In order to precisely control the winding paths of a ply yarn centerline in a three-dimensional space,based on the Visual C++ 2010 and Open Graphics Library source platform,an interpolatable cubic C-Cardinal spline curve was adopted to establish a ply yarn centerline three-dimensional space mathematical model. The cross section superposition method,i. e. the circular and irregular polygon used as the cross section of yarn in the ply yarn was adopted,appropriate translation and rotation were performed on it to superpose node coordinates on the cross section center point and the ply yarn center point,and to make the cross section perpendicular to the tangent vector of the node,the centerline of the ply yarn is designated with an appropriate number of nodes,and the cross section is added at each node by the method above-mentioned. As a result, the appearance simulation of a ply yarn with the characteristic of smoothness,seamless and non-shear twisting was presented and the ply yarn surface texture was clear.


People are a big part of operating and maintaining any large IT platform. While senior management tends to focus on the cost of hardware and software, unfortunately little energy and even less resources are spent ensuring that the people who make the systems run are adequately supported. But, being the resilient and inventive types that they are, systems professionals work out their own tools to make their lives better.


Models of imploding wire arrays usually assume an expansion and instantaneous ionization of the array material with the subsequent implosion proceeding as a distinct array of individual plasma elements or as a cylindrical shell. Experimental evidence indicates that precursor plasmas form and implode ahead of the array, x-ray pulse lengths are longer than 1D models predict, and part of the array mass is left behind. Interferometry with 10 to 1 magnification is used to probe the initial plasma formation processes. Results on Al and C loads indicate that neutral Al vapor cores or solid C cores persist for up to 400 to 600 ns into the current pulse, and that precursor plasma formation is possible. These results predict similar behavior for the first 40 to 60 ns on current generators with İ per wire ~ 1.4 MA/μs.


One set of vital signs, especially systolic blood pressure, has a significant prognostic value for multiple adverse clinical events among people being treated for hypertension and should not be ignored.


Nuggets is a Northern North Sea lean gas reservoir with a methanol injection system for preventing gas hydrate problems. In general, the amount of methanol injected is calculated based on worst case conditions (temperature and pressure) and is related to gas composition, water content and the amount of inhibitor lost to non-aqueous phases. To ensure this risk is monitored effectively, methanol content from a produced water sample on the platform is measured on a daily basis. A coulometric Karl Fischer (KF) technique is used as an indirect method of quantifying methanol, by determining the water content and assuming the remainder of the solution is methanol. Although this method is a well-known technique within the industry, there is limited opportunity to optimise hydrate inhibitor dosing rates completely as there is no measurement of the amount of salt present in the samples. As a result of a joint industry project, a novel device based on measuring electrical conductivity and acoustic velocity (C-V) has been developed by Hydrafact Ltd and Heriot-Watt University to determine the hydrate safety margin, reduce the risk of hydrates and optimise inhibitor injection rates. The system quantifies the amount of inhibitors (i.e. salt, KHI, methanol, MEG, etc.) present in the aqueous phase which can then be used to determine the hydrate stability zone. Superimposing the operating conditions, the system can determine the hydrate safety margin, hence allowing an opportunity to optimise the inhibitor injection rates. The device was deployed on the North Alwyn platform in April 2011 to determine the methanol and salt content in the produced water from the Nuggets field. The results of the trial are detailed in this communication.


Polysilicon etch profile is examined as a function of process variation for submicrometer-patterned polysilicon on gate oxide. A Lam Research Rainbow 4400 single-wafer etcher was used to etch polysilicon wafers for a variety of bulk etch and overetch process combinations in order to establish trends for polysilicon etch profile using photoresist and oxide masks. Scanning electron microscope analysis was completed to determine the resulting polysilicon profile for each combination, and process trends for profile were established. A process which demonstrated profile control, critical dimension control and high oxide selectivity after extended overetch was then used to etch polysilicon lines on gate oxide over underlying topography. Scanning electron microscope analysis was completed to determine the effectiveness of the process in removing the polysilicon stringer while maintaining a vertical profile, critical dimension loss of less than 0.1 um, and gate oxide loss of less than 50 A.


This article presents the general conclusions of a doctoral thesis, in which the social issue of working women with children aged 0 to 2 years old was problematized, concerning the custody and education of their children. Considering the changes in the status of women and children's lives, the day care institution was deemed to be a space for the social practices of families, for the professional practice of educators and one of the spaces where a new culture of childhood and its socialization is built. The statements of educators and parents were analyzed, revealing an ongoing process of building new languages that have been affirming the educational character of the day care service, as well as reconfiguring the conceptions of motherhood, women's work, fatherhood, childhood and 0 to 2 years old children's right to education.


Sorghum is one of the most important food crops globally, which has become the fifth food crop after wheat, rice, corn, and barley. Sorghum has excellent potential to be developed in Indonesia because it has wide adaptability, especially on dry land, and produces high productivity. This study aims to determine the possibility of sorghum plants in Lamunde Village, Tinondo District, East Kolaka Regency. The population in this study were sorghum farmers, totaling 25 people, using the method census or saturated sampling, which took the entire population as a sample so that 25 people were obtained as research samples. Data analysis used SWOT analysis using IFE (Internal Factors Evaluation) Matrix, EFE Matrix (External Factors Evaluation), and IE Matrix (Internal External). The results showed that the strategy that needs to be applied for sorghum farmers in seeing the potential for the development of sorghum plants in Lamunde Village is a strategy of concentration through vertical integration. Growth through engagement can be achieved through vertical integration by taking over the function of suppliers, namely sorghum farmers, or by taking over the tasks of distributors, namely buyers of sorghum production, either in the form of wholesalers or collectors and companies.


In this article, the synthesis of dimethyl fumarate using ion_exchange resin as catalyst was studied. The influence of ion_exchange resin's amount of yield and the performance of catalyst which is used repeatedly were probed into and the optimum reaction condition was described.


My name is Elizabet Geijlvoet. I am from the Netherlands. As I write this, I am sitting in a very small garden shed of a member of my church, surrounded by the lilac trees this village is famous for. I feel very blessed to work in the ministry of the Mennonite church here, the Doopsgezinde Gemeente (the Dutch Mennonite church). Besides being a minister of the Mennonite church in Aalsmeer, I am a mother of two children: Rojda and Hozan. The name of our daughter refers to sunrise and the goddess of spring, and followed by the hope of Newroz—the celebration of freedom and peace in Kurdistan. The name of our son refers to the singing of ballads, not only of pain and grief but also of hope and times of change, because a song can be stronger than any lethal weapon. I am also the wife of Kamal of the house of Khouja, a well-respected peace family in Afrin, Kurdish Syria.


The title complex crystallizes with two independent molecules in the asymmetric unit of the orthorhombic unit cell. The crystal structure features C—H⋯O and C—H⋯N non-classical hydrogen bonds.


Abstract: Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) is an autoimmune thyroid disorder mediated by deregulated T-cell responses. Several gene candidates encoding immune regulators have been implicated in HT etiology, including vitamin D receptor (VDR), cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen- 4 (CTLA-4), CD28 and CD45 transcripts. Aim: To evaluate clinical implications of VDR, CTLA-4, CD28 and CD45 mRNA expression profiles in peripheral T-cells of HT patients. Methods: 44 HT patients (3 male, mean age 47±14.4 years) and 46 geographically-matched, euthyroid, TPOAb-negative controls without a family history of autoimmune disorders (10 male, 42±12.3 years) were recruited. HT was diagnosed by positive TPOAb-IgG (median titer 302 IU/mL, interquartile range 88-1440 IU/mL), ultrasonographic and cytopathologic findings on FNAB and/or biochemical hypothyroidism (median TSH 5.27 mU/L, interquartile range 3.11- 13.8 mU/L). Untouched T-lymphocytes were negatively isolated from peripheral blood using magnetic beads. Total mRNA was extracted and gene expression studied by RT-PCR and ImageQuant method relative to GAPDH products (%). Biochemical data and goitre volume were compared to gene expression data by rank correlations and robust regression procedures. Results: VDR, CTLA-4, CD28 and five isoforms of CD45R mRNA (ABC, AB, BC, B and 0) were successfully detected in at least 95% of samples. Total mRNA expression did not differ by case- control status, gender and need for hormone replacement therapy. A family history of thyroid disorders (n=12) was associated with lower CD45RABC mRNA expression (P=0.009, 11.4±2.9 vs 20.9±1.8, HT group). CD28 (β=0.236±0.062, R2a~28%, P<0.001, HC3 estimators) and CTLA-4 mRNA levels (β=-0.09±0.04, R2a~7%, P=0.03) were independently associated with CD45RBC expression in HT patients. A strong age- dependent shift toward CD45R0 expression was seen (Spearman's ρ=0.341, P=0.027, n=42), as judged by CD45R0/RB ratio (ρ=0.462, P=0.002 ; R2a~19%, β=0.0094±0.0029, P=0.0023). Moreover, VDR mRNA expression was independently and inversely associated with CD45R0 mRNA expression (R2 a~9%, β=-0.237±0.096, P=0.018) and, particularly, CD45R0/RB ratio (β=-0.0038±0.001, P=0.0017, R2a~16%, HT group). Conversely, a positive correlation, independent of the case- control status, was detected between age-corrected VDR and CTLA-4 mRNA levels(ρ=0.26, P=0.014, R2a~6%, β=0.273±0.113, P=0.018), as well as VDR and CD45RABC mRNA (R2a~5%, β=0.093±0.045, P=0.04). CD45RAB, adjusted for the CD45RABC level, was significantly higher in female participants (14.7±0.77 vs 10.4±1.93, P=0.042). CD45RBC and B mRNA expression was highly related to CD28 levels in both groups (P<0.002). At diagnosis, CTLA-4 mRNA expression was inversely related to age- and FT4-corrected logTSH values (β=-0.0047±0.002, P=0.026, R2a~5%). Subsequently, age (β=-0.013±0.004, P=0.0017) and VDR mRNA expression (β=0.0045±0.0017, P=0.013, R2 a~7%) were the only significant predictors of FT4-corrected FT3 values. Conclusion: Unlike naive T-cells which preferentially express large CD45R isoforms (ABC/AB/BC), activated and memory T lymphocytes express the shortest one, CD45R0. Collectively, CD45, CTLA-4 and VDR network interplay is differentially controlled during lymphocyte development and activation and affects HT disease characteristics through poorly characterized mechanisms. Further analysis by combining qPCR and FACS is needed.


In this paper, the measured in-water radiation impedance of cylindrical piezoelectric radiator with finite baffle is compared to the existing theoretical result of that with infinite baffle and the effect of baffle on the radiation impedance is examined. Comparision between measurement and theoretical result of radiation impedance shows that the measured radiation impedance tends to be that of the infinite baffle as the baffle length increases. Another finding of the comparision in that the effect of baffle is more dominant in radiation reactance than in radiation resistance. Therefore, for the use of theoretical radiation impedance of infinite baffle on the design of acoustic transducer, the impedance compensation to the baffle length should conducted.


To operate effectively with complex tasks in complex environments, agents must intelligently manage their limited physical and computational resources. This can be accomplished by explicitly coordinating the agent's planning, perception, and action. The Task Control Architecture (TCA) provides a vocabulary of coordination constructs that combines both deliberative and reactive aspects. The paper briefly describes the control constructs of TCA, and characterizes their applicability along several important dimensions.


The large mosaic spread of GICs has to be taken into account if structural information is extracted from structure refinements or Fourier syntheses. The application of the new Lorentz factor, an additional geometrical correction, leads to significantly improved structural parameters compared to results obtained from common evaluation procedures


Temperature sensors are widely used in condition monitoring of mechanical components in high-speed train bogies. Once over-temperature occurs, the train will perform emergency operations and may lead to train running delay. Predicting temperature in advance could ensure the reliable running and reducing the maintenance cost. In this paper, we propose a Spatio-temporal Attention Seq2seq model to predict the multivariate bearing temperatures of high-speed train bogies in next hour. Spatial and temporal attention are incorporated into the seq2seq framework to address the inter-sensor and inner-sensor correlations separately. Experiments on real-world bearing temperature dataset demonstrate that our method outperforms baseline methods.


FAILS in Left Main Study). This study sought to retrospectively appraise the incidence and management of restenosis after drug-eluting stent (DES) implantation for unprotected left main (ULM) disease. Background The promising role of DES for ULM has been reported. However, no detailed data are available on subsequent restenosis. Methods From the total sample of patients with ULM treated with DES, we identified those presenting with angiographic ULM restenosis. The primary end point was the long-term rate of major adverse cardiac events (MACE), that is, death, myocardial infarction (MI), or target lesion revascularization (TLR). We also adjudicated stent thrombosis according to the Academic Research Consortium. Results Post-DES restenosis in ULM occurred in 70 of 718 patients (9.7%). Of these, 59 (84.3%) were treated percutane-ously (34 [48.6%] with additional DES, 22 [31.4%] with standard or cutting balloons, 2 [2.9%] with rotational atherectomy, and 1 [1.4%] with a bare-metal stent), whereas 7 (10%) patients underwent bypass surgery and 4 (5.7%) were treated medically. In-hospital MACE included no periprocedural MI and only 1 (1.4%) death. After 27.2 (cid:1) 15.4 months, MACE occurred cumulatively in 18 (25.7%) patients, with death in 4 (5.7%), MI in 2 (2.9%), and TLR in 15 (21.4%). Patients treated with medical, interventional, and surgical therapy had the fol-lowing MACE rates, respectively: 50%, 25.4%, and 14.3%. Definite, probable, and possible stent thrombosis occurred in 0 (0%), 1 (1.4%), and 1 (1.4%) patient, respectively. approach, favorable


Within the theme of "Texts and Context" this chapter investigates whether there is any information in the Qumran pesharim that might indicate where they were created and used. The principal concern, then, is to reconsider most of the obvious spatial language in the pesharim to discern what sense of space and place they might disclose. The chapter briefly explains how spatial language is used in one particular genre of sectarian texts found in the caves at and near Qumran. The widespread metaphorical use of the term "house" makes the identification of a specific location with the "house of Judah" virtually impossible. The Israelite tribal designations encourage the close association of people with particular places or regions.In the late Second Temple period these are transferred to Israel as a whole. In sectarian texts the assumption is that the promises made to Israel are the inheritance of the sectarian movement alone. Keywords: Qumran pesharim ; second temple period; sectarian texts; spatial language


The existing conceptual frameworks are more important to know the rationality and the strength of the any study. The aim of this paper is to discuss about the conceptual explanation of microcredit andmicrofinance, poverty. This paper also described about the conceptual link of microcredit and poverty alleviation. The study found the throughout the discussion of the conceptual sources i.e. participatory microfinancing approaches have determined as a better way of poverty alleviation. The study recommended that zakat based Islamic mode of financing and Qard-al-Hasan on the basis of spiritual values would be an alternative model for poverty alleviation and ensuring sustainable livelihood.


Measuremerts were made of artificial radioactivity in air samples collected from April through July 1959 at 4 locations in the Netherlands. Data are tabulated. (C.H.)


INTRODUCTION
Smoking is one of several well documented harmful agents that people voluntarily expose to. Nurses are considered by society as the authority in the field of health, what means that they should take advantage of their accomplishments and references in procedures concerned with prophylaxis and smoking habit treatment. For these reasons - nurses' attitude to smoking is so crucial. Solving the problem of smoking within this profession is important for both nurses and their patients.

AIM
The aim of the research was the assessment of prevalence of smoking among the nurses from the Lodz district and the knowledge about harmfulness of smoking.

MATERIAL AND METHODS
There were 74 respondents taken into account of nursing personnel: 73 female and 1 male. There was authors' questionnaire prepared for the study.

RESULTS
Basing on the research - 40% of the nursing personnel were smokers. The majority of respondents (57%) smoke more than the half of pack of cigarettes and stress is the most common reason (47%). Currently smokers more often came from families where other members smoked cigarettes (63%). More than half of respondents (57%) do not mind smoking while their friends are in their own home. Studies showed that only 57 % smokers undertook attempts to stop smoking, mostly for health reason. Health and financial considerations were the cause of cessation of tobacco use by smokers in the past.

CONCLUSION
Smoking by nursing personnel is wide. It is important to nursing personnel to be aware of the existence of the relationship between change in patient health behavior, and attitude of persons who learn them to live healthy. On the basis of self-knowledge regarding the scope of the harmful effects of smoking tobacco, the research showed that the level of knowledge had no significant effect on health behavior study of nursing personnel.


A five-year drought in California led to a significant increase in tree mortality in the Sierra Nevada forests from 2012 to 2016. Landscape level monitoring of forest health and tree dieback is critical for vegetation and disaster management strategies. We examined the capability of multispectral imagery from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) in detecting and explaining the impacts of the recent severe drought in Sierra Nevada forests. Remote sensing metrics were developed to represent baseline forest health conditions and drought stress using time series of MODIS vegetation indices (VIs) and a water index. We used Random Forest algorithms, trained with forest aerial detection surveys data, to detect tree mortality based on the remote sensing metrics and topographical variables. Map estimates of tree mortality demonstrated that our two-stage Random Forest models were capable of detecting the spatial patterns and severity of tree mortality, with an overall producer's accuracy of 96.3% for the classification Random Forest (CRF) and a RMSE of 7.19 dead trees per acre for the regression Random Forest (RRF). The overall omission errors of the CRF ranged from 19% for the severe mortality class to 27% for the low mortality class. Interpretations of the models revealed that forests with higher productivity preceding the onset of drought were more vulnerable to drought stress and, consequently, more likely to experience tree mortality. This method highlights the importance of incorporating baseline forest health data and measurements of drought stress in understanding forest response to severe drought.


This paper elucidates on the logic behind recent papers which show that a unique equilibrium is selected in the presence of higher order uncertainty, i.e., when players lack common knowledge. We introduce two new concepts: stochastic potential of the information system and p-dominance of Nash-equilibria of the game, and show that a Nash-equilibrium is uniquely selected whenever its p-dominance is below the stochastic potential. This criterion applies to many-action games, not merely 2 by 2 games. It also applies to games without dominant strategies, where the set of equilibria is shown to be smaller and simpler than might be initially conjectured. Finally, the new concepts help understand the circumstances under which the set of equilibria varies with the amount of common knowledge among players. Copyright 1995 by The Econometric Society.


Packing unit with cosmetically active ingredients wherein two containers are arranged one inside the other and where the first container consists of an impermeable material and the second container consists of a material water transmission and is disposed in the first container, and both containers are closed, characterized in that the first container can stand or can be deployed to put stand and includes means for opening the closed container; and the second container having therein a cosmetically active substance in particulate form, provided in a vehicle or provided in a vehicle or mixture of substances and a second substance as particles with a volume that increases at least fourfold when contact with water.


This research briefing summarises priority areas for future research as well as key stakeholders with whom to engage, as identified in the scoping paper "Impact of Covid-19 on Labour Rights and Working Conditions in Four Selected Sectors" by Mirza M. Hassan, Syeda Salina Aziz, Raeesa Rahemin, Insiya Khan and Rafsanul Hoque from the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD). The scoping paper and this briefing were commissioned for the Covid-19 Learning, Evidence and Research Programme in Bangladesh (CLEAR). CLEAR aims to build a consortium of research partners to deliver policy-relevant research and evidence for Bangladesh to support the Covid-19 response and inform preparation for future shocks.


Classic similarity measures of strings are longest common subsequence and Levenshtein distance (i.e., the classic edit distance). A classic similarity measure of curves is dynamic time warping. These measures can be computed by simple O(n2) dynamic programming algorithms, and despite much effort no algorithms with significantly better running time are known. We prove that, even restricted to binary strings or one-dimensional curves, respectively, these measures do not have strongly subquadratic time algorithms, i.e., no algorithms with running time O(n2-ε) for any ε > 0, unless the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis fails. We generalize the result to edit distance for arbitrary fixed costs of the four operations (deletion in one of the two strings, matching, substitution), by identifying trivial cases that can be solved in constant time, and proving quadratic-time hardness on binary strings for all other cost choices. This improves and generalizes the known hardness result for Levenshtein distance [Backurs, Indyk STOC'15] by the restriction to binary strings and the generalization to arbitrary costs, and adds important problems to a recent line of research showing conditional lower bounds for a growing number of quadratic time problems. As our main technical contribution, we introduce a framework for proving quadratic-time hardness of similarity measures. To apply the framework it suffices to construct a single gadget, which encapsulates all the expressive power necessary to emulate a reduction from satisfiability. Finally, we prove quadratic-time hardness for longest palindromic subsequence and longest tandem subsequence via reductions from longest common subsequence, showing that conditional lower bounds based on the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis also apply to string problems that are not necessarily similarity measures.


The solubility of chicken egg white lysozyme crystallized in the tetragonal form was measured in sodium chloride solutions from 1.6 to 30.7 °C, using a miniature column solubility apparatus. Sodium chloride solution concentrations ranged from 1 to 7% (w/v). The solutions were buffered with 0.1 M sodium acetate buffer, with the solubility being measured at pH values in 0.2 pH unit increments in the pH range 4.0−5.4, with data also included at pH 4.5. Lysozyme solubility was found to increase with increasing in temperature and decreasing salt concentration. Solution pH has a varied and unpredictable effect on solubility.


We have demonstrated that the creation of hierarchical polysaccharide architectures can be achieved by using a fluidic liquid–liquid interface as a dynamic template for the supramolecular spinning ...


Glucose uptake and fatty acid oxidation by isolated skeletal muscle cells are known to be regulated, at least in part, by the AMP kinase (AMPK). We have confirmed that both glucose uptake and fatty acid oxidation by L6 cells were stimulated by the AMP analog, AICAR. These processes were also stimulated in these cells by adiponectin, believed to act in a slightly different way to AICAR in that the adiponectin need not directly alter AMP concentrations. We observed no additivity between AICAR and adiponectin. Two other tests of allosteric alteration of AMPK were examined: the deletion of adenylate kinase (known to prevent contraction‐induced AMPK activation), and the addition of creatine (reported to activate AMPK presumably through alteration in creatine, creatine phosphate, or AMP). Knockdown of adenylate kinase by siRNA did not affect the ability of adiponectin to stimulate glucose transport. Addition of creatine affected neither glucose transport nor fatty acid oxidation, but did decrease the formation of lactate. Moreover, creatine supplementation did not affect the phosphorylation state of AMPK. We conclude that AMPK can be regulated separately by either increases in AMP levels, or by direct phosphorylation by an AMPK kinase. In contrast, the evidence suggests that creatine phosphate levels may not be regulators of AMP kinase in intact cells.


The invention relates to a cow concentrate supplement. The concentrate supplement is mainly prepared by strictly controlling the quality of corn and adding wheat middling, bean meal, cotton meal, sesame cake, rumen bypass fat, yeast culture and the like; the finally obtained concentrate supplement comprises more than or equal to 18.4 percent of crude protein, more than or equal to 14.78 percent of neutral washing fibers, more than or equal to 7 percent of acid washing fibers, more than or equal to 0.82 percent of calcium, and more than or equal to 0.58 percent of phosphorus; the ratio of the calcium to the phosphorus is more than or equal to 1.41:1; and the cow concentrate supplement has good palatability and high milk yield, and can effectively improve the hair color and body condition of cows.


Previous studies on the typical Icelandic external wall have shown thatcondensation occurs at the interior surface of the concrete and field inspectionshave supported this conclusion. The primary o ...


BACKGROUND
Expanded endonasal approaches have the potential to injure the abducens nerve (cranial nerve [CN] VI). The nerve's root entry zone (REZ) and cisternal segment (CS) are particularly prone to injury during the clivus resection and dural incision of transclival approaches.

OBJECTIVE
To investigate the role of the eustachian tube (ET) as a surgical landmark for the REZ and CS of CN VI.

METHODS
Transclival expanded endonasal approaches were performed bilaterally in 6 fresh-frozen cadaveric specimens (12 sides). Anatomic relationships between ET and CN VI were documented with neuronavigation.

RESULTS
The mean vertical distance from the inferior brainstem point to the horizontal projection of CN VI REZ, CS midpoint, and interdural segment (ID) were 26.38 mm (95% confidence interval [CI] 17.36-35.4), 38.61 mm (95% CI 25.61-51.61), and 42.68 mm (95% CI 30.14-55.22), respectively. The relative vertical distance from the ET to the horizontal projections of the REZ, CS midpoint, and its ID were 6.43 mm (95% CI 3.25-9.61), 18.66 mm (95% CI 11.52-25.8), and 22.72 mm (95% CI 16.02-29.42), respectively. In the axial plane the angles between the ET and (1) the REZ and its midline horizontal projection point, (2) the midpoint and its midline horizontal projection point, and (3) ID and its midline horizontal projection point were 9.81 ± SD 5.20°, 18.50 ± SD 4.87°, and 24.71 ± SD 6.21°, respectively.

CONCLUSION
The ET may serve as a constant landmark to reliably predict the position of the REZ and CS of CN VI.


Investigations of the physiological activity of the thyroid gland have shown that the internal secretion of the gland serves many different functions. One or more of a series of symptoms accompany cases of thyroid deficiency. These symptoms are relieved by the administration of the thyroid gland of certain animals, as the sheep, hog, and ox. When this treatment is stopped the symptoms return. It would thus appear that the functions of the internal secretion of the thyroid may be fulfilled by furnishing the body with the constituents of the thyroid gland from another animal. The separation of the various chemical constituents briefly described above suggested the possibility of determining which constituents controlled the various symptoms occurring in cases of thyroid deficiency. The first step in the method of separation of the constituents results in two solutions. One of these contains about 60 per cent. of the total iodine and 9 per cent. of the nitrogen. This is designated "Solution A." The other, called "Solution B," contains 40 per cent. of the total iodine and 91 per cent. of the nitrogen. In order to establish the physiological activity of these solutions, experiments were carried out, first upon dogs, and then with cases of thyroid deficiency. The number of cases treated is insufficient to establish completely the physiological properties of these solutions, but the results based upon a series of experiments with two dogs extending over four months, with two typical cases of myxedema, and with three cretins, are as follows: Solution A was found: (1) to affect the nitrogen metabolism and hence the body weight and temperature; (2) to produce tachycardia; (3) to cause nervousness and tremor; (4) to relieve pain and great weakness felt in the back and certain sensations of cold felt on the head.


The invention provides a method for extracting chitin from dried shrimp shells and belongs to the technical field of comprehensive utilization of aquatic product processing wastes. In order to solve the problem of difficulty in treatment of a large amount of manganese-containing wastewater generated in decolorizing with potassium permanganate during the conventional chitin extraction process, small-molecule organic acid decolorization is applied in extraction of chitin. The method comprises the following steps: firstly roughly crushing the dried shrimp shells, carrying out enzymatic hydrolysis on crushed dried shrimp shells with a protease, deeply cleaning, adding hydrochloric acid for decalcification and then deproteinizing with a potassium hydroxide solution, finally decolorizing with small-molecule organic acid to obtain a solid and cleaning the solid to obtain decolorized chitin. When decolorization is carried out in the method, the molecular chain of chitin cannot be destroyed, the pollution is small and after the decolorization is carried out with the small-molecule organic acid and waste acid obtained by the solid-liquid separation is subjected to reduced pressure distillation and can be recycled for decolorization.


Prior research shows conflicting results about the role of institutional owners on financial restatement fraud. One potential reason for the equivocal results may be the failure of prior studies to...


ABSTRACT
Learning strategies or commonly known as learning approaches are the intentions and motivations of individuals and the use of appropriate strategies when dealing with the learning environment. In general, learning strategies can be divided into two categories, namely a deep approach and a surface approach. A deep approach is characterized by a desire to understand the material so as to produce good quality learning outcomes. A student who uses an in-depth approach has the intention to understand learning material and is motivated by an interest in learning material. Conversely, a surface approach is characterized by a desire to achieve minimal results with minimal effort resulting in low quality learning outcomes. The superficial approach is related to various forms of rote learning, with fear of failure as the dominant motivation. Therefore, the learning approach can influence learning outcomes. One of the learning outcomes assessed is the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) Student Competency Test for Doctor Professional Programs (UKMPPD). The purpose of this study is to look at the effect of the learning strategies and OSCE UKMPPD graduation period of May 2018 and August 2018 in medical profession students of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences University of Jambi (FKIK UNJA). The research method is descriptive analytic with cross-sectional approach. The population is FKIK  UNJA medical profession students who participated in the OSCE UKMPPD for the period of May 2018 and August 2018 as many as 59 students .The sample is the entire population (total sampling). Student learning approach data obtained by using the questionnaire "Revised Study Process Questionnaire 2 Factors (R-SPQ-F2). UKMPPD OSCE graduation data is the official UKMPPD graduation data issued by the UKMPPD national committee. The test used to see the effect is a regression test, the most learning approach is deep approach 50.85% % and obtained p <0.05, which indicates there is an influence between the learning strategies with OSCE UKMPPD graduation.
Keywords: OSCE, UKMPPD, Medical Student
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Strategi pembelajaran atau yang biasa dikenal sebagai pendekatan belajar merupakan intensi dan motivasi individu serta penggunaan strategi yang sesuai ketika menghadapi lingkungan pembelajaran. Secara umum, strategi  pembelajaran dapat dibagi menjadi dua kategori yaitu pendekatan mendalam (deep approach) dan pendekatan dangkal (surface approach).Pendekatan mendalam ditandai dengan keinginan untuk memahami materi sehingga menghasilkan kualitas hasil belajar yang baik. Seorang mahasiswa yang menggunakan pendekatan mendalam memiliki niat untuk memahami materi pembelajaran dan dimotivasi oleh ketertarikan pada materi pembelajaran. Sebaliknya, pendekatan dangkal ditandai dengan keinginan untuk mencapai hasil minimal dengan usaha minimal sehingga menghasilkan kualitas hasil belajar yang rendah. Pendekatan dangkal terkait dengan berbagai bentuk pembelajaran hafalan, dengan rasa takut akan kegagalan sebagai motivasi dominan.Oleh karena itu, pendekatan belajar dapat mempengaruhi hasil belajar. Salah satu hasil belajar yang dinilai adalah Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) Uji Kompetensi Mahasiswa Program Profesi Dokter (UKMPPD). Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk melihat pengaruh pendekatan belajar dan kelulusan OSCE UKMPPD periode Mei 2018 dan Agustus 2018 mahasiswa profesi dokter Fakultas Kedokteran dan Ilmu Kesehatan Universitas Jambi (FKIK UNJA). Metode penelitian adalah deskriptif analitik dengan pendekatan cross-sectional. Populasi adalah mahasiswa profesi dokter FKIK UNJA yang mengikuti OSCE UKMPPD periode Mei 2018 dan Agustus 2018 sebanyak 59  orang. Sampel adalah seluruh populasi (total sampling). Data pendekatan belajar mahasiswa didapatkan dengan menggunakan kuesioner "Revised Study Process Questionnaire 2 Factors (R-SPQ-F2). Data kelulusan OSCE UKMPPD adalah data resmi kelulusan UKMPPD yang dikeluarkan oleh panitia nasional UKMPPD. Uji yang digunakan untuk melihat pengaruh adalah uji regresi, Pendekatan belajar yang terbanyak adalah 50.85% % dan didapatkan p< 0,05, yang menandakan ada pengaruh antara pendekatan belajar dengan kelulusan OSCE UKMPPD.
Kata Kunci :OSCE, UKMPPD, Mahasiswa Kedokteran


Background Women with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are at risk of certain pregnancy outcomes such as preterm delivery, infants small for gestational age (SGA), and Cesarean delivery. Whether regional variation in these outcomes exists remains unknown. We aimed to assess the geographical variation in these pregnancy outcomes in women with IBD. Methods All pregnancies in women with and without IBD (2002-2013) were identified using Ontario health administrative datasets. Geographical variation in preterm delivery, infants SGA, and Cesarean delivery was assessed using age-adjusted odds ratios (aOR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) comparing women with and without IBD, stratified by Ontario's 14 health-service regions, known as Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs). Results 1621 women with IBD (2466 pregnancies) and 855,425 women without IBD (1,280,493 pregnancies) were included. Women with IBD were more likely to have preterm delivery (aOR 1.56, 95% CI, 1.35–1.79), infants SGA (aOR 1.52, 95% CI, 1.23–1.88), and Cesarean section (aOR 1.34, 95% CI, 1.22–1.49). Significant geographical variation in these outcomes was detected, with the highest rates observed in the most northern rural areas (aOR for preterm delivery 2.78 (95% CI, 1.03–7.46), aOR for SGA 5.66 (95% CI, 1.67–19.14), and aOR for Cesarean delivery 2.48 (95% CI, 1.11–5.55)). There were no differences in these outcomes in women with and without IBD in more central urban LHINs. Conclusion Significant regional variation was detected in rates of adverse pregnancy outcomes and Cesarean delivery in women with IBD. Further study is required to determine specific reasons for this variation.


Superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) is an important device in renewable systems. It can improve the power supply quality and enhance the stability and reliability of power system. This work will investigate the manufacturing and operating reliability and quality of SMES based on a benchmark problem so as to improve its industry applications. Robust design optimization based on a technique called design for Six-Sigma is presented to investigate the above problem. Meanwhile, multilevel optimization method is employed to reduce the computation cost of finite element analysis due to high-dimensional parameters. As shown, the reliability and quality of the SMES after robust optimization have been improved significantly.


Multiphoton ionization (MPI) mass spectra of n-C3H7I and i-C3H7I are obtained using a time-of-flight mass spectrometer at 532 nm. No parent ions are observed in MPI of both isomers. N-propyl cation dissociates more extensively than isopropyl cation. The C2H5+ (M/Z = 29) ion is observed instead of C2H4+ (M/Z = 28) ion in MPI of n-C3H7I, in contrast to i-C3H7I. It is found that parent molecules are first two-photon resonantly excited to A-band, then go through dissociation. Fragment ions are produced by ionization and dissociation of neutral fragments. We present directly the dissociation pathways of n-propyl cation according to the results proposed by Levine using maximum entropy formalism. Moreover, those of isopropyl cation are discussed in this paper through branching ratio analyses.


In cloud environment, large amount of data stored in the server. To maintain the efficiency of those data needs recovery services. In cloud computing large amount of private data stored on the main cloud. Therefore the necessity of the recovery services growing day- by -day and it requires a development of an efficient and effective data recovery service technique. The purpose of the recovery technique is to help user to collect information from any backup server when the server fails to provide the data to the user. There are lots of recovery mechanisms are used to recover the data in the cloud such as HSDRT, ERGOT, LINUX BOX, PCS, COLD and COLD/HOT backup strategy. But there are some limitations in those techniques such as implementation complexity, security issues and retrieval time is high. Hence, propose a smart data backup algorithm called seed block algorithm. The objective of proposed SBA is to recover the files in case of cloud get destroyed or file may be deleted from the cloud. The major advantage of SBA is to take minimum time for the recovery process.


Zika virus is considered an emerging infectious disease with the potential to spread to new areas where the Aedes mosquito vector is present. Since the start of Zika epidemic this year, till date there are more than 44 countries with active Zika virus transmission. The virus can also be transmitted by substances of human origin from donors after clinical recovery from Zika virus disease due to possible prolonged viraemia or a persistence of the virus in semen after viraemia has cleared. Zika virus infection has been associated with neurological anomalies especially Guillain- Barre syndrome which has symptoms like weakness of the arms and legs that is usually the same on both sides of the body. Recently after careful review of the existing evidence the scientists at CDC concluded that Zika virus causes Microcephaly a condition in which the size of baby's brain and head is smaller than the normally expected. Apart from that there may be other severe brain defects in the new born baby. Till date there are no FDA approved vaccines or treatments for Zika at this time and recently FDA approved the Focus Diagnostics, Inc.'s Zika Virus RNA Qualitative Real-Time TR-PCR test for detection in emergencies. The World Health Organization has forecast that the smaller Caribbean economies would be losing anywhere from 1 to 2 percent of their GDP to the Zika virus in the coming months. The World Bank estimates figures that Zika has already cost the region a total of $3.5 billion USD or approximately 0.06 percent of the GDP of the Latin American and the Caribbean region. For planning more effective disease control and prevention activities for Zika fever there is great need for a functional and intensified Public Health Surveillance system Preparedness for the prevention and control of Zika virus infection will require capacities and capabilities for early detection, response and communication.


The invention relates to a nut (3) for a turbomachine having a symmetry of revolution about a reference axis (4), the nut (3) having notches (8, 8a) extending along the reference axis (4), each notch (8, 8a) having sidewalls (13) extending along the reference axis (4), the nut (3) having protection means (11) against wear recesses, the protective means comprising at least one anti-wear insert (12) inserted in at least one of the notches (8a) of the nut (3) so as to cover at least the side walls (13) of said notch ( 8a).


The wave functions for propagation of rotationally symmetric modes in circular gyrotropic waveguides with azimuthal magnetisation (the complex Kummer and Tricomi confluent hypergeometric functions) are studied analytically and numerically. Based on specially compiled tables, families of curves are presented, illustrating the behaviour of both higher transcendental functions. The analysis allows a comprehensive treatment of closed and opened circular guiding structures with radially stratified gyrotropic layers, magnetised azimuthally.


Tired of quantum electrodynamics, Brillouin zones, Regge poles? Try this old, unsolved problem in dynamics: How does a bike work?


The diode-end-pumped Yb:YAG ceramic tunable laser with the maximum output power of 6.8 W and with the slope efficiency of 72% was demonstrated. The tunable range of 118.3 nm from 992.5 to 1110.8 was obtained.


A new strategy for the formation of DNA patterns on thin gold surfaces together with DNA hybridization is described. The formation and characterization of the oligonucleotide array is based on a combination of an electrochemical and an optical technique: scanning electrochemical microscopy and surface plasmon resonance imaging (SECM/SPR-i). The DNA array is formed through electropolymerization of a mixture of pyrrole and pyrrole bearing covalently linked oligonucleotides probes using SECM. SPR-i as well as fluorescence imaging are used to quantify DNA hybridization on these multi-parametric interfaces. The capability of scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) to pattern gold surfaces with density gradients of oligonucleotides attached to the gold surfaces is further demonstrated. These density gradients result from the progressive increase in the movement of the x-axis while applying continuous potential pulses to the gold surface. Surface plasmon resonance imaging is used to detect the deposition step, while fluorescence imaging is employed to visualize the deposited oligonucleotide density gradient.


The ambiguity scope of "V+一下"is when "V"is bounded verb, the reason of ambiguity is that "V+一下" has two sides of grammar functions:one is calculating bounded verb's number of time, another is saliencing a short time persistence and other feature of bounded verb.


A novel solid-phase microextraction (SPME) fiber was prepared by coating multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWCNTs) on a stainless steel wire, and its characteristics were studied. To evaluate the MWCNTs coating, the fiber was used for the extraction of some organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) from water samples by Headspace SPME (HS-SPME) mode. Potential factors affecting the extraction efficiency such as extraction time, extraction temperature, agitation, ionic strength, desorption temperature, and time were also optimized. Several experiments were carried out by water spiked with target compounds to evaluate the analytical characteristics of the proposed method under optimized conditions. The linearity was from 0.1 to 10 ug/L with the linear correlation coefficients (r) ranging from 0.9956 to 0.9995. The limits of detection (LOD, S/N = 3) for these pesticides were between 0.43 and 2.13 ng/L and the precision (RSD, n = 5) was 2.53–12.25%. When this method was applied for the spiked real river sample, the relative recoveries ranged from 72.4% to 134.7% for the tested OCPs.


The ATLAS experiment will rely on Ethernet networks for several purposes. A control network will provide infrastructure and operational services, and two dedicated data networks will be used exclusively for transferring the event data within the High Level Trigger and Data Acquisition system. This article presents the networking architecture solution for the whole ATLAS TDAQ and illustrates sample performance evaluation results, meant to validate the design concepts. INTRODUCTION The ATLAS TDAQ (Trigger and Data Acquisition) system uses a three layer trigger to reduce the initial 40 MHz event rate to 200 Hz, before transferring the event data to mass storage. The typical event size is 1.5 Mbyte. While the first level trigger is constructed in dedicated hardware, the second and third level triggers are implemented using distributed systems built of a large number of interconnected PCs. Fig. 1 illustrates the block diagram of the TDAQ system. The events validated by the first level trigger are pushed at 100 kHz into≈ 1600 read-out buffers (ROBs) distributed over≈ 150 ROS (Read-Out System) PCs. The second level trigger analysis task is distributed over approx 500 L2PUs which use an RoI based mechanism to retrieve from the ROSs and analyze the meaningful event data (typically 2% of the entire event). Following a level two accept (approx 3.5 kHz), an event builder system distributed over approximately 100 SFIs (Sub Farm Inputs) is used to gather the scattered event data from all ROSs. A few supervision applications (SVs) perform the event information book-keeping and load balance the tasks on the components of the L2 (level two trigger) and EB (event builder) sub-systems. The SFIs buffer the events and provide them further to the third level trigger (also denoted as Event Filter – EF) on demand. Approximately 1600 Event Filter processors (EFPs) perform the last and most thorough step of the trigger analysis. The EF validated events are temporarily stored on a handful of SFOs (Sub-Farm Outputs) and finally sent to mass storage at approximately 200 Hz. The trigger and data acquisition system relies directly on two dedicated "data" networks (see Fig. 1): the FrontEnd network(used for the ROS, L2 and EB subsystems interconnection) and theBackEnd network(provides the ∗Also affiliated with "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania FrontEnd Network Detector buffers


A method comprising: receiving a data frame; characterized in that: if the received data frame causes a message management connectivity defect, CFM, exceeding a size of data unit is 5 high rvice, MSDUs, and is set to a banderole truncation is true, truncating the data frame and encapsulating the remaining portions in a message management connectivity defect, CFM; otherwise, dividing the data frame into two smaller frames and those two smaller encapsulate frames by two CFM messages separated.


Objective:To investigate the effect of Sandwich method by using local autologous bone powder to repair bone defect around dental implants.Methods:48 patients with labial wall bone defect are randomly divided into two groups,a total of 82 implants are placed.The mixture method is used by one group with 22 patients 39 implants.The autologous bone is mixed with Bio-Oss bone powder as the rate of 1:1 and is used to repair the labial wall bone defect.The sandwich method is taken by another group with 26 patients 43 implants.In this group,some autologous bone powder is scraped aroud the area of bone defect and laid on the exposed implant surface,then Bio-Oss powder is placed and Bio-Gide is covered.At last the Operative incision is well sutured.Porcelain crowns are placed properly after 6 months,and the effect is evaluated by chief complaints of patients,clinical and radiological examination for an average of 24 months.Results:All implants are stable in both two groups.The implant survival rate is 100%.There is no significant difference between the two groups in perio-implant gingival bleeding index,probing depth,radiological examination results and bone resorption.Conclusion:Sandwich method by using local autologous bone powder is very effective for the patients with bone defect,the perfect short-term effects are obtained and long-term effects need to be followed up.


Interaction of Watson−Crick adenine−thymine (AT) and guanine−cytosine (GC) base pairs with various metal (M) cations (Mg2+, ..., Hg2+) were studied by nonempirical ab initio methods with inclusion of correlation energy. Cations were allowed to interact with the N7 nitrogen of adenine and the N7 and O6 atoms of guanine. All of the cations were described by Christiansen's average relativistic effective potentials using the DZ+P basis set, while the 6-31G** basis set was used for the elements of base pairs. Disruption of the adenine−thymine as well as guanine−cytosine pairs in the presence of all studied cations is energetically more demanding than that for isolated base pairs; the addition stabilization of the base pair is about 100% for complexes with dication. The interaction is highly nonadditive. The three-body term is for the MGC complex considerably larger than that for MAT; the intercomplex charge transfer is also much larger for the former complex.


ackNoWlEDgMENts: This article draws extensively from the report Tenure Denied: Cases of Sex Discrimination in Academia published by the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation (2004) The report was written by Leslie Annexstein, Catherine Hill and Elena Silva based on research conducted by Pamela Haag. Copies of the full report as well as information about the AAUW Educational Foundation and its Legal Advocacy Fund (LAF) are available at www.aauw.org.


This proceeding contains papers on advanced electronic packaging materials. Included are the following topics: Optoelectronics, Polymers, Composites, Aluminum Nitride, and Metallization.


Trials where participants are allocated in groups or clusters rather than as individuals must be analyzed differently from trials where randomisation is individual. I illustrate several possible approaches to analysis using data from a randomised trial of incentives in adult literacy education. These include the incorrect approach of ignoring clustering, which is compared with better methods of analysis using summary statistics or robust standard errors. I describe adjustment for an individual level covariate using these methods. I estimate the intracluster correlation coefficient (ICC) and design effect and show how these can be used to modify the results of an analysis ignoring the clustering. I then describe the use of multilevel modelling and generalised estimating equations. I conclude that any method which takes clustering into account is preferable to ignoring it.


This paper includes the concept and development of emoticons in the instant messaging(IM) network environment in the internet era.The investigation on the emoticons indicated that the importance of emoticons increases with the growing individual demands of internet users.It is illustrated that emoticons would bring great commercial value,due to the IM platform enhancement and also the self-evolution of the emoticons.Therefore,in this study,the importance and value of emoticon design of commercial promotion were investigated,providing designers and businesses in this area with ideas for further exploration.


BACKGROUND: Occlusion is one of the most important aspects of dentistry. Dental occlusion differs among individuals. Subsequently, realizing the correct physiological occlusion is essential for the complex functioning of the stomatognathic system during the mouth prosthodontics rehabilitation.
AIM: The purpose of this review paper is to provide an overview of the T-Scan system over its utility in fixed restorations occlusal analysis.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: An electronic search was performed through PubMed, MEDLINE, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. The inclusion criteria for selection were articles reporting the occlusion analysis using articulating paper as a conventional method, and occlusion analysis using T-Scan III digital electronic system to detect contact points between the mandibular and maxillary teeth.
RESULTS: The electronic search identified 70 titles. Authors ended up with eight studies which have been divided into two tables. The first table is described four studies which present a comparison between the T-Scan III electronic system and articulating paper. The second table is described 4 studies which present occlusal analysis using the T-Scan III electronic system.
CONCLUSION: Based on the published literature, this review has highlighted some advantages of the T-Scan electronic system compared to articulating paper. The studies showed that the T-Scan computerized occlusal analysis which can provide quantifiable occlusal force and timing data that will make it possible to better protect brittle dental ceramic, and most importantly, to improve the quality of patient's lives with improved bite comfort and chewing function.


The paper is concerned with fuel droplet breakup in liquid-fuel Pulse Detonation Engines (PDE). Of particular interest is a high Mach, low Weber number regime that results from the microscopic size of fuel droplets in transonic and supersonic gas flow in detonation engines. We present a new experimental approach to enable characterization of droplet breakup in this novel regime. It is based on a scaling rationale that employs the low density of rarefied gas in experiments to compensate for the microscopic size of fuel droplets in combustors. The paper gives a description of the experimental facility and discusses preliminary results.


Objective To explore teaching effect of comprehensive teaching mode of PBL combined with CBL in ophthalmologic cataract clinical teaching.Methods 2008 grade clinical majors (n =80) in class 1 as experimental group were taught by comprehensive teaching mode of PBL combined with CBL while those (n =83) in class 2 as control group were taught by traditional LBL teaching mode.After the courses,the teaching effects of two methods were compared.SPSS 11.5 software was used for statistical analysis,x2 test for satisfaction survey and t-test for theoretical examination scores.The test level is α =0.05.Results There were significant differences between experimental group and control group in improving comprehensive quality and developing clinical thinking.Scores of understanding knowledge,case analysis and total scores of experimental group were higher than those of control group (all P < 0.05).Conclusions Comprehensive teaching mode may improve the teaching effect of cataract clinical teaching,but it need to be explored and improved continually in practice.

Key words:
Problem-based learning;  Case-based learning;  Comprehensive teaching;  Cataract ;  Clinical teaching


We present a design for cascade polymer production by exploiting the construction of membrane reactors coupling with conjugated network hollow microspheres as suspended catalysts to combine aqueous photopolymerization and membrane separation process.


Vector-boson scattering (VBS) processes probe the innermost structure of electroweak interactions in the Standard Model, and provide a unique sensitivity for new physics phenomena affecting the gauge sector. In this review, we report on the salient aspects of this class of processes, both from the theory and experimental point of view. We start by discussing recent achievements relevant for their theoretical description, some of which have set important milestones in improving the precision and accuracy of the corresponding simulations. We continue by covering the development of experimental techniques aimed at detecting these rare processes and improving the signal sensitivity over large backgrounds. We then summarise the details of the most relevant VBS signatures and review the related measurements available to date, along with their comparison with Standard-Model predictions. We conclude by discussing the perspective at the upcoming Large Hadron Collider runs and at future hadron facilities. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com 1 ar X iv :2 10 2. 10 99 1v 2 [ he pph ] 1 A pr 2 02 1


This paper details the development of novel power-divider T junction circuits which have unique prescribed transmission characteristics. Subsequent to a description of the design technique, the paper describes experimental results obtained on a series of fabricated circuit designs. These circuits were fabricated on microstrip material having a relative dielectric of 2.17, and substrate thickness of 20 mils. The measured results are shown to compare well with computer simulations over a frequency range from 50 MHz to 8 GHz.


This paper presents iterative learning control (ILC) based on two-dimensional (2D) system theory for singular linear continuous-time systems. It is shown that the singular 2D linear continuous-discrete Roesser's model can be applied to describe the ILC process of singular linear continuous-time systems. Necessary and sufficient conditions are given for impulse-free convergence of the proposed ILC rules. Eventually, two numerical examples are given in order to show the results investigated.


In this article, we investigated an embedded energy harvester to translate the kinetic energy of arm swing into electricity for powering smart watch and wristband. The embedded energy harvester integrates coaxially arranged motion capture unit, magnetic frequency-up converter, and electromagnetic transducer-based power generation unit to achieve high electricity production and power density. System model is built based on analytical and finite element method to estimate the performances and optimize the coils' parameters. To experimentally validate the performance of the embedded energy harvester, a highly compact prototype is fabricated and tested under pseudowalking excitation. The results show that the maximum power of 1.74 mW and power density of 346.61 μW/cm3 at an excitation frequency of 0.65 Hz can be achieved by this device, which demonstrates great potential in realizing self-powered purpose for smart watch and wristband. Compared with the previous works, the proposed energy harvester accomplishes tremendous improvement both in power output and power density. To provide design guideline for various wearable devices, the constructed model is used to investigate the effects of inertial weight and speed transmission ratio on the power output and power density.


A deliberate use of a trope or figure of thought which involves turns or conversions in thinking helps disrupt and (re)form the logic of dichotomies. This thesis works on the premise that metaphorical logic offers an alternative methodology to ways of thinking about the representation of the trauma of racism in fiction. It is a feminist work that aims to challenge the invisible normativity of whiteness that still dominates the field of literary criticism. The conceptual metaphor is the knot which suggests the interwoven network of relational politics and primarily corresponds to a figural representation of the mother-daughter connection, one of the most ambivalent of all woman-to-woman relationships. This configuration aims to suggest both the dense complexity and circuitry of the motherdaughter dyad, which comprises separate subjectivities that are loosely tied together, bodily and psychically, interwoven and entangled with one another, joined but separate, the same and other, ambivalently fused by a sense of difference and commonality. Ambivalence itself is a relational state. However, it is usually conceived of as a negative, restrictive emotion that paralyses and incapacitates. This thesis will present the argument that ambivalence is an unrecognised dynamic in feminist theory, and one that provides a way of seeing contradictions, tensions and differences as creative strengths. Ambivalence also plays a prominent role in m y unravelling of white-dominated trauma theory, a line of thinking which tends towards ahistorical and psychoanalytic readings that result in excising both the historically specificity of racism and its material and psychic effects. This theoretical unravelling concentrates on close readings of three historically situated literary texts: Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy and Toni Morrison's Sula. The first chapter on Rhys's novel will explore the problematics of trauma inherent in the possibilities of its use as an evasive covering over of social injustice. This can occur if trauma is used as a trope to engender empathy through vicarious victimhood. The second chapter focuses on Kincaid's imaginative reconfiguring of the complexities of the white literary echo that seduces many of those educated within the British imperial system through the pleasure of the text of the Western literary canon in ways that obfuscate the historical traumas of AfricanCaribbeans. The final chapter, on Morrison's Sula exposes the intense psychic suffering that can result from the trauma of racism that operate through the pernicious ideologies of whiteness. By explicating the poetics and politics of Morrison's novel, this last section argues for the necessity of a culturally cogniscant reading of metaphor that can transform white domination of literary criticism.


This paper presents a brief review of the role of computers in engineering problems where dynamics and transient behaviour are of major importance. The objective is both to indicate the type of problems where computational technique is valuable as an engineering aid, and to suggest some of the pitfalls of inexpert use of computers. Specific examples are drawn from electric power system technology, but the main points made in the paper are common to all branches of engineering. The first section gives a brief sketch of the history of computer applications in engineering dynamical analysis. The second section describes some selected examples of the use of computers in dynamics problems, and the third suggests some guides on topics relevant to the use of such computer techniques. Computer equipment characteristics are not discussed; it is simply noted that computer characteristics are of major importance, and that more than a few failures of computer applications in dynamical problems have been the result of attempting to use an inappropriate computer.


The effects of incorporating digital technology into the design of aircraft on the airworthiness criteria and certification procedures for aircraft are investigated. FAA research programs aimed at providing data for the functional assessment of aircraft which use digital systems for avionics and flight control functions are discussed. The need to establish testing, assurance assessment, and configuration management technologies to insure the reliability of digital systems is discussed; consideration is given to design verification, system performance/robustness, and validation technology.


The current progress in the understanding of depression has lately shifted from the classical monoaminergic hypothesis to other mechanisms and molecules, which seem to be involved in depression, including the inflammation theory, immunological aspects, hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis, oxidative stress status and lately oxytocin. Thus, the importance of oxytocin in psychiatry is increasing and many recent studies have been discussing the possible relevance of oxytocin in most of the psychiatric disorders, including depression. Furthermore, the latest studies brought to attention the notion that oxytocin might be involved in many mechanisms of importance in depressive disorders. These include its solid connections both with neurotransmitters and the clinical markers relevant for depression, such as affected sleep and sexual functions, appetite loss, cognitive impairment or suicidal behavior. In this context, the present paper reviews the current knowledge on the connection between oxytocin and depression.


Kenyan Universities like others globally have witnessed significant changes in the last decade of the twentieth century in terms of enrolment, composition of students, programs and modes of learning As part of this process of expansion and heterogenization, new groups of students who, for a complex range of social, economic and cultural reasons were traditionally excluded from or underrepresented in higher education, have come to participate in higher education in increasing numbers. Kenyan Universities are not exempt from this influx by adult learners. In response to the changing market place, University of Nairobi has expanded its programmes in answer to the demand and many staffs have joined en mass in most of these programs for various reasons. As more and more adults are mobilized to learn a new "Learning Age" dawn is breaking which engages, the researcher to revisit the frequently asked question, namely 'What motivates adults to take part in and complete courses in continuing education and competence development?' The present research is designed to face issues of motivation within the realm of adult education and learning in a theoretical and empirical mode. A case study of University of Nairobi library staff facilitated a re- look at the factors that motivate adults to learn. The study targeted staffs that recently had gone back to study. Data for this research was collected using questionnaires and interview schedule. Items and questions covered full range of the issues being measured. A total of 30 members out of 170 were interviewed. The six motivational factors identified by Morstain and Smart (1974) were used in the study. Descriptive statistics were used to identify the proportions of motivational factors utilizing the six motivational factors as the dependent variables, with age, gender, entry qualification and academic qualification as the independent


A 1986 case-series report described 7 California women who developed functional ovarian cysts while taking a variety of biphasic or triphasic oral contraceptives. This report was nonanalytic had no comparison studies or control groups and therefore did not contain the kind of data from which to make inferences about the safety of phasic contraceptive pills. That monophasic combination oral contraceptives reduce the risk of cyst formation has been shown by numerous studies. Studies have also shown that the progestin-only "mini-pills" are associated with functional ovarian cysts because ovulation is not reliably suppressed with progestin-only pills. Small studies in England and the Netherlands using ultrasonography have shown ovarian activity with low-dose phasic formulations. Forgetting to take 1 or 2 pills allows "escape" ovulation to occur and the role of compliance in the development of ovarian cysts has not been adequately addressed. In any event the risk of functional cysts is far outweighed by the benefits or oral contraceptives.


The mechanism of how lateral forces can produce artifacts in topographical images obtained by scanning force microscopy is analyzed theoretically. It is shown that due to the detailed elastic behavior of the force sensing cantilever, a scanning force microscope based on the light beam deflection method is particularly subject to such artifacts. They are produced by lateral forces, arising not only from friction but also from the topography itself. Consequently, the images are modified by a self‐distortion of the topography. The various effects contributing to the image contrast are demonstrated experimentally by images of a tribologically heterogeneous sample. The topographical contrast is compared with lateral force images. A quantitative analysis shows that both friction‐induced and topography‐induced topographical artifacts can be described reasonably well by the theoretical formulas.


In January 1998, SRL began analysis on a prospective variant to the Bussard Ramscoop. Co-Linear deuterium Propulsion provides all the same novelties—propulsion without stored propellant mass, velocities of up to 1/2 light, and on-board energy generation. Unlike Bussard's system, all CDP components are accessible technology; the technology is either already here, or it's within 25 years of reach. Whereas a key element of the Interstellar Ram is the ramscoop proper (at nearly 50 years away in availability), all CDP elements are within twenty years of fruition. The results of our preliminary research are presented below.


Medical decision making is daunting to physicians of its unclear benefits for improving patient care while such decisions are evidence based and also are from the social capital of resources of the advises shared between their peers. Past scholars have reported great deal of medical errors and misdiagnoses caused by physicians: a situation that is degrading healthcare quality. It is not surprising why past research also stressed on the importance to empirically explore the effect of physicians' virtual community on their medical decision making quality. Virtual communities are a promising initiative in the healthcare sector. This paper describes how the participation of VC members is possible through the application of the Social Capital Theory's three dimensions in order to assess the effectiveness of physicians' virtual community so they can make better quality of medical decisions. Such is depicted in this paper's conceptual model. The model was empirically tested for its validity and reliability using an adapted survey for which data was collected from 204 SurveyMonkey virtual community physician members. The empirical evidence supports the hypothesis of the conceptual model through physicians' identification and shared vision, i.e. two pre-requisites for medical DM.


Summary Forest site productivity maps can be of great help for sustainable forest management. Site productivity maps, commonly representing the site index (SI) of a specific tree species, allow foresters to forecast wood production over the entire area of interest and hence select the most appropriate location for establishing a particular tree species mix. In many situations, forest SI cannot be directly measured from the dominant height and age of a stand and must therefore be directly estimated from relevant local site factors related to climate, topography and/or soil (attribute-based approach). Alternatively, estimations can also be made based on site information available for nearby locations (location-based approach). Also both approaches can be combined (hybrid approach). Since there is no straightforward procedure for selecting the most appropriate approach, the performance of five regionalization techniques was compared for predictive mapping of the SI of two important tree species in the temperate lowland region of Flanders (Belgium): one location-based technique (ordinary kriging), one attribute-based technique (regression) and three hybrid techniques (geomatch-ing, ordinary co-kriging and regression kriging). From the findings of this case study, it cannot be concluded that one technique outperforms the others under all circumstances, but it to build a decision tree providing guidance in selecting an appropriate SI mapping technique depending on the availability and characteristics of the data. Summary The aim of this study was to assess the effect of cytokinins not commonly used for shoot induction from zygotic embryos of Pinus radiata D. Don. The influence of in vitro shoot and root induction treatments on the subsequent ex vitro development of the regenerated plants was also tested. Embryos were cultured with benzyladenine (BA), thidiazuron (T) and two cytokinins not previously assayed in radiata pine organogenesis ( meta -topolin (m-T) and zeatin (Z)) in a range of concentrations and induction periods. Shoot induction treatments were assayed in seeds from different geographical origins to obtain wider conclusions. We analysed the effect of these cytokinin treatments on in vitro rooting with different auxins ((indole-3-butyric acid (IBA) and 1-naphtalene acetic acid (NAA)) and the traditionally used mixture. After in vitro rooting, the plantlets were acclimatized and their ex vitro behaviour was evaluated. Shoot induction treatments with 1 μ M BA for 2 weeks, 4.4 μ M BA for 3 weeks or 1 μ M Z for 3 weeks were more effective than the other treatments. An interaction between in vitro shoot and root induction treatments was observed. IBA was more efficient for plant production because the explants rooted in this auxin had better survival rates in the greenhouse.


[Purpose] This study investigated the effects of passive stretching (STR) and strain counter-strain (SCS) techniques in subjects with myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) as measured by a visual analogue scale (VAS), pressure pain threshold (PPT), displacement pain threshold (DPT), active range of motion (AROM), and patients perception of change (PPC). [Subjects] Twenty volunteers with active MPS in the upper trapezius muscle participated in the study. [Methods] The subjects were randomly allocated to either a STR or SCS treatment group. Evaluations were performed at before, immediately, one hour, and one day after treatment. [Results] No significant difference between groups were found. However, there was a significant improvement of VAS an hour after SCS treatment. The improvement seemed to be maintained after treatment. The STR group showed a significant decrease of DPT between immediately and a day after treatment, indicating less tissue compliance. [Conclusion] The SCS treatment helps relieve the pain one hour after treatment in subjects with active MPS.


Based on a practical somaesthetics framework emphasizing the values of self experiences, this paper presents the design rationale of a responsive dress, Laughing Dress, which employs laughter as an agent to highlight the unobvious and unspoken social distance between strangers and inverting our cultural notion of public selfcontainment. The proposed wearable dress is used to investigate the concept, "disruption for reformation". Throughout the design process, the prototype addressed the research question, "Can exposing self-representations through synthetic sound as inner voice and rhythmic light as somatic energy rattle and provoke reposition of us against existing social norms of private-public space?" The research instrument aims to break personal boundaries by magnifying wearer's self-presence, enticing a psychophysiological mirroring of laughter in another entity, and evoking a sense of curiosity through a display of visual aesthetics. The unusual display and magnification of self-presence within public setting contributes to disruption of social expectation on selfcontainment in public, reflection upon the organic form of human-to-human interaction, and initiation to realign our behaviour.


Purpose: To identify some risk factors for hospital infections at Emergency Department of Ninh Binh Obstetrics and Pediatrics Hospital in 2018-2019. Method: A prospective cohort study was conducted. Results: Malnutrition grade II or higher, PRISM > 10, ≥ 3 invasive intervention, use of H2-receptor antagonists and intravenous feeding were risk factors for nosocomial infections. Endotracheal intubation, intubation for > 5 days, re-intubation, and aspiration of vomit were risk factors for nosocomial pneumonia. Intravenous exposure, 3 or more IV lines, and central venous catheterization were risk factors for sepsis. Gastrointestinal surgery, surgery time > 2 hours, postoperative drainage, drainage time > 5 days and no prophylactic antibiotics were risk factors for wound infection. Insert urinary catheter and urinary retention > 3 days were risk factors for urinary tract infections. Conclusion: Nosocomial infections with grade II or higher malnutrition and 3 invasive interventions, the use of H2-receptor resistance and intravenous nutrition associated with nosocomial infections. Pneumonia, urinary tract infections, and sepsis are high risk factors for nosocomial infections.


This note gives a least-squares approach for estimating the constant causative matrix that determines a sequence of transition-probability or predisposition matrices. The method is extremely simple computationally with estimates satisfying all a priori restrictions. An extension to higher order models is discussed.


Through the engineering examples,this paper introduces the cantilever hoisting method of the suspension crane of the steel pipe arched bridge and some technical points of the line shape control and the measurement of the arch sections, and expounds some problems such as the erection of the arch sections, the calculation of the coordinate parameters, and the calculation of the force of the buckle cable.


The symbionts of marine shipworms provide a rich reservoir of potential carbohydrate-active enzymes. Here, the 1.5 Å resolution three-dimensional structure of a T. turnerae GH8 xylanase is revealed and its potential in biomass degradation is highlighted.


Regular Beta function gives a uniform expression of gray image contrast transform functions.But the two parameters of Beta function relate to specific images and they are difficult to find reasonable parameter values.This paper analyzed the traditional PSO algorithm and proposed a g-l-PSO algorithm.Using the local optimal solution for the population genetic and the variation was based on the global optimal solution.The Beta function parameters were determined g-l-PSO through the fitness assessment.This work can obtain the most suitable parameter values for current image.Three typical images enhancing experiments show that this approach is feasible.


In this paper, the outputs of a nonlinear system are divided into two groups: outputs of sensors which are protected, and outputs of sensors which are prone to get attacked. A higher-order sliding-mode observer is used to estimate the states of system and plant attacks. Equal to the number of outputs under protection, the input plant attacks can be reconstructed asymptotically, whilst the rest of the attacks can be identified by a Sparse recovery method. Finally, simulation results from a real electric power system illustrate efficacy of the proposed observer


common fund of legal knowledge, for the charge is an echo of an earlier dictum by another Chief Baron in England (R. v. Exall (1866) 4 F. & F. 922 at 929). Nevertheless, English readers may still acclaim Palles as a stalwart of the common law in parts beyond the sea, and appreciate the justice of the Prime Minister's valedictory letter (p. 152) when, on the Chief Baron's retirement in 1916, Mr. Asquith wrote to him, " As an old practitioner, I venture to say that the judgments of Palles C.B. are held in as high esteem by English and American as by Irish lawyers." This volume, which forms an item in the autumn list of a new publishing venture, is well printed, attractively produced, and not excessively priced at a guinea. The wrapper has a reproduction in colours of a portrait of the Chief Baron in robes, and within the covers there are three pen and ink or pencil sketches of him—that by one of the Yeatses depicting him in a silk hat and a Dublin tramcar! There are some informative appendices, giving the names of Irish judges and leading counsel from 1874 to 1960, a bibliography, and (apart from the omission of any reference to Asquith) an adequate index.


We bought a new house four years ago in an older Chicago neighborhood. After a couple of months, our children, all of whom are under 7 years, made the acquaintance of an elderly gentleman three doors down. At age 88, the fellow was very spry, and outgoing and friendly with the children. A widower for many years who had no close relatives, he cared for himself, drove a car, and managed his own financial affairs. Last year he had a bad fall in one of the early snows. As it turned out, this was secondary to diplopia accompanying the onset of myasthenia gravis. He experienced a difficult acute phase that required a long hospitalization, yet was subsequently stabilized on medication and he remained totally independent. A few months later he fell in his basement. He got a bad cut on his head and hurt his hand as well, but was


This paper presents an effective method for fingerprint verification based on a data mining technique called minutiae clustering and a graph-theoretic approach to analyze the process of fingerprint comparison to give a feature space representation of minutiae and to produce a lower bound on the number of detectably distinct fingerprints. The method also proving the invariance of each individual fingerprint by using both the topological behavior of the minutiae graph and also using a distance measure called Hausdorff distance.The method provides a graph based index generation mechanism of fingerprint biometric data. The self-organizing map neural network is also used for classifying the fingerprints.


A method for calculating the parameters of gravitational waves that interact with vertical permeable breakwaters, based on potential theory, has been developed and presented. The wave motion of a fluid was described by the velocity potential that satisfies the Laplace equation. The shape of the wave surface and the components of the velocity vector were determined. Numerical analysis of the influence of permeability of the vertical wall on wave energy adsorption was carried out. The propagation of surface gravitational waves in the linear formulation of problems in a channel with a vertical permeable obstacle was analyzed. The dependence of the wave reflection coefficient as a function of the wave transmission coefficient in accordance with the law of energy conservation was given. Experimental studies have been conducted to determine the features of the hydrodynamic interaction of sea waves and coastal protection structures of the permeable type. The experiments were performed in the laboratory in a wave channel with models of vertical slotted walls of different permeability. Visual and instrumental studies have shown the features of the interaction of the wave field with permeable breakwaters, the formation of reflection and transmission waves through the breakwater. It is established that vertical slotted walls, depending on the permeability, significantly affect the wave field, generate reflected waves and waves passing through the breakwater, as well as lead to a significant dissipation of wave energy. The dependences of the reflection and transmission coefficients of the wave, as well as the dissipation coefficient of the wave energy depending on the permeability of the slotted breakwater and the relative depth of the water area were given. It is shown that with increasing permeability of the breakwater the wave reflection coefficient decreased, and the wave transmission coefficient on the contrary increased. It was found that the reflection coefficient of the wave was increased with increasing relative depth, and the coefficient of wave propagation was decreased. The dissipation coefficient of the wave energy had the maximum value, which was observed for greater permeability of the breakwater, when the relative depth compared to the wavelength was increased.


George Steiner reconsiders the arguments of The Death of Tragedy more than forty years after its publication. Noting the radical indeterminacy of "tragedy" and "tragic," he seeks to delimit these terms not through fruitless attempts at formal definition but by elucidating a common core of suppositions. According to Steiner, this core consists of a sense of ontological homelessness, of "alienation or ostracism from the safeguard of licensed being." In reflecting on his earlier arguments, he now concedes that this sense of fundamental estrangement and primordial suffering is not superseded by modernity but continues to mark the thought of thinkers such as Marx, Freud, and Lévi-Strauss. Acknowledging the historical variety and fluctuation of tragic forms, he writes: "with few exceptions, 'tragedy' after Goethe perpetuates itself in prose fiction, in opera, in film, in reportage." At the same time, Steiner continues to insist on a fun damental difference between such modern expressions of the tragic and what he calls the "absolute tragedy" of the Greeks, which is marked by a radical pessimism alien to both Christianity and atheism.


ICANN currently determines which top level domains are available on the A-root server and so restricts the choices facing Internet users. Thus ICANN redistributes wealth and has become the focus of rent-seeking activities. Yet, despite my belief that the Internet will become substantially more regulated in the future, I am convinced that technology will trump the best efforts of regulators to "promote the public interest".


After 30 years of development, China has great transaction of the labor market from a gov- ernment-controlled market to a market-driven market. Previous researches stated the various characteristics of Chinese labor market. However, with rapid development, the labor market in China has some new and unpredicted changes in recent years. With the compre-hensive, rigorous, and consistent data investigated from 2000 to 2015, which come from the National Bureau of Statistic of China (NBSC), this paper does a descriptive research on verification of common features stated in the previous literature, disclosing some new fea - tures and changes of current Chinese labor market. These features include the following: (1) the average wage in society keeps increasing with a relative decrease of return to educa- tion; (2) the old pattern of labor mobility, from rural area to urban area, is steady; however, the growth rate of urban population keeps decreasing, and the mobility of labor forces showed significant regional inequality; (3) the effectiveness and conduction of labor law and regulation are challenged by labor market segmentation caused by informal employ- ment; and (4) the labor force participation rate (LFPR) in China keeps stable after 2010, with four different definitions. This paper designs a new way of measurement of informal sectors and indicates that the labor force participation rate in China is steady, not declining, after 2010. This analysis not only provides a complete understating of the current Chinese labor market but also indicates the potential impact and problem caused by these new and changing features of Chinese labor market for researcher and policy-maker.


. The necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a stationary solutions to the boundary value problem for an abstract heat equation with a stationary disturbances and to the stochastic boundary value problem for such equation in the strip are given. The existence of a bounded solutions to the deterministic boundary value problem is also considered.


The treatement of children who have this serious disease requires more than specific or nonsecific therapy. Every affected child needs the combined care of his mother, the nurse, the pediatrician, and the ophthalmologist.


Research emerging from the field of emotion science suggests that individuals who have anxiety and mood disorders tend to experience negative affect more frequently and more intensely than do healthy individuals, and they tend to view these experiences as more aversive, representing a common diathesis across anxiety and mood disorders.1-5 Deficits in the ability to regulate emotional experiences, resulting from unsuccessful efforts to avoid or dampen the intensity of uncomfortable emotions, have also been found across the emotional disorders and are a key target for therapeutic change.


In this paper we propose an approach for designing compact all-dielectric passive microwave/mm-wave components. Our design is based on an extremely thin layer of high-permittivity dielectric which creates a large permittivity contrast with its adjacent dielectric/substrate and can be built using two-dimensional printing fabrications. Couplers, transmission lines, and various antennas such as multimode, multisegment, and wideband antennas are investigated, fabricated, and discussed.


: In the past two years, major cross-border e-commerce platforms have added the function of cross-border e-commerce live, and it has become a new and popular branch of cross-border e-commerce. This article is to study the influencing factors and influencing mechanism of consumers' purchase intention in the context of cross-border e-commerce live, focusing on China Mainland. 215 valid responds were collected by questionnaire. We conducted the mediation regression analysis and revealed All independent variables have a significant positive influence on consumers' purchase intention. Anchor information quality, other consumer information quality, brand image, price preference respectively has a significant positive impact on consumers' purchase intentions. However, the positive impact of service quality on consumers' perceived value is not significant.


Antidiarrheal medications are a pitfall for physicians interpreting In-111 pentetreotide scans. In-111 octreotide scanning is Sensitive for detecting neuroendocrine tumors located within the abdomen. However, lack of familiarity with the normal pattems of activity, such as may occur in the large bowel, may lead to false-positive interpretations. For patients taking such medications, colon activity is often very prominent, and the intensity of uptake cannot be used to distinguish tumor from physiologic large-bowel activity. Usually, additional views are obtained 24 hours later or a repeated examination will show a shifting pattern of large-bowel activity. Unfortunately, when the patient is constipated or is taking antidiarrheal medications, intense large-bowel activity may persist for days. The authors describe a patient in whom prominent right colon activity on two sequential examinations was erroneously interpreted as tumor uptake. Only a third In-111 octreotide examination, obtained after antidiarrheal medications were discontinued, yielded the correct diagnosis.


Based upon the global notion that learners progress not only in their level of understanding and content expertise but also in the level of meta–cognition, the hypothesis was raised that first–year versus fourth–year students would show a difference in preference for conceptual support tools due to the variety in expressiveness. TextVision versus Inspiration were chosen as two contrasting concept–mapping tools. A medical subject domain was delivered in text on paper. It was expected that there would be a higher level of detail and graphical articulation in the concept maps drawn by the senior students, and also that the students in the matching condition (seniors with the more expressive tool) would reveal higher retention effects. Although the data did not support the presumed differential effect between the two tools, secondary analyses brought up the assumption that abundant representation features as in Inspiration inhibit the factual learning and integration of new information; too much attention to the spatial layout of the concept map distracts the learners' attention from the subject matter itself.


: In this paper, we propose a method for reconstructing a whole 3D shape of the human body from a single image taken by a head-mounted omnidirectional camera. In the image of a head-mounted camera, many parts of the human body are self-occluded, and it is very difficult to reconstruct the 3D shape of the human body including the invisible parts. The proposed method focuses on the shadows of the human body generated by the light sources in the scene and uses it to perform highly accurate 3D reconstruction of the whole human body including the hidden parts.


Column sorption–elution studies for boron removal were performed using N-glucamine-type chelating ion-exchange resins Diaion CRB 02 Purolite S 108. The breakthrough curves were obtained as a function of resin type and feed flow rate. Boron was effectively removed from the wastewater of Kizildere, Turkey, geothermal power plant by passing it through the resins Diaion CRB 02 and Purolite S 108 at a space velocity of 25 bed volumes per hour. The boron on the resins was quantitatively eluted with 0.25 M H2SO4 solution. The resin Diaion CRB 02 was used to study the recycle use of resin for boron removal from the wastewater of Kizildere geothermal power plant. The capacity of Diaion CRB 02 remained constant after three sorption–elution–washing–regeneration cycles.


The study on the nutrition quality,viscidity of starch and appearance showed that the nutrition quality of vacuum-packed waxy maize was better than that of frozen waxy maize which could conserve more protein.We could store the waxy maize with different way for different purpose.Among the different waxy maizes.Xixingbainuo 1 was best,and huanuo 1 was the worst.The quality became worse as the colour became deeper.


The solar power potential of Algeria is huge and enormous. Solar energy is promising source for water desalination notably in the south regions of Algeria for fresh and drinking water providing. Solar thermal energy can be used to run thermal desalination plants such as multi-effect desalination processes (MED). In this work, solar collectors and Multi Effects desalination unit used to produce fresh water from brackish water have been proposed. Mathematic models based on energy and mass balances of various components of the MED plant (evaporator, condenser, flashing chamber) as well as for the parabolic trough collectors have been developed. The global model of the proposed system has been numerically solved and the results have been presented and analyzed. To validate the obtained simulations results, the plant performances are compared with the results available on the literature. The results show clearly that the solar MED technology may provide a key solution for freshwater deficit in the southern area of Algeria.


Questions the need for strengthening the environmental part either in scientific research or in the educational process. The suggestions are made for changing in approaches for research in transport area based on ecology. The questions of systematization of environmental education for teachers have considered to form environmental thinking in student.


Increasing maternal age is the only etiological factor unequivocally linked to Down's syndrome in humans. The occurrence rate of newborns with Down's syndrome is about 1/220 in women over 35 years old. However, the occurrence rate in embryos fertilized in vitro, of the elder woman is unclear. Using FISH we screened the number of chromosome 21 in preimplanted embryos of 5 elderly women (average age, 38.4 years) to study the feasibility and necessity of screening trisomy 21 in embryos in patients over 35 years old at the in vitro fertilization (IVF) center.