Jets, defined as collimated sprays of high-momentum particles, are experimental signatures of hard-scattered quarks and gluons produced in hadronic interactions. The jet production cross section is calculable within perturbative Quantum ChromoDynamics (pQCD), and therefore jet measurements provide stringent tests of pQCD predictions. In relativistic heavy-ion collisions, jets are well calibrated probes of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). Under extreme conditions of temperature and/or pressure, partons are deconfined and form a strongly interacting QCD medium. The initial hard scattered partons lose energy while traversing this medium due to radiative and collisional energy loss. Consequently, jet properties get modified in comparison with the vacuum case, phenomenon named jet quenching. QGP transport properties can be studied by measuring jet quenching.The charged jet production cross sections in pp collisions at $sqrt{s} = 2.76 mathrm{TeV}$ and $sqrt{s} = 7 mathrm{TeV}$ were measured by the ALICE experiment and compared to Leading-Order (LO) pQCD predictions. In Pb-Pb collisions, the strength of jet suppression was quantitatively assessed at $sqrt{s_{mathrm{NN}}} = 2.76 mathrm{TeV}$ and $sqrt{s_{mathrm{NN}}} = 5.02 mathrm{TeV}$ via the measurement of the nuclear modification factors ($R_{mathrm{AA}}$). The strength of charged jet suppression was quantified as a function of in-medium parton path-length based on the measured $R_{mathrm{AA}}$. The jet elliptic flow $v_{2}$, defined as the jet azimuthal distribution relative to the $2^{nd}$ order event plane, which is sensitive to the difference of the in-medium parton path-length in-plane and out-of-plane, was measured at $sqrt{s_{mathrm{NN}}} = 2.76 mathrm{TeV}$. The measured jet $v_{2}$ in mid-central Pb-Pb collisions was consistent with model predictions. The medium response has been studied through jet-track correlations at $sqrt{s_{mathrm{NN}}} = 2.76 mathrm{TeV}$ as a function of centrality. The result suggested that the in-medium suppressed energy was re-distributed to large angles with respect to the jet axis. The phenomenon was described by a phenomenological calculation taking into account hydrodynamical evolution of the medium.In this thesis, two complementary aspects of jet measurements with the ALICE detector at the LHC were studied. First, the upgrade of the ALICE electromagnetic calorimeter trigger system is presented. The Di-jet Calorimeter (DCal) has been installed during LHC Long Shutdown 1 (LS1) to extend the azimuthal coverage of the existing ElectroMagnetic Calorimeter (EMCal) and PHOton Spectrometer (PHOS). The trigger system has been upgraded to account for this new detector configuration. The firmware for the Summary Trigger Unit (STU), which is the electronics of the trigger system, was upgraded to implement a brand new algorithm combining information from the calorimeters. Second, the measurement of the production cross section of charged jets reconstructed with cone resolution parameter $R=0.2$, $0.3$, $0.4$, and $0.6$ in pp collisions at $sqrt{s} = 5.02 mathrm{TeV}$ is outlined. A comparison of the production cross section to LO and Next-Leading-Order (NLO) pQCD predictions is shown. Good agreement of the production cross section with NLO pQCD calculations is found for $10 < p_{mathrm{T},text{jet}}^{text{ch}} < 100 mathrm{GeV}/c$. The measurement of charged jet $v_{2}$ in mid-central (30-50%) Pb-Pb collisions at $sqrt{s_{mathrm{NN}}} = 5.02 mathrm{TeV}$ is also presented. The results are compared with a toy-model Glauber simulation based on the measured path-length dependence of jet suppression. Finally, the measurement of charged jet-hadron correlations in mid-central (30-50%) Pb-Pb collisions at $sqrt{s_{mathrm{NN}}} = 5.02 mathrm{TeV}$ with respect to the $2^{nd}$ order event plane is also presented in order to study initial collision geometry dependence of jet modification in Pb-Pb collisions.


The article presents an attempt to show the role of the organization "Moral majority" in forming the American Christian right and the relations between the Christian right and conservative and fundamentalist movements. The author pays attention to the leaders who founded the organization, specifically Jerry Falwell and Paul Weyrich, who influenced the formation and development of the organization. The reasons why the "Moral Majority" quickly gained popularity in American society are examined. Among them, the author discusses changes in American society that caused frustration of the traditionally minded part of society, and the role of televangelism and fundamentalist clergy in its popularity. The author analyzes the documents of the "Moral Majority", sermons and television speeches of Jerry Falwell and other leaders of the organization, the materials of the "Moral Majority Report" and "The Fundamentalist Journal", etc. Through the lens of the sources, an attempt to highlight the range of problems at the core of the agenda of the "Moral Majority" is made. They include opposition to the gay movement and the women's rights movement, fight against abortion and pornography, discussions on educational problems, and US foreign policy issues. Such problems, according to the "Moral majority", showed the decay of American society and the need for its salvation by Christian forces. The author concludes that the "Moral majority" was a key organization able to unite American Christians around social problems and had contributed to their "political awakening". Due to the "Moral majority", politics became a priority for the church again, which led to the emergence of the new Christian right movement and to changes in American conservatism as a whole.


In a series of papers based on Global Enterpreneurship Monitor surveys, authors inquire the dichotomy of entrepreneurs' motivation, i.e. survival and aspirations. As opposed to most recent literature, our identification strategy is based on ex post observed actual choices (switching from employment to self-employment) and not on ex ante declarations. We find that employees moving to self-employment are characterised by relatively lower endowments. However, prior to changing the labour market status they were relatively overcompensated.


Motor function assessment is a critical component in post-stroke rehabilitation program. Fugl-Meyer Assessment (FMA) is regarded as the most comprehensive tool to describe post-stroke patient's motor function and is widely utilized. However, the FMA scoring system classifies patient's motor function within only three levels (0, 1, or 2) for each assessment item. Hence, it's difficult to observe minor improvement in patient's motor function. To address this issue, a high-resolution scoring system was proposed in this research. Six regression models were built for six upper-extremity FMA items. These models were trained using data gathered from Microsoft Kinect sensor and glove sensor. The trained models could predict FMA scores with the resolution of 14 fractional digits. The representativeness of the predicted scores was evaluated by calculating their Pearson's correlation with the actual kinematic variables. All predicted scores represent patient's motor function better than standard FMA score. In addition, the highest correlation's mean of 0.58 was found on shoulder elevation item which utilized Neural Network Regression algorithm. This algorithm also outperformed the other in most assessment items. The ability to observe the changes in patient's motor function in detail helps therapists providing more responsive treatment and could likely increase the patient's adherence toward the given treatment.


This essay addresses the connection in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre between the protagonist and the atmosphere. Specifically, I address the issue of why Bronte associates the atmosphere with womanhood in the novel. My argument is that Bronte's novel offers an early example of an ecofeminist text or a "proto-ecofeminist text" as I refer to it within the essay. This essay explains how ecofeminism connects the exploitation of the environment with the degradation of womanhood and utilizes Justine Pizzo's article "Atmospheric Exceptionalism in Jane Eyre" to provide evidence. I use Jason Moore's work on oikeios to show how Jane Eyre rejects dualism by finding conceptual means of reconnecting humanity with nature. Elaine Freedgood's work on colonial exploitation of resources shows how Jane's ecofeminism does not extend to the colonial other and how it problematizes the text as ecofeminist in nature. Finally, I analyze Dipesh Chakrabarty's "Four Theses," with a focus on the second and third theses, and how they help illuminate Jane's own inner struggles with atmospheric influence and passivity in the face of colonial resource extraction. Ultimately this paper concludes that despite Jane's dilemmas, her womanhood and consciousness of connection to nature preserve her status as a proto-ecofeminist figure.


Slovenia. Development of modern information-communication technology is pressuring democratic states to reform their public administration into more effective and flexible organizations capable of providing all necessary services to citizens in the shortest time and most user-friendly manner possible. Slovenia, a small country of two million people living on slightly more than twenty square kilometers, is no exception. It has already adopted the necessary legal and strategic framework to enable e-government. Slovenian public institutions first used the Internet and its applications for intraand inter-organizational communication. Other elements of Slovenian e-governance will be presented in future articles:


In real applications, it is common to train deep neural networks (DNNs) on modest clusters. With the continuous increase of model size and batch size, the training of DNNs becomes challenging under restricted memory budget. The tensor partition and tensor rematerialization are two major memory optimization techniques to enable larger model size and batch size within the limited-memory constrain. However, the related algorithms failed to fully extract the memory reduction opportunity, because they ignored the invariable characteristics of dynamic computational graphs and the variation among the same size tensors at different memory locations. In this work, we propose MegTaiChi, a dynamic tensor-based memory management optimization module for the DNN training, which first achieves an efficient coordination of tensor partition and tensor rematerialization. The key feature of MegTaiChi is that it makes memory management decisions based on dynamic tensor access pattern tracked at runtime. This design is motivated by the observation that the access pattern to tensors is regular during training iterations. Based on the identified patterns, MegTaiChi exploits the total memory optimization space and achieves the heuristic, adaptive and fine-grained memory management. The experimental results show, MegTaiChi can reduce the memory footprint by up to 11% for ResNet-50 and 10.5% for GL-base compared with DTR. For the training of 6 representative DNNs, MegTaiChi outperforms MegEngine and Sublinear by 5X and 2.4X of the maximum batch sizes. Compared with FlexFlow, Gshard and ZeRo-3, MegTaiChi achieves 1.2X, 1.8X and 1.5X performance speedups respectively on average. For the million-scale face recognition application, Meg-TaiChi achieves 1.8X speedup compared with the optimal empirical parallelism strategy on 256 GPUs.


This paper provides an alternative perspective on urban informal settlements by analysing them as places of rural remnants, reservoirs of regional cultural heritage, and spaces entailing traditional sustainable elements that are brought to the urban realm by rural migrants. These socio-cultural and spatial attributes of a settlement converge under the notion of a "place." Placemaking analysis is thus contended to be appropriate for comprehensive understanding of an informal settlement. The selected case study of France Colony, Islamabad, employs the placemaking methodology framework to investigate sustainability values and practices from the day-to-day living of its inhabitants. Data collected through on-site interviews during transect walks in France Colony are then translated into four maps as a spatio-cultural documentation of the sustainable elements found in the informal settlement. The four maps relate to form and users, activities and amenities, image and characteristics, and access and linkages. This systematic analysis assisted in categorising the sustainability characteristics of the informal settlements according to the three pillars (social, economic, and environmental) of sustainability. The findings show that the organic placemaking, originating from everyday life, values, behaviour, and lifestyle of the informal dwellers, allows for a strong and vibrant resilient community to emerge.


A Self-Directed Work Team (SDWT) was developed to transfer a polyimide process module from the research laboratory to our wafer fab facility for applications in IC specialty devices. The SDWT implemented processes and tools based on the integration of five manufacturing strategies for continuous improvement. These were: Leadership Through Quality (LTQ), Total Productive Maintenance (TMP), Cycle Time Management (CTM), Activity-Based Costing (ABC), and Total Employee Involvement (TEI). Utilizing these management techniques simultaneously, the team achieved six sigma control of all critical parameters, increased Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) from 20% to 90%, reduced cycle time by 95%, cut polyimide manufacturing cost by 70%, and improved its overall team member skill level by 33%.


Pseudorandom binary sequence (PRBS) generators play a significant role in wide range of applications in a communication system which includes testing, bit scrambling, bit de-scrambling. In encryption and decryption scheme, the key-stream is important in the security of the whole process. PRBS can be used as the key-stream for encryption and decryption. A novel approach towards the realization of pseudorandom binary sequence (PRBS) based on shot noise fluctuations in p-i-n photodiode has been presented in this paper. These fluctuations are based on a stochastic process whose statistical characterization reflects Poisson distribution associated with photon streams.


Recent observations provided evidence that the solar chromosphere of sunspot regions is pervaded by Alfvénic waves—transverse magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves (Alfvén waves or kink waves). In order to systematically investigate the physical characteristics of Alfvénic waves over a wide range of periods, we analyzed the time series of line-of-sight velocity maps constructed from the Hα spectral data of a small sunspot region taken by the Fast Imaging Solar Spectrograph of the Goode Solar Telescope at Big Bear. We identified each Alfvénic wave packet by examining the cross-correlation of band-filtered velocity between two points that are located a little apart presumably on the same magnetic field line. As result, we detected a total of 279 wave packets in the superpenumbral region around the sunspot and obtained their statistics of period, velocity amplitude, and propagation speed. An important finding of ours is that the detected Alfvénic waves are clearly separated into two groups: 3-minute period (<7 minutes) waves and 10-minute period (>7 minutes) waves. We propose two tales on the origin of Alfvénic waves in the chromosphere; the 3-minute Alfvénic waves are excited by the upward-propagating slow waves in the chromosphere through the slow-to-Alfvénic mode conversion, and the 10-minute Alfvénic waves represent the chromospheric manifestation of the kink waves driven by convective motions in the photosphere.


Background
 For most Multiple Myeloma (MM) patients, M-protein is the gold standard biomarker for disease diagnosis and monitoring. Traditional methods such as serum protein electrophoresis (SPEP) and serum immunofixation electrophoresis (IFE) lack the sensitivity to detect M-protein in patients with minimal residual disease. At ASH 2018, we reported a Mass Spectrometry (MS)-based highly sensitive assay (REmAb) for detecting and quantifying M-protein. This assay exploits the uniqueness of the M-protein sequence and can detect 1 M-protein in 10,000 polyclonal IgG. The current study utilized this established assay to first sequence then monitor M-protein in sera from diagnosis through treatment for patients from the first MCRN-001 Canadian national trial with bortezomib (BTZ)-based pre-induction (PI), augmented high-dose chemotherapy with busulfan + melphalan (BuMel) before ASCT and lenalidomide (Len) maintenance post-ASCT.
 Methods
 MCRN-001 trial patients were first induced with BTZ before harvesting stem cells. Eligible MM patients received BuMel prior to ASCT. Busulfan was administered IV at 3.2 mg/kg on days -5 to -3, or days -6 to -4 days pre-ASCT (Day 0) and melphalan was given at 140 mg/m2 on day -2 or -3 pre-ASCT. Len administration began 100 days post-ASCT at 10 mg/d (increased when appropriate to 15 mg/d) and continued until progressive disease (PD) onset. IMWG criteria was used to monitor clinical response and PD. 78 patients enrolled in this trial; only 58 offered consent for M-protein monitoring with MS. Serum samples were acquired at time of pre-induction (PI), before ASCT (screening sample), post-ASCT on day 100, every 3 months for the first year and then every 6 months until PD. The M-protein sequence was determined with the REmAb protein sequencing platform from either PI or screening samples when the PI sample was unavailable. For M-protein quantification, each sample was digested with trypsin prior to analysis by liquid chromatography tandem MS with an Orbitrap Fusion Tribrid or Q-Exactive instrument. Patient-specific, unique tryptic peptides, with at least one peptide from each Heavy and Light chain, were targeted by the MS assay. To monitor changes in M-protein levels per patient post-diagnosis and through treatment to complete remission (CR) and/or PD, this study used MS peak areas of patient-specific unique peptides normalized against peak areas of human serum albumin or spiked-in standard peptides.
 Results
 M-protein sequencing
 In this study, the lowest M-protein serum concentration required for sequencing was 0.2 g/dL. 48 out of 58 (83%) patient-specific M-proteins were sequenced from serum. 5 out of 48 patients sequenced discontinued the study early and were excluded from further analysis.
 M-protein monitoring
 24 out of the 43 achieved CR. The M-proteins of these patients were monitored by MS to study early relapse detection. M-protein levels could be monitored by MS in all these patients from diagnosis through CR to PD onset, even when M-protein was undetectable by SPEP and IFE. A separate serial dilution test estimated that the limit of quantification can reach as low as 0.03 mg/dL. 3 patients who had achieved CR eventually relapsed (PD). In all 3 PD patients, a 2 to 200 fold increase in M-protein in 2 consecutive tests half a year apart was detected by MS 6 months earlier than clinical confirmation of PD by conventional testing. The other 21 had not progressed at time of analysis. In the non-progressor group, the M-protein levels detected by MS either continued to decrease during CR or remained relatively stable. Only 3 out of 21 patients demonstrated a 2-fold increase in M-protein level in any 2 consecutive tests. Figure 1 shows representative data for two patients.
 Conclusions
 This study demonstrates that M-protein sequencing and targeted MS assay can be used to monitor serum M-protein levels sensitively even when SPEP and IFE fail to detect M-protein. Based on this assay, a 2-fold increase in serum M-protein levels in the past 6 months can reliably predict disease progression in the next 6 months for patients achieving CR. In the 24 studied patients, the method has 100% sensitivity and 86% specificity at predicting disease progression from CR prior to detection by standard methods. Future work will analyze more patient samples to confirm the findings and investigation into criteria surrounding the 2-fold M-protein increase observed in CR patients and relapse post CR.

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 The use of IV busulfan and melphalan as conditioning for myeloma transplants is off-label.


in this study the effect of starter chick weight at hatch and the level of dietary methionine supplementation of diets were evaluated. a total of 1,984 males chicks (agross) with two initial weights (40 and 45 g) were used. these birds were fed a pre starter diets supplemented with different levels of methionine (0,455 %; 0,507 %; 0,559 % e 0,611 %). all the diets had the same amount of metabolizable energy and crude protein. the birds were randomly distributed in a factorial design (two body weights and four levels of methionine). four replicate and 62 birds per replicate were used. these results showed that the interaction between initial weight and methionine levels was not statistically significant. The methionine levels did not affect the performance and the carcass yield of the birds at 47 days. chicks with the initial different weight were similar at 47 days and the supplementation of the methionine in pre starter diets did not affect the performance of the birds. KEY-WORDS: carcass yield, feed intake, feed-to-gain ratio, wieght gain.


Railway safety in the nineteenth century relied heavily on the use of Commissions to analyse the causes of individual accidents and to decide on methods to avoid repetitions. Stokes played an important role in these. Following the collapse of the Dee bridge in 1847 he carried out the first mathematical study of the deflection and liability to break of a rail due to a moving railway engine. Following the Tay bridge disaster of 1879 he provided expert advice on the possible effects of the wind on railway bridges, and as an important member of the Commission on wind speeds he played a major role in the creation of a series of guidelines that have helped to keep railway bridges safer ever since.


Satellite observation of rain is attractive because it provides information about rainfall rates on a global basis that is unavailable with conventional ground-based instruments. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) is a United States-Japan joint project for rain measurement from space. The first spaceborne rain radar has been aboard the TRMM satellite. Meteorological radar commonly uses averaging to reduce the effects of signal fluctuation. Mean values of the TRMM Precipitation Radar (TRMM/PR) signal are extracted from the fluctuating radar signals by averaging. Rain/no-rain discrimination is done basically to classify mean values of radar signals. Since experimentally obtained values always have some errors, one can not simply classify mean values of radar signal as either rain or no-rain. To meet the requirements for the various applications of the rain/no-rain discrimination, the rain status is classified into three classes as rain-certain, rain-possible, or no-rain by using two threshold values. This classification is applied to each angle bin of the TRMM/PR. In this paper, rain/no-rain discrimination for TRMM/PR signals has been validated by the simulation, and by a comparison with the ground-based radar data.


We consider the impact of thermal inflation – a short, secondary period of inflation that can arise in supersymmetric scenarios – on the stochastic gravitational wave background. We show that while the primordial inflationary gravitational wave background is essentially unchanged at CMB scales, it is massively diluted at solar system scales and would be unobservable by a BBO style experiment. Conversely, bubble collisions at the end of thermal inflation can generate a new stochastic background. We calculate the likely properties of the bubbles created during this phase transition, and show that the expected amplitude and frequency of this signal would fall within the BBO range. Thermal Inflation and the Gravitational Wave Background 2


We postulate that agents make forecasts using overly simplified models of the world—i.e., models that only embody a subset of available information. We then go on to study the implications of learning in this environment. Our key premise is that learning is based on a model-selection criterion. Thus if a particular simple model does a poor job of forecasting over a period of time, it is eventually discarded in favor of an alternative, yet equally simple model that would have done better over the same period. This theory makes several distinctive predictions, which, for concreteness, we develop in a stock-market setting. For example, starting with symmetric and homoskedastic fundamentals, the theory yields forecastable variation in the size of the value/glamour differential, in volatility, and in the skewness of returns. Some of these features mirror familiar accounts of stock-price bubbles. We are grateful to the National Science Foundation for research support, and to Sven Rady, Lara Tiedens and Jeff Wurgler for helpful discussions.


The invention provides a novel method for simultaneously extracting gastrodia elata polysaccharide and gastrodine, relating to the technical field of processing of subsidiary agricultural products. The method is characterized by comprising the following steps: pulverizing dry gastrodia elata, carrying out water extraction and alcohol precipitation, washing the precipitate with alcohol, drying under reduced pressure, pulverizing to obtain gastrodia elata polysaccharide, and concentrating the alcohol filtrate under reduced pressure to obtain gastrodine extractum. The invention has the characteristics of simple technique, high utilization ratio of raw materials, low solvent consumption, low cost, high extraction rate, good economic benefits, no environmental pollution and the like, and the production is free from the influence of the gastrodia elata production seasons.


Background: An entry of needle into the epidural space has been identified by the development of negative pressure to the advancing needle; hanging drop, loss of resistance, or use of Macintosh balloon. But it is suspicious that epidural space is a true negative pressure space. Method: We measured the epidural pressures of pregnant patients in right lateral decubitus (RLD) and sitting position and compared with the values of non-pregnant patients of respective position. 17G Tuohy needle with closed system was used, the pressure of which was zeroed to the puncture level at third lumbar intervertebral space. Result: Epidural pressures were positive in all subjects. Values of measurement were 13±4mmHg, 15±7mmHg, 16±6mmHg and 25±7mmHg for pregnant-RLD, pregnant-sitting, non-pregnant-RLD, and non-pregnant-sitting group, respectively. Conclusion: There was a significant difference between RLD and sitting position in non-pregnant patient only (p<0.05). It is suggested that the hydrostatic pressure of CSF above puncture level and the hydrostatic pressure of valveless epidural venous plexus blood influenced the epidural pressure of non-pregnant group in sitting position. But in pregnant group, abdominal mass may have elicited a draining effect on epidural venous plexus during lumbar flexion in sitting position and partially nullified the hydrostatic pressure of CSF and blood. (Korean J Anesthesiol 1996; 30: 466-469)


This paper focuses on determining of windshield inclination angle to aerodynamic drag coefficient for a 1/64 scaled bus model by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) method. The bus models were designed by using SolidWorks program in 4 different windshield inclination angle (α=0˚, α=15˚, α=30˚, α=45˚). Flow analysis were performed at 15 m/s, 20 m/s, 25 m/s and 30 m/s free flow velocities and between the range of 173000-346000 Reynolds numbers in Fluent® program. To provide geometric similarity 1/64 scaled licensed model bus was used in order to obtain drawing datas. The blockage rate was 3.39% for the kinematic similarity. Reynolds number independence was used to ensure dynamic similarity in study. The effect of windshield inclination angle to drag coefficient was determined by CFD method. The aerodynamic drag coefficients (CD) of the bus models were determined as 0.759 for model 1, 0.731 for model 2, 0.683 for model 3 and 0.623 for model 4. There are 17.92%, 14.84% and 8.76% drag reduction in model 4 which has α=45˚ windshield inclination angle when compared model 1 (α=0˚), model 2 (α=15˚) and model 3 (α=30˚) respectively. 0.4% drag reduction was obtained by increasing every 1 degree of windshield angle. The windshield inclination angle considerably affects drag forces on buses. The distribution of total drag was determined as pressure-friction based. The flow visualizations were obtained and flow structure around of bus models was detected.


The effect of deformation condition on the grain size,microstructure and grain orientation of NdFeB magnets is studied.Experiments show that for hot-deformed NdFeB magnets grain size decreases,microstructure and grain orientation changes as hot-deformation increases.


There is growing concern that the free radical scavenging effect of antioxidants added to meats might reduce the antimicrobial effectiveness of ionizing radiation. A study was conducted to determine the effect of vitamin E on the behavior of Listeria monocytogenes and color stability in turkey meat following electron beam irradiation. Raw ground turkey breast meat from birds fed diets containing O ( control), 50, 100, and 200 IU of vitamin E per kg was inoculated with a 5-strain mixture of L. monocytogenes to give ~ 10 7 CFU/ g. Inoculated samples were irradiated at 0, 0.5, 1, and 2 kGy, and stored aerobically (12 days) or under vacuum ( 42 days) at 4 °C. L. monocytogenes survivors were determined by plating diluted samples on Modified Oxford Medium (MOX) and counting bacterial colonies on MOX plates after 48h at 35°C. Meat color was measured using a Hunter Lab colorimeter. Irradiation at 2.0 kGy resulted in ~3.5 log reduction of initial numbers of L. monocytogenes. There were no significant differences in D-values for L. monocytogenes in meat irrespective of vitamin E treatment (P>0.05). Also, vitamin E treatments did not affect growth rate of the pathogen in aerobic or vacuum-packaged samples following irradiation (P>0.05). Compared to controls, irradiated meat from birds fed 100 or 200 IU vitamin E demonstrated significant improvement in color stability (Hunter L * and a*values) during aerobic storage (P<0.05).


This paper presents a simulated distributed embedded system consisting of two Automotive Ethernet applications based on the SOME/IP-SD (Scalable Service-Oriented Middleware over IP - Service Discovery) concept: angular position control of a DC motor actuator for an automobile's trunk lid and interior lights control based on the vehicle's doors state. The paper also proposes a different in-vehicle E/E (Electric and Electronic) architecture which contains only the scalable Ethernet network. For this reason, the paper motivates the need for Ethernet in Automotive and makes a comparison to conventional busses.


This paper purposes exploring the influence of dynamic responses of U-girder in vehicle-bridge system for urban rail transit on the surrounding environment.In order to study the influence,a rail vehicle dynamic model with 31 DOFs(degrees of freedom) is made by employing the linear rail model.A standard span of 30m single line U-shaped structure,which is in the elevated section of Chongqing City Metro Line Project in the west of Liang hill,is taken as the study object.The analysis of coupling vibration in vehicle-bridge system is performed by using a self-compiled program and compared with field test results to confirm the correctness of the dynamic model and the self-compiled program.Through the calculation and the analysis of measurement results,the environmental vibration induced by U-girder is evaluated.The results show that U-girder has remarkable effect on the environmental vibration control.


The development and consolidation of the Brazilian National Health System ( Sistema Único de Saúde - SUS) are at the heart of the establishment of Health Information Systems (HIS) nationwide. Although some records predate the SUS, it was based on its structuring that the legal and operational framework for the systematic collection of data evolved, both for administrative purposes and for monitoring diseases and health conditons. 1 In programmatic terms, HIS data can be the basis for structuring public health actions and planning and evaluating programs; in the academic context


Upstream oil and gas industry of Indonesia have institutional changes in management responsibility upstream oil and gas industry in Indonesia. Deregulation of the upstream oil and gas industry aimed at institutional efficiency and optimization of oil and gas revenue for Indonesia. The study aims to track the progress of the development of oil and gas production and institutional role in the upstream industry in Indonesia. Data of this study is secondary data. The method of analysis of this study uses descriptive analytical method. The results showed that the development of Indonesia's oil and gas production inverses for the period 2000-2010. Indonesia's crude oil production declined each year during the period 2000-2010. Indonesia gas production tends to fluctuate during the period 2000-2010. Institutional changes have an impact on the growing amount of Contractors Cooperation Contract (K3S) production in Indonesia to be fluctuate.


Foreign aid has at times been a spectacular success. Botswana and the Republic of Korea in the 1960s, Indonesia in the 1970s, Bolivia and Ghana in the late 1980s, and Uganda and Vietnam in the 1990s are all examples of countries that have gone from crisis to rapid development. Foreign aid played a significant role in each transformation, contributing ideas about development policy, training for public policymakers, and finance to support reform and an expansion of public services. Foreign aid has also transformed entire sectors. The agricultural innovations, investments, and policies that created the Green Revolution—improving the lives of millions of poor people around the world—were financed, supported, and disseminated through alliances of bilateral and multilateral donors. Internationally funded and coordinated programs have dramatically reduced such diseases as river blindness and vastly expanded immunization against key childhood diseases. Hundreds of millions of people have had their lives touched, if not transformed, by access to schools, clean water, sanitation, electric power, health clinics, roads, and irrigation—all financed by foreign aid.


Healthcare in the rural areas have been encountering decision making issues which are due to the lack of maximising the use of their historical data. It is a general believe that many of healthcare data together with strong analytics by business intelligence brings about proposition for attainment of community healthcare success. This study intends to explore and analyse the phases leading to the business intelligence requirements for strategic decision in healthcare organisation in rural healthcare in Malaysia. Thus, goal-oriented approach and Requirements Management Control methodology are employed, leading to the requirement analysis model for Malaysian rural healthcare.


Recently many researches have shown that word embeddings are able to represent information from word related contexts or its nearest neighborhood words, and thus are applied in many NLP tasks successfully. In this paper, we propose convolutional neural network model to extent word embeddings to mention/antecedent representation. These representations are obtained through convoluting neighboring word embeddings and other contextual information for coreference resolution. We evaluate our system on the English portion of the CoNLL 2012 Shared Task dataset and show that the proposed system achieves a competitive performance compared with the state-of-the-art approaches. We also show that our proposed model especially improves the coreference resolution of long spans significantly.


ABSTRACT As the effects of climate change continue to worsen, nations will have the opportunity to develop and deploy climate manipulation techniques known as geoengineering to forestall the worst effects. Indeed, some have argued that the nations of the world cannot meet their Paris Agreement goals without them. However, these technologies can be global in their effects, ecologically uncertain, and potentially prejudicial to non-deploying nations. Canada is well suited to lead the formation of an anticipatory governance regime due to its technological knowledge, the proximity of the Arctic as a potential testing ground, and its role as an internationally respected middle power. By stepping forward to lead the effort, Canada can ensure its own security and environmental interests as well as the stability of the rules-based international order.


EDITOR—Ten years ago the National Audit Office published a report that attributed the highest coronary mortality in Europe to Sweden.1 The BMJ published a letter that I wrote pointing out that the National Audit Office had committed the error of failing to standardise for age2: the Swedes were an ageing population, but after correction for age their coronary mortality was unremarkable. Later …


The Cooper-Hewitt, National Museum of Design changes its name to Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. This change was made to emphesize that the museum is about more then objects, it is also about the process of design.


Equal access to education is among the basic human rights and a component of wellbeing. This paper investigates the education in equality in Indonesia by computing Education Gini Index, affecting factor such as gender gap, and its impacts on the provincial per capita income as measured by provincial gross regional domestic product (GRDP) per capita. In addition, the Klassen Typology for Education and GRDP across provinces in the country are also presented. Both direct and indirect methods are utilized to calculate the Index, generating a quinquennial (every 5 year,) dataset on education Gini for population aged above 10, for 26 provinces from 1975 to 2000. At least six findings are generated in this study. First, educational inequality for most of the provinces has been declining during tile periods, with Irian Jaya as an exception. Second, education inequality as measured by the Education Gini Index has inverse association with the average years of schooling. This consequently implies the third that provinces with the higher level of education attainment are most likely to achieve education equality better than those with the lower level. Fourth, gender has no significant relationship with education inequality. Fifth, the incremental per capita provincial GRDP is negatively associated with education inequality. Sixth, seven provinces have been pushing the growth of education equality and thus their GRDP from "bad" to "ideal" condition in Klassen Typology.


Wireless communication requested to provide a fast, reliable, and efficient service. A good resource management is needed to achieve better performance. This works tried a resources management scheme on Long Term Evolution (LTE) system that not only achieve good base performance like spectral efficiency and system fairness, but also considering the energy efficiency aspect. Waterfilling power control scheme is added to mean-greedy allocation algorithm to control the power of each resource block (RB). there are 2 scheme that being used are Normal Waterfilling (NWF) which try to allocates more power to bad channel user, and Inverse Waterfilling which try to allocates more power to good channel user. Simulation results show that NWF can improve the system fairness up to 10% but the spectral efficiency decreased by 1,02 bps/Hz, and the energy efficency decreased by 68,75 kbps/Watt. In contrary, the IWF scheme can improve the spectral efficiency by 1,42 bps/Hz, and increase the energy efficiency by 205 kbps/Watt, but the system fairness decreased by 11%. Can be conclude that NWF scheme is a good use for a system that prioritize fairness and connection stability, meanwhile IWF scheme is more appropriate for a system that want to achieve better efficiency.


Provides a production method of the AMOLED back plate, after the patterning the first metal layer to form a first gate 61, second gate 63 and the electrode plate 65, and a patterned first metal layer a shielding layer subjected to N-type lightly doped on the patterned polysilicon layer, and then; Depositing an insulating layer (7), and by carrying out anisotropic etching on the insulating layer 7 to form the spacer 71, and a patterned first metal layer and the spacer 71 to the shielding layer, the patterned polysilicon by carrying out the N-type intermediate ping the layer, a first gate (61) to form a lightly doped drain region (N-) in the spacer (71) on both sides directly under the room, a switch TFT channel region lightly doped drain region of the two sides (N -) this can be symmetrical, and shortens the length of the lightly doped drain region (N-), and conduction current can be increased, it is possible to not only reduce the photocurrent effectively, reduce the cost by omitting the photomask .


Background : Suprascapular nerve steroid injections are performed for the relief of chronic shoulder pain. This retrospective comparison between landmark based and ultrasound guidance was undertaken to see the advantages of using ultrasound guidance for the performance of these injections. Methods : After institutional review board approval a chart review of all the suprascapular nerve steroid injections performed between 2005 and 2009 was done. Statistical analysis was performed using T-test and Wilcoxon Rank-Sum test and Mann-Whitney test for the confidence interval. Results : There were a total of 12 suprascapular nerve steroid injections performed. The mean decrease in VAS from pre-procedure for the landmark based was -2.67 + 0.577 and for ultrasound guidance was -4.50 + 1.173. There was a statistically significant difference of changes in VAS between the landmark based and ultrasound guidance (P = 0.0409). The median difference in the change in VAS was 2 points, and the 95% median confidence interval was 0.0 and 3.0. In addition, there was a 50% reduction in the volume of injectate and dose of methylprednisolone using the ultrasound guidance technique. Conclusions : This study shows that there is a possibility for using lesser injectate volume and steroid for suprascapular nerve blocks along with a marginal increase in pain relief with ultrasound guidance. Larger prospective studies are needed to further validate the utility of ultrasound guidance in chronic shoulder pain. doi:10.4021/jnr19e


Whale optimization algorithm (WOA) is a new population-based metaheuristic algorithm. WOA uses shrinking encircling mechanism, spiral rise, and random learning strategies to update whale's positions. WOA has merit in terms of simple calculation and high computational accuracy, but its convergence speed is slow and it is easy to fall into the local optimal solution. In order to overcome the shortcomings, this paper integrates adaptive neighborhood and hybrid mutation strategies into whale optimization algorithms, designs the average distance from itself to other whales as an adaptive neighborhood radius, and chooses to learn from the optimal solution in the neighborhood instead of random learning strategies. The hybrid mutation strategy is used to enhance the ability of algorithm to jump out of the local optimal solution. A new whale optimization algorithm (HMNWOA) is proposed. The proposed algorithm inherits the global search capability of the original algorithm, enhances the exploitation ability, improves the quality of the population, and thus improves the convergence speed of the algorithm. A feature selection algorithm based on binary HMNWOA is proposed. Twelve standard datasets from UCI repository test the validity of the proposed algorithm for feature selection. The experimental results show that HMNWOA is very competitive compared to the other six popular feature selection methods in improving the classification accuracy and reducing the number of features, and ensures that HMNWOA has strong search ability in the search feature space.


The effect of ultrasonic on properties of nickel diamond plated diamond was studied.The results show that with ultrasonic the coating is comparatively even and compact,and the plating rate,compressive strength,oxidation temperature and thermal stability of diamond are increased with the increase of ultrasonic frequency.


The wavelet transform provides several important characteristics which can be used in a texture classification problem. We present a new algorithm based on conventional pyramid-structured wavelet transform. The iteration of the basic decomposition is submitted to a variance criterion which is applied on the current lowpass subimage. This criterion helps to decide the level where the decomposition have to be stopped. This level depends on the texture properties. It is used as a feature to assign textures into different classes. Form factors computed from wavelet decomposition are then used to perfect the classification process in each class. The performance of our method is pointed out on various images and compared with Laws's (1980) texture classification results.


We conducted a prospective study comparing mitomycin with 5-fluorouracil as an adjunct to trabeculectomy in eyes with primary open angle glaucoma. Twenty eyes with primary open angle glaucoma were randomly assigned to receive either intraoperative mitomycin (10 eyes ; 50%) or postoperative subconjunctival injections of 5-fluorouracil (10 eyes ; 50%). Twelve months after surgery, intraocular pressures (IOPs) averaged 11.6±4.2 mmHg in the mitomycin-treated eyes versus 14.3±3.7 mmHg in the 5-fluorouracil. The mean IOP reduction rates were 53.4%±20.3% in the mitomycin group and 43.4%±21.3% in the 5-fluorouracil. Drug induced corneal epithelial defects were seen in three 5-fluorouracil-treated eyes and in no mitomycin-treated eyes. Mild choroidal detachments were seen in three mitomycin-treated eyes and in no 5-fluorouracil-treated eyes. These results suggest that intraoperative mitomycin-C may be an alternative to postoperative 5-fluorouracil in promoting bleb formation with lower overall IOPs.


This chapter examines issues of global ocean governance from a Latin American perspective and how the region may contribute in assisting the United Nations to deal with ocean governance issues at a global level in the coming years. It begins with a discussion of the role played by several Latin American States acting in concert during the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS III), 1973–1982 to make extended maritime jurisdiction claims. It then considers the main reasons for the Latin American interest in extending their maritime jurisdiction limits, in the form of fisheries, offshore hydrocarbon development, and shipping. It suggests that Latin America has a slightly patchy record of official adherence to UNCLOS, but paints a picture of general compliance by the continent with the normative regime established by the Convention, in particular for its dispute settlement regime.


The invention relates to a preparation method of nesiritide, belonging to the technical field of preparation methods of polypeptide medicaments. The preparation method of the nesiritide comprises the following steps of: preparing nesiritide linear peptide resin through a solid-phase polypeptide synthesis method and carrying out acidolysis on the nesiritide linear peptide resin to obtain a crude nesiritide linear peptide product; and oxidizing the crude nesiritide linear peptide product to obtain a crude nesiritide product, and purifying the nesiritide crude product to obtain a pure nesiritide product, wherein the solid-phase polypeptide synthesis method is as follows: Fmoc-protected amino acids which correspond to the following sequences are sequentially connected into Fmoc-His(trt)-carrier resin through a solid-phase coupling synthesis method to obtain the nesiritide linear peptide resin, wherein only one-time or two-time solid-phase coupling synthesis reaction is carried out when a Ser(tBu)-Ser(tBu)-Ser(tBu)-Ser(tBu) fragment is connected. The preparation method disclosed by the invention has the advantages of product purity higher than 99.0 percent, single impurities less than 0.5 percent and remarkably enhanced product yield.


Land management fragmentation is an obstacle to agricultural production.Using land use data base and household survey data of Hanting District,this paper evaluates land management fragmentation by means of multi-factor comprehensive evaluation and spatial interpolation and builds a driving model of land management fragmentation by stepwise regression.The results show that the degree of land management fragmentation is relatively slight near urban areas while land management fragmentation is serious in the area away from urban area,and that net income per hectare reaches the highest when the average size of plots is between 0.27 and 0.33 hectares.The average size of plots is positively correlated to farmers' cultivated areas, negatively correlated to the number of plots.


The author discussed the advantages and difficulties of corn seed production in the region of Yining,Xinjiang, and seeked more effectual programme of production and management.


Energy lies at the heart of modern society, and it is critical that we make informed choices of the methods by which we convert and manage energy. The RSC Energy & Environment Series will provide an up-to-date and critical perspective on the various options that are available. Chemistry has a central role to play in the planning and development of sustainable energy scenarios, and the wide range of topics that will be covered in the series will reflect the wealth of chemical ideas and concepts that have the potential to make an important impact in mankind's search for a sustainable energy future.


The nature of plasma waves which are resonantly excited when two laser beams beat in a rippled-density plasma is explored both theoretically and experimentally. A theoretical model is presented which, for commonly encountered experimental parameters, predicts rapid saturation of the high---phase-velocity beat wave at an amplitude below that expected for relativistic detuning. Results of experimental studies of this process are presented.


BACKGROUND
Protection from solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation is paramount for some dermatological conditions, yet there are no studies assessing UV nose guards for dogs.

OBJECTIVES
Compare the ability of three nasal guards to block solar UV radiation (UVR) from the canine nose, using two commercial products and one created by the authors.

ANIMALS
Four fabric model dogs were used in this prospective controlled trial.

MATERIALS AND METHODS
Each model had a UV dosimeter applied to the dorsal nose and anterior nasal planum. Three models had nose protectors applied: (1) a mesh hood (OutFox Field Guard, OutFox For Dogs); (2) a fabric nose shield (Nose Protector, Dog Nose Protectors); or (3) a basket muzzle with ultraviolet protection factor (UPF) 50+ fabric developed by the authors. The control had no protective device applied. All the models were placed in direct sunlight and measurements taken over nine 2 h time periods. Total cumulative UVR was analysed for each location and type of guard or control.

RESULTS
All guards provided statistically significant UV protection compared to control at all time points (p < 0.001). The basket muzzle with UPF 50+ guard was consistent in protecting the dorsal and anterior nose, blocking 94.2% and 94.3% UVR, respectively. The fabric nose protector blocked 99.2% UVR from the dorsal and 82.9% anterior. The mesh hood blocked 72.5% of UVR dorsal and 71.4% anterior.

CONCLUSIONS
Two guards were superior in blocking UVR; however, the choice of UV guard in a clinical setting depends on an individual's disease location and tolerance of the device.


SUMMARY A series of 17 crop-loss assessments was made under simulated farmers' field conditions in the three main rice cropping seasons of Bangladesh. The main insect pests were the rice stem borers (Tryporyza incertulas, Chilo polychrysa, Sesamia inferens) and in the monsoon rice gall midge (Pachydiplosis oryzae). Disease incidence was negligible. In the winter and early monsoon yield losses averaged 4 and 6% respectively, but economic benefit was only derived from insecticide application in the monsoon season, when there was an average yield loss of 16%. An economic threshold of 5–10% damaged tillers ('deadhearts' and 'onion shoots') was indicated for early attacks of stem borers and gall midge. Possible reasons are given for the usually low incidence of insect pests and diseases in Bangladesh rice.


The author applies ideas from tomographic imaging to the problem of enhancing the resolution of time-frequency spectrum estimators based on elements of Cohen's (1966) class of time-frequency distributions. A multiple-least-squares (L/sub 2/) deconvolution method is introduced, and reblurring is used to stabilize the method. Multiple window functions are used to simulate tomographic slices. The estimated posterior density weighted (EPDW) algorithm from emission tomography is also applied to this problem, and the results are compared for some simulated signals. It is shown that the EPDW algorithm is superior, offering a higher degree of noise robustness and resolution enhancement.<<ETX>>


Corresponding author: Gowri Sivaramakrishnan Department of Dental Postgraduate Training, Ministry of Health, Bahrain Email: email@example.com Abstract: Dentists have always been attributed to the ever rising global problem of antibiotic resistance. The recent pandemic due to COVID-19 has caused greater concern and primary dental care practices temporarily suspended all aerosol generating and invasive procedures in the Ministry of Health in Bahrain, between February to August 2020. Dental emergencies were addressed using a triage system and low exposure procedures were undertaken. To identify the prescription and drug utilization of primary care dental practitioners during the period of suspension of aerosol generating dental practices due to COVID-19. Anonymized data from out-patient dental prescriptions from February 2020 to August 2020 were collected. Necessary data regarding the number, type and indication for prescription were collected and analyzed using appropriate statistical tests. 35.1% of patients were only prescribed medications without any dental intervention. 43.3% were irrational and 30.66% could not be evaluated for rationality of prescription due to lack of details on the diagnoses and the dental procedure that was carried out. Amoxicillin and amoxicillin/clavulanic acid amongst the antimicrobial class; and ibuprofen and acetaminophen amongst the analgesics, accounted for 90% of prescribed drugs. Chlorhexidine mouth rinse seemed to be on the regular list for any diagnoses, prescribed between 7 and 14 days, twice or thrice daily. Suspension of invasive and aerosol generating procedures may drive dentists to sort to prescriptions to manage their out-patients in primary care. Future antibiotic stewardship programs across the World must consider this additional factor and propose their recommendations.


Here we examine maximum proper velocity (sometimes referred to as celerity), based on the recently suggested maximum velocity for anything with rest mass, as given by Haug. Proper velocity is a quantity that has been suggested for use in a series of calculations in relativity theory. Current standard theory imposes no limit on how close to infinity the proper velocity for an object with mass can be. Under our extended theory, by contrast, there is a strict upper limit on the proper velocity for anything with rest mass, which again is directly related to our newly suggested maximum velocity for anything with rest mass.


Professor Eberhard Bassenge, coauthor of the article, "Association Between Vascular Tolerance and Platelet Upregulation: Comparison of Nonintermittent Administration of Pentaerithrityltetranitrate and Glyceryltrinitrate," (40:890–897; Dec 2002) reported that the German Heart Foundation (Deutsche Herzstiftung) supported the study, which was done at the Institute of Applied Physiology, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany. At the time the study was done, Professor Bassenge served as Director of the Institute.


IN a maiden speech in the lower house of the Indian Parliament in August 1963, that maverick of Indian politics, Dr. Rammanohar Lohia, produced a pungent definition of India's foreign policy. 'One minister of this government', he claimed, 'clings to the United States, another to Russia, and the magician tries to hold the balance by his charm. They call this " non-alignment" '. It was not a bad definition of India's foreign policy in the twilight of the age of Nehru and it is not without pertinence today, when the magician is dead and his apprentice, Lal Bahadur Shastri, is trying desperately to make some of the old spells work once again. But the quality of spells, like foreign policies and gourmet dishes, depends very much upon the availability of the essential ingredients. From India's point of view, some of the most important have disappeared altogether since 1962. In spite of this, there still seems to remain among Nehru's successors a touching, and perhaps naive, faith in the legacy of the master. Mr. Shastri and his ministers repeat the incantatory word 'non-alignment' with increasing frequency as they come to recognise the complexity of India's foreign relations. In his first public speech as Prime Minister last June, Mr. Shastri affirmed that ' non-alignment will continue to be the fundamental basis of our approach to world problems and our relations with other countries'. When he arrived in London in December 1964 for talks with the British Prime Minister, he went even further and reiterated that there would be ' no deviation' from the lines of policy laid down by Mr. Nehru. This would be all very well if these lines had any clear definition, which they have not, or if ' non-alignment' meant something more than just the absence of formal treaties of alliance between India and other countries. 'Non-alignment' is no longer the dirty word it was in the time of John Foster Dulles, but its rise to respectability has made it no more meaningful of definition. This is partly the fault of its creator, who obscured it with the diffuse rhetoric so characteristic of his later years, but it is mainly attributable to the legion of commentators, both journalistic and academic, who have sought to erect a whole ideological system around its slender core. The original premises upon which 'nonalignment' was founded, however, were sensible and precise and-for the very reason that they no longer exist-it is worth clearing away some


Aim: This case series was performed to evaluate the effect of botulinum toxin injection at the orbicularis oris muscle for treatment of double upper lip. Methods: Six female patients who had a double upper lip associated with a gummy smile were included in this study. All the patients had a double upper lip associated with their smile. The amount of gum exposure was measured before the treatment. IncoBotulinum Toxin A was injected into the elevator muscles of the upper lip as well as the orbicularis oris muscle, postoperative assessment was done by measuring the amount of gum exposure 2 weeks after the injection. Results: Post-operative measurements at 14 days follow-up, showed a significant reduction in the amount of gum exposure, all the patients reported a high degree of satisfaction Conclusion: Botulinum toxin injections can be used as an alternative non-surgical temporary treatment for patients who have a double upper lip.


1. Abstract This paper presents a new fully stressed design method for the solution of the general weight optimization problem applicable to determinate trusses subject to displacement constraints. Fully stressed design (FSD) has been a popular method to perform structural optimization when only stress constraints are considered. It is attractive because it reaches the optimal design following a few iterations which minimizes computational effort. For this reason, it is one of the earliest optimization techniques and was used prior to the advent of computers. However, FSD needs to be modified when displacement constraints are considered. This is known as fully utilized design (FUD). FUD has been implemented with several variations, at times utilizing energy methods. In this study, it is shown how there is the possibility to apply FSD directly to determinate trusses, even in the presence of displacement constraints. The method does not require the modification of FSD to FUD, but rather it manipulates the stresses to directly account for displacement constraints. This new technique can be easily automated using structural analysis software in conjunction with a spreadsheet. Presently, it is limited to determinate structures. However, it is quite appealing for its ease of implementation. A representative truss example is presented showing how the optimal design of trusses subject to displacement constraints is attained. Results compare favorably with those solved with other well-known optimization techniques as, for example, genetic algorithms. 2. Keywords: Optimization, structural design, trusses.


A crate, includes a bottom (102), two end walls, and two side walls (108a). Each of the side walls (108a) comprises a first lateral edge (118) adjacent to the first end wall, a second lateral edge (120) adjacent to the second end wall, a lower edge (124) adjacent to the bottom (102), and an upper edge (122) distant from the bottom (102). Each side wall (108a) comprises a continuous stiffening member (126) extending parallel to the lateral edges (138, 120) and at least partly to the upper edge (124). The continuous stiffening member (126) comprises a stiffening portion (126a, 126c, 126d) extending at least in one area between the lateral edges (118, 120) from the upper edge (122) in the direction towards the lower edge (124) and back to the upper edge (122).


Abstract The status of the concept of unconscious fantasy is ambiguous in Freud's writings and to this day still debatable within the psychoanalytic community. Taking Freud's article of 1919—"A child is being beaten"—as his starting point, the author develops a tripartite theoretical model on the basis of Freud's analysis of a masochistic fantasy. In a second stage, this model is applied back onto some central points in that same text. Departing from Freud's own words that the unconscious phase of the fantasy "never had a real existence", it is argued that what we name "unconscious fantasy" perhaps cannot have the character of a pre-existing psychological "content" in the unconscious. Instead, it must be seen as an unrealized potential belonging to the future rather than to the past.


Scaled learning requires a novel set of practices on the part of professionals developing and delivering systems of scaled learning. According to IEEE's Industry Connections Industry Consortium for Learning Engineering (ICICLE), "Learning engineering is a process and practice that applies the learning sciences, using human-centered engineering design methodologies, and data-informed decision-making to support learners and their development[1]." This workshop is designed as a boot camp for learning engineering. It is structured around a series of micro-learning activities around this definition. Topics include: Learning engineering is a process Learning engineering applies the learning sciences Learning engineering is human centered Learning engineering is engineering Learning engineering is data-driven Learning engineering is a team sport Learning engineering is ethical These learning experiences are organized based on and include materials from the forthcoming book the Learning Engineering Toolkit[2]. This workshop will also give conference participants an opportunity to give input into models for scaling the profession of learning engineering and formative feedback for iterative development of the Learning Engineering Toolkit.


The question can be raised whether there is a need in Sweden to work with issues of equal pay. The gender wage gap (GWG) statistics in Sweden are fairly consistent. According to the OECD gender wage gap 2014, the Swedish GWG is about 14%. According to Eurostat 2016, the Swedish GWG is 13.3 % (placing Sweden 10th among the 28 EU member states). Causes for the Swedish wage gap of 13.3% have been analyzed as 8 % due to occupational segregation and 2 % public employment. All indications point to the situation that women are mostly paid the same as men for the same work, but that pay equity issues, equal pay for comparable work are not as squarely addressed, with unions often representing male-dominated or female-dominated sectors in wage negotiations, basically reinforcing pay inequity as seen with from Swedish midwives cases discussed below. The recent Swedish legislative initiatives with respect to equal pay are compared here is the recent UK and Icelandic legislative initiatives concerning equal pay and greater transparency as to wages.


In several cultures in the world, women usually receive inequality and experience oppression. These experiences are reflected in a literary work by Alice Walker entitled The Color Purple. This novel tells about a woman, named Celie, who is oppressed. However, she fights the oppression by having her self-determination. This study tries to identify how the characteristics of Celie are described, to find out how the oppressions that she experiences are described, and to examine how her self-determination to fight the oppressions are described.The Color Purple proves that self-determination helps women to fight oppression whatever characteristic that they have. Celie is described as an uneducated, submissive, and unattractive woman in the story. She experiences sexual oppressions and non-sexual oppression. She proves that her sexual self-determination, by having a lesbian relationship with Shug, and non-sexual self-determination, leaving her husband to Memphis and running her own business, helps her to fight oppressions that she experiences, and she could live her life without any oppression. Feminist approach and radical feminism theory were used in this study to analyze self-determination to fight oppression of the main character of The Color Purple.Key words: self-determination, oppression, women


This study determines the nutritional composition and antioxidant and antimicrobial activities of wild plants available in Pakistan. Eight wild plant species, such as Chenopodium murale, Eruca sativa, Goldbachia laevigata, Malcolmia africana, Malva neglecta, Medicago polymorpha, Melilotus officinalis and Nasturtium officinale, were collected from their natural habitat and analyzed. Proximate analysis of plants showed good amount of fibers and proteins in M. neglecta and M. officinalis. Among the minerals, calcium and potassium were predominantly present in all plants. The total antioxidant and free radical-scavenging activities of the plant species showed a linear correlation with the total phenolics. Our results indicated that methanolic extracts of plant species have measurable inhibitory effect against Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhi, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Proteus vulgaris. These results may provide useful information for the evaluation of the selected wild plants in terms of their nutritional potential and medicinal values.

Practical Applications

The nutritional values and medicinal potential of wild-plant food are of considerable importance as they help to pinpoint traditional food resources of poor population in developing countries. However, it is important to build awareness among the community to accept wild-plant foods as useful as the cultivated ones. The assessment of nutritional composition, antioxidant properties, antibacterial and phytochemical composition of the selected wild plants may provide potential insights into their applications in functional foods and nutraceuticals development. The current work will provide new reference data and will give awareness to public consuming these unconventional plants as food.


This work presents a mmW frequency selector as the core of the LO generator for E-band transceivers. Two 10 GHz apart mmW LO frequencies generated by a mixer from a single 50 GHz frequency and its 5 GHz submultiple are sent to the proposed circuit that outputs a single frequency tone of either 45 GHz or 55 GHz. The circuit is realized in BiCMOS 55nm technology combining 55nm CMOS transistors and SiGe HBTs with fT and fmax ~300 GHz. The circuit is based on injection-locked oscillators, presents a phase noise @ 1MHz offset of -110 dBc/Hz with 0 dB of excess phase noise added to the input, and consumes 53mW.


The National Institute of Rehabilitation (Mexico City) has reported that OS is the most frequent malignant bone tumor (46.6%) followed by the CS (8.7%) and the most frequent benign bone tumor was GCTb (14.6%), this study were performed during the period of 2000-2005. (Baena-Ocampo et al., 2009; Uribe-Rosales et al., 2014). Different studies showed that the lung is the most common site of metastases in this kind of tumors.(Llamas-Duran et al., 2011;Yang et al., 2012; Choeyprasert W et al., 2014) OS is the most common malignant primary bone tumor; predominantly affecting young people, comprising about 20% of primary bone sarcoma (Huang et al., 2015) of 11% to 20% of patients have detectable metastases at


Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNA) regulate expressions of several cancer‐related genes and pathways. Expression profiling of lncRNAs would pave the way for identification of dysregulated pathways in cancer. We assessed expression of FAS‐anti sense 1 (FAS‐AS1), Taurine Upregulated 1 (TUG1), OPA‐interacting protein 5‐AS1 (OIP5 ‐AS1), nuclear‐enriched abundant transcript 1 (NEAT1), and highly upregulated in liver cancer (HULC) in breast tumor tissues and adjacent noncancerous tissues (ANCTs). TUG1 was downregulated in tumoral tissues. We found associations between TUG1 expression and mitotic rate, NEAT1 expression and breast feeding duration as well as FAS‐AS1 and OPI5 expressions and menarche age. A combination of transcript levels of all genes had 88.5% sensitivity and 42.3% specificity in breast cancer diagnosis. The current study provides evidence for the contribution of lncRNAs in breast cancer in relation to reproductive factors and tumor characteristics.


An advanced process control solution for Himont Spheripol license polypropylene process is proposed.Based on the first principle model,the performance indexes indicating the product quality are calculated.Based on the performance calculation and internal model control with closed-loop identification method,a strategy for direct quality control is proposed.The application results of a real industrial polypropylene process has verified the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed solution.


The microstructures of melt spun Sm11Fe89 and (Sm11Fe89)94Ti3C3 have been investigated under different solidification conditions. The magnetic properties of the nitrided materials have been related to the observed microstructures. Melt spinning of the Sm11Fe89 alloys resulted in grain sizes at or above the single domain limit. The addition of Ti and C resulted in an order of magnitude refinement in the microstructural scale. The magnetic properties of the samples with grain sizes below the single domain limit decreased with decreasing grain size due to increased intergranular exchange coupling.


The requirement of tapping new hydrocarbon reserves has pushed the Middle East region to develop its unconventional resources. During the development, longer laterals are drilled to achieve more stages and increase well productivity. This generates more complex intervention activities, including the post-fracturing plug millout with coiled tubing (CT). This study outlines comprehensive evaluation of frac plug milling practices integrated with designing and execution of CT operations to improve overall milling efficiency for these unconventional horizontal wells.
 Milling optimization was obtained by tackling key enablers of higher efficiency. First, the CT string was precisely engineered to serve the well trajectory and completion size. The tapered wall thickness configuration was strategically planned to maximize stiffness at the highly deviated section while reducing weight on the long horizontal lateral. Plug selection and placement strategy were also meticulously planned to configure the best combination of composite and dissolvable plugs. Since different plug types behave differently during milling, the millout strategy was tailored specifically for each type and their actual downhole environment.
 The new engineered CT design, coupled with an extended reach tool (ERT), was proven effective in overcoming reach challenges across the long lateral while maintaining sufficient weight-on-bit (WOB) to mill the plugs. The ERT was also observed to enhance milling action due to the vibrations it generated. Those improvements led to faster and smoother operations, resulting in 70% reduction of operating time compared to the baseline established prior to the start of the project. The comprehensive plug placement strategy and better understanding of different plugs behavior in different environments further improved the milling efficiency, as the average milling time per plug was reduced by 80%. Additionally, the reduction in operating time improved the environmental sustainability of the project, as carbon emissions from the CT unit were reduced.
 The comprehensive engineering design and plug selection strategy delivers significant improvements in millout efficiency. Implementation of key enablers led to performance increase, better resource utilization, and further cost optimization. This achievement also aligns with initiatives to reduce the impact of oil and gas operations on the environment, thus contributing to the goal of achieving net-zero in carbon emission.


avoids discussion of certain problems much debated recently, that of the Hectemoroi, for example. Another matter makes unnecessary difficulty. Solon must have forbade the export of agricultural products other than oil—that is to say, primarily wheat and barley—because Athens had begun already to feel that difficulty of feeding her population which was so pronounced in the fifth and fourth centuries. Oil was the money crop, and was already becoming a large item of export Much of Attica was being turned to its production. Nothing, perhaps, could or should be done about that. The trade brought money to the little people too, whether sailors or potters. But at least let the remaining grain crop remain at home. So did Solon know how to hold his kratcron sakos over the townsmen also. Solon gave way to Pisistratus, and he to the Democracy, the inevitable calamity of which, through a kind of Platonic progress of governments, is told in the second chapter, "Unemployment and Imperialism." This is the most interesting part of the volume, and whether or not it finds acceptance it should provoke discussion. The theme is dual, economic and political: that prosperity, in antiquity, inevitably provoked unemployment because it encouraged investment in slaves, and that the legislative system was effective only when one leader (whom Aristotle called prostates) led without rivals. The pressure of popular demand for employment on the public pay roll led to an increasing navy (and civil service—not mentioned by Mr. Marsh) and so to imperialism, while the breakdown of ostracism let too many cooks have at the broth and prevented any sound or consistent policy. The story is not brought down beyond the middle of the century, and the moral of the Peloponnesian War is not drawn; Thucydides has already done it in discussing the causes of the Sicilian Expedition.


Spinel ZnFe2O4 , Ni-ZnFe2O4 and MnFe2O4 powders were prepared by the combustion synthesis method. The phase composition of the combustion products and with their subsequent heat-treatment were studied by Mossbauer spectroscopy. The results show that combustion synthesis is carried on at a non-equilibrium condition, that lets to the formation of metastable and intermediate phases due to the high combustion temperature and high cooling rate. After heat-treatment of 1100℃ for 2 h, almost no spinel ferrite was formed by reaction of Fe2O3 with manganese oxide. While after heat-treated at 1200℃ and quenched in the air or in the water, single spinel-phase MnFe2O4 ferrite with nearly perfect form were obtained, Difference with those prepared by conventional solid state method, the inverse cations distribution is obtained. It indicates that the formation of MnFe2O4 depends on the atmosphere and temperature.


Cluster analysis has been widely used in bioinformatics or biology to classify objects (items, DNA bands, markers, genes, individuals, species, taxa, etc.). Theoretically, there are numerous clustering methods available but only those that are well-established and proven are commonly used in practice. For their improved applicability, those methods that exploit the most data information and yield the better cluster properties should be focused and new algorithms are expected. The other issues and problems that are relevant to the performance of cluster analysis also need to be addressed. The well-prepared data can be significant to ameliorate the clustering results. They include the proper measure conversion from similarities to dissimilarities or distances and the necessary data standardizing transformation. Apart from zscore standardization, averageor mean-based scaling was introduced to achieve comparability among variables with the least value manipulation. A solution was given to improve updating the distance matrix with a centroid-related equation. A novel method called the percent similarity cluster analysis (PSCA) was devised to analyze the DNA band or marker data from electrophoresis and all other data.


"Bridging the gender divide is not only a matter of justice for women and girls. It's a game changer for humanity. Societies with more equal representation are more stable and peaceful. They have better health systems and more vibrant economies." quality between women and men is a fundamental value and human right, enshrined in international law and in the European Union's treaties and legislation. It is a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world. Widespread evidence shows that gender equality is associated with faster economic development, higher income per capita, more efficient and effective businesses, more sustainable management of natural resources, social cohesion, peacebuilding and more stable societies overall. Taking action now to advance gender equality could add $13 trillion to global gross domestic product (GDP) in 2030, according to the McKinsey Global Institute. the COVID-19 crisis the made in as health and participation in labour force. Women have suffered disproportionate job losses and their unpaid working 90% of women who lost their jobs 2020 exited the labour force Women also encounter a lack access their firms,


The smart grid entails a transformation to an information-enabled and a highly interconnected network between electricity consumers and electric suppliers embracing transmission, distribution, and generation.


Treatment of the mouse thymoma‐derived WEHI7.2 cell line with dexamethasone, a synthetic glucocorticoid, causes the cells to undergo apoptosis. Previous studies have shown that WEHI7.2 cell variants with an increased antioxidant defense exhibit increased resistance to dexamethasone‐induced apoptosis, suggesting that oxidative stress may play a role in glucocorticoid‐induced apoptosis. In this work we compared metabolic profiles of WEHI7.2 parental cells with those of WEHI7.2 variants with an increased antioxidant defense or overexpressing bcl‐2, to determine whether bolstering the antioxidant defense results in altered metabolic parameters that could translate into increased resistance to dexamethasone‐induced apoptosis. WEHI7.2 parental cells and cells overexpressing catalase, thioredoxin or bcl‐2, or selected for resistance to 200 µM H2O2 were cultured in low‐glucose DMEM medium supplemented with 10% calf serum, and extracted using chloroform–methanol–water (1:1:1). Metabolites contained in the aqueous and organic phases of the extracts were processed separately and subjected to high‐resolution 31P NMR spectroscopy. In most of the steroid‐resistant variants, ATP levels and energetic status were decreased compared with the steroid‐sensitive parental cell line, while the concentrations of hexose and triose phosphates were increased. Furthermore, the ratio of choline‐containing phospholipids to ethanolamine‐containing phospholipids was generally reduced in steroid‐resistant cells. Phosphatidylethanolamine and its derivatives contain a higher amount of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) than the choline‐containing analogs, and PUFA are readily oxidized by reactive oxygen species. Therefore, an increased initial amount of phosphatidylethanolamine may increase the 'buffering capacity' of this antioxidant and may thus contribute to the steroid resistance of WEHI7.2 variants. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


The process of managing marketing activities at the enterprise is a complex process of planning and organizing the company's marketing activities with the aim of meeting the needs of consumers of goods and services, as well as obtaining the greatest profit on this basis. The process of managing the marketing activities of a business entity can be defined as the analysis, planning, implementation and monitoring of the implementation of relevant marketing programs aimed at creating, maintaining and expanding profitable relations between the enterprise and its customers. The purpose of the research is to substantiate the theoretical and research practical aspects of managing the marketing activities of the enterprise in conditions of competition.


The preliminary study using Landsat ETM+ to estimate the rice production in Regency of Tabanan, Bali Province was conducted. The objectives of this study were to know spectral characteristic of rice plant in three importance growth periods of rice, and to develop a model to identify the distribution of rice. Landsat ETM+ in two acquisition dates (March 21st, 2003 and May 24*, 2003) were used in this study. Characteristics of rice were analyzed using radiance value of Landsat ETM+ obtained from converting digital number of Landsat data. Multi-variable linear regression analysis was developed to classify the rice in its growth period. The result showed that the rice plant has different reflectance in seedling-development period, ear differentiation period and maturation period. It is
expressed by the radiance value of Landsat ETM+. However, spectral characteristic of rice in each band of Landsat ETM+ is similar to the green vegetations in general, except in blue
band (Bl). Based on statistical analysis, the classification of rice in each its growth period can be classified. Key words: Rice field, Landsat ETM+, Spectral Characteristic, Multi-temporal.


This research aims to analyze whether LDR, LAR, APB, NPL, PDN, IRR, BOPO, and FBIR simultaneously and partially are significant effect toward ROA on Foreign Exchange National Private Commercial Go Public Banks.
Samples in research are Artha Graha International Bank, Ekonomi Raharja Bank, Mayapada International Bank, and Mega Bank. Data in The research uses documentation method. datas are taken from published Financial repot of Foreign Exchange National Private Banks Go Public begun from first quarter at year 2010 until second quarter at year 2015. The technique of data analysis uses multiple linear regression analysis.
The result of the research showed that LDR, LAR, APB, NPL, PDN, IRR, BOPO, and FBIR simultaneously have a significant effect toward ROA. Partially LDR, BOPO, and FBIR have a significant effect toward ROA, but the other side happened to LAR, APB, NPL, PDN, IRR which don't have a significant effect toward ROA. And the las result, the dominant variable which effecting ROA is BOPO
Keywords : liquidity, asset quality, sensitivity. Efficiency, and profitability


Japanese marketing strategy has been founded on low cost and high quality. As other countries catch up, the Japanese are looking ahead to a new "age of creativity". This study aims to shows that creativity in business is as susceptible to organized thought as any other work.


For many years, researchers have been trying to rationally design drugs from scratch based on high-resolution three-dimensional structures of a given target molecule. Until now, however, this approach has worked only for a disappointingly small number of targets. Thus, drugs are still almost exclusively identified by screening of very large substance libraries. What has improved, however, is the speed of screening compound libraries, which may contain several million different compounds. But even with the help of recently developed high-speed and ultra-highthroughput techniques, such chemical compound libraries are very costly and expensive to screen. Maintainence and expansion of these compound libraries is demanding too. Biological compound libraries have been known for almost two decades. Such libraries consist of nucleic acids, peptides, or proteins with variations in the sequence of their monomer building blocks. These variations are obtained by chemically synthesizing oligonucleotides using mixtures of different nucleotides for each synthetic step. For example, a randomized decamer oligonucleotide yields 4, that is, more than one million different substances. A striking advantage of these libraries is their ability to be easily replicated. For example, can be DNA replicated by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). For replication of RNA, additional steps (reverse transcription and transcription) are needed. Screening of these biological libraries is achieved by enrichment of library members that show properties as close as possible to any desired attribute, for example, binding to a given target molecule. After several cycles of amplification and screening, one ends up with those molecules of the original library whose properties are very close to those desired. For RNA libraries, the respective method is well known as TMSELEX∫ 7] and the resulting molecules are known as aptamers. Since peptides cannot be replicated directly, more sophisticated methods were developed to link genotype (variations in the nucleotide sequence of the gene) and phenotype (the resulting variations in the amino acid sequence of the peptide product). Several solutions to this problem were achieved, for example phage display, plasmid display, polysome display, and ribosome display. Such TMbiological∫ libraries do have some advantages over chemical compound libraries. They do not need high-throughput technologies for screening. These libraries can be easily obtained and screened with technology present in any molecular biology laboratory and they can consist of up to 10 different molecules. Thus, it is not surprising that SELEX and phage display in particular are techniques that are widely used in basic research, for example to determine epitope specificities of antibodies, to characterize binding specificities of nucleic acid binding proteins, and to identify potential binding partners of a given macromolecule. Further, directed evolution of enzymes (proteins and RNAs) with altered or completely novel substrate specificities can be similarly done based on construction and screening of large libraries of the polymer to be optimized. In addition, the stability of proteins can be optimized. 24] Each amplification step may even contain an additional step introducing further variations to the enriched sublibraries, for example by error-prone PCR or in vitro recombination. There are, however, some striking disadvantages of nucleic acids and peptides identified from screening biological libraries that render the selected molecules practically useless for therapeutic and most diagnostic applications in living animals or humans. Biological polymers consisting of naturally occurring building blocks, like nucleic acids (consisting of D-enantiomers of nucleotides), but also peptides (built from L-amino acids) are prone to degradation by nucleases and proteases, respectively. Further, peptides often induce immune responses that impair single, and particularly multiple use in animals or humans. Biological compound libraries, however, necessarily consist of D-nucleotides and L-amino acids. Newly developed mirror-image techniques 27] circumvent these disadvantages and, thus, may be a way to make use of the


Purpose: To investigate the longitudinal change of central corneal thickness (CCT) in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) and to elucidate whether it contributes to misinterpretation of intraocular pressure (IOP) in this group of patients. Methods: Twenty patients with SSc and 20 sex- and age-matched controls were examined at 2 visits 5 years apart. Age, sex, race, subtype of SSc, disease duration, autoantibody profile, use of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs), best-corrected visual acuity, spherical equivalent refraction, IOP, and CCT were recorded. IOP was assessed by applanation tonometry and CCT by ultrasonic pachymetry. Results: CCT decreased by 7.2 &mgr;m [95% confidence interval (CI), −2.1 to −12.2 &mgr;m] between the first and second measurements (P = 0.008) in patients with SSc and by 2.4 &mgr;m (P = 0.39, 95% CI, −8.0 to 3.3 &mgr;m) in the control group. Considering patients with SSc, CCT decreased by a mean of 11.6 &mgr;m [95% CI, −4.3 to −19.0 &mgr;m (P = 0.007)] among those taking DMARDs at the second visit and by 4.2 &mgr;m [95% CI, −3.0 to −11.5 &mgr;m (P = 0.2)] in patients not taking any DMARDs. There was no statistically significant change in IOP between the 2 visits for either the SSc group (P = 0.84) or the control group (P = 0.29). Mean change in CCT was not associated with either IOP at first visit or with change in IOP in SSc patients. Conclusions: CCT decreased with time in SSc. However, the slight rates of thinning observed are unlikely to considerably influence applanation tonometry or clinical decision-making over the short to intermediate term.


Preservative treatment to white birch plank stuff with gas jet method,method of impregnation and vapor phase borate method.Analyzing preservative treatment,equipment,cost and process time,ect.factors,finding fitter preservative treatment method of white birch plank stuff,it is vapor phase borate method,the better conditions are.atmospheric pressure 96Kpa,temperature 70℃,and processing time one hour.


"Apollo's Edict" has long been cited as a typical example of Swift's attitude towards poetic cant and outworn cliché. Set down as coming from Apollo himself, the poem illustrates a number of empty conventions and extravagant similes and forbids their use by any who would be of the true school of the god; and to aid his would-be followers in their poetic efforts, Apollo has appointed Swift as his Vicegerent on earth.


IoT(Internet of Things) technology has been increasing in recent years. Encryption technology is necessary to build an IoT environment that is safe from cyber intrusion, such as hacking, and the encryption key in particular must be securely managed since the safety of encryption technology is critical for the safety of the encryption key. However, there have been few studies on encryption management technologies for the light IoT environment. In this paper, we review the current status of devices related to IoT and open platform technologies, and analyze the recommendation and standard for encryption key management by NIST and ISO/IEC. Then, we propose design considerations for safe key management technology in the IoT environment.


The natural frequency responses of three wood-based biocomposites with varying volume fractions of methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI), microcrystalline cellulose (MCC), and processing times and pressures have been studied through experimental modal analysis. The samples used for the study consisted of southern yellow pine particles with 1% MCC 4% MDI; 2% MCC 4%MDI; and 4% MDI compressed at 10.5 MPa (with ram pressure of 27.58 MPa). The dynamic and damping properties were obtained using the hammer excitation vibration technique. The natural frequency responses were obtained from both frequency and time domains, and the results were consistent with an average percent difference of 0.45%. The natural frequency responses from both damaged and undamaged samples have been found to observe the shift in natural frequency caused by damage in the material. When damage was induced in the samples, the average shifts for the first natural frequencies were 2.07%, 2.12%, and 1.64% for the 4% MDI, 1% MCC, and 2% MCC samples respectively.


A new technique for the quantitation of haemagglutination is described. Having obtained equilibrium between antibody, non‐agglutinated and agglutinated red cells in the experimental suspension, a separation of agglutinated and free red cells is performed by a specially elaborated centrifugation method. When separation is completed, the agglutination percentage can be determined after haemolysis of red cells and photometric estimation of the resulting amounts of haemoglobin. The results which can be attained with this simple technique seem to compare with those obtained by using an electronic particle counter, or the Auto‐Analyzer for quantitation of haemagglutination. The method is relatively uncomplicated, and requires no other equipment than that which already exists in most blood‐group laboratories.


[Objective] To investigate clinical long term and short term complications of classic intrafascial SEMM hysterectomy (CISH). [Methods] The clinical retrospective study included 108 women who underwent operations from January 1999 to April 2002. All women were subjected to a classic intrafascial SEMM hysterectomy. The average age of the patients was 44.98 years (34~50). Of the 108 cases, 78 had uterine fibroid, 12 had refractory dysfunctional uterine bleeding, 18 had adenomyosis. 23 women underwent lower abdominal surgery previously. [Results] In the 108 patients who underwent CISH,the short term complications were mainly colporrhagia,and hematocele of cervical stump; and the long term complications were mainly hydrops of cervical stump. Among 92 cases who were visited in postoperative period, 12 cases had colporrhagia (10.87%,12/108); 1 case had vaginal hypersecretion (1.09%,1/92); 16 cases had hydrops of cervical stump (17.39%,16/92); 3 cases had tumor of stump (3.26%,3/92); the incidence of satisfaction of sexual activity was 97.65% (83/85). [Conclusions] Classic intrafascial SEMM hysterectomy (CISH) is a safe, effective and reproducible procedure after proper training. To treat cervical stump properly is an important way for decreasing complications of CISH.


We develop some examples of degenerate U-statistic tests for uniformity in certain compact topological groups and homogeneous spaces, namely, the orthogonal group and the Grassmann manifold. These tests have the attractive properties that they involve simple matrix calculations and their asymptotic null distributions are easy to describe, in that the eigenspace decompositions that characterize these distributions are quite elementary. The tests are shown to be locally most powerful against suitable families of alternatives.


higher progressive taxation (eventually to around 60% of GDP). These funds would directly finance worker co-ops, public community banks and local participatory budgets, as well as greater welfare provisions. Some will question the realism of these proposals and a few even their radicalism. This book should be seen by sceptics as an invitation to join a conversation about how our democratic values can best be realized. The accessible and engaging nature of the book makes it an excellent reference for academics and students, as well as activists, interested in alternative economics.


Domestic violence–specialized programs have been created by the police or the criminal justice system with the intention of improving victims' protection. This article examines the impact of the first Portuguese coordinated program, involving a specialized prosecution team and a special police unit, the experience of victims in encountering with authorities, and the fulfillment of their expectations on victims' satisfaction and safety. Data were collected through a telephone survey, using a two-group quasi-experimental design, at two waves (3 and 12 months after the crime report). Victims from the experimental group are more satisfied and reveal a better sense of safety. However, it is only in the second variable that the program has a direct effect on multivariate analysis. Satisfaction mainly comes from the authorities' demeanor and the expectation fulfillment while it is the authorities' behavior and the expectation fulfillment that grounds safety.