Regulatory bodies such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) use the dose-response relationship as part of the risk assessment process to a particular environmental exposure. The dose-response relationship is important in determining how a government implements environmental risk assessment methods for protecting human and animal beings form food, water, air, and soil threats. The default dose-response for carinogens is the linear no threshold (LNT) dose-response model. However, a growing number of research studies illustrate the complexity of biological processes and mechanisms involved in mutagenesis, which are not easily explained by the LNT model. Since the LNT model sees any dose to be potentially carcinogenic, there is a growing interst in nonlinear dose-response relationships to explain certain phenomenon, such as the beneficial effects induced by low doses of particular chemicals that are harmful at higher doses. Hormesis, in particular, is a nonlinear dose-relationship model that is increasingly considered as a possible replacement to the LNT model. This report addresses whether or not the hormesis model is a viable replacement to the LNT model.


This research project, provides an analysis of the whole well life cycle integrity in eighty-four (84) active, inactive, and suspended wells, through the evaluation of the well history, corrosion aggressiveness produced by well fluids, wellhead monitoring, susceptibility parameters such as cement quality, casing quality, formation stability, surface valves status, EOR effects, and the impact caused by the conditions of these components. Completed the analysis stage, susceptibility categories were defined, in accordance with the integrity problems identified, for the final update of the risk levels for the wells being studied, through a tool known as the Well failure susceptibility evaluation matrix. It was obtained that 35% of the wells acquired a lower level of risk prioritization, where it was further observed that the most critical susceptibility parameters correspond to the type of lifting system, number of interventions, cement quality and formation stability, as well as impacts on people and reputation. In addition, it was obtained that 88% of the wells are in the "Medium" prioritization level, and 12% in the level of risk prioritization "High". Hence, a widespread plan was formulated applicable to all wells, as well as specific recommendations for particular cases in the most critical condition.


The unit hydrograph is a widely used method for hydrologic design. However, there is a general lack of understanding about the accuracy of the unit hydrographs used in urban areas. Analysis of storm data from seven urban watersheds in Los Angeles provide the basis for evaluating the variation of dimensionless S-hydrographs with both storm event and location. The results of the analysis provide a generalized dimensionless S-graph that should be applicable on urban watersheds.


During radiotherapy of lung tumors, the respiratory motion must be tracked to reduce radiation of healthy tissue. This is usually done by using a respiratory surrogate, but with limited accuracy. We investigate how patient-specific finite element models (FEM) of respiratory mechanics can predict the motion of the lungs. First, the anatomical models of the lungs and thorax are extracted from CT images automatically. Then, a biomechanical model is used to simulate the respiratory motion based on a novel thorax/lung interaction force that simulates the pleural cavity. Our model is not driven by image forces but by thoracic pressures personalized using a multivariate optimizer. The proposed model is validated on three DIR-Lab datasets, yielding a promising internal landmark error of 3.33 ± 0.60 mm. Our model may represent a tool for lung deformation prediction and therapy guidance.


in winning so many prestigious literary prizes on the international scene, ahmadou Kourouma achieved in his lifetime what most african writers can only dream of: notoriety, superstardom, impressive book sales, a mythi cal stature. This study examines the underpinnings of Kourouma's status by analyzing the scholarly and journalistic reception of his works as inven toried through the Klapp bibliography. it offers an important background for better understanding the rhetoric that sustains the myth while raising very interesting guiding questions. For if Kourouma is elevated to the rank of Great innovator of literature, is he read as such, and does this "revolu tion" in african letters that he embodies also extend to critical discourse? When the novelist writes "differently," is the reader (general or scholarly) inclined and obliged to read differently? What has been the consequence on Kourouma's writings of the spectacular reversal from a eurocentric view of african literature to an afrocentric perspective? have Kourouma's works not suffered paradoxically from the laudatory scholarly reception because of its overemphasis on realism and truthfulness? is the truth discourse, which feeds such reception, not contributing to minimizing the literariness of Kourouma's writings?


Background Dexmedetomidine(DEX)is a novel highly selective α2-adrenoceptor agonist with sedative,analgesic,and anxiolytic effects.Although it has not been approved by the US FDA for pediatric patients under 18 years old,there are a lot of literatures focusing on its using in pediatric patients with congenital heart disease.Objective This paper discusses the application of DEX in children with congenital heart disease in detail.Content The clinical applications of DEX in cardiac surgery include sedative in pediatric intensive care unit,sedation during non-invasive and invasive procedures,as part of multimodal anesthetic regimen,treatment of supraventricular tachyarrhymias and prevention of drug withdrawal.Trend DEX is a safe chug while using in critically ill patients,with advantage of wide dose range and minimal respiratory depression.

Key words:
Dexmedetomidine;  Congenital heart disease;  Pediatric patients


An important challenge in low temperature fuel cell development is to find high performance non-precious catalysts replacing expensive platinum cathode catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). The recently developed transition metal/nitrogen doped carbon-based materials (TM-N-C) exhibited catalytic activity close to that of platinum, but there are still many questions under debate. In this thesis, electrochemical and computational methods were employed to reveal the ORR mechanism on TM-N-C catalysts.
 In the experimental aspect, a cost-effective two-step process, electrospinning and pyrolysis, was developed to produce the TM-N-C catalysts. The electrochemical techniques were applied to the catalytic property characterization of the synthesized catalysts, showing that the Fe-N-C catalyst possesses higher activity than the Co-N-C catalyst and could promote 4e- pathway, while O2 electroreduction was found to proceed mainly with 2e- pathway yielding hydrogen peroxide on the Co-N-C catalyst.
 In the computational aspect, the first-principles density functional theory (DFT) was employed to calculate the adsorption energies and activation energies, elucidating the ORR mechanism on TM-N4 type active sites. Based upon the calculation results, the linear correlation between the O2 adsorption energy and the non-bonding d orbitals center in the transition metal macrocyclic complexes was established. The free energy diagram extracted from the calculation results uncovered that the ORR could happen through 4e- associative pathway on the FeN4 site, whereas might end with a 2e- pathway on the CoN4 site due to high energy barrier for O-O bond splitting, supporting the experimental observations. The superior activity of TM-N-C catalysts in alkaline than in acid was well-explained by the activity loss of the coexisted metal-free active sites induced by pyridinic nitrogen protonation in acid. Moreover, the microkinetic analysis was demonstrated to interpret DFT calculated energy parameters as polarization curves. With this tool, the study of the local carbon structures in the Fe-N-C catalysts directly revealed that the introduction of micropores could enhance their catalytic activity through facilitating the formation of FeN4-C8 active sites with high specific activity.


Let (X,Y, Z) be a triple of payoff processes defining a Dynkin game R̃(σ, τ) = E [ Xσ1{τ>σ} + Yτ1{τ<σ} + Zτ1{τ=σ} ] , where σ and τ are stopping times valued in [0, T ]. In the case Z = Y , it is well known that the condition X ≤ Y is needed in order to establish the existence of value for the game, i.e., infτ supσ R̃(σ, τ) = supσ infτ R̃(σ, τ). In order to remove the condition X ≤ Y , we introduce an extension of the Dynkin game by allowing for an extended set of strategies, namely, the set of mixed strategies. The main result of the paper is that the extended Dynkin game has a value when Z ≤ Y , and the processes X and Y are restricted to be semimartingales continuous at the terminal time T .


This paper took Wuhan as a case to analyze the positive and negative effects of land finance mode to urbanization and related urban problems based on Granger causality tests.Finally,combinating of spirit of the Eighteenth Congress,the thoughts of new-type urbanization and ecological civilization construction,this paper tried to make some suggestions to the reform of land finance mode of Wuhan.


Objective This study aimed to examine the relation between ABI and the extent of the patient with angina pectoris.Methods We studied 106 patients who were hospitalized patients with angina cordis elected.All be measured ABI with desk model sphygmomanometer before coronary angiography,and collect the history,blood biochemistry result,coronary angiography result,and analyze the dependablity between ABI and the extent of coronary stenosis.Results There were significant differences between ABI of 3-vessel disease(0.81±0.18) and 1-vessel disease(0.98±0.12,P0.05),normal group(1.07±0.16) P≤0.05;There were significant differences between ABI of 2-vessel disease(0.87±0.20)and normal group(1.07±0.16,P0.01);There were significantly negative dependability between the LNCCS and ABI.Conclusion Measurement of ABI with desk model sphygmomanometer is simple,inexpensive,and noninvasive,it very suitable for basic level hospital.


As proficient speakers of less-commonly-taught languages seek to meet the demand for qualified instructors, they face a range of personal and professional challenges. In an effort to understand the perspectives of these instructors and their particular educational experiences and needs, we conducted a phenomenological case study of two aspiring Arabic teachers. Specifically, we sought insights into their lived experiences, their motivations for pursuing a graduate degree, their attempts to connect coursework with pedagogical practices, and their needs in terms of professional development. Our findings illuminate the intersecting objectives these instructors must achieve. They need to position themselves as qualified candidates for the available positions as instructors, but they also need to reconcile a number of different roles as they develop their teacher identities and connect their backgrounds to ambitions for students' growth. As teacher educators, we find that we need to facilitate career placement as well as the negotiation of these roles.


The invention discloses a water meter pulse signal metering method and system based on interruption and AD sampling; the method comprises the following steps: a sensor detects the water meter so as to obtain an A line pulse signal and a B line pulse signal; a microcontroller obtains a corresponding A line level signal and B line level signal according to the A line pulse signal and B line pulse signal; the microcontroller outputs a high level signal according to a preset detection period; if the A line level signal is high level signal, the microcontroller triggers interruption; if the A line level signal is firstly high level signal, the B line level signal is determined whether to be a low level signal; if the B line level signal is low level signal, the water meter is determined to spin forward; if the B line level signal is high level signal, the water meter is determined to spin backward; water meter spin forward and backward metering data are stored. If the A line level signal has a rising edge, the microcontroller can trigger interruption for metering, thus reducing small flow pulse signal measuring errors, and improving metering accuracy.


The study distributed the total 210 questionnaires to women of childbearing age in Seoul, Gyeonggi and North Chungcheong from March 26, 2008 to April 16, 2008 and made them draw up them directly. The study applied 208 copies excepting two copies not suitable to data process to data analysis. The purpose of the study was to investigate/ analyze awareness of dental treatment, oral health conditions and oral health management during the period of pregnancy and to serve the analyzed data as basic data of oral health education program development to improve expectant mothers' behaviors of oral health management: 1. According to the survey by age with regard to a question 'Should expectant mothers take dental treatment during the period of pregnancy?', women of 18~29 years old (41.9%) and more than 50 years old (52.0%) answered 'They should not take dental treatment'. Women of 30~39 years old (53.6%) and 40~49 years old (54.7%) answered 'They should take dental treatment'. According to pregnant experience, expectant mothers (63.9%)


Rigid plate-like particles displaying interfacial slip can attain a constant orientation in a shear flow when the slip length is sufficiently large. But actual thin particles such as single-layer graphene are prone to bending deformations when exposed to shear stress. To study the effect of bending deformation on the particle's stable orientation, we develop a two-dimensional fluid-structure interaction model. We find that (i) a stable alignment occurs even for relatively flexible particles, and that (ii) edges effects on the shape of the plate are important for values of the length-to-thickness aspect ratio as large as 100.


The present work is devoted to the study of the processes of heat and mass transfer in the adsorbers of the preliminary drying unit of the atmosphere purification system. A mathematical model has been developed that adequately reflects the physical processes at all stages of the adsorption cycle.Algorithms for solving problems and programs for calculating heat and mass transfer processes in an adsorption regenerated installation are obtained, results of parametric calculations of heat and mass transfer processes at each stage of the adsorption cycle and for the entire cycle as a whole are obtained.


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from the viewpoint of the author's myth theory, and to trace formation of the composer's conception. Scientific originality of the study involves identifying musical themes-symbols that reveal the personage's inner world and indicate stages of the hu-man's transformation on the way to spiritual harmony. The findings lead to the conclusion that, reinterpreting mythologemes and symbols of different epochs and cultures, the composer creates his own myth where images of the bygone age form new ar-tistic space. Surpassing national and temporal borders, Szymanowski develops his own worldview. "Southern Impression" is a piano suite of the famous Chinese composer Zhu Jian'er, a composition that influenced considerably the Chinese piano music. The suite is based on the Chinese folk songs of Yunnan province. The composer uses pentatonic scale, western techniques of sound extractio n and chord formation, which allows creating a harmonious folk-style composition. The article briefly describes history of the piano suite, examines folk songs on which it is based, considers peculiarities of inter-pretation, analyses the musical form.


Iris recognition is a biometrical based technology for personal identification and verification. Iris recognizes a person from his/her iris prints and analyses the features that have the coloured tissue surrounding the pupil. The iris is an internal organ because it is well protected by the eyelid and the cornea from environmental damage. Old identification system use password, token cards or pins. However, these security methods are not efficient enough due to forgotten, stolen and borrowed. Therefore, in this project iris recognition using artificial neural network are proposed because of iris uniqueness and stability. The development tool of iris recognition used is MATLAB and will focus on the software to perform recognition. The performance of iris recognition is expected to be more than 80% recognizable.


The power sum of P n n components X 1 , X 2 , …, X n is defined by the relation $p_{n}\ = \ 10 {\rm log}_{10}\ [10^{X_{1}/10} + \ldots + 10^{X_{n}/10}]$ The distributions of such power sums are studied both analytically and by Monte Carlo simulation techniques for the case where the components are independent, identically distributed, truncated normal random variables. Results are given in terms of distributions and moments of P n . The number of components varies from 2 to 256, and the standard deviation of the component variables before truncation ranges from 1 to 10 dB. The dependence of the results on the choice of truncation point is also investigated.


Death is one of the most important components of demography, which can affect population change in a region. Surakarta is a region full of demographic problems, one of which is environmental health that can affect the health of its population. Surakarta is the city that has the lowest number of infant mortality cases either city or district level in Central Java. Infant mortality can be caused by many factors such as education, economy, social culture, environmental health and so on. This case is of course interesting to be lifted into a study. This is what the researchers related to the pattern of relationship causing infant mortality with environmental health conditions in the city of Surakarta. The purpose of this study is to answer the existence of the pattern of relationship between environmental health conditions with infant mortality cases using secondary data analysis and survey methods. The better the health condition of the environment then the number of cases of infant mortality will be lower. Based on the results of research that has been done there is a pattern of positive relationships between the two variables. The good environmental health conditions followed by the low number of cases of death in infants. This proves the existence of a positive relationship pattern between environmental health conditions and infant mortality cases in Surakarta.


The article is devoted to the problem of interests and needs of old citizens in the sphere of tourist leisure. The material presents the data of psychological features and motivation of pensioners in the sphere of tourist leisure.


With the advancement of the society, man has entered an age of intellectual economy, and using knowledge and creating knowledge will be man's new desire and pursuit. Knowledge will appear dearer than ever before, so people value it, learn it and create it. The management of students' status and their academic performances plays an important role in the higher educational institutions that train higher specialists and spread knowledge. Which managerial system should be followed, "the academic year system" or "the credit system" that betters students' development of individuality and acquisition of knowledge? The writer just voices her own views here.


In ad hoc networks utilizing wireless multi-hop communication functions, two or more nodes can communicate with each other through intermediate relaying nodes. However, ad hoc networks are susceptible to various attacks resulting from wireless multi-hop communication functions. To counter attacks, a secure dispersed data transfer method with a secret sharing scheme has been proposed. This method requires multiple paths to send multiple encrypted data packets. Characteristics of multiple paths in ad hoc networks are highly influenced by node density. In this paper, we propose a new combination method of the node-disjoint and the shared elements-accepted multipath routing methods to compensate for the two methods' weakness with varying node density. We also implemented our proposed method on a simulator to evaluate it. We confirmed that our proposed method can work well in cases where networks have low density.


It was a simple tale of betrayal. In 1950, a Pennsylvania husband returned home from a business trip to find his wife—known to us today only by her initials CD—having sex with the female athletic director of a local school. This wife was only one of many women caught having sex with other women in the era following World War II. Although many closeted men and women enjoyed vibrant sexual and social lives in gay and lesbian communities, sometimes commanding officers, bosses, and police officers caught and punished men and women engaging in "deviant" sexual activity. Punishments ranged from arrests during a bar raid to a dismissal from a job. A double life in the public sphere was fragile. Scholars have paid less attention, however, to the insecure closeted lives of husbands and wives such as CD. Although certainly not all men and women who engaged in same-sex encounters entered traditional heterosexual marriages, many did. Their motivations for marrying ranged from the hope that marriage would cure same-sex desire to financial concerns. Sometimes, a husband or wife discovered his or her spouse's homosexual infidelity. A potential punitive outcome for this encounter was not an arrest, pink slip, or a dishonorable discharge; instead a spouse could end up in divorce court. Like the federal government, the military, the local police, and private employers, then, divorce courts also had to devise strategies and philosophies with which to deal with the problem of homosexuality.


Nectar secretion and nectar chemistry in the flowers of comfrey ( Symphytum officinale L.) were examined in the four stages of anthesis: I – large buds, before pollen exposure: II – freshy opened flowers with the beginning of anther dehiscence: III – completely opened flowers in the maximum of pollen exposure: lV – flowers at the final stage of anthesis, without pollen in the anthers. Individual flower stays fresh 2,5–3 days, on average. Disc-shaped nectaries of S. officinale are located at the base of the four-lobbed ovary. Nectar is released through the modified stomata. Start of nectar secretion was noted at the bud stage. Nectar volume, mass of nectar and sugars differed in the examined stages of anthesis and the biggest values were noted at the final stages. Dominant sugar in nectar was sucrose with smaller amounts of fructose and glucose. The presence of amino acids was also recorded.


Motivated by observational and theoretical work which both suggest very small scale ($\lesssim 1\,$pc) structure in the circum-galactic medium of galaxies and in other environments, we study Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) radiative transfer in an extremely clumpy medium with many "clouds" of neutral gas along the line of sight. While previous studies have typically considered radiative transfer through sightlines intercepting $\lesssim 10$ clumps, we explore the limit of a very large number of clumps per sightline (up to $f_{\mathrm{c}} \sim 1000$). Our main finding is that, for covering factors greater than some critical threshold, a multiphase medium behaves similar to a homogeneous medium in terms of the emergent Ly$\alpha$ spectrum. The value of this threshold depends on both the clump column density and on the movement of the clumps. We estimate this threshold analytically and compare our findings to radiative transfer simulations with a range of covering factors, clump column densities, radii, and motions. Our results suggest that (i) the success in fitting observed Ly$\alpha$ spectra using homogeneous "shell models" (and the corresponding failure of multiphase models) hints towards the presence of very small-scale structure in neutral gas, in agreement within a number of other observations; and (ii) the recurrent problems of reproducing realistic line profiles from hydrodynamical simulations may be due to their inability to resolve small-scale structure, which causes simulations to underestimate the effective covering factor of neutral gas clouds.


: The paper has been written within the research scientific work, entitled "Integrative -differential rationale of the choice of the optimal methods of surgical interventions and scope of treatment in surgical pathology of maxillofacial area"; State registration number 0116U003821.


This Issue consists largely of FSROs Þrst publication of the proceedings of a major conference on the federal sentencing guidelines and summaries of the papers presented. The Federal Sentencing Guidelines Symposium took place on November 8, 2002 at the Yale Law School in New Haven, CT, and attracted a substantial number of federal judges, members of the U.S. Sentencing Commission and its staff, probation ofÞcers, public defenders, private defense counsel, U.S. attorneys and assistants, academics, and law students. Prior to the meeting, the conference organizersNa group of Yale faculty members (Dennis Curtis, Daniel Freed, Judge Nancy Gertner, Kate Stith) and law students enrolled in the sentencing seminarNprovided summaries and copies of the papers to be presented on the Yale website. The summaries are included in this Issue. Most of the papers can still be accessed in their entirety at www.law.yale.edu/outside/html/Centers/cen-sentencing.htm; a few are already published and are available through Westlaw or Lexis. The summaries of the panel discussion were expertly prepared for FSR by the group of studentsNCassidy Kesler, Susan Lin, Katherine Tang Newberger, Laura Provinzino, Michelle Schwartz and SoÞa YakrenNresponsible for much of the conference planning. A number of themNCassidy Kesler, Katherine Tang Newberger, SoÞa YakrenNalso presented their own research and participated as discussants, together with another current Yale law studentNMichael YaegerNand two former studentsNLaura Storto and Max Schanzenbach. Commissioner OONeill opened the November conference by asking whether the guidelines were actually working. It was a timely question because organizers of the conference, agreeing that guideline success was a central issue, had structured four panels to debate the antecedent question: how is OsuccessO being deÞned? For the past 15 years, and during the equivalent period prior to guidelines as well, sentencing reform has focused on judges and judicial discretion. In light of CongressOs expressed 1984 goal to reduce unwarranted disparity, the conference was structured to test whether judicial determinations have achieved that goal. To the surprise of few, the four panel discussions at the conference raised serious doubts whether the decisions of judges alone can be isolated as an adequate measure of guideline success. The panels looked at the question of guideline success from different perspectives: The morning panels focused on disparity in sentencing. While the Þrst panel looked at race and gender disparity, the second considered the effects of region and prosecutorial policies. Inevitably, the two different elements of disparity insuence each other, as the same prosecutorial policies may have a dramatically different racial impact in different parts of the country, for example. The afternoon panels considered purposes of sentencing. This topic is often viewed as highly academicNand there were some charges to that effectNbut the presenters tied the purposes discussion closely to the construction of the guidelines. Both panels, in different ways, revisited the question of what purposes the guidelines do and should pursue. The Þrst panel focused on the philosophical premises underlying the federal sentencing guidelines. The answer to this question would illuminate also the issue of disparity. Selection of a particular purpose, such as incapacitation, might explain some otherwise inexplicable sentencing differentials. The second panel


The question of "resistance" has oriented the field of critical ethnography for several generations now. Indeed, the reproduction–resistance binary has animated much of the most important, critical work in educational studies over the last 30 years. Yet, this reproduction–resistance binary has perhaps calcified in recent years. Such work often searches for elusive moments of "authenticity" and "resistance" in time, pulling them out, celebrating them, exporting them to understand other sets of people in other social circumstances. Comparatively little work has treated resistance as a fluid and dynamic construct. This short essay offers some cautionary notes in this regard.


In recent years, Question Answering (QA) systems have increasingly become very popular in many sectors. This study aims to use a knowledge graph and deep learning to develop a QA system for tourism in Vietnam. First, the QA system replies to a user's question about a place in Vietnam. Then, the QA describes it in detail such as when the place was discovered, why the place's name was called like that, and so on. Finally, the system recommends some related tourist attractions to users. Meanwhile, deep learning is used to solve a simple natural language answer, and a knowledge graph is used to infer a natural language answering list related to entities in the question. The study experiments on a manual dataset collected from Vietnamese tourism websites. As a result, the QA system combining the two above approaches provides more information than other systems have done before. Besides that, the system gets 0.83 F1, 0.87 precision on the test set.


The optimal analgesic strategy for patients undergoing donor hepatectomy is not known and the potential short‐ and long‐term physical and psychological consequences of complications are significant.


This paper investigates the strategic firm decision of market reentry after initial exit. Building on the organizational learning literature, I examine the role of a firm's pre-exit focal market ex...


Abstract : This thesis investigated the relationship of cohesion and productivity among work groups. The study was accomplished in two phases. First, the study investigated the strength of the relationship between cohesion and several variables that the literature reviewed as being strongly related with group cohesion. The strength of association that these variables had with cohesion was tested using a sample of employees from a military supply squadron. Secondly, the research studied the relationship between group cohesion and work group performance through employee and supervisory perceptions of group productivity and through the collection of actual productivity measures. The variables that were significantly related to group cohesion were interdependence, communication, supervisor influence, participation in goal setting, rewards, and employee perceptions of group performance at the p .001 level. The development of a cohesion scale resulted in observed significant differences between low and high cohesive groups in supervisor influence, participation in goal setting, and employee perceptions of group productivity.


In this document we seek to justify through literature all the issues that underlie psychopedagogical work, with the aim of enriching information on the subject and highlighting the importance of the Psychopedagogue, a professional who is fundamental in educational institutions, with his role being essential both in the sector pedagogical, but also social, occupying a unique place in terms of health and education. Psychopedagogy is comprehensively concerned with learning, considering several factors, such as: educational, physical, emotional, psychological, also analyzing all niches that can contribute positively and negatively to the interpersonal development of children, also including sociocultural issues, which they are shaped by the nucleus where the child develops. Otherwise, the professional highlights points that could harm students in their studies and creates methods that can highlight their protagonism, thus enabling their total satisfaction as a learner, and making them protagonists of the teaching-learning process.


azoospermia, a recent technique, using testicular sperm extraction (TESE) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), can still achieve pregnancy if testicular tissue is spared. In conclusion, our new testis-preserving therapy enables a good short-term cancer control and quality of life in all patients in whom a sufficient amount of testosterone is produced to maintain normal sexual function, and to allow for future paternity although a long-term follow-up is required.


Flooding is a social problem affecting the structure of development in many Nigerian cities. Studies have shown that during and after flood incidences in Nigeria, a greater proportion of people living in flood prone areas are economically and socially affected. In light of this, the study examined social and health impact of flood incidence in Ido Local Government Area of Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. The population of the study was 103,261 residents of Ido Local Government Area, who spread across four geopolitical wards (Ido North, Central, South and East respectively) from which, four communities namely; Akufo, Ido, Omi-Adio and Idi-Iya experiencing floods were purposively selected. Thereafter, two-hundred flood victims, who are 15 years and above were selected as sample, through quota sampling method. A structured self-developed questionnaire was used to elicit information from them, while the data were analyzed through descriptive and inferential statistics. The finding shows that, flooding account for 19.8% of the total variance in spread of diseases and infections in Ido LGA. Also, environmental pollution account for 26.6% of the total variance in flood occurrence in Ido LGA. As well, flood contributes 10.9% to the total variation in displacement of people and businesses in Ido LGA. The result of ANOVA indicates that a significant relationship exists between flood, spread of disease, environmental pollution, poverty and displacement of people in Ido Local Government Area, Nigeria. It is therefore recommended that, effective flood prevention mechanisms are designed by stakeholders in order to attain desirable and sustainable development in Nigeria.


Isolates of Phomopsis spp. obtained from plum trees (Prunus domestica L.) with symptoms of die-back. There were significant morpho-physiological and pathogenic differences between the isolates. The genetic variability (12 isolates of Phomopsis spp. and isolate of Photopia pernicious, which was used as control ) was proved by study of vegetative compatibility. These isolates were inoculated in Petri dishes in pairs in all possible cross combinations, on potato dextrose agar. After 5 and 10 days the interaction between colonies were scored according to appearance of contact lines of paired cultures. On the contact line on two different isolates distinct barrage zones of inhibition - vegetative incompatibility reaction. The barrage zones generally became black and sometimes showed formation of pycnidia. Necrotic parts of hyphen that formed line of reaction were observed. A compatible reaction was observed only when cultures of the same isolate were paired.


This study presents the investigation on how heat treatment parameters, which are temperature, cooling method, and residence time, influence the microstructural and hardness properties of Ti6Al4V components produced on Ti6Al4V substrate using high speed selective laser melting technique. Heat treatment was performed on the produced samples before they were characterized for microstructure and hardness. The microstructure of the as-built sample contained large columnar β-grains that were filled with martensite α' phase and had a high hardness of 383 ± 13 HV. At 1000 °C and residence time of maximum 4 h, better heat treatment parameters were seen for the selective laser melting (SLM) produced Ti6Al4V sample since an improved lamellar α + β microstructure was obtained at this condition. This microstructure is known to have improved tensile properties.


OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of Danhong injection on mesenteric microcirculation in rabbits with acute hypoxia and study the protective machanism. METHODS Acute anoxic animal models were established,forty healthy flap-eared white rabbits were randomly divided into 5 groups:normal control group(group C);acute hypoxia group(groupⅠ);Danhong injection 5 mL·kg-1 group(groupⅡ);Danhong injection 10 mL·kg-1 group(group Ⅲ); Danhong injection 20 mL·kg-1 group(group Ⅳ). A microcircular microscope image analysis system was used to study the changes of mesenteric microcirculation. RESULTS In acute hypoxia group,the diameters of mesenteric arteriole and veinule, blood flow velocity decreased significantly compared with normal control group(P0.01 or P0.05). Leucocyte rolling rate also steped down significantly. The number of leucocyte rolling along the vessel wall, adhesive leucocytes and microthrombus increased significantly compared with normal control group(P0.01 or P0.05). Danhong injection markedly improved the mesenteric microcirculation indexes. There were no significant differences among groupⅡ,Ⅲ and Ⅳ(P0.05). CONCLUSION Danhong injection has an effective protection on mesenteric microcirculation in rabbits with acute hypoxia,but there is no obvious dose-effect relationship.


Silica was investigated as a rad-hard alternative to organic polymer hosts for organic scintillators. Silica sol-gels were prepared by hydrolysis of tetramethoxysilane in alcohol solutions. organic dyes were incorporated into the gels by dissolving in methanol at the sol stage of gel formation. The silica sol-gel matrix is very rad-hard. The radiation stability of silica scintillators prepared by this method is dye-limited. Transient radioluminescence was measured following excitation with 30 ps pulses of 20 MeV electrons.


While a pathogenic role for the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is largely undisputed for tumours that are consistently EBV genome positive (e.g. nasopharyngeal carcinoma, endemic Burkitt lymphoma), this is not the case for classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL), a tumour with only a variable EBV association. In light of recent developments in immunotherapeutics and small molecules targeting EBV, we believe it is now timely to re-evaluate the role of EBV in cHL pathogenesis.


Since the previous CME on lipidology was published in 2003 there have been many new and exciting developments in lipidmodifying therapy.


It is a device for the active damping of speed oscillations in a hydraulic switching element system of a motor vehicle, in particular in an automatic or automated vehicle transmission, proposed that at least one integrated in the hydraulic switching element system active element (1) and a component (3, 5) for detecting the includes to be damped speed oscillations, wherein the active element (1) is designed such that it can take pressure oscillations in the hydraulic switching element system based on a counter control algorithm in dependence of the speed oscillations, wherein the active element (1) is so controlled that is to be damped, the speed vibration and cancel each other out over the pressure oscillations in the switching element system induced speed oscillation.


Documentary maker Mark Craig spent five years putting together The Last Man on the Moon, with a team from Teesside University working on the special effects led by his partner Penny Holton, Senior Lecturer in 3D Animation.

The visual effect sequences reconstruct Gemini 9 and Apollo 10 missions, using animation to depict the spacecraft during their epic journeys in space.

Working alongside Penny were her School of Computing colleagues and visual effects artists Paul Noble, Senior Lecturer in 3D Animation; Chris Wyatt, Senior Lecturer in Animation; former lecturer Em Johnson who now works for a games company in Guildford and Dave Cockburn, Senior Lecturer in Animation.

BA (Hons) Computer Character Animation students, Bianca Iancu, Caitlin Watts, Emma Berry and Heather Gretton, were also involved in additional work, including retouching of stills.

The Last Man on the Moon had its world premiere in June 2014 at Sheffield Doc/Fest, the film went on to tour Yorkshire and the North East as part of The Unbelievable Truth: The Best of Doc/Fest.


Technological processes of digitalization of all spheres of society led to the emergence of a new paradigm, which became the basis for the development of standards of competencies of specialists and changed the content and methods of learning. On the one hand, the requirements for the personal qualities of a digital economy specialist contribute to the study of humanitarian courses, on the other, it is necessary to study the professional courses in detail. The article discusses the main components of the digitalization paradigm; requirements that are presented to a specialist in a digital economy, especially for IT specialists; digital competencies necessary for it; educational microcosms are built on this basis. The article built a hierarchy of digital competencies on the main types of specialist's activities in the digital economy. There is professional kind of activities on the economic theory of the digital economy, the development of artificial intelligence systems, data analysis, work with Big Data, digitalization of business systems, and information security. Educational microcosms are a set of training courses, practices, as well as individual and group projects that form a specific competence. Educational micrometers allow you to build a modular system for professional learning and students or workers receiving additional education. The use of computer learning technologies in the formation of digital competencies is justified.


With the aid of mathematica and Wu?eliminition method, an approach is presented to find exact solutions for the nonlinear evolution equations, and this method is applied to the approximate equations for long waves in Shallow water. Many solutions are obtained, which contain solitay wave soltions and period wave solutions.


Corrigendum to "Effects of manganese on microglia M1/M2 polarization and SIRT1-mediated transcription of STAT3-dependent genes in mouse" [Environmental Toxicology. (2021 Sep;36(9):1729-1741. doi: 10.1002/tox.23294. Epub 2021 May 21.] Dongying Yan*, Liang Gao, Jing Lang, Xianhui Gao, Honglin Ma School of Public Health, Jinzhou Medical University, Jinzhou, China The authors regret that an error in Figure 4A was not identified during the final proofing of manuscript. This error was mainly caused by the negligence in the arrangement of pictures, showing a misplacement of STAT3 nuclear translocation in 200 μmol/kg Mn-treated samples. The error does not affect the quantitative analysis of samples for STAT3 nuclear translocation. Below is the corrected version of Figure 4A. The authors would like apologize for any inconvenience this error may have caused. DOI of original article: https://doi.org/10.1002/tox.23294. * Corresponding author. E-mail address: email@example.com (Dongying Yan).


Stellar spectropolarimetry is a relatively new remote sensing tool for exploring stellar atmospheres and circumstellar environments. We present the results of our HiVIS survey and a multi-wavelength ESPaDOnS follow-up campaign showing detectable linear polarization signatures in many lines for most obscured stars. This survey shows polarization at and below 0.1% across many lines are common in stars with often much larger H-alpha signatures. These smaller signatures are near the limit of typical systematic errors in most night-time spectropolarimeters. In an effort to increase our precision and efficiency for detecting small signals we designed and implemented the new HiVIS bi-directionally clocked detector synchronized with the new liquid-crystal polarimeter package. We can now record multiple independent polarized spectra in a single exposure on identical pixels and have demonstrated 10^-4 relative polarimetric precision. The new detector allows for the movement of charge on the device to be synchronized with phase changes in the liquid-crystal variable retarders at rates of >5Hz. It also allows for more efficient observing on bright targets by effectively increasing the pixel well depth. With the new detector, low and high resolution modes and polarization calibrations for the instrument and telescope, we substantially reduce limitations to the precision and accuracy of this new spectropolarimetric tool.


Abstract The leaves of Eucalyptus dealbata were collected in the middle of four season (spring, summer, autumn and winter) from Dezful in Khuzistan province (western south of Iran, with dry and warm climate). After drying the plant materials in shade, their essential oils were obtained by hydro-distillation. In addition, the essential oils of plant materials collected in summer, were obtained by water and steam and also direct steam-distillation. The oils were analyzed by capillary GC and GC-MS and compared for their variation. The oil yields of E. dealbata in different seasons were 1.25–1.97 % (the highest in summer and the lowest in spring). Thirty-eight components were identified in the oil of E. dealbata with 1,8-cineole (54.9–70.0 %) as main constituent. The highest percentage of 1,8-cineole was found in winter (70.0 %). In comparing distillation methods, the oil yields were 0.16–1.97 % (the highest for hydro-distillation and the lowest for steam-distillation). The main components in the oils obtained by three different distillation methods were 1,8-cineole (38.4–54.9 %), α-pinene (15.1–23.5 %), α-eudesmol (1.1–12.5 %), globulol (2.2–11.5 %), aromadendrene (1.6–5.3 %) and β-eudesmol ( 1.9–3.6 %). The highest percentage of 1,8-cineole was obtained by hydro distillation method.


BOOKLET In a world with finite resources there is no infinite development opportunity with sustainability, unless a resource efficient circular economy is fully implemented. 17-18 September 2015. Toledo, Spain REFERTIL WWW.REFERTIL.INFO Improvement of comprehensive bio-waste transformation and nutrient recovery treatment processes for production of combined natural products


The forty years or so after 1945 witnessed economic changes and reversals of fortune, but pretty much all within the familiar club. In 1950 Britain's GNP was roughly twice that of Japan, whereas by 1985 it was about half. Other fairly spectacular changes affected the relative position of the world's major economies: the rise of Japan and Germany, the relative decline of the US, etc. Throughout those decades, however, the changing position of economic actors took place within a familiar framework of dramatis personae. The four major European nations, the United States and Japan has been the world's economic powers for the halfcentury or more that preceded the Second World War and so, after a brief, if bloody, interval they remained in the four or more decades that followed the war. There was no grand exit, just as no new kid had emerged on the world economic block, with the possible exception of the so–called 'Four Little Dragons' - as their name implies, however, they are 'little'. Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong were unlikely in unison, let alone individually, to throw down a gauntlet to the world economic system.


Defeasible argumentation is concerned with studying plausible but, at the same time, fallible patterns of reasoning. Because plausible arguments can easily be developed, and not all of them can be in force at the same time, the main thrust of the theory is in deriving sound principles for adjudicating among conflicting lines of argumentation. In this paper, we propose to resolve such conflicts by starting an artificial debate. The explanatory notes will consist of a short introduction to 'traditional' defeasible argumentation, followed by a brief exposition of the basic ideas of what is called formal defeasible dialectics here. The paper will be concluded by proving the traditional and dialectic approach to be equivalent. Research area 1985 Mathematics subject classification 68C01; 1987 CR classification scheme F.4.0, I.2.3, key words and phrases: nonmonotonic reasoning, defeasible dialectics, abstract argumentation system.


Aiming at the problems of high missed-pickup rate and crushed rate caused by different types of peanut harvester pickup drums, by tracking a field comparative experiment from 2020 to 2021, the missed-pickup rate, missed-pickup quality distribution, crushed rate and quality distribution rule of pods with different degrees of crushing observed in two peanut varieties with different pickup drums were studied. Three kinds of pod-pickup drums were set up: axial flow (T1), tangential flow (T2) and tangential–axial flow (T3), and they were installed on the pickup harvester to form three kinds of pickup and harvest test stands. At the same time, a control test stand (CK) without pod-pickup drums was set up. Peanut varieties "Shanhua 9" and "Huayu22" and 10 water content levels were used. Using Origin2018 software, the missed-pickup rate, missed-pickup quality distribution, crushed rate and the quality distribution of pods with different degrees of crushing were statistically analyzed for the two peanut varieties harvested by different pickup drums. The results showed that the average missed-pickup rate was T1, T2 and T3, in order from small to large. The order of pickup quality from more to less was small pods, medium pods and large pods, which indicated that small pods were more likely to be missed. The average pod crushed rates for T1, T2 and T3 for Shanhua 9 were 2.06%, 2.19% and 2.45%, and those of T1, T2 and T3 for Huayu22 were 1.74%, 1.91% and 2.23%, so the order of pod crushed rates from small to large was T1, T2 and T3. At the same time, the crushed rate of T1, T2 and T3 to the two varieties decreased obviously with the decrease in water content. After the T1 test, the proportion of medium and severely crushed pods was the least, followed by T2, and the highest was T3. At the same time, the higher the water content, the higher the proportion of medium and severely crushed pods, and the proportion of medium and severely crushed pods after the Huayu22 test was less than that of the Shanhua 9 test.


The separation of trace components in rare solution is a popular task in the field of separation process. This paper discussed the application of SFE ,membrane separation and foam separation and the choice of separation method


This chapter contrasts an environmental dystopia scenario with a sustainable development utopia scenario. The dystopia is here labeled "1984" in order explicitly to evoke George Orwell's 1984 (1949) repressive totalitarian regimes – which might result from global environmental catastrophe. The original forecast for "1984" was, in effect, perpetual war among super-powers. H. G. Wells' vision of the future might be characterized as "anarchy" rather than structured perpetual war (Rothbard, 2013). The utopia is here labeled "Brave New World" in order to evoke Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932) satire of scientific and social progress. The dystopia is a "nightmare" and the utopia is a "dream" (Scott, 2017). Utopian thinking may even involve a "leap of faith" going well beyond a "dream" (Kingstone, 2017). The dystopian nightmare would be an environmental "waste land" (Podgajna, 2014). The purpose of the contrast is to help sharpen understanding of two extreme alternatives for the future: either the world environment, whether slowly or more dramatically, begins to fail toward a global catastrophe tipping point; or the world environment, whether slowly or more dramatically, begins to improve away from such a global catastrophe tipping point (Morello, 2012; Russill, 2015). Some scientific estimates concerning the achievement of the climate change goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement in force November 4, 2016 (UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, 2015) are quite pessimistic (Associated Press, 2016; Jones and Warner, 2016). This skepticism concerning governmental policy change outcomes presumably throws greater burden on businesses, consumers, non-governmental institutions,


Non-invasive tissue oxygenation monitoring system based on Near-InfraRed Spectroscopy (NIRS) is expected to be used in the various applications such as medical field and brain studies. We have developed the new instrument which incorporates the wireless communication system so that unconstrained measurements can be done. The instrument consists of 3 different wavelengths LEDs as light sources and one photo-diode as a detector. The measured data were sent to personal computer through wireless communication system up to 60 data per second. We demonstrated that the system could monitor the high-speed sampling measurement of the hemoglobin concentration change in an unconstraint subject. We found the pulsation of measurement data in the hemoglobin concentration change due to heart beat. These results indicate that the NIRS technology system can evaluate blood circulation by local oxygen metabolism information and a pulse rate measurement that reflects general circulation at the same time. This NIRS system can be used as the oxygenation monitor not only for existing medical applications but also for new applications.


Sir, Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) are clonal stem cell disorders characterized by proliferation of one or more of the myeloid lineages, associated with genetic abnormalities that include translocations or point mutations of genes that encode cytoplasmic or membrane tyrosine kinase (TK) receptor proteins. This produces a constitutively abnormal activation of signal transduction pathways, leading to an unregulated proliferation. According to the WHO criteria, MPN are classified into BCR–ABL /Philadelphia Ph: chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and MPN BCR–ABL /Ph . A single acquired point mutation, JAK2 , has been described in 95% of polycythemia vera (PV), in 50% of essential thrombocythemia (ET), and idiopathic myelofibrosis (IMF), and it is generally absent in MPNs Ph+ [1]. In the last years, the co-occurrence of both BCR–ABL gene fusion and JAK2 V617F mutation in few cases of patients with CML has been described [2–6]. We report here the rare and concomitant occurrence of JAK2 V617F mutation with BCR–ABL translocation at presentation in five atypical MPN patients. Five patients with clinical suspicion of MPN diagnosis, with a slightly increased white blood cell (WBC) level (7.2 –25.9 9 10/mm), thrombocytosis (700–1036 9 10/ mm platelets), and splenomegaly grade I – two of them with anemia (5.2 and 7.1 g/dl, respectively) and the others with normal hemoglobin level – were referred to our laboratory in order to perform cytogenetic studies and molecular analysis of BCR–ABL fusion gene expression by conventional RT-PCR. All cases showed BCR–ABL (b3a2 isoform) expression. JAK2 V617F mutation was also studied in two of them (patients 2 and 3, Table 1) by ASO-PCR at the same time, both with positive results (Table 1). Regarding cytogenetic studies, three cases showed the lack of Ph chromosome, one patient showed 15% Ph+ metaphases, and in the remaining patient, no data were available. Patients 1, 4, and 5, after MPN diagnosis, received imatinib therapy and were monitored by quantitative BCR –ABL real-time PCR. Quantitative PCR for BCR–ABL expression performed in these patients during follow-up (8–12 months) showed BCR–ABL/ABL ratio <0.005% (scored according to the International Scale). Due to persistent thrombocytosis, slightly increased WBC level, and splenomegaly grade I, JAK2 status was analyzed in these blood specimens. All samples were positives for JAK2 mutation. Retrospective assessment of stored samples showed that JAK mutation was already present at the time of the diagnosis of MPN. There are no available data from patients 2 and 3 during follow-up because one of them moved to a foreign country and the other died due to colon tumor. These five patients were studied from a total of 1320 patients with a suspected diagnosis of myeloproliferative neoplasm and were referred to our laboratory from different health institutions between 1994 and 2010 to establish karyotype and BCR–ABL status. Four hundred forty-two of them were Ph/BCR–ABL (+) confirming CML diagnosis. Since 2006, 58 of the BCR– ABL (+) patients were also studied for JAK2 mutation at the same time of the BCR–ABL detection or later retrospectively. Only six patients harbored both genetic alterations at the time of the initial MPN diagnosis, and five of them were described in this report. We had not enough clinical information of the other one. The coexistence of both genetic defects, BCR–ABL fusion gene and JAK2 mutation, in patients with MPN is a rare and uncommon feature. We described five patients with MPN harboring both genetic features in diagnosed blood samples. In three cases, JAK2 mutation was detected in patients with MPN who were BCR–ABL positive after the remission induction with imatinib and retrospectively in sample at the onset of the disease. The rapid remission of BCR–ABL transcript, after a short period of imatinib treatment and lack of Ph chromosome, led us to think that BCR–ABL fusion gene expression was present in a low burden at diagnosis.


The rat model of obesity was induced by high fat diet and in situ hybridization was performed with oligonucleotide probes.The results showed that expressions of leptin receptor mRNA and neuropeptide Y mRNA were significantly increased, suggesting that these increments might be related to leptin resistance.


Owls(Strigiformes) is a group of nocturnal raptors.Due to most of them are active in the night and their dark and mottled plumage,direct observation in the field is difficult.To date,scientific paper focus on the systematics of the Owls in China is scarce.Some of long time followed scientific names of species and genera cannot meets the mainstream standard used worldwidely.Here we provide a review of recent literatures on the Owls systematics,pointing out that there are 33 species owls in China which belongs to 12 genera in 2 families(Tytonidae and Strigidae).We also highlighted some species as well as research contents which need urgently concern.For instance,the Blakistoni's Fish Owl(Bubo blakistoni) is evaluated as an endangered species,and the endemic Sichuan Wood Owl(Strix davidi) is evaluated as a vulnerable species according to the "China Species Red List",few papers of these two threatened species are reported in China.In order to promoting conservation efforts of both species,studies of all aspects of their biology are badly needed.Furthermore,the taxonomic status of one subspecies in Tengmalm's Owl(Aegolius funereus beickianus) need to be clarified.Although,acoustics researches are a very important field in owls' biology,little works been conducted in China.Therefore we suggest more attention is needed and more Chinese ornithologists should be involved.At last,more research of breeding biology of the owls in China is also urgently needed.


Subtitle: 1 Williams, 2 P&W, 3 Rolls-Royce, 4 GE, 5 Honeywell, 6 Turbomeca. Williams nonstop winner for 11 years. P&W regains 2nd spot, switching places with R-R. GE moves up to 4th, pushing Honeywell to 5th. Powerplant aftersale service competition brings benefits to operators. Results based on 908 evaluations, 8% return.


Sexual function is a normative process warranting the equal attention of preventive and treatment services throughout the lifespan. Despite growing recognition of the value of human sexuality in clinical settings, there is no standardized sexual wellness curriculum universally administered in medical schools. Accordingly, many current and future physicians feel underprepared when taking care of patients' sexual health needs.

 Assess and strengthen sexual health knowledge among medical students in Miami.

 In February 2020 and March 2021, medical students at a large university in South Florida requested a brief sexual health workshop to enhance their knowledge in this domain of patient care. The workshop provided an introductory overview of the physiology of sexual pleasure and functioning. The curriculum was developed and taught by an associate professor of medicine who directs the university's sexual wellness consortium and is formally certified as a clinical sexologist. Prior to the workshop, a brief survey was conducted to understand medical students' experience with sexuality education and identify gaps in training. Post workshop another survey was administered evaluating content as well as instructor proficiency.

 Among 62 participants who completed a pre-workshop survey, less than 30% reported being trained to query patients on sexual dysfunction, and just 8% were trained to assess sexual satisfaction. In the post workshop survey, 95% of participants believed the workshop increased their knowledge of sexual functioning and its physiologic markers and nearly all would also recommend the session to other students.

 Increased sexual health training in medical schools has the potential to better prepare future physicians to serve patients' diverse sexual health needs and improve patient outcomes.

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_ Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a collection of sensor nodes with self-arranged and organizational structure-less wireless networks. WSN performs better network communication to attain stable and consistent performance. Additionally, consistent wireless network communication is provided between the sensor nodes. But, it attains maximum data loss and delay during data transmission. In order to overcome above issues, K Nearest Neighbourbased Logistic Regression (KNN-LR) framework is developed. Stability-aware Logistic Regression model and Link Quality-based Consistent are two different phases for wireless network communication. In the beginning, Stability-aware Logistic Regression model is designed in WSN. Here, local and global pivotal values are measured with neighbors' to make the decision regarding existence or non-existence of a sensor node. Additionally, machine learning logistic regression algorithm is utilized to achieve stable network with enhanced network lifetime and throughput. After that, consistent wireless network communication is attained by using the basis of link quality in WSN. The link quality enhances the consistency of network by selecting optimal route path during data transmission. As a result, data loss and end to end delay is minimized with efficient route path. The simulation is carried out to analyze the performance of proposed KNN-LR framework with the parameters such as throughput, network lifetime, data loss and end to end delay. Index Terms __ Wireless sensor networks, Logistic Regression model, Fusion Center, data Packet Acceptance Ratio


The invention relates to physically, thermally and physically or thermally curable aqueous coating compositions containing A) at least one polyurethane selected from the group consisting of curable physically, thermally self and / or thermally externally crosslinking, saturated, unsaturated and / or grafted with olefinically unsaturated compounds, ionically and / or nonionically stabilized polyurethanes, as binder and B) at least one (by PVD Physical Vapor Deposition) prepared platelet-shaped metallic effect pigment, wherein the content of B), based on the total binder content of the coating composition, less than 10 wt .-% and the total binder content, based on the coating composition, less than 12 wt .-% by weight. Furthermore, the invention relates to a process for preparing the compositions and their use particularly in the production of coatings.


Objective:To investigate the method of laparoscopy combined with choledochoscopy on common bile duct(CBD) stones and gallbladder stone.Methods:Twenty-six patients of gallbladder stone companied with CBD stones from Mar.2008 to Dec.2009 underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy(LC) and choledochoscopic common bile duct cholelithotomy through incision on the bile duct or common bile duct.Results:Twenty-six cases were performed LC routinely,12 cases underwent ductus cysticus lithotomy,without T tube.14 cases underwent CBD lithotomy,among them 6 cases of T tube was put into the CBD,8 cases received the primary suture of the CBD,without T tube.Choledochoscopic exploration was performed 6-8 weeks after operation,2 cases of residual stone were found and dislodged.Biliary tract visualization confirmed no stones were remained,then T tube was removed.No complication happened in all cases.Conclusions:Laparoscopy combined with choledochoscopy is a safe and effective operation for patients of gallbladder stone companied with CBD stones with fewer invasions,less pain and quicker recovery.Residual calculus of common bile duct which is difficult to remove during operation can be removed by fibrocholedochoscopic cholelithotomy through T tube sinus tract postoperatively.


Introduction: the development and adaptations of modern and reliable techniques for quick monitoring. Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD in clinical medicine, forensic science, pathogen detection, genotoxicants detection etc. Aim and Objectives: apoptosis induced by the triazophos using DNA ladder method. R Anabas test Materials and Methods 16cm±1cm and weight 72±1g were procured from the fish farm at k South India. The collected fishes were acclimated to laboratory conditions in dechlorinated tap water for 15 days. The fish specimens physiochemical characteristics of the water used throughout the experiments. Results: In the present study the RAPD was performed on gill tissues control and fishes expose medium confirmed remarkable recovery on remutial. Three different 10 primers were used to study the genotoxic effect of the pesticide. The triazophos exposure shows variation and poly band patterns from that of the control samples. primer 3, gill samples. Maximum variation in DNA band polymorphism was observed in primer 1 gill sample. DNA band intensity variation was also ob samples. Discussion: followed by 3, 6 days of recovery in water. Three diffe genotoxic effect of the pesticide. The triazophos exposure shows variation and polymorphism in band patterns from that of the control samples. primer 3, gill samples. Maximum variation in DNA band polymorphism w gill sample. Summary and Conclusion: testudineus. was0.270 ppm. found to be highly toxic and the histological alterations were increasing with increase in concentration and duration. patterns from that of the control samples


Deep-learning based watermarking framework has been extensively studied recently. The main structure of such framework is an encoder, a noise layer and a decoder. By training with different distortion sets in the noise layer, the whole network can realize different robustness. However, such framework has a huge drawback that the noise layer must be differentiable, otherwise it cannot be trained end-to-end. But for practical use, much distortions are non-differentiable, so such framework cannot be applied. To address such limitations, this paper propose a triple-phase watermarking framework for practical distortions. The proposed framework consists of three phases including a noise-free initial phase, a mask-guided frequency enhancement phase and an adversarial-training phase. Phase 1 aims to initialize an encoder to embed watermark with high visual quality and a decoder to extract the watermark. In order to generate high quality watermarked image, we design the just noticeable difference (JND)-mask image loss in phase 1 to guide the encoder. At phase 2, based on the investigation of the encoded features and distortions, we propose a mask-guided frequency enhancement algorithm to enhance the encoded feature which ensures the survival of such features after distortion, so that there will be enough features to be learned in phase 3. And phase 3 aims to train a stronger decoder to extract the watermark from the image after practical distortions. The combination of these 3 phases can well handle the non-differentiable problems and make the whole network trainable. Various experiments indicate the superior performance of the proposed scheme in the view of traditional differentiable image processing distortion robustness and practical non-differentiable distortion robustness.


. Computational thinking is an increasingly important focus in computer science or informatics curricula around the world, and ways of incorporating it into the school curricula are being sought. The Bebras contest on informatics, which originated 12 years ago and now involves around 50 countries, consists of short problem-solving tasks based on topics in informatics. Bebras tasks engender the development of computational thinking skills by incorporating abstraction, algorithmic thinking, decomposition, evaluation and generalization. Bebras tasks cover a range of informatics concepts including algorithms and data structures, programming, networking, databases and social and ethical issues. Having built up a substantial number of Bebras tasks over 12 years it is important to be able to categorise them so that they can be easily accessed by the Bebras community and teachers within schools. The categorization of tasks within Bebras is important as it ensures that tasks span a wide range of topics; there have been several categorization schemes suggested to date. In this paper we present a new two-dimensional categorization system that takes account of computational thinking skills as well as content knowledge. Examples are given from recent tasks that illustrate the role that Bebras can play in the development of computational thinking skills.


The crystal structure of [Rh(phpy) 2 (bpy)] PF 6 (phpyH=2-phenylpyridine, bpy=2,2'-bipyridine) is determined and described. Crystallographic data at 100 K: chemical formula C 32 H 24 F 6 N 4 PRh, orthorhombic crystal system, space group Pbca (No. 61), Z=8, a=10.821 (1) A, b=15.798 (1) A, c=33.328 (3) A, V=5697.4 (9) A 3 . There is one complex cation, i.e. two crystallographically inequivalent phpy ligands, per asymmetric unit


A fuel pin failure model has been developed which uses a failure criterion based on the Larson-Miller parameter and a stress-rupture life fraction rule. The cladding is treated as an elastic-plastic solid with arbitrary strain hardening allowed. TREAT experiment analyses have been performed which show excellent agreement between measured and predicted pin failure times, failure locations, and permanent outer strain. Using this model, the effects of certain nonprototypic irradiation conditions have also been investigated.


This paper considers the traditional design studio in terms of formal and informal activities, characterizes the major Internet technologies with regard to the resulting interaction issues. In particular, it describes an area of informal work group communications that appears to be ill-supported with existing tools. The paper goes on to describe a web-based collaboration tool which was developed to address the need for less formal communication. The context for this development is the concept of a fully distributed collaboration environment with particular attention to questions of informal communication. The Internet beckons seductively to students. The prospect of nearly instantaneous communication with acquaintances spread across the face of the earth is alluring. The ease with which rich graphical content can be made available to the world is stunning. The possibility of a design being seen by friends, family, and famous architects is tantalizing. Faculty are drawn by the potent synergy and learning that can be found in the opposition and cooperation of different cultural roots. It is probable that entire design studio sequences will be offered through distance-learning programs in the near future. Is that a good idea? Finally, it describes how the tool was deployed in an experimental "web studio" setting and student responses to use of the tool. Studio Education: Overview Much has been written [1,2,3] about "virtual design studios" in architecture schools and "virtual offices" in practice. Most offices have largely or totally abandoned drafting boards in favor of digital tools of production. Yet, regarding design, Ken Sanders, author of The Digital Architect, and Manager of Information Services at Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership (ZGF), of Portland, Oregon, has written "we still make an effort to locate project teams together and always will" [4]. Architectural design education occurs in a particular physical and psychic setting, the design studio. Much is made of the "culture" of a design studio. One effort to describe this phenomenon can be found in the writings of Donald Schön in which he characterizes design as "reflection in action" [6]. Unfortunately, Schön does not address the issues of on-line design education: How might we form a design community on-line? How can we best foster the same deep cultural roots and close psychic ties amongst participants who are physically quite distant? Production CAD work requires different kinds of interaction than design and design instruction. The experiments have been invaluable in developing strategies for use of the Internet as a component of a design studio series, but rarely depend entirely on use of the Internet for all course communications. In fact, most describe fairly isolated efforts to augment some aspect of traditional design environments using Internet tools (ftp, email, web). A few have implemented new pedagogic or collaboration paradigms (e.g., ETH's phase(x) [5]) . The pedagogic construction known as a "studio" is used to teach the subtle, imprecise, culturally rooted but individually artistic process of design. It describes a mixture combining place, a group of people, and a fairly standardized process, all overseen by the faculty mentor in charge. [Originally published in eCAADe 2000 Promise and Reality, Proceedings of the 18ty Conference on Education in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, 22-24 June, 2000, pp 15-21.] SUSTAINING STUDIO CULTURE: How Well do Internet Tools Meet the Needs of Virtual Design Studios? The central idea behind studio education, as described by Schön and others, is learning by doing. The student works at a design problem with the assistance and guidance of the studio critic or master. The mentoring process provides the conduit by which good design, while outwardly difficult to describe, is demonstrated, practiced, and adopted by the student—to become what Schön calls "knowing in action". Desk Crits A key component of studio instruction is the individual desk crit. During these exchanges the studio critic joins with the student in engaging the design problems on which the student has been working, helping the student work through difficult issues, demonstrating appropriate design thinking, and often making normative remarks about design objectives, strategies, and techniques. Architectural practices frequently utilize the studio model as well, co-locating team members in order to maximize communications efficiency and enhance team cohesion. At the same time, architects are anxious to take advantage of the opportunity the Internet provides to develop "virtual offices" --temporary alliances of specialist team members assembled to work on a particular project. Maintaining good communications becomes very important under these circumstances. During desk crits the critic is engaged in helping the student "think like an Architect" [Schön], sometimes through verbal discussion, but most often through displays of needed problem-solving behavior. Desk crits also provide an opportunity for the studio critic to observe both how the student works and the resulting design work at close quarters and "in process". More importantly, they provide the critic with a chance to provide personal guidance to the student, helping them formulate their design strategy and goals as well as refine their design values. Place to Work Most tangibly, a studio is a shared workspace. Different schools of architecture approach the definition of this space differently. Often it is determined by the walls of the room assigned to a particular design critic, though sometimes it is defined by the admission cohort, or through some other scheme. In any case, some or all of the students in the studio will be working on the same project at roughly the same time, but not all in the same way, nor at the same pace. In addition to providing a chance to help the student with questions about the particular design, the desk crit also provides an opportunity to discuss the general design process, or the process of design education, what Schön calls "meta-reflection".


In the nineteenth century, opium smoking was common throughout China and regarded as a vice no different from any other: pleasurable, potentially dangerous, but not a threat to destroy the nation and the race, and often profi table to the state and individuals. Once Western concepts of addiction came to China in the twentieth century, however, opium came to be seen as a problem "worse than fl oods and wild beasts." In this book, Alan Baumler examines how Chinese reformers convinced the people and the state that eliminating opium was one of the crucial tasks facing the new Chinese nation. He analyzes the process by which the government borrowed international models of drug control and modern ideas of citizenship and combined them into a program that successfully transformed opium from a major part of China's political economy to an ordinary social problem.


In this article we introduce the different types of fuzzy real-valued I-convergent double sequence spaces. Also study their topological and algebraic properties like solidness, symmetricity etc.


ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE Analyze if the patient safety culture among professionals in the primary health care differs among health care teams. METHODS Cross-sectional and quantitative study conducted in April and May 2017, in a city in Southern Brazil. A total of 144 professionals who responded to the questionnaire "Survey on Patient Safety Culture in Primary Health Care" participated in the study. Data were analyzed in the Statistical Analysis Software program and expressed in percentage of positive responses. The ethical principles established for research with human beings were applied. RESULTS Patient safety culture is positive among 50.81% of the professionals, and the dimensions "your health service" (63.39%) and "patient safety and quality" (61.22%) obtained the highest average of positive responses. Significant differences were found between the family health and oral health teams (α = 0.05 and p < 0.05), in the dimensions "patient safety" (p = 0.0274) and "work at the health service" (p = 0.0058). CONCLUSIONS We concluded that, although close to the average, patient safety culture among professionals in the Primary Health Care is positive and that there are differences in safety culture between family health and oral health teams in comparison with the primary health care teams.


Genome-wide analysis of copy number aberrations in oral squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and oral epithelial dysplasia, a pre-malignant lesion, by array CGH has revealed that the genomes of these cancers and pre-cancers frequently harbor narrow (∼3 Mb) regions of amplification. These amplicons are recurrent, but rare, being present in Citation Format: {Authors}. {Abstract title} [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 101st Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2010 Apr 17-21; Washington, DC. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2010;70(8 Suppl):Abstract nr 2133.


Diode in the production process is key to the detecting section.The traditional diode test equipment although has a certain degree of intelligence,to qualified products,but to detect data cannot be collected and stored.The 700 series diode Tester is a universal production test equipment,which tests all the commonly used diodes,but these problems also exist,therefore,to be transformed for its far-reaching significance.The transformation of the underlying CPU board,for its extension,uses the RS232 communication interface MAX232 chips as shifters,and adopts high-speed optocoupler 6N137 chips as insulation components to realize hardware functionality;at the same time,prepares the data acquisition and processing software,diode test data collection,storage,and statistical analysis to provide the technical basis for production decision.The data acquisition and transmission distance can be determined according to the situation.To proximity,the direct use of RS232 data cable for data transmission is feasible.On the other hand,you can convert using RS485/422.


As the frequency of forest fires increases, the damage caused by forest fires also increases. Accordingly, research to detect forest fires early is being actively conducted. However, it is also important to detect remaining embers as there is a high possibility of re-igniting due to remaining embers after forest fires are extinguished. Therefore, in this study, a module for efficiently detecting left embers was developed and the performance of the module was tested by applying it to a simulated forest fire environment. As a result of the experiment by applying the four test modules, an average carbon dioxide concentration of 1,600 ppm was detected for 2 minutes immediately after spraying the module. In addition, it was confirmed that the carbon dioxide concentration increased by a minimum of 12 times and a maximum of 36 times depending on the arrangement of the modules.


In the municipal bond market, announcements of changes in general obligation bond ratings by the rating agencies are typically made concurrently with announcements of new bond issues. Hence, prior research on the information content of municipal bond rating change announcements is subject to the possible confounding effects of concurrent announcements of new bond issues. Jantscher ( 1970) concluded that bonds sell at prices that reflect rating changes prior to the actual change announcement. Ingram et al. (1983), on the other hand, report that municipal bond prices respond contemporaneously to rating change announcements, i.e., that the market is not able to anticipate rating revisions. However, since Ingram et al. (1983) did not control for the potential information effects of concurrent new issues, their results could be misleading, whereas Jantscher only examined new issues. This paper examines the effect of rating change announcements on municipal seasoned bond prices after controlling for the potentially confounding effects of new bond issues.


To battle with economic challenges during COVID-19 pandemic, the US government implemented various measures to mitigate economic loss. From issuance of stimulus check to social distancing measures, consumers had to constantly alter their behavior in response to government policies. Using anonymized card transactions and mobile device-based location tracking data, we analyze the factors that contribute to these behavior changes, focusing on stimulus check issuance and state-wide reopening. Our finding suggests that stimulus payment has a significant immediate effect of boosting spending, but it typically does not reverse a downward trend. State-wide reopening had a small effect on spending. Foot traffic increased gradually after stimulus check issuance, which coincided or preceded several policy changes and confounding events (e.g., protests) in the US. Our results may be used to inform future economic recovery policies and their potential consumer response.


The tremendous growth of polymer production since the middle of the twentieth century has been intimately connected with the development of new types of catalysts. A notable example in this regard is the field of polyolefin materials.


"The findings that CO2 reduces the perception of natural and artificial sweetener with a stronger reduction of sucrose processing and the ability to differentiate between the different types of sweeteners are intriguing and provocative. Tricking the brain about the type of sweet could be advantageous to weight loss becauseit facilitates the consumption of low-calorie drinks because their taste is perceived as pleasant as the sugary, calorieladen drink. However, there is a downside; the altered energy homeostasis and balance induced by the reduced sweetness perception might stimulate sugar consumption. The latter interpretation might better explain the prevalence of eating disorders, metabolic diseases, and obesity among diet soda drinkers." CATIA Sternini, In Search of a Role for Carbonation: Is This a Good or Bad Taste? Gastroenterology,2013 Sep;145(3):500-3


Cardiac ATP‐sensitive potassium (KATP) channels are primarily gated by high‐energy nucleotides, a property that allows them exquisite sensitivity to changes in intracellular energy metabolism. An emerging view is that the KATP channel is a multi‐subunit protein complex, and that the associated proteins provide an additional layer of regulation. Using bioinformatic approaches, we identified putative coiled‐coil (CC) domains in SUR subunits. We utilized these CC‐domains as baits in a two‐hybrid screen against a rat cardiac cDNA library and identified two glycolytic enzymes (GAPDH and aldolase A) as putative interacting proteins. Interaction between aldolase and the SUR CC‐domain was confirmed using GST pull‐down assays. We further demonstrated the interaction with full‐length SUR subunits with co‐immunoprecipitation assays using heterologous expression assays. Mass spectrometry was performed with KATP channel subunit immunoprecipitates obtained from rat membrane fractions, which identified glycolysis as the most enriched biological process. Using co‐immunoprecipitation approaches with rat cardiac membrane preparations, we confirmed interaction for several glycolytic enzymes (aldolase, enolase, fructose 6 phosphate kinase and hexokinase). These glycolytic enzymes were co‐localized with KATP channel subunits in isolated cardiac myocytes, as determined with immunocytochemistry. The catalytic activity of aldolase and pyruvate kinase inhibited KATP channel activity in inside‐out patch clamp experiments, whereas D‐glucose was without effect. Overall, our data demonstrate close physical association and functional interaction of the glycolytic process (particularly the distal ATP generating steps) with cardiac KATP channels.


Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), although rare, is a progressive disease with a high morbidity and mortality rate. In 1981, Ernst von Romberg, a German physician described pulmonary vascular lesions as "pulmonary vascular sclerosis", the first description of histological changes in PAH [Fishman 2004]. The average survival time for untreated patient is around 2.8 yrs [D'Alonzo 1991]. Despite remarkable progress made since then, the patho‐ genesis of PAH, however, is not yet well understood; because a large number of cardiopul‐ monary and systemic diseases can lead to PAH, and in addition, multiple signaling pathways have been implicated. Current advances in therapy, have improved the quality of life and delayed the progression of the disease, but have not provided a cure. Lack of cure in PAH is further underscored by a recent study showing persistent large plexiform lesions and inflam‐ matory infiltrates in patients despite having been on a long term prostacyclin therapy [Pogoriler 2012]. One of the main reasons for the failure of therapy is that the diagnosis is often made late because of vague symptoms; and by the time the diagnosis is made extensive pathologic changes have already taken place in pulmonary vasculature. From experimental studies, it is clear that pathological changes in the vasculature occur before the onset of PAH [Huang 2010]. Another problem is that a large number of signaling molecules implicated in PAH may not be relevant in all patients; and the activation of some of these molecules may depend on the stage of the disease.


Purpose – The paper aims to describe how the Infosys leadership institute is preparing a pool of talent to take over running the company in the years ahead. Design/methodology/approach – It examines the priorities at the institute, considers other development initiatives in the firm and describes the company's policies in the areas of employee well-being and engagement. Findings – It highlights the importance of communication, work-life balance, equal opportunities and employee engagement. Practical implications – It details the ways in which InStep, the company's global internship program, draws students from business, technology and the liberal arts to work on high-impact projects involving strategy and cutting-edge research. Social implications – It reveals that the company's stock-options program has helped to create some of India's first salaried millionaires. Originality/value – It provides an insight into the engagement of talent at a major international organization.


Forest managers demand reliable tools to evaluate post-fire vegetation and soil damage. In this study, we quantify wildfire damage to vegetation and soil based on the analysis of burn severity, using multitemporal and multispectral satellite data and species distribution models, particularly maximum entropy (MaxEnt). We studied a mega-wildfire (9000 ha burned) in North-Western Spain, which occurred from 21 to 27 August 2017. Burn severity was measured in the field using the composite burn index (CBI). Burn severity of vegetation and soil layers (CBIveg and CBIsoil) was also differentiated. MaxEnt provided the relative contribution of each pre-fire and post-fire input variable on low, moderate and high burn severity levels, as well as on all severity levels combined (burned area). In addition, it built continuous suitability surfaces from which the burned surface area and burn severity maps were built. The burned area map achieved a high accuracy level (κ = 0.85), but slightly lower accuracy when differentiating the three burn severity classes (κ = 0.81). When the burn severity map was validated using field CBIveg and CBIsoil values we reached lower κ statistic values (0.76 and 0.63, respectively). This study revealed the effectiveness of the proposed multi-temporal MaxEnt based method to map fire damage accurately in Mediterranean ecosystems, providing key information to forest managers.


Smart home IoT systems often rely on cloud-based servers for communication between components. Although there exists a body of work on IoT security, most of it focuses on securing clients (i.e., IoT devices). However, cloud servers can also be compromised. Existing approaches do not typically protect smart home systems against compromised cloud servers.
This paper presents FIDELIUS: a runtime system for secure cloud-based storage and communication even in the presence of compromised servers. FIDELIUS's design is tailored for smart home systems that have intermittent Internet access. In particular, it supports local control of smart home devices in the event that communication with the cloud is lost, and provides a consistency model using transactions to mitigate inconsistencies that can arise due to network partitions. We have implemented FIDELIUS, developed a smart home benchmark that uses FIDELIUS, and measured FIDELIUS's performance and power consumption. Our experiments show that compared to the commercial this http URL framework, FIDELIUS reduces more than 50% of the data communication time and increases battery life by 2X. Compared to PyORAM, an alternative (ORAM-based) oblivious storage implementation, FIDELIUS has 4-7X faster access times with 25-43X less data transferred.


The focusing process method based on self-organizing mapping network learning algorithm is better than that based on the back-propagation learning algorithm on precision estimation and resolution estimation.Through quite tests,the focusing process method based on self-organizing mapping network learning algorithm is demonstrated with fine characteristics.


Maize (Zea mays L.) is a cereal crop with a remarkable potential for production and is the third most important grain crop after wheat and rice. The considerable genotypic variability for different traits among various maize genotypes is a key to crop improvement. Globally, maize is cultivated in an area of 183.24 m ha with a production of 1036.07 m t and productivity of 5.65 t /ha. India stands sixth among the maize producing countries in the globe with an area, production and productivity of 9.60 m ha, 27.15 m t and 2.83 t /ha, respectively .Maize is grown from below sea level to altitudes higher than 3000 m, and in areas with 250 mm to more than 5000 mm of rainfall per year and with a growing cycle ranging from 3 to 10 months. International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 9 Number 6 (2020) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com


Bartholin's abscess involves an accumulation of pus that forms a lump (swelling) in one of the mucous-producing Bartholin's glands. A Bartholin's abscess forms when a duct from the gland gets blocked. This swelling is hot to the touch, sensitive, and painful. Many different types of bacteria can cause the infection. Reported a case of Bartholin's abcess in a woman 47 years old. Poor personal hygiene are predispotition factor in this patient. Bacteria culture showed E scherichia coli as the etiology. Treatment using oral antibiotic , vertical incision and drainage gave satisfactory result.


This paper concerns the existence of solutions to the discrete nonlinear complementarity problem. The problem is that of finding an integer vector x in the n-dimensional Euclidean space such that both x and f(x) are nonnegative, and the inner product of x and f(x) is equal to zero, where f is a nonlinear function mapping from the n-dimensional Euclidean space into itself. Several sufficient conditions are introduced to show the existence of solutions or a unique solution to the problem. Meanwhile, we study the closely related discrete fixed point problem and provide sufficient conditions for the existence of discrete fixed points. In addition, two economic applications are discussed.


This studyinvestigates dominantpatterns of daily surface air temperature anomaliesin winter (November‐ February) and their relationship with the meridional mass circulation variability using the daily Interim ECMWF Re-Analysis in 1979‐2011. Mass circulation indices are constructed to measure the day-to-day variability of mass transport into the polar region by the warm air branch aloft and out of the polar region by the cold air branch in the lower troposphere. It is shown that weaker warm airmass transport into the upper polar atmosphere is accompanied by weaker equatorward advancement of cold air in the lower troposphere. As a result, the cold air is largely imprisoned within the polar region, responsible for anomalous warmth in midlatitudes and anomalous cold in high latitudes. Conversely, stronger warm airmass transport into the upper polar atmosphere is synchronized with stronger equatorward discharge of cold polar air in the lower troposphere, resulting in massive cold air outbreaks in midlatitudes and anomalous warmth in high latitudes. Therearetwodominantgeographicalpatternsofcoldairoutbreaksduringthecoldairdischargeperiod(or1‐ 10 days after a stronger mass circulation across 608N). One represents cold air outbreaks in midlatitudes of both North America and Eurasia, and the other is the dominance of cold air outbreaks only over one of the two continents with abnormal warmth over the other continent. The first pattern mainly corresponds to the first and fourth leading empirical orthogonal functions (EOFs) of daily surface air temperature anomalies in winter, whereas the second pattern is related to the second EOF mode.


The female characters in Kawabata Yasunari's short stories are vivid and unique in the sense that some females are innocent and pure,while others are mature and sensul. Kawabata Yasunari depicted the females with his great insights,glorifying the innocence and chastity of the females,and in the meanwhile bringing out the theme of emptiness through their amoral sensuality. His unique aesthetic consciousness of females is fully expressed through his chaste and sensual female characters,which is also a reflection of his contradictory view about women.


The mechanism for NOx formation during the process of coal combustion, the low NOx combustion technology and the existing deNOx technology are presented. The important technical issues on SCR process system, arrangement of SCR equipment, ammonia supply system, selection of catalyst etc are discussed. The main factors for DeNOx efficiency in application of the techniques are studied. Some specific recommendations are put forward.