Natural plant products have been important for the development of new active molecules for drug development
 since the ancient times. This is particularly due to the presence of secondary metabolites in plants, which are known
 for their antimicrobial activity. Thus, this study focused on investigating the antimicrobial activity of Erythrina
 abyssinica against Candida albicans and Staphylococcus aureus. Erythrina abyssinica is a medicinal plant which has
 been used traditionally for the treatment of various infections, snakebites and some sexually transmitted diseases.
 However, not much scientific studies have been done to validate the use of Erythrina abyssinica as a medicinal plant.
 The bark was extracted using solvent-solvent extraction method. The extracts were tested for their antimicrobial
 activity using the agar disc diffusion assay. Antimicrobial activity was observed in most extracts with the ethyl
 acetate extract showing the highest zone of inhibition of 25 mm and dichloromethane showing the least zone of
 inhibition against C. albicans. The minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) for all the extracts were determined
 using the broth dilution assay. The dichloromethane and hexane extracts were the most potent with MICs of
 62.5 μg/ml. However, the hexane extract showed the highest zone of inhibition of 23 mm against S. aureus whilst
 dichloromethane was found to be the most potent with an MIC of 15.6 μg/ml against C. albicans by broth dilution
 assay. Minimum fungicidal concentrations for all the extracts were 500 μg/ml except for ethyl acetate which was 250
 μg/ml. The minimum bactericidal concentration for all the extracts was greater than 500 μg/ml except for hexane
 showing that extracts inhibited growth of S. aureus but did not kill the cells. Toxicity studies showed that all extracts
 may not be toxic to human cells. Therefore, these results scientifically validate the use of the Erythrina abyssinica bark
 for the treatment of various ailments.


This article describes develop of software that generates managing tensions for many various electrical
devices. As already mentioned the name of it is the firmware that is used to control electric devices through the
computer. The purpose is to create software interface for managing electrical device which are not available to
communicate via digital interface protocols or another digital protocols based on binary values. USB device's
firmware and their connection cooperate with most of personal computers operating system such as are Windows,
MacOS and Linux. Our device is protected by CZ Patent No. 304 233 and CZ Utility Model No. 024542. Our device
is registered at the European Patent Office too.


Summary. Examination of 50 patients with iron‐deficient hypochromic anaemia showed evidence suggesting a high incidence of folate depletion. The peripheral blood films of 44 patients (88%) showed more than 3% of neutrophils with five nuclear lobes, 35 patients (70%) had a high mean neutrophil lobe count, 20 patients (40%) had hypersegmented neutrophils and 19 patients (38%) had giant metamyelocytes in the bone marrow. The serum folate was below 3 ng/ml in 12 patients and 3–6 ng/ml in 18. Red‐cell folate was subnormal in 15%, and 45% had a positive Figlu test.


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Purpose:  The endocannabinoid system is known to modulate seizure activity in several in vivo and in vitro models, and CB1‐receptor activation is anticonvulsant in the rat pilocarpine model of acquired epilepsy (AE). In these epileptic rats, a unique redistribution of the CB1 receptor occurs within the hippocampus; however, an anatomically inclusive analysis of the effect of status epilepticus (SE)–induced AE on CB1 receptors has not been thoroughly evaluated. Therefore, statistical parametric mapping (SPM), a whole‐brain unbiased approach, was used to study the long‐term effect of pilocarpine‐induced SE on CB1‐receptor binding and G‐protein activation in rats with AE.


The medal of the Seismological Society of America was
established as Article XII of the Constitution and Bylaws in the 1975 annual
election. The Medal recognizes outstanding contributions in Seismology
and Earthquake Engineering. The twelfth award, in 1989, was made to
Dr. Robert E. Wallace.


Highly integrated ISFETs require the monolithic implementation of ISFETs, CMOS electronics, and additional sensors on the same chip This paper presents novel packaging type of CMOS ISFET pH sensor using standard CMOS FET chip and extended sensing membrane which is separated from CMOS FET. This proposed packaging type will make it easy to fabricate CMOS ISFET pH sensors


In this age of economic globalization and knowledge economy, each city has to be faced with global competition. In order to realize sustainable development, Dalian City must be built into a studious city, intensify the people's level of knowledge and capabilities.


The territorial information system was born following the Law of 19 April 1990, n. 84 (in Gazz. Uff., 26 April, n. 96), as an organic plan for the inventory, cataloging and elaboration of the Risk Charter for cultural heritage: first interventions. The system implements the pilot plan for the planned conservation of the cultural heritage of Umbria, a study promoted by Giovanni Urbani, then director of the Central Institute of Restoration. The Risk Map is a GIS composed of an alphanumeric database and the cartographic component, capable of exploring, superimposing and processing information relating to potential territorial and environmental risk factors linked to cultural heritage. The Risk Card system has two levels of risk. The first relates the concentration of assets and the danger of the territory, in order to evaluate, following a calamitous event, the probability of loss of the cultural heritage (Territorial risk). The second, on the other hand, evaluates the risk of loss of the individual cultural property and is implemented through the filing on the field of the vulnerability of cultural assets (evidenced by the state of conservation) and the relationship with the territorial danger around the property (Local risk). The CdR system produces and exposes the data present with WMS services (raster data), architectural and archaeological real estate (punctual, linear and polygonal), underwater archaeological files, historical centers and aggregated urban units of historical centers. It also has WFS services (vector data) of architectural and archaeological real estate (punctual, linear and polygonal), containers of movable goods (punctual), historical centers and aggregated urban units of historical centers. Since 2012, the Risk Charter has been in the interoperability of the Ministry of Culture within the territorial computerized system Constraints in the network, with which it increases the registry and georeferencing of cultural assets present for various reasons in the SigecWeb (ICCD) and Protected Assets systems (DG ABAP). Thanks to the agreement signed between the Service II - UNESCO Office of the General Secretariat and the Directorate General for Security of the Ministry of Culture, the system will be used for the assessment of the territorial risk of Italian UNESCO sites, but also, for the first time, to support the request for registration of a site on the World Heritage List. This is the candidacy of the "Via Appia. Regina Viarum "for which, with the support of ISPRA, the levels of territorial danger will be analyzed in detail, with reference to both natural disasters (earthquake, landslides, etc.) and to problems deriving from simple atmospheric agents and from pollution. In addition, the data on the state of conservation of the ancient route and the assets related to it will be collected with the appropriate cards of the Risk Card, which will allow the processing of vulnerability indicators and local risk indicators, which will be proposed to the UNESCO for monitoring the site over time.


Dedicated to Professor Jean Morel for his retirement

The title compounds 4 have been prepared from suitable β-amino- alcohol 2 and phthalic anhydride (5) in a three-step sequence in moderate to good yields (58-94%). The key step of this methodology is based on an intramolecular O-cationic cyclization involving N-acyliminium species. The high levels of the observed chemoselectivity during the intermolecular or intramolecular cyclization were also discussed.


Energy networks are undeniably considered as one of the most important infrastructures in the word. Energy plays a dominant role in the economy and security of each country. In this talk we are going to consider several difficult problems in energy networks, such as hydro-thermal scheduling modeling, electricity network expansion, liquefied natural gas, and blackout detection in the smart grid. Speaker Bio: Panos M. Pardalos serves as Distinguished Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida. He is also an affiliated faculty member of the Computer and Information Science Department, the Hellenic Studies Center, and the Biomedical Engineering Program. He is also the Director of the Center for Applied Optimization. Dr. Pardalos is a world leading expert in global and combinatorial optimization. His recent research interests include network design problems, optimization in telecommunications, e-commerce, data mining, biomedical applications, and massive computing.


Abstract A compensator is defined for a point process in two dimensions. It is shown that a Poisson process is characterized by a continuous deterministic compensator. Sufficient conditions are given for convergence in distribution of a sequence of two-dimensional point processes in the Skorokhod topology to a Poisson process when the corresponding sequence of compensators converges pointwise in probability to a continuous deterministic function.


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ABSTRACT Centred around the life narratives of HIV-positive gay migrants in two Mediterranean cities, Barcelona (Catalonia/Spain) and Rome (Italy), this paper frames their decision to migrate towards the big city as an active strategy to escape the 'second closet', a concept introduced by Berg and Ross in 2014 to refer to the hiding of HIV-positivity by gay men to avoid negative social condemnation. In line with recent literature on gay migration that has emphasized its relational and situated character, the paper focuses on several factors leading to the decision to migrate: sexual desire and the imagery of the big city; the configuration of the welfare regime allowing free access to antiretroviral therapies (ARTs); access to employment in the services sector; and the absence of strong ties in the new city. Methodologically the paper draws from in-depth interviews conducted with 24 HIV-positive gay men between 2014 and 2016.


On 7 October, masked gunmen opened fire on student protestors in Caracas, Venezuela, who were returning from a protest against President Hugo Chavez's proposed Constitutional reforms. Thousands of students marched on the Supreme Court protesting the reforms, which Chavez pro-poses to pass by referendum and critics say consolidate executive powers, giving the President control of the Central Bank, abolishing presidential term limits, expanding state of emergency powers, and creating new provinces to be governed by centrally appointed officials. These authoritarian changes are paired with populist measures like reducing the voting age and decreasing the hours of the maximum work day.


Shale and coals from 1.2 km of core through most of the preserved Lower Cretaceous in western Canada were analyzed for source rock potential and maturation level. Although much of the core lies within the oil window, none of the formations are notably oil prone. Oxidizing bottom conditions and the large predominance of terrestrial organic matter (OM) in the relatively nearshore depositional setting of the marine sediments have led to the dominance of terrestrial OM throughout this sequence of rocks, including the marine shales. As such, mostly gas will be, or has been, generated. The nonmarine Minnes Group and Gething and Gates Formations average 2.7, 6.3, and 5.2% total organic carbon (TOC), respectively, with fair to very good gas source potential. The nonmarine Boulder Creek Formation contains 1.1% TOC and has poor source rock potential due to the presence of several thick paleosols. The marine Moosebar, Hulcross, and basal Shaftesbury Formations contain 1.5, 1.7, and 1.5% average TOC contents, respectively, and have poor to fair source rock potential. These marine sediments, which may have generated limited amounts of oil, show a progressive decrease of hydrogen index (HI) with depth, due to thermal degradation with increased burial. HI for nonmarine sediments remains constant with depth. The marine sediments contain mostly type III kerogen with lesser amounts of thermally degraded type II kerogen. Vitrinite reflectance increases systematically with depth from 0.94% to 1.5% Romax. Tmax values correspond well with vitr nite reflectance, although Tmax values for marine sediments increase more slowly with increasing maturation than nonmarine sediments.


ABSTRACT Recognised as an important concern in mobile, cloud, and high performance computing, the power and energy consumed by computing applications is growing in importance across an increasingly broad range of areas. The importance of this topic to the modelling and simulation community is discussed. Key underlying concepts concerning power and energy consumption are presented. A roadmap for research in power and energy issues is presented. Work completed on this topic for sequential, parallel, and distributed simulations is reviewed. Finally, future research directions are discussed.


A parametric formulation of the finite‐volume theory for functionally graded materials is presented based on a mapping of a square reference subcell onto a quadrilateral subcell in the actual discretized microstructure. This formulation significantly advances the capability and utility of the theory, enabling modeling of curved boundaries of functionally graded structural components, as well as inclusions employed for grading purposes, without the disadvantage of stress concentrations at the corners of rectangular subcells used in the standard version.


Separation of Pb2+ from Cu2+-Pb2+ mixed solution by a newly-developed ion separating agent was examined, which was obtained by clothing chitin whiskers (ChW) on the surface of potassium tetratitanate whiskers (PTW). The separation capability and mechanism of the ion separating agent (ChW-PTW) was determined, based on the difference of the adsorption isotherm pattern and the adsorption kinetics model between ChW and PTW on Cu2+ and Pb2+, respectively. The results showed that the adsorption process of ChW could be described by Freundlish isotherm. The adsorption affinity of Cu2+ (kF = 0.085·g−1) on ChW was greater than Pb2+ (kF = 0.077 g−1). The adsorption pattern of PTW was inclined to the Langmuir isotherm, and Pb2+ (kL = 310.59 L·mmol−1) could be obviously more easily adsorbed on PTW than Cu2+ (kL = 25.85 L·mmol−1). The experimental data both fitted well with the pseudo-second order kinetics. The reaction rate of Pb2+ (k2 = 4.442 for ChW and k2 = 0.846 for PTW) was greater than that of Cu2+ on both ChW and PTW, while the diffusion rate of intra-particles of PTW was much higher than ChW. The adsorption model of ChW and PTW could illustrate well the separation mechanism of ChW-PTW and allowed for relevant results.


Looking at your dressing table or cabinet, how many skincare products do you use? What about hair products and probably some medications? Most ...


Background/Aims: Nexrutine is an herbal extract of Phellodendron amurense and has been used as nutrient supplement in China as well as America. Potential protection effect of Nexrutine has been reported. Methods: To investigate the mechanism of Nexrutine, we used the HeLa, U2OS and HCT116 as a model. Based on the acidification of cell culture media, we examined the lactate, mitochondria damage as well as mitophagy status by corresponding assay. Results: Our data suggest that Nexrutine alters the cellular glucose metabolism to promote lactate production. This effect is caused by mitochondrial damage, not an alteration to lactate dehydrogenase activity. As a result of the mitochondrial damage, cell proliferation was inhibited and was associated with an elevation in p21/p27 proteins, which are both important cell cycle inhibitors. As another consequence of the mitochondrial damage, mitophagy was highly activated in Nexrutine-treated cells in a dose-dependent manner. When the autophagy pathway was blocked by siRNAs against BECN1 or ATG7, the growth inhibition caused by Nexrutine was reversed. Conclusion: Our study revealed that autophagy plays an important role in the inhibition of cancer cell proliferation by Nexrutine.


Establishing a modern pollen analogue for remote, high‐deposition environments (e.g. ice caps) presents a unique problem that is difficult to address with current technology. Collecting modern pollen with traditional Tauber traps in these locations (at sub‐annual resolution) is nearly impossible due to the time and costs involved in frequent, long‐distance or remote travel. Presented in this paper is an automated, dry‐deposition Tauber trap with the ability to open and close on a timer, which allows for pollen collection at programmable intervals. This new trap (along with three traditional Tauber traps) was field tested in the summer of 2005 at the University of Colorado's Niwot Ridge Long‐Term Ecological Research Station (LTER) located in the Front Range of the Colorado Rockies. During the research, one of the traditional traps became damaged and was subsequently discarded from the study. Significant variability in pollen concentrations and percentages was found in the remaining traps. Statistical tests revealed that the pollen assemblage collected in the automated trap was statistically no different to the pollen collected in the traditional Tauber traps. Field testing in a cold, high‐wind environment also revealed the weaknesses of acrylic as a trap material, and identified several improvements that could be made to the overall design. Further testing aside, this modified, automated Tauber trap now permits modern pollen rain studies at higher resolutions in more remote locations.


This paper presents results of a numerical analysis performed on a corrugated steel plate (CSP) bridge during a backfilling process. The analysed bridge structure was a box culvert having a span of 12315 mm as well as a clear height of 3550 mm. Obtained calculation results were compared with the experimental ones. The paper is presented with the application of the Fast Lagrangian Analysis of Continua (FLAC) program based on the finite differences method (FDM) to determine behaviour of the soil-steel bridge structure during backfilling. The assumptions of a computational 2D model of soil-steel structure with a non-linear interface layer are described. Parametric analysis of the interface element is also given in order to receive the most realistic calculation results. The method based on this computational model may be used with large success to design calculations of this specific type of structure instead of the conventional and fairly inaccurate analytical methods. The conclusions drawn from such analysis can be helpful mostly for the assessment of the behaviour of steel-soil bridge structures under loads of backfilling. In consideration of an even more frequent application of this type of structure, conclusions from the conducted analysis can be generalized to a whole class of similar structural bridge solutions.


A touch panel, a first sensing substrate, a second substrate and sensing an anisotropic conductive film comprising. Sensing a first substrate comprising at least a first sensing series, at least a first signal transmission line and at least a second signal transmission line, the first sensing series extending in a first direction. A first signal transmission line connecting the first sensing series. Sensing a second substrate facing the first sensing substrate and comprising at least a second sensing series. Second sensing series extending along a second direction, the first direction a second interleaving. The anisotropic conductive film is disposed between the first substrate and the second sensing sensing substrate to electrically connect the second signal transfer line and a second sensing series.


Weak rod, a minimisation problem, can be realized by a very natural double layer network with feedback. While the second layer is linear, the first layer is significantly nonlinear. Elements associated with the first layer are called "synaptic fuses". An MRF argument is used to eliminate the line variable. The network makes it transparent what is cut when a crease or a step edge is present.


Animations of a clothed character play a key role in enriching visual realism in various CG applications. However, the challenge remains in finding a compact representation of predefined clothing animations while preserving fine-scale details such as wrinkles and folds. In this work, we present a method to decouple clothing animation into a skinning and a non-skinning component. The skinning component controls the general look of a clothing mesh, which is derived from the underlying kinematic character animation; the non-skinning component mainly contributes to the formation of wrinkles, which is further reduced into a lower dimensional subspace to support a compact representation as depicted in Kry et al.'s [2002] work. From a practical viewpoint, our method offers a simple, fast, and effective way to compactly encode predefined clothing animations with fine details.


In this article I examine trading cards produced by Topps Chewing Gum, Inc. in the United States in the decade following World War II. I focus on how these cards functioned as mechanisms of discipline, through the practices associated with collecting, as well as through their content and use. Cards reflected contemporary trends in education and behavioural science. In addition, they utilised what I term optical technology to entice children to buy. This came in the form of rudimentary optical tricks that emulated scientific and technological developments associated with wartime. I argue that in doing so, these cards brought children into the nascent military-technological complex, and provided a way to view the world in hierarchical terms through optical science.


Chaotic solutions of the driven Dufng equation are very important and interesting for researchers in
different areas. In many cases chaos has negative effect on complicated processes As we know, chaotic
solution means that a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later
state, meaning there is sensitive dependence on initial conditions. It happens in electric circuits, economics, meteorology and in
the electrophysiology of the heart. Therefore the aim of the present paper to give a new insight on the chaos mitigation by shock..
It was found in the present work by means of the mathematical modeling that the shock-term indeed can mitigate chaos
produced in the driven Dufng equation.


ABSTRACT In our previous reports, an endophytic bacterium, Bacillus cereus KP120 was isolated from the halophyte species Kosteletzkya virginica. In this study, the effect of KP120 colonization on Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings was investigated. Our results showed that inoculation with KP120 could promote the growth of A. thaliana seedlings plants under salt-stress conditions, compared with uninoculated controls. After salt treatment, chlorophyll, proline, the activity of antioxidant enzymes, Indole-3-acetic acid and 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate-deaminase in plants inoculated were increased significantly but malondialdehyde content was decreased compared with the plants under salt stress lonely. Similarly, under non-salt stress, physiological indices above except for MDA in plants inoculated with KP120 were increased compared with control. B. cereus also induced the up-regulation of key genes involved in IAA biosynthesis, responses, transport, down-regulated expression of genes related with ethylene synthesis and response. Our work principally demonstrates that Bacillus cereus KP120 significantly enhances plant growth and increases plant tolerance to salt stress.


We concur with Jonathan Marks (2010) that brain science can and will continue to be employed in military, and other national defense/security applications. We also concur that recent misdirection of science and medicine under the rubric of national security has raised serious concerns about (1) the uses and misuses of these techniques and technologies and (2) the level of transparency maintained by government research laboratories, if not overall initiatives. We believe that these concerns are valid and must be considered, addressed, and responded to; however, we also maintain that an intellectual, practical, and ethical commitment to brain science is critical to national security. Perhaps at the core of any such discussion is the need to consider both America's current status as a superpower, and the importance of remaining in this position in the future. Once this affirmation is made, it then becomes critical to assess and analyze why, how, and with what means this role has been achieved and can be sustained. While a complete discussion of these variables is beyond the scope of this paper, of note to our commentary is that the superpower status of the United States is certainly attributable, at least in part, to its technologic, scientific, and economic capabilities, and to collaborative sharing of these capabilities with its allies (Baxter 1946). We assert that it is important to maintain our science and technology (S&T) initiatives through research, development, testing, and evaluation (RDTE), so as to remain in a position of global political superiority. Moreover, we believe that American superpower status is also built upon a set of moral values that are grounded in a reverence for humanity, beneficence, and respect for autonomy. Thus, we hold that any and all enterprises that fall within a rubric of asserting and sustaining


Careful selection of key components and the use of straightforward multiplication schemes can be applied to the design of a low-noise frequency synthesizer for Ku-band signals to 20 GHz.


A network built according to IMS architecture, consists of various nodes that consequentially process signaling messages transmitted during services providing. While IMS-network nodes process signaling messages, delays occur; this determines the quality of service. The duration of the delay has a probabilistic nature. In this paper, the author suggests an approximation of an IMS-node mathematical model that permits to evaluate characteristics of the network core. This research provides practical information about signaling traffic and sojourn time in a real IMS network, that could be used during current VoIP networks modernization and new networks design.


Pollution prevention is a step towards obtaining a green environment, and no amount of effort in that direction should be considered too great. To this effect, the pollution by leachate and the resultant impact on the environment is discussed in this chapter. Types and sources of pollution, their transfer and effect have been discussed, so as to give a background understanding on pollution and hence provide a platform for its control. The age old waste disposal practice of open dumps and landfilling is discussed, highlighting the dangers of indiscriminate waste dumping and uncontrolled landfilling practices. Although other sources of leachate generation are highlighted, the chapter focuses on leachates from municipal landfills and the effect of its migration. Engineered landfills also known as sanitary landfills have performed better in curtailing the movement of leachates, hence the use of artificial liners or low permeability soils such as the well compacted clayey soils, to eliminate or minimize leachate migration.


The complexation of alkyl-substituted pillar[5]arenes with primary ammonium salts is investigated. 1,4-Bis(methoxy)pillar[5]arene (MeP5) can form strong complexes with the primary ammonium salts in CDCl3. However, 1,4-bis(ethoxy)pillar[5]arene (EtP5) shows weak interaction with these guests, and 1,4-bis(butoxy)pillar[5]arene (BuP5) can not form such a complex at all. These results indicate that the modified alkyl chains of pillar[5]arene play an important role in the complexation selectivity.


In order to validate the high efficiency of LY-K01 new-type medicament in eliminating TOC,the author studies out check experiment between this medicament and traditional medicament in seawater TOC treatment,introduces the experimental method and steps,and combined with this medicament's mechanism,the author points out that it has oxidation,absorption and oagulate at the same time,has well effect and is worthy to be popularized.


Systematically developing high-quality reusable software components is a difficult task and requires careful design to find a proper balance between potential reuse, functionalities and ease of implementation. Extendibility is an important property for software which helps to reduce cost of development and significantly boosts its reusability. This work introduces an approach to enhance components reusability by extending their functionalities using plug-ins at the level of the connection points (ports). Application-dependent functionalities such as data monitoring and arbitration can be implemented using a conventional scripting language and plugged into the ports of components. The main advantage of our approach is that it avoids to introduce application-dependent modifications to existing components, thus reducing development time and fostering the development of simpler and therefore more reusable components. Another advantage of our approach is that it reduces communication and deployment overheads as extra functionalities can be added without introducing additional modules. The details of the plug-in system is described in the paper and its advantages for the development of robotics applications are demonstrated by developing a step-by-step example on the iCub humanoid robot.


apparently connected to a nucleolus by a fine chromatin thread. The sex-chromatin body may appear flattened, convex, tent-shaped, or diplococcoid at the nuclear membrane. It may also lie in the centre of the nucleus, but it cannot always be distinguished from a nucleolus, and such centrally placed chromatin bodies are therefore not suitable for enumeration. Nuclei which are unsuitable for sexing include those which are pyknotic and degenerating (Fig. 3), crumpled and crenated, or contaminated by bacteria, although these may be eliminated by careful focusing. In males with medullary dysgenesis and chromatinpositive nuclei (Fig. 4) the sex chromatin body is exactly comparable to that found in a normal female. In the triplo-X female some nuclei have two such chromatin bodies (Fig. 5). These are positioned at random on the nuclear membrane, opposite, adjacent, or closely adjacent to each other. In some chromatin-negative nuclei derived from normal (XY) males a slim heterochromatic crescent is discernible at the nuclear membrane. A similar structure is present together with sex chromatin in some chromatin-positive nuclei derived from male subjects with medullary dysgenesis (XXY) but apparently absent from nuclei derived from normal (XX) or from triplo-X (XXX) females.


The number of malaria cases in India last year rose to 1 070 513, up from 881 730 in 2013, provisional figures have shown.1 The 2014 prevalence is similar to that seen in 2012, when 1 067 824 cases were recorded. The states of Tripura and Odisha saw the largest increases, with rises of 540% and 70%, respectively.

AC Dhariwal, director of the National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme, said that the malaria outbreak in Tripura in 2014, which saw cases rise …


Conventional iterative methods for image reconstruction in ultrasound transmission tomography need to perform many iterations where at each iteration one has to compute the complex forward model of ultrasound wave propagation, and hence they are time-consuming. We use a U-net neural network to accelerate the reconstruction, by training the network to map from an initial reconstruction obtained via a few iterations of L-BFGS method to the target ground truth image. Since the computation of a forward pass of the neural network is very fast, we can expect a significant acceleration using the trained network for image reconstruction. Experiments show that our trained network can replace 40 L-BFGS iterations to generate equivalent reconstructions with slightly better quantitative quality in terms of normalized root mean square error and better visual quality due to the network's denoising effect. It can achieve up to 283× speedup compared with L-BFGS method for reconstructing small-size sound speed images with 80×80 pixels. This implies that we can expect even greater acceleration effects when applying such approach to reconstruct large-size 3D images.


The introduction and spread of invasive alien species (IAS) constitutes one of the most important drivers of global change in biodiversity and ecosystem services. Robust risk assessment methods are required for IAS to provide the foundation upon which to prioritise appropriate action.
In a previous study (Roy, Schonrogge et al. 2014) minimum standards were developed to provide an assessment framework for risk assessments and ultimately for underpinning the development of a proposed list of "IAS of EU concern", in accordance to the provisions of the Regulation (EU) No 1143/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2014 on the prevention and management of the introduction and spread of invasive alien species. In practice, of the protocols assessed in detail, only four (GB NNRA, EPPO DSS, Harmonia+ and ENSARS) were sufficiently compliant with the minimum standards to be considered and of these only the GB NNRA and EPPO DSS have published IAS risk assessments. As a result, using the information from such "substantially compliant" protocols, a draft list of approximately 50 species was compiled. It is important to note that this list of species is based on availability of robust risk assessments already completed through methods which are almost compliant with the minimum standards, and it does not constitute the list of "IAS of EU concern".
In view of the application of the forthcoming EU Regulation on IAS (and building-on ENV.B.2/ETU/2013/0026) the Commission hosted a 2-day scientific workshop to examine the selected risk assessments and pool the existing knowledge existing in the EU to complete the missing information, on the basis of robust scientific evidence, in order to make them fully compliant with the minimum standards, wherever possible.
The workshop was led by Helen Roy (CEH) and Riccardo Scalera (ISSG). An additional 16 experts from fifteen member states were selected based on their expertise in invasion biology and represented a breadth of expertise from a variety of perspectives including taxonomic (all taxa), environmental (freshwater, marine and terrestrial), impacts (environmental, socio-economic and health) and disciplines (ecologists, conservation practitioners, scientists, policy-makers, risk assessors). In view of the gaps across risk assessments for ecosystem services and climate change two experts were invited to guide the development of approaches for these specific themes.
In total the risk assessments for 56 species were considered. The GB NNRA and EPPO DSS have published IAS risk assessments which, when considering species that score medium to high impact, together cover 51 species (noting that Fallopia japonica and F. sachalinensis are separate species). Two further risk assessments were suggested for consideration by the GB Non-Native Species Secretariat which follow the GB NNRA protocol: coati (Nasua nasua) and skunk (Mephitis mephitis), although scored as low impact. Finally an additional three species have been considered through new European–wide risk assessments, with the reported outcome of high impact, for this project which again follow the GB NNRA protocol: Pallas squirrel (Callosciurus erythraeus), grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) and coypu (Myocastor coypus).
The main gaps across all risk assessments were in relation to climate change and ecosystem services but additional information was also required on benefits as mentioned with minimum standard "Description (Taxonomy, invasion history, distribution range (native and introduced), geographic scope, socio-economic benefits)" and in some cases information to support the minimum standard "Includes status (threatened or protected) of species or habitat under threat" was missing.
It was agreed that systematic consideration of a list of questions in relation to the minimum standards on ecosystem services and climate change would be useful guidance for experts. An outline of the approaches agreed through the workshop for the minimum standards "Includes possible effects of climate change in the foreseeable future" and "Can broadly assess environmental impact with respect to ecosystem services" were developed as guidance for documenting information in relation to climate change and ecosystem services.
Each species was considered separately with the experts providing an overview of the information available for addressing the identified gaps. After all species had been considered the workshop participants (excluding the EC, Helen Roy and Riccardo Scalera) adopted a consensus approach to confirm whether or not the risk assessment was compliant with the minimum standards and whether the overall score of the risk assessment remained applicable. No changes were made to the scores but any recommendations were noted. There were very few recommendations for change. The outcome for each risk assessment was agreed and summarised as "compliant" or "not compliant" with the minimum standards.
Of the risk assessments for the 56 species considered through this project, 53 were agreed to be fully compliant with the minimum standards. However, Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas, although compliant with the minimum standards should be excluded as it is not within the scope of the regulation (see art 2.e) because it is listed in annex IV of Council Regulation (EC) No 708/2007 of 11 June 2007 concerning use of alien and locally absent species in aquaculture. Four of the risk assessments were not considered to be compliant because of major information gaps: Elodea canadensis (Canadian pondweed), Heracleum mantegazzianum (giant hogweed), M. mephitis (skunk), N. nasua (coati).


India's relations with its neighbours since Independence have been unduly influenced by what one may call India's subcontinental obsession, especially with China and Pakistan. Its attention and major resources have becn directed to meet the tensions and challenges emanating from these two neighbours. The whole policy of India has tended towards being selective in its relations with its neighbours, and this has resulted in an unbalanced and uneven framework of relations. Prince Sihanouk of Kampuchea [formerly Cambodia) once succinctly put it, thus: ''India is our mother, and China our father. But our mother does not care for us." The time has, therefore, conienow to review the existing framework of our relations with our neighbours and develop a new and broader framework with a view to developing closer and more meaningful relations with our neighbours. Let us take a brief look at the relations between India and its neighbours. Both during the pre-Independence period and in the early years after Independence, our relations with the newly inderendent countries, especially the countries of South-East Asia, were very close and cordial. In dealing with those countries India amply reflected the broad trends then obtaining in the region. Its relations with themewere conceived with full understanding and within the framework of the then common problems and the common aspiration to gain independence from foreign rule. Those were really the days of independence movements inspired by India. The Asian Relations Conference held in New Delhi in 1947 should be viewed in this context. It established beyond any shadow of doubt the fact of India's closest relations with its neighbours. India championed the causes for which the countries of Asia were then fighting both in and outside the various international organizations, especially the United Nations. Its support for the cause of freedom from foreign rule was total and complete. No wonder, then, if the various countries of Asia developed confidence in India's leadership and adopted our techniques and methods of struggle to gain their independence. For a while they gave India the pride of place in their affections and treited it as their favourite. There was warmth of friendship between India and those countries. This posi-


Gouty arthritis is a metabolic disorder characterized by hyperuricemia, deposition of monosodium urate crystal in the joints, and recurrent episodes of acute inflammatory arthritis. Depending on the actual causes of hyperuricemia, gout is classified as primary or secondary gout. In myeloproliferative neoplasms, a turnover of nucleic acids is greatly augmented and therefore the blood concentration of uric acid may be markedly increased. But an acute attack of gout is extremely rare in patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms. Essential thrombocythemia, one of the myeloproliferative neoplasms, is characterized by megakaryocytic hyperplasia in bone marrow and marked thrombocytosis. We report a case of secondary gout in a 66-year-old man with essential thrombocythemia.


The observation of a resonance is reported for the polarization of the radiation from an He–Ne laser with a methane absorption cell operating under two-mode locking conditions and the results of an experimental investigation are presented. A comparison is made with the theory. Some features of the use of this polarization resonance in stabilizing the laser radiation frequency are indicated.


With the great efforts of Ryazanov and the scientific correspondents throughout Europe, the Marx–Engels Institute acquired not only the precious Marx/Engels literary legacy, that is, the works, manuscripts, letters and notebooks, etc., of Marx and Engels, but also materials concerning the history of socialism, history of labour movements, political economy and philosophy. As the MEGA project officially started in 1924, the Marx–Engels Institute with its huge collections became the solid organisational and material foundation for this great undertaking.


Overweight and obesity are a major public health problem all over the world, reaching all the age groups, including children. In this respect, it is noted an important relation between maternal and childhood obesity, tending to persist in adulthood. However it is not clear the impact of different factors influencing the development of childhood obesity, such as the changes in the intrauterine and neonatal environment. Angiotensin II (ang II) has been related to pathological alterations associated with obesity such as hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2).This study analyzed the consequences of the maternal consumption of cafeteria diet, offered in different phases of reproduction on endocrine, metabolic and reproductive aspects in the offspring of Wistar rats. For that, rats were fed standard chow (PAD control group) for 10 weeks since weaning. On the first day of gestation, the groups were subdivided: half of the control group was given cafeteria diet until the end of lactation (PAD/CAF group) and half of the cafeteria diet group was given standard chow until the end of lactation (CAF/PAD group). After pups weaning, it was analyzed the body weight, content of abdominal fat, plasma concentration of insulin, leptin, angiotensin II, prolactin, triglycerides, total cholesterol and glucose in mothers. In the male rat offspring, when adults, the same parameters plus plasma doses of LH, FSH and testosterone were evaluated as well as the sexual behavior. In female rats, it was demonstrated that the consumption of cafeteria diet produced increase of body weight, abdominal fat, and insulin, leptin, ang II and triglycerides concentrations, being also observed increase of maternal care. Offspring of female rats, which had fed cafeteria diet during gestation/lactation, presented, when adult, increase of abdominal fat content, insulin, leptin, and triglycerides. These findings were more pronounced in the offspring of female rats receiving cafeteria diet since weaning until the end of lactation. However, it was observed that the offspring of all the female rats, which at some moment had received cafeteria diet, presented modifications in the reproductive hormone concentrations, together with inhibiton of sexual behavior. AngII AT1 receptor blockade, through Losartan administration in the drinking water of mothers in the four different groups, avoided the increase of body weight and the other alterations observed with the consumption of that diet. There was also normalization of different parameters of maternal behavior. Thus, it was prevented the negative repercussions of maternal obesity on the offspring, so that the descendents, when adults, did not present increase of abdominal fat and other endocrine and metabolic alterations previously described. Still, there was also the normalization of different parameters of sexual behavior in association with the restoration of physiological concentrations of reproductive hormones. The results of this study has shown that the onset of childhood obesity seems to be the result of the sum of different factors, including maternal obesity and the modification of neonatal environment, represented by the increase of maternal care. Furthermore, the administration of the antagonist Losartan in female rats submitted to cafeteria diet since weaning, prevents the obesity and its associated modifications. Consequently, it is possible to prevent many adverse negative effects observed in their descendents. LISTA DE TABELAS E FIGURAS MATERIAIS E MÉTODOS Tabela 1: Conteúdo nutricional da ração padrão e dos alimentos ofertados na dieta de cafeteria................................................................................................................ 24 Tabela 2: Planilha de registro do comportamento maternal..................................... 32 Figura 1: Resumo esquemático do desenho experimental...................................... 27 Figura 2: Descrição visual dos comportamentos de lordose da fêmea (A) e monta do macho (B) durante o registro de comportamento sexual.......................................... 30 Figura 3: Principais comportamentos maternais analisados: (a) postura de amamentação com o dorso muito arqueado; (b) postura de amamentação com o dorso pouco arqueado; (c) postura de amamentação passiva (supino) e (d) comportamento de lamber os filhotes....................................................................... 33 RESULTADOS Tabela 3: Comportamento sexual da prole dos grupos PAD/PAD, PAD/CAF, CAF/CAF e CAF/PAD.................................................................,.............................. 62 Tabela 4: Comportamento sexual da prole dos grupos PAD/PAD, PAD/PAD + LOS, PAD/CAF, PAD/CAF +LOS, CAF/CAF, CAF/CAF +LOS, CAF/PAD E CAF/PAD + LOS........................................................................................................................... 87 Figura 4: Efeito da dieta de cafeteria a partir do desmame sobre a evolução do peso corporal ao longo de 10 semanas de experimento das ratas dos grupos PAD e CAF........................................................................................................................... 39 Figura 5: Peso corporal aos 21 dias de vida (A) e aos 90 dias de vida (B) das ratas dos grupos PAD e CAF............................................................................................. 39 Figura 6: Efeito da dieta de cafeteria a partir do desmame sobre a receptividade sexual (número de lordoses/ número de montas) de ratas dos grupos PAD e CAF........................................................................................................................... 40 Figura 7: Efeito da dieta de cafeteria a partir do 1o dia de gestação sobre a evolução do peso corporal de ratas dos grupos PAD/PAD, PAD/CAF, CAF/CAF e CAF/PAD................................................................................................................... 41 Figura 8: Peso corporal no final da gestação das ratas dos grupos PAD/PAD, PAD/CAF, CAF/CAF e CAF/PAD.............................................................................. 42 Figura 9: Efeito da dieta de cafeteria sobre o percentual de ganho de peso durante a gestação nas ratas dos grupos PAD/PAD , PAD/CAF, CAF/CAF e CAF/PAD......... 42 Figura 10: Média no número de filhotes por ninhada, nascidos das ratas dos grupos PAD/PAD, PAD/CAF, CAF/CAF e CAF/PAD............................................................ 43 Figura 11: Efeito da dieta de cafeteria sobre a média do peso das ninhadas no 1o (A) e no 10o dia pós-natal (B) nascidas das ratas dos grupos PAD/PAD, PAD/CAF, CAF/CAF e CAF/PAD ............................................................................................... 44 Figura 12: Efeito da dieta de cafeteria sobre a frequência total dos comportamentos de amamentação (A), de lambida (B) e de permanência no ninho (C) durante 10 dias nas ratas dos grupos PAD/PAD, PAD/CAF, CAF/CAF e CAF/PAD.......................... 45 Figura 13: Efeito dieta de cafeteria sobre o peso corporal (A) e sobre a gordura abdominal (B) dos grupos PAD/PAD, PAD/CAF, CAF/CAF e CAF/PAD.................. 46 Figura 14: Efeito da dieta de cafeteria sobre a concentração plasmática de insulina 21 dias após o nascimento das ninhadas das ratas dos grupos PAD/PAD, PAD/CAF CAF/CAF e CAF/PAD................................................................................................ 47 Figura 15: Efeito da dieta de cafeteria sobre a concentração plasmática de leptina 21 dias após o nascimento das ninhadas das ratas dos grupos PAD/PAD, PAD/CAF, CAF/CAF e CAF/PAD................................................................................................ 47 Figura 16: Efeito da dieta de cafeteria sobre a concentração plasmática de ang II 21 dias após o nascimento das ninhadas das ratas dos grupos PAD/PAD, PAD/CAF, CAF/CAF e CAF/PAD................................................................................................ 48 Figura 17: Correlação entre gordura abdominal e concentração plasmática de insulina (A), de leptina (B) e de ang II (C) entre as ratas dos grupos PAD/PAD, PAD/CAF, CAF/CAF e CAF/PAD.............................................................................. 49 Figura 18: Efeito da dieta de cafeteria sobre a concentração plasmática de (A) glicose, (B) colesterol total e (C) triglicerídeos, 21 dias após o nascimento das ninhadas das ratas dos grupos PAD/PAD, PAD/CAF, CAF/CAF e CAF/PAD ........ 50 Figura 19: Efeito da dieta de cafeteria sobre a concentração plasmática de prolactina 21 dias após o nascimento das ninhadas das ratas dos grupos PAD/PAD, PAD/CAF, CAF/CAF e CAF/PAD.............................................................................. 51 Figura 20: Efeito da dieta materna sobre o ganho de peso corporal dos descendentes dos grupos PAD/PAD, PAD/CAF, CAF/CAF e CAF/PAD.................. 52 Figura 21: Efeito da dieta materna sobre peso corporal ao desmame (A) e aos 90 dias (B) dos descendentes dos grupos PAD/PAD, PAD/CAF, CAF/CAF, e CAF/PAD................................................................................................................... 53 Figura 22: Efeito da dieta materna sobre o consumo de ração padrão total por animal, desde o desmame até os 90 dias de vida, dos descendentes dos grupos PAD/PAD, PAD/CAF, CAF/CAF e CAF/PAD............................................................ 54 Figura 23: Efeito da dieta materna sobre o conteúdo de gordura abdominal nos descendentes dos grupos PAD/PAD, PAD/CAF, CAF/CAF, e CAF/PAD ................ 54 Figura 24: Efeito da dieta materna sobre a concentração plasmática de insulina nos descendentes dos grupos PAD/PAD, PAD/CAF CAF/CAF e CAF/PAD .................. 55 Figura 25: Efeito da dieta materna sobre a concentração plasmática de leptina nos descendentes dos grupos PAD/PAD, PAD/CAF, CAF/CAF e CAF/PAD.................. 55 Figura 26: Efeito da dieta materna sobre a concentração


Nigeria is an investment haven with a population of over 160 million people and endowed with natural resources. A country with large expanse of arable land and blessed with good weather. It runs a consistent democratic government and very friendly investment policy. The transformation agenda of the current government has opened up the place and attracted both domestic and foreign investment. There are still lots of investment opportunities in the area of Oil, Gas, Electricity, Mining, Agriculture, Construction, Aviation, Rail, Banking, Insurance, Education, Health, Information Technology, Telecommunications, etc. The government of the day is putting adequate security in place to make Nigeria the investment hub of Africa. The book is a must read for Investors, Researchers, University teachers, and any other category of persons who are interested in trying to find out what is needed to know about what may determine your investing in Nigeria.


The energy dependence of proton-induced Single Event Latchup (SEL) failures is investigated for different Static Random Access Memories (SRAMs) and an Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) through experimental measurements in the 30-230 MeV range. It is observed that for several of them, the measurements are not compatible with a saturation below the maximum energy tested. A Monte Carlo based model is proposed that explains the observed cross section increase through the presence of tungsten near the sensitive region and is used to extrapolate the SEL cross section to larger energies. The significant cross section increases expected by the model up to 3 GeV are quantified and discussed, potentially having a strong impact on the failure rate for energetic environments such as high-energy accelerators or the avionics contexts.


The paper deals with a quasi-stationary electromagnetic field problem in complex 3D systems that contain bodies of nonlinear magnetic properties. The authors have extended their research on adaptability of Iterative Method of Fundamental Solutions with Impedance Boundary Conditions applied to solving such problems. It is proposed for their method reported earlier to be refined by applying a more accurate method for calculating surface wave impedance. Convergence tests for the refined method are also presented.


Projection displays have established a unique position in the display industry because of the flexibility of their screen sizes and image resolution. Today, those displays are supported by a broad range of components and technologies, such as image-source devices, light sources, illumination optics, optical engines, screens, etc. In this Special Section of the Journal of the SID, we focus on the recent advances made by projection-display devices, highlighting the most recently developed technologies as well as futuristic devices, while reviewing the industry. In editing this special section, three guest editors, Patrick Candry from Barco, Dr. Edward English from 3M Precision Optics, and Dr. Masaru Kanazawa from the Japan Broadcasting Corp., have been working very hard in deciding the structure of this special section and paper collection and review. I would like to express my sincere appreciation for their outstanding contributions.


INTRODUCTION: An orthodontic or diagnostic setup consists in cutting and realigning the teeth in plaster models, making it an important resource in orthodontic treatment planning. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this article is to provide a detailed description of a technique to build an orthodontic setup model and a method to evaluate it. CONCLUSIONS: Although laborious, orthodontic setup procedure and analysis can provide important information such as the need for dental extractions, interproximal stripping, anchorage system, among others.


FIELD: transport engineering; pneumatic brake systems. SUBSTANCE: proposed brake system of vehicle contains fluid medium pressure source made for transmitting brake force to at least one brake circuit, and modular valve box connecting brake circuit with fluid medium pressure source. Modular valve box has great number of valve modules, each module containing housing with working elements of valve module and, at least, one channel in housing made for operating at inlet channel or outlet channel. Channel is made for interaction and direct connection with at least one channel of other assembly of valve modules which makes it possible to dispense with mounting of hoses or pipelines. Each of valve assemblies is self-contained, and it forms self-contained unit capable of functioning irrespective of any other assembly of valve modules. EFFECT: simplified design owing to exclusion of large-size system of pipelines for connecting different components of system, provision of easy mounting, no long delay of moment of obtaining required pressure in system. 21 cl, 4 dwg


This thesis aims to find out how the influence of emotional intelligence on the consumer behavior of students in SMA Hidayatul Muhsinin Kubu Raya Regency Academic Year 2013/2014. The methos used is associative method with the form of causal relationship research. With a population of 111 students and a total sample of 84 students by using proportional random sampling technique. The data collection technique used are direct communication technique, indirect communication technique and document technique with the data collecting tools such as interview guideline, questionnaire and document. Based on the data analysis, there is the influence of emotional intelligence on the consumer behavior, the rate of the influence is 31,5 %. The emotional intelligence level of students in SMA Hidayatul Muhsinin Kubu Raya Regency in good category with a percentage of 65,5 % whereas the rate of consumer behavior of students in SMA Hidayatul Muhsinin Kubu Raya Regency in good category with a percentage of 58,3 %.


In the mid-thirteenth century, the Benedictine monks at the Abbey of Saint-Germain faced the unwelcome reality that they were the vassals of Auxerre's bishop. Despite the abbey's prestigious history of hosting the highest echelons of royalty and possessing the most coveted relics of Saint Germanus of Auxerre, patron saint of both monastery and city, each abbot, on the day of his installation, made his way to the Cathedral of Auxerre, knelt at the feet of the bishop, and swore an oath of fealty to him. Moreover, the abbot and his monks, along with the rest of Auxerre's citizens, looked on while the magnificent new edifice of the Cathedral of Auxerre arose over them, supplying yet more tangible evidence of the bishop's dominion over his city.


There is a historical inevitability in rising of national university science park.Two epistemic problems should be resolved to the functional orientation of the national university science park.The functions of the national university science park are divided into basic function,general function and special function.These functions can be changed in practical development.


In approaching the subject of minor surgery of obstructions at the vesical outlet, one is reminded of the accomplishments of Bottini, Young and Caulk, who have been the ones most instrumental in demonstrating the fact that the so-called hypertrophied prostate gland can be influenced to retrogress in size and even resume normal proportions. We have all observed the marked shrinkage in large prostates which so regularly occurs in the interval of a two step prostatectomy, and it is an interesting fact, to which Caulk has already drawn attention, that this phenomenon regularly follows resection of the intruding lobes or contracted sphincter. It is obvious that the phenomenon could not occur so consistently were the prostatic lobes the seat of a true hypertrophy. The fact that this change does occur forms the basis on which rests the rationale of minor surgery of the prostate gland. Though this paper is intended only


The paper describes an algorithm for the segmentation of voiced parts of speech waveforms into such segments that the length of each segment corresponds to one pitch period. The algorithm is based on the similarity of adjacent pitch period segments, and the dynamic time warping procedure is used for the similarity evaluation. Attention is also paid to the proper starting point selection, which ensures that the segmentation is synchronized across all segmented waveforms.


Abstract : Employment of acquisition framing assumptions (FAs) is an approach to defining and tracking key program assumptions that are made early in program development and throughout the program life. FAs serve as a form of risk analysis to identify uncertainties that may or may not be recognized as such. This document provides supporting information for the briefing titled Identifying and Prioritizing Acquisition Framing Assumptions: Structured Deliberation Exercise a briefing to be used in a group setting to identify FAs. It also provides a brief introduction to the concept of FAs; an overview of the approach used in the briefing to identify FAs; and a discussion of how to operationalize this approach, including an overview of structured deliberation, some of the important concepts in having a successful session, and tailoring questions on program risk areas to help elucidate FAs. Note that the briefing is meant as a starting point and should be tailored to specific program circumstances.


Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a clinicoradiological syndrome that is characterized by clinical features including headache, altered mental status, cortical blindness, seizures, and other focal neurological signs as well as subcortical edema without infarction on neuroimaging. Under the umbrella of hypertensive encephalopathy, PRES is defined by reversible cerebral edema due to dysfunction of the cerebrovascular blood-brain barrier unit. The pathophysiology of PRES is thought to result from abnormalities in the transmembrane flow of intravascular fluid and proteins caused by two phenomena: one, cerebral autoregulatory failure and two, loss of integrity of the blood-brain barrier. PRES is not a common disease in patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and AIDS with only three previously reported cases. Both the HIV and end-stage renal disease appear to further compromise the blood brain barrier. Although uncommon, PRES recurrence has been described. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report demonstrating recurrent PRES in a HIV patient on hemodialysis for end-stage renal disease.


Editor's Note: With the Dialogues of Leadership Education section in Scholar– Practitioner Quarterly, we invite our readers to join us in a venture to create a venue for giving voice to diffi cult problems of the day. Specifi cally, our purpose is to bring individuals together and engage in a meaningful, critical examination of selected topics that concern leadership, both in terms of preparation and practice. We hope the readership enjoys the dialogue on Leadership Education Priorities for a Democratic Society in this issue, and that our contributing authors stimulate important and needed conversations among leader educators, practitioners, policy makers, and other cultural workers concerned with improving leadership education and practice.


The Arthashastra of Kautilya thus shows that the ancient system of governance and administration was quite contemporary in operational guidelines when dealing with corruption. It also quite convincingly demonstrates that corruption is not an exclusive feature of modern times alone. The fact that the menace has survived and thrived through the ages speaks volumes about its endurance. Governments of all historical eras have recognised its illegality and devised legal instruments to tackle the problem, but they have not been able to overcome its spread as well as acceptability in society. If corruption has persisted through centuries, what is it that has stopped administrative systems from eradicating it?


The objective of this article is to identify the monetary plurality in economic theory. We will try to throw light on the way in which theories are attracted towards both unicity and plurality, and more specifically by unification and diversification of money. It should also be noted, in this respect, that the economics of money has undergone considerable development since the 1970s. A survey of the diverse theories, whether mainstream or not, static or dynamic, holistic or individualistic, will reveal the surprising amount of attention devoted to the problem of monetary unicity and/or plurality. We base our presentation on two lines of thought: -The first of these lines concerns a situation of general equilibrium, as opposed to theories giving place to the forms of disequilibrium and regime-crises. The general equilibrium theories usually see money as a financial asset and assume that it is neutral at least over the long term; theories of the second type, on the contrary, see money as a necessary condition for the development of trade, acknowledging that it influences the system of relative prices and consequently the dynamics of production. Thus money is presumed to be totally neutral ("super-neutral") in the New Classical Economics in the manner of Lucas (1972, 1995) and in the New Monetary Economics initiated by Black (1970) and Fama (1980). On the contrary, it is not neutral according to neo-Mengerian approaches and to those that are neo-Marxist, Chartalist and post-Keynesian. -The second line of thinking revolves round the relationship between economic theories and the question of the unicity or plurality of money as a norm to be established. This relationship is often linked to the role assigned by the various approaches to finance. For example, the macroeconomics of the New Classical Economics school, in dealing with monetary "friction" within general equilibrium theory, maintains an approach that is largely "unitary", seeking to integrate it into its framework. In this respect it opposes the financial views of the New Monetary Economics, that are based on a pluralist notion of money, aiming moreover to ensure that it could be dispensed it with the world of reality. Similarly, neo-Mengerian economists, who are pluralist and see financing as the heart of the proper organisation of money, are opposed to the unitarian approaches of Marxist, Chartalist and post-Keynesian economists. Our survey of contemporary theories will give rise to a typology of the forms of monetary unicity and plurality, framing a new reading of monetary theories.


Binary mixtures of alkanol with hydrocarbons or aromatic hydrocarbons are of great interest due to their extremely non-ideal behaviour and practical importance to chemical industry. A lot of work has been reported in the literature!" on the dielectric behaviour of alkanol in hydrocarbon (inert solvent). In our earlier work? on propanol + cyclohexane or an aromatic hydrocarbon like benzene, toluene, Or , mand p-xylene, it has been shown that the excess thermodynamic properties (VE, HE, GE) can be described in terms of Mecke-Kempter association models, which indirectly shows the existence of strong electron donor-acceptor interaction between the hydroxyl hydrogen and n-electrons of benzene ring. In the present paper, the dielectric constant and refractive indices of these binary mixtures have been studied at 308.15 K to get further insight into the behaviour of propanol in inert and polar solvents.


obtained. In her case, a day or two after the seizure in the street, the perceptive and thinking powers were regained. She knew where she was, and all the family about her, as well as myself; but the memory of words was for some time in abeyance. She could not recollect the name even of her own daughter, who was constantly with her. She had a perfect recollection of past circumstances and events up to the time of her seizure; understood whatever was said to her; felt deeply conscious of her own inability to recollect names and com-mon words when talking, and gave expression, in consequence, to emotional distress or feeling in tears. As I have elsewhere observed, "in this case, it may be fairly inferred, that the sudden shock to the nervous system in the first instance deranged the organic actions and normal corelations of the emotional and intellectual centres. The delirium was of short continuance, coherence of mind was soon regained; and the powers of thinking and reasoning were gradually though slowly restored. But there long remained-indeed, up to the time of the death-a manifest dislocation of the memory of words, to use an expressive term of Sir Henry Holland, on the slightest emotional excitement or mental agitation. Such attacks are but too often the precursors of apoplexy, or of serious disease of the brain. She died of an apoplectic seizure.


This article applied the least square support vector machine(LS-SVM) to establish the residual alkali and Baume degree mathematical model.By using NSGA-Ⅱto optimize the model of residual alkali and Baume degree based on LS-SVM and ANN,the optimized values of the inlet stock flow and consistency,fresh water inlet flow were obtained.The optimization of pulp washing process based on the results in a paper mill indicated that the model based on LS-SVM is more efficient than based on method of ANN.Consequently,the multi-objective evolutionary algorithm based on support vector machine can well solve the conflict of more than one aim in pulp washing process.


OBJECTIVE
To compare a novel surgical approach, laparoscopically-assisted radical vaginal hysterectomy (LARVH) with abdominal radical hysterectomy in women with cervical cancer, and to investigate whether selected women benefit from the minimally-invasive approach without high recurrence rate and complications.

MATERIALS AND METHODS
Forty women undergoing LARVH were included and compared with 40 women undergoing abdominal radical hysterectomy. The control group was matched for age and disease stage. Retrospective chart review was performed and patients were followed for an average of 2.5 years.

RESULTS
Blood loss was significantly increased in the control group (343.3 vs 606.3 ml, p = 0.012). Transfusions were given in 42.5% of women in the control group and 17.5% in the LARVH group. Mean operative time was longer in the control group (151 vs 240 minutes p = 0.0001). Mean nodal counts did not show a significant difference (27.3 in control vs 21.4 in LARVH, p = 0.886). Recurrence group was 7.5% at mean follow up of 30.1 months in LARVH group and in 30.8 months follow-up.

CONCLUSIONS
The LARVH procedure was comparable in terms of safety (recurrence and complication rates) meanwhile LARVH showed minimally-invasive advantages in terms of blood loss, operative time, and shorter hospital stay.


This thesis is an evaluative study of air pollution emissions from different sources in Australia and overseas. It investigates indoor and outdoor sources, including indoor combustion, electric equipment, asphalt pavement, forest fires and vehicular traffic. Based on evaluating sources, a simple practical method is proposed to identify pollution sources. This research has important scientific implications and potential for future practical applications, given the paucity of quantitative air quality studies available for pollution control.


The properties of the underwater acoustic communication channel at medium range and medium frequency are characterised by analysing a set of at sea data collected in coastal environment (depth 10-40 meters, range 1-3 km, frequency 11.2 kHz or 17.5 kHz). Based on an empirical mode decomposition, we infer that the channel behaves as trend stationary random process over a few minute duration. Moreover, according to statistical tests, the channel envelope is found to be in good agreement with a Rice process whose power ratio between the mean and the scattered part is time variant and delay dependent. As a conclusion, the results of attempts to apply some approximate bounds for the capacity of WSUSS Rice channel to the measured channels are given. It is found that the channel capacity is generally close to Shannon capacity when the channel response includes a few specular paths but significantly decreases with the number of paths and the diffuseness of the channel.


Scientific and rational optimization of human resources allocation in media operation and management to maximize the economic and social benefits of enterprises is the top priority of the current media to strengthen human resources work. How to allocate human resources, adjust the structure of human resources, realize complementary advantages, and dynamically adapt to the needs of economic construction is a very important issue that must be carefully studied in the process of human resources development and management. In this article, a binary classification support vector machine method is proposed, which uses linear function calculation, and finally uses multi-skill model to solve performance experiments. The results show that the media operation management must reform the labor employment system, allocate the labor force scientifically and rationally, and make effective use of the media management labor resources; labor employment is a necessary means for the development and survival of enterprises. It is an important function of enterprise management to manage and utilize labor reasonably and effectively. Through optimal allocation and rational utilization, the human resource allocation in media operation management can reach a higher management level.


Abstract Marie-Louise von Franz's final lecture in November 1986 has revolutionary political implications because the more we manage to differentiate our feelings, the more we will be able to differentiate good from evil decisively. This is essential if we are to practice the great art of living together (a phrase from Bertolt Brecht). The first step in differentiating our feelings is to recognize that we live between the opposites and that we must often make painful choices between them. Even more important, however, a point on which both Jung and von Franz laid particular stress, is to recognize and accept the presence of living religion, that is, the numinous. Without that acceptance and without some "getting" of religion, evil is bound to triumph. Although we need to accept the numinous, archetypal dimension in our life, engaging as many of our functions in resisting what Esther Harding calls the "threat" from the unconscious is also most important. Particularly egregious in our scientific times is the triumph of undifferentiated thinking values in the everyday world of power politics and obedience to authority. The notorious 1961 obedience experiments of Stanley Milgram stand out as a particularly interesting portrayal of this trend. We are called upon to practice the politics of differentiated feeling in many ways, from deciding whether to accompany a group of friends when we really want to do something different, all the way to deciding if and how we might resist tyrannies such as Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia. Finally, the great art of living together concerns the difficult task of learning to love our individual fellow human beings consciously, as Rilke conceived it, and this we need to do, one relationship at a time.


Abstract The 3-keto reduction of [1,2-3H]dihydrotestosterone1 to 3α- and 3β-androstanediol has been assessed in homogenates of 31 dog prostates that varied in size from 15 g. The formation of both androstanediols was demonstrable in microsomes and cytosol, and both NADH and NADPH were effective cofactors for the two reactions. The formation of 3β-androstanediol per unit weight of prostate or per mg protein did not show a clear-cut relation with the size of the gland, but 3α-androstanediol formation per mg microsomal protein increased as a linear function with size so that the rates were on an average 10-fold greater in prostates >15 g than in those <5g in weight. 1The trivial names and abbreviations used are: dihydrotestosterone, 17β-hydroxy-5α-androstan-3-one; 3α-androstanediol, 5α-androstane-3α,17β-diol; 3β-androstanediol, 5α-androstane-3β,17β-diol.


: Image segmentation is the building block to image analysis and detailed data extraction from them. The problems of digital image segmentation offers various challenges to researchers in this field. This paper tries to explain the principles of some basic methods used to segment an image. This paper discuss the trend of each algorithm with their applications, advantages and disadvantages. This study is helpful for appropriate use of existing segmentation methods and for improving their performance as well as for systematically designing new methods.


Soil water potential is a cornerstone in defining the thermodynamic state of soil water required to quantify phenomena such as water phase change, water movement, heat transfer, electric current, chemical transport, and mechanical stress and deformation in the earth's shallow subsurface environment. This potential has historically been conceptualized as free energy stored in a until volume of soil water. Though the concept of soil water potential has been evolving over the past 120 yr, a consensual definition is still lacking, and answers to some fundamental questions remain controversial and elusive. What are the origins and mechanisms for the free energy of soil water? Can the common mathematical expression of soil water potential as superposition of gravitational, osmotic, and matric potentials be used to define water phase transitions in soil? Are these major components of soil water potential independent or coupled? Is pore water pressure always tensile under unsaturated conditions? If so, how can soil water density be as high as 1.7 g cm−3? How do adsorptive soil–water interactions originating from the electromagnetic field around and within soil particles transfer to mechanical pore pressure? In this review, the authors (a) provide critical analysis of historical definitions of soil water potential to identify their strengths, limitations, and flaws; (b) synthesize the origins of electromagnetic energies in soil to clarify the fundamental differences between adsorptive and capillary soil water potential mechanisms; (c) introduce a recently emerging concept of soil matric potential that unifies contributions of adsorption and capillarity to soil water potential; and (d) illustrate the generality and promise of the unified definition of soil water potential for answering some of the fundamental questions that remain elusive to the hydrology, geoengineering, and geoscience communities.


begin with the study of a function in Sobolev space,establish characterization of approximation,we discover the equivalent characterization of the functions in Sobolev space and the equivalent form of modulus. This conclusion provides another efficient tool for us to describe functional space.


Since a legal theory must be true of all legal systems the identifying features by which it characterizes them must of necessity be very general and abstract. It must disregard those functions which some legal systems fulfil in some societies because of the special social, economic, or cultural conditions of those societies. It must fasten only on those features of legal systems which they must possess regardless of the special circumstances of the societies in which they are in force. This is the difference between legal philosophy and sociology of law. The latter is concerned with the contingent and with the particular, the former with the necessary and the universal. Sociology of law provides a wealth of detailed information and analysis of the functions of law in some particular societies. Legal philosophy has to be content with those few features which all legal systems necessarily possess.


The lean coal,which was crushed,was coked compatibility with gas-fat coal,fat coal,1/3 coke coal and coking coal by mass ratio of 1∶1.The results show,under the certain coke quality,if the mixture ratio of lean coal wants to be improved,the blending coal must have enough fat coal and gas-fat coal,and moderate to restrict the amount of 1/3 coking coal and coking coal.In the coking process,the expansion and fluidity of 1/3 coking coal is far less than the gas-fat coal and fat coal,so when it is coked with the lean coal,the results are different from the conventional coking mechanism.


In a world where information can easily be accessed by applying a Google search, mapping unstructured clinicians term or verbatim terms from an adverse event or a drug name to a standard term no longer needs to be an arduous task. One of the challenges of working with coding medical terminology is combining several skills that are diverse from many different disciplines. The user needs to be clinically trained to understand and interpret the meaning of the adverse events or the drug names. A conceptual understanding of the normalized database and the multi-axial hierarchical structure is required to navigate the dictionary. The user must also be adept at adding to the source data and joining the case report form data with the proper fields of the dictionary tables to derive at the final mapped data. Expecting users to overcome these hurdles without a clear process or tools can lead to an error prone, laborious and painful process. This paper will address many of the issues confronted when coding terms by demonstrating tried and true methodologies and technologies to automate and make the process efficient and easy. 1. Auto Coding – Auto code with existing dictionaries against source data for efficient mapping. 2. Google like Search – Searching for terms in the dictionary or mapping decision history can be as simple as a Google Search. 3. Optimize Coding Decision – Intelligence search recommendations, review process, and managing split terms are some techniques used to optimize. 4. Optimize Dictionary – Loading source dictionary from MSSO (MedDRA) or UMC (WHO Drug) in an optimized fashion for performance. 5. Managing Multiple Dictionaries – Organize dictionary in a centralized and hierarchical manner to have consistent coding decisions. 6. Build Knowledge Base – Manual code only once and the term will be added to a knowledge base for future coding. 7. Create new Mapped Data – Techniques for creating mapped data sets with the use of email to make the process seamless. It is essential that you have a consistent thesaurus dictionary when performing an analysis on clinical terminologies. This paper will show processes along with SAS based software solutions such as Sy/MapTM to allow clinical users to function optimally with data managers and clinical programmer analysts. Armed with the understanding of the process and the right tools, you can narrow the gap between the different disciplines required to perform mapping decisions in a manner that is as easy as applying a Google search. INTRODUCTION The coding of patient data is critical in the grouping, analysis, and reporting of data. Coding decisions directly impact submissions for New Drug Applications (NDAs), safety surveillance, and product labeling. The success of a submission to the FDA can be significantly impacted by the analysis of adverse events, medical history and concomitant medications. The analysis relies on the interpretation of what has been transcribed from the subject CRF (Case Report Form). The original clinical term is referred to as the clinician's term or verbatim term. This term needs to be re-interpreted or coded into a preferred term in order for it to be used during analysis. This is because different verbatim terms can have the same meaning such as in the example of the term "pain in head" or "headache". In this case, the two distinct verbatim terms are coded to one synonymous preferred term. The identical terms and the consistent classification of the term allow the analysis to draw valid statistical conclusions pertaining to the subject's experience. The coding process can therefore affect the statistical interpretation of the adverse events or medications in which the subject is taking during the clinical trial. There is room for inconsistency or error since the process contains many factors that go into making a decision. The following considerations are evaluated in making the optimal interpretation of the true meaning of the clinician's term. • Clinical Accuracy – The interpretation of the meaning of the original term has to be clinically correct. In addition to the original term, other supportive information in the CRFs (e.g. drug indication and strength) is also used to ensure the accuracy of the mapping decision. The person performing this task needs to be clinically trained to decipher the meaning of the verbatim term as it relates to the preferred terms. SAS Global Forum 2007 Posters


This paper empirically determines the drivers of functional diversification decision for 365 banks set in selected Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries over 1988–2015. For this purpose, we use a dynamic nonlinear panel data model. Our findings reveal that both market share and financial intermediation stratify the diversification decision for the whole MENA sample. Splitting the sample shows that the risk‐adjusted profitability and the loan loss provision ratio exert a major influence over the diversification indicator for Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) banks, whereas the net interest margin ratio, the bank market share, and financial intermediation are the major drivers of the strategic decision for the remaining non‐GCC banks.


This work investigates a novel method for dealing with unknown data associations in Kalman filter-based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) problems. The key idea is to employ the concept of Symmetric Measurement Equations (SMEs) in order to remove the data association uncertainty from the original measurement equation. Based on the resulting modified measurement equation, standard nonlinear Kalman filters can estimate the full joint state vector of the robot and landmarks without explicitly calculating data association hypotheses.


On 22./23.11.2013 the South African-German Centre for Transnational Criminal Justice 1 hosted the international conference "Africa and the International Criminal Court" in Cape Town (South Africa). The Centre is a joint project between Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town. In 2008, it was founded as one of six "Centres of African Excellence" as a research and teaching institution. Since then, the Centre is providing the LL.M. and Doctoral Programme "Transnational Criminal Justice and Crime Prevention – An International and African Perspective", which aims to attract international students with a particular focus on Africa. Up to now, 83 LL.M. students and three PhD students, most of them Africans, graduated from the Centre. Currently, 15 students are enrolled in the LL.M. programme 2014 and ten students in the PhD programme. The conference "Africa and the International Criminal Court" focused on the controversies surrounding the prosecution of crimes under international law in Africa, both by international and domestic courts, taking into account African alternatives to address such crimes. 2 A specific focus was placed on the achievements and the shortcomings of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in relation to Africa. The conference assembled 60 participants, outstanding international practitioners and academics as well as young legal experts from 15 different countries, including twelve African states. The conference was opened by the directors of the Centre, Prof. Lovell Fernandez (University of the Western Cape, Cape Town) and Prof. Gerhard Werle (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin). Then, Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of the Western Cape, Prof. Ramesh Bharuthram welcomed the audience. He endorsed the appropriate timing of the conference and the contentious conference theme. In particular, he addressed the young scholars, urging them to test their theories and skills while participating in the conference and confronting the international practitioners with their African perspectives. Following Bharuthram, the German Ambassa-


Fe–Ag co-doped TiO2 nanoparticles (NPs) were prepared as a photocatalyst using a precipitation method for the removal of flumioxazin pesticide residues in water. The analytical method was validated with specificity, linearity, recovery, precision, the limit of quantification, and detection limit. Linearity was determined by different known concentrations of standard solutions. Detection limit was identified as the lowest concentration resulting in a 3-fold response to baseline noise. Photolytic and photocatalytic studies were conducted in borosil glass bottles under sunlight at a single fortification level (1.0 μg/mL) in Milli-Q water with various pH values (pH 4.0, 7.0, and 9.0). The optimum catalyst concentration recommended for complete degradation was found to be 50 mg/L under sunlight. The HPLC-UV method was used to determine flumioxazin residues in water, and the rate constant, DT50, and DT90 values were calculated from the data obtained. The photolytic results do not indicate a significant residue loss due to adsorption. Fe–Ag co-doped TiO2 NPs are an outstanding decontaminating catalyst in various water samples.


AbstractThis study was performed in 60 consecutive patients with hemiplegia and/or hemiparesis in order to assess the diagnostic value of color Doppler imaging (CDI) in the diagnosis of deep-vein thrombosis (DVT). 27 men and 33 women ranging in age from 53 to 85 years were introduced into the study. The patients with stroke were examined by both venography and CDI. Contrast venography was considered as the standard diagnostic method for DVT. We found no statistically significant difference between CDI and contrast venography in the detection of DVT. Venography showed the presence of DVT in 21 patients. CDI was positive in 16 of these 21 patients (sensitivity: 76%). CDI was normal in 32 of the 34 patients with a negative venogram (specificity: 94%). The sensitivity of the CDI for proximal vein thrombosis was 80% where it is 66% for calf vein thrombosis. Although CDI is not so sensitive and specific as contrast venography, it is used because it is a non-invasive method.


ABSTRACT This paper presents a microstrip lowpass filter with compact size, and ultra-wide stopband. The structure consists of a modified hairpin resonator loaded with tapered cells and the circular patches as the suppressing cell. The proposed lowpass filter has −3 dB cut-off frequency at 1.64 GHz. It also has suitable performances such as: ultra-sharp transition-band of 0.09 GHz that is from −3 to −20 dB, an extended stopband bandwidth from 1.73 to 21 GHz with the attenuation level more than −20 dB, low insertion-loss, flat group delay in the passband, and simple structure. The proposed lowpass filter is simulated and fabricated and there is good agreement between the simulation and measurement results.


Teacher's professional quality is an ancient but fresh topic. Chinese and foreign educators have proposed a higher request of it.With the new century coming,our educational reform and development meet new opportunities and challenges. In order to fit the development condition,teachers must renew educational ideas,increase ideological quality, optimize intellectual structure,strengthen creative ability,and increase selfpsychological quality, and improve selfexternal statements and actions.


Recent advances in mobile devices and cloud computing techniques have made it possible to capture, process, and share high resolution, high frame rate (HFR) videos across the Internet nearly instantaneously. Being able to monitor and control the quality of these streamed videos can enable the de-livery of many enjoyable content and perceptually optimized rate control. However, the development of no-reference (NR) VQA algorithms targeting frame rate variations has been little studied. Here, we propose a first-of-a-kind blind VQA model for evaluating HFR videos, which we dub the Framerate-Aware Videos Evaluator w/o Reference (FAVER). FAVER uses extended models of spatial natural scene statistics that encompass space-time wavelet-decomposed video signals, to conduct efficient frame rate sensitive quality prediction. Our extensive experiments on several HFR video quality datasets show that FAVER outperforms other blind VQA algorithms at a reasonable computational cost. The code will be released on https://github.com/uniqzheng/HFR-BVQA.


Fortunately, canine subjects are readily available and easily anesthetized. They present many still unexplored opportunities for the study of laryngeal physiology. Last year at the annual meeting of our association we reported to you on our initial studies of the canine larynx." The motion picture briefly reviewed the anatomy and pointed out certain differences between the canine and the human larynx. It also showed the specific effect on vocal cord motion produced by stimulation of each of the intrinsic muscles. The still active freshly excised larynx, as well as the in situ larynx with intact blood and nerve supply, were used. With the exception of the interarytenoid muscles identical effects were evident in the freshly excised human larynx. In addition, electrical stimulation of the recurrent laryngeal nerves agreed with the findings of N akamura'' that the use of low frequency stimulating currents (around 20 to 30 cycles per second) caused opening of the cords while higher frequency currents closed the cords.


The heat load in a thermoacoustic refrigeration demonstration device is studied. In the demo, which acts only to create a low temperature at the position of a thermocouple, the only heat load is nuisance heat, which is not well known. The method described here for estimating experimentally the size of this heat load assumes that heat transport associated with acoustics depends on acoustic amplitude p and on the magnitude of the deviation from ambient temperature |ΔT|, but is independent of the sign of ΔT. That is, the heat load due to acoustics‐induced transport is taken to have the form Qtransport=‐F(p)ΔT, where F(p) is some function of p only, and ΔT can be either positive (refrigerator) or negative (heater). Direct thermoviscous heating at the site of the thermocouple Qtv(p) is also a function of p only. At steady state, Qheater=F(p)ΔT‐Qtv(p). In the experiment, the refrigeration stack is replaced by an electric heater, the power of which is easily measured. The steady−state temperature rise above ...


:- The past decade has seen the emergence of a new radical and ground breaking area of research known as cancer nanotechnology. Using this technology, nanoparticles are being developed in the size range of 1-250 nm and loaded with drugs, imaging agents and genetic materials for improved chemotherapeutic action. In this work, we have developed XO infused Fricke gel dosimetry and tested the effect of radiation enhancement in the presence of AuNPs. The radiation therapy involves the use of both high energy (MV) and low energy radiation (kV). The results of this work clearly show that in the presence of AuNPs, there can be a great impact on the absorbed radiation and thereby increases the killing efficacy of the cancer cell due to radiation. The use of AuNPs in radiation enhancement and dosimetry planning using Fricke gel has not been reported in the literature. Hence, the finding of this research work is novel and has potential to change the way cancer is currently being treated.


The impact of the global epidemic caused by the appearance and spread of the Covid19 virus has led to strong effects on all human labor activities, of which tourism stands out, as the activity most affected by the virus. Less than two years have passed since the outbreak of the epidemic, and tourism, as an activity, has slowly begun to return to its pre-epidemic state since the complete collapse at the interstate level. This paper will analyze the impact of the current global epidemic on tourism in the Republic of Serbia through the analysis of the sojourn tax in the period of 3 consecutive years from 2018 to 2020, while researching the attitudes of sampled respondents on tourist visits during the epidemic. The issue of the tourist tax and its positive and negative sides will also be considered. The main conclusion is that the revenues from the tourist tax in most local self-government units recorded a declining trend, which in most cases was not significant, as a result of a good state strategy and encouragement of domestic tourism during the global closure and crisis caused by the pandemic Covid19. Most of the total number of respondents are satisfied with the level of tourist services in their home country and after the pandemic they will visit domestic tourist destinations more often.