1.SNTRODUCTSON Composite materials are used in many fields of aerospace engineering and the investigation of their thermal performances is required during both their manufacturing and their employment [1]. In aerospace field composite materials are used to furnish a better protection from high temperatures in the critical zones of engines than the traditional materials. In fact, the high temperatures could cause irreversible damages. Therefore the thermal analysis of composite materials, employed to realise any part of engine, is very challenging. In this case, the anisotropic behavior of the thermal conductivity should be considered to optimize the use of composite materials and a great deal of studies are focused on thermophysica l measurements [2-6]. These kinds of investigation s are very difficult for both the geometry and the complexity of the equations which describe the phenomenon. The thermal distribution can be determined by means of the numerical methods [7-10]. For this reason the thermal designer develops home-made procedure to solve the specific problem. On the other hand it is possible to use commercial software. It is important to observe that, even if a home-made procedure is used, it is useful to have a reference standard given by commercial software to validate the implemented numerical code.


This study analyzes online reader responses to Dara-Lynn Weiss, whose controversial Vogue article and subsequent memoir, The Heavy, described how she put her seven-year-old daughter on a strict diet. Readers responded to Weiss in the context of ideas about the "tiger mother" approach to success-oriented parenting; and of beauty ideals. The research revealed how expectations around mothers'—but not fathers'—responsibilities for controlling their daughters' weight are increasing and intensifying. Having generally embraced these responsibilities, the readers studied here used various websites to express their anxieties about successful parenting and to contest dominant media constructions of "good" mothers.


The paper is devoted to simulating and processing different types of hydroacoustic signals. The analysis of these signals helps us to detect marine objects and design complex systems of underwater environment. We introduce a fast technique of hydroacoustic signal processing in the frequency domain based on adaptive spectral analysis and wavelet smoothing. This technique is applicable for studying local features of hydroacoustic signals in the frequency domain and classifying them based on spectral characteristics.


A supersonic viscous calculation for a complete F-15 configuration employing the Chimera grid embedding technique is described. The technique eases the requirements for grid generation by using simply constructed overlapping grids for components of the configuration. low field information is passed between grids by interpolation at grid boundaries. For this calculation, the solution is obtained by computing a series of grid blocks in the streamwise direction. The procedure for generating the grids and implementing them in the Chimera technique is described. Results from a calculation of an F-15 at a Mach number of 1.5 at zero degrees angle-of-attack is presented.


Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are a group of compounds that affect the endocrine system, frequently found in everyday products and epidemiologically associated with several diseases. The human population is now ubiquitously exposed to EDCs in daily life. The main way of getting xenoestrogens to the body is the contaminated food. The effects of xenoestrogens on the proteolytic processes of different age rats were determination. The experiments were conducted on Wistar rats exposed to exogenous estrogen for 45 days. At the beginning of the experiment 3-month-old pubertal animals and 6-month-old sexually mature rats were involved. The research materials were organ tissue and blood serum of the rats. The objects were indexes of activity of trypsin and its obligatory inhibitors α1 - antitrypsin (α1-AT) and α2-macroglobulin (α2-MG), cysteine cathepsins B and L, the molecules of middle mass (MMM) level. In summary, the eating food contaminated by exoestrogens led to changes in the proteolytic system and the development of endogenous intoxication, which are also organ-specific and dependent on the age of the animals: a higher level of activity of the inhibitory link and the content of MMM was observed in rats in the puberty period, which leads to a decrease in the potential of the protective mechanisms of the organism and can become a trigger dysfunctional systems of natural detoxification and biotransformation. Inhibition of apoptosis is the main consequence found in the body of experimental rats. This phenomenon can lead to processes that inhibit one of the main mechanisms that reject damaged cells from the population. Females who were in puberty were more susceptible to dietary synthetic estrogens. In contrast to adult animals of the same sex, whose indicators indicate the importance of age characteristics of the body for the ability to perceive the effects of xenoestrogens. Rats became less sensitive to the effects of these substances with age. The diference in experimental animals was due to changes in the rate of detoxification pathway reactions, and not in the metabolism of estrogens entering the body, in particular, with food.


Through evaluating the contents,objects and forms of corporate social responsibility information revelation in China,the author holds that recently the best method to improve corporate social responsibility information revelation in China is revealing information by using each individual part in annual report.As to the stating means,descriptive revelation means or simple social responsibility report forms are recommended.


This article,by studying the principle of Double-start Position in the earth and synchronous orbit satellites,puts forward an accuracy space concept in Double-start Position,under which it builds a model of accuracy space and analyzes its physical meaning.The article concludes its analysis by simulating the positioning accuracy of Double Star convergence space,and produces a precision distribution of it.


At the regional level in-migrant and indigenous workers are likely to have different income levels and consumption propensities. The effects that these differences have upon a local economy are explored within an extended input-output modeling framework. Two iterative input-output models, due to Miernyk et al. and Blackwell, are recast as systems of simultaneous equations and are shown to produce identical results. A detailed analysis is made of model structure and a method is outlined for the decomposition of income multipliers. Empirical versions of the two models, for Boulder and Cork, are reconstructed with data from the original studies and are used to make comparisons of the two local economies.


The usual view is that the role of rules within hum an thought is marginal. Thinking, so the story goes, is a process that is essentially free, non-mechanical and creative and hence governed by no rules. Moreover, it is often held that it is precisely the absence o f rules that makes of human thinking what it is and what makes the principal di fference between man and machine. In a sharp contrast to this, Wittgenst ei claims that in fact we cannot trespass on the rules of logic that we can not think so that it would contradict logical rules. How could Wittgenstein sa y omething that sounds so obviously awkward? In this lecture I want to dis cu s the role played by rules within thought from a viewpoint slightly diff erent from the usual one. I do not think there are rules which would generall y direct our thought * Práce na tomto textu byla podpo řena grantem číslo 401/06/0387 Grantové agentury České Republiky.


An electric energy distribution system may comprise a plurality of loads configured to receive power from a common feed or leg. Each of the load may be configured to operate in at least first and second modes, such that the current which can be consumed in its first mode of operation when, VA or power of the first upper limit, and in its first current consumable second mode running, VA or power reaches a second limit. First upper limit may be higher than the second upper limit. Sensor means may monitor parameters corresponding to the total amount of power from all of the common branch or feed consumed by the plurality of loads. Manager component may be configured, when the parameter reaches or exceeds a threshold value, select one of the load current in its first mode of operation, and load the selected second operating mode thereof.


Storage and pre-processing of alarm information generated from Local Telephone Network are core functions of fault management in TMN This work presents a framework for approaching the problem of pre-processing of alarm information modeled as finite state machine (FSM) Base on this model, we proceed both temporal and spatial alarm correlation to detected alarm information We also apply this model in our project Results from project show this model provides powerful supports to fault identification, diagnosis and localization


The arbitration is a distinguished alternative disputes resolution in that points of quick resolution of disputes, less formal and less costly resolution than litigation. On the other hand, it has handicaps of interim relief such as preliminary injunction, interim measures, emergency measures of protection etc. Recently international arbitration rules have strengthened the expedited emergency relief procedures, such as Article 23 of the ICC Rules of Arbitration, Article 26 of the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, Article 23 of the Arbitration Rules of LCIA, Article 21 of the AAA Arbitration Rules. The problems of those international rules have insufficient clauses about procedures for execution of interim measures of protection, so ICC has a separate pre-arbitration procedure with Pre-arbitral Referee Rules, and UNCITRAL Model Law deal with interim relief and a new form of relief in the Article 17. Article 37 of AAA/ICDR came into force on May 1, 2006, and it was the first prominent international arbitration rules which included procedures for emergency relief prior to the formation of a full arbitral tribunal. This Article 37 took a bolder step than other Rules with respect to emergency relief. The Korean Commercial Arbitration Board launched the new International Arbitration Rules on January 25, 2007, but it also had insufficient clauses about procedures for execution of interim measures of protection like other international rules even if it late started than Article 37 of AAA/ICDR.


A 21-year-old male underwent a left hemithyroidectomy and left arytenoid adduction for left recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) palsy with thyroid cancer by endotracheal intubation under general anesthesia. Immediately after the operation, dyspnea without stridor appeared. A flexible fiberscopic examination and laryngeal tomography showed an impairment in the abduction of the right vocal cord. The right RLN palsy improved after 2 weeks with the use of vitamin B12 and a peripheral vasodilator. Although an electromyographic examination could not be performed, we diagnosed partial vocal cord paralysis primarily caused by a disorder of the posterior branch of RLN following endotracheal intubation on the basis of the clinical course and laryngeal tomography.


Identity is the essence of performance and performance is the essence of identity. Without identity our performance does not assume any cultural significance.  Our relative identity allows our performance to be located in the socio-cultural space. Our identity forms the foundation for the discursive significance of our performance. However, our identity is not unique, it is established by performing a pre-existing script. The biological basis of identity can be understood by applying learning theories and by analyzing how these leant behavior is embedded in our neuronal network in the brain and how these behavior patterns are controlled by psychological factors to result in the identity we observe.  Recent developments in the fields of neuroscience and functional neuro imaging have enabled us to study objectively the process of neural mechanisms and map areas of brain that are involved in learning various behavior patterns. These neuronal networks and the neuro transmitters play a key role in memory and behavior of animals. Aby studying the particular pattern of behavior and the brain area that mediates that behavior it will be possible to determine neuronal networks that control core identity characteristics and that control other less important characteristics. With the emergence of studies in neuroplasticity the possibility of relearning behaviors through new neuronal pathways may open new avenues to treat conditions that affect identity. Understanding the biological basis of identity will lead to widening of research area and better understanding of the concept.


The rapid development of modern technology and society has raised the need for a large number of real-time translations, such as Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology. One of the important factors determining the fluency of cooperation is that ASR translates the input speech into readable text so that both parties can understand each other's meaning. There is also a huge demand for and reliance on automatic speech recognition technology for modern applications. This article focuses on the word matching algorithm for backward search (WMA-BS), which requires two separate steps, one for the word matching algorithm and the other for the backward search step, for the first step, which can also be done by applying the word-level N-Gram language model. n-Gram model is a language model in which when n words appear in a text, we can use these n words to predict the structure of the text. we can use these n words to predict the structure of the text. In order to make the word-level N-gram language model suitable for the method, it is more useful for us to integrate it into shallow fusion. One of the most important parts to be addressed in the word matching algorithm is the boundary, or distance, between two words in English.


Recently developed deep learning research has made remarkable advances in object detection. However, the difficulty of object recognition in complex occlusion environments remains to be overcome. For instance, recognizing densely displayed products on checkout-free store shelves is challenging for state-of-the-art deep-learning object detectors. We propose a deep learning-based inventory management system using a changed inventory tracking method for a multi-camera checkout-free store. The proposed method utilizes the image difference before and after the event as a region of interest (ROI) to detect occluded objects. The proposed method archive a 25.93% and 19.61% higher detection rate compared to the single camera detection rate and the non-ROI detection rate, respectively.


ABSTRACT Considering postcolonial biblical scholarship in (Southern) Africa from a white African perspective introduces whiteness discourse, which in turn invites consideration of identity politics and othering, and the (often neglected) value of intersectionality. Engaging with existing postcolonial work on the Bible in its various manifestations from a self-consciously white African self-awareness and perspective, I consider the potential and limitations of postcolonial theory and practices for biblical interpretation, in the Global South and particularly on the African continent.


A compact Inverse Compton Light Source (ICLS) design is presented, with flux and brilliance orders of magnitude beyond conventional laboratory-scale sources and other compact ICLS designs. This design utilizes the physics of inverse Compton scattering of an extremely low emittance electron beam by a laser pulse of rms length of approximately two-thirds of a picosecond (2/3 ps). The accelerator is composed of a superconducting radiofrequency (SRF) reentrant gun followed by four double-spoke SRF cavities. After the linac are three quadrupole magnets to focus the electron beam to the interaction point (IP). The distance from cathode surface to IP is less than 6 meters, with the cathode producing electron bunches with a bunch charge of 10 pC and a few picoseconds in length. The incident laser has 1 MW circulating power, a 1 micron wavelength, and a spot size of 3.2 microns at the IP. The repetition rate of this source is 100 MHz, in order to achieve a high flux despite the low bunch charge. The anticipated X-ray source parameters include an energy of 12 keV, with a total flux of $1.4\times10^{14}$ ph/s, the flux into a 0.1% bandwidth of $2.1\times10^{11}$ ph/(s-0.1%BW), and the average brilliance of $2.2\times10^{15}$ ph/(s-mm$^2$-mrad$^2$-0.1%BW).


Before 1998 it was duty of the courts to control proprio motu whether preemption rights were respected in the course of real estate transfers. After 1998 there is no such a rule. However, Real Estate Act can be interpreted as if there is still mandatory protection of preemption rights. This is the reason why the author opens the question whether protection of preemption rights should be left to courts acting proprio motu, or to parties. If preemption rights are guaranteed by law in order to protect public interest, protective mechanism should involve both state authorities and interested parties. This is the rationale of previous provisions of Real Estate Act which explicitly provided for official protection of preemption rights. This rationale could still serve as justification for our courts to proprio motu demand for evidence to prove that preemption rights of interested persons were not violated in the process of verifying a contract. A valid real estate contract is a condition for exercise of the preemption right. Therefore, the author finds that there should be adequate rules which would prevent fraudulent behaviour and circumvention of preemption rights, and which would precisely define a legal effect of request for redress in case of its violation. Legislative acts provide for the right of annulment which may be exercised by interested parties, which is not a good approach. Interested party is certainly interested in transaction of the real estate. In order to fully exercise preemption rights, an interested party should be entitled to invalidate a transfer of real estate. Lawyers are undoubtedly familiar with the term "annulment" which implies restitution, meaning that this is a fiction that there is no sale contract. This linguistic and legal ambiguity may be corrected with additional provision which would require the seller to sell the thing under same conditions to the person who enjoys the preemption right. Such a provision would confirm the nature of such request.


The article describes the way Russian modern culture perceives the British cultural code. The research is carried out on the material of Harry Potter series and a specific sort of literature created by numerous fans of the books (the so – called fanfiction). Fanfiction lets the researcher monitor the feedback of the books in readers' creative work. Three levels of Rowling's texts are supposed to be perceived by readers: fairytale and myth, Englishness, modern Britain's realia.


Hydrolysis of 1,1′-dicyanobicyclohexyl (Ⅲ) afforded for the first time the corresponding dicarboxylic acid (Ⅴ) and its anhydride (Ⅵ). Upon the reduction of the dicarboxylic acid with lithium aluminum hydride, the dihydric alcohol (Ⅶ) was obtained. The latter was dehydrated with sulphuric acid to give the spiro compound (Ⅷ).


The unit-secondary of the modular-secondary permanent magnet synchronous linear motor (PMSLM) forms a continuous magnetic circuit with its adjacent spacing, which has the effect of virtual pole. According to the relationship between the pole pitch of virtual poles ($\tau_{\mathrm{v}}$) and the pole pitch of unit-secondary ($\tau_{\mathrm{r}}$), the two kinds of combinations of modular-secondary PMLSM can be defined. $\tau_{\mathrm{v}}$ affects the electromagnetic characteristics, which is an important parameter to be resolved and optimized. The difference between $\tau_{\mathrm{v}}$ and $\tau_{\mathrm{r}}$ leads to an equivalent pole pitch ($\tau_{\mathrm{e}}$) for the whole motor. The solution method of $\tau_{\mathrm{e}}$ has influence on the average value and ripple of thrust and normal force. Finally, a modular-secondary PMLSM prototype conforming to the first kind of combination is developed and verified by experiments.


By using beveloid gears in planetary gear trains it is possible to achieve very equal load sharing between the planet gears also for gear trains with more than 3 planet gears, thus making it possib ...


The aim for this research is to investigate the effect of inclusion of crack incidence into the 2D numerical model of the masonry units and bonding mortar on the behavior of unreinforced masonry walls supporting a loaded reinforced concrete slab. The finite element method was implemented for the modeling and analysis of unreinforced masonry walls. In this paper, ABAQUS, FE software with implicit solver was used to model and analyze unreinforced masonry walls which are subjected to a vertical load. Detailed Micro Modeling technique was used to model the masonry units, mortar and unit-mortar interface separately. It was found that considering potential pure tensional cracks located vertically in the middle of the mortar and units shows an increase in masonry strength of about 10% than the strength calculated using the procedure recommended by the Masonry Society Joint Committee in the building code.


Estimation of the postmortem interval is of vital importance upon discovery of unknown human remains for use in identification. Usually initial assessment will be based upon four main biological parameters; age, sex, stature, and ancestral origin. This information however only separates individuals in to common widespread categories, which may not always be adequate for a complete personal identification. Utilization of the postmortem interval is capable of establishing a timeframe where possible matches out with this period can be eliminated from investigation, thus aiding in the process of identification. Although there are several studies which investigate the estimation of time since death, the majority of these focus upon stages of decomposition, terminating at the attainment of skeletonization. None of these studies adequately quantify the stages of deterioration following skeletonization. Therefore upon discovery of remains of this nature this may act as a limitation, as there is no current quantitative method which can be accurately applied, in order to produce a reliable timeframe in forensic practice. As skeletal material degrades as a result of exposure to external environmental conditions, this will have a degenerative effect upon the structure, and therefore the biomechanical function of skeletal elements in relation to time. This enquiry therefore aims to establish a relationship between the decomposition of structural skeletal components, namely collagen, with the resultant decrease in biomechanical ability as a function of time. The aim of the proposed study is to then apply this relationship to the process of skeletonization as a means for accurate quantitative assessment of the postmortem interval for use in human identification.


Introduction: A prospective survey of cardiopulmonary resuscitation following cardiac arrest was carried out over one year with the aim of identifying parameters related to outcome of cardiac arrest. Methods: The resuscitation teams were provided with a proforma, which they had to fill up following an attempt to resuscitate an arrest victim. The resuscitation team comprised of a consultant and either two or three residents along with two nurses and one technical assistant. Patients were admitted to the Intensive Care Unit or a high dependency area under the department of anaesthesiology and critical care, following successful resuscitation. Results: A total of 102 numbers of cardiac arrests were treated by the residents of the department and 7 of these patients survived to leave hospital. The cardiac rhythm most frequently observed was asystole (40 cases), followed by ventricular fibrillation (VF) (36 cases) and pulse less ventricular tachycardia (VT) (18 cases). The least observed rhythm was pulse less electrical activity (PEA) (8 cases). Among all these rhythms, the revival rate was highest in patients with VF (26 cases, 72). Conclusion: In conclusion, survival from cardiac arrest depends on a series of critical interventions. There are additional variables which modify the outcome, the most important being the interval between 'arrest to initiation of CPR' and 'arrest to defibrillation'. Patients who developed ventricular fibrillation or tachycardia were more likely to survive than patients who developed asystole.


A condom is a device most commonly used during sexual intercourse. It is put on a man's erect penis and physically blocks ejaculated semen from entering the body of a sexual partner. Condoms are used to prevent pregnancy and transmission of sexually transmitted diseases (such as gonorrhea, syphilis, and HIV). Because condoms are waterproof, elastic, and durable, they are also used in a variety of use different applications. In the modern age, condoms are most often made from latex, but some are made from other materials such as polyurethane, or lamb intestine. A female condom is also available, most often made of polyurethane. As a method of contraception, male condoms have the advantage of being inexpensive, easy to use, having few side-effects, and of offering protection against sexually transmitted diseases. With proper knowledge and application technique — and use at every act of intercourse — users of male condoms experience a 2% per-year pregnancy rate.


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This chapter extends the scholarly conversation on both narratives and disability by suggesting ways in which counternarratives about individuals with complex intersectional identities can be constructed in virtual communities. In so doing, the chapter brings poorly represented perspectives into discourses on disability and narratives. The study also contributes to the literature on the importance of emotion, specifically by highlighting the deployment of love and anger to counteract experiences of shame and marginalization.


Beginning in Aceh in 2005 and continuing in West Sumatra and Padang, Build Change, an international non-profit organization, rebuilt confined masonry houses in partnership with local builders, improved the design and construction of houses built by partner organizations, trained builders through intensive, on-the-job training programs, and trained technical high school students to design and build earthquake-resistant houses. Using confined masonry in the post-Aceh reconstruction was an improvement on an existing, commonly preferred system, rather than an introduction of a new system. Minor modifications to existing design and construction practices were used to ensure these single story houses in Indonesia were affordable, easy to build with local materials, skills and tools, and earthquake-resistant. The recent earthquakes in Indonesia have demonstrated the viability of this structural system as a low-cost, locally appropriate solution for single story housing construction. These earthquakes also illustrated how vulnerable houses can be when simple rules and good practices for configuration (wall height and length, gable walls, open terrace frames), connections (between confining elements, between walls and tie columns, and construction quality (materials and workmanship of the masonry and concrete) – the three C's – are not followed. 1 Founder and CEO, Build Change, Denver, CO 80202 2 Civil/Structural Engineer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA 94720 3 Director of Engineering, Build Change, Denver, CO 80202 Hausler E, Hart TM, Goodell G. Case Study: Design and Construction of Confined Masonry Houses in Indonesia. Proceedings of the 10 National Conference in Earthquake Engineering, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Anchorage, AK, 2014. Tenth U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering Frontiers of Earthquake Engineering July 21-25, 2014 Anchorage, Alaska 10NCEE Case Study: Design and Construction of Confined Masonry Houses in Indonesia E. Hausler-Strand , T. M. Hart, and G. Goodell


This study investigates the impact of cross structures on flood occurrences in mountainous rivers. The governing equations of open channel flow were formulated based on the Saint-Venant equations. The open channel was segmented, and a node equation was established at each section's connection point. An overflow model of bridges and weir dams was also developed. The physical model of the open channel was simplified and modeled using actual building data and model calculation requirements. The study found that the primary impact of weirs and bridges on the open channel was the backwater effect on the water level. The influence of these structures on the water level in the Huang Stream urban section in the Yellow River Basin was assessed under various working conditions. The results showed that deleting the #1 weir could reduce the maximum backwater height by 1.14 m, and deleting the #2 weir could reduce it by 1.09 m. While reducing the weir height significantly decreased the backwater range and height, it did not enhance the river's flood discharge capacity. The Huang Stream contains 17 bridges, 13 of which could potentially affect flood discharge. The eight flat slab bridges in the submerged outflow state had a significant impact on flood discharge, with a maximum water level change of 0.51 m. Conversely, the three single-hole flat slab bridges in the free outflow state downstream had a negligible impact on flood discharge. The study found that bridges had a greater influence on flood discharge capacity than weirs. This research provides valuable insights for the reconstruction of cross structures in mountainous rivers and for managing flood discharge capacity and flood control.


A 50-year-old male patient was admitted with a history of con-stitutional symptoms and weight loss with a marked leucocytosis (WBC 270 × 10 9 /L) and blood film appearances suggestive of chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML). Platelet count was normal at presentation (298 × 10 9 /L). BCR-ABL1 was detected (b2a2) confirming CML. Bone marrow trephine sections revealed a markedly expanded myeloid series but no excess of blasts (Figure 1). Megakaryocytes were noted to be reduced in size with some bare nuclei seen. Cytogenetics confirmed 46,XY, t(9;22)(q34;q11) with no additional anomalies. He was commenced on imatinib but developed progressive full blood count abnormalities (WBC 9.6 × 10 9 /L, Neutrophils 6.7 × 10 9 /L, Hb 99 g/L, Platelets 650 × 10 9 /L)withanincreaseinhis BCR-ABL1 ratio3monthsfollowing this. Hewasswitchedtonilotinibandhadafurtherbonemarrowevalua-tion,whichrevealed amarkedincreaseinreticulinfibres(MF-2)butno


The item count technique is a survey methodology that is designed to elicit respondents' truthful answers to sensitive questions such as racial prejudice and drug use. The method is also known as the list experiment or the unmatched count technique and is an alternative to the commonly used randomized response method. In this article, I propose new nonlinear least squares and maximum likelihood estimators for efficient multivariate regression analysis with the item count technique. The two-step estimation procedure and the Expectation Maximization algorithm are developed to facilitate the computation. Enabling multivariate regression analysis is essential because researchers are typically interested in knowing how the probability of answering the sensitive question affirmatively varies as a function of respondents' characteristics. As an empirical illustration, the proposed methodology is applied to the 1991 National Race and Politics survey where the investigators used the item count technique to measure the degree of racial hatred in the United States. Small-scale simulation studies suggest that the maximum likelihood estimator can be substantially more efficient than alternative estimators. Statistical efficiency is an important concern for the item count technique because indirect questioning means loss of information. The open-source software is made available to implement the proposed methodology.


ment Neonatal Research Network-developed tool for estimating outcomes among liveborn infants was used for deriving probabilities from data obtained from 4446 infants born at 400 to 1000 g without major congenital anomalies between 1998 and 2003 and monitored until 18 to 22 months' corrected age. A combination of 5 variables derived from this data (gestational age, birthweight, exposure to antenatal corticosteroids, sex, and plurality) was found to be more predictive of outcomes than gestational age and birth weight alone. The options for antepartum and intrapartum management differ depending on the specific circumstances but these may include short-term tocolytic therapy for preterm labor (to allow time for administration of antenatal steroids), antibiotics (to prolong latency after preterm premature rupture of membranes) or for intrapartum group B streptococci prophylaxis, and delivery (including cesarean delivery) for concern regarding fetal well-being or fetal malpresentation. The guidance offered for the management of the pregnancy at risk of periviable birth is based on a mix of direct evidence, data extrapolated from more advanced gestational ages, and expert opinion. Periviable births for which maternal or neonatal intervention is planned should preferably occur in centers that offer expertise in maternal and neonatal care and have the required infrastructure, including intensive care units.


Tracheary element (TE) differentiation in single cells in culture isolated from Zinnia elegans leaves involves programmed cell death (PCD) co‐ordinated with key morphological developments. We have used flow cytometry to analyze physiological and nuclear changes in the differentiating cells. Flow cytometry allows the identification of subpopulations, thereby removing the obscuring effect of population heterogeneity that occurs with the use of other techniques.


In this study data from the 1996 Brazilian Demographic and Health Survey are used to identify socio-demographic factors associated with the risk of nutritional deficits among children in the second year of life. Nutritional deficit was measured on the basis of height vs. age. A twolevel hierarchical logistic regression model was used to control for dependence between observations, since children chosen from the same community are more likely to present such problems than children from other places.


The chemical composition of the hydrocarbon fraction of essential oils of Caryopteris incana 1, C. trichosphaera 2, C. forrestii 3 and C. forrestii var. minor 4 were examined by meana of GC/MS and GC retention time data on a 45 m capillary column coated with OV-101. The following compounds were detected and their relative contents determined namely: α-thujene, α-pinene, camphene, sabinene, β-pinene, β-myrcene, α-terpinene, (?)-cymene, limonene, β-ocimene-y, β phellandrene, α-terpinolene, α-cubebene, α-copaene, α-cedrene, β-caryophyllene, γ-cadinene, ι-aromadendrene, α-humulene, β-bisabolene and δ-cadinene(Table 1 Chinese Text.).


Loss of control remains one of the largest contributors to fatal aircraft accidents worldwide. Aircraft loss-of-control accidents are complex, resulting from numerous causal and contributing factors acting alone or more often in combination. Hence, there is no single intervention strategy to prevent these accidents. This paper summarizes recent analysis results in identifying worst-case combinations of loss-of-control accident precursors and their time sequences, a holistic approach to preventing loss-of-control accidents in the future, and key requirements for validating the associated technologies.


Basedon motionmode adaptive lifting motion compensation, anembedded highperformance asymmetric 3DSPIHT waveletcolorvideocodec(MA-MCAT3DSPIHT)isproposed inthis paper. First, bymaking useofthedirection histograms ofmotionvectors, the motion modeisdetermined according towhether ornotthe non-static motion vectors consistency exists intheGOP,and different temporal filters areimposed thereby formotion compensation. Then, thechrominance components atspatial highfrequency subbands arequantified conforming tothe JPEG2000quantification schemetofurther improve the coding performance. Experimental results showthat thenew MA-MC-AT3DSPIHT waveletcolorvideocodec guarantees atleast 6.0dbPSNRimprovement atallrates overMPEG2.Moreover, withless thanoneseventh motion vectors codingcost,ityields a PSNR performance competitive withsomeoftheother results reported inthe literature.


Summary The circadian variation of 40 circulating fatty acids related variables was assessed from one man (F) and one woman (G). Each provided blood samples by finger pricking at about 4-hour intervals for 24 hours. A statistically significant rhythm was found in 65% of the variables after data expressed as a percentage of their 24-hour mean values were pooled. In particular, a putative circadian rhythm for n-3 and n-6 fatty acids deserves exploration. The predominant 12-hour component found to characterize the n-3 status of G may stem from the odd schedule she followed on the day of study, as attested by alterations in the time structure of her blood pressure on the day of study, as compared to similarly collected data on 33 other Sundays in 2009 available as control information. Circadian vascular characteristics are sensitive markers of loads, including the rest-activity schedule.


This study is a quasi-experimental descriptive design, with existing educator-made adaptations evaluated. The goals of this study were to (a) describe how educators develop adaptations and (b) evaluate the effectiveness of educator-made adaptations in facilitating the learning of students with disabilities. Findings suggest that (a) most adaptations were made in core general education classes; (b) experienced educators created more simplified curricular adaptations, whereas novice educators created more functional alternative adaptations; (c) educators are generally satisfied with the adaptation they have created and believe it was effective in teaching the student; (d) educators spent on average 59.1 min creating the adaptation; (e) educators in rural areas and novice educators provided adaptations that were rated lower in quality and clarity than experienced and urban educators; and (f) general education teachers provided adaptations that were of lower quality and clarity than special education teachers and paraeducators. Recommendations for practice are provided.


Plasma detachment research in linear devices, sometimes called divertor plasma simulators, is reviewed. Pioneering works exploring the concept of plasma detachment were conducted in linear devices. Linear devices have contributed greatly to the basic understanding of plasma detachment such as volume plasma recombination processes, detached plasma structure associated with particle and energy transport, and other related issues including enhancement of convective plasma transport, dynamic response of plasma detachment, plasma flow reversal, and magnetic field effect. The importance of plasma detachment research using linear devices will be highlighted aimed at the design of future DEMO.


The invention discloses corn-flavored potato chips and a production method thereof. The corn-flavored potato chips are made of raw materials including, by weight, 100 parts of mashed potatoes, 20-35 parts of corn flour, 8-15 parts of glutinous rice flour, 25-40 parts of corn stigma decoction fluid, 5-10 parts of mint powder, 7-12 parts of licorice powder, 1-5 parts of fruit puree, 5-12 parts of traditional Chinese medicine decoction, 0.5-3 parts of orange peel powder, 0.5-2 parts of baking soda powder, 2-5 parts of salt, 5-10 parts of sugar, 0.5-1 part of gourmet powder and a moderate amount of water. By adopting the mashed potatoes, the corn flour, the glutinous rice flour, the mint powder, the mint powder, the licorice powder, the corn stigma decoction fluid and the traditional Chinese medicine decoction and by matching with moderate seasonings, the chips are processed via the steps of producing the meshed potatoes, producing the traditional Chinese medicine juice, producing paste, blending, producing wrappers, slicing, baking and the like. The corn-flavored potato chips having faint scent of corn, unique taste and high nutritional value do not undergo a frying process, are green and environmentally friendly and good for health, and are of the highest grade of leisure home food.


Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to present the investigation on contemporary applications of game design in architectural visualization, urban environmental planning and the results to address the problems of traditional methods specifically in terms of interactivity and visualization. The authors present the prototype that incorporates information modeling and virtual reality (VR) into interactive architectural visualization.

Design/methodology/approach
The proposed system supports a virtual walkthrough process that allows users to navigate in an architectural space of their imagination and design. The immersion in the design of living space or environment has been made possible through the inclusion of VR through the use of WebVR technology to deploy the design to be experienced.

Findings
This study investigates and establishes a framework that explores the intricacies of 3 imensional (3D) Architectural Visualization in a real-time engine by designing a visual experience with a better level of user interaction and then deploying it through VR.

Originality/value
To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is one of the few experimental frameworks which perfectly integrates VR for visualization in digital home design environments. The prospective applications of this framework are in several fields of construction innovation, architectural design, 3D modeling, virtual and augmented reality.


The geological storage of CO2 in saline aquifers is believed to be one of the most promising ways to reduce the concentration of this greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. But the specific high pressure and temperature conditions at CO2 injection induces numerical challenges in solving the coupled flow, geo-mechanical, chemical dynamic equations when traditional Newton Raphson iteration method is adopted to solve these equations iteratively. Newton-Raphson method is highly efficient in the convergence speed. However, traditional Newton-Raphson method can tend to diverge due to a number of causes. The first problem is related to the need for good initial guesses. Unsuitable initial values will often redirect the iteration towards non-convergent solutions. make Another problem is that the system itself is not "well-behaviored", which means that the independent variables that need to be solved may be vibrating, or one or some of the variables are changing extremely fast. Reactive flow simulations in porous medium, with implicit geo-mechanical analysis, are very complex problems which suffer from both of these divergence problems. Here we present an improved Newton-Raphson method by adding an easily found optimum relaxation factor, which can guarantee that the solutions of the equations can be successfully found even when the conditions are extreme. The method is both effective and practical. In this paper we demonstrate the application of this mathematical tool in simulating CO2 storage in saline aquifers with code RCB (RetrasoCodeBright).


Background We systematically quantified the currently inconclusive association between Mediterranean diet patterns and the risk of lung cancer. Methods We searched the PubMed, Cochrane, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE) and Web of Science electronic databases to identify relevant articles published before October 2021. We used the Newcastle–Ottawa scale to assess the quality of the published research and a random-effects model to estimate the aggregate hazard ratios and 95% CIs. As a result of significant heterogeneity, we performed subgroup analysis, meta-regression analysis, and sensitivity analysis. Where data were available, we also performed a dose–response analysis. Results Nine articles were included in the meta-analysis. The meta-analysis showed that there was a significant negative correlation between Mediterranean diet patterns and the risk of lung cancer in the general population with a hazard ratio of 0.82, a 95% CI of 0.74–0.92, and a high heterogeneity (I2 = 59.9%, P < 0.05). As a result of the significant heterogeneity, we conducted subgroup analysis, meta-regression analysis, and sensitivity analysis and found that the study design was the source of the heterogeneity. Subgroup analysis and sensitivity analysis showed that the final results did not change very much, the sensitivity was low and the results were relatively stable. The dose–response relationship showed that, based on the lowest Mediterranean diet score (0 points), for every three-point increase, the risk of lung cancer was reduced by 9%. Conclusion The evidence in this meta-analysis shows that there is a significant negative correlation between Mediterranean diet patterns and the risk of lung cancer, suggesting that Mediterranean diets are a protective factor in lung cancer.


Abstract Putative examples of true contradictions in the social world have been given by dialetheists such as Graham Priest, Richard Routley, and Val Plumwood. However, we feel that it has not been decisively argued that these examples are in fact true contradictions rather than merely apparent. In this paper we adopt a new strategy to show that there are some true contradictions in the social world, and hence that dialetheism is correct. The strategy involves showing that a group of sincere dialetheists can, given an appropriately formed institution, bootstrap contradictions into existence. We discuss objections and consider the implications of this finding for debates over logic.


PORENCEPHALY in the hydrocephalic infant is an aggressive but preventable process. Pendergrass and Perryman 1 have emphasized that porencephaly is a manifestation of atrophy but note that the patients may have progression of their symptoms. Farmer 2 prefers the term encephalomalacic porencephaly and attributes the occurrence of these cysts to that particular property of the young brain which permits the rapid total dissolution of parenchyma after a necrotizing lesion. This would seem to ascribe a passive role to the cyst—a cyst ex-vacuo. Acquired porencephaly is due to the destruction of cerebral tissue from various causes such as trauma, circulatory disturbances, or inflammatory or degenerative processes according to Barrett and Mendelsohn. 3 Serial ventriculograms in the cases to be presented seem to demonstrate that the cyst formation is an active, erosive process with resulting loss of normal cerebral tissue and displacement of the ventricular system. Report of Cases Case1.—This patient


In this study, the effects of combination therapy consisting of X-ray irradiation and Z-100 on the survival time of C57BL/6 mice inoculated with B16F10 melanoma were investigated. Survival time was significantly prolonged in B16F10 melanoma-bearing mice treated with the X-ray irradiation (5 Gy) and Z-100 (10 mg/kg s.c.) combination therapy compared with mice irradiated with X-rays alone. The weight of primary tumors and number of metastatic colonies were also significantly suppressed by the combination therapy compared with that in the X-ray irradiation group. These results indicated that Z-100 could enhance the anti-tumor effects of radiotherapy against B16F10 melanoma. On the other hand, the survival time of CD4 knockout mice bearing the same tumors was not prolonged by the combination therapy compared with mice irradiated with X-rays alone, suggesting that CD4+ cells are partly involved in augmentation of the anti-tumor effect of radiotherapy by Z-100. In addition, type 1 cytokine (IL-2, IFN-gamma) production was significantly increased and type 2 cytokine (IL-4, IL-10) production was significantly suppressed in the tumor-bearing mice treated with the combination therapy compared with the X-ray irradiation group. Moreover, interleukin-12 production by CD11c+ cells was also significantly increased in mice treated with the combination therapy compared with the X-ray irradiation group. These results indicate that Z-100 augmented the anti-tumor effects of X-ray irradiation. Moreover, we demonstrated that the effects of Z-100 were expressed at least in part, by the improvement of the T cell responses from type 2-dominant to type 1-dominant via up-regulation of IL-12 production.


In this brief retrospective essay, the value of a particular kind of classroom talk is extolled - not the kind of talk that simply feeds back information, but rather talk that has the power to shape knowledge through participant engagement with a range of processes: hypothesising, exploration, debate and synthesis. This kind of talk is the antithesis to "right answerism" and facilitates learning which is active and which prepares young people for a complex world with many uncertainties and many occasions when rational choice is required. It is worth considering what is implied when, after someone has asked you to make a decision, you reply, "I'd like to talk it over first". It's not that you expect that the talk will give you new information. It's rather that you know from experience that the matter in question can often appear quite differently as a result of talking it through. The situation and its priorities and implications can take a different shape, a different meaning. You may see connections that were not immediately apparent, or realise that some of the options might have results that need to be considered. In that case, the talking is contributing to your understanding by reshaping what you already in a sense "know". This provides a useful model for the function of talk in learning, in that some kinds of talk contribute to understanding without necessarily adding new material. Of course, talk or writing of the kind that is essentially giving back to the teacher what he or she has already told you - "right answerism" - is quite different. This kind of rehearsal has a value in reinforcing memory but is not likely to advance understanding. It has to be acknowledged that talk is not the only way of working on our understanding of a topic. The kind of writing that is a tool of problem-solving will do it, or manipulating figures while working on a mathematical problem. Diagrams may be used in this way too: interactive whiteboards are designed to support just that kind of manipulation, so that they provide a valuable basis for discussion. What all of these have in common is that they are ways of representing a situation in such a way that the elements in it can be moved about, set into new relationships, and reinterpreted. However, talk has the advantage (compared with the other modes) that it is easy and impermanent. We can try out an idea and change it even as we speak. Exploratory talk is important in learning because it provides a ready tool for trying out different ways of thinking and understanding.


The auto assembly machine adaptable product platforms for small shaft and sleeve subassemblies are multi-stations parameterized product platform that use the number of stations as the main parameter. A parameterized design system for the product platforms is established, and the development process is introduced in detail in this paper. In using the system, only needs to input the main parameter, the design of the product platforms can be realized, 3D model drawings of parts, 3D assembly drawing and engineering drawings, which we need, can be generated quickly. Thus, the product design cycle is shortened, and the design efficiency is improved. With broad applications value, the way can be extended to the design of similar product platform.


The Tibetan Buddhism temples in Inner Mongolia basically have Tibetan style,Chinese style and Tibetan and Chinese-style,or a mixture of the construction of three Sino-Tibetan style.So the layout of these temples has different corresponding forms.Tibetan Buddhism temples in Inner Mongolia have four forms: flexible Tibetan layout,regular Chinese-style,the variation of Chinese-style and layout of and the "City Temple," a unique combination of the layout demonstrating the different characteristics.


In this paper, an active control system is developed to enhance the sound transmission loss of a sound encapsulation at low frequencies. The sound encapsulation is used to shield a noise source, such as an air compressor. The control systems comprise two control loudspeakers and two error microphones. The Filtered‐X LMS adaptive feedforward control algorithm is used to drive the signals at the error microphones to a minimum. The reference signal for the control algorithm is taken from the noise source, i.e., the tacho signal of the compressor. This study deals with the optimization of the location of control sources and error sensors in view of the achieved control performance. From this perspective it is important to note that minimizing the sound‐pressure level at the error microphones, which are constrained to be located inside the sound encapsulation, does not necessarily reduce the acoustic intensity measured in the far field of the encapsulation (or at least, not to the same degree). Relevant issues which are considered are: the coupling of control sources with the acoustic modes of the enclosure, changes to the interior sound field due to active control, etc.


Using quasi-stellar object (QSO) absorption-line spectra obtained along closely spaced sight-lines, we examine the transverse sizes of regions containing large columns of neutral hydrogen gas at redshifts z ≈ 1.5. The observations are primarily of intervening damped Lyα (DLA) and sub-DLA absorption-line systems in gravitationally lensed QSOs. In particular, Hubble Space Telescope spectroscopy of the four-component Cloverleaf QSO (H1413+1143) reveals three new DLA/sub-DLA systems at z ≈ 1.44, 1.49 and 1.66. A neutral hydrogen column density of N HI ≥ 2 × 10 20 atoms cm ―2 is required for a system to be classified as a DLA, but none of the three systems has an H column density above the DLA threshold in all four components. Over component separations < 1.4 arcsec in the Cloverleaf, corresponding to transverse sizes of ≈5―12 h ―1 70 kpc, the HI column densities typically change by factors of ≈2―40. Similar observations of other QSOs containing absorption systems in the DLA regime are summarized from the literature. In addition to establishing approximate sizes for DLA regions, the results have implications for their volume-averaged HI gas number densities and neutral gas masses. By combining our results on DLA absorber sizes with published results on the sizes of lower column density QSO absorbers, which however arise in very ionized regions, we infer the useful relation that the typical transverse size of an absorber in the redshift interval z≈[1,2] is S abs ≈ 11 h ―1 70 [[N HI /10 20 ] ―1/4 kpc.


We present results for the momentum-resolved single-particle spectral function of the low-dimensional system TiOCl in the insulating state, obtained by a combination of ab initio density functional theory and variational cluster approach calculations. This approach allows to combine a realistic band structure and a thorough treatment of the strong correlations. We show that it is important to include a realistic two-dimensional band structure of TiOCl into the effective strongly correlated models in order to explain the spectral-weight behavior seen in angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy experiments. In particular, we observe that the effect of the interchain couplings is a considerable redistribution of the spectral weight around the Γ point from higher to lower binding energies as compared to a purely one-dimensional model treatment. Hence, our results support a description of TiOCl as a two-dimensional compound with strong anisotropy and also set a benchmark on the spectral features of correlated coupled-chain systems.


Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to verify the influence of the convergence process to International Financial Reporting Standards on the voluntary disclosure of listed Brazilian companies. Design/methodology/approach – A voluntary disclosure metric was designed and collected from a random sample of 66 companies registered as active in BM&FBovespa during the 2005-2012 period. For the hypothesis test it was used panel data regressions with random effects. Findings – The convergence process to International Financial Reporting Standards is presented as an exogenous factor that affected positively and significantly voluntary disclosure in the analyzed period. It leads to the complementary rationale between mandatory disclosure and the voluntary disclosure. Originality/value – The study presents a new metric for measuring the voluntary disclosure level, with the potential to understand the nature of the relationship between this and the mandatory disclosure. In the Brazilian capital market context, governed by the stakeholder model, convergence to International Financial Reporting Standards induced an increase on voluntary disclosure quality.


Aimed at the poor accuracy and real-time in acquisition and processing of the arc voltage signals,in arc length tracking process of aluminum GTAW,a circuitry for signals acquisition and conditioning was designed.Fast analogy input were realized in a interrupting way based on data acquisition card.After analyzed the signals off-line,the signals process was determined as following: zero point floating,limiter average filtering,obtaining the value of the arc voltage.The relationship between arc voltage and arc length was fitted in certain welding condition base on the least square.The results show that the signal acquisition system and signal processing arithmetic are effective,and the precision of the model between arc length and arc voltage is sufficient enough to realize the arc tracking.


The courtship of two species of amblypygids involves much tapping with the antenniform first legs and threatening with the pedipalps but no mating grasp. Insemination consists of the male depositing a spermatophore onto the ground and then loading its proximal end with sperm after which the female collects the sperm. The possible relevance of the occurrence of this behaviour to taxonomy of the Pedipalpi and considerations of the rvolution of mating in the spiders is mentioned.


The GIIPS economies are noted to suffer the most consequences of systemic crises. Regardless of their bad performance in crisis periods, their role(s) in asset allocation and portfolio management cannot go unnoticed. For effective portfolio management across divergent timescales, cross-market interdependencies cannot be side-lined. This study examines the conditional and unconditional co-movements of stock market returns of GIIPS economies incorporating investor fear in their time-frequency connectedness. As a result, the bi-, partial, and multiple wavelet approaches are employed. Our findings explicate that the high interdependencies between the stock market returns of GIIPS across all time scales are partly driven by investor fear, implying that extreme investor sentiment could influence stock market prices in GIIPS. The lagging role of Spanish stock market returns manifests at zero lags at high (lower) and medium frequencies (scales). At lower frequencies (higher scales), particularly quarterly-to-biannual and biannual-to-annual, Spanish and Irish stock markets, respectively, lag all other markets. Although portfolio diversification and safe haven benefits are minimal with GIIPS stocks, their volatilities could be hedged against by investing in the US VIX. Intriguing inferences for international portfolio and risk management are offered by our findings.


What is going on when you try to understand a text? The hermeneutic problem is a favourite subject in systematic theology. But paradoxically the exegetic disciplines seem to ignore it. Here the text is still considered an object, which can be studied without any reference to the exegete's personal experience of life. The author's thesis, borrowed from Heidegger and those influenced by him such as Bultmann and Gadamer, is that the understanding of the past (and documents related to the past) is only possible if you are engaged in the problems of your own time. The understanding moves in a circle. You understand the present if you see it in the light of the past, and the past becomes meaningful if you interpret it in relation to your present situation.


Twenty-five renal and three skin biopsies from 14 cases of systemic lupus erythe- matosus with lupus nephritis were examined by electron microscope. Seventy-five renal biopsies from nonlupus cases consisting of 35 adults and 40 children were used for comparative study. Clusters of cytoplasmic microtubules, which have been referred to as vius-like particles, were observed in the endothelial cells of glomerular and peritubular capillaries in renal biopsies of all lupus cases. The clusters of microtubules were larger and more numerous in the initial biopsies with mild glomerular changes and in the second biopsies from two cases during a period of more severe relapse. Clusters of microtubules were fewer and smaller in renal biopsies with more advanced glomerular changes. Skin biopsies showed simi- lar cytoplasmic inclusions in arterioles and capillaries. Cytoplasmic microtubules were also observed in 3 adults and 13 children of 75 patients who had no systemic lupus erythematosus. Although the formation of the cytoplasmic microtubules may be related to a virus infection, this suggestion cannot be confirmed from the morphologic findings of this study. Of additional interest is the evidence that these microtubules are not cytoplasmic changes secondary to corticosteroid therapy. It is concluded that the presence of many large clusters of cytoplasmic microtubules is specific for lupus nephritis, and it may be substantiated by similar findings in the skin (Amer J Path 64:1-12, 1971). adults with different renal diseases and 40 nephrotic children. Only a single renal biopsy from each of the nonlupus patients was available for this study. For electron microscopy, renal tissue was immediately fixed in osmium tetroxide for 60 minutes, dehydrated in graded alcohols and embedded in Maraglas. Thin sections were cut with glass knives and stained with concentrated aqueous uranyl acetate and lead citrate. The specimens were examined with an RCA EMU-3F electron microscope. One to three glomeruli were examined from each renal biopsy, and individual capillaries were scanned for cytoplasmic inclusions at magnifications ranging from 6000 to 7000.


The aim of this study was to explore how school counsellors at schools in low-socioeconomic areas in Malmo act and work in relation to child poverty and how they reflect on the school's responsibility regarding child poverty. The method chosen for this study was qualitative research method with semi structured interviews with eight school counsellors from seven different schools. When analysing our result, we applied the Citizenship Theory by Marshall (1950), in order to demonstrate the work with enabling child participation and promoting an active citizenship in the society. Additionally, we used the theoretical formulation Sense of Coherence (SOC) by Antonovsky (2005) to understand the methods of strengthening each individual child. These theories combined lead us to the concept empowerment and how schools work with empowering children. The result of this study showed that the schools in question take great responsibility to make children in poverty an active part of society, on the same conditions as other children and to help them become main actors in their own lives. Furthermore, the schools try to compensate for the children's poor economic circumstances with both practical measures and broad knowledge about society. The school counsellors try to show the children possibilities and give hope for the future, despite the unfortunate economic situation they might be subject to. This study has highlighted the importance of acknowledging child poverty in the Swedish school in order to increase the possibility of children to participate in choices concerning their own lives; drawing the conclusion that work should involve encouraging children to partake in society. Work with social citizenship and Sense of Coherence makes it possible for children to become empowered as actors in their own lives. (Less)


The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), one of the most tragic and dramatic periods in the history of Spain, presents, in music, very open and attractive features in different ways. Despite the harshness of the situation, the limitations and cruelty that were experienced in the day-to-day in the front and the rear, music had a very important role at both sides. In this article we focus on the Central Council of Music, an agency created by the democratic republican government that directed the designs of the music in the Popular front. In 1937 the capital and different establishments related with it, were transferred from Madrid to Valencia because of the war. In the same year, in the month of June, and with this situation, the Council arose, continuing with the work made before by the National Board of Music. Despite the difficulties, the Central Council of Music tried to create new standards and give an answer to the problems of the previous period. In order to do it, the Council tried to organize Musical Missions, courses to train people in the front and the rear in music learning and create the National Concert Orchestra. The Council's ideology had the aim of encourage musicological research and musical composition, edition of music and books, conducting concerts and festivals in different parts of the Spanish geography and the magazine publishing among many others activities. Particularly remarkable is the publication of a magazine called Musica.


SUMMARY

A satisfactory method of collecting samples of Thrips nigropilosus was developed in which only the mature leaves were collected, and a number of plants were sampled across several rows of the plot. This give a reproducible and representative estimate of the population within the plot.

Despite the development of this technique, very great differences remained between counts on plots of a Latin square experimental design. The use of covariance analysis considerably reduced the residual variance when populations were increasing arithmetically or at only slightly increased rates. When the increase became more rapid, the value of covariance diminished rapidly while simultaneously positional effects became more significant, suggesting that restraining influences were operating unequally in different parts of the experimental area. It is considered that this phenomenon is widespread in populations of T. nigropilosus and that, as expanding populations are the most likely to be subject to experiment, a more complex design, probably of the incomplete block type, should be used in future.


Mathematical modeling of processes in high-temperature plasma is an important element of studying of behavior of laboratory and space plasma. Three-dimensional nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic models allow to describe adequately such thin and interesting phenomena as formation of magnetic islands in plasma of a tokamak, emergence of current layers and "locks". These phenomena are caused by reshort circuit of magnetic power lines, and the spatial extent of these objects makes nanometers, and the corresponding plasma educations gain new and unexpected properties. Within development of nanotechnologies the great interest represents modeling of distribution of electromagnetic waves in plasma structures.


We present a Web-based environment for incidental learning of Japanese. As the two key enabling technologies we use augmented browsing at the client and logic programming at the server. This way we can create a learning experience which blends foreign language acquisition with the user's everyday browsing activities. Main features presented in this paper are an intuitive visual presentation of sentence structures, comprehensive support at the word level by integrating several lexical resources including DBpedia, and multiple customization options.


Face detection is to search all the possible regions for faces in images and locate the faces if there are any. Many applications including face recognition, facial expression recognition, face tracking and head-pose estimation assume that both the location and the size of faces are known in the image. In recent decades, researchers have created many typical and efficient face detectors from the Viola-Jones face detector to current CNN-based ones. However, with the tremendous increase in images and videos with variations in face scale, appearance, expression, occlusion and pose, traditional face detectors are challenged to detect various "in the wild" faces. The emergence of deep learning techniques brought remarkable breakthroughs to face detection along with the price of a considerable increase in computation. This paper introduces representative deep learning-based methods and presents a deep and thorough analysis in terms of accuracy and efficiency. We further compare and discuss the popular and challenging datasets and their evaluation metrics. A comprehensive comparison of several successful deep learning-based face detectors is conducted to uncover their efficiency using two metrics: FLOPs and latency. The paper can guide to choose appropriate face detectors for different applications and also to develop more efficient and accurate detectors.


A limited exploratory investigation of the rate of coking of four JP-4 fuels in electrically heated metal tubes was conducted in order to provide design information for fuel prevaporizers for turbojet-engine combustors. The fuels tested included two production and two minimum-quality JP-4 type fuels. The heating tube was operated at fuel pressures of approximately 500, 400, and 50 pounds per square inch. The operating fuel temperature was varied between approximately 600 degrees and 1200 degrees F.


implemented material model. Measured major hysteresis surfaces Numerous industrial applications require fast-switching pneumatic valves to control air flow within milliseconds. Some of the typical applications are pick-and-place, separation tasks or the pneumatic emergency stop of an entire production line. Commonly used valves based on solenoids are limited with regard to size, switching time and fatigue life. Within the grant project "SMS2.0", funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), Fraunhofer IKTS is currently investigating the potential of ferromagnetic shape memory alloys (FSMA) for these and other applications. Alloys are metallic single crystals with a twinned lattice structure of reduced symmetry and high saturation magnetization. Extrinsically induced magnetization results in a strong magneto-mechanical coupling. The lattice structure aligns with the external field and the FSMA actuator changes its length. This process of twin boundary movement is very fast, leading to the potential application of FSMAs for fast switching actuators. Compared with conventional electromagnets, however, alloys behave in a fundamentally different way, characterized by strong non-linearity and distinct hysteresis. Therefore, models are necessary for the design of FSMA-based systems. At Fraunhofer IKTS, such models are currently being developed by characterizing crystals experimentally and deriving application-oriented models from that. FSMA crystals are characterized on a self-developed magneto-mechanical test bench (Figure 1). It allows to apply and measure any desired magnetic and mechanical trace. Within the project a scalar macroscopic modeling approach – currently a two-input Tellinen model – is used. Its main advantage is the possibility to parametrize directly from the major hysteresis surfaces (series of major hysteresis loops) measured, which limit the overall work range (Diagram). The hysteresis models are implemented in Modelica, a modeling language for multiphysics modeled with lumped elements. In this way, interaction with other system elements, such as control electronics, the magnet system, and non-linear mechanical load, can be examined (Figure 2). Dipl . Ing. Fabian Ehle, Dr. Peter Neumeister , Dr. Holger Neubert 2 1


submitted to the Third Cashless Society Roundtable, May 2014, Stockholm Mobile payments for retailing – success or failure? Findings from Swedish market Tatjana Apanasevic and Jan Markendahl Wireless@KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Electrum 229, SE-16440, Kista, Sweden; email@example.com, email@example.com Tatjana Apanasevic firstname.lastname@example.com From December 2012, a PhD student at Communication Systems dep. ICT School, KTH Royal Institute of Technology. The PhD research is focused on the techno-economical study in the field of the mobile payment. The main goal is to address essential technical and economical parameters of developed solutions, their design and infrastructure. Master thesis project was called "Obstacles and barriers to NFC pilots to enter commercialization stage". The project was focused on the throughout analysis and evaluation of six NFC pilots implemented in Finland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, and the UK.


Presently, standards for integrity, security and auditability of information systems are developed by ANSC X3 and X9, IEEE-CS, DoD, NBS, AICPA, GAO, IIA and EDPAA. Other organizations are considering such efforts. As concerned members of SIGSAC, we have an interest, a responsibility and an opportunity to help shape relevant standard-setting activities. ACM is a formal voting member of ANSC X3.


AIM
The aim was to assess the potential trends in Periodontology and Periodontics in Europe that might be anticipated by the year 2025, using the Delphi method.

MATERIAL AND METHODS
The expert opinion of 120 experts was sought through the use of an open-ended questionnaire, developed by an advisory group, containing 40 questions concerning the various trends in periodontology.

RESULTS
The experts (113 responders) expect a stabilization of the prevalence of periodontitis, both for the chronic as well as the aggressive cases, but an increase in implant-related diseases up to the year 2025. Concurrently, the importance of implants is seen to be increasing. They foresee an increased demand for postgraduate periodontology and implantology training. This is mirrored in an increase in publications for implant dentistry and increase in demand and need for training. Concerning the patients, better-informed individuals seeking more routine check-ups are expected.

CONCLUSION
A continued need for specialized periodontists, but also well trained dental practitioners is foreseen for next decade in Europe. Apart from periodontology they will be increasingly exposed to and trained in implant dentistry.


Disruptions and unexpected turbulences characterize the contemporary service industry and pose greater criticalities to organizations that have concerns about both their survival and their business sustainability. The answer to this challenge is to design an organizational system aimed at enhancing so-called organizational resilience. The aim of this work is to present and test an assessment methodology based on a framework that links key static and dynamic characteristics of firms as resilient systems and relates these characteristics with service quality preservation after disruptions. The framework adopts a set of indicators, namely resilience dimensions, to comprehend the real effects of resilience characteristics with service quality dimensions. Through the analysis of a real case, we provided evidence of how the model can be applied in a backward perspective to understand fault modes of specific events. Results show how inadequacies in terms of resilience characteristics determine losses of service quality, and also how the model can be used as a predictive tool to determine in which area companies should intervene in order to improve resilience and service quality.


Gas insulated transmission lines (GIL) have a wide application prospect in special occasions such as cross terrain power transmission. Metal particle pollution is an important reason for the low insulation performance of GIL. When micron metal particles (MMPs), which are the most common metal particles in engineering, adhere to insulators or high-voltage electrodes, the insulation performance will be reduced. Based on that, this paper mainly studied the static adhesion characteristics of MMPs. Firstly, the static adhesion models and their applicable conditions were introduced. Then, through the atomic force microscope (AFM) test, the adhesion force of MMP-electrode and MMP-insulator was obtained. The test results show that MD model should be used to calculate the adhesion force of MMP-electrode and MMP-insulator. In addition, the adhesion force presents the characteristics of random distribution due to the surface asperities of MMPs and samples. Therefore, according to the test results, this paper introduced the equivalent adhesion work, which is a random variable, and obtained the probability distribution model of equivalent adhesion work. Finally, the distribution of adhesion force was obtained. The above research results provide guidance for inhibiting the adhesion of metal particles in GIL.


Semantic differential scales have been employed in numerous studies, partly because they are flexible, easy to administer, and appear to be very effective at producing generalizable results. However, one problem with the format is that it is difficult to obtain evidence that the concepts rated on the scales are appropriate for any given study. This paper presents a method which can be used to obtain such evidence. An example analysis of six semantic differential concepts, as perceived by 168 graduate education students, is presented for heuristic purposes. Several variations of the method are discussed. The results suggest that the method is flexible and may be helpful in resolving one problem associated with what many researchers regard as a generally useful instrument format.


Title. Bicyclic Heterocycles as FGFR Inhibitors Patent Publication Number. WO 2021/007269 A1 Publication Date. January 14, 2021 Priority Application. US 62/871,913 Priority Date. July 9, 2019 Inventors. Vechorkin, O.; Qi, C.; Nguyen, M.; Wang, A.; Yao, W. Assignee Company. Incyte Corporation, USA Disease Area. Cancer Biological Target. Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptors (FGFR) Summary. The Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptors (FGFR) are receptor tyrosine kinases that bind to fibroblast growth factors (FGF) ligands. There are four FGFR proteins (FGFR1−4) that are capable of binding ligands and are involved in the regulation of many physiological processes including tissue development, angiogenesis, wound healing, andmetabolic regulation. Upon ligand binding, the receptors undergo dimerization and phosphorylation leading to stimulation of the protein kinase activity. These interactions facilitate signaling pathways that are important for cellular growth, proliferation, and survival. Aberrant activation of this pathway through either overexpression of FGF ligands or FGFR or activating mutations in the FGFRs can lead to tumor development, progression, and resistance to conventional cancer therapies. Large scale DNA sequencing of thousands of tumor samples has revealed that components of the FGFR pathways are among the most frequently mutated in human cancer. Therefore, development of inhibitors targeting FGFRmay be useful in the clinical treatment of cancer that have elevated FGF and FGFR activity. The cancer types in which FGF/FGFRs are implicated include, but are not limited to, carcinomas (e.g., bladder, breast, cervical, colorectal, endometrial, gastric, head and neck, kidney, liver, lung, ovarian, prostate), hematopoietic (e.g., multiple myeloma, chronic lymphocytic lymphoma, adult T cell leukemia, acute myelogenous leukemia, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, myeloproliferative neoplasms, and Waldenstrom's Macroglubulinemia), and other neoplasms (e.g., glioblastoma, melanoma, and rhabdosarcoma). The present application describes a series of novel bicyclic heterocycles as FGFR inhibitors for the treatment of cancer. Further, the application discloses compounds, their preparation, use, pharmaceutical composition, and treatment. Definitions. Cy1 = (i) C6−10 aryl; (ii) monocyclic 5−6 membered heteroaryl, wherein each monocyclic 5−6 membered heteroaryl has at least one ringforming carbon atom and 1, 2, 3, or 4 ring-forming heteroatoms independently selected from N, O, and S; and (iii) bicyclic 8−10 membered heteroaryl, wherein each bicyclic 8−10 membered heteroaryl has at least one ringforming carbon atom and 1, 2, or 3 ring-forming heteroatoms independently selected from O, and S, and optionally 1, 2, or 3 ring-forming heteroatoms that are N; CyA = C3−12 cycloalkyl and 4−12membered heterocycloalkyl, wherein each 4−12 membered heterocycloalkyl has at least one ring-forming carbon atom and 1, 2, 3, or 4 ring-forming heteroatoms independently selected from N, O, and S; wherein the N and S are optionally oxidized, wherein a ring-forming carbon atom of 4−12 membered heterocycloalkyl is optionally substituted by oxo to form a carbonyl group; wherein when the C3−12 cycloalkyl and 4−12 membered heterocycloalkyl of CyA has a fused aromatic ring attached thereto, the C3−12 cycloalkyl and 4−12 membered heterocycloalkyl is directly attached to the pyrazolopyridine core structure through a ring-forming atom of the saturated or partially saturated ring; and wherein the C3−12 cycloalkyl and 4−12 membered heterocycloalkyl are each optionally substituted with 1, 2, 3, or 4 substituents selected from R20; R1 = H, D, halo, CN, C1−6 alkyl, ORa and NRcRd; wherein the C1−6 alkyl is optionally substituted with 1, 2, or 3 substituents selected from Rg; R2 = H, D, C1−6 alkyl, C1−6 alkenyl, C1−6 alkynyl, C1−6 haloalkyl, C3−10 cycloalkyl, 4−10 membered heterocycloalkyl, C6−10 aryl, 5−10 membered heteroaryl, C3−10 cycloalkyl-C1−3 alkylene, 4−10 membered heterocycloalkylC1−3 alkylene, C6−10 aryl-C1−3 alkylene, 5−10 membered heteroaryl-C1−3 alkylene, halo, CN, ORa7, SRa7, C(O)Rb7, C(O)NRc7Rd7, C(O)ORa7, NRc7Rd7, NRc7C(O)Rb7, NRc7C(O)ORa7, NRc7S-


While there are some 250 000 civil aircraft in the world, only about 500 of them are in transoceanic service and therefore prime candidates for the systems described in this special issue. The rest mainly depend on short-range systems treated elsewhere. However, there are 25 000 ocean-going merchant ships. The article discusses some nontechnical factors that influence the choice of systems for these markets, including the institutional, the "CNI" factor, the marketplace, cost, redundancy, and vulnerability.


Seafaring in the Contemporary Pacific Islands: Studies in Continuity and Change, Richard Feinberg. ed. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1995. 237 pp.

Guardians of the Marovo Lagoon: Practice, Place and Politics in Maritime Melanesia. Edvard Hviding. Pacific Islands Monograph, 14. Honolulu; University of Hawaii Press, 1996.473 pp.


Fruit part of Amomum subulatum Roxb. was subjected to extraction of essential oil by hydro distillation in Clevenger apparatus. The dried powdered fruit was subjected to extraction with methanol as well. The composition of essential oil so collected were determined by GC-MS system and showed the presence of 17 different compounds. The most abundant were α-Terpineol (27.85%), Terpine-4-ol (11.19%), Pinocarvone (8.02%), Nerolidol (6.90%) and Pinocarveol (6.32%). Antibacterial and antioxidant activity of the essential oil of Amomum subulatum Roxb. were studied. Essential oil exhibited moderate antibacterial activity. Plant extract also showed average DPPH antioxidant activity with IC50 431.2 ± 21.3μg/mL.


We fabricate low-loss graded index (GI) circular core multimode polymer optical waveguides with 90o bending and demonstrate low bending loss even if the bend radius is as small as 1 mm. In the several fabrication methods for GI-core polymer waveguides already proposed, we adopt the "Mosquito method" that utilize a microdispenser because the Mosquito method makes it possible to fabricate waveguides directly on board at desired places on a printed circuit board, and to draw various patterns of cores including curves. However, in the waveguides including such curved cores, the additional transmission loss due to the bending (bending loss) is a concern. Thus, we characterize the fabricated GI-core polymer waveguides with bending: using two kinds of cladding monomer with different refractive indexes for fabricating waveguides with bending. We found when the NA of waveguides was as high as 0.35, no additional loss due to bending was observed even if the bending radius is as small as 1 mm. The core diameter of the fabricated waveguides is 50 μm, and it is possible to further decrease the bending loss in the waveguides with smaller core diameter. Furthermore, utilizing the Mosquito method, we fabricate waveguides with not only horizontally curved cores but also vertically curved ones. Waveguides with vertically curved cores could make it possible to realize three-dimensionally optical wiring applicable to on-board optical interconnects.


International financial institutions have a major role in the world economy. It has all began a year before the end of the Second World War, when peop


Abstract A new species, Anacroneuria lacandona sp. n., from Reserva de la Biosfera Montes Azules, Selva Lacandona, in Mexico, is described and illustrated. A provisional key to males of Mexican species of Anacroneuria Klapalek, 1909 is provided. It is based on the key by Stark and Kondratieff (2004) and is updated by including the recently described species. http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:76735B1B-219A-4DC8-8BB3-B628CA11C5CB


The study of disordered eating in dietetics students is vital for health outcomes and ethical consequences for students and their future clients. The eating attitudes and behaviors of 317 undergraduate health students were examined using the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26). Findings indicated 5.1% of dietetics students had scores symptomatic of eating disorders. In addition, dietetics students who completed more nutrition courses had lower EAT-26 scores than students who completed fewer nutrition courses. Given the personal and professional consequences of disordered eating, resources for preventing, identifying, and treating disordered eating are needed in dietetics education programs.


Objective:To develop a method for the determination of related substances in Bromisoval and Procaine injection.Method:LC/UV and LC/MS/MS were carried out for qualitative and quantitative researches of unknown impurities.Results:A method for related substances detection of compound preparation was established.The related substances are mainly caused by Bromisoval.The structures of three impurities were initially confirmed.Conclusion:The established method can be used for the determination of related substances in Bromisoval and Procaine Injection.


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In this article, Artificial Cooperative Search (ACS) algorithm is incorporated with the quadratic approximation (QA) operator to solve the multi-objective economic emission load dispatch (EELD) problems with different generation units. ACS is a Swarm Intelligence–based metaheuristic algorithm, based on the interaction between prey and predator organisms in a habitat, which is effective at global search; however, it does not perform so well at exploring promising regions. The QA operator, on the other hand, is a non-derivative–based efficient local search method that finds the minimum of a quadratic hyperspace passing through three points in a D-dimensional space. Solving the EELD problems with the hybridized ACS-QA algorithm, as being proposed in the present article, leads to more accurate results with fewer function evaluations. Also, multi-objectivity of the problem is handled by transforming it into a single-objective problem by using the weighted sum method. The efficiency of the proposed ACS-QA algorithm is tested in comparison to the algorithms existing in literature by implementing it on six different benchmark optimization problems. Afterward, the proposed ACS-QA algorithm and the ACS algorithm are implemented on multi-objective EELD problems with different generation units. The results are compared with the solutions in literature utilizing different metaheuristic optimization algorithms. Both studies firmly showed that the ACS-QA algorithm is able to find more accurate results even though it uses fewer function evaluation calls.


In this study, the behavior of self-supported earth retaining wall with stabilizing piles was investigated by using a numerical study and field tests in urban excavations. This earth retaining wall can provide stable support against lateral earth pressures through its use of stabilizing piles that provide passive resistance to lateral earth pressures arising due to ground excavations. Field tests at two sites were performed to verify the performance of instrumented retaining wall with stabilizing piles. Furthermore, detailed 3D numerical analyses were conducted to provide insight into the in situ wall behavior. The 3D numerical methodology in the present study represents the behavior of the self-supported earth retaining wall with stabilizing piles. A number of 3D numerical analyses were carried out on the self-supported earth retaining wall with stabilizing piles to assess the results stemming from wide variations of influencing parameters such as the soil condition, the pile spacing, the distance between the front pile and the rear pile, and the pile embedded depth. Based on the results of the parametric study, the maximum horizontal displacement and the maximum bending moment significantly decreased when the retaining wall with stabilizing piles is used. Moreover, the horizontal displacement reduction effect of influencing parameters such as the pile spacing and the distance between the front pile and the rear pile is more sensitive in sandy soil, with a higher friction angle compared to clayey soil. In engineering practice, reducing the pile spacing and increasing the distance between the front pile and the rear pile can effectively improve the stability of the self-supported earth retaining wall with stabilizing piles.


The privacy and security of biomedical data are important. Ideally, biomedical data should be kept in a secure manner (i.e. encrypted). With the increasing deployment of the electronic health records, it is critical to make protected health information (PHI) available securely to private and public healthcare providers through the National Health Information Network (NHIN). Efficient transmission and storage of these large encrypted biomedical data becomes an important concern. An intuitive way is to compress the encrypted biomedical data directly. Unfortunately, traditional compression algorithms (removing redundancy through exploiting the structure of data) fail to handle encrypted data. The reason is that encrypted data appear to be random and lack the structure in the original data. The "best" practice has been compressing the data before encryption, however, this is not appropriate for privacy related scenarios (e.g., biomedical application), where one wants to process data while keeping them encrypted and safe. In this paper, we develop a Secure Privacy-presERving Medical Image CompRessiOn (SUPERMICRO) framework based on distributed source coding (DSC), which makes the compression of the encrypted data possible without compromising security and compression efficiency. Our approach guarantees the data transmission and storage in a privacy-preserving manner. We tested our proposed framework on two CT image sequences and compared it with the state-of-the-art JPEG 2000 lossless compression. Experimental results demonstrated that the SUPERMICRO framework provides enhanced security and privacy protection, as well as high compression performance.


Periodontitis is a multi-factorial disease that leads to destruction of periodontal tissue. Prolong bacterial accumulation along with released toxic proteins, alteration of host immune function, variation of patient's oral hygiene control and possible pharmaceutical side effect are all contribute to the progress the periodontal tissue deterioration. In the process of chronic inflammation, NF-(The symbol is abbreviated)B plays an important role. Upon extracellular stimulation, NF-(The symbol is abbreviated)B is released from the previous I(The symbol is abbreviated)B-inhibited status in cytoplasm. The activated NF-(The symbol is abbreviated)B will then immerge into cell nucleus and induce sequential genes expression which results in further inflammation, apoptosis and possible oncogenesis. The present article will focus on the role of NF-(The symbol is abbreviated)B and its mechanism in modulation of inflammation response, the involvement of NF-(The symbol is abbreviated)B in the pathogenesis of periodontitis.


ABSTRACT Physiological and environmental conditions affect carbohydrate, specifically glucose levels in the crustacean hemolymph. Trehalose, naturally occurring nonreducing disaccharide (a1–1a of two glucose), shows a protective role in the organisms experiencing stressful conditions such as cold, salinity, and anhydrobiosis. As the predominant sugar in the blue crab hemolymph Callinectes sapidus, the trehalose synthesis gene (trehalose-6-phosphate synthase, TPS) is expressed in most internal tissues, including the hepatopancreas. The present study shows the function of TPS in carbohydrate metabolism in decapod crustaceans. The blue crabs show ontogeny variations in carbohydrate metabolism, especially hemolymph glucose and trehalose. Trehalose increases with the animals becoming large, whereas glucose is higher in adult animals than juveniles. Food intake elevates glucose and trehalose both in the hemolymph and hepatopancreas. The significance of hepatopancreas TPS is defined using a double-strand RNA of TPS injection study of the animals after feeding and emersion. The dsRNA-TPS injection results in 60%–70% of reduced TPS transcripts and its enzyme activity in the hepatopancreas. In the animals that received dsRNA-TPS, feeding has significantly reduced levels of changes in glucose and trehalose in the hemolymph and hepatopancreas, compared with the control animals (saline and double-stranded green fluorescent protein injection groups). In response to emersion, the animals injected with dsRNA-TPS show the glucose increases in the hemolymph the same as in controls but with trehalose and lactate significantly lower than the controls. The hepatopancreas of dsRNA-TPS–injected animals contains significantly reduced trehalose and glycogen, compared with control animals. Carbohydrate metabolism in crustaceans appears to be rather complicated with trehalose and glycogen; both can serve the glucose source for hyperglycemia and need further investigations.


This paper presents a model-based guided ultrasonic waves imaging algorithm, in which multiple ultrasonic echoes caused by reflections from the plate's boundaries are leveraged to enhance imaging performance. An analytical model is proposed to estimate the envelope of scattered waves. Correlation between the estimated and experimental data is used to generate images. The proposed method is validated through experimental tests on an aluminum plate instrumented with three low profile piezoelectric transducers. Different damage conditions are simulated including through-thickness holes. Results are compared with two other imaging localization methods, that is, delay and sum and minimum variance.


This study aims to examine how the cottage and small scale industries (CSIs)boosting the national economy of Nepal. As per various studies, CSIs play a great role for empowering Nepalese economy in terms of employment generation, resources mobilization, capital mobilization as well as import substitution of Nepalese foreign trade. The study has explored the contribution of these industries in the diversified areas. Development and promotion of cottage and small industries enhance significant impact on national economy having drastic effects on job creation and resources utilization in Nepal. Descriptive and analytical research design has been applied to analyse the data by using simple statistical tools. The results show that there have been positive influences on employment generation and capital mobilization in Nepalese economy. The study demands that there should be paid more attention toward the development of CSIs for increasing contribution of these industries boosting national economy.


ABSTRACT Seven diterpenes were isolated from the higher boiling fraction of the essential oil from the aerial parts of Ammi majus L. (Apiaceae). Their structure proved to base on a novel irregular acyclic hydrocarbon skeleton which is named ammimajane. Structure elucidation was accomplished by spectroscopic methods. Aside from the ammimajanes phytol, isophytol and isoelemicin were also identified.


This paper proposes a model of the system which mines association rules from multimedia database.It analyses three important parts of the system respectively,characteristic pick_up,characteristic database and multimedia mining. It also proposes an arithmetic for mining association rules from multimedia database.