This paper aims to conceptually explore the relation between the integration process and culture and to contribute to the better understanding of the complex (internal and external) environment of the European Union. More precisely, it analyzes the role of culture in the EU's architecture, while also taking into consideration the perception of EU citizens regarding their self-perceived cultural identity. The purpose of the papers is to provide relevant insight that could be used in the process of designing public policies aimed at improving the European integration process.


This paper presents a practical approach for digitizing city landmarks based on free and limited Web resources. The digital replicas are then placed on the Web using popular services, like Google earth, and are accessible to a huge user base. The method is easily applicable and quite valuable to organizations with limited funding.


The development history, present status, characteristics and developing trends of photonic industry is introduced briefly, and the development modes and areas of photonic industry are studied preliminarily, which is of higher value for establishing the front important position of photonic industry in the economic development of Xiamen.


The objective of the present work is to evaluate the possible toxic effect engendered by graded doses of lead chloride (PbCl 2 ) on Mactra stultorum mantle and adductor muscles through a battery of biomarkers responses. M. stultorum were divided into 4 groups and exposed to three concentrations of PbCl 2 (D1:1mg/L, D2: 2.5 mg/L and D3: 5 mg/L) with control during five days. Our findings showed decreases of lipid contents in both organs following PbCl 2 exposure, while, proteins declined only in the adductor muscles of the treated M. stultorum. During our experiment, the PbCl 2 exposure induced the levels of metallothionein (MTs), malondialdehyde (MDA) and advanced oxidation protein products (AOPP) in both organs as compared to the control. These biomarkers responses are distinctly different between mantle and adductor muscles.


The search for inscriptions in Sardinia in the modern period stems from the desire of Sardinian antiquarians to reconstruct local history through the help of epigraphic documentation. In the 17th century, the purposes of counterfeiters were primarily to boost the cultural and political primacy of both Cagliari and Sassari, to extol the close relationship between Sardinia and Spain, and to assert the Christian roots of Sardinian culture. In the 19th century , the main objectives were firstly to reinstate the island's prestige and, secondly, to reinforce its role in the cultural landscape of the Kingdom of Sardinia.


High-temperature superconducting (HTS) current lead has been prepared by the trifluoro acetates-metal organic deposition (TFA-MOD) processed YBCO tapes. The YBCO tape has higher critical current density Jc and better magnetic property than the Bi2223 tape. Furthermore, the thermal conductivity of the YBCO tape with a thin Ag layer is much lower than that of the Ag-sheathed Bi2223 tape. The critical current of the YBCO tapes ranges from 150 to 180 A in liquid nitrogen and self-field. A current lead is composed of eight bundles stacked by two YBCO tapes (16 tapes), Cu end caps, and a pair of stainless-steel boards. Rogowski coils and Hall sensors used for estimation of current distribution are attached on each YBCO bundle. The transport current of 1.6 kA was carried with no voltage on every YBCO tape at 77 K. Although voltage of several tens of microvolts on some YBCO tapes appeared, transport current of 1.8 kA was successfully carried with no quenching. The voltages between the Cu cap and YBCO tapes almost linearly increased with increasing transport current, and they range from 0.75 to 0.93 mV and 1.02 to 1.21 mV at 1.8 kA, respectively. The low voltages correspond to 0.42-0.52 μΩ and 0.57-0.67 μΩ. The low contact resistance results in low joule heating at Cu joints. The current calculated by Rogowski coils in eight bundles varies from 137 to 355 A at 1.8 kA and sweep rate of 800 A/s. Therefore, the imbalance among eight bundles is evaluated to be 218 A. The current of eight bundles calculated by Rogowski coils sums up to 1808 A, which is the slight difference of 8 A in comparison with transport current of 1800 A. Rogowski coils and Hall sensors are effective at evaluating of current distribution for current lead.


ABSTRACT In postwar Kosovo, international and Kosovar political actors claiming authority in the democratization and statebuilding process lacked a long-standing 'authoritative relation' with each other and the citizenry. To analyse the structural conditions for the emergence of political authority, the article suggests applying the analytical framework of 'interpretative authority', which captures the relational character and simultaneity of authority generation by international and Kosovar actors. Given that Kosovo had unsecured symbolic conditions for authority – no commonly shared symbols of unity for all communities and no commonly agreed interpreter of symbols of unity – political actors were competing intensely for the identity and symbolizations of the 'new' Kosovo in their attempts to gain authority in various institutional opportunity structures. The competition over authority and the attempts to denationalize public communications made by the international administration, the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), led to the reimbursement of particularistic symbolic references of Kosovar actors, thereby keeping the unsecured symbolic conditions and the weakness of interpretative political authority in Kosovo stable.


Does a rapidly changing world coupled with a dynamic industry make the history of that industry obsolete? Can explorers learn anything about the future by observing and analyzing long-term trends that affect exploration? There are no absolute answers to these two questions. World conditions may be changing so rapidly that historic trends are rendered useless or at least incapable of extention into the future. On the other hand we throw out much useful data if we ignore history; and we run the risk of repeating past mistakes. Let's examine nine trends in our industry to see if they can truly give clues to the future.


This article looks at market-initiated compulsory licences issued under patent regimes, the first of which came into force with the grant of the Nexavar licence. By classifying the various types of compulsory licenses, this article brings out the differences between government use licences and market-initiated licences. The author argues that market-initiated licenses have many advantages over government use compulsory licences. Though factors like overcoming capacity barriers of local manufacturers and legislative preparedness of the nation seeking to implement the licence are important for the grant of market-initiated compulsory licences, such licences when granted can regulate competition, address non-emergency situations like lack of affordability of life saving drugs by reducing drug prices, facilitate local production and encourage price discrimination, while simultaneously resolving antitrust concerns that arise out of a refusal to licence by the patent owner.


Recently, three processes were used to analyze the consequences of plausible climate change scenarios for urban water governance in Lima. The first process, led by a German-financed research team, developed climate change scenarios using innovative tools. The second, Chance2Sustain, brought spatial perspectives to urban development and water governance, mapping spatial inequities in water-related vulnerabilities and including community-based knowledge. The Metropolitan Municipality of Lima (MML) initiated the third process, to prepare a city development and Climate Change Adaptation Strategy. This paper examines how these processes of knowledge construction contributed to transitions in water governance and climate change adaptation strategies. Although all processes used concertación(1) in their knowledge construction, the actors and the incorporated knowledge differed considerably. While the first example was dominated by professional groups and technical–professional knowledge, the Chance2Sustain and city processes included a wider range of actors and shifted thinking about adaptive management towards including contextual-embedded knowledge.


The purpose of this ethnographic study was to observe and understand interactions of toddlers and teachers in context. Specific questions were "What are the motives and features of the interactions between toddlers and teacher?" Subjects were twenty 2-year-old daycare children and their teachers. Methods covered 11 weeks of interviews and participatory observation. The major findings were that the interactions between toddlers and teachers was mainly initiated by toddlers and consist of physiological and emotional needs, conflict mediation and participation in play. As toddler get to the age of self-recognition but still need adult`s assistance, the co-existence of dependence and independence was evident. Children used a variety of`verbal and non-verbal signals with both positive and non-positive overtons.


Objective
To investigate the accuracy of liver volume measurement in patients with primary hepatocellular carcinoma by using the 3D+ medical imaging visualization processing system.

Methods
Thirty patients who were clinically diagnosed as primary hepatocellular carcinoma and underwent surgical resection before preoperative assessment were selected from January 2016 to November 2016. Preoperative thin-slice CT images were transferred into the 3D+ medical imaging visualization processing system for hepatic volume measurement, the predictive resection volume were measured and statistically analyzed with that of intraoperative specimen according to water measurement method.

Results
All patients had complete resection of tumor, the average volume of predictive resection calculated by the 3D software was (408.84 ± 177.07) ml, the average volume of intraoperative specimen measured by the water test was (399.95 ± 176.15) ml, the difference was not statistically significant (t = 1.502, P = 0.144), and the average percentage error was (6.21 ± 4.73)%. Pearson correlation analysis showed that there was significant correlation between them (r = 0.983, P < 0.05).

Conclusion
3D+ medical image visualization processing system is a simple, intuitive and accurate method for liver volume measurement, which can provide the basis for the accurate measurement of liver volume and the implementation of complex hepatectomy, and guide the precise hepatectomy.

Key words:
Primary hepatocellular carcinoma; Liver; Volume measurement; Precise liver resection


Media sharing applications such as Panoramio and Flickr contain a huge amount of pictures that need to be organized to facilitate browsing and retrieval. Such pictures are often surrounded by a set of metadata or image tags, constituting the image context. With the advent of the paradigm of Web 2.0 especially the past five years, the concept of image context has further evolved, allowing users to tag their own and other people's pictures. Focusing on tagging, we distinguish between static and dynamic features. The set of static features include textual and visual features, as well as the contextual information. Further, we may identify other features belonging to the social context as a result of the usage within the media sharing applications. Due to their dynamic nature, we call these the dynamic set of features. In this work, we assume that every media uploaded contains both static and dynamic features. In addition, a user may be linked with other users with whom he/she shares common interests. This has resulted in a new series of challenges within the research field of semantic understanding. One of the main goals of this work is to address these challenges.


- We have recently described a novel type of interstitial (stromal) cells – Telocytes ( TC ) – in several cavitary and non-cavitary organs from humans and other mammalians. TC have a small cell body, but specific (unique) prolongations that we named Telopodes ( Tp ). Therefore, the simplest defi-nition for TC is: cells with Tp . Tp are characterized by: a) number (1-5/cell, frequently 2 or 3); b) length (tens up to hundreds of m m); c) moniliform aspect – an alternation of thin segments, podomeres (with caliber under 200 nm, below the resolving power of light microscopy) and dilated segments, podoms , which accommodate mitochondria, (rough) endo-plasmic-reticulum and caveolae, the so-called " Ca 2+ uptake/ release units "; d) dichotomous branching pattern forming a 3D network, a labyrinthine system with complex homo- and heterocellular junctions, revealed only by electron tomography . Significantly, TC (especially Tp ) release shed vesicles and exosomes, sending macromolecular signals to neighbor cells, thus modifying their transcriptional activity, eventually. The lenght and ramifications of Tp together with the intercellular junctions and the releasing of shed vesicles or exosomes suggest an essential role of TC in intercellular signaling and coordination. Noteworthy, at least in some organs (e.g. heart and lungs) TC and stem cells (SC) are located in tandem within the so called stem cell niches, where Tp surround stem cells ( SC ). TC heterocellular contacts, as well as the impul-sion of shed vesicles assure TC - SC sinergy . Presumably, TC "nurse" SC in stem cell niches.


A method of holding a database of defects of a motor vehicle on an external server, comprising at least the steps of detecting (S10) a malfunction in the motor vehicle, identifying (S10) said default set ( S20) a remote connection between a communication tool embedded in said vehicle and the external server, sending (S30) a signal representative of the fault identified to the external server when the connection is established, and updating (S40) the database defects of the external server registering the representative signal received in said database.


Aimed at designing an efficient visible light active photocatalyst and suppressing the self-corrosion tendency of CdS nanoparticles, a novel composite consisting of CdS nanoparticles and exfoliated two-dimensional (2D) TiO_2 nanosheets was successfully fabricated using a simple self-assembly process. The prepared samples were characterized using various techniques including x-ray diffraction, ultraviolet–visible absorption spectroscopy, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and transmission electron microscopy. It was found that the exfoliated 2D nanosheets played an important role as an ultrathin coating to suppress the photocorrosion of CdS nanoparticles, evidenced by inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometer analysis. The resultant CdS/TiO_2 composites exhibited enhanced photocatalytic activity in the oxidation of Rhodamine B in water under visible light irradiation (λ > 420 nm).


PURPOSE: A wireless network having the selection of transport format combinations is provided to specify a selection process for finding suitable transport format combinations. CONSTITUTION: The wireless network has a radio network controller(1) and a plurality of assigned terminals(2-9) which are provided each for transmitting transport blocks formed from packet units of a logic channel on a transport channel which is assigned a transmission time interval from at least one radio frame, and which is active when the beginning of its transmission time interval and of a radio frame correspond. The radio network controller(1) or a terminal(2-9) is provided for the purpose of forming at least one transport format combination, which specifies the transport blocks provided for transmission on each transport channel, so that a required transport format combination is to be determined which includes as transport format the respective packet units awaiting a transmission in the assigned transport channel. The transport format combination corresponds to the required transport format combination or comes closest to it to be selected from a set of prescribed transport format combinations.


To research the influence that Shaanxi's farm products processing enterprise effect farmer's income,after the Co-integration Test and Granger Causality Test,this paper analyses the farm products processing enterprise and farmer's income based the data from 1995 to 2007.It can be concluded that the farm products processing enterprise's output and farmer's income have the effect of reciprocal causation.When the farm products processing enterprise's output value increase 1 unit,the farmer's income can increase 0.899 7 unit in the long period.The co-integration can pull the fluctuation to the equilibrium state at the power of 7.79% in the short period.The reciprocal causation between farm products procession enterprise's output and farm's income can be lagged 1 year.Based on this conclusion,the paper make the proposal of doing good development plan,promoting deep processing and introduction the supportive policy to improve the development of farm product processing industry.


Based on the support construction of Yellow River Nanyin super major bridge on a high-speed railway,this paper describes the construction technologies such as foundation treatment with prestress tube pile for soft subsoil foundation,setting up support with steel pipe Berea beam,camber setting etc.which ensures the project of its safety,quality and rate of progress and the scheme is proved feasible.


Compare with the past,the ability of independent innovation in Qinghai has been made great progress,position in 31 provinces of China has been made up graded during the Tenth Five Plan.In order to the ability of independent innovation, the paper suggests the government of Qinghai province to take many kinds of measures such as organizing joint research activity to important scientific problem,improving bids procedure of scientific research subjects,perfecting system of examinations and rewards to scientific achievements,encouraging scientific researchers in agencies organizations and institutions to build an enterprise and so on.


The objective of this project is to develop and apply innovative high-performance computing techniques and simulation methods in order to address computationally challenging problems in chemical dynamics, with special emphasis on the critical problems in environmental science and chemical engineering facing the DOE and the nation. The proposal is concerned with several fundamental areas of research including thermochemical kinetics and rate constants, photochemistry and spectroscopy, chemical and phase equilibria, and heterogeneous catalysis. These areas are important for solar energy, fuel-cell technology, environmental remediation, weather modeling, pollution modeling, and atmospheric chemistry. These computationally intensive studies will be carried out with new high-throughput integrated software that we have been developing. The development of compatible, portable, scalable, and user-friendly computational tools that combine electronic structure packages with dynamics codes and efficient sampling algorithms will be continued as part of this project. The proposal features four EMSL themes: atmospheric aerosol chemistry, biological interactions and dynamics, geochemistry and subsurface science, and science of interfacial phenomena. In the field of atmospheric aerosol chemistry, we propose a study of nucleation phenomena which play a pivotal role in many atmospheric and technological processes. We propose to develop paradigm-shifting, scalable computational approaches for modeling the nucleation, structure, and properties of nanodroplets. Another aspect of our research is the development of efficient and robust methods for analytical representations of multidimensional potential energy surfaces for photochemical reactions including those of environmental and energetic importance. In the field of biological interactions and dynamics, we will study explicit polarization effects in various molecules and biochemical systems, such as protein residues and hydrogen bond complexes using re-parametrized semiempirical models and molecular mechanics force fields. We will also explore Feynman path integral methods in order to incorporate quantum effects such as tunneling and zero-point energy into the treatment of large molecules. In the field of geochemistry and subsurface science, we propose large-scale Monte Carlo simulations of silica melts. Silica plays a significant role in the chemistry and mineralogy of the Earth's crust and mantle. In the field of interfacial phenomena, we propose to provide molecular-level insights on retention mechanisms in reversed-phase liquid chromatography. These mechanisms are not well understood and there remain many open questions on bonded-phase conformation, solvent penetration, solvophobic versus lipophilic interactions, and partition versus adsorption. We are interested in studying interfacial phenomena related to heterogeneous catalysis, especially, involving transition-metal compounds and zeolite frameworks. In particular, we plan to study the electrochemistry of …


Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer related death worldwide. Non-small lung cancer accounts for 85% of diagnoses and the predominant subtype is lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD). LUAD has a less than 20% response rate to conventional chemotherapy and despite identification of several therapeutic targets, the majority of diagnoses continue to lead to death, highlighting the need for better treatments. Notch signaling in mammals is complex, with multiple receptors, ligands and modifiers. Notch ligands at the surface of one cell interact with receptors on an adjacent cell, triggering cleavage and nuclear translocation of the intracellular domain which interacts with Rbpj/Csl to control the transcription of target genes. In LUAD, significant evidence suggests that Notch plays an oncogenic role. Previously, we identified a population of Tumor Propagating Cells (TPC), which had greater capacity for tumor formation and are enriched after treatment with cisplatin. The TPC population was defined by the expression of CD24, ITGB4 and was Notch high. Further functional validation showed that specifically Notch3 contributes to this propagation phenotype and is key in establishing functional intra-tumoral heterogeneity. However, the TPC population is still heterogeneous and likely only a subset of these cells are true TPCs. Furthermore, the gene expression signature of the mouse TPCs has prognostic significance in human LUAD, however the TPC population hasn't been defined in human patients, limiting our ability to target the Notch pathway therapeutically. To assess the heterogeneity of the mouse TPC population we performed FACS on tumors from KrasLSLG12D; Tp53flox/flox; YFPLSL twelve weeks after tumor initiation via AdCre. Tumors were sorted for bulk population (YFP+Lin-) and for TPC (YFP+Lin-CD24+ITGB4+Notchhi) population and single cell sequencing was performed using the 10X genomics platform. We hypothesize that aberrant Notch3 signaling is a critical pathway for survival in at least some LUAD and that Notch activation leads to gene expression changes that are important for driving human LUAD maintenance. Patient-derived xenografts (PDX) more closely recapitulate important aspects of human cancer, particularly with regards to the role of intratumoral heterogeneity and self-renewal pathways. To characterize Notch3 expressing cells in human LUAD, we performed FACS on our cohort of LUAD PDXs and sorted the Notch3+ population. We found expression of Notch3 and expression of Notch ligand Jagged2 in all LUAD tumors regardless of driver mutation. Citation Format: Kieren D. Marini, Stanley Leung, Alex Lee, Alejandro Sweet-Cordero. Notch3 in lung adenocarcinoma pathogenesis and heterogeneity [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2019; 2019 Mar 29-Apr 3; Atlanta, GA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2019;79(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 4623.


In this paper, we construct compactifications of $SL_2(\mathbb{C})$-character varieties of $n$-punctured projective line and study the boundary divisor of the compactifications. This study is motivated by the conjecture for the configuration of the boundary divisor, due to C. Simpson. We verify the conjecture for a few examples.


As typically implemented, single-photon sources cannot be made to produce single photons with high probability, while simultaneously suppressing the probability of yielding two or more photons. Because of this, single-photon sources cannot really produce single photons on demand. We describe a multiplexed system that allows the probabilities of producing one and more photons to be adjusted independently, enabling a much better approximation of a source of single photons on demand.


In this paper, we have given several proofs inequality discovered by Turban for
Legendre polynomials. A single derivation and some their results were given. We also established in equality for bassel function. We illustrate and rederive the left hand inequality further more to establish the estimate for 0(x).


Objective To assess the influence of L-malic acid,a blocker of the synthetic enzyme for GABA, on the hypnotic activity of melatonin (MT). Methods Righting the reflex method in mice and electroencephalography (EEG) in rats were used to determine the effects of L-malic acid and melatonin on sleep. Results L-malic acid (5d) blocked the sleep-promoting effect of MT in the righting reflex experiment. It inhibited MT-induced increase in TS and SWS, and MT-induced decrease in W, but did not influence MT-induced decrease in TSO and PS by EEG analysis. Conclusions These results demonstrated that L-malic acid antagonized the hypnotic activity of MT. The mechanism of MT hypnotic activity may be mediated by the GABA ergic system.


The articles presented in this special issue of EJM have been selected from those which were presented at the "Rethinking Marketing" symposium which was held at Warwick Business School in July 1993. This symposium set out to provide a participative forum for discussing new ways of thinking about marketing, both as a discipline and a profession. It also set out to bring together a group of people who share an interest in bringing novel and provocative ideas and perspectives to a wide range of marketing topics - some hoary, some heavy, some handy, but never hackneyed.


The present review describes the methodology of perturbed angular correlation of gamma rays (PAC) applied to biological problems. A large part of the present review focuses on the application of PAC spectroscopy to the study of coordination geometry for the metal site in zinc enzymes. Applications to conformation and dynamics of biomolecules and the use of the method to identify the intracellular sites of either metals or labelled proteins are also discussed.


INTRODUCTION: Tissue growth factors have been extensively investigated as agents for acceleration of wound repair. Individual recombinant molecules have shown promise in animal models, but in humans both safety and efficacy remain questionable 1, 2 and costs are substantial. Recently introduced technologies allow intra-operative collection of the full naturally occurring array of tissue growth factors contained in platelets and white cells. 3 These preparations rely on the normal healing cascade for their performance, and their activity is limited solely to the wound site without undesirable proliferative or inappropriate tissue formation and no systemic effects. Numerous methodologies have been proposed for intra-operative preparation of autologous tissue growth factors for topical application, and an ever widening variety of approaches and formulations are available to the practitioner.3 Physicians trying to decide which technique to adopt can easily find themselves bewildered while attempting to sift through myriad proponent's claims. 4 PURPOSE: This presentation will review the state of the art, including: a summary of the role of autologous growth factors in bone fusion; a discussion of the importance of dosage and carrier matrix effects; an outline of the mechanics of intraoperative preparation; a survey of the capabilities of various techniques, and; an overview of in vitro , experimental and clinical studies. Audience members will receive a detailed understanding of the physiology, mechanics and clinical range of applicability for this newly emerging technology. This information will aid clinicians in choosing the most appropriate methodology for their practice.


In the Third Glorious Mystery, the Descent of the Holy Spirit, we pray with Mary and the disciples in the Upper Room for the coming of the Spirit upon ourselves and upon the Church. For it is the Spirit who enlightens our minds with faith and empowers us mightily with love, as He once did for the disciples on Pentecost Day.


We prove several results regarding the distribution of numbers that are the product of a prime and a $k$-th power. First, we prove an asymptotic formula for the counting function of such numbers; this generalises a result of E. Cohen. We then show that the error term in this formula can be sharpened on the assumption of the Riemann hypothesis. Finally, we prove an asymptotic formula for these counting functions in short intervals.


Cable started the day at 1.54270 and made a daily high of 1.54704 reaching the top resistance line and made a 47 pips drop back almost to its opening price closing at 1.54230. Before the close It dropped 45 pips again to 1.53721. Big moves with no clear


In 141 pregnant with arterial hypertension (AH) by method of vaginal bipolar rheohysterography using sensor own design investigated the blood flow in utero-placental complex in the first and second trimester. Identified some of them disorders uterine hemodynamics with first-trimester reducing the intensity of arterial blood flow (Vmax) on the side of the implantation of a 13.2 % increase Vmid. by 71.0 %, difficulty with venous outflow of blood is almost 2 times in comparison with the similar indicators of the regional circulation in healthy pregnant women. In the second trimester of the pathological hemodynamic shifts in the uterus were two-fold reduction in average speed filling the vessels of the placental site (Vmid.) by 62.9 %, reduction of Ka 2.7 times compared to the norm. Invited to use the indicators as markers in the prediction and early diagnosis of placental insufficiency in pregnant women with hypertension.


Abstract Background Poor quality and inadequate of antenatal care (ANC) visits during pregnancy may increase the risk of preventable adverse pregnancy outcomes. We tested the hypothesis that the adequacy of ANC utilization combined with quality of ANC services will reduce the risk of low birth weight (LBW) and preterm delivery (P T D) in the Tamale metropolis of Ghana. Materials and methods A facility-based analytical cross-sectional study was conducted on a sample of 553 postpartum women who had delivered within the last 12 months prior to the study. The overall utilization of ANC services was measured in terms of ANC timing, contacts, and content (TCC) of essential ANC services. The sample was drawn using systematic random sampling procedure. Primary data was collected from mothers by administering a structuredquestionnaire while the secondary data was extracted from individual records. Results After controlling for confounders, women who had adhered to all WHO recommendations in terms of ANC timing, frequency and content were 71 % protected from PTD, AOR = 0.29 (95 % CI: 0.15, 0.59) and 56 % protection from LBW AOR = 0.44 (95 % CI: 0.23, 0.83). Conclusion Individually and jointly, inadequate ANC contacts and content associatedsignificantly with preterm delivery than LBW. Key messages Limited evidence exists on the joint effect of ANC services timing, contacts and content on adverse pregnancy outcomes. Total adherence to recommended ANC initiation, attendance and receipt of essential services had greater protection against PTD and LBW, compared to any single element/component of ANC Women who had adequate overall ANC services utilization in terms of timing, contacts and content were 71 % protected from PTD, AOR = 0.29 (95 % CI: 0.15, 0.59) and 56 % protection from LBW AOR = 0.44 (95 % CI: 0.23, 0.83).


Dogs (39) that survived whole-body Co/sup 60/ gamma irradiation in a dose of 300 rads (LD-10/30) were subjected to a second dose of 300 rads at different periods (1 1/2, 2 1/2, 5, and 15 months) after the first exposure. The phases of development of the postirradiation myelopoietic hypercompensation effect were assessed. In all the cases repeated radiation sickness ran a more severe course. The radiation sickness recovery rate was 2-3 times slower in comparison with the first radiation exposure. (auth)


Focusing on measuring the engagement towards digital Malaysian traditional games, this paper presents usability evaluation on three digital versions of Malaysian traditional games; Dam Haji, Congkak and Gasing-X. Usability is a significant contributing factor towards engagement of digital games. Usability helps in verifying the requirements, successes and functionality of the games which are missing. The usability evaluation adopted the heuristic instruments developed by Jakob Nielson in 1990. The instrument consists of 17 heuristic component protocols based on interface design. Evaluation involved 50 respondents who are IT and domain experts. Result analysis is discussed and presented for each game. Results suggested features and aspects to be improved in the development of Digital Malaysian Traditional Games towards better engagement of the games.


The growing interest in spirituality in the training of Protestant ministers gives rise to some questions. In this article, the author deals with the approach of the American theologian George Lindbeck, who is able to answer these questions, and discusses a second concept which originated in the education debate in which the churches are involved.


The present paper aims to highlight the main aspects of tax evasion and the causes of economic and financial crime. The main theme is of interest by its actuality. It seems that the economic and financial crime is "fashionable" as demonstrates the upward trend in various fields in which now is manifested, making difficult to limit the scams and the frauds


For the uncertainties of the vehicle steering system, a method of equal control is used. The equal control input is calculated based on the certain part of the steering system, and a RBF network is used to apply the switch control input by compensating the uncertainties. The simulated results show that the twitter using the method presented in the paper is smaller than the strategy using fixed control gain. And it does not need to know the upper bound of the uncertainties. The simulation indicates that, compared with the strategy of direct sliding mode control, the method proposed in the paper has high tracking performance. Therefore, the systemic robustness is stronger and it also enhances the utility of the sliding mode control.


The problem of optimal disturbance rejection of bounded persistent disturbances is solved in the general nonsquare case. The minimum value of the objective function can be obtained by solving a semi-infinite linear programming problem, and an iterative procedure for obtaining approximate solutions is introduced. Application of the l/sup 1/-optimal problem to robustness is discussed. A mixed sensitivity problem is formulated and shown to guarantee good disturbance rejection in the presence of plant perturbations. >


This study aims to understand the history and fields of science in linguistics. Until the Renaissance, the languages studied were Greek and Latin. Latin had an important role at that time because it was used as a tool in the world of education, administration, and international diplomacy in Western Europe. During the Renaissance, language research began to develop into Romance languages (French, Spanish, and Italian) which were considered to have Latin roots, as well as non-Roman languages such as English, German, Dutch, Swedish, and Danish.


Contrast variation of neutron and X-ray reflections has been adapted to reveal the film in-depth (vertical) composition profiles of the blend of poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and [6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) for bulk heterojunction thin-film solar cells, with a PCBM/P3HT weight ratio of c = 0.6, 0.8 and 1.0. The X-ray scattering-length-density (SLD) profiles, extracted from X-ray reflectivity for the blend films spun-cast on Si wafer, exhibit a stratified film morphology of ca. 85 nm film thickness; the corresponding neutron SLD profiles extracted for the same films further elucidate a PCBM-enriched interfacial layer adjacent to the Si substrate. In contrast to the often assumed two-phase model, a three-phase model with porosity included as the third phase has to be used in deducing the absolute volume fractions of PCBM and P3HT from the complementary neutron and X-ray SLD profiles. In general, the thus deduced in-depth composition profiles for the blend films comprise a substantial surface layer (10–15 nm) of ca. 40% porosity, a 50 nm main layer with relatively uniform PCBM–P3HT composition, and a PCBM-enriched interface layer (∼20 nm) with ∼15% porosity. Formation of the surface porosity is related to interfacial instability occurred in a transient surface layer upon film drying. Annealing at 150 °C influences modestly the vertical phase separation of the film, but drastically activates local phase separation for formation and growth of PCBM and P3HT nanodomains, as revealed by grazing incidence small/wide angle X-ray scattering. The surface/interface porosity features (overlooked in nearly all the previous studies) and the composition-dependent vertical phase separation bear hints in advancing device performance via interfacial morphology optimization.


With increasing users of SNS (Social Network Service), the video known as 'couple play' has been popular recently. People imitate the scene of couple play in the video. However, some of them failed to reproduce some actions. We report a case of cervical spine fracture with 'couple play'. A 14-year-old female presented to the emergency department complaining of posterior neck pain. She had a history of trauma with 'couple play' three days ago. She had no neurologic deficit. Cervical spine x-ray and computed tomography showed spinous process fracture of the seventh cervical spine (clay-shoveler fracture). This case demonstrates the need for heightened awareness concerning videos containing dangerous actions that may be harmful when imitated. The authors believe that an institutional strategy for notification of the risks is needed.


The great expansion of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) that has taken place during the last decade has set the stage for a new age of opportunities and challenges in many economic regions. The adoption of quality technologies in many developed countries has been found to have positive effect on the organization's performance. But not all countries are taking advantage of this kind of revolution in the same way and at the same pace (Owuor, 2004). Brynjolfsson, Hitt& Yang (2002) showed that firms with a decentralized organizational structure gained higher performance from investments in ICTs than firms with a centralized structure. These results are consistent with the thesis of strategic complementarities between ICTs and organizational performance originally highlighted by Milgrom & Roberts (1990). In addition, Gretton, (2004) have observed that the impacts of ICTs' use on the performance growth in Australian firms were generally related to the level of human capital and skills within firms, as well as experience of these firms in innovation, adoption of advanced professional practices and intensity of organizational changes, Gera & Gu, Abstract: The purpose of the study was to assess the effect of ICT on the performance of Unga Ltd, Eldoret. The population under the study included the management team, heads of department and employees of Unga Ltd, Eldoret with a total of 65. Questionnaire was used as the data collection instrument. Descriptive and qualitative methods were employed in analyzing data. Tables were used in data presentation. The study found out that the presence of ICT improves service delivery, promotes quality service delivery and increasing organization performance. It was also found out that ICT enhances production in the company, strengthens organizational infrastructure and ensures all the systems are effectively and efficiently working. This study found out that ICT is very important in an organization whereby it enhances in capacity by increasing employees' efficiency and also it promotes in increasing employee service delivery. ICT was an important aspect on competitiveness of Unga Ltd since it improves supply chain effectively and efficiently by promotes the flow of goods in the organization. The study concludes that ICT is an important aspect on company performance since it increases organization performance based on service delivery, production, employee work force and competitive advantage. The following recommendations were made from the study; the management needs to implement total quality management in the purchase of quality machines in order to increase service delivery. The management also needs to make sure that the ICT equipments used in the processing of the flour are of high quality in order to increase production.


House Un-American Activities Committee held congressional hearings on communists in American universities, faculty members are witnessing once again a rising tide of anti-intellectualism and threats to academic freedom.1 They are increasingly apprehensive about the influence of external politics on university decision making. The attacks on professors like Joseph Massad, Thomas Butler, Rashid Khalidi, Ward Churchill, and Edward Said, coupled with other actions taken by the federal government in the name of national security, suggest that we may well be headed for another era of intolerance and repression. The United States paid a heavy price when the leaders of its research universities failed in the 1950s to defend the leader of the Manhattan Project J. Robert Oppenheimer; the double Nobel Prize chemist Linus Pauling; and the China expert Owen Lattimore. But a wave of repression in American universities today is apt to have even more dramatic consequences for the nation than the repression of the Cold War. Compared to today, universities during the McCarthy period were relatively small institutions that were not much dependent on government contracts and grants. In the early 1950s, Columbia University's annual budget was substantially less than $50 million. Its annual budget is now roughly $2.4 billion, and more than a quarter of this comes from the federal government, leaving research universities like it ever more vulnerable to political manipulation and control. Universities today are also more deeply embedded in the broader society than ever before. They are linked to industry, business, and government in multiple ways. Their links to the larger society inevitably lead to public criticism of the university when faculty members or students express ideas or behave in ways that some in the public 1⁄2nd repugnant. Can the leaders and the tenured faculty of our great research universities rise to the challenge of rebutting such criticism? Can we do better at defending academic freedom than our predecessors did in the 1950s?


The increasing influence of traffic on building objects and people residing in them should be taken into account in diagnosis and design. Users of buildings expect that vibrations occurring in their environment, will not only lead to damage to the building or its accelerated wear, but neither would affect the required comfort in rooms designed to accommodate people. This article describes the methods and principles useful in designing and building diagnostics located near transportation routes, with particular emphasis on the impact of traffic vibration on people in buildings. It also describes the procedures used in obtaining information about the parameters of vibrations in different cases of diagnostics and design. A universal algorithm of procedure in diagnostics and design of buildings taking into account assurance of human vibration comfort of people residing in the these buildings was presented. Keywords—diagnostics, influence of public transport, influence of vibrations on humans, transport vibrations J. Kawecki is with the Cracow University of Technology, Cracow 31-155 Poland (phone: +48126282051, fax: +48126282031, e-mail: email@example.com) A. Kowalska-Koczwara is with the Cracow University of Technology, Cracow 31-155 Poland (phone: +48608610922, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com) K. Stypula is with the Cracow University of Technology, Cracow 31-155 Poland (phone: +48603175699, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com)


Model checking and testing are two areas with a similar goal: to verify that a system satisfies a property. They start with different hypothesis on the systems and develop many techniques with different notions of approximation, when an exact verification may be computationally too hard. We present some notions of approximation with their logic and statistics backgrounds, which yield several techniques for model checking and testing: Bounded Model Checking, Approximate Model Checking, Approximate Black-Box Checking, Approximate Model-based Testing and Approximate Probabilistic Model Checking. All these methods guarantee some quality and efficiency of the verification.


Subtitle: Today's air cargo market is deeply divided. Integrators such as UPS and FedEx are soaring, while traditional air cargo carriers--choked by soaring fuel prices, excessive taxes, and government regulation--are experiencing serious turbulence. Buckle your seat belts. It's going to be a bumpy ride.


The ToLCGDV- was isolated from tomato plants showing leaf curl symptoms in Guangdong. The complete nucleotide sequence of ToLCGDV- DNA-A was determined. It contains 2744 nucleotides and encodes six potential ORFs, with two (AV1 and AV2) in virion-sense strand and four (AC1, AC2, AC3 and AC4) in complementary strands. BLAST results showed that all sequences homologous to ToLCGDV- DNA-A belonged to the genus Begomovirus of family Geminiviridae. Pairwise comparisons of ToLCGDV- DNA-A with those of other begomoviruses indicated that the overall identities were less than 88.0%. The identities of intergenic region (IR), AV1, AV2, AC1, AC2, AC3 and AC4 were 59.0%-85.3%, 73.6%-95.2%, 64.0%-95.4%, 71.7%-87.7%, 69.6%-93.9%, 67.7%- 95.1% and 64.1%-94.2% respectively, and that of their encoded amino acid sequences were 76.3%-99.2%, 52.6%-95.7%, 69.7%-88.1%, 51.9%-88.9%, 63.4%-92.5% and 33.0%-90.7% respectively. Phylogenetic analysis of DNA-A of ToLCGDV- and the selected begomoviruses showed that ToLCGDV- is most closely related to ToLCGDV-[G2] than the other begomoviruses, and that the two viruses were clustered in a separate branch. These results suggest that ToLCGDV- should be a previously unreported begomovirus.


A routing processing system and a control method according to the priority of a logical interface in a network routing system are provided to reduce the burstness of traffic transmission about queuing. A priority order establishment unit(100) sets up the priority of a logical interface. A priority scheduler determines the priority of the logical interface from an inputted frame. It is the frame in which the inputted frame is outputted from the logical interface of the top priority. A priority scheduler immediately outputs to the driver queue of the interface.


Outstanding human performance continues to intrigue experts and the public; however, the focus is often on the individual performer or producer with scant attention given to the additive part played by circumstances and contexts. Using general theories of development (e.g., Bronfenbrenner, 1977, 1986, 2005;Sameroff, 2010) and talent development paradigms (e.g., Ziegler, 2005;Dai, 2010;Subotnik et al., 2011), we examined the interaction of environmental and individual factors on trajectories of high performance within and across varied domains. Public and scholarly awareness of the role played by environments places greater responsibility on education and other societal systems to support talents in varied domains, and to promote evidence of talents' malleability and potential for development.


Berry, R J Review of the flowability measuring techniques for powder metallurgy industry 159 Black, I American Petroleum Institute welding neck flange design for subsea pipelines 23 Bradley, M S A Review of the flowability measuring techniques for powder metallurgy industry 159 Chang, R R Theoretical and experimental predictions of first-ply failure of a laminated composite elevated floor plate 233


As cocaine use becomes increasingly widespread and normalised across Ireland, John Meagher looks into the toll taken by the highly addictive drug - to the user, to the user's family and friends, and to society in general, as coke-fuelled gangland violence escalates,


WT5"BZ]The environmental decision support system (EDSS) was developed as the outcome of a collaborative research program which had the objective of developing a comprehensive, easy to use decision suppot system for water pollution control in tidal river networks in general and for that in the Pearl River Delta in particular. Its purpose was to provide a practical tool which could assist government agencies in decision making for the efficient management of water resources in terms of both quantity and quality. By combining the capabilities of geographical information system (GIS), database management system(DBMS), model management system(MMS), optimization procedure and expert system, the quality of decision making was thus improved in an area which has the most complicated tidal river network patterns as well as the fastest economic development in the world. This paper outlines the basic concepts and philosophy adopted in developing the EDSS. Thereafter, the system architecture, design features, implementation techniques and major facilities provided are described briefly. Finally, potential applications of the system and directions for further research are also outlined. [WT5HZ]


We perform first-principles calculations to study the electronic structures and optical properties of rutile SnNxO2-x as a possible photocatalytic material. It is found that N incorporation lead to the enhancement of p states in the energy gap and the decrease of band gap. The optical transition between N p and O p enhances and shifts to high energy range with increasing N concentrations. The calculations for the optical properties also predict a possible optimum N-doping level in SnO2 with a high visible photoresponse and as a photocatalytic material.


Interpretive trails are considered one of the best means of contact between man and nature , improving knowledge through direct visual observation of elements such as fauna and flora. For data collection was used the method of random traversal . Tree species ( headquarters ) of the fruit used for human consumption were identified and classified to determine the track of points. They were also calculated the height and circumference at breast height (CAP ) . The avifauna records were made by digital photography and direct visual observation. Based on the data collected , it is suggested the creation of two interpretive trails , whose main attractive tree species of the Myrtaceae family and Burrowing owls, and that can be used as an auxiliary tool in environmental education promoted by the University Center UNIVATES .


Long-term field research often reveals how organisms respond to stochastic environmental events such as droughts (Gibbons et al., 1983) or changes in population structure or species composition over time (Tinkle, 1979; Parker, 1984; Pechmann et al., 1991). Studies on aquatic turtle populations have been conducted for more than 25 years on the US Department of Energy's Savannah River Site (SRS) near Aiken in the Upper Coastal Plain of west central South Carolina (Gibbons et al., 1982; Gibbons, 1990a; Frazer et al., 1991). One conclusion from these studies is that adult males residing in small, isolated wetlands are more likely than females to move overland and to move greater distances (Morreale et al., 1984). Factors reported to stimulate overland movements by freshwater turtles include travel to and from hibernacula (Bennett, 1972; Gibbons, 1986), pond drying/filling (Cagle, 1944; Sexton, 1959; Gibbons et al., 1983), nesting activity of females (Ernst et al., 1994), and mate-searching by males (Parker, 1984; Gibbons, 1986). Although male and female conspecifics probably exhibit similar terrestrial activity in some situations, differences in reproductive strategies should produce distinct terrestrial activity patterns. Previous studies have suggested that females sometimes travel long distances on land to nest but that males may also travel long distances overland seeking aquatic habitats containing females to inseminate (Morreale et al., 1984; Gibbons, 1986; Brown and Brooks, 1993). If these predictions are correct, males should be more likely than females to encounter new aquatic habitats, including those without conspecific populations. Therefore, colonizing or invading nonresident species should have malebiased sex ratios relative to established resident


When implemented as a community of practice, classroom observations have the potential to encourage both reflection and shared-vision of instruction that can lead to lasting institutional change within the cohort and the adoption of evidence-based instructional practices. This workshop illustrates the use of a video-annotated peer review (VAPR) process that can help facilitate any faculty cohort to implement the process. Through the workshop, participants will participate in a mock peer-review process using the VAPR tools, allowing them to develop an approach to making useful comments and identifying instances of evidence-based instruction that can help support diffusion of those practices. Participants of this workshop will also have the opportunity to examine barriers to the implementation of VAPR and develop actionable solutions to overcome those challenges. Index Terms – evidence-based instruction, teaching observations, peer-review FACULTY PEER-REVIEW OF TEACHING Higher education faculty, including engineering educators, are typically not formally trained in college teaching; instead they obtain knowledge about instruction and classroom management from their own experiences as a student, on campus faculty development, and communication with their colleagues [1-3]. Beyond student course evaluations, which have been shown to have limited reliability [4], there is little opportunity for instructors to receive feedback on their instruction unless it is formally requested or required for evaluative purposes. Beyond these opportunities, what happens in the classroom is rarely disseminated among colleagues. Rather than being used for evaluative purposes, classroom observations, when conducted in a community of practice, can be used a means to disseminate effective instruction and develop faculty into reflective practitioners. Traditional classroom observations often involve one faculty member attending a colleague's class. Effective face to face observations involve the colleagues to meet prior to the instruction to discuss the goals of the course and identify any feedback for which they are specifically looking. The colleague will then attend the class, taking notes throughout, and then meeting afterwards to review the notes. A primary limitation to this approach is that issues or recommendations made can be vague or misunderstood due to a lack of connection to the context. In addition, the classroom observation requires scheduling between the colleagues, limiting the number of people that can observe the class, and the mere presence of another instructor can be disruptive to the class. An alternative to this traditional form of classroom observation, has been developed by the workshop facilitators that involves the recording of a class session and the structured annotation of the video classified as videoannotated peer review (VAPR) [5]. VAPR: VIDEO-ANNOTATED PEER REVIEW Utilizing a commercially available web-based software platform, such as Swivl (shown in Figure 1), a community of practice of faculty implement the VAPR process by recording one of their classes in a given term, uploading the video and integrating it into an annotation software [5]. The video is then reviewed sequentially by an instructional support specialist and two other peers. Posted comments by the instructional support specialist identifies observed evidence-based instructional practices and opportunities for inclusion of those practices, as well as confirmations of teaching techniques and suggestions to improve practice. In this approach, each faculty member is observed by two of their peers and instructional specialist once per term. Additionally, they peer-review two of their peers, where they can see comments from their peers and the instructional support specialist during that same term. Throughout the peer review, reviewers can flag comments and video segments as being a good practice that should be encouraged or as a suggested revision to the instruction for approaches that are perceived as negative by the reviewers.


We give a short review of the results for four fermion production, which have been obtained by the semi-analytical approach. The angular degrees of freedom (typically five or more) are integrated over analytically while the integrations over invariant fermion pair masses (typically two or more) remain to be performed by numerical methods. In addition to doubly resonating cross sections from virtual two boson production, QED corrections and background contributions were determined. However, a large variety of final state topologies has not been treated so far.


Cholesterol-3,4-d2 and -2,2,4,4,6-d5 have been synthesized from Δ4 - cholestene-3-one for use as mass spectrometric stable isotope internal standards. Conversion of Δ4 >-cholesten-3-one to the enol acetate followed by reduction with sodium borodeuteride in a deuterated solvent yielded cholesterol-3,4-d2. Similarly Δ4-cholesten-3-one-2,2,4,6,6-d5 obtained by base-catalyzed exchange of Δ4-cholesten-3-one in ethanol-O-d1 was converted to the enol acetate, followed by reduction with sodium borohydride in a deuterated medium to give cholesterol-2,2,4,4,6-d5.


A major area of concern in large scale livestock management in remote inland Australia is insuring that stock have adequate water. The monitoring of stock watering points is predominately conducted by manually inspecting the stock watering points, which for some remote cattle stations can be up to a 500km round trip conducted several times a week, particularly in summer and/or in drought conditions. This water monitoring can be conducted more efficiently through the use of telemetry technology. This report reviews existing telemetry communication systems which are capable of transmitting still images over long distances using UHF signal, particularly for use on remote livestock properties, and determining how the technology may be more cost effective and better implemented in remote areas. The scope of this project is to develop a telemetry system via UHF radio signal for a simplified and more cost effective solution to capture a still image and the provision of limited digital input/output functionality.


Very-Long-Chain acyl-Coenzyme A dehydrogenase (VLCAD, EC 188.8.131.52) and long-chain 3-hydroxyacylCoA dehydrogenase (LCHAD, EC 18.104.22.168) deficiencies are two of several autosomal recessively inherited disorders of long-chain fatty acid -oxidation (1). They can produce acute symptoms of multiple organ failure and are recognized causes of sudden infant death and Reye syndrome (2). In VLCAD two phenotypes are observed in infancy: children have either an acute early disease with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and a high incidence of death, or a milder disease with symptoms resembling those of medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (MCAD, EC 126.96.36.199) deficiency with hypoketotic hypoglycemia and a benign course (3,4). An adult-onset form with isolated skeletal muscle involvement, rhabdomyolysis, and exerciseand fasting-induced myoglobinuria is also known (5). Successful treatment with frequent feeds, mediumchain triglycerides, and carnitine supplementation has been reported (6). Patients with LCHAD deficiency, first described in 1989 (7), show a wide range of symptoms expressed to varying degrees. Presentation may be an acute attack of hypoketotic hypoglycemia at a few months of age, often with hypotonia or liver dysfunction, as well as cardiac failure from severe cardiomegaly, without evidence of hypoglycemia; or slowly developing hypotonia, recurrent vomiting, and diarrhea. Pigmentary retinopathy or peripheral neuropathy may develop in long-term survivors (8). Attacks of muscle stiffness associated with myoglobinuria have also been described (9). Treatment involves frequent feeds, medium-chain triglycerides, and supplementation of essential fatty acids. We report one patient with fatal VLCAD deficiency and one with a good outcome of LCHAD deficiency. We stress the need for early diagnosis—that is, through early investigation of urinary organic acid analysis in the metabolic crisis or acylcarnitine profile in dried blood spots. We raise the question as to whether carnitine treatment is adequate during metabolic crisis in these deficiencies.


We discuss design features that are needed for magnetoacoustic emission (MAE) measurement of creep damage in the outer walls of boiler tubes. MAE is used because it decreases monotonically with increasing creep damage. Features of magnet design for boiler tube inspection are presented. Relationship of total MAE to Barkhausen noise path integrals is discussed. Also, dependence of MAE on frequency and tube wall thickness is delineated. Finally, measurements are discussed which show how azimuthal asymmetry in creep damage is echoed in azimuthal asymmetry in MAE. All tests were performed on 2Cr–1Mo Polish steel tube specimens.


Understanding the limitations of environmental data is important for managing environmental systems effectively and for encouraging the responsible use of uncertain data. Explicit assessment of the uncertainties associated with environmental data, and their storage in a database, are therefore important. This paper presents a statistical framework for representing and simulating uncertain environmental variables. In general terms, an uncertain variable is completely specified by its probability distribution function (pdf). Pdfs are developed for objects with uncertain locations ('positional uncertainty') and uncertain attribute values ('attribute uncertainty'). Objects comprising multiple space–time locations are separated into 'rigid objects', where positional uncertainty cannot alter the internal geometry of the object, and 'deformable' objects, where positional uncertainty can vary between locations in one object. Statistical dependence is allowed between uncertainties in multiple locations in one object. The uncertainties associated with attribute values are also modelled with pdfs. The type and complexity of these pdfs depend upon the measurement scale and the space–time variability of the uncertain attribute. The framework is illustrated with examples. A prototype software tool for assessing uncertainties in environmental data, storing them within a database, and for generating realizations for use in Monte Carlo studies is also presented.


This article presents the principle of time delay measurement employing the phase of cross-spectral density function. Some features of the method are discussed and statistical errors of time delay measurement are analysed.


The present study investigates a mathematical model for HBV carried out in a district of Kerman. The statistical sample comprises all men and women living in that district. Two different mathematical models are introduced for HBV related to this population. Data analysis was carried out with MATLAB programming. The results indicate that there is a meaningful relationship between the vaccination and epidemic disease.


This thesis contains three econometric essays on child human capital and well-being. Each essay has a distinct methodology to meet the purpose. In the first chapter, we evaluate the long-term effects of a reform of universal child care in Canada on children's health, motor and social development, and behaviour. We show that the policy had negative effects on preschool children's well-being, but these effects tend to disappear as the child gets older. We find that this pattern persist even ten years after the implementation of the reform. The second chapter focuses on the effect of the intensity of child care on preschool children's cognitive development using propensity score matching with multivalued treatments. We show that the effects of child care are significantly heterogeneous and vary by family socioeconomic status, schooling or not of the child, the intensity of child care and the type of child care arrangement. The third chapter models mathematics trajectories of Canadian children aged 7 to 15 years and identifies risk factors during early childhood on the membership of these trajectories using Group-Based Trajectory Modeling (Nagin, 2005).


The article investigates the origin of P. V Khavsky's passionate devotion to chronology. Khavsky was a professional lawyer and a senior official in the middle of the XIX century. He studied the Russian chronology, especially one of its areas, such as Easter time calculation system. Much attention is given to Khavsky's merits in this branch of knowledge. It is noted that he was first who tried to explore the Russian Easter time historically. He tried not only to present the summary of the Easter terms but also to study the history of their use in Russia. P. V. Khavsky formed his own view of the Russian Easter system that allowed him to get closer to important scientific discoveries. In addition, Khavsky was the first to discover the sources of calendar styles, in which the year of March was 6 months ahead of the September one. The article emphasizes the fact that the assumption was to bring then contemporary historians to the conclusion that the sources noted variable position of March year in comparison to the September one, namely with it semi-annually keeping ahead and semi-annually lagging behind. But that conclusion did not fit in then dominating development scheme of the old Russian time calculation, which was reduced to the idea of applying a landmark calendar style. Therefore, Khavsky's most important discovery was rejected by most contemporary researchers.


The present paper empirically evaluates the effects of social and political factors on the inflow of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Pakistan. Secondary data over the period from 1971 to 2005 have been used. A simple semi log linear regression model and the method of least square for estimation have been applied. Firms investing abroad want the opportunity to choose educated, skilled and trained workers to produce more efficiently. Further, multinational corporations always prefer to choose a location that is economically and politically stable for their investment. This study found a positive and statistically significant relationship between human capital and FDI inflow. The result of political instability indicates though an inverse relationship with FDI but insignificant. Thus it has been concluded that trained and skilled labour force and stable political environment are indispensable for enhancement of FDI inflow.


The utility model discloses a fire sand box easy to use, which comprises a sand box body and a seal cover mounted at the upper end of the sand box body. At least one side wall of the sand box body is arranged into a movably openable door, and provided with a latch for fixing the door to the sand box body. The fire sand box is quite convenient to use, the side door is opened directly to pour sand to ground when a fire occurs, a supporting shovel can be used to shovel sand conveniently, and the fire sand box can be operated by multiple persons so that fire extinguishing efficiency is greatly improved.


Gastrocnemius muscle samples were obtained from two groups of patients with intermittent claudication as well as from an age-matched control group. Group A consisted of patients with impaired blood flow to both legs, whereas in group B the patients had arterial occlusions in only one leg. Succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) activity was significantly lower in the patients compared to the controls, being 6.4 (A), 5.3 (Boccluded leg), and 5.4 (Bunoccluded leg) vs 8.7 μmol/g/min in the control group. The average proportions of slow twitch (ST) and fast twitch (FT) fibres in the control group was 60% ST and 40% FT. None of the patient groups differed significantly from this. In the control group the fast twitch population was made up of similar proportions of FTa and FTb fibres, whereas in group A there were approximately twice as many FTb compared to FTa fibres (2P<0.05). With the exception of the ST fibres of group A, the area of the three fibre types tended to be smaller in the patient groups as compared to the ...


The present study was done to assess the relationship between self care and quality of life in patients with heart failure and to identify the association with selected socio demographic and clinical variables. The sample consisted of 100 heart failure patients selected by convenience sampling technique. The design used was descriptive design with quantitative approach. Structured Questionnaire on socio demographic data and clinical variables were used to assess the sample characteristics whereas self care and quality of life was assessed using Modified Self Care of Heart Failure Index Scale and Quality of Life Assessment Scale respectively. The findings of the study were that, majority (67%) of patients were having average self care ability. More than half (54%) of the patients were having average quality of life. The study revealed that there was no significant correlation (r= 0.11) between self care and quality of life among patients with heart failure but significant correlation existing between self care management domain of self care and quality of life (r= 0.37, p< 0.05).The study also proved that there was a significant association between self care and education (χ2=14.43, p<0.05). The study results showed that there is significant association between quality of life with selected demographic and clinical variables such as gender (χ2=6.02, p<0.05), education (χ2=15.62, p<0.05), monthly income (χ2=12.38, p <0.05) and ejection fraction (χ2= 5.74, p<0.05). The present study concluded that as self care management increases the quality of life also increases among patients with heart failure.


Customers are making increasing demands on the flexibility and the promptness of transportation services. In order to meet these requirements, planning methods are needed which are able to intelligently react on dynamically revealed information. Algorithms for dispatching transportation requests which arrive dynamically during the planning period can contribute to this goal. In this paper a Genetic Algorithm based approach for the Dynamic Pickup and Delivery Problem with Time Windows (DPDPTW) is developed. First, a Genetic Algorithm for the (static) PDPTW is described which features a special group-oriented genetic encoding. In order to be able to solve the dynamic problem, the Genetic Algorithm is embedded in a rolling horizon framework. Special synchronization and updating mechanisms are provided which assure that the reusable solution knowledge in the population is preserved over the plan revisions. The approach is evaluated using a large number of problem instances with varying degrees of dynamism.


Accessory depilatory apparatus comprising a housing (21) containing an electric drive motor of the drive means in a cyclic movement of opening / closing at least one clamping device (24, 24?) for booting hairs skin comprising said attachment means for attachment to said housing and at least one moving part (4) intended to be placed in contact with the skin during use, characterized in that said moving part of the accessory makes a scraping of the skin to be driven by driving means capable of driving while the device or clamping devices (24, 24?).


We thank Dr Dawson et al. for their comments [1]. The objective of our review was to focus particularly on the substantial published adult pneumococcal data that have been generated within the UK; these will be especially important for informed decision-making in the UK for the new higher valency adult pneumococcal conjugate vaccines that are expected to shortly become available. These local data include considerable data that specifically give valuable insight into the protection the 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV23) has afforded older UK adults against pneumococcal disease, and our conclusions were based on careful consideration of these [2–5]. The data clearly show that PPV23 provides older UK adults with only limited short-term protection against invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) [2,3] and has achieved no impact on IPD at the population level [2] with various PPV23 serotypes now comprising an increasing proportion of IPD serotypes amongst older UK adults [2,5]. Local UK data are also unable to provide any compelling evidence to suggest that PPV23 provides older UK adults with meaningful protection against pneumococcal pneumonia [4]. Our conclusions are consistent with those of the UK's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (JCVI) [6] and other leading internationally recognized pneumococcal experts from the UK [7,8]. This suggests that an alternative vaccine to PPV23 is needed to better protect older UK adults against pneumococcal disease with higher valency pneumococcal conjugate vaccines offering an attractive option. This reflects the clear body of evidence demonstrating the ability of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines to protect adults against pneumococcal disease [9] and the subsequent wider industry effort to develop new higher valency pneumococcal conjugate vaccines specifically for use in adult populations. Funding


Value stream mapping, a lean manufacturing tool, is widely used by industries to visually map the flow of production in order to highlight the opportunities for improvement. A study was carried out to identify non-value added activities using value stream mapping in a fast moving consumer goods processing industry "Colgate Palmolive (Pakistan) Ltd. Kotri plant". Colgate is one of the leading manufacturers of consumer goods in Pakistan. Goods mainly include tooth paste, soup, and detergents. Initially, a current value stream map was developed for each process from receiving raw material to final dispatch. Time study was conducted and the data was analyzed. Non-value added activities (which included defects, waiting time, over production and excess motion) were identified, and were highlighted on the future state value stream map. It could be concluded that value stream mapping can be effectively used in processing industry to identify non-value added activities. Keywords— Lean manufacturing, value stream, waste, non-value added activity, cycle time, Value Stream Mapping


The extraction of acids and metals by solutions of longchain alkyl amines is described as a process of neutralization of the amine in the organic phase by acid extracted from the aqueous phase and of exchange of anions between the phases. Affinities of tri-n-octylamine for various mineral acids and the extraction of stoichiometric excesses of these acids by TOA solutions are discussed. Analyses of water content of the amine solutions and proton magnetic resonance measurements were combined with those of excess acid to describe the amine solutions in equilibrium with concentrated acids. Amine concentration dependence of extraction, capacities of amine solutions for metals, and absorption spectra were used to establish the identity of metal species which extract into alkyl ammonium solutions. The results obtained for extraction of various metals from several acid solutions are discussed, with emphasis on tetra- and hexavalent actinides. (auth)


Evidence is presented that the Tomatis Music Listening Therapy provides significant improvements of severe neurological disorders. This neurophysiological method stimulates effectively, via the hearing organs, the neurological system, i.e. the brain with its neuroplasticity. Independent Quantitative Electroencephalogram (QEEG) measurements, Brain Maps (BM) and Auditory Evoked Potentials (AEP), correlate with the listening all over the world [4]. Independent replication was possible since the introduction in 1995 [13], at the Atlantis Institute in St.-Truiden of QEEG-based BM's and AEP's to analyze the initial situation of It is nowadays generally accepted in the medical society that music stimulates both the physical and psychological conditions of patients. The present work illustrates that the Tomatis Listening Therapy, largely based on Mozart music, is even more effective and much more powerful than plainly listening to music. The present article describes 5 clinical cases obtained at the Mozart-Brain-Lab (MBL, Belgium) and at the Listening center , The Netherlands.


This article describes the main design method of NN-type involute planetary gear reducer with small tooth number difference,to transmission ratio Equal to 200 as an example,introduces methods and results of the tooth number distribution,internal meshing gear pairs calculations and balance structural design.In this paper the method of tooth number distribution is provided so that fast and convenient to find the right gear numbers,the proposed new balance structure has the obvious practical value.


In power systems rife with uncertainty, stochastic unit commitment (SUC) models may be used to properly size and allocate operational reserves, in order to ensure a reliable and cost-efficient operation of the power system. The performance of SUC-based unit commitment schedules is however fully dependent on the scenario sets used to describe the uncertainty at hand. Dedicated scenario generation & reduction techniques (SGT & SRT) have been developed to generate and select scenario sets that capture the uncertain parameter, e.g. wind power, and yield a cost-optimal unit commitment (UC) schedule in reasonable computing times. Probability-distance based SRTs are by far the most used. In an extensive numerical study, we analyze the performance of so-called cost functions used in these SRTs. In addition, we propose a new cost function, which allows selecting a well-balanced subset of scenarios, resulting in a tractable SUC model and a cost-optimal UC schedule.


A new kind of car-carrying seismic simulator was designed based on parallel mechanism.Its structure and working theory were introduced.It has the advantages of simple structure and accurate control.With the remarkable maneuvering characteristics,it can be widely used in seismic science popularization at the places with many people,such as schools and communities.


Flood, land conversion, clean water, human development, traffic jam, and poverty are the Jakarta problematics. Even though, Jakarta city is implementing the smart city concept. Smart city is a dream for every city in the world because it makes the city more effective, efficient, and worth living by implementing technology. Therefore, Jakarta have to be able to pay attention with the problems that is arise along with the rapid of technology by changing dynamically. One of the technology development that can answer the challenges of Jakarta city is drone. Drone utilization has brings a lot of benefits to be implemented in smart city. However, it must be remain vigilant in smart cities that apply using drones.


We report the absolute frequency measurement of the 5s21S0→5s5p3P0 transition in 87Sr optical lattice clock (Sr1) at National Time Service Center. Its systematic frequency shifts are evaluated carefully with a total relative uncertainty of 5.1×10−17 . The measured absolute frequency is 429 228 004 229 872.91(18) Hz with a relative uncertainty of 4.1×10−16 , with reference to the ensemble of primary and secondary frequency standards published in the Circular T bulletin by BIPM through a global navigation satellite system link.


Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand the needs of humanists with respect to information and communication technology (ICT) in order to prescribe the design of an e‐humanist's workbench.Design/methodology/approach – A web‐based survey comprising over 60 questions gathered the following data from 169 humanists: profile of the humanist, use of ICT in teaching, e‐texts, text analysis tools, access to and use of primary and secondary sources, and use of collaboration and communication tools.Findings – Humanists conduct varied forms of research and use multiple techniques. They rely on the availability of inexpensive, quality‐controlled e‐texts for their research. The existence of primary sources in digital form influences the type of research conducted. They are unaware of existing tools for conducting text analyses, but expressed a need for better tools. Search engines have replaced the library catalogue as the key access tool for sources. Research continues to be solitary with little collabor...


Abstract This paper represents the development of a prototype robotic system for automatic bone drilling in orthopaedic surgery. A new design of the mechanical structure is proposed, answering the surgical requirements for the robot dimensions and weight to be as small as possible. The new structure design is based on idea of parallelism of the axis of the linear actuator and the axis of the rotary one. The control system is improved by using a new micro-controller. A new type of linear drive and a new force sensor (load cell) are built in, so that the quality characteristics of the "Orthopaedic bone Drilling Robot" (ODRO) are not only the same as previous its two versions, but becomes better. An experimental setup is arranged and experiments are executed to test and to verify the robot quality features and functional capabilities.


A number of recent papers have been devoted to the study of prevalence, a generalization of the property of being of full Haar measure to topological groups which need not have a Haar measure, and the dual concept of shyness. These concepts give a notion of "largeness" which often differs from the category analogue, comeagerness, and may be closer to the intuitive notion of "almost everywhere." In this paper, we consider the group of permutations of natural numbers. Here, in the sense of category, "almost all" permutations have only finite cycles. In contrast, we show that, in terms of prevalence, "almost all" permutations have infinitely many infinite cycles and only finitely many finite cycles; this set of permutations comprises countably many conjugacy classes, each of which is non-shy. Let G be a Polish topological group, i.e., a second countable complete metrizable topological group. [Concerning this concept, let us recall that, by a theorem of Birkhoff and Kakutani (see [5]), every first countable topological group G has a left(or right-) invariant metrization. Also, if G is an absolute Gδ (i.e., it has any complete metrization), and G has a two-sided invariant metric, then this invariant metric must be complete.] A universally measurable subset A of a Polish group G will be called prevalent iff there exists a Borel probability measure μ over G (not necessarily invariant) such that μ(xAy) = 1 for all x, y ∈ G . (Recall that, ifG is not compact, then no invariant Borel probability measure over G exists.) A complement of a prevalent set is called shy . These concepts were introduced by Christensen [1] (for abelian groups), and a substantial body of theorems about them was established in [2], [3], [4], and [6]. The main results of these papers (for Polish groups) are: 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 20B07. The first author was supported by NSF grant number DMS-9158092 and by a fellowship from the Sloan Foundation. 90 R. Dougherty and J. Mycielski (1) The class of shy sets is countably additive ([1]; see also [6]). (2) If G is locally compact, then the class of shy sets is equal to the class of (universally measurable) sets of Haar measure zero ([1]; see also [6]). (3) If G is not locally compact, and G has an invariant metric (e.g., if G is abelian), then every compact (or σ-compact) subset of G is shy (see [2]). But many problems are still open; see [1] and [6]. For example, we do not know whether a subgroup of G which is universally measurable and is not shy must be clopen, although this must be so for abelian G by Theorem 2 of [1]. Many of the main results of this theory are of the form "such and such a set is prevalent (or shy)." For example, the set of nowhere differentiable functions in the additive group C[0, 1] of continuous functions is prevalent [3]. The purpose of this note is to prove two such theorems about the group S∞ of all permutations of the countable set ω = {0, 1, 2, . . .}. The group S∞ is Polish since it has the complete second countable metrization d(p, q) = (max{n : p(k) = q(k) and p−1(k) = q−1(k) for all k < n})−1 relative to which the operations pq and p−1 are continuous. Theorem 1. The set of permutations with infinitely many infinite cycles and only finitely many finite cycles is prevalent. This theorem should be contrasted with the well-known fact that the set of permutations which have an infinite cycle is meager (i.e., first category) in S∞. The set of permutations in Theorem 1 comprises countably many conjugacy classes of permutations, one for each finite list of sizes for the finite cycles in the permutation. We will now see that each of these conjugacy classes is non-shy. Theorem 2. For any finite partial permutation p0 of ω, the set of permutations extending p0 which have no finite cycles other than those completed in p0 is not shy. Since the intersection of a prevalent set and a non-shy set is non-shy, it follows from Theorems 1 and 2 that, for any finite list of finite cycle sizes (with repetition permitted), the conjugacy class consisting of those permutations with finite cycles of sizes specified by the list and infinitely many infinite cycles is not shy. (For other examples of families of disjoint sets which are not shy, see [2].) P r o o f o f T h e o r e m 1. Let X be this set of permutations. We will find a probability measure μ on S∞ such that any double translate gXh of X has μ-measure 1. In fact, it will suffice to show that μ(gX) = 1 for all left translates gX of X, because X is fixed under conjugation, and hence Permutations with infinite cycles 91 gXh = ghh−1Xh = ghX. Equivalently, we can show that μ(g−1X) = 1 for all permutations g. Fix natural numbers kn for n ∈ ω which grow so quickly that kn+1 > kn > 2n + 1 for all n and ∑∞ n=0 n/kn converges. We define the measure μ somewhat informally, by describing how to choose a permutation p at random with the distribution μ. To do so, successively choose p(0), p−1(0), p(1), p−1(1), and so on as follows. Choose p(0) from the natural numbers less than k0 with equal probability for each. Then, if p−1(0) has not yet been determined (i.e., if p(0) 6= 0), choose p−1(0) from the natural numbers less than k0 other than 0, with equal probability. In general, at stage n, if p(n) has not yet been determined (i.e., p−1(m) 6= n for m < n), choose p(n) randomly from the available numbers less than kn (those which are not already in the range of p) with equal probability for each; then, if p−1(n) has not yet been determined, choose p−1(n) randomly from the numbers less than kn which are not already in the range of p−1, with equal probability for each. After all stages are complete, p will be a permutation of ω. Let p0 be a finite partial permutation that can arise at the beginning of some stage n0 of the above construction; that is, suppose p0(m) and p−1 0 (m) are defined and less than km for m < n0, no other parts of p0 are defined, and p0 and p−1 0 are one-to-one. Claim. If p0 is a partial permutation as above, g is a permutation of ω, and M is a natural number , then there is a natural number N such that the conditional probability under μ, under the condition of extending p0, that a permutation p will be such that gp has no finite cycles including a number greater than N and no two of the numbers N + 1, . . . , N + M are in the same cycle of gp is at least 1/2. P r o o f. Since ∑∞ n=0 n/kn converges, we have limn→∞ n/kn = 0, so lim n→∞ (kn − 2n− 1)/kn = 1 , so ∑∞ n=0 n/(kn − 2n − 1) converges. Therefore, we can choose a natural number r so large that r > n0, r > p0(m) and r > p−1 0 (m) for m < n0, and ∞ ∑ n=r 2n+ 2 +M kn − 2n− 1 ≤ 1 4 . Choose N ≥ kr so large that g(m) < N for m < kr. We must show that the conditional probability that gp has a finite cycle including a number greater than N or the numbers N + 1, . . . , N + M are not in distinct cycles of gp is at most 1/2. If either of these events occurs, then it occurs after finitely many stages of the construction of p; there must be a particular stage at which the bad gp-cycle or the gp-path from N + i to N+j is completed. Note that neither event can occur before stage r, because 92 R. Dougherty and J. Mycielski N was chosen to be so large that there is no k ≥ N such that g(p(k)) or p−1(g−1(k)) is defined before stage r. Suppose the construction has reached stage n. If p(n) is already defined, then we do nothing in the first half of stage n. If p(n) is not yet defined, then p(n) is chosen at random (uniformly) from kn − x possibilities, where x is the number of natural numbers less than kn which are already in the range of p; clearly 0 ≤ x ≤ 2n. The only ways in which the definition of p(n) can complete a bad event are: p(n) = g−1(n), so we get a fixed point of gp; g(p(n)) is the last link of a gp-path from N + i to N + j, so p(n) = g−1(N + j); g(p(n)) completes a cycle of gp of length greater than 1; or g(p(n)) completes a gp-path from N+i to N+j but is not the last link in this path. In the last two cases, the number g(p(n)) must already be in the domain of p, so p(n) must be g−1(t) for some t for which p(t) was defined earlier; there are at most 2n such t's. Therefore, there are at most 1+M+2n possible values for p(n) which can complete a bad event, so the probability that one of these is chosen is at most (1 +M + 2n)/(kn − x), which is less than (2n+2+M)/(kn−2n−1). This was true no matter what the previous construction had been, so, for n ≥ r, the conditional probability assuming p extends p0 that a bad event is completed in the first half of stage n is at most (2n+ 2 +M)/(kn − 2n− 1). Similarly, the choice of p−1(n) can complete a bad event only if the chosen value is g(n), one of the numbers N+i for 1 ≤ i ≤M , or a number g(t) where t was already in the range of p, so the probability that this occurs is at most (2n+2+M)/(kn−2n−1). Therefore, the conditional probability that a bad event is completed during stage n is at most 2(2n+2+M)/(kn−2n−1); since bad events cannot be completed before stage r, the conditional probability that a bad event ever occurs is at most ∞ ∑ n=r 2 2n+ 2 +M kn − 2n− 1 ≤ 1 2 , as desired. This completes the proof of the claim. Next, we show by induction on i that, if p0, g, and M are as in the claim, then the conditional probability (under the condition of extending p0) that a permutation p is such that gp has only finitely many finite cycles and at least M infinite cycles is at least 1 − 2−i. The case i = 0 is trivial. Now suppose that we have the result for i− 1. Given p0, g, and M , choose N as in the claim. If a permutation p is such that gp has no finite cycles with a member greater than N and the numbers N + 1, . . . , N + M are in distinct cycles of gp, then clearly gp has only finitely many finite cycles and at least M infinite cycles. If p does not have these properties, then there must be a first stage n at which the construction of p causes the completion of a gp-cycle with a member greater than N or a gp-path fro


As you know, the semantic and functional types of Uzbek anthroponymy are the names of people, surnames, patronymics and nicknames. The creator of a fictional work applies overwhelming number of concepts in terms of anthroponomy. Nicknames play a particularly significant role in representing the stylistic aspects of the work. In addition, nicknames also perform functional tasks. The author carries out their transition from the appellative level to the onomastic level. The article provides a linguistic analysis of the nicknames presented in the stories of Abdullah Kahhar. We will briefly focus on the anthroponymic units of onomastics of the Uzbek language, as well as consider a broad approach to the classification of nicknames in the stories of the writer and provide information about the motives put forward in them. Research methods. The proper names are one of the important sources that provide information about the people's prison, economic activity and past. The famous horses used by the Uzbek Writers in the works are also considered to be a means of revealing different aspects of people's life. Having scientific and theoretical knowledge about the horses used in the works contributes to understanding the purpose of the writer, the essence of the work. Because the history, past, present and future of the people are reflected in these cultural sources. Therefore, in this article, the linguistic analysis of nicknames encountered in the stories of Abdulla Kahhar used linguistic observation and characterization, comparative-historical, historicalbiographical, historical-cultural techniques in the study of the onomastics of artistic works, determination of the semantics and legalization properties of artistic onoms, separation of onomastic units. Results and discussions. The nicknames given to the heroes of the following stories by Abdulla Kahhar were received as an objekt of the study: ―Mirza‖ (―Reliable secretary‖), ―Prophecy‖ ("Sahibkiran Said Jalalkhani", blind Shermat), ―The extinct volcano‖(―Extinct volcano‖), "who is at fault?‖ (―Turondot‖), ―The wife who did not eat raisins‖ (master Mavlon), ―The Headless Man‖ (Master Abdurahman, Rozik shoe-maker), ―Maston‖ (Abdurazzak), ―Spectator‖(Master Khamrakul), ―The pomegranate‖ (Shokirkhuja, mulla Qazi), ―The thief‖ (Egamberdi cotton seller), ―Asrurbobo‖ (master Mumin), ―The horror‖ (master Alimbek dodkho, Ascarponsat), ―The bed‖ (Nasibali Otbagar), ―The wives‖ (Sangin Korbashi). Below are the results and feedback on the analysis of nicknames in this work. Conclusion. It became known that almost all these nicknames come across in the writer's stories when Abdulla divides the original and relative nicknames in the classification of nicknames in the stories of Kahhor. Including similar nicknames,


We express the oblique parameters $S$, $T$, $U$, $V$, $W$, and $X$ in terms of the corresponding mixing matrices in the framework of three BSM models with three CP-even neutral scalars. We consider three types of the extension of the scalar sector of the SM with non-standard (i) two real singlet scalars, (ii) one complex doublet and one real singlet scalar, and (iii) two complex doublets. We present the expressions such that one can use these when all the neutral CP-even scalars have VEV, or one of them does not have any VEV. The principal benifit of presenting the oblique parameters in this way is, the sole knowledge of the mixing matrices in the corresponding scalar sector is enough to extract the expression of the oblique parameter of that particular BSM model.


Biological medicine, a conceptual scientific complex, focuses its efforts on directional search for and construction of experimental and genetically caused biomodels of health and illness with purposes of retaining and maintaining the proper quality of life. A subject of biomedicine is a man as the prototype for biomodeling and construction of models of arbitrary orders. The basic method of biomedicine is biological and mathematical modeling spanning from subatomic to multisystem level. Biological, medical, physical, chemical and other disciplines, which are precisely outlined within their mathematical vicinities, limits, continuity and dynamism of processes and satisfies to axiomatics of their topological structures, constitute a conceptual space of biomedicine.