The soybean cyst nematode (SCN), Heterodera glycines Ichinohe, is the most damaging pathogen of soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.), causing more than $1 billion in yield losses annually in the United States (Allen et al. 2017). The SCN distribution map updated in 2014 showed that SCN were detected in all major soybean-producing states in the U.S. except West Virginia and New York (Tylka and Marett 2014). Soybean shows great economic promise in NY and its production area in the region has been expanding rapidly. In coordination with a statewide soybean disease survey, soil samples have been collected from seventeen counties throughout NY since 2013 to search for the presence of SCN. A post-harvest soil sample collected in the fall of 2016 from a soybean field in Cayuga County, NY, was processed using the sugar centrifugal-flotation method to extract nematodes and a few brown and lemon-shaped cysts, similar to those of SCN, were isolated. The lemon-shaped cysts were light to dark brown and had a zigzag patter...


The utility model discloses an accelerator pedal protecting system which comprises an electronic control unit, a pedal system, a throttle valve system, a distance measuring radar, an engine control unit, a BMBS (blowout monitoring and brake system) and an alarm system. The pedal system and the throttle valve system are connected with the electronic control unit simultaneously. The electronic control unit is connected with the distance measuring radar and further connected with the engine control unit, the BMBS system and the alarm system. The accelerator pedal protecting system can actively prevent a driver from mistakenly pedaling the accelerator, and can actively protect the car from crushing into obstacles ahead by detecting the distance between the car and the obstacles ahead, and safety of the integral car is improved.


With Monguzzi's own experienceand concise similes, thisarticle definitely pointsout that a graphic designer is a communicator who acquires needed information through communication and explains that as a real designer, one should not be restricted by conventions such as doctrinairism.


Electrochemical strain microscopy (ESM) is a new scanning probe microscopy technique that provides nanometer-scale analysis of electrochemical reactions and ionic transport in solids for energy storage and conversion and information technology applications. In ESM, a biased SPM tip concentrates an electric field in a nanometer-scale volume of material, inducing interfacial electrochemical processes at the tip-surface junction and diffusive and ionic currents through the solid. These changes cause small strains in the solid on the order of a few pm. The electromechanical coupling is usually small enough to require the use of the cantilever contact resonance to enhance the signal. We have combined Dual AC Resonance Tracking (DART) ESM measurements with more conventional electronic current measurements to study the both ionic and electronic current flows in a Li-ion battery cathode material.


The time-dependent Schrrdinger equa- tion for two quite general types of perturbation has been solved by introducing the Laplace transforms to eliminate the time variable. The resulting time-independent differ- ential equation can then be solved by the perturbation method, the variation method, the variation-perturbation method, and other methods.


We report a rare case of combined valvular disease concomitant with the communication between the coronary and bronchial arteries. A 76-year-old woman was given a diagnosis of chronic heart failure 8 years previously and received medical therapy but recently she had dyspnea. Ultrasound cardiography revealed aortic regurgitation and mitral regurgitation. Cardiac catheterization confirmed the combined valvular disease and also revealed an aberrant coronary artery. Cardiac computed tomography showed coronary to bronchial artery communication, which caused myocardial ischemia. We performed aortic valve replacement with a bioprosthesis, mitral valve repair, and ligation and division of the aberrant coronary artery. Apart from some postoperative bronchial bleeding that ceased spontaneously the postoperative course was uneventful. Jpn. J. Cardiovasc. Surg.


Spherical wave vs. plane wave approximation to the nature of the electromagnetic waves regarding the Doppler shift and aberration is considered. The first approach is free from the blueshift–redshift transition paradox innate for the second one. It is assumed that for spherical electromagnetic waves, in contrast with the plane ones, not only the magnitude, but also the direction of the light velocity is the same in any inertial frame, which leads to the accepted expression for time dilation. The rest frame of the source of electromagnetic waves is unique among all inertial frames. (In it, the angles of emission and reception always coincide and there is no shift in wavelength in all directions.) The spherical approximation to electromagnetic waves preserves this uniqueness without violating the principle of relativity of uniform motion, while the planar approximation ignores the source completely. Both approximations give the same expression of the Lorentz–FitzGerald contraction. Both spherical and planar approaches give the same Doppler shift in the directions of relative movement of the frames, but in the directions with perpendicular components there may be significant differences. A geometrical picture of the transformation of wavefronts of spherical electromagnetic waves, which differs from the one according to the Lorentz transformation, is suggested.


The hydrodynamic problem of an inclined finite plate entering into water obliquely is investigated through the velocity potential flow theory in the time domain, together with the fully nonlinear boundary conditions on the deforming free surface. A boundary element method is adopted. A stretched coordinate system method is used for the varying computational domain, which starts from a single point at the lower edge of the plate. The whole process of the flow attached on the plate and flow detached from its upper edge is considered, which may involve self-similar flow, transient flow, and steady flow. The gravity effect is also considered. Studies are further conducted for oblique water entry and varying speed entry. Extensive results are provided. Their physical implications and potential applications are discussed.


The invention relates to toothpaste, and particularly relates to toothpaste containing a moringa oleifera component. A toothpaste body comprises 8-10% of moringa oleifera leaf powder and 0.5-1.5% of moringa oleifera seed powder. The moringa oleifera leaf powder and the moringa oleifera seed powder are added in the toothpaste, so that the toothpaste disclosed by the invention has the effects of preventing dental ulcer, sterilizing an oral cavity, preventing tooth decay and whitening the teeth.


With the passage of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) in 2002, federal guidelines established the need for more coordination between states and local election administrators. We examine the implementation of HAVA in rural election districts, where a lack of resources increases the district's cost of becoming compliant with the federal law. Using case studies of Maryland, Virginia, and New York, we analyze how centralization of state election authority can affect the inequality of implementation costs between rural and urban districts. We find that the centralization of election administration is important, but it alone cannot account for the experience of rural districts implementing HAVA. These findings have implications for policymaking in the area of election reform; particularly that federal data collection should measure the cost of HAVA implementation, rather than just compliance, in the localities so that states could use the data to develop funding formulas that would reduce strain on rural election districts. Copyright 2010, Oxford University Press.


et al. Qualitative and quantitative assessment of the circadian rhythm of cortisol in pregnancy. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1983; 145: 411–416. 4 Odagiri E, Ishiwatari N, Abe Y, Jibiki K, Adachi T, Demura H et al. Hypercortisolism and the resistance to dexamethasone suppression during gestation. Endocrinol Jpn 1988; 35: 685–690. 5 Owens PC, Smith R, Brinsmead MW, Hall C, Rowley M, Hurt D et al. Postnatal disappearance of the pregnancy-associated reduced sensitivity of plasma cortisol to feedback inhibition. Life Sci 1987; 41: 1745–1750. 6 Pinette MG, Pan YQ, Oppenheim D, Pinette SG, Blackstone J. Bilateral inferior petrosal sinus corticotropin sampling with corticotropin-releasing hormone stimulation in a pregnant patient with Cushing's syndrome. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1994; 171: 563–564.


Thermolysis of (PhHCPz' 2 )Mo(CO) 4 in DME gives (PhHCPz' 2 )Mo(CO) 3 (Pz'=3,5-dimethylpyrazol-1-yl); comparison of the structural details of the wo compounds and the reactivity show that this compound is the first example containing an intramolecularly coordinate η 2 -arene ligand


The primary composition of human milk is whey protein.Whey protein contains all the essential amino acid and many different kinds of active substances,which are benefit for the growth and development of the infant.The whey protein contains alpha-lactoalbumin,beta-lactoglobulin,immunoglobulin,lactoferrin,Glycomacropeptide,and so on,which have great effect on maintaining the development of the body,promoting intestinal health and enhancing the immune function.Research progress of the effect of whey protin on infant grouth and development was reviewed.


Introduction - Education and the European Ideal. 1. Early Steps: the background. 2. Educating a Europe of the People: the purposes of Europe's education policies. 3. The Hesistant Evolution of the EU's Policies and Programmes in the 1990s. 4. Europe as a Learning Society? An assessment of the policies in practice. 5. Towards a Europeanisation of Education and Training?


Statistical time-series modeling has recently emerged as a promising and applicable methodology to structural health monitoring. In this methodology, an important step is to choose robust and optimal orders of time-series models for extracting damage-sensitive features. In this study, an iterative order determination method is proposed to determine optimal orders based on residual analysis. The proposed technique consists of identifying the best time-series model, determining the maximum orders, and selecting the optimal orders that enable the model to extract uncorrelated residuals. The application of low-pass signal filters to the process of order determination is also evaluated. In a comparative study, the influence of optimal orders on damage is assessed to perceive whether features extracted from optimal models, with and without using low-pass filters, are sensitive to damage. Experimental data of a three-story laboratory frame and a large-scale bridge are applied to demonstrate the performance and capability of the proposed method. Results show that the proposed iterative method is an efficient tool for the determination of optimal orders along with the extraction of uncorrelated residuals.


This article is devoted to the investigation of $B^*$-algebras, dual and annihilator ultranormed algebras. Their structure is studied in the paper. Extensions of algebras and fields are considered and using them core radicals and radicals are investigated. Moreover, for this purpose also $*$-algebras and finely regular algebras are studied. Relations with operator theory and realizations of these algebras by operator algebras are outlined.


Young citizens have a strategic role in the movement to care for the environment. They are considered as guardian angels for the environment from the cruel economic development and development. Their involvement in the environmental movement will have a major impact on environmental sustainability. The ecological citizenship movement can be a bridge to bring young citizens to the success of environmentally sustainable development. The ecological citizenship movement is a social activity that focuses its activities on saving the environment from human selfish actions. The purpose of this study is to analyze the importance of the involvement of young citizens in the ecological citizenship movement to realize sustainable development with an environmental perspective. This research uses a literature study approach. Data sources were obtained from the results of reviews of journal articles or books related to ecological citizenship, sustainable development, and case studies on the involvement of young citizens in environmental management. This article consists of three discussions that fit the focus of this research. First, it outlines a description of the ecological citizenship movement. Second, it presents the results of an analysis of the forms of involvement of young citizens in the ecological citizenship movement from various case studies. Third, present the results of an analysis of the importance of the involvement of young citizens in environmentally sustainable development. Based on the results of the study it can be concluded that the involvement of young citizens in the ecological citizenship movement and sustainable development programs is very important, because they are the actors responsible for environmental sustainability and development in the future.


For providing a high socio-economic level of the population of a country high technical equipment of the enterprises producing and processing agricultural products has quite an essential value, especially in the newly developing countries such as Armenia. The introduction of modern leading technologies into the farms and agricultural enterprises will support the fast growth of production that will in its turn result in the increase of the social level of the population and decrease of the poverty. The aim of this paper is the development and creation of an experimental sample of "Ecology-Microclimate" agricultural controlling-measuring automatic electronic system, which is intended for distant measuring and regulating of the air temperature and relative humidity of the closed spaces or areas of the enterprises (farms) as well as for controlling the concentration of polluting/harmful gases (methane and ammonia). The introduction of the "Ecology-Microclimate" system in the poultry factories and other farms and greenhouse enterprises as well as grain product stores will undoubtedly lead to the increase of the production and safe long-term storage.


Under the provisions of section 330(b)(6) of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, 42 U.S.C. 254c(b)(6), as amended by Public Law 99-280, the Governor of the State of Oklahoma has asked the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to designate a specific population within the State as a medically underserved population (MUP). Also, under section 330(b)(3) of the PHS Act, areas in the States of Michigan, California and Ohio have been proposed for MUP designation. This notice provides an opportunity for local officials and appropriate Community Health Center organizations of States of Oklahoma, Michigan, California and Ohio to provide recommendations and to comment on the proposal to designate as MUPs the populations described in this notice.


Dravet syndrome (DS) is a drug‐resistant, infantile onset epilepsy syndrome with multiple seizure types and developmental delay. In recently published randomized controlled trials, fenfluramine (FFA) proved to be safe and effective in DS.


A number of recent intensive and extended field campaigns have been devoted to the collection of land-surface fluxes from a variety of platforms, with the purpose of inferring the long-term C, water, and energy budgets across large areas (watershed, continental, or global scales). One approach to flux upscaling is to use land-atmosphere transfer schemes (LATS) linked to remotely sensed boundary conditions as an intermediary between the sensor footprint and regional scales. In this capacity, we examined the utility of a multiscale LATS framework that uses thermal, visible and near infrared remote sensing imagery from multiple satellites to partition surface temperature and fluxes between the soil and canopy. We conducted exercises using tower and aircraft flux data collected at three experiment sites in Oklahoma and Iowa, each with a different configuration of instrumentation. Combined, the two flux.monitoring systems were found to be complementary: the towers provided high-spatial-resolution, time-continuous validation at discrete points within the modeling domain while with the aircraft data it could be confirmed that the model was reproducing broad spatial patterns observed at specific moments in time. High-resolution flux maps created with the LATS allowed eval uation of differences in footprint associated with turbulent, radiative and conductive flux sensors, which may be contributing to energy bud get closure problems observed with eddy correlation systems. Th ability to map fluxes at multiple resolutions (1 m-10 km) with a corn mon model framework is beneficial in providing spatial context to a experiment by bracketing the scale of interest. Multiscale flux map can also assist in the experimental design stage, in a priori assessment of sensor representativeness in complex landscapes.


In the modern time of China,the theory of 'Chinese le arning for essential principles and West Learning for practical use'was the ear liest self-questioning of national culture whose birth was stimulated by foreign culture,and the effort made by the New History (Represented by LIANG Qi-chao)an d quintessence school which was for the purpose of vitalizing national culture a nd progressing to modernization as well. Although we can see something in common when we liken these to culture nationali sm in European modern history,some obvious Chinese social historical characteris tics could be found easily.


Objective To explore nurses' perception of patient safety culture and its influencing factors. Methods General information questionnaire,Safety Attitude Questionnaire( SAQ),psychological empowerment questionnaire,and job stress questionnaire were delivered to 510 nurses from five hospitals in Beijing. Results The mean score of the patients safety culture was( 3. 94 ± 0. 60). Psychological empowerment and job stress were the influencing factors of nurses' perception of patients safety culture. Conclusion Nurses demonstrate positive perception of patients safety culture. The more the psychological empowerment and the less the job stress the nurses have,the better their perception of patients safety culture.


The idea of mystery motivates the production of knowledge, or at least of inquiry. The mystery, an unknown object, or what Alfred Hitchcock called the McGuffin, can be theorized and labelled as the object of inquiry, a marker of potential knowledge. 1 In this case, mystery drives the investigation and plots the contours of discourse. It determines the clues, the traces, that one follows (whether scientifically, conjecturally, or faithfully). At the same time, the status of mystery qua mystery lies beyond the field of inquiry. It is that which by definition is unsayable. It signifies the value of knowledge that surpasses human reason and hovers somewhere beyond the limits of current human knowledge. In order to qualify as mystery, "it" (the unutterable) has to remain unknown—or else it becomes something other than mystery. Mystery also shapes the subjectivity of the scholar through its relationship to the secret. The etymology of "secret" refers to a separation of elements. Secretus is connected to the verbs "to hide" and "to withdraw," but it can also mean "to sieve," to set and keep apart. For example, the "divine mystery" is to the secret that separates God from man. But the secret also determines the very separation of disciplines within the academy. Here, the secret marks the passage from the wholeness of wisdom to the increasing fragmentation of separate and mutually closed off knowledge regimes. The secret constitutes the place of the scholar within a clearly demarcated specialism. If this seems farfetched, it is because modernity has abandoned the very idea of the secret as the foundation of difference. The division of knowledge into disciplines might not seem remotely arcane in the current academy, precisely because it seems transparent and self-evident. To put it conversely, the secret becomes so visible that it no longer looks like a secret. Yet this secret that does not seem like a secret, this secret that likes to hide, is precisely what regulates scholarship.


Society usually devotes more attention to the punishment and rehabilitation of criminals than to the relief of their victims. Desiring to improve this imbalance, the British Home Office commissioned Dr. Stephen Schafer (Ph. D., University of Budapest) to investigate the problem of restitution for the private losses incurred by crimes. Schafer surveyed the legal systems of thirty different countries, compiled the findings in the present volume, and concluded that restitution is a necessary adjunct of criminal justice. The author recognizes, correctly, that in his &dquo;brief lines&dquo; he has not


The study evaluated the effects of organic and inorganic fertilizers on the growth and yield of two lowland rice varieties; determined the proper fertilizer combination; and evaluated the profitability of rice production as influenced by the combined application of organic and inorganic fertilizers. This was laid out in split plot arranged in a RCBD design with variety and fertilizer treatments as the main plot and subplot, respectively. Results revealed that the period from sowing to heading, shoot dry weight, number of filled grains per panicle and weight of 1,000 grains were significantly influenced by the variety. The yield, yield components and harvest index (HI) were significantly influenced by fertilizer application. A significant interaction effect was noted on the period from sowing to heading as observed that inbred rice (NSIC Rc212) headed late than hybrid (TH82). Plants applied with 120-60-60 kg ha N, P O and K O produced -1 2 5 2 taller height, larger LAI, longer panicles, more productive tillers and filled grains, and consequently highest grain yield and HI. These plants also produced the heaviest root and shoot dry weights resulting to higher root shoot ratio compared to unfertilized plants. Highest net income was obtained in plants applied with inorganic fertilizer at the rate of 120-60-60 kg ha N, P O K O due to high grain yield. Irrespective of fertilizer -1 2 5, 2 treatments, inbred rice was more profitable than hybrid. Highest production cost was incurred in plants applied with pure organic fertilizer due to the high cost of the material.


About one in ten multiple sclerosis and epilepsy nurse specialist roles could be reduced in scope or axed altogether, health charities warn.


In this paper, a layer of Si3 N4deposited on the top layer of the device structure introduces uniaxial compressive stress in the base to enhance the carrier mobility and improve the cutoff frequency and the maximum oscillation frequency. First, the current gain of the SOI SiGe HBT and the Early voltage are introduced. Next, the influence of the thickness of the buried oxide layer on the frequency characteristics is studied. The increase of TBOX can improve frequency characteristics. However, the increase of TBOX will affect the stability of the device. Finally, the influence of the uniaxial compression stress on the frequency characteristics of the device is studied. When TBOX is 190nm, the Ge composition of the base region is 17% to 30% in a stepped distribution and a layer of Si3 N4is deposited to introduce stress, the current gain is about 2342, and the Early voltage is about 105.6V, the product of the Early voltage and the current gain is about 2.473×105V, the cutoff frequency is about 587GHz, and the maximum oscillation frequency is about 849GHz. Compared with the traditional SOI SiGe HBT, it has a 4 % improvement in the cutoff frequency and a 13% improvement in the maximum oscillation frequency.


This paper offers the thesis that practice-led research in art and design should propose changes to those relations of knowledge that currently ensure the integrity of practice and the neutrality and objectivity of theory. I assert that the 'common ground' of theory and practice can be located within a structure of identification that binds the practitioner to the analyst or theorist of practice. I offer an example of one theorist (Slavoj !i"ek) who has instituted a game with this structure of identification of theorist and art object, a game that is necessarily limited by conditions for the 'practice of theory' in the humanities. A way beyond these limitations is suggested in a discussion of Lars von Trier's film The Five Obstructions (2004). This film makes a series of displacements of the integrity of practice within the forms of identification that structure the engagements of Lars von Trier and Jørgen Leth.


It is well known that Pentecostalism globally has been framed by the ministry of Spirit-empowered women. In Australia, for example, the movement owes its initial impetus to the spirituality and missionary zeal of Sarah Jane Lancaster and her "sisters" – evangelists such as Mina Ross Brawner, Minnie Abrams and Winnie Andrews. 1 As Barry Chant observes, "over half the Pentecostal congregations functioning by 1930 were established and led by women." 2 In the United States, similarly, the Pentecostal revival traces its symbolic origin to the Spirit baptism of Agnes Ozman and, later, Aimee Semple McPherson became the public face of the emerging movement. In India, likewise, it was Pandita Ramabai"s social reform work that formed the basis of the 1905 revivals that were later to intersect with the networks connected to the Azusa St revival. 3


A practical teleoperation method for satellite-mounted robot manipulators operated from the ground is described. This control scheme keeps the satellite attitude stable to within specified limits, maintaining the communication link between the satellite and the ground. The authors' method uses algorithms which dynamically reduce slave manipulator velocity as well as feedforward controlling satellite attitude. The operator on the ground 'virtually' teleoperates the slave manipulator in the graphic simulator without considering the resulting disturbances to the satellite attitude, during which the reference velocity of the slave manipulator is dynamically slowed down by estimating the satellite attitude disturbances. Preliminary experiments using a real-time graphic simulator show that the satellite attitude can be successfully kept within the fine limits needed to safely complete teleoperation tasks.<<ETX>>


We address tests of nonspectator diagrams in charmed-meson decays. In particular, we explore the consequences of a model in which such diagrams are enhanced by the emission of a single gluon. For a lifetime ratio tau(D/sup +/)/tau(D/sup 0/)=5, we predict (i) tau(F/sup +/)/tau(D/sup +/) approx. = 0.6, (ii) an enhanced ..delta..S=0 rate for D/sup +/, (iii) a substantial multipion branching fraction for the F/sup +/, (iv) an F/sup +/ ..-->.. tau/sup +/..nu.. branching fraction of order 10 --20%, and (v) restrictive bounds on the D/sup 0/ ..-->.. K-bar/sup 0/..pi../sup 0/ mode.


Hydrocyclones belong to an important group of equipments designed to solid–liquid or liquid–liquid separation in a centrifugal field. It is possible to adapt a hydrocyclone to the accomplishment of several industrial activities depending on the geometrical relations among its main dimensions. The operation and design of these devices are relatively simple; however, the flow inside them is very complex and its prediction is very difficult. For that reason, most models that are used to predict hydrocyclone performance are empirical ones. The objective of this work was to study the influence of geometric variables in the performance of hydrocyclones, using CFD and response surface techniques. The obtained results show that it was possible to find an optimum hydrocyclone design, that is, geometric relationships that lead to Euler number and cut size in minimum levels.

Les hdrocyclones appartiennent a un groupe important d'equipements concus pour la separation solide-liquide ou liquide-liquide dans un champ centrifuge. Il est possible d'adapter un hydrocyclone a la realisation de plusieurs activites industrielles selon les relations geometriques dans ses dimensions principales. Le fonctionnement et la conception de ces dispositifs sont relativement simples; cependant, leur circulation interne est tres complexe et sa prediction est tres difficile. Pour cette raison, la plupart des modeles utilises pour predire le rendement des hydrocyclones sont des modeles empiriques. L'objectif de ce travail etait d'etudier l'influence des variables geometriques sur le rendement des hydrocyclones en utilisant une DFN et des techniques de surface de reponse. Les resultats obtenus indiquent qu'il etait possible de trouver une conception d'hydrocyclones optimale, c.-a-d. les relations geometriques qui menent au nombre d'Euler et a la mesure fixe a des niveaux minimaux. © 2011 Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering


The aim of this thesis is to use a power perspective to describe the workers' struggle for co-determination in the Swedish labour market during the period 1890–1939. The study explores how trade un ...


In the recent past, graph-based approaches have been proposed by various researchers for safety analysis and fault diagnosis of chemical process systems. Though these approaches have shown promise, there are a number of important issues that have not been adequately addressed in the literature. The issue of systematic development of graph representations for chemical processes has not been addressed in the literature. This is an important issue because the development of digraphs is error-prone and time-consuming. Further, little attention has been paid toward understanding the conceptual relationship between the underlying mathematical description and the analysis procedures for the graph model. Also, the utility of these graph-based approaches at a flowsheet level has not been studied. With these issues in perspective, in this first part of the two-part paper, we focus on the systematic development of graph models and the conceptual relationship between the analysis of graph models and the underlying ma...


At Esaform 2013 a hierarchical metamodeling approach had been presented, able to combine the results of numerical simulations and physical experiments into a unique response surface, which is a "fusion" of both data sets. The method had been presented with respect to the structural optimization of a steel tube, filled with an aluminium foam, intended as ananti-intrusion bar. The prediction yielded by a conventional way of metamodeling the results of FEM simulations can be considered trustworthy only if the accuracy of numerical models have been thoroughly tested and the simulation parameters have been sufficiently calibrated. On the contrary, the main advantage of a hierarchical metamodel is to yield a reliable prediction of a response variable to be optimized, even in the presence of non-completely calibrated or accurate FEM models. In order to demonstrate these statements, in this paper the authors wish to compare the prediction ability of a "fusion" metamodel based on under-calibrated simulations, with a conventional approach based on calibrated FEM results. Both metamodels will be cross validated with a "leave-one-out" technique, i.e. by excluding one experimental observation at atime and assessing the predictive ability of the model. Furthermore, the paper will demonstrate how the hierarchical metamodel is able to provide not only an average estimated value for each excluded experimental observation, but also an estimation of uncertainty of the prediction of the average value.


Of interest to the theory of machines that construct is ontogeny, by which process of development the constructor is transformed from immature to mature form. Whereas we have already shown that self-replicating machines generally are able to bootstrap themselves through the construction of sub-machines (such as organs that rewind a tape, or replicate a tape, or initiate the behavior of a construct), in this paper we present in abstract a constructor that bootstraps its ability to construct, through the construction of sub-constructors. This is to say, we present a constructor that learns how to construct, and does so by constructing; our constructor is in truth a proto-constructor. Here, learning occurs by the addition of new machine configuration; each learned lesson is correlated with specific additions to machine configuration.


ObjectiveTo observe killing action of HSV-tk/GCV system on laryngeal cancer cells. Methods Hep-2 cells were transfected by adenovirus vector with LacZ gene, then stained with X-gal for measurement of the adenovirus transfected efficiency. The recombinant adenovirus carrying HSV-tk was constructed by homologous recombination techniques. Hep-2 cells survival and by stander effect were observed after adding 10 mg/L GCV to transfected cells. Results The more the multiplicity of infection (MOI), the more the adenovirus transfected efficiency to Hep-2 cells. 100% transfected efficiency needs MOI 200 The killing action of HSV-tk/GCV on Hep-2 cells depends on the amount of AdCMVtk. There is a weak by stander effect. Conclusion Adenovirus mediated HSV-tk/GCV can kill Hep-2 cells. [


THIS book is the product of the staff of the Communicable Disease Unit of the Los Angeles County Hospital, where over 18,000 cases of poliomyelitis have been diagnosed and treated during the past twenty-five years. Experience of such extent in poliomyelitis is blissfully unknown on this side of the Atlantic, and it is a great matter to have the knowledge of this team of workers compressed into a single volume. The chapter on diagnosis and differential diagnosis is comprehensive and exceedingly good. The chapters on detection, care, and nursing procedures for respiratory paralysis are very good, and contain much valuable help. The book is produced in first-class fashion, very well illustrated and presented in a style which is easy to absorb. It should be of great acceptance to physicians and hospital staff charged with the care of sufferers from poliomyelitis.


In this paper,some issues about the new theory system of the analog circuits textbook are investigated,according to the problems about the theory system of the analog circuits textbook,and from cultivating the engineering ability of the electronic information engineering specialty students.Some considerations for the new theory system of the analog circuits textbook are presented.


Strengthening the education of youngsters and bringing them up to be successors to the revolutionary cause of the proletariat is a strategic task our Party undertakes to combat and prevent revisionism and to reinforce proletarian dictatorship during the entire historical period of socialism.


Some Melanesian big men grow even bigger after they die, if political size is measured by reputation. Big man stature, in different parts of Melanesia, depends on an assortment of achieved or inherited resources and talents (Lindstrom 1981a). All big men, however, whatever the particulars of their authority, possess a personal reputation or "name." As Oliver (1955:399) has noted of the status, "having high rank means having renown." This renown, in some cases at least, can endure and even increase years after a big man's demise.1 Dead leaders, obviously, can no longer arrange the feasts or deliver the speeches that "establish relations of loyalty and obligation on the part of a number of people such that their production can be mobilized for renownbuilding. . ." (Sahlins 1963:291). Even so, the reputations of some big men continue to expand throughout a community long after their bodily dissolution. People continue to evoke their names, to commune with their shades, and to expect their ongoing intervention in everyday affairs. This article describes the life and times of Tomi (Thomas) Nampas, a big man of the cultic sort who built a name as a purveyor of talk about John Frum. John Frum is a spiritual messenger who first appeared in the late 1930s on Tanna, an island of southern Vanuatu.2 Nampas helped create an organization of John Frum believers, headquartered at Ipikil village on Sulphur Bay, that continues to be active nearly 25 years after his death. The article also pursues Nampas into the afterworld. It reviews the local cosmological and, more particularly, the epistemological constructs by virtue of which Nampas, the big man, gets promoted to Nampas, the ancestor. Nampas's name retains currency today throughout Tanna. People within the John Frum organization sing his praises each Friday, the cult sabbath. Numerous John Frum hymns record and celebrate Nampas's fame, as does this translated example:


This tutorial paper presents the mathematics behind the widely observed air-gap field modulation phenomena in electrical machines and derives the duality between electrical machines and switching converters. A bibliometric analysis of the existing research on various machine types is presented to show the historical development of electrical machines from the perspective of the number of publications, showing the necessity and urgency of unifying the analysis of operating principles/torque production mechanisms before the development of the general air-gap field modulation theory in 2017. The theoretical framework and its applications are reviewed. Detailed examples of how to use the developed theory to analyze the operating principle/torque production, conduct the quantitative analysis of parameters and basic performance, and make innovations from topologies of typical electrical machines are also included for verification as well as self-study.


Observations of the location and kinematics of the atomic gas (HI) and the continuum radio emission from high redshift galaxies would mean a huge step forward in our understanding of galaxy evolution. We now have a secure global picture of the stellar content of massive galaxies and their precursors up to z∼4. But we still have to understand why star formation in these systems started early and quenched some time after, a scenario known as downsizing which, at face value, conflicts with the predictions from the current hierarchical galaxy formation paradigm. SKA will provide the missing piece to solve the puzzle: information about the amounts of gas falling into galaxies to form stars, as well as data to measure when and how the star formation turns off as the gas stops cooling due to still to be understood feedback mechanisms, such as (radio mode) obscured nuclear activity.


It is a well-known fact in decision theory that no ran-domized strategy can improve on the utility of the best deterministic strategy, so that: Lemma 2.1. For any ID, max δ∈∆ EU (δ) = max δ∈∆ o EU (δ). Proof. Since ∆ o ⊂ ∆, we need to show that for any randomized strategy δ ∈ ∆, there exists a determinis-tic strategy δ ∈ ∆ o such that EU(δ) ≤ EU(δ). Note that EU(δ) = x q(x) i∈D p δ i (x i |x pa(i)), Thus, EU(δ) is linear on p δ i (x i |x pa(i)) for any i ∈ D (with all the other policies fixed); therefore, one can always replace p δ i (x i |x pa(i)) with some deterministic p δ i (x i |x pa(i)) without decreasing EU(δ). Doing so sequentially for all i ∈ D yields to a deterministic rule δ with EU(δ) ≤ EU(δ). One can further show that any (globally) optimal ran-domized strategy can be represented as a convex combination of a set of optimal deterministic strategies.


In the last decades systematic excavations and Heritage valorization programs has been developed in the Motilla del Azuer Bronze Age archaeological site by University of Granada Department of Prehistory and Archaeology. Two geophysical research activities have been the most recent made, in 2009, in order to prioritize the areas where the future excavations campaigns could take place. Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) in 3D mode has been used. The site shows a conical mound shape and has important layers of collapse. Both factors (slope and collpse) produce blurry images GPR which don't make easy any archaeological interpretation. In this paper strategies to get radar images as good as possible are discussed, such as topographic correction of data, design of warped surfaces and three-dimensional image in order to discard the levels of collapse.


The Garbage Power Plant (PLTSa) has a water cycle in which heat transfer occurs in the cooling tower. This study looked for the pH level of the hot ratio using samples from hydrochloric acid (HCl) tanks and cooling tower (CT) output water samples. The results obtained by several comparisons of testing and analysis were obtained by 3.6 Liters of adding hydrochloric acid (HCl) to the tank so that the heat transfer that runs on the cooling tower has a pH level of 7. If the pH level is already 7 the possibility for acids or bases to be small and can preventing and maintaining heat transfer flows.process.
Keywords: Cooling tower, hydrochloric acid, calculation analysis, PLTSa
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Objective: The aim of this study was to compare phenotypes in CLCN1 and SCN4A-related myotonia. Background: Nondystrophic myotonias are characterized by muscle hyperexcitability resulting in delayed relaxation and stiffness of muscle without overt progressive muscle deterioration. Symptoms may include stiffness and pain. Design/Methods: Patients with a genetically confirmed or supported diagnosis of nondystrophic myotonia were identified via a chart review at The Ohio State University spanning 9 years. Data collected included symptoms, objective clinical exam characteristics, electrodiagnostic results, and genetic testing results. Results: A total of 48 patients were identified: 29 with CLCN1-related myotonia (22 women, 7 men, mean age: 42.6±13.3 years) and 19 with SCN4A-related myotonia (13 women, 6 men, mean age: 48.2±15.6 years). Genetic testing results in CLCN1 patients included 25 pathogenic variants, 3 likely pathogenic variants and 6 uncertain variants; 24 cases demonstrated dominant inheritance and 5 recessive inheritance. Genetic testing in SCN4A patients included 16 had pathogenic variants and 3 had uncertain variants; all dominant inheritance. Frequency of subjective stiffness [83% in CLCN1 (24/29) versus 74% in SCN4A (14/19), (p=0.49)] and clinical myotonia [71% in CLCN1 (17/24) versus 69% in SCN4A (11/16), (p=1.0)] were similar. In addition, no difference in the frequency of myotonic discharges on EMG was noted (p=0.68). Pain was slightly more frequent in CLCN1 (18/29, 62%) versus SCN4A (10/19, 53%) (p=0.56) and cold sensitivity was more frequent in SCN4A (9/10, 47%) versus CLCN1 (10/19, 34%) (p=0.37) but these differences were not significant. Conclusions: Our results suggest strikingly similar profiles of subjective and objective measures of muscle stiffness. Despite previous reports of pain and cold sensitivity being more frequent in SCN4A, in our cohort we also found similar frequencies of complaints of pain as well as sensitivity to cold. The genetic evaluation of nondystrophic myotonia should ideally include testing of both SCN4A and CLCN1 via a panel approach. Disclosure: Dr. Meyer has nothing to disclose. Dr. LoRusso has nothing to disclose. Dr. Roggenbuck has nothing to disclose. Dr. Arnold has received personal compensation for consulting, serving on a scientific advisory board, speaking, or other activities with Roche. Dr. Arnold has received research support from Principal investigator of a clinical study funded by Gilead Sciences.


From 1984 until the present, the National Library of Indonesia has managed the country's International Standard Book Number (ISBN) system. In 2017, the ISBN online service launched a single account, or access, for which each publisher could register. However, various problems still arise, among them the usability within the system. By collecting responses from 757 respondents who work in publishing companies, this study analyses the relationship between demographic characteristics and a user experience component: usability in the ISBN Online service. The study found five significant relationships. Among other demographic factors, it found that gender is effective at classifying and differentiating usability variable in the ISBN Online service.


Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) perform the process of malolactic fermentation (MLF) in wine. Availability of oxygen and nitrogen nutrients could influence LAB growth, malolactic activity, and other metabolic pathways, impacting the subsequent wine quality. The impact of these two factors has received limited investigation within LAB, especially on a transcriptome level. The aim of this study was to evaluate metabolic changes in the strain Lactiplantibacillus plantarum IWBT B063, growing in synthetic grape juice medium (GJM) under different oxygen exposure conditions, and with low availability of nitrogen-based nutrients. Next-generation sequencing was used to analyze expression across the transcriptome (RNA-seq), in combination with conventional microbiological and chemical analysis. L. plantarum consumed the malic acid present in all the conditions evaluated, with a slight delay and impaired growth for nitrogen limitation and for anaerobiosis. Comparison of L. plantarum transcriptome during growth in GJM with and without O2 revealed differential expression of 148 functionally annotated genes, which were mostly involved in carbohydrate metabolism, genetic information processing, and signaling and cellular processes. In particular, genes with a protective role against oxidative stress and genes related to amino acid metabolism were differentially expressed. This study confirms the suitability of L. plantarum IWBT B063 to carry out MLF in different environmental conditions due to its potential adaption to the stress conditions tested and provides a better understanding of the genetic background of an industrially relevant strain.


The utility model discloses a wheel marking device. The wheel marking device comprises a frame, roller systems, an inscription unit, a servo translation unit, a servo vertical unit and clamps, wherein wheels are positioned through a sensor, a pneumatic motor employs the four roller systems to clamp the wheels through a gear and a tooth bar, diameter of the wheels is measured through a pull wire encoder, a servo motor drives the wheels to rotate one circle, the quantity of spokes can be measured through a photoelectric sensor, the wheel model can be identified through the two parameters, the wheels are made to rotate continuously through the servo motor, a photoelectric reflection switch identifies wheel markers and positions the wheels, and the inscription unit can mark at corresponding positions of back chambers of the wheels according to the wheel model. The wheel marking device can be used to realize the online marking function for the wheels, not only has high efficiency, is not liable to generate a marking missing phenomenon, but also has advantages of simple structure, high automation degree and safe and stable performance.


Although Lermontov is traditionally viewed as Russia's "second greatest poet," the bard of Russia's beauty and the critic of Russia's "superfluous men," the philosophical content of his poetry and prose remains relatively unexamined. The article considers Lermontov's themes of the rebellious angel, freedom, and fate, and argues that although these themes were a product of his time, they are still relevant today.


Consequences of the topology of the configuration space of a Hamiltonian dynamical system are considered for a coherent system of trajectories. It is shown that when the space is multiply-connected and therefore the action integral is multivalued, the allowed states of motion (labeled by the initial data) are constrained to a discrete set by the requirement that the action be single-valued. One thus obtains a quantum-like discretization of allowed states of motion even in classical mechanics. Such discrete "allowed" and "forbidden" states have indeed been observed in the classical mechanical system of charged particles in a magnetic field. The relationship of this formalism with a Schrodinger-like formalism for the latter problem given earlier is discussed.


We propose to use the resonant enhancement of the parametric instability in an optomechanical system of two optical modes coupled to a mechanical oscillator to prepare mechanical limit cycles with sub-Poissonian phonon statistics. Strong single-photon coupling is not required. The requirements regarding sideband resolution, circulating cavity power, and environmental temperature are in reach with state of the art parameters of optomechanical crystals. Phonon antibunching can be verfied in a Hanburry Brown--Twiss measurement on the output field of the optomechanical cavity.


Scientific Library MGIMO opened to readers in 1944 became the basis for her book fund of the Faculty of International Relations, Moscow State University on the basis of which was created by an independent institution Institute of International Relations (MGIMO in the future). In 1954, when the composition of the MGIMO was included from the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies, the merger of the two libraries. This has considerably enriched the book collection, as the Institute of Oriental led his chronicle of the Lazarev School of Oriental Languages, founded in 1815 and features a wonderful book collection. In 1958, the merger with the Institute of Moscow State Institute of Foreign Trade funds replenished special economic literature. Thus was formed the basis of the library's collection of MGIMO, which develops in accordance with the curriculum and subjects research university. Pride Library -176 manuscripts and more than 21 thousands of rare and valuable editions of XIII -the beginning of XX century. Among them the first and the lifetime editions of works by prominent scholars, writers and public figures (N.M. Karamzin, V.O. Kliuchevskoi, N. Kostomarov S.M. Solovyev, J. Bodin, Hobbes, A.F. Koni, Martens et al.), autographed books, N.M. Przewalski, A.N. Kuropatkin, A.E. Crimean and other famous people. The collection of rare books and manuscripts research library also includes: life time edition of the French writer and politician Jean Bodin "Six Books of the Republic" (1577); the second edition of the famous treatise of the English philosopher and writer Thomas Hobbes "On Citizenship" (1647); english (1669) and german (1696) edition of the book Adam Oleary "Descriptions Travel to Muscovy and Persia through Muscovy and back".


We propose, in this paper, a new method for Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) by exploiting the digital image content. Our method is based on the representation of the digital image content by a characteristics vector of the indexed image. Indeed, we have exploited the image texture to extract its characteristics and for constructing a new descriptor vector by combining the Bidimensional High Resolution Spectral Analysis 2-D ESPRIT (Estimation of Signal Parameters via Rotationnal Invariance Techniques) method and Gabor filter. To evaluate the performance, we have tested our approach on Brodatz image database. The results show that the representation of the digital image content appears significant in research of imaging information.


Homogeneous penetration of atmospheric pressure uniform air plasma (APUAP) into thin gaps is highly warranted for multipurpose processing of materials. Here, we report APUAP generation in a 7 mm discharge gap with ambient air as the working gas, well beyond the presently maximum achievable 4 mm. Driven by a short pulse high voltage power, a 7 mm wide and 60 mm long uniform air plasma sheet is generated. The discharge is robust and the uniformity is not affected by the complex and variable components of ambient air, as is the case for most plasma discharges in air. Ultrafast photography shows that, different from previous reports, the discharge initiates in the whole air gap simultaneously and brightens quickly with the fast rise of the pulsed voltage. The generation of uniform plasma is mainly attributed to the high density of seed electrons and the reduced number density of molecules in air. Moreover, the achievable gas temperature of up to 1300 K indicates that this type of plasma is suitable for processing of a broad range of materials.


In this paper, we propose a medium access control (MAC) protocol to maximize the connectivity for an un-coordinated secondary dynamic spectrum access network under the signal to interference and noise ratio (SINR) regime. We use concepts from percolation theory to obtain the optimal deployment density for secondary nodes. We argue that the optimal connectivity under the SINR regime can be improved if a fraction of the nodes transmit at a given time. Thus, the proposed MAC is based on distributed Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) where all nodes randomly choose a time slot to transmit on, a phenomenon similar to the Poisson blinking model. We find the optimal number of slots for the super-frame that includes the sensing, contention, and transmission phases. The performance of the proposed MAC is evaluated via simulations. We show how the proposed MAC adaptively adjusts the super-frame as the density of secondary varies. We also show the connectivity and throughput achieved for various network settings1.


High-density planting has been a major improvement for temperate fruit crops, and the question of applying this orchard management method to improve tropical fruit crops, in particular mango, is asked. The theoretical basis of high density planting is to increase the number of trees planted per land area in order to increase canopy area and volume, i.e. yield potential, per land area. Positive agronomic and economic consequences are expected, but the challenge is to control tree size while maintaining high yield. Planting fruit trees at short distances is not sufficient to achieve high density planting system because it leads rapidly to overcrowding and yield decline. The complete tree training and orchard management system needs to be redesigned for this objective. This implies a good knowledge of the interactions between vegetative growth and reproduction and of the factors affecting them. For the mango tree, the factors affecting vegetative growth, reproduction and their interactions are related to genetics (variety, rootstock), to canopy management (pruning, tree training, ...), to tree arrangement within the orchard, to orchard management (irrigation, fertilization, ...) and to environment (climate, soil). It shapes a complex puzzle and at the same time provides levers to researchers to design high density mango planting systems. The effects of some of these factors are illustrated in the presentation with experimental results. Few experiments have been conducted on high density mango planting and it is currently at an experimental stage. The basic knowledge exists and there is a need for specific medium- to long-term experiments to design high density mango planting. International collaboration would be efficient to speed up the process. With the current experience, a wise advice is to move from low to medium density planting, instead of doing a jump from low to high density planting.


Introduction: Drug-related problems are frequent in almost all therapeutic areas. Aims: The aim of this paper was to detect drug - related problems in patients with gastro-esophageal reflux and to analyze their possible association with the patient characteristics. Material and methods: The study was designed as descriptive, retrospective, cross-sectional study aiming to determine the most common drug - related problems in patients with gastro-esophageal reflux disease treated with proton-pump inhibitors. The survey was conducted at the Department of Gastroenterology, Clinical Centre in Kragujevac. The study enrolled all patients treated from gastroesophageal reflux disease with proton pump inhibitors during the time period from 1.1.2014 until 1.1.2015. The study used descriptive statistics (percentage distribution, mean and standard deviation). The correlation between the number of adverse events and patient characteristics was also calculated. Results: The average age of the patients was 55.97 ± 15.811 years, and 43 of the patients (60.6 %) were male. The average hospitalization duration was 12.30 ± 8.89 days. Based on the Pharmaceutical Care Network Europe classification, there were 182 Drug-Related Problems which was, on average, 2.56 problems per patient. Only 5 patients (7%) did not report any problem while 11 patients (15.49%) had over 10 possible drug-drug interactions. The most common problems which occurred were erroneous drug choice, inappropriate administration and possible interactions between medications. Conclusions: Based on the results of this study, one must pay attention to possible drug-drug interactions and other problems which may occur with proton-pump inhibitors. Recognition of different sub-types of drug-related problems and of factors associated with drug-related problems may reduce risk from adverse outcomes of gastro-esophageal reflux disease treatment with proton pump inhibitors.


Peritectic carbon steels, produced by conventional continuous casting, show slab surface defects as a consequence of the shrinkage caused by the δ ⇒ γ transformation. Unsteady heat flux conditions between strand shell and mould plate leads to an irregular solidification. By following the hypothesis, that the cooling rate has an effect to the peritectic reaction, twin roll strip cast trials were done at a pilot strip caster at RWTH Aachen University. Local cooling rates of -1000 K/s in combination with an eightfold higher heat flux compared to continuous casting are typical for strip casting process. The indication for effects from the strip casting process to the peritectic reaction was on the one hand the steady heat flux and on the other hand the strip surface quality. Trials were performed in 3 campaigns with the chemical analyses of peritectic carbon steels known from continuous casting. The campaigns just distinguish between the casting roll surfaces structure and the range of carbon content. All other process parameters were constant. The casting roll surface was developed from a fine, hexagonal open structure to a coarse hexagonal structure. The structure is regular and was produced by knurling. The carbon range was 0.06 to 0.17 wt %. The result of the 1 campaign was that nearly all strips were attack by many cracks. The number of cracks rises to higher carbon content up to 0.17 wt %. The maximum of defects around 0.1 wt % of carbon, known from continuous casting, was not found. By proofing the strip surfaces, it was found out that the steel melt didn't wet the roll surface intensive. An unsteady solidification process was the result. The results of the 2 campaign were different. Just very few cracks were remaining at the strip surfaces. No dependence between carbon content and number of crack were found. Once again the critical range around 0.1 wt % carbon wasn't noticeable by strips produced with the twin roll casting process. The important different in comparison to the first campaign was an excellent wetting behaviour between steel melt and roll surface. An imprint of the roll surface structure was found at all strip surfaces. A homogenous heat flux and solidification condition exists. The results of the 3 series, performed with a further regular roll surface structure, confirm the above explained facts. The geometric shape and adjustment were again diversifying to coarser values. The work could demonstrate that the twin roll process is suitable for the production of peritectic carbon steel grades. The key factor for solidification and heat flux is the wetting condition at the roll surface. Steel specific roll surface structures are required.


Thiol- and yne-functionalized beads were manufactured in a simple microfluidic setup. While CuAAC and thiol-yne reactions were performed on yne-functionalized beads, 9 different thiol-X reactions were compared, in terms of kinetics and conversion, on thiol-functionalized beads.


Gary Alan Fine is John Evans Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. He is a past chair of the Sociological Theory Section of the American Sociological Association and is current president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. He has contributed to small-groups theory, collective memory, and symbolic interactionism and has written on the theoretical contributions of George Herbert Mead, Thorsten Veblen, and Erving Goffman. He is currently writing a book on the role of small groups in social life.


The article deals with the study of the assessment of personality-oriented approach by the subjects of its implementation in the formation of pedagogical professionalism in higher educational institutions in Eastern Europe, where such an approach is still considered innovative. Students and teachers of physical education faculties were selected as the reference group. The main objective is to clarify the relationship between the classical principles of personality-oriented approach and its reflection by the subjects of the educational process. A remote survey of students and teachers of physical education faculties helped identify a number of universities, regional and personal advantages in using a personality-oriented approach. The authors clarified key concepts and patterns of this approach, its objective and subjective attributes and patterns. The method of ranking of student and teacher preferences and associative concepts helped identify trends, advantages and disadvantages of the implementation of personality-oriented learning in Eastern European universities. The article clarifies that there is a dissonance in the academic and personal student understanding of the implementation of the analysed approach in Eastern Europe: the main generalizing concepts for teachers are choice, initiative, personality, independence, while for students these are independence. The ratings of the advantages of personality-oriented learning from the point of view of students of Eastern and Western Europe are also compared. On the basis of the obtained data, the authors developed the scheme of the modern implementation of the personality-oriented approach, and determined the prospects for further research. The latter is to solve the problem of harmonization of compulsory and variable (individual) components of the content of education; development of methods to increase motivation, responsibility and self-acquisition of professional competencies by future teachers.


The novel creations of Lu Hsun were patterned upon foreign writers.Among them,Henryk Siekiewicz,the most outstanding and prolific Polish writer,was Lu Hsun's favorite.Lun Hsun followed the example of works of Siekiewicz,whose early works are satirical sketches,betraying a strong social conscience.The creative method is embodied in three aspects: creation technique: satiric skills(litotes),namely,expressing grief and indignation with humorous patterns;text structure: using subtitle;text expression art: from concrete sentence to "jottings",to terse,outstanding and vigorous ending.It can be concluded that Lu Hsun not only inherited,drew excellent creation skills from Siekiewicz,but also,and more importantly,made more outstanding achievements than the latter.


Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: Good Fences May Not Make Good Neighbors After All / J. Aaron Simmons and David Wood Part 1. Levinas on Kierkegaard 1. The Many Faces of Levinas as a Reader of Kierkegaard / Merold Westphal 2. Existential Appropriations: The Influence of Jean Wahl on Levinas's Reading of Kierkegaard / J. Aaron Simmons Part 2. On Love and Transcendence 3. Who or What or Whot? / John Llewelyn 4. Kierkegaard and Levinas on Four Elements of the Biblical Love Commandment / M. Jamie Ferreira 5. The Greatest Commandment? Religion and/or Ethics in Kierkegaard and Levinas / Jeffrey Dudiak Part 3. Time, Alterity, and Eschatology 6. Hearing, Patiently: Time and Salvation in Kierkegaard and Levinas / David Kangas and Martin Kavka 7. Kierkegaard, Levinas, and "Absolute Alterity" / Michael Weston 8. What Kierkegaardian Faith Adds to Alterity Ethics: How Levinas and Derrida Miss the Eschatological Dimension / John J. Davenport Part 4. Ethico-Political Possibilities 9. The Challenge of Justice: The Ethics of "Upbuilding" / Edith Wyschogrod 10. Levinas and Kierkegaard: Ethics and Politics / Zeynep Direk 11. Works of Justice, Works of Love: Kierkegaard, Levinas, and an Ethics Beyond Difference / Stephen Minister 12. "More Than All the Others": Meditation on Responsibility / Martin Beck Matu tik List of Contributors Index


Abstract It is shown how the control of the area " a h " which the head group of a surfactant molecule requires at a surfactant film or at a micellar interface can be used to modify the macroscopic properties of surfactant solutions. Examples are presented where the variation of this required area a h which controls the radius of curvature of a micellar interface can be used to form three-dimensional networks. Such networks can be formed from long rod-like micelles in aqueous solutions and long rod-like micelles with an aqueous core in organic solvents. A network can also exist with sheet-like structures. Again it seems to be possible to prepare normal and inverse type of structures. The networks have viscoelastic properties which can be characterised by a shear modulus and a structural relaxation time. Such viscoelastic surfactant solutions are thermodynamically stable and contain less than 1% of surfactant. For the networks in the aqueous phase the curvature of the interfaces is convex towards the water while it is concave for the networks in the organic phase. When the curvature goes towards infinity the surfactant systems form liquid crystalline phases which can have extremely large spacings between the layers. Examples are presented where the spacings are in the range of several thousand angstroms and, as a consequence, the systems show bright iridescent colours. The thermodynamically stable systems must be distinguished from W/O and O/W systems which are also viscoelastic and in which the surfactant molecules form a foam-like structure which gives these systems their rigidity and stiffness. These systems have a yield stress value. They can also look transparent and are seemingly stable for months, but actually they are not in thermodynamic equilibrium and are two phase systems. Finally, data are presented for block copolymers of polyfethylene oxide)-poly(propylene oxide) of the type EO x -PO y -EO x which also form micelles. For concentrations which are larger than 20%, solutions of these compounds are transformed into a gel with increasing temperature. It is shown that these gels can consist of liquid crystal cubic phases.


Abstract An expression for the diabatic wind profile is derived using dimensional analysis and the assumption that the turbulent exchange coefficient for momentum can be partitioned into two parts, one associated with forced convection and the other with natural convection. The limitation of the profile to neutral or unstable conditions is stressed.


Enterprise-customer Collaborative innovation is an effective way for enterprise to accumulate and innovate knowledge. This paper analyzes key risk factors existed in enterprise-customer collaborative innovation process, establishes matter element model for risk assessment, illustrates the usage of model and comes up with qualitative and quantitative assessment for the risk level of enterprise-customer collaborative innovation, which will provides new measures and a train of thought for risk decision-making in collaborative innovation process. Keywords-extension methods; enterprise-customer collaborative innovation; matter element model


The endoscope comprising: a direct-view observation window, the front end portion of the insertion portion is provided in a direct-view objective lens; a light guide plate disposed on the direct-view illumination window formed in the outer periphery side viewing observation window having the incident the light incident surface of the outer peripheral portion of the cutting look lower-side observation field of view of the C-ring is formed by the shape of the guide, are formed to the back surface reflected scattered light reflection surface and the front surface and transmitting light as illumination light to linear side visual observation visual field emission transmission surface; and a light emitting portion, which is incident to the incident surface of the light guide plate to emit the light having a front surface from the rear surface side of the light guide plate toward the cutting position of the upper side of the light guide plate wedge-shaped reflection surface is formed in a wedge shape.


Transoceanic-class multi-core fibre bidirectional transmission is experimentally demonstrated using step-index profile standard cladding 4-core fibres without trench-assisted pure-silica cores for the first time. 4-SDM/16-WDM channels modulated with 24-Gbaud DP-QPSK are successfully transmitted over 7,000 km with no impact of core-to-core crosstalk.


The analysis of human activities is one of the most interesting and important open issues for the automated video surveillance community. In order to understand the behaviors of humans, a higher level of understanding is required, which is generally referred to as activity recognition. While traditional approaches rely on 2D data like images or videos, the development of low-cost depth sensors created new opportunities to advance the field. In this paper, a system to recognize human activities using 3D skeleton joints recovered from 3D depth data of RGB-D cameras is proposed. A low dimensional descriptor is constructed for activity recognition based on skeleton joints. The proposed system focuses on recognizing human activities not human actions. Human activities take place over different time scales and consist of a sequence of sub-activities (referred to as actions). The proposed system recognizes learned activities via trained Hidden Markov Models (HMMs). Experimental results on two human activity recognition benchmarks show that the proposed recognition system outperforms various state-of-the-art skeleton-based human activity recognition techniques.


High-efficiency adsorbents are essential for ultradeep desulfurization through selective adsorption, which features low energy consumption without causing secondary pollution. Aluminum oxide is alw...


The subject suggested to me "Changing Fashions and Habits in Medical Literature" might, if time and weather permitted, be treated interestingly in historical fashion by describing in great detail many of the older works which still, or formerly, adorned your bookshelves and comparing them as to form and contents, with certain more recent publications, but I feel this is also an opportunity for more practical purposes. I wish to stand before you as a target for friendly constructive criticism of publishers' methods, as representing directly one of the oldest and one of the youngest of the medical and scientific publishing houses in America, also four of the largest British medical publishing houses, and indirectly representing the other American medical publishers. You represent another group, the medical libraries of America. The two groups have so very much in common. We are both eager to know how we can b-etter serve the noblest of the professions in their efforts to restore, conserve and promote the health of the people of America. This ought to be an opportunity for conference, that the medical publishers and medical librarians may better understand each others' aims and methods, and study how we may more efficiently serve practitioners in all branches of medicine, and the allied sciences, teachers in the medical schools, medical students and nurses. That field is a comparatively narrow one. I take it that the medical libraries represented in your association, like the medical publishers, are not particularly concerned as yet with the health education of the general public, although that may yet come to be one of our functions and a large one. The number of so-called health books published for the general public is increasing rapidly, some of them not very authoritative. Health and disease in all its aspects are now popular subjects, books and magazines abound in that field whereas a few years ago little of the sort existed except a few bulky "family physician" or "home doctor" books designed mainly for farm families and other isolated homes in the then sparsely settled condition of much of this country, when transportation was slow, and "what to do till the doctor comes" was a much more urgent and frequent problem than it is today. Let me state here question number one, which I hope some of you will answer later. How many medical libraries represented here are making it a part of their duty to supply books on medical


A huge fortune lying at the bottom of the pyramid stresses the importance of MSMEs/ small businesses to grow in India. But, there is a strong caution of sustainability and profitability to these MSMEs in Indian especially widespread rural markets. In this regard we would like to suggest a well tested market orientation strategy for those who would like to be ensured of an inclusive growth of any given business enterprise. A case study of MOVE conducted in this regard in the peri-urban villages of Hubli-Dharwad (Karnataka), is used for testing of influence of market orientation on the business performance. Introduction: Scope of Indian market is very well recognised by the entire world by its huge potential and a strong discussion on FDI to India does explain this aspect in detail. Inspite of this, domestic business is mainly dominated by MSMEs in India, this foster the thought for promoting of MSMEs and in particularly small businesses to make use of large extent of small savings and human resource left out being unused as unemployed. This domestic business forms of a great importance because of its huge population and/or market size. This has been rightly discussed and explained by many intellectuals in the area. But, in a globalized marketplace and that too with a pressure and strokes from global crisis, it is almost impossible for the small entrepreneurs especially in case of rural producers to match the prices and economies of scale that huge multi-national producers can offer. In this context a unique method known as Market Oriented Value Enhancement and comprehensively termed as MOVE was evolved. This method was an outcome as a result of a natural resources systems programme (NRSP) to commission research into understanding semi-urban interface and how best to manage it, in the areas of poverty alleviation and natural resource management. This NRSP was set by the UK department for international development (DFID) in an effort of finding way out for the above issues and for improving livelihoods of the asset-poor under the DFID Project Number R8084. MOVE Market Oriented Value Enhancement: MOVE (Market Oriented Value Enhancement) was created because it was found that about 90 to 95 percent of the small entrepreneurs fail because they do not understand the markets. It is important that all entrepreneurship development programs have to be market oriented. The Indian market has changed with the opening of the markets. The small producers cannot compete with the larger companies. Therefore they have to be market oriented to have more flexibility and to be able to move laterally. If the entrepreneurs are oriented to the markets then the success rates of the entrepreneurs will be very high. Thus, the strength of MOVE is that the trainees are market savvy by the end of the training. The trainees have the tools to understand the markets and therefore as the markets shift, they too can shift or tailor their products or services. Market Orientation and Value Enhancement is a practical, sustainable, replicable, adaptable, profitable tool that has proven to be a viable alternative to improve livelihoods of the poor. This tool helps in setting up viable businesses or income generating activities based on market needs, thus drastically reducing the failure rate. Hence, MOVE is basically a customer-centric approach to business! The main concept in MOVE is that a business has to be customer oriented for it to succeed. The customer has to be at the center or the main target. Trainees have to first understand their customer thoroughly, their needs, and their wants, before they can move forward. Once the customer's requirements are understood, the trainee should then see if it makes business sense to make and sell these products or services. The customer may want a lot, which may not make business sense, in which case the trainee should not start that business. It is only after these have been identified does the trainee looks at other aspects of the business such as finance, human resources and production. A case study of MOVE: The present case study is primarily an experimental (Empirical) and descriptive in nature. It mainly concentrates on studying superiority of MOVERS (trainees of MOVE) over Non-MOVERS (untrained or independent) entrepreneurs. This study mainly concentrates on the data so collected from small and relatively fresh entrepreneurs; who are from rural and peri-urban areas of India. Thus this study becomes more useful for those marketing strategists and academicians to know more about rural and peri-urban India's view and interest towards being marketing orientation. This will give a proper guidance in the process of business development by making proper use of marketing orientation strategies. Here this case focuses on the trainees of MOVE and their superior inclusive growth of a business here below being used as business performance, is compared with the other businessmen in the same area/localities. Two objectives of this are as below: To analyze whether there exists the influence of market orientation on business performance. In this regard a hypothesis was made as below: H0 1: There is no difference between the business performance of more Market Oriented Enterprises and Less Market Oriented Enterprises. H1 1: There is a difference between the business performance of more Market Oriented Enterprises and Less Market Oriented Enterprises. Primary Data was collected by canvassing structured interview schedules from beneficiaries of MOVERS (ME) and non-MOVERS (NME). This was useful in comparing the market orientation level and business performance both in financial and non-financial terms, among trainees of MOVE those have started and running some enterprise/businesses as budding entrepreneurs i.e. MEs, and untrained/independent entrepreneurs i.e. NMEs those are relatively comparable with those of MEs and are located in


In this paper, we have implemented a low cost primary healthcare service for the remote rural people of Bangladesh. These services were delivered through our developed advanced telemedicine model. The main aim of this paper is to provide basic healthcare service through the developed low cost hardware. We have developed Arduino based low cost hardware's to be used for this telemedicine services. Remote patients of Bangladesh can get the expert doctors opinion without going to the urban areas. We have collected nine vital signs such as electrocardiogram (ECG), oxygen saturation (SPO2), blood pressure, temperature, body position, glucose level, airflow, height, and weight of patients to be used in our model. We have removed unwanted signals from the collected vital signs through several filtering algorithms. Our system was successfully tested with the patients of Marie Stopes Bangladesh Hospital. From our developed model, rural patients can get primary healthcare services from the pharmacy of any remote village of Bangladesh with the assistance of local doctor by using Raspberry PI. Finally, we can say that the deployment of the developed healthcare service will reduce the cost of the telemedicine services and advances the healthcare facilities for the remote people of Bangladesh. Keywords—Raspberry PI; DGHS; Arduino; Portable; ECG; SPO2


Event-related query is playing a more and more important role in video retrieval. However, it is still a challenge to the existing video retrieval engines for lacking the effective motion analysis. In this paper, we propose a novel re-ranking scheme for video retrieval based on motion region trajectory analysis. By focusing on the changes of the primary moving regions, we construct an intuitive motion region-based trajectory descriptor (MRTD) to depict the shot activities. In the re-ranking phase, the proposed approach takes the MRTD as a motion cue and re-ranks the baseline results by motion-related query selection and MRTD-based weighting. We evaluate our method in TRECVID2007 and 2008 datasets, and observe consistent improvement over all the baselines, leading to a greatest performance gain of 42.9%, and an average gain of 17%. The experiments also show that the motion descriptor of MRTD is fruitful for a variety of features.


Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is one of the major pathogens in hospitals, and since the 1990s it has been recognized as an important pathogen in community infections. (1) The aim of this study was to analyze MRSA strains from a vascular surgery ward over a five-year period, since the vascular ward is considered to be a high-risk site for different multi-resistant pathogens, among which MRSA is very important. The method used for the microbiological identification and susceptibility testing of strains was the Vitek2 system. For the detailed characterization of the MRSA strains, we used the following molecular methods: SCCmec typing, pulse-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), spa typing and Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) detection. During the 5-year period, 77 MRSA strains were isolated. Antimicrobial susceptibility: 100% of MRSA isolates were susceptible to oxazolidinones and glycopeptides, 55% were susceptible to gentamycin, and 98% were susceptible to tetracyclines. SCCmec typing: 43 of 77 (55.8%) strains were typed as SCCmec I. The number of isolates with SCCmec II was 28 (36.4%). Three isolates carried SCCmec III. After the PFGE analysis, the isolates were grouped into six similarity groups: A-F. The largest number of isolates (80.6%) belonged to one of two groups: A: 35 (46.8%) and D: 25 (33.8%). Conclusion: The analysis of MRSA strains in the vascular surgery ward revealed high homogeneity among the strains, the majority of which belonged to SCCmec type I. This type, together with the susceptibility profile and PFGE grouping, is considered to be typical of Hospital-Acquired (HA) MRSA.


The existence of SEZ Mandalika as a Special Economic Zone in Lombok as well as one of the super-priority destinations brings an opportunity to Indonesia, especially the Province of West Nusa Tenggara to recover from the impact of economic recession due to the COVID-19 pandemic and 8.0 Earthquake. One of the greatest opportunities is the international event of MOTOGP which will be held in Mandalika Circuit for about ten years. As a vocational institution, Lombok Tourism Polytechnic conducted several programs to support the acceleration of tourism recovery, especially in the SEZ Mandalika and its supporting areas through increasing the capacity of human resources, particularly in SEZ Mandalika and its surroundings. These programs are workshops in hospitality service, technical guidance in creating foods and beverages from local sources, making beds, and improving skills in a foreign language. After conducting the programs, most participants argue that the programs supported and facilitated their work, and they could improve their knowledge and skills in many aspects. However, intensive coaching is needed, especially in small groups to optimize the results of these programs.


1. Sofya Maslyanskaya, MD*
2. Elizabeth M. Alderman, MD*

1. *Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children's Hospital at Montefiore, and Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY

* Abbreviations:
 CDC: : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
 EHR: : electronic health record
 EOB: : explanation of benefits
 HIPAA: : Health Insurance Portability and Privacy Act
 HIV: : human immunodeficiency virus
 SAHM: : Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine
 STD: : sexually transmitted disease

Confidentiality protections are critical in the provision of comprehensive primary care of adolescent patients. The protections differ based on state laws and are limited by electronic health record documentation and billing operations of individual physician practices. Physicians need to strive to increase their knowledge regarding confidentiality protections for their adolescent patients. Moreover, physicians should understand their role in preventing possible confidentiality breaches.

After completing this article, readers should be able to:

1. Define confidentiality, its limitations, and reasons for developmentally appropriate confidentiality protections for adolescents.

2. Recognize confidentiality protections for adolescents provided by state and federal laws, including the Health Insurance Portability and Privacy Act privacy rule.

3. Explain minor consent laws.

4. Describe the limitations and advantages of the electronic health record in providing confidentiality protections.

5. Identify concerns and solutions related to billing for confidential services.

A 16-year-old girl who has been your patient since birth presents to an appointment alone and requests testing for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). She also does not want her parents to find out about this visit. How would you proceed?

### Confidentiality and Autonomy

The provision of confidentiality and the ability of adolescents to consent for certain health concerns are the cornerstone of optimal adolescent health-care. (1) According to this tenet, information about an adolescent's health-care is not disclosed without his or her permission. Assurance of confidentiality is important to protect the adolescent's health and to safeguard public health. The major causes of morbidity and mortality in adolescents are due to risky behaviors such as sexual activity and alcohol and substance use, as well as unmet mental health needs.

During the past 3 decades, research has supported the importance of the …


After analyzing the water sources and water supply structures of Haoqing River Basin,the paper probes into the degrees of exploitation and utilization of the water resources and analyzes some problems.


By combining thin-section description, minerals analysis, Ar-ion milling, FESEM and EDX, this article identifies and documents a variety of pore types in Weibei shales. These pores can be classified into three categories as interparticle pores, intraparticle pores and organic-matters intraparticle pores. Although with different shapes and origins, they are all large enough to store gas molecules. Moreover, some types of pores have favorable connectivity with others, thus providing permeability pathways for migration of hydrocarbon molecules.


Taylor and Francis FDEF_A_255791.sgm 10.1080/14702430701559339 Defence Studies 470-2436 (pr nt)/1743698 (online) Book R views 2 07 & Francis 730 00September 2 07 Richa dLock-Pullan rp@ klla .f eeserve.co.uk Richard Bartle and Lindy Heinecken (eds.), Military Unionism in the PostCold War Era: A Future Reality? Cass Military Series (London: Routledge, 2006). Pp.221, index. £70 cloth; ISBN 0-415-385334.


The purpose of this paper is to report the results of laboratory scale penetration tests on aged fine particle concrete targets. Hardened 4340 steel (RC-50) projectiles were fabricated with ogive noses and flat ends for the purpose of the tests. The projectiles were 0.164 inches in diameter with varying lengths. The projectiles were launched from a 0.167 inch smooth bore powder gun, and the impacts were normal to the face of the target. The targets were small enough to permit two methods of measurement to find the penetration depth: direct measurement from the back of the projectile and x-rays of the target. The Compaction Ring Theory, presented earlier by Jones [1] and Nuckols[2], was then applied to the penetration depth data for the ogive-nose projectiles. Several of the equations to follow were first presented in those papers. However, two corrections were made to the theory previously presented involving the sign of the yield stress of the target in the radial stress equation and in deriving the penetration depth equation. These corrections will be described in more detail later. Since the Compaction Ring Theory in its generic form does not apply to flat-ended projectiles, it was modified to include this case. The results show reasonable correlation for target strengths that are consistent with the strain rates that are anticipated for the range of impact velocities that were used in the experiments.Copyright © 2012 by ASME


LK A recent analysis by Barberio and colleagues estimated that 25% of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) met the criteria for depression according to a clinical cutoff on the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). Other studies have reported that up to 40% of patients with IBD will show depressive symptoms over their lifetime (eg, low mood, loss of interest in activities, fatigue, poor concentration, reduced appetite, thoughts of feeling worthless or like a burden). Rates of depression increase when patients have active disease.


Epilepsy is the most common neurological diseases with a high prevalence in the world. Valproic acid as the first line therapy has some adverse effects on hematology field. However, the data about hematological effects from the use of valproic acid as therapy in children with epilepsy is currently still limited. This is a cross sectional study to describe the hematology profile of children with epilepsy treated by valproic acid at Sanglah Hospital. Data collection was done during February to May 2018. We report 58 subjects of children with epilepsy treated with valproic acid at Sanglah Hospital. The mean age is 4.47 years, 60% are male. About 79.3% were generalized seizure, and 89% from them were tonic clonic type. Fifty percent of partial seizure were partial complex epilepsy. Forty-six EEG results (79.3%) were abnormal. We found 4 cases (0.07%) of thrombocytopenia at dose of 30 mg/kg/day and the others at 25 mg/kg/day. The thrombocyte level recovered after the valproic acid discontinued. We found 29 cases of anemia, 86.2% with mild anemia and others 13.2% with moderate anemia. Most of the anemia cases were found after 12 months of treatment. In conclusion, the use of valproic acid as a therapy indicates the role of drug dose and timerelated spectrum of hematology disorders that ranges from thrombocytopenia to anemia. Routine laboratory evaluation is necessary, especially after 12 months of treatment with valproic acid and at a dose of valproic acid 25 mg/kg/day or more.


The purpose of this study is to show how the differing philosophical commitments of these three artists help explain differences in the character of their greatness.


Objective To observe the dose-rate effect of adaptive response of apoptosis and cell cycle progression induced by low-dose ionizing radiation in EL-4 lymphoma cells in vitro in order to reveal the possible mechanism of biological effect and adaptive response induced by low dose radiation. Methods The experiment was divided into D2 (challenging dose),D1 (inductive dose) + D2 and sham-irradiation groups.EL-4 lymphoma cells were irradiated with D1 (75 mGy,6.25-200.00 mGy·min-1) and D2 (1.5 Gy,287 mGy·min-1),the time interval between D1 and D2 was 6 h. The percentage of apoptosis and each cell cycle phase were measured with flow cytometry.Results When the dose rates of D1 were 6.25-50.00 mGy·min-1,the percentages of apoptosis in the D1 + D2 group were significantly lower than those in the D2 group (P0.05);meantime,the percentages of G0/G1 phase cells decreased significantly (P0.01),and the percentages of S phase cells increased at different degrees.Conclusion When the dose rates of D1 (75 mGy) are 6.25-50.00 mGy·min-1,D2 is 1.5 Gy (287 mGy·min-1),and the time interval between D1 and D2 is 6 h,the adaptive response of apoptosis and cell cycle progression in EL-4 lymphoma cells in vitro could be induced.


The integral equation for Langmuir wave propagation excited by both localized antennae and sinusoidal beat waves is solved for an inhomogeneous plasma with constant density gradient. Comparison of the kinetic and fluid solutions shows clearly the effects of spatial Landau damping in the kinetic case.


The late results of the first 30 crural bypass operations are presented. The longest follow-up period was 6, the shortest 1 year. At the time of check-ups 14 of the bypasses were penetrable, and 16 were occluded. On 9 of the latter 16 amputation of the thigh had to be performed. Flow conditions and the problems of indication and contra-indication are discussed.


How does one enter into suffering with those who are poor in spirit, body, and possessions? Are we not all poor as we seek after Someone, Something, beyond ourselves -- for love, peace, and justice? And if we are poor, what does that mean? What is community? This gold-mine of writings from sixty years of The Catholic Worker offers lively accounts of the movement's courageous grappling with these issues and more: homelessness, war, civil disobedience, and community. Includes contributions from Dorothy Day, Henri Nouwen, Robert Coles, Daniel Berrigan, Eileen Egan, and Thomas Merton.


Diabetes mellitus is a widespread disease throughout the world, leading to severe damage to the vital organs and systems. Serious complications, often life-threatening to the patient with diabetes mellitus is a syndrome of diabetic foot. Reduction of disability of patients with diabetes and improve their quality of life. This requires nurses to gain knowledge as to their place in the multidisciplinary team, minddiabetic care and appropriately targeted training for effective and quality care for patients with diabetic foot.


OBJECTIVE
The factor structure of the eating disorder examination (EDE) has never been tested in a clinical pediatric sample, and no normative data exist.

METHOD
The factor structure of an adapted EDE was examined in a clinical sample of 665 females aged 9-17 years with anorexia nervosa spectrum (70%), bulimia nervosa spectrum (12%), purging disorder (3%), and unspecified feeding and eating disorders (15%).

RESULTS
The original four-factor model was a good fit in a confirmatory factor analysis as well a higher order model with three dimensions of restraint, eating concern, and combined weight concern/shape concern. Normative data are reported for clinicians to identify the percentiles in which their patients' score.

DISCUSSION
The findings support dimensions of restraint, eating concern, weight concern, and shape concern in a clinical pediatric sample. This supports the factorial validity of the EDE, and the norms may assist clinicians to evaluate symptoms in females under 18 years.


The new carbazole-containing acetylene monomers, 2-ethynyl-9-tent-butoxycarbonyl-carbazole (1) and 3-ethynyl-9-tert-butoxycarbonylcarbazole (2) were synthesized and polymerized with Rh+(nbd[η 6 -C 6 H 5 B - (C 6 H 5 ) 3 ], [(nbd)RhCl] 2 -Et 3 N, [(nbd)RhCl] 2 -KN(SiMe3)2, and WCl 6 -Ph 4 Sn catalysts. The corresponding polyacetylenes with number-average molecular weights ranging from 23 000 to 185 000 were obtained in 80%-quantitative yields, except for the polymerization of 1 with W catalyst. Rh-based poly(1) showed UV-Vis absorption in the longer wavelength region than Rh-based poly(2). W-based poly(2) showed an absorption band edge at a wavelength longer than the Rh-based polymer. W-based poly(2) emitted fluorescence at 375 nm upon excitation at 291 nm, while the Rh-based compound emitted almost no fluorescence. The polymers exhibited new absorption around 360-600 nm based on electrochemically doped species by application of an external voltage.


Dry catalytic combustion at high temperatures is used for assaying biological materials labeled carbon-14 and tritium, or double-labeled. A modified oxygen-flask technique is combined with standard vacuum-line techniques and includes convenience of direct in-vial collection of final combustion products, giving quantitative recovery of tritium and carbon-14.