Within the field of psychology there has been growing interest in Schema Focused Therapy and the theoretical underpinning on which it is based. The overall aim of this thesis was to explore the current application of this model and consider how appropriate and effective it is, with a particular emphasis being drawn to the female forensic population. In order to investigate this three key aspects were explored. Firstly, the Young Schema Questionnaire (Young & Brown, 1990) was reviewed. Good psychometric properties were indicated, however, it is suggested the latest version would benefit from further examination. In the following chapter details of a systematic review are provided. This demonstrated the expanding use of Schema Focused Therapy across general psychiatric inpatients and outpatients with a range of difficulties, and initial use within forensic services. Information on the effectiveness is provided. From the literature reviewed however, there appears to be no substantial evidence base to date for female secure mental health patients. Owing to this an exploratory qualitative analysis was conducted on how the schema model applies to female forensic patients, whereby a template was developed in relation to their experiences of early maladaptive schemas. This enabled links with risk to be made and identified a potential new schema mode. The final chapter summarises the evidence gained throughout the thesis, discusses the implications of the findings and makes recommendations for future research.


This article presents as main objective the study and application of the fractional PID controller in a positioning system, a controller that has basis on the fractional calculus theory originated in 1695 and, despite having generated several paradoxes in the decade, nowadays there are important applications of this theory, as the one reported in this paper. Initially, the controller will be designed by means of computational simulation for the nominal model of a plant, using a program in Matlab and optimization algorithms and, then, applying in a real process using a data acquisition technique in order to analyse its dynamic behavior in the presence of real external disturbances. Given that the fractional PID is a generalization of the traditional PID, the goal is to obtain, in practice, the benefits of this one in relation to the another, mainly observing the requirements of robustness and stability that must be present in the system.


Abstract : The memorandum consideres the situation where two response variable Y and Z are stochastically dependent on a variable X. The problem is to select the value of the independent variable X so as to maximize the probability that the response variable Y will exceed some postulated value but that the response variable Z will be no greater than some fixed value, where Y and Z are stochastically monotonic increasing functions of X. (Author)


This paper describes hardware system for monitoring gas migration inside of borehole wells on landfill site. Hardware unit is designed to show the applicability of such device in terrain conditions. Therefore, we used easily available and cheap sensors for gases such as nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide. The solution can easily be expanded with other types of gas sensors, if necessary. Temperature and humidity sensors are installed for the measurement compensation that depends on these parameters. The device includes GPRS/GPS modem that allows sending data to server application for further processing. Also, the control of device via server application and SMS service has been implemented. Integration of microcontroller inside sensor system allows implementation of automatic monitoring and support for management of the outer actuators and alarms. Simple client application displays the results of measurements in real time, if necessary, or in the adjustable time intervals, which is useful for battery supplied operation.


The prey-catching responses of Dasyuroides byrnei to different prey types were observed in captivity. Sequences with mice as prey are analysed and described in terms of the temporal patterning and transitions between individual prey-catching movements. Comparisons are made with other prey types and the factors determining sequence structure are assessed.


The utility model relates to a stereoscopic non-soil planting room for vegetables and flowers of families, which is composed of a planting groove, a fluid storage groove, a seedling-planting disc, a supporting frame pipe and a plastic housing, wherein, nutrient fluid is stored in the fluid storage groove, and nutrient fluid stored in a soft pipe enters the planting groove through flow fluid. Furthermore, planting holes with equal distances are arranged on a cover of the planting groove, the planting holes can be used for the planting of plants, and rock wool stroma of which the shape is the same as the shape of a groove body is arranged in the groove. Besides, the number and the space distances of the planting groove can be adjusted according to the need of vegetables and flowers, seedlings are provided by the seedling-planting disc arranged on a bottom layer, and the nutrient fluid can be used repeatedly.


This paper reports on a study of early career progress among Charles Sturt University's Tourism Management graduates. The study revealed that Tourism Management graduates are highly mobile, changing jobs frequently and that each job change was typically accompanied by a significant salary increase. Significantly, only about 40% of the former tourism students who were surveyed are working in the tourism industry. The study revealed that graduates working in the tourism industry feel their education has become increasingly important and relevant to them as they progress up their career paths.


A majority of Indian wildlife scientists are unable to come together to create a united front to add a much-needed conservation focus to policymaking. In an age when we are trying to balance development with protection of forest areas, wildlife biologists need to actively respond to and engage with situations where the wildlife and conservation angles need to be highlighted. They should make the effort to translate science into policy in conjunction with the bureaucracy and actively work towards creating a much-needed platform for collaboration. A recent article by the authors in this journal ("Turning the Page in Forest Governance: Science and Bureaucracy", EPW, 10 December 2011) highlighted the need for the forest bureaucracy and wildlife scientists to liaise actively to ensure better forest governance, pointing out how the forest bureaucracy often made it diffi cult for independent scientists to engage meaningfully with them. To highlight the other side of the story, as it were, we would like to present how the reverse is just as true – many in the wildlife science community in India are resistant to working productively with the forest bureaucracy as peers, preferring to remain aloof from real world conservation issues, and unwilling to engage in constructive dialogue for change. Strangely, however, at the same time, almost every wildlife scientist has an opinion on the practice of conservation (whether by the forest department or other scientists), that they presume stems from their objectivity as practitioners of science. We argue that wildlife scientists need to realise that science is but one cog in the wheel of conservation practice. Scientists need to make the effort to translate science into policy in conjunction with the bureaucracy, and actively work towards creating that much-needed platform for collaboration. The Insular World of Scientists Scientists often live in an insular world within the boundaries of their academic interests, and out of touch with the on-ground issues facing forest governance. It is true that a scientist has enough


Aims
Concomitant surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients undergoing mitral valve surgery (MVS) has almost become routine despite lack of convincing information about improved quality-of-life (QOL) and clinical benefit. Quality-of-life was therefore assessed after MVS with or without epicardial left atrial cryoablation.

Methods and results
Sixty-five patients with permanent AF randomized to MVS with or without left atrial cryoablation, in the double-blinded multicentre SWEDMAF trial, replied to the Short Form 36 QOL survey at 6 and 12 months follow-up. The QOL scores at 12 month follow-up did not differ significantly between patients undergoing MVS combined with cryoablation vs. those undergoing MVS alone regarding Physical Component Summary mean 42.8 (95% confidence interval 38.3-47.3) vs. mean 44.0 (40.1-47.7), P = 0.700 or Mental Component Summary mean 53.1 (49.7-56.4) vs. mean 48.4 (44.6-52.2), P = 0.075. All patients, irrespective of allocated procedure, reached the same QOL after surgery as an age-matched Swedish general population. The Physical Component Summary in patients with sinus rhythm did also not differ from those in AF at 12 months; mean 45.4 (42.0-48.7) vs. mean 40.5 (35.5-45.6), P = 0.096) nor was there a difference in Mental Component Summary; mean 51.0 (48.0-54.1) vs. mean 49.6 (44.6-54.5), P = 0.581).

Conclusion
Left atrial cryoablation added to MVS does not improve health-related QOL in patients with permanent AF, a finding that raises concerns regarding recommendations made for this combined procedure.


[Whether we wish to acknowledge it or not, trust issues permeate all security policy deliberations, including recent discussions at United Nations headquarters focused on building acceptance of the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) norm and laying out plans for the full implementation of all three of its programmatic 'pillars.' This paper assesses resources for and commitments to trust building in three core areas – trust in the viability of the norm itself, trust in the persons most closely associated with the norm, and trust in the institutions (UN and Regional Bodies) projected to 'house' the norm and oversee all phases of its implementation. As this implementation process moves from consideration of state-focused, 'first pillar' preventive and early warning capacities to 'third pillar,' last-resort, direct responses to threats of atrocity crimes, the need for durable and dependable bonds of trust between RtoP advocates, diplomats and policymakers becomes more acute., Whether we wish to acknowledge it or not, trust issues permeate all security policy deliberations, including recent discussions at United Nations headquarters focused on building acceptance of the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) norm and laying out plans for the full implementation of all three of its programmatic 'pillars.' This paper assesses resources for and commitments to trust building in three core areas – trust in the viability of the norm itself, trust in the persons most closely associated with the norm, and trust in the institutions (UN and Regional Bodies) projected to 'house' the norm and oversee all phases of its implementation. As this implementation process moves from consideration of state-focused, 'first pillar' preventive and early warning capacities to 'third pillar,' last-resort, direct responses to threats of atrocity crimes, the need for durable and dependable bonds of trust between RtoP advocates, diplomats and policymakers becomes more acute.]


We prove beyond doubt that the length of 1 LDU is not exactly 1/64", and we find that the hypothesis that 1 LDU is exactly 0.4 mm cannot be disproven within the accuracy of our measurement device. We also present circumstantial evidence to further support the hypothesis that 1 LDU is exactly 0.4 mm.


Safety data on clozapine use during pregnancy are limited. The aim of this study was to determine disproportionality in case safety reports on adverse pregnancy outcomes between clozapine and other antipsychotics (OAP) used during pregnancy.


Rapid technological advances in the areas of telecommunications, computer technology and the Internet have made available to tutors and learners in the domain of online learning, a broad array of tools that provide the possibility to facilitate and enhance learning to higher levels of critical reflective thinking. Computer mediated communication tools such as email, threaded discussion lists, chat rooms, voice over IP, and whiteboards, can enhance online interaction and the development of critical thinking skills, giving learners a real chance to make their learning experience as close to a face-to-face situation. For this to happen, instructors have to adopt teaching strategies that create a successful student-centred learning environment in which students feel motivated and comfortable to participate and construct knowledge and meaning. This paper discusses the learning opportunities the online environment provides and the pedagogical changes that entails for quality learning, and focuses on instructional practices that fostering students' participation through appropriately designed interaction, effective communication and problem solving activities.


Introduction Type IV collagen is a major structural component of basement membrane (BM) and acts as a scaffold for other BM constituents. It is a heterotrimeric molecule that exists in six genetically distinct forms, α1(IV) α6(IV). The ameloblastoma is the most frequently encountered odontogenic epithelial tumor. The BM zone of the ameloblastoma remains a subject of research interest primarily because of increasing evidence of its mediatory role during oncogenesis. However, the expression pattern of specific collagen α (IV) chains in the ameloblastoma BM has not been previously reported. In this preliminary study, indirect immunofluorescence was utilized to localize α1(IV) α6(IV) chains in the BM of two


ehps.net/ehp According to Philippot (1998), the term employability is more often used than understood. McArdle, Waters, Briscoe, and Hall (2007) de ned employability as a psychosocial construct with three dimensions: (a) career identity, that refers to how people de ne themselves in a particular work context; (b) adaptability, the willingness and ability to change personal factors (e.g., behaviours, feelings, thoughts, disposition) in response to environmental demands; and (c) human and social capital, with the former referring to a host of personal variables capable of in uencing a person's career advancement (e.g., education, work experience, training, skills, knowledge). It is evident from this de nition that employability is a multidimensional construct with many facets to consider. This therefore makes investigating the employability of Health Psychologists dif cult, and capturing the whole employability picture, especially on a global scale, may be almost impossible. Fueling this dif culty is the wide variety of descriptions for Health Psychology and Health Psychologists. Although there are many works describing this specialist branch of psychology (e.g., Cohen, McChargue, & Collins, 2003; Johnston, 1994; Matarazzo, 1980; Michie & Abraham, 2004; Morrison & Bennett, 2016; Ogden, 2007; Taylor, 1990) and there exist many professional organisations for the eld of Health Psychology (e.g., Division 38 of the American Psychological Association, the British Psychological Society Division of Health Psychology, the Australian Psychological Society College of Health Psychologists, the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS)), confusion remains around the clear boundaries that de ne Health Psychology (Thielke, Thompson, & Stuart, 2011) and the roles and identities held by Health Psychologists. To understand how Health Psychology is de ned, EHPS National Delegates (N=27) were asked to provide the commonly used de nition of Health Psychology in their country. Results indicated that responses vary widely between the EHPS member countries. Six countries reported using the de nition of Health Psychology based on Matarazzo (1980, 1982), and one country reported using the WHO de nition of health (WHO, 1947). Most countries (15/27) de ned Health Psychology more broadly, or made use of other de nitions (e.g., Bishop, 1994; Johnson, 1994; Weinman, 1990) (See Table 4.1). These descriptions included Health Psychology being de ned as research, practice, and science and encompassing biological, social, and psychological factors to understanding wellbeing, health and illness as well as using psychology principals to motivate and intervene to change people's behaviour. However, among these broad de nitions, there was much variation in the detail of descriptions of Health Psychology. A few countries (3/27) reported that there was no established de nition of Health Psychology, and two countries simply reported Health Psychology being de ned as "Medical Psychology" or "Clinical Psychology". These ndings indicate that a consensus on a universal de nition of Health Psychology may be needed which, in turn, may Kyra Hamilton EHPS ND Australia Massimo Miglioretti EHPS ND Italy Anne Marie Plass EHPS ND Netherlands Employability of Health Psychologists: Re ections on Career Identity and Role Perceptions the profession of health psychology Hamilton, Miglioretti & Plass


This case of a bilateral complete cleft lip with minimal alveolar cleft illustrated that recession of the protruding premaxilla will occur following lip closure even if no cleft of the secondary palate or other void exists.


A 4-Gb/s, low-power, 231-1 output length, pseudo random binary sequence (PRBS) generator with a wave-pipeline technique is presented. A thirty-one stages linear feedback shift register (LFSR), whose feedback taps are connected to the first stage through EXOR, is adopted. In this LFSR, each stage consists of D-FF employing a true single phase clock (TSPC) type to increase the operating frequency. In the conventional design, to obtain correct output from feedback loop under high-speed operation, the propagation delay of the critical path containing D-FF and EXOR must be less than one shifting clock period. The proposed wave-pipeline technique bypasses the portion of feedback loop, and thereby relaxes the restriction of this path up to two shifting clock periods. Applying this method, the delay of critical path can be reduced to D-FF's one. As a result of this improvement, the proposed generator operates at 48% higher frequency than the conventional one. Besides the performance enhancement, this generator occupies small area and consumes low power because of employing standard CMOS logic. Therefore, the proposed circuit can be implemented in system on chip (SoC) and perform an accelerated error test as a part of built-in self tester (BIST) for the serial link based on standard static CMOS logic. This circuit was simulated in a 0.18-μm 1P5M CMOS process. The total power dissipation at 4-Gb/s and 1.8-V supply voltage is 9.5 mW and the active area is 0.004 mm2.


The mechanism of foundation pit excavation affecting the below existing shield tunnel is researched.14 cases of the foundation pit instance are collected to make a statistical analysis of measured data.The results show that the maximum vertical displacements of shield tunnel are all uplift,and 64% of the tunnel uplift values exceed the alarm value(10 mm).Based on the measured statistical data,an empirical tunnel maximum uplift value prediction formula below pit is proposed.Measured data of displacements in horizontal direction are fewer surveyed;and they are also small;the convergent small deformations change from "horizontal stretching,vertical compression" to the "horizontal compression,vertical stretching".Based on the at Hangzhou Yan'an Road,underground street passage project,the influence of foundation pit excavation on lower shield tunnel deformation in Hangzhou Metro Line 1 is researched.The measured data of tunnel vertical displacements,horizontal displacements and horizontal convergence deformations are analyzed.The results verify the reliability of theoretical analysis and the proposed formula.


Based on analyzing the generation mechanism and quality characteristics of reclaimed acid from benzol refining and comparing varies kinds of purification methods, the operation easily, the technical process simple extraction method is used to purify the reclaimed acid and the dosage of the extraction agent and extraction power are studied in detail. The results show that the reclaimed acid color after purification is thin and transparent and the CODCr elimination rate can reach as high as 80%. Then the purification effect is ideal.


The role and usefulness of competitions in mathematics instruction has been debated for decades. If memory holds, I attended a deep and entertaining debate on this topic between a distinguished mathematician Peter John Hilton and a renowned math educator Gilah C. Leder at ICME-6, held in 1988 in Budapest. As this volume demonstrates, competitions problems can be used to enrich classroom instruction, to offer our students an exciting pastime, to raise interest in mathematics, and to enable students to commence their mathematical research. If not for Moscow State University Olympiads and a mathematical circle conducted by Nikolai Konstantinov (one of the authors in this volume!), I would have become a classical pianist and composer and not a mathematician. (By no means am I suggesting here that mathematics is better than music—they both belong to the Pantheon of the Arts.) I am duty bound to add one warning. If a student does consistently well in mathematical Olympiads, s(he) clearly has a talent, and with a good measure of interest and hard work will go far. However, no discouraging conclusion could be made about a student, who has not sparkled in the Olympiads. Young people develop at diverse speeds. Moreover, mathematics competitions inevitably have an element of sports, the necessity to perform under pressure and within a limited time. High speed of thinking is attractive, but it is not an essential property for a future successful researcher. This book includes plenary talks and some of the best presentations made in the Topic Study Group 30: Mathematics Competitions of the International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-13) in Hamburg, and some of the best presentations from related groups, dedicated to work with gifted students and mathematical enrichment. Each of the chapters, on request of this editor, includes not only original ideas of pedagogy and state-of-the-art methods of mathematical instruction, but also original problems and their


Financially distressed debtors often apply for regulatory concessions — i.e., to be relieved from an obligation or duty dictated by regulation. For example, in the 2005 case of ClubMarket, the Israeli Antitrust Authority was asked to approve a non-competitive merger, because one of the merging parties was financially distressed and faced liquidation. But what happens when the relevant Regulator (e.g., the Israeli Antitrust Authority) denies the petition for a regulatory concession? Is the bankruptcy court entrusted with jurisdiction to overturn the Regulator's decision? A petition for a regulatory concession for a debtor under liquidation, reorganization, or personal bankruptcy proceeding raises two problems: The first concerns the identity of the regulator with which the jurisdiction is entrusted. The second problem concerns the manner in which the balance of interests is to be struck. Indeed, two interests collide: the interest of the public in denying the debtor's petition and the interest of other communities whose fate is associated with the debtor's, and who naturally would like the debtor to be accorded the concession. Solving the last problem mandates a decision that is, for the most part, value-charged (for example, whose interest should prevail — that of the general public or that of the ClubMarket employees?) Thus, solving the problem of jurisdiction becomes all the more important. The current Article introduces the various contexts in which regulatory concessions are sought, in Israel and abroad, and offers a theoretical framework to solve the problem of jurisdiction. The Article puts forward two arguments. First, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled in 2003, in the Torgeman case, that bankruptcy courts are not entrusted with jurisdiction to stay criminal proceedings against a company under liquidation. Although the methodology adopted by the Court in the Torgeman case is also applicable in other contexts where regulatory concessions are sought (e.g., in the context of taxation, securities regulation, environmental protection, etc.), Israeli bankruptcy courts have not turned to the Torgeman ruling, which was issued in the particular context of staying a criminal action, in order to define their jurisdiction with regard to other regulatory concessions (e.g., in the context of taxation). Secondly, the Torgeman ruling itself raises several difficulties. A detailed analysis of the relevant goals of the law leads to the conclusion that the rule set in the Torgeman case is rather simplistic, and that exceptions to this ruling ought to be formed. One such exception concerns the interpretation of "general jurisdiction rules," such as Section 267 or 268 to the Companies Ordinance.


Objective To investigate the expression and location of tumor necrosis factor(TNF)-α in the visceral and subcutaneous adipose tissues of non-obesity rats with insulin resistance.Methods Insulin-resistant rat model(IR group,n=10)was reproduced with 6 to 8-week-old Sprague-Dawley(SD)rats by high-glucose diet(70% calories from glucose)for 12 weeks.Normal diet SD rats(n=10)were used as a control(CN group).The levels of TNF-α protein and TNF-α mRNA in the visceral and subcutaneous adipose tissues were assayed by immunohistochemistry and RT-PCR methods.Results TNF-α positive staining was found in the intercellular substance of the visceral and subcutaneous adipose tissues.There was no TNF-α staining in the adipocytes themselves.The levels of TNF-α protein and TNF-α mRNA in the visceral adipose tissue in IR group were significant higher than those in CN group(both P0.01).The levels of TNF-α protein and mRNA in the subcutaneous adipose tissue of IR group rats were similar to that in the CN group(both P0.05).Conclusion TNF-α is over-expressed in the intercellular substance of visceral adipose tissue of non-obesity rats with high-glucose diet-induced insulin resistance.(Shanghai Med J,2008,31:788-791)


According to the present invention, decabroncodiphenylether or Sb2O3, which is suitable for engineering plastics (for example, nylon), is used as flame-retarding raw material and coupling agent is used to make the inorganic matter such as acetylene black in antistatic componnt combine closely with organic resin, so greatly increasing the adhesion of paint and meeting its requirements for flame-retarding and antistatic. The said paint has create a new approach of replacing metal with plastics as the engineering plastics such as nylon coated with the said paint may be used in the area where the requirements for flame-retarding and antistatic are higher, such as coal mine.


This memo takes issue with the claim that international standards in
computer protocols presently provide a basis for low cost vendor
supported protocol implementations. Originally published as M82-49 by
the MITRE Corporation, Bedford, Massachusetts.


or third usage. (The worst example of this is the word topos, which is introduced at the top of p. 33, given a brief definition at its second usage on the page, but only fully discussed on pp. 172-73!) There are no footnotes, but extensive annotated listings "For Further Reading" are placed at the end of each chapter. One wishes, however, that a bibliography of primary sources had somehow been wedged into the book. My reservations about certain details and editorial decisions, however, have done little to diminish my enthusiasm for the book as a whole. In the thorough and balanced survey of the literature of the Greco-Roman world and in the consistent attention to the form, content, and function ofthat literature, Aune has not only taken down fences but made a substantial contribution to building up scholarship in an area absolutely crucial to our understanding of the New Testament documents.


We study well-posedness, local and global, existence of solutions for a general class of physically meaningful nonlinear Schr\"odinger systems with magnetic field involving local and nonlocal nonlinearities.


This special section of Energy & Fuels contains selected papers from the 22nd edition of the International Symposium on Combustion Processes (ISoCP 2015), held on September 22− 25, 2015, in Polish Jurassic Highland, Poland. The International Symposium on Combustion Processes has more than a 50 year tradition as the most important scientific event in Poland in the field of combustion science. It is organized every 2 years under the auspices of the Section of Thermodynamics and Combustion of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Polish Section of the Combustion Institute. The first symposium was organized in 1968. Originally, they were intended to provide a meeting place for scientists from the east and the west. Over the years, many distinguished scholars attended and presented papers and some of them came regularly for years. The Institute of Thermal Technology of the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice had the honor of being the organizer of the 22nd edition of the symposium. The conference was held in Orle Gniazdo Hotel (The Eagle's Nest) situated in the heart of the picturesque Polish Jurassic Highland (Jura Region). The Jura Region is a unique area in terms of both its history and its geography and lies in the south-central part of Poland, caught between Cracow in the south and Czestochowa in the north. Its main attractions include beautifully shaped karst landforms in Jurassic limestone, abundant caves, and medieval castles. The conference brought together 101 participants from 14 countries and 4 continents. The program of ISoCP 2015 included 70 oral presentations and over 30 posters covering a very broad range of topics, including gaseous, liquid, and solid fuels combustion chemistry and physics, combustion in engines, combustion-generated pollutants, high-temperature combustion, fires and explosions, detonations, combustion diagnostics, carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies, gasification, and alternative fuels. Seven plenary lectures were delivered: (1) Mario Ditaranto (Sintef, Norway), Gas turbine combustion in carbon capture technologies; (2) Bogdan Dlugogorski (Murdoch University, Australia), Formation of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/F) and related molecules in combustion processes; (3) Jouni Hamalainen (VTT, Finland), Role of fossil fuels power plants in energy systems; (4) Janusz Kozinski (York University, Canada), Oxidation and flames in supercritical water; (5) Simona Merola (Instituto Motori, Italy), Optical diagnostics of combustion anomalies in SI engine; (6) Andrzej Sobiesiak (University of Windsor, Canada), Advanced fuels and combustion strategies for reduced combustion emissions from automotive engines; and (7) Roman Weber (Technical University of Clausthal, Germany), Contemporary problems of pulverized fuel combustion. The keynote speakers, the members of the scientific committee, and all session chairs are thanked for their generous contributions. The Organizing Committee expresses its gratitude to the Energy & Fuels editorial board, who agreed to devote a special section of the journal to publish the selected papers presented at ISoCP 2015. Andrzej Szlek, Conference Chair Institute of Thermal Technology, Silesian Technical University, Konarskiego 22, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland


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The interaction between transport and reconnection processes in magnetically confined plasmas is discussed. There are two complementary processes that we describe. In the first, we consider magnetic islands in a slab geometry to explore the impact of the magnetic island on ion temperature gradient stability. A local theory demonstrates a strong stabilising influence as a consequence of the suppression of gradients within the island. However, a non-local theory predicts that the presence of the magnetic island permits instabilities with a new mode structure that can be unstable. The second process addresses the impact of transport processes on the rate of reconnection. Specifically, we calculate the plasma density and flow profiles in the vicinity of the island in the situation when free streaming along magnetic field lines dominates over diffusion processes. This approximation is valid everywhere except in a narrow layer near the island separatrix, where cross-field diffusion competes with parallel free streaming. A solution in this layer is presented and matched to the solution in the external region through an intermediate collisional matching region.


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Histone deacetylase 6 (HDAC6), a cytoplasmic enzyme, is a member of Class IIb HDAC family and catalyses the deacetylation of histones. Acetylation of histones induces chromatin relaxation leading gene transcription; conversely, deacetylation of histones induces chromatin condensation and silencing of gene transcription. HDAC6 regulates important cellular functions including histone modifications, gene transcription, and viral infection, degradation of misfolded proteins, cell migration, and immune synapse formation. HDAC inhibitors have been developed over the last decade as anti-tumor therapeutic agents in solid tumors and hematologic malignancies including multiple myeloma (MM). Myeloma represents a model system for the development of novel drugs which impact tumor cells as well as accessory cells in the tumor microenvironment. In this study we evaluated the effects of selective HDAC6 inhibition on immune accessory cells using a novel HDAC6 small molecule inhibitor, WT-161 compared with a control HDAC inhibitor trichostatin-A (TsA). Peripheral blood (PBMC) or bone marrow mononuclear cells (BMNC) from healthy donors or MM patients were cultured in the absence or presence of WT-161 (0.25-2.5uM) for 6h to 7 days. We first determined whether WT-161 induces HDAC6 inhibition in normal PBMCs by western blot of acetylated (Lys40)-tubulin, a target for HDAC6 activity. WT-161 induced acetylation of tubulin in PBMCs as early as 6 hours of exposure. Immunophenotypic changes were determined by flow cytometric analysis. Immunophenotypic analysis of PBMCs cultured with WT-161 showed significantly increased expression of PD1 in all immune cell subpopulations including CD4T, CD8T, CD3/CD8/CD56+ NKT and NK cells as well as in CD14+ myeloid cells. Conversely, decreased expression of negative costimulatory molecules CTLA4 and PDL1 was also noted, with no significant change in the expression of positive costimulatory molecules CD28, ICOS and ICOSL. Additionally, culture of PBMCs with WT-161 significantly increased expression of effector/memory T cell marker CXCR3 and decreased expression of CXCR4 in CD4T, CD8T, NKT, NK effector cells as well as CD14+ myeloid cells. WT-161 also induced ICAM1 expression on all immune cell subpopulations. WT-161 effects on the proliferation of immune cells were next assessed by CFSE-flow cytometric analysis. CFSE stained PBMCs were stimulated with anti-CD3 ab and cultured with WT-161 for 7 days. While WT-161 triggered proliferation of CD4T and CD8T cells, proliferation of NK and NKT cells decreased and B cells were unaffected. Interestingly, CD4/CD25/Foxp3 coexpressing regulatory T cells were also significantly diminished in both PBMCs and BMNCs cultured with WT-161 for 4 days. These data suggest that HDAC6 may have an immune regulatory function, and that inhibition of HDAC6 induces changes in the immune effector cells in MM microenvironment. Ongoing analysis of effects of HDAC6 inhibition on immune cells in the tumor microenvironment will further define the role of HDAC6 in disease pathogenesis and suggest novel immune-based epigenetic-targeted therapies.

Disclosures: Raje: AMGEN: Consultancy; Celgene: Consultancy; Novartis: Consultancy; astraZeneca: Research Funding. Munshi: Celgene: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Millennium: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Novartis: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees. Richardson: Celgene: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Millennium: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; JohnsonJ Millennium: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Novartis: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees.


A technique is described for the collection of follicular fluid from the ovary of nonhuman primates by one individual using laparoscopy. Using the laparoscopic ancillary equipment described, the technique has application in physiological studies on the fertilizable life of the ovum, in vitro fertilization, sperm capacitation and other related investigations which depend on the in vivo recovery of an ovum near its normal ovulation time. The method allows such recovery without major surgical exploration.


Gallstone disease or cholelithiasis is very frequent in America as well as in Europe. In some of the countries of those continents gallstone disease represents a public health problem, because it is a major source of digestive morbidity. Cholesterol stones account for the majority of gallstones in Mexico and other Western countries. The pathogenesis of cholesterol gallstone disease is multifactorial, but cholesterol rich diet is one of the key factors which may induce cholesterol supersaturation of bile. Ezetimibe inhibits the absorption of cholesterol from the diet. In this brief review we will discuss the mechanisms involved in lithogenic bile production and its inhibition with ezetimibe which may be considered as a new strategy to treat and prevent cholesterol gallstones disease.


General additive modelling (GAM-modelling) is an exploratory technique that can be used on longitudinal (time series) data, e.g. rein tension, over a period of time. The aim was to apply GAM-modelling to investigate changes in rein tension during a normal flatwork training session. Six riders each rode two or three of their horses (n=17 horses) during a normal flatwork/dressage training session with video recordings and rein tension measurements (128 Hz). Training sessions were classified according to rider position, stride length and whether horses were straight, bent to the left or bent to the right. The rein tension data were split into strides and for each stride minimal (MIN) and maximal (MAX) rein tension were determined and the area under the rein tension curve (AUC) was calculated. Using data on a contact the three outcome variables MIN, MAX and AUC rein tension were modelled by horse and rein (left/right), and time within the session was modelled as a smooth function. Two additional sets of models were constructed; one set using data within-rein with gait as a fixed effect and one set with rein and gait as fixed effects. Mean ± standard deviation values were MIN: 8.0±7.7 N, AUC: 180±109 Ns, and MAX: 49±31 N. GAM-modelling extracted visually interpretable information from the originally chaotic rein tension signals. Modelled data suggest that MIN, AUC and MAX follow the same pattern within horse. In general, rein tension was lowest in walk, intermediate in trot and highest in canter. Evaluating the entire ride, 12/17 horses systematically showed higher tension in the right rein. It is concluded that GAM-models may be useful for detecting patterns through time in biomechanical data.


Team based learning (TBL) uses collaborative learning to engage students with course material and has been adopted in various health-related courses. This new pedagogy offers many advantages including an improvement in marks and positive student perceptions. In addition, it offers the right environment to develop communication skills and teamwork. Although TBL is increasingly been used in medical and nurse education, to date very few studies have reported on the preferred teaching methods in optics courses. This study, evaluated students' experiences with TBL in an optics undergraduate module using a questionnaire developed in 2012 by Heidi Mennenga (Team-based Learning Student Assessment Instrument). The questionnaire contains 33 items in 3 subscales: accountability, preference for TBL and student satisfaction with TBL. When responding, students were reminded that TBL was only included in the tutorials of this module as lectures included active learning but did not include a TBL approach. During tutorials students worked in small groups and the same structure was followed for each session: individual Readiness Assessment Test (iRAT), team RAT (tRAT) and application exercises (optics calculations based on the theory covered during lectures). Two-consecutive cohorts (2017/18 and 2018/19) taking this module were invited to complete the questionnaire anonymously. In both cohorts, students reported a more favourable experience with TBL compared to traditional lectures. The satisfaction subscale showed the highest score compared to the other two subscales within the questionnaire. Based on these findings, a TBL approach should be promoted in optics related courses to increase student satisfaction with the courses.


The present disclosure relates to novel latching circuit, as well as pixel circuit and a display device including such a latching circuit. Latch herein includes switches arranged in the inverter coupling interconnects on combining two cross-coupled inverters of the latch. Switch is configured to control the passage of current between the first and second inverters. By switching off the switch when the data voltage is transferred to the inverter, leakage current between the inverter can be shut off. Results malfunction of the data latch is prevented as.


Lithium (Li) metal, with its high energy density, is auspicious for use in Li-ion batteries. However, the ubiquitous problem of Li dendrite formation on Li metal anodes during cycling remains unresolved and impedes their practical utilization in multitudinous scenarios. Herein, we propose an alternative strategy to address the challenge above via the fabrication of Ni3(2,3,6,7,10,11-hexaiminotriphenylene)2-modified Cu-foil (Ni3(HITP)2@Cu-foil) current collectors to provide "honeycomb"-like architectures without sacrificing Li-ion transport. The large specific surface area and layered crystallographic nature of Ni3(HITP)2 afford fast and homogeneous transport channels of Li ions and a lower local current density. Meanwhile, the lithiophilic nitrogen (N)-containing functional groups (pyridinic and pyrrolic N) in Ni3(HITP)2 exhibit good lithium affinity and therefore endow uniform nucleation and growth of the metallic Li on the current collectors. These claims were verified by microscopic imaging and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Hence, the formation of Li dendrites during Li plating/stripping processes can be circumvented. Concomitantly, the Ni3(HITP)2 modified Cu-foil anodes show high coulombic efficiency of 99.7% after nearly 1000 cycles compared with Li/graphite@Cu-foil, Li/Ni-NDC@Cu-foil, and Li/Cu-foil in half-cell systems. This study sheds light on the rational design of current collectors via a combination of novel conductive metal–organic frameworks for stabilizing Li metal anodes.


A canine model was used to investigate the performance of surgically implanted epimysial and intramuscular electrodes in a growing limb. A total of 14 epimysial and 14 intramuscular electrodes were implanted in 7 skeletally immature dogs. Recruitment properties for the electrodes were measured at the time of implant and one year later using tendon tension transducers. The measurements of threshold for target muscle activation and threshold for spillover show that appropriate muscle recruitment order was retained in 93% electrodes that were evaluated, despite increase in limb length of up to 6.5 cm.


The 2-aminomethylpyridine anchored silica gel (AMPSG) was successfully used as a sorbent in a simple spectrophotometric flow system for Cu2+ preconcentration in natural water samples, using sodium diethyldithiocarbamate as chromogenic agent (460 nm). The system was optimized using a full factorial design 25 to determine better analytical conditions to determine copper in the natural water samples such as those from river, tap, stream, spring, well, waste, synthetic brackish water and a water reference material (NIST-1640). The better conditions used were: 180 s loading; 30 s elution; 30 s regeneration of the column; loading flow rate 6.6 mL min−1; buffer solution for the preconcentration and regeneration of the column-acetate buffer pH 5.75; elution flow rate 1.6 mL min−1; eluent composition 0.20 mol L−1 HNO3. Under these conditions, the preconcentration factor obtained was 77, and the detection limit achieved was 3.0 ng mL−1. The recovery of spiked water samples ranged from 95.2 to 104.7%.


Abstract Microwave-assisted synthesis and spectroscopic studies of trimethyl and triphenyl germanium(IV) chelates derived from the reactions of organogermanium chlorides with the sodium salt of a biologically active nitrogen donor ligand are described. The resulting products have been isolated and characterized by elemental analyses, molecular weight determinations and conductance measurements, Systronics-Vadodara, India. On the basis of electronic, infrared, 1H and 13C NMR spectral studies, trigonal bipyramidal geometry has been suggested for the resulting complexes. The biologically active ligand and its corresponding complexes have been examined with regard to antifungal and antibacterial activity against pathogenic fungi and bacteria, and the results are rather encouraging. Both the compounds have also been found to act as nematicides by reducing the number of nematodes (Meloidogyne incognita).


The low temperature properties of the Kagome-type system Co3V2O8 have been studied by powder neutron diffraction both in zero field and in applied magnetic field of up to 8 T. Below 6 K, the zero-field ground state is ferromagnetic with the magnetic moments aligned along the a-axis. The size of the moment on one of the two Co sites, the so called cross-tie site, is considerably reduced compared to the fully polarized state. The application of a magnetic field in this phase is found to rapidly enhance the cross-tie site magnetic moment, which reaches the expected value of ~3muB by the maximum applied field of 8 T. Different reorientation behaviors are found for the Co cross-tie and spine sites, suggesting a more pronounced easy-axis anisotropy for moments on the spine sites. Rietveld refinements reveal that a simple model, where the spins on both cross-tie and spine sites rotate in the ac-plane in a magnetic field, reproduces the experimental diffraction patterns well. In addition, it is found that at higher temperatures and moderate magnetic fields, the incommensurate antiferromagnetic order, corresponding to a transverse sinusoidal modulation above 8 K, is suppressed to be replaced by ferromagnetic order.


Taking an example of listed company,thi s paper analyses shareholder and managers attitude towards income and thinks t hat interest orientation can bring about income smoothing This paper confirms th e reason why there exists income smoothing by positive evidence Each country h as different attitude towards income smoothing, which presents an interest orie ntation of accounting standards Income smoothing has a certain benefit,but ha s more obvious weakness Income smoothing makes the manager deviate from the fin a ncial objective, which makes radical conflict of interest between shareholder an d manager Finally this paper puts forward an approach to solve the interest co n flict: supervision sets a limit cost-benefit and it isnt an ideal choice to e n ter into an equilibrium contract,so manager stock option probably is the effecti ve way to coordinate both interest relation With the development and maturatio n of enterprises prompting mechanism in our country, manager stock option perha p s becomes the important instrument by which enterprises owners coordinate the financial objective 


Richard SHUSTERMAN Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton) From Literature to Somaesthetics: Richard Shusterman interviewed by Wojciech Malecki The interview begins with a discussion of the genesis of Richard Shusterman's philosophy of literature, and then tackles topics such as the role of embodiment and natural sciences in literary studies; contemporary history and the current status of literary theory; somaesthetics and its political applications.


We report on an experimental demonstration of a 1.28 Tbit/s serial data generation and demultiplexing and discuss the prospects of upgrading other essential functionalities to 1.28 Tbit/s.


Summary form only given. We have investigated sintering, both with and without a plasma, reaction bonding of silicon nitride (RBSN), and chemical vapor infiltration (CVI) synthesis of ceramic matrix composites using microwave heating. The sintering rate of alumina in a plasma excited either by microwaves or induction coupling (5 MHz) is significantly greater than with conventional heating. The enhancement is believed to be caused by the creation of excess point defects by the plasma. Both microwave CVI and RBSN seek to take advantage of the temperature gradients inherent in volumetric heating so the reaction or deposition of matrix can take place from the center to the surface, thus enabling a greater degree of reaction than can be obtained by isothermal processing. Experimental and modeling results of these two processes are presented.


This research centered on the effects of social media on Muslim students in Nasarawa State University, Keffi. The purpose of this is to examine how Muslim students make use of the social media and the effects of these social media sites on them, the level of Muslim students' awareness of social media, how to properly make use of the social media sites for the propagation of Islam.  The research used quantitative methodology. Questionnaire was used as instrument for data collection. Similarly, textbooks, journals, as well as internet sources were used for the research. The research found that social media as a tool has created a new social dimension in the lives of Muslim students. Social media has developed and increased their levels of religious, educational and social awareness. It is argued in the research that, social media has provided an avenue for getting information in many aspects of everyday life, making one to become more knowledgeable which is beneficial especially for Muslim students. The research found that most of the Muslim students surveyed were aware of the positive and negative effects of social media sites and were also conversant with the social media sites that propagate Islam. Some of the social media sites utilized by Muslim students are Facebook, WhatsApp, Ummaland, Masjidway, Nahnu Muslim and Muslim Social to mention but a few.


The purpose of this research is to study the effects of Jigsaw IV and Reverse Jigsaw cooperative learning model from participation and achievement (cognitive abilities). The method used in this research was the experiment 2x2 factorial design. The population was students (X Class) of SMK N 3 Surakarta. This research used a cluster random sampling technique. The techniques of collecting data of this research were the interview, observation, questionnaire, and testing. The techniques of data analysis were used as a two-way analysis of variance. Based on this research, it could be concluded as follows: (1) there is a different influence between application of Jigsaw IV and Reverse Jigsaw cooperative learning model based on students' cognitive ability (Sig. = 0,045 < 0,05), (2) there is a different influence between the high and low category of students' participation toward cognitive ability (Sig. = 0,000 < 0,05), (3) there is an interaction between the influence of cooperative learning type Jigsaw IV and Reverse Jigsaw application and students' participation toward students' cognitive ability (Sig. = 0,027 < 0,05). The result of this research could be put into consideration for the teacher to application Jigsaw IV and Reverse Jigsaw cooperative learning model in the learning activity.


andpolychaete worms, species names that had previouslybeen confined to field guides, zoology textbooks, andecology journals are now starting to appear in thedevelopmental and molecular neurobiology literature.The revival of interest in these creatures should makeus pause and think about why it is that they warrantserious study. In one formulation [1], they have beentouted on the basis that "…the peculiarities of bodyplan and nervous systems that have evolved to carryout precise tasks in unique ecological niches enableinvestigators to uncover principles that are general toall nervous systems". In another [2], they have beenlauded for their contributions to "…an understanding ofthe underlying molecular and genetic mechanisms ofdisease pathogenesis…that lay a foundation for utiliz-ing these disease models in drug discovery…". Are theymore valuable for their similarities to mammals such asourselves, or for their differences from them? Thisquandary mirrors a more general question about therole of comparative studies in biology.


In this paper I incorporate a Schumpeterian mechanism of creative destruction in a standard DSGE framework. In the model, a sector of forward-looking profit maximizing innovators determines the economy's TFP growth rate. I estimate the model with Bayesian methods, and show that models featuring an endogenous TFP channel can empirically outperform models that exhibit standard, exogenous productivity dynamics. The paper provides a comprehensive comparative assessment of the impact of the endogenous TFP channel in an estimated fully-fledged DSGE model. The variance decomposition analysis shows that endogenous TFP is a powerful channel of transmission of adverse shocks throughout the business cycle. The estimates suggest that the 35% of the productivity growth rate fluctuations had endogenous origins during the Great Recession.


The present invention relates to an image having an axis of rotation of the double frame display, it can be used to control appliances such as a television or home computer direction of the screen, and it is made of a method of controlling driving force for automatically controlling the direction of the screen . Such a display rack comprising: a rotating plate in a television set or on a rotary support member mounted with two motor gear shaft; two toothed motion guide groove having a predetermined width and depth, with a gear transmission engaging the gear portion of the shaft; and a motor controller used for controlling the rotation.


Based on differential optical absorption spectroscopy(DOAS), an improved inversion algorithm of gas concentration is studied according to the differential absorption structure of being measured object at the selected wavelength region. Noise and scattering of multiple particles are considered together with the interference of other gases in the algorithm. Numerical simulation is carried out for a gas and a mixture of several kinds of gas at the given light path length respectively and also for gas with the same concentration at different light path length. Results are shown that the algorithm has good performance of antinoise and anti-jamming and the errors of concentration inversion results are basically within 1 percent. Simultaneously, the comparisons of inversion results are given for the gas with extremely high or low(mg/m3) concentration at different light path length.


Syncope is a common symptom among older adults. Its aetiologic diagnosis is mainly clinical, but when it has an unknown origin, complementary studies are necessary. We present the experience of a single center in diagnosing Unknown Origin Syncope (UOS). Methods: We performed a transversal retrolective study to assess the different tests done to patients studied because of USO. Results: The mean age of the older group was 77.6±6.9 years. The


Deposition measurements taken through a young radiata pine plantation in Kaingaroa Forest, North Island, New Zealand, in 2002, suggest that approximately 50 percent of the spray attenuation through the radiata pine canopy occurs within the top 35 percent of the canopy. This result is in sharp contrast to the spray attenuation behavior modeled in AGDISP, which predicts that only 20 percent of the spray material released above the canopy is captured in the top portion of the canopy. In an earlier paper we hypothesized that atmospheric turbulence increases the perceived length of droplet trajectories, especially for small droplets. Here, the simple LAI model in AGDISP is generalized in an effort to examine the differences in curvature between model canopy deposition predictions and data near the top of the canopy. Planned field studies in New Zealand will be used to confirm the preliminary model developed here.


We note differences between the Belgian consensus guidelines (BCG) published in your journal, the recent IAC statement on HPV testing and the Belgian government's new reimbursement rules (BNRR) . Most high risk HPV (hrHPV) infections are benign. Misuse of hrHPV testing in women aged 20 or less identifi es too many patients that will not develop cancer, exposing them to the risks of unnecessary treatments 2 but the new BNRR do not restrict hrHPV testing according to age. ASC-H is associated with such a prevalence of high grade lesions that the negative predictive value of hrHPV testing may be insuffi cient. Financing hrHPV testing is thus not indicated in ASC-H and AGC except after negative colposcopies. Because 85% of LSILs but less than 50% of postmenopausal LSILs are associated with hrHPV, HPV triage is useful only in the latter group of patients. Unfortunately no test reimbursement is provided for this subgroup. Finally the 3 consecutive negative smears recommended after treatment of LSIL 4 are not refunded. BNRR reduce over-screening. Refi ning hrHPV testing regulations can achieve additional effi ciency. It is unclear if liquid based cytology (LBC) is better than conventional smears . It is certainly more expensive. The additional cost is about 25%, extended to the negative tests, that represent 96.5% of our conventional smears, with 0.8% ASCUS and 0.9% unsatisfactory samples. When conventional series show such low values, it may be convenient to recall selected patients, reserving LBC for them. Because the system of reimbursements differs from country to country, the cost benefi t ratio of recalling strategies should not be passively extrapolated to Belgium from abroad. Cervical cancer prevention requires coordinated efforts. Failures also occur in the pre-analytic and the post-analytic phases. Much pressure has been put on the laboratories. We wonder if similar quality practices are being implemented among colposcopists.


The relationship between the photoluminescence (PL) intensity due to the W (or I1) center and the oxygen concentration in implanted silicon crystals was studied. The PL intensity of the W center decreased consistently with increasing oxygen concentration for carbon-implanted samples with a wide range of carbon fluences, while it showed no dependence on the oxygen concentration for samples implanted with elements such as hydrogen, silicon, and heavy metals. Based on these results and considerations of the reactions of intrinsic defects generated by implantation, the origin of the PL W center was attributed to a defect composed of silicon self-interstitials.


Wireless transmission gear that uses existing power lines is attracting increasing numbers of energy-management equipment users because large users can save on installation costs. Small systems may not be cost-effective, however, because wireless systems need at least 200 feet between the control unit and each load, or about 30,000 square feet to be economical. Manufacturers claim to have overcome electrical-interference problems by changing from tone to digital signals and by sending continuous signals, and user confidence is evident in the 100% sales increase enjoyed by some manufacturers. The cost of systems using existing power lines will vary by the number of signals sent and the number of receivers. A directory lists 28 major suppliers of power-line systems and components. (DCK)


Salient Object Detection is the task of predicting the human attended region in a given scene. Fusing depth information has been proven effective in this task. The main challenge of this problem is how to aggregate the complementary information from RGB modality and depth modality. However, conventional deep models heavily rely on CNN feature extractors, and the long-range contextual dependencies are usually ignored. In this work, we propose Dual Swin-Transformer based Mutual Interactive Network. We adopt Swin-Transformer as the feature extractor for both RGB and depth modality to model the long-range dependencies in visual inputs. Before fusing the two branches of features into one, attention-based modules are applied to enhance features from each modality. We design a self-attention-based cross-modality interaction module and a gated modality attention module to leverage the complementary information between the two modalities. For the saliency decoding, we create different stages enhanced with dense connections and keep a decoding memory while the multi-level encoding features are considered simultaneously. Considering the inaccurate depth map issue, we collect the RGB features of early stages into a skip convolution module to give more guidance from RGB modality to the final saliency prediction. In addition, we add edge supervision to regularize the feature learning process. Comprehensive experiments on five standard RGB-D SOD benchmark datasets over four evaluation metrics demonstrate the superiority of the proposed DTMINet method.


This study aims to investigate how goal-framed advertising messages paired with destination gender can influence travel decisions. A 2 (goal-framed messages: gain vs. loss) × 2 (destination gender: masculine vs. feminine) between-subjects experiment is conducted with an online consumer panel. Analysis of variance results indicate that gain-framed messages (vs. loss-framed messages) offer a greater advantage in triggering travel intentions toward masculine destinations. This relationship is mediated by processing fluency and gender identity congruity. When a masculine (vs. feminine) tourism destination is portrayed by gain-framed (vs. loss-framed) messages, consumers experience higher processing fluency and perceive greater congruence of gender identity, causing them to be more willing to travel. Findings suggest a matching effect of goal-framed marketing strategy and destination gender. Discussions and implications for destination managers are also presented.


A new study published today (Thursday 10 March 2016) in the journal PLOS ONE suggests a link between gum disease and greater rates of cognitive decline in people in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease.


In an
attempt to evaluate the environmental quality of Marsa-Matrouh city which covered the most famous beaches in
Egypt, an environmental risk assessment was performed, including a screening level ecological risk
assessment. The aim of this work was to determine which metals could possibly
pose toxic adverse ecological effects to marine organisms and to determine whether
hot spots exist or not. To fulfill the goals of study, surfacial sediment and
water samples were collected from ten different locations covering Marsa-Matrouh
city during four seasons (2010-2011). The average concentrations of Cd, Cu, Fe,
Ni, Pb and Zn were 2.381 ± 3.389, 9.307 ± 14.159, 68.969 ± 9.397,
2.642 ± 1.004, 16.712 ± 8.469, 31.168 ± 15.322 μg/l
in water and 0.755 ± 0.240, 5.363 ± 1.581, 962.131 ± 975.084,
3.972 ± 2.180, 15.210 ± 4.434 and 24.608 ± 7.706 μg/g
dry weight in sediment respectively. The concentrations of the investigated six
metals in water were within the acceptable limits except for two stations
(Cleopatra and El-Obayed) which exhibited higher values than the permissible
level of Cd during autumn 2010. Metal pollution assessment for both water and
sediment was studied. Heavy metal pollution index indicates that water is not
critically polluted with respect to the investigated metals. For sediment
samples, threshold effect concentrations (TEC HQ) were lower than 1 except for Cd
which showed higher value than 1, indicating the possibility of occurrence of toxic
adverse ecological effects to benthic organisms for Cd, while rare adverse
ecological effects are expected to occur with respect to Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn.


Duckweed-microalgae constructed wetland (DM-CW) was a continuous flow pilot wetland used in wastewater phytoremediation assays. This study investigated the microbial and chemical wastewater quality before and after treatment in order to evaluate the DM-CW efficiency. Results indicated that with 3 days as hydraulic residence time, the hydraulic efficiency was high and allowed significant removal for chemical and microbial parameters. COD, BOD and ammoniacal nitrogen removals were the highest with a percentage of 67.5±8.2, 70.6±9.5 and 65.9%, respectively. Total phosphorus removal was acceptable (21.5%) but was closely related to the algal growth. Total and faecal coliforms percentage removals were respectively 68.5 and 47.16%. The quality of the treated wastewater issued from the DMCW was approved and can be reused in the agriculture domain.


This Volume 5 from the African Development Perspectives Yearbook series focuses on specific countries (South Africa, Nigeria), examines the employment impacts of development co-operation. The book - along with the previous Volume 4 ("Active Labour and Employment Policies in Africa") - not only present facts, trends and analyses, but also lay the foundation for a comprehensive strategy of employment creation and poverty alleviation in Africa. Therefore, the two books may be used for all those working for Africa's development - at the country, the sectoral and the project level. Development practitioners, government officials, business executives, and development researchers will experience the two volumes as indispensable works of reference. Up to now, there is no comparable work on Africa's labour and employment situation on the market.


The present invention relates to a method for preparing a polypropylene film, a polypropylene film obtained by this method by, the use of the polypropylene film as a packaging material, the article comprising a polypropylene film, a polypropylene composition and to the use of the method of improving the workability of the film production.


Indonesia is a grand producer of tobacco, and including the province of East Java, Pamekasan Regency, Madura. Pamekasan Regency produces the most tobacco compared to Sumenep Regency and Sampang Regency. Tobacco attracts the interest of the Indonesian cigarette companies. PT. Djarum purchases tobacco to be used as a material to produce cigarettes. The purchase of tobacco is based on the prices and the quality. This company purchases a huge amount of tobacco, which is nine thousand tons. The aim of this research is to analyze the signification effect of the price and the quality towards PT Djarum's purchasing decision of tobacco among collectors in Madura. The respondents of this research are the collectors (Pengepul/Bandul) of PT Djarum. The questionnaires are given to seventy respondents and is analyzed using Partial Least Square (PLS)-Structure Equation Model (SEM). The results of this research show that the price has a significant positive effect towards the tobacco purchasing decision of PT. Djarum. The quality not significant negative effect towards the tobacco purchasing decisions of PT. Djarum.
Keywords: PT. Djarum, Bandul, Prices, Quality and Purchase Decision.


The first edition of international symposium on physics and applications, 1st ISPA, was held from December 17 to 18, 2020 on Department of Physics, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS). The event was organized by Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences and data analytic, ITS. The symposium is supported by Airlangga University, State University of Surabaya and National University of Singapore. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, The 1st ISPA 2020 was conducted virtually on December 17 to 18, 2020 in Surabaya, Indonesia through the Zoom Meeting platform. In the symposium, we invite 6 keynote speakers and 6 invited speakers from Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan, Bangladesh and Indonesia. The symposium has received significant interest amongst the community with 72 papers for oral presentations that have selected from 98 applicants received. The All papers are included addressing the research topics of the conference including theoretical physics, laser and optoelectronics, instrumentation and acoustics, earth sciences (geophysics), bio and medical Physics, and physics of materials. We are grateful to A. Rubiyanto, S. Pratapa, A. Rusydi, Madlazim, and M. Yasin, who served as members of the Advisory Committee and actively contributed to accomplish a well-balanced scientific program. To our great pleasure, also a considerable number of graduate students lively participated. The keynote and invited speakers and also the participants who going to be presented papers: Thank you once more! We hope during the symposium that we can develop research collaboration for supporting and increasing the quality of research in the physical sciences, in Indonesia. The Editors, Prof. Darminto Dr. Lila Yuwana Dr. Sungkono 1st International Symposium on Physics and Applications Darminto, Yuwana, L., and Sungkono Department of Physics, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com, email@example.com The 1st international Symposium on Physics and Applications, 1st ISPA or ISPA 2020, was held from December 17 to 18, 2020 on Department of Physics, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS). The event was organized by the Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences and Data Analytics, ITS. Considering the covid-19 pandemic and the travel restriction, ISPA 2020 was conducted via Zoom Meeting. In addition, the symposium is supported by Airlangga University, State University of Surabaya, and National University of Singapore. This Proceedings issue compiles oral presentations that were submitted by the authors after rigorously reviewed by a special committee designated by the Journal of Physics Conference Series (JPCS) editor for ISPA. List of Organizing Committee, Logos, Keynote Speakers, Invited Speakers are available in this pdf.


Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to acknowledge the importance of community networks in distribution of services and to present a conceptual framework outlining the antecedents and consequences of community marketing. Developing countries represent large untapped markets at the bottom of economic pyramid which is not serviced by conventional products using traditional marketing channels. Organisations are increasing looking at involving local community and broad range of partners called "Community Marketing" in this paper as a viable channel to expand their market by reaching out to this segment. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology for this paper involves in-depth study of the relevant literature on role of community networks and highlighting the noteworthy findings of other researchers. Although role of community networks has been widely studied in consumer goods, little has been researched on services. The study draws from cases of mobile financial services in India to develop a framewor...


Bioequivalence (BE) studies are an integral component of the ANDA (Abbreviated New Drug Application) approval and marketing of generic drug products. BE studies are generally designed to determine if there is a significant difference in the rate and extent to which the active drug ingredient, or active moiety, becomes available at the site of drug action. According to the criteria developed by the U.S. (United States) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and generally applied by other regulatory agencies, two pharmaceutically equivalent products are judged bioequivalent if the 90% confidence interval of the geometric mean ratio (GMR) of AUC and Cmax fall within 80.00125.00% [1].


The correct speed is very important for the damaged sunmarine to retain it's depth and longitudinal trim.By modeling the movement process of the submarine when it is damaged,and analyzing the impact of speed on anti-sinking effect of it,this paper gives the accelerating methods in conditions of different damaged square and depth.The deeper the submarine's depth is and the bigger the damaged area is,the faster its speed must be,so that the damaged submarine has a advantageous longitudinal trim to rise.By a demonstration example given,the models are logical,the measures advanced are effective according the simulation results.


An integrated visual thesaurus and results browser to support information retrieval was designed using a task model of information searching. The system provided a hierarchical thesaurus with a results cluster display representing similarity between retrieved documents and relevance ranking using a bullseye metaphor. Latent semantic indexing (LSI) was used as the retrieval engine and to calculate the similarity between documents. The design was tested with two information retrieval tasks. User behaviour, performance and attitude were recorded as well as usability problems. The system had few usability problems and users liked the visualizations, but recall performance was poor. The reasons for poor/good performance were investigated by examining user behaviour and search strategies. Better searchers used the visualizations more effectively and spent longer on the task, whereas poorer performances were attributable to poor motivation, difficulty in assessing article relevance and poor use of system visualizations. The bullseye browser display appeared to encourage limited evaluation of article relevance on titles, leading to poor performance. The bullseye display metaphor for article relevance was understood by users; however, they were confused by the concept of similarity searching expressed as visual clusters. The conclusions from the study are that while visual user interfaces for information searching might seem to be usable, they may not actually improve performance. Training and advisor facilities for effective search strategies need to be incorporated to enhance the effectiveness of visual user interfaces for information retrieval.


In this work, we demonstrate a computational microscopy for quantitative phase imaging and refractive index tomography using annular illumination. By employing a physical annular plate or a programmable annular LED unit, the quantitative phase images of a thin phase object or large-volume three-dimensional (3D) refractive index (RI) distributions of thick object can be rapidly characterize and recovered. This annular illumination scheme optimally encodes both low- and high-spatial frequency for quantitative phase and RI information across the entire 3D volume using a small number of intensity measurements. We also give both quantitative phase and 3D RI experiment results based on various biological samples, and this computational microscopy approach shows promise as a powerful high-speed, label-free tool for biomedical applications and possibility of widespread adoption of phase imaging in the morphology study of cellular processes and biomedical community.


The effects of soil salinity and water stress on Verticillium wilt, ion composition and growth of pistachio were studied in a greenhouse experiment (18-32°C). Treatments consisted of three levels of salinity (0, 1200 and 2400 mg NaCl/kg soil), three levels of water stress (3, 7 and 14 day irrigation regimes) and two Pistachio cultivars (Sarakhs and Qazvini, common rootstocks in Iran). Infested soil containing 50 microsclerotia/g of a pistachio isolate of Verticillium dahliae was used for all treatments and non-infested soils were used as control. The experiment was arranged in a completely randomized design with three replications. Eight-week-old pistachio seedlings were transferred to infested and non-infested soil and then exposed to salt stress and thereafter water stress. Shoot dry weights of both rootstocks were reduced significantly with increasing NaCl levels; however, increasing irrigation regimes reduced salt injury. Salt stress significantly increased shoot and root colonization by V. dahliae in both cultivars. Moreover, increasing of salinity level was positively correlated with increasing concentrations of Na + , K + and Cl - in both cultivars, but negatively correlated with increasing irrigation regimes. Based on these results, Sarakhs and Qazvini were found to be sensitive and tolerant to the effect of irrigation regimes, salinity and Verticillium wilt disease, respectively. Although there were no interactive effects of irrigation and salinity on V. dahliae infection.


The purpose of the Company Reorganization Act (Article 1) is to coordinate the interests of creditors, stockholders and other interested persons, and to strive for the reorganization and recovery of the business, in respect of any joint stock company which faces imminent failure due to financial difficulties, but which is worth economic recovery. The act was promulgated as an Act No. 1214 on December 12, 1%3, 14, and enacted by inheriting Japanese Corporation Reorganization Law. Therefore contents of the act are closely similar to those of Japanese Corporation Reorganization Law, and its efficiency as a law has been actually doubted since the act was not ever applied up to now.
However, in case of Korea, many conglomerates became bankrupt before and after financial crisis in 1997, as a result, companies that desire to rebuild company through the act increased sharply and lawsuits related to above increased suddenly, therefore various circles became interested in the act more and more. It is proved by a fact that the Company Reorganization Act is frequently amended in these years. That is to say, the act was amended 10 times in total such as in 1981, in 1984, in 1993, in 1996, on Jan. and Feb. 1998, in 1999, in 2001, and 2002, and we can know that amendments are being concentrated after 1996.
As mentioned above, the reason why amendments of the Company Reorganization Act were concentrated after 1996 is guessed that request for application of the act increased sharply before and after 1997, and in the course of application of the act, various problems such as insufficient of reality and scattering elements to prevent harmonization (promotion) of realization of legal system were detected, therefore relevant agencies of legislation make an effort to achieve the purpose of legal system and to increase reality of the act.
However, in view of judicial precedence these days, numerous issues become prominent figures in the current Company Reorganization Act and it is judged that we did never discuss about those issues. That is to say, issue of equity comes to the front of the Company Reorganization Act as a special act of the Commercial Act since an aspect of reconstruction type company reorganization law to manage conglomerates and to be distinguished from the compulsory composition of the Bankruptcy Act and the composition proceeding of the Composition Act, and an aspect of the economic law holding special purpose and relating to national economy closely are become distinguished, and protection of person who has interest lay aside.
In this thesis, I desire to summarize general matters of the Company Reorganization Act, to indicate the limitation of construction of law of the Supreme Court after examination of its judicial precedents selected and the Imperfection of legislation.


This paper proposes a novel method for classification of Remote Sensing images. In this method, the popular Maximum Likelihood Classifier (MLC) combined with the Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier. This method computes the energy function of Markov Random Field (MRF) in the neighborhoods of the test pixels. Then, relates the Markovian energy-difference function to the SVM classifier. Therefore, the salt-and-pepper effect on the classified map is reduced using the proposed contextual classifier. In this paper, two datasets include a hyperspectral and a multispectral image are used. In order to evaluate the proposed method, classification results of this method are compared with MLC and SVM. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed classification system significantly outperforms other approaches for both hyperspectral and multispectral images.


The stability constants of the murexide complexes with various metal ions were determined spectrophotometrically. The coordination tendencies of the tridentate ligands iminodiacetate, dipicolinate and murexide are compared. In terms of basicity and charge, the murexide complexes exhibit a stability which is remarkably high and most of all pronounced with A-metal ions. The possible reason for this fact is discussed.


Every year 500,000 men undergo a vasectomy in the United States. Around 2% to 6% will reverse the procedure, seeking a new conception, usually as a result of a new relationship (1, 2). But, what to do when the vasectomy reversal fails? We know that the time between vasectomy and reversal surgery is crucial. The Vasovasostomy Study Group showed patency and pregnancy rates of 97% and 76%, respectively, for the 3-year obstruction interval, which dropped to 71% and 30% for the 15-year obstruction interval or more (3). Achieve a spontaneous pregnancy after a re-reversing the vasectomy is something challenging and that's exactly what the article in question is about. In these cases, in which the reversal fails and the patient seeks spontaneous pregnancy, the only way is a vasectomy re-reversion, a new microsurgical procedure performed after the first reversal. In this topic, aiming to offer quality information leading to the best clinical decision, what are the parameters capable of influencing the success rate of a vasectomy re-reversal (4)? We will see below. There is time that the scientific community has concerned if microsurgical vasovasostomy and vasoepididymostomy provided satisfactory patency rate and natural pregnancy rates for patients with a previous failed vasectomy reversal (5). In this interesting pleasant reading article, the authors raise a topic that still lacks robust data: Vasectomy re-reversion (6). A first interesting aspect that worth mentioning is the parameters used to define the reversal failure. The authors were careful to highlight that the failure is defined as a persistent postoperative azoospermia, or a good sperm concentration with very little or even no motility and / or associated with necrozoospermia. This is important because the final and true desire is conception and, therefore, these criteria are of great importance when we consider the functionality of the sperm resulting from re-reversion. Using a simple and clear methodology, the authors present the study with a total of 18 patients, with the objective of determining the factors associated with the success of the vasectomy re-reversion. For this, the patient ́s age at the time of the reversion, time between the vasectomy and the vasectomy reversal, time between the vasectomy reversal and the vasectomy re-reversal, the presence of sperm in the proximal deferens fluid and results of seminal analysis after vasectomy re-reversion were analyzed. Before we reach the important conclusions, some aspects need to be highlighted, seeking to clarify other aspects involved in the reversal or re-reversion of the vasectomy. The first would be the surgeon's experience. The greater the number of procedures, the greater the success rate. We felt the absence of comments in this regard. Another important aspect is about the chosen technique: the authors made it clear in the methodology that the suture was performed in a single plane with 9-0 nylon but nothing was treated about the number of "stitches". Most surgeons today choose 4 single layer sutuEDITORIAL COMMENT Vol. 47 (3): 549-550, May June, 2021


Introduction:
In organisational theory there is an assumption that knowledge is used effectively in healthcare systems that perform well. Actors in healthcare systems focus on managing knowledge of clinical processes like, for example, clinical decision-making to improve patient care. We know little about connecting that knowledge to administrative processes like high-risk medical device procurement or technology assessments. Well-tailored policies for health technologies such as medical devices are essential and contribute to improved quality of health care. The regulation, assessment, and management represent important functions of the Medical Device Life-Cycle (MDLC). Insufficiently developed interactions between these functions impact the quality of health care and health system's effectiveness. To date studies lack to analyse these functions in a broad way even though they are increasingly of interest to policy makers and health system experts in Mexico.
Objective:
This Ph.D. research was designed and carried out so get a better understanding on policies and practices of the MDLC areas for orthopaedic medical devices in Mexico. The research encompasses four objectives spanning from (i) defining which areas of procurement are crucial for clinical practice and outcomes of orthopaedic medical devices, (ii) assessing attitudes of stakeholders regarding outcomes of the MDLC areas and analysing knowledge-related factors that influence these areas, (iii) analysing challenges of and discussing possible ways forward in fostering the regulation, assessment, and management of orthopaedic medical devices in Mexico, and (iv) analysing interests, positions, and power of stakeholders to three alternative strategies to improve processes and practices with regard to the regulation, assessment, and management of orthopaedic medical devices in Mexico to assess the political feasibility of these strategies.
Methods:
We used a mainly qualitative research approach through overall 166 interviews (four sub-studies) and 187 survey participants (one sub-study) as well as a literature review (one sub-study) based on an overall framework that considers the MDLC relevant areas and the different levels by which the delivery of health care is being shaped.
First, we determined and analysed themes that were relevant to the different interest groups of the MDLC by using 'procurement' as starting point. We used in-depth interviews and interviewed 58 persons representing different stakeholders from four countries to define which areas of procurement are crucial for clinical practice and outcomes of orthopaedic HRMDs.
Second, we generated initial conclusions that served to further provide more specific insights on the most relevant themes. To do so we conducted two sub-studies: (i) we conducted a study using semi-structured interviews to assess opinions from 48 stakeholders from Mexico, and (ii) we conducted a survey to assess attitudes of 187 orthopaedic specialists from Mexico.
Third, we discussed ideas for possible ways forward in fostering the MDLC. To do so we conducted two sub-studies: (i) we interviewed 42 persons representing different stakeholders from Mexico to analyse challenges of and discuss possible ways forward in fostering the regulation, assessment, and management of orthopaedic medical devices in Mexico, and (ii) we used a literature review to discuss the contribution of survival rate benchmarks as decision-making rule.
Fourth, we analysed interests, positions, and power of stakeholders to specific strategies with regard to changes of processes and practices of the MDLC relevant areas. We used a stakeholder analysis method and included 17 persons representing multiple interest groups to analyse interests, positions, and power of stakeholders to three alternative strategies to improve processes and practices with regard to the regulation, assessment, and management of orthopaedic medical devices in Mexico to assess the political feasibility of these strategies.
Results:
The MDLC system in Mexico is not coherently outlined and set-up across the regulatory, the assessment, and the management domains of orthopaedic medical devices, and this results in a situation that the quality of services delivered to patients is sub-optimal. First, the management of data and information is a critical aspect of the performance of the MDLC. Our research provided insights into problems related to data and information, and how this might have an influence on outputs and outcomes of the MDLC.
The focus on knowledge-related factors (second sub-study) allowed us to better explain the relation of MDLC function such as 'management' and clinical procedures for orthopaedic medical devices in Mexico. Second, technovigilance receives relatively high attention by policy makers in Mexico but that stakeholders of the MDLC underestimate its contribution regarding improving MDLC outcomes. Our research showed that the information flow between the micro level (observations from clinical practice) and macro level is relatively weak.
Third, in Mexico, HTA adds little value to decision-making and HTA at the level of hospitals has not received a lot of attention yet even though it may provide important benefits to the quality of health care and to the health system's effectiveness. Fourth, stakeholders of the MDLC function 'management' in Mexico underestimate the role played by procurement regarding purchasing of orthopaedic HRMDs. Our research showed that decisions are either based on simple decision criteria or impacted by lowest-price offers. Quality attributes such as clinical long-term performance and intra-operative handling performance is rarely influencing into decision-making.
Conclusion:
Only some of the findings that our research has produced have been discussed in the literature before. This research is novel in terms of its specific focus on key MDLC functions and on orthopaedic medical devices. Further, it was timely because some of the presented themes are currently undergoing policy discussion in Mexico. The MDLC system in Mexico is not coherently outlined and set-up across the regulatory, the assessment, and the management domains of orthopaedic medical devices.
The fragmentation of responsibilities of the MDLC areas, which is underpinned by the health system structure, has recently received more attention from different stakeholders and is subject to the current policy discussion. The suggested changes of current processes and practices of the regulation, assessment, and management can improve outputs and outcomes of these functions and positively influence the quality of health care and health system's effectiveness. We have the following recommendations to the Mexican policy makers and other stakeholders related to the MDLC: (i) A government agency is needed to broadly oversee, monitor and report on quality-related issues within the health system; (ii) Decision-makers should apply an integrative approach of selecting medical devices to better prevent an economic and health burden due to disconnected processes and practices of the MDLC functions; (iii) Specific policies and organizational practice targeting orthopaedic medical devices are necessary; (iv) Technovigilance needs to be strengthened to improve the understanding of potential health risks associated with sub-standard HRMDs; (v) Data, information, and knowledge need to be managed appropriately across the sub-systems of health care provision; (vi) Technologies should be assessed during the purchasing process by applying strategies such as risk assessment, the adequate involvement of end-users, and basing decisions on multiple criteria including clinical impact in the short-term and long-term; (vii) The methodology applied to technology assessments for evaluating HRMDs needs to be adapted to the gold standard and HTAs at the level of hospitals should be introduced; (viii) Decision-making needs to distinguish between different risk classes of medical devices because decisions on complex medical devices are based on simple decision criteria; and (ix) 'Procurement' needs more attention so that actors involved in procurement or impacted by procurement decisions are less confronted by problems.


37 Background: Blue Ridge Cancer Care (BRCC), part of the US Oncology Network, utilizes Value Pathways, a refinement of the NCCN Guidelines that highlights evidence-based treatment options based on efficacy, toxicity, and evaluation of financial impact to patients and payors. Adherence to evidence-based and cost-effective treatment guidelines are a significant aspect of oncology care. BRCC implemented a monthly meeting that improved patient care and provider adherence to Value Pathways guidelines and increased the understanding of financial toxicity related to various therapies. Incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) was introduced as a tool to help estimate therapy value. Methods: Monthly virtual/in-person meetings involved the two divisions (9 locations) and included two alternating formats. 1) Journal Club focused on new pathway regimens. 2) Pathways Round Table established open discussions between providers focused on peer review of "off-pathway" treatment decisions. Provider scorecards were shared monthly on individual provider pathway adherence rates. Surveys were conducted prior to and after the interventions to assess knowledge of guidelines, financial toxicity, and overall satisfaction. Results: We compared provider pathways adherence rates from 2018 - 2023 and surveyed providers on the impact of these meetings. Oncologist adherence to Value Pathways prescribing compliance increased 7.5% from 2018 to 2023 with an average of 2400 cancer treatment regimens entered per year. Conclusions: The Journal Club and Pathways Round Table meetings plus scorecards improved pathway adherence, collegiality among providers, normalized financial toxicity discussions with patients, and was considered valuable by most providers. [Table: see text]


Graphic of the luck,the wealth,the long life,and the happy reflects an emotion world that Chinese people love and purse desirable life and wish to give fortune to later generations.Fortune in graphics express Chinese people's special ideology and spirit.As later generations,we should focus on experiencing connotation of national and traditional culture,put modern passion in it,and absorb goodness from foreign to create modern emotion design.


Background HILS hosted an event where delegates were gathered from multiple backgrounds and organisations across the region to be inspired by regional and national works and projects in the field of Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR). Delegates were introduced to VR/AR science and applications, the resources and expertise that we have within HUTH were showcased and launched a Network group to lead/support and research future work/projects across all organisations. Summary of Work Workshops were planned to enable multi-disciplinary groups to come together, engage and participate in the creative process, discover how creativity and Innovation is fostered across Organisations and have the opportunity to be part of the future innovative and creative culture in shaping our health services using an Iterative Delphi process. Delegates used the Creating Culture of Innovation Framework (NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement 2010) to determine their own organisation's creative culture. An exercise was created to embed partnership and cooperation to increase readiness for change and fostering creative culture across organisations. Summary of Results The event was attended by 85 people from variable backgrounds and organisations, ranging from clinicians (acute and community), academics (lecturers, educators and students), technicians, artists, designers, commissioners, start-ups and private companies. Delegates rated the day highly as inspiring and educational. Delegates generated more than 200 VR/AR ideas, 8 of these ideas were adopted by the organisations as having a potential for further work, including the use of VR to enhance patient experience and use within healthcare education. This event placed Hull on the map for its work in VR/AR. Delegates showed interest in joining the Network group and the day concluded with the launch of the Network group which aims to lead/support and research future work/projects across all organisations. Discussion Delegates were able to engage and participate in inspiring talks and workshops and creative processes. Delegates identified how creativity and Innovation is fostered across Organisations and had the opportunity to be part of the future Innovative and Creative Culture in shaping our health services. Conclusion 14 delegates expressed interested in joining the network group, the first meeting took place on the 29th September 2020 via Webex. Recommendations VR/AR technologies require input of many agencies to develop services that both staff and patients may benefit from. To this end it is imperative that the network keeps its momentum and continues to collaborate to enable future projects to succeed. Reference NHS Institue for Innovation and Improvement ( 2010). Creating Culture of Innovation Framework. https://www.england.nhs.uk/improvement-hub/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2017/11/Creating-the-Culture-for-Innovation-Practical-Guide-for-Leaders.pdf


AbstractAs urban traffic congestion grows, traffic engineers must find ways to maximize the efficiency of traffic signal control. Different control strategies, including actuated, coordinated, and ...