We present a semimonolithic frequency-doubler from 1080 to 540 nm with 80% doubling efficiency and up to 849-mW output power of green light.


This chapter centers on the 1819 Original Collection compiled by Arthur Clifton, an English musician who had emigrated to Baltimore in 1817 (changing his name, from Antony Corri, in the process). Though not a commercial success, this pathbreaking volume was the first American publication to present a substantial body of material drawn from European classical music in psalmodic form, containing 21 psalm and hymn tunes culled variously from the work of Gluck, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Such adaptations had been enjoying a modest vogue in England since around the turn of the century, but only half a dozen or so had appeared in the United States. Clifton relied on existing London publications for inspiration—many of the European melodies he includes had already been adapted by English compilers. But he returns to the classical music sources themselves in almost every case, developing his own meticulously crafted body of adaptations.


this was restricted to vellus hairs on the nostrils and scalp. Some 3 years after cessation of treatment she had sparse regrowth of terminal scalp hair in a few isolated patches. In conclusion it can be confirmed that hair loss may be noticed after only a few months' lithium treatment. There is no reason to suspect excessive dosage as the cause, as in only one of the twelve cases was the serum lithium level found to be above the therapeutic margin, and this was only for a short period. It can also be confirmed that withdrawal of lithium usually leads to a regrowth of hair.


2 Introduction 5 Literature Review 7 Understanding the Barriers Nontraditional Students Face 7 Supporting the Emotional Needs of Nontraditional Students 11 Engagement, Persistence, and Success of Nontraditional Students 15 Research on Specific Nontraditional Student Populations 20 Research Method 30 Findings: Overview 35 Findings: Survey 36 Academic Engagement 36 Social Engagement 39 Sense of Belonging 41 Findings: Focus Group 44 Every Student has a Story 45 Engagement is Not Universal 46 Supports 47 Obstacles Along the Way 49 Fitting In 56 Recommendations 58 Conclusion 73 4 NONTRADITIONAL STUDENT PERSISTENCE Table of


This report presents the status of the TMI-2 fission product inventory program through May 1985. The fission product inventory program is an assessment of the location of fission products distributed in the plant as a result of the TMI-2 accident. Included in this report are principal results of samples from the reactor building where most of the mobile fission products (i.e., radiocesium and iodine) are expected to be found. The data are now complete enough for most reactor components; therefore, it is possible to direct the balance of the examination and sampling program to areas and components where it is likely to be most productive. Those areas are the reactor core and the reactor building basement, with emphasis on the currently unsampled portions of the core.


Mlany polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and aromatic amines share in common the ability to evoke cancer in certain animal species; the most powerful of these carcinogens is 7,12-dimethylbenz(a)anthracene.1 A single pulse dose of 7,12DMIBA evokes mammary cancer invariably and rapidly in Sprague-Dawley rats; the yield of cancers per rat is greatly enhanced when several pulse-doses are given at intervals of a few days.2 In addition to evoking cancer in a dramatic way, 7,12-DMBA causes massive hormone-dependent necrosis of two zones of the rat's adrenal;3 this effect is only exerted by congeners whose structure is very closely related to 7,12-DIMBA. It has been found that adrenocorticolysis of this special sort can be prevented by any of a large number of cyclic compounds,4-6 provided that it is given prior to 7,12DMBA. Prevention of hydrocarbon-induced adrenal apoplexy is useful as a rapid screen to identify compounds which also will suppress aromatic-induced cancer. 2 In the present work, series of aromatic azo and ethylene derivatives were investigated for their ability to induce protection against adrenal injury and cancer induced by 7,12-DMBA. The most effective inducers in this regard were found to be 1-(p-phenylazo-phenylazo)-2-naphthol (sudan III) and compounds closely related to it; these exceed by an order of magnitude all protectors that have been described earlier. Moreover, dose-response in the induction of an enzyme, menadione reductase, runs in parallel with efficacy of azo dyes in the induction of adrenal protection. Experimental.-Chemical: Some of the compounds were purchased and these were recrystallized from appropriate solvents. Compounds IV, VI, VII, X-XII, XIV-XIX, XXI, XXIVXXXV, XXXVII-XLII, were synthesized by known procedures and purified by chromatography. Compounds VIII and IX, the d-, 1-, and mesoforms of 1,1'-azotetralin were prepared by the ollowing reaction scheme:


Some aspects of the maturation and spawning of the commercially important prawns
of the southwest coast of India, Metapenaeus dobsoni, P. affinis, Penaeus indicus and Parapenaeopsis stylifera have been studied.


This article proposes a computer-based approach to effectively enhance second language learners' willingness to communicate in the target language. To do so, we implemented a conversational agent embedding a dialogue management model based on two conversational strategies (i.e., communication strategies and affective backchannels), serving as scaffolds for enhancing learners' willingness to communicate in the target language. Here, we report on differences observed among second language learners' preferences for both conversational strategies according to their initial level of willingness to communicate and on variations of their willingness with respect to such differences. Although we found that most students generally preferred a combination of both strategies, learners' preferences and the effects of the support provided by these strategies varied according to their level of willingness to communicate. Learners with lower willingness to communicate tended to prefer affective backchannels, whereas those with higher willingness to communicate seemed to favor communication strategies. These results were consistent with post-test results, which showed that learners' expected willingness to communicate tended to be higher after interacting with systems embedding their preferred strategies. In sum, these results are preliminary evidence of the meaningfulness of accounting for such learners' preferences in adaptively using and fading the strategies employed by conversational agents to motivate second language learners to communicate in the target language.


The amino-acids of undesalted casein hydrolysates have been determined successfully by quantitative chromatography on buffered filter paper. The technique proposed includes the use of five newly developed solvent systems.

The values for the amino-acid content of casein found by this technique were in agreement with the values reported in the literature. The coefficients of variation for the determination of individual amino-acids ranged from 7.4% for glycine to 1.3% for arginine.


Word reordering is a difficult task for translation. Common automatic metrics such as BLEU have problems reflecting improvements in target language word order. However, it is a crucial aspect for humans when deciding on translation quality. This paper presents a detailed analysis of a structure-aware reordering approach applied in a German-to-English phrase-based machine translation system. We compare the translation outputs of two translation systems applying reordering rules based on parts-of-speech and syntax trees on a sentence-by-sentence basis. For each sentence-pair we examine the global translation performance and classify local changes in the translated sentences. This analysis is applied to three data sets representing different genres. While the improvement in BLEU differed substantially between the data sets, the manual evaluation showed that both global translation performance as well as individual types of improvements and degradations exhibit a similar behavior throughout the three data sets. We have observed that for 55-64% of the sentences with different translations, the translation produced using the tree-based reordering was considered to be the better translation. As intended by the investigated reordering model, most improvements are achieved by improving the position of the verb or being able to translate a verb that could not be translated before.


Abstract Malaysia as one of the top subsidised countries around the world has launched to reduce subsidies to capture its development goals. This study, therefore, analyses the effects of the subsidy reform on the macroeconomic, welfare and poverty levels of Malaysia by applying a CGE model. The findings suggest that subsidy removal leads to significant falls in both income and consumption of rural, urban and non-citizen households, and consequently decreases their welfare. However, poverty levels among rural households will most likely increase significantly when compared to urban households due to their relatively low level of income compared to other groups.


Facial keypoint detection is a challenging problem in the field of computer vision. The keypoint detection is done by predicting the coordinates of certain facial features. In this paper, facial keypoint detection is predicted using MobileNet techniques. The model is trained to predict facial key points using the webcam input data. The facial keypoints includes eyebrow corners, nose tip, eye corners and center, and lip points. The predicted keypoints are mapped onto the webcam input data and tested with various head poses. The adaptive wing loss is used to estimate the loss of the model.


The paper describes a methodological approach specifically developed to capture and transform the qualitative User Experience (UX) of a consumer product into quantitative technical specifications. Merging the potentialities of Virtual Prototypes (VPs) and Digital Mock-Ups (DMU), a flexible design scenario is built to interpret users' desires. Visual, sound and haptic stimuli are reproduced in order to let users live a realistic multisensory experience interacting with the virtual replica of the product. Parametric models are defined to acquire users' preferences while optimization algorithms are used to transform them into technical specifications. The aim of the approach is to propose a robust technique to objectify users' desires and enable their direct and active participation within the product development process. The methodology is derived merging insights coming from four case studies as well as indications available in literature. Specifically the paper describes how to design the multisensory UX with household appliance doors and drawers with a specific focus on the haptic/force feedback objectification.


: The university must open the "School Development Plan and Specialization Plan" at the university allimi. The reason for this is the Special Act on the Disclosure of Information by Educational Institutions, enacted on May 25, 2007, and the Plan for Reform of University Reform announced by the Ministry of Education on Mar 28, 2014. Therefore, we examined the similarity and standardized model of the "School Development Plan and Specialization Plan" published by a total of 137 colleges. As a result of the study, only 17(12.4%) of the college produced information in two ways(school development and specialization), and the rest were not. The school development plan presented quantitative indicators such as world number one, The characterization plan presented qualitative indicators such as human. Based on this, standardized research procedures and conception are presented


Tetramethylguanidine-catalysed addition of nitromethane to levoglucosenone affords in 98% yield a 10 : 1 mixture of 2 : 1 adducts 2 and 3, which result from initial Michael addition of nitromethanide exclusively from the exo face at C-4, followed by further reaction of the nitronate anion at both faces of the 1 : 1 adduct 4. In the presence of excess of levoglucosenone the major product (95%) is a pentacyclic 1 : 2 adduct 6, formed by reaction of 1 : 1 adduct 4 with further levoglucosenone. MeOH–levoglucosenone–MeNO2 adduct 12 and 2 : 2 adduct 7 were also formed as by-products in the corresponding diethylamine-catalysed reaction in methanol. The structure of compound 6 was established by X-ray crystallography.


A 200MHz RFQ was designed to accelerate proton beam to over 2.0MeV. A four-rod type structure with mini-vanes was adopted and a 200MHz 400kW tetrode amplifier will be used as its RF power source. The basic consideration was presented. The design of particle dynamics was performed with PARMTEQM and the preliminary results were given.


The quality and shelf life of noodles containing onion powder (0, 3, 5, and 10%) were investigated. The pH of raw noodles decreased by increasing the concentration of onion power. The weight, volume, and water absorption of the cooked noodles were comparable, irrespective of onion powder concentrations. Color L and a values of raw noodles decreased, while b value increased by addition of onion powder. However, no considerable differences in color values were observed among the control and onion noodle groups after cooking (p<0.05). The total polyphenol contents and DPPH radical scavenging activities of raw and cooked noodles increased with increasing onion powder concentrations, although the latter had lower values. In the aspect of texture, the control group showed higher hardness and chewness than those of noodle containing onion powder, except for springiness. The results of raw noodle storage at 10℃ for 12 days indicated that raw onion noodles, especially those with 5% onion powder added, could be preserved for at least 6 days longer than the control noodle. In the sensory evaluation of cooked noodles, no significant differences in appearance, taste, flavor, texture and overall acceptability were observed between the control and onion noodle groups. This study indicates that the addition of 5% onion powder could improve the functionality and shelf life of noodles.


The correction factors evaluation, concerning the exposure absolute measurements and air-kerma calculations for 60Co gamma rays, have been determinated as well as their uncertainties for a standard graphite ionization chamber. Since 1998, the ionization graphite chamber is the mexican national standard for exposure and air-kerma quantities. It has been developped by the Secondary Standard Dosimetry Laboratory of the National Intitute for Nuclear Research (ININ). Also, the graphite chamber was compared with secondary ionization chambers calibrated at NPL and IAEA.


Presently, adaptive systems use various cognitive and cardiovascular measures to evaluate the functional state of the operator. One marker that has been largely ignored as an assessment tool is baroreflex sensitivity (BRS). This study examined the extent to which BRS changed in response to acute psychological and physical stressors. A total of 20 participants underwent 6-min exposures to a psychological stressor and a physical stressor. Baroreceptor sensitivity, blood pressure, heart rate, heart rate variability, stroke volume, cardiac output, mean blood pressure, total peripheral resistance, left ventricular ejection time, and pre-ejection period were continuously measured at rest and throughout the testing period. Compared to rest, BRS significantly decreased during both the psychological and physical stressors. BRS was reduced more with the psychological stressor than the physical stressor. Heart rate and systolic blood pressure significantly increased above rest during the psychological stressor but not during the physical stressor. There were no significant differences from rest or between stressors for the other physiological markers. BRS was more robustly responsive than other cardiovascular measures commonly used to assess the psychophysiological response to stress, suggesting BRS is a useful marker for evaluating operator functional state during psychological and physical tasks.


Communication: Titanium/methylaluminoxane-based catalyst systems polymerising norbornene by vinyl addition were modified to initiate ring-opening metathesis polymerisation by interrupting the course of polymerisation with phenylacetylene. The products showed nearly 30% ring-opened structures according to their 1 H NMR spectra. The change in mechanism of polymerisation after the addition of the reactivity transfer reagent is seen from the kinetic data.


The embodiment of the invention provides a method and system for establishing a mapping relation between a logic block and a physical block. The physical block comprises a plurality of physical pages. The logic block comprises a plurality of sectors. The number of the physical pages contained in one physical block and the number of the sectors contained in one logic block are respectively a positive integer n. The method includes the following steps that the first non-blank sector in the logic block is found as the kth sector; the kth sector is made to correspond to the 0th physical page of the physical block; a mapping formula is obtained according to the value of the section serial number k of the kth sector in the logic block; all the sectors in the logic block except the kth sector are made to correspond to the corresponding physical pages in the physical block according to the mapping formula; k is a non-negative integer smaller than n.


The article completely analyzes the elements easily resulting in defects and accidents from the purchase of masonry material to the construction,and puts forward the links and problems the monitor engineer should pay more attention to in construction monitor.


Recently a novel approach to perform multi-turn extraction was proposed based on beam splitting in the transverse phase space by means of trapping inside stable islands. In addition to numerical simulations, aimed at assessing the feasibility of the proposed technique, an experimental campaign was launched since the year 2002 at the CERN Proton Synchrotron. During the year 2004 run, a high-intensity single-bunch beam was successfully split and the generated beamlets separated without any measurable losses. The underlying principle will be presented and discussed in details in this paper, as well as the latest experimental results and future applications. Invited paper at the High Intensity Beam Dynamics Workshop COULOMB'05, Senigallia, Italy, September 12-16, 2005


As per today's scenario the information transmission is needed with highly effective communication in terms of greater speeds of data transmission, more accuracy and high reliability. Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) Communication System is more suitable for ro-bust and secure communication with high speed data transmission. Here in this paper how MIMO is more suitable than SISO, SI-MO (Single-Input Multiple-output) and MISO(Multiple-input single-output) is shown in terms of better Channel Capacity and less BER (Bit Error Rate). OSTBC Encoder and Decoders are used for secure communication is estimated and analyzed for BPSK, QPSK with SISO and MIMO(3 outputs and two inputs-3x2 fading channel) Communication System for ½ and ¾ coding rates with AWGN Channel as transmis-sion. Adaptive Quadrature Modulation technique (QAM) is used with M-ary values of 16,24 and 256 for ½ and ¾ coding rates for both SISO and MIMO (3x2 Fading Channel) Communication System. As per the Simulation results BER and Channel capacity per-formances for MIMO are better compared with SISO with Adaptive Modulation Techniques.


Liver metastasis represents a common systemic complication of colorectal cancers (CRCs). Partial liver resection has been demonstrated to result in long‐term survival in certain well‐selected patients with otherwise well‐controlled systemic disease. Neoadjuvant therapy has been demonstrated to result in improved resectability and potentially longer survival in patients with liver metastases from CRC. The addition of biologic agents to chemotherapy has been shown to improve response rates and overall survival in patients with metastatic CRC. Here, we are discussing the role of biologic agents in the treatment of patients with liver metastases from CRC. We also discuss the role of biomarkers for response and resistance to such novel therapies. J. Surg. Oncol. 2010;102:891–897. © 2010 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


Multi-band terahertz (THz) absorber based on a non-symmetric double-sided graphene comb resonator array is designed and simulated by the finite element method (FEM) in CST Software. Then, an equivalent circuit model (ECM) based on admittance with a fast MATLAB code is proposed to analyze the absorber in the THz region. The admittance-based ECM approach could be used for any metamaterial absorber containing one layer of resonators sandwiched between two dielectric slabs and backed by a metal layer consisting of a layer of resonators with a thickness much smaller than the minimum wavelength in the considered wavelength range. The proposed absorber is dynamically tunable with a one-layered resonator array. It has strong linear dichroism (LD) response of 98% and the frequency range of 0.7-5 THz with absorption $>$ 96%: two absorption bands for TE mode and three for TM mode. The proposed absorber can be used in polarization-sensitive devices and systems in the THz region. The ECM model of the metastructure was derived to provide an efficient approach to analyzing the performance of the absorber. The FEM simulation results are in good agreement with the ECM ones.


Objective: To study the clinical value of MR cerebral grey matter and white matter image in diagnosing gray matter heterotopia.Methods: Five cases of gray matter heterotopia confirmed by clinic and MRI were retrospectively analyzed.All cases were examined with routine T1-weighted,T2weighted,FLAIR sequences,grey matter and white matter image.Results: The lesions in 5 cases of gray matter heterotopia had similar signals with cerebral grey matter in MRI every sequence.Heterotopic grey matter were satisfactory observed,especially in the grey matter and white matter image.It was more contributive to judge the character of lesions,than other sequence.Conclusion: MR cerebral grey matter and white matter image has unique value in diagnosing gray matter heterotopia.They can supply more immediate image information in analysis etiology of epilepsy.For gray matter heterotopia,it is very essential to find a focus and to judge its character.MR cerebral grey matter and white matter image is a essential complementarity to routine sequences.It has higher application value in clinic.


It is proposed applications of the theory of combined dry friction [1-10] in the problem of the ball rolling on boundaries of two identical frames. Father development of this model can be used in investigation of the dynamic of the a so-called "Butterfly" robot, consisting of two identical shaped plates rigidly placed parallel to each other on a small distance aimed at manipulating a ball that can freely roll on the plates' boundaries as on rails [11]. The friction force and torque are computed by the integration over the contact area so that the exact dynamically coupled integral model accounting the relationship of all the components of friction is obtained. This exact model is replaced by approximated analytical model [10] which is completely satisfy to all analytical properties of integral model as function kinematics parameters without increasing the number of coefficients.


In view of the property management which has taken place since the reform of the urban dwelling house system in China, this paper analyses the institution of CPR property rights (common share and duty, and common governance on the common resources in residence), showing that it is possible to form the self-governing institutional arrangements, of common property rights by the house-owners, and "the tragedy of the commons" will not emerge again.


Objective To investigate the inhibition on woodchuck hepatitis virus(WHV) by combination of siRNA and Entecavir(ETV) in primary woodchuck hepatocytes(PWHs) with WHV natural infection.Methods Four siRNAs targeting the WHV preS1,S,C,and X region were synthesized and transfected into PWHs,in the presence or absence of ETV.The WHV gene expression and replication in PWHs and in the culture supernatants were determined by Northern blotting,Southern blotting,and realtime PCR,respectively.Results The four siRNAs led to a depletion of WHV transcripts and replicative intermediates with different kinetics.siWHs and siWHx were much more effective than siWHpreS1 and siWHc.In PWHs,WHV mRNAs were knocked down followed by WHV replicative intermediates.siWHs and siWHx had the highest efficacy to deplete 60%~70% of WHV transcripts and replicative intermediates,and about 90% of WHV DNA in the supernatants of PWHs.On the other hand,combination of siWHx with ETV exhibited more potently inhibition on WHV gene expression and replication,and prevented the rebound of WHV replication after the discontinuation of ETV.Conclusion siRNAs potently inhibited WHV gene expression and replication in PWHs with WHV natural infection,which might be useful as novel antiviral agents for the treatment of chronic HBV infection,especially when combined with nucleotide analogues.


This chapter explores how the concept of complicated grieving/disenfranchised grieving applies to dementia sufferers and their carers. Some suggestions are made about practical responses to the problem. The discussion mainly focuses on the issues for carers, in particular spouses, of people with Alzheimer's disease, the most common cause of dementing illnesses and one of the most complex. However, it is applicable to the other dementing illnesses and also to people with acquired brain injury, especially that involving the frontal lobe. Grieving is that complex emotional process involving shock, confusion, anger, guilt, longing, and sadness which follows loss experienced by individuals or groups. An important reason for the complication is the fact that all grieving must take place on three "planes," the psychological, the sociological, and the mythological, in order to be complete. The chapter explains the three planes of grieving.


The Capital was an integrated scientific system,it reproduced scientifically the history and developing logic of typical capital movement including four dimensions.They were three stages:simple commodities,single capital movement and social total capital movement;two processes:general and special;two levels:directness and indirectness;two subjects:leading and subordination.There were corresponding stipulations in their main basic theories,ought to understand these dimensions could all-round and accurately comprehend the basic theories and their scientific conditions.


Measurements of the ARINA instrument on board the Resurs-DK1 satellite (altitude $\sim$ 600 km and inclination $\sim$ 70$^{o}$, since 2006 till 2016) and the VSPLESK instrument on board the International Space Station (altitude $\sim$ 400 km and inclination $\sim$ 52$^{o}$, since 2008 till 2013) in low Earth orbits were presented in this report. Both instruments are identical in terms of physical layout. They can measure high-energy protons in the range 30-100 MeV with 10\% energy resolution and 7$^{o}$ angular accuracy. Data analysis was carried out for the total period of proton flux measurement by the instruments. L-B proton distributions in the inner radiation belt (L$<$2) were studied in dependence on proton energy. Geographical and pitch-angle distribution of proton intensity were studied for chosen L-shells. These distributions were analyzed during the decreasing part of the 23$^{rd}$ solar cycle and the main part of the 24$^{th}$ one.


Medical (also known as clinical) data refers to health-related information associated with regular patient care or as part of a clinical trial program. There are many categories of such data; These categories include radiology reports, pathology investigation reports, Doctor's advice or prescriptions, and many more. Among these reports, radiology reports and pathology reports are the most critical medical documents that a diagnostician looks into, especially in case of emergency. They provide the physicians with crucial information regarding the patient's condition and help them take immediate action in critical situations. However, these reports exist in the form of unstructured text, which makes them time-consuming for humans to interpret. So there is a need to extract the medically necessary information and their importance from these reports. We have proposed a system that will extract the medically significant information in structured form and a level of importance and classify the overall report into critical or non-critical categories, which help doctors identify potential high-priority reports. Our proposed system is based on Bootstrapped Pattern Learning for information extraction and Artificial Intelligence Techniques for classifying data into critical and non-critical categories.


USB 3.0, also called Super Speed USB, is a latest standard aiming at the 'on bus bit rate' of 5 Gbps and is backward compatible with earlier USB standards and retains over all topology as it is. USB 3.0 improves the speed of USB 2.0, also called High speed 2.0 drastically by 10 times.


Mobile Commerce plays a vital role in business nowadays. In Viet Nam, there is not many researches about M-commerce. Therefore, based on TAM model, this research investigates factors impact on customers' intention and usage towards M-commerce. The results indicate that Perceived usefulness, Perceived ease of use, Perceived playfulness and Perceived cost impacting on customers' intention and usage in M-commerce, especially Perceived usefulness is the most important factor. This research also showed the frequency of M-commerce activities and the reasons for using it, the top 5 most frequently activities: News, Instant messaging/chatting, Social network (facebook, Twitter, Cyworld), Ticket purchase and Downloading ringtone; and the top three reasons: For study or work, Availability of internet access anywhere, Immediate access to internet when needed. In addition, we found that moderate roles of gender, hedonic and utilitarian tendencies in M-commerce adoption in Viet Nam.


Corporate Social Responsibility is an emerging field which has garnered increased attention in recent years. This study was undertaken to explore implementation and evaluation of a CSR initiative named Village Cluster Adoption Programme (VCAP). For carrying out the research both case study method of research and field survey have been used. For having firsthand knowledge of the initiative five key personnel related to VCAP were interviewed. For studying the implementation and evaluation of VCAP, field survey was conducted in the villages adopted under VCAP. Ninety respondents, selected on the basis of willingness to participate in the study, were included in the sample. Primary data was obtained from respondents with the help of pre structured non disguised questionnaire. For the convenience of the respondents, the questionnaire was administered after translating it in Punjabi language. To fulfil the objectives enquiries were made regarding the main issues like awareness about VCAP, media used for spreading awareness, main achievements and overall benefits of the programme. From the results it was found that the respondents were well aware about Farmers Field School being run under VCAP and various facilities and reading material being made available at these schools. Training under expert guidance and contamination free post harvest handling and storage were the key components of VCAP. Respondents considered training at Farmers' Field Schools as the most important activity. Introduction of latest scientific techniques and making available enough reading material were also considered important under VCAP. Major benefits available from VCAP were Knowledge about Agricultural Practices, Expert Advice and Improvement in quality and yield of cotton. Comparison of pre-VCAP and post-VCAP data showed that there was an increase in cotton yield by at least 225 kg per hectare and about 30 per cent increase in area under cotton cultivation.


Since the discovery (Takagi 1972) and determination of the chemical structure of phytosiderophores (Takemoto et al. 1978), many investigators .studying Fe-deficiency have been very interested in knowing the precursor amino acid for phytesiderophore synthesis. However, this is diMcult to determine because not much is known about the location of phytosiderophore synthesis. Whether phytosiderophores are produced in the roots or the shoots is not clear. They have been fbund in the roots, xylem sap and shoots in Fe-deficient Graminaceae plants (Mori, et al.


To achieve better propulsion performance for high-altitude airships, this paper proposes a variable-pitch propeller design and performance analysis. Propeller surrogate models were constructed based on an in-house fluid–structure solver and validated by a wind tunnel experiment. Based on the surrogate model, this paper studied propeller performance under the common influence of propeller pitch variation and rotational speed, and proved the positive effect of the variable-pitch propeller on maintaining relatively high efficiency in large rotational speed range. This paper compared the performance of variable-pitch propellers and fixed-pitch propellers under the constraints of the motor. The results show that introducing variable-pitch propellers to high-altitude airships can significantly improve propeller performance at multiple altitudes and laminar wind speeds. And the potential of airship weight reduction brought by the variable-pitch technique is discussed as well.


Manufacturers from all over the world are vying now to create the most cutting-edge digital cockpits for their next vehicles. These characteristics are derived mostly from other related technologies now in use by consumers. As high-tech safety systems are being built into automobiles these days, the future of the cockpit is changing. Users will expect connected, secure, and improved mobility interfaces from the digital cockpit of the future. Without sacrificing security or performance, a digital cockpit controller system allows for the simultaneous operation of Infotainment, Instrument Cluster, and ADAS functions in real time from a single SoC. It is capable of powering several HuD and other high-resolution monitors. New connected features, intuitive HMI, on-the-go entertainment, and safety features are drawing in customers, making it crucial for OEMs to set themselves apart in the realm of Cockpit electronics. The modern digital cockpit is defined by features such as internet-connected infotainment systems with a virtual assistant and streaming media, larger and higher resolution 3D displays, all-digital instrument clusters, Augmented reality-based head-up displays, and other advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) like surround-view, eMirror, etc. Expansion opportunities exist for suppliers of linked digital cockpits thanks to the development of a cockpit domain controller architecture that consolidates these disparate functions onto a single multi-core SoC and ECUs. Centralized computer technologies that merge previously independent fields into the automobile's control panel are the driving force behind the current mobility revolution.


MAGIC and SOS have been applied to investigate a variety of accelerator‐related devices. Examples include high brightness electron guns, beam‐RF interactions in klystrons, cold‐test modes in an RFQ and in RF sources, and a high‐quality, flexible, electron gun with operating modes appropriate for gyrotrons, peniotrons, and other RF sources. Algorithmic improvements for PIC have been developed and added to MAGIC and SOS to facilitate these modeling efforts. Two new field algorithms allow improved control of computational numerical noise and selective control of harmonic modes in RF cavities. An axial filter in SOS accelerates simulations in cylindrical coordinates. The recent addition of an export/import feature now allows long devices to be modeled in sections. Interfaces have been added to receive electromagnetic field information from the Poisson group of codes and from EGUN and to send beam information to PARMELA for subsequent tracing of bunches through beam optics. Post‐processors compute and display ...


In this work we present a method for local manifold-based regularization, as a mechanism for knowledge transfer during training of Convolutional Neural Networks. The proposed method aims at regularizing local features produced in intermediate layers of a "student" CNN through an appropriate loss function that encourages the model to adapt such that the local features to exhibit similar geometrical characteristics to those of an "instructor" model, at corresponding layers. To that purpose we formulate a computationally efficient function, loosely encoding the neighboring information in the feature space of the involved feature sets. Experimental evaluation demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed scheme under various scenarios involving knowledge-transfer, even for difficult tasks where it proves more efficient than the established technique of knowledge distillation. We demonstrate that the presented regularization scheme, utilized in combination with distillation improves the performance of both techniques in most tested configurations. Furthermore, experiments on training with limited data, demonstrate that a combined regularization scheme can achieve the same generalization as an un-regularized training with 50% of the data.


This article analyzes Rossana Campo's Mentre la mia bella dorme (1999), Duro come l'amore (2005) and Il posto delle donne (2013) in the context of Campo's work in general, showing how her use of crime genre conventions is specifically designed to reveal flaws and pitfalls inherent in romance narratives. By establishing a complex dialogue between noir and rosa, and by offsetting both traditions with female protagonists who question in different ways the heterosexual paradigm, Campo's crime novels occupy a unique place in her production, especially in regard to the representation of female desire.


Five yeast strains, causally associated with septicemia and death in a patient after peritonitis, were identified as Candida lusitaniae van Uden et do Carmo-Sousa by standard methods. The organism was initially susceptible to 5-fluorocytosine but strongly resistant to amphotericin B, requiring 50 micrograms/ml for complete inhibition at 48 h.


Sebro R, Levy H, Schneck K, Dimmock D, Raby BA, Cannon CL, Broeckel U, Risch NJ. Cystic fibrosis mutations for p.F508del compound heterozygotes predict sweat chloride levels and pancreatic sufficiency.


Abstract Abstract Abstract This article presents the results of a preliminary study on young members of transmigrant families who shuttle between the Philippines and Japan, particularly those who have migrated from Japan to the Philippines at least once during school age, and are residing in the Philippines at the time of data gathering (2010-2013). It profiles what, if any, language/s Filipino/Japanese acquire and to what extent they do so. This essay inquires into the implications of migration of children/youths of transmigrant families in terms of language/s at school, when they migrated from Japan to the Philippines in the advent of the introduction of Mother-Tongue Based, Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) in 2012. It aims to raise awareness of the positive and negative impact of migration on minors' cognitive development and to help understand emerging features of migration, transmigration, and shuttling for more effective policy making and advocacy. Those who demonstrate the symptoms of proficient multilingualism migrated less frequently, underwent consistent education in a certain sociolinguistic environment from Grades 1 to 4, and benefited from a support system (such as lowering of school year level, tutorial etc.) that facilitated the foundation of mother-tongue literacy. The proficient multilinguals are more articulate and have clearer ideas about their


Using the COSY-11 detection setup we intend to determine the excitation function of the total cross section for the pn → pnη′ reaction near the kinematical threshold. The comparison of the pp → ppη′ and pn → pnη′ total cross sections will allow to learn about the production mechanism of the etaprime meson in nucleon–nucleon collisions and to investigate aspects of the gluonium component of the η′ meson. A method of the measurement and preliminary results are presented in this report.


The authors have taken advice of numerous theorists and specialists of the French Infantile Psychiatry, in the aim to clarify the management of the conduct disorder in the infant psychiatry sectors. In this view, they first define the conduct disorder concept to understand the resulting care. Statistically, theses sectors are highly concerned by those pathologies, which Educative, Therapeutic and Pedagogic institutes (ITEP) are in charge of, at the adolescence. During the first consultations, the psychiatrists for children have a diagnosis and therapeutic approach vary according to the cross-section of life. The authors have chosen the cross-section of life depending on the education, which reflects quite well the organisation of the care. The main characteristics of the care are individual factors, their adaptability to the capacity and the needs, the pluriprofessionality and the environment resource. Finally, their work implies rich possibilities of research that would set to work the different actors together. To succeed, it would need pilots, collaborations and means of professionals. © 2007 Publié par Elsevier Masson SAS. Mots clés : Troubles des conduites ; Dysharmonie évolutive ; Faille narcissique ; Rupture des liens ; Environnement pluriprofessionnel ; Alliance thérapeutique


A TERRORIST ATTACK involving a weapon of mass destruction (WMD)—particularly a nuclear or biological weapon—somewhere in the world is probable by the end of 2013, a congressional task force predicts. This is the startling assessment of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Proliferation & Terrorism, which discussed its findings at a press conference last week. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said of the report, "Dealing with [the risk of a WMD attack] effectively must be a matter of first priority for the next Administration and the new Congress." The commission's report, "World at Risk," recommends actions to reduce the possibility of a devastating attack. Although it mentions chemical and radiological weapons, it focuses on biological and nuclear weapons. "I can appreciate the commission's decision to prioritize," says Matthew Rojansky, executive director of the Partnership for a Secure America (PSA), a bipartisan nonprofit center that also studies WMD issues. But "I'm ...


In phase shifting in photoelasticity, phase unwrapping is one of the crucial steps in the processing of determining the total fringe or- ders. This task is tedious, particularly when ambiguity exists in an irregu- lar phase map. Currently the phase-unwrapping process is usually per- formed line by line with prior knowledge of the total fringe order for at least one point after eliminating the isoclinic ambiguity. In this paper, a novel method is proposed, which can automatically perform the phase- unwrapping process directly based on the result of phase-shifting inde- pendent of the status of ambiguity and no prior knowledge is needed of the total fringe order for at least one point. The basic idea of this method is to exploit the relationships between phase retardations caused by three different loads applied on a specimen to find directly the total fringe order at each point. Experiments on a 'C' shape specimen under com- pression are provided as demonstrations. © 2000 Society of Photo-Optical In- strumentation Engineers. (S0091-3286(00)00910-7)


Just as this issue was going to press, it was announced that Sandra Hughes-Hassell, a Library Quarterly board member, had received the 2014 Virginia Hamilton Essay Honor Award for her article "Multicultural Young Adult Literature as a Form of Counter-Storytelling." This award is presented to the journal article published in a given year that makes the most significant contribution to professional literature concerning multicultural literary experiences for youth. Sandra is richly deserving of this award, having dedicated her teaching, research, and service activities to advancing information inclusion. The news is doubly exciting because the article receiving the award was published in Library Quarterly ðvol. 83, no. 3 1⁄22013 : 212–28Þ. In telling people about this award, however, I have been reminded of one of the genuine oddities of library scholarship—we don't have a major unifying research conference. The Virginia Hamilton Conference is in its thirtieth year and is the longest-running conference dedicated to multicultural literature for youth in the country. Yet I have found myself repeatedly explaining to people who have been library researchers for many years, but who don't study issues of youth, literature, or diversity, what the award means. Other than the Jesse Shera Award for best LIS paper, we really don't even have research awards that cut across all research in the library field. Were our field populated with tens of thousands of researchers busily working in a great multitude of aspects of what we studied, significant compartmentalization of what everyone is doing would make sense. But library science isn't the size of literature, mathematics, history, or education by a long shot. The ALISE faculty listings make it pretty easy to grasp how small a field library research is, particularly when you discount all of the people teaching in LIS or iSchool programs who have not a speck of relationship to libraries in their research,


This paper presents the design, fabrication, modeling, and demonstration of a micro spherical rolling and flying robot, with a total mass and payload of 35 g and 10 g, respectively. The micro aerial terrestrial robot (ATR) has the ability to fly through the air or roll on the ground, for applications that include search and rescue, mapping, and surveillance. Its unique size makes is easily portable and enables the robot to enter and maneuver around in tight spaces such as air ducts. The design centers around a micro-quadcopter encased in a lightweight spherical exoskeleton that can rotate about the quadcopter. The spherical exoskeleton offers agile ground locomotion while maintaining characteristics of a basic aerial robot in flying mode. Details of the system modeling, design and fabrication are discussed, including the robot's turning capabilities over ground and the lightweight spring-steel exoskeleton. The prototype ATR is experimentally validated in aerial and terrestrial mode, and results show that the ATR traveling over the same distance in rolling mode is 260 percent more efficient than a traditional flying-only robot and in flying mode the system is only 39 percent less efficient. Experimental results also demonstrate transition between modes of locomotion and curved, rolling trajectories.


The continual seasons of mass failure either in internal or external examinations by majority of pupils/students in public schools is worrisome in sane clime. This writer believes that elementary school level forms a stronger architectural foundation upon which secondary and tertiary levels academic learning outcomes are built. Although performance records of pupils/students in examinations conducted by both Universal Basic Examination Council and State Primary Education Boards are not accessible but those of West African Examination Council (WAEC), National Examination Council (NECO) and National Business and Technical Examination Board (NABTEB) showed rising tide in students' abysmal performance. Contributory factors to poor academic performance include immaturity of pupil/student as a result of parent's pressure to have underage children in secondary or tertiary school level and by extension producing uncultured and timid graduates without needful knowledge, skill and character for gainful employment; poor expression skills, poor coverage of curriculum by teachers as well as carefree attitudes of government and some parents too. The fault is in the people who are not alive to their integrity and obligations. Why? Causes of poor academic performance and tips to excel in examinations were offered. Therefore the paper looks at the roles of stakeholders in achieving academic excellence, calling for collective saving actions and responsibilities to check the ugly trends because it takes a whole village to train a child.


To assess the patterns of alternative medicine use in patients of a public hospital oncology unit, and to compare patients' experience of alternative with conventional medicine.


In the area of ecological data analysis there is an increasing demand for methods and tools based on n ovel approaches from machine learning and information th eory that would complement classic statistical meth ods. This would significantly increase the number o f tasks that can be addressed with data analysis an d provide higher quality of the analysis results. Dat a mining, for example, uses machine learning method s that employ approaches from classical statistics as well as information theory. Machine learning tools  have been successfully used for data analysis and l earning of qualitative and quantitative models from the data. Models can be written in a human readable for m (e.g., decision rules and trees, equations) or in a form that can only be used for predicting new examp les (e.g., neural networks, support vector machines , etc.). For the purpose of the analysis of ecologica l data, decision trees are frequently the method of ch ice. Due to their hierarchical structure, models in the form of decision trees are easy to interpret and ca n be used to predict values of the target variable that can be simple or structured (e.g., a vector, a hier archy, etc.). We present a pilot study of applying data mi ning techniques in order to analyse the forest in S lovenia and to develop scenarios of its future development that could be used in forest management. We have fo cused on the analysis of the time dynamics of growi ng stock changes and developed models that enable u s to investigate the factors that influence the total growing stock in a forest, as well as to predict t he growing stock in the future.


In this study, the effect of SCWO treatment, transformation characteristics of heavy metals and corrosion of Ni-based alloy 625 during dyeing sludge supercritical water oxidation (SCWO) were investigated. The experiment carried out at 580°C, 25MPa, oxidation coefficient of 1.3, reaction residence time 10min. The removal rate of COD reached 99.3% at the optimum reaction conditions which means the COD is almost completely destructed. Results of heavy metals determination showed that the concentration of Cu in the liquid products was 0.266mg/L, while Zn and Pb could not be detected under the experimental conditions. This implied that Cu, Zn and Pb in residues after SCWO treatment were more stable than that in raw sludge. The corrosion behaviour of Ni-based alloy 625 was discussed in different conditions. Consequently, it is believed that SCWO treatment is an effective alternative for safety disposal of dyeing sludge.


Glen Sussman. chair, department of political science and geography, Old Dominion University. Ronald M. Peters, Regents' Professor of Political Science and chair of the political science department at the University of Oklahoma, has retired from the directorship and curatorship of The Carl Albert Center for Congressional Research and Studies, posts he has held since the center's establishment in 1979. The center was established by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education and the Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma as a tribute to the ideals and accomplishments of the Honorable Carl Albert, an Oklahoma graduate and the 46th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.


The criterion issue of spectral test in a linear congruential random number generator is considered. In this paper, we report on four variants of the normalized spectral test, measured both relative to either a theoretical or exact lower bound and aggregative to either a worst-case or average-case method. Computer exhaustive searches are conducted to evaluate and compare their statistical behaviors. It is shown that the spectral test with both theoretical lower bound and average-case aggregation criterion outperforms.


Objective To investigate the application of skin tissue expansion at superficial layer in the treatment of face burn scar.Methods Expanders of different volume were implanted at the superficial layer of face,neck,and medial upper arm.Then the thin pedicled expanded flaps were transferred to cover face defects. 228 cases of face burn scar were treated with 264 flaps.Results 14 expander flaps underwent partial necrosis at the distal end of the flaps due to hematoma and infection.The other 250 flaps survived completely.The largest flap was 32 cm×36 cm in size with a pedicle of 10~12 cm in width.Conclusion When the expander is implanted at the superficial layer and the subcutaneous main superficial vein is reserved, the expansion flap can be transferred above the usual length to width ratio with a reliable blood supply.The technique is simple and provides a fast expansion process.


Two methods of predicting device lifetime for fast reliability evaluation are demonstrated. These methods are based on direct correlation using breakdown signature parameters. The first method is based on the correlation between voltage data from a ramped voltage stress (RVS) test and lifetime data from a time dependent dielectric breakdown (TDDB) test. The second method uses a homogeneous correlation technique using near-time-zero leakage current data and the corresponding lifetime data, both from the same TDDB test. There have been some findings indicating that these correlation techniques may provide a promising way for fast reliability evaluation without a TDDB test.


Understanding the dynamic behavior of particulate materials is extremely important to many industrial processes with a wide range of applications ranging from hopper flows in agriculture to tumbling mills in the mining industry. Thus simulating the dynamics of particulate materials is critical in the design and optimization of such processes. The mechanical behavior of particulate materials is complex and cannot be described by a closed form solution for more than a few particles. A popular and successful numerical approach in simulating the underlying dynamics of particulate materials is the discrete element method (DEM). However, the DEM is computationally expensive and computationally viable simulations are typically restricted to a few particles with realistic particle shape or a larger number of particles with an often oversimplified particle shape. It has been demonstrated for numerous applications that an accurate representation of the particle shape is essential to accurately capture the macroscopic transport of particulates. The most common approach to represent particle shape is by using a cluster of spheres to approximate the shape of a particle. This approach is computationally intensive as multiple spherical particles are required to represent a single non-spherical particle. In addition spherical particles are for certain applications a poor approximation when sharp interfaces are essential to capture the bulk transport behavior. An advantage of this approach is that non-convex particles are handled with ease. Polyhedra represent the geometry of most convex particulate materials well and when combined with appropriate contact models exhibit realistic transport behavior to that of the actual system. However detecting collisions between the polyhedra is computationally expensive, often limiting simulations to only a few thousand of particles. Driven by the demand for real-time graphics, the Graphical Processor Unit (GPU) offers cluster type performance at a fraction of the computational cost. The parallel nature of the GPU allows for a large number of simple independent processes to be executed in parallel. This results in a significant speed up over conventional implementations utilizing the Central Processing Unit (CPU) architecture, when algorithms are well aligned and optimized for the threading model of the GPU. This thesis investigates the suitability of the GPU architecture to simulate the transport of particulate materials using the DEM. The focus of this thesis is to develop a computational framework for the GPU architecture that can model (i) tens of millions of spherical particles and (ii) millions of polyhedral particles in a realistic time frame on a desktop computer using a single GPU. The contribution of this thesis is the development of a novel GPU computational framework Blaze-DEM, that encompasses collision detection algorithms and various heuristics that are optimized for the parallel GPU architecture. This research has resulted in a new computational performance level being reached in DEM simulations for both spherical 2 © University of Pretoria and polyhedra shaped particles. In terms of the particle shape there are currently no other freely available codes that can match the geometrical fidelity in terms of accurate particle shape representation on the GPU. To the authors knowledge there is only one study on the GPU that takes particle shape into account with a physics model of similar fidelity to Blaze-DEM. In that study by Longmore at al. the clumped sphere method is used. Blaze-DEM is able to simulate 2 orders of magnitude more particles compared to other published results while being 3 times faster. The only reported implementations for polyhedra are on the CPU platform. Blaze-DEM is hundreds of times faster compared to CPU codes with physics models of a similar fidelity and 24 times faster than CPU codes with physics models of a lower fidelity. For simulations involving spherical particles Blaze-DEM is 5 times faster than other GPU based codes that have physics models of a similar fidelity.


Group practice in health care delivery takes many forms. The term "group practice" usually refers to a group of pro fessionals who combine their resources in delivering treatment care to a patient population. Some of these groups are actively involved in preventive medicine efforts. Because of heavy work loads, more and more activities are being delegated to nurses, physicians assistants and, in some cases, community-based family health workers. One common condition in all of these settings is that a group is doing the "practicing." The effectiveness of any group in any setting is related to both its capabilities to do the work and its ability to manage itself as an interdependent group of people. The central focus of this paper will be upon the internal dynamics involved when a collection of individuals attempts to function as a group. The objective is to provide a framework that will facilitate consid eration of several important issues involved in the more effective utilization of groups in delivering health care. We will begin by drawing upon the general body of knowl edge about groups and their dynamics developed within the behavioral sciences. Several key variables known to be of prime importance in any group situation will be discussed. Next, we will discuss the particular relevance of these variables to group medical practice.


Recently, interest in streaming and esports has flourished, placing increased emphasis on the spectator experience. We argue that by escaping the boundaries of the screen and incorporating a physical aspect, another stimulatory and social dimension, which heightens the interaction with the data and positively contributes to spectatorship, can be added. This paper reports on the design of Modata, a tangible visualization of Dota 2 matches that projects gameplay data onto a tangible representation of the Dota map. We report on the design process of Modata, explore the preferred type of interaction, and report on first user feedback collected through surveys and hands-on experience with a prototype of the concept. Results indicate that most (88%) of the asked participants see value in augmenting the game's experience by visualizing in-game data and translating it into the physical world.


Two problems persist in the treatment of severe mental illness that constitute a barrier to effective patient-centered care: excessive reliance on a limited number of antipsychotic medications at the expense of other effective treatments, and the underutilization of other evidence-based treatment options.


An advantage of laser crystallization over conventional heating methods is its ability to limit rapid heating and cooling to thin surface layers. Laser energy is used to heat the a-Si thin film to change the microstructure to poly-Si. Thin film samples of a-Si were irradiated with a CW-green laser source. Laser irradiated spots were produced by using different laser powers and irradiation times. These parameters are identified as key variables in the crystallization process. The power threshold for crystallization is reduced as the irradiation time is increased. When this threshold is reached the crystalline fraction increases lineally with power for each irradiation time. The experimental results are analysed with the aid of a numerical thermal model and the presence of two crystallization mechanisms are observed: one due to melting and the other due to solid phase transformation.


This paper studies decompression sickness, which is one of the problems facing those who fly at very high altitudes. Whilst the condition is rare and intractable, understanding of it may come from close collaboration between physician, pathologist and physiologist.


The invention discloses a magnetic attractive button and a keyboard thereof. The magnetic attractive button comprises a base plate, a key cap, a bending type support member, a supporting plate and an attraction element, wherein the key cap is movably arranged on the base plate; the bending type support member includes a first end and a second end, and is arranged between the key cap and the base plate; the supporting plate can slide relative to the base plate and is arranged under the base plate; the attraction element is arranged in the supporting plate; the attraction element generates attractive force relative to the first end when the supporting plate is placed at a first position so that the second end applies an upward support force to the key cap; and the attraction element removes the attractive force to the first end when the supporting plate is placed at a second position so that the key cap falls off and simultaneously makes contact with the first and second ends. The height of the button can be changed by attractive force.


Objective To investigate the combined TCI anesthetic effect of remifentanil and midazolam in plastic surgery by local anesthesia. Methods Midazolam 0.05 mg/kg and remifentanil 1 μg/kg were gave before cutting skin. The remifentanil 2 mg diluted by saline to 50 ml, and midazolam 20 mg diluted to 50 ml were combined TCI-ed during the operation. According to BIS, MAP, HR, The speed of the TCI wasadjusted properly to maintain the depth of anesthesia. These data of MAP, HR, BIS, HRV, SpO2, ECG and conscious-sedation level were observed before cutting skin, 30, 60, 120 mins during operation, withdral, 10 mins after withdral. Results Compared with basic value MAP decreased before cutting skin (P0.05). The intraoperative HR had no obvious change(P0.05), and intraoperative BIS decreased (P0.01), there was obvious difference of HRV value between before cutting skin and basic value (P0.01), there was sufficient intraoperative conscious - sedation and analgesia, analgesia score was between 3 and 5. Conclusion The combined TCI of remifentanil and midazolam had a good analgesia and conscious - sedation effect in plastic surgery by local anesthesia, and no obvious side effects were observed.


Abstract In a survey by Bain et al. (2002, Table 13), they found that 72% of business professionals recommended teaching spreadsheet applications as part of an AIS course while only 36% of the faculty polled reported using spreadsheets in the AIS course. This gap between what professionals thought should be taught and what professors teach could lead to students beginning the work force with less than desired spreadsheet skills. The purpose of this article is to provides a scenario (teacher's electronic grade book) in which students are taught advanced Excel© skills to better prepare them for future job requirements. An added bonus of this example tutorial to instructors is an efficient, re-usable spreadsheet to make assigning students' grades easier.


The solid-solid interfacial intimacy between the current collector and the electrocatalyst is of profound importance for an electrochemcial process. Herein we report that the carbonaceous current collector with high defect...


It is common knowledge that Wittgenstein cannot be called
fundamentally a religious writer. All the same, he did not
dismiss the reality 'religion' as nonsense. It is opined here
that, Wittgenstein was very consistent in his references to
it. We strongly claim that religion was a subject of his
philosophical preoccupation positioned among his general
striking similes, arresting moments and connections of his
general methods. Religion gained occasional and/or
scattered referencing in his works (e.g. the notes of 1938,
the positioning of religion and/or theology as grammar in
the 'Philosophical Investigations (PI: 373; p.283), Zettel
and the later work 'Culture and Value). Despite the above,
we have to agree, with Wittgenstein, that his poetic
compositions are to be understood and seen in consistent
connections (PI: 122) even when they look disconnected.


In the segmentation of region,the contour points are easily affected by concavity boundary and external complex environmental,focusing on these problems,the paper improves energy function of traditional Active Contour model.If initial contour points are put inside the boundary,with relationship between area and energy in the improved model,the contour points will be expanded to boundary,not to be converged in traditional model.The paper uses alternate greedy algorithm of improved model and traditional Active Contour model.Results show that,by the alternate algorithm,the contour points would be expanded quickly and accurately to boundary without disturbance of external environment.


Neural networks and fuzzy logic have been used as effective modelling tools in different environmental processes such as waste water treatment, water treatment and air pollution. Water is a very basic necessity in every day's and everyone's life. Rain is considered as one of the precious nature's gift. Chennai, one of the metro cities in India, highly rely on The Nature's gift to replenish its water reservoirs as the rivers flowing through Chennai are polluted with sewage. Hence prediction of rainfall is very essential for Chennai city. In this research article, smoothing techniques Moving Average (MA), Exponential Smoothing (ES), classical statistical method AutoRegressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) and the data mining technique K-Nearest Neighbour (KNN) have been used for prediction. Hybrid models involving the above-mentioned methods have also been applied for the same purpose. The performance evaluation of the above-mentioned models is carried out using the error measure Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE). Analysis show that the classical model ARIMA and the hybrid model ES-KNN have performed equally well.


We have been developing a nuclear hyperpolarization and polarization transfer system for semiconductors. It enables successive transfers of polarization (angular momentum) from photons to nuclear spins via photo-excited electrons in semiconductors using laser, microwave and multi-channel radio-frequency fields, resulting in the nuclear hyperpolarization in a target material. A part of the system has been completed and successfully applied to the hyperpolarization and polarization transfer experiments in InP and GaAs. The current status of the system is presented together with some preliminary data.


The Hennebique system, obscure in its origins, is the most widely used patent for r.c. structures used in Europe till WWI. It makes use of large diameter bars for flexural reinforcement and, usually, of thin (2mm) steel plates (20-to-50mm wide) for shear reinforcement. Several points of concern arise when the safety of such a structure has to be assessed: i) concrete composition is variable, being left to the contractor; ii) the only structural scheme used was the simply supported beam also in case of multi span continuous beams; iii) the design criteria for the bending moment and for the shear were unknown, being covered by the patent; iv) anchorage of the bars, consisting of fish-tail ends for the flexural bars and of partially bent plates for the stirrups, is uncertain due to lack of data; v) some design detailes (lcontinuity of ongitudinal bars in columns) are not known. This paper deals with anchorage in the Hennebique r.c. system because no modern code provision may be applied to Hennebique structures while anchorage of the bars is not a minor issue in the safety of an r.c. structure. A series of tests have been performed to outline the anchorage mechanisms of both bending and shear reinforcement. To this aim, 20 and 30mm bars, with fish-tails ends, and 30 and 50mm wide steel plates, with bended ends, have been casted inside concrete cubes. The bars and the plates were pulled out from the concrete in various confinement conditions (no confinement, 1-direction or 2-direction confinement). It has been demonstrated that the anchorage of the bars is inadequate since it fails always before the reinforcement gets to the yielding limit. Anchorage of fish-tailed bars and of shear reinforcement is due to the closure of the tails. Nevertheless, since the closure of the tails is associated with local crushing of concrete in the close surroundings of the anchorage, a significant dependence on the concrete strength has been identified, estimated as large as 40% of the anchorage strength. Lateral confinement of the anchorage, i.e. the location of the bars in a central node of the frame or in a lateral one, is responsible for noticeable increase in the anchorage strength but not as large as one could expect This is specifically true for large diameter bars.


This paper presents a new range Doppler algorithm (RDA) for bistatic synthetic aperture radar (SAR) processing in a general conflguration based on a bistatic point target reference spectrum: the improved extended Lofield's bistatic formula (ILBF). The ILBF spectrum is proved to be comparably accurate with the spectrum derived using the method of series reversion (MSR). Based on the expansion of the ILBF spectrum, a new bistatic RDA is developed to process the azimuth invariant and variant bistatic SAR data. Compared with existing bistatic RDA, the new algorithm has a simpler formulation and is able to cope with moderate or high squint bistatic SAR data. The simulated data in the azimuth invariant and variant bistatic conflgurations are used to validate the new algorithm.


This study uses a quantitative approach with a descriptive correlational method. The population in this study were all students of class VII SMP Negeri 2 Koto XI Tarusan, totaling 122 students and all grade VIII students at SMP Negeri 2 Koto XI Tarusan, totaling 124 active students in the 2019/2020 school year. The total sample of 152 students obtained through the Stratified Random Sampling technique by administering the linkert model scale. Data were analyzed using descriptive analysis and correlational analysis. Testing the research hypothesis using the Pearson Product Moment correlation formula.The results showed: (1) the average peer relationship was in the good enough category, (2) the average social development of the students was in the medium category, (3) there was a significant contribution between the achievement of social development tasks on friend relationships. peer, while the correlation coefficient is 0.763 and the significance level is 0.000. It can be interpreted that the more contributing to the task of social development, the better the peer relationship.


1. Robotic inspection system of the pipeline containing a means of movement, made with the possibility of movement inside the pipeline, mounted on the means of moving the camera, lighting equipment, a transceiver, the inputs of which are respectively associated with the outputs of the cameras, the first output of the transceiver is connected to the input of the drives of the running gears of the moving means and the second exit - with the entrance of the lighting equipment, as well as a transmitter and receiver located outside the pipeline the device, the control unit, the registration unit, the monitor, the input-output of the control unit is connected to the input-output of the transmitting and receiving device, the output of the transmitting and receiving device is connected to the input of the monitor through the registration unit, while the transmitting and receiving device and the transceiver are connected via a radio wave channel, characterized in that the moving means is made in the form of a trolley, one of the cameras, heading, is installed with the ability to review the course of movement of the trolley, and the other of the cameras, viewing, is installed with the possibility of rhenium of the pipe wall in the transverse plane and equipped with a drive for its rotation in the plane orthogonal to the pipe axis, the input of which is connected to the third output of the transceiver device, the input of the heading chamber is connected to the fourth output of the transceiver device, the trolley running gears are equipped with encoders and their output is connected to the information input of the transceiver devices. 2. The system according to claim 1, characterized in that the course camera is equipped with a drive for moving it with the angle of rotation of the course camera in a vertical plane along


In comparison to refined grape seed oil which is neutral in taste and smell, the virgin oil is characterized by a pleasant vinous and fruity aroma, which also reminds of raisins if high-quality raw material is used for the production. Difficulties arise from the susceptibility of the raw material to microbial and enzymatic deterioration as a result of the high moisture content after pressing the juices from the grapes. Grape seed oil has a high content (70%) of linoleic acid, whereas the total part of unsaturated fatty acids amounts to about 90%. In comparison to other edible oils, the oil contains, in addition to tocopherols, antioxidant-effective tocotrienols. During the oil pressing process, only a small amount of phenolic compounds is transferred into the oil (0.01 mg/g), while most of these nutritionally interesting components remain in the press cake. Here, the content of phenolic compounds is about 2000 times higher. During storage of virgin grape seed oil, the pleasant sensory attributes change, and more and more degradation products like ethyl acetate, acetic acid or ethanol are detectable. Parts of the seed material, which come into the oil during pressing, result in a faster impairment of the oil.


By replacement it is meant the substitution of one or more occurrences of a formula with an equivalent one. In automated deduction this can be useful to reduce the search space. In tableau calculi for classical and modal logics this technique is known as simplification and consists in replacing a formula with a logical constant (> or ⊥). Recently, this idea has been applied to Intuitionistic Logic. This work in progress investigates further conditions on the applicability of Simplification in Intuitionistic Logic.


At present, in Northwest China, due to sparsely populated, there are a considerable part of the nomads, but in the northwest region of sunshine a long time, solar energy is not very extensive, and for night life, is certainly more boring and boring Therefore, the system just to meet the need.


Based on analyzing the characteristics of task scheduling problems in workflow, a resource-constraints based dynamic task scheduling algorithm is developed in the paper. On one hand, this algorithm can ensure the satisfaction of resource constraints for task and on the other hand, the balance between difficulty degree of the task and capability of the performers is achieved. Based on this algorithm, the dynamic task scheduling method can not only be fit for the requirement of dynamic environment but also enhance the parellel processing ability of the system.


The position of taste buds around the human mouth, pharynx and larynx is outlined in many texts. While their distribution, histological differences and taste sensitivity on the dorsum of the tongue are well described, extralingual taste buds are described in far less detail both in adults (Bannister, 1995) and neonates (Lalonde & Eglitis, 1961). Studies on a variety of grazing mammals (e.g. Bradley et al. 1980 in sheep; Shrestha et al. 1993 in buffalo), omnivores (Andrew & Oliver, 1951 in rat) and carnivores (Palmieri et al. 1983 in cat and dog) have shown abundant taste buds on the laryngeal surface of the epiglottis. Some authors have suggested that these taste buds may be important in initiating reflexes protecting the airway (Bradley et al. 1980) and in this context it is surprising that literature on their distribution on the human epiglottis is not available.


This article investigates super-volunteers, defined as individuals who volunteer 10 or more hours per week with a single organization. We conducted interviews with 25 super-volunteers to explore what motivates them to become super-volunteers and how they choose the organizations for which they volunteer. We also interviewed nine volunteer managers to explore the advantages and disadvantages of employing super-volunteers and what best practices they recommend for supervising them. Most super-volunteers in our sample were highly educated and had retired from careers that involved helping and supervising other people. Most decided on their own to pursue volunteering and then searched carefully for an appropriate organization. The super-volunteers chose nonprofits that they thought were effective, matched their values, and were willing to work with them to develop a meaningful and substantive volunteer position. Volunteer managers stated that super-volunteers brought great value to their agencies and had few disadvantages. However, managing super-volunteers did require more flexibility, time, and one-on-one attention than managing regular volunteers.


This study investigated teachers? perceived use of teaching and learning materials in inclusive classrooms. Based on the framework of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), the purpose is to determine teachers? perceived use of teaching and learning materials in the teaching of mathematics, social studies, science and literacy skills in inclusive basic schools. One hundred and forty-five participants were randomly surveyed from 35 inclusive pilot schools in Ghana. A (TPACK) instrument consisting of 47 items with Cronbach?s reliability coefficient; ranged from .75- .92 for the seven TPACK subscales were used for data collection. The Pearson correlation and t-test were used to analyze the data. The results revealed that there was a significant correlation between perceived use of TLM and TPACK variables. Significant differences were noted between male and female teachers? perceived use of TLM in mathematics and social studies. However, no difference was found in the use of TLM between the special educators and general educators. It was recommended that teacher education institutions should provide additional planning time for pre-service teachers to experiment with variety of teaching and learning materials in teaching mathematics, social studies, science, and literacy skills.


Being the basic and leading industry of the national economy, distribution industry plays an important role in creating jobs. Sustainable foreign capital entry has tremendous shocks to China's distribution industry, thereby exerting very complex impacts on the employment in this industry. This paper theoretically discusses the direct and indirect effects of foreign capital entry on the employment in distribution industry, and verifies its total impact. Overall, the results of panel threshold regression model show that, FDI of distribution industry has a quasi funnel-shaped nonlinear effect on the employment in this industry:when the amount of FDI is less than 27.016 billion yuan, there is a crowding-out employment effect; when the amount of FDI is between 27.016 billion and 518.228 billion, there is no significant effect; and when the amount of FDI is above 518.228 billion, there is a positive effect in boosting the employment. Through the test of the effect of foreign capital entry on the employment in distribution industry, it further points out that foreign capital entry in distribution industry has effects on the employment mainly through commercial agglomeration effect, market competition effect, labor redistribution effect and circulation channel reconstruction effect, and the employment effect of foreign capital entry in distribution industry stems from the effect on domestic wholesale industry. It argues that we'd better attach importance to the employment traps of foreign capital entry in distribution industry, and during quite a long time, there is a negative crowing-out employment effect in most areas of China in distribution industry. This conclusion has certain significance to the attitudes and policies for attracting foreign capital in different regions, especially for the small cities and counties.


The roughness geometry has been introduced to improve the rate of heat transfer in a solar air heater duct. In the current work, circular and triangular shape geometries are used as roughness elements in the rectangular channel to enhance the thermal performance of reversed flow solar air heater (RFSAH). The important parameters selected for the research are Reynolds number (Re) varies from 5000 to 18000 (5 values), pitch ratio (P/e) varies from 4 to 12 (5 values), and height ratio (e/D) from 0.0392 to 0.1571 (4 values). A 2D CFD model was developed using ANSYS (Fluent 2022R1), and simulation was performed using k-ε (RNG) turbulence model and validated with one set of experimental results for smooth duct and previous research. The findings revealed that the highest value of heat transfer was augmented about 2.18 times and 2.35 times for circular and triangular roughness geometry respectively, as compared to the smooth channel at a Reynolds number of 12000. The thermohydraulic performance factor (TPF) is 1.58 and 1.7 at pitch ratios of 6 and 5 for circular and triangular roughness geometry respectively, at Re of 12000.


ABSTRACT. In this study the uterine movement of oxygen, glucose, and lactate was quantitated in the awake late pregnant guinea pig. Mean uterine uptake of oxygen per kg of uterus with conceptus was 581 μmol min-1, which is comparable to the value reported for the awake near-term rabbit, but 30% higher than the value reported for the awake near-term sheep. Experiment-related anemia in some animals was associated with a reduced uterine oxygen uptake. The arteriovenous oxygen difference across the uterus correlated positively with the arterial oxygen content and the hemoglobin concentration and negatively with uteroplacental blood flow. Uterine oxygen uptake showed a positive correlation with both the arterial hemoglobin and the uteroplacental blood flow. Uterine lactate output accounted for 20% of uterine glucose uptake, assuming maternally derived glucose to be the only source for uterine lactate output. After correction for this lactate output, the uterine glucose uptake was 96.5 μmol min-1. kg-1 of pregnant uterus. This value is 30% higher than in the awake near-term rabbit and more than twice as high as that in the awake near-term sheep. Nevertheless, because of the high uterine demand for substrates, this uterine glucose uptake could only cover 45% of the caloric requirements of the pregnant uterus. The late pregnant guinea pig fetus may derive as much as 55 % of its caloric uptake for fat deposition and protein accretion. Therefore, it is likely that the nonglucose uterine caloric uptake in the late pregnant guinea pig consists predominantly of fat precursors and amino acids.


The photodissociation reactions of C2F5Br, C2F5I, and 1,2‐C2F4BrI have been studied at 248 and 193 nm using the crossed laser‐molecular beam technique. Photodissociation of 1,2‐C2F4BrI was also studied at 266 nm. We find that: (i) C2F5Br undergoes C–Br bond fission at 193 nm (but does not absorb at 248 nm); (ii) C2F5I undergoes C–I bond fission at 248 nm (but does not absorb at 193 nm); (iii) 1,2‐C2F4BrI undergoes only C–I bond fission at 248 and 266 nm, but at 193 nm both C–I and C–Br bond fission are observed, with a C–I:C–Br fission ratio of approximately 1.7:1. Center‐of‐mass recoil energy and angular distributions are determined for each of these photodissociation reactions. These results combined with those of other workers, are used to test simple predictions based on molecular orbital theory. The 266 nm data for C2F4BrI provide an approximate value of 19.3±3 kcal/mol for the dissociation energy of C2F4Br to C2F4+Br and also show that all or almost all the iodine produced in the primary C–I bond fi...


In this paper, we consider a problem on the rocket flight final height maximization under the control and endpoint constraints. The problem is considered on a constrained time interval, filling the gap between problems on free and fixed time interval. Using Pontryagin Maximum Principle, we obtain all types of optimal trajectories and then construct optimal synthesis. In addition, we investigate evolution of obtained synthesis w.r.t problem parameters.


The film Out of Africa released in 1985 is based on the autobiographical book by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) published in 1937. The film, adapted by Kurt Luedtke and directed by Sydney Pollack, describes events during 1914 - 1931 concerning European settlers and the native people in Kenya and presents the beautiful nature of Africa and its natives from the poetic viewpoint of Baroness Karen. It is the movie that depicts the Karen's recognition of Africa, its people, and herself through various symbols such as a farm, a pond, a crystal. a china, a fountain pen, and a compass. The aim of this paper is to discuss the meaning of symbols in the film Out of Africa with special attention to the Karen's recognition.


Working for More Than Fifteen Years in Public Universities—First as a Graduate Teaching Assistant, then as a Nontenure-track full-timer, finally making my way onto the tenure track—taught me a great deal about how public education works and literature's place in a world where the concepts of the public and education are devalued if not attacked. J. M. Coetzee's novel Disgrace stages some of the challenges of teaching literature in the contemporary university. The novel's protagonist, David Lurie, is a Romanticist struggling to connect with his students: "[H]e does not expect them to know about fallen angels or where Byron might have read of them. What he does expect is a round of goodnatured guesses which, with luck, he can guide toward the mark." He is disappointed by the virtual impossibility of this task: "[H]e has long ceased to be surprised at the range of ignorance of his students. Post-Christian, posthistorical, postliterate, they might as well have been hatched from eggs yesterday" (32). In this context, he thinks—and readers probably agree—that he is "no great shakes as a teacher" (63).


In a previous study (RING 1962), the radiographie anatomy of the middle cerebral artery was described and a method given of applying zones to the termination of the four major branches to facilitate their recognition. This has been helpful in recognizing many cases of small vessel occlusion (RING 1963) but was incomplete in that the subdivisions of the ascending frontal artery, which is as large as the other branches combined, were not studied in detail. The present work was undertaken to complete the first and is an anatomical and radiographie study of the ascending frontal branch of the middle cerebral artery. The nomenclature of the four major branches is quite standard, these being the ascending frontal, posterior parietal, angular and posterior temporal. There is no standard division of the branches of the ascending frontal branch, however. PEELE, the neuroanatomist, (1961) divides this complex into four subdivisions, the orbitofrontal, prerolandic, rolandic and anterior parietal. LIMA (1950) described three subdivisions, the orbitofrontal, the inferior frontal,


The present invention relates to a sheet maleate US Buting curvature and a preparation method for oral administration. The trimebutine maleate material coated with a water soluble film formers and plasticizers. Tablets prepared by this method the masked trimebutine maleate bitterness, without affecting the disintegration, does not affect the dissolution of main drug component. And the product is not coated tablets, coated tablets avoid the conventional disadvantages of slower dissolution.


Abstract THE presence of living bacteria on the skin of poultry during and after processing has been demonstrated by Mountney (1949) and in copious numbers by Gorseline et al. (1951). Nickerson and Fitzgerald (1939) found relatively few or no bacteria in the body cavities and tissues of poultry refrigerated prior to freezing; however, the absorption of water during processing as reported by Cook (1939) and by Gwin (1951) has raised the question as to whether bacteria are carried into the underlying tissues. In this paper, studies bearing on this question are reported. EXPERIMENTAL A total of 176 broilers were processed in the poultry processing laboratory at the University of Tennessee. Birds were scalded at one of three temperatures, 130°F. (54°C.), 140°F. (60°C.) or 176°F. (80°C.), and chilled in tap water at 55°F. (12.8°C.), in iced water at 40°F. (4.4°C.) or in flaked ice, in various combinations of scalding and chilling. All …


ABSTRACT Selma, Ala., June 30, 1903.To the Editor:—For some time I have noticed that you have been trying to perfect some system of reciprocity between the licensing boards of different states. The scheme which I propose, if it could be carried out, might help those who have stood an examination in one state in getting a license in another. Should a physician practicing in one state wish to move to another he might be given the choice of standing the examination of the state into which he moves or be allowed to show his examination papers of the state in which he had already practiced; if these papers conform to the standard of the state into which he moves at the time of the examination he to be given a license in this state.A recent graduate might make a very fine showing before one board, but should he


In this work we deal with left invariant complex and symplectic structures on simply connected four dimensional solvable real Lie groups. We search the general form of such structures, when they exist and we make use of this information to determine all left invariant Kaehler structures. Finally, as an appendix we compute explicitly the real cohomology of the corresponding Lie algebras.


Load modeling is the key part to the programming,running and decision-making of power system.The elementary method of load modeling is discussed.The new techndogy of wavelet neural network is applied to load modeling and parameter identification,which reflects the applica-tion prospects of wavelet transform in system load modeling.


Aim: This study aimed at screening of blood glucose level by using gingival crevicular blood (GCB) and comparative evaluation of this method with capillary finger blood method. Material and methods: 30 patients, 15 diabetic (Group I) and 15 non diabetic (Group II) were chosen for the study and were subjected for the routine periodontal examination using W illiams periodontal probe. Blood oozing from the gingival sulcus following periodontal examination was analyzed for the blood glucose using a glucose self-monitoring device and was compared with capillary finger blood using the same device. Statistical analysis was performed using Student's-t test. Results: The average values of blood glucose in gingival crevicular blood and capillary finger blood were recorded as 150.60 gm% and 152.26 gm% respectively in Group I and in Group II the values were 87.73gm% and 88.45gm%. Statistical analysis were done and the results were found to be statistically significant (r=0.94, p<0.001). Conclusion: The results are in accordance with the finding that gingival crevicular blood can be used as an adjuvant method to evaluate blood glucose as a quick, safe and non-invasive method during the routine periodontal examination in dental office.


Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research,
Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) program,
International Development Research Centre (IDRC),
Department of International Development (DFID),


old boy with aortapulmonary window who had patent ductus arteriosus because of the recurrent pulmonary infection and congestive heart failure who was treated with staged repair is presented. Key words: Aortapulmonary Window, Patent Ductus Arteriosus, Aorta Pulmonary Fistula


The effects of the local accumulation of charges in resonant tunnelling heterostructures have been described using 1D Shrodinger-Poisson Hamiltonians in the asymptotic regime of quantum wells. Taking into account the features of the underling physical system, the corresponding linearized model is naturally related to the adiabatic evolution of shape resonances on a time scale which is exponentially large w.r.t. the asymptotic parameter h. A possible strategy to investigate this problem consists of using a complex dilation to identify the resonances with the eigenvalues of a deformed operator. Then, the adiabatic evolution problem for a sheet-density of charges can be reformulated using the deformed dynamical system which, under suitable initial conditions, is expected to evolve following the instantaneous resonant states. After recalling the main technical difficulties related to this approach, we introduce a modified model where h-dependent artificial interface conditions, occurring at the boundary of the interaction region, allow one to obtain adiabatic approximations for the relevant resonant states, while producing a small perturbation of the dynamics on the scale h0 . According to these results, we finally suggest an alternative formulation of the adiabatic problem. An a posteriori justification of our method is obtained by considering an explicitlysolvable case.


BACKGROUND Arachnoid cyst of spinal cord (ACS) is a very uncommon lesion of the spinal cord. The problem with these lesions is that they can stimulate the pain of prolapsed intervertebral disc pathology and patient may be misdiagnosed for the same. In this study we wanted to diagnose and establish a surgical treatment in such patients. METHODS This study is a case series and comprised of 12 patients which was conducted in Department of Neurosurgery, Sawai Man Singh Medical College, Jaipur, in which all patients having arachnoid cyst of spinal cord were operated and follow-up for reliving of symptoms or development of new symptoms. RESULTS Our study demonstrates that surgical result is good when spinal arachnoid cyst is better. All patients who underwent surgery were having significant improvement in symptoms and quality of life. CONCLUSIONS Surgical management is primary treatment modality in patients of arachnoid cyst of spinal cord and the results of surgery in such patients are good. KEYWORDS Spinal Arachnoid Cyst, Lumber Pain, Radiculopathy


The utility model discloses a psychotic patient upper limb binding device which is characterized by comprising an upper arm fixing groove and a front arm fixing groove. The upper arm fixing groove and the front arm fixing groove are fixedly connected at 120 degrees. The upper arm fixing groove and the front arm fixing groove are provided with binding belts. The binding belts are located at two ends of front arms and two ends of upper arms. The portions corresponding to positions of the binding belts are provided with arc fixing blocks. The upper arm fixing groove and the front arm fixing groove are connected with a fixing device. Airing soft pads are arranged in the upper arm fixing groove and the front arm fixing groove. Airing holes are distributed on the upper arm fixing groove and the front arm fixing groove. When the psychotic patient upper limb binding device is used, the upper arm fixing groove, the front arm fixing groove and the binding belts are used to fix the upper arms and the front arms, a fixed angle of each elbow joint is 120 degrees, each elbow is restrained to a posture and can not exert force easily so that a psychotic patient is restrained to a posture and can not exert force easily, struggling range of the patient is reduced, and physical power of the patient is saved. Moreover, the psychotic patient upper limb binding device is particularly suitable for protection when the psychotic patient is transfused, beneficial for treatment and recovery of the patient, and suitable for application and popularization.


Through the use of the function of Excel ISNA and MATCH and with high screening,we realize the difference operator between two data sheets,and apply it to the actual enrollment work,improve work efficiency,reduce the working error.