Preface. 9: Hierarchical Theory of Undulative Induction Accelerators (EH-Accelerators). 1. EH-Accelerators: General Ideas and Properties. 2. EH-Accelerator as a Hierarchical Oscillative System. 3. Motion of Charged Particles in the Non-Stationary Linearly Polarized EH-Accelerator. 4. Picosecond Electron Bunch Formers. 5. Stationary EH-Accelerators. 6. Example: Project of an Especially Compact Stationary EH-Accelerator. 7. The Effect of 'Cooling' of Charged Particle Beams in EH-Accelerators. 8. Stationary EH-Coolers. 10: Free Electron Lasers as a Classical Electron Device with a Long-Time Interaction. 1. Free Electron Lasers: General Information. 2. Grouping (Bunching) Mechanisms in Free Electron Lasers. 11: Hierarchical Single-Particle Theory of Free Electron Lasers. 1. General Approach to the Single-Particle Theory of Free Electron Lasers. 2. Single-Particle Theory of the Free Electron Lasers of Dopplertron Type. 3. The Single-Particle Theory of the Free Electron Laser with EH-Pumping. 12: Hierarchical Self-Consistent Theory of Free Electron Lasers. 1. General Formulation of the Problem. 2. Self-Consistent Truncated Equations. Simplified Version of the Method of Slowly Varying Amplitudes. 3. Self-Consistent Truncated Equations. Method of the Averaged Kinetic Equation. The Cubic Dopplertron Model. 4. Self-Consistent Truncated Equations. The Method of the Averaged Kinetic Equation. The Cubic Nonlinear H-Ubitron Model. 5. Self-Consistent Truncated Equations. The Method of Slowly Varying Amplitudes. The Quadratic Kinetic Dopplertron Model with Arbitrarily Polarizations of the Electromagnetic Waves. 6. Self-Consistent Quadratic Fel Theory of The Simplest Linearly Polarized Quasi-Hydrodynamic model. 7. Analysis of the Wave Resonant Conditions. 8. Self-Consistent Quadratic Fel Theory of the Arbitrary Polarized Kinetic Model. The Approximation of a Given Pumping Field in the Case of the Raman Mode. 9. Self-Consistent Quadratic Fel Theory of the Arbitrarily Polarized Kinetic Model. The Approximation of the Given Pumping Field in the Case of Compton Mode. 10. Self-Consistent Quadratic Fel Theory. The Explosive Instability in the Linearly Polarized Raman Model. 11. Self-Consistent Quadratic Fel Theory. The Explosive Instability in the Arbitrarily Polarized Self-Consistent Raman Model. 12. The Self-Consistent Quadratic Fel Theory. The Explosive Instability in Linearly Polarized Self-Consistent Compton Model. 13. Self-Consistent Quadratic Fel Theory of the Effect of the Generation of the Transverse H-Ubriton Field. 14. The Dopplertron Cubic Nonlinear Model. The Effect of Nonlinear Generation of the Longitudinal Electric Field. 15. Dopplertorn Cubic Nonlinear Model. The Isochronous Model of a Dopplertron Amplifier. 16. H-Ubriton Cubic Nonlinear Model. The Effect of Nonlinear Generation of the Transverse Periodic Magnetic Field. 13: Hierarchical Theory of Two-Stream Superheterodyne Free Electron Lasers. 1. Two-Stream Superheterodyne Free Electron Lasers as a New Class of Relativistic Electron Devices. 2. Theory of the Two-Stream Instability. 3. The Essence of the Effect of Two Superheterodyne Amplification. 4. Formulation of the Cubic Nonlinear Two-Stream Superheterodyne Problem. 5. C


Retroperitoneal teratoma comprises 3.5−4% of all germ cell tumors in children and 1−11% of primary retroperitoneal neoplasms. The imaging findings are distinctive. The present report is a case of a 4-month-old girl in whom a retroperitoneal teratoma was found to have classical appearance on imaging. The tumor was resected and histopathological examination confirmed the diagnosis of immature, high grade, teratoma.


First, the relation between installation of storage and propagation of subsystem failure through the system is discussed in connection with cost. Criterion formula is derived. Example : NH3 and urea plant Efficiency ; NH3 98% CO2 99% Urea 96%. Then instantaneous capacity of NH3 andUrea plant shall be +2% and +5% over average capacity, provided that storagefor NH3 only is installed and not for CO2. This result is actual design practice.Another theme is active parallel redundancy, which is thought to be favorable for systemefficiency improvement.Basic criterion for the above is∫p1(τ)dτ ?? 2∫p2(τ)dτwhere P1 and P2 are production function for a single stream and one stream of a two-stream system, respectively. Some factors and conditions for estimation of this production function are discussed.


This study describes a procedure for experimentally inducing positive and negative mood states in the laboratory. Following Seibert and Ellis' procedure (1991), our purpose was to induce sad or happy moods in subjects having read self-referencing sentences. The results point to the existence of an emotional asymmetry, namely, a happy mood is more short-lived than a sad mood. This result is discussed in terms of a difference in the cognitive effort involved in emotional situations resulting either from a sad or from a happy feeling.


Abstract This work presents a novel autonomous parking concept for a four wheel-steerable robotic electric vehicle called ROboMObil (ROMO). Its extraordinary maneuverability, including rotations and lateral driving, and its capability of autonomous driving is demonstrated in the application of parallel parking. The whole process is described starting with the perception to identify a suitable parking spot in the near environment, planning the maneuver, and executing it autonomously. The proposed parking method is free of assumptions and does not use any information about the environment from an external source. Test results with the real vehicle are presented to show the feasibility of the concept.


The problem of network security is approached from the point of view of Kolmogorov complexity (see Evans. S, et al., Proc. DARPA Inf. Survivability Conf. & Exposition II, vol 2. p.322-33, 2001). The principle of conservation of complexity is utilized to identify healthy complexity norms objectively and detect attacks via deviation of these norms under TCP/IP. Observed complexity changes that fall within expected hounds are indicators of system health, while complexity changes outside the expected bounds for normal protocol and application use are indicators of system fault or attack. Experimental results using FTP normal and attack sessions are presented.


Over the past decade the digitization of historical archives and the growth of international scholarly collaboration in Chinese legal and social history has created a wellspring for future research agendas that scholars have only begun to tap. The availability online of nearly a quarter of a million separate reports of capital crimes for the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) held by the First Historical Archives in Beijing and the creation of an electronic index to search these records will fuel wide-...


Earlier investigators have shown that the free energy of an ideal gas in the ultrarelativistic (UR) regime of parametrized relativistic classical mechanics (PRCM) is different from the free energy calculated with use of the standard theory of relativistic classical mechanics (RCM). These differences do not become significant until very high temperatures are reached. Physical examples where the UR regime may be reached include the interior of stars, relativistic gas dynamics, and the first minute after the Big Bang. Of these, it is shown in the present paper that negligible differences are expected at realistic temperatures for relativistic gas dynamics and stellar models. This demonstration requires an evaluation of the PRCM and RCM free energies over a wide range of temperatures extending from the nonrelativistic limit to the UR limit. The greatest differences between PRCM and RCM are manifested in the density parameter of cosmological models. To study this effect, a general relativistic formalism is derived from variational principles within the context of PRCM. Scale factors and the age of Friedmann universes are calculated.


The need of time coordination of reproductive cycles of manpower resources, means of labor, objects of labor, final products, financial assets so that their interaction would be timely relative to the general effectiveness of the enterprise was substantiated. The timeliness was found to characterize the achievement of the desired result in the legally set term or a period of objective need for it caused by the processes of external environment. To estimate the timeliness, the reproductive cycles of the main factors of efficiency of the enterprise activity and the profit adequacy for its sustainable development, were taken into account which will make it possible to coordinate the internal and external components. The principles of ranking partial indicators of the timeliness by the urgency and topicality of improvement were proposed.


In this paper, we propose a reduced check node operation design for the LDPC decoder. The proposed Check Node Stopping criterion (CNS) reduces the operations of convergent check nodes when the reliability of check node messages that depends on the magnitude of check node messages is larger than a threshold. Thus, the proposed LDPC decoder can can efficiently terminate the redundant check node calculations in the following iterations. From the simulations under the rate-1/2 WiMAX LDPC decoding, the operation of check nodes can be reduced by about 12% at Eb/N0 of 3.6 dB with a small coding coding gain degradation. A 2.85mm2 LDPC decoder with CNS is implemented in a 90nm CMOS process. The area overhead of the the CNS is about 0.7% of the total area. The proposed LDPC decoder can decrease 4% power consumption for the stopped check node.


Empirical studies often observe that the performance of algorithms across problem domains can be quite uncorrelated. When this occurs, it seems practical to investigate the use of algorithm portfolios that draw on the strengths of multiple algorithms. SATzilla is such an algorithm portfolio for SAT problems; it was first deployed in the 2004 SAT competition [12], and recently an updated version, SATzilla2007, won a number of prizes in the 2007 SAT competition [21], including the gold medals for the SAT+UNSAT categories of both the random and handmade categories. SATzilla2008, submitted to the 2008 SAT Race, did not perform as well. We attribute this mainly to the lack of publicly available high-performance component solvers as well as to overheads in computing instance features for huge industrial instances; we addressed this latter point in SATzilla2009. SATzilla is based on empirical hardness models [10, 13], learned predictors that estimate each algorithm's performance on a given SAT instance. Over the years, we have added several features to SATzilla. We integrated regression methods based on partly censored data, probabilistic prediction of instance satisfiability, and hierarchical hardness models [21, 22]. We also almost entirely automated the portfolio construction process based on automatic procedures for selecting pre-solvers and candidate component solvers [23]. The new features in SATzilla2009 are as follows:


The responses of agronomic characters of flue-cured tobacco Yunyan87 and K326 to drought stress were studied in the rosette stage,the vigorously growing stage and the budding stage respectively by controlling water under rainproof shelter.The drought time was set to 7 d,10 d,13 d,16 d,long term drought with one group as the control.The long term drought was used for measuring the soil water content.The result showed that: the plant heights of Yunyan87 and K326 showed a downward trend while prolonging the dry spells,the most influential time was drought 16 d especially in the vigorously growing stage and the amplitude reduction was 42.2% and 41.3% respectively.The worst inhibitory effect of drought time on the stem and average effective leaf area of the two varieties in each growing stage was 16 d,the descent of stem of Yunyan87 in the rosette stage,vigorously growing stage and budding stage was 22.9%,17.5% and 34.6% respectively which of K326 was 31.1%,21.6% and 13.2%.The decreasing ranges of leaf area of Yunyan87 in the rosette stage,vigorously growing stage and budding stage was 20.6%,35.6% and 27.9% which of K326 were 42.5%,20.4% and 20.2%.Both of the root-shoot ratios rose first and then fell in the rosette stage and vigorously growing stage which fell slowly in the budding stage.The stage of largest water consumption of the two varieties was in the vigorously growing stage and the soil moisture content under Yunyan87 stopped growing in the resettling growth stage,vigorously growing stage and budding period and the soil water contents were 5.7%,7.4% and 5.5% respectively,while those under K326 were 6.0%,7.3% and 6.4%.Overall,the capacity of drought resistance of Yunyan87 is a little bit better than that of K326.


Auxiliary methodology to transfer chirality, with predictable stereochemistry in newly formed stereoisomers, proved to be an indispensable tool in asymmetric synthesis [1]. In this area, the use of enantiomerically pure oxazolidin-2-one derivatives as chiral auxiliaries in acyl group transformations, aldol reactions, conjugate addition, alkylation, azidation, hydroxylation, halogenation, amination and β-lactam synthesis has been well demonstrated [2-5]. Currently, Davies et al. have used SuperQuat 1 (Fig. 1) for the control of the stereoselectivity of reactions on attached acyl fragments [6]. In addition, the gem-dimethyl groups in the SuperQuat auxiliary affect the control of the conformation of the substituents at the C4 position, thus enhancing the face selective shielding of the attached acyl fragments [7]. On the other hand, chiral aziridine carboxylates as useful intermediates in the synthesis of optically active compounds have attracted a lot of interest [8,9]. These valuable threemembered heterocycles are available by enzymatic separation of the racemic mixtures [9], from β-hydroxy α-amino acids


The article considers Flying Ad Hoc Networks (FANETs) studies. The development of unmanned aerial vehicles, mini-UAVs expanded their application scope to civilian tasks. Routing for UAVs is an important issue for many researchers. The article reviews the performance evaluation development of OLSR and AODV routing protocols for real application of relaying network scenario using NS-2 software package with a static mobility model.


I This project focuses on Indianapolis's ecological health with respect to native songbird habitats. Songbird populations in the eastern United States have been declining since World War II, and strong populations and rich biodiversity of songbirds typically mean a healthy ecosystem. This project explores how that health can be improved by implementing a native songbird habitat restoration at Grassy Creek Regional Park in Indianapolis. Many factors influencing songbird habitat suitability have been researched, including critical plant species, ideal mating and nesting conditions, interior-to-edge ratios, and others. Several interviews have been conducted not only with experts on the topic, but also with people from the agencies and entities that influence and oversee similar projects in Indianapolis. Published academic studies on urban bird population dynamics and bird habitat restoration projects have been reviewed to better understand trends and current issues. Indianapolis is a world-class city with great natural beauty and ecological richness, but the ever-expanding urban infrastructure is threatening the city's natural systems more and more each day. A native songbird habitat restoration will not only provide critical habitat space for songbirds and many native flora and fauna , but it will also give Indianapolis an important educational resource and provide support for future habitat restoration projects. This project is meant to advance the movement toward a healthier urban ecosystem in Indianapolis.


Test systems are widely adopted to assist the design and testing of domestic appliances. A test system mainly includes computers, data acquisition instruments and test software. Development of test software often suffers from low efficiency due to the complex design, programming and debugging process. In this paper, we design a platform to facilitate the development of test software based on Client/Server and Browser/Server hybrid architecture. The development process of the test software is turned into configuring parameters through the graphic user interface (GUI). The platform presented consists of the reusable component libraries, client-based assembly subsystem, Web-based assembly subsystem, data collection subsystem and customization subsystem. Our platform is validated by various cases of developing test software for manufacturing enterprises. The results demonstrate that our platform remarkably improves the development efficiency and quality of test software.


This article compares the results of Council of Europe and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) anti-corruption monitoring reports to two Transparency International instruments, the Corruption Perceptions Index and the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention Progress Report. It constructs and applies a simple typology (four-cell matrix) consisting of the combinations of good/deficient implementation of international anti-corruption provisions and high/low level of perceived corruption. As the sources and the comparative method used cannot prove causality, the article introduces three ideal types of interpretation to discuss the relevance of the anti-corruption regulatory framework in both domestic and cross-border anti-corruption policies. In the conclusion it is argued that there is a specific Eastern European pattern of anti-corruption performance that implies a need for new strategies.


type="graphical" xml:id="gpol12146-abs-0002"> Growth potential among member states is unequally distributed. Nations least likely to be able to follow the European recovery strategy are most likely to have their political leeway reduced by policy recommendations related to the new economic governance.


The smart grid is emerging as a convergence of information and communication technology with power system engineering, and many network technologies can be used for communications in the generation, distribution and consumption part of the smart grid. However, finding the most appropriate technology that can satisfy their future communication needs is still a challeging issue. In this paper, we survey EPON-based communication systems for Neighborhood area networks (NAN) of smart grid, and both field based application and customer based application are discussed.


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In this experiment the effect of feeding milk replacer and dairy milk on the growth performance of pre-weaning of Etawah Crossbred goats was studied. Thirty eight heads of pre-weaning of Etawah Crossbred kids were divided into 2 groups, Group A receiving dairy milk and Group B receiving formulated milk replacer. All kids were fed with colostrum at the first 3 days. The milk replacer was formulated from skim milk, cassava flour, soy flour, corn flour, vitamin, mineral, salt and amino acids (lysine and methionine). The milk replacer was diluted ten times with warm water, then probiotic and sugar were added. The pre-weaning kids fed 300-600 ml milk twice a day, in the morning and in the afternoon. The liveweight of pre-weaning kids were measured every 2 weeks. The experiment was carried out for 12 weeks. The parameter measured were nutrient intakes, ADG and mortality rate. Data was analysed by T test. The proximate analysis results of milk replacer were DM 93.50%, CP 22.20%, Fat 4.62%, GE 3869 kcal/kg, CF 1.31%, ash 4.22%, Ca 0.60% and P 0.46%. The DM and CP intakes were 111.98 and 28.93 g/d; 97.31 and 23.10 g/d, with ME 659 and 379 kcal/kg for group A and B, respectively. The ADG of pre-weaning kids for Group A and B were significantly different (P < 0.05) which were 96.03 ± 11.83 and 83.62 ± 16,34 g/d; mortality rates were 0% and 10% for group A and B, respectively. It is concluded that the rate of the pre-weaning kids of Crossbred Etawah goat fed formulated milk replacer grew slower than kids receiving dairy milk. Key Words: Milk Replacer, Pre-Weaning, Growth, Crossbred Etawah Goats


In order to analysis shopping basket data better,mine potential customers,sequential pattern minging emerged.Sequential pattern mining is an important research content of data mining and has been widely used in many fields in recent years.We summary sequential pattern mining development situation at present,research classical algorithm based on basic mining framework and algorithm based on extension model,Especially describe the new data form sequential pattern mining appeared in recent years and the algorithm based on zero compression binary decision figure(ZBDD),Finally prospect the sequential pattern mining development trend.


Given an infinite group $G$ and a subset $A$ of $G$ we let $\Delta(A) = {g \in G : |gA \cap A| =\infty}$ (this is sometimes called the combinatorial derivation of $A$). A subset $A$ of $G$ is called large if there exists a finite subset $F$ of $G$ such that $FA=G$. We show that given a large set $X$, and a decomposition $X=A_1 \cup ... \cup A_n$, there must exist an $i$ such that $\Delta(A_i)$ is large. This answers a question of Protasov. We also answer a number of related questions of Protasov.


The present work shows the results of the hardware-in-the-loop simulation in real-time, for the fixed gain and adaptive gain controllers by sliding modes of the air-to-fuel ratio in spark-ignition engines, which uses a board designed with the PIC32MK1024MCF064 for the ECU and a PC board that stores the plant, the results are compared with those obtained from the software simulation; In addition, the synchronization of the communication is analyzed, through the serial UART protocol, between the plant and the ECU, to obtain the maximum allowable tolerance of the baud rate difference between devices.


We report a method for determining the spring constant of an optical trap by external sinusoidal excitation and lock-in detection. A polystyrene latex particle trapped in a focused Nd:YAG laser beam is forced to oscillate by another intensity-modulated laser-diode beam. Lock-in detection for measuring particle oscillations is also implemented to obtain the phase delay and amplitude of the harmonic oscillation that correspond to the excitation frequency. Experimental results of trials to determine the spring constant are given to demonstrate the improved precision and reproducibility of our method.


In this paper, we study the strong convex compactness property on the hereditarily indecomposable Banach spaces denoted respectively by XGM and XAM constructed by T. Gowers and B. Maurey (1993) and Argyros-Motakis (2013), we prove in particular that the Bochner integral of a bounded family of strictly singular operators is a strictly singular operator. Also, some properties of c0-semigroups defined on these Banach spaces are given. Mathematics Subject Classification (2010): 47A15 46B06 46B03


Abstract Morphological and phytogeographical data support the recognition of three distinct species in the genus Brachyelytrum: B. japonicum, B. erectum, and B. aristosum. Brachyelytrum japonicum is confined to eastern Asia and is characterized by narrow leaf blades (0.5–0.8 cm wide), long lower glumes (0.2–2.0 mm long), and long rachillas (6.8–8.8 mm long). Brachyelytrum erectum is distributed throughout much of the eastern United States, from northwestern Minnesota south to central Louisiana, east to northern Florida and north to northeastern New York. Brachyelytrum erectum is characterized by long hispid hairs (0.2–0.9 mm long) on the veins of the lemma, wide lemmas (0.8–1.8 mm wide), and a conspicuous lemma mid-vein. Brachyelytrum aristosum has a more northern distribution, occurring in southern Canada from southern Ontario to Newfoundland, the northern adjacent United States and through the Appalachian mountains to northwestern North Carolina. Brachyelytrum aristosum is characterized by short scaberulous hairs (0.06–0.2 mm long) on the lemma and narrow lemmas (0.7–1.4 mm wide) that are weakly veined. The distinctiveness of B. erectum and B. aristosum is further supported by amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) data. We include a key to the taxa, synonymies, descriptions, and representative specimens. This study represents a recent monographic study of an eastern North American and eastern Asian disjunct genus.


The concept of intelligent building is associated with the creation of a management system, taking into account the requirements of its occupants regarding thermal comfort and the activities of their daily life, maintaining a good indoor air quality and minimizing the energy consumption. On the other hand, occupant behaviour is widely recognized as being a preponderant factor for the existence of uncertainty in the performance of buildings. In mild climate regions, where occupants' interactions with dwellings are the primary way to meet their comfort and ventilation requirements, the study of occupant behaviour becomes even more important. The main objective of this work was the development and implementation of methodologies that allow the increase of knowledge of the occupant behaviour in the residential sector, providing intelligence to buildings. For this, the methodology of the present PhD consisted of: creation of specific sensor modules for the study of occupant behaviour; development of methodologies to measure occupants' actions from the monitored data; detecting occupants' motivations to take certain actions; and identifying the impacts of these actions. In this work, a case study consisting of a dwelling in a multifamily building located in the Porto council was used. The dwelling was monitored during its normal occupation through sensors of temperature, relative humidity, carbon dioxide concentration and window condition, during 2 years. Three prototype sensor modules were created, and two methodologies were developed to detect occupants' daily actions through sensors of temperature, relative humidity and / or concentration of carbon dioxide. The developed sensor modules have the particularity of being low cost and having a professional level of accuracy and reliability. The methodologies created to detect the daily actions of the occupants were developed for use with existing databases or in new monitoring campaigns with sensors already widespread and widely used in various areas of study. The methodologies were verified and validated, and their results were compared through a confusion matrix. The found accuracies were always above 99%. The impacts that the daily actions of the occupants have on the indoor environment of the dweeling were also evaluated. The analysis of the influence of the sensor position to detect these impacts was also performed. It was found that the position of the sensors is very important and that a sensor distance of about 2 m apart, but located in the same room, can quantify the same action with different orders of magnitude. The parameters profile of temperature, carbon dioxide concentration and partial water vapour pressure in each room were also created. It was found that the profiles have a base that corresponds to the days without occupancy which is changed due to the impacts that occupants' actions have on the indoor environment. The drivers that led the occupants to perform certain actions were also evaluated. The drivers were identified through the Spearman correlation coefficients. A change in the drivers of the occupants to perform the actions related to the season of the year in which they occurred was identified. Prediction models of the actions in function of their probability of occurrence through logistic equations was developed. The percentage success of the forecast models was always higher than 86%.


Given the accelerated equation of k-stress with l-unknown parameters,This paper slves the problem of the optimal designs of the accelerated life tests of type Ⅱ with competing causes of failure,whose life of each failure cause is assumed to be exponential.We obtain the optimum test designs according to D-optimal and V-optimal.


Kakahy, A.N.N. Ahmad, D., Akhir, M.D. and Hashemi, A. Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Kirkuk, Kirkuk, Iraq. Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. Mechanization and Automation Research Center, MARDI, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. Department of Horticulture. Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Persian Gulf University. Bushehr, Iran.


Recently, the LIGO-Virgo collaboration discovered gravitational waves and in their first publication on the subject the authors also presented a graviton mass constraint as mg < 1.2 × 10−22 eV [1] (see also more details in a complimentary paper [2]). In our previous papers we considered constraints on Yukawa gravity parameters [3] and on graviton mass from analysis of the trajectory of S2 star near the Galactic Center [4]. In the paper we analyze a potential to reduce upper bounds for graviton mass with future observational data on trajectories of bright stars near the Galactic Center. Since gravitational potentials are different for these two cases, expressions for relativistic advance for general relativity and Yukawa potential are different functions on eccentricity and semimajor axis, it gives an opportunity to improve current estimates of graviton mass with future observational facilities. In our considerations of an improvement potential for a graviton mass estimate we adopt a conservative strategy and assume that trajectories of bright stars and their apocenter advance will be described with general relativity expressions and it gives opportunities to improve graviton mass constraints. In contrast with our previous studies, where we present current constraints on parameters of Yukawa gravity [5] and graviton mass [6] from observations of S2 star, in the paper we express expectations to improve current constraints for graviton mass, assuming the GR predictions about apocenter shifts will be confirmed with future observations. We concluded that if future observations of bright star orbits during around fifty years will confirm GR predictions about apocenter shifts of bright star orbits it give an opportunity to constrain a graviton mass at a level around 5 × 10−23 eV or slightly better than current estimates obtained with LIGO observations.


Nitric oxide (NO) modulates diverse functions of polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMNs), but localization of NO synthase (NOS) and identification of its interacting proteins remain the least defined. The present study discerns subcellular distribution of NOS and caveolin‐1, a prominent NOS‐interacting protein in rat PMNs. Localization of NOS was explored by confocal and immunogold electron microscopy, and its activity was assessed by L‐[3H] arginine and 4,5‐diaminofluorescein diacetate (DAF‐2DA). Reverse transcriptase‐polymerase chain reaction using NOS primers and Western blotting demonstrated the presence of neuronal NOS (nNOS) and inducible NOS (iNOS) in PMNs. Immunocytochemical studies exhibited distribution of nNOS and iNOS in cytoplasm and nucleus, and L‐[3H] citrulline formation and DAF fluorescence confirmed NOS activity in both fractions. NOS activity correlated positively with calmodulin concentration in both of the fractions. nNOS and iNOS colocalized with caveolin‐1, as evidenced by immunocytochemical and immunoprecipitation studies. The results thus provide first evidence of nNOS and iNOS in the nuclear compartment and suggest NOS interaction with caveolin‐1 in rat PMNs.


Objectives: To find the frequency of CVS diseases in admitted COVID patients and its associations with outcomes.

Methodology: A cross-sectional survey was conducted at tertiary care hospitals of Peshawar from April- June 2021. All patients admitted in COVID ward and COVID ICU, consenting to participate were included. Questionnaire along with patients ECG and Echo report, Canadian classification used for angina grading and NYHA classification to classify shortness of breath.

Results: The mean age of the sample (n=75) was 60.44 years. Majority were 44(58.66%) males and from ward 82.66%. According to responses using Canadian classification for chest pain were 61 (81.36%) class 2 angina, IN NYHA classification majority (72%) of patients had class 2 SOB. About 14.6% of patients echo showed positive ECHO findings. The average stay of patients were 7.45+-1.3 days .About 22.6% of mortality was noted, majority of expiry were from COVID icu (52.9%) and 69.3% of patients were discharged. About 21.33% of COVID patients had cardiac manifestations, majority were males 87.5%. 43.75% of mortality was seen in patients developing cardiac manifestations. 75% of patients that developed cardiac manifestation had multiple comorbidities, AF was reported in patients age 70 and above. NSTEMI was reported in patients with multiple comorbidities. Most of the Cardiac patients 78.66% did not have cardiac manifestations, only 16.9% of mortality was seen in patients with no cardiac manifestations.

Conclusion: Males are more prone to COVID and have more cardiac events. Age above 60 years develop more serious disease and adverse outcomes.


Background: Regional anaesthesia produces excellent postoperative analgesia in infants and children. Bupivacaine as local anaesthetic has proven its efficacy in producing long lasting analgesia. Ropivacaine, an enantiomer of propivacaine, and is a long acting amide local anaesthetic agent, producing nerve block via reversible inhibition of sodium influx in nerve fibres. The aim of the present study was to evaluate and compare the perioperative analgesic effect of single shot caudal epidural 0.75mlkg -1 of 0.25% bupivacaine versus 0.75mlkg -1 of 0.2% ropivacaine in paediatric patients undergoing infraumbilical surgery. Material and methods: Sixty children in the age group of 2 to 8 years enrolled in the study were randomly divided into two groups of 30 each. Group B received 0.75 mlkg-1 of 0.25% bupivacaine and group R received 0.75 mlkg-1 of 0.2% ropivacaine. Patient's heart rate, respiratory rate, peripheral arterial oxygen saturation, objective pain scale (OPS), motor power score (MPS) and time for rescue analgesia were recorded. The data recorded was statistically analyzed using Student's unpaired t test.  P value 0.05). Motor power scale was recorded in all the patients in both the Groups. In 90 minutes about 27 patients in group B and 29 patients in group R had MPS of 10. Patients in Group R required rescue analgesia earlier, at around 6 hours postoperatively as compared to 8 hours postoperatively in Group B


The present-day vigorous development of the scientific thought preconditions a directed and timebound intervention into different fields of education for new generations as an immediate problem, beginning from the pre-school age, which the stage when the organized education starts. In these terms, the aim of this writing is to bring some qualitative training alternatives into the readers' attention, based on the theoretical-didactic references in the field of the pre-school children's psychomotor education. Also, by shedding light on the features and the elusiveness the children of this age bear, regarding motoric abilities, education and evolvement - seen as integrated with other fields of cognition, we are trying to bring forth some instances or models from the curricula and teaching sessions, urged by the desire to contribute to the preparation of the pre-school education teachers and students methodic activities in the domain of psychomotor education.


Authorisation I hereby declare that I am the sole author of the thesis. I authorise the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology to lend this thesis to other institutions or individuals for the purpose of scholarly research. I further authorise the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology to reproduce the thesis by photocopying or by other means, in total or in part, at the request of other institutions or individuals for the purpose of scholarly research.-iv-Acknowledgements I would like to sincerely thank my advisor, Dr. Ishfaq Ahmad, for his patience, guidance and invaluable advice on my studies. I am very grateful for his continual support on both academic and personal problems. I am most grateful to my wife, Fyon, for her love and patience that keeps me working whenever I am frustrated. Without the encouragements from Dr. Ahmad and Fyon, it could have been difficult to continue my graduate studies. on the CASCH project and I thank them for their precious contributions. I would like to acknowledge the Hong Kong Research Grants Council for supporting this work (under contract number HKUST 179/93E). Finally, I thank the Computer Science Department for its generosity in providing a nice and convenient work environment for its graduate students. I hope that the department will continue to do so in the future. Figure 1.2 : (a) A taxonomy of the approaches to the scheduling problem; (b) A task interaction graph; (c) A task precedence graph.. Figure 2.1 : (a) A simple tree-structured task graph with unit-cost tasks and without communication among tasks; (b) The optimal schedule of the task graph Figure 2.2 : (a) A simple task graph with unit-cost tasks and without communication among tasks; (b) The optimal schedule of the task graph in a two-processor Figure 2.3 : (a) A task graph; (b) The schedule generated by the HLFET algorithm (schedule length = 43 time units); (c) The best possible schedule (schedule length = 34 time units). Figure 2.6 : (a) A randomly generated task graph; (b) An initial schedule without duplication (schedule length = 299 time units); (c) The final schedule produced by the DSH algorithm (schedule length = 275 time units); (d) An intermediate schedule in which the duplication of n 2 increases the start times of n 3 and n 5 ; (e) The final schedule produced by the BTDH algorithm Figure 2.7 : (a) A simple task …


There is a high growing demand for regulating ecosystem services such as air quality regulation, regulation of air temperature and humidity, and flood regulation, in urban ecosystems which is important for urban planning. A comprehensive review of the current studies of the urban ecosystem, regulating ecosystem services, and their connection with urban planning actions is needed. The current paper presents such a review conducted in six stages to evaluate the state-of-the-art of regulating ecosystem services and their relationship with urban planning. It includes 58 papers selected after a precise keywords search and developed by publication screening, defining indicators, developing an assessment template, and meta-analysis of the results. The analyses are focused on spatial data used in the studies, the methods applied for ecosystem services assessment, and the relationships between regulating ecosystem services, urban planning, and green infrastructure. The most studied regulating ecosystem services within reviewed publications are regulation of chemical composition of atmosphere and oceans, regulation of temperature and humidity, including ventilation and transpiration, and hydrological cycle and water flow regulation (including flood control, and coastal protection). Although urban planning-related papers are only 1/3 of the pool of papers, appropriate results have been obtained for assessing the urban planning-regulating ecosystem services relation. The review also identified some significant knowledge gaps that can be used as a starting point for future studies.


Finger millet Eleusine coracana L., commonly called Ragi, is a rich source of phytochemicals and have number of health beneficial effects. The present study evaluated the total antioxidant activity (TAA), condensed tannins (CT), micronutrient content (Fe & Zn), diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) and 2,2′-azinobis-3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid (ABTS) radical scavenging activity, ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) and phenolic compounds in 35 finger millet genotypes. The assayed genotypes showed 0.91-0.99 mg/g CT, 23.79-56.51 mM/kg TAA, 1.76-44.47 μM/g DPPH scavenging activity, 44.14-88.09 μg/mL ABTS activity, 100-463.53 μM FRAP value, 37.04-69.13 ppm Fe and 28.94-46.77 ppm Zn. HPLC analysis showed that gallic, tannic, ferulic, caffeic and o-coumaric acid to be major polyphenols in all genotypes. Principal component analysis (PCA) revealed significantly higher CT, TAA with relatively good amount of Fe and Zn in VL Ragi 146, VL Mandua 352, VL 336, VL 373, VL 325, VL 351, GPHCPB 7, GPHCPB 3, GPHCPB 52 and VR 708 genotypes. Agglomerative hierarchical cluster analysis classified the 35 genotypes into two clusters; Cluster I had higher CT, TAA, FRAP, DPPH, ABTS, while cluster II recorded higher Fe and Zn. This study clearly demonstrated the nutraceutical properties with higher antioxidant potential of identified genotypes, which can be suitably deployed for nutritional security, particularly in developing countries.


A paper discussing some issues germane to the preparation and interests of simulation professionals was published in the Proceedings of the 1979 Annual Simulation Symposium. A portion of the presentation at the Symposium was based on a questionnaire circulated at the 1978 Winter Simulation Conference and was compiled too late for inclusion in the Proceedings copy. The same questionnaire was distributed in registration packets at the 1979 Annual Simulation Symposium. The results of the latter survey have now been tallied. Some interesting similarities and differences present themselves. The questionnaire and results for the two groups are shown below. In each case, column 1 shows the percentage of the 35 Winter Simulation Conference attendees who responded affirmatively, while column 2 shows the comparable percentage of the 59 Annual Simulation Symposium attendees who responded affirmatively.


The last decade has seen a rise in the use of the gamma nail for managing inter-trochanteric and subtrochanteric hip fractures. Patients with multiple co-morbidities are under high anaesthetic risk of mortality and are usually not suitable for general or regional anaesthesia. However, there can be a strong case for fixing these fractures despite these risks. Apart from aiming to return patients to their pre-morbid mobility, other advantages include pain relief and reducing the complications of being bed bound (e.g. pressure ulcers, psychosocial factors). While operative use of local anaesthesia and sedation has been documented for insertion of extra-medullary femoral implants such as the sliding hip screw, currently no literature is present for the insertion of the gamma nail. We studied intra-operative and post-operative outcomes of three patients aged between 64 and 83 with right inter-trochanteric hip fractures and American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) scores of 4 or more. Consent for each case was obtained after discussion with the patient and family, or conducted with the patient9s best interests in mind. All patients received a short unlocked gamma nail, and were operated on within 24 hours of admission. Each patient underwent local injections of Bupivacaine or Lignocaine or both, with Epinephrine, and with one patient receiving nerve block of the fascia iliaca. Each patient received a combination of sedatives under the discretion of the anaesthetist including Midazolam, Ketamine, Propofol, Fentanyl, and/or Haloperidol. Operating time ranged from 30–90 minutes. Patients were managed post-operatively with analgesia based on the WHO pain ladder and physiotherapy. Our results showed no intra-operative complications in any of the cases. All patients noted improvement in their pain and comfort post-operatively without complications of the operation site. Two patients achieved their pre-morbid level of mobility after undergoing physiotherapy and were subsequently discharged from the orthopaedic team. One patient with ongoing pre-operative medical complications died 5 days after the operation. This study provides a glimpse into the use of local anaesthetic and sedation on high operative risk patients, and this may be a viable alternative to extra-medullary implants or non-operation. Further research is needed to quantify the risks and benefits of operating within this patient group.


As an alternative approach for the numerical integration of physical systems, the MDWDF technique has become of importance in the field of numerical analysis due to its attractive features, for example, massive parallelism and high accuracy both inherent in nature. In this study, speed-up efficiencies of a MDWDF network are studied for the linearized shallow water system, which plays an important role in fluid dynamics. To achieve the goal, the full parallelism of the MDWDF network is established in the first place based on the chained MD retiming technique. Following the implementation on the IBM Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/BE), excellent performance of the full parallel architecture is revealed. The IBM Cell/BE containing 1 power processor element (PPE) and 8 synergistic processor elements (SPEs) perfectly fits the architecture of the retimed MDWDF model. Empirical results have demonstrated that the full parallelized model with 8 processors (1PPE


Aim of the study: To assess lung function and its relationship with smoking status and respiratory symptoms in the Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology (PURE) Poland Study population. Material and methods: Analysis was carried in a cohort consisting of 2036 adults enrolled in the PURE Poland Study. This paper presents the results of 1217 (773 female) subjects in whom spirometry was performed and who were assessed for smoking status. We estimated the odds ratio for spirometry parameters values (forced respiratory volume in 1 second [FEV1], forced vital capacity [FVC], and FEV/FVC) using logistic regression, adjusted for sex, age, smoking status, and respiratory symptoms in the last six months. Results: Forty eight percent of participants were never smokers, 34% were former smokers, and 17% were current smokers. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was diagnosed in 1.52%, 1.45%, and 2.39% of this population, respectively, and asthma in 4.88%, 1.69%, and 2.87%, respectively. Respiratory symptoms in the last six months were more common in current smokers than never smokers and former smokers. Conversely, spirometry parameters values (FEV1, FVC, and FEV1/FVC) did not differ significantly between the groups. In the logistic regression analyses, the strongest decrease of risk factors for FEV1/FVC, FEV1, and FVC were increasing age, and for Tiffeneau index former smoking status. Among women the decrease in FVC was more pronounced than in men (OR 3.82; 95% CI 2.18-6.68). The presence of respiratory symptoms did not increase the risk of decline of spirometry parameters. Conclusions: Lung function based on spirometry parameters in the surveyed PURE Poland Study population was more dependent on increasing age and female sex than on smoking status and respiratory symptoms. Key wOrdS: spirometry, lung function, PURE, tobacco, respiratory symptoms, respiratory diseases. addreSS fOr cOrreSpOndence: Katarzyna Połtyn-Zaradna, Chair and Department of Social Medicine, Wrocław Medical University, 44 O. Bujwida St., 50-345 Wrocław, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/jhi.2020.9701


Reliability based optimization (RBO) is one of the most appropriate methods for structural design under uncertainties. It searches for the best compromise between cost and safety while considering system uncertainties by incorporating reliability measures within the optimization. Despite the advantages of RBO, its application to practical engineering problem is still quite challenging. In this paper, we propose an effective method to decouple the loops of reliability assessment analysis and optimization by creating surrogate models. The Latin Hypercube sampling approach is applied to a structural finite element model to obtain an effective database for building surrogate models. In order to avoid premature convergence of the optimization process, the RBO problem is solved with metaheuristic methods such as genetic algorithm and simulated annealing. The relative efficiency of surrogate models and their relationship with metaheuristic search engine are discussed in the article.


Two field experiments were carried out in a private farm at Gamassa district, Belqas Center, Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt, during the two successive summer growing seasons of 2013 and 2014 to study the effect of mineral nitrogen fertilizer rates, organic manure and foliar fertilization treatments with biofertilizers , biostimulants as well as their interactions on growth and yield of cantaloupe cv. Primal. The field experiments were laid-out in strip-split plot design with three replications. The most important results obtained from this investigation can be summarized as follows:
     Increasing mineral nitrogen fertilizer rates from 75 to 100 and 125 kg N/fed tended to increase growth, yield and its components, thus the highest values of these characters were resulted from adding the highest rate of nitrogen fertilizer (125 kg N/fed) in both seasons.
Organic fertilizing of cantaloupe plants with chicken manure at the rate of 15 m3/fed significantly increased  growth, yield and its components as compared with control treatment (without organic manure) in both seasons.
Foliar spraying cantaloupe plants with yeast extract at rate of 5g /1L significantly surpassed other treatments (without, spraying with EM or Agrispon) and produced the highest values of all studied growth, yield and its components in both seasons.
It can be recommended that organic fertilizing cantaloupe with 15 m3 chicken manure/fed and foliar spraying plants with yeast extract and mineral fertilizing with 100 kg N/fed in order to increase cantaloupe yield over the control treatment and reduce the environment pollution and production costs under the environmental conditions of Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt.


Abstract : (1) To investigate the rate of metal removal by the flocculation process, (2) To characterize the molecular components and charge density of the flocculant.


This study titled, "The impact of the resources of non formal education and employability of youths in the South-West Region of Cameroon", is based on the problem of employability of youths. The general objective is to study the relationship between the impact of the resources of non-formal education and employability of youths. The following theories supported the study: Self Efficacy Theory, Human Capital Theory, Parsons Theory and Experiential Learning Theory. Four research questions emerged from analyzing the problem as follows: what is the relationship between the pedagogy of the resources of non-formal education and employability of youths? What is the relationship between the curriculum of non-formal education and employability of youths? What is the relationship between the use of didactic materials in the resources of non-formal education sector and employability of youths? What is the relationship between the practical process in the resources of non-formal education sector and employability of youths? From these questions, four hypotheses were formulated. Being a quantitative study, the descriptive survey research design was used. The target population constituted 480 students/apprentices in the South-West Region of Cameroon. 210 students/apprentices from Fak Meme and Ndian Divisions were sampled to represent the population. A questionnaire on non education and employability of youths was used to collect data. The spearman's Rho correlation coefficient was used to test hypotheses at a 0.05 level of significance. The chi square was used to compare the proportions for significance difference. The findings reveal that pedagogy (0.568), curriculum | Volume – 2 | Issue – 3 | Mar-Apr 2018 6470 | www.ijtsrd.com | Volume Journal of Trend in Scientific and Development (IJTSRD) International Open Access Journal and The Employability Impact -West Region of Cameroon Emefua Rose. M.Ed. and f Buea, Cameroon


A column leaching experiment using three soils (Inceptisol, Ultisol, and Andisol) and seven livestock manure composts that had different characteristics was conducted for 19 weeks to investigate the interactive effects of composts and soils on the phosphorus (P) leaching potential of compost-amended soils and to identify the principal variables that affect P leaching. Cumulative total P leaching (TPcum) tended to increase with increasing total and available P concentration in the soils. Among various compost properties, total P concentration was positively correlated with TPcum from the compost-amended soils, except for the Andisol, which has a high P-sorption capacity. There was no significant relationship between TPcum and water-extractable P concentration of the composts, suggesting that total P rather than inorganic P concentration of composts may be successfully used in predicting P leaching potential from compost-amended soils except for soils that have a high P-sorption capacity, as in Andisol.


This work demonstrates an SCR-Diode series ESD Protection concept, which can be engineered to provide a custom TLP I-V characteristic. SCRs and diodes with dimensional variations have been used in different combinations and width ratios, which results in a range of TLP I-V characteristics. This protection circuit comes with several advantages as adaptability for various ESD protection windows, the benefits of using SCR as a protection device and the ease of designing the circuit. Along with TCAD studies, experimental data demonstrates that N-well and P-well doping of SCR can be used to further tune the Vhold and Ron of the protection circuit.


Sports activities have both direct and indirect influence on peoples personality. Planned sports activi-ties will help form a good personality. It is of great importance to lay stress on training students perseverance,bravery, self-restraint, resolution and discipline in P.E. Teaching.


There has been a dramatic expansion of the voluntary sector, not merely in terms of numbers, but also of diversity and types of activities. Today's non-government organizations (NGOs) are key actors in the development process. Estimates suggest that over 20% of official aid is now channelled through them. In a relatively short period of time NGOs have also become important players in civil society. NGOs have considerable influence in shaping government policies, and some even have observer status within the United Nations. It may appear that NGOs have only become major players in the development process in the last 10 years. Yet most major NGOs have been long established; for example, the Red Cross from the 1880s, Save the Children from the end of the First World War, Oxfam and CARE from the end of the Second World War. Similarly in the South major indigenous NGOs all have well-established roots. Yet despite this heritage there is very little literature which explores the operational or strategic issues faced by these agencies over the last 50 years. This article attempts to address some of these issues by reviewing articles published in Public Administration and Development and its predecessors over the last 50 years. It provides a longitudinal analysis of the content and conclusions of key articles relevant to the operations, management and role of NGOs, voluntary organizations and co-operatives. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Deduplication of live storage volumes in a cloud computing environment is better done by post-processing: by delaying discovery and removal of duplicate data after I/O requests have been concluded, impact in latency can be minimized. When compared to traditional deduplication in backup systems, which can be done in-line and in a centralized fashion, distribution and concurrency lead to increased complexity. This paper outlines a deduplication algorithm for a typical cloud infrastructure with a common storage pool and summarizes how model-checking with the TLA+ toolset was used to uncover and correct some subtle concurrency issues.


DESCRIPTION A 31-year-old man with known history of paraplegia presents to clinic with a long-standing wound as shown earlier. The wound is located in the presacral region with intact periosteum, healthy overlying fascia, and no purulence.


Additionally, there is significant text overlap and re-use of all figures and tableswithoutpermission fromthe followingarticle: Xiao-Li Tian & Jie Guo, Effect of Isothermal Cooling Time on Microstructure Transformation and Hardness of a Ti-V-Mo Microalloyed Steel. Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals 75, 1711–1719 (2022). Link: https://link.springer.com/ article/10.1007/s12666-021-02498-x Additionally, there is text overlap with the following article:


H. Gibbons, E. Carr, G.S. Frost, B.A. McNulty, A.P. Nugent, J. Walton, A. Flynn, M.J. Gibney and L. Brennan School of Agriculture and Food Science, Institute of Food and Health, University College Dublin, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, Nutrition and Dietetic Research Group, Imperial College London, London, UK and School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University College Cork, Cork, Republic of Ireland


Platinum nanoparticles deposited on noncovalent functionalized graphene modified by 1, 10-Phenanthroline were prepared by ethylene glycol reduction process under the assistance of the microwave. The structure, morphology, composition and surface properties of the as-prepared catalysts Pt/graphene are characterized by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The results showed that platinum particles were uniformly dispersed on the surface of 1,10-Phenanthroline noncovalent modified graphene, and the particle size was about 1nm. Cyclic voltammetry(CV), linear sweep voltammetry(LSV) and Tafel curves were used to test the oxygen reduction electrode. Through electro-chemical testing, we found that the graphene based electrocatalysts significantly increased the oxygen reduction reaction(ORR) of aluminum-air batteries. This result illustrated that Pt nanoparticles deposited on noncovalent functionalized graphene could be used as an efficient catalyst material for aluminum-air batteries with the feature of much increased catalytic activity.


THE BRITISH POST-GRADUATE SCHOOL It is characteristic of the King that in the midst of the strenuous activities of his Silver Jubilee he should have consented to open in person, With the Queen, the new buildings of the British Post-Graduate Medical School. It marks the occasion as a very important one, and demonstrates His Majesty's concern for a medical movement which should profoundly influence the health and educational affairs not only of Great Britain but of the whole Empire. The school has had


In the Warsaw 1860-1866 Rabbinic Bible and in its many reprints, there is a note in Rashi's commentary on Job chapter 40, after verse 20: "until here Rashi composed [the commentary], from here and on [i. e. until the end of chapter 42] is not the language of Rashi". In other words, the end of Rashi's commentary on Job as it appears in the printed editions (40:25 through chapter 42) was not written by Rashi, but rather by another author. However, the printed note does not disclose his identity. The status of the end of Rashi's commentary on Job was already discussed by several scholars in the 19th century,1 and more recently


Oceanic microseisms are small oscillations of the ground, in the frequency range of 0.05–0.3 Hz, associated with the occurrence of energetic ocean waves of half the corresponding frequency. In 1950, Longuet-Higgins suggested in a landmark theoretical paper that (i) microseisms originate from surface pressure oscillations caused by the interaction between oppositely travelling components with the same frequency in the ocean wave spectrum, (ii) these pressure oscillations generate seismic Stoneley waves on the ocean bottom, and (iii) when the ocean depth is comparable with the acoustic wavelength in water, compressibility must be considered. The efficiency of microseism generation thus depends on both the wave frequency and the depth of water. While the theory provided an estimate of the magnitude of the corresponding microseisms in a compressible ocean, its predictions of microseism amplitude heretofore have never been tested quantitatively. In this paper, we show a strong agreement between observed microseism and calculated amplitudes obtained by applying Longuet-Higgins' theory to hindcast ocean wave spectra from the North Atlantic Ocean. The calculated vertical displacements are compared with seismic data collected at stations in North America, Greenland, Iceland and Europe. This modelling identifies a particularly energetic source area stretching from the Labrador Sea to south of Iceland, where wind patterns are especially conducive to generating oppositely travelling waves of same period, and the ocean depth is favourable for efficient microseism generation through the 'organ pipe' resonance of the compression waves, as predicted by the theory. This correspondence between observations and the model predictions demonstrates that deep ocean nonlinear wave–wave interactions are sufficiently energetic to account for much of the observed seismic amplitudes in North America, Greenland and Iceland.


UKIP has watched as its competitors on the mainstream and radical right have exited the electoral field. Robert Ford writes that previously Conservative-voting 'strategic Eurosceptics' along with the BNP's 'polite xenophobes' have joined UKIP's ranks giving Nigel Farage and his party an unprecedented political opportunity.


Potassium (K+) channels have long been associated with recovery of excitable cells after depolarisation and drugs that block these channels, such as tetraethylammonium and 4aminopyridine, cause an increase in excitability. In airway smooth muscle these K+ channel blocking drugs result in spontaneous action potentials and a reduced threshold of excitation,'2 which may be similar to the electrophysiological changes described in asthmatic airways.' The recent development of drugs that open K+ channels in smooth muscle has reawakened interest in potassium channels because such drugs relax airway smooth muscle and may reduce the hyperreactivity of asthma. It is now clear that there is great diversity ofK+ channels in different cells, raising the possibility that selective drugs may be developed for specific cell types, with therapeutic benefit. We review here some ofthe recent developments in understanding K+ channels in airways and the therapeutic prospects for new K+ channel activators.


The article is devoted to the analysis of clavier schools of England and France. The paper considers origins of clavier art establishment in Western Europe and reveals unity and differences of schools and its stylistic and genre peculiarities.


This paper proposes a continuous cognitive emotional regulation model for robot in the case of external emotional stimulus from interactive person's expressions. It integrates a guiding cognitive reappraisal strategy into the HMM (Hidden Markov Model) emotional interactive model for empathizing between robot and person. The emotion is considered as a source in the 3D space (Arousal, Valence, and Stance). State transition and emotion intensity can be quantitatively analyzed in the continuous space. This cognition-emotion interactive model have been verified by the expression and behavior robot. Empathizing is the main distinguishing feature of our work, and it is realized by the emotional regulation which operated in a continuous 3D emotional space enabling a wide range of intermediate emotions. The experiment results provide evidence with acceptability, accuracy, richness, fluency, interestingness, friendliness and exaggeration that the robot with cognition and emotional control ability could be better accepted in the human-robot interaction (HRI).


This report details the processes that two communities went through with the aim of mobilizing and validating their own knowledge, in order to secure local heritage and continue customary sustainable practices in management of it towards endogenous development. The project also assisted the communities to assess the status of resilience of local social-ecological systems and to develop restoration plans including showing areas where connecting different knowledge systems may support the restoration.


The estimation of unobservable states of a process is important when using control techniques that assume, said a priori, known values. The controllers based on the state space present good behavior and efficiency, even when the dynamics of the process are non-linear. One of the processes with non-linear dynamics and in which not all the states are observable is the case of parabolic trough solar plants. In this work an observer is presented, based on a fuzzy inference system, for the estimation of the temperature profiles of the loops that make up the solar field. This is a English translation of an earlier work presented in the XXXIX Spanish workshop in Automatic Control [15].


Higher Education Institution (HEI) have embarked on the new style of decision-making with the aim to enhance the speed and reliability of decision-making capabilities. One of the hardest challenges in implementing Business Intelligence (BI) is the organization's readiness towards adopting and implementing BI systems. Currently, few published studies have examined BI readiness in HEI environment. Seeing this challenge, this study aims to contribute in determining the BI readiness factors in HEI specifically in the deployment strategies. Through inductive attention to BI in HEI environment, three broad factors have been identified: a) Organizational – that concerning on business strategies, process and structure, b) Technology – involves the BI system and knowledge for managing including the sources and c) Social – the culture within organization that may influence decision-making and its processes. This paper also makes recommendations for future research.


Commercial coffee is obtained from the processed beans of two species of the genus Coffea namely C. arabica and C. canephora, the former yielding arabica coffee and the latter yielding robusta coffee. Most of the agronomic characters of crop plants are controlled by polygenes and hence they show different levels of interrelationships. Analysis of correlation between such characters and further study of relative contribution of each character towards the genetic potential of the species provide valuable tools to identify the lead characters among them so that further improvement programmes could be based on such characters. The present study of the agronomically important polygenic characters of robusta coffee, utilizing the robusta coffee germplasm maintained in the Regional Coffee Research Station, Chundale, Wayanad, Kerala, India by the Central Coffee Research Institute of India has shown that girth of primary branches, weight of 100 dry fruits and percentage of A grade beans have got significant positive correlation with the maximum number of other characters. Factor analysis revealed that bush spread showed the maximum factor loading followed by length of primary branches and girth of primary branches. This shows the strength of the association of these characters with others and their importance in robusta breeding programmes.


This paper discusses three methods for applying linear viscous damping at the global level in nonlinear time history analysis: (1) Rayleigh damping proportional to the mass and initial stiffness matrices, (2) Rayleigh damping proportional to the mass and tangent stiffness matrices, and (3) modal damping through the dynamic nonlinear modal analysis method, also known as fast nonlinear analysis (FNA). The effect of global stiffness changes on structures modeled with the three methods is studied and compared. This paper showcases one of the limitations of Method 1 (Rayleigh damping with initial stiffness): sensitivity to the modeling of localized nonlinearity, such as frame elements that are sub-divided around the nonlinear hinges. As the sub-division around the nonlinear hinges become smaller, the damping forces in the nonlinear elements become larger and can have a significant effect on the computed forces in neighboring elements as well as global behavior. In contrast, the latter two methods are insensitive to the modeling of localized nonlinearity. Finally, the results of nonlinear response history analyses using each method is compared for a 30-story building model used for performance-based design. All structural modeling and analysis is done using the commercial software ETABS 2015. Method 3 (modal damping with FNA) gives similar results to Method 2 (Rayleigh damping with tangent stiffness) for the 30-story building model. The effect of the three methods upon the efficiency of analysis is also compared.


Multistep tasks refer to activities of daily living that require a sequence of actions to be performed (e.g., preparing a sandwich). Engaging persons with intellectual disabilities in such tasks is an important educational goal, but these persons may find it difficult to independently execute the correct sequence of steps necessary to perform the intended activity. In this proof-of-concept study, we evaluated the usability of a web application running on a mobile device to enable three young adults with intellectual and motor disabilities to independently complete multistep tasks. The results of this study provide preliminary evidence about the overall usability of the web application for persons with disability and their caregivers. Future studies may build on current evidence to prove the overall effectiveness of the proposed system.


The present invention relates to novel fitted fibroblast growth factor (FGF) polypeptide, the DNA encoding chimeric FGF new polypeptides, and to the recombinant production of the chimeric FGF polypeptides, and to the therapeutic treatment of metabolic chimeric FGF-related polypeptides for method diseases and other disorders, and pharmaceutical compositions will be active for the production of a polypeptide comprising a chimeric FGF, and measuring the composition, said composition having a therapeutic and pharmacological properties, including the treatment of metabolic-related diseases and other disorders associated of those.


This article discusses definitions of crimes included into the Act of 18 December 1998 on the Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation, and their usefulness in prosecuting individuals who committed international crimes. It is argued that the provisions of the Act cannot constitute a ground for criminal responsibility of individuals, as they violate the principle of nullum crimen sine lege certa.


We examined the mechanisms by which identification with a stigmatized ingroup impacts well-being in stigmatized groups. The first three studies were conducted among gay men and lesbians in Europe and North America. Results support the idea that identification with homosexuals protects well-being by decreasing attempts at self-group distancing. Pursuit of self-group distancing was negatively related to well-being (studies 1 to 3a, N=1055). Other coping strategies were associated with identification but had no relationship with well-being. Identification was positively related to engagement coping strategies, namely, collective action, group affirmation and ingroup support, and negative related to disengagement strategies: ingroup blaming and avoidance of discrimination. A fourth study (study 3b) examined these mechanisms among Black North Americans (N=203). Again, identification was positively related to engagement strategies, and negatively related to disengagement; however, only collective action (positively) predicted well-being. Results are discussed in terms of how the effectiveness of different strategies for coping with stigma will differ depending on qualities of the identities in question and the specifics of the intergroup context.


Malaria is an infectious disease and still become a public health problem in Indonesia. Malaria transmission is influenced by several factors such as the environment, agent, and host. Purworejo is one of sub-districts in Central Java that has the highest malaria rate. One endemic sub-district in Purworejo is Gebang with MOPi in the early quarter of 2018 at 1.3 ‰. The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between environmental factors of malaria incidence in Kecamatan Gebang . This study was an observational analytical with case control design. The sample of this study amounted to 106 respondents with details of 53 cases and 53 controls. The univariate and bivariate were used to analyze the data. The results showed that were a relationship between habit of going out at night (p = 0,000; OR = 10,513), use of mosquito repellent (p = 0,036; OR = 2,710), existence of breeding place (p = 0,000; OR = 5,077), distance of breeding place (p = 0.011 OR = 2.963), existence of resting place (p = 0.003; OR = 4.313), and livestock cage (p = 0,000; OR = 10,014). The conclusion of this study is that there is a relationship between  habit of going out at night, use of mosquito nets, existence of breeding places, distance of breeding places, existence of resting places, and existence of livestock cages related to malaria incidence in Gebang.


Thick (200 to 500 /spl mu/m) epitaxial GaAs layers have been grown on two inches wafers by using a chemical reaction technique introduced recently which is cheap, non-polluting and allows to reach very high growth rates. X-ray detectors made of p/i/n structures have been realized using non-intentionally doped layers grown on n/sup +/ GaAs substrates, with the p/sup +/ layer at the surface obtained by ion implantation. These detectors have been validated by current and capacitance-voltage measurements, photocurrent induced by X-ray irradiation, and energy resolution measurements. The data obtained demonstrate that these detectors exhibit similar performances as those obtained previously with conventional epigrowth techniques. Under standard conditions of medical examination (anode voltage of 60 kV, current of 75 mA and distance of 70 cm), Up to 10/sup 13/ charges per second per mm/sup 2/ can be collected. The observed response time is apparently limited by the decay of the X-ray pulse.


Objective—Oxidation of LDL plays a significant pathogenic role in atherosclerosis. In this study, we attempted to clarify the correlation between the morphology of human atherosclerotic plaques and the oxidized LDL (OxLDL) levels in plasma and carotid plaques. Methods and Results—OxLDL levels (ng/&mgr;g apolipoprotein B) in plasma and carotid plaques from 44 patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy and OxLDL levels in 17 control plasma and 9 normal intima samples were determined by a sandwich ELISA by using specific antibodies against OxLDL (DLH3) and apolipoprotein B. The plaques were immunohistochemically classified as macrophage (M&phgr;)-rich and M&phgr;-poor. In paired samples from individual patients, plaque OxLDL was nearly 70 times higher than plasma OxLDL (mean±SEM, 11.9±1.7 vs 0.18±0.01 ng/&mgr;g apoB, P <0.0001). The OxLDL level was significantly higher in M&phgr;-rich- than M&phgr;-poor plaques (19.6±2.8 vs 5.50±0.77ng/&mgr;g apoB, P <0.0001) and corresponded with DLH3 antigen positivity of the plaques. In patients with M&phgr;-rich plaques, plasma OxLDL was significantly higher than in the controls (0.20±0.02 vs 0.13±0.01ng/&mgr;g apoB, P =0.02). Conclusions—Our results suggest that LDL undergoes further oxidation in plaques, and that high plasma and plaque levels of OxLDL are correlated with the vulnerability to rupture of atherosclerotic lesions.


The possessor (Jan) is separated from the possessive DP (zenen velo 'his bike') by the clausal adjunct (toen just 'just then'). This phenomenon will be called Flemish External Possession (FEP). • This talk provides arguments for a syntactic dependency between the possessor DP and the possessee DP in the FEP-pattern (FEP). It is this syntactic dependency that discerns the FEP-pattern from superficially similar patterns such as the German Possessive Pronoun Dative (2) (Lee-Schoenfeld's (2006) Non-Possessor Dative; GPPD).


In MIPv6,configuration of Care-of Address(CoA) has direct influence on handover performance of mobile IP.Commonly used stateless address autoconfiguration protocol has the disadvantage of ineffective administration and weak security in practical application.For this problem,we put forward centralized and distributed deployments of stateful address autoconfiguration(DHCPv6).After comparing and analyzing the advantage and disadvantage of them,we design and implement stateful address autoconfiguration protocol for gain CoA based on RFC3775.The experimental results show that stateful address autoconfiguration protocol achieves effective management of mobile node and can adapt to practical application.


This paper investigates the causal effects of grandmothers' geographical proximity on the labor supply decisions of married women with young children by using data from the Turkish Family Structure Survey. We deal with the reverse causality and endogeneity problems arising from mothers' and grandmothers' joint location and labor supply decisions by implementing a two-stage least squares estimation method using the number of alive grandmothers as an instrument. We argue that although grandmothers' proximity can increase mothers' labor supply through their free and flexible child care services, geographically close grandmothers can better impose the traditional gender norms that are prevalent in Turkey, which will decrease mothers' labor supply. The overall effect depends on the relative size of these two opposing factors. Our results suggest that living in the same neighborhood to grandmothers increases the probability of labor force participation as well as the employment rates of women with young children by 18.2 ppt and 16.4 ppt, respectively. We also show that grandmothers' proximity does not have a significant effect on the labor supply and the employment probability of men with young children and women with no children or older children. In addition, we find that grandfathers' proximity does not affect the labor market outcomes of women with young children. Therefore, we conclude that grandmothers' child care provision drives these results, and the effect of the "traditional gender norm" channel is relatively small. JEL Classification: J13, J20, J21


The paper explores the large concrete crack controlling measures of foundations at housing construction,illustrates the controlling measures for cracks,including the temperature control,the reasonable structural measures,and construction craft from the main factors which influence the quality of the large concrete cracks,so as to enhance the development of the construction technique of large concrete at foundation.


IR spectra of single phase sulfuric acid hydrates have been measured and the conversion between sulfuric acid monohydrate (H3O+HSO4−, SAM) and sulfuric acid tetrahydrate ([H5O2+]2SO42−, SAT) as a function of temperature and water partial pressure pH2O has been followed using the principal absorption bands of the four main ionic species present, H3O+, H5O2+, HSO4− and SO42−. Temperature–pressure variation studies of the phase transition show that intermediate structures are formed on hydration of SAM that are not formed in the dehydration of SAT. Spectra taken at regular time intervals during the conversion process have been used to
 monitor these intermediates which can be attributed to changes in the local coordination geometry of the sulfate
 ion as a function of the amount of available water. The sulfate ion core in SAT is nearly tetrahedral and
 principally shows a strong asymmetric S–O stretching fundamental at ca. 1070 cm−1 in its mid-IR spectrum. The SO4 core of the bisulfate ion in SAM has pseudo-C3v local symmetry, with 3 IR-active modes (2A1
+ E) which are observed to change markedly upon hydration. Slow hydration at 180 K results in the melting of SAM, with subsequent SAT crystallisation from this melt. At reduced temperatures (175 K), instead of melting, a sulfate ion is held in a solid matrix and successively coordinates to a second H3O+ ion in a structure with local C3v symmetry. This change in coordination allows different vibrational modes to become IR active. The IR
 absorption bands in each of these configurations can be assigned by comparison with the vibrational modes of metal sulfates for which structures and spectra are known. The ultimate effect of hydration is to deprotonate the
 bisulfate core forming sulfate and hydrated protons, i.e. the formation of SAT. Isothermal dehydration
 of SAT in acuo shows a simpler trend, through the loss of excess water from a SAT film until the overall
 stoichiometry reaches that of SAM: a smooth, direct conversion into SAM is observed. The rate of this process compared to the rate of hydration suggests that a barrier to SAT decomposition exists.


Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,written by Tennessee Williams in 1955,is a brilliant play about a dysfunctional family.In this play,Williams uses his craft to entertain,enlighten and bare men's soul in morden society.By analyzing its major characters,themes and symbols,this paper tries to show this play's contemporary significance.


As a result of studies, it was found that collection samples of berry crops in vitro can be maintained in viable condition on specially selected nutrient media for 12 months. The effect of mannitol concentration (0.45, 0.75 and 1.05%; sucrose control -3%) on the regenerative potential of microprobe of the studied berry crop varieties was estimated. When studying the effect of the reproduction cycle on the morphogenesis of meristemic cultures, it was found that the dynamics of changes in shoot length, number of leaves and shoots depended on the concentration of the active substance. In general, the majority of berry crops that were viable after storage of explants retained the ability to grow again, in many cases reaching or exceeding the control level.


The background and appliance of the health related quality of life are introduced in this article.The production of health related quality of life is a challenge to the medical model,concept and education model.Modern education must stand on the height of health related quality of life,adapt new medical concept,renew the education model and replenish the education content.


N-Methoxy methyl sulfates of 2,3,4,5- and 2,3,5,6-tetrachloropyridine, 3,4,5- and 3,4,6-trichloropyridazine, pentachloropyridine, and tetrachloropyridazine have been prepared. Their reactions with water and aqueous potassium cyanide have been investigated.


By taking the joint thin-walled parts as research object,a kind of research was carried out on the optimization of clamping scheme for the workpiece in milling process. The three-dimensional( 3-D) model of four-flute end mill and the workpiece part were made by UG. The effect of different clamping scheme on the deformation of joint structure parts was simulated by the finite element analysis( FEA) software ABAQUS. With the purpose of getting the minimum of the average deformation,MATLAB genetic algorithm was based to optimize the clamping scheme and to acquire the best clamping scheme. The research results provide an effective method for controlling the deformation due to different clamping scheme of aeronautic joint-shaped workpiece.


The promotional mix is a term used to describe the set of tools that a business can use to communicate effectively the benefits of its products or services to its customers. The purpose of promotion is to reach the targeted consumers and persuade them to buy. Promotion has been defined as the coordination of all seller-initiated efforts to set up channels of information and persuasion to sell goods and services or promote an idea. Sales promotion is vital element of promotional mix. With the increase in the growth of players in Insurance sector (both public and private) the insurance companies are finding it difficult to promote their products. This paper tires to study the benefits of promotional activities as a tool for selling the insurance products to the final customer.


MALIGNANT change associated with the sinuses of chronic osteomyelitis has long been recognized. The f i s t reported case of carcinoma of this type was by Hawkins, of London, in 1835, entitled " Cases of Warty Tumours in Cicatrices ". From this date, until 1931, only 52 cases have been reported. To these, Benedict (1931) added 12, Henderson and Swart (1936) 5 , Bereston and Ney (1941) 2, and, more recently, McNally and Dockerty (1949) have added a further g cases. With the more general use of penicillin, and particularly streptomycin, in chronic osteomyelitis, th is complication should become even less common. We should like to add 3 cases to those mentioned above. this discharge gave an almost pure growth of Staph. auras with some coliform bacilli.


This paper presents a non-technical overview of the provision of an extended Japanese± English dictionary service on the World Wide Web (WWW). The service described is the author' s WWWJDIC server, which is part of the EDICT (Electronic DICTionary) project. As well as providing linked waei and kanwa dictionary services, it also has the facility to provide English glosses of words in Japanese text, including other WWW pages. The author has been engaged in the EDICT project to develop a series of computerbased Japanese± English dictionaries capable of being used both as traditional dictionaries and as semi-automated aids for reading Japanese text since 1991. The main EDICT glossary ® le now has over 60,000 entries, and has been joined by subject-speci® c ® les covering biomedical terminology, legal terms, computing, telecommunications, business, etc., as well as a proper names ® le with 160,000 entries and a kanji database covering over 12,000 kanji. A variety of software packages have been released for use on a number of computer systems, and the ® les are used within several free or shareware Japanese word-processor systems. The ® les, which have also been used in a number of natural-language processing (NLP) and machine translation (MT) projects, are all available free of charge for non-commercial use. The development of the World Wide Web as an information retrieval system on the Internet in 1993 opened the possibility of providing a comprehensive dictionary facility from a small number of servers. The facilities within the WWW to combine serverbased software with text input from almost any browser has meant that an identical service can be provided regardless of the user' s type of computer. Also complex software distribution and installation is avoided, and the central lexicographical databases can be continually expanded and the services enhanced without causing problems for the users. The ® rst WWW-based dictionary using the EDICT ® les began operating in 1993, and since then approximately 10 different server systems have been developed to use these ® les. This article describes the dictionary and related services provided by the author' s WWWJDIC server which operates at Monash University, and from mirror servers in the USA, Canada, Chile and Japan.


The problem of a certain type of aeroplane engine manipulating cables broken and clamping stagnation was analyzed according to the structure and working principle of throttle control operating rod.To adopt SEM and chemical composition analysis,the main reason of broken wires and clamping stagnation are the following such as the agnail occurs on the cable,which is near joint in the process of the bar producing,in the following use the manipulation by push-pull role of throttle levers makes the steel wire thorn out surface,causing clamping stagnation.The improvement measure according to above phenomena has been proposed: to strengthen the care and maintenance of throttle control operating rod,to prevent rod movement obstructed for too big friction,to strengthen the surface quality inspection of throttle control operating rod cable,to change it in time when there is broken end,corrosion,looseness,to inspect coat brass lumen to prevent outer redundancy entering into brass pipe and cause throttle operating rod movement obstructed and clamping stagnation.


Objectives: to study the effects of soy milk consumption in the occurrence of dysplastic crypt foci (DCF) in an experimental model of colon cancer. To relate oxidative stress with apoptotic activity and genomic unsteadiness. Methods: experimental model of colon cancer was achieved by subcutaneous injections of 1,2-dimetilhidrazina (DMH, 20 mg/Kg) twice a week during eight weeks in adult male Wistar rats. Three groups were studied: A) Normal control: saline injections and standard diet (commercial formula and water ad libitum); B) Carcinogenesis control: DMH inoculation and standard diet; C) Experimental: DMH inoculation, soy diet (commercial formula and soy milk). Four rats of each group were study 4, 5 and 6 months after last inocula


A kind of single phase lock loop based on cascade signal delay cancellation has been proposed in this paper to deal with the single phase grid synchronization under non- ideal grid environment. Firstly,the coordinate transformation results with only single phase signal is considered as the input signal has been analyzed,and the output features of synchronous rotation coordinate transformation with single phase signal as the input in every non- ideal grid environment will be obtained. The proposed method,combining the cascade signal delay elimination method with frequency feedback loop,will suppress the effect of non- ideal grid environment,like DC component,harmonic component,phase hits and so on,on synchronous reference coordinate transformation quickly and effectively,so as to track the voltage amplitude,phase of the single grid and frequency self- adaption accurately. Moreover,this method does not ask for virtual orthogonal signal construction,which will be implemented simply by hardware. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by simulation and experiment results.


With the trend of the pull production,supply chain integration and the impact of the flattening channel all that accelerated by the internet,the traditional distributors are facing a dilemma of meager profit so much even on the run.This article argues that backward supply chain integration can help distributors to deal with "disintermediation" impact,promoting the new path of the overall reconstruction of industrial organization.Firstly,the article derived the basic model and the key advantages of "retail-manufacturers",based on the global supply chain management experiences of large business organizations.Combined with the application limitation and the "re-intermediation" demand of "retail-manufactures",this article then put forward the pattern of "distributivemanufacturers" as the supplement and optimization for "retail-manufacturers" model,in which the division and coordination principle inner distribution field is viewed as of great value and significance for deepening the reverse integration mechanism and revealing the differentiation and transformation strategy in wholesale sector.Small retailers should be attached to a large leading wholesaler in order to realize reverse integration in supply chain.As to large retailers,in addition to a direct "retail-manufacturer" role,can also choose to implement "re-intermediation" strategy in specific conditions,by introducing a "third party" to implement the reverse integration strategy.


Name ambiguity problem has been a challenging issue for a long history. In this paper, we intend to make a thorough investigation of the whole problem. Specifically, we formalize the name disambiguation problem in a unified framework. The framework can incorporate both attribute and relationship into a probabilistic model. We explore a dynamic approach for automatically estimating the person number K and employ an adaptive distance measure to estimate the distance between objects. Experimental results show that our proposed framework can significantly outperform the baseline method.


The importance of imaging biomarkers in biomedical research and drug design is well-acknowledged in the literature, calling for appropriate standards and guidelines for imaging biomarker development, validation and qualification. The objective of this work is to define explicitly, by means of an ontology, the vocabulary pertaining to imaging biomarkers' domain.


The pseudo-hyperfine interactions due to the combined effects of spinorbit coupling and electron orbital-nuclear spin interaction may be important in a radical containing one or several heavy atoms. An expression is derived for these interactions using simple molecular orbital wave-functions. An estimate of the effect is made for the radical XeF trapped in a crystal of XeF4 and values of the magnetic hyperfine coupling constants for the Xe nucleus are obtained which differ significantly from those originally proposed by Morton and Falconer.


Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction, Francis J. Gavin and Mark Atwood Lawrence Part I: Thinking Beyond East and West 1. Lyndon Johnson and the Challenges of Economic Globalization, Daniel Sargent 2. Toward a New Deal for the World? Lyndon Johnson's Aspirations to Renew the Twentieth Century's Pax Americana, Patrick O. Cohrs 3. Moving Beyond the Cold War: The Johnson Administration, Bridge-Building, and Detente, Thomas A. Schwartz Part II: Internationalizing the Great Society 4. One Global War on Poverty: The Johnson Administration Fights Poverty at Home and Abroad, 1964-1968, Sheyda Jahanbani 5. LBJ's Third War: The War on Hunger, Nick Cullather 6. LBJ and World Population: Planning the Greater Society One Family at a Time, Matthew Connelly 7. Globalizing the Great Society: Lyndon Johnson and the Pursuit of Smallpox Eradication, Erez Manela Part III: Adapting to a World of Scarcity 8. Thinking Globally: U.S. Foreign Aid, Paul Ehrlich, and the Emergence of Environmentalism in the 1960s, Tom Robertson 9. "More a Gun at Our Heads than Theirs": The 1967 Arab Oil Embargo, Third World Raw Materials Sovereignty, and American Diplomacy, Christopher R.W. Dietrich Part IV: Shifting Moralities 10. The Rise of Human Rights during the Johnson Years, Sarah B. Snyder 11. Globalized Faith, Radicalized Religion, and the Domestic Sources of U.S. Foreign Policy, Andrew Preston


Concanavalin A (ConA),which has a very strong interaction with glycoprotein,was immobilized on preactivated glutaraldehyde-modified chitosan microspheres,and then oriented immobilization of glucose oxidase was carried out on the strong interaction.The optimal immobilization conditions are as follows:glutaraldehyde concentration 0.1%,ConA concentra- tion 0.02 mg/ml and glucose oxidase concentration 0.08 mg/ml.The optimum pH and temperature for orientedly immobilized glucose oxidsse are 4.0 and 57℃respectively,and its Michaelis constant (K_m) is 15.84 mmol/L.Compared with the free and the randomly immobilized glucose oxidases,the optimum pH of the orientedly immobilized glucose oxidase tends more acidic and its pH range is wider.Orientedly immobilized glucose oxidase also presents the higher temperature resistance and the better affinity to the substrate.


Stabilization and characterization of water soluble colloidal MnO2 during the oxidation of sulfur-containing organic reductants "thiourea, thioactamide and methionine" by permanganate in aqueous neutral media are reported for the first time. Upon addition of permanganate to a solution of methionine, a transient species appears within the time of mixing which is stable for several weeks. On the other hand, the transient species is unstable in the presence of thiourea and thioacetamide, respectively. The nature of manganese (IV) species present in solution was characterized by spectrophotometric and coagulation measurements. On addition of HClO4, there is a decrease in the absorbance of the reaction mixture. Under pseudo – first – order conditions ([reductants] > [MnO4-]), the reduction rate was very fast up to the formation of water soluble colloidal MnO2. The effect of various parameters, such as hydrogen ion concentration, amount of MnO4-, concentration of reductants was investigated. Mechanisms consistent with the observed results have been proposed and discussed.


Objective:To investigate the immunogenicity of flagella FlaA protein of Campylobacter jejuni expressed in E.coli.Methods:The encoding gene of FlaA protein was amplified from cultured Campylobacter jejuni via PCR and cloned into expression vector pGEX-5x after identification its sequence.FlaA protein was expressed in fusion type in E.coli transfected with pGEX-flaA and purified through Glutathione Sepharose 4B adsorption.The specific antiserum was raised from mice immunized with this protein and interacted with lysis of cultured CJ bacteria,which was indicated by immune aggregation and immune diffusion detection.Result:Sequencing confirmed that 1740 bp encoding gene fragment of FlaA protein was obtained and inserted into pGEX-5x correctly.The target protein was expressed in E.coli with 20% level of total bacteria protein and induced specific antiserum in mice.This antiserum was able to interact with the antigen isolated from cultured CJ bacteria in immune aggregation and immune diffusion detection.Conclusion:FlaA protein of Campylobacter jejuni expressed in E.coli possess immunogenicity can be used as an indicator antigen.