Iron is a metallic element which is present in most of soils, mineral waters, and certain minerals. Iron is an essential mineral that is compulsory for life. Every living species, stating as of bacteria to humans, contain iron. It is found mainly in blood as the main component, and it is a fundamental component of hemoglobin, cytochrome, and other components of respiratory enzyme systems. The most important function of iron is to transport oxygen to tissues (hemoglobin) and in cellular oxidation mechanisms. Reduction of iron stores may lead to iron deficiency anemia. Iron is used as a building block to make up the blood in anemia. Iron is important to regulate our metabolic pathways such as rofecoxib pathway, magnesium salicylate action pathway, etodolac pathway, and diclofenac pathway. Iron is also involved in several metabolic disorders, some of which include adenine phosphoribosyltransferase deficiency, porphyria variegata, adenylosuccinate lyase deficiency, and AICA-ribosiduria. To cure or prevent iron deficiency, anemia iron supplements are Review Article


так які seeing the situation and finding a new interpretation, leads to a creative rethinking of traditional methods of solving professional problems. The question of the development of professional thinking is the question of the need for constant professional integration of the individual specialist with the conditions of the professional environment.


The aim of this paper is to introduce a multi-rotorcraft with morphing capabilities. Unlike conventional multi-copters whose body fly in a horizontal configuration, the proposed platform is be able to rotate its body into a vertical flying mode configuration. The research presented considers an 8-engine vehicle that is able to fly with 4-engines in case of rotor failure. The vertical flight mode is also intended for enabling navigation through narrow areas where conventional helicopter are too big to operate properly. Also, the convertible flight functionality allows saving battery if necessary. The dynamic model of the vehicle while performing in horizontal and vertical configurations is presented. An animated model shows the functionality of the vehicle while performing the transition maneuver.


Fighting with cancer requires the delivery of different therapeutics to the target cancerous cells, by taking the advantages of the synergistic effects of complementary medicine. Herein, we present a folate-PEGylated...


The leaf blotch of cereals in Russia is caused by several species of Septoria fungi. In case of wheat, the most common fungi are Septoria tritici and Stagonospora nodorum. These species often co-exist on the same plant, but significantly differ from each other concerning their biological properties and environmental requirements. Due to this fact, the methods and techniques used to predict the development of other diseases can not be used to make forecast for the leaf blotch development. Authors propose the method to forecast the risk of development of Septoria diseases of wheat, which is based on the expert assessment of crops (expected yield), plant development stage at the moment of the decision-making, and weather factors (number of days with precipitations or the precipitation intensity).


United States, India, Australia, and New Zealand. South America, Egypt, South Africa, China, and Japan, on the other hand, are mentioned only occasionally. Although the book has the subtitle &dquo;19081938,&dquo; the author was naturally obliged to discuss often also the development of the movement before that time. The book is divided into four parts. Part I presents a general view of cooperation from the standpoint of its evolution as an idea and its significance as an economic form. The author shows that


Isolated attosecond XUV bursts are generated as high harmonics of few-cycle laser pulses. Electron and ion detection techniques unveil the evolution of electronic processes in the interior of the atomic shell with unprecedented temporal resolution.


Purified L-asparagines from Portulacaoleracea L. plant was immobilized by three immobilizing methods (agar , agarose and gelatin ) ,the  activity of immobilized enzyme was determined  and compared with free enzyme ,where immobilizing efficiency of agar , agarose and gelatin techniques was ( 72 %,78 % and 70 % ) respectively, all immobilizing technique proved an significant activity  increasing of enzyme in compaction of free enzyme, where agar and gelatin methods showed more stability of enzyme at alkaline PH (PH 9) , whereas only agarose method get the enzyme more heat stability than other immobilizing methods. there are significant elevation level of asparagine concentration in leukemic human blood samples than normal  human blood samples , where reached to 〖10〗^(-4)-〖10〗^(-7)M of asparagine in normal  human blood samples while it was  〖10〗^(-2)-〖10〗^(-3)  M of asparagine in leukemic human blood samples.


Thrombotic events are major complications in patients (pts) affected by Essential Thrombocytemia (ET) and Polycytemia Vera (PV). To compare thrombotic risk in these 2 groups, we evaluated retrospectively our database of 1249 ET and 623 PV pts diagnosed and followed in 11 hematological centers in the Latium region between 1/1980 and 12/2010: the diagnosis was done according to PVSG, WHO 2001 and 2008criteria based on the time of first observation. Baseline features of ET pts: 797F/452M,median age 62.9 yrs (range 19-96),median WBC count 8.8 x 10 9 /L (range 1.2-57.7), median PLT count 812 x 10 9 /L (range 457-3582), median Hb level 14.0 g/dl (range 6-20.5), JAK-2 V617F positivity 59.7% with a median allele burden of 19,6% (range 0.2- 99.9), spleen enlargement in 18.7% of pts, previous thrombosis223/1239 evaluable pts (17.9%) [arterial 176/223 (14.1%), venous 47/223 (3.8%)]. Baseline features of PV pts: 289F/334M, median age 63.0yrs (range 21-91), median WBC count 10.1 x 10 9 /L (range 3.5-37.6), median PLT count 457 x 10 9 /L (range 169-1790), median Hb level 18.2 g/dl (range 10.5-24.8), JAK-2 V617F positivity 94.3% with a median allele burden of 59.1% (range 0.3-99.9), spleen enlargement in 42% of patients, previous thrombosis 146/617 evaluable pts (23.7%)[arterial 114/617 (18.5%), venous 32/617 (5,2%)].in the ET cohort, after a median follow-up of 7.7 yrs, thrombotic complications were seen in 107/1141 evaluable pts (9.4%) [arterial60 (5.25%), venous 47 (4.11%)]; in the PV cohort, after a median follow-up of 8.5 yrs, thrombotic complications were seen in 107/623pts (17.2%) [arterial 67 (10.8%),venous 40 (6.4%)].All common risk factors for thrombosis were evaluated in multivariate analysis, searching the cut-off number for continuous variables with ROC curves. The significant variables at multivariate analysis for ET and PV pts are shown in the table; age, previous thromboses and spleen enlargement were risk factors in ET pts, while previous thromboses and JAK-2 V617F allele burden were risk factors in PV pts. PLT count above ROC value seemed to be a protective factor in both cohorts. In conclusion, in contrast with the tendency to evaluate in a similar manner the thrombotic risk of PV and ET, data from our retrospective database showed that these 2 groups should be considered populations with different risk factors for thrombosis. Disclosures No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are an important development to help increase cross-functional efficiency and effectiveness. Data quality issues are critical for the successful implementation of any type and size of systems, especially for ERP systems, because ERP systems are inter-connected, and highly integrated. The primary measurement of system success often derived from user satisfaction. This study proposes a research framework of using a data quality approach to measure ERP implementation user satisfaction. We utilized survey methodology to test the research hypotheses and framework. The results of the survey supported the proposed research framework, and showed that data quality of the ERP system affects the users' perceived usefulness of the information, and perceived usefulness of the information affects the users' satisfaction of the ERP implementation.


Assume we could someday create artificial creatures with intelligence comparable to our own. Could it be ethical use them as unpaid labor? There is very little philosophical literature on this topic, but the consensus so far has been that such robot servitude would merely be a new form of slavery. Against this consensus I defend the permissibility of robot servitude, and in particular the controversial case of designing robots so that they want to serve (more or less particular) human ends. A typical objection to this case draws an analogy to the genetic engineering of humans: if designing eager robot servants is permissible, it should also be permissible to design eager human servants. Few ethical views can easily explain even the wrongness of such human engineering, however, and those few explanations that are available break the analogy with engineering robots. The case turns out to be illustrative of profound problems in the field of population ethics.


This essay depicts the details of the history of a well-known Kurdish lexeme on the background of the related forms in Iranian.


primary structure of oligopeptides. An im portant factor for the success of this technique is to prepare satisfactorily volatile derivatives of peptides. Lederer et al. reported a proce dure for the permethylation of the -CONHgroups in peptides.6) Thomas developed this technique" and, using the permethylation method described by Hakomori,8) established a more rapid and complete methylation tech nique applicable to peptides containing aspartic or glutamic acid, which gave undesirable results under the condition of Lederer's reac tion. We also have applied the permethylation method of Thomas to the alkali-treated de rivative of surfactin, in which the lactone ring present in surfactin has opened, and have obtained an interpretable mass spectrum (Fig. 1). The permethylated structure of this deriva


The goal of this study is to fabricate a soft foam with high cell density and high foam expansion based on thermoplastic polyolefin (TPO), and to supply a potential candidate for soft thermoset foams. It was found that a linear polypropylene (PP)-based TPO foam exhibited very poor cell morphology because of its weak melt strength. Nanoclay was introduced into the TPO to improve its foaming behavior. The extrusion foaming experiments demonstrated that the introduction of 0.5 wt% nanoclay significantly increased the cell morphology and expansion ratio of TPO/clay nanocomposite foams due to the enhanced cell nucleation and the possible cell coalescence suppression at low temperatures. At a high nanoclay content of 2.0 wt%, the cell density and foam expansion of foams increased continuously compared with the 0.5 wt% nanoclay addition. Our study suggested that it was possible to produce soft TPO foams with a well-defined cell structure and high foam expansion using a continuous method, but that a proper PEOc content control was needed to maximize foam expansion. POLYM. ENG. SCI., 00:000–000, 2011. a 2011 Society of Plastics Engineers


analgesics in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary interven- hype We assessed the impact of intravenous fentanyl and lignocaine on the .............. ................................. ...... Patients aged 18years over presenting with UA NSTEMI undergoing coronary angiography eligible for inclusion in the A diagnosis of NSTEMI based on documentation by treating clinical team, review of cardiac biomarkers, and 12-lead electrocardio-grams with compatible symptoms meeting American Heart Association/ American College Cardiology (AHA/ACC)-defined UA and NSTEMI criteria. 15 The exclusion criteria for the study included patients with any of the following: out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), cardiogenic shock, morphine or opioid administration in the preceding 24h or regular use, patients with a known coagulopathy or bleeding diathesis, allergy to fentanyl or lignocaine, bradycardia defined as heart rate <50 b.p.m. or evidence of atrioventricular block, ticagrelor, or other P2Y 12 inhibitor use in the preceding 10days, or oral anticoagulation. platelet function testing at the 30- and 60-min time points for all assays conducted. The VASP and VFN assays demonstrated a greater proportion of patients with HTPR at 2h post-ticagrelor loading dose in the fentanyl arm.


Purpose of reviewMusculoskeletal infection in children is evolutionary. Theemergence of new causative organisms, the developmentof antibiotic resistance among common organisms and anincreased incidence of unusual clinical presentations ofinfection contribute to this evolution. Early, accuratediagnosis and prompt initiation of appropriate treatmentremain central principles in the evaluation and treatment ofacute orthopedic infections. This review summarizes therecent literature regarding musculoskeletal infection inchildren.Recent findingsKingellakingaehasbeenidentifiedasacausativeorganismof septic arthritis and osteomyelitis in children between theages of 6 months and 2 years. Improved culture techniquesallow more reliable detection of this gram-negativecoccobacillus, which is otherwise difficult to isolate. Thereis a rising incidence of community-acquiredmethicillin-resistant Staphylococcusaureusasthecauseofinvasive musculoskeletal infection in children. Specificgenetically encoded virulence factors may play a role in theoccurrence of complications of chronic osteomyelitis anddeep venous thrombosis in some children. Thedifferentiation of septic arthritis from transient synovitis maybe facilitated by an evidence-based clinical predictionalgorithm. Variation of population characteristics fromregion to region may limit the application of such guidelinesin general practice. Careful clinical judgment remainsnecessary.SummaryImproved methods of evaluation of musculoskeletalinfection including culture techniques for isolating Kingellakingae, genetic mapping of community-acquiredmethicillin-resistant S. aureus virulence factors, andmagnetic resonance imaging to evaluate pelvic pyomyositismay lead to more accurate diagnosis and earlyadministration of appropriate treatment for invasivemusculoskeletal infections in children.Keywordschildren, musculoskeletal infection, osteomyelitis,pyomyositis, septic arthritis


(1993). A review of: Synthetic Aperture Radar and Electronic Warfare. By W. W. GOJ. (Boston & London: Artech House 1993.) [Pp. 83.] Price £30. International Journal of Remote Sensing: Vol. 14, No. 7, pp. 1416-1416.


Over the last five years, new evaluations of plutonium and uranium have been performed at Bruyeres‐le‐Châtel from the resolved resonance region up to 30 MeV. Only nuclear‐reaction models have been used to build these evaluations. Total, shape elastic, and direct inelastic cross sections are obtained from a coupled channel model using a dispersive optical potential devoted to actinides. All the other cross sections are calculated according to the Hauser‐Feshbach theory. We take particular care over the fission channel. For uranium isotopes, a triple‐humped barrier is required in order to reproduce accurately the variations of the experimental fission cross sections. With increasing neutron incident energy, many residual nuclei produced by nucleon emission lead to fission also. All available experimental data assigned to the various fission mechanisms of the same nucleus are used to define its fission barrier parameters. As a result of this approach, we are now able to provide consistent evaluations for a l...


Along with the flexible employment personnel's massive appearance, their social security question became a new social question. But the present unemployment insurance policy can not meet the need of flexible employment diversification characteristic and the multi-level, the nimble employment personnel have not been bought into line with the unemployment insurance cover scope, therefore designing a set insurance system adapting to the current situation and the highly effective social security is very urgent.


Digitization and the associated quantitative increase of data continue to advance. Simultaneously, companies share their data in inter-organizational networks, and this new form of interaction also requires a new form of governance. Existing governance approaches that only operate within company boundaries cannot achieve the new form of interaction. To overcome this inadequacy, we conducted a systematic literature review. We identified four constructs of inter-organizational governance. We used these constructs to develop our research framework and they serve as a basis for our results. The constructs are structure, processes, participants, and success. Moreover, we identified various findings within the constructs' domains. This contribution mirrors the current state of research and lays a foundation for future efforts. Based on the results, we propose several research streams for an in-depth examination of the individual constructs. Limitations include possible undiscovered contributions within the literature analysis.


Minimization of the average symbol error probability is the central aim when designing a receiver structure of a digital communication system. It is well known that the maximum-likelihood (ML) decision rule yields the best solution in this sense. In practical applications, the ML sequence estimation is realized by the computationally efficient Viterbi algorithm. As a drawback, however, the computational complexity of this algorithm depends exponentially on the length of the channel impulse response. In this paper, a new suboptimum receiver structure is presented containing a linear recursive equalizer for channel memory truncation and a Viterbi detector. The criterion for adjusting the equalizer and the remaining impulse response for the Viterbi detector is derived from the zeros of the channel transfer function. The proposed concept takes control of both the noise enhancement by the equalizer and the computational complexity of the Viterbi algorithm.


Mindset beliefs (beliefs about malleability of human attributes) influenced the psychological adjustment of undergraduate students during the pandemic. This study investigated the role of mindset beliefs about to adaptability (the ability to adapt to change) in shaping mental health and behavioral engagement of international and domestic students in the U.S. The psychological experiences of 98 international students and 98 domestic counterparts enrolled at a public U.S. institution during Fall 2020 were compared. Tests of mean differences showed that international students reported a stronger view, relative to domestic students, that people could become more adaptable to changing circumstances and better mental health. The two groups did not differ in their behavioral engagement. Path analysis showed that mental health mediated the relationship between international student status and behavioral engagement, whereas mindset beliefs about adaptability did not. The findings highlight the psychological strengths of international students.


The Deep Orange program immerses automotive engineering students into the world of an OEM as part of their graduate education. While developing the program's seventh vehicle concept, students explored new human machine interface concepts with the goal of having a clean, minimal interior design. One outcome of their ideation process is a concept for a holographic companion that can act as a concierge for all functions of the vehicle. After creating a prototype of the holographic display using existing technologies and developing a user interface controlled by hand gestures, a usability study was performed with older adults. The results suggest the system was not intuitive. Participants demonstrated better performance with tasks using discrete hand motions in comparison to those that required continuous motions. The data were helpful to understand the challenges of untrained users interacting with a new HMI system.


Debris flow is the common disaster in mountain region. The valley slope, storm rainfall and amassed sandrock materials in a watershed may influence the type of debris flow. The bursting of debris flow is not a pure random event. Field investigations make us infer that the debris flow bursts periodically, but the direct evidence has not been found yet. The author proposes a risk definition of debris flow based upon the accumulation conditions of loose material in channel and probabilistic distribution of breaking out debris flow. According to this definition, the destroying risk of debris flow is of the quasiperiodicity. A formula of this risk estimation is derived. The analysis of relative factors reveals the relationship of frequency and size of debris flow. For a debris flow creek, the longer the time interval between two occurrences of debris flows is, the bigger the bursting event may be.


Francis Tyrrell, formerly professor of philosophy and now professor of fundamental theology at Immaculate Conception Seminary, Huntington, New York, has given us in this book reflections that are obviously the fruit of many years of study and teaching. The spirit that breathes through this work is one of sympathetic understanding for the multiple faiths of our modern world and a sustained effort at dialogue with them. The author seeks to help men of our time appropriate themselves as orientated toward God and as finding themselves in Christ, and to do this in a period of conflicting humanisms. The book then is dedicated to help us to believe, and so is in the field of foundational theology. There are three main parts to Tyrrell's work. In the first of these he analyzes the problem of belief in our time. Here, in chapter 1, he presents the central positions of the formers of modern consciousness (particularly Hegel, Feuerbach, Marx, Nietzsche, Comte, Dilthey, and Freud), who have in common an interpretation of man through his desires and values. For them, the Christian God is an alienating factor for man, and they want to help man grow from the state of childhood characterized by religious consciousness to an adult state, though they do this, of course, in differing ways. Largely because of their cumulative influence, believers are now a cognitive minority, and we have witnessed the demise of cultural Christianity. These men generally interpret the Christian belief in God as man's projection. In the process of man's transcendence, he forms projects; the projection of God occurs because of the difficulties man meets in life; modern man is called to go beyond this stage so that he may fully possess his humanity. As Tyrrell points out later in his book, this theme of man's self-transcendence is common to Christian humanism and atheistic humanisms:


Diets based on lucerne chaff consumed at 1.04 kg dry matter (DM)/d or 0.53 kg DM/d or chaffed pasture hay at 0.60 kg DM/d were supplemented with avoparcin at 0 or between 48-57 ppm. The in vivo organic matter digestibilities of these rations were 0.62, 0.66 and 0.63 at 0 ppm avoparcin and 0.60, 0.66 and 0.59 at 48-57 ppm. Growth rates of wool (g/d clean) were respectively 11.9, 6.2 and 5.2 at 0 ppm avoparcin and 11.0, 6.5 and 5.5 at 48-57 ppm. The differences in both digestibility and wool growth rate between rations were significant (P<O.Ol), those between levels of avoparcin were not significant (P>O.O5). Changes in mean fibre diameter (pm) were respectively 1.19, -1.10, -2.25 at 0 ppm and 0.38, -2.13 and -2.23 at 48-57 ppm. These differences were significant between rations (P<O.01) and between 0 and 48-57 ppm avoparcin (P< O.05).


Fifty six populations of the potato cyst nematode collected from Northern Bolivia to Southern Colombia were tested on the European host differentials as well as on six additional clones derived from Solanum vernei and S. spegazzinii in order to determine their potential as differentials for the Andean nematode populations. Although S. vernei (VT n ) 2 62.33.3 was an inefficient host for 32 populations, all differential plants were efficient hosts for most Andean potato cyst nematode populations; thus the expression of variability was limited when British and Dutch differential plants were used. Since there are different systems for classifying races, none of which fitted our findings, a new scheme was developed. Under this scheme British and Dutch races as well as Andean populations of the potato cyst nematode can be identified.


This volume devoted to obstetrics and gynecology in the tropics covers the following: antenatal care; nutrition in pregnancy and lactation; osteomalacia; infections complicating pregnancy (pulmonary tuberculosis leprosy smallpox diarrheal diseases and infective hepatitis); malaria and pregnancy; anemia in pregnancy; sickle cell disease in pregnancy; preeclampsia and eclampsia; obstetric hemorrhage; acute renal failure; obstructed labor sequalae of obstructed labor; anesthesia for obstetric operations; complications of the puerperium; prematurity; disorders of the newborn; the organization of obstetric services; the role and training of doctors and midwives; the design of maternity units; maternity hospital records and the compilation of reports; extrauterine pregnancy; uterine fibroids; pelvic inflammatory disease; bilharziasis (schistosomiasis ) of the female genital tract; donovanosis and lymphogranuloma venereum; tuberculosis of the female genital tract; chronic lymphoedema and elephantiasis of the vulva; injuries of the urinary tract and of the rectum; lesions of the urethra; acquired gynatresia; principles of pre and postoperative care; the epidemiology of cancer of the female genital tract; and under fertility and over fertility. In many areas of the world obstetric care has reached such a high level that maternal mortality has nearly disappeared and infant losses are declining steadily. The application of existing knowledge to all groups of the population in these areas would produce even further improvement but in the underdeveloped parts of the world maternal and perinatal mortality have been little affected by modern maternity care which thus far has been available to only a small proportion of mothers in tropical countries. Wider dissemination of information has been blocked by shortage of trained midwives doctors and obstetricians and money to support them and to provide hospitals and maternity centers. Old traditions and taboos have resisted the introduction of new ideas. The doctor can only attempt to alter this situation as a member of team and he/she has a special responsibility to initiate and lead the effort. The pregnancy outcome depends on the reproductive efficiency of the mother and the standard of obstetric care. Maternal and perinatal mortality rates are the most useful measures of both these factors. A high standard of obstetric care can reduce maternal mortality to a very low figure but it is less effective in reducing perinatal mortality.


In our era of the broadband coming background,developing broadband network construction in urban and rural area,exploring a new model of the informatization in rural area,and fundamentally changing the situation of China's rural social life,are the new missions given by current rural construction.The article constructs the marketing strategies to explore the potential broadband market in rural area,which are based on the informatization in rural areas,population and consumption structure,and by marketing theory.


During the last 20 years,it has developed a lot in both of the theoretical and practical fields of molecular systemaics.The number of usable molecular markers has increased,the range of sampled taxa has been enlarged,and,there has been tremendous progress in the ability of computation.Now,the longing of the universal tree,a phylogenetic tree including all the species on the earth,is indubitably a realistic goal.As rRNA/rDNA is the sole marker possessed by all of the cellular lives,it takes a unique status in the construction of tree of life.Since 5 years ago,the techniques of supertree has been improved greatly and applied successfully in the phylogeny studies of some taxa.Supertree study is one of the fast progressive areas in evolutionary biology and cladistics and it makes the realization of universal tree in the near future possible.


n Sep. 1978, a survey of fossil land snails was made in Mount Tomor of Xinjian Uygur Zizhiqu(43°1′N,94°3′E), from which more than 416 specimens of 13 species were collected. 13 species of fossil land snails, which belong to 6 gerera of 6 families. According to the fossil snails contained in three loess layers in Xinjian Uygur Zizhiqu. Authors divided them into two groups and established two climate patterns., e.g. Succinea and Cathaica, the number of fossil snails in the loess has calculated. It shows that the fossil snails in the loess layers are good recordrs of the changes of the Paleoclimate and Paleogeography. Authors discussed the significance of mollusk fossils in both the environment and stratigraphy, and compared the fossil snails of the Quaternary period with the habitat of the corresponding existing species. The authors divided them into two ecological types, and established the Paleoclimatic and Paleogrographic environments. From the analysis of fossil snails, we can see that Succinea and Cathaica predominated in the loess layers. The distribution of the existing species of Succinea lies mainly in Oriental realm, Succinea indica, Succinea snigdha is distributed in India and Kashmir. Cathaica is an animal community found in the Palaeoarctic Region, and is mainly distributed in the loess region to the north of the Changjiang River. When the present distribution of Cathaica is compared with the mapped loess distribution. The authors find that both are identical. There is no difference between the distribution of fossil Cathaica and that of the existing species.


? Objective To investigate the value of em
bolic treatment for renal traumatic bleeding and the significance to keep on th
e renal function.
Methods The radiologic diagnosis and interventional
selective embolization were performed in 16 cases with blood
yurine of traumatic kidneye, The clear sys of bloody urine was obtained within
 2~20 hours after surge
ry and then IVP was taken to observe the function of renal within 1~3 hours af
t
er surgery. Results Angiography not only can define the location, e
xtent and rdegree of lesions, but also provide evidences for embolization. The b
lood vessels, turned normal in 3 cases and occluded in one case. The embolic tre
a
tment was performed in 12 patients with contrast medium extravasated. The second
 embolization treatment was performed in 2 patients with bleeding recurrence. Th
e kidney of one patient was excised because of bleeding after second embolizatio
n treatment with larger arterioventous fistula. All of the following IVP showed
t
hat the traumatic kidneys'function were kept well.Conclusions The
interventional radiologic method is reliable to diagnose and treat kidney traum
atic bleeding and effection for keeping kidneys' function.
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Studies were conducted to find out a resistant variety of  Solenostemon rotundifolius (Poir) Morton against Meloidogyne incognita  (Kofoid &White) Chitwood. Two improved varieties (Sree Dhara and Nidhi), five lines from CTCRI (Line-74, 64, 79, 76 and 71) and two accessions (TC-9 and M-131) from Vellanikkara were screened for the relative tolerance to M. incognita . The variety Sree Dhara showed significant superiority over the rest of varieties/lines/accessions in reducing the nematode population (larvae, females, egg masses, eggs per egg mass) in soil and root. This variety had minimum root-knot index of 1.0 and ranked first in yield. The high yielding variety Nidhi closely followed Sree Dhara in yield and resistance to M.incognita . Considering the ability to resist nematodes and giving very high yield compared to local variety, Sree Dhara can be the best for cultivation in Kerala followed by Nidhi and CTCRI- 74.


In this paper a novel ultra-thin radar absorbent material (RAM) using HIGP is presented and investigated. Owing to the high impedance property of the HIGP, the thickness of the RAM is about several tenths of the centre wavelengthof the absorption band, considerably thinner than conventional absorbers. The absorption band of the RAM is about several hundred megahertz. In the new RAM, lumped resistances are soldered between the patches of mushroom-like high-impedance surface (HIGP). And the metal ground plane of waveguide slot antenna is covered by this new type of RAM. As compared to the slot antenna with a metal ground plane, the measured results show that the radar cross section (RCS) of waveguide slot antenna reduces significantly. This proves that the new HIGP RAM has a good radar absorbing characteristics. The simulations and experiment results have shown that the RCS of antenna is reduced by 7.9 dB and gain is only reduced by 0.9 dB.


Understanding cannot be transmitted from one person to another; it is always constructed in learners' minds. In order to develop a learner's understanding, their existing mental models must be challenged and extended. Teachers have to listen to the voice of the learner, in the classroom and as evidenced in the work they produce, and engage with it to support learning to help the learner develop their own understanding. This process helps to develop independent learners as they start to model the teacher's approach. The most effective teaching practices and learning environments challenge learners' thinking beyond what they could achieve independently. The role of the teacher is to support (sometimes referred to as 'scaffold') student learning in what Vygotsky (1978) described as the 'zone of proximal development'. This is the area of challenge beyond what the learner can manage on their own but achievable with the help of a skilled other person. As a collection of practices and principles, Cambridge International describes this as 'active learning'. The word 'active' refers to learners' being actively engaged in learning rather than passive recipients of teaching. Teachers also need to be active leaders of learning rather than transmitters of knowledge or facilitators of learning. This involves constantly challenging student thinking, monitoring the impact of their instructional approaches and adjusting what they do based on feedback. See the 'Getting started with Active Learning guide'.


With the gradual expansion of high buildings and underground spaces, deep foundation pits have been widely used in these engineering projects, but if they are not well-designed, safety problems occur. Proper deep foundation pit design requires proper exit distribution. However, calculating an adequate number of exit distributions for evaluation is difficult due to the numerous influential factors existing in the deep foundation pit environment. To this end, this paper presents a prototype of a decision-making system that uses agent-based modeling to simulate deep foundation pit evacuation in the presence of collapse disaster. By modeling the collapse occurrence process and agent escape process, an agent-based evacuation model is built, and a modified simulation-based particle swarm optimization algorithm is used to solve the optimization problem of exit distribution. Extensive experiments are conducted to verify the system, and the results show that the system provides a feasible framework for deep foundation pit evacuation.


In this paper we assess the benefits and costs of introducing biologically contained genetically modified (GM) crops, with an application to the potential introduction of GM tomatoes and eggplants in Italy and Spain. Such crops possess both the standard beneficial GM traits, and they prevent introgression of transgenes from GM crops to their conventional or wild relatives, thereby adding to the safety of their cultivation. As a result, coexistence regulations for these crops are less stringent than for crops without biological containment. The potential adoption of biologically contained GM tomatoes and eggplants is assessed in a cost-benefit framework for Italy and Spain. We conclude that biological containment has considerable potential benefits if policy makers are willing to loosen the restrictions on the introduction of these varieties.


In today's business environment, characterized by the internationalization of business activities, frequent changes in market conditions of the economy, impose the need to complete the concept of financial reporting for the entity as a whole with reports on the identified organizational parts of the entities (segments), in order to provide information needs of all users of financial statements. The subject of this research is to highlight the key features and importance of accounting policies for the reporting segments. Guided by the objective of this research, we want to highlight the specifics of accounting policies, which are a fundamental component of the quality of financial statements. The research method used in this paper involves a qualitative research approach, and research sources include the analysis of the latest scientific papers and other publications, as well as official documents of the competent institutional bodies.


and mesangial proliferation, with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (Fig. 1A). Foamy cellular changes were noticed in podocytes and tubular epithelia (Fig. 1B). Immunofluorescent study unveiled strong IgA positivity in the capillary walls and mesangial areas (Fig. 1C). Electron microscopy showed myelin figures (zebra bodies) in the podocytes, endothelia and parietal epithelia (Fig. 1D), with electron-dense deposits over the paramesangial areas. Fabry disease co-existing with IgA nephropathy was diagnosed. His blood leukocyte a-galactosidase A activity was low (5.37 nmol/mg protein/h). Enzyme replacement therapy (agalsidase b) was commenced and his renal function remained stable subsequently. Fabry disease co-existing with IgA nephropathy is rare. We retrospectively searched the published reports over the past 20 years, with five cases identified. Three were Japanese, possibly reflecting the diagnostic practice patterns (e.g. higher biopsy rate). A higher female percentage (66%) was found, different from the pattern of IgA nephropathy or Fabry disease. The origin of this gender difference is unknown. There are theories suggesting immunogenic galactocerebroside accumulation, constituting a potential stimulus that induces autoimmune response. Anecdotal evidence also indicates that experimental nephritis targeting 'nephritogenoside', whose structure bears resemblance to globotriaosylceramide, can display IgA nephropathy with myelin bodies clinically and microscopically. Further cohort studies are needed to confirm these findings. The decision of how to treat Fabry disease and concurrent IgA nephropathy is difficult – especially in female cases, with less enzyme deficiency and slower glycolipid deposition. In all of the cases, the use of steroids in the treatment of IgA nephropathy varied. As globotriaosylceramide deposits in femoral heads and various skeletal regions have been reported in Fabry disease patients and cases of femoral avascular necrosis are not infrequent, patients with concurrent diseases must be separated from those with pure IgA nephropathy in terms of steroid initiation. The authors would like to thank the Ta-Tung Kidney Research Foundation and Mrs. Hsiu-Chin Lee Kidney Research Fund for financial support of this study and Miss Cecilia Kao for proofreading.


Tracks containing CUG repeats are abundant in human gene transcripts. Their biological role includes modulation of pre-mRNA splicing, mRNA transport and regulation of translation. Expanded forms of CUG runs are associated with pathogenesis of several neurodegenerative diseases, including myotonic dystrophy type 1. We have analysed two crystal structures of RNA duplexes containing the CUG repeats: G(CUG)2C and (CUG)6. The first of the structures, analysed at 1.23 Å resolution, is of an oligomer designed by us. The second model was obtained after 'detwinning' the 1.58 Å X-ray data previously deposited in the PDB. The RNA duplexes are in the A-form in which all the C–G pairs form Watson–Crick interactions while all the uridine pairs can be described as U•U cis wobble having only one hydrogen bond between the bases. The residue, which accepts the H-bond, is inclined towards the minor groove. This previously unreported base pairing can be described as 'stretched U–U wobble'. The regular hydrogen-bonding pattern of interactions with the solvent, the electrostatic charge distribution and surface features indicate the ligand binding potential of the CUG tracks.


Analytical solutions for some problems of optimum with applications in air traffic and economics are given. For air traffic minimal distances between commercial airplanes (flight corridors) are imposed considering various trajectories: straightlines, orthodromes and loxodromes. Some other applications are related to target functions submitted to linear or nonlinear restrictions. Although specialized numerical codes exist the analytical solutions are useful giving a more clear understanding, suggesting new ways of approach and providing fast tests for preconception.


We present here robust language analysis components used in AthosMail, a multilingual spoken dialogue system for reading of e-mail messages. The components are originally developed for written text and adapted to the speech data and dialogue modelling.


A field survey was conducted in Nanning Wuxu International Airport and its neighborhood.The result showed that the springtime bird community in this area consisted of 112 species belonging to 13 orders and 38 families.58 species(51.8%)of them were resident,15 species(13.4%)were summer migrant,37 species(33.0%)were winter migrant and 2 species(1.8%)were passenger.An analysis of importance value indicated that 3 species,i.e.Prinia flaviventris,P.inornata,Cisticola juncidis,were the most important species.According to the habitat distributive coefficient of birds,58 species,which represent 51.8% of the whole species and constitute the main part of the bird communities in all habitats,were classified as litmusless distribution pattern.The volitant rule in daytime in Airport and its neighborhood indicates the phenomenon of bird's volitation is the most obvious during 7:00~8:00.and 17:00~18:00.The former is more obvious than the latter.But during 13:00~14:00,the bird's species and individuals are least among the whole days.


This document expands the vision about implementation of the chair for peace in higher education, exposes some points about the sources collected and contains a structure that is developed in 4 parts (Post-Conflict and Education, Chair for Peace, Higher Education, Curriculum and competences), to introduce the reader at the subject that is presented here. Later it shows examples of five universities that have adopted policies in the terms of the chair for peace; Andes University, National Pedagogical University, Jorge Tadeo Lozano University, National University and Rosario University. Institutions of higher education that have been advancing processes in line with decree 1038 of 2015, some of them have become protagonists in the adoption of strategies that satisfy their expectations.
Finally, it generates some reflections of the chair for peace knowing the methodologies experienced and their possible practical effects.


Background Picosecond lasers are widely used in dermatologic and cosmetic practice. In clinical practice, informed consent for laser treatments is critical to ensure patients' understanding of health information. Objectives To evaluate whether video-based informed consent improves patient comprehension and satisfaction. Methods The study was performed from August 1 to November 30, 2022. Solar lentigines patients who fulfilled the inclusion criteria were included. Before October 1, 2022, traditional informed consent methods were performed. In the subsequent 2 months, a video-based informed consent was used as an adjunct to traditional consenting methods. Finally, patient comprehension of relevant knowledge about laser treatment and client satisfaction were assessed. Results A total of 106 patients were included. The mean number of correct answers in the comprehension assessment in the video-based informed consent group was significantly higher than that in the traditional informed consent group (4.4 ± 1.2 vs. 3.4 ± 1.1, p < 0.001). Compared to the traditional informed consent group, more correct answers in the video-based informed consent group were provided by older patients (3.9 ± 1.2 vs. 2.9 ± 1.1, p = 0.004) and patients with lower education levels (4.1 ± 1.1 vs. 3.0 ± 1.2, p < 0.001). The mean satisfaction score in the video-based informed consent group was significantly higher than that in the traditional informed consent (27.8 ± 5.7 vs. 24.3 ± 6.2, p = 0.003). Conclusion Video-based informed consent helps patients learn clinical literacy more effectively and improves patient satisfaction, especially in those with lower education levels and older ages.


Objectives: To determine whether community‐based asylum seekers experience difficulty in gaining access to primary health care services, and to determine the impact of any difficulties described.


Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) can monitor rice regardless of time and weather condition, and the ability of crop lodge monitoring has been demonstrated by previous studies. However, there have no study about monitoring of rice lodging using satellite-based SAR. In this study, we extracted backscatter coefficient (BC) and H/A/Alpha polarimetric parameters from dual-polarized Sentinel-1 SAR data, and a lodging sensitivity factor γ was constructed for selecting optimal radar feature parameter (ORFP) which is highly sensitivity to lodging rice. Then, the decision tree classification method was used with multiple ORFPs to classify the healthy and lodging rice plots. We firstly acquired shape of rice region using Sentinel-2 image and Maximum likelihood classification method for eliminating the influence of other features before classification of lodging rice. The result showed that the overall accuracy of 87.18% is achieved with the combination of ORFPs and decision tree.


Data obtained from adult cohorts has implicated activation/translocation of protein kinase C (PKC)-ε as an important cellular mediator of myocardial infarct size reduction with ischemic preconditioning (PC). Age-related alterations in cellular signaling may, however, confound the extrapolation of mechanistic insight derived from adults to the aging population – the specific subset in which cardioprotection is undoubtedly most relevant. Accordingly, our aim was to investigate the role of PKCε as a mediator of infarct size reduction with preconditioning (PC) in old versus adult rabbits. In Protocol 1, we assessed the effect of PKCε translocation inhibitor peptide (PKCε-TIP) and the pan-PKC inhibitor chelerythrine on infarct size reduction with PC in adult and ~4 year old rabbits, a population previously shown to exhibit definitive hallmarks of cardiovascular aging. Rabbits received 5 min of PC ischemia or a matched control period followed by 30 min of coronary artery occlusion and 3 h of reperfusion, with infarct size (delineated by tetrazolium staining) serving as the primary endpoint. In Protocol 2, we obtained insight (by Western immunoblotting) into the subcellular redistribution of PKCε in response to the 5 min PC stimulus in adult and old rabbits. In adults, infarct size reduction with PC was abrogated by both PKCε-TIP and chelerythrine. However, in old rabbits: (i) PC-induced cardioprotection was maintained despite inhibitor treatment; and (ii) brief PC ischemia was not associated with activation/translocation of PKCε. Thus, the mechanisms responsible for PC are age-related in rabbit heart, with no apparent, requisite role of PKCε in aging animals.


A wideband circularly polarized (CP) crossed‐dipole antenna is proposed. It consists of two crossed dipoles, four trapezoidal patches, and four rectangular directors. The crossed dipoles are connected by three‐quarter metal rings and fed by a 50 Ω coaxial cable to generate CP radiation. The trapezoidal patches are adopted to enhance the impedance matching and axial ratio (AR) at the lower frequency band. The rectangular directors are employed to not only enhance the impedance matching and axial ratio but also stabilize the radiation pattern with high gain over the wide frequency band. This antenna has a wide impedance bandwidth of 92.3% (1.76–4.8 GHz)for |S11 | < −10 dB and a wide axial ratio bandwidth of 85.6% (1.76–4.4 GHz) for AR < 3 with stable radiation pattern and a peak gain of 8.4 dBi.


Abstract: The onset of the pandemic brought forth the need to be isolated which prompted companies to adopt the remote working model much more prominently. This sudden switch brought forth a host of problems as people were not used to remote work. To remedy the situation, a host of tools and products gained prominence - Google Meet, Zoom, etc. which allowed people to collaborate remotely. We will be doing a review of the frameworks and technologies that these products use to understand how real-time collaboration works and the advantages and drawbacks of these products. Index Terms: WebRTC, MCU, Video-Conferencing, Zoom, Google Meet


The present invention discloses a continuous operation type of trichlorosilane purification system. The purification system comprising a purification column group, further comprising a material disposed in the flow direction upstream of the purification column set, the degassing means for removing liquid crude trichlorosilane non-condensible gases, the degassing device comprising: a heating system, in accordance with the flow direction of the material is provided upstream of the purification column groups; discharge tank provided between the heating system and the purification column groups, and the discharge tank provided with a non-condensable gas exhaust port. The above purification system provided by the heating system at the upstream purification column group, can be heated liquid crude trichlorosilane. The crude liquid noncondensables solubility decreased, thereby facilitating a crude liquid non-condensable gas is separated and discharged through the discharge tank. This will help to improve the operating pressure of the latter group due to the purification column non-condensable gas fluctuations, improve operating stability purification tower group.


The effect of long-term treatment with estradiol dipropionate on the weight, histological, and biochemical responses of the uterus, cervix, and vagina of the rat were studied. Morphological responses of other endocrine organs of female rats were also observed. Estradiol dipropionate was injected im, 1 mcg/rat/day for 7 days. Then the dose wsa increased to 2 mg for 7 days, 3 mcg for the 3rd week, 4 mcg for the 4th week, and 5 mcg daily for the reamining 4 months. Animals were autopsied 24 hours after the last injection. Only the uterus, cervix, and vagina were processed for histologic and biochemical studies. Increases were found in the wet weights of uterus, cervix, vagina, and adrenal at estrus as compared with the diestrous stage (p less than .01). Ovarian weights were diminished. Thyroid and pituitary weights were unchanged. Histological features characteristic of the stages of the estrous cycle were seen. Pseudostratification of the luminal epithelium in the form of localized foci was noted. Vaginal histology was normal. However, no noteworthy effects on the histomorphology or biochemistry of the female genital organs of the rat were observed. Stimulatory changes were similar, qualitatively but not quantitatively, to those found in the normal estrous animal.


Central compartment lymph node (CCLND) management in patients without clinical or radiologic evidence of CCLND metastasis is debatable. CCLND in Papillary Thyroid Cancer has the advantages of complete clearance of the disease, thereby reducing the chances of recurrence and the subsequent morbidity of reoperation. However, it is associated with increased risk of hypo-parathyroidism and recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy. Therefore experience is required from the part of the operating surgeon, to minimize surgical morbidity.


T are many reasons why family service providers should be interested in cultural diversity. First, human service providers are likely to work with persons of different cultures, as clients, coworkers, or employers, by the nature of changes in population trends in the United States (Smeiser, Wilson, & Mitchell, 2000). Individuals and families in the United States have, as a group, become increasingly diverse. This diversity has emerged from many sources such as changes in immigration patterns, ethnic and racial distribution in the general population, greater inclusion of individuals with disabilities, increased longevity, and broadening views of gender appropriate behaviors (see Chapter 2 in this volume). Second, many of the problems that human service delivery systems are expected to address are experienced more often by ethnic minorities. There are significant disparities between the socioemotional and physical health of


Stance detection estimates the stance of a user towards a specific target through the text that the user posts. As an important step in public-opinion mining, stance detection has great potential for wide application and provides necessary data for decision-making by governments and enterprises. On social media, people exchange ideas by replies, in which the texts of replies are closely related to the context. Existing works in this regard focus mainly on the method of aggregating the context, but overlook the fact that the theme of texts alters with the progress of the response. Therefore, we propose a stance detection model that can effectively learn the thematic information, where contrastive learning is used to enhance the learning effect of thematic information. Experiments were performed on CreateDebate and Kialo datasets, and our proposed model achieved an accuracy of 68.0% and 69.6% on the two datasets, respectively. Experiments have proved that our method can improve the performance of stance detection.


This research will analyze the tradeoffs between coverage optimization based on Position dilution of precision (PDOP) and cost of the launch vehicle. It adopts MATLAB and STK tools along with multiple objective genetic algorithms (MOGA) to explore the trade space for the constellation designs at different orbital altitudes. The objective of optimal design solutions is inferred to determine the economic and efficient LEO, MEO, HEO or hybrid constellations and simulation results are presented to optimize the design of satellite constellations. The benefits of this research are the optimization of satellite constellation design, which reduces costs and increases regional and global coverage with the least number of satellites. The result of this project is the optimization of the number of constellation satellites in several orbital planes in LEO orbit. Validations are based on reviewing the results of several simulations. The results of graphs and tables are presented in the last two sections and are taken from the results of several simulations.


In many applications, the dataset under investigation exhibits heterogeneous regimes that are more appropriately modeled using piece-wise linear models for each of the data segments separated by change-points. Although there have been much work on change point linear regression for the low dimensional case, high-dimensional change point regression is severely underdeveloped. Motivated by the analysis of Minnesota House Price Index data, we propose a fully Bayesian framework for fitting changing linear regression models in high-dimensional settings. Using segment-specific shrinkage and diffusion priors, we deliver full posterior inference for the change points and simultaneously obtain posterior probabilities of variable selection in each segment via an efficient Gibbs sampler. Additionally, our method can detect an unknown number of change points and accommodate different variable selection constraints like grouping or partial selection. We substantiate the accuracy of our method using simulation experiments for a wide range of scenarios. We apply our approach for a macro-economic analysis of Minnesota house price index data. The results strongly favor the change point model over a homogeneous (no change point) high-dimensional regression model.


The antioxidant, reactive species, oxidative stress nexus The term 'antioxidant' is used with ever-increasing frequency in both the popular media and biomedical literature. Notwithstanding its common usage, it can be a difficult term to define precisely. According to one current and useful definition from an authoritative source, antioxidant refers to "any substance that delays, prevents, or removes oxidative damage to a target molecule" (1). In the human body, antioxidants help to prevent, protect, or reduce damage to biological molecules from exposure to specific chemical substances, known as reactive species and which are often generated by endogenous metabolic processes. These reactive species comprise free radicals, such as the hydroxyl radical and superoxide radical, and non-radicals, which include hydrogen peroxide, peroxynitrite ions and hypochlorous acid (2). Notably, the range of biologically important reactive species is believed to be counteracted in vivo by an impressive array of antioxidant biomolecules. These include the antioxidant enzymes: catalase, superoxide dismutase and glutathione Stransferase; endogenously synthesized molecules such as glutathione and thioredoxin; and nutritionally derived antioxidants, such as vitamin C and vitamin E (3, 4). A severe imbalance between the generation of reactive species and their removal by antioxidants can result in a phenomenon typically referred to as oxidative stress (1). Oxidative stress, in turn, has been implicated in the pathogenesis of a wide variety of diseases, such as stroke, diabetes, breast cancer and severe acute malnutrition (5).


Liquid crystals are states of condensed matter whose symmetries lie between those of 3-dimensionally peri-odic crystals and isotropic liquids. Thermotropic liquid crystalline phases are exhibited by a large number of organic compounds whose molecules have anisotropy of shape. A typical intermolecular energy responsible for the stability of the relevant order in the medium is comparable to the thermal energy, and thus liquid crystals are soft materials. Relatively weak interactions like those between molecular dipoles or chiral centers of appropriate molecules can give rise to new types of liquid crystals. Now more than 35 types are known, and many more are likely to be discovered in the future. The soft nature of the medium, coupled with anisotropic optical and dielectric properties gives rise to many electro-optic effects at relatively low voltages. These are exploited in liquid crystal displays (LCDs), which are the lowest power (~ 1 µw/cm²) consuming flat panel devices and used in all calculators, laptop and palmtop computers, cell-phones, etc. Further, phase transitions between different types of liquid crystals, some of which are analogous to those in other materials like magnets or superconductors, offer a rich variety of problems of fundamental significance. As such, the R&D effort on liquid crystals has been growing steadily in the past three decades, resulting in better and cheaper displays as well as discoveries of new types of liquid crystals. The article gives a broad overview of the subject.


There is a scarcity of analyses of topological properties of real world supply chain networks (SCNs), mainly due to lack of data. Most theoretical research has used the popular Barabasi-Albert (BA) growth model, in which new nodes (firms) entering the network attach preferentially to the existing nodes with more links (contractual relationships), to generate network topologies supposedly representative of real world SCNs. This paper looks at real world SCN topologies using data presented in Willems (2008) and establishes a general set of topological characteristics for the manufacturing sector. Based on observations from twenty six SCNs, it is found that, although manufacturing SCNs exhibit power law node degree distributions, they tend to be hub and spoke like, with hubs that are significantly larger than those predicted by the BA model. Also, the SCNs indicated the presence of closely knit, vertically integrated communities of firms, while highly connected firms were found to avoid connecting with each other. Since the above structural properties are not features of the networks generated by the BA model, it is concluded that a new mechanism is required to model the growth of SCNs.


1 The preceding papers cover Tibullus, Class. Phil., XXIII (1928), 128; Laus Pisonis, ibid., XXIV (1929), 109; Petronius, ibid., XXV (1930), 11, 128; Valerius Flaccus, ibid., XXVI (1931), 21. Since writing the Tibullus paper, I have had four editions of Vincent of Beauvais examined for the Tibullus selections (Strasburg, 1473; Nuremberg, 1486; Venice, 1493; Douai, 1624). While it is not worth while to give all their deviations, I should like to correct the following reports of Richter, on whom I depended (see p. 154 of my article): 47 canas (not cavas); 138 lanificam (not lancificam); 227 nos (bis, not vos). In 144 est is omitted only in the Venice and Strasburg editions (in one of the two quotations); the omission is probably not to be attributed to Vincent, as such omissions are not unusual (e.g., two editions omit est in 154). The editions usually give the form Tibullius, but sometimes (especially that of Douai) have Tibullus. Vincent no doubt wrote the former. In my restoration of the florilegium there is a misprint at verse 44 (p. 136), invenum for iuvenum. An examination of the Munich florilegium reveals that it has vetus, not ventus, in i. 8. 42. In two places where the manuscript is scarcely legible the readings may have agreed with those in the Harleian manuscript: i. 9. 18 aure and i. 9. 24 vetet. In i. 4. 18 the questioned reading peribit is certain. 2 I (1910), pp. 3 ff. The 1927 reprint is identical except for the correction of the misprint ac to at in verse 12.


This study investigates the situation of applying the experiment-based teaching in General Chemistry and Non-Metallic Chemistry at High schools. The frequency, experimental types (hand-on; modeling; etc.), learning methods (project-based; inquiry-based learning; etc.), and the difficulties and obstacles when they use hand-on experiments were taken into account. The results of a survey with 150 chemistry teachers in 112 high schools in 19 Northern provinces show the facts that the hands-on experiments in teaching chemistry were rarely used and some main reasons were indicated. Based on analyzing the survey results as well as surveyors' proposals and desires, the solutions based on using experiment kits, fun experiments, experiments using household ingredients were introduced to increase the level and effectiveness of using hand-on experiments.


The ALICE Zero Degree Calorimeters (ZDC) have been installed to either side of the LHC IP2 in the machine tunnel next to the dipole magnet D2. The calorimeter modules are mounted on a special table equipped with a mechanism to lower the modules away from the beam orbit during injection and acceleration. During stable operation the modules can be raised individually to be aligned with the beam orbit. The horizontal clearance between ZDC modules and beam pipe will be only about 3 mm. Anti-collision switches are therefore installed to protect the beam pipes against accidental damage. The movement of the calorimeter modules and the protection switches are remote controlled by the ALICE ZDC positioning system.


Alchemical free energy calculations are widely used in predicting pKa, and binding free energy calculations in biomolecular systems. These calculations are carried out using either Free Energy Perturbation (FEP) or Thermodynamic Integration (TI). Numerous efforts have been made to improve the accuracy and efficiency of such calculations, especially by boosting conformational sampling. In this paper, we use a technique that enhances the conformational sampling by temperature acceleration of collective variables for alchemical transformations and applies it to the prediction of pKa of the buried Asp 26 residue in thioredoxin protein. We discuss the importance of enhanced sampling in the pKa calculations. The effect of the solvent models in the computed pKa values is also presented.


Some companies, including Google and Apple allow their employees to take a nap at work, and science proves that this is a very good idea. Studies show that short nap for 10 to 15 minutes increase mental efficiency and productivity, which is a small investment in time for big results in corporate morale and production. The purpose of this community service activity is to identify the benefits of napping for employees of the Department of Midwifery at the Polytechnic of the Ministry of Health in Padang. If they feel the benefits, of course they can apply it on a daily basis during office breaks in addition to prayer and lunch. This Community Service Activity is carried out on September 19 to November 1, 2019. Community Service Activity is carried out every day if employees have time for a nap. Most of the employees consisting of lecturers and education staff feel that taking a naps provides benefits, eliminates fatigue, and makes the body work more enthusiastic because it feels fresher. It is expected that the Department of Midwifery or the Poltekkes of the Ministry of Health in Padang can implement the Naps method or make a nap program in its office.


The invention discloses an animal-origin organic matter solid phase double-dynamic enzymolysis and fermentation process. The animal-origin organic matter solid phase double-dynamic enzymolysis and fermentation process comprises the steps of equipment checking, strain expanding propagation preparation, innocent treatment, ending of fermentation and discharging. Blades are additionally arranged on a stirring spade of a solid phase double-dynamic enzymolysis and fermentation device, an oxygen supplying and pumping device is also additionally arranged, and the tank type structure is adopted, so that the structure is compact, layout is reasonable, the heat preservation and moisture preservation effects are good, piles are turned evenly, and the manufacturing and operation cost is low. The treatment method is advanced, and the enzymolysis and fermentation effects are good. The process can achieve fermentation under the normal temperature of 37 DEG C, the fermentation time is short, and the time cost and energy consumption can be greatly reduced compared with current high temperature biodegradation technologies.


Connective tissue diseases (CTDs) are a heterogeneous group of autoimmune disorders and, among them, mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) and undifferentiated connective tissue disease (UCTD) show overlap symptoms with other CTDs, but share secondary Raynaud's Phenomenon (sRP) as a typical vascular symptom[1,2].Laser speckle contrast analysis (LASCA) is a reliable tool to measure the peripheral blood perfusion (PBP) and has already demonstrated to be useful in detecting the peripheral microcirculation status of SSc patients and severe sRP[3].To measure hand PBP in patients with sRP in CTDs (MCTD, UCTD) and to compare it with healthy controls (HCs).Twenty-four CTDs patients with sRP (7 with MCTD, 17 with UCTD) and 28 age- and sex-matched HCs were evaluated during standard follow-up assessments. CTDs diagnoses were set up according to the international classification criteria[4,5]. Patients had a stable therapy (mainly glucocorticoids and conventional disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs) and had not had intravenous vasodilator treatments for the previous three months at least.All subjects underwent a LASCA registration (Laser Speckle Contrast Analysis - Pericam PSI, Perimed, Jarfalla) after acclimatization of 15 minutes at 20-22°C. After recording, PBP was quantified (perfusion units, P.U.) in the following region of interests (ROIs): fingertips (with and without thumbs) and periungual areas (with and without thumbs).Statistical analysis was performed using DATATab®, with parametric tests in case of normally distributed data and non-parametric tests in case of non-symmetrically distributed data.Although not statistically significant, a trend to a lower PBP was found when comparing MCTD LASCA values versus UCTD LASCA values, particularly for ROIs of periungual areas (see Table 1). In addition, PBP was found significantly lower in MCTD and UCTD when individually compared with HCs. This result was confirmed for all four ROIs (p<0,02; see Table 1).To our knowledge, no evaluations of PBP by LASCA are available in literature in other CTDs other than SSc[6]. This preliminary study showed, using the LASCA methodology, that the PBP in MCTD and UCTD patients affected by sRP is significantly lower than in age- and sex-matched HCs. A trend with a lower PBP in MCTD patients than UCTD patients was observed but did not reach a statistical significance due to the small sample size.These results may demonstrate a potential role of LASCA in assessing the vascular involvement of CTDs other than SSc. Further investigations on a larger and more homogeneous sample size and a focus on the possible correlations between PBP and the morphological microvascular damage assessed by nailfold videocapillaroscopy have been planned.[1]Pauling, J. D.et al.,Clin. Rheumatol., 2019.[2]Hirschl, M.et al.,Arthritis Rheum., 2006.[3]Cutolo, M.et al.,Autoimmun. Rev., 2018.[4]Tani, C.et al.,J. Autoimmun., 2014.[5]Antunes, M.et al.,RMD Open, 2019.[6]Ruaro, B.et al.,Ann. Rheum. Dis., 2014.Table 1.Mean age and mean PBP in MCTD, UCTD and HCs, as measured by laser speckle contrast analysis (LASCA). PBP: peripheral blood perfusion; MCTD: mixed connective tissue disease; UCTD: undifferentiated connective tissue disease; HCs: healthy controls; P.U.: perfusion units.MCTDUCTDHCsp-valuesAge (years)Mean ± SD59.8±14.251.2±15.957.6±11.7n.s.Mean fingertips perfusion (P.U.)132.3±78.2138.7±87.5202.8±59.3MCTD vs HCs: p=0.013 UCTD vs HCs: p=0.005MCTD vs UCTD: n.s.Mean fingertips perfusion (thumbs excluded) (P.U.)131.5±80.1139.2±90.7203.9±60.9MCTD vs HCs: p=0.013 UCTD vs HCs: p=0.006MCTD vs UCTD: n.s.Mean periungual perfusion (P.U.)85.4±51100±55.5146.9±44.3MCTD vs HCs: p=0.003 UCTD vs HCs: p=0.003MCTD vs UCTD: n.s.Mean periungual perfusion (thumbs excluded) (P.U.)85.3±51.199.2±55.7145.4±45.9MCTD vs HCs: p=0.005 UCTD vs HCs: p=0.004MCTD vs UCTD: n.s.NIL.None Declared.


Effects of different agricultural measures on tobacco leaf area was not significant,the agricultural characters of tobacco in the straight-planting were inferior to that in the cross-planting,but the tobacco had better maturity in the straight-planting.The tobacco leaf with straw mulching turned yellow at 30 days after transplanting,as tobacco had the symptom of scarce nitrogen.At 90 days after transplanting,the tobacco leaf with straw mulching had higher chlorophyll content,and the rank of leaf chlorophyll content in different part of tobacco was that as the upper part leafmiddle part leaflower part leaf.


The hydrothermal method is an interesting synthesis process for obtaining new phases. Many bismuth oxides with trivalent (Bi3+), pentavalent (Bi5+), and mixed-valence bismuth (Bi3+ and Bi5+) have been synthesized by hydrothermal reactions using NaBiO3·nH2O as the starting material. This exciting starting compound has produced a variety of crystal structures via hydrothermal reactions. The hydrothermal products may adopt PbSb2O6-, ilmenite-, tritutile-, pyrochlore-, fluorite-, and perovskite-type structures, which are never achieved by high-temperature solid-state reactions. Some of them exhibit interesting properties such as photocatalytic activity, superconductivity, and magnetic frustration. It is not too much to say that the hydrothermal route employing NaBiO3·nH2O opens a new world of crystal chemistry of bismuth oxides.


By heating carboxamides with O,O-diethyl dithiophosphoric acid, 1, at 110-125 °C the corresponding thiocarboxamides and/or ethyl dithiocarboxylates were formed. ortho-Substituted N, N-dimethylbenzamides only gave the corresponding thiocarboxamides. By using O,O-dipropyl dithiophosphoric acid and O,O-diisopropyl dithiophosphoric acid, thiocarboxamides were also prepared, and the corresponding propyl and isopropyl dithiocarboxylates were isolated after prolonged reaction time. Reactions of sec- and tert-carboxamides with N, N, N,' N′-tetramethylthiophosphoric diamide, 2, In HMPA at elevated temperatures produced the corresponding thiocarboxamides in high yields. Primary carboxamides were converted into the corresponding nitriles after heating with 2 in HMPA. Small amounts of primary thiocarboxamides were isolated in most of these reactions. Formanilide reacted with 2 in HMPA to give N, N-dimethyl-N′-phenylformamidine in 95% yield.


In this article, a comparative analysis of free convective Blasius and Sakiadis flows of a viscous fluid over a vertical porous surface is presented. The relationship between the flow rate and pressure drop as the Newtonian fluid flows past a porous medium is linear; hence Darcy model is adopted. Suitable similarity variables are employed to transform the governing non-linear partial differential equations into a set of coupled non-linear ordinary differential equations. An approximate analytical solution of the coupled ordinary differential equation is obtained using Optimal Homotopy Analysis method (OHAM). The computational results for velocity and temperature profiles are shown graphically for various flow parameters and analyzed. The results show that an increase in convective parameter leads to increase in velocity and temperature profiles. Also, increasing buoyancy parameter increases the velocity profile and decreases the temperature profiles for both Sakiadis and Blasius flow. The temperature distribution at the maximum value of Prandtl in Sakiadis case is greater than the temperature distribution at the maximum value of Prandtl even in Blasius case.


ORKA is an experiment to observe of order 1000 K+ -> pi+ nu nubar events and to make a precision measurement of the branching fraction. It has been proposed to run at Fermilab using the Main Injector. This note describes ORKA and its current status.


This article discusses how child protection workers and authorities have a responsibility (under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)), to ensure that their interventions support and do not undermine mothers in breastfeeding their children. Two case studies are presented in which child protection authorities had interactions with a breastfeeding mother and child. Recommendations are made for policies and training for child protection authorities to support the breastfeeding rights of children.


Concentric-track cutting method of a conventional polycrystalline diamond compact bit makes the bit suffer from inadequate rock-penetrating capacity and severely hinders the improvement of rock-breaking efficiency. Nevertheless, cross-track cutting method is already proved to be an effective way to improve the penetrating ability of the bit. Accordingly, a novel rock-breaking tool with tilted rotating axis is put forward in this article. In this research, first, the structural characteristics of the rock-breaking tool with tilted rotating axis are introduced in detail, relation equations of key geometric parameters of the bit are established, and coordinates of the feature points of the cutters are represented. Second, tracks and motion tendency of the cutters in different areas, as well as the bottom-hole coverage pattern, are respectively analyzed, and the influences of different factors on cutter motion are compared. Third, corresponding indoor experiment is conducted to research the influences of revolution/rotation ratio and axis-tilt angle on drilling efficiency, and the rock particles are compared to reveal the rock-breaking mechanism of the tool. This research is intended to provide basic theoretical support for the engineering application of the tool and is of certain referential significance to improving the rock-breaking efficiency in formations of poor drillability.


Adolescents with high functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) are highly vulnerable to depressive symptoms (DS) and a range of mental health problems compared to their typically developing peers. It is not known whether resilience can influence DS in adolescents with high functioning ASD. This study sought to find out the link between resilience and DS in a sample of adolescents with high functioning ASD in Nigeria. The study is a quantitative correlation study of in-school adolescents with high functioning ASD. 68 adolescents with high functioning ASD from 20 inclusive education schools participated in the study. Data were collected using self report versions of Child and Youth resilience Measure (CYRM-SR) and Children's Depression Inventory second edition (CDI-2: SR). Findings showed that total resilience score is a strong negative predictor of DS in adolescents with high functioning ASD (B=-.93; β=-.77; t=-4.20; p=.000). Specifically, individual capacities subscale (B=-2.20; β=-.77;t=-8.39;p=.000), Primary caregivers resources subscale (B=-1.98; β=-.69; t=-7.49; p=.000); and Contextual factors subscale (B=-2.02; β=-.62; t=-8.38; p=.000) predicted overall depressive symptoms (Total DS score) negatively and significantly. It was concluded that DS among adolescents with high functioning ASD can be reduced through developing resilience skills among them. Parents, special Educators and all stakeholders should intensify efforts in building resilience in adolescents with high functioning ASD.


Hydrogen storage is one of the most addressed issues in the green-economy field. The latest-discovered form of ice (XVII), obtained by application of an annealing treatment to a H 2 -filled ice sample in the C 0 -phase, could be inserted in the energy-storage context due to its surprising capacity of hydrogen physisorption, when exposed to even modest pressure (few mbars at temperature below 40 K), and desorption, when a thermal treatment is applied. In this work, we investigate quantitatively the adsorption properties of this simple material by means of spectroscopic and volumetric data, deriving its gravimetric and volumetric capacities as a function of the thermodynamic parameters, and calculating the usable capacity in isothermal conditions. The comparison of ice XVII with materials with a similar mechanism of hydrogen adsorption like metal-organic frameworks shows interesting performances of ice XVII in terms of hydrogen content, operating temperature and kinetics of adsorption-desorption. Any application of this material to realistic hydrogen tanks should take into account the thermodynamic limit of metastability of ice XVII, i.e., temperatures below about 130 K.


We introduce and analyze LocBoost, a new boosting algorithm, which leads to the incremental construction of a mixture of experts type architecture. We provide upper bounds on the expected loss of such models in terms of the smoothness properties of the gating functions appearing in the mixture of experts model. Furthermore, an incremental algorithm is proposed for the construction of the classifier, based on a maximum-likelihood approach and the EM algorithm. Preliminary numerical results appear to be promising.


After analyzing the literature on IT failures, we have developed a failure model of ERP implementation with the system failure notions that defined by Saucer (1996) along with the Davis's three stages model (1974). A structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to test the framework with data from 266 ERP-user in Japan. The results imply the managerial implication for ERP vendors, such as lowering annual operating cost, maintenance fee, fees associated in interface systems, as well as improving vendor support will reduce some difficulties in ERP implementation.


A numerical scheme for the electromagnetic particle simulation of high-intensity charged particle beams has been developed which is a modification of the Darwin model. The Darwin model neglects the transverse induction current in Amperes law and therefore eliminates fast electromagnetic (light) waves from the simulations. The model has been incorporated into the nonlinear deltaf Beam Equilibrium Stability and Transport(BEST) code. We have applied the model to simulate the transverse electromagnetic Weibel instability in a single-species charged particle beam and the mechanism for nonlinear saturation is identified.


I/Q channels imbalance is one of major concerns in the design of quadrature receivers, which can influence the system performance significantly. In this paper we first analyze the effects of I/Q channels mismatches in detail, and furthermore discuss the relationship between I/Q imbalance and image signals. Then a new method for digitally measuring and correcting the imbalances is proposed based on the analytical results. In the correction process of this new method, phase errors are transferred into time errors, and later the famous Farrow structure is introduced to compensate the phase errors. Simulation results are presented to demonstrate and verify the efficacy of the proposed method


This response to Lenahan O'Connell's article "Exploring the Social Roots of Smart Growth Policy Adoption by Cities" examines whether the relationship between education and the adoption of smart growth programs in U.S. cities is reflective of the new political culture and rooted in postmaterial values or, perhaps, just reflective of a slightly different way of thinking about traditional economic development. Copyright (c) 2008 by the Southwestern Social Science Association.


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Continuous-wave (CW) is the most widely used and commercially available technique for performing biomedical diffuse optics tomography. Nevertheless, CW has been proved to suffer from non-uniqueness problems and large source-detector distances have to be used in order to detect inclusions that are deep from the surface. In order to overcome the former drawback frequency-domain approach has been developed although it also suffers from the latter deficiency. Recently, time domain (TD) diffuse optics has attracted huge interest from the scientific community due to its inherit capacity to associate photons arrival time with the maximum depth that they have reached ; the late arrival photons are the photons that have travelled most and presumably have gone deeper in the tissue. Moreover, not long ago it was proved that in TD there is no need of large source-detector distances for the reconstruction of deep layers of human tissue ; in fact small source-detector separations (s.d.s.) improve the contrast and the absolute number of detected photons. However, no comparison analysis has been done in terms of reconstruction quality when using small s.d.s. In this work finite element method is used to do a computational comparison between CW and TD approaches where special emphasis is put on the quality of reconstructions 1) with an inclusion at deep levels and 2) when using small s.d.s. TD reconstructions were done using Mellin-Laplace (TD-ML) transform which is fast to calculate and stable to noise. For the experiments, synthetic computationally generated data was used which was convolved with a single-photon avalanche diode detector instrumental response function.


Sparse representation technique has been widely used in various areas of computer vision over the last decades. Unfortunately, in the current formulations, there are no explicit relationship between the learned dictionary and the original data. By tracing back and connecting sparse representation with the K-means algorithm, a novel variation scheme termed as self-explanatory convex sparse representation (SCSR) has been proposed in this paper. To be specific, the basis vectors of the dictionary are refined as convex combination of the data points. The atoms now would capture a notion of centroids similar to K-means, leading to enhanced interpretability. Sparse representation and K-means are thus unified under the same framework in this sense. Besides, an appealing property also emerges that the weight and code matrices both tend to be naturally sparse without additional constraints. Compared with the standard formulations, SCSR is easier to be extended into the kernel space. To solve the corresponding sparse coding sub problem and dictionary learning sub problem, block-wise coordinate descent and Lagrange multipliers are proposed accordingly. To validate the proposed algorithm, it is implemented in image classification, a successful applications of sparse representation. Experimental results on several benchmark data sets, such as UIUC-Sports, Scene 15, and Caltech-256 demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed algorithm.


Revised diagnoses are given for the subfamilies Harpirhynchinae and Harpypalpinae, and the genera Harpirhynchus, Harpyrhynchoides, Harpypalpus and Harpypalpoides. Pseudoharpirhynchus n. subg. is created for two species - Harpirhynchus agapornis Fain, 1972 (type species) and Harpirhynchus cylindripalpus Fritsch, 1954 - within the genus Harpirhynchus. Six new species are described: Harpirhynchus (s. st.) galeridae n. sp., Harpyrhynchoides kirgizorum n. sp., Harpyrhynchoides parazumpti n. sp., Harpypalpus tiarae n, sp., Harpypalpus spermestes n. sp. and Harpypalpoides namibiensis n. sp. Three species are redescribed: Harpypalpus dubinini Fain, 1972, Harpypalpus serini Fain, 1972 and Harpypalpoides hirundinis (Fain, 1972). Males of Harpyrhynchoides capellae (Fritsch, 1954) and Harpypalpus holopus (Berlese and Trouessart, 1889) are described for the first time. A new host is recorded for Harpyrhynchoides alectoris (Fain, 1972). Keys to species of the genera Harpypalpus and Harpypalpoides, based on females, are proposed for the first time.


In this review paper details the main experimental models for biological exploration of the efficacy of new antiviral drug candidates through methods in vitr...


The purpose of this research was to investigate the effects of servant leadership, teacher development stage and organizational effectiveness. Subjects in this study were 259 teachers working at kindergartens and child care centers in Seoul and the Capital area of Korea. Servant Leadership Questionnaire(Kim, 2004), Teacher Development Stage Questionnaire(Lee, 2007), Organizational Commitment Questionnaire(Kim, 1998), Job Satisfaction Questionnaire(Kim, 2007), Teacher Job Satisfaction Questionnaire(Noh, 2001), and Job Performance Questionnaire(Kim, 1983) were used. Descriptive statistics, T-tests, Pearson's correlation, and hierarchical regression analysis were performed. Results showed that servant leadership, teacher development stage and organizational effectiveness were highly correlated with one another. Variables of servant leadership and teacher development were significant predictors of organizational effectiveness. Conclusions suggest that organizational effectiveness was multiply determined.


Elastic optical networks (EONs) have been pointed as a promising candidate for transporting data with high transmission rates in adaptive optical networks. Consequently, the occurrence of a failure in a simple element may cause the interruption of various services. Survival mechanisms have been crucial to try to overcome the problems created by possible failures. In this paper, we propose a new dedicated path protection mechanism for link-failure survivability in EONs, referred to as Spectrum Continuity and Contiguity based Dedicated Protection (SCCDP). SCCDP tries to avoid the trap topology problem in search for a link-disjoint route pair. In addition, the calculation of the link-disjoint routes is based on modified version of the Dijkstra's algorithm, referred to as Spectrum Continuity and Contiguity based Shortest Path (SCCSP), which chooses the pair of routes according to the end-to-end spectrum continuity and contiguity. The performance of the proposed algorithm is compared to other well-known algorithms in the Literature. Two different network topologies are used in our simulations for comparison purposes. Our proposal achieved better results concerning blocking probability.


We consider the possibility that the axion density in the Universe today may be constrained by the anthropic requirement that life should have evolved. If this were the case, the force of the usual cosmological bound on the axion decay constant would be greatly lessened. However, we find no mechanism by which excessive axion energy density could prevent the condensation of matter into potentially life-nurturing structures.


An impact assessment carried out to modern standards can more than save its cost in avoiding delays and keeping stakeholders on side, as Lee Doran explains. The Bujagali project provides some excellent lessons for the practice of impact assessment.


Conventional antibodies consist of a pair of heavy and light dimers, while heavy-chain only antibodies (HCAbs), like those found in camelid and shark species, lack a domain critical for light chain binding and develop without a light chain. HCAbs have unique physiochemical properties that confer advantages: they are smaller, have greater accessibility to their target antigens, higher hydrophilicity, higher tissue penetrance, and greater conformational stability under environmental stresses compared to conventional Abs. They are also highly amendable to biochemical engineering. We have generated a mouse model, that can produce HCAbs from the endogenous murine heavy chain locus. We have shown that these mice undergo efficient B cell development in the bone marrow and generate a diverse repertoire of B cells that populate all peripheral immune compartments. Single-cell sequencing of B cells revealed some biases in VH and JH usage, but highlighted the tremendous diversity of rearrangements that give rise to B cells bearing HCAbs. With these mice, we have been able to generate antigen specific HCAbs to the SARS-CoV2 spike protein that have a K Din the nM range, measured via bio-layer interferometry. Further, the IgG3dCH1 mice provide us with a novel model to understand how single domain B cell receptors (BCRs) function in comparison to conventional heavy/light chain BCRs. We have observed single-chain BCRs have distinct transcriptional profiles by single-cell sequencing and support higher plasma cell differentiation in vitro and in vivo. These data highlight the utility of our small animal platform for the generation of clinically relevant HCAbs, and as a model to study the biology of HCAb encoding B cells which remain poorly understood.
 Bernard Levine Postdoctoral Fellowship, R43AI136141


The objectives of this service activity are: (1) to introduce and train the abilities of Department of Biology Education, FSTT, Mandalika University of Education students in planting media in the form of raw husks which will be processed into fermentated husks; (2) Forbidding to students that smoked husks are a good planting medium for ornamental plants. Service activities carried out within 1 day. The stages of this service activity are: (1) Introduction; (2) Initial Fermentation Process Practice Activities; (3) Continuation Activities (observations for 3 weeks). The 1 day activity is used to process raw husks that have just been taken from the rice mill, then fermented using EM4 as a bioactivator (observations after 3 weeks). Based on the results of the activity evaluation, it can be interpreted that the objectives of this service activity have been achieved as expected. This achievement can be seen from the ability of students to process raw husks into cooked husks which are ready to be used as a planting medium for ornamental plants.


We fabricate a silicon-nitride photonic integrated circuit (PIC) to demonstrate a controlled-NOT quantum-logic gate and a silicon PIC generating path-entangled qubit pairs by splitting degenerate photon pairs. We measure 81% fidelity of CNOT using the fully packaged PICs.


VARIOUS TRACTIONS HAVE been developed to overcome the technical difficulties of endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD). A multiple loop traction device (MLTD; Boston Scientific Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan) consisting of three loops of polyethylene has been used for a linear-traction manner (Fig. 1). However, linear-traction force in one point of the lesion sometimes results in muscular layer lifting or lesion deformation, especially for the fibrosis or large lesions. To solve this problem, we have invented triangle-traction-assisted ESD (TT-ESD) using an MLTD. TT-ESD was conducted for the serrated lesion measuring 20 mm in the transverse colon. Triangle traction was applied just after circumferential mucosal incision as follows (Fig. 2, Video S1). The first and second clips fix the MLTD loops to both lateral margins of the proximal mucosal flap. The middle loop is hooked and fixed with a third clip to the normal mucosa at opposite side of the lesion, making a triangle shape. Small-size regraspable clips that are easy to manipulate are suitable for triangle traction. Appropriate traction force could be generated by the MLTD polyethylene returning to its original shape. Adjusting the air volume in proportion to the lumen size is indispensable for clipping to the opposite side and submucosal dissection. Two vectors of traction in TT-ESD generate both perpendicular and horizontal forces. Mild perpendicular force provides simple traction of the lesion with wide area and horizontal force gets submucosal layer of the lesion bundled, with a clear view of the submucosal layer without muscular


Based on the theory of gear meshing,the analysis model and method of single tooth meshing are presented.Firstly,according to the formation mechanism of sliding and rolling friction,the sliding and rolling power loss ratio models were constructed and the formula of power loss ratio was derivated by the theory of mechanics and geometry.Then,the MATLAB programs were written to get the change trend of sliding and rolling friction power losses along the action line.The influences of basic gear geometric parameters,gear ratio,and load on the sliding and rolling friction power loss were investigated.Finally,the effects of module,pressure angle and gear ratio on the meshing power losses were tested in the FZG back-to-back gear test rig.This methodology may be helpful to the design of low power losses gear systems.


In the process of teaching,teachers should stimulate students' interest in learning,mobilize the enthusiasm of students' earning,inspire the tudents the learning initiative.Taking the primary school mathematics″operation law″teaching as an example,the author puts forward″questioning from students,discovering the strategies from the students,correcting from the students,evaluating by the students″,it practices the teaching thought—″teachers should'retreat bravely and moving on mely'″of famous Grade teacher,President Li Lie,who proposed to meet the needs of different students' learning needs,and tap their potential,improve their thinking ability,provide them of experiencing the joy of learning,and truly become the masters of learning.


The results of recent experiments performed at L.N.L. on multiple octupole excitations in the N=84 isotones are reviewed. In particular, the results on B(E3) strengths in 146Sm are discussed and expectations for higher-order octupole excitations are compared with the present experimental situation.


Significant advances have been made in the molecular analyses of the human physiological state. In general, these techniques have been termed "omics" because of their requirements for sophisticated analyses of large datasets. Application of these new omics technologies has led to advances in medical practice related to public health as well as a new field termed personalized medicine. The Department of Defense (DoD) consistently needs the ability to identify people who have been exposed to environmental hazards during deployments and in their day-to-day jobs. The department currently has a biorepository of sera collected from military service members and has used that repository to study potential environmental exposures (toxins and infectious diseases) since 1987. The DoD Serum Repository is also linked to service member health records, making it a very powerful tool for studies related to force health protection and public health practice. However, this repository does not contain a reliable source of nucleic acid. Accordingly, to take advantage of modern molecular omics technologies, the DoD should establish an enhanced biospecimen repository that can support future questions related to force health protection. This article briefly discusses the various omics techniques, and how they can be used for analyses to support medical practice and public health.


The accession PI466197 of wild barley (Hordeum vulgare ssp.
spontaneum) with a newly identified resistance to powdery
mildew caused by Blumeria graminis f.sp. hordei was studied
with the aim to localize the genes determining resistance on a
barley genetic map using DNA markers. Molecular analysis was
performed in the F2 population of the cross between the winter
variety Tiffany and the resistant accession PI466197,
consisting of 113 plants. One of the resistance genes detected
was localized between the markers RGH1aE1 and Bmac0213 on the
short arm of chromosome 1H, which is the position consistent
with the known Mla locus. The other gene was proven to be
highly significantly linked with the GBMS247, Bmac0134 and
MWG878 markers on the short arm of chromosome 2H. The flanking
markers were Bmac0134 and MWG878, assigned 4 and 8 cM from the
gene, respectively. Until now, no gene conferring powdery
mildew resistance originating from H. vulgare has been located
on the short arm of barley chromosome 2H.