In 1924, Dr. Aleksandar Đ. Kostić, the first Professor of Histology and Embryology and the founder of the Institute of Histology at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade, formed the Photography Department within the Institute. The first photographs were microphotographs of histological specimens and a certain number of them were published in 1925 in the Microphotographic Atlas of Normal Histology. However, a greater number of photographs were used for the preparation of microphotograms, that is, black and white diapositives which were shown during lectures and laboratory practices. In the following years, Professor Kostić expanded his photographic topics to pathohistological specimens, urine crystals, and bacteriological samples, operative and autopsy material, and embryological and teratological samples. A particularly important activity of the Department was making photographs of patients. Patients were photographed in hospitals or in the studio of the Photography Department. In addition to photographs, the first films entitled Blood flow in the peritoneal membrane of a frog and Blood flow in the interdigital membrane of a frog were made there. During the Second World War occupation, the Germans took away the photographic equipment and consumables, but after the liberation, at the beginning of 1946, the work was restored. In addition to photography, Professor Kostić organized filming and he directed the first medical films in the first post-war years. The Department was still the center of medical photography at the Faculty, while Professor Kostić was the head until 1952, when he was removed from the Faculty of Medicine due to political reasons.


This work replies to a request from STECF EWG 11 15 to JRC to provide tests on the robustness of the target fishing mortality (Ftrgt) and biomass trigger (Btrg) used on the harvest control rule (HCR) of the Baltic pelagic stocks. The main conclusion is that the successful candidates must assure Btrg is above the S/R break point and an exploitation level that is consistent with Btrg considering the stock dynamics. *firstname.lastname@example.com


This paper presents BLUEJAMM, a prototype architecture suitable for embedded systems based on a Java native processor. BLUEJEP, the processor, which is a microprogrammed pipelined stack machine, and its hardware memory management unit were developed in Bluespec SystemVerilog (BSV). A relatively new high-level of abstraction hardware description language, BSV proved to be an excellent choice for rapid prototyping and architecture exploration. The architecture, which has been implemented and tested on a Xilinx FPGA, is currently used to evaluate a number of interesting Java specific techniques, such as runtime bytecode folding and real-time garbage collection.


In this study, the numerical investigation of stagnation point flow past a stretching sheet in nanofluid with slip condition and viscous dissipations is considered. The governing equations for the model which is in non linear partial differential equations are first transformed to ordinary differential equation by using similarity transformation. Thisordinary differential equations are solved numerically by using the Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg method. Numerical solutions are obtained for the wall temperature, reduced Nusselt, Sherwood number and skin friction coefficient as well as the temperature profiles. The features of the flow and heat transfer characteristics for various values of the stretching parameter, Brownion and thermopherosis motion parameter, Eckert number, velocity slip parameter and thermal slip parameter are analyzed and discussed.


As soon as she reached home, eight days after the abortion, I was sent for, and found her suffering purely from gastrointestinal symptoms. She was frequently vomiting, the vomited matters consisting of the ingesta, with a considerable quantity of bile of the usual green colour. No food could be retained, and her exhaustion was extreme. But the most intractable symptom was diarrhcea. This was persistent, in spite of every treatment. The motions were as frequent as ten or twelve in the twelve hours; and the matters excreted were copious, liquid, somewhat deeply tinged and offensive, occasionally containing shreds of mucus. She complained of but little pain, except a burning sensation in the epigastrium; and occasionally, in the cardiac region, of acute darting pains, to which she had been liable for some years. There was no tenderness on pressure of the abdomen. The pulse was 112, small and feeble. The tongue was moist, slightly furred, and red at the tip. The skin was moderately warm. Thirst was excessive.


A novel EBG structure is proposed. The proposed EBG (denote as DAS-EBG) structure is compact and flexible. The proposed EBG structure consists of a mushroom-type EBG with four symmetrical U-shaped slots etched on it, which is compact and flexible. Due to the change of surface resistance of multiple U-shaped slots, DAS-EBG got a width reduces of 33.75% and height reduces of 20%. By changing the size of the U-shaped slots, the number and size of DAS-EBG surface resonance points can be flexibly changed. The proposed EBG structure can be used in future broadband and multi-frequency applications.


The invention provides a method for processing SCTP (stream control transmission protocol) link failure of an S1 interface. The method includes the steps: searching UE (user equipment) in a connection state on an SCTP link when an MME (mobility management entity) detects that the SCTP link is disconnected; adding the identity of the UE into a release access bearing request message; transmitting the release access bearing request message to an S-GW (service-gateway); returning a release access bearing reply message to the MME. The S-GW is used for releasing bearing resources of S1-U interfaces of the UE. The bearing resources of a plurality of S1-U interfaces of the UE can be released once, equipment modification is less, modification cost is low, the frequency of message transmission is decreased, and requirements for performances of a network, home terminal equipment and opposite terminal equipment are lowered.


We report observations of the summer diet of Crotalus aquilus (Queretaro dusky rattlesnake) from an agricultural region near San Pedro de los Metates, municipality of Acambay, state of Mexico, Mexico. We recovered the remains of 12 individual prey items from 11 different snakes. Eleven of 38 (29%) snakes observed contained prey remains, including 6 mammals, 3 lizards, and 3 snakes. These observations suggest that C. aquilus consumes a diverse diet and that they may be more ophiophagous than many other rattlesnakes.


The case reports of phaeochromocytoma in children have recently been reviewed by Smid and DuShane (1955) who were able to collect details of 32 cases. Since their account further instances have been published by Robinson and Williams (1956) and Megevand and Ferrier (1954). A further successful case is reported here. Including the present patient, 36 children have been affected; of these, 26 have been subjected to surgery and 18 have survived.


ABSTRACT This paper presents "lessons" for the planning, design, construction and management of built environments to be supportive of the health of residents and other users. These lessons are an outcome of a cross-disciplinary study of four developing residential areas in New South Wales, Australia and which sought to understand the actual experience of what comprises a health-supportive built environment. An integral, mixed methods approach was adopted and involved site audits, discussions with professionals working in development processes, and interviews and workshops with residents. A key finding was that to ensure effectiveness physical built environment features need to be complemented by broader actions, in particular: (i) a more diligent approach by built environment professionals to ensure well intentioned designs are actioned and managed to achieve original health goals, and (ii) inclusion of supportive programs reflective of resident needs and aspirations in order to encourage and stimulate use of the built environment features. To assist this endeavour the study translated the "raw" academic findings into a series of instructive guides (titled "lessons"). They are expressed in lived experience terms so as to best resonate with practitioners (and others), and thus facilitate uptake.


In this paper, we adopt a three-stage estimation procedure and statistical inference methods for quantile regression (QR) based on empirical likelihood (EL) approach with nonignorable dropouts. In the first stage, we consider a parametric model on the dropout propensity of response and handle the parameter identifiability issue by using nonresponse instrument. With the estimated dropout propensity, in the second stage the inverse probability weighting and kernel smoothing methods are applied to construct the bias-corrected and smoothed generalized estimating equations for nonignorable dropouts. In the third stage, borrowing the matrix expansion idea of quadratic inference function, we obtain the proposed estimators that can accommodate the within-subject correlations and improve the estimation efficiency simultaneously. A class of improved estimators and their confidence regions for QR coefficient are derived. Further, the penalized EL method and algorithm for variable selection are investigated. Simulation studies and a real example on HIV-CD4 data set are also provided to show the performance of the proposed estimators.


The thermohaline circulation(THC) mainly originats from the North Atlantic basin,plays an important role in maintaining the longitudinal balance of water and heat in the globe,and influences the climate change of long term.It is studied that the wind-driven ocean gyre(WDOG) is considered,by means of adding diffusion to the stommels box model,which is introduced by Longworth et al.In addition,the method employed by Sun et al.is also used to discuss the WDOG effects on decadal variability of THC.It is learnt from the numerical computations that WDOG will shorten the recovering time for the thermal-driven(TH) equilibrium of THC and lengthen the recovering time for the saline-driven(SA) equilibrium of THC.According to Wu and Mu,it can be also learnt that this phenomenon is due to the different influences of WDOG on THC strength,depending upon the equilibrium states.


Intelligent Transportation Systems have many applications, which may be applicable to human safety, traffic management, entertainment and comfort of the users, etc. Most of these applications require better Quality-of-Service provisioning and improved performance by the underlying communication network. Multi-Protocol Label Switching is an efficient and effective technique for forwarding packets along with supporting Quality-of-Service. This work present: an approach that involves integration of Multi-Protocol Label Switching into Intelligent Transportation Systems and investigates its applicability and work-ability in such systems. It would enable harvesting inbuilt capabilities of Multi-Protocol Label Switching in ITS.


Self-management strategies such as following a diet plan, avoiding high fat foods,
increased exercise and self-glucose monitoring to navigate daily decisions have
been shown to improve health outcomes for adults with type 2 diabetes. However,
translating evidence-based recommendations into practical strategies has proven
challenging and many individuals fail to achieve the glycaemic management needed
to avoid diabetes-related complications. This article aims to provide practical
strategies to support health professionals to engage adults with diabetes in exercise
in a meaningful way.


While morphology use is gaining in popularity, it can be a computationally intensive process. This is particularly true for applications requiring large structuring elements. In this paper we will describe the use of field programmable gate arrays (Xilinx 4000 FPGA family) to implement a systolic architecture for a morphology engine. The engine has a 14 bit data-path, a reconfigurable structuring element size and a 512 X 512 image size. We will describe the architecture, the FPGA implementation of the engine and the interface with the host (datacube).


Intelligent traffic video surveillance system, including vehicle inspection, vehicle tracking and license plate recognition module. The video vehicle detection in this paper is divided into four steps: video image pre-processing, background modeling and updating, foreground detection and adhesion vehicle area segmentation. After the collected video sequence is subjected to mean-value down-sampling and gray-scale conversion preprocessing, the background model is built using a mixture of Gaussian models. A sliding window is set on the time axis, and the grayscale video frame image in the sliding window is median-filtered to output a background gradient map. By merging the results of the spatial background difference between the color space and the grayscale gradient, the foreground image detected by the vehicle is obtained. Finally, the background difference is obtained in the gradient domain to obtain the foreground image to achieve vehicle detection.


Nowadays, researchers are interested in minimal food processing techniques because of the increasing fresh or fresh-like food preferences of the consumers. Ultrasound is an acoustic energy but, its effect is a result of physical energy which is generated by the kinetic energy of the molecules in the applied medium. Its powerful effect, drawn the interest of the scientists to investigate on its applications in many areas. In food science, ultrasound has a wide range of applications. Microbial inactivation, drying, filtration, extraction, homogenization, cutting, emulsifying, cleaning, degassing and inactivation of enzymes are some of the examples of efficient ultrasound applications. The two important well-known benefits of using ultrasound are the reduction of the process duration and process cost. In this review, some ultrasound applications will be discussed in food science and technology.


Initial research on Cognitive Radio (CR) has largely focused on the issues of resource allocation, spectrum sensing and management, etc. However, many existing proposals have introduced significant security loopholes. This has introduced challenges to the operation of the Cognitive Radio Network (CRN) as almost all existing cognitive routing protocols have assumed that each node honestly participates in packet forwarding. However, this assumption is no longer legitimate for CRNs due to the lack of a centralized trusted authority. QoS provisioning may also suffer as selfish nodes might incline towards self-centered behaviors in order to maximize their interests. In this paper, we propose a cross-layer Selfish Avoidance Routing Protocol (SARP) for the dynamic CRNs in the presence of selfish nodes. Simulation results demonstrate that the SARP can achieve much better performance in terms of lower delay, higher throughput and better delivery ratio for traffic originating from collaborative nodes compared to other cognitive routing protocols.


Phosphites are compounds derived from phosphorous acid used as an alternative for the control of phytoparasitic organisms and their effectiveness has been tested against protozoa, oomycetes, fungi, bacteria and nematodes; however, compared to conventional synthesized fungicides, phosphites are generally less effective at reducing damage by phytopathogens. The phosphite ion is easily transported in the plants via xylem and phloem, so it has been used in foliar application, drench of plant root and neck, injection trunk, through drip irrigation mixed in the nutrient solution in hydroponics, seed treatment, aerial application in low volume, or as treatment in immersion of seeds and fruits. The mechanisms of action involved in the prophylactic effects of phosphites are diverse and include the stimulation of biochemical and structural defense mechanisms in plants and direct action that restricts the growth, development and reproduction of phytopathogenic organisms.


Summary Shear wave velocity and site amplification study play vital role to reduce the effect of triggered and natural earthquakes disasters. Our study area comes in moderate to low seismic zone of India and low to moderate size earthquakes comes due to mine activity and complex geological settings. To reduce the effect of these calamities we have acquired microtremor data in a linear array of 2 Km profile length at the spacing of 250 m. HVSR curves which is computed by the Fourier transform of microtremor data, is used to estimate the shear wave velocity structure. The shear wave velocity is estimated by the inversion of HVSR curve using Monte-Carlo (MC) inversion technique. We have used guided Monte-Carlo inversion technique which is very stable. The best model of 1D shear wave velocity is interpolated into 2D shear wave velocity profile, which gives the three different layers. First layer having thickness 3–12 m with velocity range 400∼700 m/s. Second layer thickness is about 18 m having velocity range 700∼1150 m/s, this demonstrates the engineering bedrock. Third layer has velocity >1150 m/s. The 2D shear wave velocity and HVSR profile have quite good agreement in terms of impedance contrast. Peak HVSR amplitude range varying in the range 2.77–6.25 and predominant frequency having range of 4.61–10.4Hz.


A classification method that emphasizes on learning the hyperplane that separates the training data with the maximum margin in a regularized space, is presented. In the proposed method, this regularized space is derived by exploiting multiple graph structures, in the SVM optimization process. Each of the employed graph structure carries some information concerning a geometric or semantic property about the training data, e.g., local neighborhood area and global geometric data relationships. The proposed method introduces information from each graph type to the standard SVM objective, as a projection of the SVM hyperplane to such a direction, where a specific property of the training data is highlighted. We show that each data property can be encoded in a regularized kernel matrix. Finally, response in the optimal classification space can be obtained by exploiting a weighted combination of multiple regularized kernel matrices. Experimental results in face recognition and object classification denote the effectiveness of the proposed method.


Adhoc Network (MANET) with its unique and special characteristics is prone to a host of security threats from within and outside the network. The MANET architecture is well suited for conducting multicast communications as this greatly reduces the number of multicast packets traversing the network. The replication of multicast packets by the intermediate downstream multicast router is demand based and is determined by the number of fresh receivers in the group. This greatly paves way for network resource optimization and a good trail of performance parameters like MPDR, Throughput, Jitter and End- to-End Delay. It is literally bogging down to construe a localized MANET as a single flat larger group. So the concept of orchestrating hierarchical group architecture within MANET dawned which led to the definition of Iolus framework. The hierarchical secure multicast distribution tree created within MANET backed by Iolus framework is prone to a array of attacks. One such prominent insider attack is wormhole attack where the two colluding adversaries conspire to short-circuit the flow of packets to a foreign network through an out-of-band high bandwidth link. The implication of this attack in unicast routing of MANET is less pronounced due to the limited number of participating entities. But this attack has a large telling effect on multicast routing as it involves multiple receivers and numerous intermediate multicast routers. The possibility of compromising the internal group node as a wormhole colluding agent is more common in multicast than in unicast. This threat marks an unprecedented intensity by divulging more faction of data thereby rendering the remedial process a huge flop. The real intent of the attacker is not to disrupt the multicast communication but in abetting the mass divulgence of multicast data to unauthorized group members. Two novel solutions viz., Limiting Packet Propagation Parameter (LP 3 ) and Neighbor Aware Wormhole Adversary Axing (NAWA 2 ) has been proposed


Introduced as an ex ante conditionality in the 2014-2020 Cohesion Policy, Smart Specialisation Strategies (S3) require regions to develop smart priorities and direct investment efforts towards growth-oriented innovation. In the space of only four years, S3 has become widely regarded as a success story across the Cohesion Policy community, as a place-based driver of EU competitiveness. For some regions, it has offered scope to deepen existing practices. For others, S3 has introduced new approaches to achieving innovation-oriented growth. There is, however, quite some distance to cover if S3 is to accelerate its support role in delivering EU growth and investment. This would require redefining the role of S3 and re-positioning this in the post-2020 Multi-annual Financial Framework (MFF).


A simplified formula for the gain and noise figure of distributed Raman amplification on fibers with large connector losses is derived. It is shown that OTDR measurements are required to estimate the available Raman gain


Background: Despite running various training courses on cardiopulmonary resuscitation, emergencymedical technicians are still facing problems with insufficient knowledge to play a professional role inmanagement of CPR. Meanwhile, factors such as inefficiency of training method can have a detrimentaleffect on their learning, and eventually their knowledge and skills in CPR.Objective: The present study aimed to determine and compare the effect of scenario-based and participatorymethod of cardiopulmonary resuscitation training on the knowledge of basic and advanced life support inemergency medical technicians.Methodology and Participants: A total of 90 emergency medical technicians participated in the presentquasi-experimental study (in three intervention groups of scenario-based, participatory and control). Blockrandomization was utilized to allocate the participants to three intervention groups. A researcher-made testincluding two sections of knowledge of basic and advanced life support (each one comprised 19 questions)was used to collect data. All statistical analyzes were conducted using SPSS software version 16.0 (SPSSInc., Chicago, Ill., USA). The measure of central tendency and the Index of dispersion (mean and standarddeviation) were used to analyze the quantitative data and Kruskal-Wallis H test was used to compare meanscores. A P value of less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant.Results: The difference in knowledge mean scores of basic and advanced life support before the interventionwas not statistically significant between the three groups (P> 0.05). However, the difference was significantbetween the three groups after the intervention (P <0.05).Conclusion: Based on the results of our study, scenario-based training method has a significant effecton improving the basic and advanced knowledge of CPR in emergency medical technicians compared toparticipatory method.


autoimmune disease. Over the past 12 years he has been treated with topical steroids to his body vitiligo and psoriasis and with Diprosalic to his psoriatic scalp lesion. He has also received PUVA with significant clinical improvement in both conditions. This case of concurrent vitiligo and psoriasis highlights the link between the pathogenesis of the two conditions. The fact that psoriasis appeared exclusively within the vitiligo-affected skin further strengthens the possibility of a common autoimmune mediator. Elevated levels of tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-a have been found in the perilesional skin of patients with vitiligo. In vitro studies have demonstrated enhanced neurotensininduced TNF-a production from melanocytes in vitiligo patients. TNF-a is a key cytokine in innate immune responses and is increased in psoriatic lesions. Its role in psoriasis is further demonstrated in recent reports of successful treatment of resistant cases of psoriasis with infliximab. TNF-a has many effects ranging from inflammation to apoptosis. It increases production of pro-inflammatory molecules interleukin (IL)-1, IL-6, IL-8, nuclear factor (NF)-jB, vasoactive peptide and adhesion molecules and promotes apoptosis. We believe that TNF-a represents a common link in the pathogenesis of vitiligo and psoriasis and deserves further evaluation as a target for treatment of these two conditions.


Verification technologies based upon electromagnetics and acoustics could potentially play an important role in fulfilling the challenging requirements of future verification regimes. For example, researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have demonstrated that low frequency EM signatures of sealed metallic containers can be used to rapidly confirm the presence of specific components on a "yes/no" basis without revealing classified information. PNNL researchers have also used ultrasonic measurements to obtain images of material microstructures which may be used as templates or unique identifiers of treaty accountable items (TAIs). Such alternative technologies are suitable for application in various stages of weapons dismantlement and often reduce or eliminate classified data collection because of the physical limitations of the method. In such cases the need for an information barrier to prevent access to classified data is potentially eliminated, thus simplifying verification scenarios. As a result, these types of technologies may complement traditional radiation-based verification methods for arms control. This article presents an overview of several alternative verification technologies that are suitable for supporting a future, broader and more intrusive arms control regime that spans the nuclear weapons dismantlement lifecycle. The general capabilities and limitations of each verification modality are discussed and example technologies are presented. These technologies are relevant throughout a potential warhead monitoring regime, from entry into chain of custody (i.e., establishing confidence in the authenticity and integrity of the warhead) to dismantlement and final material disposition (i.e., maintaining confidence that chain of custody has not been broken).


Two phase non-linear diffusion dispersion model for cylindrical particle geometry has been presented. Model equations have been divided into two phases namely, bulk fluid phase and particle phase. Particle phase has been characterized by particle geometry. Inter-pore and intrapore solute concentrations have been related by Langmuir adsorption isotherm. Non-linear set of model equations has been solved using the technique of orthogonal collocation on finite elements with Lagrangian basis. Applicability of the model has also been discussed through industrial parameters.


Abstract : Improvements in payload performance for the Air Force's EELV are advantageous to mission needs, since payloads typically increase. A third or kick stage is one potential solution to provide an incremental improvement in payload mass as well as to provide additional mission flexibility. A classical configuration stage design is very difficult to implement into the EELV architecture due to significant architecture impact. This could translate to vehicle structural changes and or payload volume reduction. Therefore, a stage that has minimal impact on the launch vehicle architecture by accommodating the vehicle's current characteristics is advantageous. A conceptual study addressed these limitations by examining a toroidal shaped stage solution that fits within the current envelope of the respective EELV's payload fairing interface section. This location imposes several kick stage size and shape limitations, but affords minimal changes to the overall existing launch vehicle. The analysis reviewed the overall vehicle architecture, identifying locations for modification or stage shape. Trade studies of various propellant types (LOX/LH2, LOX/RP, LOX/methane, hydrazine monopropellant) were included in the analysis. The effort generated a propellant tank and engine conceptual layout design. The analysis matured the stage design to a sufficient level and quantified the stage's payload payoff for different Delta V missions.


Today's smart phones are used for wider range of activities. This extended range of functionalities has also seen the infiltration of new security threats. The malicious parties are using highly stealthy techniques to perform the targeted operations, which are hard to detect by the conventional signature and behavior based approaches. Besides, the limited resources of mobile device are inadequate to perform the computationally extensive malware detection tasks and to sustain the device's clean status. In this paper, we propose an effective and resource rich detection system which uses certain distinguishing combinations of permissions and intents used by the apps to identify the malware apps. Different machine learning algorithms are investigated for classification of apps into benign or malware types. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first ever work in which both the permissions and intents have been amalgamated for malware detection using cloud computing paradigm. Effectiveness of our approach is verified by testing the real-world malware and benign apps collected from various sources.


Countries and cities around the world increasingly rely on centralized systems to assign students to schools. Two algorithms, deferred acceptance (DA) and immediate acceptance (IA), are widespread. The latter is often criticized for harming disadvantaged families who fail to get access to popular schools. This paper investigates the effect of the national ban of the IA mechanism in England in 2008. Before the ban, 49 English local authorities used DA and 16 used IA. All IA local authorities switched to DA afterwards, giving rise to a cross-market differencein-differences research design. Our results show that the elimination of IA reduces measures of school quality for low-SES students more than high-SES students. After the ban, low-SES students attend schools with lower value-added and more disadvantaged and low-achieving peers. This effect is primarily driven by a decrease in low-SES admissions at selective schools. Our findings point to an unintended consequence of the IA to DA transition: by encouraging highSES parents to report their preferences truthfully, DA increases competition for top schools, which crowds out low-SES students. Camille Terrier Faculty of Business and Economics University of Lausanne Internef 553 CH-1015 Lausanne-Dorigny Switzerland email@example.com Parag A. Pathak Department of Economics, E52-426 MIT 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 and NBER email@example.com Kevin Ren 2211 Campus Dr Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University Evanston, IL 60208 USA email@example.com


Recently a number of factors governing the rate of release of drug from plastic matrices were investigated. This study showed that while the experimental results were. Generally in agreement with Higuchi's relationship, they were not always quantitative. The present paper describes a refined experimental procedure for quantitatively studying the various factors. Matrix porosities are determined in two ways so that available and inaccessible pores can be differentiated. Difision coefficients are independently determined. The matrix tortuosity can now be quantitatively determined independently of the solid drug release rate data. In addition to these experimental refinements, the limitations of the theory are reviewed and some useful modifications proposed.


Background:  With the advent of numerous minimally invasive medical procedures, accurate catheter guidance has become imperative. We introduce and test an approach for catheter guidance by ultrasound imaging and pulsed‐wave (PW) Doppler.


This PhD thesis focuses on the problem of visual scene analysis captured by commodity depth sensors to convert their data into high level understanding of the scene. It explores the use of 3D geometry analysis tools on visual depth data in terms of enhancement, registration and consolidation. In particular, we aim to show how shape abstraction can generate lightweight representations of the data for fast analysis with low hardware requirements. This last property is important as one of our goals is to design algorithms suitable for live embedded operation in e.g., wearable devices, smartphones or mobile robots. The context of this thesis is the live operation of 3D interaction on a mobile device, which raises numerous issues including placing 3D interaction zones with relation to real surrounding objects, tracking the interaction zones in space when the sensor moves and providing a meaningful and understandable experience to non-expert users. Towards solving these problems, we make contributions where scene abstraction leads to fast and robust sensor localization as well as efficient frame data representation, enhancement and consolidation. While simple geometric surface shapes are not as faithful as heavy point sets or volumes to represent observed scenes, we show that they are an acceptable approximation and their light weight makes them well balanced between accuracy and performance.


The Expansion Joint Test are detailed in this report are part of the work accomplished under Design, Development and Research Contract DDR-111 between General Electric Company, Hanford Atomic Products Operation and Washington State University. The equipment and instrumentation used for the K-Downcomer tests were arranged to permit installation and testing of the expansion joints.


This study was taken up to go through the profile of farmers using mobile phone services. Simple random sampling technique was employed to select 120 respondents among the registered farmers to mobile service of KVK, Dharwad, APMC, Hubli and weather based mobile services of UAS, Dharwad. The primary data required for the study was obtained using structured interview schedule prepared for the purpose. The results showed majority of the farmers (37.50%) belonged to middle age, 25.83 per cent of them had received high school education, big land holding farmers were maximum (40.00%), 47.50 per cent of the respondents belonged to high annual income category, majority (63.33%) of the respondents belonged to medium family, majority (59.16%) of the respondents possessed smart phones while 40.83 per cent of them possessed basic set and only 4.16 per cent of the respondents possessed PC and tablet, majority of the farmers (45.00%) had low experience in using mobile followed by 35.83 per cent and 19.16 per cent of the farmers who had high and medium experience in using mobile, respectively. Also the study showed that 43. 33 per cent of the farmers were having high innovativeness, contacted regularly agriculture/ horticulture department staff (19.16%), KVK (22.50%), agricultural university (32.50%), agricultural extension education units (15.83%), family members (24.16%), friends (55.00%), neighbours (20.00%), progressive farmers (40.00%), gram panchyat (17.50%), television (52.50%), radio (32.50%), mobile (61.66%) and print media (25.00%), participated regularly in training programme (11.66%), meetings (16.66%), krishimela (45.00%), demonstrations (1.66%), and group discussion (16.66%). While none participated regularly in field days and field visits.


This paper presents a new wide-band speech coding system based on a fast wavelet packet transform algorithm as well as a formulation of temporal and spectral psychoacoustic models of masking. The proposed FFT-like overlapped block orthogonal transform allows us to approximate the auditory critical band decomposition in an efficient manner, which is a major advantage over previous approaches that used uniform filter banks. As a result of such a decomposition, the perceptually tuned time-frequency structure of the original speech signal is preserved. This allows us to make use of the temporal and spectral properties of the human auditory system to decrease the average bit rate of the encoder, while perceptually hiding the quantization error.


The kinetic resolution of (±)-mandelonitrile was carried out using lipase from Candida antarctica under conventional condition (orbital shaker) and microwave irradiation in toluene, producing the (S)-mandelonitrile acetate with high selectivity (up to > 98% ee, enantiomeric excess). The unreacted (R)-mandelonitrile under microwave irradiation and conventional condition was partially converted into benzaldehyde by spontaneous chemical equilibrium. The (S)-mandelonitrile acetate under microwave irradiation was produced with 92% ee and 35% yield for 8 h of reaction. Conventional transesterification of (±)-mandelonitrile in an orbital shaker produced unreacted (R)-mandelonitrile (51% ee) and (S)-mandelonitrile acetate (98% ee) in accordance with Kazlauskas rule for 184 h of reaction.


Five groups of 4 sheep were given for 33 mo a daily oral dose of 0, 1.9 or 4.7 mg fluoride (F)/kg body weight with or without 13.5 mg aluminum (Al)/kg. In all treated animals the general health status was disturbed and osteo-dental symptoms appeared while F levels were increased in teeth, bones and organs. In sheep given the higher F dose, pathologic lesions were observed in kidney and liver. Most disturbances were dose-related and alleviated by simultaneous administration of aluminum sulfate, mainly for the lower F dose.


Background Cervical myelopathy is a condition caused by narrowing of the spinal canal leading to cord dysfunction. The most common causes are congenital stenosis and degenerative stenosis caused by spondylosis. Objectives To confirm the diagnosis of cervical myelopathies using somatosensory evoked potentials and possibly to localize the level of the lesion. Methods An electrophysiological study had been carried on 61 patients with cervical myelopathy (41 female and 20 male) aged 48.66±11.72 years and 41 healthy volunteers aged 44.8±10.53 years. Sensory and motor nerve conduction study and somatosensory evoked potential for all were done to evaluate the peripheral nerves and sensory central pathways. Results No significant difference was demonstrated in the sensory and motor nerve conduction studies from the healthy subjects. Somatosensory evoked potentials showed statistically highly significant changes in the N13, N20 latencies, amplitudes and N13-N9 and N20-N13 central sensory conduction times of median nerve on both sides. N13 latency has the highest specificity and sensitivity among the somatosensory evoked potentials parameters. Those patients who had prolonged central sensory conduction time between N20-N13 suggests an upper cervical lesion while those having prolonged central sensory conduction time between N13-N9 suggest lower cervical cord and/or cervical root affection. Conclusion Motor and sensory conduction studies are usually normal in CM. Among SSEPs parameters, N13 latency was prolonged bilaterally, CSCT abnormal bilaterally, N13-N9 and N20-N13 latencies unilaterally (Right side). Mononeuropathies, polyneuropathies, radiculopathies and plexopathies should be excluded before diagnosis of CM was made.


The Department of Education defines an immigrant child as one either born abroad or born in U.K. to a parent or parents whose origin was abroad, and who came to Britain less than ten years ago. This definition does not therefore include children born to immigrant parents of long-standing, or to black parents born here. Mrs Thatcher has proposed a new definition of 'immigrant child' from January 1972, which will take into account grand-parents' country or origin. It should thus be possible to estimate the total population of 'black' children in British schools with more accuracy after this date.


The aim of this study was to investigate the association of antigens of HLA class I (A, B, C) and blood group antigens (AB0), Rh with clinical phenotype in kidney recipients with CKD of various etiologies. The findings suggest that there is immunogenetic determinacy exists in patients with end-stage chronic renal failure which had developed as a result of chronic glomerulonephritis, diabetic nephropathy, and various congenital anomalies of the kidney.


The popular weighted maximum likelihood estimator for endogenous stratified samples requires knowledge on the population proportions of each stratum. In this paper we extend their estimator for cases where such information is not available.


Although material resources are insufficient, wellbeing becomes a promise concept which leads to an argumentthat wellbeing is a socially and culturally defined concept. Therefore, wellbeing can be varied with manydifferent perspectives whose definition is challenged. This paper proposes to explore the local notion ofwellbeing within the social cultural contexts of Lao PDR. The study adopted a qualitative method, 35representatives of the households participated in the focus group discussion in Sangthong district, and 15 keyinformants were in-depth interviewed. The content analysis and triangular technique were employed for dataanalysis and reviewing. This study argues that to develop the measurement of development should include thewellbeing of social and cultural dimension. The result shows that the notion of wellbeing's meaning in local Laopeople conception are comprised of seven dimensions, including family; society; health; education; security,leader and public management; environment; and economic dimension. This finding suggests that the socialcultural construction of wellbeing should be considered a form of work to develop the measurement ofdevelopment in Laos by including the social and cultural wellbeing.


The use of haptic props in a virtual environment setting is purported to improve both user immersion and task performance. While the efficacy of various forms of haptics has been tested through user experiments, this is not the case for hand-held tool props, an important class of input device with both gaming and non-gaming applications. From a cost and complexity of implementation perspective it is also worth investigating the relative benefits of the different types of passive and active haptics that can be incorporated into such props. Accordingly, in this paper we present the results of a quantitative user experiment (n = 42) designed to assess a typical VR controller against passive, weighted, and active-haptic versions of a tracked prop, measured according to game experience, performance, and stance adopted by participants. The task involved playing a VR baseball game and the prop was a truncated baseball bat. We found a statistically significant improvement (at α = 0.05) with medium to large effect size (r > 0.38) for certain aspects of game experience (competence, immersion, flow, positive affect), performance (mean hit distance) and pose (two-handed grip) for the weighted prop over a generic controller, and in many cases over the unweighted passive prop as well. There was no significant difference between our weighted prop and the active-haptic version. This suggests that, for batting and striking tasks, tool props with passive haptics improve user experience and task performance but only if they match the weight of the original real-world tool, and that such weighting is more important than simple vibro-tactile style force-feedback.


Welding tool (1) comprising: housing means (3) having a first opening (6) for passing a Werkzeugruhrbolzens (5); a tool base body (4) with a tool holder (7) for receiving a Werkzeugruhrbolzens (5), wherein the tool body (4) in the housing means (3) is received; and a contact member (16) having a second opening (17) and the exterior in such a way arranged on the housing device (3) that the Werkzeugruhrbolzen (5) through the first opening (6) of the housing means (3) and through the second opening ( 17) of the contact element (16) can be guided outwards, wherein the second opening (17) of the contact element (16) is formed smaller than the first opening (6) of the housing means (3) and the contact element (16) is designed in such a receiving power of the Werkzeugruhrbolzens (5) in contact with the Werkzeugruhrbolzen (5).


Lecture capture technology and learning management solution has in recent years played a key role in smart education. Lecture capture can be simplified as a set of technologies that digitally record what takes place during lecture sessions in classrooms, and can be made available for review to students and lecturers on computers or other smart devices. It may vary in several aspects; cost, infrastructure, technical support and expertise such as manual capture of audio/video or fully automated and many more. While capturing and sharing lecture sessions seem particularly useful, the usability aspects of the application remain crucial to provide a positive and beneficial experience to users at large. This paper will discuss on the formative usability evaluation of EduPrez; a learning management solution which is seamlessly integrated with lecture capture tool. Formative evaluation was conducted to discover problems end-user potentially encounter and fix them. Information collected using heuristic evaluation and cognitive walkthrough techniques have been useful to elicit several usability issues to improve EduPrez while in design and development stage.


Differential scanning calorimetry was used to determine the phase transitions of dried and rehumidified amorphous lactose, sucrose, and a mixture of sucrose and Amioca. Glass‐transition, crystallization, and melting temperatures decreased with increasing moisture content. The time to crystallization of amorphous lactose held isothermally above the glass‐transition temperature decreased as the temperature was increased. Isothermal crystallization time of lactose was a function of the temperature difference between the holding temperature and the glass‐transition temperature independently of moisture content. Amorphous biological materials are metastable showing temperature, moisture content, and time‐dependent phase transitions that affect their drying behavior, stickiness, storage stability, and quality.


An implementation of Jiaguwen display on web includes two steps, creating SVGfile of Jiaguwenand inserting it into web page. It can be usedto communication by internet in the same domain .


In this article, we introduce a class of nonlinear wave equations associated with the Dunkl operators, we study local and global well-posedness. Next, we establish the linearization of bounded energy solutions in the spirit of Gérard [P. Gérard, Oscillations and concentration effects in semilinear dispersive wave equations, J. Funct. Anal. 141 (1996), pp. 60–98]. The proof uses Strichartz-type inequalities and the energy estimate.


Wavelets have been proven to be an exceedingly powerful and highly efficient tool for fast computational algorithms in the fields of image data analysis and compression. Traditionally, the classical constructed wavelets are often employed to Euclidean infinite domains (such as the real line R and plane R2). In this paper, a spherical wavelet constructed for discrete DEM data based on the sphere is approached. Firstly, the discrete biorthogonal spherical wavelet with custom properties is constructed with the lifting scheme based on wavelet toolbox in Matlab. Then, the decomposition and reconstruction algorithms are proposed for efficient computation and the related wavelet coefficients are obtained. Finally, different precise images are displayed and analyzed at the different percentage of wavelet coefficients. The efficiency of this spherical wavelet algorithm is tested by using the GTOPO30 DEM data and the results show that at the same precision, the spherical wavelet algorithm consumes smaller storage volume. The results are good and acceptable.


To study test method of high performance liquid chromatography( HPLC) and optimal hydrolysis process of the three kinds of flavonols content which included arbutus pigment,quercetin and kaempferol in white tea extracts,through the measurement of precision and recovery,and the reliable HPLC method,the hydrolysis conditions of samples in preparation were optimized by using orthogonal experimental design. The results showed that rutin,arbutus pigment,quercetin and kaempferol could be effectively separated under the HPLC separation conditions,and higher precision and standard addition recovery rate were gained within their obtained linear scope of the standard curve equation. The optimal hydrolysis conditions for the flavonol substances of white tea was as follows: 5 m L 3 mol·L-1HCl was added to the 5 m L white tea extract,then hydrolysised 30 min in 80℃ water bath pot. It also showed that the precision of the optimal hydrolysis method was relatively high; the kaempferol in hydrolysis process was stablest,while arbutus pigment was easy to be resolved; the hydrolysis conversion of rutin was 94. 32%. It was concluded that the HPLC detection method and the optimal hydrolysis method were avaible to determine the flavonol substances content of white tea,which could make the hydrolysis of the total flavonol glycosides in white tea extracts tend to be maximized.


Background: Sleep problems may have a great impact on the Physiotherapy students' daily life. The aim of the present study was to find out sleep disorders amongst undergraduate Physiotherapy students at Nootan College of Physiotherapy, Visnagar, Gujarat, India 384 315. Methods: Sixty five undergraduate Physiotherapy students (42 females and 23 males) participated in this study. An investigator developed mixed questionnaire was used to assess the sleep disorders amongst the physiotherapy under graduate students. Results: Only 20% (13/65) of participants reported that they had disturbed sleep and 80 % of participants had reported no trouble in sleep. Conclusion: Although negligible in nature, sleep disorders amongst Physiotherapy students may be considered as an emerging concern and sleep hygiene may be taught to undergraduate Physiotherapy students.


On the basis of the kinetics data,an equilibrium model of reactive distillation process of non-catalytic hydrolysis reaction is established.The existing hydrazine hydrate process by acetone azine hydrolysis is optimized and simulated using Aspen Plus.The effects of column stage,feed location and reflux ratio(R) are studied.The optimal process parameters are shown as follows:25 of theoretic stages of the reactive distillation column,5 of the feed stage of supplement water,10 of the feed stage for mixed materials of acetone,nitrogen and water,1 of the molar ratio of water and mixture of acetone and nitrogen,and 4.2 of the suitable R.Under the optimal condition,the mass concentration of hydrazine hydrate in the tower can reach 20% and even higher.


Problems associated with criterion-referenced language testing are discussed in the context of boto standardized proficiency testing and classroom assessment. First, different interpretations of criterion-referencing are examined. A range of approaches for defining criteria and performance levels in second language assessment are outlined, and some issues that have arisen in defining and applying these criteria are discussed, including the difficulties of defining the nature of proficiency and the failure of expert judges to agree on criteria. Finally, a discussion is given of research directions that might lead to language assessment criteria that incorporate multiple perspectives on learners' communicative needs and derive from empirical data on second language acquisition, variability in language use, and communicative competence. A 73-item bibliography is included. (MSE) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** DEFINING LANGUAGE ABILITY: THE CRITERIA FOR CRITERIA


Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is associated with neuro-cognitive, cardiovascular and metabolic morbidity in children. Adeno-tonsillectomy is the first line of treatment for OSA with PAP therapy and Oxygen supplementation being alternative therapeutic options in select cases. Severe Obstructive Sleep Apnea is a known risk factor for postoperative respiratory complications after adenotonsillectomy. Therefore, inpatient adenotonsillectomy with close monitoring is recommended for this group of children. Challenges to safe and timely care for this high risk group of children can be overcome with effective coordination of care between different locations and health care providers.

 All children seeking treatment at Dayton Children's Division of Sleep Medicine were managed through a pathway developed by a multi-disciplinary team involving sleep medicine, otolaryngology and clinical logistics. Severe OSA was defined as AHI ≥15 events/hr (children <2 year old), AHI ≥15 events/hr with three or more Oxygen desaturations <80% (children ≥2 to <6 years old), AHI ≥ 30 events/hr with three or more Oxygen desaturations <80% (Children ≥6 to 18 years old).

 A total of 78 children were diagnosed with severe OSA in 2019. All children were successfully triaged to appropriate therapeutic option (Adenonotonsillectomy, PAP, O2) within 24 hours of diagnosis. Urgent adenotonsillectomy was performed on the same day in 4 children and within 2 weeks on 12 children. There was no postoperative respiratory complication after urgent adenotonsillectomy. Thirteen children had adenotonsillectomy after 2 weeks. PAP therapy was started in 28 children (34%). Therapy was initiated on the same day in 10 children and the next day on one child. Oxygen supplementation was started in 21 children (27%).

 A multidisciplinary collaborative approach can result in delivery of timely and safe care for severe OSA in children.

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Aqueous solutions of organic electrolytes for which either the cation or anion contain hydrocarbon moieties form finite contact angles on freshly cleaved mica. After electrolytes are spread on the ...


The Adriatic basin is narrow and elongated with numerous islands and surrounded in many parts by steep orography. Therefore ocean models of the Adriatic Sea should benefit from high-resolution atmospheric forcing that could properly account for orographic variations. We compare the results of long-term hindcasts obtained by using three different atmospheric reanalyses with different spatial resolutions. The CROCO ocean model (formerly ROMS_AGRIF) was configured on a relatively coarse 4 km grid, which we consider fine enough to observe the effects of different forcing resolutions, but still coarse enough that we were able to run multiple simulations in a manageable time. Initial and open boundary conditions were provided by CMEMS Mediterranean Sea Physics Reanalysis, and the model includes 36 freshwater sources. A thorough analysis of several run configurations revealed that spatial resolution should not be the primary criteria in choosing the right forcing, as atmospheric models can be subject to significant biases. These tend to strongly influence the results and sometimes even cause circulation reversals. Here we present the main differences between the runs and also evaluate each of them by comparing the results with satellite observations of sea surface temperature.


In this paper, we propose the time-division multiplexing (TDM) based MIMO channel sounding technique using loosely synchronous (LS) codes for real time measurement of MIMO radio channel. Since LS codes have perfect autocorrelation and cross-correlation functions within certain vicinity of the zero shifts, the proposed technique can substantially reduce multipath channel interference. When cumulative distribution functions (CDFs) of absolute root mean square (RMS) delay spread error are considered, simulation results show that the proposed technique outperforms the conventional TDM based MIMO channel sounding technique. Moreover, in the MIMO channel environment where a mobile station moves with various speeds, the proposed technique is more efficient than the conventional TDM based MIMO channel sounding technique, because the proposed technique obtains about twice the measurement data of the conventional TDM based MIMO channel sounding technique at given time slots.


Fires burning on 18th January 2003 generated a series of cumulonimbus clouds that probably exacerbated a fire that reached suburban Canberra. Powerful whirlwinds were generated, at least one of which might have been a genuine tornado. We briefly review the development of plume theory over the last fifty years and a potential atmospheric stability index that may assist in the identification of conditions that are conducive to extreme fire behaviour in the environment. This information can assist in deciding the location of future monitoring stations.


Objective: to study the clinical application value of contrast-enhanced ultrasound(CEUS)in assessing blood perfusion characteristics of liver fibrosis.Methods:15 cases of liver fibrosis proven by biopsy were enrolled in this study while 15 healthy volunteers served as control group.After intravenous bolus injection of SonoVue 2.4 ml,real-time gray scale CEUS was performed to observe hepatic artery arrival time(HAAT),portal vein arrival time(PVAT),hepatic vein arrival time(HVAT)and the peak intensity(PI).In addition,hepatic artery to hepatic vein transit time(HA-HVTT),portal vein hepatic vein transit time(PV-HVTT)and portal vein hepatic artery interval time(PVAT-HAAT,VVT)were calculated.Statistical difference was analysed between two groups.Results:compared with control group,PVAT shortened significantly(P0.05),and HVAT,HA-HVTT,PV-HVTT,VVT shortened significantly(P0.01)in liver fibrosis group.There were no statistical significance in HAAT,HA-PI,PV-PI and HV-PI difference between two groups.Conclusions:The perfusion parameters,such as PVAT,HVAT and PV-HVTT may reflect the change of microcirculation and blood flow dynamics in patient with liver fibrosis,and they are expected to be quantitative index for non-invasive diagnosis of liver fibrosis in future.


Abstract The range of environmental activity in the North West of England is as diverse as its landscapes. These embrace some of the finest, but also some of the most degraded, landscapes in the UK; to date however, there has been no overall co‐ordination of initiatives aimed at their protection and rehabilitation. The emergence of regional planning guidance, a regional economic strategy and the agenda of sustainable development demands a more integrative, strategic approach to environmental action. This paper details the development of a regional landscape strategy which seeks to provide the connection between action at the regional and the neighbourhood levels through the co‐ordination, reinforcement and innovation of environmental activity. The regional landscape strategy provides a focus around which the interests of public, private and voluntary bodies can coalesce and a medium for the articulation of policy aspirations relating to the sustainable planning and management of landscapes.


Transcript of a letter from Elvira Moore to her father and Aunt Till regarding friends and family, farming, local news, and day to day activities.


.................................................................................................. iii Opsomming .............................................................................................. v Acknowledgement ..................................................................................... vii List of Figures .......................................................................................... xi List of Tables ........................................................................................... xii List of Symbols ........................................................................................ xiii 1.0 Introduction ..................................................................................... 1 1.1 Background ..................................................................................... 1 1.2 Problem Statement ........................................................................... 2 1.3 Geographical Location ....................................................................... 3 1.4 Climate and Weather Conditions .......................................................... 4 1.5 River Flow ........................................................................................ 5 1.6 Rainfall ......................................................................................... 10 1.7 Objectives ...................................................................................... 11 2.0 Literature Review ............................................................................ 13 2.


A wheelchair until now, decelerators using belt, chain and worm gears, etc have been widely used. However, a decelerator takes a large space although it is a simple device and thus is not ideal for the driving part of manual/motorized wheelchair. For these reasons, in this study we developed a driving part producing a large driving force through a decelerator using planetary gears. worm gear-based decelerator. We designed the tooth profile of the planetary gears for decelerator using Kisssoft program, In addition, we designed the driving part so as to apply it to the wheels of conventional wheelchairs, and then optimized the mechanism for the principles of manual/motorized transposition of the driving part and the operational principles. Based on the results of this study, we finally designed and manufactured a driving part for wheelchair decelerator in the form of planetary gears with 1 sun gear, 2 planetary gears and 1 ring gear.


This theory examines the effect of the screened Coulomb field generated by impurity ions on various semiconductor phenomena. The exact equation for the screening length, which is derived for semiconductors, is a function of temperature, doping density and intrinsic carrier density. In silicon the screening length varies from a fraction of a nanometer to thousands of nanometers depending on the temperature and the doping density. The overlap of these impurity fields causes both crystal potential shift and repulsion among impurity ions. The repulsion among the impurity ions gives rise to a pressure build-up, which is attributed to such phenomena as solid solubility and diffusion-induced defect generation. The experimental solubilities of lithium in germanium, and boron, phosphorus, and arsenic in silicon are compared with the theoretical values. Also, the optically enhanced solubility during rapid thermal processing is explained.


Hepatitis C is a major global public health problem, with a global prevalence average of about 3%. The majority of infected individuals (70%) develop chronic hepatitis and liver cirrhosis. Currently, two agents, pegylated interferon (PEG-INF) and ribavirin, have been employed in the treatment of chronic hepatitis C infection. Side effects and adverse events attributed to treatment of chronic hepatitis C with pegylated interferon and ribavirin have recently been better understood. Pulmonary abnormalities have been described with the use of these drugs and range from mild to potentially severe. Considering the increasingly frequent use of interferon in hepatitis C and other diseases, this review aims to assist in the early detection of lung side effects of this drug, as well as their proper management.


This correspondence proposes an alternative scheme for characterizing the wide sense cyclostationary (WSCS) processes and applies it for the analysis of the filter banks whose output is WSCS for wide sense stationary and WSCS inputs. The proposed representation clearly illustrates the kind of transformation taking place in multiscale stochastic systems. These relationships are extended to the filter bank to make clear the effect of the various stages of the filter bank on WSCS processes.


D‐dimer estimation is a routine part of diagnostic algorithms for the exclusion of venous thromboembolism (VTE). We evaluated a point of care device, Biosite Triage (Inverness Medical UK, Cheshire, UK) for the estimation of D‐dimers in both samples taken into citrate and EDTA against our routine laboratory D‐dimer (Liatest D‐dimer, Diagnostica Stago, Reading, UK) performed on the STA‐R Evolution. With informed consent, 102 consecutive patients presenting with possible deep vein thrombosis (DVT) were enrolled and D‐dimers along with Wells scores and compression ultrasonography (CUS) were recorded. Using the manufacturers' recommended cut offs of 500 μg/l fibrinogen equivalent units and 400 μg/l for the Stago and Triage, respectively, sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values were calculated. These were 1.00, 0.42, 0.17, and 1.00 for the Triage machine using citrate samples, 1.00, 0.32, 0.14, and 1.00 using EDTA samples and 1.00, 0.29, 0.16, and 1.00 for the Stago Liatest assay, respectively. Three patients had significantly higher results for the Stago Liatest D‐dimer assay compared with the Biosite Triage device although ultrasound scans were negative. Conclusion: The Biosite Triage D‐dimer assay performed on either citrate or EDTA samples is comparable with the Stago Liatest laboratory D‐dimer assay when used in conjunction with clinical pretest probability scoring and CUS for the exclusion of DVT.


In this paper we use Bernstein and Chebyshev polynomials to approximate the price of some basket options under a bivariate Black-Scholes model. The method consists in expanding the price of a univariate related contract after conditioning on the remaining underlying assets and calculating the mixed exponential-power moments of a Gaussian distribution that arise as a consequence of such approximation. Our numerical implementation on spread contracts shows the method is as accurate as a standard Monte Carlo approach at considerable lesser computational effort.


For some of the beam-target combinations, ~ 5 MeV/u beam energies provided by the HIE-ISOLDE facility are suitable for either multi-step Coulomb excitation or Coulomb nuclear excitation of the reaction partners. In particular, in the latter case excitations occur in nuclei due to the nuclear interaction between them with much higher probabilities compared to the pure safe Coulomb excitation. We propose to utilise this feature to investigate the second 0 and 2 states of mass ~70 nuclei in the region of shape co-existence using the Miniball/T-REX setup. The excitation cross sections are also much more sensitive to higher order deformations, for example, to that of octupole (β3) and hexadecapole (β4) type. In effect, for the first time our studies will allow using the ISOL radioactive beams to investigate the effects of such deformations in this shape co-existence region. The studies will potentially be expanded in the future to the mass 20-40 and the rare-earth regions. The resulting data will also help us understand the evolution of the underlying effective nucleon-nucleon interaction in these regions and emergence of deformed shapes. Requested shifts: Will be requested during the submission of full proposals. Beamline: [MINIBALL + CD-only as well as MINIBALL + T-REX]


An adjustable motion transfer device for transmitting movement from a drive member to a driven member, and particularly for transferring rotational motion to linear motion. The device is particularly designed for transmitting motion from a power source or motor drive shaft to a pump piston and may be quickly and easily adjusted to provide substantially any desired length of linear movement or reciprocal movement for the pump piston. The device may be connected directly to the drive shaft of the motor and carries an adjustable cam drive member for connection with the pump piston for transmitting the linear motion thereto. The cam drive member may be substantially infinitely adjusted to provide substantially any desired drive or speed ratio between the drive shaft and piston.


This paper introduces a few research studies being conducted that are using multicore embedded systems, highlighting the challenges and questions relevant to R&D (Research and Development) in computer systems architecture, focusing on design aspects and optimization of embedded systems that needs to run security solutions or cryptographical algorithms using hardware acceleration, aiming for good performance, code optimizations, and the lowest energy consumption. Another aspects are the design of dedicated processors for specific purposes, multicore systems and GPUs for security solutions and specific applications requiring high performance, with the possibility to work with FPGAs or embedded platforms with embedded multicore paradigm.


Tuberculosis is one of the major public health problems in South-East Asian countries with immense socio-economic impacts. The advantage and disadvantage of starting anti-tubercular therapy in presumptive diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis is debatable in a resource constrained settings. Even in the face of high prevalence, important pitfalls warrant consideration. Health Renaissance 2014;12(3): 224-226


BACKGROUND
 Clinical information may frequently be missing from the electronic health record (EHR), and contributes to delayed care, adverse events, and additional services, which may be costly. Missing laboratory data might be valuable marker for population-level risk stratification to help identify patients at risk of high cost and utilization.

 OBJECTIVE
 To determine whether absent hemoglobin HbA1c results in the EHR stratifies risk of high healthcare costs and utilization among adults with diabetes mellitus (DM).

 METHODS
 Retrospective U.S. cohort with EHR and claims data (2012-2013) of 6,270 continuously insured and care-engaged patients with DM who had ≥1 ambulatory visit in 2012. HbA1c availability defined as "HbA1c present" if ≥1 HbA1c EHR result was available in 2012 and otherwise as "HbA1c absent." Patient's annual healthcare costs, presence of any inpatient hospitalization, and presence of any emergency department (ED) visit in 2012 (concurrent) and 2013 (prospective).We used linear and logistic regression analyses, adjusting for age, gender and comorbidity, to determine associations with concurrent and prospective healthcare costs, emergency department (ED) visit, and hospitalization.

 RESULTS
 Overall, HbA1c result was absent from the EHR in 20.2%. Absent HbA1c status had significantly greater healthcare costs than HbA1c present (Concurrent difference: $5,081, p<0.001; Prospective difference: $5,489, p<0.001). Absent HbA1c status was significantly more likely to have an ED visit than HbA1c present (Concurrent: OR 1.44, p<0.001; Prospective: OR 1.29, p=0.01). No significant differences in hospitalization existed between groups.

 CONCLUSIONS
 Markers indicating absent laboratory results in the EHR, such as HbA1c availability, may be a promising population-level risk stratification approach. HbA1c availability appears to offer clinically relevant information associated with high healthcare costs and utilization. Future research might use markers identifying HbA1c or other laboratory results absent from the EHR to trigger various quality improvement interventions, such as health information exchange, clinical decision support, or care management.


Longitudinal and cross-sectional profiles of alluvial channels are altered by the presence of seepage. However, the available literature suggests that seepage has not been considered in analyses of bank profiles of threshold alluvial channels. In the experimental study reported here, downward seepage was applied to parabolic channels based on tractive force theory in order to determine its effect on the longitudinal and cross-sectional profiles. It was observed that sediment transport in the threshold channels increased when downward seepage was applied. The parabolic shape did not hold, but channels formed a new cross-sectional shape with a flat bed and two curved banks and achieved stability. The reason for the increased sediment transport in a threshold channel after the application of downward seepage was sought by analysing the time-averaged velocities. An empirically derived exponential expression was developed for the bank profiles of threshold alluvial channels affected by seepage. A relationship ...


"In Big Eye, the Canadian and Australian Aboriginal artists' expression is centred on a fusion between traditional and urban - contemporary and ancient. This is where we now find ourselves as Indigenous peoples globally. Each generates an almost visual poetry as a narrative connected to the subconscious and the unknown. Two words - 'you' and 'us' - register a relationship between atmosphere and earth. This is understood as a time continuum between the past, present and future which then returns us back to the start, never-ending. [...]" -- p. [4].


Nineteen pumpkin inbreds were evaluated to measure the variability, estimate genetic attributes, the association among the characters and their contribution to yield. There was a significant variation observed for all the characters among the inbred. High heritability coupled with the high genetic advance in percent means and high genotypic coefficient of variation was observed for fruit length, cavity length and average fruit weight, indicating additive gene effects of these traits. The positive and strong association of node number of first female flower (r g = 0.91, r p = 0.82), flesh thickness (r g = 0.55, r p = 0.47), fruit diameter (r g = 0.46, r p = 0.44) with yield per plant. On the other hand, days to first male flower (r g = -0.27, r p = -0.14) and days to first female flower (r g = -0.1, r p = -0.13) co-related negatively and insignificantly with fruit yield per plant. Average fruit weight (0.89 kg) and fruits per plant (0.52) had direct effect on pumpkin yield, indicating their importance as selection parameters. Moreover, the results indicated that node number to first female flower, average fruit weight, flesh thickness, fruit length, fruit diameter and fruits per plant can be used as useful selection criteria to increase fruit yield per plant in pumpkin. evaluating the individual plants in the segregating populations.


The usual presentation of the Casimir effect refers to the presence of forces between uncharged macroscopic bodies due to the vacuum fluctuations. If the macroscopic bodies are put in relative motion, the boundary conditions are continuously changed and this should lead to an emission of quanta out of the vacuum. The rate of emission is estimated in the simplest possible geometrical and kinematical situations; the effect is found to be easily calculable but very small because the macroscopic bodies are always extremely slow with respect to the speed of light. It is, however, possible that a resonant effect might enhance the process.


In this paper we analyse the conditions under which non American firms, victims of international cartels, can claim damages in the United States. In its 2004 decision on the vitamins cartel, the United States Supreme Court decided that foreign firms can introduce a civil suit in the United States only if the alleged damage is related to the American market. In 2005 the District Court of Columbia has ruled that damages incurred abroad cannot be compensated under american antitrust law unless they are directly caused by the American cartel prices. The paper puts in perspective those decisions in the light of the positions expressed by the various stockholders such as the U.S. Department of Justice, foreign governments, and business representatives. The paper asks whether those judicial decisions are consistent with the fight against international cartels which is the priority of the U.S. Department of Justice.


Missile srorage and transportation condition monitoring technology research the real-time collection and processing of environmental temperature and humidity,shock and vibration,and the position and orientation information of the entire life cycle of the missile equipment.It's part of missile equipment maintenance management supplement.We define the "Missile Predictive Rate"(MPR) indicators,and established its ARMA forecast model.The experimental results show that the model can show the short-term trend fast track prediction to the small capacity samples of MPR,and the model has high precision about 12%.Forecast results help to establish the vary missile maintenance of security and quality management programs,for the missiles with differentiated performance status.


PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent hillock and electrochemical reaction with an ITO electrode in an Al wiring film, and then suppress the generation of etching residue. SOLUTION: The wiring film includes a first element of 0.001 to 30 atom percent of at least one element that satisfies at least one of forming an intermetallic compound with Al and having high normal electrode potential compared with Al; and a second element of 0.01 atom ppm to 50 atom percent to an amount of the first element which is at least one selected from C, O, N and H and virtually includes Al as the rest. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI


Ab s t r Ac t Background: Laparoscopic hysterectomy is a minimally invasive procedure with shorter operative time, decreased trauma, and less technical difficulty. However, the success of the procedure depends on various intrinsic and extrinsic factors. This study was done to evaluate the factors which influence the success of laparoscopic hysterectomy. Materials and methods: This retrospective record-based cross-sectional study was carried out among 100 participants who underwent laparoscopic hysterectomy for various indications in our tertiary care hospital. The demographic and clinical profiles of these participants were recorded. Particulars related to the success of the surgery including duration of surgery and hospital stay, infections, and other complications were recorded. Results: Our study showed that the duration of surgery and duration of hospital stay were significantly influenced by the parity. Multiparous women were more prone to longer duration of surgery and prolonged hospitalization. The observed difference was statistically significant (p < 0.05). Conclusion: It is essential to develop a scoring mechanism by which each case can be selected or rejected for laparoscopic hysterectomy considering various parameters. This may be carried out by further exploratory research on identifying the key factors which influence the success of the procedure.


Nebulized anti-nerve growth factor microspheres (referred to as NANMs) may exert an anti-asthma effect that can modulate immunological-pathological-related changes in asthmatic rats. However, research into the evidence and mechanism of the inhibition of asthma exacerbation by NANMs is lacking. The mechanism of action and the therapeutic effects of inhibition of NANMs were analysed in ovalbumin (OVA)-induced asthma rats in this study. Rats were divided into control, asthma (OVA-induced group), anti-NGF, and NANM groups according to a random number method. We evaluated the reticular basement membrane thickness, airway wall thickness, and collagen thickness. We investigated the pulmonary pathological changes and used immunohistochemical methods to detect and compare the expression of NGF, TGF-β1, and Smad-3. Our results revealed that NANMs reduced the symptoms and the average pulmonary resistance values of lung function, decreased the thickness of the reticular basement membrane and collagen deposition, and attenuated the expression of NGF protein and mRNA levels. Moreover, TGF-β1 and Smad-3 were significantly reduced by NANMs in lung tissues. NANMs ameliorated OVA-induced murine asthma by regulating airway remodelling in asthmatic conditions and improving lung function and pathology. TGF-β1, Smad-3 and NGF were inhibited in the lung tissues, and thus, NANMs have anti-asthmatic effects.


Hunter-harvest sampling focused on identifying which Dall sheep populations currently have M. ovi. During the 3 seasons, over 750 individual hunters participated in the sampling effort. We tested 797 Dall sheep and detected M. ovi in 42. Overall, 5% of sheep tested had M. ovi detected with only one of these reported by the hunter as having any respiratory symptoms. Therefore, nearly all sheep sampled were presumably healthy based on hunter observations.


Throughout the history of animation,technology and art evolve like twins.At the beginning,art dominates the period of drawing.With the development of computer technology,animation over-emphasized the leading role of technology,resulting conflicts.This paper analyzes the reasons of this phenomenon and explores the common between art and technology to serve creation of animation.


The service optimization model of mechanical manufacturing under the cloud manufacturing model has played an important role in the development of manufacturing industry. In order to perfect the related technologies and theories in the manufacturing industry of our country, the related theories of cloud manufacturing model and machining were summarized in this paper. Furthermore, a customer demand and manufacturing company were taken as the cases. And based on the mathematical model of multi-granularity manufacturing service optimization, the operation efficiency of different modes was contrasted and analyzed. The results show that the service optimization model of machining manufacturing in the cloud manufacturing model has certain practical significance for the development of manufacturing companies. The purpose of the study is to provide theoretical research for follow-up studies.


Our foreign policy over the past ten years has been no success: Communist expansion has not been halted, the non-Communist world is not united, and peace is no closer. Why? We are ill prepared for world leader ship by our ignorance of geography, languages, and history, that is, by a parochial world view borne out of indifference produced by a feeling of impotence and frustration. Having power we have little notion of how to use it. We moralize too much, confuse legalism with morality, and often exhibit self-righteousness obnoxious to other peoples. Our leaders, unwilling to risk unpopularity by adopt ing a flexible and imaginative foreign policy, have become prisoners of a public state of mind, created largely by their own propaganda.—Ed.


Process Discovery as the main technique in the mining process aims to produce a model of an event log. However, in the implementation, there is a problem found, for a lot of process variants contained in the event log. This makes the results of the discovery process difficult to understand. This research begins by grouping event logs using the K-Means method as a pre-processing stage. The results of this pre-processing stage are then modeled using the process mining technique. However, determining the optimal number of clusters is crucial. Mistakes in determining the K value can reduce the fitness value and precision of the resulting model. Based on the test results on the issue tracking data set with the number of cases 1091 and the number of events 7924 which is divided into four clusters the precision value increased from 0.49 to 1 and the fitness value increased from 0.34 to 0.61-1 in clusters 2, 3 and 4.


This study aimed to investigate the effect of science class using multiple intelligence on science learning motivation, academic achievement and science process skill of elementary student. The number of participants were 98, 4 classes of 3 rd graders in G elementary school in B city. The experimental group, 2 classes including 49 participants, had science classes using multiple intelligence while the comparative group, 2 classes including 49 participants, took ordinary teacher-driven lessons using teacher's guidebook. Pre and post tests were done before and after executing lessons to assess the changing in each group's science learning motivation, academic achievement and science process skill. The results of this study can be summarized as follows: First, the pre and post test results of science learning motivation revealed that the experimental group had higher improvement compared to the comparative group and the difference was meaningful. Second, the post test results of the science academic achievement showed that the experimental group had higher average value compared to the comparative group and the difference was meaningful. Third, the pre and post test results of basic science process skill showed that the experimental group had higher average value compared to the comparative group and the difference was meaningful, especially in inference and prediction elements.


The purpose of the Quebec Health and Social Services User Satisfaction Survey was to provide estimates of user satisfaction for three types of health care institutions (hospitals, medical clinics and CLSCs). Since a user could have visited one, two or all three types, and since the questionnaire could cover only one type, a procedure was established to select the type of institution at random. The selection procedure, which required variable selection probabilities, was unusual in that it was adjusted during the collection process to adapt increasingly to regional disparities in the use of health and social services.


Recent data in adults suggest that thiopurines are associated with a threefold to fourfold increased risk for lymphoma when used to treat inflammatory


THIS REPORT DOCUMENTS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPUTERIZED ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUE TO DETERMINE THE OPTIMUM METERING RATES FOR A GROUP OF ON-RAMPS. IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FRAMEWORK FOR THE SYSTEMS ANALYSIS OF THE CONTROLLED SYSTEM THE NEED FOR TWO SUB-MODELS IS IDENTIFIED. THESE SUB-MODELS TOGETHER WITH THE INITIAL FREEWAY MODEL ARE INTEGRATED INTO A SINGLE COMPUTER PROGRAM, RAMPCON. THE USER HAS THE FLEXIBILITY OF MAXIMIZING EITHER TOTAL OUTPUT OR TOTAL VEHICLE MILES AS THE OBJECTIVE. LIMITATIONS OF THE PROGRAM ARE DISCUSSED AND RESULTS OF A TEST SYSTEM ARE PRESENTED. ALSO PRESENTED ARE METHODS OF ADJUSTMENT OF THE PROGRAM, INTEGRATION OF FIXED-TIME AND TRAFFIC- RESPONSIVE CONTROL, AND INVESTIGATION OF RAMP QUEUE CHARACTERISTICS. /FHWA/


This paper evaluates the effect of 200MW steam turbine's HP cylinder steam leak unit's star-up and secure running. It puts forward some methods of reducing the effect and enabling the unit's security through a sketch of practice works.


241 Background: Surgery and radiotherapy are standard therapies for patients with early-stage prostate cancer (PrCa). However, studies show that patients with low-risk localized PrCa (Gleason 6; Grade Group (GG) 1 and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) <10) could be safely monitored with active surveillance (AS), if intense patient follow up and re-biopsy schedules are utilized. Here, we reviewed clinical outcomes of AS of a program associated with the Niagara Health System (NHS) PrCa diagnostic program, which provides centralized diagnosis, systematic follow up, re-biopsy and multi-disciplinary consultation clinics for all patients in the Niagara region, Ontario, Canada. Methods: After receiving appropriate ethics approval, NHS databases were searched for patients that underwent more than one biopsy of the prostate in the period Jan. 2015 (program inception) to Dec. 2020. Cases were reviewed for clinical stage, biopsy results and treatment record data. Data were then codified for anonymity and analyzed. Criteria for inclusion into the analysis involved, i) a minimum of two PrCa biopsies before treatment and ii) detailed reporting of biopsy and clinical results (number of positive cores, % of core involvement, and PSA). Results: A total of 343 AS patient cases were identified in the initial search. Of those 52 cases did not meet inclusion criteria. The baseline GG score distribution in the 291 cases included in the analysis was, GG0: 27 (cases with negative biopsies but high PSA), GG1: 247 and GG2: 17 (patients refusing treatment). A total of 144 cases (49.5%) progressed at re-biopsy. Rates of progression to higher GG category in the three groups were 100%, has 46.5% and 50%, respectively. The average time to progression was 23.3+15.5 months. The rate of progression to treatment after entering AS was 39.17% (114/291). Average time from first biopsy to treatment was (28.4+14.5 months). Amongst those that received treatment the overall rate of progression to high-intermediate or high-risk PrCa, was 29.8%, with 20.8% of cases (30/144) progressing to GG>3 (Gleason Score 7: 4+3 or higher) and 9.0% (13/144) progressing to PSA > 20. Of the treated patients, 70 (61.4%) patients received radiotherapy, 42 (36.8%) combined radiotherapy and androgen deprivation therapy and (31.3%) underwent radical prostatectomy. Conclusions: This retrospective study provides contemporary real-world systematic AS outcomes from a Canadian program with unique features of systematic urological follow up and centralized diagnosis and multi-disciplinary patient assessment. We observe increased rates of disease progression and need for earlier utilization of treatment compared to those reported by other studies. Further analysis examines factors predicting increased risk for disease progression.


This paper extends the recently introduced structured input-output analysis method for incompressible flows to the compressible regime. The proposed method relies upon an exact quadratic representation of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations that allows for efficient modeling and analysis within the structured singular value framework. Specifically, the compressible plane Couette flow is investigated and the structure of the nonlinear forcing is used to formulate an input-output model suitable for the structured singular value analysis. We have outlined an efficient method to compute upper bounds on the structured singular value, which provide insight into flow instability. Numerical results of the proposed framework are included for subsonic, transonic, and supersonic Mach numbers. These results are compared with those obtained from resolvent gain and unstructured input-output analysis. Our findings show that accounting for the structure of the nonlinearity not only reduces the conservatism in the unstructured gains—thereby increasing the estimated stability margin—but also eliminates some of the instability mechanisms predicted by these other analysis tools. Moreover, the structured input-output results reveal instability mechanisms that are not captured by the resolvent analysis. These contradictory findings between the analysis techniques considered need to be substantiated through experimental and/or computational studies in the future.


The authors of this article mention the diagnostic methods, the surgery techniques and the postoperative care for the patients diagnosed with fistula of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). The surgery cure depends on many factors, including here the etiology of the rhino-basis defect, intracranial pressure, anatomical location of the rhino-basis defect and it is strictly individualized, which depends on the success of all surgery procedures. ENT physicians, together with the neurosurgeons, were able to have a dominant role in the diagnostic evaluation and in the treatment of skull base pathology can give us a CSF fistula. Nasal endoscopy has revolutionized the treatment of CSF fistula, with a high rate of success.


The intracellular model of embryonic left-right (LR) asymmetry proposes that body laterality originates from intrinsic chiral properties of individual cells, and several recent studies identified consistent chirality in the behavior of cells in vitro. Here, we explored one prediction of the intrinsic asymmetry model: that LR asymmetries would be present in a wide range of mammalian cells, manifesting in the form of LR-biased migration toward an attractant. We mined data from published papers on galvanotaxis and chemotaxis and quantitatively analyzed the migration trajectories of adult somatic cells, stem cells, and cancer cells to determine whether they display significant consistent LR biases in their movements toward migration targets. We found that several cell types exhibited LR biases during galvanotaxis and chemotaxis, and that treatments inhibiting cytoskeletal remodeling or targeting ion channel activity both abolished these LR biases. While we cannot conclusively rule out the existence of subtle biasing cues in the apparatus of some of the studies, the analysis of this dataset suggests specific assays and cell types for further investigation into the chiral aspects of intrinsic cell behavior. Funding This work was funded by the American Heart Association Established Investigator grant 0740088N and NIH grants R01-GM077425 (to ML) and NRSA grant 1F32GM087107 (to LNV). M.L. is also supported by the G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Charitable Foundation.


WHEN THE JOB IS THE PROBLEM: Conflict at the Summit: A Deadly Game Problems of a New Executive Power Failure in Management Circuits When Executives Burn Out SEXES AND RACES WORKING TOGETHER: Two Women, Three Men on a Raft Case of the Valuable Vendors Sexual Harrassment...Some See It...Some Won't THE CHANGING NEEDS OF EMPLOYEES: Case of the Suspect Salesman Three Vice Presidents in Mid-Life THE EXECUTIVE AS A HUMAN BEING: What Killed Bob Lyons On Executive Suicide Managers Can Drive Their Subordinates Mad Management of Differences Subject and Author Indexes.


We report on a proof of concept for a compact supercontinuum source for the mid-infrared wavelength range based on a microchip laser and nonlinear conversion inside a selenide-based optical fiber. The spectrum extends from 3.74 to 4.64 μm at -10  dB from the peak and 3.65 to 4.9 μm at -20  dB from the peak; emitting beyond the wavelength range that periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) starts to display a power penalty. Wavelength conversion occurs inside the core of a single-mode fiber, resulting in a high-brightness emission source. A maximum average power of 5 mW was demonstrated, but the architecture is scalable to higher average powers.


Gastroenteritis caused by helminth is a major hindrance for optimum productivity in small ruminants. The present study was conducted to determine the prevalence of naturally occurring gastrointestinal helminths (GIH) and intensity of gastrointestinal nematode (GIN) infection in Garole sheep of Sundarban Delta of South 24 Parganas district in West Bengal. Sixty Garole in the age group of three months to one year were selected in two villages of South 24 Parganas district and coprologically screened by Standard technique at monthly interval for a period of one year (from Oct 2012 – September 2013). The prevalence of GIH infection was 82.22%. Highest prevalence (90.83%) as well as intensity of GIN infection (EPG = 521) was observed in monsoon and lowest prevalence (75.83%) and intensity (EPG = 388.75) was recorded in summer. Haemonchus contortus was recorded as the predominant GI nematode species with an overall prevalence of 63.91% and Paramphistome (15.28%) was reported to be the predominant trematode species infecting Garole sheep. The present study indicates that the naturally occurring GI parasites were prevalent in Garole sheep all round the year with the highest prevalence in monsoon. The results of the present study might be exploited for developing lucid and specific control measures against naturally occurring GIH in Garole sheep.


Applying an advance dynamic panel second-generation two-step system generalized method of movement modeling, this study endeavors to bridge the gap in the literature by examining the association between shadow economy and economic stability in multiple countries with a special case of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The study has been motivated by the evidence that the shadow economy is a persistent source of the decline in tax revenue, which is the main source of funds for any economy to run welfare packages for the public. In addition, it also impacts the economy's financial stability and amplifies the losses. Saudi Arabia is selected as a special case given its global significance and participation in the group of the fastest growing economies in the world. Thus, this study finds a negative association between the shadow economy and economic stability in the case of the full sample and a sub sample of Saudi Arabia. In other words, our study supports the point of view of those scholars who claim that the shadow economy is harmful to the economy. Based on the empirical findings, the study recommends that policymakers need to give importance to the shadow economy while formulating economic stability policies in the case of a full sample, especially in Saudi Arabia. Similarly, the robustness of the results is tested using different model specifications and alternative estimation techniques.


Magnetic properties and microstructure of NdDyTb-FeCo-B sintered magnet by adding Ga and Nb were investigated. The result showed that, by adding 0.1%Ga,0.5%Nb (mass fraction), the _i H_c,B_r,(BH)_(max) were better. Microstructure analysis by SEM indicates that Ga,Nb addition leads to the homogenization and regularization of grain of the main phase Nd_2Fe_(14)B. Newborn Nd_2Fe_(14-x)Ga_xB hard phases was formed by addition of proper amount Ga,Nb, thus, the nucleation formation and expansion of reverse magnetization domain could be depressed, the magnetic properties of sintered magnet was improved.


This study investigates the interpretation of scopally ambiguous sentences involving a universally quantified direct object NP and negation (e.g., The...


This work addresses the analogy between the speed of sound of a viscous, barotropic, and irrotational fluid and the equation of motion for a non-massive field in a curved manifold. It will be shown that the presence of viscosity implies the introduction, into the equation of motion of the gravitational analogue, of a source term which entails the flow of energy from the non-massive field to the curvature of the spacetime manifold. The stress–energy tensor is also computed and it is found not to be constant, which is consistent with such energy interchange.