Abstract To determine the concentrations of protein and major cations (calcium, potassium, magnesium, and sodium) in California cottage cheese and yogurt, 244 samples of cottage cheese and 52 samples of yogurt were collected from local retail stores. Mean concentrations of protein were 12.5% in cottage cheese and 4.50% in yogurt. Mean concentrations of calcium were 75.9 mg/100 g in cottage cheese and 152.1 mg/100 g in yogurt. Mean concentrations of potassium were 60 mg/100 g in cottage cheese and 219 mg/100 g in yogurt. Mean concentrations of magnesium were 10.8 mg/100 g in cottage cheese and 19.7 mg/100 g in yogurt. Mean concentrations of sodium were 393 mg/100 g in cottage cheese and 65.8 mg/100 g in yogurt. To measure the variation in concentrations of these constituents in cottage cheese due to time of year, samples of regular and lowfat cottage cheese were collected from a local plant each week for a year. Annual mean concentrations of protein, calcium, potassium, magnesium, and sodium were 12.37%, 92.9 mg/100 g, 63.7 mg/100 g, 13.4 mg/100 g, and 417 mg/100 g in regular cottage cheese and 12.58%, 106.9 mg/100 g, 85.6 mg/100 g, 15.3 mg/100 g, and 420 mg/100 g in lowfat cottage cheese. Differences between the means for regular and lowfat cottage cheese were statistically significant for all constituents except sodium. Time-of-year effects were significant for protein, calcium, potassium, and sodium.


In this paper we present a dielectric elastomer actuator, which has the ability to sense the force acting on it without any additional sensing device. Basic physical behaviors of the dielectric elastomer are experimentally investigated and it is noted that the impedance of the dielectric elastomer varies depending on external forces acting on it. Based on that concept, we propose the principle of a self-sensing actuator according to experimental result. In addition, a multi-stacked actuator with self-sensing capability is realized to validate its feasibility.


The utility model relates to a direct push-pull watertight connector component and a plug and a socket thereof. The plug comprises a plug housing and a plug insulator which are mounted and connected together, wherein a group of contact pin contact elements axially penetrate through the plug insulator; a vulcanized plug body is vulcanized and coated at the front end and on the circumferential wall of the plug insulator, and the back end of the vulcanized plug body extends to the front end of the hermetically-coated plug housing; the parts with the vulcanized plug body exposed of all the contact pin contact elements form contact pin insertion sections; the parts of the contact pin insertion sections adjacent to the vulcanized plug body are wrapped by the corresponding vulcanized bulge extending from the front end of the vulcanized body to form vulcanized insertion sections; the parts of all the contact pin insertion sections at the front ends of the vulcanized insertion sections are naked insertion sections; the diameter of the naked insertion sections is less than that of the vulcanized insertion sections; and insertion guide parts are arranged at the surface connection parts between the naked insertion sections and the vulcanized insertion sections. Direct push-pull operation in water can be performed by adopting the connector component.


In this note, we propose a general definition of shape which is both compatible with the one proposed in phenomenology (gestaltism) and with a computer vision implementation. We reverse the usual order in Computer Vision. We do not define "shape recognition" as a task which requires a "model" pattern which is searched in all images of a certain kind. We give instead a "blind" definition of shapes relying only on invariance and repetition arguments. Given a set of images I, we call shape of this set any spatial pattern which can be found at several locations of some image, or in several different images of I. (This means that the shapes of a set of images are defined without any a priori assumption or knowledge.) The definition is powerful when it is invariant and we prove that the following invariance requirements can be matched in theory and in practice: local contrast invariance, robustness to blur, noise and sampling, affine deformations. We display experiments with single images and image pairs. In each case, we display the detected shapes. Surprisingly enough, but in accordance with Gestalt theory, the repetition of shapes is so frequent in human environment, that many shapes can even be learned from single images. Mathematics Subject Classification. 62H35. Received January 13, 2002.


Introduction: Interferon (IFN) has been used for patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in combination with chemotherapeutic agents. We previously reported that IFN-? induced a shift into the nucleus of Cytoplasmic p21 (Cip1/WAF1), known as a tumor-suppressor gene, and contributed to the prevention of HCC.
 Aims: To use hepatoma cell lines to compare the growth-suppression activity of IFN-? and ?, in the context of enhancing cisplatin's effects.
 Results: IFN-? caused a significant nuclear localization of p21 when compared to IFN-? IFN-? augmented the cytotoxic effects of cisplatin more than IFN- ?. Notably, when IFN-? was used only for pre-treatment, significant apoptosis with subsequent cisplatin treatment was observed.
 Conclusion: Results suggest that IFN- ? enhances the cytotoxic effects of cisplatin more than IFN-?, partly because of its effect of keeping p21 in the nucleus. Thus, IFN-?-based chemo-therapeutic regimen might provide more effective outcomes of HCC treatment.


In recent years the social policy research has focused on the topics about the welfare system,welfare pluralism,social exclusion and developmental social policy in China.The first shortcoming of these studies is that researchers are inclined to introduce foreign theories and don't construct local theories;the second is that the research subject scattered and lack specification.We deem that China's current social policy research should be based on two aspects:the one is to build a harmonious society and risk management system;the other is to handle the relationship between theories logic and practice logic in the background of globalization and social transformation.


Reliance Communications, Facebook's partner in India, can no longer offer Free Basics, the social networking company's service that provides free internet


Fibrillation is a medical term   that describes a condition in the heart where the muscle fibers contract rapidly at their own pace and not in coordination with other muscle fibers. As a result, the amount of blood pumped to the body is reduced. The body experiences a lot of heart activity but reduced heart output. This paper borrows this medical term to describe a phenomenon that exists in many organizations which inhibits superior performance. Many organizations are in the same state as the heart with respect to the practice of results-based management. There are lots of activities going on in the organization but minimal results by way of outputs, outcomes and impact. The best of such organizations only come up with outputs- the results of an activity. These outputs are not the end products for the user but simply a step along the results chain. The underlying theory in this research was Public Value theory developed by Prof. Mark Moore of Kennedy School of Government.The researcher conducted a survey of over one hundred middle-level managers working in public sector agencies. The responses were analyzed using percentages and thematic analysis. The findings were classified into ten thematic areas which had a score of over 50%. These areas were seen to be causing management and organizational fibrillation. On the basis of issues identified, several strategies have been proposed to help organizations deal with management and organizational fibrillation. Keywords : Management fibrillation, Results-based Management, Leadership


how large a dent her well-crafted arguments have put in the conventional views. Finally, one is led to wonder whether Solinger's comparative analysis might shed any light on the Soviet Union, a comparable regime that failed miserably to implement badly-needed industrial policies of the same kind. Clearly, the Soviet Union had at one time the same powerful state bureaucracy and insulation from political demands as China. Equally clearly, it experienced a cumulating economic crisis and fell progressively behind its competitors. Solinger argues that a perception of crisis and a leadership consensus are essential (though she does not ask what affects leadership perceptions and how consensus may emerge), and that they existed in China, but she does not provide definitions for either condition that are clear enough to allow the reader to apply the argument elsewhere. If these conditions did exist in the Soviet Union, at least after Gorbachev's ascendancy, then by Solinger's account the redirection of industrial policy should have been relatively easy, given strong central state capacity. But perhaps the USSR's bureaucracy was too centralized, its ministries too powerful a fact often noted as being a contrast with China in which case it would be the relative weakness of China's central bureaucracy and its more advanced regional decentralization (factors stressed by Naughton, Wong and others) that permitted success in the initial readjustment and beyond. The perspectives yielded by comparison may shift dramatically along with the cases compared.


The article is devoted to global solvability of Cauchy problem for one class of equations of one-dimensional gas flow. Existence and uniqueness of maximal multivalued solutions of Cauchy problem is established. In case of an ordinary differential equation a key property of its solutions with maximal intervals of existence is to tend to the boundary of its domain. A direct analog of this property for the maximal multivalued solutions of the equations of the class under consideration is proved.


A new technique is presented for clump decomposition based on the recursive splitting of active contours. The approach does not require prior knowledge of the number of objects and the sizes of the objects to be segmented.


Many ad hoc routing protocols are based on some variant of flooding. Despite various optimizations of flooding, many routing messages are propagated unnecessarily. We propose a gossiping-based approach, where each node forwards a message with some probability, to reduce the overhead of the routing. A probability-based approach can be applied to determine whether or not a node should transmit the received packet during broadcasting. Some protocols apply the probability-based approach to resolve the broadcast storm problem, hence saving the power consumption for redundant transmission. A probability-based approach to balance the power consumption on each node, thus improving the network lifetime. In this paper, we present a routing protocol which achieves considerable energy saving thus increasing the throughput and network lifetime. Working of proposed routing protocol is similar in nature with Ad-Hoc on Demand Distance Vector Routing Protocol (AODV). In proposed protocol, energy critical nodes do not take part in routing. One more issue that needs to be discussed while performing routing operations is energy consumption. As each node is mobile node which stores its energy in the battery provided with them. If any critical node (intermediate node having lower power) participate in the route discovery or data transmission it may lose its energy and can lead to termination of data transmission from source node to destination node. This paper suggests an approach to avoid such incidents in the network. The proposed approach can be implemented and simulated on QUALNET, a network simulator.


Electrophoretic deposit of titanium dioxide (TiO 2 ) was carried out over a boron doped diamond plate of 2 cm 2 , annealing at 350 °C to produce binary TiO 2 /BDD composite electrode. The composite was characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and linear sweep voltammetry (LSV) response. N,N-dimethyl-p-nitrosoaniline (RNO) was used as a probe molecule for the detection of free radicals (  OH) during the oxidation of water in phosphate buffer (pH 4) solution; at the TiO 2 /BDD/ hv composite, an apparent first-rate kinetic constant of k obs = 0.1314 min -1 was observed. Afterwards, the composite electrode was applied to degrade 40 and 100 mg L -1 of a typical azo dye methyl orange (MO) via electrochemical process, such as: electro-oxidation (EO) and photoelectro-oxidation (PEO) under 25, 75 and 125 mA cm -2 current density ( j ); the PEO tests were performed using a UVA lamp at 365 nm. Results showed that the discoloration in the PEO process was larger than in the EO process, 96 and 100 %, respectively. Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) was tested to evaluate the degradation. Hydroxylated derivatives were identified by means of mass spectroscopy during the PEO of MO in a TiO 2 /BDD/ hv composite electrode.


The article reveals modern linguistic understanding of a chick lit genre. The genre peculiarities and discourse characteristics are investigated on the analysis of modern approaches to the chick lit phenomenon.


PE,as one of the optional courses in college,posesses a lot of subjective as well as objective characteristics of attention.Through their knowledge and experience of physical culture,college students can gain some information of characteristics of attention on basis of which they make choice by comparison and evaluation.This article unifies all the information of characteristics of attention to an integrated exponential endowed with value of assessment;adopts IDB experimental procedure to pursue the process of college students' choice of PE;probes into the influnce of characteristics of attention on college students' option of PE.The result shows that college students' attention to PE changes following their target of decision and their cognition structure of characteristics of attention is an important factor to their decision.


We introduce the uncertain generalized probabilistic weighted averaging (UGPWA) operator. It is an aggregation operator that unifies the probability and the weighted average in the same formulation considering the degree of importance that each concept has in the aggregation. Moreover, it is able to assess uncertain environments that can not be assessed with exact numbers but it is possible to use interval numbers. Thus, we can analyze imprecise information considering the minimum and the maximum result that may occur. We analyze the applicability of this new approach in a multiperson decision making problem by using the theory of expertons.


Palabras claves: Catalogo, Bibliografia, Vivencias, Autor, Poesia, Pesimismo Abstract: Although a bibliographic Catalogue is naturally dull aseptic in itself, I have tried to enliven that List of books by inserting unknown details of authors life. Perhaps these biographic pieces of information may illuminate his poetry, too full of pessimism.


Exploration on block K6 started with two minor discoveries in 1969 and 1972, both located on culminating structural Rotliegende targets. After 14 yr of low activity, drilling activity resumed in 1986 and is continuing, after another six positive wells. This long absence (14 yr) of drilling activities was due to two main reasons: (1) risk of drilling compartments lodged deeper than the first discoveries and in a highly faulted structural context and (2) risk of thinning and disappearance of lower Slochteren sandstones because the area of the K76 block corresponds to the inferred northern limit of the Rotliegende play. Three-dimensional (3-D) seismic technology, coupled with structural and sedimentological studies, has allowed the restart of exploration activity and hence the optimization of this block. One of the key points of exploration in this favorable gas environment is the access to the most precise knowledge of the structure's geometry. Communications between different compartments and possible spill points have been prognosed successfully thanks to the excellent 3-D seismic data quality. A lower Slochteren sand distribution model has been constructed from integrated studies, based principally on well sequential analysis, allowing for a quantitative and qualitative approach of the reservoirs. Combined use of these toolsmore » permits the best possible evaluation of gas fields and prospects and the optimization of well location in exploration, appreciation, or development (with successful horizontal wells). The exploration activity on the K6 block needs to continuously integrate these innovation techniques to stay fruitful in its more mature phase of exploration.« less


In this contribution, the experimental and numerical analysis of an omega stringer stiffened panel made of CFRP is treated. The experiment described hereafter is a buckling and post buckling test under axial compression loading. The structure is loaded until collapse. Load shortening data, strain gauges and DIC measurements are available for the validation of the numerical model. The simulation is conducted using Finite Element software ABAQUS/Standard. A shell model is described and the numerical results are compared to the experimental data.


Three authors comment on the presence of the monstrous and the rhetoric of horror manifested in a series of paintings and sculptural works by Fiore that stand as a public strong line against violence, particularly against police violence. Biographical notes. 33 bibl. ref.


We study some dynamical measures applied to the study of electrocardiograms with two particular purposes. The first is the traditional need to determine the robustness of the measures with respect to limitations of the ECG such as a small number of data points, short sampling time and low sampling frequency. The second and more important purpose is to narrow the localization of the information captured by each measure in the particular case of ECGs. This may be an important contribution in order to be able to relate the information captured by a particular measure and aspects of the processes involved in the cardiac activity. With these purposes we have used a particular data base of electrocardiograms, ECG, constructed to study information that is not detectable by the expert visual analysis of the morphology of the ECG, nor by standard measures. This data base has been constructed by using carefully designed and controlled digital filters applied in small but critical ranges of the power spectrum of the ECG.


In 1894 and 1895, Dr. H. B. Ward obtained through a Lincoln, Nebraska, physician, two specimens of tapeworms which were noticeably different in external appearance from the two previously known Taeniae of man, Taenia saginata and Taenia solium. In view of the generally peculiar appearance, the dissimilarity in internal structure, and the extremely modified head, Ward (1896) proposed the specific rank of the form, and the name Taenia confusa. A detailed study was made by Guyer (1898) and the morphology described as thoroughly as the material would permit. Two other cases of Taenia confusa have been reported, one by Chandler (I920) and one by Faust (1929). From their specimens Chandler and Faust added data on external and internal characteristics


As interest in autonomous driving system has increased recently, variety of ADAS technologies that are responsible for safety of passengers are receiving attention. Realtime analysis and robust vehicle detection are essential for ADAS technology to cope with rapidly changing road conditions. In this paper, we propose a real-time vehicle detection system based on correlation filter.


At the present time, the rate of crime is increasing rapidly because it is a kind of evident from the actual fact that thefts became a matter of routine. Particularly these vehicles may incur huge losses on the amount invested on these vehicles. To overcome this problem, there are numerous technologies are available in the market such as GPS,GSM and GPRS systems. In the present days, most of the vehicles are designed with GSM based vehicle theft control systems, which provides the protection from thefts even if they are parked in the parking area. Keyword: ARM7, GSM, GPS,LCD; Introduction Vehicle Theft Detection/Notification with Remote Engine Locking mainly aims to reduce vehicle theft to a great extent. Today vehicles are being stolen on a large number and this is the reason why this system is being introduced. To prevent the theft from stealing vehicle, this system uses two mode and theft mode. If the vehicle is in theft mode, this system send SMS to the user if any one try to stole the car. After which the user is supposed to send back the message. This message gives command to the vehicle to lock the engine. Whenever a person tries to steal a vehicle, The ARM7 is being interrupted.After which the GSM modem is responsible to send SMS to the user indicating That his vehicle is being stolen.The ARM uses a mechanism to stop the engine. In order to indicate vehicle ON/OFF state the system makes use of motors. This project can be further enhanced by using a GPS which will also help to find the exact location of the vehicle.This information can then be sent to the user via SMS.


The review of the users of one application is of great help to development in improving the quality of the application and may be the means for assessments that users feel satisfied or not. The study conducted a sentiment analysis of the Ruangguru application by testing the three classification models such as N aive B ayes , R andom F orest and Support V ectors M achine . The study has yielded results that from Random Forest classification model 97,16% by using Cross Validation and an AUC score of 0.996. Then accuracy with the model of Support V ector Machine classification support results in accuracy rate of 96.01% to an AUC value of 0.543 and accuracy in the testing of Naive Bayes classification model was 94,16% of AUC score 0,999. This study shows that an increase in accuracy from previous studies of 7.16% with Random Forest's final cut as a Random Forest classification model with the best performance.


Born's rule, one of the cornerstones of quantum mechanics, relates detection probabilities to the modulus square of the wave function. Single-particle interference is accordingly limited to pairs of quantum paths and higher-order interferences are prohibited. Deviations from Born's law have been quantified via the Sorkin parameter which is proportional to the third-order term. We here extend this formalism to many-particle interferences and find that they exhibit a much richer structure. We demonstrate, in particular, that all interference terms of order $(2M+1)$ and greater vanish for $M$ particles. We further introduce a family of many-particle Sorkin parameters and show that they are exponentially more sensitive to deviations from Born's rule than their single-particle counterpart.


I don't like talking about Harold Shipman. I don't like talking about him or reading about him. or looking at the portraits of him that dominate the pages of newspapers.


With the continuous development of IoT technology, edge computing and high-performance computing are being merged. Compared with 32-bit processors, 64-bit processors have obvious advantages in processing some large data sets and high-precision numerical computing tasks. At the same time, as an open-source instruction set, RISC-V has highly concise instruction coding and flexible modular expansion, which is very suitable for the implementation of embedded processors. In this paper, we refer to the micro-architecture of the open-source 32-bit RISC-V processor SweRV EH1 and design a 64-bit embedded processor that supports the RV64IMCB instruction set. We adopt the instruction set self-checking test scheme based on riscv-tests to complete the functional verification of the processor and carry out the FPGA prototype verification on the Xilinx KC705 hardware platform. Compared with the 32-bit SweRV EH1, the Dhrystone performance improved by 32.3% on 64-bit processors with B-extension. The experiment shows that implementing the B-extension in a 64-bit processor can bring a 28.8% increase in Dhrystone performance and an 11.8% increase in CoreMark performance with an additional area overhead of 8.4%.


Basic Statistical Concepts. Basic Design Consideration. Randomization and Blinding. Designs for Clinical Trials. Classification of Clinical Trials. Analysis of Continuous Data. Analysis of Categorical Data. Censored Data and Interim Analysis. Sample Size Determination. Issues in Efficacy Evaluation. Safety Assessment. References. Appendices. Index.


Description Climate change and fishing present dual threats The Southern Ocean, which comprises ∼10% of the global ocean, is critically important to the homeostasis of the Earth system, exhibits distinctive marine biodiversity, and has tremendous scientific, diplomatic, and wilderness value. Yet, the region and its suite of global values are critically threatened by climate change, which is exacerbated by commercial fishing, an activity that provides value for relatively few industrial actors and compromises the greater values that the Southern Ocean ecosystem provides to the world. The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), the arm of the Antarctic Treaty System responsible for managing Southern Ocean marine living resources, meets in October–November 2022 and is under pressure to strengthen fisheries management, especially toward climate change resilience. We encourage improved management practices that account for the environmental externalities arising from trade-offs between fishing and the global contribution of the Southern Ocean ecosystem, including under a changing climate.


Climate change has always been the focus of the international community, and the construction of national identity in the field of climate is closely related to discourse power. Based on discourse-historical analysis, this paper analyzes the speeches delivered by American and British leaders at the 26th and 27th Conferences of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change through nomination strategy and predication indication strategy. It is found that Britain constructs its national identity as an active advocate and the United States constructs its national identity as a trustworthy world leader. National identity, national power, and discourse restrict and influence each other. This paper adds a reference for other countries to build their identity and enhance their national discourse power in climate diplomacy.


Efficacy of foliar insecticide treatments was evaluated against TT injury in Virginia-type peanut in Suffolk, VA. Peanuts were planted 4 May with 36-inch row spacing. Foliar treatments were applied 2 x, either broadcast at late ground cracking and again at early postemergence (broadcast, LGC + EPO), or banded at late ground cracking and again at early postemergence (band, LGC + EPO). The late ground cracking treatments were applied about 4 wk (2 Jun) after planting and the early postemergence treatments were applied about 7 wk (24 Jun) after planting. Broadcast treatments were applied with a CO2 pressurized backpack sprayer calibrated to deliver 20 gal/acre at 17 psi through 8003 VS flat fan nozzles spaced 18 inches apart on the spray boom. Band treatments were applied in a 12-inch band over the row with a CO2 pressurized backpack sprayer calibrated to deliver 17 gal/acre at 22 psi through 1,8004 E flat fan nozzle per row. A RCB experimental design was used with 4 replicates; plots were 4 rows by 35 ft. Treatments were evaluated by determining plant injury based on a 0-10 scale where 0 = no TT injured leaves and 10 = 100 percent injured leaves. Data were analyzed using ANOVA and LSD procedures.


The paper describes the apparent changes of the depth of the conducting asthenosphere caused by different EM field distortions beneath the 7 km deep narrow 3-D Bekes graben (extensional basin) along the Pannonian Geotraverse. The real depth of the asthenosphere is approximated first by 1-D inversion and 2-D modelling techniques to show their value in case of 3-D structure. Then, 3-D thin sheet model computations-together with references to the previous theoretical modelling results-are used to select sites and curve orientation where the least distorted depth estimation is expected along a 2-D profile in case of 3-D structure. Of course, preliminary geological-tectonical information (e.g. basin contour) is needed to find the most probable asthenospheric depth


With the developments of communication technologies, sensitive media are processed and delivered in digital format. Most cases this media is imperative and must be maintained from any unauthorized attacks. The security of digital images is very essential for many multimedia applications including military images, medical images systems, wireless networks, and portable devices. To preserve the secretness of the transmitted images, different encryption techniques are employed. In this direction, the chaotic based ciphers have shown brilliant performance. Recently, permutation-diffusion based multimedia encryption techniques have been developed. In traditional architecture, permutation and diffusion functions are applied in two separate phases. This separable design helps the attacker to launch several attacks and also causes to the degradation of the encryption speed. To avoid these problems, in this work, we propose a simultaneous permutation and diffusion-based efficient image cryptosystem which combines pixel scrambling and shuffling using Arnold Cat map, in which the image pixels are processed in a dynamic order fashion. Simulation results, histogram analysis, and key sensitivity analysis proved that the image cipher has several brilliant features and a good performance against various types of attacks. Thus, the cryptosystem is strongly appropriate for practical image security applications.


Objective This study is designated to investigate whether Olmesartan regresses cardiac hypertrophy induced by pressure overload in the absence of endogenous angiotensin II(AngII) in mice.Methods Constricting transverse aorta(TAC) were used as a model for pressure-overload cardiac hypertrophy.Wild Type(WT) C57BL/6J and angiotensinogen-deficient(ATG KO) mice of 8-10 weeks were divided into three groups,respectively:Sham-operated group(Sham),TAC plus Saline group(Saline) and TAC plus Olmesartan group(Olmesartan).After 2 weeks of TAC,echocardiography assessments were performed for the geometry and functions of hearts,and then mice were subjected to catheterization to measure the left ventricular pressure.Cardiac hypertrophy was confirmed further by histological analysis.The expressions of special genes associated with cardiac hypertrophy were determined by Real-time PCR.Results Compared to Sham group,all the values of cardiac hypertrophic index for Saline group increased signif icantly(P0.05);Olmesartan can markedly abolish the increased cardiac hypertrophy and signif icantly inhibit the upregulation of special gene expressions induced by pressure overload,compared with Saline group(P0.05).The result is similar regardless of whether in WT or ATG KO mice.Conclusions Omlesartan can abrogate pressure overload-induced cardiac hypertrophy even in the absence of endogenous AngII,and the underlying mechanisms may be that Olmesartan inhibited activation of AT1 receptor induced by pressure overload independent of AngII.


Objective: Obstruction of the urinary tract has marked effects on renal blood flow, glomerular filtration rate (GFR), and tubular function. Ureteral obstruction results in an injury response that can progress to irreversible renal fibrosis and tubular damage by apoptosis. Materials and Methods: Forty five rabbits aged 13-17 weeks with body weights of 1250-1750 grams were divided into 4 groups. Group 1 underwent a sham operation and group 2 had unilateral ureteral ligation to cause total obstruction. Groups 3 and 4 also underwent unilateral ureteral ligation but with verapamil given on day 0 and day 7 respectively. Apoptosis to the renal tubules were assessed after nephrectomy on day 14 using immunohistochemistry by counting the number cell deaths/high power field (hpf). Results: The groups that received verapamil showed significantly less apoptosis compared to those without verapamil (2,73 vs 12,46 cell deaths/hpf; p 0,05), although both groups still showed more cell deaths compared to group 1 (0,38 cell deaths/hpf). Conclusion: Verapamil appears to significantly decrease apoptosis during total unilateral ureteral obstruction. However, it cannot replace the benefit of relieving total obstruction


BACKGROUND: Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) type VI is a heritable disease that leads to a large number of fractures in children. It is caused by genetic mutations that lead to the absence of pigmentepithelium derived factor (PEDF) in all body cells. PEDF is a protein that is produced and secreted by cells in many tissues (liver, eye, fat). In bone, it is particularly highly expressed in osteoblasts, the bone-forming cells. The function of PEDF in these cells is not known at present. It is clear, however, that PEDF deficiency results in OI type VI.


Based on various kinds of data from the literature,topographical maps and remote sensing images at different periods were selected to investigate the surface area change of major lakes in the Taihu Basin by RS and GIS techniques,and some major factors that influence the area change were analyzed.The results show that the surface areas of the lakes have been decreasing since 1971 and the extent of decrease during the period 1971-1988 was far greater than that after 1988.The area was reduced by 159.96km~(2) from 1971 to 1988,and by 28.91km~(2) from 1988 to 2002,and the major factor was lake reclamation.Facing the present situation of the decrease,some suggestions were proposed on the rational utilization and protection of lake resources.


Yam and onion were mixed and wine yeast was added for fermentation to produce yam onion nutritional healthcare wine.The main technical parameters of the produced wine were investigated through the measurement of wine alcoholicity during the fermentation process and the sensory evaluation of the wine.


Flash-flood disasters are common in the Aqaba area. It always has a significant impact on the city and causes immense damages to lives and the infrastructure (highways, roads and dwelling areas). Before the 1990s several flash-floods of medium and high magnitudes were recorded (i.e., the 1963 and 1966 floods). However, low and medium magnitude floods (6-7 and 20 year return period) have been a recurrent phenomena over the last three decades. The city and the port of Aqaba are considered crucial to the Jordanian economy and cosequently the protection of the city/port from repetitive flooding is important to maintain future urban and economic development. Since the 1960s all formulated development plans for the city and the southern coast have suffered from a remarkable lack of appreciation and awareness regarding environmental hazards, where 90% of the Aqaba area is exposed to flood and sediment hazards. An intensive post-event geomorphic survey was carried out following a flash-flood that struck the Aqaba area on 6-7 th May 2014 to identify the damages that occurred and to recognize the main hydrological characteristics of the flash-flood, the terrain favoring flooding, fluvial processes which initiate large gullies and finally to gain experience regarding natural hazards. Hydrological studies related to previous flooding events indicate that the Aqaba area is exposed to recurrent floods of different magnitudes, associated with high peak discharge, gully erosion, slumping and high sediment load. These caused serious damages to the properties and infrastructure, loss of life and hardship for the people of Aqaba. The resultant large gullies are considered an additional cause of instability and a sediment source which threatened the Aqaba area.


The Single Point Incremental Forming Process (SPIF) involves extensive plastic deformation. The description of the process is more complicated by highly nonlinear boundary conditions, namely contact and frictional effects have been accomplished. The SPIF analysis is mathematically complex. However, due to the complex nature of these models, numerical approaches dominated by the FEA are now in widespread use. The paper presents the data and main results of a study on SPIF through FEA, that permits the modeling of complex geometries, boundary conditions and material behavior. SPIF have been studied under certain process conditions referring to the test workpiece, tool, etc., using ANSYS 11.0. An important result is showing that the model of simulation can give as clearly the behavior of contact tool - workpiece and the effect it on strain and stress distributions, also on the accuracy of product. Relevant dependences between tool and workpiece surface interface and sample of results have been demonstrated.


HACApK is a software package for solving dense linear systems of equations and is used in other software packages, like ppohBEM for solving boundary integral equations. To enable the solution of large-scale boundary value problems, HACApK hierarchically compresses the coefficient matrix and uses the BiConjugate Gradient Stabilized (BiCGStab) method for solving the linear system. To extend HACApK's capability, this paper outlines how we ported the HACApK linear solver onto GPU clusters. Though the potential of GPUs has been widely accepted in high-performance computing, it is still a challenge to utilize the GPUs for a solver, like HACApK, that requires fine-grained irregular computation and global communication. To utilize the GPUs, we integrated the variable-size batched GPU kernel that was recently released in the MAGMA software package. This is the first time the variable-size batched kernels were used in a solver or application code. We discuss several techniques to improve the performance of the batched kernel and demonstrate the effects of these techniques on two state-of-the-art GPU clusters. For instance, with two 14-core Intel Xeon CPUs and four NVIDIA P100 GPUs per node, the GPU kernel obtained a solver speedup of 8× on one node and 4× on eight nodes. We also show that when the inter-GPU communication becomes significant, the solution time can be further reduced by a factor of 2× by carefully designing the communication layer with the underlying node architecture in mind.


In this paper, a two dimensional Particle In Cell‐Monte Carlo Collision simulation scheme is used to examine the THz generation via the interaction of high intensity ultra‐short laser pulses with an underdense molecular hydrogen plasma slab. The influences of plasma density, laser pulse duration and its intensity on the induced plasma current density and the subsequent effects on the generated THz signal characteristics are studied. It is observed that the induced current density in the plasma medium and THz spectral intensity are increased at the higher laser pulse intensities, laser pulse durations and plasma densities. Moreover, the generated THz electric field amplitude is reduced at the higher laser pulse durations. A wider frequency range for the generated THz signal is shown at the lower laser pulse durations and higher plasma densities. Additionally, it is found that the induced current density in hydrogen plasma medium is the dominant factor influencing the generation of THz pulse radiation. (© 2016 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)


Lashuixia Cu-Ni deposit is located in the middle of Riyue Mountain-Hualong new proterozoic massif which is the southwestern margin of Qin-Qi-Kun orogenic belt.Host stratum is a set of intermediate and advanced level metamorphic rock of Hualong group,which mainly included biotite plagioclase gneiss and hornblendic schist.Because the mining field is covered by strata,about 50~150 m thickness,purplish red conglomerate and clay rock and so on in paleogene-neogene Xining group.In this area,it is difficult to play a role by using conventional mineral exploration method.Eleven anomalies have been found in this mining area recently by 1∶5 000 geogas and mercury gas measurement detailed investigation.Preliminary,I anomaly and Ⅷ anomaly have a great prospecting significance.These results show that geogas and mercury gas measurement has a certain referential significance for finding concealed ore-beds.


From the time I was 14, I had horrible cramping with my periods. I would get sick each month and end up spending a week out of every month in bed. This just became "routine" for me and continued on throughout my teen years.


Basle Committee issues varies of soft law accords to promote multilateral cooperation among national authorities,and plays great part in generating international standards of banking supervision.Compared with formal government organizations,Basle Committee functions specially and its organization structure is different from those organizations.On one hand,the high achievement of Basle Committee has important relationship with its sense of soft organization,on the other hand,Basle Committee is just an informal organization and a secretive club of giants and its influence on international financial supervision is limited.


We present a lattice reduction (LR) aided preceding scheme combined with spatial division multiplexing (SDM) for clusters of correlated multiple users. Previously, the LR aided precoding schemes are deeply studied to transmit different symbols, simultaneously, to multiple users since it shows superior performance to linear precoding schemes like zero-forcing (ZF) algorithm. However, it has high complexity compared with linear precoding schemes. To resolve it, we exploit the spatial separability between clusters. That is, we apply the LR aided scheme for highly correlated users in a same cluster and to suppress the interferences from other clusters, we apply the ZF algorithm. Furthermore, we also propose a new SDM scheme to maximize the transmit signal to interference and noise ratio, which is formulated by generalized eigenvalue problem. We verify the performance of the proposed schemes by Monte-Carlo simulations and compare the computation complexities of them with the conventional LR aided precoding scheme.


A method, suggested by Wattenberg, to measure the lifetime of the SIGMA /sup 0/ hyperon is analyzed theoretically. The suggested method consists of measuring the distribution of angles between the Dalitz pairs emitted in the process SIGMA /sup 0/ yields LAMBDA /sup 0/ + e/sup +/ + e/sup -/, in which the SIGMA /sup 0/ was pre viously produced in a nucleus. The distribution function contains a part that depends both on the charge Z of the nucleus and on the lifetime of SIGMA /sup 0/. This part comes from the interference between the Z-dependent part of the matrix element with the Zindependent part. This interference owes its existence to two facts: that the target nucleon is in a bound state, and that the SIGMA /sup 0/ has a finite mass width. The effects of nuclear structure can be eliminated from the problem. A family of curves for the distribution functions corresponding to various values of the lifetime is obtained through the use of Born approximation for the Coulomb wave functions of the Dalitz pair. If the lifetime is in the neighborhood of 5 x 10/sup -20/ sec, then measurements with an accuracy of 10% would determine the lifetime tomore » within a factor of 10. (auth)« less


In this paper the authors consider the ability of a membrane reactor that has a catalyst distributed across a permselective inorganic membrane to improve product yields in equilibrium limited reactions such as paraffin dehydrogenation. Previous studies of this type of catalytic membrane reactor have focused on measuring conversion and optimizing properties of permselective membrane materials. This has resulted in the construction and testing of many novel membrane reactors, but offers little guidance for the operating conditions that maximize the performance of these types of reactors. In this paper the authors show that the selection of the optimum operation conditions is as important as the membrane material characteristics.


Objective: To investigate the effects of different nursing measures for the prevention of umbilical skin infection of neonates.Methods: According to past clinical data,2,560 neonates born in different periods were divided into trial group(n=1 260) and control group(n=1 300).Neonates in control group were born from January 2006 to December 2006,they were nursed using conventional methods;neonates in trial group were born from January 2007 to December 2007,they were nursed using pre-nursing care methods.In the trial group,neonates were managed using 0.5 % iodophor for umbilical skin disinfection,the staff and the shower units of the delivery rooms were sterilized strictly,the mothers and families were educated and instructed for the umbilical care.In the control group,neonates were managed using 75 % alcohol for umbilical skin disinfection,the staff and the shower units of the delivery rooms underwent only routine sterilization,no special education and instruction of the umbilical care were carried out to the mothers and families.Results: The incidence of umbilical infection of neonates in control group was higher that in trial group(P0.01).Conclusion: Using 0.5 % iodophor for umbilical skin disinfection of neonates,strengthen staff and the shower units of the delivery rooms sterilization may reduce neonatal umbilical skin infections effectively.


Within continental lithosphere, widespread seismic evidence suggests a sharp discontinuous downward decrease in seismic velocity at 60–160 km depth. This midlithospheric discontinuity (MLD) may be due to anisotropy, melt, hydration, and/or mantle metasomatism. We survey global seismologic observations of the MLD, including observed depths, velocity contrasts, gradients, and locales across multiple seismic techniques. The MLD is primarily found in regions of thick continental lithosphere and is a decrease in seismic shear velocity (2–7% over 10–20 km) at 60–160 km depth, the majority of observations clustering at 80–100 km. Of xenoliths in online databases, 25% of amphibole‐bearing xenoliths, 90% of phlogopite‐bearing xenoliths, and none of carbonate‐bearing xenoliths were formed at pressures associated with these depth (2–5 GPa). We used Perple_X modeling to evaluate the elastic moduli and densities of multiple petrologies to test if the MLD is a layer of crystallized melt. The fractional addition of 5–10% phlogopite, 10–15% carbonate, or 45–100% pyroxenite produce a 2–7% velocity decrease. We postulate this layer of crystallized melt would originate at active margins of continents and crystallize in place as the lithosphere cools. The concentration of mildly incompatible elements (Y, Ho, Er, Yb, and Lu) in xenoliths near the MLD is consistent with higher degrees of melting. Thus, we postulate that the MLD is the seismological signature of a chemical interface related to the paleointersection of a volatile‐rich solidus and progressively cooling lithosphere. Furthermore, the MLD may represent a remnant chemical tracer of the lithosphere‐asthenosphere boundary (LAB) from when the lithosphere was active and young.


For the nanopiezoactuator with hysteresis in control system its set of equilibrium positions is the segment of line. By applying Yakubovich criterion for system with the nanopiezoactuator the absolute stability of system is calculated for nanomedicine sciences.


A promising vision to make the global logistics more sustainable is 'Physical Internet Logistics'. This vision, based on the way 'Digital Internet' sends packages information through a network, is focused on optimisation of handling, storing, realising and supplying objects. Physical Internet Logistics suggests an open, global and interconnected network with different spokes, hubs and modes. Objects are encapsulated in standardised containers whereafter they will be distributed through a network. Routing of the container is focused on network balancing. Every container will follow its own path through the network from origin to destination by using different hubs. Different origin-destination pairs will be bundled and transported on the same link. Besides, similar origin-destination pairs could follow different paths through the network. At hubs, transhipment takes place to transfer containers to different routes. This paper is focused on the application of Physical Internet characteristics in the parcel delivery industry using an optimisation model concerning fleet allocation on a service network. The objective is to find such a fleet allocation plan in which the total amount of emitted CO2 is minimised. Two different designs are suggested: a 'hub design' and an 'open network design'. For the hub network design, a couple of nodes are defined as hub where transhipment can take place. Paths from origin to destination are only possible by using at least one hub. This means that demand travels from origin to hub to destination. For the Open network design, transhipment is possible at every node. Paths from origin to destination are possible in one direct way or by using a hub. This means that two kinds of paths are possible, from origin to destination or from origin to hub to destination. By using a case study at PostNL, a carrier in the Dutch parcel delivery industry, this paper concludes that the application of Physical Internet characteristics do have its influence. In particular, the openness of a network result in a reduction in total amount of emitted CO2. During the case study at PostNL, it became clear that a CO2 reduction of 6% is possible when the elements of Physical Internet were applied on a hub network design. The open network design is able to reduce the total amount of emitted CO2 by 16%. When the demand is known by forehand this paper concludes that a less restricted network results in less CO2 emissions emitted. Destinations should be severed by more than one hub or directly by the origin depot. Transhipment should be possible at as much as nodes as possible. Concerning a case in the parcel delivery industry, it is hard to make forecasting more reliable on a daily base due to the short time windows of delivery. This means that a carrier as PostNL should innovate in the flow of information from shippers to make the application of Physical Internet feasible.


Objective:To investigate the clinical effect of volume expansion with polygeline in reducing the occurrence of the low blood pressure after CSEA.Methods:120patients,scheduled for selective bone operation on legs under CSEA,were randomly divided into three groups equally.In30minutes before anesthesia,polygeline500ml was inputted for volume expansion in group,which was replaced by Ringer's solution in groupand without volume expansion in group.The blood pressure before anesthesia and5,15,30minutes after anesthesia and the occurrence number of low blood pressure were observed and recorded,and the occurrence rate of low blood pressure was counted in each group.Results:The occurrence rate of lowblood pressure in each group was10%,32.5%and55%respectively,it was the lowest in group I compared with that in other groups with a significant differnce(P0.01).Conclusion:Volume expansion with polygeline can effectively reduce the occurrence of the lowblood pressure after CSEA.


Developing new ABX3‐type perovskites is very important for expanding the family of perovskites and obtaining excellent light absorbing material. One strategy is replacing A site atoms with super‐alkali atoms for the perovskites, but super‐alkali perovskites with stable dynamics performance and high efficiency have not been found until now. Herein, massive super‐alkalis, such as Li3O, Li2F, H5O2, and so on, are introduced into the cubic CH3NH3PbI3 perovskites, and the perovskites with these super‐alkalis are systematically studied by using ab initio molecular dynamics simulation and density functional theory based first principles calculations. Calculated results indicate that the perovskites with the super‐alkalis including metal atoms show unstable dynamics performance under normal temperature and pressure. On the contrary, the first obtainable super‐alkali perovskites of cubic H5O2MBr3 (M = Ge, Sn, Pb) and H5O2PbI3 show stable dynamics performance. They also show suitable tolerance factors, negative formation energies, tunable direct band gaps, and small effective hole and electron masses. Moreover, the calculated power conversion efficiencies of 23.17% and 22.83% are obtained for the single‐junction solar cells based on the cubic H5O2SnBr3 and H5O2PbBr3 perovskites, respectively.


Press drying is a technique where the wet sheet is simultaneously pressed and dried with z-directional restraint. Since fibrous materials, especially those from high yield pulps, become more pliable with press drying, improved strength properties of the sheet can be expected.Bleached softwood kraft pulpsheet was press-dried in this study to evaluate the potential applicability of this method to the effective use of wood resources.The results of the mechanical tests indicated that press drying was effective for bleached chemical pulpsheet as well as for high yield pulpsheet. This leads to the assumption that some mechanism other than lignin flow contributes to the superiority of mechanical properties of the press dried sheet. It is possible that the fibers become soft and compressible in the presence of heat and water even after lignin is removed from them. According to Scallan's model on the microstructure of pulp, shear deformation at an interfibrillar region takes place easily by external load when water penetrates the interlamella of the fibers.A denser part at both sheet surfaces was assumed by the results of the bending test. However, more careful experiments focussing on the sheet structure are required to draw a clear conclusion on a z-directional uneven mass distribution.


It has been almost two decades since the beginning of the web. This means that the web is no longer just a technology of the present, but also, a record of our past. Email, one of the original forms of social media, is even older than the web and contains a detailed description of our personal and professional history. This thesis explores the world of email communication by introducing Immersion, a tool build for the purposes to analyze and visualize the information hidden behind the digital traces of email activity, to help us reflect on our actions, learn something new, quantify it, and hopefully make us react and change our behavior. In closing, I look over the email overload problem and work-life balance trends by quantifying general email usage using a large real-world email dataset.


Abstract: This Diploma Work examines particularities of historically-literal creations about the topic HOLOCAUST in relation to the past of two German contemporary living female authors, witnesses of Ruth Kluger's and Stella Muller-Madej's period, who critically processed their retrospective authentic evidences in their auto-biographic works.


A grid of 22 stations, giving a broad coverage of the spawning ground of anchovy in the southern Huanghai Sea was selected. Undisturbed sediments were taken from sampling stations during the cruise in June 2003. The average abundance of meiofauna is (1 584 ±686) ind./10cm2, with corresponding biomass (dwt) of(1 086+425) μg/10cm2. The pattem of abundance of meiofauna is similar to the pattern ofbiomass. There are 65.88% meiofauna in 0~2 cm sediments, 27.66% in 2~5 cm sediments and 6.47% in 5~8 cm sediments.The Spearman correlation analysis between meiofauna and environmental factors shows that abundance of meiofauna, free living marine nematodes, benthic copepods has significant positive correlations with Chl-a. And the abundance of copepods has significant positive correlations with several factors such as Chl-a, Pha-a, Chl-a plus Pha-a and organic matter. A total of 18 meiofauna groups are identified. Nematode is the most dominant group, average abundance (1 404 ± 670) ind/10cm2, accounting for 88.65%, and the following groups are also important: benthic copepods (5.48%), kinorhyncha (1.26%), polychaeta (1.07%). By biomass, dominant groups are nematodes (51.72%), polychaeta (21.84%), copepods (14.87%), ostracoda (4.92%), kinorhyncha (3.67%). A total of 90 species of nematodes are identified. The species composition of nematodes is listed based on selected two stations 7794 (coastal area) and 10694(cold water mass in deep waters).


Fabulists and Chroniclers provides an insider's view of literary culture in the Philippines. It is an account replete with names, historical allusions, and literary criticism. Although the tone of Fabulists and Chroniclers is personal, hence highly readable, its content is scholarly from beginning to end, including numerous citations. For a reader new to Filipino literary culture, the sheer quantity of names and titles is challenging to absorb. The author, Dr. Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo, is a highly suitable guide to literary developments in the Philippines. As of publication date in 2008, she was teaching creative writing and comparative literature at the University of the Philippines-Manila, while also serving as Vice President for Public Affairs at the same institution. Her own publications, more than a dozen books, include both literary criticism and imaginative writing, i.e., fiction, poetry, and travel writing. Hidalgo's book preceding the one under review is Over a Cup of Tea: Conversations on the Literary Narratives of Filipino Women (2007). She also published Creative Nonfiction: A Manual for Filipino Writers (2003). Both are likewise published by the University Press of the Philippines. Hidalgo's topic is compelling, encompassing as it does the emergent literary culture of a developing country. Writers and teachers on Guam can learn much from this book, which shows that an institutional hub and infrastructure are indispensable to the growth of a literary tradition. One can hardly write in a vacuum. The infrastructure includes but is not limited to academic programs in creative writing, literary prizes, grants, publishing houses, conferences, and journals, all of which are present to some extent in the Philippines today according to the author. Hidalgo demonstrates a keen awareness of these concrete necessities. She also examines the quality and specific influence of connections between academia and creative writing. The fact that Hidalgo's book is "dedicated to my dear friends in the UP Institute of Creative Writing" underscores the inner relation between her own literary success and the support (moral, financial, communal) she has enjoyed at the University of the Philippines. The University Press of the Philippines, with which she has had an editorial role, continues to publish many creative and scholarly manuscripts. (Its website can be accessed at http://uppress.com.ph/index.html.) The issue of the institutional life of creative writing has been a controversial one in the United States, with critics arguing that the proliferation of workshops on college campuses has Pacific Asia Inquiry, Volume 2, Number 1, Fall 2011


On the loose: We report an STD NMR spectroscopic study of the polysialyltransferase from Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B (NmB-polyST). The spectra reveal that the cytosine and ribose moiety receive more saturation than the sialic acid residue of CMP-Neu5Ac. This loose binding enables a fast and efficient sialyl transfer to the acceptor substrate. Our analysis offers a view of the structural determinants necessary for binding to NmB-polyST that provide the basis for the development of novel NmB-polyST inhibitors.


A solenoid valve which provides an output pressure at a service port 13 proportional to the electrical current used to energise the solenoid, includes a solenoid plunger 27 which is arranged when energised to apply a force to one side of a slidable valve member (16), said force being opposed by a variable fluid pressure applied to the other side of the valve member so that at a balance position, as shown, the valve will provide an output pressure at 13 which is proportional to the force applied by the solenoid (26) and hence the current energising the solenoid (26). In the balance position, port 13 is isolated from input pressure port 12 and drain port 14. In order to apply the variable fluid pressure to the other side of the valve member, port 13 communicates with an axial bore 24 in the valve member through a radial bore 21. In the balance position a stepped portion 40 of plunger 27 is located in a recessed portion 25 of a pole piece 11, and as the stepped portion 40 begins to enter the recessed portion 25 the force acting on the plunger 27 decreases.


Khushwant Singh  is the prominent novelist with the abundant knowledge of the transition period in the history of Indian indipendence. In his novel, the The Company of Women, he exhibit the passionately observed socio-cultural aspects of Indian individual, Mohan Kumar, and reveals the stupidity and immoralities of the progressive Indian upper class. Singh justifies the moralities by severely punishing immoralities. Projecting immoralirty as social weakness, he provides the detailed account of behaviour of both the society and individual.


Most traffic delays during regional evacuations occur due to a large number of vehicles are grouped for a short time. Thus, the reasonable assignment of a vehicle route is one strategy for reducing these delays. To identify an optimal vehicle route assignment plan, this paper presents a multi-source and multi-destination traffic network model. This model is an extension of the minimum cost flow problem and it improves the definition of the travel time based on the traffic volume. It can be used to formulate vehicle routing plans that alleviate traffic congestion and reduce the evacuation time. A genetic algorithm is modified to find the solution for this model. The solution trades off the total vehicle travel distance against traffic jams. An application is presented for Wenzhou city, Zhejiang province, China.


One of the most frequent modifications in proteins and peptides is the deamidation of asparagine, a spontaneous non‐enzymatic reaction leading to a mixture of L,D‐succinimidyl, L,D‐aspartyl, and L,D‐isoaspartyl forms, with L‐isoaspartyl dominating. Spontaneous isomerization of L‐Asp yields the same products. In vivo, these unusual forms of aspartate are repaired by the protein L‐isoaspartyl O‐methyltransferase enzyme, with the balance between isomerization and repair affecting the organism physiology. Mass spectrometric analysis of this balance involves isomer separation, iso‐Asp/Asp quantification, and iso‐Asp site identification. This review highlights the issues associated with these steps and discusses the prospects of high‐throughput iso‐Asp analysis.


In designing the temperature measurement system with a separate remote sensor-based This AT89C51 microcon- troller arise some problems, among others, on how to design hardware, and about designing a program that works to run circuit system. The purpose of this system design is to help people know the change of temperature of a room. In essence this system is designed circuit to know the temperature changes that occur in a sensor into digital values ??and display on the LCD by using ADC and microcontroller. Temperature measurement performed with sensors that are far apart. This tool is able to measure the precise temperature began from 26 C - 100 C, with fault tolerance +0 C - 2 C, and the percentage error. The smallest sensor is 2


The optimum conditions of preparation for magnetic cation exchange resin with chemical transformation were found by orthogonal test, that is, impregnating the resins with a mixture iron salts solution that the ratio of Fe 3+ and Fe 2+ was l∶2 for about 90 min at 50 ℃. Then on addition of sodium hydroxide which the concentration was 2 mol/L, the metal salts are converted to crystals of Fe 3O 4 which are uniformly contained throughout the pores and surface of the porous resin. There were no any new chemical bonds between Fe 3O 4 and the resin. The mechanism of resin magnetization was discussed on the basic of the analytical results .


Description: Heart rate is one of most easily measured exercise test variables. Although easily measured, the heart rate reflects a complex, integrated physiologic response. During the last two decades exercise test-derived heart rate variables have raised wide interest as prognostic markers of mortality and cardiac events both in asymptomatic persons and in patients with cardiovascular disease. This book summarizes the main results from four follow-up studies on the prognostic value of the heart rate response to a maximal exercise test in the Kuopio Ischemic Heart Disease Study. The unique approach in these studies was to explore the predictive value of heart rate response separately during light and heavier workloads during the standardized exercise test. Additionally, the book provides an in-depth review of the theoretical background behind heart rate regulation during exercise as well as an updated summary of the main epidemiological studies on the topic. This text is a valuable source of information for all physicians, exercise physiologists, physical therapists and other health-related professionals working in the field of exercise testing.


Unconventional hydrocarbons such as heavy oil require novel technologies to carry on the different stages involved in its transport and processing. The pipeline transport of heavy oil is one of the most expensive and challenging operations due to the high flow rates of diluent required to obtain the transport specifications. Previous studies have demonstrated that the high viscosity of heavy oils is caused by the strong intermolecular forces between asphalthenes molecules. In this study, we propose a multiscale approach that integrates prediction of properties based on the molecular structure of compounds (atomistic scale), disruption of intermolecular and interparticle's interactions (mesoscale) and evaluation of a macroscopic rheological response (macroscopic scale) with the purpose of screening potential molecules to use as viscosity reducers or flow enhancers during blending operations of heavy oil transport in pipelines. We estimate the asphaltene solubility parameters using state of the art computational tools based on Quantitative Structure-Property Relationships (QSPR) methods and experimentally validate that prediction with rheological measurements. The results indicate that starting with 7.5 oAPI extra-heavy oil partially diluted with naphtha; the viscosity can effectively be reduced up to 44.72% with 500 ppm of a selected molecular agent when compared with a traditional method of dilution. Finally, the expected quantity of diluent saved for this specific implementation is estimated to be between [3-10%] with respect to the conventional dilution process.


Russia has carried out major environmental policy reforms during its transition period since the early 1990s, including with respect to global issues such as climate change, loss of biodiversity and ozone layer depletion. In view of these changes, this chapter provides a brief overview of current (and forthcoming) Russian environmental law as applicable to businesses operating in Russia. By touching upon the main difficulties that investors may face, e.g., environmental charges and fines, implementation of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) procedure, this chapter may assist businesses to seek out and share experiences of best practices, provide innovative policy advice, as well as meet the challenges in the implementation and enforcement of Russian legislation and policies.

In addition, this chapter analyses and investigates
(i) economic and administrative enforcement instruments,
(ii) institutional arrangements,
(iii) the Russian system of environmental compliance control, and
(iv) new strategies which have been developed to protect the environment in Russia, ranging from the 'end-of-pipe' approach to pollution prevention strategies (through new technical regulation, best available techniques and 'cleaner production' methodology).


Abstract Targeted drug delivery for maintaining blood fluidity can reduce the risks associated with systemic anticoagulants that can lead to off‐target bleeding. Recently, there has been much interest in targeted delivery of tissue‐type plasminogen activator (tPA) for treating thrombotic complications. The work presented here characterizes a fibrin‐specific nanogel (FSN) design for targeted delivery of tPA to treat thrombotic complications. Fibrin binding and clot degradation were characterized in vitro, and animal models of thrombosis were used to examine nanogel effects on coagulation parameters. In vitro assays showed tPA‐FSNs attach to fibrin in a dose‐dependent manner independent of tPA loading. In animal models of thrombosis, including an electrolytic injury to monitor clot properties in real time, and a lipopolysaccharide‐induced disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) animal model, tPA‐FSNs modulated fibrin/fibrinogen and platelet incorporation into clots and at optimized dosing could recover consumptive coagulopathy in DIC. Distribution of unloaded and tPA‐loaded FSNs showed potential clearance of tPA‐FSNs after 24 h, although unloaded FSNs may be retained at sites of fibrin deposits. Maximum tolerated dose studies showed tPA‐FSNs have minimal toxicity up to 20 times the optimized therapeutic dose. Overall, these studies demonstrate the therapeutic efficacy of targeted fibrinolysis for systemic microthrombi and begin to evaluate key translational parameters for tPA‐FSN therapeutics, including optimal tPA‐FSN dosage in a DIC rodent model and safety of intravenous tPA‐FSN therapeutics.


Acknoledgements. Illustrations. Preface. 1. The Sinister Shepherd. 2. Wonder Drugs for the Pox. 3. England and the Pox. 4. An Age of Upheaval. 5. Chroniclers of Syphilis and Prostitution. 6. Prostitution in England. 7. High-Risk Groups. 8. The Promiscuous City and Its Stage Representation. 9. Shakespeare and His Circle. 10. Shakespeare's Unconscious Imagery. 11. Shakespeare's Mid-Life Crisis. 12. The Dangerous Infirmity of Burning. 13. Conclusion. Bilbliography. Index.


The wollastonite glass ceramics were successfully prepared using waste glass and gehlenite powder. The effects of preparation process parameters on synthesis of wollastonite glass ceramics were studied by fourier transform infrared spectoscopy (FT-IR). The crystalline phase, crystal morphology of wollastonite glass ceramics were characterized by XRD and SEM. The results show that the flake like wollastonite glass ceramics can be obtained by changing the sintering temperature, the content of gehlenite and the holding time when using the reaction crystallization method. With the increasing of each preparation condition parameter, the increase of [Si-O] unsaturated degree will aggravate the fracture of network structure and then lead to various network fractures. The optimum preparation conditions were confirmed as follows: sintering temperature of 900 °C, content of gehlenite of 30 %, holding time of 2 hours.


This paper presents the experimental method and findings to obtain the deformational behavior of mortar in meso-scale under arbitrary moisture and temperature history under freeze thaw cycles (FTC). Based on experimental results, the frost damage mechanisms of mortar under different moisture conditions were presented and a deformational behavior model is proposed based on moisture behavior during FTC. The presented model is combined with heat and moisture balance for three phases and is able to calculate temperature, ice and water content and total strain of a specimen.


The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence of Pediculosis humanus capitus (Head lice infestation) among children in internally displaced camps in Maiduguri, Borno State. A cross sectional study was conducted in January 2019 to April 2020 among 2-6 years old children in the internally displaced camps. The children were critically examined for the present of live head lice (Pediculos humanus capitis), eggs or nits in the hair. Out of 198 subjects examined 100 (50.5%) were male, 98(49.5%) were female from four different internally displaced camps involved in the study. Among the children examined 54(27.3%) were found to be infested with Pediculosis humanus capitis while 144 (72.7%) were not infested. Male have slightly greater infestation with 50.5% in comparism to the female with 49.5% infestation. Whereas head lice infestation based age among study population revealed that, highest infestation rate was recorded among children with 7 years old with 16(45.7%) followed by 6 years old children 11(32.4%), 5 years old children with 9(24.5%), 4 years old with 8(20.5%), 3 years old children with 6(20.0) and 2 years old children with 4(18.2%). Likewise the population distribution of children enrolled in the four different internally displaced camps revealed as Bakasi IDPs camp 68(34.3%), Muna Da'alti IDPs camp 48(24.2%), Dalori IDPs camp 42(21.2%) and Ajiganaram IDPs camp 40(20.0%) respectively. The findings of this research work revealed that Pediculosis humanus capitis is a common public health concern among children in internally displaced camps in the study. Thus, immediate public and primary health care attention is needed to strategically plan for prevention and control measures to curtail the disease.


To evaluate the efficiency of the zeolite for purification of house hold water at the site La Palestina, El Guabo Canton province of El Oro. Based on the scientific article removing bacteria from the surface and groundwater borne by the system economic domestic water treatment (HWTS): a sustainable solution to improve water quality in rural communities in Africa proposes several filter designs. First with the field visit, a sample of well water was taken for transport to the laboratory for examination obtained an excess of nitrite, phosphate, total and fecal coliforms. Giving as results filtered water one removal or reduction of nitrite, phosphate, however coliforms we rest illbeing surrounded by countless septic close because you do not have sewage system. We conclude that the zeolite filter has a high efficiency and to eliminate the need to add chlorine coliforms 2 mg / l once filtered water.


In the final contribution to the special issue 'Cultural Populism in New Populist Times', Marie Moran interviews Jim McGuigan on the legacy and continued relevance of the concept of cultural populism. Here, Jim reviews the earlier argument of his 1992 book Cultural Populism, and makes the case for the necessity of fostering what he terms a 'critical populism' in the era of neoliberal capitalism. Reflecting on the origins of cultural populism, the legacy of the Birmingham School and the continued influence but narrow use of the work of Raymond Williams, Jim explores what is at stake in the critical analysis of popular tastes, including a discussion of Derry Girls, Ralph Miliband's forgotten concept of 'de-subordination', and the new forms of cultural and political populism associated with Brexit.


Based on the method of gear system dynamics and Lagrange equation,a translational-rotational coupling dynamic model of the Co-axial Counter-rotating Epicyclic Transmissions(CCET) is built to analyze the natural frequencies.The system natural frequency and vibration vector can be obtained by solving the eigenvalue according to the relevant parameters of the CCET,and the analysis result shows that there are three different vibration modes: ordinary gear train vibration mode,differential gear train vibration mode and coupling vibration mode.With the increase of the planetary gear of differential gear train,the relationship between the double root and the number of the planetary gear of differential gear train is received.The impact of coupling stiffness to natural characteristics of the system is analyzed.


Objectives:To explore the measurement of on-site first aid of severe acute altitude illness in large crowds under acute exposure to high altitude environment.Methods:18 patients who suffered from severe acute altitude illness,including high altitude pulmonary edema (17 cases) and cerebral edema (1 case),between 4 and 48 hours after arrival the Yushu earthquake area were treated at on-site,and the assessment of measurement and efficacy of treatment were conducted.Results:17 of 18 patients with severe acute altitude illness were cured (17 vs 18,94.44%); 1 patient was transferred after improvement of patient's condition,all patients survived. Conclusions: The general treatment associated with emergency treatment plays an important role on the severe acute high altitude disease caused by acute high altitude hypoxia,and can elevate the cure rate of high altitude disease,lowering death,at on-site in large crowds of acute exposure to high altitude environment.


A 600MHz transconductance amplifier exhibiting 1% gain compression at 300MHz and 80% of full range with 0.2% thermal distortion, using cascomp technology, will be reported.


This review article presents an overview of the 'site evaluation' process, the roles and responsibilities of participants, the standard requirements and processes for activities which needs attention, and the importance of communication and flexibility during this startup phase of the study. This article is written in accordance with International Conference on Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use Harmonized Tripartite Guideline for Good Clinical Practice (ICH GCP Topic E6).


When enciphered contents information is transferred from media A to media B, enciphered key information and ID(A) of the media A are recorded as a control number of data link ID in a memory of a media control unit. The control number is attached to the enciphered contents information and duplicated to the media B with the enciphered key information. The enciphered key information read from the media B and the enciphered key information read from the media B are compared with each other. When they coincide, a differential ID (A-B) value which is a differential value between media A ID and media B ID is outputted to the media B. After the output, the enciphered key information and ID(A) recorded in the memory are deleted.


Using the three-dimensional theory of justice developed by Nancy Fraser and valuing the epistemological relevance of the intersectionalapproach, the author purposes a critical analysis of the Colombian multicultural project at the hands of the Constitutional Court, with specific attention to indigenous communities. At the center of this reflection lies the complexity of the concept of minority, the difficulties in defining 'indigenous territory' and the tension between the different types of pretensions of indigenous groups (pretensions of recognition, distribution and representation)


A request for peer reviewing an academic paper represents the recognition of the academic performance of the peer reviewer. Journals owe much of their reputation to their peer reviewers. It is therefore important to make sure that you only undertake the peer reviewing of papers close to your own area of expertise. The journal Financial and Economic Review will only accept papers based on their author's own research and presenting new and novel results. Reviews and descriptions of the literature do not constitute a paper; they should serve as no more than its theoretical background. The literature used in the article should be relevant and the latest literature should also be included. The selected method of research should match the objective laid down. We believe that the self-serving use of econometrics is unnecessary. The data used should not be old. The study should have a clear, logical and consistent structure. In writing your peer review, please give special consideration to the matters laid out below.


Purpose – To examine whether consumers value the in‐store experience that retailers provide as part of the store as brand concept.Design/methodology/approach – A sample of young adult consumers (N=188) was surveyed using a self‐administered questionnaire. Statistical techniques (MANOVA, post hoc tests) were used to evaluate the data.Findings – Statistical models indicate that consumers expect both hedonic and utilitarian value to be present when shopping in the store as brand context.Research limitations/implications – The findings are useful because they confirm significant differences in consumer perceptions of hedonic shopping value across several retail brands. Therefore, customers appear to recognize the uniqueness among the in‐store experience that retailers are working hard to achieve. This delivery of value, then, seems to be an effective source of differentiation.Practical implications – The results of this study indicate that retailers using a "store as the brand" strategy should continue to inv...


Through introducing one graduate student' s project of Tongji University ,this paper analyzes the concept of Permeability which is used in an architectural project design .


In the recent years, we experienced the proliferation of sensors for retrieving depth information on a scene, such as LIDAR or RGBD sensors (Kinect). However, it is still a challenge to identify the meaning of a specific point cloud to recognize the underlying object. Here, we wonder if it is possible to define a global feature for an object that is robust to noise, sampling and occlusion. We propose a local measure based on curvature. We called it Principal Curvature because rather than using the Gaussian curvature we keep the information of the two principal curvatures. In our approach, this local information is then aggregated as histograms that are compared with a Chi-2 metric. Results show the robustness of the method particularly when only few points are available. This means that our approach can be very suitable to match objects even with a limited resolution and possible occlusions. It could be particularly adapted to recognize objects with LIDAR inputs.


The goal of this study is the presentation of a learning tool for satellite Remote Sensing. The target group of the learning platform is students of Higher Education Institutions in Greece. The purpose of this work is to use technology as a way to create an environment in which students can learn by doing, receiving feedback, continually refining their understanding and building knowledge. The learning environment is interactive and supports collaborative experiences. Evaluation constitutes a key element of the entire work, as a means to investigate, provide evidence and make judgments about the tool's effectiveness and benefits. A series of features characterizing the learning platform have been considered in order to assess its function and potential usability. The scores achieved showed that the platform's design and structure were quite satisfactory and indicated its potential use as a good learning tool for the distribution of knowledge in the field of remote sensing.


PHYLLOSTOMID BATS EXT THE FRUITS AND DISPERSE THE SEEDS of a wide variety of neotropical plant species, particularly those typical of early successional stages (Fleming & Heithaus 198 1, Heithaus 1982, OrozcoSegovia et al. 1985). In assessing the effects of frugivorous animals on plant populations and vice-versa, it is important to determine whether the animals are selective in the types of fruit they eat, or whether the proportional abundance of different fruit species in their diets simply reflects availability in the environment. The purpose of this study was to experimentally test the hypothesis that two common phyllostomid species, Sturnira ludovici and Dermanura tolteca (=Artibeus toltecus), feed selectively in the subtropical montane cloud forest of western Mtxico. Feeding selectivity of plant-visiting animals can be measured at several ecological scales. At the community level, fruit bats and other taxonomic guilds of vertebrate frugivores exploit only a limited subset of the available fruit resource base (Heithaus et al. 1975, Janson 1983, Gautier-Hion et al. 1985). At this level, the phyllostomid bats in our study area appear to feed selectively, insofar as seeds identified from the feces of mistnetted bats represent only a fraction of the potentially available cloud forest plant species. Fruits of second-growth shrubs accounted for the overwhelming majority of 117 fecal samples obtained from S. luduvici captured throughout the yearly cycle, 1991-1993. In particular, fruits of two common groundstory shrubs, Solanum nigricans and S. aphyodndron (Solanaceae), accounted for 40 and 43 percent of all samples, respectively. Fruits of Conostegia vokanalis (Melastomataceae), a subcanopylevel tree common in moist drainages, accounted for 7 percent. Of 29 fecal samples obtained from D. tolteca captured during this same time period, fruits of S. nigricans and S. aphyohdron accounted for 21 and 42 percent of all samples, respectively, whereas fruits of C. vokanalis accounted for 38 percent. All fecal samples contained seeds of only one species per sample. The relative importance of these three plants as fruit resources for bats is corroborated by rates of nocturnal fruit-removal from plants monitored in the field (Schondube-F. 1994). Here we report the results of feeding experiments designed to test whether cloud forest bats feed selectively among a limited array of six fruit species actually known or suspected of being included in their diets. Compared to other fruits in its diet, S. ludovici handles and digests S. nigricans fruits more efficiently, and extracts more metabolizable energy per fruit. Solanum nigricans fruits are also highest in sugar and protein content (Schondube-F. 1994). Because the overall ease of handling, digestibility, and nutritional quality of fruit are known to influence the diet choice of frugivores (Moermond & Denslow 1985, Bonaccorso & Gush 1987), we predicted that captive S. ludovici would feed selectively on S. nigricans fruits . In a premontane cloud forest in Costa Rica, both S. luduvici and D. tolteca fed on the fruits of second-growth shrubs, although D. tolteca specialized on the fruit crops of canopy level trees during seasonal peaks in fruit abundance (Dinerstein 1986). Under the assumption that patterns of habitat use and feeding behavior are similar in our study area, we predicted that captive D. tolteca would feed selectively on the fruits of C. vokanalis. This study took place at the Las Joyas Scientific Station, Sierra de Manantlh Biosphere Reserve, Jalisco, Mtxico. For details on the natural history and management of the site see Jardel (1992). Las Joyas (1900 m) covers an area of 1245 ha in the Sierra de Manantlin mountain range in western Mtxico, 40 km from the Pacific coast. This area is characterized by high topographic diversity and includes five principal vegetation types: pine and pine-oak forests (roughly 54% of total area), cloud forest (25%), second growth (16%), oak forest (4%), and riparian forest (1%). The patchy distribution of these habitats at Las Joyas is due in part to a long history of human disturbance predating its current protected status.


Collaborative innovation has become an effective way for enterprises to improve their competitive advantages. The establishment of cooperative network between enterprises can help to deal with the current challenges. But collaborative innovation network is becoming more and more complex, how to identify important innovation node in collaborative innovation network is important to improve the efficiency of collaborative innovation. Thus, the importance evaluation of collaborative innovation node is analyzed. Firstly, the model of collaborative innovation network is constructed based on the complex network theory, and the evaluation index system of collaborative innovation node is constructed from the perspective of collaborative innovation efficiency, collaborative innovation knowledge, innovation attitude and participation in collaborative innovation. The evaluation indexes are reduced by rough set theory (RS) to obtain the key evaluation indexes. Secondly, because of the fuzziness and uncertainty of the evaluation indexes, the importance of innovation node is evaluated based on triangular intuitionistic fuzzy number (TIFN). Finally, the feasibility and effectiveness of the method is verified through an example. The research in this paper provides an important foundation for further research on the efficiency and stability of collaborative innovation network.


Objective
To explore the correlation between homocysteine (Hcy), uric acid, ambulatory arterial stiffness index (AASI) and left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) in elderly H-type hypertensive patients.

Methods
Two hundred and forty-one patients or outpatients with essential hypertension between September 2016 and June 2018 from the Department of Cardiology and Geriatrics of the First Affiliated Hospital of Jinzhou Medical University were selected, and they were 60 to 79 years old. In the patients, 191 cases had H-type hypertension (H-type hypertension group), and 50 cases had non-H-type hypertension patients (non-H-type hypertension group). In the H-type hypertension patients, LVH was in 78 cases, and non-LVH in 113 cases. The general clinical data were gathered, and the Hcy and uric acid were detected. The 24 h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring was performed in all patients, and the AASI was calculated.

Results
There were no statistical differences in the hypertension duration, uric acid, AASI and left ventricular mass index (LVMI) between H-type hypertension group and non-H-type hypertension group (P>0.05). In elderly H-type hypertension patients, the hypertension duration in LVH patients was significantly longer than that in non-LVH patients: (10.26 ± 3.95) years vs. (9.13 ± 3.05) years, the uric acid, AASI and Hcy were significantly higher than those in non-LVH patients: (433.7 ± 65.7) μmol/L vs. (400.6 ± 67.5) μmol/L, 0.54 ± 0.11 vs. 0.49 ± 0.12 and (16.84 ± 4.70) μmol/L vs. (14.12 ± 2.26) μmol/L, and there were statistical differences (P 0.05).

Conclusions
Hcy, uric acid and AASI are associated with LVH in elderly H-type hypertension patients, and Hcy is an independent risk factor of LVH, but uric acid and AASI are not independent risk factors of LVH. Hcy can be used as a predictor of LVH. Hcy screening and intervention should thus be strengthened.

Key words:
Hypertension; Hypertrophy, left ventricular; Homocysteine; Uric acid; Ambulatory arterial stiffness index


Apartheid South Africa has long been the pariah of international sport. South Africans have not competed in the Olympic Games since i960, and they lost the opportunity to compete in the Commonwealth Games in 1961. The governing bodies of these events the International Olympic Committee (10c) and the Commonwealth Games Federation (cgf) have effectively barred South Africans from other major competitions in the sports under their jurisdiction and actively discourage other contacts. Many of the international federations in the Olympic sports have expelled South Africa from membership altogether and penalize those who attempt to further contacts (see table 1). The ioc and the cgf have also contributed significantly to the cessation of contacts in sports beyond their jurisdiction, notably cricket and rugby, white South Africa's favourites. There has not been a major cricket tour of South Africa since 1970, a rugby tour since 1985. Governments have extended and reinforced these prohibitions. Many bar entry to South African athletes and officials and require their own athletes and sports associations to boycott all sporting contact with South Africa as a condition of public support. Under the United Nations Convention Against Apartheid in Sports, twenty-seven countries have also agreed to bar entry to athletes from other countries who have played in South Africa.1


Speakers use a variety of contextual information, such as facial emotional expressions for the successful transmission of their message. Listeners must decipher the meaning by understanding the intention behind it (Recanati, 1986). A traditional approach to the study of communicative intention has been through speech acts (Escandell, 2006). The objective of the present study is to further the understanding of the influence of facial expression to the recognition of communicative intention. The study sought to: verify the reliability of facial expressions recognition, find if there is an association between a facial expression and a category of speech acts, test if words contain an intentional load independent of the facial expression presented, and test whether facial expressions can modify an utterance's communicative intention and the neural correlates associated using univariate and multivariate approaches. We found that previous observation of facial expressions associated with emotions can modify the interpretation of an assertive utterance that followed the facial expression. The hemodynamic brain response to an assertive utterance was moderated by the preceding facial expression and that classification based on the emotions expressed by the facial expression could be decoded by fluctuations in the brain's hemodynamic response during the presentation of the assertive utterance. Neuroimaging data showed activation of regions involved in language, intentionality and face recognition during the utterance's reading. Our results indicate that facial expression is a relevant contextual cue that decodes the intention of an utterance, and during decoding it engages different brain regions in agreement with the emotion expressed.


This papers describes first the history of mapping and cartographic depiction of Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world. The quality of the map and geodata of the area has significantly increased over the last hundred years. It may now serve as a precise source to derive educational maps, such as the Everest map in the SWISS WORLD ATLAS, the Swiss school atlas. We first describe the history of mapping Mount Everest and then the production steps for the new atlas map, with a special focus on terrain representation (relief, rock depiction).


SummaryThe effect of Meloidogyne incognita race 1 at different population densities (0, 0.0625, 0.125, 0.25,... 256 eggs and juveniles/cm3 soil) on the growth of a rootstock (1103 Paulsen) and a cv. Italia of grapevine was studied in glasshouse experiment. One-year-old, self-rooted plants were transplanted into 1,200 cm3 plastic pots containing soil infested by M. incognita race 1 at different inoculum levels. Reproduction of M. incognita race 1 was significantly higher on cv. Italia than on the rootstock 1103 Paulsen. Tolerance limits (T) of 1.28 and 0.78 eggs and juveniles/cm3 soil were estimated respectively for 1103 Paulsen and Italia. Minimum relative plant growth of 0.55, 0.80 and 0.85, respectively for shoot length and node number increase and fresh top weight, were estimated for 1103 Paulsen; whereas values of 0.25, 0.50 and 0.60 were assessed for the cv. Italia. Nematode equilibrium density was 33.6 and 137.8 eggs and juveniles/cm3 soil, on 1103 Paulsen and Italia, respectively.


As noted by a range of critics, most recently Maggie Nelson in The Art of Cruelty, the stories of torture that emerged from Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib in the mid 2000s are bound up with popular ...


In this paper, a one-step, combustion synthesis-based process for fabricating Al_2O_3 fiber-reinforced Ni_3Al is described. The process uses relatively low temperatures and pressures, and can be used to prepare relatively large, dense, near-net-shape articles that possess either simple or relatively complicated shapes. This process can be used to incorporate continuous, aligned fibers into the Ni_3Al matrix material in such a way that the fibers are not damaged either mechanically (due to relatively small loads applied during the process) or chemically (due to the very short time at which the sample remains at elevated tempertures during the process). (Chopped fibers, as well as equiaxed particles or whiskers, could also be similarly incorporated using this process.) This combustion synthesis process is a relatively simple one-requiring only relatively low temperatures and pressures, as well as relatively low-cost starting materials-which suggests that its scale-up beyond the laboratory scale would be particularly straightforward.


Inside electrodes fabricated by a conventional method, inactive catalysts exist because catalysis were covered with polytetrafluoroethylene (PEFE). To reduce the inactive catalysis and develop a better electrode structure, the procedure of mixing the materials was changed. To begin with, PTFE/C powder was manufactured. Pt catalysts were then loaded on the PTFE/C powder, For loading the Pt catalysts on carbon blacks, a colloidal method was used. The porosities, pore areas, and performances of the electrodes were examined by a porosimeter and an electrochemical measurement apparatus. The electrodes fabricated by the new method were superior to those fabricated by the conventional method. In particular, the performance of the former, was 390 mA/㎠ at 0.7 V (vs. RHE) compared with that of the latter of 250 mA/㎠ at 0.7 V(vs.RHE)


Objective:To evaluate the therapeutic effect and safety of Holmium:YAG laser on the endoscopic treatment of ureteral complicated calculi.Methods:From December 2003 to December 2004,87 cases with ureteral complicated calculi were Were viewed which were treated with Holmium:YAG laser endoscopy, All 87 cases have hydronephrosis. Among them,46 cases with ureteral stricture,69 cases with polypus and 21 cases fail of ESWL.Results:95.4%(83/87) stones were fragmented in one treatment session.Complications were observed in 4.6%(4/87) cases mainly perforation and calculi shift.Conclusions:Treatment of urinary calculi with this method has been safe,effective and less invasive,especially those failure of ESWL.