1. Experiments have been carried out to determine the relation between the moisture content of artificially dried grass and the relative humidity of the surrounding atmosphere. This relation is given by a smooth curve. At relative humidities which are typical of outdoor winter conditions in the British Isles (80–90%) the equilibrium moisture content lies between 18 and 30%. 2. The rate of moulding is directly related to the relative humidity and therefore to the moisture content of the dried grass. For reasonably safe storage a relative humidity of 67 % should not be exceeded. This corresponds to a moisture content of roughly 13 %. Even this low value does not confer absolute immunity from mould growth. 3. The importance of extending storage trials over long periods is stressed. In one instance storage for 300 days was required before mould growth occurred. Neglect of this fact may account for the widely held view that a relative humidity of 70–75 % provides safe storage conditions. 4. Attempts to detect mould growth at an early stage by plating methods proved unsuccessful. It is shown that the two earliest and most reliable indications of mould growth are (i) the appearance of visible mycelium when the product is examined under a low-power objective, and (ii) the detection of a musty smell.


The dielectric properties of aBa0.25Sr0.75TiO3films with Pt interdigitated electrodes fabricated by pulsed laser deposition technique and examined under the low-energy electron beam irradiation. The structures were characterized by means of dielectric permittivity,e-f, C-f, tgδ-f dependencies before and after irradiation over frequency range from 100 Hz to 1 MHz. Irradiations have been carried out in AREAL (Advanced Research Electron Accelerator Laboratory). The energy of electrons has been 4 MeV, bunch
charge 10-200 pC, repetition rate 1-50 Hz. It was found that the dielectric permittivity and loss tangent, in general, are shifted to the more low frequency range and decreased after electron beam irradiation.


Results and Analysis: Thirty men and 67 women received 109 Attune TKR in Tuen Mun Hospital and Pok Oi Hospital. They were all performed by medial para-patellar approach with tourniquet. The indication of surgery is primary osteoarthritis (107) and rheumatoid arthritis (2). Knee score improved from 59.7 to 86.1 and function score improved from 52 to 65.5. Forty-five patients suffered from preop flexion contracture and 40 of them could be correct to full extension. There is no infection in the whole group of patients. Two patients developed patellar cluck syndrome about one year after the TKR. Proximal tibia bone resorption is noted in one patient two years after the TKR. One woman has persistent knee pain after the TKR. Imaging showed implants are in desirable alignment. Exploration showed scarring only with no loosening of implants.


In narrative and semantic terms, the evolutionary relevance between Honggildongjeon and Korean folk-tales of infant generals has been conferred posthumously. The applied approach and its order are as follows. It is both fundamental and variation forms of the representative infant falk-tales that have been suggested from the perspective of spatial enlargement. The latent potentiality of evolution?the latent motif embedding the possibility of division or expansion of motif and the implicative symbol embedding the possibility of semantic expansion or actualization?in the folktales has been analyzed. It is centered on the analysis of the latent potentiality of the motif division ambushed in the folk-tales, contrastive to the motif or narratives of Honggildongjeon extensively produced. Moreover, the contrastive analysis of the implicit meaning which the symbols of the folk-tale convey and the explicit meaning which those of Honggildongjeon convey has been conducted. The reference of analysis is on the basis of the basic feature as the homogeneous narratives and sememes which both have in common. The basic feature appearing in the infant folktale is implied via four symbols. The analysis has been attempted through focusing on symbols of wing and symbols of infant. The sememes which the symbols imply remain as 'symbols of wing: extraordinary ability' and 'symbols of infant: immaturity and potentiality'. These two symbols and sememes aim to evolve into novel via the repetition of the division and increase of motif in the folktale and the semantic expansion and actualization. Honggildongjeon also aims at the imaginary cheer, based on the narratives and semantic features corresponding to the symbols and sememes of the infant folktale. Most of the narratives and sememes occurring in Honggildongjeon have been considered as the division of latent motif in the folktale's symbols and semantic expansion and actualization. It is the basis of the possibility that Honggildongjeon is the narrative which could be evolved from the infant folktale. The conclusion is that the folktale is likely to be defined as the implicit narratives of Honggildongjeon and Honggildongjeon is likely to have evolved from the folktale.


The recent proliferation of Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) in authoritarian regimes is puzzling. While SWFs can generate political, financial, and geopolitical benefits in the long-term, their creation also sharply impedes an autocrat's ability to fund current patronage and other regime-stabilizing public and private goods. What explains the creation of autocratic SWFs? We argue that sovereign wealth funds are more likely to emerge when autocratic leaders possess a high degree of policy-making autonomy. Policy-making autonomy allows leaders to override any opposition from regime insiders who might prefer to keep capital at home and available for patronage. At the same time, such leaders are more politically secure, and thus are more confident that they will remain in power to reap the medium to long-term financial rewards of these funds. We operationalize this concept with indicators that measure whether an autocrat has consolidated their authority over the regime's party infrastructure and employ survival analysis on a global sample of autocratic regimes from 1960–2010. We find robust support for our argument and describe how our findings provide new insights on the political determinants of sovereign wealth funds and the consequences of authoritarian power-sharing institutions.


Group education is an important way for the development of vocational education, is a common platform for school-enterprise cooperation to train technical skills personnel, the main purpose of the establishment of the Group of the cooperative education platform is fully mobilized within the group of educational resources, school-enterprise cooperation to deepen and broaden the educational channels, improve the educational level. This article describes the "Hunan modern Agricultural Vocational Education Group" deepening cooperation between schools and enterprises related to explore in the group of school system.


ABSTRACT Broccoli is one kind of plant variety compounds antioxidant unit that inhibited potentially damaging of body's tissues and organ cause of over amount of free radical accumulation. New research in USA indicated that broccoli can help skin cell against the damaging effect caused of UV light radiation. This research used laboratorium experimental design, scoring technique and quantitative descriptive analysis. The purpose of this research is to explored that broccoli ethanol extract (Brasicca oleracea var Italica) could be formulated as an antioxidant gel by Metocel K15M Premium EP base, produced a good physical characteristic and still has an antioxidant activity. This research is done by extraction, extract characterisation, gel formulation by four variation of extract and evaluated the formulation of gel. Extraction is done by maseration with ethanol 70%, characterisation is done by organoleptic observation envelope in colour, smell, taste and form of extract. Gel formulation is made by four formulas of gel which is added by an ethanol extract of broccoli with different concentration. Evaluated gel is done by physical stability test and antioxidant activity test with DPPH methods. The result of this research indicated that gel formulation produced formula 1, formula 2, formula 3 and formula 4. The most optimal gel formulation was formula 2 which is detemined from physical stability aspect based on changes in physical appearance, colour, odor, pH and viscosity during 28 days storage periods. Antioxidant activity is determined by DPPH (1,1-Diphenyl-2-Picryl Hidrazyl) testing method. This test showed that IC50 of broccoli (Brasicca oleracea var Italica) ethanol extract is 12,479 mg/mL. Key words: Gel formulation, antioxidant, broccoli ethanol extract, Methocel K15M


Every travel cultural open city, all there are its own local characteristic and distinction,and local characteristic, often all include in the concrete image of natural and humane resources. And the cultural relics and historic sites in humane resources have local characteristic with most distinctness, history, national characteristic, scientific, artistry characteristic, can make an impression that deep and distinct most.Many tourist in or out the county go visiting,they not only appreciate the different customs and beautiful natural scene but also visit cultural relics and historic sites.


and the world are now vying to determine what is meant by responsibility. Surely a starting point for individuals or nations is to cease looking elsewhere for explanations and to begin recognizing their own flaws. These two books should help considerably in advancing the urgent project of defining and assessing responsibility, not only for Japan but for all combatants, and not only for World War II but for all conflicts and modes of political violence.


ContributorsIntroduction to the Review of Psychiatry SeriesChapter 1. Recurrent depression and its overwhelming burdenChapter 2. Recurrent depression in women throughout the life spanChapter 3. Chronic and recurrent depression: Pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy combinationsChapter 4. Prevention of recurrences in patients with bipolar disorder: The best of the old and the newChapter 5. New depression treatment strategies: What does the future hold for therapeutic uses of minimally invasive brain stimulation?Chapter 6. Clinical prevention of recurrent depression: The need for paradigm shiftsIndex


Article information Background: A panniculectomy helps contouring the abdomen by removing the panniculus. Patients with large overhanging abdominal panniculus should benefit from this treatment. Pregnancy changes the size and contour of the abdomen; so, abdominoplasty is often requested during a Cesarean delivery. In late pregnancy, especially in multiparous women, the abdominal wall muscles are subjected to increased strain, and the rectus muscles divaricate in the midline, generating diastasis recti. Panniculectomy is a popular women's aesthetic surgery. It can be long-lasting if maintained with exercise and a balanced diet. Aim of the work: The goals of this study are to assess the advantages, disadvantages, cosmetic outcomes, and complications of combining panniculectomy with Caesarean Section. Patients and Methods: A prospective randomized clinical controlled trial where 50 of Gravid women shared and equally distributed to two groups, each group includes 25 pregnant women who had already made the decision to have an elective Cesarean section at Al-Azhar University's Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Results: In terms of time needed to complete a procedure, there was a massive gap between the two groups. The two groups did not differ significantly with respect to wound complications, post-operative body mass index. The Panniculectomy with CS group had a mean of 8.72 ± 1.24. [range: 5-10] in terms of patient satisfaction. Conclusion: There's an argument that doing both operations at once would save time and money. It does not appear to be in the best interests of most patients, however, due to the higher risk of postoperative complications and un-esthetic outcomes. More research is needed to determine how the surgery affects long-term recovery, future obstetric outcomes, and other medical issues.


The subject of this thesis is the prediction of non-linear motions of floating bodies subjected to waves by a time domain method. Two steps are followed in the research, the first one consists of developing and applying a method able to calculate the hydrodynamic forces associated with non-linear unsteady motions in the time domain, since the ordinary frequency domain hydrodynamic coefficients are restricted to sinusoidal motions. Once this method is validated one non-linear term is studied and introduced to the motion equations. The non-linearity arises from the evaluation of the hydrostatic forces and moments taking into account the instantaneous wetted surface. The linear free surface elevation on the sides of the body contributes to the wetted surface. All time domain numerical results are compared with the corresponding linear frequency domain results, thus it is easy to verify improvements or discrepancies predicted by the non-linear model.


Unrecorded alcohol consumption in Norway contributes to around 25% of total consumption, and a large part of this consists of moonshine and smuggled spirits. It has been argued that this is due to the restrictive price and availability measures in Norwegian alcohol policy. At the aggregate level, a significant increase in smuggled spirits has been found concurrent with an increase in liquor outlets. This paper presents individual level analyses based on five national surveys over a two-decade period, from 1973 to 1994, and assesses whether liquor outlet availability has an impact on consumption of and demand for illegal spirits in Norway. It is demonstrated that self-reported consumption of moonshine has decreased over the years, whereas purchase ofsmuggled spirits has increased significantly. Consumption ofmoonshine was more prevalent in municipalities without liquor outlets, where as purchase ofsmuggled spirits and willingness to purchase illegal spirits did not depend on liquor outlet availability.


Based on an existing modeller that can generate realistic and controllable whole-body models, we introduce our modifier synthesizer for obtaining higher level of manipulations of body models by using parameters such as fat percentage and hip-to-waist ratio. Users are assisted in automatically modifying an existing model by controlling the parameters provided. On any synthesized model, the underlying bone and skin structure is properly adjusted, so that the model remains completely animatable using the underlying skeleton. Based on statistical analysis of data models, we demonstrate the use of body attributes as parameters in controlling the shape modification of the body models while maintaining the distinctiveness of the individual as much as possible. 1. Introduction In Computer Graphics, it is essential to be able to generate and control realistic human models at an interactive time. Human modeling has thus attracted a good deal of attention in the past few decades. In particular, a variety of methodologies that have been specially developed for human body modeling are available nowadays, with which one can capture and digitize shapes and sizes of human bodies that exist in the real world. In addition, 3D range scanners are becoming increasingly available. Unfortunately, they are restricted to recoding shapes that can be observed-there is no simple means of automatically modifying the shapes once they have been created.


Funding teacher education: A catalyst for enhancing the Universal Basic Education in Irno state of Nigeria The goal of Universal Basic Education (UBE) launched by the federal republic of Nigeria in 1999 for the purpose of Education for All by the year 20 15 is in doubt. A large body of literature has identified the challenges to its successful realization, name1y:poor funding, infrastructure availability,technology resources, lack of teachers, lack of continued education and professional development of teachers, administrative and management problems etc(Hinch1iffe (2002); Aduawa-Ogieghan, (2006), Okecha (2008), Rankin & Aytac, (2006), UNESCO (2004), Ayo (2002), Olaniyan & Olabanji (2008). Thisstudy was designed to inquirewhether financial support for teacher initial education and con.tinued education can enhance the successful implementation of Universal Basic Education in Imo State of Nigeria. It inquires the level of teacher preparedness for their job and whether state funding of teacher education could help the production of qualified teachers for UBE in Imo State of Nigeria.The ultimate goal is to seek to identify the best practice for planning, policy and future research The population for the study is primary school teachers in Imo State who teach primary 1-6, from which a sample of 158 emerged. A 30-item questionnaire was used to elicit information from the respondents. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistical and reported frequencies, percentages, means, analysis of variance and Post Hoc. Three research questions guided the researcher in this study. The significant findings of this research revealed that teachers in Imo state feel adequately prepared for their profession. It showed that teachers are unable to finance their initial and continuing education without the help of parents and family. The data also suggests thatstate funding of teacher education will positively affect UBE in Imo State.In other words, the funding teacher education could be a catalyst for achieving UBE in Imo State of Nigeria.


The promotion of monuments at night with the artificial lighting has become existential need for them for the assertion of a prominence in the urban night landscape. Also difficult is the lighting design for these specific areas, such as monuments and historic buildings of a city, which are imposed an organized and thought out approach, because of their cultural data, their specificity, their uniqueness and their role. This thesis will examine the role of artificial lighting, the parameters which have to be taken for monuments lighting designing, the techniques which have to be used and some global illumination examples of monuments. In conclusion, we will present a lighting design for the castle of Chios town, in Greece.


Root canal anatomy is highly complex and unpredictable. The knowledge of the normal and its frequent variations can greatly enhance the success rate of endodontic practice. In this study we reported arare case report of maxillary first molar with 2 palatal root canal systems characterized by two canal orifices and two canals that appeared to unite in the apical third of the root which constitute type II canal configuration according to Vertucci's classification. For successful root canal therapy it is important for the clinician to be able to determine the type of canal configuration. As most frequent cause of endodontic failure is an untreated canal that is been left or missed out during endodontic therapy.


As a general rule, if one party commits a repudiatory breach, the other party can then terminate the contract. Therefore, if one partner commits a repudiatory breach of the partnership agreement, it might be expected that the partnership could be terminated — under general law principles. That, however, is not necessarily what happens — and the approaches of the UK and the Australian courts differ considerably.

The UK courts have generally followed Lord Millett's approach in Hurst v Bryk [2002] 1 AC 185 — holding that the doctrine of accepted repudiation cannot apply to partnerships. Although his reasoning on that point was clearly obiter, the remainder of the court did not disagree with it and it was subsequently adopted in both Mullins v Laughton [2003] Ch 250 and Golstein v Bishop [2014] Ch 455.

In Australia, the courts have taken the opposite view, holding that partnerships can be dissolved by repudiatory breach — though none of the cases to date have been finally decided on that basis. In Johnson v Snaddon [1999] VSC 243 Coldrey J accepted the possibility, but then held that, on the facts, there had been no repudiation. In Ryder v Frohlich [2004] NSWCA 472 McColl JA (with whom the other members of the court agreed) found that, while there had been a repudiation, there had also been an abandonment — and that was enough to terminate the agreement. The same applied in Walker v Melham [2007] NSWSC 264. Subsequent decisions (Fazio v Fazio [2012] WASCA 72, Bonzalie v Cullu [2013] NSWSC 1576, Letizia Building Co Pty Ltd v Redglow Asset Pty Ltd [2013] WASC 171 and Lien v Clontarf Residential Pty Ltd [2019] 1 Qd R 107) have used similarly equivocal reasoning — though all seem to have preferred McColl JA's approach to that of Lord Millett.

This paper considers the differences between the two approaches and asks the question: in the end result, does it really matter?


Carnival events have become a significant factor in tourism development initiatives of most destinations. The economic and socio-cultural developments experienced by host communities of tourism attractions and resorts have led to the emergence of carnival events as useful destination products. However, an understanding of residents' perceptions of event impacts on the area where they reside is necessary in order to gain local support for the event and tourism in general. Effects of carnival events at the personal level are increasingly being explored in tourism research. This is an exciting line of research since carnival events are being increasingly used to implement a wide range of public sector policies aimed at enhancing tourism offerings. The aim of this study is to examine residents' perceptions of the impact of a carnival in Cape Town in order to establish the overall value of the event. The study explores the perceptions of Green Point suburb residents on the Cape Town Carnival event highlighting the positive and negative aspects of their experience with the event. This study will add to the understudied event in Cape Town and advance academic discourse on carnival events. The findings show that residents are in support of the event being hosted in their area. However recommendations to the identified problems such as limited parking and traffic congestion, drunkbehaviors and littering associated to the event are proposed.


The present invention discloses an apparatus for preparing polymer latex resin powder and a method using a polymer latex resin powder prepared in the device, in the device, for the introduction and solidification of the aging reactor through the non-continuous screw improved steam, latex and coagulant mixing efficiency and thereby reducing the water content of the slurry, drying efficiency can be improved, and the polymer can be prepared having excellent color characteristics and a reduced amount powder coagulant latex resin powder.


The concept of a priority controlled module (PCM), which is intended to implement shared objects in a parallelism environment is presented. Semantics of a PCM are given using a temporal logic. Experiences adapting the inheritance mechanisms to the synchronization domain using the concept of a PCM are also described. Because PCM mainly relies on the separation between data abstraction and synchronization, either of these can be thought as a degree of freedom. Each degree of freedom appears as a reusable programming entity, and can be implemented using the concept of a class occurring in the object-oriented languages.<<ETX>>


When Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic came out in 2006, the striking literary quality of the narrative was noted from her first reviews. Bechdel's memoir is positioned at the intersection of image, narrative, autobiography and history. But Bechdel makes an additional play for high literary status by larding her book with the influence of canonical modernist literature, not only through frequent and explicit citation and reference, but also by subtler formal, thematic and textual gestures. Of all of these references, Joyce is the most ubiquitous; Joyce frames the novel and introduces both the conflict presented and its reconciliation. Bechdel clearly states the legitimacy of the graphic narrative as inheritor of the modernist tradition, particularly as exemplified through Joyce. At the same time, her relationship to Joyce and the modernist tradition is playful and sometimes combative.


Background: Maturation of the small bowel barrier continues after birth. Intestinal permeability for macromolecules is thought to reflect this barrier function. Intestinal permeability can be measured by the Sugar Absorption Test (SAT). Aim: To determine the relation between intestinal permeability, as measured by the SAT, and gestational age, birth weight, postnatal age and perinatal factors (gestational age, birth weight, umbilical pH, APGAR 5′, enteral feeding, days on ventilator, age (in h) at first SAT). Methods: In the SAT, the Lactulose/Mannitol (L/M) ratio is measured in 6h urine after oral ingestion. The SAT was performed within 48h after birth (median 24h, range 4-48) in 108 unselected premature infants, gestational age (median, range) 31.3wk (27-36.6), birth weight 1415g(665-2720). In 94/108 (87%), the SAT was repeated after 5-7d. Results: The L/M ratio was not related to gestational age (r=0.09, p=0.34) nor birth weight (r=0.07, p=0.50). The L/M ratio (median) decreased within 5-7d after birth (0.497 vs 0.257, p < 0.001). Multivariant regression showed that umbilical pH is the best predicting factor of the L/M ratio within 48h after birth. Conclusions: Intestinal permeability, as measured by the SAT, is not related to gestational age nor birth weight, but decreases with increasing postnatal age. Umbilical pH is related to intestinal permeability measured within 48h after birth.


Through analyzing existing problems in village green,aiming at the outstanding problems in Wangsi Village,Taizhou City,applying related knowledge,combined with natural and geographical conditions,the village green planning were researched and discussed systematically,comprehensively. This paper focuses on the village green space,public green space,riverside green space and other important green landscape of green planning,the features and functions of each green land were deeply analyzed. With green planning design of Wangsi Village as example,it was applied in practice and achieved good landscape effect.


Background and Purpose— Weekend admissions are associated with higher in-hospital mortality. However, limited information is available concerning the "weekend effect" on stroke mortality. Our aim was to evaluate the impact of weekend admissions on stroke mortality in different settings. Methods— We analyzed all hospital admissions for ischemic stroke from April 2003 to March 2004 through the Hospital Morbidity Database. The Hospital Morbidity Database is a national database that contains patient-level sociodemographic, diagnostic, procedural, and administrative information including all acute care facilities across Canada. The major inclusion criterion was admission to an acute care facility with a principal diagnosis of ischemic stroke. Clinical variables and facility characteristics were included in the analysis. Results— Overall, 26 676 patients were admitted to 606 hospitals for ischemic stroke. Weekend admissions comprised 6629 (24.8%) of all admissions. Seven-day stroke mortality was 7.6%. Weekend a...


ALTHOUGH RATHER SHORT in physical stature, Ward Goodenough was a towering figure in twentieth- and early twenty-firstcentury anthropology. Beginning with the publication of his doctoral dissertation, which was revised and published as Property, Kin, and Community on Truk in 1951, Goodenough produced numerous path-breaking theoretical works that greatly influenced the direction of the discipline for at least the next half century. In addition to his contributions to anthropological theory, he was also a consummate ethnographer, a gifted linguist, a scholar interested in the practical applications of anthropology, a poet, and an amateur musician.Born on 30 May 1919 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ward Goodenough, the eldest of four children, lived in England and Germany as a young child while his father studied for a doctorate at Oxford following graduate work at Harvard Divinity School. When his father joined the History of Religion faculty at Yale University in 1923, the family returned to the United States. By then, at the tender age of 4, Goodenough was already fluent in German and English. Language skills became a hallmark of many of his anthropological contributions, as will be discussed below.Following study at Groton School in Massachusetts, Goodenough became a member of Telluride Scholarship House at Cornell University, where he majored in Scandinavian languages and literature and received a B.A. in 1940. It was at Cornell that Goodenough met his future wife, Ruth Gallagher, and it was she who encouraged him to enroll in a class with Leonard Cottrell, a dynamic young social psychologist from the University of Chicago who had just joined the Cornell faculty. Cottrell's influence, coupled with a course taken from Lauriston Sharp, Cornell's lone anthropologist at that time who had only recently returned from doctoral fieldwork with the Yir-Yoront in Australia, led Goodenough to pursue a career in anthropology. In 1940, he began graduate study at Yale and served as a research assistant in George Peter Murdock's Cross-Cultural Survey, an assignment that developed into a lifelong commitment to comparative studies. For many years, Goodenough was involved in the management of the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) that grew out of the Cross-Cultural Survey, and he served on the HRAF Executive Board from 1986-98. During his first year in graduate school, Goodenough participated in a seminar taught by Bronislaw Malinowski that explored how behavioristic psychology and psychoanalytic theory might be applied to anthropology. This course reinforced and added to the interests in psychology that Goodenough had developed in Cottrell's class the previous year.Ward Goodenough married Ruth Gallagher in February 1941, and 9 months later, he was drafted into the U.S. Army as part of the call-up for World War II. He spent less than a year in the infantry before he was assigned to the Pentagon as an enlisted man; there, he worked under Samuel Stouffer in the Research Unit of the Information and Education Division of the War Department (now the Defense Department). Goodenough was on active duty from November 1941 until December 1945 and achieved the non-commissioned officer rank of Technical Sergeant before his discharge.Once the war was over, Ward, Ruth, and their family-which by then included two young daughters-returned to New Haven, where he resumed his graduate work in anthropology. In that period, he studied with Ralph Linton, who, like Malinowski, was a senior scholar with field research experience in Oceania; but even so, Murdock remained the single strongest influence on Goodenough's academic development. Still, the enduring impact of Linton's and Malinowski's teaching and ideas on Goodenough's approach to anthropology is indicated by his dedication of his book Cooperation in Change to these two men.In 1947, Goodenough accompanied Murdock and several other scholars for 7 months of fieldwork focused on the small island of Romonum in Chuuk Lagoon under auspices of the Coordinated Investigation of Micronesian Anthropology (CIMA). …


This paper describes the use of motor primitives in robot learning from observation. Data is collected while a human performs a task. This data is parsed into small parts of the task called primitives. Modules are created for each primitive that encode the movements required during the performance of the primitive. Another module encodes when and where the low-level primitives are performed. A learning agent then uses these modules to perform the task. The feasibility of this method is currently being tested with an agent that is being taught to play a virtual and a hardware marble maze game and a virtual air hockey game. It is also being tested in teaching a humanoid robot to play air hockey against a human player.


Electromembrane processes underlie the functioning of electrodialysis devices and nano- and microfluidic devices, the scope of which is steadily expanding. One of the main aspects that determine the effectiveness of membrane systems is the choice of the optimal electrical mode. The solution of this problem, along with experimental studies, requires tools for the theoretical analysis of ion-transport processes in various electrical modes. The system of Nernst–Planck–Poisson and Navier–Stokes (NPP–NS) equations is widely used to describe the overlimiting mass transfer associated with the development of electroconvection. This paper proposes a new approach to describe the electrical mode in a membrane system using the displacement current equation. The equation for the displacement current makes it possible to simulate the galvanodynamic mode, in which the electric field is determined by the given current density. On the basis of the system of Nernst–Planck, displacement current and Navier–Stokes (NPD–NS) equations, a model of the electroconvective overlimiting mass transfer in the diffusion layer at the surface of the ion-exchange membrane in the DC current mode was constructed. Mathematical models based on the NPP–NS and NPD–NS equations, formulated to describe the same physical situation of mass transfer in the membrane system, differ in the peculiarities of numerical solution. At overlimiting currents, the required accuracy of the numerical solution is achieved in the approach based on the NPP–NS equations with a smaller time step than the NPD–NS equation approach. The accuracy of calculating the current density at the boundaries parallel to the membrane surface is higher for the model based on the NPD–NS equations compared to the model based on the NPP–NS equations.


Objective To find the optimum concentration and incubation time of TNF-α on HUVEC when the expression of E-selectin reached peak value.Methods E-selectin on HUVEC was determined by flow cytometry assay.Results E-selectin expression on HUVEC reached peak value after incubation with 5ng/ml TNF-α for 3 to 6 hours.Conclusion The establishment and standardization method for inducing E-selectin expression on HHVEC helps to further research on inflammation.


This study aims to produce reducing sugar hydrolyzed from substrate, coconut coir dust pretreated by recycled ionic liquid and its combination with alkaline. The 1H NMR and FTIR were performed to ver-ify the synthesized ionic liquid methylmethylimidazolium dimethyl phosphate ([mmim][dmp]). The structure of pretreated substrates was analyzed by XRD measurement. The used ionic liquid was recy-cled twice to re-employ for substrate pretreatment. The treated- and untreated-coconut coir dust were hydrolyzed into sugars using pure cellulase. The reaction, which called an enzymatic hydrolysis, was conducted at 60 °C, pH 3, for 48 h. The yields of sugar hydrolyzed from fresh IL-pretreated, 1R*IL-pretreated and 2R*IL-pretreated substrates were of 0.19, 0.15 and 0.15 g sugar / g cellu-lose+hemicellulose, respectively. Pretreatment with NaOH or the combination of NaOH+IL resulted in yields of reducing sugars of 0.25, 0.28 g/g, respectively. When alkaline combined with the recycled ionic liquids, NaOH+1R*IL, NaOH+2R*IL in the pretreatment, the yields of sugar were relatively similar to those obtained using alkaline followed by fresh ionic liquid. If the mixture enzymes, cellu-lase+xylanase, used to liberate sugars from fresh IL-pretreated, or recycled IL-pretreated substrates, the amount of sugar (concentration or yield) increased slightly compared to that employing a single cel-lulase. These findings showed that recycled IL pretreatment of the high-lignin lignocellulose, coconut coir dust, is a new prospect for the economical manufacture of fermentable sugars and biofuel in the coming years. © 2015 BCREC UNDIP. All rights reserved Received: 1st July 2014; Revised: 5th September 2014; Accepted: 5th September 2014 How to Cite : Sangian, H.F., Kristian, J., Rahma, S., Dewi, H., Puspasari, D., Agnesty, S., Gunawan, S., Widjaja, A. (2015). Preparation of Reducing Sugar Hydrolyzed from High-Lignin Coconut Coir Dust Pretreated by the Recycled Ionic Liquid [mmim][dmp] and Combination with Alkaline. Bulletin of Chemical Reaction Engineering & Catalysis , 10 (1): 8-22. (doi:10.9767/bcrec.10.1.7058.8-22) Permalink/DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.9767/bcrec.10.1.7058.8-22


In this paper the authors analyzed the data collection of seabed terrain, the influence factors on measurement precision and the data computation in time or frequency domain. In order to estimate the noise embedded in the received data, the structure and algorithm of characteristic matching filter based on the entropy concept is developed and discussed in detail. It is shown that the noise data can be removed effectively and the high precision seabed terrain be simulated by the filtering method.


A number of disadvantages of traditional networks may be attributed to the close relationship that exists between the control plane and the data plane inside proprietary hardware designs, as described above. The problem of security is one of the most difficult to deal with. There are a plethora of network hazards and attacks that might be encountered these days. DDoS attacks are one of the most popular and disruptive attacks on the internet today, and they affect a wide range of organisations. Despite a large number of traditional mitigation solutions now available, the frequency, volume, and intensity of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks continue to rise. According to the findings of this paper, a new network paradigm is necessary to satisfy the requirements of today's complex security concerns. It was necessary to develop a software-defined network (SDN) in order to meet the real-time needs of the massive network that was expanding at an exponential rate. Many advantages of SDN exist, including simplicity of administration, scalability, and agility, but one of the most critical is security, which is one of the most important considerations when implementing SDN. SDS may be seen as a paradigm in which the implementation of new security regulations in the computer environment is performed via the use of protected software, which is described further below. The goal is to provide a flexible and extensible architecture for DDoS detection and prevention that is both flexible and extendable; the suggested clustering approach, which is based on the Open Day Light (ODL) Controller, is employed to carry out the experimental findings. In this section, we emphasise DDoS penetration techniques from a range of tools, and we evaluate the vulnerability against various tactics. It is necessary to use a Mininet emulation tool to construct a detection and prevention system against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in order to achieve success. There is a range of other simulation tools that are utilised in conjunction with this research in order to bring it to a conclusion. Integration of industry standards such as SNORT and Flow has been accomplished in a variety of situations and parameter settings. During the creation of a framework capable of detecting and mitigating DDoS attacks at an early stage in both the control and application levels, the implementation of this framework has been shown to be crucial in the development of a framework.


Security threats are becoming an increasing concern for chemical sites and related infrastructures where relevant quantities of hazardous materials are processed, stored or transported. In the present study, security related events that affected chemical and process sites, and related infrastructures, were investigated. The aim of the study is to frame a clear link to formal publ. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psep.2018.03.026


A novel and accurate refractive index profile synthesis method for planar optical waveguides is presented and demonstrated using the transmitted near-electric-field-data. This method is based on the inverse transmission-line (TL) technique. From Maxwell's equations, a TL equivalent circuit (electric T-circuit) for the refractive index profile of a planar optical waveguide is derived. The authors demonstrate how to use this model to carry out the inverse problem and synthesise the exact refractive index profile numerically from near-field-data. The TL method can reconstruct arbitrary refractive index profiles for planar optical waveguides that support singlemode or multimodes. The cases of both symmetric and asymmetric arbitrary refractive index profile planar waveguides are discussed. The accuracy of the reconstructed waveguides is examined numerically.


A spin field effect transistor (FET) is proposed by utilizing a graphene nanoribbon as the channel. Similar to the conventional spin FETs, the device involves ferromagnetic metals as a source and drain; they, in turn, are connected to the graphene channel. Due to the negligible spin-orbital coupling in the carbon based materials, the bias can accomplishes spin manipulation by means of electrical control of electron exchange interaction with a ferromagnetic dielectric attached to the nanoribbon between source and drain. The numerical estimations show the feasibility of graphene-based spin FET if a bias varies exchange interaction on the amount around 5 meV. It was shown that the device stability to the thermal dispersion can provide the armchair nanoribbons of specific width that keeps the Dirac point in electron dispersion law.


This paper describes an automatic following system which allows an unmanned vehicle to follow a lead vehicle using data on road location steering operations, and other factors received from the lead vehicle by wireless communications. The system is ultimately designed for use with large trucks and trailers.


Based on existed conservation equations group of mass momentum and heat about gass and liquid of two phase turbulent flow and the concept of characterisitic unit of volume,according to conversation,diffusion,evaporation,capillary and absorption in body garment environment system,this study establishes the mathematical model of clothing heat and humidity transfer,receives good result and founds the basis of the numeric simulation using computer technology.


In this paper,new Mg-6Al-0.3Mn-xRE series of magnesium alloys,where x=0.4,0.8,1.2,1.6,and 2.0 wt%,were developed on the basis of the commercial AM60B magnesium alloy.The microstructure,mechanical properties,fracture behavior, castability,and heat treatment process of these alloys were investigated in order to obtain an alloy with high strength and toughness. Using Mg-6Al-0.3Mn-1.6RE alloy some automobile wheel castings were produced by gravity casting,and the surface treatment technology of the wheels was studied preliminarily.


Obligations, permissions and prohibitions, are a useful abstraction to specify and regulate the actions of self-interested software agents in open, heterogeneous systems. Any realistic account of such norms must address their dynamic nature: prohibitions can be lifted, obligations can be fulfilled and permissions can be revoked as a result of agents' behaviours. These norms may at times conflict with one another, that is, an action may be simultaneously prohibited and obliged (or prohibited and permitted). In this paper, we present mechanisms to detect and resolve normative conflicts. We achieve more expressiveness, precision and realism in our norms by using constraints over first-order variables. The mechanism to detect and resolve norm conflicts takes into account such constraints and is based on first-order unification and constraint satisfaction. We also explain how the mechanisms can be deployed in the management of an explicit account of all norms associated with a society of agents.


The radiochromic indicator using the methyl red dye solution has been studied as a high-dose gamma-ray dosimeter. The indicator has been tested by irradiating using gamma rays with a 60Co source. The radiation dose was varied from 5 to 100 kGy with a dose rate of 5.5 kGy/h. The color change of the indicator solution caused by the radiation was characterized by using a UV-Visible spectrophotometer and a camera photograph. In addition, the color stability of the indicator is also studied by observing the effect of time and the storage in light and dark conditions. The effect of time after irradiation on the color of the solution has also been investigated. The methyl red solution indicator showed a radiochromic phenomenon color changes from red to dark red for a dose of 5-20 kGy, faded gradually then became colorless at a dose of 25–100 kGy. These color changes correspond to the peak of the UV-Visible absorbance spectrum at a wavelength of 492 nm. The color of the indicator solution is more stable if kept in dark conditions than in the light conditions. The color of the solution also shows its stability for up to 12 days after irradiation. These results conclude that the indicator solution of methyl red can be used as a dosimeter for gamma rays in the dose range of 5–40 kGy.


For many years magnetic fields have served as an essential tool of the experimental physicist. For example, in solid‐state physics our current understanding of the Fermi surfaces of metals, the band structures of semiconductors, the phases of magnets and the properties of superconductors is in each instance based on observations that involve magnetic fields. Yet, until 25 years ago, the highest dc field available to most scientists was that provided by iron‐cored electromagnets—about 3 T (30 kG) in air gaps of a few centimeters. In 1960 the Francis Bitter National Magnetic Laboratory was established to develop magnetic field facilities beyond 3 T and use them for solid‐state physics research. The Magnet Lab was the first center for research on high magnetic fields in the world and remains the focus for such work in the United States.


Newborn Care Poster Presentation Objective A growing body of evidence demonstrates that performance improvement initiatives increase knowledge, provide resources, and encourage evidence-based improvements in clinical practice. The objective of this study was to determine whether a web-based performance improvement project could improve an important clinical outcome: exclusive breastfeeding. Design This study was an ad hoc data analysis of the "Breastfeeding Friendly Improvement Project: Meeting the Gold Standard in Infant Nutrition," a performance improvement, continuing medical education activity designed to promote and support breastfeeding. Participants used a chart audit tool to document exclusive breastfeeding and other explanatory variables that could affect the rate of exclusive breastfeeding. The web-based program using chart data from their individual practice settings allowed participants to proceed at their own pace and to receive individual scores and peer comparisons throughout the process. Sample One hundred sixty-two (162) physicians self-selected to participate in this American Board of Pediatrics approved activity. Methods Random effects tobit regression analysis of chart audit data pre- and postcompletion of the performance improvement activity was used to determine clinical practice changes, the improvement in rate of exclusive breastfeeding among patients, and which clinical practices had the best association with increases in exclusive breastfeeding. Implementation Strategies A total of 2,587 preperformance improvement patient profiles and 3,240 postperformance improvement profiles were reviewed. Results Improvement in all best practice variables was reported. Following completion of the performance improvement project, exclusive breastfeeding rates in the patient profiles increased 14.50% (p  Conclusion/Implications for Nursing Practice Participation in a web-based performance improvement initiative significantly improved use of evidence-based best practices and rates of exclusive breastfeeding. The role of performance improvement initiatives in providing quality health care should not be underestimated and should be embraced by the healthcare community as an effective tool to improve patient outcomes. Though the participants in this study were physicians, the activity can be used by other healthcare providers, especially nurses, and would be especially useful in providing aggregate data about a hospital's practice.


Insulation defects resulting in conductor externalization (CE) have been reported in the Riata family of implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) leads (St. Jude Medical, Sylmar, CA, USA). The aim of this study was to identify, prospectively, the rate of CE and outcomes following this, within a group of patients with a Riata ICD lead.


Translating journalistic text has been one of the major courses in Iranian universities. The challenges hidden in translating journalistic texts motivated the present study to investigate the translation of such texts. Thus, this research makes an attempt to identify and categorize the probable errors and to distinguish the most frequent ones. Furthermore, it tries to find whether there is a pattern among the errors committed by students in their translations. To this end, a translation test of Persian journalistic texts was developed. Forty students studying English translation were recruited for this study. In order to analyze collected data, Keshavarz's Model (1997) and ATA were used for error analysis. The current study found that there is not a pattern among errors committed by students. The most frequent errors were categorized as (i) grammar, (ii) terminology, and (iii) misunderstanding of original text.


To properly ensure the quality of products from melon fruits, it is necessary to develop a production technology with the introduction of the HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) system. Methods for prolonging the shelf life of freshly cut melon have been considered in this paper. The stages of processing technology and risks were considered; methods for improving the quality of melon processing products have been proposed.
The objects of this study were melon fruits. Melon is a low-calorie fragrant fruit, with juicy pulp and thin skin; it is a seasonal product. Consequently, its shelf life is short. Due to its juiciness, melon perfectly quenches thirst, supports work of the nervous system.
A study has been conducted to determine the level of microbial contamination and establish critical control points associated with melon processing. Samples were collected in the Southern regions of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Selected samples of melons were subjected to microbiological analysis. Microbiological parameters are affected by the temperature and duration of treatment. Thus, it is determined that when processing melon without refrigeration, it is not possible to save the product. A condition for the storage of the product is the pre-cooling of melon fruits before processing to refrigeration temperature.
The results were used to assess the relevant critical control points, in relation to raw materials, contamination, process requirements and contact of ingredients with equipment. The observed contaminants common to all specimens and regardless of producers were staphylococci aureus, Salmonella spp, Bacillus spp. and Aspergillus fumigatus. The study has found that the monitoring and control of critical control points (CCP) ensures the quality of melon products. The measures taken were effective; based on the studies carried out, a technological scheme for processing melon fruits was developed.
A relevant issue is to ensure the availability of melon products all year round; ensuring the safety of these products is the most important task and the goal of the study. The most important risk to human health when eating melon and processed products from it is poisoning caused by microorganisms, therefore, the greatest risk is microbiological contamination of fruits during processing. The results can be used in the production of long-term storage products from melon fruits, to better ensure the quality and safety of the finished product and are recommended in canning and juice production.


ABSTRACT This paper explores migrant women's encounters with formal and informal education in what can be termed new immigration rural destinations. We ask to what extent educational opportunities are realized in these new destinations. We show that education aspirations may be jeopardized because of the desire to achieve economic goals and thus require remedial action. Specifically, we refer to qualitative data collected in rural (and remote) Boddington in Western Australia, and rural Armagh in Northern Ireland. The paper engages with two interrelated dimensions of this migrant/migration experience. English is not a first language for our participants and we first examine the provision and consumption of informal English Language classes. In doing so, we demonstrate the complex social and cultural dimensions of community-based English language instruction. Second, we attend to migrant mothers' perceptions of and responses to children's formal education. We highlight transnational senses of, and tensions around, 'local/rural' pedagogies and resultant migrant strategies.


Theoretical treatments of strong-field physics have long relied on the numerical solution of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation. The most effective such treatments utilize a discrete spatial representation—a grid. Since most strong-field observables relate to the continuum portion of the wave function, the boundaries of the grid—which act as hard walls and thus cause reflection—can substantially impact the observables. Special care thus needs to be taken. While there exist a number of attempts to solve this problem—e.g., complex absorbing potentials and masking functions, exterior complex scaling, and coordinate scaling—none of them are completely satisfactory. The first of these is arguably the most popular, but it consumes a substantial fraction of the computing resources in any given calculation. Worse, this fraction grows with the dimensionality of the problem. In addition, no systematic way to design such a potential has been used in the strong-field community. In this work, we address these issues and find a much better solution. By comparing with previous widely used absorbing potentials, we find a factor of 3–4 reduction in the absorption range, given the same level of absorption over a specified energy interval.


Diversely Heterogeneous System-on-Chips (DH-SoC) are increasingly popular computing platforms in many fields, such as autonomous driving and AR/VR applications, due to their ability to effectively balance performance and energy efficiency. Having multiple target accelerators for multiple concurrent workloads requires a careful runtime analysis of scheduling. In this study, we examine a scenario that mandates several concerns to be carefully addressed: 1) exploring the mapping of various workloads to heterogeneous accelerators to optimize the system for better performance, 2) analyzing data from the physical world in runtime to minimize the response time of the system 3) accurately estimating the resource contention by workloads during runtime since there will be con- current operations running under the same die, and 4) deferring the operation to the cloud for computationally more demanding operations such as continuous learning or real-time rendering, de- pending on the complexity of the computation. We demonstrate our analysis and approach on a VR project as a case study by using NVIDIA Xavier NX Edge DH-SoC and a server equipped with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 GPU and AMD EPYC 7402 CPU.


The function PERMUT generates all possible allocations of +/R objects into PR externally ordered, internally non-ordered, non-empty subsets. If 2*->PR, the allocations corresponding to all R [ i] ~ +/R combinations are generated; if I++A/R=I all permutations of PR natural numbers are generated. Argument. PERMUT takes one argument, R, which is a numeric vector of the sizes of .,g subsets; e.g., for three subsets with two objects in the first subset, three objects in the second, and two objects in the third, R+2 3 2. Result. PERMUT returns an exhaustive set of allocations. Each output row is an ordered set of subset numbers to which the ordered items "t+/R are allocated. The total number of permutations is the multinomial coefficient, (!+/R)÷×/!R, and may be recovered from PERMUT as global variable COUNT Discussion. PERMUT utilizes exchanges of adjacent marks to generate successive allocations. The generation of each allocation depends only on knowledge of the current one, and the first allocation can be generated from the last by applying the same rules for generating any other. Thus, PERMUT is order-preserved, historyless, and cyclic. The K subsets within each permutation are represented by the natural integers IK. Because, in many applications, subscripts are required, the marks may be recoded to the natural integers IN by substituting B+$P for D÷P in line [31]. In most applications, it is expected that line [31] of PERMUT will be replaced with specific code for some task to be performed, e.g., computation of a permutation statistic. PERMUT may also be modified to store a matrix of all permutations to be passed to another function. To accomplish this, line [31] should be replaced with a lamination routine such as: REPLACE:COUNT÷COUNT+I


The association between acanthosis nigricans (AN) and mycosis fungoides (MF) has rarely been described, but it is known that MF may appear as AN‐like vegetating and papillomatous plaques in skin folds, or may be associated with paraneoplastic AN. There have also been recent descriptions of a form of "intertriginous MF" that is characterized by skin fold involvement and the expression of T follicular helper (TFH) markers, and that often has an aggressive course. We describe the case of a 48‐year‐old man affected by MF associated with AN, whose lesions were characterized by a TFH immunophenotype and the expression of the GATA‐3 nuclear master regulator that may be related to a TFH‐2 subpopulation or possible disease progression.


Freeze-dried composition of the long-term storage in a suitable TFPI or TFPI variant, by lyophilizing an aqueous formulation of pH carbohydrate or amino acid glass forming agent is from about 4 to about 8 TFPI or TFPI variant of formation to can. These lyophilized compositions, when stored at 40 ° C., is stable over 3 months. The present invention provides (1) a TFPI or TFPI variant, (2) providing a lyophilized composition of TFPI or TFPI variant containing a carbohydrate or amino acid glass forming agent, the lyophilized composition, about 45% having the above flocculation stability.


Fixed drug eruption (FDE) is an erythematous cutaneous patch caused by certain drugs through activation of immunologic reaction in the body. The onset of FDE is 30 minutes to 8 hours and is estimated to occur upto 16-21% of all cutaneous reactions. The irrational combination of fluoroquinolones and nitroimidazole is the most prescribed drug for diarrhea in India, and the drug is found to cause FDE either individually or in combination. Cross sensitivity is the major issue associated with Fluoroquinolones and nitroimidazole.

Our case is of a 45-year-old male who developed FDE due to a combination product of ofloxacin and ornidazole with past FDE history due to a combination product of norfloxacin and tinidazole. The patient presented with erythematous patches all over the body, swollen lips, mucosal erosion over the buccal cavity, and glans penis.

The patient was successively treated after the withdrawal of the culprit drug with oral Antihistamines, corticosteroids, and other topical creams and gels, which correlates with the standard management of FDE.

Proper prescribing knowledge, documentation of drug allergies, and educating patient about allergic reaction play vital role to prevent future drug related problems.


This chapter proposes that "Hear Israel, YHWH is our God, YHWH is one; and you shall love YHWH our God with all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your might" has a very important point to make. It still is important to confess to God as the one-and-only. The chapter discusses Salman Rushdie's novel Fury . It shows how the pluralism that characterizes it has at least three aspects in Rushdie's view: the breaking loose of violent and often dangerous religious forces, once contained within ordered systems of belief; the exposure of and breaking away from the violence present in the monotheistic attempt to monopolize sense and meaning and exclude all multiplicity; and the insight that no group, people, culture or religion is the centre of the world and that there is a invitation inherent in this insight to surrender to dependency and heteronomy. Keywords: God; Israel; novel Fury ; Salman Rushdie


This paper shows how a triad of orthogonally oriented uniaxial velocity sensors may be spatially separated, yet facilitate direction finding of incident emitters via closed-form subspace-based parameter estimation algorithms, while extending the triad's spatial aperture in three-dimensional space to enhance the resolution of the azimuth/elevation direction of arrival estimates.


OBJECTIVES
To explore the association between increased time in traction and in-hospital pulmonary complications in patients with acetabular fractures DESIGN.: Retrospective.

SETTING
Level I trauma center.

PATIENTS/PARTICIPANTS
One-hundred ninety consecutive patients.

INTERVENTION
Application of skeletal traction prior to fixation of acetabular fracture.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASUREMENTS
The primary outcome measure was pulmonary complication as defined by pulmonary embolism, pneumonia, and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Secondary outcome measures included length of ICU stay (in days), total length of hospital stay (in days), deep hardware-associated infection, subsequent conversion to total hip arthroplasty (THA), urinary tract infection (UTI), and lower extremity deep venous thrombosis (DVT).

RESULTS
The mean time in traction for patients that suffered a pulmonary complication was 210 hours compared to 62 hours for those that did not (p<0.001). After controlling for ISS, chest injury, and concomitant long bone injury requiring intramedullary nailing, the odds of developing a pulmonary complication for patients that spent longer than 120 hours in traction were over 40 times higher than those treated within 5 days (p<0.001). The mean ICU stay for patients that spent at least 120 hours in traction was 17 days compared to 5 days for those treated in less than 120 hours (p<0.001).

CONCLUSION
Early definitive fixation and decreased time in skeletal traction is associated with a lower rate of complications in patients with acetabular fractures. Our results would suggest that fixation of acetabular fractures prior to 120 hours (5 days) confers a significant risk reduction benefit.

LEVEL OF EVIDENCE
Level III.


PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide resource allocation and deallocation for power management in devices.SOLUTION: A device comprises one or more processors and a memory. The processor is configured to determine usage of a first non-zero subset of a plurality of resources, the plurality of resources allocated and released in accordance with a thermometer data structure. The processors further compare the usage of the first non-zero subset of the plurality of resources to a threshold separating the first non-zero subset of the plurality of resources from a second non-zero subset of the plurality of resources, and power on the second non-zero subset of the plurality of resources on the basis at least of the comparison. The memory stores the threshold.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2


Abstract Psychological susceptibility to alcoholism can be viewed as being related to failures in establishing healthy attachments of the child to their parents. These difficulties interfere with the child's separation and eventual individuation from the parent and also leave the child susceptible to developing a co-existing disorder of the self. The treatment of alcoholism, combining both Alcoholics Anonymous and Mas-terson's approach to the treatment of disorders of the self are described. Following Masterson's approach, there is a differential treatment orientation that follows an accurate diagnosis of the disorder of the self. Awareness of these theoretical approaches may help the therapist treat both the patient's alcoholism as well as their co-existing disorder of the self. The combining of both AA along with his object-relations treatment approach is felt to be more clinically effective than attendance in AA or psychotherapy alone.


BACKGROUND
Detecting delirium with standardized assessment tools such as the Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit (CAM-ICU) is important, but such detection is frequently hampered by poor documentation and inappropriate "unable to assess" responses (in noncomatose patients).

OBJECTIVE
To identify patient, clinical, and workplace factors that may impede or facilitate appropriate delirium assessment through use of the CAM-ICU, specifically documentation and inappropriate "unable to assess" responses.

METHODS
An electronic health record-based data set was used to quantify CAM-ICU documentation and inappropriate "unable to assess" responses during 24 months. Associated patient (eg, age), clinical (eg, diagnosis), and workplace (eg, geographic location within the ICU, shift) factors were evaluated with multivariable regression.

RESULTS
Of 28 586 CAM-ICU documentation opportunities, 66% were documented; 16% of documentations in alert or lightly sedated patients had inappropriate "unable to assess" responses. Night shift was associated with lower CAM-ICU documentation rates (P = .001), whereas physical restraints and location on side B (rather than side A) of the ICU were associated with higher documentation rates (P < .05 for both). Age older than 80 years, non-White race, intubation, and physical restraints were associated with more inappropriate "unable to assess" responses (all P < .05), as was infusion of propofol, midazolam, dexmedetomidine, or fentanyl (all P < .05).

CONCLUSION
Data from electronic health records can identify patient, clinical, and workplace factors associated with CAM-ICU documentation and inappropriate "unable to assess" responses, which can help target quality improvement efforts related to delirium assessment.


This paper reports and discusses the thermal and kinetic behaviour of elastomer flow inside an extrusion die. The reaction progress through the runner was modeled by using a particle tracking technique. The aim is to analyze viscous dissipation phenomena to control scorch arisen, improve the rubber compound curing homogeneity and reduce the heating time in the mould using the progress of the induction time. The heat and momentum equations were solved in three dimensions with Ansys Polyflow. A particle tracking technique was set up to calculate the reaction progress. Several simulations were performed to highlight the influence of process parameters and geometry modifications on the rubber compound thermal and cure homogeneity.


The issue of orbital relaxation in computational core-hole spectroscopy, specifically x-ray absorption, has been a major problem for methods such as equation-of-motion coupled cluster with singles and doubles (EOM-CCSD). The transition-potential coupled cluster (TP-CC) method is utilised to address this problem by including an explicit treatment of orbital relaxation via the use of reference orbitals with a fractional core occupation number. The value of the fractional occupation parameter λ was optimised for both TP-CCSD and XTP-CCSD methods in an element-specific manner due to the differences in atomic charge and energy scale. Additionally, TP-CCSD calculations using the optimised parameters were performed for the K-edge absorption spectra of gas-phase adenine and thymine. TP-CCSD reproduces the valence region well and requires smaller overall energy shifts in comparison to EOM-CCSD, while also improving on the relative position and intensities of several absorption peaks. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT


The invention discloses a gate driving circuit which comprises N-level GOA driving units arranged in a cascading form, wherein each level GOA driving unit comprises a pull-up control circuit, a pull-up circuit, a cascading transmitting circuit, a bootstrap capacitor and a pull-down holding circuit; the pull-down holding circuit of No.n level GOA driving unit and the pull-down holding circuit of No. n+1 level GOA driving unit are alternately opened; the pull-down holding circuit of No.n level GOA driving unit can simultaneously keep the node potentials in the No.n level GOA driving unit and the No. n+1 level GOA driving unit under the closed state; the pull-down holding circuit of No. n+1 level GOA driving unit also can simultaneously keep the node potentials in the No.n level GOA driving unit and the No. n+1 level GOA driving unit under the closed state; n=1,3,5,...,N-1; N is an even number more than 1. The invention also discloses a liquid crystal display device which includes the gate driving circuit.


The authors develop theory-based user interface design principles. The goal is independent detailed simulations of user command production in the Unix operating system and Framer, a user-interface design tool. The simulations are based on the construction-integration theory and build on the action planning model developed by S.M. Mannes and W. Kintsch (1988). Use of the model provides insight into why certain types of command productions pose problems for Unix users and shows promise for explaining problems for user of Framer.<<ETX>>


A method is provided for making a polyfluoroalkylsiloxane fluid in the form of a homopolymer, copolymer, or terpolymer, by polymerizing a cyclic polyfluoroalkylsiloxane in the presence of a mixture containing an effective amount of water and a strong add catalyst, such as trifluoromethanesulfonic acid. The cyclic compound is preferably trifluoropropylmethyl siloxane trimer or nonafluorohexylmethylsiloxane trimer.


Executive Summary: The overall aim of PURE was to build a toolbox of approaches, methods and tools for implementing e cient IPM solutions in the challenging European context. PURE provided IPM solutions in key European farming systems: annual arable farming systems (wheat-based and maize-based crop rotations), eld vegetables (with cabbage as a model crop), perennial systems (fruit crops and grapevine) and protected crops (with tomato as a model crop). For each selected farming system, existing methods were combined with new tools and technologies into novel IPM solutions combining tactical (e.g. BCAs, physical control methods) and strategic (e.g. rotations in annual crops) means of controlling pests, and addressing the biological, agronomical, and economical diversity in Europe. To study their suitability for trials, they were ex-ante assessed using DEXiPM, a multi-criteria sustainability evaluation tool introduced by ENDURE and adapted by PURE to all the farming systems studied. Then, they were tested on-station and on-farm under the agro-ecosystems and farming conditions of the main broad European regions and subject to a comparative ex-post assessment using a set of methods developed/adapted within PURE: adapted ex-post versions of DEXiPM, cost-bene t analyses, and a model of environmental risks, SYNOPS-WEB. Generally, IPM solutions showed higher or similar overall sustainability compared to current practice and signi cant environmental bene ts but a lower economic sustainability in several cases. Subsidising farmers implementing IPM could remove the economic constraints. As interactions with key stakeholders are important in the process of designing and implementing IPM, a part of the project studied coinnovation processes in pilots (groups of farmers plus advisors and researchers) in selected case studies for wheat and vegetables. The pilots resulted in clear changes in the farming practice and in the advisor role. In addition to the assessment tools mentioned above, PURE provided several modelling tools to help identify IPM solutions in the near future: three platforms, to design ecological models, to predict injury pro les, and to model yield losses caused by an injury pro le, respectively; optimisation tools; a chain risk-economic model applied to fruit crops; models for optimal plant genotype and genotype Grant agreement ID: 265865 Status Closed project PURE


Abstract The feasible region plays an important role in optimal power flow (OPF) problems. However, constructing the feasible region of general optimal power flow problems is a challenging task. In this paper, a trajectory-unified (TJU) method is developed to compute the feasible region of general large-scale OPF problems. This is the first attempt, to our knowledge, to develop a numerical method to compute feasible regions of OPF problems. In addition, the projection of the computed feasible region into a desired low-dimensional sub-space is presented. By employing the proposed TJU method, we compute the feasible region of a 9-bus and the IEEE 118-bus OPF problem. It is shown that the feasible region of a power system grows in size from light-loading conditions to medium-loading conditions while it shrinks in size from medium-loading conditions to heavy-loading conditions. This discovery of a geometric property of the feasible solution asserts the observations that OPF problems are generally easy to solve during medium-loading conditions but are generally difficult to solve during heavy-loading conditions.


Onthebasis oftheIEEE1588, thePCintheDistributed Measurement System canworkonsynchronized modality. Nevertheless, thehardware andsoftware architecture ofthepathinvolved inthe communication PC-Measurement Instrument (MI)candelaythe commands. Theresearch aimstoinvestigate about thetimedelay occurring inthecommunication between the PCandthe MITwodifferent aspects aretaken into account: (i) thecharacterization ofthehardware connection PC-MIoffering theminimum delay, and(ii) thecriteria to modify andtosetupthesoftware toreduce thedelay occurring inthe processing steps performed into thePC.Inparticular, thepreliminary experimental results furnished inthepaperconcern with(i)different hardware connections PC-Digital Storage Oscilloscope (DSO), and(ii) different setting upoftheLinwc Operating System (OS). Theexperimental results obtained onthebasis oftheselected connection PC-DSOandthe set-up oftheOShighlight that delay characterized bymeanvalue equal to 4.19ys andstandard deviation of93.5 nscanbeachieved


general articles-no. 1 on local and national politics, and no. 9 on the nationlist movement-reveal Owen's skill in generalising and evoking long perspectives. Article no. 5 is different again with its blow-by-blow account of the negotiations for the Lucknow Pact and its aftermath. There is nothing shoddy or second-rate here. I picked up only two typographical errors, both in the preface! The book recalls an earlier tradition in the writing of South Asian history when it was not obsessed with the ubiquitous peasant or proletarian. And Owen's article no. 1 is a refreshing antidote to the literalists among us who will insist on 'schools' in history writing. Owen's work has a wider perspective: it is open, honest and enquiring. It asks awkward questions, and attempts to


Turbines that are fish-friendly, energy-efficient and able to mitigate water quality issues are now commercially available and ready for full-scale deployment. After more than 15 years of research and development, new types of turbines are available that offer solutions to some of hydropower's most persistent issues: safe downstream passage of fish through turbines, improvements in tailrace water quality and increases in generation through reductions in spill.


In regard to Neo-classical growth theory, convergence approach assumes that poorer countries' or regions' per capita incomes tend to grow at faster rates than richer ones. This study aims to empirically investigate convergence across NUTS 2 regions in Turkey for time period between 2004-2011. We also inquire into role of government in terms of regional investments and fixed investment incentives in convergence process. Due to poor database and absence of up-to-date data in regional level, we used regional gross value added (GVA) per capita instead of regional GDP. All the empirical results obtained by analysis support the regional convergence hypothesis. Also, in context to convergence process, role of government is likely to be decisive to meet the regional economic disparities.


Remote health monitoring has tremendous potential to improve quality of health care services in modern and ubiquitous medical environments. It helps to cut the cost in modern healthcare by avoiding unnecessary hospital visits for frequent checkups. In this context, security and protection of sensitive medical data and measurements such as Electronic Health Records (EHR), data integrity and confidentiality and protection of patient's privacy to be monitored are important aspects in order to increase user's acceptance of these new technologies. This paper presents an overview of current security threats in pervasive healthcare applications and analyzes the outstanding issues and future challenges.


The study summarized the characteristics of large board and shaft components. The high-end large machine equipment and clamping devices should be developed in machining for high requirements. Additionally, some non-conventional methods have became a increasing for large components. For measurements, the developing and advanced methods were summarized, and the compensation methods were also complement to realize the high precision and efficiency. If that the component's size has greatly exceeded the range of the current equipment, the mobile equipment are recommended for machining and measurement, and its detection technology is developed essentially for multiple mobile ones. Thus the study has guiding significance for achieving the high-precision and efficiency machining and measurement for large components, which is a great need in related industries.


Compact heat exchangers such as tube-fin types and plate-fin types are widely used for gas-liquid or gas-gas applications. Some examples are air-coolers, fan coils, regenerators and recuperators in micro-turbines. In this study, thermal design of fin-and-tube (tube-fin) heat exchanger performance with fins being employed outside and inside tubes was presented, with which designed plate-fin heat exchanger was compared. These designs were performed under identical mass flow rate, inlet temperature and operating pressure on each side for recuperator in 100kW microturbine as well as specified allowable fractions of total pressure drop by means of Log-Mean Temperature Difference (LMTD) method. Heat transfer areas, volumes and weights of designed heat exchangers were evaluated. It is shown that, under identical heat duty, fin-and-tube heat exchanger requires 1.8 times larger heat transfer area outside tubes and volume, 0.6 times smaller heat transfer area inside tubes than plate-fin heat exchanger. Under identical total pressure drop, fin-and-tube heat exchanger requires about 5 times larger volume and heat transfer area in gas-side, 1.6 times larger heat transfer area in air-side than plate-fin heat exchanger. Total weight of fin-and-tube heat exchanger is about 2.7 times higher than plate-fin heat exchanger, however, the heat transfer rate of fin-and-tube heat exchanger is about 1.4 times larger than that of plate-fin heat exchanger. It is indicated that, both-sides finned tube heat exchanger may be used in engineering application where the total pressure drop is severe to a small fraction and the operating pressure is high, and may be adopted for recuperator in microturbine.© 2006 ASME


The black population of South Africa consists of several different ethnic groups, each with its own historical identity. Seven of these groups have homelands, they are the Xhosa of Ciskei, the Zulu of KwaZulu, the Swazi of Kangwane, the Changana/Tonga of Gazankulu, the Basotho of Qwa- Qwa, the North Sotho of Lebowa, and the Venda of Venda.


The temporomandibular joint is one of the most intricate human articulations (TMJ). Each joint is made up of a mandibular condyle and its associated temporal cavity (glenoid fossa and articular eminence). Human mandibular condyle morphology can be divided into six types: Type I: Oval; Type II: Flattened; Type III: Diamond; Type IV: Crooked finger; Type V:Bifid and Type VI: Bird beak. The mandibular condyle appears in several different age groups and individuals in many distinct ways. Condyle remodelling to account for developmental variations, malocclusion, trauma, and other developmental illnesses and diseases are all examples of developmental disorders and diseases that can result from simple developmental variability. Panoramic radiography has been recommended as a screening tool for TMJ patients, and it may be useful to spot major bone abnormalities in the condyle.: The aim of the current study is to observe and record the variations in condyle forms in Punjab (North India) using an Orthopantomographs (OPGs), which were crucial for patient treatment in several branches of dentistry. This retrospective study comprised radiographic evaluation of 400 condylar heads after visualising 200 digitalised OPGs taken for routine investigation. The most common shape of condyle on right observed was oval (43.5%) followed by Bird Beak (20.5%), Diamond (12.5%), Flattened (12%), Crooked finger(6.5%) and Bifid (5%). The most common shape of condyle on left observed was Oval (51%) followed by Bird Beak (15%), Diamond (14%), Flattened (9%), Crooked finger(8%) and Bifid (3%). In Males, the commonest form of left and right condylar morphology was and the least form of right condylar morphology was , whereas the least form of left condylar morphology observed was and In Females, the commonest form of left and right condylar morphology was and the least form of left and right condylar morphology observed was The aim of this study was to determine the most typical radiographic forms of the mandibular condyle on the OPG. Six various condyle shapes—Oval, Flattened, Bird beak, Diamond, Crooked finger, and bifid—have been identified in the current study, with the oval form being the most prevalent on both sides and in both sexes. Bifid is the least typical shape for the right and left condyles.


high-quality specialty coffee, bid just under $40 a kilogram (more than 21,000 Rwandan francs) for a load of coffee from Rwanda.1 While this bid was exceptional— specialty coffee normally sells for between $3 and $4 a kilogram—it also represents a real and positive transformation within Rwanda's coffee sector. In the not-toodistant past, the country was known as a producer of mediocre coffee that attracted little attention from discriminating importers or consumers.2 Today, Rwandan coffee is increasingly recognized as a high-quality product, one for which importers such as Solberg and Hansen and, in turn, consumers are willing to pay a premium. Although the Rwandan economy is diversifying, agriculture continues to be the primary source of livelihood for the vast majority of the population. The overwhelming majority of agricultural workers are subsistence farmers. Just over 10 percent of these farmers planted coffee in 2008, and the crop remains a major source of export revenue for Rwanda, generating more than 36 percent of total export revenue in 2009.


Objective: To derive and validate simple screens of 2 to 4 questions to identify cognitive impairment. Design: Cross-sectional database analysis. Setting and Participants: Community-dwelling participants in the Canadian Study of Health and Aging with mild to moderate cognitive impairment (N = 958), or normal cognition (N = 602). Measurements: Cognitive questions not requiring paper, pen, cue cards, props or more than 30 seconds to answer were selected from the Modifi ed Mini-Mental State Examination (3MS). A sequential weighting approach was applied to logistic regression analyses to create scales of equally-weighted questions using the fi rst 2, 3 or 4 questions from the regression equations. Sensitivities and specifi cities were calculated for all cutoffs. Two sets of questions, which approximated the psychometric properties of the 3MS, were validated in a second database. Results: The two tests whose properties approached those of the 3MS (sensitivity 84%, specifi city 62%) were the Ottawa 3D test: Day, Date, DLROW (sensitivity 76%, specifi city 62%) and the Ottawa 3DY test: Day, Date, DLROW, Year (sensitivity 80%, specifi city 61%). Conclusions: The Ottawa 3D and 3DY tests show promising psychometric properties and are easy enough to employ to promote widespread use but must be revalidated in the target groups for which they are intended. The full potential value of the Ottawa 3D and 3DY tests can best be understood in the context of 'serial trichotomization' cognitive screening or case-finding algorithms. Dementia researchers focusing on biomarkers and neuroimaging should consider similar trichotomization approaches as these may improve the sensitivities and specificities of their tests.


Co-teaching is fundamental to inclusive education. However, the way co-teaching is implemented, varies considerably, and establishing and allocating instructional responsibilities does not follow a standardized pattern. This study is based on four cases – two located at traditional secondary schools and two at newly created community schools – and includes semi-structured in-depth interviews with four regular teachers and four special education teachers. It aims at providing insight into how co-teaching partners in Germany perceive their own and their partner's instructional responsibilities. Data are analyzed with a structuring technique of qualitative content analysis. It becomes evident that the partners in each case do not always follow identical instructional intents. Nonetheless, different types of teacher knowledge seem to complement each other effectively in co-teaching relationships. Although, of course provided primarily for pupils with special needs, special education expertise also seems to support pupils without such needs. The results indicate a need to secure and integrate co-teaching relationships structurally into a school's development process. The article concludes with some options for development in practice.


Recognizing violations is a key issue in business process management (BPM). As a result that artifact-centric approach is becoming the development trend of BPM, we present a resolution for finding business violations through recognizing valid artifacts in business processes. We provide the formal definition of artifacts and artifact lifecycles, and, based on them, formulize the problem of recognizing valid artifacts. Previous methods for resolving this problem mainly put focus on activities in business process and lose the attention for data. In this work we concentrate on both the evolution of artifacts (data) and services (activities) applied on artifacts to identify the frontier between decidability and undecidability of the problem of recognizing valid artifacts. And we present the results of decidability under the conditions that artifact lifecycles are described in regular artifact lifecycle expressions and pushdown automata.


Objective: To evaluate the surface roughness of resin composite and ceramic material after immersion in mouthwashes. Methodology: Thirty specimens of resin composite and ceramic material were prepared with a stainless steel matrix (6 mm × 2 mm). The samples of each material were divided into three groups (n = 10), according to the mouthwashes: Distilled water (DW), chlorhexidine (CL) 0.12%, and cetylpyridinium chloride (CC). Specimens were individually submitted to the immersion cycle in 15 mL of mouthwash for 30 days, three times per day, for 1 min/cycle. Surface roughness measurements were performed at three different time intervals: Before the first cycle (T0), after 7 (T1), and 30 days (T2) of immersion. Data were analyzed by the two-way ANOVA and Tukey tests (P ≤ 0.05). Results: There was no statistically significant difference in surface roughness of resin composite among mouthwashes (DW - 1.4 ± 0.13 μm; CL - 1.16 ± 0.13 μm; CC - 1.18 ± 0.13 μm). Surface roughness was statistically significantly lower after 30 days (T2-0.56 ± 0.60 μm) compared with the initial period (T0-1.63 ± 0.60 μm) and after 7 days (T1-1.57 ± 0.60 μm). For ceramic material, CC (3.75 ± 0.60 μm) caused a higher level of surface roughness compared with DW (2.57 ± 0.60 μm) and CL (3.39 ± 0.60 μm). There was no statistically significant difference among the different time intervals (T0-3.05 ± 0.18 μm; T1-3.41 ± 0.18 μm; T2-3.26 ± 0.18 μm). Conclusion: Mouthwashes did not promote a significant change in surface roughness of composite resin. Cetylpyridinium chloride promoted an increase in surface roughness of dental ceramic.


FIELD: medicine. SUBSTANCE: to obtain a biodegradable implant, aqueous solutions of glycosaminoglycans, lactic acid and polyvinylpyrrolidone polymers and/or copolymers are extruded with formation of seeds - "dry" ellipsoids of rotation, dried and cross-linked by gamma radiation. Seeds are transferred to an aqueous solution of the said polymers and/or copolymers with a dissolved drug substance, kept for 30-120 minutes, extruded and crosslinked by gamma radiation. Extrusion is repeated with alternation of solutions containing and not containing a drug substance, forming a multilayer implant with a maximum dimension of 3.0-5.0 mm along the longitudinal axis, 0.1-0.3 mm along the transverse axis. EFFECT: achievement and maintenance of the required drug substance concentration in the vitreous cavity. 2 cl


This article examines recent moves towards an enlargement of NATO to include countries of theformer Warsaw Pact, possibly including Russia, in the light particularly of the Partnership for Peace proposals that emergedfrom the NATO summit of January 1994. The author examines the evolution of the US position on possible enlargement and highlights the lack of a consensus view within the alliance on how the issue of enlargement should be addressed, as well as discussing the reactions of Russia and of the Visegrad countries to developments in the alliance posture.*


After defining biproportion (or RAS) rigorously, we recall two fundamental theorems: unicity of biproportion (any biproportional algorithm leads to the same solution than biproportion, which turns biproportion into a mathematical tool as indisputable than proportion), ineffectiveness of separability (premultiplying or post multiplying the initial matrix by a diagonal matrix does not change the biproportional solution) and its corollary (it is equivalent to do a separable modification of the initial matrix or to do a proportional change of each biproportional factors). We then apply these theorems to show immediately that: i) no difficulties are encountered when solving the biproportional program, particularly for the question of the exponential; ii) the equivalence between applying biproportion on coefficient matrices and on transaction matrices is obvious; iii) normalizing the initial values of the biproportional factors obviously do not change anything (even if it is not possible to normalize the final value of these factors unless normalization is scalar); iv) the gravity model is equivalent to biproportion; v) biproportion and entropy give the same result; vi) when ineffectiveness of separability do not hold, the results are different as for added information. To the total, these theorems avoid re-demonstrating most properties.


This article reflects on the decision of the Paris Tribunal de Grande Instance
concerning copyright protection for a photograph of Jimi Hendrix by Gered
Mankowitz (Bowstir Limited and Gered Mankowitz v. Egotrade SARL (2015)) and
subsequent critical comment about the case, by providing an historical perspective on
originality and photographic copyright. In doing so, it uncovers previously untold
details of the history of photographic copyright and the first statutory originality
criterion: introduced by section 1 Fine Arts Copyright Act 18621 and subsequently
considered in Graves' Case.
2 It argues that, while the decision in Bowstir seems
surprising today, the points that complicated the Court's reasoning are familiar from
the standpoint of copyright history. An historical perspective, therefore, enables us to
engage more critically with these issues. In commenting on the decision, the article
draws on significant original research to be fully published in a forthcoming book (Art
and Modern Copyright: The Contested Image, CUP, forthcoming 2016/173) which, in
excavating a variety of little known perspectives on artistic copyright, shows history
to be a rich terrain of ideas about copyright and the objects that it regulates.


There is currently no reliable diagnostic test to identify patients with sepsis in the intensive care unit (ICU) or patients with multiple system organ failure (MSOF). It was previously found that in vitro pretreatment of monocytes with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) induced blunted tumour necrosis factor (TNF) release to LPS rechallenge. It was hypothesized that patients exposed to LPS or septic stimuli in vivo would produce less TNF when stimulated ex vivo with LPS. This preliminary study sought to determine whether impaired ex vivo TNF release was associated with measurable differences in clinical outcome.


Abstract Background/Aims Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), one of the most common forms of chronic liver disease, is closely associated with obesity and insulin resistance (IR). Adipokines secreted by adipose tissue have recently been implicated in initiating and perpetuating the chronic inflammatory state observed in obesity and NAFLD. Recent studies suggest neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) plays a key role in the pathogenesis of IR. The aims of this study were to determine urinary NGAL levels in patients with ultrasonography proven NAFLD and to correlate these levels with the metabolic profile and fibrosis grade in this population. Methodology Our cohort consisted of 65 consecutive patients undergoing abdominal ultrasonography for clinical suspicion of NAFLD. Patients were subsequently divided into two groups: no steatosis (n=20) and steatosis (n=45). The stage of fibrosis was measured using a four-point scale. Urinary NGAL was measured by a specific microparticle enzyme immunoa...


The Philippines is one of the most disaster-prone counties in Southeast Asia. This paper reviews Japanese development assistance to the Philippines in disaster risk management, which has continued around 40 years. Most financing projects have supported structure measures, protecting some eight million people in 4,000 km2. Under technical cooperation Japanese engineers have transferred their technology to over 600 Filipino engineers. The assistance, however, has not necessarily attained human security, which focuses on empowerment and protection of individuals, and a mission of Japan International Cooperation Agency. Crucial issues were found in the assistance projects: (1) delayed construction projects; (2) limited contribution to poverty reduction; (3) limited support to communities; (4) limited involvement of local governments and communities; and (5) limited coordination with other related sectors. The paper further proposes approaches in future projects.


Parameters such as Permeability Index (PI), Kelly's Ratio (KR), Soluble Sodium Percentage (SSP), Residual Sodium Carbonate (RSC) and Sodium Absorption Ratio (SAR) are considered for the Study.In pre monsoon of 2009 PI varies from 58.7 to 62.7 with mean 59.9;  KR varies from 0.7 to 0.8 with 0.8 mean; SSP varies from 42.4 to 44.2 with mean 43.8; RSC differ from -1.8 to -1.2 with an average of -1.5; SAR varies from 3.7 to 5.7 with an average of 5.0; In pre  monsoon  of 2013 PI varies from 45.7 to 50.3 with mean 47.1;  KR varies from 0.5 to 0.6 with 0.6 mean; SSP varies from 35 to 35.2 with mean 35.1; RSC differ from - 4.8 to -3.0 with an average of – 4.0; SAR varies from 1.5 to 2.3 with an average of 1.9; In post monsoon of 2009 PI varies from 55.5 to 62.1 with mean 57.3;  KR varies from 0.7 to 0.71 with 0.7 mean; SSP has 41.1; RSC differ from -3.4 to -1.6 with an average of - 2.7; SAR varies from 3.3 to 4.8 with an average of 4.3; PI varies from 58.7 to 62.7 with mean 59.9;  KR varies from 0.7 to 0.8 with 0.8 mean; SSP varies from 42.4 to 44.2 with mean 43.8; RSC differ from -1.8 to -1.2 with an average of -1.5; SAR varies from 1.7 to 2.5 with an average of 2.3.


Abstract : Investigations of new bulk and thin film conductor materials with the A-15 structure have yielded several new high transition temperature compounds. The most significant of these was thin film niobium-germanium prepared by a new sputtering technique. Under the proper sputtering conditions films have been deposited with the highest transition temperature, 23K, of any presently known superconductor. In addition, techniques and apparatus have been devised, constructed and tested for the assembly, consolidation, cold drawing and heat treatment of composite multifilamentary conductors employing niobium tin and vanadium gallium. The superconducting and metallurgical properties of a number of these conductors were extensively investigated. (Author)


The effects of chyle fat replacing soybean oil on growth performance and nutrient digestability in weaned piglets were studied.A total of 100 weaned D×L×Y piglets,initially weighed 8 kg,were divided into two treatments with 5 replicates of 10 piglets per replicate.The pigs were fed basal diet supplemented soybean oil(1.5%) and chyle fat(3%) respectively for a 28-d experimental period.The results showed that average daily gain(ADG) was increased(P0.05),F/G and diarrhoea rate was significantly decreased(P0.05) for piglets fed with diet containing chyle,also increased significantly the digestibilities of crude fat(P0.05).These results indicated that chyle fat could completely replace soybean oil and improve the growth performance and nutrient digestability of weaned piglets.