We present an extension of the programming-by-contract (PBC) paradigm to a concurrent and distributed environment. Classical PBC is characterized by absolute conformance of code to its specification, assigning blame in case of failures, and a hierarchical, cooperative decomposition model – none of which extend naturally to a distributed environment with multiple administrative peers. We therefore propose a more nuanced contract model based on quantifiable performance of implementations; assuming responsibility for success, and a fundamentally adversarialmodel of system integration, where each component provider is optimizing its behavior locally, with respect to potentially conflicting demands. This model gives rise to a game-theoretic formulation of contract-governed process interactions that supports compositional reasoning about contract conformance.


After discussing the doctrine of calling and the history and importance of the middle management profession, the authors challenge business professors to present management as an exciting calling for students.


ABSTRACT This paper describes a study of the lower Jurassic conglomerates in the region around Lake Baikal (Irkutsk and Chita Oblasts, Buryat Republic). The approach used in the study was the analysis of samples from well cores, outcrops, and mine workings. Lithological and geochemical analyses of the conglomerate's matrices suggest that the conglomerates were deposited in a single early Jurassic river paleo-valley, the geological structure of which was later complicated by tectonic processes. The most significant results of this were the formation of the Angara-Selenga imbricate-fan thrust and the Baikal rift basin. The position of the Praselenga River valley was reconstructed for the first time. It is noted that gold-bearing Lower Jurassic conglomerates are represented by mineralogical association resistant to weathering processes formed in the mountain valleys.


An axially chiral reactive precursor—a trans-configured Pd(II) chelate complex—toward the planar chiral bis-palladacycle FBIP-Cl, which was recently shown to be an excellent enantioselective catalyst for both aza-Claisen rearrangements and direct Michael additions, has been identified and allows us to explain the stereochemical outcome of the first reported direct diastereoselective bis-cyclopalladation. In contrast to the trans-configured chelate complex, its cis-configured counterpart turned out to be a dead end under the initial cyclopalladation conditions and required harsher conditions for C−H activation.


The willingness of commercial banks to provide loans is determined by various factors. In this regard, this paper provides empirical evidence on determinants of bank lending in Nigeria. The parsimonious model of this study investigates the impact of growth in loan-to-deposit ratio, growth in inflation, growth in broad money, and growth in bank capital on growth in bank lending using annual data from 1961 to 2016. This study adopts the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach and Granger causality tests to investigate the relationship and direction of causality among the variables, respectively. The Granger causality tests show that growth in broad money Granger-causes growth in bank lending, while there is no causality from other explanatory variables to bank lending in Nigeria. Also, this study shows that growth in bank lending Granger-causes growth in loan-to-deposit ratio and growth in inflation in Nigeria. Thus, this paper argues that commercial banks in Nigeria exhibit stern concern for their liquidity and capital adequacy positions while acting as financial intermediaries. Additionally, this paper argues that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) possesses "paper-based" independence.


This paper proposes an interpretation of the racist ideology wrapped in speeches by teachers and children about literary works for young people, using the Depth Hermeneutics as methodology. With regard to the formal analysis (2nd phase), field study was conducted in three groups of 4th graders of a municipal school, which witnessed, recorded and transcribed eight reading lessons. In the episodes analyzed in this paper, several strategies were observed in the interpretation of ideological messages of the books, for example, stigmatization, responsible for reinforcing preconceptions and stereotypes about the history and culture African-Brazilian and African people.


Health, or its absence, is a function of five groups of attributes: (a) individual behaviors, (b) the physical environment, (c) the social environment, (d) per sonal health services, and (e) genetics. A large array of diverse tools can be employed to manipulate these variables with the intention of improving health. One important category of tools is incentives, the carrots and sticks that encourage both individuals and organizations to follow certain courses of action believed to influence health. In this paper we examine a venerable subclass of incentives: economic inducements. Through an array of economic mechanisms-taxes, insurance premium differentials, income supplements, and so on�mployers, policy makers, and others have striven to alter be haviors and environmental conditions perceived to be deleterious to health. Interest in economic incentives and health behavior is reflected in both the academic and trade literature on the subject. The latter provides much of the available information on the nature of health behavior incentive programs, particularly in business and industry, while the academic literature is the principal source of assessments of such programs. Some incentive-behavior links have been the subject of both policy and scholarly attention for decades, such as the effect of cigarette price increases on cigarette consumption (45, 63, 65,85, 104). But some linkages are new, truly experimental, such as a handful of income-enhancement programs tied to specific healthful behaviors (discuss ed below). We explore a wide range of economic incentives, reviewing the relevant literature in the context of a systematic consideration of incentives and their intended audience. Toward that end, the next section presents a conceptual


The first in a series abstracted from P. Russell's The History of Western Oil Shale is presented. Approximately 65 years of western oil shale development is described, being the years in which most present-day retorting processes were invented and developed. These processes have led to studies of in situ retorting and to the resumption of leasing of federal oil shale lands.


There exists a vast literature about the di erentiabil ity of fuzzy valued mappings see for instance Dubois and Prade Puri and Ralescu Goetschel and Voxman or Kaleva One of the main problems in working with di erentials of fuzzy valued mappings is that the usual class of fuzzy sets of R does not con gure a vectorial space with respect to the sum and the product by a scalar induced by Zadeh s Extension Principle Due to this problem it becomes some times useful to embed that class of fuzzy sets into a normed space in order to de ne a classical Fr echet type di erential This tool has been used in Puri and Ralescu and recently in Rojas Medar et al to embed special classes of fuzzy sets into the space of continuous functions from S to R


The gas‐phase reactions of D+2, D+3, SiF+, and SiF+3 with SiF4 and of SiF+ and SiF+3 with D2 have been studied in the center‐of‐mass energy range of 0.2–7 eV using a tandem mass spectrometer. Only one reaction of a silicon‐containing ion with SiF4 was observed, namely the highly endothermic transfer of F− from SiF4 to SiF+. Hence the SiF4 molecule must be almost unique in showing a virtual absence of gas‐phase ionic chemistry in pure SiF4 subjected to ionization. Several ion‐molecule reactions were observed in the SiF4–D2 system but of these only the dissociative F− transfer from SiF4 to D2+ is exothermic. The almost total absence of exothermic ion‐molecule reactions means that the ionic distribution pertinent to the plasma chemistry of the SiF4 and SiF4–H2 systems will be determined solely by the cross sections of the electron impact ionization processes.


AbstractIncident and reflected peak overpressures and reflected impulses are often used to compute blast loads on structures, components of structures, and objects. Reflection coefficients are used...


There is a need for systemic improvement in the management of care records in Australia. This has been highlighted by government inquiries, media coverage and research literature relating to the significance of records for those who experience out-of-home care. The Who Am I? project – an interdisciplinary collaboration between historians, social workers and archivists – sought to address this concern and support positive change in 12 participating community service organisations (CSOs) in Victoria. To provide a framework for practice improvement, research archivists on the Who Am I? team designed the Self-Assessment Tool for Archives. Based on an action research methodology and influenced by the Records Continuum, this was an 'educative intervention' for the CSOs, as well as the participating archivists.


High-throughput computational materials searches generate large databases of locally-stable structures. Conventionally, the needle-in-a-haystack search for the few experimentally-synthesizable compounds is performed using a convex hull construction, which identifies structures stabilized by manipulation of a particular thermodynamic constraint (for example pressure or composition) chosen based on prior experimental evidence or intuition. To address the biased nature of this procedure we introduce a generalized convex hull framework. Convex hulls are constructed on data-driven principal coordinates, which represent the full structural diversity of the database. Their coupling to experimentally-realizable constraints hints at the conditions that are most likely to stabilize a given configuration. The probabilistic nature of our framework also addresses the uncertainty stemming from the use of approximate models during database construction, and eliminates redundant structures. The remaining small set of candidates that have a high probability of being synthesizable provide a much needed starting point for the determination of viable synthetic pathways.


Alice Podavka 1 Ildi Cismasiu Sorin Dan UDK: 624.042.7 DOI:10.14415/konferencijaGFS2017.004 Summary: As it is known, Portugal is a country prone to seismic activity. After the 1755's devastating Lisbon Earthquake, the city's downtown was rebuilt with "Pombalino" masonry buildings. This type of buildings includes a three-dimensional timber structure enclosed in masonry walls aiming to provide seismic resistance to these structures. Most of these buildings need structural strengthening interventions and therefore the main goal of this paper is the seismic vulnerability assessment of the structural performance of an existing "Pombalino" masonry building modified by local strengthening systems. The structure was modeled in the 3Muri software based on the non-linear equivalent frame model approach. The in-plane capacity curves were found out by incremental static (pushover) analysis, to establish the buildings global structural performance.


A new numerical study of laminar polydisperse flame ignition and extinction fronts in a mixing layer resulting from opposed streams of fuel and oxidant is presented. Two quite different initial droplet size distributions having the same Sauter mean diameter (SMD) are considered. The phenomenon of hysteresis is found to occur for a high initial droplet load but disappears as the latter decreases. The range of strain rate values for which hysteresis is prevalent depends on the initial size distribution. For example, whilst under certain operating conditions, an extinction front may result from using one initial droplet size distribution, use of another size distribution, even having the same SMD, can exhibit hysteresis. Other features of the influence of the initial spray polydispersity are discussed in depth.


Combined with the construction practice of some bridge,the paper introduced the construction of large-span continuous beam bridge suspended wagon cantilever and some quality control measures for reference.


In this paper, we proposed and demonstrated a MEMS packaging process that for the first time integrates a specifically developed TSV technology. In the proposed packaging process, after capping, alloy TSVs were fabricated by a wafer-level liquid-metal injection method that is based on combinative effect of liquid-bridge rupture and capillary action. Taking advantage of liquid-metal filling, the TSV filling can be finished in few minutes. Furthermore, the specific TSV process is capable to achieve flat via-surface, a feature that can dismiss the Chemical-Mechanical Polishing (CMP) process that is necessary after conventional plating-filling.


In order to evaluate MCP as a soil strengthening process, a five meter sand column was treated with bacteria and reagents under conditions that were realistic for field applications. The injection and reaction parameters were monitored during the process and both bacteria and process reagents could be injected over the full column length at low pressures (hydraulic gradient < 1; a flow rate of approximately 7 m/day) without resulting in clogging of the material. After treatment, the column was subjected to mechanical testing, which indicated a significant improvement of strength and stiffness over several meters. Calcium carbonate was precipitated over the entire five meter treatment length. Improvement of the load bearing capacity of the soil without making the soil impermeable to fluids was shown with microbial carbonate precipitation, and this is a unique property compared to alternative soil treatment methods that are currently available for use in the subsurface.


In this paper we have proposed a new algorithm of encrypting and decrypting images and text files. The proposed method is implemented by combining the concepts of Diffie Hellman algorithm and Blowfish algorithm. In this new technique at first a computer user will encrypt a file using a secret key generated by blowfish algorithm. Then using Diffie-Hellman protocol a shared private key will be generated for two computer users who are trying to communicate over an insecure channel. Now if the second user wants to decrypt the file encrypted by the first user he/she has to use the shared key for permission. Once the permission is granted, the file can be decrypted using blowfish algorithm.


Frank Kermode's autobiographical recollections of the Second World War disclose much about one of the most prominent literary critics of the twentieth century. They reveal in part the personal and affective origins of his existentialism, a philosophy that permeated his early literary criticism and contributed to a wider cultural discourse in mid-twentieth-century Britain. They also help explain his later preoccupation with the 'fictions' of communication. His naval experiences taught him how words could not begin to capture the traumas of lived experience, a lesson he later developed and refined. Finally, Kermode's war experiences help explain the generational conflict that separated him from his younger colleagues and convinced him that individuals remain embedded within a historical moment they can neither choose nor escape.


Reconstruction of heterogeneous cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) structures is a very challenging task for discovering conformational heterogeneity of biological macro-molecules and their complexes in different functional states, where heterogeneous projection image classification is a key technology. In this paper, three heterogeneous projection image classification algorithms based on the similarity and reliability of common lines are proposed, in which the reliability of common lines is calculated according to two voting algorithms. The similarity and reliability of common lines are converted into adjacency matrices using a k-nearest neighbor algorithm and a shared nearest neighbor algorithm. The adjacency matrices are used as the input of a normalized spectral clustering algorithm to perform the classification of heterogeneous projection images. The proposed algorithms are applied to two heterogeneous cryo-EM datasets to demonstrate their classification performance. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithms can achieve higher classification accuracy in comparison with R ELION and XMIPP, indicating that they are effective in the 3D reconstruction of heterogeneous cryo-EM structures.


To the Editor. —Markham and Diamond 1 drew attention to the controversy concerning the early start or postponement of levodopa therapy in Parkinson's disease. We should like to point to an inaccuracy in their article. They use two disability scores (Hoehn and Yahr and UCLA scores), but because these are so-called ordinal scales, average values cannot be calculated. As Wulff 2 said: "To measure on an ordinal scale is like using an unevenly stretched tape measure." In our opinion, figures like the one shown in their article cannot be made for either the UCLA or the Hoehn and Yahr scale, and, as a consequence, their figure has no meaning.


In the accountancy literature, there is robust empirical evidence on earnings management, with various phrases used to depict the concept such as income smoothing, accounting hocus-pocus, aggressive accounting, engineering accounting, and creative accounting, among others. Conceivably, the widespread literature on earnings management may be associated with the varied usage of earnings management phrases together with cravings by firms to beat earnings management practices. Interestingly, the literature on earnings management is staggered by remarkable, but divergent results (Jones, 1991; Dechow, Sloan & Sweeney, 1995; Zunera, DOES EARNINGS MANAGEMENT EXERT PRESSURE ON FIRMS' RETURN ON ASSETS AND EQUITY? THE CASE OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA


Sedimentation in the estuary of the Bodri River have a major impact on the flooding problems in the area around the Bodri River. To overcome this by planning Normalization Pecut River which has a large enough funding, so it is necessary to value engineering. The purpose of this paper is to obtain solutions to problems of sedimentation, coastal erosion, seawater intrusion and flooding, know the function and cost of the initial design (Normalization Pecut River), as well as getting the design alternatives (Re-naturalization Bodri Lama River) as a substitute for the initial design, which is further than the value of the function and cost. In terms of the normalization function Pecut River hydrologic analysis of the calculation results obtained by the discharge of floods over 25 years, the amount of Q25=18.236 m3/sec. The amount of sediment transport Pecut River, is 47.267 tons/year. Results hydraulics analysis with HEC-RAS program occurs runoff groove along the river, which means there is a flood. To Re-naturalisation Bodri Lama River flood discharge when re-used 50 years the amount of Q50=61.58 m³/sec. With the Renaturalisation of Bodri Lama River can reduce flood discharge in Bodri River at 5.73%. Old Bodri river sediment transport, amounting to 159.408 tons/ year. The results of the HEC-RAS program checks the water level in the re-naturalization of the Bodri Lama River be lower, so the plan is safe from flooding. In terms of costs for normalization Pecut River RAB calculation results obtained by Rp.34.269.498.000,00 (in words: Three-Four Billion Two Hundred Sixty-Nine Million Four Hundred Ninety Eight Thousand), to Renaturalisasi Bodri Lama River at Rp.10.362.242.000,00 (in words: Ten Billion Three Hundred Sixty-Two Million Two Hundred Forty-Two Thousand). Based on the analysis of value engineering, Renaturalisasi Bodri Lama River generate cost savings of RP. 23,907,256,000.00 (in words: Twenty-Three Billion Nine Hundred and Seven Million Two Hundred Fifty Six Thousand Rupiah).


Abstract In this piece, I share my thoughts about how the field of public health can better understand the impact of intersectionality in disability, higher education and health care. Intersectionality can create a compounded burden that is only exacerbated in the midst of this pandemic. I begin by describing how my life changed at the onset of the pandemic in terms of my daily life, including the impact of shifting to online classes and rising racial tensions within our country. Next, I offer advice to those who are newly diagnosed with long term disabilities in self-acceptance and grieving. To conclude, I call for a shift in public health with holistic approaches and reducing the achievement gap while enhancing support provided by university offices for Disabled students. Being disabled is a part of who I am, not just a list of conditions on my medical chart.


An integrated seismic investigation at the Monks hollow damsite demonstrated the importance of concomitant field engineering studies and wide-aperture geophysical testing to assess, define, and quantify the lateral and vertical extent of variable rock strength present in an abutment for a proposed arch dam. Seismic common offset, refraction and tomography surveys were conducted within the right abutment adit and on the ground surface. The surveys defined the lateral extent of low moduli rock, associated with jointing, faulting, and poor cementation; and also identified the presence of high moduli material, indicative of well cemented and unfractured rock.


The case of a 68-year-old female patient, without comorbidities, with a diagnosis of a large parapharyngeal abscess on the left, was reported by a neck CT scan, which evolved with spontaneous drainage and complete resolution of the peritonsillar bulging, completing the therapeutic plan with antibiotic therapy, without abscess recurrence. Clinical suspicion, associated with neck CT, is an indispensable item in the design of early treatment, in order to avoid complications.


This work investigates how remote sensing of the quantities required to calculate clear-sky cooling rate profiles propagates into cooling rate profile knowledge. The formulation of a cooling rate profile error budget is presented for clear-sky scenes given temperature, water vapor, and ozone profile uncertainty. Using linear propagation of error analysis, an expression for the cooling rate profile covariance matrix is given. Some of the features of the cooling rate covariance matrix are discussed, and it is found that nonzero error correlations in the temperature, water vapor, and ozone retrieval profiles must be considered to produce an unbiased estimate of cooling rate profile variance and the covariance structure. To that end, the exclusion of the details of this error correlation leads to an underestimation of the cooling rate profile uncertainty. This work then examines the assumptions made in the course of deriving the expression for the cooling rate covariance matrix by using ERA-40 Reanalysis data. It is established that the assumptions of linear error propagation and Gaussian statistics are generally tenable. Next, the information content of thermal infrared spectra with respect to clear-sky cooling rate profiles is investigated. Several formerly- and currently-operational spectrometers are compared with different spectral coverage, resolution, signal-to-noise ratio. Among these, IASI is found to have the ability to provide the greatest amount of information on the cooling rate profile. Also, it may be scientifically useful to develop far-infrared missions in terms of cooling rate profile analysis.


In addition to the classical role in the homeostasis of calcium and phosphorus, vitamin D shows a regulatory effect on a number of different cells, especially its anti-proliferative and pro-differential biological function. Through its own receptor in the immune cells, vitamin D increases the phagocytic activity of macrophages and NK cells. Also, by binding to the regulatory sequences of antimicrobial peptides genes, vitamin D increases the microbicidal activity of phagocytes. Inhibition of differentiation and maturation of antigen-presenting dendritic cells, as well as direct influence on their contact with T lymphocytes, it significantlly influences the type of immune response. Dendritic cells under the influence of vitamin D induce a suppressor T cells, which can inhibit Th1 cell response and are critical in the regulation of immune tolerance. Vitamin D inhibits proliferation of Th1 and Th17 cells, as well their cytokine production, and suppresses the differentiation and maturation of B lymphocytes.


ABSTRACT A high-resolution aeromagnetic survey was undertaken by the Australian Geological Survey Organisation (AGSO) across the Bendigo 1:250 000 map sheet area during February to April 1994. For part of this period, high-resolution ground magnetometers were also deployed to test for the way that short-period variations of the geomagnetic field (including micropulsations) affect data recorded by the aircraft. These ground instruments consisted of the newly developed Helium base-station for AGSO aeromagnetic surveys, and two ring-core fluxgate magnetometers developed by the School of Earth Sciences at The Flinders University of South Australia. The Helium instrument was deployed at the Bendigo airport, in the south-west corner of the area, and the ring-core instruments were buried in the north-west and north-east corners of the area. Preliminary results indicate that while the phases of continuous Pc3 micropulsations of about 20 s period change little across the map sheet area, the amplitudes can vary sig...


Background The operating room has always been a key clinical inspection high-risk department. The ";Detailed Rules for the Implementation of Evaluation Standards for Tertiary General Hospitals" issued by the Ministry of Health in 2011 emphasized the establishment of operating
 room quality and safety indicators, which can be evaluated regularly, and continuous improvement is required. The nursing level of nurses in the room is directly related to the overall nursing quality of the hospital. Objective To observe the impact of detailed nursing in operating room based
 on risk management on surgical patient satisfaction and intraoperative risk control. Methods A retrospective selection of 130 patients who were treated in the operating room of our hospital from January 2018 to March 2020 was retrospectively selected. Among them, 65 patients used conventional
 operating room nursing procedures, and the other 65 patients used risk management-based operating room detailed nursing procedures. The intraoperative rescue, secondary intubation, incidence of > 3 h in room, nursing error rate, postoperative general situation (recovery time of bowel sounds,
 first exhaust time, ambulation time, postoperative complication rate) and satisfaction were compared between the two groups. Visual analogue scale (VAS) score was used to evaluate the degree of postoperative pain. Nursing quality score and health survey short form (SF-36) were used to evaluate
 nursing quality and quality of life. Results: Intraoperative rescue (0.00%), secondary intubation (0.00%), in-room> 3h incidence (1.54%) and nursing error rate (0.00%) in the observation group were compared with those in the control group, which were not statistically significant (P >0.05).
 The recovery time of bowel sounds in the observation group was (41.71 ±3.46) h, the time to first exhaust (59.47±5.23) h, and the time to get out of bed (54.36±4.78) d were shorter than those in the control group. The postoperative complication rate (3.08%) was lower than
 that of the control group, which had statistical significance (P<0.05). The VAS scores of the observation group at 6h, 12h, and 24h after surgery were lower than those of the control group, and the satisfaction level of the observation group (93.85%) was higher than that of the control
 group, which had statistical significance (P<0.05). Observation group's nursing quality score (nursing skills, environmental management, nursing quality monitoring, disinfection and isolation, nursing document management), quality of life score (physical function, social support,
 pain, mental health, social function, mood, mental state, general health) All were higher than the control group, which had statistical significance (P<0.05). Conclusion: The application of operation room detail nursing based on risk management in surgery can reduce postoperative pain,
 promote the recovery of gastrointestinal function, improve patient satisfaction and quality of life, and effectively control intraoperative risks.


In essence, the electricity industry supported ENALR 111 and presented it to the Department of Energy representatives (who had been members of the Baldock Enquiry) as a half-way house between deterministic and probabilistic principles for future wood pole designs. Load-factored design has been used in the introduction of the site-specific design methodology that was established to meet the requirements of the 1988 electricity regulations for the design of wood pole overhead lines. This approach was then endorsed with the 'deemed to comply' epithet such that the industry contended that lines designed in this way met the 'fitness for purpose' clause of the 1988 regulations. The new ESQCR 2002 regulations still leave the onus on the distributor to ensure that lines are safe, reliable and in all ways 'fit for purpose' as far as 'reasonably practical'. The recent CENELEC standards BS EN 50341 and BS EN 50423 have brought in deterministic and probabilistic designs for new lines under the UK NNA BS EN 50423-3-9, although in respect of wood pole lines only the deterministic approach is declared.


External ocular shields for protecting a patient's eyes from medical treatment radiation energy such as a laser during a medical procedure. Each shield has an external surface that absorbs energy that hits the shield. The shields are connected to each other by a nose piece, and the nose piece is connected to each shield by a mounting means. The mounting means are positioned perpendicular to the shields and parallel to each other so that the nose piece can pivot upward towards the user's forehead and downward towards the user's chin without altering the fit of the shields over the user's eyes.


The numerical investigation uses the intensity-dependent gain coefficient in a coupled-wave formulation which explains nonlinear intensity-dependent behavior associated with the growth of beam-fanning observed in a photorefractive BaTiO3 crystal. The study shows the effect of crystal orientation and biasing illumination on such a nonlinear behavior.


In this paper, simulated annealing and multi population parallel genetic algorithms are introduced to genetic algorithms. And then,multi population parallel genetic algorithms based on simulated annealing mechanism are proposed. Finally, the algorithms are employed to design a 15 meter antenna structure model. The results indicate that the algorithms have a high global astringency and adaptability.


Background and Purpose: Systemic inflammation and nutritional status have been shown to be associated with the prognosis of colorectal cancer. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of the serum C-reactive protein-to-body mass index ratio on the prognosis of patients with curatively resected colorectal cancer. Methods: We conducted a retrospective analysis of a database of 2,471 eligible patients with colorectal cancer who underwent curative resection at our hospital between 2004 and 2019. The optimal cut-off for CPR-to-BMI ratio was determined using maximally selected rank statistics. Patients were divided into 2 groups according to the cut-off value of the serum C-reactive protein-to-body mass index ratio. Kaplan-Meier curves and Cox regression analysis were used to compare overall survival. A two-sided P-value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: The proportion of patients with a high C-reactive protein-to-body mass index ratio increased with increasing age, male sex, right-sided colon cancer, poorly differentiated tumors, advanced-stage disease, local/distant metastases, tumor–node–metastasis stage, and microsatellite instability. In subgroup analysis according to tumor–node–metastasis stage, the overall survival of the high C-reactive protein-to-body mass index ratio group was significantly shorter than that of the low C-reactive protein-to-body mass index ratio group (P < 0.001). Multivariate analysis identified age, differentiation, tumor–node–metastasis stage, carcinoembryonic antigen level, and the C-reactive protein-to-body mass index ratio as independent poor prognostic factors for overall survival. Conclusions: The C-reactive protein-to-body mass index ratio predicts the prognosis of patients with curatively resected colorectal cancer and is an independent risk factor for overall survival in patients with colorectal cancer.


Configuration of equipment of 100 kt/a ionic membrane caustic soda rectifying system and its effect and characteristics were introduced. And the operation experience of rectifying system was summarized.


X3D is the open standard for real-time 3D communication, which integrated XML, Java and network streaming technology.And Grid technology tries to build the dynamic virtual organization based on distributed, heterogeneous and autonomous network resources for resource sharing and collaboration.X3D technology, grid technology and J2EE technology were integrated to construct the simulation visualization environment architecture and the simulation visualization supporting service.Different 3D models(such as airplanes, terrains, special effects, etc.) could be accessed, shared and assembled though Web browser.3D visualization simulation applications could be customized for the fast construction of simulation virtual environment.The simulation visualization environment architecture and the key technologies of service realization were introduced in detail.


of peats in A sandy-loam soil, in plant growth under P-limiting with six different as an inoculated the Glomus deserticola Gigaspora . growth (AMF) by different amendments. colonization by Glomus deserticola and was inhibited by at least half of the peat types. the results that


2030 vision for the kingdom seeks to promote Bahrain as a healthcare destination. New private hospitals have entered the health service industry. This leads competition to soar. Patient care has become a priority. The need to acquire accreditation for health services rendered by hospitals accentuates the importance of maintaining international standards in term of quality and cost. The purpose of the study is to reflect on the development of ethical resolutions, procedures, policies, and programs to enhance and to improve healthcare by National Health Regulatory Authority (NHRA). The study employs qualitative analysis of literature in relation to the evolution of ethical programs for health professionals in general and for patients at hospitals in Bahrain.


Whilst autistic individuals develop new internal action models during sensorimotor learning, the acquired movements are executed less accurately and with greater variability. Such movement profiles are related to differences in sensorimotor integration and/or altered feedforward/feedback sensorimotor control. We investigated the processes underlying sensorimotor learning in autism by quantifying accuracy and variability, relative timing, and feedforward and feedback control. Although autistic individuals demonstrated significant sensorimotor learning across trials, which was facilitated by processing knowledge‐of‐results feedback, motor execution was less accurate than non‐autistic individuals. Kinematic analysis indicated that autistic individuals showed significantly greater spatial variability at peak acceleration, but comparable spatial variability at peak velocity. These kinematic markers suggest that autistic movement profiles are driven by specific differences in sensorimotor control processes (i.e., internal action models) associated with planning and regulating the forces required to execute the movement. The reduction of variability at peak velocity indicates intact early feedback‐based sensorimotor control in autism. Understanding how feedforward and feedback‐based control processes operate provides an opportunity to explore how these control processes influence the acquisition of socio‐motor actions in autism. Autism Res 2020, 13: 423–435. © 2019 International Society for Autism Research, Wiley Periodicals, Inc.


1. With the publication of his new book on Soviet Civilization, Corliss Lamont demonstrates once again that he is not willing or able to recognize the true nature of the Soviet doctrine, and the real conditions existing in the Soviet Union. The Soviet policies for the past thirty-five years are described by the author, from the beginning to the end, with such admiration of Soviet accomplishments, that he should be considered a potential candidate for a Stalin prize. He does not •believe, for example, that there exists an "Iron Curtain" erected by Russians to rule out the exchange of information with the outside world (p. 8). True, Lamont asserts time and again that he is not willing to accept everything the Soviets are doing. He was, for example, irritated by the fact that "in 1949 the Soviet Government expelled an American writer, Miss Anna Louise Strong, as a foreign agent and a spy without giving her a proper opportunity for legal defense or even explaining what precisely were the charges against her" (p. 88). He was disappointed that the vigorous letter of June, 1950 on the Strong case—signed by a group of American writers and intellectuals organized by Lamont and his wife and dispatched to Mr. Alexander S. Panyushkin, Soviet Ambassador to the United States—was simply ignored. Apart from this and other rather unimportant incidents, the author is enthusiastic about the Soviet advances. His enthusiasm for the Soviet constitution, for example, is so great that he does not hesitate to state that "the Soviet Constitution itself clearly belongs on the positive side of the ledger. It is a document that does great credit to its framers and that represents a grand design of human living of which the Soviet people can well be proud" (p. 89). He sincerely believes in this paper Constitution of the Soviet Union which according to his estimation provides all the necessary protection of "individual rights and freedom, equality, religious liberty, right to happiness"; so it is not surprising that Lamont cynically rejects our accusations against the Soviet regime for its persecutions of all whom the Party blindly had chosen as "enemies of the people." He does not even mention the Soviet policy of genocide involving entire nationalities such as Tartars, Chuvash, Chechen-Ingush, Wolga Germans. He rejects the validity of the carefully-examined figures of the existence of 15-20 millions slave laborers in the Soviet Union. Lamont believes only what the Soviet leaders want him to believe and declares it to be truth. He is, for example, very much impressed by the fact that "the Soviet Russians have forged far ahead of America in the establishment of ethnic equality and racial democracy among the many different minority nationalities and races that live within


This aims of this study are to determine the macrobenthic community structure between the drainage near residence and spring; and to determine effect of local environment on macrobenthic community structure at the Ngenep village. Field study was conducted in 3 drainage, i.e. residential drainage, spring and rice field irrigation. Macrobenthic were sampled by the surber net and hand net in three stations in each drainages. Abiotic factors were assessed at the same stations. Macrobenthic community structure and diversity was determined using Important value index, Shannon-Wiener index and Bray Curtis index. Cluster of benthics and abiotic factors were analysis using Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Abiotic data showed no statistical significance in 3 drainage (P>0.05) but showed increasing trend from spring to field irrigation and the highest at residential drainage. The 17 taxa of macrobenthic were found with high important value index are Melanoides tuberculata, larva's of Ephemeroptera and Plecoptera. Highest Shannon-Wiener index observed at irrigation (2.781). The cluster analysis of abiotic factor showed that spring was in different cluster with residential and irrigation, meanwhile, PCA analysis of macrobenthic showed each place was different cluster. Conclusion of this study is anthropogenic activities alter the diversity and community structure of macrobenthic. Keywords: Anthropogenic Activity, Macrobenthic, Ngenep.


This paper was written as part of a project funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The authors thank the foundation for its help, acknowledging that the ideas expressed here do not necessarily reflect the position or policy of supporting agencies.


Leavis's central preoccupation here is the nature of thought and language, and the way in which thoughts are expressed in language. His supple and vigorous analysis of Eliot's "Four Quartets" is considered by many the best part of the book.


Knowledge of variant origin of the superior cerebellar artery is important during neuroradiological and neurosurgical procedures at the basilar termination and clivus regions, and may influence the occurrence of atherosclerosis and aneurysms. These variations show ethnic differences, but there are hardly any reports on the black African population. This study therefore examined the various origins of 394 superior cerebellar arteries from 173 brains of black adult Kenyans, obtained during autopsy at the Department of Human Anatomy, University of Nairobi, Kenya. The cranial cavity was opened and the brain removed en bloc. Arachnoid matter was gently removed to expose the arteries at the base of the brain. The distal third of the basilar artery was exposed and superior cerebellar artery identified as that which supplied the superior surface of the cerebellar hemispheres. It was traced to its origin and the source recorded. Representative patterns were photographed with a high resolution digital camera. The data were analyzed for frequency and are presented in macrographs and a table. The conventional single artery origin from the basilar artery was present in only 284 (72.1%) cases. In the remainder, it was duplicated in 84 (21.3%), originated from posterior cerebral artery in 16 (4.0%) and from common trunk with posterior cerebral artery in 10 (2.5%) cases. Variant origin of the superior cerebellar artery occurred in nearly 28% of cases studied. This influences the pattern of termination of the basilar artery, may complicate posterior cranial fossa surgery and predispose to atherosclerosis and aneurysms. Preoperative evaluation of the superior cerebellar artery is recommended.


By using the second method of Lyapunov to synthesize the quadratic performance index in time domain, this paper derives a sufficient condition and a new region of robust stability for perturbed sampled data systems under the control of discrete optimal controller. An example is given to illustrate the results. Apparently, the sampling period is a crucial parameter.


Three-axis processing of laser inner engraving machine control system can carry on multi-axis linkage control. Furthermore, it ensures multi-axis of high feeding speed and trajectory control of high precision. This article introduces the design of laser inner engraving machine movement control system. The core is a digital integrator of linear interpolation algorithm to generate the desired trajectory and control XYZ axis linkage. Wide speed range of servo motor and position detector resolution is adequate to constitute a half-closed loop drive. With integral separation algorithm being introduced in the controller, the speed of numerical control system, track speed and positioning accuracy are guaranteed in order to achieve optimal specification for dynamic and static characteristics of the whole system.


At presentation, more than half of patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) harbor the form of the condition known as ocular MG (OMG), characterized by double vision, ptosis, or both. When ptosis is present, the diagnosis is suggested by the Cogan lid twitch, fatigability of the eyelid with sustained upgaze, and recovery with the icepack test or rest. The examination, however, may not always demonstrate these findings.1 In many patients with OMG, particularly those without ptosis, the diagnosis can be elusive.


Objective To evaluate the i ndexes for prevention and treatment of osteoporosis on rat models. Me thods The rat models of osteoporosis were established by ovariectom y and divided into two groups: prevention group and treatment group, which were p o administered with Alenbronite or Ibinbronite for six months respectively. The bone mineral density, bi ochemical markers, bone mineral contents, physical parameters and bone trabecula e areas were measured and analyzed.Results The bone miner al density of all the rats increased significantly after administration. The res ult indicated that the bone mineral density and bone trabeculae area were of mor e sensitivity, specificity and accuracy on analyzing osteoporosis than other par ameters. Conclusion The bone mineral density is the optim al index to evaluate the curative effects on osteoporosis and the bone trabeculae area is another sensitive index too.$$$$


New national guidelines in Australia on managing acute back and musculoskeletal pain advise GPs to use neutral and non-threatening terms to avoid frightening patients and delaying their recovery.

Terms such as inflammation, degeneration, instability, rupture, and even arthritis should be avoided, said the draft report, as they "carry connotations of erosion, destruction and inevitable chronic pain."

The report, which was funded by the federal government and which sought …


The objective of this paper was to present the water quality changes of the one of Polish rivers - Slupia River, located in the Pomeranian Region. The Slupia River receives pollutants derived from non-point and point sources of pollution. This is due to the agricultural and forested character of the river's basin and the location of the towns of Slupsk and Ustka on the river. The elaboration covers the period from 1988 to 2007 and is based on hydrological data, completed as a part of surface water monitoring programme run by the Inspectorate for Environment Protection and the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management. The changes of physicochemical properties of Slupia River i.e. phosphorus and nitrogen concentrations, BOD5, and amounts of heavy metals were studied. Presented data, showed that the Slupia River has responded to a major nutrient loading reduction. The current concentration of nitrogen and phosphorus form in river allows qualifying the water to first quality class.


Frequency Chain Our frequency chain to methane-stabilized 3.39 pm is shown in Fig.1. The chain consists of three stages and almost t e same as the one used in other standard laboratories23. We adopted the Josephson Junction point contact diode (J-J diode) as a harmonic-generator mixer at first stage of the mixing. The J-J diode can generally produce higher harmonics ( the highest we ever obtained?) is the 83rd of 50 GHz) than the other mixers, which enables us to use the cheaper microwave sources and components. At the other two mixing stages, W-Ni point contact diodes are used as a h~rnonic-generator zixeI-.


Today's labor markets require women's participation in the workforce to a greater extent than ever before. More and more women across the world are joining the labor force. Yet, they often find it difficult to balance their work responsibilities with their family obligations. In this paper we examine the impact of societal/cultural beliefs, organizational expectations and managerial styles, and work family support on workfamily balance in eight countries. The countries examined include China, Japan, Israel, Britain, Italy, Norway, Sweden, and the United States. We conclude with some recommendations for organizations to help them maintain and nourish their female workforces. Work and family constitute the dominant life roles for most employed women today, and women are increasingly concerned with managing the conflicts that arise in balancing the dual demands of the two roles. Work-family conflict is often experienced when pressures from the work and family roles are mutually incompatible, such that participation in one role makes it difficult to participate in the other (Greenhaus & Beretell, 1985). Although researchers have documented work-family conflict in both women and in men, women are far more likely to experience such conflict because of their tendency to take on the majority of responsibilities for family issues such as child care (Hattery, 2001)- Work and family roles are often considered to be asymmetrically permeable (Watanabe et al., 1997), buffering men's "provider" role from family obligations, but allowing women's family commitments to intrude upon their work. Therefore, in this paper we examine how women balance work and family from a global perspective. We do this by comparing cultures, governments, and trends so as to identify their influence on women's decisions concerning family and workplace. We believe that this topic is important and relevant to our time, especially as today's economy has created labor markets that call for women's participation on a larger scale than ever before. From a global perspective, this issue must be addressed as companies look to expand their businesses across borders (Bu & McKeen, 2000). Interestingly, although the area of work-family balance in the U.S. has been extensively examined in the literature, there have been few attempts to examine this issue in an international setting (Karsten, 1994). In this paper we examine the impact of societal/cultural beliefs, organizational expectations and managerial styles, and work-family support on work-family balance in eight countries. The countries examined include China, Japan, Israel, Britain, Italy, Norway, Sweden, and the United States. China A look at societal and cultural beliefs about women's roles In traditional Chinese culture, women's roles revolved around taking care of children and the elderly (Ng & Naylor, 2002). Confusion tradition emphasized duty before enjoyment and sacrifice for the betterment of the family (Ng & Naylor, 2002). However, these values are changing. The younger generation of women in China is marrying and having children later in life (Bu & McKeen, 2000). In fact, research has shown that Chinese women tend to not marry until they are ready for children and have longer working careers (Bu & McKeen, 2000). At the same time, although present day society has changed, family socialization of traditional roles still exists (Ng & Naylor, 2002). Organizational expectations and managerial styles Chinese companies are no different from companies across the globe when they say that it costs too much to hire women due to maternity leave, childcare support, etc. (Bu & McKeen, 2000), This type of discrimination is very difficult to prove and it forces women to work harder to prove that they could be assets to a company. In addition, parttime work opportunities in China are mainly available to employees who are going to school (Bu & McKeen, 2000). …


This study examined the users' awareness and perceptions to determine their awareness levels as it is crucial in increasing uptake of green buildings in Kenya. The study sample consisted of 22 randomly selected building users from 17 commercial buildings in Nairobi City County, Kenya. Using both descriptive (percentages, means) and inferential statistics (Principal Component Analysis, relative perception index) to analyse the data gathered. The findings revealed that the majority (63.6%) of the users were unaware of green buildings. In addition, the internet is the dominant channel through which awareness was acquired. Most respondents perceived green buildings as an environmental concept that was expensive to construct. Based on this study's findings, it was concluded that there was an urgent need to increase user awareness campaigns targeting green buildings' benefits. Green buildings' economic and social benefits should be lauded as much as the environmental ones. Such a move should involve all stakeholders, especially building industry investors.


(English) Let F(n) be a family of partitions of n and let F(nn d) denote the set of partitions in F(n) with Durfee square of size d. W e deene the Durfee polynomial of F(n) t o b e t h e polynomial P Fn = P jF(nn d)jy d , w h e r e 0 d b p nc: This paper describes ongoing eeorts to compute statistics associated with the Durfee polynomial for various families F. We give empirical evidence which leads to the conjecture that for several families F, including unrestricted partitions and partitions into distinct parts, all roots of the Durfee polynomial are real (and negative). It would follow then that for these families the sequence of coeecients fjF(nn d)jg is log-concave and unimodal and, by a result of Darroch, that the mean and the mode of the sequence diier by less than 1. The mean and the mode are, respectively, t h e a verage size and the most likely size of the Durfee square of a partition in F(n). Experimentally we h a ve observed that for several families F(n) the mean and mode grow a s cn 1=2 , for an appropriate constant c = c F. An empirical method from asymptotic analysis yields analytical expressions for the constants c F which agree numerically with the observed values. 1 For the family of ordinary partitions, P(n), we nd an asymptotic formula for jP(nn d)j, determine the average, most likely, and asymptotic distributions of the Durfee square size, and prove some unimodality results. Soient F(n) l'ensemble des partitions de n de la famille F et F(nn d) l'ensemble des partitions dans F(n) d o n t la taille du carr e de Durfee est d. Nous d eenissons le polyn^ ome de Durfee relatif a F(n) comme etant P Fn = P b p nc d=0 jF(nn d)jy d. Nous nous int eressons, dans cet article, aux statistiques associ ees au polyn^ ome de Durfee pour dii erentes familles F. Nous pr esentons des r esultats exp erimentaux qui conduisent t a la conjecture que, pour plusieurs familles F, y compris les partitions sans restrictions et les partitions en parts in egales, toutes les racines du polyn^ ome de Durfee sont r eelles (et n egatives). Il suivrait alors que, pour ces familles et pour tout n, l a s u i t e …


We present a summary of cryocoolers that are presently available or in development and would be suitable for support of mid-infrared camera on the Next Generation Space Telescope.


PURPOSE: An apparatus and method for measuring concentration of fluorinated hydracid contained in washing solution are provided to easily and economically measure the concentration. CONSTITUTION: An apparatus for measuring fluorinated hydracids contained in washing solution comprises: a separation chamber(10) for separating fluorinated hydracids to elution buffer space, which has a washing solution space(11) and elution buffer space; a measuring device(20) for fluorinated hydracids, which is placed inside the elution buffer space; and a pressure control device(40) which is able to set the pressure of the washing solution space higher than that of the elution buffer space.


Humans and environment are an integral part. Environmental problems that occur recently will affect the quality of human life. Environmental education is a solution to form an aware human in maintaining and preserving the surrounding environment. Some experts believe that environmental education that introduced early can be a basis establishment of good character in children. The experience of learning that takes place at an early age will become the foundation for subsequent learning experiences. Many fundamental qualities of importance to environmental education can develop significantly during early childhood. The learning experiences in early childhood are ideally delivered through direct experiences that are meaningful and fun. Project Approach is one approach that appropriate to facilitating children's learning in environmental education. Project approach can help children develop cognitive skills, especially problem-solving skills, as it exposes them to the everyday problems such as environmental problems, which demand solutions. Through the project approach a child has the opportunity to work in group to develop social skills and especially skills in collaborating with others. This discussion will be focused on conceptualization of environmental education and project approach as one of the strategy that can be used in early childhood setting.


Ontology is a requirement engineering product and the key to knowledge discovery. It includes the terminology to describe a set of facts, assumptions, and relations with which the detailed meanings of vocabularies among communities can be determined. This is a qualitative content analysis research. This study has made use of ontology for the first time to discover the knowledge of vaccine in Iran. The ontology can be used for knowledge discovery in domain of vaccine in Iran and identification of experts in the field of vaccine, knowledge management, coordination of R & D activities on vaccine production, shaping a culture and flourishing IT in vaccine industry. Visualization, assessment, validation and evaluation of ontology quality, implemented via use of authentic tools and Experts evaluation results obtained from the questionnaires and how knowledge discovery and visualization of knowledge discovery have been discussed. Iran knowledge on vaccinology can be searched with the aid of ontology and can be developed with bipartite Networks of Iran's vaccinology that is result of knowledge discovery. Analysis of the bipartite networks researcher-centers showed 2811 researchers and research centers as nodes and 3341 collaborations cases. Bipartite network researcher journal analysis showed 2458 researchers and journals as nodes and 3456 collaborations cases


This paper examines the ways in which Othello was represented on the Nazi stage. Included in the theatre analyses are Othello productions in Frankfurt in 1935, in Berlin in 1939 and 1944, and in pre-occupation Vienna in 1935. New archival material has been sourced from archives in the aforementioned locations, in order to give detailed insights into the representation of Othello on stage, with a special focus on the makeup that was used on the actors who were playing the titular role. The aim of these analyses is not only to establish what Othello looked like on the Nazi and pre-Nazi stage, but also to examine the Nazis' relationship with Shakespeare's Othello within the wider context of their relationship with the Black people who lived in Nazi Germany at the time. In addition, the following pages offer insights into pre-Nazi, Weimar productions of Othello in order to create a more complex and comparative understanding of Nazi Othello productions and the wider theatrical context within which they were produced. In the end, we find out, based on existing evidence, why Othello was brown, and never Black.


Nanoplates, flower‐like nanostructure of ZnO were successfully synthesized by employing ZnSO4·7H2O, NaOH as the starting materials at 120°C under hydrothermal condition. Keeping the same parameters, ZnO urchin shape was obtained by addition of vitamin C at 190°C. Characterizations were carried out by X‐ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) at room temperature. Selected area electron diffraction (SAED) pattern confirms that the product is single crystalline nature. The possible formation mechanisms for synthesized ZnO nanosturcture with various morphologies have also been proposed. PL spectrum from the ZnO flower‐like structures reveals weak UV emission and strong green emission. (© 2007 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)


Comments on "Molluschi tortoniani di Stazzano (Alessandria)" by Caprotti (2011)]. The present work is a critical review of an article by Caprotti (201 1), published in this journal and dealing with the Tortonian (Late Miocene) molluscan fauna from Stazzano (Northern Italy). Caprotti's work is a laudable effort to study a poorly known molluscan fauna, but in our opinion it contains several shortcomings and inaccuracies. Several species, typically known from the Pliocene, are reported but the lack of illustrations does not allow their identity to be ascertained. The occurrence of such Pliocene species in the Tortonian of Stazzano thus needs confirmation. Several species are wrongly assigned systematically, or their position is outdated, or they are incorrectly identified. Each of these species is briefly commented and an alternative systematic position or identification is proposed, whenever possible.


The invention relates to a method for leaching gold and silver ores and ore concentrates CIANIDRICAS HIRING SOLUTIONS AND HYDROGEN AND KEEPING peroxidase an oxygen concentration of 2 to 20 mg O2 / L. PURSUANT to the invention are Leaching IN THE PRESENCE OF CATALYSTS SEPARATE THE DECAY AND COMPLEX CIANO formed during leaching of the leaching solution. CATALYSTS DISINTEGRATION are compounds of manganese with 0.01 to 1 mg AS MN / L clay solution or 1 to 50 mg of MN / KG ORE PULP OR POLYMERS ORGANIC OR INORGANIC OR CARBON. ACTIVE CARBON is used in an amount of 1 to 20 g / L leach solution disintegrates to hydrogen peroxide absorbs COMPLEX AND CYAN / NOBLE METAL. Said process is characterized by a small CONSUMPTION AND CIAMIDA H2O2 AND GREAT GOLDEN pocketing shortly.


METHODS: We analyzed data from our institution's prospectively collected National Cancer Institute-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center Tumor Registry. We compared mastectomy-only patients to post-mastectomy breast reconstruction patients. We built Kaplan-Meier curves for both groups and compared unadjusted survival statistics using Log-rank test. We then used Cox Proportional Hazards to adjust for potential confounders.


Training for cataloging and classification within the Cataloging Department is discussed for two levels of staff, copy catalogers and original catalogers. A general pattern which moves from learning to catalog straightforward materials which require minimal editing to processing materials which are progressively more complex is described for copy catalogers. A survey of heads of cataloging departments reveals that there is a general feeling that cataloging and classification are being shortchanged in library school training and recommendations for such training are made. Training programs for original catalogers also follow a pattern, from working with LC copy to preparing original cataloging records. Some variations to the training patterns for each group are noted. The article concludes with a discussion of continuing education for both groups.


Simple Summary In the present study, we aimed to construct a methylation diagnostic tool using urine sediment for the detection of urothelial bladder carcinoma (UBC), and improved the diagnostic performance of the model by incorporating single nucleotide polymorphism sites. In stage I, single NRN1 exhibited the highest AUC. At the best cutoff value of 5.16, single NRN1 biomarker showed a sensitivity of 0.93 and specificity of 0.97. In stage II, random forest algorithm was applied to construct the model, including NRN1, TERT C228T and FGFR3 p.S249C. The tool exhibited AUC values of 0.953, 0.946 and 0.951 in training, test and all cohort. In the external validation cohort (stage III), the model achieved an AUC of 0.935, sensitivity of 0.864 and specificity of 0.895. The model also exhibited a superior sensitivity and comparable specificity compared with conventional cytology and FISH, and may be used as a replaceable approach for the detection of UBC. Abstract Background: Aberrant DNA methylation is an early event during tumorigenesis. In the present study, we aimed to construct a methylation diagnostic tool using urine sediment for the detection of urothelial bladder carcinoma, and improved the diagnostic performance of the model by incorporating single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) sites. Methods: A three-stage analysis was carried out to construct the model and evaluate the diagnostic performance. In stage I, two small cohorts from Xiangya hospital were recruited to validate and identify the detailed regions of collected methylation biomarkers. In stage II, proof-of-concept study cohorts from the Hunan multicenter were recruited to construct a diagnostic tool. In stage III, a blinded cohort comprising suspicious UBC patients was recruited from Beijing single center to further test the robustness of the model. Results: In stage I, single NRN1 exhibited the highest AUC compared with six other biomarkers and the Random Forest model. At the best cutoff value of 5.16, a single NRN1 biomarker gave a diagnosis with a sensitivity of 0.93 and a specificity of 0.97. In stage II, the Random Forest algorithm was applied to construct a diagnostic tool, consisting of NRN1, TERT C228T and FGFR3 p.S249C. The tool exhibited AUC values of 0.953, 0.946 and 0.951 in training, test and all cohorts. At the best cutoff value, the model resulted in a sensitivity of 0.871 and a specificity of 0.947. In stage III, the diagnostic tool achieved a good discrimination in the external validation cohort, with an overall AUC of 0.935, sensitivity of 0.864 and specificity of 0.895. Additionally, the model exhibited a superior sensitivity and comparable specificity compared with conventional cytology and FISH. Conclusions: The diagnostic tool exhibited a highly specific and robust performance. It may be used as a replaceable approach for the detection of UBC.


MODELOG aims at automatically mapping UML class, object, statechart, activity and collaboration diagrams adorned with Object-Constraint Language expressions to non-monotonic, dynamic, object-oriented logic programs in Concurrent Transaction Frame Logic (CTFL). Coupled with the Flora2 inference engine for CTFL, MODELOG will fill five gaps in the current UML-based infrastructure for the Common Warehouse Meta-model, ModelDriven Architecture and Semantic Web visions: (1) automated data transformation transactions specified using the Meta-Object Facility for data warehousing and mining, (2) automated UML model transformations for refinement and refactoring, (3) formal verification of UML models, (4) complete UML model compiling into running code and (5) deductive and abductive inference in intelligent agents leveraging UML semantic web ontologies. In this paper, we present the MODELOG mapping of UML class diagrams to structural CTFL clauses.


AC/DC hybrid distribution network has attracted considerable research interest in recent years, and the coordinated control of multiple VSCs is a key issue. This paper proposes a novel adaptive droop control strategy based on DC voltage deviation and power imbalance, which ensures the DC voltage brief and small over-limit during transient process and no steady-state deviation, with the power margin of the system is amplified as well. Case study and simulation are performed based on the MATLAB model of a three-terminal AC/DC hybrid distribution network system to demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed adaptive droop control.


There is strong impetus by the Telecom Infra Project to exploit the 60 GHz unlicensed band for public Wi-Fi in urban environments, by installing access points on light poles. Although many 60 GHz urban channel measurements have been recorded to date, they have resulted only in path loss models or root-mean-square (RMS) delay spreads. What is needed at millimeter-wave is a spatially consistent channel model for beamtracking that embodies the characteristics of these short wavelengths—sparsity and rough surface scattering—such as the Quasi-Deterministic model. In this letter, we fit the model to channel measurements we recorded in an urban environment. The measurements were recorded at 4, 6, and 9 m antenna heights to investigate the tradeoffs between light pole heights. The large-scale channel metrics between the model and the measurements were shown to match very well.


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This paper provides information and procedures for producing interactive instructional videodiscs for medical applications from existing linear format films, filmstrips, videotape, and audiotape materials. These procedures and guidelines were developed through a contracted project for the design of interactive training materials for U.S. Navy Medical corpsmen.


Using confidential microdata from the US Census, we find that the fraction of manufacturing plants that export rose from 21% in 1987 to 39% in 2006. It has been suggested that similar trends in other countries may have been caused by declining costs of entering foreign markets. Our study tests this hypothesis for the first time. Both reduced form and structural estimation approaches find little evidence that entry costs declined significantly for US firms over this period. Despite the large literature on changes in variable costs to trade such as tariffs, our estimations represent the first analysis of how the costs of entering foreign markets have changed over time.


The paper is dedicated to the method of analysis of literary ontologies developed by Valery Podoroga within analytical anthropology. We attempt to formalize particular aspects of the method with an emphasis on the use of ocular metaphors as abstract representational schemata in the analysis of the writings of N. Gogol, F. Dostoevsky, A. Bely, A. Platonov, Yu. Druskin, S. Eisenstein, and Dz. Vertov. Particular attention is paid to the notion of the moment in Podoroga's approach. It is viewed not only as a physical or metaphysical category, but also as a distinct discursive device related to the "defamiliarisation" technique proposed by Russian formalist V. Shklovsky as a vehicle of novelty and strangeness emerging in literary texts of innovative writers. We demonstrate how different temporal and ocular metaphors in Podoroga's texts, such as "moment-time", "suddenly-time", "eye-bullet", "eye-egg", "eye-crystal", "eye athleticism", and "mechanical eye" fuel operational interaction between the optical and temporal discourse lines whilst describing transgressive experience and, concurrently, creating the conditions for its reproduction in the reader's perception. On the whole, the research strategy of V. A. Podoroga may be construed as an optical construction where the initial ocular metaphor defines the nature and the structure of the entire studied literary ontology, representing the author's view not only and less as a special way of literary interpretation of the real world, but more as an departure point in constructing an autonomous aesthetic space existing in its categorial logic and governed by its own spatiotemporal laws. Applying formal approach to the works of V.A. Podoroga has allowed us to identify its mainly constructivist nature and to uncover the methodological basis of his research strategy.


Under the background of the new rural construction in China,it is an important scientific question and an urgent social task to construct the harmonious society and to achieve the sustainable regional development on how to construct concentrative residence and manage the human habitat environment in the fast industrializing and typically urbanizing area.This paper analyzed the problems in the construction of the human habitat envi-ronment in the rural area of southern Jiangsu,discussed the methodologies of planning and design for rural con-centrative residence,researched the human habitat environment improvement technologies,and put forward the resolution of the recycling community for the rural inhabitation,which aimed at demonstrating the practicing in rapidly urbanizing regions.


This paper presents a method for image perspective correction using camera intrinsic parameters. This method is based on two assumptions: a) the taken picture have a rectangle area, but didn't know the rectangle area's aspect ratio; b) the camera's intrinsic parameters should obtain by picture (Intrinsic parameters can easily obtain in iPhone or Android phone). The rectangle's perspective distortion is constrained by camera's intrinsic parameters. So this paper's method find this constraint to get the distorted rectangle's aspect ratio. Then using this ratio can get the homography matrix. This method also can be used to detect card or document rectangle area under complex background. We took some pictures by iPhones and android phones, the results shows that our method can correct document pictures' perspective distortion.


The objective of this paper is to characterize and evaluate the static and dynamic performances of 10 kV 10 A 4H-SIC MOSFETs at high temperatures. The results show good electrical performances of the SiC MOSFETs for high temperature operations. The double-pulse test results showed interesting behavior at elevated temperatures, where at turn-on the switching speeds become faster, thus turn-on losses become smaller, and opposite at turn-off.


According to the photon model of the Theory of System Relativity, the author constructs an electronic model, which expounds the origin of mass, vortex-flux nature of the charge and mass, the nature of electric field and the nature of current magnetic effect. Then it is concluded that the spiral motion of free electrons on the surface of the wire is the phenomenon of room-temperature superconductivity.


Transplantation of a single anterior pituitary into the uterine lumen is known to induce the development of adenomyosis in mice associated with hyperprolactinemia. The uterine tissues of experimentally-induced adenomyosis were investigated histochemically with 21 kinds of biotinylated lectins and compared to control tissues of both intact mice and mice one day after parturition. Glandular and luminal epithelial cells and lymphocytes showed different lectin staining patterns between adenomyotic uteri and intact ones, whereas endometrial stromal cells and myometrial cells showed no differences. Even uteri at a very early stage of the pathological disorder already had changes in their lectin binding pattern. Some lectin groups had a different staining pattern between adenomyotic uteri and intact ones. Among them, some showed a similar pattern between adenomyotic uteri and uteri after delivery, and the others showed a different pattern between them. The former groups were closely related to an elevated level of circulating prolactin, and the latter to a pathological change in adenomyosis. This is the first evidence which shows that experimentally-induced adenomyosis involves substantial changes even at a very early stage of the pathogenesis.


The connotation of an editor's personality is complicated, so holding firmly to the standard of the editor's personality is of positive significance to the promotion of the editor's personality, the production of outstanding nourishment for the mind and the construction of spiritual civilization .As far as I concerned, the system of organization is the foundation, the working environment is the prerequisite, the observance and conduct of the individual is the key and the ability of the individual is the core.


Humanistic Teaching is a student-centered teaching concept put forward by Rogers,which is consistent to the idea exerted by Foreign Language College of Zhejiang Normal University for over ten years.By analyzing the case study of the teaching of a particular class lectured by a teacher who experienced the reform of RICH teaching,this paper indicates that RICH teaching truly reflects Rogers's humanistic teaching concept.


Summary The pteridophyte flora of Scotland, as with that of the British Isles as a whole, is still recovering from the great reduction of its original diversity caused by the Pleistocene glaciations. However, the isolation of the British Isles, their range of suitable habitats and their climatic and edaphic opportunity has provided conditions in which processes of natural biodiversity restoration in pteridophytes can be demonstrated and monitored. The modern pteridophyte vegetation of Scotland is analyzed in this evolutionary perspective. Using the examples of both ferns and fern allies, it is suggested that it is at least as important to conserve suitable sites for the continued origin of novel taxa as it is to allow for the perpetuation of existing taxa and communities.


Background

Diabetes is progressively becoming a vital chronic disease burden worldwide, mainly in developing countries such as India; this necessitates a shift in healthcare priorities and advanced data on the epidemiology and impact of diabetes to help plan and prioritize health programs. We systematically reviewed the literature on diabetes prevalence and its complications in India.
Methods

This systematic review focuses on diabetes prevalence and complications in India from January 2000 to September 2021. Literature searches were conducted using electronic databases.
Results

Diabetes prevalence ranged from 2.02% in rural Madhya Pradesh to 40.3% in Tamil Nadu. Diabetes prevalence was significantly higher in urban areas than in rural areas. The prevalence of pre-diabetes varied across Indian states ranging from 2.4% in Meghalaya to 47.6% in Delhi. The prevalence of chronic diabetes complications ranged from 4.8–21.7% for retinopathy, 0.9–62.3%% for nephropathy, and 10.5–44.9% for neuropathy.
Conclusions

Diabetes is a significant and widespread health problem in India. Dissimilarity in the prevalence of diabetes between individual states is observed. Most diabetes patients experience chronic complications of diabetes. Consequently, it is essential to map the urgent preventive approach to reduce the further increase in areas with high prevalence.


Carboxylporphyrin is an important water-soluble porphyrins and has prospect applications in analytical chemistry,biomimetic chemistry,etc.Under microwave radicalization,three kinds of unsymmetrical porphyrins with carboxyl group were synthesized with 4-formyl benzoic acid,pyrrole and 4-R substituted benzaldehyde(R=H,Cl,OCH3).Reaction time of microwave radicalization were 8~10 min,the yields of products was 5%,5.8%,2.8%.The structures were characterized by IR,UV-Vis,1HNMR and fluorescence spectroscopy.The infullences of substituent group structure and electronic effect on the spectral properties have been discussed.


The last European communist state to open its frontiers to the Western world. Visit the ancient ruins at the UNESCO site of Butrint. The trip to Albania is a unique opportunity to witness a warm, hospitable nation with a fascinating history, struggling to catch up with the rest of Europe.


A 34-year-old male presented as an emergency with sudden onset globus, stertor and choking whilst asleep. He had similar previous episodes that self-resolved. The patient's observations were all within normal range. On examination, he had a grossly enlarged, non-erythematous uvula and there were no signs of respiratory distress or stridor. He was managed with intravenous dexamethasone and an attempt at needle aspiration of the uvula was made but there was no clinical improvement in the patient's condition. Despite no improvement with therapy, he was monitored overnight for any signs of airway compromise and discharged the following morning. His symptoms completely resolved on follow-up in the otolaryngology clinic a week later. He was diagnosed with Quincke's oedema caused by his obesity and background of obstructive sleep apnoea. We discuss the various aetiologies, assessment, and management of Quincke's oedema.


The O2 plasma damage of porous OSG films was investigated by examining the origin of the dielectric loss and using a CH4 plasma treatment for dielectric recovery. To study the dielectric loss, a combination of analytical techniques including spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) was used and the Kramers-Kronig dispersion relation was applied to deduce the contribution from the polarization components. The results indicated that the dielectric loss is dominated by the dipole contribution in comparison with the electronic and the ionic polarizations. To trace the origin of the dipole contribution, quantum chemistry calculations were performed to evaluate the dipole moment of various molecular clusters derived from the basic unit of the MSQ material as a result of plasma interaction. The uptake of physisorbed water molecules was found to be primarily responsible for the dipole moment increase and the dielectric loss. The dielectric recovery by CH4 plasma treatment was investigated using a combination of x-ray, electron spectroscopy and ellipsometry techniques together with contact angle measurements. After CH4 plasma treatment, the surface carbon concentration and surface hydrophobicity were found to be partially recovered. A gradient densified surface layer was found on top of the damaged OSG film containing certain amounts of C=C and Si-CH3 or C-C bonds. The C-V hysteresis and the leakage current were reduced, confirming a partial removal of Si-OH bond and Si dangling bond. XPS depth profiling revealed that the dielectric recovery was limited mainly to the surface region of about 10 nm.


We read with interest recent article by Zhang et al 1 on the diagnosis of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by fecal specimen test. Following the recent outbreak of pneumonia with unknown pathogen in Hubei province in China, a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) isolated from human airway epithelial cells and the disease was named COVID-19.2 It is a public health emergency of international concern and rapidly spearing all over the world.3 This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.


The Network File System (NFS) protocol, as the de facto standard for sharing files in a distributed environment, has deployed Infiniband as the underlying transport of sunRPC, namely NFS over RDMA. In the current Read-Write design of NFS over RDMA, NFS write performance is limited for not fully utilizing the features of Infiniband. In this paper, we take on the challenge of enhancing the write performance of NFS. We propose and evaluate a new design of sunRPC over RDMA, namely Write-Write design. To guarantee the security of our design, we propose an HCA-based memory protection extension of Infiniband. Evaluations show that our Write-Write design increases the kernel-to-kernel RPC bandwidth by 15~27%. In real disk test, our Write-Write design gains 15%~22% in multi-client benchmarks compared with the Read-Write design.


Abstract This paper uses literary criticism as the basis for stimulus-side analysis of nostalgia in advertising text. It provides a historical context for modern nostalgia by discussing the phenomenon as a fin de siecle or "end of century" cultural effect. It presents a nostalgia taxonomy by distinguishing between two types of nostalgia — historical and personal — that determine advertising elements of plot, setting, characters, and values inherited from literary antecedents. It analyzes each type in commercial communications, using advertisements, periodicals, and direct mail catalogues as examples. Personal and historical nostalgia advertisements are linked to consumer effects of, respectively, empathy and idealization of the self. Eight propositions are developed for additional research in three areas: content analysis, different gender responses, and effects on consumer values.


Copyright: © 2013 Mimura T, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. lenses contain lenses with two or three different powers to help restore reading ability that has been lost due to presbyopia. Progressive addition lenses avoid discontinuity of vision and are also more cosmetically attractive, but are generally more expensive than bifocal lenses and single-vision spectacles. Middle-aged contact lens users are more active than their counterparts living several decades ago and tend to choose bifocal or multifocal contact lenses instead of bifocal spectacles or reading glasses for cosmetic reasons. Otherwise contact lens users over the age of 40 who have presbyopia wear reading glasses on top of their contact lenses.


1. What is Word Grammar? Richard Hudson, (University College London, UK) I: Word Grammar Approaches to Linguistic Analysis 2. Case Agreement in Ancient Greek: Implications for a Theory of Covert Elements, Chet Creider (University of Western Ontario, Canada) and Dick Hudson 3. Understood Objects in Japanese and English: A Word Grammar Account, Kensei Sugayama (Kobe City University, Japan) 4. The Grammar of Be To: From a Word Grammar point of view, Kensei Sugayama (Kobe City University, Japan) 5. Linking in Word Grammar, Jasper Holmes 6. Word Grammar and Syntactic Code-Switching Research Eva Eppler (University of Surrey, Roehampton) 7. Word Grammar Surface Structures and HPSG Order Domains, Takahumi Maekawa (University of Essex, UK) II: Towards a Better Word Grammar 8. Distributional Heads and Structural Heads, And Rosta (University of Central Lancashire, UK) 9. Factoring out the Subject Dependency, Nik Gisborne (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) 10. Conclusion, Kensei Sugayama.


A new and accurate equation of state for hard-body fluids is proposed. For linear molecules, the equation only requires the second virial coefficient, which is known exactly for convex as well as for many non-convex hard-body fluids, to provide very good agreement with simulations even for quite elongated molecules. For non-linear molecules, some of the higher order virial coefficients might be needed, for which reasonable approximations would probably be sufficient to obtain satisfactory results.


Exploring an Inquiry-based Learning with Peer-teaching Pedagogy in a Physiological Signals Lab Course Jennifer Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE) Dr. Jennifer Bailey is a Senior Lecturer of Biomedical Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology, where she has taught since January of 2014. She previously taught at the University of Illinois and the University of Southern Indiana after graduating from Purdue University. Bailey's passion is lab course development and improving student learning through enhancing lab and other hands-on experiences.


Microwave technology was used to treat Ni(OH) 2 material.The result of charge discharge experiment showed that the specific capacity of treated material was 5%-9% higher than untreated material and the discharge plateau raised obviously.XRD and SEM tests indicated that the c axis was larger than untreated material and the diffraction peaks of (001) and (101) widened dendrite appeared on the surface.Cyclic voltammogram result showed the improvement of the electrochemical reversibility.


The Doppler shift attenuation method of lifetime determination has been employed following the 62.6 4 Ni(p, ny)62.6 4 Cu and 67. 70Zn(p, ny)67. 70Ga reactions. The lifetime of the 62CU state at 637 keY was found to be 220 :':1~g fs; lower limits of 230 and 250 fs were set for the levels at 426 and 548 keYrespectively. For 64 CU, a lower limit of 175 fs was set for both the 609 and 663 keY states. Lifetimes in 67Ga were determined for the indicated levels as: 828 keY, 280 +igg fs; 911 keY, 370 :,:~~g fs; 1412 keY, 900 :,:~~go fs; 1519 keY, 750 :,:!ggo fs; 1555 keY, 190 :,:~g fs; 1639 keY, 150 :,:!g fs; 2041 keY, 150 :,:~g fs; and 2174 keY, 80 :':jg fs. Lower limits of 600 and 110 fs were set on the lifetime values for the 1202 and 1978 keY levels respectively. Similarly, lower limits on the lifetimes of the 70Ga levels at 1203 and 1245 keY were set at 320 and 720 fs, while values for the 1312 and 1446 keY levels of 70Ga were found to be 245 :':~~ and 390 :':~~~ fs.


An environmentally friendly three- component Biginelli cyclocondensation is used for the synthesis of monastrol derivatives which are an interesting class of compounds in cancer research.Depending on the combination of the three components products of type (IV) or (VII) are obtained.


Biomass plants often struggle to capture flow measurements reliably. High amounts of dry solids and fats complicate the measurement with an MID (Magnetic-Inductive) flowmeter and make it susceptible to faults. To overcome this impediment, the waste water treatment plant in Innsbruck, Austria, relies on electromagnetic pulsed AC (Alternating Current) flowmeters. Compared to pulsed DC (Direct Current) devices, AC devices are able to build up magnetic fields that are ten times stronger. Equipped with this capability, the Sitrans Transmag 2 is able to guarantee a constant and also high measuring accuracy, zero point stability and signal strength regardless of impurities in the medium or fluctuations in the magnetic field.


We prove thata locally trivial Lie algebra bundle is a semidirect product of its radical bundle and a semisimple bundle by using thecohomological methods.A simple bundle which is not semisimple is given and it is also an example of a non locally trivial bundle for which such a decomposition fails.


Although marketing managers would appreciate financial data that more directly support their activities, the financial data generated by hotel accounting systems are aimed at apportioning department-related expenses and reflecting financial picture of overall operation. Given the industry's increased focus on the profit generated by a given customer or market segment, a more useful form of financial data would allow hotel managers to apportion costs to given market segments. A survey of 143 controllers and 86 marketers shows the disconnect between the two professions. The bulk of marketers said that all company costs should be allocated among market segments, but most controllers took exactly the opposite view.


Sequence variation between people is particularly important for medical biology, as such variants can directly affect protein function. This thesis presents novel methods for the prediction of functional effects of sequence variants. Using experimental annotation of variants, the methods performed substantially better than current state-of-the-art methods. Another important novelty is the methods' ability to predict variants in orphan proteins, thus enabling previously impossible predictions.


Planning resources for a supply chain is a major factor determining its success or failure. In this paper we take an existing Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic resource planning model, and compare the performance of a Genetic Algorithm, Simulated Annealing, the Great Deluge Algorithm and hybrid optimisation methods combining the GA with each of the other methods. Each method is used to search for good resource plans that meet a service level requirement while minimising cost. A discussion of the results of the experiment is given along with considerations for future research.


This paper presents the results of an investigation into the mechanisms that generate ghost targets when many real targets are present on the same azim uth in a MPRF radar system. A new PRI selection strategy is proposed as a method to elimina te these ghost targets. The use of evolutionary algorithms as a means of optimising the PRI selecti on is discussed.


To analyze the causes of pharyngeal fistula after total laryngectomy,discuss the prevention and treatment which decrease the incidence.To analysis retrospectively the clinical data of pharyngeal fistula in 122 patients who had been executed total laryngectomy because of laryngeal carcinoma.Pharyngeal fistula was occurred in 12 of 122 cases after total laryngectomy(incidence 9.8%) and in 7 of 26 cases after total laryngectomy of preoperation radiotherapy(incidence 26.9%).Correcting the risk factors before the operation,operating standard during the operation,observing and nursing carefully after the operation,are able to reduce the occurrence of pharyngeal fistula.


The ability to manipulate water and oil phases in a designable manner is of great significance in widespread fields from art paintings to materials science. However, achieving precise and stable surface patterns for two immiscible phases of water and oil remains a challenge. Herein, a general wetting‐enabled‐transfer (WET) strategy is reported to construct discretionary shape‐defined surface patterns of organohydrogels along with their monolithic formation either from flat to curved surfaces or from the microscale to the macroscale. Locally differentiated wettability induces hydrophilic monomers and hydrophobic monomers from an emulsion system onto the wettability‐matching regions of the prepatterned substrates, subsequently forming corresponding hydrogel and organogel patterns on the organohydrogel surface after in situ photopolymerization. The precision of the surface patterns can be controlled by optimizing the gel monomers, emulsion droplet size, and surface chemical composition of the prepatterned substrates. This finding may provide a feasible strategy for precisely patterning functional materials from two‐immiscible‐phase systems.


In a drive device (1) for a ship with a drive shaft (3) for driving a propulsion unit (4) of the vessel and having a first and a second electric motor (5 and 6) for driving the propulsion unit (4), wherein the two motors (5, 6) are arranged behind one another on the drive shaft (3), wherein the first motor (5) comprises a rotor (21) and a stator (23) which are arranged in a motor housing (25), said power converter (27 ) for feeding the first motor (5) with electric current in the motor housing (25), preferably at least partially (in a room 26) are arranged between the drive shaft (3) and the rotor (21), is according to the invention, the ratio of the nominal power the first motor (5) to the nominal output of the second motor (6) is between 1: 3 and 3: 1, wherein the second motor (6) spatially between the propulsion unit (4) and the first motor (5) on the drive shaft (3 ) is arranged.


Based on the theory of multibody dynamics,a virtual prototype model of a vehicle is built by using ADAMS/Car. A random road was built by Road-Profile Generation,then a simulation of ride comfort under the random road was performed. The investigation provided important reference for prototype being applied to vehicle engineering and made a base of further design for the object.


Beyond the walls: the construction of the Maringa Cathedral. This article proposes a sociological analysis of the history and construction of the Maringa Cathedral. It is a symbol of the power of the Catholic Church, but its construction is not unrelated to political strategies and local interests. This paper intends to analyze the cathedral in three aspects: the combination of Catholic values and institutional ideals and modernity, visible in the architecture itself; the relevance of the construction project for local interests; and its role in the trajectory of Dom Jaime Luiz Coelho, the main articulator of the work. The analysis of documents and events related to the construction of the building shows a series of relationships and discussions that contribute to the understanding of the meaning of the cathedral, not only for the Church, but also for the city of Maringa.


Understanding the effect of electrode-electrolyte interface (EEI) on the kinetics of electrode reaction is critical to design high-energy Li-ion batteries. While electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) is used widely to examine the kinetics of electrode reaction in Li-ion batteries, ambiguities exist in the physical origin of EIS responses for composite electrodes. In this study, we performed EIS measurement by using a three-electrode cell with a mesh-reference electrode, to avoid the effect of counter electrode impedance and artefactual responses due to asymmetric cell configuration, and composite or oxide-only working electrodes. Here we discuss the detailed assignment of impedance spectra for LiCoO2 as a function of voltage. The high-frequency semicircle was assigned to the impedance associated with ion adsorption and desorption at the electrified interface while the low-frequency semicircle was related to the charge transfer impedance associated with desolvation/solvation of lithium ions, and lithium ion intercalation/de-intercalation into/from LixCoO2. Exposure to higher charging voltages and greater hold time at high voltages led to no significant change for the high-frequency component but greater resistance and greater activation energy for the low-frequency circle. The greater charge transfer impedance was attributed to the growth of EEI layers on the charged LixCoO2 surface associated with electrolyte oxidation promoted by ethylene carbonate dehydrogenation.


The coupling constants of strong interactions are given by considering Y* 's and other experimental results which include E. It is shown that Y 1* (1385 Mev), Yo* (1405 Mev) and Y 2* (1550 Mev) can be regarded as analogues of N3*' the (3-3) resonance. If the spin-parity of Yo* is P S/ 2 , it may be concluded that gL-,.. ~O, g~l'7t=,g't'\-7 sults and the analysis of other experimental data including E, we shall get a possible scheme on the types and the strengths of


In view of the continuing interest in the chemistry of halopyridines, the development of convenient, simple, ecological methods for their synthesis via polyhalogenated open-chain compounds containing functional groups remains of interest. We have examined the reaction of trichloroacetonitrile (I) with acrolein (II), since the addition product, 2,2,4-trichloro5-oxopentanonitrile (III) could constitute a convenient synthon for the preparation of halogenated pyridines.