A polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism(RFLP-PCR) technique was developed for detection of benzimidazole(BZ) resistance at codon 200 of β-tubulin isotype 1 gene of Haemonchus contortus.Sixty-four H.contortus collected from sheep in 4 areas of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in China were genotyped for analyzing BZ resistance in the β-tubulin.Three groups with 18 H.contortus of each were collected from naturally infected sheep as untreated groups and 10 H.contortus treated with BZ as treated group.Among the parasites in treated group,there were 20%(2/10) resistant homozygote(rr),50%(5/10) heterozygote(rS) and 30%(3/10) susceptible homozygote(SS),whereas among 3 untreated groups,no "rr" types were found,and"rS" types were 11%,28% and 17% respectively and the others were "SS" types.The frequencies of "r" allele were 45% in post-treated population,whereas they were 6%,14% and 8% respectively in other 3 populations in which "S" alleles were in majority.Overall,either genotypic or allelic frequencies were highly significant difference(P0.05) between treated and untreated groups.Sequencing for a"rr" individual showed that a mutation at codon 200 of β-tubulin isotype 1 gene was taken from T to A.


Deng Xiaoping's Philosophical theory symblizes a new phase of the development of dialectical materalism and historical materialism. The Theory has formed a relatively independent logical system, with"emancipation of thinking and seeking truth from facts" as its logical starting point, the principal contradiction in socialist society as its logical core,"the essence of socialism" as its logical corner stone, "the fundamental task of socialism" as its logical cormer stone,as its logical centre,"Science and technology is the first productive force","socialist reform and opening" and "construction of socialist spiritual civilization" as its logical pillar, and "productivity criterion" as its logical destination.


Rice is a very important agricultural land commodity in Indonesia. Therefore, rice production must increase and maintain to keep rice supply undistributed. In the other case, we must increase the amount of land production, the efficiency of the rice marketing system, so rice distribution from the production center to the consumer center with low cost of the market. The purpose of this research is: To the analysis of marketing margin, each marketing institution of rice marketing channel, marketing margin shows, marketing margin channel I Rp. 2,133/kg, marketing channel II Rp. 3,333/kg, marketing channel III Rp. 2,833/kg and marketing channel IV Rp. 3,833/kg.


Chyloperitoneum is rare condition that can occur in response to various pathologic process. The authors described a newborn baby who had chyloperitoneum after primary surgical repair of esophageal atresia with tracheoesophageal fistula (Gross type C). This probably resulted from iatrogenic damage of the thoracic duct during ligation of azygous vein resulting in leaking lacteal within the intestinal wall. Biochemical analysis of ascitic fluid, plasma, and milk formula for triglyceride and cholesterol level can differentiate neonatal gastric intestinal perforation.


This paper discusses the current state of an ongoing research project intended to observe ultrasonic characteristics within hydrating cement pastes of various air contents. A thru‐transmission method using longitudinal waves has been devised to allow continuous monitoring of fresh cement paste throughout the first several hours of hydration. Tests thus far on non‐air‐entrained specimens show this to be a useful means to observe the evolution of ultrasonic waveforms over the course of hydration in terms of travel time, attenuation, and frequency spectra. Future tests will apply the methodology to specimens of varying degrees of air‐entrainment.


We previously reported that an angiogenesis inhibitor, TNP-470, inhibits mesangial cell proliferation and matrix expansion in a T h y 1 glomerulonephritis model.' The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether TNP-470 could suppress mesangial cell proliferation and matrix expansion in ddY mice, a spontaneous animal model for IgA nephropathy. Furthermore, we investigated whether TNP-470 could improve glomerular lesions in ddY mice even if the compound is administered after the establishment of mesangial cell proliferation and matrix expansion. Ten-week-old ddY mice received a subcutaneous injection of TNP-470 (100 mgkg BW) once a week. The mice were sacrificed at 10, 16,28,40 weeks of age. For each kidney specimen, the number of glomerular total cells, the ratio of the mesangial surface area to the total glomerular surface area (matrix index) and the glomerular staining of fibronectin, type IV collagen and TGF-P were evaluated. At 40 weeks of age, the number of glomerular total cells (42.4 f 1.0 vs 46.4 f 1.1, P < 0.05), the matrix index (0.20 f 0.01 vs 0.27 f 0.02, P < 0.01) and the glomerular staining score of fibronectin (1.17 f 0.09 vs 1.72 k 0.05, P < 0.001), type IV collagen (1.21 f 0.04 vs 1.77 * 0.26, P < 0.05) and TGF-P (0.10 f 0.04 vs 0.66 * 0.05, P < 0.001) were significantly reduced in the glomeruli of TNP-470-treated ddY mice compared with control ddY mice. Moreover, 40-week-old ddY mice, which had established nephropathy, received a subcutaneous injection of TNP-470 (20 mgkg BW) every other day for 5 weeks. At 45 weeks of age in the ddY mice with the established nephropathy, the number of glomerular total cells (43.4 f 0.9 vs 46.7 f 0.7, P < 0.05), the matrix index (0.15 f 0.01 vs 0.25 f 0.02, P < 0.01) and the glomerular staining score of fibronectin (1.26 f 0.06 vs 1.70 f 0.12, P < 0.001), type IV collagen (0.98 f: 0.05 vs 1.73 k 0.14, P < 0.001) and TGF-P (0.21 f: 0.06 vs 0.61 f 0.06, P < 0.005) were significantly reduced in the glomeruli of TNP-470-treated ddY mice compared with control ddY mice. These results show that TNP-470 suppresses mesangial cell proliferation and matrix expansion in the development of the spontaneous animal model of IgA nephropathy. Moreover, this compound ameliorated the glomerular lesions even when administered after the nephropathy had been established. TNP-470 is considered to have a novel therapeutic promise in IgA nephropathy and other types of mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis.


he number of internet users is increasing day by day. As the quantum of data to be accessed is increasing, the demand for fast response is increasing. To address this issue, most of the researchers are working in this field of relevant information retrieval. This work focuses on image retrieval based on visual and textual features. In this process, the first search is done on the basis of textual content and then the visual features values obtain from the query image are compared with the dataset filtered image. Images with similar visual feature values is consider as relevant and the most similar images is ranked as first and next as second and so on. Results show that combination of both types of features gives more effective results as compare to single type.


is beside the point. The real question is how to handle the different activities which are all necessary for a social movement to succeed.2 As for the claim that we missed the real, informal leadership because of a focus on formal, positional leadership: the people mentioned in answer to questions both to activists and to rank-and-file members about who had personally influenced them were substantially the same as the people mentioned in answer to reputational questions asking for names of those considered to be tenant leaders. And all frequently mentioned leaders held high formal positions. Indeed the tenant leaders who were more frequently mentioned for personal influence than for


By comparing Love Actually and Pretty Woman,the two representatives of romance comedy,it is not difficult to arrive at the conclusion that UK romance comedy is more realism while the other is more idealism.It more or less has something related to the different cultures and national characters between the US and the UK.


Objective To analyze the different diagnosis category of suicidal behavior and explore the change of biological parameter of lipids and protein in depression.Methods Suicidal behavior was analyzed in 66 patients with depressive disorder,serum levels of total cholesterol(TC),triglycerides(TG),high-density lipoprotein cholesterol(HDL-C),low-density lipoprotein cholesterol(LDL-C),apolipoprotein AI(apoAI),apolipoprotein B(apoB) were measured in 66 patients with depressive disorder and 36 healthy controls using enzymatic methods and immunoturdidimetry.Results ①Totally 25 patients were depressive disorder with suicidal behavior,about 37.9%(25/66),Male and female no significant differences(χ2=2.188,P0.05=0.139);The proportion of endogenous depression in suicidal behavior group was higher than in non-suicidal behavior group,significant difference was found(P0.05),likelihood ratio(LR)=4.454(P0.05).②Patients with suicidal behavior no matter endogenous depression or non-endogenous depression,TC concentration were all lower than those the controls(P0.001).Different subgroups among patients were not statistically difference(P0.05).③Endogenous depressive patients with suicidal behavior TC subgroup element HDL-C and apoAI element were respectively lower than that of endogenous depressive patients and control group(P0.001),non-endogenous depressive patients TC subgroup element HDL-C were lower than those the controls(P0.05).Conclusions These results suggest that the likelihood of suicidal behavior is higher in endogenous depression than in non-endogenous depression;Male and female no significant differences;Low cholesterol may be one of the common symbols of biology of the depressive patients with suicidal behavior,the subgroup element HDL-C reducing may be the typical biology symbol of endogenous depressive patients with suicidal behavior.


Bringing together contributions from workers employed in the new electronics and information industries with work from theorists and economics, politics and science, this title provides an up-to-date analysis of the complex relations between technology and work. Individual essays look at topics including the cyclical nature of a technologically-driven economy, the privatization of knowledge which new information industries demand, and the strategies which trade unionists and governments might deploy to potect jobs and living standards. A robot can build a car, but a robot cannot buy a car. The explosion in the development of computer- and robotic-based manufacturing is seeing the rapid expansion of labourless production systems. Such systems create enormous instability, both for the overall economy where money previously paid in wages is now invested in labour-saving technology and, therefore, cannot be spent on goods, and for workers whose jobs are being de-skilled or are simply disappearing. Contributors to the book include: Abdul Akalimat, Michael Brand, George Caffentzis, Guglielmo Carchedi, Jim Davis, Thomas A. Hirschl, Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Gerardo Otero, Nelson Perry, Ramin Ramtin, Dan Schiller, Steffanie Scott, Michael Stack and Nick Witheford.


Sitting in his managing director's spacious office, Yuan Ziwen points east to Shanghai's new development zone of Pudong where his company's auto prototype assembly and construction line will soon be completed.


PRINCIPLES OF EPIDEMIOLOGIC AND CLINICAL RESEARCH 1. Neuroepidemiology: fundamental considerations 2. Study design, measures of effect, and sources of bias 3. Measurement and analysis 4. Genetic epidemiology of neurologic disease EPIDEMIOLOGY OF NEUROLOGIC DISORDERS 5. Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia 6. Movement disorders 7. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 8. Multiple sclerosis 9. Stroke 10. Brain and spinal cord injury 11. Peripheral neuropathy 12. Epilepsy 13. Migraine and tension-type headache 14. Intracranial neoplasms 15. Neurodevelopmental disabilities CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY 16. Prognosis of neurologic diseases 17. Clinical trials in neurology 18. Health services research in neurology 19. Evidence-based medicine


The main aim of this paper is to analysis and improve the power quality (voltage sag, swell and harmonics) performance of smart grid connected inverter used in distributed generation. The structure of the designed controller consists of outer power with harmonic control loop, middle voltage control loop and inner current control loop for real and reactive power control in dq reference frame. The operation of the controller is investigated for varying power demands with linear and nonlinear loads from the customer side and for varying smart grid impedance along with varying distributed generation source voltage. An increase in reactive power demand at PCC would affect the system power factor at PCC. The conventional type PI controller for such change in customer load and variation of smart grid impedance do not exhibit a satisfactory dynamic behaviour. Alternatively, the proposed controller simultaneously computes current dynamics and harmonics of the parameters for generating the control reference values to meet the current additional reactive power requirement with reduced total harmonic distortion and is used as new reactive power reference value for power controller. The state space model of the proposed controller is developed. The simulation results clearly indicates that the developed controller is able to maintain constant voltage at the point of common coupling (PCC) and exhibits good dynamic response for varying smart grid impedance and dynamic load changes besides nullifying the effect of voltage swell, sag and harmonics at PCC. The comparisons have been made with the conventional SVPWM based PI controller employed for the same hybrid scheme with the proposed controller. The results clearly bring out suppleness of the proposed scheme.


We investigate the effect of volume and size of silver nanoparticles (AgNP) on surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) signal of rhodamine 6G (R6G) within hollow core photonic crystal fiber (HC-PCF). The HC-PCF enhanced the Raman signal of R6G by a factor ~90 via photonic band gap. In addition, the optimal size and volume of AgNP enhanced the Raman signal of R6G by a factor of ~43, resulting in a total enhancement of ~4223 in HC-PCF. A comparison of AgNP enhancement factors in HC-PCF and bulk sample (cuvette) is presented at their optimal size and volume with respect to R6G. The SERS based HC-PCF sensing platform as optimized for R6G as a test molecule, was further utilized for monitoring adenosine for clinical application.


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Career choosing is a calculating process of human resource capital investment and benefits through the analysis of economic approach.Currently,the structural conflicts of imbalanced regional de- velopment and rural and urban development results in the intense pressure of employment of college stu- dents and the lack of talents for the employment unit or post.More rational system and environment are needed to solve such structural conflicts.This article proposes that flexible measures and policies should be involved in changing the employment viewpoints.


The development of district heating systems of corn straw densified fuel (CSDF-DHS) is an important option to promote the use of bioenergy on a large scale for sustainable development, especially in China. At present, China's biomass densified solid fuel (BSDF) development lags behind previously planned target, main barriers of which are economic and policy support problems. Accurate case studies are key to analyze these problems. This manuscript takes Nong'an County in Jilin Province of China as an example to establish a techno-economic model to evaluate the economic performance of a CSDF-DHS under two policy scenarios. It calculates the economic performance under a benchmark market scenario (BMS) and the current policy scenario (CPS) and analyzes the influence of various policy instruments, including subsidies, carbon trading, and preferential taxation. The results indicate that: (1) The CSDF-DHS option is not competitive under the BMS or CPS compared to the traditional energy system based mainly on coal and liquefied petroleum gas; (2) Comparatively, the economic performance of corn straw briquette fuel (CSBF) is better than that of corn straw pellet fuel (CSPF); and (3) further policy support can make CSDF-DHSs competitive in the market, especially with subsidies for concentrated heating services and CSDF, carbon trading, and economic compensation to reduce the profit margin of enterprises, which can make both CSPF-DHSs and CSBF-DHSs competitive. The research results could provide scientific basis for relevant policy making and project decision.


The layered quasi-one-dimensional molecular superconductor (TMTSF)$_2$PF$_6$ is a very exotic material with a superconducting order parameter whose ground state symmetry has remained ill-defined. Here we present a pulsed NMR Knight shift (K) study of $^{77}$Se measured simultaneously with transport in pressurized (TMTSF)$_2$PF$_6$. The Knight shift is linearly dependent on the electron spin susceptibility $\chi_s$, and is therefore a direct measure of the spin polarization in the superconducting state. For a singlet superconductor, the spin contribution to the Knight shift, K$_s$, falls rapidly on cooling through the transition. The present experiments indicate no observable change in K between the metallic and superconducting states, and thus strongly support the hypothesis of triplet p-wave superconductivity in (TMTSF)$_2$PF$_6$.


This is the first of three papers that deal with coal solubility and swelling. An association model has been applied to coal, and this predicts that the mixing of coal with certain solvents will be determined by a balance between unfavorable «physical» interactions, measured by a Flory χ parameter, and favorable hydrogen bonding interactions. This first paper deals with the determination of χ from solubility parameters. Methods based on group contributions and swelling measurements are assessed. The former suffers from large errors while the latter does not give correct values because of large free-volume differences between coal and most solvents. Even though group contribution methods are flawed when applied to coal, they at least appear to give values in the right range


ObjectiveTo compare the quality of life(QOL)in schizophrenic patients treated with olanzapine versus chlorpromazine.Methods100 schizophrenic in-patients were randomly divided into two groups receiving olanzapine and chlorpromazine respectively for 3 months,positive and negative symptom scale(PANSS),the treatment emergent symptom scale(TESS) and short form 36 health survey questionnaire(SF-36)were used to evaluate the treatment effect,the side effects and the quality of life.ResultsAfter treatment,the scores of PANSS of two groups were both significantly decreased(P0.01),but the scores of negative symptom of olanzapine group were lower than that of the chlorpromazine group statistically significantly(P0.01).The olanzapine group were higher than the chlorpromazine group in the factor scores of physical functioning,role-physical,vitality,social functioning,role-emotional and the total scores of SF-36,with statistical significance(P0.05).Multiple stepwise regressions analysis showed the main factors influencing patients' QOL were psychotic symptom,medications,side effects and the disease course.ConclusionOlanzapine can be safely and effectively used to treat schizophrenia with better life quality than chlorpromazine.


A promising direction in the production of high-pressure pipelines is the use of composite materials with special properties. Characteristics of composite products are set by reinforcement schemes and the use of various binders. The stability of the strength characteristics significantly depends on the stability of the process of laying reinforcing fibers. The development of automated technological systems of production, ensuring the stability of the process, is an urgent task. A method of fiberglass pipe bends manufacturing by the method of pre-impregnated tape winding on a folding mandrel. To implement this method the problem of developing technological equipment, equipment and methods of adjustment are solved. The proposed solution provides the formation of a branch from the inner surface. The kinematic scheme of the equipment realizes the rotation of the tape stacker around the axis of the cross-section of the mandrel and the longitudinal-angular displacement of the mandrel relative to the stacker, which provides the possibility of cylindrical and spiral stacking of the tape. The installation of tap winding, which is a three-axis CNC machine that implements the proposed scheme, is described. The rotation of the coils with tape around the mandrel is provided with a hollow rotary axis – stacker. Moving the mandrel relative to the stacker is provided by its installation on a movable platform. Following the proposed method of manufacturing bends, the outer surface of the collapsible mandrel ensures the formation of the inner surface of the branch, including the connecting-butt surfaces. Rules for the choice of the surface of the connector mandrel, ensuring its extraction from the manufactured branch is formulated. A method for programming winding operations has been developed. A method for determining the parameters of the control system of the CNC system is given, which specifies the structure of laying the tape and the wall thickness of the outlet. A procedure is described for setting up a tap manufacturing operation consisting in changing the relative position of the installation elements and the mandrel fixing devices. The use of traditional for CNC systems approaches to adjust the coordinate systems ensures the accuracy of the initial position is not worse than 0.1 mm.


The study covers the EU Insolvency Regulation, in which the central question is how the Regulation deals with rights in rem vested on debtor's assets, and against who insolvency proceedings are commenced. Pursuant to Article 5 these rights are not affected by the universal applicable insolvency law from 'Member State A' provided that the collateral security is located in 'Member State B' at the time proceedings commence. The provision's rationale is to protect rights in rem from a surprise attack of the applicable insolvency law. Article 5 yields however one major concern. Its application namely hampers the restructure of companies, because if the secured creditor as a consequence realizes the collateral security then the sale of debtor's estate as a whole, needed for a successful restructuring, becomes impossible. With this in mind, the subsequent question is to what extent the instrument of communication and coordination in cross-border insolvencies is able to alleviate the preceding concern. The study demonstrates communication and coordination may not only derive from Community principles, but also from soft law instruments based on best practices.


This paper describes an improved integrated Object Oriented metrics for the high-level design quality assessment of Object Oriented codes. A single class based metrics (a Weighted Class Complexity, WCC) has been proposed that may be used for cumulative measure of all aspects of object oriented design (encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism), and hence an indication of quality of class in terms of complexity. This WCC when averaged will enable computing the average complexity of Software and also the quality. A strategy followed in Dromey's Quality Model is adapted to identify the product properties of Object Oriented software those influence quality. A set of high-level quality attributes is hence selected and thereafter a link has been established between them. This single metric may be used in initial stages and ensuring compliance at this stage will increase the reliability of system as a whole, as reliability in general is a by-product of quality.


As the ``Bill of Act on Establishment and Operation of Law School`` had been passed through the main conference of the National Assembly on July 3, 2007. It is prepared with the foundation to open the first law school in Korea on March 2009, Major terms of the Act allows the general university with 4-year curriculum (including graduate school) to establish the law school with 3-year master`s curriculum of specialized graduate school on March 2009. And every university that establishes the law school shall abrogate the existing college (department) of law, It requires to mandatorily reflect the grade point average (GPA) and ``Legal Education Eligibility Test (LEET),`` an eligibility test for the law school, into the entrance examination and necessarily include the foreign language ability as the entrance information. With introduction of the law school, there will be a lot of changes on the existing pattern of law education in the future. Specifically, legal practice oriented law education pattern such as clinical law education, simulation and the like will be activated. Especially, the clinical law education out of them seems to be such a education pattern to be newly tried in Korea upon introduction of the law school. This clinical law education has been being excised for the law schools mainly in the western countries and also executed in Japan and China. This paper had looked into the pattern of the clinical law education to train the judicial officials in Japan and China. In conclusion, for the purpose of successful education pattern like that, it is necessary for supporting a diverse range of related systems and substantial contents of education.


Human saliva is a complex secretion that contains a mixture of inorganic and organic molecules, it plays an essential role in the maintenance of oral health. Mucins are the major macromolecular component of this secretion and are considered as the first line of defense for epithelial tissues. To determine the MUC5B and MUC7 levels in saliva of patient with dental caries by using ELISA Assay. The current study included 85 samples which were collected from patients with dental caries attending the Conservative Dentistry teaching dental clinics of Babylon University -College of Dentistry and private dental clinics with age from (20 to 40) years. The results showed that the levels of MUC5B in control (23.32 ± 10.39) were more than in patient's groups (19.11 ± 10.69) with high significant differences. And there was significant difference (p≤ 0001) represented by increase in MUC7 levels in control group (0.93 ± 1.34) compared with patients groups (0.83 ±1.34).


High-fat diet feeding leads to obesity and insulin resistance. Recently, it was reported that sterol regulatory element-binding protein-1c (SREBP-1c) is involved in this mechanism of high-fat induced obesity and insulin resistance. SREBP-1c is an important factor regulating cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism. Some reports suggested soy protein (SPI) also has the effect of decreasing plasma cholesterol levels. Therefore, SPI may modulate the effect of high-fat on obesity and insulin resistance and/or SREBP-1c expression level. Furthermore, our previous study demonstrated levels of high-fat induced obesity and insulin resistance were different by types of oil. In this study, we investigated whether SPI intake modulates levels of obesity and insulin resistance induced by high-fat diets composed of three different oils (safflower oil, fish oil, palm oil). No significant effects are on body weight, adipose tissue weight and glucose tolerance tests by SPI intake. But insulin tolerance tests deteriorated in mice fed high-safflower oil diets contained SPI (S-SPHF) compared with mice fed high-safflower oil diets contained casein (S-HF). S-SPHF-fed mice had high plasma glucose levels compared with S-HF-fed mice while no difference of plasma insulin levels was observed. These results indicate that S-SPHF-fed mice may produce insulin resistance causing decreased glucose uptake by the peripheral tissues. Furthermore, we found that insulin resistance in S-SPHF-fed mice may be caused by decreased glucose transporter 4 (GLUT4) mRNA in white adipose tissue. But it is remained to clear which tissues (skeletal muscle or adipose tissue or liver) relate to insulin resistance. Soy Protein Research, Japan 5, 81-85, 2002. 〒350-0295 坂戸市けやき台1-1


The main function of windows is to provide natural light and a view of the outdoor surroundings. Excessive direct sunlight penetrating into interior spaces through the windows poses glare and contrast problems in addition to excessive beam solar radiation which leads to high cooling loads. Shading slats are installed to block beam radiation and enhance the general visual environment for building occupants.  Despite their proven energy saving potential, building designers tend to shun these shading devices for reasons such as maintenance costs, aesthetics, glare possibility and their interference of occupants' view of the outdoor surroundings. In this paper the impact of adjustable external horizontal shading slats on occupants' visual comfort and view was investigated. Full scale experiments were conducted under the dynamic tropical climate of Thailand. Annual simulations using full-year weather records were undertaken for a model room for cases of north and south facing windows to establish appropriate monthly slat adjustment angles that block undesired direct sunlight while guaranteeing the maximum possible view of exterior surroundings. Window luminance and work plane illuminance levels were examined and compared with proposed thresholds for comfortable working environments from previous studies. Lighting energy consumption and savings were also investigated in comparison to windows with heat reflective glass, commonly preferred by building designers. The study showed that it is possible to save 40% to 60% of energy consumed by electric lamps, avoid glare and achieve a comfortable workspace with a good view of exterior surroundings for most of the year by use of adjustable external horizontal shading slats.
 Keywords: free view fraction, external horizontal slats, glare, energy savings.


Asymmetric selective (or stereoelective) polymerization of racemic 1,2-diphenylethyl methacrylate (DPEMA) with ethylmagnesium bromide (EtMgBr)-(−)-sparteine catalyst was studied in toluene at −78°C. In the polymerization (S) enantiomer was consumed preferentially and the enantiomeric excess of initially polymerized (S) enantiomer was consumed preferentially and the enantiomeric excess of initially polymerized DPEMA was greater than 90%. Optically pure (R) monomer was recovered at about 70% polymer yield. Poly(DPEMA) obtained with EtMgBr-(−)-sparteine complex was highly isotactic. It was found in the polymerization of optically active DPEMA that optical rotation of poly(DPEMA) was dependent on the tacticity and that isotactic and syndiotactic poly(DPEMA)s showed opposite optical rotations. Circular dichroism spectra of the optically active polymers were measured.


Based on our trade model of new advantage sources,we use the data at the province level to measure external and internal market potential in China and also calculate the two trade margins during the period of 2000—2007.The empirical result shows that market potentials have explained more for China's trade growth from demand aspect.Compared to international MP,domestic MP shows a highly significant impact on expansion in two trade margins.Each of MPs shows much more contribution to extensive margin than it does to intensive margin.Our findings also imply that the large economies like China,can take the advantage of exporting more product varieties to a wider range of markets.


Taijiquan which is the gem of oriental sports culture has a broad mass basis in China.It is also of long standing and rich connotation.From the new angle of culture to study and practise Taijiquan,it can not only help us strengthen our body,edify out sentiment,cultivate our morality,but also help us apperceive the intensive culture connotation of Chinese martial art.At the time of martial arts' tending towards Olympic Games and the world,as the elite of Chinese martial art,Taijiquan has become the symbol of Chinese martial art.


Microtomography is a technique for creating three-dimensional images of the internal structure of objects with high spatial resolution. This can potentially allow inspection of the architecture of breast lumpectomy specimens and visualisation of tumours in small animals and also has an application as a tool for nondestructive testing. An efficient method to perform microtomography is to use an area detector and cone-beam reconstruction techniques. Here the authors report on the development of an instrument for microtomography and show example images. The equipment consists of a microfocal X-ray tube (energies and currents up to 30 kVp, 0.2 mA, focal spot size <5 mu m), a rotating specimen stage and a high-resolution X-ray image intensifier optically coupled to a CCD video camera. Data acquisition and 3D image reconstruction are performed by a desktop computer. The well-known Feldkamp cone-beam reconstruction algorithm is used to produce tomographic images from the recorded X-ray projections. The instrument can image samples with diameters of 5-50 mm and create tomographic images with spatial resolution of the order 10-100 mu m and signal-to-noise ratio of better than 5:1. This work is a continuation and improvement of an earlier instrument with a low-energy X-ray source and detector.


development of therapeutic methods that are better than empiric antacid therapy for specific lesions may demand modification of our conclusions"." Finally, the paper chosen to support the authors' views reported a mortality of 11% in a relatively young group of patients which was probably high then but has to be regarded as totally unacceptable now. M OKelly, MB BS Surgical Registrar Department of Surgery °L Morris, MB ChB, FRCS, MD, PhD, FRACS Professor University Department of Surgery (UNSW) The St George Hospital Belgrave Street, Kogarah, NSW 2217


The use of Efficient Microorganisms (EM) can be an effective alternative to improve plant growth and yield in the bean cultivation. Therefore, different forms of application of efficient microorganisms were evaluated in the production of two cultivars of the common bean from November of 2013 to March of 2014. Two factors were studied; the first one was comprised of the two cultivars, Velazco Largo (VL) and Cuba Cueto (CC-25-9-N). The second factor consisted of four treatments with EM; without EM (control), soil inoculation (100 mL L-1), foliage applications (100 mL L-1), and the combined soil inoculation (100 mL L-1) plus foliar applications (100 mL L-1). The experiment was carried out in a randomized block design, in factorial outline 2×4, with three repetitions. The agronomic indicators were evaluated as the number of leaves per plant, the height of plants, number of pods per plant, number of seeds per pod, the mass of 100 seeds (g) and the yield (t ha-1). The results showed that the different forms of application of efficient microorganisms stimulated the agronomic indicators evaluated in both crops. The associated applications between the inoculation of the soil and foliage applications of efficient microorganisms provided better results, producing increments in the yield of 1.13 t ha-1 in VL and 2.15 t ha-1 in CC-25-9-N.


His face is turned towards the past.... The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole that which has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irrestistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.


We performed two-dimensional molecular dynamics simulations of cohesive discs under shear. The cohesion between the discs is added by the action of springs between very next neighbouring discs, modelling capillary forces. The geometry of the cell allows disc–disc shearing and not disc–cell wall shearing as is commonly found in the literature. Does a stick–slip phenomenon happen though the upper cover moves at a constant velocity, i.e. with an infinite shearing force? We measured the forces with which the discs acted on the upper cover for different shearing rates, as well as the disc velocities as a function of the distance to the bottom of the cell. It appears that the forces measured versus time present a periodic behaviour, very close to a stick–slip phenomenon, for shearing rates larger than a given threshold. The discs' collective displacements in the shearing cell (back and ahead) are the counterpart of the constant velocity of the upper cover, leading to a periodic behaviour of the shear stress.


We consider the differential equation on the real interval when J is a constant, invertible skew-Hermitian matrix and q and w are matrices whose entries are distributions of order zero with q Hermitian and w non-negative. In this situation, it may happen that there is no existence and uniqueness theorem for balanced solutions of a given initial value problem. We describe the set of solutions the equation does have and establish that the adjoint of the minimal operator is still the maximal operator, even though unique continuation of balanced solutions fails.


This paper shows how expert opinion can be inserted into a stochastic framework for claims reserving. The reserving methods used are the chain-ladder technique and Bornhuetter-Ferguson, and the stochastic framework follows England and Verrall (2062). Although stochastic models have been studied, there are 2 main obstacles to their more frequent use in practice: ease of implementation and adaptability to user needs. This paper attempts to address these obstacles by utilising Bayesian methods, and describing in some detail the implementation, using freely available software and programs supplied in the Appendix.


PURPOSE: A supporting device for cutting a bush is provided to install the bush easily, and to improve working efficiency by cutting the bush accurately before mounting the bush to the structure. CONSTITUTION: A supporting device for cutting a bush is composed of a base plate(100), plural installation pins(110) arranged and protruded on the base plate, plural gear tooth bushes inserted to the installation pins and engaged with each other, a press member pushing the upper part of the gear tooth bush and exposing the cutting portion of the gear tooth bush, supporting bars(120,130) installed in the lower part of the base plate, and an angle adjusting block inserted between the base plate and the floor, and supported and placed in the lower part of the supporting bar. The height of the angle adjusting block is adjusted according to the cutting angle of the gear tooth bush.


Radio frequency identification(RFID) is a new automatic identification technology that can gain and process the information of the targeted objects rapidly by means of radio frequency. The basic constitute and operational principle of RFID system was introduced. Some special topics on the integrated antenna on single chip were listed. The current development and typical application were introduced.


Cardiovascular diseases are the most common cause of morbidity and mortality in Diabetic patients. Mitochondrial dysfunction is the major contributor of the myocardial structural, functional, and metabolic defects in diabetic cardiomyopathy. Activation of mitochondrial ion channel, K
 ATP
 have been shown to facilitate protection from the adverse effects of diabetic cardiomyopathy via modulating mitochondrial function. In this study we delineate the impact of mitochondrial associated membrane (MAM) chloride channel-CLIC4 in diabetic cardiomyopathy. Our results show that pharmacological inhibition of chloride intracellular channel (CLIC) with IAA-94 abrogated the cardio-deleterious effects of hyperglycemia in neonatal cardiomyocytes, thus, implicating role of targets of IAA-94 in the onset and development of diabetic cardiomyopathy. Amongst the six mammalian paralogs of CLICs, we identified CLIC4 and CLIC5 are most abundant in the heart. In addition, we observed over expression and localization changes of MAM-CLIC4 but not mitochondrial CLIC5 in neonatal cardiomyocytes upon high glucose treatment. Furthermore, cardiomyocytes isolated from CLIC4 knock out mice under hyperglycemia do no exhibit disruption of sarcomere structures, reduction in contractility, and enhanced ROS production in comparison to wild type cardiomyocytes. These observations suggest that an absence of CLIC4 revokes the structure-function changes in cardiomyocytes upon hyperglycemia. Moreover, we demonstrate that

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 mice were protected from body weight gain and impaired glucose tolerance in comparison to wild type mice in the presence of a high fat diet. Interestingly, we also observed that

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 mice are resistant to increase in blood glucose levels upon streptozocin administration. Thus, suggesting a regulatory role of CLIC4 in glucose metabolism. Overall, this study suggests a probable novel role of intracellular chloride channel CLIC4 in diabetic cardiomyopathy via regulating glucose metabolism.


As part of the workup of polyneuropathy, neurologists often encounter patients with paraproteinemias, also called monoclonal gammopathies. Given the relatively rising prevalence of both polyneuropathy and paraproteinemias in our aging population, this coexistence is frequently due to chance. Still, certain types of paraproteinemias have a well-defined causal role in the development of polyneuropathy, and therefore has implications in their subsequent work-up and management. Once a monoclonal gammopathy has been deemed as "benign" or of undetermined significance, looking at the heavy chain subtype is paramount in deciding whether it is related to a polyneuropathy. Conversely, polyneuropathies associated with monoclonal gammopathies tend to have a distinct clinical, serological, and/or electrodiagnostic phenotype that helps in establishing an association. Recognizing this association will determine appropriate workup and management.


The optimum evaporating-cooling crystallization process conditions were studied for the separation of potassium chromate from the K2CO3-K2CrO4-H2O system for the cleaner production of potassium dichromate from potassium chromate by using carbon dioxide as the acidifying agent.The experimental results showed that the control of the supersaturation level during evaporation was of significance and the small amount of silicon and aluminum remained in the system suppressed the nucleation of K2CrO4 to some extent.A remarkably high removal rate of more than 95% was achieved for potassium chromate,and therefore the effective separation of potassium chromate and potassium carbonate was achieved before the regeneration of the Sub-Molten Salt(SMS) media.


The Partido Popular Cristiano (PPC) is a right-winged Peruvian political party founded in 1966. However, it hasn't won a single important political position in the country, in spite of its particularly determined efforts over the course of the last decade. Literature on the electoral competitiveness has often attributed the lack of such competiveness in the Peruvian context to historical, structural, institutional, or organizational factors that are difficult to overcome. The few authors that have made hypothesis about the PPC highlight the supposed ideological development that mitigates available space for popular sectors to enter, reducing party competitiveness. In contrast, this article argues that the PPC elite's adoption of a catch-all strategy in the past decade has reinforced low competitiveness. As a result of this strategy the party did not position itself in the existing political program in a way that was clear or enduring, and subsequently lost its political identity, which is crucial in a highly volatile political context where winning elections does not always require big majorities. The lack of a political identity rooted in a portion of the population prevents the party from keeping a captive vote and maintaining organizational and logistical resources, both of which provide the conditions for a wider competitive capacity in the Peruvian context.


The purpose of this study is to find out whether Historical Asset Management is following the theory of Good Corporate Governance. The researcher chose the research location for historic assets at the Regional XI Cultural Preservation Center, which is located in Trowulan District, Mojokerto Regency. The researcher chose the Cultural Preservation Center for Region XI as the research location because it is an institution that manages historical assets and the Mojokerto district is the number one place that has historical heritage and the largest and widest Majapahit kingdom in Indonesia. This study used a qualitative method with a phenomenological approach and conducted interviews with two informants, namely Mr. S and Mr. H. In terms of the implementation of the management reviewed from the perspective of Good Corporate Governance theory, the principles of this theory have been applied to the performance of BPK XI. In addition, the valuation, disclosure, and reporting of historic assets in BPK XI have been reported as fixed assets in the balance sheet and disclosed in the notes to the financial statements.


1. Classical Simulations.- 1.1 - An Introduction to Molecular Dynamics, with Applications to the Glass Transition.- 1.2 - Molecular Dynamics Simulations at Constant Temperature and Pressure.- 1.3 - Molecular Dynamics of Polyatomic Systems.- 1.4 - Monte Carlo: Choosing which Game to Play.- 1.5 - Lecture Notes on Free-Energy Calculations.- 1.6 - Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Nonequilibrium Phenomena and Rare Dynamical Events.- 1.7 - Transport Properties Computed Linear Response through Weak Coupling to a Bath.- 2. Potentials.- 2.1 - Interionic Potentials: A User's Guide.- 2.2 - Potentials for the Classical Simulation of Molecular Systems: Current and Future Model Intermolecular Potentials.- 2.3 - The Pseudopotential Approach to the Interatomic Interaction Problem.- 2.4 - Tight-Binding Potentials.- 3. First-Principles Simulations.- 3.1 - Calculating the Properties of Materials from Scratch.- 3.2 - Ab-initio Molecular Dynamics: Principles and Practical Implementation.- 3.3 - Quantum Simulation Using Path Integrals.- 3.4 - The Application of Quantum Monte Carlo to Problems in Electronic Structure.- 4. Applications (I): Atomic Systems.- 4.1 - The Determination of the Elastic Properties of Inhomogeneous Systems Computer Simulation.- 4.2 - Microscopic Modeling of Amorphization Solid State Reactions: Role of Chemical Disorder and Elastic Softening in the Intermetallic Alloy NiZr2.- 4.3 - Atomic Structure and Stability of Quasicrystals.- 5. Applications (II): Molecular systems.- 5.1 - Orientational Disorder and Structural Phase Transitions in Plastic Molecular Crystals.- 5.2 - Structural Organization in Self-Assembled Monolayers.- 6. Applications (III): Potentials.- 6.1 - The Design of Convergent and Transferable Ab-initio Pseudopotentials.- 6.2 - Effect of Specific Features of Electronic Structure on Elastic and Structural Properties of Metals and Alloys.- 6.3 - Density Functional Calculations-a Database for Parameterizing Interatomic Potentials.- 7. Applications (IV): Quantum simulations.- 7.1- Quantum Simulation of Metallic Microclusters.- 7.2 - Plasma Simulations Using the Car-Parrinello Method.- 8. Applications (V): Large time-space scales.- 8.1 - Dissipative and Fluctuating Hydrodynamic Interactions Between Suspended Solid Particles via Lattice-Gas Cellular Automata.- 8.2 - Molecular Simulations of Non-equilibrium Large Scale Phenomena in Fluids.- 8.3 - Simulation of Dislocation Microstructures.- Scientific Committee/Participants.


What I want to discuss is the recent rise of the Counter-Enlightenment with its hostility to rational reflection. I want to suggest how this happened and what it may mean for the future of aesthetics. Let me begin with a consideration of the failure of three mainstream approaches to aesthetics: formalism, analytic aesthetics, and the institutional theory. These were predominantly Anglo-American, and their passing created a kind of theoretical vacuum into which a pragmatic postmodernism has inserted itself. This postmodernist movement is, of course, decidedly opposed to the philosophical tradition of the Enlightenment. The formalist doctrine, which in literary interpretation came to be called "New Criticism," has its canonical formulation in two enormously influential essays coauthored by Monroe C. Beardsley and W. K. Wimsatt, entitled, respectively, "The Intentional Fallacy" and "The Affective Fallacy."' In these essays it is argued, first, that it is wrong to analyze a work of art on the basis of the artist's intentions because such intentions are extra-aesthetic and, second, that it is inappropriate to interpret a work of art in terms of its influence on its audience because doing so is a confusion between the work of art as a pure datum and the results it produces in its receptive environment. The "failure" of the formalist program-and we say "failure" in a highly qualified sense because it remains an influential doctrine even today-can be attributed to three inherent inadequacies. First, aesthetic knowledge was, in effect, reduced to measurement. Second, all "aesthetic" relations to the work of art were abolished. And third, the "objectivity" it espoused was seen as spurious by those who believed such factors as the creative process and the affective influence to be just as real and objective as the finished product. A paradigm of analytic aesthetics is probably the article by M. Weitz "The Role of Theory in Aesthetics"2 in which he argued that no aesthetic


Many malignant cancer cells exhibit a high glycolytic rate even in the presence of oxygen. The Warburg effect has lead to the selective targeting of glycolytic enzymes by many novel therapeutic agents. Mitochondrial respiratory injury and damaged oxidative stress mechanisms within the cell are postulated to contribute to this cancerous phenotype. Therapies that inhibit glycolysis and induce oxidative stress may be particularly effective. We used the glycolysis inhibitor 3PO and pro‐oxidant ascorbic acid in combination against MCF7 and H1299 cells to test this hypothesis. We observed a synergistic loss of cell viability when a combination of drugs was used against H1299 cells, which correlated with induction of DNA damage and apoptosis in H1299. Interestingly, MCF7 cells did not respond to the treatment with the same efficacy as H1299 cells, implying a stronger resistance to 3PO and ascorbic acid. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels in drug treated H1299 cells display an initial increase and a later diminished degree of ROS. Mitochondrial dysfunction was also assessed to see if apoptosis proceeded via the intrinsic apoptotic pathway in H1299 cells. Data suggests at higher doses of combination drug therapy, mitochondrial integrity is disrupted. Our results suggest that this combinational therapy against glycolysis and oxidative stress show synergistic, cytotoxic results in non‐small cell lung cancer. This research was supported by the Medicus Society and the U.S. Department of Defense USAMRMC/TATRC, Award W81XWH‐09‐2‐0022.


Objective To study the changes of bady mass indof(BMI) waist/hip ratio,skinfold andchemical index in adult with overweigh and obesity beftore,during and after intervention and toinvestigate the effective community intervention measures.Methods All adult with BMI≥24?in two communities were sample and inquired with questionnaire,One handred and twenty were randomly divided into observed group and control group.And all of them were taken for contrastanalysis before,during and after intervention.Results Their indexes improved significanly after intervention in observed group,There were obvious differences compared with pre-intervention and control group indexes(P0.05).Conclusion The comprehensive intervention measures in the study was of rational,safe and valid.The intervention measures should be focused on these points.


The purpose was to determine significant differences among the perceptions of ROTC cadets and non-ROTC students. 35 ROTC and 35 non-ROTC subjects completed a 20-item semantic differential for each of the following: self, students in general, and ROTC cadets (or if the subject was a cadet, how non-ROTC students would rate cadets). A 2 × 35 × 3 analysis of variance was performed for each item. ROTC cadets displayed a somewhat generalized negative response set. On 13 of the items cadets displayed differential perceptions of themselves and others. These perceptions may be characterized by inflated ratings of self on aggressive, reputable, honorable, and patriotic and a deflated view of other students' ratings of ROTC cadets on intelligent, cooperative, honest, successful, and sane


In his prose writings Dante refers to the Politics of Aristotle in such a way as to make natural the assumption that he was well-acquainted with the work. Further examination, however, suggests that this opinion has but a slight foundation; in fact, it is not impossible that Dante never saw a manuscript of the Politics.


processing are pomace, seeds, stems, wine lees, and vine shoot and leaves, which are still a valuable source of different biologically active com - pounds that can be used in food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industry, as well as in agriculture, energy, and feed production. Therefore, the main goal of this paper was to point out the benefits of winemaking by-products, and provide an overview of their composition and properties, as well as gain insight into recent research on their application in various industries. The rational manage - ment of vinification by-products has multiple benefits; production of functional foods and natural agents that generally contributes to the quality of nutrition and life, and at the same time reduces the impact on the environment. All of these give a strong impulse to the idea of sustainability and circular economy, what becomes an imperative in the complex conditions of global economic life.


The TA2 phonon dispersion curves of Ni-Mn-Ga alloys with different compositions which transform to different martensitic structures have been measured over a broad temperature range covering both paramagnetic and ferromagnetic phases. The branches show an anomaly ~dip! at a wave number that depends on the particular martensitic structure, and there is softening of these anomalous phonons with decreasing temperature. This softening is enhanced below the Curie point, as a consequence of spin-phonon coupling. This effect is stronger for systems with higher electronic concentration.


The paper presents data on both colloform-banded macroand micro-texture from the Au-Ag Khan Krum deposit. The macro-texture characterises with obscured boundaries of bands, a finer inner banding, a strongly prevailing random-grain fabrics of quartz and adularia, re-crystallization of quartz and adularia, pores of syneresis lined with comb quartz and adularia, and presence of feathery and fibrous quartz that is why we presume formation from colloidal solutions resulted most probably from intense boiling of fluids. For the microbanding of bonanza electrum we suppose deposition from more concentrated colloidal solutions than that in the macro-bands, most likely due to extreme boiling of fluids in open or quasi open hydrothermal system. The dendriteand chain-like electrum aggregates, as well as the oval clots are related to reorientation of aggregated electrum globules during plastic deformation of a mixed ore-silicate gel for the high angles of the veins. Electrum has not been deposited into pores and cracks of syneresis, what indicates that it had been a sol. For the dense sprinkles of electrum globules on the surfaces of some bands, we infer condensation of gaseous phase separated during the boiling of fluids.


The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was the first trade agreement and the first major government initiative to undergo an environmental review, as required by Canada's Green Plan. The environmental review analyzed the potential environmental effects of Canada's participation in NAFTA, setting precedents that will influence how environmental concerns are addressed in future international trade negotiations. Canada's review is composed of four broad elements: a study of the implications of the NAFTA's trade-related environmental provisions, a screening of the potential environmental impact of increased trade on Canada, an appraisal of the possibility that investment might migrate to areas characterized by different environmental practices, and an examination of mechanisms to ensure that the relationship between trade and the environment will continue to be addressed during the implementation of the agreement. The review committee concluded that NAFTA should not have a significant effect on Canada's environment.


Disclosed are an electrical appliance box, a domestic electrical appliance and an air-conditioner having an easily combustible and easily inflammable refrigerant, used for improving the heat dissipation performance of the electrical appliance box. The electrical appliance box comprises a box body (2) and a box cover (1), wherein the box body (2) and the box cover (1) fit together, the box body (2) is a metal box body and has an accommodating cavity (9); heat sink fins (3) are provided outside the box body (2), and the heat sink fins (3) are an integral structure with the box body (2). The above-mentioned technical solution only has two separate portions to be assembled together: the box cover (1) and the box body (2). A metal material is used for the box body (2), and the box body (2) is an integral structure with the heat sink fins (3) such that the heat dissipation performance is greatly increased.


This article discusses how the children's participation rights and competence has maintained unchanged and unchallenged over the years. However children are still not considered apt to be included as an opinion giver in the polity. Although there are international projects which give voice to children, society is not ready to allow children to participate in decision making process. Participation rights have been established by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in the Article 12 under 'the right to freely express one's opinion', on the condition that the child is capable of taking it, and in matters that affect them. The article shows that children's opinions should be given due weight depending on their age and maturity. Children are unique and gifted and it is the adults' duty or task to bring out the spark within them. Children's participation rights have not been the result of children's own mobilization and dispute over their social condition of subordination and oppression, but there are granted by their representatives (parents, school, government), who could speak in their 'best interests'. Children's participation rights did not enhance a clearer understanding, from the point of view of children themselves, about the directions in which relationships of subordination and oppression between children and adults that involved them should be changed. © 2016 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.uk


In the present investigation, the numerical code WELDSIM is used to simulate butt welding of 4 mm thick plates of S355 steel and AA6082-T6 by Hybrid Metal Extrusion and Bonding (HYB). This is a new solid state joining process using continuous extrusion as a technique to enable aluminium filler metal additions. In WELDSIM, the finite element heat flow model is coupled to a frictional heating model, an isokinetic diffusion model for the interfacial intermetallic compound (IMC) formation and a nanostructure model for simulating reversion and re-precipitation of hardening phases inside the aluminium part of the joints during welding and subsequent natural ageing. The HYB process model is validated by comparison with experimental data obtained from in-situ thermocouple measurements and hardness testing carried out on three different Al-steel butt welds. Furthermore, scanning electron microscope examinations of the Al-steel interfaces have been conducted to check the predicted power of the IMC diffusion model. It is concluded that the process model is sufficiently relevant and comprehensive to be used in simulations of both the thermal, microstructure, and strength evolutions fields in these dissimilar butt welds. Some practical applications of the process model are described toward the end of the article, where particularly its potential for optimising the load-bearing capacity of the joints, is highlighted.


The Atera fault, a major active fault in central Japan, extends 80 km from NW to SE and has left-lateral displacement with a relative uplift of the NE block. Evidences of Late Quaternary displacements along a main fault of this fault zone were clearly observed on a road-cutting at the Onosawa Pass, 6 km NW of Sakashita Town, Gifu Prefecture. The observations of the fault outcrop and C14 datings of black soils or buried woods reveal the followings: 1). Several fault planes run parallel to each other within the shatter zone of a few meters in width, which are N20-30° Win strike and 80-85° Emn dip. 2). The most recent faulting is recognized along the fault plane which lies on the most southwestern margin of the shattered zone. The latest displacement occurred after the deposition of Holocene soils dating back to 4, 330 years B P. 3). The Early to Late Quaternary deposits including the deposits of 27, 330 years B. P. are caught in the shattered zone, all these depo-sits being inclined nearly vertically. 4) An alternative accumulation of sand-gravel beds and black soil layers on the downthrown side suggests that the Atera fault has moved every 2, 000-4, 000 years.


Results . The specifics of the national natural parks of the Lviv region are analyzed, in particular, the natural conditions that determine the possibility for tourism development, environmental conservation, the factor of tourist infrastructure, consumer behavior, etc. The character and specificity of development of various types of tourism and tourist product are determined. Recommendations for further development of these territories are given. Various mechanisms, tools and tools of territorial marketing are offered. Scientific novelty . The specificity of the integrated approach to sustainable tourism development in the territory of national natural parks is considered, which will include the use of marketing tools for achieving social, environmental and economic goals. Practical significance . The results obtained in the research will enable to accelerate the development of tourism in the national natural parks of Lviv region. At the same time, they will contribute to solving tourist-economic and social problems.


Introduction Patients hospitalised for acute exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD) are at high-risk for recurrence within 8 weeks after the initial exacerbation. Objective This study evaluated the effect of erdosteine, an anti-oxidant mucolytic agent with antiadhesive bacterial properties, given to hospitalised AECOPD patients on the prevention of exacerbation. Methods Forty hospitalised COPD patients randomly received erdosteine (E) 900 mg daily or placebo (P) for 10 days plus standard treatment. Timing of first exacerbation after hospital discharge was assessed at 30 and 60 days. Data were correlated to FEV 1 %pred and serum C-reactive protein (CRP) measured at 10 and 30 days after hospitalisation. Time-to-event analyses were performed with the use of the log-rank test; Cox regression analysis was used to estimate hazard ratios with 95% CI for three predictors of re-exacerbations, adjusted for each other. Results Re-exacerbations occurred in 25% of patients. (E) was associated with a faster decrease of CRP concentration (p Conclusions Erdosteine given to hospitalised patients with AECOPD shows a protective effect by delaying and reducing re-exacerbations.


An external pulsed magnetic field is applied to accelerate the electron by a radially polarized laser pulse in vacuum. The unique fields of radially polarized laser beams are utilized which leads to an improvement in trapping and acceleration of electrons so that an electron can be accelerated to a very high energy level. Moreover, a pulsed magnetic field is applied that further enhances the electron acceleration. The enhancement in electron energy is due to fact that the radial field vanishes on the axis and only the longitudinal field survives, which accelerates the electron axially. As time increases, the magnetic field plays a crucial role due to the resonance between the electrons and the electric field of the laser pulse at an optimum value. The combined role of radial polarization and a pulsed magnetic field can enhance the electron energy gain significantly.


Introduction Reaching movements in stroke patients are characterized by decreased amplitudes at the shoulder and elbow joints and greater displacements of the trunk, compared to healthy subjects. The importance of an appropriate and specific contraction of the interscapular and upper limb (UL) muscles is crucial to achieving proper reaching movements. Functional electrical stimulation (FES) is used to activate the paretic muscles using short-duration electrical pulses. Objective To evaluate whether the application of FES in the UL and interscapular muscles of stroke patients with motor impairments of the UL modifies patients' reaching patterns, measured using instrumental movement analysis systems. Design A cross-sectional study was carried out. Setting The VICON Motion System® was used to conduct motion analysis. Participants Twenty-one patients with chronic stroke. Intervention The Compex® electric stimulator was used to provide muscle stimulation during two conditions: a placebo condition and a FES condition. Main outcome measures We analyzed the joint kinematics (trunk, shoulder, and elbow) from the starting position until the affected hand reached the glass. Results Participants receiving FES carried out the movement with less trunk flexion, while shoulder flexion elbow extension was increased, compared to placebo conditions. Conclusion The application of FES to the UL and interscapular muscles of stroke patients with motor impairment of the UL has improved reaching movements.


This article investigates how strong German and weak Austrian cooperative federalism affect women's policy machineries. We find that it is the federal organization of both polities that has posited engrained advantages for the establishment and the sustainability of women's policy agencies (WPA). We also find that center/left parties are crucial for sustaining and advancing the role of WPA. However, during economic crises, we see that the women's policy infrastructure in the strong federal state (Germany) was downsized while Austria's national social democratic WPA protects subnational institutions. Copyright 2013, Oxford University Press.


mutation. The question raised by Kumar et al., whether TUBB4A should be added to the long list of candidate genes to be tested in HSP patients, cannot be definitively answered at present. The Kumar et al. patient cohort is quite broadly defined, including variable age at onset, 14 subjects with uncomplicated HSP, and 24 already genetically verified as carrying pathogenic mutations in other genes. Clarifying the phenotypic spectrum of TUBB4A mutations should become possible with the accumulation of further information. The analysis of multiple genes by next-generation sequencing is becoming an important diagnostic tool, especially in complicated clinical cases in which the choice of a single candidate gene is not obvious.


The energy ecology of 9 ponds of saline-alkaline land for Ukraine scale carp(Cyprinus carpio) culture,with densities of 400,600,800 ind per 667 m2,was studied.The results showed that there were significant differences on photosynthetic efficiencies,and the photosynthetic efficiency in group of 800 ind per 667 m2 was higher than that in group of 400 ind per 667 m2(P0.05).In all input energy conversion efficiencies,there were significant differences on gross photosynthetic energy conversion efficiencies,net photosynthetic energy conversion efficiencies,gross fry energy conversion efficiencies and net fry energy conversion efficiencies.The gross and net photosynthetic energy conversion efficiencies in group of 800 ind per 667 m2 were higher than that in group of 600 ind per 667 m2,and the gross and net fry energy conversion efficiencies in group of 800 ind per 667 m2 were lower than that in group of 400 ind per 667 m2.The comprehensive ecology-yield index values in the three groups were 0.65,0.67 and 0.76 respectively,which showed that the group of 800 ind per 667 m2 was the best among the three groups.


The nature of political discourse has been significantly altered by the events of recent history, among which has been an accelerating shift of governmental regulation away from directing society by means of general rules to that of ad hoc, administrative commands and discretionary control. This has been accompanied by an apparent general lessening of respect for law and an increased interest in civil disobedience in the name of higher principles. These changes have led to a resurgence of interest in the concept of the rule of law as one of the primary protections which formally organized and highly complex societies can offer for personal freedom and an ordered society. Shifts in attitude toward law on the part of both government and citizens have encouraged political theorists to re-examine the classical liberal conception of the rule of law towards a better understanding of the interrelationship between the nature, function, and extent of governmental rules on the one hand, and personal freedom and the sphere of activity wherein the individual may act solely as he pleases on the other. This paper will focus on the work of F. A. Hayek, the leading modern exponent of the liberal conception of freedom and the rule of law. I intend in my analysis to lay bare the incongruities and weaknesses in Hayek's definition of freedom, and to show that a government under the rule of law, as he offers it, is no more a guarantee of personal freedom than is a government delegated broad discretionary powers — that one's freedom can be as much constrained under one system as under the other. I hope in the course of this paper to suggest the direction future theorists might take if they are to avoid certain pitfalls which prevent a more rigorous investigation of the relationship between freedom and the activities of government.


CONTENTS: A review of the long QT syndrome (LQTS), discussing its causes and definition, as well as the mechanisms of the disease. Besides mentioning several drugs implicated in prolonging the QT interval, and the most adequate anesthetic approaches to affected patients are recommended. CONCLUSION: The long QT syndrome, possible cause of intraand postoperative morbidity and mortality, can be related to drugs used during anesthesia. The anesthesiologist should have knowledge of this syndrome, in order to avoid an unfavorable outcome.


Two versions including triflic acid adsorbed on silica gel are used for the title reaction and generally similar yields are produced.


[Purpose]To investigate the mitochondrial microsatellite instability(mtMSI)of mitochondiral DNA control region(D-loop)in lung cancer and its relation with lung cancer.[Methods]Mitochondrial DNA D-loop of 37 matched lung cancer and adjacent normal lung tissue samples were analyzed by PCR-SSCP and sequencing technique.[Results]Mitochondrial DNA mtMSI occurred in 32.4%(12/37)of Lung cancer samples.Incidence of mtMSI in lung cancer did not correlate to agender,age and pathological type of tumor(P0.05).Incidence of mtMSI was significantly different between smoking group(including smoked people)and no-smoking group(P0.05).[Conclusion]mtMSI might play an important role in carcinogenesis in some lung cancers.


The object of this study is to define systematically for outputs of Verification Process among the system life cycle process based on ISO/IEC 15288 for power supply system, which is one of the importance sub-systems to configure the LRT system. Furthermore, to prevent various problem in advance that can occur in the Transition LRT`s power supply to be completed Integration. For this purpose, traceability of verification requirement and outputs. should be managed to use verification for system requirement and data processing tool. by system engineering techniques of system life cycle process based on ISO/IEC 15288 to LRT system.


Taking training teaching of building equipment basic skills as an example,this paper expounds the concrete application of task-driving method from aspects of designing tasks,analyzing tasks,accomplishing tasks and evaluating tasks,and puts forward problems that should be paid attention to during the implementation of task-driving method.


This paper discusses the mathematical modeling of in-pipe robot,and the analysis of the robot for fitting in pipelines such as siphon and branch pipeline.After carrying out the mathematical descriptions of its geometries,it makes the movement patterns of the robot passing through the pipes possible.The result is very important to study dynamic and static properties of robot.


The important circulation pattern of the Atlantic surface water in the Alborán Sea is often referred to as the hydrologic motor of the western Mediterranean basin (Rodríguez 1982) and makes this area one of the most productive regions of the Mediterranean (Rubin et al. 1992). The proposed area, in the eastern section of the Alborán Sea, has a relatively narrow continental shelf, somewhat wider within the large bay of Almería. The shelf edge starts its drop at around 150 meters. There is great variability in the slope of the shelf edge, from very steep escarpments to gently sloping plains. The abyssal plain is very narrow because of the presence of ridges and volcanic mountains such as those giving rise to the island of Alborán (Parrilla and Kinder 1987). The particular physiography of the Alborán basin directs the currents (Parrilla and Kinder 1987), which, favoured by atmospheric and meteorological conditions (Cheney and Doblar 1979), give rise to processes of convergence and divergence of water masses creating areas of enhanced productivity (Rubín et al. 1992). Boat-based surveys have been carried out in this area from 1992 to 2011, which have shown that in these deep waters, there is a high diversity of cetaceans; density surface models clearly show its importance for the oceanic species, which are mainly teuthophagous (beaked whales, Risso's dolphin, long-finned pilot whale, sperm whale and striped dolphin) as well as for common and bottlenose dolphins (Cañadas et al 2000; 2002; 2005; Carpinelli et al 2014; Wieruka et al 2014; Cañadas and Vazquez 2014).


Based on the statistical data of agricultural production and marketing docking platform in National Bureau of Statistics and Ministry of Commerce,this paper analyzes the factors affecting price hikes of agricultural products. The results show that price bikes of a gricaltural procluets result from domestic costs rising,along with input inflation,obstructed circulation,insufficient supervision etc. The government should take such active measures as strengthening agricultural production,transforming agricultural production mode,speeding up the circulation of agricultural products,establishing import export regulatory mechanism of agricultural products,strengthening the supervision of the price,etc. to cope with price hikes of domestic agricultural products.


Today, various applications require the ability to monitor a continuous stream of fine-grained data for the occurrence of certain high-level activities. A number of computerized systems—including ATM networks, web servers, and intrusion detection systems—systematically track every atomic action we perform, thus generating massive streams of times tamped observation data, possibly from multiple concurrent activities. In this paper, we address the problem of efficiently detecting occurrences of high-level activities from such interleaved data streams. A solution to this important problem would greatly benefit a broad range of applications, including fraud detection, video surveillance, and cyber security. We define algorithms for insertion and bulk insertion into the tMAGIC index and show that this can be efficiently accomplished. We also define algorithms to solve two problems: the "evidence" problem that tries to find all occurrences of an activity (with probability over a threshold) within a given sequence of observations, and the "identification" problem that tries to find the activity that best matches a sequence of observations. We introduce complexity reducing restrictions and pruning strategies to make the problem—which is intrinsically exponential—linear to the number of observations. Our experiments confirm that tMAGIC has time and space complexity linear to the size of the input, and can efficiently retrieve instances of the monitored activities.


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Background Seizure is a common complication after stroke (termed "post-stroke seizure," PSS). Although many studies have assessed outcomes and risk factors of PSS, no reliable predictors are currently available to determine PSS recurrence. We compared baseline clinical characteristics and post-stroke treatment regimens between recurrent and non-recurrent PSS patients to identify factors predictive of recurrence. Methods Consecutive PSS patients admitted to our stroke center between January 2011 and July 2013 were monitored until February 2014 (median 357 days; IQR, 160–552) and retrospectively evaluated for baseline clinical characteristics and PSS recurrence. Cumulative recurrence rates at 90, 180, and 360 days post-stroke were estimated by Kaplan—Meier analysis. Independent predictors of recurrent PSS were identified by Cox proportional-hazards analysis. Results A total of 104 patients (71 men; mean age, 72.1 ± 11.2 years) were analyzed. PSS recurred in 31 patients (30%) during the follow-up. Factors significantly associated with PSS recurrence by log-rank analysis included previous PSS, valproic acid (VPA) monotherapy, polytherapy with antiepileptic drugs (AEDs), frontal cortical lesion, and higher modified Rankin Scale score at discharge (all p < 0.05). Independent predictors of recurrent PSS were age <74 years (HR 2.38, 95% CI 1.02–5.90), VPA monotherapy (HR 3.86, 95% CI 1.30–12.62), and convulsions on admission (HR 3.87, 95% CI 1.35–12.76). Conclusions Approximately one-third of PSS patients experienced seizure recurrence within one year. The predictors of recurrent PSS were younger age, presence of convulsions and VPA monotherapy. Our findings should be interpreted cautiously in countries where monotherapy with second-generation AEDs has been approved because this study was conducted while second-generation AEDs had not been officially approved for monotherapy in Japan.


Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore and describe the perspective of the management group regarding how they reasoned when deciding to engage in a model focussing on systematic work envi ...


This research had the objective of answering the following question: what are the salient constructs of time that relate to cohesiveness within global virtual teams, that is, which constructs stand at center stage and what are their potential relationships to cohesiveness? To answer these questions, an exploratory study was conducted using the methods of within-case analysis, cross-case analysis, and quantitative analysis of survey data. Masters students participated in a global virtual collaboration. Fifty teams of four to six members each resulted in a total of 244 masters students from 19 universities located in 17 countries. Each team member attended a different university, and in most instances, lived in different countries. The theoretical basis for the study was drawn from social psychology studies on groups and from the communication literature on temporal cues in both the nonverbal and verbal domain.
In this study, the most important use of time appeared to be in creating an atmosphere of virtual immediacy. In a virtual context, chronemic immediacy appears to be created through a fast pace of communication and through no or few pauses in communication. Linguistic immediacy appears to be created in a virtual context when approach-oriented language and pace-oriented language is used. The level of virtual immediacy seems directly related to cohesiveness; however, the pattern of communication can moderate that relationship. Specifically, when teams comprise members who do not communicate equally and in a consistent pattern, and remind the team of that deviance, then the team becomes less cohesive, regardless of the immediacy established by the core team.
A model of communication and cohesiveness which integrates the constructs and relationships is proposed.


The axisymmetric wave equation is solved for the problem of torsional elastic waves impinging on a penny‐shaped crack the periphery of which is assumed to be infinitely sharp. Using Hankel transforms, the problem is reduced to the solution of two simultaneous integral equations of the Fredholm type. The proposed method of solution permits an examination of the complete scattered‐wave field at points both near to and far from the penny‐shaped plane of discontinuity. In elastodynamics, however, it is the nearfield stress solution that is of chief interest. To this end, the singular nature of the local dynamic stress field is determined in elementary closed form, while the magnitude of this stress field, which can be adequately described by a singularity parameter k3, is calculated numerically. The important results are that (1) the stresses are singular of the order r1−12 as r1 → 0 at the diffracting edge of the crack and (2) k3 is found to be proportional to the material constants, the crack radius, and th...


In order to get better results and faster speed on medical image fusion, a method based on non-sub sampled contour let transform in compressed sensing was proposed. Because of the large sparsity and sharp contrast between the black and the white of medical images, the energy and average gradient were utilized to design the fusion rules to fuse the low-frequency components and the high-frequency components respectively. The image entropy, relative quality, average gradient, standard deviation and spatial frequency were used to evaluate the fusion results objectively. Experiments show that under the premise of maintaining a certain reconstruction quality the sample rates and calculation amounts are lower, the convergence can be sped up and the fusion results can be improved.


Allowing Grid users, a widely accessible, homogeneous and easy to use graphical environment is the main objective of developing a grid portal. The design and implementation of these gates with a good and friendly, user manner, could trigger the dissemination of grid technologies, promoting their shift of from research to industrial application. This paper highlights the key issues in the development of Grid portals and attempts to build such a portal, based on the EGEE infastructure, utilizing the widespread use of Internet technologies. At the same time, an overview of grid technology is presented in order to understand the function and architecture, which will allow us to get an overall picture of the requirements and the method to be followed when creating the portal.


People usually think that digital screens are reliable devices. Unfortunately, attackers can exploit this blind trust to persuade a user to perform unintended actions. In this paper, we present a novel type of Man-in-the-Middle attack named Man-in-the-Video. Man-in-the-Video intercepts the video stream flowing between a computer and its screen and modifies it on-the-fly. The objective of such attack is to distort the perception of reality and to induce improper user behaviour. We implemented HackDMI, a Man-in-the-Video attack performed over an HDMI cable. We applied this attack to a realistic threat scenario (i.e., phishing) and we evaluated it with quantitative measures. HackDMI is able to deceptively modify a 720p video stream, while maintaining a frame-rate of 14FPS. We also recorded three demo videos for qualitative evaluation.


It is technically challenging to study the content and properties of nanoscale bioparticles in a high-throughput and single-molecule manner. We developed a high-throughput analysis method, called single particle profiler (SPP) that provides single-particle information on content and biophysical properties of thousands of particles. We applied SPP to measure the mRNA encapsulation efficiency of lipid nanoparticles, viral binding efficiency of different nanobodies and biophysical heterogeneity of liposomes, lipoproteins, exosomes and viruses.


Equipment and techniques have been developed for measurement of densities of metals at high temperatures (up to 2200°K). The equipment and techniques were demonstrated using alkali metals but are generally applicable not only to most metals but also to many other substances. Determination of vapor and liquid densities of alkali metals at high temperatures and pressures was accomplished by measuring the radiation emanating from the vapor and liquid phases of a radioactive alkali metal contained in a high pressure cell fabricated from a molybdenum‐30 wt.% tungsten alloy. The procedure was used to obtain vapor and liquid phase densities of the alkali metals at temperatures up to 2200°K and pressures up to 500 atm, which approach critical conditions. The radiation counting method involves sealing the metal whose density is to be measured in a containment capsule, irradiating the capsule and metal to produce a gamma emitting isotope of the metal, charging the capsule into the high temperature cell, and counting the activity of the vapor phase and the liquid phase at temperatures ranging from room temperature up to the critical point. A calibration of density vs irradiation level is performed at low temperatures where accurate liquid density data are available.


K-means algorithm and ant clustering algorithm are all traditional algorithms. The two algorithms can complement each other. The combination of two algorithms will improve clustering's accuracy and speed up algorithm' convergence. Tests prove hybrid clustering algorithm is more effective than each above-mentioned algorithm.


The first part of this paper gives a short introduction in WiMAX technology. Second part of the paper shows transmission modes in the WiMAX system air interface, followed in the third part by mathematical approach for calculating the cell relative area covered with respective types of transmission modes. Fourth part of the paper presents simulations results that are obtained by using typical terrain and WiMAX system features, and is followed with conclusion at the end of this paper. Emphasis of this paper is in revealing propagation properties that shape relative surfaces covered with certain mode of signal in a WiMAX cell.


Abstract Applying the perturbative approach to geodesic equations, we study motion of the test particles in time-dependent spherically symmetric spacetimes created by oscillating dark matter. Assuming the weakness of the gravitational field, we derive general formulas that describe infinite trajectories of the test particles and determine the total deflection angle in the leading order approximation. The obtained formulas are valid for both time-dependent and static matter configurations. Using these results, we calculate the deflection angle of a test particle passing through a spherically symmetric oscillating distribution of a self-gravitating scalar field with a logarithmic potential. It turned out that, in a wide range of amplitudes, oscillations in the deflection angle are sinusoidal and become small for ultrarelativistic particles.


Background:
 Infective endocarditis (IE) predisposes patients to severe morbidity and mortality. 2D transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE) is the preferred initial imaging modality of choice and frequently is followed by Transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE). Establishing the role of TTE and a TEE in ruling out IE can provide a framework for institutional changes leading to fewer invasive and costly TEE procedures.

 Methods:
 A retrospective chart review at the University of New Mexico Hospitals included patients diagnosed with IE for which echocardiography was performed. Demographic data, history of IV drug use, prior IE, physical exam findings, microbiology, echocardiographic findings, and post-imaging management changes were recorded.

 Results:
 We identified 101 patients with clinically suspected endocarditis for review. TTE was performed in all patients and TEE in 23 patients (23%). TTE results were positive for endocarditis in 11 patients (10.89%), negative in 83 patients (82.18%), and indeterminate in 6 patients (5.94%) and did not have surgical features. TEE was performed in 4 out of 11 patients with positive TTE. TEE did not change management in these cases. In the 6 cases of indeterminate TTE, treatment decisions could be made in 4 cases without a TEE. Two of the 101 patients had negative TTE but positive TEE. Both had MSSA bacteremia and a positive Duke score. TEE resulted in a longer antibiotic course. Treatment decisions could be made in 78% of patients with suspected infective endocarditis without a TEE.

 Conclusion:
 TEE has a small added value for the diagnosis of infective endocarditis, and treatment decisions can often be made in most patients without the use of TEE. In this study, TEE only changed care in 2% of patients with suspected IE without surgical features by increasing the duration of antibiotic treatment.


Just as its general theoretical foundation does, the quantitative evaluation of ecological governance does not have a sound research compilation. This study aims to construct the ecological governance evaluation model and determine the indicator weights, premised on quantitative methods. The evaluation model is expected to embody the new features of the contemporary ecological governance, especially the metropolitan background and regional functions. Given the previous studies and conceptualizations, it is proposed based on (1) fundamental socio-economic development, (2) ecological environment quality, (3) ecological governance and innovation, and (4) regional interconnected functions. The model covers multiple index layers and various indicators, and the entropy weight method is applied to obtain the weights. The results of the specific case in Chongming show the indicator of the number of beds for old-age nursing homes in urban and rural areas, the area of real afforestation, the number of approvals in the project environmental assessment and the freight volume have the biggest weights in each of the four aspects respectively. The level of ecological governance in Chongming Island has been continuously improving, especially in 2015 and 2016, with increases doubling or tripling those of the previous two years. The index values of the four aspects generally showed an upward trend. The comprehensive social economic level and the regional interconnected level continue to grow. The levels of ecological environment quality and the ecological governance and innovation fluctuated in 2013 and 2014, but returned to growth in 2015, and increased significantly in 2016.


Effects of recommended rate parameter changes in the NASA JPL-2000 evaluation from JPL-94 values on local ozone concentrations in a 2-D model are predicted using local sensitivity analysis results from the LLNL 2-D diurnally averaged model. Ozone decreases of 5% in the middle stratosphere and 10% increases near the tropopause and upper troposphere are indicated. Altered NOx kinetics are largely responsible for these changes, and increased model NOx levels and ozone depletion from stratospheric aircraft are also expected according to sensitivity analysis. Effects of specific changes, such as the nitric acid formation rate, are examined. New error bars on rate parameters in the evaluation are propagated by the sensitivity coefficients to derive revised kinetics uncertainties for the model ozone calculations at several altitudes, latitudes, and seasons. Middle-upper stratospheric ozone uncertainties of 12% from the catalytic photochemistry are indicated, increasing in the lower stratosphere.


We report the discovery of a companion to the high proper motion star LHS 1589, a nearby high-velocity, low-mass subdwarf. The companion (LHS 1589B) is located 0.224′′ ± 0.004′′ to the southwest of the primary (LHS 1589A), and is 0.5 mag fainter than the primary in the Ks band. The pair was resolved with the IRCAL infrared camera at Lick Observatory, operating with the Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics system. A low-resolution spectrum of the unresolved pair obtained at the MDM observatory shows the source to be consistent with a cool subdwarf of spectral subtype sdK7.5. A photometric distance estimate places the metal-poor system at a distance d = 81 ± 18 pc from the Sun. We also measure a radial velocity Vrad = 67 ± 8 km s-1, which, together with the proper motion and estimated distance, suggests that the pair is roaming the inner Galactic halo on a highly eccentric orbit. With a projected orbital separation s = 18.1 ± 4.8 AU, and a crude estimate of the system's total mass, we estimate the orbital period of the system to be in the range 75 yr < P < 500 yr. This suggests that the dynamical mass of the system could be derived astrometrically, after monitoring the orbital motion over a decade or so. The LHS 1589AB system could thus provide a much needed constraint to the mass-luminosity relationship of metal-poor, low-mass stars.


The paper presents an approach to the nondestructive ellipsometric investigation and computer simulation of dielectric structures with known thicknesses. Three-dimensional profile studies of surface microrelief using an atomic force microscope are also considered. The proposed approach enables the examination of an optical waveguide''s sections and permits investigations of interferometric coatings and the numerical analysis of various multilayer dielectric systems.


Microteaching is a significant strategy in teacher education programs for giving student teachers opportunities to practice their teaching techniques.This study aims at investigating how using microteaching affects the teaching performance and attitude of Iraqi EFL student teachers. For this purpose, 30 Iraqi EFL student teachers were selected and then randomly assigned to two groups:control and experimental, 15 in each. To collect the data of the study, two instruments were used. The first one is a checklist used to measure student teachers' teaching performance; while the other is a questionnaire used to measure their attitudes toward microteaching. The study hypotheses state that the learners' mean scores in the post-administration of teaching performance checklist and microteaching attitude questionnaire for the two groups were not significantly different. The findings revealed that performance of the experimental group was significantly higher than that of the control group and that using the microteaching method was more rewarding than the traditional tutoring. Furthermore, microteaching as a training method was also viewed favorably by the participants in the experimental group.


Public Science and Technology Institutions (STIs) need to assume and consolidate a proactive role in innovation management to transform knowledge advances into appropriate results for the industrial base. It is required a strategic managerial action aimed at sustaining the sector's ecosystem and guided by the principle of entrepreneurship. Considering the context of STIs in an integrated approach to the technological innovation process, two questions were raised: How to guarantee an architecture and organizational governance that favor entrepreneurial behavior by linking it to the technological innovation strategy in the ecosystem, and how to expand and promote interactions among ecosystem agents, ensuring an environment leading to innovation and the dissemination of the knowledge generated. The proposed managerial model can be applied in any national or international technology-based innovation ecosystem keeping the characteristics of the business environment. The authors used extensive literature research and direct observation to develop ideas and link them to this management practice. The result was a strategic innovation management model for technology-based STIs. It has management instruments that enhance the proactive performance of ecosystem agents and helps them transfer and absorb the developed technologies.


At present, the concepts of psychical disease and disorder are compared. The concept of disease is preferred. Psychiatric diagnosis and its aspects are considered for the position of the biopsychosocial (trichotomy) model, the second term is preferred, the concept of a soul is concretized. The medical aspect is pathological experiences, the social one is the demetaphorization of the disease, the destigmatization of the patient, the psychological one is the impact on the healthy among the sick, the philosophical one is divine madness is teleological.


The use of Cu-doped (K0.5Na0.5)0.2(Sr0.75Ba0.25)0.9Nb2O6 as self pumped phase conjugators with internal reflection is reported, The reflectivities as high as 63% at 514.5nm and 60% at 632.8nm were realized. It was found that the photorefractive response changes significantly at different dopping concentration. The responses of the crystals to the laser wavelength, incident angle and dopant concentration were studied,