinal direction at a substantially equal portions and said middle line and the axis are such that the angle between them is substantially higher than the natural curve of the foot, and holding tight attached to the front portion and is designed to hold your feet to enable the free movement of foot heel. ! 2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the angle between the axis and the centerline is greater than the natural curve of the foot by more than 20 °. ! 3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the angle between the axis and the centerline is greater than the natural curve of the foot by more than 30 °. ! 4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the geometric center of the geometric center of the heel cushions comprises a predetermined portion of contact with the heel. ! 5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the close-fitting comprises a pair of retaining straps attached to the front portion, the middle line divides the area between the straps substantially equal parts. ! 6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the straps exert uneven pressure on opposing sides of the foot. ! 7. Footwear article comprising! a platform for placing a foot, having a front portion and a heel cushions, located in the same plane, wherein the front portion has a centerline that separates the front portion in the longitudinal direction at a substantially equal parts, and podpyato


Health-oriented tourism has been assessed as a segment of increasing importance within the scope of the global tourism industry for the last decades. Fast developing processes of segmentation and fragmentation resulted in the establishment of separate categories and subcategories of health tourism such as spa, wellness and spa-oriented tourism. Their wide popularization across the world, and customer satisfaction are a precondition for their differentiation into independent industries going beyond the scope of tourism. This paper analyzes the most important problems related to the strategies of spa, wellness and balneo-oriented industries and their specific features in tourism.


Lipids are one of the major substance classes in bi oscience. The temperature and pressure dependent structure and phase behaviour of oneand two-component lipid systems, differing in chain configuration and headgroup structure, hav e been studied in recent years by using calorimetric, spectroscopic and diffraction techniq ues [1-3], but only little is known about their kinetic and non-equilibrium behaviour. Two-co mponent lipid systems containing a longchain phospholipid and a short-chain phospholipid o r detergent have a remarkable phase behaviour. These mixtures are able to form magnetic ally alignable disk-like micelles (bicelles), which have also emerged as important su bstrates for high-resolution NMR studies of biomolecules. Depending on the mixing ratio of t he constituents, the total lipid concentration, water content as well as temperature , also additional liquid-crystalline phases, such as a nematic and lamellar phase, have been obs erved in these systems. [4]. Here we present data of the two-component lipid system cont aining the long-chain phospholipid DMPC (14:0 PC) and the short-chain DHPC (6:0 PC) in a molar ratio of 3.2:1. At low temperatures, the system forms bicelles. Upon incre asing the temperature, a transition to a nematic phase is observed which gives way to format ion of multilamellar vesicles with porelike defects in the bilayers above about 50 C. The temperature-pressure dependent phase behaviour of the binary lipid system DMPC/DHPC has been explored up to pressures of 3.5 kbar by time-resolved small angle X-ray scattering measurements (TRSAXS) and up to 15 kbar by FTIR spectroscopy. Finally the transition k i etics between the various phases has been determined by using a combination of the press u -jump relaxation technique and TRSAXS.


A field experiment was conducted during winter season 2010-2011 at farm of Agronomy Department, Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, to study the effect of herbicides and cultural weed management on weed control in Gram (Cicer arietinum). Pendimethaline 1 kg ha+1H at 40 DAS recorded least weed count ,weed dry weight and highest yield in chemical treatment. But cultural weed control treatment 2H at 15 and 40 DAS + HW at 30DAS recorded highest grain yield and B:C ratio.


The objective of the research was to verify two field tests to determine Subclinical Mastitis in bovines in the town of Florida-Pomacochas, 2019. For the development of the research, the biological method (California Mastitis Test) and the chemical method (Whiteside Test) were used, which allowed us to verify which of the tests are more efficient to detect mastitis bonina. 47% effectiveness was found in the Whitside test and 53% in the California Mastitis Test, which hinders the reliability of cattle breeders with both tests; But if you have to use one of the two, the most recommended is the California Mastitis Test. It is concluded that the prevalence of subclinical mastitis is represented by 27% of the total number of cattle evaluated.


Objective To explore the effects of ISL-β-CD on cytokine levels and synovial tissue pathological changes in rheumatoid arthritis(RA) rat model and to provide a new therapy for RA and a new proof for further research.Methods Sixty 4-week-old male SD rats were divided into six groups,as blank control group,model group,glucoside tripterygium group(100mg·kg-1)and three ISL-β-CD groups with different doses(100mg·kg-1,400mg·kg-1,800mg·kg-1).In addition to the blank control group,all rats were administered by oral once a day for four weeks.After four weeks,all the rats were anesthetized,and blood samples and the synovial tissue of the joint were collected.The levels of IL-1β,TNF-α,IL-6,IL-4 and IL-10 in serum by ELISA were measured and the pathological change of synovial was observed.Results Compared with the model group,ISL-β-CD could reduce joint swelling of rats(P0.05) in each dose group.In ISL-β-CD groups,the level of IL-4,IL-10 in serum increased and the level of IL-1β,TNF-α and IL-6 in serum decreased(P0.05).In ISL-β-CD and glucoside tripterygium groups,all could inhibit the apoptosis of synovial cells.Conclusion ISL-β-CD play a role in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis by up-regulating IL-4,IL-10 suppression of inflammatory cytokines and down-regulation of IL-1β,TNF-α,IL-6 proinflammatory cytokines.


This paper investigates how macroeconomic uncertainty affects the fiscal multiplier of public investment. In theory, uncertainty can reduce the multiplier if the private sector becomes more cautious and does not respond to the fiscal stimulus. Conversely, it can increase the fiscal multiplier if public investment shocks improve private agents' expectations about future economic outlook, and lead to larger private spending. Using the disagreement about GDP forecasts as a proxy for uncertainty, we find that unexpected increases in public investment have larger and longer-lasting effects on output, investment, and employment during periods of high uncertainty, with multipliers above 2, and the larger multipliers are not driven by economic slack. Public investment shocks are also found to boost private sector confidence during heightened uncertainty, driving-up expectations about future economic development which in turn magnify private sector response to the initial stimulus. JEL Classification Numbers: E22; E62; E32; C33; D80.


This is the introductory chapter to the third edition of the book ' The Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive', 3rd. ed. 2020, provided with kind permission by the publisher WoltersKluwer.

The chapter provides an overview of the legislative history leading to the AIFMD, introduces to the regulatory approach of the AIFMD, discusses latest developments with regard to the AIFMD (including the Cross-Border Fund Distribution Directive and Regulation, Brexit as well as AIFMD II) and ends with a detailed overview of the full book.

It argues that the AIFMD's specific regulatory approach to collective investment schemes paired with the European passport explains why almost a decade after its adoption the AIFMD has become the role model for fund legislation worldwide.


ABSTRACT The Quality Assurance Program (QAP) administered by the Canadian Pari-Mutuel Agency (CPMA) has evolved over the past 17 years, in concert with the CPMA's equine drug research program. This program consists of site inspections, reports, and a check sample program. Participating laboratories also maintain internal quality control systems and are accredited for this scope of testing. The check sample program monitors routine screening and target testing of urine and blood for drugs using thin-layer chromatography or instrumental methods. The process is based on samples obtained after administration of drugs to horses, founded on results of CPMA's research. Common drugs in equine veterinary practice, and of interest in horse racing, are monitored. These include centrally active and cardiovascular drugs, diuretics and local anesthetics, respiratory and anti-inflammatory drugs, muscle relaxants and analgesics. The QAP provides a useful measure of laboratory performance for the Canadian racing industry. More recently, as part of the CPMA's partnership with Standards Council of Canada to accredit racing laboratories to ISO/IEC Guide 25, a proficiency test specific to this scope was implemented. Each cycle consists of 10 qualitative analysis samples of lyophilized, spiked equine urine, and 2 quantitative analysis samples of frozen, spiked equine serum or urine. For quantitative analysis, laboratory results must agree within ±20% of target or consensus mean value for drugs reported in the pg/mL range, or within ±40% for drugs reported in the ng/mL range. A reference laboratory prepares samples and conducts reference analysis. To date, 5 cycles of proficiency testing have been successfully completed by the participating labs. Program design and implementation activities, and results from both quality assurance and proficiency testing programs are presented and interpreted.


Emphasis on humanities concern and psychological counseling has become an urgent requirement of the social development for the ideological and political work,and also a natural choice to innovate the work onboard ships in the new era,in which shipboard ideological and political work must adhere to the people-oriented principle,pay more attention to humanities concern and psychological counseling,make the solution to psychological problems and ideological problems an organic unity,so as to enhance the effectiveness of shipboard ideological and political work.


In this paper the author evaluates the situation of women in contemporary Polish society. Using statistical data and information from different disciplines, evidence is given that the situation of women today, in Poland, is worse than before 1989. Although, in general, women are better educated than men, adapt better to modern life, and have access to a growing variety of professional careers, the traditional image of women and of family life persists. Women still endure the double burden of professional work and care for the household. They earn less and are more easily affected by unemployment and weak social assistance. They are also more affected by the dysfunctional aspects and low quality of public medical health care and face more risks due to weak access to medical services and high additional costs. This picture contrasts strongly with the situation of women in Western European countries, enjoying more personal autonomy, democratic freedom, social and economic security, financial independence, and access to the consumer market.


Large amount of contents in the Internet have increased loads of contents servers, networks and data centers, which may degrade quality of service. To solve this problem, there is a method that some mirror servers providing the same contents are located on a network and a request is navigated to one of the mirror servers. As the location of the mirror servers affects the quality of service, it is important to locate the mirror servers in the network so that a network should connect a user and one of mirror servers with small hop length after links fail. In this paper, we address the server location problem that determines the location of the servers satisfying the following constraint: any users can access servers within a small hop count even if some links fail. In the previous research, we proved that this problem is NP-hard and proposed some heuristic algorithms. In this paper, we present a polynomial-time algorithm when the number of simultaneously failed links is restricted to one and the increase of hop length is restricted, in other words, we can get the optimum solution of the optimization version to minimize the number of servers in polynomial time. Furthermore, we evaluate the performance of actual ISP network topologies by the algorithm from the viewpoint of the number of servers.


The photoelectrocatalytic performance of (Sb,N)-MnO2 are explored by experiment and first principle calculation based on density functional theory. The photoelectrochemical performance test shows that 6% (Sb,N)-MnO2 with maximum electrochemical active area...


BACKGROUND
Core temperature decreases rapidly after the induction of general anesthesia, because the heat is redistributed to peripheral tissues. Thermoregulatory responses of volatile anesthetics have been tested, but their effects have not been directly compared. Therefore, we evaluated the thermoregulatory responses to sevoflurane, desflurane, and isoflurane.

METHODS
Sixty healthy patients scheduled for laparoscopic myomectomy or radical hysterectomy were allocated into three groups; Group S (sevoflurane, n = 20), Group D (desflurane, n = 20), and Group I (isoflurane, n = 20). Anesthesia was maintained with 1 minimum alveolar concentration (MAC) of sevoflurane, desflurane, and isoflurane in a 50/50 mixture of N2O/O2. Patients were maintained in a normovolemic and normocapnic state. The core temperature and forearm minus fingertip skin-temperature gradient (an index of peripheral vasoconstriction) were monitored after the induction of general anesthesia.

RESULTS
Each of the seven patients given sevoflurane, desflurane, and isoflurane vasoconstricted at a core temperature of 35.3 +/- 0.5degrees C, 33.6 +/- 0.4degrees C, and 35.2 +/- 0.4degrees C, respectively. The vasoconstriction threshold was the lowest in patients anesthetized with desflurane. The core temperature gradient (Ti-Tf) was significantly higher in patients that were anesthetized with desflurane than in those that were anesthetized with sevoflurane or isoflurane. The core temperature of desflurane was significantly lower than that of sevoflurane or isoflurane 15 minutes after the induction of anesthesia until 180 minutes of anesthesia.

CONCLUSIONS
These results indicate that the core temperature is maintained at a higher level in patients that have been anesthetized with sevoflurane or isoflurane than in those that have been anesthetized with desflurane.


Researchers in Chang Gung University, Kaohsiung, and National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, assessed the prevalence and spectrum of paraneoplastic neurological disorders (PND) in children with benign ovarian tumor and the long-term outcome.


A reactive framework for event programming, introducing the formal dog-ears farmework and RAVATTT based representation of IaC as a Taskoid is presented for the use of a BrickPi or Lego EV3 for an application of two motor propulsion control with sensor integrations, an application being Segway SMP 2.0 controls with the BrickPi. Keywords: Lego EV3, BrickPi, Segway, Taskoid, RAVATTT, Dog-Ears, IaC What: The dog-ear framework,(Bheemaiah, n.d.) allows for the use of Alexa integration and AWS Lambdas, AWS State machines and an RPA framework , using RAVATTT. An alternative taskoid, for a cloud-watch template, using Alexa Gadget API and CLI encapsulation to generate a template is presented as a taskoid. How: A Lego EV3 has the following Sensor Framework, Touch Sensor, IR Sensor, Ultrasound Sensor and a Color Sensor, which can be integrated using the ev3dev software. We define sensor streams = [Touch, IR, Color, Gyro, Ultrasound] and actions = [waypoint, steps] We define event streams from sensor streams, and actions on events. We also define iterators on streams , both sensor and event streams. We define filters on streams, both event and sensor streams. For a C-UI we define a taskoid for the creation of state machines for Alexa Controls using the Alexa Gadget API and CLI tools. Why: RAVATTT is a framework for multi sensor fusion and event programming for automation using RPA and state machines. It is illustrated with the EV3 Brick from Lego. The taskoid framework for the use of Alexa Gadget API and AWS CLI is also described with examples.


Elderly tourism constitutes an important sector within the sustainable development of the tourism industry, attracting an increasing body of research focused on market development. This study aims to outline the progression of elderly tourism research within the past five years (2019–2023) and determine prospective research trajectories and opportunities in the subject. Employing CiteSpace visual analysis technology, this investigation constructs knowledge graphs of authors, institutions, and countries from 332 English-language academic articles from the Web of Science and culminates a keyword co-occurrence knowledge graph. Next, cluster and burst analyses revealed the prevailing trends and focal points in elderly tourism research. The results underscore that while many researchers have been drawn to elderly tourism, the collaborative relationships between these scholars remain tenuous, resulting in the relatively disparate study and the absence of a lead author group. China dominates the field, producing a far greater quantity of studies than other nations. Hence, this study encourages different countries, higher education institutions and disciplines to strengthen cooperation in the management and development of elderly tourism, especially paying attention to the importance of elderly tourism services, quality management and technology integration for the sustainable development of elderly tourism.


In children with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection biochemical evidence of liver involvement is frequent. However cholestasis and pancreatitis are rare. We report a child where this association, usually suggestive of biliary tract obstruction, was instead secondary to EBV infection without the typical clinical and hematological features of infectious mononucleosis (IM).


Foremost, I would like to mention that I strongly believe that scientific reviews of a given paper should be independent. Therefore, I did not take into account in any sense the already published review (30 Nov). However, I will take it into account once I submitted my own review. (This should not constitute a problem for the publishers since it is possible to submit several comments to a paper). Anyway, I apologise for any potential duplication in what follows compared to the existing review.