We propose a design to fabricate transistors on flexible substrates in a bottom-up fashion using R2R UV-imprint lithography. The design consists of a template composed of multilevel as well as gray level features, the later used to facilitate device interconnection. A hard mold is fabricated by LBR and a flexible Ni replica is done using Ni electroplating. The flexible stamp is used in the R2R UV imprint machine with PET as flexible substrate. Imprints were performed at a speed of 0.35m/min and show a high level of replication of the multilevel as well as gray level features.


A method of hot-press bonding a chip module (27) with a carrier substrate (15), which comprises contacting the at least one chip module (27) to the at least one carrier substrate (15) into contact with a heated press die an at least region-wise hot pressing the chip module (27) with the carrier substrate (15) is effected, wherein - first, the chip module (27) is heated to a temperature non-critical for the chip module (27), which is chosen so that the hot pressing by utilizing the heat capacity of the chip module (27) is carried out; - the chip module (27) then in a heated state (38, 39, 40) on the carrier substrate (15) by means of a transfer unit is placed; and - through the heated press die an at least region-wise hot-pressing of the heated chip module (27) with the carrier substrate (15) is effected.


Although the etiology and pathogenesis of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) are not fully known, an allergic or immunologic reaction seems to play a role. A 14-year-old boy developed acute GBS 14 days after receiving the second prophylactic dose of the new Merieux human diploid cell rabies vaccine, 0. 10 ml. One month before, the boy received the first injection of rabies vaccine 0. 12 ml. Initial symptoms of GBS included hypesthes ia in both feet, followed a few days later by hypesthesia of both hands, and finally distal weakness in the legs. Gradually, the symptoms progressed with increased weakness in both legs andbotharms, which ultimately spread to the muscles of his trunk. In addition, the patient developed bulbar paresis. He had a normal temperature, blood pressure of 130/80 mmHg, and moderate tachycardia of 120 beats/minute. Symmetrical sensorimotor polyneuropathy manifested as bilateral facial palsy in association with


The community of Pascuales has a population of 70 887. The predominant marital status is married, followed by free union, with an average number of children of 4, and old families with 8 or more children. (ASIS, 2019). Knowing the synergy of family, interpersonal and work relationships and the valuable feelings of the inhabitants generates a basis for decisionmaking in primary health care with a psychosocial approach. For this research we used a 1Licenciada en Enfermería, Magíster en Enfermería del Adulto. Universidad de Guayaquil. 2Licenciada en Enfermería, Especialista en Enfermería en Cuidados Críticos. Universidad de Guayaquil. 3 Universidad de Guayaquil. Cómo citar: Vintimilla López, E., Morán Asencio, R., & Castro, S. (2020). Comportamientos asociados al autoconcepto y rol relaciones de los habitantes de Pascuales. Pro Sciences, 4(32), 18-24. https://doi.org/10.29018/issn.2588-1000vol4iss32.2020pp18-24 Comportamientos asociados al Autoconcepto y Rol Relaciones de los habitantes de Pascuales 19 quantitative approach, descriptive in a cross-sectional way, the age group chosen in a range between 15 and 74 years of age giving a total of 48 434 people. The sample was defined by means of a finite population calculation formula of 273 persons surveyed. The data collection tool was applied in various cooperatives, this instrument is formed by questions of the interview posed by functional patterns of Marjorie Gordon, another by questions considered by the Fantastic Test. The most relevant data obtained are 31% sometimes and 28% almost never have anyone to talk to and 29% sometimes and 15% almost never give and receive affection. In conclusion, we came to the conclusion that, knowing the reality of work in Ecuador and Latin America, 27% agree that they are almost never happy with their work or activities. It is necessary to manage activities with Ngos that promote the population in related enterprises with their skills and abilities.


Pacemaker mediated tachycardias have heen traditionally linked with dual chamher pacemakers.^ Sensor-driven single chamher rate adaptive pacemakers are thought to he alternative physiological pacing systems that are immune to unphysiological pacemaker mediated tachycardias. However, clinical experience over the past years has shown that pacemaker mediated tachycardia is a potential prohlem, especially among the earlier rate adaptive devices. There are a numher of possihle interactions hetween an implanted sensor used for rate adaptive pacing and pacemaker mediated tachycardias. These include: (1] tachycardias generated hy unphysiological sensor activation (sensor mediated tachycardias); (2) sensor initiated termination or amelioration of pacemaker mediated tachycardias; and (3) the use of a sensor to prevent pacemaker mediated tachycardias. The first situation can occur in hoth single and dual chamher rate adaptive pacemakers, whereas the latter two concern the DDDR pacemakers. sor to discriminate hetween 'noise' from the metaholic changes which the sensor is supposed to detect. Tahle I summaries the reported sensor mediated tachycardias in some of the early rate adaptive pacemakers.^"^ These tachycardias will terminate once the sources of interference are removed. However, a special type of sensor mediated tachycardia involves a positive feedhack loop (Fig. 2j 2.10-12 jj^ ĵ̂ jg tachycardia, sensor activation leads to an increase in pacing rate, and an increase in rate in turn activates the sensor. Thus, the tachycardia has a tendency to self perpetuate (Tahle II). '̂̂ ""^^ Sensor mediated tachycardias are expected to he a prohlem in hoth single and dual chamher rate adaptive pacemakers. Improvements in the sensor design, the algorithm used, and the use of sensor comhination may he expected to limit the frequency of occurrence of this prohlem.


PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a structure inspection apparatus which can easily identify an image by specifying which place on a structure, such as a bridge, is photographed to take the image. SOLUTION: A horizontal arm 70 is placed below an inspective object 1 via a vertical rod 60 fitted to an inspection truck 20 to be vertically movable. A photographing camera 140 is fitted to a holding arm 80 erected on a traveling truck 150 traveling on the horizontal arm 70. The holding arm 80 is rotated and the photographing camera 140 is rotated vertically to set a photographing direction, and an inspection spot on the under surface of the inspective object 1 is photographed. At this time, an angle display board fixed to the holding arm 80 and a scale indicative of the stop position of the traveling truck 150 on the horizontal arm 70 are photographed with the photographing camera 140. As a result, an image of the photographing position and photographing direction of the photographing camera 140 can be obtained in association with the photographed image of the inspection spot. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT


The unfolding COVID-19 health and economic crisis are enlarging the breadth and depth of energy poverty (EP) – a significant form of household material deprivation that affected tens of millions of Europeans before the emergency onset in March 2020. Lockdowns and mobility restrictions established by public authorities underline the importance of housing and domestic energy as structural determinants of health and well-being. In this context, the third policy brief of the ENGAGER Working Group 3 (WG3) highlights the need for enhanced stakeholder engagement around energy poverty and for renewed dialogue across the multiple sectors and actors involved. With this policy brief, we also advocate for emancipatory narratives that reveal the unjust social provisioning of essential services that the pandemic is making even more evident.


Text segmentation is the task of dividing a document of text into coherent and semantically meaningful segments which are contiguous. This task is important for other Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications like summarization, context understanding, and question-answering. The goal of this project is to successfully implement a text segmentation algorithm. We take a supervised learning approach to text segmentation and propose a neural model for this task. We aim to extend this task to podcasts by using existing transcription services. Our model obtained a Pk score (described below) of 6.54 on the Wiki-50 dataset, which was an improvement over our baseline score of 69.23. In this paper we will discuss experiments with self-attention as a modification to our model. 1 Key Information to include • Mentor: Professor Manning • External Collaborators (if you have any): N/A • Sharing project: CS210 potentially


* his admonition appears in the frontispiece of William Silverman's book' Retrolental Fibroplasia: A Modern Parable. Silverman uses the example of retrolental fibroplasia in premature infants treated with high concentrations of oxygen to show that well intentioned, apparently benign but untested innovations can have dramatic and sometimes drastic consequences. The moral of his story, and he illustrates it with other examples, is that, unless clinicians pay careful attention, essential research steps can be missed from the time a new treatment is proposed to the time the innovation becomes accepted as a routine form of care. One of the difficulties that might result is a clash between clinicians who are convinced that a particular method oftreatment should routinely be made available to all patients and researchers who challenge established patterns of care. A research report this month by Drs Issenman and Leung (page 2129) points out the dilemmas that follow when clinical conviction and research curiosity are in opposition. Oral versus intravenous rehydration The authors compare the use of oral rehydration therapy (ORT) with rapid intravenous rehydration among children with mild to moderate dehydration following episodes of diarrhea. In this case, intravenous rehydration represents the conventional standard of care, and the use of oral replacement fluids is the innovation to be tested. They conclude, on the basis of the data they collected, that oral rehydration is a safe, effective, and practical alternative to using intravenous fluids. So far, so good. However, the subtext to this project is the extraordinary difficulty the researchers had in recruiting children for the study; their pediatric colleagues were reluctant to allow patients to participate. At least 834 eligible children were treated in the study hospitals over a 3-year period, but only 42 could be entered into the study. As the authors comment, "One hospital enthusiastically embraced the oral rehydration technique while the other was very resistant."


Smoke and dust aerosol plumes are observed by the ground-based multi-wavelength elastic-Raman lidar, sunphotometer and space-borne lidar CALIOP (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization). Lidar-derived multi-wavelength aerosol extinction profiles and column lidar ratios are constrained by the independently measured optical depths. The aloft smoke plume layers from Idaho/Montana forest fires were measured at 2~8 km altitude by the ground lidar on Aug. 14~15, 2007. High aerosol optical depths (AOD) are shown with the value of 0.6~0.8 at wavelength 500 nm and Angstrom exponent of 1.8. The CALIOP observations generally show consistent plume height distribution with the ground lidar, but partly misclassify these smoke plumes as clouds. The forest fire sources and intra-continental smoke transport are clearly illustrated by CALIOP and MODIS satellite imageries. For the moderate dust-like plumes on April 18, 2008, they were observed at the altitude of 2~6 km. Aerosol optical depths vary from 0.2 to 0.4 at wavelength 500 nm with Angstrom exponent <1.0 in the plume-layer. Ground-lidar and CALIOP retrievals show the good agreement in dust-like layer heights, extinction profiles and aerosol species classification.


Recently, American Thyroid Association and American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists published Clinical Huideline for Hypothyroidism. The authors took an evidence-based medicine approach, and created 52 recommendations on 15 issues. The guideline emphasized that serum thyrotropin is the single best screening test for primary thyroid dysfunction for the vast majority of outpatient clinical situations. The standard treatment for hypothyroidism is replacement with L-thyroxine. The decision to treat subclinical hypothyroidism when the serum thyrotropin is less than 10 mIU/L should be tailored to the individual patient.

Key words:
Hypothyroidism; Thyrotropin; Thyroxine; Diagnosis and treatment guideline


Derivatives produced by 1,4-cycloaddition reactions between acetylenecarboxylic acid esters and the aphid alarm pheromone, (E)-β-farnesene, and analogues in which other features of the pheromone molecule were modified, were tested for activity against aphid colonisation. The most active compound, formed from (E)-β-farnesene and diundecyl acetylenedicarboxylate, decreased aphid-transmitted barley yellow dwarf virus infection of autumn-sown barley.


ABSTRACT This article argues that critiques of neoliberalism tend to rely on and reproduce the coloniality of knowledge. It analyzes how recent academic scholarship has mobilized the notion of neoliberalism to make sense of postsocialist transformations and identifies in it an epistemological meta-geography that reproduces the three-worlds scheme, a specific Cold War era articulation of the colonial matrix of power. The article traces various ways in which this meta-geography has structured academic debates on postsocialist neoliberalism. It emphasizes the importance of moving beyond the spatial and temporal infrastructure of the three worlds, and identifies a set of epistemological alternatives that would enable decentering this infrastructure. In conclusion, the paper argues that although postsocialism has received relatively little attention in attempts to decolonize knowledge, it has potential to serve as a critical form of thought in destabilizing Eurocentric assumptions in theorizing neoliberalism and opening up spaces for imagining the world differently.


The Monte Carlo (MC) and continuous slowdown approximation (CSDA) approaches to the spatial depostition of energy by electrons are compared using the same detailed atomic cross section (DACS). It is found that the CSDA method overestimates the amount of energy that is deposited near the end of the path for electrons above a few hundred electron volts. The MC results are in approximate agreement with experimental data in such a way as to be relatively independent of the actual gas used. Our MC results are extended to obtain the three‐dimensional deposition of energy by sub‐keV electrons in molecular hydrogen.


tion, "Did the government lead the people or was it led by them?" (p. 115) but he never attempts to examine the linkages in any meaningful way. The reader is entitled either to a methodologically sound study of opinions and opinion information on the topic of the trials, or to an examination of the significance of these opinions for the political scene of the postwar period. He receives neither. He may well ask himself: Was this book necessary?


Abstract : Bioluminescence has been the subject of much research within the past two decades. Measurement of this phenomenon has usually been by a photomultiplier photometer originally designed by MacNichols in 1952 and subsequently modified by Mitchell and Hastings, Strickland, and others. There are many commercially designed photometers that are adequate but unfortunately are quite expensive. Assembly of a suitable instrument from commercially available parts is also expensive and time-consuming, requiring a considerable degree of technical ability. Recently, inexpensive integratd photodetection assemblies (IPA) have become available from the Radio Corporation of America. These assemblies, complete with an RCA type 931B photomultiplier tube and integral solid-state high-voltage power supply, voltage regulator, and a resistor divider network, are mounted behind an electrostatic shield. Additionally, low-cost solid-state operational amplifiers can be used to convert the current output of the IPA to voltage and to interface with conventional recording instrumentation and in integration. Finally, inexpensive solid-state power supplies, adequate to drive both the IPA and the operational amplifiers, are available.


The impact of MgCO3 and Al2O3 additives on the thermal behavior of Spirulina platensis (SP) biomass during combustion in a thermal analyzer was evaluated to understand their catalytic effect in the decomposition process. The samples were pure SP and a mixture of SP and additives at mass fractions of 3, 6, and 9 (wt,%). Each sample of around 8.5 mg was mounted in a thermobalance and subjected to a furnace on a heating program of 10C/min. The 100 ml/min air atmosphere was kept continuously flowing during the combustion process from 30–1200C. The thermal behavior of the sample was then characterized from the thermogravimetric (TG) and derivative thermogravimetric (DTG) curves, those were recorded by a computer during the experiment. The Horowitz–Metzger method was used to evaluate the impact of additives on the kinetic parameters of the samples. The results indicated that the presence of additives shifted the main decomposition stage toward a lesser temperature. The rate of mass loss (ML) in the main decomposition zone decreased in the 1 peak and increased in the 2, in accordance with the increase in the fraction of additives. This indicates that additives play different roles during the decomposition process. The mass mean activation energy (Em) increased at the additive fraction of 3% for both MgCO3 and Al2O3, as well as at 6% MgCO3 compared to combustion with no additives. Conversely, the presence of greater additives promoted a shift in Em toward smaller values. These results confirm that both additives significantly influenced the thermal behavior and kinetics of the SP combustion.


. Group signatures are an important cryptographic primitive providing both anonymity and accountability to signatures. Accountable ring signatures (ARS) combine features from ring signatures (RS) and group signatures (GS), and can be directly transformed into either of both. While there exist extensive works on constructing GS from various post-quantum assumptions, there has not been any research using isogeny-based assumptions. In this work, we propose the first isogeny-based GS, which is a direct result of our isogeny-based ARS. Our schemes are based on the decisional CSIDH assumption (D-CSIDH) and are proven secure under the quantum random oracle model (QROM). This work is also the first post-quantum ARS and GS that are proven QROM-secure.


New quarternary Heusler alloys of composition (Cu1−xCox)2 MnSn (X = 0–1) were prepared single phase with the cubic L21 structure. Magnetic measurements were undertaken in the ferromagnetic region and in case of alloys with a higher Co content in the paramagnetic region, too. Cu rich samples showed a phase transition similar to that in Cu2MnSn on heating. The Curie temperature exhibited a sharp minimum at Cu1.5Co0.5MnSn. This can be explained assuming a superposition of two different types of interaction: one between Co‐Mn and Co‐Co and the other between Mn‐Mn atoms which are both strongly dependent on composition. The Mn‐Mn interaction is discussed on the basis of Stearns' model (indirect di‐d1 interaction). Whereas the moment of Mn in Heusler alloys is usually approx. 4 μB it is only 3.6 μB in those with Co which is explained by a certain kind of disorder. Co itself contributed 0.7 μB to the overall moment. A drastic drop of the magnetic moment of Co was found from 0.7 μB in Co2MnSn to 0.3 μB in the quat...


Recent investigation in our laboratory has shown that CO2 is an effective carbon gasifying agent for the rejuvenation of coked metal catalysts [1]. A further advantage of using CO2 over air (or oxygen) is the reduced possibility for catalyst sintering while serving as an avenue for minimizing greenhouse gas emission during operation. In this paper, we report the effect of periodic composition switching between propane steam reforming feed (H2O/C3H8 mixture) and CO2 in a fluidized bed reactor containing a CoNi catalyst. Experiments were conducted at a feed flow rate of 300 ml min -1 with a low steam:carbon ratio (< 2) at 600C. Cycle period, τ, was varied between 5 to 20 minutes at different cycle split, s (0.5 and 0.8) using electrically actuated solenoid valves. Both H2 and CO formation rates were higher (up to 5-fold and more than 10-fold respectively) than that attainable under steady-state operation at all periods investigated. Although the time-average H2:CO ratio was lower than the steady-state equivalent, it was a function cycle period with a minimum at τ =12 minutes. This method of reactor operation presents a new and strategic way to tune product selectivity from hydrocarbon reforming for different downstream requirements with relative ease.


Contents: Foreword, Eero Tarasti Preface Introduction, Esti Sheinberg Part I The Universe of Musical Meaning: The sense of music, Christine Esclapez How did music rise to philosophical eminence? (And how has it been deprived of it?), BA!lint Veres Between the field and the salon, Marina Ritzarev The significance of musical rules: a summary of selected principles of organization, Dalia Cohen Music in Bakhtin's philosophical aesthetics, Anthony Gritten. Part II Texts, Narratives and Intermodalities: Cycling song: the Wilhelm Meister collections, William P. Dougherty On metaphor and syntactic troping in music, Robert S. Hatten Fanny Mendelssohn's cantata Hiob: a transpersonal commentary on divine darkness, Edith Zack The 'preludio' of the Four Orchestral Pieces, Op.12 by BA(c)la BartA^3k: an intertextual analytical approach, MA!rta GrabA^3cz Semiotic analysis and computational modelling: two case studies on works by Debussy and Xenakis, Christina Anagnostopoulou and Emilios Cambouropoulos. Part III Networks: Who Signals What (and How)?: Time, subjectivity and contested signs: developing Monelle's application of Pierce's 1903 typology to music, Ben Curry Reflections on musical topics and musical character in performance, David Lidov Against reproduction, Nicholas Cook Dramatic signification of the Grail Knights' choruses of Parsifal by Richard Wagner, Anne Sivuoja Realism and Artifice: innovation, Wagner's Ring and theatre practice in the German Democratic Republic, Elaine Kelly. Part IV The Musical Topic: Beyond Conventions: The topic of emotion, Michael Spitzer Parody of learned style, Tamara Balter Ironic inflections of topics: Beethoven's Quartet Op.127, Jamie Liddle Dysphoric states: Stravinsky's topics - huntsmen, soldiers and shepherds, Nicholas McKay 'Counting down' time: musical topics in John Adams' Doctor Atomic, Yayoi Uno Everett 'Cet amour si violenta |': on some topical motives in contemporary Lithuanian music, Ruta Staneviciute Tributes Bibliography Indexes.


Part I of this study [Spratt JS, Meyer JS, Spratt JA: J Surg Oncol 60:137–146, 1995] reviewed the early reports of investigators, predominantly mathematical biologists and statisticians considering the mathematical laws that would describe the growth of a neoplasm. Included were cytokinetic measurements of the mitotic index, thymidine labeling index, bromodeoxyurine labeling index, and the relation of these indices to the potential tumor volume doubling time. The actual doubling time of benign and malignant colonic neoplasms were reported.


Single-mode fiber-optic devices 1,2 such as quarter-wave and half-wave devices are very useful for the polarization control schemes, single mode-fiber comunications and fiber sensor applications etc.,. One of the major advantages . of single-mode optical fiber devices compared with bulk-optic and planar waveguide devices is the simplicity of splicing to the single-mode optical fibers with low insertion loss.


This study was carried out to determine the effects of different zinc doses and application methods on grain yield, yield components and plant zinc concentrations of durum wheat (cv. Diyarbakir 81) in Southeastern Anatolia region between 2000 and 2002 years. The treatments were soil, seed and leaf applications of zinc to wheat. The amounts of 0, 1800, 3600 and 5400 g zinc ton seed for the seed application, 0.0, 2.3, 4.6 and 6.9 kg zinc ha for soil application and 0.0, 110, 330 and 550 g zinc ha for the leaf application were used. The results showed that zinc doses significantly affected all the investigated properties. The highest value for all investigated properties, except protein content, was obtained by the highest zinc doses. Compared to the control, grain yield at third and fourth doses increased 15.0 and 17.4 %, over all application methods, respectively. Yield components, i.e., spike length, spikelet number, grain number per spike and thousand grain weight were increased approximately 10 % upon the addition of third and fourth doses. Application methods significantly affected to grain yield, zinc concentration, protein content of grain and plant height. The highest doses of soil, leaf and seed applications increased grain yield up to 26.9, 12.5 and 12.2 %, respectively. The application of 6.9 kg zinc ha 1 to soil or 5400 g zinc ton seed to seed or 550 g zinc ha solution to the plants may be more efficient in terms of their economically feasibility and yield increases.


Gestational syphilis is transmitted from mother to child via the placenta and the birth canal. It is diagnosed in the child at the moment of birth.  This hematogenous transmission of the treponema pallidum from the non-treated or inadequately treated pregnant woman to her new born child is called congenital syphilis. Preventing the maternal transmission of the syphilis to the fetus, or at least treating it in the uterus, is among the strategies of the Ministry of Public Health. To achieve this purpose serology should be carried out to the pregnant woman and her husband. The causes of a reactive serology might be different, but it is always necessary to thing of syphilis. Three cases of syphilis in pregnant women are presented and also their follow-up in a health area.


Dynamic stabilization of H(ls) against ionization in high-frequency, single- and two-color, circularly polarized laser pulses is observed by numerically solving the three-dimensional, time-dependent Schrodinger equation. For the single-color case, numerically determined ionization rates are compared with both exact and approximate high-frequency Floquet rates. Snapshots of the probability density during the pulse reveal a hula-hoop-like dynamics of a rather stable probability density ring, provided the laser field is sufficiently intense. In two-color laser fields of opposite circular polarization, the stabilized probability density may display several distinct probability density peaks, depending on the ratio of the two frequencies. As a generalization of the well-known dichotomy in linearly polarized laser pulses, we call this a trichotomy, quatrochotomy, pen-tachotomy, etc. This effect is analyzed with the help of the time-averaged, two-color Kramers-Henneberger potentials. The shaping of the probability density in the stabilization regime can be realized without additional loss in the survival probability, as compared to the corresponding single-color results.


Achieving HBsAg loss is an important landmark in the natural history of chronic hepatitis B (CHB). A more personalized approach to prediction of HBsAg loss is relevant in counseling patients. This study sought to develop and validate a prediction model for HBsAg loss based on quantitative HBsAg levels (qHBsAg) and other baseline characteristics.


Objective To investigate the change of brain natriuretic peptide(BNP) in plasma and its relationship with the acute left ventricular aneurysm(LVA)formation and cardiac performance in acute myocardial infarction(AMI) patients.Methods A total of sixty four patients [51 male,13 female,age(64.8±12.2)years] with primary anterior AMI accompanied by LVA diagnosed by left ventriculography(LVG) were enrolled in this study and divided into LVA group(33 patients) and non-LVA group(31patients).Plasma BNP was measured after onset of the AMI.Immediately after PCI and at 6th month after AMI,the parameters of left ventricular end diastolic volume index(LVEDVI),left ventricular end systolic volume index(LVESVI),LVEF,wall motion score(WMS) and LVEDP were measured by LVG.The main adverse cardiac events(MACE)were recorded during 24 weeks after PCI.Results The peak value of plasma BNP in LVA group was higher than that in the non-LVA group(P0.01).On 5th day and at 24th week after AMI,the plasme BNP level was higher and the time attaining peak values of plasma BNP was earlier in LVA group than those in non-LVA group(P0.05,respectively).At 6th month after AMI,the parameters of LVEF,LVESVI,LVEDVI,WMS and LVEDP in non-LVA group were much higher than those in LVA group.The peak value of plasma BNP was positively correlated with LVESVI,LVEDVI,WMS and LVEDP in LVA group(P0.01,respectively),and negatively correlated with LVEF immediately after PCI(P0.01).During the 6 months follow-up,the incidence of MACE in LVA group was significantly higher than that in the non-LVA group(P0.05).The peak value of plasma BNP in LVA group was positively correlated with the incidence of MACE(P0.05).Conclusions It is indicated that the over secretion of BNP is involved in the left ventricular remodeling andthe process of LVAformation.


The importance and performance of customer relationship management (CRM) have been central issues since many years. Recent papers focus on finding what factors impact the CRM and evaluating the performance of CRM. This paper puts forward a CRM evaluation model, which includes two agents (logistic enterprise and customers) and an index (Customer Life Value) to evaluate CRM. Then, a mathematics model for CLV is built as the principle of the simulation model. The simulation system, aiming at estimating what factors impact the implementation of CRM, is build by using AnyLogic software. Finally, we know what factors impact the performance mostly, and give some suggestion about how to improve the performance. Keywordscustomer relationship management; customer lifetime Value; simulation; logistic enterprise


It is proposed that an energy optimization model of multi energy interaction in thermal power plants with wind power, photovoltaic and hydrogen production and hydrogen fuel cell system (HPHFCS). Considering that the wind power, photovoltaic and HPHFCS are connected to the auxiliary power system of thermal power plant, according to the output characteristics of the multiple power sources and auxiliary power load, an energy optimization model of multi energy interaction at the auxiliary power is proposed and analysed. This paper quantitatively analyses the role of wind power, photovoltaic and HPHFCS connected to the auxiliary power system of thermal power plants in promoting the local consumption of renewable energy sources and reducing the power consumption rate of thermal power plants. Numerical cases and simulation results validate the correctness and effectiveness of the energy optimization model in this paper.


Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are providing a mesh which maintains favourable bandwidth of internet to a substantial region and is replacing wired networks. Scheduling has become an important challenge in WMN that improves performance of the system. Scheduling schedules the resources to serve different nodes in the network. We review the centralized scheduling with interference based assignment algorithm. Interference based scheduling algorithm removes secondary interference which in turn reduces the length of scheduling. Analysis of using different algorithms is proposed that are meant to identify a collection of links to transmit at the same time from links that are available and assigning appropriate channels to them.


Objective: To investigate glomerular development and expression of insulin and insulin-like growth factor receptors in an experimental model of intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR). Material and Methods: We studied three groups of Sprague-Dawley fetuses: IUGR – restricted by ligation of the right uterine artery; C-IUGR – left horn controls, and EC – external controls (non-manipulated). Body and organs were weighed, and glomerular number and volume were analyzed. Expression of IRβ, IRS-1, IRS-2 and IGF-IRβ was analyzed in liver, intestine and kidneys by immunoblotting. Results: Organ/body weight ratios were similar. In IUGR, glomerular number and volume were increased compared to C-IUGR and EC (p<0.001). In the IUGR liver, increases were found in IGF-IRβ compared to C-IUGR and EC; IRβ compared to EC, and IRS-2 compared to C-IUGR. However, decreases in IRβ were noted in IUGR compared to C-IUGR; IRS-1 compared to C-IUGR and EC, and IRS-2 compared to EC. In IUGR intestine, increases were detected in IRβ, IRS-1 and IGF-IRβ compared to C-IUGR and EC. In IUGR kidneys, increases were observed in IRβ and IGF-IRβ compared to C-IUGR and EC, and IRS-1 compared to EC. Decreased IRS-2 in the intestine and kidney were noticed in IUGR compared to C-IUGR and EC. Conclusion: IUGR fetuses had less glomeruli and alterations in insulin receptors, which may be associated with an increased risk of disease occurrence in adulthood.


Business model is influenced by various factors when a start-up company is going to develop its own business. Some factors are from the environment and the others are from the inside of the company, but they all lead to the changes from the originally dynamic equilibrium. This thesis attempts to take a view from co-evolution and business model transformation to explore three research questions: 1. What are the models or processes when business model is transforming? 2. How does business model co-evolve with the development of a start-up company at different stages? 3. Is "Business Entrepreneurship and Growth"from Prof. Shih-Chang Hung the right theory? If it is, how to modify the theory so that it can explain the phenomenon? The results of this study show that: 1. The co-evolution with environment is relatively unconspicuous for the start-up company. 2. The abilities and resources in the business model are continuous. 3. The firm would recognize the different opportunities by their respectively accumulating assets. 4. The verification of the relationship of different factors from different theory which can be combined together.


Treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage III and IV with vitamin D sterols is useful to maintain optimal parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels and thereby, reduces the severity of bone abnormalities caused by high PTH levels. However, it should be borne in mind that serum calcium (Ca) levels may easily increase as bone turnover is easily suppressed due to diffuse or early nodular parathyroid tissue in these patients. Furthermore, an elevated risk of cardiovascular disease due to advanced atherosclerosis associated with both secondary hyperparathyroidism and the administration of vitamin D sterols has been reported in patients with moderate to severe CKD, resulting in a high mortality in these patients. In order to control serum Ca levels, therefore, additional use of cinacalcet hydrochloride may be useful. However, acute reduction of serum Ca levels and chronic hyperphosphatemia should be avoided; therefore, the doses of phosphorus (P) binders should be increased or the initiation of low doses of vitamin D sterols may be favorable in patients with stage III and IV CKD receiving cinacalcet hydrochloride. The phosphaturic effect of FGF-23 after treatment with cinacalcet is estimated to be small as compared with that of vitamin D in moderate to severe CKD patients, therefore, evaluation of osteocytes should be performed in patients with secondary hyperparathyroidism treated with cinacalcet hydrochloride.


Atracurium B esylate is a non - depolarizing n euromuscular blocking agent . The aim of this study was t o determine the practice trends for the use of rev ersal agent after atracurium by anaesthesiologists . A s tructured questionnaire was designed to know the practice of anaesthesiologists using reversal agent in patients who have undergone general an a esthesia and were given the inte rme diate acting neuromuscular blocker atracurium. Ninety nine percent participants used atracurium as a common neuromuscular blocking agent. 83.6% use d the reversal agent after atracurium in every patient whereas 16.4 % use d it in selected patients. In our institution m ost of the anaesthesiologist s use reversal agent after atracu rium in every patient as it is a general belief that not using reversal will prolong the recovery time, despite the fact that the use of reversal agent is debatable all over the wor ld. Further study should be carried out to know the practice trend s of rest of the anaesthesiologists as well as to evaluate the effective recovery following the single dose or infusion of atra curium and the need of reversal agent.


BACKGROUND
Open mesh used in anterior inguinal hernia repair can be configured as a flat patch (Lichtenstein operation) or as a cone-shaped preformed plug and supplementary patch (plug-and-patch operation; Perfix Plug; Davol Inc, Cranston, RI).

METHODS
One hundred forty-one patients were randomly allocated and blinded to receive either a Lichtenstein patch or a Perfix plug-and-patch. Information before the operation and on postoperative days 3 and 14 was recorded by an independent blinded observer to include operating time, postoperative pain, analgesic medication, return to activity and work, and quality of life assessment.

RESULTS
Operating time (32 vs 37.6 minutes) was significantly shorter in the plug-and-patch group (P = .01). During days 1 through 8, patients who had undergone the plug-and-patch operation experienced less pain, and their physical functioning on day 3 was significantly better (P = .013). Days of analgesic medication (4.0 vs 4.6 days), return to normal activity (2.8 vs 3.6 days), return to work (17.0 vs 20.8 days), and total days of work missed (14.3 vs 16.1 days) were similar in both groups (P = NS for all comparisons).

CONCLUSIONS
Compared with patients who received the Lichtenstein patch for ambulatory inguinal hernia repair, patients who underwent the Perfix plug-and-patch operation experienced less postoperative pain in the first 8 days after the operation but consumed similar postoperative analgesic medication. The rate of return to normal activity and work is similar in both groups, which indicates no superiority for the plug-and-patch operation in overall rehabilitation and societal costs. Overall hospital costs are greater for the plug-and-patch operation ($120 [US]) compared with the Lichtenstein patch ($20 [US]), with a negligible (5.6 minutes) saving of operating room time for the plug-and-patch operation.


The ability of hard-sphere hydrodynamics to model translational motions in real systems is discussed. The possibility to split the excluded volume effect on mutual diffusion into thermodynamic and hydrodynamic contributions is established by using accurate experimental activity and mutual diffusion data. The combination of hard-sphere theory at the second order of volume fraction for mutual diffusion, intradiffusion, and thermodynamic properties allows calculation of velocity cross-correlation coefficients (VCC), herein proposed as new standard coefficients. The comparison of these new standards with real VCCs, corresponding to several aqueous solutions of conventional solutes and macromolecules, tests the applicability of this procedure. The new VCC analysis scales the excluded volume effect and allows more meaningful discussion about correlation of translational motion in solution, especially in the case of the cross-term solute -solvent VCCs in macromolecule-solvent mixtures. Possible extension to analytically quantify correlation between internal motions of biopolymers is briefly discussed.


AbstractTwo geotextile liners, one with 0.090-mm openings and the other with 0.355-mm openings, were each installed in three 0.04-ha earthen ponds at the E. W. Shell Fisheries Center, Auburn, Alabama. Geotextile liners did not tear or decay during the 2-year study, and they prevented erosion of pond bottoms compared with three unlined ponds. However, the liners with 0.090-mm openings floated up into the water column in all three ponds, while the other liner floated up in one pond. Production, survival, and feed conversion ratio for hybrid catfish (♀ Channel Catfish Ictalurus punctatus×♂ Blue Catfish I. furcatus) did not differ (P > 0.05) among control and lined ponds. Phytoplankton abundance as estimated by chlorophyll a concentration was greater in lined ponds—especially in those lined with the less permeable geotextile—than in control ponds. This difference was attributed to differences in phosphorus uptake by bottom soil among lined and control ponds. Control ponds had higher turbidity than lined ponds...


Educational tools that utilize the Internet to reach offcampus students are becoming more popular and many educational institutions are exploring their use. We report on a multiuser audio chat system that is using a multicast peer topology and is based on a new audio streaming protocol called YimaCast. The tool is designed to foster collaboration and interactive learning between students, teaching assistants and instructors. The decentralized nature of the audio chat system avoids bottlenecks and allows it to scale to large groups of participants. We describe the system architecture, its multiple components and how it integrates with the existing distance education infrastructure at our university. We include some preliminary results from our prototype system that demonstrate the feasibility and practicalilty of our approach.


The COVID-19 epidemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus has turned into a worldwide pandemic. Therefore, health officials all around the world have strived for developing efficient preventive and treatment methods to deal with this global crisis. Amongst them, monoclonal antibodies, anti-TNFs, and convalescent plasma appear to be effective against this disease. In addition, clinical trials are currently being conducted for viral targeting vaccines. This review summarizes major advances using biopharmaceuticals in the treatment and prevention strategies against COVID-19 that have occurred in the global medicinal system from its introduction until March 2022.


Abstract Documents are a useful source of expert knowledge in organizations and can be used to foresee, in an earlier stage of a product's life cycle, potential issues and solutions that might occur in later stages of its life cycle. In this research, these stages are, respectively, design and assembly. Even if these documents are available online, it is rather difficult for users to access the knowledge contained in these documents. It is therefore desirable to automatically extract the knowledge contained in these documents and store them in a computer accessible or manipulable form. This paper describes an approach for the first step in this acquisition process: automatically identifying segments of documents that are relevant to aircraft assembly, so that they can be further processed for acquiring expert knowledge. Such identification of relevant segments is necessary for avoiding processing of unrelated information that is costly and possibly distracting for domain relevance. The approach to extracting relevant segments has two steps. The first step is the identification of sentences that form a coherent segment of text, within which the topic does not shift. The second step is to classify segments that are within the topics of interest for knowledge acquisition, that is, aircraft assembly in this instance. These steps filter out segments that are unrelated, and therefore need not be processed for subsequent knowledge acquisition. The steps are implemented by understanding the contents of documents. Using methods of discourse analysis, in particular, discourse representation theory, a list of discourse entities is obtained. The difference in discourse entities between sentences is used to distinguish between segments. The list of discourse entities in a segment is compared against a domain ontology for classification. The implementation and results of validation on sample texts for these steps are described.


Kato et al. A new enzymic method of nitrile synthesis by Rhodococ cus sp. strain YH3-3. Journal of Molecular Catalysis B: Enzymatic. vol. 6, Issue 3, Mar. 11, 1999, pp. 249-256.* Alberts et al. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 3rd ed. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.; 1994. pp. 325-326* Bunch. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek. 1998 Jul.-Oct.:74(1-3):89-97.* Stevenson et al. Biotechnol Appl Biochem. Jun. 1992; 15(3):283 302. (ABSTRACT).* "Nitrilase from Rhodococcus Rhodochirous J1 Sequencing and Overexpression of the Gene and Identification of an Essential Cysteine Residue'. Kobayashi et al., The Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 267, No. 29, pp. 20746-20751 (1992). "Amidase couples with low-molecular-mass nitrile hydratase from Rhodococcus rhodochirous J1 Sequencing and expression of the gene and purification and characterization of the gene product' Kobayashi et al., Eur, J. Biochem. (1993) vol. 217. No. 1, pp. 327-336. "Application of whole cell rhodococcal biocatalysts in acrylic polymer manufacture" Hughes et al., Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1998) vol. 74 No. 1-3, pp. 107-118. Kobayashi, et al., "The Catalytic Mechanism of Amidase Also Involves Nitrile Hydrolysis", FEBS Letters (1998), vol. 439, pp. 325-328. Veiko, et al., "Cloning and Determination of the Nucelotide Sequence of the Nitrile Hydratase Gene". Russian Biotechnology (1995), No. 5, pp. 1-4.


Overpopulation in underdeveloped countries has previously been cited as the cause of economic poverty; however, underdevelopment may result from imperialism and exploitation of the Third World nations. Limiting population is not the solution for underdeveloped countries since the North American population increased from 26-167 million people from 1850-1950 at which time economic growth was significantly stimulated. Instead, it is the capitalist countries that own the means and resources to develop countries that choose to exploit underdeveloped countries by exporting more than 7 billion dollars more than they send to those countries. In addition, much of the land that could be used for agricultural purposes is owned by wealthy industrialists so that the majority of food supplies are provided by 2% of the farms. Moreover, underdeveloped countries export items such as fishmeal to capitalist countries for them to use as catfood rather than feeding their own malnourished people. It seems that developed and industrialized countries undergo a decrease in population; therefore, underdeveloped countries should not be initiating birth control programs with the hope of developing economically.


Emerging technologies have made tremendous changes in people's daily lives, and they have profoundly influenced their economic and consumption activities. Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has also drastically increased individuals' usage of contactless payment technologies, such as mobile and facial recognition payments, which has accelerated the transformation of digital transaction services in China. In this study, the findings show that perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and service security can affect the perceived value and user satisfaction of using contactless payment. Moreover, a higher perceived value and satisfaction level may encourage more post-adoption behaviors, such as continuous and habitual usage of contactless payment methods or encouraging others to use contactless payment methods via word-of-mouth; however, perceived value did not have a direct effect on continuous usage. In addition, there are certain differences in user behavior depending on whether facial recognition payment or mobile QR-code payment is used. For QR-code payment users, overall, their satisfaction and post-adoption behaviors are more strongly bonded with each other compared with the behaviors of facial recognition payment users. This study has generated more information and insight into the transformation of digital payment and can help managers align their strategies more efficiently in the post-pandemic era.


In this presentation, I should like to discuss some concepts of drug therapy for intraaortic balloon patients. Figure 1 shows our Texas Heart Institute (THI) patient classification diagram. These data, compiled over a 1-year period, characterize patients' conditions 24 hours postoperatively or post-intraaortic balloon insertion. Patients in Class A have essentially a 100% chance of survival; those in Class B have about an 80% chance; and those in Class C have no chance of survival. Therefore, it is imperative to manipulate patients pharmacologically in such a way as to remove them from Class C. To move patients into Class B or Class A, we must increase their cardiac output. Because most of these patients are suffering from coronary artery disease, however, it is important to minimize or at least not increase myocardial oxygen consumption. Achieving an acceptable balance between these two hemodynamic functions makes managing such patients difficult. Cardiac output is proportionate to heart rate times contractility, times preload or wedge pressure (which is what we measure), divided by afterload. In other words, cardiac output rises with an increase in heart rate, contractility, or filling pressure, and it falls with a decrease in peripheral vascular resistance (Fig. 2). Myocardial oxygen consumption, which must be kept as low as possible, also increases proportionately with heart rate, contractility, filling pressure, and afterload (Fig. 2). There-


In the network domain, there is a continuous ongoing evolution in the type of connected devices and the nature of developed applications. This presents the network with varying Quality of Service (QoS) and security requirements. Consequently, there is a need to classify Internet traffic to facilitate its management. Thus, a granular classification based on needs is required, one which relates better to the network requirements of the traffic. In this paper, we apply deep learning to classify traffic requiring different QoS and security policies. We propose a multi-level classification framework applying a new data representation method. A comparison between the proposed data representation method and a previous method is presented. The implementation results show that the proposed data representation model outperforms the previous one and promises to permit the classification of the traffic at different granularity. Recording up to 95% accuracy using only the size, interarrival time, direction, transport protocol of the first 16 packets of each flow, our method can be employed in an online classification platform.


Phosphor bronze tapes used in underground power transmission cables are affected by pitting corrosion that can lead to cable failures. In the present work, the probability distribution of corrosion...


The purpose of this study is to test how learning organizations affect employee performance. evaluate how company culture affects employee performance, and Test the knowledge-sharing effect of an organization. Analyze how organizational culture affects knowledge sharing. Analyze the effects of information sharing on employee performance. Test the effects of information sharing on employee performance in the organization. Analyze the effects of information sharing on company culture and employee performance. The population in this study were all staff of Bumitama Agri Ltd. who have participated in the Bumitama University Corporate Training & Development Program since 2019. This research is a survey research or it can be said as a research technique that distributes questionnaires to respondents. Data will be obtained directly from the respondents by providing questionnaires to obtain data about the learning organization, organizational culture, employee performance, and knowledge sharing. From the results of the study, it can be concluded that organizational culture has a positive effect on employee performance. A learning organization has a positive effect on employee performance. Organizational culture has a positive effect on knowledge sharing. A learning organization has a positive effect on knowledge sharing. Knowledge sharing has a positive effect on employee performance. Knowledge sharing mediates organizational culture on employee performance. Knowledge sharing mediates organizational learning on employee performance.


3D modelling is one of the most challenging and important techniques in multimedia lectures. This paper describes a novel edutainment-based teaching strategy that combines social activity (facebook) and project-based learning as gaming in presentation aimed at fostering students' engagement. The designed approach relies on the intensive use of 3D architecture tools and makes the courses amusing and engaging. In the social activity, students are required to promote the final product and try to demonstrate to people online. In teaching project goal, learners work together and learn to establish big project as team work. In the final stage, the proposed rich man-like gamming competition is taken into place. We had applied the novel teaching approach in real university course. The empirical result showed that learners not only immersive in doing project, but also substantially improves the 3D modeling capability in course. Furthermore, some learners clearly indicated that the teaching method help to be learning much more actively.


Recent research addressed the importance of optimizing L2 cache utilization in the design of main memory indexes and proposed the so-called cache-conscious indexes such as the CSB+-tree. However, none of these indexes took account of concurrency control, which is crucial for running the real-world main memory database applications involving index updates and taking advantage of the off-the-shelf multiprocessor systems for scaling up the performance of such applications. Observing that latching index nodes for concurrency control (CC) incurs the so-called coherence cache misses on shared-memory multiprocessors thus limiting the scalability of the index performance, this paper presents an optimistic, latch-free index traversal (OLFIT) CC scheme based on a pair of consistent node read and update primitives. An experiment with various index CC implementations for the B+tree and CSB+-tree shows that the proposed scheme shows the superior scalability on the multiprocessor system as well as the performance comparable to that of the sequential execution without CC on the uniprocessor system.


Reader response theory emphasizes the central place of the reader,considering the reader as the producer of the text.Thus,the understanding of one text differs from individual to individual.By using the reader response theory,the paper discussed the ups and downs Walter Morel and Yin Jiahou,the male characters of Sons and Lovers and The Annoying Life have had and explained their different interpretations of life-giving up or persisting under the same background.


In Artificial Intelligence (AI), the contents of an image are generated automatically which involves computer vision and NLP (Natural Language Processing). The neural model which is regenerative, is created. It depends on computer vision and machine translation. This model is used to generate natural sentences which eventually describes the image. This model consists of Convolutional Neural Network(CNN) as well as Recurrent Neural Network(RNN). The CNN is used for feature extraction from image and RNN is used for sentence generation. The model is trained in such a way that if input image is given to model it generates captions which nearly describes the image. The accuracy of model and smoothness or command of language model learns from image descriptions is tested on different datasets. These experiments show that model is frequently giving accurate descriptions for an input image.


Chronic, infrequent voiding may be a risk factor for lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) in women. To inform this hypothesis, we conducted a rapid literature review and meta‐analysis of LUTS by occupation as an indirect measure of infrequent voiding behaviors.


A controller is designed to realize the synchronization between chaotic systems with different orders. The structure of the controller, the error equations and the Lyapunov functions are determined based on stability theory. Hyperchaotic Chen system and Rossler system are taken for example to demonstrate the method to be effective and feasible. Simulation results show that all the state variables of Rossler system can be synchronized with those of hyperchaotic Chen system by using only one controller, and the error signals approach zero smoothly and quickly.


Author(s): Clairmont, Anthony | Advisor(s): Maul, Andrew; Lee, Jin Sook | Abstract: Educational researchers are often tasked with postulating and measuring unknown processes that account for observed outcomes. Logically, this requires inductive reasoning about which constructs are relevant to the situation we seek to understand, prior to attempts at measurement. Exploratory mixed methods designs, along with a few classic designs from psychometrics, represent the canonical approaches to addressing this research problem. However, I argue that these canonical approaches require rethinking in order to fully embrace both the logic of discovery and the philosophy of measurement. Four normative strands are presented to guide this rethinking: an emphasis on the logic of discovery alongside the customary logic of justification, a move towards radical transparency, an invitation to philosophical exploration, and an appeal to integrate qualitative analysis at every major step of the measurement process. The result of following these normative strands would be a discovery-based workflow for educational measurement. To illustrate such a workflow, I take as an example data from a program evaluation of an intervention for underrepresented minority students in a university STEM program.


Etawah-grade goat is a graded up line between kacang and etawah goats, which well adapted to Indonesia's humid tropical climate. The good reproductive trait of Etawah-grade does are inherited from kacang goat (prolific goat). This study used six heads of Etawah-grade does at 1–2 years old (I1 dental condition). IPB University. The body variables were withers height, hip height, body length, chest width, chest depth, thurl width, rump length, chest girth, and cannon circumference, whereas for head variables were acrocranion–prosthion, basion–prosthion, lower jaw length, head height, tuber facial left-right, nasion–rhinion, entorbitale left-right, euryon left-right, supraorbitale left-right. Body score and head score were obtained from Principal Component Analysis (PCA). PCR-RFLP technique was used to determine genotypes of fecundity genes BMP15 (exon 1), BMPR1B (exon 1), KISS1 (exon 1) and KISS1 (intron 1) with restriction enzymes AluI (AG|CT), SduI (GDGCH|C), BsrI (ACTGG|) and MwoI (GCCTAAG|TAGC), respectively. Progesterone leves were measured by EIA (enzyme immuno assay). The results showed that the association between crude fat consumption and progesterone profile was found in this study, but it was not related to twin births with certain genotypes of gene fecundity BMP15 (exon 1), BMPR1B (exon 1), KISS1 (exon 1) and KISS1 (intron 1). The progesterone profile during the pregnancy period did not correlate to their body size and head size.


With the development of the society ,some words change back into the original tones ,some have stressed and unstressed pronunciations. This is the decline of slight and short tones. There are three reasons which lead to such decline : the unsteadiness of words with slight and short tones; the other dialectal tones' influence on Beijing dialect; the internationalization of Mandarin Chinese. It is urgent to reexamine and revise slight and short tones. The principles of distinguishing meanings and accepted-through-common-practice should be followed, and the standards should be unified


In recent years increased attention has been paid to the potential uses of acoustics for extraterrestrial exploration. Acoustical instrumentation can be deployed in gas, liquid, or solid media for measurement. This report deals specifically with acoustic sensors in gaseous media. Given the variety of atmospheric conditions that could be encountered in other worlds, and the cost and effort associated with sending sensors to them, it is vital that predictive modelling be done to inform the design of the instrumentation and associated acquisition systems, and for mission planning. To this end, it is important to revisit assumptions which have become embedded in our predictions for acoustics in Earth's atmosphere. This report deals specifically with the issue of fluid loading, and assesses the extent to which the radiation mass associated with immersion of an acoustic source in a gas (an effect which is usually negligible on Earth) affects its resonance frequency.


In this paper we present a method of solution of the equation of radiative transfer for an axisymmetric distribution of dust around a central source. There is abundant observational evidence that points towards the existence of flattened density structures around a wide range of systems of astrophysical interest such as protostars, stars with circumstellar dust shells, reflection nebulae, active galactic nuclei and starburst galaxies. Results obtained with spherically symmetric models are clearly inappropriate in these cases and earlier attempts to solve the axisymmetric problem adopt simplifying assumptions that do not allow realistic modelling. The programme we have developed integrates the equation of radiative transfer exactly in the sense that it does not neglect any terms in the equation and treats multiple anisotropic scattering. The emergent spectral energy and intensity distributions are obtained for different viewing angles for models with different density distributions and optical depths. The method applies to an arbitrary density distribution, but in this paper we are presenting models of clouds in which the thickness of the disc increases linearly with distance from the central source and the disc is symmetric about the equatorial plane. The density is assumed to decline with radius as r−2 and with a power-law dependence on azimuthal angle Θ.
 We also present a model that gives an excellent fit to the spectrum of VY CMa, a late M supergiant which has long been thought to be surrounded by a circumstellar disc. The model predicts an unusual viewing angle, just inside the surface of the flared disc.


Background Non-invasive alternatives to percutaneous renal biopsy are sought for follow-up of renal allografts. Purpose To evaluate the feasibility of intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) imaging in monitoring and predicting the function of renal allografts. Material and Methods Thirty-five kidney recipients were examined on a 1.5-T MR unit approximately three and 18 months after transplantation. Based on estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), patients were divided into three groups: improved; declined; and stable graft function. Diffusion parameters were calculated with the use of monoexponential (total apparent diffusion coefficient [ADCT]) and biexponential (pure diffusion coefficient [D], perfusion fraction [Fp]) model and compared among and within study groups using Kruskal–Wallis, Mann–Whitney, and Wilcoxon matched pairs tests. Diffusion parameters were correlated with eGFR using Spearman's rank correlation coefficients. Results of tests with P values < 0.05 were considered statistically significant. Results Values of diffusion parameters, especially Fp, were lower in patients with a declined graft function; however, statistically significant intergroup differences were observed only in a limited number of parameters at the time of follow-up magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). None of the diffusion parameters from the baseline MRI correlated with the change in eGFR over time. Flow-related diffusion parameters calculated with the IVIM model showed high variability. Conclusion We observed a trend toward a decrease in values of diffusion parameters in patients with a declined graft function. Further research is needed to verify a clinical usefulness of this observation.


Clinical researchers suggest more real-world types of data are needed to understand negative communication in couples. This study asked, what is the relationship between partners' reports of relationship satisfaction and frequencies of observed markers of negative communication? Fifty-three clinical and community couples completed self-report assessments and ten-minute discussions of relationship concerns. Data were analyzed using pooled regression to account for both actor and partner effects of relationship quality scores on hostility, distress-maintaining attributions, dysphoric affect, and withdrawal. Results yielded a significant actor female effect for hostility and a significant male-to-female partner effect for distress-maintaining attribution.


In recent years,domestic violence has become more serious and its hazards have been much concerned by governments and citizens.It is an urgent need to establish anti-domestic violence legislation to protect citizens'right because domestic violence not only does harm to individuals physically and psychologically but also hazards social stability and unity.It is stated that it is necessary to build up social supportive system in field of morality,legal,policy and others in order to effectively curb domestic violence.


We propose a supervised machine learning approach for automatic palmprint verification. In our approach a pair of palmprint images is represented and characterized using a vector of regional similarity features. Every regional similarity feature is computed using local modified complex wavelet structural similarity indexes (CW-SSIM). The logistic regression classifier verifies whether two palmprints described by the feature vector belong to same person or not. The aim of our classifier is to improve the matching accuracy and robustness of the verification, based on learned knowledge about: 1) the local and global characterization of the errors arising due to inaccurate image registration (translations, rotations, and distortions), and 2) the underlying vector patterns of the two palmprint images. Our experimental results show that the proposed approach achieves high verification accuracy.


We present an initial study examining the benefits of incorporating readability indicators in social network-related tasks. In order to do so, we introduce TweetRead, a readability assessment tool specifically designed for Twitter and use it to inform the hashtag prediction process, highlighting the importance of a readability signal in recommendation tasks.


Abstract The determination of antibody binding capacity is crucial in the development of drug antibodies. Despite its widespread use, flow cytometry may only be used to evaluate single cells in solution. In addition, analyzing the antibody localization in tissue sections of animal models after drug administration, as in immunohistochemistry (IHC), is desirable. In this study, antibody-treated cells were fixed on glass slides, and their analysis was directly compared with flow cytometry. Cell-bound antibodies were quantitatively detected using a method that relies on phosphor-integrated dots (PIDs), which are highly brilliant nanoparticles applicable to immunohistochemistry. The outcomes of this approach were highly correlated with flow cytometry, suggesting that it is able to quantitatively detect cell-bound antibodies at a level comparable with flow cytometry. Therefore, this novel IHC-based technique is valuable for quantitative analysis and localization of antibodies in tissue sections of drug administration.


In this paper,by the sketch of structure of MVWG,the authors have fully explained the working laws of this kind of gyroscope.In the aid of Euler's Dynamics Equation,the authors have constructed a mathematical model of the gyroscope,and then by the basic working laws of MVWG,the authors have simplified the model.And through existence,uniqueness principle of ordinary differential equation proves the existence uniqueness of solution to equation.


The effects of illumination on thePK and PKc activities were examined.The PK and PKc activities in matureleaves of Pasiflora edulis decreased 27%and 19% respectively, while those inyoung leaves increased 12% and 14 %respectively after illumination for 15min (Fig. 1 -- 2). These results wereconsistent with the rePOrt from our Laboratory that glycolysis of mature Peanutleaves was inhibited and that of youngleaves was activated slightly by illumination (Zhang and Li 1991 ). It wasconcluded that PKc was one of the lightmediated regulation steps of EMP pathway in green plant tissues.The PKc in mature leaves was inhibited to a large extant by ATP thanthat in young leaves. The PKc activityin mature leaves was inhibited by ATPat its physiological concentration, whilethat in young leaves was not affected(Fig. 3). This indicated that ATP hadno effect in vivo in young leaves.The resultS also indicated that thePKc activity in mature leaves was regulated by the [ATP]/[ADP] ratio (Fig.4 ). The PKc activity decreased rapidlywith an increase of the [ATP]/[ADP]ratio up to 5, but only slowly when theratio was above 5.DTT, a reducing agent, had aslight inhibitive effect on the PKc activity in mature leaves, but no effect onthat in young leaves (Fig. 5 ̄ 7 ).Based on these observations, wesuggest that the depression effect oflight on PKc activity in mature leaves isdue to the increase of cytosolic[ATP]/[ADP] ratio related to photosynthesisand the cytosolic reductant(s) producedunder light. The mechanism of light activation of PKc in young leaves remainsunknown, and is probably differentfrom that in mature leaves.


FIELD: radio engineering, communication. SUBSTANCE: data transmission method involves: receiving a label of a codeword in a codebook for weight antennae sent by user equipment (UE); searching for the codeword identified by the label from the codebook for eight antennae; and coding data to be sent using the codeword, and sending the coded data. The codebook includes one rank-8 codeword for eight antennae. The rank-8 codeword for antennae is generated by multiplying an inverse matrix of a rotation matrix for eight antennae with an eight-dimensional matrix formed by rank-4 codewords for four antennae. Therefore, the codeword in the codebook for eight antennae is applicable to scenarios including dual-polarisation strong correlation, dual-polarisation weak correlation, single-polarisation strong correlation, and single-polarisation weak correlation. EFFECT: high efficiency of transmitting data. 18 cl, 12 dwg


The aim of this paper is to present a common generalization of and , the Stirling numbers of the first and the second kind ((1), ex. 186–210, pp. 42–45).


The invention provides an airbag cover (1) having an interior trim component (2) and therein in a Gassackauslassoffnung (3) is provided captured flap means (4) for the passage of an airbag through the Gassackauslassoffnung (3) out of it by at least one hinge portion (6 ) are to be opened, in its surroundings, the interior trim component (2) and the flap means (4) comprises a support (7), a fabric (8), a foaming material (9) and an outer skin (10) included and the self (the tissue 8 ), wherein the Scharnierabschnit (6) contains at least one material tapering (11) of the support (7) and wherein in the course of the hinge portion (6) to the at least one material tapering (11) of the carrier (7), then at least one material weakening (12) is of carrier (7), tissue (8), foam material (9) and / or outer skin (10). The invention further provides an air bag device so as well as a manufacturing method thereof.


Perspective materials in adsorption medicine are the composite carbon nanostructures based on carbon nanotubes and graphene because of their unique mechanical properties and because of their ability to attach other types of atoms. The ability to control the pore size in synthesis process is an important feature of this material. The deformation of nanotubes and graphene in the longitudinal direction of the graphene sheet will occur during the filtration of microorganisms by the composite. Investigation the deformation of the composite under tension along the graphene sheet is carried out for the first time in this work by molecular mechanical method based on potential of DFT.


Previously, in prostate cancer‐free men, we found that statin initiation resulted in a 4.1% decline in PSA. This decline in PSA was proportional to the decline in cholesterol, suggesting a link between cholesterol and PSA levels. Whether these associations vary by race has not been explored and therefore we examined the association between pre‐statin serum cholesterol and PSA in black and white prostate cancer‐free men.


In a collision avoidance assistance device (10), a sensor ECU (5) uses sensors to acquire a relative speed between a host vehicle and a moving object, and to acquire lateral position information for the moving object, said sensors being a millimeter wave radar device (1) and a front recognition camera (3). The sensor ECU (5) corrects the lateral position information on the basis of said relative speed, and on the basis of the lateral position history indicated by the lateral position information. As a result, the collision avoidance assistance device (10) is capable of accurately determining the actual lateral position of the moving body. Said collision avoidance assistance device (10) is therefore capable of appropriately assisting collision avoidance, enabling, for example: an increase in a deceleration quantity during automatic braking, said increase enabled by making an automatic braking assessment sooner; and a decrease in unneeded automatic braking, said decrease enabled by determining the actual lateral position of the moving body.


D.H. Lawrence wanted to write a new kind of fiction. To do so, he turned to the images and aesthetic ideas of visual artists. Pictures and Fictions is the first full-length study to explore the nature of Lawrence's early intellectual and stylistic debt to the Italian Futurists, to 19th century English arts and crafts, botanical drawing, aestheticism, and genre painting, and to early Germanic expressionism. Drawing on both published and unpublished texts, the author discusses The White Peacock within its West Midlands industrial setting, tracing the formative influence on Lawrence of his board school training, where drawing and empirical method were conceptually tied. Through close textual analysis the study proposes that Sons and Lovers may be read as a Kuenstlerroman, and that there and in The Rainbow Lawrence uses a pictorial method that radically influences our critical interpretations by presenting visual subtexts that sometimes reinforce, but sometimes contradict verbal narrative.


Although I was born in Texas, had lived in many states in the Midwest and had not lived in any Spanish-speaking country, until then, my public voice as well as my private voice was Spanish through my first eleven years. It was in the fifth grade, that eureka! to my surprise, I started speaking English without translating. I suppose that at that time I had two public voices as well as two private ones. Hunger of Memory is an exceptionally well written book. It is a profound book, a personal expression which one learns to respect for its sensibility. To respect this type of sensibility is something I learned in the Spanish-taught "escuelita," which I attended before entering public school at age 7. What Richard Rodriguez has written has great value. However, I have difficulties with concepts in the book which I consider anti-humanistic. For several reasons I consider Hunger of Memory as a humanistic antithesis. This book has been controversial for the Hispanic in general and in particular to the Mexican-American or Chicano. This has been the case much more so, I think, because it seems to be so well accepted by the North American public as a key to understanding the Mexican-American and debates related to bilingual education and affirmative action. Thus, it is important to define and perceive the book from different vantage points. Hispanics, Chicanos, and Latinos are not a homogenous group. They are as heterogenous a kindred group as any that exists in our present society. They are at different levels of development, perception, understanding and as complex and therefore as complete as other human beings. Richard Rodriguez' book is a personal expression, an autobiography, and it must be understood as that in its singularity. It should not be used as a single way or method of understanding the bilingual, bicultural phenomenon of the Hispanic group. odriguez' Hunger of Memory as


Based on years of practice teaching experience, proposed the sustainable practice teaching system for the application-oriented specialty. The main methods included adopting project-oriented spiral level teaching method, performing hierarchical and modular design to practice teaching system, developing CEEUSRO to reform practice teaching system, implementing ability-oriented practice teaching and optimizing the practical teaching system through teaching content integration and innovation. Take School of Information and Electronic Engineering of Zhejiang University of Science and Technology(ZUST) as example, introduce implementation details of the sustainable practice teaching system reform .This practice teaching system is conducive to develop people-centered teaching mode, provide the advanced practice teaching method, promote student's practice ability, stimulate students' interest in learning, effectively enhance student employability and competitiveness, and improve the employment rate.


SnO2 core-shell microspheres were synthesised via a hydrothermal method with hexamethylenetetramine as a surfactant. The structure and the morphology of the products were characterised by X-ray diffraction, field-emission scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy. The results indicated that the overall dimension of the core-shell microspheres and the diameter of the spherical nuclei could be adjusted by changing the concentration of NaOH and hexamethylenetetramine or the reaction time. Based on the time dependent reactions, a possible growth mechanism is proposed. It is believed that the Kirkendall effect plays an important role in the formation of the core-shell structure. The optical properties of the core-shell structure microspheres were also studied through the photoluminescence and the Raman spectra.


The "lidarist" frequently wishes to process his experimental data to obtain as accurate and clean a representation of water vapor as is consistent with his measurement accuracies. In measurements contaminated by high-frequency noise this usually means smoothing the experimental data by some method (which is equivalent to smoothing with a low-pass filter) to eliminate or greatly reduce the amount of high frequency noise without distorting the desired signal. For data which are continuous in time (analog data) this is commonly accomplished using low-pass RC filters. However, with the increasing use of computer-controlled data acquisition systems which record data in digital form, there has developed a need for techniques which perform the same filtering process on the digitized data. Filtering or smoothing process should be as simple and efficient as is consistent with experimental situation. Poissonian averaging has been using for filtering lidar signal data. In previous work we showed the opportunity of using digital filtering in order to overcome problems created by poissonian averaging. To introduce further improvement in filtering we have used binomial filters; some scientists also use differentiating smoothing in an attempt to compensate for the fact that differentiation reduces the signal-to-noise ratio. This can easily be performed with the binomial filter by convolving either the filter coefficients or the data by sequences [1,0, -1]/2. This may be repeated any number of times to obtain the second-third-, and higher-order derivatives, after which the data are low-pass filtered in usual manner. The advantages of the above adjustable windows compared to the fixed windows are their optimality and flexibility. A wavelet analysis is used to increase signal retrieval. Wavelet analysis represents the next logical step: a windowing technique with variable-sized regions. Wavelet analysis allows the use of long time intervals where we want more precise low-frequency information, and shorter regions where we want high-frequency information.


The competitive power among enterprises is focused on whether RMB is to appreciate or depreciate. By analyzing the relationship between RMB exchange rate and enterprise competitive power, the conclusion that either RMB appreciation or depreciation will surely bring significant influence to their international competitive power of China's enterprises is made; besides, related measures to be taken in order to strengthen their international competitive power in the long-term or short-term period of RMB appreciation are pointed out, which concludes that in the short-term period, the RMB appreciation will weaken exporting enterprises' competitive power while in the long-term period, it will strengthen their competitive power.


An adaptive system for the processing of electrogastric (EGG) signals that enhances the signals is proposed. The main disturbance, respiratory artifact, can be efficiently canceled and time variations of the gastric signal frequency can be monitored online. Results for four different positional EGG signals are presented and discussed. The algorithms used by the system are simple and easy to implement, and the system can be installed on a personal computer.<<ETX>>


AIM:To investigate the influence of absent expression of E-cadherin on leukemic cell behavior and further determine the role of abnormal interactions between hematopoietic progenitor and bone marrow microenvironment on leukogenesis. METHODS:After E-cadherin was induced with 5-Aza-CdR in HL-60 leukemic cells,cell adhesion ability was determined by cell adhesion assay. E-cadherin mediated adhesion associated proliferation was examined by MTT assay,cell mobility was determined by a transwell migration assay. RESULTS:After E-cadherin was induced by 5-Aza-CdR in HL-60 cells,the adhesion ability of cells with E-cadherin-Fc was enhanced. E-cadherin mediated adhesion then inhibited HL-60 cells proliferation and suppressed cell migration ability. CONCLUSION:Absent expression of E-cadherin on leukemic cells plays a role in the decreased adhesion,enhanced proliferation and increased migration ability of leukemic cells. Loss of E-cadherin expression is responsible for the behaviors of leukemia cells.


A drastic change in the behavior of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake tsunami at specific sites or on a local scale was caused by changes in coastal setting, land uses for fisheries, large-scale river course changes, and coastal construction works such as super embankments, jetty ports, dredged ports and types of breakwater seawalls. Such phenomena could be identified along not only the coast of Tohoku close to the epicenter, but also that of Hokkaido, relatively far from there. This report presents some remarkable examples of the influence of man-made structures and land-use on the site-specific to local tsunami behaviors along the Pacific coast of Tohoku and Hokkaido from the geomorphological view, and must provide the information for the adequate mitigation to future tsunami disasters and evacuation from them.


Nanoscale FeS 2 was synthesized via a simple hydrothermal method and was decorated by hydrothermal carbonization (FeS 2 @C). The structural properties of the synthesized materials detected by X-ray diffraction (XRD), together with the morphologies characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) indicated that the hydrothermal carbonization only had an impact on the morphology of pyrite. Additionally, the electrochemical performance of the coated pyrite in Li/FeS 2 batteries was evaluated by galvanostatic discharge-charge tests and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). The results showed that the initial capacity of FeS 2 @C was 799.2 mAh·g −1 (90% of theoretical capacity of FeS 2 ) and that of uncoated FeS 2 was only 574.6 mAh·g −1 . XRD and ultraviolet (UV) visible spectroscopy results at different depths of discharge-charge for FeS 2 were discussed to clarify the electrochemical mechanism, which play an important part in Li/FeS 2 batteries.


Abstract This thesis enhanced the degree of utilization of smart phone through carrying out the application/ app. which search and visit matjip (reputable restaurant) at the travel sites using smart phones. When we search matjip (reputable restaurant) using materialized application, we can select the best matjip (reputable restaurant) we want. Especially, this application evaluates individual restaurants through the level of utilization and satisfaction by consumer including appropriate menus, the style and design of the restaurant, reasonableness of prices, service of restaurant employees and sanitation management by region and registered the information input to DB in advance while classifying based on the evaluation scores to keep track for individual tastes. And individuals can record their personal memories to input columns. On top of that, information field for transportation is also designed to enhance the accessibility during travel, and in the future the application can be further utilized through the expansion of the DB through the input of famous tour sites and acquaintance's house information.


9069 Background: Pediatric nasopharyngeal carcinoma (PNC) represents a locally advanced undifferentiated tumor. In this study, clinical experience and therapeutic results of 24 children with newly diagnosed PNC, treated in a single oncology institution in India over a period of 5 years, are analyzed.

METHODS
24 patients (23 males and 1 female) 7-14 years old (median = 12) from Jan 2000 to Sep 2005 with PNC were retrospectively evaluated. 18/24 patients were evaluable. 16 patients received induction chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy while 1 patient was offered concurrent chemoradiotherapy, 1 patient received radiotherapy alone. 15/16 patients received postradiation chemotherapy. The agents used in induction and adjuvant therapy were cisplatin (100 mg/m2) on day 1 and 5-fluorouracil 750 mg/m2 for 5 days. The dose of radiotherapy used was 60 gray in 30 fractions.

RESULTS
The time of onset of symptoms to diagnosis ranged from 1 month to 9 months with a median of 5.5 months. Histopathology was lymphoepithelioma in 5 patients (27.7%) while 13 patients (72.2%) had poorly differentiated carcinoma. Disease extent was T2 (n = 7), T3 (n = 6), and T4 (n = 5); N1 (n = 5), N2 (n = 7), and N3 (n = 5). 7 patients had intracranial invasion. None had metastatic disease on presentation. 13 patients (72.2%) achieved major response which included 7 (38.8%) complete remission and 6 (33.3%) partial remission after the induction chemotherapy and radiotherapy. 4 (22.2%) had progressive disease. Another 3 (16.6%) attained complete remission after post radiation chemotherapy which consisted of two cycles of cisplatin and 5-flourouracil. The follow up ranged from 5 months to 84 months with a median follow up of 35 months. The disease free survival ranged from 10 months to 53 months with a median of 33 months. The patients who had a better response to induction chemotherapy had a better disease free survival. Out of 7 patients who attained complete remission 2 relapsed with a median time to first relapse of 9.5 months. Toxicity to therapy was modest. Only one patient had grade 4 neutropenia and mucositis. There was no therapy related mortality.

CONCLUSION
Chemoradiotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma in children is an effective treatment modality with minimal toxicity. No significant financial relationships to disclose.


2014 dissertation for MSc in Finance & Risk. Selected by academic staff as a good example of a masters level dissertation. The prediction of Foreign Exchange has been an ever-going learning process. The development of methods of prediction has come a long way, from the beginning where the though there was no ability to predict the future, and behavior is an unpredictable entity to the development of simple statistical linear models that has come a long way to todays technology world where computers and their computational powers have made it possible for Artificial Intelligence to be born.
This paper will be going through previous studies on these Neural Networks to forecast the EUR/USD, GBP/USD and USD/JPY to test and review their ability to forecast one day ahead.


Tourism scholars have applied the concept of attitude to examine a variety of topics related to tourism behaviors. Unfortunately, these studies have focused primarily on a respondent's favorability toward travel at the exclusion of at least on other potentially important predictor. Specifically, this research proposes that the concept of travel importance, defined as the degree of priority a person attaches to travel, is a relevant variable that should be included in the analysis of travel behaviors. Based on results from a US sample (n = 559), the hypothesis is confirmed. It is also found that people who perceive travel as more important to their life are more likely to actively and passively search for information about future travel plans, resulting in more frequent travel. The article concludes with recommendations for marketing tourism products and destinations.


In stressing the role of the slave as subject and actor rather than as victim and object, Rawick provides a very useful framework from which to analyze the narratives as well as the slave experience. His central thesis is that a viable and partly autonomous slave community developed in North America, cemented by an ever evolving culture which comprised an amalgam of psychological and behavioral characteristics and patterns derived in varying degrees from the African past, the physical and social environment of the American South, and the general capacity of human beings living under adverse conditions to nevertheless find positive meaning in their existence. Rawick supports his thesis with citations from slave narratives, insights from sociological and psychological theories, and some common sense observations.


This paper proposes multigoal implementations of the Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm and the boundary iterative-deepening depth-first search (BIDDFS). The algorithms were modified to allow for the search of more than one goal in a single expansion pass. The aim of this is to reduce the operational redundancy and hence the time taken for calculating multiple start-goal node pairs. Simulations using multigoal algorithms on 250× 250 open grid maps with nine goals have shown up to a 458% increase in time efficiency.


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The author has discussed two integral transforms for 2.5-D transient electromagnetic forward modeling,namely,inverse Fourier transform and inverse Laplace transform.In resistivity modeling,many successful experiences or algorithms on wave-number selection in Fourier domain have been presented.Base on these facts,a principle on how to choose wave-number is proposed with regard to central loop TEM in this paper.Firstly,analyze the law of function value changing with wave-number in Fourier domain.Secondly,set range of wave-number according to asymptote of the curve above.Thirdly,compare the curve with the analytical value to choose the least number of wave-number acceptable.In addition,we also introduced a numerical algorithm of inverse Laplace transform,which only needs a few Laplace variables in pure real domain.Finally,a typical example on transient electromagnetic field by a vertical magnetic dipole over homogenous half-space shows that the scheme on the rang adjustment of wave-number and how to choose number of wave-number is reasonable and numerical inversion algorithm of Laplace transform is acceptable.