The paper summarizes the results of long-term research in Biotechnology Laboratory of All-Russian Research Ya.I. Potapenko Institute for Viticulture and Winemaking, from 1983 up to our days. The technology of clonal micropropagation of grapevine with the help of apical meristems with a size of 0.1‒0.2 mm has been developed. New biotechnological techniques were developed and improved at all stages of micropropagation from the formation of meristematic zones to planting vine in the ground. Improved planting material was obtained, which, according to the phytosanitary state, belongs to the category (Virus free) ‒ a material free from all known viruses and virus-like diseases (base material of class A). A basic nursery was created in the Nizhne-Kundryuchensky department of the experimental field. An unconventional method of breeding of grapevine seedlessness has been developed, which is based on the prevention of degenerative processes in the cotyledon when crossing both seedless parents and the subsequent culture of isolates. The technology of creating a collection of grapevine gene pools developed in the laboratory is based on minimizing the growth of test tube plants with the help of low temperature and illumination, adding growth and osmotic inhibitors to the nutrient medium.


[PDF]  [Full Text]  [Abstract] , March 1, 2012; 107 (5): 1356-1365. J Neurophysiol Subhashini Srinivasan, Kimberley Lance and Richard B. Levine motoneurons larval Drosophila Segmental differences in firing properties and potassium currents in [PDF]  [Full Text]  [Abstract] , June 1, 2012; 215 (11): 1884-1891. J Exp Biol Einat Fuchs, Philip Holmes, Izhak David and Amir Ayali cockroach Proprioceptive feedback reinforces centrally generated stepping patterns in the [PDF]  [Full Text]  [Abstract] , November 15, 2012; 215 (22): 3944-3954. J Exp Biol Kazutaka Yanase, Neill A. Herbert and John C. Montgomery Seriola lalandi cost of swimming in the yellowtail kingfish, Disrupted flow sensing impairs hydrodynamic performance and increases the metabolic [PDF]  [Full Text]  [Abstract] , January 21, 2014; 111 (3): 978-983. PNAS Tetsuya Iwasaki, Jun Chen and W. Otto Friesen Biological clockwork underlying adaptive rhythmic movements [PDF]  [Full Text]  [Abstract] , March 15, 2015; 113 (6): 1921-1940. J Neurophysiol D. Ryczko, J. Knüsel, A. Crespi, S. Lamarque, A. Mathou, A. J. Ijspeert and J. M. Cabelguen salamander Flexibility of the axial central pattern generator network for locomotion in the


Satisfaction is the expression of feelings of pleasure or disappointment of a person from the results of acomparison between achievement or perceived products with the expected. To know the relation of nurseperformance with patient satisfaction level at Sukmul Sisma Medika Hospital. The design of this study wascross sectional. Sampling technique in this research is total sampling dnegan number of samples 35respondents. The analysis used in this research is univariate and bivariate analiais. Univariate analysis in thisresearch is nurse performance and patient satisfaction level. The results of this study can be concluded thatthe majority of satisfied respondents are 26 respondents (74.3%). The majority of respondents who have goodperformance as many as 18 respondents (51.4%). Chi square test results can be dismpulkan that there is arelationship between the performance of nurses with patient satisfaction with the value of P value of 0.007.The results of this study is expected to be a further study for institutions and related professions in the makingof the program including supervision and hearing through training to nurses about a nurse service to thesatisfaction of his special patients.


This paper reports on the development of a command and control environment that enables experimental studies to be conducted into Network Enabled Capability (NEC). The command and control environment comprises a reconfigurable Command Wall, and wireless local area network and eight reconfigurable wearable computers. A pilot study was undertaken to test the system and investigate the differences between a paper-map-andradio and a NEC version of the same. No performance differences were found in a reconnaissance task, It was hypothesised that performance gains would be found for the NEC system when multiple reconnaissance agents compared to the paper-map-and-radio version of the system. Future directions for the research were indicated


This work presents a novel measurement method to characterize long-term and short-term variations of the LV grid impedance from 20 kHz to 10 MHz with configurable time, frequency and amplitude resolutions. The characterization of the grid access impedance in this frequency range is vital for the design and development of NB-PLC and BB-PLC technologies. The measurement system is valid for in-home, indoor cable networks and for the harsh conditions of the LV distribution grid, where a large input dynamic range and strong protection mechanisms against high-amplitude impulsive noises are required. Its accuracy is evaluated by comparison to a precision impedance meter for a wide set of impedance values, obtaining a maximum deviation within ±8%. First trials of the grid impedance sub-cycle variations caused by commercial appliances and for frequencies assigned to BB-PLC are also presented in this paper. The results demonstrate that the grid impedance is highly time-varying within the mains cycle, both in amplitude and phase. These first outcomes point at the need to evaluate the accumulative effects of sub-cycle variations in the LV distribution grid, so that equalization algorithms in the next BB-PLC technologies could be developed to overcome the impact of these fast variations.


The invention relates to a direct current limiting circuit breaker. It relates to a direct current limiting circuit breaker for insertion between two points (S, Q) of a direct current line, characterized in that it comprises first means (51, 52) for limiting the current intensity and a second means (D, L, C) for interrupting the residual current. Application to cutting DC currents at high voltage.


Using benefit-cost analysis, this article evaluates potential programs for reducing iron deficiency anemia, one of the most prevalent nutritional disorders. It discusses the origins and prevalence of anemia and reviews the literature on consequences of anemia for work capacity, output, learning, and other variables. Costs and benefits are estimated for two types of programs : medicinal supplementation and fortification of food with iron. These estimates are produced for three case studies : Indonesia, Kenya, and Mexico. Under a wide range of assumptions, the benefit-cost ratios are found to be substantially greater than 1. For dietary fortification ratios the range was between 7 and 70 for the three countries; for dietary supplementation, the range was from 4 to 38 on the most reasonable set of assumptions. The study concludes that field trials should be carried out to see if the findings of this study are supported in particular cases.


Background

we sought to describe the tendency and extent of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I (hs-cTnI) changes in patients with fulminant myocarditis (FM) after admission, and to explore the relationship between in-hospital outcome of FM and the value of absolute and relative change of hs-cTnI within 24 h and 48 h after admission.
Methods

a total of 83 cases of FM patient admitted to our center from January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2019 were included, 69 patients survived and 14 patients died. The absolute and relative change of hs-cTnI within 24 h and 48 h were described as range distribution. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves and Cox analysis were performed to determine the relationship between in-hospital outcome of FM and hs-cTnI change.
Results

In survive group, 78% patients experienced the decline of hs-cTnI within 24 h, while 36% of death group had the declined tendency of hs-cTnI (P = 0.003). Absolute and relative change of hs-cTnI within 24 h and 48 h were displayed as range distribution. Multivariate analysis revealed that the decline tendency of hs-cTnI change within 24 h, in addition with time from onset to hospital, intravenous immunoglobulin treatment and abnormal of creatinine, were associated with the outcome of FM (for the decline tendency of hs-cTnI within 24 h, OR = 0.10, 95% CI = 0.02–0.68, P = 0.018). ROC curve revealed optimized cutoff values of -0.618 ng/ml for absolute change within 24 h (AUC = 0.800, P < 0.01), -4.389 ng/ml for absolute change within 48 h (Area Under Curve = 0.711, P < 0.01), -28.46% for relative change within 24 h (AUC = 0.810, P < 0.01), -52.23% for relative change within 48 h (AUC = 0.795, P < 0.01). Absolute change and relative change of hs-cTnI within 24 h and 48 h were strong predictors of in-hospital mortality by COX regression analyzed, after the adjustment for gender, time from onset to admission, occurrence of ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation.
Conclusion

Most survive FM patients experienced the decline of hs-cTnI within 24 h. The absolute and relative change of hs-cTnI within 24 h and 48 h were strong predictors of in-hospital mortality.


The present invention relates to a device for the compound contains a liquid component and a solid or liquid component contained within the second container in the first container under sterile conditions. The example of two variants of the component located within the first container ensures the transferred safely and completely into the second container is proposed. In one variation, is provided with two hollow body (hollow body) for receiving the two containers, to each other in the two hollow body (2,4) is how one is inserted in the other guide in the longitudinal direction to slides, and a first complex-type with the hollow body (pot-shaped) structure unit 29 of the cannula holder forming a; and a (3 cannula holder) has one or more cannulas. This basically as another modified example, instead of two-part form of expression, by default, is proposed a three-piece type form, in which case the cannula holder and the first hollow body and the individual parts, the cannula holder is composed of complex-type ( Figure 1). Cannula, flash disks, pistons, glass bottles, aseptic


Detectable levels of troponins are often found in serum of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), and recent reports suggest that Tn concentrations are independently related to patient prognosis.


This study is an attempt to outline the variation in the clinical appearance of the condition and correlate this with the histological changes seen in light microscopy.


This paper presents a rotational phase frequency detector (RPFD) for reference-less clock and data recovery circuit (CDR). The proposed RPFD changes the bang-bang phase detector (BBPD) characteristic from a bidirectional phase detection to an unilateral phase detection for capturing clock frequency. The phase-and-frequency lock loop (PFLL) locks the clock frequency and the clock phase alternatively. The single-loop CDR replaces the dual-loop CDR so as to eliminate the noise contribution from the frequency lock loop (FLL). This proposed design is fabricated in TSMC mixed-signal 1P9M 90-nm standard CMOS process with overall die size of 0.71- mm2. With input 10-Gb/s data of a 231-1 PRBS, the CDR tracks free running clock over the capture range of 1.48 GHz and locks in the acquisition time of 20 μs. At the same time, the peak-to-peak jitters show only 5.0 ps in the recovered clock and exhibits 15.11 ps in the recovered data. The measured chip consumes 92 mW with 1.0-V supply voltage.


Simple Summary 17β-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type1 (HSD17B1) is responsible for converting estrone, a weak estrogen, into the more potent estradiol in the ovaries of vertebrates ranging from teleosts to mammals. We evaluated its expression in the placentae of various eutherian species and demonstrated that it was only expressed in the human placenta. The ubiquitous transcription factor SP1-binding site was conserved in the promoter region of the HSD17B1/Hsd17b1 gene across the species. This region conferred the promoter activities both in human and ovine HSD17B1. However, in the ovine placenta, cytosine residues of this SP1 site in the HSD17B1 promoter region were completely methylated. Human HSD17B1 had high activity for testosterone production, similar to its homologs in other species. On the basis of this fact, the significance of placental HSD17B1 expression is discussed. Abstract During mammalian gestation, large amounts of progesterone are produced by the placenta and circulate for the maintenance of pregnancy. In contrast, primary plasma estrogens are different between species. To account for this difference, we compared the expression of ovarian and placental steroidogenic genes in various mammalian species (mouse, guinea pig, porcine, ovine, bovine, and human). Consistent with the ability to synthesize progesterone, CYP11A1/Cyp11a1, and bi-functional HSD3B/Hsd3b genes were expressed in all species. CYP17A1/Cyp17a1 was expressed in the placenta of all species, excluding humans. CYP19A/Cyp19a1 was expressed in all placental estrogen-producing species, whereas estradiol-producing HSD17B1 was only strongly expressed in the human placenta. The promoter region of HSD17B1 in various species possesses a well-conserved SP1 site that was activated in human placental cell line JEG-3 cells. However, DNA methylation analyses in the ovine placenta showed that the SP1-site in the promoter region of HSD17B1 was completely methylated. These results indicate that epigenetic regulation of HSD17B1 expression is important for species-specific placental sex steroid production. Because human HSD17B1 showed strong activity for the conversion of androstenedione into testosterone, similar to HSD17B1/Hsd17b1 in other species, we also discuss the biological significance of human placental HSD17B1 based on the symptoms of aromatase-deficient patients.


Vitamin D and HIV Infection: A Systematic Review
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infects human T cells, causing a disease that progressively leads to a dramatic deterioration of the immune function. The Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is present when CD4+ cell count is below 200 cells/mm3 or the patient has an opportunist infection, such as esophageal candidiasis or Pneumocystis pneumonia. Since life expectancy of HIV-infected individuals has increased, mostly as a result of advances in diagnosis and treatment, they are more willing to develop long-term chronic complications, some of which have been associated with vitamin D deficiency.


An experimental investigation was made of a DF–CO2 short-pulse amplifier, initiated by lamps, operating under conditions close to rotational equilibrium, and utilizing gas mixtures D2:F2:CO2 = 1:3:8 and 3:3:14 at total pressures of 0.2–0.75 atm. For a DF–CO2 amplifier operating with the D2:F2:CO2 = 3:3:14 gas mixture at a total pressure of 0.75 atm, a specific output energy of 11.5 mJ/cm3 was obtained at an efficiency (referred to the energy supplied to the active medium) of ~660%.


Transformer can produce vibration in the working status, in this article, through analyzing the characteristic of the transformer normal vibration signal, based on the Hilport-yellow algorithm for transformer condition monitoring, in order to further, realize the transformer fault diagnosis of transformer fault type, generally the severity of the failure positions, failure and failure trend of the development of provides a new train of thought. It reduces the probability of transformer failure and has important guiding significance for safe production and safe operation of power grid.


For suppressing the power-bus resonance at higher frequencies, which causes propagation of electromagnetic noise and detraction of power integrity, we proposed a lossy resonator filter with frequency selectivity and low loss. To suppress noise propagation in the power-ground plane pair of a printed circuit board (PCB) at high frequencies (over 1 GHz), a ferrite-covered open stub was formed on a PCB as a lossy resonator filter. Its characteristics were verified by not only full-wave simulation but also measurement using a vector network analyzer. The simulation and measurement results show that the noise in the power bus of the PCB at frequencies over 1 GHz is suppressed. Through a series of investigations focusing on the input impedance characteristics, this paper clarified that low impedance of the open stub around resonant frequency helps prevent the impedance of the power-ground plane pair from increasing due to parallel plate resonances to achieve power-bus noise reduction.


Cardiovascular implantable electronic device (CIED) pocket infections are often related to recent CIED placement or manipulation, but these infections are not well characterized. The clinical presentation of CIED pocket infection, based on temporal onset related to last CIED procedure, deserves further study.


This research aimed at analyzing the influence of service quality on customer satisfaction, customer trust, and customer royalty of Mirota Kampus customer on C. Simanjuntak street number 70, Gondokusuman, Yogyakarta. The subject in this study was consumer who had shopped at Mirota Kampus, especially Mirota Kampus located at C. Simanjuntak Street Number 70. This research used 163 respondents as samples determined by using non probability sampling technique with purposive sampling method and questionnaires distributed to the respondents using Google Forms. The analysis tool used was Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) using AMOS 22 application program. Based on the analysis made, it shows that (1) the service quality has positive and significant influence on customer satisfaction and customer trust, and (2) the service quality has positive and significant influence on customer royalty, then (3) customer satisfaction and customer trust has positive and significant influence on customer loyalty. (4) Customer satisfaction and customer trust variables are able to be the mediator of the relations between service quality and customer loyalty.


The general objective of this study were to assess factors which impact Student's attitude towards Technical and Vocational Education and Training of Bedesa Town, Oromia regional state, Ethiopia. To this end, Descriptive survey research design was employed in carrying out this study. The target population for this study consisted of 175 students, 25 teachers and 1 Dean of TVET College and in total 201 in the selected TVET college of Bedesa town. 134 samples were taken from 201 targeted populations. 71 male and 63 female respondents were selected through using stratified random sampling technique. The required data were collected through questionnaire. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the quantitative data that have been collected through close ended questionnaires. The findings of the study revealed that 48.6% of the variation in the attitude of students towards TVET education can be explained by changes in Socioeconomic factors, parental influence, quality of technical and vocational education and training education and peer influence whereas 51.4% were unexplained variables that affect the attitude of students towards TVET education. The study therefore concludes that that 'Socioeconomic factors, Parental influence, Quality of TVET education and Peer influence' were the stronger predictor of attitude of students towards TVET education sequentially. It is recommended that government, head of TVET and TVET board members should arrange and provide a serious campaign on the importance of TVET in the development of the country, financial, material and human resources should be provided to strengthen and enhance the quality of education imparted at TVET institutions, guidance and counselling services should be strengthen in larger community to influence their children towards TVET education.


By using Monte Carlo studies, this paper compares the Welch test, the James test and the Brown-Forsythe test for comparing several means under heteroscedasticity. It appears that all the tests are quite robust with respect to departure from normality. The Brown-Forsythe test is at least as good as the James test and the Welch test; but the differences are so small that the choice is immaterial for practical purposes.


Objective To develop a method to detect respiratory virus and its subtypies by DNA microarray directly.Methods A series of respiratory virus associated oligonucleotides were synthesized and prepared the DNA microarray.Influenza virus sample in cultured cells was treated for reverse transcription,amplification,fluorescent dye labelling,hybridization and scanning.Results Influenza virus subtypies were detected correctly.Conclusion Influenza A_1 and B in the cell culture can be detected correctly by DNA microarray.


The present research was efficacy of positive thinking on sexual intimacy, satisfaction and function in housewives in Tehran. The method of this research was semi- experimental, with a pretest-posttest study design and control group. The population was all housewives of 5th area in Tehran. In this procedure 30 of the womans who gained lower average scores in Mostafavis Sexual Satisfaction Questionnaire, Thompson and Walkers Sexual Intimacy and Rosens Female Sexual Function Index were randomized into 2 groups, one as control group while as others as experimental group. Experimental group received positiveness skills through 8 sessions. Both groups were tested and evaluated 2 times( pre- test, post-test). The information and finding gained from the descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, average and standard deviation) and the covariance analysis test were analyzed. The results of the research showed that positiveness increased sexual intimacy (p 0/05) and sexual function index (p>0/05).


In the last decade, it has become possible to quantitate biochemical and physiological processes of the brain in human subjects by nuclear medicine techniques such as positron emission tomography (PET). In numerous cases PET makes it possible to identify functional alterations prior to or without the occurrence of morphological damages demonstrated by X-ray computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging. For this capability PET, used for over a decade for research purposes, is now being used for clinical applications.


A diverse library of novel carbamates was synthesized utilizing copper-catalyzed oxidative C-O coupling of formamides and salicylaldehydes. Sensitive aldehyde groups remained intact in the presence of an oxidant and a transition-metal salt. Salicylaldehydes bearing electron-donating, electron-withdrawing, and halogen groups as well as 1-hydroxy-2-naphthaldehydes provided the desired carbamates in good to excellent yields.


Alexandrium species are major HAB(harmful algal bloom)members.To investigate the toxicity and its mechanism of Alexandrium species,PSP toxin compositions,the contents of four Alexandrium strains:A.tamarense(ATHK,AT-6),A.catenella(ACDH)and A.minutum(AM-1),and their effects on rotifer Brachionus plicatilis,mysid Neomysis awatschensis and perch Lateolabrax japonicus were studied.The PSP toxin compositions and contents were analyzed using HPLC method.And the studies of effects were carried out through 96-hour acute toxicity assay.The results show that A.tamarense(AT-6)did not produce any PSP toxins,while all A.tamarense(ATHK),A.catenella(ACDH)and A.minutum(AM-1)produced PSP toxin,and the PSP content of them was 2.60,0.36,1.61pg STX eq/cell,respectively.A.tamarense(AT-6)did not show any adverse impact on the three organisms,while for B.plicatilis,the 96hLC_ 50 of A.tamarense(ATHK)and A.catenella(ACDH)was 200 and 1200 cells/ml,respectively.But B.plicatilis was not affected by A.minutum(AM-1).For N.awatschensis,the 96hLC_ 50 of A.tamarense(ATHK),A.catenella(ACDH)and A.minutum(AM-1)was 7000,11000,16000 cells/ml,respectively.For L.japonicus,the 96hLC_ 50 of these three stains was 3700,4000,20000 cells/ml,respectively.The toxicities of these Alexandrium strains to the three organisms were not correlated to their PSP contents and compositions directly,indicating that other non-PSP toxic substances may have caused the toxicity.The toxicity of different fractions of A.tamarense ATHK culture to the three organisms was also compared and the results revealed that the culture and re-suspended algal cells showed strongest adverse effects on B.plicatilis,N.awatschensis and L.japonicus.Cell-free medium and cell fragments reduced the survival of the mysid,but had no adverse influence on the rotifer and the perch.The cell contents affected the survival of the perch,but had no deleterious effects on the rotifer and the mysid.The above results demonstrated that the toxicities and the harmful mechanisms of Alexandrium varied among species and strains,and the algae could produce other non-PSP toxic substances.


Several Markovian process calculi have been proposed in the literature, which differ from each other for various aspects. With regard to the action representation, we distinguish between integrated-time Markovian process calculi, in which every action has an exponentially distributed duration associated with it, and orthogonal-time Markovian process calculi, in which action execution is separated from time passing. Similar to deterministically timed process calculi, we show that these two options are not irreconcilable by exhibiting three mappings from an integrated-time Markovian process calculus to an orthogonal-time Markovian process calculus that preserve the behavioral equivalence of process terms under different interpretations of action execution: eagerness, laziness, and maximal progress. The mappings are limited to classes of process terms of the integrated-time Markovian process calculus with restrictions on parallel composition and do not involve the full capability of the orthogonal-time Markovian process calculus of expressing nondeterministic choices, thus elucidating the only two important differences between the two calculi: their synchronization disciplines and their ways of solving choices.


The current operation software at GSI, controlling the linac, beam transfer lines, synchrotron and storage ring, has been developed over a period of more than two decades using OpenVMS on Alpha-Workstations. The GSI accelerator facilities will serve as an injector chain for the new FAIR accelerator complex for which a control system is currently developed. To enable reuse and integration of parts of the distributed GSI software system, in particular the linac operation software, within the FAIR control system, the corresponding software components must be migrated to Linux. Interoperability with FAIR controls applications is achieved by adding a generic middleware interface accessible from Java applications. For porting applications to Linux a set of libraries and tools has been developed covering the necessary OpenVMS system functionality. Currently, core applications and services are already ported or rewritten and functionally tested but not in operational usage. This paper presents the current status of the project and concepts for putting the migrated software into operation.


Resumen en: The essential oil chemica l profile of Adesmia bijuga Phil. leaves, an endemic Chilean species from Maule Region central Chile with a critically endanger...


"The chemical relationship between activated cholesterol and the naturally antirachitic substances, such as cod liver oil, yolk of egg, and bone marrow, is one of prime importance in a consideration of the etiology of rickets." 1 It is definitely established that substances which contain either cholesterol or phytosterol can be made antirachitic by exposure to ultra-violet light. Cholesterol and phytosterol themselves, ordinarily without any curative effect on rickets, can be made antirachitic by irradiation. The criterion for the presence of the antirachitic factor (here called vitamin D) is the "line test" of McCollum and his coworkers. 2 Rachitic animals showing a wide metaphysis free from calcification are fed the substance to be tested in addition to the rickets-producing diet. Deposition of calcium salts, giving a positive line test, shows the presence of vitamin D in the food. This biological test is both expensive and time consuming. A chemical test for vitamin D would save time and effort, and in addition might lead to an understanding of the chemical nature of the vitamin. Hess and Weinstock 3 studied the changes in the ultra-violet light transmission of cholesterol before and after irradiation. Although they obtained a difference, its significance is at present not established. Besides, the method is not generally applicable. The color reactions of substances containing the fat soluble vitamins have been studied by Drummond, Rosenheim and their associates. Of the reagents studied, Rosenheim and Drummond 4 found AsC12 the most sensitive. They claim that their color test parallels the biological test for the presence of vitamin A. Harden and Robison 5 state that the purple color given by liver oils when treated with H2SO4 can be closely simulated by adding furfural or a substituted furfural to cholesterol or butter.


Accident and occupational diseases in traditional divers of Seram Regency, Maluku increase every year. Steps to socialize the prevention, also the know-how of diving technique must be taken by government institutions as well as non-governmental organizations. The purpose of this research is to learn the accidents and health disturbances experienced by divers and the correlation with diving activities of traditional divers in West Seram County of Maluku Province. This is an observational study carried out from July until December 2010 using cross sectional method. The population is traditional divers in Piru District, West Seram Regency of Maluku Province. Samples are taken from a selected population as many as 38 respondents. Variables observed are respondent€™s characteristics, experienced accidents, health disturbances and diving activities. Data is collected through observation and direct interviews using questionnaires and interview guidelines. The collected data is analyzed descriptively in frequency table, graphic and cross tabulation forms. The research result showed that respondents€™ age was 16-55 years old, work tenure was 2 months to 20 years, 81.6% was married, education ranged from no schooling to high school graduates. Experienced accidents consisted of scratched by corals, bitten by fish and corals, poisonous sea animals, compressor pipe was trapped, and drowned. Health disturbances experienced by divers were bleeding, headache, pain in joints and backbone, blurred vision, deaf, excessive fatigue, itchiness, tremor, unconscious/faint, difficulty in urinating, and vertigo. Respondents dived from 5-120 minutes, dived in 5-25 meters underwater, diving activity was done everyday (76.3%) and 68.4% used compressor. Factors of diving gear, work tenure, length and depth of diving, and diving frequency had a tendency to affect diver€™s accident; while factors of diving gear, work tenure, length and depth of diving, and diving frequency had a tendency to affect diver€™s health disturbances. To protect divers, it is suggested to implement the SAFE (slowly ascend for every dive) principle for every diver, to do €œsafety stop€ while ascending, and enough interval before next diving.Keywords: accident, health disturbances, traditional divers


A book published in 1999 hypothesized that the scientists who worked with the CHAT type 1 attenuated polio strain tested in the former Belgian Congo in the late 1950s had covertly prepared the vaccine in chimpanzee kidney cells contaminated with a simian immunodeficiency virus, which evolved into HIV-1 group M. This paper summarizes the results of the investigation conducted by the author to determine the legitimacy of the accusation. Testimony by eyewitnesses, documents of the time, epidemiological analysis, and ancillary phylogenetic, virologic and PCR data all concur to reject the hypothesis as false and without factual foundation.


Direct evidence has been obtained for the intermediate formation of cyclobutenes in the thermal cis–trans-isomerization of simple conjugated dienes, and kinetic data suggests that this is the major reaction pathway for the isomerization.


Two million children are estimated to be infected with HIV worldwide. Globally, every day 9 thousand people die of AIDS and 16 thousand become infected with HIV, including around 10% of children. In the latter group, the most frequent manner of HIV infection involves maternal transmission. In Poland around 15 thousand cases of HIV infection have been already noted, including around 150 children. In Poland, every year around 70 to 100 deliveries are by HIV-infected mothers. The vertical transmission may take place inside uterus (25-35% cases), during delivery (70-75%) or after birth, during breast-feeding (10-16%). The most important risk factors for HIV vertical transmission include high HIV load in a mother, improperly conducted prenatal antiretroviral therapy and concurrence of other sexually transmitted diseases.


Objective To investigate the relationship between overweight/obesity and fasting blood glucose(FBG) among Uygur,Kazak,Mongolian and Han ethnical populations in Xinjiang Boertala region.Methods 3 888 subjects(Uygur 986,Kazak 985,Mongolian 794,Han 1 123)were selected from the cross-sectional study data of metabolism syndrome in Xinjiang Boertala region.Body mass index(BMI) was classified as normal(BMI=18.5 to 23.9 kg/m2),overweight(BMI=24.0 to 27.9 kg/m2) and obesity(BMI≥28.0 kg/m2),and waist circumference(WC) as normal(WCmale 85 cm/female 80 cm),overweight(WC=male 85 to 94 cm/female 80 to 89 cm),abdominal obesity(WC≥male 95 cm/female 90 cm).The FBG levels and the incidence of high FBG among people with different BMI and WC levels were compared,and the relationship between FBG,BMI and WC was analyzed by linear-regression analysis and logistic regression analyses.Results(1) Mean FBG level was(6.1±2.2)mmol/L in Uygur,(5.5±1.2)mmol/L in Kazak,(5.5±1.4)mmol/L in Mongolian,(6.0±2.1)mmol/L in Han,and the difference was statistically significant(F=29.962,P0.001).The average level of FBG and the prevalence rate of high FBG(≥6.1 mmol/L) in Uygur population were significantly increased with the increasing of BMI and WC levels(all P0.05).Mongolian who were overweight or obese had higher FBG levels than the subjects of normal weight(all P0.05).Kazak and Han who were obese or abdominal obese had higher FBG levels than the subjects of normal weight or WC(all P0.05).The prevalence rate of high FBG was not significantly increased with the increasing BMI in Kazak population(P=0.213).(2) After correction confound factors by multiple linear regression,with BMI(from 18.5 to 23.9,24.0 to 27.9 to ≥28 kg/m2) and WC increasing(from WCmale 85 cm/ female 80 cm,male 85~94 cm/female 80~89 cm to ≥male 95 cm/female 90 cm),the level of FBG all increased among the four ethnical populations,and most significantly increased FBG level was Uygur population(respectively B=0.367,0.418,all P0.001),second Mogolian and Han,the last Kazak(respectively β=0.113,0.152,all P0.05).Compared with normal weight or WC level,Uygur population who were overweight(BMI 24.0 to 27.9 kg/m2,WC=male 85 to 94 cm/female 80 to 89 cm)/obesity(BMI≥28 kg/m2,WC≥male 95cm/female 90cm) had the highest risk of high FBG development,but it had no significant influence on Kazak(all P0.05).Compared with normal BMI or WC level,the risk of high FBG development increased among Han who were obesity or abdominal obesity and among Mongolian who were abdominal obesity.Conclusion Among Uygur,Kazak,Mongolian,Han ethnical populations in Xinjiang Boertala region,the influence of increased of BMI or WC on the FBG level and the risk of high FBG development were highest in Uygur,and were lowest in Kazak.


PurposeThe purpose of this study is to understand how applicant gender may interact with recruiter and organizational characteristics to affect organization attraction. Interpreting characteristics of individuals (e.g., recruiters) and organizations requires some degree of interpersonal sensitivity. Evidence shows that women are generally more skilled in this area than men, but women's skills are not stronger when evaluating characteristics that are male relevant (e.g., dominance, status).Design/methodology/approachThis study used an experimental between-subjects design in one sample of undergraduate students and one sample of working adults to explore the interaction of applicant gender with two known predictors of organization attraction: recruiter competence and hiring firm reputation.FindingsAs hypothesized, there was a significant interaction between recruiter competence and applicant gender on organization attraction in both samples. Contrary to the hypothesis, there was a significant interaction between hiring firm reputation and applicant gender in the sample of working adults, but not the sample of undergraduate students.Practical implicationsResults suggest that firms wishing to increase the number of women in their workforces should be particularly mindful of how they select and train recruiters as well as how positively their reputation is perceived by potential job applicants.Originality/valueThese results suggest that there may be gender differences in how applicants perceive and react to a variety of factors during the recruitment process that previous research has not considered.


In-depth experimental characterisation of spontaneous shear flow patterning into a so-called E×B staircase—named after its planetary analogue—is shown in magnetised plasma turbulence, using ultrafast-sweeping reflectometry in the Tore Supra tokamak. Staircase signatures are found in a large variety of L-mode plasma conditions. Sensitivity to the dominant source of free energy is highlighted for the first time. A connection between staircase shear layer permeability and deviation from gyro-Bohm confinement scaling is strongly suggested, opening new routes to understanding confinement in drift-wave turbulence.


The Built Environment and Public Health The Built Environment and Public Health explores the impact on our health of the environments we build for ourselves, and how public health and urban planning can work together to build settings that that promote healthy living. This comprehensive text covers origins and foundations of the built environment as a public health focus and its joint history with urban planning, transportation and land use, infrastructure and natural disasters, assessment tools, indoor air quality, water quality, food security, health disparities, mental health, social capital, and environmental justice. The Built Environment and Public Health explores such timely issues as: • Basics of the built environment and evidence for its influences


The aim of the article, based on a qualitative study, is to identify and interpret the meanings parents assign to messages conveyed by school personnel about the behavior of students with moderate and severe intellectual disabilities coupled with autism. The main research objective is to present the mechanism of impairment of the identity of pupils in special education, known as psychiatricization. The phenomenon of psychiatricization occurs in situations where school staff abuse and misinterpret the behaviour of people with intellectual disabilities, looking for mental illness in the behaviours they present. One of the reasons for this phenomenon is the misunderstood, behavioural-coded communication of pupils perceived as mentally ill by teachers who are convinced they should be diagnosed and treated with appropriate psychotropic drugs in order to subdue and quieten the awkward pupil. A consequence of the activities and discourse of school staff, i.e. psychiatricization, including stigmatization, harm, abuse of power-knowledge, is falsifying the identity of students, depriving them of opportunities and opportunities for optimal development and satisfying their special educational needs. The presented qualitative research is located in the constructivistinterpretative paradigm, and the mainstream of the scientific narrative is the critical theory.


tions; Anxiety neurosis associated with somatic disorders; Alcoholic patients with anxiety and/or depression. 2. Psychotic depression, including manic-depressive illness (depressed type) and involutional melanchohia. Contraindications Sinequan is contraindicated in individuals who have shown hypersensitivity to the drug It is not recommended for children under 12 years of age, since sufficient data on its usem this


Based on a new and complete collation of manuscripts and ancient editions, this paper will discuss some stemmatic and textual problems concerning the "Excerpta de comoedia" attributed to Aelius Donatus.


We present a framework for interfacing an arbitrary HPC simulation code with an interactive ParaView session using the HDF5 parallel IO library as the API. The implementation allows a flexible combination of parallel simulation, concurrent parallel analysis and GUI client, all of which may be on the same or separate machines. Data transfer between the simulation and the ParaView server takes place using a virtual file driver for HDF5 that bypasses the disk entirely and instead communicates directly between the coupled applications in parallel. The simulation and ParaView tasks run as separate MPI jobs and may therefore use different core counts and/or hardware configurations/platforms, making it possible to carefully tailor the amount of resources dedicated to each part of the workload. The coupled applications write and read datasets to the shared virtual HDF5 file layer, which allows the user to read data representing any aspect of the simulation and modify it using ParaView pipelines, then write it back, to be reread by the simulation (or vice versa). This allows not only simple parameter changes, but complete remeshing of grids, or operations involving regeneration of field values over the entire domain, to be carried out. To avoid the problem of manually customizing the GUI for each application that is to be steered, we make use of XML templates that describe outputs from the simulation, inputs back to it, and what user interactions are permitted on the controlled elements. This XML is used to generate GUI and 3D controls for manipulation of the simulation without requiring explicit knowledge of the underlying model.


Voice is very important in our daily life. However, some people cannot speak because of throat surgery. Electrolarynx (EL) is a way for them to speak again but this voice is flat and noisy like a buzzer. Therefore, we propose a new Electrolarynx system based on WaveRNN. When we use it, the EL voice is converted into a voice close to the natural voice. We assume that this system will be provided as a smartphone application. In the experiment, we evaluated the converted voice by the system and found that naturalness improved.


LPP Yogyakarta Polytechnic Library is a facility provided as a learning resource. The number of collections available in the library makes it easier for students to access various knowledge. On the other hand, the available books come from donations, so there is still a lack of control over the availability of certain books. For example, books that are given by contributors are related to engineering sciences, while those that are sought after are books on plantation science. Based on these problems, in order to optimize the availability of books, it is necessary to analyze so that the ratio of availability and the number of enthusiasts is appropriate.
One alternative is to implement data mining using the K-Means Clustering method to help library managers analyze by grouping books from the number of borrowed and the number of available copies so that they can be used to support the decision whether to reproduce books with related titles or not.
The data used in this study is the history of borrowing books from the Yogyakarta LPP Polytechnic Library for approximately 2 years. The final result of the research in the form of book data is the most in demand, quite in demand, and the least in demand.


Objective speech quality evaluation plays a pivotal role in SALL(Self-Access Language Learning).This thesis firstly introduces the pre-treatment unit of voice signals in the process of objective speech quality evaluation.Then,it also presents diverse voice features extraction algorithms and makes comparisons between them.After that,the MFCC feature,which is closer to human auditory model,is chosen in the extraction process.Meanwhile,the whole process and its results are provided.Finally,we compare the advantages and disadvantages of current evaluation models(DTW and HMM),and propose an evaluation method which adopts the HMM model,and thus design a system to test and verify the objectivity of evaluation using this method.


mothering. The core of Refusal's Bacchae is the tragic clash of Agave's relational identities: mother (to the eventually murdered king), daughter (to Cadmus, founder of Thebes), sister, and polis member. Agreeing with Peter Euben, Honig believes "the breaks necessitated by equality tear us apart, rip apart loved ones, and destroy the conjugal and communal bonds we value even though they make us unequal" (13), though equality is clearly worth this sacrifice per Refusal. Tragedy does not mean a wrong choice has been made; it means that pain attends all choices. As Arendt would say, to act is to suffer. Honig's reading intimates that Agave's immense grief for Pentheus would differentiate her from Rousseau's citizen-mother, who cares only for Sparta's victory after hearing that she has lost all five sons in battle. Her choice to refuse her son-cum-leader's orders also differentiates Agave from Homer's Penelope, who obeys Telemachus's order to be silent before laboring alone to preserve Ithaca's paternal monarchy. The bacchants' partial revolution is an enlightenment-esque attempt to displace Thebes's ancien régime. Whatever admixture of "giddiness and nausea" mighty sorority induces when it slays sons alongside kings, its goal is res publica: a political community meant to guarantee freedom and equality through rights (11). Now that the United States has officially entered its post-Roe reality, Honig's clarity about feminism's normative and civic demands rings all the louder. Only in a world without patriarchs could feminist citizenship be claimed without so much bloody sacrifice.


Optometrists are celebrating the passage of a new Kentucky law giving them the ability to perform laser surgery and employ a wider range of treatment options for patients throughout the state.


Background Preoperative Wilms tumour rupture is an uncommon, but potentially significant phenomenon owing to its adverse effect on prognosis because of tumour dissemination. The International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP) recommends that ruptured tumours are upstaged to IIIc, necessitating intensive chemotherapy and whole abdomen radiotherapy. As yet, there are no radiological features to diagnose Wilms tumour rupture unequivocally. However, there are some imaging findings that may indicate that rupture has occurred. The aim of this study is to illustrate the radiological features suggestive of Wilms tumour rupture. Aims We retrospectively searched the histopathology database at our tertiary referral centre over a 10 year period using the search terms 'Wilms resection' to identify patients. Cases of histologically proven ruptured were then cross-checked with their associated imaging on our PACS, and selected for presentation. Results 187 patients with Wilms tumour were identified. Of these, 4 had ruptured. Common imaging features were the presence of ascites, irregularity of tumour margin and perinephric fat stranding. Conclusion Radiological detection of preoperative Wilms tumour rupture is challenging. Radiologists must be alert to the imaging features which may indicate tumour rupture in order to guide appropriate subsequent management.


The Germans occupied continental Western Europe in 1940. However difficult the outlook, Winston Churchill would never limit himself to defense, on the contrary. In this vein the decision was made to develop an organization named the 'Special Operations Executive' (SOE) to foment subversive action on the continent. This organization was intended to force the Germans to maintain more troops in the area than would otherwise have been necessary to keep control, but also to create havoc behind the German lines once the liberation of Europe started. Between November 1941 and May 1943 SOE dropped 53 Dutch agents into the Netherlands, many of them equipped with wireless transmitters. However, fromMarch 1942 onwards all agents were arrested, many of them the moment they landed on Dutch soil. The Dutch side of wireless traffic was taken over by the Germans, under the competent leadership of Hermann Giskes and Joseph Schreieder. What made it possible for the game to continue for 15 months? The main surviving hypothesis explaining the catastrophe was canonized by Lou de Jong in his monumental history of the SecondWorld War in the Netherlands and later supported by the British historian M.R.D. Foot. It emphasized the


This study investigated the effects of aqueous leaf extract of Ocimum gratissimumon enzymatic antioxidants and renal function in carbon tetrachloride-induced nephrotoxicity. Twenty-five (25) adult Wistar rats were involved in this study. They were randomly assigned into five (5) groups of five (5) animals each, as follows: Group A received 1 ml of distilled water daily, Group B received 1.5 ml/kg of olive oiltwice a week for 15 days, Group C received 250 mg/kg of Ocimum gratissimum aqueous leaf extract daily, Group D received 1.5 ml/kg of carbon tetrachloride and olive oil (1:1 v/v), twice a week for 15 days, while Group E received 1.5 ml/kg ofcarbon tetrachloride and olive oil (1:1 v/v), twice a week for 15 days+ 250 mg/kg of Ocimum gratissimum aqueous leaf extract, daily. The extract was administered by orogastric tube, while olive oil and carbon tetrachloride were administered by intraperitoneal injection. Renal function markers (creatinine and urea), and malondialdehyde were assayed in plasma and tissue homogenate, respectively, using standard methods. Obtained data were subjected to statistical analysis using the IBM SPSS statistics software (Statistical Package for Social Science) (Version 25) and relevant statistical values were analyzed. Results showed that the intraperitoneal injection of carbon tetrachloride together with olive oil significantly (p < 0.05) increased the levels of urea and creatinine, and a similar outcome was observed in malondialdehyde levels. The administration of Ocimum gratissimum ensured a reversal of these levels to those comparable with the control. This demonstrates that aqueous leaf extract Ocimum gratissimum has the potential to manage carbon tetrachloride-induced nephrotoxicity.


Social Media Applications (SMA) has become a common tool for networking and communication and also content sharing. As a result, firms utilize SMA for organizational purposes. Then again, Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) is a popular subject in the area of operations management for both researchers as well as practitioners. However, the influences of SMA on GSCM practices and finally on organizational performance are not well understood. SMA can expedite information flow and knowledge sharing amidst supply chains and also may assist organizations for greening their SCM practices. In this research, we empirically investigate the impact of SMA capabilities on GSCM practices. Data collected from 206 manufacturing managers were analyzed applying a structural equation modeling methodology. Results confirm that the adoption of SMA in supply chains by manufacturing firms positively affect the GSCM practices among the chain.


Despite increased attention given to alcohol use and its negative consequences on college campuses, national data indicates that there have been only small decreases in levels of alcohol consumption for over two decades. This guide describes how one university was able to decrease heavy drinking on campus by 29.2% during a four-year period. Their prevention efforts were a blend of two approaches: social norming and environmental management. A social norms campaign was used to educate students about the amount of drinking norms on campus since contrary to what they perceived, heavier drinkers represented the minority while moderate drinkers represented the majority. The environmental management or public health approach emphasized the responsibility the college had in creating prevention policies that established and maintained a healthy and safe environment. The approach involved identifying individuals and organizations on campus that had a stake in alcohol prevention and gaining their public support for policy development and prevention efforts. Suggestions are provided for the development of a social norms media campaign and the evaluation measures that can be part of the planning process for implementing a social norms model. (Contains 22 references and a list of 13 resources.) (JDM) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. A Ploctka WW2 to A echo Abuse Prvendom


This article examines the impact of the Florida Department of Citrus orange juice brand advertising rebate program through which producers support brand advertising by private firms. The impact of brand and Florida commodity advertising on the demand for national brand and private label orange juice is also evaluated.


The purpose of this research is to see how big the effect of PDRB, Inflation, the
province's minimum wage and the total population towards the unemployment in
west sumatera. The method of this research is quantitative using 1999-2013
secondary data with analitical technique which is used in double linear regression
via Eviews 8 software. The result of this research shows that PDRB variables has
negative effect and significant towards unemployment in west sumatera. The
inflation variables and the province's minimum wage has positive effect and
significant towards unemployment in west sumatera. The total population's
variable has negative effects and significant towards unemployment in west
sumatera.
Keywords : Unemployment, PDRB, Inflation, province's wage minimum wage
total population.


The ATLAS experiment at the LHC at CERN has analyzed 2010 and 2011 data looking for electroweak production of single top quarks in the lepton+jets and di-lepton final states. The production cross section for the t -channel process is measured to be 76 +41 − 21 pb using 156 pb − 1 of 2011 data. A first limit is set on the Wt associated production process using lepton+jets and di-lepton events. The 95% CL upper limit on the Wt production cross section is 158 pb using 35 pb − 1 of 2010 data.


—In the paper, we consider all possible subsets of the set of potential roots forming in some situations semilattices, by intersection and/or by union. Such structures arise in two similar problems in the theory of formal languages. Specifically, for some given finite language, we consider the problem of extracting the root of a given degree and the problem of constructing an optimal inverse morphism, where optimality can be defined, for example, as the length of the maximum word of a language that is an inverse morphic image. In both of the above cases, it is necessary to construct the set of socalled potential roots, i.e., such words of the alphabet in question, for each of which some degree of it is included in the source language. It is important to note that the construction of the set of all potential roots can be performed using a simple polynomial algorithm. Exponential algorithms for both problems are obvious: we just need to sort through all subsets of the set of these potential roots, and choose the appropriate one among these subsets. Therefore, the problem is to describe possible polynomial algorithms for these problems. For both of these problems, the possible existence of two semilattices available on a preconstructed set of subsets of potential roots is of interest. Among other things, in the paper we present the formulation of one important hypothesis of the theory of formal languages, in which we can assert that a special subset of a set of languages, each of which is an inverse morphic image of a given language, forms not only a halflattice by union, but also a halflattice by intersection (and, therefore, a lattice). The first part of the paper contains motivation, definition of basic concepts, after which includes the material, more dedicated the first of the tasks under consideration, i.e., the task of extracting a root from a language. [1]


In recent years, a food addiction model of obesity and overeating is gaining more and more popularity. A remarkable increase of the number of publications containing the topic food addiction has been observed since 2009 (Gearhardt et al., 2011). The concept of food addiction proposes that there are similarities – both neurobiological and behavioral – between obesity (or overeating) and substance dependence and suggests that hyperpalatable foods could have an addiction potential (Gearhardt et al., 2011). One of the most highlighted arguments is that DSM-IV substance dependence criteria also apply to overeating provided they are modified with references to binge eating (Cassin and von Ranson, 2007). A reward deficiency syndrome is also considered reflected by a downregulation of striatal D2-receptor availability and concurrent hypersensitivity to palatable food-cues in obese individuals (Kenny, 2011).

Ziauddeen et al. (2012) recently presented a critical evaluation of this food addiction model of obesity and overeating. Some key conclusions drawn in this article are that a vast majority of obese individuals would not show a convincing behavioral or neurobiological profile that resembles addiction and that the evidence for an overlap with addiction would be inconsistent and weak even when the food addiction model would be refined to obese individuals with binge eating disorder (BED).

Specifically, the authors conclude that "food addiction may prevail in non-obese and not-yet-obese individuals" and that "obesity, particularly when assessed solely cross-sectionally by body-mass index, will be an unsatisfactory phenotype for food addiction" (Ziauddeen et al., 2012, p. 281). In our opinion, Ziauddeen et al. (2012) correctly infer that not all obese individuals are food addicted and that food addiction does rather relate to binge eating behaviors, but they miss the fact that most researchers in this area would agree with this idea. For example, many researchers do mention that food addiction is not restricted to obesity, but also occurs in normal-weight samples, e.g., in patients with bulimia nervosa in particular (e.g., Davis and Carter, 2009; Gearhardt et al., 2009a; Broft et al., 2011; Meule, 2011; Speranza et al., 2012; Umberg et al., 2012). Furthermore, recent studies using the Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS) show that only a subset of obese individuals receive a "diagnosis" of food addiction (between 25 and 42%; Davis et al., 2011; Meule et al., in press a,b) supporting the notion of the authors of a better behavioral profiling of investigations (p. 284). Nonetheless, obese individuals are well-suited for research on food addiction because symptomatology is much more prevalent as compared to non-obese samples (Meule, 2011).

Another conclusion of the authors is that "the DSM-IV criteria for substance dependence translate poorly to food-related behaviors" (p. 281). The proposed food addiction equivalents of substance dependence criteria presented by the authors are based on articles by Volkow and O'Brien (2007) and Gearhardt et al. (2009a). We argue that those criteria require further examination.

Firstly, Ziauddeen et al. (2012) acknowledge that some criteria are easily applied to eating behavior, those are (1) a persistent desire or unsuccessful attempts to cut down (2) larger amounts consumed than intended and (3) continued use despite physical or psychological problems. They do also suggest, that these criteria require "the application of severity and impairment thresholds to be meaningful" (p. 280), although such thresholds do not exist for substance dependence. Dieting attempts, occasional overeating, and unhealthy eating despite problems apply to many people regardless of food addiction symptomatology that is why, as in substance dependence, not a single criterion suffices to receive the "diagnosis" food addiction. Specific severity thresholds may be difficult to establish because of a lack of a clear addictive agent associated with food addiction. However, the only currently available measure for establishing a diagnosis of food addiction, the YFAS, includes items for the assessment of distress or a clinically significant impairment because of eating and food addiction is only diagnosed when this criterion is met (Gearhardt et al., 2009b; Meule et al., in press b).

Secondly, the authors argue that the criteria of tolerance and neglecting or abandoning important activities in favor of substance-related activities have no convincing equivalents in relation to eating behavior. They define tolerance such that increasing amounts of food are required to reach satiety and that important activities are given up due to fear of rejection because of obesity. These definitions, however, differ from the definitions used in current research. For instance, the YFAS defines tolerance such that increasing amounts of food are necessary to reduce negative emotions or increase pleasure or that the same amount of food does no longer enhance mood (Gearhardt et al., 2009b; Meule et al., in press b). With regard to neglecting important activities, the authors propose that "a strict equivalent would require engagement in eating to the exclusion of other activities" (p. 280) and this suggestion exactly matches how this criterion is assessed with the YFAS (e.g., "There have been times when I consumed certain foods so often or in such large quantities that I started to eat food instead of working, spending time with my family or friends, or engaging in other important activities or recreational activities I enjoy"; Gearhardt et al., 2009b; Meule et al., in press b).

Thirdly, the authors argue that there is no convincing evidence for withdrawal symptoms when restricting certain foods and that the criterion for great time effort in relation to eating is difficult to apply because of the high availability of foods. It is true that those criteria do not apply to food as much as do the other criteria. However, in recent studies that used the YFAS, a subset of individuals with obesity or BED meet these criteria (Meule, 2011; Gearhardt et al., 2012; Meule et al., in press b). For example, approximately 55% of obese participants with BED felt that they often experience withdrawal symptoms which were defined as an elevated desire to consume certain foods or agitation, anxiety, or other physical symptoms when cutting down or stop eating certain foods (Gearhardt et al., 2012). Studies which objectively measure and establish the presence of such withdrawal symptoms and, most importantly, distinguish between withdrawal symptoms in relation to specific foods as compared to similar reactions due to plain caloric deficit are desperately needed.

To conclude, Ziauddeen et al. (2012) correctly point out that food addiction does not apply to all, but is also not restricted to, obese individuals and that there is a need for more precise definitions and future investigations to strengthen – or reject – the food addiction model. We agree unequivocally with these statements. However, the definitions of food addiction equivalents of substance dependence criteria based on Volkow and O'Brien (2007) and Gearhardt et al. (2009a) and their interpretations are debatable. An evaluation of the applicability of substance dependence criteria to overeating or obesity crucially depends on how food addiction symptoms are defined. There is a lack of agreement among researchers particularly with regard to what constitute tolerance or withdrawal symptoms and reasons underlying the reduction of important activities. In the present article, we have outlined that recent questionnaire studies, in which definitions of some food addiction symptoms differed from those presented by Ziauddeen et al. (2012), do indeed find that a substantial subset of obese individuals meet those addiction criteria (Merlo et al., 2009; Davis et al., 2011; Gearhardt et al., 2012; Lent and Swencionis, 2012; Meule et al., in press a). As a result, the food addiction model cannot be rejected when those definitions of food addiction symptoms are used. Future investigations relying on multimodal measures including physiological parameters, e.g., blood glucose level during withdrawal or longitudinal studies assessing the development of food intake over several time points, are required to further validate those subjectively gained insights.


OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this study was to compare the therapeutic effect of exercise for patients with panic disorder to a drug treatment of proven efficacy and to placebo.

METHOD
Forty-six outpatients suffering from moderate to severe panic disorder with or without agoraphobia (DSM-III-R criteria) were randomly assigned to a 10-week treatment protocol of regular aerobic exercise (running), clomipramine (112.5 mg/day), or placebo pills.

RESULTS
The dropout rate was 31% for the exercise group, 27% for the placebo group, and 0% for the clomipramine group. In comparison with placebo, both exercise and clomipramine led to a significant decrease in symptoms according to all main efficacy measures (analysis of variance, last-observation-carried-forward method and completer analysis). A direct comparison of exercise and clomipramine revealed that the drug treatment improved anxiety symptoms significantly earlier and more effectively. Depressive symptoms were also significantly improved by exercise and clomipramine treatment.

CONCLUSIONS
These results suggest that regular aerobic exercise alone, in comparison with placebo, is associated with significant clinical improvement in patients suffering from panic disorder, but that it is less effective than treatment with clomipramine.


Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to offer an alternative approach to traditional campus recruiting, using the social media. Specifically, we propose a three-step strategy using Facebook to attract and recruit college graduates. Design/methodology/approach – In Step 1, employers use Facebook to attract as many target students as possible to an employer's Fan page. In Step 2, employers actively engage with students to enhance their employer brand as a prospective employer. In Step 3, employers initiate a call-to-action to encourage students to act upon a job opportunity and apply for the position. Findings – Social media recruiting can payoff in several ways: First, employers have the advantage of speed through social media recruiting. Second, employers also have broad and frequent access to college students. Employers will also reduce their overall college recruiting costs and lastly, employers enhance their overall employment branding through the use of Facebook for college recruiting. Practical imp...


The main challenge in managing type 1 diabetes mellitus is to achieve the glycaemic targets, especially when top-level athletes are involved. The present paper aims at identifying the daily continuous glycaemic oscillations that occur on a regular basis during rhythmic gymnastics training sessions. This is a case report of a 12-year-old junior rhythmic gymnast diagnosed with type 1 diabetes mellitus, with 6 years of experience in sport. Her glycaemic records were available for analysis through the FreeStyle Libre glucose monitoring sensor. The investigation took place in Bucharest between March 30 and April 26, 2021. During this time, the gymnast attended training sessions, provided that her glycaemic values allowed her to perform physical exercise. Data resulting from the LibreView specific software were correlated with the exercise parameters. From the diabetes management standpoint, it was emphasised the distribution of glycaemic values (in range, above and below the target zone) in bi-monthly and daily reports to identify the glucose profiles on training and non-training days. Depending on glycaemic oscillations, the coach adjusted in real time the training load for the athlete so that hypo- and hyperglycaemic episodes are avoided. Glucose monitoring could safely establish risk-free time intervals for both health and training purposes.


Video surveillance systems have become very popular these days. In households, enterprises and even cities the monitoring systems have been deployed to improve the sense of safety. The large number of video cameras require a new, smart approach to browsing and analyzing video streams. There is a lot of research on motion detection, face recognition or integration with external sensors. We notice the lack of efficient and flexible solutions for managing video streams for public or private security. In this paper we would like to focus on managing video sources in the service-oriented manner for a large scale domain. Simplifying monitoring configuration and usage is also in the scope of our interest.


Light scattering, viscometry , fluorescence spectroscopy, electron microscopy and equilibrium dialysis have been used to study the aggregates formed by the interactions of saponins and bile acids in aqueous solution. Purified saponins from three plant sources were used: commercial 'saponin white' (from Saponaria officinalis), quillaia saponin (from Quillaia saponaria), and saponin from soya beans. Alone, the saponins formed small micelles, dimers in the case of saponin white and soya saponin , and larger aggregates of about 50 molecules for quillaia saponin . With bile acids, the saponins formed large mixed micelles. The size and structure of these depended on the chemical structure of the saponin . Saponin white and quillaia saponin gave filamentous structures with the hydrophobic triterpene groups of the saponin forming elongated stacks interleaved with bile acid anions. Soya saponin formed very different micelles with bile acids. These had a loose, open structure with considerable interpenetration of water. These results help to explain the increased faecal excretion of bile acids which has been observed in response to foods rich in saponins.


Hypothalamic tissues of female rats were extracted with 1.0M acetic acid. The acidic extract was lyophilized and subjected to gel filtration on Sephadex column and assayed for follicle-stimulating hormone-releasing factor (FSH-RF) activity and luteinizing hormone-releasing factor (LH-RF) activity by estimating FSH and LH using the organ culture method of rat anterior pituitaries. FSH activity was measured by the method of Steelman-Pohley, and LH activity by the method of Parlow. Gel filtration on a short column of Sephadex G-25 in 0.1M pyridine acetate provided a single fraction which showed significant FSH-RF and LH-RF activity. Each activity showed a doserelated increase. Application of a long column of Sephadex G-25 in 0.05M pyridine acetate brought about separation of a peak for FSH-RF activity from that for LH-RF activity. The former activity was eluted from the column just before the appearance of the latter. These results indicated that the secretion of FSH and LH from the rat anterior pituitary was regulated by the specific hypothalamic FSH-RF and LH-RF, respectively.


An experiment is described which was designed to test the hypothesis that brief visual stimuli would not be perceived when they occurred during certain phases of the EEG alpha rhythm. The results agreed with the hypothesis. It was concluded that the alpha rhythm is a correlate of the activity of a 'neuronic shutter' which periodically prevents the reception or processing of visual information by the brain.

The procedure used was such that there was no necessity for the subjects to pay attention to the stimuli; indeed, efforts were made to avoid such attention. This methodology was thought to be of importance in obtaining a positive result.


The Baseu catchment basin is situated in the northeast of Romanian and it is a right-side tributary of the Prut River. At the end of spring the most significant floods occur on the Romanian territory. They are due to the maximum amounts of rainfall and to snow melting. The phenomenon is also specific to the Baseu catchment basin. The last 20 years have witnessed a change in temporal manifestation, with maximum intensities during the summer (the months of July and August) when heavy rainfall is recorded. In the last 40 years, several critical episodes occurred, which endangered the lives of 79,000 inhabitants. In order to assess the hazard associated with maximum runoff, a floodable stripe with an assurance of 1% (once every 100 years) was modelled. Flood modelling involved the manipulation in GIS setting of the parameters of digital elevation model (DEM) and of their relations with the hydrological system. The main objective of the study is the modelling of an exceptional flood with a probability of 1%, similar to the one of 1969, when the Stefanesti gauging station recorded a flow of 330 m/s. Based in the analysis of the hydrological data spanning over 50 years, recorded at three gauging stations, a maximum flow of 248.1 m/s was determined (the Stefanesti gauging station), using the Pearson III probability curve. The findings have highlighted the significant vulnerability of the human settlements situated in the flood plain of the Baseu River. A surface of 17,000 ha would be flooded, accounting for around 17.5% of the total basin surface.


This paper introduces a method to solve the fractional calculus problem and proposes a new fractional chaotic system for generating complex carrier wave signals of chaos-based communications. Numerical simulations show that the lowest order we found for chaos to exist in the system is 2.31. Based on the system, a fractional chaotic signal generator is designed using virtual instrument technology and the experimental results are observed.


Preparation of iron ore fines as feed to blast furnace involves production of spheres of typically 9-16mm diameter through pelletization. The process combines agglomeration and thermal treatment to convert the raw ore into pellets appropriate for use in a blast furnace. The use of pellets of varying shape and size has attracted much interest. The permeability of blast furnace is dependant on the size and shape of the pellets. The productivity of pelletization is based on generation of pellets of size range of 9-16mm. The pelletization process is governed by the physical characteristic of pellets and therefore it is necessary to investigate accurately the shape and size of the pellets in pelletization process. It is desirable to produce nearly spherical pellets with a desired diameter range. In the process of pelletization the pellets may be produced of different sizes. This may be accepted if it is within certain tolerance limit. Therefore, it is essential to measure the size and provide a quantitative value for the shape of the pellets. The size can be measured by many methods such as using a scale or caliper and solid displacement method etc. However, it is very difficult to measure the size and shape of green pellets without physically handling them. Since they are wet and they change their size and shape during measurement. Some researchers have worked using imaging techniques for pellet size analysis [3-4]. This motivated to develop such a system. An attempt is made here to measure the shape and size of the pellets using 2D-digital image processing techniques. Online image processing method is also presented for calculating the sphericity and the size of a single/multiple pellet by software and its toolboxes. The technique can suitably derive the size distribution of a number of pellets. The technique is validated by conducting a number of experiments


Abstract Bose and Shimamoto [1] have shown that partially Balanced Incomplete Block (PBIB) designs are characterized by association schemes. But in the PBIB designs discussed so far by the various authors the relation of association is symmetrical or reflexive. The object of this paper is to study a class of useful designs in which the relation of association is not necessarily symmetrical. First the definition of this new design is given. The relation between the parameters and the number of independent secondary parameters are discussed next. Two types of association schemes are given defined as type I and type II, the latter being based on Galois Fields. For the general method of analysis, the model assumed is that of a design for two-way elimination of heterogeneity. The final equations arrived at are the same as those for PBIB designs. A numerical example illustrates the method still further. Two methods of construction, one each for type I and type II are given. The method for type II is based on th...


The aim of this paper is to provide detailed analysis of quarterly frequency dynamics in macroeconomic aggregates in Poland. The following areas of concern have been included: the balanced growth theory, the comparison of empirical performance of the New Classical, New Keynesian and Hybrid Philips curve specifications and the changes of macroeconomic stylized facts across the monetary regimes. Thorough analysis of those, as well as other facts, may contribute significantly to the development of macromodelling of Poland. Analysis of other facts has also been conducted, however due to limited space is not provided. The main result of the presented analysis is to give overwhelming evidence that the standard textbook stylized facts of macroeconomics present a reasonably good approximation to the behaviour of Polish economy, providing that this analysis takes into account that the Polish time series are contaminated with outliers.


During the recent years, Deep Learning achieved exceptional performance in various computer vision tasks, paving auspicious research directions for its application in robotics. A key component for its exceptional performance is the availability of sufficient training data. However obtaining such amount of training data constitutes a challenging task, especially considering robotics applications. Thus, synthetic data have recently been regarded as a promising tool to overcoming the data availability problem. In this work we first build a synthetic human dataset, and then we train a lightweight model, capable of operating in real-time for high-resolution input on low-power GPUs, for discriminating between humans and non-humans. The target of this work is to assess the generalization of the model trained on synthetic data, to real data, and also to explore the effect of using (few) real images in the training phase. As it is shown through quantitative and qualitative results the use of only few real images can beneficially affect of the performance of the synthetic-to-real real-time model.


Exocrine acinar cells are difficult to maintain in vitro. Although methods have been developed which allow differentiated acinar cells to be cultured for limited periods (from 7 to 14 days), these cells do not divide (Oliver, 1980; Brannon et al., 1985). The present investigation was undertaken in order to define conditions which would induce cell division in parotid acinar cells while maintaining their differentiated state. Attachment of cells to a substratum and media composition have both been shown to influence cell division and differentiation in other cell types. Logsdon and Williams (1986) have recently reported that pancreatic acinar cells grown on collagen gels will divide. Therefore, several different substrata as well as medium composition were examined.


The aim of this expert paper is to show development in the area of cartography in chronological order from the time when Albania first appeared on maps by wel l-known Venetian cartographers (with toponyms in Albanian) . An overview of various topographic maps and maritime charts is presented, along with the relevant local and international institutions whose main activities were cartography and geoinformation during different periods. An expert opinion is expressed on the current state of cartographic and geoinformation data as a scientific discipl ine, with a special emphasis on al ignment with international standards.


Significance Rapid and robust charge transport in soft matter semiconductors enables technologies such as photovoltaics, transistors, and light-emitting diodes. However, even at a conceptual level it remains unresolved what transport limitations are engendered by the structural disorder typical of soft materials. A graph methodology has been developed to quantify the mesoscopic electrical connectivity of clusters of molecules and its susceptibility to structural disorder. It is observed that some materials exhibit the capacity to regularly form conductive networks that percolate the material volume, even in the absence of periodic order. Moreover, the network properties of electrically percolating materials are qualitatively distinguished from nonpercolating materials, although both are comprised of ostensibly similar molecular units in terms of chemical structure, energy levels, and dimensionality. High-performance solution-processed organic semiconductors maintain macroscopic functionality even in the presence of microscopic disorder. Here we show that the functional robustness of certain organic materials arises from the ability of molecules to create connected mesoscopic electrical networks, even in the absence of periodic order. The hierarchical network structures of two families of important organic photovoltaic acceptors, functionalized fullerenes and perylene diimides, are analyzed using a newly developed graph methodology. The results establish a connection between network robustness and molecular topology, and also demonstrate that solubilizing moieties play a large role in disrupting the molecular networks responsible for charge transport. A clear link is established between the success of mono and bis functionalized fullerene acceptors in organic photovoltaics and their ability to construct mesoscopically connected electrical networks over length scales of 10 nm.


Background: XmnI - G   polymorphism has been found to be the major cis -acting factor responsible to increase   -globin gene activation and closely linked to HbE. It was expected that the polymorphism might modify HbE and RBC indices in HbE carriers. Objectives: To determine the effect of XmnI - G   polymorphism on RBC indices and HbE levels in single HbE carriers and double HbE/SEA- α thalassemia 1 carriers. Materials and methods: Samples comprised 160 EDTA blood collected from routine Hemoglobin Typing Laboratories of Sawan Pracharak Hospital, Nakorn Sawan Province and Lampang Regional Hospital, Lampang Province. XmnI - G   polymorphism was determined by PCR-RFLP. SEA- α thalassemia 1 was genotyped by Gap-PCR. HbE level was determined by cation-exchange HPLC, and RBC indices by automated hematology analyzer. Mann-Whitney U test was computed to analyze the data. P value of less than 0.05 is considered to be statistically significant. Results: The prevalence of XmnI - G   (+/+) was 13.9% and 6.2%, of XmnI - G   (+/-) was 66.0% and 81.3%, and of XmnI - G   (-/-) was 20.1% and 12.5% in single HbE carriers and double HbE/SEA- α thalassemia 1 carriers, respectively. Presence of the XmnI - G   site did not affect HbE levels and RBC indices in both single HbE carriers and double HbE/SEA- α thalassemia 1 carriers. Conclusion: XmnI - G   polymorphism did not affect RBC indices and HbE levels in HbE carriers. It was not a confounding factor to be concerned when considering RBC parameters in screening for HbE/SEA- α thalassemia 1 double carriers and can be ignored. 13% 50-60%


Abstract Since the invention of the surface stabilized ferroelectric LCD /I / much effort has gone into finding polymers that will realize the book-shelf structure over large areas. For a system to be useful1 in mass produc- tion one also have to consider other factors besides the quality of alignment. The polymer should show good adhesion to both the glass and the indium- tin oxide. It should not be soluble in liquid crystals. No degradation should occur upon storage of the polymer solution or the finished displays. Health hazards of the solvents used should also be taken into consideration.


Scleromyxedema is a rare disease of obscure etiology. It is clinically characterized by generalized lichenoid papules with sclerodermoid infiltration of the skin and, histologically, by proliferation of fibroblasts and mucin deposition in the dermis. It is mostly associated with monoclonal paraproteinemia and extracutaneous manifestations. It is a chronic illness that sometimes resolves spontaneously. Many treatments have been tried but results are poor. The authors describe a case of scleromyxedema associated to neurologic abnormalities and lethal evolution.


ABSTRACT Wang, J.; Jiang, X., and Shan, C., 2019. International reference for efficiency of Shanghai transportation service trade in the construction of a free trade port. In: Li, L.; Wan, X., and Huang, X. (eds.), Recent Developments in Practices and Research on Coastal Regions: Transportation, Environment and Economy. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 98, pp. 26–29. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. From the new perspective of service trade efficiency, this paper makes a horizontal comparison in efficiency evaluation among Shanghai Port, Singapore Port, and Busan Port to achieve the strategic goal of the free trade port. For this, the Interactive Linear and General Optimization Solver (LINGO) was applied to specific data processing. The innovations of this study are the use of the evaluation scores in the World Economic Forum for the efficiency of transportation service, quantification of the original nonquantitative evaluation items, and the optimized selection of the calculation mode by LINGO, which ensures the comparability of the results. The results show that Singapore Port's pure technical efficiency (PTE) and scale efficiency (SE) are the highest, and the data envelopment analysis (DEA) evaluation is efficient. In recent years, Shanghai Port's PTE is little higher and the SE declines, and the DEA evaluation has not been efficient. The input indicators are redundant but still improving year by year.


This Article analyzes seventeen years under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA�?) rulemaking mechanism and suggests changes to reinforce its successes while remedying its failures. Part I briefly discusses the legislative history of the rulemaking mechanism and policy justifications for its adoption within the DMCA scheme. Part II reviews legal and evidentiary standards of the rulemaking and recent changes to its administrative procedure. Part III provides an overview of the prior rulemakings and their impact on non-infringing uses, with a particular focus on the "e-book�? and "cellphone unlocking�? exemptions. Part IV applauds the Breaking Down Barriers to Innovation Act of 2015 — which suggests numerous improvements to the rulemaking mechanism — and then recommends other possible changes. Part V emphasizes the continued need for the rulemaking mechanism, but concludes with some modifications and restructuring.


By analysis of numerical simulations validated with abundant field measurements, we show that the 630 km wide mangrove forest along the Gulf coast of South Florida effectively attenuated storm surges from a category 3 hurricane, Wilma, and protected the inland wetland by reducing an inundation area of 1,700 km2. The average surge amplitude decay rates are about 40-50 cm/km across dense mangrove forests and about 20 cm/km for areas with a mixture of mangrove islands with open water. The forest cannot fully attenuate storm surges from a category 5 hurricane with a forward speed of 2.2 m/s (5 mph) and reduced surges can still affect the wetland behind the mangrove zone.


Four non-failed fuel rods from Duke Power Company's Oconee-2 reactor were examined in the B W hot cells. The purpose of the program was to determine the cause(s) of failure in sister'' rods located adjacent to the assembly instrumentation tube, but which were thought to be too badly damaged to provide useful information. The rods had operated at relatively high power levels during their first cycle, which appeared to be a contributing factor to the failures. Non-destructive examinations included visual and eddy-current examinations, gamma-scanning and rod growth measurements. Following rod puncture and plenum gas analysis, several rod sections were destructively examined using visual techniques, metallography and scanning electron microscopy. The major findings from the examination were regions of greater than expected cladding OD oxidation and hydriding in regions with highest cladding temperature. Highly localized oxidation was found nearest the fuel assembly central instrument tube. The extensive hydriding was associated with fuel column gaps which acted as low-temperature sinks for hydrogen diffusion. Based on the findings in the sound rods, two failure mechanisms were identified that could have resulted in cladding failure. These were rapid through-wall oxidation or massive hydriding due to local temperature troughs that acted to concentrate hydrogen generatedmore » by rapid corrosion. 2 refs., 3 figs., 5 tabs.« less


:Male involvement in antenatal care (ANC) is an operative approach for improving maternal health results. Though women are sole child producers, the participation of men in financial support and other decision making cannot be out looked. This study reviewed different papers from different study area to analyze the involvement of male partner in antenatal care in Nepal. This study used various literatures all over the country. The analysis of the literature review provided some ideas which led in the identification of some important factors like involvement of male in birth preparedness, birth companionship, decision making for pregnancy and delivery, responsibility for house and children in the absence of female counterparts, etc. As men play an important role in birth preparedness which points towards economic and emotional support, despite the participation of male during birth preparedness is prohibited in some cultures. So, men should be provided with adequate knowledge and information regarding the need of a woman during pregnancy and provide adequate support and involvement during antenatal care. So, this review recommends to take more efforts to provide education to the community to boost the male participation in ANC to improve the women's health and child safety uprooting the prohibitions in cultural background.


Purpose – The dynamic capability view serves to explain how particular practices ensure the firm's performance and competitiveness within a continuously changing environment. In this paper, the staff induction processes of two small firms in The Netherlands (management consultancy and biotech (BT) start‐up) are examined from a practice‐based view. The authors explore whether the staff induction processes of these firms can be regarded as practices, and if so, whether and how these firms have developed a dynamic capability in staff induction.Design/methodology/approach – Case studies are conducted in the management consultancy and biotechnology sectors to explore the practising of dynamic capability.Findings – The findings suggest small firms can effectively develop and master their staff induction processes (as practices), but do this on the basis of ad hoc problem solving rather than a dynamic capability. If small firms develop any dynamic capability at all, they apparently do so towards specialized reso...


Objective To discuss the surgical treatment of medial sphenoid ridge meningioma. Methods 38 cases of medial sphenoid meningiomas, admitted into our department from December 2001 to March 2003 and undergoing operations, were retrospectively analyzed. Results The medial sphenoid meningiomas were totally removed in 30 patients, subtotally in 6 cases and partially in 2 cases. Of all, postoperative death occurred in only one case and postoperative follow-up was performed on just 30 patients, among which hemiplegia happened in 2 and oculomotor nerve palsy in 3 patients. Among the 16 patients accompanied with eyesight loss preoperatively, 11 had vision improvement after operation, 3 remained unchanged and 2 deteriorated. Conclusion Surgical operation, as an important method in treatment of medial sphenoid ridge meningioma can be satisfactory in the increase of removal rate and the reduction of postoperative nervous malfunction only if added with micromanipulation and proper preservation of vital vessel and nerves by means of reasonable use of arachnoid interphase in operation.


Characterizing the uncertainty in the subsurface is an important step for exploration and extraction of natural resources, the storage of nuclear material and gasses such as natural gas or CO2 . Imaging the subsurface can be posed as an inverse problem and can be solved using the geostatistical approach [Kitanidis P.K. (2007) Geophys. Monogr. Ser. 171 , 19-30, doi:10.1029/171GM04; Kitanidis (2011) doi: 10.1002/9780470685853. ch4, pp. 71-85] which is one of the many prevalent approaches. We briefly describe the geostatistical approach in the context of linear inverse problems and discuss some of the challenges in the large-scale implementation of this approach. Using the hierarchical matrix approach, we show how to reduce matrix vector products involving the dense covariance matrix from 𝒪(m 2 ) to 𝒪(m  log m ), where m is the number of unknowns. Combined with a matrix-free Krylov subspace solver, this results in a much faster algorithm for solving the system of equations that arise from the geostatistical approach. We illustrate the performance of our algorithm on an application, for monitoring CO2 concentrations using crosswell seismic tomography.


The present invention discloses a method and can easily be suppressed to avoid large-scale shift gears. The variable speed transmission provided with an input engine driving force of the input shaft (22), by the input shaft (22) driven by a hydraulic type continuously variable transmission (30), the input shaft (22) and the driving force of the hydraulic type continuously variable transmission ( 30) the output of the synthesizer and the synthesis of the driving force output planetary gear unit (40), to take the output line of the output rotating body (24) apparatus. Planetary transmission unit (40) and an output rotating body (24) with respect to the hydraulic type continuously variable transmission (30) is arranged on the same side of the input shaft (22) connected to an engine side. Parts of the variable speed drive is configured to connect from the input shaft (22) of the engine side of the continuously variable transmission and hydraulic connection between the side of the driving force is inputted to the planetary gear unit (40).


Bearing fault diagnosis plays a vital role in machine health monitoring. With the support of deep learning methods, bearing fault diagnosis based on neural networks using vibration signals has achieved excellent results. Compact models with high accuracy that can be embedded in handheld devices are in high demand. This research proposes a novel method for bearing fault diagnosis based on vibration signals using a low-computation-cost deep learning model. Generally, the vibration signal collected from the bearing of the electrical motor is transformed into the spectrogram images by Constant-Q nonstationary Gabor transform, in which these images are used as the training data. Subsequently, the proposed method uses a compact convolutional neural network, called MobileNetV3, combined with AutoCompress pruning method to decrease the number of required parameters and multiply-accumulate operations. Experimental results manifest that the nominated method gains an accuracy of up to 99.34%. Compared with other deep learning models with similar accuracy, the proposed model has a 2-times less number of parameters and approximately 8-times less number of multiply-accumulate operations.


When an oxygen-18 enriched aqueous solution of ferrous, ferric and cupric sulfates was heated between 130 and 200°C, the oxygen-18 content decreased in the order of FeII>FeIII>CuII in water; and it increased in the sulfate group and in the molecular oxygen of the gaseous phase. A transfer of oxygen from water to the sulfate group was also observed, even in a nitrogen atmosphere. The oxygen transfer was promoted in all the cases in the presence of molecular oxygen, and it increased further in the presence of benzene. Since the exchange reaction of oxygen does not occur between water and sulfate ions, the above facts may be attributed to the reactions between water and the thermal decomposition products of the sulfate group, and between water and the hydrogen peroxide produced. The peroxy species, produced by the oxidation of the decomposition products, are more reactive in such a transfer of oxygen, since the reaction is promoted in the presence of oxygen. The peroxides in the autoxidation of benzene seem ...