As more and more distributed renewable energy resources connected to electric power grids, the conventional power system evolves into an integrated energy grid (lEG) in order to satisfy various types of energy demands. This paper proposes a model of the coordinated scheduling of energy resources (CSoERs) for distributed district heating and cooling systems (DHCs) in an lEG. The model takes into consideration both the dispatchable grid-connected generators and distributed renewable energy resources, such as wind energy, solar energy and natural gas. The objective is to minimize the operation costs in the lEG in order to satisfy not only the electrical loads but also the heating loads and cooling loads. Furthermore, an energy storage system for heating loads and cooling loads is also developed in the DHCs to improve the operation reliability in the distributed DHCs. Detailed simulation studies are carried out to verify the effectiveness of the CSoERs under two different operation scenarios: grid-connected scenario and stand-alone scenario. Simulation results demonstrate that the performance of the CSoERs contributes to significant energy saving and reliability operation in both grid-connected scenario and standalone scenario in the lEG.


OBJECTIVE
To study the importance of supervision in respiratory tract for otorhinolaryngological disease.

METHOD
Nine cases died of suffocation were reported and the causes were analyzed. In the 9 cases there were 3 cases with the foreign body in bronchus, 2 cases with the trachea bleeding, 2 cases with laryngopharyngeal tumor and 2 cases with bleeding from nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

RESULT
All cases were died of suffocation.

CONCLUSION
Suffocation is an important lethal factor for many otorhinolaryngological disease. Tracheotomy is a prompt and effective management for the suffocation resulting from upper respiratory tract obstruction. Tracheoscopy is the first choice for patients with lower respiratory tract obstruction. And the continuous inflating pressure with intubation in cases with trachea bleeding should be avoided.


Controlling 12,000-ton trains of iron over the Lamco Railroad's undulating 267-km line in Liberia requires a high degree of precision to assure safety. With the possibility of annual movements exceeding the current 13.5 million tons, it was decided that safety and operating flexibility could be improved by supplementing the existing CTC with automatic train control. Integra's ISR72 system provides speed supervision and passing sidings and on open line where permanent or temporary speed restrictions are in force.


Abstract Please click here to download the map associated with this article. A geological map of the Aglaonice region, Venus, is presented. It is the first published attempt at mapping at the full limit of resolution of the available NASA Magellan mission data. It is primarily based on geological interpretation of a 1:1.5,000,000 scale Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image and altimetry data of the same region. The map covers an area approximately 1.6 x 106 km2—roughly 1% of the venusian surface—and demonstrates the stratigraphic history revealed by mapping at this scale. We do not observe a regional plains unit, but rather five tectonically and texturally distinct volcanic plains material units. We have found that almost two-thirds of the mapped units originate from identifiable source regions, suggesting that the origin of most units on Venus can be identified if mapped at the resolution of Magellan data.


Objective
To clarify the mechanisms that the response of fibroblast-like synovial (FLS) cells to methotrexate (MTX) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and to provide theory basis for the drug treatment of RA.

Methods
Synovial fibroblasts were isolated from synovial tissue specimens obtained from patients with RA and exposed to MTX. Cell viability was measured using a MTT assay and cell apoptosis was valued by flow cytometry. Western blotting analysis of LC3 and immunocytochemistry were used to analyze the induction of autophagy in RA-FLS after treating with MTX. Transfection of siRNA was used to interfere the expression of Beclin1 to down-regulate the autophagy, cell apoptosis was valued by flow cytometry and western blot analysis was used to test the PARPp85 with or without the presence of MTX. Statistical product and service solutions (SPSS) 18.0 statistical software was used for statistical analysis of all experimental data. Independent sample t test was used according to data distribution status, homogeneity of variance, and normal distribution. GraphPad Prism 5.0 was used to draw statistical graphs.

Results
MTX induced apoptosis was increased in RA-FLS. MTX stimulated the autophagy response in RA-FLS by inducing autophagosome formation. In RA-FLS, transfection with Beclin1 siRNA inhibited autophagy and increased the susceptibility to MTX, which induced cell death.

Conclusion
Autophagy of RA-FLS contributes to the resistance to apoptosis induced by methotrexate.

Key words:
Methotrexate; Arthritis, rheumatoid; Fibroblast-like synovial cells; Apoptosis; Autoph-agy


The purpose of this study was to compare two coarticulation tests with each other and with the original standardization data. The Coarticulation Assessment in Meaningful Language (CAML) (Kenney & P...


Conventionally circuit performance variability is analyzed with Monte-Carlo simulation and design corner analysis. On the other hand, statistical methods such as design of experiments (DoEs), response surface modeling (RSM) and compact modeling (CM) can achieve a better trade-off between simulation efficiency and accuracy. This paper investigates these variability-aware analysis methodologies. Based on industry standard BSIM4 compact model, selected physical parameters are applied to DoE-RSM and CM methods. Methodologies are validated with both analog (op-amp) and digital circuits (flip-flop) at 65 nm node. A 3X speed up is achieved with DoE-RSM. A proper selection of CM parameters is critical to model accuracy.


The claimed utility model relates to the field of measuring bioelectric signals of the body using electroencephalography. The purpose of the claimed utility model is to achieve such technical results as improving the accuracy of recognition of brain signals, expanding functionality. The goal is achieved as follows: a detector of electromagnetic waves emitted by the brain, consisting from a housing with antennas, input ports and an indication module, including series-connected receivers nth block of brain signals, an amplifier of brain signals, an analog-to-digital converter of brain signals, a block for recording brain signals, a memory block, a comparison unit, and also containing a power supply unit, while it additionally contains at least two channels of an electromagnetic oscillation receiver in the radiation range of the brain, so that each of them consistently includes an antenna, an input signal receiver, an input signal amplifier, an analog-to-digital converter of the input signal, a processor for isolating brain signals against a background of noise, a unit for determining the amplitude of the input signal, the outputs of these channels being connected both to an adder whose output is connected to the input of the comparison unit and to a unit for determining the location of the brain radiation source; in turn, the outputs of the comparison unit and the location determination unit are connected to the indicating module. The inventive electromagnetic wave detector has a wide scope and can be especially useful, for example, when interacting with people or animals, or identifying them, when, in particular, there are difficulties in verbal communication.


Abstract : Despite substantial Federal investment in activities designed to reduce flood damages in the United States, average annual damages continue to rise and are now estimated at nearly $3 billion per year. Significant urban development and millions of acres of the nation's agricultural production are on lands subject to flooding. When floods occur, (1) life is endangered and disrupted, (2) productive capacities are impaired; (3) transportation and utility lines are damaged, (4) property and crops are destroyed, and (5) soils are eroded. Flooding can be, and often is, sudden and traumatic, bringing with it loss of life, severe economic losses, adverse social impacts, and environmental damage. The central theme of this research focuses on policy changes during the 1970-1983 time frame and their impact on the flood damage prevention program of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps). Outcomes from policy changes are analyzed and evaluated against criteria of equity, efficiency, and responsiveness.


Transmembrane(TM)proteins possess important physiological function.A large portion of them play crucial roles in drug receptors,transporters,and immunological recognition.The prediction of the strucˉtures of these TMproteins at molecular level is thus very important and meaningful.A newmethod based on the combination of wavelettransform(WT)and the hydrophobicity of amino acids for the prediction of the numˉber and location of the transmembrane helices in membrane proteins was developed.To investigate the feasibilˉity of this method,the TMprotein,coded as upkb-bovin was chosen as an example.Thirty six proteins conˉsisting of232transmembrane helices were randomly selected from the TM protein databank.It was found that96.8%of the transmembrane helics were accurately predicted.


Since the early days of Forensic Linguistics there has been an incessant search for idiosyncratic features that would allow us to distinguish one author from another on the basis of their linguistic production. Studies in Authorship Attribution constantly report on the latest findings and newly developed techniques, applying different linguistic units as measures, in forensic stylometric analysis. In this quest for valid and reliable identification markers, syntactic structure has been shown to be less appealing. That is easily explained by the fact that syntactic constructions are notorious for their structural complexity and processing difficulty. However this does not seem to be a problem if we consider syntactic structure to be a simple sequence of categories grouped together and whose function analysis is set apart. This paper presents the preliminary results of a series of experiments in author identification aimed at evaluating the discriminatory capacity of sequences of linguistic categories (Morpho-syntactically Annotated Tag Sequences (MATS)) and demonstrating which one of the tested three is the best candidate marker of authorship.
The hypothesis tested in the experiments is that the most frequent tag sequences will discriminate effectively between authors in limited-size samples of texts. All the experiments were carried out on a morpho-syntactically annotated corpus consisting of 15 newspaper articles and 15 novel fragments written in Spanish by 3 authors, 5 of each genre per author.
The occurrences of each type of MATS were extracted by means of the programming language AWK and later their frequencies were calculated using the environment for statistical computing and graphics R. An innovative combination of traditional statistical methods was applied to determine the authorship of a pseudo anonymous text. Preliminary results show that MATS can become valid and reliable markers of authorship.


Based on a study of the phase relation in the Fe\| and Co\|rich region of the equi\|gadolinium content section with the Gd content corresponding to the chemical formula Gd 3(Fe,Co,Cr) 29 in the Gd Fe Co Cr quaternary system, formation, structure and magnetic properties of the 3∶29 type Gd 3(Fe 1- x Co x ) 29- y Cr y compounds have been investigated. It has been found that the composition range of formation of the single phase Gd 3(Fe 1- x Co x ) 29- y Cr y Compounds is 0≤ x ≤0.7 for y =5.0, 0.7≤ x ≤0.8 for y =5.5, and 0.8≤ x ≤1.0 for y =6.0. A pure Co based Gd 3Co 29- x Cr x compound series have been synthesized. The solubility limit of the Cr atoms in the Gd 3Co 29- x Cr x compounds was found to be from x =6.5 to x =7.3. The results indicate that all the synthesized Gd 3(Fe 1- x Co x ) 29- y Cr y compounds crystallize in Nd 3(Fe,Ti) 29 type structure of the monoclinic system and the space group A2/m .The solubility limit of Co atoms in the Gd 3(Fe 1- x Co x ) 29- y Cr y compounds increases with increasing the stabilizing element Cr. It is noteworthy that substitution of Co for Fe leads to a remarkable change of the magnetocrystalline anisotropy of the Gd 3(Fe 1- x Co x ) 29- y Cr y compounds. When x ≥0.4 the anisotropy changes from the easy plane type to the uniaxial type, which is important for permanent magnet application.


Background: The aim of study was to formulate a scoring system to predict difficult laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) pre-operatively; depending on the specific parameters of an individual patient.Methods: We have included 100 patients who underwent LC from July 2010 to December 2012. Conversion to open cholecystectomy in relation with age, sex, attack of acute cholecystitis, fever, abdominal tenderness, serum amylase and LDH level, status of GB and GB wall thickness, number of stone, leukocyte count and CBD diameter were assessed.Results: The most important reason for conversion was adhesions at Calot's triangle (60%), followed by contracted gall bladder (15%). The other reasons of conversion were empyema of the gall bladder (15%), stone at Hartmann's pouch (10%), bleeding during dissection (5%).Conclusions: This study will surely help the surgical fraternity in the future to plan the particular patients for appropriate mode of surgery, pre-operative preparation, patient counselling and most importantly to predict the score for the difficult interval Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy.


The potential benefits of using resonant cycle times in traffic signal control on an arterial are investigated. Resonant cycles are cycle lengths that result in good arterial progression over a range of traffic flows. The notion of resonant cycle times contrasts with the prevalent adaptive control practice of setting the arterial cycle length in proportion to flow levels at the most congested intersection on the arterial. This research was motivated by the development of appropriate adaptive algorithms for closed-loop system control in the FHWA ACS-Lite project. Simulation experiments with TRANSYT-7F for a four-intersection arterial and additional time–space diagrams demonstrate the characteristics of resonant cycle times and the substantial performance benefits that they may offer. In addition, a systematic method was developed to identify appropriate resonant cycle times and fine-tune a schedule for a time-of-day signal timing strategy.


A hydro-pneumatic interconnected suspension system was proposed to overcome the deterioration of the automotive ride and driving performance due to the uneven load distribution among the wheels.The structure and principle of the system were introduced firstly,and the dynamic model was built up using Matlab/Simulink subsequently.Finally,the co-simulation was carried out by integrating the interconnected system into the vehicle dynamics simulation software,Carsim.The comparison between the vehicle with this system and without demonstrates that the hydro-pneumatic interconnected suspension system could enhance the vehicle ride,traction ability and trafficability.


Ultrasound is an attractive modality for adjunctive characterization of certain breast lesions, but it is not considered specific for cancer and it is not recommended for screening. An imaging technique remarkably different from pulse-echo ultrasound, termed Optical SonographyTM (Advanced Diagnostics, Inc.), uses the through-transmission signal. The method was applied to breast examinations in 41 asymptomatic and symptomatic women ranging in age from 18 to 83 years to evaluate this imaging modality for detection and characterization of breast disease and normal tissue. This approach uses coherent sound and coherent light to produce real-time, large field-of-view images with pronounced edge definition in soft tissues of the body. The system patient interface was modified to improve coupling to the breast and bring the chest wall to within 3 cm of the sound beam. System resolution (full width half maximum of the line-spread function) was 0.5 mm for a swept-frequency beam centered at 2.7 MHz. Resolution degrades slightly in the periphery of the very large 15.2-cm field of view. Dynamic range of the reconstructed 'raw' images (no post processing) was 3000:1. Included in the study population were women with dense parenchyma, palpable ductal carcinoma in situ with negative mammography, superficial and deep fibroadenomas, and calcifications. Successful breast imaging was performed in 40 of 41 women. These images were then compared with images generated using conventional X-ray mammography and pulse-echo ultrasound. Margins of lesions and internal textures were particularly well defined and provided substantial contrast to fatty and dense parenchyma. In two malignant lesions, Optical SonographyTM appeared to approximate more closely tumor extent compared to mammography than pulse-echo sonography. These preliminary studies indicate the method has unique potential for detecting, differentiating, and guiding the biopsy of breast lesions using real-time acoustical holography.


A study was undertaken to quantify the yield class of Douglas fir on a sample of sites on which it has been planted and to model the relationship between the site factors and yield class recorded. In total, 117 stands ofDouglas fir were surveyed and a variety of site factors were recorded. The yield class of the stands ranged from 8 m 3 ha - 1 a - 1 to 22 m 3 ha - 1 a - 1 . Using regression analysis, a predictive model for yield class was developed, which included soil parent material, aspect and wind exposure. The precision of the estimates provided by this model ranged from ′1.0 m 3 ha - 1 a - 1 to ′6.4 m 3 ha - 1 a - 1 .


Abstract Various morphological measurements were made on a total of 197 specimens of Eunice vittata from Ria de Ferrol (Galicia, NW Spain). For each specimen the morphological features studied were: first setiger with subacicular hooks, uniramous branchiae, and biramous branchiae; width of the 10th setiger; and, for entire specimens, preserved body length and total number of setigers. Multivariate analysis (PCA) indicates that body size explains the variability of width, length, number of setigers and first occurrence of subacicular hooks. Occurrence of biramous branchiae, while showing a correlation with other varying features, is highly variable, associated with size-independent factors. The relative growth of E. vittata is allometric. Increase in number of setigers prevails in the initial growth stages, but gradually the increase in size of existing segments contributes more and more to the increase in body size, first by the increase of segment length and finally by the increase of segment width.


: The article is about the possibilities and limits of the worker´s or- ganization in the contemporary factories, considering the nowadays dilemmas presented to the labour union institutions and the other ways of organization in the work places. From an empirical research in one plant of the automotive sector, the text brings questions related to the development of experiences of the political organization of the workers in such a plant organized under a venturousness concept of a lean production. It brings the possibilities of this political action to the context of the relations among the different parties involved, with emphasis in the local labour union, in the several management segments and in the other political institutions. It is considered in the analysis, the political-economical conditionings revealed by the insertion of-business corporation in the market, as well as the regional conjuncture upon-which the political action develops itself, without loosing the global-local relations that reverberates in those practices.


In this study an article of industrial waste generated in the timber industry and the provision there of is made by the companies is presented as a strategy to convert investment costs through the use of waste obtained ; for this initially a statistical history of industrial environmental surveys were reviewed and subsequently applying a survey is conducted to a specific sample of the population to obtain data about the provision made waste, the frequency, the value it generates, which It represents in economic terms, if companies have plan and solid waste management as identified regarding the Environmental Responsibility.


The article examines the changes that took place in families of agriculturists in the southern part of the Far East in the 1970s the first half of the 1980s in the period of so-called «late» socialism. These changes are analyzed through a prism of nation-wide tendencies and their manifestation at the regional level. Instability of a course and sometimes obvious discrepancy in the national policy in relation to the Soviet village and agrarian sector in the eastern part of the country promoted distribution of some negative phenomena, which were not typical for the rural areas before. Such phenomena might be as follows: a growing number of divorces and distribution of informal marriage unions; reduction of a number of children in families which led to distribution of small families, etc. At the same time there were tendencies which had ambiguous impact on life of the villagers. For example, active involvement of women in work, various areas of employment of the rural family members, change of the psychological attitude of villagers towards reality and many other things. The author pays special attention to the reasons that promoted transformation of an agrarian family, and also to redistribution of roles in the family structure. In particular, the author emphasizes levelling of labor activity of women and men, gradual transformation of children from assistants into dependents, transition of elderly generation to self-provision and isolated accommodation. The author comes to logical conclusions that negative processes in family dynamics prevailed over positive ones, and also that by the end of 1980 the family of a special type in the Far Eastern rural areas was formed which only fairly resembled families of the previous decades.


The modulation transfer function (MTF) and contrast transfer function (CTF) are considered for discrete systems. The MTF and CTF are derived for the charge-coupled device (CCD). The analysis presented con- siders the full effects of sampling on device response. Experimental tests of the CTF for a line-array CCD are presented. The MTF and CTF are shown to be multivalued functions for discrete systems.


Abstract. We describe the design and performance of a lightweight broadband cavity-enhanced spectrometer for measurement of NO2 on uncrewed aerial vehicles and light aircraft. The instrument uses a light-emitting
diode (LED) centered at 457 nm, high-finesse mirrors (reflectivity =0.999963 at 450 nm), and a grating spectrometer to determine optical extinction coefficients between 430 and 476 nm, which are fit with custom spectral fitting software and published absorption cross sections. The instrument weighs 3.05 kg and has a power consumption of less than 35 W at 25 ∘C. A ground calibration unit provides helium and zero air flows to periodically determine the
reflectivity of the cavity mirrors using known Rayleigh scattering cross
sections. The precision (1σ) for laboratory measurements is 43 ppt
NO2 in 1 s and 7 ppt NO2 in 30 s. Measurement of air with known NO2 mixing ratios in the range of 0–70 ppb agreed with the known values within 0.3 % (slope =0.997±0.007; r2=0.99983). We demonstrate instrument performance using vertical profiles of the NO2 mixing ratio acquired on board an uncrewed aerial vehicle between 0 and 110 m above ground level in Boulder, Colorado.


Simple Summary Subchondral cystic lesions (SCLs) are spheric/oval-shaped demineralized cavities that develop in equine bones at a young age (3–18 months of age). SCLs are a form of developmental bone disease, and, while their etiology is incompletely understood, they may be a manifestation of osteochondrosis (OC). This subchondral bone absence in SCLs impacts the distribution of weight-bearing loads, which can result in lameness and poor performance in racehorses. Also, the communication between SCLs and the affected joint can create a step defect in the cartilage, which may trigger arthritis. Several surgical and medical treatments have been developed to improve the athletic prognosis of horses with SCLs. We compared four treatments for SCLs in the metacarpal, metatarsal, and phalangeal bones of young prospect racehorses and found that all treatments have similar prognoses. We also found that horses treated for SCLs have similar racing careers compared to those of their siblings, despite having a difference in purchase price as yearlings. Horses with higher and wider SCLs were found to have fewer wins and places during their racing careers, indicating that SCLs negatively affect the quality of racing. Abstract Subchondral cystic lesions (SCLs) in equines and their treatments have been mainly studied in the medial femoral condyle of the femur. SCLs in the distal extremities affecting the fetlock or interphalangeal joints are frequent, but treatment or prognosis studies in horses are currently sparse. Our objective was to compare four treatments for SCLs in the distal extremities (intralesional injection of corticosteroids, transcortical drilling, cortical screw placement, and absorbable hydroxyapatite implant placement) and report the racing prognoses for affected thoroughbred yearlings. Data from 113 thoroughbred yearlings treated for SCLs in the distal extremities were collected from 2014 to 2020. Age at surgery, sex, bone affected, radiographic SCL measurements, SCL shape, and type of treatment were recorded. Sale data and racing performance were collected for the operated horses and for 109 maternal siblings that were free of SCLs. An analysis was conducted to assess if SCL size affected racing prognosis and to detect differences in sale value and selected racing parameters between the cases and controls. The outcomes for the different treatments, the different bones affected, and the SCL shape type were also analyzed. There was no difference in the ability to start in a race between the cases and controls (60.2% vs. 69.7%, respectively). The auction value of the treated horses was significantly lower than that of their siblings. The bone affected did not impact any of the racing variables studied, whereas the height of the SCLs negatively affected the number of wins and placed races. The type of treatment for the horses affected by SCLs did not have an impact on sale prices, ability to start a race, race starts, wins, and places, or age at the time of the first start. In conclusion, yearlings diagnosed with an SCL in the distal extremities had lower auction prices and decreased racing performances, with lower numbers of wins correlated with larger SCL heights compared to the siblings. Similar racing performance was found regardless of the treatment received.


To the Editor:— The article on Mondor's disease ( 196 :1087, 1966) is an excellent review of a surprisingly common but usually unrecognized condition. Since first becoming aware of the entity in 1962, I have seen several instances of typical string phelbitis which followed the expected course of spontaneous disappearance. The author in his commentary failed to point out that in rare instances there may be clinical involvement of the breast with such limited distribution that a primary breast tumor is suspected. Such a case with a review of the literature was published in the Sinai Hospital Journal ( 10 :28, 1961).


Selective epitaxial Si with added As for n‐type doping or Ge for band gap modulation can be deposited in an ultraclean atmospheric pressure chemical vapor deposition system down to temperatures as low as 550–750 °C. Depositions are carried out in a hydrogen ambience using dichlorosilane, HCl, and arsine or germane. The additives, arsine and germane enhance the Si deposition rate at low temperatures so that practical deposition rates can be achieved. HCl, which is used to control deposition selectivity with respect to oxide or nitride, decreases the deposition rate so that final growth rates are in the range 1–5 nm/min. Rutherford backscattering spectrometry was used to measure As concentrations as high as 1×1021/cm3 and Ge concentrations as high as 50%. A selective growth process for SiGe has been used to grow p‐type metal–oxide–semiconductor field effect transistors and resonant tunneling diodes which display excellent device characteristics.


With the use of Bruner's concept of story, broad generalizations from the US, and political philosophy, this article suggests that comparisons between music programs throughout the world are meaningless unless we acknowledge how pervasive, insidious, and menacing is the rhetoric of the global market economy. Political philosophy is one process of inquiry that can provide a way of reflecting upon educative constructs that affect all educators. One way to begin thinking about the process of comparison is to examine educational statements from government websites throughout the world. While in many cases these statements are not referred to as manifestos, the rhetoric in use on these government sanctioned websites not only boldly states the goal of education in terms of global markets and competition but also does so by co-opting discourse that was originally intended to speak for oppressed populations.


Introduction:
 Cardiomyocyte cell death is closely linked with the pathophysiology of heart failure. Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) is found in circulating blood as fragmented double-strand DNA, which is released from dying cells. However, the clinical significance of cfDNA in heart failure has not been elucidated.

 Methods and Results:
 The present study enrolled 32 heart failure patients and 28 control subjects. Circulating cfDNA was isolated from plasma samples in peripheral blood. The levels of total cfDNA assessed by quantitative PCR using LINE1-specific primers were not different between the two groups (P=0.343). Next, cfDNA was subjected to bisulfite conversion to identify cardiomyocyte-derived cfDNA, based on that FAM101A locus is unmethylated in a cardiac-specific manner. Digital PCR targeting the unmethylated FAM101A locus demonstrated that the copy numbers of cardiomyocyte-specific cfDNA were significantly elevated in heart failure patients compared to controls (0.99 [0.77 - 1.98] vs 0 [0 - 0.91] copies/mL, P=0.003,
 Figure A
 ). The receiver operating characteristic curve revealed that cardiomyocyte-specific cfDNA significantly discriminated heart failure patients from control subjects (AUC, 0.716, P=0.003). Correlation analysis showed that the levels of cardiomyocyte-specific cfDNA were significantly correlated with serum levels of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I (r = 0.438, P = 0.012,
 Figure B
 ), but not with BNP (r = 0.275, P = 0.058), suggesting that the elevated cardiomyocyte-specific cfDNA might be associated with enhanced cardiomyocyte death but not with high ventricular filling pressure.

 Conclusions:
 A newly developed bisulfite-digital PCR system identified an increase in cardiomyocyte-specific cfDNA in heart failure patients. cfDNA may be a novel biomarker to measure the actual numbers of cardiomyocyte death in heart failure.


The simulation on the nonuniformity of facal plane arry detectors is a very important part in the simulation on infrared imaging system.A spatial-correlation detector response model based on the forming mechanism and characteristic of the nonuniformity is proposed,which is much more objective and scientific than the model based on spatial independence.


PET is a useful system for cancer inspection but it is not effective for intestinal and stomach cancers because of random peristaltic motion. We propose a new PET positron detector for intestinal cancers. Photo-Multiplier Tubes are widely used for the detector of scintillation light. Recently, a new photon detector of MPPC (Multi-Pixel Photon Counter) has been developed. Narrow position-sensitive electron (positron) detectors consist of scintillation fibers and MPPC's can be produced. This detector can be installed into intestine from anus and PET positrons can be measured directly. Inspection of intestinal (and stomach) cancers may be possible.


significantly helped the flow. Chapter 4 on agency theory should have been moved to chapter 2. Applications of agency theory to forms of capital, organization, production, and corporate control (chaps. 3, 5-8) could have followed. Jensen's 1993 speech to the American Finance Association (chap. 2) should have been moved to the conclusion. It serves as a fitting summary of the history of research and practice in corporate governance.


Background: Systemic hypertension is a frequent side effect of antiangiogenic drugs (AADs) and may represent a marker of efficacy on cancer. We hypothesized that large artery properties are affected by AADs, and contribute to the rise of blood pressure and may be better related to cancer progression and mortality than hypertension. Methods and results: Participants were studied before AADs (V0), 10 days later (V1) and then every 2 weeks for 6 weeks (V1–V4). We included 57 consecutive patients in whom treatment with sorafenib (400 mg twice daily) or sunitinib (37.5–50 mg once daily) was indicated. The target dose could be adjusted according to tolerance and response. Aortic and carotid stiffness, brachial and central blood pressure and augmentation index were measured noninvasively at each visit. Data regarding cancer progression and mortality were collected at 6 months. Twenty-eight patients (49%) developed hypertension. Brachial SBP significantly increased during follow-up (V0–V1: +9.6 ± 15.2 mmHg, P < 0.001; V0–V4: +6.0 ± 17.8 mmHg, P = 0.04). Central BP, and aortic and carotid stiffness increased independently of brachial BP changes. Aortic and carotid stiffening were associated with cancer progression independently of BP changes [hazard risk 1.24 (1.01–1.51) and 1.34 (1.03–1.73), respectively; P < 0.05], but not with cancer mortality. Brachial SBP had no predictive value. Conclusion: Large arteries stiffen during AAD treatment partly independently of BP changes. Arterial mechanical properties are associated with BP rise. Arterial stiffening is related with the effects of AAD on cancer progression independently of BP changes. Large artery properties might help monitor AAD therapy in cancer patients.


The analysis of citations has often been employed to indicate the use of the literature of science and technology. Citation is only an indicator of use, not an accurate measure, and like all such indicators has defects. Differences between indicators have been discussed elsewhere.


This deliverable reports the technical and research development performed until M36 (January 2009) within tasks T5.2 and T5.4 of WP5 in the KP-Lab project, per the latest Description of Work (DoW) 3.2 [DoW3.2]. The described components are included in the KP-Lab Semantic Web Knowledge Middleware (SWKM) Prototype Release 3.0 software that takes place in M36. This release builds on the Prototype Release 2.0 that was presented in [D5.4]. The present deliverable includes both the specification, as well as the implementation details for the described components. The description of the features of the new functionalities is provided based on the motivating scenarios and the subsequent functional requirements. The focus and the high-level objective of the new services is the provision of improved scalability and modularity properties on the existing services, as well as improved management abilities upon conceptualizations. The implementation of the services is described by providing the related services' signatures, their proper way of use, the accepted input parameters, as well as their preconditions and effects. Initially, we describe the Delete Service, which is a Knowledge Repository service allowing the removal of existing namespaces from the repository; such removal includes the deletion of the contents of said namespaces, as well as the deletion of any reference to the namespaces themselves that exists in the repository. This new service enhances SWKM management capabilities upon conceptualizations. Then, the Named Graphs functionality is described, which is a new feature that allows a very flexible modularization of the information found in RDF KBs. We describe in detail the semantics of this feature, as well as the offered capabilities for querying and updating RDF KBs that include modularization information (i.e., information on named graphs) and the implications from their use. Finally, in the context of the Knowledge Mediator, we present the Persistent Comparison Service, which is a variation of the existing (Main Memory) Comparison Service (see M24 release, [D5.3], [D5.4]); unlike the original version, the new service works exclusively on the persistent storage, guaranteeing improved scalability features.


ABSTRACT Hip fracture can drastically change functional level for elder patients. Between 22% and 75% of hip fracture patients do not recover their previous ambulatory or functional status after fracture. The purpose of this case report is to show how to use the principle of overload in the training of a hip fracture patient, here related to an 86-year-old woman. After 36 times of prolonged strength training there was both observed and clinical evidence of improvement in the patient's functional status. The program comprised four exercises performed at 80% of maximum. The outcome measurements was the Berg Balance Scale, the Sit-to-Stand test, Timed Up-and-Go test, Maximal Gait Speed, 6-Minute Walk Test, the Nottingham Extended Activities of Daily Living Scale, and the Short Form-12 Health Status Questionnaire, all of which showed improvement at both six and nine months of follow-up. These findings show that a program of progressive and prolonged strength training can help in recovery from hip fracture. It seems important for this patient to participate in strenuous exercises for overcoming bodily limitations to achieve increased vitality and improved quality of life.


A systematic study of the change in structural quality of as‐grown GaAs layers deposited at temperatures between 180 and 210 °C by molecular beam epitaxy was performed using transmission electron microscopy, double‐crystal x‐ray rocking curves, and particle‐induced x‐ray emission. We found that the crystal quality was correlated strongly with growth temperature near 200 °C. The lattice parameter and the amount of As incorporated in the layer were observed to increase at lower growth temperatures. After exceeding a certain growth‐temperature‐dependent layer thickness, large densities of pyramidal‐type defects are formed, which at lowest growth temperature result in the breakdown of crystallinity and in columnar polycrystalline growth. The lattice expansion is ascribed to the excess As in the layers. The mechanisms of breakdown of crystallinity are discussed.


Abstract We have analyzed the Debrecen Photoheliographic Data (DPD) and the Solar Optical Observing Network (SOON) sunspot group data during the period 1977 – 2015 and find that during the maximum of solar cycle 23 there is a large difference in the mean meridional motion of sunspot groups determined from DPD and SOON data.


College students are valuable talent resources and colleges and universities are important base to carry on scientific concept of development.This paper puts forward on the concept,significance and method on the basis on the proposal of college students'recessive emotion demands,and relation of scientific concept of development and recessive emotion demands and the details on the formation of college students'recessive emotion demands.


A new means of transducing mechanical force using a diffractive Bragg grating based polymeric sensor is presented. The diffraction gratings are successfully fabricated on a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) polymer using the holographic interference and micromolding technique. The micro MTS tensile test incorporated with the Raman experiment showed that a relationship between the load and the observed diffraction pattern shift could be obtained. The results show an excellent correlation between the optical measurements and load with a sensitivity of 0.05N.


Electrode materials for lithium-ion batteries allow both the insertion-deinsertion of Li+ ions within their framework and redox reactions of an electroactive element. The latter thus undergoes changes in its oxidation state and possibly in its spin state as well as in the localised or metallic character of the electron spins it can carry. Li NMR in such materials is particularly sensitive to the presence of such electron spins through the hyperfine interactions, which, in spite of this denomination, are much stronger than the internuclear or chemical shift interactions more usually exploited and sought for when carrying out solid state NMR characterisations. The hyperfine interactions are essentially twofold in nature (1-3 and references therein). • The dipolar interaction : it exerts through space between the electron spin and the lithium nuclear spin studied, and usually leads to very broad and ill-defined NMR spectra ; it can be at least partially averaged out by fast spinning the sample at the magic angle (MAS). In the case of an anisotropic electronic g tensor, an isotropic contribution (pseudo-contact shift) may remain. • The Fermi contact interaction : it results from the presence of some density of paramagnetic electrons at the site of the lithium nucleus studied and induces possibly very large shifts of the Li NMR line. Such electron spins can be transferred from the active element which carries them to Li through orbital overlaps, possibly via oxygen. Finally, one refers to Knight shift for the case of delocalised electrons in metallic materials ; it originates from the Pauli paramagnetism of such electrons at the Fermi level, to which spherical orbitals of lithium can participate.


In the production of asphalt wearing courses the aim is to use materials which, after being exposed to traffic loads, have sufficient stability and durability -and which, during their life span, retain an amount of surface qualities satisfactory enough to secure an optimum economy - operational as well as social. During the 1950's and at the beginning of the 1960's Danish roads were paved with a thin layer (2-3 cm) of a soft pavement material, fine cold asphalt. It was paved on various base courses of gravel and stone. Throughout the 1960's and 1970's the base courses were made with gravel aggregate and paved with a 2-4 cm wearing course of asphalt concrete which had to meet some very strict demands of friction. This resulted in relatively lean and open wearing course pavements. During the same period a large number of pavements was made in England with hot-rolled asphalt, and in Germany dense asphalt concrete pavements were used. Characteristic of both of these two types of pavements is that the erosion has been a lot slower, but on the other hand there have been problems with an adequate stability. During the last few years there has been a number of incidents in Denmark with dense-graded wearing courses of asphalt concrete being heavily eroded already after 5-7 years -which notoriously should have had a satisfactory durability (10-12 years). The Danish asphalt industry has made a lot of efforts in order to find the reasons for this, but so far it has not been possible to find a simple and valid explanation for the reduced life span. This paper states the types of damages which have been characteristic of the Danish roads over the last years. The main causes of these damages are: (1) strains in the upper asphalt courses because of an increase in axle load from 8-10 tons and a rise in tyre pressure from 7 to 9 kg/cm2, and (2) a change in adhesion power of bitumen to the most commonly used stone materials. Analysing the various reasons of erosion has now resulted in expectations in Denmark that similar problems can be avoided in the future. The report outlines a concept for renovation of asphalt pavements on primary roads. It contains suggestions for construction of wearing course pavements with a life span of minimum 15 years, maybe with recycling of the existing pavements. For the covering abstract of the symposium see IRRD 815173.


The main purpose of this chapter is to highlight the long-term behavior of Milan Stock Exchange (Italy) based on the FTSE MIB major stock market index. The empirical analysis covers a long period of time from January 1999 to December 2013 and describes the daily stock price movements in order to identify both financial expansion and contraction cycles. However, Milan Stock Exchange is a developed stock market that exhibits a more stable behavior than emerging stock markets, even stylized facts are much lower in this case. The econometric analysis provides an exhaustive perspective, because selected stock market behavior has changed completely due to the negative influence of the global financial crisis.


Machine translation (MT) is an important task in natural language processing, which aims to translate a sentence in a source language to another sentence with the same/similar semantics in a target language. Despite the huge effort on building MT systems for different language pairs, most previous work focuses on formal-language settings, where text to be translated come from written sources such as books and news articles. As a result, such MT systems could fail to translate livestreaming video transcripts, where text is often shorter and might be grammatically incorrect. To overcome this issue, we introduce a novel MT corpus - BehanceMT for livestreaming video transcript translation. Our corpus contains parallel transcripts for 3 language pairs, where English is the source language and Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic are the target languages. Experimental results show that finetuning a pretrained MT model on BehanceMT significantly improves the performance of the model in translating video transcripts across 3 language pairs. In addition, the finetuned MT model outperforms GoogleTranslate in 2 out of 3 language pairs, further demonstrating the usefulness of our proposed dataset for video transcript translation. BehanceMT will be publicly released upon the acceptance of the paper.


Field experiment and plant analysis was carried out to investigate the effect of K application rates on yield and quality in bread wheat Long94 4083. The results showed that the grain yield of wheat increased obviously with potassium application. The appropriate application rate of K 2O was 52.5~82.5 kg/hm 2. Wheat quality was clearly improved by K application. The content of crude protein and wet gluten, and sedimentation value were enhanced and stable time was prolonged, also the maximum resistance, extensibility, extending area, bread bulk and bread grade were increased obviously by K application.


The macrofungical diversity of Karst Mountain area in Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi provinces, including 526 known species under 187 genera, 68 families and 16 orders is preliminarily summarized in this paper. These categories are listed with a latest classification system; According to these known large fungi the ecosystem that the material distributed to proceeds with the ecosystem characteristic the first step's research analysised to these regions. Consequently express, and the macrofungi resources of laurel of is very abundant, and have very at of exploitation value.


The teaching of classroom and experiment is an important way in vocational college education.The effect of experiment teaching will affect the level of teaching and the cultivation of the students' quality directly.so the experiment teaching plays an important role in the students training.


The technological pedagogic and content knowledge aims to develop the cognition of primary school students. This research aims to measure how much influence the technological pedagogic and content knowledge learning model has on primary school students' cognition. The method used in this research is quasi-experiment. This method has nine stages: literature review, identifying and limiting research problems, developing research hypotheses, creating research designs, conducting pretests, conducting experiments, conducting post-tests, processing and analyzing data, and drawing conclusions. The research sample totaled 20 students, consisting of 10 students in the experimental class and 10 in the control class. The data collection technique used was a student cognition test. The results showed that the technological pedagogic and content knowledge learning model significantly affected elementary school students' cognition in-class experiments.


Ahstract- The influence of ice accretion can have a crucial impact on the performance of systems operating in cold regions, could lead to safety issues or cause permanent damage. Ice on overhead power lines, antennas or wind turbines are examples of the problem. In some regions wind turbines, must be switched off in the event of ice for safety reasons due to the risk of ice thrown from the blades. For those systems it is essential to detect a potential ice event at an early state. The aim of this work is the design and evaluation of a low power wireless sensor, which is able to distinguish between water and ice. This is done using electrodes on the outer shell of the sensor, with the help of capacitive and impedance spectroscopy based measurements. It can be shown, that the impedance spectroscopy enables the system to achieve more information about a potential icing event and is able to enhance the ice detection. Another aim of this work is to measure the power consumption of the sensor and its individual components and to analyze the possibilities for low power applications.


The invention relates to a device for monitoring the venous vascular access in extracorporeal blood treatment with an extracorporeal blood treatment device and an extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus having such a device. Moreover, the invention relates to a method for monitoring the venous vascular access in extracorporeal blood treatment. The inventive apparatus includes means 20 for measuring the pressure in the venous blood line 8 and the measurement signal of the means for measuring the pressure evaluating computing and evaluation unit 21 which is configured such that the venous pressure p The invention is based thereon that the limit value LIMIT (Q Here, the fixed predetermined relationship between the amount of the threshold value and the amount of blood flow rate with increasing blood flow rate provides for an increase of the limit value for the venous pressure before.


Charged with improving teaching quality at her school as part of its journey to outstanding, Amos Wardell describes some of the actions she took


In this paper, a novel high current diode with multipacting cathode is investigated theoretically with potential using in high-power microwave devices. Firstly, the electron dynamic equations, transit time and impact energies are analyzed theoretically. The electron trajectories, velocities, impact energies are discussed in the condition of different initial energies emitted from each direction. Secondly, for finding the multipacting cathode working area, the multipacting susceptibility equations are solved by using Vaughan's constant-k theory coupling electron dynamic equations, the susceptibility diagram is drawn and discussed in detail. Finally, the electron trajectories, velocities, transit time, impact energies and multipacting susceptibility diagram are simulated numerically by using Monte Carlo method. The simulation results agree with the theoretical one well. Both theoretical and numerical results demonstrate that the conception of the novel high current diode with multipacting cathode is feasible. By loading an appropriate electric field in axial and radial directions and a proper magnetic field in axial direction on a cylindrical dielectric surface with high secondary emission yield coating, the seed electrons from field induced emission moving with spiral advancing trajectories along axial direction could be increased effectively by each impact with multipacting interaction. This phenomenon will achieve electron current amplification until multipacting comes to saturation.


Under aseptic conditions, hypocotyls of mulberry were averagely cut into 3 segments which were then cultured on MS solid medium supplemented with 3.0 mg5L~ -1 6-BA, 0.3 mg5L~ -1 IAA, 1.0 mg5L~ -1 AgNO_3 to select the best region of hypocotyls for getting the more caesptose shoots. In this study, the tip part of hypocotyls(near the germ) developed quickly and induced adventitious buds easily. The caesptose shoots were dipped into 1,1.5, 2.5 g5L~ -1 colchicines solution for 2 or 3 days, or dropped with 1.5, 2, 2.5 g5L~ -1 colchicines solution 2 times a day for 5 days, and then transferred to fresh medium. Both the dipped-and dropped-treatments induced variant shoots. Examination of the chromosomes of the shoot tip cells of the regenerated plantlets revealed that they were either tetraploids or chineras. The rate of tetraploids produced from the dipped-and dropped-treatments was 14% and 20% respectively with the chromosomes number of 56(2n=4x=56) as compared to the diploid(2n=2x=28).


The effect of wall leakage, symmetric as well as asymmetric, is examined in the linear and nonlinear regimes. It is found that: the range of wavelength in the nonuniformities is reduced and in the asymmetric case splits into two separate passbands; depending on the wavelength, forward waves can propagate both upstream and downstream, and backward waves only upstream; the growth rate is minimal when the leakage at the cathode wall is four times that of the anode wall; and in all cases, a resistance introduced in the diagonal bars reduces the growth rate by a constant. Nomenclature h - width of the channel h' =/*tan0 H = electrode segmentation pitch Ie (k) =k mode component of the fluctuating current Ie (x) = total fluctuating current in the diagonal bars 70 = background dc current k = wave number Se = externally connected resistance in the diagonal bars x = longitudinal coordinate y = transverse coordinate 6 = angle of the diagonal link


The study of how contaminants move from the soil surface to the underlying water table—through the realm hydrologists call the vadose zone—is an area of hydrologic research that is just in its infancy. Recent studies seeking to unravel the mysteries of contaminant movement in the vadose zone and predict when, where, and how much groundwater contamination will occur indicate that the flow and transport may be chaotic and hard to measure.

Contamination has become a major threat to present and future uses of groundwaters. The vadose zone has gradually be-come a repository for massive quantities of wastes, which in far too many instances have leached and subsequently recharged aquifers with contaminants. In this zone water enters the Earth's surface via rainfall, irrigation, or snow melt and cycles through porous soils and fractured rocks. Here it may be either intercepted by plant roots and returned to the atmosphere or moves deeper until it recharges underlying aquifers. In the past this process has provided a seemingly endless supply of high-quality groundwater that has been available for industrial, agricultural, and human consumption.


The research sought to investigate the functional properties of starches obtained from four Nigerian root and tubers, yam and sweet potato varieties, in order to facilitate their exploitation as substitute raw material for the local food and pharmaceutical manufacturing industry. The varieties, namely: white yam (Dioscorea rotundata), water yam (Dioscorea alorta), orange flesh sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) and cream flesh sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas), their respective starches were obtained by wet separation techniques and were analyzed for their pasting properties, physic-chemical properties, starch yield on dry and wet basis, functional, starch purity, amylase and amylo-pectin were undertaken in order to determine their suitability for food and other uses. The peak time, pasting temperature, peak viscosity, holding strength, breakdown, set from peak and set back from through ranged from 7.3 – 8.3 mins, 65.4 – 71.3°C, 511.5 – 1001.2 BU, 860.8 – 871.3 BU, 300.1 – 306.9 BU, 240.8 – 248.1 BU and 400.4 – 510.9 BU respectively. There were significant differences (p<0.05) in the pasting properties. The crude protein, crude fat, crude fibre, ash, moisture and Original Research Article Donaldben et al.; AFSJ, 14(4): 28-38, 2020; Article no.AFSJ.55359 29 carbohydrate ranged from 1.55 – 1.85%, 0.09 – 0.12%, 0.12 – 0.22%, 1.32 – 2.05%, 10.72 – 11.09% and 85.59 – 86.20% respectively. There were significant differences (p<0.05) in the proximate composition of the starches. The starch yield on dry weight basis, starch weight on fresh weight basis, starch yield from tubers and percentage dry matter ranged from 56.84 – 85.88%, 22.75 – 36.07%, 18.02 – 26.00% and 40.02 – 44.01% respectively. There were significant differences (p<0.05) in the all the parameters. The bulk density, water absorption capacity, oil absorption capacity, gelatinization temperature, starch purity, amylase, amylo-pectin and pH ranged from 0.56 – 0.61g/cm, 86.8 – 99.4%, 103.2 – 125.4%, 59.78 – 60.42°C, 95.28 – 96.55%, 27.25 – 29.37%, 70.63 – 72.63% and 6.82 – 6.91 respectively. There were significant differences (p<0.05) in all the parameters but no significant difference (p>0.05) in the pH. The starches from yam and sweet potato varieties starches can be exploited for diverse uses based on their different characteristics.


Objective To provide anatomic data for operation of inserting the electron cochlear in young children. Methods Fourteen heads,28 sides specimens of young children of 1to-5-year old were dissected,through posterior tympanum approach,via mastoidectomy,posterior tympanoto to enter posterior tympanum.The related anatomy structures of the location of the electron cochlear inserted into the proper sites were observed and measured under surgical microscope. Results The round window was seated in superior part of the round window niche.The pyramidal eminence,tendo musculi stapedius,incudostapedial joint,base of stapes,cochleariform process,round window niche and promontorium tympani were all visible from different directions.The posterior arch of stapes was situated in the prozone of scala.Scala was situated in the posteroinferior scala vestibuli.The distance from the middle point of the anterior border of the round window niche to the inferior wall was(1.49±0.42)mm,to the posterior wall of the Scala tympani(0.90±0.31)mm,to the basal tissue(1.49±0.41)mm,to the pyramidal eminence(3.28±0.55)mm,to the lateral semicircular canal(7.41±0.90)mm,to the inferior margin of the base of stapes(3.09±0.53)mm.Conclusion It is considered that the location of the insertion should be at the middle point of anterior border of the round window niche anterior from 0.90mm to 1.49mm,deorsum from 0mm to 1.49mm.When the round window niche is not found,the location of the insertion has to be at the middle point of the inferior margin of the base of stapes deorsum 3mm.


In 12 years 2995 spinal anaesthetics were administered in one obstetric unit, 2854 of them for vaginal deliveries. In the latter the spontaneous delivery rate was 9 per cent and the operative delivery rate 89 per cent, the remainder being breech and twin deliveries. There was no maternal mortality, no permanent nerve injury, and the perinatal mortality was 11 per thousand total births.


Remote sensing inversion of global PM<inf>2.5</inf> is an important research topic. In the present study, the Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) dataset was established by four geostationary satellites to estimate global PM<inf>2.5</inf> concentrations using improved Geographic Time-Weighted Regression model (IGTWR) models. Then a global hourly PM<inf>2.5</inf> concentration dataset was obtained in May 2020. The estimated result for PM<inf>2.5</inf> is verified at ground stations with R of 0.71 and RMSE (Root Mean Square Error) of 26.6 μg/m3. The results indicate that PM<inf>2.5</inf> has obvious spatial and temporal distribution in the world.


Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to study the steady laminar magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) flow of a magnesium oxide-silver/water hybrid nanofluid along a horizontal slim needle with thermal radiation by considering dual solutions.

Design/methodology/approach
It is assumed that the needle can move in the same or opposite direction of the free stream. Also the solid phase and fluid phase are in thermal equilibrium. The basic partial differential equations become dimensionless using a similarity transformation method. Moreover, problem coding is accomplished using the finite difference method. The emerging parameters are nanoparticles mass (0–40 gr), base fluid mass (100 gr), needle's size (0.001–0.2), magnetic field parameter, velocity ratio parameter, radiation parameter and Prandtl number (6.2).

Findings
With help of the stability analysis, it is shown that always the first solutions are physically stable. Results indicate that the magnetic parameter and the second nanoparticle's mass limit the range of the velocity ratio parameter for which the solution exists. Besides, the magnetic parameter leads to decrease of quantities of engineering interest, i.e. skin friction coefficient and local Nusselt number.

Originality/value
To the best of the authors' knowledge, no one has ever attempted to study the present problem through a mass-based model for hybrid nanofluid. Moreover, the dual solutions for the problem are new. Indeed, the results of this paper are purely original and the numerical achievements were never published up to now. Finally, the authors expect that the present investigation would be useful in hot-wire anemometer or shielded thermocouple for measuring the velocity of the wind, etc.


Dear Editor: There is great scientific activity regarding robotics, virtual reality (VR), telehealth, and digital medicine.1–2 A "mischievous" point of view could tell that they are running after the real life, like the poor boy's finger in the Harlem Dam hole. Evidence-based medicine, cost/efficacy ratio, and consensus papers are trying to put the hat over an almost 20-year-old spreading of these technologies in the field of neurorehabilitation, which usually has been based on low-tech, theoretical, and fascinating treatment approaches. Different studies have established the difficulties of balancing effectiveness and economic sustainability for these newer forms of technology.3 A new player is aiming to put different needs: patients and caregivers with their sometimes confused but real wealth of information, as well as their first-hand experience of the significant difference between conventional and high-tech treatments. Most patients need to be treated for a long time, not necessarily as inpatients, and learn to ask for or travel to reach a healthcare facility confident with a modern technology Progress is not linear. It is a continuous process, and technology does not deny this assumption. After 20 amazing years, it seems like a steady state has been reached. Everyone can easily experience this in everyday life with home technology (new models every six months, but not real disrupting new features that worth the cost). The world can take a collective breath, and the medical world should try to expand its view, as it has the time to rethink the daily clinic in the light of the new robotic gym and patients' expectations. Healthcare services are becoming familiar with patient-centered medicine. Compared to a disease-focused biomedical approach, patient-centered care considers patient preferences, needs, and values, ensuring they guide all medical decisions in tandem with scientific evidence.5 It seems not too far from "Dr. Google," but it can embody the end of a "top-down model" in the physician–patient relationship. We must remember that innovation technology has helped to accelerate the knowledge about what neuroplasticity really means, that early and intensive treatment should have been an unbearable burden for healthcare professionals without the help of robotics.1–3 The two pillars of rehab, exercise repetition and knowledge of results/performance, had a great advancement thanks to robotics and VR (mainly in the early and acute phase of care). However, the lack of money the healthcare systems will face within the next years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the increasing numbers of patients to be treated because of aging, forces re-evaluation of most of the traditional and cheapest technologies.6 A new generation of instrumented treadmills and balance systems or bikes can fill the space next to the robotic gym to treat the same patient in a continuum of care and less severe patients in cheaper environments with less burden for the physiotherapists. The integration of music in an instrumented treadmill is showing its therapeutic powers in the daily treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. This is a necessary intermediate step toward a world of wearables, which are both efficient and cost effective. The same applies for the so-called perturbation treadmills, which are being released from the labs as useful practicing tools in the prevention of falls in older patients.7 Interestingly, it has been shown that a shortened perturbation training program might be efficacious in improving responses to a novel overground slip but might not be as effective as protocols using greater number of slips.8 Moreover, lower body positive pressure support system (namely antigravity system) decreases weight-bearing and ground-reaction forces with potentially positive effects on qualitative gait indices, as demonstrated in patients who have had strokes.9 While waiting for the next generation of "high-tech," when artificial intelligence and machine learning will be something realer than a plan to obtain grants and be part of everyday lives, too, these "old" tools can be supported and deeply enriched by the contribution of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and dynamic EEG. It is known that using high-tech can be more effective with augmented feedback, like visual or acoustic cues. The latter include more engaging tools, such as "informed music," which is widely distant from the old, boring metronome and can build new efficient functional pathways in a damaged brain. With this aim, it has been demonstrated that the usefulness of cueing strategies during gait training lays in the reshape of sensorimotor rhythms and fronto-centroparietal/temporal connectivity.10 Moreover, restoring the internal timing mechanisms that generate and control motor rhythmicity might depend on a contribution of the cerebellum.10 This provides rehabilitators new perspective when looking at the contribution of musical cues in the daily clinic not only for patients with Parkinson's disease and for many other neurodegenerative disorders.11 These new therapies could be more easily be tailored to patient's ability/disability and needs. Is this too optimistic? Why not? But, what better way to use the tragedy we are experiencing than to stop, check, and think to the better way to restart? A great future for neurorehabilitation is likely waiting.


The purpose of this study is based upon design and synthesis of a new series of flexible molecules of 3,4,5,6‐tetrahydro‐2H‐1,3,5‐thiadiazine‐2‐thione (THTT) derivatives depending upon incorporation of 2‐aminoethanol as a part of the polar moiety in this nucleus. Thirteen derivatives of 3‐substituted‐5‐(2‐hydroxyethyl)‐3,4,5,6‐tetrahydro‐2H‐1,3,5‐thiadiazine‐2‐thione were synthesized by reaction of the appropriate alkyl, cycloalkyl, aralkyl amine, or glycine with carbon disulphide, formaldehyde, and 2‐aminoethanol. The structures of the target compounds were elucidated using spectral methods as well as elemental analyses. A mass‐spectrometry study was carried out on representatives of the synthesized derivatives. The title compounds were tested for their antibacterial activity in vitro against some gram positive and gram negative bacteria. The in‐vitro antifungal activity was tested against dermatophytic, saprophytic, phytopathogenic, and antagonistic fungi. In most cases, the newly synthesized compounds 4–16 exhibited a considerable inhibitory effect on the growth of some of the tested organisms in comparison to that of ampicillin or muconazole as reference drugs. Moreover, the results indicated that the polar hydroxyethyl group at the N5‐ and the lipophilic one at the N3‐positions are essential for the antimicrobial activity of the tested compounds.


Objective : to map the implemented actions of Advanced Practice Nursing in the Brazilian context. Method: scoping review designed according to the Joanna Briggs Institute guidelines, with information sources from the Web of Science, Scopus, Cochrane Library, PubMed, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Excerpt Medica Database. Results: 23 articles were selected. The actions most evidenced by the findings refer to drug prescription, request for laboratory tests, referral of patients to other services and professionals, use of telemedicine under protocols and the implementation of the nursing process, especially by nurses in Primary Health Care. Conclusion: still in the early stages of implementation in Brazil, Advanced Nursing Practice has Primary Health Care as its strongest scenario. It is also important to emphasize the challenges, such as the nurses' lack of knowledge about their role, the lack of training and the lack of recognition of the practice by the multidisciplinary team.


This paper improved complete two dimensional principal component analysis,and proposed three different weighted strategies.It analyzed the essence of weighted scheme in detail.To evaluate the validity of the proposed method and apply it to gait recognition,it conducted experiments on CASIA(B) gait database.Experimental results show that the selection of weighted power exponent has great influence on the recognition result,and can improve the recognition performance by picking the best weight value in experiments.In the end,discussed the reason why the recognition rate of gait with a bag was low in the various walking states.


During the last few decades, the remarkable progress in the field of satellite remote sensing (RS) technology has enabled us to capture coarse, moderate to high-resolution earth imagery on weekly, daily, and even hourly intervals [...]


The number of network-connected devices increased exponentially at least during the last two decades. Although the robustness and long-term stability of these devices are relatively high, many of them outlast the purpose of their installation, sometimes even the life-cycle of its serving connection technology.The number of long-living, radio-transmitting, abandoned devices keeps increasing, especially with new deployments of Internet of Things (IoT) endpoints. Such equipment occupy radio resources in both licensed and public radio bands; moreover, they seize processing resources in networking equipment. This worrying situation should be taken care of. In the short term we can identify and ban such devices, but in the long term, proper, standardized life-cycle management should be put in place.This paper demonstrates the manifestation of this problem on 3GPP-based cellular networks (3G, 4G, and 5G), although similar issues are threatening for WiFi, Bluetooth, ZigBee and LoRaWAN technologies, as well. Furthermore, the paper presents methods to identify abandoned, non-operated or zombie devices, and proposes methods on refusing their access to the network, or – in the cellular case – forcing them into radio silence.


The bivariate lognormal distribution is proposed as a model for the joint distribution of storm peak (maximum rainfall intensity) and storm amount. Using the marginal distributions, the joint distribution, the conditional distributions, and the associated return periods are derived. The model is found appropriate for representing multiple episodic storm events at the Motoyama meteorological observation station in Japan. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


At the new historical stage, it is necessary for doctors of TCM pediatrics to ascertain some of the academic concepts such as connotation and extension, division of specialties and strategies of TCM pediatrics development based on standardization, personnel cultivation, increase of therapeutic effect and scientific research, so as to provide basis for scientific modernization.


Attenuating seismic noise in structurally complex fields such as Gullfaks can be a problem. Hesthammer and Lokkebo use a fast and simple route to combine existing 3D seismic surveys in order to obtain an improved data set.


Objective To used humanization nursing modelin the process of operating room nursing and observed the nursing effect of humanization nursing in operating room nursing.Methods 240 cases adopt operation were randomly devided into two groups,observation group and control group 120cases respectively.The control group used the conventional preoperative preparation and perioperative care.The observation group used humanized nursing mode on the basis of conventional nursing.Observed two group customer satisfaction of patients about nursing care.Results The nursing quality score and satisfaction of the observation group were better than the control group,there was statistically significant difference between the two groups (P0.05).Two groups of patients with preoperative anxiety level determined there was no statistically significant difference (P0.05).Postoperative patients with anxiety level significantly of observation group was lower than the control group,there was statistically significant difference between the two groups (P0.05).Conclusion Application of humanized nursing to the whole process of the operating room nursing,reduce the negative effects of surgical treatment for patients,improve the quality of the operating room nursing and satisfaction.It was worthy application and promotion in clinical.


List of Plates. Preface. 1. The Life. 2. The Lyric Poet. 3. The Dramatist. 4. The Novelist: Prose and Verse Narratives. 5. The Scientist. Conclusion. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Index to Goethe's Works.


THE speed of a rotary spreader is known to affect the application rate and the pattern—particularly when the spreader has a ground-driven impeller. A laboratory study of spreader rate and pattern parameters at varying speeds indicates that pattern quality may not be as susceptible to speed changes as has been assumed. The critical parameters of an overlapped pattern—coefficient of variation and the minimum and maximum points in the pattern—were not significantly changed in the test until the speed had been decreased at least 25%. These parameters were not significantly changed with speed increases of as much as 50%. Thus, from the pattern standpoint, speed increases are less detrimental than speed decreases, so the operator should try to err on the positive side. Rate, on the other hand, changed significantly with a speed decrease of 25% or a speed increase of only 8%. This test was run with only one material and one spreader, so caution is urged in extrapolation of the data.


In the absence of freshwater surface resources, the only alternative to quench the thirst of the human beings is groundwater. The quality criteria, set for drinking purpose, by various agencies are grossly neglected, due to paucity of groundwater owing to indiscriminate exploitation. An attempt is made here to evaluate the quality of groundwater of a socio-economically backward region located in and around the Ingaldhal copper mine area, Chitradurga District, Karnataka, for drinking purpose. Groundwater samples (n=12) collected from 7 villages, were analysed to assess their physico-chemical characteristics. TDS values range from 594-1913 mg/L, pH from 7.61-8.34 and TH from 410-1400 mg/L. Cation concentration ranges are 59-150 mg/L, 49-250 mg/L, 38-290 mg/L and 6-58 mg/L for Ca2+, Mg2+, Na+ and K+ respectively. Anion concentration ranges are 417-574 mg/L, 68-286 mg/L, 63-623 mg/L, 14-162 mg/L, 0-29 mg/L and 0.451-1.43 for HCO3, SO4, Cl-, NO3, CO3 and Frespectively. The results reveal that the average abundance of the major cations and anions is in the order of Mg2+ > Na+ > Ca2+ > K+ and HCO3 > Cl> SO4 > NO3 > CO3 > Frespectively. The identified types of hydrochemical facies of the groundwater are CaMgHCO3 type (n=3), CaMgSO4 type (n=3) and mixed type (n=6). The values of the major ion concentrations of the majority of the groundwater samples fall well above the recommended standard limit for drinking purpose. 2016 pp. 177-182 Vol. 15 ISSN: 0972-6268 No. 1 Nature Environment and Pollution Technology An International Quarterly Scientific Journal Original Research Paper Nat. Env. & Poll. Tech. Website: www.neptjournal.com Received: 12-02-2015 Accepted: 15-03-2015


In this article our objective is to discuss the manner in which our engagement with applied cultural analysis has spurred us to reassess a number of fundamental underlying concepts and practices of ethnological and anthropological work. The text opens by briefly explaining the educational program that is offered in Lund, and which is the background against which our understandings of ethnography and cultural analysis have changed. Following this we explain more fully how our engagement with applied research (and education) has changed our conceptual framing of ethnography and inspired us to new theoretical developments. For the purposes of this article we limit the discussion to three themes, Collaborations, Composing Ethnography and Rendering Culture. In closing, the article urges us to re-frame ethnography as not only a multi-sited practice, but even as a phenomenon that is in need of being understood as multi-targeted.


Significance We show that the variation of plant and animal populations through time can provide basic insights into how populations interact with their environment, even when environmental covariates are unobserved. We contrasted the effects of two types of temporal variation on population dynamics showing that fluctuations in the strength of competition among individuals can change a well-known scaling relation between the population variance and population abundances. The scaling of the population variance is explored using a large database of time series, as well as two well-studied ungulate populations. Our results suggest that higher-order variance scaling may be present in many animal populations, both reducing the long-run population variance relative to the standard model and providing important information on how populations are regulated by their environment. Environmental stochasticity is an important concept in population dynamics, providing a quantitative model of the extrinsic fluctuations driving population abundances. It is typically formulated as a stochastic perturbation to the maximum reproductive rate, leading to a population variance that scales quadratically with abundance. However, environmental fluctuations may also drive changes in the strength of density dependence. Very few studies have examined the consequences of this alternative model formulation while even fewer have tested which model better describes fluctuations in animal populations. Here we use data from the Global Population Dynamics Database to determine the statistical support for this alternative environmental variance model in 165 animal populations and test whether these models can capture known population–environment interactions in two well-studied ungulates. Our results suggest that variation in the density dependence is common and leads to a higher-order scaling of the population variance. This scaling will often stabilize populations although dynamics may also be destabilized under certain conditions. We conclude that higher-order environmental variation is a potentially ubiquitous and consequential property of animal populations. Our results suggest that extinction risk estimates may often be overestimated when not properly taking into account how environmental fluctuations affect population parameters.


DLR is currently engaged in a number of research and development activities supporting electric flight ambitions in Germany, Europe and worldwide. This includes a range from fundamental research on technology such as fuel cells, through integrated aircraft design efforts up to applied technology demonstrators such as the HY4. This presentation will summarize recent achievements of ongoing projects and introduce the audience to planned programs.


Dispersed single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) reduce cytochrome c (Cyt-c) when simply mixed in Tris buffer. Atomic force microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and UV–vis absorption spectroscopy show ...


This paper presents an analytical investigation on the buckling and postbuckling behavior of thin composite cylindrical panels reinforced by single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), exposed to thermal environments and subjected to uniform axial compression. Material properties of isotropic matrix phase and carbon nanotubes are assumed to be temperature dependent, and effective properties of carbon nanotube-reinforced composite (CNTRC) are functionally graded in the thickness direction and estimated by extended rule of mixture. Governing equations are based on the classical thin shell theory taking von Karman-Donnell nonlinearity and initial geometrical imperfection into consideration. Approximate solutions are assumed to satisfy simply supported boundary conditions and Galerkin procedure is applied to derive explicit expressions of buckling loads and load-deflection relation. Effects of volume fraction and distribution type of carbon nanotubes, geometrical parameters, elevated temperature and initial imperfection on the nonlinear stability of CNTRC cylindrical panels are analyzed and discussed. The novelty of the present study is that closed-form results of buckling load and nonlinear load-deflection relation can be readily used to analyze the buckling and postbuckling behaviors of axially loaded CNTRC cylindrical panels.


While the Language for Specific Purposes approach presupposes velocity, the sociodiscursive interactionism theory (BRONCKART, 2003; 2006; 2008; SCHEUWLY; DOLZ, 2004) postulates a processual work, organized in didactic sequences which aim at the development of language capacities necessary to act in particular contexts. This perspective requires several hours of study focused on a given textual genre to ensure the comprehension of language as a social practice and of text as a semiotic instrument, which allows effective verbal


Three works in existence contain Sun Kuang's comments and annotations of Wenxuan, which are Wenxuan Yuezhu published by Mm Qihua, Wenxuan Zuanzhu revised by Lu Zhiyi, and Wenxuan Jiping edited by Yu Guanghua. Wenxuan Yuezhu indexes Sun Kuang's comments and annotations when it is first published, which, well known as Mr. Sun Yuefeng's Comments on Wenxuan , is later published many times and yet follows the same name whether it has indexed Sun Kuang's comments and annotations or not. Wenxuan Zuanzhu revised by Lu Zhiyi is published a bit later and the comments included are completely different from those in Wenxuan Yuezhu. Though Wenxuan Jiping declares that it has copied all the comments and annotations of Wenxuan Yuezhu, the fact is not like that.


PURPOSE: To drastically improve the heat transfer performance of a substrate by a method, wherein a substrate, provided with a plurality of passages extending in the axial direction as well as the horizontal direction and intersecting mutually, is provided with a plurality of condensing pipes, communicated with respective passages and established substantially vertically to constitute a heat pipe assembly. CONSTITUTION: A heat pipe assembly, annexed to an information processing device and the like, is provided with a substrate 25, provided with a plurality of passages 27, 28, extended in widthwise direction and horizontal direction, while being intersected with each other and provided with a sintered wick in respective internal surfaces of the same, while a plurality of condenser tubes 30 are established substantially vertically on the surface of the substrate. Respective condensing tubes 30 are mounted so that their internal passages 29 communicate with the intersecting position of the passages 27, 28 and are provided with a multitude of sheets of fins 32, extending horizontally on the outer peripheries of the condensing tubes 30 and fixed to the condensing tubes. In this case, a heat pipe assembly in an area, not including the passages 27-29 of the base plate 25 or a structural reinforcing member 35, is attached directly to a heat generating body to aim at the heat radiation of the heat generating body.


Aim: To compare the diagnostic criteria of metabolic syndrome (MS) from international diabetes federation (IDF) and Chinese medical association diabetes branch (CDS). Methods: 1320 people, aged ≥40 years, 543 males and 587 females, underwent physical examination, laboratory tests, questionnaire survey so as to screen the MS patients by IDF and CDS diagnostic criteria.The accordance of the two criterias was analyzed. Results: The accordance rate of the two MS diagnostic criterias was 72.39%. If the criterion for fasting blood glucose of CDS criteria was adjusted to 5.6 mmol/L, the accordance was increased to 78.32%. According to IDF criteria, the morbidity of myocardial infarction (MI) and (or) cerebral stroke in those with MS was 20.34%, significantly higher than in those without MS (14.52%, P=0.003). According to CDS criteria, the morbidity of MI and (or) cerebral stroke in those with MS was 21.26%, significantly higher than that in those without MS (15.13%,P=0.007). There was no significant diference in the morbidity of MI and (or) cerebral stroke between the IDF criteria and CDS criteria (P=0.874). Conclusion: The MS diagnostic criterias of IDF and CDS are in good accordance.


It is estimated that about 90% of all volume and about 70% of the value of all goods transported worldwide are carried by ships and are handled through seaports. Whether deep sea or short sea, shipping is the main pillar of world trade, moving raw materials, finished products, and passengers in a complex network spanning the globe. Shipping today faces a significant set of interconnected challenges, ranging from how to effectively use scarce resources and achieve profitability, to how to be friendly to the environment. Maritime routing and scheduling, fleet sizing and composition, terminal management, and green logistics are some areas of interest, but the area is full of a broader spectrum of problems. They span a diverse set of markets (petroleum, LNG, drybulk, containers, RoPax, etc.) and involve an equally diverse number of stakeholders (ship owners, charterers, port operators, logistics providers, etc.). Because of their complexity, many of these problems are amenable to operations research techniques, yet until recent years they have not received the attention they deserve in the literature. To help stimulate discussion and cross-fertilization in this area, a specialized workshop on Maritime Transportation and Port Logistics is being organized by the Transportation Science and Logistics (TSL) Society of INFORMS on June 16–19, 2013, at Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, California. In parallel, a Transportation Science focused issue on Maritime Transportation and Port Logistics intends to reflect these trends, efforts, and results. The aim is to present original, cutting-edge contributions—methodological and theoretical developments, as well as innovative and insight-provoking applications—that address a wide variety of issues in the modeling, planning, and management of maritime transportation and port logistics systems. Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to):


This paper conceptualizes the political economy of the Soviet bloc in terms of concepts used to describe 'classic dependence' and 'dependent development' in the capitalist periphery. In particular, the rapid economic growth that occurred in Eastern Europe between the mid-1950s and mid-1970s can be termed 'dependent development' because the primary stimulus for it came from an external dominator (the Soviet Union) and because the process of economic growth and structural transformation made Eastern Europe more dependent economically upon the USSR and created 'class linkages' of common interest between the Soviet and East European elites. Dependent development of the Soviet bloc was also analogous to the Western case in that, despite initial successes, it ultimately created major economic, political, and social 'contradictions'—which seemingly can only be resolved by a radical structural transformation. In addition to such similarities between 'capitalist' and 'socialist' dependency, there are several important differences as well that evidently derive from the fact that dependency relationships are more 'political' in the Soviet bloc and more 'economic' in the capitalist world.


Background and Aim: Since cytotoxicity screening is the first step necessary for any new drug development, this study was designed to find out and compare the cytotoxicity effects of the essential oil and various extracts of Nigella sativa L. seeds using Brine Shrimp Lethality (BSL) assay. Materials and Methods: Essential oils and various extracts of N. sativa were assessed by two methods of disk and solution of BSL. Data analysis was carried out using SPSS statistical package version 17.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, 250 USA). Data were processed in probit-analysis program to estimate LC 50 values. Results: All of the tested fractions demonstrated more cytotoxicity in the solution method. Petroleum ether and chloroform extract of N. sativa showed the most cytotoxicity with LC 50 values 7 and 21 μg/ml respectively; while aqueous and ethanolic had no significant cytotoxicity. Moreover, the GC/MS analysis of the essential oil of N. sativa showed the p -cymene (48.1%), α-thujone (14.38%) and dihydro carveol (9.11%) as the main compounds. Conclusion: These results suggest some limitation for using this spice in diet. Furthermore, this plant could be considered as a source of cytotoxic compounds which should be studied in details.


Background: Exclusive Breast Feeding of a child remains the best and safest source of nutrition for the vast majority of infants worldwide. However, this recommended practice is hardly adopted by many mothers as no more than 30% of infants are exclusively breastfed globally.
Objective: To determine the factors influencing adherence to EBF among mothers of infants aged 0-6 months attending Maternal Child Health Clinic (MCH) in Kisumu County Hospital
Design: A descriptive cross-sectional study
Study Setting: Maternal Child Health Clinic (MCH) at Kisumu County Hospital.
Study Subjects: All mothers of infants aged 0-6 months and receiving health care services in the MCH clinic at Kisumu County Hospital.
Results: Sixty-four per cent (64%) of the respondents agreed that pre-lacteal feeds should be commenced as soon a baby is born, 69% of the respondents stated that the number of children a mother has could influence adherence to exclusive breast feeding and 73% stated that infants should be given mixture of feeds during the course of breastfeeding.
Conclusion: Demographic factors such as age of the mother, marital status, level of education and number of children a mother has influences the adherence to exclusive breast feeding.


Background Some background about what was happening in Germany around the time of the 30 years war. In 1415, Jan (pronounced "yawn") Hus was burned at the stake for heresy. For refusing to believe in a religion he did not agree with. Bohemia a province or state in Germany is where most of this was happening. It was a tough place to be no matter what religion you where. The only thing that these people of different religions agreed on was that they all hated each other.


Elast-Eon polymers are a class of materials suitable for use in long-term implantable medical devices. They are the copolymers of methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) based polyurethanes and hydroxyl-terminated polydimethyl siloxane, and as a result combine the biostability and biocompatibility of silicones with the mechanical properties of polyurethanes. In order to ensure product safety and meet regulatory requirements, it is important to confirm the absence or presence of toxic 4,4′-methylene dianiline (MDA) in aqueous extracts of Elast-Eon. The present work focusses on the development of an analytical technique to detect any leachable MDA from Elast-Eon polymers. No traces of MDA could be detected in the aqueous extracts from Elast-Eon, or from sterilized and aged (accelerated oxidized) samples of Elast-Eon.


The thermal and magnetic properties of amorphous (FeCo)SiBNb ribbon alloys with high glass forming ability have been investigated. The glass forming ability was enhanced by Co substitution in amorphous ( alloys with the thickness of about . With the increase in Co content, the temperature range of supercooled liquid phase increased indicating the high glass forming ability of the Co-added alloys. Further the ac permeability increased, and the core loss decreased considerably by Co substitution, while small change in (magnetic flux density at 800 A/m) was observed. The frequency characteristics of permeability deteriorated as compared to conventional amorphous ribbon alloys with the thickness of about due to the increased skin effect.


– The residency and movement of stream-dwelling adult (2+ and older) Japanese charr, Salvelinus leucomaenis, were studied by mark and recapture experiments in the Jadani Stream, a headwater tributary of the Tedori River, central Japan, from 1986 to 1989. Of the marked fish, 31.3–58.3% were recaptured in the same pools where they had been caught during the study periods of summer (June–August), autumn (August–November) and winter–spring (November to the next June) and no seasonal movement was observed. The mean distances that the fish moved during the study periods ranged from 139.0 to 502.3 m and many movements longer than 1000 m were observed. Between the resident and the moved fish, there was little difference in body length, growth rate or sex. For the fish that had been resident in the same pools and riffles at previous recaptures, most fish were recaptures in the same locations at the next recapture. Conversely, for the fish that moved previously, most fish were recaptured in different locations from previous sites at the next recapture. These results suggest that Japanese charr exhibit relatively high residency throughout the year, but many fish moved longer distance. The results also suggest the presence of static and mobile components in the charr population.


Three dimensional finite element model for solidly mounted film bulk acoustic resonator (SMFBAR) devices with 23° c-axis-tilted ZnO film is developed and simulated using CoventorWare™. Electromechanical coupling coefficient for 23° c-axis-tilted ZnO film calculated as high as 19% in quasi-shear mode. The particle vibration of the device at resonant frequency was measured in both quasi-shear and quasi-longitudinal modes. The impedance characteristic of the device was also analyzed using Mason's transmission line model. As device was operated in water medium the quality factor of 136 with effective electromechanical coupling of 3.61% was obtained for in quasi-longitudinal mode while the quality factor of 283 with effective electromechanical coupling of 9.37% was registered for quasi-shear mode. The quasi-shear mode of the device showed better performance than quasi-longitudinal in liquid sensing application.


This paper builds on the ideas first put forward at the COMPUMAG conference, Aachen, 2007, and argues that a definite archive of publications in the area of Computational Electromagnetics would benefit the community. Such an archive would aid researchers in placing their work in proper context and would facilitate reviewing process for conferences and journals.


Power-on reset circuit receives a power supply voltage from the power supply terminal and, in response to the received power supply voltage receives the predetermined electric signal from the voltage detector, the voltage detector for outputting an electrical signal, and of the received electrical signal and receiving the reset signal outputted from the inverter, the inverter that outputs a reset signal according to the level, in response to the received reset signal is turned on, the first switch portion, wherein the receiving the power supply voltage from the first switching unit and a first discharger for discharging the electrical signal in response to the received power-supply voltage, the turn in accordance with the start pulse signal is applied from the external device is turned on, the second switch unit for receiving the power voltage from the power supply terminal and the second in response to the power-supply voltage received from the switch unit, including a second discharge for discharging the electrical signal All.