The study of groundwater flow systems in bedrock is very important in assessing the reliability of underground facilities in the deep bedrock.About the results of examinations now going on in the crystalline bedrock at the Ohmine 550m level drift and KH-1 borehole in the Kamaishi Mine, Iwate prefecture, this paper, part 1, deals with the groundwater chemistry in the deep crystalline bedrock. The Ohmine 550m level drift is located in the northern part of the Kamaishi Mine and Kurihashi granodiorite, Ganidake diorite and skarn minerals are distributed there.The results of this study are summarized as follows :1) Water chemistry of the groundwater around the Ohmine 550m level drift in the Kamaishi Mine is classified into six types by Piper's expression, which are also supported other interpretation methods for groundwater chemistry.2) Water chemistry of the drained groundwater into the drift has some relationship with the fracture distribution frequency of the bedrock.3) From the results of the multivariate analysis for the groundwater chemistry, the effect of eluviated chemical component from mineralized Ganidake diorite and skarn contribute to the most of the groundwater chemistry in the studied area. Also in the Kurihashi granodiorite, ionic exchange reactions contribute to its groundwater chemistry.


Based on this question and idea, we can draw the following understanding. First, Few deny use of the word has been more fixed tendencies. Second, Complex sentence type fan province in sight, there is the main feature of the relationship. Third, Complex sentence type, accounting for the order to ask the event, is a characteristic of the East bones usage. Fourth, Compare the normal sentence for variation sentence has omitted and shift two kinds of forms. Fifth, Time Words were mainly seen in the first sentence affirmed.


Advertisements feed our desires through two primary sensory channels, visual and audio — eyes and ears. And then, through the phenomenon of synesthesia (the ability of one sensory input to trigger another), they feed upon all of our senses — taste, touch, smell, balance. The most sophisticated and effective ads are those which create desire by playing upon all the senses. The classic early book on advertising, The Strategy of Desire by Ernest Dichter (1960), reveals some of the psychological principles upon which ads depend. Ads broadcast their message on multiple channels: television, radio, newspapers, magazines, billboards, buses, trains, junk mail, and so on. They are all around us making up and taking up a considerable part of our man-made environment. No matter who we are or what we are doing we are subjected to hundreds of ads each day. There is no way to avoid the deluge. There is no way to dam the flood. Ads are persistent, persuasive and consistent in their theme — create desire, create desire, create desire. For advertising to prosper it must create, and continue to create, an insatiable desire. Furthermore, that desire for more of whatever, must be in tune with the goals and philosophies of the culture in which it is embedded. Advertising serves a natural purpose. Robert L. Heilbroner (1985) comments on Michael Schudson's book, Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion:


Diabetes has recently played an important role in the considerable indisposition of humanity. The diabetes patients are in a condition resulting from defects in insulin secretion with long range harm, dysfunction and failure of various human organs. Potential medical diagnosis of the disease diabetes is essential, including medical applications. However, limitations in representing the meaning and content of the domain knowledge for support of the search process for knowledge from a variety of user perceptions are considerable among these applications. In this paper, a medical expert system for diagnosis of diabetes is proposed. The diabetes ontology is developed using the OWL format with 9 sub-classes. The interval results with the weighted OWA similarity algorithm are expressed for easy interpretation by users. The expert system is developed in the form of a web-based application with web service architecture. An overall consistency rate of 90.7% was achieved with test data from 65 patients. The obtained results properly show that the system can help to diagnose diabetes early on and serve as a guide for people with diabetes to monitor the disease. It is quite possible that the proposed medical expert system discussed in the current work can be properly applied to other biological datasets to deal with the problems of disease diagnosis effectively.


The effects of 3 reagents such as picloram on tulip callus induction and somatic embryogenesis were studied by using the optimal design of"311-B"regression.The results showed that the callus inductivity and the somatic embryogenesis had a very significant correlation with picloram concentration.Picloram played a decisive role in tulip callus induction,and the callus could occur through 20 d culture.The optimal medium was MS+ 6 mg/L picloram+ 0.5 mg/L BA,the callus inductivity reached 100%and each piece of the callus averagely produced 10 embryoids.Picloram and BA had a positive interaction and could be used together.But picloram had a negative interaction with hymexazol and both did not have to be used together.


Task scheduling is a critical issue in distributed computing environments like cloud and fog. The objective is to provide an optimal distribution of tasks among the resources. Several research initiatives to use metaheuristic techniques for finding near-optimal solutions to task scheduling problems are under way. This study presents a comprehensive taxonomic review and analysis of recent metaheuristic scheduling techniques using exhaustive evaluation criteria in the cloud and fog environment. A taxonomy of metaheuristic scheduling algorithms is presented. Besides, we have considered an extensive list of scheduling objectives along with their associated metrics. Rigorous evaluation of existing literature is performed, and limitations highlighted. We have also focused on hybrid algorithms as they tend to improve scheduling performance. We believe that this work will encourage researchers to conduct further research for removing the limitations in existing studies.


Two n-dimensional manifolds M1 and M2 are cobordant if there is an (n + 1)-dimensional manifold W with the disjoint union of M1 and M2 as its boundary. Such a simple definition can lead to very interesting results in many different areas of mathematics. Algebraic topology is perhaps the most obvious one, with cobordism being central to surgery theory and the study of high-dimensional manifolds. Cobordisms and Morse Theory have a very intimate relationship, whilst at the same time cobordisms are having fun being the domains of TQFTs (topological quantum field theories). Cobordism theories can be made into extraordinary cohomology theories, and they are also playing a central role in modern-day knot theory. Contrary to what Wikipedia says, cobordism has nothing to do with "a Danish modern art movement based on gluing carboard boxes to your face". In this talk I will show why 1,2 and 3-manifolds are all null-cobordant (i.e. cobordant to an empty manifold), with the 3-dimensional case obviously taking the majority of the time. Interestingly, the proof hinges on showing that we can construct every 3-manifold from S3 by surgery on a link, a result which is very beautiful in its own right.


With the continuous advancement of the new curriculum standards, the efficiency of ideological and political education in universities also needs to be continuously improved. The traditional teaching mode can no longer meet the current teaching requirements, so it is necessary to innovate ideological and political education by using network thinking. Internet thinking is a way of thinking that re-examines the market, users, products and even the entire business ecology. It focuses on "taking users as the center" and emphasizes the value of information in production, exchange and dissemination. Internet thinking has obvious characteristics of innovation and openness, which is the same as the goal of ideological and political education in colleges and universities. Therefore, integrating network thinking into ideological and political education can really achieve the educational goals. In-depth study of the characteristics and psychological laws of the process of online ideological and political education is helpful to improve the effectiveness of online ideological and political education.


: [Purpose] We conducted a range of motion (ROM) exercise utilizing anatomical neck of the humerus circulation (ANHAC) for elderly patients with shoulder joint contracture, and investigated its immediate effects and suitability. [Subjects] The subjects were 15 elderly persons, 1 male and 14 females, with an average age of 86.5 ± 7.1 years. [Method] We conducted conventional ROM exercise and ROM exercise utilizing ANHAC 30 times each. We measured shoulder joint flexion at the time of scapula fixation, and flexion, abduction, adduction, and external rotation with the scapula without fixation and abducted. [Results] After conventional ROM exercise, a significant increase was found only in flexion during scapula fixation. After the ROM exercise utilizing ANHAC, we found significant increases in all the measured items both with and without scapula fixation. [Conclusion] The results suggest ROM exercise utilizing ANHAC is a method which can effectively improve shoulder ROM.


Measuring protein concentrations in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) has gained wide acceptance for the differential and early diagnosis of dementia (1)(2)(3). Longitudinal changes in CSF biomarkers such as β-amyloid1–42 (Aβ1–42) are of potential use for studying the disease course and the effects of treatment, but they have rarely been studied. We evaluated changes in Aβ1–42 concentrations with time and assessed the influence of assay variability and specimen storage on assay results.

At the Alzheimer Centre of the VU Medical Centre, 114 patients each underwent 2 lumbar punctures (LPs). Mean (SD) time between the first and second LP was 21 (9) months (i.e., follow-up time). CSF samples were collected in 12-mL polypropylene tubes, centrifuged within 2 h at 2100 g for 10 min at 4 °C, aliquoted into 0.5- or 1-mL polypropylene tubes, and stored at −80 °C until further analysis. The study was approved by the ethics committee of the VU Medical Centre, and all participants gave informed consent.

Aβ1–42 was measured with a sandwich ELISA (Innotest β-amyloid1–42; Innogenetics) (4). Baseline samples were assayed twice: once shortly after the first LP (A1) …


Jacob Lundy (above) is with the Biomedical Department, Biophysics Laboratory, Research Laboratories, Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. The late William C. FitzWilliam was with the Department of Gynecology-Obstetrics, The Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore. In order to minimize the loss of labile tissue components by diffusion, solubil ization, or chemical reaction, some workers avoid the use of the common histological solvents, including water, in handling freeze-dried tissue sections. Thus, freeze-dried paraffin sections are sometimes mounted wi thout f lotat ion, the dry sections being pressed on the slides wi th the finger. The reaction is then performed on the section w i th out first removing the paraffin. Using undeparaffinized sections, trypsin digestions were performed by Jackson. Ruyter and Neumann determined alkaline phosphatase activity histochemically through the celloidinparaffin matrix of free-floating sections, and Goetsch and Reynolds demonstrated acid-phosphatase reactions in acetone-fixed paraffin sections wi thout removal of paraffin. In this laboratory, freeze-dried, mounted paraffin sections are employed in assays of sensitive enzymes. In order to improve preservation of enzyme activity, both f lotation and deparaffinizat ion were avoided, prior to the reaction. Enzyme reactions successfully performed on freeze-dried sections by this method were: NAD diaphorase (using reduced nicot inamide adenine dinucleotide), 6-phosphogluconic acid dehydrogenase (Fig. 1), glucose-6phosphate dehydrogenase, and alkaline phosphatase. The commonly-used gelatin and egg albumen adhesives were often ineffective in retaining dry, pressed sections on slides. To overcome this problem, a rubber cement, previously used in this


Scales are hard deposit, which stick very firmly to the inner surfaces of the pipes and are very difficult to remove. This document studies the effect of magnetic water treatment on the scaling power of hard waters and shows how permanent magnets help to remove existing scale deposits in water. We demonstrate how a strong applied magnetic field increases the aragonite/calcite ratio in the deposit and thus inhibit scaling potentiality of treated water. Therefore, magnetic water treatment accelerates crystallization of mineral scales preventing them from adhering to the pipes.


A novel helical Carbon nanotubes (HCNT) network with a reduced graphene oxide (rGO) coating was designed and fabricated through a synergistic self-assembly and sulfuration strategy for use as an effective sulfur (S) host. A ferroconcrete frame structure with a hierarchical 3D nanostructure composed of 1D HCNT and 2D rGO nanosheets was obtained. The rGO wraps around the HCNT to form a heterostructure and provide an apparent coating that protects S. HCNT in the composite is boosted to create a 3D network architecture and reinforce the structural stability. Moreover, the heterostructures and rGO coatings, which are rich in wrinkles, can greatly minimize direct contact between the polysulfide and electrolyte; they also provide an abundance of active sites and boundary defects. Furthermore, the 3D interconnected structure creates effective ion diffusion channels and allows effective trapping of S and Li polysulfides. When used as a cathode, the HCNT/rGO/S cathode exhibits a high initial specific capacity of 1,196 mAh g−1 at 0.1 C. The capacity decay rate of the HCNT/rGO/S is only 0.075% per cycle after cycling for 200 times at a rate of 0.1 C. This unique hybrid HCNT/rGO/S electrode design may motivate the development of other high-performance electrodes with excellent electrochemical properties.


We consider the estimation of parameter-dependent statistics of functional outputs of steady-state convection–diffusion–reaction equations with parametrized random and deterministic inputs in the framework of linear elliptic partial differential equations. For a given value of the deterministic parameter, a stochastic Galerkin finite element (SGFE) method can estimate the statistical moments of interest of a linear output at the cost of solving a single, large, block-structured linear system of equations. We propose a stochastic Galerkin reduced basis (SGRB) method as a means to lower the computational burden when statistical outputs are required for a large number of deterministic parameter queries. Our working assumption is that we have access to the computational resources necessary to set up such a reduced-order model for a spatial-stochastic weak formulation of the parameter-dependent model equations. In this scenario, the complexity of evaluating the SGRB model for a new value of the deterministic parameter only depends on the reduced dimension. To derive an SGRB model, we project the spatial-stochastic weak solution of a parameter-dependent SGFE model onto a reduced basis generated by a proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) of snapshots of SGFE solutions at representative values of the parameter. We propose residual-corrected estimates of the parameter-dependent expectation and variance of linear functional outputs and provide respective computable error bounds. We test the SGRB method numerically for a convection–diffusion–reaction problem, choosing the convective velocity as a deterministic parameter and the parametrized reactivity or diffusivity field as a random input. Compared to a standard reduced basis model embedded in a Monte Carlo sampling procedure, the SGRB model requires a similar number of reduced basis functions to meet a given tolerance requirement. However, only a single run of the SGRB model suffices to estimate a statistical output for a new deterministic parameter value, while the standard reduced basis model must be solved for each Monte Carlo sample.


In 2004,the two session of the Tenth National People's Congress examined and adopted the amendments to the constitution,the state of "respect and ensure human rights"into the constitution,it is the milepost sense has the legal construction in this country big. This paper briefly discusses the process of Chinese human rights development and the new historical period of great role in promoting human rights into the Constitution for the cause of human rights in our country and the construction of the legal system cause.


In preparation for the widespread use of automatic scanners which will read documents and transmit their contents to other machines for analysis, this report presents a new concept in automatic analysis: the relative-frequency approach to measuring the significance of words, word groups, and sentences. The relative-frequency approach is discussed in detail, as is its application to problems of automatic indexing and automatic abstracting. Included in the report is a summary of automatic analysis studies published as of the date of writing. Conclusions are drawn that point toward more sophisticated mathematical and linguistic techniques for the solution of problems of automatic analysis.


Objective
To evaluate the effect and safety of Serenoa repens extract (SR) combined with α-receptor blocker (αRB) in the treatment of BPH.

METHODS
We included 7 published randomized controlled trials (RCT) studying the effect and safety of SR+αRB versus αRB monotherapy in the treatment of 1 009 BPH patients, and performed a meta-analysis on the data obtained using the RevMan 5.1.3 software.

RESULTS
The baseline data from the RCTs were all comparable. Compared with the patients treated by αRB monotherapy, those of the SR+αRB group showed significant decreases in the total IPSS, sub-IPSS in the storage and voiding stages, quality of life score (QOL) and PSA level (all P < 0.05), an increase in the maximum urinary flow rate (Qmax) (P = 0.04), but no statistically significant differences in the prostate volume and postvoid residual urine volume (P > 0.05).

CONCLUSIONS
Serenoa repens extract combined with α-receptor blocker is safe and effective, and even better than α-receptor blocker monotherapy, in the treatment of BPH.


Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based machine learning systems have made breakthroughs in feature extraction and image recognition tasks in two dimensions (2D). Although there is significant ongoing work to apply CNN technology to domains involving complex 3D data, the success of such efforts has been constrained, in part, by limitations in data representation techniques. Most current approaches rely upon low-resolution 3D models, strategic limitation of scope in the 3D space, or the application of lossy projection techniques to allow for the use of 2D CNNs. To address this issue, we present a mapping algorithm that converts 3D structures to 2D and 1D data grids by mapping a traversal of a 3D space-filling curve to the traversal of corresponding 2D and 1D curves. We explore the performance of 2D and 1D CNNs trained on data encoded with our method versus comparable volumetric CNNs operating upon raw 3D data from a popular benchmarking dataset. Our experiments demonstrate that both 2D and 1D representations of 3D data generated via our method preserve a significant proportion of the 3D data's features in forms learnable by CNNs. Furthermore, we demonstrate that our method of encoding 3D data into lower-dimensional representations allows for decreased CNN training time cost, increased original 3D model rendering resolutions, and supports increased numbers of data channels when compared to purely volumetric approaches. This demonstration is accomplished in the context of a structural biology classification task wherein we train 3D, 2D, and 1D CNNs on examples of two homologous branches within the Ras protein family. The essential contribution of this paper is the introduction of a dimensionality-reduction method that may ease the application of powerful deep learning tools to domains characterized by complex structural data.


Wireless Sensor Networks offer scientists new ways to measure the environment by utilising remote sensors to record important events or variables in an area of interest. Sensor nodes transmit their readings across the network back to a base station where they can then be processed for further analysis. Transmission is a costly operation for sensor nodes due to its relatively high consumption of the sensors' limited energy source. This raises the question, "Can we reduce the number of transmissions by a sensor without losing any data quality?" Reducing transmission costs will prolong network existence resulting in data collection over a longer period. One solution to this problem is the use of data compression techniques to reduce the number of transmitted readings and thus conserve a sensor's power. Piecewise linear representation and Haar wavelets are two data compression methods that can be implemented on a sensor node; their effectiveness is evaluated in this paper. Both algorithms were simulated using data collected from field experiments and results find piecewise linear approximation to be superior. The piecewise linear approximation algorithm evaluated in this dissertation is proven as a solution for controlling transmission costs. However, it operates by compressing data in a non-discriminatory fashion. When monitoring particular environmental phenomena, periods exist where measurement parameters, like the compression threshold, need to be adjusted. This is especially relevant during important events where a sensor should modify its measurement process to record data with maximum accuracy. To achieve this functionality, an adaptive algorithm is developed for soil moisture data sets that extends piecewise representation by incorporating a level of event awareness during measurement. Results show the adaptive measurement technique records critical events at an improved resolution, without significantly reducing the energy savings associated with the standard compression process.


Organizations sometimes create policies that restrict the decision freedom of their members. When doing so, they might create psychological reactance and dissent. This study examines whether providing voice into a decision can reduce the likelihood that those affected by the decision perceive it as imposing on their rights, can have negative emotional reactions to its adoption, and can want to engage in organizational dissent. Undergraduate students were randomly assigned to read scenarios in which a university committee decided to recommend that a university-wide, mandatory, comprehensive exit examination requirement be adopted after a student group either supported the requirement or opposed it. The results confirmed an indirect path between voice and dissent that flowed through perceived imposition on students' rights and negative emotional reactions to the adoption of the requirement. The limitations of the study and implications of the results for theory and research are discussed.


We are in a very magical era: all around us, in many ways, we are witnessing the connection between the East and the West, the ancient and the modern, spirituality and science. Modern scientific research is linking its most recent discoveries in the field of quantum physics and vibrational healing methods with ancient spiritual ideas. We are so truly fortunate to be living in such an exciting time, and watch in awe, this process of life unfolding before our very eyes.


Abstract In the US health care system a high fraction of suppliers are not-for-profit companies. Some argue that non-profits are "for-profits in disguise" and I test this proposition in a quasi-experimental way by examining the exit behavior of home health care firms after a legislative change considerably reduced reimbursed visits per patient. The change allows me to construct a cross provider measure of restriction in reimbursement and to use this measure and time-series variation due to the passage of the law in my estimates. I find that exits among for-profit firms are higher than those of not-for-profit firms, rejecting the null that these sectors responded to the legislation in similar ways. In addition, my results expand the view that "not-for-profit" firms are a form of "trapped capital." There is little capital investment in the home health care market, so the higher exit rates of for-profit firms after the law change indicate the possible role of labor inputs in generating differences in exit behavior across sectors.


EXPERIl.lfENTATION on humans,and the ethical problems associatedwith it, have exercisedphysicians for several millennia. Indeed, the patient has always been to some extent the physician's subject in such experimentation -the product of hope and despair. Whereas science in general has been little concernedwith ultimate purposes in the pursuit of knowledge, the moral dilemmas facing the physicianas investigatorhavelong beenacknowledged. In Hippocrates'time, some 2,400yearsago, little academic, social or legal differentiation was made between the responsible physician and the quack doctor. In such a climate, it was perhapslogical that ethical concernshould have found expression in the Hippocratic Oath. This admirable code has endured through many cultures and still informs contemporary guidelines. In the twentieth century, however, unprecedentedscientific progress, and equally unprecedentedbarbarism,have made it imperative that the medical profession should look to its own conscience,and to no outside source, for modern guidelines in the pursuit of its humanitarian purpose. The Hippocratic Oath prescribes the general conduct of the physician, and one "clause" is particularly relevant to the subject being discussed:


The characteristics of the cytoskeleton of a Fischer rat embryo fibroblast cell line (3Y1) transformed by ultraviolet (UV)‐irradiated HSV were studied by indirect immunofluorescence using anti‐actin IgG. Parental 3Y1 cells possessed well‐developed actin filaments, while 3Y1 cells transformed by UV‐irradiated HSV also retained well‐developed actin filaments. Transformed cells were divided into 2 groups according to tumorigenicity in newborn Fischer rats; one had a strongly tumorigenic potential and the other a weakly tumorigenic potential. Tumor‐derived cell lines exhibited a highly tumorigenic potential, and were also divided into 2 groups, one with well‐developed actin filaments and the other without well‐developed actin filaments. Our results suggested that transformation or tumor formation by HSV is a multi‐step process and that morphological loss of actin filaments in the cells is not essential to the tumorigenic potential of the cells transformed by HSV.


Esophageal varices-caused bleeding is an important factor of morbidity and mortality in portal hypertension patients.The aim of surgical operation is to stop bleeding,maintain good liver function and decrease the incidence of encephalopathy.Recently,laparoscopic technology has been applied on the treatment of bleeding varices because of its functions perfectly fit this aim.This paper reviewed the new progress of this focusing on indications,preoperative considerations,operative technique,postoperative care and complication management.


THE present relatively high frequency of hepatic abscess as the result of oversea service during the recent war, the difficulty experienced in accurate diagnosis even -when tlhe lesion is borne in mind, tlhe drlamatic results of emetine treatment-these factors combine to make the disease of great importance at the moment. The following notes of cases which have occurred recently serve to illustrate the difficulties experienced. The fact that a patient has had a liver abscess in the past which has been surgically treated by no means excludes the development of a second abscess at some very considerably later date. The following two cases illustrate this:


LIMP-2 is a glycosylated lysosomal membrane protein which spans the membrane twice. It is mainly localised in lysosomes and late endosomes, small amounts are also found in early endosomes and at the plasma membrane. LIMP-2 deficiency in mice leads to a phenotype with a triade of features: (i) a peripheral neuropathy, caused by reduced expression of the myelin proteins; (ii) deafness, beginning with the loss of potassium channels KCNQ1/KCNE1 in the stria vascularis, followed by an atrophy of this tissue and the loss of the hair cells; and (iii) an ureter stenosis, which is associated with reduced levels of uroplakins in the uroepithelium and is followed by the development of hydronephrosis. The three types of cellular abnormalities have in common that the affected cells are polarised epithelia and the disturbed expression is only affecting proteins that are localised at the apical membrane. We assume that LIMP-2 might play an important role in the endocytic recycling compartment (ERC), which is believed to be the sorting station for apicaly localised proteins.


PURPOSE
To detect the expression of mucins in diverse benign and malignant cervical tissues of cervical disease.

MATERIALS AND METHODS
158 cases of cervical tissues were collected. Sections were stained with monoclonal antibodies against MUC1, MUC2, MIUC4, MUC5AC, and MUC20 by immunohistochemistry.

RESULTS
Normal cervical epithelium showed high expr ession of MUC1I, MUC4, and MUC5AC, partial expression of MUC20, and no MUC2. With the development from chronic cervicitis, cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CI7N) to cervical squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), the expression of MUC1, NMUC4, and MUC20 was statistically significant. The expression of MUCl was related with the depth of invasion and clinical stage of SCC. The positive rates of MUC4 and MUC20 were associated with the degree of differentiation and clinical stage of SCC. There was a correlation between the expression of MUC4, MUC 1, and MUC20 in cervical squamous lesions.

CONCLUSION
Mucins may be involved in the development of cervical cancer.


Optical comb spacing of 2.5 nm was generated from fused-quartz micro-resonator with Q ~ 107. An electromagnet is utilized to connect between a translation stage and the micro-resonator holder temporally for performing a portable design.


Uniform Cu2O nanospheres with tailored hollow structure are successfully synthesized by employing the Ostwald ripening approach, and used as anodes in Li-ion battery. The synthesis involved a facile room-temperature chemical reaction of cupric nitrate with hydrazine. Hydrazine served as an alkali and reducing agent, converting Cu2+ to Cu2O nanoparticles, which self-assembled due to their large interfacial energy and formed 100–400 nm nanospheres. The Cu2O nanospheres were characterized by SEM, TEM, XRD, UV-vis spectroscopy and BET techniques. These Cu2O nanospheres were comprised of a mesoporous shell (20–50 nm) and a hollow interior part (50–100 nm). Galvanostatic charge–discharge measurements at different current densities, slow scan cyclic voltammetry (CV) and impedance measurements were used to analyze the electrochemical performance of the Cu2O nanospheres. The hollow Cu2O nanospheres exhibited a capacity of ∼650 mA h g−1 at 100 mA g−1 current density, showing greater than 80% capacity retention after 100 cycles. The enhanced electrode performance is attributed to the mesoporous hollow nanostructure that ensured an increased number of electrochemical sites, shorter Li ion diffusion lengths facilitating fast electrochemical kinetics, and sufficient void spaces to buffer the volume expansion.


Real time rendering of extremely complex scene is one of the hotspots in computer graphics nowadays. Aiming at this problem,a distributed parallel rendering model based on Client/Server structure is presented in this article. The corresponding view dependent dynamic data partition and schedule strategy associated with this model is discussed in detail. By using position coherence of data blocks,the dynamic data schedule strategy named 1+8+16 is simplified into 1+3+5 strategy and 1+5+9 strategy. Using our model and strategy,the real time walkthrough of the scene is achieved successfully in the multi weapons aerial defense system,together with the view dependent LOD generation method. And the image quality is also satisfying,which illustrates that our method is effective. In addition,it is out of question to popularize our dynamic data schedule strategy to achieve the fast data exchange between hard disk and memory in local computer.


Environmental problems are now becoming great issue and are the most frequent happened. Therefore, local wisdom plays an important role in protecting the environment, one of which is the local wisdom of Repong Damar as a form of landslide mitigation for the Way Krui society in the Pesisir Barat Regency, Lampung. The objectives of this study: to examine the local wisdom of Way Krui society in landslide mitigation; to explore the strategic adaptability of the Way Krui society in the facing a landslide. The approach of research uses a qualitative, the sampling technique snowball sampling, data collection techniques observation, interview and documentation. The validity of data uses triangulation. The result of the study: the local wisdom of the society to manage Repong Damar as a form of landslide mitigation is the existence of prohibited forests. So if the society destroys Repong Damar it is believed that it will be miserable and will get a bad disaster. The strategic adaptability that society does to keep Repong Damar stay sustainable.


This paper compares the prediction given by ITU-R P.1546-1 to measurements obtained using a CW maintenance signal of a trunking system repeater operating at 856 MHz in the Brasilia, capital of Brazil.


Configuration EPROM Configuration with the EPC1 Configuration EPROM Passive serial Configuration with a serial synchronous microprocessor interface, the BitBlasterTM, or the FLEX Download Cable. Passive parallel synchronous Configuration with a parallel synchronous microprocessor interface. Passive parallel asynchronous Configuration with a parallel asynchronous microprocessor interface. In passive parallel asynchronous configuration, the microprocessor treats the FLEX 10K device as memory.


Introduction examples of ongoing studies and surveys in Germany, Romania, France, Canada, India and Holland biomarkers of exposure: phthalates, PFCs, bisphenol A, brominated flame retardants, lead, PAHs, dioxins, mercury and arsenic biomarkers of exposure: hemoglobin adducts, environmental tobacco smoke, mycotoxins, the psychosocial working environment, micronuclei, individual susceptability, hormone functions, oxidative stress, germ cells and ionizing radiation.


We report on the magnetic properties of NdFeB powders produced by gas atomization, which is a powder manufacturing technology scarcely used in the past to produce such alloys. Using this technique, we have produced several ternary NdFeB alloys with Nd contents between 26.9 wt.% and 28.5 wt.%. The as-atomized powders were split into different size fractions by sieving. Subsequently, we measured the magnetic properties as a function of temperature, between 10 and 400 K, and particle size. The magnetic behavior depends strongly on the microstructure of the material, which in turn is determined by the particle size. It is reported a slope anomaly in the curve of magnetization as a function of temperature at around 150 K due to a spin-reorientation transition. Since gas-atomized powders are isotropic, this magnetic transition produces an increment of the magnetization below this temperature.


Several methods for studying the nature of a resonance are applied to resonances recently discovered in the bottonomium and charmonium sectors. We employ the effective-range expansion, the saturation of the width and compositeness of a resonance, as well as direct fits to data. The latter stem from generic S -matrix parameterization that account for relevant dynamical features associated to channels that couple strongly in an energy region around the resonance masses, in which their thresholds also lie. We report on results obtained with these methods for the resonances Zb(10610), Zb(10650), Zcs(3985), Zc(3900), X(4020), X(6900), X(6825), and Pcs(4459).


Fetal growth restriction is a prevalent pregnancy issue linked to numerous unfavorable postnatal outcomes. Suboptimal uterine-placental perfusion and inadequate fetal feeding are the vital pathophysiologic causes. Midwives play a crucial role in informing pregnant women about vitamin D inadequacy. This paper aims to determine the difference between midwives' prior and post-webinar knowledge levels. It was a cross-sectional study of individuals who participated in a webinar on November 21, 2021. Subjects were selected using a total population sampling approach from all midwives who participated in the webinar and completed pre-and post-tests. The difference between knowledge levels was evaluated using the difference between the pre-test and post-test scores in the general category. There was an increase in the number of participants who successfully answered the five-question component, a decrease in the number of participants who correctly answered the two-question section, and no change in the number of subjects who correctly answered question number one. The average score on the post-test was higher (67.28) than the pre-test (63.10), while the median score was the same at both time points. After attending a webinar, there was an increase in the proportion of subjects with a high level of knowledge (11.4% to 24%) and a drop in the proportion of subjects with a poor level of knowledge (32.3% to 27.1%). In conclusion, there was an improvement in the knowledge level of midwives before and after the webinar participation.


TCEC Honors Course A study of early American social reform movements and the conflicts and compromises inherent to making change in America.


BACKGROUND
Ultrasound guidelines for hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (HPS) have fixed minimum measurements and do not account for variation in patient weight or age. We sought to determine if preoperative pyloric measurements correlated with weight and age in patients with surgically proven HPS.

METHODS
A retrospective analysis was conducted of 189 patients with HPS treated at a single institution over a 5-year period (2005 to 2010). Pearson correlation and linear regression analyses were used to determine if there were statistically significant associations between these combinations of factors: age and pyloric muscle thickness, weight and pyloric muscle thickness, age and pyloric length, and weight and pyloric length.

RESULTS
Patients' mean age was 4.6 weeks (range, 1 to 17 weeks). Their mean weight was 3.9 kg (range, 2.5 to 8.0 kg). Mean pyloric muscle thickness was 0.42 cm (range, 0.18 to 0.86 cm), and mean pyloric length was 1.89 cm (range, 0.8 to 2.8 cm). Pearson correlation coefficient analysis showed a significant relationship between age and muscle thickness (r = 0.35, p < 0.001) as well as weight and muscle thickness (r = 0.24, p = 0.001). No significant relationship existed between pyloric length and age or weight. Linear regression analysis demonstrated similar results.

CONCLUSION
In patients with HPS, pyloric muscle thickness was directly related to age and weight. Practitioners should be aware that smaller and younger infants with a clinical diagnosis of HPS may still truly have HPS even though the minimum diagnostic criterion for muscle thickness or length is not found on ultrasound.


This paper presents a forced response prediction of 3 resonances in a low aspect ratio modern fan rotor and compares with other worker's experimental data. The incoming disturbances are due to low engine-order inlet distortion from upstream screens. The resonances occur in the running range at 3 and 8 engine orders which cross low modes (flap, torsion and stripe) of the blade. The fan was tested with on-blade instrumentation at both on- and off-resonant conditions to establish the unsteady pressures due to known distortion patterns.The resulting steady and unsteady flow in the fan blade passages has been predicted by three methods, all three-dimensional. The first is a linearised unsteady Euler method; the second is a non-linear unsteady Navier-Stokes method; the third method uses a similar level of aerodynamic modelling as the second but also includes a coupled model of the structural dynamics. The predictions for the 3 methods are presented against the test data, and further insight into the problem is obtained through post-processing of the data. Predictions of the blade vibration response are also obtained. Overall the level of agreement between calculations and measurements is considered encouraging although further research is needed.Copyright © 2000 by ASME


Decision algorithms useful in classifying meteorological volumetric radar data are the subject of described in the paper experiments. Such data come from the Radar Decision Support System (RDSS) database of Environment Canada and concern summer storms created in this country. Some research groups used the data completed by RDSS for verifying the utility of chosen methods in volumetric storm cells classification. The paper consists of a review of experiments that were made on the data from RDSS database of Environment Canada and presents the quality of particular classifiers. The classification accuracy coefficient is used to express the quality. For five research groups that led their experiments in a similar way it was possible to compare receiced outputs. Experiments showed that the support Vector Machine (SVM) method and rough set algorithms which use objects oriented reducts ro rule for rule generation to classify volumetric strom data perform better than other classifiers.


It is necessary to develop automatic picking technology to improve the efficiency of litchi picking, and the accurate segmentation of litchi branches is the key that allows robots to complete the picking task. To solve the problem of inaccurate segmentation of litchi branches under natural conditions, this paper proposes a segmentation method for litchi branches based on the improved DeepLabv3+, which replaced the backbone network of DeepLabv3+ and used the Dilated Residual Networks as the backbone network to enhance the model's feature extraction capability. During the training process, a combination of Cross-Entropy loss and the dice coefficient loss was used as the loss function to cause the model to pay more attention to the litchi branch area, which could alleviate the negative impact of the imbalance between the litchi branches and the background. In addition, the Coordinate Attention module is added to the atrous spatial pyramid pooling, and the channel and location information of the multi-scale semantic features acquired by the network are simultaneously considered. The experimental results show that the model's mean intersection over union and mean pixel accuracy are 90.28% and 94.95%, respectively, and the frames per second (FPS) is 19.83. Compared with the classical DeepLabv3+ network, the model's mean intersection over union and mean pixel accuracy are improved by 13.57% and 15.78%, respectively. This method can accurately segment litchi branches, which provides powerful technical support to help litchi-picking robots find branches.


Wireless charging systems (WCSs) are considered very appropriate to recharge underwater surface vehicles (USVs) due to their safe, flexible, and cost-effective characteristics. The small depth of immersion of USVs allows a WCS operated at an mm-level distance using a dock. Resultant tight coupling between the transmitter and receiver is conducive to high power, yet faces a challenge to alleviating misalignment sensitivity. In addition, considering USVs' endurance, the weight of a WCS should be strictly limited. In this paper, a 6.0 kW underwater WCS is analyzed, designed, and optimized, which achieves a good balance of power capacity, misalignment tolerance, and onboard weight. A multi-receiving-coil structure is employed, which is crucial to large misalignment tolerance. On this basis, two types of coils adapting the hull shape of USV, viz., curved and quasi-curved coils, are devised and compared in case the hydrodynamic performance of USV is degraded. Finally, the weight of receiver is effectively reduced using bar-shaped ferrite without sacrificing the power capacity of WCSs. The results indicate a merely 8.73% drop in coupling coefficient with misalignment ranging from 0 to 100 mm. Moreover, ferrite use is reduced by 40.48 kg compared to a ferrite sheet, which accounts for 50.28% weight of the receiver.


The final four programming assignments for this course make up a single project that you will work on as part of a two-person team. In this project, you will simulate a simple world of animals (" critters " !) that wander around, eat food, reproduce, and evolve. This world will include a graphical visualization that enables a user to take control of individual animals. Different species can also interact in this simulated world. Because of evolution, there will be multiple species eventually even if initially there was only one. Critters move around on a regular, hexagonal grid. Critters need energy to survive, because everything they do requires energy. They gain a little energy from the sun each time step as long as they are not moving. Critters may also attack each other; when critters run out of energy, they die and become food for other critters. If critters accumulate enough energy, they can reproduce. The genome of a critter is actually an event-driven program that determines what the critter does on each time step. When critters reproduce, the genome is copied from the parent or parents to the new critter, with possibly some mutations applied. This means that critter programs may change over time and perhaps evolve to make them more effective. The critter simulation will be implemented as a networked Java service with a graphical front end. This design permits multiple users to view and interact with the same virtual world. In summary, this project involves developing the following components: • a simple parser and interpreter for the critter language • a graphical user interface • a distributed implementation of the system 0 Changes to the spec The following changes have been made since the initial release.


WT5"BZ]A novel microelectronic vacuum pressure sensor is described, which is fabricated by using anisotropic etching combined with isotropic etching, as well as a special SDB technology Results from measurement and analys is show that breakdown voltage of the sensor is 100 V, the emitting current of a single silicon tip is 0 2 nA at a forward voltage of 3 V, the pressure on the sensor is linear with the output voltage at the pressure range of 25 g ~100 g, and the sensitivity of the sensor is 0 1 μA/g [WT5HZ]


A new research protocol could emerge to include walked events, live tweets and community building, write Francois-Xavier de Vaujany and Laetitia Vitaud


There is congruence between Nietzsche's philosophy of life and the biopolitical philosophy of Giorgio Agamben. For both philosophers the human animal possesses a divided relationship to its being alive. For both philosophers this division is of a political nature, such that membership in political community as we know it is conditional on the human animal's alienation from its biological being. Both philosophers are also concerned with the possibility of transformation and, because of the connection they establish between politics and animality, link this possibility to a change in the relationship between humans and their being alive. Yet both philosophers end up with an entirely different understanding of the nature of this change, and of its potential scope. This paper is an attempt at clarifying this disagreement between Nietzsche and Agamben, and with using it to come to a better understanding of the latter's political ontology. It presents a reading of Kafka's "The Burrow" in an attempt to show how Agamben's concept of the anthropological machine challenges the Nietzschean program of the affirmation of life as will to power.


Simple Summary Spinal cord injuries (SCI) in dogs have become increasingly common and most are caused by trauma or discal hernia (intervertebral disc disease). The absence of deep pain perception is usually associated with very severe spinal cord injuries, manifested by paraplegia, urinary and fecal incontinence, decubital sores, and secondary infections. Due to the poor prognosis for recovery of voluntary locomotor functions, these patients are frequently considered for euthanasia. The main objective of our study was to demonstrate that physiotherapy and assisted gait in supportive devices to maintain the standing position may help paraplegic dogs to develop spinal walking. Of 60 paraplegic dogs without deep pain in the hindlimbs, 35 (58.33%) developed spinal walking. Abstract Paraplegic patients have always been ideal candidates for physiotherapy due to their body's inability to recover on its own. Regardless of the cause that led to the onset of paraplegia (traumatic or degenerative), physiotherapy helps these patients with devices and methods designed to restore the proper functioning of their motility, as well as their quality of life. A total of 60 paraplegic dogs without deep pain in the hindlimbs caused by intervertebral disc extrusion or thoracolumbar fractures underwent physiotherapy sessions: manual therapy (massage), electrostimulation (10–20 min with possible repetition on the same day), ultrasound therapy, laser therapy, hydrotherapy, and assisted gait in supportive devices or on treadmills to stimulate and relearn walking, which was the main focus of the study. To maintain the standing position over time, we developed different devices adapted for each patient depending on the degree of damage and the possible associated pathologies: harnesses, trolleys, straps, exercise rollers, balancing platforms and mattresses, physio balls and rollers for recovery of proprioception. The main objective of our study was to demonstrate that physiotherapy and assisted gait in supportive devices to maintain the standing position may help paraplegic dogs to develop spinal walking. Concurrent pathologies (skin wounds, urinary infections, etc.) were managed concomitantly. Recovery of SW was evaluated by progression in regaining the reflectivity, nociception, gait score, and quality of life. After 125 to 320 physiotherapy sessions (25 to 64 weeks), 35 dogs (58.33%) developed spinal walking and were able to walk without falling or falling only sometimes in the case of a quick look (gait score 11.6 ± 1.57, with 14 considered normal), with a lack of coordination between the thoracic and pelvic limbs or difficulties in turning, especially when changing direction, but with the recovery of the quadrupedal position in less than 30 s. The majority of dogs recovering SW were of small size, with a median weight of 6.83 kg (range: 1.5–15.7), mixed breed (n = 9; 25.71%), Teckel (n = 4; 11.43%), Bichon (n = 5; 14.28%), Pekingese (n = 4; 11.43%), and Caniche (n = 2; 5.71%), while those who did not recover SW were larger in size, 15.59 kg (range: 5.5–45.2), and mixed breed (n = 16; 64%).


This article presents an analysis of the process of adaptation to the COVID-19 health crisis of the two main science, technology and innovation museums in Jalisco: Museo Trompo Magico and Planetario Lunaria, with the intention of strengthening the scientific culture and the appropriation of science. For this purpose, a qualitative methodology was used based on the analysis of the planning documents of both museums, as well as guided visits to both sites. Among the main findings, it was found that these museums in Jalisco, as has happened in the rest of the country and internationally, have tried to maintain communication with users through their digital platforms, while carrying out hybrid events, face-to-face and virtual, when the authorities have allowed it, in order to continue interacting with different communities, taking into account the safety of museums and the welfare of their staff and their audience. However, in order to strengthen scientific culture, the appropriation of science and the promotion of scientific vocations in children and young people, we must not lose sight of the link between these spaces and education, and support the processes of formal and non-formal education with the intention of contributing to the mission of museums to preserve, collect, research, interpret and communicate their tangible and intangible heritage, as well as the transmission of knowledge.


understanding of health and associated problems in old age. In this they have succeeded in producing an excellent practical guide which can be used as a minor reference book. There are, however, wider issues in caring for older people. There is the need to encourage them to think ahead, anticipate the time when they will need greater support and make appropriate plans. This is not always easy. Sensitive but firm encouragement, however, can bring great benefit. Similarly, caring must also encourage the elderly to see old age as an opportunity for new interests and not just a period of resignation to decreasing physical capability. Such a positive approach brings fullness of life throughout the last years and to the end. This total approach to caring is important, not just for those who are older now, but also for those of us who will be old ourselves some day.


Thai deixis' brings order to the rich variation found in the complex deictic system of Pak Tay, a rural Southern Thai dialect, by looking at it through two independent but interrelated continua: the first, a semantically-based proximal1 neutral '-distal continuum and, the second, a syntactically-based dimension ranging from deictics used concretely and transparently, that is, as verbal ' gestures' at one end of the continuum to deictics used abstractly and opaquely as sentential final assertion particles at the other end. Within the continuum proximal-' neutral 'distal, the designations proximal and distal are self-evident (more or less, ' here' and ' there '), but the designation ' neutral' (or, medial) needs at least a qualification: it seems to refer to a somewhat indeterminate, indefinite ' thereabouts ' at least as much as it refers to a more specific intermediate between ' here' and ' there ' . This article is valuable both for the synchronic insights it brings to our understanding of the vast array of Pak Tay deictics—an array richer than those reported for other Thai dialects—and for the obvious implications that such sychronic continua have for diachronic change. Robert Bickner's ' Directional modification in Thai fiction: the use of" come " and " go " in text building' goes beyond the usual quasisentential analysis of the directional verbs ' come' and ' go ' to analyse their much more subtle function in literary text-building (the text being the detective story ' Jaemnapha' in the collection Introduction to Thai literature by Robert B. Jones, et at. (1970)). What makes it possible for Bickner to discuss the complex and intricate interrelationships is the enormous amount of exemplification provided: Appendix I is the complete text of the story, Appendix II is a translation; and, Appendix III is a word-by-word gloss of the relevant passages in the original (accompanied by a sentence-by-sentence English translation). The analysis itself is excellent—perceptive, and with an appreciation of the nuances and subtleties of a piece of Thai literature. Bickner has added a significant dimension to our understanding of directional verbs in text-building. Lalnunthangi Chhangte's 'The grammar of simple clauses in Mizo' is a long (82 pp.), detailed description of Mizo main-clause syntax written by a linguistically sophisticated native speaker (Mizo is the Lushai of older literature). The descriptive categories used are characterized by the author as roughly based on ' Givon's (1984) typological approach to syntax'; also included is some reasonably transparent x-bar notation. One particularly demanding aspect of Chhangte's style of presentation needs to be commented on: more than once, she provides an unqualified linguistic characterization, only to have the need for further qualification become clear some pages later, either through her own explicit modifications or through the presentation of carefully-chosen examples implicitly requiring modification of the original characterization. This, however, is a quibble about an article that contributes much to our current knowledge and holds the promise of future contributions. Marybeth Clark's ' Hmong and areal SouthEast Asia', seeking some of the effects of the long, extensive contact Hmong has had with Tai, Sino-Tibetan, and Austroasiatic languages, gives detailed examples of where Hmong patterns follow the general areal syntactic patterns of South-East Asia and of where Hmong differs. In doing so, Clark gives us an intriguing overview of various aspects of South-East Asian areal syntax. The theoretical framework of the article is Starosta's lexicase, a dependency grammar in which some sixty or so other works have already appeared: in this instance, Clark's use of the framework poses no problem even for the uninitiated reader as she consistently makes clear what the terms mean and how they are being used. In addition to the expected discussions of word-order, classifiers, and serial verbs, Clark provides a perceptive cross-linguistic look at relative location phrases (which I will inaccurately describe as (de)nominal locative prepositions), prepositional verbs and adverbs (Bickner also deals with a subset of these), and various causative constructions. The discussion of these areal features is detailed, far-ranging, and lucid. In contrast to these cases where Hmong is consistent with syntactic areal features, she presents three Hmong grammatical features whose characteristics differ considerably from the general areal tendencies: noun phrase animate possessors, source phrases, and a preverbal question word. Helga Hartmann-So's ' Directional auxiliaries in Daai Chin', an article that should provide data valuable both for typological and diachronic research, gives a straightforward, clear presentation of all eight preverbal auxiliaries in Daai Chin (closely-related to Mizo) and of the post verbal directional auxiliaries, including explicit information on order of occurrence and co-occurrence restrictions. This collection is one that deserves a wide readership.


A 57-year-old male patient with spino-cerebellar degeneration and slowly progressive cerebellar ataxia, pyramidal tract signs, extrapyramidal tract signs and autonomic failure of 9 years duration finally developed a severe disturbance of bilateral vocal cord abduction (Gerhardt syndrome). He had had no vocal cord palsy until 2 years earlier. He showed incomplete vocal cord abductor palsy on admission later, although he had no dyspnea or stridor. Twenty one days later, his vocal cords were completely fixed in the midline, producing a low-pitched murmuring stridor with every exhalation. The vocal cords moved laterally only slightly on inhalation. Eleven days later, the cartil agenous portions of the vocal cords were completely fixed in the midline on both inhalation and exhalation. The membranous portions were pulled strongly medially and inferiorly, producing a relatively high-pitched hissing stridor on every inhalation, and were blown passively laterally on exhalation. This means a complete loss of the "normal" respiratory pattern of adduction-abduction of the vocal cords.Although arterial blood gas analysis indicated deterioration of respiratory function, he did not complain of dyspnea. The patient underwent tracheostomy the next day. His general condition and blood gas analysis are now stationary, and he still shows complete abduction impairment of the vocal cords. Every patient with a degenerative disease of the central nervous system should be referred to otol aryngologists for laryngeal examination even if he does not yet complain of dyspnea or stridor. Otolaryngologists should then examine for abduction or adduction impairment of the vocal cords using a fiberscope, since indirect laryngoscopy may lead to an inaccurate or incomplete study.


Objective To investigate the effects and effective mechanisms of captopril on decreasing blood pressure, improving insulin sensitivity, lowering blood glucose, reducing blood lipid and inhibiting oxidative stress in metabolic syndromic (MetS) rat model fed with high salt-fat-sucrose-diet. Methods Male and female for half and half Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were used to establish Mets rat model; and then the rats were randomly divided into model control group, captopril group 7 mg/kg, except normal group fed standard rat chow; sterilized solvent or the drugs intramuscularly injected qd for 4 weeks. The blood pressure (BP) , fasting plasma glucose(FPG) and fasting insulin (Fins) as well as insulin sensitivity index (ISI) were measured; fasting blood glucose (FBG), 2-hours blood glucose (2hBG) after oral glucose tolerance test(OGTT), the contents of triglyceride (TG), total cholesterol (TC), low-or high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C or HDL-C), rennin, angiotensin, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-a, nitric oxide(NO), malondialdehyde (MDA), and the activities of nitric oxide synthase(NOS), inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), superoxide dismutase(SOD) were determined after treatment. Results In MetS rats, the BP were elevated, FBG and OGTT-2hBG, FPG and Fins were increased, ISl weakened, the concentrations of TG, TC, rennin, angiotensin, TNF-a were increased compared with the normal control rats (P0.05-0.01). BP were decrease (P0.01), FPG, FBG, OGTT-2hBG lowered and 1GT improved (P0.05-0.01), hyperinsulinemia moderated (P0.05~0.01), ISI strengthened (P0.01) , contents of TG, TC ,NO, MDA and the activities of NOS, iNOS reduced (P0.05~-0.01), activity of SOD promoted (P0.05) concentrations of angiotensin and TNF-a downregulated (P0.05~0.01), the data above mentioned in the MetS rats treated by captopril were significant difference; whereas the concentrations of rennin, LDL-C and HDL-C were not significant (P0.05). Conclusion Captopril appeared to suppress insulin resistance, enhance the insulin sensitivity, modify hyperinsulinemia, depress blood pressure, adjust metabolic dysfunction of blood glucose aM lipids, and antagonize rennin converted to angiotensin Ⅱ, increase antioxidation in MetS rats.


The main goals of the national project "Housing and urban environment" consist in a strategic reformation of equity construction and the creation of a socially integrated housing market. The scale of the problem is determined by the output on the volume of housing construction at the level of 120 million square metres by 2024. The solution of the task is complicated by the outbreak of the equity construction crisis. It manifested itself not only in the growth in the number of deceived equity holders and suspended housing construction projects, but also in the bankruptcy of developers. The urgency of the measures was expressed in the legis-lative consolidation of new building regulations, which tightened the requirements for developers to such an extent that they actually isolated medium and small businesses from participating in housing construction, transferred functions of control over the turnover of assessed contributions to banks, removed compensa-tion mechanisms into a separate institution and absolutised the value of mortgage purchase arrangements. The results were manifested in the growth of prices for residential real estate, a decrease in the liquidity of construction products, an increase in contradictions and disputes requiring judicial resolution. As a result, the unreasonable burden of the judicial system affected the quality of decisions made, demanding an im-mediate transition to the use of non-judicial dispute resolution methods in construction. Thus, the fragmenta-tion and weak elaboration of the measures taken, give the reform an imitative nature, leaving behind the sys-temic measures of industry transformation. The inevitability of their development is confirmed by the growth of sectoral contradictions and imbalances that create insurmountable obstacles in achieving national devel-opment goals.


Plate carbon membranes were fabricated and coupled into a membrane reactor to intensify the reaction of methanol steam reforming. The homemade Cu-based catalyst and carbon membranes were characterized by the techniques of thermo-gravimetric analysis, X-ray diffraction, nitrogen adsorption and gas permeation. The effects of reaction temperature, reactor type and carbon membranes on the methanol conversion and hydrogen yield were mainly investigated. The results show that the coupling of carbon membranes in reactor significantly improves the methanol conversion of reaction. In addition, both the methanol conversion and reaction rate increase, together with the hydrogen yield first decreasing then increasing as the reaction temperature was elevated from 220 °C to 300 °C. It indicates that the intensification of SRM reaction in carbon membrane reactor is contributed by both thermodynamics and kinetics.


Recent studies in Europe and the United States have reported increasing atmospheric concentration levels of ammonia (NH3) and ammonium (NH4), especially in regions of concentrated animal feeding operations (Aneja et al., 1998). These higher concentration levels have shown to be directly related to the rapid growth of intensively managed agriculture. At present, ammonia emission and subsequent wet and dry deposition are a significant waste management problem facing animal husbandry and agriculture. In NC, estimates reveal that the swine population contributes approximately 46% of the NH3-N emissions. This estimate shows a direct link to the recent growth of the swine population in NC. NC is ranked second in the nation for swine production with approximately 10 million hogs in about 2500 hog farms located in eastern North Carolina (Aneja et al., 2000). Areas of scattered local sources (small, rural family farm operations) contribute a wide range of NH3 emission and dry deposition. Likewise, many environmental problems result from atmospheric ammonia deposition, e.g., particulate matter formation, aquatic and terrestrial eutrophication, and odor emanation. The primary objectives of this research are: (1) to measure vertical fluxes of ammonia and related dry deposition velocities from near-surface concentration gradient measurements over natural surfaces in eastern North Carolina downwind of a source; (2) investigate and evaluate the variability of ammonia flux and related dry deposition velocity on a specified natural surface (i.e. grass) with respect to the time of the day, season, and meteorological factors; (3) obtain empirical relations for dry deposition velocity of ammonia; (4) quantify the fate of atmospherically deposited nitrogen during summer season in North Carolina terrestrial ecosystems (water and land); and (5) evaluate model assessments of atmospheric inputs (loading) into the Neuse River Estuary North Carolina allowing abatement strategies the means to address the reduction of nitrogen This particular area of emphasis is chosen because of the obvious lack of data and the expressed need for a better understanding of ammonia flux and dry deposition velocity in eastern North Carolina, where ammonia sources have increased very rapidly in recent years (DAQ, 1997).


A patient with combined deficiency of sialidase and β‐galactosidase is described. This now 39‐year‐old man, who is of Japanese origin, showed gradually progressive clinical features from the age of six years. Many of these features are commonly found in sialidosis type 2 or in GM1‐gangliosidosis. Both sialidase and β‐galactosidase activities were deficient in leucocytes and cultured fibroblasts. Leucocytes of his mother showed activities of both enzymes in the lower limit of the control range.


Since the 1970s, "indigenous psychology" has blossomed into a global movement that seeks to tailor psychological knowledge and practices for use in other-than-western contexts. Prompted by the often apolitical presentation of indigenization imperatives in academic discourse, this article critically examines conceptualizations of "culture" in the South African Journal of Psychology and Psychology in Society between 1980 and 1994. In a discourse analysis of 48 journal articles, three cultural discourses are identified. Discourse 1 conceptualizes "culture" on the basis of an essentialist ontology and advocates a position of cultural relativism and Discourse 2 draws on a social constructionist ontology that advances an anti-essentialist position, while Discourse 3 relies on a neo-primordial ontology that favors a pluralist position. By identifying the discursive functions of these formations in relation to the broader South African political context, this article reveals striking parallels between psychological and political cultural discourses.


Buckling of composite laminates with arbitrary built-in rectangular delamination is investigated in this paper. Strip transfer function method based on Mindlin抯 first-order shear deformation theory is adopted. Composite laminated plate with built-in rectangular delamination is divided into two kinds of rectangular super element with or without delamination. With displacement continuity and force balance of nodes that connect each super-unit, the characteristic equation for buckling analysis of delaminated plate is obtained. Consequently, buckling load and mode are obtained. It is found by parametric analysis that the influences of length, depth and position of the delamination, boundary conditions and ply orientation of the material on buckling load are great.


Modular Hardware Accelerator (HA) is designed for acceleration purpose which assists CPU (Central Processing Unit) in handling specific task. Modular HA capable to manage multiple engine and communicate them with core processor and main memory through the standard system on-chip (SoC) fabric architecture. The modules of modular HA are Scheduler, Storage, Workload Generator, On-Chip Communication Adapter (OCCA) and Power Management Unit (PMU). OCCA designed to be compliant to the SoC fabric architecture standard and plays an important role in the transaction and handshaking protocol with the Fabric. It responsible for communication behavior such as interface instantiation, arbitration, flow control, address and command signal decode capability, error handling, and power management function. In order to reduce the time of architecture design future usage, OCCA module has the block of reusable architecture. Furthermore, OCCA has a simple parameterize capability let the designer easy work with the different bits of control signal, command signal and data. With all the functionality of OCCA, some debug tool such as VCS and Assertion Based Verification (ABV) use for verification and simulation purpose to ensure get a correct result.


RESULTS: Data are shown as 1 vs. 2 vs. 3 tests, respectively. There was a significant effect for time for peak power (750.08 ± 39.55 vs. 675.42 ± 30.01 vs. 615.60 ± 37.72 Watts); F = 4.66, p = 0.05, mean power (632.67 ± 30.71 vs. 561.25 ± 22.16 vs. 524.40 ± 26.46 Watts); F = 5.04, p = 0.04, pH (7.72 ± 0.01 vs. 7.63 ± 0.02 vs. 7.62 ± 0.02); F = 70.18, p < 0.01, and lactate (12.36 ± 1.14 vs. 14.10 ± 1.13 vs. 16.95 ± 1.22 mg/dL); F= 42.02, p < 0.01. Blood ammonia values did increase from preto post-exercise (0.33 ± 0.09 vs. 1.07 ± 0.22 mg/dl); t = 3.62, p < 0.01, but there was no correlation between post-exercise ammonia values and change in peak or mean power. There was a weak, but significant correlation between change in peak power and change in pH (R = 0.34, p = 0.05) and change in mean power and change in pH (R = 0.44, p = 0.02). CONCLUSIONS: Greater reductions in peak power and mean power correlated with change in blood pH, but not post-exercise ammonia values.


A rapid splicing method for aerial photogrammetry comprises the following steps of 101, acquiring image figure information photographed aerially by an unmanned aerial vehicle; 102, performing distortion correction on the image figure information, wherein the image figure information includes a width, a pixel size, a resolution ratio and camera distortion parameters of image figures; 103, performing registering splicing processing on the image figure information subjected to distortion correction through an SIFT algorithm; 104, uniformizing colors of the image figure information subjected to splicing processing to obtain a seamless spliced image figure. By means of the rapid splicing method for aerial photogrammetry, image splicing can be achieved quickly, and emergency guarantee can be provided for all kinds of applications. The rapid splicing method for aerial photogrammetry is suitable for splicing images acquired by the unmanned aerial vehicle under all kinds of conditions, and the shortcomings of long processing time spent on large data volume, slow splicing processing speed and the like can be overcome. By adding control points simply, high-accuracy spliced images can be produced, and elevation analysis is facilitated.


The invention relates to a superconducting magnetic balancer and a magnetic force balance generator. The superconducting magnetic balancer mainly comprises a refrigerant container, high-temperature superconductors and magnets. The number of the high-temperature superconductors is two or more, and the number of the magnets is two or more. The high-temperature superconductors are symmetrically or evenly distributed on a stator, the magnets are symmetrically or evenly distributed on a rotor, or the high-temperature superconductors are symmetrically or evenly distributed on the rotor, and the magnets are symmetrically or evenly distributed on the stator. The superconductors of the superconducting magnetic balancer and magnetic field repulsive force are utilized to balance stator-rotor suction of the generator, energy consumption of the generator can be greatly reduced, and the purpose that the efficiency of the generator is larger than one comes true.


Abstract Folk medicine is generally treated as a residue from pre-scientific times. This article discusses contemporary folk medical practices and locates them firmly in postmodern economy and society. The central theme is that recent transformations in the economy have been paralleled by changes in cultural practices. This is manifest in the increased general awareness of 'green' issues and the rejection of 'modernism' in all its forms including the industrialised therapies of biomedicine which are seen to exacerbate rather than resolve public health problems. It is argued that popular dissatisfaction with biomedicine has increased and that the cultural gap between biomedical practitioners and their patients has become much more visible in recent times. This has contributed greatly to the secular expansion of folk therapies throughout western society. Finally, the article notes the gaps in current research into alternative medical practices and practitioners.


The aim of this two years master thesis is to explore the relationship between public libraries and deaf adults. I want to know if deaf adults are a prioritized group in Swedish public libraries. D ...


Regression on manifolds, and, more broadly, statistics on manifolds, has garnered significant importance in recent years due to the vast number of applications for this type of data. Circular data is a classic example, but so is data in the space of covariance matrices, data on the Grassmannian manifold obtained as a result of principal component analysis, among many others. In this work we investigate prediction sets for regression scenarios when the response variable, denoted by $Y$, resides in a manifold, and the covariable, denoted by X, lies in Euclidean space. This extends the concepts delineated in [Lei and Wasserman, 2014] to this novel context. Aligning with traditional principles in conformal inference, these prediction sets are distribution-free, indicating that no specific assumptions are imposed on the joint distribution of $(X, Y)$, and they maintain a non-parametric character. We prove the asymptotic almost sure convergence of the empirical version of these regions on the manifold to their population counterparts. The efficiency of this method is shown through a comprehensive simulation study and an analysis involving real-world data.


A redox-sensitive drug delivery system was fabricated.Dendritic poly(L-glutamic acid) was synthesized.Anti-tumor drug methotrexate(MTX) was immobilized on the dendritic poly(L-glutamic acid) via disulfide bonds using cystines as linkers.The disulfide bond was sensitive to glutathione in intracellular environment,thus to release the MTX from the dendritic poly(L-glutamic acid) backbones.The dendritic poly(L-glutamic acid) backbones and drug loaded conjugates were characterized by nuclear magnetic resonance(NMR).The release profiles of the conjugates were investigated in phosphate buffer saline(PBS) with dithiothreitol(DTT) to simulate the intracellular environment;the results showed that the release rates were closely dependant on the concentration of DTT.Higher DTT concentration resulted in faster release.When the DTT concentration was lower than 0.2 mmol/L,MTX was not released from dendritic backbones.The conjugates were incubated with HepG2 cells to evaluate their anti-tumor effect in vitro.The dendritic poly(L-glutamic acid) was nontoxic to cells even when its concentration was as high as 20 μg/mL.The inhibition effect of the conjugates on tumor cells was better than that of free MTX after incubation for 72 h.Fluorescein isothiocyanate(FITC) was immobilized on the dendrmers and conjugates to trace the endocytosis.The MTX could promote the cell uptake for its folic acid mimetic structure.


The importance of sensing the force and torque with arbitrary direction and magnitude is becoming more crucial for robotic applications and manufacturing automations. Recently, several designs of a multi-axis force-torque sensor have been tried to sense this force and torque. This paper deals mainly with the signal processing of a six-axis force-torque sensor using cross-shaped elastic structures with circular holes. In this paper, we show principle of sensing force and torque, the signal processing methodology, and efficient methods of seeking strain gage positions in the sensor structure. The validity of the proposed method is shown via experiments.


Summary This paper presents a high-order and high-accuracy 3D Fourier finite difference migration algorithm for 3D tilted transversely isotropic (TTI) media. The expansion atom in the FFD approximation to the TTI dispersion surface has up to 3 rd power of horizontal wave number with 4, 5, or 6 coefficients for each atom at the user's choice. A 7-point stencil is used in the discretization of the 1 st -, 2 nd -, and 3 rd order spatial derivatives to reach up to 4 th -order discretization accuracy consistently for all the spatial derivatives. Correspondingly, a fast hepta-diagonal matrix solver is developed to efficiently solve the resulted 7diagonal band-limited linear systems. We also propose an efficient way to compute and reduce the size of the coefficient table for the 3D FFD operator in TTI media. We test and verify our method and implementation with both synthetic and field data examples.


With a growing movement toward patient-centric health care and patient empowerment, consumers are encouraged to take an active role in their health care. In fact, nearly 80% of Americans are taking to the Internet to search for health information (Fox, 2006). In addition to the Internet, consumers have access to a growing number of health search engines and professional biomedical databases via health science libraries. However, the consumer's ability to efficiently retrieve information that is understandable and pertinent to their query is hindered (Volk, 2007) for reasons that include inexperience with "technical terminology," (Zeng & Tse, 2006) and poor database usability (Smith, 2007).


Abstract: Introduction: Foot-and mouth disease virus (FMDV) excreted in milk can play a role in the transmission of FMD. Using samples collected from experimentally infected cattle, the aim of this study was to assess the performance of automated RT-PCR as a diagnostic tool for the detection of FMDV in milk. Materials and Methods: Foreand machine milk were collected over 4 weeks from 2 dairy cows inoculated with FMDV O UKG 34/2001, and from 2 in-contact cows. Clinical signs were closely monitored and correlated to the presence of FMDV in serum, "probangs", nasal and saliva swab samples. The whole, skim, cellular debris and cream components of the milks were tested by automated real-time RT-PCR and virus isolation (VI). Additional experiments investigating the effects of temperature stability and preservative treatment further evaluated RT-PCR for routine diagnosis of FMD in milk samples that might be submitted to the WRL. Results: The onset of severe clinical signs of FMD in all 4 cattle correlated with high levels of viraemia in the serum, and presence of FMDV in "probangs", saliva and nasal swabs. The RT-PCR results matched closely with those for VI in detecting FMDV in all milk components and generally coincided with, but did not precede, the onset of the clinical signs. RT-PCR was able to detect FMDV in milk up to day 23 post infection. The detection limit of FMDV in milk was greater by RT-PCR than VI. Furthermore, in contrast to VI, RT-PCR detected virus genome following heat treatment that mimicked pasteurisation. RT-PCR also detected FMDV in preservative (Bronopol/Kathon) treated milk. Discussion: This study shows that automated RT-PCR could be used for laboratory detection of FMDV in milk. The ability of RT-PCR to screen bulk milk tank samples and/or dairy herds may play a role in the control of FMD.


ABSTRACT We present an optical pump-probe technique to optimise the all-optical photonic switching based on Bi2S3-xSex/PMMA nanocomposite films. Bi2S3-xSex/PMMA nanocomposite films were prepared using a microwave-assisted synthesis with different compositions of x. Crystal structure, surface morphology, and optical properties were performed to characterise the prepared nanocomposite films. The crystallinity and optical band gap of the prepared Bi2S3-xSex/PMMA were affected by x. The prepared samples showed a blue shift in the absorption edge. The optical nonlinearity of the films exhibited switchover from self-defocusing to focusing effect, and saturable absorption to reverse saturable absorption, investigated using the Z-scan technique. The all-optical switching performance of the Bi2S3-xSex/PMMA nanocomposite films under different compositions x was investigated. The results showed that the Bi2S3-xSex/PMMA at x = 0.4 and 1.0 can demonstrate an all-optical switching at threshold pump power of 13 mW and lead to the realisation with maximum modulation depth of 76% and 80% with minimum switching contrast of 6.2 dB and 7 dB at switching time of 14 ms and 13 ms, respectively.


There is limited use of home renal replacement therapies in the U.S.A. One percent of dialysis patients are on home hemodialysis (HHD) and only 9% undergo peritoneal dialysis (PD). In an effort to better understand this, 161 satellite hemodialysis patients in 6 units in Brooklyn were surveyed. Forty‐eight percent of patients were women, 86% were black, 5% white, 8% Hispanic, and 1% other. Mean age was 49.4 years (range 22 – 69 years). Etiology of renal disease was hypertension (41%), diabetes mellitus (31%), polycystic kidney disease (3%), systemic lupus erythematosus (4%), and other or unknown (21%). Patients were queried about knowledge of and attitudes toward home therapies. Seventy‐nine percent of patients knew of home dialysis. The source of this information was the nephrologist (59%), the social worker (14%), a nurse (8%), other patients (4%), and other sources (15%). Only 10% of patients had ever considered HHD. Fifty‐four percent were afraid to do self‐care at home and 35% were not interested. Surprisingly, only 3% felt they had no reliable helper and 8% felt that their housing was not suitable. Similarly, 78% of patients had been spoken to about PD, but only 11% had considered it. Forty‐one percent were afraid of doing self‐care on PD, and 45% were not interested. We conclude that, although the majority of patients in six inner‐city dialysis units had heard of home dialysis, only a small number ever considered it. As many patients were afraid of doing home therapy, better education about the risks and benefits needs to be disseminated.


In order to increase national rice production, the Ministry of Agriculture has released some high yielding varieties. The research was aimed to obtain superior rice varieties adapted to irrigated lowland agro-ecosystems of Southeast Sulawesi. In the first planting season, research was carried out in Olo-oloho Village, Uepai sub district and the second season at the Wawotobi Experimental Garden. Eight varieties were tested, i.e. Inpari 31, Inpari 34, Inpari 35, Inpari 38, Inpari 39, Inpari 41, Inpari 42, Inpari 43 and Mekongga. The variables observed were growth, yield and pest and disease dynamics. The results shows that there was variation growth and yield of the tested varieties. The growth and yield also varied depend on the season. In the first planting season, Inpari 34 and Inpari 43 showed better growth than others, but Inpari 31 resulted the highest rice yield (4.83 t/ha). In the second planting season, only Inpari 34 showed consistent growth, but the variety that had showed the highest yield was Inpari 43 (8.13 t/ha).


The Argentine political reality is vertiginous, for that reason, a situation analysis is necessary. In this sense, the article proposes a methodological scheme that considers structural or long-term factors. For this, the author introduces the concept of "experimentalism". This concept captures the short-term political dynamics conditioned to the political logic that regulates long-term political interests. The work proposes a modeling for the relationship between public goods and payment to political loyalties, which allows describing the specific functioning of Argentine democracy: "polyarchy in a restricted area". While the latter does not explain the issue of Argentine experimentalism, it does allow us to understand why it becomes relevant today.


EDITOR,--Evaluation of diagnostic technology is generally more difficult than evaluation of therapeutic technology and is often omitted. C M Francis and colleague's study of the use made by general practitioners of an open access echocardiography service is therefore welcome.1 The descriptive design of the study, however, limits the conclusions that may be drawn from the findings. A comparative study (for example, with a randomised design) would …


In the course of replacing the No.1 ventilator in the Central Energy Source Factory of WISCO by way of blasting operation the base pillar of the ventilator didn't fall down but was still dangerously suspended in the air.In light of this phenomenon analysis was made and key to the issue found out and the problem finally solved by way of firstly demolishing the exposed steel rib with small amount of explosive and then cutting off the main rib.Excellent results have been achieved in the end.


The effect of boat-generated waves on mangrove forests could be reflected by width change of tidal inlets by using satellite image in this study. Our results showed that the distributions of mangrove zone on the side of tidal inlets were degenerated by boat-generated waves from 2009 to 2011 in Dongzhai Harbor Mangrove Natural Reserve. The main reason of this change was strong erosion of tidal flat caused by the waves generated by high speed and frequencies boats for tourists. To protect the mangrove forests of the tidal inlets, the drive speed and pass frequencies of the boats in waterway should be restricted and decreased.


Abstract An abundance of research suggests that religion positively affects subjective well-being. Most of this research focuses on Western nations where religious activity is conducted in a relatively free manner. Some scholars speculate that religious involvement decreases subjective well-being in religiously regulated societies, where religious adherents face state and societal discrimination. Our study examines the effects of religious involvement on depression in China, a religiously regulated nation, using the 2014 wave of the China Family Panel Study. This paper uses structural equation modeling to show that religious involvement is not initially significantly associated with depression. However, when the indirect paths of religious involvement on depression—through social discrimination and political strain—are controlled for, a negative association between religious involvement and depression is found. Thus, we argue that religious involvement does offer a protective effect from depression, but this is suppressed by social and political strain imposed on religious minorities in a religiously regulated society.


Based on the Yan gully watershed, authors had emphatically studied on changing chracters of runoff-sediment in process of eco-environment reconstruction. Furthermore, whole sediment yield was accessed in highly harnessed watershed.The results show that harnessed watershed can increase ability of soil infiltration and watershed self-adjust to runoff-sediment. Also eco-environment reconstruction can plused amount of usable water resource. On the other hand, it's sure that eco-environment reconstruction had worked greatly on local environment, compareing with former condition and reducing sediment benefit round about is 83.7% presently.


Whether all T3 rectal cancer patients need neoadjuvant therapy remains controversial. Positive nodal status (N+) is one of the determinants of receiving neoadjuvant therapy in T3 rectal cancer as recommended by the newest version of the Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) guidelines1. However, routine imaging diagnosed clinical N+ lack sufficient accuracy in predicting pathological N+ in primary rectal cancer2,3. Radiomics4 and pathomics5 are rapid developing fields that aim to quantitatively assess tumor heterogeneity from medical images and to provide an advanced assisted tool for clinical decision-making. Here, a retrospective single-center study aimed to improve the initial nodal staging in T3 rectal cancer through integrating radiomics and pathomics analysis (hereafter, called radiopathomics analysis) is summarized. A total of 85 patients with T3 rectal cancer who received contrast enhanced computed tomography (CT) and biopsy at initial diagnosis were enrolled. These patients were randomly allocated to training and testing sets at a ratio of 7:3. For each patient, the intratumoral volume of


(57) Abstract: The retroreflective element comprising exposed-lens optical elements, (a) a single layer of exposed-lens optical elements (12), at least one retroreflective including spacing layer (14), and a reflective layer (16) providing a article, and forming a (b) a core layer (18), attached to the core layer (c) retroreflective article, a retroreflective obtaining a retroreflective composite material, (d) is a composite material it can be made dividing the element by. Retroreflective elements are retroreflective in a dry and / or wet, it can be placed on a selected surface.


The purpose of the study was to compare the selected Kinaesthetic Perception of track and field athletes at different levels of achievement. It was hypothesized that there may be no significant difference in Kinaesthetic Perception of track and field athletes at different levels of achievement. For the purpose of the study, 90 male track and field athletes from Gujarat were selected as a subject. Thirty athlete (n=30) from district level and thirty athlete (n=30) from state level participated as subjects for the study. Hence, purposive sampling technique was considered for selection of subjects. The age of the subjects was ranged from 15-18 years. It is evident that significant difference ware found between the Kinaesthetic Perception of District & State (-0.3933), District & Natioanl (-0.7400) and State & National level (0.3467).The observed sequence of performance of Kinaesthetic Perception in three groups is National>State>District. It may be conculded that Kinaesthetic Perception is increased with level of performance.


Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS) fed from Current Sources (CS) have so far received very little attention. This paper demonstrates that utilization of current sources with UPS enhances system reliability without compromises in circuit complexity and/or system performance.


The "Great Firewall of China" (GFW) has become a familiar trope in information security circles. China is comparatively shut off from the rest of the Internet, with extensive censorship and blocking of websites, especially those hosted outside China. The Chinese public use a variety of methods to circumvent the extensive online censorship practised by the Chinese state. In scaling the "Great Firewall", these ordinary users of the Internet now make use of so-called "airport services" which allow tunnelling through to censored websites. This has resulted in the emergence of both an illicit ecosystem of censorship circumvention providers and a population of scammers who set up fake or unreliable services to con these would-be everyday Internet freedom enthusiasts. We have discovered, through scraping the public chat channels used by "airport" providers, that this anticensorship ecosystem is beginning to develop highly organised methods of self-policing, making co-ordinated use of technicques associated with malicious cybercrime to force these scammers offline and promote a healthy market. While so-called "booter" services - websites where users can purchase Denial of Service attacks for a small fee - have generally been used for malicious purposes, amusement, protest, or extortion, our research suggests that in the Chinese censorship circumvention market they are being used for internal policing.


Unemployment and underemployment are the most pressing problems in Asia today, as reflected in the widespread underutilization rate of about 29% of the total labor force. Most labor forces in developing countries cannot afford to be completely unemployed and the standard labor force framework currently in use worldwide is biased toward counting the labor force as employed rather than unemployed. This systematically undervalues the full extent of the unemployment problem. The underemployment indicator is then introduced to overcome the issue but the existing guidelines for measuring time related-underemployment using the cut-off point for working full-time, set the threshold too low, resulting in the considerable under-representation of underemployment. This paper suggests a better way of determining the threshold using the cluster method. The robustness of its results is assessed and the overall results suggest that the proposed cut-off point of 40 working hours per week is the best one.


Ionic liquids have recently emerged as original monomers to synthesize multifunctional polymer materials. In this research area, ionic epoxy-based networks represent promising but underdeveloped materials due to the tricky access to functionalized ionic liquid monomers. So far, some works have reported epoxidized imidazolium salts but exclusively from highly toxic epichlorohydrin. Here, we described flexible and efficient methods to synthesize versatile building blocks with sulfonates as valuable anions.  The judicious combination between an aliphatic or aromatic sulfonate and an imidazolium leads to new epoxidized salts with high structural variability and good chemical and thermal stability (>300 °C).


With the accelerated urbanization process, there are more and more landless peasants who are made a requisition of land partly or wholly. They face not only the problem of economic adaptation, but also the problem of social adaptation. Especially the problem of social adaptation is reflected in the process of nature generation and adaptation of social interaction prominently. It will contribute to improve the economic social adaptability and quality of communication life of landless peasants generally so as to make them change to the "modern individual" as soon as possible to make a discuss on the economic sociology of their interaction behavior. [World Rural Observations 2010;2(1):37-40]. ISSN: 1944-6543 (print); ISSN: 1944-6551 (online)


Dongying's historical and cultural resources include South Guangrao's military commander cultural resources,Northern Yellow River estuary natural scenery resources,immigration and folk custom cultural resources,Red cultural resources as well as petroleum cultural resources.So,under the modern tourism sight,South Guangrao should highlight the military tourism subject;the northern Yellow River delta may construct "the Magical Yellow River Delta" super theater and the central city may construct hundred-bird gardens and petroleum theme park,folk custom garden,the Lu Opera theater and the Red Tourism base.