A study on impact of the age and the type of breeding on the infection level of cattle hyperdemosis was conducted in the cattle of Kruja district through the use of clinical control of the livestock. Out of 386 cattle controlled 42 individuals proved to be positive, or 10.88 % out of the total. The highest percentage of infection was present in the age groups between 2 and 5 years old at 14.2 % of cattle, while the lowest percentage of infection was detected in cattle with the age group at 8 years old or with 2.63 % of cattle. This was statistically tested where R 2 = 0.9228. The highest percentage of infection was in cattle that are being bred in a pasture regime at 5.79 %, while the infection percentage in the livestock bred in the pen-pasture regime was at 14.19 %. the lowest percentage was in cattle that are being bred in the pen regime at 5.91 %. The larvae accumulated from the infected cattle were identified as larvae of bovis hypodermosis.


The study aims to analyze influence the composition of waste wood powder flamboyant and trembesi wood on the characteristics of biopellet as an alternative fuel. The parameters tested are based on ASTM D 5142-02. Biopellet quality results obtained, compared with Indonesian standards (Indonesian National Standards-SNI), Germany (Deuctsches Institut fur Normug-DIN), France (Institute of Technique Europe do. Bois Energie-ITEBE), Austria (ON Osterreichisches Normungsinstitut-ONORM, United States (Pellet Fuel Institute-PFI). The results of research from waste wood powder flamboyant and trembesi wood showed an average moisture content 6.8900-11.22020%, density 0,6406-0,7767 g/cm3, ash content 0,5000-1,1300%, volatile matter 64,0700-88,9900%, fixed carbon 3,8300-26,707%, and calorific value 4.350.83-4.431,47 cal/g. Moisture content, fixed carbon, ash content and calorific value has fulfilled the requirement of Indonesia, Germany, France, Austria and America, while the density and volatile matter fulfilled the requirement of Indonesian standards only. The best quality biopellets fulfilled the requirement all criteria of the Indonesian standard (Indonesian National Standard-SNI) found in treatment A1 (waste wood powder 100% flamboyant + 0% trembesi). The results of analysis of variance and further tests showed that the treatment of flamboyant and trembesi waste wood powder composition very significant affect the density, ash content, volatile substances, and fix carbon, and significant affect the moisture content, but had no significant affect the calorific valueTujuan dari penelitian ini untuk menganalisis pengaruh komposisi serbuk kayu flamboyan dan kayu trembesi terhadap karakteristik biopelet sebagai bahan bakar alternatif.  Parameter yang diuji berdasarkan ASTM D 5142-02. Hasil kualitas biopelet yang didapat, dibandingkan dengan standar negara Indonesia (Standar Nasional Indonesia- SNI), Jerman (Deuctsches Institut fur Normug- DIN), Prancis (Intitut Technique Eropeen do. Bois Energie- ITEBE), Austria (ON Osterreichisches Normungsinstitut- ONORM), Amerika (Pellet Fuel Institute- PFI). Hasil penelitian dari limbah serbuk kayu flamboyan dan kayu trembesi  menunjukkan nilai rata-rata kadar air 6,8900– 11,2220%, kerapatan 0,6406- 0,7767 g/cm3, kadar abu 0,5000- 1,1300%, zat terbang 64,0700- 88,9900%, karbon terikat 3,8300- 26,707%, dan nilai kalor 4.350,83-4.431,47 kal/g. Kadar air, karbon terikat, kadar abu dan nilai kalor memenuhi standar Indonesia, Jerman, Prancis, Austriadan Amerika, sedangkan untuk kerapatan dan zat terbang hanya memenuhi standar Indonesia. Kualitas pellet kayu terbaik memenuhi semua kriteria standar negara Indonesia (Standar Nasional Indonesia- SNI) terdapat pada perlakuan A1 (serbuk kayu flamboyan 100% + serbuk kayu trembesi 0%). Analisis sidik ragam dan uji lanjutan dari perlakuan perbedaan komposisi serbuk kayu flamboyan dan kayu trembesi sangat berpengaruh nyata terhadap kerapatan, kadar abu, zat terbang, dan karbon terikat, serta berpengaruh nyata pada kadar air, namun tidak berpengaruh nyata pada nilai kalor


The yearly SEC conference is a chance for auditors and nervous companies to read the tea leaves. What's on the SEC's mind? What future actions will it take? How can companies stay out of trouble? The authors interpret recent SEC comments to predict what may be ahead. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.


The civilization contact in the ancient times in the Middle East can be divided into three periods, which are the periods of the prosperity of Egypt and Mesopotamia as two civilization centers, of the spread of the two civilizations and rise of other civilizations, and of the combination of Western and Eastern civilizations. The features of the above-mentioned contacts are: the civilization in the ancient times in the Middle East as a result of creation of different ethnic groups; the importance of trade and conflict between nomadic and farming nations; the ever-increasing sphere of the civilization zone; close relations between the Middle East and both the East and the West; the development of religion from fetishism and polytheism to dualist religion and monotheism.


Poisoned bran mash did not prove entirely satisfactory. Sodium arsenite. liquid or dry, and calcium arsenite proved very efficient, especially when the pests were concentrated in small areas and before there was much movement from the hatching grounds.


Only 50% of all conceptions result in a live birth (Figure 1). Human reproduction can therefore be viewed as being remarkably inefficient. However, the diametrically opposite opinion that it is in fact a very efficient and selective process, designed to optimize the outcome of pregnancy, deserves to be stated. Between 65% and 90% of clinically recognized miscarriages are due to chromosome abnormalities, the occurrence of which is more closely related to basal follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) levels rather than to maternal age alone. In contrast to women suffering a sporadic miscarriage, women who recurrently miscarry often, but not exclusively, lose pregnancies with a normal chromosome content. Using a combination of conventional Geimsa banding and the recently introduced technique of comparative genomic hybridization it has been reported that 54% of pregnancy losses amongst women with recurrent miscarriage are euploid. The challenge we face is to identify the causes of pregnancy loss amongst those couples who recurrently lose such euploid conceptions. Whilst many conventionally held beliefs as to the aetiology and treatment of women with recurrent miscarriage have not withstood critical scrutiny, significant progress has been made. This progress is the subject of this review, which will also highlight potential areas of future research.


Carbonate reservoirs have significant reserves globally, but the substantial heterogeneity brings intractable difficulties to exploration. In the work area, the thick salt rock reduces the resolution of pre-salt seismic signals and increases the difficulty of reservoir characterization. Therefore, this paper proposes to utilize wavelet frequency decomposition technology to depict the seismic blank reflection area's signal and improve the pre-salt signal's resolution. The high-precision pre-stack inversion based on Bayesian theory makes full use of information from various angles and simultaneously inverts multiple elastic parameters, effectively depicting reservoirs with substantial heterogeneity. Integrating the high-precision inversion results and the Kuster-Toksöz model, a porosity prediction method is proposed. The inversion results are consistent with the drilling rock samples and well-logging porosity results. Moreover, the reef's accumulation and growth, which conform to the geological information, proves the accuracy of the above methods. This paper also discusses the seismic reflection characteristics of reefs and the influence of different lithological reservoirs on the seismic waveform response characteristics through forward modeling, which better proves the rationality of porosity inversion results. It provides a new set of ideas for future pre-salt carbonate reef reservoirs' prediction and characterization methods.


Electrokinetic fluid delivery techniques have many applications in biofluid transport systems. Among those, the electrothermal fluid transport technique is a highly effective method for fluids with high conductivities, in the order of 0.02- 1 S/m. The ACET phenomenon has been mainly reported in the literature for micropumping and micromixing applications using coplanar asymmetric electrode arrays at the bottom of a microchannel. Recently, a novel ACET micropump based on a multi-electrode array system was reported. In this micropump, multiple asymmetric electrode arrays located on different sidewalls of the microchannel were utilized. Following this work, we implemented the same concept for a micromixing mechanism. For the sake of simplicity, only two coplanar microelectrode pairs, on the top and bottom of a 2D micro chamber, were considered. By applying different species concentration at one corner of the chamber, mixing of the fluid can be characterized throughout the chamber area. Simulations were performed using COMSOL Multiphysics. The results showed that using opposed asymmetric microelectrode pairs can provide a 74% decrease in the mixing time compared to identical pairs. Also, a chamber which has two electrode pairs, can have a 67% decrease in mixing time compared to one which has only one pair.


The invention belongs to the field of sludge treatment and discloses a sludge drying treatment method. The method comprises the following steps: adding 50-100 ppm polyacrylamide according to the mass of the sludge, adding 20-25% of sawdust according to the absolute dry mass of the sludge, and evenly stirring; and standing the obtained material for some time, sending the material into a filtering machine by a pneumatic diaphragm pump, and squeezing to obtain a sludge cake, wherein the sending pressure is 0.3-0.6 MPa, the pressure for squeezing gradually rises from 0 MPa to 1.5 MPa, and the squeezing is completed until no water flows out. The method of the invention has the characteristics of abundant sources and low price of the added material, simple operation and obvious dehydration effect; the water content of the dried sludge is about 50%; and the method does not have special requirements for production equipment, thereby being easy for industrial and large-scale treatment of sludge produced by paper making.


Objective To study the distinct effects of two k inds of drugs of nourishing kidney an d warming kidney on hearing in guinea pigs of kidney -yang -deficiency.To supply new experimental data for accurately applying the two kinds of drugs of invigorate kidney to treating deafness.Method Liuwei Dihuang Tang and Shenqi Tang were used to the guinea pigs with predn isone -induced kidney -yang -deficiency.Preyer' s reflex threshold(PR)and auditory brain -stem response(ABR)and the numbers of cochlear hair cells were observed to contrast.Result The outer cochlear hair cells of 1to 2turn were lightly necrosis in the gro up of kidney -yang -deficiency,and which caused the hearing loss at high frequency(especially obvious at 3kHz ).The similar change were in the group of nourishing kidney,but the change of function and form of cochlear was obviously light in the g roup of warming kidney.Conclusion In order to treat deafness with invig orate kidney method,the attribute of Yin and Yang of kidney -deficiency must be distinguished.


LINS, R. L. (2015). A posteriori error estimations for the generalized finite element method and modified versions. Thesis (Doctoral), São Carlos School of Engineering, University of São Paulo, São Carlos. This thesis investigates two a posteriori error estimators, based on gradient recovery, aiming to fill the gap of the error estimations for the Generalized FEM (GFEM) and, mainly, its modified versions called Corrected XFEM (C-XFEM) and Stable GFEM (SGFEM). In order to reach this purpose, firstly, brief reviews regarding the GFEM and its modified versions are presented, where the main advantages attributed to each numerical method are highlighted. Then, some important concepts related to the error study are presented. Furthermore, some contributions involving a posteriori error estimations for the GFEM are shortly described. Afterwards, the two error estimators hereby proposed are addressed focusing on linear elastic fracture mechanics problems. The first estimator was originally proposed for the C-XFEM and is hereby extended to the SGFEM framework. The second one is based on a splitting of the recovered stress field into two distinct parts: singular and smooth. The singular part is computed with the help of the J integral, whereas the smooth one is calculated from a combination between the Superconvergent Patch Recovery (SPR) and Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) techniques. Finally, various numerical examples are selected to assess the robustness of the error estimators considering different enrichment types, versions of the GFEM, solicitant modes and element types. Relevant aspects such as effectivity indexes, error distribution and convergence rates are used for describing the error estimators. The main contributions of this thesis are: the development of two efficient a posteriori error estimators for the GFEM and its modified versions; a comparison between the GFEM and its modified versions; the identification of the positive features of each error estimator and a detailed study concerning the blending element issues.


Hail is a severe meteorological disaster caused by the strong convection weather system.The formation of hail was introduced,the ground observation points and matters needing attention were summarized,which aimed to play a guidance role in observing hails in the future.


Soil health, water use, crop yield and biodiversity are directly affected by climate change and drought is one of the most severe consequences of climate change. Accordingly, plants undergo physiological manipulations, such as differential stomatal behaviour which ultimately affect the water use efficiency (WUE), role of various chemicals on adaxial stomatal behaviour, gaseous exchange capacity and yield. Here, we investigated these aspects in groundnut varieties of Spanish bunch type suitable for summer cultivation. Type A clustering of stomata (two stomata in direct contact laterally without intervening epidermal cells between neighbouring guard cells) was recorded accounting 3.3% in well-watered plants which increased due to water deficit (WD) treatments. Foliar application of ethrel and 8-HQ increased clustering of stomata by 45 and 47%, respectively under WD stress. Based on our study, groundnut is now included in group of terrestrial plants which showed type A stomatal clustering.


People have cast more and more importance on English with the rapid development of e-business and China's entry into WTO. The instrumental major, English, though has made continuous efforts to self-improve, has failed to satisfy well the market demands due to its own defects in curriculum provision which has been concluded into 9 items in the article, therefore, better re-construction modal—"English + X Carrier+ X Proficiency"of English curriculum provision is proposed and discussed, hoping to produce more qualified and multi-talented English graduates to satisfy the need and to realize the purpose of the major.


The human subjects protection committee is the principal legal mechanism for protecting the rights and welfare of human subjects of biomedical and behavioral research. In this article the author explores the influence of variations in the structure of the review process and in the composition and operating procedures of the committees on committee performance. He also assesses revisions in the review process proposed by the National Commission on the Protection of Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research.


Today oak park woodland is absent in northern Syria (Fig 1). However, recent charcoal analysis at the sites of Tell Mozan (3rd and early 2nd millennium BC), Tell Leilan (3rd millennium BC), Tell Hamoukar (4th millennium BC), Tell Halaf (first millennium BC till second millennium AD), Tell Jerablus (4th and 3rd millennium BC) and Tell Shioukh Tahtani (late 4th till second millennium BC) indicates a more southward distribution of deciduous oak through the second half of the Holocene in Northern Syria (see also partially in Deckers and Pessin, 2010).


Offsite construction is facing slow adoption despite the fact it can be a suitable solution for addressing historical problems faced by the construction industry, such as labor shortages, construction safety, time and costs overrun, and waste. The controlled factory environment creates room for innovation similar to the techniques used in the manufacturing industry. Yet, as always, the progress and adaptation of innovative ideas are challenging in the construction sector. A growing role for off-site construction requires further research and development. More collaborative efforts, industry meetings, and academic symposia are needed to bring together different disciplines and bridge the current information gap. This paper aims to present the outcomes of the Symposium on the State-of-the-Art of Modular Construction held in Gainesville, Florida from May 4th to 5th, 2017 that aimed to bring together major stakeholders in modular construction. It includes an analysis of the lectures and the survey that was distributed to industry and academic experts during the symposium. Also, it investigates the state-of-the-art of modular construction and focuses on the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats that come with this building technique.


Individual citizens can often wield considerable influence in international affairs. In 1955, prominent American journalist Norman Cousins launched an initiative to bring 25 Japanese victims of the atomic bomb to the United States to receive treatment. The U.S. State Department made concerted efforts to stop the project, fearing that it would generate negative publicity and conflict with government policy to de-emphasize the dangers of nuclear weapons. Refusing to accept official policies that he believed to be wrong, while at the same time working to "shame" the United States into providing treatment for atomic bomb victims, Cousins used his international contacts, prestige, and the reputation he had built in Japan as a humanitarian, to overcome the U.S. State Department's attempts to stop the project.


Directed evolution has emerged as one of the most effective approaches in developing and adapting biocatalysts to industrial requirements. This work shows the development of hidrophobic and thermotolerant biocatalyst useful in biorefining processes for the Petroleum Industry. We generated a second library of Cloroperoxidase enzyme gene by Error-Prone PCR (EP-PCR) with the selection of the best mutants based on their hidrophobicity, thermoresistance and stability in organic media. These proteins were more active than the first library mutants and the wildtype enzyme. We demonstrated that this directed evolution technique is efficient in generating chimeric libraries of enzymes of industrial interest.


Field studies established diel vertical migration of Sagitta elegans Verrill. Light reactions of this species were investigated in the laboratory, where positive phototaxis and light—controlled geotaxis were found. Based on these, a model for depth control in diel migration is proposed. The field studies disclosed that light inhibits feeding and suggested that the state of satiation of the animal influences its depth control mechanism. The usual method of assessing vertical migration from stratified samples is criticized, and an explanation of "midnight sinking," involving rapid turnover of feeding animals in surface waters, is offered. The diet of Sagitta was examined in summer and winter and related to the availability of different copepods. The relationship of diel migration to feeding activity led to a preponderance of surface—living copepods in Sagitta's diet. This effect can distort calculations of food selection. Theories of adaptive value are briefly discussed and it is concluded that Sagitta left the surface waters during the day primarily in order to avoid visually directed predation.


In this article I deal with time as a notion of epistemological content associated though with the notion of a subjective consciousness co-constitutive of physical reality. In this phenomenologically grounded approach I attempt to establish a 'metaphysical' aspect of time, within a strictly epistemological context, in the sense of an underlying absolute subjectivity which is non-objectifiable within objective temporality and thus non-susceptible of any ontological designation. My arguments stem, on the one hand, from a version of quantum-mechanical theory (History Projection Operator theory, HPO theory) in view of its formal treatment of two different aspects of time within a quantum context. The discrete, partial-ordering properties (the notions of before and after) and the dynamical-parameter properties reflected in the wave equations of motion. On the other hand, to strengthen my arguments for a transcendental factor of temporality, I attempt an interpretation of some relevant conclusions in the work of J. Eccles ([5]) and of certain results of experimental research of S. Deahaene et al. ([2]) and others.


Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a critical race theory content analysis of research on technology and social studies education.Design/methodology/approach – This study, using a critical race theory (CRT) framework, investigates how social studies education scholars have critically addressed the intersection between technology and race/ethnicity through a content analysis of articles in the journals Theory and Research in Social Education (TRSE) and Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE) since 1990.Findings – This paper contends that the interaction between technology and race/ethnicity is rarely critically examined in these two prominent social studies education research journals.Originality/value – In light of this neglect, the paper discusses the need for an in‐depth analysis of the reification of low‐level pedagogical methods with racial/ethnic minority students, an unexplored area of research.


The aim of this paper is to study a generalization of the two colors multitype contact process intended to mimic an example of interspecific competition called allelopathy. Roughly speak-ing, the strategy of the first species is to inhibit the growth of the second one by freezing the sites it has colonized. Our main objective is to prove that this spatial model exhibits some phase transitions comparable with those of the classical multitype contact process. In particular, we show that depending on its birth rate each species may conquer the other one.


Objective:To observe the clinical effect of Shuganyishen prescriptipn combined with western therapy on estrogen-dependent advanced breast cancer,and to investigate the mechanism from the angle of affecting hormone.Method:A total of 38 patients with visceral or brain metastasis were administered with Shuganyishen prescription combined with western treatment.shuganyishen prescription's dosage was 200 mL,twice a day,and west medicine treament regimen was administered by NCCN guideline.Results:The median survival of recurrence(MSR) was 34.08 months,time to progress was 9.6 months.one and two year survival rates were 92%,62.5% respectively,mean and median survival times with liver metastasis were 20.48 months and 20 months respectively.Mean and median survival times with lung metastasis were 44.47 months and 52 months respectively.Mean and median survival times with both liver and lung metastasis were 44.47 months and 52 months respectively.Mean and median survival times with both liver and lung metasis were 8 months and 11 months respectively.It decreased E2 and,improved follicle-stimulating hormone(FSH).The remission rate of red flash symptom was 70.1%.Conclusion:Shuganyishen prescription had good clinical effect to estrogen-dependent advanced breast cancer,and relieved red flash symptom.The mechanism might be that the prescription inhibited E2 and the phytoestrogens in the herbs had effect on ERβ.


. Soil provides an environment for all forms of life, from viruses and bacteria to trees, and these soil inhabitants play many important roles in soil development and in the maintenance of soil fertility. Policies for protection of soil should therefore include criteria for the biological quality of soil. The establishment of such criteria can only be based on an understanding of the function of the different groups of soil organisms, including the interactions between these groups which give rise to such processes as mineralization of organic matter. However, we are only beginning to understand this most complex of ecosystems. Current information is reviewed and the problems of establishing biological standards for soil are considered. Much of the discussion on assessment of pesticide side effects is relevant to this topic, and the future need to quantify risk associated with the introduction of genetically-engineered organisms into soils is likely to stimulate further debate on this topic.


Photojournalism contests have been criticized for continually awarding top prizes in hard news categories to images that depict conflict, disaster, poverty, and other problems. Pictures like these, which have a social issues visual frame, usually focus on people from countries other than the United States and on minorities. Some photojournalism contests, like Pictures of the Year International (POYi), include a features category. Traditionally, the purpose of feature photographs is to celebrate the human condition; however, in recent years of the POYi contest the features category has been dominated by images that stress hardship. To investigate whether this represents an increasing trend in POYi of awarding prizes to pictures that focus on social issues, a content analysis of the winning photographs from the past 20 years was conducted. Understanding whether the feature category in Pictures of the Year International has evolved is important because when it comes to shaping discourses about social issues, national identities, ethnicity, and race, feature photos have the potential for emphasizing commonality. If the newsworthiness of feature photos starts to become tied to similar criteria as hard news photos, that potential will be diminished.


The COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on exam administration, which has expanded the usage of technology. Utilizing QR codes to confirm applicant's identities and non-contact temperature sensors to check for potential illnesses are two examples of this technology. With the help of technology, the verification process has become more efficient, accurate, and manpower-intensive, lowering the danger of viral transmission. Further limiting the spread of viruses in the exam room are temperature recording screens that can be used to distinguish between sick and healthy pupils. A website that gathers data is connected to the ESP32 microcontroller. A webhook is used to send the gathered data to a Google Sheet. The information is kept in the spreadsheet and used to confirm applicants. Exam administration can be streamlined using this procedure, which also lessens the need for human data entry. Another development in exam administration is the use of ESP32 to control the door after the temperature and data checks are finished. When the temperature and data checks are finished, a low-cost, low-power microcontroller called the ESP32 can be used to manage the door automatically, eliminating the need for staff to physically open and close it. Although technology has greatly improved exam administration, there are still some restrictions and difficulties that need to be resolved. Making sure that all candidates can utilize these technologies, particularly those who might not have access to devices or internet connectivity, is one of these challenges. The price of implementing these technologies should also be considered. In conclusion, incorporating technology into exam administration has the potential to completely change how tests are administered and enhance the experience for both staff and candidates. To ensure the efficient and moral use of technology, it is crucial to solve the constraints and difficulties. It will be interesting to observe how these developments are implemented into exam administration procedures and what other innovations will appear in the future as technology continues to grow. NPTEL Exam, Competitive Exam, Entrance Exam, The technology can help in verifying the identity of candidates and their body temperature, and can also help in reducing the possibility of cheating during the exam. Airport Entrance: The method can also be applied to airport entrances to ensure the safety and well-being of travelers the verification process can be done quickly, accurately, and with fewer personnel needed. This can help in reducing the time taken for the verification process and making the airport entrance more efficient.


A model for photoconductivity of nanostructures, in which carriers move collisionlessly between electrodes or regions of intensive recombination, is presented. Detailed analysis was performed for two particular cases: a thin film between two bulk contacts and low-temperature grown GaAs containing As clusters. The photocurrent dependence on the applied voltage V was found to be essentially nonlinear for small V and tend to saturation for large V. The spectrum of photoconductivity differs drastically from that of optical absorption and is characterized by a maximum near the absorption edge, with peak position depending on V.


Pregnancy is a complex experience for the woman and several factors may facilitate or harm the course of this process. The literature suggests that parental support during pregnancy is crucial in psychological development of the child as well as the quality of the mother-infant relationship. In this sense it is plausible to think that the lack of parental support may eventually result in diffi culties for this transitional moment. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate the feelings and expectations of unmarried pregnant women in relation to their babies. Attended nine primiparae aged 19 to 28 years, 1 Endereço para correspondência: Av. Unisinos, 950 – Centro 2, sala E01-109. Bairro Cristo Rei. São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. CEP: 93.022-000. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com e email@example.com Agência de fi nanciamento: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científi co e Tecnológico (CNPq). Gomes, A. G., Marin, A. H., Piccinini, C. A., Lopes, R. C. S 400 who were in the last trimester of pregnancy and had no health problems. All were single and taken responsibility for a child without the presence of the biological father or another partner to replace him. They were interviewed individually and their answers were examined using qualitative content analysis. The results indicated that assume all responsibility for a child brought some degree of distress for pregnant women, and resonances that experience permeated their expectations and feelings about the baby as much concerning sex, the name of the physical and psychological characteristics, their health and mother-infant interaction.


Despite abundant work documenting consumers' reliance on symbolic selfcompletion after experiencing a self-discrepancy, surprisingly little research has investigated the underlying psychological processes that drive this type of compensatory consumption. This article addresses this critical gap, demonstrating that selfdiscrepancies triggered by identity threats reduce working memory capacity (WMC), and these reductions in WMC mediate compensatory consumption. Consumers process identity-relevant products more positively than neutral products, establishing a causal chain between self-threats, WMC, and compensatory consumption. In addition, identity-consistent experiences facilitate increases in WMC. Importantly, by utilizing negative emotions as the source of self-threat, this article also demonstrates that identity-inconsistent emotions can serve as a source of threat that is not only impactful, but also easily manipulated by managers through advertisements.


Dividend is the return given to the shareholders on investment made by them in company's capital. It is paid in cash to shareholders out of companies' profit and sometimes shareholders have an option to reinvest all or part of dividend in the company. Raising of fund for future growth and development of the significantly depend on Dividend Decision. Hence, the present study is an attempt to study the determinants of the Dividend decision. In the present paper, The impact of profit Before Tax, Assets and Long-Term Liabilities on Dividend Decision of the Public Oil and Gas Sector in India has been analysed in the present research work. Analysis for the period of 5 years i.e., 2015-16 to 2019-20 through a statistical model has been carried out. The regression and correlation techniques have been used to study the level of impact of the selected companies on the public sector of Oil and Gas Sector in India. The study found that 97% variation in the Dividend was because of a set of predictors and hence the Dividend can be predicted from a linear combination of factors affecting dividend decision i.e. PBT (Profit Before Tax), A (Assets) and L (Long-term Liabilities). It can be concluded that shareholders got an increase in Dividend with the increase in PBT. It means that shareholders got a higher return in the form of a Dividend on the fund provided by them because of increase in profits of the companies. It is observed that with the increase in Assets (means with the increase in the size of the business), correspondingly turnover and profit have increased and as a result, the return of the shareholders i.e. Dividend has also increased. On one hand, Long Term Liabilities have increased while on the other hand Dividend has also increased. It shows that the fund requirement for an increase in Assets (size of the business) has been met by the borrowed funds and equity shareholders got the benefit of Trading on Equity because the amount of Dividend has also increased


In this paper, we consider possibilities to compensate the chromatic aberration effects in the swept source optical coherence tomography system with line-field illumination (LF SSOCT) in spectral range 1260-1360 nm and reflected light acquisition by linear array InGaAs photo detector. Compensation of chromatic aberrations is provided by combined use of optimized optical system design with sharp focusing independent on light wavelength and fringe processing algorithm which allows accurate spectral fringe frequency evaluation even in the case of nonlinearity of the wavenumber tuning. Experimental results confirmed significant enhancement of imaging quality including LF SSOCT mode.


SARS-CoV-2, which causes the clinical disease COVID-19, has now affected more than 200 million patients worldwide with close to 5 million deaths.1 Ophthalmic manifestations of COVID-19 are wide-ranging and present in up to 10% of patients, most commonly as conjunctivitis.2 The enormous number and high acuity of infected patients have placed significant burdens on health care systems worldwide. The resulting deferral of medical care for other life-threatening conditions such as cancer and heart disease may lead to additional morbidity and mortality. In this issue of JAMA Ophthalmology, Choksi et al3 join other authors in focusing our attention on another potentially lethal complication of SARS-CoV-2 infection, rhinoorbital-cerebral mucormycosis (ROCM) associated with COVID-19, that is, COVID-19–associated mucormycosis (CAM). Prior to the pandemic, mucormycosis was considered a rare disease, with an incidence of 0.005 to 1.7/million.4 Fewer than 10 cases are encountered annually at Mayo Clinic Rochester (N. Wengenack, PhD, oral communication, October 15, 2021). The current series, by contrast, includes 73 cases of CAM treated over a 3-month period. The authors' experience confirms the massive increase in ROCM cases in India associated with COVID-19, with more than 15 000 cases as of May 2021.5 Hematological malignancy, diabetes, pharmacological immunosuppression, high-dose steroid therapy, and HIV infection are well-established risk factors for ROCM.4 In this study, the main risk factors for CAM were diabetes and steroid use. Three-quarters of patients had diabetes, with more than half with disease characterized as uncontrolled. More than 80% received steroids, either intravenous (IV) or oral, to offset the massive cytokine response driving COVID-19–related pneumonitis and acute respiratory distress syndrome. Supplemental oxygen or ventilatory support was required in 82% of patients. Vaccine information was available for 47 patients, of whom 89% were unvaccinated and none were fully vaccinated. Care for patients with ROCM often involves a multidisciplinary and resource-intensive approach combining surgical debridement by otolaryngologists, neurosurgeons, and orbital surgeons, as well as treatment by specialists in infectious disease, endocrinology, nephrology, laboratory medicine, pharmacology, and pathology. Medical management includes glucose control and administration of IV liposomal amphotericin B, possibly combined with azole-class agents. The daily cost of the latter antifungal medications alone may approach $1000, not including hospital admission costs. Such costs, as well as limited availability of drugs due to pandemicrelated supply chain disruptions, may complicate the delivery of care. The authors and other caregivers in India have confirmed, in fact, shortages of amphotericin B for CAM treatment.3,5 Azole agents were not administered in the current study. It is likely that outcomes are less favorable for patients facing COVID-19 as well as ROCM. All-cause mortality from mucormycosis alone ranges from 40% to 80% depending on underlying conditions.6 The mortality rate from CAM in this study was 53% at 21 days. At the 30-day time point, more than 50% of patients had either stable or progressive disease and only 7 had regressed disease. The long-term mortality may therefore be higher than 53%. Because of medication shortages, only 67% of patients received IV amphotericin B. On multivariate analysis, there was a trend toward improved survival in this group, although this did not reach statistical significance (hazard ratio, 0.31; 95% CI, 0.06-1.43; P = .13). Additionally, no patients receiving amphotericin B required exenteration. Importantly, in this retrospective, nonrandomized study, it is difficult to exclude the possibility that the limited supply of amphotericin B was administered preferentially to more severely ill patients, potentially making it more difficult to detect a beneficial effect of amphotericin B on survival. Eighteen patients underwent retrobulbar amphotericin B injection without reduction in mortality, although nearly 40% of patients received only 1 dose. Multivariate analysis also disclosed a 9-fold increased risk of death associated with the need for ventilatory support as well as increased mortality with NLP vision at presentation. In caring for more than 70 patients with CAM, Choksi and colleagues have amassed unique clinical expertise as well as a valuable database of patient outcomes. Like any case series database, however, it has limitations, including incomplete data, lack of randomization of treatment, and loss to followup. Although the authors understandably sought to derive maximal insights from their data, the testing of 28 clinical covariates for significance in this study also raises the possibility of finding a spurious association between the clinical variable and the outcome. With a type I error rate of 5%, they could expect to find at least 1 positive association by chance alone. Similarly, the inclusion of 9 covariates in the Cox proportional hazard model runs the risk of rejecting the null hypothesis incorrectly. With 22 deaths, a conservative approach that follows the statistical "rule of thumb" of having 5 to 10 events per predictor variable would have limited the multivariate model to 2 to 4 covariates. Despite these limitations, this case series helps raise important questions to generate hypotheses and guide data collection for future research. For example, what risk factors might clinicians monitor and mitigate to reduce the risk of CAM? In this study and others, diabetes and corticosteroid use were the most common risk factors for the development of CAM.3 Corticosteroid use to treat COVID-19 pneumonitis may Related article Rhino-Orbital-Cerebral Mucormycosis—Another Deadly Complication of COVID-19 Infection Invited Commentary


Piece of document represents a different and simple methodology for design and implementation of digital signal processing (DSP) filters. We present design for finite-impulse response (FIR) in terms of area, delay, and throughput, also power optimization of finite-impulse response filter by using distributed arithmetic (DA). DA is basically a bit-serial computation operation that performs for vector–vector multiplication for inner dot products in single step, which make different from normal multiply accumulate (MLA) logic for inner(dot) product computation. DA technique is a multiplier less circuit. Taking optimal advantage of the look-up table (LUT) based structure of field programmable gate array (FPGA). The performance of the bit-serial and bit-parallel DA technique for FIR filter design is synthesized and the results are compared to the conventional FIR filter design techniques. The manuscript present less latency and less area with exiting FIR filter stricture. Motivation about the design for achieves computational efficiency, high speed, and low area.


Chromium complexes supported by the multidentate monoanionic ligand [N2P2] {H[N2P2] = tBuN(H)SiMe2N(CH2CH2PiPr2)2} are presented, and the activity of these complexes toward ethylene oligomerization/polymerization is examined. The complexes [N2P2]CrCl2 (1) and [N2P2]CrCl (2) polymerized ethylene after activation with MAO. Derivatives of 1 and 2 were synthesized in order to gain insights about the active species in the ethylene oligomerization/polymerization processes. The alkyl complexes [N2P2]CrMe (3), [N2P2]CrCH2SiMe3 (4), and [N2P2]Cr(Cl)CH2SiMe3 (5), the cationic species {[N2P2]CrCl}BF4 (7), {[N2P2]CrCl}BPh4 (8), and {[N2P2]CrCH2SiMe3}BF4 (9), and the Cr(II) complex [N2P2]CrOSO2CF3 (11) were not active ethylene oligomerization/polymerization catalysts in the absence of an activator. Reaction of 1 with 2 equiv of MeLi led to reduction to 3; however, with 1 equiv of MeLi the stable mixed alkyl halide derivative [N2P2]Cr(Cl)Me (6) was obtained. Reaction of 2 with Red-Al produced the bridging di-hydride {(...


The aim of this research was to find out the quality of artificial diet that consist of value of protein, lipid, ash, water, and carbohidrate, and to find out the composition of artificial diet which was effective for the growth and the protein value of java carp. Complete Randomised Design with 5 groups of the gift of diet consisting mixture which consist of fish powder, maizena, rice siftings, turi leaves powder, tapioca and premix vitamin with ingredients in treatment A: 3%: 32%: 46%: 2%: 15%: 2%; treatment B: 12%: 25%: 39%: 10%: 12%: 2%; treatment C: 23%: 20%: 30%: 16%: 9%: 2%; treatment D: 33%: 14%: 21.5%: 22.5%: 7%: 2%; treatment E: 42%: 8%: 14%: 30%: 4%: 2%. Commercial pellet was given to positive control, no artificial diet was given to negative control. Each treatment had three replications. The parameters measured were total length, body weight, the total of dead fish, protein value of meat, temperature and pH. Data collected were then analyzed using Anova and continued with DMRT test at the level of 5% significancy. The result showed that artificial diet in treatment E produced the best growth of java carp and the highest meat protein content. Key words: diet composition, diet quality, growth, protein contens, java carp.


This study explores knowledge management practices in healthcare organizations. Healthcare practitioners are a knowledge-based community who depend on knowledge management activities and embracing ICT in search for better service quality for their organizations. It is evident that healthcare is a highly knowledge-intensive industry that
can establish a learning organization, implement knowledge management and establish competitive edges. However, little studies have explored in the knowledge management process in clinical environment. This study's primary goal is to examine how clinicians (doctors and nurses) employ knowledge management process and so develop a knowledge management model. This study focuses on knowledge management practices among clinicians particularly on how they build their knowledge schemes, scan and use knowledge and how they use ICT to facilitate the process. By adopting an interpretive case study approach, two distinct roles of clinicians were selected to reflect how knowledge management process is being practiced in their organization. This study aims to provide a process model that will add to the existing models on knowledge management process; extend the initial model used in this study; examine the contribution of different clinicians to the model as well as guide practitioners in understanding and applying knowledge effectively.


The invention discloses a composite material damage detection method based on wavelet analysis and a BP neural network, comprising the steps as follows: preprocessing a damage signal based on wavelet packet analysis in a wavelet analysis algorithm; reconstructing a wavelet packet decomposition coefficient according to a wavelet packet analysis algorithm; using a wavelet packet to decompose the damage signal into five layers to obtain 32 frequency components; reconstructing the wavelet packet decomposition coefficient; obtaining the energy spectrum diagram of the wavelet packet based on the fact that each node coefficient represents the energy of a corresponding order; selecting the energy value of an order, which has the maximum energy value (namely, which is the most sensitive) in the energy spectrum diagram of the wavelet packet, as a damage feature vector; and extracting feature vectors of different damage levels to constitute a learning sample of the BP neural network. The composite material damage detection method is fast in convergence, and simple and effective. The BP neural network after learning and training has the ability to identify the mode of damage to a composite material, can accurately identify the damage to a composite material and the degree of damage, and can locate the damage.


Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) identifies price and technical inefficiencies among decision-making units. With controls for differences in case-mix and standardized outcomes, DEA's ldquo;best practice" frontier can be interpreted as a "cost-effectiveness" frontier. This study illustrates the hey concepts, identifies the decisions required to use the technique for medical care decision making, and presents an application to a system of nine hospitals that offer obstetric services.


Local knowledge is an essential aspect of mitigating hydrometeorological disasters. The purpose of the study is to identified local knowledge of landslide disaster mitigation. The study was conducted in Beruk village, Jatiyoso sub-district, Karanganyar regency. The topography of the Beruk village area was dominated by hills and mountains with an average slope of above 30°. The research was conducted using a descriptive-analytic method. Landslide mitigation strategies based on local knowledge were determined using a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis. The results showed that in areas with potential landslides, which are characterized by the appearance of soil cracks, the community removes the soil that has the potential for landslides to other places so that it reduces the slope load, and changes the way of cultivating horticultural crops by using a model of mounds, nyabuk gunung (mountain belt), gotong royong, plastic mulch, and mist sprinkler irrigation. The results of the SWOT analysis showed that strategies to overcome weaknesses and take advantage of opportunities are conducted by (1) increasing the quantity and capacity of Human Resources (HR) of horticultural cultivation institutions in the field, and (2) observing landslides with gotong royong.


In this report, we present an overview of sequential simulationbased methods for Bayesian filtering of nonlinear and non-Gaussian dynamic models. It includes in a general framework numerous methods proposed independently in various areas of science and proposes some original developments.


The εN method can be combined with fracture mechanics concepts to predict crack growth behavior, assuming that crack propagation is caused by the cyclic elastic-plastic deformations ahead of the crack tip. Therefore, the crack growth rate under constant ∆K loading is assumed due to the sequential failure of fixed width volume elements ahead of the crack tip, which can be calculated through damage accumulation concepts. In this work, the critical damage approach is extended to the variable amplitude loading case, considering load interaction effects. The cyclic deformation at a given point in the crack path increases as the crack tip approaches its volume element, which fails when a critical damage value is reached. Therefore, under VA conditions, the crack growth at each cycle is equal to the region ahead of the crack tip that experiences damage beyond its critical value. However, the usual (singular) modeling of the crack tip stress field would invalidate any attempts to correlate εN and da/dN parameters. To remove this singularity, the crack is modeled as a notch with a small but finite radius ρ, using the method developed by Creager and Paris [1]. The strain distribution ahead of the crack tip is modeled using a modified HRR field. The now finite deformations at the notch root are calculated using a strain concentration rule such as Neuber or Glinka [2]. The proposed approach is validated through experiments on API-5LX52 steel CT specimens.


Though the traditional psychological warfare method is still being used, the use of modern wireless transmission technology, media this old method of psychological warfare come out in front of people in a completely new gesture, method or style with revolutionary change, method being more magical and concealed. What's more, it really result in more powerful psychological strike, which makes the efficiency of both sides take a further step, and also influences the process of the whole warfare and the security of the country more greatly.


Objective To investigate the diagnosis and treatment strategy of primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC). Methods From January 1991 to August 2009, 31 patients with PSC were treated at the Peking Union Medical College Hospital. A retrospective study was performed based on the clinical data of these patients to evaluate the methods of diagnosis, curative treatment and prognosis. Results Obstructive jaundice, fever and abdominal pain were the main symptoms of PSC, which accounted for 90% (28/31) , 65% (20/31) and 52% (16/31) , respectively. Thirty patients presented with an elevation of alkaline phosphatase. The positive rate of autoantibody was 45% (14/31). The positive expression of serum tumor markers of 15 patients was elevated, and 13 of the 15 patients had an elevated expression of CA19-9 (84-5000 U/mL). The diagnostic accuracies of B-mode ultrasound, computed tomography, magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography, and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) were 3/28, 2/24, 2/18, 18/25, respectively. Nineteen patients received drug therapy and only one patient had no obvious discomfort after the treatment. Twelve patients received surgical treat-ment and the prognosis of two patients who underwent liver transplantation was good. Eleven patients received endoscopic treatment, only one patient had no obvious discomfort and the condition of the remaining 10 patients was alleviated after treatment. Conclusions PSC is usually characterized by an elevated expression of CA19-9. ERCP has a high diagnostic accuracy. Conventional treatments can only relieve the symptoms, whereas liver transplantation has a favorable long-term efficacy.

Key words:
Primary sclerosing cholangitis;  Cholestasis;  Diagnosis;  Therapy


The calculation of direct costs, which mainly consist of consumables and labor, is not difficult for special-ists. Indirect costs, also known as overhead costs, often create problems for the accountant when determining the exact cost price. The article considers the issue of calculating indirect costs as a new, more improved approach to calculating the final cost of an object and its costs. The article considers an example of the use of ABC in the construction of a library hall and its potential advantages compared to traditional costs. The project can cover cost control by implementing an activity-based cost calculation system.


Fluorescent microsphere is one kind of functional microspheres.It have attracted more attention of researchers and be used in many fields especially in biomedicine in that their hard shape,narrower particle size distribution,good monodispersivity and good fluorescent efficiency.But the development situation of fluorescent microsphere is far from enough.Nowadays,the products we use,specially in our country,are mainly imported from other countries.So,it will be an important meaning for the development of our biomedical and other fields by using nationalized fluorescent microspheres.In this paper,the definition,categories and preparing technologies of fluorescent microsphere was introduced as a very important part.In the end,the authors anticipated the development in the researchs and applications of fluorescent microsphere.


We study the interplay between feedback and communication in a cooperative online learning setting where a network of agents solves a task in which the learners' feedback is determined by an arbitrary graph. We characterize regret in terms of the independence number of the strong product between the feedback graph and the communication network. Our analysis recovers as special cases many previously known bounds for distributed online learning with either expert or bandit feedback. A more detailed version of our results also captures the dependence of the regret on the delay caused by the time the information takes to traverse each graph. Experiments run on synthetic data show that the empirical behavior of our algorithm is consistent with the theoretical results.


This article considers the short period of existence of the Orange Circle literary brigade in Chelyabinsk (1939–1940). Sharing the belief in building communism, the team developed outside the Union of Soviet Writers and relied on the aesthetics of the Silver Age in their work. This was probably due to the influence of its leader Alexey Bykov, a writer who began his career in St Petersburg in the early twentieth century and published the novel Thistle (1907). Unfortunately, the lack of publications and the loss of manuscripts, as well as the scarce number of archival materials make it difficult to reconstruct the social and literary practices of the group. However, the very fact of the appearance of such an "alternative" association in the era of early Stalinism in a provincial town with a meager sociocultural base which received an impulse for development only during the first five-year plans gives rise to scholarly reflection. The birth of the literary brigade took place during a difficult period in the history of the USSR, which had embarked on an unprecedented path of building socialism. The inconsistency of the process of institutionalisation of the new system gave rise to previously unfamiliar conflicts at all levels, which were especially acute in the artistic environment. The author demonstrates that over many years, the Chelyabinsk branch of the Union of Soviet Writers was able to organise full-fledged work. This was due to the frequent change of leadership, including due to the repression of many members, the reorganisation of the management system of the Union's branches, the predominance of non-professional authors, the shortage of "old" personnel, including editors, the lack of interaction between writers and regional authorities, the scarcity of the pre-revolutionary literary tradition, the poverty of prose writers and poets, especially beginners who often used this artistic structure for selfish purposes.


The intervertebral disc plays a critical role in supporting loads, permitting spinal motion, and dissipating energy. Unfortunately, it is also commonly degenerated, resulting in altered spinal mechanics and low back pain. Nucleotomy is a common treatment for herniated discs and is also used experimentally to simulate degeneration.[1] The procedure, which involves a posterior annular incision and removal of a portion of the nucleus pulposus (NP), has also been shown to alter disc mechanics. These changes include acute changes of decreased NP pressure, decreased disc height, and increased neutral zones.[2, 3] Cyclic studies have shown that trans-endplate nucleotomy permanently alters creep mechanical properties of sheep discs.[4] However, the effects of annular nucleotomy on the cyclic properties of human discs have not yet been studied. This work studied the mechanical effect of annular nucleotomy on human discs subjected to physiological axial cyclic loading.Copyright © 2012 by ASME


We show that non-linear electrodynamics may induce a photon to follow a closed path in spacetime. We exhibit a specific case in which such closed lightlike curve (CLC) appears.


Looks at an evolutionary approach to robotics. A reactive architecture leads robots moving in real world adaptively. However, designing adequate complete rules is practically impossible, since the interaction is unlikely to be completely known. To approach this difficult design problem, a new approach "gate growth" is presented. This methodology consists of two components: a cellular automaton (CA) as the connection algorithm and a NAND array as the device model. Through GAs operation, the rules forming CA is evolved to achieve the given tasks. In the application to a wall following problem, the possibility of building task achieving behavior is shown.


Estimation of endangerment of surface and ground waters of the Ibar's middle river basin appeared as a result of exploitation and refining of lead zinc ore in Kopaonic ore region, within the region of RMHK "Trepca" is given in the work. Primary sources of pollution are surface mines, ground exploitatory mines, flotation, separation, flotational and separational gangues, deposits of coal, ashes, ore etc. Not all of quoted sources of pollution are active, but disregarding the statement whether they are active or not, they pollute surface and ground waters only by their existence. The pollution is physical as well as chemical, by which wider environment is polluted causing that some substances are registered even at higher points sometimes at even one hundred kilometers from the source of pollution.


An example of the construction of a spatial and attribute database using aerial photography and GIS is described. Two vegetative layers on two large experimental plots were interpreted on the aerial photographs and digitized. A theme of trap locations was generated and linked to the results of 16 trapping days spanning periods before and after the application of a pesticide. The GIS was used to calculate values which will be used in a later study to model the effects of the pesticide on the small-mammal community. Both aerial photography and GIS show promise for improving the efficiency with which data can be gathered and processed for pesticide evaluations.


This paper presents an evaluation of the feasibility and the reliability of a visual characterization technique for gravel–cobble river bed surface substrate. Based on principal axis regressions, using phi scale (ϕ), comparisons of visual estimation and grid sampling techniques show that useful predictive relations (R2 = 0·78–0·88) exist between visual estimates of the surface d16, d50 and d84 and estimates obtained for the same percentiles with the grid sampling technique. Comparisons of visual estimation and the surface-bulk sampling technique also indicate a predictive relation (R2 = 0·70) between the d50 of the two methods. Trained operators can visually estimate gravel–cobble bed surface d16 to uncertainties of 41 per cent, d50 to 15 per cent and d84 to 11 per cent (for example, there is a 5·5 mm error on a d84 size of 50 mm). Furthermore, evidence shows that if operators are properly trained, a calibration relation for each percentile can be applied independently of operators. This visual characterization allows effective detailed mapping of spatial patterns in substrate size distribution along extensive reaches of gravel-bed rivers. The technique can be very useful in creating terrain models for various geomorphological, hydrological and biological applications such as the determination of entrainment thresholds, hydraulic roughness and substrate suitability for benthic insects or salmonid habitat. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Composite foundation aims at controlling settlement. Settlement calculation plays an important role in soft soil foundation design and construction stages. Based on the typical unit cell model of piles and soil,the relationship between composite foundation compression coefficient and elasticity modulus has been established. The factors such as time and consolidation have been taken into consideration. The settlements have been evaluated to verify the formula proposed in this paper. The formula is applied to the settlement deformation observation data of the soft ground distributed along the Suining-Ziyang expressway in Sichuan province. The formula's feasibility is further verified. The research shows that the calculation data are 10-20 times higher than the observed data. During the filling stage,the result calculated by the proposed method is in accordance with the observed results of the project. Based on these,the paper discusses primarily for the influential factors of the settlement such as pile diameter and the pile spacing. The best ratio of pile diameter and pile spacing is from 2 to 4.


Urinary incontinence, like prolapse of the genitals, is not an urgent situation that threatens  the patient's life, but this is a pathology  that sharply limits the patient's social activity and significantly worsens the quality of life. The main cause of dissatisfaction in patients after correction of prolapse of the genitals are violations of urination. The personalized approach in choosing the tactics of treating patients with genital prolapse and mixed urinary incontinence suggests complex diagnostics, behavioral and drug therapy, and in the absence of effect, surgical intervention.


Contact chemosensation, or tasting, enables insect herbivores to identify nonvolatile metabolites in complex mixtures present in plants. The interplay of primary and secondary plant metabolites with gustatory receptors is outlined.


The electrocardiogram signals will be mixed with the power-line interference inevitably while being gathered and recorded, in order to avoid the wrong identification from the characteristics of ECG signals and impact analysis and diagnosis accuracy, it is necessary to remove the power-line interference effectively.This paper adopts independent component analysis to remove this interference and uses international standards ECG database MIT/BIH to validate the algorithm. The experimental results show that removal of interference of ECG signal Based on independent component analysis, can not only preserve the original details information as soon as possible and also filter the interference signal successfully, the result is better.


The field of Evolutionary Studies (EvoS) stands at a significant junction. On one hand, the field has demonstrated the ability to serve as a model for a truly interdisciplinary approach to higher education. That said, evolutionary approaches outside certain areas of biology proper have been often met with skepticism and academic mistrust. In 3 discrete sections, this chapter seeks to demonstrate that EvoS provides a powerful academic framework that effectively integrates many academic areas and enhances educational outcomes in these areas. Further, the chapter seeks to demonstrate the broad reach of EvoS in terms of student success, partly by summarizing outcomes of a recent National Science Foundation grant. The final section addresses controversies in the field of EvoS. This section seeks to show how developing a sophisticated understanding of the different facets of these issues may serve a conciliatory and progressive role in the future.


Excerpt Because conditions caused by the inhalation of dust are so frequently involved in litigation it is necessary that they be defined with the greatest clarity. Our terminology developed forty ...


Since the mid-1980ies the world has witnessed a dramatic increase in tuberculosis. Our knowledge of tuberculosis epidemiology was established during the previous epidemic that, at least in Europe, took two hundred years from rise to fall. It is difficult to understand the new epidemic if we assume that the genetics of the host-parasite relationship is unchanged from the previous epidemic. The paper discusses how both host and parasite genetics may have changed. Molecular epidemiology done in Archangel, Russia, where most of the classical reasons for increase in tuberculosis were absent, indicated that strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with changed biological properties could be responsible. Strains belonging to the so-called Beijing family were strongly associated with primary drug resistance and caused clusters ten times as big as "traditional" strains. The paper describes how the research consortium takes these observations further to explore the importance of "new" strains of tubercle bacilli in the on-going pandemic. What are the changes in biological properties and what genetic changes do they reflect? The previous epidemic may have changed the genetic susceptibility of the human host by selection, but what has constituted a selective pressure for the bacillary population? The two most dramatic changes in the environment of M. tuberculosis are mass introduction of chemotherapy and BCG vaccination. We explore further the nature of drug resistance in these strains and the possibility that BCG may fail to protect against bacilli of the new pandemic. Lastly the paper points at some action that can be taken instantly and that may have a major impact on transmission, even before the questions mentioned above are answered. The clue here is to shorten the time of transmission by a rapid test to secure early diagnosis and treatment. What is needed, however, is not a diagnostic test for tuberculosis, but a simple screening test with high sensitivity that could tell us whom among the numerous people who have a chronic cough and systemic symptoms who are the true "tuberculosis suspects" eligible for rapid examination of sputum by smear microscopy


Epidemiological studies and research in animal models support an inverse relationship between dietary Ca and dairy food consumption with adiposity. Proposed mechanisms of adiposity reduction by dairy include decreased digestibility of fats due to formation of indigestible Ca soaps and dietary Ca suppression of calcitriol that alters energy metabolism and thermogenesis. Bioactive components from dairy protein are thought to have additional synergistic effects. We compared the effects of a high Ca (HC) diet vs. HC with nonfat dry milk (NFDM) on obesity phenotypes, including adipose tissue inflammation. Adult male C57BL/6J mice fed an obesigenic, pro‐inflammatory high fat diet (45% kcal; HF) were assigned (n=30/group) to one of three macronutrient‐matched HF diets for 12 wks: control (0.5% Ca; CON), HC (1.5% Ca), or HC with NFDM. Surprisingly, body weight and fat were increased ~18% and ~19% in HC mice vs. CON (P<0.001); these parameters decreased ~13% and ~43% in NFDM mice (P<0.001). Feed efficiency was significantly increased ~10% in HC mice and reduced ~33% in NFDM mice vs. CON. NFDM mice had improved glucose tolerance compared to both CON (P<0.01) and HC mice (P<0.001). Markers of adipose inflammation are currently being analyzed. We conclude that anti‐obesity effects of dairy foods are not mediated by increased dietary Ca in high fat fed mice.


Grassland communities of Kaziranga National Park (KNP) classified as Eastern Wet Alluvial Grasslands. It comprised of tall grasses (61%) as well as short grasses (only 3%). Rapid periodic changes occurred due to recurrence of flood, erosion and alluvial deposition and have direct implications for the establishment of early successional species. Grassland can be viewed in terms of upland grasslands and lowland grasslands. Apluda mutica, Arundinella bengalensis, Imperata cylindrica, Thysanolaena maxima, Saccharum spp., Vetiveria zizanioides , characterize the upland grassland and the lowland grasslands comprise predominantly of Phragmites karka, Imperata cylindrica, Saccharum spontaneum, Arundo donax and Saccharum narenga which considered being early successional species. Seven tall grasses and three short grasses communities have been identified. Above ground biomass increased from June to October due to rapid growth after the commencement of monsoon rain and declined during the winter months. The peak growth rate of total above ground biomass (31.94 g m -2 day -1 ) is much higher than the other grassland types reported elsewhere in India. Frequent burning resulted drier habitat and Pharagmites karka was replaced by Saccharum, Sclerostachya, Themeda and Imperata species. Excessive grazing favours the establishment of unpalatable species like mperata cylindrica, Vetiveria zizanioides etc. and several pure stands of these grasses developed.


Among the modern requirements for complex object control simulators is to provide the properties of adaptability, flexibility, extensibility, reliability, security and reconfigurability. The use of semantic description as one of the ways to solve the problem of increasing adaptability and efficiency (productivity, reliability, security, reconfigurability) in the development of simulators with human-machine interfaces (HMI) is currently in the field of vision of leading researchers and software producers. The method of creating simulators based on the use of a semantic description of models of objects and processes under conditions of uncertainty is considered. For the semantic description, the developed probabilistic methods and tools for the automated formation of dictionaries, thesauruses, ontologies and knowledge bases have been applied. Intelligent simulators can be used to test software for complex systems of automated control and management of complex objects. The simulators can also be used for research and educational purposes.


OBJECTIVE To carry out content determination on atisine chloride atractydin,atractylon and β-eudesmol in Rhizoma Atractylodis grown in different locations,so as to provide evidence for evaluating this herb.METHOD Gas chromatography was used,with HP-5 capillary column,hydrogen flame ionization detector (FID) at 300°C,hydrogen flow at 40 mL/min,air flow at 450 mL/min,tail-blowing at N245 mL/min,and sampling volume at 1 μL.RESULT The contents of atisine chloride atractydin and atractylon in Rhizoma Atractylodis grown in Jurong is markedly higher than those in other locations.The ratio of atractylon,β-eudesmol and atisine chloride atractydin were(0.70~2.00)∶(0.09~0.40)∶1.CONCLUSION In terms of component contents and proportion relation,Rhizoma Atractylodis grown in Jurong obviously possess the features of a genuine herb.


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This BradyGAMES strategy guide includes a detailed walkthrough of the game, showing the path to follow for the best endings. Detailed boss strategies and an extensive bestiary help players move through and past each stage. Includes character information including weapons list and effective fighting strategies.


This paper presents a design of compressive eletroencephalography (EEG) sensors that can generate high fidelity EEG measurement through a compressive sensing approach. The conventional sampling structure of EEG sensor consists of uniform electrodes placed on the scalp. Each electrode generates one channel of signals to be further processed. The proposed method contributes with a new EEG sensor design. It includes (1) non-uniform multiplex sampling structures and (2) incoherent compressive sensing protocols. In the new design, each electrode consists of a number of elements in pseudo-random shapes, yielding EEG signals with different spatial resolutions. The multi-channel sampling rates are controlled by a pseudo-random vector generator. The final measurement is the sum of the multi-channel signals within a time window after each sample is encoded with a Bernoulli number. This method allows to achieve compressive measurements of EEG signals with 16 sensing elements at a random sampling rate, resulting in a high compression ratio with little information loss.


Refinement in operating practice and technical developments such as degassing, Ar gas shrouding, mould fluxes, tundish refractories, and slab surface temperature control in the secondary cooling zone made it possible to improve the slab surface quality and hence reheat the slab without surface conditioning.Recently, 80% of the slabs for plates and 50% for sheets are charged directly into the reheating furnaces by this process, with excellent results. On the basis of this development, continuous casting of high grade steels such as API-X70 and deep drawable steels have been made possible.


There is a tremendous increase in use of RF electronics in veterinary for tracking and health check of animals. The mechanisms of magnetic and electromagnetic effects in biological systems are known, effect of electromagnetics in biological tissues are generally studied in human tissues in the literature, and the mechanism was convincingly established for enzymatic adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and desoxynucleic acid (DNA) synthesis. In this study, the SAR effect of pH boluses used to monitor the rumen pH value of animals has been tried to be revealed. For this purpose, active RFID tags operating at 434 MHz have been placed in the rumen zone by adding a pH sensor and the rumen pH values have been monitored dynamically for two months. The SAR value generated by active RFID tag antennas with 1 mW output power has been modeled with the help of a simulation program. The resulting SAR effect appears to be well below the legal limit. Keywords— SAR, Active RFID Tags, pH bolus.


The objective of this study was to investigate the role of MAPKAP kinase 2 (MK2) and heat shock protein (HSP) HSP60 in the pathogenesis of a new model of severe acute pancreatitis (AP). MK2 plays a...


This paper presents the derivation for per-tier outage probability of a randomly deployed femtocell network over an existing macrocell network. The channel characteristics of macro user and femto user are addressed by considering different propagation modeling for outdoor and indoor links. Location based outage probability analysis and capacity of the system with outage constraints are used to analyze the system performance. To obtain the simplified expressions, approximations of ratios of Rayleigh random variables (RVs), Rayleigh to log normal RVs and their weighted summations, are derived with the verifications using simulations.


The effect of general anaesthesia on psychomotor function and, therefore, ability to drive safely in the immediate postoperative period, has been well established [1–3]. The duration of this impairment is, however, the subject of much debate [4]. There has been a recent modification in the summary of product characteristics for isoflurane as manufactured by Abbvie (AbbVie Ltd, Maidenhead, UK). This revision in 2013 states 'patients should be advised that performance of activities requiring mental alertness, such as operating a motor vehicle or hazardous machinery, may be impaired for 2–4 days after anaesthesia with isoflurane' [5]. The reasons for this change are unclear, and yet the Royal College of Anaesthetists updated its advice to incorporate this modification, stating 'it is not usually safe to drive or operate machinery until at least 24 h after a general anaesthetic, and this should be extended to 4 days if isoflurane has been used' [6]. However, the College guidance has recently changed: "You should not drive for at least 24 hours after an anaesthetic. This may be longer if you have had certain anaesthetic drugs or are taking strong painkillers (check with your anaesthetist), as your judgement and reaction time might be impaired" [7]. Meanwhile, the advice from the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI) remains unchanged, advising patients to refrain from driving for 24 h postoperatively [8]. Interestingly, this is same time-period recommended in the summary of product characteristics for isoflurane manufactured by Baxter [9]. We made contact with AbbVie to request a more in-depth explanation for the revised advice. The company responded with a letter (published in this issue of the journal) that included a literature search consisting of articles regarding the effects of isoflurane on cognition. Isoflurane is one of the older inhalational anaesthetic agents, with a relatively slow elimination phase [10], but is still used widely, due to its low cost [11]. This change in guidance is important, not only to patients, who may find it disruptive being unable to drive for 4 days, but also hospital staff, who may be at risk of litigation if the correct advice is not given. Driving is a complex task requiring cognitive, visual and motor skills [12]. There are numerous methods of assessing driving ability, including: on-road testing; driving simulation; and neuropsychological tests [13]. Although on-road testing is the gold standard, in practice it is rarely feasible [14]. Neuropsychological testing, however, is cheap, quick and has been shown to be an accurate assessment of driving competency [13]. Cognitive tests that correlate most closely with driving ability are those that assess visuospatial skills, attention [15] and motor skills [13]. On the other hand, neuropsychological tests that assess memory, language and executive function have been shown to poorly reflect driving ability [15].


Philanthropy is fashionable again. The rich want to give, or 'give back', they want to solve the problems of the world. On the other hand, governments are attracted by the influx of new money, the new ideas and the savings that might be achieved from new forms of service delivery, that this desire entails, especially in the face of constant criticism of the failings of public-sector organisations. The ways in which social and educational problems are being organised and addressed, nationally and globally, is changing in response to the methods of 'new' philanthropy and the privileging of 'market-based' solutions to these problems. This new model of philanthropy is what Edwards (2008) calls 'philanthrocapitalism', a merging of venture philanthropy with social enterprise, a new 'economic rationalization of giving' (Saltman).


The invention provides a device and a method of carrying out cascaded multiply accumulation operation by utilizing a fixed-point multiplier. The method comprises the following steps that the interior of a 32-bit signed fixed-point multiplier is divided into four 17-bit signed fixed-point multipliers, the 17-bit signed fixed-point multipliers are controlled to input operands through an enable signal generated by a decoding unit, and the 32-bit signed fixed-point multiplier can execute fixed multiplication operation and a multiplication operation part in cascaded multiply accumulation; and the 32-bit signed fixed-point multiplier and a matched multiply accumulation unit are organized to an array form according to a certain rule, so that the cascaded multiply accumulation operation can be well implemented. According to the device and the method, flexibility is improved, hardware resources are saved and parallel and pipeline computation of mass data can be well implemented to obtain better real-time performance and resource utilization rate.


Abstract The activity and selectivity of the catalysts used in oxidative dehydrogenation of alkanes results from a combination of factors related to the nature of the catalysts and to the operating conditions under which these are used. In this work, the oxidative dehydrogenation of alkanes (mainly butane) over V–Mg–O and VOx/Al2O3 catalysts has been studied. The investigation is focused on the examination of the oxidation and reduction processes that take place on the surface of both catalysts. A combination of catalyst characterization and kinetic measurements has been used, in an attempt to relate the rate of these redox processes to the catalytic performance observed under oxidative dehydrogenation conditions.


(57) Abstract: discloses a loading mechanism of a medical syringe assembly. Loading mechanism of the present invention, first and second housing portions of the syringe (12, 14) has a dose finding sleeve slidably coupled (16), the first end of the dose determination sleeve (16) tab (66) is provided in the second end of the dose determination sleeve (16) is fixed to one of the first or second housing part. Loading mechanism of the present invention also includes a first or fixed sleeve retainer on the other of the second housing portion (68), the sleeve retainer (68), syringe plunger (30) is a syringe of the fluid chamber ( movable engagement with the tab (66) of the dose determined sleeve engaging position preventing the dose finding sleeve (16) when it is moved to the rear of the 28). To move the first housing part in the direction away from the second housing portion, the plunger fluid is moved in the second direction is loaded into the fluid chamber, moving the first housing part in the direction toward the second housing part When the plunger is moved fluid is discharged from the fluid chamber in a first direction. Loading mechanism of the present invention, the use preparation filling and syringe assembly of the drug to the syringe assembly can be facilitated.


The yearly risk of Campylobacter infection was estimated for a treatment plant in the Netherlands. The median and mean values for the overall removal efficacy of the four treatment steps at the plant were estimated to be 7.46 log10 and 6.22 log10, respectively. The mean yearly risk of infection was estimated to be 1.68 × 10 infection/person/yr. The uncertainty analysis demonstrated that the following items had large impacts on the yearly risk of infection: the ratio of Campylobacter to E. coli in the source water, the method of pairing the concentration data before and after treatment, and the variation in the removal efficacy of slow sand filtration depending on the water temperature. Based on these results, the important components that are required to improve the accuracy of the estimates were identified. Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) and costs-of-illness in the distribution area were estimated. The uncertainty analyses of DALYs showed that the ratio of illness to infection is the most important factor that affects the DALYs. It should be noted that it is important to estimate the ratio of illness to infection to decrease the uncertainty of the DALYs.


Purpose
This paper aims to analyze the relationship between organizational culture (measured by mission, involvement, consistency, adaptability and well-being), employee organizational commitment and employee innovation in the Vietnamese IT industry.

Design/methodology/approach
This is a quantitative research using perceptual scale questionnaire survey developed based on the literature review and in-depth expert interviews. A total of 319 IT professionals working in Vietnam participated in the survey. The data were analyzed using multiple regression analysis.

Findings
The results suggest that overall organizational culture and organizational commitment are positively and significantly related to employee innovation. A closer look reveals that out of the organizational culture's five dimensions, mission, adaptability and well-being are found specifically and significantly related to employee innovation.

Research limitations/implications
The study used a cross-sectional survey where case studies of longitudinal study may add more insight. Further, the Denison organizational culture survey instrument might be subjective. Finally, there may be also some moderating or mediating effects that are not taken into account in this study.

Practical implications
The enhancement of adaptability, well-being, mission and commitment can increase employee innovation in the IT industry.

Originality/value
This paper contributes to the literature and practice by demonstrating the relationship between corporate culture and organizational commitment on employee innovation in a developing country (i.e. Vietnam).


Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant implications to the workplace and highly impacted employee performance in every organization. In contemporary research, the scholars agree that leadership is one of the critical antecedents to predict employee performance in organizations. However, research is needed to investigate the mediating role of integral factors such as benevolence values (BV) and self-efficacy (SE) in predicting employee performance in the workplace. This study aimed to investigate the impact of key antecedents on employee performance in the banking industry. The findings reveal that the key antecedents, e.g., servant leadership (SL), self-efficacy (SE), and benevolence values (BV), have a direct positive relationship with employee performance (EP). Moreover, multiple indirect paths were tested, including serial mediation. This study used a quantitative methodology based on the positivist paradigm. A sample of 560 employees was randomly chosen. A survey questionnaire was distributed among them, and 400 were returned with a response rate of 70%, and the clean data of 400 employees was used for data analysis. The structural equation modeling (SEM) technique was employed using Smart PLS 3.3.3 software. The results confirmed that both SE and BV mediate the relationship between SL and EP. Likewise, BV mediates the relationship between SE and EP, and SE mediates the relationship between SL and BV. Finally, in serial mediation, the relationship between SL and EP is also established via SE and BV together as mediators.


England's most widely used indicator of young people's education and labour market status is the NEET category - 'not in education, employment or training'. Making comparisons with how France and Germany measure school leavers' progression and achievement, Hilary Steedman argues that NEET is no longer good enough.


A pot experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of Funneliformis mosseae, Acaulospora laevis and potassium (70ppm and 100ppm) on Phaseolus mungo imposed to water stress during three stages of growth. Water stress increased peroxidase activity and reduced nutrient uptake, nodulation and yield as compared to well watered plants. Our results revealed reproductive stage to be the worst stage to experience water stress as the flowers weathered away and reproductive growth shortened resulting in lesser no. of pods followed by pod formation stage during which pod abortion occurred and weight of the pods was negatively affected. Vegetative stage was found to be least affected by water stress. Treatment of plants with mycorrhizae and potassium improved antioxidant enzyme activities, nutrient uptake, nodulation and yield as compared to control. Since the plants stressed during the reproductive stage had minimum peroxidase activity, triple inoculation of plants with FAK2 resulted in maximum enhancement of peroxidase activity (0.882) among the different treatments. With the same treatment, shoot phosphorus (1.806) was found to be maximum during the pod formation stage. Root phosphorus (1.633), nodulation (23.6) and yield in terms of number (11.8) and weight of pods (6.84) were found to be maximum during vegetative stage with FAK2 followed by FAK1. Funneliformis mosseae proved to be an efficient alleviator of stress during all the stages as compared to Acaulospora laevis and either dose of potassium. Funneliformis mosseae along with K2 i.e. 100ppm was quite effective among double treatments.


This article examines public performances of mothering children with intellectual disabilities through thematic discourse analysis of thirty-three published memoirs. These data reveal presentations of self that, once consumed and interpreted by public interaction, emerge collectively as a "warrior-hero" identity, a reformulated archetype in the social construction of a good mother. This archetype places a cultural expectation on mothers to do battle to attain resources and possible cures for their children, ultimately shifting the historical burden on mothers from causing the intellectual disabilities of their children to curing them. The article concludes with a discussion of how this hyperfocus on expert parenting has the potential to leave mothers of children with intellectual disabilities strained and subject to the pitfalls of systems of inequality.


My dissertation was made as an educational and training device for people who are wor-king in the private security. It is a description for prevention and resolution in the faktory cisis. How to prevent these crisis is described in the first part of my dissertation. Then co-mes the cooperation of the private security, private factories and a state autority in the cisis. A process and a production of kontrol documents is described in the last part of my disser-tation.


The apparent discrepancy between the values (1.45&&10 "A& cm) for the nuclear radii derived from mirror nuclei and those (1.2X10 "A& cm) derived from ii-mesonic atoms was investigated. The conventional calculation of the Coulomb energy difference b,E, between mirror nuclei is improved in two respects: the usual uniform model is replaced by the more elaborate shell model with a Rnite square well potential, and the exchange terms are taken into account. An equivalent Coulomb radius R, is defined by R,= (6/5) (Ze'/nE, ); an equivalent meson radius is defined by Esi= (5/3)&(r')Ap, where (r')Ap is the mean square radius of the electrical charge distribution. The two extreme cases of the pairs (F",0") and (0",N") are investigated. The computation gives R,/Rsr =1.18 in 0, R,/Air=1. 07 in N'i. These results are smaller by about 8 percent than the experimental ratios. However, the experimental discontinuity in R, at the closure of the p shell is reproduced.


monetary arrangements and payments unions seems to serve little useful purpose. It is too superficial to explain how the former work and rehashes the case against the latter in a well-worn manner. The impression Vinay gives that' sterling area 'African states have central banks and monetary arrangements generally analogous to those of francophone Africa is highly misleading. A majority of the anglophone African central banks are managers of basically autonomous currencies (vide how few devalued in 1967), the francophone are little more than Paris-centred regional branches of the Bank of France. It is to be hoped that this initial volume will be followed by further francophone contributions to the literature of African economic integration, and in particular by contributions from French-speaking Africans and from independent academics. r REGINALD H. GREEN The Treasury, Dar es Salaam


This chapter discusses some of the criticisms of standardized assessments by doing a document analysis of mainly Mexico's and Argentina's ministries of education's web sites and exploring the theoretical work of diverse authors, mainly critical pedagogues and culturalists. This chapter argues that the process of assessment using standardized tests is a highly political and even commercial process, but the challenge to compete globally, still perform locally, collaborate in solidarity, and decide collectively whose knowledge is of most worth is still before us. As exemplified in Mexico's test ENLACE, standardized tests tend to show a negative bias against minorities and tendency to highlight certain values and knowledge. Countries should seek for as many partnership opportunities with teachers and communities to be able to assess learning collectively and even consider not adopting policies passively, as opposed to having an international organization or policy dictating what is worth knowing and testing. This way, assessment will still help countries compete globally, still perform locally, and collaborate in solidarity.


Uterine leiomyomas are the most common benign tumour in women, with an estimated prevalence of between 20 and 77% depending on the series [1]. Leiomyomata are most often asymptomatic (50-80%) [2], they can become symptomatic (uterine haemorrhage, abdominal pain, dysuria, reproductive disorders) [3], and in rare cases can be complicated by hemorrhagic shock [4]. We report the case of a patient with a polymyomatous uterus complicated by haemorrhagic shock, who underwent emergency polymyomectomy and we discuss the indications of surgical and/or non-surgical techniques (uterine artery embolisations) for management hemorrhagic shock secondary to uterine leiomyoma.


The purpose of this project is to develop a methodology and criteria to evaluate the Employee Performance and Development Plan process at the Department of Health and Environmental Control and whether progress has been made toward the initial objectives.


Following the changes in basic anthropological characteristics of the young gymnast can help coaches to recognize how the process of training influence the growth and development of gymnasts. This also can be useful in the specialization of specific apparatus. The aim of this investigation was to find the differences in weight and height between young female gymnasts. The sample consisted of 26 female gymnasts: 10 years old who are competing at different levels – compulsory (16) and free (10) programs. Compulsory program training was three times per week, each lasting two hours. Training in the free program lasted two and a half-hour five times per week. K-S test was used for testing the normality of distribution. Differences between height and weight are calculated by ANOVA at the level of statistical significance of p<0.05. Results show that there is a statistically significant difference in height and weight between categories. Girls from the compulsory program are taller and heavier than girls in free program. The free program is the hardest program and physically more demanding for execution than a compulsory program. It seems that the bigger volume of training influences height and weight.
Keywords: artistic gymnastics, anthropological characteristics, children


Continuous exposure to methane causes IrO2(110) films on Ir(100) to undergo extensive reduction at temperatures from 500 to 650 K. Measurements using in situ X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) ...


Hemorrhagic transformation (HT) is a major complication of delayed tissue plasminogen activator (t‐PA) treatment in ischemic stroke. We aimed to explore whether peroxynitrite decomposition catalyst (PDC) could prevent such complication.


Restricted water may be defined as narrow channels or canals, waterway with vertical or over changing banks, or areas that include piers and breakwater. Obviously, most restricted water includes shallow water, and many include significant current and tide. All ships are required to be directionally controllable in the horizontal plane so that they can proceed on a straight path, turn or take other avoiding actions as may be dictated by the operational situation. They must further be capable of doing this consistently and reliably not only in calm water but also in waves or in conditions of strong wind. When a ship is proceeding in very shallow water or restricted water, its dynamic behavior is much different from that of the same ship proceeding in a wide stretch of deep water, because of changes in magnitude of the hydrodynamic forces and moments acting on it.


A novel quantum phase amplification (QPA) technique is proposed to enhance the spatial resolution of passive imaging systems, without the commensurate increase of the aperture size. The key component of this approach is the production of phase-amplified light, a squeezed state of the electromagnetic field that can be generated in phase-sensitive three-wave mixing (PSTWM). We have established the theoretical basis for QPA using PSTWM and theoretically derived the conditions for the operation of the ubiquitous PSTWM realized by using standard laser technology. In our approach sub-Rayleigh imaging can be explored to perform the super-resolution enhancement of remotely sensed data. We applied the PSTWM to improve the distinguishability of two point sources in several scenarios. In addition, detector segmentation was modeled to optimize the signal-to-noise ratio.


New mechanisms of the appearance of chaos in a ring solid-state laser are identified. The results are given of experimental and theoretical investigations of dynamic and spectral characteristics of such a laser. The appearance of dynamic chaos is attributed to parametric interactions between self-modulation and relaxation oscillations.


Let $\Omega \subset {\mathbf R}^n$ be an open ball, $n \ge 2$. Suppose that $f,g : \Omega \to {\mathbf R}^n$, $f = g$ on $\partial\Omega$, and that f is injective. In case f and g are continuous, then $f(\overline{\Omega}) \subset g(\overline{\Omega})$. We extend this result to generally discontinuous mappings belonging to suitable Sobolev spaces under appropriate notions of injectivity and boundary equality.