Introduction: CONS are part of the normal skin flora increasingly recognized as significant nosocomial pathogens and often causes different infections associated with implanted devices, joint prosthesis and different indwelling devices. They are very difficult to treat as they are more resistant to commonly used antimicrobial agents than others. Because of that, present study was conducted with following aims and objectives. Aims and Objectives: To study antibiotic susceptibility profile of isolated species of CONS to various classes of antimicrobials using Kirby Bauer disc diffusion method followed by detection of methicillin resistance and inducible clindamycin resistance among the isolated species of CONS. Materials and Methods: 170 CONS strains isolated from clinically significant samples were identified by different conventional methods and antibiotic resistance pattern was detected by KirbyBauer Disk Diffusion method by using different antibiotic discs. Methicillin resistance and Inducible and constitutive clindamycin resistance (D test) was detected according to CLSI guidelines. Results: Among 170 CONS isolates, predominant isolated species were S. epidermidis (42.35%), S. haemolyticus (27.06%) and showed higher resistance to different antibiotics. 105(61.76%) isolates showed erythromycin resistance, out of which, 26 (24.76%) isolates were iMLSB.113 (66.47%) isolates were MRCONS. Conclusion: Present study showed high prevalence of MRCONS, resistant to widely used antimicrobial agents. Hence, it is necessary to have regular surveillance of MRCONS which will be useful for selecting an appropriate antibiotic.


The concept of ?clothing? represents one of the key mental, cultural and
 linguistic constants in the conceptosphere, which makes it a current subject
 matter of scientific study, considering that on the one hand, clothing has
 particular importance in the everyday life of representatives of various
 society, and on the other, that it has from as far back as we can remember,
 been a means of conceptualizing the world by reflecting the objective
 reality and realizing various social functions - the aesthetic, utilitarian,
 gender, ethnic, ritualistic. The reconstruction of the concept from the
 linguacultural aspect includes an analysis of the elements of its verbal
 explication and the interpretation on the linguistic image of the world of a
 particular linguistic or speech community. Our task is to describe the
 concept of clothing of the Serbian speech of Prizren using lexical units
 which contain a cultural component of meaning and reflect the features of
 traditional culture, view of the world, and the mentality of the Serbian
 linguistic persona from the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th
 century. Based on the material from the Zbirka reci iz Prizrena by Dimitrije
 Cemerikic we will present a structure of the concept with the lexical
 dominants of obuklo, ruba, t??se, which include qualificatives that complete
 the image of the everyday, special occasion, and ritual apparel in the life
 of Prizren; activities related to clothing; individual items of men?s and
 women?s clothing; ornaments as an important component of the aesthetic
 experience of the old inhabitants of Prizren. The conceptualization of
 clothing in the consciousnesses of the Prizren linguistic persona is
 reflected in the corresponding lexical units, and manifests the cultural and
 value dominants of an urban peripheral multinational, multicultural, and
 multilingual community in a certain historical period of time, reflecting
 the impact and permeating effect of elements of the culture of clothing of
 various ethnic groups.


The object of this production test is to authorize the irradiation of samples of natural uranium for use in the fission product volatilization program. Any empty central zone PCCF and/or process tube at B, D, DR, or H Reactors will meet the requirements of this authorization.


Embodiments of the invention include a variety of different types of optical measurement scale, the optical measuring device and an optical measuring method using the measuring scale position. In one embodiment, the optical measurement scale comprising a substrate and a plurality of marking units, each unit is fixed to a predetermined position of the mark of the scale. Each marking unit comprises a marking element of the plurality of optical detectors, each mark element has a value element, and each element value is a set of digital elements defining any marker elements arranged in the cell values in the tag, each of value corresponds to a physical unit. The first direction is provided on the substrate. It comprises a first physical distance between the reference position and a predetermined position along the first direction.


This article is based on several years of empirical observation, gathered from theatre practice, in which Karin B. Bjerkestrand and Anna Songe-Moller developed what is known as "Solidarity Forum Theatre" (SFT), a form of applied drama. This theatre form is based primarily on the Brazilian, Augusto Boal's, Theatre of the Oppressed (Boal, 2006). Bjerkestrand and Songe-Moller used and further developed Boal's theatre principle in a collaboration with various immigrant groups and drama-/theatre students. The intention has been to use the liberating potential into which this form of theatre invites us. In this article, Bjerkestrand and Songe-Moller present the theoretical groundwork, the underlying principles, and examples of SFT in action. One of the participants' stories in particular have been used to concretize the liberating aspect that arose in the theatre experiences. In relation to this Solidarity Forum Theatre practice, science theorist and art educator Venke Aure presents epistemological and didactic reflections.


The sperm motility characteristics (percentage of motile spermatozoa and duration of motility) and sperm production (spermatocrit, milt volume and sperm concentration) were measured in order to compare the milt quality between cultured and wild stocks of Caspian brown trout, Salmo trutta caspius . Our results showed that cultured brooders produce more dense milt than wild individuals. In contrast, the milt volume, percentage and duration of spermatozoa motility were higher in wild brooders than in cultured individuals. The aim of the present study was to assess the effect of captivity condition on milt quality of cultured males of Caspian brown trout. Keywords: Sperm density, sperm motility, Caspian brown trout


Keywords body modification, ableism, pathogolizing disability, transability, transition Abstract This paper interrogates transability – the need or desire to transition from supposed binary states of physical ability to physical disability - by positioning it within the boundaries of acceptable body modification. The pathology of this bodily transition, noted in the literature, is dissected to inquire how compulsory able-bodiedness and ableism enable the pathologization of transabled people. Transabled people depart from ableist compulsions "to never want to be disabled" but needing it to feel "whole" or who they really are. A key informant interview with a transabled man, who has lived as a paraplegic for a decade, provides a humanizing account of this often problematic identity from the standpoint of the disability community. Instead of concluding with resolution about the meaning of transability or disability as body art – the piece closes with several questions to promote a dialog on the boundaries of transition.


Tiled based CMP (TCMP) has become the essential next generation scalable multicore architecture for both computer and embedded systems. The cores in TCMP commonly share a large sized Last Level Cache (LLC). It has been observed that in most of the TCMP architectures the LLC is not being utilised properly. Enhancing the LLC utilisation can reduce the miss rate of the system. NUCA is used in LLC to divide it into multiple banks such that each bank can be accessed independently. Dynamic NUCA (DNUCA) based TCMP can distribute the loads of heavily used banks with other lightly used banks. Also the frequently used blocks can be migrated to the nearest possible bank in order to reduce the cache access time. Such flexibility in DNUCA improves the inter-bank (global) utilisation. But the local utilisation of each bank is still not uniform. The external block distribution and migration cannot improve the local utilisation of banks. In this paper we propose a DNUCA based architecture for TCMP, called BL-DNUCA, having both global and local utilisation enhancement capability. The sets in each bank of BL-DNUCA are used uniformly and a heavily used set can use the idle ways of other sets. Experimental analysis found that BL-DNUCA gives 7.6% improvements in terms of cycle per instructions (CPI) as compared to an existing DNUCA based TCMP (T-DNUCA).


White Afrikaans literature of the sixties can be seen as typically modernist, work of the later part of the eighties and of the nineties clearly shows all the characteristics of postmodernism. Against this backdrop recent Afrikaans prose writing dealing with the representation of childhood and youth can be discussed on the basis of a few of the best and most representative texts. A tentative conclusion is that Afrikaans writing in the nineties focuses on the individualized past, an approach Linda Hutcheon calls "historical metafiction". The authorial stance in these texts fluctuates between what can be termed nostalgia and parody, and should be seen as part of a traumatic psychological process facing white South Africans in particular, namely having to deal with the past. In Afrikaans prose writing the nostalgic stance is especially prevalent in the (traditional) prose writings of authors on the right of the political spectrum. In contrast the parodic stance (dominant in recent Afrikaans prose writings) not only leans toward postmodernism - the prevailing paradigm in the Afrikaans literary context - but can almost without exception be termed "leftist" and "progressive".


The title compound was synthesized from the corresponding triisopropylcyclopentadiene by treatment with n-butyl-sec-butylmagnesium and crystallizes in the triclinic space group P with half a molecule per asymmetric unit and a staggered arrangement of the cyclopentadienide ligands.


To identify the drought and flood control functions of an irrigation reservoir, research on hydrological analysis and its impact needs to be conducted. To this end, geographical characteristics, such as the cross section of the reservoir, are important, but such information is insufficient. Therefore, this study aimed to identify the topographic and morphological characteristics of reservoirs without measured data using their geographical information. In addition, an attempt was made to identify the morphological characteristics of reservoirs that had collapsed due to aging and the increased frequency of occurrence of strong rainfall intensity caused by climate change. Ten reservoirs, including the Ga-Gog Reservoir located in Miryang city, Gyeongsangnam province, South Korea with measured data, were selected as target reservoirs. The topographic information of the target reservoirs was constructed using topographical maps and GIS techniques. Based on the information, the volume (V)-area (A)-depth (H) relationship and the hypsometric curve (HC) according to the relative height (h/H) and relative area (a/A) were created. When the volume of each reservoir estimated using topographic information was compared with the measured volume, the error rate was found be between 0.23 and 14.27%. In addition, two reservoirs that had collapsed near Miryang city were added, and the V-A-H relationship and HCs were created based on the topographic information. In addition, the morphology index, storage-area of full water-levee height relationship, and storage-area of full water relationship were analyzed to identify the morphological characteristics of the reservoirs. The analysis results showed that the collapsed reservoirs had a relatively high water depth and a large area. In addition, similar types of reservoirs were grouped by conducting cluster analysis using basic specifications, such as the reservoir watershed, storage, and area of full water. When the cluster analysis results were analyzed based on HC, the reservoirs were grouped into three shapes: convex upward shape (youthful stage), relatively flat shape (mature stage), and convex downward shape (old stage). The HCs of the collapsed reservoirs exhibited the convex downward shape (old stage), indicating that they were subjected to considerable erosion due to aging. In other words, considerable erosion makes the allowable storage capacity insufficient due to the large amount of sediment accumulated in reservoirs and reduces their flood control capacity, which may cause them to collapse during heavy rainfall. Therefore, it is expected that identifying the potential causes of reservoir collapse through the morphological characteristics and HCs of reservoirs will support the operation and management of reservoirs for reducing flood damage.


Near-stoichiometric LiNbO3 crystals slightly doped with Mn from different Li concentrations in the melt were grown by the top seeded solution growth method. The light-induced (small polarons) absorption under UV illumination was probed using near-IR of 780 nm. The dark decay process shows a stretched-exponential behavior. The dependences of the light-induced absorption, the decay time constant, and the stretching factor on the pumping intensity were presented. The photovoltaic current intensity and the photoconductivity under UV illumination were measured by applying a DC field along the z-axis of the sample. The photoconductivity intensity showed superlinear dependence of intensity. The experimental results can be explained quantitatively by developing the two-center charge transport model with direct excitation and recombination between Mn and small polarons.


A low power, 5-Mb/s fully integrated body channel Frequency Shift Keying (FSK) transmitter using the human body as a signal transmission medium is designed for medical data transmission in body area network. The FSK transmitter has a 9-bit digitally controlled injection locked ring oscillator in place of the power consuming Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) to achieve low energy consumption and ultra wide-band tuning range. 30 MHz to 120 MHz band is used by the body channel transmitter to overcome the body antenna effect. A multiple injection lock modulation scheme is proposed for the 5-Mb/s FSK. The chip is implemented with a 0.18-μm CMOS process using 1.2-V supply. When working at 5 Mb/s, the transmitter core power consumption is only 146.64 μW.


In the last decades, the study of phraseology within general and specialized lexicographic resources has been of interest to scholars. However, phraseology has not been studied in language for specific purposes (LSP) as much as in language for general purposes (LGP). Therefore, this study (i) offers an overview of the definitions regarding LSP phraseology, (ii) provides a series of linguistic analyses of specialized phraseological units (SPUs) extracted from a specialized bilingual dictionary, and (iii) draws a comparative line between LGP and LSP phraseology. To do so, 11,086 entries were extracted to build the analysis database. This study provides 1,054 morphosyntactic and 4,369 semantic patterns, a definition and a taxonomy of SPUs based on the data analysis and revision of LGP phraseology notions, and a hybrid lexicographic indexation method for SPUs. The contributions of this paper answer the question 'what is a SPU?'; while highlighting similarities and differences with LGP phraseology.


The Arpishmebulaq Formation is exposed at the eastern South Tianshan of Xinjiang and was originally proposed by E. Norin (1937, 1941), a Swedish geologist. It consists mainly of limestones and shales with a thickness about 400 m and yields abundant corals, brachipods, ostracods, stromatoporoids and conodonts. Norin subdivided it into 6 divisions (A, B, C, D, E, F).


This book sets out to contextualise, evaluate and illus-trate the work and influence of Vannevar Bush, the originator and developer of the first theories behind hypertext. There are three parts to this book. Most of the essays in parts one and two are of limited interest to the linguistic hypertext author as they deal with the technical history of the theory and sometimes practice of Bush's writings and work with analog computers. However, part one is not without one major redeeming feature as it contains the full text of Bush's most wide-ly known essay: "As we may think", here extracted and edited from the versions in Atlantic Monthly and Life Magazine, both published in 1945. This is where Bush describes his theories on, inter alia, the Cyclops Camera, the Microfilm, the Vocoder, the Thinking Machine and Memex which was itself meant to be:


The article studies the terms zaum' and abstruse language. The author makes an attempt to distinguish the term zaum' from abstruse language from the perspective of linguistics. The author comes to the conclusion that it is possible to differentiate these terms as a dichotomy in accordance with the following properties inherent in these terms: linguistic properties (abstruse language) and non-linguistic properties (zaum), antecedence (zaum') and replication (abstruse language), consciousness (abstruse language) and unconsciousness (zaum'), general collective properties (zaum') and individual creative properties (abstruse language).


This paper presents the prototype of power divider that integrated with filter for X-band radar applications. The prototype was designed and fabricated on a single board using substrate duroid RT5880 which has a relative permittivity of 2.2 and the thickness of 0.78 mm. In this research, Wilkinson power divider and coupled line filter are used base on their benefit. The simulation and measurement show that the prototype has a high performance to be applied in 9.3 GHz radar antenna system. Improvement of return loss achieves by integrating power divider and filter. Comparing with the conventional type, the prototype was proven to reduce loss power by 8%.


The accuracy of pulse oximeters in measuring transient changes in oxygen saturation (SaO2) may be affected by the oximeter time response. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of modifying the pulse oximeter averaging time (T) on the measurement of SaO2 in patients with the sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (SAHS). Twelve patients with severe SAHS were studied during a nap with conventional oximeters: Ohmeda 3740 and Criticare 501. We compared the readings of each patient's oxygen desaturation measured simultaneously with two identical pulse oximeters. One oximeter was the control (T = 3 seconds), and in the other T was set from 3 seconds to 21 seconds. No significant differences in SaO2 were found when both oximeters were set to the same T (3 seconds). In contrast, increasing T to 12 seconds and 21 seconds in one of the oximeters resulted in considerable and significant differences in the measured SaO2: oxygen desaturation was underestimated by up to 60% when compared with the control. The misestimation of SaO2 induced by settings of T which are within the range selectable in conventional oximeters may be of epidemiological significance when pulse oximetry is used as a complementary diagnostic tool to classify sleep events in SAHS.


N‐doping is an effective technique for enhancing the exploitation of TiO2 under visible light, thanks to the level of doping introduced. It is also important to explore N‐doping in the metastable polymorph TiO2(B), which is renowned for its applications in energy materials. In order to investigate the impact of N‐doping on the optical properties of TiO2(B), a systematic comparison of the electronic structural and optical properties of pure and N‐doped TiO2(B) was conducted using density function theory (DFT) calculations. The results indicate that N‐doping is more thermodynamically favorable at the O site with four coordinated atoms. Upon N‐doping, impurity states emerged within the bandgap of TiO2(B), leading to a significant reduction in the energy gap. Consequently, N‐doping primarily enhances the absorbance of visible light, which is crucial for photocatalysis. Furthermore, the adsorption energy of H at the (0 0 1) surface of N‐doped TiO2(B) decreased by 2.75 eV, providing valuable insight for the design of TiO2(B) with exceptional photo‐ and electro‐catalytic performance.


Since the Apollo missions, we have emphasized the following points, which are based on theoretical calculations and on laboratory studies of the properties of evaporated silicate deposits and of lunar samples. The mass of vapor generated by impacts on the lunar surface is comparable in magnitude to the mass of impact melt glasses; the physics of impact into a porous regolith requires that much of this vapor be retained in the soil rather than lost to space (as is widely believed); experimental coatings made from vaporized or sputtered lunar basalt contain abundant inclusions of submicroscopic, super paramagnetic metallic Fe; and this Fe may explain the magnetic signature, low albedo, reddened spectrum, and subdued absorption bands of lunar regolith. Our conclusions have been generally rejected by the lunar geochemical community for two reasons: there seemed to be no direct evidence for vapor deposits in Apollo samples, and it seemed that the lunar optical properties could be explained by the presence of impact melt glasses alone. However, advances in our understanding of the optical properties of glasses and of light scattering by planetary regoliths, and now the direct detection of vapor deposits, show that these objections are not valid. Vapor phase transport is a major process on the lunar surface, and unless its effects are taken into account, the chemical, magnetic, and optical properties of the regolith cannot be understood.


Abstract The aesthetic response to the collapse of state socialism and the exhaustion of the welfare state ranges from sober, historical description to melancholic fixation; from brutal erasure to the painful work of mourning; and from dismissal to nostalgic longing. Walter Benjamin once suggested that historical memory sustains emancipatory potentials that were once crushed. If this is true, when does authentic attachment to the past wend into nostalgia? This essay lays part of the foundation for an analysis of socialist nostalgia by reading two recent films, Tony Harrison's Prometheus (1998) and Mark Herman's Brassed Off (1996). Both films respond to Europe's socialist crisis of the 1980s and 1990s. Whereas Harrison's investigation of the harsh realities of Promethean industry works to deflect criticism of the Left, Herman risks exposing his film to the nostalgia wave that washed over Europe during the crisis of Marxism. Through musical means, Brassed Off finds the inverse of the reverie that has enchanted many on the Left. Harrison and Herman both touch upon the questions of mass culture that Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno framed in the Dialectic of Enlightenment and that Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge further elaborated in their Kulturphilosophie. What distinguishes kitsch from art, and nostalgia from the work of memory? What role do women play in mourning and reinventing socialism? Who can claim Europe's cultural tradition? In reaching back to antiquity, these works pass through two nodes of historical antagonism that have defined modernity. One, general: the repeated acts of expropriation that constitute capital itself. The other, specific: the perverse and ultimately failed attempts of Hitler and Stalin to yoke labour power to the instruments of totalitarianism. At their best moments, both Harrison and Herman make dialectical moves that connect real history to popular culture and, in turn, disclose the constitutive links between labour, gender, and memory.


* Abbreviations:
 CAN — : child abuse and neglect
 CECANF — : Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities
 CPS — : child protective services

The death of any child is a tragedy. When that death is caused by abuse or neglect, sorrow is often coupled with anger: How could this have happened? More importantly, was this preventable? A federal commission, the Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities (CECANF), is working to turn anger into action to stop these tragedies.1

At least 1500 children die every year at the hands of those who are supposed to care for and protect them. We say "at least" because we do not have reliable data about the number of deaths from child maltreatment. There is no national standard for counting these deaths, and the data about child fatalities come from multiple sources that do not coordinate or share data. Most experts, including the US Government Accountability Office, believe that child abuse and neglect (CAN) fatalities are significantly undercounted.2,3

Recognizing that even 1 death from CAN is 1 too many, Congress passed the Protect Our Kids Act that created CECANF in 2012.4 CECANF, a 12-member panel appointed by the president and Congress, began its work in February 2014. Commissioners have 2 years to study the extent and causes of CAN fatalities and to submit a report to Congress that includes concrete recommendations for a national strategy to eliminate CAN fatalities.

In June 2014, CECANF began a series of public hearings across the country. Commissioners reached out to experts from a broad range of disciplines. Local legislators, child welfare leaders, law enforcement officials, federal policy experts, data experts, …

Address correspondence to Rachel P. Berger, MD, MPH, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, 4401 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15224. E-mail: rachel.berger{at}chp.edu


The XXXIII Congress of the International Scientific and Technical Organisation for Soaring Flight (Organisation Scientific et Technique Internationale du Vol `a Voile, OSTIV) will be held at the site of the 34th FAI World Gliding Championships in the Open, 18m and 15m Classes, Benalla, Australia from 8 to 13 January, 2017. The Congress addresses all scientific and technical aspects of soaring flight including motorgliding, hang gliding, paragliding, ultralight sailplanes and aeromodeling.


This paper is a discussion of the mechanisms of normal swallowing based on studies undertaken by the author and on a review of the literature.The afferent impulse in the deglutitive reflex is conveyed to multiple synapses via the solitary nucleus in the medulla oblongata, and is them conveyed to the medullary reticular formation. The efferent impulse from the central nervous system activates the internal laryngeal muscles, the intra- and suprahyoid muscles and the pharyngeal constrictor muscles according to predetermined programming.


On the basis o f analyzing the inherent advantages of tourism industry integration in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, the paper points out the restraining factors, and with the institutional innovation theory in neo-institutional economics, proposes that it is necessary to innovate in institution and mechanism to promote tourism industry integration in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei. It thinks that the subject of institutional innovation should be authoritative government organization and it is important to introduce legal documents on regional cooperation for guarantee. Based on the above, it further puts forward some suggestions of building integrated pattern of tourism industry in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei.


Immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) can be classified as primary or secondary according to the pres- ence of an underlying non-malignant or malignant disorder, including lymphoproliferative disorders. The estimated prevalence of ITP in patients with Hodgkin's lymphoma is about 1%, and its clinical course has been reported in approximately 50 patients. ITP is an unusual and poorly documented complication in patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Some cases have been described in patients who have under- gone high-dose chemotherapy and autologous bone marrow/peripheral blood stem cell transplantation. Rare cases appear to be coincidental. Here, we report on a rare case of a 61-year-old man who had ITP after being in a state of complete remission of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma for about 15 months.


PROBLEMEmpirical results show strong evidence for nuclides having variable decay rates, typically evident as periodicity. This is a perplexing area since the data in support look impressive, as do the data against. The orthodox expectation is for decay rates to be strictly constant for all types of decay (β+, β-, EC, α), and that the indications of variability are systematic errors. It is a significant challenge to explain how variable decay rates might arise, because it is unclear what variables could be involved, nor is there any plausible theory thereof. PURPOSEThis paper attempts a theoretical explanation of the variability of nuclide decay rates. APPROACHThe non-local hidden-variable solution provided by the Cordus theory was used, specifically its mechanics for neutrino-species interactions with nucleons. FINDINGSIt is predicted on theoretical grounds that the β-, β+ and electron capture processes may be induced by pre-supply of neutrino-species, and that the effects are asymmetrical for those species. Also predicted is that different input energies are required, i.e. that a threshold effect exists. The results find against the constancy of decay rates, on theoretical grounds. Four simple non-contentious lemmas are proposed with which it is straightforward to explain why βand EC would be enhanced and correlate to solar neutrino flux (proximity & activity), and α emission unaffected. It is shown that the concept of a neutrino-species asymmetry makes sense of the broad patterns evident in the empirical data. IMPLICATIONSFuture empirical tests of nuclide decay rates need to be more specific about the identity of the neutrino-species and both the energy and flux thereof. The different decays have to be considered separately: they must not be lumped together, nor must they be classified primarily by element (e.g. U, Pb, Cl, etc.) but rather by type of decay process (β+, β-, EC, α). ORIGINALITYA detailed mechanism is provided for neutrino-species induced decay, broadly consistent with the empirical evidence. Also novel is the prediction that the interaction is asymmetrical, and that the energy requirements are different for the various types of decay.


Mental diseases are in many cases not easy to treat, because they allow a great range of interpretation. The choice will be promoted, when they are accompanied by concrete physical reactions. From this point of view some of the most important psychotropic remedies are presented along with 10 clinical cases.


seizure, he became perfectly speechless, though he soon recovered power of articulating. CASE XxIII. Dr. Jackson refers to chorea, in the same connection. I have not looked over my cases of this disease; but I have at present in the hospital a case of complete extinction of speech from chorea, the suspension of articulating power having continued an extraordinarily long time. The boy was admitted on April 13th; he was represented as having had his disease very severely since March 27th; more lightly for a longer period. On May 3rd, he articulated " no," but it was not until the 19th, that he pronounced a few words; nor could he stand at all until the 24th. In this case the choreic movements affected each side of the body equally (and therefore the right side); the disease fell with especial force upon the muscles of the tongue and face. [To be continued.]


Like the positive descriptions of heroic figures,negative characters were also depicted in a meticulous way in the 17-year-revolution-historical novels.These negative characters,who were depicted as "the people's enemy","dreadful",etc.,are positive character's setoff in the novels.


Clearly, the realities of current health care economics are bringing to the fore important questions in clinical trial design. Not only does the United States spend far more on health care than other developed countries, with significantly worse outcomes, but the costs of cancer care account for a large and steadily increasing chunk of that spending. One way in which this trend can be curbed—and the money spent on cancer be made to produce more "bang for the buck"—is through changes to our drug development processes.


Mr. Banerjee's excerpts, so far as I have been able to check them, appear to be accurate. On p. xi, it should be Monson's death, not Clavering's, which allowed Hastings to exercise his casting vote. There is some excuse for this as it is a historical inaccuracy which has been perpetuated in successive editions of Ilbert's Government of India published by the Clarendon Press. It seems rather unfair to include an excerpt from Burke's Speech at the Impeachment of Warren Hastings without quoting a single sentence from the speeches in his defence.


The present study was carried out at Department of Vegetable Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana during 2010 to 2012. The experimental material consisted of 39 F1s of garden pea (obtained through line x tester method by using 13 lines and 3 testers), 13 lines, 3 testers and 2 checks viz. Arkel and MA-6 were grown in November 2011. Highly significant GCA and SCA variance observed for most of the characters studied indicated the importance of both additive and non-additive gene expression of these characters. The estimates of component of genetic variance indicated predominance role of non-additive gene action in the expression of most of characters. Among the lines, 09/PMVAR-7, PB.89 and NS-3 were found to be the best general combiners for days taken to flowering and days taken to maturity. 09/PMVAR-4 and NS-3 for number of seeds per pod, number of pods per node, 100-seed weight, number of pods per plant and green pod yield per plant. Among the testers, PM-65 was good combiner for most of the characters studied. The cross combination Arka Sampoorna x 08/PMVAR-4 was good specific combiner for days to marketable maturity, pod length, pod weight, number of seeds per pod, number of pods per node, number of pods per plant, green pod yield per plant, plant height, crude protein and soluble protein content while the crosses namely, Arka Karthik x PM-65 and PB.89 x PM-65 showed maximum heterosis over better parent and standard checks for most of the traits studied. The cross combinations showing good SCA effects and heterosis can be used in future breeding programmes.


BACKGROUND
When patients with severely depressed left ventricular function are treated, it is crucial to know in advance how much functional recovery is expected from coronary revascularization.

METHODS AND RESULTS
We compared the results of 11C acetate positron emission tomography (PET) with dobutamine infusion with changes in regional wall motion evaluated by left ventriculography in 28 patients with old Q-wave anterior myocardial infarctions. Dysfunctional but viable myocardium (group A, n = 13) was separated from nonviable myocardium (group B, n = 15) by echocardiographic assessments of regional wall motion before and after successful coronary revascularization. 11C acetate PET was performed to characterize normalized myocardial blood flow and oxidative metabolism (the clearance rate constant, k mono). While the baseline k monos of the infarct areas of the two groups were different with overlap, the responses to dobutamine infusion were directionally different. In addition, relative perfusion by 11C acetate PET could predict recovery of left ventricular function as well as or better than dobutamine 11C acetate kinetics. The extent of the increase in k monos of the infarct area with dobutamine infusion correlated well (P < .01) with the degree of the increase in the percentage of systolic segment shortening in the infarct area (left ventriculography) after coronary revascularization.

CONCLUSIONS
11C acetate PET with dobutamine infusion can predict not only the reversibility of dysfunctioning myocardium after coronary revascularization but also the extent of improvement of regional wall motion in patients with old Q-wave infarction.


Jean II le Maingre was marshal of France, 1391–1421. He was a Crusader, often portrayed as the perfect embodiment of chivalry. He was also one of the most vigorous military leaders of his era. His illustrious martial career lasted from 1378 until defeat at Agincourt. He was the subject of an anonymous biography, completed in 1409, at perhaps the zenith of his career. He inherited the sobriquet "Boucicaut" from his father, also called Jean le Maingre. The title derives from an obscure fishing term, implying Boucicaut senior's ability to net fame and favor through his diplomatic talents as well as his military expertise (Lalande 1988: 5–6).

Keywords:

christianity;
crusades;
literature;
military history;
war


A thorough knowledge of pathophysiology of multiple and mixed valvular heart disease is a requirement for a stable perioperative care. We present anesthetic management of a 62-year male patient with bivalvular mixed lesions with gastric adenocarcinoma for gastrectomy. Fixed-output cardiac state, anemia, maintenance of hemodynamic goals for longer duration, and postoperative analgesia were the anesthetic concerns. Hemodynamic aberrations can be inevitable in such scenario. Proper understanding of the lesions, optimization, preparation, and planning for anticipation of adverse hemodynamic events plays a crucial role for expecting a better clinical outcome.


Southeastern margin of the Dabie Mountains is a multi-Cenozoic basin causes basin,different scholars at different evolutionary stages of its genesis and the formation mechanism of a greater understanding of differences.According to evolution,the causes and nature of the basin,sedimentary characteristics,into a basin,the stress state and geodynamic characteristics of the process of division of the southeast margin of the Dabie orogenic belt are four types of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic sedimentary basins,proposed the formation and evolution of the basin experienced the Middle and Late Triassic foreland basin,as early as Middle Jurassic sag basin,Late Jurassic - Early Cretaceous volcanic - sedimentary basins,Early Cretaceous - Paleogene rift basin stage and the Neogene A total of five stages of depression basin,the new point of view,the unification of the southeast margin of the Dabie Mountains in the Cenozoic basin and mechanism of genetic types of knowledge,understanding of the nature of the deepening basin,the correct assessment of the importance of basin resources.


Nowadays, a lot of conferences, meetings, symposiums, etc. provide video reviews of the talks that have been taking place. However, a video capture of lectures and a post-processing of these videos before uploading to video sharing services are still painful and time-consuming. The cost of editing a whole series of talks into a well edited video can be very high if made using professional video editing software, and it requires good skills from the editor themselves. We propose to recover everything directly from a High Definition video stream of the lecture talk. Using computer vision techniques for discovering interesting parts of the video someone with absolutely no knowledge of video editing software can create learning friendly videos. Our goal is to be as non intrusive as possible in the process of capturing a video of a talk, and making it as easy as possible when producing the final video. Those two facts are obviously contradicting each other so we have to put limits at some points. The proposed method uses an HD stream as sole input. One advantage is that everything that goes on in the screen is recorded, so if the speaker does live demonstrations or shows a video or code, a snippet of it will be recorded thoroughly; also an effort has been made so that the camera can be positioned almost anywhere on the room. The proposed method automatically extracts information from a video of a lecture to produce a better version of the video. The information extracted until now are the screen position, the speaker's dynamic position, the slide changes and the slide's contents. We judged them to be essential aspects of a lecture talk. The edited version consists of showing the screen content in a large part of the video, inserting the speaker and resizing original video that is too small in other parts of it. We considered the most important information as the slides, hence the major part of the video is occupied by them, and the rest is divided between a smaller speaker window and the small resized original video window. The produced video and meta-data can be easily uploaded to a video sharing and comment posting system, making it very easy to ask questions or review a talk afterwards. We conducted user tests to evaluate the operation time and the quality of the videos that can be produced using our software. The experimental results show that everyone can input initial information for detecting positions of the speaker and the slide within 3minutes. The processing time of analyzing the original video and encoding the edited video takes twice time of the original video's duration. And the quality of edited videos can be accepted for web-based learning.


Objective To observe the protective role of Tiopronin on hepatic injury caused by chemotherapeutics.Methods Forty-four patients with cancer,who suffered from slight liver injury after chemotherapy were divided into treated group and control group, each 22 patients. In control group, the routine liver-protective agents such as glucurolactone and silymarill were used only, whereas Tiopronin was additionally added in therapy group. The change of ALT was observed before and after therapy so as to determine agents' effectiveness of Tiopronin.Results The serum level of ALT in the treated group after liver-protective treatment with Tiopronin was obviously lower than that of control group (P0.01).Conclusion Tiopronin has significantly effect to inhibit hepatic injury after chemotherapy in the patients with cancer, and can effective maintenance the continuity of chemotherapy.


Activity Recognition is an important ingredient that allows the interpretation of elementary data. Understanding which activity is going on allows framing an elementary action (e.g. "a movement") in a proper context. This paper presents an activity recognition system designed to work in urban scenarios, which impose several restrictions: the unfeasibility of having enough annotated datasets, the heterogeneous sensor infrastructures and the presence of very different individuals. The main idea of our system is to combine knowledge- and data-driven techniques, to build a hybrid and scalable activity recognition system for smart cities.


which he had no alternative but to fight. This experience started me thinking about parallels between conflict management training and my old standard short story unit. Research confirmed my hunch that young people who have a problem with violence often have a problem thinking clearly and that the thought processes they are lacking are closely related to the skills needed to analyze the short story. John Cobb, in "Moral-Cognitive Interventions" in The Gang Intervention Handbook (1993, Eds. Arnold P. Goldstein and C. Ronald Huff, Champaign, IL: Research Press), summarizes a number of research studies of cognition in gang-involved and delinquent youth. Cobb found that these youth function at immature levels on Kohlberg's moral judgment scale, reflect the egocentric bias typical of younger children, demonstrate low levels of empathy, and use cognitive distortions such as externalized attributions of


This article focuses on examining the dimensions associated with the phrase culture of place as indicated on page 38 of the NSW DET Stage 6 Geography, Urban Places unit of work and more specifically, its context in relation to a case study of a large city in the developed world. This article is intended for Year 12 teachers and their students. The Charles Sturt University NSW HSC online website provided the construct around which this article was developed.


With a partial Siberian snake in the AGS and transport lines with interspersed horizontal and vertical bends, the incoming spin direction at the injection points of both the collider rings is not likely to match the ideal vertical stable spin direction of RHIC which has two full helical Siberian snakes per ring. In this paper we examine the matching of a polarized beam transfered from the AGS into RHIC. The present 5% partial solenoidal snake as well as a proposed 20% superconducting helical are considered for the AGS. Solutions with retuned snakes in RHIC to better match the incoming beam have been found.


Many studies in cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) involve variety of management disciplines such as finance, accounting, business and human resource. However, an in-depth study in patterns and tendencies of cross-border M&A integration particularly in Malaysia is neglected and nearly no study has ever discussed Malaysian M&A integration trends particularly after the South East Asia financial turmoil 1997-1999. Thus, this study attempts to explore this phenomenon especially to identify the background of Malaysian industries that involved in cross-border M&A.Interestingly, this paper also reveals the integration trends involved when engaging in cross-border M&A.A survey was used using Thomson One Banker as the main database which covered completed Malaysian M&A cases. Results show that engineering, software and telecommunication industries are among the leading industries engaged in cross-border M&A.In terms of nationality of the acquired firms, Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore are among favourites to Malaysian acquirers.In fact, the study exposed a positive development of cross-border M&A which demonstrate higher success compared to failures.


In this study, the efficacy of eight fungi isolate against four instarlarvae of mosquito vectorCulexmolestusForska were tested.Fungi isolated and identified wereAspergillus niger,A.flavusA.candidus, Penicillium sp., Candida sp, Alternariaalternaria, Fusariumsolaniand Trichophytonviridel.The larvae were treated with different periods ranged from 48to 96 hours. The results showed the presence of a significant effect ofthe fungal filtrates A.niger and Penicillum sp. on the mortality of larvae as the percentage of mortality reached 74.85% and 64.44 %,respectively compared to the rest of the fungi.The concentration of 100% surpassed the remaining examined concentrations yielding the highest percentage of mortality 96.66% and 100% for the fungus A.niger and 68.33% and 100% for the fungus Aspergillus, respectively within 48 and 96 hours after treatment.


also announced itself as supporting "the unity and autonomy of Tibet". From Lhasa to Shanghai and from Taipei to New York, Tibetans sat up and took notice of the irreverent discussion of taboo topics ranging from the failures of the current Tibetan elite to the meaning of "Tibet" itself. Within weeks,


Purpose: To evaluate LV functional parameters, graft flow and patency in patients with IMA grafts using a combined MR protocol with phase-contrast technique and contrast enhanced MR angiography. Material and Methods: Using a 1.5 T MR system 27 patients with 27 left internal mammary artery (LIMA) and 41 venous grafts were examined before and 6 months after CABG surgery. A T 1 w-TSE sequence (slice thickness 5 mm) was applied for morphological imaging. LV function (EF, CO) was evaluated on cine images (segmented FLASH 2D, TR eff 11 ms, TE 4.8 ms, flip angle 25°). A phase-contrast FLASH 2D (TR 24 ms, TE 5 ms, flip angle 20°) sequence was applied for aortic and IMA flow measurements. Postoperatively, a contrast enhanced FLASH 3D MR angiography (TR 3.8 ms, TE 1.4 ms, flip angle 30°) with 25 ml Gd-DTPA was performed to assess bypass patency. Results: In patients with reduced LV function (ejection fraction < 50%) an improvement of the ejection fraction from 38.4 ± 10.3% to 49.8 ± 15.3% (p < 0.05) was found postoperatively. LIMA grafts were occluded in 1/27 patients, while 6/41 venous grafts were occluded. Distal LIMA anastomoses were demonstrated in 33% by MRA. Flow of LIMA decreased from 21.2 ± 11 ml/min/m 2 preoperatively to 14.4 ± 9.6 ml/min/m 2 postoperatively (p < 0.01). Conclusion: MR imaging allows accurate combined assessment of LV function, bypass patency and flow. The protocol of this study may be applicable for perioperative follow-up studies in patients after CABG surgery.


The incorporation of functional groups at the end of polyolefin chains offers an opportunity to prepare polyolefin building blocks. The latter can be used to construct polymer architectures based on polyolefins with many desirable properties. For this purpose, the reactivity of the carbon-metal bond formed during a catalytic olefin polymerization process is particularly appealing. The possibility of taking advantage of this reactivity has indeed been enhanced by the discovery of systems in which fast and reversible chain transfer reactions between the active metal center and a main group metal centre are occurring. The recent developments of this catalyzed chain growth (CCG) concept are briefly reviewed. A specific system using a (C5Me5)2NdCl2Li(OEt2)2 complex in conjunction with n-butyloctylmagnesium is then employed to synthesize an array of end functional polyethylene chains. The potential of these building blocks to build up new macromolecular architectures is discussed.


Oral rapid disintegrating tablets are taken in an epochal dosage form which makes drug ingestion less trou-blesome for patients. It has indeed contributed a great deal to an improvement in the quality of health care. On the other hand, however, rapid disintegrating tablets are more vulnerable to physical impact than uncoated tablets so that one-dose packages of oral rapid disintegrating tablets may present problems when being dispensed by a fully automatic tablet packing machine. The present study was conducted to evaluate the suitability to automatic mechanical dispensing of Enalapril M Tablet 5mg EMEC® and Brotizolam M Tablet 0.25mg EMEC® (rapid disintegrating tablets produced from Elmed Eisai Co., Ltd., that have been developed in dosageforms amenable to automatic mechanical dispensing) by 18 pharmacists.The rejection rate was a meager 0.3% for both Enalapril and Brotizolam tablets. Errors occurred with a higher frequency when the rotor cassette was loaded in a mid-position than at another position. The results of experimental dispensing suggested that the greater the degree of the hardness or the heavier the weight of the tablets, the less damage that was done to them and thus the higher the rate of acceptance. When Enalapril® was administered with different tablets together, the relative rate of acceptance was Zyloric® > Amlodin® > Mevalotin®. When Brotizolam was administered with Depas®, a high rate of acceptance was shown, but when it was dispensed with Etizolam, it showed a low rate of acceptance, and its packages also contained many damaged tablets.


Axial symmetry in time‐harmonic electromagnetic wave problems can be exploited by considering a Fourier expansion along the angular direction, reducing fully three‐dimensional computations to two‐dimensional ones on an azimuthal cross section. While this transition leads to a significant decrease in computational effort, it introduces additional difficulties, which necessitate appropriate finite element (FE) formulations. By combining the latter with perfectly matched layers (PML), open problems can be considered. In this work, we compare and discuss the performance of different combinations of axisymmetric FE formulations and PMLs, using a dielectric sphere in open space as a test case. As an application example, a superconducting Fabry–Pérot photon trap is considered.


The organic matrix of calcium carbonate structures can be involved in the formation of the biomineral by regulating various stages of crystal growth. The preponderance of evidence suggests that matrix can act as an initiator of crystal growth at the mineralizing front. The mechanism for this initiation is not known. However, the matrix may provide a template for the crystal lattice, or more likely, a surface that can simply stabilize the critical nucleus of calcium and carbonate. The degree of specialization of the nucleation sites is uncertain; however, they are hypothesized to be a class of soluble, acidic, calcium-binding polymers which are present in matrix extracted from biomineral. Recent studies have revealed that similar soluble components of extracted matrix have the capability of inhibiting nucleation and crystal growth in vitro and biomineralization in organisms exposed to the extracts. Further, crystals grown in vitro in the presence of extracted matrix have a morphology distinct from those of crystals grown without matrix. These findings generally support the hypotheses generated either a priori or from morphological observations which suggest that matrix must limit crystal growth and may well influence structure of biomineral. Hypotheses which explain a dual function of the soluble matrix have these components periodically released to the mineralization front where they can associate with more insoluble forms of matrix and sequentially initiate or inhibit growth. There also exists evidence to suggest that soluble regulatory components are intra-crystalline in orientation and thus may be released continuously


When holes are produced on carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) laminates, in particular for the aerospace and automotive industries, special attention should be focused on as the machining parameters influencing the damage. In this study special drill bits and high-speed cutting (HSC) are used and compared with conventional cutting conditions. The digital image of the damage was conducted in order to analyze the delamination when two composite boards were drilled simultaneously. The experimental results indicated that the use of HSC in drilling is suitable to reduce the damages produced in CFRP with material removal rate increasing considerably.


Background. Histologic grade seems to be of limited prognostic significance in patients with vulvar carcinoma. However, the study of cytokeratin expression is of potential interest because it allows a more precise evaluation of the degree of squamous differentiation. This study was was conducted to investigate whether differences in cytokeratin expression exist between normal vulvar epithelium and vulvar carcinoma and whether these differences are prognostically significant.


The focus of this interim fleet evaluation is to characterize and evaluate the operating behavior of Foothill Transit's fast charge battery electric buses (BEBs). Future research will compare the BEBs' performance to conventional vehicles. In an effort to better understand the impacts of drive cycle characteristics on advanced vehicle technologies, researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory analyzed over 148,000 km of in-use operational data, including driving and charging events. This analysis provides an unbiased evaluation of advanced vehicle technologies in real-world operation demonstrating the importance of understanding the effects of road grade and heating, ventilating and air conditioning requirements when deploying electric vehicles. The results of this analysis show that the Proterra BE35 demonstrated an operating energy efficiency of 1.34 kWh/km over the data reporting period.


We describe the selection technique adopted to extract from the REX sample (Radio Emitting X-ray sources) a well-defined subsample of 109 Optically Bright REX (OB-REX). Here we present the optical, X-ray and radio properties of the OB-REX sources and the results of the selection effects analysis, obtained by use of properly selected comparison samples.


An object contaction sensor is composed of a surfacial elastic, soft and light material layer, such as sponge layer, and several microswitches covered by said surficial layer.


Can poverty decline with little growth in real GDP? This paper examines the case of Jamaica, where the poverty headcount halved between 2003 and 2007 despite real per capita GDP growth of just 1.1 percent per year, by analyzing the factors contributing to the observed reduction in poverty using household and labor force surveys. It sets out by providing a sectoral, demographic, and spatial picture of the evolution of poverty and finds that poverty reduction has been broad based, benefitting both rural and urban areas. Nearly three quarters of the poverty reduction is attributed to growth in average household consumption, which outpaced GDP growth due to large remittance inflows, and one quarter to narrowing inequality. In turn, around half of the reduction of inequality is explained by narrowing returns to education and declining sectoral wage gaps.


Rotordynamic studies of complex systems utilizing multiple degree-of-freedom analysis have been performed to understand response, loads, and stability. In order to understand the fundamental nature of rotordynamic response, the Jeffcott rotor model has received wide attention. The purpose of this paper is to provide a generic rotordynamic analysis of a stiffness cross-coupled Jeffcott rotor model to illustrate characteristics of a second order stiffness-coupled linear system. The particular characteristics investigated were forced response, force vector diagrams, response orbits, and stability. Numerical results were achieved through a fourth order Runge-Kutta method for solving differential equations and the Routh Hurwitz stability criterion. The numerical results were verified to an exact mathematical solution for the steady state response.


Measurements of the laminar burning velocities of hydrogen, acetylene, propane, and methane have been made using a spherical combustion bomb. In addition measurements were also made for mixtures of hydrogen with acetylene, propane, methane, and simulated combustion products in various proportions. All mixtures were stoichiometric with air and pressures and temperatures ranged from 0.5 to 7 atm and 300 to 550K, respectively. The values for the pure gases were in good agreement with previous experimental results from combustion bombs and in reasonable agreement with theoretical calculations by Warnatz. When mixed with hydrogen, propane and methane exhibited a double peak behavior in the burning velocity, as a function of pressure along an unburned gas isentrope.


Given a general ternary form f = f (x 1 , x 2 , x 3) of degree 4 over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero, we use the geometry of K3 surfaces and van den Bergh's correspondence between representations of the generalized Clifford algebra C f associated to f and Ulrich bundles on the surface X f := {w 4 = f (x 1 , x 2 , x 3)} ⊆ P 3 to construct a positive-dimensional family of 8-dimensional irreducible representations of C f .


Anhui-based Chery is perhaps the most unlikely Chinese carmaker to make cars abroad. In February, Chery announced that it will join hands with Iranian company SKT to build a factory in northeastern Iran, with an annual capacity of 30,000 cars.


Towards making concrete, defensible statements about the impact that technology has had on education, we are reviewing the literature with a new tool that we have developed. IJsing our "Conditions Profile" we are analysing empirical studies to ferret out the key factors that contributed to the impact (or no impact) of the technology on learning. Thus, rather than focusing on what works, we are trying to understand the conditions when the technology works (and doesn't' work).


Abstract The phylogenetic relationship of four dental caries causing bacterial pathogens has been studied using ITS1 sequences of the standard strains were aligned by using the ClustalW computer program. The essential oil obtained from the leaves of Micromeria biflora Benth., obtained by hydrodistillaton. The chemical compositions of the essential oil from Micromeria biflora Benth was analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The GC/MS analysis showed eight major active constituents in the leaf essential oil of Micromeria biflora Benth. The antibacterial activity of the oil was evaluated against four dental caries causing bacteria such as Streptococcus mutans (MTCC 890); Lactobacillus acidophilus (MTCC 447); Streptococcus mitis (MTCC 2695) and Streptococcus salivarius (MTCC 1938) using broth microdilution method recommended by Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) formely (NCCLS). It's showed excellent activity against Streptococcus mutans with their Minimum inhibition concentration (MIC) 0.15 mg/ml and (IC 50 ) 0.10 mg/ml and less effective against Lactobacillus acidophilus . The essential oil of Micromeria biflora Benth from leaf has played a significant role against dental caries causing bacteria. Relationships of the dental caries causing pathogens to the toxicity of the oil vis-a-vis phylogeny using molecular data of pathogens have also been discussed. 1 Biological Product Laboratory, Dept. of Botany, University of Allahabad, Allahabad-211002 2 Dept. of Horticulture, Aromatic & Medicinal Plants, Mizoram University, Aizawl-796009, India 3 Dental Surgeon, Saumya Dental Clinic, Taigore Town, Allahabad, India *Corresponding author, Email: email@example.com, Tel: +919335108519 Please Cite This Article As : Rohit Kumar Mishra, Awadhesh Kumar, Amritesh Chandra Shukla, Pravin Tiwari and Anupam Dikshit. 2010. Quantitative and Rapid Antibacterial Assay of Micromeria biflora Benth. Leaf Essential Oil Against Dental Caries Causing Bacteria Using Phylogenetic Approach. J. Ecobiotechnol. 2(4):22-26.


Treatment of habitual and threatened abortion with human chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG) is discussed. Two problems are encountered: the selection of patients for treatment; and the correct dosage of HCG. Determination of human placental lactogen (HPL) in the serum was used to select patients for treatment. The dosage of HCG was varied according to the response of the patient and as indicated by the levels of HPL in her serum.


The present work reports a novel approach to enhance the fracture resistance and notch sensitivity of carbon fiber-reinforced polymer composites utilizing additive manufacturing (3-D printing) fabrication. The 3-D printed composites utilize carbon fiber bundles to reinforce nylon/chopped fiber resin in a multilayered structure configuration. Single-edge (60°) notched samples were printed using Mark Two printer. Three reinforcement schemes were designed and used to manufacture the specimens. The focus was placed on selective reinforcement at the crack tip to arrest crack initiation. The mechanical properties, fracture toughness, and fracture behavior of the printed composites were evaluated. It was found that wrapping fiber around the notch effectively blunted the notch and redirected crack propagation away from the notch tip, thereby lengthening the crack path and leading to improved fracture resistance. It was also found that such improvement reaches a saturation level. Excessive notch reinforcement beyond optimal limit can reverse the gains in fracture resistance due to notch-targeted reinforcement. Examination of the fracture surface morphology of the printed composites reveals lack of fusion of the sizing of the individual continuous carbon fiber bundles and the lack of adhesion between the matrix layers (nylon/chopped fiber resin) and the adjacent carbon fiber bundle reinforcement. Damage to the fibers within the carbon bundle was also observed. Thus, a synergetic effect of the carbon fiber bundles reinforcement and the matrix requires more optimization to manufacture carbon-reinforced polymer composites using 3-D printing.


Describes a novel electronically tunable phase changer which is usable over a decade of bandwidth and is based on a distributed amplifier used in reverse gain mode.


The vibrational and rotational structure of the electronic transitions of open-shell cations of linear polyatomics has been studied by three complementary techniques. In one, the emission spectra of ions of unstable species, XCP+ and XBS+, with X = H, D and F, are obtained by electron-impact excitation on effusive and supersonic free jets. The vibronic structure of their A1 2£ + —> X2IIi band systems could be analysed. The changes and distinct features of the rotational profiles at low rotational temperatures in the emission spectra of diacetylene cation have been used to establish the absolute numbering in the rotational analysis of the A2Hu-X 2Hg transition. The second approach is based on the measurement of the laser excitation spectra of ions and has been used to confirm the vibrational assignment of complex emission spectra, such as the B2H -» X2IT transition of C1CN+, and to resolve the rotational structure in the A2H| <— X2Hz transitions of the haloacetylene cations XCCH+, X — Cl, Br, I. The most recent development is the demonstration that the stimulated emission pumping approach can be used to probe the electronic structure of ions in a flow system.


A computational model describing the dielectric properties of human skin helps designing, investigat- ing, and optimizing electrodes for dielectric spectroscopy used in skin hydration monitoring. Human skin is composed of several layers with distinct dielectric properties. The hydration state of skin is an important parameter not only affecting the dielectric properties, but also the constitution. The skin model is set up as a multilayer system, each layer resembling its dispersive dielectric behavior with a Cole-Colemodel. Focusingonthestratumcorneumlayer, ahydrationmodelisadditionallyemployed, which simulates the stratum corneum swelling and varies the dielectric parameters under hydration influence. With different fringing-field sensors on top of the multilayer system, the model is numeri-cally evaluated using the finite-element method. Firstly, by means of the stratum corneum hydration model, the range of water concentration was investigated. At normal conditions, i.e. no skin disease, no sweating, no wounds, the water concentration resulted to be higher than 0 . 585g∕cm 3 , or expressed in water activity 0 . 9745 . Secondly, the influence of the hydration dependent stratum corneum thickness on the dielectric spectroscopy was investigated. It was found that the stratum corneum thickness cannot be neglected. In high water concentration range the swelling reduces the capacity, where the capacity would increase, if neglected. Finally, a sensitivity analysis was performed with three differ- ent fringing-field electrode types with various geometries. The sensitivity was calculated from the capacity of various hydration levels in relation to the capacity at fully hydrated skin. The analysis confirmed that the electrode sensitivity is influenced by its geometry and dimensions. However, the sensitivity of the impedance electrodes is stronger affected by dimension change than the capacitance electrode.Themodels and source code of the project can be found on the ZHAW Github.


A serious deposition has been observed in the basin of the intake of the WEPP since its first stage was completed. The engineering layout of its second stage has a close relationship with sedimentation. After analyzing the reason of sedimentation in the basin, the ultimate sedimentation thickness and flow depth under the mean tidal level in the area of the intake of the second stage of the WEPP are estimated by the calibrated formulas.


.......................................................................................................................... ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................................................... v LIST OF TABLES ..................................................................................................................vi LIST OF FIGURES ............................................................................................................... vii CHAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW 1.10. A Public Health Crisis ................................................................................................ 1 1.11. History of Antibiotics ................................................................................................. 1 1.12. Antibiotic Resistance .................................................................................................. 2 1.13. Antimicrobial Mechanisms of Resistance .................................................................. 3 1.14. Critically Important Antibiotics .................................................................................. 6 1.15. Agricultural Use of Antibiotics ................................................................................... 9 1.16. Antimicrobial Resistance in Beef .............................................................................. 11 1.20. Culture-Independent Techniques ............................................................................... 11 1.21. History of Culture-Independent Approaches for Biological Research ...................... 12 1.22. Metagenomics of Meat ("Meatagenomics") .............................................................. 14 1.23. Metagenomics Used in Research ............................................................................... 15 1.24. Bioinformatic Techniques .......................................................................................... 17 CHAPTER 2: CHARACTERIZATION OF RESISTOME AND MICROBIOME OF RETAIL MEATS PROCESSED FROM CONVENTINALLY AND NATURALLLY RAISED CATTLE Summary ............................................................................................................................. 2


Within the past year I have observed 2 patients, both female, age 2, with localized urticaria of the buttocks of 2 weeks' duration, associated with infestation with Enterobius vermicularis. I have not previously seen this, nor have I seen any reports from my colleagues with a condition such as both of these children showed. Both of these children presented themselves with urticaria of the buttocks only. The individual urticarial lesions were slightly different from the usual in that there was observed, surrounding each individual lesion, a definite pale blanching of the adjacent skin. Cellophane tape (Scotch Tape) examination of the anal areas in both children revealed multiple ova of Enterobius vermicularis. Both of these children received a one-week course of piperazine hexahydrate as the only form of therapy. I examined both children at the end of 2 weeks following a one-week course of the piperazine hexahydrate with complete clearing of


Wireless Sensor Network technology is the fast growing field so the challenges are also quit much, the main and important parameter in any network is the location of the nodes. The performance of any system is decided on the basis that how much it is clever to find the exact location with the minimum error in minimum time, also can it be able to find obstacle and identify them.in this paper we proposed the Mobıle Anchor Based Localızatıon Scheme In Wıreless Sensor Network. With two mobile anchor node to find the location of other sensor node in obstacloe based envornment. And finaly simulate the result in NS-2.


Abstract  In this study, we examined the effects of serotonin (5‐HT)3 receptor antagonists (5‐HT3RAs) including ramosetron, alosetron, and cilansetron on colonic nociceptive threshold in rats. Furthermore, we established a restraint stress‐induced colonic hyperalgesia model in rats, and compared the inhibitory effects of 5‐HT3RAs on restraint stress‐induced colonic hyperalgesia and diarrhoea with those of loperamide, trimebutine, tiquizium and polycarbophil. The colonic nociceptive threshold was measured as the balloon pressure at the time the rat showed a nociceptive response during colonic distension by an intrarectally inserted balloon. Oral administration of ramosetron (3–30 μg kg−1), alosetron (30–300 μg kg−1), or cilansetron (30–300 μg kg−1) increased the colonic nociceptive threshold in a dose‐dependent manner in non‐stressed rats. Restraint stress for 1 h significantly decreased the colonic nociceptive threshold, but ramosetron (0.3–3 μg kg−1), alosetron (3–30 μg kg−1), cilansetron (3–30 μg kg−1) and trimebutine (100–1000 mg kg−1) significantly inhibited the decrease in the threshold. Loperamide (3–30 mg kg−1), tiquizium (100–1000 mg kg−1) and polycarbophil (1000 mg kg−1) did not affect the restraint stress‐induced decrease in the colonic nociceptive threshold. All drugs tested in this study showed dose‐dependent inhibition of restraint stress‐induced diarrhoea in rats. These results indicate that, unlike existing antidiarrhoeal and spasmolytic agents, 5‐HT3RAs have inhibitory effects on colonic nociception, and prevented restraint stress‐induced both diarrhoea and hyperalgesia at almost the same doses in rats. This suggests that the 5‐HT3RAs may be useful in ameliorating both colonic hyperalgesia and diarrhoea in patients with irritable bowel syndrome.


Teacher noticing has been identified as central to enacting responsive and equitable mathematics instruction. Mathematics teachers' noticing is shaped by institutional and sociopolitical narratives and ideologies that persistently marginalize culturally, socially, linguistically, and neuro‐diverse learners. Gaining insight into how one's noticing is related to these narratives can enable a teacher to identify and reflect on how they frame, attend to, and interpret classroom activity, and how that in turn can perpetuate or disrupt inequitable mathematics instruction. We conjectured that learning to systematically analyze and reflect on their own noticing can enable preservice mathematics teachers to develop their awareness of themselves as noticers to support more responsive and equitable instructional practice. Using data from summative assignments in a course focused on learning from teaching, we investigate whether and how preservice teachers (PSTs) take up frameworks for responsive and equitable teaching to narrate their noticing, and examine what their narrations reveal about how they frame mathematics instruction. Analysis reveals PSTs problematized instruction to adopt aspirational frames for equitable practice, while also re‐narrating classroom interactions from dominant perspectives. These findings have implications for PSTs' learning to notice for equity and for designing teacher education experiences for this purpose.


Students who take admission in Engineering course are found to be capable, skilful and with infinite potentials. However, lack of motivation makes them dull. This paper discusses the cause of demotivation along with the symptoms. Solution to the problem is also discussed in form of a case study carried out at RK University.


Abstract The article examines the phase of aggressive behavior, deprivation, among the inmate's age group of Nigerian prison. However, the study elaborated the meaning of aggressive behavior; factors contributed to aggressive behavior, theory of aggressive behavior, literature review, method of information collection and data analysis. Therefore, prison setting can instigate aggressive behaviors, especially in Nigeria, where inmates are deprived of their particular right and are treated brutality in some instances studies shows, that Nigerian prisons are not adequately organized and made do as such, inmates are exposed to all kinds of atrocity. It should be noted that a condition of privation and lack of societal well-being especially among people being in an isolated environment as in the case with most prisons in Nigeria can degenerate to frustration and aggression which in turn can result in dangerous situations such as riots/ violence in the prisons. Aggression can lead to violence that may be adaptive under certain conditions regarding natural selection. That is most obviously the case regarding attacking prey to obtain food, or in anti-predator defense. The results showed that there is significant difference between the levels of aggressiveness with respect to the classes of age groups. Recommendation will be discussed further. Keywords: Aggressive behavior, inmates, wardens, phase, and recommendation


The present study, using genetic algorithm, tries to improve material flow management in supply chain. Consequently, in this paper, an integrated supply-production and distribution planning (SPDP) is considered despite the fact that in most of the Iranian industrial firms, SPDP is done independently. The effective use of integrated SPDP not only enhances the performance rather decreases inventory cost, holding cost, shortage cost and overall supply chain costs. A quantitative mathematical model is used to the problem articulation, and then it is solved by applying heuristic genetic algorithm (GA) method. The proposed model with genetic algorithm could provide the best satisfactory result with the minimum cost. The reliability test was carried by comparing the model results with that of the amount of variables. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2625-6.ch078


Abstract: This chapter reviews the latest developments in novel packaging concepts comprising active and bioactive packaging technologies. While active packages are developed to play an active role in food preservation, bioactive packaging is a novel concept of technologies intended to help in the production of functional foods, whose bioactive principles and actuators are devised to be contained within packaging or coating materials. Therefore, it gives rise to a novel conceptual approach to develop functional foods, while setting the roots of a new packaging technology, in which a food package or coating is given the unique role of enhancing food impact over the consumer's health. The technologies reviewed include novel integration technologies, micro- and nanoencapsulation and enzyme encapsulation and/or immobilization. Moreover, the role that novel nanocomposite structures can play in the controlled release of active and functional compounds from the polymeric or biopolymeric structures is described, as well as the available techniques for the characterization of the kinetics of release of the various compounds.


In order to tackle the coking problem commonly seen in the bottom ash cooler in the operation of the CFB combustion boiler,this study,taking the 300 MW CFB boiler project of the first phase of a certain power plant in Anhui as an example,analyzes the factors causing frequent fouling of the bottom ash cooler.On the basis of the analysis,corresponding operation adjustment and maintenance countermeasures are taken.The results indicate that breakdowns in the bottom ash cooler are reduced,leading to a substantial drop of the non-scheduled outages of the generating unit and a notable increase of the operation reliability and economy.


Porous ceramic materials are currently used as volumetric sunlight absorbers in concentrating solar power systems. As the efficiency of thermodynamic cycles rapidly increases with the operating temperature, the favorable characteristics of so-called ultra-high temperature ceramics (UHTCs) can be successfully exploited in novel solar absorbers. The present work reports, for the first time to the best of our knowledge, on optical properties and microstructural analysis of novel ice-templating porous ZrB2 UHTCs, to evaluate their potential as volumetric solar receivers. We demonstrate that the different complex structures that can be obtained with the freeze casting technique show promising optical properties. The idea of conjugating an highly tailorable morphology, useful for optimizing gas fluxes and heat exchanges between absorber and gas, to the spectral selectivity which is a characteristics of ZrB2 can be a promising route for increasing the efficiency of thermal solar systems.


The aim of this paper is to construct Wron-skiansolutionstoageneralizedKdVequationin(2 + 1)-dimensions, which possesses a trilinear form. On the basis of two useful properties associated with Hirota differential operators, a general Wronskian formulation is established and the involved functions for Wronskian entries satisfy a system of combined linear partial differential equations. The key technique is to apply the Wronskian identity of the bilinear KP equation while presenting those sufficient condi-L


In the article there are analyzed general tendencies and typology of employment sectoral structure as an indicator of economy's development process in the European Union member states (excluded Luxembourg, Bulgaria and Romania).The aim of the article is to compare and estimate Estonian economic policy's results from the structural convergence aspect in the EU.Appeared that in addition to general tendency of tertiarization the EU countries are characterized also by relatively clear and stable static typology at the beginning of 21st century. At that, it differs depending on way of classifying in some respects. Seeing basic indicators as the bases for classification – 14 shares of the branches of activities, we will reach to four groups. But applying the first two main components, which describe slightly more than a half of initial attributes from variation, there distinguish three groups of countries: • West and North European welfare countries with developed service economy; • South European countries, where tourism economy has successfully engaged the position instead of industry; • Central and East European transition countries, what have maintained relatively big manufacturing sector, but are reducing it in favor of business and as well individual services.


A series of new β-ketoimines containing a ferrocene moiety and related BF₂ derivatives were synthesized and structurally characterized. The solvatochromism of the β-ketoimines was studied, putting in evidence a red shift by increasing the solvent polarity. This positive solvatochromism can be attributed to the more polarized excited state, with respect to the ground state, due to intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) transitions. β-ketoimines exhibit a weak emission, attributable to the excited state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) phenomenon. This ESIPT effect is suppressed upon restriction of the keto-enamine tautomerism by addition of BF₃·OEt₂ which affords the related BF₂ complexes, characterized by an enhancement of the fluorescence through the ICT effect. Both b-ketoimines and BF₂ complexes, examined in mixtures of CH₃CN/H₂O, exhibit a significant aggregation-induced emission (AIE) behavior, due to restriction of intramolecular rotation (RIR) in the aggregated state. The frontier molecular orbital levels, ground and excited state dipole moments (μg and μe), and the origin of electronic absorption spectra were studied by using time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) calculations. The second-order nonlinear optical (NLO) properties were determined by the EFISH technique. The μβ1907 value of all β-ketoimines increases upon the formation of the related BF₂ complex, mainly due to an enhancement of the ground state dipole moment. Some of these novel compounds are excellent multifunctional candidates for NLO and luminescence applications.


The present study is cross-type period, comparative, of patients diagnosed with advanced osteoarthritis which is studied by conventional X-ray image of knee and thus evaluate pre-and postoperative functional capacity of patients under going joint replacement surgery in the Hospital Manuel Ygnacio Monteros Loja city using the WOMAC functional scale. A sample of 24 patients undergoing knee joint replacement for osteoarthritis, it was determined that the average age of patients with this condition are between 50 and 70 years, being more evident at the age of 60 - 69 years with 50%. It was determined that the most affected gender is the feminine who performed chores, with 58 % of cases, WOMAC functional scale in preoperative and postoperative assessment was ideal to confirm the improvement in joint mobility, determining that this scale is essential for diagnosis. Gonarthrosis Grade 4 is most common with 92 %.


This paper examines the presence of books regarding instances of pseudoscience as their main topic in catalogues of public libraries in Spain, as well as the opinion of such works about pseudoscience. A database is created to analyse both absolute and relative amounts of those works in all Spanish catalogues. The numbers show a small, yet worrying percentage of 0.15% titles concerning several pseudosciences and prove astrology as the most abundant instance in libraries. The study also explains the menace of homeopathy, as the works about this pseudotherapy outnumber those regarding chemotherapy in a 1/20 ratio.


This research was conducted at the Chemical Research Laboratory of State University of Yogyakarta (UNY), Instruments Analysis Laboratory of Indonesian Islamic University (UII), and the Research Center for Physics of Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Bandung. The purpose of this study was to determine the optimum solution potential and temperature on the electrodeposition process of Copper ion (II) using formaldehyde as an additive. The subject of this study was 400 ppm of copper solution. The object of this research was copper deposit on the cathode. Electrodeposition process used CuSO4 solution as a source of Cu ion (II), H2SO4 solution as supporting electrolyte, HNO3 solution as depolarizator, formaldehyde as an additive, and platinum plates as electrodes (cathode and anode). Electrodeposition process was done by potential variations of 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 volts, the solution's temperature variations of 27, 32, 37, 42 and 47°C and the deposition time of 25 minutes. Quantitative analysis was done by Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (AAS) to determine the concentration of Cu ion (II) after electrodeposition process. Qualitative analysis was by X-ray diffraction to determine crystal structures of Cu deposit of the electrodeposition on the optimum potential and temperature of the solution. The results showed that the optimum potential was 3 volts and the optimum temperature of the solution was 27°C. The concentration of Cu ion (II) of the electrodeposition on the solution's optimum potential and temperature was 298.4750 ppm with the deposition efficiency of 25.38%. The crystal structure of Cu deposit of the electrodeposition on the solution's optimum potential and temperature had a face-centered cubic system with a lattice parameter of 3.5877 A and the lattice planes of (111), (200), (220) and (311).


The Department of Urban Water Management and Sewer Systems and the Tauw Consultants are developing a planning-tool based on a geographical information system. The aim is a system that is flexible and adaptive, and to realise this objective they are making use of recent developments in (standard) software and data management. The waste water planning system intends to operate on a user-friendly interface which will connect digital information from different sources such as: waste water production; city development locations for housing; public, commercial and factory areas; collection of polluted rainwater from main traffic roads and alternative routes of the wastewater transport system. The collection and flexible management of data is a very important part of the planning process.


Pallets are used as bases for storage and handling of products from the furnace to the quenching bath, and for loading of products into the furnace. In the manufacture of pallets special attention is paid to the choice of steel grade, preference being given to high-temperature steel grades. Pallets are produced from heat-resistant steel by casting methods. Violation of the manufacturing technology reduces the duration of pallet operation. At the considered plant the pallets broke down after four months of operation. Warpage, formation of longitudinal and transverse cracks, and destruction of the individual elements occurred. The paper analyzes the causes of the destruction of pallets made of heat-resistant steel 20Kh25N19S2L. It was shown that despite the use of pallet material according to operating conditions fracture occurs for several reasons. The first one was the abscence of heat treatment of large cast pallets at the manufacturing enterprise. A carbide network was observed in the structure which caused embrittlement of the metal. The second cause were thermal stresses due to quenching which are unevenly distributed in the pallet construction. The areas of occurrence of tensile and compressive stresses were identified on the basis of measurement of the temperature of different parts of the pallet. The third reason was the incomplete combustion of fuel that formed carburizing atmosphere in the furnace.


Perturbation theory in the polarization approximation has been employed, without using the multipole expansion for the interaction Hamiltonian, to calculate the second- and third-order interaction energies of two ground state hydrogen atoms for internuclear separations R - 4(2) 12 a.u. Using recently computed variational energies for H-H and H-H, the values of higher order corrections to the interaction energy have been estimated. The accuracy of several approximations commonly used in calculations of inter-molecular interaction energies has been tested.


As the crisis of planning in India is deepening, plan implementation is receiving increasing attention. In the present paper we survey the process of evolution of the Planning Commission's thinking on this issue. First, we present the way in which the critical importance of plan implementation has been impressing itself on the official planners. Then we piece together the several elements of implementation process as they have been viewed by the Planning Commission. This exercise enables us to characterise, in the last section, the planners' thinking in this respect as one which does not view the process of plan formulation and plan implementation being logically and integrally linked through what we call planning of plan implementation. Besides this basic limitation, we also find some other tendencies which reduce the effectiveness of plan implementation and must be related to the basic limitation mentioned above. In the course of elaborating these themes, we make a brief reference to the potential pay-off from planning of plan implementation.


Perambalur district has been declared as one of the over exploited regions in Tamil Nadu by the Central Groundwater Board. Therefore, it is very important to delineate potential for groundwater development and management. Perambalur district is partially and ephemerally drained by Sweta sub-watershed which extends over an area of 730 km. The study area exhibits dendritic and sub dendritic drainage patterns with maximum of 6th order drainage. In the present study, groundwater potential zones have been delineated with the help of Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques. In this study, a standard weight and rank method is adopted to identify groundwater potential zone using integration of RS and GIS techniques. The parameters considered for identifying the groundwater potential zone are geology, geomorphology, slope, drainage density, lineament density and land use / land cover which are generated using the satellite data and survey of India (SOI) toposheets at the scale of 1:50000. They are then integrated based on rank and weightage method in GIS platform and classified into five categories such as very poor, poor, moderate, good and excellent. Rank and weightage has been assigned based on the interpreter's prior knowledge. The integrated analysis showed that about 41% of the area falls in the category of excellent and good; rest are in other categories. This groundwater potential information will be useful for effective identification of suitable locations for extraction of groundwater for drinking and agricultural purpose.


Yam stripe disease is one of the main diseases of yam, which causes the death of leaves and stems, and can also have a negative effect on the growth and yield of yam. Control efficacy of common fungicides against yam stripe disease was studied, and results showed that 75% chlorothalonil WP, 80% mancozeb WP and 50% thiram WP all had good effects on control against yam stripe disease.


We emphasized emotion as an important factor that effect creativity more and more. In the essay we introduced the conception of emotion and creativity, the theory and researches of effect of emotion on creativity. Based on foregoing researches, we concluded that we needed to explore the effect of concrete emotion on creativity and exploit reasonable experimental material of creativity.


Device-to-Device (D2D) communication with direct communication between user equipment (UEs) in a wireless communication system. While a transmitter of a transceiver module of a UE is transmitting, a first (or main) receiver is operated on a first received signal (such as a signal originated from a base station and received in a downlink operating band), and a second (or measurement) receiver is operated on the transmitted signal from the transmitter. While the transmitter is not transmitting, the second (or measurement) receiver is operated on a second received signal (such as a signal originated from another UE and received in an uplink operating band).


Abstract Acyl carrier protein is related with fatty acid biosynthesis in whichspecific enzymes are in-volved. Especially, acyl carrier protein (ACP) is the key component in the growing of fatty acid chain. ACP is the small, very acidic protein that covalently binds various intermediates of fatty acyl chain. Acyl-ation of ACP is mediated by holoacyl carrier protein -synthase (ACPS), which transfers the 4'PP-moiety of CoA to the 36th residue Ser of apoACP. Acyl carrier protein P (ACPP) is one of ACPs from Helicobacter plyori. The NMR structure of ACPP consists of four helices, which were reported previously. Here we show how acylation of ACPP can affect the overall structure of ACPP and figured out the contact surface of ACPP to acyl chain attached during expression of ACPP in E. coli Based on the chemical shift . r- pertubation data, the acylation of ACCP seems to affect the conformation of the long loop connecting helix I and helix II as well as the second short loop connect-ing helix II and helix III. The significant chemical shift change of Ile 54 upon acylation supports the contact of acyl chain and the second loop.


Current existing multi-hyperplane machine approach deals with high-dimensional and complex datasets by approximating the decision boundary with a parametric mixture of hyperplanes in the input space. Consequently, this approach requires an excessively time-consuming grid search to find the set of optimal hyper-parameters. Moreover, it is often suboptimal since the space discretization step in grid search. To address these challenges, we propose BAyesian Multi-hyperplane Machine (BAMM). Our approach departs from a Bayesian perspective, aiming to construct an alternative probabilistic view in such a way that its maximum-a-posteriori (MAP) estimation reduces exactly to the original optimization problem of a multi-hyperplane machine. This view allows us to endow prior distributions over hyper-parameters and apply recent data augmentation technique to efficiently infer model parameters and hyper-parameters via Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method. We further apply a Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) framework to cope with modern growing large datasets which can be also extended for online learning. Extensive experiments demonstrate the capability of our proposed method in learning the optimal model without using any grid search, hence yielding comparable accuracy comparing with the state-of-art baselines.


Virtual Organizations (VOs) are transitory communities made of individuals and institutions coupled together by advanced communications technologies. Today's VOs are more and more demanding in terms of eciency and flexibility of the technological infrastructure. Envisioning VOs in which all participants are both resource providers and consumers, in a peer-to-peer fashion, seems to be an appropriate solution. This paper proposes a structure for programmed elements, i.e. Peers, sharing resources through a peer-to-peer network. Publishing and discovery of resource provision services are managed by the routing and communication modules. The first one creates publication/query messages and computes their destination, which is then used by the communication service to transport the message to the destination Peer.


This paper summarizes the experience in porting and tuning Oracle7 Parallel Server for nCUBE, a Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) computer that contains hundreds of processing elements. The idea of the parallel server where multiple instances of Oracle run against the same database was first developed for a loosely coupled VAX cluster. With the advent of Massively Parallel Systems, nCUBE was chosen to be first MPP platform to support Very Large Database systems.<<ETX>>


A high performance liquid chromatographic method for the simultaneous determination of the cyanogenic glycosides, i. e., amygdalin (AM) and prunasin (PR), and their degradation products, i. e., benzaldehyde (BAL) and benzoic acid (BA), in processed foods containing ume (Japanese apricot Prunus mume Sieb et Zucc.) was developed.The sample was extracted with 0.05M citric acid solution and cleaned up by use of a Seppak C18 cartridge. The extract was chromatographed on a Capcell Pak C18 SG120 column with acetonitrile-water-0.2M phosphate buffer, pH 4.0 (16: 79: 5). Detection was achieved with a UV monitor set at 210nm. The peaks corresponding to AM and PR were confirmed by examination of the effect of emulsin treatment.The recoveries from ume extract, umeboshi (dried and salted ume), umeshu (Japanese apricot wine) and ume jam fortified with AM, PR, BAL and BA at levels of 40-100μg/g each were 86.9-100.6% (C. V. 3.7-7.7%) for AM, 69.9-105.3% (0.9-4.2%) for PR, 71.9-85.0% (1.8-2.6%) for BAL and 82.7-99.1% (0.8-4.8%) for BA, except for AM in the ume extract and the umeboshi. AM in ume extract and umeboshi could not be determined owing to interference by contaminants.The determination limits were 10μg/g for AM, 2μg/g for PR, and 1μg/g for BAL and BA, respectively.