"History is the most dangerous product ever concocted by the chemistry of the intellect. It inebriates nations, saddles them with false memories... keeps their old sores running, torments them when they are not at rest, and induces in them megalomania and the mania of persecution." That was what Paul Valery observed in 'Reflections on the world today.' This analogy stands vindicated when it is applied to the troubled Indo Pak equation, where relations between the twin nuclear neighbours have been at best cool, at worst hostile ever since 1947. Over nearly 60 years, there have been three major wars between them and a number of serious localized military confrontations, includin'g those over the Rann of Kutch in 1965 and over Kargil in 1999, and a near war in 2003 after the Dec 13th attack on the Indian Parliament. The disputed territory of Kashmir has been the cause of war declared and undeclared on two occasions, in 1947 and in 1965. The third major war came in 1971 when India sent its military support to guerilla forces fighting the Pakistan army in the country's eastern wing to create the independent state of Bangladesh. Since the two countries exploded nuclear devices in 1998, their long-standing hostility has attracted global attention and prompted serious concern in the international community that their rivalry could escalate into nuclear war and bring disaster to both countries and to the wider region. A sustained period of armed tension and hostility, which began with the Kargil episode in 1999, was only defused in mid 2003 when Pakistan responded positively to a new peace initiative from India. Ambassadors were subsequently exchanged but relations were still far from normal. Restrictions remained on the movement of people and goods as well as on the reception of broadcast across the borders. It was only iii the run up to the SAARC summit of January 2004 that flights between the two countries were resumed and only after Indian and Pakistani leaders met at Islamabad that new efforts to resolve their long-standing conflicts were announced. If the governments have found it difficult to build better relations, civil society has not done much better. There have been a number of important imitative to stimulate people to people contacts but these endeavors have been subject to


The area studied consists of a portion of the Sunland
quadrangle in Southern California. The area is about seventeen miles northwest of Pasadena, California, and is best reached by automobile from Pasadena by driving westward on Foothill Boulevard. The area is slightly over one mile square in size,
and is bounded on the west by Bartholomaus Canyon, and on the east by Little Tujunga Canyon. The district is cultivated in orange and lemon groves in the southern section, and the entire area, especially Kagel Canyon, is well populated. Field work was done with pace and Brunton compass on
a photographic enlargement of U.S.G.S. topographic map of
the Sunland quadrangle. The mapping and report were done in
partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Bachelor of Science at the California Institute of Technology. About twenty days were spent in the field in mapping and
gathering of data. Work was done from January to June, 1940.


Objective To provide scientific basis for further developing and using flavonoids resources existing in animals.Methods The content of total flavonoids extracted from 8 locust species by orthogonal method was measured by colorimetry at 496 nm,using rutin as reference substance and aluminum nitrate as chromogenic agent.Results The optimum extraction condition was built for dosage liquor(1:30 w/v)and extracting with 90% methanol at 65℃for 2 h.The content of dry flavonoids from Chinese grasshopper is up to 20.15mg/g.Conclusion The optimum extraction method is efficient and the assaying method of total flavonoids is simple,steady and reproducible.


Face recognition in the wild can be defined as recognizing individuals unabated by pose, illumination, expression, and uncertainties from the image acquisition. In this paper, we propose a framework recognizing human faces under such uncertainties by focusing on the pose problem while considering the other factors together. The proposed work introduces an automatic front-end stereo-based system, which starts with image acquisition and ends by face recognition. Once an individual is detected by one of the stereo cameras, its facial features are identified using a facial features extraction model. These features are used to steer the second camera to see the same subject. Then, a stereo pair is captured and 3D face is reconstructed. The proposed stereo matching approach carefully handles illumination variance, occlusion, and disparity discontinuity. The reconstructed 3D shape is used to synthesize virtual 2D views in novel poses. All these steps are done off-line in an Enrollment stage. To recognize a face from a 2D image, which is captured under unknown environmental conditions, another fast on-line stage starts by facial features detection. Then, a facial signature is extracted from patches around these facial features. Finally, this probe image is matched against the closest synthesized images. Experiments are conducted on different public databases from where we investigate the effect of each component of the proposed framework on the recognition performance. The results confirm that without training and with automatic features extraction, our proposed face recognition at a distance approach outperforms most of the state-of-the-art approaches.


Cyclotrons are frequently used for medical applications together with physics research. In such a case, machine design becomes complicated because the cyclotron must produce beams of dieren t particles at dieren t energies. The beamextraction is a special problem for these machines. The paper presents a study of the beam extraction from the multi-purpose isochronous cyclotron DC-72 that is being designed and constructed for the Cyclotron Centre of the Slovak Republic (CC SR). Charge-exchange extraction has been studied and optimized. It is demonstrated that extraction of dieren t ions at dieren t energies through a common extraction channel is feasible. K e y w o r d s: cyclotron, charge-exchange extraction, STRIPEX


OBJECTIVES
To examine the national Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) experience regarding Medical Examiner (ME) refusal of organ procurement from potential donors. To review our experience regarding PICU mortalities, organ donation, and impact of the ME on the organ donation process.

DESIGN
National survey of PICU directors requesting demographics, type of ME system, perceptions of ME responsiveness to organ donation, and data regarding potential donors and their outcomes. Also, a retrospective chart review of all PICU deaths from 1990 to 1992 at a tertiary care center, noting the number of potential organ donors, ME cases, those harvested, rejected, and reason for rejection.

PARTICIPANTS
PICU directors selected from a list of Pediatric Section members of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. The response rate was 59%. The chart review was performed in a 1000-bed hospital with a 12-bed PICU.

RESULTS
PICU directors' perceptions of ME responsiveness to organ donation were not determined by size of PICU, area served, type of hospital, ME system, or means of contacting the ME. ME refusal accounted for 15% and 16% of total refusals in the survey and chart review, respectively. Family refusal accounted for 49% and 28% in these same groups. Survey respondents' hints and suggestions to decrease denial and increase organ donation focused on improved communication (61% and 33%), and education (16% and 55%).

CONCLUSIONS
ME refusal does impact on pediatric organ donation, but not as significantly as family refusal. Increased organ procurement in ME-related cases will require improved communication between MEs, physicians, and the Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs).


We study helium two-photon ionization using attosecond electron interferometry in a velocity-map imaging spectrometer. The complete dynamics of the photoemission process is then reconstructed in space and time.


The research works devoted to the Old Russian clerical embroidery mainly considered studying historical and artistic problems. It was paid little attention to the questions of material science. The necessity to meet this lack emerged in connection with today"s revival of clerical embroidery traditions.


Many applications introduced by Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs), such as intelligent transportation and roadside advertisement, make VANETs become an important component of metropolitan area networks. In VANETs, mobile nodes are vehicles which are equipped with wireless antennas; and they can communicate with each other by wireless communication on ad-hoc mode or infrastructure mode. Clustering vehicles into different groups can introduce many advantages for VANETs as it can facilitate resource reuse and increase system capacity. The main contribution of our work is a new strategy for clustering a VANETs and improvements in many classical clustering algorithms. One of the main ideas of our approach is to select cluster heads which provide safe clusters and avoid collisions with adjacent vehicle nodes. The proposed algorithm intends to create stable clusters by reducing re-clustering overhead, prolonging cluster lifetime, and shortening the average distance between cluster heads and their cluster members. Keywords-component; Vehicular ad hoc network; clusters; stability


The categories of progressive versus traditional no longer serve a purpose other than to label thinkers and thought, engage in ideological combat, and deflect attention from the truly important and vexing issues of the day. Any nuanced thinker must take account of the past and what it has deeded to the present. So the question is: How and in what ways do we interpret, reflect upon, and bring forward received doctrine, wisdom, and lived example if we are to avoid the twin pitfalls of rigid traditionalism or arrogant "presentism"? Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Vaclav Havel have grappled intelligently with such matters and help us, in subtle ways, to be faithful and brave. The essay concludes with meditations on the theme of freedom, our current distorted understanding of this powerful term, and why a "sentimental humanism" does not serve decent and complex human purposes.


Objective To evaluate the diagnostic value of 64-slice spiral CT MPR technique in diagnosing orbital fractures.Methods Retrospective analysis of the 64-slice spiral CT axial and MPR images of 33 cases orbital fracture was conducted.Results The direct signs of orbital wall fracture included the discontinuous change of orbital wall,bone chip separation,depression and curvature limitations disorders.The specific sign was the "tear-drop"sign.Indirect signs include eye muscle enlargement and the orbital contents herniated into the sinus.Axial,coronal and sagittal MPR images had their own advantages about different types of orbital wall fracture,the axial images helped show lateral wall fracture,and the sagittal images helped show the superior and inferior wall fracture.Conclusion 64-slice spiral CT multi-planar reconstruction(MPR) technique is a valuable method in the diagnosis of orbital fracture to confirm the site and scope of the orbital fracture.


Ce5Rh4Sn10 is known as a heavy-fermion antiferromagnet with magnetic-ordering temperature T N2 = 4.3 K. We report a new antiferromagnetic phase transition at T N1 = 1.4 K. In the series of Ce1−x La x Rh4Sn10 compounds both magnetic phase transitions at T N1 and T N2 shift towards lower temperatures. For Ce3La2Rh4Sn10 and Ce3.5La1.5Rh4Sn10 we found only one transition. In the temperature region T N1<T<T N2, the magnetization M measured as a function of magnetic field H exhibits a large jump at very low fields of ∼0.03 T with a very small hysteresis loop. This abnormal behavior could be due to spin-flip transitions. Thermodynamical properties of the series of Ce1−x La x Rh4Sn10 compounds are discussed in terms of the antiferromagnetic Kondo lattice.


The existing ground emergency rescue truck-mounted drilling rig integral wellhead platform has the following disadvantages: inflexible structure form, small opening aperture, difficult assembly and disassembly, and cannot meet the lowering of large diameter drill bits and casing. In response to the above-mentioned shortcomings, it is proposed that a general scheme of modular large-opening intelligent wellhead platform for vehicle-mounted drilling rigs which combines the requirements of the rescue construction. The modular wellhead platform has the characteristics of fast centering, clamping, automatic leveling and meeting the requirements of multi-series large diameter drilling tools. The numerical simulation method is used to analyze the U-shaped wellhead platform, and an optimized structure is proposed based on the analysis results of the original structure. The results show that the stress of optimized structure is better than that of original structure, which provides important support for product design.


We are witnessing the way in which the disorderly expansion of cities and current urban planning following new models of monofunctional urbanism generate a series of negative impacts on the quality of landscape and territory. These negative impacts are especially visible in peri-urban areas due to the acceleration of suburbanization processes. The progressive consumption of land is a matter of some concern because of the construction of new housing and an increasing number of infrastructures which also contribute to further fragmentation of natural habitats with consequent negative impact on fauna and flora. As a result, a marked reduction in the biodiversity of city edge areas, and a noticeable decrease of accessible leisure zones for the enjoyment of locals, as well as of quality farmland are in evidence. In response, some voices are being raised demanding better conservation of these peri-urban areas and the promotion of appropriate planning tailored to their physical characteristics and fragility. A compact city generates a better use of resources, allows a pedestrian-based mobility model, promotes greater social interaction and a more diverse society, and provides better access to public facilities and services (Commission of the European Communities, 1990; Thomas and Cousins, 1996; Rueda, 2002). Furthermore, aspects such as the size, shape and isolation of natural or semi-natural areas must be taken into account to determine impacts on ecological processes and species diversity, since they are obviously closely linked to the maintenance of a compact urban form as a pattern for a more sustainable city (Burton, 2000; Blais, 2010). Greenbelts provide an urban planning instrument with a long tradition in fighting against urban sprawl (Siedentop et al., 2016). They have been used to generate multiple social and environmental benefits, including the protection of green areas and natural areas, preservation of agricultural land, creation of recreation and leisure for urban populations, biodiversity and Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles N.o 73 2017, págs. 463-467


For vocational colleges, they will have to make clear the goal and principles on how to assess the schoolenterprise cooperation work when they tend to intensify the cooperation between colleges and enterprises, and they will also have to establish scientific assessment system and guideline concerned.


Hardseededness (seed coat impermeability) is the main seed dormancy mechanism for regulating germination of annual pasture legumes both within and between years. Progress made in Australia over the past 30 years towards an understanding and better utilisation of the mechanism is the subject of this review, together with relevant overseas studies. Although some legumes produce virtually no hard seeds, newly ripened seeds of most cultivated annual pasture legumes are >90% hard when produced under favourable seed maturation conditions. The pattern of seed softening (loss of impermeability) varies widely among legumes both within and between years and is one of the more important considerations in selection programs. The many factors that influence the longevity of seed hardness are described. Differences among legumes in patterns of summer and autumn seed softening, which may influence the extent of seed losses through false breaks of season, are explained in terms of a 2-stage conceptual model of the seed softening process. This model has led to the development of laboratory techniques that effectively simulate field softening behaviour in a wide range of legumes. Different rates of seed imbibition, which may be attributable to a previously unrecognised stage in the seed softening process, and which can offer some further protection against false breaks of season are also described. The wide range of seed softening characteristics that are now recognised provides opportunities for better adapting pasture legumes to particular management systems, including rotations with crops.


The superconformal algebras of Ademollo et al are generalised to a multi-index form. The structure obtained is similar to the Moyal Bracket analogue of the Neveu-Schwarz Algebra.


Frequent dairy products quality safe accidents make the government and consumers concern more about hidden irregularities in dairy supply chain. The hidden irregularities include adulteration of dairy farmers and milk stations, producing fake of processing enterprises and selling fake of sales networks. In this paper, dairy processing enterprises as the research object, it is realistic significance to analyze hidden irregularity of processing enterprises by making use of evolutionary game analysis method because of enterprise's bounded rationality. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the long-term evolutionary trend of hidden irregularity of processing enterprises by applying replication dynamics mechanism of evolutionary game theory on the condition of bounded rationality. In this paper, on the basic of evolutionary game theory and method, we create the evolutionary game of hidden irregularity of processing enterprises, and then analyze dynamical evolutionary process. The analysis results indicate that the impact factors of hidden irregularity of processing enterprises are the marginal revenue of inferior dairy products, the penalty amount of inferior dairy products and the probability of finding inferior dairy products. Only government departments increase the supervision intensity and strength against inferior dairy products, it will improve dairy products quality and to promote the healthy development of dairy industry.


The technique of ion backscattering and channeling has been used to study the interface stoichiometry and structure for thin transition metal films deposited on Al single crystal surfaces. Analysis of the backscattering data is based on the concepts of shadowing and blocking, and the well-known theory of Rutherford scattering. However, the analysis provides only the average stoichiometry of the interface, and can be limited by the energy resolution typical of solid state detectors. Problems in the analysis associated with near-surface dechanneling have been identified. In some cases we have used x-ray photoemission spectroscopy and computer simulations to eliminate these problems. In this paper we discuss alloy formation at interfaces of Al with Pd, Ni, Fe, and Co, and the epitaxial growth of fcc Ti and Ag on Al.


Integrin α5β1 is a widely-recognized target for molecular probes in various pathological conditions, especially cancer. The development of computer screening approaches to identify novel high affinity ligands to tumor markers has paved the way for a new generation of tumor identification technology. In this study, we have developed an efficient pharmacophore-based computational strategy to screen two novel peptides, RYr and H5, with high affinity to integrin α5β1. Noninvasive optical imaging data showed that these two peptides could be specifically uptaken by α5β1 overexpressed-tumor cells in vitro and in vivo. And these peptides-based probes could retain in tumor tissue for precise tumor identification. Results indicated that the newly identified peptides with high affinity to integrin α5β1 can be used for precise tumor identification and treatment. And this work exploited more functionalities of pharmacophore-based computational strategy for screening targeting-peptides.


Abstract : The ability of the U.S. to use diplomacy or military action to affect the Syrian situation has largely passed. This paper explores the economic causes leading to the Syrian Civil War, as well as the entrenched economic systems that help it continue. These include Privileged Networks, which support regime survival, and the War Economy, which sustains both sides of the Civil War as well as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).Methods of attacking these networks utilizing concepts from the information economy such as Disruptive Innovation, Network Effect, and Minimum Viable Product, are explored via a mobile banking construct. Implementation of such an approach would utilize the overwhelming Economic and Informational power of the U.S., which could isolate and potentially defeat parts of these systems, helping stabilize both the Syrian and regional economies.


Abstract. We present a cavity compensation technique based on a tunable long-wave infrared zinc germanium phosphide ZnGeP2 (ZGP) optical parametric oscillator (OPO). The slope efficiency increased from 3.6% to 7.0% at 9.15  μm after using the cavity compensation technique in the tuning range of 8.02 to 9.15  μm. We used a Q-switched 2.1  μm Ho:YAG laser pump source with a pulse repetition frequency of 10 kHz. Under the incident pump power of 23.03 W, the maximum average idler output power of 2.16 W at 8.02  μm was achieved with a pulse width of 21.5 ns and spectral bandwidth of 29.5 nm; the slope efficiency was 16.5%. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first application of the cavity compensation technique in tunable long-wave infrared ZGP OPO.


Water marking relies on inserting information into the video stream in order to detect copies. This paper presents an approach to watermarking called content base copy detection(CBCD) which uses a combination of feature based matching and inverted index to detect copies video clips This paper presents a study of methods for video copy detection .Different techniques are described: spatial temporal , spatio- temporal information. Various properties are required for fingerprints. In proposed Temporally Informative Representative Images-Discrete Cosine Transform (TIRI-DCT) system. TIRI-DCT method; two fast searching methods are used for matching process of fingerprint.


The present invention relates to a composite material containing particles made of a mixed lithium-metal oxide, which in some regions are provided with a pyrolysis carbon coating, and particles made of elemental carbon, which in some regions are provided with a coating made of pyrolysis carbon. The present invention further relates to a method for producing such a composite material and to an electrode containing the composite material, and to a secondary lithium ion battery containing an electrode comprising the composite material.


In order to study influence of Dendrolimus punctatus cytoplasmic polyhedrosis virus on the growth and development of cotton bollworm,larvae of cotton bollworm were fed with artificial food mixed virus into.It was showed that DpCPV could infect the larvae of cotton bollworm.The larval mortality of cotton bollworm increased with the increase of concentration of DpCPV,and the pupal weight and the eclosion rate of cotton bollworm decreased with the increase of concentration of DpCPV,but the larval duration of cotton bollworm was hardly affected.It is suggested that DpCPV can be applied to prevent cotton bollworm.


In Mobile Adhoc Network, providing security while transmitting the data packet is significant as the data is attacked by attacker inside or outside the network. Hence, certification scheme is introduced to provide authentication. However, the certificates must be properly exchanged and revocation mechanism is needed. In this paper, we propose to design a certificate exchange and revocation mechanism for the multiple Certification Authority (CA) nodes. In clustering based certificate revocation scheme, the nodes can be classified into three different categories, normal nodes, warned nodes and attacker nodes. Only normal nodes are allowed to become CHs and they accuse attackers by sending Detection Packets (ADPs) to the CA. An ID based one round authenticated group key agreement protocol (AGKA) is used to provide authentication between the cluster heads. For key authentication, pair-wise key is computed by each CH's ephemeral and long-term private keys. The proposed schemes provide some measure of protection against malicious accusation succeeding in causing the revocation of certificates of trustworthy, well-behaving nodes


"Movies will make you famous; television will make you rich, but the theatre will make you good." According to Booki Nova, watching movies at Theatre is always a great feel for cinema lovers. Due to this pandemic situation, the Theatre has shifted to OTT (Over-the-top) platform. The entire world has shut down and turned to a depressed state, but OTT lifts people from depression through its new zone. Therefore, the paper contains explicit details about the psyche of the audience in watching movies and analyzes both of its positive and negative aspects in a new manifesto. Hence, Theatre is shut and movies are being released on OTT platforms to make the audience connect to movies. So, these OTT platforms help people to make themselves active and entertained. Despite the emergence of many platforms, OTT always plays a predominant role in watching movies by cinema lovers and also by common people.


In order to study the effects of sectional warping to bend-twist coupling characteristics for box spar of wind turbine blade, section stiffness of different regions are calculated with weather considering warping effect or not, the results show that warping effects differently in different part of the blade and the length width ratio and thickness of spar cap are two factors that determine impact degree of warping. Section stiffness of a 5MW blade box spar considering warping effect are calculated, bend-twist coupling coefficients are got. The results show that warping effect bend-twist coupling coefficient of box spar greatly and it should be considered when research the blade bend-twist coupling.


In the present study, the authors have attempted to present a novel approach for the prediction, analysis, and optimization of the Friction Stir Welding (FSW) process based on the Deep Neural Network (DNN) model. To obtain the DNN structure with high accuracy, the most focus has been on the number of hidden layers and the activation functions. The DNN was developed by a small database containing results of tensile and hardness tests of welded 7075-T6 aluminum alloy. This material and the production method were selected based on the application in the construction of fishing boat flooring, because on the one hand, it faces the corrosion caused by proximity to sea water and on the other hand, due to direct contact with human food, i.e., fish etc., antibacterial issues should be considered. All the major parameters of the FSW process, including axial force, rotational speed, and traverse speed as well as tool diameter and tool hardness, were considered to investigate their correspondence effects on the tensile strength and hardness of welded zone. The most important achievement of this research showed that by using SAE for pre-training of neural networks, higher accuracy can be obtained in predicting responses. Finally, the optimal values for various welding parameters were reported as rotational speed: 1600 rpm, traverse speed: 65 mm/min, axial force: 8 KN, shoulder and pin diameters: 15.5 and 5.75 mm, and tool hardness: 50 HRC.


Abstract The sustainability of historic buildings often depends on continued use. Institutions provide significant resources for repair and maintenance. Increased flood risk as a consequence of climate change is growing in a number of places. Once wet, a building could be unusable for a long time, leading to losses and possible abandonment. An initial study as part of the EU research project, Global Climate Change Impact on Built Heritage and Cultural Landscapes (Noah's Ark) has shown how novel computer modelling can predict how wood left to dry naturally will dry in future climates. This knowledge will help develop strategies for safe and rapid drying of flooded wooden buildings. Conventional rapid drying using mechanical dehumidification can cause large moisture gradients within wood, leading to mechanical stress and failure. It is hoped to find fast, safe drying regimes by optimizing the pattern of rapid and natural drying.


Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a severe respiratory disease initiated on December 2019. Genome sequence analysis shows that the pathogen is a complex beta-coronavirus RNA, known as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum and pneumothorax are rare clinical and radiological conditions associated with COVID-19. This study is case report of pneumomediastinum and subcutaneous emphysema in two patients with COVID-19, while investigating the clinical and paraclinical symptoms and the treatment process of two cases. Finding factors related to the severity of COVID-19 for improving the final outcome in patients is very important.


The notion of diversity management (DM) has in recent years spread out from its Anglo-American origins. However, few studies have theorized how alternate discourses established in particular societal contexts can challenge penetration of the organizational agenda by DM discourse. Based on a study of corporate websites, we offer a description of DM discourse in Finnish companies. We show how gender equality as an institutionalized societal discourse shapes the meanings attached to DM, and discuss the power effects of this intertwining. For the burgeoning research on diversity management, the Finnish case illuminates how a gender egalitarian context affects the inclusion of certain manifestations of diversity (and its management), while excluding others. Copyright © 2009 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Anesthesia is an imperative activity during operation. Anesthesiologist perceives patient's physiology and adjusts the drug rate. Sometimes, it may go overdose or under-dose which is proscribed. This process is merely in need of an expertise which in turn, may not be available every time and everywhere. But we can store this expertise with the help of fuzzy inference system and utilize it to judge the depth of anesthesia. A genuine effort has been made to design a PID controller with fuzzy inference system as simple feedback to control intravenous anesthetic drug delivery. This paper demonstratesthe design and implementation of experts' based system with PID controller and comparison of the same with open loop target controlled infusion and fuzzy inference system without a controller. The conclusion of this study is that the PID controller with fuzzy inference system as simple feedback gives fast response with no overshoot. Ultimate prototype is implemented on Xilinx's Spartan 3E Field Programmable Gate Array.


. Alternative specifications of univariate asymmetric Laplace models are described and investigated. A more general mixture model is then introduced. Bivariate extensions of these models are discussed in some detail, with particular emphasis on associated parameter estimation strategies. Multivariate versions of the models are briefly introduced.


In this paper, we will compute some topological indices such as Zagreb indices M1(G), M2(G), M3(G), Zagreb coindices M1(G), M1(G), M2(G), M2(G)), M2(G), hyper-Zagreb index HM(G), atom-bond connectivity index ABC(G), sum connectivity index χ(G), augumented Zagreb index AZI and geometric-arithmetic connectivity index GA(G) of line graph of subdivision of some plane graphs. AMS Subject Classification: 05C07, 05C35, 05C40


Following the postulates of Erich Fromm to understand the processes of contemporary psychic life. We try to understand what happens in Salvadoran society. In the psychopathic-social conditions reflected in the high statistics of homicides, suicides, corruption and migration. It is an approach to the cultural subconscious and other processes not understood that could be influencing the way society acts; but from a symbolic level, trying to understand a simple diagnosis and some therapeutic outputs to address the problems.Reality and Reflection Year 18, No 47, January-June 2018; pp.38-46


The use of a three‐dimensional ray‐tracing inversion algorithm has greatly enhanced the resolution of gradients and strong variations in wave speeds to create improved P wave tomographic images of the Mariana arc region. The images obtained from the Mariana arc region show relatively low amplitudes of heterogeneity due to the limited number of seismic stations in the area. Despite these limitations, detailed interpretations of the three‐dimensional geometry and morphology of the Pacific Plate subducting beneath the Philippine Sea Plate have provided a three‐dimensional model of the steep dip of the Pacific plate and the curvature of the slab beneath the Mariana arc in unprecedented detail. The new P wave tomography and seismicity depict a previously unidentified E‐W trending near‐vertical tear in the subducting plate at the southern end of the Mariana arc that divides the arc into two distinct segments: a steeply dipping curved slab penetrating the lower mantle and a short (∼250 km depth) slab along the Challenger Deep segment of the arc. The slab tear is likely to be the result of the need to accommodate the reduced volume the slab must occupy as it is subducted beneath the Philippine Sea plate along a curved arc.


The Internet grows extremely fast in terms of number of users and traffic volume, as well as in the number of services that must be supported. This development results in new requirements on router ...


Contains six bookworks by Canadian artists Percival, Patton, DeCoster, Duquette, Barber and Dunn. Barber prefaces his work with an essay discussing audience, crowd and public in relation to control. 5 bibl. ref.


The ability of functionally distinct alloreactive T cell clones to mediate celliular recruitment in vivo was examined in a modified sponge matrix allograft model. Changes in cellular recruitment to paired healed s.c urethane sponge grafts injected with cytolytic T lymphocyte (CTL), helper, or helper-independent CTL clones, or bulk resting mlixed leukocyte culture (MLC) cells, and allogeneic or syngeneic blasts were studied. Injection of indium-111-labeled unsensitized cells i.v. was used to assess cellular recruitment to the graft site. All three aloreactive T cell clones and bulk MLC cells mediated preferential recruitment of circulating labeled cells when injected with allogeneic cells. The helper clone mediated significantly greater recruitment than the CTL clone. These results confirm at the clonal level our previous observations that populations of allosensitized cells enriched for either cytolytic or noncytolytic T lymphocytes can mediate cellular recruitment in vivo and extends them to include helper-cell-independent cytolytic T lymphocytes.


This paper proposes the data mining method of voltage sag severity based on DHP algorithm and replaceable coefficient to assess the risk of voltage sag. The DHP (Direct Hashing and Pruning) is served to mine the relationship between voltage sag characteristic attribute (VSCA) in the fault scenario and the voltage sag severity (VSS) of node. Using direct hash pruning technology, frequent item sets can be found quickly and mining efficiency can be improved. The association rules are matched with the actual fault scenarios through replaceable coefficients to get the VSS of actual fault scenarios. Finally, the effectiveness and accuracy of this method are verified by simulation and examples.


A study was designed to investigate the attitudes, knowledge, and practice regarding diet and cardiovascular disease (CVD) among adult members attending selected community centres. The relationships among attitudes, knowledge, and practice and the influence of s p e c i f i c biodemographic variables on these three dependent variables were determined. The independent v a r i ables, non-manipulative i n nature, were age, gender, l i v i n g arrangement, family history of CVD, personal history of CVD, physi c a l exercise pattern, smoking habit, education l e v e l , and obesity r i s k . Data were coll e c t e d by a self-administered questionnaire that had been validated and pretested i n a p i l o t study In May 1979> questionnaires were dis t r i b u t e d by random day to adult members of 11 community centres i n the c i t y of Vancouver. Each centre was represented by a random sample or by volunteers i n attendance at each class on the chosen day. The f i n a l sample size was 281, y i e l d i n g an o v e r a l l response rate of 7^•7%. Data were analyzed by computer and a l l analyses were conducted at the .05 l e v e l of si g n i f i c a n c e . Expressed as percentages of possible scores, the mean scores f o r the two attitude subtests and t o t a l test were quite high (83%) with standard deviations of 8 to 9%. The mean scores f o r the three knowledge subtests and t o t a l test revealed tests of medium d i f f i c u l t y (48 to 53f°) with standard deviations of 12 to 17%. Practice scores, e x p r e s s e d as r a t i o s o f r e c o m m e n d e d v a l u e s , w e r e e q u a l t o o r e x c e e d e d t h e C a n a d i a n D i e t a r y S t a n d a r d a n d t h e N u t r i t i o n Recomm e n d a t i o n s f o r C a n a d i a n s f o r n i n e o f t h e 11 n u t r i e n t s e x a m i n e d ; a l l w e r e g r e a t e r t h a n 67% o f t h e r e c o m m e n d e d v a l u e s . R e l i a b i l i t i e s d e t e r m i n e d b y i n t e r n a l c o n s i s t e n c y , t e s t r e t e s t , a n d c o n g r u e n c y c h e c k p r o c e d u r e s f o r a t t i t u d e s a n d k n o w l e d g e , b i o d e m o g r a p h i c , a n d p r a c t i c e i n s t r u m e n t s , r e s p e c t i v e l y , w e r e c o n s i d e r e d a d e q u a t e f o r t h e p u r p o s e o f t h e s t u d y . C o r r e l a t i o n a n a l y s i s r e v e a l e d t h a t a t t i t u d e s a n d k n o w l e d g e w e r e m o d e r a t e l y c o r r e l a t e d ( r a n g e .38 t o .56) b u t p r a c t i c e a n d b o t h a t t i t u d e s a n d k n o w l e d g e w e r e w e a k l y c o r r e l a t e d ( r a n g e .00 t o .2^-). O n e w a y m u l t i v a r i a t e a n a l y s e s o f v a r i a n c e r e v e a l e d t h a t l i v i n g a r r a n g e m e n t , d e g r e e o f o b e s i t y , a n d p o s i t i v e f a m i l y h i s t o r y o f CVD d i d n o t a p p e a r t o h a v e a n e f f e c t o n a n y o f t h e d e p e n d e n t v a r i a b l e s . S m o k i n g h a b i t was n o t f o u n d t o i n f l u e n c e e i t h e r a t t i t u d e s o r k n o w l e d g e . M u l t i v a r i a t e a n a l y s e s o f v a r i a n c e r e v e a l e d t h a t r e s p o n d e n t s w i t h a p o s i t i v e p e r s o n a l h i s t o r y o f CVD h a d s i g n i f i c a n t l y d i f f e r e n t a t t i t u d e s t o w a r d t h e use o f d i e t i n p r e v e n t i o n o f CVD a n d p e r f o r m e d s i g n i f i c a n t l y b e t t e r o n t h e s u b t e s t a b o u t t h e a f f e c t o f f o o d s t h a n t h o s e w i t h o u t a p o s i t i v e h i s t o r y . A d u l t s u n d e r 50 y e a r s o f age h a d s i g n i f i c a n t l y more p o s i t i v e a t t i t u d e s t o w a r d t h e r o l e o f d i e t i n h e a r t d i s e a s e a n d s c o r e d s i g n i f i c a n t l y h i g h e r o n s u b t e s t o f f a c t s v e r s u s f a l l a c y t h a n a d u l t s o v e r 50 y e a r s o f a g e . F e m a l e s h a d s i g n i f i c a n t l y more p o s i t i v e a t t i t u d e s a n d p e r f o r m e d s i g n i f i c a n t l y b e t t e r o n a l l k n o w l e d g e s u b t e s t s t h a n m a l e s . The e d u c a t i o n g r o u p w i t h l e s s t h a n g r a d e 12 h a d s i g n i f i c a n t l y l e s s p o s i t i v e a t t i t u d e s t o w a r d t h e r o l e o f d i e t ' i n h e a r t d i s e a s e a n d s i g n i f i c a n t l y l o w e r k n o w l e d g e r e l a t e d t o f o o d c o m p o s i t i o n t h a n a l l o t h e r e d u c a t i o n g r o u p s ; a n d s i g n i f i c a n t l y l o w e r s c o r e s o n f a c t s v e r s u s f a l l a c y t h a n t h e one t o t h r e e y e a r s u n i v e r s i t y g r o u p . No s i g n i f i c a n t d i f f e r e n c e s i n k n o w l e d g e o r p r a c t i c e w e r e o b s e r v e d b e t w e e n g r o u p s who v a r i e d i n e x e r c i s e p a t t e r n , h o w e v e r , t h e s e d e n t a r y g r o u p h a d s i g n i f i c a n t l y l e s s p o s i t i v e a t t i t u d e s t o w a r d t h e r o l e o f d i e t i n h e a r t d i s e a s e t h a n t h o s e who w e r e c l a s s i f i e d as h i g h m o d e r a t e o r v i g o r o u s . W h i l e s i g n i f i c a n t d i f f e r e n c e s i n p r a c t i c e w e r e o b s e r v e d f o r a n u m b e r o f b i o d e m o g r a p h i c v a r i a b l e s , no p a r t i c u l a r g r o u p was c h a r a c t e r i z e d b y a d e f i c i e n t o r e x c e s s i n t a k e o f a n y o f t h e 1 1 n u t r i e n t s e x a m i n e d . S e v e r a l i m p l i c a t i o n s f o r n u t r i t i o n e d u c a t i o n w e r e i n f e r r e d f r o m i n t e r p r e t a t i o n o f r e s u l t s . 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Phosphonium-based ionic liquids have been successfully impregnated on several Amberlite XAD resins for recovering Au(III) chloro-anions. Sorption performance was evaluated through sorption isotherms (very favorable profiles) and uptake kinetics (controlled by the resistance to intraparticle diffusion). The binding mechanism consists of an ion-exchange between AuCl4− and the counter ion bound to the phosphonium cation. Increasing the IL loading proportionally increases the sorption capacity but decreases the sorption speed (by increasing the resistance to intraparticle diffusion). Changing the counter ion on the phosphonium cation (i.e., complex anion vs. chloride ion) does not improve sorption performance. Highly porous resin (high pore volume and large pore size), such as Amberlite XAD-1180, shows the best diffusion performance and highest sorption velocity (lower equilibrium time).


. The article investigates main aspects of the religious policy of the German occupation regime in the North Caucasus during the Great Patriotic War. On the basis of archived data, the authors set out to highlight the state of religious societies and their attitude towards the Nazi regime in 1942–1943. The focus is on the critical analysis of the Orthodox and Islamic confessions in this region. The Armenian Apostolic Church is also considered. The authors conclude that the German occupation regime was characterized by its favourable disposition towards various religious societies, which was met with approval by the majority of the religious population. However, coming into contact with German authorities, the Islamic and Armenian clergy, as well as the Russian Orthodox Church, remained patriotic and supported their people in the struggle against the invaders.


15 years prior to liberalization and the other shortly thereafter, demonstrating the 'substantial continuities in biopolitics and violence across the period that divides neoliberal governance from earlier forms of rule' (272). Yet the significant gap between fieldwork and publication leaves the reader with enduring questions about the nature of structural violence, bureaucracy, and corruption in the context of more recent developments: the increasing internationalization of anti-poverty schemes, new technologies such as cellular phones, and the differential origins and conception of post-liberalization schemes like the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, itself nearly a decade old. While readers may wish for a more sustained engagement with the impact of these new developments on India's bureaucracy, none of these inevitable omissions detract from an incisive investigation of the Indian state, and its inability to better the lot of the nation's rural poor.


Viewers remember having seen a greater expanse of a scene than was shown in a photograph: an error called boundary extension. Two experiments examined the cause of the distortion by presenting 303 undergraduates with close-up prototypic, wide-angle, or inverted-close-up views of seven scenes. Stimulus durations of 4 or 15 s were tested. Results showed that boundary estension decreased with increasingly wide-angle vicws and that inverted pictures yield-ed as great a distortion as did pictures with a normal orientation. Results support the hypothesis that boundary extension is mediated by the activation of a perceptual schema during picture perception and does not simply reflect a tendencv for subjects to remember having seen a prototypic view.


After many years of work on enrichment of Study Collection of Heteroptera in the Natural History Museum in Belgrade, pronounced changes were recorded in certain species collected during the last decade compared with the period of 50 or more years ago: Arocatus longiceps Stal, Oxycarenus lavaterae (Fabricius), Cimex lectularius Linnaeus. This paper also includes descriptions of Heteroptera species introduced to Serbia: Corythucha ciliata (Say), Leptoglossus occidentalis Heidemann.


The subject of this paper is a new optimal control scheme for nonlinear large-scale systems. Minimizing a quadratic cost functional for each subsystem separately results in a linear feedback control using only local states. The interaction terms and the discrepancy between the nonlinear system and the linearized state equation are considered in an additional control. Therefore, the coupling states must be transmitted between the corresponding controllers of the subsystems or must be measurable, then the developed control is decentralised. Compared with centralised control of a system the control strategy proposed in this paper reduces the quantity of transmitted states, the distance of transmitting and provides optimality even if the subsystems are strongly coupled. The implementation for a turbine generator of a power system shows the applicability.<<ETX>>


High-performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS/MS) coupled with the quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged and safe method was established for the qualitative and quantitative detection of twenty mycotoxins in milk. The linear range of this method was 0.01-10μg/L, and the correlation coefficients were all greater than or equal to 0.9933. At three addition levels, the spiked recoveries ranged from 80.00- 112.50%, the relative standard deviation were 2.67-14.97%, the limit of quantitation were 0.02- 4.00μg/kg, and the limit of detection were 0.007- 1.300μg/kg. This developed procedure for the identification and quantitation of mycotoxins provides prospective support for quality regulation. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.


Geometric precisions are incorporated into a relational database from the perspective of geometric parameter precision design of the new generation of GPS and using the database technology. The processes can be simulated of their reasoning and decision-making in solving mechanical problems combining the theoretical knowledge, factual data and heuristic knowledge from the experience of specialists. An algorithm is designed and developed a system which provides query service on dimensional precision, form and position precision and surface roughness. This system can deduce a series of fit both automatically according to the form-position tolerance grades and the existing processing conditions, which can deduce the microscopic feature of surface and economic processing method. An application platform is also provided for the digitized realization of the new generation of GPS standards, the establishment of a traceability system and for the global integration.


The present invention discloses a limit of one kind of gait training mode measurement system correcting gait data analysis method, comprising the following steps: Step 1: The inertial sensor fixed to the body portion to be measured just before the leg or thigh; Step II: The gravity sensing value of the data collection terminal of said inertial sensor; step three: the terminal sends data to the host gravity sensor values via the wireless communication module; step four: the host reads the gravity sensing value data and a preset test body walking time, i.e. a limited time, walking distance manual input; step five: the value calculated by the gravity sensing measured gait parameters; step six: save the processing result data to the database host. The invention can quickly and accurately be measured gait analysis data of the human body, for the preparation of medical equipment, rehabilitation appliances provide a reliable basis, can also help doctors provide an accurate basis for judging the performance of gait, the development of rehabilitation programs.


A novel indentation theory with homogenized, isotropic, and continuum model based on different shape functions is investigated to predict the mechanical behavior triggering internal short circuit of lithium‐ion pouch battery (LIPB) under indentation loading. By taking energy conservation principle into account, the relationship among indentation force, indentation displacement, and indentation region of LIPB is proposed. The results conclude that the effects of deformation region and indentation displacement play an important role in mechanical behavior triggering internal short circuit. The theoretical results based on sine, cosine, and quadratic shape functions agree well with experimental results. Both of increasing compressed yield stress of jellyroll core and punch radius and decreasing flow stress of soft casing and thickness of soft casing can avoid triggering internal short circuit of LIPB. According to current research, the indentation loading is reduced to flat compression when punch radius approaches infinity, and the internal short circuit of LIPB under flat compression is very difficult to be triggered. Effectiveness and application scope of different shape functions are also discussed. The theoretical model provides guidance for improving mechanical behavior, decreasing internal short circuit, and optimizing structure of LIPB in industrial manufacture.


Fundamental frequency can affect the accurate description of MFCC and degrade the performance of speaker recognition system,so a new parameter called SMFCC(smoothing MFCC) was proposed.The parameter mainly employs the method of smoothing amplitude spectral to reduce the effect of fundamental frequency.Experiments in YOHO speech database show that SMFCC is more effective and robust than the conventional MFCC,especially in the female speaker recognition system.


Background: Mesobuthus eupeus venom is a member of Buthidae family, which can enter the blood circulation exerting detrimental effects on body organs, such as the liver and kidney through inflammation. Cyclosporine, known as an anti-inflammatory drug, is used to treat many inflammation-associated diseases. Objectives: In this study, cyclosporine was selected to inhibit the scorpion toxin effects on rat organs. Methods: This experimental study was conducted in the Razi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute, Agricultural Research Education and Extension Organization, Karaj, Iran, from June to November 2019. Fifty male rats were randomly divided into five groups of 10, including the control (10 mg/kg olive oil i.p), M. eupeus venom (10 mg/kg i.p.), cyclosporine 10 mg/kg (venom 10 mg/kg for 30 min i.p followed by cyclosporine 10/kg mg for 7 day i.p.), cyclosporine 20 mg/kg (venom 10 mg/kg for 30 min i.p followed by cyclosporine 20 mg/kg for 7 day i.p.), and cyclosporine 30 mg/kg (venom 10 mg/kg for 30 min i.p followed by cyclosporine 30 mg/kg for 7 day i.p.). After treatment with cyclosporine, the liver and kidney function was analyzed by calculating some biochemical enzymes, including serum glutamate-pyruvate transaminase (SGPT), serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT), nitric oxide (NO), interleukin-2 (IL-2), malondialdehyde (MDA), creatinine, and urea via ELISA and spectrophotometry. Then, to determine the rate of apoptosis in tissue, terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick-end labeling method was done. Results: At the end of the study, the results showed a significant elevation in SGPT (164.5 ± 10 vs. 126.2 ± 7, P < 0.0001), SGOT (190.37 ± 11 vs. 148 ± 10, P < 0.0001), NO (24.4 ± 1.17 vs. 17.4 ± 1.4, P = 0.02), and MDA (0.42 ± 0.05 vs. 0.22 ± 0.04, P < 0.0001) in the venom group compared with the control group. There were no significant differences in the urea, IL-2, and creatinine between the venom and control groups. However, the group receiving cyclosporine (30 mg/kg) showed a significant decline in SGPT (96.42 ± 5.7 vs. 164.5 ± 10, P < 0.0001), SGOT (144.57 ± 9.24 vs. 190.37 ± 11, P < 0.0001), urea (28.83 ± 1.32 vs. 38.83 ± 1.6, P = 0.00), creatinine (0.023 ± 0.01vs. 0.29 ± 0.005, P < 0.0001), and MDA (0.10 ± 0.01 vs. 0.42 ± 0.05, P < 0.0001), as well as increased apoptosis rate (P < 0.05), compared with the venom group. No significant difference was observed between the cyclosporine and venom groups in NO and IL-2. Conclusions: Cyclosporine at a dose of 30 mg was able to decrease inflammatory responses and induce apoptosis rate. Therefore, it could be a suitable drug for patients bitten by a scorpion sting.


In order to explore the cutting rules,optimize the cutting parameters and improve cutting efficiency of titanium alloy,multiple sets of test parameters were schemed out by using the uniform design method. Test cutting research of cutting forces and surface roughness with these parameters were conducted under the condition of 12 ℃ dry cutting and-50 ℃ cold blast machining,respectively. Through the regression analysis about the results of the test,a multiple linear regression model which was applicable for titanium alloy clean cutting on its surface roughness and cutting force has been established. On this basis,a multi-objective optimization model aimed at surface roughness,cutting force and cutting efficiency had been set up. And by means of the multi-objective data weighted method,successfully converted the multi-objective optimization model into a single-objective one. Verification tests were done under these cutting parameters,and the results are in good agreement with those calculated.


2.1. PREFACE Microorganisms constitute a huge and almost unexplained reservoir of resources likely to provide innovative applications useful to man. The fact that, bacteria have survived ever since the origin of life on the earth reveals that this group of organism is a store house for changes occurred over millions of years of evolution in response to changing environmental conditions. They are the most abundant and highly diverse group among all organisms living today (Dharmalingam and Cullum, 1996).


This paper presents an approach to the 'image' as seen in the pages of the crime section of three newspapers from the state of Veracruz, based  on the theory of mediations posited by Manuel Martin Serrano, and analyses of image according to approaches characterized by Corona and Erausquin. It begins with a brief contextualization of violence in the state of Veracruz and its representations in the communications media.


(57) Abstract: In the hydrocarbon trap (28) and an exhaust gas system comprising a downstream catalyst zone (30), the heat exchange catalyst member (10) is introduced into the system, the exhaust gas heat exchange catalyst member ( to perform heat exchange between the air to be pumped through 10). The heated air is injected into the exhaust gas stream to facilitate oxidation of hydrocarbons in the downstream catalyst zone. Heat exchange catalyst member (10) defines two flow paths separate therethrough, one of these channels comprises a catalytic zone for the exhaust gas. In another embodiment, the air injected, heated by the heat exchanger trap (28 ') or other heating element (62).


Detailed O and C records were constructed through the Oligocene section at Site 366 (DSDP Leg 41) in the eastern equatorial Atlantic. Samples were analyzed at intervals of more than one per million years using both benthic and planktonic foraminifera, and no significant hiatuses were encountered. A survey of the depth habitats of planktonic' foraminifera has shown that the chiloguembelinids, pseudohastigerinids, cassigerinellids, and in the latest Oligocene, Globigerinoides lived in the warmest waters. Below these surface forms the unkeeled globorotaliids, large globigerinids, small globigerinids occurred; Catapsydrax lived at the coolest temperatures. The surface temperature at Site 366 ranges from 15° to 16° in the early Oligocene to 12°C in the late Oligocene. A significant temperature increase characterizes the termination of the Oligocene. Intermediate depth temperatures are taken from the planktonic genus Catapsydrax whose temperature record closely parallels that of the benthonic foraminifera, suggesting that the deep water masses are controlled by high latitude processes independent of tropical surface conditions. The C variations demonstrate that the deep waters in the equatorial Atlantic were depleted in oxygen by about 2 ml/1 compared with the South Atlantic Site 357.


Based on the analysis of the substance and operation feature of affiliate,moreover,the possible invasion of the creditor's interests and the latent risk,the paper aims at exploring the prevention method according to the credit operation in Chinese commercial banks.


FRIENDS (Flexible, Reliable and Intelligent ENergy Delivery System) is a new concept for a future energy delivery system. FRIENDS is characterized by the Quality Control Center (QCC) with dispersed generator and/or storage system in order to improve the system reliability. In this paper, the social cost is assumed as the sum of the rate of electricity, interruption cost and QCC cost, the effect of the QCC on area economy improvement is evaluated through the Monte Carlo Simulation. It is illustrated that the area economy may be improved by the QCC with reliability improvement, depending on the reliability level.


This article analyzes and implements a reliable, scalable, load balanced, manageable and secure distributed directory servicein detail,which applied to Internet application and based on the basic LDAP directory service model. ;;;;


Remote surface flow observations are crucial for improving the comprehension of hydrological phenomena. A recent advancement in remote hydrological measurements involves the use of drones for generating surface flow‐velocity field maps through large‐scale particle image velocimetry (LSPIV). In this work, we perform a comparative analysis of drone‐based LSPIV with fixed implementations. Quantitative indices are introduced to test the efficiency of the techniques with regards to measurement accuracy, sensitivity to the transit of tracers, and platform mobility. Experimental findings support drone‐based observations in outdoor settings. Specifically, measurements from the aerial platform are more sensitive to the transit of tracers and closer to benchmark values than traditional LSPIV implementations. Future work should aim at improving the stability of the aerial platform and mitigating the effects of tracer scarcity. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Lieberman JA, Stroup TS, Mcevoy JP, Swartz MS, Rosenheck RA, Perkins DO, et al. Effectiveness of antipsychotic drugs in patients with chronic schizophrenia. N Engl J Med 2005;353(12):1209–23.

Should we stop prescribing atypical antipsychotics and go back to first-generation medications?


ABSTRACT The article describes a field experience that unexpectedly shifted online, in response to the global pandemic and national shut down, mid-way through the spring 2020 semester. First, the course and its embedded fieldwork is situated within the body of theoretical work that frames the traditional, f2f delivery. Then, the literature on teacher preparation for online instruction, as well as online fieldwork experiences in literacy instruction is reviewed. Through formative assessment survey data and subsequent reflective data, the instructional decisions which undergirded the shift to remote fieldwork are analyzed for their impact on the thinking and learning of the literacy specialist candidates who participated in this shift. Three instructional decisions emerged as most critical to the shift's success and candidates' learning. Findings have implications for the course and the advanced literacy program and are important considerations as we adapt to the educational realities of teaching and learning in an uncertain time.


Counterfactual statements, e.g., "my headache would be gone had I taken an aspirin" are central to scientific discourse, and are formally interpreted as statements derived from "alternative worlds". However, since they invoke hypothetical states of affairs, often incompatible with what is actually known or observed, testing counterfactuals is fraught with conceptual and practical difficulties. In this paper, we provide a complete characterization of "testable counterfactuals," namely, counterfactual statements whose probabilities can be inferred from physical experiments. We provide complete procedures for discerning whether a given counterfactual is testable and, if so, expressing its probability in terms of experimental data.


Trochopore larvae of U. unicinctus were exposed to selected settlement stimuli. Within 5 - 10 min after addition of the UM, the settlement stimuli derived from the skin of adult echiuran, induced metamorphosis of trochopores to pelagosphera. However, the trochopores did not positively respond for settlement, when stimulated with normal sea water, sticky fluid drawn from Tegillarca granosa or blood of U. unicinctus. The thermo-sensitive UM was relatively stable at ambient temperature, but was destroyed at 70℃.


Method and apparatus for adaptive quantization of camera images (KB), which are equipped by one with a lens (2) camera (1) are supplied, whereby the from the camera (1) generated image video data of the camera images (KB) image data blocks (BB) which each corresponding to a discrete cosine transform (DCT) are subjected to the calculation of DCT coefficients, which are for their quantization by a quantization matrix (QM) is divided and then rounded, wherein the quantization matrix used for quantization of the DCT coefficients (QM) adaptive to the lens (2) the camera (1) is adjusted.


Currently, there are many models of intelligent interfaces of search information systems for search using natural for the user modalities of speech, face, gestures and their recognition. In this article, on the example of the intelligent interface of the unmanned aerial vehicle, two models of user modality recognition will be studied, these are hidden markov models and bayesian network, these models will have to recognize the hand gestures of the operator of the unmanned aerial vehicle.


Abstract Past bacterial diversity of a paleosol was reconstructed using metabarcoding of paleo environmental DNA (PalEnDNA). The paleosol was subsampled from a sediment core which was excavated from a palaeo beach-ridge located 2.6 km away from present sea shore and identified that it was deposited under marine influence ∼6000 years ago, using geological proxies. The bacterial community contained 37 bacterial phyla and dominated by Proteobacteria, followed by Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes, Actinobacteria, Verrucomicrobia, and Chloroflexi. The bacterial community was a mix-up of marine and terrestrial population, and thereby diversity was higher than marine populations. The result shows metabarcoding of PalEnDNA can effectively reconstruct past bacterial community structure.


This paper draws on the early stages of my doctorate research into the formation of identity among a small group of young adult African Australians between the ages of 18 and 25 living in Canberra. These participants come from a cross section of the community, encompassing different genders, ethnicities, class, cultures and migratory patterns (diplomatic, humanitarian entrant, etc). I am exploring how these participants in my study perceive themselves and one another and whether they act together as a cohesive group across the' boundaries' created by class, gender and ethnicity amongst other attributes. In describing the complexities evident in black African Australian youths' processes of identification and belonging, compounded by the lingering legacies of British colonialism and the White Australia Policy, I look initially to studies of African diaspora. Here I hope to find interpretive devices or ways of understanding the African diaspora in Australia vis-a-vis pan-African discourse. This includes adopting a number of theoretical positions primarily taken from the work of Paul Gilroy to expound my own narratives and that of my participants. I also make a number of observations concerning the arrival of Africans in Australia with the First Fleet up to the current migration of humanitarian entrants to Australia. Here I further explore the dynamic that exists between Africans in Australia shaped by changing patterns of migration, settlement, and ethnicity. In all I aim to make more visible the African presence in Australia through the cultural studies field.


By designing engineering's item and document management model. Practicing second empolder In ArcGIS, making use of ArcCatalog's customization function, it can get a good system interface .Using COM technic, the system establish ActiveX dynamic link (DLL) under Visual Basic programme environment in order to realize specifical system function,which is accomplished and realized in ArcCatalog.


The effect of a protective coating on the heat removal properties of a cutting plate made of VK8 tungsten-containing hard alloy has been studied. The article provides a sequence of measurements made by a thermal imager and a thermograph to install a mechanism for heat removal by a protective coating. The factors affecting the fault in temperature measurements in a static experiment by means of a thermal imager are described. The time to maximum temperature transferred from the heated counterbody to the hard alloy with and without coating has been obtained. The exposure time of the maximum temperature transmitted from the counterbody to the alloys under study has been fixed. It has been demonstrated that a multilayer electrospark coating based on Ni, Cu, Fe, Cr, W reduces the maximum temperature under the same test conditions by 42%, while the surface cooling rate at the point close to the cutting edge increases by 53%. The data obtained show the effect of the protective coating on the heat removal property of the hard alloy. The time of heat propagation over the entire surface of the test sample and the cooling time have been studied by means of a thermograph. There is a temperature difference of 103°С for the alloy without coating that has been calculated simultaneously between the points on the cutting edge and at a distance of 2 mm lower along the front surface, while for the alloy with a protective coating the difference was 79°С, it is less by 24%. The thermograms of alloys with and without coating are clearly shown at time to maximum temperature on the surface. The work of the coating to remove heat from the point of contact with the heated counterbody has been proven, and the heat removal property is explained by the composition of the coating obtained by electrospark alloying with electrodes based on Cu, Ni, Fe, W, and Cr.


the aim of the present study is to underline the pressing urgency of solving the problem of switching out of fossil-based fuels and getting in line with the priority objective of the EU to decommission fossil fuel power plants and replace them with renewable energy sources (RES) and the secondary objective to effectively manage the processes associated with the growth of electric vehicles, which are to be a significant future consumer of electricity. While both goals are very clear and their benefits well defined, it is crucial to assess also the related risk of interruption of the power supply, especially in publicly sensitive infrastructure such as buildings and hospitals. In order to achieve the EU's goals of reaching 80% of RES by 2050 without disrupting the normal operation of hospitals, it is necessary to develop a procedure focused on increasing the level of energy supply security and energy independence of healthcare facilities.


Information on the life history of the moth species Elachista vonschantzi Svensson, 1976 is given. The larva mines the leaves of the grass species Calamagrostis stricta. The mine is typical of the genus. Both the mine and the pupa are figured. The reared female is photographed and its external appearance is described and compared with the earlier descriptions of the species and closely related species occurring in the same area. The conservation status of the species in Fennoscandia area is briefly discussed.


The Italian peninsula served as a dividing line between the Mediterranean's western and eastern basins, and its unique location allowed it to serve as a point of contact and meeting for the various cultural currents that converged in the Mediterranean basin, including European and African cultures from the north and south. This Mediterranean region, in which the Italian peninsula played a significant role, served as the womb in which (Rome) was conceived, followed by a sequence of beneficial changes that shaped and created the cultured Roman existence.


Abstract Slow travel (ST), which emphasizes deeper experiences via slower transportation modes, has been promoted as an alternative to current practice and a more sustainable form of tourism. With lower GHG emissions being a national environmental goal in Taiwan, ST concepts have been garnering attention. The relationship between the environments of destinations and pro-environmental behavior of tourists has attracted relatively little academic attention. To remedy this, the current research establishes a fairly complete model for incorporating factors at the contextual level into the individual determinants useful in encouraging ST. The goal of this research is to understand how certain predictors directly and interactively influence the choices of tourists toward ST. This study collected 508 validly filled surveys addressing 13 industrial tourist destinations, and applied Hierarchical Linear and Nonlinear Modeling (HLM) analyses. In addition to the individual-level factors, including perceived benefits of tourism experiences and ages of tourists, the design of onsite tourism programs at the contextual level was one of the most influential drivers to encourage visitors' ST intentions. Included in this research are the insights into how to promote ST and corresponding suggestions for tourism operations within the context of sustainable tourism and destination management.


The invention relates to a fructus cannabis beancurd which is a soft beancurd, a block beancurd or a dried beancurd prepared by milling 50-75 percent of soybean and 25-50 percent of fructus cannabis into mixed soya-bean milk, boiling the mixed soya-bean milk and then solidifying the mixed soya-bean milk by brine. The production method comprises the following steps: mixing the soybean and the fructus cannabis according to the weight percent of 50-75:50-25, drenching the mixture by clear water and filtering out gravity water; milling the soaked mixture of the soybean and the fructus cannabisobtained in the last step into the mixed soya-bean milk; according to a common beancurd preparation mode, adding water to extrude mixed soya-bean milk, and then filtering bean dregs; regulating the concentration of the mixed soya-bean milk and boiling, putting the boiled mixed soya-bean milk in another container, and then adding the brine to solidify the mixed soya-bean milk to prepare the fructus cannabis soft beancurd; putting the obtained fructus cannabis soft beancurd in filter cloth or a mould and then pressing into the fructus cannabis block beancurd, wherein the brine is stone screen underground acid water or gypsum water. The fructus cannabis beancurd has light grey and crisp, soft, fresh and tender mouthfeel, can not turn sour, is easy to digest, is beneficial to improving looks, canrelax the bowels and can eliminate coagulation, and therefore, the young and the old enjoy the fructus cannabis beancurd. The fructus cannabis beancurd is a novel food having the health-care efficacyof fructus cannabis and keeping beancurd characteristics.


As the last representative of liberal theorist and liberal feminist,John Stuart Mill studied gender equality starting from liberalism and mankind's integral benefits rationally.He analyzed women's subordinate status and its reasons,and fought for equal rights for women.Mill's deep concern for women's freedom and his views on gender equality indicated showed his enthusiasm for human beings and his devotion to career,meanwhile,his viewpoint of female freedom is revolutionary and innovative.


This article examines impoliteness in political TV debates in Lithuania. Study adopts qualitative and quantitative content analysis method to analyze 720 minutes of political debates broadcasted before the 2016 Lithuanian Parliamentary elections. Current paper presents theoretical approach to impoliteness, which is later used in empirical analysis to address 2 main objectives: a) to study impoliteness in terms of directness/indirectness and b) to reveal how face threatening acts (FTAs) are expressed. The results of the study have revealed that impoliteness during political TV debates is almost equally expressed directly and indirectly. Direct impoliteness during political debates can be expressed using all functional types of the sentences. Indirect impoliteness in debates can be modified internally and externally using various language resources: inclusive we form, official addressing words, irony, parantheses. This suggests that impoliteness in the context of political TV debates is a unique phenomenon specified by various creative ways of using the language in order to publicly belittle political opponents.


Abstract As a complicated concept with ethical implications, equity or fairness in the field of climate change mitigation concerns the relations not only between individual human beings but also between human beings and the nature. In this paper, after the review of equity between individuals, market and non-market attributes of emissions rights are distinguished and discussed. Based on the argument of equal per capita emissions rights, three types of emissions rights and the concept of minimum emissions rights as social security are proposed.


The purpose of this research is to find out how the stock returns of companies listed in the Jakarta Islamic Index are influenced by financial ratios such as the Liquidity Ratio, Activity Ratio, Profitability Ratio, Solvency Ratio, and Market Value Ratio. Quantitative approach and type of associative research are used as research methods. This study used secondary data and used panel data regression analysis with the help of Microsoft Excel and Eviews 9. A purposive sampling technique was used to select 16 companies listed on the Jakarta Islamic Index between 2017 and 2021 to be used as research samples. The results of the study show that simultaneously the Liquidity Ratio, Activity Ratio, Profitability Ratio, Solvency Ratio and Market Value Ratio have a significant effect on stock returns. While partially the Liquidity Ratio, Activity Ratio and Profitability Ratio do not have a significant effect on stock returns. Then the Solvency Ratio has a negative and significant effect on stock returns, and the Market Value Ratio has a positive and significant effect on stock returns.


ObjectivesEpidemiological data and studies on hospitalized patients from the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic have shown an increased prevalence of Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) in patients with COVID19 and several guidelines advocate a higher vigilance for VTE in outpatients with COVID19. However, studies have found no increased risk of VTE when adjusting for other risk factors. As COVID19 becomes endemic, its impact on the pre-test probability for VTE needs to be established to prevent unwarranted workups for VTE in patients with COVID19. In this study we wanted to investigate the predictive value of COVID19 in patients with suspected VTE during 2020 in a whole Swedish county (Östergötland) with 465000 inhabitants.MethodsThis was a retrospective observational cross-sectional study of patients within an integrated healthcare system in Sweden, covering a population of 465 000. Patients 18 years and older with a diagnostic test for VTE between 1 of January and 31 of December 2020 were included. Testing for VTE was performed with ultrasound for deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and with pulmonary angiography for pulmonary embolism (PE). COVID19 positive status was defined as a positive PCR test for SARS-CoV-2 within 14 days prior, to 7 days after testing for VTE. Risk for VTE with COVID19 was assessed by logistic regression, adjusting for risk factors such as age, sex, previous VTE, ongoing anticoagulant treatment, malignancy, Charlson score, ward care, and ICU care.ResultsDuring 2020, 6523 patients were investigated for possible VTE of which 354 had a positive diagnosis of COVID19 around the time of investigation. The prevalence of VTE in COVID19 positive patients was 10.2% (36/354) compared to 14.7% (473/3219) in COVID19 negative patients and 15.6% (399/2589) in patients without a COVID19 test. The prevalences of PE were 10.7% (32/299), 15.6% (308/1969) and 17.4% (158/906) and the prevalences of DVT was 8.6% (5/58), 13.1% (168/1281) and 14.4% (246/1713), for COVID19 positive, negative and untested patients respectively. A COVID-positive test was not associated with an increased risk for VTE (crude odds ratio 0.64, 95%CI 0.45 - 0.91, adjusted odds ratio 0.46, 95%CI 0.19 - 1.16).ConclusionsWe found no increased risk of VTE in COVID19 positive patients, suggesting that COVID19 status should not influence VTE workup. In the logistic regression analysis the odds for a VTE was lower for patients with COVID19. This is likely an indication of overtesting in this group of patients and stresses the importance of accurate pre-test assessment when considering a VTE workup in patients with COVID19 infection.


Stepwise regression analysis approach was used to assess the global sensitivity of the hydrological parameters of storm water management model (SWMM) in this study. The catchment area played a dominant role in determining surface runoff. When precipitation was low(10.5mm), the parameter in pervious zone showed very low sensitivity, indicating that those parameter could be set to empirical values. When precipitation was high(52.5mm), roughness of conduit was the most sensitive parameter to peak flow and peak time. Reduction of the catchment area could increase the sensitivity of other parameters, providing better condition for parameter calibration.


"Evidence of the Oxford Booktrade, about 1300." Significant evidence for the booktrade in Oxford in about 1300 occurs in the books acquired there by Thomas of Westoe, monk of Durham. They raise important questions about the degree to which the dissemination of texts in peciae was organized in Oxford at that date, suggesting that a short-lived attempt was made to provide the specialized type of exemplars characteristic of copying by pecia. Westoe's books also contain discarded leaves from an older manuscript that have been marked to make them serve as wrappers of a kind that would have enabled a stationer to keep a stock of loose peciae in good order; they are the first such examples to have been recognized.


We may not be able to make you love reading, but the modern moon a personal view will lead you to love reading starting from now. Book is the window to open the new world. The world that you want is in the better stage and level. World will always guide you to even the prestige stage of the life. You know, this is some of how reading will give you the kindness. In this case, more books you read more knowledge you know, but it can mean also the bore is full.


On aural teaching, teachers should pay equal attention to both language and cultural elements in aural teaching and introduce to the students the cultural knowledge combined with the text so as to help them better understand the text and improve their aural comprehension ability.


In this paper, we present a novel chaos based ultra-wideband (UWB) imaging radar for surveillance applications in a closed environment. The proposed chaos based UWB imaging radar has good range resolution and excellent range-sidelobe suppression characteristics that enhance its imaging performance. The imaging performance of the proposed radar is better than that of the conventional time modulated UWB (TM-UWB) radars in reducing false alarms and in imaging targets closely lying behind the wall. Numerical electromagnetic (EM) simulations using finite difference time domain (FDTD) method illustrate the definite advantages of the proposed radar under different scenarios.


Abstract Tenshoku means changing jobs: quitting one's company and starting work in a new company. Under the lifetime employment system, regular workers have enjoyed the security and stability provided by corporations, and tenshoku used to be rare among regular workers. In the decades after the Japanese economic bubble burst in 1991, tenshoku has become a more common practice in Japan. However, even now, young people's job-changing behavior is often regarded negatively. What young workers inside the prestigious lifetime employment system think of tenshoku remains underexamined. This qualitative study uses young regular workers' experiences of tenshoku as a lens to investigate their values. Overall, instead of relying steadfastly on their employers, I find in this study that young workers are actively utilizing tenshoku for better working lives: it is an option that supports their subjective well-being.


agradables, mientras que las termitas, moscas, rodacacas, cucarachas, chinches, polillas, pulgas y avispas fueron consideradas como desagradables. Palabras-clave: Entomología, entomología insecto, "insecto", Jalisco. (Insects identified by undergratuates of the first semester of – This paper recognizes the insect cultural concept among undergraduates of biology from the Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico, without knowledge of general entomology, arthropoda or insects. Forty three undergraduates in the first semester taxonomy course were surveyed. The exploratory study provided common names recorgnized or associated as insect. These names included annelids, arachnids, crustaceans, diplopods, chilopods, insects, amphibians and small mammals. Also, information on insects in music and movies were included. Results showed that butterflies, ants, dragonflies and bees were considered pleasant insects, while termites, flies, dung beetles, cockroaches, bugs, moths, fleas and wasps were considered disagreeable insects.


The utility model discloses a temperature resistance compound thermal insulating pipe, which is composed of a work steel pipe, an anticorrosive layer, a drag reduction layer, a heat-insulating layer and a protective layer, wherein the heat-insulating layer is respectively provided with a hard inorganic heat-insulating layer, a semi-hard inorganic heat-insulating layer of alkali free long fiber centrifugal glass wool and an organic heat-insulating layer from inside to outside. The utility model has the advantages of simple structure, low cost, good thermal insulation, long service life, etc.


Aims: Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) is an increasingly used label that describes a subset of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) who display extreme behaviours in response to everyday demands. To date, little is known about the cognitive profiles associated with these behaviours. The aim of this study was to investigate the potential role of parent-reported Executive Function (EF) in PDA traits in the context of ASD, with a particular focus on emotion dysregulation and non-compliance behaviour. Methods: Sixty-four parents of children with ASD and 31 parents of children without ASD, aged between 6-11 years old, were recruited to complete questionnaires at a single time point. Questionnaires assessed ASD traits, PDA traits, EF, non-compliance behaviours, and emotion dysregulation. Results: Group differences in parent-reported EF were found, with children with ASD showing greater deficits than children without ASD. EF was significantly related to global PDA traits in the context of ASD, as well as to dimensional measures of specific associated behaviours such as emotional dysregulation and behavioural non-compliance. Executive Function accounted for a significant proportion of the variance (r2 = 34%) in PDA traits. Indices of EF were found to differentially predict non-compliance behaviours and ASD traits confounded some of these relationships. Conclusion: These findings suggest that a range of EF deficits may contribute to PDA behaviours in children with ASD. Evidence for differential involvement of EF in PDA traits suggests that further exploration using more direct measures of EF is warranted to gain a clearer understanding of this relationship, which could benefit interventions and behavioural strategy development.


This article analyzes the novel "Olhai os lírios do campo" by Érico Veríssimo from the perspective of Karl Marx 's class theory and Max Weber' s social stratification. It discusses, from the relations of the protagonist, Eugênio Fontes, as concepts like ideology, for Marx, and stratification, for Weber, operate in the world of the novel. 1 E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com 2 INTER-LEGERE | Vol 4, n.31/2021: c17967 | ISSN 1982-1662 Despite the differences of these theories, they make it possible to follow things like the resignation of the parents with the poverty and the discomfort of Eugenio in the interaction with the wheels of the elite.


Background: Schistosomiasis affects an estimated 200-300 million people worldwide. Construction of dams has contributed to the high prevalence of urinary schistosomiasis in Ghana. To assist rural villages downstream from the Barekese dam in schistosomiasis control programs, this study evaluated possible detection methods of schistosomiasis. Methods: A cross-sectional survey of volunteers was conducted in a rural setting of Ghana. Five hundred and thirty four (534) volunteers provided symptom information and urine samples for urinalysis. Microscopic egg count of 341 random samples was used to determine prevalence of disease and to analyze effectiveness of urinalysis and symptom information for diagnosing schistosomiasis. Results: Schistosomiasis prevalence was 41.1 % for the village. The highest prevalence was in the 10-14 age groups (71.1 %). Sensitivity and specificity for hematuria was 76.1 and 77.7 % respectively, and proteinuria was 58.2 & 68.7 % respectively. The positive predictive value was highest for hematuria (71.1 %). The highest negative predictive value was among positive proteinuria or hematuria (84.0 %). From urinary symptom information, reporting pain and dark urine yielded the highest positive predictive value (72.0 %). Reporting pain, difficulty, or dark urine yielded the highest negative predictive value (75.8 %). Discussion: The positive and negative predictive values of urine analysis and symptom information may be an inexpensive tool for diagnosing schistosomiasis in areas of high prevalence.


Content based video retrieval has many intelligent applications in the field of education, security, medicine, agriculture, etc. Retrieval of a specific video story based on the textual query is the key idea behind research work. The video is first segmented in order to get shots representing small stories. To represent each shot efficiently, key frame extraction needs to be performed on each video. Various key frame extraction algorithm is also explored in this research work. This research work also involves natural language processing steps such as tokenization, punctuation and extra symbol removal, stemming of words to the root words, etc. for text processing of textual query. Later on, indexing algorithm needs to be implemented in order to obtain appropriate results based on the query. This research work explores the area of video retrieval based on textual query and image query. Index Terms Key frame extraction, Optical Character Recognition(OCR), shot boundary detection, indexing, stemming, tokenization


Background: World health organization (WHO) recommended daily sodium intake less than 2 g. To assess the validity of WHO recommendation, we investigated the relationship between daily sodium intake and obesity. Methods: A total of 14,694 participants aged ≥19 years who had no missing data for nutrition, chronic disease, health behavior, economic status and laboratory findings from the 5th Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES-V), which was performed from 2010 to 2012. Obesity was defined as having a body mass index of 25 kg/m 2 or higher. Daily sodium intake was calculated from 24 hour recall and divided into five categories (<2 g, 2-4 g, 4-6 g, 6-8 g, ≥8 g). The association between daily sodium intake and obesity was analyzed using multiple logistic regressions. Results: Higher sodium intake in men had an increased risk of obesity with odds ratios (ORs) of 1.27 for 2-4 g intake (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.97-1.67), 1.40 for 4-6 g intake (95% CI, 1.07-1.85), 1.41 for 6-8 g intake (95% CI, 1.05-1.89), and 1.61 for ≥8 g intake (95% CI, 1.19-2.18), compared to men with less than 2 g intake, after adjusting for confounding factors. The P value for trend of ORs in each group for men was 0.020. In women, compared to the lesser than 2 g intake, only ≥8 g intake group had an OR of 1.28 (95% CI, 1.02-1.62) without showing significant P for trend (P value for trend=0.221) Conclusions: We found that sodium intake more than 2 g per day was independently related to the increased risk of obesity in men. Therefore, to minimize the risk of obesity, we suggest taking sodium less than 2 g per day.


The integrated electricity–gas energy system (IEGES) coordinates the power system and natural gas system through P2G equipment, gas turbines and other coupling components. The IEGES can realize wide-range and long-distance transmission of electricity, heat and natural gas, and truly realize large-scale cross-regional energy supply in space. At present, the theoretical system applicable to the comprehensive benefit evaluation of the IEGES has not been established, and the economic, environmental and social benefits of the system are still at a preliminary study stage. Therefore, the comprehensive benefit evaluation model of the IEGES is constructed, and the integrated benefit evaluation indicator system of the IEGES is designed along the investment and planning, energy supply, equipment operation, power distribution and terminal user. Through the combination of subjective and objective indicator weighting methods, the weights of each indicator are clarified and the matter-element extension theory (MEE) is used to improve the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS), and the comprehensive benefit evaluation model of the IEGES is established. Finally, taking Beijing Yanqing IEGES, Tianjin Eco-city No. 2 Energy Station and Hebei IEGES III as an example, the practicability and effectiveness of the evaluation indicator system and model are verified.


Represented by object-oriented software and methodical complex to effectively perform complex modeling of fluid flow and dynamics of underwater vehicles, consistently solve particular problems in view of the design features of the machine, flow conditions, ways to ensure the output unit of the starter and sustainable movement of its trajectory.


The species diversity of silicon (including traditional tetrahedral coordinated silicon and hypervalent penta- and hexa-coordinate silicon) gives rise to the structural richness and diverse properties of silicates. Among these silicon species, hypervalent silicon is very rare, not to mention almost unexplored mixed-anion hypervalent fluoroxosilicate species. In this work, we successfully obtained a novel mixed-anion fluorooxosilicophosphate Na 4 Si 2 PO 4 F 9 consisting of two uncommon hypervalent fluoroxosilicate species, namely, trans-SiO 2 F 4 species and SiOF 5 species. Such hypervalent silicon species are reported for the first time in inorganic compounds. Remarkably, the coexistence of two distinct hypervalent fluoroxosilicate species in one compound is somewhat conflicted with Pauling's parsimony rule, but it indeed achieve an unlikely connection by PO 4 and our phonon dispersion calculation confirms the structure stability of Na 4 Si 2 PO 4 F 9 . Temperature-dependent conductivity measurements show that Na 4 Si 2 PO 4 F 9 is a promising solid ionic conductor with a high conductivity of 4.0 × 10 -5 Ṡ∙cm -1 at 700 K and a low active energy of about 53.1 KJ·mol -1 . This work will enrich the structure chemistry of silicates and may provide a new platform for solid ionic batteries.


Industrial combinations in Germany have been given many different names by business men as well as by popular writers, but there are really only two principal kinds: The &dquo; Kartell &dquo; and the &dquo;Interessengemeinschaft&dquo; (association of interests). The Kartell may be defined as an association of independent establishments of the same trade, organized for the purpose of influencing selling conditions and prices in their trade. For whatever apparent purpose a Kartell may be formed, restriction of competition must necessarily result and a tendency toward monopoly be


OBJECTIVE
To determine if a relationship exists between pregnancy rates obtained in patients undergoing in vitro fertilization (lVF) with donor eggs and levels of thyroid stimulating hormone greater than 2.5 mlU/L but still within a range considered normal.

STUDY DESIGN
Retrospective comparative cohort study. With prior approval of the Ethics Committee, 233 patients undergoing IVF with donor eggs, in a two-year period, were included. Patients were grouped depending on the thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) level. Pregnancy rates were compared. Statistical analysis was made with the Chi-square test.

RESULTS
Pregnancy rates, depending on the TSH level, were 56.6% in patients with TSH levels below 2.49 mU/L vs. 21.6%, in patients with levels above 2.5 mU/L. This difference was statistically significant (p < 0.001).

CONCLUSIONS
Mild abnormalities of thyroid function may adversely affect the pregnancy rates in patients un- dergoing in vitro fertilization with donor eggs. A possible alteration in endometrial function may be associated.


[Sometimes] I read in a newspaper, "The scientist says that this discovery may have importance in the cure of cancer." The paper is only interested in the use of the idea, not the idea itself. Hardly anyone can understand the importance of an idea, it is so remarkable. Except that, possibly, some children catch on. And when a child catches on to an idea like that, we have a scientist. These ideas do filter down, and lots of kids get the spirit – and when they have a spirit you have a scientist. It's too late for them to get the spirit when they are in our universities, so we must attempt to explain these ideas to children. – Richard Feynman [1]


Reverend Sir, Being on the Parks, or public university-walk here, on Sunday, Sept. 21, 1760, from 6h 40' to 7h 25' P. M. such a meteor exhibited itself to my view as I had never seen before.


PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to understand business students' intention to behave ethically in general, and in particularly in the business context of a developing country, India.Design/methodology/approachThe paper surveyed 250 final semester MBA students from different business schools in Indore city of Madhya Pradesh in India. The study employed the most popular behavioural theory, the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) to understand the intention of business students to behave ethically. Structural equation modelling was used to analyse direct effects of the constructs on behavioural intention, and the overall model.FindingsFindings revealed that attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioural control are positively related and have strong influence on ethical behavioural intention of business students. All constructs together explain 67 percent variance in intention. Attitude alone contributes 46 percent in explaining variance in ethical behavioural intention.Research limitations/implicationsBusiness ethics field can benefit from this study as it provides an empirical explanation of the contribution of each factor that is, attitude, subjective norms and perceived behavioural control, in ethical behavioural intention of business students. This is directly beneficial for business schools and for education policymakers as the information can help policymakers to understand the potential of existing business ethics education. This study is limited to a data set of 250 business students in the context of a single country which cannot be generalized. So, there is need for research of this type in a more collaborative international context.Originality/valueTo the best of my knowledge, this is the first study in the Indian context to predict the intention of business students to behave ethically, using the TPB model. This study contributes valuable knowledge to the domain of business ethics, behavioural studies as well the field of business education, and suggests to explore ways to strengthen the three constructs attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioural control, as these constructs were found to have a strong influence in forming ethical behavioural intention of business students of business schools in India.