Liver cancer, otherwise known as hepatocellular carcinoma, is a chronic disease condition with an excessive deposition and growth of malignant cells in the body. The high incidence and prevalence rates of liver cancer continue to be problems, as well as its poor prognosis and therapeutic limitations involving severe drug adverse reactions linked to the use of synthetic chemotherapeutic compounds. Continuous experimental studies, as well as utilization of pure herbal-based compounds, are essential towards finding more potent cures for liver cancer. Natural bioactive compounds, particularly alkaloids (eg, berberine), have been shown to be highly beneficial in the treatment of various diseases. Berberine (BBR), an isoquinoline alkaloid, is obtained from stem, bark, roots, rhizomes, and leaves of several medicinal plants, including Berberis species. It is commonly synthesized from the benzyltetrahydroisoquinoline system with the incorporation of an additional carbon atom as a bridge. The multiple attributes of BBR involving effective inhibitory and cytotoxic actions against the proliferation of cancer cells have been demonstrated. The use of BBR in experimental studies (in vivo and in vitro) for over a decade for liver cancer treatment has proven to be highly effective, safe, and potent. Until now, the poor solubility of BBR remains one of the contributing factors leading to its minimal clinical bioavailability. Therefore, BBR could serve as a prospective drug candidate in the future towards drug formulation for liver cancer treatment. The relevant information regarding this review was obtained electronically through the use of databases such as PubMed, Google Scholar, Springer, Hindawi, Embase, Web of Science, and China National Knowledge Infrastructure. All the aforementioned databases were searched from 1981 to 2020. This literature represents an update of previous review papers discussing the various positive pharmacological and mechanistic effects (oxidative stress regulation, inflammation reduction, apoptosis activation, overcoming drug resistance, and metastasis inhibition) of BBR for liver cancer treatment, which would be of great significance to drug development and clinical research.


The paper focus on the new supplier partnership in supply chain, analyzes the choice of VMI suppliers, gives out the estimating index system to the VMI suppliers and at last, puts forward how to choose a suitable VMI supplier with AHP.


Objective:To research the expressions of Semaphorin3A(SEMA3A) and neuropilin-1(NRP-1) in cervical cancer and their correlation,and explore the significances of SEMA3A and NRP-1 in oncogenesis and development of cervical cancer.Methods:Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction(RT-PCR) was used to detect the expression levels of SEMA3A mRNA and NRP-1 mRNA in 18 cases with normal cervix,29 cases with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia(CIN),and 45 cases with cervical cancer.Results:The expression level of NRP-1 mRNA in cervical cancer group was statistically significantly higher than those in CIN group and normal cervix group(P﹤0.05),the expression level of SEMA3A mRNA in cervical cancer group was statistically significantly lower than those in CIN group and normal cervix group(P﹤0.05);the expression levels of NRP-1 mRNA and SEMA3A mRNA were correlated with clinical stages and lymph node metastasis significantly(P﹤0.05),which were not related to age,histological types,and pathological grades(P﹥0.05);in cervical cancer group,there was a negative correlation between NRP-1 mRNA expression and SEMA3A mRNA expression(γ=-0.638,P﹤0.05).Conclusion:SEMA3A and NRP-1 may participate in oncogenesis and development of cervical cancer,which may become new potential targets for clinical treatment of cervical cancer.


In this paper the standardized mathematic model is used to evaluate college students' physical diathesis.Using the data standardization method of mathematics statistical theory in this model constructs general evaluation method of monomial result and multinomial result.The evaluating result is comparable dynamically and will promote the reform of college physical education.


The growing world-wide acceptance of IS0 9001 presents DOD software and system suppliers, familiar with Version 1.1 of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Capability Maturity Model (CMM), with requirements to comply with IS0 9001. At the same time, commercial software and system suppliers, already familiar with IS0 9001 and IS0 9000-3 are considering the value of the CMM as a tool for process definition and improvement. Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG) teams and Quality System implementers must reconcile at least two models (IS0 9001 and the CMM) - both of which describe business practices and which are often portrayed as either in conflict or as mutually exclusive alternatives. This tutorial allows the student to identify and leverage the strengths of these two models to improve software engineering practices in their company.


Electronic medical records (EMRs) offer a potential opportunity to identify patients at high risk for cardiometabolic disease, which encompasses type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD). The objective of this retrospective cohort study is to use information gathered from EMR to investigate the association between triglyceride to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio (TG/HDL-C) and cardiometabolic outcomes in a general population of subjects over 50 years of age during a follow-up period of 8–9 years. TG/HDL-C was recorded for each of 1428 subjects in 2008, and diagnoses of type 2 diabetes and CVD were recorded through chart review until 2017. Cox proportional hazards models controlling for demographic characteristics and other risk factors demonstrated that high TG/HDL-C (>2.5 in women or >3.5 in men) was significantly associated with increased incidence of type 2 diabetes (HR 1.66; 95% CI 1.07 to 2.57; p=0.0230). There was also a suggested association between high TG/HDL-C and incidence of CVD (HR 1.51; 95% CI 0.98 to 2.35; p=0.0628). These findings suggest that using TG/HDL-C, which can be easily calculated from data in an EMR, should be another tool used in identifying patients at high cardiometabolic risk.


Introduction: Today's modern world is full of terrifying threats and dangers, because it introduces unprecedented potential dangers that previous generations did not deal with at all. One of the consequences of the crushing cycle of modernity, which in recent times has been of interest to sociologists, is the changing nature of health and disease. One of the most important aspects of health in late modernity is mental health which has attracted the attention of many international institutions and plays an important role in ensuring the dynamism and efficiency of society. Among these, family is the most important center for the maintenance of mental health.
Materials and Methods: This research is a survey which was performed on 368 married students of Kashan University by random sampling method. Research data were collected using a questionnaire accompanied by an interview.
Findings: The results of regression analysis confirm the effect of each of the variables of marriage satisfaction, type of family relationship, appropriate relationship with spouse, and appropriateness of family status on students' mental health by 34, 18, 22 and 12%, respectively.
Conclusion: The analysis of findings shows that the family has a very important role in mental health.


Significant reduction of inherent large divergence of the laser driven MeV proton beams is achieved by strong (of the order of 10(9) V/m) electrostatic focussing field generated in the confined region of a suitably shaped structure attached to the proton generating foil. The scheme exploits the positively charging of the target following an intense laser interaction. Reduction in the proton beam divergence, and commensurate increase in proton flux is observed while preserving the beam laminarity. The underlying mechanism has been established by the help of particle tracing simulations. Dynamic focussing power of the lens, mainly due to the target discharging, can also be exploited in order to bring up the desired chromaticity of the lens for the proton beams of broad energy range.


The present invention provides a thin-film transistor component, a pixel structure and a driving circuit of a display panel. The thin-film transistor component is equipped on a substrate and comprises the following components: a grid, a semiconductor channel layer, a grid insulation layer which is provided between the grid and the semiconductor channel layer, a source and a drain which are respectively provided at two opposite sides of the semiconductor channel layer and are overlapped with the semiconductor channel layer partially, a capacitor electrode which is at least partially overlapped with the grid part, and a capacitive dielectric layer which is provided between the capacitor electrode and the grid. The capacitor electrode, the grid and the capacitive dielectric layer form a capacitor component.


In this work Moral Dilemmas in Medicine will be analysed under the perspective of an emerging framework for problem solving, that bases its computational power on the concept of agent, under the Extended Logic Programming paradigm to knowledge representation and reasoning. Indeed, it is not always clear how to judge which consequences are the best, and how they are achieved. Which principles conflict and how to decide which should prevail. How to take account of the importance of the emotional element and the human experience. How moral ethics focuses on the character of the moral agent rather than the rightness of an action. Therefore, in considering these relationships, emotional sensitivities, and motivations, it is understood that the role of computer based applications may be better studied in terms of a process of quantification of the quality of information that stems out the logical theories or programs that make and agent and will drive its behavior under a computational framework as the one referred to above.


Maintenance field genebanks are costly, in addition to the risks they face; to that effect on tissue culture is a solution to these problems. In vegetative propagated crops is desirable to use a combination of storage technology rather than relying on just one. In vitro culture provides an alternative for improving productivity and production of healthy planting material of taro (Xanthosoma spp.). This research was conducted in the Tissue Culture Laboratory of the Research Institute of Tropical Crops. Our objective was study the conditions for minimal growth conservation in vitro germplasm in this species. As plant material was used clone of Taro Xanthosoma 'INIVIT MX-2008'. The establishment of the plant material and its subsequent multiplication were carried out according to the methodology recommended by Garcia et al. (1999). For the maintenance in culture of minimal growth basal medium MS was used and studied 15 treatments with combined concentrations of mannitol (osmotic regulator) (1.5, 3 and 4%) and silver nitrate (Ethylene inhibitor) (0, 2, 4, 8, 10 mg.L -1


Mobile edge computing (MEC) is an emerging computing paradigm that decreases the computing time and extends the lifespan of user equipments (UEs). In MEC, the computational tasks are offloaded from UEs to the base station (BS) at the edge of the network for processing. However, MEC cannot cope with environments where there are no BS or where communication facilities have been destroyed. In this paper, we study the problem of minimizing the energy consumption of UAV equipped with MEC servers as a mobile base station to serve users. The problem involves user offloading decision, UAV location and allocation with computational resources, and is a hybrid optimization problem with continuous and discrete variables. To address this problem, we propose a hybrid nature-inspired optimization algorithm (HNIO) and its version for discrete optimization, where HNIO incorporates mutation and population diversity detection mechanisms to boost its global optimization capability, and we design a probabilistic selection-based coding strategy for the discrete optimization version. The experimental study is conducted based on ten cases with different numbers of UEs. Comparing HNIO with several other state-of-the-art optimization algorithms, it is concluded from the Friedman and Wilcoxon's test of the experimental results that HNIO shows better precision and stability in nine out of the ten cases with higher number of UEs.


Abstract We will have a look at the principles predictability, stability, and computability in the field of support vector machines. Support vector machines (SVMs), well-known in machine learning, play a successful role in classification and regression in many areas of science. In the past three decades, much research has been conducted on the statistical and computational properties of support vector machines and related kernel methods. On the one hand, consistency (predictability) and robustness (stability) of the method are of interest. On the other hand, from an applied point of view, there is interest in a method that can deal with many observations and many features (computability). Since SVMs require a lot of computing power and storage capacity, various possibilities for processing large data sets have been proposed. One of them is called regionalization. It divides the space of declaring variables into possibly overlapping domains in a data driven way and defines the function to predict the output by the formation of locally learnt support vector machines. Another advantage of regionalization should be mentioned.


Psychologists and social science researchers who study school integrative processes often deal with phenomenology, the view that reality lies not in an event but in an individual's perception of the event; i.e., people behave as they do in consequence of how things appear to them (Combs and Snygg, 1959). In a recent study of factors influencing attitudes of black parents toward their children's schools, we found that although on the whole parents seemed relatively satisfied with all aspects of their schools, parents who said their children were attending mixed schools were far more satisfied than parents who said their children were in all-black schools (Sobol and Beck, 1978). Using a phenomenological approach, we decided to investigate whether these black attitudes reflected perception (of reality) or reality. This article will briefly explore phenomenology. Part II will report the methodology of the study that was conducted within a segregated pocket located within the confines of a large urban desegregated school system. Rather than attempting to integrate all individual schools, quite a few school systems today have elected to maintain segregated and integrated subdistricts within their school district (Beck et at., 1977; Levine and Havighurst, 1977). Because children in such segregated areas can attend magnet or private schools, it is possible for some children in these areas to be in mixed schools. Study of the feelings of parents whose children attend these mixed schools gives important insight into the nature of black perceptions of integration. Part II will discuss the background of the study, sampling, questionnaires, and other aspects of the survey methodology. Part III of the study will show the differences in opinions about schools of black parents in this segregated area who say their children are in mixed versus those who say their children attend all-black schools. The next section will trace the schools that the students actually attend and determine whether reality or perception (of reality) is more important in the determi.


Objective To observe the therapeutic effect of loratadine combined modified Yupingfengsan on chronic urticaria.Methods 130 patients with chronic urticaria were divieded into two groups randamly,70 patients in the treatment group were given modified Yupingfengsan and loratadine,60 patients in the control group were only given loratadine.Observe the efficacy and adverse reactions after 7 days,14 days,and 28 days respectively.Results The effective rates of treatment group and control group were 91.43% vs 66.67%,and there was significant difference between the two groups(P0.05).In addition,mild adverse reactions were found in two groups.Conclusion Loratadine combined modified Yupingfengsan were effective for the treatment of chronic urticaria.


Strategies for disposing of deinking paper mill sludge include incineration, landfilling and direct application onto agricultural land. For agricultural landspreading, sludge must be stockpiled on-farm for some time before application. This temporary storage may have an impact on surface and groundwater quality. Deinking sludge characteristics were determined in the laboratory, and stockpiles were placed on an impermeable platform to evaluate amount and quality of percolating water. Results indicated that, despite the high water storage capacity of deinking sludge, some water did percolate from the stockpiles and could have eventually reached groundwater. Between 22 and 30% of the measured rainfall percolated from the stockpiles during the two years of the study. For all chemical parameters analyzed in the leachate, concentrations were always below maximum acceptable concentrations, except for BOD5, and resin and fatty acids. The BOD5 always exceeded the tolerable level, while resin and fatty acids sporadically exceeded it. These compounds would unlikely cause surface and groundwater contamination since they are classified as highly biodegradable.


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There were tremendous increasing numbers of hospitals to adopt Clinical Nurse Spcialist (CNS) to assist health care delivery from 1986 to 1988. In year 2000, The Legislative Yuan of Taiwan approved the laws of accreditation and licensure of CNS. However, what are the recognition and impression of the accreditation of clinical nurse specialist form nursing? This study examines the associations among recognition, job characteristic, job satisfaction, and job commitment related to the CNS. This study used self-developed survey research to ask 386 nurses, including 43 nursing directors, 45 nursing supervisors, 134 nurse managers, 52 PAs and NSPs, and 115 registered nurses. The survey period was from March 10 to April 31 of 2002. The overall alpha of the instrument was 0.97. Descriptive analysis and ANOVA were used to attain the purposes of this study. The major findings from this study: The perception of CNS is positively associated with the constructs of job characteristics, job satisfaction, as well as organizational commitment. It suggests that the promotion to the CNS path will assist the nursing turnover in the future.


In article the ways of application of statistical methods in psycholinguistic research are shown on the example of studying a number of factors which influence the process of formation in children art-language competence determining the peculiarities of understanding poetic speech. The object of the research is associative-semantic links of the art character established in consciousness of the junior schoolchild.


By analyzing the factors affecting enterprise expansion ratio and redefining the ratio in entropy thinking,The paper points out that expansion must be based on its basic elements of internal strength and weakness such as core competence,and external environment will determine the size of its expansion,speed and scope of the economy in order to achieve the minimum entropy internal and achieve sustainable development,which provides new thinking for expansion strategy and management.


Provided are a device and a method to determine a shape of a streamer. The method for determining the shape of the streamer to be towed under water for collecting seismic data is provided. The method includes receiving a velocity model for the subsurface; selecting a first profile for a streamer to be used to survey the subsurface; calculating ghosts and/or residual ghosts and/or residual ghost spectra for a plurality of reflectors of the subsurface; and determining that the first profile is appropriate for surveying the subsurface when at least one criterion, related to the ghosts, residual ghosts and/or residual ghost spectra is met.


Hydrolysis rates were determined for ATC in pH 7.4 phosphate buffer containing human plasma from a number of individuals; human plasma treated and stored in various ways; several Cohn fractions of human plasma; human plasma treated with various esterase inhibitors; and a number of commercially available enzymes. The variation among individual plasma samples was observed, as well as the way in which blood type, plasma concentration, lyophilization, freezing, thawing, storing the plasma at 25°, ethanol concentration, and substrate concentration influenced the catalytic potency of human plasma. Studies with the Cohn fractions and esterase inhibitors suggested that pseudocholinesterase was primarily responsible for the enzymatic activity of human plasma with respect to ATC hydrolysis. Some proteolytic enzymes were also found to be potent catalysts of ATC hydrolysis. It was concluded that, following oral administration, ATC would be exposed to many enzymes that are potent catalysts for its hydrolysis, both in the gastrointestinal tract and following absorption and distribution in body tissue.


Recent advances in systems biology are shedding a new light on the traditional medicine research. The systems biology highlights the way each component interacts with each other within a system, and the network behavior that emerges from such interactions. This feature of systems biology can accent the systemic aspects of Korean medicine such as the mechanism of action of herbal formulae, pattern differentiation, and the meridian systems, as both the Korean medicine and the systems biology theorize the human physiological functions and phenomena from a holistic point of view. This paper outlines the meaning of the recent Korean medicine research using the systems biology methodology. We discuss the methodologies of the two fields in a comparative manner, and overview the advantages and limitations of the integrated approaches. Finally, we suggest the future prospects for the systems biology inspired approaches to the Korean medicine research. The systems biology may provide a new modernized research methodology for the Korean medicine that can highlight its unique features.


By investigation data in Jiaozhou bay waters from 1979 to 1984(absent of 1980),the horizontal distribu-tion and pollution source change of HCH in Jiaozhou Bay are analyzed.The results showed that in Jiaozhou bay the pollution source of HCH greately changed because of the prohibition of HCH use in China in 1983 during from 1979 to 1984(absent of 1980).The pollution source change was divided into three types: heavy pollution source,light pollution source and no pollution source,which was respectively expressed with three model sketchs,exhibiting the change process of HCH pollution sources.Before and after the prohibition,largely changed were the content,horizontal distribution,import way and pollution souce degree.However,only area pollution source changed in the HCH pollution source,even in the case of no pollution,the HCH souce into the Jiaozhou bay waters was area souce.


In this study we present general (multiple tree species from several sites) above- and belowground biomass models for trees in the miombo woodlands of Malawi. Such models are currently lacking in the country. The modelling was based on 74 trees comprising 33 different species with diameters at breast height (dbh) and total tree height (ht) ranging from 5.3 to 2 cm and from 3.0 to 25.0 m, respectively. Trees were collected from four silvicultural zones covering a wide range of conditions. We tested different models including dbh, ht and wood specific gravity ( ρ ) as independent variables. We evaluated model performance using pseudo-R2, root mean square error (RMSE), a covariance matrix for the parameter estimates, mean prediction error (MPE) and relative mean prediction error (MPE%). Computation of MPE% was based on leave-one-out cross-validation. Values of pseudo-R2 and MPE% ranged 0.82–0.97 and 0.9%–2.8%, respectively. Model performance indicated that the models can be used over a wide range of geographical and ecological conditions in Malawi.


Executive summary4: This deliverable reports on the support for large scale and multicore simulation in OpenModelica. For speeding up simulations using multicore computers, automatic parallelization can be employed but speedup depends a lot on the model structure. For speeding up compilation and simulation of large models, alternative solutions for solving the systems of equations can be employed, using sparse solvers and DAE instead of ODE solvers. Both solutions have been implemented as prototypes in OpenModelica.


We are grateful to academic colleagues at the University of Sheffield for participating in the core group, questionnaire and workshop. We would like to that participants in the workshop from University of Leeds, Cranfield University, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield City Council, Global to Local and East End Quality of Life Initiative (Sheffield). We are also grateful to the Sustainable Development Research Network for circulating the questionnaire. We would like to thank Isabella Earle, Neil Witney and the steering group at Defra for their helpful comments and suggestions at various stages of this project. Although Defra has commissioned and funded this study, the views expressed in it do not necessarily reflect Defra policy.


Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System (TIRADS) is a simple and reliable reporting system for the prediction of malignancy. We aimed to determine the role of TIRADS in the prediction of malignancy in subcategories of Bethesda Category III, atypia of undetermined significance (AUS) and follicular lesion of undetermined significance (FLUS).


The Project is created for the risk free and client arranged Online Voting System. The Online voting framework is made for the individuals of the nation dwelling the world over and needs to decide in favour of their agent. The political race can be directed in two different ways the paper voting form political decision and the robotized voting form races. The computerized voting form decisions are known as the electronic democratic. The web based democratic framework is profoundly evolved and the internet surveying framework can be supplanted by precisely and legitimately casting a ballot on the web and quick outcomes. The web based democratic framework is finished by the web so it very well may be known as the Internet Voting.


Substantial result of the recipe for the college students' comprehensive wellness; the main point is comprehensive,especially focusing on the practising for the wellness of the hearts and lungs,strength,speed and flexibility of the body.Organizing the students in the spare time,we have done the experiment of the Recipe for the college students' comprehensive wellness for eight weeks. The result of experiment indicates that the speed,strength, flexibility, and the wellness of the hearts and lungs of the college students have been improved evidently, so that it meets the goal of healthiness both of body and soul, and fitness.


Preface Authoritative Resources on the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) Causes of a Financial Crisis Economic Effects of a Budget Deficit Exceeding $1 Trillion Foreign Holdings of Federal Debt Running Deficits: Positives & Pitfalls Foreign Ownership of U.S. Financial Assets: Implications of a Withdrawal Inflation: Causes, Costs, & Current Status Monetary Policy & the Federal Reserve: Current Policy & Conditions Ongoing Government Assistance for American International Group (AIG) Poverty in the United States: 2008 The National Debt: Who Bears its Burden? Interest Payments on the Federal Debt: A Primer Is the U.S. Current Account Deficit Sustainable? U.S. Trade Deficit & the Impact of Changing Oil Prices Trends in Discretionary Spending Outsourcing & Insourcing Jobs in the U.S. Economy: An Overview of Evidence Based on Foreign Investment Data Job Loss & Infrastructure Job Creation Spending During the Recession Index.


The main objective of this article is to develop a scale for measuring the degree of intangibility of a service offering after having first clarified the concept and analysed the various publications that have already appeared on this subject. A survey and a structural equation modelling analysis were conducted to examine the hypothesis of the bidimensionality (both physical and mental) of this concept. Recognising this double dimension of intangibility should be of interest to both managers of service activities and academics working on this area.


The popularization of Internet makes the traditional newspapering change deeply,every large news agency enters network one after another,the interdynamic and cooperation between the media of the network and tradition media display in different levels,different respects.The digigized revolution of the news gathering and editing way is influencing gathering and editting thought,behavior,and habit.The spreading model "hyperlinking"is the greatest characteristic of the network news,and the traditional news writing way has also changed a lot.


This paper aims to examine the evolution of Industrial Research in Italy in the last decades. The analysis provides a survey of the most important contributions in the literature; a careful definition of the concepts "basic, applied and pre-competitive research"; the theoretical foundation of RD an outline of RD an analytical framework of R&D policy in some Italian Regions. The results highlight the role played by the institutional intervention and the influence of UE. In this context, in spite of the law and funds constraints, the measures adopted by Italian Regions are quite numerous at the present time.


Abstract True crime podcasts (TCPs) are increasingly saturating the Australian media landscape. The most downloaded podcast in the country is the TCP, Casefile and overall true crime is a popular podcast genre. Despite this, there is limited Australian research exploring the perspectives of TCP listeners. Using data from a survey of 124 university students, this article identifies popular subject matter, listening patterns and stylistic attributes of TCPs. Additionally, listener motivations and perceptions are identified. This paper highlights the importance of critically examining Australian TCPs as contemporary sites of information and pleasure that the public may regard as authoritative resources on crime.


In the past decade, the role of complementary size, shape, and functionality in the molecular recognition of neutral molecules has been pointed out. Artificial receptor molecules have been designed with multiple recognition sites and a well-defined geometry, capable of strong and selective binding of the appropriate substrates by hydrogen bonding, ionic interaction, and/or hydrophobic interactions. 2-8 Rebek et al.2 have used molecular clefts with acidic functions for the complexation of diamines, such as imidazole. Our group has shown that additional hydrogen-bond donors9 or electrophilic metal centers,10 incorporated in the cavities of macrocyclic polyethers, improve strongly the complexation of urea. This type of cocomplexation of a neutral guest by a host molecule either by hydrogen bonding or by coordination with a metal ion, is frequently observed in (metal1o)enzymes.


Brewing for nearly three years,the"new medical reform program"was finally passed in early 2009;its overall goal is to establish basic medical health systems covering urban and rural residents to achieve universal access to basic medical and health services.As a special intermediate group between rural residents and city residents,the peasant workers in our country, however,are often excluded from domestic insurance systems due to their particular identities and occupations.Solving the medical insurance problem of the peasant workers is vital to the construction of multi-level medical insurance systems for all citizens.The paper introduces local governments'quests and practical measures for the peasant workers' medical insurance,and points out the contradictions and problems about the peasant workers' medical insurance modes in new medical reform program.Moreover,it pictures the prospects of the reform orientation and development road of the peasant workers'medical insurance in the future.


The necessity to implement a geolocation system for pets is originate from the problems that currently exist with respect to loss or theft of pets. The idea of designing and developing this system is proposed with the aim of offering an alternative to protect the welfare of pets.The present project includes the design and implementation of a two-part pet geolocation system; a module based on Arduino and a web portal based on Drupal CMS, connected to each other through web service to manage and share in social networks the geographical location of a pet. The methodology selected for the development and management of the project was Scrum, as it is good for small teams as well as projects with risks of changes during the process therefore allows to know the real state of progress of the project through feedback and a graphic burndown Chart.


The current scientific framework contemplates substantial modifications in the special relativity (SR). Its incompatibility with quantum gravity and the research that has triggered the violation of the Lorentz Invariance is a clear example of the emerging controversy. In the light of the modifications that have been proposed to the SR, this paper suggests a new perspective of relativism. We study the time interval required in the transmission of an electromagnetic wave between two particles with a relative movement. Using the symmetry of the system, a factor that relates the sending and receiving time intervals is obtained, showing that they are not equal according to the observers. We study the compatibility of these surprising results with the SR, posing a novel notion of time that until now may have gone unnoticed.


The measurement of vehicle modal emissions is technically challenging due to the major issue of determining exhaust gas mass flow rate and ensuring that it is synchronous with the emission measurement of that corresponding "slug" of exhaust gas. This is very evident when attempting to measure small passive NOx catalyst conversion efficiencies. This paper highlights alignment issues with regard to the variation of time delays associated with engine and vehicle events and the CO\d2 tracer method for determining exhaust gas flows.


This paper discusses squint synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging in the near space platform and proposes an improved Secondary Range Compression (SRC) Algorithm, Subaperture Secondary Range Compression (SSRC) Algorithm. The key step is to use the subaperture approach in the SRC algorithm. First, the original signals are divided into subapertures in the azimuth direction of the time domain to image independently, and then the sub-bands of the frequency domain are combined to form the final SAR image. The method reduces coupling in the range and azimuth direction of the echo signal under the squint imaging mode, and addresses the problems of squint SAR in near space including overlong synthetic aperture and motion error. Simulation through point targets demonstrates the improvement in azimuth resolution, ISLR and PSLR, which verifies the effectiveness of this proposed SSRC algorithm in near space squint SAR imaging.


This research aims to determine the effect of company size, profitability and liquidity on corporate internet reporting timeliness which is focused on manufacture companies that listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX). Population of this study uses manufacture companies that listed on IDX period 2018, which uses purposive sampling as the method to choose samples. 122 manufacture companies are selected as the samples of this research. Data analysis techniques in this research used ordinal logistic regression that has previously been fulfilled goodness fit and parallel lines test. The result of this research is company size has a negative effect on corporate internet reporting timeliness that causes corporate internet reporting timelines of the samples' companies become shorter, which means better timeliness meanwhile profitability and liquidity do not affect corporate internet reporting timeliness of samples' companies.


A method for testing of materials by means of thermal radiation, wherein - the thermal radiation of a periodically varying in intensity according to a first excitation frequency heat radiator is emitted to a test object to be tested in a first measuring process, - this is thereby periodically heated and excited to perform a self-emission of thermal radiation, - is created by means of a thermal camera, a thermal image of the test object, - is created from the means of a timer unit, a phase image of the test object by one phase is shown for each picture element, which describes a measured for this point time interval as the difference between the timing of a modulated to a predetermined value temperature of the heat source and a point in time one assigned to this predetermined temperature measured surface temperature of the test object results, wherein a synopsis of all the picture elements of a thermal image of the test object is created as phase image only after a settling time which is the time within which an observable test object due to the periodic heating only ...


The Creating Shared Value (CSV) program as an alternative to the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program provides options that allow companies to increase competitiveness while stimulating inclusive growth in reducing the poverty of farming families. This study examines the CSV program by looking at farmers' interests and the impact of the CSV program on banana commodities in Tanggamus Regency, Lampung Province. This study uses primary data obtained from surveys of 60 partner and non-partner farmers and in-depth interviews with 18 people involved in the existing business model. This research was conducted in March-April 2020. The data were analyzed descriptively. The results showed that the CSV program had been implemented in the location. In this CSV program, farmers get assistance from the company and certainty of selling banana products at an agreed price. However, not all farmers are interested in the program for various reasons, including due to limited land, limited time available, and farmers who do not want to be bound by work agreements. The impact of the CSV program on the banana commodity on household farmers' income has not been significant because bananas are not the primary source of livelihood for household farmers. The policy implication is that the CSV program can be an alternative to CSR programs. However, the success of this program also needs to consider the profile and the sources of livelihoods of farmers to ensure that farmers' interest and involvement can be more optimal.


In this piece of communication, numerical heat transfer and fluid flow in a Darcy porous enclosure are investigated. The right wavy wall is maintained at a constant low temperature, with the top and bottom preserved thermally insulated, while the left vertical wall is uniformly heated. The governing equations for non-dimensional systems are solved using the Galerkin finite element method; a local thermal non-equilibrium appears between the base fluid and porous matrix. The effects of interface heat transfer parameter [Formula: see text] along with porosity of porous media [Formula: see text], Rayleigh-Darcy number [Formula: see text], and parameters involving waviness of cavities, such as the number of undulations in a unit length [Formula: see text] and amplitude of the wave [Formula: see text] are investigated. The results show that increment waviness augments heat transfer enhancement for fluid and solid phases. The local thermal equilibrium cases for various parameters are pointed out at a 5% significance level of the average temperature difference between the two phases.


As the most important law of any democratic country,the Constitution is different from other laws in the value. After all,the Constitution and other laws satisfy men from respective valleys. The Constitution is cardinal and macroscopic,which decides that it must regard order as the first value,that is to say,order should be realized at first.


Current gesture recognition systems exist some issues such as high complexity algorithm,inconvenient for embedded transplant. A gesture recognition algorithm based on depth image is proposed. Pretreat depth image from SR4000 to get goals and skeletonized. Extract coordinates and ground clearance of endpoint,calculate skeleton linear distance,identify endpoint based on skeleton linear distance so as to recognize a large number of gesture after connection with certain features. Eight actions of traffic police as an example to verify the algorithm.Experiments show that the algorithm has low complexity and high identify rate.


Makdisi's important work traces the development and organisational structure of learning institutions in Islam, and reassesses scholarship on the origins and growth of the Madrasa.


Objective: To establish tuberculosis mice models by using no pathogenic mycobacteria smegmatis mc2155. Methods:High dose mycobacteria smegmatis mc2155(5×107CFU) were injected in mice abdominal of C57 BL / 6 cavity injection once per day for 4 successive weeks, so that to observe the pathogenic of mycobacteria smegmatis in mice. Inflammatory changes of lung tissue sections were observed by hematoxylin and eosin stain(HE stainning); Specibility acid-fast staining method was used to identify infection capability and vitality of mycobacteria smegmatis in C57BL/6 mice lung and spleen tissue after infection 2 week and 4 week. Finally,bacteria DNA in lung and spleen tissue cuture was extracted and mycobacterial smegmatis specific glyceraldehyde 3- phosphoric acid dehydrogenase gene(gap) were amplied by using PCR method. The feasibility of using non-infectious mycobacteria smegmatis to establish tuberculosis mice models were explored according to the above three aspects detection. Results: At the time of infection 2 week,it was observed rod shape mycobacteria smegmatis by using specibility oxychromatic staining in C57BL/6 mice spleen tissue culture,instead of the lung tissue. After 4 week, pathological changes for most of the alveolar cavity filled with neutrophils inflammatory lesions.Rod shape bacteria were observed by using specibility acid-fast staining in C57BL/6 mice lung tissue and spleen tissue culture. The specific glyceraldehyde 3-phosphoric acid dehydrogenase gene(gap) of mycobacteria smegmatis was amplied in the lung homogenate of model mice, instead spleen tissue and the control group was not. Conclusions: C57 BL / 6 mice tuberculosis model was established successfully by intraperitoneal injection method of non-pathogenic mycobacteria smegmatis. This method provides security disease models for interaction studies about mycobacterium tuberculosis and host cell.


Recently, Pena & Shokeir (1974) and Preus & Fraser (1974) described a new syndrome of multiple congenital malformations, including abnormalities of the brain, eyes, face and skeleton. The abbreviation 'COFS' (Cerebro Oculo Facio Skeletal) has been suggested. Parental consanguinity was established in two out of four known families: in the family of Preus & Fraser the parents were first-cousins; and in Family 1 of Pena & Shokeir, a multiple consanguineous mating was established. These observations support the view that the COFS syndrome is a disorder with an autosomalrecessive type of inheritance. We have recently observed a child with the COFS syndrome. This girl was also born in a family where there was parental consanguinity. The purpose of this article is to present our case of the COFS syndrome and to describe the internal malformations of the proposita and the pedigree of the family.


The existence of the current sheet and the dawn to dusk electric field in the geomagnetic tail implies there is particle energization in the tail current sheet of the order 2--10% of the total solar wind energy incident upon the dayside magnetopause. In this paper we determine that ion acceleration in a current sheet with a small magnetic field across the sheet, via single-particle motion which violates the guiding center approximation, can account for this large energization in the tail. We calculate the distribution of accelerated ions which result from the urrent sheet acceleration and compare the results with distributions of accelerated ions frequently observed flowing earthwards along the outer boundary of the plasma sheet. The comparison indicates that the observed earthward flowing ions result from current sheet acceleration. Comparison with measurements of auroral ion predictions at low precipitation at low altitudes implies that the accelerated ions ejected from the current sheet are also an important source of auroral ion precipitation. In addition, these acceletated ions may be an important source of plasma sheet ions.


In recognition of the value associated with project management experience, a step was taken to incorporate a formal leadership exercise into a junior‐level undergraduate biochemistry lab. This effort was combined with a reorientation of the lab toward research‐like exercises. The research‐like exercises took advantage of tissue by‐products from faculty research, namely, tissues from rats that had been fed liquid diets containing alcohol and other drugs. As alcohol creates oxidative stress, the focus of the biochemistry exercises was the response of various tissues through an enzyme like catalase which eliminates a reactive oxygen species. Students select a tissue and then move through subcellular fractionation, protein determination, and characterization of the enzyme activity, along with characterization of the fraction by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Different teams have different treatment groups. The outcomes are largely unknown, testing of each procedure is required and the plan for each step requires some level of fine‐tuning and optimization. This is where the leadership exercise developed. Students work in groups of 3 with the team leader rotated with each change in technique. Each actual lab session encompasses a minimum of two lab periods. In the first lab period, only the team leaders attend. They work through the plan for the exercise individually under the supervision of the instructor and yet they work together toward the common goal of developing the procedure that their team will then use. In the second lab period, each leader directs their team, with the instructor largely observing the performance of the team leaders.


Resistivity measurements on good purity polycrystalline praseodymium are reported for temperatures from 4 K to the ice-point. Many of the features of the temperature-dependence can be accounted for satisfactorily for the first time. The discovery of a conspicuous anomaly at 22.2 K is correlated with an antiferromagnetic-paramagnetic transition in the dhcp crystal structure. The magnetic resistivity is separated from the phonon resistivity and found to have an unusual variation with temperature. This is understandable in terms of the effect on the magnetic resistivity of the crystalline field in splitting the ground state of the magnetic praseodymium ions.


The authors review the bulk of studies concerned with assessment of self-concept of mentally handicapped adults. Special reference is given to Schurr's (1970) paper which offered pointers for research which have been largely ignored. This review suggests a direction and focus for future research.


Sand is an essential need for all kind of construction work. Due to increase in population, large amount of construction is being done. Usually sand is taken from sand mill and river beds in delta regions. When the amount of sand taken exceeds the maximum limit from the sand mill or the river beds without permission, is called "Sand theft". Due to this, the environment is affected greatly. Especially, during annual monsoon rains, due to lack of sand the dam supports lose their mechanical strength. Hence, the dam structure breaks out and we are not able to save the freshwater for upcoming summer. At present, there is no other prevention method available other than security officers. So we propose a system to monitor the amount of sand extraction in legal and illegal areas by image processing and RFID based techniques. In the legal section, when the weight of the loaded vehicle exceeds the maximum limit set by the government, then the toll mechanism will not operate and the automatic buzzer alert message will be implemented. In the illegal section, captured vehicle's image is processed and the collected data will be updated in IOT. Hence the particular authorized person can view the status of sand theft.


Tax and expenditure limitations (TELs) imposed on state and local governments is a popular policy approach to limit the growth in government. At the same time these limits may hinder the ability of state and local governments to provide services and make investments in public infrastructure. We test the relationship between state-level TEL restrictiveness and the United State's network of highway bridges. We generally find that more restrictive TELs have a weak negative impact on the percentage of bridges deemed structurally deficient but a positive impact on the percentage of bridges deemed functionally obsolete. The states with the most restrictive TELs, those that restrict both revenues and expenditures, tend to have a smaller share of their bridges that are either structurally deficient of functionally obsolete.


We introduce a new technique for constructing three-dimensional models of incompressible Riemann S-type ellipsoids and compressible triaxial configurations that share the same velocity field as that of Riemann S-type ellipsoids. Our incompressible models are exact steady-state configurations; our compressible models represent approximate steady-state equilibrium configurations. Models built from this method can be used to study a variety of relevant astrophysical and geophysical problems.


As correctional philosophies, programs, economic issues, and available technology have undergone change, so has correctional facility design. In fact, prison design has an important place in most correctional philosophies. The stated purposes and objectives of a correctional system often dictate the use of specific types of physical facilities. Similarly, the physical design may limit or enhance the implementation of operational policies and philosophies. The physical layout of correctional facilities often influences or even necessitates specific styles of management and administration. Of particular importance, correctional philosophies and their representative physical designs have undergone considerable change during the past twenty years.


Nowadays due to the lifestyle modifications and the lat st advancements in the Indian Society, Mass Media has the greatest impact on he public, children, and the young students (Schools and Colleges). This paper nalyses the positive as well as negative impact of the mass media on them using Fuz zy Relational Maps (FRMs). This paper consists of four sections. Section 1 g ives the introduction of the topic. Section 2 is devoted to the description of the prob lem. Section 3 contains the Fuzzy analysis of the problem using FRM model. In Section 4, the conclusions based on the study are presented.


Abstract The Teachers Conceptions of Assessment Inventory was used to investigate New Zealand teachers' beliefs about assessment. The participating sample comprised teachers who work almost exclusively at the senior level of high school and are responsible for school-based assessment programmes that contribute at least 50% of students' final grades towards qualifications. Factor analyses showed that these teachers had conceptions of assessment that were more similar to those of teachers in countries with qualifications systems based on high-stakes examinations than to a more general sample of participants in previous New Zealand research. In particular, there was a strong positive correlation between the formative views of assessment and the view that assessment promotes student accountability. The study revealed ecological influences on teachers' conceptions of assessment, as well as tensions that arise between formative and summative views of assessment, when teachers are responsible for assessment contributing to national qualifications.


Technology transfer activities are usually carried out by a large manufacturing company, but now the trend is starting to shift to the micro, small, and medium enterprises (SMEs), especially those in the creative field. Currently, there are no rules or national standard rules that could serve as guidelines for all the science and technology R & D institutions and / or colleges for the orderly administration in the transfer of technology from the producer to the user. The fact is happening today is the implementation of the transfer of technology in Indonesia is still very low, both nationally and internationally. Rachmat Gobel said that so far the government has not sufficiently comprehensive policy to strengthen the depth of industry structure that will sustain the future development of national industry, including technology transfer and R & D (Andrian, 2008). Conditions that occur in Riau related to technology is the limitation experienced by the industry players; as one example is the clothing business. Production technology in Pekanbaru has not been able to support the development of this business. Employers choose to do production in Bandung, because according to them the quality of products derived from Bandung better, cheaper, and more sophisticated technology.


In this paper, we propose a method based on the received power profile for diver position estimation in shallow sea using electromagnetic waves, and verify it by pseudo-scale model experiments. In our verification, we extract three regions in the sea where divers may exist based on the information of the diver's depth and the 1 dB margin of the received power, and examine the position estimation method to select the overlapping region.


This article explores the advantages and pitfalls of specialist equipment markets. It argues that very close customer-manufacturer relations are an important advantage of such markets, and these can become a source of competitive advantage that should be pursued and exploited by the small, ambitious, high-tech business. The argument is illustrated with reference to three companies, Quantel, Solid State Logic and Oxford Instruments.


© 2006 The Authors. Journal Compilation © 2006 The Nautical Archaeology Society 167 and 'History of Art'. A presentation of an artefact from the collections and the papers from a symposium of German-Icelandic Fisheries History rounds off the volume. Or special interest to this reviewer is a paper by Ossowski and Krapiec on the wrecks found at Tolkmicko in Poland. Six wrecks, clinker-built and iron-fastened have been located and partly excavated. C-14 dates place the vessels in the late-15th or early16th century; dendrochronology supports the dates and indicates that most of the oak was cut locally. The use of iron rivets instead of treenails as strake fastenings indicate that the vessels were built by the people known as Prussians. Springmann's paper continues the discussion on the criteria for identifying a vessel as a cog, and also publishes some interesting new iconographic material. The paper clearly illustrates the problems arising when the ship-names known from medieval written sources are applied to archaeological finds. The new material includes a huge silver model from a church in St Petersburg, and several paintings from churches. The latter contain examples of early 3-masted vessels. The St Petersburg model is so far not dated properly, and more information is needed before its source value can be judged properly. Wolfgang Rudolph has a followup paper on his series on boat-engine building in Germany, this time looking at the harbour smith who early turned his skills from forging anchors and rudder pintles to the repair and small-scale building of engines for fishing boats. One of the lectures given at the symposium on German-Icelandic fisheries relations ought to interest British readers: Gudni Th. Johannesson's 'Did he matter? The colourful Andrew Gilchrist and the first Cod War between Britain and Iceland 1958–61'. As ambassador to Reykjavik, Gilchrist played an active role in the first cod war, including playing bagpipes on the gramophone as an Icelandic mob started to throw stones at the embassy building. As usual, the book is well produced. Apart from the lectures, all papers are in German, with English and French summaries.


The prognosis of cutaneous angiosarcoma (CAS), especially for patients with tumours > 5 cm has been reported to be dismal, even after conventional surgery and radiotherapy (S + RT).


Context: In the face of increasing number of relapse cases of schizophrenia, sufficient work is not available in Bangladesh. Aims: To find out the common factors of relapse of schizophrenia in Bangladesh and to find out the relationship of relapse of schizophrenia with sociodemographic characteristics. Settings and Design: Cross-sectional descriptive study; Department of Psychiatry, Combined Military Hospital, Dhaka, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Dhaka and Psychiatry department of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), Dhaka. Materials and Methods: Data from 50 relapse patients receiving treatment of schizophrenia were collected, from April 2018 to September 2018. Statistical Analysis Used: The data were processed and analyzed with the help of computer program SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) win version 16. Results: The mean age was 31.16 (±10.59) years ranging from 14 to 55 years. Majority of the respondents 70% (n=35) were under 35 years. 62% (n=31) of the respondents were male and 38% (n=19) were female. 96% (n=48) of the respondents were Muslims. 52% (n=26) of the respondents were married and 46% (n=23) were unmarried. 46% (n=23) were from rural background and 54% (n=27) of the respondents were from urban background. 40% (n=20) of the respondents were from lower class, 52% (n=26) were from middle class, and only 8% (n=4) were from higher class. 56% (n=28) of the respondents had perceived stressful life events and 44% (n=22) of the respondents had no such history. 52% (n=26) of the patients had experienced high expressed emotion and 48% (n=24) had low expressed emotion. Among the 50 relapsed schizophrenia patients, only 26% (n=13) had full compliance, 30% (n=15) had full noncompliance and rest had partial compliance. There was no significant relationship between educational status and medication compliance in the current study. The study revealed significant association with lower social class and presumptive stressful life events. Conclusions: This study highlighted the perceptions of schizophrenic patients and their caregivers about factors that influence relapse. It indicated that stressful life events, high expressed emotion, and non-compliance to medication had a role in relapse. This study provides information about socio-demographic and other related factors which can offer important guideline for future study. Adherence to antipsychotic medication, reducing high expressed emotion and stressful life events protect patients from relapse.


To the Editor: In the last decade, major advances in intraoperative functional mapping have dramatically improved the results of brain surgery. When removing a brain tumor, it is common clinical practice to awaken the patient and temporarily inactivate small (approximately 5 mm) brain regions with electrical stimuli, while the patient performs functional tasks. If the patient produces incorrect responses, the surgeon leaves the region intact, to preserve the patient's functional abilities (3). This procedure allows the surgeon to minimize the residual morbidity while increasing the quality of the resection, and the net result is to improve overall patient survival. However, although sensorimotor and cognitive functions such as language, memory, or calculation have been extensively mapped intraoperatively, visuospatial functions have received less attention. Unilateral spatial neglect (USN) is a dramatic neurological condition resulting from damage affecting the temporoparietal or frontal cortex, or the thalamus or basal ganglia of the right hemisphere (1). Patients with unilateral spatial neglect behave as if the left part of the world does not exist (2). Their functional recovery is poor, and they endure major clinical and social consequences. USN typically results from vascular stroke, but other etiologies are possible. For example, USN was reported after a patient received right inferior parietal cortectomy for intractable epilepsy (4). Although this particular patient recovered from neglect after 2 years, other neurosurgical patients risk suffering from chronic USN as a result of more extensive, corticosubcortical resections, especially as required for cerebral glioma. In a recent series of eight patients who underwent resection of a glioma confined to the right parietal lobe (5), no new USN was clinically observed postoperatively, but there was no formal neuropsychological testing performed, and it is well known that USN may not be apparent at clinical observation (2). To prevent the occurrence of USN in these patients, we propose intraoperative assessment of visuospatial function by asking patients to bisect 20-cm horizontal lines (Fig. 1). If the patient shifts the subjective center more than approximately 6.5 mm rightward (1), then the neurosurgeon leaves the inactivated area untouched. Using this procedure, we were able to avoid postoperative USN in two patients (ages, 27 and 28 years) who underwent resection of low-grade gliomas in the right temporoparietal region (6). These left-handed patients were awakened during surgery because there was functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence of partial language representation in the right hemisphere. Patients gave their informed consent, FIGURE 1. Line bisection tasks performed during brain surgery are simple and feasible. Under test conditions, a 20-cm line (not shown) is presented, aligned to the subjects' eye axis, in a central position with respect to the patient's sagittal head plane. The Role of Electrothrombosis in the GDC Technique


Software defect detection has been an important topic of research in the field of software engineering for more than a decade. This research work aims to evaluate the performance of supervised machine learning techniques on predicting defective software through data mining algorithms. This paper places emphasis on the performance of classification algorithms in categorizing seven datasets (CM1, JM1, MW1, KC3, PC1, PC2, PC3 and PC4) under two classes namely Defective and Normal. In this study, publicly available data sets from different organizations are used. This permitted us to explore the impact of data from different sources on different processes for finding appropriate classification models. We propose a computational framework using data mining techniques to detect the existence of defects in software components. The framework comprises of data pre-processing, data classification and classifier evaluation. In this paper; we report the performance of twenty classification algorithms on seven publicly available datasets from the NASA MDP Repository. Random Tree Classification algorithm produced 100 percent accuracy in classifying the datasets and hence the features selected by this technique were considered to be the most significant features. The results were validated with suitable test data.


This paper presents a preliminary investigation into the cultural influences on social media use of middle class mothers in India. We focus on the interplay of cultural beliefs, norms, and social and familial structures that shape their perceptions which in turn influence information sharing and seeking, and social capital building. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 23 middle class mothers in India and found that cultural practices, traditions, and the presence of trusted offline strong-tie networks influenced their social media engagement.


Domestic buildings exposed to traffic and environmental noise has always been a major concern. Among various noise control measures, ventilation windows offer appealing features by simultaneously allowing good sound attenuation and air ventilation. However, the modeling of such systems is challenging in that the simulation tools should cope with the complexity of the system; to reach reasonably high frequency range; and to offer the flexibility needed for system optimization. In the present study, the sound transmission through a double-glazed ventilation window is investigated using the patch transfer function method along with a handy treatment of the air aperture and micro-perforated elements. Numerical results show the sound insulation performance can be improved with internal partial partitions, which can be either solid or micro-perforated.


PURPOSE: To obtain the corresponding hydroxylamino sugar and hydroxylamino acid in high yield from an amino sugar and amino acid having many substd. groups without changing the other substd. groups. CONSTITUTION: Aliphatic non-axial hydroxylamines are prepared from the corresponding aliphatic non-axial prim. amines comprising a step for preparing a reaction mixture by mixing an excess of aliphatic non-axial prim. amines with dialkyl dioxiranes having 2-6C in all in the dialkyl groups, and a step for maintaining the reaction mixture for a sufficient time to form the corresponding hydroxylamine. COPYRIGHT: (C)1994,JPO


Informed by alcohol myopia theory and Leonard's heuristic model of intimate partner violence (IPV), we hypothesized that alcohol problems would positively relate to IPV among men with high, but not low, trait jealousy. We collected cross-sectional, self-report data from 74 men arrested for domestic violence and court-ordered to batterer intervention programs (BIP). Alcohol problems positively related to physical and sexual IPV among men with high, but not low, trait jealousy. Results provide preliminary support for the need for BIP to target both jealousy-related cognitions and alcohol problems. Future research should investigate jealousy in relation to alcohol-related IPV.


This research was conducted to evaluate the ISO 9001: 2015 Quality Management System at PT. Wellgan Gemilang. The implementation of the ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System (QMS) at PT. Wellgan begins with a decision (Gap Analysis) between the requirements of the ISO 9001: 2015 QMS and the fulfillment of the documents which PT. Wellgan has and the implementation of the company. The results of the initial gap analysis were 61.97%, still requiring fulfillment of ISO 9001:2015 requirements by making documents which are required by ISO 9001: 2015. QMS. The design and manufacturing of documents are document control, design and development, inappropriate product control, Audit Internal and management meetings. The socialization of the implementation of ISO 9001:2015 QMS has been carried out by Top Management and all staff of PT. Wellgan Gemilang. Evaluating the effectiveness of implementing ISO 9001: 2015 QMS has been done by conducting an internal audit. Internal audit results found 1 minor findings (the system did not run properly) and 12 observations (increases). The findings of 1 minor and 12 observations shows that PT. Wellgan were effective in implementing ISO 9001: 2015. The final gap analysis shows that the fulfillment of costs based on the ISO 9001: 2015 clause is 91.43%.


In any country or society is not free from conflict also. While it is natural that is to present conflict in democratized society., but continuing conflict is acting as a factor inhibiting the social integration and safety. These conflicts are immediately led to a waste of government finance. In this study, we analyze the type of conflict perception of residents for the Keum river estuary seawater circulation case. For conflict management, analysis and understanding of the stakeholders is important. Therefore, we analyzed the perception type of local residents based on the Q-methodology. And through the Q-methodology it has been defined in the three types of "seawater circulation-oriented type", "reconsideration type of part seawater circulation" and "spurring type to promote interest of local residents". To conflict cases entering the plateau, starting point of the problem is not in the region emotion. It was possible to confirm that they are all sympathy even in seawater circulation. In this study, by utilizing the Q-methodology, the analysis of the conflict perception of the stakeholders were presented the policy implications that reflects all of the qualitative information and quantitative information. So, this study is expected as a new approach that it is can be added utility in conflict management.


Over the last fifteen years a quiet revolution in physics occurred. This was the result of an effort to build quantum computers; and while that effort itself was in no way "quiet" (even against the background of the LHC, Higgs boson and string theory), its most significant outcome to date is not something well publicized. All the same, the result is revolutionary indeed. As it turns out, one actually can create quite macroscopic systems which display essentially quantum behaviour-and there seems to be no fundamental barrier on our ability to make such systems bigger and bigger. The real impact of this revolution will be not so much on science (after all, we just keep obtaining results, which agree with normal quantum mechanics) or technology (we already have got more than enough Great Seals of England to crack nuts with), as on philosophy. Many questions about "reality", "objectivity", "existence", etc., imposed on us by quantum mechanics, could remain until now the speculations of a small community, while the rest of physicists happily shut-up and calculated. Now, it seems, these questions must be confronted, and with the clear understanding that the common language of physicists may be inadequate to deal with them.


Human blood is made up primarily of water. Water is significantly involved in balancing the human body. It affects the component of blood like mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH), mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC), and mean platelets volume (MPV). The water concentration varies from 80 to 90% in blood. The change in water concentration changes the refractive index of plasma, and the change in the refractive index of plasma also changes the refractive index of blood. The proposed structure is designed to analyze the water concentration in human blood by analyzing the shifting in resonant peak and this shifting is processed by machine learning algorithm to estimate the concentration of water in human blood. Nanocavity ring structures in the waveguide region are designed as sensing nodes in this proposed structure. The air hole radius of these Nanocavity ring structures is 80 and 50 nm, whereas the proposed structure's dimension is 12.15 by 8.45 μm2. The sensitivity of the design structure is 570 nm/RIU, and the quality factor is 650. The structure is simulated through the Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method.


Nonsurgical treatment (radiotherapy, imiquimod) is increasingly employed for the management of lentigo maligna (LM). While the diagnosis of LM remains difficult, the detection of treatment failure is even more challenging.


China's centralized political system has tried to adapt to alien decentralized markets in the past few decades, and the economic role of government is at the centre of the adaptation. This paper compares the economic role of Chinese government now to that in the early 1990s, and finds that the Chinese government does not always adjust its economic role to accommodate market reforms. In some cases, reforms had been reluctantly allowed but reverted soon after they served the intended purposes. In the case of capital market development, the government is only willing to accept very limited changes. Financial liberalization seems to be inconsistent with China's centralized political system because financial market volatilities can lead to uncontrollable political risks and a well-functioned capital market can impose hard budget constraints on local governments, both of which are regarded as undesirable because they will weaken state capacity.


Bilingualism in children with Down syndrome (DS) is an under-studied topic. Some professionals counsel families to restrict input to a single language for children with DS because there are delays present even when only one language is being learned. The purpose of the current study was to provide more information about the ability of children with DS to learn two languages. Such evidence is important for guiding clinical decisions. The morphosyntactic and vocabulary skills in English and French of four bilingual children with DS were analyzed and compared individually to that of a typically developing bilingual child and a monolingual child with DS. The children in each triad were matched on nonverbal mental age and exposure to a second language. While language delays were evidenced in both languages for the bilingual children with DS, no consistent effect of bilingualism was seen. All four bilingual children with DS were developing functional second language skills. Current input accounted for much of the variability in English versus French language skills. These fi ndings provide families and professionals with information that will assist them in making appropriate decisions for children with DS.


The Capstone Project was conducted at Harwood Union High School, a school of about 550 students. I worked with two standard algebra-based physics classes. In the two months before the treatment began, I saw that many of the students lacked in basic algebra and trigonometry skills. So along with teaching and evaluating physics concepts, I would also be appraising students' math and problem solving skills as part of the research. The Literature Homework has been controversial for as long as public education has been around. During the first half of the 20th century it was thought that it was harmful to children and unfair to parents (Gill & Schlossman,1996). This changed after Sputnik when educators thought that there was a lack of rigor in public education, especially in the sciences. The anti-homework movement was back by the 1980's when learning theorists thought it could be harming students' mental health (Marzano & Pickering, 2007). Despite the controversy however, there is evidence that homework, along with parent involvement, does have a positive association with academic achievement (Maltese, 2012). The Method


Recent investigations have demonstrated that critical advantages which are going to be accomplished in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) with illustration in mobile sink to gather information from sensor nodes by utilizing small range communications. A portable sink is avehicle or a versatile robot furnished with an intense handsethaving expansive battery and memory. As the deployment of sensor nodes is mostly random, the WSN splits into number of disconnected subnetworks. To address this issue, we deploy a mobile sink which travels through the selected polling points (locations) and collects data. Selection of polling points is strictlybased on the availability of number of sensor nodes. Sincethe collection of data from sensor nodes is done via single hopcommunication, accuracy of collected data is expected tobe maintained and data delivery latency is reduced. We aim todesign a path for mobile sink where both tour length and energyconsumption of sensor nodes is minimized. In Simulation results, we can see that the proposed algorithm performs better than some of the well-known existing algorithms described in the literature survey.


The derivative of a function of a variable is a measure of the rate at which the value of the function changes with respect to the change of the variable. It is called the derivative of f with respect to . If and are real numbers, and if the graph of is plotted against , the derivative is the slope of this graph at each point. In this article are presented some problems of maximum and minimum with application the differential calculus the first order of derivative determine the extremes of the functions and the second order of derivative the concavity and convexity.


Abstract The present paper presents a Gabor filtering approach for the automatic inspection of defects in coloured texture surfaces. It can simultaneously measure both chromatic and textural anomalies in an image. Two chromatic features derived from the CIE–L*a*b* colour space are used to form a complex number for colour pixel representation. The proposed method is based on the energy response from the convolution of a Gabor filter with the colour image characterized by two chromatic features in the form of a complex number. The Gabor filtering process converts the difficult defect detection in a coloured texture image into simple threshold segmentation in the filtered image. Experimental results from a number of coloured texture surfaces such as textile fabric, wood and tile have shown the effectiveness of the proposed method.


In the world we are living today, just knowing the methods of performing a certain task is not important. The procedure is equally necessary to be known and implemented. Conducting research and finding out the best and most efficient algorithm is needed to begin with, but after that implementing that algorithm is also a major part of the research. Summarization and visualization alike, have many different algorithms and libraries that are included for implementation. For summarization, there are certain important steps that are followed. Since, this paper is based on aspect-based summarization, so aspect tagging along with the sentiment classification is done using neural networks techniques. Visualization is a simple but confusing process. It consists of various libraries that are used according to the requirement of the output. The complications in visualizing arise when the dimensions and the basis of pictorial representation have to be identified. In this work, we have used Recurrent Neural Network technique for aspect tagging and Convolutional Neural Network for sentiment classification. This work mainly focuses on summarization of customer reviews of restaurants based on aspects.


Abstract Equations have been developed for conformal mapping of the triaxial ellipsoid. These include exact closed differential equations which meet the constraints of scale and angular distortion. The differential equations are integrated by relatively standard numerical methods, with which constant coefficients of series may be obtained. These series converge rapidly for nearly spherical ellipsoids, but also converge for other existing figures. The triaxial equivalent of the Mercator projection is directly obtained, but other conformal projections may be plotted by using "conformal" latitudes and "conformal" longitudes.


An experiment was conducted to study the allelopathic potential of old orchard soils on the seedling growth of rough lemon. Soils from the root zone spheres of eight orchards of mango, aonla, peach, pomegranate, citrus, pear, ber, guava and virgin soil as a control was used for raising the seedlings. The rough lemon Jatti khatti seedlings of one and a half year old raised in aonla, ber and peach orchard soil as growing media showed the reduction in shoot length (40-50%), leaf number (46-63%), leaf area/ plant (62-69%) and shoot dry weight (79-83%). The root length was most inhibited by ber, aonla and peach orchard soils. The percent reduction in root dry weight (11.2334.48%) of the seedling was not in equal proportion to reduction in root volume (42.5555.86%). Root dry weight density varied between 0.55-0.96 g mL-1 and root: shoot ratio between 1.42-1.82. Whereas, in citrus, mango, pomegranate, ber and guava orchard soils, the percent reduction in root dry weight was in equal proportion to root volume and root dry weight density varied between 0.41-0.49 g mL-1 and root: shoot ratio between 0.44-0.72. The shoot and root growth of the seedlings was at par when raised in citrus and pomegranate orchard soil as growing media. Leaf N and P contents increased, whereas, Ca and Mg decreased in all the orchard soils except citrus and pomegranate orchard soils as growing media. Leaf Fe, Cu and Mn contents in all the orchard soils as growing media were in toxic range except citrus and pomegranate orchard soils. Overall, the orchard soils of deciduous fruit plants showed more allelopathic effect than the soils growing evergreen fruit plants in citrus cultivation.


Aiming at the problem that the impedance of the probe is prone to non-linear changes when applied to the bulk current injection test replacing high field intensity radiation, the linearity test of the existing commercial current probe is carried out by analyzing the method of large current injection. The test results show that as the injected power increases, the linearity error at different frequencies also increases. A plan for the development of a high-power and high-linearity current probe was proposed, and the probe was developed and passed the test. The self-developed current injection probe has a maximum withstand power of 500 W. The insertion loss varies with the injected power and has good linearity (0.3 dB @ 1−500 W). The probe can meet the technical requirements of carrying out bulk current injection (equivalent high field electromagnetic radiation effect) test.


The theory of advective effects is extended to include localization effects, due both to the attenuation of light with depth in the ocean and to nutrient transport into the euphotic zone of finite duration in time and/or over a limited horizontal domain. Nutrient uptake is also generalized to nonlinear Michaelis–Menten kinetics. The characteristic curves are solved for explicitly, and a symbolic general solution is obtained for arbitrary biological dynamics. Some exemplary results are presented for the effect of light, nutrient, and grazing limitations on primary productivity in an NPZ–model. The theory is now applicable to further studies of more realistic oceanic processes.


The article aims to investigate the evolutionary dynamics and critical issues emerging around makerspace communities, collaborative design and prototyping spaces whose practices have radically impacted the world of education, enterprise and social innovation.
Through an exploratory approach, experts from the maker movement and design students have been involved to understand the health of the model underlying makerspaces. The perspective of the research is to graft the debate on the forms of these practices into the dichotomy between physical and digital, socialization practices of design and the ability of these bottom-up models to work on complex solutions.
A list of recurring conditions occurring at the time of the creation of these communities has been elaborated. The discussion then covers risks and limitations of the physical dimension of makerspaces in relation with digitization of operations and relations at every level, calling for a necessary re-thinking of co-design practices.


The Royal Borough of Greenwich is encouraging residents to celebrate our outstanding care homes on national Care Home Open Day (16 June).


FIELD: engines and pumps. SUBSTANCE: invention relates to machine building. Proposed method comprises assembling stages with fitting bottom impeller axial bearing in place, locking extreme impellers on the shaft against axial play, fitting set of stages in pump casing and locking guide vanes relative thereto. In fitting impellers in operating position, their hubs and guide vanes are strained axially by tightening set of impellers on the shaft and tightening set of guide vanes inside pump casing. Set of guide vanes are pre-tightened to contact between top impeller and top adjacent guide vanes and controlled by hard rotation of the shaft. Final tightening of the set of impellers is effected to breakage of contact between bottom impeller and its axial bearing and controlled by light rotation of the shaft and breaking the electric circuit including LED with electrical supply and two electric conductors, one being secured on pump bed and another being connected to the shaft to allow axial breaking. EFFECT: decreased time of assembly, simplified process and reduced labor input. 9 dwg


The present study introduces a new technique using combined up-flow anaerobic sludge bed (UASB) reactor followed by innovative downflow hanging non-woven fabric (DHNW) reactor for treating of sewage. The packing material used in this study could be produced from waste plastic bottles, thus huge part of solid waste can be reduced, recycled and reused in wastewater treatment plant to produce treated reusable effluent. Both packed and classical UASB reactors (in parallel mode) were used for the treatment of sewage. The UASB (packed and classical) were operated at two hydraulic residence time (HRT). The quality of the packed UASB (P-UASB) effluent was found to be better than that of the classical UASB reactor. Consequently, the effluent of the P-UASB reactor was fed directly to the DHNW reactor. The source of wastewater was the domestic wastewater from Zenein's wastewater treatment plant. The performance of the combined P-UASB/DHNW showed reduction of COD, BOD and TSS from 441, 309 and 187 to 41, 21 and 17 mg/l, and from 386, 293 and 192 mg/l to 45, 30 and 19 mg/l, at HRT 6 h and 5 h, respectively. While, the fecal coliform (FCs) count was reduced from 3.8×107 to 5×105 MPN/100 ml and from 3.6×107 to 7×105 MPN/100 ml at HRT 6 h and 5 h, respectively. Consequently, the effluent needs disinfection for safe reuse in irrigation. The results indicated that polyethylene terephthalate (PET) spun-bond non-woven fabric can offer a reliable and simple solution as well as efficient packing material for wastewater treatment.


Objective To study the long-term complications and treatment effect of stereotactic Gamma knife radiosurgery performed on idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia. Methods Long-term follow-up (5-8 years, 75.7 months average) was performed in 33 trigeminal neuralgia treated with Gamma knife in our department, the complications and degree of pain relief were recorded. Results Complications were noted in 15.1% of patients. The percentage of patients who achieved pain free or relieved significantly was 90.9% for short-term follow-up, and 75.7% for long-term follow-up. Conclusion Stereotactic Gamma knife radiosurgery for idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia could achieve good effect for long term, and the complications were light and occurred in a low rate. We recommend Gamma knife be treatment of choice for idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia.


Tasked with supporting a worldwide communications network and its user community, the Network Control Center at Federal Express Corporation faces many challenges. To help cope with these challenges, a system was developed that provides expert system diagnostic aid and access to online documentation, graphics, and the mainframe system. For a variety of reasons, including the desire to have intradepartmental support, it was decided to have selected personnel from within the user department participate in an apprenticeship training program administered by the systems development AI group. The authors discuss various aspects of the apprenticeship training program and include views and opinions of one of the apprentices currently active in the program and of the development staff administering the development and training effort.<<ETX>>


There is relatively little known about grammatical features of the Englishes spoken in Samoa, Tonga, the Cook Islands and Niue. There is also a sparse literature on grammatical features of the English varieties of these Pacific communities in New Zealand. This paper considers grammatical features in the speech of first and second generation Niuean New Zealanders, ethnic Niueans from the Pacific Island of Niue who now reside in New Zealand. The findings illustrate an English variety with grammatical features of both New Englishes and vernacular varieties of New Zealand English.


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To assess the magnetic field interactions on 60 heart valve prostheses subjected to a 4.7 T MR system. It addresses the question of whether heart valves deemed safe at 1.5 T may pose safety hazards as patients are exposed to increased static magnetic fields.


The structure and mathematical model of the Single-Rotational Inverted Pendulum (RIP) is presented in this paper. Two controllers for RIP are designed and applied. The results of simulation and real-time control show that the LQR controller is better than the pole-placement controller.


For multi-braced diaphragm wall structure calculation,a matrix displacement method based on the theory of elastic foundation beam is derived considering the effects of staged excavation upon internal force and displacement as well as the bracing force.Based on the Melan's solution,combining with the geometrical plane-strain problems,a displacement solution in semi-infinite elastic under horizontal strip load is derived.Furthermore,the horizontal foundation coefficient applied to the above matrix displacement method is gained.Compared with measured results of diaphragm wall obtained from engineering cases,the analysis results indicate that the matrix displacement method is convenient and feasible,and it can provide references to the similar projects.


List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction The Plan for this Book Chapter 1. Changing Villages and Small Places in Bavaria Contemporary Social Change Population Trends Stages of Community Development The Transformation of Agriculture Chapter 2. The Small Town or Village Community Secularization and Community Life The Elementary School and the Community Social Groups and Festivals in West Middle Franconia Economic Enterprises of the Community The Future of Small Places Chapter 3. Planning Local Territorial Reform The Era of Reforms Federal Initiatives Toward Raumordnung Bavaria Tackles Territorial Reorganization Regional Planning and Administrative Reform The Kreisreform The Independent City and Hinterland Reforms The Communal Territorial Reform Chapter 4. The Implementation of the Reform Implementation of the Local Reform The Reform in Middle Franconia Patterns of Reaction to Bavaria's Reform Toward a Modern, Functional Society Chapter 5. No Town is an Island Local Government in the West German System Federalism in the Basic Law The Changing Federal Financial Constitution Cooperative Federalism or Politikverflechtung? The Future Role of the Communes The Laaender and the European Union Chapter 6. Conclusion Mini-Towns and Micro-Communes Revisiting Wolframs-Eschenbach Re-interviewing the Burgermeisters Small Town and Village in Bavaria Appendix: Tables A1 - A15 Selected Bibliography Index


The construction of residential real estate series in euro per square metre instead of using index series provides new insights into the housing market valuations in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Belgium since the middle of the 1990s.


The history of special education in Italy is a highly recent field of study. Prior to this, the theme had only been treated in a small number of publications that were limited in scope, primarily hagiografic and journalistic in style, and whose authors themselves worked in special education. In 1993, the article by Roberto Sani, devoted to Severino Fabriani, educator of female deaf mutes in Restoration Modena , marked the beginning of a history of special education that was researched using an interdisciplinary approach and situated within the broader framework of social and political history, and the history of institutions and cultural processes. Following in the line of enquiry into the history of special education inaugurated by Sani, further studies have been published since the beginning of the new millennium, by both established historians of education and young scholars joining the field. Some of these authors have maintained a focus on the world of education for the deaf; others have extended this model of interpretation to related field (educational institutions for children affected by rickets and by blindness). What avenues of research remain open to those wishing to pursue the history of special education? Numerous are the aspects still awaiting systematic investigation. It might therefore be to investigate the educational models and school programs offered over time for persons with disabilities affecting more than one sense (e.g., those who are both deaf and blind). How to reference this article Morandini, M. C. (2016). Studies on the History of Special Education in Italy: State of the Art and Paths for Future Research. Espacio, Tiempo y Educacion , 3(1), 235-247. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.14516/ete.2016.003.001.12


CUSHING'S SYNDROME occurs frequently in patients who ingest large doses of corticosteroids long term. These patients are usually easy to identify because most are aware that they are taking corticosteroids. For the small percentage of patients unaware that they are using corticosteroid-containing creams or pills, close questioning usually reveals this fact. Occasionally, however, patients will conceal the fact that they are ingesting corticosteroids, causing their physician to embark on a long and fruitless search for an endogenous cause of Cushing's syndrome. In contrast to factitious hypoglycemia caused by insulin administration or the ingestion of oral hypoglycemic agents,1-3 reports of factitious Cushing's disease are rare." We report two cases of factitious Cushing's syndrome, one caused by the ingestion of prednisolone and the other by the ingestion of prednisone. In both cases, the diagnosis of factitious Cushing's syndrome was confirmed by high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) performed


Children who acquire language through a cochlear implant (CI) provide a unique opportunity to study the physical and cognitive bases of speech perception, as the target language these children must acquire is the same as children without hearing loss, but the input to the nervous system from a cochlear implant is very different from normal hearing. Psycholinguistic models of speech perception in adults with normal hearing propose that the phonological lexicon is organized in a phonetic similarity space based on linguistic features and phonemes, and that these units are important for spoken word recognition. In this study, we examine software simulations of spoken word recognition using behavioral data on feature, phoneme, and word identification from children who use CIs. While the physical signal received through a CI is different from aurally perceived speech, we propose that the same abstract units of language are nonetheless a part of the linguistic knowledge of children who learn spoken language through CIs. Our results are consistent with the claim that children who use CIs recognize words in the context of perceptually similar words stored in a mental lexicon. In addition, while some feature distinctions are less adequately transmitted through their devices (e.g., place of articulation), children with CIs appear to utilize the available phonological contrasts to recognize spoken words.