This research was conducted at the Bank of South Sumatra Babylon Sub-Branch of Pendopo Lintang with the aim to find out the implementation of credit granting procedures to reduce the occurrence of bad credit. Data analysis method used is qualitative analysis. Qualitative analysis is explained by collecting, compiling, evaluating and interpreting data. The data collection technique used is documentation. The procedure for granting credit to the South Sumatra Bank Babel branch of Pendopo Lintang has carried out the stages of lending in accordance with standards, starting from the stage of submitting a loan application, the stage of investigation and data analysis, and the decision stage on the loan application, the stage of disbursing credit facilities and the Credit Supervision stage and Debtor Development. However, the lack of rigor of analysis in the implementation of lending still has the potential to create the risk of bad credit which ultimately harms the Bank of South Sumatra's Babel Branch of Pendopo Lintang.


Local Own-source Revenue (LOR) is all regional revenue that comes from the region's original economic resources. It is very important to identify it by researching and determining the Regional Local Own-source Revenue (LOR) by properly researching and managing the source of revenue so as to provide maximum results. Central Sulawesi Province itself has Local Own-source Revenue (LOR) in the Regional Revenue and Expenditure Budget of the 2018 Budget Year has reached Rp1 trillion. The increase or decrease in growth of local revenue is influenced by the amount and type of tax, levies collected by local governments and the lack of incentives for the management apparatus to carry out tax collection and levies. This study uses spline regression analysis because the data of the Local Own-source Revenue (LOR) in Central Sulawesi in 2018 does not have a pattern so that it fits perfectly with that method. Then after processing the data obtained the results of spline nonparametric regression modeling using the optimal knots point obtained from the minimum GCV value. The best spline nonparametric regression model is written as follow . It can be concluded that in Central Sulawesi in 2018 the lowest Local Own-source Revenue (LOR) value was Banggai Laut Regency with 21,776 billion rupiahs and the highest Local Own-source Revenue (LOR) value was Palu City at 267,402 billion rupiahs.


Abstract. With the development and popularity of the Internet, network security has become a popular topic. The traditional solution for screening the security of network information is to convert the signal transmitted in the optical fiber into an electrical signal through an optical conversion. Then we perform symbol matching within the electronic firewall to determine whether the signal is a risk. However, due to the limitation of carrier recovery time in the semiconductor, the photoelectric converter cannot handle signals with too high rate, and it also causes a large power consumption. To improve the efficiency and scalability of signal matching, we propose an all-optical matching structure. This structure can identify the position of the target sequence in the input data sequence in the all-optical environment, and the structure is suitable for any amplitude and phase modulation format. The matching result of each bit of the target sequence and input data sequence is obtained by phase delay and interference. Then the matching result of each bit of the target sequence and input data sequence is integrated by logic AND gate, regenerator, and delay line. Finally, the matching result between the whole target sequence and the input data sequence is obtained. This structure can avoid photoelectric transformation and processes the signal directly at the optical domain, which greatly reduces the consumption of time and energy. We use VPItransmissionMaker software to simulate and verify the structure. The length of the input signal during the simulation is 8 bits, the length of the target signal is 4 bits, and the transmission rate of the signal is 100 GBaud. We simulated the binary phase shift keying (BPSK), quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK), 8-phase shift keying (8PSK), and 16 quadrature amplitude modulation (16QAM) modulation formats and analyzed the noise performance of the system. The results show that the structure can achieve all-optical matching of high-speed optical signals in BPSK, QPSK, 8PSK, and 16QAM modulation formats and has good anti-noise performance.


Aim To determine whether Xuezhikang, a HMG CoA reductase inhibito r made in China, affects CD11b expression and adhesiveness of monocytes to endot helial cells in vitro after the treatment of patients with hypercholesterolemia. Methods Fifteen patients with hypercholesterolemia were treated with Xuezhikang (1.2 g/d) for 4 weeks. Isolated human blood monoc ytes were subject to flow cytometric detection of CD11b and adhesion assays to l ive human endothelial cells were made before and after the treatments of Xuezhik ang. Results The average fluorescence intensity and the relative fluorescence intensity of CD11b expressed in monocytes and lymphocy tes from the peripheral venous blood were lowered after the treatment of Xuezhik ang. The expression rate of CD11b in lymphocytes was decreased from 27%±4% to 13%±3% (P0.05,n=15). The adhesion rate of mo nocytes to endothelial cells was reduced from 5.5%±2.3% to 1.8%±0.8%(P0.05,n=15). Pretreatment of CD11b mAb in vitro ca n inhibit the adhesion of monoctyes to endothelial cells. Conclus ions Xuezhikang, a kind of HMG CoA reductase inhibitor, can inhi bit the expression of CD11b in monoctyes and the adhesion of monocytes to endoth elial cells with the cholesterol loweing effects. The nonlipid mechanisms may involve in it.


Episodic tremor and slow slip (ETS) downdip of the subduction seismogenic zone are poorly understood slip behaviors of the seismic cycle. Talc, a common metasomatic mineral at the subduction interface, is suggested to host slow slip but this hypothesis has not been tested in the rock record. We investigate actinolite microstructures from talc‐bearing and talc‐free rocks exhumed from the depths of modern ETS (Pimu'nga/Santa Catalina Island, California). Actinolite deformed by dissolution‐reprecipitation creep in the talc‐free rock and dislocation creep ± cataclasis in the talc‐bearing rock. This contrast results from stress amplification in the talc‐bearing rock produced by high strain rates in surrounding weak talc. We hypothesize that higher strain rates in the talc‐bearing sample represent episodic slow slip, while lower strain rates in the talc‐free sample represent intervening aseismic creep. This work highlights the need to consider fluid‐mediated chemical change in studies of subduction zone deformation and seismicity.


This paper considers the development of a tool to support the presentation of the
material forming an ethnographic report. The paper focuses on the way in which use
of the system has evolved to offer appropriate facilities. The use of viewpoints to
present material from a number of studies is described. The paper concludes by
reflecting on the need to consider the way in ethnographers have become users of the
tool.


Phospholipids with an ether bond (PLEB) are widespread in nature. They are present in all tissues of animal origin [28, 47, 52] and have also been isolated from many microorganisms [52]. The PLEB are l-O-alkyland l-O-(l-alkenyl)phosphoglycerides. The l-O(l-O-alkenyl)-2-acylphosphoglycerides (plasmalogens) are chiefly phosphatidylethanolamines (PE) (I), whereas the l-O-alkyl-2-O-acylphosphoglycerides are chiefly phosphatidylcholines (PC) (II).


The numbers that describe firearm-related injury and death in the United States are astounding. Over recent years, more than 32000 firearm-related deaths occurred annually (1). In 2013, firearms nonfatally injured 84258 persons and killed 33636 more, with 21175 of these deaths being suicides (2). In 2010, firearm-related incidents cost society more than $174 billion, including more than $3 billion in direct health care costs to an already beleaguered system (3). These numbers do not include the rippling physical and emotional burdens gun-related incidents leave on those who are nonfatally wounded and the communities who lose or support injured colleagues, friends, and family. It does not matter whether we believe that guns kill people or that people kill people with gunsthe result is the same: a public health crisis. When public health crises arise, our powerful health care complex responds by doing what our scientific training and duty to help others require. We formulate questions that need answers, collect and analyze data to answer them, test hypotheses to discover remedies, study how to implement them, and monitor progress. This is how polio was nearly eliminated, automobile-related injury and death rates were reduced, tobacco-related illness decreased, and an Ebola epidemic is being curtailed. The list goes on. But it seems to stop when it comes to firearm injury. Why? Two years ago, we called on physicians to focus on the public health threat of guns (4). The profession's relative silence was disturbing but in part explicable by our inability to study the problem. Political forces had effectively banned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other scientific agencies from funding research on gun-related injury and death. The ban worked: A recent systematic review of studies evaluating access to guns and its association with suicide and homicide identified no relevant studies published since 2005 (5, 6). However, in the wake of the horrific mass murder of children, a January 2013 Presidential executive order lifted this ban and directed the CDC to conduct research on the causes and prevention of gun violence. Obviously, this directive alone will not end the suppression of science; although research may now be allowed, the CDC cannot direct new resources to this task because the President's CDC budget requests to support a focus on gun-related violence were not funded. Compounding the lack of research funding is the fear among some researchers that studying guns will make them political targets and threaten their future funding even for unrelated topics. However, study has occurred and our profession is beginning to speak more loudly. At the CDC's request, the Institute of Medicine developed a focused research agenda designed to have an effect on firearm-related violence in 3 to 5 years (7). The Institute of Medicine committee concluded that we need a better understanding of factors associated with access to guns and their use in violence, the effectiveness of gun safety technologies or public policies at reducing gun-inflicted harm, and the influence of video games and other media. It also called for the collection of better data and database linkages to enable more effective research. These basic gaps in our knowledge are inexcusable. In this issue, Rowhani-Rahbar and colleagues (8) begin to fill some gaps. Using probabilistic linkage, they used Washington Statewide hospitalization, criminal justice, and vital statistics records to evaluate the risks patients faced after a firearm-related hospitalization (FRH). Compared with patients with noninjury-related hospitalization, patients with an FRH were at inordinate risk for subsequent FRH (subhazard ratio, 21.2 [95% CI, 7.0 to 64.0]), firearm-related death (subhazard ratio, 4.3 [CI, 1.3 to 14.1]), and firearm- or violence-related arrest (subhazard ratio, 2.7 [CI, 2.0 to 3.5]). Residential mobility, events missed by probabilistic matching, and the inability to more fully control for social or environmental confounders surely affected the precision of these estimates. Nonetheless, these findings have face validity. But are they valuable? They are if we use them to motivate additional research to determine whether intervening at the time of an FRH can reduce future adverse outcomes. Could factors associated with increased risk help target secondary prevention strategies? Which prevention strategies are effective? Might FRH be an opportunity to break a violent cycle and promote primary prevention by avoiding others' inclusion in subsequent cycles? Currently, physicians discharge patients after an FRH with little, if any, plan to avoid the next round of violence. Shouldn't we be crying out to learn how we can work with social workers, criminologists, policymakers, and other professionals to do a better job in preventing firearm-related harm? In another article in this issue, 7 national physician organizations are calling for measures to help us do just that (9). Executive leaders of the American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Emergency Physicians, American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American College of Physicians, American College of Surgeons, and American Psychiatric Association are together pressing for increased research (and unfettered access to the findings) to discover strategies to diminish firearm-related harms. In addition, they call for sensible measures to reduce firearm violence: universal background checks; elimination of laws intruding on physicians' and patients' rights to discuss issues related to health and safety, including guns; and restricting the manufacture and civilian sale of military-style weapons and high-capacity magazines. The American Public Health Association and the American Bar Association, which confirms that these recommendations do not conflict with Second Amendment rights or U.S. Supreme Court rulings, join these physician organizations. Together, the organizations united in this call for action represent more than 500000 health care professional members. A recent survey of internists indicates that most believe that firearm injury is a public health issue and that physicians should get involved in its prevention (10). Let's start. What if the more than half million health care professional members of these organizations contacted their federal and state government representatives to tell them that they believe firearm-related injury is a public health crisis that we need to fix? We just did. It took less than 1 minute to find contact information for our state government legislators (we searched e-mail my PA legislator). You may contact your Congressional representatives at www.house.gov/representatives/find or www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm. We provide a copy of the letter we sent (Supplement), and you can modify it or write your own to convey your thoughts on the public health threat of firearms. Supplement. Sample Letter We, as health care professionals, are trusted, expected, and paid to prevent harm to our patients and discover solutions to public health problems. Have we done our jobs? Can we? The answers are no and maybe: No, we have not sufficiently reduced the firearm-related harms our patients suffer, but maybe we can, if we demand the resources and freedom to do so.


Assessing library resources and services at a distance holds unique challenges in gathering data needed to make informed decisions. This article describes the complete process of piloting virtual focus groups—from planning and implementation through the analysis of results for a completely online student population. The virtual focus group method proved effective in getting qualitative feedback to spur library improvements, and it is transferable to many different library settings.


Plato's Symposium contains various myths dealing with gender and the erotic, among them Aristophanes' account of the three original sexes, which are here treated from the standpoint of modern science. In particular we see how, since the 19th century, sexology and psychoanalysis have updated concepts of a third sex and androgyny. Similarities with positions in antiquity demonstrate the relevance and force of the general propositions of myths. Differences appear to imply the effective presence of other myths of Judeo-Christian origin. All things considered, the ancient tensions between Aristophanes' and Socrates' attitude are still at work. It is from that viewpoint that the conceptual relationships between androgyny and the third sex are examined.


Ethics is the recognition of good and evil. Ethics refers to the values, principles and codes by which people live Food and ethics are closely connected. Ethics and trust in food safety are of crucial meaning because we cannot be self sufficeint in the production of food and we have to trust the food producers and the authority. In this article food quality and food safety assurance are briefly characterized. In the following parts ethics in food, codes of ethics, the rules of internal auditor, and the Ethical Matrix are described. The main aim of this paper is to focus on the meaning of ethics and trust in food production and food quality assurance


In this paper, we report an integrated single-chip surface acoustic wave sensor with the capability of measuring magnetic field, temperature, and humidity. The sensor is fabricated using a thermally sensitive LiNbO3 substrate, a humidity sensitive hydrogel coating, and a magnetic field sensitive impedance load. The sensor response to individually and simultaneously changing magnetic field, temperature and humidity is characterized by connecting a network analyzer directly to the sensor. Analytical models for each measurand are derived and used to compensate noise due to cross sensitivities. The results show that all three measurands can be monitored in parallel with sensitivities of 75 ppm/°C, 0.13 dB/%R.H. (at 50%R.H.), 0.18 dB/Oe and resolutions of 0.1 °C, 0.4%R.H., 1 Oe for temperature, humidity and magnetic field, respectively. A passive wireless measurement is also conducted on a current line using, which shows the sensors capability to measure both temperature and current signals simultaneously.


Combining two different redox-active organometallic moieties, we prepared the compounds [(Cym)RuCl(dpf)](PF6), with Cym = p-cymene = 1-isopropyl-4-methylbenzene, and the diphosphinoferrocenes (dpf) 1,1′-bis(diphenylphosphino)ferrocene (dppf; complex 3), 1,1′-bis(diisopropylphosphino)ferrocene (dippf; complex 4), and 1,1′-bis(diethylphosphino)ferrocene (depf; complex 5) as well as the structurally characterized hydride complex [(C5Me5)RuH(dippf)] (2). In contrast to the case for 2, with an approximately staggered ferrocene conformation, the chloride complexes 3−5 exhibit a syn-periplanar ferrocene arrangement due to a Cl···H(C5H4) interaction in the solid and in solution. The related new compounds [(Cym)RuH(dppf)](PF6) (6) and trinuclear (μ-dpf)[(Cym)RuCl2)]2 (7−9) were also obtained and identified by 1H and 31P NMR spectroscopy. The redox behavior of 2−6 and of the known [(C5Me5)RuH(dppf)] (1) was investigated using cyclic voltammetry, spectroelectrochemistry in the UV/vis/near-IR and IR regions, and, in ...


Flexible Macroblock Ordering (FMO) is a new error-resilient tool at the encoder in H.264/AVC. In this paper, a method to generate explicit FMO map using one-pass encoding is proposed. To generate explicit FMO map, coded bit-count which acts as spatial information and distortion measure based on the concealment error which acts as temporal information are used. Our simulation results performed under slow and fast fading channels show that the proposed technique using one-pass encoding saves some encoding delays while still can retain the same level of PSNR.


Abstract —Reaction of bis(triorganotin)oxide with Schiff bases derived by condensation of heterocyclic ketones, 2-acetylfuran and 2-acetylthiophene, with various sulfadrugs (sulfaguanidine, sulfathiazole, sulfisoxazole and sulfadiazine) leads to the formation of a new series of organotin(IV) complexes. An attempt has been made to probe their structures on the basis of elemental analysis, conductance measurements, molecular weight determination, UV, IR and NMR (1H, 13C and 119Sn) spectral studies. The results of antimicrobial effects of some representative complexes on different species of pathogenic fungi and bacteria have also been recorded and discussed.


We discuss the physics of the pot-in-pot cooler. By balancing temperature decrease due to evaporation and temperature increase due to heat exchange, we find the equilibrium temperature of the pot. In this simplified model, the cooling jug acts as a psychrometer, and the theoretical prediction of our model is in a good agreement with psychrometric tables. Next, we study dynamics of the jug cooling. The cooling rate is limited by water vapour diffusion through air, heat conduction through air, and heat conduction through the body of the jug. The derived rate of temperature decrease is in general agreement with the result of our experiment. In the end, we discuss some additional factors, such as capillary effects in the raw clay, water viscosity in the capillaries, and impact of complex shape of the jug.


The transition between phase II (structured, supervised) and phase III (long-term, unsupervised) cardiac rehabilitation (CR) provides an opportunity to promote regular physical activity (PA) in cardiac patients, with the aim of maintaining functional capacity and improving cardiovascular (CV) prognosis. Unfortunately, barriers at the individual and organizational/environmental level may lead to poor adherence to PA, with a consequent need for a call to action by the whole multidisciplinary CR staff. In particular, improvement of patients' self-efficacy—defined as beliefs about one's ability to perform a specific action—is clearly associated with better adherence to the programme. The gold standard is individualized prescription of a PA plan—type, intensity, duration, and frequency—which should be monitored and revised periodically on the basis of serial direct evaluations of cardiorespiratory fitness. If this is not available, good PA practice focusing on training intensity and volume should be recommended. In selected cases, the delivery of a long-term PA programme could be supported by digital health tools.


The compact model for negative capacitance FDSOI (NC-FDSOI) FET with metal–ferroelectric–insulator–semiconductor (MFIS) gate-stack is presented, for the first time, in this article. The model is developed based on the framework of BSIM-IMG, an industry-standard model (i.e., for zero thickness of a ferroelectric layer, the model mimics the behavior of BSIM-IMG). The developed NC-FDSOI model is computationally efficient and captures drain current and its derivatives accurately. The model shows an excellent agreement with numerical simulation and the measured data of NC-FDSOI FET. The proposed compact model is implemented in Verilog-A and tested for circuit simulations using commercial circuit simulators.


Specimens of Gobius criniger, collected from the Ryukyu and Amami Islands and from Formosa, were examined for their toxicity by a mouse assay. They showed a great regional variation of toxicity and an indistinct seasonal one. The individual variation in the specimens collected at the same time at the same place was very small. In the toxic specimens, the skin was generally high in toxicity, followed by the viscera and muscle in that order. In a few specimens the highest toxicity was in the mature testes.


NovAtel has implemented a small form-factor MEMS technology IMU into SPAN (Synchronized Position Attitude Navigation), its GNSS/INS solution. Selected to match the needs of autonomous, low latency, precision applications, the Analog Devices ADIS16488 iSensor IMU integrates a triad each of MEMS gyroscopes and accelerometers, and a pressure sensor. This commerciallyavailable IMU features a high acceleration range, small size, and factory calibration.


The combination of moderate hyperthermia (43 degrees C water bath for 1 hour) and BCNU against the EMT6 mouse tumor has been studied. The effect was found to be much greater than could have been predicted from the effects of the single modalities and this is true whether the endpoint is tumor cure, growth delay, or in vitro assay of clonogenic fraction. The results indicate that inhibition of "recovery from potentially lethal drug damage" is not the mechanism by which heating potentiates the action of BCNU.


Previous clinical, observation and epidemiologic studies have demonstrated strong association between serum uric acid (SUA) and cardiovascular disease (hypertension, heart failure, and asymptomatic atherosclerosis), metabolic states (abdominal obesity, diabetes mellitus, metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance) and kidney disease. There is a large body of evidence regarding the role of SUA as predictor of CV events and CV mortality in general population and individuals with established CV disease and metabolic diseases. However, SUA may exhibit protective effects on endothelium and vasculature as well as attenuate endogenous repair system through mobbing and differentiation of cell precursors. Although SUA lowering drugs are widely used in patients with symptomatic hyperuricemia and gout beyond their etiologies, there is no agreement of SUA below target level 6.0 mg/dL in asymptomatic individuals with kidney injury and CV disease and data of ones are suffi ciently limited. The short communication is depicted on the controversial role of SUA as primary cell toxicity agent and secondary cell protector against hypoxia, ischemia and apoptosis. Short Communication Does serum uric acid play a protective role against tissue damage in cardiovascular and metabolic diseases? Alexander E Berezin* Senior Consultant of Therapeutic Unit, Internal Medicine Department, State Medical University of Zaporozhye, 26, Mayakovsky av., Zaporozhye, Ukraine *Address for Correspondence: Alexander E Berezin, Professor, MD, PhD, Private Clinic Vita-Center, 3, Sedova str., Zaporozhye, Senior Consultant of Therapeutic Unit, Internal Medicine Department, State Medical University of Zaporozhye, 26, Mayakovsky av., Zaporozhye, Ukraine, Tel: +380612894585; Email: email@example.com; firstname.lastname@example.com Submitted: 09 June 2017 Approved: 17 July 2017 Published: 18 July 2017 Copyright: 2017 Berezin AE. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.


There have been continuing incidents in the United States regarding the "illumination" of aircraft by lasers. The primary problem is not one of eye or skin safety. Instead, safe-but-bright levels of visible laser light are causing interference with pilot tasks.There have been continuing incidents in the United States regarding the "illumination" of aircraft by lasers. The primary problem is not one of eye or skin safety. Instead, safe-but-bright levels of visible laser light are causing interference with pilot tasks.


This paper characterizes the optimal time path of R&D and capital subsidization. Starting from the steady state under current R&D subsidization in the US, the R&D subsidy should significantly jump upwards and then slightly decrease over time. There is a small loss in welfare, however, from immediately setting the R&D subsidy to its optimal long run level, compared to a time-varying R&D subsidy. The results do not depend on the financing scheme, namely lump sum taxation or factor income taxation. The optimal capital subsidy is time-varying under factor income taxation, but time-invariant when subsidies are financed by lump sum taxes.


To effectively determine the possibility of attacks for network packets,a new detection algorithm DMPSO(detection method based on particle swarm optimization)was proposed on the basis of previous studies.At first,the state indicators were defined with the discreteness of packet characteristic,and the calculation process of standard deviation distribution was presented to judge the packet anomaly by using particle swarm optimization.Finally,a simulation with OPNET and MATLAB was conducted to study the key factors of DMPSO.Compared to the performances of other algorithms,the results show that the proposed algorithm has better adaptability.


The quantitative analysis of diterpene acids in raw materials of closely related species of genus Salvia was carried out.
The objects of present research were Salvia officinalis L., Salvia tesquicola Klokov and Pobed., Salvia nutans L., which
grow in neighboring south (Samara and Orenburg) regions. During analysis different raw materials, such as herbs and
leaves, were studied. It was determined that total amount of diterpene acids varies from 1,04% to 1,32% in leaves of
different species of Salvia and from 1,13% to 1,67% in herbs of different species of Salvia. The raw material of Salvia
nutans contains minimal amount of diterpene acids, but in the raw material of Salvia tesquicola the quantitative analysis
shows different results, which depend on the region. The medical raw material of Salvia officinalis, which is cultivated in
Samara region, includes sufficient amount of diterpene acids.


In this study, we present a system which can provide users with appropriate eating speed guidance. The purpose of our study is to improve user's eating habit by delivering real-time feedback while eating. We conducted a pilot study with our proposed device (using either visual or tactile feedback), the results showed that there was an increase in overall eating time through the two types of feedback. In particular, the tactile feedback could reduce the amount of a bite, that is, the participants could eat smaller portion for a bite than before.


Saline water irrigation can change the soil environment, thereby influencing soil microbial processes. In this study, a nine years saline water irrigation experiment had been conducted in Shihezi, Xinjiang Province, China, to investigate the composition and diversity of the soil fungal community. Our results showed that irrigation with either brackish or saline water significantly increased soil salinity and Available Phosphorus, but reduced soil pH, SOC, TN, and Available Kalium. Saline water irrigation significantly decreased operational taxonomic units (OTUs), ACE, Chao1, and Shannon indices but increased Simpson indices. The dominant fungal phyla were Ascomycota, Mortierellomycota, Basidiomycota, Glomeromycota, and Chytridiomycota. Irrigation with either brackish or saline water significantly reduced the abundance of Mortierellomycota but increased the abundance of Ascomycota and Basidiomycota. In addition, saline water irrigation significantly decreased the relative abundance of Glomeromycota compared with fresh water irrigation, but significantly increased the relative abundance of Chytridiomycota. Redundancy analysis (RDA) results showed that salinity (ECe) was the primary factors driving the changes in soil fungal community composition. LEfSe analysis demonstrated fungal potential biomarkers decreased by saline water irrigation. These results increase our understanding of soil ecological processes in soils that are increasingly salinized.


This article analyses the ways in which young people with a migration background develop their own transnational engagement with their or their parents' country of origin. Drawing on 17-months of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in the Netherlands and Ghana, we add to the emerging literature on 'return' mobilities by analysing young people of Ghanaian background, irrespective of whether they or their parents migrated, and by looking at an under-researched form of mobility that they engage in: that of attending funerals in Ghana. Funerals occupy a central role in Ghanaian society, and thus allow young people to gain knowledge about cultural practices, both by observing and embodying them, and develop their relationships with people in Ghana. Rather than reproducing their parents' transnational attachments, young people recreate these according to their own needs, which involves dealing with tensions. Peer relationships—which have largely gone unnoticed in transnational migration studies—play a significant role in this process.


http://ajs.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/09/23/0363546516665801 The online version of this article can be found at: DOI: 10.1177/0363546516665801 published online September 23, 2016 Am J Sports Med Thompson Michael M. Bottros, Jacob D. AuBuchon, Lauren N. McLaughlin, David W. Altchek, Karl A. Illig and Robert W. Athlete Facilitate the Diagnosis of Neurogenic Thoracic Outlet Syndrome in the High-Performance Overhead Exercise-Enhanced, Ultrasound-Guided Anterior Scalene Muscle/Pectoralis Minor Muscle Blocks Can


Sensing device, to obtain the metal nanoparticles that can be suitably applied by such as optical and electronic devices, thereby advancing the reduction by immersing the metal radionuclide was attached to the substrate surface to a solution containing metal ions of the same kind to provide a metal nano-plate-immobilized substrate comprising immobilized metal nano plates on the substrate surface by.


Yoshimasa TAKAYAMA  , Yoshiyasu SAIGO  Ryuichi TAKAHASHI  and Hajime KATO  Changes in microstructure and crystallite orientation distribution by continuous cyclic bending ( CCB ) and the sub-sequent annealing have been investigated in a commercial purity titanium. The sheet of the titanium worked by CCB with less dimensional change showed 1.3 times higher hardness than that before CCB on the surface. The CCB and the annealing formed the gradient microstructure with coarse-grained surface layers and ˆne-grained in-side. Thickness of the coarse-grained layers could be controlled by the CCB process conditions. It was found that the transverse texture ( TD


. Let A be an abelian variety defined over a number field K and let L be a degree 3 non-Galois extension of K . Let X ( A/K ) and X ( A/L ) denote, respectively, the Tate-Shafarevich groups of A over K and over L . Assuming that X ( A/L ) is finite, we compute [ X ( A/K )][ X ( A ϕ /K )] / [ X ( A/L )], where [ X ] is the order of a finite abelian group X .


The repair of road sections in cities is necessary for many different reasons. Integral, exact and detail analyzing of causes and reasons for road section rehabilitation in cities could result in the most appropriate solutions for specific purposes. As the result of analysis we should define such a solution that it could be implemented and the effectiveness of the measures observed. In the article there are presented causes, needs and reasons for the rehabilitation of road sections in cities on the one hand and the measures, which should be applied for rehabilitation on the other hand. For the covering abstract see ITRD E111131.


Background: Neuropsychological study of new-onset idiopathic epilepsy is considered an exciting opportunity to document cognitive effects of epilepsy before initiation of antiepileptic drugs. Recent studies revealed significant affection of executive functions in new onset seizure without medication. Aim of the Work: To evaluate cognitive functions including (IQ, visual memory and executive functions) in patients with idiopathic epilepsy at onset of disorder before drug treatment or within one week of treatment. Patients and Methods: An observational case -control study was conducted on 30 patients with new onset idiopathic epilepsy recruited from the outpatient clinic of the department of neurology (Ain Shams University) and 30 healthy cross matched control in the period from June 2016 to June 2018. Both patients and control were subjected to cognitive assessments (Wechsler IQ, Benton visual retention test and Wisconsin card sorting test). Results:In our study we found significant poor performance of patient group before treatment compared to control group in all domains of intellectual abilities measured by Wechsler IQ test (verbal IQ, performance IQ and total IQ), visual memory measured by Benton visual retention test (obtained correct score, expected error scores and difference between them, obtained error score and expected error score and difference between them) and executive functions measured by Wisconsin card sorting test (conceptual level, category completed, perseverative errors and non-perseverative errors). Conclusion: cognitive functions impairment including (intellectual level, visual memory and executive functions) were found in patients with idiopathic epilepsy at onset of epilepsy and before treatment.


Consider a graph with n nodes V = {1, 2 ,...,n } and let d(i, j) denote the distance between nodes i, j. Given a permutation π on {1, 2 ,...,n } such that π(1) = 1, the back-walk-free latency from node 1t o nodej is defined by � π(j )= � π(j − 1) + min{d(π(k) ,π (j)) | 1 ≤ k ≤ j − 1}. Note that � π(1) = d(1, 1) = 0. Each vertex i is associated with a nonnegative weight w(i). The (weighted) minimum back-walk-free latency problem (MBLP) is to find a permutation π such that the total back-walk-free latency n=1 w(i)� π(i) is minimized. In this paper, we show an O(n log n) time algorithm when the given graph is a tree. For a k-path trees, we derive an O(n log k) time algorithm; the algorithm is shown to be optimal in term of time complexity on any comparison based computational model. Further, we show that the optimal tour on weighted paths can be found in O(n) time. No previous hardness results were known for MBLP on general graphs. Here we settle the problem by showing that MBLP is NP-complete even when the given graph is a direct acyclic graph whose vertex weights are either 0 or 1.


We exactly show that the ground state of the Anderson lattice with U=∞ is ferromagnetic at quarter filling if the level of localized electrons e f is deep enough: e f <e fc , where e fc is of the order of the bandwidth. Rigorous arguments show that if e f <e fc , the ground state has the total spin S=(N-1)/2 for N e =N+1, where N is the number of lattice sites and N e is that of electrons. This indicates that a transition to a (incompletely) magnetically ordered ground state will occur for a value of e f less than e fc


This paper is a summary of the alternatives studied for the new large seagoing ferries required for the service between North Sydney, Nova Scotia and Port-Aux-Basques in Newfoundland. A seasonally varying load of passengers, cars and tractor-trailers was expected, justifying a large fast vessel. Studies were made to compare costs of a one-truck-deck/one-car-deck vessel with a two truck-deck vessel, of diesel and gas turbine propulsion, and of a split-stern hull versus a conventional-stern hull. Subsequently, further studies were carried out for a vessel with a smaller load, beam and speed. The effect of these new constraints is described. Special reference is made to the need for extra care in estimates of weights, centers and damaged stability, when the constraints sail close to the margins.


The European Commission's 2004 proposals for a Services Directive consists of measures to reduce or eliminate the obstacles of cross-border trade of services by introducing the 'country of origin' principle. It implies that regulation of the country of origin is relevant, and that the country of destination has no right to impose new regulation. Our results indicate that the introduction of the 2004 EU services directive in Switzerland would very much intensify the economic relations between the service industries of Switzerland and the European Union. We have investigated the direct effects of mutual liberalisation of services markets. These are positive, both for Switzerland and the EU. Swiss exports of commercial services to the EU could increase by 40 to 84 per cent, while Swiss foreign direct investment stocks in EU services industries could increase by 20 to 41 per cent. EU services exports to Switzerland may rise by 41 to 85 per cent, while EU direct investment stocks in Swiss service markets could rise by 29 to 55 per cent. This report estimates the quantitative economic implications of a possible decision by the Swiss government to fully adopt the European Commission proposals for a services directive.


Introduction: While cardiac mechanical functional studies initially focused on large mammals and the human, the mouse emerged as the preferred animal species for research in recent years [1]. Albeit evidence supports that bioenergetically and hemodynamically the mouse scales linearly with larger mammals and humans [2; 3], important physiological questions still remain for the appropriateness of this model for extrapolation of conclusions to man [4, 5]. Since the complete characterization of the mouse and human genomes in 2002 and 2003 respectively [1], there has been a plethora of transgenic mouse studies targeting the cardiovascular system [6; 7]. Equally important were non-invasive imaging studies of such animals for phenotypic and genotypic screening, often conducted under inhalational anesthesia [8-12]. Anesthetics, however, are known to cause severe cardio-depression [9] with adverse physiological effects on hormonal release, centrally to the heart and peripherally to the vasculature [10; 11], at the cellular level, affecting calcium entry through L-type Ca channels, the calcium binding sensitivity of the contractile proteins to calcium, and on conduction and excitability [10]. The objective of this study was to determine the isoflurane dose in normal mice for optimal physiological status (respiration, cardiac function, and metabolism) for a period of 1-2 hours post-induction, facilitating migration of such work to the non-invasive imaging platform of MRI, with tremendous potential for future basic science towards the phenotypic screening of transgenic mice and translational research.


Abstract Natural convection of air in a tall annular cavity is explored by numerical solutions of the fully compressible NavierStokes equations in transient, axisymmetric (two-dimensional) form. A temperature difference is imposed on the two vertical walls, each isothermal, with the two horizontal boundaries adiabatic; the outer cylindrical surface is heated and the inner cylindrical surface cooled. Thermophysical properties of air, including density, viscosity, thermal conductivity, and specific heat are all variable with temperature. Laminar flow inside a tall annular cavity is prone to an instability which takes the form of a multicellular cat's eye pattern drifting downward in the cavity. In this study, non-Boussinesq effects on the cat's eye instability are explored by simulating flows in an annular cavity of aspect ratio A = 40 and diameter ratio η = 0.8, for Rayleigh numbers less than 14,000. A range of dimensionless wall temperature differences are investigated, 0 < ε ≤ 0.2, where ε is the temperature difference between the two vertical walls, Th – Tc , divided by the sum of the absolute temperatures, Th + Tc . The dimensionless wall temperature difference is shown to have pronounced effects on: the onset of the cat's eye instability, subsequent flow bifurcations, wave speeds, oscillation time-periods as well as local heat transfer rates. The critical Rayleigh number, Rac , signifies a transition from steady unicellular flow to transient multicellular flow; Rac is found to increase with ε. At higher values of dimensionless wall temperature difference ε, mono-periodic oscillatory flows are predicted to occur over a smaller range of Rayleigh numbers, prior to the onset of quasiperiodic flow.


A method for determining the transient responses of a system is introduced. This method is an extension of the component modal synthesis technique. The transient responses of the system are computed based on the substructure modal parameters, the geometric compatibility, and the force equilibrium equations between substructures. The eigensolutions of the final system are not required. In the process of calculation, the interconnecting force vectors between substructures are determined at each time step. The system responses are then computed from the force response equations. The external force vectors are approximated as the step function vectors in each time step. The transient responses of several systems are investigated. The solutions are compared to the close form solutions. The results indicate that the proposed method accurately determines the system responses and is numerically efficient.


In this study, a technique designed to enhance virtual reality (VR) effects by stimulating multiple sensations simultaneously is investigated and significant interactions among such perceptions are evoked under various multiple-simultaneous stimulation conditions. To accomplish this, we developed a handheld multimodal display device capable of presenting visual, weight, and vibrotactile information simultaneously. The device incorporates a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel, a back-mounted moveable weight, and vibration motors in the handgrips. The weight movements are produced by a linear motor controlled by a personal computer (PC). Using this handheld device, it was determined that VR perceptions could be enhanced by the interactions taking place among multimodal perceptions. In this paper, experiments on weight perception along with the affects of vibrotactile stimulation are described. Using our developed handheld vision-tactile-force display device, we investigated the interactions between force and vibrotactile perceptions that were stimulated simultaneously. This indicates that when strong vibration stimulations were given in the direction of weight movement, the weight seemed heavier. The experimental results and conclusions show that weight perception and vibrotactile stimulation could be enhanced using our handheld multimodal display device.


The El‐Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the dominant mode of inter‐annual variability of the atmosphere‐ocean system in the tropical Pacific and exerts its influence in the extra‐tropics through persistent large‐scale wave‐like patterns in the atmosphere known as teleconnections. Although the physics of ENSO in the tropics is relatively well understood, our knowledge of its extra‐tropical response is based on teleconnection patterns that are statistical in origin and derived from relatively short time series. In this paper we analyze the ENSO signal in an annually resolved record of snow accumulation covering the period 1736–1985 from an ice core obtained in the Saint Elias Mountains of the Yukon. This region is located in the center of an area with one of the most significant teleconnection signatures associated with ENSO. The high elevation of the site where the ice core was obtained allows it to sample the mid and upper‐tropspheric flow where the extra‐tropical response to ENSO has its largest amplitude. As we show these characteristics of the site result in a significant ENSO signal in the snow accumulation time series.


In view of the requirement of the development of the industry standardization,we have determined the calculation range of the transmission losses in oil and gas fields' electrical power network,established the method for calculating the rate of transmission losses in oil and gas fields' electrical power network,put forward the steps for calculating power losses in oil and gas fields' distribution network,and provided scientific basis for the appraisal of the economic management of electrical power network in oil and gas fields.


With nearly a third young people knowing someone living whith dementia, it is important that they understand the condition. This article looks at the campaign for Dementia Friends and resources that school nurses can use to raise awareness of the condition.


In this article a theory of how foreign policy opinion depends on the social position of the opinion-holder is developed. The society is divided into a center and a periphery, where the center is the favored part and the periphery the rejected part of society. The periphery is the victim of insufficient communication and of isolation, and will for that reason represent other phases of attitude-formation than the center. Thus, the periphery will distinguish less between cognitions and evaluations of foreign policy alternatives, and be more absolutist in its orientation to change. The periphery will either favor the status quo or sudden and complete changes, whereas the center will be more revisionist in its outlook. The periphery will either keep silent or improvise demonstrations to make its attitude known. The theory is tested on survey data from Norway 1959-63, and confirmed on a number of points. More particularly, the periphery is found to have a different concept of consistency than the center. A tendency to combine attitudes in favor of atomic weapons with the signing of a protest against them was found to be most pronounced in the periphery. The importance of foreign policy attitude is seen above all in its bargaining value for a foreign minister, but also as a direct impetus provided foreign policy opinion is stabilized, and stabilized for peaceful policies. This can be done by 'making peace pay,' e.g. by including tax cuts in disarmament plans, and by tying the periphery more to the decision-makers through foreign policy oriented elections, or through government parties that also represent the periphery.


SUMMARY With sources and receivers at the Earth's surface, the Green's function retrieved by seismic interferometry by cross-correlation will contain non-physical reflections. The physical reflections will be retrieved only if surface-related multiples are present in the original active seismic data. We show how the retrieved physical reflections can be used to identify and eliminate associated surface-related multiples from the active data. The procedure may be used to quality control the effectiveness of conventional surface-related multiple elimination. We apply this idea on numerically modeled active data and show the procedure to follow.


The study aimed at identifying and studying Extreme Cases with respect to the award of internal assessment scores by different teacher-training institutions affiliated to Himachal Pradesh University for the years 2008, 2009 and 2010 in selected eight courses of Bachelor of Education Programme. The sample for the study included all the candidates who passed their B.Ed. examination during the academic sessions 2007-08, 2008- 09 and 2009-10. The results indicated that there is an excessive tendency towards over-marking in internal assessment and also that the internal assessment scores mostly fall towards the higher end of the scale in Bachelor of Education Programme run by Himachal Pradesh University. The over marking may be ascribed to the facts that (i) the prescribed internal assessment policy is vague, (ii) there is absence of moderation policy either at institutional or university level, and (iii) the teachers or institutions are not accountable for under or over marking.


This report discusses the possibility of defining composed steps and paths in coalgebras. Both of these notions are relevant for defining some semantic relations for coalgebras like weak bisimulation and trace semantics. We present some observations, ideas, and small results on the mentioned topics.


UCL Library Services holds 60,000 folios of manuscripts of the philosopher and jurist Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832). A new project, Transcribe Bentham, is using this corpus to test the feasibility of outsourcing the work of manuscript transcription to members of the public.
Transcribe Bentham will initially digitise 10,000 folios, and create a suite of transcription training tools. A simple interface will be devised to allow registered contributors to take temporary ownership of manuscript images and to supply transcription text for final approval by UCL experts. If approved, the transcripts will be stored as TEI-encoded documents, alongside the manuscript images, in UCL's public Digital Collections repository. The repository will feed into an over-arching Bentham Project 'hub' site, which, in addition to housing the transcription interface, will offer open access to the images, transcripts and a Bentham-based 'Ideas Bank'.
The project makes innovative use of traditional material. It will stimulate public engagement with UCL's scholarly archive collections and the challenges of manuscript transcription; it will raise the profile of the work and thought of Jeremy Bentham; and it will make new digital resources available to professional researchers. The project is funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, led by the UCL Bentham Project, in collaboration with UCL Library Services and UCL Department of Information Studies. It is part of the work of the new UCL Centre for Digital Humanities.


TRAVELLING specialists can bring extra levels of skill in veterinary medicine and surgery closer to your clients. Christopher Chesney outlines the rise of the visiting expert, how he or she can fit in and work with an established practice team, and his hopes for how such experts may contribute to the future of the veterinary profession.


Application-oriented universities of our country are in short of significant recognition and active response to the enormous changes in the 21st century. They seldom study upset-down challenge brought about by the application-oriented universities in the new period,which is the reason why they are in the state of dilemma and in troubles in running the universities. Crossing boundary means breaking down past management convention,and brand performance by means of using value of the other trades or by means of realizing value crossing by total innovation.Crossing boundary thinking is a kind of thinking way in facing the problems from multi-angle and multi-vision so as to raise solution. We cannot run the application-oriented universities in the conventional idea,access and model.We should get rid of the ideas of education for education,university for university. Application-oriented universities should,on one hand,be combined with industries,trades,enterprises and communities,and on the other hand,start new accesses as discipline crossing,university-enterprise integration,collaborative innovation,course integration to run the universities.


The invention relates to a multifunctional remote electronic ignition system which is a novel remote ignition system with practicality and safety and has the working principle of utilizing instant and powerful impact current to ignite a purpose-made ignition head so as to achieve the effect of ignition. The multifunctional remote electronic ignition system can be applied to various fields of fireworks, blasting, mineral development, rocket performance, individual neon lights and the like. The ignition system not only has the common ignition function of the previous ignition device, but also can control multi-path ignition of a stepping mode, a gradually rising mode, a colony mode, a flourish mode and the like, and the ignition modes can be freely switched. The switching mode is simple and easy to execute and has the prompt of an LED indicating lamp for each mode so that the effect of ignition is ensured to accord with requirements when the ignition is ensured to be successful. The multifunctional remote ignition system has the other advantage that a double protecting device is arranged to ensure the smooth operation of the ignition. When the ignition is failed, a user can rapidly start a standby circuit to perform secondary ignition. In the performed user operation test, the average time for starting the standby circuit does not exceed 1 second, and the ignition of the standby circuit still follows the preset mode. The ignition rate of the ignition system can achieve 99.999%. The reliable performance and the abundant functions bring infinite enjoyment to the ignition operation.


Objective The research on the clinical curative effect of the dermal medication therapy for infants lingering diarrhea.Methods Divide 200 babies who were diagnosed as lingering diarrhea and arranging them into two groups randomly.Each group had 100 infants.One was treatment group,the other was comparison group.Both of them had been given montmorillonite and microbial pharmaceutics.The regular treatment was also given like adding calcium to those who were low in calcium.The treatment group had the dermal medication therapy based on the regular treatment in order to compare the total effective rate after the medication of the two groups.Results The total effective rate for treatment group was 96.00% and comparison group 84.00%.There were the statistic significance for the two groups' total effective rates.Conclusion The clinical curative effect of the dermal medication therapy for infants lingering diarrhea is confirmed and has no adverse effect after the dermal medication therapy.It also is convenient to use and can be easily acceptable for children,which is worthy to be spreaded clinically.


Single-molecule optics has evolved from a specialized variety of optical spectroscopy at low temperatures into a versatile tool to address questions in physics, chemistry, biology, and materials science. In this thesis, the potential of single-molecule (and ensemble) optical microscopy at variable temperatures is demonstrated: Electron transfer has been identified as a crucial step in the photodynamics of organic fluorophores, and long-term memory effects have been discovered in the relaxation dynamics of supercooled glycerol. Additionally, a novel technique, temperature-cycle microscopy of single-molecule dynamics, has been developed. This method aims to increase the observation time in single-molecule experiments at room temperature. The necessary rapid temperature cycles by laser-induced local heating inside a cryostat have been characterized and calibrated.


Objective:To investigate grafting effects of microencapsulated cell suspension of rabbit olfactory bulb on NF200 and GFAP expressions in injuried adult rat spinal cord(SCI).Methods:All SD rats were divided randomly into 4 groups:normal control group,injury control group,cell suspension group,and microencapsulated cell suspension group.Immunohistochemical technique was used to examine NF200 and GFAP expressions in injuried adult rat spinal cord.Results:Expression of NF200 and GFAP increased significantly after SCI.Compared to injury control group and cell suspension group,GFAP expression decreased significantly at 3,7 and 14 days after SCI.Compared to injury control group,NF200 increased in other 3 groups,moreover,it significantly increased in microencapsulated cell suspension group after SCI.Conclusions:The graft of microencapsulated cell suspension of rabbit olfactory bulb can promote NF200 expression and inhibit GFAP expression in injuried rat spinal cord tissue,which is helpful for functional recovery of injuried spinal cord.


Clarence Finlayson, born in Valparaiso, was a Latin American thinker that taught in Medellin, Indiana, Mexico City and other cities of Latin America. This article aims at explaining the metaphysical foundations of his anthropology which, though rooted in the scholastic school of thought, are evidently influenced by the contemporaneous thought. Clarence Finlayson´s metaphysical conception is to re-understand the Aristotelic-Thomistic principles, thought from an articulation between being and nothing, as the basic poles of every becoming, which is distinctive to all compounded beings. Likewise, according to Finlayson, given that philosophy is grounded on a metaphysical intuition, since this intuition takes place in the experiential realization of the phenomenon of death in contrast with the desire of being absolutely, philosophy is, paradoxically, the essential discipline of mankind in an existential sense.


Because of uncertainties of renewable generation resources and load, efficient tools are required for load flow analysis in power systems. Many of the existing papers assume a set of given probability density functions (PDFs) to model uncertainties and develop parametric probabilistic load flow tools. However, the uncertainties might not fall in any standard class of PDFs. Thus, nonparametric tools are needed. This paper presents a method for nonparametric probabilistic load flow analysis to determine PDFs of the load flow outputs. The proposed method is based on the mean value first order saddle point approximation. For a system with  $\boldsymbol {n}$  random variables,  $\boldsymbol {(n+1)}$  load flow calculations are utilized to establish first order Taylor series expansion and then saddle point approximation is adopted to determine the probabilistic characteristic of desired output variables. The proposed nonparametric estimator provides accurate results while needing a reasonable computational effort. The estimator needs only a limited available data set of random variables without requiring information whether the data set belongs to a certain class of parametric distribution functions. Furthermore, both probability and cumulative distribution functions of load flow outputs are directly established without using integral or differential operators. The proposed method is tested on the IEEE 14-bus and the IEEE 118-bus test systems and promising results are obtained.


The rapid growth of using cloud computing and virtualization technologies in different industries and environment is an impossible fact to be denied as it has increased the efficiency and reliability especially in recent years. Accordingly, this paper proposed an efficient health care framework based on cloud computing concepts. United Caring Framework (UCF) as the suggested framework has been presented in this paper and various algorithms, tools, and techniques have been described according to the main aim of this research which is to design a United Caring Framework for increasing the efficiency and performance of health care processes with using benefits of cloud computing concepts. Furthermore, the performance and security of the suggested model has been analyzed and the specifications of the framework have been evaluated by appropriate tools and techniques to investigate the effects of developing and establishing this cloud-based framework on an efficient health care industry and sub-industries in three main areas: development, infrastructure, and ease of use. The theoretical analysis of the proposed model shows that this framework could be effective in health care industry and meet all of defined objectives about this research.


List of Figures Preface 1 What Is Modernity? 2 A Society of Strangers 3 Governing Strangers 4 Associating with Strangers 5 An Economy of Strangers Conclusion Notes Index


manists and reformers. For they appear as major architects of an institution apparently familiar and timeless, but actually, as Atkinson demonstrates, a new phenomenon of early modern times. Its central image is "the mother at home, installed in a patriarchal household and naturally inclined toward service and sacrifice" (p. 235) and the obedience these entailed. The outcome of a "domestic revolution" compellingly surveyed in its political and social, as well as its religious setting, the new construction not only fostered the exclusion of "good mothers" from the public sphere but often encouraged more dire forms of exclusion for other kinds of women.


Based on his early graduated studies in psychophysics, the author has, in recent years, applied psychophysics for studying organic and motor senses (the two sensory systems deeply embedded inside of human body), and tried to understand the scientific foundation of the oriental health promoting practices. The preliminary results are promising and are discussed in detail in this paper. Psychophysics studies of organic and motor senses may be the tool to provide the connection between Western and Eastern medicines to form a balanced holistic medicine approach, and may help us to understand the scientific foundation of mysterious oriental health Promoting practices that serve as alternative medicines for promoting human wellness against illness.


mTORC1 regulates cell growth and catabolism in response to fluctuations in nutrients through phosphorylation of key substrates. The tumor suppressor FLCN is a RagC GTPase activating protein (GAP) that regulates mTORC1 phosphorylation of TFEB, controlling lysosome biogenesis and autophagy. Here, we determined the cryo-EM structure of the active FLCN complex (AFC) containing FLCN, FNIP2, the N-terminal tail of SLC38A9, the RagAGDP:RagCGDP.BeFx- GTPase dimer, and the Ragulator scaffold. Relative to the inactive lysosomal FLCN complex (LFC) structure, FLCN reorients by 90°, breaks its contacts with RagA, and makes new contacts with RagC that position its Arg164 finger for catalysis. Disruption of the AFC-specific interfaces of FLCN and FNIP2 with RagC eliminated GAP activity in vitro and led to nuclear retention of TFE3, with no effect on mTORC1 phosphorylation of S6K or 4E-BP1. The structure thus provides a roadmap to discover TFEB-selective mTORC1 antagonists. One-Sentence Summary The cryo-EM structure of the active FLCN RagC GAP complex provides a structural basis for TFEB/TFE3 substrate-selective targeting of mTORC1.


The term liminality is often used to celebrate escape from rigid structures or to promote creativity. However, the collapse of the stable frameworks of social life also generates anguishing conditions of uncertainty. This article introduces the term "permanent liminality" for situations in which the temporary suspension of normality becomes permanent. Such situations of entrapment within an interstitial dimension produce an emotional overheat, generating a "liminal hotspot." This paper addresses the possibility of ending such entrapment. Reasoning cannot guide out of permanent liminality, as—in the absence of stability necessary to apprehend ratio, or harmonious proportionality—it is also liable to short-circuit, being closely associated under liminal conditions with imitativity. A solution is offered, through Pascal rather than Kant, by the heart. Such an idea also receives support from the Palaeolithic Age, maternal heartbeat in the womb, and long-distance walking pilgrimage.


Point projection X-ray microscopy was first used in the early 1930s. Resolution of the point projection X-ray microscope is limited in part by the size of the X-ray source. Performance was improved in the late 1950s when magnetic lenses were used to focus an electron beam to provide a smaller X-ray source, see Cosslett and Nixon 1960 [1]. In 1978 Horn and Waltinger developed an X-ray microscope using a scanning electron microscope to produce an even finer X-ray source [2]. However, the low current density of electron sources at that time resulted in low X-ray intensities and this combined with poor detection efficiency meant that very long exposure times were needed.


Recent anecdotal reports and cadaveric simulations have described aerosol generation during endonasal instrumentation, highlighting a possible risk for transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) during endoscopic endonasal instrumentation. This study aims to provide a greater understanding of particle generation and exposure risk during endoscopic endonasal instrumentation.


The forestation of public streets, squares, squares and parks of modern cities is a necessity for the lives of the people who live in them. In the sphere of the ecological aspects of the squares of a city that are related mainly to the microclimatic effects, it is considered of paramount importance the knowledge of the vegetation existing in this urban space. The objective of this work was to analyze the perception of the importance of tree planting by visitors from Centenario, located in the municipality of Maceió, AL. To obtain data on perception, a questionnaire with eight objective questions was used with the attendants of the square. It was verified that the population has a good understanding about the perception of urban afforestation, considering that they affirmed social value as the most important benefit, since it provides the same leisure, interaction with family and friends.


The INTEGRAL satellite, with the hard X-ray/soft gamma ray telescope IBIS onboard, will be launched in 2001. The core program observations include the Galactic Plane Survey (GPS) and the Galactic Plane Deep Exposure (GCDE). They will respectively provide a weekly coverage of a significant part of the Galactic plane and a deep exposure of the central region of the Galaxy. Both will lead to the discovery of new transient sources, X-ray Novae being the best example. We discuss the possible strategies and results of IBIS/INTEGRAL detection and follow-up observations of X-ray Novae in the framework of the Galactic Plane Survey.


Innovative activities, driven by a knowledge economy era, globalization, and pressure of global competition, have profoundly impacted local economies since the late 1980s. Relevant studies in the recent decade have gradually emphasized the increasing importance and continuous expansion of knowledge intensive business services in current economic development. This topic represents a major trend impacting industrialized economies. Therefore, this study elucidates the roles and functions of knowledge intensive business services as an area innovation system evolves. Exactly how technology-based firms and knowledge intensive business services interact with each other, as well as the roles of knowledge intensive business services, is also analyzed by examining how the area innovation system centered in Hsinchu Science-Based Industrial Park in Taiwan has evolved. Results of this study demonstrate that knowledge intensive business services function in an intermediary role in the innovation system. These services enhance their customers' capacity for specialization, subsequently improving their evolutionary capabilities and producing tangible innovative cycles.


The scheduling approach in MapReduce may result in the "long tail" problem because of the unreasonable task assignment and high scheduling overhead because of an amount of task scheduling operations. To address these problems, a new task scheduling approach for MapReduce, named "Iterative Task Scheduling Algorithm", is proposed. The new approach tries to schedule the map tasks according to the solution of the equation for the optimal task assignment. Thus the "long tail" problem can be mitigated effectively and the task scheduling operations can be significantly reduced. To support our new scheduling approach, two approaches are proposed: The first one is adopted to estimate task execution times of nodes and the second one is adopted to produce the optimal task assignment based on the known task execution times of nodes. Comprehensive experiments have been performed with the real log data from the Ali Cloud and the results verify the effectiveness of the new task scheduling approach. The map runtime of the job is reduced 23% in our experiments.


Significance Ribosome hibernation is a conserved mechanism used by both bacteria and eukaryotes to occlude translation and to extend organismal lifespan. Here, we describe a dual-function, hibernation factor hibernation-promoting factor (HPF) in pathogenic Staphylococcus aureus that dimerizes 70S ribosomes and represses YwlG-mediated glutamate dehydrogenase activity via a physical HPF–YwlG interaction. Conversely, YwlG binding to HPF reduces the formation of 100S ribosomes. Our data support the genetic and functional links between HPF and YwlG in the cold response and glucose tolerance. Both HPF and YwlG are validated virulence factors, and our data pave the way to further disentangle the interconnection between bifunctional HPF and YwlG and their multimer assembly.


The networking is getting more and more popular in the higher education work's application,the author unifies the present situation of Nanjing Sports Institute movement's athlete culture and education work and networking own characteristics,proposed the concrete application way in networking athlete culture and education work by networking,in order to improve the effectiveness and science of the athlete culture and education work.


Skin cancer is a silently killing disease which commonly goes unnoticed in its primitive stage but proves to be deadly later on. Hence, it needs to be detected and classified in the early stages itself. The advent of machine learning as well as deep learning based classification techniques has made this task possible. Deep convolutional neural networks (D-CNNs) have the ability to extract universal and dataset-specific features for the image classification task. But the classification of skin cancer images remains a challenging task due to the absence of balanced class images, difference between images of the same class, similarity between inter-class images and the inefficiency in focusing on the semantically significant areas of the image. To improve the performance of these D-CNNs, we incorporate the attention mechanism that focuses on the regions of importance in an image. In that regard, we propose an attention-guided D-CNN for classification of skin cancer. It is observed from the classification results that a model with attention boosts the accuracy of a normal D-CNN architecture by approximately 12%. Our research work contributes significantly to the field of biomedical image processing by providing a mechanism to improve performance of D-CNNs and facilitating early detection of skin cancer.


A conditional access system and a synchronizing method thereof are provided to minimize the disconnection phenomenon by providing a conditional access software of the next version to a terminal in advance a next version software while receiving a broadcasting signal in the synchronization of a terminal. A head end creates program designation information by which a conditional access software for a specific channel broadcasting can be downloaded, then is transmitted to a terminal(S510). A terminal judges whether or not the received program designation information is a program which requires the change of the version of the conditional access software(S520). If so, the terminal downloads the changed conditional access software according to the program designation information(S530). A broadcasting program is available on service by executing the conditional access software based on the point when the version of the software is changed(S540).


This article reviews the KM3 book which follows on from MVRDV's FARMAX. Notions of high density living and urban strategies are discussed amidst a series of completed buildings by this Dutch practice.


The invention is suitable for the technical field of communication, and provides a method for adjusting an application operation flow. and a terminal thereof. The method for adjusting the application operation flow comprises the following steps of: recording: recording the operating sequence of a plurality of interfaces and/or a plurality of operating regions of an application and/or the implementation frequency of the operating sequence by a user; and adjusting: adjusting the operation prompting sequence of the plurality of interfaces and/or the plurality of operating regions of the application according to the operating sequence and/or the frequency of the operating sequence. Due to the implementation of the method and the terminal thereof., the application operation flow of the terminal is consistent with the operating habit of the user, and the user experience is improved.


Summary This memoir illustrates an elegant technique for the solution of the Rayleigh inverse problem in arbitrarily dissipative, linear viscoelastic media. The technique is based on using the holomorphic properties of Rayleigh phase velocity viewed as an analytic mapping of the speed of propagation of transversal waves, and a recently obtained result on the solution of the Rayleigh forward problem. more computational efforts than those required for the solution of the corresponding elastic problem. Dissipative media are inherently dispersive and as a result the speed of propagation and the attenuation of body waves are not independent parameters. Inversion of surface wave data by accounting for material dispersion is preferable since this procedure will satisfy the physical principle of causality. However a weakly coupled inversion is causal only for values of the quality factor Q > 10 (Lai & Rix, 2002). For smaller values the inversion is causal only approximately with a degree of approximation that deteriorate as Q gets smaller (i.e. as the medium become more dissipative). Even though the assumption of weak dissipation is often appropriate to the values of Q exhibited by geomaterials subjected to seismic excitations, there are situations of practical relevance where this is no longer true. Furthermore, besides the applications, it is of interest to examine the consequences of relaxing the assumption of weak dissipation in studying the propagation of surface waves. The homogeneous boundary value problem associated with the propagation of surface waves in arbitrarily dissipative, linear viscoelastic media can be formally represented by a complex-valued, differential eigenproblem, whose rigorous solution can be obtained using a using some well known results of complex-variable theory, in particular the Cauchy residue theorem and its corollaries (Lai & Rix, 2002). This result applied to Rayleigh waves has been profitably used to develop a strongly coupled inversion algorithm for determining the VS (y) and QS(y) profiles of a general, linear viscoelastic, layered systems. The capabilities of the algorithm are illustrated through a numerical simulation. WAVE PROPAGATION IN LINEAR VISCOELASTIC CONTINUA A complete description of an arbitrarily dissipative, linear viscoelastic isotropic solid requires two material functions, which may be specified in either the time or frequency domain. The material functions in the two domains are equivalent, but when the prescribed strain or stress history is a harmonic function of time, the constitutive relationships of the viscoelastic solid assume a very simple algebraic form with the constitutive parameters being the complex transversal and bulk moduli. From the knowledge of the complex moduli one can easily determine phase velocity and attenuation of harmonic waves propagating in linear viscoelastic media using the elastic-viscoelastic correspondence principle (Fung, 1965). Thus, wave propagation in linear viscoelastic unbounded media is completely described either by the complex-valued phase velocities * P V and *


Examination questions evaluation is critical in educational institutions because testing is one of the most prevalent techniques of evaluating students' success in a particular course. As a result, it is crucial to create a good and high-quality examination paper that caters to various cognitive levels. As a result, many instructors rely on Bloom's taxonomy proficiency level, a widely used framework for evaluating students' cognitive abilities and capabilities. According to Bloom's taxonomy, many efforts have been offered to tackle question classification automatically. The majority of existing works considered only one domain, such as computer science. This research aims to develop a classification model for classifying examination questions that fall into several domains using Bloom's taxonomy. This paper presents a method for automatically identifying questions using an Artificial Neural Network (ANN). Term Frequency - Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) is used to derive the features from questions papers. We compared the ANN-based approach with Support Vector Machine based approach. According to the findings of this study, the proposed method got an accuracy of 85.2%, which is effective in classifying questions out of several domains using Bloom's taxonomy.


In the recent years due to lack of land the construction of high rise buildings widely increases and these buildings are affected by lateral loads due to wind or earthquake. To resist these horizontal loads lots of construction methods are available. Herein system peripheral columns of the building are eliminated.To resist the seismic forces we arrange the diagonal columns. In this study seismic performance of 20-story concrete and steel diagrid structures are assessed using response spectrum method. Only for concrete diagrid structure using time history method. The present work is made for studying the response and time period with acceleration of high rise building with concrete and steel diagrid structural system. To this aim response of two different diagrid structures of G+20 storey are carried out to obtain optimized position of diagrid. E-Tabs software mainly focus on seismic analysis of response spectrum and time history method. As per IS456:2000 and IS800:2007 all structural members of diagrid model are designed and IS1893:2002 and ASCE7-10 is considered for seismic analysis for concrete and steel diagrid structure. An evaluation of constraints storey shear, storey drift, storey displacement, Time period and Structural weight is done to determine the efficient and cost effective structure. The analysis of the building is carried out by using ETABS software.


Slogans are pervasive and familiar forms of communication. This activity asks students to play with the creative elements of slogans while simultaneously synthesizing course information. To be successful, students must identify, construct, and manipulate the layered meanings of course concepts for different audiences and in various contexts. While driven by communication principles, this activity's usefulness spans disciplinary boundaries. It is an effective tool for any educator's toolbox.


I comment on the claim by John Roemer that \in games of pure coordination, Kantians drive Nashers to extinction". Using an explicit dynamic
model of evolution, I notice that in these games, Kantian optimizers do not always drive sel sh optimizers to extinction.


SWYER-JAMES-MACLEOD SYNDROME (SJMS) is a rare pulmonary disorder that manifests as unilateral hyperlucent lung. HRCT is a novel imaging modality to diagnose SJMS since Chest radiographs underestimate this condition. We report a case presentation of SJMS in a 54-year-old male and treated with bronchodilators and i.v antibiotics. In conclusion, only a few with SJMS in adulthood has been reported worldwide.


The article explains the reasons for the implementation of TOU price in the user side and the power generation side There are three cases such as the implementation of TOU price in the user side and the power generation side at the same time, the implementation of TOU price only in the user side, the implementation of TOU price only in the power generation side. The article analyzes the average electricity price, changes of electricity sales revenue and net income in the power grid and power generation companies under above three cases, which provides policy reference for the development of TOU price.


Objective To investigate the health education in the community of chronic disease prevention effect,for the community to provide the basis for the integrated prevention and control of chronic diseases.Methods According to the results of physical examination in elderly patients over 60 years old,the crowd took health education interventions.Especially 2105 diagnosed cases of hypertension,670 cases of diabetes mellitus(hereinafter referred to as the slow disease group)were standardized management and treatment,1 years after the review,and the relevant inspection items are compared.Results After the intervention,the hypertension,diabetes control rate increased significantly.Within the jurisdiction over the age of 60 patients with chronic diseases,targeted to carry out health education,and health education compared to before,the difference was statistically significant(P0.05).Conclusion Chronic disease and people's health knowledge and behavior are closely related,health education is to improve the quality of national health and community intervention on chronic diseases in an effective way,which can effectively reduce the prevalence of chronic disease.


Temperature field of SiC single crystal growth furnace is studied using finite element analysis,and numerical simulation software is used to simulate temperature distribution of SiC single crystal growth furnace.The simulated diagram of temperature distribution is obtained.The laws of temperature distribution in the furnace are studied,and the specific methods to regulate the temperature field of silicon carbide growth are put forward.


Paraneoplastic cerebellar degenerations with anti-Yo antibodies (Yo-PCD) are rare syndromes associated with ovarian or breast cancers and caused by an auto-immune response against neuronal antigens expressed by tumor cells. We previously demonstrated in Yo-PCD ovarian cancers an association between massive infiltration of ovarian tumors by activated immune effector cells and recurrent gains and/or mutations of onconeural Yo genes (CDR2L and CDR2), suggesting that such genetic alterations in ovarian tumor cells may trigger immune tolerance breakdown and initiation of the auto-immune reaction against Purkinje cells.

 We pursued the characterization of Yo-PCD tumors and specifically studied breast cancer by IHC, FISH, CGH array and RNA sequencing analysis of 17 breast Yo-PCD tumors and by comparing their genetic characteristics with 10 sporadic breast tumors and public databases.

 We confirmed that specific genetic alterations were also present in breast cancers associated with Yo-PCD. Moreover, this study provides additional evidence for a role of tumor cell specificities in PCD immunopathology by revealing peculiarities in Yo-PCD breast tumors compared to Yo-PCD ovarian cancer. Indeed, not only the CDR2L Yo gene was amplified in 8/9 breast Yo-PCD cancers but also the Erb2/Her2 gene in 15/16 (both genes are on chromosome 17q). In addition to this original Her2 and Yo antigen amplification confirmed by FISH, we observed an overexpression of these proteins by IHC analysis. These Yo-PCD breast cancers are also all negative for hormone receptors (HR). Thus, Yo-PCD breast tumors seem to belong to the molecularly and clinically distinct class of HR-negative and Her2-enriched breast cancers, which represents less than 10 % of breast cancers in the general population. Transcriptomic analysis confirmed that breast Yo-PCD tumors differ by their expression programs from classical breast cancers molecular subtypes.

 Understanding the tumor genetic features leading to the immune breakdown and anti-tumor immune response as well as nervous tissue attack remains challenging and seems to be specific according to the tumor subtypes. Herein, our results suggest that, despite sharing common genetic alterations (copy number variations and mutations affecting Yo genes), the Yo-PCD immunopathogenesis of breast and ovarian cancers differ by involving different tumor-specific molecular pathways.


The development of actuators based onmaterials that reversibly change their shape in response toexternalstimulishouldhelpimprovepeoplesqualityoflifeinsuch areas as medical treatment and micromachine applica-tion. Recently, stimuli-responsive materials have beenreported to create artificial muscles and actuators.


PURPOSE: To provide an unwinding device used together with a spool having a release preventing hook so as to release the bottom end part of a film from the spool as necessary. CONSTITUTION: The unwinding device is used together with the spool 5 having the hook which is actually extended in the winding direction W of the film and can be engaged with the hole of the bottom end part of the film, for preventing the release of the film F. The spool 5 is rotated in the unwinding direction U of the film F, together with it, to pull it out of the spool 5. At the time of pulling out the film F, an overlapped part is connected to the spool 5, so as to obtain rotation in the unwinding direction. When the film F except the bottom end part is pulled out of the spool 5, the overlapped part imparts momentum for rotating the spool 5 in the unwinding direction in the bottom end part, to release the hook from the hole, so that the bottom end part can be released from the spool 5, without tearing the film F. COPYRIGHT: (C)1993,JPO


Detection of interaural differences of time (IDTs) in trains of high‐frequency clicks does not show uniform improvement as a function of the train's length if the interclick interval (ICI) is small; rather, performance is a compressive power function (exponent < 1.0) of ICI, indicating a form of saturation whereby each click reduces the effectiveness of the next. The site of saturation can be studied by intermixing, in a single train, clicks that differ on a dimension known to be encoded in separate neural channels. For example, mixing carrier frequencies finds no interaction between clicks in separate regions, implying that saturation is within frequency channels rather than across them. In the present study, we ask whether saturation is before or after binaural interaction. In both intervals of a two‐alternative task, clicks to be lateralized are preceded by clicks with an IDT of 750 μs, leading always to the right. If saturation is binaural, the preceding clicks should not interfere since they address ...


In order to extend the growth area of spring rapeseed( B. napus L.) in mountainous region and breed new variety of spring rapeseed( B. napus L.) with very early maturity that was suitable to be planted in the eastern agricultural areas with the altitude higher than 2 900 m in Qinghai Province and the annual average temperature lower than 0. 5 ℃( The main region is Haibei and Hainan Prefecture in Qinghai province). New variety Qingza 8 of spring rapeseed( B. napus L.)with very early maturity were bred with the Pol CMS three- lines that were sterile line 380 A,maintainer line 380 B and restorer line 187 R. The major rapeseed( B. napus L.) Haoyou11 in Haibei and Hainan Prefecture in Qinghai province was used as check. It turned out that Qingza 8 was suitable to be planted in the eastern agricultural areas with the altitude higher than 2 900 m in Qinghai Province and the annual average temperature lower than 0. 5 ℃. In addition,Qingza 8 out yielded the check cultivar Haoyou11 by 10%,so Qingza 8 was an ideal substitute for the major rapeseed( B. napus L.) Haoyou11 planted in this region. Furthermore,Qingza 8 also could be planted inmultiple cropping areas with good heat condition.


Times for an electric motor having a permanent magnet (10) E-1 has a laminated core which is defined by the principal axis (D), a first end wall 4 and the second end wall 5 and the side (6) 2 and includes a plurality of longitudinal slots (9) for receiving hole (7) and the magnet (10) for connection to the motor shaft (8). The rotor also includes a positioning device 20 for mounting the magnet 10 in the slot (9). Rotor, a permanent magnet motor, the core, the slots


The work aims the study the species diversity and ecology of Cyanobacteria in the benthos on the Israeli coast of the Mediterranean Sea. As a result, 24 taxa of Cyanobacteria were found. Seven taxa were noted for the first time for this sea: Aphanocapsa incerta, Aphanothece nidulans, Chlorogloea cf. microcystoides, Pseudanabaena mucicola, Chroococcus sp., Gloeocapsopsis sp., Trichocoleus sp. Most Cyanobacteria species were benthic (90 %) and marine (67 %). There were only four indicators of saprobity, and all of them were freshwater species common in oligosaprobic and beta-mesosaprobic waters. Most species had a wide geographic distribution. Species marked of boreal (10 %), boreal-tropical (38 %), arctic-boreal-tropic (29 %) and cosmopolites (24 %) groups. The species richness of Cyanobacteria increased in the sites with the maximal anthropogenic loads from industrial and urban areas of the central Israel, and the minimal ones were in the protected areas.


The discovery of a new Huayquerian toxodontid from Bolivia, Hoffstetterius imperator n.g. n.sp. enables the reconsideration of the autapomorphous features of the haplodonteriines and the synapomorphies they share with some incertae sedis toxodontid genera Ocnerotherium, Mixotoxodon; new elements of reflection cas doubt on the validity of the validity of the dinotoxodontines


Abstract The development of advanced optical systems, especially coherent optical systems demands high-performance single-mode lasers. Here, we proposed a parity-time symmetry single-mode laser based on graphene with superior performance over the widely utilized technologies of the index-coupled DFB laser working at telecommunication wavelength. The unique properties of graphene have been used to tune the III-V/Silicon hybrid laser to the PT symmetry broken phase where the lasing mode has a minimum overlap with graphene nanostructures while all other modes have been suppressed by the loss in graphene. Our results suggest a high-performance silicon-based laser source for photonic integrated circuits. Such a compact single-mode laser source can be widely used in some applications, such as on-chip optical interconnects, optical spectrometry, biochemical sensing and imaging.


For high repetition operation of excimer-lasers care has to be taken of the changing performance of the electrical circuit, gas dynamic effects and contamination of the gas mixture to avoid deterioration of the laser performance. The parameters that influence the stability of the discharge are discussed. With the proper settings 1 kW of average power can be reached.


It has a high dimensional accuracy, to provide a water treatment filter capable of improving filtration performance, such as performance of removing turbidity components. Median particle size water treatment filter comprising a cylindrical filter (A) containing a granular activated carbon is 30 to 80 [mu] m (a1) and fibrillated fibrous binder (a2) of the outer surface on the upstream side of the (A) the arithmetic mean waviness 30μm or less, adjusting the arithmetic average height of the cross section curve 35 m to 45 m. The arithmetic mean waviness of the inner surface on the downstream side of the cylindrical filter (A) is at 30μm or less, and the arithmetic average height of the profile curve may be 35 m to 45 m. The outer surface of the cylindrical filter (A) may be a surface obtained by grinding. The hollow portion of the cylindrical filter (A), a cylindrical filter comprising a granular activated carbon (b1) and particulate binder (b2) (B) may be inserted a further central particle diameter of 30 to 80 [mu] m.


An annotated list of mossy species of the museum-reserve "S. N. Khudekov's Estate", including 71 species, as well as data on the analysis of occurrence and ecological-substrate distribution, is given. The level of biodiversity and the proportion of rare species are estimated as quite high. The conclusion about the essential role of the museum-reserve in the preservation of the moss component of the natural ecosystems of the northern forest-steppe and landscape gardening is substantiated. In order to increase the environmental significance of the museum-reserve, it is recommended to combine the arboretum park and the Yerlin Forest into a single protected area.