Objective Adiposity is the main risk factor for hypertension and is negatively related to physical activity. However, it is not clear if this relationship is different according to hypertension. The present study aimed to analyze the relationship of physical activity in different domains with adiposity in hypertensive and nonhypertensive adults. Participants and methods A sample of 843 adults (61.6% of female) was randomly selected, with a mean age of 56.6 (±18.3) years. Diagnosed hypertension and the use of medicines were self-reported. Physical activity was assessed by questionnaire and blood pressure was measured by the oscillometric device. Adiposity indicators were as follows: BMI, waist circumference, and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR). Results Hypertension was reported by 44.7% of sample, being higher among older-aged, obese, elevated waist circumference and WHtR, and low physical activity groups. Physical activity was negatively related to BMI (leisure-time physical activity β = −0.070, total physical activity β = −0.082), waist circumference (leisure-time physical activity β = −0.031, total physical activity β = −0.037), and WHtR (leisure-time physical activity β = −4.917, total physical activity β = −5.996) in hypertensive adults. Hypertensive adults who had obesity were more likely to be less active at leisure physical activity [odds ratio (OR) = 2.25] and in total physical activity (OR = 2.46) than hypertensive adults with normal weight. Hypertensive adults with elevated waist circumference and elevated WHtR were more likely to be less active in total physical activity than those hypertensive adults with normal values (OR = 2.34 and 3.33, respectively). Conclusion Leisure time and total physical activity were related to adiposity only in hypertensive adults. Higher physical activity levels could be important to adiposity control in hypertensive population.


For a manufacturing company, product development is a mission-critical process. It can also be a very expensive process. In fact, in many manufacturing sectors, companies are reinvesting between 3% and 8% of their total revenues back into product development each year. This large investment is primarily spent on human resources, and if all resources are concentrated in a single high-cost region, most companies simply overpay for their respective level of productivity. While some companies may spend less across the board by mandate, they are just compromising on value-add and therefore achieving correspondingly lower returns as well. Thanks to the power of modern computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided engineering (CAE), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) technologies, many manufacturing companies now have the tools that allow for resource portability and better alignment of cost and value-add. This global rearrangement of product development activities and personnel is what many industry experts refer to as "Global Product Development". This paper is designed to help CEOs, CFOs, and senior Engineering executives understand how and where to leverage Global Product Development as a means to gain a dramatic increase in productivity within their product development operation. For companies pursuing growth opportunities, this productivity increase can materialize into increased capacity and capability within a constant cost structure. For companies pursuing increased profitability levels, the same productivity increase can be monetized as reduced costs and improved profits within a constant capacity. Either way, the benefit to a company and its shareholders is significant. White Paper Global Product Development Page 2 of 13 What Is Global Product Development? . . . . . . . 3 Domino Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The Basics of Global Product Development. . . . 3 Offshoring Versus Outsourcing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 A Global Development Maturity Model . . . . . . . . . 4 Value Proposition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Financial Benefits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Operational Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Global Product Development – Is It Real?. . . . . 6 Manufacturing Leaders Deploy Global Product Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Global Product Development at PTC . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Operational Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 What To Offshore? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Where to Offshore? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 How to Offshore? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 The Outsourcing Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Risks and Challenges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Political Concerns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Business Concerns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Technical Concerns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Organizational Concerns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 PTC–Your Global Product Development Partner 13 What Is Global Product Development? Simply put, Global Product Development means maximizing the financial and operational productivity of the product development process by spreading product development activities across multiple regions of the world in order to better match value-add to cost. In this context, the definition of "product development" ranges from marketing activities that identify and document customer needs; to engineering activities that conceptualize, design, analyze and refine new product ideas; to activities that plan and document manufacturing, operation, and maintenance processes; to sustaining activities that make ongoing product changes and refinements. Regions with high costs include industrialized countries like the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, and Japan. The list of lower–cost regions is long, but major nations include India, China, Russia and various other Eastern European and Asian countries.


This paper presents a method of collaborative risk management in software procurement and development projects. First it overviews the success criteria and typical risks from the point of view of different stakeholders. Then a concept of the continuous process of risk identification and analysis is presented together with the structures supporting the management of the process and the representation of risks. We also propose a security policy to be applied in order to reflect possibly conflicting interests of project participants. Finally, a practical solution – the software tool supporting risk assessment, together with the results of three validation experiments are briefly presented.


Parenting self-efficacy has been found to play an important role in the use of positive parenting practices, parent and foster carer psychological wellbeing, and positive outcomes for children in foster care and in the care of their parents. The current study examines perceived parenting self-efficacy, psychological wellbeing and levels of challenging child behaviours in foster carers and parents. Sixty-eight foster carers and sixty-eight parents completed an online survey exploring each of these variables. Results demonstrated no significant between-group differences on depression, anxiety, self-efficacy or parent distress measures. However foster carers reported significantly higher levels of child challenging behaviours as compared to parents. Across all participants, self-efficacy was identified as a mediating factor in the relationship between challenging behaviours and psychological wellbeing (specifically parent distress and depression). These results support past research which has identified this relationship with foster carers and parents as separate groups.


This study aims to find out the influence of internal control and individual morality on the prevention of fraud on PT. Regional Development Bank of Southeast Sulawesi. The population in this research is all employees of PT. Southeast Sulawesi Regional Development Bank as many as 55 employees and sampling techniques, namely saturated sampling. The results showed that partial internal control has a cynical effect on the prevention of fraud, individual morality has a significant effect on the prevention of fraud and simultaneously free variables, i.e. internal control and individual morality have a significant influence on the prevention of fraud in PT. Regional Development Bank of Southeast Sulawesi. The coefficient test of determination shows the value of R Square of 0.838 this indicates that the ability of dependent variables is able to explain the variable dependency with a coefficient of determination of 83.8% while the remaining 16.2% is explained by other variables that are not studied. This indicates that the better internal control and individual morality applied, the risk of fraud will be small.


Specimens from Northeast Larix wood were treated with high temperature and high pressure under the temperature of 120, 140, 160 and 180 ℃, and treated time of 10, 20, 30 and 40 min, and vacuum of-0.1 MPa to test the color and painting properties of treated wood. The color index before and after the woods treated and coating film properties before and after the specimens painted were respectively determined. The results show that all the color indexes of the wood treated with high temperature and high pressure had little change, the wood specimens remained largely the original colors of wood characteristics. In terms of painting properties, the performance of un-grease treated wood with high pressure and high temperature overmatched that of the wood specimens treated under high temperature and general pressure.


: This paper provides the implementation of optimal control for an armature-controlled DC motor. The selection of error weighted Matrix and control weighted matrix in order to implement optimal control theory for improving the dynamic behavior of DC motor is presented. The closed loop performance of Armature controlled DC motor with derived linear optimal controller is then evaluated for the transient operating condition (starting). The result obtained from MATLAB is compared with that of PID controller and simple closed loop response of the motor.


Results of the 2015 early searches for supersymmetric particles obtained by the CMS experiment with 13 TeV data are reviewed.With an integrated luminosity of 2.2 fb − 1 , limits on the gluino mass have been lifted up to higher values with respect to previous limits from 19.5 fb − 1 of 8 TeV data. Presented at the in LHC Results of the 2015 early searches for supersymmetric particles obtained by the CMS experiment with 13 TeV data are reviewed. With an integrated luminosity of 2.2 fb − 1 , limits on the gluino mass have been lifted up to higher values with respect to previous limits from 19.5 fb − 1 of 8 TeV data.


The invention provides an inspection adapter board for printed board, which has inspection electrodes of a pitch wider than electrodes to be inspected, permits carrying out the necessary inspection for a printed board by a tester having a small capacity, and can be designed and fabricated with ease, and a method for inspecting the printed board by an inspection adapter board. The invention also provides a method and apparatus for producing information for fabricating such an inspection adapter board. The inspection adapter board is equipped with inspection electrodes corresponding to the electrodes to be inspected. At least one of the inspection electrodes is a common inspection electrode commonly corresponding to two or more electrodes to be inspected. The common inspection electrode is formed in a state that wiring networks do not form a closed circuit. Alternatively, at least one of the inspection electrodes is formed as a representative inspection electrode corresponding to one electrode to be inspected in each wiring network.


By using Symanzik{close_quote}s improvement program, we study on-shell-improved lattice QCD with staggered fermions. We find that there are as many as 15 independent lattice operators of dimension 6 (including both gauge and fermion operators) which must be added to the unimproved action to form an O(a{sup 2})-improved action. Among them, the total number of dimension-6 gauge operators and fermion bilinears is 5. The other ten terms are four-fermion operators. At the tree level and tadpole-improved tree level, all ten four-fermion operators are absent. {copyright} {ital 1997} {ital The American Physical Society}


The paper proposes a new fuzzy SVM,called CI-FSVM(Class Imbalance Fuzzy Support Vector Machine)short for which is based on imbalanced datasets classification.By improving penalty functions,we reduce the sensitivity of the model for imbalanced datasets withoverlap".In addition,the parameters in SVM models are optimized by the grid-parameter-search algorithm.The results show that the CI-FSVM has a better effect in imbalanced datasets classification compared with other models.It not only has a higher overall accuracy,but also improves are judgment accuracy when dealing with the minority classifications.


—Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has emerged as a promising architectural style that provides software applications with high level of flexibility and reusability. However, in several cases where legacy software components are wrapped to be used as web services the final solution does not completely satisfy the SOA aims of flexibility and reusability. The literature review and the industrial applications show that SOA lacks a formal definition and measurement for optimal granularity of web services. Indeed, wrapping several business functionalities as a coarse-grained web services lacks reusability and flexibility. On the other hand, a huge number of fine-grained web services results in a high coupling between services and large size messages transferred over the Internet. The main research question still concerns with "How to determine an optimal level of service granularity when wrapping business functionalities as web services?" This research proposes the Snowball framework as a promising approach to integrate and compose web services. The framework is made up three-step process. The process uses the rules in deciding the web services that have an optimal granularity that maintains the required performance. To demonstrate and evaluate the framework, we realized a car insurance application that was already implemented by a traditional approach. The results show the efficiency of snowball framework over other approaches.


This paper reviews Norwegian experience of urban toll systems since 1986, and discusses some of the conflicts and other effects related to urban cordon tolls. During the last 15 years, there has been a very rapid expansion in the use of road tolls in Norway, which implies a strong increase in road building, and a change in the decision-making and power structure related to road building. Some reasons for the popularity of road tolls in Norway are stated. In Norway, only cordon tolls have been accepted as a tool for raising funds for specific purposes. The existing Norwegian urban cordon toll systems are: (1) a system in Bergen, introduced on 1 January 1986, and operating on weekdays between 0600 and 2200; (2) a system in Oslo, established on 1 February 1990, and operating every day both day and night; (3) an automatic system, with electronic payment, introduced in Trondheim on 14 October 1991, where tolls are higher during the morning peak. In addition, Tromso has a local petrol tax, and several cities have toll roads. The main purpose of existing Norwegian toll systems is to finance urban road networks. This aim has been achieved very successfully. Hitherto, cordon tolls have also reduced traffic, perhaps more than expected, at least in Oslo. For the covering abstract see IRRD 866164.


One of the recurrent findings of journalism research has been that access to the news and public discussion is severely structurally limited. Elite speakers tend to appear as 'primary definers' while ordinary people play the subordinate role of 'symbol people'. Less attention has been paid to how 'ordinary people' could be represented differently. This article offers a close reading of two journalistic experiments in which journalists tried to break this deadlock by allowing ordinary people to tell stories about their own experiences. In this way the ordinary people were able to participate seriously in a public debate. Habermas' theory of communicative action is used in the article in order to show why this was possible.


In the present work flotation concentration of 4 types of barite was investigated, aiming for at least 60% of BaO and less than 6% of SiO2 in the concentrate. Flotation testing of different collectors, alone and in combinations, was performed. Because of the the presence of sulfides in the samples, a prior sulfide flotation step was performed for their removal in order to warrant the highest BaO final grades. The best results of the four barite samples showed that the objective was achieved with the BaO grade higher than 64%, the SiO2 grade lower than 3,3% at a BaO recovery of at least 79%. The concentration route for each barite was different; in the blue barite the best collectors were cetyl-sterayl sulfate and soy bean oil, in the white barite was the mix of sulfossuccinate and sulfonic acid, in the T3 barite was the soy bean oil and in the so called tailing barite was the sulfossucinate.


The oxygen vacancy formation energy ($\Delta E_{vf}$) governs defect dynamics and is a useful metric to perform materials selection for a variety of applications. However, density functional theory (DFT) calculations of $\Delta E_{vf}$ come at a greater computational cost than the typical bulk calculations available in materials databases due to the involvement of multiple vacancy-containing supercells. As a result, available repositories of direct calculations of $\Delta E_{vf}$ remain relatively scarce, and the development of machine learning models capable of delivering accurate predictions is of interest. In the present, work we address both such points. We first report the results of new high-throughput DFT calculations of oxygen vacancy formation energies of the different unique oxygen sites in over 1000 different oxide materials, which together form the largest dataset of directly computed oxygen vacancy formation energies to date, to our knowledge. We then utilize the resulting dataset of $\sim$2500 $\Delta E_{vf}$ values to train random forest models with different sets of features, examining both novel features introduced in this work and ones previously employed in the literature. We demonstrate the benefits of including features that contain information specific to the vacancy site and account for both cation identity and oxidation state, and achieve a mean absolute error upon prediction of $\sim$0.3 eV/O, which is comparable to the accuracy observed upon comparison of DFT computations of oxygen vacancy formation energy and experimental results. Finally, we demonstrate the predictive power of the developed models in the search for new compounds for solar-thermochemical water-splitting applications, finding over 250 new AA$^{\prime}$BB$^{\prime}$O$_6$ double perovskite candidates.


The Caribbean Palms Resort has attempted to achieve both revenue and guest satisfaction from its beach-front palapas. However, the approaches to date have been too complex and have confused customers. A straightforward policy of charging appropriate seasonal prices for all palapas, coupled with add-on services for those who want them, will achieve both revenue and guest-satisfaction goals.


The present work was performed under the auspices of Korea Science and Engineering Foundation(KOSEF, 98-0200-03-01-2, 98-2-09-04-01-2) and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST). The work was also supported in part by the Brain Korea 21 Project.


We study the market for applications on Facebook, the dominant platform for social networking and make use of a rule change by Facebook by which high-quality applications were rewarded with further opportunities to engage users. We find that the change led to quality being a more important driver of usage while sheer network size became less important. Further, we find that update frequency helps applications maintain higher usage, while generally usage of Facebook applications declines less rapidly with age.


System level designs are typically heterogeneous, thus combining different technologies. In order to create executable specifications at such a level, a hardware description language, a programming language, or a combination of both is used. However, the resulting description may not be efficient because the ability of each language to capture the system's features is limited by its semantics. This paper presents a methodology for analyzing the efficiency of a set of models of computation to build executable specifications. We defined a set of "behavioral primitives" and evaluated how efficiently they are captured by different models of computation. A debugger/profiler tool was developed. The analysis of the data produced by our tool allows us to derive criteria to choose the most adequate model of computation for each primitive. The analysis of the basic block behavioral primitive is detailed in order to illustrate the method.


ABSTRACT Different positive effects of interactions with animals, such as reduction of stress reactions, depressive mood, anxiety, aggression, and pain, and promotion of trust, calmness, motivation, and concentration have been documented by research on human–animal interaction (HAI), including animal assisted interventions (AAIs). Potential biological, psychological, and social processes may underpin these effects. Theories of why this may occur include biophilia, anthropomorphism, a focus on the experiential system instead of the verbal-symbolic system, motivation, activation of the oxytocin system, attachment and caregiving including provision of social support for stress buffering, and distraction processes. Understanding how animals may positively affect educational and therapeutic settings, in particular for individuals with psychical and psychosocial challenges, and finding what special indications for AAI exist, and which preconditions of learning in the client or the setting could potentially be enhanced, might provide not only a better rationale for AAIs but also promote their efficacy.


After our entering WTO, the insufficient ability of new technical creating and the lags of the facilities and craftwork have become the main problems that restrict the confineable progress of our country's textile industry. In the base of having collected a great deal of data, this essay analyses the main facts that can influence technical innovation of our country's textile industry, and creating the estimating system of technical innovation of our country's textile companies which is fit for our country's textile industry.


The Gauss plane functions of the complex variable curves Eilenberg's theorem and its consequences curvilinear integral and primitive functions Cauchy's theorem and its consequences Laurent's expansions, the residue theorem meromorphic functions conformal mappings extensions of conformal mappings the Cauchy-Goursat theorem introduction to the theory of conformal mappings of multiply connected regions analytic functions applications to the theory of plane vector fields.


BIONAT is a French multicentric phase IV study of natalizumab (NTZ)‐treated relapsing−remitting multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. The purpose of this study was to collect clinical, radiological and biological data on 1204 patients starting NTZ, and to evaluate the clinical/radiological response to NTZ after 2 years of treatment.


To carry out character education, teacher is the key. Teacher is the engineer for human soul. In practice,the occupation is to educate and mold the persons soul. The imitate such as morals ,thoughts, feelings, culture and knowledge would produce directly or imperceptible influence on students.So, the teacher must be the model for students on words and actions in darily life. In medical university , a teacher should not only have the good teacher virtuous, but also should have the good medical ethics,Which can bring up students both good in virtuous and medical ethics


Leukemia inhibit factor(LIF) has been found a valuable differentiation-inhibiting factor for maintaining mouse embryonic stem cells in vitro. However, whether this cytokine similarly effects on other stem cells in body is still unknown. In present study, primary ectomesenchymal cells(EMCs) are isolated from E12.5 BALB/c mice, cultured in DMEM/F12 standard medium or mediums supplemented with 1000U/ml LIF, 20ng/ml bFGF, or LIF+bFGF. Using p75 as a marker, the percentage of ectomesenchymal stem cells (EMSCs) in EMCs is assayed. Two main findings emerged from these analyses: (1) gp130 (LIF receptor) expressed on EMSCs surface, suggestting LIF has potential function on EMSCs. (2)LIF can obviously inhibit EMSCs to differentiate, maintain EMSCs survive in vitro, and such effection can be enhanced by cooperation of bFGF. These results suggest that LIF also is a differentiation-inhibiting factor for mouse EMSCs. Thus, LIF and bFGF can be used for amplifying such stem cells in vitro.


The phrase "competitive values" recalls a classical study by Arthur Adkins, who attempted to make a distinction between competitive and cooperative values in ancient Greek society.1 In this study, Adkins states that Homeric society functions in accordance with an aristocratic code of ethics and is dominated by competitive values, such as honor and desire for distinction. On the other hand, cooperative values, such as justice and self-control, play a secondary role and progressively come into the foreground in the city-state, but without the competitive values ever losing their strength. Although major problems with Adkins' analysis have been recognized – it has rightly been pointed out that such schematic distinctions do not imply a collective social conscience of a concrete period but exist in every society, on a smaller or larger scale2 –, Adkins' distinction of values is a useful point of reference in order to understand the connection between the moral subject and the community in ancient Greek fundamental political and social ideas, whether it concerns individual personalities or city-states treated as individuals. The term philotimia as a compound with a transitive verb-stem (φιλεῖν + τιμή) demonstrates the motivation for honor, excellence and glory, and is a highly competitive value, which in its historical development rarely occurs before the end of the fifth century BCE, but very often in the fourth century BCE.3 In the proem of Isocrates' Evagoras, the recently deceased Cypriot king Evagoras I is ranked among men of ambition and greatness of soul (3: φιλoτίμους καὶ μεγαλοψύχους), while in Xenophon's encomium Agesilaus, the Spartan king is characterized as a lover of glory (10.4: φιλοτιμότατος) by nature, as is Cyrus in the Cyropaedia (1.2.1: φιλοτιμότατος). Since a competitive value, such as philotimia, systematically raises the question of the subject's ethical relationship with others, it is


In a method called issue-based learning, students learn about a subject by collaborating in groups to find a solution to an unrestricted problem. The motivation and learning are driven by this issue. The study is a descriptive survey that aims to find out how teachers in secondary schools in Lagos State feel about using problem-based learning to teach and learn mathematics. The study was conducted at Corona Secondary School in Lekki and St. Saviours High School in Ikotun, both in Lagos State, Nigeria. 247 instructors from Corona Secondary School and 205 from St. Saviours High School in Lagos State, Nigeria, make up the study's population. 100 instructors from the two schools in Lagos state were the study's sample. 100 teachers were part of the study's sample. Candidates were picked through a stratified sampling process. The instrument used for the study is a standardized 30-item questionnaire called Teachers Perspective towards the use of Problem-Based Learning for Teaching and Learning of Mathematics in Lagos State Secondary Schools (TPTPBLTLMLSSS). The study used both face validity and content validity. Pearson product moment correlation was used to generate reliability co-efficient of 0.72. The statistical methods employed for the study were mean and z test.


We present the case of a 52-year-old male with a past medical history of double-lung transplantation in the context of alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, complicated by chronic lung allograft dysfunction (bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome), and two perianal interventions (fistulotomy and hemorrhoidectomy) 5 years before. The patient was admitted to our hospital due to acute-on-chronic respiratory failure as a result of respiratory infection. In the intermediate care unit, he started noninvasive ventilation, broad-spectrum antibiotherapy, and thromboprophylactic enoxaparin 40 mg daily. Due to constipation, even taking osmotic laxatives, daily docusate sodium and sorbitol enemas were initiated as well. Five days later, the patient had new-onset rectal bleeding, without abdominal or anal pain. Laboratory data showed a hemoglobin level of 6.4 g/dL. He required intravenous fluids and blood transfusions for resuscitation. Due to persistent rectal bleeding with associated hemodynamic instability, a flexible sigmoidoscopy was performed after cleansing enema administration. An extensive tear of the distal rectum with exposure of the muscular layer was evident (Fig. 1a), as well as two fistula openings with many clots and associated spurting bleeding (Fig. 1b). Hemostasis was achieved after the injection of 9 mL of diluted adrenaline (1: 10,000) and placement of 6 hemoclips (Fig. 2). Computed tomography angiography was performed immediately after the procedure, which showed parietal thickening of the terminal portion of the rectum, with associated fistulous tracts containing gas (Fig. 3). There was no evidence of active bleeding, perforation, or intra-abdominal collections. No further episodes of bleeding occurred after endoscopic therapy. However, the respiratory failure gradually worsened and the patient was refused for retransplantation. He died a week later. Besides the previous perianal interventions, there was no history of recent trauma, anal intercourse, or endoscopic or surgical procedures. Therefore, the rectal tear was probably caused by the administration of a cleansing enema to a debilitated patient with reduced complaints of


in this paper, i address the issue of non-lawyer forms of assistance and middle-income access to justice as part of a comprehensive strategy to promote meaningful access to justice. i do so by presenting the ideas of 'non-lawyer' and 'middle income' as variables in, or components of, the larger Access to Justice question. As the Background Paper to the colloquium cautions, we should be 'attentive to the fact that a focus on solving access to justice problems of the middle class may have an impact on low-income individuals and communities.'1 How can we be sure whether the steps we propose to assist middle-income earners are not achieved at the expense of low-income individuals and communities? How would we measure the trade-offs? the danger of pitting middle-income earners against low-income ones is only one reason to address the problem as a component of a coherent approach to access to justice. since the challenges that call for the provision of increased access to justice flow from the shortage of affordable lawyers in relation to the needs of those who cannot afford lawyers, responses involve a range of solutions short of providing lawyers for all lowand middle-income earners for all their legal needs. viewed one way, this is an inevitable and appropriate response to a


While in the process of computing poker odds, the following question occurred to me: given a random number generator that returns answers from one to 52, how many calls on average need to be made before at least one of each number is found?


This paper presents an Enhanced Teaching-Learning-Based Optimization (ETLBO) algorithm for solving reactive power flow problem. Teaching-learning process is an iterative process where in the continuous interaction takes place for the transfer of knowledge. Movements of trial solutions will investigate the internally final stages. Up gradation of the algorithm has been done through by adding weight in the learner values. Projected ETLBO algorithm has been tested in standard IEEE 57,118 bus systems and power loss has been reduced efficiently.


Summary McDowell's (4) published figures of 109,116 yearly records of cows 5 to 9 years of age in dairy herd improvement associations in the United States have been reworked to show, by live weight of cow and breeds: the energy yield in pounds of 4 per cent milk (340 calories); the theoretical coefficient of efficiency, that is, the percentage of feed energy recovered as milk energy; the recorded feed cost in dollars per hundred-weight of 4 per cent milk. As between grade and registered cows energy yield is substantially equal for the Guernsey and Ayrshire breeds; but materially greater for the registered cows in the case of the Jersey and Holstein breeds. In all 4 breeds the feed cost per hundred-weight of 4 per cent milk is lower for the grade cows, to the extent of about $0.10. The average feed cost is $0.90 per hundred-weight of 4 per cent milk for all records, the average yearly yield being 7,737 pounds of 4 per cent milk. For summary of remaining points all breed classes may be combined. Energy yield increases with size of cow in a linear manner and at the rate of about 250 pounds of 4 per cent milk per year for each 100 pounds increase in weight. Since this is about half the corresponding figure found in advanced registry records and the average yield also about half, it appears that the weight-yield relation is similar in the two classes of records if level of yield is used as a base. The theoretical coefficient of efficiency decreases with increasing weight. Interpreted in terms of feed cost this should mean an increase in feed cost per unit of milk with size of cow, amounting to about $0.03 per hundred-weight of 4 per cent milk for each 100 pounds increase in live weight. The recorded feed cost per hundred-weight of 4 per cent milk decreases with live weight of cow in the range 600 to 800 pounds; and is practically constant in the range 800 to 1,600 pounds. The cause of the discrepancy between the theoretical efficiency and recorded feed cost cannot be determined from the data at hand. It is suggested that it may be due to systematic errors in the bookkeeping which tend to overcharge the small cow and undercharge the large cow for feed energy actually consumed, particularly in the matter of pasture.


Lane line recognition and classification is an important content in the field of advanced assisted driving and autonomous driving. Based on LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging), this paper proposes a fine lane recognition method, namely dashed and solid lane lines classification, and verifies its feasibility. First, the collected LiDAR data is preprocessed, then the lane points in the point cloud are detected, and finally the lane line fitting is carried out for the detected lane points. In the preprocessed process, KD-Tree is used to search the point cloud in the ROI (Region of interest), and then RANSAC (Random Sample Consensus) algorithm is used to fit it. An appropriate threshold is set to extract the optimal plane to get the ground data, and then the window search is used to iteratively search lane points one by one along the road direction, and the final lane lines are obtained by parabolic fitting and parallel fitting of lane points. Dashed and solid lines can be distinguished according to the mean reflection intensity of point clouds on the lane line. Based on MATLAB, the method is verified, and the results show that the method can accurately identify the lane line, and can classify the dashed lines and solid lines.


The landscape, as an archive of the traces of the history of man and nature, can be considered a holistic indicator of sustainable, inclusive, safe, resilient cities as set out in Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development. The UNESCO Recommendations on Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) reflect it as a dynamic/evolving system that changes over time to meet social needs: it requires to be managed in a sustainable way, not only as a resource to be preserved. The beauty of the landscape is a common element in the development policies of many small-medium European and Italian cities. However, the state of abandonment and decay, the lack of investments, of often emigrated skills are the detractors. The circular economy model applied to the HUL leads to the ability to maximize the value of settlements, activating social, economic and environmental synergies. The research identifies the relationship among Circularity, Productivity and Resilience as an effective key to achieve the goals of Agenda 2030. The methodological approach tested on the case study of Torre Annunziata, Naples has reached a system of resilience performance indicators to express the complex nature of HUL and define a scenario of circular regeneration, based on the recreation of a virtuous circuit between physical, environmental, social, economic systems.


The fuel injector, widely used for diesel engines, is characterized by the fact that the volumetric efficiency and spray pattern drastically change due to build up the fluid flow channel. In the case of high pressure diesel fuel injection the flow conditions inside the fuel injection holes have an important influence on the development of the spray. The present study is intended to describe the effect of channel shape and the needle valve lift on the characteristics of a fuel flow in the multi-hole injector using a numerical simulation with the help of COMSOL Multiphysics. In this model, the flow velocity is calculated for determining quality of fuel delivered to the engine. The large pressure differences across the fuel injector nozzle give higher jet velocity at nozzle exit. The simulation result show that the best design for a fuel injector is by using smaller holes size where turbulent flow are well developed inside the injector. This result was compared with the simulation result of existing parameter. It was show that the characteristics of the fluid flow are predicted relatively well by introducing movement of region with very large viscosity.


Background:Cerebrovascular bypass operations followed by occlusion of complex intracranial aneurysms are relatively common procedure for neurosurgeons, but the vascular anastomosis is a demanding procedure that requires experience in microsurgical techniques. We believe that the plastic surgery/neurosurgery alliance can improve the patency of the microvascular anastomosis and clinical outcomes.Aim and Objectives:To evaluate role of plastic surgeon in cerebral revascularization for complex intracranial aneurysm and the possibility of IC-IC bypass.Materials and Methods:We report two cases who received EC-IC and IC-IC bypasses which were performed by plastic surgeon followed by occlusion of complex intracranial.Results:Postoperative angiography confirmed evident patency of the anastomosis, and there was no evidence of brain infarction or neurologic deficit after a one-year follow-up.Conclusion:We believe that the plastic surgery/neurosurgery alliance allows scope for improved outcomes in cerebrovascular bypass operations, and the well-trained plastic surgeons have extensive experience in conducting the microsurgical procedure. Although IC-IC bypass technique is more challenging technically than conventional EC-IC bypass, it has several advantages and should be considered for certain candidates.


Single cell gel electrophoresis (SCGE- or comet-) assay is based on the determination of DNA-migration in an electric field and can be used in human intervention studies to investigate the impact of dietary factors on DNA stability. The use of this technique has yielded new and unexpected results concerning the antioxidant and chemoprotective properties of food components.


This paper introduces the status quo, distribution and development trend of foreign underground gas storages in construction in allusion to the construction of underground gas storages at present in China,and describes the major functions of underground gas storages, the construction of different types of underground gas storages worldwide, including their advantages and disadvantages relative to the types. The author gives the technological issues to be strenuously studied in design and construction of underground gas storages and looks ahead the development trend of underground gas storages.


BACKGROUND
Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is the most prevalent systemic vasculitis in the elderly and can lead to permanent vision loss if left untreated. Most earlier studies have evaluated GCA in primarily white populations, and GCA was traditionally thought to occur at nearly negligible frequency in black populations. Our previous study showed that GCA may occur at similar rates in white and black patients, but little is known about the presentation of GCA in black patients. The purpose of this study is to examine baseline presentation of biopsy-proven GCA (BP-GCA) in a tertiary care center-based population with a sizeable proportion of black patients.

METHODS
Retrospective study from a single academic institution of a previously described cohort of BP-GCA. Presenting symptoms, laboratory findings, and GCA Calculator Risk score were compared in black and white patients with BP-GCA.

RESULTS
Among 85 patients with biopsy-proven GCA, 71 (84%) were white and 12 (14%) were black. White patients had higher rates of elevated platelet count (34% vs 0%, P = 0.04), whereas black patients had higher rates of diabetes mellitus (67% vs 12%, P < 0.001). There were no statistically significant differences in age, gender, biopsy classification (active vs healed arteritis), cranial symptoms, visual symptoms/ophthalmic findings, rates of abnormal erythrocyte sedimentation rate or C-reactive protein, unintentional weight loss, polymyalgia rheumatica, or GCA risk calculator score.

CONCLUSIONS
Presenting features of GCA were similar between white and black patients in our cohort, except for rates of abnormal platelet level and diabetes. Physicians should feel comfortable relying on the usual clinical features for the diagnosis of GCA independent of race.


With the rapid enlargement of enrollment scale of art majors and development of tourism,sketching bases are rising quietly and growing prosperously in some regions.They become the new economic growth point in local area.Based on the theory of stakeholders,taking E'zhuang sketching bases as a case study,the relationship map of stakeholders was constructed and the gamble analysis of key stakeholders was explained.At last,some strategies to the sustainable development were put forward.


A two-component fluid representing dark energy is studied. One of the components has a polytropic form, while the other has a barotropic form. Exact solutions are obtained and the cosmological parameters are constrained using supernova type Ia data. The dark matter density parameter is higher than in the ΛCDM model but still in agreement with the observational data. A big rip scenario is preferred, but the dispersion in the parameter space is very high. Hence, scenarios without future singularities can not be excluded with the allowed range of parameters. An asymptotic de Sitter phase is predicted by a wide range of the equation of state parameters. Pacs numbers: 98.80.-k, 98.80.Es


Lepista sordida,strain 623,was grown in submerged culture on a medium consisting of 2% glucose,0.2% peptone,0.01% KH2PO4 and 0.005% MgSO4 for 10dat 28℃.Combined fungal mycelium and spent culture broth were extracted with water at 100℃ for 1h and,after filtration and removal of protein by the Sevag method,four volumes of 95% ethanol was added to the solution.After standing for 24hat 25℃,the precipitated crude polysaccharide was collected by centrifugation and freeze-dried.One hundred chickens(one-day-old)were divided into two equal groups,a test group that was administered 5 mg/kg crude polysaccharide intragastrically daily for 35d and a control group administered physiological saline.Compared with the controls,chickens in the test group had a mean splenic index value that was 1.21-fold higher,significantly lower total cholesterol levels in blood samples after 28d,a significantly(P 0.05)higher(1.44-fold)mean stimulation index value(an indicator of lymphocyte proliferation),and a significantly higher percentage ofα-naphthyl-acetate esterase positive cells(an indicator of maturation phase T-cells)after21d.


Function Blocks provides a means to model and program industrial control systems. The recently acclaimed IEC 61499 standard allows such system models to be partitioned and executed in a distributed fashion. At device level, such models are traditionally implemented onto programmable logic controllers that underneath have an operating system and a software run-time environment which implies high resource demands. However, there is a current trend to involve small embedded systems (so called Internet of Things devices) integrated into such distributed control systems. To this end, we seek to address the outsets for real-time execution of Function Block based designs onto light-weight controllers (MCUs) with limited resources (memory and CPU). Furthermore, we propose a mapping of the Function Block execution semantics onto the RTFM-kernel, and discuss opportunities for off-line (design time) analysis with respect to response time, overall schedulability and memory requirements.


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Abstract Philopona pseudomouhoti, n. sp., from Hainan Island, China, is described and illustrated. This species is ecologically associated with Radermacher hainanensis Merr. (Bignoniaceae). A key for the known species of Philopona of China is provided.


The methods of coordination chemistry are extended to fabricate hollow spheres of inorganic materials. In particular, in the present work a novel approach is successfully put forward to synthesize ZnO submicrometer hollow spheres, in which the coordination polymer [Zn(4,4′-bipy)(NCS)2]n with a 1D chain structure is introduced as a reactant. In this approach, no additional template materials are needed to obtain submicrometer hollow-sphere structures in the reaction process. A possible mechanism is also proposed.


The present study demonstrated that bone marrow cells from diabetic rats were able to form cell clusters expressing insulin,C-peptide,glucagon,somatostatin and islet amyloid .polypeptide,and other genes associated with development and function of islets such as glucose transporter-2,glucokinase,glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor,PDX-1,Ngn3,NeuroDl,Pax-6 and NKX2.2 genes.These islet-like cells might be derived from adult stem cells in bone marrow.


mechanism by which it may unstable psoriasis is still unknown. However, psoriatic exacerbations and psoriatic erythroderma due to bupropion have been recently described in the literature. Cigarette smoking is common on psoriatic patients. Due to its systemic inflammatory nature, psoriasis has been linked to the metabolic syndrome and to cardiovascular events. As the adequate control of cardiovascular risk factors gains importance, it is likely that the use of bupropion in this population will grow in the future. The possibility of severe exacerbation of psoriasis should be kept in mind and particular care should be taken when bupropion is prescribed to patients with a known history of psoriasis.


We present the discovery of TOI-1994b, a low-mass brown dwarf transiting a hot subgiant star on a moderately eccentric orbit. TOI-1994 has an effective temperature of $7700^{+720}_{-410}$ K, V magnitude of 10.51 mag and log(g) of $3.982^{+0.067}_{-0.065}$. The brown dwarf has a mass of $22.1^{+2.6}_{-2.5}$ $M_J$, a period of 4.034 days, an eccentricity of $0.341^{+0.054}_{-0.059}$, and a radius of $1.220^{+0.082}_{-0.071}$ $R_J$. TOI-1994b is more eccentric than other transiting brown dwarfs with similar masses and periods. The population of low mass brown dwarfs may have properties similar to planetary systems if they were formed in the same way, but the short orbital period and high eccentricity of TOI-1994b may contrast this theory. An evolved host provides a valuable opportunity to understand the influence stellar evolution has on the substellar companion's fundamental properties. With precise age, mass, and radius, the global analysis and characterization of TOI-1994b augments the small number of transiting brown dwarfs and allows the testing of substellar evolution models.


The invention relates to a security feature (12) for security papers, valuable documents or similar, comprising two layers (22, 24) of cholesteric liquid crystal material located one above the other, the respective layers selectively reflecting light (30, 34) in a first, longer-wavelength spectrum when viewed from a first direction perpendicular to the surface of the layer and selectively reflecting light (32, 36) in a second, shorter-wavelength spectrum when viewed from a second direction running at an angle to the perpendicular of said surface. According to the invention, a first of the two layers (22) is in the form of a motif to be represented and reflects light (34) in the green spectrum when viewed from the first direction, whereas the second of the two layers (24) reflects light (32) in the green spectrum when viewed from the second direction.


Disclosed is a method for the performance and extend the life of the ion source to improve the ion source ion implantation system. The fluorine source dopant gas is introduced together with one or more co-gas into the ion chamber. One or more promoters may include hydrogen gas or krypton. Cogas easing effect results from the failure of the ion source consisting of a fluorine ion source chamber caused.


Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler (2003, 2006, 2009) contend that the government is justified in shaping certain choices of individuals to advance their well-being. In this paper, I argue that those who are committed to a robust notion of autonomy, which I call autonomy as authority, have good reason to reject the Sunstein-Thaler (S/T) argument for libertarian paternalism. I draw from Joseph Raz's (1990) idea of exclusionary reasons and Daniel Groll's (2012) conception of autonomy to argue that the S/T argument for libertarian paternalism fails to respect autonomy. I consider if soft paternalism could be called upon as a foundation for libertarian paternalism, but argue against this possibility. I conclude that an adequate defense of libertarian paternalism would need to directly attack the notion of autonomy as authority, but such an attack has yet to be mounted by the defenders of libertarian paternalism. INDEX WORDS: Soft paternalism, Libertarian paternalism, Autonomy, Nudge, Wellbeing LIBERTARIAN PATERNALISM AND THE AUTHORITY OF THE AUTONOMOUS PERSON


This article analyzes the legal regulation of wages athletes and coaches. The authors conclude that the Labor Code needs changes, nationwide law regulating sports federations to establish a maximum wage.


Baiyangdian is the largest fresh lake of Hebei Province and is called kidney of North China. In recent years, water environmental pollution has been a large barrier limiting economic development of Baiyangdian because of various reasons. In this paper, we investigated water resource and water environment and analysed the reason of water pollution in order to provide base for the water environment protection of Baiyangdian.


The invention relates to a method for operating a vehicle, to create a digital map of a parking lot, - wherein the moving within the parking vehicle determines data on its path inside the parking lot and - sends the data obtained via a communications network to a map server so that the server can create maps based on the data a digital map of the parking lot. The invention further relates to a corresponding device. The invention further relates to a method for creating a digital map of a parking lot and a map server and a computer program.


This article may be used for research, teaching and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, redistribution , reselling , loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden. The publisher does not give any warranty express or implied or make any representation that the contents will be complete or accurate or up to date. The accuracy of any instructions, formulae and drug doses should be independently verified with primary sources. The publisher shall not be liable for any loss, actions, claims, proceedings, demand or costs or damages whatsoever or howsoever caused arising directly or indirectly in connection with or arising out of the use of this material. Condition monitoring uses sensory signals to assess the health of engineering systems. A degradation model is a mathematical characterization of the evolution of a condition signal. Our recent research focuses on using degradation models to compute residual-life distributions for degrading components. Residual-life distributions are important for providing probabilistic estimates of failure time for use in maintenance planning and spare parts inventory management. To obtain residual-life distributions, our earlier work assumed the degradation model's stochastic parameters to be normally distributed. This paper investigates the performance of these residual-life distributions when the underlying normality assumptions are not satisfied. The paper also develops methods for estimating residual-life when the stochastic parameters of the degradation model follow more general distributions.


Introduction:
 We recently discovered that the well-known thyroid hormone calcitonin (CT) is produced by atrialcardiomyocytes (CMs) and regulates atrial fibrogenesis and arrhythmia susceptibility via CT receptors (CTRs) inatrial cardiofibroblasts (CFs). Whether the CT-CTR system regulates ventricular function and structure isunknown and was the object of this study.

 Method and Results:
 Human studies were performed on left ventricular (LV) samples from 27 patients who hadcardiac surgery (Oxford, UK; ethical approval 18/SC/0404). Animal studies used 8-10 week-old male control(CTR
 flx/flx
 ; n=150) and CTR
 -/-
 (n=131) mice subjected to transverse aortic constriction (TAC) and myocardialinfarction (MI), with selected analyses in wild type mice (n=5). Cardiac function was assessed byechocardiography at baseline, 3 and 6 weeks post-TAC, and 1 and 4 weeks post-MI.Expression profiling detected CTR and CT mRNA (qPCR; Fig. A-B) and protein (immunoblotting) in human LVtissue and mouse LV CMs and CFs, with a higher CT abundance in CMs. CTR protein was decreased in LV tissue from patients with hypertension vs non-hypertensive controls (Fig. C).CTR deletion enhanced atrial and LV fibrosis (Masson's Trichrome; Fig. D-E), significantly exacerbated post-TAC LV ejection fraction reduction by 15.2% (Fig. F), and atrial (by 23.7%, Fig. G) and LV dilation (by 19.9%),while increasing induced-AF duration by 6-fold (Fig. H) and inducibility by 15% vs post-TAC controls.In CTR
 -/-
 mice, acute MI produced greater fibrosis in the LV risk-region (by 18%; Fig. I), ejection fractionreduction (by 14%, Fig. J) vs CTR
 flx/flx
 controls. Mortality, atrial dilation and AF-inducibility were similar inCTR
 -/-
 and control MI-mice.

 Conclusion:
 CTR deletion in mice exacerbates adverse LV remodeling and dysfunction in clinically-relevantdisease models, pointing towards an important protective role of CT-CTR signaling in ventricular myocardium.


The reintroduction of the residual income valuation model by Ohlson and the development of the abnormal growth in earnings model by Ohlson and Juettner-Nauroth (hereafter, OJ, 2001) have been the impetus for a burgeoning empirical literature that reverse-engineers these models to infer markets' expectations of the rate of return on equity capital.

Keywords:

equity capital;
abnormal growth;
the horizon;
reverse engineering;
residual income


Voltage sag is one of the most frequent power quality problems found in industries and power system. Its effects can be numerous such as control equipment trips, process shutdown, and production losses. This paper reports three years of voltage sag measurements collected in a research lab. This site is located near many metal industries which lead to a correlation between the obtained results and possible voltage sags in these industries. From the resulting analysis, this paper proposes the usage of single-phase voltage sag compensators in three-phase systems aiming a cost-effective solution. This procedure would not wholly eliminate the voltage sag incidence but it would diminish voltage sag effects on electrical loads.


Currently, the BSR (Buzz, Squeak, and Rattle) guideline for the seat belt system is managed only by measuring the dynamic stiffness at the seat belt mount position. It is necessary to improve this experimental method to reflect the actual driving condition. In order to achieve this
 improvement, this study determines the driving conditions and road conditions that are easy to reproduce BSR. Then, a lab test-based evaluation method is developed for evaluation convenience. In addition, a single product evaluation method is investigated to establish a test method for manufacturers
 of the seatbelt system. In addition, a modal analysis of the seat belt is performed, and structural reinforcement is proposed to improve the BSR.


The invention relates to a millettia speciosa champ health drink and a preparation method thereof which is characterized in that the millettia speciosa champ is singly used or matched with one or multiple from galangal fruit, Morinda officinalis, barrenwort, liquorice, antler glue, the kidney of a yellow dog, tripterygiumforrestii, ficus radicals and banlangen; hot water is adopted for extractionor ultra-extraction to separate the effective components in the millettia speciosa champ or the mixture thereof to the largest extent; then the millettia speciosa champ or the mixture thereof is stewed and filtered; a natural health agent of honey and citric acid are added for seasoning, filtering, sterilizing, filling and cooling, thus obtaining a special good health drink. The millettia speciosa champ health drink prepared by the invention has uniform color, has the special fragrance of the millettia speciosa champ, has no impurities as well as has the remarkable effects of supplementing deficiency, nourishing lung, strengthening gluten, activating as well as strengthening body.


The present invention relates to a vehicle network, and more particularly, to a device for collecting sensing data from the vehicle network. Vehicle sensor network smart module according to the present invention is a device for providing to be connected to the vehicle network sensed data and control data is transmitted and received collect sensed data to the extended device newly added, extracted by filtering the sensed data from the vehicle network and it provides the filtered sensed data on request from the expansion device to expansion device. Vehicle network smart sensor module in accordance with the present invention there is an effect that can be used in the expansion unit adding, sensing data by extracting only the sensed data distinguished from the vehicle to the new network. Sensor, a network, a smart module


Carboxin (5,6-dihydro-2-methyl-l,4-oxathiin-3-carboxanilide) and a number of other carboxanilides are known to be potent inhibitors of succinate oxidation in membrane preparations from animal tissues, fungi, and bacteria, acting at the succinate dehydrogenase-coenzyme Q junction. The kinetics and the maximal extent of inhibition of succinate oxidation by carboxanilides and by thenoyltrifluoroacetone are the same in a variety of enzyme preparations from various organisms. The two types of inhibitors are thought to act, therefore, at the same site. In the present study the binding properties of a labeled carboxanilide, [G-3H]2,4,5-trimethyl-3-carboxanilinofuran, were studied in Complex II and in inner membrane preparations from beef heart mitochondria. The furan was found to inhibit succinate oxidation at the same site as other carboxanilides with a Ki of about 0.1 PM. On titration of Complex II or of inner membrane samples with the furan it was found to combine both at the site(s) responsible for inhibition and other sites, unrelated to the inhibition, since binding to the particles occurred linearly long after saturation of the inhibition site(s). These observations paralleled the behavior of rotenone and piericidin A, which are bound both at specific sites responsible for the inhibition of NADH oxidation and at unspecific sites. In contrast to rotenone and piericidin A, however, the furan was readily dissociated from the site(s) associated with the inhibition of succinate oxidation by dilution or by washing of the particles, with full recovery of the activity, without dissociating it from the unspecific sites. In order to determine the binding constant of the furan at the specific (inhibition) site(s), binding to Complex II was determined at a series of concentrations of the labeled inhibitor in the presence and absence of unlabeled thenoyltrifluoroacetone, which prevents binding only at the specific site(s). The resulting KD agreed well with the Ki calculated from the inhibition of the succinate-2,6dichlorophenolindophenol reductase activity. On progressive extraction of succinate dehydrogenase from Complex II with perchlorate the specific binding site gradually disappeared, suggesting the involvement of this protein in the specific binding. Calculations from Scatchard plots, however, indicate that the amount of furan bound at the specific site is


This brief essay is intended to establish a comparative reflection on the scientific work of two great men of the current world: doctor Jose Maria Bengoa, a Basque medical doctor, and Belgian anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss. Both were characterized by their ethical implications, with the actors of their respective research domains, in different places in South America during the first half of last century An Venez Nutr 2011; 24(1): 41-46


Who are the participants in studies on bilingualism? We know that although quantitative studies and in particular meta-studies tend to present them as a single homogeneous category, they are in fac ...


When we disciple others, we invite and embrace imperfect, broken people to a lifelong learning process in Christ. This process can be messy, shares Ordained Minister Matt Messner, but it's all part of the "unfinished business" of discipleship.


This paper mainly focuses on understanding the working principle of the landing gear of an aircraft and also cover various types and configuration of landing gears used in the aircraft industry. Furthermore this research includes the design and analysis of the landing gear system, using software such as CATIA V5 and ANSYS. The secondary objective is to optimize each system and the failures experienced by them, along with meeting the challenges and providing innovative methods to improve the existing functioning of the landing gear system.


Two wire coating PVC formulations stabilized with Ca/Zn systems and one stabilized with a traditional lead compound were prepared. All three formulations contained trimethylolpropane trimethacrylate (TMPTMA) as a crosslinking agent and Irgacure 819 as a UV photoinitiator. Small specimens of hot‐pressed materials with 1.0 and 1.5 mm thicknesses were irradiated with UV light for 10 days, while monitoring changes at different time intervals. The presence of TMPTMA in the samples influenced the coloration of the lead‐stabilized formulation, while the others experienced the usual color formation after UV treatment, as seen by Yellowing Index measurements and corroborated by the evaluation of fluorescence spectra. The elastic modulus (E′) determined by DMA was shown to be sensitive to surface changes associated with crosslinking, while the loss modulus (E″) determined by DMA and the complex modulus (E*) obtained by TMA were shown to be sensitive indicators of bulk property changes. J. VINYL ADDIT. TECHNOL., 13:189–194, 2007. © 2007 Society of Plastics Engineers


The increasing demand for infrared (IR) window materials for various applications in optical imaging systems necessitates the development of cost‐effective green techniques. Herein, the synthesis of refractory boron carbide (BC) using castor oil, as carbon precursor, and the preparation of IR transparent films by thermal vapor deposition technique is reported. Films are prepared with 1:3, 1:4, and 1:5 ratios of boric acid and castor oil, respectively. The X‐ray diffraction (XRD) and Fourier‐transform IR (FTIR) analyses reveal the structure of films prepared to be BC. The morphology of the films is analyzed by the atomic force microscopy (AFM) technique, and its dependence on precursor's ratio is also studied. The spectroscopic characterization by the ultraviolet–visible–near IR (UV–vis–NIR) transmittance study reveals the potential of the films for IR window applications. The bandgap energy of the BC films determined from the Tauc plot yields a value of 2.33 eV. The absorption coefficient, extinction coefficient, refractive index, dissipation factor, and optical conductivity are also studied from the reflectance and transmittance data.


Objective To investigate the pharmacological effect of compound Danshen Jianli granule on exertional fatigue induced by simulated high intensity training at sea in mice.Methods One hundred KM mice were randomly divided into 5 groups:the control group,the positive control group,and the low,mid and high dosage groups (72,216,864 mg/kg),each consisting of 20 animals.Fourteen days after gastrogavage,the duration of swimming time,and changes in such biochemical data as blood lactate,urea nitrogen and hepatic glycogen were detected respectively.Results Compound Danshen Jianli granule could significantly prolong the duration of the mice swimming with load [ (486 ± 168 ),(596 ± 145 ),(646 ± 116)s ].Clearance of blood lactate [ (39.3 ± 2.28 ),(48.6 ± 3.26 ) and ( 54.10 ± 1.66 ) μmol/( L · min) ],levels of hepatic glycogen [ (27.36 ± 6.24 ),(33.62 ± 4.76),( 37.34 ± 5.54 ) mg/g ] were increased obviously,while contents of urea nitrogen [ ( 11.12 ± 1.60),( 10.38 ± 1.50),( 10.06 ± 1.00) mmol/L] was decreased,all with statistical significance (P <0.05 or 0.01 ).Conclusions Compound Danshen Jianli granule has an obvious effect on exertional fatigue and is a Chinese medicinal preparation effective on exertional fatigue.

Key words:
Compound Danshen Jianli granules;  Simulated training at sea;  Exertional fatigue


ABSTRACT To better forecast the security in supply-demand management of Chinese forestry enterprises and close the supply-demand gap due to short timber supply, the linear weighted method and artificial neural network (ANN) are jointly applied to forecast the security in supply-demand of the forestry industry. The theories of supply-demand management and early-warning systems are clarified. Indexes in the early-warning system are built by the ecological evaluation pressure-state-response (PSR) model. The optimised early-warning system by linear weighted method and ANN can analyse and forecast the security in supply-demand management of Chinese forestry enterprises.


Abstract Debris flows are mass movements of sediment, wood and water down stream channels that profoundly impact streams and adjacent riparian areas and are a major erosion process in many steep mountainous terrains. Their impact on aquatic ecosystems, however, is poorly understood. In this report, we describe the ecological effects of a debris flow on a headwater stream in old-growth temperate forest that occurred in December 1999. This geomorphic disturbance scoured our study reach to bedrock and removed live trees 5 to 15 m into the adjacent riparian forest. Summer water temperature was higher in the affected reach after the debris flow than before; these changes have persisted through 2002. Algal biomass after the debris flow was similar to before; however, we speculate that algal growth was constrained by herbivory, as the abundance of two insect herbivores Chironomidae and Baetis spp. increased 380 and 9300%, respectively, within the first year after the debris flow. Overall, these data show that a rare disturbance event can mediate the population dynamics of stream herbivores in small, headwater streams such as those found in Olympic National Park likely via increased primary production and water temperature.


We address the problem of synthesizing planar, bimanual, whole-arm grasps by developing the abstraction of an open chain gripper, an open, planar chain of rigid links and revolute joints contacting a planar, polygonal object, and introducing the concept of a generalized contact. Since two generalized contacts suffice for planar grasps, we leverage previous work on caging and immobilization for two contact grasps to construct an algorithm which synthesizes contact configurations for stable grasping. Simulations show that our methodology can be applied to grasp a wide range of planar objects without relying on special-purpose end-effectors. Representative experiments with the PR2 humanoid robot illustrate that this approach is practical.


Analyze the influence Indicating that hospital library should strengthen the entity recourse and the Web virtualresource. Integrating the remote accessed electrical information resources and library collection resources and offering the networkand integrated information. Developing the function and action of the hospital library.


Fully distributed storage systems have gained popularity i n he past few years because of their ability to use cheap commodity hardware and their high scalability. While there are a number of algorithms for providing dif ferentiated quality of service to clients of a centralized storage system, the prob lem has not been solved for distributed storage systems. Providing performance gu arantees in distributed storage systems is more complex because clients may have dif ferent data layouts and access their data through different coordinators (acce ss nodes), yet the performance guarantees required are global. This paper presents a distributed scheduling framework. It is an adaptation of fair queuing algorithms for distributed servers. Specifica lly, upon scheduling each request, it enforces an extra delay (possibly zero) that cor responds to the amount of service the client gets on other servers. Different perfo rmance guarantees, e.g., per storage node proportional sharing, total service propo rtional sharing or mixed, can be met by different delay functions. The delay functions can be calculated at coordinators locally so excess communication is avoided. T he analysis and experimental results show that these new algorithms can enfor ce performance goals under different data layouts and workloads.


The design of graphene/polymer nanocomposites with improved mechanical properties requires characterization of the interfacial interactions between different types of graphene sheets and different polymers. In this study, the interactions in a graphene oxide (GO)/polymer nanocomposite were explored and the effect of thermal reduction of GO on adhesion was tested. A versatile peeling test was demonstrated and applied on a wide range of nanosheet fillers and polymers, which has great potential for expedited development of enhanced nanocomposites. The interactions of GO and reduced graphene oxide (rGO) nanofillers were tested with widely used polymers, including poly(methyl methacrylate), polystyrene, acrylic, polyvinyl alcohol, polyetherimide and polyimide. The results show the effect of thermal reduction of GO on the interactions in polymer nanocomposites and rank the interfacial preferences of GO and rGO for different polymers. In terms of surface energy considerations, some of the results are in agreement with expectations, others are in direct contradiction. This discrepancy suggests that molecular-level effects, which are not reflected in the macroscopic material properties, play a significant role.


Steady-state solutions for the motion of the freshwater-seawater interface due to series of injection wells were obtained using a sharp interface finite element model. The performance of the numerical model was tested with the existing analytical solution. The model was then used to perform the parametric studies on the effects of the location of the series of injection wells, spacing of the wells, and the freshwater injection rate on the seawater intrusion into coastal confined aquifers. The performances of the injection wells in single and double series along the coast were studied and compared. The key variables were grouped into nondimensional parameters, and the relationship between them was presented as a set of characteristic curves. Results indicate that the reduction of seawater intrusion (up to 60–90%) can be achieved through proper selection of the injection rate and spacing between the wells.


The inherent spike-based and event-driven computation makes spiking neural networks (SNNs) naturally suitable to provide efficient and low-latency solution in neuromorphic vision processing. In this work we propose an address-event representation (AER) object recognition system which consists of a noise filter, an event stream segmentation module and a hierarchical convolutional SNN. In order to improve the feature learning capacity of bio-inspired shallow hierarchical SNNs for AER object recognition, we apply a convolutional SNN with R-STDP learning rule and first-spike coding to further extract features after primary feature learning using Gabor filter-based event-driven convolution. The R-STDP learning rule enables the network to adjust weights by combining local STDP learning rule with a global reward signal and to make classification without using an external classifier. Experimental results show that our method significantly outperforms the existing hierarchical SNN-based recognition methods on four popular AER datasets. Moreover, our method has much better recognition ability when using very short input event stream, and can effectively learn from small size training sets. In addition, the robustness of the network to input noise is improved. Our method is very beneficial for developing neuromorphic-vision object recognition algorithm in resource-constrained applications when event streams are short and training samples are limited.


As part of a national evaluation series, five grass species were oversown with white clover (Trifolium repens L.) into glyphosate-treated plots on a summer-dry northern face of the Hokonui hills, Southland. Swards of these species were compared with the resident pasture, under an annual fertiliser input of 0 or 250 kg superphosphate (0-9-0-1 l)/ha per year and several 7- or 30-day grazing periods/ year. Nui ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) had the highest annual and seasonal pasture yields, especially in spring when pasture yields were at least 18% better than any other grass species. Wana cocksfoot (Dactylis glomerata L.) persisted on all slopes and had similar pasture yields to Nui in summer in the first 3 years and in autumn in the final 3 years. Maru phalaris (Phalaris aquatica L.) established slowly but spread and persisted to equal the yield of Wana in Year 5 and Nui in Year 6. Although the yield of Matua prairie grass (Bromus willdenowii Kunth) was second only to Nui in the first 3 years, it d...


Stresses and stiffnesses of weld-bonded box section beams subjected to bending moments have been studied analytically. The influences of spot-welded spaces, Young's modulus and thickness of the adhesives on the stress distributions and the bending rigidities were investigated analytically and experimentally. Maximum shear stresses in the adhesives occur at the inner edge of adhesive layers and decrease with decrease of Young's modulus of the adhesives. The analytical results were consistent with the results of FEM and experiments.


preparing and supporting K-12 Earth science teachers. "Preparing Teachers to Teach Earth Science" has been carefully researched and developed by a team of geoscience faculty, education specialists, and Earth science teachers. It stems from the 2003 AGU/NAGT workshop "Developing the Earth Science Teacher Workforce" where nearly 30 geoscientists, educators, and teachers came together to address the nation-wide need for improved Earth science education at all levels. This online resource contains a wealth of information about recent science education reform initiatives, Earth science teacher needs, and the necessity for geoscience faculty to become more involved in supporting current and future Earth science teachers. In addition, well-documented examples of courses serving pre-service teachers as well as professional development programs for Earth science teachers are profiled with examples ranging from individual faculty opportunities to large university-schools partnerships. The profiles are specifically designed to provide information about how the course or program was designed so that other geoscientists can imagine how such a course or program might be implemented at their institution. Each profile is complete with contact information, helpful hints, and further references. The benefits to faculty involved in these types of efforts are numerous. A single faculty member may work closely with an Earth science teacher who influences hundreds of students. These students will arrive at college better prepared to be citizens of the Earth and potentially geoscientists themselves. Research programs grow through educationrelated "broader-impact" grants, papers, and a network of colleagues across the country. Finally, faculty who work with teachers report that their own teaching improves as a result, thus extending the benefits through the entire K-16 system. serc.carleton.edu/teacherprep/ Preparing Teachers to Teach Earth Science: Resources for Geoscience Faculty


The subject of the study is the problem of assessing the effectiveness of digital activations (advertising campaigns) on Facebook and social media in general; finding ways to measure the impact of digital activations and the causal link of online information campaigns on a brand. The purpose of the study is to find out whether it is possible to reach the necessary target groups as part of a national brand image campaign using Facebook advertising; to monitor key indicators, results, and outcomes; to formulate key Facebook indicators that can be demonstrate the effectiveness of online campaigns; to study the issues of assessing the effectiveness of such digital advertising campaigns. This paper uses the dialectical method of scientific cognition, the method of analysis and synthesis, the comparative method, the method of data generalization, the method of expert evaluation, and the monitoring method. This paper defines the place and role of Facebook activations in the digital toolkit as part of a national advertising campaign in the context of the war in Ukraine and uncertainty in society. On the example of a relevant advertising campaign of an international brand present on Ukrainian market, the authors outline strategies and approaches to conducting national campaigns to inform and improve the brand image. The study also considers assessment of the brand impact of a Facebook advertising campaign, provides examples of efficiency assessment and proposals for conducting relevant marketing research. The authors characterize Facebook metrics, its algorithm for evaluating advertising on this platform and conduct a comparative analysis of approaches to Facebook advertising methods based on the experimental experience of cooperation with representatives of medium and large businesses. Proposals for analysing the effectiveness of digital campaigns on Facebook are presented. The results of the study are as follows: a set of strategies for effective conduct of a national digital advertising campaign on Facebook is identified, which can be applied to international brands in the face of market uncertainty; possible measures for analysing the effectiveness of a campaign are proposed.


Five kernel characteristics and maturity of 35 random lines in each of five oat (Avena sativa L.) crosses were studied in each of 2 yr. Test weight was negatively correlated with percent bosom kernels in all crosses while kernel weight showed a consistently high positive correlation with percent plump kernels. Of the correlations for 15 pairs of traits measured, 5 showed significant differences between crosses. Interseason correlations were significant in all but 4 of the 30 cases, indicating that there was significant genetic variability for most traits in most crosses. The highest interseason correlations were observed for kernel weight and percent plump kernels. Maturity and percent hull tended to have the lowest interseason correlations. No characteristic showed significant heterogeneity of interseason correlations.


Objective Type‐D personality is a construct that describes a tendency to simultaneously experience negative emotions and inhibit self‐expression for fear of negative social judgement. The link between type‐D and poor health outcomes may be partly mediated by two prominent psychosocial mechanisms, poor‐quality health‐related behaviour and poor perceived‐social support. Method The present study replicated and extended a 2008 UK and Irish prevalence study, utilising a sample from the Australian general population. The study aimed to investigate the relationship between type‐D personality and subjective levels of social support, health‐related behaviours and neuroticism, as well as examining the estimated prevalence rate of type‐D in the general Australian population. Nine hundred and fifty five Australian participants over the age of 18 (194 male and 761 female) completed four measures assessing levels of type‐D personality, quality of health‐related behaviours, perceived‐social support and neuroticism. Results As hypothesised, the estimated prevalence rate was not found to be significantly different from the rate obtained by Williams et al. (2008). In addition, type‐D individuals reported significantly lower perceived‐social support and poorer‐quality health behaviours than non‐type‐D individuals. Conclusions The results of this study provide further support for the association of type‐D personality with poor health‐related behaviours and poor perceived‐social support, as well as demonstrating the applicability of the type‐D construct to the Australian general population for the first time. General healthcare applications are discussed, as well as the potential for type‐D personality research to influence public illness prevention in general.


A series writing staying book for the 21st century is a textbook that combines academic and practical values.Among hundreds of writing textbooks,this one collects different sources and finds the origins of writing styles.Marshall captaining soldier and,innovating from inherit,it has paved a new way for researching writing on both theoretically and practically.


To the Editor: The 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19 due to SARS-CoV-2 infection) pandemic has been declared an international public health emergency associated with substantial mortality with global case numbers surpassing 3 000 000.1 The clinical spectrum of COVID-19 disease in children and young adults ranges from asymptomatic infections to mild symptoms, only rarely leading to fulminant respiratory failure.2 Here, we report the first case of life-threatening immune cytopenias in a patient with SARS-CoV-2 infection. This case highlights a previously unreported potential COVID-19-related complication.2,3 A17-year-old male with a history of refractory chronic immune thrombocytopenia (cITP) presented with progressive jaundice and fatigue in the setting of 4 days of emesis, diarrhea, and fevers. Prior to this presentation, the patient's cITP had been well controlled on eltrombopag and mycophenolate. Given the history of immune cytopenia, lymphopenia, splenomegaly, hypogammaglobulinemia, and a persistently elevated CD3+CD4-CD8-T-cell population in peripheral blood, thepatienthadbeen thought tohaveautoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome (ALPS) or an alternative immune dysregulation syndrome. Clinical sequencing had been unrevealing to date for a known genetic cause of immune dysregulation.4 Importantly, the patient had previously negative direct antiglobulin (DAT) testing without signs of anemia or hemolysis, including in themonths prior to presentation.


Objectives:To introduce JCI system drug management and the work content of pharmacists under new management mode,and discuss the new role of pharmacist in PIVAS under JCI mode.Methods:According to the objective and standard of drug usage and management in JCI system,the mistakes and problems in verification and check of prescription,highrisk drug management,distributions and corrections were analyzed.Results:The mistake rate decreased to 0.025‰ from 0.033‰ by continuous quality improvement of drug management.Conclusion:Via JCI certification,any pharmacy process in PIVAS could be improved and pharmacists can provide safe,reasonable,and normative pharmacy service for medication.


Abstract Through a reading of policy texts centering upon food security published by the World Bank and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, I problematize the concept of food security by showing how its definition and its scale have changed over time. I use scale as an analytic frame to highlight how changing definitions of food security serve neoliberal ideology. The scaled definitions of food security move from an early emphasis upon the attainment of food security at the international and national levels to a micro-level focus upon households and gendered individuals. The most recent changes link individuals to global modalities of governance with an emphasis upon the instrumentality of agricultural productivity in economic development strategies. Considering the contested and dynamic construction of scale in relation to the changing definitions of international food security reveals the political and ideological dimensions of these dynamics and their contradictions with the material history of hunger over the last thirty years.


In higher education, espoused commitments to equity, diversity, and inclusion far outpace the allocation of dedicated resources necessary to enact those commitments. Moving beyond the status quo in...


We report here, for the first time, the dependence of the streaming potential coupling coefficient of two consolidated rock samples (dolomite) in two‐phase flow conditions. We used two carbonate core samples characterized by image analysis and petrophysical measurements including porosity, formation factor, resistivity index at 1 kHz, and the critical water saturation determined from capillary pressure curves. In agreement with the results obtained recently by Guichet et al. [2003] , who used an unconsolidated sand, we observed that the relative electrokinetic coupling coefficient scales approximately with the reduced water saturation at capillary pressure equilibrium. This observation is explained with a new model, which makes a clear distinction between Stern and Gouy‐Chapman layer contributions to surface electrical conductivity. The streaming potential coupling coefficient becomes dependent on surface conduction in the Gouy‐Chapman layer where the pore space is not fully saturated.


The utilization of nanocomposite electrodes has been proven as an effective approach to enhance the performances of Solid Oxide Cell (SOC) devices. Among different strategies, the employment of mesoporous materials synthetized by hard-template methods came to the fore because of their elevated degree of porosity and the high level of provided percolation. Moreover, their use mitigates the formation of high current-density paths. Nano casting method allows the fabrication of high ordered microstructures presenting good thermal distribution through the electrode. Gadolinium-doped ceria (CGO - Ce 1-x Gd x O 2-x/2 ) is one of the state-of-the-art materials on SOC devices [1] due to its remarkable ionic conductivity and its high thermochemical stability. CGO is employed as a porous backbone and is typically infiltrated by perovskite catalysts such La 1-x Sr x CoO 3- δ (LSC), La 1-x Sr x MnO 3 (LSM) or La 1-x Sr x Co 1-y FeyO 3- δ (LSCF) [2] for the fabrication of SOC oxygen electrodes. The large utilization of mesoporous CGO backbones have been limited so far by: i) thermal stability during the processing of the and silica


Concrete is the most widely manufactured construction material. The addition of carbon nanofibres (CNFs) to concrete has many advantages in terms of mechanical and electrical properties (e.g. higher strength, higher Young's modulus and improved fatigue resistance) and self-monitoring behaviour due to the high tensile strength and high conductivity. In this work, the pulse velocity method was used to characterise the properties of concrete containing CNFs. Concrete strength correlations between pulse velocity, electrical resistance variation and destructive tests were analysed for different mix proportions. The test results indicate that the compressive strength, pulse velocity and percentage reduction in electrical resistance while loading concrete containing CNF differ from those of plain concrete. Based on the pulse velocity results, a reasonable concentration of CNFs was determined for use in concrete, which not only enhances compressive strength, but also improves the electrical properties required fo...


Aim Purpose of this RCT was to evaluate the denture retention and success rate of totally edentulous patients in single median versus two inter-foraminal implant-supported mandibular over-dentures on.Material and methods Twenty-four totally edentulous patients were selected in this trial. The eligible patients were allocated randomly into two equivalent groups of 12 participants each. A single-implant (G I) or two inter-foraminal implants (GII) were located in the mandible. Three months later, pick up of the locator attachment wa performed to  all  implants and  denture bases. Assessments of denture retention and success rate of implants were measured at the three, six, and twelve month's follow-up assessments. The study consists of twenty-four totally edentulous patients (14 males and 9 females) with age range of 59.6 years. Thirty six implants were inserted (12 in single-implant and 24 in the two inter-foraminal implants). All patients accomplished the twelve months period of follow-up.Results Regarding  denture retention, the two inter-foraminal implant group (GII) showed statistically significant differences compared to the single-implant group (GI). Concerning success criteria of implants the results revealed insignificant differences between patients in  both groups.Conclusion Single-implant mandibular over-dentures may be recommended as an alternate treatment option for the management of edentulous patients in populations with low economic status.


Abstract Laboratory measurements of coefficients of friction of soft rubber compounds were made by towing specimens on horizontal tracks and by allowing them to slide down inclined tracks. The specimens were prepared by attaching the rubber to a metal backing and molding it against glass surfaces having different degrees of roughness. The coefficients increase markedly with speed, ranging from about 1 at 10−4 cm. per sec. to more than 4 at 5 cm. per sec. The occurrence of vibrations prevented observations at higher speeds. Static friction is greater than dynamic friction for speeds appreciably less than 10−3 cm. per sec. and less than dynamic friction for greater speeds. The coefficients decrease slightly with increasing pressures and are independent of the size of the specimen. Except at very low speeds the smoother surfaces yield the higher coefficients. Materials such as talc or bloom on the sliding surfaces cause large decreases in the coefficients. Attention is called to the dependence of the coeffic...


Submitted : 01.12.2020 Revised : 20.12.2020 Accepted : 25.12.2020 Available : 29.12.2020 After 1980, comprehensive changes have occurred in the public financial management with the effect of globalization. This change has also contained the financial systems of local governments. Local governments in Turkey have been affected by this wave of change and reorganized their financial management systems. Within the scope of citizen-oriented management approach in local service delivery; the quality of local services has gained importance. The most important local service provider is municipalities. In this study, firstly, the search for quality will be mentioned within the scope of new public financial management approach. Then the change in Turkey and legal implications will be discussed. In the next section, municipalities and mukhtars will be evaluated as factors and actors affecting local service quality. The research composed of qualitative and quantitative methods were preferred in the study. Accordingly, the opinions of the mukhtars of İzmir's Buca district on the quality of municipal services were investigated using semi-structured interview technique. In the quantitative research part, results of the research on the quality perception of the mukhtars were included. In the conclusion part of the study, the opinions of the mukhtars on the services of Buca Municipality were evaluated and opinions and suggestions were made in this context. iThenticate similarity score: 7% JEL classification: H72, H83


Renee Feinberg's choice of essays that comprise this volume, demonstrate the traditional values that libraries are renowned for. These include advancing social change and allowing access to information to everyone.


In 1981 Dortumund University began building a demonstration line for a suspended railway system (H-Bahn) between two University centres. The aim was to prove that the system as a whole was a viable proposition from the technical point of view, to assess operating costs and examine how far it could help to relieve traffic congestion on the roads. The authors describe the constraints with which the line layout has to comply, particularly from the environmental point of view. The basic operating concept involves regular-interval traffic and a special call service, both computer-controlled. The experimental line will be operated for a two-year trial period.


Under the guidance of outstanding engineer to develop a standard system program,analyzes the outstanding undergraduate engineer to develop the six knowledge modules,And on the basis of the six knowledge modules,designs software engineering integration curriculum set based on excellent engineer training excellent curriculum.


We study the extended phase space thermodynamics for hairy AdS black hole solutions to Einstein-Maxwell-Λ theory conformally coupled to a scalar field in five dimensions. We find these solutions to exhibit van der Waals behaviour in both the charged/uncharged cases, and reentrant phase transitions in the charged case. This is the first example of reentrant phase transitions in a five dimensional gravitational system which does not include purely gravitational higher curvature corrections.


BackgroundIschemic preconditioning has been defined as a mechanism that renders the heart more resistant to subsequent ischemia. Adenosine plays an important role in the pathogenesis of ischemic preconditioning. ObjectiveTo assess whether intracoronary administration of adenosine prevents the deterioration of left ventricular performance and hemodynamic function by allowing adaptation to myocardial ischemia in the setting of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA). DesignThis was a prospectively randomized doubly blinded trial. MethodsWe investigated 20 patients undergoing PTCA of the left anterior descending coronary artery supplying myocardium with normal left ventricular function in the setting of stable angina pectoris. Patients were randomly allocated to be administered adenosine intracoronarily (20 mg/10 min) or an equal amount of saline, providing a control population. Results of standardized chest pain questionnaires, tolerated inflation times, ST‐segment shifts, left ventricular and aortic pressures, isovolumetric phase indexes, and indexes of volume and ejection fraction during the course of PTCA between the two groups were compared. ResultsPatients administered adenosine tolerated significantly longer balloon‐inflation times (188 ± 41 versus 153 ± 36 s;P  = 0.03), which were associated with less pronounced signs of ischemia, and exhibited less deterioration of isovolumetric phase indexes during PTCA. Deterioration of left ventricular ejection fraction was slightly less severe with adenosine (72 ± 5% before PTCA versus 64 ± 6% during angioplasty) than it was for the control group (71 ± 7% before PTCA versus 60 ± 7% during angioplasty;P  ± 0.11). ConclusionsIntracoronary application of adenosine prior to coronary angioplasty increases tolerance of ischemia and prevents deterioration of left ventricular hemodynamics during ischemia. One potential explanation of these results is that induction of ischemic preconditioning took place.